Dr. Insanity - Girl Discovers Her Grandpa Is A Wanted Killer

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/insanity. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! On February 13th, 2023, Illene Gowan disappeared after leaving her job at Sugar’s Diner. Her last text was to her boss: "Leave me alone, I’m done". Her family was shocked, but would eventually provide police with an interesting insight: Illene had been involved with two men in the past couple of weeks, both of whom had potential motives to do the unthinkable to her. A few days later, her body was found by the roadside - escalating the case from a missing person to a murder investigation. In the midst of this deadly love triangle, detectives were left to piece together family rumors, eerie CCTV footage, and the interrogation of a cold-blooded killer. This video was made for educational purposes only. The video is presented to provide genuine footage of police incidents to promote transparency in government while providing educational, informative and newsworthy content allowing viewers to examine and assess public safety material. This is a fact-checked documentary using authoritative sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ivan, step out here. You got a warrant for your rest. Yeah, so it's for murder charges. This is 60-year-old Elaine Gowan. She is briefly seen here leaving this apartment complex with a briefcase. This is the last time she would ever be seen. alive. Anyone with the other's an emergency.

So we're driving down the road to go shooting, and there is a dead body on the side of the road. Eileen's body would be found 13 days after the last time she was seen on CCTV. Police believe she was entangled in a deadly love triangle prior to her murder. But over the course of the next several months, this cold case would turn out to be.

far more complicated and even more disturbing than they could have ever imagined. When we and her broke up, she moved in with a guy and he tried to mess with her. And all I know was his first name is Sam. They said we told her it was a bad deal with him. Because he's telling me if the cops get behind him, he's going to run to the street. Central 166 be advised if their grandfather in the car and he's called him and he's possibly going to try to crash the car. On February 13, 2003,

Eileen Gowan was seen leaving her long-time job at Sugar's Diner. She had just told her daughter over a text message that she was on her way to pick up some things from her friend Mike, who she had recently moved in with, after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend, Sam Brammer, only a week earlier. Strangely, she would specify that her co-worker at Sugar's Diner would be the one to drive her there. However, as Eileen left her workplace, no co-worker would show up. Instead, strangely, her ex-boyfriend Sam would be the one to pick her up.

Hours would go by, but Eileen would never show back up to sugars. The owner of the restaurant, Megan, would begin worrying as to where Eileen could have gone and started frantically sending her messages asking for her whereabouts. But oddly, she would receive a single message back, saying, leave me alone, I'm done. This was very strange coming from Eileen, as she almost never texted, usually resorting to phone calls, and was often extremely responsible. Something strange was going on. The day would go by, and Eileen would never be seen. The following day, Eileen's daughter would file a missing persons report for Eileen to the Council of Bluff's Police Department and an investigation began.

Detectives would begin collecting CCTV footage from everywhere in the town to try and fully document where Eileen went the day of her disappearance. But this would be quite the lengthy process. So without anything to go by, police would start asking her family and friends. Apparently after leaving her ex-boyfriend Sam Brammer, earlier, she had stayed with her new friend, Mike Brockman. A man her family claimed had likely assaulted her the night before she disappeared. This shined a suspicious light on both of the men she was involved with, so police would bring in both Sam and Mike for interrogation and see if

they could find any leads. Mike was a friend of Alines who met her at Sugars and became very close over time. It was still unclear to officers what happened to Aline. At this point, for all they know, she could have just gone MIA and taken a break from her stressful life. However, if anyone would have the clues as to where she went, it would be Mike. So basically, I mean, as you know, I talked to you on Monday, or Wednesday, I guess, was the first day I had talked to you. I had received information from some of the family that you and Eileen were possibly in a relationship, or kind of sorrows she made to live with you for a few days or a week or so. But if you could just kind of go before Monday, just kind of tell us how you guys know each other,

how she ended up out there at your place, that kind of thing, and we'll kind of move from there. She was a way for some sugars, and I knew her from in there, and I talked to her before and stuff like that. And then she told me, I don't know, it was like on Tuesday or Wednesday night. that she got kicked out and she needed a place to stay. That's the way to stay in my place for a couple days. And it was Friday. She called me and she said, I won't be coming back. She says, we're getting back together.

