Morbid - Terrifying Home Invasions- Listener Tale Edition

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

Listener Tales is themed this week and the theme is…. You guessed it! Home Invasions!! What, did the title give it away? You guys shared some gnarly tales about the home invasions you’ve experienced, we’ve got old men staring at you while you sleep, the ex of your nightmares showing up at your house in the middle of the night and so many more! Enjoy, and if you have a listener tale please send it to [e-mail] with Listener Tale somewhere in the subject line :) Cowritten by Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley & Dave White (Since 10/2022)Produced & Edited by Mikie Sirois (Since 2023)Research by Dave White (Since 10/2022), Alaina Urquhart & Ash KelleyListener Correspondence & Collaboration by Debra LallyListener Tale Video Edited by Aidan McElman (Since 6/2025) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hey weirdos, I'm Elena. And I'm Ash. And this is a mini morbid. Yeah, it's small and creepy. Mini, mini, mini, mini, mini, mini, mini, mini, morbid. Mini morbid, mini morbid, mini morbid. And by small, I mean like medium size to large. It's about an hour.

Because it's Elena's mini episode. Yay. Yay. Which means it's going to be unusual. long and we are kind of unlimited time because Ash has like a life or something and she has somewhere to go. Do you guys want to know where I'm going?

They do. You do? They do. Okay. I'm going to Fleetwood Mac tonight. To see my Gypsy Moon's soul sister on stage, Stevie Nix. And I'm going to have a heart palpitation or five. It's true. She really is. Yeah, I might sporadically combust.

Into fire. Into fire. Yeah. So because this is a mini, we don't really do a whole lot. We're going to thank our patrons, our petronuses, our beautiful lovelies in our full-length episode because we are kind of short on time. And we want to make sure we get through this episode. So we don't have any more business. So we're just going to jump right in. Tell me what you're doing. Tell tell me what you're doing. So I'm not going to tell you this case. I'm just going to lead you on into it. Am I going to know it? Do you feel? I don't think you are because I have known about this

case for a long, long, long, long time. And it always interested me. But when I looked it up, I and I could be like tooting my own hon here, I saw no other podcast cover this case ever. Oh shit. And I was actually kind of shocked because it's a crazy case. Like crazy. Is it scary? It's real scurry. And okay, one, two, three, go. So this takes place in Fishtown, Philadelphia. Fish town, huh? Yeah, fish town. And weirdly enough, it has nothing to do with marine life. So Damn it. Yeah, I know. Burst your bubble.

Already, I'm picturing I know what you did last summer. Like that setting. I know, right. And it's not at all. So the setting of this crime in question is a local hidden hangout called the trails in Fishtown. Oh, no. Nothing good goes down on the trails. No, the trails is never a good place to do anything.

And it's actually kind of like a public park near the Delaware River. It's kind of dirty. It's off the beaten path. Kids like to hang out there and do bad shit. There's also a lot of homeless people in there. Yeah, there's lots of drugs. There's lots of like illicit activity going on in there. So already, you know this isn't going to be good.

So we're going to take you to Memorial Day weekend 2003. Oh, that's supposed to be a fun weekend. It is, but it was not. So two teenage boys were hanging out on the trails, and they came across a like scatter of bloody bones all of a sudden. Great. And they were like, what the hell is this? So they initially thought it was like a deer or something, like some kind of animal. But then they moved further up the trail and came across a battered beyond recognition male human body.

Oh yeah. This male human body had no shirt and his pants were down at his ankles. So they immediately called 911. And when investigators arrived, they said the head of this victim was bludgeoned so badly that it was completely unrecognizable. Oh, my God. Yeah. He had gouges from his chin to his nasal cavities. pieces of his face were just completely missing teeth were lying in the grass next to his head

yeah the lead animals get to him no this is just him being like super he was very fresh and this was all done by someone else oh we god so the lead detective on the case who got there first said all you saw was eyebrows and hair but his face was completely torn to pieces now it was it was also clear to investigators that he had grabbed the ground with his hands at one point and had tried to frantically get away from whoever was attacking him. Oh, my God. His pockets were turned inside out and his cache and ID were missing. Okay. So, Detective Mark Williford, the lead investigator for this case, said that the scene really affected him in a profound way.

He said he hadn't ever seen anything like it and hasn't since. It was that bad. Well, I think you would be like the straight up devil if it didn't affect you. Right? But like you'd think like a homicide detective, he's seen some really bad shit? Like this must have been really bad. That sounds like way up there. Yeah.

Obviously the next thing to look for is the murder weapon. Because usually it does get... I thought you were going to say the murderer. Obviously, we might want to look at who did this. I mean, that seems like... Obviously, the next thing to look for is the murderer. That to-do list says like, discover body. Check.

Check. Check. And we're on to number two. How to solve a crime for dummies. They just busted out the yellow book. They're like, wait a second. What's the next step? Sorry.

You know what? That sounds like some police departments we have covered, so it's not even crazy. Usually the murder weapon does get taken by the perpetrator away from the scene. But sometimes, and oftentimes, they are dumb enough to leave it at the scene. Or they trash it. Exactly. So, ding, ding, ding. Nearby, they found a huge rock that had blood all over it.

Oh, no. Then right next to the body, they found a bloody hatchet. Hatchett. Yep. Hatchet. I hardly know it. So it looked like these two things were clearly. They were bloody. They were troublesome. They were right next to the body.

