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true crime [Music] [Music] tragic story about the brutal killing of a 38 year old man that's how a crown
attorney described the evidence of what a Winnipeg jury will hear for the next several weeks and a warning the details
are extremely graphic at the trial today the jury heard Robin green from shoal Lake was stabbed to death 68 times it
happened on July 1st 2003 he was decapitated and his body cut up into eight separate pieces and left in a
bathtub in a suite in the Royal Albert Hotel the crown says the victims organs were removed and never found
Sydnee tier house Moore is charged with second degree murder his lawyer Gregg Brodsky told the jury
they agreed to your house more is the killer but says his client doesn't know how the killing took place the jury was
told that Eris wrote letters to a Canadian journalist and American publisher that picked in the killing
itself sheer house also explains how he's infatuated with Jeffrey Dahmer the American serial killer who cut up his
victims court heard the previous day green mentiroso her drinks at the Woodbine Hotel then went back to tear
houses sweet to have sex where Green was killed clerk was told that tear house walked into the remand Center the
following day thinking it was a police station he told the corrections worker that he had been drinking that he
blacked out and that when he awoke the body was chopped up in his tub back in his hotel room months after the killing
at the Royal Albert Hotel it appears the man charged with the murder wanted to talk about it but was any of it true
that's what a Winnipeg jury must decide of the Sydney to your house murder trial
while in jail T Rose began corresponding with a winnipeg journalist who at the time had a weekly callin show on a
university radio station Szczepanski testified that tear house gave him details of both the murder he couldn't
have found out any other way the jury has heard so far that police were not able to find the internal organs of the
victim the end result was supposed to be a book about the murder an upcoming trial
called trophy kill a title court was told that tier House came up with he remembers almost everything but not the
actual killing Sidney tier house told the jury he blacked out that day in July 2003 he says he doesn't know how Robin
Greene ended up mutilated in a hotel suite bathtub but what he does remember is meeting up with a victim at the
Woodbine Hotel to your house describes how the two went on a drinking bender ending up in his suite at the Royal
Albert he says he got high on cocaine and oxycontin had sex with Greene a few times and took some nude pictures of the
victim eventually the two fell asleep teros told the jury he woke up about seven hours later to a sickening smell
in the suite saying quote I entered the bathroom and looked over to the bathtub and he was deceased he was dismembered I
threw up into the toilet because of what I'd seen Tarot's then walked to the remand Center thinking it was a police
station staff called 9-1-1 0 submitted to telling the 911 operator I think I killed someone while in jail he wrote
letters about the killing to Winnipeg writer who promised him a book deal tariffs now says the gory letters were
all made up I had no one to talk to I was locked up 24 hours a day I guess in a sick way it was entertainment for me
to your house testified he got the killing details from jail library books to crime stories of serial killers like
Jeffrey Dahmer the crown argued in many details things like blood splatter matched the actual crime scene and her
details only the real killer would know CC Ashley CTV News Winnipeg the fate of Sydney dear house now rests with the
jury they will decide that the man is guilty of manslaughter in the death of Robin green or second-degree murder evil
that's how the crown described Sydney tier House telling the jury he stabbed and dismembered Robin green then neatly
stacked the victims body parts in the bathtub of his hotel room earlier this man was
decapitated he was just involved he was eviscerated and certainly the court will
take that into account but tear houses lawyer says it was not a premeditated murder
you can't say this is the worst possible of where's possible offense would be if he
lured somebody premeditated the crime and was guilty of first-degree murder [Music]
shall we dance is an American film released back in 2004 the film debuted on October 15 2004 now the story takes
place in Chicago but the movie was filmed in Winnipeg up in Canada back in 2003 shall we dance is a romantic comedy
starring Richard Gere Jennifer Lopez Susan Sarandon Stanley Tucci and Nick Cannon among others the film is a remake
of the 1996 Japanese film of the same name it is not a remake of the 1937 film shall we dance starring Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers the film had a cast full of big names and a budget of fifty million dollars so success was really
the only expectation once released the film grossed more than eleven million dollars opening weekend the film ran at
