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>> [music] >> Friday the 13th lore stems from a combination of Christian, Norse, and
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historic superstitions. Viewing the day and number as uniquely unlucky. Key origins include the 13th guest
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with Judas being the 13th guest at the Last Supper who [music] betrayed Jesus. Jesus was crucified on a Friday,
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cementing the day as unlucky. >> [music] >> In Norse mythology, Loki, the 13th god
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to arrive at the feast of Valhalla, brought chaos and death [music] by causing the murder of Balder the
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beloved. Further, on [music] Friday, October 13th, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the
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mass arrest of the Knights Templar, reinforcing the date's negative reputation. Historically, 12 is often viewed as a
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number of completeness. 12 months, 12 apostles, making 13 a disruptive and unlucky number.
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>> [music] >> And of course, there is the popular slasher film movie franchise, Friday the
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13th. Originally, the title Friday the 13th was used to attract investors before
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having a script, aiming [music] to capitalize on the superstition. In this scenario, it proved to be good
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luck, >> [music] >> as the franchise completed 12 movies. The film series centers on Jason
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Voorhees, who drowned as a child at Camp Crystal Lake [music] due to counselor negligence.
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Decades later, the lake is rumored to be cursed and is the setting for a series of mass murders.
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The films were great and great fun for late Friday night viewing, >> [music] >> but that was the work of fiction.
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Today's story is real. Welcome to True Crime Garage. >> [music] [music] >> In the small, quiet town of Panhandle,
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Texas, where [music] life moved at a gentle pace, the summer of 1990 was about to be shattered by an event
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[music] so violent that it would sear into the town's memory forever. For lawmen working in this area.
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The night of Friday, July 13th, Friday the 13th, 1990, would stand apart from all others. It
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was a night that defied the very nature of this peaceful community. The chaos began in the dead of night
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while the residents of Panhandle were sleeping. Many of their doors unlocked and windows open to let the cool night
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air in, but danger was running and creeping through their streets. The first call
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came in to law enforcement reporting a brutal attack. So, officers arrived at the home of a
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Jimmy Britton to find a horrific scene. Britton was bleeding. He was awake. Uh he was
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responding, but he was bleeding profusely from multiple slash wounds across his torso.
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Despite this attack and terrible injuries that he sustained, he was able to identify his attacker
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here, Captain, and his attacker was a young man, uh Kenneth Glenn Milner. In fact, he knew this young man
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fairly well because Kenneth Glenn Milner was the ex-boyfriend of his stepdaughter. He's known to everyone as
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Glenn. This is a teenager who was no stranger to the local law enforcement. Jimmy Britton had considered Glenn
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Milner bad news and told him to stay away from his stepdaughter, and he did everything he
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could to keep the young man away from his stepdaughter. It looks like that decision,
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that action, resulted in revenge from the young man. A violent, unprovoked assault.
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And nearly deadly at that. Yeah, but normally when the scary older stepfather says, "Stay away
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from my daughter." The individual stays away. They don't come back and attack. So,
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Captain, this Kenneth Glenn Milner, Glenn Milner known to everyone in the town of Panhandle, he's 19 years old.
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He's a bad seed. He's He's difficult to kind of sort out because for my understanding in school, he's a he's a
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good student. He gets good grades. He's considered to be smart. But he is As said, he's had a few run-ins with
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police and that is why Jimmy Britton believed him to be a bad seed, to be bad news for his stepdaughter, for his
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family and didn't want the youngster coming around. Based off of the injuries that Jimmy sustained and seeing him,
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pictures of him after this attack, I am convinced that Glenn Milner only left the scene of that attack because he
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thought that that Jimmy would die. That he would die from these injuries, that bleed out. I don't know exactly what
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condition he was in when Glenn fled the scene, but I mean, he he took a he took a razor and cut this man up very, very
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badly. And the community's concerns about Glenn, as said, were not new. He was considered to be a troubled young
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man. He had alarming behavior. From my understanding, a couple years prior to this attack
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that he committed on this Jimmy Britton on Friday the 13th in 1990, couple years before this,
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Glenn Milner had climbed up to the top of the town's water tower and he was up there
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very vocally and publicly threatening to jump from the water tower. This after a
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breakup with his girlfriend at the time. And police, of course, respond to that scene then and they were able to talk
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the teenager down before he would, you know, so he didn't jump, obviously, but they talk him down
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and not long after that it's like another suicide attempt. He he drove his car off of a cliff
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and Palo Duro at the Palo Duro Canyon. And he survived this as well. And following these incidents,
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he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Right. You know, they they believe that he got better
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and he was then in turn released and Sure he did. Well, a lot of experts actually think now, looking back and
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reflecting on this, that Glenn Milner was probably smart enough to figure out what answers he
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should be giving them Right. >> rather than how he truly felt or if he was if if the treatment took, right? If
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if the if he was actually feeling better or doing better, but for whatever reason,
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he was we can't jump into his mind and and know for certain, but he was able to convince them that he should be
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released. And so he returns to life back to normal and goes back to school and resumes all of the normal teenager
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activities until leading up to this attack where we will later learn that folks very close to him, at least one
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individual in particular, said that they noticed a a change in leading up to this attack on Jimmy
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Britton and thankfully this this man Jimmy was able to survive this horrific attack. Well, there's a lot of problems
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in general just with young men and we can speak on this cuz we both went through it.
