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all right thank you Captain everybody gather round grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime
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[Music] foreign [Music] it's true yes I've been ill very ill but why do you say that I have lost control
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of my mind why do you say that I am mad can you not see that I have full control
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of my mind is it not clear that I am not mad indeed the illness only made my mind my
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feelings my senses stronger more powerful my sense of hearing especially became more powerful
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I could hear sounds I had never heard before I heard sounds from heaven I heard sounds from hell
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listen and I will tell you how it happened you will see you will hear how healthy my mind is
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it is impossible to say how the idea first entered my head there was no reason for what I did
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Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart [Music] [Music] we start off this week's worldwide
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garage cast with three brutal and very scary unsolved murders in the Florida Keys all taking place in the span of
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about one year just under 13 months in fact these three murders had everyone on high
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alert and rightfully so the three victims were all said to be vulnerable female victims they were all killed and
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their bodies recovered in the short span of July 1988 to July 1989. some women were buying and packing their purses
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with cans of Mace some inspired by the fear and violence were buying and packing their purses
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with pistols others were signing up for defense classes all three of these murders would take place in a 10 mile
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radius of each other yeah this is a 10 mile string of rural Coral Rock Barrier Islands
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Big Pine Key little Torch Key and no name key all down near the southernmost tip of
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Florida now while the papers describe all of the victims collectively as vulnerable females all three of them
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could not be more different from one another the first victim was four-year-old Patty Lanza and then about
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six months later we have a second victim this is 20 year old cancer survivor Lisa
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Sanders and then the third victim was a 39 year old former beauty queen from Illinois her name Sherry parisho who was
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very intelligent Sherry was homeless by choice living a very let's say hippie lifestyle for a lack of a better term
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and sleeping under the stars in beautiful Big Pine Key the killings and frankly the horrific nature of how all
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three of the victims were killed and what was done to the bodies spawned some very scary rumors
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some were saying that a serial killer was using the keys as a hunting ground some saying that it was the work of the
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Florida Keys Ripper and the local media had its own Theory either it was the work of a lunatic a Satanist or perhaps
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drug cultist sacrificing victims one headline read murders in rural Keys spawned rumors of a cult victims lived
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in a murky Fringe world that article is from the Miami Herald from 1989. and the
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article Captain it's a lengthy one so I've cherry-picked some of the highlights here and it reads Big Pine
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Key Florida Sherry parisho slept under the stars in a little green dinghy little green dinghy was my nickname in
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high school she talked about the magic of Saturn she said she had the power to make rain
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everyone in these once Heavenly Keys called her The Rainmaker then on the night after a full moon someone from
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Hell lunatic or Satanist snatched the rainmaker's soul a killer slit her throat cut open her chest and stole her heart
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the murder of Sherry parisho 39 a high school beauty queen from Illinois is the third unsolved homicide of a female
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along this 10 Mile string of rural Coral Rock Barrier Islands Big Pine Key little
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Torch Key and no name key all within a year one of the other victims like Paris show had a missing heart
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and some people in these Keys usually laid back and relaxed are very very frightened
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quote the consistent story is that the murders had something to do with a satanic cult connected with drug
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shipments detectives are mystified they measure tire tracks take clothing descriptions and confront an almost
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frenzied local Rumor Mill they haul in for polygraph tests a variety of key Critters as they call them eccentrics
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aging hippies with earrings tattoos and ex-cons and suspected drug dealers Monroe County Sheriff J defore doesn't
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Advance a murder Theory and downplays talk that drug cultists sacrificed the victims quote we haven't ruled it out
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the sheriff says but we haven't ruled out martians either well you gotta love a smart ass all the victims were
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vulnerable females one four years old she lived with her mother all the victims lived in a murky Fringe
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world of transients wild parties and talk of white powder and black magic cult related or not the murders have
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brought attention to the growing problem of Satanism in the keys Rhonda poor works at a church and Marathon she says
