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[Music] on Friday August 11 1995 a around 12:30 a.m. 16-year-old Brian Michael bassette
and his 17-year-old friend Nicolas James McDonald broke into Brian's home and murdered Bryan's parents this is Wendy
and Michael and Brian's 5-year-old brother Austin some say this was revenge for kicking Brian out of the house
others say that it was so that the two could steal money a vehicle and belongings and run off to California and
a lot of people believe that it was probably both that inspired the events of that night that fateful night in
August of 1995 the two perpetrators hid the bodies taking two of the bodies to a Logging
Road about three miles from the home and then concealing the other body in a pump
house that was outside of the house adjoining the house Brian's parents van was stolen and the two were in route to
the state of California when Nicolas McDonald decides to walk into a police station and tell them just what went
down hours prior to his confession so of course when you have murders like these
when you have crimes like these everybody wants to know why and especially we want to know why when it's
committed by perpetrators of such a young age 16 and 17 and so in anytime we do a case that involves a youth
committing murder I always refer back to an old book this one's called kids who kill by Charles Patrick ying and they
have a lot of Statistics in there now keep in mind this book was published in 1990 the case that we're talking about
comes from 1995 so some of these statistics while they're still meaningful today they come from yester
year and I want to read a couple of portions a couple paragraphs from this book if you will allow me there Captain
nope do it on your own time skipping that uh but in kids who kill Charles Patrick euwing says every year at least
1,000 and often more than 1500 American youngsters under the age of 18 intentionally take the lives of others
and are arrested for murder or manslaughter some of these killings are crimes of premeditated violence
motivated by greed lust or a desire for Revenge others are Crimes of Passion impulsive over responses to provocation
by the victim or to some explosive Drive within the killer right still other cases seem utterly senseless who are
these kids who kill to begin with kids who kill are really a rare breed while homicides committed by children and
adolescents Fascinate the public and generate a great deal of media attention these killings are actually quite
infrequent people younger than 18 constitute roughly one quarter of the total resident population of the United
States yet annually the past decade or so again this would be from 1990 and prior consistently fewer than 11% of all
individuals arrested in the United States for murder or intentional manslaughter have been under the age of
18 in 1988 for example there were 16,32 murder and intentional manslaughter arrest in the United States
only 1,765 again roughly 11% of those arrested were under 18 years of age to put it another way fewer than five
juveniles in every 100,000 are arrested for intentionally killing someone approximately half the adult arrest rate
for these same crimes well you said those are statistics from 1990 that was from 1988 yeah I wonder where that sits
today with the amount of mass shootings we have in schools yeah and you have certainly you have that increased over
the years as well as crime Trends especially in larger cities right now are showing an uptick in youth
crime and youth violent crime as well so that could be a little bit higher now what's
intriguing as far as this case goes too is around the same time in 1995 we talked about this in our episodes
titled trail of blood with the concern the growing concern of what what many officials were
calling the youth super Predator right and uh a strong effort by many to increase the penalty and the
consequences for violent crime crime committed by this nation's Youth and and the the consequences got much more
strict and severe in the 90s at the same time this is 1995 when this case that we're talking about this week takes
place now at trial the state of Washington introduced Brian bassett's statement that he made to police that he
and McDonald had tried to kill bassett's parents twice before the actual crimes took place but those attempts were
foiled for one reason or another I'm wondering if he simply wasn't able to gain access to the house in those
attempts yeah or access to the gun McDonald at trial testified and admitted after Brian bassette had already shot
Michael Brian's father that quote I felt he was suffering and so he testified that he shot him again to end Michael's
suffering he said that he went into the house with Brian and found the parents already having been shot by Brian and
Brian was quote yelling and screaming at his parents and kicking at their bodies
end quote well like I said on yesterday's show you use the term hate and I would I would say that's the most
fitting term in in this case to explain Brian McDonald's McDonald's involvement is very strange to me but I yeah because
he confesses to this hours afterward yeah and it sounds to me from everything we're being told from
McDonald and Brian and and and all parties that have examined this case is that McDonald knew going to the house
that night what they were going to attempt to do right as as Brian said at trial that they had attempted to
kill the parents twice before right McDonald denied that he shot Wendy betet at trial and despite his earlier
statements to the Grants Pass police he also denied having drowned Austin McDonald claimed that his earlier
confession which the details were slightly different uh confessing to Austin's murder
was simply because he was trying to conform to a story that McDonald and bassette had come up with
together he referred to it to it as a concoction that me and Brian had come to and now he's on the stand and he's
