True Crime with Kimbyr - Part 2: Friday the 13th Double Homicide: Two College Students, A Bridge & A Magic 8 Ball

Episode Date: November 2, 2025

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The police bring in a criminal profilist, and in no uncertain terms, they were like, listen, you better find this person who's taken these girls. They're so bold that they're going into a woman's house through a really small window like that, taking her from her own residence, because that was the theory, right? And what's sad is that Gail knew that her daughter was cautious.

She locked the doors. She wasn't someone that would carelessly not look around at her surroundings. But here's the thing. Her cat Riley had just had surgery. Remember, I told you $800. And she was leaving that cat inside that bathroom so it didn't get hurt, hurt itself, and it could heal. Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is California's number one entertainment destination for today's superstars. Catch the Jonas Brothers return to the Yamava Theater stage on April 30th. The powerful vocals of Demi Lovato on May 17th and the signature Southern Country Rock of Eric Church on July 9th.

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Well, of course, the first person they want to talk to is Andrea's most current ex-boyfriend, 21-year-old Joshua Bean. He had dated her for 18 months before they recently called it quits. He was also a student at Quest of college, but he had an alibi for that night. The night that they believed that Andrea was taken

because that was hard to nail down as well. There were varying reports of when neighbors and friends last heard from Andrea or saw her. For example, one of her friends said they were on the phone with her until 2.30 in the morning on Thursday. Her neighbor in the next unit that was attached to hers was on a trip to Europe. So they couldn't ask them if Andrea had been home or not after that. One difference in all of this was that Andrea did not go out to bars and clubs. She didn't drink. So that aspect of the last two cases did not apply here. But she did like to say. stay out late at friends' houses and she loved throwing parties. Her friends actually admitted

they love the fact that she was an awesome host but didn't actually drink. But she hadn't been throwing a party that week. They brought in bloodhounds. They traced her scent and it ended at the curb. Kind of like in Rachel's case. So this wasn't the scenario where she was out drinking like the two other girls. She was taken from her own home. And if students had been scared when Rachel went missing, they were terrified that a third student in their area was gone like this? And foul play was suspected right away. So many students, over 100 were seeking counseling. Even parents of students were seeking counseling from the school, and a lot were speaking out.

There were over 200 people that attended a forum presented by Cal Poly's health and psych services, and even cops were there. And they were giving some advice. Don't leave work or school alone. Travel with someone. Don't go jogging. Don't walk alone at night. And report any suspicious behavior to the authorities. I guess that's good advice, right? Be aware of your surroundings.

Make sure you get home safe. And even the captain had something to say. He's like, this is my community. My kids were born and raised here. We're all concerned. And we're throwing in every resource. And following every lead and processing evidence and chasing down anything that will help find these women. But the next thing that happened was pretty shocking.

And people thought this was going to be a major break in the case. Andrea's ex-boyfriend, 21-year-old Joshua, he was arrested at the end of March, weeks after she went missing. Two women were on their way to the gym on campus, and they said that this man was acting strange. He was watching them from his pickup truck, and when the cops were called, they come out to campus. They find 2.30-round ammunition, magazines, a knife,

and a 22-calibular. rifle inside of Josh's truck. But after interviewing him, in depth, by the way, you're allowed to have guns, you're allowed to be a hunter, you're allowed to have registered guns, and you can safely contain them in your vehicle. I think, perhaps, and I don't blame them, these women were on edge. They were suspicious of him. They knew he was Andres X, and they got a weird vibe. And they did the right thing. They called police. Maybe he was checking them out. Maybe they didn't feel comfortable. I don't know. but they completely ruled him out as having anything to do with Andre's disappearance. The case was on America's Most Wanted.

It was on Good Morning America. It was getting national attention. And at this point is where the first real lead and huge crack in this case actually came. And I know you've been waiting for this. And sometimes you might be like on the edge of your seat saying, when is she going to tell us? It's all coming together. I promise.

Someone was reading these articles. about these women. Someone was watching the segments and the wheels were starting to turn in their head as they say, if you see something, say something. And this person watching and reading noticed something that he thought was more than a coincidence. It was a connection.

And that person was David Zaragoza. He was a local resident and a parole officer. This is a man who comes in regular contact with some of the worst offenders in this city. He knows all their cases. He studies. them. He understands their motives. He has to be face to face with gang members, violent offenders, serial predators, to name just a few types of monsters that are in his midst. When David was looking

at an article in the newspaper in regard to Andrea's case, he began thinking about all the men he had as parolees, and there were a few that stood out, but one specifically. A very distinctive similarity in a case he committed earlier in Andrea's case. a small window. Remember I showed you that small sliding window in Andrea's bathroom? Well, one of David's parolees had also, in the past, managed to contort his body and slide through a very small window

to violate a woman back in 1987. It was so similar. And he lived in this area, so David had to report his observations to police. He called, and he gave them this man's name. It was parolee. 33-year-old Rex Allen Krebs. Now, he had only been out of prison for a year, but by all the reports from his parole officer,

they were positive. It appeared like he had been reformed, that he was trying to be better and do better. And he served his time, 10 years of a 20-year sentence, and if you ask what it's for, for stalking a woman that had left a bar, forcing himself into her home through that window that I mentioned, and then forcing himself on that woman.

He then broke up a woman, into a second woman's home just a month later and tried to attempt the same thing. Like I said, served his time, right? And at this point, he has a long-term girlfriend. He's working a job for a lumber company. And he's about to be a dad. His girlfriend, Rosalind, was five months pregnant. So was he responsible for hurting these women? They called him a model parolee, someone who was employee of the month at his job. Exemplary. A success story. Rehabilitated. He was known as a hard worker. He listened to what his parole officer told him to do.

