Small Town Murder - #510 - The Scariest Barn On Earth - Delta, Ohio

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

This week, in Delta, Ohio, a college student disappears while riding her bicycle, on a country road, near her own home. There are many suspects, but one has a barn full of bondage gear, zip ties & adult diapers, so he rises to the top of the list. Turns out, this wasn't the first time a young woman has been pulled off a bike, in the area. The proof of this man's strangeness & guilt are not hard to find, but will he get away with it... Again??Along the way, we find out that you can have a chicken festival that has nothing to do with chickens, that nobody needs a property full of adult diapers, and that you never know how many some people have killed!!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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Let's all take a deep breath. What do you say, Jimmy time let's all take a deep breath what do you say Jimmy let's all shout SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MURDER let's do this everybody let's go on a trip shall we yeah all right we are Ohio this week. Oh no. Going to, oh no. OH no. OH NO. Oh boy. Delta Ohio is where we're going to here. It is west of Toledo. We're usually in the southeastern part of the state for some reason, but here instead in the northwestern part of the state, up by Toledo, which is right up by Michigan up there. You hear the border. It's about 40, up by Toledo, which is right up by Michigan up there, near the border. It's about 40 minutes west of Toledo.

It's about an hour and a half to Detroit from this area. And then three and a half hours to, or a little over three hours to Beach City, Ohio, which was our last episode, Wife Swap Snap, which was awesome, that was the one about the wife swap people. Population of this town, 2,790 people. Median household income here, about $67,009,

so right around the national average. Median home price, though, super low here. This is an affordable place, $176,400. Holy shit. So you can work in Toledo, because it's only 40 minutes away. You can work in Detroit. Live out here.

Yeah, you can work in Detroit even. Yeah, you can commute there. So there's plenty of opportunity. And that's exactly what they tell you in the motto here, the community of opportunity. You betcha. Oh, I like how it rhymes. I've never heard that before.

That's well done. Don King wrote their motto. This is a community of opportunity. And they were like, somebody write that down now. Somebody never forget that. He was promoting a fight when he came through there. It's good. It's good, little bit of history of this town.

The first settlement was made in the early, in like the 1830s. There's been a post office there since about 1837. The area around here was known as the Six Mile Woods. Oh. It's pretty, when you see it, it's a little tiny town kind of with nothing in between that and the next town. All the towns are, there's corn fields and shit.

It's what was left that we gave Winnie the Pooh and his friends. Everything else was destroyed. Everything else was destroyed. That's their only habitat now. It's a six mile wood. The woods was an area some six miles wide and 20 miles long. They had giant.

That's bigger than the 100 acres, isn't it? It's fucking huge. And they had giant oak and walnut trees that were four feet in diameter in this area. Wow. Big fucking trees. It's pretty cool. All sorts of different names before it was Delta.

It was Tadmore, then it was Tadpole, I don't know. I don't get that. Then it was Greenspring's, and then the last two are some of the greatest names a town's ever had. First of all, Slabshanty, which sounds awful. Who the hell wants to live in Slabshanty? And then maybe the greatest town name of all time, and I don't know why they changed it

because at least it would have been popular with some people, Fingerville. different motto you'd have there, I assume. Yeah, I tried to take a lot of girls there in high school. Yeah, I'm going to Fingerville. What are you doing tonight? I'm going to Fingerville, baby. Yeah.

Then you'd grow up and try to go to pound town. Just try to go to smash streets. That's the first stop. Yeah. Well it's the second stop. You got tongue town first and then you go to Fingerville after that. So reviews of this town. Let's find out a few. Uh, number five, number one, five stars. Great small town, very safe and friendly people. So, I don't know if the people are friendly and safe or if the town is safe and the people are friendly. Good school system and an excellent place

to raise children. Affordable housing, a plus. We moved here 30 years ago and have never regretted it. Great. Four stars. The, this is, the next two are real fun, because they're just one sentence which is always like, what are you trying to say here? What's happening? Sounds like code. Four stars, there is a lot to do, but not everyone uses. Oh. That's it.

Uses what? Uses the thing? Drugs, I don't know what we're talking about. Three stars, it can be unpredictable sometimes People whether right to our roads just moved overnight and you don't know There was a road here yesterday. Now. It's trees. I don't understand predictable around Predictable around here. Is it like Willy Wonka's factory in this place or what? One star here finally, DelTucky,

they're calling it DelTucky, like Kentucky, like Delta. But it's way away from Kentucky. Yeah, right. DelTucky is a very dumpy, dirty, corrupt town in my observations. Not anywhere close to Kentucky. No, no, opposite side of the state. What the fuck are they doing?

Northwest as opposed to southeast. The worst town in our county featuring hundreds of freight trains, thousands of semi trucks, traffic jams during shift changes, and very expensive taxes and utilities. Do you like mobile homes? There are seven parks in our zip code and not one is decent. Seven in a zip code? Shit. Kentucky's got to clean their shit is decent. Seven in a zip code? Shit. Kentucky's gotta clean their shit up, man. It's a lot. Places nowhere near, like,

I feel like if Albuquerque called themselves Albu-Tucky, like this is, this is so far away. They tried to call themselves Alba-Bama, but it didn't work, so they went with Albu-Tucky. Albu-Tucky. Albu-Bama, people just thought they were stuttering. They were like, god damn it! Trying to make fun of this place.

It's so far away. The school systems is horrible. Poop loads of misdemeanor crime. Poop loads. Especially that. Poop loads. I strongly advise anyone to look for a better place to live. All right. Okay, yeah.

Things to do here. There's one thing, and it's awesome. The Delta Chicken Festival. Yeah. How do you? They said one of the earliest industries associated with our village was the export of eggs by Mr. Howard and Mr. Moore,

shipping 60 to 80 barrels each week, which I don't think that's a good delivery system for an egg. Is it a barrel? How much of that is taken up with tissue paper and cartons? Yeah, wow. Averaging 80 dozen eggs per barrel. When the festival began in the 50s, Delta was home to one of the largest chicken hatcheries

in the area, as well as many chicken finishing farms. That's where they teach them how to act. You know what I mean? That's like chicken finishing school. Teach them manners. Yeah, manners, the correct, at the table, where to put the right fork and that kind of shit. So they have a, they've celebrated all these chickens with this festival, including a three-on-three

basketball tournament, which that's what I think of when I think of hatcheries. Unless they're using eggs. A 5k chicken run unless you have to hold eggs and pass them to other people. Yeah a three-on-three soccer tournament. I hope they have a smaller field for that. No a cornhole tournament. Okay. I mean okay and then of course a parade so you got to have that. Chicken Festival. We mentioned chickens and that's it. That's it. Delta Chicken Festival Cornhole Tournament. Delta Chicken Run 5K. It's just all put chicken in the name. We just call it chicken. That's it. What do people like

to do? Oh, they don't like to do shit that has to do with chickens? They play basketball and play soccer. Alright, well, fuck it then. Fuck the whole chicken thing. We'll just call it chickens and then we'll just... We'll just call it the Delta Festival. But there will be chicken available to eat. Okay, well yeah, it's a chicken festival. Don't worry about it. That said, let's talk about a murder here.

