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>> [music] >> Friday the 13th lore stems from a combination of Christian, Norse, and
historic superstitions. Viewing the day and number as uniquely unlucky. Key origins include the 13th guest
with Judas being the 13th guest at the Last Supper who [music] betrayed Jesus. Jesus was crucified on a Friday,
cementing the day as unlucky. >> [music] >> In Norse mythology, Loki, the 13th god
to arrive at the feast of Valhalla, brought chaos and death [music] by causing the murder of Balder the
beloved. Further, on [music] Friday, October 13th, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the
mass arrest of the Knights Templar, reinforcing the date's negative reputation. Historically, 12 is often viewed as a
number of completeness. 12 months, 12 apostles, making 13 a disruptive and unlucky number.
>> [music] >> And of course, there is the popular slasher film movie franchise, Friday the
13th. Originally, the title Friday the 13th was used to attract investors before
having a script, aiming [music] to capitalize on the superstition. In this scenario, it proved to be good
luck, >> [music] >> as the franchise completed 12 movies. The film series centers on Jason
Voorhees, who drowned as a child at Camp Crystal Lake [music] due to counselor negligence.
Decades later, the lake is rumored to be cursed and is the setting for a series of mass murders.
The films were great and great fun for late Friday night viewing, >> [music] >> but that was the work of fiction.
Today's story is real. Welcome to True Crime Garage. >> [music] [music] >> In the small, quiet town of Panhandle,
Texas, where [music] life moved at a gentle pace, the summer of 1990 was about to be shattered by an event
[music] so violent that it would sear into the town's memory forever. For lawmen working in this area.
The night of Friday, July 13th, Friday the 13th, 1990, would stand apart from all others. It
was a night that defied the very nature of this peaceful community. The chaos began in the dead of night
while the residents of Panhandle were sleeping. Many of their doors unlocked and windows open to let the cool night
air in, but danger was running and creeping through their streets. The first call
came in to law enforcement reporting a brutal attack. So, officers arrived at the home of a
Jimmy Britton to find a horrific scene. Britton was bleeding. He was awake. Uh he was
responding, but he was bleeding profusely from multiple slash wounds across his torso.
Despite this attack and terrible injuries that he sustained, he was able to identify his attacker
here, Captain, and his attacker was a young man, uh Kenneth Glenn Milner. In fact, he knew this young man
fairly well because Kenneth Glenn Milner was the ex-boyfriend of his stepdaughter. He's known to everyone as
Glenn. This is a teenager who was no stranger to the local law enforcement. Jimmy Britton had considered Glenn
Milner bad news and told him to stay away from his stepdaughter, and he did everything he
could to keep the young man away from his stepdaughter. It looks like that decision,
that action, resulted in revenge from the young man. A violent, unprovoked assault.
And nearly deadly at that. Yeah, but normally when the scary older stepfather says, "Stay away
from my daughter." The individual stays away. They don't come back and attack. So,
Captain, this Kenneth Glenn Milner, Glenn Milner known to everyone in the town of Panhandle, he's 19 years old.
He's a bad seed. He's He's difficult to kind of sort out because for my understanding in school, he's a he's a
good student. He gets good grades. He's considered to be smart. But he is As said, he's had a few run-ins with
police and that is why Jimmy Britton believed him to be a bad seed, to be bad news for his stepdaughter, for his
family and didn't want the youngster coming around. Based off of the injuries that Jimmy sustained and seeing him,
pictures of him after this attack, I am convinced that Glenn Milner only left the scene of that attack because he
thought that that Jimmy would die. That he would die from these injuries, that bleed out. I don't know exactly what
condition he was in when Glenn fled the scene, but I mean, he he took a he took a razor and cut this man up very, very
badly. And the community's concerns about Glenn, as said, were not new. He was considered to be a troubled young
man. He had alarming behavior. From my understanding, a couple years prior to this attack
that he committed on this Jimmy Britton on Friday the 13th in 1990, couple years before this,
Glenn Milner had climbed up to the top of the town's water tower and he was up there
very vocally and publicly threatening to jump from the water tower. This after a
breakup with his girlfriend at the time. And police, of course, respond to that scene then and they were able to talk
the teenager down before he would, you know, so he didn't jump, obviously, but they talk him down
and not long after that it's like another suicide attempt. He he drove his car off of a cliff
and Palo Duro at the Palo Duro Canyon. And he survived this as well. And following these incidents,
he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Right. You know, they they believe that he got better
and he was then in turn released and Sure he did. Well, a lot of experts actually think now, looking back and
reflecting on this, that Glenn Milner was probably smart enough to figure out what answers he
should be giving them Right. >> rather than how he truly felt or if he was if if the treatment took, right? If
if the if he was actually feeling better or doing better, but for whatever reason,
he was we can't jump into his mind and and know for certain, but he was able to convince them that he should be
released. And so he returns to life back to normal and goes back to school and resumes all of the normal teenager
activities until leading up to this attack where we will later learn that folks very close to him, at least one
individual in particular, said that they noticed a a change in leading up to this attack on Jimmy
Britton and thankfully this this man Jimmy was able to survive this horrific attack. Well, there's a lot of problems
in general just with young men and we can speak on this cuz we both went through it.