the box office for 133 days grossing over 57 million in the United States and a worldwide total of over a hundred and
seventy million dollars but if anyone tuned in today to true-crime garage just to hear about Richard Gere Susan
Sarandon or even JLo you're in luck well actually I'd be shocked stupefied even there is a much bigger
story here one that fits well within these four walls of our garage studio a sick and disturbing story there are many
different versions of this true crime story the following timeline may be the closest one that we will ever have to
the truth in short form this story as you may have guessed takes place in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada population
about 700,000 people Winnipeg is very much in the south part of Canada somewhat near the US border and one of
this great cities nicknames is the Gateway to the west why well if you look at a map you'll understand this case
takes place back in 2003 on July 1st this is a a national holiday called Canada Day on
this day Canadians celebrate the anniversary of July 1st 1867 when three separate colonies became one and just
like the great US of A's 4th of July this day is celebrated with fireworks parties parades and barbecues July 1st
2003 and Winnipeg was a hot summer day 38 year old Robin Greene traveled a few hundred miles to Winnipeg to visit with
family and to celebrate and party for the holiday on this morning he was making his way to downtown Winnipeg
walking he stumbles upon a group of onlookers this is a group of fans hanging near where they are shooting
this movie where they are filming the movie these fans are hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the famous movie
stars there is a decent amount of security personnel in this area now Robin continues on about a block or two
north of this location he finds several trailers parked side-by-side here unfortunately there does not seem to be
much in the way of security personnel Robin excited about this opportunity decides to make his way inside of one of
these trailers to see what he can find he was looking for any goodies that might be lying around so now inside one
of these trailers Robin is looking for something valuable and inside a cabinet he finds a ziploc bag containing several
pieces of jewelry this he snatches and stuffs the Ziploc into his pocket Robin exits the trailer and continues walking
off he's now heading downtown toward Main Street a short time later Susan Sarandon --hz assistant enters this same
trailer the one that Robin has just recently fled she notices that one of Susan's earrings is lying on the floor
the assistant then reports this to Susan and the two do a little investigating and quickly realize that some of Susan's
jewelry is missing from the trailer is this her actual jewelry or prop jewelry that detail is a
bit confusing as it's reported both ways I actually believe it to be hers but she
did wear some of this jewelry in the filming of the movie right so makes it a little little difficult there around 10
a.m. famous actress Susan Sarandon calls the police this is to report that a bag of
jewelry was missing from her trailer located on the set of where they were filming the movie shall we dance this
was a set of gold jewelry a necklace bracelet in one of her earrings remember the other was found on the floor of the
trailer alerting the assistant that something might be wrong it has been reported - that this was costume jewelry
which would make it sound or believe that it that it belonged to the studio that was just a prop used for the movie
further investigation I found that the the necklace which will be really one of the centerpiece items of this week's
story the necklace is valued at $4,000 so probably not just costume jewelry for the movie itself not too much later this
is around 11 a.m. Robin Green steps into a bar called the Woodbine this bar opened up earlier that
day this is an older bar that hosts a hard-drinking group of regulars here Robin feels at home so he is drinking
and chatting with the other patrons there right at this bar is where Robin Green meets 33 year old Sidney tear
Hughes Sidney is an overweight guy who has been at the bar for an hour or so drinking the two do not know each other
in fact as said Robin is from out of town tear Hughes was raised in Winnipeg but he had been living out of town for
about 10 years now tear Hughes is a recently out-of-work chef according to tear Hughes Robin is chatting with the
patrons and flashing this gold jewelry that he he has with him and he's offering the jewelry up for sale
it's been reported that Robin was attempting to get $15 for the gold necklace Robin doesn't find any takers
what he does find is tear Hughes who sparks up a conversation with him and then the two start sharing some drinks
now after some drinks tear Hughes invites Robin green back to his hotel room this is in the early afternoon
hours of July 1st the two returned to tear Hughes's hotel room tear Hughes is staying at the Royal Albert Hotel and
this hotel is nearby it's within walking distance of the bar tear house was renting room number 309 once there the
