#596 - Messy Methy Murder Conspiracy - Belle Fourche, South Dakota

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Let's go on a trip, shall we?

We are going to Belle Fouch, South dakota yeah

now if i gave you 10 tries on the spelling of belle fouch south dakota you would need 20 because it's ridiculous be p-h in this shit no b see there you go b-e-l-l-e like you know bell the french version

and then f-o-u-r-c-h-e that's fuche and there's an r there's an r

that's fouch okay that is some that sounds like some like louisiana shit right?

Yeah, it sounds very French.

South of New Orleans or something.

This is in South.

Sounds uneducated is what it sounds.

Yeah, and I'm not saying it is.

That's probably just how you pronounce it.

I don't even know.

We don't know anything about it.

The last thing we know about is French.

Speaking of uneducated,

we're dummies.

We don't know anything about other languages.

That's all I know.

We know nothing.

This is in southwestern South Dakota, about four hours to Billings, Montana, to the west, about a half hour hour to Deadwood, which we've done before, and then about six hours to our last episode, which was in Yankton, South Dakota.

That was the Hammer Hands Killer.

That was a wild episode with the hammer.

You got to listen to that if you haven't.

Episode 551.

This is in Butte County, like Butte, Montana, even though it's in South Dakota.

Okay, this is

area code 605.

Population here, 5,561 people.

So small place, not a big town at all.

Median household income here, it's usually about $69,000.

In the rest of the country here, it is $46,151.

So significantly lower than the national average.

And the median home cost here is $263,100.

So

tough if you're making $46,000.

It's a tough one.

A little bit of history.

I guess Belle Fouche is French for beautiful fork.

Yeah.

See, that's what I mean.

We don't know anything.

It was named.

Yeah, it was named by French explorers who referred to the confluence of what is now the Belle Fouch and Redwater rivers and the Hay Creek.

Beautiful fork in the river.

Beautiful fork.

It's a nice area, too.

It's very pretty.

South Dakota is a scenic area.

It's really pretty.

Beaver trappers work in the rivers.

We call them pimps in the 21st century.

But back then, they're beaver trappers, I guess they were called.

I don't know.

Work in the rivers, trying to get the ladies.

No, that's not what we're doing.

Bar flying.

Actual beaver trappers here.

And during the gold rush of 1876, farmers and ranchers settled in the valleys and grew food and meat and things for the miners.

So it became that.

Now, Seth Bullock, who you might remember from the show Deadwood, the character, Seth Bullock, Timothy Oliphant's character, that's a kind of a half true, half, you know,

half-made-up account of Seth Bullock on Deadwood.

Some of the stuff is true, but then some of the stuff isn't.

The dates are moved around a little bit.

So Seth Bullock steal his brother's wife.

Isn't that who she was?

He died.

Back then, that was considered a noble thing to do, to marry your brother's widow so they wouldn't be, you know,

homeless.

So

I guess Seth Bullock knew that the cattle barons and the railroad would need a place to load cattle onto freight cars for shipment to packing plants in the Midwest.

So Seth Bullock pretty much founded Belfourche as a

place to do that.

Yeah.

So Timothy Oliphant founded this town, which is interesting here.

Now, he arrived in Deadwood, actually, on August 2nd, 1876, to sell supplies to the Deadwood miners, just like in the show.

But he arrived the day Wild Bill Hickcock was killed.

So that whole friendship from the show.

It didn't happen.

Damn it.

Might have seen him, but never, you know, didn't hang out and have dinner with him.

I just love that they sat there building the place

after getting drunk all day.

That was playing cards and shit.

Throwing hammers after being hammered.

So here's some reviews of this town here.

Five stars.

This town is one of the greatest small towns that anyone could find in the United States.

Yeah.

The community is full of loving, wonderful people who want to give back to one another.

Summers, winters, and every season always brings a nostalgia that makes you feel like life couldn't get any better.

Belle Fouche is an amazing rodeo town with great people.

Here you go.

This is where I'm taking you, James.

Let's talk about the rodeo here.

Three stars.

For the most part, it's a very safe area.

Mostly smaller towns where everyone knows each other or is willing to give a helping hand if needed.

The police can be very single-minded.

They think they are always right and would rather argue than listen.

That sounds like cops.

But still, it's a safe area.

Here's two stars.

Or three stars.

I'm sorry.

The seasons are very different from one another.

Very hot summers and very cold winters.

Not listening to this idiot.

Your review is over, sir.

Done.

That's very specific to this area i'm not i'm not going to listen to some idiot tell me that summer is different from winter you don't deserve to be heard asshole go away okay two not everyone deserves a voice you know what i mean

two stars here moving on sugar's sweet sugar is sweet and salt is salty

water is wet so two stars in our town we have very immediate limited eating choices Neighboring localities offer a few more choices.

We might find some better choices for food and entertainment 30 miles away in our gambling city, Deadwood.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's not a lot going on here in this town.

We'll put it that way.

You can go to Deadwood.

You go to Deadwood, which is also a small town.

So that's interesting.

Things to do here.

The Black Hills Rodeo Roundup.

Here.

Roundup, Roundup Rodeo.

I apologize here.

And they say, here's the description.

Just what is a ranch rodeo?

In many ways, it harkens back to the roots of the Black Hills Roundup when working ranch skills were put to the test in competitions for the enjoyment of spectators.

Ranch rodeos are still events in which traditional working cowboys gather to compete and demonstrate skills that are used every day in cattle ranching operations.

So I think these aren't like your professional touring rodeo people.

These are like

fucking ranch hands that actually are.

These are real people.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I mean, which is interesting.

They say that.

They don't do it for sport.

They do it for their job.

Yes, they have to do it.

This is how they eat.

They're trying to create a more genuine presentation of real-life ranch work.

Yeah, I don't know if the traditional rodeos, if a lot of those

events actually have

any real relevance in

the range every day for eight seconds?

Probably not.

I assume you probably, your horses are probably pretty trained by then or whatever.

So they said bucking stock are not used in ranch rodeo unless the ranch rodeo contestants unintentionally provide their own.

So that's what that is.

And most of the events in the traditional rodeos are events for individual competitors.

There's no events for individual competitors in ranch rodeos.

This is a team event.

Oh.

Teams consist of four cowboys.

Yeah.

And a typical ranch rodeo will have four or five events.

Each team has a maximum time limit of two and a half minutes to successfully complete each event.

Mutton busting will also be a part of the rodeo.

Yeah.

They say

the Black Hills Roundup today is bigger and better than ever, drawing top-ranked cowboys and cowgirls to compete in heart-pounding events like barrel racing, bareback riding, saddle bronch riding, steer wrestling, bull riding, and team roping, and more.

Goddamn, all the classics.

We're going to enter the teen roping competition or team roping, not teen roping.

That would be a really weird one.

Just go to a high school and say, get over here, you little bastard.

Just

set out a naked 13-year-old and try to rope her.

I wasn't even thinking naked.

I was thinking kids like in a school going, take those goddamn crocs off and put some fucking sneakers on, you goddamn asshole.

I wasn't thinking of it sexually at all, but I like the clear mind goes.

Yeah.

So

also they said they'll have patriotic parades, and every moment is packed with Western charm, adrenaline, and Americana.

Yeah.

