Sword and Scale - Episode 126

Episode Date: November 11, 2018

On Tuesday September 13th, 2016 a 911 call police responded to 363 Covert Court Ashland, Ohio, an abandoned house near a laundromat.  Minutes earlier, a frantic 911 call had been placed, from this location, by a woman who claimed she was being held captive and forced to perform sex acts with her captor.  The story that would emerge from this strange series of events would lead to the eventual conviction of a serial killer by the name of Shawn M. Grate.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences Listener discretion is advised Any bleeding from anywhere You don't have to talk if you don't need to okay I am your host, Mike Bude, welcome to season 5, episode 126 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Well, we hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween. And if you check the feed right around Halloween day, you might have seen this special episode on there for you It's labeled secret project preview and I really hope you check it out It's a behind-the-scenes look at the new project we're working on

Between myself the creator of Sword and Scale Jack Luna from dark topic and Tyler Bell from the West Side fairy tales We are so excited about it. It's gonna blow your socks off. I promise. That drops on January 9th. Watch out for that. We're gonna have more details coming up as we get closer. But for now, we're gonna jump into a good old-fashioned serial killer story.

How about that? This is the kind of story that's gonna make you want to delete your contact list and never talk to anyone again. Just stay indoors. Just play video games. Just watch a little Netflix, I don't know. Just don't go outside, just don't talk to anyone. Because you never know what they're really thinking and what they really want. Thank you. Good and evil.

They say that inside everyone lies the capability of either. A built-in durability, an internal struggle, are decisions tilt the needle one way or the other, and knowing the difference between right and wrong is key. It said humans have the ability to rationalize their actions and convince themselves that what they're doing is just, even if it tilts the needle, a little towards the dark. Then there are those among us who know that what they're doing is wrong, but do it anyway. They take an enjoyment in it. They feed on it, and soon evil is a close friend.

They know it is wrong, and they may want to stop, but they lose themselves in the dark, only to be found by remorse, regret, and relief that it's all over once they're caught. Boasting small town charm and beautiful scenery, the town of Ashland, Ohio, is a quaint gem amidst the countryside. Every summer they have a balloon fest, a festival celebrating hot air balloons. What do you love about it? Taking people like you for their first flights, so they can experience the serenity of the flight. And each fall, they welcome the students of Ashland University, eager to cheer on the Eagles. But in the fall of 2016, something infamous would occur.

On September 13th, at 6.48am, 911 dispatcher Sarah Miller received a call. 911, what is the address to your emergency? A woman responded with a whisper, but the operator wasn't able to understand her. She raised her voice slightly, uttering the words, 4th street laundromat. She had no shame. Sean Great had taken this woman against her will. As he slept, the woman called for help, but she couldn't really explain where she was being held. All police knew for sure was that it was a house near the fourth street laundromat.

There's two houses right by the laundromat street and it's in one of those houses. But you're at the laundromat? No, I'm in the bedroom with them. And what you're following me calling me from? I don't know. Is it his phone you have? Yes. Did he own the house?

No, he broke in. And then everybody actually lived there? He's been abandoned. Is he of a weapon? He's got a laser. I'm in the way. We have officers reshending. I'm pretty much in the house. As police have officers reshending. OK. I've lived enough.

As police were searching for the right abandoned house, an image of what they could expect inside emerged from dispatch. Sean Great had abducted the woman and taken her into an abandoned house he was squatting in. When he fell asleep, she grabbed his phone and dialed 911. While waiting for police to arrive, she had two fears, that he would wake up, and that they wouldn't send enough police. Is there anyone you can get out of the building?

I don't know, without waking him, I'm scared. Is there a bathroom? Is there a bathroom in the house? Well, I said there was a closed-handed, so it would think more. And if you told me I had to go to the bathroom, you would do something to you? Yeah, because he had me tied up. Sure. So you tied up now? Well, I see him, but I kind of freed myself.

Do you injured? A little. Are you bleeding from anywhere? I don't need more. How are you bleeding from? We don't have to talk if you don't need to, okay? This frightened and injured woman was locked in a booby-trapped room with her abductor, and while she was on the phone with her rescuers, he woke up. The sound we heard was her accidentally triggering the taser.