You have a lot of uh testosterone pumping through you got your hormones are going wild.
You're not fully formed your brain's not fully formed. You have a lack of emotional maturity
in the late teens early 20s. This is could be also onset like schizophrenia normally doesn't start showing signs
until late teens early 20s. But this is attempted murder. And why they didn't see it that way I don't
understand. I mean these injuries now I've seen different reports but a lot of them say that because of
these this I mean you're cutting a dude with a razor blade 200 some stitches. That's a lot of stitches
my friend. Oh yeah, I I believe they fully thought that this was attempted murder.
As I said I I think everyone who who experienced this who witnessed Jimmy who were there to help Jimmy and save him
believed that the youngster thought he had killed him before leaving the area and so now they have the
situation where we have a young man on the loose. We know who the suspect is. Thankfully our witness was able to speak
and tell us who attacked him. So the authorities are now looking for Glenn Milner. It's priority number one.
The police they went to Glenn's family's home. His parents claimed that they didn't
know where Glenn was. Do we know what the thoughts that his parents had on their son because some people
when they have a teenage son that's losing control or they feel like they're losing control of they they're afraid of
that individual. Well, that I don't know, but what I do know is law enforcement said that when
we arrived at Glenn's home, first they expected to find the teenager there. Right. When they speak with his parents
and they said, "Well, we don't know where he is. He left the house a while ago."
They said, in reaction to that, they didn't fully believe the parents. So, they insisted on searching the home.
They thought they would find Glenn held up somewhere in that house. Right. >> And so, they got pistols drawn and
they're going through the home and then when they get to Glenn's bedroom, they said that the room itself was, I
believe one officer referred to it as a chilling window into a disturbed mind. Yeah. This kid, I mean,
spoiler alert here, this kid pure evil. 19 years old, pure evil. So, when they go into the room, they the walls are
painted black. They were thinking they would see like a typical teenager's room, right? Like posters of rock stars
or athletes on the walls. Yeah. >> But, he had posters up, but they weren't rock stars and celebrities. They were
grotesque bloody posters from slasher films. Mhm. >> [clears throat] >> And he had Glenn had a collection of a
dozen or more grotesque mask that were lying about in this room. And most of these were ones that he had
created made himself. He was actually described as quite talented at making these types of of mask. Almost like a
fictitious version of Ed Gein, right? Well, and he he did contribute to the drama class in the drama club in in high
school and there was at least one or two people in that club that thought that Glenn could go on to work
in Hollywood and and you know makes things for special effects and and make props for
slasher films. Yeah, and it's very disturbing but like you said it's Friday the 13th.
>> One of these masks look like a face that had been partially or mostly blown away
and the officers said that the most shocking discovery in this room was a fake a life-like
corpse Yeah. >> that was lying on the floor. A fake life-like corpse that was lying on the
floor. And they said that the room looked like a scene out of a horror film. Again,
revealing a warped sense of reality and an unhealthy violent dangerous young man. I'm just going to
say what everybody's thinking. Did was he having sex with this doll? It's corpse-like. So this corpse the the
thing that looked like a corpse, I have some more descriptions in in here later in my notes I believe but the from my
understanding is he would use this to act out what would be scenes in a slasher film, like a fictitious slasher
film. This was something that he he would he would stab it to see how it would react and and create you fake blood.
There's also one of his friends that who had said that he used it one time to put
a prop gun in its mouth and then used an explosive to blow out the back of its head. Wow.
Yes. Yeah. Of course the the officers don't know this when they're going through the
room but they see they with the one officer said when we first saw it we thought it was a body.
