Small Town Murder - Body Part Scavenger Hunt - Emerson, Nebraska

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

This week, in Emerson, Nebraska, a young boy shows up at school, telling his teacher that his father is dead, and "Black Cat" killed him. This sends police looking for the dad, only to find a puddle of blood & one boot, in his driveway. Luckily, the man has cameras around his house that give police some clues, that eventually lead to an abandonded farm house & finding an arm & a leg, in a car trunk. From there, detectives scramble to find the rest of the body, eventually making a horrific discovery!! Will one of the kilers, claiming that he is Lucifer affect the trial??   Along the way, we find out that kids can apparently pull tractors, that it's not a good idea to tell the judge that you're God, and that if a 5 year old says his dad is dead, maybe you should believe him!!   New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!! Check us out on VIDEO Wednesday and Friday evenings on Netflix! www.netflix.com/smalltownmurder Donate at patreon.com/crimeinsports or at paypal.com and use our email: [e-mail] Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!   Follow us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/smalltownpod   Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

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Shut up and give me murder. Let's do this, everybody. Okay. Let's go on a trip, shall we? Yeah. Let's do it. All right. We're going to Nebraska this week.

Fuck. Here we go. Oh, everybody's so excited to go there. We're going to Emerson, Nebraska. Got damn. Ever heard of that? No. No, is the answer?

Large population drives a Chevy truck. Yeah, I think so. You don't think it's Ford country, maybe? You never know. No, sir. No, F-150s around here. I can't handle it. Emerson, Nebraska.

It's in northeastern Nebraska, like far northeastern Nebraska. but it's a rural farming town. It's about 35 minutes to Sioux City, Iowa. So that's the closest place to it. About an hour 45 to Omaha, Nebraska, if you'd like to go there. And then two hours and five minutes to Clark's Nebraska. Our last Nebraska episode, episode 672,

murder mystery on wheels. Yeah. I'm telling Nebraska brings it with the murder. They do. They always have crazy stuff. Now, this town is in three different counties. It is a, it's a, the town is 0.470. square miles. It's not a big town. The Tri-County area. It's some, while they have, you'll find out about

the Tri-County later on. This is in Dixon, Dakota, and Thurston counties. I don't know why they couldn't just pick a county there, but area code 402, population here, 854. So how do they get on three counties? Three, half a mile, 900 people. And a lot of those people are out kind of away from the town, too, because it's a lot of big farms and stuff. Median household income. come here, 56,346,000, which is below the national average, by about 13,000. But good news, median home cost also extremely low, less than half the national average here. 153,200 bucks. You're telling me it's not in demand.

It's strange that northeastern rural Nebraska isn't just the hottest real estate market going, but it's not weird. History, it was laid out in 1881 to be a railroad junction. That's all it was. Just like it's a junction of counties, it's a junction of railroads. It was a railroad of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railways. Dang. So they all came together here. In 1880, the railroad bought 100 acres of land for a town site.

Sure. Literally, they said, we'll build a town. So there's for our junction. That was it. The first two buildings were a depot and a section house. And well into even the 1930s, Emerson had up to 67 trains. trains a day. Wow.

Imagine how irritating it would be to live in that fucking town and hear 67 train whistles a day. You'd lose your mind. Unless you're one of those adults that just fucking loves trains. Yes, for the seven of those guys that are standing staring at the trains the whole time, for everybody else, you're like, enough with the fucking whistles. We get it. You're here. Goddress like an engineer.

Yeah, with the hat out, the overalls. We saw the same guy. It was first known as Kennesaw, Junction and then they found out that you couldn't name it that because it was already it's kind of saw junction Nebraska. It already fixed us. So they decided to name it Emerson in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet. Wow.

Who was born and died in Massachusetts and has nothing to do with Nebraska whatsoever. He died. No, no, no, no, that's, no, no, that's not. Another guy with three names, right? It's, uh, God damn it. Gatsby is, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Thank you. And yeah, it's Ella Fitzgerald. Yeah, it's Ella Fitzgerald's dad. Ralph Waldo, what did he write? He's a poet. Yeah. And he died a couple years earlier. That's the only

reason I could think possibly why they would do. Just as like a posthumous gift. I don't know. So there you go. The town was incorporated in 1888. Now, there's only a couple reviews of this town. We'll give them out here. See what other people think of this town. Sure. With some reviews, here is four stars. I've lived here all my life, and it's a great place to live. My name is Luke Stolls, and I will be a sophomore next year at Wayne State College. I'm studying the field of secondary physical education with an endorsement in coaching with the goal of become a high school physical education teacher and a coach.

Well, with that kind of grammar, gym teacher's a good spot, I think, for you there. I have always wanted to be a PE teacher. I've never heard anyone say that before. Wow. Good. You know what? Go do it. Good for you.

As soon as I saw a man wearing shorts to work, I was like, that's for me. It's like, I like whistles. Yeah. I'd like to have one of those around my neck all the time. I'd like to yell at teenagers to change their fucking shorts faster. That seems like fun. I always saw myself in some sort of sports-oriented field. That is not it.

That's not a sports-oriented field. My mom has coached sports in the past, and I have wanted to follow in this path for myself. PE teacher is about bottom rung of sports, right? If you can call it sports. Yeah. That's like saying karaoke bar, karaoke bar host today. Yeah. It's like saying a karaoke bar host is in showbiz.

Like, not really. You know, let's be honest here. Yeah, they're just handing out, you sing. And just same way they're giving balls to non-athletic kids. Whether or not they're good isn't going to matter in a sec. You're just giving them the mic. Either way. Yeah, giving them the mic or a dodge ball.

Either way, it's the same shit. Doesn't mean they can know how to throw it. So three stars, small quiet town. It was a railroad town that was established in the mid-1800s, which is now a small farming community. Those are the reviews of this town. That's all that exists. So things to do here.

James already told us that. You did. Yeah. So we already know that. We read the history, stupid. Things to do here, Emerson Tri-County days. There you go. The Tri-County area.

You knew it was going to happen. So we got a movie night. We have a twin duo pair dress-up themed fun run. So dress-up is a duo and then go run. Yeah, there's a petting zoo. There's kids races, pony rides. Okay, line up at the high school and the Emerson High School for the parade. All are welcome to show up in March if you want to do there.

All sorts of stuff. A cornhole tournament. Then at 8 p.m., the dance on the ball field with music. by Dane Lewis. And there's one dollar beers while that's going on. Wow. That sounds great.

You'll dance at somebody. That's a deal. That doesn't exist fucking anywhere anymore. No. And then the next night, there's a hay bale toss and a kid's tractor pull. How far can you throw a haybell?

