#547 - The Craigslist Killers - Caldwell, Ohio

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and cunning person lures multiple people to their deaths with a Craigslist post promising

a new job and life, but all that happens is brutal murder. Welcome to Small Town Murder.
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Let's go.

We're going to ohio oh i know how excited everyone's gonna get over that everyone gets jacked to go to ohio favorite destination we're going to caldwell ohio where is that southern ohio it's about an hour and a half to columbus and about two hours to pittsburgh so right in the middle we Pittsburgh to Columbus. We may have driven through this.
Yeah, I don't know if we go south like that because it's kind of dip. There's a dip down there.
Oh, gotcha. It's almost four hours to Delta, Ohio, which was our last Ohio episode, the scariest barn on earth.
And it was. Ohio, you bring the crazy pretty good.
I'll give you credit. Ohio, West Virginia, Florida, you guys are all in contention for craziest murders going here.
This is a noble county. Nothing noble about this story, I'll tell you that much.
Area code 740. A little bit of history.
We'll buzz through the town stuff because this murder is, there's a lot of stuff going on here. So Calwell was founded in 1857 was named for joseph and samuel caldwell who owned the original town site yeah easy that's an easy one here and the railroad reached the pennsylvania railroad reached caldwell in the 1870s and that made it a town basically yeah no no towns really happened till the railroad hit and then yeah because if you can't have commerce yeah there was no other we couldn couldn't put shit on a truck back then.
You can't sell anything. Yeah.
You had to have a train going on. So Noble County is the home to the first North American oil well.
Oh. If I said, where's the first North American oil well, you wouldn't say Ohio probably.
Florida, every time. Yes, we know.
Full of oil, Florida. Loaded.
That is an old reference from, shit, I think the first year of the show. Probably two weeks.
But it's great. So this was 1814 was the first time oil was struck in North America, which seems like it.
In Ohio. In Ohio.
Yeah, not Oklahoma, not Texas, not any of the western states. Yeah, I mean, none of that.
It's very strange here. And it was the center for oil production in the state.

Oh, wow.

This area. So 1925, a U.S.
Navy dirigible, the USS Shenandoah, which was a ZR1, I believe a plane because it was caught in a storm over Noble County.

So if it was a boat, it would probably not be over the county in Ohio, especially.

Unless the storm was over.

That would be a really big storm.

If it sent a boat over Ohio, that's a terrifying storm.

It's a big storm.

Holy shit, that's a lot.

It broke into several pieces, resulting in the deaths of 14 people.

Wow, a dirigible.

A dirigible, which I thought was some kind of Australian instrument.

I'm not sure how that works.

Reviews of this town here.

A few of them here.

None of them are too bad.

People seem to like it here. Four stars.
I love the fact that it's a close-knit town a lot of mom and pop places that's nice everyone's always so friendly from my experience the only issue is landlords have raised prices due to the oil and gas boom going on in the area oh and they've got more going on still going on there who knew i wouldn't have thought ohio i didn't know there was oil in oh i had no idea i know they're still producing it that's crazy um here's another four star everybody is friendly and helps each other out they sure do that's it that's the whole thing three stars it's a small town and it's very nice but it just feels too confining right yeah well that's you're not a small town person i'd rather be anonymous in a big city than famous in a small town what did you do say what have you done what's the story you're the guy or the gal you're the you're the guy or the it's a guy let's be honest you're the guy who like ran your car through the gas station window and then ran away naked into the night while screaming and yelling about aliens or some shit. And there was a fire and a squirrel ran out of there on fire.
That's probably right. And now they all talk about how you murdered that squirrel.
Yeah, squirrel murder and naked gas station wrecking sons of bitches. Wow.
Three stars. There's quite a few jobs, basically minimum wage jobs.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's about, that's not great. It's pretty much, I mean, small commerce towns, that's what it is.
Yeah, there's not a lot going on as far as six-figure deals. Very little CEO pay at the gas station.
Yeah, not a lot of six-figure salaries. You've got to own your own business.
That's how it works. You've got to own a plumbing company.
Run some bees. An HVAC company or something like that.
People in this town 2235 small town it's a very small town uh male female here uh 50 almost over 52 percent female so they have run the males out of town here which is uh it is oil fields will kill them that's a that's what's weird is there's oil and gas jobs usually that would be more of a male town we've from our, and there's more females. Median age 51.3, a little bit old, usually about 37.
From age 60 and up, all the demographics are high. Wow.
There is 0% 18 to 20 year olds. Is that right? Soon as they are able to leave legally, they're out of here.
Fuck out. Out of here quick.
46% married here, so it's kind of a family town. Race in this town, 98.8% white.
Wow. 0.2% black.
0.2% Native American. 0.2% Hispanic.
Sure. And 0.5% two or more races.
So not a lot of variety here. Let's see.
Religion, only 27% religious in this town. And they're spread out pretty good.
Catholic is the most, 10.5%, but that's not a lot, so it's very interesting. Unemployment rate here is higher than the national average, and median household income is lower than the national average.
Median household income here is 43,185. It is 69,000 in the rest of the country.
They're not doing well. No.
This town town they're not crushing it money-wise this is tough now cost of living being 100 is average in the united states here it's 79.5 listen to this stat people median home cost 115 500 that's very cheap that's the median home cost that's insane ones yeah that ones. Yeah.
That's in the middle. That's wild.
So if you're convinced that the only place for you to possibly be is Caldwell, Ohio, we have for you the Caldwell, Ohio real estate report. All right.
Average two-bedroom rental here, $790. About $500 less than the national average.
This place is inexpensive. Here's a four-bedroom, two-bath, 1,944 square feet, this house, which sounds good until you look at the house.
It is full of shit on the outside. It's like the scumbags on your street are selling their house.
Oh no. And they're leaving all their shit outside.
They're not taking anything with them. No, they're leaving the El Camino engine hanging from the tree.
God damn it. They don't give a shit these people.
It's a little rough. It says discover the potential of this charming two story home currently undergoing a remodel and ready for your personal touch.

In other words, it's half taken apart.

And you get to finish it. Yeah, and there's no floors in half the house and there are zero interior pictures of this house.

Good luck with that shit.

90,000 bucks though.

It's a big house for 90 grand.

You got your work cut out for me.

It's going to cost you.

Here's a four bedroom, two bath, 2,120 square feet.

It's a nice house. It's like a raised ranch.
It's a long house. It's got a metal roof on it.
Okay. Because it snows.
Very metal roof there. And it's on a little over a half acre.
I like in the living room, there's really nice big like old beams in there. Oh, yeah.
Really cool. It's not bad.
260 grand for that though. Exposed wood and a steel roof.
It's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad.

And then finally, this is on 3.5 acres.

There we go.

And this is crazy.

The ad has a house on it, but there's no house there.

What?

It's just an AI house.

Oh, they do.

But it shows pictures of this house from different angles, like there's a real house there.

It's bonkers.

I don't understand. It says, discover your dream home in this beautifully updated log cabin, but there's no log cabin.
You have to put it there yourself. You can get it put there, apparently.
The spacious property features four bedrooms and two and a half baths that don't exist. It's the strangest thing ever.
$495,000 for a non-existent. I don't know if that includes a house that they're eventually going to build.
I'm not sure. You want one? I'd want to know the house was there and see it before I'm going to plunk any money down.
Yeah. I don't want just land if I've got it.
No. That sounds gross.
That's a lot of work, man. Things to do here.
Yeah. The big musky bucket.
What is that? Okay, that is this. You can see here.
See that? I don't... Oh, is it a backhoe bucket? It's like a big...
It's a backhoe bucket. Yeah, it's a big bucket.
A giant one. Earth mover.
It's enormous. It's huge.
Now, the big musky, it's called, was once the world's largest earth-moving machine at one time. Now we just have the bucket? Now we just have the bucket.
Yeah, they got rid of the rest of it. What are you going to do with that shit? It's all'm sure now it's not considered big here's the bucket so imagine how big it was that's it it was the uh world's it was the largest drag line ever built and was one of the seven engineering wonders of the world it's a big deal between 69 and 91 1969 and 1991 by the way it moved 483 million tons of rocks and soil okay i don't know how this is a festival by the way i'm still i'm still trying to figure oh it's not a festival this is just go look at the thing to see you just go look at the bucket the bucket weighs 460 000 pounds empty empty 460 000 pounds empty imagine the machine that moves that like with ease enough dig with it.
Well, that's what I'm saying. It carries an additional 640,000 pounds when loaded.
So it's over a million pounds when it's all loaded. What the fuck? I've never heard of that before.
I don't know how much torque you'd need in an engine. That's crazy.
If that's not enough for you, though, you also see the wall of honor sure yeah that is listing the names of employees of the central ohio coal company which operated big musky now i'm jimmy i'm booking my plane ticket right now i gotta see this it's like the vietnam wall but of people that worked here but people who worked for the coal company. That's the strangest thing I've ever heard in my life.
It's real weird. The park's structural facilities are made from 50-year-old red oak trees planted by miners on reclaimed land from mining here.
Then there's the Johnny Appleseed Memorial. Is he from there? Apparently so.
I didn't know Johnny Appleseed was a real person. You didn't? No didn't i mean you said that like you were positive i don't think i guess it makes sense to not think somebody walking around with a pan on their head i thought it was real yeah i thought it was just like a but he certainly went and planted apples apple trees where all these apple trees come from oh johnny appleseed you know what i mean it's like the appleseed tooth fairy and whenever i hear the name all i think of is this old david cross joke where he talks about finding a condom and a used condom in the middle of the street in new york city and he's like one of two things happen here he's like either people just were just banging in the middle of the street and threw it on the ground or it's some urban johnny appleseed which made me crack up and that's what it makes me think of every time throwing a seed around throwing it the legendary johnny apple seed has roots in noble county his family owned a homestead a quarter mile south of dexter city although he never lived here he visited often so they have a festival they have a memorial for a guy who came by once in a while.
He didn't even, like, plant shit here. Never had a house? Nope.
Parley Chapman, his half-brother, and his family are buried nearby in a family cemetery on the hill above the monument. The memorial is made from small rocks donated from people along the route over which Johnny passed.
It reads, without hope of recompense, without a thought of pride, John Chapman planted apple seeds and preached and lived and died. Is that who? His name was John Chapman? Yeah.
His name wasn't Johnny Appleseed. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean. He really, he picked the right profession.
Yeah. You know what? I should just plant apples.
You know what? I'm just going to go do this. Johnny's father settled along Duck Creek near Dexter City with his second wife and their ten children.
Good Christ. Jesus.
He should be called Johnny Appleseed. Never mind.
He's the one seeding. Jesus.
He's seeding everything. Johnny helped his family get settled, and it's known that Johnny regularly visited his step-siblings who remained there.
His last known visit came in 1842. Golly.
That man lived almost 200 years ago and we all still know who he is and he didn't do shit. He didn't do shit.
He didn't do anything. I think he planted some trees and preached.
And put a pot on his head. But not here.
Right. Somewhere else.
Okay. Crime rate in this town.
Why? What a fascinating man. It's so strange.
I want to know more about it. Everything.
Maybe we'll do a bonus on Johnny Appelstein. His real life.
Crime rate in this town. What we're interested in here.
Property crime slightly above the national average, which there's 2,200 people here. How do you? That's crazy.
You know who's stealing from you. They got no money.
How many crackheads are there? You know the crackheads in a 2,200 person town. You know who's stealing.
But nobody's got any money. They're desperate.
No, but shit. You know who's stealing in that town, though.
You should. Bobby's a thief, and he's always stealing.
It's Bobby if something's missing. So I'm wearing my shirt.
Goddamn wearing my shoes on his feet. Violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, and, of course, assault.
The Mount Rushmore of crime is about half the national average. So's it's safe but they will steal your shit

they're desperate that said i know it's early in the show but let's talk about some murder let's do it because this is just it's a lot wow it's a it's a it's a load here uh this by the way uh there's a chunk of a lot of information here and there comes from a very good article on in gq called The Craigslist Killers by Devin Friedman.

And GQ.

And GQ.

They did a big whole thing on this. So very interesting here.
Now, let's talk about a young man first. Yeah.
Okay. Brogan Rafferty.
Sick name. Brogan Rafferty.
Yeah, that sounds like a rock star's real name. Yeah.
Goes by johnny appleseed but his real name's brogan rafferty or or or a west a western movie villain that's a bad that's it yeah or an irish immigrant one of the one of the three so he's 16 years old as we'll talk about back in 2011 because this is when this whole mess is going to take place He's a junior at stowe monroe falls high school not a particularly bright kid not a particularly dumb kid fill you buddy just pretty average guy yeah old brogan but one thing that's not about average about him is his size oh he's enormous brogan's a big brogan is 6 5 230 golly 16 years old and still growing big big young man here um he's pretty laid back he's a real like a lot of very big people he's laid back kind of gotta be that's well it's you'll break shit if you jump around too much when you're big as a kid you're taught to always say this about basketball players they say centers aren't aggressive i remember dwight Dwight Howard for years. They would bitch.
He's not aggressive. He's not aggressive.
This fucking Nurkic that the sons have is a fucking he's so dainty when you're huge. Yeah, they when you're a kid, they tell you to be nice and don't don't hurt.
Don't hurt him. And don't even in basketball.
No one will want to play with you. Otherwise, you're just going to swat everybody's shots's away so you're taught to be gentle and just a little bit less aggressive take it easy Lenny as a exactly you don't want to Lenny anybody and he's a he's Lenny without the stupidity here he's polite doesn't really like authority which makes sense when you hear about his background his family and his childhood his dad's a big biker guy in a biker gang and all that sort of thing so um he's kind of he gets upset about things kind of easily but other than that not you know he's he's a nice kid now he is gonna be hanging out with a guy who he shouldn't be hanging out with yeah he's 16 but his best buddy who he hangs out with every day is richard james beasley how old dicky bees is 52 yeah what is right you know this is a hang out with people your own age because this has been a mainstay in this show it's it happens all the time consistent this is a very if you know who dean coral is yeah this is the sex.
Really? Yeah. Because.
Well, what the hell else is that? Murder. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Remember that part? When he murdered a shitload of people, like 20 of them.
Yeah, but Dean wouldn't be like, if we're not going to fuck, let's just murder. You know what I mean? Yeah.
But still, Dean, what I'm saying is Dean was an older guy, not in his 50s. He was in his 30s.
But he's an older guy who recruits young people ahead of time to kind of almost indoctrinates them into the way he does things. And so they're okay with killing and okay with doing shit.
And that's kind of how this works. Wow.
The problem, too, is he didn't meet Beasley when he was 16. He met him when he was nine.

Beasley has been basically his mentor since he was nine.

Not a family member.

No.

By the way, he met him right when Beasley got out of prison, as we'll talk about.

How?

Well, he's a friend of the family.

Okay, there you go.

Because Brogan's family, they have some problems, as we'll talk about, mom and dad.

Invite folks in?