So what officers decide to do is they go to his last known address and ask former and current neighbors what they knew about Rex. In his former neighborhood, through Megan's law, his neighbors found out he was a violent offender and what he did to women. And they were not thrilled having him among them. So they started to get together and write letters and campaign for him to be evicted.

One neighbor, Diane Morgan, started this entire movement, if you want to call it that. She thought this man was creepy. She had to live right next door to him. He was tattooed. He was really big and he looked scary according to her. And he would stare her down. She was disgusted and afraid.

So Diane started to write anonymous letters explaining who Rex was and she left them in every single mailbox on their block. She even left a note for Rex himself. Part of it said, we know who you are. We know what you did. The whole neighborhood is a watch. you. Then Diane kept calling the sheriff's department asking almost every day, what can we do to get this monster out of our neighborhood? And she was told that even these type of offenders have rights. His landlord had done an entire background check on him, well, what they could gather.

She didn't have the knowledge of his criminal record. But when she was informed of what kind of tenant was in her unit, she said, well, I found him to be a model renter. He always paid on time. He was clean. And he was always pleasant. However, she did reach. out to his parole officer. And with everything that was happening in that neighborhood, his parole officer asked him to move, and he did. And these residents were so happy when Rex, the racist, as they called him, left their neighborhood. They said they jumped up and down. They danced all night because they didn't have to share their community with a monster like that. Even if he claimed to be a better person now, that was in September of 1998, just a month before Rachel disappeared. Right when Diane read about it in the newspaper, her and her friend looked at each other, and they said, I wonder if it was Rex. He moved into a very secluded neighborhood after this

on Davis Canyon Road near Avila Beach, and he'd been living there for the past eight months or so, but the lumber yard that he was working at called 84 lumber was at 236, Igiera Street, which happened to be only five minutes away from Tortilla Flats, where Rachel had been last seen. And Rex would go out drinking all the time with his work buddies right in that downtown area. Not only that, Andrea's house was only a three-minute drive away from Rex's place of business. He would only have to take two turns to get onto her street. That alone seemed way too much of a coincidence, even though he did live kind of out of the way. When I say kind of out of the way, it's just a more rural area.

It's a canyon, but it's only about 25 minutes away from the lumber company. So we're not talking that far. but much, much more secluded than you would be in San Luis Obispo. Now, Rex's buddies from his job were interviewed, and they all liked him. His boss loved him. His boss was the one that gave him a second chance, even though he knew his past. And even customers were interviewed, and they said that Rex was really nice. They talked about how he would mention how excited he was to become a dad,

and then he had a baby on the way. Everyone said when he was around his girlfriend, he was a totally different person than he was with his friend. friends. When he was out, he would act all cocky and full of himself, but he was still nice, according to a patron, they used to drink with him at Outlaws Bar and Grill. They said he loved to dance, wear his cowboy boots, and he would put on rock and roll music in the jukebox. His favorite song was Metallica's Enter Sandman, and that's interesting. The lyrics to that song, if you know them, go something like this. Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight. Exit light,

enter night, take my hand off to never, never land. And I wondered, is that never seen again land? But people said around Roslyn, he would pull out her chair, he would open doors, he was really sweet. And he wasn't really intimidating looking at all. He was only 5'6, 160 pounds. But that made me think, could he fit through a small window? What they decided to do to rule him out, because, you know, there could be similarities is in the way that an offender operates,

but it doesn't necessarily mean that they're guilty. So his parole officer, David, and Larry Hobson, the detective, decided to speak with Rex, informally, just at his job. And he was surprisingly cooperative. He answered all their questions. He wasn't nervous. He didn't even seem concerned. And of course, he wasn't involved in any of it, he said.

But they did want to search his vehicle. And when they did, they uncovered a 22-caliber pellet gun. This is an air gun. a BB gun, and he explained, I only keep it on hand to shoot at the birds that get inside of our lumber area because they're really bothersome. That's it.

And even though it's not necessarily considered a deadly weapon, as a parolee, he wasn't allowed to be in possession of any weapons. So unfortunately for him, he was arrested because he had just violated his parole. When this happened, he became very emotional. He asked his parole officer, how long am I going to be like

locked up because remember he did have a baby on the way and he was very concerned. Detective Larry Hobson was like, you know what? Because we have him detained, why not question him about the missing girls? They didn't have any evidence to connect him to these crimes, but they figured why not? If anything, they could further rule him out. Well, this interview was taped, so I will be playing portions of it, just so that you can see his demeanor. He was shown pictures of both of the women and said he didn't. recognize either of them.

Have you ever met Rachel and Andre? No. Ever see him any place? Like I said, you've had a lot of time to think about it. I've never actually... Which one's this? That's Andrea. Not that I can tell you.

Well, what's interesting is that because you know he has a past, right? You know what he's done to women before? The detective was like, maybe you can help us out. Maybe you can help profile a person who would do something like this, take women, you know? Maybe you can provide information as an offender, how they operate when they commit these kind of crimes. And after hours of talking, him and Dobson, they were very comfortable. The rapport was built. Rex was hoping that he could think of someone, maybe he'd seen around town, or even back in prison that would do something like this. He was racking his brain,

trying to think of like similar crimes that people have committed, and he got a list of people they should check, which was helpful. Anybody that you can think of that you would suspect of abducting these two women. Rex did admit a lot of things to Hobson. He talked about the fact that he does still have impulses that are related to forcing women to do things. And he does fantasize about abducting women, but he's worked through all that, meaning he's not going to actually do it, even though he still has the fantasies. When asked what they should do to the person that took Andrea and Rachel when they find him, Rex said they should kill him.