And in addition to the community barbecue, mutton busting, and all the events, they will also have the Miss Black Hills Rodeo Roundup Queen coronation there as well.

Oh, yeah, there we go.

Queen of the Rodeo.

Also, parades, fireworks, and concerts.

Concerts of such consequence that they don't name one of the bands.

So they know they're going to be great.

So good.

That said, let's talk about some murder, shall we?

Here we go.

Holy shit, this is crazy.

All right, we're going to go back to 2004 for this whole thing here, this mess.

Okay.

2004 in July.

And 2004, not that long ago.

Still internet, cell phones.

Just, you know, internet's not really on your cell phone.

That's the only difference.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

It can be, but it's not.

A little less technology.

It takes about 20 minutes to check your email on your phone back then.

A little less technology.

Not every car had fucking navigation.

Yeah, that's all.

Otherwise, same world, pretty much.

So let's talk about Troy Jason Klug,

K-L-U-G.

Troy Klug.

Klug with a K.

With a K.

Hard Klug.

He's born May 27th, 1978 here, Troy.

So, you know, he's about 26 here in 2004.

He's born in Rapid City, South Dakota, to parents Ronald and Joyce.

And he was a Boy Scout when he's a child, real into sports, track, baseball, soccer,

loves to go out and do outdoor shit with his dad, you know, hunting, fishing, all the stuff people kind of do in this area.

He's into it.

He's a young man.

Yeah, kind of young, real all-American kind of lifestyle here.

Something went wrong

after high school, though, because in high school, he was into sports and this kind of thing.

But by 2004, he appears to be a pretty severe meth addict.

Oh, g-Roy, it's not going well for Troy at this point in time.

I mean,

his family, he still like talks to his family and gets along with them.

He's not, like, hasn't been banished from

the family or anything.

His mother never came home and found all her furniture gone because he hocked it for meth or anything like that.

He's not a terrible piece of shit.

He's just a drug addict.

And that's

that kind of thing.

He's got a girlfriend named, I don't know if it's Duana or Duana.

D-U-A-N-A.

Dwayne.

It's Dwayne with an A.

So I'm calling her Duana because that's what I called her the whole time I was doing the notes.

I was like, this is Duana Beebe.

And her last name's Beebe.

B-E-E-B-E.

BB.

Duana Beebe.

Wow.

That's Troy's girl right there.

Yeah,

I had written under here, possibly Don Beebe's daughter.

Let's check and see if her neck is stringy.

And then we'll know.

Rubber-headed Rubber-headed little girl.

Drop her on her head, directly on her head.

If she bounces up, then she's Don Beebe's daughter.

We know that.

If she just

shoots up like a spring, we'll name her Duana.

That's a real old school sports reference from the 90s, a Buffalo Bills wide receiver.

There's footage of him.

It's a famous play of him landing directly on his head and he just bounces.

It's a spring.

It's like a pogo stick.

It's the craziest fucking thing I've ever heard.

And then he gets up and walks away.

I was like, oh, my God.

It's the spine three inches shorter.

Is the ground rule double off of Kinseko's head?

It's just as fucking wild.

Lots of guys get hit in the head, though.

The hat kind of protects you a little bit.

Not all of us.

It's not over the fence like that.

That was funny.

Yeah.

This was like unbelievable that the guy was alive.

Never mind.

Had his neck intact.

Yeah, there's a guy playing for the Jets that wishes he was that springy in the neck.

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

So,

Duena's

brother's name is Robert Hiley, appropriate.

H-I-G-H-L-Y.

Hiley.

Jesus Christ.

And he is another meth guy and he's Troy's friend.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's Troy's friend and Dwayne is brother.

Okay.

So that's how this works.

Now, on the night of July the 12th, 2004,

Robert comes over to where Duana and Troy are living.

Yeah.

And

he is going to go out with Troy.

Troy and Robert are going to go out together to go to a woman named Cynthia Kindle's house in Rapid City to get some meth.

Now, Duana is pissed off.

She said that he wanted to go get the drugs as a front.

Basically, he owed this Kindle money for meth.

Okay.

So he was going to go get meth fronted to him so he could sell it and pay back for both loans.

Get the last one and get this one paid for and be on even ground.

That's the plan here.

Okay.

Wow.

Balancing drug debt.

Oh, man, that's worse than credit cards.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul for meth is a lot.

And then get high.

And they're both still paying Paul high.

And they're both still trying to sell you meth.

Yeah, and we're sober.

Now, Kindle was also Dwayne Abebe's drug dealer.

So it's not like they were, you know, she's innocent in this whole thing either.

Everybody's doing meth.

Everyone we're going to talk about in this story does a shitload of meth.

There's not a human until we get to like the court proceedings and maybe the district attorney or something,

everyone else is on meth.

It's crazy.

And we don't even know if the lawyers are not on meth.

They just aren't in trouble.

We have no idea.

Yeah.

They're not arrested for it.

So

they end up leaving.

And now she's pissed, by the way.

She just had surgery, apparently.

Oh, Duana.

So she's like, you're leaving me here post-surgery to go get meth.

Thanks a lot, asshole.

She's pissed.

She said, I was mad because I couldn't believe he was even going over there.

I was recovering from surgery.

Like, this is crazy.

So they said, bye, you know,

change your bandages on your own.

And Robert and Troy took off to go get some meth.

Now, apparently, Troy calls his girlfriend, Duana, multiple times after that from when they left, but she wouldn't answer because she was upset with him for leaving.

So she wouldn't.

Later on,

Troy sent, later in the day, Troy sent Duana a text message asking,

is Robert with you?

Yeah.

Now they left together.

So she's like, where the hell did you guys get split up?

She said, no, he's not.

And then she never talked to him again.

Oh.

Not on purpose either.

She wanted to, because as the day went on, he never came home and she started to get worried.

And now, you know, mad has turned to worry.

That's the thing.

If you're going to be late, be late enough where someone's worried.

That's a better reception when you get home than there's a middle ground where they're just mad.

You got to get away from that.

You got to come home earlier than mad or later than mad, but don't come home during the mad hours.

That's bad.

We all know that.

Every guy knows that.

Well, if I come home now, she's going to be pissed.

If I wait a little while, she might be happy to see me.

If I wait two hours, you're going to go, thank God, I've been so worried.

Yeah.

So about 7 p.m.,

or she called his phone multiple times and left voicemails.

And after about 7 p.m., though, she couldn't leave any more messages because his voice box, his voicemail was full.

She filled it up.

She filled it up.

Yeah.

So, now, where the hell is he?

And where's Robert?

And what's going on?

Well, let's find out where he is.

Well, he's at the Cynthia Kindle's house, the one we talked about that has.

The dealer.

The dealer, yeah.

She lives at 607 Cloud Street.

And

also with her here at Cynthia Kindle's house is Tori Teigen.

That's a guy, by the way.

We're going to have a couple of things where it's like a Jamie that's a girl and a Tori that's a guy.

So we're going to have to keep this straight.

Tori Teigen.

You'll be able to tell by his actions that he's definitely a guy.

Some dude behavior.

So, oh, yeah.

So Tori Teigen's nickname is the Mad Hatter.

That's what everybody calls him, which is not a compliment, by the way.

The Mad Hatter was insane, and it was named after guys who went insane from inhaling chemicals.

So it's not good, which is what he does.

He inhales chemicals.

Really?

Yeah.