The phone went silent for about 30 seconds before she returned. He went back to sleep. The operator tried to convince her to escape rather than wait for police to arrive. The operator told her to get out of the room, but she was too afraid to make any noise. The bedroom door was rigged to wake him up. She couldn't risk the windows, the floor creaked too loudly. She could only wait to be rescued. Here. Here? Yes, there you go. So you think you can get out? Yes.

Come on, Mr. Drown. Get out. I can you get to the door or you can see out? Yes. Can you get out of the house? It's locked. It's locked. Are you at the door? Yeah, I am.

Is there a window there? Yeah, I'm looking out into the corner. Come back. She said, hurry, hurry. She said to hurry up and come back. Finally, she could see the police through the window, but the door was locked. It took a moment for her to gather her frantic thoughts before she realized she could unlock the door. It was now 7-0-1 AM,

13 minutes since she had called for help. all. She had left Sean naked, unarmed, and asleep as police staged outside of the bedroom door. This completely nude woman who we will refer to as Jane was rescued from the grips of Sean Great. She'd been held in an abandoned home for three days as a sex slave, raped by Sean and assaulted with a homemade sex toy made of a pole wrapped in a sock and covered with layers of condoms. Sergeant Jim Cox described seeing her that night. She was totally nude. She was absolutely terrified. Kind of almost like frozen and fear. Blank look on her face. It's kind of almost like frozen and fear.

Blank look on her face. She even had a little bit of a hard time talking. Jane had known Sean for about a month and a half before he'd kidnapped her. One day I was just walking on my way to the Kirk Center and he was walking also the opposite side of the street and not the opposite side, but in the opposite direction. And we just both turned into gather and that's who we first, you know. On occasion, they lunched together.

Then they went for long walks around Ashland or played Badminton. In August, she considered him like a brother. Well, he was tall like my brother, my elder brother, and he was kind of goofy, but he was struck me as kind. But eventually, Sean was interested in more than just a friendship. He let me know that he would be interested in more, but I told him that I was not interested in, you know, beyond friends. I was anything freaking or anything,

because I mean, I was pretty much set and he knew it. Anytime he would try to discuss anything, I think he even laughed too, you know, like that he knew that he was just kind of reaching. Jane had strict boundaries with men based on her devout religious beliefs. She didn't exchange numbers with men and didn't allow men in her home.

She had the right idea, but all her boundaries were useless against Sean. On September 11, 2016, Jane went on her last walk with Sean. They walked to the park and then to the Dollar Tree. Afterward, she made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Jane ate hers at the dining table and Sean ate his outside. When they finished, Sean mentioned his mother and sister had given him a bag of clothes to give to Jane. So they went to Sean's house to retrieve it. He just started showing me the clothes and I said,

yeah, it's fine, I'll look at it, whatever I don't like or want or something out, you know, redone it. And he was going to walk me back to my place and I just had those Bible passages online. So I just flipped them open and sat down on the bed and started reading them or showing them. Sean had spent a lot of time with Jane and there was some trust built. Jane helped them when she could, learning them DVDs, a Bible, and even making them food. When we first pulled out the Bible, we just full-set on the edge of the bed and I was showing them the passages and reading them and he was looking at it while I was reading it and you know I was the Bible excites me I mean I don't know if it felt like it

didn't really have his attention right there but I was gonna stop because I looked at him and he's like, no, I'm interested. Keep going. And so I started reading again, I guess. And I think he got up to go to the kitchen and I thought he was getting something to eat because I'd also given him some food. So when we were first coming back to his apartment or at the house, he had food, so I thought he was just cribbing some of that food. And it was when he came back that he started pulling the Bible out of my hand.

Immediately, Jane felt unsafe. When he started pulling the Bible from my hands, I just looked up like curious like what are you doing? And that's when he said That's when he says you're not going anywhere. We started fighting. I tried to push him away and get up. I was just doing everything, trying to kick punch, but everything I did, he just did it so much harder. The more Jane fought back, the more Sean hit her on the head.

She kept fighting until he began to strangle her. I stopped. Why? Because I knew I couldn't get out of it. Eventually he asked her if she had enough. She lay motionless and he released her. He started pulling off my clothes. Did you get your resisted paper? emotionless, and he released her. to get back into so I took them off. Jane cooperated with Sean, doing as he wanted, hoping that she would survive this.

