Small Town Murder - #485 - Adopting Murder - Cape St Claire, Maryland

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

This week, in Cape St Claire, Maryland, a couple tries to build a family, by adopting children, who come from rough beginnings, but when they are brutally killed, in their own home, the suspicion falls on the adopted teenage sons. Was it the one who they kicked out of the house, for being combative? Or, was it the quiet one, who never talked back? A truly bizarre & awful killing, that unfolds into a very, very strange story!Along the way, we find out that everybody loves strawberries, that when you adopt kids, it's not like the trial period for a streaming app, and that you truly can't tell a book by its cover!!Hosted by James Pietragallo and Jimmie WhismanNew episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [e-mail] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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All right, let's do this everybody. Let's go on a trip. I'd love it. Shall we? Let's get into this everybody. We are going to Maryland, to Cape St. Clair, Maryland. It sounds lovely, doesn't it? It's like it's a nice area.

It's outside of Annapolis. Sure. And it's kind of a- Crabs aplenty. Oh, the crabs here a nice area. It's outside of Annapolis. Sure. And it's, it's crabs aplenty. Oh, the crabs here. Oh, the crabs everywhere. And they're delicious too. Itchy and delicious in this area. It's in Western Maryland, 15 minutes to Annapolis, about an hour to Baltimore and an hour and 20 to our last Maryland episode, episode 442, the social media loving cannibal. Remember that guy? Yeah? I think we do. That guy was pretty nuts. This is in Anne Arundel County, which is what we've talked about before. Anne Arundel. It's a lady named Anne Arundel and they named a

county. So I always thought it was Anne Arundel, like one word. Yeah. It's two words. It's Anne, A-N-N-E, Arundel. Is that right? Yeah. You know, that lady Anne Arundel who owns the craft store. I've always heard Anne Arundel real fast. Yeah. Everybody says it, Anne Arundel. So that right? Yeah, you know that lady Anne Arundel who owns the craft store. I've always heard Anne Arundel real fast. Yeah, everybody says it, Anne Arundel. So you think it's like,

oh maybe it's a Native American word. You know, fucking Anne Arundel. No, it's not. Meaning the bay that takes the crabs or some shit. No, it's just a lady. Area codes here, 410 and 443. Little bit of history, just a minute here because we got a deep story.

A little bit of history. In the early part of the 20th century, early 1900s, a doctor named Hugh H. Young, who was a doctor on the staff of Johns Hopkins University. Oh, big deal. He started buying up farmland. He wanted to build a community around here. And his first community was called Permission Point. Oh, Persimmon Point. I first community was called permission point. Oh

persimmon point. I thought it's a permission point, which sounds like we're teenagers go to finger each other. Going to take her up to permission point tonight. I think it's the night. I don't know, man. It is permission point. They don't agree to go there unless they're about Seeger's take. I'm taking her up to permission. Yeah, we're putting on night moves. I'm getting out the Thunderbird and we're going to get it on. So this was, didn't really work very well. Only a few lots were sold and then the Great Depression came.

Oh no. Put it all on hold. Ruin Persimmon Point? Ruin permission point, I'm calling it from there. Anybody there that lives there, even though it's not called Persimmon anymore, call it permission point because that's hilarious and it broke the whole community Broke it up. Well, it just never really took off He only sold a few lots and then the depression came so no one was buying

No one was like moving out to the burbs to spread out. They were you know terrified and shit in their pants They had no money So eventually though after the depression and the war came on and then people started coming here and it's a suburb so after a while people started you know moving to the suburbs and reviews of this town let's find out what other people think because what do we know most of the reviews are very good here really not a lot of bad reviews to find here is five stars Cape St. Clair is actually a wonderful family 70s like neighborhood 70s like so it's like it's like what, the wonder years, later seasons, what are we talking about?

Bunch of houses that look like. Lotta Formica. Detective Tent. Tons of green refrigerators, what are, 70s neighborhood. River rock welded to the front of a home. Not a lot of technology. No. And fireplaces too, river rock everywhere.

Sunken living rooms, what are we getting at? Convers Rock everywhere. Sunk in living rooms. Yeah, conversation pits. Yeah, how about it? This is a place where a neighbor looks out for another neighbor. Okay. I guess like kids riding bikes and shit, I guess is like seventies. It coined the phrase it takes a village. No, it didn't. No, it didn't.

That's been around for thousands of years. For America. Thousands of years, I think, they came up with that. And it wasn't probably America that came up with it. This town's stealing that? They're just trying to co-opt that? It's probably like a Greek philosopher or something. Confucius said that, and now they're trying to take credit for it or something.

You know what I'm saying? It coined the term. It coined the term. Fucking jerks. It could say it epitomizes the term. That would be a way to put it, or of that nature, you know, but not it coined it. Wait till you hear about that stitch in time.

They've, they've got that too. Every idiom out there, they coined it here. Wow. I would never love anywhere else as much as here. Okay. I refuse to try. That's the other thing. I will not try.

Five stars. I've been blown away by this town. Is that right? We've been blown away by a town. No, I mean. The people, the school. It's ever positive. No, yeah, not good. The people, schools, beaches.

And there's beaches though, that's a pretty good town. That's helpful. I never lived in a town with a beach, so that could help. Beach community sounds so great. It sounds so great, yeah. Until you get there and then you're like, I don't community sounds so great. It sounds so great, yeah. Until you get there and then you're like, I don't like these people.

The people that live there, yeah. But I don't like the people that live around me now. I don't like the people that visit the beach community. You like the people that live around you now? No. No, what's the difference? I got one guy that I like outside of that. Everybody else, their houses can catch on fire.

I would not care. Everybody else, you walk out and you're like, meh, squint and go and what? I don't know. I hope this one's not outside now. I'm gonna talk to him I'm so glad my wife and I decided to raise our family here five stars Four stars, I'm not 21. So I'm not into the bar scene yet, but I see bars packed all the time Oh, they're not quite 21. Not yet. They just drive by going man soon This is just someone who's chomping at the bit to be an alcoholic like I'm gonna be so drunk soon They're not quite 21, not yet. They just drive by going, man, soon. Looking at their watch.

This is just someone who's chomping at the bit to be an alcoholic. I'm going to be so drunk soon. Three stars, the community somewhat helps out, but it's not an amazing number of people. If anyone helps out, that's pretty good. That's an amazing number. One is amazing. Yeah, wow, some stranger helped me. Three stars, again, this is the last one.

I like that the weather is seasonal and can be both hot and cold. Yeah, wow, some stranger helped me. Three stars again, this is the last one. I like that the weather is seasonal and can be both hot and cold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's really insightful. Thanks for the- Low bar. Wow, thank you, because if we didn't go there, we would have known that sometimes it's hot and sometimes it's cold. And there's no glue.

Yeah, you know, in Maryland in the winter. We've never seen the wire. Yeah. Bodie wears a big parka, you know what I mean? Yeah, he's always, yeah. He's outside, he's cold. He's a- So he's going to blow it on his hands. It's cold out.

It's chilly. And then in the summer, everyone looks real hot. They do, yeah. It's weird. So people in this town, population 8,762. Tiny. So not a huge town, not a tiny, tiny town. Wow, for a beach community, that's nothing.

It's a little pricey too is the problem. That's why. That's the riff raff. Right, and the lots are big, so it's one of those. A little more female than male. Everything's pretty average. Average age is a little bit older. Median age is 42 and a half.

Lot of married people. 60% married here, which is well above the average. Race of this town, 89.6% white, 1.1% black, 2.3% Asian, 5% Hispanic here. Religion, about 39% of the people are religious and most here are Catholics. Yeah, it's going to be there because as we know Catholics are the Baptists of the mid-Atlantic crab farming regions. Baptists of The capital region. Yeah, we know. We know of the Naval Academy region. That's in Appalachia.

Unemployment rate here is under 5%. And median household income here is, median household income, $115,259. So pretty good. Pretty good. It's a normal, $69,000 is the average in the country. So that's, you're doing real well here And the median home cost you have to be doing well here The cost of living actually isn't so far above one the average 100 is average here

It's 114 and the median home cost here Four hundred forty five thousand six hundred dollars. So a little bit pricey. That's one thing but it's there's beaches And you know what? I mean, you're not gonna live anywhere decent by a beach and have it go, what a value. I got this at such a deal. Yeah. People, why is it so expensive? Because the fucking ocean is here and there's a limited number of, a limited amount of beach. So that's going to go for a lot. It's locked. I can get a place in Kansas for, Kansas where there's plenty of land there.

It's not up for, you know, that's why. Only makes so much of the shoreline. That's all. So if we've convinced you, we have for you the Cape St. Clair, Maryland real estate report. All right, your first house here and this is the value quote unquote home, a four bedroom, two baths, 1,698 square feet. It is coming soon. So it's not even on the market.

Put your bits in everybody. Yeah. This is, you got to get ready. Call the real estate agent. It was built in the seventies and has the fireplace wall. Does it has that rock that rock? That sharp.s and has the fireplace wall. Does it? Has that. That rock? That rock fireplace. That sharp.

The 70s rock fireplace wall, it has it. That's awesome. It's been updated, but like, you know, probably in 2006. You know what I mean? So it's kind of, kind of not that, nothing spectacular about it, but it's decent and a nice area.

$489,000 for that. For 1,600 square feet. Yeah, for 1,700 square feet. Next area $489,000 for that. For 1,600 square feet. Yeah, for 1,700 square feet. Next up, three bedroom, four baths. T-Bowl for each and every beehole, damn it. 3,009 square feet. It was built in 2020 so it's new.

Only three bedrooms but it's right on the water. Hell yeah. There's your house and like your yard just goes around. Three bedrooms and 3,000 square feet, that's a on the water. Oh, yeah, you're there's your house and like your yard is just goes around bedrooms and 3000 square feet that's a great room for that's 39. Oh my god big it's fucking big so it's beautiful It's very nice, but four million seven hundred ninety five thousand dollars How do you do it so the cost to live on the beach right on the water man your whole property? It's not about one little area your whole properties on on the water next up this is that's the middle house that's the middle house next up is just it's ridiculous six bedrooms 11 baths you can invite all the neighbors over to shit yeah you got plenty of room so the biggest super world party you've ever seen you can still

shit in your own toilet shit everywhere you can shit in multiple toilets. They're all yours. 15,000 7th at 137 square feet. That's like fucking five houses. Five big houses is what that is. That's a lot. That's on 20 acres and it's ridiculous. It's really nice right by the water. It's gorgeous.

It's like one of these, like a fake chateau basically it is fourteen million nine hundred ninety five thousand dollars Honestly, yeah, but that's obviously that's what the fuck can afford that's I mean somebody who plays for the Wizards Yeah, that's not I mean you got it or like the Redskins or something the taxes alone would fucking you that's destroy Who's buying fifteen15 million houses? That's unbelievable. You know, some hedge fund asshole or something. Some lobbyist maybe, a DC lobbyist, lawyer, dickhead.

Things to do in this town. Let's find it out. The Cape St. Clair Strawberry Festival. Yeah, another one of those. I love the strawberries. I love the strawberries. So this is fantastic. Yeah, there's a lot of festivals around them.

If you look up Strawberry Festival, like every county in the country has a strawberry festival. Let's find out what's different. This one here. They say it's an age old event. Tell me how long it's been going on. It's not age old. There hasn't been this for. We've done this for a number of years. I'm going to say at the most 300. So somewhere between zero and 300. Age old. They say seems to be more and more popular each year. And if you're a resident, you know that summertime begins with the Strawberry Festival.

And it's a day filled with a parade, music. There's seven bands. Oh, a whole seven. We'll talk about that. Food, games games crafters Contests a petting zoo canine demos just making dogs do shit I guess like sometimes they have them do the jumping things and like the I don't know

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they go see you see if they can sniff it out They bring up like an SUV and they say, we've hidden weed in the passenger side door. See whose dog can fucking sniff it out. A silent auction, I don't know if there's auctioning strawberries or what, strawberries in many forms. Okay, custards, pies, cakes. Berries. Berries, yeah. Parfaits. Shortcake.

Shortcake, shortcakes. Yeah. Cake cakes, I said. Cake cakes too. Strawberry cake cakes. Longcakes and shortcakes. You know those, yeah, longcakes, short cakes, cake cakes I said. Cake cakes too. Strawberry cake cakes. Long cakes and short cakes. You know those. Yeah, long cakes, short cakes, cake cakes. Traditional moon bounces.

Okay. An obstacle course. Face painting a coloring contest. Okay. A dunk booth. A lot of ties for first in that one. In the lines you win I guess. A Soka Scout which sounds that's not good. In Utah that's not you can't have that. If there's Mormons

around you're not allowed to have that contest. That means you just put it in a Boy Scout and leave it there. That's not good. Is this a wet Boy Scout contest?, I don't like that at all. A wet boy scout uniform contest. Oh God, they have pit beef. I don't know what that is. Is that food? I don't know if that's you fighting a pit. I got pit beef with that motherfucker right there. Or if they make beef in a pit.

I don't understand. I hope it's the former. I hope they're fighting, they save it up. That'd be great. Bob ain't been trimming his hedges. Wait till this year's Strawberry Festival. I got pit. Oh, I'm gonna get him in the pit.

I'm gonna get Bob in the pit and it's on, baby. Take out a whole year's worth of frustrations on him. That's how it works. Hamburger's hot dogs, snowballs, I guess ice cream, not icy things, or the hostess snowball. The squishy ones. Oh, the coconut marshmallows. You hate them, not icy things. Or the Hostess snowball. The squishy ones, oh, the coconut marshmallows. You hate them, I love them.

I'd love candy coconut. Right, yeah. If I, couldn't love them if I wanted to. Make my mouth swell up and I can't talk or swallow. So that's not good. Strawberry jam jelly contest. So I mean you can. That's a lot of ties for first two, I I imagine you can bring jams and jellies

Yeah, both those are different things man. They should be different categories. I don't preserve category too. Oh, that's what I'm saying No, it doesn't say jam jelly contest decorated bikes. Whatever that is the buriest, baby Oh boy, and of course, we're gonna see who is who will rule as the strawberry princess Yeah, obviously, as well. Now the bands here. Okay. Let's find out what these people have to offer us for bands. Are they headlining somebody?

No, it doesn't say so, anyway. There's just a whole bunch of bands. Just a list of names. And a lot of them are like, you'll see, they're just genres or like, doesn't sound like a specific band name. This one does. First one is Cold Brew 42, which sounds like a little coffee place somewhere.

You've been to Cold Brew 42? Yeah, that does. Yeah, sounds like a little coffee shop. Or it's one of those micro brew shit bags that brings that hoppy shit. Cold Brew, yeah, like some IPA bullshit. The Cape Tree, that's a band, the Cape Tree. Then a band just called Easy Rock, which is a genre of music. That's like a Sirius XM station. That's not a band. And

it says they play 70s and 80s rock. Easy Rock, they're called. Is it easy or like? No, no. Spelled out easy. Easy Rock. they're called. Okay. Is it easy or like? No, no. Spelled out easy. Easy Rock. Like easy listening. Just Easy Rock. Yeah, Easy Listening Rock.

Light Rock. A lot of like foreigner and stuff. I don't like that. Like late foreigner, not early. Let it like air supply in there once in a while. Just like some light stuff, you know what I mean? If you need me now, you take away the... Just like Chicago.

Stuff like that. Real light. Real easy 70s stuff Jesus Christ Dirk and the truth will be there. Oh, they kicked out the liar. Oh, yeah. He's like I brought in the truth Dirk is gonna be there to tell you the truth. Yeah, 24 karat rock. I Bet they play rock will be there sounds like they play rock. Yeah Then a band called acoustic cafe Which sounds like the name of a business, right? Not a band acoustic cafe

That's gonna be very soft. They'll play Bob Marley song, but they'll also oh, yeah. Yeah, so it'll be a white lady saying it Yeah, it'll be a 47 year old white woman singing it. We'd be jamming. Yeah. Oh ho, and she's got a flowy skirt on. She's putting the Gs in. Lot of yoga. Yeah, that's the lady who's singing for 24 hour

for Acoustic Cafe. People showing up being like, where's the menus? What's going on? This isn't a, you said it was a cafe. You know, on Bagels, what is it? Shit, Jesus. Also, School of Rock, which is the name of a cafe. You know I'm bagels. What is it shit? Jesus also school of rock Which is the name of a movie right not a fucking actual that no that's that's dumb

That's your bad. Jack Black is not here. Yeah, I'm gonna revolt if it's Jack Black and a bunch of children great I call it that this is not school of rock. So there you go and which is funny because They'd probably maybe they were school of Rock first and are now angry like the person who's angry at Jelly Roll, which is fucking hilarious. There's a wedding band very angry at Jelly Roll for being Jelly Roll because they were a wedding band

that no one's ever heard of first. And they said, now they've lost all their presence on Google. It's like, well, yeah. And they are Jelly Roll one word and he is Jelly Space, capital R, Roll. But also. They're so insignificant though that the internet won't acknowledge the difference.

It'll just go, you're looking for Jelly Roll. We know what you're looking for. I'll bet before he popped on the scene, if I typed Jelly Roll into Google, they'd send me to. A bakery. A bakery in a cafe to go find a jelly roll. To the Acoustic Cafe to get a jelly roll., a cafe to go find it. To the acoustic cafe to get a gel, your home.