So Tori is there, Tori Teigen.

He'd been staying at Cynthia Kindle's house.

Now,

Troy, not Tori, Troy Klug now.

I'll just call him Klug as our main guy here, and then I'll do Tori Teigen.

So Klug,

he proposed, you know, to buy some meth here and all of this type of thing.

So they arrived, Hiley and Klug, Robert Hiley and Troy Klug.

They meet Tori Teigen and Cynthia Kindle at the house.

They asked Robert to leave, Robert Hiley.

They said, leave.

So Robert gets in Troy Klugs' vehicle and leaves.

Really?

So now Troy is at the house by himself.

That's why he was texting, a little while went by and he was texting his girlfriend, going, where's your brother?

Is he with you?

Did he come back to the house to, you know, with my car?

Where the fuck is he?

Yeah.

So a little while after that,

Cynthia Kendall leaves as well.

She's got to take off.

So just leaving Tori and Troy together.

Leaving them together.

So Cynthia Kendall leaves back.

She's not gone very long, by the way.

She comes right back.

Gone a little while, half hour or whatever.

When she comes back,

she finds that Troy and Tori are both still there, but

Tori Teigen had bound

Troy Klug with duct tape.

He is now duct taped and bound.

And then Cynthia Kendall and Tori Teigen loaded Klug into the trunk.

of Cynthia Kendall's black Nissan car and left.

Yeah, okay.

So he's duct taped in in the trunk now.

Dry clock.

Where are they going?

To

Dwayne Abibi's house, of course.

Duana's having them come over?

Maybe they're maybe they're no, she doesn't even know they're coming.

Oh, but that's where we're going.

They're going over there.

Now, this is about 9 p.m., so this is two hours after the voicemail's been full.

They're going to roll up.

I don't know if they're going to.

I mean, what are they going to drop him off on the front porch all duct taped up like a fucking FedEx package?

I don't know what's going on.

It's a weird way to get your credit declined.

Yeah, I would say.

Talk about cutting up your cards.

So she was upstairs in her bedroom, Duana, recovering from the surgery.

Kindle and Teigen come up the stairs to her bedroom, and they ask her, do you know where Troy is?

Right.

Or she, I'm sorry, she asked them, do you know where Troy is?

I thought he was going to your house.

Cynthia replies that Troy had shown up at her house, but she told him to leave.

Doesn't say anything about, then we duct taped him and put him in the back of a fucking, in a trunk.

Out in the park in the fucking driveway right now.

If you listen real hard, you can hear like beating against the trunk right now.

That's a trunk lid of my 200SX.

At this point, they start, Troy, Tori Teigen and Cynthia Kindle start going through, rummaging through the room

through all of Troy Klug's stuff.

At one point

here,

Teigen, Tori Teigen takes a bottle of Troy Klug's cologne and says, well, if it's Troy's, it's ours now.

And just pocketed it.

And they were like taking his things and saying similar shit.

Cynthia was saying the same thing.

Well, if this belongs to Troy, it belongs to us now.

Because

he owes them money.

Way to hear the amount that is owed here.

This is not.

Did that bottle of cologne probably cover it?

This isn't half a million dollars.

This isn't, you know what I mean?

Like, he owes us.

He went big on the fucking...

He went big on the Browns for the Super Bowl, and now

he's a half a million in the hole or whatever.

It's not one of those things at all.

So we'll talk about it.

So now Bibi, Dwayne Beebe, asks, you know, what the fuck, basically.

And, you know,

where is Troy Klug?

Where is he?

So Cynthia Kindle says, don't worry, he's no longer a problem.

And then said, isn't that right, Tori, to Tori Teigen?

And then Tori responded, yes.

And Duane Abibi said they were smirking while they said this and like making weird eye contact with each other.

And then Duane Abibi asked them to leave.

Get the fuck out of my house is what she said, probably more accurately.

So they do leave and they drive to someone else's house.

Whose house?

Jamie

Korean.

Jamie Korean.

It's the word Korean with a C.

C-O-R-E-A-N.

She is definitely not Korean, by the way, is a white girl as they come.

This is amazing.

This is great.

The Nesses make it everything.

It really helps.

So good.

So we have Don Beebe's daughter over there.

Now we're going to

Jamie Korean's house.

Who's a white woman?

Jamie Korean.

Okay.

Jamie Korea sounds like...

Jeff Taiwan's house.

It sounds like a made-up online name that somebody has.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Jamie Korean.

Didn't Michael use Ron Mexico?

Somebody used that shit.

Yes.

Whatever the fuck it was.

I think it was like Benny Tijuana or something.

I don't remember.

So Jamie Korean's house.

Now at Jamie Korean's house is Jamie Korean

and her boyfriend, Jason Kuzick, K-U-S-I-C-K.

So the word sick is in his name.

So

these people are aptly named.

Now, a little bit about Jamie Korean.

She said she grew up in a good family, had a very sheltered upbringing.

In high high school, she was studying hard and doing sports and everything like that.

She said her mother started to change and her parents' marriage broke up.

So she moved with her father to Belfourche.

And she said, at that point, I was dabbling and drinking, smoking a little pot.

At the beginning of my sophomore year, meth came around.

The sad part is I liked it.

Oh, that is sad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So a lot of these people have the same story, achievers, and then meth came around and they're like, oh, well, this is great.

Yeah.

And a lot of people start things like a speed type thing to be able to keep achieving.

That's why they do it.

And then once they're too far into it, then that all goes away.

There's nothing to do.

Yeah.

She said that she became a professional liar, told her father she had no problems, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't do any of that.

She ended up dropping out of school.

She had a boyfriend.

They began dealing meth together.

Yeah.

And she said it worked out well.

She said, we bought a house.

I was a functioning meth addict.

I kept a job, paid my bills.

Nobody knew.

Nobody asked.

Okay.

Like those people in that documentary where they're like, they go do roofing all day and then just do smoke meth at night.

Remember that one?

It's an HBO documentary.

But she ended up getting deep into the whole meth culture because you can't just dabble in the meth culture, especially if you're selling it.

I'm sure there's somebody out there that disagrees that's done it, but like you're not doing just a little bit then.

If you're doing shitloads of meth, you only do shitloads of meth.

You can't just do a little bit.

No, and how you are in between all of that is a mess.

So you can't be a normal person.

So now Jason Kusick said that Torrey Teigen arrived at the house here on Tuesday morning, about 6 to 7 a.m.

So they left Dwayne Abe's house at 9 o'clock, and then they're early.

I think they haven't slept.

You know what I mean?

They have access to plenty of meth, and they have a guy duct taped in their trunk.

I don't think they're sleeping much here.

Torrey Teigen drove

Kindle's car into the garage, into Jamie Korean's garage.

Once inside,

Tori Teigen opened the trunk and there was

Klug in the trunk with, again, bound with duct tape.

Kusick said that he couldn't see,

that Klug couldn't see, so he had his eyes covered.

His arms were duct taped.

His legs were duct taped.

He said that Teigen pulled him out of the trunk and threw him on the floor.

Threw Klug on the floor.

Torrey Teigen then indicated to everybody that Klug is a rat and a snitch.

Okay, same thing, but okay.

Same thing.

So then Tori Teigen kicks him in the stomach, and Kusick said he could hear Troy Klug moan, so he knew he was alive.