At some point, nine of the 11 of the new sexual assaults. Several times. How would you assume? In every way imaginable. Where did you go to see this? I don't know. Jane thought she'd made a friend, but after knowing Sean for nearly two months, her friend was binding her wrists and legs together. Sometimes tying her to the bed

other times just in a different odd positions. I would just start protesting and sometimes he would just ease up. I think the main thing is he wanted to get off. So if he saw something was it working, he would ease up. This went on for hours. He ejaculated quickly, but kept on going. He bound her neck with a ligature attached to the bed. If she moved, it would tighten. He made her take muscle relaxers and then taped her mouth shut.

The pills were to ease the pain. You said he put the pills in your mouth. Yes. Is that the only time he has fingers in your mouth? I know. What was he doing with his fingers? Praying opened my mouth. You remember why?

Yes. I don't know how to say it. Did it appear to be an attempt by a facility at World Sex? Yes. So at some point he puts his penis a lot. Did you ever want to? Yes. At some point did he put his penis in your vagina? Yes. At some point did he put his penis in your penis?

Yes. One time or more than one time. Did he put his penis in your hands? Yes. One time or more? Four. Brutally raped and starved, Jane was left alone, tied to the bed in an abandoned home for hours. When Sean returned, he had a razor and shaved her pubic hair into the shape of a heart, then applied makeup to her face. Next he got high, and the rape continued. He placated her with the promise of letting her go, even gathering her things and setting

them next to the door. I think that was a two way of getting me to believe that after he was going to tie me up and leave all my stuff would be ready to go when he came back. But he would never let her go. Finally, the second night, he slipped into a deep sleep. It wasn't about until 6am that Jane wasn't too out of it to try and escape. She reached over his sleeping body for his cell phone, which was sitting on his nightstand. She knew it was there, the alarm was going off every 5 minutes, and he'd used it to video record the abuse.

Grabbing what she thought was the cell phone, she pulled her hand back to see she was holding the taser. She crept out of bed, found the phone and tipped out to the bedroom door dialing 911. I accidentally hit the taser and the crackling is loud and it woke him up and he sat up, he put his feet down on the floor and I was just watching. He's just really groggy though. He just looked at the floor like he was still asleep or out of it. He just sat like that. It seemed like 30 seconds and then he laid back down. At that moment, Jane had but one thought. At least the 911. At least they knew my name. On August 16th, about a month before the events that led police to raid the house on 363

covert court, another woman, 29-year-old Elizabeth Griffith, disappeared. Elizabeth lived on her own, but would tell anyone who would listen about her long history of mental health issues, including paranoid schizophrenia and mania. It wasn't until over three weeks later on September 8, 2016, that Elizabeth was reported missing after her Apple-seed community mental health therapist,

Tina Schwartz noticed she hadn't called the hotline in some time. She normally called every other night. Tina went to her apartment and found no signs of her. She asked around and no one had seen her in about two weeks. Cindy Swanger, Elizabeth's peer-to-pe peer counselor remembered a call she received from Elizabeth on the 16th. Quote, she seemed to me to be anxious like she really needed to talk to me about something. I thought it was she had met somebody. She was in a real giddy mood." The day after Elizabeth was reported missing, 43-year-old Stacey Stanley was running errands in Ashland

when she got a flat tire. She called her son Corey for help. Corey called a family friend, Wayne Bright, who helped her change the tire along with a good Samaritan that just happened to be by. But when Corey didn't hear from his mother the next day or the day after that, he called her repeatedly. Her family began to worry and broke into a department finding her dogs had been locked in their cages for quite some time. Stacey's family filed a missing person report and

on the 10th they traveled to Ashland to look for themselves. The police found her car on 9th Street with her ID inside. The driver's seat was unusually far back, and the ash tray had camel cigarette butts in it, not Stacey's brand. Someone else had been in her car, two missing women, and then a sexually assaulted abductee and a town the size of Ashland, with a population of about 20,000 residents seemed too coincidental not to be connected. The police had no idea what they were dealing with. Good afternoon, thank you for coming.

