Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Florida Teen Admits To Raping 91-Year-Old Woman

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

Fourteen-year-old Jesse Stone had admitted to sexually assaulting a 91-year-old woman who lived in his neighborhood and considered him a friend. The woman called 911 last June from her home in Reddick, Florida and said a man beat her and sexually assaulted her in her bed. Marion County Sheriff's detectives encountered Jesse Stone and questioned him. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through Jesse Stone's interrogation in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Download the FREE Upside App at https://upside.app.link/crimefix to get an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5CRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this law and crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. I said, do you want to be the Randy John that tells the truth, the Randy John that cares about me? Because I know you are. Detectives press a 14-year-old boy for the truth in front of his grandmother as they question him about whether he sexually assaulted a 91-year-old woman. She deserves the truth to be told when you know it. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. This is a really disturbing case. Last June, Jesse Stone, he was a 14-year-old boy

in Reddick, Florida, who was living with his grandparents and going to summer school. Now he's likely going to prison for a very long time. Body camera footage from the early morning hours of June 9th, 2024 shows Marion County Sheriff's deputies at a 91-year-old woman's home after she'd called to say she'd been sexually assaulted. Okay, I'm up here on a rhetoric. I'm at a house and a 91-year-old lady calls in saying she was just raped. We get on scene. She's beat up really bad. Now, it was late at night and this was a terrifying, terrifying call. Who would do this to a 91-year-old woman?

Deputies started walking the property looking for clues or someone possibly hiding. Others started securing the crime scene. We'll just get some tape. We'll lock down the house. Once she's out, we'll wrap it up. It's our crime scene. I got evidence coming. Major crimes coming. K-9's coming. You know, one's coming. Who do you want to go with her to the hospital? I don't care as long as someone goes. I mean, if you talk to her, that's fine. If being that it's a female, maybe Alyssa can go. A little bit more comfortable. That lady's moved out of the way, right? With the phone?

Yeah. Hey, have the neighbor with the phone step out of our way. Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Kau ingatkan kutipan kukusama di sana? Now this is a very, very serious case, so it was all hands on deck. The rest of the neighborhood could be in danger with a rapist on the loose.

Oh, so she saw a shadow approaching her and all of a sudden he just started like wailing on her. She's significantly injured in her face and got a big gash on her arm. She's 91 years old. So she says that the guy sounded Hispanic and he was telling her to be still and penetrated her with his fingers. And she said that he felt like he was not erect, but maybe trying to be. She said it lasted about 15, huh? That's right. Yeah.

She says he never took off his pants. She said he never took off his pants and it lasted about 15, 20 minutes. And he left about five to 10 minutes prior to us going 97. Now, 97 is part of a police code meaning that deputies have arrived at a call. Collecting and preserving evidence is of course going to be very important in this case and it appears plenty of evidence was left behind by the perp. I'm sorry I didn't know evidence was coming out. I gave Christian the dress and underpants and two separate bags. That's fine. There's no anywhere like when you walk around house, no evidence of like her falling or anything. Everything she's saying is adding up.

Everything is on her bed. Blood everywhere on her bed. The neighbor said that only Hispanics that she knows is right across this road right here on this side. I want to tell you about Upside. It's a free app that gets you cash back on things like gas, groceries, and restaurants. This is real cash back. It's money that appears in your Upside app that you can transfer straight into your bank account.

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That's promo code CRIMEFIX for extra cash back. Police are looking for a suspect and evidence, but they also want to know whether any of the neighbors saw anything. Okay. And I came back out with my son and said he saw all the cars coming up here. Okay. So I'm sitting there for a minute. Your son lives here too? Huh? Your son lives here too? Yeah, my son lives here.

My daughter and son-in-law are down here from West Virginia on vacation. Okay. There was a car earlier that came up there, like, it was still daylight out there, but I think that was one of her friends. Okay. I think her... I mean, it looked looks familiar like i've seen the car before okay nobody's been in my yard because i got dogs out and stuff right okay um feel okay i hope i um i mean i've done this lady since i was 10 years old okay i mean somebody appears somebody was over there messing with the house, so. That lady's daughter

wanted her to move so many times out of here, too. She kept saying no, no, no. All right. Later that day, deputies talked to more neighbors. I was out in the back working in my shop.

