True Crime with Kimbyr - Part 2: The Brenizer Family Murders | True Crime Stories
Episode Date: January 28, 2026The mystery deepens in True Crime with Kimbyr as Kimbyrleigha continues the chilling case of the Brenizer family’s disappearance. In Part 2, unanswered questions, overlooked details, and disturbing ...possibilities come into sharper focus. What evidence was missed? Who knew more than they admitted? And how could a family of five vanish from one of Wisconsin’s most isolated regions without leaving clear answers behind? As timelines tighten and theories grow darker, True Crime with Kimbyr explores the emotional weight and terrifying uncertainty surrounding a case that refuses to rest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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And then it was signed with the letters S-I-T-N.
And because the family was burned, and a lot of satanic rituals include fires.
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There was this rumor, if you can call that, or this idea
that the graffiti on this temple was connected to these murders.
Well, they can't just leave any stone unturned.
They had to call in, I swear this is real,
a satanic expert.
I mean, like I said, there are experts in everything
and they were trying to identify
what those strange left.
those strange letters were. And they couldn't figure it out. To me, I just thought it was like
kind of an acronym for Satan, even though there's an I, like S-I-T-N, Satan. I don't know. I don't know.
That's not my expertise. But in 1991, the satanic panic was at its height. Throughout the 1980s
and the 1990s, there was a widespread panic regarding satanic ritual-related crimes. Many of the over
12,000 claims of these type of crimes were supported and substantiated by Christian fundamentals,
social workers, law enforcement officers. Several cases of these alleged satanic crimes ended with
actual convictions. For example, the alleged satanic rituals of the Mick Martin Preschool
trial or the West Memphis 3, they became infamous and they were widespread, bringing a lot of
media attention. And so for the residents of Cushing, it wasn't hard for them to believe that a deranged,
worshiping stranger committed this crime because they didn't want to believe it was one of their own.
They didn't want to believe it was someone that actually lived among them. It's got to be a devil
worshipper. Investigators started questioning the residents about satanic cults or if they knew
people who were involved in worshipping the devil. Well actually, they end up interviewing some friends
who go to school with Bruce. And these friends say they think that Bruce buys marijuana
from some guy who has a satanic background.
Now, you can't believe every single tip,
but they once again had to look into it.
They found out this wasn't warranted.
They dropped it.
The whole satanic investigation was over after this.
There wasn't anything conclusive that linked Satanism
to what happened to this family.
However, when they were interviewing these friends,
they said, maybe the marijuana dealer,
who is a Satanist, was the one that came to the door.
and wanted money.
It didn't go anywhere, but as they're interviewing these friends,
they stumble upon someone who's very close to Bruce
and her name is Katie Hahn.
She's a friend of Bruce is because she's dating Jesse,
which is Bruce's step brother.
Remember him, he's 17 years old at the time.
They've grown up together, they're very close.
Well, Katie is close to Jesse and therefore,
just by proximity, she's close to Bruce.
So investigators are very interested in talking to her
about the marijuana situation and other things.
Like, what does she know about
these boys. What does she know about Bruce? This was six days after that vehicle was found and the
investigators bring Katie in for questioning. She lets them know that even though they're not blood
brothers, these brothers are very close. They're confidants, their best friends. Bruce looks up to
Jesse and they really should be talking to Jesse because he knows everything about Bruce's life,
everything about what goes on at Ricky's house.
One thing she said is that both Jesse and Bruce seemed to be very concerned about everything
that was going on rightfully so, but not just that.
They were kind of annoyed with the way that police were interviewing all their friends and
their family members.
She thought that it looked as though they were worried.
But you know what?
Everybody grieves in different ways.
That's what they say.
Nevertheless, they're going to have to interview Jesse anyway.
Because now they're thinking, does Jesse have some kind of involvement in this?
And if so, you know, Katie says they have a strong bond.
They don't do anything without letting the other one know.
Investigators think, now is a good time to question Jesse.
So they arranged to meet with him and his father Ron at their home.
When they asked Jesse, what do you know?
He told them everything that Bruce had already told them, everything that we already know,
saying that's what Bruce relayed to him.
But the more the investigators kind of pressed Jesse, he gets up.
upset. He's uncomfortable and his dad is there and they keep giving each other looks like,
I don't want to really be here. It came off as kind of aggressive, defensive. He didn't want to
answer certain things. And at one point, Jesse's dad says, you know what, we're going to go talk
in another room out of the presence of the investigators for a moment. They were talking for 15 minutes.
