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We just had a gentleman come up to our front
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door claims that he's been shot.
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Well, well, mister Beasley sets up that's Craigslist ad. He
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puts himself in the position of power.
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My twin brother, who's fifty one years old, found a
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job on Craigslist as a farm caretaker. Dear Cambridge.
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It's an aspect of unfair play, using technology like craigslists
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to lure men and then find themselves in horrific situations.
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I've been looking through newspaper articles and shawl the one
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about the man that was loured and had been shot.
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This is just too pose to what my brother was
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going there for.
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But he found the job on Craiglist too.
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Yes you did.
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I knew there was a dark side, but not to
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the extent that it turned out to be.
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It occurs to Richard Beasley, what if I do this
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as my next career.
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When I turned around mister Gag who was in kind
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of mister Beasley, did he seemed to be dead?
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Yes, he was dead.
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It hit me really hard.
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He was a wolf in cheap's clothing. I thought it,
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and guess what I was right.
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Akron Ohio was once the buckle on America's industrial belt.
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Akron used to be a really booming city. It was
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a rubber capital the.
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Turn of the century, nineteen hundreds. You couldn't have found
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a more bustling and important area to the world economy.
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But times changed, and certainly as a lot of jobs
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have been automated and left. You know, we felt it
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harder than most and it's hard to remember what a
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different world we were in in the end of twenty eleven,
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and Ohio was harder hit than many other states. So
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there was a lot of people feeling a lot of pain,
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a lot of employment pain, and a lot of people
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looking for opportunities wherever they could.
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Craigslist is booming as a website where people can find anything,
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even a job. In the fall of twenty eleven, more
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than one hundred people responded to an ad posted on
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the site by Richard Beasley.
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It's three dollars week. They have a trailer they can
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live on.
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You know.
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The only drawbacks are, hey, you know, your cell phone
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probably isn't going to work, and you got to want
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to be by yourself because you're kind of going to
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be off the grid.
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This is a.
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Difficult time financially. We had the two thousand and eight
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kind of home crisis, and there are a lot of
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people who were really in very difficult financial straits.
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Fifty six year old Ralph Geiger is one example. He's
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living in a homeless shelter, having lost the construction company
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he used to run. He applies for Richard Beasley's job
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on the farm in Caldwell, Ohio.
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This is somebody who's down on his luck for the
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past few years. This guy had a good history of working,
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but now he's in a bad place. He's desperate for work.
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He's going to look for a job in the library
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every day.
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This is someone who who says, Wow, I'm looking on Craigslist.
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This opportunity exists for me to have a new life,
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perfect job. I'm going to drive and take my possessions there.
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I'm going to get interviewed, and then I'm going to
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find this wonderful outcome that's going to give me a
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fresh start.
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Countless other men like Ralph are also interested in the
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job and the chance to start a new life. David Polly,
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Scott Davis, and Tim Kern are all unemployed and hope
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Beasley's advert could be just the break they need. Richard
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Beasley will arrange to meet and interview all of them.
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Most of them will end up dead. They never really
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knew the man who posted the ad.
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So Richard Beasley reportedly was physically abused by his stepfather,
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came out later that he had been sexually abused by
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some neighbors, and so he really did start out I
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think with some pretty significant trauma. He was interested in
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school to some extent. He had said at one point
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that it was important to have Christians as friends because
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they would always vouch for you. And so I think
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from an early age we see a little bit of
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Richard Beasley kind of realizing that two year around and
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how you pretend to be it can really get you places.
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Richard graduates from high school in nineteen seventy six and
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trains to become a machinist, but he quickly loses interest.
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So he moves to Texas, has a job or two
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that are legitimate, and then quickly kind of gives that
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up and really becomes a prolific burglar. He is arrested
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for that, and you know, the judge throws the book
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at him when he receives like forty years in prison.
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He only though, does about four so he is released
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and he goes back to Ohio. He meets his wife.
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They're both avid motorcycle enthusiasts.
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My name's Tina Beasley.
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I'm sixty two years old and I is married to
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Richard Beasley. Was an instant attraction for both of us.
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Me I fell for them gorgeous blue eyes, oh and him.
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I'm not sure why he fell for me, but it
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was instant.
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I mean we clicked instantly.
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And then it wasn't too long after date and I
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became pregnant, so we decided to get married.
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We had a biker wedding.
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Basically my family was there, his family was there, but
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everybody else was from our mutual biker friends.
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Three days later, Tanya was born.
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My name is Tanya Beasley. I'm thirty years old, and
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Richard Beasley is my father. My dad was a really
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goofy dad. He liked to have fun. He would actually
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get down and kind of use his imagination with me
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when we were drawing. It was story telling and dragons
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and monsters and all that kind of cool stuff. Like
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I actually felt like he was a kid like me,
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just having fun.
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With a new family. Tina wants to leave the biker
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gang that she and Richard are members of, but Richard
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wants to stay.
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Matthew the lifestyle motorcycle gang is a close knit community,
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you know, they are very tight knit. They don't let
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it outsiders, even if it becomes violent. Often involved in drugs.
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At that time, we were seeing a lot of meth
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moving through motorcycle gangs.
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He was a good bother. He was good to me.
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He had a paycheck every week, bills.
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Were paid, but I had no clue what he was doing.
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And then I found out he wasn't working. The paychecks wasn't.
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Real, and then I knew what he was doing for
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a living.
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In the mid nineteen with Tanya, a little girl, Richard
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becomes involved in illegal firearms.
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While my dad was being this ideal father from the outside,
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he actually at the time was breaking and entering. He
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was illegally selling weapons. So it looks like he was
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doing the right thing, But he kind of had a
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double life in a sense too. He was a father
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but also a really good con man. Even just from the.
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Start, everything was doing good until they come to arrest him.
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At that time, I had to have a hysterectomy I
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got out of the surgery and there was no rich
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no page from him, no call from him.
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He just disappeared.
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They had raided dar Allison ripped up my ouches looking
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for weapons.
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Oh, I was mad.
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I do remember being all dressed up for the court
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date and having to hug him and say bye. But
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I didn't realize what four It was more and more
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of real As I got older.
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I knew there was a dark side, but not to
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the extent that it turned out to be.
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Richard Beasley is behind bars for dealing drugs and carrying
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illegal weapons. In two thousand and three, he's released early,
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and twelve year old Tanya is unaware her mother or
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filed for divorce.
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We had the perfect family life for her sake. We
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stayed together, but we separated. He was very upset about it.
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Even to this day, rich still has not come to
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terms the dy divorced him. We still tried to be friends.
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It wasn't like it was before. I just didn't trust him.
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But after his release, Richard Beasley swears he's now a
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changed man.
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While he is in prison, during the seven year stint,
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Richard Beasley finds God, He reads the Bible, He memorizes
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Bible verses, and when he gets out, he tells his
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daughter and other people that his life is changed and
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he is going to spend the rest of his life
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helping other people.
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Beasley puts his newfound faith into action on Akron streets.
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He becomes a self styled pastor and even earns the
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nickname Chaplin rich.
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There were all these people who had been down on
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their luck their whole lives. They'd been in and out
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of prison their whole lives, and so he kind of
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was a role model in the senset no matter how
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many times you do fall, you can get back up,
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not just the first time you fall, not just the
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second time you fall. It's almost like an ebb and
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a flow. And he showed people.
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That he does, for a while go out and minister
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to other people. He goes to soup kitchens, he volunteers
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his time. And the question I think becomes is this genuine?
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And so we don't know completely with Richard Beasley.
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Opportunities still exist. When one is around vulnerable people who
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are looking for help, it can be very easy to
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hurt them as they look for that help. So what
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comes first trying to rehabilitate and try to be a
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different person, or seeing that as an opportune to see
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people who will need your help and then you can
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take advantage of them.
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They were driving and I believe he was hit by
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a dump truck. His truck rolled, it severed his achilles tendon,
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broke asternum.
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Not only did it affect his ability to work, but
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he also was prescribed painkillers. Ultimately, his accident led to
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him being addicted to oxyconton. At the time, he was
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getting into street ministry with individuals who were addicts, so
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I think there was that struggle at one point he did.
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I don't think he realized he was addicted to it.
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After his accident, he used part of a settlement to
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buy a house an Akron, and it was in kind
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of rough neighborhood. So he helped the people in the
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neighborhood and through his ministry, get back on their feet.
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And he converted the bottom into his apartment so he
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could monitor what was going on in the rooms and
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the housing upstairs.
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And he begins to go to the courts and he
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was vouching for people. He is going on the streets,
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he's recruiting people and people in town are thinking, man,
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You know Chaplain Ridge is a great, great guy.
