Body Part Scavenger Hunt - Emerson, Nebraska

Summary

Small Town Murder: "Body Part Scavenger Hunt – Emerson, Nebraska"

Podcast: Small Town Murder
Hosts: James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman
Date: July 10, 2026

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Overview

In this episode, James and Jimmie take listeners on a wild and grisly journey to Emerson, Nebraska for one of the strangest—and most disturbing—cases they've covered. With their signature blend of meticulous research, true crime detail, and sharp-witted humor, the comedians unravel the story of "Boomer" Craig Kubik, a small-town handyman whose feud over a broken Dodge Charger ended in shocking murder and dismemberment. The hosts also poke fun at small town life, oddball characters, ludicrous legal proceedings, and the incomprehensible actions of a killer who claims to be both God and Lucifer.

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Episode Breakdown

1. Introduction & Setting the Scene

Timestamps: 03:32–13:53

• Location: Emerson, Nebraska—rural northeast NE, population 854, junction town for railroads and counties.
• Town History:
  • Founded as a railroad junction in 1881 with only a depot and section house.
  • Once so busy it had 67 train whistles a day.
  • Named (inexplicably) for Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • “It's a junction of counties. It's a junction of railroads. … Nebraska brings it with the murder, they do.” – James (07:14)
• Reviews & Culture:
  • One local review: “I have always wanted to be a PE teacher.”
  • Emerson Tri-County Days: dress-up fun runs, hay bale toss, $1 beers.
• Hosts’ Tone: Playful ridicule of small town aspirations, events, and real estate market.

2. Introducing the Victim: "Boomer" Craig Kubik

Timestamps: 13:53–19:40

• Background:
  • Born in Iowa, transplanted to NE.
  • Known as a hardworking welder from age 4, farm kid, capable of fixing anything.
  • Well-liked, known to neighbors as a jack-of-all-trades; also played piano and Guitar Hero.
  • Had two kids and a new girlfriend in 2016, described affectionately: “He was a pleasant guy. A lot of people liked him.” (54:23)

3. The Feud and Disappearance

Timestamps: 19:40–24:31

• Ongoing Dispute:
  • Boomer in dispute with Andres Serber and Brayan Galvan (18) over a broken Dodge Charger languishing in his driveway.
• Timeline:
  • Nov. 1, 2016: After a visit from Serber and Galvan, Boomer texts girlfriend Jacqueline at 10:30pm—then stops responding.
  • Nov. 2, 9am: Jacqueline finds Boomer’s 5-year-old son alone on the porch, what looks like a puddle of blood, and bloodied boots, but no Boomer.

Key Quote:
“If your car lost that much oil, you wouldn't drive it!” – James (22:46)
(No one calls the cops immediately; the hosts joke about small-town priorities and escalation.)

4. The Child Witness

Timestamps: 24:31–25:46

• Boomer’s son tells his teacher, “My dad is dead. Black cat killed him.” (24:41)
• The teacher, baffled, contacts the principal and police as the child describes blood and mentions a gun and air compressor.

Hosts’ Reaction:
“They say some wild shit.” – Jimmie (25:46)
“Kids are weird. You never know.” – James

5. The Investigation Unfolds

Timestamps: 25:46–34:03

• Initial Evidence:
  • Blood, drag marks, and surveillance footage showing Boomer with Serber and Galvan near the red Dodge Charger at 10:30pm.
• Sheriff’s Search:
  • Finds scattered bloody items, a boot, and eventually tracks Serber and Galvan to the Galvan residence in Wakefield, NE.
• Galvan flees then gives up:
  • “…as soon as he saw them, he ran. Bad sign.” (34:25)
  • Cops find bloodied clothes and boots in the garage.

6. The Crime Scene and Horrific Discovery

Timestamps: 39:51–49:32

• Serber Family Farm Search:
  • Abandoned farmhouse yields: broken-into Chevy Impala with blood, burn barrel with flesh, gas can, a spray bottle with blood, and a bloody knife.
• In the Impala trunk:
  • “Inside the trunk is a severed arm and a severed leg. …That’s all. Nothing else. …A leg and an arm.” – James (44:41)
• Emphasis on the impracticality of home-burned remains:
  • “You can't get a burn barrel up that high [1800°F]. You just can't. …There's no like, at-home cremation thing.” (44:01)

7. The Body Part Scavenger Hunt

Timestamps: 49:32–52:31

• Days later:
  • In a creek, police find Boomer’s torso, head (separate), the remaining limbs, and internal organs.
• Medical examiner: death by gunshot behind left ear (point blank), then post-mortem dismemberment.