Troy should have kicked him in the tummy, too.

Yeah.

Maybe right in the belly also.

Possibly in the midsection, but we're not sure.

The breadman.

So when Kusick went back inside, he told Korian, who's inside, that Tori Teigen had somebody with him out there.

Now, Korian doesn't say anything.

She's just like, whatever.

Meth makes you not curious, apparently, about shit going on in your own garage.

Is that right?

I got meth right here.

I don't know what I'm doing there.

So Tori Teigen put Klug in a large toolbox in the garage.

Okay.

At Korean's house that morning.

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Q6 said that he wanted, quote, nothing to do with the situation, so he just went to work.

I don't want anything to do with it.

Let me get, you already have something to do with it.

No matter whether you leave now or not, you are, you have a lot to do with this, mister.

I'm punching in for my shift and recusing myself from this whole thing.

I'm done.

So, Korean, Jamie Korean, said that after, so she went to work too.

Yeah.

Everybody went to work, and they just left these strange meth people in their house with a duct tape man and a toolbox.

That's fine.

This is not my problem.

Not curious.

After she went to work, she returned to see if Tori Teigen was gone.

She saw that he was gone.

The car wasn't in the garage anymore, so she locked the garage.

Okay.

Okay.

Now,

there's a guy named Eric Harr.

H-A-A-R.

Harr.

Everybody's name is hilarious in this episode.

So on the way home from work that afternoon, Cusick now, Korean's boyfriend.

Cusick and Korean.

That sounds like a cop show from the 80s.

Cagney.

Yeah.

Cusick and the Korean.

He's an all-American boy who's been fighting crime since he was 18.

She's a recently arrived Korean immigrant.

Actually, this is the alternate name for Russian hours.

Yeah.

Maybe it was.

So anyway, Cusick tells Eric Harr that Tori Teigen had left Troy Klug at Korean's house.

Kusick asked Harr, hey, do me a favor, will you check the toolbox in the garage for me?

I don't want to do it.

I said I didn't want to get involved.

So Cusick said that he heard that Harr opened the toolbox and Kusick was standing by the door and could see somebody in it.

So Torrey Teigen left and just left Troy Klug in this fucking in this toolbox.

Cusick says when

Jamie Korean arrived home from work that afternoon, he said, quote, I remember us telling her that Tori left this guy and he's still here.

Korean,

by the way, no one out of the three people here, none of whom put him in this fucking box or have any beef with this guy, none of them say, hey, we should check on this guy, see if he's okay, and maybe get a medical attention.

Nobody suggests that.

Everyone just goes, shoulder shrug, leave him in the toolbox.

Let's go do meth.

Yeah.

That's literally what happens here.

This is which is

they just ignore it.

Yeah, we didn't hurt anybody.

He's just in the toolbox.

It's not our fault.

Enter Abby DeJong.

D-E-J-O-N-G.

Dejong.

That is Jamie Korean's best friend.

Abby DeJong.

Neither of them are Asian.

They both sound Asian.

Why is that?

So this is, like we said, Jamie Korean's best friend.

She said she arrived at Jamie Korean's house on Tuesday, July 13th.

So this is the next day, because we know, at about 6.30 p.m.

So they arrived there with Troy about 12 hours earlier.

And he's been in this toolbox the whole time.

So Korean told DeJong that Tori Tejin or Teigen had put a person in a box in her garage.

Dejong said that Jamie Korean also told her that the person was being held against his will because most people voluntarily like to stay in boxes in the garage.

That's normal.

It's not the weirdest game of hide-and-seek ever.

It's a sex.

I think it's a sexual thing.

He said he really, it's like he gets off on on it or something.

I don't know.

I don't understand it, but I just let him do it because what the hell?

You know,

me garage, you garage it.

You know what I'm saying?

It's a much slower form of autoerotic asphyxiation.

Yeah, she's real into it.

Just no tension on the throat.

It's just slowly cutting off the air supply.

So DeJohn tells Jamie Korean, I think we should do something.

And Jamie Korean said, no, the cops will get them.

Not our problem, basically.

So DeJong, the only person here who's got any moral compass at all,

attempts to convince Jamie Korean to call the police.

She said, we got to call the police.

We got to call the police.

And she said, no, no, no.

And then Dejong said, I'll call the police then.

This is crazy.

And Korean told her, no, you're not going to.

So when Dejong told Korean that if Dejong were, if I was me in the toolbox,

I would want someone to help me, she said.

And Korean just said, no, the cops will get them.

It's fine.

All right.

Okay.

So later that evening, Teigen and Kindle here returned to Jamie Korean's house.

You know, they left a package here.

So

DeJong said that when Kindle and Tegan or Teigen and Kindle arrived, they had meth with them, and everybody just did meth, all of them.

Yeah.

Tegan, Kindle, Har, DeJong, and Jamie Korean all doing meth.

I don't know where Cusick is.

Yeah.

According to DeJong, she asked Tegan

in the presence of everybody, why are you keeping that man in the toolbox?

Which is a really reasonable question.

Yeah, why do you keep him with your bomb peen hammer?

So with your fucking

Allen wrenches?

What's going on?

Why is it with your torque wrench, man?

What's going on?

So DeJong testifies later on that Kindle spoke up and said that, quote, Klug had owed them money.

Yeah.

You know how much money they owe?

Somewhere, he owes somewhere between $200 and $300.

You already took his polo sport, man.

Well, Well, what are we talking about, dude?

This is not a lot of money.

I get it's meth and all that kind of thing, but this is crazy.

Like,

you know, the mob would do less to you for 200 grand.

This is ridiculous.

So, uh, Teigen and Jason Kusick went on a car ride later that evening, and when they returned to Jamie Korean's house, everybody was still in the living room: Korean, Dejong, Harr, and Kindle.

Before going to bed that evening, uh, Kusick saw Tori Teigen and Jamie Korean talking together in the kitchen.

Now, about 2 to 3 a.m.

in this mess here.

Okay, Tell Cook is a guy.

Tell, T-E-L-L is his first fucking name.

Tell Cook goes by Chopper.

Why?

You've already got a cool nickname.

It's Tell Cook.

Chopper and the Mad Hatter.

Now we got it.

I guess Tell is insinuating that you're a snitch.

So

Chopper Cook.

Needs something much cooler.

Chopper.

Chopper Cook sounds like you're a World War II

army guy or something.

That's Chopper Cook right there.

Don't mess with him.

He has like a patch over his eye, but he still flies a plane somehow.

So Tell Cook also lives in Belfouche, and I guess Teigen and Kindle arrived at his house at 2 a.m.

Yeah.

Now, the times on this whole thing are going to be disputed by a bunch of people who have been doing meth for days.

So

take the time with a grain of salt because we don't know if it's

who knows here.

The days are going by with meth.

so uh we don't know if this was oh we think it's wednesday night though so um anyway they said that once they were there teigen used some meth obviously uh then

he and and cook now chopper cook matt hatter and the chopper get in the car and drive troy clugg out to a gravel road to quote scare him some

Oh my God.

So I guess Teigen says that during this time, Tell Cook, quote, punched, kicked, and hollered at him some.

The new guy in the picture here, Tell, doesn't owe him money.

I don't know what he cares.

What's the deal?

Then they put him back in the trunk of the car and returned to Tell Cook's house.