We're going to find out. Six feet is the winner, for sure. And that's just a big sum bitch. It's not going to be exciting. Someone's going to win like six foot one to five foot 11 probably. It's not, but I mean, it'll be close. Somebody's going to throw their best. back out. For sure. So that said, let's talk about a murder. What do you say here? Okay. All right. Let's talk about a man first here. Let's talk about Craig and that's with a K. Craig Donald Kubick. And that's with a K-U-B-I-K. And he goes by apparently, according to what I've seen, he goes by Boomer.

Oh. That's what people call him. Boomer. Boomer Kubick here. Now, he's born December 2nd, 1973, and he's from. Council Bluffs Iowa and we said Idaho. Do that every time. He's got parents named Donald and Jeanette and he's got a brother named Kirk and a sister named Christy, all K's. Whoa.

Yeah. At least they don't give their kid middle name with the K. That would be disturbing. But all Ks. They're all KK though. All KKK. Craig's was welding started welding when he was four years old. That's

Is irresponsible parenting at best. He shouldn't have been near that. You can't teach a kid to fucking weld it four? That's dangerous. Yeah. That's dangerous. He's one of these guys that can fix anything. If he has to, he'll weld it together, but he'll fix it.

You know, it's going to happen. He graduated from Emerson Hubbard High School in 1992, and while attending school, which he wasn't a big, he didn't really care. He wasn't going to college, really, or anything like that. He was going to work here. While attending school, he helped. He helped his dad farm and he repaired cars and tractors and even did some welding work in buildings as well during high school. Adult shit, yeah.

That's what I mean. I think from four, he was like, no, I'm just going to join the union. Yeah. You know, just he was ready to go. Black coffee and pall malls. Yeah. He's like, do they make Carhart and tiny? Is that a thing?

Is that possible? Lil Tikes Carhart. My first car heart from Lil Tikes. So that's what he's doing. He graduates and started working for L to Z or LZ manufacturing company, lazy, maybe. Manufacturing building manufacturing company, he would build and repair horse race track equipment. That's a very specific sphere that you're working in. Yeah.

He's not doing chariot racing. So that would mean like the posts, right? Yeah. And the gates? The gates. It has to be a lot of gate work. I mean, those gates have to work, don't they? they don't work on time. How much repair do they need? I don't know. That's what I'm wondering.

It seems like a thousand pound behemoth flying through that thing. It probably gets bent. Oh, and how many racetracks are there? How many horse tracks are there around? There can't be more than one. Can't be more than one in a small area, right? So it's interesting. He also worked for several construction companies doing steel work and cement work. He's a guy with a strong back, Craig. Let's just put it that way. He continued also. He would do like repair work at his home in his spare time too. He had to side jobs. You know, if you need a lawnmower, fixed or some shit, he'll do it.

While he was employed with one of the companies, he helped build the new Cornerstone Church in Sioux City. And he also worked at several ethanol plants in the area as well. So doing work. Okay. He does hard work. Refinery? Yeah.

His work is all. That's hard. That's brutal. He's good at the piano also, which you don't get a lot across. I'd love to see the Venn diagram between pianists and welders and just see how much of that comes together, right? Or ethanol workers. Literally anything he does and pianists, I'd like to put them together. Usually, if you can repair shit, usually, that's that side of your brain works.

And the other, the artistic side usually doesn't work as well. But this guy, apparently it does. Is the piano? Is that a string or a percussion? What is that one? The percussion, I think. Yeah. It's hitting the...

He also is super into guitar hero. The video game. Yeah. Who the fuck wasn't? Which makes sense. Now, by the 2010s here, as we'll catch up with him in 2016, and by then he's got a daughter and a son also. Okay. Not married, not sure where that would happen with that or relationship-wise, whatever.

But he's got a... playing guitar hero. She's going to suck. Yeah, maybe. His daughter's a few years older than the son. The son's about five years old in 2016. And I won't give their names, even though they're all over the newspaper for some reason. I don't know why these little kids' names had to be in the paper. As children in 2016? Absolutely. They're all over the place. So in 2016, he's got a girlfriend named Jacqueline Marr, M-A-H-R. And so, you know, he's seeing her. They don't live together.

She also has a child, I believe, and lives in her own place, but they've been seeing each other for a while now. November 1st, 2016. Okay, let's catch up here. Jacqueline saw him, Kirk Boomer, at about 7 p.m. Now, when Jacqueline left Boomer's house, he and his six-year-old son were at the home at that point. He was just home with a six-year-old.

And earlier that afternoon, he had had a couple of visitors, a couple of guys talking about he's been in some ongoing dispute over a broken down shitty red dodge charger for a good amount of time here. It's sitting in the driveway. One of the tires is flat. It's, you know, it's just sitting there. And he's been in an ongoing dispute with these two idiots over it. And they've been going back and forth for a while. these guys were there earlier in the day talking about it and she had seen them there and all that kind of thing. And, you know, now it's just him alone.

Is it an old charger or a new charger? Do we even know? It's a newer, crappier. Yeah, it's like a broken down eight-year-old Dodge Charger or something. Yeah. Nothing special. Now, Jacqueline received a text message from Boomer around 10.30 p.m. And after that, he stopped responding to her texts, which this is a type of guy who seems like he's up with the fucking.

Crow, you know what I mean? Up with the rooster here. Like he's a... 10.30. That boy's out of energy. I mean, if you've been welding and, you know, Ethan awling all day, I think that's... You're probably tired.

I'll take it out of you. Real sleepy by then. So she thinks the same thing. He probably has to get up early or something. So November 2nd, 2016, the next morning, Jacqueline drops her child off at school and then goes over to his house. It goes over to Boomer's house. Arives there around 9 a.m.

Okay? Now, she arrives and sees Boomer's son, the five-year-old, standing out on the deck of the house. On the porch. On the porch. Just standing there. Now, he should be in school. It's right. It's 9 a.m.

He should have already. So that's strange. So she's like, that's weird. Why is he just standing? And Boomer's not around. Just a five-year-old standing on a deck by himself. He's not like drinking coffee and, you know, reading Vanity Fair or anything. He's, you know, he's doing something here.

Doing the New York Times crossword. He's just doing it. It's like, you know, I do it in pen. You know, some guys, some people have it. You never know. She also sees that there's air compressors, which have not been, weren't there last night when she was here,

located near that red door Dodge Charger that's being stored on the property. There's also a pair of boots there, a flashlight, and would appear to be a puddle of blood. Oh. So he apparently was, just eviscerated from space.

And he left boots with like smoke coming out of him, you know, and a puddle of blood, apparently. Sometimes when you lift off, you leave a little behind. You never know what goes on there. You don't need all that up there. No, no, no. I figure he's got zapped by a laser. And now he's just, you know.