They were like, these probably were involved. So they followed some of the blood trail that was like scattered and inconsistent around the body. And it led to this weird little like makeshift shack where a homeless man was living. in the woods. Nope. Now when they got this guy out of the shack, he had blood on his face. Nope. So they were like, yo, where'd you get that blood on your face? And he was like, oh, I cut myself. No, you didn't. We're going to go ahead and detain you. So they detained him. And meanwhile, the body was brought to the medical examiner's office. And the autopsy was done by Dr. Ian Hood, who has one of the coolest Australian accents I've ever heard. I watched a documentary about this. We know you love it.

Australian accent. It's an awesome accent. So when he took a look at the body, he's noticed that there was not a lot of decomposition. The body was very fresh. Ew. So they estimated the murder likely occurred about like less than 24 hours previous to when they discovered him, which put his death on late Friday afternoon or evening of May 30, 2003. He explained that most of the blows had happened on the front, top, and right side of this person's head.

and there was complete destruction of the right side of the skull. Oh my God. In the end, only one bone in his cheek remained unbroken. So every bone in their face was broken except for that bone. Every single other bone in his face and skull was broken or completely destroyed. You know when you accidentally like hate your nose on something or like, you know what I mean? Like that hurts so bad. And you're like, holy hell.

Can you imagine your entire, I mean, don't imagine it. But like your entire fucking face being broken. Good night. Yeah. And this guy was clearly helpless, too. I mean, like, he was on his back laying on the ground with his pants at his ankles. So besides all the injuries that clearly occurred right before his death, he had a pretty recently healing laceration across his hand.

So that had happened before he'd even met this fate that he met. This was important because they could use this to identify him, hopefully. Because remember, this poor guy had basically no face or head left to identify him. And no teeth. Well, and so they were like, you know, maybe a missing person with a laceration on their hand, because oftentimes when they report missing people, they'll say whether they have like recent marks on them or something so you can identify them. They were like, maybe this can help. So the other detective on the case, Detective Richard Reinholds, went through all the missing person reports from the previous day and one stuck out to him. It was a very recent missing person's report like hours old. Only hours old? Yeah. And it was of a 16-year-old boy, named Jason Sweeney. Oh no. I didn't want him to be that young. Not that I wanted this to happen to an old person, but... No. But currently, Jason had been working with his father as a construction worker, so they thought the laceration on his hand might fit that type of work. Oh, no. So they went to Jason

Sweeney's home. They talked to his parents who were a mess because he got along with his parents. He was a good kid. So they were an absolute mess that he hadn't been home. Yeah. When they spoke to his sister Melissa, she confirmed that Jason had cut his hand kind of badly while working with their dad at the construction site, like within the last day or so. So the family said they had actually written in the missing person's report that mark as an identifier. Oh. So they showed them the photos of his hand in the wound post-mortem, and they all confirmed that it was definitely him just based on that wound. Oh, wow. Yeah. Physically, and just by looking at him, that is literally all the family could identify him by.

Oh. So 16-year-old Jason Sweeney was a good-looking, well-built construction guy. He was described by those who knew him as, quote, every mother's dream. Oh, my God. He was extremely loyal, very generous, very hardworking.

That's horrible. He liked to joke around. And honestly, he just sounds like he was like a really good person and kid. He was working really hard towards the goal of becoming a Navy SEAL. And was on his way to starting the proper education and a training for it in the next few years. Since his pockets were emptied and his ID and cash were stolen,

they obviously started focusing on the motive of robbery, because he was making really good money working for his dad. And Friday was paid. He just got paid. Yeah. So back at the station, police were interviewing that homeless guy that they found living near the crime scene with fucking blood on his face. Because this scene was clearly a robbery of some sort,

and like I said, it was payday. Jason had made $500 that week working with his dad, and it seemed like... Yo, sign me up for construction. Are you fucking kidding me? So he had $500 on him. That week? Yeah. Whoa.

There was no money found on the homeless man and none in his shack, though. That's interesting. So they check his alibi, which was that he spent all of Friday at a homeless shelter, where other people could say he was there. And it was confirmed. So he really just cut his face. Dead end. He literally did just cut his face.

And he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yeah. So he was like, no, I really didn't. So they thought that was going to be a home run. And it was just a dead end. So now Jason's family gives detectives a list of his closest friends and people he's hung out with the most and people who are around him recently. This list included 16-year-old Nicholas Coya and 17-year-old Dominic Coya, who are brothers. Okay.

And assholes? One might say. Okay. It also included 16-year-old Eddie Batzig, who was Jason's literal best friend for like 12 years. Is this going to be a best friend murder? I don't know. I just don't know. Who really knows?

The list also included his really new girlfriend, 15-year-old Justina Morley. The two had just started dating pretty casually, like a couple weeks before his murder. Exactly. So they were just kind of like, we're going out. was his first girlfriend. Oh. Yeah. She lived a few doors down from the, from the Sweeney house.

She was something special. Oh, no. She was pretty troubled. Justina Morley. Still is. A little bit about this demon. Justina Morley claimed that she started smoking weed at the age of 10 years old. Holy shit.

After that, she's, uh, yeah. It's literally a fetus. Like, whoa. Yeah. smoking weed 10 years old and then shortly after that she started taking prescription pills and snorting coke shortly after 10 she's like drew Barrymoreing it oh yeah holy fuck she does not turn out like Drew Barrymore though don't we all want to turn out like Drew Barrymore right talk about a survival story I know for real you would never know

she started out the way she did um so Justina's mother said that her daughter started cutting her wrists at the age of 10 as well What happened in her life? She had been hospitalized for threatening suicide and self-mutilation in 2002, which was a year before this case. And she was admitted to Friends Hospital for cutting her wrists, knees, and thighs, taking pills, and writing a suicide note on her door. Okay. So when she was in there, Justina, you know, threatened to commit suicide if her mother didn't take her out of the hospital. So against the doctors and the hospital's advice, her mom took her out of the hospital, which is never a good idea. No.

