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There's still not a whole lot that is known about this case or even the circumstances of Carlos's arrest. However, it has been reported that just a few months before Kier and Chloe went missing, Carlos had been googling things. And not normal Googles that you and I may have on our phone, but we always say the Google history, it will get you every single time. Right? And the Google searches that he was making were things like accidental baby death. How much rat poison is needed to kill a human, Pretty specific, pretty coincidental when then a baby vanishes and then another human vanishes. Doesn't seem like just like your standard everyday Google search. And it also is kind of like a tale as old as time. Right. I will never understand why These people think that Google search history is private or can be deleted or wiped because. News flash or what's that with me? News flash. Dakota Fanning in Uptown Girls to the like, your history is always going to be there. It will always be there. So wake up, idiots. Now, to this day, Kier and her baby have still not been found. However, they are both sadly assumed to be deceased at this point, which is incredibly sad. A mother with her eight month old child. And I will never honestly understand why people do these things. Because if you don't want to be in a relationship, just don't be. You know how right now that whole let them theory is going viral of like, oh, if they want to like, leave you or if they want to do this to you, if your friends want to treat you like crap, just let them. It's the Mel Robbins theory. Here's my theory. If you don't want to be married, don't be. If you don't want to not cheat and be a scumbag, don't be. If you don't want to have to murder somebody to get out of a relationship, don't be. Like, it's just crazy to me that people will go to such extremes because you're just too much of a coward to leave the relationship or to do things the right way, right? And if you don't want the kid, if it's not even about the relationship and you don't want the child, then don't be involved. I mean, do your part with child support. And I would never say, like, be a deadbeat parent because I think that's awful. But like, it's better than being a murdering parent, right? Like, just don't be involved. Be the deadbeat. Take the heat for that too, from all the judgment you get. But like, it's better than the alternative. It's better than murdering your child, right? So I don't know, it just. I will never understand. It blows my mind. It really feels to me like such a simple thing to do. But right now, Carlos's preliminary hearing is scheduled for the end of June. So I will definitely be keeping an eye out for any updates that come with this case. But I am just glad that Kieran, Chloe can finally and hopefully get the justice that they deserve after a whole eight years of it being a cold case. And I'm hopeful that this guy Carlos, now that he's been arrested, maybe he will actually provide some answers as to where their remains are so that their families can grieve properly, so that they can lay them to rest. And there can be not closure, but peace within it, if that makes sense. So now let's move into this Amazon guy, because this story, it's unbelievable in the sense that how people think they're going to get away with things, it just never ceases to amaze me. Even high speed chases or carjackings or hit and runs, sometimes there's wiggle room to think, okay, maybe they're optimistically like thinking that they're going to have a chance at getting away with this, but this guy is like such a moron. And let me just talk to you about what went down. So as I said, it was a hit and run. But what's so unique about this situation too is that it was an Amazon delivery van and it was someone driving who was still on the clock. So on Tuesday, February 18, a 29 year old woman, who has still been unnamed, was walking across the street in a pedestrian crosswalk in a neighborhood in Baltimore. Now this neighborhood, it was also full of shops, full of businesses. So there were literally cameras everywhere. And what happened next, it was caught all on camera. So as the woman was crossing the street, an Amazon delivery van was not seen just hitting her, but also completely running over her with its front wheel. The van then slowed down, clearly realizing that they had hit something, or in this case, someone. And then the woman was run over by the back wheels of the van, making her quite literally run over not once, but twice. And I know I went through that kind of fast, but just thinking if you're picturing the van driving right now and like going over, almost like a speed bump, okay, where the front wheels go over. It wasn't a speed bump though, it was a person. And they start slowing down like, oh, what'd I just run over? But instead of stopping, they continue driving at like a somewhat slow of a pace to where the back wheels then go over that same speed bump SL person again. And even if this person thought, okay, I ran over a speed bump, or I ran over a lid or a piece of garbage, that's not what happened. The driver knew exactly what happened. They knew it wasn't just garbage or lid or something like that, which how do I know that you're asking? Because the driver is seen on this camera footage getting out of the vehicle, standing right next to this poor woman who he just ran over, who was barely moving herself. And then he gets back into the van and he flees the scene. Now, thankfully, it wasn't too late at night. It was only around 9:30pm so there were plenty