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When my dad first got his halfway house, a lot
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of people were donating furniture. When he first got out
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of prison, a lot of people donated stuff. So by
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the time he finished setting up, he had all this
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extra stuff. So he asked me to make the Craigslist
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account so he could sell all of this these extra
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things that he had. And of course at the time,
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Craigslist was the place to go to sell and buy stuff. Also,
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at the time it was a leading technology, was a
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computer or a laptop, and so he had no idea
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of how to use that stuff. In the beginning. I
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had to help him a lot, but then after that
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he learned and did it all himself. So first it
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was just men that lived in the house, and then
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it started becoming here and there, Oh, well, there's a
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woman that needs help. And when you start mixing things
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like that, it gets massy real quick, and that's when
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things really started going south.
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He had manipulated the system enough to get some defendants
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sent to him as part of their probation.
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So what he's doing here is two different things.
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He's trying to scam money from the courts for this,
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you make work halfway house. But we also found out
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is that in doing so, he's trying to get women
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who are drug addicts into his halfway house and trying
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to turn them into prostitutes.
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And around that time he started getting a little snippy,
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like he would snap at me over random things and
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not the kind person I know, which I know I
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knew at the time. When you're on drugs, that's what happens.
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It affects your personality. It almost felt like overnight there
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was this great, awesome dad and then there was this
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hateful kind of show of the guy that I knew,
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but to everybody else he was great.
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There was some psychological payoff for him, this idea of,
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you know, kind of getting off on other people, fooling
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other people. There's a term called duping delight. It's people
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who get psychological satisfaction from fooling other people. You know,
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Richard Beasley was showing up at court and pretending to
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be this wonderful person and having this facade in the community.
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It's hard not to believe, as elaborate as it was,
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that he wasn't getting some kind of thrill or some
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kind of satisfaction out of that part of it as well.
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He pretended to be a Christian burden hell for that.
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Excuse me saying that. But yeah, God forgives.
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But I don't think that you can be a man
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of God and run a prostitution and drug ring out
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of your house either.
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At the time, I was dating someone who was older
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than me, and I found out that my dad had
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been using him to sell pills in marijuana in my
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hometown to people. That's when I completely cut off contact.
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By twenty eleven, Richard Beasley is under scrutiny by Akron
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police for sex trafficking. His behavior is deteriorating, and he's
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now a wanted man following a probation violation.
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Richard Beasley really does feel like I think his back
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is up against the wall. And one of the things
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he had said on several occasions is he did not
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want to go back to prison, and so he began scheming,
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you know, Okay, how am I going to avoid this.
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I can't go on the run with my name and
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with all my history. I can't. I mean, that's not
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going to work. And so he comes up with this
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horrendous scheme, I'm going to find somebody who looks like me,
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who's about the same age that I am, Somebody who
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is older, somebody who's vulnerable, somebody who isn't going to
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be missed. They don't have a lot of family ties.
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If I can find that person, I can just kill
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them and assume their identity.
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In the summer of twenty eleven, Beasley plans to lure
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potential victims to him with an ad.
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He's placed on Craigslist.
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And then he's going to kill them and steal their
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identities to avoid being captured by police.
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Look at the situation and the desperateness that some people
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may have. Here's a person that says, there are people
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without work, there are people without opportunity, there are people addicted,
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there are people involved in prostitution. This is now starting
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to come my way.
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Well, well, mister Beasley sets up that Craigslist ad. He
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puts himself in the position of power. He's the one
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who has the job, so he can ask any questions
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of any applicants, and so he can find out who's local,
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who's not local, who has strong family ties, who doesn't
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have strong family ties. You know, it's not going to
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be a coincidence that he winds up with several victims
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who don't have a lot of close family ties, and he.
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Knew that if these people had no one that would
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miss them, and they brought all their belongings for this job,
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he'd be able to sell their belongings. There's the money,
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steal their identities because they had long hair and looked
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like him. There's the drugs. And then he had this
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huge plot of land wherever he was saying that provided
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him a place to live. So at that point in
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his head, he was just trying to survive and get
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his drugs.
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Estranged from his daughter and physically unable to carry out
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his plan alone. Richard Beasley develops a closer bond with
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Broken Rafferty, the sixteen year old son of a close friend.
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Our investigation showed that Broken Rafferty his dad was pretty
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high up in a local club, and we kind of
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think that's how those two, mister Beasley and mister Rafferty
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started to meet.
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I think that he certainly probably enjoyed the attention and
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that love and the admiration he got from this young child.
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He would teach Broken things.
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At first, it was about Christ and church and everything
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like that.
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Then it turned into.
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Mafia and broken copied Rich's dress. You know, were the
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same leather jacket, identical leather jacket and jean, same brand,
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the genes, and he just became obsessed with Rich.
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Sixteen year olds, please don't be fooled, are still in
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the formative stage. The brain is still forming what we
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call it the teen brain. So perhaps that sixteen year
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old is looking for a definition of life, looking for
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those materialistic goods the fifty year old is able to
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provide it. The fifty year old is looking for a
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person that has the youthfulness to allow for some of
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these criminal activities to take place.
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Fifty six year old Ralph Geiger, who's now homeless after
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losing his job running a construction company, is the first
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to answer Beasley's ad I'm.
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Out of work.
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Here's an opportunity for me to work. Here's an opportunity
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for me to be on a farm, and all I
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have to do is answer this call meet with this person.
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It's an aspect of almost unfair play that this would
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be set up in this way, using technology like craigslists
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to lure men to find these jobs and then find
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themselves in horrific situations.
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Ralph becomes Richard Beasley's avenue in his mind to escape
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going back to prison. So he and Ralph and Brogan
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meet up and they basically get the car and they
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go out in the woods, allegencing to this farm. Richard
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makes up some ruse to get Ralph out of the
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car and they go through the woods. Somehow Richard gets
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behind Ralph Geibert, and Richard Beasley just pulls out a
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gun and shoots him at the back of the head.
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My dad was so far into drug usage at the time.
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He knew it was wrong, but I don't think he
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could emotionally connect to it. When you're on drugs, it's
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all about self gain, what benefits you, what helps you
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get your next high, and that's all he was thinking about.
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Richard now becomes Ralph Geiger. He asked people who knew
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him to start calling him Ralph, which I can only
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imagine what they thought about that. He rents a room
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under the name Ralph Geiger, and it occurs to Richard
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Beasley aka Ralph Geiger at this point that man, that
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was so easy. Nobody's looking for Ralph Geiger. I need money.
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My back hurts.
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I don't want to work. So what if I do
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this as my next career. I mean, this is really
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the beginning of Richard Besley the serial killer.
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For two months, Richard Beasley has been living under the
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identity of Ralph Geiger, a homeless man who Beasley killed
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after responding to a Craigslist ad. Now he's looking for
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another victim. From the applicants to.
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His ad, he is looking for very very specific vulnerable victims,
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lack of family ties, middle aged, willing to go off
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the grid. And so he gets over a hundred replies
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for this position.
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Beasley agrees to meet fifty one year old David Paully.
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So, mister Pauley is coming from Norfolk, Virginia, which is
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almost a ten hour drive for Macro Ohio. He's not
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coming here just to find out about a job. He
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packed up his U haul and moved all of his
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possessions here, so he was coming here with the attention
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to stay here and make a new life here. And
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I think that mister Polly being willing and able to
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leave Norfolk, Virginia and drive ten hours for a promise
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of a job or the possibility of a job, shows
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how desperate mister Pauli was at the time, and frankly,
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how a lot of people were at the time.
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Can you imagine the helplessness and the hopelessness that exist
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in someone responding to that thinking that this is a
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new start again, the vulnerabilities of people lending them to
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take down their guard a step or two.
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He starts hearing from these victims and luring them to Ohio.
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Some of the questions he's asking are do you have meds? Clearly,
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drugs is a through line through all.
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Of this, so the motive was him stealing identities and
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trying to get money and drugs while not getting caught
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by the police. He was so numb to what he
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was doing he didn't grasp the concept of another human life.
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So David Paully is beside himself. He packs all of
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the stuff up, he drives all the way to Ohio.
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He meets with the person who he thinks his name Jack.
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Jack's nephew Brogan is also with him, and once again
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he does the same ruse. He convinces David to go
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out into the woods. They go for a walk. Richard
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Beasley gets behind him and shoots him at the back
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of the head. What struck me was how much psychological
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payoff there seemed to be for Richard Beasley in running
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the schemes and duping the people around him, And I
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think that motive was extremely powerful him, and probably more
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powerful to him than he even realized or would acknowledge.
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We see a lot of time pass between that first victim,
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mister Geiger, and that second victim, mister Pawley. But given
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that the time had passed and still nothing happened, they're
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even more in bold and they're not going to wait
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to time. They're going to move faster this time, and
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that's exactly what they did.