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You have a lot of uh testosterone pumping through you got your hormones are going wild.
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You're not fully formed your brain's not fully formed. You have a lack of emotional maturity
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in the late teens early 20s. This is could be also onset like schizophrenia normally doesn't start showing signs
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until late teens early 20s. But this is attempted murder. And why they didn't see it that way I don't
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understand. I mean these injuries now I've seen different reports but a lot of them say that because of
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these this I mean you're cutting a dude with a razor blade 200 some stitches. That's a lot of stitches
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my friend. Oh yeah, I I believe they fully thought that this was attempted murder.
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As I said I I think everyone who who experienced this who witnessed Jimmy who were there to help Jimmy and save him
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believed that the youngster thought he had killed him before leaving the area and so now they have the
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situation where we have a young man on the loose. We know who the suspect is. Thankfully our witness was able to speak
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and tell us who attacked him. So the authorities are now looking for Glenn Milner. It's priority number one.
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The police they went to Glenn's family's home. His parents claimed that they didn't
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know where Glenn was. Do we know what the thoughts that his parents had on their son because some people
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when they have a teenage son that's losing control or they feel like they're losing control of they they're afraid of
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that individual. Well, that I don't know, but what I do know is law enforcement said that when
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we arrived at Glenn's home, first they expected to find the teenager there. Right. When they speak with his parents
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and they said, "Well, we don't know where he is. He left the house a while ago."
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They said, in reaction to that, they didn't fully believe the parents. So, they insisted on searching the home.
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They thought they would find Glenn held up somewhere in that house. Right. >> And so, they got pistols drawn and
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they're going through the home and then when they get to Glenn's bedroom, they said that the room itself was, I
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believe one officer referred to it as a chilling window into a disturbed mind. Yeah. This kid, I mean,
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spoiler alert here, this kid pure evil. 19 years old, pure evil. So, when they go into the room, they the walls are
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painted black. They were thinking they would see like a typical teenager's room, right? Like posters of rock stars
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or athletes on the walls. Yeah. >> But, he had posters up, but they weren't rock stars and celebrities. They were
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grotesque bloody posters from slasher films. Mhm. >> [clears throat] >> And he had Glenn had a collection of a
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dozen or more grotesque mask that were lying about in this room. And most of these were ones that he had
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created made himself. He was actually described as quite talented at making these types of of mask. Almost like a
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fictitious version of Ed Gein, right? Well, and he he did contribute to the drama class in the drama club in in high
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school and there was at least one or two people in that club that thought that Glenn could go on to work
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in Hollywood and and you know makes things for special effects and and make props for
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slasher films. Yeah, and it's very disturbing but like you said it's Friday the 13th.
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>> One of these masks look like a face that had been partially or mostly blown away
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and the officers said that the most shocking discovery in this room was a fake a life-like
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corpse Yeah. >> that was lying on the floor. A fake life-like corpse that was lying on the
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floor. And they said that the room looked like a scene out of a horror film. Again,
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revealing a warped sense of reality and an unhealthy violent dangerous young man. I'm just going to
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say what everybody's thinking. Did was he having sex with this doll? It's corpse-like. So this corpse the the
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thing that looked like a corpse, I have some more descriptions in in here later in my notes I believe but the from my
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understanding is he would use this to act out what would be scenes in a slasher film, like a fictitious slasher
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film. This was something that he he would he would stab it to see how it would react and and create you fake blood.
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There's also one of his friends that who had said that he used it one time to put
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a prop gun in its mouth and then used an explosive to blow out the back of its head. Wow.
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Yes. Yeah. Of course the the officers don't know this when they're going through the
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room but they see they with the one officer said when we first saw it we thought it was a body.