Key Quote:
“Why the hell did you keep one arm and one leg? None of this makes sense. It's crazy.” – James (48:56)

8. Forensics and Legal Wrangling

Timestamps: 52:31–57:10

• All biological evidence—blood, tissue, hair, DNA—matches Boomer.
• The murder weapon is never found.
• Defense attempts to suppress evidence on technicalities; all fail.

Notable Moment:
“Perhaps you committed crimes on somebody else's property. You don't get to say whether or not they can search that anymore. We asked the owner, and the owner said, fine, go ahead.” – James (56:23)

9. The Suspects: Serber and Galvan

Timestamps: 57:08–68:04

• Serber’s Mental Health Circus:
  • In court, profanity-laced outbursts: “I’m fucking God!” (58:39)
  • Diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar symptoms; cycles between God, Lucifer, and animal behavior (barking, drooling).
  • Multiple rounds of competency hearings and forced medication.
• Galvan (accomplice):
  • Takes plea deal for aiding and abetting, apologizes to the victim’s son in court: “I didn’t know Serber was going to kill him that night.” (66:57)
  • Sentenced to 50–60 years.

10. The Trial & Absurd Defense

Timestamps: 73:44–83:44

• Serber’s Testimony:
  • Admits to killing, dismemberment, and body disposal—but claims self-defense (“He pulled out a gun. …I rushed him, got the gun, and fired a shot”).
  • Explains dismemberment as panic: “I was scared to get in trouble, and I wanted to hide the body.” (80:16)
  • Claims he left an arm and a leg in the trunk “so that the authorities would find them and he’d get in trouble.” (81:08)
• Courtroom Antics:
  • Exchanges with prosecutor: “You ever taken someone's life?” – Serber
• Motive: Dispute over a lousy car, accelerated by bad judgment and possible mental illness.

Strangest Closing Statement:
“I still love my Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian.” – Serber (82:22)

11. Verdict, Sentencing, and Aftermath

Timestamps: 83:44–end

• Outcome:
  • Serber: Guilty of first-degree murder, use and possession of a firearm as a prohibited person; given life plus 50–100 years.
• Judicial Snark:
  • “You may fuck off.” – James, as the Judge (83:31)
• Victim’s Family:
  • Relief and closure, but a sense of horror lingers over the community.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “This story is … wild, crazy, pretty gross and strange… as always, 10 pounds of murder in a 2-pound bag and the bag overfloweth.”
• “If your car lost that much oil, you wouldn’t drive it!” – On the puddle of blood (22:46)
• “[Serber] began to scream profanities out before standing up… ‘I’m fucking God.’” (58:39)
• “No one needs to be dismembered.” (84:24)
• “I still love my Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian.” – Serber, in what everyone agrees is a baffling non sequitur (82:22)

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Key Timestamps

• 03:32–13:53: Town history, culture, reviews
• 19:40–24:31: The night of the murder, disappearance
• 24:31–25:46: The child’s “black cat” confession at school
• 34:03–36:10: The suspects are tracked, evidence discovered
• 39:51–44:41: Crime scene searches uncover body parts
• 49:32–52:31: Rest of the remains found in a creek culvert
• 57:08–68:04: Legal wrangling and circus of competency hearings
• 73:44–83:44: Trial, wild self-defense claims, absurd testimony, verdict
• 83:44–end: Sentencing, family and community reactions

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The Episode In a Nutshell

A petty car feud in rural Nebraska spiraled into a grotesque murder, followed by a frantic (and incompetent) attempt at body disposal. The investigation is fueled by the innocent honesty of a five-year-old: “My dad is dead. Black cat killed him.” (24:41) What follows is an investigation that traverses garages stocked with bloodstained laundry, a grotesque scavenger hunt across a farm and a creek, and a trial headlined by the killer’s delusions of grandeur.

Improbable, revolting, and at times darkly hilarious—this episode perfectly encapsulates Small Town Murder’s unique voice and fierce commitment to the truth, no matter how bizarre or uncomfortable.

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Summary prepared by Small Town Murder Podcast Summarizer. For more detail, listen to the full episode.

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Fuck.

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Here we go. Oh, everybody's so excited to go there. We're going To Emerson, Nebraska. Ever heard of that?

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No.

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That's the answer.

[B]

Large population. Drives a Chevy truck?

[A]

I think so. You don't think it's Ford country? Maybe. You never know.

[B]

No, sir.

