53: The “Charming” Abuser Whose Mommy Issues Turned Him Into DEADLY Serial Killer – Shawn Grate

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Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing so well and
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welcome back to the Criminal Makeup Podcast. Each episode we
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dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals
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in history and today we are going to be talking
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about the case of Sean Great. So when I think
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of serial killers, my mind immediately goes to the 70s,
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the 80s, possibly the 90s. I'll admit, when I think
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of serial killers, I don't think of modern day serial killers. However,
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that is exactly what we're going to be talking about today,
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a modern serial killer. Because Sean Gray's serial killing spree
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did not come to an end until 2016. Yes, you
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heard that right, 2016, which I know is quite a
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while ago, but in my mind, that seems like a
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few years ago. And this makes Sean Great one of
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the worst and most prolific serial killers that has been
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seen in recent times. And Sean Great is just one
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of those people that seem to get away with everything.
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He is the definition of slippery. He thought that he
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could do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. And throughout
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his life, He was just never fully held accountable for
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his terrible actions. But not just that, Sean was also
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the worst kind of domestic abuser. He went on to
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have numerous girlfriends across many years and he treated them
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all in the most horrendous of ways. And this behaviour
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escalated and escalated until ultimately Sean Greatwood became One of
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the worst modern day serial killers out there. So we
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have a lot to get through today. I know I
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say that a lot, but today we do actually have
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a lot to get through. And this man is just
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the worst. So be prepared to get angry today, okay?
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So let's dive in. Sean Great was born on the
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8th of August, 1976, making him a Leo. He was
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born in Mariam, Ohio. And I really hope that that
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is how you pronounce that place in Ohio, because I
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tried to find how to pronounce it and I couldn't
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find it. And Sean lived with his parents, his dad,
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Terry Great, and his mom, Teresa McFarland. And Sean was
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the youngest of three siblings. Now, growing up, Sean didn't
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have a functional upbringing. The relationship between Sean's parents was
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very toxic. It was an environment where a lot of
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arguments happened. There was just always like that tension, that
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anger in the air, and Sean was actually neglected a lot.
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I don't really know what Sean's relationship was like with
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his dad because it wasn't really reported about, but I
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do know that Sean's relationship with his mom is a
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big source of tension. His relationship with his mom is strained,
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like to say the least. And his mom was not
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the best mom. She kind of prioritized herself over her children.
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She would always be partying. She would be drinking. She
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would take drugs. And those things always came before her children.
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And she would also just disappear for like a weekend
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at a time, drinking and partying. And she would just
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leave her children at home and kind of leave the
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children to look after themselves. And I don't really know where...
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Sean's dad fits in all of this. I don't really
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know if Sean's dad is at home or anything, but
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I do know that Sean's older sister was kind of
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the one that took the responsibilities on her shoulders to
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be the mom, to be the dad, to look after
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the household, to raise the kids. So Sean was essentially
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raised by his sister, not his mom. And Sean's sister
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has later on gone on and said that the household
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was not a loving one at all. There was no
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quality time spent together as a family. There was no bonding.
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None of them really had a relationship with each other
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other than the fact that they were blood related. Sean's
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mom also never said to Sean that she loved him.
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And as you can understand, Sean absolutely hated living in
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this environment. He did anything that he could to get
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attention from his parents and He found out that the
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only way to get attention from his parents was to
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act out, to get in trouble in some kind of
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way to cause chaos, because that is how his parents
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would show him attention. They would shout at him, which
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Sean kind of thought, well, at least they're showing me
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attention because if Sean was well behaved, he was just ignored.
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And Sean and his mom would argue all of the time.
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It is said that the relationship between the two was
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just a constant battle. And Sean also really struggled in school.
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He struggled with dyslexia. He was held back. in both
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kindergarten and first grade and he got teased a lot
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about this. He got teased that he was held back
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and also around this same time his parents also got
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divorced and I think it was kind of a messy divorce.
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Obviously their relationship was very toxic so Sean struggled a
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lot both at school and his home life and then
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when Sean was just 11 years old his mom just
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got up and left. And Sean was then placed in
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the care of his dad. And Sean didn't have a
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clue that his mom was going to leave. He went
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to school one day thinking that it was a normal day.
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And when the school day finished, his mom had left.
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His mom had packed up all of her things and
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left the state. And I can't even imagine how traumatic
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that would have been going to school thinking that you're
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going to return home to your mom after school, but
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then you don't because your mom has just gotten up, left,
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completely left the state without even saying goodbye because she
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just doesn't care. So Sean, from this moment on, lives
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with his dad. Sean was actually pretty talented. He was
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a promising baseball player. However, when he was 14 years old,
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a tumor was found in his arm and he later
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had to have some of the bone from his hip
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removed to replace the bone in his arm. And because
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of all of this, he was actually never able to
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play baseball again. And this had a huge impact Impact
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on Sean. I don't know if he wanted to be
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a professional baseball player. I don't even know if he
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was good enough to do that. But it was still
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a passion of his. And from this moment on, he
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could never play again. And this was the start of
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his depression. This is when it really set in. And
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from the age of 14, Sean turned to substances, drugs
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and alcohol to cope with his depression. And I think
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this really does explain some of the issues that Sean
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has and goes on to have. Because he's still only
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14 at this point, remember. And so far in his life,
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he has never felt in control of his life. He's
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always just felt like other people are making huge decisions
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that are impacting him. Even the tumor in his arm,
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he is not in control of that. He is now
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not able to play baseball. Again, something that is not
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in his control. And control... is a huge thing in
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this case. And then when he was around 16, so
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approximately five years since his mom left, his mom just
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randomly showed up again. And she demanded for Sean to
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move back in with her. And Sean was just like,
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hang on a minute, you just upped and left. without
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saying goodbye. You just randomly appear again and think you
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can pick up the role of being my mom again
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so quickly. And Sean refused to move back in with
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his mom. And since his mom had left, and especially
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at this point, he started to be really resentful of
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his mom. He started to have really hateful thoughts towards her.
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And he literally started to fantasize about the killing his mom.
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And Sean actually pitied his mom because his mom was
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addicted to drugs and alcohol and she was always out partying.
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And Sean saw her as pathetic and miserable. And when
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he was fantasizing about killing her, he was thinking to himself, well,
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she's really miserable and I want to take her out
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of her misery. As if, if he killed her, he
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would be doing her a favor. Sean just wanted to
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have a mom. That's pretty much all he wanted. He
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wanted to have the mom that he thought he deserved,
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and he wanted to feel in control of the relationship
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that he had with his mom. To sum Sean up,
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he has mommy issues, okay? And you can understand why
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he has mommy issues, but he decided to take that
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out on others. innocent people. Instead of trying to figure
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out his issues, maybe work through them, work through them
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with his mom, try and work through them in a
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healthy way, he decided not to do that, bottle it
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all up and explode and take it out on others.