Her boyfriend. And all I know was his first name is Sam. I don't know anything else about you. And so I didn't see her. And then she called me crying on that Saturday night. And she said, oh, you got into, can I come out for a day? I said, you can come back out. But you've got to be gone on Monday because I can't add this.

I'm single. I don't want anything like this going on. Two initial thoughts can be made upon hearing Mike's story. On one hand, it seems like Sam was back together with Eileen, so Sam would be a much stronger person of interest, as he'd likely been the last person to see her. On the other hand, Mike may have had a deep connection with Aline, meaning if he learned she got back with her ex-boyfriend just days after moving in with him, he could have played a sinister role in her disappearance. But detectives planned to let Mike tell his side of the story before confronting him about the suspicious relationship. So I took her to work Monday morning. I've been a week ago yesterday. dropped her off at 5am

and she was supposed to get off at I don't know if she said 7 or 8 her daughter was going to pick her up she's going to go to her moms and get her safe and take through her daughters and then she was supposed to come back to work at 2 o'clock in the afternoon well then I get a phone call from

the bar saying hey he's seen her and I said I have seen her I haven't talked to her nothing or she said didn't show up for work. She didn't show up. I said, I haven't heard anything. And I tried to contact her and couldn't get a hold of her. So I sent her tax message and I said, all your stuff that's bagged up. It's going to be sitting behind the bar. You got to get it. I want it out of here. I don't want to mess with any more of this. And I never, since 5 o'clock that Monday morning, I'd never had any contact with their phone text or anything.

And then I didn't know anything until right before you called me that she'd come up missing. Okay. Mike would go on to claim that he never had any sexual relationship with Eileen and that she stayed in a completely different room to him while living in his house. However, detectives know more about Mike than he thinks, and with some information Eileen's close friends shared with them, they don't believe he and Aline were just friends. Did you, has anybody saying to you that Eileen was saying anything about you?

Have you heard anything about her making any statements about you and your behavior while she lived at her, staying with you out there? No. Did you, you haven't heard that she may have made a statement that you possibly assaulted her while she was out there? Okay. That statement was made to a couple people that you supposedly laid down on her bed with her and spooned her from behind? Is that? Can you tell me, is that any of that accurate? Any of those statements? I would not do that because like I said, she was loose cannon.

I mean, I guess here's the deal, you're a grown man, she's a grown woman, you know, if there was any type of whatever contact between you that was consensual, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I mean, she was crying that first night, she'd come out and I hugged her. Okay.

But there was no relationship, no asking for it or anything. This information is, well, Well, concerning. Considering it would be unlike Elaine to make up blatant lies of this magnitude. However, with little to no evidence, other than a few rumors coming from her friends,

police can't harp over these allegations and decide to wrap Mike's questioning up. At this point, Mike is still considered to have potential involvement in Aline's disappearance, but with a lack of leads, they directed their attention to the only other potential suspect, Elaine's ex-boyfriend, Sam Brammer. We met Detective Dyer. Yeah, we did first things. Yeah, this is Detective Dyer. I'm the sergeant that you talked to on the phone.

My name is Ted Roberts. I'm a sergeant. You know, we're not on the phone with you. He said that I was the last person to see her alive. I didn't say that. Yep. I didn't say that. Yes, you sure did.

Yes, you sure did. I said you were the last person that saw her before she went missing. Sam wasted no time adding more suspicion onto his name. The phone recording shows that the detective never mentioned Sam being the last. to see Aline alive. Elene has been missing for less than 48 hours at this point, so the fact that he's already alluding to the idea that she's dead is awfully disturbing. But this would only mark the beginning of Sam's unsettling choice of words during the interview.