claiming that he entered the bathroom only to find that Brian had already drowned Austin in the bath yeah it's
very strange because like like I said the first confession initially it sounds like he's trying to distance him himself
from the crime and and being the perpetrator of the crime but then when he admits to drowning the the child you
go well this this guy's a admitting to being a monster right and so you want to believe
him and then you get on the you get in the trial and now you now you're stepping away well and the thing too
that I have to keep reminding myself because I you know you hear about these crimes and it's it's very easy to lash
out an anger and a knee-jerk reaction and go you know what go ahead and go ahead and string them both up right and
I don't care what what McDonald says I don't care how it varies from Brian's version of the events string them both
up but then I have to remind myself at the end of the day as bad and horrible as what McDonald witnessed and
participated in he still walked into the police station hours later and told them
what happened I mean these guys could have been on the Run they could have Brian could have killed other
people who knows how how much more violence could have could have taken place with these two being on the run
and and I said yesterday that I didn't think this was a very good plan because even had he not confessed you know it's
there's a reason and people will go oh you guys tell these stories and it's cheesy you bring up the the the police
asked family members and and Friends of the the deed and who would want to hurt who would want to harm the person that
was killed well yes it's it's a easy question mhm from police but nine times out of 10 in the cases that are
solved the reason why they're asking that question and will do so forever till the end of time is because nine
times out of 10 the person that that is mentioned by name to police is often the
person who committed the the murder and so in this case while they're trying to conceal their crimes hide the bodies
again Wendy's body is still on the property it sounds like they did they took efforts to clean up the crime scene
there's been a lot of reporting out there that says that you could walk in that house and tell that there was a
violent struggle that that likely a murder took place in the home and You' only have to ask one person right we we
gave plenty of statements from people that knew Brian and knew the family in yesterday's episode you'd only have to
ask one or two people to find out that oh well did you find their son Brian because he's he's violent they were
scared of him right the mother was sleeping with a baseball bat again like you said it could be a crime can be
premeditated but that doesn't mean that the perpetrators thought it thought out the
crime thoroughly McDonald at court admitted to driving off alone with the bodies of Austin and Michael and hiding
them along a Logging Road he also conceded that he helped Brian hide Wendy's body in the beset pump house and
that he cleaned the bassett's home after the murders in order to conceal evidence
of the killings a forensic pathologist testified for the state his testimony revealed that Michael betet had been
shot five times and that either of the two gunshot wounds to Michael's head including the one that McDonald
admitted to would have been fatal so regardless of of the stories we have the pathologist telling us
that both of the suspects both of the persons being charged where the wound takes place and the nature of the wound
indicates that the intention was to kill this man according to the pathologist the order in which the injuries occurred
to the father could not be determined so what we're seeing here is you're going to have two individuals that were both
involved in committing triple homicides yet they're both going to be charged with with different charges right which
will ultimately mean that they're facing different consequences yeah like it like
I said that's normally how this works when you have one guy come forward those detectives are going to
try to protect that individual a little bit from the prosecution the Grace Harbor County Sheriff this is Dennis
morett said a case this heinous should prompt State lawmakers to consider allowing the death penalty for teens as
young as six again I already referenced the youth or teenage super Predator if you want to go
back and review that case that's true crime garage trail of Blood episodes 416 and 417 and that's the story of the 1995
again 1995 yeah the 1995 murder of Janet Downing age 42 who the state says was committed by
Eddie O'Brien just 15 years old of Somerville Massachusetts who lived across the street and any crime
committed against a child there's that knee jerk reaction especially from me where I just go like you said just hang
hang them up hang them up in the middle of town square to let them know let everybody know this is what happens when
you want to harm a child well that goes to intent or the the premeditation of these crimes to begin with I mean the
the truly sad thing sad part of the story is they could have stolen money a vehicle belongings of of value from
anyone from anywhere they could have even stole these things from Brian's parents they didn't have to commit any
murders right to run off to California for whatever reason that they were planning to to go to California now we
talk about intent here well that's what the defense was going to want to talk about as well too because we have two
people it's not a question of if they did this right it's they did this who's responsible for what and why did this
happen so I'm going to read a an Associated Press article because they put it together better than I could have
typed it up myself but the article headline is defense blames rock song attorney asked to play song at teens
triple murder trial again this is from the Associated Press and the article reads the attorney for one of two