two men continued to drink and party this leads to some sexual activity and then later some playful activity one of
the men has one of those old disposable cameras so they take some photos ironically tear Hughes takes a photo of
Robin Green sitting in the bathtub after all of this the two would eventually leave the hotel room Robin wanted to
take a nap but tear Hughes wanted to go back to the bar I can only assume that they agreed to go back to the bar they
did take a walk later according to one of the men they walked down to where the shall we dance movie down to the filming
location here is my general understanding of the filming situation it was fairly early on in the filming
process and susan sarandon was on set by this time for a couple of days or so but
it was early enough that Jennifer Lopez had not yet arrived into town the two men who again just met hours earlier
they walked down to the filming location and then they walked back to the bar it
does not sound like they stayed for very long on this second visit to the bar they did have a drink apparently at one
point tear Hughes introduces green to the bartender the bartender would later say
that she believed that green was quite intoxicated but tier hues not as much but tier hues wanted to go fetch some
ice before returning to the room so he asked the bartender after the introduction was made to keep an eye on
green which the bartender did tier hues returned fairly quickly and then he escorted green back to the Royal Albert
Hotel and back to room 3:09 according to tier Hughes once the two were there Green eventually fell
asleep and tier hues blacked out or they both blacked out this portion is a bit unclear the next day
the morning of July 2nd Sydney tier Hughes wakes up from a blackout due to drugs and alcohol he gets up and he
walks into the restroom and their tier Hughes finds the body of Robin Green dead in the restroom according to tier
Hughes he then walks to a nearby building that he assumes is a police department when asked you know the
standard questions how can I help you or what can we do for you tier hue says I need to speak with
somebody I am staying at a hotel nearby I blacked out last night and when I woke
up this morning I found a man dead in the bathtub right and at this point we don't know how intoxicated he still is
or what drugs he still is on or how much he's sobered up and like you said he thinks it's a police department but it's
not actually a police department it does make sense that he would believe this to
be a police building it is in a sense I mean you would see officers entering and
exiting this building but it is not he in fact has walked into the Winnipeg remand Center which is a pretrial
detention center located in downtown Winnipeg yeah it houses people waiting for Court decisions on their charges or
placement in correctional centers it is a minimum medium and maximum security facility so they have to
get someone from the actual police department here to talk with this man to make and take his statement
well they do they dispatched two officers to the remand Center the officers talked with tier Hughes and
take his statement in which tier Hughes very matter-of-factly explains he spent the day before drinking all day and
doing drugs he says he met the victim and they went to his room for drinks and for casual sex tear hew says he
eventually passed out from being so intoxicated and then when he woke up and walked into the restroom he found the
victim dead yeah how did you do it he was asked and here hew said he chopped the guy up with what a knife he said
where is the knife now it's on the floor of the bathroom at my hotel room right this of course triggering further
investigation starting with tear Hughes and three officers going physically going to the Royal Albert Hotel - room
309 to investigate tear Hughes's hotel room is on the third floor of this old hotel at the time of our case the hotel
was like 90 years old this hotel has an elevator but I don't think there was any
air-conditioning at the hotel and we did say this was in the middle of a hot summer yeah what they did find there is
truly just like something out of a horror film there was no way for the officers to prepare themselves for what
they were about to find two officers are going to go into the hotel room to see what's going on now an additional
officer and tear hues are going to stay out into the hallway so now they are at the Royal Albert Hotel standing at the
door for room 309 they open the door and walk in the room is small in the room is
a mess the first thing they notice is a blood-soaked bedsheet lying on the floor
and a blood-soaked mattress as well there was a good amount of blood on two of the walls in this small room they
walk into the restroom and they're lying in the bathtub positioned as though he is looking in the direction of the
doorway is the nude dissected body of 38 year old Robin Green Robin is lying on his back inside of this old clawfoot
bathtub Robin's mouth was wide open and one of his eyes was missing the other had been stabbed or punctured his head
decapitated but placed neatly back onto the body the chest had several deep stab