So that's what she sees. And so she starts calling for him, you know, and she's calling around and he's not answering. It's just the five-year-old on the deck and she can't find Boomer. And the five-year-old gives no. information of where he is? He has nothing to offer at this point in time. He'll talk plenty later, but right now he's got nothing to say. So what does she do here? Call the cops maybe? Because she calls so she's texting Craig, calling Craig, can't get a hold of him. Right. Here's a puddle of

blood and boots and a lone five-year-old and I can't find the guy. But if you call the cops and they find him, now he's got neglect on his hand. I guess. Kids here. I think the puddle of blood kind of signify. Yeah. Yeah. That goes over. Yeah, that's a, that's the, yeah, I think that that definitely takes precedence over. It's an escalator for sure. It's an escalator. If it was like two drops, no, but it's a puddle, you know. It's a lot. You see a puddle, like more than a normal human would lose at a time in a normal course of action.

If your car lost that much oil, you wouldn't drive it. You go, there's a problem here. There's a problem. There's a problem. Call somebody. So she doesn't call the cops, though. She instead takes the son to school. She's like, you're late for school.

and she takes him to school. Okay. Then she called some of Boomer's friends to see if they had seen him, and then they hadn't seen him either. So she finally goes, because they've been seeing each other for a while, she has keys to his house and shit. She goes in his house and starts looking at footage from his home surveillance system. Oh. To see if she can see anything. She does see that the two guys he's been arguing with about the charger showed up at about 10.30 the night before, right when he stopped returning text messages.

These two guys are Andres Serber, S-U-R-B-E-R. He's 25. And I guess Brian, Bray-N, B-R-A-Y-A-N is his first name, which I've never seen before. Brian? That's Brian, right? Brian. Brian. Yeah, Brian-R-A-N. Brian Galvan-Hernandez, J-L-V-A-N.

He's only 18, okay? Okay. So on the footage, the three of these guys, Boomer, Serber, and Galvin are all seen on the footage walking toward the red Dodge. And then a headlights, headlights of a vehicle can be seen backing out of the driveway. They had been there earlier in the day, too, to argue about it. So this is not new. Now, while this is going on, while she's looking at surveillance footage, Boomer's son is at school. Okay.

Boomer's son walks up to his teacher and says that his dad is dead. How's he know that? He just walks in and says, my dad's dead. And the teacher's like, huh? You know, what the fuck? And he says, black cat killed him. Black cat killed him. Black cat killed him.

So he goes, she's like, black cat killed him. My dad's dead. I better get the principal. I mean, he is five. He could be whatever. But I don't want this to be on me. Let's run this up the flagpole and see how it goes. I'm going to teach the rest of the kids to color in the lines.

So Cubic's son then tells the teacher also that there's blood, there was blood on his father's boots and on a flashlight, which was over by the air compressors, those things. So, okay. Now, the principal, the boy goes to the principal's office and the principal calls the cops from the school, you know, and says, quote, he was telling, meaning the boy, he was telling me how his father was dead and how the principal's office and how the principal. There was blood everywhere. That's what the principal said. So when questioned by the principal, the son repeated the same information and then also mentioned a gun and an air compressor as well. Okay.

So the principal tried to get a hold of boomer but couldn't reach him. So that's when she called the police to call in a welfare check on the house just to see if this kid was crazy. Kids are weird. You never know. They say something out shit. Yeah, he could have accidentally seen part of a movie or something. and, you know, five-year-olds are totally different thing. So the welfare check happens.

Now, this is the Dakota County Sheriff does this. When the sheriff pulls up, he meets Jacqueline Marr and Boomer's dad is there as well. Okay. So he's there. Now, the girlfriend tells the sheriff that she was certain Boomer had been kidnapped or that something has happened to him. She's short. She's certain.

Yeah. Positive. She shows the sheriff, the patch, which looks like blood. And alongside that are possible what looks like drag marks. Okay, yeah. These are, you know, pretty big clues here. In blood. Yeah, there's blood and then from the blood puddle looks like there's drag marks away.

So in the dirt, pulling. So also she shows him the video footage, and so they bring in additional cops to try to figure this out. This guy can't do it on his own. The cops described finding blood in the grass near the back of a red Dodge charger. and alongside two different air compressors would look like a lawnmower and a single standing boot, just a boot. Just one boot?

One boot sitting there. So the cops then attempt to ping the cell phone, boomer cell phone to see if they can find it, but they're unsuccessful. So it must be awful. It shows nothing. Yeah. So then they meet up in Wakefield, Nebraska,

all the cops, to continue this investigation, put their heads together. So they send cops out to different spots. Some cops are at the cubic residence. Others went to the school to speak with the sun. See if they can get anything from that. And by this time, since they had seen them on the surveillance footage, they're going over to talk to Serber and Galvan as well.

Not even at their suspects or anything, but just that you saw them at 1030, anything. Let's talk. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. So where are Serber and Galvan? We got to find them now.

The cops learn that Serber was dating Galvan's sister. Okay. She's pregnant, as a matter of fact. Well, he's not going anywhere. He's there. And that Galvan, the Galvan family residence was in Wakefield, Nebraska. So about at 11 a.m. that morning, one of the officers does a drive-by of the Galvan residence and sees a black GMC-Ucon Denali with in-true. Transit stickers.

I don't know what those are. Shipping? I don't know. Stickers that just say in transit on it, I'm not sure. That's usually, that means like in tow, right? It's being towed. I guess. That's what I mean.

I don't know why it's not. It's sitting in the driveway, but maybe it was towed at one point. Right. I think that's what it is, is that it was being drugged behind another vehicle. I don't know. It's stickers, too. I don't know. Whatever.

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for $20 off your first three orders, plus you'll get a free $60 gift. Now back to the show. So that's parked outside. So we know that Serber is at the Galvan residence, probably with his girlfriend. So the officers then, after they do the drive-by and find out he's there,

they go get some backup, and they come back to the residence. Galvan was outside when he saw the officers, the 18-year-old. He ran as soon as he saw them. Perfect. Bad side. They pull in the driveway.

He runs. You're asking for, you know, some... What's the problem? A little suspicion there. Because he's on his property. It's not like it was out somewhere else. Galvan was told to stop, and he did. Oh.

So they just, when they got out of the car, they should have said, don't run. And he would have just stayed still. So he listens anyway. He was handcuffed after he ran and responded yes when asked if Serber is in the house also. So Galvin then gives the officer's permission to enter the house to go find Serber, which they do. They're doing a sweep of the property, by the way. So they're inside the house looking for Serber and they're outside the house doing a sweep of the property.

In I think the garage, they find a pair of bloodied boots and a pair of pants with blood on them. Yeah? Bad sign. Meanwhile, the officers in the house find Serber and they're questioning him about Craig Kubik's, you know, whereabouts. Do you know anything about this? Serber had apparently just got out of the shower and was only wearing a towel at this point.