Here we go. Wow, let's talk about some real weird stuff in a real weird guy. I do commend them for not involving local acts of music and comedy though. There is. They're just, there is music. It's just so local they don't and comedy. There is. They've done a nice job. There is music.

It's just so local they don't even mention who it is. Don't tell them. That's how local it is. Fantastic. They don't even mention band names. So it's going to be real bad music playing in the background. You know it is. So let's talk about some murder.

Let's go back to July of 2016. It's fairly recent. Very Okay. So, not- Very recent. Holy shit. Very recent. Yeah, I would say so. Let's look at Sierra Jougen. So, Sierra Jougen, and Sierra is S-I-E-R-A-H, by the way.

Oh, with an H. With an H, yeah. And Jougen is J-O-U-G-H-I-N. She's 20 years old. She's born in 1996, February 11th. She grew up in Lyons, Ohio here, which is very nearby. It's all west of Toledo. There's Lyons, there's Delta, and then as you get closer, it's like Sylvania and stuff like that. So a lot of news reports will say she's from Sylvania, but it's actually not. It's west of there, smaller places here.

She goes by C, everybody calls her C, like Sierra. Right, so it starts with an S. Yeah, you know, C-E is how they spell it, that's C. She goes to the University of Toledo currently, and will be going into her junior year in the fall. And she wants to get to study abroad sometime this year. So she's looking forward to that, trying to figure out a program that she can get into

and work all of that out. Big into horses, another horse girl, and was a member of the Toledo University's business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, also. So she's very personable and very social as well. On her Facebook page, she's, just to give you a, you can tell somebody's personality kind of by what they curate.

Especially in 2016. That's what I mean. So it's a lot of like cute puppies, recipes for no-bake chocolate peanut butter bars. Yeah. But yeah. Lazy gal that loves snacks, bars. Yeah. But yeah. Lazy gal that loves snacks, I like that.

She's 20 and she likes to like, it's all like nice stuff like that. And also some helping or telling her friends that are like encouraging them, the ones that are trying to work out, stuff like that. Her profile photo is her and her mother, Sheila hugging. That's their pro. So she's not like, you know, out there like, you know, linking this shit to her OnlyFans, you know what I'm saying?

Like she's not out partying and stuff. She's, she's not baking. She's spending time not baking with her family. That's nice. Yeah, she's just a, she's a real nice girl. She has a boyfriend around her age. His name is Josh Kolos, Kolosinski. Yeah. Kolosinski with a K. And everybody calls her vivacious. Around her age his name is Josh Cole's Cole Asinski

Cole Asinski with a K and Everybody calls her vivacious the word vivacious comes up every time someone's describing her It is that just bubbly and happy and energetic her boyfriend says she was the life of the party always so Everybody likes her July 19th 2016 she rides her bike over to her boyfriend's house. She likes to ride her bike in these areas. It's these corn fields and woods and just country roads. She likes riding her bike. So she rides her bike to her boyfriend's house a little after 4 p.m. that day.

And she rides her bike home from her boyfriend's house at about 6.45. They leave. Yeah. And they go... Dinner? Yeah, they go down County Road 6, and here they are. And she lives on County Road 6, by the way. Sure, sure. She's heading there. She is on... Her bicycle is purple, and she has a neon yellow tennis shoes and a brightly colored shirt and bright teal shoes and all that. So she's really getting into the summer colors here. Yeah, well she's wearing the right clothes to be bicycling.

Yeah. She might as well wear a crossing guard. Yeah, you can see her. It's daytime still out too. It's summer. Still, you want to be seen. So she has a dish towel, a checkered dish towel that she's sitting on that's over the seat of the bicycle. So I don't know if it's hot or if it was had bird shit on it or what, but there you go. Now her boyfriend follows her on his motorcycle for part of the trip. Hell yeah. He's taken off too. So he rides slow next to her for a while, and then where he has to branch off, he branches off, says goodbye, he says,

I remember exactly what I said, I kissed her, I told her I loved her, and to text me when she got home. So I think based on this show, you can guess what happened here. You can guess that his phone wasn't exactly digging that night. Right, right. And it wasn't.

Now around 7.20pm, so this is about 20 minutes after he leaves with her according to him, a motorist, a driver named Mary Stein is driving south on County Road 6 when she notices a bike lying beside the west side of the road in an open area before cornrows begin Yeah, okay as she passed by she saw a man bent over at the waist about two or three rows deep into the cornfield She said he was a white guy wearing red shorts and a possibly a white or off-white shirt Or a dirty white shirt one of the three so that's what she saw now her family around 830 or 9 p.m Her boyfriend's texting her going. Hey, I never got a text from you. What's up, and she never she never replies So he called up Sheila he called up mom yeah

Sees mom around 930 and said it did she get home or what's going on? Is she like what's happening right now and her mom said the bike's Not here. I don't see the bike. I don't think she's here So then the two of them get in the car Sheila goes and picks him up and they go looking for her Okay, and they didn't find her though So they stopped at the fire department where Sheila saw a police officer sitting in a in a cop car so Sheila talks to the officer and explains that she's looking for her daughter and can

you please help me basically. And so later on in that evening, the police start in their normal rounds. They're looking for a person also looking for a bicycle, looking for whatever. Just put your spotlight to the side of the road for me if you could type of thing. So she didn't come home that night at all. So the next day, people are freaking out. I mean, it's. Yeah, this isn't like her.

Not like her. She has places to go. And she's on a bicycle. It's not like she took a left and decided to go to Nevada. She's on a fucking bicycle. So, and that's the other thing is where's the bicycle if she did go somewhere else. She couldn't have biked too far off.

So her aunt said, we're struggling to stay hopeful at this point when that happened. We just want her to come home safe and whoever has her to just leave her where she is and let us have her back. It's the worst nightmare I've ever experienced. I just want her to come home. So there, I mean, it's 24 hours

and they're already talking about, whoever took her needs to let her go. It's not even a matter of. Recovery at this point. Yeah, it's not even a matter of like, we don't know where she could have, she might have went off with her friends, we have no idea.

