Sword and Scale - Episode 326
Episode Date: November 2, 2025A night of celebration at a remote cabin takes a horrifying turn when a fight breaks out and a young father steps in to calm things down. Within moments, the party descends into chaos, and a single ac...t of violence changes lives forever.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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And this may realize I need to step up and be a better mom.
I mean, I hate to be the very bad news, but you're not going to get the opportunity for a long, long time.
Not only is the state going to have custody of your children, you're going to jail today.
If I have my way, you're going as an accomplice to murder.
Some nights start with laughter.
And with sirens.
No one sees it coming until it's too late.
some nights are simply born under a bad sign
you likely won't even feel it at first
the music's loud the drinks are flowing
and it all feels harmless enough
but violence rarely announces itself
it rarely sends an RSVP
with a self-addressed stamped envelope
often it builds quietly bubbling beneath the surface
until it does what all bubbles do
them, it bursts without warning.
And when it does, the people who pay the price are rarely the ones looking for trouble.
They're the ones standing too close when the world suddenly tilts towards chaos.
Okay, turn to the shoulder.
There's not anything over there.
Okay, calm down.
How many times have been stabbed?
I think five.
Marble times?
Okay.
I watched it happen.
and the guy had been, he stabbed them in the shoulder,
say that he has a deep wound to the neck.
He has no wound to the shoulder.
Okay.
On April 23rd, 2023 at about 3 a.m.,
deputies from the Hawking County Sheriff's Office
were dispatched to a remote cabin
tucked deep in the woods of Sugar Grove,
a lovely village in the wonderful state of Ohio,
which we love so much on this program,
namely because of all the wonderful and colorful people
that live there.
And all of the wonderful content they bring us.
When deputies finally arrived to their destination, they found a group of young adults
gathered near the front porch of the cabin.
They were visibly shaken and clustered around a young man sprawled on the ground.
The young man was covered in blood.
He had been stabbed several times and time was running out.
Come on, baby.
Charlie, you're so strong.
Is he breathing?
Yes, he is.
I have a...
How much you love?
Anything bleeding on his back?
Yes.
Aggressive.
Deputies learned that the young man's name was Charlie.
While waiting for paramedics to arrive, his friends hovered close,
supplying makeshift bandages and holding pressure on his stab wounds.
They urged Charlie to hang on and keep fighting.
You got it.
You're so tough.
Come on, Charlie.
Yeah, you got it.
Got it?
Slotty memory.
Come on, Charlie.
Keep breathing, brother.
So good.
Come on.
You're so fucking strong, man.
I think about how strong you're gonna be.
You are the strongest person I've ever known.
If anybody can make this and you like this, it's you.
There we go.
Squads here.
The squad is here, Charlie?
Yeah, come on.
Charlie, I'm so proud.
I'm so proud.
You're doing so good.
Keep pushing for us.
Marble stab wounds to the neck, abdomen.
How big was the next?
You guys, I'm not quite sure.
He has about five stab wounds.
After several agonizing minutes, paramedics arrived on scene, and Charlie was
gurneyed into an ambulance.
How many you count nine statutes, Jeffie?
One, two, three, four, five, one on his back, make six.
Six tablets.
You got two to the right jaw, a slice.
You hear one of the neck, one of the top part of it, like his trap, one to the bicep and one on the back.
Charlie was in critical condition, and he was soon airlifted to the nearest trauma center where doctors and surgeons would attempt to save his life.
Back at the cabin, deputies began the grim task of piecing together what had gone so violently wrong.
Who all witnessed the stabbing?
I saw everything.
You saw everything?
So who else is it? You two? Just you two? Okay.
All right. Well, I got some detectives coming.
Roughly 15 to 20 potential witnesses remained at the scene. All of them in their early 20s.
Deputies corralled the group around a nearby fire pit and waited for detectives to arrive.
When the inside of the cabin was searched, deputies found all the markings of a fun, college-like party.
Decorations hung from the ceiling, beer bowl.
Bottles littered every surface.
The kitchen sink overflowed with dishes, and a table in the living room showed signs of a recently played drinking game.
Back outside, the first detectives pulled up, and questioning began.
So, first of all, what time did you get here?
I got here yesterday.
Okay, so it's now almost 6 o'clock on Sunday morning.
I got here on Friday.
Friday, okay.
I helped decorate and set up.
Okay.
So when you say decorating that, what was this?
His 23rd birthday, Dalton.
Okay, so this is Dalton's 23rd birthday.
Yes.
The two-story wood cabin had been rented for the weekend by 23-year-old Dalton Flagg
as part of his birthday celebration.
All right, so this is your birthday party?
Yes, that?
Okay.
So walk me through.
How long have you guys been here?
We've been here the whole weekend.
Yeah, we got here Friday, like 4 p.m., I think it was.
Dalton arrived at the cabin that Friday evening with his girlfriend and roommate.
The three of them started setting up, decorating the space and anticipation of what they hoped
would be a carefree weekend of partying with friends.
Naturally, Dalton had sent out the invites, including one to 22-year-old Charles Starner,
known to most as Charlie or Chuck.
Charlie was a manager at a small pizzeria
where he employed several of his friends.
He was engaged and the father of a nine-month-old son.
That night, Charlie showed up to a party with his fiancé and two close friends.
So you get here tonight around 7 p.m.
Yeah.
Okay?
You rode down with Charlie, Caleb, and Rachel.
Okay. What happens when you guys get here?
Everything is fine and dandy.
Yeah, everything was fine.
That kid wasn't even here.
When I first got here, he didn't show up for the kid that stabbed, Charlie, wasn't here for hours when I was here, and everything was fine.
Okay.
The atmosphere at the cabin was everything you'd expect from a typical college-aged party.
People were drinking heavily, some smoking weed, and a few others were openly using cocaine.
The hot tub was in use.
drinking games were underway
and everyone seemed to be having
a great time
until suddenly
they weren't
you said it was pretty chill
and then how did we get to this
honestly I don't know
where were you at with
I was inside and I just heard people screaming
so I ran out to look
because obviously I'm nosy
but me and Ryan
heard them yelling so we ran out to check it out
and they were just fighting
which
who's they
It was just a bunch of the guys
So there's more than two people fighting?
It wasn't really fighting, everyone was just yelling at each other
And then we went inside
Because we didn't really think anything of it
Then we heard a bunch of screaming
And I came out and that's when I saw
Like the guy, I don't even know who he was
So the guy, you were talking about the person who was hurt?
The person that was hurt, I see him reading.
Where was you bleeding from?
I think his neck.
I don't know.
I just seen blood like dripping down him and that freaked me out.
And I took off running into the woods because I was scared.
One of the first challenges detectives faced was that not everyone at the party had witnessed the stabbing.
To make matters worse, many of the attendees were strangers to one another, having met for the first time that night.
When questioned, several had trouble recalling names making the investigation.
difficult to untangle.
Do you know who did this?
Or were you told something?
No, I know his name.
Okay.
Isaac Pence. I don't know how to spell it.
How do you know he's the one?
Everyone said it. He was the one that drove the car, pulled the car out of here.
I don't know what kind of car.
Did you see him leave?
I've seen him peel out with the car, yeah.
Who was anybody with him?