That's where you'd be at. Or a white lady tells me, yeah, here's a jelly roll for you. We're jamming. You know, that's how it is. So those are the bands for that thing. And then of course you have to have the Maryland Crab and Oyster Trail, which I would go to that in a heartbeat. The aroma of Chesapeake spice permeates

the mountains of Maryland too. If you're looking to combine a number of signature Maryland experiences together, head west to the mountains for a scenic driver hike and end your day with a traditional Maryland crab feast. Hell yeah. Yes, and thank you. How do I get there? Yeah, it's the best.

Take me home, take me home, Maryland Road. Now that we've had it, I don't want to crack them ever again. No. I need somebody to do it for me. Now that your friend did that for you. That was one, he was just cracking, handing us clumps of meat on a shell just there. And we were eating them like sultans.

Here, try this, now try this, now try this. Oh my God, this is the Oh my god. It was like salt and he was dipping it in butter and then putting it up on a shell on It's shell for us. It's a little plate. Thank you. That is inside of that's called the mustard. Yeah, try it with the mustard Oh, yeah, how's that mustard? Well, I don't care. It's delicious. It's goopy You're gonna love it and it was great the best thing ever. Crime rate in this town, what we're interested in, the property crime, a little low actually. About 20%-ish, as I would imagine it would be. Yeah, they've got money, they don't need to steal anything.

It's pretty leafy and that kind of thing. Violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, and of course assault. The Mount Rushmore of crime is about one quarter below the national average as well. So again, we have low, so safe. It's leafy. It's nice. Let's talk about some terrible, awful murder. This is brutal shit here. Let's talk first about a couple of people. Let's talk about Robert Lee Swartz. First of all, here, SWARTZ. That's it. That's interesting. Swartz, yeah, it's kinda like the skater

we did for Crime and Sports, Wolfgang. He was Swartz too? He was Swartz like that too. That's so wild. The rapist figure skating coach. Okay, wow. Yeah. He was awful, and figure skater.

Remember, he was diddling everybody, that guy. He was terrible, that was years ago. So check that out, years ago. So Robert Lee Swartz, Bob. everybody that guy. He was terrible. That was years ago. So check that out, years ago. So Robert Lee Schwartz, Bob. Swartz. Swartz, yeah. That's going to get fucked up.

Bob, yeah, yeah, a lot, yeah. May the Swartz be with you. I can't tell you what I can think. Sorry, sorry. So he's born in 1931 here. He is the middle child of three sons. His father is a college dean. Oh.

Mother a teacher, father a dean in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Very nice. Yeah, so he comes from like a very academically rigorous family. And they expect that from him as well. You're going to get your education too. You're going to get your education for sure. He ended up traveling a lot with his dad as you know, his dad had a bunch of jobs before settling in Pennsylvania and Ending up in Maryland and he also ends up doing a lot too as he ends up in the Navy

Bob joins the Navy so he sees the world a little bit then it's right after World War two I think between World War two and Korea. Oh that little sweet spot Yeah, nice time. We don't have to fucking fight anybody right this minute. We aren't stealing your kid. Yeah, that was better, yeah. So he goes there, he's gonna later end up in Maryland. He is a stocky, he's about five foot eight, stocky, balding in his 20s. All right. And I'm talking Homer Simpson.

Yeah, no, it's a little, huh. Not you like, I'm just shaving, it looks better. You know, it's a little bit thin over here, I'm talking. it looks better. You know, it's a little bit thin over here I'm talking the stubble is kind of sexy. It looks like I can grow it. This is yeah, nothing. He's got nothing He's got a ring around his head. Oh Double shows age. Oh, yeah. No, no, it doesn't matter. He looks like he's got a Homer Simpson hair That's no from a young age 20s in his 20s. It's going fast. So that's tough 20s in his 20s. It's going fast. So that's tough

He does four years in the Navy and he worked for several years on the distant early warning system in Canada and Alaska Oh, that's for like nuclear missiles. Yeah missiles like that. Very smart guy computer engineer Oh, so that's what he ends up becoming. Yeah, mr. Swartz real smart guy makes a good amount of money does things like that Let's talk about a young lady here. Catherine Anne Sullivan at the time here. She goes by, well, when she's younger, she goes by Kate and then later on it's just K. She goes by K. She's born, she's about nine years younger than him ish like that. She is known as tall. She's tall and intense. And she is. She's like five 11. Oh yeah. So she's tall and she's smart and she's, she'll become a teacher. Oh yeah. Yeah. She'll, she'll tell you. Um, she's the youngest of four children.

She's from Iowa city, Iowa. Yeah. Whole lot of Iowa going on there. She was the valedictorian of her Catholic high school. Yeah. So she's an achiever too. It's not, it's one thing to be smart and it's one thing to be rigorous, but certain people are the best smartest. I have to be the valedictorian. That's a certain personality type of I'm going to be the achiever and valedictorian isn't necessarily always the smartest. They're also the one that's the one with the best grades and super involved in commit community and all that shit too. Right. It's great point average. That's all it is. That's all it is and all that shit too, right? I think it's grade point average. Is that all it is?

I think that's all it is. Just the best one of that. I think it's the best grade point average. I don't think it has to do with the rest of the shit. It's not like a voting thing. It's not? No. I think it's like, you know, just, it's like a score.

Okay. 4.3, 4.2, you're the valedictorian. There's a matrix. Yeah, I think that's what it is. Yeah, I don't think, because then you'd hear all the time that my kid should have been the valedictorian, but this kid did a, you know, they judged their community service,

or it's just grades. All right. Yeah, I guess, yeah, that makes more sense. Yeah, otherwise kids would be, parents would be killing each other for that. Lobbying for it. Yeah, that means something to these kids and their parents. Campaigning.

Yeah, this is, that's what they would do. They'd have campaigns, and the yearbooks would have like an ad thing. It would be like Variety Magazine and Oscar season. It'd be awful. Nobody wants that. I want it. So they need more competition. Yeah. People spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on campaigns. Another reason for kids to feel bad about themselves. Yeah. Oh man. Now what do I have to do?

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It's like a strong coffee. Yes, it's strong, but you know what? It's bracing and refreshing. And you know it's there. And you know it's there, and she is honest. You always know how Kay feels about shit too. Pulls no punches. I like that.

She's like that. So she taught for a few years in Denver and then she goes to get her master's degree and at the University of Maryland. Oh. And that's when she meets Bob, who was an electronics technician and he was taking college courses for one of his jobs and he never got his degree though. He was just taking these courses and never finished here. So they met in a University of Maryland parking lot. Yeah. Her brother said, this is Kay's brother, quote, she had this old Ford Falcon with rust spots on it.

She was trying to cover up the spots with floral contact paper and Bob walked by. Ah! She's putting like shit for like your shelves where you put like your glasses on and your shelves to keep the non-slip. Yeah. Yeah. The wood from getting warped.

She's putting contact on them. Flowery floral contact paper. The first wrap. Yeah. He said he was, Bob was going through these cars and he was walking. He sees a tall woman leaning against a rusty Ford Falcon, and she's like, thought it was she was putting

paper on the roof, she's like, he said, what the hell are you doing? What are you doing, lady? You can't wallpaper that. And she looked up and smiled and said, quote, I'm wallpapering my Ford. Ah! Which I would think that was funny too

if somebody said that, like obviously, I'm wallpapering a Ford. What do you think? That's funny. I love that. She said my Ford in my for Wallpapering a wallpapering a Ford obviously. What do you do in the parking lot? Why would she do this in the parking lot not at her house? She's like now's a good right now in the parking lot stop training And she said it was very quick and matter-of-fact as he said so he liked that and she said she couldn't take the car's appearance Anymore it was all beat up and rusty and she couldn't afford a body shop Repairs, so what the hell she'd do this so she'd hide them up under these yellow and green floral contact paper

And it's like 1967 to 68 so it's that ugly psychedelic Yeah, you know what I mean that you know the very bowl hours. You know what I mean those Psychedelic II flowers and Bob thought it was funny. He said he said to her fantastic You know what I mean? You know the flowers, you know what I mean? Those psychedelic-y flowers. And Bob thought it was funny. He said to her, fantastic. He thought that was great. Thought it was awesome. Because it was like a white rusty car.

Now she's got these spots of flower things. He's like, this chick is crazy. I like her. So he found out that he liked her. He said she was witty and original, different than other chicks and friendly. And that he liked her. He said she was witty and original, different than other chicks and friendly, and he just liked her. He was like this.

She got the idea to cover a rust with fucking cling paper. She's a character. She's fascinating. That's kind of, yeah, that's like a romantic comedy movie character. Like Sandra Bullock would have played her in a movie. What are you doing? I'm wallpapering my Ford.

And the guy'd be smitten forever after that. That's how Jesse James met her. Probably, yeah. It's wallpaper and her Ford. So she decided to quit teaching school to earn her master's degree there. And by the way, she's 5'11", Bob's 5'8". She's super thin and he's stocky and chunky a bit. And she's got short brown hair all the time.

Everybody said she looked like she was a British, like a fashionable British lady. Everybody said she looked like back in the day. And she's nice looking though. She had big glasses, of course, big 70s glasses. Bob ended up going to class, but he said he liked her, he thought about her and he never talked to her again after that for a while until he saw her several months later in the cafeteria and he walked over to her and sat and ate lunch with her and they found out they had a bunch of shit in common.

Both their parents are school teachers, both going for their master's degree in education. He's got a bunch of rust on his car and needs a wrap. Yeah, he'd like a nice, maybe he can help me out. They're both graduate students, they're both, you know. Smart. Yeah, they're both doing everything. They're earning room and board by living in the dorms and doing the RA shit too, so they're getting that.

Bob liked to talk a lot, but he said he liked listening to her, she's very fast talking and she seemed real smart. They had both of them have like deep religious beliefs too. So they got into that and they agreed on that kind of stuff. She's really Catholic. He's not, he's Protestant. So back then that was called a mixed marriage. Literally like that was like, Oh Jesus Christ, that was a big deal. It's entirely different buildings and different experiences on the day of whatever. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah, absolutely. So he liked that she was direct and shit like that. He wasn't a ladies man, let's just say. He was very, he's aggressive in all of his other endeavors, but not necessarily with the ladies. He's a little more laid back. It's tough, man. It's tough. And again, too, he's not even 5'8 he's like 5'7 he's he's bald pretty much so yeah he

feels right away like he everybody looks at him like he's too old when he's the same age as them and he doesn't have that physically fit handsome physique that everyone's looking for he's probably got some insecurities if you're in college you're walking around you're probably seeing you know a lot of dudes that you're like oh god look at the pussy this guy gets. Forget it. Fucking dick, yeah. Walk on a college campus,

you will feel bad about yourself. He's 36 on a college campus, bald, looking like Homer Simpson, it's rough. He was in shape, he's not fat, he's just a stockier guy, he doesn't look like a 21 year old model or anything. So It's fine. Yeah, so he also has a on the left side of his face Looks like a birthmark or a scar but starts in about his left temple and goes down below his cheekbone

Dark mark here Yeah, Bob would tell people different stories about it all the time Most the most common story was that it was a scar from a motorcycle accident Yeah, Bob would tell people different stories about it all the time. The most common story was that it was a scar from a motorcycle accident, which sounds the coolest. That sounds the coolest, unless it was like I got in a fight in a bar and this guy cut me with a beer bottle. You know what I mean?

It sounds cool when actually when he was a baby, he fell and wedged himself between the crib and a steam radiator. It's a It's a radio burn. Oh my god. Yeah Jesus so it's really he couldn't even stay in a crib when he was a baby and he's like I was on a motorcycle Kinda so it severely burned his yeah Burned his face and darkened the skin in that one spot the scar lightenedened up a little bit, but they said you noticed it immediately because it's right on his face.

It's hard to not notice. Katie said that she told her friend that she met this guy that kind of seemed like a know-it-all. She said, her friend said, she said what bothered her more was that he really did know-it-all. He was like, he wasn't just coming across as a know-it-all, he actually knew shit, which was like, he wasn't just coming across as a know-it-all, he actually knew shit.

Which was like, you asshole. Quote, she said, you can't even go for a walk with this man, but what he doesn't have to name, when he doesn't have to name every leaf on every tree and what's growing on the ground. He knows all the plants. He goes on to explain all that stuff, and she just wanted to enjoy it, her friend said.

She just wanted to have a nice walk, and he's like, that's blah blah blah blah and he would like tell you whatever he's a brown cover is which for an education person I don't know but Katie was in K Katie at the time was in the last year of her two-year graduate program and she told friends that she just wanted to get her degree she would see Bob occasionally but it was just casual. They'd hang out, have some coffee, go on a walk, and that was that.

See him. See him again a month later. Not a real, you know, not a hot and heavy corkship. Right, not a physical relationship. So Bob would hang out with his friend, a younger dude with blonde hair, who Kay called shallow and full of himself. Oh yeah. Yeah. He's like, maybe I'll shallow and full of himself. Oh yeah.

Yeah. He's like, maybe I'll get some runoff here. He found himself a- He had any hot friends? Bob found himself a handsome guy to be like, I'm hanging out with this guy. He's blonde and handsome. Perfect.

In the summer of 1969, Kay got her master's degree in education. She's ready to go. She moves into a tiny apartment outside Washington, DC. And yeah, they're all she's looking for a job. Katie and her K Katie at the time, K and her friend, they go on a big hunt looking for jobs and everything else. They were looking for applying for positions all over the world. Really? Yeah, they wanted to explore. Okay, they're not tied to anything. They were looking for applying for positions all over the world. Really? Yeah, they wanted to explore.

Oh, relocate. That's not tied to anything. They were looking for places, even Samoa and the Philippines, they applied to jobs there. Yeah, far away. So Kay said that maybe she thought she was thinking at this point, even though she went through all the school, going to get her master's degree, maybe she doesn't want to be a teacher after all. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Fuck, if you got ideas and plans, really, you're looking for jobs elsewhere. You don't go teach in the Philippines, do you? Well, she said, maybe I'll join the Air Force in 1969. That's a bad idea. That's an interesting idea for an educated lady who can have a job and different stuff. It's not like they're drafting 27 year old lady teachers in 1969.

It's an odd choice. Yeah, she took the qualifying test, but then decided not to enlist. There you go. She studied real estate, got a real estate license, but then said, I don't wanna sell real estate. He got a really... That's a lot of work, man.

You have to have a certain personality to do that too. Like you can't do that unless you're really that person who's like, I just want to show people houses. Yeah, look at that, look at this. Those like just high end real estate people, I'm like, you lazy motherfucker. Yeah, you gotta qualify before I'll show you a house. Fuck yourself.

And you're gonna what, guide me to a place to go sign paperwork and you're gonna get 3% of this? Fuck you. Can you imagine me or you being real estate agents? No. You'd show somebody three houses and go, I don't know what you want. I showed you a fucking-

I gave you good, better, best. Pick one. It's like the real estate report. I showed you some of this, there's one, that one's bigger, this one's less expensive. Have you ever seen fucking house hunters? You get three options, that's it. Just pick one, you fucking asshole.

You wanna see all of them, you fucking jerk? Oh my God, you know which house you want already don't you? Just buy one and move in you asshole. You don't like any of those, then go rent an apartment. You know what, you're living here. Here's your paper, sign it. Gonna punch you in the throat.

Here's your keys you fuck. Oh man, at one job interview that she had with Real estate, she stood up to leave and felt, she's thought a blast of cold air on her back, and then she realized after she left, she forgot to zip up her dress. Her ass was out?

So like, yeah, from the top of her. Oh my God. So she's like, didn't get that job. That was a, that one didn't work. Hilarious. So then by the end of the summer, neither she or her friend found work yet in all these permanent jobs they applied for.

So they decided to just do sub teaching in the school year when it started to pay the rent. They needed to pay the rent. So Kay didn't really see Bob much, but in the fall now when she starts subbing and stuff, she, they start dating a little bit. And he didn't get his graduate degree, he just stopped going to school, he was done with that.

Because he had other degrees, he was fine. So he was living in Beltsville, which is northeast of Washington, and he was an electronics instructor for the Bendix Corporation. They still exist, but that sounds bad. Bendix sounds really bad. It sounds so bad Is a company that's medical service to fix your bent dick to fix your yeah, what's it called the?

Peronies yeah Fuckin the Bendix Peronies Corporation Italians named a beer after yeah, hey, hey, drink up my bent dick. Have a sip of the bent dick. He had broken his leg in a motorcycle accident recently. Oh, now he's got a real motorcycle injury. He probably fell out of bed. Yeah, he probably felt it.

He felt he tripped going to the bathroom at 3 in the morning. He's like, ah, fuck. He kicked the radiator. Yeah, god damn it. These radiators. I won't have them in my house. Every time, it just tells us the radiator. Yeah, god damn it. These radiators! I won't have them in my house! Every time it just tells us the motor's like...

Oh god. So he would hop around on a cast and he, I guess, he stopped calling her Katie. He said, you're 29 and you're like a sophisticated woman. Katie's kind of a girlish name. So he called her Kate. And then they got shortened to Kay, and that's what everybody ended up calling her. After a while, it was Kay.

So she was looking for a job, and she's looking everywhere. An employment agency found her a teaching job at Atlantic City High School in New Jersey. She's like, I don't really wanna teach the sweat hogs probably, but you know, um, maybe not, but she did. She went to work there after, uh, uh, like the holidays of that year. She's going, Bob keeps in touch with her by phone, sees her now and then.