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Yeah. >> And they didn't know if it would be Glenn's body. Maybe the teenager committed suicide Yeah, he had a history
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of that. Yeah, or maybe it was a victim. They had to approach it and it was once
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they got close enough, they realized that it Oh, this is this is a fake, but a very lifelike looking corpse
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lying on the floor. But So, they don't find Glenn's body there. >> room smelled?
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Was there a smell? I I don't know if there was a smell. >> Well, I'm just saying like cuz you know
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like when you're teenager and you you have a a new buddy and Mhm. they visit your house and so
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that's your domain, right? Your room and especially like especially during the '90s spent a lot of time in your room
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and you would decorate it and and it wasn't just for your amusement, it's for when people came over.
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Hey, check out my room. I got a TV in here or I got these posters up or it's it's kind
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of Uh They got a lifelike corpse lying on the floor. Yeah, but it's like a vision
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board of your life, right? It's a representation of all the things you are or all the things you think you are at
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the time. So, it's a very sacred place and we've all been there where we go into our buddy's room and it's awesome.
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And it's so cool and Oh, he has a guitar in the corner and Oh, he has all this cool stuff, right? And then we've also
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gone into our teenage specially boys hanging out with other boys, right? You go to your buddy's house and his house
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is really cool and clean and then you go into his room and it's a disaster and it stinks. Mhm.
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>> And it smells like gym shoes and it smells like a gym locker. But >> Smells like a teenage boy. Right. And
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and you're like this this is a funky smell in here. I can't even describe it. It smells some like some kind of weird
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mushroom Uh growing in the corner. But, like you said, here's the smart guy maybe not
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applying himself in the correct ways, but he also shows some talent as a artist. So, as a parent, there's that
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fine line of like trying to nurture your child, try to give him space to be creative because look, there's a lot of
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individuals that end up making a lot of money and having very successful careers
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doing stuff that some people could look at as morbid or macabre or whatever, right? Just like
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if somebody went into your room in your late teens and they see a bunch of books
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on serial killers, they might go, "Wow, Nick's Nick's kind of crazy." And then, well, you do a hit true crime
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podcast and it makes all the sense in the world now, right? So, I think that's a very difficult situation for
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not only his parents to be in, but friends and and teachers and and whoever to to figure out is is this a morbid
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obsession that's going to lead to, like you said, evil or is this uh a a creative individual that I just don't
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fully understand? Yeah. Well, what they're learning right here in this moment is that he was
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he creatively attacked and attempted to kill Jimmy Britton. Right. Now, the the worst thing that they find in
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this bedroom uh isn't the lifelike corpse. No. No. We got a lot to get to here. So, they find a handwritten list.
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And, of course, because it's in his room, they believe that it was written by Glenn Milner. This is described as a
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hit list. And, Jimmy Britton's name was at the top of the list. So, this list contained
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names of high school students and adults. One member of law enforcement described it as a chilling blueprint for
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a spree of violence. So, they're they're looking at this list and they now fully
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understand what they're dealing with. This kid has attacked and attempted to kill Jimmy Britton. At some point, he's
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going to move on to number two, and it might be tonight. So, we better find him as quickly as we can, and while we're
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looking for him, we need to send some of our cars to the homes of these people that are on this list. Do welfare checks
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on these people because if Glenn Milner's on his way to get to number two or number three or number four on that
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list, we better intercept him before he can do more damage, before he can cut another person
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up. >> Yeah, but just to give a visual of what Glenn Milner looks like, he's not a ugly
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dude. He's He's a handsome guy. I mean, he has a goofy mullet, but it is 1990. And
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but there also is some images of him where it's like here's one image where he looks
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like attractive young man, and here's another image where you go "What's wrong with his eyes?"
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Like Mhm. There's There doesn't seem like there's anything good going on behind them. No,
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and it's always the eyes, isn't it? So, now they have Police have uncovered this
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what appears to be a sinister plan to take a bunch of people out, and now it's a race to find Glenn, and a
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desperate attempt to prevent him from marking any more [music] names off of his list.
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>> [music] [music] [music] >> All right, we are back. Cheers, mates. [music] Talk hands in the air.
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Happy Friday the 13th. Cheers to the people in the back. That same night on Friday the 13th,
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17-year-old Frankie Garcia, described as a sweet-natured kid, about ready to start his senior year in high
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school. He had gone with a friend to an old, abandoned barn out in the country. This is a place that the locals eerily
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called the haunted house. It was a dark, empty structure with no electricity. Unbeknownst to Frankie, he was walking
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into this barn with a killer. Frankie was about to become a pawn in Glenn Milner's deadly game.