And then Hobson took Rex up on that offer to search his truck. It was a blue Ford Ranger pickup, and something stood out. All the carpeting in the back of the truck had been removed, along with the jump seat, in back of the passenger seat. It wasn't there. It had been ripped out. Now that's not exactly criminal or that strange. People sometimes remove portions of their cars for more room, and he did lug items around

for his work. but they were also searching as property. And the investigators there found the seat that used to be in the truck. And if you've ever seen these before, it's the smaller folding seat that's right behind the passenger and the driver's side. It folds, you can kind of make more room

and then you can fold it down for someone to sit in. But what was interesting when they found it, it was really clean compared to the other parts of his car. But that still didn't mean he was connected to a crime. Could have been taken out when he first got the vehicle, and then it sat in the back of his house where they found it, not getting as dirty as inside his car, because it was in like a little storage area. But just to do their due diligence, they have it confiscated and sent to the lab for analysis. Now his house, they took pictures and videos and I have some.

It was in a state of disarray. It did not have electricity. It didn't have cable. It was dirty. The furniture had dust and even leaves all over it. There were all kinds of items scattered, food, tons of clutter, a bottle of bleach sitting on the counter, things all over the place. Something that I didn't tell you that I think is important now is back when his parole officer was kind of curious about him possibly being connected, he made a routine visit to this house. This was completely normal, but when Rex answered the door, not only was he limping, but he was wearing a back brace. So David's like, what happened?

He points to his rib area and he said, I was fixing things. in my backyard, I fell off the cement wall, and I fell into firewood. Well, that was weird. Now, he didn't have any wounds or anything he could see that was suspicious on, you know, where he could see, like, his arms, his legs, things like that. But this is what initially led him to reach out to authorities, putting all of this together. So now, as David is with the investigators walking through Rex's house, something draws his attention.

He just has this gut feeling about a box that's sitting in the kitchen on one of the shelves. Just something about it. He had a hunch. But I don't necessarily believe that it was just a hunch because David knew everything about Rex. And here's where these types of videos are a little bit different than the normal ones I regularly do. I usually mention a perpetrator's name, maybe list a few things about their past. But beyond that, I'm not usually interested in their evil mind, right? But evil mind series is different. So let's talk about who. who Rex is because this parole officer knew his whole story. It wasn't just intuition that made him believe that Rex was capable of this type of crime.

It's because it's exactly the type he liked to commit. Rex Allen Krebs was born January 28th, 1966 in Sandpoint, Idaho. His home life was violent and chaotic from the beginning. And that was due to his father Allen's violent behavior. He would literally throw baby Rex across the room, even talking to tossing him over a car to his mother Connie. Rex was only four years old when his dad's sister, Florence Crawford, was brutally murdered. She was shot in the head and dumped into the trunk of a vehicle. His father said that ever since that day, it seemed like their entire family was cursed,

like it was a plague following them around. But his father didn't help because he began drinking heavily after his sister's murder and he became even more violent by grade school. Rex was dealing with constant turmoil. He was struggling in school. He was teased and he was starting to act out in risky ways. His mom finally decided to divorce his father, but then his stepdad Bob entered his world and began to verbally and also physically mistreat him.

He would call him names like little bastard. He would hit him, especially for accidentally going to the bathroom in his pants, and at this point he couldn't even control his bowels. He had to wear diapers to school at five years old. Bob, of course, didn't get along with Rex's dad, Alan, to the point where they almost had a shootout in the front yard. And Alan literally used his little boy Rex as a shield,

even taunting Bob saying, go ahead, try to shoot me, I dare you. Rex was eight. His mother was no better. She was a raging alcoholic, and so was Bob. And they would leave all their kids in the car while they went to bars and drank. They would leave them all alone for hours on end. Sometimes, one of the children that wasn't even the legal age to drive would take the car back, so at least they could be at home in a familiar place.

Rex goes back to live with Alan when he's 10 because him and Bob weren't getting along either. And his father begins mistreating him once again, which affected his self-esteem and really affected the way he interacted socially at school. He's known as a loner and an outcast. He was dirty, unbathed, and kids would make fun of him constantly. He also started to misbehave at school, started fights with other kids, didn't get along with his teachers, and he would run away from home all the time when he was about 12. When he turned 13, though, things got criminal. He broke into one of his neighbor's houses, and when he was found, he was in their young daughter's closet touching himself. I wonder, honestly, what kind of things were being done to him as a child physically, if you know what I mean?

because he was exhibiting very inappropriate behavior and he had to have learned that somewhere or saw it. And that is very, very sad. And although the court ordered Rex to undergo psychological treatment, his father only allowed him to go once. Now, reports around this time did indicate he had poor impulse control, substance abuse issues, and about one year later, he was caught making very obscene phone calls to residents of their neighborhood.

He was put in a state hospital and then into a boy's home in 1919. after he was caught breaking into another home, stealing items, and $1,000. After being in treatment, he did show some improvement, but then he goes back to live with his dad. And he's taken to the hospital for head injuries. He says he had fallen out of a truck. However, this was back when he was with his father, so they believed that the mistreatment had started again. But Rex, when he was interviewed, he said nothing happened to him that his father did to him, but that's probably because he was scared. He ends up running away again, and honestly, I can't be.

blame him, but he was up to no good. He apparently purposely tried to derail a train from a track, just so he could see what would happen. Luckily, no one was killed. However, the conductor was injured. At this point, he's committed to a state hospital and he finally gets some treatment. But it's sad because his father was glad he was in the hospital because he said he couldn't handle him anymore. It's like he needed a babysitter, but he was the reason, if you really break it down, why Rex became the way he did. I'm not going to say he was the only person responsible, but he was one of them.