And he was telling his friends, I'm going to marry this chick, but she was just very casually hanging out with him. Yeah. Um, you know, just, he's got a game plan. He's got, yeah, he's gonna marry her. At Christmas, Kate, uh, Kay takes Bob home to meet her family in Illinois. Oh. Big deal for her.

Yeah. So, after that, I guess Kay had talked to her friend and said, you gonna be around in June? Will you be my maid of honor? Oh. So she said, I'm marrying Bob. She's gonna do it. It went from, we're not even seeing maid of honor?" So she said, I'm marrying Bob. She's going to do it. It went from, we're not even seeing each other, to two months later, I'm marrying Bob.

I don't know what it was. I don't know if it was the going home with the family or whatever it was, but they decided to get married and she's going to move with him to the Washington area in the spring. And that's that. So So 1970 they get married. It's their first marriage for both of them. They're very excited. And then in 71 they buy a house in Cape St. Clair, which is this is on the Broadneck Peninsula because there's Annapolis and then there's this little peninsula. It looks like an island, but it's connected to lands, a little peninsula that comes out and that's what broadneck That's probably named after like some fucking oysters out. I'm sure broad. Yeah, something like that a broadneck oyster broadneck clam or some shit

But that's what the high school is called to she'll get a job teaching there. The house is at 1242 Mount Pleasant Drive So the neighbor H James Ferguson get the fuck out of you know You're in a fancy neighborhood when people use their first name as an initial yeah H James Ferguson He said the day we moved in next door to them K came over and said we know how hard it is moving I'll fix you dinner tonight Wow she's now. I got to talk to you through dinner though. I'm putting my shit away like I'll meet you I want to hang, you're my neighbor, we'll get to know each other, but all my shit's in boxes. Yeah, I got a box here that says magazines, but it's all my sex toys, I need you to leave.

Please, I can't unpack this with you here, and if I go over there to eat at your house, all I'm gonna think is, my house is full of unpacked shit that I have to unpack, no fun. So Bob converts to Catholicism when they get married as well. Yes. Yeah, she's really, really Catholic and he's like, whatever, I'll be Catholic then too. But he's into it. They join the St. Mary's church in Annapolis and become very active. That's the kind of things you'll do for a hot chick, huh? That's the chick you like. Guys don't care about that No religion with well that we ever see on Seinfeld George Costanza was like whatever. I don't care Latvian Orthodox I don't give a shit never even heard of it. Sounds good

Sign me up. You're hot. I'll do what you want. That's what it is guys don't care and women do they don't care They convert all the time for people. That's true. Love will make you do shit Whoever cares less about it is the one who converts and that's how it works. So, uh He switches he ends up being like big in the parish to real Whoever cares less about it is the one who converts and that's how it works. So he switches. He ends up being like big in the parish too. Really? Yeah. He also becomes a treasurer for a bunch of different groups here.

Now they find out they can't have children. Oh no. Kay can't get pregnant. Really? Yeah. It's her thing though. It's her. Yeah.

She's a barren womb. Oh damn it. Yeah, no good, but they want kids They want kids so they want to adopt kids. Okay, so at least they're putting their that's great I mean they they were looking for at first there was they wanted it like a ready-made family like a group of brothers and sisters They got like a bunch of kids that like maybe their parents died in a house fire And they're just still standing on the front lawn. We'll come pick them up at the station wagon and take them home with us. Car careened off the mountain on the way home from a speed trip. All the kids in the back survived. The parents went right through the windshield. Yeah. Some

shit like that. So the Maryland's Children's Aid and Family Service Society, they had a family of four brothers that was being offered up for adoption. Like you know when they put puppies up? We have this puppy with four brothers. This one comes with these three. They said, we'll take them. We'll take all four of them. And they were even planning where they're going to sleep in the house. It's a three bedroom house. So they were like, okay, two boys in one, two boys in the other, blah, blah, blah. So they said, yeah, we could do that. You know what I mean?

Wow. He's told his family, Bob said, he's just making up for lost time. He's almost 40 already. Great point. I could have four kids anyway. And he said, yeah, I'll have twice as many kids as my brother now, right away.

I went from two nothing to four two, like that. Spent no time in the hospital. Awesome, yeah, fucking great. No, I'm not awake at two in the morning changing diapers. So then a social worker called and said, after talking it over, we've had second thoughts about the brothers.

The social worker said, yeah, we think four children might be too much for you. You can't do this to children. That's well, I don't know if the children knew about it yet. Oh, so they hadn't been moved in yet. No, no, no, no, no, no, they weren't moved in yet. This was before they were supposed to hook up with them there. And they said, quote, your marriage is only going on three years when we're not sure you're

ready to take so many kids at once. You have no kids. If you had three kids and you were fine with them, it'd be, but you have no kids. From none to four is a lot of kids. And if you've got no kids and you've been married for 15 years, you guys know what you want and everything's fine. They're worried about what if these two, what if the pressure of kids. And if you've got no kids and you've been married for 15 years, you guys know what you want and everything's fine. They're worried about what if these two, what if the pressure of four kids breaks them up and now there's a four, you know.

And he said, you know, Kate will be disappointed, but you know, I guess I understand. So they contacted several adoption agencies, but they learned that the waiting period for infants could be months or years. That's crazy. Yeah, the months or years. I guess you got to make sure and vet, but that's- But infants go quick. Yeah.

There's an infant up and someone will take that thing and say, oh, infants are immediate. Right now. Yeah. Well, before it's like six months old, pre six months old, they will swoop them up because they can pretend that's their baby. I don't mean, you know, but they can, you know, can feel like a, not just like they've pretend that's their baby. I don't mean you know, but they can they can you know Can feel like a not just like they've had somebody's kid dropped off. They can you know, yeah, because yeah, that's all this kid I'll ever know so it's it's a thing and it's

thing to probably want them to know who their parents are that's me Yeah, and I'm being called dad by a that's I'm the only one that kids ever called dad is a specific thing. That helps, yeah. I think that's what it is. So they set an huge waiting list for newborns, forget about it. Like, you know, the ones that get pulled right out and handed off, those are like, you gotta wait years for those.

Tons of those, but you know, six months, that's still months and months. So most parents didn't want children over the age of two. That's the cutoff. Really? Two, yeah, they don't want them to like where they over the age of two. That's the cutoff. Really? Yeah, they don't want them to like where they were talking already. Wow.

They want like a baby. Yeah. And then have the baby develop in their image. It's a human thing, I think. I can see that, but you are taking on the hardest fucking part of child raising. Yeah, and I think that's it too. I'd take a six year old in a second.

Well, a six year old though already has psychological imprints for good or bad. Yeah, you're right. So that's the thing I think that people think is even two year olds, some, you know, they could have a personality developed already that they, whatever. I'll take a six year old non-bedwetting non-firestar.

How's that? That's the problem, yeah. Those are the six year olds that are available. That's what you get. So they said it was tough. And they said it was a lot to get people. They said nobody wanted kids that were older than five. That's too bad.

It's really hard to sell people on, which is tough. It takes a certain kind of person. So they adopt a young boy here. OK. They adopt him at the age of six. So he's, so he's an easy one to get. I'm right. Yeah. Six. Well, maybe not. Okay. This is Larry. They adopt Lawrence is his real name Larry and they give him the last name right away. Larry Swartz. And he had had a tough time. He had been in a bunch of foster homes. Kay is his sixth mother. Oh no.

Six months. That's what I mean. By the time a kid is six and they've been in this system their whole life, not even their whole life because he's only been in it since he was three. He was three. We'll talk about it. He's gotten two a year. Yeah.

Jesus. It's not good. It's really, he's had a tough time. The worker told them, we do have a boy who really needs a home. His name is Larry and I met him yesterday. I liked him a lot. He's small and dark skinned and very good looking. He'll be seven in August.

We've got to find him a new home as soon as we can. What does his looks have to do with it? He's a handsome child. You'll really want to molest him. Not ugly at all. It's really great. Very weird. Odd as fuck.

Kay said, well, where is he now? And they said with a family that was going to adopt him, but it just didn't work out. It wasn't his fault. They had their own biological children. I don't think they were able to accept an adopted child. And it's been hard on the boy. He knows he's not wanted, and he asked us to find new parents for him.

And they said, is he in school? And he said, first grade, but he's being held back. He couldn't concentrate. His teacher said he comes to school upset a lot, which, yeah. He's furious. Your home life is crazy. The world hates him, that's how he feels. He does things like eat other kids' lunches

in the cafeteria. Attaboy. He'll just come and start swiping food. Because he's fucking starving. He's got a lot of weird food things of not eating and then overeating and he's got a lot of weird food stuff. Which is security, food security is an issue.

Yeah, he probably doesn't know where his next one's coming from. So they said, we all think he needs a massive dose of love and attention and if you guys want to do that, maybe that's what the solution is. Yeah. So they said, you know, we'll take a look at him, sure, bring him by, we'll kick the tires, start the fires, we'll do it all, baby. Yeah, kick the tires on him. Run this motherfucker on the block, sail the transmission worms up. There he goes, you know what I mean? Yeah, we'll step on it run this motherfucker on the block yeah well

you know step on it real hard get it up to 60 slam on the brakes zero to 60 see what the time is on that see how the nose dives in the brakes yeah yeah could have fucked up shocks let's find out today so why don't you and your husband come up to Baltimore yeah and they said yeah they said if it works out you could take him home for good the next weekend. So they want him. He's going to be seven.

Like they'll put him anywhere. Seriously, he's on the vine. He needs to be picked immediately. The milk is curdling. Yeah. Now the original story they hear is that Larry's parents are from India. Okay. Not true.

Well, his dad is from India, but his mom is not from India. And they said, yeah, it's just, they're just India from India. They couldn't hack it in the country with the kid. Not true at all. Turns out, um, his dad is a pimp from India, a new Orleans street pimp. And his mom is a chick that he picked up. So it's rough. Yeah, apparently his mother's name,

real mother's name is Sheila, and she's a small, bleach blonde lady with blue eyes, from California, and she's in New Orleans, hanging out here. She's 19 years old. Oh my God. And she gets pregnant pregnant and her boyfriend, his name is Luther Singh, that's his real, that's Larry's real father. He's described

as several years older and incredibly handsome. 50. Not that old. No? But not 19. I think like 30, 27, something like that. And by the way, this is all from a book. I'll give you the title at the end here, but somebody wrote a book about this in 1989. So yeah, they weren't gonna get married or anything like that. He just knocked her up and that sort of thing. He was very handsome, she said. They met at Mardi Gras the previous year.

And he went, with a set like that, you're mine. You can really kick the tires at Mardi Gras. She got all his beads. Yeah, all of them. She described him as a dark, flashy stranger whose family was from India. So he wasn't even Indian. A pimp.

Yeah, dark, flashy stranger. He was exotic and exciting, like Pimpsar. That's how Pimpsar. Yeah. They make it mysterious. Yeah, so they started living together by the end of Mardi Gras. So two weeks of Mardi Gras

brought them together here. She moved to New Orleans just out of nowhere. She felt like it. She left Chicago in 1965 and went to work as a waitress down there. And yeah, she was just turned 18. She's like, I know how to wait tables. I can work anywhere. I'm going to New Orleans. What a time to be alive in the 60s. You just pick a spot on the map, and if you got money to get there, you'll start anew and you'll get there.

That's right, you'll figure it out. You'll make cash by the end of the night. Imagine doing that today. If you could wait tables, you could go anywhere. Yeah. No, today, good luck. Oh, God, Jesus. You gotta have first and last.

It's thousands of dollars to get there. Just to get an apartment, you need a first, last, fucking security, you gotta have that, you gotta have the money to get there, you gotta, it's ridiculous. Storage unit now. You leave the house, it's $100. It's everything. So at 10 o'clock on August 24th, this is the day that he was born, Larry was born, he's born a month early and he weighs four pounds. Oh my god. He's very light

What is she doing? He's a month early. Yeah, so who knows what happened stress or whatever? She alcohol something something Lawrence Joseph calls him Larry and there's that yeah But she doesn't really she uses Luther's last name sometimes, but they're not really married. So there's a, we don't know exactly what they named him. That's a tough thing here. So Luther, the father, then moved up to Washington, DC and she and the baby moved with them.

And a social worker later asked Sheila why she continued to live with Luther since he was viciously beating her and she said quote He was so handsome. I guess it was the physical attraction Just so handsome. He's beating the shit out of you. Who cares what he looks like Just see his eyes. Yes sparkle. Well, this is like why would you put up with this? She's she's crazy Have you seen the tits on it is Is it? People, it's... Yeah. We're both, we're a horny people.

That's what it is. What I've put up with for tits. Yeah. But after three years, she described him as just an awful person. She packed up her shit one day and moved into an apartment with a couple of girlfriends in Silver Spring with the baby. And that's how they ended up there. But it doesn't really work out because in the end,

she ends up having to turn him into social services. And by the age of three, he already had exhibited emotional problems, chronic bedwetting. He's seen dad beat the shit out of his mom. Is at all sorts of issues. Golly. They find him eating food out of garbage cans, getting up in the middle of the night to make sure his foster family was still, he'd wake them up and make sure they were there. Oh, is that you? Okay.

Like that's when he to go to a foster place because he was so worried about who left and where, who's where. And he's jumpy. That's what I mean by six. Kids have had a lot of stuff going on. Yeah. So he's moved, gets moved from foster home to foster home. Um, tons of shit, you know, going on and nothing's good. He, during his stay with his first foster home, he appeared to do, to do well, no problems eating or sleeping. Um, and that sort of thing. But the caseworker and foster parents decided that Larry should

be moved to a home closer to his mother. So they took him out of a home that he was doing well in to move closer to his mother who's not doing well. Who signed away parental rights of him. Why move close to her? It's fucking insanity. Wow. So.

In May of 1980 near Anaheim, California, Dorothy Jane Scott noticed her friend had an inflamed red wound on his arm and seemed unwell. She insisted on driving him to the local hospital to get treatment. While he waited for his prescription, Dorothy went to grab her car to pick him up at the exit, but would never be seen alive again,

leaving us to wonder, decades later, what really happened to Dorothy Jane Scott? From Wondery, Generation Y is a podcast that covers notable true crime cases like this one and many more. Every week, hosts Erin and Justin sit down to discuss a new case, covering every angle in theory, walking through the forensic evidence and interviewing those close to the case to try to discover what happened. With over 450 episodes, there's a case for every true crime listener.

Follow the Generation Y podcast on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to Generation Y ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus. It's really crazy, man. So he ended up going to the home of Harold and Betty Herron, and he went in the house, he met his foster parents here, they seemed happy to have him, although their marriage was falling apart at the time. Fantastic. Yes. So they had other foster children there too, which wasn't helping. Sheila demanded to see him and the supervisor then drove her to the heron's house to see the boy.

She can't demand that. Yeah. She wrote in the supervisor wrote in her report, Larry seemed to recognize her a little but paid not much attention to her. He's been in different houses. He's three. Your memory probably refreshes a lot. Yeah, your tape rewinds. So on October 16th, Dr. Julius Lobel, who's a doctor, he examined Larry, found him to be a normal child of small stature.

He was barely three years old. He wasn't three feet tall yet. He only weighed 24 pounds. Oh, he's very malnourished. Very small kid. Only they said that he had weighed one more pound than he'd weighed 15 months before. He gained a pound in a year? A pound in 15 months. His foster mother told the doctor that he was a restless child with a short attention span, short attention span, and he still had toilet accidents.

He still would have problems there. Then Larry went to see another doctor, a psychologist, who administered the intelligence scale test to him and said his social adjustment quotient on the scale suggested he was functioning at a level about four fifths the average for three-year-olds. And they said his IQ was about 85, placing him in the quote dull normal range. He is three you guys. Yeah, just a little dull.

Jesus Christ, give him some time. Give him some time to bud here. He needs to bloom. Love him, water that plant. Yeah, what the fuck? What the saying, he needs some fertilizer, some something. He's just, they left him, he's grown in a sidewalk crack and it hasn't rained in three months and they're like, he's looking a little wilted.

I don't know. Give him some Oreos for Christ's sake. Spoil him a little. Yeah. They said, the doctor said, it's likely this child has had some tendency toward hyperactivity and this needs to be further evaluated before a definite statement can be made about the possibility of some central nervous system dysfunction. It was of interest to note that the foster mother probably covertly rejecting the child and has difficulty accepting it. She doesn't know she's rejecting him? Yes,

the foster mother is probably, yeah, she's outwardly not, but inside she doesn't want this kid. What? She's sorry she got him. So another foster home he goes to. Oh my God. They were very excited to have him there, but they were struggling with money. They were the Weaver family and they said, quote, it's still a day to day struggle with him. He wets the bed and he hasn't let me through that barrier

that he's got around him. He just hasn't become a part of the family like we expected him to. Well got to give him a minute. Yeah. He's so little. Yeah. After two years, they still hadn't signed the adoption decree. They were still like doing a test run on him here. So it's very weird. Either they or the agency could call off the adoption anytime before that. So they asked them, do you think that you'll ever not do this and call it quits with Larry? And they said, no. And the wife, that's what the man said. And then the wife said, I don't see it now, but two

years down the road, if everything's still the same, I don't know how I'll feel. You either have to, a kid can feel that. Yeah. So you either have to be in a hundred percent or not, but you can't be like, I don't know, I'll hedge my bets and if the kid's pretty cool, then I guess I'll be his mom. Yeah. Kids are so good at picking out who likes them and who doesn't. They've got that gut feeling that we ignore. Yeah, exactly.