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she has counseled six or seven recovering cultists they've been involved in initiations they use girls
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for ritual offerings on altars making them lie on slabs one boy said he had to take a large live animal kill it and
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drink the blood on July 2nd 1988 the first murder occurred little Patty Lanza 4 wearing a
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white jumpsuit went with her mother Deborah to a party on little Torch Key it was a big wild Affair people were
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probably doing cocaine says Kim Normandy who attended the party she remembers Patty's mother confused about where her
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little girl was the mother was sort of out of it normally says sheriff's deputies found the jumpsuit and
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underwear in the woods not far from Paddy's body an autopsy indicated that she had been sexually assaulted and then
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clubbed on the head the murderers of vicious dangerous person had no fear to snatch a four-year-old from a party and
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do this just moments away from a large group of people Sheriff to four goes on to say that he does not believe that
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this killing is connected to the others investigators cite differences in the victims ages and the way that they died
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there's a very compelling Link in these three murders and that seems to be geography and time the girls
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grandparents believe Patty's death is cult or drug related the grandmother asked the homicide investigators to send
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her surviving grandchildren to a psychiatrist especially one of them she goes on to say I think may know
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something and is afraid to talk about it detectives questioned Patty's mother and
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a friend his name Mike balogna he is a tow truck operator the second murder occurred December 17
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1988 and be it small town coincidence or conspiracy the victim's parents lived next door to the first victim's
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grandparents our second victim is Lisa Sanders age 20. she was a small woman four foot nine 105 pounds recovering
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from leukemia she came to the keys from Michigan to join her parents her hair was still thin
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from the chemotherapy six weeks after her arrival on a Friday night she left her trailer park wearing
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blue jeans a pink tank top a silver necklace two gold chains and her High School ring with a topaz Stone she went
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to a wild party maybe 100 to 200 other people attended that party almost every Friday the party goers gathered on a
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deserted road to drink smoke pot and raise hell this was on sparsely populated no name key yeah I used to go
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to big parties back when my nickname was Little Green dinghy she was to meet her
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mother Marilyn at a flea market at 6 a.m on Saturday to sell Christmas decorations however she never made it at
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noon sheriff's deputies noticed vultures near a rock pit a mile from the party site they found the Body nude in some
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bushes they had to chase away the vultures Dr R.J Nelms Jr Monroe County's medical
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examiner reported that the victim had multiple skull fractures and not marks on her neck consistent with a rope and
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strangulation they concluded that the killer had also clubbed her on the head apparently with the butt of a pistol and
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stabbed her with a double-edged knife left to right through both eyes Nelms noted numerous holes measuring up to
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three inches some he said caused by the vultures missing from the body where most of the heart brain eyes neck
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muscles appendix ovaries bladder and parts of the lung neither the pathologist nor the detectives are
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certain how the organs were removed by vultures by a Madman or by both but it appears investigators say
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that someone dragged the victim down a Hard Rock Road while she was still alive apparently behind a vehicle Marilyn
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Sanders says she thinks her daughter was murdered by a Satanist quote I don't believe for a minute the vultures did it
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yeah maybe this murderer is a Satanist but he is also definitely a giant pile of [ __ ] most certainly the vultures did
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not remove the heart of Sherry parisho the third murder victim someone cut it out with a knife
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says nouns the pathologist quote I think it is possible it was the same knife used in the second murder
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like the two other victims parisha was short five foot two she had a childlike innocence about her she kept a diary
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painted and liked to soak up the sun in a blue bikini she rode around town on a bicycle every evening before calling it
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a day she straddled her knapsack in pots and pans across her dinghy the little boat had her name on the back she would
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row out under the pine Channel bridge to about four feet of water and sleep there
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in the swimming hole at about 10 pm July 19th a tourist from Ohio fishing off the
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bridge thought he hooked a big fish it was Sherry parisho's left elbow you can't trust anybody from Ohio so like
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you said three female victims all connected within a 10 mile radius but varying degrees of age but when you hear
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rumors that two of the victims Hearts were removed that's going to get everybody locally on high alert yeah
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this is a difficult thing to sit here and try to make sense out of right because we have these three murders and