Yeah. >> And they didn't know if it would be Glenn's body. Maybe the teenager committed suicide Yeah, he had a history
of that. Yeah, or maybe it was a victim. They had to approach it and it was once
they got close enough, they realized that it Oh, this is this is a fake, but a very lifelike looking corpse
lying on the floor. But So, they don't find Glenn's body there. >> room smelled?
Was there a smell? I I don't know if there was a smell. >> Well, I'm just saying like cuz you know
like when you're teenager and you you have a a new buddy and Mhm. they visit your house and so
that's your domain, right? Your room and especially like especially during the '90s spent a lot of time in your room
and you would decorate it and and it wasn't just for your amusement, it's for when people came over.
Hey, check out my room. I got a TV in here or I got these posters up or it's it's kind
of Uh They got a lifelike corpse lying on the floor. Yeah, but it's like a vision
board of your life, right? It's a representation of all the things you are or all the things you think you are at
the time. So, it's a very sacred place and we've all been there where we go into our buddy's room and it's awesome.
And it's so cool and Oh, he has a guitar in the corner and Oh, he has all this cool stuff, right? And then we've also
gone into our teenage specially boys hanging out with other boys, right? You go to your buddy's house and his house
is really cool and clean and then you go into his room and it's a disaster and it stinks. Mhm.
>> And it smells like gym shoes and it smells like a gym locker. But >> Smells like a teenage boy. Right. And
and you're like this this is a funky smell in here. I can't even describe it. It smells some like some kind of weird
mushroom Uh growing in the corner. But, like you said, here's the smart guy maybe not
applying himself in the correct ways, but he also shows some talent as a artist. So, as a parent, there's that
fine line of like trying to nurture your child, try to give him space to be creative because look, there's a lot of
individuals that end up making a lot of money and having very successful careers
doing stuff that some people could look at as morbid or macabre or whatever, right? Just like
if somebody went into your room in your late teens and they see a bunch of books
on serial killers, they might go, "Wow, Nick's Nick's kind of crazy." And then, well, you do a hit true crime
podcast and it makes all the sense in the world now, right? So, I think that's a very difficult situation for
not only his parents to be in, but friends and and teachers and and whoever to to figure out is is this a morbid
obsession that's going to lead to, like you said, evil or is this uh a a creative individual that I just don't
fully understand? Yeah. Well, what they're learning right here in this moment is that he was
he creatively attacked and attempted to kill Jimmy Britton. Right. Now, the the worst thing that they find in
this bedroom uh isn't the lifelike corpse. No. No. We got a lot to get to here. So, they find a handwritten list.
And, of course, because it's in his room, they believe that it was written by Glenn Milner. This is described as a
hit list. And, Jimmy Britton's name was at the top of the list. So, this list contained
names of high school students and adults. One member of law enforcement described it as a chilling blueprint for
a spree of violence. So, they're they're looking at this list and they now fully
understand what they're dealing with. This kid has attacked and attempted to kill Jimmy Britton. At some point, he's
going to move on to number two, and it might be tonight. So, we better find him as quickly as we can, and while we're
looking for him, we need to send some of our cars to the homes of these people that are on this list. Do welfare checks
on these people because if Glenn Milner's on his way to get to number two or number three or number four on that
list, we better intercept him before he can do more damage, before he can cut another person
up. >> Yeah, but just to give a visual of what Glenn Milner looks like, he's not a ugly
dude. He's He's a handsome guy. I mean, he has a goofy mullet, but it is 1990. And
but there also is some images of him where it's like here's one image where he looks
like attractive young man, and here's another image where you go "What's wrong with his eyes?"
Like Mhm. There's There doesn't seem like there's anything good going on behind them. No,
and it's always the eyes, isn't it? So, now they have Police have uncovered this
what appears to be a sinister plan to take a bunch of people out, and now it's a race to find Glenn, and a
desperate attempt to prevent him from marking any more [music] names off of his list.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> All right, we are back. Cheers, mates. [music] Talk hands in the air.
Happy Friday the 13th. Cheers to the people in the back. That same night on Friday the 13th,
17-year-old Frankie Garcia, described as a sweet-natured kid, about ready to start his senior year in high
school. He had gone with a friend to an old, abandoned barn out in the country. This is a place that the locals eerily
called the haunted house. It was a dark, empty structure with no electricity. Unbeknownst to Frankie, he was walking
into this barn with a killer. Frankie was about to become a pawn in Glenn Milner's deadly game.