Is he scared?

Did they scare him some?

I think they scared him some, probably.

Some.

We'll see.

Absolutely.

So according to Tegan,

he and Kindle went to Korean's house sometime between six and seven.

And

they said that

Kindle said later on that because of the drugs and the fact that she had been sleep for days, that she was not certain of the days and dates and times during this period, and that she did not remember dates very well, and that she did not remember Monday and said, I don't remember the dates.

So she's a mess, obviously.

So apparently here, though, Tell Cook said that.

Teigen and Kindle arrived at his house Wednesday morning, not the Tuesday that they had said, some of the methy people have said.

Cook was asked, is there anything you can think of, or is there any reference reference as to why it was early Wednesday morning later?

And he says, because I was going on vacation.

I had Friday off work, so that's a good reference point for the whole thing.

I had plans to go to Denver to a racetrack, and that was just two nights before I was leaving.

So we're going to say it's Wednesday night, probably.

So

now Cook says he never struck Klug.

That's just Torrey Teigen making shit up.

He said, I don't know this fucking guy.

I don't have any beef with him.

Cook said he allowed Teigen and Kendall to stay at his house, and then Cook left for work the next morning around five.

These people are very comfortable with leaving for work and leaving methadics in their house.

Yeah, it's amazing how early these people are risers, too.

Hardly

not slept yet?

No, I don't think they've slept yet.

No.

God damn.

They went out.

They were in a gravel road in the middle of the night, so I don't think they've slept.

So according to Cook, Teigen took Cook outside to Kindle's vehicle and showed him that Klug was in the trunk.

This was before the road thing.

Hands and feet were bound with duct tape.

He was laying face down in the trunk.

He said that Cook said that Klug was still alive because he heard him moan and saw him reflex when Torrey Teigen punched him in the back.

He said that everything was bound.

He was face down with his feet in the air, stripped naked except for his boxer shorts.

Torrey Teigen punched him in the back and yelled, wake up, motherfucker.

And then Troy Klug made baffled or muffled noises.

And Teigen told Cook that he was either going, they said, because Cook said, what the fuck are you going to do with this guy?

I mean, we've got a reservoir dog situation here.

Like, what are you doing with the guy in the trunk?

This is crazy.

He said, well, I'm either going to go to Denver

to turn Klug into his parole agent,

which I feel like your parole agent might have some sympathy for you if you're dropped off on his doorstep naked and duct taped, probably.

He might overlook the meth in your system for the fact that you.

Trying to get away with meth.

I'm bringing a kidnap.

Yeah, that's interesting.

Or he is going to drive to North Dakota and to dig a hole and bury Klug.

Either one.

Turn him in or kill him.

Now,

okay, back to Jamie Korean's house.

Kendall and Teigen returned to Jamie Korean's house about 5.30 a.m.

They said later that morning, Teigen would tell Cusick that Teigen had woke Klug up and that

he was leaving.

I woke up my hostage and I'm taking off now.

Har, the Harr guy, H-A-R-R, he said that.

H-A-R, right?

H-A-R-A-R.

Sorry.

Yeah, H-A-A-R.

Testified later on that he remembered asking Cusick later, you know what happened and was Klug okay or what was up and that Cusick said that Teigen told him that it took a while to get Klug up but he got him up so I'm not he's he's not dead

so before Teigen left he instructed Cusick to wash the toolbox out

So Cusick washed the toolbox at a car wash, but he said there was absolutely nothing inside the toolbox to wash.

And according to Cusick, it looked like it had already been cleaned.

So Wednesday evening, Cusick and Korean were at the house with DeJong and Har.

According to Cusick,

Cusick said he wanted to tell the cops.

He said, but we had a conversation that none of us would ever talk about it, and we'd never say anything.

They swore each other to secrecy.

Kusik also remembers hearing Korean say, we need an alibi.

Let's work on an alibi.

You already know you're in trouble then if you.

Fuck yeah.

And Dejong, because I mean, they know he left.

People know where he went that night.

So it's like they're going to look for it.

Troy is making an alibi at this point.

No.

So then DeJong said that when she talked to Jamie Korean, Korean informed DeJong that Tori Teigen was concerned about whether he could trust Dejong.

You might end up in a toolbox, too.

So according to Dejong, Korean reassured Tori not to worry about Dejong and that Korean would, quote, take care of it.

So I'll make sure she doesn't say anything.

Now, that that Wednesday is when he's reported missing.

Dwayne Abebe and Troy's mother, Joyce, filed a missing persons report.

Oh.

Well, like, yeah, officially.

So Wednesday night at about midnight, Duana Beebe had a friend staying with her to help her with the surgery stuff.

So she needed somebody there.

Just after midnight, Kindle and Tori Teigen show up at her home again.

Really?

She's already called the cops, filed a missing

person report, and

included them in the whole story.

So they entered through her living room window and came running up the stairs.

They didn't knock on the door and she let them in.

They broke into her fucking house and now they're charging up the stairs.

Kindle went into BB's room and kept asking BB, what's wrong with you?

What's wrong with you?

Why are you in bed?

Why aren't you moving around?

And she said that she's recuperating from a fucking operation.

That's why.

So her incision had become infected, BB said.

Ill.

So Beebe's friend asked them, what happened to Klug?

That's the other person there.

And Kindle responded, I don't know where he is.

Then she said to Dwayne a Beebe, honey, I need you to come with me.

I got to go away for a while, and I need you to go with me.

You think she's coming back?

No.

I don't know.

They're covering her tracks.

Beebe said, no.

Fuck that.

So apparently Kindle here said, oh, honey, no, it's okay.

Don't worry about it.

Just come on, get up.

I need you to come with me.

Honey, I'm going to go to a cabin for a little while.

I need you to come with me.

Well, if anything happens or you get in any worse shape or anything, you know, it's okay.

We'll take care of you.

So then BB said, at some point of this going back and forth, finally Tegan said, We don't have time for this.

We got to go.

Just leave her.

She's not worth it.

We got to go.

So, yeah.

During this back and forth, BB said that she filed a missing persons report and she can't go because she's probably on 24-hour surveillance at this point.

Oh.

Which isn't true at all, but you don't want to kidnap a person who is being surveilled by the police.

Yeah.

And meth people hear that and they're like, oh, God, yeah.

Oh, she's being watched.

Everybody's watching me.

You know, they're paranoid anyway.

So now Thursday, July 15th, this started three days ago.

Yeah.

Teigen and Kendall show up again at Cook's house, at Tell Cook's house, old chopper's house.

Cook asked Teigen what he had done with the man in the trunk.

Tegan replied that he put him in a toolbox and left him there all day.

Cook asked if he gave him water because it was hot.

Reasonable question.

Tegan replied, no, and it's too late for all that anyway.

It's too late for water?

For water.

So Cook recalled that Teigen said that he had gone to the toolbox a few times throughout the day and was beating the man.

He said that Teigen tells Cook that he felt bones crush in Troy's face, and he thought that's what did him in.

Then

that day, Teigen and Kindle took off and said they were going to Montana

with Troy in the trunk.

Yeah.

By the way,

Kindle indicated at that time that Troy was finally dead and still in the trunk of the car.

Right.

So July 17th.

2004, 4 a.m.

Okay.

Kindle and Teigen arrive in North Dakota at a guy named Ross Thomas' house.