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Witnesses who found the victim's body say that Frankie Garcia apparently was forced to kneel in
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the dirt and taste the barrel of a high-powered rifle as his killer pulled the trigger. Later, we would see video
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of Glenn Milner himself talking about his hit list and his plans. And in that video, Captain, he says,
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quote, I have a desire to kill. I know it's I know what's wrong. I have no problem distinguishing between right
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and wrong. I just don't care. It's It's that that I just don't care. This makes you wonder
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if there was some kind of psychotic break. You think? >> [laughter] >> Or if he he was just born bad. Who
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knows? I mean, this this one's a difficult one to to sort out here. Officers learn from Glenn's parents that
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he was close friends with this young man named Craig Shackleford. So, they're going to go talk to Craig.
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When they arrive at Craig's house, they find him visibly nervous and on edge. He tells police that Glenn
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was not the same and that the last time they spoke that his voice even sounded different. He said that it was like
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something inside of him had snapped. Right. That's what I was saying, a psychotic break and
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I mean, again, I don't Some people don't believe in this, but you you start looking up stuff on
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Ouija boards and these rituals and all this stuff and I think there Is Is it possible that it's some psychotic break
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or is it some Is it possible that he was messing around with some stuff that is beyond our realm of understanding?
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And Or all of the above, right? Because when you say psychotic break, I'm not disagreeing with you. What I think we're
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seeing here is a severely fractured, splintered mind and psyche. I mean, you could say he had a psychotic break prior
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to going out and cutting up Jimmy Britton or you could say that he had a psychotic break before he stood at the
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top of a water tower threatening to jump or while he was behind the wheel driving
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off a cliff. >> Well, and that and that's odd, too, right? Because again, one of the toughest times for
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individuals is those late teens, early 20s and that's whether you're you're male or female, right? And so, we all
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have had friends that have in dark times had suicidal thoughts. Most of the time that's
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something that is acted out privately. And it seems like his attempts were acted out publicly,
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which is not the normal, right? >> When they're talking to Craig, he tells law enforcement that he has a
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handwritten note from Glenn. Yeah. With instructions. It's basically a a list of instructions that says something
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to the effect of don't ask questions, just do as instructed. The note directed Craig to a railroad trestle on the
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on a dirt county road about 4 mi northwest of Panhandle, telling him to look for a box and then follow the
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instructions that he would find inside that box. What's in the box? What's in the
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>> officers, they're going to take these instructions, they're going to make their way out to this remote spooky
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location. Tucked underneath the bridge, they found a green ammunition box. Of course, opening it is going to be
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risky. They worried that it could be a bomb, could be some type of booby trap. They
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have no idea what to expect with this box, but because time is so important Right.
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>> and locating Glenn is so important and making sure that you can keep I mean, this is a long hit list that this kid
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has. And so, they're like, F it, we kind of have to open this box. We can't wait for to call the bomb
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squad. And again, 1990. So, one of the brave fellows here has to to open up the box here, and thank god
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it didn't explode inside. They find three handwritten letters and a cassette tape. So, just put yourself in the
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shoes of the police officer. You're going over to the friend of this maniac, this guy that just
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slashed up his ex-girlfriend's stepfather. I mean, you don't know this at the time,
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but 200 stitches, that's insane. And he has a note of these cryptic, weird instructions.
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I mean, there'd be a part of me that would go, "Hey, can we stop off at the donut shop real quick and get a
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coffee and a couple French curlers before I have to go open and figure out what's in this box?" These uh
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letters that they find inside here, Captain, we have one was addressed to his friend Craig,
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one addressed to Glenn's parents, another that was addressed to a young woman named Kenja. So, she is
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an intern at an Amarillo TV station. She had actually graduated from these kids' high school
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in 1988, and she did date Glenn for a few months one summer. She says she remembered him
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as a a funny, kind, and fun person. And she said that he used to call her princess, but I they they broke up, you
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know, first of all, they're teenagers. Uh second of all, they broke up, according to one story I saw, that he
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had kissed another girl, but they remained friends, and they would still talk to each other on the phone from
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time to time. And of course, she, once she goes off to college, she's dreaming of becoming a news reporter in a major
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city. Right. So, the police contact her. They inform her of this note and a tape,
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a videotape that Glenn had left for her. The note was an apology for I guess for
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kissing that other girl. They just said it was a apologetic note. Uh but, it ended with him saying to her,
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"But, on the upside, hey, here's the story of the decade for you, princess." This videotape contained Glenn's
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recorded confessions and thoughts and rambling monologue that was partly an apology and also mostly a
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chilling embrace of his own darkness. So, you I mean, you've seen portions of this and on it he says, uh "Mother,
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Daddy, I'm sorry that I ended up like this. It's not your fault." He spoke of his dark time, his obsession with evil,
00:31:00
idolizing serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper. Mhm. He mentioned reading Necronomicon,
00:31:08
I believe is how you say it, a book of satanic rituals. Wow. And a belief that he could become
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the son of Satan. Now, people that knew him said at some point he adopted the name Damian.
