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[Music] over the years during these trailers we have provided differing definitions and
opinions about sexual sadus or the great white sharks as Roy Hazelwood calls them
in his books the evil that men do and dark dreams and on several occasions we presented case studies from John Douglas
an and Alan burges and Robert wrestler's crime classification manual today we present another case study from the
manual case study number 134 sadistic murder as it pertains to this week's killer who is a real life
monster with a unique fetish a sexual SST is someone who has established an enduring pattern of
sexual arousal in response to sadistic imagery sexual gratification is obtained from torture involving excessive mental
and physical means the offender derives the greatest satisfaction from the victim's response
to torture sexually sadistic fantasies in which sexual acts are paired with domination degradation and violence are
translated into criminal action that results in death sadistic murder victimology has some similarities to the
victimology of organized sexual homicides the victims are chosen through systematic stalk
and surveillance they are approached under the pretext such as the offenders requesting or offering assistance asking
directions or impersonating a police officer a ruse may be employed such as posing as a talent scout looking for
prospective models or actresses and promising them jobs there are often multiple crime scenes involved with this
type of sexual homicide the place of the initial encounter the torture SL death scene Andor the body disposal site the
very nature of this crime sadism expressed through torture necessitates a secluded or solitary place for the
prolonged period of time the offender spends with a victim this captivity may be from a few hours to As Long As
several weeks the offender's residence may be used if it can provide the required
seclusion the body is routinely concealed especially with the more organized offender it is possible that
there are implications of Overkill and or deep personalization for pratic reasons often to obscure the victim's
identity the offender May tamper with the crime scene by staging secondary criminal activity most often rape or
robbery to Veil the primary motive of sadistic murder The Act of Killing is often
eroticized death comes in a slow deliberate manner that is savored by the offender but because an unconscious or
dead victim does not afford the offender the gratification he seeks great care is taken not to end the
victim's life prematurely in several cases offenders not only took special measures to keep
their victims conscious but actually revived near dead victims in order to cause additional suffering one of the
many search warrant suggestions for this case type of offender is to look for items dealing with the offenses these
would be written records manuscripts Diaries threatening letters calendars sketches drawings audio tapes videotapes
and photographs the Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway was highly focused on the necks of his many victims for the Malala
Forest killer Dayton Leroy Rogers his thing was the feet of his victims and in this week's case study the serial Fender
was fascinated by the breaking of Bones this is true crime garage and this is the case the Bone Breaker
[Music] killer [Music] this week we go to barou Wisconson barou is a city of about 12,000 people and is
part of sck County sock County is located in an absolutely beautiful part of the state of Wisconsin which is not
only a beautiful state but a proud beer drinking State as well by the way our story really starts off on the 4th of
July one of my my favorite days of the year this is Independence Day 1994 this is a Monday but it's a holiday
so normally most people might sleep in on this day but 14-year-old Christian Steiner started working at his first job
just weeks ago Chris was working at the McDonald's a few miles from his family's
home and on this holiday Monday Chris was scheduled to work at the McDonald's so his parents George and Kathy went to
wake Chris up at 6:15 a.m. that morning but Chris was not there he was nowhere to be found they look around the home
he's not already up and starting his day he's nowhere to be found so George and Kathy called the police reporting that
something strange was going on and they didn't know where their son was so this is what the police and Chris's parents
George and Kathy were able to determine they found two doors unlocked locked these are two doors on the ground level
of the home and next they found a window screen with a slit in it now on July 3rd
it was a very comfortable night as far as temperature goes and the family left many of the windows open that night at
the house the screen with the slit was for a window to Chris's older brother's room this bedroom was located on the
ground level and the Slit was described as large enough that someone could climb
through it now Chris's brother was not there that night in fact he was staying over at a friend's house so the police
and the concerned parents had a couple of theories the theory they all liked the
best was that Chris along with the help of a friend or some friends snuck out of
the house and at some point he would probably be back soon or maybe he might even wait a while to to come home
knowing that he's going to be in trouble for sneaking out of the house yeah or he
might just find his own way to get to work the other possibility that they thought is that maybe he ran away from
home this would be a possibility of course we are talking about a 14-year-old boy but his parents said
look we don't have any problems with Chris we don't argue with him he doesn't argue with us everyone in the family