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what we do have is we have the police coming out and they're saying we don't feel that this first one is connected to
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the other two we can't say for certain that the other two are even connected to one another we do have the fact that one
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they're all killed in close proximity to one another and they're also killed within a short time period from one
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another and oh by the way right the three cases are unsolved and so until we know who did one two or three of these
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killings we just don't know exactly what happened now Captain not too many folks
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out there throw out praise and cheers to investigative journalists Like Yours Truly you're a kiss ass so traditionally
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I'm a fan however one thing that I strongly encourage that we all should be doing constantly is to read between the
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lines always look for the story inside the story always ask yourself what are they not telling us and never be afraid
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to question what we are told now you have to be careful in some of these situations because sometimes I feel like
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like news outlets can stray from the good sound reporting and Venture into the sales industry right and what they're
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trying to sell us is fear and the more you watch and read the more you become afraid the more afraid you
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are the more you will return to watch or read because we are afraid of the things that are out
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there we are afraid of the things that could harm us or our families a lot of times these things we have little
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control or no control over but in some weird way we feel like if we tune in if we stay informed what we have control
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over that well aren't you just the pot calling the kettle black and so in this case it's really interesting here
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because I think they did some great work here the Miami Herald is doing a great job on
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reporting these cases the article is fantastic and the writing is excellent the article comes from the Miami Herald
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staff writer Sydney Friedberg doing gangbusters work down there in the South Beach area but they stray a bit when it
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comes to these theories it looks like we have a lot of the local scuttlebutt that
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is making its way into these news stories and I mean across the board so this is the one that we chose to go
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through in good detail however this was just one of dozens of articles that were
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coming out around this area all over Florida at this time because of the nature of these horrific murders right
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we chose to go with this one because none of these other articles were as good or as thorough as this one now they
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could be right on some level right like my boy meatloaf said two out of three ain't bad there's no way you've met
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meatloaf so if anyone out there in listener land wants to keep score here we go as the colonel sees it anyway so
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is it a lunatic or lunatics responsible for one of the murders or all three absolutely yes dang that's the score
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could a Satanist be involved in one of these murders yes of course so ding again but a drug cult sacrificing
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victims well you heard the sheriff emphatically quash that notion when he says we haven't ruled it out but we
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haven't ruled out martians either right so it looks like while drugs may be involved in some of these parties that
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we're discussing it doesn't appear or they don't have any evidence to suggest that a drug cult
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was involved in these murders well we have several victims and we're going to have several suspects in each one of
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these murders and that's what's left out from these news articles at the time they're coming in with these
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scary headlines that we got these cult druggist and they're just offing people and sacrificing victims but really we
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have some decent suspects in each one of these cases and whether or not any of these cases were connected to the others
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while that seems to be a concern for the public here and that comes through clearly in this article it wasn't so
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much a question for the investigators in fact you heard the sheriff saying they have reason to believe that the first
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murder is not in any way connected to the other two so they had suspects in each case and most of those suspects
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were only a suspect in one of the cases there was however one suspect that popped up in two of the cases but not
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the third so let's go through each of these with a little more detail here let's do it the Paddy Lanza case is a
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very strange one right they all are but with the way the woman from the last article described everything I caught
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myself victim blaming quite a bit thinking why in the hell would anyone bring a child to that party you're not
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victim blaming directly you're just questioning the actions of the victim's mother but some more information
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describes what I think to be more of a family-friendly atmosphere or maybe at least one might think that going to the
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party right this was to be a large Fourth of July holiday party families welcome to this event it was on a