Someone named Jamie Keefe saw both of them there at 9.30 p.m.

and said that Troy Teigen was cutting fringes on a blanket and Kindle was doing laundry.

Teigen asked Kindle if she was doing laundry in cold water, which she responded, yes, I washed it in cold water.

You know, you don't want shrinking.

When you're running from a murder, you don't want to shrink your jeans.

That's tough.

Also, that implies there are stains on this.

Exactly.

That's the other thing.

So, July 18th, 2004, Kindle and Teigen are still at North Dakota there at that guy Thomas' house.

The Keefe person helped them clean out Kindle's car.

According to Keefe, the inside of the car was stripped down to the metal frame.

No one can take a car apart like a fucking meth addict, first of all.

Nobody.

Fascinating detail, man.

Oh, they will have every fucking bolt and screw off of that goddamn thing.

It'll be just a bare frame.

They're good at that.

They love these.

These detail guys are not that thorough.

No, no, no.

They're not on enough map.

She said that bleach had been poured in.

Maggots were floating on a solid layer on the bleach.

What?

Teigen told her he poured about three gallons of bleach in the car and that the maggots were from a milk spill.

Some spoiled milk was back there.

Okay.

Keefe helped Teigen by scrubbing and using a shop vac to suck up the bleach.

The rags they used to clean the car were taken to a fire and burned.

According to Keefe, at some point, Kindle yelled at Torrey Teigen that the car should have been cleaned five fucking days ago.

Keefe recalled that Torrey attempted to clean the car's upholstery with Febreze and Wool Light.

Okay.

They also scrubbed the floorboards, which had a, quote, rust-colored stain on them.

I wonder what that is.

Now, an investigation is going on into where the hell is Troy.

Yeah.

There's a guy named Brett Groemer, who is a special agent for South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, and it's his job to look for fucking Troy.

And at the time,

Teigen had been identified as a suspect based on an interview that they did with Dwayne Abibi.

So they go on July 20th, 2004.

Him and two other officers interview Tell Cook.

Cook told them of seeing Troy or Tori Teigen and Kindle at his house, but repeatedly denied seeing anyone in a car trunk.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't know what you're talking about.

He did

admit, however, that Tori Teigen mentioned going back to Rapid City and snatching some guy.

And, well, you never know.

I might have already done it.

Could be in the trunk outside.

That's what he said.

Cook recalled that the name Troy was mentioned.

I didn't know he was in the trunk, but he told me a guy named Troy was in the trunk.

That's what they said.

It's not exactly that Troy.

You know, the cop said, I don't think you're telling us everything.

Right.

And basically, we'll talk about it, but made some comments that are to try to motivate him to say more.

July 22nd, Cook is interviewed again by two different cops this time.

He told them that Troy Klug was over at Kindle's house and Teigen was using Klug to move things in the basement and that they had hit him and duct taped him.

So they arrest Cook, old chopper Cook here.

He's placed in the county jail.

July 22nd, that same day that

they arrest Cook, or they interviewed Cook, they arrest Teigen.

So they go and they get him in North Dakota.

He's charged with kidnapping Klug because they don't know anything else.

They just know he's been kidnapped, most likely.

So that's what they charge him with.

He's indicted on one count of kidnapping, one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, placed in the county jail, the Pennington County jail, in a cell adjacent to Tell Cook's.

Oh.

Old chopper.

So we got Mad Hatter and the chopper reunited here.

When they were there, Cook, they contacted each other through kites, jail notes.

That's what they're doing.

So, you know, the porter or somebody will deliver it.

And, you know, that's how it works.

So Chopper Cook had written that Teigen, they wrote Tegan, Teigen wrote back.

Teigen always used the name Chopper when referring to Cook.

And Cook always said, used Mad Hatter when referring to him.

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Cook ended up telling his lawyer about the notes he got and said it contained incriminating information about Tegan.

So get me a deal.

And that's what he gets.

September 30th, 2004, Tell Cook takes a deal.

Oh.

He takes a plea deal.

He decided to tell everything he knew, and a plea agreement is reached.

He told the officers of seeing Klug in the trunk, recounting the statements of Teigen and Kindle, and turned over some of the jail notes that were written as well.

Oh.

Made a plea agreement here

there.

By the way,

they arrested Kindle, too, and they were going to try them together, but the court grants a motion to sever their trials, Teigen and Kindle.

So Teigen wants to challenge basically Kindle's out-of-court statements.

Kindle is not going to be available to testify because she is found incompetent to stand trial and just kind of put in a place.

Yeah.

So

anyway, they rule that some of the statements will be admissible and some of them won't be.

That's fine.

Kindle, like we said, ruled incompetent for trial.

Back to Teigen.

Okay.

In the notes, Teigen said, here's one of them: quote, oh, yeah, even if they do find some so-called physical evidence, where the hell are they going to get DNA to compare it to?

You don't know very much, stupid.

His family.

A fucking hair and his brush at home.

Lots of places.

And believe me, they ain't going to find no body unless someone else planted somebody.

Why?

It's ridiculous.

It may have taken me a while to decide what to do, but once I figured it out, it was the best plan, and I executed it with grinding precision.

Don't worry about them finding a body.

Then, in another note, he said, yeah, you know, that was one of the nastiest things I've ever done.

One of the nastiest.

If a guy is going to make fish food,

he just as well put it in bite-sized pieces, right?

What the hell?

It wasn't my first rodeo, and I'm sure it won't be my last if I stay in the business I'm in.

So I've killed before, is what he's saying.

Now that might be jealous.

Nobody, no crime.

Nobody.

No, I was getting to that.

Because somebody actually said that in the show.

Yeah, a lawyer.

Oh, they do?

Yes.

So it's coming up.

It's nobody, no crime.

Yes.

As Bob Marley sings it.

So

anyway, these notes are going to be allowed into the whole thing.

Cook was concerned that he may be implicated in the crime.

And the reason he did this, that he cooperated, is he's basically he asked the cop if you could make this all go away for me.

Can you help me here?

So the cop said he couldn't make any promises, but I can talk to the prosecutor.

But he told them, if you want to make yourself liked by these people, to pound the pavement and do every goddamn thing you could to get me info on these two idiots over there.

So,

yeah, they said he's not an informant.

The cop replied in court that he's not necessarily to be an informant, but to help us gather intelligence

type of thing, which is an informant.

Anyway,

so yeah, they end up letting all of that stuff in.

He said that they also said that there was a joking reference that they talked about about the adjacent cells, and the cop made a comment about using every trick in the book, and Cook remarked that he was playing cop.

So there's also stuff like that, which you can't do that.

The agent Groemer also said that he did not direct anyone in the jail to place

Teigen and Cook in adjacent cells.

He said, that was just dumb luck.

And he said, I didn't tell him to elicit information from the defendant.

I just told him if he wants to get off on this, he'll get all the information he can.

Yeah.

But technically, I didn't tell him to get that information.

I didn't say it, just insinuated it.

Now, Cook said that no one asked him to solicit incriminating responses from the defendant, and he never considered himself to be an informant, even though he was exchanging information for

informing.

He said that after his arraignment, which was held along with Kindle's and Teigens, he felt the impact of the crime when he saw one of Klug's family members crying in court.

And then he then suggested his cooperation to his attorney.

That's what happened.