So, the parents, like I said, the police, the parents got the police involved and everything like that. And Megan Roberts, who is a special agent with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, gets a call around 1 a.m. asking her to assist in processing something and that is because a sheriff's deputy found a purple bicycle in a corn field about a half mile away from her home, from Ciara's home. So they also, they were searching for the bike and it was a sheriff's office person with a canine

that found the bike. And they saw a small section of cornfield on the east side of the road where upon inspection he noticed many disturbed corn stalks and a strong smell of gasoline, a motorcycle tire track, like that looks like a motorcycle's been through here, and a box of fuses.

Oh. He also sees a pair of women's sunglasses lying on the road near the painted white fog line on the west side of County Road 6. I don't know what that is, and that might be just the side of the road, what they call the shoulder line, I have no idea. So he's like, oh shit, he sees all of this, obviously.

There's a bicycle, fuses, gasoline, tire tracks. He said, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You just had this eerie feeling that you knew this was an abduction site. Golly. Yeah, and especially it's not like an abduction site 30 years ago, this is very recently. This is pretty new.

Within the last 24 hours, a very nice young girl probably was snatched here, it's terrifying. So they block off the road leading to the site, they don't want any of this getting out to the public either. And so they find all of that. Now the bike was collected and upon inspection they observed reddish brown stains on the handlebars and seat.

What do you suppose that is? Well, the testing says it's blood. And her mother and boyfriend both identify the bike as hers. They also found a checkered dish towel with a blood stain on it about a thousand feet north of the County Road abduction site That's the towel. She was sitting on right so the FBI is alerted of The of all of this and they get involved too. You know this is this is like fuck this up This is a missing you know

Pretty college girl. This is all hands on deck fucking time here. This is very interesting that everybody has so far taken this dead ass serious. Dead ass serious. That's very important. Oh, for real, yeah, nobody is like, ah, who knows, she could have went somewhere. None of that shit.

So they launched, the whole community's launching a massive search they go on. Wow. Just groups of people going through corn fields. Possibly trampling on evidence, you know what I mean? So later that morning, agents from the Ohio Bureau of Investigation, they assist in the search here, and they notice that two areas in the cornfield on the west side of County Road 6 that were consistent with paths or point of entry and exit. So it was like the trails in there in the West cornfield. They found broken corn stalks, blood stains on some corn leaves.

So blood on the corn. Oh no. That is some, if that's not the most Midwestern fucking sign of violence you've ever heard of. Yeah. That's wild. That's a, that's a murder mystery book cover. Yeah. Blood on the Corn. A photo of Bloody Corn. It's fucking Sly's lyric in Rhinestone. Is it? Oh, the other guy that was singing, Blood on the Corn and Brains on the Hay.

Jesus God. That was the point, is this guy was there like, what the fuck is this guy singing? And it's the only intentionally funny part of Rhinestone that's actually funny. Poor Dolly Parton, she had to go through so much. And also pattern impressions in the loose dirt they find, including the blood stains. About 20 feet into the same cornfield, they found a green sock with blood stains on it. About 35 feet south of that they found a pair of men's sunglasses and an orange handled screwdriver. Oh okay so they're finding all sorts of weird just cast off in this in this here. Then they find a blood stained helmet. They don't find it. Actually, a farmer found it about 7 p.m. the night she went

missing and didn't realize it was anything until the next day when they saw this. He heard of all this police activity and a missing girl. He went, that's where I found this fucking helmet. Initially, he found a helmet on the side of the road with blood on it, threw it in the back of his pickup truck, drove home, didn't think anything of it. Then the next day he hears there's a girl missing around the same spot, so he goes to the police and goes, I have this helmet you might be interested in here. It's an extra large, I was pretty interested in it, it fits. It's a motorcycle helmet, not a bike helmet, a motorcycle helmet, and it has blood stains on the outside of it and also on the inside lining of it as well.

And so that's interesting. Now the first thing the police think is as concerned as he's been, her boyfriend rides a motorcycle. Right. And was the last one to be seen with her and is the last. That's not good. No. So they're like, this is not great here, Josh.

Why don't you have a little sit down with us here? Yeah. Where's your helmet, Josh? So yeah, they believe someone riding a motorcycle was involved they look at him as the suspect obviously and According to they got a FBI agent in from Cleveland to talk to him he cooperated with authorities and he drew a map for them of C's route showing where they departed and consented to searches of his residence motorcycle truck gave DNA samples hair samples Fucking finger print anything he could give basically so

He's cooperating. Yeah. Now the family has no suspicion of him whatsoever None sees family said that he takes good care of her. They never had any suspicion He was involved and the investigator said we weren't able to find anything that put us in the direction that Josh had any involvement Because he has like where he goes after that. It's an owl. It's a secure alibi So it's like he would have had to do all this disappear her in a very fucking short window of time No kidding and for no reason whatsoever is the other thing right like she probably came over to they probably had a nice time You know what I mean, right? So over there a couple hours. What are they doing? You know? He's gonna kill her then It's just weird. It didn't make any sense You know what I mean? So over there a couple hours, what are they doing? You know, he's gonna kill her then?

It's just weird, it didn't make any sense. So as far as the investigation goes, they put him aside here, put Josh to the side, and they said it might have been a stranger, which is such a rare thing that a grown woman would be abducted by a stranger. I mean, it happens, we've done the show, but it's much more rare than the boyfriend doing it,

especially with the motorcycle. Right away, within 24 hours, there's tons of people putting up reward money. An anonymous donor offered $100,000 reward for a safe return. All this shit, right? They're canvassing the area, and they said they had several stops

they wanted to make it, because they wanted to go talk to residents in the area. These are spread apart properties, mind you. This isn't, you know, suburbs like all properties lined up. So this is kind of farmland out there. They got room. They got room. So they do kind of background.

They get criminal records of everybody in the area. And so anybody with a criminal record, especially any kind of violent crime in their past, they're about to talk to some police. They're about to talk to some police. They're going to talk to somebody now, yeah. One of the first people they talked to is James Dean Worley. Yeah. Oh. He was born in 1959, so his parents were just douchebags.

Big rebel about a cause, thanks. Yup, named him James. He died in an accident before his time. Like naming your kid Kurt Cobain Wissman, you know what I mean? Somebody's done it. Oh, they absolutely have. There's probably 30 of those kids in this country.