No, they're just, well, they're as bad as him. Not murderers, but they're, it's interesting.
We'll talk about mom and dad invite folks in no they're just well they're as bad as him not murderers but they're it's interesting we'll talk here now richard beasley rich as he goes by doesn't go by dick unfortunately um he's a convict a biker a professed man of god and of course known on the streets of akron as chaplain rich he He's been to prison. Full of shit is what he is.
He's a giant full of shit liar is all it is. Started taking Brogan to church when Brogan was nine years old.
Oh boy. So he's like, I'm going to take you there.
And apparently at that point he was already a big kid and all that. rich wanted to take him under his wing became his best friend what was called what he called his uncle dad yep which is insane um he's he was the one guiding young brogan through religion and also just teenage stuff brogan rather than go to his friends and talk about as a girl he would like or something he'd go to Rich and talk about it.
Wow. Which would be what? Rich would knock her over the head, drag her into an alley.
That sounds like, what the fuck are you going to this guy for? What's your taste like? Tell me. I'll find out and I'll let you know.
Brogan called him his counselor. That's what he always called him.
This is too deep already. Counselor, Uncle Daddy.
Yeah, it's a lot. Confidant, best friend.
That's a lot. Now, from the GQ article, this guy writes, Rich has always been a rumpled character, a corpulent man in denim and leather and boots with long white hair.
He wears in a balding grandmother's braid. Oh, my.
We all see the guy, right? Yeah. That's the guy.
Frightening. Yep.
He is really weird. He would love to minister to street people.
Basically, he likes going to people who have no other options. Yeah, death for people.
Children with bad families, street people who have no other options, like a cult leader. Right.
That's what he does. And that's kind of what he's trying to do here.
Finds broken people. Finds broken people and doesn't fix them.
No. Just kind of turns them into what he needs them to be for his uses.
Duct tapes them together. Well, only if it benefits his shit here.
So he used to say to the people on the street, I live among you by choice. I can leave if I want.
Oh. But I want to be here with you people.
I've got the means to be yeah which he didn't so he would he was a good very good um at talking to people he's got the gift of bullshit and gab like most con men do yeah um he's got a real what's called a by the gq a folksy sociability okay which is um you know bullshit artist the person i avoid who comes I avoid. Small talk champion of the world.
Yeah, that's the worst thing ever. They said that, you know, he knows how to make moonshine.
He talks all about the origin and the bylaws of the Hells Angels, as well as how right Jesus was when he said to give unto Caesar what was Caesar's. So, you know, he's eclectic, we'll say.
Now, talking about church here, Rich's mother, Carol, who's still alive in this scenario, she's big in the church. Okay, she's been going to church forever, all the time.
So he shows up once in a while. He'll bring Brogan in there and all that kind of thing.
There's a Bible study group that his mother Carol goes to. This is Rich's mother Carol.
And while Rich was in prison in the early 2000s, he would send letters to the Bible study group. How he's doing, you know, prison and all that shit.
Carol would read the letters out loud and then they would pray for him all of them here's a letter from my son yep prisoner 384286

that's the one he's gonna tell us what they're having for dinner tonight he's gonna tell us

about the red death tonight for dinner so he got in trouble when he was in his late 20s in texas

at first uh shitload of robberies yeah robbery guy he had a gun charge i'm told everybody he

I'm not sure. so he got in trouble when he was in his late 20s in texas at first uh shitload of robberies yeah robbery guy then a gun charge um told everybody wasn't that wasn't his fault though the gun charge 50s and 60s was right for gas station robbery oh yeah well shit this was that wasn't the 50s and 60s no the 80s oh yeah he would have been yeah this is like the 80s he came around a little bit late for that yeah but i mean in rural areas they still didn't use security cameras and shit because that's what stopped most of those, which is like the 80s.
He came around a little bit late. For that? Yeah.
But I mean, in rural areas, they still didn't use security cameras and shit, because that's what stopped most of those, which is cameras. Well, cameras and pay at the pump.
That too. Yeah.
And also, well, now nobody uses cash, so are we going to do rob them of their fucking Amex receipts? Like, that's not real. It's not going to do anything.
Not going to help you much. Yeah.
So he's very, in all these letters here, he spent a lot of time complaining. Yeah.
Talking about how everything's a misunderstanding, and now he's in prison because of it, and he complains about the bed in prison and the food. Yeah.
Never says anything about being remorseful. Mainly just makes excuses for all this type of shit.
And it's miserable in there. That's all it is.
Yeah. So, and also, too, I mean, so he's sending letters to his mom.
So now all these church people are waiting for him to get out so they can help him and minister to him and all that kind of thing. After he gets out, he seemed to be trying to be on the straight and narrow.
He was going to church, and he was being all really doing it. He'd become a chaplain.
he wasn't technically ordained but he said he was training which he wasn't yeah he's full of shit but he can read and that's what's doing it he's just full of shit yeah that's all so the group knew uh the bible group knew he was in a hat he started a halfway house in akron on yale street where he lived uh they thought there was some weird people there um including a couple sex offenders yeah people like that who he'd bring in uh but that was that's who

rich would get he'd get the addicted and the if you're gonna run a halfway house you can't you're

not looking for college graduates and and fucking people from good families i need people that you

look at her people down on their luck and shit like that seen some shit they've seen some shit

the you know it's basically thieves prostitutes drug, drug addicts. This is whoever you can find on the street and bring in, like a weird cult leader might.
And he would live there, too. And that's kind of how it went here.
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So the it's not a big like downtown Akron's not a big place. It's not.
No, but he could still find people who are, you know, in a shitty situation here. the way Rich tells it he ministered to them at the Hope Cafe

where people would gather for free coffee and for full-color Jesus brochures. They come for that.
He fed them. He had a food bank going on, and he would feed the people from that.
He brought bread to the drunks at the bars so they would have something to eat. Soak soak it up soak it up well it was for their families because they were drinking their paycheck drinking their dinner and taking the kids dinner too so they gave them bread so here's a loaf of wonder bread to take to the family here which is interesting so yeah people people thought he was a real nice guy he would conduct weekly bible studies at the halfway house for whoever went there and he'd take anybody you didn't have to be any kind of special person or anything like that i just walk in yep um so that's it uh one of the bible study people said we overlooked things like uh signals we overlooked signals they were there you think you think they were there yeah i think they were there i don't see those when when your focus is waking up for tomorrow no when a guy when a guy gets out of prison and immediately tries to surround himself with criminals yeah it's a you know what i mean you gotta wonder if he's up to something and the easiest to really bilk oh absolutely something there's yeah there isn't much to bilk off of them.
They don't have anything. But he can turn them to do his bidding, and that's what he wants.
Do whatever he needs to do, yeah. They don't really have much to give him, but they have shit to do for him.
That's it. Exactly.
Sweat equity. Yeah.
That's what he's looking for here. Hell yeah.
Now, the thing about Rich and Brogan, Rich is a family friend of Brogan's parents. So a friend of the parents.
They hang out in the same biker circles. We'll talk about his mom.
His mom's like a wild biker chick and his dad's... The laziest people if they're just pawning their child off on somebody else to watch him.
They think he's a... Mom is...
We'll talk about it, but mom is a crackhead and dad isn't around very much. He's just out doing biker shit, hanging out.
He'll go to the bar on Friday and not come home until Monday. That bar is open late.
Yeah. There's a lot of bar.
You got to leave at some point, right? Apparently not. Yeah, Monday.
Monday. Clear on out after football, I guess.
So Rich basically would start taking him to church when he was about nine. And, um, you know, first it was like, I'm going to show this kid something.
And then they just became buddies. Yeah.
They were just buddies. Cause most 40 something year old people like to hang out with 10 year olds.
That's normal. Um, rich would do his ministering in the ghetto.
Uh, but then he and Brogan went to services and chapel at this chapel, which is

like a big evangelical church

type of deal here.

Now, Rich says, I took him

to church because he needed it.

Well. It was the right thing to

do. His father would go to his biker's

clubhouse on Friday and wouldn't be home,

and his mother, well,

dot, dot, dot, but Brogan loved

church. I'll bet he did.
Yeah. That was was his punishment he wouldn't be allowed to go to church okay no it's just a matter of to me i think it's a nine-year-old with no stability in his life and it's just anything stable would work you could have taken this kid to fucking red robin he would have been thrilled if as long as you took him in a steady you know as long as he knew he could count on it leave him out there yeah i think that's kind of what it is he was just looking for somebody to pay attention to him and all that uh they were regulars at bible study and they would socialize and do all of that and get to know all the church people um everyone thought they were an odd pair obviously yeah right on site yeah the funny thing is the kid's way bigger than him even when he's like 11.
He's towering. He's a short little guy rich.
Really? He's a short stocky little cat. Yeah.
Like he looks like a biker. Short stocky little guy.
Yeah, sure. So he, yeah, they thought they were a weird pair.
Very strange. They tried to get Brogan in with kids his age.
The church people were like, oh, you should hang out with my son. He didn't like it.
He didn't want to hang out with kids. No, thanks.
He liked older people to hang out with, which is interesting. One of the church people said he was nine, but he looked 14.
He said Brogan was like a puppy. He was following Richard around.
He was a kid, but he looked like a bigger kid. You know, yeah.
He was in the sixth grade, but he looked like he was in the ninth grade. There you go.
So Richie said, well, he maintained what you might call the rough look,

is this church person, the down and outer look.

He was very disheveled, but he felt that that gave him an in

with the people he was ministering to.

He relayed it.

Yeah, well, when you show up at a crack house,

you don't want to look like a cop, I think.

Yeah, you don't need to look like you showered.

Nobody else did.

You show up with khakis and a polo shirt.

I really like that. When you show up at a crack house, you don't want to look like a cop, I think.
Yeah, you don't need to look like you showered. Nobody else did.
No, you show up with khakis and a polo shirt. Everyone's going to scatter when you come into the door.
Fuck. Detectives or social services or somebody that gets a paycheck to talk to us.
Somebody that's going to frown upon the behavior we are exhibiting right now. Oh, shit.
Now, the family, you can tell because you go, who the fuck would let their nine-year-old hang out with some ex-convict and just let him take him wherever he wants? Well, when you hear about this family, it's interesting. Brogan's dad, Mike, here, was the GQ reporter talks about when he first met Brogan's dad.
And he said, quote, he was in the garage listening to Deep Purple, smoke on the water, lifting weights on a quiet afternoon in his three-bedroom suburban ranch. How old is this man? In his 50s at the time.
He's in the garage weightlifting with smoke on the water playing. He couldn't be more of a stereotype is what they're saying about his dad as like a 50 year old guy.
He says his dad's only five, eight, which is crazy because he's huge, which is I'm not sure it's his dad at this point. Yeah.
I'm getting out here. They said that he's basically five foot inches, five foot eight inches tall, but he's almost a square is how he's described.
Shit. Five foot too yeah just a little chunky guy he's got a long ponytail like all the guys there hey they said a small expressionless mouth shiny dark eyes framed by the longest most beautiful dark eyelashes that give a poignancy to the latent violence he exudes that is quite to put that.
The only nice thing he's got is great eyelashes.

He's a scary guy with lovely eyelashes.

Just lovely lashes.

You just want to put mascara all over him, don't you?

Bugs Bunny and drag kind of eyelashes.

This guy is crushing.

Bugs Bunny trying to get Elmer Fudd to want to fuck him lashes.

Fuck me Elmer lashes lashes i believe they're called

right fmes you got some you got some fuck me elmers on hammer this rabbit god damn you've heard of a rabbit hole haven't you how'd you let you want to find one right now yeah try to find the bottom let's I see it.

So Mike's a machinist.

Uh-huh.

He works nights cutting precision doing precision cutting metal for aircraft landing gear wow when you hear the lifestyle this guy leads you will be terrified to fly if this guy's making the fucking landing gear because i'm scared right now precision cut i cut. I didn't know.
I thought those things were like melded aluminum parts.

You know what I mean?

I didn't know it was fucking cut.

Apparently things have to be cut to begin with.

He is also at the time back then the president of the North Coast Motorcycle Club, which

according to this article, they call a close affiliate of the Hells Angels.

The North Coast.

The North Coast as opposed. Up there on the coast.
Of Ohio. Yeah.
Very coastal. That's Cleveland, isn't it? I believe so.
Lake Erie. So, according to the cops here, the North Coast gentlemen are suspected of meth dealing.
Sure. And all that kind of thing.
Mike doesn't have any criminal record except for one small incident with a public urination charge. So he just had to piss real bad one time, which is very interesting.
So they said that the reporter describes him as a straight arrow who does not suffer fools gladly or without punching them in the face. You don't want to piss this guy off, it feels like he can go off on you at any time.
Mike said, maybe I wasn't the father I should have been. I wasn't real good at showing emotion, but I was a bit of a disciplinarian.
In other words, I'll punch you, but I won't hug you. And that's kind of what happened.
So that's the kind of guy he was here. They said he bought a small house, decent school district, taught his kid to box in the garage starting at five.
Doesn't drink on weeknights because he has to work the next morning. Come Friday night.
You won't see him until Monday. No, you won't.
He calls that. That's church time, which that's the meetings of the biker club.
Yeah. And they'd go to different bars and basically he was gone that was it the whole time yeah um he also beats the shit out of brogan a lot yeah and we're talking at a young age pre-10 years old he's beating the shit out of this kid apparently he lost his report card one time so rich or so mike the dad broke brogan's nose over it punched him in the face for losing a report card.
Pre-10 years old.

That's a lot extreme.

That's fucking crazy.

Interesting.

And the mother, Yvette,

that is Mike's wife and Brogan's mom,

said that he was a good provider,

but he was terrifying,

and especially to Brogan.

Brogan was scared shitless of him.

So a bad dad.

Not a great dad.

Terrible dad. But he sees it as, well, the bills are paid.
Yeah. So that's my job.
Pay the bills, terrify the family, go out on the weekends. In that order.
You'll only see me Monday through Friday afternoon. That's it.
Weekends are yours. Talk about working for the weekend, man.
You have custody there. So that's weird.
And that's why Brogan would take to Rich because Rich does not hit him. Rich doesn't do any of that shit.
Rich is trying to indoctrinate him. So he's trying to make him love him rather than Mike is like, you have to love me.
I'm your father. Here's a broken nose.
This is affection that Rich is giving him. Actual what is genuine emotion yeah it's called grooming that's what it is yeah so but he said that he did look broken did learn from his dad how to take care of himself in a fight yeah you know how to how to basically uh be self-sufficient sure how to uh keep a house clean and all that kind of shit how to take a punch how to take to take a punch because you're going to need that.
So he, but he really, Mike thought he was doing a good job raising the son, even though he beats the shit out of him and let some weird ex-convict basically mentor him from the age of nine on. He thought that was a good parenting job.
Well. Not good, Mike.
I got help, that's all. That's.

I called him the backup.

I can't tell you what happens on the weekends. I'm not even here.
He said, though, you know, he had at least it was a house. They didn't move around all the time or anything like that.
So that's helpful. Now, Yvette, though, is a mess.
Mom's a disaster. Apparently, Brogan told yvette jesus christ would tell her it would tell her you can go smoke crack go on a crack binge i don't care because he said no matter what she said she was going to do she was going to go on a crack binge anyway so he'd just tell her you don't have to go to the mcdonald's playland just go smoke honest yeah just fuck it um which is very

interesting and uh she was supposed to be watching him on the weekends but he said she would disappear sure and crack to do do all that um the the reporter describes yvette as a biker chick from the first time she got on the back of a motorcycle that's the way she described herself she said I was hot as shit I ain't gonna lie

that's mom

so glad you didn't lie to us, I bet. I ain't going to lie.
I was hot as shit. She said, hair down to my ass.
I was hot. That's not.
That's just, that's hot for her. That doesn't mean anything.
45 miles an hour, hair flying off the back of a motorcycle. That's hot.
She got it that's it so hair down to my ass okay that makes you hot apparently she arrived in northern ohio from the south and um she came up uh she's skinny yeah hair you know fucking long hair hot as shit yeah with a test the reporter said a taste denim and leather. A taste is a weird way to put it.
It makes it sound like you're eating denim. And leather.
She liked to party a lot, a real lot, and she's a little out there. She once rode a big dirt bike.
I'm going to read an exact quote from the article. Quote, she once rode a big old dirt bike that belonged to a Mexican.
Whatever that means. Okay.
All the way back from Daytona Beach while the bike's owner leaned back and slept against the luggage rack. And, quote, she said she, quote, ain't never rode a dirt bike before.
On the street? On the street. She's rode from Florida, Ohio on a dirt bike, which is like the white trash Oregon Trail is what that is.
Florida, Ohio on a dirt bike. While a Mexican sleeps on the back.
Yes. For whatever reason.
With a sleeping Mexican on the back. That right there is the white trash Oregon Trail.
I don't think I've ever seen a dirt bike with a luggage rack. That'sical well sitting up the kind of like a sissy bar like the sissy bar on a dirt bike or i have seen a dirt bike with like a rack thing on it for equipment and shit maybe he was laying down on it if he's got if he's got like shit on the back stacked up like a sleeping bag easy rider type shit yeah shit to sleep on the side of the road that shit he's just leaned against that that's bungee corded to the fender i'm peter fonda no you're not pedro yeah i'm pedro fonda jesus christ holy fuck so that's what's going on here that's what she's doing she's a gal i want to talk all about her well there's more don't worry great i ain't never never rode a dirt bike before she she meets mike uh-huh as well you know they didn't meet like at school or you know at work or anything meet at school or at work or anything.

Well, at her work.

Yeah.

Because she was a stripper.

She was working at a bikini bar.

Oh, yeah.

When she meets Mike.

Which is the equivalent of stripping.

A biker bar where they serve the drinks and bikinis, essentially.

So this is right around the time she became a huge coke and crack addict.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

She says she was sober while she was pregnant, if you believe that. If not, crack is like fertilizer.
Makes your kids huge. Do you want big kids? You want your kids in professional sports? Smoke crack while you're pregnant, apparently.
She said, but the problem is when Brogan was only two days old, still, you know, Still fresh. Just out of the hospital.
Still soft. She disappeared to a crack house.
Where did she leave it? I don't know. Placenta still dangling.
She just fucking took off. Wow.
Went to a crack house here. Itchy stitches and all.
All the whole shit. Wow.
So I guess Mike took Brogan away after that and they separated. Uh-huh.
So that's kind of how it goes here. So it was not breastfed is what you're saying.
No. And then she just kind of fell off into addiction.
And then her job is to watch him on the weekends, which she wouldn't. She'd just go smoke crack and he'd go, that's okay.
Go smoke crack. And he'd sit at home and watch cartoons basically.
So this poor kid, he had no choice, no chance. Yeah.
She's called in this this article the type of hippie biker chick who'd want to sleep with all her babies in a big family bed, but also bungee them to a chopper for a ride to get formula. Oh, boy.
You know, someone who maybe shouldn't be a parent. Right.
Basically doesn't really understand that the kids needs have to come at least equal to yours when you're a parent. So, not great.
She is fun, yeah. But the article goes on to say, But in reality, she's now a 49-year-old woman who has to remove her new dentures before she eats a TGI Friday steak with Jack Daniels sauce.
A 40 what? Nine. With dentures.
Full set. Oh, boy.
Yeah. Wow.
They said, who after two beers starts shivering and loses the gift of coherent speech for long stretches and tries to eat a wet nap off her plate. What? She's a fucking mess.
What is that? Two beers? Because that sounds like she took pills. Uh-huh.
that you shouldn't mix with alcohol. There it is.

And then she's trying to eat a wet nap.

Accidentally eating it probably.

That's on the plate.

Picked it up.

Oh, my God.

So she's a mess.

Sits there chewing it like lettuce until I reach into her toothless mouth before she can swallow it.

This guy got scared she was going to swallow a wet nap.