However, Rex does make improvements. He was even named gentlemen of the month while in the boys' group home in 1982. He was 16 at the time. Now, I'm going to sound like a broken record, but they release him, and he goes back to live with his dad at 17. And of course, the mistreatment happens all over again.

I kept asking myself, why do they keep giving him to his dad? why not even foster care? Anything would be better. Not even a year later, it gets worse. He's 18. He's drunk. He attacks and attempts to violate a 12-year-old.

He's charged with a misdemeanor, and this time he has to spend three months in jail. As soon as he's out again, he goes back and spends three years in prison for breaking into a car and stealing it. So Grand Theft Auto. This time, after he's released, he's 21, It's 1987, and he moves to California now to live with his mother, Connie.

She's on her fourth husband. And while he's living there trying to get his life back together, he met a 17-year-old girl. They started living together in his mom's garage. Later, they get engaged. But then she finds out about his past and she breaks it off. He starts committing back-to-back attacks on women after this. According to the court documents that I found in 1987,

he broke into a home where a woman was sleeping with her daughter. He climbed on top of this woman with a knife in his hand and a screwdriver. He pinned her to the bed. He forced the woman to take the screaming child into another room. And after she hid her daughter, Rex tied this woman up. And when she didn't cooperate, he became violent. He hit her head into a wall. He tried to stab her.

And when he failed to injure this woman, she reached for his knife. He bit her finger. and then he finally fled. She had to have surgery to repair the damage to her hand. But she would never regain full function of that finger ever again, and his violence only escalated. On May 24th of 1987, he stalked a woman from a bar. He got into her home, I told you a little bit about this.

And when she woke up, a man's hand was over her mouth and a knife that he got from her kitchen was on her throat. He tied her hands behind her back. He cut off all of her clothing. And he asked her if her kitchen knives, were sharp enough to cut her throat. And when she replied, she didn't know, he threw the knife aside,

pulled out a large hunting knife out from his pants, hog tied her, violated her, and then fled. He only left because he heard her roommate coming home, apparently. So we don't even know what he would have done. And then a month later, on June 14th, he broke into yet another home, attempted the same thing on a second woman, and he was caught.

He pleads guilty to both, of these crimes, and that is how he's sentenced to 20 years in prison. But he only serves 10 because of good behavior and work time credit. In prison, he's described as a model prisoner. Court documents indicate, though, there was no counseling programs offered to offenders like this at the time. So he did not work through any of this. He was not truly rehabilitated because they had these people on the bottom of the totem pole.

Those were their words in an article I read. These inmates wouldn't have anything to attend. They were the worst of the worst. So I guess nobody cared to help them or try to see if they can be reformed. And he was paroled in 1997, a year before Rachel and Andrea went missing, and he appeared stable.

He met Roz, his girlfriend. He worked manual labor at 84 lumber, as you know, so we're almost full circle here. And in 1998, he was knocked unconscious four days after a bar fight, and people close close to him said that later, he acted strange. Outwardly, though, he still looked like a guy trying to rebuild his life, steady job, girlfriend, baby on the way. His girlfriend would even warn him, don't drink, because you're not supposed to while you're on parole. And he also tend to get

in trouble when he drink. So now we're back at Rex's house being looked at by investigators. So now you know everything about what his parole officer knew and was trying to connect. They're taking video. They're taking pictures inside. And David is looking at that wooden box. The location itself was suspicious to him. It was in the kitchen where, I guess you had to open a cabinet and then it was on a shelf. And it looked kind of hidden in plain sight.

When they opened it, they found women's jewelry, girls' names and phone numbers, as well as one very specific item. an eight-ball keychain. Remember, Andrea owned a keychain just like this? Now, they do not think this is a coincidence at all. It's a connection. In his truck, there was also what cops referred to as an abduction kit or an R-word kit, duct tape, rope, binoculars.

Now, he was already sitting in jail. So what they needed was something more. The keychain, while those are sold at numerous places, it wasn't going to be enough. And on April 21st, they got it. Remember the seat that was removed from his truck? Well, when the analyst removed the cover from that seat, there was blood underneath on the metal part.

It was analyzed, and there was DNA extracted from it that matched Rachel Newhouse. Wow. And I know you're probably not surprised. And Detective Hobson actually showed the keychain to Rex at this point. And Rex is like, oh, you want me? to touch that with my bare hands. And Hobson's like, I've been touching all over it with my bare hands.

It's fine. My fingerprints are all over the thing. But he asked him, do you know who this belongs to? Rex didn't answer. And finally, Hobson was like, it's Andreas. And you know where we found it? In a box at your house? He's like, no way.

He's like, I got that back in 1996. Well, Hobson had already done his research. He's like, no. These particular ones weren't manufacturing. manufactured until 1998. And Rex was like, well, that's strange. Remember last time we talked about the eight ball? Do you want me to touch that? Put my fingerprints out. My finger prints are all over it. You know who's eight ball that is? It's Andreas.

I mean, of course, Hobson doesn't know for sure if this truly was Andrea's keychain. But he was sure about the next thing. Hobson questioned him about the jump seat, and Rex confirmed he only had one in the back of his truck. Hobson asked him, where is the other one? And Rex told him it's in the back of his house. And Hobson was like, that's exactly where we found it. And what do you think we did with it?