Witnesses who found the victim's body say that Frankie Garcia apparently was forced to kneel in
the dirt and taste the barrel of a high-powered rifle as his killer pulled the trigger. Later, we would see video
of Glenn Milner himself talking about his hit list and his plans. And in that video, Captain, he says,
quote, I have a desire to kill. I know it's I know what's wrong. I have no problem distinguishing between right
and wrong. I just don't care. It's It's that that I just don't care. This makes you wonder
if there was some kind of psychotic break. You think? >> [laughter] >> Or if he he was just born bad. Who
knows? I mean, this this one's a difficult one to to sort out here. Officers learn from Glenn's parents that
he was close friends with this young man named Craig Shackleford. So, they're going to go talk to Craig.
When they arrive at Craig's house, they find him visibly nervous and on edge. He tells police that Glenn
was not the same and that the last time they spoke that his voice even sounded different. He said that it was like
something inside of him had snapped. Right. That's what I was saying, a psychotic break and
I mean, again, I don't Some people don't believe in this, but you you start looking up stuff on
Ouija boards and these rituals and all this stuff and I think there Is Is it possible that it's some psychotic break
or is it some Is it possible that he was messing around with some stuff that is beyond our realm of understanding?
And Or all of the above, right? Because when you say psychotic break, I'm not disagreeing with you. What I think we're
seeing here is a severely fractured, splintered mind and psyche. I mean, you could say he had a psychotic break prior
to going out and cutting up Jimmy Britton or you could say that he had a psychotic break before he stood at the
top of a water tower threatening to jump or while he was behind the wheel driving
off a cliff. >> Well, and that and that's odd, too, right? Because again, one of the toughest times for
individuals is those late teens, early 20s and that's whether you're you're male or female, right? And so, we all
have had friends that have in dark times had suicidal thoughts. Most of the time that's
something that is acted out privately. And it seems like his attempts were acted out publicly,
which is not the normal, right? >> When they're talking to Craig, he tells law enforcement that he has a
handwritten note from Glenn. Yeah. With instructions. It's basically a a list of instructions that says something
to the effect of don't ask questions, just do as instructed. The note directed Craig to a railroad trestle on the
on a dirt county road about 4 mi northwest of Panhandle, telling him to look for a box and then follow the
instructions that he would find inside that box. What's in the box? What's in the
>> officers, they're going to take these instructions, they're going to make their way out to this remote spooky
location. Tucked underneath the bridge, they found a green ammunition box. Of course, opening it is going to be
risky. They worried that it could be a bomb, could be some type of booby trap. They
have no idea what to expect with this box, but because time is so important Right.
>> and locating Glenn is so important and making sure that you can keep I mean, this is a long hit list that this kid
has. And so, they're like, F it, we kind of have to open this box. We can't wait for to call the bomb
squad. And again, 1990. So, one of the brave fellows here has to to open up the box here, and thank god
it didn't explode inside. They find three handwritten letters and a cassette tape. So, just put yourself in the
shoes of the police officer. You're going over to the friend of this maniac, this guy that just
slashed up his ex-girlfriend's stepfather. I mean, you don't know this at the time,
but 200 stitches, that's insane. And he has a note of these cryptic, weird instructions.
I mean, there'd be a part of me that would go, "Hey, can we stop off at the donut shop real quick and get a
coffee and a couple French curlers before I have to go open and figure out what's in this box?" These uh
letters that they find inside here, Captain, we have one was addressed to his friend Craig,
one addressed to Glenn's parents, another that was addressed to a young woman named Kenja. So, she is
an intern at an Amarillo TV station. She had actually graduated from these kids' high school
in 1988, and she did date Glenn for a few months one summer. She says she remembered him
as a a funny, kind, and fun person. And she said that he used to call her princess, but I they they broke up, you
know, first of all, they're teenagers. Uh second of all, they broke up, according to one story I saw, that he
had kissed another girl, but they remained friends, and they would still talk to each other on the phone from
time to time. And of course, she, once she goes off to college, she's dreaming of becoming a news reporter in a major
city. Right. So, the police contact her. They inform her of this note and a tape,
a videotape that Glenn had left for her. The note was an apology for I guess for
kissing that other girl. They just said it was a apologetic note. Uh but, it ended with him saying to her,
"But, on the upside, hey, here's the story of the decade for you, princess." This videotape contained Glenn's
recorded confessions and thoughts and rambling monologue that was partly an apology and also mostly a
chilling embrace of his own darkness. So, you I mean, you've seen portions of this and on it he says, uh "Mother,
Daddy, I'm sorry that I ended up like this. It's not your fault." He spoke of his dark time, his obsession with evil,
idolizing serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper. Mhm. He mentioned reading Necronomicon,
I believe is how you say it, a book of satanic rituals. Wow. And a belief that he could become
the son of Satan. Now, people that knew him said at some point he adopted the name Damian.
