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talk some true [Music] [Music] crime on the morning of Friday August 11th 1995 in Grant's Pass Oregon a young man
walked into the police station he was disheveled he appeared to be very tired and dirty he said to the attendant at
the for service desk that he needed to speak with the police officer he then took a seat in one of those chairs near
the little window that separates wkins from the nice lady at the desk on the other side he waited briefly and then an
officer appeared and asked the young man what is it that you would like to report
what the young man had to say was going to take much more work than just another
incident report he started to tell the officer about last night the officer quickly walked the young man back into
the office portion of the police station he took the young man to a small interview room inside there was a small
table three chairs and nothing else the officer gestured toward one of the chairs and told the young man to have a
seat then he asked him if he would like something to drink maybe a water or soda
or perhaps something stronger like a coffee the young man replied soda followed by a simple thank you the
officer left the room and closed the door by behind him the young man could hear the door click in a manner that
suggested that he would not be able to just stand up and walk out of the room this door would need to be opened from
the outside there were no windows to the outside world in this little room but instead one small reinforced window that
looked out into the small white hallway that the two had just passed through on their way to the interview room the
young man could see the officer talking with two men through the shatterproof window the two men were not in uniform
they were in suits both sporting big wide Ties That stretched the length from their necks down to their belt buckles
at first the men in the suits look confused and then they both nodded their heads
simultaneously the group of men then quickly broke from their huddle the officer and one of the suits turned and
moved in the direction that the young man had just come from the other suit turned turned toward the door then the
young man heard the click of the door and it opened up a tall man in a suit introduced himself he's a detective and
said that the officer will be back in a minute with a soda followed by I hope Dr
Pepper is okay the detective closed the door he moved one of the chairs so now there is
a chair on each of three sides of the small table the detective sat down directly across from the young man and
said sir I understand you are here to tell us about something that happened the young
man agreed the door clicked again and opened this time it was a woman entering the room the room seemed to shrink
smaller every time someone entered the woman was wearing a pants suit she was holding a clipboard and a
can of Dr Pepper she handed the soda can to the young man and sat down in the chair on the side at the table that
separated the young man from the already seated tall male detective she said so tell us about last
night the young man was 17-year-old Nicolas McDonald he repeated the statement that he had made to the
officer just minutes earlier that led him to where he was now seated and nervous in a tiny room with two
detectives he said that last night he witnessed and participated in a murder and everything that he was going to tell
them took place just a few hours before the 17-year-old would go on to tell detectives how he watched and
participated in three murders three brutal murders that were committed by he and his best friend and
now Blood Brother Brian this is Israel son the beset family murders and this is true crime
garage [Music] where we pick up our story Captain it's Friday morning between the hours of 8:00
a.m. and 9:00 a.m. going into the afternoon the police at Grant's Pass are going to have their hands full here we
have this young man who sits ready to open up one horrific can of worms and the story that 17-year-old Nicolas
McDonald had to tell went something like this it all started late Thursday night
with a plan for premeditated murder he implicated his 16-year-old best friend Brian bassette as The Mastermind for
this plan in fact he had not known that Brian would be even capable of such evil
Deeds he said his friend had been kicked out of his parents house for some time this was due to several reasons but for
now we will call it behavior problems he continued saying that he and Brian bassette went to Brian's parents home
this was at approximately 12:30 in the morning the plan was to break into Brian's parents house this is a
two-story home McDonald said that they cut the phone lines to the house and this was planned before they got there
then he watched as Brian climbed a ladder up to the second story where Brian would gain access to the house via
a second floor bedroom window I believe this may be Brian's old bedroom that he's climbing into this is meant to be a
home that would be occupied by five people so we have Brian's parents which are 42-year-old Michael bassette
40-year-old Wendy bassette and one of Brian's older sisters 18-year-old Stephanie and Brian's brother which is
5-year-old Austin but on this night there would only be three people occupying that house as we said Brian he
had been kicked out of the house and his sister Stephanie who's 18 she was away thankfully she was out of town for a
softball tournament so on this night there were three members of the bassette family occupying the home and one member
of the family climbing up a ladder seeking revenge in its coldest of forms McDonald says that he waited
anxiously outside where he heard shouting then he heard gunshots then silence and then he heard more gunshots
then once again silence seconds later his friend Brian was outside in a voice that could only be described as some
kind of hushed shouting Brian explained that he needed McDonald to come inside saying I shot him meaning his dad I shot