I was going to arrest me so I can have a lawyer. Yeah, no, no, yeah, that's a, I think you misheard me there. I got to record it off to go back and listen to it. But yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not what I said. But, I mean, basically we got a, you know, a crazy deal here where, you know, Eileen is evidently, it's per family and everything else. She's never done this kind of thing before. She's never just, you know, took off and gone.

They all know. She comes to me, she moves him, she's moved him at me four or five times. But usually when she moves him as me, she saved away for all. Yeah, because they said, she's moved him as me. they talk every day. The daughter and her talk every day by the phone or whatever she says. Yeah. If they need something, then they'll get older it. Okay. Just like when she got arrested for the DWI, she wanted to jail, they finally bail her up. What they do? They took her and dropped her off at the bar. Okay. If she was homeless. Okay. Let's, if you could, I just need to know what went on

Monday morning. What happened Monday morning with you? She texted me. Okay. And want to know if I would come and get her because one of her friends supposedly was supposed to come and get her. And supposedly ran out of gas. So did she tell you the friend's name or? Mm-hmm. Okay. So I got there and I said, I'll be there a minute.

She was going to come inside. I don't want Megan to know that you're with me. I said, okay. And I pulled up. She gets in a truck. We take off, run out to this. supposedly the one that tried to do something with her and dropped her off there. Then I left.

And then wasn't too long after that is when she called me. I think she was at my house knocking. You can't get in my apartment building unless you have a key to get in. But I think she was knocking on my window. I didn't look. I didn't care. I just wanted to take a nap. That's when she texted me.

want to know if I could talk to any about letting her move back in because this guy now that's true that night the night before Monday yeah okay

and I don't know if that was true or not I don't know if she was just saying that to get me to take her back or what I don't know this statement adds more weight to Aline's allegations towards Mike if Mike did do these things to Aline

then moving out and staying with Sam would be completely logical. On top of his statement, what Sam is about to reveal to detectives will make the allegations much harder to dismiss and place all the suspicion back on Mike. And she says, please talk to him and you see if I can come back home. He me last night. Sam, I love you. I promise. I'll quit drinking. Please give me another chance. And she said, I'm hanging out with her. And this was it at 122. What's it said? And it says, I'm hanging out with a friend. I will get a hold of you later.

I'm not going to work. I'm not going back to back to two, right? I think two or three. Yeah, okay. I can't remember. Okay. And then you go to work, go back there. They treat me like shit.

And then she said, you've seen it. They have. But I can't say nothing. And then I said, why are you telling me? Why did you tell me this earlier? When I was talking to you, you're drunk. You're drunk, be honest. That's why I can't do this no more.

Please, do not call me no more, text me no more. I'll be your friends with you at work. And that's what you got pissed off. Mm-hmm. So, you. Based on these texts, it really seems like Aline's disappearance was just a way for her to take a break from her traumatic life. If the same allegations are true and her ex-boyfriend refused to give her a place

to stay? Well, then running away for the time being is completely reasonable. Sam's story seems solid so far, but there's one tiny detail that just doesn't quite add up, and this detective has just picked up on it.

You said you dropped her up in front of Mike's house, and you watched her walk into the... Oh, she did, but she got out, and she walked in front the truck, and she walked in front of the truck, I went up to turn around, and that's what I left. Okay, so you didn't see her get in the house, anything like that.

So if she had walked away from there, I mean, that's quite a ways away from your apartment complex. I wonder how she would have gotten to you. Apportez her friend was supposed to come and pick her up. Sam claims the day of Eileen's disappearance. He drove her from her workplace at Sugar's Diner over to Mike's house to get her belongings. After that, he drove off,

assuming she was to be picked up by one of her friends. Fortunately, police can easily cross-reference these claims using surveillance footage. At this point, the majority of the CCTV camera footage has been obtained from the day of Aline's disappearance, so detectives quickly wrapped up Sam's interview so that they could further investigate his claims. Additionally, the detective would apologize for assuming Sam's earlier word choice was suspicious. After nearly 48 hours of compiling the surveillance footage from around the town, officers managed to put together a complete timeline of Sam in a 11. Eileen's car ride.