wounds and a figure-eight pattern was carved into the chest area as well there was also a long cut running from the
neck area straight down the center of the chest this wound was a big one and was open and exposing an empty abdomen
the organs had been removed the arms had been cut clean through cut just below the elbows the legs to cut clean all the
way through just below the knees the body was sawn in half at the waist all in all the victim is now in eight pieces
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great veterans all right so we have a situation where we have a guy that's in from out of town and he's snooping
around on a movie set and he's looking for something a value yeah he's straight up looking to steal something right so
he gets some jewelry goes to a local bar things hey this is worth something I'm gonna
ask $15 right doesn't get that but strikes up a conversation this guy now they're drinking together possibly doing
drugs together decide to go back to the guys room that's living in town seems like he's living in this hotel room 309
correct sex happens and it seems like murder happens and then the next day tear Hughes which was renting the room
room 309 goes to correction facility and tells them hey I think I murdered this guy they send police officers there
again we don't know how intoxicated he is or what his state is at this point but as police officers you're probably
thinking is this you know they they hear crazy stories all the time is this guy for real you know we have to check this
out now do you imagine what they're feeling as they're escorting this individual back to his hotel room and
once they open the door you have to start thinking well at least that part of the story is
correct and and and that part of the story is truthful that he's at least staying there
yeah I mean there's a lot of issues with this portion of the story and one that's
why we said early on this might be the closest version to the truth in short form regarding the timeline right that
we're going to get and the reason being is we have two key players in this timeline unfortunately only one of them
is still alive and appears to be very guilty of some heinous horrible acts right and they're the ones that are
providing us with the timeline so as said as you said we don't know the state of mind of Sidney tear Hughes or how
intoxicated or screwed up effed up he could be from drugs or alcohol or both or whatever right at the moment that
he's telling the police about this we also don't know what his state was leading up to this and during the course
of the murder of this man and then the really what he's doing here what has been done if somebody creates this it's
it's sickening to say it this way it's almost horror artwork by design I mean truly that's what it is we have a victim
here that was killed mutilated and then displayed replayed for somebody to see this and as said these are veteran
police officers in Winnipeg Winnipeg is not look shout out to our Canadian brothers and sisters but anybody up in
Canada will tell you when a peg is not the nicest city in the world it's it's it's nice but it I believe it's the
murder capital of Canada so these officers have seen a lot in their days what they have not seen is this they've
never seen anything like this before I don't know that many many people have it I don't know that anybody has yeah and I
think like you said I mean it's it's very odd it's almost a pizza artwork in a sense and I don't mean that in a
disrespectful way but you have a end of that was cut up and eight pieces and almost put back together and like you
said is positioned in a way that they're looking at the door but the head is severed so at some point they have to
start moving the body to realize that these parts are severed and what I find very interesting is that you have a
situation where the bodies and eight pieces that there's a figure eight almost like maybe those are connected in
some way mm-hmm it's very strange and and very horrifying yeah and I hate to use the
word artwork because that that certainly holds no meaning here but anybody that's
seen the TV series Hannibal will understand I mean that's what they were trying to depict in that dramatization
of fictional crimes this is something that happened in real life right and then you also have a situation like I
said we we have this individual confessing to this crime I mean he basically could you know you know
explains to him how you did it well how did you do it with this knife and then they find the knife and and so you you
almost have the confession there but he's also stating that he you know they blacked out or passed out and as far as
like my knowledge goes like I have friends that will drink certain things or maybe take certain things that will
cause them to black out and be in a blackout state I have only been in one blackout state and you were actually
with me on a Carnival cruise when I called a bingo on the 311 cruise mm-hmm there's a bunch of pictures with me with
some somewhat famous people that people started sending to me when we got back from the cruise and I was like oh that's