This is going to be a short press conference. I'm not going to take any questions from anyone. You don't know me, I'm Chief David Barcelli, the Chief of Police here in Ashland. This morning we began investigating an abduction in which a female was abducted by a male. We were able to recover her from the scene. She is alive. We were also able to take that person into custody and question him. At the residence where this woman was being held,

we were able to discover the remains of two humans. The community was outraged and rightfully so. Stacey's family was present at the press conference and blamed police for not catching this killer earlier. They feared that Stacey might be one of the victims. I've heard you've got my niece Stacey, the one who has been missing since Thursday in her car's farm, a pair of night streets, she's been adopted by from BP station. We've got over to every cop sheriff to help us. We had zero help from them. We combed this area and shook this guy's cage. Got him rattled. He screwed up because with banging on

his door last night where they were being held. And he got rattled, he screwed up because with banging on his door last night where they were being held. And he got rattled because of what the community did, what his family had done. We combed this area and rattled his cage from old things to these police officers or the Sheriff Department. And I'm just saying that. And luckily, we rattied his cage enough he left his cell phone close enough to worship the down 9-1-1 so thank God for that not

the police department because there was zero help. At this point we weren't thinking about that. Thanks Ashley. There's a reason the women for search scores because it's such a great community college. It does have that body. It does have that body. Look for me. It does happen in small town. It does have that body.

Look for me. It's a real nice way to run your community. Real nice. Thanks, Mayor. Missing persons cases aren't that easy to solve, especially when a person doesn't want to be found. But in the cases of Elizabeth and Stacey, it was an indication of something much worse. After Jane's rescue, Sean Great was arrested and taken into custody. Jane was taken to the hospital.

The Ashland police called the Bureau of Criminal Investigation to assist in documenting the scene. What they discovered was horrifying. Ashland County prosecutor Christopher Artunnel goes over the details in his opening statement at Sean's trial. They entered a bedroom upstairs. There's a sofa with a fold-out bed,

and the bed was folded out. Tied to the frame of the bed, underneath the thin pull-out bed and the bed was folded out. Tied to the frame of the bed underneath the thin pull-out mattress are more restraints. There are also restraints tied to the bed on the first floor, and there's a restraint tied to a chair in the bedroom downstairs that's positioned in the closet. They notice a pile of stuffed animals and clothing on the floor

and as they examine that pile of clothing and stuffed animals There's fly larva all over They begin to excavate that pile of clothing removing the stuffed animals removing the clothing and they expose the door Here's black tape around that door. Inside is a small closet with another large pile of clothing on the floor and yet more evidence of a fly infestation in the closet. The cans of air freshener

that are on the floor of that bedroom make a lot of sense. They discovered the mummified remains of what dental records would positively identify as Elizabeth Pratt. She was naked. Her hands were bound together behind her back, and there's a restraint. A ligature tied to each ankle. The restraint from her right ankle extends from that right ankle in a straight line and wraps around her neck. She was placed in the closet head first and faced down and her legs are bound in such a way that they're bent back behind her thighs

such a way that they're bent back behind her thighs with her legs spread apart, completely exposing her most private parts. Hidden in a sealed closet in a room that can only be described as a sex dungeon, they found the maggot-riddled body of Elizabeth Griffith. But that was just upstairs. This home also had a basement. I'm Tracy Townsend. We're following several breaking news stories this afternoon. First, we go to Aslan, where there is a break in the case of a missing woman. Aslan police confirm one of three bodies discovered Tuesday. Is that of Stacey Stanley? On September 13th, the same day she was found, family members confirmed the body found in the locked basement of the abandoned home was indeed Stacey Stanley.

The stench of death was strong. The defendant held Stacey at 363 covert court against her will, and he forcibly raped her by repeatedly forcing his penis into her mouth. He tells Detective Major that it was going well until she maced him. This defendant says he strangled her after he was maced. Police found her can of mace, on the basement floor, under the trash, next to her body. He videotaped it with a cellular telephone. There are two videos of Stacey Hicks. The first starts with her begging to be let go and he responds, I said not until you get me off and her replied, but you already had sex with me. And he says, but I didn't get off had sex with me." And he says, but I didn't get off. And then he proceeds to Orally Raver. You will hear this defendant describe her head hitting the steps on the way down.

He placed her on the floor, face down, and then this defendant threw bags of trash on top of her, one after another until she was obscured from sight. When she's recovered, she still has her shirt on. Her skirt is hiked up around her waist. Leggings are gone, no underwear. She is exposed from the waist down, except for her boots. She'll tell Detective Kim Major that he knew what kind of woman she was. You'll hear him describe her and use the words dirty slut whore.