And this was only a year earlier. So wait. Did anything happen in her life, like, that you could find that made her so upset? I couldn't find anything that she just is a troubled kid. I didn't see anything that, you know, a lot of these kids have like pretty normal. I shouldn't say normal. I feel like everybody has some shit in their life. Some people worse than others.

And it's like these kids, sure, a few of them had, like, you know, absent parents or something like that. But it wasn't anything I saw that was like. Yeah. So then Justina had also been expelled from public school in eighth grade. For why? I mean, for why? I have no idea. Oh, wow.

She then had to repeat eighth grade again at the private school, Holy Name of Jesus, which was a Catholic school in Fishtown. Holy name of Jesus. I know that's a school name. And that's where she needed to be. Holy name of Jesus. They obviously did not help in this situation. So that's, that's, that's justina. Jason's mom said, quote, the night before he was killed, Jason and I sat there talking,

and he said, mom, I'm dating this girl. I've been dating her for a couple weeks and she's really nice. I think you'll really like her. Oh. His sister, however, was immediately like, this girl knows what happened. And she told police to check her out because she was a little. like I got a bad feeling. Yeah. His sister seemed like she was really close

to him. Like it was sad to watch her interviews. And she was like, I just had a feeling. And she was like, he's she's his girlfriend, new or not. Like two weeks or not, you're around him a lot. You know what's going on here. Like you have to know something. So detectives bring Justina in to the station.

And right away, they break the tragic news to her that her boyfriend has been brutally murdered. Let me guess. She doesn't bat an eyelash. Doesn't bat an eyelash. emotionally totally detached super chill like zero reaction and they're like uh you want a tissue well and they're like uh when's the last time you saw your boyfriend or talk to him like have you wondered where he is like yeah and so she tells police the last night she saw him was friday during the day and she said he had

failed to attend a party in the woods that night that was attended by eddie batzig his best friend and the two brothers, Nicholas and Dominic Coya. Huh. He had said he was coming and she was bummed, but apparently not worried and not worry enough to do a damn thing to contact him when he didn't show up to the party. She was like, oh yeah, I was a little bummed, but like he didn't show up. And like also this is 2003, you could have texted him.

Well, and it's like, that's the thing. It's like she didn't even contact him to be like, where are you? Because like you would think that you'd be like annoyed if he wasn't there. Yeah, like you said you were coming. What the hell? Like, where are you? So something wasn't right about just. Christina right away to the investigators. They were like, yeah, this is just a little weird.

So after she brought up Eddie, Nicholas, and Dominic, they decided to bring in Eddie first because that's Jason's literal best friend. So they find out he was a mess too. He was a thief who had broken into a house before, done a bunch of other bad shit. He was known to have abused heroin, weed, and prescription pills. What the fuck? Which all of these kids did, by the way, Except for Jason. Why was he hanging out with these kids? They were a wreck. And he was going down a really bad path.

So, oh, and along with Justina, Dominic and Nicholas, they had not just smoked weed, like being like, he abused weed. Yeah. Like, that's not what. But they didn't just smoke weed. They smoked it spiked with embalming fluid. What? What does that do?

I have no idea. Where do you get embalming fluid? I was at work the other day, and I was thinking about it. I'm like, what the hell would you do with the bombing fluid? It must change the high in some way. I mean, yeah, I would assume so. Do you know how bad that's going to like fry your fucking brain cells? Like formaldehyde will fuck you up.

We can't even open a bucket of formaldehyde without having like a mask on. You know, when you do carotins at work, a lot of times they used to have formaldehyde in them, but they don't anymore. But what they don't tell you is the chemical reaction of you straightening it into somebody's hair produces formaldehyde. Oh, that's so bad. So bad to breathe in. Yeah, never do it because that's bad to breathe in. No, I literally would never. Ugh.

Yeah. That's real bad. Well, don't, and don't smoke weed with embalming fluid in it, anybody. Please. Yeah. It doesn't produce good results again. I thought you were just saying that to me. I was like, I didn't really plan on it.

I mean, like, you don't do that either. Nobody do it. Everybody, just stop. Put down the embalming fluid. So the investigators break the bad news to Eddie that his best friend was brutally murdered. brutally killed. He also had barely any reaction at all. Okay, that's fucking weird.

Also, was he on heroin at the time? Well, and that's kind of one of the things that they're like, okay, we can't immediately take these things as like signs because they are all drug addicts, so we can't really. Jesus Christ. So this did make the investigator suspicious, but when they pressed about who could have hurt Jason, Eddie was like, no one would hurt Jason. Everyone loves Jason. Like, he was like, I can't think.

of one person. Everyone loves him. Weird. So they were like, okay. His alibi was that he was waiting for Jason at the party that Justina talked about. He says Justina is telling the truth. And he basically regurgitated the exact story word for word. Which is never good. No, it's never good because it starts sounding rehearsed.

The investigators said that after they mentioned they had spoken with Justina, he became weirdly concerned with Justin's well-being, way more than he was for the fact that his best friend had been brutally murdered by some unknown assailant. Like, he was concerned with Justina's well-being. Like, is she okay? You talk to her? Everything's okay with her? Like, they were like, yeah.