a funny photoshopped picture and they're like no no you actually met that person
and I took your picture and I have no memory of that at all but as far as I know that's the only time in my
that have ever been in this quota quote blacked-out phase where I'm actually walking around and talking to people and
mm-hmm and acting like I exist in this world and reality I don't remember any of that yeah and that's the weird thing
about tier Hughes's if you want to call that a confession when he's reporting this crime you're almost getting two
stories immediately where he's saying I blacked out I don't remember the murder but but when asked questions how did you
kill him like I chopped him up I used a knife the knife is on the bathroom floor
I guess those are all things he could have learned from just walking into the bathroom that morning and finding the
body that he left there the day before when you said there was no air conditioning and I heard that when tier
Hughes went into the bathroom and saw the scene that he actually got sick hmm and threw up in the toilet so yeah it's
just it's crazy and then it's crazy to think that this person would be in a blacked out state and be able to do all
that and again chop up the body and put it back together and then display it in such a way after seeing this incredibly
horrifying scene the officers went back into the hallway and this is when they formally arrest Sidney tier Hughes they
put tear Hughes in handcuffs the officers these are s-said seasoned veterans and that doesn't matter
they are rattled very badly by the sight of this body in eight pieces then reassembled put on display the cause of
death was multiple stab wounds and they're in room 309 the crime-scene Tech's when they're going through this
whole scene they find susan sarandon 'he's stolen jewelry that was reported as stolen the day before rain now one of
the key players in this case is going to be a man that most of you listening may
know we have discussed him on this show several times in fact he was a guest on the show back when we
covered the Luka Magnotta case in episodes 122 and 123 a cape you cannot hada and of course we are talking about
Dan Zupan ski you know captain sometimes things happen for a reason sometimes things in life really just kind of
happened because they I feel like they're supposed to right when Dan Szczepanski became
involved in this case in Sydney tear Hughes's case in a way the case almost chose him dan was keeping an eye on this
case in particular and for good reason he was involved with an organization called the people's for justice dan was
clipping news articles about the tear Hughes case early on the papers were calling tear Hughes the hotel room
killer and there were headlines such as I'm not a monster I am NOT Jeffrey Dahmer the people's for
justice is basically an organization that is probably fighting and lobbying for a lot of things victim advocacy
right things but one thing that they are truly fighting for is stiffer penalties
and sentences for murders the general problem here is that murderers do not receive a lengthy enough of a sentence
and most of what would be determined to be first-degree murder in our country most of these types of crimes get
reduced to simple manslaughter charges in Canada resulting in the offender receiving a shorter sentence for taking
someone's life dan has been corresponding with a man who he went to high school with the man was housed at
the remand Center waiting for a court date one day this man his name is dawn he tells Dan guess who I'm I'm being
housed with hmm I'm being housed with the hotel room killer Sidney tear Hughes one of just many strange and bizarre
are things about tier hues in this case Szczepanski said tier hues facing murder
charges waiting for a court day in this situation would have been strongly advised to not discuss the case with
anyone especially the media tier hue so seemed to enjoy the attention and he was
granting interviews almost immediately after his arrest Dan asked dawn if he could work to build some type of rapport
with tier hues get tier hues to believe that they may even be friends and see if
he could get tier hues to talk with Dan dan at the time had a radio show called off the cuff it was an interview style
show covering all kinds of topics well in this case has to be huge on a couple levels one the gruesome nature of the
crime but two the connection with this big movie star in this big movie set yes it is it would have been bigger news and
this is coming from several Canadians perspectives this would have been bigger news had it occurred in a city like
Toronto or Vancouver right but not so seedy well yeah and the thing is to put it in its simplest form the way it's
been explained to me is unless a crime or a murder happens in one of those two cities it's just not well covered
through the media it doesn't get the amount of media attention than it would garner in those other those bigger
cities right the simplest introduction from dawn to get tier Hughes to talk with Dan Szczepanski would just be to