[A]

No F150s around here. Emerson, Nebraska. It's in northeastern Nebraska, like far northeastern Nebraska, but it's a rural farming town. It's about 35 minutes to Sioux City, Iowa. So that's the closest place to it. About an hour 45 to Omaha, Nebraska, if you like to go there. And then two hours and five minutes to Clarks, Nebraska. Our last Nebraska episode, episode 672, murder mystery on Wheels. I'm telling you, Nebraska brings it with the murder they do. They always have crazy stuff. Now this town is in three different counties. The town is 47 square miles. It's not a big town.

[B]

Tri county area.

[A]

Well, they have. You'll find out about the tri county later on. This is in Dixon, Dakota and Thurston County. I don't know why they couldn't just pick a county there, but area code 402. Population here, 854.

[B]

How did they get on three counties,

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half a mile, 900 people. And a lot of those people are out. Kind of away from the town too, because it's a lot of big farms and stuff. Median household income here, 56,346, which is below the national average by about 13,000. But good news, median home cost, also extremely low. Less than half the national average average here, $153,200.

[B]

You're telling me it's not in demand?

[A]

It's strange that northeastern rural Nebraska isn't just the hottest real estate market going. But it's not weird history. It was laid out in 1881 to be a railroad junction. That's all it was. Just like. It's a junction of counties. It's a junction of railroads. It was a railroad of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railways.

[B]

Dang.

[A]

So they all came together here in 1880. The railroad bought 100 acres of land for a town site.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Literally, they said, we'll build a town. So there's. For our junction. That was it. The first two buildings were a depot and a section house. And well into even the 1930s, Emerson had up to 67 trains a day. Wow. Imagine how irritating it would be to live in that fucking town and hear 67 train whistles a day. You'd lose your mind.

[B]

Unless you're one of those adults that just fucking loves trains.

[A]

Yes. For the seven of those guys that are standing staring at the trains the whole time. For everybody else, they're like, well, enough with the fucking whistles. We get it. You're here. God damn.

[B]

Like an engineer.

[A]

Yeah. With the hat on, the overalls. We saw the same guy. It was first known as Kennesaw Junction. And then they found out that you couldn't name it that because it was already at Kennesaw Junction, Nebraska. So they decided to name it Emerson in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Who was born and died in Massachusetts and has nothing to do with Nebraska whatsoever. He died. Gatsby. No, no, no, no. That's.

[B]

No, no, that's not another guy with three names. Right?

[A]

It's. God damn it. Gatsby is Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

And yeah, it's Ella Fitzgerald is. Who wrote that.

[B]

Yeah, it's Ella Fitzgerald's dad, Ralph Waldo. What did he write?

[A]

He's a poet.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he died a couple years earlier. That's the only reason I could think

[B]

possibly why they would do it. Posthumous gift.

[A]

I don't know. So there you go. The town was incorporated in 1888. Now there's only a couple reviews of this town. We'll give them out here, see what other people think of this town.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

With some reviews. Here is four stars. I've lived here all my life and it's a great place to live. My name is Luke Stoles, and I will be a sophomore next year at Wayne State College. I am studying the field of secondary physical education with an endorsement in coaching with the goal of become a high school physical education teacher and a coach. Well, with that kind of grammar, gym teacher is a good spot, I think, for you.

[B]

Slam dunk.

[A]

Yeah. I have always wanted to be a PE teacher. I've never heard anyone say that before.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Good. You know what? Go do it. Good for you.

[B]

As soon as I saw a man wearing shorts to work, I was like, yeah, that's for me.

[A]

He's like, I like whistles. Yeah. I'd like to have one of those around my neck all the time. I'd like to yell at teenagers to change their fucking shorts faster. That seems like fun. I always saw myself in some sort of sports oriented field. That is not it. That's not a sports oriented field. My mom has coached sports in the past and I have wanted to follow in this path for myself.

[B]

PE teacher is about bottom rung of sports, Right?

[A]

If you can call it sports. Yeah. It's like saying karaoke bar. Karaoke bar today.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's like saying a karaoke Bar host is in showbiz. Like not really. You know, let's be honest here. Yeah, they're just handing out you sing in the same way they're giving balls to non athletic kids.

[B]

Yeah. Whether or not they're good isn't going to matter in a sec. You're just giving them the mic either way.

[A]

Yeah, giving them the mic or a dodgeball. Either way it's the same shit. Doesn't mean they can know how to throw it. So three stars. Small quiet town. It was a railroad town that was established in the mid-1800s which is now a small farming community. Those are the reviews of this town. That's all that exists. So things to do here.

[B]

James already told us that. You did.

[A]

Yeah, we already know that. We read the history. Stupid things to do here. Emerson Tri county days. There you go.

[B]

The tri county area.