Ron Anderson comes back with his son and he says, you know what, we're going to need to consult with
an attorney, which I don't actually think is a bad idea. Just so you know, this is a murder investigation.
It's a big deal. This is a serious crime. Your minor child is being interviewed about said crime.
So they say, before making any further statements, we want to get an attorney. Is this suspicious?
I don't know. I don't think we should think it is, but investigators think it is. Yes,
they're always looking for holes in people's story. And not only that, when they were interviewing another friend,
that knew Bruce? He said that Bruce was acting strange. Again, we know the whole people grieve in
different ways, but they said that they saw Bruce selling some of the items that belong to his family.
Not necessarily suspicious because you know this boy is not very well off. His dad even sold
miscellaneous items at the flea market. However, they get information that Bruce was spending
coins. And these coins weren't just, you know, spare change.
like in the couch cushions, these were a collectible.
There were a collection of coins that his father considered his prized possessions.
Apparently Bruce had been at an arcade and he was just using these coins like they were ordinary ones.
Now, did a 15-year-old know the difference?
I don't know.
But is this strange?
I kind of think it is and investigators thought it was.
It also turns out Bruce had been giving away his family's possessions.
Now I know I have heard stories.
know if you have where people don't want to be surrounded by certain things because it brings back
too many memories so they decide to get rid of things everyone's different but he's given away TVs and
stereos and he makes a weird statement to one of his friends he tells them i now have three cars of my
own and this was when his family members were just reported missing he's saying this as though he
knows that his dad's not coming back that his family's not going to be using these
cars. That's weird. That's strange. But is it true? They don't know. They need to find out more.
This witness also said, if you want to know more, you need to ask who? Oh, Jesse Anderson.
There's that name again. Bruce's stepbrother. So now we're circling back. We know that he wants
to get an attorney. He's not going to be talking. When I was reading all this, I was thinking,
oh my gosh, this sounds so familiar to the Buchanan family murders. You guys remember that
video. I didn't do it that long ago. I'm starting to feel deja vu. But is it? Well, in that case,
we did not know as much as we're going to find out in this case. You're going to find out
details because someone knows what happened. This is the portion of the video where everything
falls into place and comes together and it's going to happen fast. Everything is coming to the
surface. They want to set up another interview with Jesse and his attorney. They don't care that
the attorney will be there. But before they can even do that, on May 8th,
Jesse and his father let investigators know Jesse wants to cooperate.
There's something that he wants to tell you.
I have a lot of comments on this later, but let's just hear what Jesse has to say.
And he's going to have a lot to say.
It's like Diary of the mouth at this point.
But the first thing that Jesse lets them know is that Bruce doesn't exactly get along with his father.
Many teenage boys don't.
Investigators had already been interviewing close friends and family.
And yes, they'd heard about the normal.
father-son arguments, strictness, so on and so forth. But Jesse takes it one step further. He says that Bruce
hates having to go to his father's mobile home. He pretty much hates his father. Remember I told you
that the trailer wasn't exactly in ship shape? Well, it's a mess. It's an absolute disaster.
And Bruce was sick of it. It infuriated him to have to live in what he considered filth.
It was a disgusting environment as far as he was concerned. And I admit, I looked at it. There's things
everywhere you can see there's even you can't even see the floor here's the actual video from the
trailer so you can get an idea of what bruce is talking about jesse also says that ricky isn't the
best father to bruce he treats bruce differently than he treats the girls it's kind of like bruce is
the outcast of the family and not only that jesse said that ruth ann didn't like bruce and wanted him
out of the trailer and he said that the living conditions weren't just about being dirty and messy there
There were times when Bruce didn't have electricity, no plumbing, no running water, and he would
get into arguments with Ricky about this, and Ricky would get physical.
Bruce said he was constantly being manipulated by Ricky, that he would make all these promises
that he couldn't keep and he was sick of it.
And the mind of a 15-year-old, he was fed up.
So he tells Jesse he wants to kill his father.
When investigators asked Jesse, well, what did you think when Bruce was telling you all this?
And Jesse says, I thought he was joking.
It wasn't the first time that Bruce had said things like that and even laughed about things like that.
That he hated his father, that he hated Ruth Ann, that he hated visiting his father and trying to sleep in this dumpy double wide trailer with three screaming little girls.
Not only that, Bruce had something else to say.
He asked Jesse, do you have anything to help me carry out this crime?
Because Bruce had a rifle, but he needed ammunition.
And guess what?
Jesse gave it to him.