So at one point, the Weavers went to the doctor, took him to the doctor in March 72, and Larry had a broken arm. Oh? Yeah. This is some problems with the mom because he couldn't stop bedwetting and she was yelling at him so much and then she wouldn't talk to him for long stretches of time and she ended up breaking his arm during she was... Yanking him around or something?

She got really mad one day, snatched his left arm and twisted it behind his back while she was yanking him around or something she got really mad one day snatched his left arm and twisted it behind his back while she was screaming at him and he tried to squirm and break free and then his bone cracked and he had a bone in his upper part of his left arm snapped poor little guy it was in a big cast for weeks and uh at the hospital in the report it said twisted and injured left arm and the x-ray revealed the fracture that's fucking and they said in the report it said twisted an injured left arm and the x-ray revealed the fracture that's Fucking and they said in the report because he couldn't stop bedwetting That's fucking horrible. So that's who they get Larry That's who this family the Swartz's are gonna bring in Bob and Kate are bringing in poor little Larry bringing in poor little Larry

Larry's had it tough and then needs love. And then a few months later, they adopt another young man too. Really? Yup, a little boy named Michael. And Michael, he's six months older than Larry. So they're the same age? They figure, yeah, same age, maybe they'll get along, be brothers, you know what I mean? But that's not even Irish twins, so even if they look close to alike, they're never gonna feel like brothers.

No, no, no, but they could be be if they're close enough in an age they could be it could feel happy together and that's why I mean friendly but then they won't ever be brothers but I mean even if they're best friends great yeah that's good great and if they're this age they grow up together they'll feel like brothers I mean yeah especially if they're both from shit environments Michael had been in seven foster homes already yeah he is of Native American That's what I mean, especially if they're both from shit environments. Michael had been in seven foster homes already. Yeah, he is of Native American descent.

So they're just like, we just want anybody with any kind of Indian in them. I don't, we don't give a shit. Couple of guys that Ben Franklin would confuse for each other. That's what we want. People who would, let's put them together and go, Chris Columbus, which is which? Let's find out. And I need him to go, they're the same. Yeah.

Same picture. So he had, Michael loved Indian arrowheads and he kept them with him. Oh really? Yeah, they were like his prized possessions. He's very tall. Michael will be six foot six when he grows up, by the way. Oh boy.

Tall kid. Shit. So yeah, they pick him up. And yeah, Michael, I guess they said when they came to get him, he was standing, like they had to go into the office and do paperwork and shit and he was like waiting outside for them. Holding his bag. Let's go.

He's got an arrowhead in one hand and his bag. Fuck the paperwork. Let's just go. Yeah. I guess Michael was pissed off because he just wanted to leave. He goes, this guy just showed up and he wants to take Me home. Let's go This place sucks. He seems better. He said he hadn't lived with a father

Since he was three or four either so it's been hard He said he didn't like his father at the time his father when he was a small child three years old used to beat him With a board a wooden board So he said he hardly remembered his mother, because she just disappeared one day, abandoning him and his sister and his brothers to be with the wood-beating father over here. How do we know she abandoned them and dad didn't just hacksaw Jim Duggan her in the fucking garage? Yeah.

Jesus, he's hitting the kids with the board. But this is how Michael is. When our guy here, Bob, came outside, he found Michael using his arrowhead to scratch the orange paint off the roof of a Datsun truck. Ah, somebody's carving it. Yeah, he's just scraping the paint off of it. He's carving it? So Bob came out and said, what are you doing?

Holy shit, that's crazy. That's somebody's property, man. Yeah, he's had a hard time, Michael. I mean, he stayed on the average less than one year in each foster home. This is his seventh, like we said, not counting his natural family, that would make it eight. Everybody rejected him for one reason or another. One of his parents is dead already, or one of the parents of the foster people, one died, so the other one gave him back.

Another couple said he was unmanageable. Another woman accused him of stealing money from the pocketbook of a visitor in the foster home. He was six. Yeah, what's he going to do? He should be able to manage that at six. You should be able to tell them why that is and then over with structure over time, help them understand that that's not right.

Yeah, you can't just steal. Unless your kid is Ted Bundy. Right. You know what I mean? So. Carving his name in cars and stuff. He's just scraping paint. He was just absentmindedly scraping paint off. Just taking chunks off of it. Shhh, shh, shh, shh.

So the first weekend with the Schwartz's was billed as a visit, a weekend retreat kind of thing. Yeah. And he later said, I was just there to check it out, and I met Larry, meaning the new kid. He said it was said, I was just there to check it out. And I met Larry, meaning the new kid. He said, it was fun. I had a good time. Larry said, Hey man, we're going to Disney world next week. If you come with live with us, you can go. So Michael said, I went. I was like, fuck, I'm with a family that goes to fucking Disneyland. Hold on.

I got a brother who's like my own age and we're going to Disneyland. And we're the same tent. Holy shit. Let's do it. Yeah. This is fucking phenomenal. Absolutely. He was jacked for this shit. That's the thing. I've seen both.

They look like brothers. Do they? Yeah. If you saw them and they went, we're brothers, you'd go, okay. One's short and one's tall is the only thing. You just assume the taller one's the older brother. That's it. But I mean, I know brothers who are full grown.

One is 6'6", one's 5'9". That's just the life. I mean, I don't know. So they were, I guess the mailman was tall. So it was Karl Malone who came over. The actual mailman. And the mother was 13, as Karl Malone likes them, as we know from the bonus crime and sports. The two boys were immediately tight,

and they were well-liked in the neighborhood. Larry was a newspaper boy, delivered newspapers. Michael would rake leaves and, you know, mow grass for money. They were industrious and nice and helpful to their parents. And they were like, holy shit. And Larry told Michael, don't worry, it's not such a bad place. Once you get used to it. This is pretty sweet setup we got here. So that's also nice. He had like a guy, you know, doing like some recon for Michael when he came in. This place is much chiller than everywhere else. Yeah, look, we've both been in a lot of shit.

This place is, you're going to like it. Food's on time. Food's on point. No garbage cans. Yeah. Nobody's beaten me with a board yet. So they shared a bedroom, the boys, and the third bedroom was free for guests and we're going to have another kid later on we'll talk about.

Strict rules though also. And these for the age they are makes sense. No leaving the neighborhood. One block in all directions. That's fair. Tons of mothers have been telling their kids that for a hundred years. Stay in the neighborhood, stay within the street. Around the block is all you get. Yeah, around people we know. Yeah. So, you know, yeah, less likely to be snagged and taken away. But then again, how funny would that be? How not funny? How ironic would that be that this person that nobody wants, and he can't get taken, and they go outside, he's kidnapped. He's like, Jesus Christ, now there's a swell of rushing of emotions.

People all want me now. What's going on? You'd be so confused. Yeah, and even more confused if they sold you into the sex trade. All these people every day. Somebody wants me? What the fuck? Yeah, now I'm always wanted.

Always in demand. That is gross. So one block, no television except on weekends Huh, which is rough. Yeah late 70s. Yeah, cuz kids in the morning is when the when the shits on Yeah, no soda or candy. Well during the week though, that's school time. Yeah, you concentrate on school and you do your homework Well when you're eight, there's not a lot of homework in the morning studying before school. There's always kids programming No, no, no, we're to put like classical music on the radio. Lights were out at 8 o'clock on school nights.

8 o'clock bedtime, which that's just family to family that varies. They had to help their mother with housework. Michael had to mow the lawn and take out the garbage because that was his thing. They each got an allowance from doing their work, $ dollar a piece per week, and they could spend it as they wanted, except for candy and soda, obviously. And she would give them extra money for raking the yard or doing everything, so they had a responsibility thing.

The relatives noticed the bond between Larry and his mother at family get togethers. Larry, one relative said said Larry would hang around Kay and try to do things for her. I would see her for no reason at all. Go up and hug Larry and hold his hands. Like try to be nice to him. Kay's brother said he liked both boys, but he felt bad for Michael. He said, you could tell Michael seemed very awkward and unsure of himself. And they said a lot of that is cause he was very tall for his age, just tall and gangly and doesn't feel like fits into anything into any loanless family. Yeah.

And he's like new when he feels like he's going to get cast aside also. So they said that this uncle said that he tried to single Michael out for give him special attention, not in a perverted way, but special attention and try to be extra nice to him. And you know, hey, let's take the kid fishing. You know what I mean? Let's take him out with us for the day. So there's some ice cream. Yeah. So the boys started bickering, as kids the same age would do.

Larry couldn't really physically contend with Michael, because he was much smaller than him. One time, Kay was watching, and Larry and Michael were wrestling around in the yard and fell down to the ground. Larry broke away, got up and started running and ran right into a tree. Oh shit.

He turned around to look to see where Michael was and ran into a fucking tree. Clark Rizvold. Fell down unconscious. Yeah. Like a cartoon. Yeah. Like a Benny Hill movie. Like ridiculous.

Whack. Pow. I'm surprised he didn't step on a rake and have it come up and smack him in the face After he came to they diagnosed him with a concussion Yeah, so he's got that now Kay blamed Michael and was pissed off at him really yes So he she yelled at him. He got mad and said fucking no way and She slapped him She slapped Michael Michaels called her a bitch and a boy and she told him to go to his room and he did

Then Bob got home And it was wait till your dad gets home because Bob heard that she he called. Okay a bitch and He wasn't tolerating that he yelled at him and Basically, he hit him four or five times, punched the child. Hard, like punching, punching a 10 year old. Yeah. Really worked him over. How dare you call my wife a bitch? Like he's at a biker bar or something. You don't say that about my old lady. You don't finger my wife's cutoffs. Like that's, it was weird. Yeah. So 1979 they adopt another kid, a three year old, they figure cause it's a, they do a little Natalia

gracing with her. Um, well, a three year old orphaned Korean girl named Anne Lee, who they call Annie. Um, she was four according to her adoption records and they listed her birth as October, 1973, but they said she seemed way too tiny to be four. They suspected that her birthdate was probably wrong, so they decided she was three and gave her a new birthdate of October 1974 instead of 73. So they figured the extra year would give her more time to break the language barrier before she started school.

We'll just pretend she's younger. We'll give her an extra year. We never get an extra year. To learn English. So I mean, and at three, you pick that shit up quick too. She'll be speaking with a valley girl, Lil' Tyn fucking six months, are you kidding me? Yeah, in vocal fray.

I like God, like hey. She did, ah. She did, ah. Yeah. So the kid didn't know how old she was. So she always thought she was a year younger than she actually was. Wow. Because they told her that.

On their car, they have a Chevy Chevette. Yep. We know that's hot shit with an, everyone deserves adoption bumper sticker on there. Bench seat in the back for all the adoptees. All of them. Come on in, kids. Now the boys, education's a big deal for them with these boys.

They're very smart. Bob and Kay, no they're not, but the Bob and Kay are smart and they want the kids to be smart. The boys are very smart, unfortunately they're not. Michael was a smart one actually. Michael was smart, quick learner, did well in school. Larry, not so good in school. Larry's a little studnod we'll say here. Well he's seen his mom get the shit punched out of him.

Yeah, that doesn't make you dumber though. No, but it'll certainly make you... It'll give you emotional problems. Doesn't make your IQ drop. Certainly give you less drive than had you not seen it. Drive, yeah, yeah. But he's, the teachers think he's dumb. Really? They think he doesn't have it. Even the parents, he's just dull. Dull normal, dull. He's just always a little dull. Even if mom hadn't gotten decked, the ability is not there.

It's just, yeah, he's not terrific. So Michael though excelled in school and they thought that he was under challenged. So they had him jump from the second to the fourth grade. A two year jump? Well, they skipped the third grade. They had him skip the third grade. Okay, but jump? Well they skipped the third grade. They had them skip the third grade. Okay, but not like at the beginning of second grade. No, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, he goes from second, and instead of going to third, he goes to fourth. So they said, usually kids don't skip those grades. Yeah, those are, yeah, it's rare. So that's a different one. So they said, one social worker said, frankly, I'm surprised the school allowed, I guess, no, it was in the middle of the school year,

the social worker said. I don't know why I didn't know that from my notes. From the middle of second to the middle of fourth then. Yeah. And they said that was highly unusual. Incredibly. To go to third would have been one thing, but not- Skip all that too? To skip to go to fourth, they said that was real weird. I guess they just said those kids

are about his height. Yeah. Literally, like he looks like those kids. And he said the word decimal. Yeah, we were like, hmm, he might be the one. So it doesn't work out. He's smart, but he's emotionally in second grade. Right.

Fourth grade is a different emotional wavelength by everybody here. He's immature. His grades drop. Disciplinary problems increase because he's frustrated because he can't do anything. He doesn't fucking clue what's happening. He would have impulsive fits of anger.

He'd be disobedient and they said at that point he didn't understand right from wrong he seemed like because he was just out of his element again. So Larry, Larry's different. Michael's smart but he's he has these emotional fits. Larry everything's under the surface. Calm, mild mannered, follows the rules at school, follows at home, no disciplinary problems, kisses Kay's ass, clearly the favorite son. But he's a shit student is the only thing. No matter what he does, he can't do it. He's just not good at it. He's like, I'll kiss

ass instead. They had to get two kids with the qualities that they want one kid to have. They found out he has some learning disabilities and he was placed in special education classes which made him do better. I knew what he was, how to teach him a little bit better. 1980 problems with Michael get real bad here and Larry will confirm this that Michael gets all of the brunt of all of dad's anger. In 1978 and 1979, Bob beat Michael, according to Larry, 20 or 30 times. Wow. That's a lot of ass-kickings.

That's more than a boxer takes. That's too much. But when you open the door to punching, that's not... That's crazy. Close-fisting children is... Yep, I said it. God damn it. Close-fisting.

It's much more cruel. I've said it before, fuck my stupid tongue. Closed fisting children. Certainly teaches them a lesson, James. They know to study harder at that point. Well, you better stop whatever earns that. Horrifying, yeah, don't do that to kids, please. Don't close fist them. They said they were- But to get punched,

it like certainly, it opens Don't close fist them. They said they were- But to get punched, it like certainly, it opens a door and a barrier. It breaks down a wall of like, no matter what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna get punched for it, so whatever. And Michael ended up having a room downstairs in the basement, and that's where these beatings would take place.

They said they would take Annie over to a neighbor's house before he beat him up. Like it was a scheduled thing. So it wasn't like I lost and I hit the kid. Oh God, what happened? This is like, I'm kicking his ass. Take the girl. It's an anti-vacation time.

We gotta go. Larry could hear Michael screaming, he said, from these beatings. At first, Larry ran to his mother and said, isn't that a, Christ, he's killing him down there. And she said, stay out of it and go to your room. So Larry, after a while, during these beatings, he couldn't take it anymore.

He said the distress of Karen and his brother screaming, he would run out of the house and go hide in the swamp in the woods behind until he thought it might have been over, until it was enough time. He said he couldn't watch. One time though, his father threw his mandolin at Michael in the backyard.

He plays the mandolin? Yeah, I don't know if it's that or he was slicing potatoes, I'm not sure. And just missed him. And another time he lost his temper and knocked Michael to the ground on the walkway beside the house outside. So Larry was saying sometimes I couldn't avoid seeing it. And it was just happening. Michael's just the target of all this rage.

When he knocked him down, Bob kicked him over and over again. Oh, come on. Like he owed a gangster money, right? So he said he kept kicking and Michael would roll from one railroad tie for the next crashing down the steps because that's how they're set up these steps and Yeah, he said that for weeks Michael complained his ribs hurt. He was probably broken. He was being kicked and pushed downstairs He said Michael started hating his father and he wasn't shy about expressing it. One day he told his mother after one of the beatings quote, you know, I could kill

dad. Like I could, I'll kill him in his sleep. He's five, seven at best. I'll fucking kill this guy. She said what? And he said, I could kill him if I wanted to. Dad would come home one day and I would be standing behind the door with a knife. He'd open the door and I could kill him because he wouldn't know I was behind the door. He has thought about this a lot. It happens when you beat people. When you beat people intensely over a long period of time, they start fantasizing about how to fucking stop that. So Kay was like, what the fuck? She didn't think he was serious at all, but she was upset and told Bob about

it, which I'm sure earned him a beating. Likely. Yeah. So that's very tough. Now, Michael keeps getting in trouble. He wouldn't follow the rules. One night he asked him if he could go out and see a few of his friends. They said no, so he snuck out of the house.

He got home around 10 o'clock and he was locked out of the house. He knocked, they wouldn't let him in. Yeah, I beat you. Open the house. He knocked, they wouldn't let him in. Yeah, I beat you, open the door. So he kept, he was knocking and knocking and so he started yelling, let me in. Kay opened up the window and said, he can't come home anymore.