him my dad but he is still alive I'm not sure about my mom but I need you to go inside and finish them off Nicolas went
into the home as he was walking through the home he saw blood and he could smell
the gunpowder Brian told him that after he entered the house his father Michael confronted him they argued before Brian
fired shots at his father Brian said he was able to hit his father with several of these shots Michael the father
staggered outside of the room and then fell the shots must have alerted his mother because his mom Wendy came
charging up the stairs with the baseball bat in her hands without even one single
second thought he then turned the gun on her and fired several times now Brian and McDonald reach the room where
Brian's parents Lay Dying to their surprise Brian's brother Austin was in the room he was kneeling with his hands
pressed up against the bodies of his parents he was attempting to shake them he must have thought that they were
sleeping or something of course Austin is crying and he's now covered in blood it's hard for me to decide here Captain
if Brian had thought this part through right I think that he and McDonald went there went to the home with the
intention of killing the parents and a general plan to carry that out but I wonder and could not find confirmation
of such did they know going to the house or did they know when they were creating
this plan that they were just going to kill whoever else was there it seems like the conflicts that he was having
was just with his parents not his family and obviously his brother is very little
so what kind of conflicts would you be having with him anyways right and then you have to wonder too Stephanie's not
there that night did right did he go there on this night because he knew his sister was gone or because he had been
kicked out of the house he's been out for some time there's conflicting reports on how long he had been kicked
out of the house you have to have then wondered would he have even known this Stephanie would not be home that night
and again whoever happens to be there is who could end up being a victim that night right because there are some pre-
offense behaviors that suggest that maybe the only intent was to kill mom and dad but
there are some post- offense behaviors and actions of the killers that I believe indicate otherwise and we can
get into that post- offense Behavior after we get through the rest of McDonald's confession here now one of
the pre- offense behaviors is the attempt to muffle the sound of The Gunshot so this is an
indicator to me there there there's conflicting reports okay one thing I could not figure out and even after
going through the trial and some of the transcripts that were available for the actual trials that that would take place
much later some information states that they went there with the intention to kill the parents
and to steal belongings and one of those items may have been a gun possibly the gun that was used to kill the parents to
shoot the parents that night other sources state that they went there with the gun now one thing that is not in
question is the this little fact that they were going to use a soda bottle as some type of silencer or
suppressor so this would be to muffle the sounds of the gunshots yeah the fact that they're going to use some man-made
concoction to try to silence the gunfire and makes it seem more likely to me that
they would have done this elsewhere and then brought the gun to the crime scene the way that this is typically done is
you take a 2 L plastic bottle or one of those 20 oz plastic soda bottles yeah little sod
pop and you cut the bottom of it off and you can fasten the bottle to your gun to
the barrel at the end of the barrel of your gun and a lot of times what I saw online pictures online where people had
just duct taped the the bottle to the gun I mean this sounds like something out of the Anarchist Cookbook here but
from the videos that I viewed on YouTube when people would do this because it's always been some kind of myth that this
actually works as a silencer which you know from our our episode when we talked about the the still unsolved murder up
in in Michigan right that the the killer comes in with a suppressor we had suggested maybe that was linked to a
case that took place about five or six months prior where somebody stole suppressors and guns from a a local
Sporting Goods store right we learned when we covered that case that in order to get a silencer or a suppressor you
have to request one you have to buy what it's it's a stamp right and you buy the
stamp from the uh ATF so you get the stamp and then it's it's you you have to purchase the
silencer but you also have to purchase basically a license to have that particular silencer meaning that at any
time the ATF can knock on your door and say we want to see your silencer produce
it now because you're not allowed to just gift it to somebody or sell it to somebody and we thought in that case
maybe if you could find the gun or if if that killer believed that a silencer was
needed to carry that out because he goes into a business shoots the attendant they're connected to other businesses
they're sharing walls at this Plaza right so here you have people that are trying to sidestep that right they don't
want to be tied to a silencer they don't want the government knowing that they purchased a a suppressor and a lot of
times you have to wait a a long a lengthy period of time before you're granted permission to buy the
silencer so people have tried to figure out how can they build their own and I'm
sure there's other ways to create one but this is a seem to be some kind of popular method probably amongst the
Dumber parts of our communities um because from what I could see Captain on YouTube it doesn't work at all it does
not suppress the sound of The Gunshot at all well yeah the the Dumber part of the
community or just the naive part of the community again we have to remember that