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Saturday which was July 2nd Deborah Lanza takes her four kids with her to this party on little Torch Key
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at the party they are roasting Hogs people are playing Horseshoes and there's lots of kids that were present
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so not just Debra's four kids that are there in fact many recall one of the favorite activities that the kids were
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engaging in was chasing one another around a house and chasing each other around on this large wooden patio
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little Patty only four years old at some point she complains to her mother that she is tired and she's saying hey I want
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to go home this is just before 10 pm so no problem Deborah Lanza says okay we are going to go home let me round up
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your Three Brothers the brothers are all older Patty is the baby of the bunch it's during this time that Mom seems to
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lose track of Patty we've all been in this situation whether we're the parent or where the child you're at the party
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now you got to gather up everybody and you gotta gather up your belongings and at this point she just can't find her
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daughter yeah this is when the confusion sits in and Patty seems to vanish in the
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blink of an eye then sadly as we know her body is found the next day not terribly far from the house that hosted
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the party within days there is a suspect at least one person attending the party reported
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to authorities that another party attendee later determined to be 30 year old Steve
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polight was seen leaving the house with the little girl just shortly before her mother noticed that she was missing
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right police arrested Steve and charged him with false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13 in connection with
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the girl's death Steve was arrested on July 5th and put in jail so Captain this was quick things are moving quick in
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this investigation he is in custody already by July 6 with the announcement that the investigation was ongoing and
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further charges may be filed police said when you have a murdered girl this is what you want some answers quickly
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eyewitness is coming forward and it seems like a moment of guiding and this Steve polite he was someone that showed
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up to the party with a handful of other people but he seems to be one of these guys eyes that a lot of the people at
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the party didn't seem to know who he was you know sometimes at these parties friends invite friends and then those
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friends invite other friends the next thing you know you're at this big large party that you thought you were going to
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know 90 to 100 of the people in the room and you're looking around and there's some strangers involved yeah or if
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you're the captain you just invite yourself so a lot of people at this party they don't know who this guy is
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also they say that the people that were with him that came with him arrived with
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him at the party fit in that same category where a lot of the people at the party did not know who these people
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were so Steve is arrested he's sitting in jail I know they were hoping to get a confession from him which never came and
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I know they were trying to get some additional evidence against him as well some physical evidence because what we
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have here in this investigation so far is just a witness or a few witness statements that have our victim and our
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suspect seen together at the party but if Steve is the guy well unfortunately they don't have any
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luck getting physical evidence against him foreign [Music] [Music] all right we are back cheers mates
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cheers to you Colonel cheers to you there captain now we have this Steve polite individual who is suspect number
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one in the murder of little Patty Lanza and odd that his last name is polite because
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it might not be so polite that he showed up to a party that nobody seems to know
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who he is right and unfortunately this investigation against Steve polight stalled I don't know if they were
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getting conflicting reports from people that were at the party but what we do know is that law enforcement gets
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inconclusive scientific reports they collected blood hair and clothing fibers right that were
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sent off for testing analysis and comparisons and none of this evidence was any good
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for the state in connecting Mr Steve polight to the abduction and murder of the little girl well like you said we
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have eyewitnesses but how many times have you been at a party there's a bunch of people around and you gotta run out
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to your truck or your Jeep to grab the six-pack that you brought so he heads out to get the six pack and this girl
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heads out to her car to wait for her mother or wait for her family and so these eyewitness reports it they put
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them together but it they don't put them together in the sense of they saw this guy grab her and carrying her over his
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shoulder right now the Monroe County State Attorney he ends up dismissing the charges against Steve but this doesn't
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go down until late November of 88. so Steve sat in jail for about eight or nine days shy of five months