of witnesses and other people around who immediately called for help. The victim was rushed to a local hospital where she was treated for her injuries. And thankfully, none of them were life threatening, which is so crazy to imagine. I don't even know how you survive being ran over twice by a van. But even more crazy is that the authorities know exactly who this driver is. He's a man, as I mentioned, though we don't know his name. It has yet to be released, but he also has yet to be arrested. So a spokesperson for Amazon did release a statement regarding this entire incident in which they said, we were made aware of this terrible incident. The driver in question has been suspended from delivering on our behalf and we're working with his employer and with law enforcement as they investigate. Now, at first that quote confused me a little bit because I'm like, wait, you're Amazon. He was driving an Amazon delivery van. What do you mean you have to check with his employer or you're cooperating? And what do you mean that he's been suspended from delivering on your behalf? But it made a lot of sense once. I actually like turned my brain on because I don't know if you know this, but Amazon and a lot of delivery companies, they do have their own drivers who are employed underneath Amazon, but they also hire third party companies to do their deliveries for them because as you know, Amazon is such a massive company with prime delivery. It's like, how could you possibly sustain that in house? So what I gather from this is that, okay, it was one of these third party drivers, they had the van, they he's been suspended from delivering on Amazon's behalf, but maybe he still is working for this third party delivery vendor and delivering on other people's behalf. But then it says we're working with his employer and with law enforcement. So, you know, that's how what I gather from it. But then again, I'm not a genius, so. Or maybe I am, I don't know. Now I would imagine that hopefully by the time this episode comes out, there will have hopefully been some kind of arrest made, especially since they know who was responsible. But I'm just super glad to hear that this woman is okay. And who knows, maybe Amazon will throw her a nice little payout or a nice little settlement as well. Not that makes up for it, but they certainly have plenty of money to do so. Now let's talk about this Valentine's Day date gone wrong because we talked about something. When was it? It was a couple weeks ago. I think about the woman who like met a stranger on the bus and plotted to kill her partner because she was going for a job interview. And the partner was basically like, you're not qualified, you're not gonna get the job. I don't believe in you. And she's like, oh, I need to plot and kill you because you don't believe in me. And that's kind of like loosely how this case feels as well. Now for some people, I feel like Valentine's Day can be full of romance, heartwarming gestures, lovey dovey, all of those things. For others, it's just another day. But this specific case is pretty insane because it did start off as a seemingly normal, just average couple trying to participate in the whole day of love, day of lurve, lovey dovey hearts and candy and all the things. But then 34 year old Taylor Meyer was arrested and he was charged with brutally murdering his 36 year old wife, Deborah Meyer. He murdered her on Valentine's Day night. Now apparently their marriage was a bit on the rocks, so because of that, Taylor decided he was going to take advantage of Valentine's Day and try to repair what was apparently so badly broken in their marriage. He really wanted to woo her, he wanted to bring the spark back. So he had planned a themed night for Deborah and he called it Bringing Paris to you. He decorated their house, going all out. He even had their three children draw pictures of the Eiffel Tower that could just give it this like cozy Paris type of feel, like really trying to make this romantic gesture. And it sounds beautiful, right? Sounds like a really nice way to spend the night. You see drawings from your children, it's like the music, the food, whatever else he did to decorate the house. But their night was anything from a fairy tale because I guess Deborah didn't like fall back head over heels in love with him. After this whole display, it didn't repair whatever the rift was within their marriage and whatever the separation or, you know, disconnect had been. But in Taylor's exact words to the police, he said she just didn't give a shit. That's what he said. So the couple ended up getting into a pretty heated argument and it stemmed mainly about Taylor confronting Debra for allegedly having an affair with her co worker. The fight then escalated. It went from loud to then physical. And we actually know the details of everything because Taylor later confessed to all of it. He claimed that at one point she punched him and at another point he was choking her. And it was a whole messy thing, just back and forth. But apparently what really set him off was when Deborah apparently said to him, what are you gonna do? Kill me? You're going to hurt me and leave our kids with no parents? And I guess that Taylor was so mad that she questioned him this way and that this question to him seemed more of a challenge than anything else because that's exactly what he did. It, like, just pissed him off so much that he's like, yeah, that is what I'm gonna do. So he claimed to have gone into the kitchen where he then got what he described as being, quote, a big ass kitchen knife. Then he went back into the