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Less than three weeks later, fifty year old Scott Davis
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is on his way to meet Richard Beasley.
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Scott Davis was from South Carolina, but he was living
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locally with his mom in Masly in, Ohio, so that's
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about forty minutes from Macron. But like everyone else, he
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was also kind of down on his luck at his time.
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So this is how he comes into mister Beasley's orbit.
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Mister Beasley is still relying on that same Craigslist ad,
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He's still getting people interested in that job, and he's
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still going back to that same ad and going to
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the same pool of victims to pick from him.
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So what we find is.
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Mister Beasley lures mister Davis to a restaurant just like
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he did mister Polly. They have their meal there, and
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he takes them to the same secluded wooded area with
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every intention of killing mister Davis just like he killed
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mister Pally.
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And so once again, Richard Beasley pulls out the gun
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Poinston Scott's head and it and go off. There's a click,
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and Scott turns around and sees this gun. Now, Richard
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Beasley fires again, and this time he doesn't miss, and
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he hits Scott in the elbow, which is a pretty
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serious injury. But Scott absolutely takes off and he is
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running for his life and Richard Beasley is looking everywhere,
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and so is rug and Rafferty and Scott Davis is
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running just losing blood as he goes. He ends up
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hiding in this creek bed for like seven hours, losing
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blood this entire time. After seven hours, it's freezing outside
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and he's losing blood. This man gets up and walks
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seven miles to a house where he knocks on the
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door and people open it and there's this man covered
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in blood and who tells them this horrendous story and
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they call nine one one.
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We just had a gemmy come up to our front door.
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He claims that he's been shot. He's got some blood
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on him. What's your name, sir, Scott Davis.
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Scott Davis is rescued, treated for his wounds and questioned
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by police.
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Well, I was on the please list and it said
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that read I was looking for someone's sake here at
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six hundred and eighty eight acres a farm land. He
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went back and forth for a month, you know. They
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said they was going to get me three hundred miles
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a week and a place to live. We got probably
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about forty fifty feet and her click, oh crowd. I
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smart around and he had the gun in the back
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of my head. That's a pretty nuts that is done, Jam.
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When it was done, Jam, I thought it right up
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to the wood for everything I would work. He shout
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at me again.
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That's why he got me in the arms. Okay, you
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said there was two guys.
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One of them was Jack.
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You say he had short hair blee Jean Tennis and
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the other guys him.
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I don't have glad to get to think. Another guy
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had blonde hair. Probably seventeen years old. Uh, six', five all,
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right but he went By. Jack that's what the thing.
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Was you tell her to shave the.
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Beard at this, Point Richard beasley has become not only
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desperate but. Reckless he's realizing that the gig is about
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to be.
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Up before authorities begin to track Down beasley And, rafferty
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they're luring another. Victim this time they Picked Timothy, kern
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an unemployed father of a teenage son From masilla In.
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Ohio timothy's son drives him to an interview With beasley
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And rafferty at a waffle. HOUSE a few days, Later
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beasley confirms tim has got the, job so he heads.
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Back they lure Mister kern through the same.
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Thing they sit, down they have a, meal and they're
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going to go take him to this advertised wooded. Area
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they have to go to a different place after what
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happened to Mister, day but they find another wooded area
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to do this. In they start taking him to this
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wooded area and they shoot him four. Times Mister kerran
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didn't die at the first shot of the, head and
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he kept, breathing and it was a cold, blooded calculated.
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00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:17.119
Murder four time.
492
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:22.960
Shot he literally has five dollars in his. Pocket to, me,
493
00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:28.200
again it's an indication that while money may have been
494
00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:33.480
part of that entire, scheme it wasn't. EVERYTHING i Think
495
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.200
richard was angry as a. PERSON i think he was.
496
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:39.720
DESPERATE i think he saw what was going to, happen
497
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.799
AND i think he was just he didn't. CARE i
498
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.799
don't think he cared at all about his, victim and
499
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.200
maybe he never, did but he chose at that moment
500
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:49.960
to go ahead and kill.
501
00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:53.319
Him this is the question that occurs a rite about this,
502
00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.839
time is after you've committed two three of these heinous,
503
00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.480
acts is it something that you're doing to fulfill a
504
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:02.119
need or is it something that you've gotten very good.
505
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.200
At whatever is the answer, there we still have to deal.
506
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:07.960
With there are people who will do these heinous, crimes
507
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.599
and it takes outstanding police, work and they also the
508
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:16.200
general public being out there willing to be the persons
509
00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:20.039
to report activities that may be suspicious or in.
510
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:25.640
Question the sister Of David Pauley beasley's second victim is
511
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:26.480
one such.
512
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.960
Person MISTER pauli actually had a sister who lived up In,
513
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:32.200
maine and he told his sister what he was. Doing
514
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:34.079
he told her that he had found out an ad On.
515
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.160
Craigslist he found a job In ohio and that's where
516
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:38.799
he was going to. Go so fortunately in this, case
517
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:42.119
his sister is aware and can contact authorities and alert
518
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:43.720
people that his brother's gone.
519
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:48.440
Missing my twin, brother who's fifty one years, Old, okay
520
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.680
found a job On craigslist as a farm caretaker Near.
521
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:57.400
Cambridge he arrived In, Parkersburg West virgina on the twenty
522
00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:01.400
second Of. October i've been looking through articles and everything
523
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:04.319
and saw the one about the man that was bored
524
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.599
and had been. Shot, yeah and THEN i was, like
525
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:11.920
this is just two posts to to what my brother
526
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:12.599
was going there.
527
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.680
For, really but he found the job On craigslist, Too.
528
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:17.599
Yes you.
529
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.000
Did at the same, time as police start investigating the
530
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:26.200
disappearance Of David, paully authorities are getting closer To beasley
531
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:28.200
thanks to details From Scott.
532
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.559
Davis now we have Mister davis also saying that he
533
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:34.480
responded to A craigslist, ad and once you kind of
534
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.559
compare that with what Mister paully's sister is telling, authorities
535
00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:42.200
that's when the pieces start to fall in. Place so
536
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.200
once they have That CRAIGSLIST ad that's been. Up they're
537
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.720
starting to be able to investigate where THAT ad came,
538
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.440
from WHAT ip addressed WAS i? Used and it's finding
539
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.640
out that the computer AND ip address was In, Akron,
540
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.759
ohio in the basement of a gentleman's home where Mister
541
00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.599
beasley was running a.
542
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.119
Room so now we are on to Mister beasley as
543
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.799
a suspect in this.
544
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:08.839
Case investigators visit the restaurant Where beasley Met Scott.
545
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:13.599
Davis we're able to look at the video at the
546
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:15.519
restaurant where they had and that's where we get the
547
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:20.000
picture Of Brogan rafferty And Richard beasley coming to meet Mister.
548
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.680
Davis that's the video that ultimately leads a case to break.
549
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:36.240
Up we had the surveillance photographs and shows and we'll
550
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.759
show and your picture's, there and we know who you met.
551
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:45.559
Name his name Is Scott, davis and he met you guys.
552
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:46.240
Were brakerst at The.
553
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:47.200
Shawnees do you remember?
554
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:47.960
THAT i don't.
555
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.000
KNOW i don't think he was.
556
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:54.519
There, Yes and Initially Brogan rafferty, SAYS i don't know
557
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.839
what you're talking. ABOUT i have anything to do with.
558
00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:58.279
Us what did you?
559
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.880
Do after they had a bit of an, altercation AND
560
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:06.359
i didn't just didn't feel, comfortable SO i just left the.
561
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:12.440
Situation but he's sixteen years, old and so he confesses
562
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.559
fell us about The geiger into.
563
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.079
IT i was.
564
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:24.519
To go Help beasley murder this man had the body for, him, Okay.
565
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:26.880
And in talking to, him they're able to get a
566
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.800
lot more, details not only in the, murders but where
567
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.440
all the bodies are.
568
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:33.679
Buried and WHEN i turned, around Mister gager was in
569
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:38.679
front of Mister, beasley and Mister beasley pulled a pistol
570
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:41.480
out and with both hands he pointed at the back
571
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.760
of Mister geiger's. Head AND i saw that AND i
572
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:48.719
closed my eyes and THEN i heard a gun shut
573
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:51.360
AND i opened. Them Mister, gager who was sitting in
574
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:52.159
the creep, bed.
575
00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:56.599
Did he seemed to be? Dead, yes he was.
576
00:34:56.679 --> 00:35:00.000
Dead we get a full account of everything that happened
577
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:00.880
and where everybody was.
578
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.880
Buried police also find what they call a killing kit
579
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.920
At rafferty's. Home they now hope to Find beesley before
580
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:21.559
he can kill. Again sixteen year Old Broken rafferty has
581
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.559
confessed to taking part in the murder Of Ralph, geiger
582
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.320
but police are yet to find suspected serial Killer Richard
583
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:31.000
beasley or establish any alias he's.