Sexy. hot. So they make the decision the cops do to get Serber out of the house. We're going to take him with us to talk to him. One deputy allowed him to go get some clothing to put up because they're going to take him in a towel. The deputy had been informed that bloodied clothes have been found in the garage. The deputy noticed that Serber walked up to the pile of clothes that they noticed that had blood on them. The deputy with Serber then observed would appear to be fresh blood and flies on the clothes as well. Nice. Very nice. Serber then walked to a different part of the garage. Oh, those are the gross

clothes with blood on them. I can't wear those. I don't wear those. Those will look, whatever we have to talk about. Those will look bad. I probably shouldn't wear a viscera stain to the police station. That's not good. Um, leave these flies to these clothes. Yeah. Um, so then Serber walked to a different part of a garage, found a different pile of clothes, which by the way, the deputy noted in his report as being, quote, dirty. So he walked over to a different part of a garage. So he walked over to a Different pile of dirt. No clothes? First of all, his dresser is a garage, number one.

Yeah, that's why. That's why he just keeps him in a pile on the floor in the garage. Yeah. Armour and garage almost have the same letters. I'm sure they're both French-based. Sure, why not? Garage. I keep my clothes in the garage.

The garage. It works. So then he puts those dirty clothes on and goes with the cops. Now, how do they know Boomer? Well, the investigators find out. that Serber and Galvin had confronted Boomer earlier in the day, the day before on the first, demanding the return of a car that once belonged to Serber or that Kubik make good on the money he owed Serber. There's some dispute of, they think Boomer hasn't paid fully for this car that he has, that he bought from Serber. That's what this is all about.

So apparently here, they then, Serber says that he went to the trailer. that, you know, Boomer was living in about 1040. The two had, you know, the ongoing dispute over a broken down Dodge Charger. Serber said he planned to repossess the car that day, repossess it, and had gone with Galvan to Cubix home that night to air up the flat tire so they could haul the car away the following day. That's why there's a compressor there. Okay.

The next day. We don't, we're not going to... Next morning. Pump it up and then leave and then come back. and get it. We're going to pump it up and come back for it another time. If they're flat, they don't hold air. It's probably going to be flat again by the morning. I'd fill it up right before you drive. How about that? That's the good idea. Yeah. Before you wheel it on a trailer, whatever you're going to do. Yep. So maybe that's it. They're coming back with a trailer.

Now, while the officers were at this Galvin residence, there's another deputy who receives a phone call from Serber's mother. Now, how does this mother know to call this deputy specifically? Because they're neighbors. That's why. The mother and deputy Roger Peterson. This is close. Peterson, the deputy, had actually seen Serber at approximately 8 a.m. that day, driving

away from Wakefield and within five or six miles of the Serber family farm. Now, the mother tells the cop that her son, Serber, had been near rural Dixon County near their farm, which is at the near the 579th Avenue and old U.S. Highway 20 intersection. Old U.S. highway. We don't use that one anymore. Fucking trees growing in the middle of the lanes and everything. It's huge.

So Peterson, the deputy, had driven by the farm to check for Serber's vehicle before it was spotted at the galvan residence. So he had already gone on a sweep by there. Now, upon reaching the deputy, Serber's mother told the deputy that if something was going on with Serber, that the deputy should know that Serber had been at the farm that morning. Just in case you want to put my son in jail, let me help you. I'm not even sure he did anything, but just in case. If something happened there, I can gladly make sure that I can put him at the crime scene. Absolutely. And you'll understand why she would probably want to kind of get him away from her when we get into this a little more.

So the farm included a house, but no one resided at the property. It's been abandoned this property. The property was owned by Serber's uncle, who was his mother's brother, who lives in New York. They don't even live here. Okay. Now, when he was contacted, so they contacted the owner of the property, the brother. And when he's contacted, he gave them permission to search the property telling law enforcement, quote, go ahead and do what you need to do.

Right. I don't give a shit. I don't even live there. Knock yourself out. It's abandoned. Nothing there is worth anything to me. Nope. So if it was, I would have taken it with me or stayed there to protect it.

So the Serber family farm in Dixon, Nebraska, law enforcement kind of converges on there to search. They find a silver Chevy Impala that had a window broken out and would appear to be blood on the rear bumper and lid of the trunk. Oh. That's a good sign. Fresh blood. Yeah. Not dry. six months blood or anything.

So the deputy said that he responded to a, had responded to a recent accident that Serber had been involved in and that Serber had been driving this silver Chevy Impala when the accident took place. Oh, this is his car. It's such a small town that the same people investigate traffic accidents and possible murders at the same fucking time. Yeah. I know this guy.

I was doing the traffic report on that one. I did a traffic report. Wow. on this in my homicide suit. Yeah. Or I investigate murders in my uniform, one of the two. Yeah. So the Impala's vehicle registration, the VIN comes back to Cerber, and the plates on it were not for this car.

The plates on it are registered to a red Dodge Charger formerly owned by Serber. Okay. Now, near the Impala, the officers also discover. blood droplets around on the ground as well as, you know, on the car. So they find what they also dried blood on the back of the bumper. One of the cops there said when he saw the blood, quote, my heart kind of sank. He said, kind of knew that this was a bad sign. Then nearby there's a burn barrel.

Yes. They can smell in the air that it's been burning recently. Right. So they go over to the burn barrel. and what they find near the burn barrel or ashes, what appears to be flesh of some kind, a red gas can, a spray bottle with what appeared to be blood on it, and a bloody knife.

That's what they find near there. And flesh that they assume is human. Right. Not really great thing to find, obviously. Or the best thing, depending on which side of this you're on. It's bad. So then they call in to get a warrant for the trunk of the Impala. Because they're like, this isn't good.

We obviously need to get in there. I suppose you got constitutional rights and shit, but that kind of blood is in probable cause? I think they're trying to make sure that everything is done above board so nothing gets thrown out. And this type of situation, there's no rush. Yeah. I guess you got to assume that this person's dead anyway. If that flesh belongs to him, he's not alive and you're not looking for him. Yeah.

So at this point, let's make sure the legalities and no one gets off on a technicality. We got a lot of blood and a lot of different locations. All over the place. Yeah. And we got flesh now. So he's near in a burn barrel. Yeah, that's not good. God, which is a disconnable barbecue.

It's so hard to burn a body. Yeah, I think that's what they found out. It sounds like it. It's not easy. It's so hard to burn all of it. It really doesn't work very well. Those ovens at the morgue or whatever get up to like 1,800 degrees or something. Yeah.

You can't get your... That's the thing that most people evidently don't know. You can't get a burn barrel up that high. You just can't. No matter how much gas you put on it, it's just not going to work. And even those guys that cremate shit, they still have to put what's left through a grinder. Yeah. To turn it into dust and sand.

There's still chunks of body. It works about as well as those conveyor pizza ovens do. Like, it's a shitty job and you've got to put it through again probably to get the result you want. Works about as well as you should expect it to work. Yeah, at home. Stop having such lofty expectations about everything. That's why you can bury someone, but you can't. There's no like at home cremation thing.