room where Deborah was, he pinned her down, and he started stabbing her over and over again. But get this. Right before he began stabbing her, he grabbed her phone and he called the man that he believed that she was cheating on him with. And this other guy, of course, answered because she was calling him. And he heard this entire thing go down, the whole murder. Taylor apparently yelled to him, you know, it's your fucking fault. You want to ruin my marriage. You want to tear my family apart. This is your fault. And all this other guy could hear was Debra screaming, Deborah begging for help. Just very, very intense. Taylor ended up stabbing his wife at least 40 times, which seems just so awful and just unbelievable and incomprehensible, I can't even begin to wrap my head around it. That is true overkill. And you're probably going to want to punch me right now for saying this, because I've said it before, and I think I say it and reference it anytime we talk about stabbing cases, but 40 times really is like 80 times, because it's 80 motions. And I want you to just think about that for a moment and the amount of strength that it would take if you had a pillow in front of you right now and if you raised your arm up and put it down 40 times. So 80 moves with your arm. I'm doing about 10 right now if you're watching on YouTube and my arm's already tired. And the force that you would have to go through a human body, it is. It takes not only an incredible amount of strength, but in my opinion, in situations like this, it's like adrenaline kicks in and takes over and it's. That's why a lot of the time these cases are described as crimes of passion overkill. Because you're just going, going, going. You're so mad, the adrenaline's taking over. It's like you're not even realizing what's happening. Like they're probably long dead. A couple stab wounds in there's no need to do 40, but it's almost like you have tunnel vision in that moment. So it's just. It's hard to wrap your mind around it now. Even worse is that this entire time the three kids were upstairs asleep in their beds, they had no idea that they were going to wake up and essentially lose both of their parents. Now, even though he admitted to everything and basically gave a full confession, he's of course now pleading not guilty, which I can't really be too surprised with that. That is a tactic and I understand. But this kind of goes back and I'm going to have to rename it, but like, to my version of the let them theory of the don't be. Like, if she wants to cheat, okay, I guess that is let them. Let them. Don't kill someone to where now your three children have lost both of their parents for what you could have probably just as easily. I get it. It was a jab to your ego. You set up this beautiful night. You're probably heartbroken that she allegedly cheated on you, that she is leaving you, maybe, I don't know. But the alternative would be, okay, you get divorced. It sucks. It's heartbreaking. Eventually, I would imagine you would probably move on. Maybe it would take a few years, I don't know. But you'd still have your children, they would still have you. But now, because you allowed the anger to come in, the resentment, the hostility, your children are left without either parent. And who wins in that situation? Certainly not you. Right? I don't know. And I get it. It's hard to be rational when you're feeling that way and you're in the moment. But there's got to be something. There's got to be something that can, like some sort of checks and balances, I don't know. Now, let's talk about this other case, about this convicted cannibal who has been granted conditional release because this didn't happen very long ago. And cannibals freak me the heck out, okay. Whether it's Army, Hammer, Hamner, and like, what's really happening with there, if he is a cannibal or not, I don't know. Or like Hannibal Lecter or these other cases that I've actually talked about on here where people are eating human things. And I'm not going to like try to fear Monger for a second, but I'm going to just tell you, there is like this whole black market dark web for this. People are obsessed with the idea of eating other people, consuming somebody Else. And it freaks me out, and it. Honestly, it makes me want to vom. It is so disgusting. So I'm going to talk to you about this case, and it might piss you off as much as it pisses me off, because one of the biggest questions I think I have when I heard about this is like, why? Why? So last Friday, a man by the name of Tyre Smith, who has been dubbed the Bridgeport Cannibal Killer, was granted conditional release. And firstly, I just want to go over quickly who this guy is before we get into exactly what this release means, because people do have a lot of thoughts on it. But Tyre Smith, who was just 34 years old when this case first happened back in 2011, he had some serious issues. And as wild as this case was, the way that it happened was pretty quick and pretty straight to the point. So in 2011, Tyree's cousin saw him coming home one evening, and he was carrying a bloody axe with him and chopsticks and he had blood smeared all over his clothes. Which sounds like a horror movie, right? Like you're watching your cousin come up to you with chopsticks and axe and covered in blood. Like, disgusting. Now, in most cases, I'd be saying, okay, they tried to play it cool, or they tried to hide the bloody axe, and they tried to play it off like it was nothing. But that is not what happened here. Because when Tyree's cousin asked what had happened, what the heck was going on, he told the