I guess when all this was going down, I never heard nobody yell or anything. That's what was weird. During the night? Yeah, last night. Yeah, I didn't come in from 930. Came back outside, and then my son said,

my son says, all these lights are going up the road. That's when I came back out and talked to you. Did the deputies talk to you last night? I gave them my name and stuff. Yeah, they just said, did you see anything? I said, no, I didn't see nothing. And they can't come through my yard because them two are out. Sure.

Unless they jump fences. Okay. Do you guys have videos of him? No. I got a set, but I don't have them up there. I'm jump fences. Okay. Do you guys have videos of him? Well, I got a set, but I don't have them up yet. I'm crippled. I've been trying to. What the victim told police was absolutely terrifying. According to court documents, the woman said when the defendant jumped or pounced on top of her, she began to fight him by trying to push him off. Then he struck her face with his fists. Now keep in mind, as I told you, this is a 91-year-old

woman laying in her bed in her own home. She told detectives she told the attacker to get off of her. Then she repeatedly prayed, dear God, please help me. And the defendant told her to shut up, shut up. Next, the victim said her underwear was torn off and she ended up face down and she was sexually assaulted. But then it stopped and the man left. During the investigation, detectives had encountered a 14-year-old boy named Jesse Stone in the neighborhood. They noticed a red stain on his clothes and asked to get a swab. His grandmother consented to that and him giving a DNA sample. Then eight days after the sexual assault, detectives received the results that showed that Jesse Stone's DNA was left on the 91-year-old

victim. They brought Jesse Stone into the sheriff's office in handcuffs. They sat him in a room by himself for quite a while. Man, you doing all right? You need anything? Allesse i'm ryan and we're gonna come in here and talk to you just a little bit okay we're waiting for your mom i'm gonna get over here just so we can all be here and talk and figure out what's going on all right you sure you don't want to water anything okay if you need something let's cut this door a little knock all right okay jesse is in this room for more than two hours and eventually they give him a blanket it was likely very cold in that room with the AC on. It is Florida in June, after all.

They move Jesse Stone later to an interview room, and his grandma, who's raising him, shows up. Jesse, I'm going to ask you some questions. It might seem a little bit weird, but this is just to help me understand and to make sure that I'm on the same page as you. So, do you understand the difference between a truth and a lie? Yes. Okay, so tell me what the truth means to you. The truth is what actually happened. Okay. And what's a lie mean? Something that's made up or not true. Okay. The detectives read Jesse his rights and they ask him about being out in the neighborhood the night

that the woman was assaulted. Do you remember that night? So when I showed you that video of you walking, so that would have been late Saturday night. Yes. Do you remember everything that you did that night? Yeah, I couldn't go to sleep, so I got up and I hiked down the road to watch the cars that were coming from the concert. I watched the cars for a while.

And then I went walking across the street for, I'm guessing, an hour before I came back to my house. So you heard there that the detectives had seen Jesse Stone on video in the neighborhood. They'd also met him in the neighborhood. Then Jesse Stone talked about seeing the victim hours before she was attacked. It was something the victim had already told the detectives, that the boy she knew as Randy John had stopped by.

Where was she at? On the front porch, sitting in a rocking chair in front of the door. Okay, gotcha. So what was the last time, like, before then when you had seen her, seen her or i guess talked with her like kind of like you did that day i the last time i'd seen her before that was probably about i'm gonna say a week and a half before she was um right driving down the road from like church or something okay and she just stopped and said hi real quick. Okay. Yeah. And then do you remember the last time,

like my understanding when we spoke the first time, and correct me if I got this wrong, that you, when you were younger, you used to go over and talk with her quite a bit. Yeah, go over, talk, help her. The detectives then asked Jesse Stone whether he had ever been in certain parts of the victim's home.