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A name synonymous with destruction, death, doom, uh as he described it on the tape. He says it fits me more than
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anything with the dark side of me that a lot of people haven't seen. >> Mhm. >> [clears throat]
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>> Interesting. And what you're hearing this young man say in this video tape confession before he's gone out
00:31:46
with the attempt to commit these horrific acts is Glenn Miller pretty much is scripting
00:31:52
out his own real-life horror movie. He's he's the going to be the star of his own slasher real-life slasher film
00:31:59
that he's that he's living out, let's say. Was this video tape that he made, was this just a one-off or was he
00:32:08
filming things often? That I don't know, but this was intended for for people to
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find after he killed everybody is I is my best guess. Yeah, he gives the instructions to Craig, but this would be
00:32:21
found either while he's in the process of executing that hit list or shortly thereafter. And in it on the
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confession tape, he is saying that he's going to kill these people and he has nothing to lose. This is something he
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thinks he will be good at. He's always wanted to be better at everybody than than at one thing, and he said this is
00:32:45
the one thing that I think I can be really good at. And he he explains that at after he takes all these people out,
00:32:52
he's going to kill himself, and he's not afraid to die. >> Well, it's also a He He wants to take as
00:32:56
many people with him as he possibly can. >> interesting, too, because sometimes when these people leave these notes
00:33:02
behind or we find journals or something, they're they're blaming the world. They're blaming the way people treated
00:33:09
them, right? I mean, we see this in some of the writings from Columbine and other
00:33:15
things where it's like, you know, people picked on me or I liked some girls that didn't like me back.
00:33:23
But here, Glenn is saying basically the opposite. Like, it didn't matter what my parents were
00:33:30
going to do. It didn't matter how other people were going to treat me. I'm evil.
00:33:36
And maybe he was evil from the beginning, but it was just now that he was going to just let let it go and stop
00:33:45
trying to control it. At 2:45 a.m., the doorbell rang at the home of another family in town. Through the peephole,
00:33:53
the man at the door, the homeowner, saw something that made his blood run cold. He said he saw yellow eyes when he
00:34:02
looked at through the peephole. So, he blinks again thinking that his mind is playing tricks on him. It's the middle
00:34:06
of the night. He then says that he saw Glenn Milner standing on his front porch.
00:34:12
His gut instant feeling was this is not good. He says to himself right away, "I'm not
00:34:18
opening this door." Now, on the other side of that door, you have Glenn Milner pleading with the man saying, "I really
00:34:25
need to come inside. I need to go and come inside and talk to you." The man says that he noticed Glenn's hands were
00:34:31
hidden when he was requesting to come inside. He says to him, "Glenn, what do you got in your hand down there?" He
00:34:38
doesn't get an answer to his question. Instead, that answer was in the form of gunshots. The man
00:34:44
said that the first bullet So, he he Glenn's firing through the door. The man says that the first bullet felt like
00:34:51
being hit with a baseball bat in the gut. The second one blew out his leg from underneath him, and he collapses to
00:34:58
the floor. He says his his thoughts This man is Ken Williams. He says his thoughts turn to his wife Patty and his
00:35:09
children. He was worried that that they would not be safe. And he was thinking that Glenn Milner, a man who a young man
00:35:15
who he knew, and we'll get into that. I mean, he's Glenn Ken Williams is the principal of the
00:35:21
high school. Right. He thinks that Glenn Milner's there and going to kill them all, kill his whole family. His wife
00:35:26
runs into the room, and she takes her fingers and pushes them into his wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
00:35:34
Williams thinks he's going to die. She is able to not only assist her husband, but at the same time call police. Okay,
00:35:45
so they get another call over the radio, and their reaction's like, "Oh my god, he's he just did another one." So, now
00:35:52
they got You can picture this. We've We've all Most of us seen this, especially if you've lived in a larger
00:35:59
city. A night where calls are just going out over the police radio over and over
00:36:04
again, and you you see you just see black and whites, sirens on, police cars crisscrossing town.