see if tier Hughes would like to be a possible guest on Dan's radio show this is the tactic that they're going to use
because they already know at this point that tier Hughes seems to be enjoying these interviews and is more than
willing to talk with the media well right and when he's talking to the media I think he's also trying to get more
attention by making statements like not a monster yes this act that I did was monstrous
but I'm not a monster I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer and and when you in a crime case you mentioned the word
or the name Jeffrey Dahmer that's gonna get more attention well when this gets set up dawn does get to your Hughes to
agree to talk with Dan Szczepanski this leads to Dan corresponding with tier Hughes and then taking a meeting with
him Sydnee tier Hughes his defense and believe it or not it's a viable one in Canada in 2003 2004 and so on at the
time his defense basically is yes he did kill Robin green but it was not premeditated murder because tier Hughes
had been using drugs and was intoxicated he didn't remember the act itself and he
eventually turned himself in this making a strong argument for a charge of manslaughter not murder right strong our
argument there not not here that wouldn't work here this would come with a pretty light sentence if someone like
tier Hughes can get this horrible murder reduced to just a manslaughter charge and this in particular is what Dan
Szczepanski and his friends with that organization people's for justice one of the things that they were fighting for
one of this is one of their big ticket items that they're fighting for so a maximum penalty for what we what the
United States would call first-degree murder the planned targeted act of homicide in
Canada the maximum one could receive there is no death penalty the harshest punishment is life in prison with
possible parole at 25 years Wow yeah we I mean some of our states have the death
penalty it's like honey we're gonna take a vacation to Canada and others that don't at least have life in prison
without the possibility of parole that's not even an option this is life in prison in prison with
parole at 25 years meaning you're going to get a parole hearing yeah that's I mean that's ridiculous I mean and
there's multiple crimes here like it here we do a thing where you go okay well it's premeditated so it's
first-degree murder but then also you have the mutilation of the corpse that charges to that so possible parole after
25 years this is the strictest punishment one could be handed at the time in Canada and that's across the
board that's from sea to shining sea the Canadian federal government's bill see 53 life means life act would change this
by making life imprisonment without parole a mandatory sentence for heinous murders such as planned and deliberate
murders of police officers or planned and deliberate murders while the accused is committing sexual assault hostage
taking or terrorism right so they could be charged with first-degree murder with
no possibility of parole the adjustment to that basically would be the lifers could eventually apply after 35 years to
the federal cabinet for executive release this bill C 53 would be a good step in the right direction I know there
was a lot going on with attempting to make this life means life act active last year I was you know not living in
Canada I was unable to confirm if in fact it is up and running by this time it doesn't actually appear to be so
though so first we have the issue of some monsters like tier Hughes getting paroled after 25 years
that sounds bad enough right but it doesn't stop there when going to court we are going to have a few other very
threatening options that could play out here first off if his defense can prove that tier Hughes was drunk high messed
up basically out of his element right blacked out well then this would play to a reduction of what would
be a murder charge to a much lesser charge of just manslaughter also of course reducing the sentence to top all
of that off they have something called double-time and I believe that's the proper term for it I that's the term
that would make sense right okay so double time served for jail time while waiting for your trial
plus they have concurrent sentences instead of consecutive meaning if you're going to get 25 years for killing one
person well then if you killed three people you would get 25 years for each of those three people you killed for a
total of 75 years right but because you have concurrent and sentences you can serve out all of those sentences at the
same time so truly only really spending 25 years in prison that is horseshit so basically it
doesn't matter if I kill one person or two people you'd think like you know as far as like serial killers go you let's
say you killed five people and then you go well okay so we're gonna have you charged and these were all premeditated
so you get first-degree murder so each one carries a 25 year sentence but you can serve all those sentences at the
same time the best example that I could offer up on the fly right here would be Robert Pickton so Robert Pickton is a