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and then he is released now interestingly enough according to Florida Keys missing and unsolved Steve
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admitted to police that yes he was with the girl at the party there's no detail given here Captain so I don't know if
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he's saying yes I I spoke to the little girl or yes I spoke to several kids while I was there right but he does not
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deny being in the company of this little girl but he tells police yeah I talked to her but she was alive when I last saw
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her so he ends up getting released and then again according to Florida Keys missing and unsolved he then dies in
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1989 or maybe early 1990 of what is reported as natural causes apparently years later his DNA is tested in this
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case in The Paddy Lanza case and it is announced that he is excluded as a suspect
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[Music] our second victim is 20 year old Lisa Sanders she was a tiny but strong woman
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she was just four foot nine inches tall or four foot ten inches tall depending on which report Little Mighty might but
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she battled leukemia and was recovering from her victory over leukemia heck not just recovering she was living life and
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moving onward and upward with her life yeah there's probably somebody out there fighting cancer right now keep fighting
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don't give up you can do this she was a kid from a big family growing up in Michigan after leukemia she decided she
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wanted to pursue a nursing career she enrolled in the Florida Keys Community College nursing program and relocated to
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Big Pine Key in 1988. about two months later after she arrived there on the night of Friday December 16 1988 Lisa
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attended a large party on no name key some Reports say maybe a hundred to possibly even 200 people attended the
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party throughout the night it's a party people come and go it gets a little difficult to determine exactly how many
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people attended this party from my understanding here Captain this was a regular out in the open we're out
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in this rural area out in the sticks and people just kind of randomly show up sounds like a big bonfire party to me
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yeah party dude and this goes down every Friday night now she is last seen at the party around 9 30 p.m by several
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people the reports are that she left the party on foot saying that she was going
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to go home or walk home that night I don't know how far she was living from this party but again this is all kind of
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a small community all of these three areas that we're talking about all within 10
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miles of one another the following day her parents report her missing and as you heard earlier police find her body
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practically led to the body by vultures she was found off of a dirt road having been tossed into some bushes as we
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reported earlier she had been beaten stabbed and dragged behind a vehicle by a rope tied around her neck and parts of
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her were missing there was debate over the theory of whether it was animals or the killer or both that were responsible
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for the mutilations done to the body yeah I think I'm comfortable after reviewing the injuries and all of the
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information saying yes it was probably both right the we have the statements from police later on much
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later after this case takes place in 1989 in 1990 where they are saying that most of these mutilations appear to have
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been done by Animals by the vultures by birds but one thing we know to be true is vultures didn't tie a rope or chain
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around her neck and then drag her behind a vehicle no so it has to be both there
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there shouldn't be much of a debate here this case has been in the news not just
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in 88 89 or 90. this case has remained in the news from time to time over the years this one has never strayed very
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far from the spotlight in fact in 2015 police were once again asking the public for their help in this matter and even
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offering up reward money for information now it does look like they had multiple
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suspects in this case as well in fact they had one that they liked a lot the Monroe County Sheriff's detective
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Bureau have stated publicly over the years that there is a quote person of interest in this case they don't however
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ever give this man's name but we did a little digging of our own here and we know this to be a guy that I call the
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man with four first names this is Guy Billy Lee Scott a Man convicted of rape murder and
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manslaughter up here in our state Ohio from these charges and convictions he has been in jail or prisons here in Ohio
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for over 30 years now and was recently in our local news in fact just four days ago we were told that the Ohio Innocence
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Project is stepping up to bat for this guy Billy Lee Scott well this case is going to be difficult for law
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enforcement because like you said the party is so large 100 people to 200 people so that's a lot of people to try
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to track down especially when there's no like list of people that came to the party we have a lot of people just from
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the community dropping by yeah and Scott is 60 years old old turd he's still in prison here in Ohio he's serving a 15