teenagers charged in a triple wants to play a rock song as part of his opening statement at the trial he contends the
lyrics are a key to the boy's Behavior Grace Harbor County Superior Court Judge Mark mcau said he will decide the matter
before opening statements get underway at a pre-trial hearing Tom copelan attorney for 18-year-old Nicolas
McDonald also said he plans to call McDonald to testify at length about how the song affected him quote this is
almost a script it's relevant to everything the legal issues the mental issues why this happened the way it
happened Copeland said of the song Israel's Son by the Australian alternative rock group Silver Chair day
mate McDonald and Brian betet 16 are charged with three counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of
BET's parents and 5-year-old brother at the family home in McClary goes on to say that jury selection for McDonald's
trial begin will begin soon and it says that after the killings Brian betet danced around the room kicking the
corpses of his parents to the strains of the rapid fire heavy guitar song according to the attorney and they quote
some of the lyrics here in the article saying quote hate is what I feel for you I want you to know that I want you dead
I hate you and your apathy you can leave you can leave I don't want you here hate
and execution put your hands in the air put your hands in the air prosecutors dispute the contention that the song was
a factor in the brutal slangs saying what does this prove that's a quote from the prosecutor Jerry Fuller and he goes
on to say does this prove that betet hated his parents does it prove that he had motive to kill his parents no all it
proves is it was a song that he played says the [Music] prosecutor this show is sponsored by
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captain again that song Israel's son is off of Silver chair's 1995 album frog stop which were just teenagers
themselves when they put out that record yeah yeah and there was reaction right Daniel Johns is the the singer for the
band Silverchair singer guitar player he says in an interview with request magazine this interview took place in
November of 1995 that song was about an execution I saw on telly I got this video of an execution and I just saw it
and I was watching it one night and I had a dream about it and I woke up and thought Oh yeah that's pretty cool and I
wrote a song about it but of course when asked the band's manager gave a statement to the regard of hey
McDonald's lawyer and betet lawyers they want to play this song They're blaming this song for their actions for for
their involvement in in in planning and carrying out a triple homicide John Watson the
band's manager was quoted as stating on behalf of the band Silverchair Silverchair do not have not and never
would condone violence of any sort the band is appalled by this horrific crime and they hope that justice will prevail
in Prosecuting whoever is responsible for it the ban extends its sincere sympathies to the families and friends
of the victims in this case Silverchair absolutely rejects any allegation that their song is in any way responsible for
the actions of the alleged murders well it seems like such a cowardly defense but what else do you expect from
these coward murderers you know we're going to sneak sneak into my house we're going to
attack my parents catch them off guard the statement goes on to say it is a matter of public record that the song in
question Israel's song was inspired by a television documentary about wartime atrocities Israel's son was never
intended to provoke violence and cannot be interpreted by any reasonable person as doing so in fact the song seeks to
criticize violence and War by portraying them in all their horror yeah I just think it's a cowardly defense and I I
don't understand what they're trying to prove blame this song blame this artist blame this other
teenager for putting thoughts out into the universe that this individual didn't understand yeah or these these
individuals don't understand I mean we've seen this before where people have blamed other rock stars and other rock
songs it it's one of those situations that unfortunately and we we talked about this when we reviewed the John
Wayne gasey Case his attorney and rightfully so said look when you are representing somebody like John Wayne
gasey when when a serial killer who they have a mountain of evidence against they find the bodies in
his home when that guy is your client your only job as the as his attorney is to attempt to save his life attempt to
get him get him anything other than the death penalty and in this case the two perpetrators were not
facing the death penalty in this case but they are facing life in prison without the possibility of parole and so
these attorneys are then it's not a question of guilt it's a question of why is there anybody else to blame and what
kind of sentence is appro for a 17 and 16y old that commit these types of crimes so you're trying to
throw everything at the wall hoping that someone on the jury will sympathize with
your client and maybe your client does not get life in prison without the possibility of parole yeah like a little
silly monkey throwing his feces against the wall to see what sticks and I think it's also it's this idea that if there's
other factors that are to blame that this individual wouldn't be like that and that there's hope for this
individual and that he can be rehabilitated and he can live a productive life into society later on
well and prosecutors would agree with you here captain in the belief that the defense was silly and there were other
things that were brought up by the defense obviously in both of these trials But ultimately the prosecution
was able to convince the jury that the murders were committed in order to steal money belongings the vehicle and run off