Like, but so were they hooking up on the low? Well, they prodded and asked if he had something going on with her. And he claimed he did have a crush on her and had asked her out before, but she had said no. Okay. So that's when they were like, uh, does this bother you? Like, did it bother you that Jason was dating her? Like, could have. And he was like, oh my God, no, like got pissed and denied that he would ever be jealous of his best friend.

So they were like, okay. You are, though. So they left because they were like, all right, we're going to take this and put a pen in it. So a few hours after this, Jason's dad and his sister said that they came home from talking to investigators themselves to find Eddie and Nicholas Coya at their house. Okay. They were there waiting for them because they were eagerly wondering whether the cops had found anything or had any leads. Now, this wasn't like concerned friends being like, do they know who did this? Like, they were more like, uh, did they tell you that they know anything?

Like, do they have any evidence of who did? Like, they were seeing really good. Are we going to get cock? Because we definitely killed him. Exactly. And Jason's father ends up confronting them and asking them point blank what the fuck they'd know. Like he was like, what do you know? Yeah.

They obviously deny and deny. But Jason's family smartly called the police after this encounter and said these kids are acting strange. Like you've got to bring them back in. Something's weird. So now they bring Nicholas Coya in. This is horrible. Oh, it gets, it's crazy. Nicholas was like a skater kid.

He also abused heroin weed and prescription drugs. At 16, what the fuck are you doing on heroin? And this wasn't just like hearsay. Court testimony later on revealed this. So these kids, like, this was on record. that they were all into this stuff. He tells the exact same story as Justina and Eddie. He claims everyone loves Jason.

No one would hurt him. But he admits that he did recently sleep with Jason's girlfriend, Justina. Oh, so this girl is... Oh, and she gets worse. So they were like, okay. So next, they bring Dominic his brother in. Dominic Coya abused the same kind of shit that they all did, heroin, weed, alcohol. He was a really messed up kid.

He says he hadn't seen Jason since the previous Friday. Same story as the rest. He says they had been friends for about four or five years. And he couldn't think of anyone who would want to hurt Jason. Because Jason was a great guy and everyone loved him. The same exact story that they all are giving. So this is so annoying. Now the investigators are like, yeah, this is all too similar.

Like you're all clearly choreographing this. So they look at him. He's the 17-year-old. He's the oldest one of the bunch. So they look at him and they start trying to pin it on him with the motive of money because his parents had recently told him he had to leave the house when he turned 18. Okay. So he's like, no way.

I would never rob my friend because I love Jason. He's a great guy. Bapadoo. So they're like. Bapadoo. So they're like, all right. So they focus back on Justina because they're getting the vibes all around here, but they just need something to tie this all in.

So they look for the weak link. And they're like, Justina was given us. That's definitely her. And Justina was given them the creeps from the jump. So they were like, all right. So her mother brought her into the homicide department. They tell her they don't believe her story. And they're like, we just don't believe you.

Like, why don't you fess up? So she gets all upset. She's crying. She's acting crazy. Investigators are positive. It was just a show for her mother. Like, she didn't really feel these things. She was just pretending.

So now investigators are like, listen. If you would just spill all the shit that you obviously know, we'll strike a deal with you. So she immediately agreed. And the story changes. Is this another deal with the devil? This is a, yeah, pretty much. So she says Dominic was like the alpha of the group and he came up with this plan. And he's the oldest.

Yeah, he's the 17 year old. The plan was to rob Jason. So it was Friday, payday. They all knew he was going to have $500 on him. at the least. And instead of working like Jason to get money, they all just wanted to steal his so they could just party with it. That's all they wanted.

They just want to party with his money. So she says that he, Dominic got Eddie and Nicholas into the plan as well. And she said that he got her into it to act as the bait to lure Jason to be robbed. So she also said she was only pretending to care about Jason the entire time so that she could steal from him. Like she didn't like him at all.

But she says there was never any plan to murder him that she knew of because, yeah, right, bitch. Yeah, like, no, like, no, justina. Good try. But she's going to play that act for a while. She's like, I had no idea they were going to hurt him. I thought they were just going to rob him. And that's fine, right? So now that she's told this story, she says, Dominic told her to lure Jason on a hike or like a date in the trails on Friday with the promise of sex.

Jason was a virgin Justina was very experienced at 15 and very good at sexually manipulating boys as it comes to... Oh good. Yes, that was kind of her thing. So they knew this would be a sure way to at least get him where they needed him to be. So they went to this particular location,

Justina and Jason went to this particular location on the trails. But then she stopped and said, you know, this is dirty. I don't want to be here. I have a better place to go. So she took Jason to a pre-arranged location that was even more secluded. They started undressing. They started making out.

She had pulled his pants down and taken his shirt off. That was all part of the plan. To get him partially nude so that he would be more vulnerable and his pants were at his ankle so he couldn't run. Oh my God. This was all planned. So meanwhile, during all of this, Nicholas, Eddie, and Dominic were hiding in the bushes with latex gloves on, holding rocks, a hatchet, and a hammer.

Yeah, but they had no fucking plan on murdering him. No, and she had no idea. And this was his best friend. Best friend. And two other friends he saw all the time and hung out with for like five years. Yeah, that's literally so fucked up. And they're all waiting for the moment to jump out. So Justina is telling investigators that she set him up to be robbed.

But when she saw all the weapons and shit started and like shit started to go down, she freaked out and had to. no idea that they were planning to murder or hurt him. She said she just stood there watching. She said she was too frightened to do anything. Oh, sure. Because she's such a delicate fucking flower. So now that the story has spilled out, the rest are all brought in now again.