No. You ever seen a kit for that on Amazon? Because it doesn't fucking exist. That's why. And even when you bury a person, they're not just gone. No, no, no, no. That shit sticks around so long. Oh, it's kind of decompose.

So they open the trunk here. Okay, let's get to this. They open up the trunk, and inside the trunk is a severed arm and a severed leg. One of each. One leg, one arm. That's all that's in there. That's it. Nothing else.

A leg and an arm. Yeah. So further searches of the Impala were completed after it was impounded. They found more blood, along with two cell phones, at least one of which definitely belonged to Boomer here. So that's not good. paperwork in the glove box indicated that it is Cerber's car. DNA testing on the blood from the Impala, the cubic residence, and the Cerber farm, and the boots and clothing found at the Galvan residence,

and other evidence is shown to all be consistent with cubic as well, with Boomer. A knife found near the Impala had Cerber's fingerprints on it, but not Galvan's or Cubics. Any blood of cubic? Yes, all the blood's cubics. all of it. His fingerprints, his blood. His blood. So Cerber's fingerprints, other guy's blood.

Yeah. In fingerprints in blood, too. Now, then they get surveillance video from Kubix trailer that shows server, server and Galvan enter Kubik's home, then exit with him. As the three of them walk to the car, apparently that's what you see on the surveillance. Now, Serber has a story here of what happened later on. we'll talk about, but he's going to say that this is, you know, this was all just some crazy event that's self-defense that happened. Oh, he's.

Yes, because in most self-defense cases, you dismember the other party when you're done. You don't stop. It's mainly just for you. It's like a celebration thing to show that you've won the confrontation, so you're going to take them apart and, you know, try to burn them. He doesn't even go with, we left to go get the money and he went back home, I guess. He doesn't say that. I don't know. Yep.

We'll get into it, but it's wild. Investigators later found surveillance video from November 1st of a Wakefield convenience store where Cerber and Galvan bought a gas container of a substance used to ignite fires. So gas. A similar gas container was found next to the burn barrel, brand new from there. Also, video surveillance from the next morning, November 2nd, showed Galvan at the Wakefield Convenience Store. exiting the vehicle that was originally searched at his residence. Serber's vehicle was spotted by a witness at the Dixon County residence that same morning.

That's the Denali, I think. Then there's a witnesses said they heard loud noises coming from the Wakefield residence at around 740 in the morning. That's the Galvan residence. Another witness saw a person walking south on the county road away from the Cerber residence around 10 or 1030 that morning, which would be probably Serber. That would make sense. A vehicle that fit the description of Serber's

was later seen picking up the man and driving away from the residence. So someone picked him up in his own car. Witnesses also say they've seen Serber at the residence in the past and heard gunshots coming from the area when he was there. So he's been going there to shoot.

To shoot. The abandoned farm. Yeah. So Serber's arrested, obviously. Certainly. both going to be arrested that day. I mean, one guy was already in cuffs because he ran away. But now Serber's arrested, too, and charged with murder.

I think there's enough. In dirty clothes. In dirty garage clothes. Smelling like oil. Now, that's November 2nd. All they have is some flesh and one arm and one leg that was in a trunk. Where the fuck is the rest of them? Right.

That's the thing they're really wondering. They're like, they couldn't have, there's no bones in the burn barrel. No way they burned it up. So where the fuck is the rest of them? And just a knife? Yeah. And why the hell did you keep one arm and one leg? None of this makes sense.

It's crazy. So November 5th, about four miles away from the Cerber farm where the body parts were found in the trunk here. This is in a creek, in a culvert area by a creek. They find the rest of Craig. What? They find his head and his torso, not together. but both there, along with several organs and intestines. Why?

And a severed arm and a severed leg, the other one. The other parts of him. Everything was found here, but all taken apart. All the organs are out. It's crazy. Like they just abandoned the situation. I'll just throw it in this creek. That'll do it.

But I'm going to keep an arm and a leg for myself. Forgot the other pieces. Keep those for later. Wait, you hear why? That's crazy. Okay. I can't wait. So the cause of death is determined to be a gunshot wound to the head with dismemberment after the death because they have the skull.

He died from a small caliber wound behind the left ear. The medical examiner said the gun was basically or almost touching the skin. So total point blank. They removed the bullet from his head. It was taken to the state lab. But they said the damage to the bullet was so great they couldn't determine exactly what caliber it was. It could have been a 9 millimeter luger, a 38 special, a 357 magnum, or a 357 sig. One of the three, or one of the four.

So that's not a small, number one, of 357 is a fucking hand cannon. I mean, a 9mm is one of the... Decent size. It's one of the better stopping power. It's why police carry it. Yeah, yeah, it's what I mean. It works, and you can hold a lot of them. It's a good mid-range, I think, in that area.

So now the physical evidence, they do lab testing on numerous blood smeared items. collected during the investigation, and everything is Craig's DNA. Boomer's DNA is on everything, all the blood. The evidence shows that a fingerprint on the knife found containing the remains matched Serber's right thumb. Blood matching Kubik's DNA was found inside Serber's car on his boots and a pair of his pants as well. The gun used to kill Kubik, though was never found.

as Serber said he threw it in a creek, as we'll find out later. Probably that one. Probably that one. They couldn't find it. Tann pants and boots worn by Cerber had blood on them that we were talking about. The knife, also a piece of tissue, not to blow your nose with human flesh. Human tissue, yeah. Turned out to be cubics. And in the Impala, his right arm and leg were found.

That's what they said, the right one. And a piece of paper and a red stain found on the floor. the Impala also test positive. An air compressor hose, leaves and grass collected outside of Boomer's property, come back to him as well. The chances of the DNA belonging to anyone else were one in 6.26 octillion. Yeah. Octillion.

Zero chance. There's 27 zeros there. That's a lot of zero. The Earth could go, the sun will burn out, before that many people live on this earth. That's what's crazy. That's wild. So it's him.

There's also a witness now. Fucking Galvan's sister, Serber's pregnant girlfriend. The pregnant gal, what she have to say? Well, she said here she traveled with Serber a few months earlier to his cousin's house in Sioux City where he bought a revolver from another man that she didn't know. Serber told her it was a nine millimeter and called it his, quote, little nine. that's cute. A nine millimeter revolver? Never even heard of it.

I mean, I think she's mistaken there. I think it's a 38 or 357. Probably. Probably. The 38 year old? I don't think so. Yeah, I don't know. Is it a revolver?

So he constantly, she said he constantly carried it tucked into the front of his waistpan too, like a dildo. This is fucking 60s bank robber. Yeah. She testified that Serber handed the galvan, the partner, there the same gun on November 2nd when she came home during her lunch break

and to find him acting weird quote unquote he first asked her then at one point after the murder happened he asked her to shave her head her own head her head shave your head

she recalled him telling her previously that if he committed another crime he was going to shave his head his head oh she wants he wants her to shave his head. Okay.