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And psychologists after this case have concluded that Sean's mommy
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issues were a big root of why he did what
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he did. And you will definitely see the similarities between
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Sean's mom and who she is and maybe some of
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her characteristics with the victims that he chooses. So as
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Sean enters his later teenage years, and we're talking about
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18 years old now, another significant theme starts to emerge
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in his life, and that is his various relationships with
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different women. And as you can probably guess, Sean's relationship
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with women in general, but especially the women that he
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was seeing romantically, was not healthy. Sean has been described
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as a, quote, charmer. He was able to charm the ladies.
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He had no problem getting in relationships. But Sean in
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these relationships was very, very abusive. He managed to put
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on the charm, pretend to be this really nice person,
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to lure these women in. And then as soon as
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he got them, that is when the switch would flip.
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He has been described as a Jekyll and Hyde. And
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that is literally Sean. He would pretend to the outside world,
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to people that didn't really know him, that he was
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this really nice person. He would do anything for anyone.
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He was this charmer, good with the ladies, very friendly.
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But then the people that knew him and the people
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that were close to him, he was absolutely vile. Sean
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was a typical... narcissistic abuser. He was very, very controlling.
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He was controlling both mentally and physically. He was also
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very manipulative. What Sean would do when he was in
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relationships with people is that he would completely strip them
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of their identity. He controlled what they wore, who they
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were allowed to speak to, who they were allowed to see,
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where they went, what kind of job they had. He
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pretty much controlled every single aspect of their lives. And
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if they ever broke up, he would stalk them. He
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would not leave them alone. So there was this one ex.
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I don't know their names, by the way. I think
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most of the people that are involved in this case
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that are still alive don't really want to be associated
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with this case. So I don't know many names. So
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there was one ex that broke up with Sean and
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he was stalking her. And one day she returned to
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her apartment And Sean was hiding in the couch, which
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first of all, how was he hiding in a couch?
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And she was just going around her apartment, doing her
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everyday things. And he was in the couch watching her
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the whole time. How creepy is that? I cannot even imagine.
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That's just so creepy. And on top of everything that
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I've just said, Sean was also incredibly angry. lazy. Sean
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basically didn't want to work, didn't want to work a
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day in his life. And all of the women that
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he would be in relationships with, he would scrounge off them.
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He would try and get them to pay for everything.
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He would live in their apartments. He would just target
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women that he could take advantage of that did have
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jobs that could fund him. Sean would steal and scrounge
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pretty much anything that he could to get by. And
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when he was in his early 20s, he actually did
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go to prison for the very first time when he
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was arrested for burglary. And Sean actually did go to
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prison quite a few times and we'll get onto all
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of his little prison visits in a moment, but it
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is just crazy how many times he went to prison
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and he's also a serial killer and nobody knew. But
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something else also happened in these relationships that was pretty significant.
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So two of the women that he was seeing, obviously
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at two different times, both of them had children with Sean.
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So Sean, at this point, he is in his early twenties.
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He now has two children with two different women. So
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the first child that he had, he actually had the
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child when he was 18 years old. He had the
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child with a girl that he met in school and
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he was very, very, very abusive to this girl. And
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he actually did get arrested on domestic violence charges. And
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the relationship soon came to an end after that. Now,
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the second woman that he had a child with he
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was even worse to this woman. So he met this
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woman when he was 22 and she was 17. Uh-huh, 17.
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He is disgusting. He is such a predator. He really
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does target vulnerable people. So when this girl was only
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17 years old, this is when Sean got her pregnant
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and he treated this girl, and I'm gonna say girl
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because she is a girl, she's 17, he treated her horrendously.
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When she was two months pregnant. So she was pregnant
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and Sean knew that she was pregnant. He choked her
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until she passed out. Now I don't know the circumstances
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around this, not that it matters. I don't know if
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he was intending on killing her because choking people is
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definitely something that he likes to do. And thankfully he
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did get arrested because of this and thankfully he did
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go to prison for this one. But he only went
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to prison for one month. Why? He's just choked a
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pregnant woman until she has passed out. He has also
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already been to prison on burglary charges. It's like, why
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is he only getting one month? And then as soon
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as he got out of prison, he goes to her
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straight away. kidnaps her and then holds her and her
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sister at knife point. He was then arrested again and
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he was sent to prison again. Thankfully, he did get
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a little bit of a longer sentence this time. He
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got three years, still not long enough in my opinion,
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but at least it's more appropriate than just one month.
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And then three years later, he was released from prison
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in January of 2003. But did he leave? the mother
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of his second child alone. Of course he didn't. Because
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in October of 2003, which is like nine months after
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he was released, he managed to track her down, because
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I imagine she was kind of in hiding. He then
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breaks into her home, he chokes her, then forces her
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to perform a sex act on him. Just why? Like,
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why won't you leave this woman alone? Like, seriously, what
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is your problem? Thankfully, he was rearrested for this, but
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can you believe he was not charged with sexual assault?
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I'm sorry, what? He was only charged with a misdemeanor
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domestic violence. He was only given seven months in prison
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and then seven months after he was back out on
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the streets again. It's just like, why, why, why? So
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he has already done too much in my opinion. Like
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why are we allowing people like this to just walk
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the street? Like seriously, Sean is barely in his twenties
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and he has already committed so much crime. He has
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already ruined so many people's lives and he has two children.
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that he does not care about. I just want to
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say that. So we are now in April, 2005, and
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thankfully Sean does decide to leave the mother of his
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second child alone at this point. Thank God. And I
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really hope whoever she is, that she is happy and
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that her child is happy and they're both healthy and thriving.
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So it's at this point in 2005 that Sean meets
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another woman, Christina Hildreth. Christina was recently divorced. She also
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had two of her own children. They were both young
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at the time. And when she first met Sean, she
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was completely smitten by him. Like I've said a number
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of times, Sean is a charmer. He manages to convince
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people in the beginning that he's this really good, decent man.
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And she completely fell for him. Christina was really struggling.
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She had just gone through a divorce. She was now
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raising two children and Sean kind of painted this perfect
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picture for her. He told her that they would be
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together forever, that they would live in this really nice house,
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that there would be a family, that he would take
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care of her children, would take care of her. And
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Christina believed him. She wanted to believe him. And initially,
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in the beginning, there were a few red flags, but
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they weren't huge red flags. So Christina kind of just
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ignored them. And something that she did notice... is that
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Sean never opened up. Whenever she would ask about him,
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his personal life, his family, his friends, about his upbringing,
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he would just kind of clam up and change the subject.
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And Christina kind of thought it was weird that he
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never spoke about himself, but she kind of just accepted
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it and kind of just thought, that he would open
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up when he wanted to. Clearly, there is some kind
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of trauma there. Everyone opens up differently at different speeds.
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So Christina knew that he was holding back from her,
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but she kind of thought to herself, well, it can't
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be anything that bad. But oh boy, was she wrong.
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Because at this point in the story, Sean is approaching
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his 30s. He's just about to turn 30. And this
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is when the future serial killer, Sean Great, was about
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to commit his first murder. And I know your mind
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has probably immediately gone to his first victim being Christina,
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but she is not his victim. She had absolutely no
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idea what Sean was up to. And unknowingly to her,
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she would actually be sucked into this murder and she
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would actually Clean up the crime scene and not know it.