You can't eat that.

It's like, give me that.

And pulled it.

You're on your own. I'm just going to stare like that like you're a fucking science experiment at that point if you're eating a wet nap i'm going to see if it full how it plays

out this is this gq author is a genius for sticking with this i'm telling you he really

went through a lot of shit here um so basically all brogan ever remembers is that her as an addict

He doesn't ever remember like a good mom here.

And also when she was 10,

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he doesn't ever remember like a good mom here.

And also when she was 10,

when he was 10,

he found evidence on the internet.

I don't know where he'd find this evidence on the internet,

maybe in a police record or something that she also was a prostitute for a

while.

I'm sure she was.

So he's not real thrilled about his family.

No,

which this is not.

This is the same thing with like, what is it? The Henley kid with Dean Corral and other that like Henley had a stable household, though. A couple of some of the people that that Dean Corral pulled in some of these kids to help him out had like places to go.
Parents that cared about him. Shit like that.
Whereas this guy, Brogan's looking for any stable adult who seems like if they say they're going to be there at three to pick you up, they're there at three to pick you up. I think that's all he's looking for at this point.
So if you're a parent like that, you're just kind of leaving that open to the world for anybody who's more stable than you, your kid is going to pay attention to. So Brogan says about Rich rich quote rich was the one person i could go to he was the only one i could tell anything i thought he was a great guy he was like the father i never had yeah great guy paid attention to him uh this great guy is also a fucking arch criminal let's talk about this yeah he's been in prison he's a biker he's running meth he's he's

part of the hell's angels or just knows it all he's just in the yeah he's just kind of in the periphery of everybody knows him okay um the rich basically will do anything to make a quick illegal buck sure make moonshine grow weed he fucking had a fake raffle at one point that's what I mean

anything

we'll find out

it's also running a halfway house

in the middle He fucking had a fake raffle at one point. That's what I mean.
Anything. What's he raffling?

We'll find out.

It's also running a halfway house in the middle of the shittiest neighborhood in Akron as well.

So it's interesting.

Mike Brogan's dad said about Rich that he'd rather make a crooked nickel than an honest dollar.

And Rich agrees with that.

Rather.

Rather. He'd rather have a crooked nickel than an honest dollar it's no fun it's not exciting yeah there's no taxes and that's the other thing rich needs he seems to be kind of an adrenaline junkie kind of a guy it's no fun to make money at a job even if you made a ton of money more than he could want that's no fun so boring it's the excitement of this of maybe ending up in prison that you need so that's kind of how how he was here so uh it's the kind of thing basically that you could say you could tell rich you'd rather do that and he'd laugh about it he'd go yeah probably and uh mike says that rich once asked him if he'd like to rob a bank with him.
Would you like? Let me drop the kid off.

Hey, by the way, I'm going to go, you want to rob a bank with me?

You want to run with me on over to him?

Mike said, no, that's okay.

But that's the type of shit that Rich comes up with.

Hey, I got this idea, and he'll just go to people.

You want to do this?

Here's what we do.

We get a couple of guns.

We're going to go to the bank.

And head on into B of A.

Fuck it.

He's also a huge con man as well, obviously.

One woman who knows him through a family member called him the ultimate con artist. Ultimate.
And he kind of is. This is Crystal Quarterman, who said her mother-in-law married Beasley after she became pen pals with him while he was in prison in Texas.
So a love after lockup situation. She said her mother-in-law never fully understood why he was in jail because he would never be honest about it.
She said he never gave us a straight reason why. When he was paroled in Texas, he told the family that his arrest was because of a firearms arrest.
And then later on, he switched it to breaking and entering. And then someone asked him and then he said it was drugs maybe all three yeah this woman said the whole thing is just bizarre she said she first got to know beasley in october 2008 and it wasn't long after when beasley tried to get her mother-in-law involved in a scam he tried one thing i'll give him he's very inclusive yeah if you're around him he doesn't have private scams go along to get along you want in yeah you want in.
I'll give him. He's very inclusive.
Yeah. If you're around him, he doesn't have private scams.
Go along to get along. You want in? Yeah.
You want in? I'm not greedy. You're welcome.
Yeah. He tried rigging a raffle for a nice watch.
He's going to rig a raffle rigger. Not.
What the fuck? For a nice watch. So there was never a watch.
There was no. He never intended to give any kind of watch.
Yeah. They said so he could do it over and over again and keep the money.
Awesome. He's going to have one watch.
Yeah. That's going to be the centerpiece prize to dangle.
And then he's going to keep doing that. This woman said he was talking to my mother-in-law about this, but she didn't want anything to do with it.
Right. She said that Beasley then tried to run a scam from our from obituary columns okay what do you do contacting relatives of the deceased to try to collect money for embossed bibles that he claimed had been bought earlier by the this person ordered this bible it's ready will you pay for it now what the hell that's what he's trying to do scamming recently deceased people's families out of 10 bucks and and and uh it was a work that goes into that for 10 bucks or how much can it be i mean i saw a report that they're they're literally eight dollars that's i mean what are we talking about here so this woman who's mother-in-law married him said quote he was just an awful person he's the ultimate con artist her mother-in-law married him said, quote, he was just an awful person.
He's the ultimate con artist. Her mother-in-law was trying to get away from him and was afraid of him kind of after finding some stuff out about him.
This woman said when he got out, she soon realized what he said in all the letters just wasn't true. That nothing's my fault.

I'm really an upstanding guy.

I'm all about the church and God. I'm a victim of the system, yeah.

Yeah.

Now, here is Lois Hood.

She is, okay, a sister.

That mother-in-law, she's her sister.

So an aunt-in-law.

This would be this guy, this lady's aunt-in-law, exactly.

Lois Hood.

She said her and her husband were friends with Beasley

and that they often attended club meetings of the brothers motorcycle gang together uh her and her husband headed the club as uh her husband headed the club as a past president about a year after beasley got out of prison in texas her then that sister divorced him so a love after lockup that didn't work at all right fell apart i really wish love after lockup would have followed that around that's awesome well he's trying to put together watch raffle scams so anyway rich and brogan how the fuck did they end up together how do you do it well rich knew mike from the world of bikers in akron and knew yvette because he hangs around drug houses and crack houses and where people are prostitutes are playing their trades. So that's how he would meet her.
And then that's how he met Brogan was through them. And I guess strangers would think that Brogan was a mute because he was a big kid and he didn't talk much.
So they're thinking he must be like a big mute. There something wrong with him they're like knocking on his forehead you in there how about that in there dummy yeah so it's real weird he's not he's not a mutant he's not dumb he's just quiet he's just quiet and huge would ever mistake me for that so yeah it's real weird Now, they're saying that basically this reporter is like, I'm not sure what the con was exactly.
How did he get him in? Because he doesn't really use Brogan for any criminal activity until he's older, until he's in his teens. So that's a real long con to be like, I'm going to hang out with this kid every day.
So he'll do my bidding in five years is a real weird way to do this. Or did he like measure his feet and hands and was like, he's going to be big.
Well, he was big. He was bigger than him.
He could tell he was going to be big. But they said that Rich seemed to genuinely enjoy hanging out with Brogan and they'd go around Akron.
They would visiting historic graveyards. He reminded all 10 year olds want to do or he wanted to be that way was that's got to

be.

It's got to be something.

It's but to me, there's got to me.

It seems like I'm going to put this in my pocket for later.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like if you picked up a penny and we're like, I might need this on heads.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, that's what it feels like.

And, you know, he said that basically, you know, his dad's a hard ass and this guy's not. So maybe that's what it is.
Yvette describes Brogan's feelings this way. This is mom.
Brogan was ashamed of me, but he loved me. Yeah.
You're his mom. And he also doesn't want his mom to be a crackhead that doesn't fucking pay attention to him he's forced to do both of those things yep that's it and uh they said that rich she thinks that rich knew that brogan's skill set might be uh like he might know how to activate a skill set in brogan that could help him later on apparently now summer of 2011 yeah this is when this this is brogan 16 and this is where we're going to catch up with everybody now.
So Rich sits Brogan down to have a chit chat with him. Here we go.
He goes, listen, there's going to be a warrant out for my arrest. Okay? This is coming.
Now, he says, if they catch me, they're going to put me away for a long time for a crime I didn't commit. It's a bad one.
I didn't do it. They're going to put me away for a long time, though.
This is a whole scam with the halfway house where he was pimping and all. He was pimping these women out of the halfway house.
And he's a terrible man. He made a brothel at a halfway house.
Yep. And he even had like a crack regimen for these women.
Really? It was fucking crazy. The guy's a monster.
He's a fucking monster. Like swallow the pill.
Like that shit? Yeah. Like every morning.
No, because they were crack no yeah like every morning no because they were crackheads so he had like a no no he had like a to wean them off for the week and then they'd have like a week thing where they'd have three crack rocks one day and two crack rocks the next day two crack rocks for two days and then you know one crack rock after that to wean them okay so um he said listen i i gotta i gotta go on the run here because they're gonna put me away for something i didn't do this is ridiculous so brogan was like what the fuck i can't lose my mentor this is crazy you know and um you know and they said you know he said these goddamn cops and brogan was like yeah i know these goddamn cops they fuck with my mother all the time meanwhile's a crackhead and a prostitute. So she probably needs that probably something.
So Brogan said when he had told me this story about how they were going to put him in jail over some stuff he didn't do. I was angry.
I was angry and it didn't seem right. Live it.
Lit up. Bullshit.
Yeah. So he's like, you want to help me, right? Of course.
Richard's saying. And Brogan's like, of course.
So there's a warrant that had been out for his arrest, which was for running a prostitution ring of 20 women. Golly.
Not two women. Not a woman.
A whole stable. That is like four stables.
That's so busy. So many.
Dude, like, I've read Iceberg Slim's book. And like, the best pimp in the city back then had like seven women you can't that was 20 20 and a guy too you never know running that's it sometimes people got a taste and he did this out of his halfway house which there's so many things wrong with that yeah it's not even fucking funny here um a prostitution ring staffed by the women who he ministered to very nice great so the women who you know basically he'd stand up for the women in court and say well i'm a counselor and i have this halfway house and i'll take care i'll look after them so basically these judges would let people would let these women they would feed his whole system yes rather than a halfway house.
Which, in a good system, like I knew a lady who ran a halfway house.

She was actually also a biker lady and all this shit.

But she was really nice and helped these people.

She, to her own detriment, would give these people the blood from her veins.

She would talk about it all the time.

Like, oh, I have to go here to pick up food for these people to get them because there's a donation thing. And she would do all the shit on her own for free.
So very impressive. But this guy, not so much.
He's just going to judges going, I'll take care of them. And then he's giving them crack and telling them which dicks to suck.
Right. And then taking the money for it.
Yeah. He'd visit the women in jail, talk to them on the phones from jail and, you he likes all this type of thing, and I'm going to take care of you and all that.
And by most accounts, his favorite of these women was a, not even a woman, a 17-year-old. His bottom one.
When he was in his 50s. Right.
Named Savannah, who died of an overdose. Oh, my God.
On on his watch in his place here.

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17. Illegal.
50. Yeah.
I'm going to fuck you and give you crack when you're a teenager and then also have you fuck other people. Wow.
Here is from GQ about Rich.

And this is I'll read this verbatim here. I tell Rich that I interviewed one of these women, Amy Soller.
She told me, I say, that you did try to get her off drugs in a way. She said you had devised your own detox system.
There's a lot of different ways that they do this, but I don't think this is the the way three rocks one day, then two for each of the next couple days, then down to one crack rock. But it never worked.
So you just buy her the rocks and let her smoke them at your place. He says she thought your biggest fear was that she would leave when you wanted her when you wanted her near you.
Sure. You wanted to trick her sometimes, but she seemed to feel she had you in her back pocket.
She knew she could steal from you, and you might yell and scream, but you weren't going to get violent. This is him telling Rich this, that this is what I've found from this woman.
This is what I've heard. She said you put her up as an escort on Backpage and took a commission on the money she made.

You know, like a pimp. Right.
It was strange that Amy, whom you pimped out, who has in the intervening months gotten sober and is now working at Red Lobster. Yeah.
Which is a pretty parallel move, honestly. That's a very lateral.
Yeah. Yeah.
and now has earned the right to visit her kid,

talks as if she isn't totally sure who was using whom when i ask you when i ask you about all the above your only answer is quote amy soller i'm sorry i don't know who that is he denies i don't even know who that is this woman knows lived with this man knows her his whole regiment and everything and he just goes I don't know who that is. This woman knows, lived with this man, knows his whole regiment and everything.
And he just goes, I don't know who that is. Don't know her.
Yep. And about the notion of those physical longings and the like, quote, I haven't been.
This is Rich. I haven't been able to have sex since I had my car accident, Rich tells me.
When was that? He's referring to an accident he had about eight years ago. He said, quote, I had a steel coffee cup in in my lap when it happened he smiles mischievously here and slits his eyes like a cat you can't use what you don't have what he's saying a steel coffee took his cock off castrated him in a car accident no cock oh he's he pisses right out of his fucking he pisses out of his abdomen just that's what he's saying.
Wow. This guy's just a liar and a scammer.
And thinking about it, he gets a little more grandiose. Quote, I think it was a blessing from God that I wasn't able to have sex.
Yes, that's what it is. If I could, it might have complicated the relationship I had with all those women.
Yeah, I might have been fucking them rather than having them make money for me by sucking dicks. Wow.
Instead, perhaps, yeah, that's a pretty good excuse considering the real answer is probably 50-something men with a really terrible lifestyle. Dick doesn't work.
Dick doesn't work. Or he's more interested in crime than sex.
That's Potter to him. Which is worse.
That's scary. That's what I mean.
Oh, my my god he says well i might have been tempted but i but as it was this is the best line i was able to remain pure pure he remained pure evil yeah so august of 2011 here it comes okay he puts an ad up on craigs This is crazy. Quote, we need someone to watch our farm down in Southern Ohio.
Live for free in a double wide trailer. Nothing in the way of duties except to take the in the peacefulness of the countryside and remark on the changing of the seasons and make sure no one steals any farm equipment or perpetrates any mischief.
Basically, night watchman for a season. Sit here.
Sit here. The pay is $300 a week.
Okay. And with a place to live and everything.
So this is, from this ad, there's a snapshot in your mind of the picture of the person you're looking for. And it is a dude who has no family.
Right, and a very thin flannel shirt. Thin flannel shirt that he wears in January in Ohio.
Yeah. And he's not cold somehow.
But that's the guy, though. Yeah.
A guy who's not, you know, you're not looking for a guy with a wife and three kids here. That's not going to work for us.
A guy that loves black coffee and cigarettes. That's it.
And lives in his car, probably, at this point. So there really is a plot of land in Caldwell, just like Rich promised in the Craigslist ad.

Problem is it technically belongs to a coal mining company.

It's not even his.

Not even his.

They said it's in a beautiful corner of Ohio's Appalachia

and all that kind of thing.

There's a lot of nature and shit like that,

but it's a little interesting.

Now, November 13, 2011.

Brogan, 16, wakes up early to help Rich run an errand. And his errands have been going on for a while.
We'll backtrack later. So Brogan has to pick up Rich at about 6 a.m., but he likes to get up early and drink his coffee.
Brogan or Rich? Brogan. Yeah.
He's 16, but he loves to get up at 5 a.m. and drink like he's 68 years old which is funny because you're 68 years old yeah you're the oldest 43 year old i sit on a sofa in the backyard with my feet up freezing just drinking coffee i love it i'm barely in bed by then which is hilarious so anyway that point.
Now, the plan is to pick a man up today named Timothy Kern, K-E-R-N. Where are we picking him up? He's 47 years old.
He's going to be waiting for them in a strip mall parking lot with all of his earthly possessions. Tim answered the ad on Craigslist.
Standing there in front of the CVS. That's it.
Well, it's even worse, actually. When you find out where they were, we'll get to all that.
So he's almost 50, as we said, 47. Recently unemployed.
He's been working nights cleaning Speedway parking lots with those big street sweepers. Speedway, the fucking gas station.
Oh, my God. With the big Zamboni street sweeper.
And it's not his company. He worked for somebody else.
Absolutely. And I know a guy who used to do that and his life was not going well at that moment.
It's tough. It's a tough life.
It's a tough day. And you're doing that at 2 AM.
Yeah. Yeah.
And one time, I don't know why he told me this, but he was like, Oh man, I was sitting in my, in the, in the thing, the street sweeper. He goes, and I saw this chick coming.
She was leaf blowing. And I saw long blonde hair.
I was like, man, she's hot. And then he got a little close.
And she got a little closer. And I went, oh, that's an ugly man.
So that's who's sweeping. He was hoping for a love connection amidst different employment of concrete cleaning.
Maybe all us parking lot night workers can get together. Turns out he had like a scraggly goatee and everything, and he just didn't have good eyesight.
So the Speedway parking lot cleaners downsized, and he got laid off. Ouch.
So, I mean, you're getting squeezed out of that. he basically has a history of being a bit of a loafer bit of a stoner back in the day kind of a burnout likes classic rock and that sort of shit i see him already you know the guy he's divorced has three boys yep the cab of that fucking street sweeper was so loud it was loud yeah deep purple just like that's the soundtrack here definitely smoke on the water is the whole theme of this show holy fucking unbelievable now his ex-wife tina is at the time was a cocktail waitress at the winking lizard tavern which that's that's a penis, right? That's what they're saying? Yeah.
Okay, that's what I thought. Winking lizard? The Winking Lizard.
That's a penis. I don't know what else that is.
That's a mid-shot penis. Unless you're in the Southwest, that's penis.
Unless there's like a gecko theme, I don't know. That's a penis.
That is in-between ropes penis. That's's what that is now this lady said she still loves tim but couldn't stand being married to him yeah no she said it was like having another kid he's a mess he's not responsible she said in the in the most recent photographs basically um they said you know he still looks a little bit boyish but he needs to get his shit together so brogan pulls up in front of rich's house and um you know, he still looks a little bit boyish, but he needs to get his shit together.