So all four, including Justina, were placed in different rooms to be interrogated. Because they were like, we're going to fucking crack these kids. Like it's going to happen. They're all idiots. So they go to Eddie first, the best friend of like 12 years. Wow. What a fucked up individual. Yeah.

They told him, we know you're lying. Justina gave you up. We know that you were involved. You were there. He confesses like right away. Like he's like, yeah. You know what? I was.

So they ask him, who struck Jason first? And he says, quote, that was me with the hatchet. Are you kidding? Friend. And he said he hit him a total of four or five times with the hatchet. He also told the detectives, he told Detective Reinholds, that he insisted that he strike the first blow when they initially planned it. Why?

He said he hit him with the hatchet as hard as he could in the forehead. And according to the ME, that particular wound was like two to three inches deep in his forehead. So he... Why did he want to be the one to do that first? Well, according to him, actually I'll tell you in one second. So according to Jason's family, they said if Eddie had asked Jason for the five, $500. He would have given it to him. Because he took care of Eddie.

Right. Like he was like he always cared about him. And he said that Jason's mom said he wanted to believe the best in everyone. And even when I told him that his best friend Eddie was going down the wrong road and I didn't want him near him, he said, quote, mom, maybe if Eddie hangs out with me, he'll change because I don't do those things. Wow. So he was like, if he wanted that money, he could have said, can I have your 500 bucks? And he would have been like here, dude. Wow. So investigators said Eddie actually had zero remorse and still referred to him as his best friend during the interrogation.

What the fuck? There's video of this interrogation and it's true. This kid has zero emotion. Zero. He tells it so matter of fact. It's so weird. And he's like, I wanted to hit him first. Well, and what's crazy, Eddie said it wasn't even money as a motive for him.

He was hoping it would impress Justina by hitting him with the hatchet. He was hoping to impress this girl by hacking at Jason's skull with a hatchet. Where does that thought process even happen in your brain? Like, this not only tells me a ton about Eddie. Good night, Seattle. This doesn't just tell me a ton about Eddie. This tells me a shit ton about Justina. If you're looking to impress this bitch.

Well, she was obviously wicked dark and fucked up. By hitting her, like, current boyfriend in the head with a hatchet? Like, something's wrong here. Yeah. So I'm just going to read you a little snippet from the interview. The police said, did you intend to kill Jason? And Eddie said yes. The police said, how did you strike him? Can you show me? Eddie said both hands like that. And he put his hands over his head and whacked. Oh my God. Then the police said, what did Jason say? And Eddie said, please stop. I'm bleeding. And the police said, what did you do when he said that? And Eddie said, what did you do when he said that? And Eddie said, I hit him again. These people are literally the devil. Now, and this is a 16-year-old kid who was his best friend.

Then he literally says, quote, Jason started begging for his life, but we just kept hitting him. Then they finished him off at the end by dropping a boulder on the right side of his head. Oh my God. And like the Emmy said, Sweeney's head was completely crushed, and the only bone left undamaged was his left cheekbone. They put a boulder, they threw a boulder on his head. They literally took a boulder and dropped it onto his head as he was laying there, like, dying.

And then they used the money they stole from Jason to buy weed, heroin, and Xanax. What the actual fuck. Yeah. So now it was Dominic's turn to be interviewed. Dominic's the 17-year-old. The police said, quote, why did you guys kill him? And Dominic said, I guess for the money. So they said, how much did you get from him?

and he said $125 each. So they said, what weapons did you use to kill Jason? And he says, quote, a hammer, a hatchet, and nature. Nature. So they said, what do you mean by nature? And he goes, a boulder, a rock. Are you kidding? Dominic said they planned the murder far in advance

and had listened to the Beatles, helter-skelter, about 43 times before they did it. Like Charles Manson. Yeah, that's weird. And they probably took it from Charles Manson. Like that whole thing, they were like, let's be like the Manson family. Except you're not at all. So, and in the press, a lot of the articles I read about this, they did draw that in and sensationalize it a little bit.

Like, oh, Manson family style. Yeah. Bye. So. And Dominic said, quote, we took Sweeney's wallet out and split up the money and we partied beyond redemption. But first, he said that they, they quote, shared a group hug. It was like we were all happy with what we did. No.

Like, you're, what? And he literally is telling and investigating somebody. He's like, we were all happy and we all hugged after we did that. Because we killed a really good person that no one would ever want to hurt. That was our friend. And they were all drug addicts. So one of the detectives was like, were you high during this killing? Like, were they?

Like, and Dominic said, quote, no, I was as sober as I am now. It's sick, isn't it? Yeah, it is. That's literally what he says. Yeah, fuck that kid. He's just trying to be like, I'm Mr. Cool, man, a guy. Well, and I have a really funny little, like, thing about Dominic later, which might make you laugh.

But he also said that they all wanted Jason to suffer. Why? Which leads me to believe that money was not the only motive here. They were fucking jealous of this kid. He had the life they refused to work for. They were jealous of his money. They were jealous he had a good head on his shoulders. and he was down a good path

and it was something that they were never going to have because they refused to work for it. Why don't you just work for it? Go to rehab. And he was someone everyone liked. He was a good kid and they knew that they were never going to get that because they weren't going to do shit to get that. So they just wanted to steal it from him and erase him.

