The Tell-Tale Heart /// The Crimes of Charlie Brandt /// 648 | Forensic Files

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[Music] foreign [Music] it's true yes I've been ill very ill but why do you say that I have lost control
of my mind why do you say that I am mad can you not see that I have full control
of my mind is it not clear that I am not mad indeed the illness only made my mind my
feelings my senses stronger more powerful my sense of hearing especially became more powerful
I could hear sounds I had never heard before I heard sounds from heaven I heard sounds from hell
listen and I will tell you how it happened you will see you will hear how healthy my mind is
it is impossible to say how the idea first entered my head there was no reason for what I did
Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart [Music] [Music] we start off this week's worldwide
garage cast with three brutal and very scary unsolved murders in the Florida Keys all taking place in the span of
about one year just under 13 months in fact these three murders had everyone on high
alert and rightfully so the three victims were all said to be vulnerable female victims they were all killed and
their bodies recovered in the short span of July 1988 to July 1989. some women were buying and packing their purses
with cans of Mace some inspired by the fear and violence were buying and packing their purses
with pistols others were signing up for defense classes all three of these murders would take place in a 10 mile
radius of each other yeah this is a 10 mile string of rural Coral Rock Barrier Islands
Big Pine Key little Torch Key and no name key all down near the southernmost tip of
Florida now while the papers describe all of the victims collectively as vulnerable females all three of them
could not be more different from one another the first victim was four-year-old Patty Lanza and then about
six months later we have a second victim this is 20 year old cancer survivor Lisa
Sanders and then the third victim was a 39 year old former beauty queen from Illinois her name Sherry parisho who was
very intelligent Sherry was homeless by choice living a very let's say hippie lifestyle for a lack of a better term
and sleeping under the stars in beautiful Big Pine Key the killings and frankly the horrific nature of how all
three of the victims were killed and what was done to the bodies spawned some very scary rumors
some were saying that a serial killer was using the keys as a hunting ground some saying that it was the work of the
Florida Keys Ripper and the local media had its own Theory either it was the work of a lunatic a Satanist or perhaps
drug cultist sacrificing victims one headline read murders in rural Keys spawned rumors of a cult victims lived
in a murky Fringe world that article is from the Miami Herald from 1989. and the
article Captain it's a lengthy one so I've cherry-picked some of the highlights here and it reads Big Pine
Key Florida Sherry parisho slept under the stars in a little green dinghy little green dinghy was my nickname in
high school she talked about the magic of Saturn she said she had the power to make rain
everyone in these once Heavenly Keys called her The Rainmaker then on the night after a full moon someone from
Hell lunatic or Satanist snatched the rainmaker's soul a killer slit her throat cut open her chest and stole her heart
the murder of Sherry parisho 39 a high school beauty queen from Illinois is the third unsolved homicide of a female
along this 10 Mile string of rural Coral Rock Barrier Islands Big Pine Key little
Torch Key and no name key all within a year one of the other victims like Paris show had a missing heart
and some people in these Keys usually laid back and relaxed are very very frightened
quote the consistent story is that the murders had something to do with a satanic cult connected with drug
shipments detectives are mystified they measure tire tracks take clothing descriptions and confront an almost
frenzied local Rumor Mill they haul in for polygraph tests a variety of key Critters as they call them eccentrics
aging hippies with earrings tattoos and ex-cons and suspected drug dealers Monroe County Sheriff J defore doesn't
Advance a murder Theory and downplays talk that drug cultists sacrificed the victims quote we haven't ruled it out
the sheriff says but we haven't ruled out martians either well you gotta love a smart ass all the victims were
vulnerable females one four years old she lived with her mother all the victims lived in a murky Fringe
world of transients wild parties and talk of white powder and black magic cult related or not the murders have
brought attention to the growing problem of Satanism in the keys Rhonda poor works at a church and Marathon she says
she has counseled six or seven recovering cultists they've been involved in initiations they use girls
for ritual offerings on altars making them lie on slabs one boy said he had to take a large live animal kill it and
drink the blood on July 2nd 1988 the first murder occurred little Patty Lanza 4 wearing a
white jumpsuit went with her mother Deborah to a party on little Torch Key it was a big wild Affair people were
probably doing cocaine says Kim Normandy who attended the party she remembers Patty's mother confused about where her
little girl was the mother was sort of out of it normally says sheriff's deputies found the jumpsuit and
underwear in the woods not far from Paddy's body an autopsy indicated that she had been sexually assaulted and then
clubbed on the head the murderers of vicious dangerous person had no fear to snatch a four-year-old from a party and
do this just moments away from a large group of people Sheriff to four goes on to say that he does not believe that
this killing is connected to the others investigators cite differences in the victims ages and the way that they died
there's a very compelling Link in these three murders and that seems to be geography and time the girls
grandparents believe Patty's death is cult or drug related the grandmother asked the homicide investigators to send