And I'm sitting there thinking, you really didn't think he was serious.
But you're given this 15-year-old boy ammunition.
Why would you do that?
Why?
Well, investigators want to know, but then the attorney kind of stops him and says, you know,
Jesse has a lot more to say, but the thing is he doesn't want to get in trouble because,
you know, this is a major case.
So he wants immunity.
Full immunity.
I don't always agree with this.
Most times I don't, but I understand they want information and this person has it.
but oh my gosh, full immunity.
Well, they're that desperate.
And it seems to be that he's the only one with answers.
Bruce isn't talking, so they grant Jesse full immunity for the rest of his story.
And the rest of his story is insane.
And I want your thoughts like I always do.
I try to read every comment that I possibly can,
especially in the first couple hours after I post.
I'm always just sitting there sifting through the comments.
And I want to hear from you.
because to me this is very unbelievable.
Jesse says that on April 22nd,
him and Bruce went to school like they usually do.
They go to the same high school.
But after school that afternoon,
Bruce called Jesse up and he said,
I did it.
I killed them all.
Jesse knew exactly who he was referring to.
Ricky, Ruthanne, Mindy, Heidi, and Crystal.
His own family members.
But then Bruce goes to.
on and according to Jesse he tells him in detail all of the gruesome acts that he carried out when
he was murdering his family Bruce got home from school and Ruth Ann's daughters Heidi and Mindy
were there they had just gotten off the bus Ricky and Ruth Ann were out with Crystal their little
five-year-old and you know this is what Jesse said Bruce did that Bruce tied up the two girls
and drive them outside behind the trailer and since they're minors I'm not going to be
be able to go into detail about what exactly occurred, but use your imagination with the fact that
you know what he collected from Jesse in order to carry out this crime. Yes, he used that
on these two poor, innocent girls, cold and calculated and heartless. Then Bruce walked back
into the trailer and stood in his bedroom at his bedroom window looking outside, just waiting
for his father to come home. The window was open and Bruce,
was holding the weapon outside of the window, pointing it straight to where the parking area was.
And when he saw his dad and Ruth Ann pull up with Crystal, this next part disgust me.
Ricky could see Bruce through the window and he said, what are you doing with a rifle?
And Bruce, according to Jesse, replied, hi, dad, before shooting him twice.
Ricky collapsed to the floor.
Ruth Ann, realizing that this is a deadly situation, she runs inside, hoping that she
can save her daughters. But she doesn't realize they're already gone, except for Crystal.
But as she runs into that trailer and she's just frantically trying to get to the phone,
she gets a hold of that receiver in her hand and she's shaking. She's trying to call 911 and Bruce.
He walks out of his bedroom and into that living room and he just tears that phone right out of the
wall. He points the weapon at Ruthanne and tells her to go outside of the trailer. At that point,
she tries to run, but she couldn't outrun Bruce, and he shot her in the back of the head.
I'm not going to go into detail about what happened to Crystal, but she did walk around to the
back of the trailer where all the commotion was going on, and she saw everything. She saw everything
that happened to her loved ones. And Bruce followed her, and he did the same thing to her.
After that, I don't know how to get right back into the story, but I found this next part to be
interesting. These people, they do not have much money. I don't know what it was like for you back in the
day when you had a phone in your house, but this is a small trailer. Maybe they had more than one phone,
but okay, remember, Bruce tore the phone out of the wall so that nobody could use it. Well, Jesse says
that he knows all of this information because after everything was done, that's when he gets a call
from Bruce. Interesting. So what phone did he use? I'm just curious because something doesn't add up for me,
but let's proceed because Jesse's story keeps going. Bruce, like I said, calls him up,
tells him he did it and then says, I need your help. Get to the trailer. Jesse says when he gets
out there and he sees the absolute carnage that Bruce caused his family, he starts to vomit everywhere
because he's so disgusted by what his stepbrother did.
Nevertheless, blood is not thicker than water in this case.
Stepbrothers' bombs are stronger than blood, apparently.
And Jesse decides he's going to help Bruce carry all five bodies to the back of the station wagon.
They use a wheelbarrow to load the remains into the car.
Then both Jesse and Bruce walked around to every location where a body has.
had been and they made sure that there was no bloody sand left behind they were actually taking a shovel
and scooping up anything any fragments any substance any tissue and they disposed of that as well
then they decide okay we're going to take this car and we're going to drive it into the woods
and we're going to set it on fire well jesse's not having it he's not going anywhere near
those remains according to him he's like not me that's all you instead he says he drives
Honda and follows Bruce. They go those three miles to that area where the car was found.