Now, Kindle's statements here,

some of the statements that were allowed in were Kindle just laughed and was real jovial about it and calling Klug a pussy and that he was weak.

That's another note.

I guess she said, I guess he said in a note that Kindle was really, thought Klug was weak and she was really hung up about her money.

She was cold, man.

Jesus Christ.

So they said that also,

they said that Teigen and Kindle started talking about going to a guy in Rapid City that they knew that it owed him money and that this kid owed him money and that's this kid, obviously.

Now, Tegan argues that none of this shit should be allowed in, these jail notes.

Okay.

He says, number one,

the statement, while made when the conspiracy was continuing, was not made to enlist someone to join the the conspiracy to advance the aims of the conspiracy to allay suspicion or as a narrative statement by one conspirator to another about what each had done which seems like it's exactly what that was exactly

i'll take number four on that one all day i don't know that's exactly what that was i don't know what they're trying to muddy with i don't know so july 2005 teigen goes to trial for kidnapping

because they don't know where troy is at all they don't it's no body no crime at this point so um kindle does not testify at his trial because she's still in the loony bin there.

Many of her statements previously determined by the court to be admissible were admitted.

And also the jail notes were admitted as well.

So Chopper testifies, testifies about the maggots, testifies about the car should have been cleaned five days ago.

all that kind of shit.

Says that he was home sleeping when Teigen and Kindle woke him up early Wednesday morning and offered to sell him meth.

You ever get woken up and someone's like, you want some meth?

No,

I want the opposite of that.

I'm sleeping.

This is the worst cold call ever.

Wow.

Hey, hey, dude, you want to buy some meth?

Holy shit.

That's my phone says scam likely.

Yeah, this is.

They broke in through your front window and are standing over your bed asking if you want to be, want some meth here.

So Cook testified about saying that you should give him water because he said at one point that he had checked on him during the day.

Teigen had checked on Clugging the Toolbox.

Toolbox, and Cook asked him why to give him water, and he said no, to beat on him.

That's what Tegan replied with.

He gave him some more.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they told about the feeling bones crush in his face and thinks that's what did him in and all that kind of shit.

So all this evidence is that Troy was dead, but they don't have evidence of a body and they don't have evidence to charge him for that.

So it's still kidnapping.

And the verdict comes in guilty of kidnapping, obviously.

I mean, come on.

The sentencing comes around and they're going to bang him extra hard on sentencing because they know he killed this fucking kid.

They just can't do it.

So they're going to give him that.

You, sir, may fuck off 100 years in prison.

With nobody.

Nobody.

100 years.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

Now, Kindle is going to plead guilty but mentally ill to kidnapping.

Okay.

That is a negotiated plea right there.

Yeah.

So during sentencing

here, Cynthia Kindle,

I guess, is there,

trying to do this.

They're trying to mitigate, and she talks at length about her history of mental problems, including being bipolar, having PTSD, and anxiety disorder.

She said, after her marriage ended in the mid-1990s, her life just fell apart.

Her parents lost track of her for years.

She moved to Washington and began using meth.

And after she was assaulted in 1999, she returned to South Dakota, where she saw various doctors for her mental illnesses and drug treatment.

So a lot of excuses.

Be nice to her is what they're saying.

Now, Troy's mom testifies, and she doesn't have the same fucking,

I have been tormented and grieved

beyond comprehension.

I will never excuse your so-called mental illness as part of this.

Yeah, she said that, you know,

you have children too, and you're being taken away from them, but it's not as traumatic as the way that my kid was taken from me.

She said, Kindle has shown little remorse.

She said, you think only of you.

She said, sure, you cooperated and everything, but my son's body still hasn't been found.

She said, I want my son's remains to lay beside his father in a proper burial.

She said, She finds it hard to forgive Kindle for not telling anyone when Tori Teigen bound her son and put him in the trunk of a car.

The prosecutor said that

this is a good line here,

characterized the crime as one where, quote, drugs, childlike childlike self-absorbance, and evil mixed together.

Oh, my.

Meth, narcissism, and pure evil is all that is.

Yeah.

So now they agree to a cap on her sentence, though, because of the mental illness and all that kind of shit.

Now, Kindle says,

she says, I'm remorseful for what's happened to my friend.

He was my friend.

I ask that I be forgiven.

and that I can learn from this mistake in my life.

I'm remorseful and I'm very sorry.

I pray you forgive me.

I understand how hard it is to lose your children.

I'm sorry.

And they say, You, ma'am, may fuck off 20 years in prison.

It's better than 100.

Yeah, that's better than 100, but not nearly as much.

The whole thing stems from

he owes me money.

She deserves way worse.

Her and Tori should have the same sentence because they're the ones who did this together and started.

Whoever did the details of whatever doesn't matter.

It's the same sentence.

So, wow.

Yeah, 20 years and $2,738.34 in restitution, $27,000 in attorney's fees and court costs, and recommended that Kindle receive counseling, medical management, medication management, and chemical dependency treatment while in prison.

She said that she, so yeah, and she, in return, said that she had already began following a 12-step program.

Oh, that's good.

She could be eligible for parole as early as 2014.

Jamie Kusick is also going to plead guilty to accessory to murder and perjury and is sentenced to, you sir, may fuck off.

He just wanted to go to work.

Remember this guy?

20 years in prison.

Okay.

I mean, yeah.

Under the plea agreement, he agreed to take a polygraph test and to testify truthfully if called upon in future trials or court proceedings.

He'll remain free on bond, pending a sentencing hearing, faces up to five years in prison on one thing, and then 10 years in prison on something else, and then a previous drug conviction increases the penalty.

That's why he got 20 years.

Jamie Curie in trial.

Okay.

Now,

Teigen

was subpoenaed to testify at this trial, but

took the fifth.

Really?

Yeah, he didn't testify.

He took the fifth.

Now,

for some reason, the time and date dispute on when they were where becomes a big deal in this trial.

I don't know why.

So they said the jury was required to resolve the factual dispute.

From Cook's testimony, the jury could have found that Klug was still alive Wednesday morning.

Even if Teigen and Kendall were at Cook's house sometime Tuesday morning, there's no dispute that Teigen went to Korean's house on Tuesday morning, and there's substantial evidence that Korean acquired knowledge on Tuesday that Klug was alive and being held against his will.

They let everything in.

The verdict comes in here.

She is found guilty of

accessory to murder now.

They found guilty.

Oh, not even after the fact.

No, they don't have a body, and they actually have a murder charge now.

They tried it.

Yeah, and also aiding and abetting kidnapping.

Okay.

She is sentenced to, you, ma'am, may fuck off life without parole.

Holy shit.

Yeah, that is how life without.

Life without.

Korean got life without, but Kendall only got 20 years.

I don't understand that.

What's going on?

Nobody, no crime, my ass.

That's a lot of crime.

That's a lot of crime.

Chopper Cook now, tell Cook.

He pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of misprison, which is failure to report of a felony, in exchange for prosecutors dropping the kidnapping charge.

He got the lightest of everything because he was the first to cooperate and help them.

That's the answer.

He testified for the state at Teigen's trial.

He was given, you, sir, may fuck off two years' probation.

What?

500 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine.

What?

Criminal speeding?

If he just had meth on him, he would have got more than that.

If he ran from the cops for anything, he gets worse than that.

That's crazy.

