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On New Year’s Eve 1992, 17 year old honor roll student, candidate for the Ivy League upon graduation from high school, and son of a prominent Orange County, California physician, Stuart Tay left his home, telling his little sister he was off to run an errand. He never came back. In a story that shocked the nation, stunned that a group of Asian American high school students - top of the class, straight A having, future valedictorians were possibly involved in some serious criminal activity - I would argue, especially by today’s standards, that the background of these kids isn’t as shocking as one may think. Listen now to what exactly this apparently model students did when one of the plans to commit a violent crime went off the rails. https://spotlight.newsreview.com/california-endowment/community/activists-seek-justice-reform-for-youth-sentenced-as-adults/ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,160910,00.html https://www.dorkaholics.com/stuart-tay-honor-roll-murder/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-08-mn-55177-story.html https://goldsea.com/Features2/Murders/murders2.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-02-01-9303174606-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-08-mn-43653-story.html

On April 17th, 1996 into the small hours of the 18th, popular and well-like San Diego resident Dusty Harless noticed a young man in his car talking to his girlfriend as she stood under an awning getting shelter from the rain. This caused Dusty to lose his temper. A fight in the street ensued, leaving Dusty bleeding to death on the ground and his apparent killer fleeing the scene. The investigation resulted in the arrest of another San Diego man named David Genzler, who would go on to claim he acted in self-defense. Who would the jury believe? https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20140221_070000_Forensic_Files http://vots.altervista.org/CA/Genzler.html https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2017/03/16/dusty-harless-loose-ends/ https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2017/03/09/dusty-harless-death-by-testosterone/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FAfm0cNn-M https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1484519.html

American Journalist and writer Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War Veteran, having fought many battles under the command of President Abraham Lincoln. After the war, he chased his childhood dream of become a writer, the be ranked with the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain. And he found himself some moderate success as he wrote for publications across the United States from San Francisco to New York…as well as across the pond, in London, England. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with not really achieving the kind of fame he’d hope for…when he was 71 years old, he set off for what would be his last adventure…never to be seen again. What happened to Ambrose Bierce? https://www.donswaim.com/bierce-chronology.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-DmmqGklh0 http://www.ambrosebierce.org/ https://americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierce/short-story/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge

After struggling with the loss of both of his parents in the span of 4 years, the demise of his marriage, a debilitating motorcycle accident leaving him with severe spinal cord injuries, and the theft of his only source of income - his plumbing van and equipment, compounded with perceived harassment by the City of San Diego, the police department and the local hospital, 35 year old Shawn Nelson seemingly snapped one day in May of 1995. In the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19th, 1995, Shawn decided he needed to do something big if he was ever going to be heard. Listen to what Shawn would do in order to get the attention of those he felt had wronged him… https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/sdut-tank-rampage-story-symbol-2015may16-htmlstory.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fsnw_QUXU&t=2793s https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-19-mn-3459-story.html

In 2012, teenager George Hang lost his father to cancer. Three years later, his mother, Eva, would find out she was meeting the same fate. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2015, she made a drastic decision about her future, and the future of her son. PROMO: EVIDENCE OF A CRIME HOSTED BY FERN https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-mother-murder-mental-20170514-htmlstory.html

Warning: This episode contains explicit language and content involving sexual assault, gun violence, and suicide and is not suitable for young listeners and may be triggering for some. Listener discretion is advised. Today, we discuss the tragic murder of a young, rising star in Hollywood who starred in a number of popular television sitcoms. And in a story within a story, we will discuss the life experiences of a staff writer who had a chance encounter with someone close to the case. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763332/ https://news.amomama.com/178479-glimpse-tragic-death-age-26-merlin-santa.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP_UXzG8uo https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1944708/ https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-06-16-troubling-details-about-this-is-us-writer-jas-waters-emerge-after-suicide/ https://soundcloud.com/thebrilliantidiots/men-too-feat-jas-water-jasfly

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DETAILS INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND MAY BE DISTURBING FOR SOME LISTENERS. YOU WILL BE PROMPTED TO SKIP TWO SECTIONS OF THIS EPISODE IF YOU SO CHOOSE TO BYPASS THE MOST GRAPHIC DETAILS. LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. In 2000 and 2001, a serial rapist was sneaking into women’s houses at night, gaining entry through their window. On his third attempt to get into a home to attack yet another woman, he was arrested as he tried to flee. Having injured himself in his attempts to get in her window, he cut himself, leaving blood on her windowsill. When the DNA was entered into the database, it came back as a match to DNA collected from the two previous rapes in the area, to a man named Darrin Fernandez. But there was a catch…Darrin has an identical twin brother named Damien. And they would end up pointing the finger at one another as the perpetrator of these crimes. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15107687/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/t/blood-brothers/#.X0iihshKjIU     https://www.wcvb.com/article/prosecutors-look-to-new-dna-testing-in-twin-cases/8208453     https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2005/scene_wolfson_sepoct05.msp     https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20060323/News/303239972     https://www.verywellfamily.com/identical-twins-and-dna-2447117#:~:text=At%20this%20time%2C%20the%20technology,changes%20that%20exist%20in%20twins.   https://www.foxnews.com/us/dna-genetic-genealogy-helping-to-solve-the-coldest-of-cold-cases  

WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE On July 28, 2008, wife, mother, and co-founder of Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Pamela Fayed was stabbed to death on the 3rd level of a parking garage in Century City, California. When investigators found out she was in the midst of a contentious divorce, as well as facing a federal investigation into their online gold buying and selling business, they turned their attention to Pamela’s estranged husband, James Fayed. But when Pamela was murdered, James was captured on video elsewhere NOT murdering her. Listen to how the investigation eventually revealed a conspiracy to murder Pamela; a plan rooted in greed and control https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4741522/people-v-fayed/ https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20170918_000000_Dateline_Extra https://dbo.ca.gov/money-transmitter-division/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-gold-dealers-make-money-stewart-lawson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zErovUh-OxA