it's a 16 and 17year old that are planning to take out one of their families and and this is not even a
tragedy aside this is not even really that great of a plan in in in my humble garage opinion here okay back to back to
the scene as said upon entering the home with Brian McDonald found bassett's parents lying there with their child
Austin he's crying he's touching the parents in an apparent effort to Rouse them Brian told the little boy his his
little brother that because he was all dirty covered in blood that he would need to take a bath so Brian convinced
the boy to leave the room but before he left Brian points to his father and said
look he's still breathing so McDonald says that he could hear something something faint it sounded like air a
breath in and a breath out but the noise was not coming from where I guess McDonald would
expect it to he then says that the the noise was coming from Michael's chest yeah probably coming from a bullet hole
so he's still alive he's still breathing the air going in and out through a hole
in his chest nicholos McDonald says to the detectives that he shot Michael once in the head with Brian bassett's gun but
claiming that he did so only to end Michael's suffering and he also states that Wendy
was not breathing now how many times do we get a confession well we get multiple
confessions from McDonald so he he's going to confess in Grant's Pass he'll have to be shipped back to the state of
Washington for charges there you know this and and the listeners know this a lot of times when somebody goes to
confess they try to distance themselves from from the actual crime well and you know that's one reason why when we
review unsolved cases and it's clear to us that more than than one person was involved that's
why I always go on that I stand up on the soap box and shout it from the Mountaintop and tell people out there
listening if you're listening to this and you were involved you were one of the people involved you should be be
smart be the first one to pick up the phone or to walk into a police station and tell them what happened because you
know just like with our history books you know when there's when there's a war guess who gets to write the history of
that war the winner the the Victor gets to write the history books and that's how it was and that's how it is you get
their perspective and they can sugarcoat things however they want well same in this scenario if you speak first and law
enforcement believes you and you can you can back up some of your statements what you say becomes how it
went down and that's why I always say if you're involved in something especially nowadays we're talking about
the the Golden Age of DNA and solving cases cold cases a lot of times if they got the evidence what we're seeing today
is that it's it's only a matter of time before they make the arrest and charge you be the first one to to create The
Narrative of how it went down and who's responsible for what right because this is how it goes down the criminal then
goes to detectives or law enforcement they strike up a deal or basically say hey confess to us and then
we'll work this out the detectives are the ones that feed the information to the
prosecution so then to feed that information to the prosecution they will tend to protect
the person that gave the confession obvious I mean obviously if there's more than one more than one
perpetrator well this is a very intriguing case and a very intriguing True Crime Story But as the listeners
have already figured out there's not a ton of mystery here and what we're going to see is when this does go to trial
we're going to have two guys committed these crimes together these murders together but one will be charged
differently than the other right we can get into some of the confession stuff and the the way that that's going to
work and play out as after we get through the confession here so we now have according to our Confessor
where we're at in our story is that that unfortunately Michael and Wendy have both been killed McDonald implicating
himself as being involved directly involved in Michael's death if you're sensitive you're probably not listening
to this show but if if if you are you might want to skip ahead about 30 seconds or 40 seconds well I'm very
sensitive you pray because this is when this horrible horrible situation just gets even worse
if you can even imagine imagine it getting worse it it here here it goes um Nichol McDonald said that when he left
the room uh he believed that both of the parents were dead by this point and then
he walked he went into the bathroom this is where he finds Brian with his little
brother Austin Brian according to McDonald had filled up the bathtub with with water Austin had stripped off his
bloody clothes and according to McDonald now Brian has the gun and it was he McDonald that was going to have to kill
the boy McDonald told the detectives that quote he then went into the bathroom and that bassette was waiting
just outside the door and that he feared Basset would shoot him so he held the boy under the water face down until he
drowned horrific stuff what do we think of this confession so far here Captain like I was saying before normally when
the person is confessing they start and and you can see in his initial part of the story I well I didn't even enter
the house I entered the house after the crime and the murders already were taken
place and then he obviously shows his involvement with the killing of the father but this is where I think you'd
have to believe him more is because he then tells you well I I drown the little brother and um but I mean just it's
horrific let's just be honest we we're all teenagers at one point we all struggle maybe not all of us but I know
me and you did you struggle with authority figures a little bit and who's the number one authority figures in your
life your parents and there's a part of you that it's like just get off my back don't tell me what to do I don't I don't