584
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:34.480
USING i was working at fast food and this guy
585
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:36.400
comes up to the counter And i'm thinking he's going
586
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.960
to order food per, usual normal, day and he flashes
587
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:42.039
his badge says he's with THE fbi and wants to
588
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:44.880
talk to me about my. Dad, definitely red flag's going
589
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:46.639
off in my. Brain but at the same, TIME i
590
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.000
knew he would get caught, eventually BUT i thought it
591
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:51.440
was weird that it was by THE fbi and, not you,
592
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:56.519
Know acron police. Department so he pulled me. Aside we started.
593
00:35:56.599 --> 00:35:59.840
Talking he asked me if my dad had land, anywhere
594
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:03.519
if there's anywhere he could be hiding. Out so Then i'm, like,
595
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:06.639
oh they didn't catch. Him that's. WEIRD i guess they're
596
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:08.480
still trying to find. Him why are they talking to.
597
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:11.000
ME i haven't talked to him in. FOREVER i did
598
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:13.199
know there were a couple places he had talked about
599
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.239
about his friend having, land and then he had me
600
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:21.760
identify pictures of, him but Also, brogan which was. Weird i'm,
601
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.360
like where Does brogan come into play of all of?
602
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:27.440
This SO i identified the pictures and then he got
603
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.880
a call and was discussing with someone that they found another,
604
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:36.320
body And i'm, like this probably pertains to my. Dad
605
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:39.000
so he came back AND i asked. HIM i was,
606
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.559
like was that call about my? DAD i know you
607
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:44.159
aren't supposed to give, details but, like what's going? On
608
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.159
BECAUSE i heard? It NOW i, Know and that's when
609
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:51.480
he confirmed that they were looking for bodies of people
610
00:36:51.599 --> 00:37:01.280
my dad had. Killed in that, MOMENT i kind of
611
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:04.599
froze AND i didn't feel. Anything my heart dropped AND
612
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:08.079
i felt this this whole but at the, TIME i
613
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:13.119
don't think my teenage mind could really process. It it
614
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:15.400
was almost like my whole dream and idea of him
615
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:18.920
came crashing down at, once AND i was feeling so
616
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:23.800
many EMOTIONS i couldn't even decipher. Them, basically this this
617
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:28.360
black hole of despair sucked in all my emotions and
618
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:33.599
it was like time froze and IT i just it was.
619
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:50.440
Broken it wasn't just open ended the friend like he killed.
620
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.280
People this was it like this he's, done you, Know
621
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:58.880
it's it's something, major and it hit me really.
622
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:03.679
HARD i was just totally taken aback anything they could
623
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:04.679
have told me rich.
624
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:08.599
DONE i would never have thought That.
625
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:14.599
Richard beasley is charged on multiple counts of aggravated, murder attempted, murder,
626
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.800
kidnapping an aggravated.
627
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.559
Robbery it's, rough it is KNOWING i married a man
628
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:27.079
that became THAT i never would have thought that a
629
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.119
RICH i still can't believe when they call him a
630
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.079
serial killer THAT i have so many good memories and
631
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.639
my daughter has so many good, memories and he can
632
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:39.840
throw it all.
633
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:49.840
Away when we looked Into brogen at the, time because
634
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.599
we're trying to find out how does this sixteen year
635
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:54.159
old fifteen sixteen year old kid.
636
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:54.800
Get involved with?
637
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.639
This you, know Our bureau Of Criminal investigation investigators looked
638
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:01.960
into his computer, history and what we find is someone
639
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:05.639
who is obsessed with mafia. Lifestyle he's obsessed with, crime
640
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.920
and you can see someone who's clearly trying to emulate that.
641
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:12.719
Lifestyle be, heavy be a tough. Guy and so we
642
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.400
find that these two people meet and they wind up
643
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:17.599
being a perfect match to carry out these, awful awful.
644
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:21.559
CRIMES i don't think That richard knew when he first
645
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.920
Met Broken rafferty that he was going to use him
646
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:28.280
to commit murders down the. Road rich was involved in
647
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:32.519
Taking broken to church on many many, occasions and he
648
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:36.480
became like a substitute. FATHER i also would imagine that
649
00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:41.320
part of that grooming process was exposing him a little
650
00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:45.280
lot of time to criminal, activity so that broken becomes
651
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:49.239
desensitized to. That AND i think it's very easy to
652
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:55.239
underestimate the power an adult can have over a child
653
00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:59.559
when you look at his age and you look at
654
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:04.159
his life. Circumstances he was somebody who was absolutely right
655
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:06.480
for the picking in terms Of Richard.
656
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:11.719
Beasley brogan agrees to lead police to the burial sites
657
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:14.719
Of Ralph, Geiger David, pauley And Timothy.
658
00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:18.039
Kern we found the first two victims In Noble county In, Caldwell.
659
00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:21.079
Ohio that was the field and wooded area where Mister
660
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.639
besley Mister raffrey were taking their victims to. Start so
661
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:26.960
we found the first two victims there in shallow. Graves
662
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:29.519
but because Mister davis got away and they had to
663
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.880
switch up their method and went to a new. Place
664
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:37.599
here we found Mister kerr Near Rolling Acres. Mall Mister
665
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.639
davis getting away is probably the only reason we broke this.
666
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.719
Case if Mister davis doesn't get, away we don't know
667
00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.280
how many more. Victims Mister besley and Mister rafferty would
668
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:46.559
have killed.
669
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:51.239
It Broken rafferty is offered a deal that will allow
670
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.400
him parole after a significant jail, term but he refuses
671
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:58.519
to turn On beasley and is sentenced to life without
672
00:40:58.719 --> 00:40:59.960
the possibility of Par.
673
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:07.119
This relationship was so strong That brogan sacrifices his freedom
674
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:08.599
for the sake Of.
675
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:11.719
Beasley over the, years he had build up more and
676
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:15.960
more trust for, me and you, know vice. Versa we
677
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:18.480
had a little bit of an understanding that since he
678
00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:21.000
was a friend of my father's and we just had
679
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.119
known each other for a, while that we had you,
680
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:26.239
KNOW i would do anything for, you you would do
681
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:29.280
anything for me kind of, thing because that's just what we,
682
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:30.400
thought that we were that good of.
683
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.039
FRIENDS i do think That Richard beasley and maybe to
684
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:39.480
a lesser, Extent Broken, rafferty got a thrill out of
685
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:43.840
these fantasies of their schemes that they're putting, on and
686
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:47.079
how they were these kind of master criminals and they're
687
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:51.440
this elaborate plot and you, know they're the ones who
688
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:55.119
are deciding who lives and. Dies and so when you
689
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.480
look at, THAT i think it isn't that surprising that
690
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:02.079
he would be interested in the. Mafia who does kind
691
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.000
of pick and. Choose he's going to live and. Die
692
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:06.960
SO i think this kind of anti hero thing he's
693
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.679
got built up in his head is really consistent with
694
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:15.320
all the time he takes concocting this scheme and carrying it.
695
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:21.559
Out In march twenty, Thirteen Richard beasley is sentenced to.
696
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:26.559
Death to this, day he maintains his. Innocence In rich's,
697
00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:30.760
eyes he'd done nothing. Wrong he feels no. Remorse he's
698
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:31.519
a typical.
699
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:37.280
Sociopath he has never taken responsibility for anything in his.
700
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.039
Life there's no Question Richard beasley was looking to take
701
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.639
advantage of. People and there's no question, too given the
702
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:47.440
viciousness and calculation in these. Crimes he had been plotting
703
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:49.639
for a while how he was going to take advantage of.
704
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:51.800
People so it's not a surprise to see that he
705
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:55.960
had tried several different ways to put himself around people
706
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.920
who were vulnerable and could be taken advantage of by his.
707
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:05.280
Manipulation it's that victim. Mentality he blames it on everyone.
708
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.760
Else he constantly writes notes to the newspapers and, everything
709
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:13.559
stating that the system is, corrupt and this is what really,
710
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:18.440
happened And i've tried to confront him about, it even in.
711
00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:23.960
Person but THEN i got to the point WHERE i
712
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.519
was able to separate myself from, it but not as
713
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:33.039
a trauma, response but because FINALLY i had all this
714
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.079
time period had finally healed AND i was able to move.
715
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.159
Forward and the first TIME i went public with my
716
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:42.280
story was when that, happened BECAUSE i Realized i'm my
717
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:46.039
own person who can tell this. Story this happened to,
718
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:50.280
me BUT i am not This my dad happens to
719
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.599
be a serial, killer and despite whether he says he's
720
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:58.119
innocent or he does, this it just doesn't affect me.