A name synonymous with destruction, death, doom, uh as he described it on the tape. He says it fits me more than
anything with the dark side of me that a lot of people haven't seen. >> Mhm. >> [clears throat]
>> Interesting. And what you're hearing this young man say in this video tape confession before he's gone out
with the attempt to commit these horrific acts is Glenn Miller pretty much is scripting
out his own real-life horror movie. He's he's the going to be the star of his own slasher real-life slasher film
that he's that he's living out, let's say. Was this video tape that he made, was this just a one-off or was he
filming things often? That I don't know, but this was intended for for people to
find after he killed everybody is I is my best guess. Yeah, he gives the instructions to Craig, but this would be
found either while he's in the process of executing that hit list or shortly thereafter. And in it on the
confession tape, he is saying that he's going to kill these people and he has nothing to lose. This is something he
thinks he will be good at. He's always wanted to be better at everybody than than at one thing, and he said this is
the one thing that I think I can be really good at. And he he explains that at after he takes all these people out,
he's going to kill himself, and he's not afraid to die. >> Well, it's also a He He wants to take as
many people with him as he possibly can. >> interesting, too, because sometimes when these people leave these notes
behind or we find journals or something, they're they're blaming the world. They're blaming the way people treated
them, right? I mean, we see this in some of the writings from Columbine and other
things where it's like, you know, people picked on me or I liked some girls that didn't like me back.
But here, Glenn is saying basically the opposite. Like, it didn't matter what my parents were
going to do. It didn't matter how other people were going to treat me. I'm evil.
And maybe he was evil from the beginning, but it was just now that he was going to just let let it go and stop
trying to control it. At 2:45 a.m., the doorbell rang at the home of another family in town. Through the peephole,
the man at the door, the homeowner, saw something that made his blood run cold. He said he saw yellow eyes when he
looked at through the peephole. So, he blinks again thinking that his mind is playing tricks on him. It's the middle
of the night. He then says that he saw Glenn Milner standing on his front porch.
His gut instant feeling was this is not good. He says to himself right away, "I'm not
opening this door." Now, on the other side of that door, you have Glenn Milner pleading with the man saying, "I really
need to come inside. I need to go and come inside and talk to you." The man says that he noticed Glenn's hands were
hidden when he was requesting to come inside. He says to him, "Glenn, what do you got in your hand down there?" He
doesn't get an answer to his question. Instead, that answer was in the form of gunshots. The man
said that the first bullet So, he he Glenn's firing through the door. The man says that the first bullet felt like
being hit with a baseball bat in the gut. The second one blew out his leg from underneath him, and he collapses to
the floor. He says his his thoughts This man is Ken Williams. He says his thoughts turn to his wife Patty and his
children. He was worried that that they would not be safe. And he was thinking that Glenn Milner, a man who a young man
who he knew, and we'll get into that. I mean, he's Glenn Ken Williams is the principal of the
high school. Right. He thinks that Glenn Milner's there and going to kill them all, kill his whole family. His wife
runs into the room, and she takes her fingers and pushes them into his wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
Williams thinks he's going to die. She is able to not only assist her husband, but at the same time call police. Okay,
so they get another call over the radio, and their reaction's like, "Oh my god, he's he just did another one." So, now
they got You can picture this. We've We've all Most of us seen this, especially if you've lived in a larger
city. A night where calls are just going out over the police radio over and over
again, and you you see you just see black and whites, sirens on, police cars crisscrossing town.