I think his fiance.
Despite the challenges detectives managed to determine who had been stabbed.
And perhaps, more importantly, who had done the stabbing.
Over and over, the partygoers pointed to one person, a young man named Isaac Pence.
So you guys are hanging out. When does Isaac arrive?
I couldn't tell you, like, an exact time.
And if I had to guess, I'd say 11th.
Who's he arrived with?
Sabra.
And is that his...
A fiancé, I think. I think they're may engage, maybe.
20-year-old Isaac Pence arrived at the cabin with his fiancé, Sabra Flag, who was the sister of the birthday host, Dalton Flagg.
Sabra was the only reason Isaac had been invited in the first place, and it didn't take long for detectives to learn that Isaac and Dalton had a rocky history.
How long have her and Isaac been together?
Like four to five years.
So do you know Isaac?
Yeah.
Who is he?
What do you mean?
Like, a good person, I'm a good person.
When he's not drinking, yes.
When he's drinking, no.
Isaac was drinking?
Yes.
Anytime he drinks, he is very violent.
Has Isaac and all never had bad blood before?
Yes.
Over well?
Because he just, he doesn't treat Saber well at all.
Yeah, but they never got along.
And I told, like, Sabre wanted to come, and Dalton's like,
Isaac would only allow her to come if he came with her.
And Dalton was, like, not okay with it.
But he said, as long as he's not drinking.
But as soon as he came in the house, he was re-drinking.
Has Isaac been in trouble before?
For what?
Drinking, for one.
I know he's on probation for something.
He's not supposed to be drinking, and he is.
By nearly all accounts, Isaac Pence had a reputation for being a violent drunk.
He had only just recently.
been released from jail for assaulting Sabra and Dalton's mother.
Dalton knew Isaac was trouble.
He didn't want him at the party, especially not in a secluded cabin in the woods.
But to keep peace with his sister, Dalton gave in and allowed Isaac to attend.
That would turn out to be a grave mistake.
Who was Isaac with?
Who did he sleep with?
My sister, Sabrefy.
She stays with Isaac and his parents.
So she lives with Isaac and his parents?
Yeah, and Isaac's had issues in the past.
He's put his hands on my sister,
and he just literally went to jail three months ago for putting his hands on my mom.
How old is Isaac?
20, 21.
By this point, detectives had started to piece together the key relationships
and some of the night's events.
But this information hadn't come quickly.
Hours had passed, and partygoers were now sobering up.
Many were growing restless and increasingly impatient with the process.
I want to fucking go home.
I've been sitting here for four fucking hours.
I'm freezing my fucking ball sack off.
Can I fucking go home?
We're not.
I get it.
I'm fucking cold as fuck.
Bro, why are you choking?
Why are you choking me?
He's trying to get your attention.
I'm trying to record.
That guy was taken to jail for disrupting the
other fucking choking the aisle right now.
That guy was taken to jail for disrupting
the scene of an emergency, and
the interviews continued.
As detectives continued to ask
questions, they eventually learned
how the party was turned into a scene of
chaos and violence.
All right, so what started this whole argument?
So,
most people were leaving.
Isaac was beyond drunk,
and he was
calling everyone
like names. I don't even, like, I don't even know why he was acting the way he was, because
everybody was leaving and everything. Like, everything, we were all done. He started acting
bludgeoning other people. Me and my girl were there and I was like, hey, bro, like, just leave.
Like, you're fine, you're good. Like, just, you're good, just leave. And then when he asked him
to leave, you got super mad. They started raising their voices at each other. And for some reason,
he pushed a rise in really hard, like, into a table. Okay. And then that was when things,
like, really escalated. Because now Dalton was super mad because his girlfriend got pushed. And
and they're just like screaming at each other.
He didn't want to leave.
He came charging, pushed me on the ground, and charged at Dalton.
And then that's when Dalton came back at him, and everyone pulled him off.
And then he started coming at everyone else in the house.
And then that's when it went outside.
Several witnesses explained that the violence started when Dalton asked Isaac to leave.
In response, Isaac shoved Dalton's girlfriend.
Arisen, sending her crashing to the ground.
The moment people saw Isaac put his hands on a woman, the atmosphere snapped.
Voices exploded in anger, and the confrontation spilled outside onto the driveway of the cabin.
What happens when they get outside?
There was a group of people telling him to leave.
We told him we were about to call 911 if he didn't leave.
Everyone kept saying, no, no, his baby mom said, no, call him.
911, he's on probation, he's got to get in trouble.
A crowd quickly formed.
A large group surrounded Isaac, telling him to leave.
At the same time, a smaller group held Dalton back,
trying to stop him from launching into a fistfight with Isaac.
Like, I was trying to come out and Cray and all them were with me,
and it's not worth it just, he's leaving.
Cray?
Yeah, Cray's right there.
Is that the real name?
Yeah, I think it's like C-R-A-1.
Sorry to interrupt the flow of the story here,
but I have a question to ask.
What the hell's going on with the names at this party?
Cray, Sabra, Horizon, Teca, and Cinnamon, just to name a few.
What the hell?
What kind of dope smoking, bead-wearing, crystal-charging, music festival attending,
double-wide living, minimum wage earning,
Antifa supporting wannabe hippie parents name these dumb-ass children.
Way to set up your kin for success with a name like Cinnamon.
By the way, sure, that'll keep her off the pole.
Next up on stage, cinnamon!
Anyway, Dalton was being held back by his friends
who were telling him not to fight Isaac,
while several others were shouting at Isaac,
telling him to get into his car
and peddle his little ass out of there.
What did you see or observe from that time forward?
A whole bunch of pushing, shoving, yelling.
pushing, yelling, shoving
okay? And then what happened?
He was essentially carried to his car
by like three or four people
trying to get him to like. There wasn't no
him wanting to leave, like he was definitely
it was more like a forceful
like here's an audience. Yeah, like
there was multiple guys
grabbing him and trying to shove him in his own
car trying to get him to just
be gone. Okay.
And where is
is a saber?
Yeah, saber and got in the car
with him. Into the passenger seaver?
Several guys dragged Isaac to the driver's side of his car.
At about the same time, Isaac's fiancé Sabra hopped in the passenger seat of the same car.
So at this point, they're in the car, and there's a couple people, like, banging on the windows.
He gets mad and opens...
And he opened the door, and Charlie was one of the people that were trying to get him in the car and get him to leave.
and he just happened to be the guy in front of the driver's door
just grabbed him for whatever reason
and started stabbing him
like it was like six times too
and I saw Charlie fall to the ground
does he immediately get back in the car and leave
what's the next course of action
just gets in his car
slams the door and spins his tires
and drives up the driveway
that kept stuff like crazy
I walk inside
and then I think like ten minutes after
after they come out, and he said, he just stabbed him, he just stabbed him.
What is going on? Where are you looking for? She's like, Charlie just got stabbed.
When Isaac was forced into his car, he reached into the center console, pulled out a small
work knife, grabbed the nearest person, and just started stabbing. I mean, that's what I always do
when I'm frustrated. His unlucky victim was Charlie Starner. With no warning, Charlie was struck
multiple times, including potentially fatal stabs to his back and neck.