That's when they take the license plates off. They take those with them. They get a can of gasoline
and they dump it all over the station wagon and Jesse says he watched as Bruce lit a match,
took a piece of paper, lit that piece of paper on fire and threw that piece of paper into that
vehicle and stood there watching it burn. And when it's done and the fire is out, he drives
his little stepbrother to a pond where Bruce throws the rifle inside. Jesse says that the two of them
were absolutely speechless, that they did not utter one word to one another. They were like zombies.
I don't know if they could even comprehend what they had done at that moment, but neither one
spoke to one another according to Jesse until the next day. When they do end up talking again,
it was the following morning when they saw each other at school. This is also one of
the most sickening things that I read about in the story.
It disgust me.
But Jesse says, he tells Bruce that he could not sleep that night.
And Bruce responds.
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Oh, I slept like a baby because there was no one at the house making any noise.
Wow.
And you're going to keep hearing Jesse said, Jesse said, Jesse said.
But this is what Jesse said.
And then he tells investigators that he's not sure what day it was,
but several days later, they decided to go back where the vehicle is to make sure that everything
is totally burned. And that's when they realize there are some very large bone fragments that are left
behind. So they decided to gather up all the big pieces, their bones and skeleton, and they put them
in a duffel bag that they brought with them. Jesse also lets them know that he finds what he thinks
is a child's skull and that he picks it up out of the vehicle and throws it into the duffel bag as well.
They bring all of this stuff to Jesse's dad's house on the farm, and they go out to the back of the
barn where there's a cornfield, and they bury the license plates, and they bury the blue duffel bag
with the rest of the skeletal remains inside. When the investigators first heard that Jesse wanted
to talk to him, they thought that he was going to minimize his involvement in the crime. I personally,
personally still think he is and you just wait. They thought he was going to say, oh yeah, I gave him the bullets and I don't know much else. But it turns out everything that he said matched the evidence that had been collected. So in their mind, this story was true. But we're not at trial. This is not an entire examination or a comparison of the evidence in its entirety. Like we're not talking statements side by side the evidence. But this is all they know and they're taking an
it as truth. I still had a lot of questions, but they did obtain a search warrant to search the
property at Ron Anderson's, Jesse's father's house. And during the search, they stumble upon a
notebook in Bruce's bedroom. Remember, Bruce spent half the time living there. Inside this diary,
if you will, Bruce vented all of his anger was in there regarding his father and Ruth Ann,
and it even contains several entries with threats on Ricky's life.
At this point, this is enough.
This is enough for investigators to issue a probable cause arrest warrant for Bruce Brunizer
for the murder of his family.
It was May 18th, 1991 and Bruce was arrested.
He showed no emotions.
This is him right here.
However, after they started to connect more and more of the dots, it turns out that Bruce
was very apprehensive every single time Jesse was being interviewed.
Because he expressed a fear that he thought that Jesse was going to be.
blame the murders on him. Interesting. After the arrest, Jesse Anderson and the prosecution reached
their plea agreement that he would testify on behalf of the state. All that he had to do now
was lead police to the rifle, the duffel bag, and the license plates. And he does just that.
There's no doubt that this rifle belonged to Bruce because it had the initials BB engraved on the
side of it. Those are obviously Bruce's initials. However, can I just point something out? Anyone can
use this weapon. It doesn't matter whose initials are on it, I'm just saying. But additionally,
one of the bullets found outside the trailer did match the weapon. When they do walk around the trailer,
investigators found evidence in the grass and on the sand, there were fragments of skull
and bleach. After they did some DNA testing, this was proven to be the skull fragments of
crystal. That's so sad. After committing this crime, Bruce poured bleach on the ground.
and in the duffel bag, thinking that this would somehow take away the evidence.
There was other information that started to come out in those notebooks from Bruce himself,
like the fact that Jesse told Bruce to take care of his family outside the trailer
so he wouldn't make a mess inside.
When confronted about this, Jesse said, yeah, I just told him what I would do if that were my situation.
Now Ruth Ann's mom, Mary, she comes forward, and she told the media,
that her daughter Ruth Ann had told her that she and the girls would be moving in with her if
Ricky did not order his son to move out. So there's definitely tension in that home. She also said
she thought Jessie was way more involved and she is pissed because she doesn't think it's okay
that Jesse is granted full immunity. She said that this was letting him off too easily,
that he was a participant in this massacre in everything except for the actual shooting.