So Brogan pulls up in front of Rich's house, and, you know, Brogan's driving his Buick. He parks there.
Rich comes out across the front lawn and sits in the front seat, and they're going to pull off. They do this all the time.
This is his ride. Yeah.
So now the day before, Brogan was tasked with going out behind the Rolling Acres Mall, which is an abandoned mall at the time, except for a J.C. Penney's that's in the process of closing.
God damn. So it's a very depressing suburban mall here.
And there is a bunch of woods out back behind there. No one's going to this mall.
So this is a a good place basically uh rich had tasked brogan with going out there the day before and digging a hole big enough for an adult male body right go ahead and get that done go dig but yeah so uh rich doesn't really like to do stuff like that he's not a digger but he watched gave know what I mean? So, basically, Brogan trying not to think about what's going on this morning. We'll go back in time, back to August of 2011.
That's November. Tim Kern, they're going to pick Tim Kern up.
There's a hole dug. Oh, boy.
Okay, so that's in the mind. Now, back in time to August.
This is when Rich discovered there was a warrant out for his arrest a product of a 20-month investigation of the halfway house he's going to prison yeah he's in trouble that's a lot of money spent on that investigation almost two years they aren't fucking around no you're going to prison for that shit so um he says if he were arrested he could spend the rest of his life in prison out of this because he, you know, he's a 52 year old guy who doesn't live well. So, you know, they said that, um, that's when rich started to target guys like Tim with that Craigslist ad, which is Tim's the exact guy that you're going to draw with that.
Sure. Uh, first, because he needed a new identity.
What? He wanted to steal one of their identities. That was the whole point.
And then he started going, well, if I have an identity, that's cool.

I could just start getting guys to come out here and start stealing their shit.

All of them.

And selling it, and I could just make money that way.

So if I just keep getting people in and getting rid of them and taking all their shit, I can just make a living off of that.

That's a sustainable future.

If I get caught up in something, they're looking for Tim Kern tim kern i got another identity that's it more more identities yeah so and like i said rich rich's ad was designed to get this person yeah to get uh you know a kind of older guy yeah off the grid guy unattached yeah it doesn't really have a lot of moorings to the world into like the mainstream world that sort of thing um not doesn't have any ambition not trying to be the ceo of a corporation someone who said if you you sit here in this trailer i'll give you 300 bucks a week to not do anything they go sounds good to me fucking great deal yeah if that sounds good to you yeah you should reevaluate your life probably because it's not great that's not a good way to be living you got to have a little more ambition than that even though i'm lazy too when i want to be so 1200 a month in room and board is i'm i'm above that ambition that's the thing i well especially when the room and board is a double wide in a coal mining field i don't want to sit there by myself i've got more ambition than yeah you gotta be a hermit for that shit like that's some weird shit man so that's what they're looking for basically someone whose life has gone downhill you gotta be careful with that guy too though because you'll get oh you could be a dangerous motherfucker you never know you're gonna get criminals you're gonna get you could get the unabomber well that's why he he's well this guy one thing he's rich is very good at is figuring out exactly who people are and sizing them up because he's a con man yeah con men can tell like that who you are and what you're capable of and he's really good at that and a prison helps and all those things help to be able to kind of have that sixth sense for crazy people here so rich had been interviewing subjects he carefully selects he gets hundreds of replies for this ad yeah tons of people want this job jesus so he uh i guess he's been showing up at the food court at the of the chapel hill mall with an official looking application form okay yeah they're gonna everything it's got an app they said that he affects the air of an affable blue collar type landowner who just wants to find someone friendly to camp out on his spread while he's up in Akron conducting his business. He's got a job application.
He's got a whole deal. He gave you a resume.
He's taking paperwork and shit. Rich had certain things that he'd want to know from these people.
Quote, do you have a wife or kids or people you need to keep in close touch with? looking for you he tells him the farm doesn't have cell coverage so you won't be able to get to keep in touch with anybody he says are you a fellow who can live in peaceful isolation oh boy yeah you guy that no one's going to look for if you're missing essentially and what type of vehicle do you have what would you be bringing down with you when you came any computers or things like that he's basically giving an what's your inventory of what your shit is otherwise why the fuck would you need to know that and he says bring it all with you and my nephew and i'll drive you down to caldwell okay so everything you got you can totally bring with you all right yeah now the farm quote unquote here um i guess what you call it uh you you drive up onto Rado Ridge past a couple of desolate houses and turn on to Don Warner Road and then drive till you find, quote, the farm spot. The middle of fucking nowhere is what it is.
So August 9th, 2011, Ralph Geiger shows up. He's 56 years old.
He's from Akron. This guy had kind of a sad story, too.
He's currently homeless at the time, but he was the owner of a very successful construction company, and it all fell apart. Oh, my heart.
Yeah, and in 2007 and 2008, if you owned a construction company and you... It was pretty well over.
Well, if you overextended yourself... Yeah, if you owed too many people too much money, you're fucked.
If you got too giddy about the housing boom and didn't hedge your bets, you're fucked at that point. So he, anyway.
Homeless. Homeless.
Lost everything. Yes.
It's fucking crazy. On August 3rd, 2011, well, we'll get into that.
But anyway, this Ralph Geiger here, he ends up, you know, they talk to him. They talked to him for a while.
They got all his information ahead of time. And then August 9th is when they picked him up.
Okay. Basically, what they did is they took him out into the woods.
This is by the mall again. Took him out there, and this becomes a thing.

What Rich does is, too, he'll walk ahead.

So the guy, nobody feels uncomfortable.

You don't have a stranger behind you.

So he'll walk ahead, make everybody feel comfortable,

and do all that.

And then out of nowhere, he'll say something.

See, there's that over there, that ridge,

after the guy's comfortable walking behind him.

The guy will look, and then he'll turn and just shoot him in the back of the head as quick as he can and then pump as many into him as he needs to to kill him they strip these guys naked dump them in a fucking hole put just enough earth on them take all their shit to cover up take all their shit sell it if they have a car they literally break it down for parts and like a chop shop they melt shit they melt metal down what the fuck to sell these people shit diabolical diabolical now ralph geiger he's the first the main thing that he wants from ralph is his name yeah he needs ralph's name yeah because he's got to hide from this fucking hemp and shit he's a clean name so yeah he killed ralph he removed all his clothes covered him with lime and replaced the

ground cover so you wouldn't notice it basically so um now Ralph was the name after that on Rich's driver's license after that all of a sudden Rich has a Ralph Geiger driver's license with his picture on it that he got officially also that is the uh all of his prescriptions are now for Ralph Geiger.

So he's just using that as his name after that.

On August 31st, 2011, Ralph Geiger, quote unquote, submitted an employment application to Tech Center, Inc., listing a home address on Kramer Avenue and Joyce Grabowski as an emergency contact. Joyce is a woman he stayed with for a couple of months earlier in the year that Rich stayed with.
The next day, Geiger, quote-unquote, submitted an application to Walt Co. Trucking Company, again using that address and Joyce as a reference.
Alex Hartke, a Walt Co. employee, said that he worked alongside, quote, Geiger, in September and October of 2011.
He was trying to go straight? No, no, no. Yeah, he was working under this name.
Wow. He literally had a job under this guy's name.
Trying to just go straight and not get arrested. Yes, but he's also murdering people on the side.
Yeah. On September 19th, he opened up a checking account at PNC Bank using the address and Ralph Geiger's name activity in the account included the deposit of two checks from tech center payable to Ralph Geiger and a chick, a check written to grabels, grabowski dated October 3rd, 2011.
The day after he opened the account, he sought medical treatment for chronic pain at Akron community health resources, Inc. where he was seen by a doctor under the name ralph geiger of course the doctor said that the patient was seeking prescription painkillers yeah obviously um he told the doctor that he had a cervical fusion the result of an accident involving a dump truck oh boy did he tell her about your dick yeah yeah what about that stanley cut to the sack? I just say, I don't have a dick because I got a...
I took a fucking tumbler to the nutsack here. I don't have a dick anymore.
Took a Stanley via an airbag right up to my fucking gooch. Right there.
He said he'd been seeing a doctor in Tijuana for narcotics. What? That's what he's been going to.

From Ohio to Mexico?

To get pills.

Wow.

So the doctor had him sign a medical release,

treated his high blood pressure,

prescribed a non-narcotic pain reliever,

and told him to come back in a week and see me

and see how you feel.

All right?

He returned to see her on October 27, 2011.

In the interim, the doctor could not get the records from the Tijuana Clinic he claimed to have gone to. I'm sure they were on fucking post-it notes.
Yeah, and I'm sure they probably don't exist because he didn't go to Tijuana. So I don't know how he would go back and forth.
How did he say that? Because he's trying to say that I went down there and I had drugs because that was the only place I could go, so I need these drugs.

And then this lady wouldn't give him drugs.

So other witnesses talked about meeting a man in 2011 who called himself Ralph Geiger.

In August, Don Walters Sr. was introduced by a man to a man.

This is Rich.

Rich said he went by Dutch at that point.

Uh-oh.

Once while shopping together, this guy saw Dutch use identification in the name of Ralph Geiger.

Okay.

He has a million nicknames, by the way.

Dutch, Jack, this, that.

It's interesting.

In August or September of 2011, a guy named Joe Bias rented a room in his house on Shelburne Avenue in Akron to a man who goes by Dutch but licenses Ralph Geiger. So he rents a room in Akron.
And he's the same. He's Dutch and Ralph Geiger, obviously.
October 2011, Daniel DeWalt applies by email to be the caretaker of a cattle farm, he's told, in Caldwell here. And he found that on Craigslist.
He got an email response, and he agreed to meet a guy named Jack. Yep.
Jack is Dutch and Ralph and Rich and everybody else here. My God.
This is at the Chapel Hill Mall Food Court in Akron. When they met, Jack tells DeWalt that my uncle, Bob Gaylord, owns a farm in Caldwell and needs someone to start work right away because a nearby road was blocked by a landslide.
So we need people in there right now. DeWalt filled out an application.
That's not an application job, by the way. Clearing out landslide damage from the side of someone's property.
Can you be there at 7? Great. I doubt there's no W-2 a 10, uh, 1099.
Yeah. There's no W2s for this.
What are we doing? Yeah. Jesus Christ.
So a few days later, this Jack Geiger, Rich, offered DeWalt the job. DeWalt packed all his belongings into a U-Haul trailer for the move.
Oh, he needed a U-Haul for this. He's got enough shit.
Yeah. It's an apartment at least full of shit.
But DeWalt told Jack that he was bringing his pistol okay i got my gun with me yeah jack initially said that was okay but then changed his mind and told him quote i'm the only one here with a gun i don't want any which makes me go well i'm not coming then i'm not coming over yeah i want to be armed but i don't want you to be i don't know you and you're not allowing me to be armed? What? What you want to be. Yeah.
Yeah, this is weird. Zero.
DeWalt also told Jack that he'd been unable to find the alleged property on the website. He said, I look for the property you're talking about on the county assessor's website here.
Doesn't show up. And then he said to himself, this ain't adding up up attaboy yeah this is this is he's a little too smart he's got a u-haul full of shit so he's got a couple more brain cells kicking around bouncing off each other here he's not quite the destitute fellow they're looking for that's well he's just what they're looking for if only they could get him here on arms and unbrained so additionally jack wanted to buy dewalt's suv truck.
This guy's got two vehicles, for Christ's sake. He asked to pick up the vehicles on a Friday, promising to pay on the following Sunday when they got to the farm.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
I'll pay you when you get here. DeWalt said, I don't know.
He said, quote, what if somebody's trying to get my vehicles before I come down there, and then when I get down there, they shoot me and take my stuff. Sir.
He asked Jack that he asked Ralph Jack rich that, well, what if you're just trying to kill me? Yeah. And Jack replied, quote, you shouldn't have said that and said, now I got to consult with my uncle and make sure you're still okay.
Yeah. So on October 15th, DeWalt received an email from Gaylord this time, allegedly.

This is rohrohandanayor at gmail.com is the address here.

Withdrawing the drop off.

You're fired.

You're fired.

Yeah.

So he was Jack Gaylord at that point.

Next up, George Brown. He's semi-retired from the concrete business and just wanted a job to supplement his income.
Just wanted to sit down. Just have a little break.
I don't. This is just going to be spending cash.
This is walking around money. I just sit around in the trailer.
I've got money. $1,200 a month to bullshit.
This is my. I'm going to fund Amazon.
is my i'm gonna fund amazon yeah the fucking dream this is my wish list money so on october 7th he answered a craigslist ad for a job taking care of cattle in southern ohio it promised him a trailer a credit card and three to four hundred dollars a month okay so that's money now it's. I don't know what the difference.
If you're going to kill these people anyway, you might as well just say $1,000 a week. Right.
Tell them it's $2,000 a month. They probably wouldn't believe that.
It's got to be a believable amount. So Brown arranged to meet Jack again at the Chapel Hill Mall food court.
The interview was going well, but then Brown said that he mentioned that, oh, yeah they're just chit chat. And he goes, yeah, I've been doing martial arts since I was a small child.
I'm bad. And all this type of thing.
He said at that point, Jack kind of sat back in his chair like, can I take this guy or what? He sized him up. Yep.
Brown also told Jack that for a while he worked as a security officer. He was like, hmm.
Fuck. Don't like that.
Jack ended up pulling back the application and ended the interview right there. Security guard who knows karate, I'm out.
Not doing it. Fired him in front of the Chipotle.
That's it. Right there in front of the Sbarro's.
It's over. We're done.
We're done. And he, hot dog on a stick, witness to your lowest point.
And he said he never heard back from Jack about anything else again. That was it.
God damn it. Next up, Dave LeBlond.
Another guy here. DeWalt LeBlond.
He's looking for anybody with a French-sounding name here. LeBlond was looking for work.
He responded to the ad for a job as a farm hand on a 300 acre farm um he a guy he said a guy identifying himself as richard bogner b-o-g-n-e-r bogner whatever the hell he's bogner um interviewed him at the chapel hill mall again same thing during the interview leblon told this quote bog Jack, Rich, Geiger, whoever you want to say, that he had a fiance. Oh.
He said he was never contacted again about the job. That was that.
This is unreal. You have a connection to the world? Goodbye.
Peace. I got to get somebody else.
You'll be looked for later. So there's that.
Next up, David Pauly comes in. Uh, this is this is he's the father of an adult son been divorced for two years and was looking for work um he found the job posting earlier in the month he's from norfolk virginia he's not even from around here no shit this is a trek he's coming a couple states away yeah his sister said his big love and hobby is nascar yep and he's got tons of nascar memorabilia yep all sorts of shit whatever that would be little cars and post cars posters shirts hats jackets shit fuck dude it could be anything it could be anything now this guy david paulie has a twin sister named deborah and he told her about the job opportunity he found on craigslist on a 688 acre farm everything they all changed to, too, the details in these ads.
Taking care of cattle for $300 a week. He'd be provided a trailer to live and could bring all his belongings with him.
Plenty of room for it. Sometime thereafter, he told his sister that he'd been hired and would be leaving Norfolk for Ohio on October 27th.
He traveled to Ohio in his blue pickup truck, pulling a U-Haul trailer containing all of his worldly possessions. Everything.
Everything. His sister said he was extremely excited about it.
He felt like it was finally going to be a new start for him. Finally doing it.
Finally a place to, also you could probably get it together. That would be a good place to plan your next move.
Solitude, yeah. Okay.
You can really map it out. If I do this for three, four months yeah i make enough money to live and i can just basically have some quiet and feel figure out what i want to do with my life like that i to me that sounds great to me right now i'm exhausted but that's that's not bad yeah he'd be you know so it was a great deal um he driven from virginia with all of this stuff with A lot of his stuff is model trains he's very into, NASCAR memorabilia, and a shotgun he has.
He's my dad. Yes, he is your dad.
He is Jerry Wiseman. It's fucking great.
How many wives does he have? Nine? Nine, and also the same amount of Lionel fucking trains. This guy has more prostitutes than your father had wives, though.
Yeah, that's pretty impressive. So that's not bad.
Bruce, I guess the woman, spoke with her brother twice on October 27th, once to arrange payment for his hotel room in West Virginia, and again around 8 or 9 p.m. that day, and then she never heard from him again.
Rich would, the way he would do this, he would take them out on the way to the farm.

This is, they've been hired.

They come with all their stuff.

On the way out there, he'd take them out for breakfast.

Okay.

You know, because that's going to make you feel real, you break bread with somebody.

That's how you get close to them.

Belly full of hash browns and ham.

Oh, yeah.