He collapsed to the ground, bleeding heavily,
while Isaac slammed his car door shut and sped off with Sabra.
You know, like the hummus.
I was standing up on the porch, and I watched him get stabbed right there next to my truck.
And Jimmy, the guy who's covered in blood,
he carried him over here to the other side of my truck with a big pool.
blood is, and I opened up the back of my truck and started rummaging through and grabbing
my med kits.
Among the guests at the party was a young woman named Amanda Chapman, who had a background in EMS.
When Charlie went down, Amanda rushed to her truck, grabbed a medical kit, and began doing
everything she could to help.
Tonight was just not ready, and that was terrifying.
I understand completely.
The two that were out here, can you identify them?
both of them?
So Charlie is the one that I was
going to have a rubber on.
I don't know the guy
that was in the car that stabbed him.
I guess his girl
took off with him.
Everybody that's here right now
I really don't think anything was malicious.
But the dude who fled
like he was out to kill.
Multiple people at the party called 911.
As they waited, they hovered
helplessly around Charlie.
watching Amanda and a few others render what little aid they could.
As Charlie was bleeding out on the ground,
everyone hoped that help would get there in time.
Did Charlie say anything?
I heard no words come out of that man's mouth,
and I think that's what fucking was the most.
Was Charlie conscious or unconscious?
For a while he was conscious, I couldn't be outside for the rest of it.
I couldn't see it. I had to call his mom, let her know what's going on.
When Charlie was conscious.
He didn't say nothing at all.
He didn't say nothing. He didn't say what happened?
No, he couldn't. He couldn't. He couldn't. He couldn't. He was bleeding now.
While first responders were on route and throughout the rest of the morning,
Dalton's girlfriend exchanged text messages with Sabra,
who was presumably still sitting in the passenger seat next to Isaac.
Did you have any contact with the suspect or Sabre after they left here?
She texted me and I texted her back.
Okay, what did the text message say?
She started 256.
I'm going to need my shoes and my purse back.
Hello.
I need you to answer right now.
Hello.
I said, we have your shit.
You'll get it tomorrow.
She said, I have to have it.
What the hell was that?
Huh?
His fringe jumped him.
I said, you're not getting it till tomorrow.
I said, you show up with you and Isaac.
It's all going to be bad.
What stood out most about this text exchange is what wasn't said.
At no point did Sabra Adler.
how Charlie was doing.
Her only concern was retrieving her purse and a few other meaningless belongings
she'd left behind at the cabin.
She said, I'm going to need my glasses, shoes, and purse, or y'all going to prison.
She said, the key to my goddamn work, and if I don't get it back, I'll call the fucking
cops.
And then she texts me at 432.
I need my shit, what's going on.
Once paramedics arrived, Charlie was quickly rushed to a trauma center and prepared for
emergency surgery.
Back at the cabin, detectives got to work, interviewing witnesses, searching the scene,
and trying to understand exactly what had gone down.
While doing this, they got some interesting news.
Hey.
Yeah.
Allegedly the suspect's on his way back here.
Awesome.
So if they went to the hotel room where Sabre's mom is staying, she told him to get their
shit and get out.
I mean, I don't know.
She doesn't know if he's coming back to finish when he started or what.
Oh, nice.
the detectives learned that Isaac Pence was still furious
and he was headed back to the cabin
apparently stabbing someone several times hadn't been enough for him
he wanted more blood
he wanted to finish
what he had started
And
In the early morning hours of April 23, 2023,
22-year-old Charlie Starner was clinging to his life,
after being stabbed multiple times at a party
at a secluded rental cabin in the woods of Sugar Grove, Ohio.
Have I mentioned how nice Ohio is at this time of year?
Ohio really is the heart of it all,
when the heart isn't being stabbed, that is.
As detectives scrambled to make sense of this chaos,
witness after witness identified the attacker as 20-year-old Isaac Pence.
They also warned police that Isaac wasn't done.
Apparently, he planned a return to the cabin to finish what he started.
To prevent another wave of violence, officers were posted at the end of the cabin's driveway,
where they braced for Isaac's return.
but he never showed.
By morning, police shifted gears and went looking for him.
They found Isaac fast asleep at the home that he shared with his mother, stepfather, two younger siblings, and his fiancé, the infamous Sabra flag.
Officers took both Isaac and Sabra into custody and began questioning Isaac's mom.
Do you normally keep their children on a regular basis?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
And they go out and...
Yeah, do whatever.
Okay.
Any history of drug use and abuse?
No.
How about alcohol?
Yes.
Between both of them or one of them?
I heard not so much, but, you know, Isaac drinks just about every weekend.
Would you say your son has anger issues?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
And sometimes he does get really mad when he's drinking.
When detectives arrived at Isaac's home, they were met with a few surprises.
First, they discovered that Isaac's.
Isaac and Sabra had two young children, a one-year-old and a four-month-old.
Yet neither of them seemed to be carrying themselves like parents.
Are you surprised, or are you starting to recognize patterns yet?
The day-to-day care of the children fell mostly to Isaac's mother,
who also informed investigators that her sons struggled with alcoholism and a history of violent behavior.
Nuh, duh.
How long have they lived?
Here, with you.
Isaac's been here his whole life.
Sabra has been here on and off for the last two years, three years.
Is that about how long they've been together?
They've been together four years.
Four years.
Okay.
Once they gathered enough background information on Isaac and Sabra,
detectives turned their focus to the night of the stabbing.
They asked Isaac's parents what they knew about the party.
at the cabin.
Do you know where Isaac and Sabre were at last night?
There's no clue.
Okay.
Do you know what time they arrived back at the home?
They showed up at about 5 o'clock because they woke me up, beating on the door.
Okay, so they were beaten on the door, arrived back here at about 5 a.m.
Did they say anything to you when they came in?
Not really.
Did you notice anything out of the norm?
It just seemed like they were, like, irritated and, like, mad.
Okay.
Another thing that took detectives by surprise was the state of the home.
You see, it was completely filthy.
There was trash thrown about everywhere, and the stench of urine and dog shit was just overwhelming.
Then again, this was Ohio.
How long has your house been like this?
So I came up.
As far as, you know, a hole here, there, in the wall and this and that, trash in the yard, or what?
I'm talking trash in the house.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've had a help time trying to keep everything cleaned up since, you know, we don't have any help at all.
And, like, I'm recuperating from a heart attack.
He just had a heart attack, and I was the one that had, I had a tester.
And at the ammonia level in your house, is ridiculous.
Concerned by the smell, detectives tested for ammonia levels inside the home.
The results were off the charts, which is an extreme health risk.
especially for children.
When asked about it, Isaac's parents pointed the finger squarely at Isaac and Sabra.
But the whole dog thing that they've had in that bedroom,
the whole time that they've had that dog here,
they don't take it out to use the bathroom or nothing else.
I just use the bathroom everywhere.
Yeah.
After removing Isaac and Sabra from their disgusting home,
officers transported both of them to the sheriff's office.
Once there, Sabro was the first to be interviewed.
My brother's the one who's through the party.
For his birthday, right?
Yes, for his birthday.
And what's your brother's name?
Dol is black.
Okay.
And I already talked it with him and I was like, you know,
because my brother and Isaac have had some issues in the past,
but they were trying to get over it because my brother wanted to be more involved in my life.