And this leads to their big gotcha moment in this long exchange. So she's never asked for your help to do those types of like household chores and like laundry or whatever? No. Okay. No. I've helped with the laundry machine, but not to do laundry. Not like you've never done her laundry for her bed sheets or anything like that? No.

You've never like taken a nap or slept in any or bed sheets or anything like that? No. You've never like taken a nap or slept in any of her bedrooms or anything like that? No. Okay. Do you remember if you've ever been in any of them bedrooms? No. No? No.

I've never been in any room other than the living room, kitchen, and the bathroom. Okay. Well, Randy Dunn, I think you probably know that I wouldn't ask that question unless I had a reason to. Okay. So, I'm just going to be honest with you because, I mean, I feel like you've been mostly honest with me. And I know your mom's been honest with me. Is it okay if I call you his mom? Yeah.

Okay. I don't mean to. It's okay. Yeah. But when I came over to you on, I think that was Sunday, and I was asking you about your clothes and the video and stuff, and I explained that I wanted to get your DNA, because I knew that you had been over there before, because you mentioned, like you told us today, that you had talked with her. So I knew that at the very least, there would be evidence of you being in the porch. Yeah. Right? So I went and met with your mom, and you guys signed a consent form, and we got your DNA. Uh-huh. Okay. So we sent your DNA and the sex gig up to the

Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who does the testing and stuff like that. Okay. Okay. Is there any reason at all that your DNA would be on her clothes? Yeah, when I said goodbye to her, we had like a slight hug. Okay. Well, let me be a little bit more specific. Your DNA was on her underwear. What? And so I want you to really use this time here to be honest with me about what happened that night because I think that we know what happened and I think that your mom knows what happened

because she also wrote down a list of times that you went in and out of the house to include the time that the call came in. And I think you probably know that you wouldn't be in here unless we had a good reason to put you in. I don't see... What? It's not about seeing you, John. It's truth. Yeah, I... Truth. I don't see... It's not about seeing, John. It's truth.

Yeah, I... Truth. It's impossible for my dean or your young heron to work. That's what we like to think too, brother, but that stuff doesn't lie. That stuff doesn't get made up. Sometimes the truth can be hard.

You seem like a really good guy, man. You seem like you've got a head on your shoulders. You make connections with people that need help. You go out there and you help other people. And there's people out there sometimes that make mistakes. I'm going to come over here. That doesn't make you a bad person for making a mistake. The detective then lays out photos of the victim, showing Jesse Stone what had been done to her.

Well, we just need to understand, like, who is Randy John, man? photos of the victim, showing Jesse Stone what had been done to her. happens when i walked here sc who Holy cow! I want to know why this happened. Randy, help us me for a second. You did this exact same thing when I asked you about walking down the road or jogging down the road at 11 o'clock and you did the whole I don't remember and I was like and you finally admitted to it.

And I think this is the exact same thing. I know what happened. And it's only going to help you for you to be honest with me about what happened. Because, like I said, we know what happened because we have your DNA. Have to question. Like you said, it's not like we're talking about a sweater that it was found on. It's in this elderly woman's underwear.

What are you thinking? We're putting everything out here and you're kind of just looking at all this, man. I know it might be a shock, but what are you thinking? I'm overly confused. What are you confused about? I wasn't even near her house. I was across the street. A whole hour?

You were gone. Yeah. I said I was gone for about an hour. The detectives leave the room, and Randy John is left with his grandmother. Mom, I don't know if you want to have a couple minutes to talk with your son. But, Andy, I want you to think real long and hard about everything that happened. And I want to do this, listen, more than I want to have the truth from you about what happened, because I know that you know what happened, I want to do this for her. If she is as amazing of a person as you say she is,

and I believe you because I've talked with her, getting all of this out in the open for her is what matters. She deserves the truth to be told and you know it. Personally, I can't believe that this is a horrible thing with you, John. That's a horrible thing. I don't... things that's a horrible thing uh... opinion it's hard for me to believe too it's really hard for me to believe in

you do you think that this how many times have you been caught in lies i don't like this is the whole reason why you're on restriction it's because you're not But how many times have you been caught in lies? I know, but... This is the whole reason why you're on restriction. It's because you're not telling the truth about things. This woman deserves to have the truth. She deserves it, and you know that. What?