And he said, they take him out to breakfast on the way to act like, you know, the magnanimous boss man. Like, let me buy you breakfast before we get out there.
That sort of thing. $5.99.
Yep. When they were eating breakfast with David Pauley, this is Rich and Brogan.
Because Brogan, except for the interviews, Brogan's always with him. He's always with him.
Yeah. Because he'll go to take him to the farm.
Rich told a long story over breakfast about how a friend of his looked like kenny rogers yeah and when they were after before yeah before all the surgery jesus he looks so bad he looks tight yeah he's dead now i know but at the end there he was bad it looked like if you bounced a quarter off his face it would fly 30 feet off yeah we have some kickback to it So he said, my friend looked like Kenny Rogers, and when they go out to eat, Rich would let it slip to the waiter that it actually is Kenny Rogers. Hilarious.
But don't tell any. But don't tell the other people.
And then they'd all get to eat for free. Yeah, that's what they'd do.
So for David Pauly, they had a change of boots for him. Yeah.
Because he was mucking around. Gloves.
And even gave him a $20 bill. Well, this is interesting.
We'll talk about the $20 bill. They don't give him the $20 bill.
They take him out to the woods. Same thing.
Showing him around the woods. And when they do that, same thing.
Look over there. Oh, yeah, what's that? Pow.
They shoot David Pauly.ulie shoot him down basically and what they did is they put a 20 bill with a little rock over it next to the hole they dug and buried him in so they would know if anybody came across it which is actually very smart pretty good yes that's very smart because someone's going to pick that 20 up absolutely so that wouldn't if nobody picks the 20 up you know it has nobody's been here that's a very interesting not bad very very interesting thing here so um they murder him they steal some of his possessions and store them in their friend's garage as we'll talk about uh beasley told his friend that he had bid on a storage unit like the tv show storage wars really Really? So I bid on a unit and I got it. So at 1.09 p.m.
on October 23rd, Beasley called Walters, his friend, and tells Walters that he got this unit and it came with a truck and a U-Haul full of things. I was in the truck.
I was in the unit. A truck fitting that tiny little unit.
And a U-Haul-haul trailer real deep real deep the why would you want a u-haul trailer in there when the storage unit is a fucking u-haul trailer a non-stationary trailer that's what that is you don't put a trailer in a trailer the door was like the door to willy walker's chocolate factory he just expanded and then inside the u-haul there was a tinier storage facility. He walked into there, there's an even tinier one.
Just kept getting smaller and smaller. So, yeah.
He said he needs a place to store these items until he could sell them. So, Rich arrives at his friend's house, driving a blue Dodge pickup, pulling a U-Haul trailer.
So, yeah. That's Pauly's stuff here, obviously.
David Pauly. So another car pulled in behind Rich, driven by Brogan, who he tells, Rich tells this man is his nephew.
He tells everybody that. He wants to put all the shit.
They unloaded the trailer, which was completely filled with bags and crates, and put it all in the garage. Among the items was a laptop computer, too.
So he's got some stuff. Then Rich comes back the next day, filling up his truck twice with items, including the laptop that he wanted to take.
Then Beasley takes the U-Haul and returns it to the U-Haul in Akron. This is yours, y'all.
You don't want to draw attention because the U-Haul will come looking for their shit. For sure.
They're definitely going to want their trailer back.

So that's unwanted attention.

So he brought that back.

And so that's two that he's got in the ground.

November, here comes Scott Davis.

Okay.

Okay.

Scott Davis is 49 years old.

Right.

He's from South Carolina.

Yeah.

He answers the ad.

He gets hired.

He sells his landscaping business to come to Ohio. Good Lord.
For this job. He's had enough.
Had enough. So Rich introduces himself as Jack.
And Rich, by the way, has a tattoo that says Jack on his arm. Really? His name is not Jack.
What is going on? Maybe that's, I mean. Is it a knife, like Jack the Knife? You know what I mean? Maybe.
Or it's just he's such a con artist he thinks ahead of time i'll get tattoos of names that aren't mine so i can tell people that's my name that is wild that's fucking that's a long game he's picking up nine-year-olds for further use and tattooing other dudes names on yes and through all all of the murders it's him and brogan only going out there with these guys brogan has dug hole, and Brogan's the one who's going to drag him into the hole because he's a big guy.

And Rich has a fucked up back, and he's lazy.

What the shit?

Doesn't want to do this shit.

So now Scott Davis saw the tattoo.

They bring him to the farm, okay?

And this is Rich's gag.

He'd walk out in front, like we said, and he'd let the people follow him down one of the tracks into the forest because it'd be uncomfortable to have a stranger that were behind you, obviously. So they were looking for some construction equipment they couldn't find, they tell Scott.
We're going out in the woods looking for this equipment and he was waiting for an excuse to turn around so he could shoot him right so that's what happened rich would shoot them they wouldn't see it coming shoot him in the head they'd go down pump a couple more on him and they'd bury him it was great because he never had to lay a hand on anybody didn't have to overpower them or strangle them he just picked the people who would believe him and then do it and he he knew what he was doing now scott apparently this uh rich they're walking in in the in the woods here and um he said they go down to the farm to repair some roads first off they took him to a shoney's for breakfast nice so you'd have a nice truck stop belly breakfast you'd have a nice gurgling cauldron of gas and shit to let out later on. Then they go to a deeply wooded area.
Beasley gets out of the car. Rich does.
And so does Brogan. And here.
Now, this time, though, for some reason going into the woods, Brogan does not go into the woods with them really rich goes into the woods with scott davis and brogan stays behind i don't know if it's because they thought it would freak him out or whatever it was but he ate at shoney's too and has like i gotta i'll go the other way i'm going back to the shoney's i'll make you all back here i gotta return something to shoney's real quick hold on i'll be right back to go get her. Let's see about their return policy.
I'm going to go refund back to them. So as they continued walking near a hill, basically the gun misfires.
Rich turns around and Scott Davis hears what he calls a cuss word and a click. Uh-oh.

And he said, I knew I was in trouble.

Yeah, I would say.

Uh-huh.

He said, I saw a gun.

It looked like it was coming back toward my head for a second try.

Yep.

He said it was then he started running.

It's at this point that he shoots him again and hits him in the elbow. Okay.
Hits Scott in the elbow. Scott doesn't stop.
No. He keeps fucking running.
Going and going and going. He said he heard three more shots, all of which missed him as he ran away.
Uh-oh. He said, I ran until I couldn't run anymore out of breath.
He hid up a tree. Uh-huh.
He climbed a tree. Like a bear.
Climbed a tree and hid there for seven hours.

Oh, my God.

Till he thought they were gone.

Yeah.

Because he figured he would be out there.

The gunshot to the elbow.

The gunshot to the elbow.

He waited till after dark.

Wow.

Because this is like seven o'clock at night.

He waited till he figured they would leave in the dark.

Yeah.

And because he assumes that they think that he probably kept running. Rather than went up a tree and's still there but he did he went up a tree because he couldn't he had no more breath right basically so that's fucking crazy he said that yeah when he spun around he got shot in the elbow was running as fast as he could he said he was tripping and falling in the sticks and the mud and the trees oh my god running through the woods frantically day uh he managed hide up the tree, stay there for seven hours, bleeding profusely, obviously.
He said finally he calmed down somehow and walked out and walked about three miles until he found a house. Yeah.
And finally he finds a house, and there was a house with the light on. And he was like, oh, my shit on the door bleeding um they called 9-1-1 for him i had a competition they shot their house yeah how you doing boy and he's like oh no welcome oh god so um yeah he said that um he he was rambling telling them he told the the people in the house that he applied for a fencing job and then these people were going to rob him.
And this guy said he had all the documentation. He has all the emails from this guy.
He sent it to me. He goes, I got everything on the dashboard of my truck.
He said, I knew I was in trouble when I heard this click. And he shot at me.
He said one was 52 or 51 years old, dark and gray hair. The younger guy was 17 years old, very tall, about 6' five yeah he said one of the men looked like he had recently shaved a beard but he said he didn't know they didn't know what he was he was just rambling yeah they were like holy shit the sheriff got there he tells the sheriff this whole story again i got shot this is what happened the sheriff sheriff hannum goes nah i don't believe you what doesn't believe a believe a word he's saying.
That's not how it's supposed to go. He's bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound.
Right. Something happened.
What's he trying to cover up? That's exactly what he probably tried to rob a gas station or something. All right.
So, yeah, he said he didn't believe him because, number one, the cops said, I don't know of any 688-acre cattle farm in this county.

Okay.

Sidestep that.

Yes.

So that might not be true.

I don't know.

They might have lied to me.

Yeah, I don't know.

This is what I'm telling you what I know.

Yeah, what the fuck do I know?

Yeah.

He said he knew of only one residence in the area that he was describing, a farm in Caldwell owned by Jerry Hood Sr., who was known by everyone as Country. So Country Hood Sr.
there. And Sheriff thought that the description of the two men somewhat matched Country and his son, Jerry Hood Jr.
So he goes, oh, maybe it's those two. Okay.
So on Don Warner Road, about half a mile from that property, from Hood's property, the Hood Country Junior and Senior there, the sheriff found a rock slide and heavy equipment that Davis had described. He was like, okay, that's something.
Country's wife, Lois, worked at a local tavern. Who doesn't in this town? Sure.
And the sheriff went to see her there. And they said, well, I'm looking i'm looking for your husband he might have attacked a young guy a guy in town here blah blah blah lois told him well i doubt it was country because he's been in the hospital in akron after he fell fell down the stairs and cracked his skull fractured his skull last month he's been in the hospital for about a month and a half yeah so not my country probably here uh while at the while at the tavern this guy even talked to country on the telephone asking him whether he still had a beard he's been in the hospital with a cracked skull he thinks he came out to shoot this guy and then went back to the hospital for a month he's got a beard probably and uh this guy said in country said he did and then the sheriff went to the hospital to confirm that he still did have a long beard so it couldn't have been him because the beard was shaved so clears the country boys all right okay now november 8th 2001 here ralph geiger quote unquote bought a 22 caliber iver johnson pistol to uh brought it to um a gun shop for repairs.
Smitty's gun shop. Geiger gave the Grabowski address and the telephone number of 245-8961 to the shop.
Smitty's cleaned the gun and it was reclaimed on October 11th. Now, remember Tim Kern? Yeah, the first guy.
The first guy. Back to him.
When this job was offered, Tim thought it was great. He thought it was his first, even though he's in his 50 or 47, he thought this was his first foray into adulthood.
Wow. This was his own thing where he was actually going to make his own money, have his own place, and not rely on anybody or anything like that.
A place to live. He said his sons could come see him there and hang out with them still call his kids his babies even though they're grown-ups um you know that kind of thing here um but he'd also was very anxious the night before he left saying he was they were telling his family was saying he was at his ex-wife's house staying and they said he was telling his boys he didn't want to leave them he stayed up all night And, you know, he would use that as a home base.
He's basically homeless, but he was using the ex-wife's house to shower and get his shit together. Damn it.
Which is even worse than being homeless. What's worse than being homeless? Having to go to your ex-wife's house to kiss her ass.
Relying on somebody who doesn't even want to see you. Doesn't even like you.
Yeah. Yeah.
So they said he was trying to seem laid back about it, but he felt pretty shitty. Out of place.
And heading out that morning to go out there. So Rich tells Brogan, remember they were driving to meet him, to get off the highway at an exit in the town of Canton.
Okay. Canton, Ohio.
Canton, Ohio. Football Hall of Fame.
He says that Tim Kern is waiting in his car not too far from there. All right? So, by the way, he said that Brogan that morning noticed that Rich smells of bar soap, but then something is under it.
So you can smell soap, but it's like it's covering something grosser. Okay.
He notices that Rich is wearing the same clothes as yesterday. And he wonders if this is all the clothes he has now.
Why is he wearing the same clothes as yesterday? This is weird. So he's just like, this is a, what the hell's going on with Rich? Rich also has been dying his hair as part of his new identity.
But he's kind of let it go now. Oh, so his roots are showing.
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Yeah, it's real weird. Also, he's abandoned his house and is now living in a rented room like we talked about.
In the room that Rich is renting, it doesn't even have a door you can close. It's like a broken door you gotta like prop up.
Oh no. So Brogan says that this morning he sent something about rich.
That was a way he put it, a new kind of desperation. Something's off.
Something's going on here. Something disturbing.
He said it was desperate and weird. Yeah.
He said it was even weirder vibe than he normally puts out. Right.
So there is a surveillance camera in the parking lot where Tim Kern is waiting in his 1995 Buick LeSabre. Hell yeah.
Kicking it. Fucking rocking that shit.
Yeah. Footage from the camera will indicate it's five minutes after six in the morning on Sunday, November 13, 2011, when Rich and Brogan arrived to get him.
Basically, they found, obviously, this is from a Waffle House in Akron. That's where they meet.
They're going to have breakfast in the Waffle House. All class.
You bet. So this is the same day that he was, I guess he was interviewed and basically hired at the same time.
On the spot, man. On the spot.
You're perfect. You're the best interview I've ever had.
He was going out to do it. He's described as a heavyset man in a black leather coat and a red American flag ball cap.
No, that's not them. That's rich.
Okay. They can be seen walking into the restaurant and sitting down.
It was a detailed match of this, knowing who they are here. Later in the same video video a second man walks into the cat into the waffle house and sat down um and this man was wearing light khaki slacks a red jacket and an indians baseball cap cleveland you bet um brogan here says he hangs back while rich does the talking because otherwise he just sits there looking intimidating and making people uncomfortable yeah so he sat down uh they sat down in the same booth at the Waffle House.
And he says that Rich always gets real jocular and street preachy. This is his way of bullshitting people.
This is his initial bullshit overwhelm you with my charm bullshit. He says that Tim breaks to that and lets him kind of do his thing.
And everybody says that's what Tim does. He's not going to dominate a conversation.
He's not that kind of guy. Brogan thinks that Tim seems like a nice guy.
Likes him. Seems like a real kind of kind man, he says.
So, yeah, he says he's got a baseball cap on that he says he can't seem to keep straight. It's like, oh, stay on him for some um but he's wondering he goes what the fuck is going brogan's like okay rich is wearing the same clothes he's stinking his hair's fucked up his room's fucked up and the other guys had multiple cars and laptops and u-hauls full of shit this guy has a fucking 15 year old buick that barely runs right because the guy was saying it broke down a couple times on the way here.
On his way there? It barely runs, and all of his worldly possessions fit the fucking Buick. Yeah.
So what are we doing with this guy? This is, yeah. What's the advantage here? Right.
We're not making any money off this guy. What's happening right now? It doesn't make any fucking sense.
He goes, you can't even drive the car on the highway because the guy said it doesn't go over this much or it'll break down. So it's real fucking weird.
So they're going to take Brogan's car out to the farm, quote unquote. He says Tim's living in his car.
All he has are garbage bags filled with clothes and pictures of his family and what's described as a soiled ream of personal documents of the type you see the itinerant clutching outside government offices. Oh, my.
Here's my paperwork. He's that guy.
Yeah. You're almost doing this guy a favor for Christ's sake.
Poor Tim. Tim's having a rough go of it.
It's not going great. There's no reason to do nothing worth this.
No, you can't hurt this guy. It's not worth it.
Even if you're evil, you go, not worth it. No.
You're not winning. You're not worth killing.
Right. You got nothing for me.
You can't take anything from me. Yeah.
So before they get into the car, Rich tells Tim which of the things he'll need down on the farm and which he could come back and pick up later. He goes, we'll drive you out there since your car doesn't drive well.
So here's the shit you need and leave everything else. So, you know, whatever.
A toolbox, a believable amount of clothes, so Tim will think he's actually going somewhere. Yeah.
He's going on a real trip here, and a TV. Oh.
Now, Brogan puts the TV in his trunk, which is very heavy because it's not even a flat screen TV. It's 2011.
He's got a Toshiba. And he goes, why does Rich want this fucking CRT TV? Why would he want this right now? He doesn't understand what we're fucking doing here.
He's like, this is weird. He obviously didn't do too good of a vetting process on this guy to find out if he fucking had anything.
This just doesn't make goddamn sense. So Rich asks Tim how much cash he has on him to get by down on the farm.

Oh, my God.

None of this raises any red flags for Tim.

Nothing?

Not for Tim, no.

Tim says, they said he'd get all sheepish, and he said five bucks.

That's what he has to his name.

He came into town with a fucked up car.

Five dollars to his name.

All of his shit in garbage bags and five dollars to his name.

Oh, my God.

He is just as low as it gets.