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So one day in 2005, 23-year-old mother of two, Dana Lowry,
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was going door to door selling magazine subscriptions. And on
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this day, she knocks on the door of Sean's mother's house.
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But instead of Sean's mom answering the door, Sean answered
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the door. Now, I don't quite know why Sean was
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at his mother's house because we know that their relationship
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is very up and down, very love-hate relationship. but more hate.
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So Sean and Dana are just chatting at the door,
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clearly about magazine subscriptions, because I think his mom is
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clearly having the subscription. And then after Dana leaves, Sean
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becomes convinced that Dana is scamming his mom. He becomes
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really angry. He starts to think that Dana is screwing
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over his mom and he cannot allow that. So in
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response to this, Sean somehow manages to track Dana down.
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He lures her into his car, on the promise that
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he will buy more magazines, and then he takes Dana
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back to the house that he is staying in. He
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then strangles Dana in the backyard until she becomes unconscious.
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He then drags her body into the house, but Dana
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woke up. I think Sean was pretty convinced that he
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had murdered Dana at this point, so he was very
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shocked that Dana woke up. He was very surprised. So
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he panicked. He thought that he had murdered Dana when
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he actually hadn't. And he also knew that he needed
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to murder Dana quickly because Christina was about to come
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over to his house. So he grabbed a kitchen knife
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and stabbed Dana in the neck. This did kill Dana instantly.
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Sean then wrapped Dana's body in some sheets and He
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dumped her on the side of a road and set
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her body alight. Her body would be discovered months later.
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But tragically, she would be unidentified. She would be a
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Jane Doe. Her family, her children, because remember that Dana
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is a mother of two. Her children didn't know where
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she was. But we come back to when she is
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finally identified. later on in the case. But right now,
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Sean has committed his first murder and gotten away with it.
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And I just really don't understand what happened. I really don't.
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We all know that Sean is not a good person.
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He's very violent. I think he's kind of sexually violent,
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motivated as well. Why did he escalate to killing? Like,
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where did that come from? And apart from fantasizing to
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kill his mom, he hasn't fantasized, as far as we
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are aware... of killing anybody else. Why did this escalate
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so much? Dana was a stranger to him. He claims
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to have become so enraged because Dana was scamming his mom,
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which she wasn't. But Sean doesn't like his mom, so
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why would he care about that anyway? It doesn't really
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make sense. I have so many questions, like why did
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this happen? What led to this? And unfortunately, we don't
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really have much answers. We don't. And after Sean disposes
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of Diana's body, he needs to clean up the crime scene.
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But when he returns back to his house, Christina is
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already there. Like I said, he knew that she was
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coming over. So what does Sean do? He asks Christina
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to help him clean the house, which essentially means was
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Sean asking Christina to clean up the crime scene. And
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we all know how lazy Sean is, so let's not
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pretend that Sean is actually doing anything. So Christina, because
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she's so scared of him at this point, she does
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absolutely everything that he says, she gets to cleaning the house.
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And she's scrubbing the tiled floor, and in the grout
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is this thick, dark, reddish brown liquid. She doesn't know
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what it is. And she says to Sean, what is
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this substance? It is not coming off. And Sean instantly
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kind of clams up. He gets really uncomfortable because obviously
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he knows that it's blood. And Sean is acting very shifty.
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And he says to Christina, I don't know what it is.
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Why am I supposed to know what it is? Would
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you just keep cleaning? And trying to get the blood
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out of the grout. And I just think it's absolutely
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crazy that she was cleaning up his crime scene. And
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obviously she doesn't know. She doesn't have a clue. And
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I do want to stress that there wasn't a lot
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of blood on the floor. Because if there was a
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big pool of blood, I think everyone would know that
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that was blood. It was just like little specks here
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and there because Sean had done a little bit of
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cleanup before he had dumped Dana's body. So it wasn't
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like a lot of blood that Christina... was cleaning up,
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so she just didn't have a clue. And I think
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that that is absolutely crazy that she was cleaning up
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his crime scene. She was helping him hide the evidence,
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clean up the evidence. But it gets worse, it really does.
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So after Christina has cleaned up the crime scene, Sean
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tells Christina that he has gotten her a gift. And
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Christina is like, what? You've never gotten me a gift before.
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This is not like you, what the hell is going on?
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And Sean presents Christina this gift And it is an
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engagement ring. And Christina is like, what? You want to
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get married? Where has this come from? And Christina tries
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the ring on and it's huge. It does not fit her.
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It's literally falling off her finger. And she says to Sean,
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why would you get me a ring that is miles
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too big? Like, surely you would have known that this
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wouldn't have fit me. And Sean again clams up. It
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gets very uncomfortable. And he's just like, oh, it's my
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mom's ring. It's an old ring from my mom. It's
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passed down. And Christina knows that Sean is lying because
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even though Christina doesn't know that much about Sean's life,
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she does know that he doesn't get on with his
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mom and his mom doesn't get on with him. And
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she knows that his mom would not give him a ring.
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But Christina just drops the subject. She knows by now
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that you shouldn't really press too hard when it comes
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to Sean, because he gets very angry, and when he's angry,
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he is violent. But she was right to be suspicious
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of him, because Sean did not get that ring from
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his mom. Sean stole that ring from Dana's hand. That
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ring was Sean's trophy, and I just think it's so
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sick that he gave it to Christina. wanting her to
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wear it every single day so he could see it,
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so then he could relive what he had done. So
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after Sean had gotten away with his first murder, his
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relationship with Christina would actually go on for a very
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long time. They would actually be together for five years.
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which is a pretty long-term relationship for Sean. But those
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five years for Christina were a living nightmare. But Christina
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has said that over the course of their relationship, Sean
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became an extremely paranoid person. He was always like twitching
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at the curtains, thinking that people were spying on him.
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He always thought that people were after him, people were
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going to come and get him. And Christina, at the time,
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couldn't work out why he was so paranoid all the time,
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why he did think that people were after him. But obviously,
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in hindsight, we all know now that he was worried
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he was going to get caught for the first murder.
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But as his paranoia grew, because it did over those
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five years, it slowly got worse and worse. As his
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paranoia grew, so did his rage. He was becoming a
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lot more violent towards Christina. And he was already a
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violent person to begin with, and he was only getting worse.
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And he really did just beat down Christina emotionally and physically.
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He literally took everything away from her. He dictated to Christina... everything,
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what she could do, what she could wear, who she
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could see. She was only ever allowed to leave the
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house when it was for work or going to the
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grocery store. He even made Christina give up her children
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and make her own children live with her sister. He
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completely isolated her from all of her friends, all of
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her family. She literally had no one to turn to,
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And this is literally textbook abuser. Everything that I've described
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here is just the psychological abuse. He was physically violent
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to her as well. He was verbally abusive. And Sean
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liked to use violence as a form of control to
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dictate his authority over people. But it wasn't just all
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about that. Sean actually liked inflicting pain on others. He
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got an enjoyment from seeing fear in their eyes. And
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something that Sean liked to do was take photos. He
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liked to take a lot of photos. And after he'd
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beaten up Christina, he would take photos of her injuries
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to document what had happened. And so he could relive
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what he had done. Again, this is like his trophy.