721
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:28.320
Anymore ch
1
00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.439
We just had a gentleman come up to our front
2
00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:15.880
door claims that he's been shot.
3
00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.399
Well, well, mister Beasley sets up that's Craigslist ad. He
4
00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.079
puts himself in the position of power.
5
00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.719
My twin brother, who's fifty one years old, found a
6
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:30.239
job on Craigslist as a farm caretaker. Dear Cambridge.
7
00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:35.960
It's an aspect of unfair play, using technology like craigslists
8
00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:42.119
to lure men and then find themselves in horrific situations.
9
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I've been looking through newspaper articles and shawl the one
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about the man that was loured and had been shot.
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This is just too pose to what my brother was
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going there for.
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But he found the job on Craiglist too.
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Yes you did.
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I knew there was a dark side, but not to
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the extent that it turned out to be.
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It occurs to Richard Beasley, what if I do this
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as my next career.
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When I turned around mister Gag who was in kind
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of mister Beasley, did he seemed to be dead?
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Yes, he was dead.
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It hit me really hard.
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He was a wolf in cheap's clothing. I thought it,
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and guess what I was right.
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Akron Ohio was once the buckle on America's industrial belt.
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Akron used to be a really booming city. It was
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a rubber capital the.
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Turn of the century, nineteen hundreds. You couldn't have found
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a more bustling and important area to the world economy.
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But times changed, and certainly as a lot of jobs
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have been automated and left. You know, we felt it
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harder than most and it's hard to remember what a
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different world we were in in the end of twenty eleven,
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and Ohio was harder hit than many other states. So
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there was a lot of people feeling a lot of pain,
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a lot of employment pain, and a lot of people
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looking for opportunities wherever they could.
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Craigslist is booming as a website where people can find anything,
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even a job. In the fall of twenty eleven, more
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than one hundred people responded to an ad posted on
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the site by Richard Beasley.
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It's three dollars week. They have a trailer they can
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live on.
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You know.
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The only drawbacks are, hey, you know, your cell phone
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probably isn't going to work, and you got to want
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to be by yourself because you're kind of going to
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be off the grid.
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This is a.
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Difficult time financially. We had the two thousand and eight
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kind of home crisis, and there are a lot of
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people who were really in very difficult financial straits.
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Fifty six year old Ralph Geiger is one example. He's
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living in a homeless shelter, having lost the construction company
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he used to run. He applies for Richard Beasley's job
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on the farm in Caldwell, Ohio.
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This is somebody who's down on his luck for the
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past few years. This guy had a good history of working,
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but now he's in a bad place. He's desperate for work.
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He's going to look for a job in the library
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every day.
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This is someone who who says, Wow, I'm looking on Craigslist.
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This opportunity exists for me to have a new life,
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perfect job. I'm going to drive and take my possessions there.
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I'm going to get interviewed, and then I'm going to
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find this wonderful outcome that's going to give me a
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fresh start.
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Countless other men like Ralph are also interested in the
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job and the chance to start a new life. David Polly,
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Scott Davis, and Tim Kern are all unemployed and hope
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Beasley's advert could be just the break they need. Richard
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Beasley will arrange to meet and interview all of them.
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Most of them will end up dead. They never really
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knew the man who posted the ad.
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So Richard Beasley reportedly was physically abused by his stepfather,
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came out later that he had been sexually abused by
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some neighbors, and so he really did start out I
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think with some pretty significant trauma. He was interested in
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school to some extent. He had said at one point
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that it was important to have Christians as friends because
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they would always vouch for you. And so I think
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from an early age we see a little bit of
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Richard Beasley kind of realizing that two year around and
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how you pretend to be it can really get you places.
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Richard graduates from high school in nineteen seventy six and
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trains to become a machinist, but he quickly loses interest.
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So he moves to Texas, has a job or two
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that are legitimate, and then quickly kind of gives that
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up and really becomes a prolific burglar. He is arrested
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for that, and you know, the judge throws the book
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at him when he receives like forty years in prison.
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He only though, does about four so he is released
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and he goes back to Ohio. He meets his wife.
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They're both avid motorcycle enthusiasts.
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My name's Tina Beasley.
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I'm sixty two years old and I is married to
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Richard Beasley. Was an instant attraction for both of us.
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Me I fell for them gorgeous blue eyes, oh and him.
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I'm not sure why he fell for me, but it
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was instant.
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I mean we clicked instantly.
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And then it wasn't too long after date and I
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became pregnant, so we decided to get married.
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We had a biker wedding.
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Basically my family was there, his family was there, but
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everybody else was from our mutual biker friends.
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Three days later, Tanya was born.
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My name is Tanya Beasley. I'm thirty years old, and
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Richard Beasley is my father. My dad was a really
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goofy dad. He liked to have fun. He would actually
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get down and kind of use his imagination with me
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when we were drawing. It was story telling and dragons
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and monsters and all that kind of cool stuff. Like
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I actually felt like he was a kid like me,
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just having fun.
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With a new family. Tina wants to leave the biker
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gang that she and Richard are members of, but Richard
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wants to stay.
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Matthew the lifestyle motorcycle gang is a close knit community,
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you know, they are very tight knit. They don't let
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it outsiders, even if it becomes violent. Often involved in drugs.
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At that time, we were seeing a lot of meth
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moving through motorcycle gangs.
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He was a good bother. He was good to me.
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He had a paycheck every week, bills.
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Were paid, but I had no clue what he was doing.
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And then I found out he wasn't working. The paychecks wasn't.
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Real, and then I knew what he was doing for
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a living.
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In the mid nineteen with Tanya, a little girl, Richard
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becomes involved in illegal firearms.
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While my dad was being this ideal father from the outside,
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he actually at the time was breaking and entering. He
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was illegally selling weapons. So it looks like he was
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doing the right thing, But he kind of had a
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double life in a sense too. He was a father
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but also a really good con man. Even just from the.
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Start, everything was doing good until they come to arrest him.
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At that time, I had to have a hysterectomy I
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got out of the surgery and there was no rich
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no page from him, no call from him.
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He just disappeared.
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They had raided dar Allison ripped up my ouches looking
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for weapons.
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Oh, I was mad.
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I do remember being all dressed up for the court
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date and having to hug him and say bye. But
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I didn't realize what four It was more and more
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of real As I got older.
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I knew there was a dark side, but not to
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the extent that it turned out to be.
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Richard Beasley is behind bars for dealing drugs and carrying
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illegal weapons. In two thousand and three, he's released early,
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and twelve year old Tanya is unaware her mother or
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filed for divorce.
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We had the perfect family life for her sake. We
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stayed together, but we separated. He was very upset about it.
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Even to this day, rich still has not come to
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terms the dy divorced him. We still tried to be friends.
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It wasn't like it was before. I just didn't trust him.
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But after his release, Richard Beasley swears he's now a
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changed man.
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While he is in prison, during the seven year stint,
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Richard Beasley finds God, He reads the Bible, He memorizes
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Bible verses, and when he gets out, he tells his
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daughter and other people that his life is changed and
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he is going to spend the rest of his life
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helping other people.
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Beasley puts his newfound faith into action on Akron streets.
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He becomes a self styled pastor and even earns the
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nickname Chaplin rich.
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There were all these people who had been down on
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their luck their whole lives. They'd been in and out
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of prison their whole lives, and so he kind of
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was a role model in the senset no matter how
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many times you do fall, you can get back up,
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not just the first time you fall, not just the
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second time you fall. It's almost like an ebb and
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a flow. And he showed people.
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That he does, for a while go out and minister
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to other people. He goes to soup kitchens, he volunteers
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his time. And the question I think becomes is this genuine?
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And so we don't know completely with Richard Beasley.
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Opportunities still exist. When one is around vulnerable people who
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are looking for help, it can be very easy to
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hurt them as they look for that help. So what
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comes first trying to rehabilitate and try to be a
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different person, or seeing that as an opportune to see
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people who will need your help and then you can
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take advantage of them.
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They were driving and I believe he was hit by
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a dump truck. His truck rolled, it severed his achilles tendon,
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broke asternum.
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Not only did it affect his ability to work, but
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he also was prescribed painkillers. Ultimately, his accident led to
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him being addicted to oxyconton. At the time, he was
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getting into street ministry with individuals who were addicts, so
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I don't think he realized he was addicted to it.
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After his accident, he used part of a settlement to
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buy a house an Akron, and it was in kind
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of rough neighborhood. So he helped the people in the
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neighborhood and through his ministry, get back on their feet.
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And he converted the bottom into his apartment so he
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could monitor what was going on in the rooms and
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the housing upstairs.
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And he begins to go to the courts and he
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was vouching for people. He is going on the streets,
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he's recruiting people and people in town are thinking, man,
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You know Chaplain Ridge is a great, great guy.