He's at his lowest point, and he's thinking this is the thing that can help bounce him back bring me back yeah and it's this is fucked up so uh while it's three still dark outside the three of them drive out to the to um out of the parking lot and into the morning yeah um it's supposed to be about an hour and a half drive to caldwell right now rich and brogan are up front tim's in the back that's how this goes now rich keeps the chit chat up and he's a good bullshitter he's a real good champion of the world he really is and brogan would say wow it was so weird the things he would talk about there with the people he'd always just have these conversations here and uh tim is seems real affable and real you know this is fine they said oh you know what before we go up to the farm stop hold on brogan pull over here we need a quick detour tim you don't mind right quick detour tim said i don't give a shit i'm on the clock you know whatever i got five bucks guys at this point i'm on the clock you're paying me so whatever you want to do so before they get too far rich leans back and says hey man turns out we were hunting for squirrels yesterday. Turns out we were hunting for squirrels.
Turns out we were. That doesn't make sense.
Out by the old Rolling Acres Mall. Yeah.
Remember that? Their burial ground? The interview place. Interview place.
Yeah. He goes, we were, you know, that's the interview place at Chapel Hill Mall.
Chapel Hill Mall. This is where they kill people and bury them.
At the other mall yeah chapel hill mall still has a food court this one just has an abandoned jc pennies right so he said we were shooting squirrels the other day and you know what i lost my watch out there and he goes it has it's just sentimental value to me you know what i mean a woman gave it to me that i'm you know still close with and it's you know it's like i remember her by and i really want to go get my watch so now that there's three of us we could probably find it easier would you mind helping us find this watch out in the woods so now i'm a i'm a watch invest and inspector what's and tim's like i'm on the clock right man watching farms looking for watches same thing whatever so he said do you mind if we go over to the woods and look for it real quick before we head down to the farm? And Tim goes, I got five bucks in a car that doesn't work. My time is not very valuable here, so great.
So, I mean, I don't know why you'd be hunting squirrels in Akron in the woods behind the mall, but whatever. It's fine.
um you, he said they seem friendly enough here, and they pick you up, drive you to the farm, and now they have to look for a watch. It's funny that you wouldn't think, like, this seems weird what's going on here.
A watch? A watch? But see, when you're in that position and you have nothing happening in your life, there's nothing you can do. It's not that it seems normal because my life is fucking bananas, too.
I got a lot of crazy shit going on, too. Not only that, what choice do you have? Yeah.
No. Right.
Take me back to my Buick that can't make it back to my house. Nah, take me to the farm.
You guys go look for the wall. Yeah, fuck that.
So there's really nothing more you could do here. And it's one of those things we've all been in and the article talks about this too but we've all been in those positions where you go something's not right yeah this is where i should go and you don't though there's we've all done that where we think something's wrong we go anyway yeah we've all done it we've all fucking had things happen to us or not happen to us but whatever we've all had that feeling so on the way to the mall tim mentions from the back seat he goes wow this is a nice buick you got here brogan this is great yeah he's real excited about a fucking he's got like a fucking six-year-old buick and he's like man this thing is this is great lap of luxury right here um so rich has a plan for tim's car saying that he and brogan will come back with some blow torches and scrap the car themselves for cash.
Jesus. They're just going to break the fucking thing down to sell to a recycle center, basically.
So Rich will take the cash and give Tim, this is what he's telling Tim, we're going to come back, we'll break your car down since it doesn't work. We'll sell it, and I'll give you a Ford F-150 for you to use.
Okay. Because you're here.
It's a more appropriate vehicle for the terrain on the farm anyway. Your car wouldn't have worked very well.
So he said, what you can do is, he goes, I'll do you a favor. You can pay off.
I'll sell it to you, and you can pay it off in installments that'll just come out of

your wages sure we'll take 50 bucks a week out of your check if you get a new car and tim was like fuck you can't go to a fucking uh car dealer and get that deal that's great you just give me a car you know and fuck sounds awesome so he was like this sounds great so tim was excited about this He thought it was wonderful, which again makes Tim more trusting.

Yeah, trusting.

Trusting.

I don't know.

Just bent to his knee for how fucking grateful he is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A little description of the mall from the article on GQ.

Rolling acres is Chernobyl-y.

That's not good.

In other words, abandoned with fucking foliage growing out of the concrete radiation zone yep with its cheerful awnings inviting you to condemned movie theaters and the now removed names of big box stores silhouetted onto the brickwork of its on entrances the mall was built in the 70s and expanded in the 80s it's home to only a single JCP penny outlet store not even a jc penny oh god jc penny at the shit we couldn't sell at jc penny it's too shitty returns to jc penny are sold here jesus and and if you go back in back of there even there's a dumpster and that's cole's outlet store they have one too just kidding cole just sucks. And the Amazon return store.
Yeah. They said they pull, and that'll soon be shuttered.
That's in the process of closing. The JCPenney outlet? Yeah, outlet.
It's a big, it's blowout, 60% off our shit that's already 80% off. Liquidation sale on top of liquidation sale.
Fuck yes. Wow.
They pull around an outbuilding and park near the woods. Okay.
Now, here they are looking for the watch.

They're in the woods looking for the watch, quote unquote.

Yeah.

Rich pulls back a branch and lets it slap back at Brogan and Tim behind him.

As a joke?

Well, Brogan acts like, well, I don't think so here.

He does that just to see what happens.

Tim, what a nice guy, then pulls the branch back and holds it for Brogan so he could walk by that's nice he's trying to be a nice guy brogan said that fucked him up he felt real bad at that point he's like oh fuck this is a nice guy he's a sweetheart he just held a fucking branch for me and the whole time he's a real mild meek nice guy he did the forest version of hold the door for me god damn it shit so he thought that

wasn't cool here um but he didn't say anything or do anything yeah he just felt it he just felt oh this isn't right his heart his grinch heart just grows two sizes yeah exactly so rich and tim walk together looking around logan acts like he's searching around the leaves for because it's November so he leaves in the woods.

Shit, it's a lot.

Then Brogan said he heard a pop. And he said he turns and he sees that Tim is down on his knees, but not lying down.
And that Rich has the .22 pistol in his hand. Tim's holding the side of his head and Rich says, are you all right? like he gives a shit i asked him if he's all right and um and then after that which is are you all right wow um then tim doesn't respond rich shoots him like three four more times pumps a few more bullets into him and tim slumps over onto his.
Rich is saying there's something wrong with the gun. It's not firing right.
He's telling Brogan. And then Brogan notices that Tim's still breathing.
He's not dead, even after four shots. Jesus.
So Brogan's like, okay, nothing worth stealing, no reason to kill him, and now he won't die, and he's not breathing, and he's still breathing, and now and now I gotta watch him struggle. Now we have a giant problem.
Yeah.

So Rich gets close one last time

and shoots him in the face.

Okay.

All right.

Now he's lying on the ground.

They said eyes wide open.

He's staring out

and every few seconds he's taking big gulps of air.

Oh, God.

Death rattles, basically.

And Brogan's like, he's still alive.

He's still alive.

Fucking get rid of this, basically. And Richgan's like, he's still alive.
He's still alive. Fucking get rid of it.
Stop this, basically.

And Rich says, nah, and just walks away.

He's good.

He'll die.

He said, there's four bullets in his head, and I put one between his eyes.

He'll die eventually.

Oh, my God.

So eventually he does die.

Yeah.

And Rich says to grab a leg.

And Rich grabs the other one.

And they dragged him to the pre dug hole.

It was dug the day before.

It's only about two feet deep and Tim doesn't fit totally in the hole,

but rich just says,

ah,

fuck it.

Takes Tim's jacket off,

cuts the shirt off of him with a pair of scissors.

And,

uh,

and also kicks his black hat over.

That's covered in blood off to the side there.

Okay. Um, so Brogan asked rich, why did we do this? If he didn't have anything.
Yeah. And Rich says, well, this is what he said.
This is his, he doesn't have anything. They knew they didn't have anything, but he says, well, he was a dead man.
As soon as he got in the car, it's out of our hands. That was part of the plan.
It was out of our hands. Yeah.
He was, he was already dead. We already, we already did the preordained-ordained yeah yeah that's what it was we already did the thing we got to finish the the other thing pre-ordained couldn't have told tim you know what the job fell through yeah you don't have anything we need they're just like so we had to kill him fuck it oh my god that's wild so um tim he's they leave tim wearing his pants shoes and socks this is the latest i I mean, he's being super lazy.
Before, it was all very, you know, put a 20 down in case. Now, it's just sloppy.
He doesn't even care anymore. He's getting like, ah, this is his old hat to him.
He's bored. Yeah.
So, they said Brogan didn't even finish backfilling the hole when Rich says, all right, that's enough. Let's go.
Let's get out of here. It's getting light out.
Let's just take off. So Rich is ready to get out of there.
And he just starts kicking some leaves on top of him.

That ought to do.

So it's getting lighter out.

They're driving back from Rolling Acres from the grave site.

Rich has Brogan's stop at McDonald's for breakfast.

All that murdering makes me real hungry.

Those hash browns, god damn it.

They're fucking craving them.

So they're doing all this.

Rich likes to go to McDonald's because there's's free internet what a cheap piece of shit this guy is man he said rich is tapping on his computer and brogan is watching the street outside um he said he dropped rich at his place and heads for his mom's when he pulls up the hill toward home he gets a call from his mom on his cell phone. Brogan is having a shit morning.

Sure is.

His mom is crying on the cell phone.

She said a man who she knows, a guy she calls her, quote, millionaire maniac,

and also says is a famous dog breeder,

fucking known for his prized German shepherds,

who likes to party, had been a real asshole last last night and so now she's walking home crying. All right.
Oh my God. Let me tell you about my morning, Ma.
Yeah, listen, Ma. Jesus, so Brogan goes, all right, and he picks her up on the way.
Yeah. Pick up my mom.
Probably not the first time he's done that. She leaves a prized Germaners home millionaire maniac she's crying when she gets into the car god damn it yeah it's just you know fucked up so basically she sees her son as the stability that can like he's the parent which is ridiculous mess so she says i'm sorry i wasn't there last night i didn't know you were coming over this weekend i swear and brogan says it doesn't matter mom it doesn't matter like don't worry about it fine deal so by the way remember scott davis yeah that shot ran away hit up a tree and cops don't believe him with him well um he didn't they didn't believe him they didn't believe him about the job offer the shooting all, all that shit.
So then the sheriff's office located Scott Davis' truck and trailer full of belongings that he brought to Ohio. And obviously the cops go, well, they didn't get anything from you.
Yeah. So they're probably going to be going after other people if they do.
So it's fucking interesting. Now, this is while they're killing Tim Kern, this is going on.
The FBI is now involved and tracing the Craigslist ad back to Rich's IP address while they're killing Tim and later to a camera at a Shoney's in Marietta, Ohio, that snapped a picture of Brogan and Rich as they walked to meet Scott Davis the day he was shot.

Now they believe him.

Yeah.

Once they find that.

Further investigation corroborated even more. They found Davis's ball cap in the area where he claimed he was shot.
Shot, yeah. And took off running.
Lost his Cleveland Indians hat. There's that.
So he said that there and when the police went to look for it and found the hat, they also found a shallow, empty grave. That's Tim Kern's grave.
That's his grave. They were there the day before they took him out there.
He was going to be in it. Yeah.
That was his grave. So they're, oh, shit.
And it ends up being Tim Kern's grave. So that's how that goes.
Now, the search, they return later with search dogs and found more bodies. Obviously, they find the bodies.
FBI agents and local law enforcement returned to the scene in an empty hand-dug hole about 80 inches long and a couple feet deep. It was found approximately 175 feet from the road.
An agent with the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, Stephen Burke, said that his first impression on seeing the hole was that it was a grave. Somebody was going in.
You know what a person-sized hole looks like there. And it's about 100 feet from where Davis' hat was found.
Oh, my gosh. They were going to make it easy to drag him there.
The next day, search dogs alerted investigators to an area of disturbed soil. Beneath that, they found David Pauley's body.
On November 25th, roughly 80 feet from the open unused grave, they found another shallow grave containing Ralph Geiger's body. Now they're finding all these bodies.
This is a burial ground. This is so bad.
The JCPenney is going right now.

Oh, boy.

It's over.

Well, actually, this might revitalize the mall.

Might make people want to be there.

People be like, oh, shit, I've got to check this place out.

So they do that three days after the Tim Kern incident.

Yeah.

Federal agents show up at Stowe High School and pull Brogan out of a class.

Oh, my God.

He's still in high school.

Oh, yeah. He's 16.
Wow. He's still in high school.
Oh, yeah.

He's 16.

Wow.

He still has the TV in the trunk, by the way.

Oh, Jesus.

Not great.

And he and Rich didn't even scrap Tim's car yet.

They got zero out of him.

So they arrest Rich as well and execute a search warrant at the residence here.

Among the items in Rich's bedroom was a collection of NASCAR trading cards.

I'm sorry. and execute a search warrant at the residence here.
Among the items in Rich's bedroom was a collection of NASCAR trading cards, an ammunition box that is like a family heirloom that the family knew he had, a green cooler containing a model train and books on trains, all of which had belonged to David Pauly. They also found mail there addressed to Ralph Geiger, including an envelope from PNC Bank dated September 30th, 2011, after Ralph Geiger's dead.
They found a receipt for an emergency medical service provided to Ralph Geiger on February 25th, 2011. That's the real Ralph Geiger.
And they also recovered four prescription pill bottles with Geiger's name on them and two bottles with Baisley's name on them. So that's before that.
The same day Brogan's arrested, this is, by the way, they sent the SWAT team for Rich. Yeah.
And busted the door down. There's a helicopter and everything.
Well, move the door aside. Yeah, it didn't take much to bust down.
I was going to say they could have sent, like, you know, somebody's mother up there to knock the door down. So December 2011, Bro starts confessing sure he's a child he starts giving it up to the of course the fbi sitting there going this is triple murder and you attempted murder of a fourth person you're in deep trouble son and he said well i better start talking well i'll tell you what happened he does tell a few lie stories first though he does tell a couple of tried to cover it huh he? He tried to kind of, yeah, he tried to make it not as bad as it is for a while there.
And eventually they got it all out of him though here. So they sound, it's interesting to him.
They said, if you sound the article in GQ said, if you listen to his confessions, they begin to sound different. Everything's very matter of fact till they get to Tim Kern.
That fucked him up. That one up that one really bothered it did yeah they said that throughout most of the hours of the statements brogan maintains a tone of almost stolid impassivity yeah sounding like someone who'd merely watched a series of killings on a strange unmarked videotape he received in the mail yeah what happened was awful yeah but the events didn't concern him just yeah that that happened and there was there was like reason to do it like you know i mean there was yeah sure it's awful but this is how we get by this is how we you know i mean yeah it's like serving mcdonald's it's no good it's no good but she got that's how i get paid it's that's how i get paid i gotta do it so they said when he talks about tim though it seems much different yeah it's as if whatever you know the article says it to whatever mental box he put this all in is falling all coming apart he doesn't he doesn't like this at all so yeah they they find him uh they examine a bullet from the Davis shooting which turned out that Scott Davis who got away the bullet was still in him oh lucky took the evidence with him yep they said it probably came from a 32 caliber revolver then ralph geiger here um they said here uh they described this area as if you turn the farm if you turn on don warner road you'd find the farm that road will drop you down into what people here call a holler it's a holler it's what everybody calls it that's what everyone calls it and midway down the hill and take the half grown over uh half grown over four-wheeler track you'd find a hole containing the body of one ralph geiger naked and partially decomposed so they got him out to the farm everybody else was there the body had been there since summer and now sits beneath four feet of damp earth wow they said there's been a lot of hunters going all over this land.
Nobody noticed them. They said David Pauly, they found as well.
They said maybe about 50 feet away from David Pauly is the hole that Brogan had dug again. They said it's empty except for several inches of rainwater.
It had been meant for the body of Scott Davis, who came. They testified later on that the bullet examined from the Davis shooting, they said that was probably a .32.
The bullet recovered from Pauley, David Pauley, was identified as an intermediate caliber slug, either a .32 or a .38. They said they examined seven bullets in connection with the case.
Four were .22 caliber bullets from an Ivor Johnson pistol, and that's the gun connected to Timothy Kern. Two bullets were from the shootings of Davis and Pauly, and another .38 bullet was recovered from the body of Ralph Geiger.
And so, yeah, there's that. They concluded that three different handguns could have been used here, a .32, a .38, and the .22 Ivor Johnson.
And every bullet, the calibers kept getting smaller, and the victim kept taking more. Yeah, stick with the .38 and put somebody down quickly if you're going to have to fucking do this.
They searched Brogan's bedroom and found a briefcase containing a sawed-off shotgun, an Ivor Johnson .22 long rifle semi-automatic pistol, and a box of ammunition and some loose shotgun shells. According to the ballistics experts, the bullets recovered from Kern's body could have been fired by the Ivor Johnson.
Not good. So that pistol was not used to shoot the other victims, though, as we know.
The bullet was a 38 that killed Geiger, and then Pauly was a 32 or a 38. It was kind of damaged, so it was hard to tell.
They said that the bullet recovered from Pauly's body was not fixed by the Ivor Johnson or fired by the Ivor Johnson or by the same weapon that killed Geiger, but they could not exclude the possibility that it was the same weapon to shoot Davis and Pauly. They think there's three guns, a minimum of three guns.
Other evidence, where Rich was staying at his house, they found a black wallet beneath a pile of leaves near a downspout. He just kept that there.
Outside. He said it contained Geiger's driver's license and social security card.
The real Ralph Geiger's shit. Now, Joyce Grabelski, remember her guy the woman he stayed with and used her address for job applications was a close friend of riches from their church days she notified the fbi after all this that she received a letter from beasley from the county jail like a week later it instructed her with a hand-drawn diagram exactly where she could find the wallet and two laptop computers.

So she gave those to the cops.

Here's the letter.

Joyce, get your truck from Reeves and scrap it.

Keep $100 and put the rest on my books.