to California so both are found guilty but they each were facing different charges and so they received different
sentences the jury acquitted McDonald of the murder of Wendy betet remember according to his story that already
occurred before he even entered the home right so they found him guilty of second
degree murder uh two counts of second degree murder this would be the murders of Austin and Michael betet Brian betet
was found guilty of all three homicides all in the first degree so what did they
sentence them to so this is from a a February article from 1996 McDonald was found guilty of second deegree murders
of Michael and Austin acquitted for Wendy sentenced to 65 years in prison not long enough judge Mark mcau imposed
a 50-year sentence for the the drowning death of Austin and he to prove a point he had the courtroom silenced for
three minutes yeah which would be the amount of time it would have taken Austin to drown in a cold tub of water I
mean that's absolutely horrific Stephanie remember this is Brian's sister who was not home the night of the
murders in court she said quote he deserves to wake up every morning wishing he was not alive he deserves to
be locked up for the rest of our lives McDonald apologized in court saying the only thing I can do is apologize for the
loss of their loved ones Brian was convicted of three counts of aggravated first-degree murder and the trial court
sentence beset to three consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole well well like we said about
Brian he had three other siblings I wonder if they had any fear that that if he did get out that he would go after
them well that is part of what we're looking at here now because unfortunately the three consecutive
terms of life without the possibility of parole that sentence doesn't hold up here's a good news clip to sum up where
the case has moved to in the current day a man who killed his parents and his brother in 1995 will be resentenced in
Grace Harbor County this morning Brian Basset was just 16 years old when he killed his family members King 5's
Angelie cockade here this morning in the studio with more on what the court hearing is about today Angelie his
surviving sister trying to keep him locked up this is a very complicated case right yeah that's exactly right
Jake and Basset was originally sentenced to life in prison but the Washington state supreme court throughout those
sentences back in 2019 ruling life sentences for teenagers was unconstitutional since then he's had two
sentence hearings now the first hearing resentenced him to 60 years but an appeals court overturned that ruling
deeming it excessive the last was earlier this month bassets attorney argued prison Rehabilitation has worked
and called for his release Basset himself also took the stand asking for forgiveness the state however is still
calling for 40 years a move backed by his sister Stephanie Basset as the only surviving family member she is set to
testify during today's sentencing that she fears she would have been killed too had she had been home at the time of the
murders every day that he's behind bars I can breathe I can feel safe and I can live because I don't have a
doubt that the target is on my back now the court hearing will begin at 9:00 a.m. we'll have the latest on KING5 news
at noon for now in the studio Angelie hock so what we're faced with here captain
and As Told To Us by that news story there in 2015 Brian betet argues that due process in the appearance of
fairness entitle him to a new judge when facing a resentencing hearing basically
what they're saying is that it's unconstitutional to sentence a child a youth offender to the max of life and
prison without the possibility of Parole in his efforts in his efforts in court to get a resentencing we have Dr Jeffrey
Hansen who says he counselled Brian Basset in 1995 he testified at the resentencing
hearing once once one was granted around 1995 Brian betet ran away from home sometimes to hurt his mother he was
still trying to establish his identity had average cognitive ability had suffered a self-induced alcohol overdose
at the age of 15 had ongoing relational issues with his parents and felt hopeless and had an adjustment disorder
resulting in poor emotional behavioral responses to stress Dr Hansen further testified that betet faced the stressors
of homelessness joblessness and possibly having had an unwanted sexual relationship with McDonald it's here's
the thing you you sit here and you listen to a doctor try to defend this person who killed three people killed a
boy killed a little boy and it's it's it's hard to feel anything other than stabbing him in the
butt with a hot poker hate towards him right it's it's it's it's incredibly difficult to try to
sympathize with or for this person that you know did such horrible things and and and I'm sorry I
sit here and I go okay doc gu weed Cry Me a River here man betet was facing the stressors of homelessness well he
wouldn't be homeless if he would just get along with Mom and Dad yeah if he wasn't acting like a jackass and I don't
know the relationship between him and McDonald but to for a doctor to sit there on the stand and
say and the stressor of possibly having an unwanted sexual relationship with flicky flicky with this friend okay well
then quit hanging out with the friend yeah no more flicky flicky there are very simple actions that this
16-year-old was old enough to to recognize and understand that he could have done yet he chose not to do these
things and instead he chose to climb up a ladder and pull a gun on Mom and Dad and gun them down inside their home well
don't you think there's some evidence that if anybody was manipulating anybody in this relationship it was Brian that
was manipulating yes it's it's very hard to say because we don't know what was going on between McDonald and bassette
yeah it's not hard to say their plan was to kill Brian's parents not the other way around yeah it seems like it seems