00:36:12
Uh that's what's going on in Panhandle that night. >> know it's Friday the 13th, but I'd be
00:36:16
interested to know if it was a full moon as well. So, they get they get the call they're
00:36:21
looking for or had been waiting on, hoping for, anyway. And it's somebody had spotted Glenn
00:36:27
Milner's car. It's parked right in front of the Panhandle Police Department. So,
00:36:32
we have officers rushing to this scene, which is back to where they came from when they started their night. They're
00:36:39
rushing back to the police department to surround Glenn's car. He's sitting in the driver's seat with a barrel of a
00:36:47
pistol pressed under his chin. He's perfectly still. You know, later they're going to watch this video cassette. This
00:36:54
is the the final act of of this man's night of after these attacks. This young man's
00:37:03
got his finger on the trigger. Yeah, there's probably a part of them if they know the devastation he already caused,
00:37:10
there's probably a part of the those officers that are going pull the trigger. Yeah, and I can't
00:37:16
remember what Glenn said to police, but he they're convinced he's going to pull the trigger. And he
00:37:24
he just puts the gun down, gives them a very blank look, and he said something to them like I
00:37:33
can't I can't I wish I I would have added that to my notes here because he said whatever he said to him was just
00:37:39
like cold and without emotion. Now, later Glenn will reveal to police the bizarre
00:37:47
reason that he did not pull the trigger sitting in his car in front of the police station. He told officers that
00:37:54
according to his satanic beliefs, he was required to recite a specific chant before taking his own life. And he said
00:38:04
in that final critical moment and having been out running all night, he had forgotten the words to that. And so, he
00:38:11
was afraid to die without completing what he referred to as the ritual. Yeah, I'd say hold on a second. I just need to
00:38:18
look this up. Uh and so I can hand it to you. Here's your gun back, and here's the wrench tool. You can finish the job
00:38:27
now. But, his confession is dark. And then, think about it from law enforcement's, and you've been in your
00:38:35
car all night running and running and running chasing and hoping to find Glenn, and hoping to
00:38:42
find people alive and well so you can protect them, and this is like a very exciting, not in a good way, exciting
00:38:55
night of terror, and just a strange night for Panhandle, Texas. It It's an anticlimactic end to
00:39:03
that night of terror. Or at least they thought at the time that that was the situation because they
00:39:10
they arrest the young man. Milner is now in custody. They thought, all right, we can
00:39:17
breathe a a sigh of relief here. The immediate danger that we were facing has passed. Yeah.
00:39:25
One officer reflecting on the tense events said he felt a profound wave of gratitude that despite all of the chaos
00:39:32
that night, everyone was still alive. No lives had been lost. He says it was a fragile peace.
00:39:40
A moment to breathe. Well, that moment, unfortunately, was shattered by the crackle of, once again, the police
00:39:47
radio. So, a call came through to dispatch. A witness, when he says, when this police officer says, "No lives have been
00:39:55
lost." They don't know about Frankie Garcia yet. This is the call that comes in that
00:40:02
alerts them that, "No, they didn't get out no lives lost that night." So, a witness
00:40:10
had described the location, the the place familiar to locals, the haunted house. They were told on the radio that
00:40:18
officers needed to get there and get there fast. So again, this so-called haunted house it sits on the very edge
00:40:23
of town. No one lives there. It's referred to as a relic. It's boarded up. Left to the elements and mercy of time.
00:40:33
But you so for a good deal of time and I found one report that said even for generations,
00:40:42
it had been the destination for thrill-seeking teenagers. It's dark. It's the spooky place you go
00:40:49
to when you want to scare yourself or maybe you go out there on a dare. Yeah. And as we said that in reality the
00:40:55
haunted house was nothing more than a dilapidated barn. So my my understanding there's an abandoned house and behind it
00:41:01
there's an even spookier barn. It's a barn without electricity. It's dark interior was a place where kids would
00:41:07
gather to drink beer and escape the watchful eyes of parents and and the town folk. Yeah, when you're out there
00:41:15
and you're you know, playing pocket pool, smoking a couple cigarettes. All of a sudden you hear
00:41:23
The It's a creepy atmosphere. Yeah, creepy AF. Responding to the call, the officers they rush out
00:41:32
to the scene. Keep in mind the barn, the floor inside it's not wood, it's not concrete, it's packed dirt. So they
00:41:41
encounter a horrific sight. Very strange but also very horrific. Scrawled into the earth was what is reported to be a
00:41:50
large crudely drawn pentagram. And there in the very center of that pentagram was the body of lying face
00:41:59
down that there's a body within the circle. It's the motionless form of a teenage boy. Garcia, yeah.