Guarantee you there's way more than that, yeah, probably. All of them, how many Janis Joplin McCartneys are there or whatever? That's a bad example, because that's also- Janis Joplin Johnson? Yeah, there's a lot probably from then. So he, they go over to his house and yeah, they have a chit chat with him.

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That's not good. So they stopped to ask him if he knew her or whether he had any information. Now, little background on old James Dean Whirly here. What's he got? Quickly, well, let's, little background. His parents, James Senior, here. What's he got? Quickly. Well, let's, a little background. His parents, James Senior, by the way, he's a junior. So somebody was James Dean before James Dean.

That's amazing. I don't know how I missed that detail when I was doing this. They're married in 1941. They had three children, Cynthia, James, and Mark. Mark being the youngest, James the middle child. He's born in 1959 in Washington, and he's about two years older than his younger brother. They moved to Waukegan, Illinois,

then moved to Ohio, where they ultimately end up in this county here. According to him, he's lived at the same property now that they're questioning him on, from the third grade until, here you are standing in front of me. I've lived on this same property. you are standing in front of me. Is that right? I've lived on this same property and he's in his 50s and he's lived here since he was

eight. He ain't leaving. Never, no, he's not leaving, never left and never at all. And at this point his mom is sick as well and he's kind of his mom's caretaker. His brother also lives on the property, but in a separate trailer, kind of off in his own area of the property. So, Whirly, a little on his background, his father's a big drunk,

and would come home late every night, shit-faced, and would beat the hell out of the mother, basically. Sure. Yeah. At one point, he said he remembered his mother, they got in a fight, and his mother tried to pick up the phone to call the cops on him and he yanked the cord out of the wall and chased her into the backyard and shit. That's a felony. Yeah, I don't think it was in 1950 fucking date probably though.

It's probably just keeping it in house then. The sister remembered in that same episode that her father had a butcher knife in his hand while he chased his mother and that the sister attempted to help her mother escape through a bedroom window. Unbelievable. When he was about five years old, James, the mother was granted a divorce from the father based on gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Yeah. So they stayed with the mother.

They didn't see the father for a long time, but they said eventually they began to see him about every six months for like seven hours at a clip. It's about 14 hours a year he's doing here. Not good. He said those visits went on for a number of years. Well yeah, why not? Who can't commit to seven hours twice a year? That's the easiest fathering I've ever heard of.

That's fucking simple. So in 1969, when he's about 10, Worley's mother marries another guy named Jack Shepherd, and he liked his stepfather, and he never talked anything bad about him, said he was a good guy, and all that kind of thing. I guess Shepherd had been, his new stepfather was a drill sergeant during World War II.

Wow. So he better respect that guy or else he's gonna be doing a lot of pushups. That's gonna be a lot of toilet scrubbing with a toothbrush. It's gonna be difficult. So around 16 or 17, he and his brother move in with their biological father. And they said they had a strict upbringing

with their stepfather and they were searching for some freedom. So James Senior didn't beat the hell out of the kids, but he's a definite drinker, as we've talked about here. Love that. One time, when the sister was about 16 years old, the apparently, and this is weird because,

like the stepfather who James has never had anything bad to say about, he's about 16 years old, or she's about 16, the stepfather began trying to have sex, trying to molest the fucking stepdaughter, James' sister. He has nothing bad to say about this thing. No, and the sister said, he grabbed me and threw me down and tried to rape me. Yikes.

On two different occasions this happened, while he was raping her, James walked in and saw it and then left. And they've never discussed it or anything. So he's been seen twice doing it. Yes. Jesus. So maybe he wanted to move in instead of more freedom he wanted to move into his father so he wouldn't walk in on rape scenarios anymore. So he wouldn't have guilt? Yeah. How about protect your sister too? I mean I don't know. No shit. So he's always good to his mother. Everybody said he speaks highly of his mother, very strong

emotional connection with his mother. She never excessively disciplined him and was, according to James, a genuinely awesome person. She's rad, brah. So yeah, he said that with his dad, he called his dad a pretty good guy. He said that just because his dad attacked his mom with a butcher knife once, quote, one bad day shouldn't define someone. Okay. The bad people say shit like that, right? Usually.

He had a hard time in school. He was, we're talking in the 60s, he was prescribed Ritalin. He's like one of the first Ritalin kids, because he was so out of control. Back then, you know, you always hear the cliche now is back in the day, the kids were fine and they could be a little hyperactive. No, they'd put them on medication, but this hear the cliche now, is back in the day, the kids were fine, and they could be a little hyperactive. No, they'd put them on medication, but this is the beginning of it, all the way back then.

So he was very social, likes people, likes to play pranks. He fails the third grade, because he's inattentive, which, who hasn't? He's got ADD. Yeah, he's got a 97 IQ, which is right in the middle there. It's right right about average here I went to Owens Community College in Toledo, but then he got out of it Lacking sufficient credits for a degree didn't do very well

No a lot of short jobs he never holds jobs for long periods of time and no career and he's in his 50s here and Never had a career in his 50s? Bunch of short jobs, bunch of failed start, business attempts, just tried to start his own, none were successful. From what everybody said, everybody said he shows motivation but there's a lot of failure there.

That's what multiple people said. A lot of times of unemployment and then eventually now he just cares for his mother full time and doesn't even try to find work. So, everybody lives off her social security or whatever. So, the police are talking to this guy. They said he's very friendly at first. He invited them into the living room and this is like an FBI agent, a state bureau of investigation guy, local police, the whole crew is there. They talked to him for about 90 minutes and they asked him, you know, what did you do that night? And, you know, he said, well, I was

fine. He said about 5 45 or 6 p.m. on July 19th, he took off out of his property on a motorcycle with the motorcycle stalled when he was driving on County Road U. He said he got it running again, but it stalled again when he was driving on County Road U. He said he got it running again but it stalled again when he was driving on County Road 6. He said he stopped near a corn field that abutted a wheat field where he saw a blue bike and a light grey bike laying on the ground. He said he pulled his motorcycle into the corn field out of the view of the road because he planned on stealing one of the bikes and riding it home.

Because he couldn't get his bike running. But he changed his mind and said he went back to, back and forth in his head between getting his motorcycle running, trying to fix it, or just, and then riding it home or just walking it and pushing it home. Which is a long heavy walk. He said he didn't see anyone at all on his trip and he got home around 10 p.m.

So what he said is I went out on my motorcycle and then I have no alibi for about three hours and the whole window and this girl was taken and then I was home. And I was just real occupied with a motorcycle that nobody ever saw because I hid with it. Because I hid it, I didn't want anyone to see it on the side of a country road.