Uh that's what's going on in Panhandle that night. >> know it's Friday the 13th, but I'd be
interested to know if it was a full moon as well. So, they get they get the call they're
looking for or had been waiting on, hoping for, anyway. And it's somebody had spotted Glenn
Milner's car. It's parked right in front of the Panhandle Police Department. So,
we have officers rushing to this scene, which is back to where they came from when they started their night. They're
rushing back to the police department to surround Glenn's car. He's sitting in the driver's seat with a barrel of a
pistol pressed under his chin. He's perfectly still. You know, later they're going to watch this video cassette. This
is the the final act of of this man's night of after these attacks. This young man's
got his finger on the trigger. Yeah, there's probably a part of them if they know the devastation he already caused,
there's probably a part of the those officers that are going pull the trigger. Yeah, and I can't
remember what Glenn said to police, but he they're convinced he's going to pull the trigger. And he
he just puts the gun down, gives them a very blank look, and he said something to them like I
can't I can't I wish I I would have added that to my notes here because he said whatever he said to him was just
like cold and without emotion. Now, later Glenn will reveal to police the bizarre
reason that he did not pull the trigger sitting in his car in front of the police station. He told officers that
according to his satanic beliefs, he was required to recite a specific chant before taking his own life. And he said
in that final critical moment and having been out running all night, he had forgotten the words to that. And so, he
was afraid to die without completing what he referred to as the ritual. Yeah, I'd say hold on a second. I just need to
look this up. Uh and so I can hand it to you. Here's your gun back, and here's the wrench tool. You can finish the job
now. But, his confession is dark. And then, think about it from law enforcement's, and you've been in your
car all night running and running and running chasing and hoping to find Glenn, and hoping to
find people alive and well so you can protect them, and this is like a very exciting, not in a good way, exciting
night of terror, and just a strange night for Panhandle, Texas. It It's an anticlimactic end to
that night of terror. Or at least they thought at the time that that was the situation because they
they arrest the young man. Milner is now in custody. They thought, all right, we can
breathe a a sigh of relief here. The immediate danger that we were facing has passed. Yeah.
One officer reflecting on the tense events said he felt a profound wave of gratitude that despite all of the chaos
that night, everyone was still alive. No lives had been lost. He says it was a fragile peace.
A moment to breathe. Well, that moment, unfortunately, was shattered by the crackle of, once again, the police
radio. So, a call came through to dispatch. A witness, when he says, when this police officer says, "No lives have been
lost." They don't know about Frankie Garcia yet. This is the call that comes in that
alerts them that, "No, they didn't get out no lives lost that night." So, a witness
had described the location, the the place familiar to locals, the haunted house. They were told on the radio that
officers needed to get there and get there fast. So again, this so-called haunted house it sits on the very edge
of town. No one lives there. It's referred to as a relic. It's boarded up. Left to the elements and mercy of time.
But you so for a good deal of time and I found one report that said even for generations,
it had been the destination for thrill-seeking teenagers. It's dark. It's the spooky place you go
to when you want to scare yourself or maybe you go out there on a dare. Yeah. And as we said that in reality the
haunted house was nothing more than a dilapidated barn. So my my understanding there's an abandoned house and behind it
there's an even spookier barn. It's a barn without electricity. It's dark interior was a place where kids would
gather to drink beer and escape the watchful eyes of parents and and the town folk. Yeah, when you're out there
and you're you know, playing pocket pool, smoking a couple cigarettes. All of a sudden you hear
The It's a creepy atmosphere. Yeah, creepy AF. Responding to the call, the officers they rush out
to the scene. Keep in mind the barn, the floor inside it's not wood, it's not concrete, it's packed dirt. So they
encounter a horrific sight. Very strange but also very horrific. Scrawled into the earth was what is reported to be a
large crudely drawn pentagram. And there in the very center of that pentagram was the body of lying face
down that there's a body within the circle. It's the motionless form of a teenage boy. Garcia, yeah.
There was no sign of a struggle, they say, but they also said this wasn't a random act of violence. It was a cold,
deliberate execution. It was a dark ritual. Yeah, it was a sacrifice. >> What they would learn is it was an
individual whose name had appeared on the hit list that they had recovered. And remember one by one names were
checked off this list, each person located and accounted for, but one name remained unchecked, and that name was
Frankie Garcia. This was the body of Frankie Garcia. And Frankie's parents confirmed that the last time that they
had seen their son, he was heading out the door with a friend from school, a person they described as a friend from
school. They said that friend was Glenn Miller. Yeah, and you already know the devastation that he caused.
And but it's stuff like this or the crimes like this where you go 1990 and this is
kind of the start in the where it kind of ramps up and there's this peak of satanic panic, and you're
going to tell me that this is not satanic. There's so many cases that we go, "Oh, well, it's just satanic panic."