At 8.30 a.m. on February 13th, Eileen would patiently wait at her work, sugars, for Sam to pick her up. Eileen needed a ride to go and purchase a new apartment since Mike had kicked her out. She would tell her boss and daughter that a friend was picking her up because she didn't want anyone to know her and Sam were back together. Eileen and Sam would first drive to her mother's apartment, Dudley Quartz. She would be seen carrying a suitcase-like object out from her mother's apartment, then leaving with it. This would turn out to be a safe containing $1,200, which she had planned to use as a down payment for an apartment. At 9.30 a.m., they would drive directly to the Sherwood apartment complex to purchase the apartment. However, the complex happened to be closed, so they

were unable to purchase anything. This is where the timeline starts to deter from Sam's claims in the interrogation room. From 9.45 to 10.30 a.m., Sam's car can be seen driving all across town. He went in multiple circles and even made a quick stop to Burger King at 10.30. However, he never drove Eileen to Mike's house like he had claimed. In fact, Sam's car can be seen driving in the opposite direction to Mike's house the entire morning. This is concerning, but it would only get worse. For the next two hours, Sam's truck goes off the grid. It's completely unknown where he went, and no CCTV cameras had managed to

capture his location. Luckily, at 1 p.m., his truck would appear back on the same streets he circled on for hours that morning, and eventually he would make his way back to his own home at the Cottonwood Apartment Complex. But things were different in all the recordings past 1 p.m. Elene was no longer with Sam. Cameras had clearly captured that Sam was nowhere near Mike's house the entire day, so why would he feel the need to lie? about where he dropped a lean off. This footage paints Sam out to look awfully suspicious. And while both Sam and Mike have some strong dirt to their name,

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you told me that you got a phone call from her and you went to pick her up from her. So if you can do me a favor, and just kind of go through that timeline again. We know that it was somewhere right around at 8.30. So if you can just kind of go through that timeline again as far as... I'm not too sure on the time. Okay.

But anyway, she texted me that morning, and I didn't text her back. I called her, and she won't know if I would come together because some girl was supposed to pick her up and she ran out of gas. So I went and picked her up. And she got in the truck. I left.

and she wanted to talk to me about helping her get in the apartment because she lived that same apartment building I did, but she didn't pay her rent so she got kicked out. So, but she didn't want to go home right away. So me and her just went right down Broadway, and then she wanted to stop her to her mom's house. I stopped in her mom's house, and she was in there for, I don't know, five or ten minutes.

She came out of there, got back in, and then we was going back down Broadway, just talking some more. And she promised me, she wanted me to drop her back off at his house. But she made me to promise I wouldn't do nothing to me or not told her I promised. That's the matter of fact, when I get there, you just get out, you walk in front of a truck, I'll go turn around and I'll leave. And she said, okay. Okay, so you went up there, you dropped her off, didn't what you do?

As soon as I pulled up, and she didn't want me going to her driveway in case he was there. Okay. And she got out of the truck. When she had the truck, she walked in front of her truck, and that's why I watched her turn around and came back. Okay. So you went back down to the highway, went back down to Kingsville? He left her there? Huh?

You left her there? Yeah. Or you... No, she got a truck. She didn't want any come in. Just the second ago, you said she went in and grabbed clothes, came back out to your truck, and you guys left again. No, no, no, no, no. That was at her mom's house.

Clearly, Sam is lying about where he was the day of Aline's disappearance. The detectives know it, and it seems like Sam is starting to realize. he won't be able to keep up his fake story for much longer. Even after being told that cameras show him nowhere near Mike's house the entire day, Sam insists on his story that he did in fact drop a lean off at Mike's house. With this, the detectives would take a brief break from the room to watch the footage over again, just to triple check that Sam is 100% lying. And to nobody's surprise, the footage showed Sam on the opposite side of town

during the time he claims to have been at mics. So when the detectives return to the interview room, they'll use this information to try and get Sam to own up to his lives. We got a small little snap over here, right? We need to talk to you about, okay? So you said after you dropped her off, out there off of Highway 191 at that residence, you headed back to your apartment.