Then he told the investigators he lost some belongings when the motorcycle broke down. Oh no. They're like, oh yeah, which ones? And they said a helmet, some fuses, a screwdriver with an orange handle, and my sunglasses. So when he gets off his motorcycle, everything on his person explodes off of him in five different directions, apparently. Sunglasses shoot off, fuses fly out. So he said I didn't do anything several times

during the interview, and then asked. When you say fuses, you're talking about electrical fuses, yes? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it's gotta be. So it's gotta be, yeah. Why would he have fucking explosive fuses? Yeah, no, no, nothing like that, nothing think so. Yeah. It's just fuses. Yeah, it's gotta be. So it's gotta be, yeah. Why would he have fucking explosive fuses?

Yeah, no, no, nothing like that. Nothing like that. So he also multiple times not only said I didn't do anything with this girl, he also asked multiple times whether they had any evidence against him, like fingerprints or anything. I didn't do anything, but do you have evidence that I did anything? Do you have my semen or blood anywhere? Anywhere.

The Cleveland FBI agent said, Mr. Worley makes a statement about he was riding a motorcycle and his bike is having issues. It sputters out, he goes into a cornfield and he mentions that he lost his helmet, his fuses, his screwdriver and sunglasses. The one guy, that same guy said, I kind of had to stop my jaw from falling. None of that had been released to the media yet. Oh, shit. This is all the shit they found and he's saying, oh, that stuff's mine and there's blood stains I kind of had to stop my jaw from falling none of that had been released to the media yet. Oh This is all the shit they found and he's saying all that stuff's mine and there's blood stains all over everything So the he goes on to say it was a huge surprise for somebody to place themselves at the initial scene without

Really any provocation he said that of course set off our alarm bells like crazy And if that didn't set off alarm bells, then they look and it was passed and go, holy shit, listen to this. July 4th, 1990, 26 year old Robin Gardner was riding her bicycle. July. On the 4th of July.

On the 4th of fucking July, riding her bike in a rural area of this county. As she was nearing her house she got hit in the bike tire from behind by a red flatbed pickup truck. So it knocked her off the bike onto the side of the road. The driver, who we find out is James Worley, asked her if she was okay, then bashed her in the back of the head with a hammer and put her in a chokehold. Oh my god. Yeah, I would say he held a screwdriver to her throat.

This guy. And threatened to kill her if she didn't get in the truck. He said, do what I say or I'll kill you. I'm serious. I'll kill you. So he gets her in the truck and he's holding the screwdriver to her and he tries to handcuff her hands behind her back, which would be fucking terrifying if all of this isn't terrifying.

He got it on her one wrist and somehow she broke away and popped the door open and got out and just fucking bolted down the highway or down the county road with her, with a, you know, handcuff hanging from her wrist. Luckily, there's a motorcycle coming down the road here. She waves, waves, waves and literally just jumps on the back of the guy's motorcycle. Doesn't even fucking talk to him. Just jumps on and goes get the fuck out of here now. Everybody's got a goddamn motorcycle. And this guy's like sweet, check on my bike. He's like they were right. Dad said they'd be jumping all over me. That dealer was on the money.

So by the way, they had to cut the handcuffs off her. None of their handcuff keys at the police department would fit it. They couldn't get it off of her. And they didn't know who did it, so they couldn't get the key. Oh, no. They knew the fuck didn't. But they caught him eventually. Yeah, because she knew the truck and knew everything.

And he lives in the area. So she jumped out of the truck and fucking took off. Saved her own life. She said, I was screaming in the cornfield at the top of my lungs, a blood curdling scream, a scream I didn't know I had in me. And yeah, so she got out. She suffered a concussion and a fractured skull

from being bashed in the head with a fucking hammer. And he was convicted of abduction at this point. He ran a lawn mowing business at the time. He denied that he tried to harm her at all, even though he almost ran her over and then hit her with a hammer. And she has a fucking skull fracture. He said that they got in an accident,

his flatbed pickup truck and her bicycle, and that she was trying to leave the scene of the accident so he was trying to restrain her. This is all he was going by the book here. That's all it is. Who's got cuffs? Yeah. He so he said he that's what he did.

He said that she caused the crash when she cut in front of him on her bicycle. And to the court he said my family and myself are good decent and very honest people. He writes in a letter he's sentenced to you may fuck off, four to ten years in prison. Whoa. Yeah. They didn't buy his fucking story. No, not at all. They were like, no, a girl got bashed in the head with a fucking hammer and got, she had a handcuff on her hand. Why would you restrain her that way? That's insane.

Who would have handcuffs to restrain somebody that just got in an accident with them? I just hit this young woman in the head with a hammer and put her in cuffs because she was trying to leave the scene of a bicycle accident. That seems proportional, right? So the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections reports indicated that he had adjusted well to prison, completed various programs, and that he treated staff and fellow inmates well. He is released… You can never do anything like that ever again. He's released in December 1993.

While in prison, he makes some odd statements here. Adding to some suspicion here, a court mandated therapist, after he gets out of prison, he has to see a therapist for a while, he said to this therapist that he quote quote learned from each abduction he had done and the next one he was going to bury he learned don't leave them alive because you'll get caught said that in prison yep he said of course I think and the the therapist said of course I think he's done it before our gardener later said of course I think he's done

it before and after me I think he's a fucking before. Oh, Gardner, later, said, of course I think he's done it before and after me. I think he's a fucking monster. 1996, he's questioned by police over the disappearance of Claudia Tinsley after her mother reported she last saw her daughter leaving in Whirly's car. Oh my God. They said that Whirly told police

he drove around for 45 minutes with the kid and then dropped the, I wasn't a kid, whatever, a grownup, but it was her mother dropped this woman off He denied any role in it and they never found evidence. So he's never charged with a crime He killed that girl. He fucking killed her. They don't know where she never found her never found her Then in 2000 he is sent back to prison for illegal manufacture or cultivation of marijuana and having weapons while not being able to have weapons basically. So he is released in 2002 from prison. In prison he worked as a career technical school aid tutor, a porter and a

food services worker. So this is what we have. So they talk to him that night, he sounds real guilty. They leave, okay? He contacts the police after they leave and said, I want my fucking helmet back, by the way. He said, yeah, you probably found my helmet, I want it back. And there's like, well, there's blood on it.

So they're like, we're not gonna give you this back. So then one of the special agents, quote, overheard a conversation regarding a guy wanting his helmet back. After that, they said, let's go back to this asshole's fucking house. Fuck this guy. So they walk onto his property for the next 14 hours.