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years to life in prison sentence that he received from a Butler County jury after being convicted of murder
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rape and assault his case is difficult because up here in Ohio he's accused of raping and murdering a woman named Lisa
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Buckley and oddly enough this murder takes place shortly after an outdoor party sounds a little similar to our first
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victims first two victims here in the keys the problem with his conviction or at
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least as far as the Ohio Innocence Project sees it and I'm not here to make any enemies especially with the good
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people of the Ohio Innocence Project yeah well I'm here to talk [ __ ] and kick some ass I've reviewed a lot of this
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case the guy looks guilty to me he's had several appeals that have held up in court but look they're doing their jobs
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they're going to give him a shot here I guess there's DNA in this Lisa Buckley case and so they're going to get Scott's
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DNA and compare it to the Buckley case and if it doesn't match up they're going to say this guy was innocent he was
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basically convicted off of eyewitness statements and no physical evidence at all in the Lisa Buckley case
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oddly enough it seems to be that that might be the same thing that was connecting him to the Lisa Sanders case
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in 1988 down in the keys that you have some people suggesting that he was there at the party and then now we have a
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victim the following day there was also some rumor at the time that police were searching for a pickup truck possibly
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with Ohio license plates on it that is back in 1988 in the Lisa Sanders case well and just to be clear just because
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the Ohio Innocence Project is going to be taken on this case they're going to be doing tests before they fully invest
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their all their time and energy correct so this is going to go down relatively soon from my understanding there was a
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rape kit from the Lisa Buckley case here in Ohio and fingernail scrapings and from my understanding that evidence has
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never been tested and has never been tested against this individual here Mr Scott maybe these results we can go over
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on an episode of off the Record his claim and his defense team's claim is that this guy was convicted on the
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statements of eyewitnesses or as they say people that made up this story against him to get him convicted get him
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wrongfully convicted the persons that testified against him in the Lisa Buckley case one was from a previous
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relationship which he had that didn't go so well and the other was a family member of an individual that he was
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convicted of killing so they're saying these people had a vested interest in testifying against him truthful or
00:36:30
otherwise he was already convicted of manslaughter he was involved in a shootout
00:36:36
where we end up with people passing away from their injuries from this shootout right and so that's how he gets the
00:36:44
manslaughter charge and his defense team is saying of course this one person testified against him and led to his
00:36:51
conviction in the Lisa Buckley case and they had reason to do so and that's because they hated him for being
00:36:58
involved in the shootout where their loved one passed away and they probably don't feel like he got a long enough
00:37:03
sentence yeah I kind of agree in this case I mean some people get longer sentence for selling marijuana now
00:37:10
we say all that but really at the end of the day the man with four first names he's got nothing to lose just a couple
00:37:17
first names he's in prison either way so of course he's going to say test it test
00:37:21
it test it and hopefully something goes wrong even if he did do it for him and he catches a break and he gets out now
00:37:29
we also could be sitting here a few months from now going well he got what he wanted for they tested it and it
00:37:36
turns out yes he killed Lisa Buckley well then we'll scream to the high heels got him but even if he's innocent we
00:37:43
have this rough individual that we know of as far as his history goes or he put himself around three situations where
00:37:52
there's murdered victims yeah that's what's so interesting to me here Captain with this individual as a potential good
00:37:59
suspect in The Paddy Lanza case I'm going to include that one as well as the Lisa Sanders case so I've reviewed some
00:38:06
statements that make it sound like maybe he should be a suspect in The Paddy Lanza case as well
00:38:12
reportedly he was seen at the no-name key party and then seen at the July 2nd 1988 party on
00:38:22
little Torch Key the one that the four-year-old Patty Lanza went missing from and then later her body found
00:38:28
nearby the following day well like we said all three victims were found within a 10 mile radius around similar times so
00:38:37
if this guy is seen at one party that puts him as a possible suspect in all the cases so down there in the keys
00:38:45
within this six-month stretch you have two victims that are murdered shortly after or during the course of a party
00:38:55
right now what would make him interesting is yes he seems to have been a suspect in the
00:39:03
Lisa Sanders case but some of these reports are suggesting that he attended both
00:39:09
of the parties right now Monroe County detectives are on the record saying that quote he was present at both those
00:39:19
parties but a lot of other people also were present at both citing that it's such a small community
00:39:27
right okay so there are a lot of similarities to the Lisa Sanders case compared to the Lisa Buckley case and
00:39:38
this coming from law enforcement they say it happened after an outdoor party and the Ohio victim oddly enough was
00:39:45
also named Lisa the thing with Scott being guilty or innocent in the Buckley case or the Sanders case or let's go
00:39:52
even with the Paddy Lanza case yes the statement from law enforcement down in the key saying a lot of people were at
00:39:59
both parties but guess what chicken butt I guarantee you I would slap down a big