her surviving grandchildren to a psychiatrist especially one of them she goes on to say I think may know
something and is afraid to talk about it detectives questioned Patty's mother and
a friend his name Mike balogna he is a tow truck operator the second murder occurred December 17
1988 and be it small town coincidence or conspiracy the victim's parents lived next door to the first victim's
grandparents our second victim is Lisa Sanders age 20. she was a small woman four foot nine 105 pounds recovering
from leukemia she came to the keys from Michigan to join her parents her hair was still thin
from the chemotherapy six weeks after her arrival on a Friday night she left her trailer park wearing
blue jeans a pink tank top a silver necklace two gold chains and her High School ring with a topaz Stone she went
to a wild party maybe 100 to 200 other people attended that party almost every Friday the party goers gathered on a
deserted road to drink smoke pot and raise hell this was on sparsely populated no name key yeah I used to go
to big parties back when my nickname was Little Green dinghy she was to meet her
mother Marilyn at a flea market at 6 a.m on Saturday to sell Christmas decorations however she never made it at
noon sheriff's deputies noticed vultures near a rock pit a mile from the party site they found the Body nude in some
bushes they had to chase away the vultures Dr R.J Nelms Jr Monroe County's medical
examiner reported that the victim had multiple skull fractures and not marks on her neck consistent with a rope and
strangulation they concluded that the killer had also clubbed her on the head apparently with the butt of a pistol and
stabbed her with a double-edged knife left to right through both eyes Nelms noted numerous holes measuring up to
three inches some he said caused by the vultures missing from the body where most of the heart brain eyes neck
muscles appendix ovaries bladder and parts of the lung neither the pathologist nor the detectives are
certain how the organs were removed by vultures by a Madman or by both but it appears investigators say
that someone dragged the victim down a Hard Rock Road while she was still alive apparently behind a vehicle Marilyn
Sanders says she thinks her daughter was murdered by a Satanist quote I don't believe for a minute the vultures did it
yeah maybe this murderer is a Satanist but he is also definitely a giant pile of [ __ ] most certainly the vultures did
not remove the heart of Sherry parisho the third murder victim someone cut it out with a knife
says nouns the pathologist quote I think it is possible it was the same knife used in the second murder
like the two other victims parisha was short five foot two she had a childlike innocence about her she kept a diary
painted and liked to soak up the sun in a blue bikini she rode around town on a bicycle every evening before calling it
a day she straddled her knapsack in pots and pans across her dinghy the little boat had her name on the back she would
row out under the pine Channel bridge to about four feet of water and sleep there
in the swimming hole at about 10 pm July 19th a tourist from Ohio fishing off the
bridge thought he hooked a big fish it was Sherry parisho's left elbow you can't trust anybody from Ohio so like
you said three female victims all connected within a 10 mile radius but varying degrees of age but when you hear
rumors that two of the victims Hearts were removed that's going to get everybody locally on high alert yeah
this is a difficult thing to sit here and try to make sense out of right because we have these three murders and
what we do have is we have the police coming out and they're saying we don't feel that this first one is connected to
the other two we can't say for certain that the other two are even connected to one another we do have the fact that one
they're all killed in close proximity to one another and they're also killed within a short time period from one
another and oh by the way right the three cases are unsolved and so until we know who did one two or three of these
killings we just don't know exactly what happened now Captain not too many folks
out there throw out praise and cheers to investigative journalists Like Yours Truly you're a kiss ass so traditionally
I'm a fan however one thing that I strongly encourage that we all should be doing constantly is to read between the
lines always look for the story inside the story always ask yourself what are they not telling us and never be afraid
to question what we are told now you have to be careful in some of these situations because sometimes I feel like
like news outlets can stray from the good sound reporting and Venture into the sales industry right and what they're
trying to sell us is fear and the more you watch and read the more you become afraid the more afraid you
are the more you will return to watch or read because we are afraid of the things that are out
there we are afraid of the things that could harm us or our families a lot of times these things we have little
control or no control over but in some weird way we feel like if we tune in if we stay informed what we have control
over that well aren't you just the pot calling the kettle black and so in this case it's really interesting here
because I think they did some great work here the Miami Herald is doing a great job on
reporting these cases the article is fantastic and the writing is excellent the article comes from the Miami Herald
staff writer Sydney Friedberg doing gangbusters work down there in the South Beach area but they stray a bit when it
comes to these theories it looks like we have a lot of the local scuttlebutt that
is making its way into these news stories and I mean across the board so this is the one that we chose to go
through in good detail however this was just one of dozens of articles that were
coming out around this area all over Florida at this time because of the nature of these horrific murders right
we chose to go with this one because none of these other articles were as good or as thorough as this one now they