They're all over this place. Searching it. Rolly was told that a black helmet had been found and he immediately said, yeah, that's mine. I want it back. And they went, okay, well, it looks like the helmet has blood on it. And he said, that's impossible. You go, well, it does. Later on during the interview, he said he quote, he did not understand quote, this deal with his helmet, that his helmet has some ladies blood on it. Oh, nobody said this lady some lady's blood on it.

Oh, nobody said this lady's blood. There's blood on it. Yeah. And I said, yeah, cut my hand open and I was adjusting it or something. So they take a look around, they walk around his property, consists of a house, two barns, a machine shop and a trailer. They first go into the barn, which, uh, multiple news organizations dubbed the barn of horrors. Yeah, they walk into there and they said that his reaction, James's reaction to them being in there was a little unsettling or a little alarming. When an investigator approached a green crate in the barn and lifted its lid, Whirly got very upset with him, told him to

close that and then made them get out very quickly after that. But before leaving the barn, they were able to see a green crate contain many clear plastic bags filled with women's lingerie. He keeps it in his barn and a crate and plastic bags and like gallon ziplock bags. That's my tug box, get out of there. Get out of my tug box, it's full of jizz and other things.

They said a lot of anxiety over, and body language weirdness over them being in there. When he told the investigators, they said, why you got all that lingerie on the way out? What's up with that? And he said, it's for me to give to the women I date. He buys in bulk. For when he dates women, he just hands it out. When it's on sale, I just like to buy it. I like to buy, grandma, parents do that

for like their grandkids, they see like clothes they might be able to fit into in the fall, they're like, ah, little Johnny would look cute in that. He like does that with lingerie, just keeps it. Sometimes I get a bigger one, just in case it's a bigger cat. You never know. Hey, I'm not discriminating. Little stuff for the little ladies, you know.

We're only told the investigators that the only DNA they'd find, I'm sorry, the North Barn floor had a sand floor that had been raked recently. And he said that he had just cleaned it up in preparation to raise rabbits. They also find an inflated, fully inflated air mattress behind stacked straw bales. Why is that in there? Well he said the only DNA you're going to find on there is my mother's so don't worry about it.

Okay. So then they find security video footage from Evergreen High School located on County Road 6 between Whirly's property and the site where she was kidnapped. Showed a motorcycle traveling north on County Road six on July 19th so they're like that's you yeah dip shit that's your black helmet that's your fucking bike and that's you doing that he said no I returned home on my motorcycle about 10 p.m. and I hadn't driven north on County Road six and then I didn't leave my property again and they were like then what is this who's

that are you a pod person? Is there another one of you somewhere? Or do you have an identical twin with his identical helmet? Then eventually he admitted that he had not told the truth because, listen, OK, I've been lying to you guys. And they said why. And he said that he felt the quote, ammo was being stacked against him.

The ammo. Yeah. So they go, we're getting a search warrant. We're going to go over this thing with a fine tooth comb. So they do. They notice recent tire impressions in the grass leading directly to the North Barn on his property. Inside the barn, they note that a metal rake and a scoop shovel were leaning against the North Barn of the wall. They had a, there's a room hidden back there where like behind the tall hay bales. He's got like another little setup That's where the air mattresses And after removing the stack straw bales inside the barn

They found a roll of black duct tape a piece of white rope and a trash bag contain containing adult diapers Why does he have so much weird shit that he's got the weirdest stuff in the world? They also discovered a carpet lined chest freezer. Ever seen a chest freezer with fucking carpet in it, dude? Ever in your life? Ever heard of that? No, never. That had been buried into the floor. You opened up the thing from the floor. It was like, yes. It's like an ice chest that's sunken.

In the, yes, a sunken ice chest. And it's in there. And the floor of the freezer was wet and contained some straw. They'll find blood in there also, blood all over that carpet. They also found a motorcycle visor and what appeared to be a drop of blood on the south wall of the barn, approximately 33 inches above the floor. Inside the green crate, they found more adult diapers, a bag containing bondage clothing and restraints, a roll of white clothesline, latex gloves,

clear plastic bag containing women's lingerie and clothing, a piece of duct tape with straw, hair and other debris on it, a brown rope, white socks, a bag for storing the air mattress, and a pink sex toy. A pink dildo. The pink underwear that they found had reddish brown stain on it that tested positive for blood. Blood, yeah, that's definitely blood. Inside the machine shop they found his motorcycle which had pollen and weed stuck to it, more adult diapers.

What is the deal? I swear he doesn't wear adult diapers by the way. He doesn't have like a you know an issue or anything. A tool board that had a compartment for ammunition, handcuffs, handcuff keys, two sets of handcuffs with key tied to them, a zip tie, and a bottle of bleach. What is his deal? It's like he set up a murder fortress this whole place. Yeah, nobody that's innocent has that shit, right? I would hope not, Jesus Christ. Inside his house, they found additional adult diapers in the kitchen, living room, and two

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sleeve and the shirt was damp. They recovered a dirty pair of men's black denim jeans from his bedroom, also found a computer tower and a pair of black boots caked with mud. So the clothes he said he was wearing on July 19th was a cream colored shirt by the way, white or off white. His vehicles, a red Chevy S10 pickup truck and a green Dodge Dakota pickup were also searched. It had not- They didn't make either of those anymore. Neither, they're both completely fucking discontinued.

They had, it had not rained recently, but the red pickup was wet and had standing water in its bed. Okay. They recovered the following items from the red pickup. A can of pepper spray in the driver's side door pocket, a black ski mask. What is he doing?

Work gloves, an ear warmer, which is like a headband type thing that's bigger, a roll of duct tape, and seven 24 inch zip ties in the rear pocket of the passenger seat, three of which had already been connected. From the green pickup truck, the Dakota, they collected white rope bundled with

black electrical tape and zip ties under the driver's seat and under the floor mat of the driver's seat. So they had it all over the place. He's got the most suspicious life on the planet. Remember when Ted Bundy said he just wanted a ranch to like murder and then look over his cattle? This is like what he dreamed of. Also they got, they compared tire impressions from the tires on his red and green pickup trucks with the cast tire impressions from the County Road 6 crime scene and they said that they were consistent with the make and model of two tires on his pickup truck. His explanation for all this weird shit, dude. Tell me.