[A]

You knew it was gonna happen. So we got a movie night. We have a twin duo pair dress up themed fun run. So dress up as a duo and then go run. Yeah. There's a petting zoo. There's kids races, pony rides. Okay. Line up at the high school and the Emerson High School for the parade. All are welcome. Just show up and march if you want to. There all sorts of stuff. A cornhole tournamen. Then at 8pm the dance on the ball field with music by Dane Lewis. And there's $1 beers while that's going on which that sounds great.

[B]

You'll dance somebody that doesn't exist fucking anywhere anymore.

[A]

No. And then the next night there's a hay bale toss and a kid's tractor pull.

[B]

How far can you throw a hay bale?

[A]

We're going to find out.

[B]

Six feet is the winner for sure. And that's just a big some bitch.

[A]

It's not going to be exciting. Someone's going to win like 6 foot 1 to 5 foot 11 probably. It's not but I mean it'll be close.

[B]

Somebody's gonna throw their back out for sure.

[A]

So that said, let's talk about a murder. What do you say here? Okay. All right. Let's talk about a man first here. Let's talk about Craig and that's with a K. Craig Donald Kubik and that's with a K. Also K U B I K. And he goes by apparently according to what I've seen, he goes by Boomer. Oh, so people call him Boomer. Boomer Kubik here. Now he's born December 2, 1973 and he's from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Almost at Idaho do that every time. He's got parents named Donald and Jeanette and he's got a brother named Kirk and a sister named Christie. All k's. Whoa. Yeah. least they don't give their kid middle name with the K. That would be disturbing. But all K's, they're all KK though. All KK. Craig was welding, started welding when he was 4 years old. That is irresponsible parenting at best.

[B]

He shouldn't have been near that machine.

[A]

He can't teach a kid to fucking weld at four. That's dangerous. Yeah, that's dangerous. He's one of these guys that can fix anything. If he has to, he'll weld it together, but he'll fix it. It's gonna happen. He graduated from Emerson Hubbard high school in 1992. And while attending school, which he wasn't a big, he didn't really care. He wasn't going to college really or anything like that. He was going to work here. While attending school he helped his dad farm and he repaired cars and tractors and even did some welding work in buildings as well during high school.

[B]

Adult shit.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I mean. I think from 4 he was like, nah, I'm just going to join the union, you know. He was ready to go black.

[B]

Black coffee and Pall Malls.

[A]

He's like, do they make Carhartt and tiny? Is that a thing? Is that possible?

[B]

Lil Tyke's Carhartt.

[A]

My first Carhartt from Lil Tykes. So that's what he's doing. He graduates and started working for L to Z or LZ manufacturing company. Lazy, maybe. Manufacturing, building, manufacturing company. He would build and repair horse race track equipment. That's a very specific sphere that you're working in.

[B]

Yeah. He's not doing chariot racing. So that would mean like the posts, right?

[A]

Yeah. The gates. It has to be a lot of gate work. I mean those gates have to work, don't they? If they don't work on time, what

[B]

kind of pair do they need?

[A]

I don't know. That's what I'm wondering.

[B]

It seems like a thousand pound behemoth flying through that thing. It probably gets bent.

[A]

Oh, and how many racetracks are there? How many horse tracks are there around there?

[B]

Can't be more than one.

[A]

Can't be more than one in a small area. Right. So it's interesting. He also worked for several construction companies doing steel work and cement work. He's a guy with a strong back, Greg. Let's just put it that way. He continued also, he Would do like repair work at his home. In his spare time too, he had side jobs. If you need a lawnmower fixed or some shit, he'll do it. While he was employed with one of the companies, he helped build the new Cornerstone Church in Sioux City. And he also worked at several ethanol plants in the area as well. So doing work? He does hard work.

[B]

Refinery.

[A]

Yeah, his work is all hard. Fucking hell, that's brutal. He's good at the piano also, which you don't get a lot of cross. I'd love to see the Venn diagram between pianists and welders and just see how much of that comes together. Right.

[B]

Or ethanol workers.

[A]

Or ethanol. Literally anything he does and pianists, I'd like to put them together. Usually if you can repair shit, usually that's that side of your brain works and the other, the artistic side usually doesn't work as well. But this guy, apparently it does.

[B]

Is the piano, Is that a string or a percussion? What is that one?

[A]

Percussion, I think. Yeah, it's hitting the. He also is super into Guitar Hero. The video game. Loves that who the fuck was anything. Which makes sense now by the 2010s here because we'll catch up with him in 2016 and by then he's got a daughter and a son also. Okay, not married. Not sure where would happen with that or relationship wise, whatever.

[B]

But you're playing Guitar Hero. She's gonna suck.