need your advice I'm going to live my life I want to hang out with my friends but and I've known friends of mine that
it's gotten really intense and and and over the line as far as their relationship with their
parents G I was lucky that that never took place never got to that level with with my parents where they kicked me out
of the house or that I was basically like living on my own or living on the streets but you could understand why
somebody would be upset with their parents but to want to harm them to want to murder them it
just it doesn't make a lot of sense no no sense at all it's incredibly difficult to try to wrap your head
around this situation and of course this confession that they've heard so far is
going to spring board several actions in into play that will have a domino effect
right first things first there is one fast way you you need to confirm if this story is true because it's not every day
thank God that some kid just walks into a police station and says hey me and my friend we just killed three people so
now you have to do two things that you need to sort out really quickly one he's saying that he did not do this alone so
you need to go find the other killer two you need to locate the people that he is
talking about to see one if either they are perfectly fine and this kid is lying
or or just out of his mind or locate their bodies and go through the crime scene and build a case against the the
Confessor McDonald tells the police that he drove off on his own with the bodies of
Michael and Austin and that he hid their bodies along a Logging Road which was about 3 miles from the home from the
murder house he also helped Brian hide Wendy's body in the pump house that was adjoining their home I believe this was
for a well and that both of them clean the house after the murders to try to conceal evidence of the
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thankfully this Nicolas McDonald seems to to grow a a heart you know like the Grinch
he's got a tiny little heart and then it grew bigger it's a normal size and he he
feels some remorse obviously because he walks into the police station confesses to what just took place hours before and
keep in mind the reason why the confession I think is it's it's a complete 180 you know life turns on a
dime sometimes without notice and what we have is just just hours earlier he and his friend are going to
Great Lengths and great efforts to conceal the triple homicide that they just committed and now he's walking into
the police station in Grant's Pass Oregon and implicated his 16-year-old friend Brian bassette in the shooting
deaths of of Brian bassett's parents so Grant's Pass police they then notify Gray's Harbor County the the two killers
are not from this area where he's at confessing right so they notify Grace Harbor County Sheriff's officers who
then discover the bodies on Friday afternoon that afternoon his accomplice Brian bassette police find Brian
bassette exactly where McDonald tells them they will find him he leads police to Brian who is sleeping in the van in
his parents' van that they stole after committing the murders at a gas station that is basically across the street from
the the police station I was hoping that you're going to say that he was sleeping
in the van down by the river but like you said they're confessing to this crime but not where the crime took place
locally so they're going to have to call in the local law enforcement to handle this case yeah that's right they are
from some tiny city called mlar which is in Gray's Harbor county or gray Harbor County excuse me Washington
the population there in 1995 when our case took place is roughly 1,200 people and this is like a beautiful small
wonderful Community Law Enforcement and now this profess and confessed killer are sitting in a room at Grant's Pass
police station about 300 70 miles south of McClary in the great state of Oregon that's a six-hour drive from where they
committed these crimes mlar is a small City not just in population but in size as well it's described as a western
Washington town just a few blocks long right from what I could find Captain it looks like McClary is just
2.05 square miles and to give you an idea of the location McClary is about 80 miles Southwest of Seattle following I5
Brian and McDonald were brought back from Oregon to Washington on that Saturday so they commit the murders very
early Friday morning by 8 to 9:00 a.m. McDonald's in the Grant Pass police station confessing to the crimes they
arrest Brian they find the bodies and by Saturday the following day they are trans exporting the two suspects back to
Washington following this unfortunately we have the funeral for three members of
the betet family most people in the town of 1200 knew the besets and more than half
of the city turned out for the funeral again both murderers are young 16 and 17 so you have the 17-year-old confessing
then they bring in Brian the 16 16-year-old it's it was his family that they killed you'd think that they'd be
it'd be pretty easy for them to get him to confess as well well and that's why I
think that we have multiple confessions from McDonald because when they arrest Brian you know they're telling him like
look your friend told us everything that that you guys did right and oh yeah we found the gun we found the bodies uh we
found the the we gone through the scene and so I'm sure Brian told them some other version of the same story right
and then you go back to McDonald and say okay well you know a lot of what you're
saying checks out but some of it does not uh let's go through this again and so you go through it a few times with
each of the suspects to try to sort out what in the end you believe ultimately happened and how and what the
prosecutors are going to attempt to charge and convict both of these people with well and it gets more complicated
too again because of their age for our victims here we have Austin who was remembered as a bright and Charming
little boy who helped his grandmother plant zucchini in the summer leading up to the