Rex just shrugged. Hobson was like, we sent it over to the lab. And Rex was just like, okay. He said, guess whose blood we found on it? Rachel Newhouse. We sent the whole chair over to the lab, Fresno. Okay. You're familiar with DNA, I'm sure,

with the results and so forth. And guess who's blood that is? Rachel Newhouse. And again, I'm not making an outwrecks. I wish I was. But Hobson wouldn't stop asking him questions. He asked him, are you responsible for their disappearance? Are we going to find them alive?

I see the wheels turn. I'd like to be able to put closure on this for those families that have been dealing with this since November. Rex, look at me. I'd like to hear the story. I'd like to be able to go out and find Rachel, find Andrea. Are you responsible for the disappearance of both girls? Are we going to find either girl alive? After about an hour of silence, he was finally taken back to his cell.

But he wasn't quiet for long. By the very next morning, he wanted to talk to Hobson. He said he hadn't slept all night. And actually, Hobson said, he didn't either. They were both thinking about this case. They went back into the interview room because Rex had something to say. Hobson decides to cut to the chase.

He's like, listen, I'm going to make this really easy for you. Answer this question. Are you responsible for the disappearance of both girls? And Rex nodded his head and also said, Yes. Dobson then asked, are we going to find either girl alive? And Rex said, no. Are we going to find either girl alive? That was a no. Okay. It was absolutely devastating. And it's what they already thought was the truth, but hearing it from their killer, that's a whole other experience, literally looking into the eyes of a monster. But they had their

confession, they had their evidence, tying him to the these crimes and they even got a literal minute to minute breakdown of exactly what happened to both of these girls. And it's absolutely heartbreaking. But at the very least, I'm glad that this monster came clean because there are people like Brian Coburger, for instance, that wouldn't. Now, I am going to read this right from the court document because I don't want to get any of these facts incorrect. So if it sounds like I'm reading it, I'm sorry, but I do want to try to go as word for word as possible. However, I don't like using last names of people. So instead of Newhouse, I'm going to say Rachel. Instead of Krebs, I'm going to say Rex. And instead of Crawford, I'm going to say Andrea.

This is what he said happened. It starts at 8.30 p.m. on November the 12th of 1998. He drank six or seven shots of whiskey at around midnight. He sees Rachel Newhouse walking down the street in San Luis Obispo. He could tell she was drunk. He kept following her for several blocks when he told Hobson he had a premonition that Rachel was going to walk across the Jennifer Street Bridge. So he drove up to the bridge parking lot, parked his truck, walked to the top of the bridge, and as Rachel walked behind him, he turned around and was wearing a hoodie and a Halloween skull mask that he had in his car since Halloween. He hit her in the jaw with his fist, and when she screamed, he picked her up and threw her down. down on her back. Then he hit her again, knocking her unconscious, dragged her by the hair down the stairs, and at this point, she was bleeding from the back of the head and about the face. When he reached

his truck, he put the still unconscious Rachel behind the front passenger seat in the area where the jump seat was located. He got rope from the bed of his truck and tied her hands behind her back. Then he drove along railroad tracks for 200 yards where he stopped and used the same. same rope to tie her legs. Finally, he reached newer pants, ripped off her panties, stuffed them in her mouth, and tied the rope around her mouth. Beside the road that led to Rex's residence was an abandoned cabin. He drove to the cabin, carried Rachel inside, removed her pants, and violated her. That's my word. She was conscious by this time and cursing at him. After he did this to her, he tied her legs, hog tied her legs to her hands, stuffed her panties back in her mouth. All the white,

wearing the Halloween mask. Then he drove up to his residence, left Rachel in the cabin tied up and lying on her stomach. Side note. In this type of position, with these ropes the way that they are, you can't hardly move because if your head goes forward, the rope is going to get tight around your neck. And if your feet fall down, the rope is also going to get tighter. Now back to the document. He returned 15 or 20 minutes later and found Rachel dead. He told Hobson that when he left, the rope had been tied around her neck and was not in a position that would have prevented her from breathing. Hobson asked whether Rex was saying that Rachel struggled and had caused her own strangulation.

He responded, that, or her legs relaxed or something, I don't know. Rex told Hobson that he panicked, put her body behind the cabin, and went home. The next morning, Rex drove his truck past the spot where he had been cutting wood and dug a grave. He returned home and at some point cleaned blood from his truck. When he was unable to remove all the blood, he cut portions of the carpet and the jump seat and put the stained jump seat in his house. Between 11 p.m. and midnight, he put Rachel Newhouse's body in the back of his truck, drove to where he had dug the grave and buried it.

That's what the document says, it. She was still tied up and he put hogwire on top of her before putting dirt over it so that no animals could get to her. Wow. Even reading it from my court document, it's horrific. It's terrible. I just can't help but think these poor women. Hodson wasn't done yet. Now that he's got him talking, he wasn't going to stop there.