And they you know, threw some of these teenagers under the under the bus because of it
and and they almost make it it seem in in some of these documentaries or these books that like there was no reason to
have any satanic panic. I think this this case itself should give you reason for satanic
panic. >> Oh, yeah. And keep in mind, he went out the door on Friday the 13th to start
checking names off of his hit list. He left the list behind. That tells me that that very likely maybe the words to that
chant weren't tattooed on his brain, but I believe you have to believe at least several of the names were committed to
memory. Yeah, it's probably a that he thought about over and over, writes down the plan, well, I don't need to take the
note with me cuz it's all up here. It's all up here in my satanic brain. On that videotape, he says happy Friday the
13th. Of course, local residents were completely shocked when they heard about this self-professed
Satanist who had confessed to murder. Kenneth Glenn Milner, as we said, 19-year-old admirer of Charles Manson
and Jack the Ripper. He was charged murdering Garcia. He was also charged with the attempted murders of Kenneth
Williams, his former high school principal. We'll circle back to that attempted murder in detail in in in just a bit.
And Milner was also charged with the attempted murder of Jimmy Britton, a former girlfriend's stepfather, all that
same night. Milner slashed Britton's throat and arms with a straight razor just shortly after 1:00 a.m. July 14th. He
might not have been all completely evil though. And I only say that because the report we have here,
well, the report we have here is that when he when he was cutting Jimmy Britton, attempting to kill him,
that Milner began vomiting during the attack. And it was only because of that. So, he approaches the door, knocks on
the door, Britton opens up the door, Milner starts cutting him with this razor. And he he Milner gets weak during
this and starts vomiting and it was only because of that that another member of the family was able to push Milner back
outside and close and shut and lock the door. Yeah, I wonder if he was intoxicated or
was using drugs. Chip Brown had a great title for one of the many Texas and Associated Press news articles about
this case. One of his was titled Murder of youth 17 brings horror films to life in Texas town. And that is
brings horror films to life in Texas town is a great way to end short succinct way to describe this.
Here's portions of that article here Captain. The 2300 people who live in this farming town worry that there will
be other attacks. Parents closely watch their children keeping them off the dirt
roads that crisscross the rolling wheat fields of the region. Quote, there is a fear that there are
more Satanists out there, said Linda Solace who has four children. She says there are rumors that they are looking
for a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy to sacrifice. And this is a testament to what you were saying
earlier about the the rise of satanic panic. Well, you you get that through acts like this, through real life true
crime stories that would have reason to cause that specific panic. Yeah, I find this very interesting in
the case how he drove out to this large birthday party, this celebration. I'm guessing he learned of this
party through school, right? And so then he gets to the party because he wants to
rack up his body count. And he felt sick and there was other eyewitnesses there that said he well, he
didn't do anything. He didn't do anything evil. He didn't try to kill anybody, but he did get sick. A lot of
these cases to me just seem so similar like that statement, I wanted to rack up a body count. You see this with
Columbine where it's like, yeah, we're going to go in the school and shoot some of these kids, but we got this bomb that
will go off and that will rack up this body count. You see this and if anybody has watched it or hasn't watched it on
Hulu, the Scream Murders documentary that just came out. It's a three-part series. It's
definitely worth the watch. But, their idea was to commit a a Scream style killing
of one of their friends and maybe kill others and then end their rampage by going into the school
and shooting up the school. And when they said on video camera cuz they were videotaping themselves, again
another another similarity with this case, with Columbine, with the Scream murders,
these individuals videotaping themselves beforehand and afterwards. But, when they were talking on videotape for the
Scream murders, they're like, "Well, once we go to the school and shoot people up, that racks up our body
count." So, you just see so many similarities with these satanic, evil, demonic, late teens, early 20s killers.
There are some DAs that I just love, and this is one of them. So, Carson County District Attorney David McCoy
said that he would be seeking the death penalty. He said Milner gave police a written confession in which he said he
wanted to die. David McCoy said, quote, "Mr. Milner has indicated a strong desire to die, and I intend to do all I
can to see his wishes are accommodated." The court-appointed a defen- defense attorney for Milner, his name Douglas
Woodburn of Amarillo. He said the trial could begin as early as January of 1991.