[A]

Yeah, maybe. His daughter's a few years older than the son. The son's about five years old in 2016. And I won't give their names even though they're all over the newspapers for some reason. I don't know why these little kids names had to be in the paper

[B]

as children in 2016.

[A]

Absolutely. They're all over the place. So in 2016 he's got a girlfriend named Jacqueline Mar M A H R and so he's seeing her. They don't live together. She also has a child, I believe, and lives in her own place. But they've been seeing each other for a while now. November 1, 2016. Okay, let's catch up here. Jacqueline saw him, Kirk Boomer, at about 7pm now, when Jacqueline left Boomer's house, he and his six year old son were at the home at that point. So he was just home with his six year old. And earlier that afternoon he had had a couple of visitors, a couple of guys talking about he's been in some ongoing dispute over a broken down shitty red Dodge Charger for a good amount of time. Here it's sitting in the driveway, One of the tires is flat. It's just sitting there. And he's been in an ongoing dispute with these two Idio and they've been going back and forth for a while. These guys were there earlier in the day talking about it, and she had seen them there and all that kind of thing, and now it's just him alone.

[B]

Is it an old Charger or a new Charger?

[A]

Do we even know a new one? It's a newer crappier. Yeah, it's like a broken down 8 year old Dodge Charger or something. Yeah, nothing special. Now, Jacqueline received a text message From Boomer around 10:30pm and after that he stopped responding to her texts, which this is the type of guy who seems like he's up with the fucking crow, you know what I mean? Up with the rooster here, 10:30, that

[B]

boy's out of energy.

[A]

I mean, if you've been welding and ethanoling all day, I think that's. You're probably tired.

[B]

Take it out of you.

[A]

Real sleepy by then. So she thinks the same thing. He probably has to get up early or something. November 2, 2016. The next morning, Jacqueline drops her child off at school and then goes over to his house, goes over to Boomer's house, arrives there around 9am okay. Now she arrives and sees Boomer's son, the five year old, standing out on the deck of the house, on the porch. On the porch, just standing there. Now he should be in school. All right, it's 9:00am he should have already. So that's strange. So she's like, that's weird. Why is he just standing and Boomer's not around? Just a five year old standing on a deck by himself. He's not like drinking coffee and, you know, reading Vanity Fair or anything. He's, you know, he's doing something here.

[B]

Doing the New York Times crossover.

[A]

He's just doing it. He's like, you know, I do it in pen. Some guys, some people have it, you never know. She also sees that there's air compressors, which weren't there last night when she was here. Located near that red door Dodge Charger that's being stored on the property. There's also a pair of boots there, a flashlight, and what appeared to be a puddle of blood. Oh, so he apparently was just eviscerated from space. And he left boots with like smoke coming out of him, you know, in a puddle of blood.

[B]

Apparently sometimes when you lift off, you leave a little behind.

[A]

Yeah, you never know what goes on.

[B]

You don't need all that up there.

[A]

No, no, no. I figure he's got zapped by a laser and now he's just, you know. So that's what she sees. And so she starts calling for him, you know, and she's calling around and he's not answering. It's just the five year old on the deck and she can't find Boomer.

[B]

And the five year old gives no information of where he is.

[A]

He has nothing to offer at this point in time. He'll talk plenty later, but right now he's got nothing to say. So what does she do here? Call the cops maybe? Because she also. She's texting Craig, calling Craig, can't get ahold of him. Here's a puddle of blood and boots and a lone five year old. And I can't find the guy.

[B]

But if you call the cops and they find him now, he's got neglect

[A]

on his hands, I guess. Kids here, I think the puddle of blood kind of signifies. Yeah, that goes over. Yeah, that's the. Yeah, I think that definitely takes precedence over.

[B]

It's an escalator for sure.

[A]

It's an escalator. If it was like two drops. No, but it's a puddle, you know, it's a lot. You see a puddle, puddle, like more than a normal human would lose at a time in a normal.

[B]

If your car lost that much oil, you wouldn't drive it.

[A]

You go, there's a problem here. I should call somebody. So she doesn't call the cops, though. She instead takes the son to school. She's like, you're late for school. And she takes him to school. Okay. Then she called some of Boomer's friends to see if they had seen him, and then they hadn't seen him either. So she finally goes, because they've been seeing each other for a while. She has keys to his house and shit. She goes in his house and starts looking at footage from his home surveillance system to see if she can see anything. She does see that the two guys he's been arguing with about the charger showed up at about 10:30 the night before. Right. When he stopped returning text messages. These two guys are Andres Serber. S U R B e R. He's 25, and I guess Brian Brayan. B R A Y A N is his first name, which I've never seen before. Brayan.