You're not allowed to come home anymore. Anymore. And then the next day she reported him as a runaway to a social worker. No. Yeah, because he wasn't there. It was like, well yeah, he was given a choice by the social worker. No. Yeah, because he wasn't there. It was like, well, yeah. He was given a choice by the social worker to move into a foster home or to go to juvenile

court, which would likely mean he'd be going to a juvenile detention home. He said he'd rather move into a foster home. And the Swartz's were like, well, he's no longer our fucking kid. We don't want him anymore. So Michael's had it tough. So he moves in with another foster family about 15 years away. His ninth 15 years or 15 miles away. Yeah. It was his ninth home in 13 years. That's what I was trying to. Yeah. It's a long ride. It's a long time. Um, then a month later after

he's in this home, he and his friends break into a house. Michael, he's like 15. Yeah. And stole a radio and two log splitters, then went into another house and did $2,000 worth of property damage in an unoccupied house. They broke windows, ripped out wiring and bashed the plumbing. They just fucked a vacant house up. They broke into another house the next morning and tried to, tried to steal a bunch of shit and the owner's grandson drove by and noticed a front window pane was broken so he went inside and caught Michael in the act of putting a camera in his pocket. Cops came, arrested him, obviously arrested all of them. They were felony breaking and entering theft, malicious destruction of property, all this type of shit. He's moved into the Palmer family boys' home,

which is a state licensed emergency shelter. It's rough, man. There's nothing going right for him at all. Nothing going right for him at all. Later on, the Schwartz's are described as a well-meaning, but peculiar peculiarly ill-equipped family to deal with these boys problems. Now that's they talk about also that people find out that he's been beaten repeatedly and he said that one

of the social workers said Michael told me he was abused physically and Larry would be there hovering in the corner like trying oh god oh God, Jesus, like all freaked out. That's wild. And Michael used to run away after the beatings and that kind of thing too. So it's really hard for him. Now the courts say that delinquency was one of the only three charges minors could face in the Maryland juvenile court and the other ones were being a child in need of supervision and assistance.

So you can't really charge, yeah, that was at the time how it worked. So after he left the Swartz home, obviously, they declared him a child in need of assistance because Michael's parents are unwilling or unable to give him proper care and attention. To wit, Michael's behavioral problems in school and at home have made it impossible for his parents to deal with his problems. So yeah,

a few weeks after his 14th birthday, that's when they declared him a child of in need of assistance. And he was, you know, he's placed in a state licensed juvenile center. So over there. So that's not great. No. In May of 1980, a few months after he moved into the youth center, he wrote a letter to the Swartz's. What'd he say? This is fucking sad.

Dear Ann Larry K. Bob, hello. I imagine you are all mad at me, but I would still like to keep in touch. I've graduated from high school and I'm going to Frostburg College, because he went and took some thing. I'm going to have a lot because he went and took some thing. I'm going to have a lot of fun there.

How is Anne and you all, how is Anne? He says it twice. How is Anne and you all? How is Anne? I have a broken arm and wrist. I hope you all are having a good time. I am. I am independent living where we live with no supervision.

Michael Swartz, he's still using their name because that's his legal name. He's got a broken arm and hand? Yeah, who knows what he did. He said, PS, write back and send a picture of the family and one of Anne. Both the boys love Anne, by the way. They're both real protective over her

and real, I mean, they've been her, I think, is the thing. Yeah, and she's got it much easier than they did and they wanna make sure that it stays that way. Yeah, Larry is horrified that his parents did this. He's like, I thought we had a family going on. Yeah, I didn't know we could just. I just decide we don't like someone anymore. Punch people and kill them out.

This freaks him out because he's like, oh, fuck. What about me? Exactly. He said it made him feel very insecure. He was scared that one day they'd just throw him out if he did something wrong the same way they did with Michael. And dad doesn't have Michael to punch anymore? No.

What if it's me now? He never beats Larry either. Really? That's the other thing. Larry said never beats him. throw him out if he did something wrong the same way they did with Michael. And dad doesn't have Michael to punch anymore? No. What if it's me now? He never beats Larry either. Really? That's the other thing. Larry said never beats him. I don't know if it's because he's small or because he doesn't fight back. I think there's some psychological inferiority feeling of Bob beneath a taller, bigger kid

that's going to make him feel like he's in charge. Possible or that's a possibility. Or I think Larry is just, if you yell at Larry, he'll go, okay, he won't say, you bitch. Whereas Michael will be like, fuck you, that's not right, and then he'll get beat up. Whereas Larry will go, okay, that's fine, I'll just go to my room now.

That's the way he does it. So he's not really, it's hard to get that angry at Larry to beat him because he won't escalate it with you. So at this point, Larry's relationship with his mother starts deteriorating. She would scream at him twice as much now and he would try to figure out a way to get back into her good graces but she couldn't figure it out. So he seemed, Larry said he at the time he thought the only people in the world who doesn't don't like him are his parents. In school he's very

popular. That's very popular. That's the thing. Yeah. In school. He's popular. He's known to his teachers and he's not smart, but he's known as polite, good looking, easy going, good looking, funny. Yeah. Well, as he's pop, he's also a two sport athlete. He's co-captain of the soccer team. Yeah. You know what I mean? He's doing okay in that regard, but he goes home and they hate him. What the fuck? So they said his friendly nature made it, I guess that's the only way he survived here. So they would talk, he would still talk to Michael on the phone all the time.

They stayed in touch like they were brothers all the time, which is very interesting. Tensions start to increase though. Larry has more arguments with his parents, become a very regular occurrence. They fought over his sports and Because they thought that being co-captain of the junior varsity soccer team took away from his studies You know Student-athlete. Yeah, and is the first word so you shouldn't play sports, but also that's it's also good for you

It's also his identity and it's what's keeping him afloat because he's not good at school and this is where he's accepted. Well if he's decent at soccer too maybe that and a C average will get him into a half-ass junior college or something rather than just nothing. But an academic C average he's middle of the road he's co-captain meaning he's one of the two favorites on the team. They like him at least. Yeah they at least like him at least. One of the two favorites on the team. Yeah, they at least like him. And respect him. I think it's good for your kid's confidence to be good at something like that. Absolutely. So he often would get grounded to where he was only permitted to go to school, church, and attend his wrestling matches and soccer events.

Jesus. Socializing with his friends was kinda out. When he managed to be able to go on a date, they always hated the girls that he asked out. Of course. They wouldn't like him. So his school work got worse and worse. They said he wanted to be his parents' favorite, but it didn't quite work.

At one point, he told them he wanted to be a priest. I'll be a priest. Because he thought that's what they wanted. So they were thrilled, and they sent him to a seminary to begin his first year of high school. And that didn't work because his grades sucked sucked and they recommended that he not return after failing to maintain a necessary grade point average and they were very upset with him. So he went from having five D's and a couple of C's and then you know it gets worse and

worse, just D's basically. My parents would have been like, you passed, good job, thank you. That report card right there is a Wissman report card. Yeah, mine too. Just enough to get by. Yeah. That's it. And he said once Michael left, he said this was like, Michael's like a sponge for their

lightning rod. And now that he's gone, now they're concentrating on Larry. And he's like, fuck, Ann's too young, she can't do anything. So they said when they left, when he left, Michael, they started yelling at me for low grades. I never understood why there was such a change. It was the same grades I was getting. Lightning rod for criticism now.

Yeah, but going into high school, they get lower and lower and lower. His father wanted him to go to the Naval Academy. Bob wanted him to go there, but his grades, you have to have good grades to get in there. Bob said, don't you understand how important this is you'll never get anywhere if you don't do better you know we know you can do better if you don't pull yourself together you're gonna turn out just like your brother they tell him oh no kicked

out of the house is what he thought of yeah got that somewhere else somewhere else now later on to they'll retest him his IQ is 87 so it is well he's just not that smart of a guy that's it he's just not that smart of a guy. That's it. He's just not that bright. That's fine. But I mean, he's not gonna go to the Naval Academy. No matter how hard he tries, he's not gonna learn trigonometry.

This is not gonna happen. This is not, not well anyway. So by 1983, K is teaching English at Broadneck High School while he is an engineer for General Electric Company in Lando. Wow. Doing very well for themselves. She had taught a semester somewhere else while he is an engineer for General Electric Company in Landover. Wow. Doing very well for themselves.

She had taught a semester somewhere else and then at two different schools and now she's at Broadneck. So is Larry, he goes to Broadneck High. So they change their will at this point and in the wills they leave their worldly belongings to the other spouse if one died. In the event that the other spouse also dies,

the will names Larry and Annie as the co-heirs. This is a key change because they took out Michael. They even put in a clause, I direct that no portion of my estate should go to Michael Swartz, a child whom I adopted but who has since returned to foster care and the guardians named below for Lawrence and Anne are not responsible for Michael's care or support. They don't want anything to do with him. Fuck him Yeah, yeah, that's that's rough November 1983 Michael's having a tough time doing his thing, but Larry's trying to get his footing under him

Larry and comes up to Annie little Annie comes up to her mom with pink pills and said I found these in Larry's jacket What? Okay said well, I knew it wasn't, you know, Advil. So no, it's an oblong tablet covered with brown and red spots. What is that? On one side it was stamped PKS, and on the other side was 20 slash 20.

So she, Larry came home, she said, what are these? And he said, ah, they're not mine, they're a friend of mine's. She said, well, why are they in your coat? Why are they in your coat? He said, I was carrying? And he said, ah, they're not mine. They're a friend of mine's. She said, well, why are they in your coat? Why are they in your coat? He said, I was carrying for them for my friend. He asked me to give them to someone at school. So she said, you're not that stupid, Larry. Well, it turns out he is, but you're not that stupid. What are they? And finally he said, okay, fine. They're speed. I don't use speed, but he said I was,

my friend was giving them to another guy and I was gonna be in his class so he said will you give these to them and turns out he actually did take some speed but he didn't feel anything from it because he's hyperactive so it actually calmed him down. It works the opposite. It chilled him out yeah it was like Ritalin so he's like he couldn't figure out why he wasn't like buzzing like everybody else. Didn't do anything for me. Well that's there's an explanation. So they yelled at him, told him never to bring drugs home again and all that kind of thing. They ended up taking it in and asking a pharmacist,

can you tell them what it is? So they tested it and turns out that it was nothing. It was some shit that somebody made to look like something to sell the kids, yeah, to steal their money. Burn bags basically. So that's pretty fucking funny. There's another time when there he's hanging out with his friends and they go to Denny's and Kay is convinced they were drinking. At Denny's? They went out

they weren't just at Denny's they went out drinking and they use that as an excuse. So the one kid the friend told his mother we weren't drinking mom neither of us were she believed her son But Kay said no they were drinking Larry's lying and she yelled This is in front of the two moms and the two boys are there Oh, this is happening and she's telling Larry in front of these people that he's ruined her life She said you're never gonna amount to anything You won't be able to go to college because no college will ever accept you.

You just wait and see John, his friend who she was hanging out with, he'll go off to college and leave you in his dust. You finally pulled John down to your level. And the other mother was like, dude, don't you remember college? There are plenty of drinking going on. Yeah, this is fucking crazy. So then she brought him home and Bob freaked out. Bob said you should have been thrown in jail and vomited on and urinated on and given hard

labor. Then you would learn what life's about like I did. What you need is labor, physical labor, backbreaking labor. Then you wouldn't be going out at night like this because you wouldn't have the energy. Right. You'd be tired. Right. You'd vomit on your face and piss on your chest. Oh my God.

So the mother's still standing there. The other kid's mother and the kid, and she's like, what the fuck? They just wished vomit and piss on him. The mother went down to talk to Kay and said, I'd be glad to help you take care of Larry. I'll do anything you need to help. And Kay said, I just don't know what we can do about him. He's beyond help. He went to Denny's.

The kid went to Denny's and he gets seized. Beyond help. Urinate on him. Poor kid had bad curly fries. Hard labor. You want him pissed on. Holy shit. They said, Kay, if things are that bad,

why don't you have him do his next semester over on the Eastern shore and he can live with us yeah I'll take off some of the pressure very nice and she said no no we'll piss on no we'll keep him here so shortly before Christmas Michael is confined at the Crownsville it's a mental a stat of like a criminal mental place for evaluation after he drew a knife and threatened a counselor at the Fellowship of Lights, an emergency shelter for homeless and runaway kids in Baltimore.

At the shelter he drew a knife. He pulled a knife on a shelter worker, a counselor, and threatened him. That's where he's at at this point. He's in a fucking homeless shelter in Baltimore. He's got a blade and he's not afraid to pull it out. Screaming, what have you done to me? He's surviving. I mean, a blade and he's not afraid to pull it out. Screaming, what have you done to me? He's surviving.

I mean, that's what he's doing. Larry, though, everybody in the outside says it looks like he's the model son, popular, nice star athlete doing all this shit, but they're not happy with him at all, obviously here. They would criticize him in front of friends and all that kind of thing. Everybody said, no matter what, one person said, universally, people said Larry would say nothing except, are you finished, may I go to my room? He'd take all the shit, wouldn't say anything,

and go, is that it? Okay, I'm gonna go in my room now. You done yelling at me? He wouldn't talk back though. Another time he's hanging out with a friend here, and she, okay, wow. There was a school, I guess there was supposed to be a big snowstorm that night.

And school's not gonna happen. It's one of those, we're getting two feet of snow. We know that tomorrow is a snow day. So Larry called home to spend, asked permission to spend the night at a friend of his with a group of friends who were hanging out at a friend's house. And the parents knew and it was,

they were letting the kids stay over. They planned to watch Superman 2 on VHS that they rented that night. Is that the one with the ice caves? I think so. Yes, the Fortress of Solitude. Yeah, yeah, that's that one. That's not the Richard Pryor one. It's a bad one. It's the middle one. Yeah, it's cheese. It's all cheese.

I mean, it's that era of... I watched it a hundred times when I was a kid, but it was always... Yeah, it was always crappy. Like Russian or weird guys? Because there was three getting mixed up in there too. I'm not sure. So all the kids called, their parents got permission. Larry calls last and Kay was not having it.

The mother could hear Kay shouting over the phone and Larry saying, I'm not lying. She asked me to stay. The mother said I could say, I'm not lying. So Kay demanded to speak with the mother. So his mother, Susan, gets on the phone and Kay says, what's going on? What are the boys doing tonight? And she said, well they're gonna go out sledding for a while and then come in and watch a movie. Which seems fine. She said, Kay said, Larry's not to be trusted. I don't want

him spending the night there. What is going on? She said, they'll be supervised. Don't worry, all the other boys have permission. It's totally fine. She said, you know, we were going out sledding. We came in, we rented Superman too. Yeah. And Kay said Superman too. Absolutely not. Now I didn't know that you were watching that movie. You're watching sacrilegious stuff too. And she said it was about the, cause he sacrificed his superhuman powers for the earthly pleasures of Lois Lane's love For all that Lois Lane pussy. Yeah, she said I would assume that you would think that was as inappropriate for kids as I would It's Superman. Who is it for? Comic book movie lady Jesus. She said that movie shows Lois Lane in bed with Superman. Oh,

come on. Look at her though. They don't have sex in the movie, but she said this quote, everyone knows they just had sex in the movie. Doesn't say one word about preventing pregnancy. The last thing this world needs is another abortion or unwanted baby. Don't worry. The movie right through her. Wow. The movie doesn't, but yeah, right out of her back. There's no way she's gonna accept that. Like a 44 slug. It'll blow her back.

Yeah. For real. Forget about it. The movie doesn't bother showing that when a baby's born, it may be adopted one day, and some fool will have to take care of it. That's what she told. Everything she could,

Superman 2 can be taken back to this. It's crazy. It's Adrienne, for Christ's sake. The least fuckable woman on the planet. Don't worry about it. Yeah, she says, the mother said, but it's rated PG and the kids are 16 and 17 years old. They're not four.

Right. And that PG is today's like fucking further than G. It's fine. Cartoon movies are sexual innuendo. They used to allow a lot They used to allow a lot back then they still do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, really? Yeah and goonies All the kids were smoking and cursing. I mean it was fine. I was PG So she just said that she the mother's this friend's mother said she felt embarrassed for Larry because all the other kids were looking

Around like dude your mom's crazy. She said there's no nudity anywhere in it There's not even a mention of sex. Like it's fine and she said nope. Meanwhile Michael's in and out of hospitals. He got a job at a Popeye's chicken in Annapolis but overslept one morning and they fired him. Yeah. The chicken's gotta be made. It's gotta be made. Those sandwiches aren't ready. People will riot. That's the problem. We've learned that. We've learned it. People will kill each other over a sandwich. The shit flies off the shelves. Yeah. that's the problem. We've learned that. We've learned it. People will kill each other over a sandwich. It flies off the shelf. It's fucking delicious.

I'll kill you for chicken, it's delicious. So less than two weeks later, he was sent to the Crownsville Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. He's found to have no mental illness, but he also has no home, so they just keep him there for a while. Larry also got a job at a fast food restaurant

before Christmas. He was hired at the Chesapeake sub shop make sandwiches He's only there a few weeks. The assistant manager said he just didn't work out food is not his line of work Well too dumb to make sandwiches. Oh my god. Yeah when the food service industry is not your line of work That's he just shrugs it off Yeah, his friends one of his head one of his friends said he was never one with big problems if there Was anything on his mind he would have talked to me about it because we shared problems even family problems I think he's kind of quiet in his own way, but with people he knows he's very caring

He's always there to listen. I've talked to him many times. Yeah, so if you're nice to him, I'll be nice to you January 16th 1984 yeah normal, things seem average here. Kay and Larry have a little disagreement about a girl that Larry had taken out on a date. She did not approve of her and did not want Larry to go out with her again. Hussy, apparently. So this argument ended and then Bob yelled at Larry

for messing with his computer and destroying some work he had completed. Just deleted something. Bob was really pissed off and this got really bad. Yelling, screaming, all sorts of shit like that. When this got over, when he said, are you finished, can I go to my room? Larry went up to his room and drank some rum

that he had hidden up there. Where'd you get that, Larry? To take the edge off. They got this kid drinking like a stockbroker after work where he's like, Jesus, tough day, margin calls, chuff up, one more left, put it up, let's go. Slamming drinks down. Throwing papers in my face saying, sell, sell, sell,

give me the bourbon. Holy shit. So then 7 a.m. the next morning, Larry calls 911. Oh. And he says, my parents are dead. You might want to send someone over here. And they said, and what do you think is wrong with them? Do you think I need to send an ambulance?