So it's just purely inadequate people just taking their shit out on a higher life form. The fact that they were sober during that is like the most terrifying thing. Totally sober. Yeah. Now, Dominic said he started hitting Jason with the hammer after Eddie hit him with the hatchet. He said that Jason was crying and begging for his life the entire time. Duh.

And he actually told investigators that at one point, he hit Jason so hard with the hammer that the hammer became embedded and stuck in his chest. Oh, my God. Yep. And Justina confirms this later. So police said, did he attempt to flee to get away? Dominic said, yeah, once. So the police said, what happened when he tried to do that? And Dominic said, he was hit with a rock. And they said, by who?

And he said, my brother. Oh, my God. So now it's Nicholas Coya's turn. Because now they're like, oh, now we got to talk to Nicholas. I'd be like, I actually have to take a break now. Can I have a power of course? Yeah, this is a lot. Where's that girl, any?

So now it's Nicholas's turn. Nicholas just admits everything, too. Okay. But he says, quote, I only hit him with a rock. Like, that's fine, right? No. Like, I didn't use a hammer or a hatchet. I used a rock, okay?

And you still killed him. So after Jason was dead, they split the $500, $125 each. That's not even a lot of money. Like, no, like, you killed someone for $125. Like, get a job. You'll get more than that per week. Honestly. Did any of them have jobs?

No. I don't think so. I think they were all just, like, deadbeat assholes. Awesome. So this is when Nicholas. revealed the big twist that should shock approximately no one. Justina was not just a decoy. Yeah, definitely not. She was fully involved.

She knew about the murder plot all along and participated happily. Yeah, not shocked. So they go back to her, and they tell her, listen, we know you're a lying sack of shit. So she confesses and said she never cared about Jason at all. And she said he was just one of the guys that she controlled with sex. Just one of them. Just one of them. You see, she also had Dominic, Nicholas, and Eddie under her control because she routinely

slept with all of them, mostly to get heroin. Wow. She was 15. Just remember that. She basically used sex to make these dudes do what she wanted. That was her thing. At 15 years old. Normally, I would be like, I mean, you do you, girl.

Like, you want to, like, control people around you with your body that's on you. Like, that's fine. But she was a fucking demon, obviously. Yeah, like this is not a normal, like, I'm just, you know, she's not empowering in any way. No. Just in case people are like, you're slut shaming. Like, I'm not slut shaming. Oh, no, we're not.

She murdered somebody, so I'm all about. Yeah, like, be strong, do what you got to do. Yeah, live your best. I would not shame someone for that. But don't hurt anybody. Clearly a different circumstance. Yeah. Because I think somebody said that in one of our reviews.

They were like, they slut shame. And I was like, what the fuck do we? I'm constantly being like. No, we just murder shame. I don't really. think of like murderers as humans so yeah like i'm not calling her a slut i'm not doing anything like that but she's a demon yeah that's what she is they're literal demons yeah literally she she did she admitted also quote eddie swung his hatchet and hit jason in the right front side of the head and jason staggered

jason touched his head and realized he was bleeding and said what are you doing and started to run Dominic jumped on Jason and started hitting Jason on the head with his hammer. Jason was saying please no guys stop, please. Just so you know this particular passage gets a little graphic, so just be aware. Then she said, quote, Dom jumped on his back and started hitting him with the hammer. I saw the hammer go into his head and it wouldn't come out. So she confirmed what Dominic just said. That is the most graphically horrifying, right?

fucking piece of evidence that I've ever heard. Yeah. So according to Justina, Jason's last words were to her, and he said, quote, you set me up. Wow. So his last words were looking at her and saying, you set me up. Good. I hope that fucking haunts her forever. Except I know it won't because she's a good one. Yeah, it doesn't. But I still hope it does.

So apparently both the Coya brothers, Eddie, and Justina, went to a friend's house immediately after killing Jason. and this friend helped them wash their bloody clothes. Are you kidding? Yeah, and this friend, who I did not see a name for, said, quote, Dominic comes in, he's shaking. Well, they're all shaking. They're saying that they did it. They couldn't believe they killed Jason.

So he just nailed them. Wow. So all four of them were arrested for murder. When it went to trial, the state wanted the max sentences possible. Oh, she's wicked, ugly. Ew. She's scary looking, actually. Yeah, she literally looks like a demon.

Looks like she could do something. Reinhold, one of the lead detectives on the case that we mentioned earlier, said at 38 years of law enforcement, he had never seen anything so horrific. So he agreed that they should be locked up forever. And he actually supported the death penalty in the case for Dominic. I would think so. The original judge on this case called it something out of the dark ages. It literally is. And he called it there was like a medieval tinge to this.

It was so brutal. Like, what the fuck? So during the trial, a lot of Justina's dark shit came out. And it also came out that Justina had slept with Nicholas and Eddie only a couple weeks prior in exchange for heroin. And she had often done that. Ew. So she was very involved with the seedier side of this group as well. Now, the Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Judy Conroy said, quote,

The brutality of this case is really beyond the spoken word. The injuries and the extent of the injuries and the amount of the amount of of force necessary to inflict those injuries is unspeakable. It really is. So even though they were all juveniles, they were all charged as adults. Good, because that's an adult crime. Yeah, that is very much an adult crime. Now, of course, the attorneys on their side tried to try all the shit about their crazed

drug addicts. They were on drugs. And they said it like that shit negates responsibility for a highly choreographed murder and robbery plot. Like, this wasn't a crime of passion. This was so choreographed. It was everything. Jason's mother was quoted as saying she doesn't believe, she never believed that shit at all. She said, quote, no, no. These children, they plotted this. It was very well thought out right down to their alibi. Even at the preliminary hearings, the lawyers did a sidebar and the four of them sat there smiling and laughing. It was absolutely horrific. They were laughing. So the four of them literally sat there smiling and laughing at the preliminary hearing. Now, Justina pled to. who third degree murder because she copped that deal, she got 17 and a half to 35 years in prison for her testimony against them.