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And this is what their relationship was like for five years.
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It was a living nightmare for Christina. But after being
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with Sean for five years, she finally gathered the strength
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to leave. She thought... I've had enough of this. I
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don't deserve this. And she decided to leave Sean. But
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did he make it easy for her? Of course not.
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Sean gave her the worst beating he had ever inflicted
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on her. He was repeatedly punching her, kicking her. He
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was dragging her around the house by her hair. He
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was pinning her on the ground and repeatedly hitting her.
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She suffered absolutely terrible injuries. She had fractured her hand.
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And after the beating was over, Sean actually showed a little, tiny,
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little smidgen of remorse and actually took her to the hospital.
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And when she was seen by the nurse, the nurse
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was just like, how did all of this happen? And
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Christina said, that she had fallen over. But the nurse
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knew that this was a lie. Christina hadn't just fallen over.
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You don't get those kinds of injuries from just falling over.
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So when Sean eventually left the room, the nurse said
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to Christina, did he do this to you? And Christina nodded.
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And the hospital immediately called the police. But the hospital
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made a huge mistake. And I don't know why they
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did this, but they announced it on the what is
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that called? Intercom? They announced that the police were there
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for a Sean Great. Why would they do that? So
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Sean obviously heard that and made a run for it.
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And the police had no way of tracking him down.
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They didn't know where he was. Which is the last
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thing that Christina wants to hear because she knew that
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Sean would know that it was her that turned him in.
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And Christina knows exactly the kind of person that Sean
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is She knows that he would want revenge for this.
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So Christina eventually, after she's been seen to, leaves the
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hospital and returns home. And she's currently sharing a home
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with Sean at this point. So she's obviously terrified to
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return home. But when she does return home, Sean is
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not there. And she's thinking, thank God, thank God he's
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not here. I can pack my things and get out
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of this house. But unfortunately, Sean is in the house.
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He's just hiding and he's hiding in the couch. Seriously,
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what is with this man hiding in couches? I've never
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even heard of this before. It's not exactly an easy
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place to hide. And Sean bursts out of the couch
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and he's holding a hammer. At pretty much the exact
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same time, there is a knock on the door and
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it is a police officer coming to check on Christina.
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And Sean says to her that if she opens the door,
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if she lets them in, he will kill her. So
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Christina goes to the door and she kind of talks
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through the door and she says, I'm fine. Sean's not here.
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Everything is okay. You can leave. And the police officer leaves. Now, thankfully,
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Christina was able to defuse the situation, thank God. And
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she was able to calm Sean down. And at some point,
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she manages to escape the house and run to the
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nearest police station and report Sean again. And thankfully, Sean
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did not get away this time and he was arrested
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and sent to prison. And Christina had finally gotten away
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from Sean great. But Sean again gets off with a very,
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very short prison sentence. He only goes to prison for
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six months. So when Sean gets out of prison for
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this next time, this is when we are entering the
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period where he is about to become the serial killer
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that he becomes. So first of all, he gets married.
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He actually gets married this time. And this is when
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Sean has his third child with his wife. And Sean
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is the exact same to this woman as well. He
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is a very abusive person. He's very violent. He's very angry.
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And thankfully, the marriage does break down pretty quickly. It
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breaks down after a few months and the woman and
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the child managed to get away from Sean relatively quickly.
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And over the next few years following this marriage, he
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just drifts around. He squats in a few places and
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he goes home. from woman to woman, taking advantage of them,
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taking everything that he can from them. He's just trying
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to get people to look after him and pay for him, essentially.
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Sean was actually known to hang around apartment blocks looking
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for any single women that he could charm and convince
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them to let him live with them. He is literally
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the definition of a scrounger. Also at this point, Sean
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is being chased for child support payments that he is
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not paying. He currently owes his ex-wife, so the mother
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of his third child, $ 5, 000. And then he also owes $ 34, 000
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thousand dollars for child support of his earlier two children.
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So Sean is in a lot of debt and he
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is not paying for his children. He has not put
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a single penny towards those children. He does not care.
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So like I said, things go on like this for
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a few years and now we get to 2015, which
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is 10 years after the first murder. I know, can
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you believe that he's managed to get away with it?
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I mean, Sean is not very intelligent. He's not. He's
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not one of these really intelligent criminals where you can
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understand how they got away with it. And the only
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reason why he's been able to get away with this
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murder is because right now Dana is still unidentified. So
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because they don't know who she is, they have no
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way of tracing her back to Sean. And I do
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wonder if they knew her identity, would they be able
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to link it back to Sean? Because obviously she was
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a door-to-door contact. salesperson with the magazine subscriptions? Would they
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have been able to put two and two together and thought, hmm,
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that person who has been in and out of prison
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quite a few times and is very violent, his mom
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lives there. Could he have something to do with it?
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I do wonder. And like I said, in the very
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beginning of this video, he is literally the definition of slippery.
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He just seems to be able to get away with everything.
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And I know he's been to prison quite a few times,
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but let's be realistic. He hasn't gone to prison for
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long enough. all of his sentences have been too short.
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So I can only assume that at this point, Sean
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felt pretty invincible. And Sean actually does have a pretty
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big God complex. And I don't actually know the exact
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reasoning behind Sean becoming a serial killer, but I can
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only imagine it was the thrill of it and the
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control that he got from it. Because like I said earlier,
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All he ever wanted was control. But when he murders someone,
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he is in control. He is in control of how
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they are murdered, when they are murdered. He is in
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control of their life. He really is playing God with
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their life. And this is unfortunately when we get to
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the point of the case where Sean does become a
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full-blown serial killer. 10 years after his first murder. In
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March of 2015, this is when Sean meets a woman,
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Rebecca Lacey. Rebecca was a sex worker and Sean had
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befriended her when she was just working on the streets. However,
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one day Sean accused Rebecca of stealing $ 4 from him,
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which she hadn't. And in response to this, Sean strangled
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Rebecca to death. Sean then dumped her body in a
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nearby woodland area and Rebecca's body was found relatively quickly,
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but her death was ruled an accident. It was ruled
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as a drug overdose and an investigation never happened and
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Sean Gray has just gone away. with his second murder.
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And it just really annoys me and angers me that
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her death was ruled as an overdose. I just feel
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like they found out she was a sex worker, she
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may have had some problems with drugs, They put two
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and two together and just thought, ah, it was a
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drug overdose. We don't care. And then a year passes.