Shave my head. And because he had said previously, if I commit another crime, I'm going to have you shave my head. Okay. This woman then said that Serber did not say what crime he committed, but she told him that she didn't have time to cut his hair. I got to go back to work. He then handed her his revolver and said, will you kill me?

So either shave my head or kill me. You got to do one of the two. I need help here. She said, I told him if I was going to kill him, I wouldn't shoot him. in other words you've really pissed me off and I want it to be more painful and slow

that's too fast when you least expect it so here's some local reactions George Berner who's a cashier at the Pony Express convenience store

it's Emerson's lone gas station he said the store was just buzzing with the news all day he said quote he came in here quite often

to get his stuff with his little boy he was a pleasant guy a lot of people liked him talking about Boomer. Another here, an owner,

a former owner of the Tri-County Bar on Main Street in Emerson said she remembered Kubick when he was in high school coming in to play pool with his friends. She said his comparat, this is nothing this is like nothing that's happened in the last 46 years she's lived in Emerson. This is the

craziest thing that's happened. She said, this is just a little bitty town. We can't believe something like this is going on. We're just mortified. All right then. So Serber filed several motions to suppress items relating to searches conducted at the Galvan residence and the Serber family farm, even though permission was given by the owner. Serber argued that the warrant for the trunk of the Impala was invalid because it was a telephonic warrant and it should be suppressed. They need them to go down?

They need to look in the judge's eyes and fucking, but you can totally get a warrant over the phone. It needs to be a wet signature. Yeah. Serber also argued that the search of the Galvan residence was not supported by probable cause. I think once they find blood, there's probable cause for a lot of things. That's enough, right? As to the Impala, the district court ultimately concluded that the search was invalid due to violations of statutory law, though not a constitutional violation.

But that didn't matter because the brother of Serber's mother already gave consent for the search, So the warrant was superfluous anyway. They didn't need the warrant. The warrant was just on top. They didn't get the warrant correctly, but luckily they got permission, so it still stands. Perhaps you committed crimes on somebody else's property. You don't get to say whether or not we search that anymore. We asked the owner, and the owner said fine.

Go ahead. And the court further concluded that the automobile and emergency exceptions applied as well, because they find blood and pieces of people. They have to wonder if this person. person's missing a chunk of flesh or not. So as to the Galvan residents, the court agreed that the search was not supported by probable cause, but that the boots and clothes with blood on them were in plain view. Therefore, that's a problem, yeah.

That's admissible. You can admit the other stuff they found you can't on the residence, but the stuff that was in plain view is admissible. And that happens to be the stuff with boomer's blood all over it. So that's good stuff we care about most. Okay. Now we get to find out how crazy Cerber is. because he's...

What is going on? As we found out from the interaction with his girlfriend, he's a fucking loon. What's his deal? It gets... He's a lunatic. Here we go. Okay. This is in a pretrial hearing with both Cerber and Galvan.

They're both there. They're going to be tried separately, but here we go. Okay. It's just basically a routine matter in which the judge and attorneys agreed to future hearing dates. They're there just to set schedule. until Galvan gets up to his feet and begins with the newspaper called, quote, a profanity-laced outburst that led to his removal from the courtroom. Yes. That is awesome.

So apparently this started with the district judge was discussing with the lawyers the likelihood of a trial date not taking place that day. And at that point, a security go officer looked over at Cerber and said, knock it off. He was doing something. And what appeared to be this outburst then, he's in restraints and seated in the second row of the courtroom. He began to scream profanities out before standing up. And then the security officers, you know, guards obviously converged on him at that point. When they did, before they got to him, they had a miniature standoff for a second where he said, you know who I am? You know who he is, Jimmy?

Is he Jesus Christ, James? I'm fucking God. Of course he is. Okay, he shouts that out. I'm fucking God. And then the judge says, well... Why do they always do it? Can you take God to his holding cell, please?

Exactly. Because, you know, he's a little loud in here. And, you know, he'll give him his own space for a while. Put God on G block, I guess. Yeah, I guess, see if God wants a baloney sandwich for lunch, because he's going in the, he's going in the clink here for a while. We talk about his fucking upcoming shit. So is he competent?

I'm fucking God, God damn it. He is not confident, right? Well, later on, he claims to be other beings to may or may not exist, which is pretty interesting, too. Yeah, that would be great if he said, I'm Zool. We've had a Zool recently. Yeah. So after this happens, counsel seeks a competency evaluation, which is granted. Right.

We'll talk about that. Following this evaluation, Serber has found not competent to stand trial. But Dr. Klaus Hartman, here, the guy who's working on him, opined that there was reasonable likelihood that they could restore his competency. Yeah, a little bit of lithium. We'll get him back. We're good to go. Growing businesses deal with the same problem.

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approval to administer involuntary treatment. We're going to shove drugs up his ass if we have to. As part of the process, the LRC was able to administer medications involuntarily on an emergency basis for 14 days. But by the time of the hearing on the state's motion, the evidence showed that he had voluntarily continued to take his medication after the 14-day time period. So the court declined to order involuntary treatment because he's voluntarily doing it. December of 2017, Galvan pleads guilty.

No contest is what he pleads, actually. Makes a deal. The assistant attorney general here, who's appointed as the special prosecutor, said that Serber is the one who did the shooting. And Galvan, though, either knew that Serber planned to shoot Boomer or helped him plan the shooting. He said the state would contend that Mr. Galvan was an aider and a better in the homicide of Craig Kubick. They said that Cubic's watch and house keys were found in Serber's vehicle. A spot of blood found inside was tested and the DNA matched cubic. And they're talking about the pants and everything that was linked to both of them.

So the defense said that Brian has accepted responsibility for his part in this horrific crime. So in exchange for this plea, the state agreed to reduce the original charge of first-degree murder and dismiss two ancillary offenses. as well. And from that. So they said that, you know, they just think he helped. So at sentencing, he speaks. Galvan does. And he's 18 still this guy, just turned 19.

He said, I didn't know Cerber was going to kill him that night. He said in a quiet voice. And then he apologized to Kubik's family members who were present and especially to Kubik's five-year-old son who was at the time home and possibly saw him. this father's body. They killed him at his own trailer and then dragged his ass away and then took him to two different, it's crazy, dude. Okay. So the defense attorney here says Brian's problem was he hung out with him and he got caught up in these events. I think the evidence is clear that Mr. Serber is the one who pulled the trigger on that night. So the judge says, okay, fine, you,

sir may fuck off 50 to 60 years in prison. Somewhere in there. Yeah. Anywhere in there. Anywhere in there. Okay. Even if he does it all, he could get out before Social Security. So that's good. Do we get an answer of who Black Cat is? No idea who Black Cat is. One of these two is Black Cat. Neither of them are Black, by the way.