What do you think's wrong with them? And he said, I have no idea. I just saw him lying down there. My mom is outside. And they said, on the ground outside? And he said, yes. They said, okay, I'll send an ambulance here. They said that the woman at the 911 call

said that the caller had extraordinary composure, and he sounded grown up, not childlike. He was just like very businesslike. His tone was matter of fact. They said it was like he was talking about what he had for breakfast, just normal. She said, do you wanna stay on the line with me for a few minutes?

And he said, all right. Sure, what's going on here? So yeah, they arrive. And when they arrive, they find Larry holding, Annie and Larry are by the front door, Annie's holding hands with Larry. Said Larry's very composed, he calmly leads them into the house.

They said, where are your parents? He said, downstairs. And you know, she's right there, down the little girls right there, and hanging out with him. She's eight at this point, nine, we don't know, eight or nine. She could be 35. Nine, I think. They said she seemed right, by there's a newspaper article that said, quote, her narrow eyes looked frightened. They can't say that. right by there's a newspaper article that said quote her narrow eyes looked frightened. They can't say that. Why include that? Did we tell you she's Korean?

Why not just say her she was frightened? She appeared frightened obviously as a small child. Her narrow eyes looked frightened. Even through her chingy chong ching chong eyes, I could see, even inside her soulless Asian eyes, I could see something. That squinty shit exuded sadness. I could see it. Through her godless communist slanty eyes, I could see it all. It's like so fucking crazy. Ha ha.

This is funny. Reflection of a mushroom cloud in her eye. I can see it. Like Nagasaki coming to pay its respects. Then the next sentence is even fucking better. She wore her hair, her dark hair, pulled back and had a cute face like an oriental Barbie doll. Oriental?

We get it. She's fucking Korean. It's just funny. They don't mean anything bad by it. She's fucking Korean. It's just funny They don't mean anything bad by is hilarious Fucking 1985 this is taking place It's fucking to let her narrow eyes looks right and Jimmy's eyes are narrow right now too. They're closed with tears coming

out. Her narrowed slanty godless communist eyes, I could see it. That's awesome. Jesus, that's so funny. So they asked Larry, what happened? He said, I don't know. I just came in and found them downstairs. So he beats the shit out of me. He told, I guess, he told a neighbor that he spotted his mother's body in the yard when he looked out of his second floor bedroom as he was getting ready for school.

He saw his mom out in the yard. In the yard. In the yard, and she was in another, Annie was in another second floor bedroom, and he went and got her. So the emergency team goes down. They find first actually Bob is dead he is lying inside a small basement office covered in blood several gash marks on his chest and arms covered in blood and he's fully clothed but his legs are like wide open in a

weird way so they walk through the dining room in the kitchen and they find a stairwell descending into a landing that opened into the large basement recreation room They found a ping-pong table a bar upright piano Quarter-eye sofa your typical basement Black vinyl armchairs, but no people then they head toward the sliding glass door open the door and That's when they said they saw feet. They said they were spread unnaturally far apart, and this is where Bob is in this small room,

and they said they had to enter the tiny room, it's an office off the stairway landing, and turn right. A stocky man lay sprawled on his back between an ironing board and an overturned typing stand. One arm was twisted back underneath his hip, he looked as if someone had dumped a bucket of blood on him. Just blood fucking puddle. With an arm behind his back. Like here, if someone had dumped a bucket of blood on him. Wow. Blood fucking puddle.

With an arm behind his back. Like here, like that. He fell on it. They said that there were big red blotches all over his shirt. He had a big wide stupid 80s tie. They said his tie was laid, it was loosened and was askew kind of in his armpit. Blood streaked his bald head and face, and he just looked terrible. They said everything was in disarray around the body. There was a lamp that was sideways on the carpet. Books and papers were scattered everywhere.

He had a brown buckle loafer on his right shoe, but his left foot was missing its shoe. Yeah, they said it was very strange. The shoe was balanced oddly on its toe, leaning up against a shelf across the room like he got tossed over there. They said they checked his pulse and they noticed that he had holes all over him.

They figured it was gunshot wounds. This guy's been shot a bunch of times. They saw a pair of blood-smeared glasses and a gold and pearl tie pin there. No pulse, and then they hear hear I found one out here. Okay, they go to Kay. She's in the backyard. She is nude except for one sock.

One sock and they said it appeared she looked like she was partially scalped. The way her hair or the way the skin was taken off her head and her neck had several deep lacerations. Now completely against police protocol one of the paramedics felt bad because she was not only killed and naked but she was also legs were spread very wide as well so he covered her up with a blanket which is not crime scene etiquette at all here. We need fucking preserve everythingerve everything. You need trace evidence, physical stuff, and he just put hairs, fucking fibers. All kinds of fibers all over.

Here, let me fuck all that up for you there. That's all of the useless. Here is a tarp of different shit, and just lay it on her. Just lay it on her. Contaminate the fucking out of the bar. Whatever's been in my trunk, my stuff, all my shit on there, who knows?

So they said they described her as stripped and stretched into an unnaturally spread eagle position in the snow behind the family home. Oh my. It was out in the snow, which is wild. And the father was in a similar position in the basement. So yeah, they're looking, they see basically outside in the snow,

it looks like red slush outside the door, blood and snow, and that's when they see basically outside in the snow, it looks like red slush outside the door. Blood and snow, and that's when they see her naked. Her body they said described it as her skin appeared as sickly gray against the snow. One green knee sock pushed down around her ankle. They said her arms were pulled up to her ears and her legs were pushed far apart like her husband's and they suspected that she'd been raped as well here at this time based on what they saw. There was a white eye patch hung over her left eye. They said across her neck were

a series of bloody gashes and on the ground of her head was a gaping moon matted with hair and blood. Big fucking thing. They said they've seen a lot before. These are firemen that respond to this kind of thing. But this shit was wild, they said. Yeah, this is disturbing. They said it looks like somebody put a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger and blew the top of her head off. That's what they were considering. They figure happened.

So they surveyed the backyard, a tan moccasin upside down in a dog food bowl, a green tart pulled over a small oval swimming pool, blue flannel pajama suit, red stained and rumpled in the snow, probably what she was wearing. The house, they said it sat halfway down an incline with a carport in the main living quarters upstairs facing the street and a large recreation room downstairs opening into a fenced rear yard.

They said, and then there was woods behind that where the swamp is, where Larry would hide. So they said they went back in and they're looking at Bob, and at one point somebody said, you know, someone could still be in the house. Great point. We should probably check the rest of the fucking house. There's children here, so that's good. So they, but they're firemen.

They're like, fucking, see if the police radio in. Where the hell are the cops? They're not there yet. Wow. No cops here yet. These are just the firemen in, where the hell are the cops? They're not there yet. Wow. No cops here yet. These are just the firemen paramedics. They said, my parents are dead. They sent the paramedics.

All right, we'll send the paramedics. Yeah, cops will be there eventually. They'll make the call if we need cops. Yeah, so Larry's sitting up there with Annie, sitting on his lap, and they said, where were you last night if you weren't here? Because he said, I just came in. And he said, I was here, Larry said.

So they said, I thought you said you came in and found your parents. He said, I woke up and I couldn't find them. Then I went in downstairs. I came in the basement and they said that. And he said, so you mean you were here all night and you didn't hear the shooting? And he said, no.

That's it. Yeah, they asked him that. They're like, okay. So Larry spoke with this officer. He's telling them, I woke up at 7, 15 minutes after my sister. And she told him that I can't find mom and dad. So he said, I went looking for him. And I looked out the window.

I saw it through the back window. And that's when I called the cops. So yeah, they said it seemed like he was in a daze. They led him outside to the carport, figuring a little privacy might help. And at one point he said in a low voice, they're dead, aren't they? And they said he had no emotion behind it, just they're dead, aren't they? And he said, yes, they are. And they were like, oh, they were checking him. They thought he was in shock because of the way he was acting like he must be in shock. They

were checking him out medically to make sure he was not in shock they said well why don't you cry some it may make you feel better you know things like this are hard for anyone to take and he said he just kind of leaned against this tree there and he said it all seems like a dream like it never happened just real weird real fucking weird so they were like waiting for him to fly because people do that and they break down but this never happened. No emotion at all. I mean, yeah, but a kid like this, he might be like a Dexter by now. We're like, I don't really have the emotion to give it this piece. He's got a lot of crying. All right. He's all cried out. He may have cried his last year. So it's a lot. The I guess there was a county dog catcher was trying

to catch two dogs in the snow to the smaller one went to Larry Larry picked him up and carried him to the dog catcher's truck it's their dog the larger one ran after somebody else and Larry said hear her come here it's his dog with the dog growled and then kind of wouldn't come near calm down then Larry came he put a leash on him the police officer had pulled his gun on the dog earlier. Jesus, they didn't shoot it? Now they were asking Larry, what should we do with the dogs? Like, who do we take them to?

And he shrugged and said, put them to sleep, I guess. What? Which is a crazy thing for a 17-year-old to say. Larry! How do you get... Larry! The guy, the cops, they just stared at him and was like, what the fuck is wrong with this kid? That's not right. What are you talking about? Yeah, so he was like, what the fuck is wrong with this kid? That's not right. Yeah, so he was like, we won't do that. We'll put the dogs aside and give them to somebody.

And then he told Larry to go sit in his cruiser. And then the guy, one cop went over to a detective and said, you've got a bad one here. There's a nude woman out back and a dead man in the basement. Before you go down, take a look at that boy. He's the one who reported it. I'm no homicide detective, but there's something wrong with that kid He's too calm. Yeah, and he's telling us to murk the dogs. He's just said fuck him. I don't care They also noticed a spot on his hand like a little wound and they said what's that spot on your hand?

And he said what oh nothing just something I got in the kitchen the other day And they said how long have you lived here? Since I was six. He describes all that shit. They said, your sister's adopted too? No. No, she's not. They were actually Korean, you just couldn't tell.

You fucking idiot. Yeah, she's adopted. It's amazing when you are part everything. Sometimes kids just pop out randomly. It's so weird. Sometimes they're Korean. It's real, like super Korean. Yeah.

They've been rolling the dice trying to get a black boy in the South. Like an Oriental Barbie doll. You never know. Jesus Christ. You can't tell from her thin eyes that we ain't kin. No shit. So they also said, you got another brother too we heard,

Michael, what's up with him? And he said, well, Michael's been placed in the state mental hospital. And they said, what kind of trouble did he get into? And Larry said, I got another brother too we heard, Michael, what's up with him? And he said, well, Michael's been placed in a state mental hospital. They said, what kind of trouble did he get into? And Larry said, I don't know. He broke into homes. He's pretty heavy into drugs. Lately, he's been worse doing PCP and stuff like that. I heard his friends smuggle it into him in Crownsville. And they said, who are his friends? And he said, I don't know. They said, you don't know the names of the guys smuggling stuff to him? And he said, no, he just told me my friends bring it to me. I don't fucking know. So they said, I don't know. They said, you don't know the names of the guys smuggling stuff to him? And he said, no. He just told me my friends bring it to me.

I don't fucking know. So they said, why don't you tell us everything that happened? And he said, well, and he said, you know, it's exams. He said he went over to his friend's house, played chess for a while, went sledding. Shortly after five, he came home, studied in his bedroom, eight at seven. They said, any arguments last night? He said, dad got mad because I messed up one of his computer disks.

I'd been fooling around with a friend and we must've messed it up. Wasn't a big deal. He said, Michael's been calling a lot lately though. He said that Michael hates mom and dad and mom told me she was afraid Michael would come one day and kill her and dad. He's like, I don't know if maybe that's something

you should look into. He said his parents had no idea that he talks to his brother on the phone and would not have approved of it. And his brother had made threats against his parents on the phone to me. Wow. He said, he said, quote, Michael is emotionally disturbed. And he said when his sister woke him up last night, because she heard screaming, he said

his sister woke him up at 11 to 1130 and said, I hear screaming. And I told her, you're dreaming, go back to sleep 30 and said I hear screaming and I told her you're dreaming go back To sleep and then she came in and slept in my room Oh, and he said she does that a lot if she gets scared she'll come in and sleep in my room So whatever so they said you slept in the same room. They said yes. I said, okay what happened this morning? So they woke up and he told me she couldn't find him because they're going over it with him a couple of times She said he said I grabbed Annie and covered her eyes which didn't take very much at all according to the story.

I brushed my teeth put the dental floss. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the andrew dice clay joke and there you go. So he said I told saw my mom through the window. Well, I'm surprised they didn't put that in there at the time. It's fucking hilarious. They said, did you go downstairs at all? And he said, no.

You didn't go into the backyard to check on your mom? He said, no. Annie and I stayed upstairs and got dressed while we were waiting for you guys. So they arrived to test his hands for gunshot residue, which he has none. They use, so they do that. He said last night, other than Annie said what she heard, did you hear any noises? He said only our dog's barking out back, but they do that a lot.

He said, you know, I don't know. He said the dogs had been in the backyard when he went to bed running around. He said, but the small dog didn't bite, but the big dog occasionally bit strangers. He said Michael could get around him though because he knows Michael. So they said, has anybody in your family been arguing? He said, no, everyone's been getting along with, there's been some big arguments, dad

gets irritable. And he said, me and dad don't get along very well. He's always yelling at me. And the cop said, okay. And said, thanks for helping me to talk to your sister. So they talked to the sister and she said she heard her dad making strange noises crying help help at 1130 last night. Mandarin or Cantonese?

That's what I mean, yeah, you never know. What language is that? Are we talking Korean here? They said, are you sure it was 1130? She said, I looked at my watch. She said it was 1134 when I woke up. So she knows exactly what time it was. Yeah, she's very efficient and...

Yeah. You really never wanna be on Saturday Night Live, do you? I'm making fun of them. Yeah, I know. Everybody takes it the other way, kiss my dick. I don't fucking care. Sorry. Don't tell me you can fucking laugh first, shut up.

His fucking great. Sorry. Don't tell me you fucking laugh for shut up Yeah, surprise they don't add that with numbers as an efficient girl very good with math like, you know ridiculous So they said what a clever girl. What'd you do then? I built an abacus. That's what I did. I built a Samsung. So they don't catch on fire. This is fucking amazing. So she said, I ran outside to the carport. There was a guy in the backyard walking away. He had a shovel over his shoulder and it was dripping blood. And she is so young to have seen that. Holy shit. She's eight or nine, we don't know.

And she would like bury her head and Larry's shoulder while she said stuff, cause it was a lot. And they said, what did this guy look like? And she said he had black hair, curly on top, it came down to his shoulders, and he was humming like he was glad or happy. Like, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm. Like fucking,

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hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, his face but she noticed he wore blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt with a with broadneck printed on the back like the high school so they said was it like the gray sweatshirt that Michael has and she said I don't know and he said well how tall was the guy that's a good thing because his Larry's only like five nine so you can tell whether it's one. And she was, Annie looked at Barr, confusion pinching her round face. Every time. Barr, who is six feet, rises up and walks over to the ping pong table and says, as tall

as I am. And Annie said, taller. And Larry's only five, nine. So and then Larry looks at the cop and says, Michael's real tall. Like, and he's got the same hair as me too. He said he's six, four, six, six, something like that. nine yeah so and then Larry looks at the cop and says Michael's real tall like and he's got the same hair as me too he said he's six four six six something like that and they said was he as tall as Michael and Annie said uh-huh he looked like my brother Michael that's not good they said you mean Michael and

she said yes anyway and Larry all then Larry says Michael does lots of drugs they said you told us your brother's at the Crownsville Hospital. If he's in there, he can't get out, can he? I mean, he's locked up. And Larry said, oh, he can get out. Yeah. He said he recently left the hospital and came by the neighborhood for a visit. He was around and he said that detectives said that, you know, he's been able to get

drugs in and out of the hospital. They don't really keep him in there. So they trace a trail of bloody footprints. Apparently Kay had run nearly a mile through the streets, yards and woods this night to run away from the nude with one sock on ran through the whole neighborhood screaming bloody murder while being back and ended up circling back to her own yard. Oh my God. And well, I guess at some point she was caught up to and she was dragged back to her own yard. Oh my God. And well, I guess at some point she was caught up to and she was dragged back to her house,

but she was on her way back there anyway. So they have footprints that they're trying to figure out. They track the footprints, readily identifiable because one foot was bare and she went past more than two dozen houses in a circular path. 30 houses almost. Back to some woods behind her house.

So that's what she did. And they believe she was attacked in the woods and then walked back, were dragged back to her fenced yard and was killed beside the swimming pool. So they think that she was injured before she fled because there's blood along the streets, a blood trail in the snow and on the streets. And they believe she was naked as she fled because her pajamas were found near the house along with one sock left behind. So the cops go door to door for clues. H James Ferguson says, that's a bizarre tragedy to have next door. There's always the thought in your mind that there's somebody out there and they might

come back. On the other hand, there's the thought that this might be the safest place in the world with all this going on. Who'd come here and do something like that? On the other hand, you just slept through something horrific right next door. Ran through your front yard, for sure. He said he heard voices outside when he got home shortly after 10 p.m. and his own dog barked briefly about an hour later, which is when she would have been running by.