could be right on some level right like my boy meatloaf said two out of three ain't bad there's no way you've met
meatloaf so if anyone out there in listener land wants to keep score here we go as the colonel sees it anyway so
is it a lunatic or lunatics responsible for one of the murders or all three absolutely yes dang that's the score
could a Satanist be involved in one of these murders yes of course so ding again but a drug cult sacrificing
victims well you heard the sheriff emphatically quash that notion when he says we haven't ruled it out but we
haven't ruled out martians either right so it looks like while drugs may be involved in some of these parties that
we're discussing it doesn't appear or they don't have any evidence to suggest that a drug cult
was involved in these murders well we have several victims and we're going to have several suspects in each one of
these murders and that's what's left out from these news articles at the time they're coming in with these
scary headlines that we got these cult druggist and they're just offing people and sacrificing victims but really we
have some decent suspects in each one of these cases and whether or not any of these cases were connected to the others
while that seems to be a concern for the public here and that comes through clearly in this article it wasn't so
much a question for the investigators in fact you heard the sheriff saying they have reason to believe that the first
murder is not in any way connected to the other two so they had suspects in each case and most of those suspects
were only a suspect in one of the cases there was however one suspect that popped up in two of the cases but not
the third so let's go through each of these with a little more detail here let's do it the Paddy Lanza case is a
very strange one right they all are but with the way the woman from the last article described everything I caught
myself victim blaming quite a bit thinking why in the hell would anyone bring a child to that party you're not
victim blaming directly you're just questioning the actions of the victim's mother but some more information
describes what I think to be more of a family-friendly atmosphere or maybe at least one might think that going to the
party right this was to be a large Fourth of July holiday party families welcome to this event it was on a
Saturday which was July 2nd Deborah Lanza takes her four kids with her to this party on little Torch Key
at the party they are roasting Hogs people are playing Horseshoes and there's lots of kids that were present
so not just Debra's four kids that are there in fact many recall one of the favorite activities that the kids were
engaging in was chasing one another around a house and chasing each other around on this large wooden patio
little Patty only four years old at some point she complains to her mother that she is tired and she's saying hey I want
to go home this is just before 10 pm so no problem Deborah Lanza says okay we are going to go home let me round up
your Three Brothers the brothers are all older Patty is the baby of the bunch it's during this time that Mom seems to
lose track of Patty we've all been in this situation whether we're the parent or where the child you're at the party
now you got to gather up everybody and you gotta gather up your belongings and at this point she just can't find her
daughter yeah this is when the confusion sits in and Patty seems to vanish in the
blink of an eye then sadly as we know her body is found the next day not terribly far from the house that hosted
the party within days there is a suspect at least one person attending the party reported
to authorities that another party attendee later determined to be 30 year old Steve
polight was seen leaving the house with the little girl just shortly before her mother noticed that she was missing
right police arrested Steve and charged him with false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13 in connection with
the girl's death Steve was arrested on July 5th and put in jail so Captain this was quick things are moving quick in
this investigation he is in custody already by July 6 with the announcement that the investigation was ongoing and
further charges may be filed police said when you have a murdered girl this is what you want some answers quickly
eyewitness is coming forward and it seems like a moment of guiding and this Steve polite he was someone that showed
up to the party with a handful of other people but he seems to be one of these guys eyes that a lot of the people at
the party didn't seem to know who he was you know sometimes at these parties friends invite friends and then those
friends invite other friends the next thing you know you're at this big large party that you thought you were going to
know 90 to 100 of the people in the room and you're looking around and there's some strangers involved yeah or if
you're the captain you just invite yourself so a lot of people at this party they don't know who this guy is
also they say that the people that were with him that came with him arrived with
him at the party fit in that same category where a lot of the people at the party did not know who these people
were so Steve is arrested he's sitting in jail I know they were hoping to get a confession from him which never came and
I know they were trying to get some additional evidence against him as well some physical evidence because what we
have here in this investigation so far is just a witness or a few witness statements that have our victim and our
suspect seen together at the party but if Steve is the guy well unfortunately they don't have any
luck getting physical evidence against him foreign [Music] [Music] all right we are back cheers mates
cheers to you Colonel cheers to you there captain now we have this Steve polite individual who is suspect number
one in the murder of little Patty Lanza and odd that his last name is polite because
it might not be so polite that he showed up to a party that nobody seems to know
who he is right and unfortunately this investigation against Steve polight stalled I don't know if they were