He wanted to be more involved in his nephew's lives.
And I was like, well, he's part of my life.
You know, I love them.
I want to work things out with him.
He's the father of birth to my kids.
so he was like yeah that's fine you guys can come you know just no drama I was like yeah he's fine
he's probably not even drinking and if he does he just only got to drink a little bit because we have to go home
I have to open sabra began her interview by explaining how she and Isaac ended up at her brother
Dalton's birthday party at the cabin she admitted Dalton didn't want Isaac there but she had convinced
him that there would be no drama that promise of course was broken
Sabra went on to describe how the night changed from fun and happy times to
horrible bloody violence
And all of a sudden I hear this like you know arguing and I was like oh my gosh please I'm it's not with Isaac
I go out and I hear like a bunch of different stories
I take a few other people were saying that he accidentally pushed Horizon which is my brother's girlfriend
then my brother sitting here saying he intentionally pushed her I don't think he's
intentionally versus pushed for. He's not that type of person. He's not violent, especially with
girls. So I know he's not that type of person. And they're sitting here argument. I'm trying
to talk to Isaac to calm him down because I'm like one of the only people that can calm
down. I'm like, okay, let's just, you know, if anything, let's just go in your car, sit for like
a couple hours and then we can go home. And then they followed us outside. They all start
like trying to fight Isaac all at the same time.
I don't know exactly who it was because there were so many people,
but I know that there was like three or four people trying to find Isaac at the same time.
Sabra's version of events clashed with just about every other witness.
According to her, Isaac wasn't the aggressor.
He was the victim.
Backed into a corner and forced to defend himself against a group of guys
just looking for a fight out of nowhere.
Oh my gosh.
And it was like,
10 guys, all of my brother's friends. And this guy, I think his name is Clay. He pushed Isaac. And Isaac went flying back into a car. And Isaac, I don't know if he, like, pushed him or back or what he did. But I tried to intervene. And I was like, he's just trying to protect himself. Like, there's like 10 guys jumping him. And I was like, I was like, it's not his fault. And somehow I fall and they're like trampling all over me.
and bruise on my knee, and then I still hear them fighting over here.
And Isaac, he got in the car, and he goes, Sabra, come on, come on, come on.
Then I got in the car, and he drove off because I think people were coming back at him,
and he was like, like, okay, and down, and so we just drove off.
There was one glaring omission in Sabre's story.
Did you catch it?
I'll give you a hint.
It has to do with pointy things going stabby, stabby.
Weird how she missed the most interesting part of the story, huh?
Naturally, detectives pressed her about this.
I didn't even know someone got stabbed until way after we left.
And Isaac was like, I think I stabbed that dude.
I think I stabbed him.
I was like, what the heck do you mean?
He was like, I think I stabbed him.
I was like, oh, my God.
Isaac, I was like, you literally ran away.
Like, that's not what you should do.
Sabre claimed she hadn't seen anyone get stabbed
and that she only heard about it afterwards.
She wasn't too curious about it either.
In fact, she doesn't seem to be too curious about anything, really.
When asked where she and Isaac went after fleeing the cabin,
she said they made a quick stop at a friend's house,
someone named Justin, before heading home.
So when you were at Justin's house, what did you guys do there?
So we just stopped there to look at Isaac's car,
and then I went in and peat, or used the bathroom,
and then I came out, and I was looking at Isaac's car with him and Justin,
And then they smoked a Sarah, and then we left, and then we went straight home.
This brief stop at Justin's would eventually become an important part of this case.
But more on that later.
After questioning Sabra, detectives moved on to Isaac.
Who do you live there with?
My mom, my stepdad.
Okay.
I get a little brother, a little sister.
Okay.
But then Sabra and my two kids.
And who's Sabra?
I'm a feeling sad.
Okay.
All right.
And how are your children?
one is
one
and one is four months
how far did you make it through school
about
I think 11th grade
11th grade
okay did you get your GED or anything
no I went straight into concrete
as soon as I turned 18
and I wanted to go
and get a different career
but every time I go
when I start a different jobs it's like oh well
just put it off
put it off put it off
okay I'm wanting to
at some point.
Okay.
Detectives got more background info from Isaac, this overachiever.
His criminal background wasn't extensive, but it was certainly concerning.
Have you been in trouble or anything at all?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, for what?
I got an assault charge on her mom.
You know, assault charge on her mom?
Yeah.
How old ago was that?
Uh, probably six months.
Yeah, I cannot win this family.
I cannot win.
with this family, he said after admitting to an assault charge on his girlfriend's mom. You know,
his kid's grandma. He says this matter-of-factly and completely unironically. I swear,
you'll never convince a retard. They're not a genius. Going forward, you'll start to see a pattern here
with Isaac if you're smart enough to see patterns. Nothing is ever his fault.
So, I don't know if you guys came up here for a birthday party, is that correct?
Yeah.
So who's birthday wasn't?
It was her brother's birthday.
Me and her brother never got along.
Okay.
I was sitting there whole time and it's like, and this is a bad idea?
I want to make her happy.
So it's like, you know, I will try to put my pride aside.
Let's go ahead and go.
Okay.
We were there and everything was good.
All right.
Everything was completely fun and we had a good time.
Isaac claimed that he didn't want to go to Dalton's birthday party, but
out of the goodness of his heart, he decided that being there would make Sabra happy.
What a selfless stand-up guy he is.
We were all sitting right here in the hallway, and someone ended up pushing me.
So I pushed him back.
Well, Dalton thought that I pushed his girlfriend, Elizel.
And so he got all pissed off.
That's when everyone tried to join me.
Well, I kind of knew what I'm doing a little bit
So I started throwing them to the side
I went outside and that's when they started trying to come at me
It was all of them at once
And so I was just tossed them to the side
And they all just kept coming
So I went to my car and I shut the door
I still say where I was like hey
If you want to go then we're going
Well they came and they got them faster a car
And they took her sunglasses
I know, her actual glasses and her purse out, trying to keep her to stay there.
And I was like, well, with everything going on, like, I'm going to leave.
Much like Sabra, Isaac's version of events clashed with every other witness.
That's because absolutely no murder in the history of mankind has ever started
with a completely innocent dude getting pushed and mobbed at a festive gathering for absolutely no reason.
But don't let common sense smack you across the face.
Once they started sitting there trying to bust the glass to get to me,
that's when I put out a knife.
I was like, hey, you need to back up.
And they didn't want to.
No one was.
So you were in your car.
So what did you do?
Did you open the car door back up?
No, they ended up opening my car door.
They did?
Yeah.
It was two to three guys were sitting there, and they were just yanked on it.
I was trying to hold it as good as I could.
They didn't want to.
I was like, listen.
and just start poking out a little bit.
Okay.
Like, I didn't try to do it to physically hurt anybody really bad,
but I did it just to, like, poke.
Like, hey, I have a knife.
Calm down.
They wouldn't stop.
They just kept going.
So I tried to stab him with the one guy in the arm just so they would get him.
So he was right there beside you?
Yeah, he opened my corner, and he's coming trying to grab me.
He was coming to try to grab you.
Yeah.
That's why I stab his arm.