What the fuck he said, well, all these items are for my few I'm planning a pornography business and They're all props and stuff for that dude 2016 is too late. It's too late. Yeah, it's already crashing It's done, but the evidence found on the property was enough to arrest him for the abduction They said you have so much abduction shit and there's blood stains We can at least something get you off the street for right now. So he's arrested and charged with abduction. They said, you have so much abduction shit and there's blood stains. We can at least get you off the street for right now. So he's arrested and charged with abduction. Um, when they get him in there, they take a shirt off and photograph him and see many scratching scratches and

bruises on his arms, shoulders, a neck, and a cut on his finger as well. His key chain contained a unique key that looked like a key to the handcuffs that have have found attached later on we'll talk about here. Now, the FBI guy said, Whirly fits the profile of a serial offender and could potentially have additional unknown victims who he could have kept at the above described location. I would say the next day, July 22nd, I would say. The next day, July 22nd, a volunteer guy who's searching named Scott Hudick

is driving south on County Road 7 when he notices an area of disturbance in a cornfield on the east side of the road. He noticed 18 inch wide drag marks in the dirt. That's not good. No. He followed the drag marks for about 25 yards when he noticed that the dirt looked

as if someone took a shovel, dug a hole, and reburied it. He said that this wasn't, there was nothing there, but he kept looking around and saw a yellowish latex glove lying on the ground in between the road and the cornfield. So they found the glove, by the way, has contained a mixture of DNA profiles with C and James Rurley. What? He doesn't know that just because he doesn't have fingerprints doesn't mean he can't get caught with a glove, you idiot?

Fucking later that day on County Road 7, the west side of the road, they locate a site and noticing a peculiar section of corn where maybe three to four feet was missing out of the corn field. Just no corn there. So they began pulling it up and as they began digging, they started smelling decomposing remains.

Oh no. They found C's body covered with dirt, her wrists handcuffed behind her back, her ankles bound together with duct tape, and her feet bound to her hands with rope. Oh, hogtied the shitty way. Horrible. She was lying on her stomach with her head turned to the side. A rubber cone-shaped dog toy is secured with a shoelace tied in the back of her head and used as a gag in her mouth. Oh, wow.

And there's straw in her hair as well, because they kept finding straws, straw everywhere. She's dressed in a lace colored brassiere, handcuffs, a rope, and an adult diaper. What? And an adult diaper. What the fuck is that about? And the key to the handcuffs are on his fucking key ring,

by the way. Ouch. That's not good. Oh, ouch. That's not good. That's not good. So this is about two miles from his house here. This is horrifying, obviously. This is awful. The cause of death is asphyxiation from the plastic gag shoved in her mouth.

Really? Autopsy revealed a head wound caused significant bleeding and could have been caused by being struck with a motorcycle helmet. They said she had a head wound high on the right side of her forehead which caused significant bleeding, hairline fracture to her skull and the left occipital bone and there were several contusions on her outer left leg. Her forehead wound and the skull fracture could have been caused by being struck with the motorcycle helmet and or she could have been caused by being struck with the motorcycle helmet,

and, or she could have fallen off at it in the roadway. They found the dog toy in her mouth that had broken one of her teeth. So he really, this was not an easy- They really pushed it in there. She was fighting. Yeah, they said that the oral, her mouth and the dog toy were the same size, basically.

Oh, Christ. So that is fucking horrible and they said that she wasn't able to breathe and that's what caused her death. So he's going to be hit with now aggravated murder, kidnapping, felonious assault, 19 felony charges and all. On his computer, this has to be a fucking trove of weird They revealed that he visited x videos calm which is a porn site a lot in 2015 and 16 he searched for videos using keywords such as hogtied teen Jesus bound beaten down teens forced teens and stranded and forced and rough pickups

forced teens and stranded and forced and rough pickups. Do those exist? Drive your car off a fucking cliff. Good, yeah that's not, no, weird. We don't need you, you fucking weirdo. Jesus. In one of the videos that he watched, the female participant was strangled with a tennis net. That's creative.

Oh my god. Also, he accessed a website called aliexpress.com and searched for camisole tanks, g-string thongs, wholesale woman's bralette tops, underwear, women's lace strapless strap, backless rack chest sleepwear, cropped tank tops. I wouldn't even know what those are. His vocabulary for lingerie is mad impressive. It's fucking, yeah, he should just work for Victoria's Secret and stop doing this shit.

Also, they checked the name. There was a checking account in the name of his mother, which listed him as having power of attorney regarding his mother. This was used to purchase items from AliExpress also in June 2015 and March 2016, and from Wicked Temptations in May 2015. DNA testing here. Now fingernail clippings from C's left hand, they say that she was a major contributor

but that he was excluded as a major contributor. From that hand. From that. But there's all sorts of shit here. the blood stain on his helmet yields a DNA profile consistent with C with an expected frequency on this one of one in a trillion it's a full profile certainly it's her fucking shit here the helmets unstained interior reveals a mixture of DNA profiles her being one of them with an expected frequency of one in a trillion. There is seven billion people in the world, by the way. Whirly was included as a minor contributor with an expected frequency of one in 30 million.

I'm good with that. Blood stains from the checkered dish towel recovered at the abduction site consistent with her. DNA testing of the interior thumb tip of the latex glove that was recovered, where she was buried, have a mix of DNA profiles of Orly and C. They find her DNA in the barn, those are her underwear with her blood all over them in his fucking thing that he took as well. The air mattress contained a mixture of DNA profiles with C being one of the major contributors there. One in a trillion on that one, by the way. Duck tape also found in the crate contained mixture

of profiles including C's and his. What the fuck did he do? Yep, and then also his phone data has him in the abduction, around the abduction site between 742 and 745. He made a call there at 743. He made a call while he was doing this, while he was disposing of her fucking body or kidnapping. What the shit? That is fucking insanity. Also, they did not collect, there was human feces

and a shovel found in the cornfield on County 7 near Roads J and K where her body was found. They didn't test that, but it wasn't, they said that it, they think he took a shit out there while he was doing this. What a weirdo. So they think, yeah, he bashed her in the head with a fucking helmet, knocked her off,

dragged her into her, and it was fucking whatever, and then came back on his motorcycle. Maybe he waited there so long he had to take a shit. Maybe, that's what I mean, maybe. Waiting for someone. That's, well he was buried, it was when he was burying her, which is a different spot.

So he's on his motorcycle, bashed her in the head, they think maybe he like, you know, left her in the cornfield, went and got his truck, picked her up there, cause that's why the truck was hosed down, otherwise there's no reason. No evidence of sexual assault, which I think the weirdest fucking thing in this whole case.