So. What the fuck? I don't understand. Or did he think that, because like the noise. Black Cat, like a bottle rocket, maybe? Or I don't know. I don't know where Black. Maybe that was his nickname and that's what Boomer called him.

But that's never established in court. It's easier to figure out Black Cat than, however, to pronounce Bray. Bray, I am. Brea, yeah, yeah. Glad you being a teacher going. I'm calling you Brian.

Good? I'm calling you Black Cat. I can't get Braille. Every time out, I've got to talk to you. Black Cat makes as much sense as whatever the fuck you're about to tell me this says. Totally. So January 2018, the state, again, seeks involuntary treatment for Serber. He's not taking his meds again.

Testimony from doctors, they say that Serber had taken his medications for a time, then refused because he experienced side effects. Of course. He's a pain in the ass. Why would they be? Of course. The doctor indicated Serber's claim side effects were not commonly reported. And in any case, Serber's presentation of psychosis was, quote, very unconventional. And he said he displayed selective symptoms that mimicked the symptoms of other patients at the center. Okay. For example, one patient barked like a dog. so Cerber began barking like a dog. He's just real easy going.

He's just going with it. I don't want to make you feel weird. So I'll bark too. Another patient drooled, so Serber stopped barking and started drooling. And then he licked his balls, which was the most impressive thing ever. The fucking chameleon starts pissing on fire hydrants. Is he a dog or a chameleon? Which one?

We haven't figured it out yet. Then he stopped drooling and started talking to himself, claiming he had many children who were all aiming. Not good kids, literally angels in the sky. Okay. A lot of abortions out there. Oh, boy. According to, yeah, according to the doctor, symptoms of legitimate psychosis remain consistent,

and he believed Serber was malingering. They also noted that it was not clear if Serber was also suffering from actual mental defect because he wouldn't take his medication or comply with treatment efforts. He also indicated that he thought Serber understood the proceedings. he also thought Serber would be likely to interfere with the court proceedings. He's going to be a dick about it. He's going to stand up in court and scream about how much he's got. He's going to talk about his fucking, you know, about the fetuses.

He's going to talk about fetuses with wings. He's going to talk about fucking whatever. Ultimately, they thought that the treatment should be continued to ensure the restoration of his competency. Though they said that his treatment should continue, Serber's lawyer indicated that Serber was competent and that trial should proceed. The state, meanwhile, asked that the doctor's request for additional time to ensure his competency be granted, which is usually the opposite.

It's usually the defense doing this and the state saying, let's go to trial. And this time it's backwards. The court agreed and Serber was declared incompetent. He was sent back to the center. He appealed the order, but it was dismissed. Now, October 2018, there's a status hearing on his competency. And everyone agrees that he's competent now. He's good now.

Okay. April 2019, the defense says, we should check that again. Okay. The staff psychiatrist and psychologist should do an evaluation. So the psychiatrist testified that it was his belief that Serber was not oriented to time and place. But the psychiatrist, and this is the craziest thing I've ever heard, had no opinion as to his competence. I got no opinion. Well, we don't have any paycheck for you then.

You're fucking idiot. You come up with an opinion. I didn't ask you if you like my wife's cooking. I said, is this guy capable of understanding what's going on? I didn't say those are nice tits, huh? That's not what I said. It's a professional opinion. The psychologist testified that Serber was clear and oriented when they spoke, but that

Serber's judgment did appear to be impaired. And the psychologist could not tell whether that was due to mental illness or a behavioral disorder that he could control. So he was again ordered a competency evaluation to be conducted again. May 2019, another competency hearing. This is in court. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenic effectiveness disorder and bipolar symptoms. He continually talks out loud to himself during court hearings, occasionally interrupting the proceedings. He disrupted this hearing very quickly, challenging the judge by telling him that, quote,

I'm paying my bond and leaving. I'm out of here. Your honor, check, please. Then he said, quote, open my cuffs and get me the fuck out of here. I'm done. I've had it. I'm done. I'm so bored.

I'm not participating anymore and I refuse to leave a tip. I'm not doing it. Yeah, you're not getting a tip from this. Give me my check. He's doing this to the judge. Give me the check. You tell the chef, piss poor job, too. Not good.

Open my cops. I'm leaving. Open them up. I'm leaving. Prior to the ruling, the judge gave Serber one more chance to speak. And he said, quote, I'd say full competence because I'm my own lawyer. Oh. Then he said, quote, I'm Lucifer.

Or you can call me Andres, but I go by that. Huh? What the fuck are you? So now he's God and Lucifer. Yeah. But also And And Andres, too. He's, he going. He left the courtroom and continued to speak out loud to himself.

And then while sheriff's officers waited with him at the elevator to return him to jail, he, quote, howled like a dog. So he's a fun guy at the courthouse. So they found him incompetent to stand trial, and he goes back to the center there. July 2019, he was refusing to take his meds and was requesting narcotics instead. I'd like heroin. Can I please? Hey, this fucking haldoll is not working. How about if you spike me with some fucking junk?

What do you say? Anything? Have you got any fentanyl? I'm so tired of all this paxil. Jesus. You can't do it. Shitty spray got lithium. Oh, he's probably got some pretty decent antipsychotics.

They got to chill him out. January 2020, get another doctor performs an evaluation. And the doctor says his sanity is restored. Oh. So that's all good now. He's fine. This guy's been restored three, four times. He's back again.

The assistant attorney general said, quote, he's doing nothing but putting on an act. If his competency is restored in two days, two weeks, two months, two years, or 22 years, the state's going to be there to prosecute him for the death of Mr. Kubik. So he can wait all he wants. We'll be here. August 13th, 2020, his defense attorney wants to get out of this. He's like, this is crazy.

I got to go. Can't do it anymore. So they found out on August 17. the court found that Serber could represent himself, but upon request by defense counsel, the court reconsidered that ruling and then reversed it on August 18th. The next day, Serber's counsel filed a motion

to determine his competency again, and he had another evaluation. Finally, he's goddamn competent, ready to go. At his trial, he said he's representing himself with the assistance of counsel, apparently. I don't know if they're allowing him to question anybody or anything like that.

In openings, the defense said that Cubic was shot in self-defense over this Dodge Charger. Yeah. He said that reminding the jury that they need to rely on the facts and not anything else here. He said, what the state just gave you was a trailer to a movie. Don't make your decision based on the trailer. Don't judge a book by its cover. Don't judge a movie by its trailer. The sheriff does his, you know, all the shit he said.