We checked some of our cameras, okay, and we have a camera at 36th and Broadway, and we have your truck going west. about at 9.28 a.m. going to Omaha. Okay, when you passed 36th of Broadway head in West. So you didn't go home. You went over to Omaha. Looks like, do you remember what you did or hear you saw her? I don't remember going to home. Where'd you go? I told you, I went to home home. I don't remember going to Omaha. Well, the camera doesn't lie. It's your truck and it's your license plate number. Right. Okay. At 36th to Broadway at 9.28 a.m.

going west toward 480 and then one hour later you're coming back from Omaha and you're going eastbound back coming back into council plus one hour going to mall where'd you go how much you're home

Sam is stuck at this point no matter what information detectives reveal he will not admit to anything at this point in the interview all Sam has left is to simply reject everything the detectives tell him. They know Sam isn't telling the truth. But why he's not telling the truth

is what remains to be seen. However, with Sam seemingly uncooperative, all detectives can do is end the interview and let Sam back onto the streets, until more concrete evidence can prove he had more to do with Aline's disappearance than he claims. But, fortunately, letting Sam back onto the streets would lead them to the exact evidence that they were looking for. While law enforcement was working away at this case, another investigative group would be working in the dark, Eileen's family. Everyone held hope that Eileen was still alive,

but with time passing, her family was demanding answers. Sam and Eileen had a long history of arguments, physical assault, and much more that the family was well aware of. They knew Sam had more information about Eileen's whereabouts than he had told them. So, to figure this out for themselves, Eileen's son, Jack, would show up to Sam's door that same night, and he would pound on the door, and upon opening, Jack would ask the simple question, What the hell did you do to my mom? In Jack's words, Sam stared at him, as if he had seen a ghost and then shut the door in his face.

Sam panicked. Whatever he did to Eileen, people were starting to catch on. Later that night, Sam would talk to his granddaughter, granddaughter, Emily, and would claim that he was going to harm himself so that he could go visit her deceased grandmother. This shocked Emily, as in her eyes, Eileen was still alive. Quickly, she would call 911 to report everything Sam had just told her. And shortly thereafter, police would locate a drunken Sam at his local bar. Hi, sir, how are you? Is this your vehicle?

Yes. Hey, could I talk to you real quick? Yeah. do you have any weapons or anything on here no okay hey um we were called to check your welfare okay i think you talked to your granddaughter earlier and she was concerned about you some of the statements that you made to her i'm here for you man tell me what's going on what why are you why are you feeling my girlfriend it was like a week ago me and her broke up

and she moved in with a guy and apparently he posted he wrote her what's his name the only thing I know he goes by Mike me and her broke up she didn't have a place to go

she moved in with him she told me Friday he tried to mess with her so I called my son and see if she can move back in because he kicked us out so I called my son and see if she can move back in with her

and then I went to his house got her stuff took her to my sons and then the next morning we went to work and then she went right back to him so i don't know so what comments did you make to your granddaughter that would be concerning this evening i just told her i'm gonna go out and have a couple drinks and i love her that's it and did you mention something about seeing grandma tonight what's that did you mention something about seeing grandma tonight no i would like for you to talk to somebody tonight

I would like for you to talk to a medical professional. Okay. I don't want to have to drag you up to the hospital, but I most certainly will. I think based off of what the granddaughter has told us tonight and kind of the... Or she call you? Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah.

Yeah, so... She was crying when we went to talk to her. I mean, that's... Oh, really? Yes. She was very emotional. Her best friend in and are currently at the apartment because of what you said. Wow.