She said that another woman, their other neighbor said she heard one of the Schwartz's dogs bark at about 11 p.m. And she said, I'm afraid it's gonna be a sleepless night for me tonight. And one of the neighbors said she took Annie into her house while the crowd gathered and the crime scene was done after they talked to her. And the neighbor said, I don't think this has touched Annie

yet, she seems to think her parents are okay. She doesn't get it, like what's going on here, which is possible, yeah. Another, the Reverend Milton, Reverend Kevin Milton from the church said, it's a complete mystery and a tragedy. Bob was certainly one of the top leaders in our parish. They said it's, another neighbor said,

it's really the most shocking occurrence. It's a nice middle-class community. Nothing like this happens here. It didn't occur to me to be frightened until everyone asked, are you scared? And even think about it before that. So all the neighbors said, one neighbor said, all of us who live on these two streets ask ourselves, were we up that night? We ask ourselves, why didn't we look out the window?

Had we looked out the window, none of us are the type who would have walked away from the window. We would have helped. You would have had to, you have to stop going over in your mind the what ifs. Yeah, but, hmm, yeah. And if you got a dog that barks at strange shit, maybe check out why you, you know what I mean, why have the dog, if, isn't usually the dog, they're like a part of a security security force. Yeah. You would imagine that they would at least keep people away. Yeah, you go, hey, what's going on? No, people just go, shut the fuck up. They're just screaming at his face, shut your fucking mouth.

Fucking dog. Why'd you get it? Someone comes in and stabs the shit out of him. Perfect. And a lot of times these murderers avoid places with dogs. Right. I remember Richard Ramirez was like, a dog, I'm out. I leave.

I don't need to fucking that kind of trouble. That's a man that loves murder. He smells like a goat and loves murder. And he's like, I'm not fucking with dogs, they bite you. Goat smelling murder lovers. They bite and they alert others. I want quiet and murder. Yeah.

So January 21st, 1984, Anne and Larry are sent to live with neighbors here. Just a couple of neighbors across the street and Larry are sent to live with neighbors here. Just a couple of neighbors across the street, they're sent to live with them, and to, you know, because they can't stay in a crime scene, basically. They said these were the Swartz's closest personal friends they go to live with.

Now, Michael's the main subject, the suspect here. They asked, did you remember seeing Michael here? They go to the hospital and ask the people in charge there, do you remember seeing Michael here last Monday night? And they said, yeah. One guy said he worked the shift ending at 11 o'clock that night. And I remember I said good night to him when I left around 1115. Okay. That's no way he could have been there. The exact time this is going on. So they're like, huh. And he said, if that was correct, then the Annie statement about the neighbors and everybody everything happened at about

1130 it's looking like Doesn't seem like he could have got over there And then the supervisor volunteered that another nurse had seen Michael on the ward to that nurse was off duty at the moment I had mentioned to the supervisor after the murders made the news that she's Michael was there So the cops asked the supervisor to lock them in Michael's ward and leave them alone They wanted to see if it was secure. Yeah, they said it was an open large room with long rows of beds And so seemed like a Marine Corps barracks the one guy said like word he was in the Marines They checked the windows each had a locked heavy metal screen

They saw that it was that the bed was visible from the nurses station at the end of the hallway, also Michael's bed. Unless he escaped through a window, he would have had to sneak past the attendant who was right outside the room and past several more locked doors down the corridor. They said, no fucking way Michael did this. He was here, period, done.

Yeah, you're locked away, you're not doing it. So they said they have no suspects. None. Yup, they said as far as the children go they have just about totally ruled them out. The one cop said It's not the fucking nine-year-old Korean girl, right? Probably was a tape to ask Chun Li if she did it would you? So they said do any arrests coming and they said we don't know everything will work will work itself out. The police are double and triple checking everything. Turns out they'd had way more than they said and they were just sandbagging. Really? Yeah.

They talked to Annie again and they talked to her and she talked about the broad neck sweatshirt and all kinds of things like that. And they asked her a bunch of times and they said, tell me again. And she said, my brother told me to come back in. So I came back in and called Sandy. That's one of the small dog. She said, did you tell your brother anything then? She said, yeah, I told my brother that daddy was lying outside in the snow and he told

me that I was dreaming. So now it's that. They said, well, describe the man you saw. She repeated her earlier description, long sleeve sweatshirt with broad neck printed on the front and back, and it resembled one of the ones that her brother Larry has, like his wrestling shirts. They said the man, they said,

when she said the man was carrying a shovel, they said, what did it look like? And she said, like our shovel. And they said, do you know how to draw? Are you an artist? And she said, I guess, yeah, I mean, you know, more of a math girl, but Sure I draw. More engineering. Yeah, yeah. She said, they said, could you draw me a picture of the shovel you saw? And

So they grabbed the notebook and she sketches it out They said most of them they look like shovels and not wood splitting mauls because they find a wood splitting maul in the woods in the swampy area with blood and Kay's hair on it. Oh no. So they're asking that and they're like, well, what do you use it for? And she said, we used it to put our gate up around our pool and we use it for digging stuff out.

They said, you ever use it on wood? And she said, no. They said, you didn't say anything to your brother outside seeing somebody outside or did you? And she said, I totally forgot to say that no. So they said you forgot that okay so what did you do then you went back to sleep and she said I don't remember that. They said well anywhere you went okay what did you do next she said I think I went back there to bed and she said it was like an hour and a half later my brother threw up I woke

up and heard him throwing up Larry. They said where were you when he threw up? And she said on his beanbag chair, because that's where she would go sleep. And she said, okay, was he in bed or in the bathroom when he was throwing up? And she said, he was in his bedroom. And she said that he woke up and he told her

she was just dreaming, go back to sleep. You're just dreaming, I'm not puking. He said, did she tell you to do anything? And she said, he just told me dreaming go back to sleep. You're just dreaming. I'm not puking. He said, did you tell me? Did she, did he tell you to do anything? And she said, he just told me to go back to sleep. They said, when did you ask for your pillow? She said, I don't know when they said, did he ask you for your pillow? And she said, uh-huh. And he said, they said, why? She said, I don't remember. And, um, they said, did you get it for him? No, I had it with me and all this type of shit. The pillow, by the way, they find out she's been stabbed almost 20 times and bashed over the head repeatedly

with a large heavy mall. And the father has just shit loads of stab wounds all over him, covered in stab wounds. So that's what's happened. He wasn't beaten, just stabbed to fuck. The target of the rage is her. And she's been, she's naked and obviously displayed in a very specific way. So they go over and she, they keep asking her questions and she said that Larry did not go downstairs. They said, did you stay with you? Uh huh. We stick together.

She said, and she said, I want to go home. And they had to end the interview because she was, didn't want to talk anymore. She was like, I'm tired of talking about this traumatic thing. Yeah, so Police found a gray sweatshirt broadneck on the back in a washing machine at the house. Oh Wet still in the washing machine. It had been washed but not dried. They didn't like that They issue a warrant Also on the basis of a fingerprint comparison that linked Larry with the bloody handprint found at the murder scene on the sliding glass door. It

was a bloody palm print right on there. They took his fingerprints and took it to the FBI lab and compared his prints with the bloody handprint and it's a match. So that's not good. His hand in blood. In blood on the door. That's what they were saying. Did you go down and talk to them or do anything? Did you go down and talk to them or do anything? Do you go down and try to shake him? Hey dad wake up and then come in and open the door said no He said no they go Okay Well in your handprint shouldn't fucking be there if he said I went down and checked on him and I came in the house

They fuck well now what but no So they said okay now at this point Larry is with the friend of the families who's a lawyer and is acting as his lawyer as well and his caretaker at this point yeah, this bar a doll guy or bar a dell and They they talked to him to talk they want to talk to Larry and this guy's his guardian so they have to talk to him First so they also find a pair of wet bloody Dock cider shoes belonging to Larry in the house as well. Boat shoes.

Boat shoes, yes, another boat shoe person. And also some of the clothing in the washing machine. They also found his footprints in the blood-soaked snow near his mother's body. Larry. Not good. They also said the footprints around the body there matched the dock-siders that he wore,

bloody fingerprints on the door. It's not good. The same swamp that he goes and hangs out in, that's where they found them all tossed in there. And if there wasn't enough evidence, also they're gonna arrest him, and when they do, he tells everybody in jail that he killed his family. So that's, and he tells it to psychiatrists as well.

Larry. Now, they said they were sandbagging this and holding it back because they said his demeanor was common and seemingly unconcerned. The first paramedic actually said that he was scared for his life because he thought Larry was gonna kill him when he was looking at the bodies because he thought he was like lowering him in

because he thought he did it because he was real cold. That's hindsight, he said that. Who the fuck knows? They said that he gave conflicting reports to police. At one point he said he arrived home that morning and later he said he'd been home that night before but had been bombed because he drank a bunch of rum. So they said they announced he wasn't a suspect. They did that to protect Annie because they didn't want him to do anything to Annie because

she's a witness. So they had to be cool about the whole thing. And the his lawyer said I'm not of the opinion that he is a threat to anyone and especially not to Annie. If I'm convinced of anything I'm convinced of that. Okay. So they arrest Larry like I said and they said nobody else but Larry was involved, it's a one person crime. People fucking are like, what the fuck, this is crazy. Family friends said he's not highly emotional, he's a quiet child, I don't understand this, this is weird.

One kid at school who's on the wrestling team with him said, I don't even know if I'll go to school tomorrow. Everyone will come up and say how sorry they are and I don't know if I can take it. He's a good friend of his from the wrestling team. The junior class president who attends church with Larry and his friends with him says that nobody believes he did it. He's like class OJ. They said, no one thinks he did it. It is too horrible for anyone in our school or any of Larry's friends to come to grips with.

It's just too big. People flew in, relatives fly in from around the state to see him as well. One of his cousins said, he was the model son. He's so mild mannered. All of us trusted him. Right. We can't absorb it, one said. Funeral draws 500 people, by the way. Big old funeral.

Kay's family comes to town and they treat him like shit, they said, which is weird. They were like, that's strange. Weird. The one cop said, did you see how they treated those kids? They didn't even talk to them. Hey man, Annie This is before he was arrested. Yeah, he said I couldn't believe they didn't show more attention or concern for those kids They're relatives for Christ sakes, but the lawyer said that they probably think of them as family pets They probably look at them as Bob and Kay's children not part of their family. family. So these are what the weird shit they're doing. We're not talking to those kids. So they talk again about the marks on Larry on his hand and they said,

Bob's not going down without a fight. Bob's, he was in the Navy. He's a tough guy. He punches kids, James. He'll knock a kid out. And they asked Larry, what happened to your hand? He said, I burned myself frying hamburgers They said okay, that's fine. They said it looked more like a burn than a scratch. They actually believed him there and The cousins kept asked him questions. They said do you have any idea who did this? And he said no, I really don't they said who would want to kill them and Larry said well My mom had a run-in with a kid at school

Because he's a teacher and they said what over grades and they said he said Yeah He's kind of a troublemaker mom was mad about him Mad at him about something he'd done and the police are checking on him. They said do you think Michael did it? He said he could have done it. Who knows said how likely do you think Michael did it? Do you think there's a 50% chance and he said I don't know probably more 60% chance and he said maybe 80 87 83.4% chance.

Or the kid at school, I don't know. Larry's lawyer though says they're saying he did it because he had wet clothes in the washer. The guy said quote, good lord, the kid lived there. He had a right to wash his clothes. At least wait for the FBI to determine if there's blood on the clothes. Come on, man. Come on man. Jesus.

And they said, well, what about the fingerprints? And he said, well, all right, let's wait until there's an ID on the prints. Don't jump to conclusions. You've got to make sure absolutely sure they're Larry's not just here. The FBI has got to see it. He said he never went down to look for his father and got confused where he was when he saw his mother. And the lawyer said, listen, you're talking about murder.

Remember, that's traumatic. This boy's brain could have been denser than a London fog. This guy's hilarious. He might not have remembered what day it was, much less what window he looked through, because first he said it was his room and then he said it was the kitchen. He could have run around the house in a panic,

maybe even run outside, getting his hands and shoes bloody when he looked at his mother then blocked it all out. Let's face it Circumstantial much of this can be explained away The detective detective bars response to that is quote. Give me a break He said the boy can't explain everything away. There's too many inconsistencies. He's lying yeah, Larry ends up starting to fill his attorney in on some details and He's lying. Yeah. Larry ends up starting to fill his attorney in on some details and he starts telling him,

you know, you got to start talking to me. You got to start filling me in. I'm your buddy and your lawyer here. So they end up talking to him and they tell him, look, the police don't believe your story. They think you're lying. And here's why they go down all the holes in his story. How could he have known his father was dead if he never went downstairs? That's a, that's a part of it. How could, uh,

did he really expect anyone to believe that he slept through all this when everybody else woke up in the neighborhood that he told Annie she was dreaming? What about that? They said, you know, lawyers often tell juries false exculpatory statements are evidence of guilt. And they said, we got to, you've told police some fucking bad stories. So we got to figure this out here. Let's talk about it. And he said, come clean. He said, this is why the police are going to arrest you, Larry. This is the point. You're getting arrested for this. You're not telling us something. You're not telling us anything. And he said, let it go. It's over. We love you. It's not going to change that. You've got to let it

go. So Larry then says, yes, I did it. What he screams. Yes, I did it. Crying and sobbing uncontrollably. The first drop of emotion anyone has seen from this child in 10 years since he's six year old, he's never broken like this. He finally snaps. He dropped his whole body, weeping uncontrollably. And, um, the lawyer said it was like a lifetime of sorrow coming out in one and all it took was these are the reasons They don't believe you Larry. Yeah. All right. Well fuck uncork it Larry said he wouldn't stop hitting me He wouldn't stop hitting me and They he's they said they didn't ask him

What do you mean and ask him to explain explain anything. Because he told the lawyers earlier, he hit Michael, but he doesn't hit me. Right. So they said he was dry heaving and like fucking just, I mean, it was like a full on meltdown. Holy shit, yeah, dude's having a meltdown. And they said, he's not really any questions to answer, any condition to answer questions at the moment.

We should get him to a psychiatrist, I think is probably the best. Probably. So Larry explained to the psychiatrist, I think is probably the best. Probably. So Larry explained to the psychiatrist that he had trouble expressing emotions since he was small. He made an effort to hold things inside because he feared consequences of letting things out. He said, quote, before I came to live with the Swartz's, it seemed every time I gave my opinion or showed any emotion, I got moved to a new home. So he was like,

I'm just going to be cool. This is when police find out about how they handled the children, how they were raised, the abuse and things like that. One person said they were strict with their children, but at the same time, they were very kind to them. But they also beat the shit out of Michael a lot. Punched him. So Larry goes into a two-man cell,

then into a four-man cell. His Larry goes into a two man cell, then into a four man cell. His roommates like him, his cellmates, they think he's okay, decent guy. They say he's always on TV on the local news, so they're like, oh, there it is, your murder's on TV. They tell him, and he's like, oh yeah, he liked watching himself on TV, they said he thought that was cool.

Wow. Yeah, they had a black and white set that he could watch there. They said, Larry, you cool. Wow. Yeah, they had a black and white set that he could watch there. They said Larry, you're a TV star now. So they said he was very messy, didn't clean up his shit in jail and all that kind of thing. He wouldn't clean up his shit.

They'd go, pick up your shit. And he'd go, oh, stop bitching. You're always bitching at me. So now he's like, oh, you're not my mom. I'll fucking kill you like my mom. So he let his personal appearance slide. He would stop shaving and shit and not combing his hair, just kind of getting lazy.

Gets tons of letters. Chicks are sending him massive amounts of letters, man. They wrote, everybody, people writing, the lawyers and the prosecutor writing him, he's innocent, he's too handsome, all this shit. So they want blood from him. They need a blood sample, so they have to go to court to try to get a blood sample from him.

They talk about, Larry, you're up for the death penalty here. And he said, quote, it never really occurred to me that I could get the death chair. I'm really afraid of the death chair. Yeah, you should be. That's not good, the death chair. Then finally, he says what he did. He says it was my wrestling shirt, my sweatshirt,

that Annie saw. Yeah, he said that's what it was. They analyzed this for, they detected no blood on one shirt, but other clothing items they detected blood on, including a towel, a pillowcase, and a blue curtain that was found outside. He said that he didn't know why there was a curtain out there. He doesn't remember why he put a curtain out there.

He doesn't know why. Yeah, no idea of what that is. He also said they tested everything for vomit and found no trace on the pillowcase or anything else found in the woods. So they were like, what's up with that? I thought you threw up. Your sister said you threw up.

So they said he couldn't explain why his clothing was scattered into three distinct piles. They said, did you make more than one trip into the woods? And he said, I don't think so. He only remembered going outside once in front of his house to get rid of his clothes. He remembered tossing the mall and the knife in the swamp behind the house and said he was, it was earlier in the evening, immediately after the murders when he dragged his mother's body outside. He only remembered going outside two times, he said. The whole night was a blur though, he doesn't remember. He said shortly before the murders, his parents thought he was studying in his room but he was really drinking rum that he had hidden in a Pepsi bottle in his dresser.