getting conflicting reports from people that were at the party but what we do know is that law enforcement gets
inconclusive scientific reports they collected blood hair and clothing fibers right that were
sent off for testing analysis and comparisons and none of this evidence was any good
for the state in connecting Mr Steve polight to the abduction and murder of the little girl well like you said we
have eyewitnesses but how many times have you been at a party there's a bunch of people around and you gotta run out
to your truck or your Jeep to grab the six-pack that you brought so he heads out to get the six pack and this girl
heads out to her car to wait for her mother or wait for her family and so these eyewitness reports it they put
them together but it they don't put them together in the sense of they saw this guy grab her and carrying her over his
shoulder right now the Monroe County State Attorney he ends up dismissing the charges against Steve but this doesn't
go down until late November of 88. so Steve sat in jail for about eight or nine days shy of five months
and then he is released now interestingly enough according to Florida Keys missing and unsolved Steve
admitted to police that yes he was with the girl at the party there's no detail given here Captain so I don't know if
he's saying yes I I spoke to the little girl or yes I spoke to several kids while I was there right but he does not
deny being in the company of this little girl but he tells police yeah I talked to her but she was alive when I last saw
her so he ends up getting released and then again according to Florida Keys missing and unsolved he then dies in
1989 or maybe early 1990 of what is reported as natural causes apparently years later his DNA is tested in this
case in The Paddy Lanza case and it is announced that he is excluded as a suspect
[Music] our second victim is 20 year old Lisa Sanders she was a tiny but strong woman
she was just four foot nine inches tall or four foot ten inches tall depending on which report Little Mighty might but
she battled leukemia and was recovering from her victory over leukemia heck not just recovering she was living life and
moving onward and upward with her life yeah there's probably somebody out there fighting cancer right now keep fighting
don't give up you can do this she was a kid from a big family growing up in Michigan after leukemia she decided she
wanted to pursue a nursing career she enrolled in the Florida Keys Community College nursing program and relocated to
Big Pine Key in 1988. about two months later after she arrived there on the night of Friday December 16 1988 Lisa
attended a large party on no name key some Reports say maybe a hundred to possibly even 200 people attended the
party throughout the night it's a party people come and go it gets a little difficult to determine exactly how many
people attended this party from my understanding here Captain this was a regular out in the open we're out
in this rural area out in the sticks and people just kind of randomly show up sounds like a big bonfire party to me
yeah party dude and this goes down every Friday night now she is last seen at the party around 9 30 p.m by several
people the reports are that she left the party on foot saying that she was going
to go home or walk home that night I don't know how far she was living from this party but again this is all kind of
a small community all of these three areas that we're talking about all within 10
miles of one another the following day her parents report her missing and as you heard earlier police find her body
practically led to the body by vultures she was found off of a dirt road having been tossed into some bushes as we
reported earlier she had been beaten stabbed and dragged behind a vehicle by a rope tied around her neck and parts of
her were missing there was debate over the theory of whether it was animals or the killer or both that were responsible
for the mutilations done to the body yeah I think I'm comfortable after reviewing the injuries and all of the
information saying yes it was probably both right the we have the statements from police later on much
later after this case takes place in 1989 in 1990 where they are saying that most of these mutilations appear to have
been done by Animals by the vultures by birds but one thing we know to be true is vultures didn't tie a rope or chain
around her neck and then drag her behind a vehicle no so it has to be both there
there shouldn't be much of a debate here this case has been in the news not just
in 88 89 or 90. this case has remained in the news from time to time over the years this one has never strayed very
far from the spotlight in fact in 2015 police were once again asking the public for their help in this matter and even
offering up reward money for information now it does look like they had multiple
suspects in this case as well in fact they had one that they liked a lot the Monroe County Sheriff's detective
Bureau have stated publicly over the years that there is a quote person of interest in this case they don't however
ever give this man's name but we did a little digging of our own here and we know this to be a guy that I call the
man with four first names this is Guy Billy Lee Scott a Man convicted of rape murder and
manslaughter up here in our state Ohio from these charges and convictions he has been in jail or prisons here in Ohio
for over 30 years now and was recently in our local news in fact just four days ago we were told that the Ohio Innocence
Project is stepping up to bat for this guy Billy Lee Scott well this case is going to be difficult for law
enforcement because like you said the party is so large 100 people to 200 people so that's a lot of people to try
to track down especially when there's no like list of people that came to the party we have a lot of people just from
the community dropping by yeah and Scott is 60 years old old turd he's still in prison here in Ohio he's serving a 15