But he helped Bruce plan how to commit the murders, even to the point of advising him to shoot them outside, right?
Obviously, yes.
Further, providing him with ammunition, loading the bodies, bringing them out to the location, getting rid of all the evidence, basically covering up this entire crime.
She believed prosecutors could have convinced Jesse to turn on Bruce without such a lenient deal.
Having to see a man who helped set the bodies of three young girls on fire, walking the same.
streets was just unbelievable, according to Ruth Ann's family. Mary knew more about Jesse than the
police did. Her daughter had told her that Bruce would do whatever Jesse wanted. Bruce was a follower,
not a leader. Those were her words. She said that Ruth Ann used to tell her Bruce would always go
along with Jesse. Jesse was like an idol to Bruce. Bruce was a kind of loner, and he found
some kind of deep friendship with Jesse.
Well, the Polk County District Attorney, Mark Biller, he defended the full immunity grant.
He said, you know, this was the only way.
It was the only way to get this case to go to trial.
It was the break that we needed.
I don't know.
Maybe better police work.
Could have worked?
Maybe like better interrogation skills with Bruce.
I don't know.
The judge ruled, and there's more to this, please don't leave, that Bruce would be tried
as an adult.
Well, his attorneys did not like that at all.
They thought it was unfair.
But the district attorney made it clear that this was something that they did not decide lightly, based on the public interest, and just how heinous this crime was.
Prosecutors charged Bruce with five counts of first-degree murder.
And Alice is still there for her son.
As the judge had dismissed everyone, Alice ran up and hugged and kissed Bruce.
Just as the bailiffs were leading him out of the courtroom, the court decided to uphold the ruling that Bruce would be charged as an adult in adult court.
he's an adult because he did an adult crime and that the trial would be sometime at the end of 1992.
I like to mention other little arguments.
The district attorney argued that Bruce should move from a juvenile facility where he was being held to a county prison.
They wanted him to be put his big boy pants on because there was also less of a chance that Bruce would flee from a prison.
That was the argument at the time.
And he remained there.
The judge ruled that he was to remain there and his bail was set at $500,000.
On the second anniversary of the crimes, Ricky's brother Wayne reflected and said that he thinks about Ricky all the time.
And although he wants to move forward, he can't help but wonder why this had to happen.
And according to him, Ricky had a really hard time ending his first marriage and he vowed to never marry again.
However, when he met Ruthanne, they just belonged together.
Both families were upset.
They were upset that this murder trial had been postponed for two.
two years. And the judge did apologize for all the delays and they were justified because it was
necessary to determine whether Bruce would be tried as a juvenile or as an adult. But then Bruce's
current defense attorney requested to be dismissed from the case. And on top of that,
the prosecutor's mother passed away. So I guess it's understandable that it was postponed. So now
Bruce's trial was set to start in the summer of 1993. But in April of that year, he reached a plea agreement.
It was two years to the day of the crime.
Bruce pleaded guilty to the murder of Ricky and Ruthanne,
but guilty by reason of insanity for the girls.
The judge handed down two consecutive life terms.
Whether Bruce was going to spend the rest of his life in a mental institution or prison was up to this judge.
And basically, Bruce's argument was that he felt it was more humane to end the girls' lives
because of what he was going to do or what he was going to do or what he was.
he had done to their parents.
The reason in Bruce's mind or what he relayed
was that this was self-preservation.
That's what his attorney was arguing,
that these killings were motivated by his past,
what his father had done them physically and emotionally,
and that he could no longer be treated this way.
According to his defense attorneys,
it was the culmination of a lifetime of mistreatment,
that he was forced to live in a place with no electricity,
no plumbing, no running water,
and that he was threatened.
threatened, manipulated by his dad, that Ricky would hit walls and bully his family in a submission,
or threaten them to get them not to leave, and that this happened at least once a week.
Bruce said he would also promise him gifts or say that he was going to take his own life to manipulate him.
And this included his dad suspending himself from a tree or putting antlers on his head and running into the woods during deer hunting season.
Again, according to Bruce, he became a scapegoat for his family's problems, that he endured this regular emotional trauma and said that Ruth Ann wouldn't even talk to him.
She would just stare at him with loathing, that his father's favorite object to use on him was a broom handle.
What do you think of all this?
When Ruth Ann's mom heard about this and the way that Bruce was accusing Ruth Ann of looking at him, she wanted to remind everyone that her daughter was blind in one eye.