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When my dad first got his halfway house, a lot
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of people were donating furniture. When he first got out
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of prison, a lot of people donated stuff. So by
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the time he finished setting up, he had all this
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extra stuff. So he asked me to make the Craigslist
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account so he could sell all of this these extra
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things that he had. And of course at the time,
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Craigslist was the place to go to sell and buy stuff. Also,
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at the time it was a leading technology, was a
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computer or a laptop, and so he had no idea
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of how to use that stuff. In the beginning. I
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had to help him a lot, but then after that
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he learned and did it all himself. So first it
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was just men that lived in the house, and then
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it started becoming here and there, Oh, well, there's a
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woman that needs help. And when you start mixing things
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like that, it gets massy real quick, and that's when
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things really started going south.
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He had manipulated the system enough to get some defendants
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sent to him as part of their probation.
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So what he's doing here is two different things.
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He's trying to scam money from the courts for this,
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you make work halfway house. But we also found out
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is that in doing so, he's trying to get women
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who are drug addicts into his halfway house and trying
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to turn them into prostitutes.
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And around that time he started getting a little snippy,
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like he would snap at me over random things and
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not the kind person I know, which I know I
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knew at the time. When you're on drugs, that's what happens.
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It affects your personality. It almost felt like overnight there
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was this great, awesome dad and then there was this
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hateful kind of show of the guy that I knew,
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but to everybody else he was great.
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There was some psychological payoff for him, this idea of,
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you know, kind of getting off on other people, fooling
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other people. There's a term called duping delight. It's people
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who get psychological satisfaction from fooling other people. You know,
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Richard Beasley was showing up at court and pretending to
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be this wonderful person and having this facade in the community.
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It's hard not to believe, as elaborate as it was,
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that he wasn't getting some kind of thrill or some
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kind of satisfaction out of that part of it as well.
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He pretended to be a Christian burden hell for that.
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Excuse me saying that. But yeah, God forgives.
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of God and run a prostitution and drug ring out
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of your house either.
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At the time, I was dating someone who was older
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than me, and I found out that my dad had
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been using him to sell pills in marijuana in my
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hometown to people. That's when I completely cut off contact.
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By twenty eleven, Richard Beasley is under scrutiny by Akron
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police for sex trafficking. His behavior is deteriorating, and he's
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now a wanted man following a probation violation.
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Richard Beasley really does feel like I think his back
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is up against the wall. And one of the things
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he had said on several occasions is he did not
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want to go back to prison, and so he began scheming,
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you know, Okay, how am I going to avoid this.
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I can't go on the run with my name and
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with all my history. I can't. I mean, that's not
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going to work. And so he comes up with this
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horrendous scheme, I'm going to find somebody who looks like me,
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who's about the same age that I am, Somebody who
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is older, somebody who's vulnerable, somebody who isn't going to
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be missed. They don't have a lot of family ties.
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If I can find that person, I can just kill
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them and assume their identity.
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In the summer of twenty eleven, Beasley plans to lure
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potential victims to him with an ad.
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He's placed on Craigslist.
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And then he's going to kill them and steal their
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identities to avoid being captured by police.
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Look at the situation and the desperateness that some people
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may have. Here's a person that says, there are people
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without work, there are people without opportunity, there are people addicted,
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there are people involved in prostitution. This is now starting
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to come my way.
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Well, well, mister Beasley sets up that Craigslist ad. He
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puts himself in the position of power. He's the one
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who has the job, so he can ask any questions
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of any applicants, and so he can find out who's local,
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who's not local, who has strong family ties, who doesn't
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have strong family ties. You know, it's not going to
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be a coincidence that he winds up with several victims
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who don't have a lot of close family ties, and he.
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Knew that if these people had no one that would
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miss them, and they brought all their belongings for this job,
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he'd be able to sell their belongings. There's the money,
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steal their identities because they had long hair and looked
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like him. There's the drugs. And then he had this
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huge plot of land wherever he was saying that provided
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him a place to live. So at that point in
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his head, he was just trying to survive and get
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his drugs.
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Estranged from his daughter and physically unable to carry out
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his plan alone. Richard Beasley develops a closer bond with
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Broken Rafferty, the sixteen year old son of a close friend.
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Our investigation showed that Broken Rafferty his dad was pretty
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high up in a local club, and we kind of
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think that's how those two, mister Beasley and mister Rafferty
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started to meet.
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I think that he certainly probably enjoyed the attention and
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that love and the admiration he got from this young child.
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He would teach Broken things.
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At first, it was about Christ and church and everything
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like that.
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Then it turned into.
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Mafia and broken copied Rich's dress. You know, were the
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same leather jacket, identical leather jacket and jean, same brand,
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the genes, and he just became obsessed with Rich.
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Sixteen year olds, please don't be fooled, are still in
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the formative stage. The brain is still forming what we
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call it the teen brain. So perhaps that sixteen year
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old is looking for a definition of life, looking for
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those materialistic goods the fifty year old is able to
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provide it. The fifty year old is looking for a
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person that has the youthfulness to allow for some of
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these criminal activities to take place.
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Fifty six year old Ralph Geiger, who's now homeless after
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losing his job running a construction company, is the first
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to answer Beasley's ad I'm.
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Out of work.
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Here's an opportunity for me to work. Here's an opportunity
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for me to be on a farm, and all I
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have to do is answer this call meet with this person.
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It's an aspect of almost unfair play that this would
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be set up in this way, using technology like craigslists
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to lure men to find these jobs and then find
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themselves in horrific situations.
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Ralph becomes Richard Beasley's avenue in his mind to escape
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going back to prison. So he and Ralph and Brogan
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meet up and they basically get the car and they
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go out in the woods, allegencing to this farm. Richard
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makes up some ruse to get Ralph out of the
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car and they go through the woods. Somehow Richard gets
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behind Ralph Geibert, and Richard Beasley just pulls out a
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gun and shoots him at the back of the head.
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My dad was so far into drug usage at the time.
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He knew it was wrong, but I don't think he
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could emotionally connect to it. When you're on drugs, it's
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all about self gain, what benefits you, what helps you
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get your next high, and that's all he was thinking about.
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Richard now becomes Ralph Geiger. He asked people who knew
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him to start calling him Ralph, which I can only
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imagine what they thought about that. He rents a room
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under the name Ralph Geiger, and it occurs to Richard
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Beasley aka Ralph Geiger at this point that man, that
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was so easy. Nobody's looking for Ralph Geiger. I need money.
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My back hurts.
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I don't want to work. So what if I do
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this as my next career. I mean, this is really
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the beginning of Richard Besley the serial killer.
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For two months, Richard Beasley has been living under the
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identity of Ralph Geiger, a homeless man who Beasley killed
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after responding to a Craigslist ad. Now he's looking for
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another victim. From the applicants to.
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His ad, he is looking for very very specific vulnerable victims,
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lack of family ties, middle aged, willing to go off
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the grid. And so he gets over a hundred replies
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for this position.
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Beasley agrees to meet fifty one year old David Paully.
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So, mister Pauley is coming from Norfolk, Virginia, which is
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almost a ten hour drive for Macro Ohio. He's not
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coming here just to find out about a job. He
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packed up his U haul and moved all of his
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possessions here, so he was coming here with the attention
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to stay here and make a new life here. And
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I think that mister Polly being willing and able to
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leave Norfolk, Virginia and drive ten hours for a promise
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of a job or the possibility of a job, shows
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how desperate mister Pauli was at the time, and frankly,
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how a lot of people were at the time.
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Can you imagine the helplessness and the hopelessness that exist
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in someone responding to that thinking that this is a
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new start again, the vulnerabilities of people lending them to
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take down their guard a step or two.
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He starts hearing from these victims and luring them to Ohio.
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Some of the questions he's asking are do you have meds? Clearly,
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drugs is a through line through all.
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Of this, so the motive was him stealing identities and
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trying to get money and drugs while not getting caught
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by the police. He was so numb to what he
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was doing he didn't grasp the concept of another human life.
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So David Paully is beside himself. He packs all of
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the stuff up, he drives all the way to Ohio.
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He meets with the person who he thinks his name Jack.
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Jack's nephew Brogan is also with him, and once again
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he does the same ruse. He convinces David to go
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out into the woods. They go for a walk. Richard
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Beasley gets behind him and shoots him at the back
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of the head. What struck me was how much psychological
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payoff there seemed to be for Richard Beasley in running
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the schemes and duping the people around him, And I
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think that motive was extremely powerful him, and probably more
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powerful to him than he even realized or would acknowledge.
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We see a lot of time pass between that first victim,
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mister Geiger, and that second victim, mister Pawley. But given
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that the time had passed and still nothing happened, they're
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even more in bold and they're not going to wait
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to time. They're going to move faster this time, and
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that's exactly what they did.