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So that is a pretty long cool down period. Not
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as long as 10 years. But in early 2016, this
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is when Sean meets a woman, Candice Cunningham. Candice was
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29 years old. She was currently going through a very
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difficult spell in her life. She was struggling with a
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drug addiction and she had recently had two children taken
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off her. by CPS. And this is when Sean entered
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her life. Now, Sean actually entered into a relationship with Candice,
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which is definitely unusual because she is the only victim
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of his where there was some sort of relationship before
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he murdered her. Now, both of them, as far as
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I'm aware, didn't have jobs. So they didn't have any
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money or they didn't have much money. And they both
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ended up squatting in an abandoned house. Now, Sean was
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filling Candice's head with so many lies, he was telling
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her that they were going to be together forever, that
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he would help her through all of her struggles, they
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00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:34.099
would get her children back. But over the course of
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their relatively short relationship, Candice's drug addiction was getting worse
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and worse and Sean was seeing this and he took
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pity on her. He thought that she was pathetic and
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he thought that the best course of action would be
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to take her out of her misery. So tragically, in
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June of 2016, Sean strangled Candice to death. To cover
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up his tracks for this murder, he then set the
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abandoned house on fire to cover up any evidence, which
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00:36:03.829 --> 00:36:07.449
completely burned Candice's body. But then he went back to
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the house and he then moved her body and dumped
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00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:14.079
her body in a nearby woodland area. The fire of
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00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.980
the abandoned house and the disappearance of Candice Neither one
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00:36:18.019 --> 00:36:21.239
of them were investigated. Sean Gray had now gotten away
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00:36:21.429 --> 00:36:24.360
with his third murder. And I don't know if you'll
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00:36:24.389 --> 00:36:28.050
be able to see the similarities between his mom and
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00:36:28.090 --> 00:36:30.389
the victims that he is choosing. The victims that he
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00:36:30.469 --> 00:36:34.010
is choosing are very vulnerable women. They are sex workers,
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drug addicts. He even said that he wanted to take
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Candice out of her misery. And those were the exact
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words that he used for his mom when he was
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fantasizing about killing his mom. He also seemed to like
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to target mothers. I don't know if you've noticed that,
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but Dana was a mother. Candice was a mother. Rebecca
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was a mother. So now we get to August 2016.
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This is just two months after the murder of Candice.
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And this is when Sean moves into another house, which
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is the house 365. Covert Court in Ashland, Ohio. Now
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this is significant because this would be the house that
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00:37:10.610 --> 00:37:14.590
became known as Sean's House of Horrors. In this house
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00:37:14.730 --> 00:37:18.110
is where Sean would commit his final murders. So like
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I said, this is only two months after the murder
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of Candice, so the cooldown period is getting shorter and shorter.
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And it was around this time in August that Sean
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starts to attend his local church quite frequently, because that
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00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:33.579
is something that I haven't really had time to touch on,
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00:37:33.909 --> 00:37:37.949
but Sean claims that he's very religious. This is where
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he meets a very vulnerable woman called Elizabeth Griffith. Now,
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Elizabeth has been described as childlike. She was very trusting.
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She was extremely vulnerable. She was very naive. And Sean
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00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.900
could see that and targeted her as his next victim.
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Elizabeth was only 29 years old and she had become
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estranged from her family. And also currently she was suffering
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from a number of different mental health issues. Sean claims
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to have taken pity on Elizabeth. So he invites her
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back to his house. Now, I don't know why he
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took pity on her. I don't know. She was doing
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00:38:13.610 --> 00:38:17.590
perfectly fine without him. But Elizabeth was very trusting and
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she was always looking for friends. She was always looking
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for somebody to hang out with. So she said yes,
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she wanted to go back to Sean's house. But tragically,
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as soon as Elizabeth steps foot in that house, Sean
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begins to strangle her. Sean has later claimed that he
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wanted to see if Elizabeth would beg for her life
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and if she didn't, he would take her out of
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her misery. Sean continued to choke Elizabeth and he told
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Elizabeth that if she wanted to live, he would stop.
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But because she didn't say anything, this is when Sean
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took it upon himself to think, right, okay, Elizabeth clearly
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wants to die and I will take her out of
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her misery. It's just so sick. It's like, maybe she
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didn't say anything, Sean, because you were strangling her and
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she couldn't. This is what I mean when I say
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he has a God complex. He is literally taking it
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upon himself to decide whether people should live or die.
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And after he murdered Elizabeth, he shoved her body into
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a closet in the abandoned house and he covered her
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body with random things, just random things that he found
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around the house. He shut the closet and sealed the
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closet with duct tape. No one came looking for Elizabeth,
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so Sean has now gotten away with his fourth murder.
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Sean at this point has no intention of slowing down.
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The cool down period is still getting shorter and shorter
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because just a few weeks later he meets his fifth
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victim and this was a 43 year old woman Stacey Stanley.
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On the 8th of September, she had gotten a flat
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tire and she had pulled into a gas station. And
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this is when Sean met her and Sean offered to
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help her change her tire. Stacey was so grateful that
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Sean had helped her change her tire. But she said,
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what can I do in return? Like, seriously, I want
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to pay you back. And Sean said to her, all
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I want is a lift. home. So this is what
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Stacey did. Stacey drove Sean home. Now we all know
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that Sean can turn on the charm and this is
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what he did with Stacey and somehow he managed to
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charm her into going into the house. He then proceeded
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to rape Stacey and then he strangled her to death.
714
00:40:25.659 --> 00:40:28.679
He then dragged her body into the basement of the
715
00:40:28.739 --> 00:40:32.800
abandoned house and just covered her body again with random
716
00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:36.559
things that he found. Stacey's family did report her missing
717
00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:39.199
on the day that she went missing. However, they had
718
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:42.369
no way of linking Stacey to Sean because they were
719
00:40:42.409 --> 00:40:46.389
strangers and clearly there was no CCTV footage of Stacey
720
00:40:46.449 --> 00:40:48.869
talking to Sean at the gas station because if there was,
721
00:40:49.269 --> 00:40:50.909
then they possibly would have been able to link her
722
00:40:50.949 --> 00:40:53.800
to Sean. But now Sean has just gotten away with
723
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:58.590
his fifth Again, the victimology is very similar. The women
724
00:40:58.690 --> 00:41:02.150
that he is choosing are either vulnerable in general or
725
00:41:02.349 --> 00:41:05.590
in a vulnerable position. For example, being stranded at a
726
00:41:05.630 --> 00:41:09.059
gas station with a flat tire. Stacey was also a mother.
727
00:41:09.179 --> 00:41:11.900
He does like to target mothers. Stacey was a loving
728
00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:15.280
mother of two. Again, with Elizabeth, he wanted to take
729
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:18.440
her out of her misery. There are so many similarities
730
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:20.659
in the victims that he is choosing to what is
731
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:23.969
reminding him of his own mom. And things are escalating
732
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:26.869
so much right now. We have first had a 10
733
00:41:26.869 --> 00:41:29.989
year gap between his first and second murder. Then there
734
00:41:30.030 --> 00:41:33.690
was a year gap. Then there was two months. Now
735
00:41:33.750 --> 00:41:36.329
there is only three weeks. It seems like he's heading
736
00:41:36.389 --> 00:41:38.929
down a path where he's going to be committing murders
737
00:41:39.389 --> 00:41:43.449
every single week, but thankfully, That doesn't happen because thankfully
738
00:41:43.510 --> 00:41:46.730
things start to come crashing down. And this is when
739
00:41:46.789 --> 00:41:50.530
he meets his next victim, which he abducts this woman.