truth. He simply put it that he had killed a man with his axe. He had ate his brain and his eyeball, and then he went and drank sake in the local cemetery to celebrate. Like, this was all just for fun, I guess. The victim's name was Angel Gonzalez, and he was only 35 years old at the time. Angel was homeless. And I'm not really sure if that had a direct correlation with why Tyre chose him, but I would imagine that it very well could have been. He had a family who loved him very, very much. And his family has also spoken out to this day about just how great he was and how special he was to them. Now, we still don't know the motives. Apparently it was just for fun, but he approached angel and killed him with the axe, then ate his brain, ate one of his eyeballs, and then he, like, just drank sake just to celebrate. Now, due to the nature of the whole thing, Tyree was found not guilty by reason of insanity, which, I gotta say, that tracks because you gotta be, in my opinion, insane to do something like this. But initially, he was given what was described as a temporary leave status, but I guess that that was later changed after this conditional release. So now Tyree will be discharged from this hospital that he's been residing at. Yet apparently, even though he'll be released, he still has to follow some pretty strict supervision rules and he still has to go to all of different mental health appointments, you know, that kind of thing, like check ins and make sure that you're still on the straight and narrow. But it's kind of similar in a way, too, to the Slender man stabber that we had talked about probably a month ago now, and I know even more when we did the deep dive into the case, but they were also granted a conditional release. So it's not like these people are just set free. They can go roam the streets, they can go on and about their day and do whatever they want, yet they are still a lot more free than some would say that they deserve. I mean, arguably they don't deserve to be free, in my opinion. You took the life of somebody else. You also desecrated their corpse, in my opinion, and did some truly foul and heinous things. Whether you were insane or not at the time. I don't agree with conditional release. I agree you're still probably a danger and it should be punishment, not even like reform or are you a threat to society? But you should be punished for what you have done. And again, that I guess could open up like a whole can of worms on here about the legal system. What's a just, what's not. But if this were my family member, I would not be happy with this outcome at all. Now, a forensic psychiatrist even spoke at his hearing saying the following about him, quote, he has maintained clinical stability. He adhered to the medications and continued to engage in group and substance abuse treatment. He also denied visual hallucinations and a desire to harm others or himself. To quote the director there at the hospital, he is a joy. He is considered a support to the other people there. Once he was stable, he was a really calming presence for other patients, which, okay, like, great, but he still killed someone and ate them. That's not very calming to me. Now, Angel's family, understandably, not only have they been heartbroken from the very moment that he was taken from them, but they are not at all happy with how Angel's case has been handled pretty much from the start, too. I can imagine that none of it really feels like any justice has ever been served. We called him Tun Tun. That man was well loved by friends and family. He wasn't just a homeless person. He had people that cared about him. He had friends. He didn't deserve what was done to him. Nobody deserves that. They didn't take in consideration how we would feel. Now, I know I very quickly skimmed over that case and all that had happened, but I do want to know your honest thoughts about his release and the opinions there. Do you lean more towards feeling like they should have just locked him up in a jail cell somewhere and then thrown away the key, or do you side with more of the rehabilitation as being the end goal? Can an eyeball and a brain eating cannibal really ever change like that psychiatrist claimed? Can they really be a joy and a calming presence for people? I don't know. Even if somebody. And I'm just. I'm going to go off here for a second, so bear with me. Even if somebody was fully rehabilitated and changed and I was a part of group therapy, I was participating in it with them. I knew their struggles and it seemed like they had, you know, they were struggling with mental health and now they were fine. I don't know that I would ever be calm in the presence of them, knowing what they were capable of, knowing that they had just eaten a human being. I don't know, maybe that's my own hang up and my own issues I have to sort through, but feels a little weird. Now. Let's talk about this next case because it takes us to Cincinnati, Ohio. And this next one unfortunately is definitely a bit of a downer. Not that other ones aren't, but it is very, very tough because some just hit you extra hard and, you know, make you feel all sorts of different things. And this case, like I said, it's from Cincinnati, Ohio and it just recently happened on the 20th. So at around 12:45am A call from a woman whose name has not been released. This call came into 911 and it reported that her 15 year old son, whose name has also not been released, had shot his stepfather, who also happened to be the father of two of her other children. He had been shot multiple times and he was unresponsive. So in an