On September 16, three days after Stacey was identified, police confirmed the second body was Elizabeth Griffith. Shortly after being taken into custody, Sean revealed that these weren't his first murders. In fact, he proved by pointing police to another dead body in nearby Marion County. On September 14, Sheriff Tim Bailey commented on the found body. My understanding they were getting ready to lock him up and someone asked him, is there anything else that you want to tell us? And he said, yeah, I killed a girl in Marion. Well, we only have one outstanding case here.

So we asked him to pinpoint the location where he dumped her and he pinpointed it right to it. Well, the body we found here was found northeast of the city of Marion on a township road called Victory Road. The body was off of the road and a wooded area. People smelled the odor of the body and thought a deer carcass had been dumped. He took her to the house south of town where he killed her. And he held there there. He held her there for two days. And then he moved her out to victory road. That's where he dumped her.

He went back and he burnt the body, which scorched the leaves and the trees. It looked like they had been burnt. So I'm surmising. It's strictly a guess on my part. When you started 2003, 2004 and you kill somebody and then you're still doing it in 2016, I'm just saying my experience, there's got to be something in between there that I would be looking for some more dead bodies. It's not a mass murder because he didn't kill a whole bunch of people at once.

He's killed more than once several times. I would call him a serial killer, yes. Again, we're looking for the idea on a white female about 26 years of age. It was selling magazine's door to door. Sean claimed that about 10 years previous, he murdered a woman over what he thought to be a magazine scam and dumped her in the woods before going back later to burn the body. Sean pointed to the exact location on a map where the body was found. And it was clear he did it, but Sean wasn't done confessing. While in custody, he told Detective Kim Major about two more women

during several interviews. He led police to a burned out house where they found the body of another woman, hidden about 60 feet in the woods behind it. The body was later identified as Candice Cunningham. She was never reported missing. Her family had assumed that she moved to North Carolina in April of 2016. He also claimed responsibility for what the police already ruled on overdose death. The body of Rebecca Lacey was found in March 2015, dumped on the side of a road in

Ashland. As the body count rose, the police were sure of one thing. They had stumbled upon a serial killer. While in jail, Sean cooperated fully with the police, even going so far as to demonstrate how he strangled Elizabeth. And Stacy Stanley. Sean at times seemed remorseful, but at other times he seemed almost delighted. Maybe it was the limelight, or maybe it was just getting his horrible actions off his chest.

Out of the norm for people accused of murder, Sean wrote to the press directly trying to explain his actions. They were already dead. Sean great wrote to me in one of two letters dated September 28th, written in careful cursive on ruled loose leaf paper, apologizing for sloppiness because he had to write

with a small pencil. In his first letter, great tells me about facing himself in the mirror. And promises to share exactly why he did it. And that's exactly what he did in the second letter, which I found folded neatly inside the original, signed copy of his indictment, the same document that lists his aggravated murder charges in the death of

Stacey Stanley and Elizabeth Griffith. They were already dead, just their bodies were flopping wherever they can flop, but their minds were dead," Great Rote. Blaming government assistance for taking the minds of his victims, and so he finished the job, with what he calls a horrible act of violent behavior. Great uses the words bodies, victims, and people interchangeably, and the letter is scattered with Bible verses about death. And great acknowledges that those families have the right to know why he did it. And he also confesses his fears that he will become dead-minded like them, stuck in a cell for the

rest of his life. Posing a final question, scrawled across the top of the letterhead. Why is my mind eating me alive, or has it ate me?" He also did an interview from jail explaining what he did. Cleveland 19's Casey Nist released a transcript of the interview from memory. Casey, anything you'd like to say before we get started? Great. I'm learning this was out of behavior for me. I had to cover everything up. It was tearing me up all those years knowing what I'd done.

I'd have these thoughts like, dang, I had to face myself every day. You confessed to murdering a woman in 2005, believed to be named Dana or Diane. She was trying to sell me magazines. I remember her trying to sell them to me. Me and my mom would be on the porch and she'd try to sell them. My mom said she wasn't getting her subscriptions delivered. She came to the house and tried to tell me that she would pay for half of the subscription. And if I paid the other half, I could tell she was scheming me.

I took her to the basement and took a knife and stabbed her in the throat. I had company coming over, so. What about Rebecca Lacey? The corner ruled that to be drug-related. I knew Rebecca. One day we were out playing pool at a bar, and I went to use the restroom and heard my money clip zip. She'd stolen $4 from me.