So we asked what happened to Andrea. And again, I'm reading from a document unless otherwise stated, and it said that Rex stated that the first time he saw her, he was driving by her house as she was getting out of her car. He followed her back to the house, house got out of his truck and looked at her through a small gap at the bottom of the curtains on a window. He left after a few minutes, and over the next following days, Rex twice returned to Andrea's house to watch her. Each time, he was intoxicated. Finally, Rex returned for a third time, knowing that he was

going to abduct her, and again, he was intoxicated. Rex was not certain what time he went to her house, but it could have been as late as two or three a.m. Rex found a small, and he was a small bathroom window that was not latched. He removed the screen and crawled feet first into the shower stall. He heard his ribs going through the window. Rex told Hobson that he was getting ready to go out the bathroom door. He said the only thing I was thinking of is leaving right then when Andrea opened the bathroom door wearing a t-shirt and underwear. He punched her, kicked her against the wall and kept punching her, causing her to lose consciousness. He hogged tied her with a rope he had brought with him, put duct tape across her mouth, went upstairs and got

two pillowcases, and although he was wearing panty hose over his head, he pulled a pillowcase over his head and tied it so she could not identify him. He put CDs and some of Andrea's clothing in the other pillowcase. He also took her VCR, videotapes, movies, and her keys with him with the eight-ball keychain, which he put in his truck. When Rex returned to his house, Andrea had regained consciousness and was struggling. He He put her back in his truck, went back to her house to clean up the blood. Then he drove her to the abandoned cabin and left her on a couch and drove home, drank more whiskey. And as it was starting to get light, he drove to the wood pile to chop wood so that his landlord's

daughter Deborah would see him when she went to work. After Deborah left, Rex brought Andrea from the cabin into his residence. He removed some of the rope, but he left her hands tied together and kept the pillowcase and the duct tape in place. Now, these are going to be my words, because I have to say it this way. He had his way with her in both areas of her body, if that makes sense to you.

And then it says, he did this on the bed, tied her feet together, went to the kitchen for more liquor and coffee, then fell asleep on the couch. When he woke up about an hour or so later, he replaced the pillowcase with a bandana blindfold, removed the duct tape,

and she asked him why he was doing this. And she also asked him to stop and pleaded to please, Please let her go and cried. Side note, if I was her mother reading this or knowing that this happened to my daughter, it is just so heartbreaking to think about. It's like you want to know, but at the same time, knowing is also so terrible. But he said that he did not say anything to her.

And again, he had his way with her over the coffee table, leaving her hands tied and her legs untied. He clothed her with a sweatshirt and sweatpants that he puttie. brought from her house. He put her back in his bed and again went to sleep on the couch. Rex was awakened by noises and saw Andrea coming out of the bedroom without the blindfold. He threw her to the ground, strangled her to death with a rope, and he moved her body to the bedroom, drank more whiskey, and then dug a grave in his yard and buried her. Rex said he disposed of everything that he had taken except the eight-ball keychain, a second black sweatshirt, and the CDs. He threw. He threw,

the VCR and the videotapes which were in a garbage bag near the road and burned everything else. Side note. He told Hobson that he had no intention of killing either one of these women. It was just unfortunate, according to him, that apparently Rachel had moved too much and strangled herself, and Andrea had decided to take the blindfold off, and once she saw his face, he was forced to kill her. He also admitted that he tried getting into Andrea's front and back door to her apartment, but they were both locked. So his last resort was the window. And of course, that's why he was wearing the brace when his parole officer came there. And you know what's sad that all she was trying to do was give her cat some fresh air? And she heard Rex. That's why she came to the bathroom.

She thought that something happened to her cat. So she went to go check on her cat. She comes to the door and she's attacked. Now, I find it hard to believe in his statement that he was about to leave before she came through the door. The way he's putting it, and this just made me so angry, he's almost like, well, she came in,

she's only wearing a T-shirt in her underwear, like she's asking for it in her own home. I was sickened. And I have to say, new fear unlocked because the window that he crawled through was the type of window that nobody would think would be dangerous if you just cracked it open. Because who is going to fit through that?

A man determined to get inside your house, that's who. Hobson asked him what he was feeling when he was tightening the ropes around her neck, and he said he was angry at himself, and he was angry at her. And Hobson was like, were you angry at Andrea because it was partially her fault? And he said, no, nothing could be Andrea's fault. She was bravely trying to escape. And it's sad. But this poor girl could not see without her glasses or contacts on.

She was basically legally blind, they said. It's bad enough that she's got a blindfold on. She's in an unknown place. All this stuff has happened to her. She's trying to escape. She takes a blindfold off. She doesn't have her glasses with her because they were left behind. She was sleeping when this man came in.

She couldn't see. And she's trying to get away. I just wish she would have gone out of there. It's so sad. If you can relate to everything around you being completely, completely blurry and how scared you would be in the circumstance. It's just, it's terrible. And then when it came to Rachel,

there were things I wanted to say. For example, he body slammed her onto the concrete on that bridge. That's why there was such a big pool of blood there. And the fact he was wearing a Halloween mask on Friday the 13th is terrifying. That is a real-life nightmare, and I don't believe for a minute that he did not deliberately strangle her. As a matter of fact, in one of the interviews after he confessed,

Rex said that Rachel was cursing at him. And the more she cursed, the angrier he got. And Hobson asked him, what do you do when you get mad? What do you want to do? And he's like, he used the R word, but he's like, I want to violate her. And then once he does, he's not angry anymore.

So this gives you the way a person like this mind works. And there were a few other things I wanted to say that he said about Andrea. He said that he was acting out a fantasy with her. It was pleasure and dominance and control. That's part of his fantasy. That's why he used the plastic restraints because there were plastic restraints on her because they were better for control. And when she saw his face, it took away the rest of the fantasy.