I need for you to go to the Gridley house where I live at night and lived at night and

go back in the backyard in the rear corner by the garage under some leaves is two laptop computers get them and destroy them and then take them apart and trash them hold on do me a favor scrap your vehicle yeah keep a hundred bucks for you because i'm a good guy for me yeah put the rest on my book put it on my bill put the rest on my tab then do a for me. I need you to do a bunch of favors for me.
Then destroy a bunch of evidence for me. There's $100 in it for you.
Even though you know I am in jail on a triple murder. Not good.
Wow. In the front corner of the backyard between the house and drive is a wallet under the leaves.
Get that wallet and destroy the contents. If there are money left, it's yours.
God bless. He knows there's no money in there.
Yeah. Take it.
Or put it on my books. Yeah.
Don't tell anyone about this and never hint on a phone. Write me a letter and use the phrase sunny day if it goes all right.
Code wangle. Yeah.
Or rainy day if the computers are gone. Oh.
I might be able to call you by tea day, turkey day, Tuesday, Thursday. Who knows? If so, you can say the code words on the phone if you haven't got it yet.
Just say average day. Okay.
So there we go. Based on the weather patterns.
Based on that. He said it's very important to get this done.
I mean critical and then three asterisks after it and then a hand-drawn map of it all and then says look forward to a good report we'll write soon r the map showed the house at the backyard with an x by the garage labeled cptr and a second label x labeled x with a wallet under it. So not good.

So Rich told her to find the wallet laptops and all that.

Fucking crazy.

So instead, the prosecutors went there and found all the things.

Yeah, they found the things.

It's a rainy day.

It's boring.

Jesus.

And they said, well, you knew he changed his name.

And she said, because she said, yeah, it was weird that a couple months ago he said to start calling him Ralph Geiger for some reason.

Right.

And he said, didn't you, that wasn't a red flag to you?

And she says, no, she trusts him because they're like church people and stuff.

So she said that, no, she said that I asked him what was up and he just said he wanted to be a different person.

And he said he didn't want to go back to jail and that they were saying he did stuff that he didn't do, and he's a poor downtrodden guy, so I felt bad for him. Oh, my God.
So that's wild. The forensic computer specialist examined the laptops.
On the hard drive of the Acer laptop, he found a deleted account in the name of Rick Pauly, which is David's brother, as well as documents authored by Rick Pauly. The Dell computer and a computer taken from the house that he was, that he was living in, Rich, there, both had been used to access the Rohan Danaher Gmail account with a password.
And in Dell's browser history, in that computer, they located the text of an ad offering a handyman job on a secluded property in Ohio. The ad appeared on a website at AkronCantonBackPage.com Got him.
on November 1st, 2011. Oh, boy.
So that's a later one, even. The email address that placed the ad was Wasolovpoplovich at Hotmail.com He's got a hotmail.
We're talking about A acers and hotmail right here what year is this not 2011 it doesn't feel like holy shit all outgoing traffic from that email address ceased when rich was arrested never another thing there and also the acer computer had been grant had been used to access that as well. So they're in jail, both of them now, sitting there.

And the GQ reporter goes to talk to Rich's mom, Carol, the religious lady here. He said, I had breakfast with Carol Beasley, Rich's mom, at a bakery near her house.
She's a kind woman in a cute Christmas sweater who's befuddled by her own cell phone and more worried about the weather for my flight

back to New York than I am. Befuddled

by her phone. An old lady

befuddled by a phone. Just looking at her phone going,

that thing's crazy. I don't know how to fix that.

How do I make the numbers bigger?

I can't read this.

Carol tells me that she doesn't want to fool

herself. Richard probably did the things

they said. That's what she says.

Though she can't help slipping into

the framework that Rich has provided her

for these events, the inconsistencies, the suggestions of plots underlying the apparent facts. But why did Scott Davis make the ambulance take him to the Akron General Hospital, which is right by the motorcycle club? That's one of her questions.
Who cares where it is? Who gives a shit? Shot him in the elbow, ran away, all of his shit's there. Shoney's videos, it all checks out.
He probably doesn't know that the motorcycle shit's there. That's what he's from there.
He probably had no fucking idea. He's like, take me by the motorcycle club.
He literally had to pass several other hospitals on the way there. And why did Scott refuse to talk to the police for days? Scott's a scumbag, too, as we'll find's why or at least was at that time i don't know about now he said i tell carol that morning that i hope rich can tell the whole truth because it's the only possible way to even take a fractional step toward making amends carol beasley says oh she says uh i don't think so he doesn't want anyone to know the real him he never has he's too ashamed he'll never do that okay so that's what she says now rich uh goes to court he's he's arrested now not even for murder they're still working on the charges they're putting him in for the pending warrants he had for drug trafficking prostitution yeah we'll deal with that shit later because we've got you for a long time anyway you're fucked drug trafficking multi-count indictment prostitution.
Yeah. We'll deal with that shit later because we've got you for a long time.
We've got you anyway. You're fucked.
Drug trafficking, multi-count indictment, prostitution charges. Akron police vice detectives contend his Yale Street halfway house was just a ruse for a brothel.
Right. Federal authorities are accusing this Richard Beasley of kidnapping and wire fraud as their investigation grows as well.
It's identity theft. It's all sorts of shit.
He's in so much trouble. Every bit of trouble you can imagine.
The prosecutor said that Rich is a suspect in a very violent crime and asked the judge to give him no bond. He also said there's a detainer on him from Ohio and Texas.
So all sorts of shit. He's not going in.
Hold him here. So they do.
They hold him, and that's that here. The new charges now are murder charges later.
That's going to mean that he's getting his bail completely revoked. It was at millions, and now it's gone.
They brought him into the courtroom in a wheelchair. Oh, he's pulling that shit.
Yep. He's like Vince McMahon going for a steroid trial with a big neck brace on.
This is crazy. So on an unrelated drug trafficking charge, he makes his first appearance.
He's dressed in a black and white striped jail garb and kept his hands folded and his head down the whole time. Wow.
So the reporter learns that Beasley told his mother during a telephone call that he believes he suffered a stroke.

In prison?

In prison or in jail.

Yeah.

They said the gray-haired 300-pound Beasley normally walks with a cane because of a back injury. Yeah.
But he told deputies he was unsteady on his feet before his court appearance and they put him in a wheelchair. Jesus Christ.
So he writes a letter to the Beacon Journal, to the newspaper. This is crazy.
It's a four-page letter. He doesn't mention the murders or anything like that.
What he does mention is his ministry work with the Akron Bible Church, his halfway house, which he said he purchased with his own money. Yeah, but you rent prostitutes.
That doesn't matter. You pimp people out of it.
He provided housing and food to more than 100 people who came and went from the shelter. He also helped to feed 40 to 60 families a month out of his house and car and provided weekly Bible studies for those seeking God.
Counseling came at all hours of the day, he said. Who paid for this? I did.
Oh, well, let's let him go then. I think this is crazy.
He said, I had a financial settlement from a traffic crash that I injured my back in and spent most of it to help others and got almost no financial help from anyone. This is the thanks I get? This is the thanks I get jail now.
Damn it. He also wrote that he spent three years on the church staff helping people, mostly drug addicts and alcoholics, and the mentally challenged, even the homeless who were charged with a crime and facing the possibility of prison.
He said he appeared in court on behalf of defendants three to four times a month for three years. After just one year of work, he was ordained by the church pastor, Reverend Randy Baker, as a chaplain.
Good, great guy. Great guy, Randy Bakes.
He said, I was very well known for these things, but I never looked for credit on this earth. A number of people from doctors and judges and lawyers and preachers and the homeless can stand witness to these facts.
While helping drug addicts, he made drug dealers unhappy, he said. That's the problem.
I've been set up by drug dealers. They did this.
Yeah, because I got, you know, someone was a crackhead, and I got him off crack. The drug dealer was like, hey, where's my customer? Because that's what they do.
They're used to real customers. And they're furious now.
I took some of their income out. That's what he said.
He said that because of that, that's what happened. He said that a number of people from the doctors they can even back me up he said so he said i helped domestic violence victims and that angered spouses so i have angry husbands angry drug dealers violent people after me yeah he said yeah he said at times he had to sanction people who violated rules at his transitional home and they would get mad at him okay he point is I have enemies, but for the right reasons.
I'm a boat rocking son of a bitch. That's what it is.
So when you quote someone as a family friend who says something horrible about me, you better believe that's not a family friend. Okay.
In interviews with the Beacon Journal after Beasley's arrest, the reverends grew uncomfortable with his charity work, said after a while particularly his housing of female residents there and they called him a con man uh-huh so that was the people he was saying cool back him up right and uh he said that he took issue with this portrayal as as a christian con man who used his position as a chaplain of and a halfway house operator as a front for prostitution and drug dealing. That is ridiculous.
I won't stand for that. He said, to call me a con man when I sacrifice for others is wrong.
To turn their backs on me is not following Christ's example. I gave three full years of my life to that ministry, and what I got out of it was the satisfaction of doing the right thing.
There was no con to it. I lived in an old inner city house, drove old cars and got up in the middle of the night, unaccountable time, uncountable times to answer any calls for help.
I gave away most all I had and got almost nothing in return. These are not the actions of a con man.
Yeah. Jesus never got my voicemail i got up and did it i'd fucking did it

he didn't do shit where's he it's me i did what he said and he also says he feels betrayed by brogan's apparent cooperation with detective oh that's the answer yep he said that's it and the detective said he's he's emotional state is very distraught he's very concerned yeah it hurts That's when a guy you gave everything to for half his life turns on you.

Turns on you. And fucking, all he had to do was kill for you and help you murder people.
So Brogan appears in court and he's being held on aggravated murder and attempted murder, obviously. Now, he's expected to be tried as an adult.
Okay. Because he's 16 16 the murder robberies benefited Beasley though and that's what his lawyer says he said he didn't get shit from this and they said well we found a shotgun in his room that belonged to David Pauly so he did get some shit out of it he stole a gun and he's too young you can only shotgun at any age yeah I they said that, for instance, they said that doesn't mean anything because his lawyers are saying that, yeah, that's what the guy who, some abusive older guy gave him a shotgun, and they likened it to getting molested by your uncle, and then he buys you a toy.
Okay. He's like, but there is no crime for you getting molested by your uncle.
You're helping. It's not an apples-to-apples analogy.
On his side, too, if a guy that just murdered people hands you a weapon, you might hang on to that. He might grab that just in case.
Just in case the guy comes back for you. Maybe he'll need this, yeah.
They said that he can't be jailed with adults, and he'll remain in the juvenile system until after his deal. Outside the courtroom, they talk about the possibility of a deal for Brogan.
Good. They said, I don't know if it'll happen this quick this month, but we got to deal with him here.
That could spare him the maximum penalty, life in prison without the possibility of parole. Wow.
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What the fuck are they going to do? So he has to go to trial. He's charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder, a count of attempted murder related to Scott Davis and also shitloads of other felonies you can imagine here.
So the prosecutors say about him, he's a student in the art of robbery, deception, and murder. Yes.
They said he's an able student, too. Oh.
They said all that shit. They said the state can offer alternative theories for the murder, you know, for what happened, because he's going to say that, you know, the rich did everything, but we have alternate theories.
This poor a part of life where size works against you because oh yeah everybody thinks a monster is giant and when a giant walks into a room accused of a quiet giant yeah yeah accused of monster crimes it's bad you're better off going oh he's harmless he looks harmless you're better off being like five four hundred pounds meek and mild yep no that tiny man butchered people no no way not a chance not a fucking but this giant six foot five and and doesn't look just as wide that's tough 16 looks 25 yeah so they call uh they call him a willing participant in the slayings and say that he's the other half of this criminal enterprise. Horrific monster duo.
Fuck. So records, cell phone records, they noted, will place Beasley and Rafferty, Brogan and Rich, in close proximity to the victims.
Brogan Rafferty, he said, had a chance after chance after chance, and he made the choices. He made the choices he wanted to make.
He made the choices that that he needed to make he did he made the choice well i mean that's what it is and an apparent uh attempt to show that he acted knowingly and purposefully uh he went back to the student thing he said brogan rafferty was a student but that what what was he a student of at that point he was a student of violent crime and he was learning He was learning how to bury people. He was the driver.
He was the hole digger. And ladies and gentlemen, the state contends he was the other half of this criminal enterprise.
He was the other hand. Yeah.
The defense says, I mean, you know, shit. They stress that he's only 16.
Yeah. Jesus Christ.
He said that this guy, Beasley, came into his life when he was seven years old. So he's like a father to him.
He's the other hand of a body that's not ambidextrous. You know what I mean? Yeah.
He's the left weak hand. Well, he's definitely not an equal to this guy.
Right. That's the thing.
That's my point. Yeah, he's not an equal.
So they said, you know, he said this Beasley was the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing. And he tricked this guy.

He said that Brogan had absolutely no idea how dark this man could be.

He lured him in with church and helping and being kind to him.

And, you know, life's necessities.

Things.

Yeah.

Food, water, shelter, shit like that.

Not a crackhead.

Yeah.

Watching me.

Things like that.

A shirt.

They said that also if he didn't do what Rich wanted, that Brogan feared Rich would kill him and his mother and his sister. Right, right.
Because they got a mother and sister. He threatened them.
That's what they say. They said this was a period of horror over four months.
They said that under Ohio law, that would be acting under duress, which means you're not guilty. Yeah.
It's not guilty if you didn't actually do it, not guilty if you're severely mentally yeah it's not guilty if you didn't actually do it not guilty if you're severely mentally ill or not guilty if you acted under duress if i hold a gun to your head and say shoot that guy you're not guilty of murder yeah that's under duress holding a gun to the guy's head in seven with the sword dick yes that guy that guy's not guilty not guilty it's duress that's duress man but duress isn, come on, let's just do this. That's not, duress isn't I talked you into it.
Duress is actual duress. Be much cooler if you did.
Yeah, it's not going to be much cooler if you did shoot him. Yeah.
So he told the jury that that would be duress, and an independent psychologist, he say, will testify that Rafferty didn't voluntarily do any of this. Oh, my God.
Which is not a bad defense. But at the same time, it doesn't fly, really.

It's a pretty good defense in the option of what...

If it happened once.

Right.

But the alternative to guilty, it's pretty...

I mean, it's the only defense they have.

It's all you got.

Because they have Scott Davis as a witness.

So you're fucked. And some of the dead people's stuff is in his house.
What they need is Tim Kern. They need him to be like, he's a nice kid.
He tried to help me. Yeah.
So Scott Davis testifies to what we told you happened. And there's short cross-examination of him.
He says that they ask him, when this happened, when you were shot, Brogan Raff nowhere around was he and he said no he wasn't because that was the one time brogan hung back right by the car which is very interesting it might help him brogan testifies he's gotta he's gotta show he's a human being and not a silent monster there two hours of questioning from his attorney here he recounted his childhood how he met beasley how he became friends with him how his mom's a crackhead it was dad beat the shit out of him um during about an hour of cross-examination he tried to explain how he remained how and why he remained silent about the killings for four months even when he was questioned at first by law enforcement because at first he didn't give it up yeah and then eventually he was like all right fine they're like we have look at this you at shoney's see you there there you're at the waffle house eating powdered eggs come on look at this terrible shit you know you had the shits terrible later on here uh they talked about how by the time he was 10 that beasley was there for him it didn't matter that beasley was an ex-con he said he was his father's friend and you know that's that was good enough for him yeah um yeah so they talked about how um he could quote bible verses with the best ministers and to brogan rich was quote basically a brother with a different last name a spiritual mentor a counselor of sorts yeah especially if your parents are like you hang out with this guy it's good so brogan said he couldn't talk about God with his father, but I could go to Rich. He also said he could go to him with any problems I was having.
That included weekly church services, talking about life lessons. Also included Beasley driving the streets of Akron looking for Rafferty's mother, who on occasion would disappear, looking for crack.
Helped him look for her. He'd go, will you help me look for my mom? She's out.
Oh, God. She out she's out on a mission right now yeah so brogan said that he also rarely spent time with his mother and didn't remember being with her often before he turned 10 he said he loves her and worries about her safety when she's on the streets and he said beasley's the one person i could go to he's the one person i could tell anything i thought he was a great.
He was like the father I never had. Wow.
They said, did that relationship change? And he said, absolutely. That was the morning he murdered the man in front of me, and I didn't think he was the same guy after that.
So Brogan said that he was left in a surreal world on August 9, 2011, when out of nowhere, Beasley put a gun to the back of Ralph Geiger's head and pulled the trigger. He said, that split second, I didn't think it was real.
It was like I was slipping into a dream or something like that. I felt like I had ice in my veins.
He thought the three were in Noble County to show Geiger a farm. He said, I didn't even know we were going to kill him yeah he said uh where the homeless man would work he said that later on he learned that rich intended to kill geiger and assume his identity as well he said he must have been you know because he knew he was on the lam from the cops and all that kind of shit after the first killing he said then rich threatened to harm my mother or sister if he said a word about it yeah he said those threats lasted for four months two killings and an attempt on another man's life, two more killings.
Brogan said that he didn't trust police, and he feared going to his father or church friends, believing that Rich would somehow kill his family, because he'd find out. He said that he had witnessed Beasley callously kill an innocent man and believed him capable of anything.
He said, there was nobody for me to turn to. He said, I had to go with it or die.
I didn't have a choice. Wow.
So when Beasley called him in October to drive to see another man in Noble, he said, I went along. He said he dug a grave the night before the visit, unsure if the ground was for him or the next victim.
Right. He said that it turned out the grave was for Dave Pauley.
We talked about him. He said the threats continued through November 6th when Brogan and Rich went to Noble County to meet Scott Davis.
And he said at one point near where Pauly was buried that Rich followed Davis out of Brogan's car. He said I hated to be a part of it.
I wanted to be out of it. During the walk Rich Rich's gun jammed and Davis escaped with an injured arm.
And he said that pissed Rich off. He was pissed off.
He said, I was happy he got away, though. I didn't want him to be dead.
So during all of this, he said that he often considered suicide, Brogan said, while this whole thing was going on. He said at one point he aimed a gun at his own head, but he felt that if he didn't kill himself, that Rich would kill himself.
Rich would kill him. So he said the last killing happened with Tim Kern, and he describes that.
Now, for cross-examination, they say, how come in at least four interviews that you gave to police investigating the case, in the first three you never mentioned Kern, Geiger, or the alleged threats to your family family why'd you wait till the fourth interview to say that you were scared of him you didn't say that at first and he also pointed out a number of occasions when brogan could have fled or defended himself with one of the firearms he obtained through the killings yeah you're almost twice the man's size that's that's the hard part like with the dean coral and the henley thing henley killed dean coral and then went to the cops and told him where all the bodies were buried. And he still got fucking life in prison.
And he, I mean, that's. Without him, they got nothing.
He slayed the monster and solved all your missing cases. And they went, well, you're as guilty as anybody.
Wow, that's amazing. So he said that, you know, Raph Brogan said that he thought his family would be killed.
He said, I gave myself until January tops. I was there to do what Beasley told me to do until my time was up.
Weird way to put it. In closings, prosecutors said, Richard Beasley's a murderer.
He's a liar. He's a manipulator.
But that doesn't take Brogan Rafferty off the hook. They're partners in the murder of innocent people killed execution style in the woods.
He said, and Brogan is essentially a starry-eyed, eager apprentice who Rich confided in and groomed into a cold-blooded killer. They're not, they're like, they groomed him into it, but he, he.
He was willing. He was a willing participant of the grooming.
He pushed him out of the nest, but this motherfucker flapped his wings is what they're trying to say here. So he said Beasley was brutally honest with one person, and that's Brogan Rafferty.
He was brutally honest with Brogan Rafferty, and they knew each other and every one of their darkest secrets. Mr.
Beasley is a murderer. He's a liar.
But Mr. Beasley is also a teacher.
Mr. Beasley was the teacher in this situation.
And Brogan Rafferty was the student. Now, the defense said, think about Rich Beasley and who he is and how he found this guy.
Think about how he goes out on the street and picks up stray people to use them and to fucking. He turned out 20 women in a minute.
And a guy. In no time flat.
We don't know for what purposes. So he said that they said the teen was an easy mark.
He said, you know, his childhood born to a crackhead and left to fend for himself as a kindergartner by his working father who beat the shit out of him. And then seven years old or so, here comes this nice guy being interested in him and spending time with him and taking him to the places he wants to go.
said about beasley he finds their vulnerabilities and hooks them he says that he was able to hook grab and pull brogan into the situation that he never wanted to be in he exploited brogan's vulnerabilities and uh brogan said that he was unaware of the bogus craigslist ad which i don don't know how you would be. That doesn't seem possible.