And they said, what did you find when the trunk was open? and he said, quote, an arm specifically. It ended my hopes of finding Mr. Kubik alive, I would say. The sister, the pregnant one, Serber's girlfriend, she testifies, all the stuff we said earlier. And, you know, she also said that, or in cross-examination, they challenged her memories. And they said, your memory back then may be more accurate than your testimony today. Do you agree with that? And she said yes, because she had some inconsistencies in the year and a half.

that's been. Serber testifies. Fantastic. Yes, there we go. He openly admits to dismembering and disposing of Kubik's body. Look, man. I won the fight. I'm going to go all the way. I kept an arm and a leg as a souvenir, so people know better.

Not to fuck with me next time. Over the course of an hour and a half, he said he killed Craig in self-defense, dismembered the body to conceal his actions, but then left an arm and a leg in the trunk so he'd get caught. Oh. He said, quote, just because I went over there in the beginning, doesn't mean I wanted it to happen. He said, I got there at about 10.45 p.m. at his trailer, and I was trying to resolve this dispute. And he said, I went in there. I went to, you know, air up the tire so I could repossess it.

He said, quote, when he pulled out a gun, that all changed. He's saying Kubik pulled a gun out. He says, as they were walking in the car to fix the tire, Serber said Kubik reached into his waistband and pulled out a gun. But only this dipshit carries a fucking gun in the front of his waistband like a moron. Is it everybody in this town? Nobody has a holster? Nope. And he said he pulled it out.

Serber said he rushed Kubick and after a brief scuffle was able to get the gun from him, pointed at him and fire a shot. So he said, I didn't even bring a gun. This is his gun is what he said. He said I wasn't intending to kill him. I was just reacting to the situation. He said he shot him behind the left ear. He didn't know where the bullet hit him. And he said he thought he was still alive.

He said that he and Galvan then returned to Wakefield to get his Impala to take Kubick to the hospital. Because the SUV he was driving was full of boxes and there was no room for him. So rather than just take the boxes out, throw the body in there, take him to the hospital. Let's go get a different car. He'll be fine. They returned more than an hour later, which I'm sure he's still good. I didn't know if I was going to kill him, although I shot him exactly where everybody that tries to kill people shoot somebody. You know, when they're executing them.

Surveillance video also showed that they can see them dragging Cubic's body to the Impala. They had that footage. He said that he put plastic in the front seat and placed cubic inside. Previous evidence showed only a small smudge of blood determined to be cubics on the floor and on a piece of paper found. inside the car. Serber said he later burned the plastic and his clothes. He said he took the gun and threw it over a bridge into a creek near Wakefield. He said that he and Brian, who had been at Cubic's trailer with Serber at the time of the shooting,

they drove around for hours with Cubic's body, winding up several miles away at the vacant farmhouse. He said the sun came up. We took him out and I cut him up. He said he panicked. That's why he did it. He said he cut up the body, dumped the torso, the intestines, and an arm and a leg in a culvert, and kept the other two in the car's trunk. He said he doesn't deny the print on the knife was his.

He said he used both knives recovered by investigators to dismember his body because he didn't know what else to do. He said, this is a great line. Quote, I was scared to get into trouble. You think? And I wanted to hide the body. Well, that's honest. I think it's fascinating that the only thing he tried to burn were his clothes and the plastic. And some flesh, though.

I think he attempted to start burning the flesh. It didn't work. And he said, we got to dump this shit somewhere else. Yeah. Perhaps he just cut him up and got some on him and that flesh maybe fell off of the clothes. I don't know. There was a hunk they found on the ground nearby, I think. So it seems like he was seeing if it would work.

Yeah. Could he have just tried that little piece that was on the clothes? Then it was like, well, that didn't burn. So there's no way all that's burning. No idea. Well, he said, quote, after he dumped the shit in the culvert, the shit, the poor guy's fucking parts. Yeah. He said, quote, I kind of had a guilty feeling.

So he decided to leave an arm and a leg in the trunk of his car so that the authorities would find them and he'd get in trouble. Okay. During cross-examination, they're going back and forth. He's not an easy cross-examination. He says to the prosecutor, you're just going to say whatever you can to find me guilty. And yeah. Then he said, what am I doing here? What are we doing here?

I already said what happened. And the prosecutor said, I'm trying to expose your lies. And Serber said, I'm trying to expose your lies. He said that he changed his mind about concealing Kubik's body and wanted to get caught. And they said, well, why didn't you just call police and turn yourself in then and say this happened by accident? Didn't it bother you at all? And Serber said, yes. And they said, why did it bother you?

And Serber said, you ever taken someone's life? No, that's why I'm not in COBS. Also, how great is it to have just an absolute moron, dipshit, and lunatic on the stand that he can ask you a question. And you can be just dead straight honest with him with zero worry of it singing. Oh, I'm here exposing your lives. I'm trying to expose your lies, see? Oh, all right. Well, then let's go back and forth.

Since you're being honest, I'll be honest, too. Here's my court testimony strategy. Yeah. And I can give you the whole game plan, and you don't know how to come back because you're a moron. You'll still fuck it all up. And you're crazy. But you are God, so you never know. Verdict comes in.

He has found guilty of first-degree murder, use of a firearm to commit a felony, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. He's an idiot. During sentencing, he spoke briefly. And he was hard to hear, they said. But all they could say is that they could understand because there's no cameras in the courtroom here. So the press was able to understand his last line that he said, which is, quote, I still love my Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian. No idea what that means.

What? We don't know what that means. We don't know what he said that led into that. That's the biggest mystery of this entire fucking case is what the hell are you talking about. Okay. The judge said this entire situation is sad. I know that any sentence will not make things right, but let's give it a shot. You so may fuck off.

Life for first degree murder. Yeah. 25 to 50 for using a firearm to commit a felony. Right. 25 to 50 years of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. All consecutive. Oh, shit. He is fucked.

Yeah, he's fucked. He's fucked. He's got 50 to 100 on top of life. he's fucked. I don't know how to sentence you. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's a fucking swish, sir. It's not bad.

He is credited with 1,465 days already served, you know, from all the mental institution stuff here. Kubick's father said it's a relief. It's as good as it can get. There's no question about who done what. I'd say right. The prosecutor pretty much said the same thing. He said the fact that this was not a death penalty case doesn't take away from the fact that it was a cold calculated murder. Mr. Kubick had his faults.

Why would you say that now? What? What difference does that make now? Mr. Kubick had his faults, but his fate was undeserved. The consequence is that Mr. Serber never set foot outside of a prison cell again. We all have faults. Everyone has faults. No one needs to be dismembered.

How many episodes has Dateline done? Fuck, man. I'm sure every one of those people had faults. That's just not nice to say today. It's great. He had his faults. Why say that? It's almost like he didn't like him personally or some shit.

Yeah. Shit fishermen. They said they're going to appeal. And on appeal, basically, they file a few stupid things about the stuff he was trying to get the searches and stuff like that. Nothing comes to any fruition. That was 2022. They're in there forever. Forever.

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