at least to me from where I sit that sit on the throne of lies that it's not a situation where McDonald had his hands
on the steering wheel and was directing everything it it looks to me that if if McDonald did have a hand on the steering
wheel well Brian had both of his hands on the steering wheel as well now they go on to state that Brian stated that
when he entered prison as a juvenile he first thought of how much trouble he would be in when his parents learned
that he was in prison because the reality of his crimes quote didn't click three weeks after the murders Brian had
written qu I wish I hadn't done anything because now I think of all of the good times that my dad and me had before I
was just thinking of all of the things they did to piss me off betet expressed remorse at the resentencing and
explained the challenges that he faced as a homeless youth at 16 again homeless they're painting him as a victim while I
I believe that he homelessness was an option for him an option that he chose well is also hanging out in that shed
and I think that it's easy to lose track of the justice that needs to be held up
here for this this killer when you sit there 20 years after these people were killed
the victims almost start to fade away and you start to lose touch with the victims it's important to make this man
this boy face the most severe of consequences when these crimes are fresh when you're still hurting when the
community is still in pain right but then 20 years later you've had the opportunity to heal a bit and you you
start to forget just how cruel his actions were you know who didn't forget the people that you
brought up earlier the surviving family members of the perpetrator and the victims and imagine Their
Fear how the hell can they go on and live their a normal life right we we're all told that we are afforded the right
to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness I you know you say it's unconstitutional to convict this kid and
keep him in prison for the rest of his existence I say it's unconstitutional to let him out so his sisters and their
children and their husbands and their extended family they cannot experience life liberty in the pursuit of happiness
with this guy out I get it it's it's difficult you don't know what is the proper thing the proper punishment for a
16-year-old I find no problem questioning that but the thing that I can't get over is how how good do I feel
about letting a guy out who committed three murders coldblooded murders of people that he was supposed to love and
care about right and and here's the here's the other scary thing in this case in this in this exact case you know
not to date myself here but but you're old as [ __ ] well Brian bassette and I are roughly the same
age I'm not I'm not an elderly man I'm not some that is incapable of physical violence prove it put your hands up I
have the physical ability to do that tough guy I don't have the mind set or or the heart to do that or the balls but
what I'm trying to point out here is if you let this guy out I believe he will always be a danger to somebody he
hasn't aged out of this physically at least no and I think the other issue too is it's not just one murder victim
it's three murder victims right I mean and so to say that it's unconstitutional to give him life without the possibility
of a prle i g I guess that argument would make more sense or I guess easier to swallow if there was one victim but
there's three victims and one of those victims being a child themselves and here's what I'm hoping and praying that
somebody is reminding the people that are reviewing this case and reviewing the sentencing for Brian
betet I hope and pray that somebody informed that panel that do you know had he not
climbed that ladder and gone into that house that night and murdered three members of his family do you know that
Austin would only be 33 years old today right only 33 years old today and you're
telling me that this guy has served enough of a of a sentence that we should think about letting him out so as of
February 2017 19 States and the District of Columbia have banned all juvenile life without parole sentences in 2019
the state of Washington which is the state where he was sentenced the Washington State Supreme Court ruled
life sentences for teenagers were cruel and thus unconstitutional since then 2019 Brian
bassette has had two sentence hearings his attorneys making the case for his release argue and say look this guy
served 65% of his life sentence now it is common especially here in Ohio that one would typically serve
between 60 and 80% of their sentence before being up for release in August of 2022 this is from the harbor
news it says Brian betet has been in and out of Gray's Harbor County courtroom since 2019 pleading for his release from
prison it says betet was resentenced to one more year in prison this was from 2022 his sister Stephanie betet who my
heart goes out to in the biggest form she says quote I ask the court for myself for my family especially for my
children or my parents or Austin that every day that he's behind bars I can breathe I can feel safe and I can live
because I don't have a doubt that a Target is on my back end quote yeah and what we live in a very strange
world where we go oh we we don't want to be too cruel to the individual that took three
people's lives yeah and then instead of accepting some responsibility initially or later on in life blamed a rock
song blame blamed everybody Under the Sun I mean it's I I I I don't understand I don't understand this world sometimes
where we want to be sympathetic or apathetic to or think that we are growing as a society because we can now
forgive him and let him out well and look okay so he takes one line so you give him life sentence without the
possibility of parole he took another life so give him another life sentence without the possibility of parole he