What the shit? He just put her in adult diapers and probably jerked off to it, cause that's what he's into. There's no reason no evidence of sexual assault which I think the weirdest fucking thing in this whole case He just put her in adult diapers and probably jerked off to it because that's what he's into Wow Yeah, so this is fucking crazy Robin Gardner the original person that he kidnapped said that yeah my whole life has been ruined She had to move to an urban area because she can't be around the woods or the cornfields So I can't walk in the woods alone. I can't hike, can't bird watch anything. She said, I'm very afraid if people aren't around to help me if I'm in need. So she has the opposite rather than hiding. She needs to be around more people. She said, it's like this guy strikes when the corn is high. My heart hurts. Exactly what it is because you can't see what he's

doing in there. Yeah, he loves the summertime. It's fucking horrible. Sheila said, that's mom from C, for C said, we live in a very quiet, supportive community. I've got younger kids and wouldn't even bat an eye letting them ride down to my parents' house. And now I won't let them outside. He pleads not guilty to everything here. How can he?

That's what I mean. He wants to go to trial? Wow. His defense is that the lack of his DNA on some evidence meant there was reasonable doubt. All right, throw that up in the air and see what sticks, Jesus. They get Robin Gardner in to testify

because this is basically the victim describing exactly what went on with the other victim and it's gotta be horrifying. He used the same fucking MO.O. and instruments. It's insane. He has friends, which I'm surprised at, by the way. One's a guy named Mark Faubel, Fable, Fable. He's a high school friend of his

that he still hangs out with in his late 50s, and he said that they'd remained in touch. He said that in 2011 or 12, he knew that James needed a new helmet, so he picked one up for him in an automotive swap meet and he confirmed the helmet recovered from the abduction site is probably the one he gave him. Another guy, Jeffrey Whitaker, another high school friend said that from 2010 to 16 he saw Whirly sometimes every week or a couple times a month.

They rode motorcycles together and he said that he was aware that his bike had troubles in 2016 and he used to keep fucking fuses with them. He said the motorcycle occasionally stalled at corners and it never left them stranded though. It wasn't like he's saying that like James said. He also said that they watched pornography together. Yeah, that's what you do with your best pal. What 55 year old men watch porn together?

That's fucking weird. You're not 13. When you're 13, it's like you're discovering something. Whoa, look at that. Holy shit. 55. You're not watching it to tug. You're watching it to blow your friend's fucking mind because he's probably never seen it.

And figure out some shit. Oh, that's how that works. Okay. I didn't know how I was thinking about it. But if you've both seen it before already, never watch it together. No, no. That's weird.

Fucking weird, man. It's prosecution closing, closing, not clothing. I just looked at the word clothing, and said from the minute, this is the prosecutor, from the moment he took her on County Road 6, he was going to have to kill her if he was going to get away with it. He could not let her go and avoid punishment, but there's more. You've heard Major Smithmire

talk about some of the videos he watched. There's a movie called Death of a Tennis Star where the female character is choked on a tennis net, choked out on a tennis net. Whirly was into that kind of pornography and he wanted to watch the sea die. He wanted to watch her die. That's why he didn't use the ball gag that's specifically designed for bondage activity. That's why he used a dog tie, a dog toy tied in place. And you heard the doctor say it took up to ten minutes for her to die. And she'd be an invisible sign of distress. And he liked to watch that because that's what got him excited. He said so she was killed by the insertion of that yellow dog chew toy because she still cannot breathe.

The tying of the dog chew in place shows her death is purposeful. Her death was purposely caused. Now they dismissed the aggravated robbery charges. Charges counts 13 and 14 of 19 of them, which doesn't matter. The verdict comes in. He is found guilty of everything Yeah up to and including being a fucking weirdo. Just sorry. We're labeling you At sentencing he said he tries to say that he has a good history character and background

You've been convicted of abducting women. What the fuck are you talking about? I'm lost man also says he's had some concussions and he smokes weed a lot. So yeah, that makes sense. This all makes sense. Yeah, that all ties together, right? Holy shit, that's what he said. And the death penalty is on the table here. Sure.

His psychiatrist said, I've got a defendant here that won't open up to me when it really counts and had never really seen a therapist or opened up and living in, I guess, this warped world taking care of his mother who's the only female in his life or he was quite detached and I think looking at pornography with a friend of his Which is maybe what 17 year olds or 14 year olds do but not maybe 55 year olds. Yeah, that's fucking nuts Yeah, they said that he retreats in his own world due to fear of rejection. That's what the one guy said psychiatrist The judge says you sir own world due to fear of rejection. That's what the one guy said, the psychiatrist. The judge says, you sir, may fuck off death penalty for you.

Whoa. Scumbag. Fucking weirdo. Get out of here. Oh, and on top of that, 25 years and 11 months as well, just in case. It's the sitting around watching her die and putting up- It's disturbing. The things that he- oh, a fucking diaper, all that stuff is weird too. Fucking horrible.

He appeals to the state Supreme Court based on jurors, some jury issues that he thought they had and that they shouldn't have let Robin Gardner testify. Because that's a past crime. But you can allow past crimes if the MO is exactly the same which it is It's exactly the same bash a girl in the head drag her away fucking killer. So It's upheld. He can go fuck himself He's appealing it to the Supreme Court right now and if all goes smoothly the execution date is for 2025

So very quickly The family her sees family has established a scholarship fund in her name to benefit one graduate of Evergreen High School, her alma mater, each year. Also a non-profit organization called Justice for Sierra, which is dedicated to making the community safer from repeat offenders. Their advocacy resulted in the passage of Sierra's Law,

which is an Ohio statute that created a searchable violent crime database to make it easier to find these people. Nice, yeah. Yeah, which is very cool. And Sierra's Law passed in 2018, and it's Senate Bill 231 in Ohio, and they said that the man who murdered Sierra was a repeat violent offender who lived just miles from her home, but Sierra's family never knew a predator lived so close, said

she was robbed of fulfilling her dreams on Earth because of preventable violence and a system that failed to keep her safe. That is Ohio, everybody. Yeah. He should have been a sex offender too, right? I would fucking think, well, he didn't rape the girl, he just tried to abduct her, but it's still a violent offense, so. That's even worse, right?

I don't know. Yeah, he was trying, he was going for blood. You're unsafe. He didn't try to charm her, he bashed her with a fucking offense, so. That's even worse, right? I don't know. Yeah, he was trying, he was going for blood. He didn't try to charm her, he bashed her with a fucking hammer the first girl. Like, this is his MO, and how many more? How many more? How many more?

It's gotta be, yeah. He has it all. You don't have that whole setup with zip ties and every vehicle you have and all that shit. Dude, this is a thing he does. Divers everywhere to watch them die. Fuck me. Because you know they're gonna shit.

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