00:42:08
There was no sign of a struggle, they say, but they also said this wasn't a random act of violence. It was a cold,
00:42:16
deliberate execution. It was a dark ritual. Yeah, it was a sacrifice. >> What they would learn is it was an
00:42:27
individual whose name had appeared on the hit list that they had recovered. And remember one by one names were
00:42:34
checked off this list, each person located and accounted for, but one name remained unchecked, and that name was
00:42:41
Frankie Garcia. This was the body of Frankie Garcia. And Frankie's parents confirmed that the last time that they
00:42:48
had seen their son, he was heading out the door with a friend from school, a person they described as a friend from
00:42:54
school. They said that friend was Glenn Miller. Yeah, and you already know the devastation that he caused.
00:43:02
And but it's stuff like this or the crimes like this where you go 1990 and this is
00:43:11
kind of the start in the where it kind of ramps up and there's this peak of satanic panic, and you're
00:43:17
going to tell me that this is not satanic. There's so many cases that we go, "Oh, well, it's just satanic panic."
00:43:24
And they you know, threw some of these teenagers under the under the bus because of it
00:43:29
and and they almost make it it seem in in some of these documentaries or these books that like there was no reason to
00:43:37
have any satanic panic. I think this this case itself should give you reason for satanic
00:43:45
panic. >> Oh, yeah. And keep in mind, he went out the door on Friday the 13th to start
00:43:51
checking names off of his hit list. He left the list behind. That tells me that that very likely maybe the words to that
00:43:58
chant weren't tattooed on his brain, but I believe you have to believe at least several of the names were committed to
00:44:05
memory. Yeah, it's probably a that he thought about over and over, writes down the plan, well, I don't need to take the
00:44:11
note with me cuz it's all up here. It's all up here in my satanic brain. On that videotape, he says happy Friday the
00:44:19
13th. Of course, local residents were completely shocked when they heard about this self-professed
00:44:29
Satanist who had confessed to murder. Kenneth Glenn Milner, as we said, 19-year-old admirer of Charles Manson
00:44:37
and Jack the Ripper. He was charged murdering Garcia. He was also charged with the attempted murders of Kenneth
00:44:44
Williams, his former high school principal. We'll circle back to that attempted murder in detail in in in just a bit.
00:44:51
And Milner was also charged with the attempted murder of Jimmy Britton, a former girlfriend's stepfather, all that
00:44:58
same night. Milner slashed Britton's throat and arms with a straight razor just shortly after 1:00 a.m. July 14th. He
00:45:08
might not have been all completely evil though. And I only say that because the report we have here,
00:45:16
well, the report we have here is that when he when he was cutting Jimmy Britton, attempting to kill him,
00:45:22
that Milner began vomiting during the attack. And it was only because of that. So, he approaches the door, knocks on
00:45:30
the door, Britton opens up the door, Milner starts cutting him with this razor. And he he Milner gets weak during
00:45:37
this and starts vomiting and it was only because of that that another member of the family was able to push Milner back
00:45:44
outside and close and shut and lock the door. Yeah, I wonder if he was intoxicated or
00:45:51
was using drugs. Chip Brown had a great title for one of the many Texas and Associated Press news articles about
00:45:59
this case. One of his was titled Murder of youth 17 brings horror films to life in Texas town. And that is
00:46:09
brings horror films to life in Texas town is a great way to end short succinct way to describe this.
00:46:17
Here's portions of that article here Captain. The 2300 people who live in this farming town worry that there will
00:46:24
be other attacks. Parents closely watch their children keeping them off the dirt
00:46:29
roads that crisscross the rolling wheat fields of the region. Quote, there is a fear that there are
00:46:36
more Satanists out there, said Linda Solace who has four children. She says there are rumors that they are looking
00:46:45
for a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy to sacrifice. And this is a testament to what you were saying
00:46:52
earlier about the the rise of satanic panic. Well, you you get that through acts like this, through real life true
00:47:00
crime stories that would have reason to cause that specific panic. Yeah, I find this very interesting in
00:47:09
the case how he drove out to this large birthday party, this celebration. I'm guessing he learned of this
00:47:16
party through school, right? And so then he gets to the party because he wants to
00:47:22
rack up his body count. And he felt sick and there was other eyewitnesses there that said he well, he
00:47:29
didn't do anything. He didn't do anything evil. He didn't try to kill anybody, but he did get sick. A lot of
00:47:34
these cases to me just seem so similar like that statement, I wanted to rack up a body count. You see this with
00:47:41
Columbine where it's like, yeah, we're going to go in the school and shoot some of these kids, but we got this bomb that
00:47:47
will go off and that will rack up this body count. You see this and if anybody has watched it or hasn't watched it on
00:47:55
Hulu, the Scream Murders documentary that just came out. It's a three-part series. It's
00:48:01
definitely worth the watch. But, their idea was to commit a a Scream style killing
00:48:08
of one of their friends and maybe kill others and then end their rampage by going into the school
00:48:16
and shooting up the school. And when they said on video camera cuz they were videotaping themselves, again
00:48:23
another another similarity with this case, with Columbine, with the Scream murders,
00:48:28
these individuals videotaping themselves beforehand and afterwards. But, when they were talking on videotape for the
00:48:35
Scream murders, they're like, "Well, once we go to the school and shoot people up, that racks up our body
00:48:40
count." So, you just see so many similarities with these satanic, evil, demonic, late teens, early 20s killers.