gets along very well and they said although Chris did did not get very good grades in school he had recently started
this job and was really liking his job you know there are some kids that are able to shine in the classroom and then
there are some that are just great little worker bees and shine more in a workplace type setting well that was
Chris's thing here's what they told the police because keep in mind when they went to bed the day before on July 3rd
everything was fine the Steiners knew where all of their kids were so they told police all about
what went down on July 3rd and they said that on July 3rd at about 300 p.m. both
parents picked up Chris from the McDonald's where Chris worked Chris helped his mom get ready for dinner then
Chris played with his little brother for a while in the backyard George said that
at 10 p.m. he went upstairs to check on Chris and found him asleep still in his clothes but asleep in his clothes on his
bed so George says he shut the light off in Chris's room and that was the last time either parents saw Chris by the
next morning at 6:15 a.m. he is gone I would be guessing here a couple things you're going to have some indicators to
tell you that he probably did not go to work on his own one you don't have a note from him it was agreed upon when
they went to sleep the night before that the parent parents would be driving him
early in the morning mhm and you're probably going to find his work uniform in the closet or still you know in his
room somewhere so this is a really interesting case to look at as this is not the typical situation that we have
encountered before here in the garage in most cases there is a major concern and
panic mhm normally we have terrified parents but in those cases we are talking about a parent waking up to a
cut screen and a toddler missing from the home here it could just be what it seems that he snuck out in the middle of
the night met up with some friends and they got into a little teenage boy mischief and he would be back and well
unfortunately that does not end up being the case right but a couple other things
too I mean he's 14 so it's possible is there some girl that he was talking to that they didn't know of that he wanted
to meet up with or he has this new job he's working with people probably older than him did he meet up with one of them
right and I think that word friends encompasses all of those possibilities because you're right Captain he is 14
he's at that age where you don't always tell Mom and Dad everything that you're doing when it's not on the up and
up and there were some other indicators and I'm a little reluctant to throw these out there because I could only
find one source that stated this that they had found some muddy shoe prints inside the
home and my guess here and this is why I'm a little hesitant to go down this road but my guess here is that those
muddy shoe prints would have indicated to the parents and to the police that somebody entered the home and then
possibly left with Chris out one of the doors meaning I'm guessing because of this slit in the the window screen mhm
that possibly there was Footprints from that cut Screen through the home because we have
a statement later from George from from Chris's father that says you know I think that he someone may have come to
the house and left with Chris one of his friends may have come to the house and left with Chris because he throws out
there in that same in that same statement that it would have been somebody that knew the layout of our
home mhm so what I'm guessing if these Footprints exist um is that it showed not somebody
walking around the house trying to look for something you know this is a fairly large home there's multiple people that
are living and staying there that the footprints if they did exist were an indicator to Chris's parents and to
police that whoever entered the home knew where they were going meaning one they went through Chris's brother's room
because they may have known that the brother was gone for the night and it might be one of the only ground level
bedrooms of the home and then made their way to Chris's room and then left through one of the
doors on the ground level leaving it unlocked behind them well and again this is different than like a child abduction
because the perpetrator could come in the house and carry the victim out this is a 14-year-old
young man basically so it's you I'm guessing he'd be pretty difficult to carry out on your own yeah and what I
was pointing out earlier too Captain is that again this is a situation where I could tell from the the parents
statements and from the police statements at the time well I should say the sheriff it was Sheriff's Department
that get it right nobody was really panicked it just seemed like this was you know Boyhood childish uh Mischief
going on and the initial belief was that at some point on this day on this Monday
on this holiday Monday he'll come back home and oh he's going to be in trouble when he gets back here yeah now the
Steiners say that they spent that first night waiting up until dawn sitting on their front porch expecting that at any
point he would come home they said that they would stare down every car that pulled onto their street thinking okay
here he is someone's dropping him off but as the sun came up Tuesday July 5th Chris never came home well yeah again
like you said before then at some point midday you're going kid's not even in trouble any more in my mind I just want
him home yeah you know and now it's getting dark something's wrong that would be the
moment once it start getting dark where I'd go something's wrong man my boy should be home by now unfortunately most
parents out there have had a similar situation where they go from being angry or upset at their child yeah to feeling