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Less than three weeks later, fifty year old Scott Davis
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is on his way to meet Richard Beasley.
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Scott Davis was from South Carolina, but he was living
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locally with his mom in Masly in, Ohio, so that's
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about forty minutes from Macron. But like everyone else, he
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was also kind of down on his luck at his time.
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So this is how he comes into mister Beasley's orbit.
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Mister Beasley is still relying on that same Craigslist ad,
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He's still getting people interested in that job, and he's
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still going back to that same ad and going to
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the same pool of victims to pick from him.
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So what we find is.
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Mister Beasley lures mister Davis to a restaurant just like
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he did mister Polly. They have their meal there, and
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he takes them to the same secluded wooded area with
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every intention of killing mister Davis just like he killed
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mister Pally.
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And so once again, Richard Beasley pulls out the gun
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Poinston Scott's head and it and go off. There's a click,
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and Scott turns around and sees this gun. Now, Richard
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Beasley fires again, and this time he doesn't miss, and
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he hits Scott in the elbow, which is a pretty
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serious injury. But Scott absolutely takes off and he is
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running for his life and Richard Beasley is looking everywhere,
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and so is rug and Rafferty and Scott Davis is
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running just losing blood as he goes. He ends up
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hiding in this creek bed for like seven hours, losing
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blood this entire time. After seven hours, it's freezing outside
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and he's losing blood. This man gets up and walks
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seven miles to a house where he knocks on the
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door and people open it and there's this man covered
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in blood and who tells them this horrendous story and
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they call nine one one.
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We just had a gemmy come up to our front door.
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He claims that he's been shot. He's got some blood
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on him. What's your name, sir, Scott Davis.
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Scott Davis is rescued, treated for his wounds and questioned
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by police.
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Well, I was on the please list and it said
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that read I was looking for someone's sake here at
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six hundred and eighty eight acres a farm land. He
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went back and forth for a month, you know. They
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said they was going to get me three hundred miles
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a week and a place to live. We got probably
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about forty fifty feet and her click, oh crowd. I
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smart around and he had the gun in the back
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of my head. That's a pretty nuts that is done, Jam.
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When it was done, Jam, I thought it right up
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to the wood for everything I would work. He shout
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at me again.
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That's why he got me in the arms. Okay, you
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said there was two guys.
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One of them was Jack.
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You say he had short hair blee Jean Tennis and
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the other guys him.
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I don't have glad to get to think. Another guy
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had blonde hair. Probably seventeen years old. Uh, six', five all,
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right but he went By. Jack that's what the thing.
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Was you tell her to shave the.
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Beard at this, Point Richard beasley has become not only
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desperate but. Reckless he's realizing that the gig is about
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to be.
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Up before authorities begin to track Down beasley And, rafferty
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they're luring another. Victim this time they Picked Timothy, kern
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an unemployed father of a teenage son From masilla In.
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Ohio timothy's son drives him to an interview With beasley
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And rafferty at a waffle. HOUSE a few days, Later
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beasley confirms tim has got the, job so he heads.
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Back they lure Mister kern through the same.
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Thing they sit, down they have a, meal and they're
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going to go take him to this advertised wooded. Area
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they have to go to a different place after what
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happened to Mister, day but they find another wooded area
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to do this. In they start taking him to this
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wooded area and they shoot him four. Times Mister kerran
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didn't die at the first shot of the, head and
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he kept, breathing and it was a cold, blooded calculated.
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Murder four time.
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Shot he literally has five dollars in his. Pocket to, me,
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again it's an indication that while money may have been
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part of that entire, scheme it wasn't. EVERYTHING i Think
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richard was angry as a. PERSON i think he was.
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DESPERATE i think he saw what was going to, happen
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AND i think he was just he didn't. CARE i
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don't think he cared at all about his, victim and
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00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.200
maybe he never, did but he chose at that moment
500
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:49.960
to go ahead and kill.
501
00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:53.319
Him this is the question that occurs a rite about this,
502
00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.839
time is after you've committed two three of these heinous,
503
00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.480
acts is it something that you're doing to fulfill a
504
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:02.119
need or is it something that you've gotten very good.
505
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.200
At whatever is the answer, there we still have to deal.
506
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:07.960
With there are people who will do these heinous, crimes
507
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.599
and it takes outstanding police, work and they also the
508
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:16.200
general public being out there willing to be the persons
509
00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:20.039
to report activities that may be suspicious or in.
510
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:25.640
Question the sister Of David Pauley beasley's second victim is
511
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:26.480
one such.
512
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.960
Person MISTER pauli actually had a sister who lived up In,
513
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:32.200
maine and he told his sister what he was. Doing
514
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:34.079
he told her that he had found out an ad On.
515
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.160
Craigslist he found a job In ohio and that's where
516
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:38.799
he was going to. Go so fortunately in this, case
517
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:42.119
his sister is aware and can contact authorities and alert
518
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:43.720
people that his brother's gone.
519
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:48.440
Missing my twin, brother who's fifty one years, Old, okay
520
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.680
found a job On craigslist as a farm caretaker Near.
521
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:57.400
Cambridge he arrived In, Parkersburg West virgina on the twenty
522
00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:01.400
second Of. October i've been looking through articles and everything
523
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:04.319
and saw the one about the man that was bored
524
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.599
and had been. Shot, yeah and THEN i was, like
525
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:11.920
this is just two posts to to what my brother
526
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:12.599
was going there.
527
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.680
For, really but he found the job On craigslist, Too.
528
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:17.599
Yes you.
529
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.000
Did at the same, time as police start investigating the
530
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:26.200
disappearance Of David, paully authorities are getting closer To beasley
531
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:28.200
thanks to details From Scott.
532
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.559
Davis now we have Mister davis also saying that he
533
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:34.480
responded to A craigslist, ad and once you kind of
534
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.559
compare that with what Mister paully's sister is telling, authorities
535
00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:42.200
that's when the pieces start to fall in. Place so
536
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.200
once they have That CRAIGSLIST ad that's been. Up they're
537
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.720
starting to be able to investigate where THAT ad came,
538
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.440
from WHAT ip addressed WAS i? Used and it's finding
539
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.640
out that the computer AND ip address was In, Akron,
540
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.759
ohio in the basement of a gentleman's home where Mister
541
00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.599
beasley was running a.
542
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.119
Room so now we are on to Mister beasley as
543
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.799
a suspect in this.
544
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:08.839
Case investigators visit the restaurant Where beasley Met Scott.
545
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:13.599
Davis we're able to look at the video at the
546
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:15.519
restaurant where they had and that's where we get the
547
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:20.000
picture Of Brogan rafferty And Richard beasley coming to meet Mister.
548
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.680
Davis that's the video that ultimately leads a case to break.
549
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:36.240
Up we had the surveillance photographs and shows and we'll
550
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.759
show and your picture's, there and we know who you met.
551
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:45.559
Name his name Is Scott, davis and he met you guys.
552
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:46.240
Were brakerst at The.
553
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:47.200
Shawnees do you remember?
554
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:47.960
THAT i don't.
555
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.000
KNOW i don't think he was.
556
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:54.519
There, Yes and Initially Brogan rafferty, SAYS i don't know
557
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.839
what you're talking. ABOUT i have anything to do with.
558
00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:58.279
Us what did you?
559
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.880
Do after they had a bit of an, altercation AND
560
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:06.359
i didn't just didn't feel, comfortable SO i just left the.
561
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:12.440
Situation but he's sixteen years, old and so he confesses
562
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.559
fell us about The geiger into.
563
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.079
IT i was.
564
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:24.519
To go Help beasley murder this man had the body for, him, Okay.
565
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:26.880
And in talking to, him they're able to get a
566
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.800
lot more, details not only in the, murders but where
567
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.440
all the bodies are.
568
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:33.679
Buried and WHEN i turned, around Mister gager was in
569
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:38.679
front of Mister, beasley and Mister beasley pulled a pistol
570
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:41.480
out and with both hands he pointed at the back
571
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.760
of Mister geiger's. Head AND i saw that AND i
572
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:48.719
closed my eyes and THEN i heard a gun shut
573
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:51.360
AND i opened. Them Mister, gager who was sitting in
574
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:52.159
the creep, bed.
575
00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:56.599
Did he seemed to be? Dead, yes he was.
576
00:34:56.679 --> 00:35:00.000
Dead we get a full account of everything that happened
577
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:00.880
and where everybody was.
578
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.880
Buried police also find what they call a killing kit
579
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.920
At rafferty's. Home they now hope to Find beesley before
580
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:21.559
he can kill. Again sixteen year Old Broken rafferty has
581
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.559
confessed to taking part in the murder Of Ralph, geiger
582
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.320
but police are yet to find suspected serial Killer Richard
583
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:31.000
beasley or establish any alias he's.