And they said, why were you drinking? And he said he'd been studying for exams. He said, I didn't want my parents to find the rum, I wanted to get rid of it. So I drank it. They said, that's odd, and they said, how much did you drink? And he held up his right hand and did three fingers. So I liked that much rum. All of it? It's a lot of rum.

Plenty of rum for a 16 year old, 17 year old. So he said, I really can't remember a lot of details. He said, he drank the rum in his room, went to the basement laundry room to put his clothes in the washing machine after he left the laundry room He passed through the family room where his mother was watching TV She called out looking for him and said how'd your exams go today? He knew he had failed Spanish and was in danger of failing two more courses So he said I think I did pretty pretty well on one, but I think I flunked Spanish

She said oh Larry knowing you you probably failed them both. You'll probably fail them all. Oh my God. She sounds like Livia Soprano. Oh, knowing you, you probably failed both. You'll probably fail them all. Bah, Jesus. So he had two more exams the next day,

including driver's ed, and he was mad at his parents for telling him that he couldn't get his driver's license until he passed all his courses. He said he stood a few feet behind the chair where she sat with her back to him and then he noticed the mall. He said in one confession, he said he was on the floor by the sliding glass door and another version, the mall was by the hearth. So they said he couldn't tie that down. He told a state

psychiatrist that his mother's retort infuriated him. He said she was very sarcastic. I was very mad at her sarcasm. So he said there was a quote there was a wood splitting mall there. She was sitting and watching TV with her blue pajamas on. I got the mall and I hit her in the back of the head and dropped them all. She was still sitting there. There was a little table in front of the TV with some silverware and a steak knife on it. She was breathing sharply. I could hear that real loud. I did not care anymore about anything in the world. I picked up the steak knife, stabbed her and got her around the neck. Oh my.

Holy shit. When I saw her blood, I felt like good in a sense because I finally did something about them yelling at me. I did not feel good because I don't like blood. I had blood on my hands, not much. Then he said, I started growling like a dog, dog boy. Now what is happening? Um, you better watch out. Your sister doesn't hear that. you'll be fucking in the walk tomorrow Obviously, I'm kidding fuck off That was I what's the worst one I could do it's that so Jimmy almost died

No, he said then I saw my father standing there he was in his computer room in the basement He He was stunned I was standing right in front of him with the knife in my right hand I stabbed him in the left chest around his heart before he even knew what was going on I was like, yeah, just like what the hell he just started stabbing because he knew he was gonna be best He screamed and fell back into his room and shut the door. I pushed the door open. He was still standing up I stabbed him again twice and shut the door Then I came to my mind and said, Oh God, Oh God, about 20 times. Then I thought I wanted to get rid of everything, not to be caught. I took my mother's wrist, dragged her out of the room into the snow, took her clothes off because I wanted to get rid of the fingerprints

on her clothes. Okay. Okay. By the way, the running around was him outside. That's the fingerprint. That's the prints they found. I see he lost one of his shoes at one point. So she said, oh God, this is so weird. Okay, dragged her out into the snow, took her clothes off because I wanted to get rid of the fingerprints on her clothes. I bent over and fingered her twice.

What? Why? What is that? Why did you finger your dead foster mother? What is that? I don't know. And that's a fascinating choice of words. That's his exact quote. I bent over and fingered her twice. What is that? What is it? Two fingers? I don't understand. That's fucking weird. Just one in and out. I don't know. He said I was ready to throw up. Thanks. I am too. Yeah, I'm right there with you. Well, that's the only normal response.

Yeah, that's the one He said I backed up picked up the mall with one hand and a knife in the other hand It was a revenge feeling I took the knife and mall and threw them in the swampy area Then I thought about and my sister if she wasn't there There was no reason in the world to go back in that house I passed by my mother's body went in took off my shirt and shorts and he was there and told me she heard a scream I told her that she'd been dreaming and she went back to my bed and slept there. I couldn't sleep that night. I wished everything was a dream but I knew it wasn't. I threw up once on the pillow then went to the bathroom and took off my shirt and shorts. I wanted to

get rid of them. They said why would he the one psychiatrist said why did you put your finger inside your mother after you killed her? And he just said, he shrugged and said, I was so mad that I felt I had to do something real bad to her. Wow. That's what he said. He said that-

That might be the closest we ever get to the explanation of rape at all. Yeah, I don't know, or at least this, yeah, in this regard. They said that, he said his next memory was seeing them all come down in a slow motion on his mother's head. And the lawyer said then he remembered what he thought was extremely loud breathing, which I think was not the case, but almost like a roar and then seeing the knife on the table and being afraid that his mother's loud breathing would wake up Annie.

He didn't want Annie to see this, so he had to stop the noise, which is when is when he started stabbing that's what the lawyer says then he remembered hearing his father yelling for help It sounded very distant and they said, you know, that's what happened. So anyway, that's his explanation Geez, that's what he fucking did Which is insane. That's too much Larry. Yeah, that is Wow It's just a straw that broke the camel's back much, Larry. Yeah, that is, wow. It's just a straw that broke the camel's back kind of thing. And he said that he said to him, it seemed like he was viewing himself or somewhere from like up on the ceiling or in the corner in the wall.

It was like a surveillance camera watching the whole scene. And psychiatrists say that that's evidence of a bit of a psychotic reaction. They said then he turned around and sensed his father was there. And somebody was there, he saw his father standing with what he called a blank look as if not comprehending anything. Then he heard himself or heard a growl like a wolf or a dog or whatever and realized it was himself.

And his lawyer said, I think he remembered stabbing his mother once or twice and stabbing his father maybe one or two times. He sensed himself taking one giant step and his father falling back into the computer room. He stabbed his mother 17 times. Right. That's he's he's glossing over what he did. But a lot of people even they lose track. They lose track. Yeah. Even like police officers and whatever. They don't know how many shots they fired. They just don't know. They let off two rounds and their guns empty. Well, you didn't, you let off

six. Oh shit. Even if they missed and it's not like a trial, like it's just, it's just a report and they'll think they only fired off two and they fired off six. It's just how it is. Your brain blocks certain shit out. That's it. So wow. He, he, they said, what were you thinking? And he said, I wasn't thinking. Right. He said, just impulses were coming to me thoughts were coming into my mind being and then another thought would come into my mind Dragger outside. This is stupid then thinking are they're gonna be fingerprints on the sleeper. I got to take the sleeper off No, that's stupid throwing that down now. I can see that happening. It wasn't like I was saying I gotta do this I gotta do that. He's just like it was just his brain was in a million different fucking places. So this is a lot. Now they asked about the bear trail of bear footprints and he claimed he had no knowledge of the

tracks and couldn't remember what he wore on his feet when he ran outside to hide the evidence, which is the running around the house. But he did recall a couple of things. He said, when I came back on the carport, my feet were burning. And the next day I found a gash on the bottom of my foot. I had no idea where it came from. He said, when did you notice the gash? And he said, when I was at the police station, I felt this numbness on my toe, took my sock off and there was a deep gash on my toe and I couldn't remember cutting it. So they said, when he got the cut, he was probably barefoot, didn't remember getting cut. So he was probably repressing the memory of being outside

is what the psychologist said. So who knows, because he had to have done it, it's definitely him. So they, and it matches up too, they said that his shoe size matches the tracks here. So that's because his mother and his feet were only a half inch apart inside, so they confused it. Yeah. Wow. Um, he, the lawyer said he describes an explosion going off in his mind. Holy shit. So they're going to charge him obviously. Yeah, clearly. Yeah. And they said his attorney says his bizarre confession confined combined with his memory gaps said he must've had a psychotic reaction. You know,

it's in the throes of a psychosis. This is a mental problem and that's what we should plead is insanity. So yeah, he said he liked to keep all of his emotions wrapped up. He said Larry couldn't cry because when he had a temper tantrum in his own mind, he'd be moved the next day. That's what it's about. So they were like, okay, but he's still got a... I mean, if you kill two people, you're gonna get moved. You're gonna get moved somewhere else, yeah. Especially if they're the two people that pay the bills. So the prosecutor said that he only recently learned

of the alleged abuse in the home. So he needs a minute to think about this. The shrink here says that his insanity defense sounds good because he suffered, this one person diagnosed him as chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia. And they said it's a mental illness that profoundly distorted the way he perceived, thought and felt about the world.

Often appears in adolescence and characterized by things such as hallucinations and delusions and dissociation. So they said he might have experienced an acute psychotic episode caused by that. They do another test, he's got an 87 IQ like we said. So they said he's functional and all that kind of thing, but not the brightest bulb on the shelf, but that's fine. So yeah, they're trying to, by the way,

the family, such a weird reaction. Some of the people are like, well, I mean, he's family is such a weird reaction Some of the people are like well I mean he's part of the family and some of the people were like fuck that kid And all of them are shocked. They're like he never even gets mad. I've never seen that kid raise his voice Like I don't understand it. He's the calmest kid They the fingerprint reports to come in and they revealed that the three prints lifted inside the house didn't match those of Larry or his parents and the location at least of at least one of the prints seemed significant on the inside of the doorknob

of the computer room where his body was found. It was a partial palm print appeared to be in blood. So they said they couldn't figure out who that matched up to because it didn't really match anybody. But they said it could have been a paramedic. It could have been somebody and they put a fucking blanket over. They weren't growing by policy there. So he's charged with two counts of second degree murder.

Oh boy. They want to take the jurors to the scene to show them everything. Show them what happened, yeah. Yeah, they talk about, neither lawyers thinks they need a change of venue. They go, it should be fine. Both of them think this place is okay.

It's fine, this shouldn't get any publicity or anything. This kid fingered his dead mother in the yard. That's fine. They shouldn't, this didn't get any publicity or anything. This kid fingered his dead mother in the street in the yard. That's fine. They set a trial date and Larry says, quote, after I read an article in the paper about the trial date, I started shaking all over. If I start thinking about the trial and what could happen, if they say I did things, I could get two life sentences. It could go a lot of ways.

Now he's starting to have clarity. That's weird, right? Strange. They said they're going to take Annie's testimony in writing and not make her testify because she's been through enough. He wants to plead insanity but the prosecutor won't take the plea so they're gonna go to trial. Then during jury selection they come to an agreement on a deal. That's what happens. Yeah. The prosecutor said I'm not saying Larry Swartz wasn't a very disturbed young man. I'm not saying he didn't have cause to be disturbed as a result of conditions that allegedly surrounded his home.

He said, but over and beyond anything else, two people were very brutally murdered and I can't let a jury forget that. So there you go. So they come up with a deal, a plea bargain, that says he'll drop the insanity defense, but they're going to put him in a hospital to see if he can be in jail, and if not, they're going to put him in a psychiatric facility.

Until they can get him well enough to put him in prison. Until they can get him well enough to put him in prison, exactly. The Patuxent Institution would- Patuxent? No, Patuxent, not Pawtucket, like there, not Rhode Island, Patuxent, P-A-T-U-X-E-N-T, institution, would offer him appropriate treatment that might be able to have him have a normal life someday. So, that's what his lawyer says.

Sentencing, two counts of second degree murder, his lawyer said that, or yeah, his attorney said strict parenting. They pushed him to be a model son. He said you had well-meaning and well-intentioned parents who were ill-equipped because of their own personalities to deal with the problems Larry had. They said that Larry turned out to be the kind of child his mother least wanted to adopt. She told social workers that as a teacher she would have difficulty dealing with a dull normal child because she would have a tendency to think he could have done better. That's before she adopted anybody.

And the lawyer said that's exactly what she got. Holy shit. Kids of dipshit. Yeah. Yeah. Larry's cousin said I think Larry was more in tune to being a drinker and having a sex life and that was basically in conflict with his parents. Although there were tensions in the family, he was never mistreated. This is a cousin who lives out of state, by the way. I mean, a sexual relationship. He wanted to get laid at 17.

That's what he wanted. Now, the judge says the crimes were terrible, but he says from all appearances, you seem to be a normal average everyday 17 year old boy. He said, but psychological evaluations by a series of doctors indicate that under the facade of normalness there's a great deal that was abnormal. He says that and the state's attorney said he's obviously a very troubled person. He's sick and needs treatment. That's the prosecutor. So you young man may fuck off. He is sentenced to two 20-year terms, concurrent though, so same time, 20 years,

and then suspended eight years in each case. So 12 years in prison. What? The maximum was 30 years for each count. He gave him 12 years total. And some of it, he gets suspended to psych ward. Yes. Getting well. Yes, exactly. This kid's on he gets to spend in a psych ward. Yes. Getting well.

Yes, exactly. This kid's on the street. We'll talk about it. Oh my god. It's coming up in one second. So Larry's attorney said, I think Larry had pent up within him all that he could hold. It just happened to burst out that night. The event wasn't so significant as the fact that it was about to happen.

Holy shit. And then the newspaper said, the handsome 18 year old Swartz showed no emotion as he took the stand. Handsome motherfucker. Fucking amazing. So family member said I think the defendant lived in a family that aspired for him to be a student and an athlete and he was more interested in drinking, drugs and sex. What is going on?

I don't know. Michael at the time was at that time was attending night school and working at a restaurant. Oh he's doing great. He ends up graduating from college, but we'll talk about him because then in 1990, Oh no, a book is written. Sudden Fury is the name of the book that it's about this whole thing. That's a lot of these quotes came out of a bandana movie. It does Sudden Fury. It's a girl's breaking necks. Michael is supposed to appear on Sally, Jesse, Raphael show to promote the book, make an appearance to talk about it, but he's not unable to make it

because he's arrested for murder. Who'd he kill? Michael at the time by the way had recently fathered a child and was paying child support, then he became unemployed after he broke both his shoulders in a motorcycle accident. He had odd jobs including a carpenter, cab driver, gas pumper, fast food place. The worst. He had agreed to appear on the publicity show,

but then he couldn't. The author said he was excited. It was his moment to shine. Yeah. He's still at square one. Yeah. He hasn't even advanced anywhere in life. He tried to join the Army, but didn't have a high school diploma

He had a juvenile record so they didn't really want to take him he hooked up with an idiot named Ronald L. Scoatz SCO ATS 31 years old and Schwartz here Michael said that this guy Scots was on parole from a murder sentence he was serving in Florida and That he had threatened this man Robert Austin Bell, who was 57, and he had a big thing of change that had $50 of change in it. And I guess Scoatz told this guy on July 9th, 1990 that he'd kill him if he didn't give you, give me all your change.

$50 and change. $50 and change. He said Scoatz had been drinking heavily when they were both carrying knives. They went into Bell's house. Michael said he was shaking the man's hand when quote Ronnie just started stabbing him for no reason. I reacted to that and just started stabbing too. That's your reaction. I guess I'll start stabbing.

He was stabbed 48 times. Oh boy over $50 worth of change. Over $50 worth of change. Yep. So that is fucking horrible. The next door neighbor recognized Scoatz after Scoatz allegedly walked over to him before the incident and said he had brought some items for Bell. Just to let you know, I'm here to see this guy.

I'm going to kill him. That's how dumb these fucking people were. The Scoatz had lived with Bell until he was tossed out about a month ago. So the neighbor went in and found the guy on the floor. They said Swartz gave a complete confession and implicated everything. Stop stabbing him. I'm going to see the lady with the red glasses.

An eight to 10 inch blade knife was killed. They both had the same knife, like similar knives. Wow. During his bail hearing, Michael, the judge asked, quote, do I know this defendant? And then said, I might've set bail for your brother. Yeah, this is the same judge. Um, so in court, Scots is sentenced to you, sir. May fuck off life without parole. They had sought the death penalty for him, but they didn't seek it for Michael. Michael is sentenced to you, sir sir may fuck off 25 years to life

With her I'm sorry life in prison with a chance for parole So yeah 1993 a movie comes out TV movie a family torn apart. Yeah starring Doogie Howser What and the guy from the Big Bang Theory the Johnny Galecki? Darlene's boyfriend and Doogie Howser are in this. Yeah, Neil Patrick Harris stars as Larry. Yeah. Obviously. Very Indian man.

Yeah. They said, this is the crazy part, the director said and the writer, the people who made the movie said, we did a dramatization based on the case, which was based on the book. We had to change certain things because they would have just seemed too far-fetched. Like what? Like just some of the crazy stuff. This story's so crazy, they went, this became a movie, that's too crazy.

Nobody will believe it. Nobody will believe it. So that's what ended up happening. That's that. 1993, Larry is paroled. Holy shit. He received his high school education in two years of college before being paroled.

He was released from a work release center and he served nine of 12 years. That was that. He had been at the House of Correction in Jessup before that. He was under He went to Jessup? Jessup after the psych hospital. They said he does not live in Anne Arundel County. That's all that we'll say. His lawyer, Baradel, said, I don't think Larry's a threat. You have to understand this was a kid who was never in trouble. I don't think he'll ever be in trouble for the rest of his life. He's not a chronic offender. He had this one horrible incident. It's a pretty fucking bad one.

It's a pretty bad incident. Finger-raped a dead woman. His mom, for Christ's sake. 2004, Larry has a heart attack and dies. What? At 38, dead. What? Yep, dead. 2004 Larry has a heart attack and dies What at 38 dead what yeah dead he had an eight-year-old child and He was so he was married with an eight-year-old kid and dropped at 38. It's done Larry's dead as far as I know Michael still in jail. I'm not sure

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