If she was looking at you in a weird way, it's because she probably had just.
trouble seeing you. She couldn't focus correctly. It's not because she's trying to give you a dirty
look. As if that's even something to justify what Bruce did, any of this. The judge had ruled that when
Bruce murdered Mindy, Heidi, and Crystal, he declared him legally insane. He was sent to a mental
health institution in Madison, Wisconsin. But here are some other interesting facts before I close
with something else I found out about Bruce. That is more recent. In 1995,
a reporter from the Wisconsin State Journal saw Bruce. This reporter was out at a movie theater,
and so was Bruce, who was being escorted by someone from this mental institution. And there was a
public outcry. But the psychiatrist at the hospital, they defended their actions and they claimed
that these outings were essential for the patient's recovery. According to the doctors, when you
lock someone in a room, it's not how you treat mental illness. And for years,
Bruce went on these outings. In the year 2000, Bruce made the news again. And this time as an
alleged victim, that's right, a 35-year-old registered nurse in Kossackner was transferred to Bruce's
unit in the mental institution and the two of them began a very inappropriate sexual relationship
in 1998. And she was charged with two counts of sexual misconduct and the judge ordered her to
served 60 days of house arrest. It was wrong, but her defense claimed she was in love with Bruce.
She would send him very, very naughty photographs and letters expressing her desires to be with him.
And she also made videos. No matter where she was working in the hospital, she always found a way
to get in contact with Bruce. And during one of her eight hour shift,
She spent six of those hours with him.
They were doing it everywhere.
They were doing it in the medication room,
in the leisure rooms, in the psychiatric.
I mean, they were, it was bad.
And one time when he went on a picnic outing,
she gave him vodka.
This woman definitely had her medical license revoked.
In 2013, Bruce was transferred from the mental institution
to a state prison.
But four years later, the court overturned this decision.
and Bruce returned to the mental hospital where he remains today.
Now, look at this gem that I found.
It is basically a prison dating site.
I mean, it's not.
It's actually a prison pen pal site.
Don't get it wrong, but look at this.
Look at this.
This is a little picture of Bruce.
It looks like he's wearing a silk nightgown.
On the side of the website, there's tabs.
They say, meet Bruce.
More about Bruce.
Contact information, sentence information.
Yeah, they're going to put that last.
They're going to put that last because they want you to read what Bruce has to
say first, so let's read it. At the point of him writing this, he's 47 years old, okay? It also says that his
profile will end on July 23, 2023. I wonder why. Well, before I get into that, let's meet Bruce.
Here's what he has to say. I want to put some music under it so you know it's him still talking,
and when I'm done, it'll stop. First of all, I don't want your money. I do need your compassion,
companionship, and caring. Love is love, and my heart doesn't discriminate. I'm interested in
in any age, race, religion, etc.
I'm a deep feeling and sensitive man.
Unfortunately, being locked up forces me to suppress those feelings.
It is far too often that I must deny myself the feelings
that grant me access to my greatest humanity.
Despite the barriers to a normal relationship,
I want and need someone in my life with whom it is safe
to experience and share the depth of my emotions.
I'm no fool.
I know someone with a life sentence and no way.
guarantee of parole isn't a desirable companion, but I can hope. I've spent the past 30 years trying
to make amends for what I've done. Equal parts guilt and joy drive me to do whatever I can to alleviate
the suffering of others or preferably prevent it altogether. Unfortunately, the joy is ephemeral and the guilt
anchors me to actions that I can never make up for. I'm an intelligent man always looking for
ways to stimulate my mind. I'm always on to the next thing once a challenge or the moment is conquered.
However, this doesn't apply to people. I make few friends, but those friendships are deep and abiding.
You would honor me by responding to my profile. I look forward to building either a platonic friendship
or an inmate romantic relationship, whatever suits us best. End quote. Wow. He's suppressing his
emotions and feelings. I think there's another word for that. I'm not going to get into. But yes,
I'm sure there are certain things he can't express when he's locked up. Okay. So they give you his
contact information, which I'm not going to provide upon the screen because you can do that if
you really want or interested in writing him. That's not why I'm telling you all this information.
I just thought that this was interesting. Bruce will be eligible for parole in 2023. Yes.
This monster may be walking the streets again.
What are your thoughts?
Tell all.
I just think about those little girls
and their last moments.
And there's really nothing that I want to say out loud.
But the thoughts in my head haunt me.
Thank you all so very much for being here with me today.
I will see you in my next video.
All right, everyone.
Welcome to Arco Rewards Orientation. I'm Hannah.
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