He knew.

That's crazy.

How else did he get these people?

How did he not know?

That's what I mean.

They said they also had no idea that Geiger was being driven to Noble County not for work

to be shot, the first guy, and robbed.

He said that after Beasley shot the unsuspecting man, that's when he was told to dig a grave.

So he made him dig a grave. He said afterwards he was threatened with the death of his mother and sister.
He said there was no line that Rich Beasley wouldn't cross. This kid had no choice but to do what he did.
So deliberations come here. It took 90 minutes just to read the jury instructions.
90 minutes? All those charges and the multiple tiers of them, 60 pages of legal instructions. That's a lot.
Usually it takes a while, but an hour and a half is a long time. Yeah.
So he could receive a life sentence here. That's how it goes.
The panel, they deliberate for 20 hours over four days. A lot of talking.
Yeah. That's a lot of talking.
The verdict comes in. He is found guilty on 24 of 25 counts.
One not. One not guilty.
Those included nine aggravated murder counts for three victims, attempted murder, multiple counts of robbery and kidnapping, gun specifications, and several theft-related charges. As an adult.
As an adult. Uh-oh.
They acquitted him on one count of identity theft and several gun specifications so basically the same thing they were charging the other guy with everything yeah some of them they said they're partners yeah we walked in identical we walk into the liquor store together like the old disclaimer that's it um afterwards reporters were trying to get brogan to say something and he just said nothing to say as he walked away. This is bad.

So the jurors here, jurors Dana Nash and Michael Lewis of Akron, they interviewed them and they said it was Brogan's contradictory changing words from the witness stand and during recorded interviews with law enforcement that fucked him. Yeah.

They said, we was kind of skeptical, Nash said, because he was kind of contradicting himself during his testimony.

And some of his interviews. Luckily, we took good notes.
Oh, I bet they were spelled perfectly. And the evidence was there.
You wrote his self in there. Yes.
The other juror agreed, saying Brogan had plenty of occasions from the first killing to the last one to contact police. Instead, he dug graves for Beasley, drove him to the rural Noble County, and shared in stealing the victim's property after they were dead.
He said that Brogan had every opportunity to get away with him. It was really hard to decide, though.
There was a lot of deep thoughts because of him being 16. So they agreed that the youth made it hard, the fact that he was young.
He was 16 and a junior in high school. They said, we were trying to be fair, and we were fair.
We came up with the right decision. It was very difficult for us, because like I said, he's a child, and it was very hurtful.
Okay. Sentencing comes up.
You, sir, may fuck off life in prison. Oh, my God.
Without? Without. At 17.
All right. So that's a long life, man.
Don't fuck up in Ohio. Don't fuck up there.
2013, Rich Beasley's trial. Death penalty on the table for him.
He was 16, so that wasn't possible for Brogan. You can't sentence a child to death.
Death penalty on the table here. Scott Davis testifies.
Yeah. And they ask about, is that the tattoo you saw on his arm? And say, yes, it is.
Yes, it is. Also, people Scott ran to testify.
The people from the house say he came pale and frightened, saying someone was trying to rob him and shot at him. Right.
They talk about all the bullets that were recovered, the ballistic matches. Rich testifies.

You have to.

He's got no choice. This guy's fingering you right in front of everybody.
He said he's innocent and has actually been targeted by one alleged victim who survived. He said, I had no idea that somebody, anybody had been killed down on that farm.
I had no way of knowing, even though I stole his identity. Didn't know.
Yeah. he uh also he denied any of involvement in the tax and said the lone survivor scott davis actually was there to kill him scott davis was the hit man what is going on he said this was in retaliation for being a snitch on a motor for snitching on a motorcycle gang investigation in akron a couple years ago he said and when and when he met Scott Davis, he said Davis was the one that pulled the gun on him.
He said it misfired three times about two feet from my face, and I ran into the woods and he ran after me. He said that, yeah, they wrestled on the muddy ground, and Davis ended up firing six shots.
Quote, I said, that's your six. So if he was going to kill me, he was going to have to do it with his hands.
Oh, for fuck's sake. That's what he said.
So then how the fuck was he shot in the elbow? That's the point. It's ridiculous.
The prosecutor says truth runs a straight line. This is a crooked mess.
Yeah, this man is out of his mind telling a story. He said this is all Richardasley's show.
He said, he dragged a 16-year-old. You should fucking be extra mad at him for what he did to the child.
In the defense clothes, I hate to be this defense guy. He said, yep, he was a snitch.
He informed on criminal bikers and it was Davis who was sent to the farm to eliminate him. He said he brought his own handgun,

then lied to sheriff's investigators who first asked him if he had a gun.

It was Scott Davis.

He did have a gun?

Not on him, but somewhere in his car and his shit, whatever.

Yeah, we find out that here.

He says, quote, they're talking about Davis,

and they said, why would you believe him?

He said, why is this person with a swastika tattooed on his right hand any more credible than Richard Beasley? Look, you're all scum, okay? That's to say, if you have a swastika tattoo, you're a piece of shit. Probably.
Unless someone pinned you down and forced it. And even then I would color it in.
If you got it tattooed on your chest because you got a bad rap and went to prison and had to blend in. Still a piece of shit.
But on your hand? On your hand. Don't care.
Visible. Visible to the world all day.
First thing they see. You got to wear gloves to make that go away.
That's wild. Oh, boy.
So, Verda comes in. He's found guilty of every fucking thing in the world here murder of three

attempted murder of a fourth and he just shook his head while they read it really this is bullshit okay absolute bullshit um yeah uh it's wild sentencing comes around and um the prosecutor said the law in ohio is for the death penalty it's reserved for the worst of the worst and it's the state's position that Richard Beasley is the worst of the fucking worst.

Truth.

Richard's Rich's family comes on. Really? Carol, his church mom, said her son had a troubled childhood, suffered physical abuse by a stepfather, and she just learned recently that he had been sexually molested by neighborhood youngsters.
Okay. So he has to kill everyone when he that's what happens yeah 50 years later he said i always felt she said i always felt there was much more than he told me a defense psychologist uh said that beasley suffers from depression alcohol abuse low self-esteem and a feeling of isolation which probably is for murdering people i don't know man start writing jokes i've been there that's what i mean we've all had shitty lives and we've got we got funny that's the thing we all have those same fucking traits man yeah this is we got funny this guy killed people he got murdered fucked up so the here it comes you sir yeah may fuck off death penalty yeah he's the yeah that's the poster child.
You can't do that to people. And they said, by the way, now the gag order's up.
So they said, what happened with the deal with Brogan? And they said, why didn't he testify? And they said, but he said he wouldn't testify unless he could get a chance of parole. And they said, we weren't willing to do that.
Is that right? Because they thought they had him dead to rights anyway. They had a guy say he tried to murder me, so it was hard.
They talked to Rich in prison. The GQ article talks, the GQ guy goes to talk to Rich in prison.
And it's wild, man. He chose, he spoke to him, huh? Yep.
He says that, this is a quote, he says that it's not hard to like Rich Beasley right away. When I first met him him sitting in a navy prison pants in the visitors hall at chillicoff correctional institute which is in uh situated in farmland south of columbus he says he stands and greets me with a commiserating smile that says can you believe it the world is so fucked up but what did we really expect anything different he called his hand an overboiled ham hock ew yeah and he says i don't know he says i have to admit i don't get gq magazine i get easy riders magazine and something called armchair general about military history i also read the week cover to cover every week yeah wow i never get gq in here so they tell him you seem like a guy people feel comfortable with and he says that uh yeah people say that uh-huh he said i accepted jesus as my savior when i was 12 i was baptized and that's all the baptizing i need according to my religion and they said so you you think that you're fine in the afterlife and everything goes totally good i got baptized when i was 12 and then you murdered people he says well i believe you'll go to heaven if you accept jesus christ into your heart as your savior doesn't matter they said you don't have to confess to anyone he said you don't have to confess to god you have to confess to god and ask forgiveness do you know the story of king david you're of jewish descent right aren't you gu you know he put five extra e's in that he killed a man and had an adulterous affair and he was the apple of God's eye.
And they said, that's it. Confess to God and you're in heaven.
And he said, that's it. That's what I'll do.
Score. Yeah.
Talks to Brogan in prison. Brogan is like, they said he seems like he's like 20 eight.
He's this huge guy. Nobody fucks with him because he carries himself quiet and like an adult.
Yeah. And he looks like an adult and he's a big guy.
So nobody really fucks with him that much here. He does.
He does knuckle pushups every morning. He said, after returning from breakfast, I do my hygiene, brush my teeth.
After that, I try to straighten up the cell, make my bed, make coffee, fix the stuff on the floor. No one knows how old I am in here because I'm old school.
I carry myself as if I were i look like i'm mid-20s plus they think i'm this crazy killer the serial killer so they still steer clear of me how about that interesting um absolutely um he they said what do you think about uh rich and he said to me he was just death when i first thought when i thought of him it was death rich was death incarnate they asked and he said yes how about that he is six foot five and a quote-unquote serial killer he's never killed a soul never killed anybody well um he said he he told me i know where your mother lives i know where your sister lives and uh he would check on me every day and i just thought that was that so he's in there 2017 2017, Rich's artwork is on his website. Really? Yes.
Murderbilia bullshit website here. And I guess the families were angered that someone would try to profit from the works of a serial killer.
Now, they're not allowed to sell those themselves. But you can give them to your family, and then they can do what they want with them so do whatever then they can they want to put your shit in your commissary then that's how it works here so um yeah they said it's a big deal people are very mad because of the son of sam law but they've gone around this a lot he said he has a response he's mad that people are mad yeah rich rich says the taxpayers of the state of ohio better thank god that some inmates do uh do sell artwork he said if they did not then every prison in the state of ohio would burn and a lot of prison officers would be dead or in the hospital what is that because we've got money we can buy things otherwise we'd we'd riot.
Supermax prisons. That never happens.

He said,

other people are free to sell my paintings as per the law,

as I read it.

And I'm free to sell my paintings if they were painted before my conviction and therefore unrelated to my crime.

Okay.

He said,

there are however,

no such paintings currently in my possession,

nor is there any chance that there will be.

All right.

So,

um,

yeah,

that's,

that's fucking wild.

So he's,

he's still in prison.

Um,

I would say not dead yet.

I don't think. Still in prison, hasn't been killed, and Brogan's there.
He appealed based on the fact that the governor's son was the judge, and he should have recused himself, and it didn't work out for him, so he's pretty fucked. It's tough stuff, man.
I don't think he's getting off on that one. No, I think you think you're gonna have to do the time they got him pretty he he's one of those guys that'll probably drop dead in there before he's fucking executed but brogan he's got a long boy oh boy that's a i'm okay to parole that guy in 30 years you think so yeah i am yeah i feel bad for him i feel bad for him but if he gets out i don't think he's gonna do shit i think didn't do anything.
I think he's going to go get a job and shut the fuck up and do his life. He didn't hurt anybody.

So I think that's all he's wanted is stability.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, the stability he had was just about helping a murderer.

That's it.

So there you go, everybody.

Caldwell, Ohio.

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His other brother, Cody. But it's just Zach with a K.
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Dana Ritchie. Janice McKay.
Lindsay Hall. Pumpkin with no last name.
Hannah with no last name. Agent Cody Banks, probably the real one, I'm sure.
Not even this actor. He's out driving now.
Sarah Smeg-White, yikes. Barbara Villalobos, reluctantly upbeat.
Letitia Cipriano, Alicia Kay, Liberty Marullo, Aaron McDougal. McDougal, yes.
Nikita Lynn Voorhees, Ellie Mankey, Candice Porter, Jessica Cullum, Kelly Greenwalt, Don LaChaw, Jennifer Lips, Allie Seven, Michelle Barker, A.R., Addie Deacon, Brooklyn with no last name, Amanda Ann, Jessica Coburn, Jody McGinnis, Miranda Beard, Adam Richards, Jesse Lopez, Kelly Beasley, Noah Holmes, Shanna Kara, Jenny Rump, Dionne, Diane Alexander, Chris with no last name, Brendan Page, Shandra with no last name, Sydney Felson, Edward Snook, Tyler Coates, Brad Taylor, Ted Steffi.

Nope, that's Todd.

Shanna Ereguin.

Donna Smith.

Timothy Heumann.

Aaron Hearn. Taco Truck.
Onassis. No last name.
Cy Cannon. Joseph Novak.
Michael York. Brie Tour.
What is that? Brie Tour? Brie Tour. I don't know.
It's Brie with like mature mature T-U-O. All right.

Alex with no last name.

Jennifer Mateus.

Trinity Perrin.

Steffi.

No, that's Stacey.

Bully.

Mel LaCava.

Nikki Gonzalez.

Roni with no last name.

Perhaps Ronnie.

Emily.

Birdsong.

Katie Mace.

Maze.

Mize.

Mass.

Horn.

Regal with no last name.

Rigel, perhaps.

Derek Mahaffey.

Ben Stewart. Mark Bust.
Patty Cake. Heather Kawaguchi.
Kawaguchi. Macy Fowler.
Leah Fidler. Don Shaw.
Tyler Seferi. Megan Wick.
Tammy Clemente. Aiden Mertucci.
Josh Finley. Aaron Eric.
Bircher, Bobby Snyder, Alicia Rose, Zachary Norton, Benfield, Patricia, Patricia, Patricia Moran, Christian Steenport, Katie Boland, Pam Van Shy, she perhaps, Comey Merdare, 69, I don't know what that is. Travis WTAF, Stephanie Clark, Isaiah the Savage, 13, though, because there's 12 others.
Drea King, Sierra Stribling, Stribling, Dennis G, Derek Hughes, Josh Zulo, Nancy with no last name, Sean McQueen, Jen Rodriguez, B. Kubacko, Sol Rivera, Kimmy with no last name, Ashley Sanchez, Christian with no last name, Jess with no last name, Grim Sife, Alex Sweetcheek, Stotes, L, the letter L, Miss Dr.
Aaron. You've earned it.
Just Dr. Aaron.
It's fine. Abigail McDermott, Gary Currier, Nikki Sattow, Philimony, Philimony Saga.
Palluti? Oh. Pallutele.
That is a handle. I don't know.
Rebecca Schweitzer. Rob Hall.
Vanishing Point. Merit Anderson.
Briag and Sirion. What the fuck is that? Zach Hines.
What the fuck are you? Chris Williams. Mango with no last name rebecca tierney steve and renata uh with no

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