740
00:41:50.730 --> 00:41:53.739
And this woman is just known as Jane Doe. She
741
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:56.250
does not want her identity out there. I don't know
742
00:41:56.289 --> 00:41:58.369
what her identity is, not that I would say anyway,
743
00:41:58.650 --> 00:42:00.530
but she doesn't want to be associated with this case,
744
00:42:00.690 --> 00:42:03.230
so we just know her as Jane Doe. Now, he
745
00:42:03.269 --> 00:42:06.429
meets Jane at the local church, the same place where
746
00:42:06.449 --> 00:42:09.510
he met Elizabeth. Now, Jane was a very religious woman,
747
00:42:09.630 --> 00:42:12.570
and apparently this is what Sean liked about her. Now,
748
00:42:12.630 --> 00:42:15.920
Sean has claimed that he took a liking to Jane.
749
00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:18.980
He actually wanted a relationship with Jane. He said that
750
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.099
they shared similar values and he liked that about her.
751
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:26.570
So he made his advances, but Jane wasn't interested. Now,
752
00:42:26.820 --> 00:42:29.909
Sean did not take this well at all. Remember, he
753
00:42:29.949 --> 00:42:32.329
thinks he's God's gift to women, so why would anyone
754
00:42:32.389 --> 00:42:35.469
reject him? So Sean decided, okay, I'm going to play
755
00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:38.230
this differently. And he said to Jane that he just
756
00:42:38.250 --> 00:42:40.860
wants to be friends. And this is exactly what Sean did.
757
00:42:40.929 --> 00:42:43.760
It's almost like he was playing the long game with Jane.
758
00:42:43.860 --> 00:42:47.000
They went on long walks. They bonded. They had lunch together.
759
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:49.699
They would discuss the Bible. They would read the Bible together.
760
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.239
And they do become friends. And this is when Sean
761
00:42:53.420 --> 00:42:57.840
invites Jane over to his house of horrors. He said
762
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:00.940
to her, come over to my house. We'll read the Bible. Now,
763
00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:03.840
Jane doesn't find this suspicious at all because this is
764
00:43:03.900 --> 00:43:06.739
her friend. You've got to remember that he has befriended her.
765
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:10.679
Jane just thinks that her friend from church is inviting
766
00:43:10.739 --> 00:43:12.900
her over to read the Bible. She doesn't think that
767
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.340
this is suspicious at all. So she agrees to go over.
768
00:43:16.460 --> 00:43:20.539
So on the 10th of September, 2016, Jane goes over
769
00:43:20.619 --> 00:43:23.280
to Sean's house. But as soon as she enters the house,
770
00:43:23.809 --> 00:43:27.489
Sean's demeanor completely changes because so far she has only
771
00:43:27.570 --> 00:43:30.349
seen the charming side of Sean and he told her
772
00:43:30.489 --> 00:43:34.329
that she wasn't going anywhere and Sean then held her,
773
00:43:34.630 --> 00:43:39.090
abducted her for the next three days. For those three
774
00:43:39.130 --> 00:43:42.829
days that Jane is being held captive, she is repeatedly
775
00:43:43.289 --> 00:43:48.730
beaten and sexually assaulted in quote, every way imaginable. Sean
776
00:43:48.829 --> 00:43:52.760
tied her up in weird positions and She was pumped
777
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.980
with pills. He put duct tape over her mouth. She
778
00:43:56.019 --> 00:43:59.269
was starved for the whole three days. He would also
779
00:43:59.489 --> 00:44:03.349
strangle her if she ever attempted to break free. And
780
00:44:03.369 --> 00:44:07.289
then for pretty much every waking hour over those three days, days,
781
00:44:07.489 --> 00:44:12.340
Jane was sexually abused and Sean would film the whole thing.
782
00:44:12.409 --> 00:44:15.420
He would take pictures. These were his trophies so he
783
00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:18.260
could relive them. And it's just like, oh my God,
784
00:44:18.500 --> 00:44:22.679
he is escalating. He is spiraling. He is losing control.
785
00:44:23.139 --> 00:44:26.380
Not only are the murders becoming more frequent, but the
786
00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:29.179
way he is murdering women, the way that he is
787
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:33.090
abusing them, being violent towards them, that is also escalating.
788
00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:36.030
It is getting more extreme. It's like he has to
789
00:44:36.090 --> 00:44:40.409
keep going further and further each time to chase that high.
790
00:44:40.489 --> 00:44:42.820
And this is also a complete change in MO for
791
00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:46.519
Sean as well. Usually he murders his victims straight away
792
00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:49.800
and he decided to hold Jane captive so he could
793
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.760
sexually assault her repeatedly. Sean would later go on and
794
00:44:53.820 --> 00:44:57.090
say that his intention was never to kill Jane. Like
795
00:44:57.130 --> 00:45:00.010
I mentioned, he actually liked Jane, even though I don't
796
00:45:00.030 --> 00:45:04.449
think he's capable of liking somebody or having genuine romantic
797
00:45:04.510 --> 00:45:07.090
feelings for anyone, but this is what he claims. Apparently,
798
00:45:07.150 --> 00:45:09.250
he just wanted to hold her captive. That is all
799
00:45:09.329 --> 00:45:12.880
he wanted to do, but this would actually be his downfall,
800
00:45:13.010 --> 00:45:17.360
because after three days of being held captive, Jane managed
801
00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:20.159
to break free of the rope that was binding her
802
00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:24.119
hands and her feet, and she managed to reach Sean's phone.
803
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:27.889
And she dialed 911. 911, what is the address to
804
00:45:27.909 --> 00:45:28.639
your emergency?
805
00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:32.250
We're at the street laundromat.
806
00:45:32.610 --> 00:45:34.570
I've been abducted.
807
00:45:34.590 --> 00:45:35.789
Who abducted you?
808
00:45:39.130 --> 00:45:40.130
Sean. Great.
809
00:45:40.170 --> 00:45:41.610
Where's he at now?
810
00:45:42.530 --> 00:45:45.250
Asleep. I'm in the bedroom with him. Is there any
811
00:45:45.289 --> 00:45:49.179
way you can get out of the building? I don't know.
812
00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:53.389
Without waking him, I'm scared. And I have got to say,
813
00:45:53.420 --> 00:45:58.469
I have never. felt so tense, so scared, listening to
814
00:45:58.489 --> 00:46:00.949
a 911 call. And I will be inserting a few
815
00:46:00.989 --> 00:46:03.170
clips of the 911 call, but I can't insert it
816
00:46:03.230 --> 00:46:05.969
all because it's like 15 minutes long, but the whole
817
00:46:06.030 --> 00:46:09.110
thing is available on YouTube. So go listen to the
818
00:46:09.190 --> 00:46:13.050
whole 911 call and oh my God, it will send
819
00:46:13.250 --> 00:46:16.989
shivers down your spine. On the call, Jane tells the
820
00:46:17.010 --> 00:46:20.170
dispatcher that she has been abducted by a man called
821
00:46:20.349 --> 00:46:23.949
Sean Great, but she doesn't know where she is. All
822
00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:27.150
she knows is that the house is by a laundromat.