years to life in prison sentence that he received from a Butler County jury after being convicted of murder
rape and assault his case is difficult because up here in Ohio he's accused of raping and murdering a woman named Lisa
Buckley and oddly enough this murder takes place shortly after an outdoor party sounds a little similar to our first
victims first two victims here in the keys the problem with his conviction or at
least as far as the Ohio Innocence Project sees it and I'm not here to make any enemies especially with the good
people of the Ohio Innocence Project yeah well I'm here to talk [ __ ] and kick some ass I've reviewed a lot of this
case the guy looks guilty to me he's had several appeals that have held up in court but look they're doing their jobs
they're going to give him a shot here I guess there's DNA in this Lisa Buckley case and so they're going to get Scott's
DNA and compare it to the Buckley case and if it doesn't match up they're going to say this guy was innocent he was
basically convicted off of eyewitness statements and no physical evidence at all in the Lisa Buckley case
oddly enough it seems to be that that might be the same thing that was connecting him to the Lisa Sanders case
in 1988 down in the keys that you have some people suggesting that he was there at the party and then now we have a
victim the following day there was also some rumor at the time that police were searching for a pickup truck possibly
with Ohio license plates on it that is back in 1988 in the Lisa Sanders case well and just to be clear just because
the Ohio Innocence Project is going to be taken on this case they're going to be doing tests before they fully invest
their all their time and energy correct so this is going to go down relatively soon from my understanding there was a
rape kit from the Lisa Buckley case here in Ohio and fingernail scrapings and from my understanding that evidence has
never been tested and has never been tested against this individual here Mr Scott maybe these results we can go over
on an episode of off the Record his claim and his defense team's claim is that this guy was convicted on the
statements of eyewitnesses or as they say people that made up this story against him to get him convicted get him
wrongfully convicted the persons that testified against him in the Lisa Buckley case one was from a previous
relationship which he had that didn't go so well and the other was a family member of an individual that he was
convicted of killing so they're saying these people had a vested interest in testifying against him truthful or
otherwise he was already convicted of manslaughter he was involved in a shootout
where we end up with people passing away from their injuries from this shootout right and so that's how he gets the
manslaughter charge and his defense team is saying of course this one person testified against him and led to his
conviction in the Lisa Buckley case and they had reason to do so and that's because they hated him for being
involved in the shootout where their loved one passed away and they probably don't feel like he got a long enough
sentence yeah I kind of agree in this case I mean some people get longer sentence for selling marijuana now
we say all that but really at the end of the day the man with four first names he's got nothing to lose just a couple
first names he's in prison either way so of course he's going to say test it test
it test it and hopefully something goes wrong even if he did do it for him and he catches a break and he gets out now
we also could be sitting here a few months from now going well he got what he wanted for they tested it and it
turns out yes he killed Lisa Buckley well then we'll scream to the high heels got him but even if he's innocent we
have this rough individual that we know of as far as his history goes or he put himself around three situations where
there's murdered victims yeah that's what's so interesting to me here Captain with this individual as a potential good
suspect in The Paddy Lanza case I'm going to include that one as well as the Lisa Sanders case so I've reviewed some
statements that make it sound like maybe he should be a suspect in The Paddy Lanza case as well
reportedly he was seen at the no-name key party and then seen at the July 2nd 1988 party on
little Torch Key the one that the four-year-old Patty Lanza went missing from and then later her body found
nearby the following day well like we said all three victims were found within a 10 mile radius around similar times so
if this guy is seen at one party that puts him as a possible suspect in all the cases so down there in the keys
within this six-month stretch you have two victims that are murdered shortly after or during the course of a party
right now what would make him interesting is yes he seems to have been a suspect in the
Lisa Sanders case but some of these reports are suggesting that he attended both
of the parties right now Monroe County detectives are on the record saying that quote he was present at both those
parties but a lot of other people also were present at both citing that it's such a small community
right okay so there are a lot of similarities to the Lisa Sanders case compared to the Lisa Buckley case and
this coming from law enforcement they say it happened after an outdoor party and the Ohio victim oddly enough was
also named Lisa the thing with Scott being guilty or innocent in the Buckley case or the Sanders case or let's go
even with the Paddy Lanza case yes the statement from law enforcement down in the key saying a lot of people were at
both parties but guess what chicken butt I guarantee you I would slap down a big
old Benjamin Franklin on this one and wager it I guarantee you he was the only guy that was at all three parties and
I'm talking about the the party up here in Ohio where Lisa Buckley was killed afterwards right now
they are saying they want to test Scott's DNA for comparison in the Lisa Buckley case in Ohio
and that might exonerate him or exclude him from having been the killer in the Buckley case I say great if he's willing