stressed and panicked and just worried out of their mind worried sick as my mom used to say and so this is that
situation and most of the time for parents the situation ends up being it's it's no real big deal mhm just a
misunderstanding but here as you're pointing out captain now it's the next day and your son still has not come home
and the Steiners went on to say that they spent the next few days passing out flyers looking for their son and George
took to sleeping on the couch with the front door unlocked every night because he knew that Chris did not have his own
set of keys to the house yeah so that at any time at any hour of the day if Chris
returned he would be able to walk inside the home yeah it becomes a very kind of
sad desperate scene that's right and Captain we do get some information that may give some more weight to The Runaway
Theory and this is per the sheriff this is the uh sock County sheriff and he has
a cool sounding old school country Sheriff name this is Sheriff Butch steinhurst MH he says there were two
unconfirmed let's be very clear about that two unconfirmed let's underline that word unconfirmed reports where
someone says they saw Chris Steiner near the Quick Trip convenience store this would be on July 4th so the first day
that he was missing and then there's another unconfirmed report of a sighting of Chris at the local Kmart this is the
next day on July 5th well again he's working with individuals that are probably a little bit older than him
some of them probably live on their own so it starts making you wonder did he go
look I'm not that great at school but I like this job maybe I've worked maybe I got a couple paychecks and I got a
little bit of money now hey I'm I'm going to go move in with Steve that runs the frier but you think law enforcement
would be in contact with obviously that McDonald's and any employee that works there well and we're talking about a
town of 12,000 people right so it should be fairly easy to ask the appropriate people and talk to anybody that would
have known Chris and question where he may have been and usually when those situations are going on you do have
people that know where the child is know where the teenager is but I'm saying when you have a couple people going hey
I think I saw them then you start going well is he staying with somebody and they're not coming forward right and
that's where you go okay maybe the sheriff's department had it right in the beginning and this is a runaway
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break cheers mates to everybody in the back cheers to the crispiest of the colonel list of the
colonel list cheers to you Captain so if I'm the sheriff right MH I'm all I'm Mr
Butch right I'm looking at this first my first guess you snuck out with your friends to drink some beer smoke some
pot right or maybe prank some houses that's what I'm thinking initially meet up with girls meet up
with a girl go hang out with some older dudes that you met at work it's any number of things yeah you're right and
maybe the older guys are going they're they're going through a hazing process who
knows when that doesn't come through I I start going okay he's a runaway now we have these two possible sightings but
they're not confirmed so I'm not leaning on that theory but that that's probably where
I'm leaning towards but as more time goes by and then with these Footprints too so you go
everybody's home they have a younger child younger child's still there the 14-year-old is
the one that goes missing mhm and then you have this the other son just happens to not be there that night you have this
rip in the screen as the sheriff I'm starting to wonder did something happen and did the parents start like set up
this scene you see what I'm saying mhm and so I wonder if that's something they looked
into as this kid's missing from what I could find here Captain Sheriff Butch steinhurst and his uh the people working
under his command and his rule seem to be fairly thorough and so I'm sure that's probably something they looked at
but here and as is the case in most situations I'm guessing there's probably some
details uh about that night that we are not privy to right so um because there never seems to be that voice or that
concern ever presented in any portion of the early stages of that case well we're not also
privy to their actions their demeanor their tone and voice in which they're presenting any this information to the
sheriff mhm that's correct and well basically what's going to happen here is that it's going to be hell week for the
Steiners they last see Chris Sunday July 3r at 10 p.m. and then they go through hell all week long and on the next
Sunday July 10th detectives showed up once again to the Steiner home knocked on the door door and well they didn't
necessarily have the worst news for the Steiners but it certainly was not good news detectives wanted to know if they
could get Chris's dental records because a body had been found in the Wisconson River in or near depending on the source
the Pine Island Wildlife Refuge the Steiners provided the dental records for the detectives and the Steiners were no
dummies they knew that if sock County detectives were at their door that these detectives would not have been on their
doorstep if they did not think that the body was that of their son the next day the Steiners were notified that the body
found in the Wisconsin River was their 14-year-old son so now they knew that they had lost Chris forever wow so the
body is recovered from the river but in the neighboring County so now you have counties you have two count counties
sock and columia investigating plus you have the Columbia County coroner and the
Wisconsin State Pathologists all working the case according to the County coroner