00:48:52
There are some DAs that I just love, and this is one of them. So, Carson County District Attorney David McCoy
00:49:00
said that he would be seeking the death penalty. He said Milner gave police a written confession in which he said he
00:49:08
wanted to die. David McCoy said, quote, "Mr. Milner has indicated a strong desire to die, and I intend to do all I
00:49:16
can to see his wishes are accommodated." The court-appointed a defen- defense attorney for Milner, his name Douglas
00:49:25
Woodburn of Amarillo. He said the trial could begin as early as January of 1991.
00:49:34
And he says there has been extensive publicity of the case, and Panhandle is a small town, so that they
00:49:42
would be seeking a change of venue. And we know from covering these cases that that is pretty common a lot of times,
00:49:51
especially if you have a case like this where it captures the attention of the news, the
00:49:58
media, and the public. He says that his client, he doesn't know that his client is a Satanist. He's going to be saying
00:50:05
these things to the papers because he has to defend this kid who it's not it's not about defending him to whether he's
00:50:12
guilty or innocent. They know that he's guilty. It's about saving this young man's life, making sure that he doesn't
00:50:19
get the the death penalty. Here's a story that I thought was very eerie. Okay, so we talked about the
00:50:27
young man who lost his life, Frankie Garcia. A kid just a kid. He's getting ready to start his senior year in high
00:50:35
school. And so those who knew victim Frankie Garcia, the high school students, of course they also know the
00:50:43
murderer Kenneth Glenn Milner, they would tell police and anyone willing to listen,
00:50:50
this was talked about, that the two were actually not friends. One student had said, this is Ron Doddy, had said,
00:51:00
quote, Frankie really got on Glenn's nerves. Frankie tried really hard to be everyone's friend.
00:51:06
So when Glenn Milner invited Frankie Garcia to go out on the town with him on that Friday the 13th,
00:51:14
Frankie Garcia told Craig Shackelford that he was skeptical. And he says, Glenn doesn't even like me, does he? And
00:51:21
so this is a telephone conversation that Shackelford had a couple of hours before
00:51:27
with Garcia before Garcia was killed. Garcia tells Shackelford about Glenn. He's like,
00:51:33
he just wants to take me out and pull a prank on me, scare the hell out of me, doesn't he?
00:51:37
And it was Frankie's kind nature, like like the other student said at the high school, Frankie tried really hard just
00:51:43
to be everybody's friend. And that's why he probably went out with Glenn that night, not knowing that Glenn had
00:51:50
intentions of killing him at the haunted house. Yeah, he probably got out to that
00:51:55
haunted house and just thought this is all a prank, this is all a ruse. But if somebody's not making you feel safe or
00:52:03
somebody is being mean to you, I you just feel bad for this kid cuz he felt like he had to be polite, felt
00:52:11
like he had to be friendly even when everything was telling him don't. You should never apologize for
00:52:19
going, "Hey, this person makes me feel off. This person makes me feel threatened in some way." You don't have
00:52:24
to be nice or polite to that person. >> In January of 1991, Kenneth Glenn Milner
00:52:29
pled guilty to two counts of attempted murder and one count of murder. He was sentenced to three life sentences. He
00:52:38
has been up for parole in the past, thankfully that parole has been denied. Kenneth Glenn Milner, the Friday [music]
00:52:45
the 13th killer, will visit with the parole board once again in 2030. >> [music]
00:52:58
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00:53:13
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00:53:18
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00:53:26
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So, a great organization that is kogs.com. And until next week. Be good. Be kind.
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