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old Benjamin Franklin on this one and wager it I guarantee you he was the only guy that was at all three parties and
00:40:12
I'm talking about the the party up here in Ohio where Lisa Buckley was killed afterwards right now
00:40:19
they are saying they want to test Scott's DNA for comparison in the Lisa Buckley case in Ohio
00:40:27
and that might exonerate him or exclude him from having been the killer in the Buckley case I say great if he's willing
00:40:36
to give his DNA for testing in comparison in that case to confirm or remove him as the guy in the Buckley
00:40:43
Ohio case let's take that DNA too and if you have any available for our perpetrator in the
00:40:50
Patty Lanza case which you might right we give we gave the statement that it was reported that the one guy
00:40:58
who was charged with unlawful imprisonment of a child under the age of 13 Steve polight he was locked up and held
00:41:08
in jail for for almost five months released and then the reports are that he'd passed away a year year and a half
00:41:17
later and his DNA was tested years later which excluded him as a suspect in The Paddy Lanza case that would imply that
00:41:26
they have DNA of the perpetrator in The Paddy Lanza case right they may also have DNA of the perpetrator in the Lisa
00:41:34
Sanders case because we know according to all the reports that she unfortunately was raped if he wants his
00:41:41
DNA compared in the Lisa Buckley case I say great let's do it because if he was wrong wrongfully convicted get him out
00:41:48
of that cell as quickly as you possibly can however he stay in jail for a little bit
00:41:55
of time because he's charged with another homicide however if he is willing to give his DNA for comparison
00:42:02
in that case I say if it's possible let's compare it and the Patty lands a case and the Lisa Sanders case as well
00:42:09
yeah you can test them for all three and look maybe he is innocent of all three and it's just a weird coincidence that
00:42:17
he was at all three parties but at least you can get closer to an answer by a process of elimination
00:42:25
that's exactly right seven months after the brutal torture killing of Lisa Sanders a man fishing
00:42:33
off of the Big Pine Key Bridge at first thought that he caught a big fish but sadly it turned out to be that
00:42:44
he hooked a human elbow now the way that this goes down and I thought this to be a little bit
00:42:51
fishy let's say to start with no pun intended there you go when you dive deep into the details here
00:42:59
I'm always suspicious of the person that finds the body plus he's from Ohio and here this sound like a suspicious story
00:43:09
yeah it took much digging to to find out the details that this individual one was not
00:43:16
alone two was from out of state and was on vacation with three other friends and
00:43:24
it was official then yes and it was a fishing trip that involved four individuals so they're all fishing off
00:43:30
of this bridge now remember we had said earlier in the description of Sherry parisho's life 39 year old
00:43:40
homicide victim Sherry Paris show he lived on this little boat and at night time she would take it under this
00:43:49
bridge near a swimming hole and regularly sleep there under the stars at night time
00:43:58
what it appears to be Captain is that somebody in the middle of the night must have approached her
00:44:05
and murdered her and they leave her in the same general area and unfortunately this man who's on vacation he's there
00:44:17
with his three friends the four of them are out fishing he hooks the elbow of Sherry parisha
00:44:25
so very quickly we have the discovery of our third victim 39 year old Sherry parisho who is reported to be a
00:44:36
free-spirited woman living on a small boat now she wasn't just killed this is where we stray
00:44:46
a thousand times away from the first two murders unfortunately you know the Paddy lands a
00:44:53
case it looks like somebody abducted the little girl assaulted her and killed her
00:44:58
within a very quick period of time and left the body near the home of the house that was hosting that party
00:45:07
Lisa Sanders a little more complicated did she get into the to a car with the wrong individual was she abducted on the
00:45:15
side of the road as she was walking home that night it's difficult to say what we
00:45:20
can say is that somebody took her from wherever they got her from and they placed her body in the bushes not close
00:45:29
to where this party was and then the animals get to the body and really complicate things with the investigation
00:45:37
in this case it appears that somebody just went after this woman in the middle of the night where she was intending to
00:45:44
sleep or nearby her Camp if you want to call it that she wasn't just killed she was mutilated this is a fact where it
00:45:52
was a debate with Lisa Sanders did a Madman do it did the animals do it or did both do it we're saying we believe
00:45:59
both in this case this is completely different this was man-made mutilation on this poor woman on this victim to me
00:46:10
it looks like somebody even playing with the body after the murder it was determined that she was drowned and the
00:46:18
autopsy revealed the details of the mutilation some of which was the throat slashed so deeply that the spine was
00:46:27
severed and that she was almost decapitated she was sliced down the length of her
00:46:34
torso and her heart and other things were removed the cuts were so precise that one law
00:46:42
enforcement officer said quote it was surgical there was no mistake about what happened here this is the murder that
00:46:51
the locals ran wild with there were so many theories on this one each Theory stranger than the last
00:46:59
and there were a lot of suspects I can't say if these were people considered to be suspects by the actual police but the
00:47:07
general public certainly had a list of suspects at this point the community kind of like the delphiq so they're just
00:47:12
gonna throw out to law enforcement almost anybody that looks suspicious I think this is because of a few different
00:47:19
factors here in this case compared to the others why was there such a heightened level of Fascination and fear
00:47:28
surrounding this case compared to the others one this being the third murder of this type and just roughly about one
00:47:37
year's time to the horror of this one the Mount of degradation done to the corpse is pretty
00:47:46
much Beyond Comprehension well and where we question that and with the second victim we don't have to question that so
00:47:54
much with the third victim and here with the third victim I think part of the mystery here is compounded by the
00:48:01
mysterious lifestyle of the victim herself she was a mystery now she's involved in this mystery
00:48:10
who was the lunatic The Satanist The Madman the monster that killed her in the middle of the night
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[Music] so much more to get to join us back here in the garage tomorrow and until then be
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good be kind and don't litter [Music] thank you