[B]

That's Brian, right?

[A]

Brian. Brian, yeah, Brian.

[B]

Brian.

[A]

Brian Galvan Hernandez. G A L V A n. He's only 18. Okay, so on the footage, the three of these guys, Boomer, Serber and Galvin are all seen on the footage walking toward the red Dodge. And then a headlight headlights of a vehicle can be seen backing out of the driveway. They had been there earlier in the day too, to argue about it. So this is not new. Now, while this is going on, while she's looking at surveillance footage, Boomer's son is at school. Okay. Boomer's son walks up to his teacher and says that his dad is dead.

[B]

How's he know that?

[A]

He just walks in and says, my dad's dead. And the teacher's like, huh, you know, what the fuck? And he says, black cat killed him.

[B]

Black cat killed him.

[A]

Black cat killed him. So he goes, she's like, black cat killed him. My dad's dead. I better get the principal. I mean, he is five. He could be whatever. But yeah, let's. I don't want this to be on me. Let's run this up the flagpole and see how it goes. I'm going to teach the rest of the kids to color in the lines. So cubic son then tells the teacher also that there was blood on his father's boots and on a flashlight, which was over by the air compressors, those things. So, okay, now the principal, the boy goes to the principal's office and the principal calls the cops from the school and says he was tell meaning the boy, he was telling me how his father was dead and how there was blood everywhere. That's what the principal said. So when questioned by the principal, the son repeated the same information and then also mentioned a gun and an air compressor as well. Okay, so the principal tried to get ahold of Boomer but couldn't reach him. So that's when he called the police to call in a welfare check on the house just to see if this kid was crazy. Kids are weird. You never know.

[B]

But they say some wild shit.

[A]

Yeah, he could have accidentally seen part of a movie or something. And, you know, five year olds are a totally different thing. So the welfare check happens. Now this is the Dakota County Sheriff does this. When the sheriff pulls up, he meets Jacqueline Marr. And Boomer's dad is there as well. So he's there. Now the girlfriend tells the sheriff that she was certain Boomer had been kidnapped or that something has happened to him. She's sure? Yeah, positive. She shows the sheriff the patch, which looks like blood, and alongside that are possible what looks like drag marks. Okay, yeah, these are, you know, pretty big clues here. And yeah, there's blood. And then from the blood puddle Looks like there's drag marks away. So in the dirt pulling. So also she shows him the video footage. And so they bring in additional cops to try to figure this out because this guy can't do it on his own. The cops describe finding blood in the grass near the back of a red Dodge Charger and alongside two different air compressors, what looked like a lawn mower and a single standing boot. Just a boot.

[B]

Just one boot.

[A]

One boot sitting there. So the cops then attempt to ping the cell phone, Boomer's cell phone, to see if they can find it. But they're unsuccessful. So it must be off shows nothing. Yeah, so then they meet up in Wakefield, Nebraska. All the cops to continue this investigation put their heads together. So they send cops out to different spots. Some cops are at the cubic residence, others went to the school to speak with the son. See if they can get anything from that. And by this time, since they had seen them on the surveillance footage, they're going over to talk to Serber and Galvan as well. Not even that they're suspects or anything, but just that you saw them at 10:30. Anything?

[B]

Let's talk.

[A]

Yeah, just see, it's interesting. So where are Serber and Galvan? We gotta find them. Now the cops learn that Serber was dating Galvan's sister. She's pregnant, as a matter of fact.

[B]

Well, he's not going anywhere.

[A]

He's there. And that Galvan, the Galvin family residence was in Wakefield, Nebraska. So about at 11am that morning, the officer, one of the officers, does a drive by of the Galvan residence and sees a black GMC Yukon Denali with in transit stickers. I don't know what those are.

[B]

Shipping.

[A]

I don't know. Stickers that just say in transit on it.

[B]

I'm not sure that's usually that means like in tow. Right. It's being towed.

[A]

I guess that's what I mean. I don't know why it's not. It's sitting in the driveway. But maybe it was towed at one point.

[B]

Right. I think that's what it is, that it was being drugged behind another vehicle.

[A]

I don't know. It says stickers too. I don't know. Whatever. Either way, that's only because that identifies that as belonging to Cerber. Because those are on his car. Hey everybody. Just gonna take a quick break from the show to tell you how to get a better night's sleep with Casper.

[B]

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[B]

Now back to the show.

[A]

So that's parked outside. So we know that Serber is at the Galvan residence, probably with his girlfriend. So the officers then, after they do the drive by and find out he's there, they go get some backup and they come back to the residence. Galvan was outside when he saw the officers. The 18 year old. He ran as soon as he saw them.