Elijah ‘Running Bear’ Diaz, a 20 year old member of The Barona Native American Tribe was suffering from severe health ailments related to type 1 diabetes when he went missing from his home in El Cajon, California on August 29th, 2015. While a few things seemed amiss at his home, nothing indicated he had been a victim of foul play. It was as if he vanished into thin air. His mother, Leilani, has searched tirelessly for her missing son ever since, though she has declared him deceased. What happened to Bear Diaz? https://www.reddit.com/r/Disappeared/comments/67d71u/bear_diaz/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cduf0kbO-c http://charleyproject.org/case/elijah-runningbear-diaz http://www.bringbearhome.com/

On May 19th, 1977, 20 year old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from Eugene, Oregon to Westwood, California to surprise a friend on her birthday. Colleen made it about 3/4ths of the way when she accepted a ride on what she though would be the final leg of her journey, from a young couple, who also had a 7 month old baby in the car with them. Colleen would never make it to her destination, as she would end up being kidnapped an held captive for the next 7 years, as this man’s personal sex slave. Listen now to this first part of Colleen’s harrowing story… https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1771222.html   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/16/girl-in-box-kidnapper-parole-hearing/25888837/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPSYyGhCfk   https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/sexual-sadism-disorder#:~:text=Sexual%20sadism%20refers%20to%20causing,spanking%2C%20whipping%2C%20or%20beating.   http://charleyproject.org/case/marie-elizabeth-spannhake   http://archive.redding.com/news/redding-woman-charged-in-2003-murder-case-may-be-going-back-to-prison-ep-299272400-353669441.html/  

On May 19th, 1977, 20 year old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from Eugene, Oregon to Westwood, California to surprise a friend on her birthday. Colleen made it about 3/4ths of the way when she accepted a ride on what she though would be the final leg of her journey, from a young couple, who also had a 7 month old baby in the car with them. Colleen would never make it to her destination, as she would end up being kidnapped an held captive for the next 7 years, as this man’s personal sex slave. Listen now to this first part of Colleen’s harrowing story… https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1771222.html   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/16/girl-in-box-kidnapper-parole-hearing/25888837/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPSYyGhCfk   https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/sexual-sadism-disorder#:~:text=Sexual%20sadism%20refers%20to%20causing,spanking%2C%20whipping%2C%20or%20beating.   http://charleyproject.org/case/marie-elizabeth-spannhake   http://archive.redding.com/news/redding-woman-charged-in-2003-murder-case-may-be-going-back-to-prison-ep-299272400-353669441.html/  

This is the 3rd and final part of our series entitled the Tale of Jussie Smollett’s Hate Crime Hoax. In the early morning hours of January 29, 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was attacked by 2 masked men outside his Chicago apartment as he walked home from getting some food. The men shouted racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett, told him this was MAGA country (a reference to support for President Trump) and they punched him. As they fought, the men would pour bleach on Smollett and loop a rope fashioned into a noose around his neck before running off into the night. Love and support poured in from around the country for Jussie Smollett, some even calling this hate crime a modern day lynching. The ensuing investigation would eventually reveal there was much more to the story than first thought. https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-alleged-jussie-smollett-attack/story?id=61124090 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9vVMNi4N0 https://pagesix.com/2020/06/10/jussie-smollett-demands-transparency-from-cops-handling-his-case/   https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/opinions/jussie-smollett-charges-we-are-the-problem-bailey/index.html   https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/7/6/21314661/jussie-smollett-lawyers-wont-get-access-records-chicago-police-superintendent-eddie-johnson-firing   https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/12/judge-tosses-out-jussie-smollett-s-double-jeopardy-claim

This is the 2nd part of a series entitled the Tale of Jussie Smollett’s Hate Crime Hoax. In the early morning hours of January 29, 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was attacked by 2 masked men outside his Chicago apartment as he walked home from getting some food. The men shouted racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett, told him this was MAGA country (a reference to support for President Trump) and they punched him. As they fought, the men would pour bleach on Smollett and loop a rope fashioned into a noose around his neck before running off into the night. Love and support poured in from around the country for Jussie Smollett, some even calling this hate crime a modern day lynching. The ensuing investigation would eventually reveal there was much more to the story than first thought. https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-alleged-jussie-smollett-attack/story?id=61124090 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9vVMNi4N0

In the early morning hours of January 29, 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was attacked by 2 masked men outside his Chicago apartment as he walked home from getting some food. The men shouted racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett, told him this was MAGA country (a reference to support for President Trump) and they punched him. As they fought, the men would pour bleach on Smollett and loop a rope fashioned into a noose around his neck before running off into the night. Love and support poured in from around the country for Jussie Smollett, some even calling this hate crime a modern day lynching. The ensuing investigation would eventually reveal there was much more to the story than first thought. https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-alleged-jussie-smollett-attack/story?id=61124090 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9vVMNi4N0

On March 10, 1928, single mom living in Los Angeles, Christine Collins had to go to her job at the phone switchboards. So, she gave her 9 year old son Walter money to go to the movies. He was never seen again. After an exhaustive investigation the LAPD, 5 months after Walter went missing, was told the boy was found in Illinois. He was sent by train to LA, but when he got off to be reunited with his mom, she took one look at him and said - this is not my son. But the LAPD forced her to take the boy. This is the story of the Changeling. https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/wineville-chicken-coop-murders/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/christine-collins https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/northcott-gordon.htm