And he says there has been extensive publicity of the case, and Panhandle is a small town, so that they
would be seeking a change of venue. And we know from covering these cases that that is pretty common a lot of times,
especially if you have a case like this where it captures the attention of the news, the
media, and the public. He says that his client, he doesn't know that his client is a Satanist. He's going to be saying
these things to the papers because he has to defend this kid who it's not it's not about defending him to whether he's
guilty or innocent. They know that he's guilty. It's about saving this young man's life, making sure that he doesn't
get the the death penalty. Here's a story that I thought was very eerie. Okay, so we talked about the
young man who lost his life, Frankie Garcia. A kid just a kid. He's getting ready to start his senior year in high
school. And so those who knew victim Frankie Garcia, the high school students, of course they also know the
murderer Kenneth Glenn Milner, they would tell police and anyone willing to listen,
this was talked about, that the two were actually not friends. One student had said, this is Ron Doddy, had said,
quote, Frankie really got on Glenn's nerves. Frankie tried really hard to be everyone's friend.
So when Glenn Milner invited Frankie Garcia to go out on the town with him on that Friday the 13th,
Frankie Garcia told Craig Shackelford that he was skeptical. And he says, Glenn doesn't even like me, does he? And
so this is a telephone conversation that Shackelford had a couple of hours before
with Garcia before Garcia was killed. Garcia tells Shackelford about Glenn. He's like,
he just wants to take me out and pull a prank on me, scare the hell out of me, doesn't he?
And it was Frankie's kind nature, like like the other student said at the high school, Frankie tried really hard just
to be everybody's friend. And that's why he probably went out with Glenn that night, not knowing that Glenn had
intentions of killing him at the haunted house. Yeah, he probably got out to that
haunted house and just thought this is all a prank, this is all a ruse. But if somebody's not making you feel safe or
somebody is being mean to you, I you just feel bad for this kid cuz he felt like he had to be polite, felt
like he had to be friendly even when everything was telling him don't. You should never apologize for
going, "Hey, this person makes me feel off. This person makes me feel threatened in some way." You don't have
to be nice or polite to that person. >> In January of 1991, Kenneth Glenn Milner
pled guilty to two counts of attempted murder and one count of murder. He was sentenced to three life sentences. He
has been up for parole in the past, thankfully that parole has been denied. Kenneth Glenn Milner, the Friday [music]
the 13th killer, will visit with the parole board once again in 2030. >> [music]
[music] [music] >> Want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage each and every
[music] week. Thanks for telling your mother. Thanks for telling your brother. Couple days away from Friday the 13th,
so happy Friday the 13th. Yeah, lock your doors and hey, don't go out to any haunted houses or spooky barns. Colonel,
do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful listeners? Just go to kogs.com
and read what Keeping Our Girls Safe what that great organization is doing. And as said, they have an event coming
up, a big fundraiser. They do two big ones each year. Their spring event is coming up in April. So, if you wish to
attend or if you wish to help them out as for the girls and the women of of our communities to keep them safe.
So, a great organization that is kogs.com. And until next week. Be good. Be kind.
And don't litter. >> [music] [music] [music]

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On Friday, July 13th, the quiet town of Panhandle, Texas, where life moved at a gentle pace, was about to be shattered by an event so violent it would be seared into the town's memory forever. This Friday the 13th, was a night that defied the very nature of this peaceful community. Evil didn’t come to the town of Panhandle, it was born there and on this Friday the 13th that evil was on a seek and destroy mission. The chaos began in the dead of night. It was a night filled with murder, mayhem, confusion, and chaos. A night that will forever live in infamy as the night that the curse and the evil of lore became real.

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Brief Summary

Kenneth Glenn Milner attacked and killed on Friday the 13th, 1990, in Panhandle, Texas, resulting in multiple charges and life sentences.

Key points

The Attack on Jimmy Britton. A brutal attack on Jimmy Britton reveals a dark side of a local teenager.
Glenn Milner's Disturbing Room. Police discover a chilling scene in Glenn Milner's bedroom, filled with grotesque items.
Frankie Garcia's Tragic Fate. Frankie Garcia unknowingly walks into danger, becoming a pawn in Milner's deadly game.
Glenn's Dark Confession. Glenn reveals his obsession with evil and idolization of serial killers.
The Final Act. Glenn's chilling confession tape reveals his intentions before the murders.
The Haunting Discovery. Officers find a body in a pentagram, confirming a dark ritual.

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Episode quotes

This kid, I mean, spoiler alert here, pure evil.

Describing Glenn Milner's character after the police investigation.

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