to give his DNA for testing in comparison in that case to confirm or remove him as the guy in the Buckley
Ohio case let's take that DNA too and if you have any available for our perpetrator in the
Patty Lanza case which you might right we give we gave the statement that it was reported that the one guy
who was charged with unlawful imprisonment of a child under the age of 13 Steve polight he was locked up and held
in jail for for almost five months released and then the reports are that he'd passed away a year year and a half
later and his DNA was tested years later which excluded him as a suspect in The Paddy Lanza case that would imply that
they have DNA of the perpetrator in The Paddy Lanza case right they may also have DNA of the perpetrator in the Lisa
Sanders case because we know according to all the reports that she unfortunately was raped if he wants his
DNA compared in the Lisa Buckley case I say great let's do it because if he was wrong wrongfully convicted get him out
of that cell as quickly as you possibly can however he stay in jail for a little bit
of time because he's charged with another homicide however if he is willing to give his DNA for comparison
in that case I say if it's possible let's compare it and the Patty lands a case and the Lisa Sanders case as well
yeah you can test them for all three and look maybe he is innocent of all three and it's just a weird coincidence that
he was at all three parties but at least you can get closer to an answer by a process of elimination
that's exactly right seven months after the brutal torture killing of Lisa Sanders a man fishing
off of the Big Pine Key Bridge at first thought that he caught a big fish but sadly it turned out to be that
he hooked a human elbow now the way that this goes down and I thought this to be a little bit
fishy let's say to start with no pun intended there you go when you dive deep into the details here
I'm always suspicious of the person that finds the body plus he's from Ohio and here this sound like a suspicious story
yeah it took much digging to to find out the details that this individual one was not
alone two was from out of state and was on vacation with three other friends and
it was official then yes and it was a fishing trip that involved four individuals so they're all fishing off
of this bridge now remember we had said earlier in the description of Sherry parisho's life 39 year old
homicide victim Sherry Paris show he lived on this little boat and at night time she would take it under this
bridge near a swimming hole and regularly sleep there under the stars at night time
what it appears to be Captain is that somebody in the middle of the night must have approached her
and murdered her and they leave her in the same general area and unfortunately this man who's on vacation he's there
with his three friends the four of them are out fishing he hooks the elbow of Sherry parisha
so very quickly we have the discovery of our third victim 39 year old Sherry parisho who is reported to be a
free-spirited woman living on a small boat now she wasn't just killed this is where we stray
a thousand times away from the first two murders unfortunately you know the Paddy lands a
case it looks like somebody abducted the little girl assaulted her and killed her
within a very quick period of time and left the body near the home of the house that was hosting that party
Lisa Sanders a little more complicated did she get into the to a car with the wrong individual was she abducted on the
side of the road as she was walking home that night it's difficult to say what we
can say is that somebody took her from wherever they got her from and they placed her body in the bushes not close
to where this party was and then the animals get to the body and really complicate things with the investigation
in this case it appears that somebody just went after this woman in the middle of the night where she was intending to
sleep or nearby her Camp if you want to call it that she wasn't just killed she was mutilated this is a fact where it
was a debate with Lisa Sanders did a Madman do it did the animals do it or did both do it we're saying we believe
both in this case this is completely different this was man-made mutilation on this poor woman on this victim to me
it looks like somebody even playing with the body after the murder it was determined that she was drowned and the
autopsy revealed the details of the mutilation some of which was the throat slashed so deeply that the spine was
severed and that she was almost decapitated she was sliced down the length of her
torso and her heart and other things were removed the cuts were so precise that one law
enforcement officer said quote it was surgical there was no mistake about what happened here this is the murder that
the locals ran wild with there were so many theories on this one each Theory stranger than the last
and there were a lot of suspects I can't say if these were people considered to be suspects by the actual police but the
general public certainly had a list of suspects at this point the community kind of like the delphiq so they're just
gonna throw out to law enforcement almost anybody that looks suspicious I think this is because of a few different
factors here in this case compared to the others why was there such a heightened level of Fascination and fear
surrounding this case compared to the others one this being the third murder of this type and just roughly about one
year's time to the horror of this one the Mount of degradation done to the corpse is pretty
much Beyond Comprehension well and where we question that and with the second victim we don't have to question that so
much with the third victim and here with the third victim I think part of the mystery here is compounded by the
mysterious lifestyle of the victim herself she was a mystery now she's involved in this mystery
who was the lunatic The Satanist The Madman the monster that killed her in the middle of the night
[Music] so much more to get to join us back here in the garage tomorrow and until then be
good be kind and don't litter [Music] thank you