Well, as soon as I stepped him in the arm,
To left.
The other two guys took off completely.
Okay.
And that's when Sabre got the car and I took off.
Isaac also claimed that he only stabbed Charlie in the arm.
But the detectives obviously knew better.
After all, they weren't retarded like Isaac.
They of course knew Charlie had been stabbed multiple times all over his body.
This was a careless lie on Isaac's part
and one that would make him look way more guilty.
So you stabbed the guy in the arm one time?
I think it was twice.
Twice?
Are you sure it wasn't more than that
because there's more stab wounds than that?
I didn't think there was.
Because I tried to just get him to go away.
I wasn't trying to hurt him.
Didn't want anything bad, bad to have him.
I just want him to go away.
Okay.
Because there's 15,
us as a friend gentleman.
Stabbing someone as a preventative measure.
Yeah, okay.
After giving this bullshit version of the stabbing,
Isaac went on to tell two more lies that would later come back to haunt him.
So did you go, where'd you go after that?
I went straight home.
Okay.
Your knife.
You don't know exactly where you put it.
They're looking for in your car right now.
I have no clue where it is.
It's either in my car or it's six.
not with that property.
Not only did Isaac's story contradict at least ten other witness statements,
but it didn't even align with Sabra's story.
These two idiots couldn't even get their story straight.
He told detectives that after the stabbing, he went straight home,
conveniently leaving out the stop at Justin's house.
Naturally, detectives were curious about why he would lie about that.
They planned to reach out to Justin and question him about Isaac's early morning
visit to his house, but before they got the chance, Justin called them.
My friend showed up to my house like 3.30 this morning, drunk, and he was flipping out,
like saying that he got junked at some party that he was at, and he had to use a knife on someone,
and I told him he needed to leave and turn himself in, because he can't just make something
like that go away, and he threw the knife over there.
Justin told detectives that Isaac tossed a knife into a bush near Justin's driveway.
Police then recovered the weapon, which was still spattered with Charlie's blood.
In a follow-up interview, Justin also revealed something else.
Isaac had talked about returning to the cabin to do even more damage.
He did say stuff like that at your house?
It was more of like he just wanted to go back and beat up the other people that were trying to jump up.
Okay, all right.
As the investigation deepened, more of Isaac's lies unraveled.
Detectives learned that after ditching the knife, he and Sabra made yet another stop.
This time, to visit Sabra's mother.
So they did end up coming to your place?
Yes, they were there 15, 20 minutes.
I don't even think 20 minutes.
He's just talking about how he was going home to get what he needed and he was going out there and finish it all off,
finished the rest of it up.
By now, detectives had gathered multiple witness statements that pretty much proved,
both Isaac and Sabra, had lied about what led up to the stabbing, the stabbing itself,
and what they did afterwards.
But the most damning evidence was still to come.
There is a camera on cabin six.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Would it have been recording at all or doing any kind of recording last night?
It records.
Video, but not audio.
I need that video preserved, and I need to get that video here at our office as soon as I can get it.
Detectives contacted the owner of the rental cabin, who turned over surveillance footage from a motion-activated camera mounted on the front porch.
Though it didn't capture the stabbing, it revealed the moments leading up to it.
The footage showed what several witnesses had already described.
Near the front porch of the cabin, Dalton's friends physically held Dalton away from Isaac to keep him from fighting.
At the same time, a group surrounded Isaac, gesturing for him to leave.
There's no audio, but the body language is clear.
They weren't looking for a fight.
Then Isaac threw a wild punch at the crowd.
It missed.
Someone shoved him back against a parked car.
A few partygoers then grabbed Isaac and,
carried him towards his car right out of the camera's view.
See how that series of events actually makes sense,
or are you also from Ohio?
Yeah, I'm talking to you.
This footage was pretty important,
as it showed the partygoers were not trying to hurt Isaac.
They just wanted him to leave before things got worse.
But this wasn't the only video that detectives recovered.
Well, I flew off the porch so fast,
and I ended up on the hood of my truck,
because I thought Isaac was going to hit my car.
So I started recording a video in the circumstance that he hit my car.
And I captured the entire stabbing.
Remember Amanda Chapman?
She's the young woman who rushed to Charlie's side after the stabbing.
She had the presence of mine to pull out her phone and hit record when the fight started.
What you're about to hear comes from Amanda's cell phone.
These are the final seconds just before the stabbing.
Get your head.
Hey, fuck, you the fucking.
Hit my car.
Watch it.
No.
Oh, God.
Oh, go.
Oh, go.
Go!
Get him.
Get the fucking.
He's in your car.
Ugh.
Savages.
Amanda's footage begins with Isaac
halfway sitting in the driver's seat.
His door cracked open.
And his one.
on the ground outside of his car.
Several people are trying to close the door, but Isaac resists pushing back against them.
People are shouting, get the hell out of here and get in your car.
No one is threatening Isaac.
No one is swinging.
They just want him gone.
Charlie Starner is among the voices.
The video shows him bracing against the door trying to keep Isaac in the car.
Then, without warning, Isaac grabs a knife from the center console.
He stands, slips partway out of the car, and opens the blade.
What follows is horrifying.
In the audio, you can hear the metallic click of the knife being opened right before Isaac swings again and again,
plunging the blade into Charlie's back, neck, and anywhere that Isaac can reach.
Fair warning, this next bit of audio is not.
an easy listen.
Go!
Get the fuck off!
My fuck!
The video
cuts off, but witnesses
filled in the rest.
After the stabbing, Charlie collapsed.
His friends dragged him away
while Isaac slammed the car door shut
and sped off with Sabra.
Or whatever the fucker name is.
Later, more surveillance footage
surfaced, this time from Justin's house.
On it,
Isaac can be seen tossing the knife into a bush before disappearing into the night.
Isaac had already lied to detectives during his first interview,
but now, armed with this overwhelming evidence,
they questioned him a second time, and they had some devastating news.
What you did last night is fucked up.
You killed somebody.
He's dead.
And then I died?
Yeah, he died at 8.31 this morning.
The world lost a father.
He leaves behind a nine-and-a-half-month-old son named Jet, okay?
A mother and father lost their son.
A girlfriend lost her boyfriend that she held compression on for several minutes
waiting for a medic to get there to try and save his life.
He died at Grant this morning, and you're facing murder charges.
Roughly five and a half hours after the stabbing,
Charlie Starner died at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Despite the doctor's best efforts and emergency surgery,
Charlie's heart gave out.
With his death, the case shifted and got a whole lot more serious.
Both Isaac Pence and Sabra Flag were now facing murder charges in a lifetime behind bars.
On April 23rd,
On April 23, Isaac Pence and his fiance, Sabra flag were taken into police custody.
after a night of violence at a cabin party that left 22-year-old Charlie Starner dead.
Isaac and Sabra lied repeatedly during their first interviews with detectives,
hoping to cover their tracks.
But when detectives brought them back for a second round,
this time armed with overwhelming evidence,
their lies began to unravel.
They started with Sabra and quickly broke the tragic news that Charlie was dead.
So mother to mother, you love your children, right?
Yes, very much.
Okay, and you want to see your kids again someday, right?
Yeah.