Based off of what they have told me tonight, I'm going to give you one of two options. You can go up willingly and talk to a medical professional tonight. Okay. Or I can take you up there and you'll stay there for 72 hours. Okay. I can't have my granddaughter come to me? No.

Based off of what you've told us and what's going on in your life right now. Yeah. You need to talk to somebody. I don't think that we will be doing our deal diligence to do our job to make sure that you're not going to hurt yourself based off of what's going on with you and your girlfriend. Right. Okay. You need to talk to somebody tonight. Okay? And so the best course of action is to go up to the hospital, your choice, to go to talk to somebody about it tonight. Sam's mental state was clearly deteriorating. Whatever happened to Aline, regardless of his involvement, was really getting to him. Following this, Sam would be placed in a psychiatric facility for the next two days, where he would undergo therapy and psychiatric care. During these two days, detectives would aim to gather more intel on the case.

This time, by interviewing the family of Eileen and Sam, they'd bring in both Justin Brammer, Sam's son, and Nicole Shipper, Eileen's daughter. And both of them would reveal significant details, crucial, to solving the case. This is Detective Zach Melner. I just want to get as much history as you can tell me, or talk to me about when it comes to your mom. What was their relationship like over there?

Not a healthy one. Okay. What do you mean by that? He didn't like her drinking. He thought he could change her from, let her to stop drinking. I told him that he can't because she won't change for a kid. She's not going to change for a man.

And he seemed to think that he could change her. So we kept trying with her, but there was things on his part and her part that were not healthy. They both had jealousy issues. They both had, he has a very short temper, very short temper, and little as things will set him off, and it's just, it's like, ridiculous. when they are good they were good but when it was not it was I was constantly in the middle of it because she was my mom and that's his my boyfriend's dad and they were good when they weren't drinking especially when she wasn't drinking um she she'd bicker she'd

they start arguing. It just escalate. Next day, they're fine. It's just, they go to bed angry. Did you ever see it physical? No. Never seen it physical. He told me she grabbed him by her neck a couple times,

but that was by the neck. Okay. Why would he grab her by the neck? No, no. She grabbed him by the neck. Oh, okay. It seemed like Sam and Aline had a rocky relationship, but it rarely escalated to the point of violence.

And if the fights did turn violent, it was a lean doing the physical harm to Sam. The week prior to last Monday, what was going on? They were separated. She called me before she went missing, you're telling me, how she don't want to get back with him because she's tired of him throwing her out for little reasons and she's sick of not being able to be have a stable home because he just gets so mad at the smallest things and just kicks her out did Emily want her to go or was it you're dead at wanting to go was it Sam my dad okay you take her back he kick her back out

bring her back kick her back out so he needs to stop I mean you guys need to separate Sam's family strongly suggests that Aline was in fact the troubled one in the relationship and Sam tried over and over to cut her out of his life. This only perplexed detectives and simply doesn't explain why Sam's been acting so strangely following Aline's disappearance. Two days after these interviews, Sam would be released from the psychiatric facility. Fortunately for Sam, no new leads had come out regarding Aline's death, meaning he could finally have some peace for the first time in the last week.

Or, so it would seem. Because on February 21st, the same day Sam was released, he would go to Walmart to restock on alcohol. However, right as Sam was about to get in his truck and leave, an off-duty officer spotted him and decided to ask some questions related to Eileen. Hesitantly, Sam asked to move his truck, and then he would talk to the officer. But the moment he got into his car, Sam would slam on the pedal, nearly hitting the officer, and floor his truck down the road, flying past pedestrians.

The cop would jump in his car and begin chasing Sam, who would only pick up speed as he ramped up to over 100 miles per hour down the peaceful roads of Rexburg, Idaho. The chase continued for multiple minutes, but it became clear to officers that Sam had no plans of slowing down. So the chief officer radioed in to call the chase off. Shut it down. I'm not standing down. Sam had just successfully run from the police. And while he was having the time of his life, this chase obviously made things much, much worse for Sam. Not only was he now highly suspected of murder, but is also wanted for evading arrest and reckless driving.