this is Keith EPS because of course he was asked to speculate when the body when it was recovered he was asked
to speculate about the body and what they could infer from what they were seeing at the scene and EPs and the
sheriff both described the body as bloated and EPS adding that his guess would be that the body was in the river
for at least 3 days because he says it usually takes about 3 days for the body to surface the local news media
questioned this I'm guessing because either they received some bad information on this case or possibly due
to a local rumor but they POS the question of well we heard or we were told that law enforcement believes that
Chris was in the water for just two days and both the sheriff and the corer were
very very clear saying we don't know how long he was in the water but it was longer than two days again the corner
saying it usually takes about 3 Days To surface and the sheriff adding they usually don't get that bad
in two days that's his vague description of the remains and from everything they
were saying Captain it sounds like they couldn't really prove it but they were working on the idea based on evidence
and what their experience is telling them that Chris probably died closer to the time when he went missing and likely
ended up in the water closer to the night when he went missing yeah so remember it was just a few hours over a
week that he was gone so law enforcement putting the time of death much closer to
that Sunday morning when Chris's parents noticed that he was not home the cause of death was ruled to be drowning but
the manner of death was left as undetermined the sheriff said that they were actively looking for the entry
point into the river this might help to better determine the manner of death do we have puncture wounds they're not very
descriptive about what they're going to release to the public right at this time
and maybe they're holding that back CU they know that some that's something that a suspect would know or the killer
would know well I think you're going to get a better idea of what their suspicions were uh when I give you this
information the sheriff said that he was hopeful that they would be able to locate a party spot with obvious signs
and evidence of a recent teenager party along the water after days of trying we were told no
such party spot was located it sounds like the sheriff's department was now fully on board with the idea that
Chris's parents had in the beginning right from Jump Street that Chris was not only you know not
only did he leave their home in the middle of the night probably with somebody else he wasn't alone then but
he probably wasn't alone whenever he went into the Waters of the Wisconsin now George and Kathy Steiner were left
with only photographs and memories of their son Chris they remember him as a happy loud and boisterous boy who was a
delight to be around remembering that Chris did exactly what the dentist told him for a full seven years so that he
could get out of those braces on schedule he had a new job that he liked and was already calculating the extra
money he could make worth working on Sundays and holidays he loved fishing the outdoors and playing baseball George
and Cathy set up a reward fund this is very interesting here Captain because what we are faced with again is even
though you have the ruling of drowning as the cause of death you don't have the manner of death was it an accident did
somebody put him in the water did uh you know any number of things could have happened here and again you're not
saying that there's a toxicology report so we don't know if he went out with somebody's drinking and got drunk and
end up drowning in this in this body of water yes you're exactly right and one thing they did State early on is that
they were going to run toxicology but it would be several weeks before they would
get the results for that we have to keep in mind this is 1994 so Chris's parents George and Kathy
they set up this reward fund offering a cash reward to anyone who came forward with information that would provide
answers to Chris's mysterious death because that's what you have here you have a mysterious
death a suspicious death right and one thing that I noticed kind of reading between the lines here seems like the
sheriff's department kind of felt that way that we have a quote unquote suspicious death even though they never
said those words well like I said at this point even if the parents are being cooperative the way you find him you
start going wait well they're also the last people that saw him so they they become Under the Umbrella of
Suspicion right and that's exactly it it's he didn't get to the river on his own yeah um well in technically what his
dad's saying is like yeah I roughly saw him rough roughly saw him stop me if I'm
wrong roughly around the 1000 p.m. area MH and then he was supposed to wake him up in the
6:00 period and he wasn't there so that's a large gap that's you have about 8 hours yeah that's a large gap of and
so it's like well where are you guys' whereabouts and then that makes it more difficult too cuz one it's his parents
so you don't want to you know piss them off by asking too many questions cuz you
see they're grieving do they know more that they're just not telling you well and I think this will show there's kind
of a united front here with the sheriff's department and that was my nickname in college the Steiners because
remember the Steiners set up this reward fund offering a cash reward to anyone who would have information that could
provide answers about Chris's death a phone number was listed in multiple newspapers so that people could call
should they have any information now George Chris's father told the Wisconsin State Journal what hurts so much is that