And that's why he had to kill her. Hobson asked a lot more questions. I mean, these interviews went on for hours and hours. but I picked out a couple of things that I did think were worth mentioning. But he said, if you were going to let these girls go, how did you plan to get away and not be caught? If you didn't even use protection, you didn't use a condom. He said his plan was to wash them in the bathtub

and use a bottle to wash his DNA out of them. He told Hobson that most of his fantasies involved tying up his victims, cutting their clothes off, and being able to dominate them and repeatedly violent. them. He didn't want to hurt either of them, he said. He was actually sick and angry at himself for doing what he did. And he said when he saw flyers around town with their faces on it, he became physically ill and he felt sorry for their families and for the girls. Do you believe that? Do you believe that he could have two sides? Let me know in the comments. And after he had just

killed two innocent women, he was playing house with his girlfriend, planning. Planting to propose, planning to get married, have a family together. He has a kid on the way, and it blows my mind. Because it does mean he can compartmentalize being a murderer and also being a doting boyfriend. It's like a real jekyll and hide.

And I don't know if this is going to sound weird, but sometimes I wonder what his girlfriend would think. Like, what do you think to yourself? If you're this woman, you know he's killed other women once you find out, why didn't he kill her? What was different? That would be what I would be thinking. It would just be a natural extension to everything that happened.

And we'll get to that because I have more to say, even though he confessed, there's still more to come. Because I haven't even told you about the bodies and how they were found. Well, of course, they wanted Rex to show them where they were. And he agreed. The next day, he took police out there and they video. this process and I'm going to be playing some of that for you while I'm telling you. They went up to the canyon and first about a mile from this house,

there's an area that's covered with leaves and branches and he points and he says, Rachel's in there. They make sure to mark it with crime scene tape, as you can see in this official photo from the police department. And then after that, and they leave, they're going to come back, but they want to go find Andrea and locate her. And it turns out she's actually on Rex's property. They make their way out there.

They cordon off everything. The place is desolate. It's in the middle of nowhere. And he purposely wanted to be in a place like this, and I think you know why. Even if these girls escaped, he would have had an advantage. He knows this area better than them.

You couldn't even find your way around out here. It's completely pitch black at night. There are no street lights. Nothing. There's hardly any neighbors. And if you look on Google Maps, it's just trees. He liked it. He could hide out there.

It was the perfect place to hide bodies to. Andrea was only buried about 30 feet from Rex's front door. The teams were sent out there to extract both of their remains, which would undergo autopsies and also confirm their identification, their cause and manner of death. But Rex wasn't done talking. But this time, to the people that mattered most of this monster, and I don't know how to make that make sense, I don't know,

but he wanted to talk to his girlfriend and his best friend before they saw what he did in the news. And you might wonder why police left him do this. You do have to make compromises sometimes. He did give them a lot of information. And I guess they figured we're just going to let him do this. And also, I think for his girlfriend and friend, the cops were thinking about them as well. Like, it's going to be a big bombshell. When I saw this, though, I couldn't believe it. He's holding onto his girlfriend's hand. And he said, I did what they accused me of. And his girlfriend could be here saying, oh, my God.

And his friend was like, did you give him all the information they need? And he's like, yes. I think what the occasion is. Do you tell him everything they need to know? His girlfriend starts to cry, totally understandable. And he's like a spectacle to me, because I'm analyzing this part, because he's comforting her. He's got his arm around her. He's trying to console her.

As she's crying, she's saying, why? Why would you do this? Rassau. It was a... What? What? His friend was patting him on the back. He's like, it's okay.

Something's wrong inside Rex, and he starts to cry. And Rex responded that something's been wrong inside ever since he was little. It's okay. Something's wrong inside, okay? All right. It's not a bit of wrong inside. I don't feel bad for him. I feel bad for the child version of him.

I do. I feel bad for his girlfriend. pregnant with his child? A confess murderer? It must be confusing, trying to reconcile a man who's always been kind to her doing something like this. This was before the day when you could easily go on your computer and do a background check.

There weren't sites like been verified. It's kind of surprising to me that she couldn't have known he had a criminal record. But I still feel bad for this woman. He made other statements that he's nothing but an animal and that he didn't deserve to live, and that nothing could justify what he had done. But none of that mattered.

Two women were gone from their families forever. And when Gail found out that Andre had been found what was no longer alive, she lost it. She was completely heartbroken. She couldn't believe it was true. She was devastated. She would never get to see her daughter again. She knew that Andre wanted to get married,

have a family one day and children. She even wrote about it in a class project recently before she was killed. And now that's something she'll never get to do. All because a man wanted his way with her, a woman who believed in saving herself for her future husband. And to think, this man just saw her getting out of her car and going into her house, something that all of us do every single day. And the same can be said about Rachel's family. They did keep a lower profile the entire investigation, but her sister Ash, spoke out afterward and said,

they could not believe this could happen to their family. And she was so sad she never got to say goodbye to her big sister. Ashley said if she could say one thing to her, if she saw her again. She would tell her she loved her and how much she missed her. And that life isn't the same without her. But Ashley's hoping that her sister's story

can help someone else. And I always hope that too. I hope that these videos somehow can help someone whether it's the smallest thing, like taking more precautions when you're going places, not going alone, keeping in touch, telling people where you're going, where you are. But back to this story, Rachel and Andrea were exhumed with Dr. George Sturban's, a forensic pathologist observing. He was the medical examiner that was responsible for determining the cause and manner of death. And I'm again going to read this straight from the report with Rachel's body first.