I really hope she got 35 years. Which is bullshit because she could be out of there by the time she's 50. Yeah, and she doesn't deserve to be. And it's like, ugh. She's probably getting like better drugs in jail. I know she probably is. Eddie Dominic and Nicholas were convicted for murder, conspiracy, robbery, and possession of an instrument of crime.

and all were sentenced to life in prison. Good. Dominic almost got the death penalty, but they struck that down and made it life. Now, when sentencing them, the judge said, quote, there is a level of inhumanity that exists in these facts. This was a totally depraved act. Now, in jailhouse communication between Justina and Dom, because they rate light-ups to each other.

Isn't that not allowed in some places? Yeah, I mean, I think it all depends on where, but. They write letters to each other. It shouldn't be allowed. Oh, you know what it was? It was these letters that I'm about to read you were when they were during the trial, like a waiting trial. Oh, okay.

So they were actually used against her later. Oh, good. I'm glad. In one of the writings to Dominic, she wrote, quote, like, this girl is so, like, extra too. Like, I'm like, okay. She looks like she would be. Take it down and not.

She wrote, quote, so you say I'm manipulative and yes, I believe I am in ways. I'm persuasively manipulative. And I think I'm pretty good at it too. I enjoy dragging people around. And then she said in another letter, quote, tell me you don't enjoy these gullible humans. It's funny how easy it is to persuade them into lies. Then, possibly the most damning letter she wrote, she said, quote, I am guilty, but I still don't feel guilty for anything. I still enjoy my flashbacks. They give me comfort. I love them. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yep. Flashbacks to the murder.

Yes. Comfort her. And they give her comfort and she loves them. So the prosecution used to these letters to imply that she was exactly what she was saying she was. Guilty? Because in another letter, she wrote, quote, I'm a cold-blooded fucking death worshiping bitch who survives by feeding off the weak and lonely. I lure them and then I crush them. Like, bitch, you are 15. Calm down. A notch.

I think she's the devil. Like, she's like queen of the damned here. And it's like, no, you've just got a bunch of ugly dudes to follow you around for a little while and convince them to murder a dude that thought he was dating you. Yeah. Like you did something awful and stupid and you found stupid people to do it with you. She's overwhelming me. She is overwhelming.

So when assistant district attorney Judy Conroy asked if she, asked Justina on the stand if she took pride in what she'd done. She probably said, yes. Well, and she said, according to these letters, it looks like you did. Morley said on the stand, yes, I did. And the prosecutor also got her admit that she and the boys were, quote, excited when they planned the murder, and quote, happy when they accomplished it. Can you imagine having to be the parents of Jason and listen to this? Oh, my God.

Like, how do you not commit another murder in the fucking courtroom? Literally, I think I would literally, I think, I couldn't think I know that I, if I was in that room, I would try to kill her. Literally. Like, if that was my child, I can't even fathom these poor people. But yeah, she's totally capable of rehabilitation after, literally no. A few years in prison. Oh, this is interesting. Also on the standing court, Justina admitted that shortly after they were arrested, she stripped for the three guys in a prison van on the way to the courthouse. Ew. Like, I just saw a photo of her, and I don't know why they were so obsessed with her.

She had no eyebrows. She looked dead inside. Her eyes were sunken in. She was not cute. Like, that face looks like it's a face that has been involved in a lot of dark shit. And, yeah, for real. Like, you just, you look at it and you're like, yeah. Like, Voldemort?

Is that you? She kind of does have a Baltimore tea. She does. I think it's the same eyebrows. The Aldermorty kind of situation there. So, unfortunately, in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that life sentences given to juveniles were a violation of the Eighth Amendment. It's not, though. The Eighth Amendment is the one that says the government can't, you know, put cruel and unusual punishment upon you.

That's not cruel or unusual. Not for them. And so they require juvenile sentenced to life to be brought back in to be resentenced. Retried, yeah. So they did have resentencing. sentencing hearings. Nicholas's was in 2015. All of them have the same sentence in the end.

They didn't change any of them. At 28 years old, Nicholas was brought in in 2015. Jason's mother, they were at every single one of these resentencing hearings. Jason's mother said that the court needed to uphold the sentence and she said, quote, My precious baby boy had been beaten to death so brutally that I had to identify him by a fresh scar on his hand. And she said, quote, I sat in the courtroom listening to testimony that a couple of weeks prior to Jason's murder, the four of them originally wanted to murder me and my whole family while we slept. Oh, they did?

Now, I can't find a ton about this, like particular plot that they had apparently. But holy shit. I wouldn't have passed them. So they were originally planning on murdering this whole family. I wouldn't be shocked. Then they settled on just killing Jason. Like, what the fuck? And it was in testimony.