Wow.

So 2008, they're going to try Teigen for murder now.

They got him for kidnapping.

Now they're going to try him again for murder.

All right.

They have everybody is testifying, basically willing to testify against him now to make deals for themselves.

So he ends up pleading guilty.

And part of the guilty plea is to lead authorities to Troy's body as well.

They will not accept the plea without that.

So during sentencing here, Teigen's parents tried to defend him.

Fucking wow.

I wouldn't have, I'd be like, my son's a monster.

I don't know what happened.

It wasn't my fault.

He's a moron.

He's a moron and a monster.

He said, quote, Troy, this is the, I don't know if this is the mother or father, but Tori is an intelligent, hardworking man.

And the Teigans are a strong, close family.

He was brought up in a Christian home, taught to know kindness and caring to others.

But she said, as an adult, she said, Tori was different.

She said, we don't like the choices he's made recently, but I love him unconditionally, and I'll always be here for him.

Troy Klug's mom had a great speech here.

Yeah.

Because this is the guy who did everything.

So she gets to unload finally on this guy.

And she, this is Joyce Klug,

said, God, please forgive me for some of the things I'm going to be saying today.

That's how she started her.

Oh,

I'm about to roast my own son.

I'm about, no, no, no, no.

This is Teigen.

This talking about Tegan.

This is Tor, the dead guy's mom talking about the guy who's roast Teigen.

Roger Rose Teigen at a sentencing.

Yeah.

Okay.

She said,

she said that Teigen is a cold, calculating animal monster.

Yeah.

Those are two different things.

Great.

Both.

Klug refers to letters that Teigen wrote in which he described making fish food and executing his plan with grinding perfection.

She said, nobody can imagine what this has done to me as Troy's mother.

The grinding bothers me, she said.

She said that I know you've suffered medical problems and you've had counseling and all that kind of shit, but I can't bury my son beside my father, which is tragically devastating.

She said, I wonder if you know that you've got a twin brother running around and it's Satan.

Boom!

I thought she was roasting his family talking about your mom's whore.

When I first read this, I was like, oh, she's going into the family.

Nope, your brother is Satan.

She shouted.

Expose all your family secrets.

Brother's got horns.

So she then said Teagan deserved more than the maximum sentence of life in prison, but would be held to answer to a higher power.

She said, God forgive me.

Damn you, you cowardly monster.

I hope you fry in hell with your twin brother.

Satan.

Damn you.

My final statement is, tell us where Troy is.

Great answer, yeah.

Teigen says, I'd just like to say that I'm sorry to Joyce and Troy's family and my own family.

I don't know what else to say.

There's no excuse, though.

I'll be completely honest from here forward.

That's all.

Well, where is he?

They said, well, you, sir, may fuck off life without parole for you.

Tack that on your 100 years.

There you go.

Then in May 2009, 2009, at the Sheep Mountain Range in eastern Montana,

South Dakota state investigators along with Tori in the area here found what they believe were the skeletal remains of Troy.

This is four years later here.

They said, we're quite certain that Troy has been found.

It brings closure to a five-year investigation of this horrific crime.

They said that they've been over search teams had previously been over the general area, but didn't find him.

They said that Teigen was able to narrow the search, though, and the investigators eventually spotted a depression in the ground, and that turned out to be the grave.

They described the site as being in a remote, rugged, treacherous country.

They needed Tori to tell them where it was, or they wouldn't have found it.

They uncovered boxer shorts, a belt, shoes, and a wallet consistent with the descriptions of Klug's possessions and what he was last seen wearing.

They also found duct tape, barn lye, and alkaline cleaner on him

in the area.

The forensic lab at the site were able to identify him conclusively through DNA as well.

Troy's mom, Joyce, said that it was a long day and she knew that they were looking in Montana and they knew that they found her son.

And she said, we've been waiting five years for this and it's a real relief, but it still just doesn't seem real.

And she said she planned to hold a memorial service for her son soon as well.

Teigen did some appealing.

Really?

It's crazy.

Yeah, he did some appealing saying that his right to a speedy trial was violated because the trial didn't come until about a year after he was put in.

If he didn't fight for a speedy trial, though, then

you have to put in for a speedy trial, I think.

So

his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when law enforcement used Cook to elicit information from him in prison.

The court erred when it admitted a co-conspirator statements of Kindle.

Remember all those Kindle statements.

The court erred in finding that a conspiracy existed between Kindle, was found incompetent to stand trial, and one cannot have a conspiracy with someone that is incompetent, legally, I guess.

He was also denied the right to cross-examine Kindle.

They just allowed her out-of-court statements to come in, so there's no cross-examination.

And the court erred when it grossly imposed, when it imposed a grossly disproportionate sentence by considering facts that are not part of the kidnapping charge.

He said it's grossly disproportionate to the crime of kidnapping, the hundred years.

He's not doing the murder one.

He said, according to the defendant, the court expressed that the defendant likely killed Klug and destroyed the body, and that the court went beyond the scope permitted in sentencing for a kidnapping conviction.

But by the time he's doing this, the body has been found.

He is dead.

So it doesn't matter.

The judge was right.

He might have made a guess at the time, but now he's right.

He assumed, but hey,

give him a gold star.

He won.

Yeah, what the fuck, man?

They said that

a court is is permitted to consider uncharged conduct when acquainting itself with the character of the defendant for sentencing.

That's in the law.

So tough shit.

The decision said here that they said in your statement to the court, you told the court, yes, I should take responsibility.

You told the court you used methamphetamine.

Beyond that, you did not take responsibility for the crime.

Now the court considers as perhaps one of the reasons is the fact that further criminal charges for murder or manslaughter could be brought against you.

The court considers that this is a possible explanation.

Nevertheless, your decision not to accept responsibility, not to disclose the location of the body is a factor that

can and is considered,

can be and is considered by this court.

Your conduct thus far indicates to the court that your plan for rehabilitation is to persist in your denial, bully others while in prison, and keep secret the location of Troy's body, because this was before he put it out.

The jury found that you kidnapped Troy Klug.

The legislature imposed widespread discretion for trial courts and sentencing, and you can keep on fucking off, mister

2010.

The Korean appeal.

Jamie Korean, she appeals here, and her conviction is upheld.

And in 2017, there's a big fluff piece on Jamie Korean in the newspaper here saying that Jamie Korean is part of a, she joined a program, an against meth program.

There's a program that some guy started called FAM First, FAM First, Fathers Against Meth.

Oh.

Somehow they went to the women's prison and they ended up getting Korean in there and everything like that.

So Korean said, that's why I'm here.

I sold drugs.

I never thought it would affect how other people, I never thought how it would affect other people.

It's sad.

Lives have been lost.

I get to see my son.

Others involved with this don't have that choice anymore.

She says, nobody ever offered me treatment and I never asked for help.

Don't let the drugs take you down.

Don't let them.

Yeah.

Don't let them.

So there you go, everybody.

That

is bellefouche and a hell of a fucking horrible, heartless,

that's one of the worst murders we've ever heard because it's just, you let him basically die of thirst

in a box.

Like, that is torturous.

Torture.

You killed a man by not giving him nourishment.

That's all.

And beating him.

And who knows?

It's fucking horrifying, man.

These people make Sarah Boone look like a fucking saint.

Like, this is crazy.

This is fucking horrifying.

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