Don't say why's, Ready John, because why doesn't exist here? I wasn't at her house. Ready John, it's across the street. Look at her. Look at her. That's... Look at her face. That's Miss... That's...

I didn't... I don't even think like that. I've never seen you hurt anybody, but... I don't want to hurt anybody. What the hell were you doing outside at that time of night? It doesn't make any sense. You understand? Ready, John? It doesn't make any sense.

There's a million different things you could do. Being outside where you don't belong, and you know you don't belong out there. I'm sorry, but I'm an outdoorsy person. You're not an outdoorsy person. You're sitting in front of the TV kind of guy. I don't have TV outside. Well, I don't know. I hope and pray you did not do this to this woman.

I did. I hope and pray. I hope and pray you did not do this to this woman. I did. I hope and pray. I hope and pray you did not do this. Because this is horrific. This is a human being. And she deserves justice. She does. If this would have happened to your sister, what would you do? Work whoever. happened to your sister what would you do work whoever if you know anything about this randy john for her at least if you care about her tell the truth tell the truth we've been down that road before where you've been lying about something. I don't know this. Randy, Randy, John, you've lied about stuff before.

Jesse's grandmother leaves the room, and the detectives do most of the talking. I just got done talking to your mom, and she said that, I mean, you're 14, right? I think every 14-year-old's got to have some thoughts about what a woman's like and things like that. And I heard that you've been kind of exploring some nudity and pornography. Is that what's going on, man? Grandma's got no reason to lie to me and you have no reason to lie to me about that either. That's totally normal and totally fine.

So is that something you've been I heard you're taking Grandpa's phone and taking a look at that. No, I don't do it on Grandpa's phone. I haven't been able to do it since I had my computer because she takes everything away. Mom, is it true that you were looking at some of that stuff? Like I said, it's totally my own, man.

Okay. And like I said, and I think what Detective Harding said, it's totally normal to want to find out about these things. Especially for someone that seems like you really truly cared about this woman. And maybe you just wanted to figure out what was what, man. What I'm like. Maybe you went into there, you didn't expect her to be awake. And so you freaked out.

And you panicked. Because that's what it looks like. Is that this was a... And then maybe you just locked her out, not expecting her to... Maybe you just wanted to knock her out. You didn't want to, you didn't think you were heard of this, but. Mm-hmm. And then you got out of there.

Because what we're trying to figure out, Randy John, is, like, take part, is that, like, we're pretty certain of what happened. What we're trying to figure out, is Randy John the kind of guy that, that breaks into people's houses with axes and chops them up into pieces and leaves them and murders them? Or did Randy John just make a mistake? Did he go into a house and expect this 91-year-old woman to be sleeping and maybe figure out something about life and then things just went awry? Because the thing is, people panic, man. And people do things that they don't mean

and they don't want to do and they panic. So the detectives, as you saw there, tried to make Jesse Stone feel comfortable, like he just made a mistake, so he would open up to them. Eventually, he confesses, saying that he watched pornography on the victim's iPad and then went into her room and assaulted her. His confession is redacted under Florida law, so you won't be able to hear it. Honestly, Randy John, I feel like you probably wish that this had never happened. Like, I honestly still believe that you never really intended to hurt your provider. I don't intend to hurt anyone.

The male detective and Jesse Stone talk extensively about him watching pornography, and Jesse talks very openly and freely about it. friendshut 10 seen watching them since you can often how often do you think you're watching before you get them restriction twice a week more kinda suffering washing button looking at pictures? Were you watching videos? A mix of both. A mix of both? Okay. And what site did you normally use?

XNXX. XNXX. And that's all it's called? You just put that into Google? XNXX? Yeah, it was the website my friend showed me. Okay. Jesse Stone pleaded guilty to the charges back in December. He'll be sentenced next month. He is now 15 years old. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. Thank you so much for being with me.

I'll see you back here next time.