She was on something. She was a prostitute. So did you kill her? I strangled all of them except Dana. I choked her out of panic, then put a knife in her neck once. Let's talk about Candace Cunningham. You two were dating for how long? He was pregnant? No, she wasn't pregnant. We were seeing each other for about seven months. He was pretty violent in suicidal. I turned her into a psych ward for a week. He was pretty violent in suicidal. I turned her into a psych ward for a week.

Then we fought at the house in Richland for about three or four days. Then the next day we'd get up and go for walks. She could have run off and told police at any time. She would take handfuls of pills at a time and I would give her the water. How did you kill her? In the house. Then you burned down the house and went back for her body. Why?

I had to hide her. Now, the next woman, Elizabeth Griffith, what happened with her? Why kill her? I'm trying to justify it as compassion. The short time I talked to her, she cried several times, just about life and how she couldn't find anyone to love her. She had mental illness. Candace was beating herself up too.

They tried to put me on psych pills, but I didn't want anything controlling my brain. Are you remorseful? That's about 50-50. All I wanted to do was show Elizabeth that she wanted to live. I'd say give me a hug, we're all in this together. I'd choke her until she said she wanted to live. And she just didn't.

What about the woman you abducted who called 911? Did you meet her at the Stone Creek apartment so long with Elizabeth too? Yeah, we were gonna get married. I wasn't going to kill her. She was very religious. She encouraged people. Help to see who they were. I would play Badminton with her at Stone Creek Apartments and Elizabeth would be there.

Was she helping you? Yes. Are you religious? I feel I've always been religious. How about Stacey Stanley? Did you just see she had a flat tire and that was how you met her? Yeah. Did you ever want to be caught?

I wanted to be caught. I thought about turning myself in. Did you ever want to be caught? I wanted to be caught. I thought about turning myself in. Did you ever tell anyone that you had killed these women before? Yeah, and always. I broke down crying for a long time to a few different women. Then I'd say something to confuse them.

Are you a sex addict? Sex is a weakness, but you have control over it. Have you killed anyone else? Or just the five? Why not admit to you all of it at this point? Now, there were just five. Are you afraid of the death penalty? I admitted it. I feel I deserve the death penalty, but I also feel I can help some people in there.

My problem is that everyone is telling me what to do. I'm just trying to free myself of what I've done. I'm afraid of the death penalty. I will have cases in Richland here and Marion and there's time. I'd like to die on my own and not by the state. My attorneys keep telling me not to talk to anyone. I don't need you. I'm guilty. Expressing something like remorse, Sean confesses his guilt to anyone that would listen.

On October 13th at the request of both the prosecutor and Sean's defense team, Ashland County Common Please Judge Ron Force Thiefel put a gag order on Sean. On April 9th, 2018, jury selection began in his trial. He originally pleads not guilty to the 23 charges against him, including aggravated murder, kidnapping, gross abuse of a corpse,

burglary, tampering with evidence, rape, aggravated robbery, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and breaking and entering. But after eight days of trial, Sean changed his plea to guilty for 15 of the charges, leaving the murder of Elizabeth and Stacey as not guilty, please. What made you decide today at this point after all that evidence was in that now you did want to enter a plea to these specific charges. Brotherhood and their faces seem worthless. Sean was looking at a minimum of 50 to 72 years in prison. In May of this year, the jury found great guilty and recommended

the death sentence. Prior to a sentencing, Sean made a statement to the court. On June 1st, the judge sentenced Sean to death for Elizabeth and Stacey, and another 90 years in prison for the other charges. Stacey's family was in court all wearing purple shirts labeled with the hashtag Stanley Strong. As the crowd applauded, Sean looked over from the defense table, with a smile, and nodded in agreement. Although the judge sentenced Sean to an execution date on the anniversary of his arrest, notice of appeal was filed, and the date was postponed. Richland County also announced they are pursuing charges against Sean in connection with the death of Candace Cunningham and Rebecca Lacey, to which he has already

confessed, including three counts of aggravated murder, one count of murder, two counts of aggravated arson, three counts of kidnapping, three counts of tampering with evidence, and two counts of gross abuse of a corpse. On September 12th, one day before the two-year anniversary of Sean's arrest, the town of Ashland had some semblance of closure when the city tore down the home on covert court. On September 13th of this year, Sean's original execution date, he pleaded not guilty in Richland County Court. We'll be following this trial as it continues. But until then, look around you and stay vigilant. They may appear to be a friend. But let's face it, people

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