A couple hours after his escape, he would simply return back to his apartment as if nothing had ever happened. Ironically, this would actually postpone Sam's arrest, as more officers assumed he would be hiding in a more clever place, and searched around the town instead of checking the cottonwood apartments. In fact, the entire day would go by, and officers had no trace of where not. of where Sam could have gone. But the fun would only last for a day, and the pressure must have gotten to Sam, as the next morning he would turn himself in to police.

Sam would be charged with a looting and reckless driving and would be placed in the Potawatomi County Jail. However, Sam would only spend one night in the county jail after being bailed out by Emily. So by the grace of a miracle, yet again, Sam Brammer was back on the streets. During this time, Sam would go to the bank and hand them a large stack of cash to deposit into his account. This wad of cash would come out to be approximately $1,200,

the exact amount found in a lien safe that she had the day of her disappearance. Additionally, Sam would drive his truck over to the scrapyard. He would ask to fully dispose of it, crushing it to pieces, and even shredding it after. To make sure this got done, Sam would meticulously watch, the entire hour-long process ensuring his car was turned to dust. It couldn't be more obvious that Sam had something to do with Aline's disappearance. The lies to detectives, the disturbing comments to Emily, running from the coughs, cashing in and lien's safe money,

and now shredding the only potential piece of evidence he had left. On top of all of that, detectives had looked into the claims involving Mike Brockman and discovered that Mike was at work all day at Omaha, Nebraska. Nowhere near Sugar's Diner where Aline was last seen. All of that leaves Ivan, Sam Bremmer, as the final suspect. But with no direct evidence, all law enforcement could do is wait until new clues came their way. I don't really have an address. We're off the exit of Crete, Iowa, over by a public shooting area.

What's going on? So we're driving down the road to go shooting or whatever, and there is a dead body on the side of the road. Male or female? It's female for sure. On February 26th, Eileen's body was found underneath a bridge just miles away from Sam's apartment. The body was unrecognizable, but the clothes matched the exact outfit Eileen was wearing the day she had disappeared. Someone had killed her.

Medics would pronounce Eileen dead on the scene, and she would be taken to the hospital to get an autopsy done to determine her cause of death. But her results would come back strange. Eileen had eight blunt force impacts to her head and a fractured front tooth. Well, gruesome, none of these injuries were sufficient to cause her to die, so her cause of death would be ruled as undetermined. Unfortunately for police, this meant they wouldn't be able to immediately charge Sam with murder. However, with all the sufficient evidence they'd gathered throughout the course of the investigation,

they had enough to charge him with abuse of a corpse. Quickly, they'd receive an arrest warrant, and for the fourth time that month, Officers would arrive at Sam's apartment, this time to finally seal his fate. Hello, good morning. We're looking for your grandfather. Is he here? Okay, just one second. Just go.

Sam, right, goes by Sam. Okay. Is there anybody else in there? No, just him. Okay, has he got any guns or anything like that? Okay. Well, he's got a warrant, so we need to talk to him. Just let that officer in.

I'll be right there. All right, man. Step out here. Show us your hand. No. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Okay. Come here.

You got a warrant for your rest. I'll let you smoke that if you... Let me put it up again. No. Oh, you can smoke it. All right. All right. Yeah, we'll get them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get them.

What are my rush for? Huh? What am I'll explain in here in a minute, all right? Up second. What a fuck? Okay, he'll be, Pock County. You'll be able to call you a little bit. Thank you.

Sam's games had finally come to an end. Sam would eventually go to court for the murder of Eileen Gowan. Forensic pathologists would spend weeks investigating Eileen's death, and eventually they would discover zipper marks on the neck of Eileen, signifying that she was strangled to death, likely by Brammer. This pile of circumstantial evidence seemed to be enough for the jury, and on November 17, 2003, Ivan Samuel Brammer, was charged with second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and theft.

He was sentenced to 65 years in prison.