She had been under the ground longer, and it was Rachel's body that was in an advanced state of decomposition. She had a shirt that had been cut in half up the back, and a bra with shoulder straps pulled down from her shoulders. She had on no other clothing. Two areas of her scalp were more decomposed, indicating that they had been injured and dried fluid was on top of her head, and it was consistent with blood. Rachel was still tied up, and the doctor believed that her cause of death was exfixiation. The decomposition had also prevented him from determining whether Rachel suffered any trauma to her pelvic area. Now, when it came to Andrea's body, which had been buried at least for a month, the report states, Andrea Crawford's body was not as decomposed as Rachel Newhouse's body, although the level

of decomposition precluded a determination of whether her pelvic area back and front, those are my words, were bruised. She was wearing a black sweatshirt with a hard rock cafe logo and black sweatpants. A blindfold made from a bandana covered her eyes and nose. A rope circled her neck, two and one half times, and was also wrapped around her torso and extremities. Two black flex ties were tied around her wrists, and a third flex tie connected them and passed through the rope. There were two lacerations inside her mouth that were consistent with a blow by a fist to the face. There was also an area of bruising on her scalp. The doctor concluded that her death was exphyxia by ligature strangulation. This was also in the report. It stated that on April 23rd,

a search of the abandoned cabin was done, and there was a large blood stain on the pad underneath the cushions of the couch, and the next day another search of Rex's home led to the discovery of those black flex ties that matched the ones on Andre's Andrea's wrists. They also found some keys about 45 feet from his home, and those keys unlocked Andrea's front door. And Rachel's blood was also found on the couch in Rex's home. Now, Rex's attorneys, they wanted the district attorney to take a plea deal. And Rex would plead guilty, and then he would get life in prison without parole. But they were like, oh no, no, no, no, you're going to trial because this is a death sentence case. And they did. But before that, his girlfriend, Roz, came to say goodbye. I read this article on the Fresno B.

One of the reporters decided to go talk to Rex for an interview on April 24th. And when she walked in, she noticed a young woman who had also signed in to see him that day. It was Roslyn. They started talking. She said she was just coming there to say goodbye, but she didn't even know what to say. And that this is not the Rex that she. knew. Now, because her face had been blurred, I have to tell you, I'm a curious person. I was interested in who his girlfriend was, and we did get a peek of that, but we also got more of her

description of like what she looked like, what kind of person she was, and that's important to me because I am over-analyzing this. What I said before, how come he didn't kill her? Like, what was different? What was she like? It was just curiosity. This reporter said, She was 5'3, 110 pounds. She wore black glasses covering big brown eyes. She was casually but stylishly dressed in white linen pants and a windbreaker. She was Caucasian and African American. She had black curly hair shoulder length.

She was visibly pregnant. And the reporter asked her her name and she said Rosalind. She looked scared. And that's when the reporter put her hand on her shoulder. And Rosalind started crying. and she said, I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't believe this. I was in that house a lot, those poor girls.

I'm going to go back home with my mom. I have to get out of here. The reporter also met up with Rosalind after she came out when she had already spoken to Rex. And when she saw the reporter, she said that his eyes were dead and that he fooled a lot of people. I am sorry that he fooled this woman too.

But I am glad that her and her unwrote her unbroken. child were not harmed. Now, I don't know what she did after this. I, you know, I didn't look in information because I didn't want to go and pry. I think sometimes survivors of these things do deserve privacy, but that must be so hard. And after it was confirmed that both Andrea and Rachel were dead, the community created memorials for them at Jennifer Street Bridge and at Andrea's home. And they brought flowers and other mementos to remember both of them. Forever 20, forever, college students. There was a memorial for Andrea. Over 600 people came and her uncle spoke about her and her legacy. And it was sad. He cried the entire time.

He talked about all of the things that I told you that she loved. Animals, horses, her dreams for the future, her summer plans that she'll never get to do with her best friend. Andrea's grandfather, Don, also had some words for Rex. He said, sorry's not going to bring her. bring back Rachel and Andrea. I don't care what he says. He asked him, I'm a monster? No, you're a piece of slime. Pure, unadulterated slime.

He hoped that Rex would be put to death. Saying that I hope when it gets down to it, the jury will fry him. If they don't, they have no heart. But as for the trial, I think you realize there was more than enough evidence. I do not have to go into the entire trial and the theories

and the arguments. This man confessed. Everything was set out. However, you know, the defense attorneys did have to do their job. They had family members come up and talk about his childhood. That's fair.

I understand. And I'm sad about what happened to him as a child, but he had a choice. Some may argue he didn't. I can't give an opinion on that because I'm not a professional, but the jury did. They found him guilty

and he was sentenced to death. Some of his family members, did not like that. They said, you know, he's a changed man. He's been in prison now. He found God. He can help people. His life is worth something.

Even his half-sister said that. His father said he had a tender side, but he must have had a demon in him. And as for Rex's mother, she said, I hate to say it. But maybe someone needs to put him out of his misery. Wow. His own mother. That's saying something.

But then again, we do kind of know what kind of person she was. Rex himself wanted death. He said he hoped that he would be given the death penalty. Two girls are dead. He said, if I'm not a monster, then what am I? Rex remains on death row. And in case you were wondering, because I know I was and some of you will be, Kristen Smart, who disappeared in 1996 before Rachel and Andrea,

she was not a victim of Rex Krebs. However, 27 years later, in May of 2023, the last person to have been seen with her, Paul Flores, who was always a suspect from the beginning, was finally convicted of her murder. And that case is so deep in and of itself, it deserves its very own video. But unbelievably, technology, DNA, police work, and a podcast brought the truth to light. I'll save it for another day. Maybe I'll do it as a bonus video, but until then, I do want to thank you for being here

for Andrea and Rachel's. story. I will see you in my next video. Bye.