The Tell-Tale Heart /// The Crimes of Charlie Brandt /// 648

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In the late 1980s there were some strange and horrific murders that went unsolved in the Florida Keys. Police were looking for a connection between the homicides of three female victims. The murders all took place inside of a 10 mile radius and all within just 13 months. The residents of Big Pine Key, Little Torch Key, and No Name Key were frightened and rightfully so. It was believed that someone was killing females and removing their hearts. In 2004, police on Big Pine Key responded to a gruesome scene. Inside the murder house they found a double murder and a suicide. Charlie Brandt was responsible for the double murder of his wife and niece. This sent police on a search, one that may never end. Just how many murders is Charlie responsible for?

Beer of the Week - Heart of Darkness from Magic Hat Brewing Company

Garage Grade - 3 and 3 quarter bottle caps out of 5

Recommended Reading - Invisible Killer; The Monster Behind the Mask by Diana Montane & Sean Robbins

Also read “The Tell Tale Heart” by legendary writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe

Happy Valentine’s Day from Nic & The Captain. Cheers!

Brief Summary

Three unsolved murders in the Florida Keys raise fears of a serial killer or cult involvement.

Key points

Heart of Darkness Beer Feature. This week, the garage features Heart of Darkness, a delicious stout with a dark twist.
Unsolved Murders in Florida Keys. Three brutal unsolved murders of vulnerable women in the Florida Keys raise alarm and fear.
The Murders of Patty, Lisa, and Sherry. The chilling stories of three female victims connected by geography and time in the Florida Keys.
Satanic Cult Rumors. Local media speculates about a satanic cult involved in the murders, fueling public fear.
Investigative Journalism and Fear. Discussion on how news outlets can sometimes sell fear rather than truth in reporting.
Steve Polight's Investigation Stalls. Despite eyewitnesses, the investigation against Steve Polight lacks physical evidence.

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