night in question and he was known to jump from lap to lap at ball games when he was in attendance watching uh ball
games because we have older siblings who participated in sports after the funeral
service 18-year-old Stephanie bassette who lived at the at the betet family home and through the grace of God just
happened not to be there that night she held a rose and a flag at the after the service as she
cried and smiled graciously accepting condolences and hugs from dozens and dozens of family friends the only direct
mention of Brian at the funeral or at the services came when someone read a list of survivors I
thought you going to say when somebody read a list of pieces of [ __ ] so other than that he was not discussed at this
service and rightfully so the bassette family they were buried in wooden caskets with Austin sharing a casket
with his his mother the victims as we said were Michael Allen Basset born 1951 Wendy Gil lamb bassette date of birth
August 12 1954 so she was killed by her son the day before her 41st birthday and
we have the little boy Austin Edward bassette born in 1989 he was just 5 years old the bassets had been together
and experienced over 20 years of marriage together and it sounds like they were still very much in love they
wrote little love notes to each other often Michael worked for the Simpson Timber Company in Shelton he was very
active in Youth Sports he coached t-ball and little league over the years he refereed grade and high school
basketball games he played slow pitch softball he was a graduate of Elma High School this is where he met his future
wife Wendy Wendy was a former dental hygienist before being a homemaker she sold crafts and babysat for extra money
they had five kids three daughters we mentioned Stephanie 18 who was out of town for a softball tournament at the
time of the killings two older girls two older daughters who were grown women and
out of the house by 1995 and did not live with them little Austin loved Barry picking and named his
this is like heartbreaking and sad and cute all at the same time he named his dogs and cats after friends of his uh
from from school yeah I mean in these cases it's it's when you have um whether it's a school shooter or you
have a teenager that harms a friend or harms his family the question always becomes
nature or nurture and in this situation you have a family that had five children
and it seems like all the other children other than Brian were were good people yeah and what it looks like to me is you
have this kind of snake eating itself situation right the snake eating its tail where it looks to me like when
Brian would get in trouble for some like he was starting to go down the wrong path and when he would get in trouble
for something his his reaction was to push back against mom and dad for punishing him and this creates this
this scenario where he's always in trouble and elevating the consequence quences for his actions because he's
he's just constantly fighting back against the authority right so our perpetrators Brian Michael bassette age
16 and Nicolas James McDonald age 17 some sources say that McDonald was 18 I believe that is because he was 18 by the
time this thing went to trial friends and family say Brian was a quiet and shy kid average student he went to Elma High
School where his parents went faculty there say that they saw no evidence of anger with this kid but he did drop out
of of high school so there there would be a period of time that they The Faculty would not have known or had
interaction with with Brian the principal at elah high said that he checked Brian's records and found no
disciplinary actions except truancy and he said said he didn't seem to enjoy school and dropped out last
April the the homicides took place in August Michael keading this was Brian's biology teacher said that Brian was a
decent student quote I was amazed he could keep up with his studies despite his treny problems end quote so he he
didn't sounds like he didn't show up a lot but when he did he was able to do the work get passing grades right about
a year before the murders Brian started Chang ing this is according to friends of the family mhm and according to
Wendy's brother-in-law Brian's mother's brother-in-law Ed Olen he said that Brian started hanging out with the wrong
crowd and this wrong crowd included McDonald Michelle Brown dated Brian for about a month this was about a year
before the murders she's quoted in some newspaper articles as talking about Brian one thing she said that she broke
up with Brian when he started getting into alcohol and she says that he got into alcohol real
bad so bad that on one occasion Brian had to be hospitalized for alcohol poison we also wonder what's going on
with his mental state you know again chicken or the egg is he having some mental issues that he starts
self-medicating or just oh I'm I'm a teenager I'm going to experiment with uh drugs or alcohol and then that causes
mental issues and and sometimes it's both right and uh and the person doesn't even know what they're doing but again
this is this is interesting here I think because she says that they broke up about a year before I don't know how
much interaction or what their relationship was after the breakup but she does state that he had a lot of
anger towards his parents but she says she never knew why never understood why so this is somebody that likely met his
parents and does not agree with whatever Brian you know the the the anger and we
can even say the word hate toward his parents I think that he was expressing to her and to others yeah I think hate
would be the appropriate term Wendy's brother-in-law Ed Olen said that Brian's Behavior had gotten so violent in the
weeks leading up to the murders that Wendy started sleeping with a baseball bat next to her bed well you know like
you said when the conflict was was happening evidence of this evidence of his story being true is she came after