So it was like. They said it. admitted to it in court. Judge Sandy L.V. Bird sentenced him to life in prison again without the possibility of parole, upholding the original 2005 sentence. And she said, quote, this is an uncommon case. There are no factors which remove the defendant from the punishment of life in prison without parole. Not only did he plan the assault, but he participated in the assault, which was so violent that Jason Sweeney had to be identified with dental records. Now, personally, I think they deserve the sentences even though they were juveniles. No, they do. Because, I mean, there's

certainly cases where this can have a gray area, like the juvenile sentencing of life. And I totally recognize that that can happen. But like, there's a case, a guy named Josh Phillips who we're definitely going to cover at some point. We'll probably do it in another minisota or Patreon bonus episode, so I won't get too far into it. But he was like 13 or 14 when he murdered, like, his eight-year-old neighbor in a very weird, very scattered, like panicked state. Like, it wasn't a planned thing. And when you read the case, it's very fucked up and very weird. But, like, that's one in particular that, like, he's like in, he's like almost 30 now, I think. And he's like, I'm not, like, I didn't plan that. I didn't, I would have never done that. Is he the one that hit her under his

bed? Yeah. Yeah. And that seems like it was kind of like just this weird. He didn't want to get in trouble. Yeah. So it was like those kind of things I can get to the gray area with and be like, okay, maybe they can be rehabilitated. But a 16 year old, that's a tough one for me because I knew right from wrong if 16. Yeah, you know, you do. The right thing or make the smartest decision. No, but I definitely knew I was fucking up when I was fucking up. And you definitely didn't murder anybody. Also, Dominic was days away from being 18. You are a full ass man. man at 18 and don't even tell me differently. And also this was highly, highly planned, highly planned down to the last second. The fact that they were going to kill the whole family is like,

whoa. Yeah. This wasn't like a youthful like fuck up. You're like 13 and you do something stupid and you don't know how to fix it. So you just do something even dumber to fix it. Like this is 16, 17, almost 18 year olds planning things for weeks. It's like, come on. Get out of here. So this is just as a kooky side note towards the end here. I found a website where you can write to prisoners, and Dominic was on it. Did you write to him? No. But this is what he wrote about himself to entice you to write to him.

Would you like to hear it? No. Good night, Seattle. Hi. I'm in prison. No way. Considering meeting me is very Audrey Hepburn of you. What?

I have been incarcerated since the age of 17. At that age, people naturally go their separate ways. What my situation did not destroy, I sabotaged myself, believing the world better off without me. Blue fucking who. My mom abandoned us when I was four. Growing up, I was painfully shy, total stage fright in any interaction. This led to adopting liquid encouragement along with other social stimulants, which made for a good quick fix, but the bonds forged were not to last. There you have the main ingredients of my present isolation. Forgive me if that is

TMI, but I felt that this should be a bit more personal than to say, oh, I don't know, forlorn, lonely prisoner of a man seeks lively chit-chat. I'm into creative writing, playing guitar, I'm in between guitars at the moment, as detailed in my semi-autobiography account on steamit.com. No, bye. How my, it is, in his autobiography, it's called How My Guitar Caught Hep C. By Jiminy Hans Bob. It's a pen name, not my gangster name. That would be two bits McTrubble.

Pause the entire show. Ash literally just put her hand up and backed away. My gangsta name? Two bits. His gangster name is two bits McTrubble. I'm I'm not with the living I have

Two bits make trouble Two bits with trouble And luckily He's physically active He's an unbalanced yogi And no matter how much I exercise I remain built like a flamingo What?

I also love animals Like anyone I'm a work in progress Well I cannot tell you I'm an angel I do make the effort things I can take back or change motivate me nonetheless. Too bad you can't take back killing someone with a boulder. Too bad we can't take back your birth.

Like, that's a bummer. Yeah, two bits make trouble. Bye-bye. Two bits make trouble. See you. Like, are you? Two bits make trouble in reverse. So this little shit stame.

Wee-o. So this little shit stame blames his mother leaving when he was four and his shyness as a kid. on his present predicament. Like, yo, my mom was no peach either, but I didn't kill anyone with a boulder. Well, and that's, it's like, obviously he has learned nothing so far, because he is taking zero responsibility even now for what he did. He's just saying, like, oh, my mommy left, and I was kind of shy. So I did a time of drugs.

Whoops. That's how I ended up here. It's like, no, you ended up here because you're demon from the pits of hell and you killed everyone. So fuck him. But, um, uh, Paul and Don Sweeney, Jason's parents. set up the Jason Keel-Sweeney Foundation in memory of Jason. Oh.

This foundation funds a full scholarship to the Valley Forge Military School. That's the school of Jason's dreams. Oh. He had wanted to attend it to become a Navy SEAL. He had actually been accepted into the school in 2001, but he couldn't afford the tuition. Oh. So that's why he was working along with his parents because they were all trying to save up to send him there. Wow.

And these fucking four fucktards took it away. Wow. Just completely took it away. So that is this unbelievably tragic, horrific story of the murder of Jason Sweeney. I really hated that. I'm just surprised. I haven't heard about it from a lot of other. I don't think I've ever heard of it.

And I was like, this is such a banana's case. Where did you find it? Well, I had originally seen it a long, long time ago I had read about it. Yeah. I was just always, I mean, this was in 2003, so I was in, like, high school. So I was, like, literally probably just, like, surfing around true crime stories on the internet. And I just happened to see this one, like an article. And I remember reading it and thinking it was the most bonkers thing I've ever heard.

That's insane. And I remember specifically seeing the picture of Justina Morley and being like, that bitch is scary looking. Yeah, she is. And it just stuck with me. So I was, like, perfect minisode. Loved it, probably not a minisode. hated it. Not a minisote either. No, it's like an hour long. That's okay. So yeah, so hope you guys enjoyed and hated and are horrified by that. Yeah, guys. We also hope that you follow us on

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