823
00:46:27.230 --> 00:46:29.829
And whilst Jane is on the phone to the dispatcher,
824
00:46:29.909 --> 00:46:33.849
she is having to whisper because Sean is right next
825
00:46:33.869 --> 00:46:37.090
to her asleep. And obviously she cannot wake him up.
826
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.659
Oh my God, I've never been more terrified listening to
827
00:46:39.699 --> 00:46:43.420
a 911 call. I cannot even imagine how scared Jane
828
00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:46.219
would be because if Sean woke up and saw her
829
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:48.960
on the phone, we all know that he is going
830
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.460
to murder her and he will murder her quicker than
831
00:46:51.789 --> 00:46:54.630
then police can get there. And Jane is desperately pleading
832
00:46:54.710 --> 00:46:56.769
on the phone for them to send officers out, for
833
00:46:56.789 --> 00:47:10.199
them to come quickly. I mean, she is literally in
834
00:47:10.219 --> 00:47:13.260
a life or death situation right now. And then possibly
835
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.699
the most tense part of the whole phone call is
836
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:18.179
that Sean starts to stir. He kind of wakes up
837
00:47:18.219 --> 00:47:20.860
a little bit and Jane has to put the phone down.
838
00:47:37.139 --> 00:47:39.030
And she has to put the phone down and the
839
00:47:39.110 --> 00:47:43.110
phone is silent for about four minutes whilst she's waiting
840
00:47:43.170 --> 00:47:46.269
for Sean to drift off back to sleep. And thankfully,
841
00:47:46.369 --> 00:47:48.630
he does go back to sleep. And this whole time,
842
00:47:48.780 --> 00:47:52.219
officers are trying to track down where Jane is because
843
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.239
obviously they don't know the exact address. And then one
844
00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:58.119
of the officers looks up at a window in a
845
00:47:58.179 --> 00:48:02.289
house and he sees Jane's hand on the window and
846
00:48:02.329 --> 00:48:20.760
he knows exactly This is the house. And the officers
847
00:48:21.219 --> 00:48:26.070
go in, rescue Jane and arrest Sean Great. So after
848
00:48:26.110 --> 00:48:28.530
he is arrested, he is taken to the police station
849
00:48:28.690 --> 00:48:33.690
where he now gives his pretty infamous interview. Because when
850
00:48:33.730 --> 00:48:37.179
the police started questioning Sean, they thought they were just
851
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:41.400
questioning him over the abduction of Jane. They were not
852
00:48:41.500 --> 00:48:44.460
aware that he is a serial killer. So first of all,
853
00:48:44.500 --> 00:48:47.230
the police start asking him about Jane. Why did you
854
00:48:47.269 --> 00:49:02.199
do this? Why did you abduct her? And Sean starts
855
00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:05.400
to laugh and joke and he says, oh, it was
856
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.619
the only way I could get her to spend a
857
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.070
few days with me. And it's like, seriously, he's such
858
00:49:10.090 --> 00:49:13.800
a dickhead. And then the detective suddenly changes tactics and
859
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:17.670
he asks Sean, do you know anything about another woman
860
00:49:17.710 --> 00:49:22.070
that has disappeared recently? Elizabeth griffith now patrol guys are
861
00:49:22.090 --> 00:49:29.269
saying you know elizabeth Now, the detective has probably linked
862
00:49:29.389 --> 00:49:33.250
Elizabeth and Jane together because they both attended the same church.
863
00:49:33.329 --> 00:49:36.429
And they also now know that Sean attended that church
864
00:49:36.510 --> 00:49:39.579
as well. And as soon as the officer asks Sean
865
00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:43.739
about Elizabeth, they saw the guilt written all over his face.
866
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:45.960
Kind of makes me wonder if you didn't have something
867
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:47.000
to do with her being missing.
868
00:49:48.059 --> 00:49:51.760
You know where she's at. Wish I could help.
869
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:55.059
The police are currently trying to get a search warrant
870
00:49:55.139 --> 00:49:59.059
to search Sean's abandoned home. I don't even know if
871
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:01.599
they would actually need a search warrant because the house
872
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:03.500
doesn't belong to him, but I don't know if they
873
00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:06.739
know that right now. And Sean knows that it's only
874
00:50:06.780 --> 00:50:10.360
a matter of time before the police find the bodies themselves.
875
00:50:10.500 --> 00:50:13.519
So Sean finally cracks and he tells them that they
876
00:50:13.539 --> 00:50:17.360
will find Elizabeth's body in the closet. I'm looking for
877
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:28.110
Elizabeth's body. Now at this point in the interview Sean
878
00:50:28.150 --> 00:50:44.929
makes it pretty clear that that he is terrified of
879
00:50:44.969 --> 00:50:48.190
the death penalty. So Sean thinks to himself, maybe if
880
00:50:48.349 --> 00:50:52.260
I cooperate with the whole investigation, I will avoid the
881
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.000
death penalty. And this is when he also revealed that
882
00:50:55.019 --> 00:50:58.139
they would find Stacey's body in the basement. Are there
883
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:00.449
any other girls in the house right now?
884
00:51:00.460 --> 00:51:00.539
Yeah.
885
00:51:01.500 --> 00:51:07.079
One down in the basement.
886
00:51:08.940 --> 00:51:11.099
She just let me out at the point of there
887
00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:14.489
was no stopping her and And then over the next
888
00:51:15.969 --> 00:51:19.769
few hours, he confesses to all five.
889
00:51:20.250 --> 00:51:30.480
Murders, gives all the details... to everything. He confessed to
890
00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:36.679
the murder of Elizabeth Griffith, Stacey Stanley, Candice Cunningham, Rebecca Lacey,
891
00:51:36.900 --> 00:51:41.070
also of Dana Lowry, who he murdered in 2005, who
892
00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:45.329
is currently still an unidentified woman. And the police were shocked.
893
00:51:45.530 --> 00:51:47.989
They were not expecting him to be a serial killer.
894
00:51:48.650 --> 00:51:52.690
But Sean gave the exact location of all of the
895
00:51:52.730 --> 00:51:56.889
bodies and obviously they have already located Elizabeth and Stacey
896
00:51:57.110 --> 00:52:01.510
in the abandoned house. Next they located Candice Cunningham's body
897
00:52:01.630 --> 00:52:04.219
who was in the woodland area next to the other
898
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:07.300
abandoned house. that Sean had burnt down. When it came
899
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:11.400
to Rebecca Lacey, her body was found and identified but
900
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:15.659
remember they ruled her death as an accident, as an overdose.