attempt to keep everybody on the same page here, we're gonna call the mom M and the boy B. So when the first responders arrived, they knew that it was a pretty serious scene because the victim had been shot 12 times. And although he was taken to the local hospital, he ended up dying from his injuries. And even though that description already makes the case seem pretty bad all on its own, the deeper story behind it is much sadder and much darker. The victim's name was Levante Hyde. And like I said, Levante was Bea's stepfather and also the father of Bea's two siblings. So the question was, what had led to this horrible murder? Well, sadly, Bea felt like he had to take things into his own hands, and he felt like he had to protect his mom, which I know that might sound a little bit confusing, but stick with me here. Apparently, his stepfather had been not the greatest partner, like, at all. And typically, I would use allegedly, but it's really not even allegedly at this point because Levante had a more than colorful background with law enforcement when it came to assaulting women. In 2017, he was charged with assault and criminal damage. Another time, he was facing charges for biting a woman and damaging a tv. He also had damaged a wall and a door at her residence, but these charges were later dropped. So that very same day that b ended up shooting and killing him, Levante had put his hands on his mother. Apparently, the stepfather and the mother got into an argument while they were driving to the store. And then he started calling her a bunch of just really mean, unnecessary things, telling her she was a whore, telling her she was a hoe, punching her multiple times in the face with a closed fist. I mean, all while still driving. Now, what's interesting is the authorities had somehow ended up involved in this incident, and a warrant was even put out for his arrest. The court documents noted that the mother was a victim of Levantes, but for whatever reason, he hadn't been arrested yet. So I guess that's why the son decided to take things into his own hands. And we still don't know a lot about the actual attack, but the prosecution is arguing that it was premeditated. They are claiming that after the son discovered what the stepfather had done to his mother, he went and found a gun, and he waited for him to come home, knowing all what he was going to do. And like I said, we still don't have a lot of bigger picture detail. So I'm not sure if the gun was already in the home or if he somehow got it from somewhere else or somebody else. But the story is just really sad all the way around. I mean, of course, murder is never okay. So I am not condoning what this boy did at all. I don't want you to take that the wrong way or what I'm saying the wrong way. But I also can't help but feel a little bit sad for him as well, because maybe it's the protective mom in me coming out, I don't know. But he's 15 years old. He saw his mom being attacked earlier. He saw that the stepfather wasn't being arrested, probably assumed another attack, if not something worse was going to happen. And it and he just wanted to protect his mom. And at 15, he shouldn't have ever even known what it was like to see his mom bruised and beaten. He should have had more hope and faith in the system, actually protecting his mom and protecting other women like her. He knew that this guy had already been given a slap on the wrist before for assault. So who's to say that this instance wouldn't have been the same? I don't know. This whole case is just really upsetting and that's all there really is to it. We will learn more. But it's really sad because now this mom has to deal with her son most likely going away for quite some time. He has his whole life stripped away from him, which again was his choice. He made the decision to pull that trigger. And it's just sad. 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Like maybe she was going to try and cover the whole thing up and just ended up confessing. I don't really know. But she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and there are some conflicting statements on exactly how long she was sentenced, but spoiler alert, it wasn't very long at all. And she ended up getting out on parole in 2013. So after serving her time, she apparently went back to life as normal. Yolanda even ended up falling in love again and even got married, this time to a woman named Rebecca. And Rebecca was somebody who was well known, who was loved, and she was just very respected by a lot of different people. She worked as a firefighter, captain, and she even recently helped with the devastating Eaton fires here in LA. However, on February 17th, Rebecca was found dead in her home. And get this, she was found dead with multiple stab wounds on her body. The San Diego Sheriff's Office announced on the 21st that Yolanda was the prime suspect in Rebecca's murder, yet they had no idea where she was. They were currently still searching for her. Now, just days earlier, Yolanda had posted a picture of Rebecca on Valentine's Day, clearly out of, you know, a romantic Valentine's Day gesture or something like that, saying, happy Valentine's Day to my amazing wife. She is an angel to so many, yet days later, she would end up allegedly stabbing her to death. Now, since Rebecca's death, her friends and family members have come forward, sharing that the relationship between these two women, it just wasn't healthy. And I don't know, even knowing that if anybody could have predicted what was to actually come. Or maybe they did, given Yolanda's background. But take a listen.