Because today, somebody's actions made it so a mother lost her son, a father lost his son,
somebody lost their boyfriend, okay?
Several friends lost another friend who bled out at the hands of someone that you care about,
and you know something.
I really, I don't.
You were there.
Yeah, but I didn't, I didn't know he got stabbed.
I didn't know that until after he would left.
I swear.
If you're trying to protect this man, you're going to go down as an accomplice for murder.
I'm not, I promise.
You know something, and your allegiance to this man is going to get you nowhere,
because let me tell you, he's going to prison.
I didn't, I swear on everything, I did not know he got stopped until after we left.
I'm not trying to protect him at all.
So what did he say after he stabbed?
because you guys drove away together.
He had to have said something.
He really didn't.
He said, I don't even think he said anything.
He just got in the car.
I got in the car.
I didn't know.
And I didn't know until 10 or so minutes later that he said,
I think I stopped someone or I stopped someone something along the lines of that.
I didn't know because if I were to know that, I wouldn't have left.
I promise.
Detectives confronted Sabra with the harsh reality of her situation.
but she continued to resist coming clean.
She maintained her efforts to downplay Isaac's behavior and minimize what he had done.
He died.
He's dead. He's gone.
I know.
And that's my friend for you.
So.
I really don't have to know.
Your honesty today is the, it's the paramount of what we need now.
I spoke to your mother and a son.
So did I.
I'm not too.
Your mom wants you to be honest.
I'm not.
I don't.
You know he's violent against women, correct?
You've been violent before against women, correct?
He was violent against your own mama.
Talk about Isaac.
He, so yes, he did push my mom.
You did what?
He pushed my mom.
Because he went to court for it.
You told me earlier that he would never do that to a woman, correct?
I totally forgot about my mom.
I'm so sorry.
It's your mom.
How can you forget about your mom?
You're trying to protect him?
I'm not.
I'm going to tell you that I talk to his parents and they said that he's an explosive, angry, violent drunk.
He is. He is. He's never been, like, aggressive to me. He just, he gets aggressive and he'll, like, he punches back when he'll, he does stupid things when he's drunk. I'll always first swim with that.
This was another lie. Out of all the detective interviews, Sabra was the last one.
The very last person to admit that Isaac had a habit of becoming violent when he drank.
I'm going to tell you right now that my specialty is domestic violence, sexual assault, and crimes against children.
And the living conditions that your children are in are crime.
A deplorable, sickening crime.
I'm 35 years old and I could barely breathe in that house.
I went to where you sleep
Like do you think that this is normal
That this is an okay situation
Is this what you want your babies growing up in
Definitely not
We were trying to save up for an apartment
Our house
We were just trying to find some
Somewhere to go of our own
Because we don't
I mean I think
They blame the mess on Isaac and you
There's dog feces everywhere
The ammonia in that house is horrible
We've made a referral to have
your children emergency or make a good, I'm going to tell you that.
The living conditions, the trash, the bugs, the cobwebs, the lack of running water, that's,
it's not normal.
Your babies are going to get sick.
And if you care anything about your babies, take to heart.
What Lieutenant McKnight is telling you, I'm going to tell you, you know how I know you're full of shit?
You went to your moms, you went to Justin's, all before you went back to the house.
I talked to your mom
I did go to my moms
I totally forgot
I'm so sorry
Are you forgetting because you were drunk
Are you forgetting because you were high
She's forgetting because she doesn't want to tell the truth
Sabra was smacked with more
And more evidence that exposed her bullshit
And it just kept coming
You told your mommy you were going to come back to the house
As a matter of fact
You said you were going to stop by Isaac's house
And you guys were coming back to the cabin
Because you were going to get your shit
You texted
You texted a rising.
I saw the messages.
You said, I need my purse, I need my shoes, I need my glasses.
If I don't get those things back, somebody, I'm calling the cops.
Those were your priorities, not, hey, my man stabbed somebody.
How's that kid's condition?
Not once today have you asked about how he was.
Not one time.
You have no care of concern.
I swear.
You did not one time?
Oh, did you know that he has a 10-month-old son?
I didn't.
named Jet?
I honestly had no clue.
So now you left another baby without a parent,
just like your kids are going to be left without their parents
because you guys are going to go sit in prison
for the next 25 years to life for murder.
When faced with a lengthy prison sentence,
the only thing these idiots understand,
it seemed like the detectives had finally broken through to Sabra.
And she agreed to tell the full truth.
At least that's what she claimed.
It's time to stop lying.
and tell us the truth
because you're leaving stuff out
trying to sugarcoat it
all we're asking for you to do is the truth
the only thing you have is your word
and you're not telling us the whole truth right now
okay I'll start
I promise
what did you see about the stabbing
I didn't see
and I'm being completely truthful
on everything
I didn't see anyone get stabbed
I didn't see anyone fall to the floor
I didn't see anything
when someone says they're being
completely truthful that's a sure
sign they're not.
Sabra continued to insist
that she hadn't witnessed the stabbing
and the cell phone footage
somewhat supports her claim.
Though the video is dark and grainy
it seems to show Sabra distracted
focused on something else
and not looking in Isaac's
direction when he attacked Charlie.
It's possible she didn't realize
a stabbing had taken place until after
they fled the scene.
That said, there is a
moment just before the stabbing where Sabra
reaches into the center console, and it looks as though she may be handing something to Isaac.
This raised the question.
Did Sabra provide the murder weapon?
Unfortunately, the view of the center console is obstructed, so we're not likely to get an
answer to that question.
In truth, once Sabra agreed to be completely honest, her story didn't change very much.
The biggest shift was in how she talked about Isaac, faced with her.
the looming threat of prison time, she suddenly seemed far more willing to throw him under the
bus.
Me and Brie did downstairs, we were wanting to go in the hot tub, and I was like, well, I don't
know if I was like, he's very, you know, he doesn't like, if I'm, like, in a bathing
suit around a bunch of guys, he's very jealous.
So controlling.
Yeah.
Then, all of a sudden I hear people arguing constantly, and I'm like, what the heck is going on?
And so we all run back into the house, and it's like a big huddle with people.
I'm trying to figure out who was arguing, and then I realized it was Isaac.
I didn't know who he was arguing with.
They were, like, trying to push him out.
And I was like, okay, let's just go.
Like, let's just go.
And he was sitting, he was like, no, just shut the fuck up.
I was sitting here arguing people.
He was started cussing other people out.
I'm just like, come on, let's go.
And I was crying.
I was like, just please, let's go.
And he was like, no, fuck this, fuck that, fuck everyone.
Unlike her first telling, Sabra now admitted that Isaac had been the aggressor at the party.
Surprise, surprise.
This version of events was far closer to the truth.
Do you tell you where he stabbed him?
No, he said that he thought he stabbed him in the arm.
That's what he said.
And I was like, okay, like, did you stab him anywhere else?
I don't think so.
Do you know that this gentleman was stabbed six times?
I did not have that.
You're stabbed in the jaw right here, in the side of his neck, around his back, twice in his chest,
and another one in between his head and his neck.
Oh my God.
He shouldn't have stabbed anybody.
It should have been a calm, cool, collected night.
This was one night that me and him didn't have any kids.
I mean, I know that you guys hardly ever have your kids, because Ginger told me she's raising your kids.