her son with a baseball bat yeah and Wendy's mom said that quote they tried to get help they tried to get counseling
and even asked the sheriff's department if they could put him meaning Brian in juvenile hall right nothing was working
so they kicked him out of the house now there are some conflicting reports here Captain some say that the parents kicked
Brian out of the house about a week before the murders because of his increasingly violent Behavior but other
reports state that he was kicked out weeks before and one statement that was made this is according to several
friends and family that Brian actually threatened to kill his parents the week before the actual murders right not
knowing the story firsthand experiencing any of this firsthand I think Brian likeley was kicked out several weeks in
advance and you know how these things were I think he was actually kicked out multiple times yeah I sometimes you're
kicked out and then you're let back in and then you're kicked out again um this is what we' call uh escalation as uh
Dave Chappelle would say a habitual Lin stepper right so well and it's weird though too because I I don't know if
you've saw this in reports but it seemed like Brian occasionally was like staying
in their shed like when he couldn't figure out where to go and not wanting to deal with his parents or not knowing
how to deal with his parents he would just camp out in their shed well and I'm using air quotes here uh he would break
into the house that's why I think he might have been out for multiple weeks leading up to the murders because
there's a report that the week prior the week before the murders he broke into his parents' home this was when so the
family went on a vacation that week that would make sense because there's no school at this
time they go on vacation but his sister who's 18 stayed at the house I don't know if she had things to do with
softball or with friends or what have you but she stays at the house and that's how they know that he broke into
the house because she's able to report that that he broke into the house the week before and so this method of using
the ladder to climb up to the Second Story window I think was something that he had done multiple times now when we
talk about how long had he had been kicked out of the house or Outdoors I'm wondering if part of this stemmed from a
report that I found that said that he broke into his grandmother's house and stole a gun and remember we're talking
about the parents the the parents are telling people like we kick him out because he's violent he's hostile we're
afraid of him are they afraid of him because they know that he stole a gun from one of their one of their parents'
homes yeah and like you said he was making threats I mean this is this would be a very difficult situation for any
parent you want to protect your kid but now you have to protect your wife you got to protect your youngest son or
you're going to try to because your teenage son is threatening everybody but how very Joey Potter of him to have that
ladder go up to the Second Story and so he can climb into Dawson's window right and I mean you can kind of take a look
at this and see it from his perspective he probably thought that he was unjustly kicked out of his parents' home
which I mean nobody wants violence in their home but you don't want to be looking over your shoulder in your own
house because you're afraid of your violent teenage son yeah you're your violent douche muffin Vienna Seymour
this is a friend of the betet family she was asked about Brian's increasingly outof control behavior and she had this
to say quote it was a known fact he was a little out of control but there's out of control and then there's killing your
parents end quote Nicolas McDonald aged 17 moved to the town of McClary from Illinois I believe it was a year or two
before the murders took place so I don't think he was there a great deal of time
but I could not confirm when he when he moved to McClary he too was a high school drop out Mark keading biology
teacher said of McDonald quote he was a good kid and I liked him I saw him about
a week ago and he had a job in a local restaurant and talked about saving money to buy a car he seemed happy end quote
he had gone to an alternative school after he dropped out and earned his high school equivalency diploma Pat Boden a
betet family friend who used to work with McDonald said quote Nicolas was a strange kid with a bad reputation in
town some Reports say that the two were friends and some Reports say that they were boyfriends that there was something
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On August 11th, 1995 a young man walked into the Grants Pass Police Station. He had a horrific story to tell to detectives. The man implicated himself and his best friend in three homicides. The police were instantly tasked with three missions. One, verify this young man’s story. Two, locate the other murderer. Three, find the bodies. Join us in the Garage for this strange tale about an evil young man.

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Brief Summary

Nicolas McDonald confesses to participating in the brutal murders of Brian Bassett's family in 1995 Oregon, detailing premeditated violence and shocking confessions.

Key points

A Chilling Confession. 17-year-old Nicolas McDonald confesses to witnessing and participating in three brutal murders.
The Plan for Premeditated Murder. Nicolas reveals the premeditated plan involving his friend Brian Bassette to kill his parents.
A Family's Tragic Night. The Bassette family is tragically targeted, leading to a horrific crime scene.
Confession of a Teen Killer. Nicolas McDonald confesses to a horrific crime, implicating his friend Brian Bassette.
The Funeral of the Victims. The community mourns the tragic loss of the Bassette family, with a large turnout at the funeral.
Brian's Troubled Behavior. Brian's escalating issues lead to a violent confrontation with his parents.

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