901
00:52:15.860 --> 00:52:19.170
But because Sean was able to tell the police exactly
902
00:52:19.369 --> 00:52:22.510
where Rebecca's body was, this was enough for the police
903
00:52:22.690 --> 00:52:25.110
to charge him for her murder as well. But when
904
00:52:25.170 --> 00:52:28.670
it came to Dana Lowry, Sean said that he didn't
905
00:52:28.750 --> 00:52:31.480
actually know her name but because of his confession, because
906
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:34.059
he knew exactly where her body was, the police knew
907
00:52:34.460 --> 00:52:37.739
that Sean was responsible for her murder, but they still
908
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:41.550
needed to identify her. And it took a further three
909
00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:46.130
years for Dana to finally be identified. She wasn't identified
910
00:52:46.210 --> 00:52:54.260
until 2019. And this was 14 years after she was murdered. Remember,
911
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:56.940
she is a mother. She had two children. Her two
912
00:52:57.019 --> 00:53:01.619
children had to go 14 years without knowing where their
913
00:53:01.739 --> 00:53:05.619
mother was, what happened to her. And following the police
914
00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.769
interview and Sean's confession, as soon as the media got
915
00:53:08.869 --> 00:53:11.190
onto this story, they went crazy.
916
00:53:11.289 --> 00:53:15.969
He is 40-year-old Sean M. Grape, arrested Wednesday after this
917
00:53:16.070 --> 00:53:20.110
harrowing 911 call from a woman tied up inside this
918
00:53:20.190 --> 00:53:21.469
abandoned Ohio house.
919
00:53:21.710 --> 00:53:25.480
And obviously, this was shocking news. It was shocking that
920
00:53:25.579 --> 00:53:29.869
Sean was able to murder five women and he wasn't
921
00:53:29.949 --> 00:53:36.099
caught until 2016. And infuriatingly, Sean is alive. One of
922
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:40.469
those murderers that loves the spotlight. He was loving all
923
00:53:40.570 --> 00:53:43.170
of the media attention that he got. He agreed to
924
00:53:43.269 --> 00:53:46.489
multiple interviews. He was doing everything that he could. He
925
00:53:46.530 --> 00:53:49.360
wanted people to know who he was, what he had done.
926
00:53:49.539 --> 00:53:52.139
And when he did these interviews, you can see it
927
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:55.320
in his face. He is so happy. He is loving
928
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.260
life doing these interviews. He's basically bragging about what he's done.
929
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.469
There is even one interview that he did, and you
930
00:54:02.510 --> 00:54:05.849
can also see this on YouTube where he is demonstrating
931
00:54:06.210 --> 00:54:12.380
how he strangled and murdered five women. Elizabeth, right? It
932
00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:14.579
was kind of shocking, right? I was just joking. I
933
00:54:14.579 --> 00:54:17.360
was just joking, like, how she wished she kind of
934
00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:19.440
would die, you know what I mean? I was like,
935
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:20.690
so I'll help you.
936
00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:23.099
I'll just go like this, you know what I mean? Like,
937
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:25.699
I'll just go forward and up and just like that.
938
00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:27.500
Right. And she kind of just, like.
939
00:54:28.110 --> 00:54:30.809
Wagged my hand and, like, started flipping out and stuff
940
00:54:30.869 --> 00:54:33.889
like that to the point where I had to just, like,
941
00:54:33.989 --> 00:54:37.489
grab her and I just would lean forward.
942
00:54:37.150 --> 00:54:41.090
And just rest. And in the end, because Sean literally
943
00:54:41.230 --> 00:54:43.809
could not stop talking about himself, he could not stop
944
00:54:43.889 --> 00:54:47.110
accepting interviews, he was given a gag order. And this
945
00:54:47.179 --> 00:54:49.559
banned him from talking to journalists. And I think that
946
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:51.519
that was a good thing. We do not need to
947
00:54:51.579 --> 00:54:55.039
hear any more from this man. He has spoken too much.
948
00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:59.289
And then finally, in 2018, it was Sean's trial. Now,
949
00:54:59.349 --> 00:55:03.269
he pleaded not guilty and his defence was was by
950
00:55:03.329 --> 00:55:07.760
reason of insanity, which is just crazy. No one, no
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one is ever going to believe that Sean Gray is insane.
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He is very competent and no one bought this defense.
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No one did because he was so open, so honest
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about what he had done in his confession, giving all
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of the details because he was so forthcoming and just
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his behavior since the police interview as well. The fact
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that he was essentially bragging to journalists about what he's done.
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The jury saw straight through this And Sean Great was
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found guilty on his first two counts of murder and
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his punishment was the death penalty, which is exactly what
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Sean did not want, which is exactly what he was
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most terrified of. And if that is not karma... I
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don't know what is. Then in March of 2019, Sean
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pleaded guilty to the murder of Rebecca and Candice. And
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in return, he was handed two life sentences. And then
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Dana Lowry was identified. So he was also charged with
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her murder. and again, given a life sentence for her
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murder as well. And to this day, Sean Great still
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remains on death row, and currently his execution date is
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the 19th of March, 2025. And that was the case
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of Sean Great, one of the worst and most prolific
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serial killers in modern times. And I think it's quite
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clear that all of this was down to his relationship
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with his mom, the fact that he had mommy issues,
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because like I've pointed out multiple times, a lot of
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the victims They portrayed aspects, characteristics of his own mother.
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But regardless, he has mommy issues. Okay, you don't take
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that out on innocent people. I also think that it
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comes down to a control thing as well. I think
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he liked to control people and murder he felt was
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the ultimate control. And there are so many people that
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he has destroyed. Not only the victims who were five
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murder victims, also Jane. his numerous girlfriends that he has
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destroyed their lives of, he also has three children of
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his own, but most of his victims also had children.
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Dana Lowry was a mother to two young children and
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even though those children were not currently in her life,
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she would speak to them all the time on the phone.
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Just one random day in 2005, Dana went missing and
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her young children were never hear about their mother again.
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They would have no idea what had happened to her
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until 14 years later when it was finally revealed that
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Sean Great had taken her life. She was only 23
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years old. Rebecca Lacey was described as a kind and
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caring person. She enjoyed fishing, camping and spending time with
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her three She was only 31 years old. Candice Cunningham
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was described as a loving and caring person. She was
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a mother of two young children and her mom said
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that she should have had so many more happy years
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to live. She was only 29 years old. Elizabeth Griffith
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was described as outgoing and friendly and she loved spending
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time at church. She was always happy, always singing, always
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friendly and would constantly go out of her way to
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help others in the community. she was only 29 years old.
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And finally, Stacey Stanley was described as a loving mother
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and devoted grandmother. She loved to cook, spend time with family,
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and she would do anything to help others. And she
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loved making people in her life happy. She was only
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43 years old. And obviously, we also have Jane Doe
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that went through three days of just unimaginable torture. And
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who knows, there may be more victims out there that
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we don't know. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't necessarily
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mean more murder victims. There are so many women that
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he came into contact with. And I think we're going
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to end this here. Like, I just don't have anything
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more to say about Sean. He just makes me so angry.
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And there are no updates on the case of Sean Gray.
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So that brings us to the end of this episode.
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Thank you so much, everyone, for listening today. Subscribe or
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