Canadian who is convicted of six murders I believe it's six murders he's suspected of many more right convicted
of multiple murders receives 25 years for each one of those murders he's only gonna have to serve 25 years total he
doesn't get you know he's we're not tacking all these together and doing them consecutively which should be a
hundred and fifty years right and thank God he'd be dead by then but he's a real
ass well there's a lot of names you could call that individual the coroner bonerface asshat is what I'd call so we
talked about the state of the body when they found it first off without getting too too
graphic I think we're already past that well here's the I'm trying to go through
the whole idea of is tier huse lying about the fact that he was that he was drunk and drugged up and out of his
element right well we know he's at the bar drinking we do know that and we could spend a good amount of time going
through what has been reported that he was drinking or taking that day but to be honest with you and we played that
clip there it's really all over the shop right the different reports state that he took our smoked or ingested different
things so I don't think that that's key here to really try to analyze if in fact
we believe he was messed up not from that angle we can do it on the opposite angle and again without trying to get
too too graphic but of course it will have to be somewhat so think about the amount of time just for a second just
stop and think about the amount of time it would take to do all of that to a body right so just how out of it could
this hotel monster be at the time one also what we have in the states I don't know if it's different in Canada but
premeditation don't when you hear that clip from the lawyer it's like premeditation to them almost
seems like he had to play in this when he met him at the bar oh I see you came into the bar now I met you now I'm
planning this all out in my head where we have kind of determined in the United States that premeditation could be
you're in an argument with somebody heated and decide well I'm gonna go out to my car and get a gun and within that
small window of time you have now you know basically created a plan meaning there was premeditation correct them am
i correct in this no you're spot-on I mean there are situations where within seconds we determine the prima it's a
premeditated murder right and I think unless you can prove I think it would be more on the two on the defense to prove
that this monster you know this bonerface is was in a state of you know being blacked out or a drug-induced psychosis
state or something like that but think about the cuts to not just all of the time that it would take to do that to a
body the yeah the cuts themselves this is not easy to do not only is it a lengthy amount of time it's not an easy
task to do this would take some level of skill tier Hughes was a chef for a long
time that would help but this would take a lot of time and some skill to perform
this act if tier Hughes was truly as out of it as he claims to have been this would have been even sloppier and the
labor involved a drunken high man would have gave up at some point before doing so much post-mortem mutilation to the
body right I think the premeditation there's not only just premeditation on the murder
but I think there was premeditation on how I'm gonna eventually get out of this you know and what was my excuse gonna be
also I don't think that we have said this but all of the organs were removed these were never recovered so that in
itself is some evidence that a portion of this story is missing from this narrative that Sidney ter Hughes is
putting forth about the actual murder yeah I don't mean to be more gruesome than we are er but you know I would do a
little bit of you know furniture rehabber or you know take an old piece of furniture and and redo it repainting
or whatever and just you take like a simple dining room table to saw the leg there had to be
individuals in this hotel that he's renting these rooms that heard these noises happening that heard something
and that would give us a little bit more of a timeline because like you said I mean just the dissection of the body I
think there probably be ways to prove that it took over an hour and what and then when did that go towards the
evidence that this was all premeditated according to tear Hughes Robin Greene died at 6:20 p.m.
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Brief Summary

The episode details the gruesome murder of Robin Greene by Sydney Tier House and the ensuing trial's shocking revelations.

Key points

The Murder Trial Begins. The jury hears shocking details about the brutal killing of Robin Green.
A Gruesome Discovery. Sydney Tier House wakes up to find Robin Green's dismembered body in the bathtub.
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I entered the bathroom and looked over to the bathtub and he was deceased.

Sydney Tier House's chilling account of finding Robin Green's body.

7:05WatchNov 13, 2019

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