You guys go and do however you want, whenever you want, whenever you want.
want whenever you want she's stuck with these kids she's raised all over
her own you know you guys are going out and drinking and living your lives up like
you don't have kids and this made you realize I need I need to step up and be a
better mom I mean I hate to be the very bad news but you're not going to get
the opportunity for a long long time not only is the state going to have
custody of your children you're going to jail today am I really yeah
if we're not telling this full truth I didn't if I have my way
you're going as an accomplice to murder.
With her updated story on record,
this dumb bitch was handcuffed and taken to jail.
Next, to face off with detectives was her fiancé,
Isaac Pence.
You were at a house party,
kind of walked me through the events of the evening.
Well, it's right tonight.
It was all completely fun until everyone got way too drunk.
I was standing in the hallway,
and someone got my face.
So I pushed it all the way.
And then that's when about 15 of them
all I wanted to come outside and try and jump me.
And who got in your face?
I'm not even sure who it was.
Okay.
Who did you push out of the way?
I pushed that person out of the way, and they fell into a rise,
and they tried to say that I pushed her eyes.
Because as soon as she got touched, everyone just flipped.
Because he just pushed her, oh, well, well, well, and started running at me.
At this point, Isaac was completely unaware of the mountain of evidence
that detectives had gathered against him.
And he didn't know that Charlie Starner
had died. So
naturally, Isaac stuck to
his lies. After I get in my
car, they all started trying to rip my door
open. And
once they got the door open, I just
grab a knife real quick. I was like,
get away. And
they weren't listening. So I went and so I tried
to put him in the arm.
Okay. So you stab him once in the arm
and what happens after
that? He kept coming, so I stabbed him again.
So you stab him
a second time and what
happens?
Pretty sure that he left.
I kind of blacked out after I got him at the same time because I stabbed him on this
shit.
And then I just kind of blacked out.
I think I just sat him twice as I left.
Conveniently, Isaac slipped into the tired excuse of blacking out.
Funny how sharp his memory had stayed right up until the point where he stabbed someone to death.
Take off from there and where do you go?
Oh, thank you.
try that again
no
okay so it went to Justin's house
for a second
okay
then from Justin's house
went to her mom's house
then we went home
so I'm going to tell you
the only thing you have left in this world
is your integrity
you know what integrity is
do you know what integrity
is
I love that
yeah your honesty
and I'm going to tell you that I have found
about 40 link holes already in your story
the last thing I want is your bullshit okay what you did last night is fucked up you killed
somebody he's dead and then died yeah he died at 831 this morning the world lost a father
he leaves behind a nine and a half month old son named jet okay a mother and father lost their
son a girlfriend lost her boyfriend that she held compression on for several minutes waiting
for a medic to get there to try and save his life
He died at Grant this morning and you're facing murder charges.
He did because you didn't stab him twice.
You stabbed him multiple times.
Way more than twice.
I've talked to your mom.
I know you were a very violent, explosive person.
I know you drink almost every weekend.
You left her in the care and custody of your two children,
Draco and Waylon, who are 13 months and four months old.
I've been inside your bedroom.
I've been inside your car.
I've had a very deep conversation.
with your girlfriend, your girlfriend's mother, and everyone that was at that cabin.
You get one shot at this with me, and that's it.
You want to start over?
Let's go.
Detectives hit Isaac with the same reality check they'd given to Sabra.
Afterwards, he appeared slightly more willing to tell the truth, but much like Sabra,
he couldn't stop trying to minimize his actions.
How much did you drink last night?
Um, I think I drank.
It's full-packed Miller.
I took a couple of shots of Tennessee and a bottle of green.
It's like green, sour apples, snobs.
You drank a lot of alcohol, knowing that you have an explosive personality when you're drunk.
And if I tell you that I have literally witness statements, written witness statements,
of you two-handed pushing a horizon.
That's what they were trying to say.
Okay.
And you're telling me that that's not true?
I don't think to my pusher.
Is it possible that you could have pushed her and you blacked out,
given the amethicopious amounts of alcohol you drank?
I could have, but I really, I do not believe that I did.
Do you think it's okay to put your hands off the amount?
No.
Ever?
No, I ask the sisters.
Okay.
Do you think it would be okay for your sons to do the same?
No.
Would you like it if they don't unshuff soccer?
Now, I remind you, this is the same guy that had just recently gotten out of jail
for assaulting his baby mom's mother,
his children's grandmother.
So,
take that with a grain of something.
Isaac claimed that he didn't
or couldn't recall
shoving Dalton's girlfriend to the ground,
which was the act that ignited
the whole night's chaos.
Unfortunately for him,
multiple witnesses, including Dalton's girlfriend,
said that he did.
He pushed you onto the ground inside the cabin?
Yes, right by the door.
Two open hands, honey.
Barely you shut me.
Okay, by your chest.
Or, yeah, like my shoulders and chest right here.
After Isaac shoved Horizon, Dalton understandably exploded with anger.
And from there, the night spiraled out of control.
Dalton comes to you and says what?
He was just freaking out.
Then he was going to beat my ass and everything.
And then once he did that, everyone else jumped in.
And there was about five, ten people.
And we went outside.
and they were all trying to hit me.
What if I tell you that I have surveillance video of them just saying it's time to leave, it's time to leave?
No, because when we went, because that's where I got all this, is where they're hitting me.
Well, a scuffle ensues, but they're trying to push you out of the cabin.
And Sabre's telling you, it's time to go.
Oh, I don't remember it.
Okay.
Once again, Isaac's selective memory failed him, but the evidence was clear.
Nobody at the party wanted more violence.
Witness after witness confirmed that everyone simply wanted Isaac to leave.
In the house, I was trying to stop him from fighting and screaming at each other,
and we were just trying to get him to leave, Isaac.
Everybody was just telling that kid to leave.
Surveillance footage from the cabin backed up the witness statements,
showing several people dragged Isaac toward his car,
trying to get him away from the situation.
And when you get in your car, what happens?
That's right when you're grabbing knife.
He's pulling on the door, I think.
I'll tell you that I have a footprint that tells me they were trying to close the door.
Does this sound familiar now?
You're trying to get back out of the car, you know, one foot out.
Or you're trying to push open the door and somebody takes a foot and closes the door.
I have a footprint to corroborate that and dent in the side of your equinox.
Yeah.
That says they were trying to get you back in the car.
Okay.
Do you remember any of that?
No.
At what point do you reach for the knife?
I'm not completely sure.
Okay.
And you, what happens when you grab this knife?
I'm just start stabbing.
How many times do you think you stabbed him?
I don't know.
Okay.
Did you say anything as you were stabbing him?
I couldn't tell you.
Did you say anything after you stabbed him?
I think it just left.
Not only did the physical evidence contradict Isaac's claims that he was being attacked,
but Amanda Chapman's cell phone video clearly showed the exact opposite.
People were pushing on Isaac's car door, trying to shut it.
They weren't trying to pull him out.
Isaac was the only one looking for a fight, shoving back and,
trying to force his way out of the car.
Tragically, he succeeded with a knife in his hand.
Because what was your next move when you left that cabin?
Once in my buddy's house?