[B]

Perfect.

[A]

Bad sign. They pull in the driveway, he runs. You're asking for. That's the problem. A little suspicion there because he's on his property. It's not like it was out somewhere else. Galvan was told to stop and he did.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

So they just. When they got out of the car, they should have said, don't run, and he would have just stayed still. So he listens anyway. He was handcuffed after he ran and responded yes when asked if Serber is in the house also. So Galvan then gives the officers permission to enter the house to go find Serber, which they do. They're doing a sweep of the property, by the way. So they're inside the house looking for Serber, and they're outside the house doing a sweep of the property in I think the garage. They find a pair of bloodied boots and a pair of pants with blood on them. Yeah, bad sign. Meanwhile, the officers in the house find Serber and they're questioning him about Craig Kubrick's whereabouts. Do you know anything about this? Serber had apparently just got out of the shower and is only wearing a towel at this point. Sexy, hot. So they make the decision the cops do to get Serber out of the house. We're gonna take him with us to talk to him. One deputy allowed him to go get some clothing to put on. He's not gonna take him in a towel. The deputy had been informed that bloodied clothes had been found in the garage. The deputy noticed that Serber walked up to the pile of clothes that they noticed that had blood on them. The deputy with Serber then observed what appeared to be fresh blood and flies on the clothes as well.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

Very nice. Serber then walked to a different part of the garage. Oh, those are the gross clothes with blood on them. I can't wear those.

[B]

I don't want to wear those. Those will look whatever we have to talk about. Those will look bad.

[A]

I probably shouldn't wear a viscera stain to the police station. That's not good.

[B]

Leave these flies to these clothes.

[A]

Yeah. So then Serber walked to a different part of a garage, found a different pile of clothes, which, by the way, the deputy noted in his report as being, quote, dirty. So he walked over to a different

[B]

pile of dirty no clothes.

[A]

First of all, his dresser is a garage number one.

[B]

Yeah, that's why.

[A]

That's why he just keeps them in a pile on the floor in the garage.

[B]

Yeah. Armoire and garage almost have the same letters.

[A]

I'm sure they're both French based. Sure. Why not garage.

[B]

I keep my clothes in the garage.

[A]

The garage. It works. So then he puts those dirty clothes on and goes with the cops. Now, how do they know Boomer? Well, the investigators find out that Serber and Galvin had confronted Boomer earlier in the day, the day before, on the 1st, demanding the return of a car that once belonged to Cerber or that Kubic make good on the money he owed Serber. There's some dispute of they think Boomer hasn't paid fully for this car that he has that he bought from Cerber. That's what this is all about. So apparently here Serber says that he went to the trailer that Boomer was living in about 1040. The two had the ongoing dispute over a broken down Dodge Charger. Serber said he planned to repossess the car that day. Repossess it. And had gone with Galvan to Cubic's home that night to air up the flat tire so they could haul the car away the following day. That's why there's a compressor there. Okay.

[B]

The next day, we don't this morning

[A]

pump it up and then leave and then come back and get it.

[B]

We're going to pump it up and come back for it another time. If they're flat, they don't hold air.

[A]

It's probably going to be flat again by the morning. I'd fill it up right before you drive. How about that?

[B]

That's the good idea. Yeah. Before you wheel it on a trailer. Whatever you want to do.

[A]

One of the two.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So maybe that's it. They're coming back with a trailer. Now, while the officers were at this Galvin residence, there's another deputy who receives a phone call from Serber' mother. Now, how does this mother know to call this deputy specifically because they're neighbors. That's why the mother and deputy, Roger Peterson. Peterson, the deputy, had actually seen Serber at approximately 8am that day driving away from Wakefield and within five or six miles of the Serber family farm. Okay. Now, the mother tells the cop that her son Serber had been near rural Dixon county near their farm, which is near the 579th Avenue and Old U.S. highway 20 intersection. Old U.S. highway. We don't use that one anymore. Fucking trees growing in the middle of the lanes and everything. It's huge. So Peterson, the deputy, had driven by the farm to check for Serber's vehicle before it was spotted at the Galvan residence. So he had already gone, done a sweep by there. Now, upon reaching the deputy, Serber's mother told the deputy that if something was going on with Serber, that the deputy should know that Serber had been at the farm that morning. Just in case you want to put my son in jail, let me help you. I'm not even sure he did anything, but just in case something happened there,

[B]

I can gladly make sure that I can put him at the crime scene.