584
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:34.480
USING i was working at fast food and this guy
585
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:36.400
comes up to the counter And i'm thinking he's going
586
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.960
to order food per, usual normal, day and he flashes
587
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:42.039
his badge says he's with THE fbi and wants to
588
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:44.880
talk to me about my. Dad, definitely red flag's going
589
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:46.639
off in my. Brain but at the same, TIME i
590
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.000
knew he would get caught, eventually BUT i thought it
591
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:51.440
was weird that it was by THE fbi and, not you,
592
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:56.519
Know acron police. Department so he pulled me. Aside we started.
593
00:35:56.599 --> 00:35:59.840
Talking he asked me if my dad had land, anywhere
594
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:03.519
if there's anywhere he could be hiding. Out so Then i'm, like,
595
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:06.639
oh they didn't catch. Him that's. WEIRD i guess they're
596
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:08.480
still trying to find. Him why are they talking to.
597
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:11.000
ME i haven't talked to him in. FOREVER i did
598
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:13.199
know there were a couple places he had talked about
599
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.239
about his friend having, land and then he had me
600
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:21.760
identify pictures of, him but Also, brogan which was. Weird i'm,
601
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.360
like where Does brogan come into play of all of?
602
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:27.440
This SO i identified the pictures and then he got
603
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.880
a call and was discussing with someone that they found another,
604
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:36.320
body And i'm, like this probably pertains to my. Dad
605
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:39.000
so he came back AND i asked. HIM i was,
606
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.559
like was that call about my? DAD i know you
607
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:44.159
aren't supposed to give, details but, like what's going? On
608
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.159
BECAUSE i heard? It NOW i, Know and that's when
609
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:51.480
he confirmed that they were looking for bodies of people
610
00:36:51.599 --> 00:37:01.280
my dad had. Killed in that, MOMENT i kind of
611
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:04.599
froze AND i didn't feel. Anything my heart dropped AND
612
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:08.079
i felt this this whole but at the, TIME i
613
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:13.119
don't think my teenage mind could really process. It it
614
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:15.400
was almost like my whole dream and idea of him
615
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:18.920
came crashing down at, once AND i was feeling so
616
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:23.800
many EMOTIONS i couldn't even decipher. Them, basically this this
617
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:28.360
black hole of despair sucked in all my emotions and
618
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:33.599
it was like time froze and IT i just it was.
619
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:50.440
Broken it wasn't just open ended the friend like he killed.
620
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.280
People this was it like this he's, done you, Know
621
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:58.880
it's it's something, major and it hit me really.
622
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:03.679
HARD i was just totally taken aback anything they could
623
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:04.679
have told me rich.
624
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:08.599
DONE i would never have thought That.
625
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:14.599
Richard beasley is charged on multiple counts of aggravated, murder attempted, murder,
626
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.800
kidnapping an aggravated.
627
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.559
Robbery it's, rough it is KNOWING i married a man
628
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:27.079
that became THAT i never would have thought that a
629
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.119
RICH i still can't believe when they call him a
630
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.079
serial killer THAT i have so many good memories and
631
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.639
my daughter has so many good, memories and he can
632
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:39.840
throw it all.
633
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:49.840
Away when we looked Into brogen at the, time because
634
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.599
we're trying to find out how does this sixteen year
635
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:54.159
old fifteen sixteen year old kid.
636
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:54.800
Get involved with?
637
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.639
This you, know Our bureau Of Criminal investigation investigators looked
638
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:01.960
into his computer, history and what we find is someone
639
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:05.639
who is obsessed with mafia. Lifestyle he's obsessed with, crime
640
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.920
and you can see someone who's clearly trying to emulate that.
641
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:12.719
Lifestyle be, heavy be a tough. Guy and so we
642
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.400
find that these two people meet and they wind up
643
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:17.599
being a perfect match to carry out these, awful awful.
644
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:21.559
CRIMES i don't think That richard knew when he first
645
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.920
Met Broken rafferty that he was going to use him
646
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:28.280
to commit murders down the. Road rich was involved in
647
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:32.519
Taking broken to church on many many, occasions and he
648
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:36.480
became like a substitute. FATHER i also would imagine that
649
00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:41.320
part of that grooming process was exposing him a little
650
00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:45.280
lot of time to criminal, activity so that broken becomes
651
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:49.239
desensitized to. That AND i think it's very easy to
652
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:55.239
underestimate the power an adult can have over a child
653
00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:59.559
when you look at his age and you look at
654
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:04.159
his life. Circumstances he was somebody who was absolutely right
655
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:06.480
for the picking in terms Of Richard.
656
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:11.719
Beasley brogan agrees to lead police to the burial sites
657
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:14.719
Of Ralph, Geiger David, pauley And Timothy.
658
00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:18.039
Kern we found the first two victims In Noble county In, Caldwell.
659
00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:21.079
Ohio that was the field and wooded area where Mister
660
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.639
besley Mister raffrey were taking their victims to. Start so
661
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:26.960
we found the first two victims there in shallow. Graves
662
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:29.519
but because Mister davis got away and they had to
663
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.880
switch up their method and went to a new. Place
664
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:37.599
here we found Mister kerr Near Rolling Acres. Mall Mister
665
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.639
davis getting away is probably the only reason we broke this.
666
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.719
Case if Mister davis doesn't get, away we don't know
667
00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.280
how many more. Victims Mister besley and Mister rafferty would
668
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:46.559
have killed.
669
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:51.239
It Broken rafferty is offered a deal that will allow
670
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.400
him parole after a significant jail, term but he refuses
671
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:58.519
to turn On beasley and is sentenced to life without
672
00:40:58.719 --> 00:40:59.960
the possibility of Par.
673
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:07.119
This relationship was so strong That brogan sacrifices his freedom
674
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:08.599
for the sake Of.
675
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:11.719
Beasley over the, years he had build up more and
676
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:15.960
more trust for, me and you, know vice. Versa we
677
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:18.480
had a little bit of an understanding that since he
678
00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:21.000
was a friend of my father's and we just had
679
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.119
known each other for a, while that we had you,
680
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:26.239
KNOW i would do anything for, you you would do
681
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:29.280
anything for me kind of, thing because that's just what we,
682
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:30.400
thought that we were that good of.
683
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.039
FRIENDS i do think That Richard beasley and maybe to
684
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:39.480
a lesser, Extent Broken, rafferty got a thrill out of
685
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:43.840
these fantasies of their schemes that they're putting, on and
686
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:47.079
how they were these kind of master criminals and they're
687
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:51.440
this elaborate plot and you, know they're the ones who
688
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:55.119
are deciding who lives and. Dies and so when you
689
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.480
look at, THAT i think it isn't that surprising that
690
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:02.079
he would be interested in the. Mafia who does kind
691
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.000
of pick and. Choose he's going to live and. Die
692
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:06.960
SO i think this kind of anti hero thing he's
693
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.679
got built up in his head is really consistent with
694
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:15.320
all the time he takes concocting this scheme and carrying it.
695
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:21.559
Out In march twenty, Thirteen Richard beasley is sentenced to.
696
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:26.559
Death to this, day he maintains his. Innocence In rich's,
697
00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:30.760
eyes he'd done nothing. Wrong he feels no. Remorse he's
698
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:31.519
a typical.
699
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:37.280
Sociopath he has never taken responsibility for anything in his.
700
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.039
Life there's no Question Richard beasley was looking to take
701
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.639
advantage of. People and there's no question, too given the
702
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:47.440
viciousness and calculation in these. Crimes he had been plotting
703
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:49.639
for a while how he was going to take advantage of.
704
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:51.800
People so it's not a surprise to see that he
705
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:55.960
had tried several different ways to put himself around people
706
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.920
who were vulnerable and could be taken advantage of by his.
707
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:05.280
Manipulation it's that victim. Mentality he blames it on everyone.
708
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.760
Else he constantly writes notes to the newspapers and, everything
709
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:13.559
stating that the system is, corrupt and this is what really,
710
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:18.440
happened And i've tried to confront him about, it even in.
711
00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:23.960
Person but THEN i got to the point WHERE i
712
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.519
was able to separate myself from, it but not as
713
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:33.039
a trauma, response but because FINALLY i had all this
714
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.079
time period had finally healed AND i was able to move.
715
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.159
Forward and the first TIME i went public with my
716
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:42.280
story was when that, happened BECAUSE i Realized i'm my
717
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:46.039
own person who can tell this. Story this happened to,
718
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:50.280
me BUT i am not This my dad happens to
719
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.599
be a serial, killer and despite whether he says he's
720
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:58.119
innocent or he does, this it just doesn't affect me.
721
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:28.320
Anymore ch