you know that other kids were out there with him something happened out there something terrible happened out there
but what we can't understand is how someone could have left him there without calling and Sheriff Butch
steinhurst said that no charges of withholding information or underage drinking would be brought against anyone
who provides information regarding Chris's death yeah that's a smart move because and they should do that more
often because I think there's a lot of times where there's accidental deaths that that people go to
the extreme to cover up well there was a newspaper article that I think sums up what their concerns were regarding the
mystery about Chris Steiner's death the article is titled clu saw and death of Youth and it goes on to say exactly how
a barou youth succumbed to the dark and murky Waters of the Wisconsin River May remain a mystery unless authorities are
aided by by Witnesses and that's kind of how they left it captain and how it would remain
for quite some time this brings us to Sunday July 30th 1995 in our timeline this is almost exactly one year really
just a couple weeks over the one-year Mark in fact when Chris Steiner went missing and then later was found dead in
the river and now we're going to introduce another family this is the Phillips family here captain at 4:00 a.m. Donald
Phillips woke up and noticed something strange his son and daughter fell asleep on couches in the living room the night
before now at 4:00 a.m. his daughter is still asleep on the couch but his 13-year-old son Thaddius is nowhere to
be found Donald checked the boy's room and again his son was not there and strangely the boy's shoes were right
where he had left them the night before so no boy but his shoes are right here and yet there was not any sign of any
type of struggle inside of this home and there was no note or anything left behind from his son so Donald and his
wife called it into police telling police what they knew about the night before and finding their daughter still
asleep but not Thad and adding that Thad had never taken off before and both were
certain that if the boy had left on his own that he would have left some kind of
note for his parents to find what is odd here as well Captain is the Phillips Family Thad his parents and sister were
new to this specific area they moved into this neighborhood just about 2 weeks before they lived about 11 mil
away a 17-minute drive from their previous residence so they checked anywhere they could think of that Thad
may have taken off to this would be places like the fairgrounds and the community pool but no Thad and the
people they talked to and the people that they asked had not seen the boy either and offered no information as to
where they might find their son so either the boy took off under the cloak of Darkness or someone had stolen the
boy in the night but like you said they're also new to the area so you do have that sometimes you hear about
people where they move into a new area it's not going well for the kid so the kid decides to try to take back off to
where they came from yeah truly a difficult situation here because he's at an age where it would be difficult for
him to cover any great kind of distance on his own um you know he doesn't have a
vehicle and it would be obvious if his bike were missing and I think again the alarming situation here Captain is we
say either he took off off under the cloak of Darkness or someone came into the home and stole the boy in the night
but again 13-year-old that's it's hard to carry a 13-year-old but when you see the boy's
shoes where they were the night before when he had fallen asleep on the couch I think as a parent for me that would be
my major concern I'm going wait my son's not here yet his shoes are right here did he I get it if he snuck out of the
house house but I think he's probably putting his shoes on before he goes out that's telling me something else has
happened in this situation yeah yeah I I agree that's definitely a sign that if you're going to run away
you you're not going to do it Barefoot exactly that would be my thought here and what you're pointing out Captain is
a very common thing people move away kid gets weird about the move maybe doesn't
know anybody in the neighborhood it makes an impulsive decision to take off but those shoes being there would scare
me quite a bit this is going to lead us to Sunday July 31st 1995 just before 8:00 p.m. this is when a 911 call came
in on the line was a boy who said he was taken from his home in the middle of the
night and was being tortured and held captive the boy said he did not know his attacker or the location where he was
being held the call was traced and once the location of the call was determined police and Emergency Services were on
the scene less than 30 minutes from the start of the 911 call when they arrived on the scene they found the caller a boy
in bad shape the call came from 13-year-old Thaddius Phillips the boy who vanished
less than 48 hours earlier he told them that an older boy had kidnapped him and held him there they
rushed Thad off to the local hospital and they went looking for the perpetrator police were looking for
17-year-old Joseph Clark who was said to be according to the police call Joe was
driving an old painted over vehicle and may be in the company of a quote big girl or woman the location where Thad
was being held was less than half a mile from his home police didn't have much luck searching for the 17-year-old
suspect Joseph Clark so they set up a stake out so to speak leaving officers in unmarked cars watching the house and
waiting for Joe to return and he did just before midnight and when he returned to the home he was placed in
cuffs and arrested well wouldn't that calls 911 and when he states that it was an older boy that kidnapped him I mean