Uh-huh. And what did you say when you got there?
I don't know.
What if I tell you that I had you on surveillance at his house?
And I have all the camera footage.
And you literally look at Justin and say,
I just fucking stab this guy.
Is that right about?
No.
Okay, what do you do with the weapon when you're there?
Because certainly it wasn't in the car or at the scene like you told the detectives.
You knew exactly where the murder weapon was the whole time.
But you told us the knife is definitely in the car or is definitely at the scene.
The whole time you sat here knowing that we were on a wild goose hunt.
We just didn't think we'd find a knife, did you?
No knife, no crime.
Is that what you were hoping for?
The fact that Isaac hid the murder weapon
became a key piece of the case.
It showed a clear consciousness of guilt.
Isaac could claim memory loss all he wanted,
but his actions,
and the lies he told afterwards, spoke volumes.
Are you there turning a bush?
Why throw it?
Why would you throw it?
I don't know.
Okay, and where's sobbed her?
She just sat down the car.
I think she was.
Watching TikToks on our phone.
Watching TikToks on our phone.
No one or boyfriend just stabs somebody.
It's very normal behavior, right?
I mean, hey, you went home and took a nap.
Like, it was just another day in the park for you, right?
No.
I wouldn't be able to sleep if I stab somebody.
I was too drunk and then really remember it when I get home.
But not too drunk to drive.
Not too drunk to dispose of a murder weapon.
not treat you've dropped to try and cover up your tracks.
Surveillance footage outside Justin's home captured Isaac ditching the knife in some nearby bushes.
Interestingly, Sabra was inside using the restroom when he did this,
meaning once again it's very possible Sabra didn't know Isaac had hidden the weapon.
This was another lucky break for her.
As for Isaac, he wasn't ready for the night to end.
After disposing of the knife, he planned to return to the cabin, this time armed with a gun.
And then, I remember going home, me and I stood that gun into it.
What'd you guys get into it about?
I think I was trying to get into the gun safe.
Why are we trying to get in the gun safe?
I think to get back there.
And do what?
No.
Finish the deal?
No.
Why else would you do?
I think it was just to skip.
carry them because they wouldn't jail me.
So you went home and you're rattling the gun safe trying to get into it?
Take a hammer to it.
You took a hammer to the gun safe.
Okay? And what happens?
I said, I tried to grab me.
And I told me, hey, stop, stop, stop.
And we ended up getting them fight over it.
Did you punch him in the face?
You blacked his left eye.
You know about that?
You know that you just had a heart attack.
and he's raising your kids.
Again, stabbing somebody wasn't enough today.
He went home and assaulted an old man.
On top of all the things you could have done.
Finally, after stabbing Charlie, hiding the evidence and assaulting his stepfather,
this drunk and dangerous ass clown passed out on his own bed.
He woke later that morning to the sound of police knocking at his door.
So here's the problem with this whole thing is that not one time.
have you or Sabra asked how that kid is, right?
I was thinking about it.
I just didn't want to ask.
Why not?
I didn't want to hear it.
Did you have any inclination?
I have a feeling.
Do you know his name was Charlie?
Yeah. Charlie was just an innocent guy at that party.
You never met Charlie before that, did you?
You grabbed Charlie by the neck, and you didn't stab Charlie too tight.
stab Charlie two times.
Stab Charlie six times.
The side of his neck, right here on his face,
twice in his side, once in his back,
and somewhere in between his head and his neck.
You left.
You left Charlie to lay there and bleed out on the ground.
Charlie didn't die right away,
but Charlie, he coated out in a trauma bay.
He made it in an airplane to a hospital in Columbus,
made it through the surgery,
and then he could put it.
what his heart gave out.
And you know what?
His kid isn't the only one left without a dad.
Because Draco and Whalen aren't going to have their family either.
They're not going to have their mom either.
She went to jail today.
What's she going to do?
Complocity to murder.
Because she knew it.
She didn't do anything about it.
Isaac and Sabra were charged and booked into jail.
Initially, both faced murder charges, but eventually Sabra's charges were downgraded.
According to court documents, Isaac Pence has been arrested.
and charged with murder.
His girlfriend, Sabra Flag, is accused of leaving the scene with him
and lying to detectives about what happened.
She's charged with obstructing justice.
Pence and Flagg were in court this morning and both pled not guilty.
The judge is keeping them both on a $1 million bond each.
Sabra later accepted a plea deal.
She served just six months in prison for obstructing justice,
and as far as anyone knows, she's now a free woman.
As for Isaac, he took his case to trial, and he lost.
He was convicted of murder and a long list of related charges.
His sentence was 18 years to life.
In my humble and ultimately meaningless opinion, that's far too lenient.
Isaac could be a relatively young man if he walks out of prison one day,
this time as a felon and a convicted murderer.
what happens next time he picks up a drink
whose life will he destroy then
and what judge will completely skirt responsibility
for letting him out
as frustrating as Isaac's sentence is
there is another detail that makes this case
even harder to stomach
Isaac and Charlie didn't even know each other
they were complete strangers
Charlie died because he happened to be standing in the wrong place
at the wrong time
at the hands of a violent man
that he had never met
that's how easy
it is folks
that's how quickly
it can all end
and how did Charlie get involved in this hole
he was literally
just standing right there as far as I know
he was standing right there by the porch
and
so Charlie and him had no beef prior to this
they had... Now I don't even think
they talked
So he just kind of was the unlucky victim in all of us.
Charlie Starner was just 22 years old.
He was a young father, a soon-to-be husband,
and by every account a good man who loved his family and friends fiercely.
His future was full of promise.
But all of a sudden, it was stolen in an instant
when he tried to do what good people so often do.
He stepped in, hoping to calm a situation before it got worse.
Charlie wasn't reckless.
He wasn't looking for a fight.
He was trying to protect, and he was trying to help.
And that one moment of courage cost him everything.
The unfortunate truth is that sometimes the safest choice
and the smartest way to protect yourself
is to step back when danger bears its teeth.
But this case isn't a warning against,
being brave or helpful, of being a good Samaritan,
it's simply a brutal reminder that evil doesn't need a reason to destroy what's good.
And you never know what someone else is capable of
or how quickly a night of drinking and partying can spiral into something deadly.
Sometimes all it takes is being in the wrong place,
facing the wrong person at the wrong time.
You know that time when you're done recording an episode of Soren Skil, it's fresh off the presses, you're ready to put it out?
But you just know, you just know deep down inside that some fat monstrosity with a septum ring and clown hair is going to accuse you're going to accuse you.
of being a misogynist, simply because you called a dumb bitch dumb.
Well, you see here, maybe I am a misogynist.
Maybe I am.
Maybe if being a feminist means you side with someone just because they have a pair of tits like you do, despite not having a brain or, I don't know, morals, means we got to stick together, girls.
Just remember, this little lesson we've hammered into your brain over,
and over and over again.
Beware of the company you keep.
If you side with idiots with loose morals,
then maybe that's exactly who you are too.
But who am I other than just a dumb male?
Kind of like the other idiot in this story,
which I don't side with at all because I'm not a mailist
or whatever they're called.
Because having a brain is more important than having a dick.
See how that works?
Nah?
You from Ohio, too?
Thank you.