took another life so give him another life sentence without the possibility of parole and then he can serve those
sentences you know so he can serve 60% of the one sentence and then serve 60% of the next one and he'll never get out
of jail and that would be fine with me and that would make the most sense so a judge Amma Millow I hope that I'm saying
that name correctly a m a m i l o shared her opinion on the matter saying quote the betet family mlar which is the city
that he was from and the Grace Harbor County community at large need to know that Mr bassette is not likely to be a
threat to anyone when released if and when he gains release Brian bassette will have a mandated anti-harassment and
lifetime no contact order against his sister okay this guy does not strike me as somebody that likes to play by the
rules so we're we're going to put these little ticky tacky rules on him oh you can't go over and talk to your sister
you can't have any contact with her we we're supposed to believe for a moment that a that a guy that climbs into a
home breaks into a home and guns down people that he's going to care for an anti-harassment lifetime no contact
order the most recent news unfortunately comes from May of 2022 this from from the harbor news again that states that
Brian's release is dependent on a number of factors including tight controls related to substance use he must
participate in the champion programs recommended after care to include sober support groups he will be expected to
participate in electronic monitoring for the first 90 days of his release oh great well what about day 91 or day 92
in addition McDonald should be supervised at the highest level for the first year in the community documents
state that McDonald has demonstrated positive prison behavior for approximately the past 5 years well
congratulations right uh I won't be handing out any awards to people that have demonstrated positive prison
behavior for the past five years and it goes on to say with no serious infractions since his last Board hearing
which was approximately five years ago the parole document noted that he quote does not appear to experience any acute
distress or psychiatric dysfunction that increases his risk for violence end quote so unfortunately the decision to
allow for his release was unanimous by the board as of May 12th of 2022 he still housed at Airway Heights
Correctional Facility pending release I don't believe that he's been released because it would be newsworthy it be
something that we have found but what it sounds like to me Captain from everything that that I could find is
that it's not a question of if he will be released more of a question of when and unfortunately the articles that I
read made it sound like that could be this year and that's that's when you go okay I understand what you're saying
here I understand what's going on I understand that you are are evaluating this individual as such and you the
panel you the board have decided that he is okay to be released back into society
back into the communities look I don't want want to sound like the the old grumpy man shaking his hand shaking his
fist at a black cloud but it's like okay cool you say he's not a threat you say he's not a danger let him live in your
backyard let him live next door to you and next door to your kids yeah let him live in your shed and and You better
lock those windows cuz he's going to be crawling in this case is a a case that I've heard of since the 9s and a case
that I've always wanted to die into more and last year I was watching a documentary called future never about
Daniel Johns and they ask him about Brian blaming their song for the murders and how he feels about it all these
years later so I don't know if you've been asked this before but in 1995 there were two American teenagers
who uh killed one of the boys parents and his 5-year-old brother and they blamed it on your song Israel's son you
were just 16 years old when this was all happening and uh how did you feel when when this was going on did you take it
did you internalize this at all yeah I I didn't realize at the time but but I did at the time I was still
um I guess I it affected me but I had to act like it didn't and I had to also I couldn't acknowledge it I guess
that was part of the pattern like if I acknowledge that that could interrupt talk about having blinds on I was like
that is [ __ ] up and that's going to [ __ ] me in the future but for now I've got this to do I didn't realize that
that would continue to happen for a really long time and I just push everything away and just focus
on the music it's that's it's pretty devastating to write a song when you're a teenager and then like
have someone's lives taken because apparently it influenced the people to murder
someone that's that's too much I don't like that people look to me for GU I don't s my songs I don't like
[Music] it oh I would have love to interview Daniel John's I would ask him do you eat
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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

Bryan Bassett and Nicolas McDonald murdered Bryan's family in 1995, leading to a complex trial and discussions on juvenile justice.

Key points

Confession and Denial. One of the perpetrators confessed hours after the crime, leading to conflicting testimonies.
Teenage Triple Murder. On August 11, 1995, two teenagers broke into a home and committed a horrific crime.
The Role of Music in Crime. A defense attorney claims a rock song influenced the behavior of one of the teens.
The Impact of Crime on Victims' Families. Stephanie Basset shares her fears and the ongoing impact of her brother's actions.
The Debate Over Juvenile Sentencing. The court grapples with the constitutionality of life sentences for juvenile offenders.
Brian Basset's Sentencing Hearing. Brian Basset, who killed his family at 16, faces resentencing after years in prison.

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