this is a very abnormal situation I would think if I was a police officer yeah I'm thinking a teenager is going to
come around the corner but I wouldn't have been surprised if it was a 25y old man or a 30-year-old man that told this
you know teenager hey uh yeah I'm I'm just a couple years older than you are it's just such a abnormal strange
situation to have basically a kid abduct a kid yeah and I don't know it's unclear
how much Thad knew about his abductor we know that he spent um about approximately 43 hours being held
captive by this older boy yeah but again he doesn't know Joe Clark even though they're both technically children he
doesn't know anybody in that area he does know some of the people in in the area I mean he he lived about 10 11
miles from this location but you're right it this most of the people here are going to be completely new to him
and his family yeah it's a new town he's only been there for a little bit it's very strange he would know a few year
older Joe Clark yeah and he doesn't and in fact that is why he's not able to tell 911 where he's being held he
doesn't have anything to offer up as to hey uh here's a clue as to where I'm located
so you can come and rescue me they have to trace the call and keep him on the line so our victim here Captain Thad
Phillips 13-year-old Thad Phillips as we said was sent immediately to the hospital this is because again when he's
found at this location he's in very bad shape it's obvious right from when they see him he needs to go immediately to
the hospital this is where he's going to have to undergo several surgeries to try
to repair his legs in fact in the first two surgeries they put pins in one leg and a rod in the other the injuries were
listed a couple of different ways depending on which source you have but what seems to be the general consensus
is that thad's legs were broken four times both ankles were broke one of his knees and a femur bone
all broken that's crazy and let's not forget the femur this is your thigh bone which is the longest and strongest bone
in the human body Thad not only told police about what happened to him but he told his father Dawn at the hospital as
far as what was being released to the public early on well they were mostly small details coming from thad's father
Dawn as he answered reporter's questions while pretty much living at the hospital
for days while doctors and nurses worked to repair his boy Don told reporters that neither he nor Thad knew the boy
Joe Clark who abducted Thad prior to this incident so there you go that rules out any type of personal motive Don said
thad's captor brutalized and tortured the boy in the form of beatings that involved Joe choking punching that as
well as twisting The Boy's ankles and legs and jumping up and down on thad's legs according to Dawn Joe told Thad
that he had kidnapped the boy because he liked busting people's bones and that he
had done this type of thing before to other victims Don said that the girl or the woman companion of Joe's according
to Thad never saw the boy and that she was not in any way a part of the kidnapping or the torture that followed
she never saw the boy she you'd think that she at least heard the boy these are thad's words that he saw
the girl but she never saw him and look my belief is that he probably saw her through a window and saw her
outside again according to Thad and to Dawn the girl had nothing to do with the abduction or any of the torture that
followed well on a quick Google search I I put in how many pounds of pressure to
break your ankle one of the suggestions is there's a link to the best ways to break your own leg it says a rough
estimate it would take about 218 lounds of pressure to produce a tibial fracture
and a healthy adult using a hammer so I'm guessing less for a teenager you could decrease the force requirement by
choosing a tool pool with less surface area such as a hatchet then again you'd be increasing the risk of soft soft
tissue damage and significant blood loss so here we have the abduction and torture of a 13-year-old Thad Phillips
and now we have 17-year-old Joseph Clark who lives just half a mile away in custody and we have
the parents of Chris Steiner who are sitting there wondering look our boy disappeared vanished in the middle of
the night from our home much like that of this young Thad Phillips kid and we are still here over a year later
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Baraboo, Wisconsin; July 4th 1994 - A teenager disappears in the middle of the night. A week later his body is recovered from the Wisconsin River. Another teen disappears in an eerily similar set of circumstances just one year later. Then the Sheriff’s department receives a bizarre 911 call that sets off a chain of events that rocks the town of Baraboo.

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The episode details the disappearance and death of Christian Steiner and the abduction of Thaddius Phillips, exploring connections between the cases.

Key points

The Bone Breaker Case Study. Exploring the chilling details of a sadistic murderer known as the Bone Breaker.
Missing Boy on Independence Day. 14-year-old Christian Steiner goes missing on July 4th, 1994, leading to a frantic search.
Theories About Chris's Disappearance. Initial theories suggest Chris may have snuck out or run away, but evidence complicates the case.
The Discovery of Chris Steiner's Body. Detectives arrive at the Steiner home with devastating news about Chris's body being found.
Chris Steiner's Parents Reflect. George and Kathy Steiner are left with only memories of their son Chris.
Thaddius Phillips Goes Missing. Thaddius Phillips vanishes from his home, leaving his family in a panic.

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