[A]

Absolutely. And you'll understand why she would probably want to kind of get him away from her when we get into this a little more. So the farm included a house, but no one resided at the property. It's been abandoned. This property, the property was owned by Serber's uncle, who was his mother's brother, who lives in New York. They don't even live here. Okay. Now, when he was contacted. So they contacted the owner of the property, the brother, and when he's contacted, he gave them permission to search the property, telling law enforcement, quote, go ahead and do what you need to do, Right? I don't give a shit. I don't even live there. Knock yourself out.

[B]

I don't care. It's abandoned. Nothing there is worth anything to me.

[A]

Nope. So if it was, I would have taken it with me or stayed there to protect it. So the Serber family farm in Dixon, Nebraska, law enforcement kind of converges on there to search. They find a silver Chevy Impala that had a window broken out and what appeared to be blood on the rear bumper and lid of the trunk. Oh, that's a good sign. Fresh blood. Yeah, not dried. Been there for six months. Blood or anything. So the deputy said that he responded to a. Had responded to a recent accident that Serber had been involved in, and that Serber had been driving this silver Chevy Impala when the accident took Place.

[B]

Oh, this is his car.

[A]

It's such a small town that the same people investigate traffic accidents and possible murders at the same fucking time. Yeah, I know this guy. I was doing the traffic report on that one.

[B]

I did a traffic report.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

On this in my homicide suit.

[A]

Yeah. Or I investigate murders in my uniform. One of the two. Yeah. So the Impala's vehicle registration, the VIN comes back to Cerber, and the plates on it were not for this car. The plates on it are registered to a red Dodge Charger formerly owned by Serber. Okay. Now, near the Impala, the officers also discover blood droplets around on the ground, as well as, you know, on the car. So they find what they also. Dried blood on the back of the bumper. One of the cops there said when he saw the blood, my heart kind of sank, he said, kind of knew that this was a bad sign. Then nearby, there's a burn barrel. They can smell in the air that it's been burning recently. So they go over to the burn barrel, and what they find near the burn barrel are ashes, what appears to be flesh of some kind, a red gas can, a spray bottle with what appeared to be blood on it and a bloody knife. That's what they find near there. And flesh that they assume is human.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Not really. Great thing to find, obviously.

[B]

Or the best thing, depending on which side of this you're on.

[A]

It's bad. So then they call in to get a warrant for the trunk of the Impala because they're like, this isn't good. We obviously need to get in there.

[B]

I suppose you got Constitution, constitutional rights and shit, but that kind of blood isn't probable cause.

[A]

I think they're trying to make sure that everything is done above board so nothing gets thrown out. In this type of situation, there's no rush.

[B]

Yeah. Because I guess you gotta assume that this person's dead anyway.

[A]

If that flesh belongs to him, he's not alive and you're not looking for him. So at this point, let's make sure the legalities. And no one gets off on a technicality.

[B]

We got a lot of blood in a lot of different locations all over the place.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And we got flesh now.

[A]

So he's near in a burn barrel.

[B]

Yeah. That's not good.

[A]

Which is a decannibal barbecue. Disgusting to burn a body. Yeah, I think that's what they found out. It sounds like it's not easy.

[B]

It's so hard to burn all of it.

[A]

It really doesn't work very well. Those ovens at the morgue or whatever. Get up to like 1800 degrees or something, you can't get there.

[B]

That's the thing that most people evidently don't know.

[A]

You can't get a burn barrel up that high. You just can't. No matter how much gas you put on it, it's just not gonna work.

[B]

And even those guys that cremate shit, they still have to put what's left to.

[A]

Through a grinder. Yeah.

[B]

To turn it into dust and sand because there's still chunks of body.

[A]

It works about as well as those conveyor pizza ovens do. Like it's a shitty job and you got to put it through again, probably to get the result you want.

[B]

Works about as well as you should expect it to work.

[A]

Yeah. At home.

[B]

Stop having such lofty expectations about everything.

[A]

That's why you can bury someone, but you can't. There's no, like, at home cremation thing.

[B]

No.

[A]

You ever seen a kit for that on Amazon? Because it doesn't fucking exist. That's why.

[B]

And even when you bury a person, they're not just gone.

[A]

No, no, no, no. They're lingering around so long, oh, it's gotta decompose. So they open the trunk here. Okay, let's get to this. They open up the trunk, and inside the trunk is a severed arm and a severed leg. One of each pieces. One leg, one arm. That's all that's in there. That's it. Nothing else? A leg and an arm. Yeah. So further searches of the Impala were completed after it was impounded. They found more blood along with two cell phones, at least one of which definitely belonged to Boomer here. So that's not good. Paperwork in the glove box indicated that it is Serber's car. DNA testing on the blood from the Impala, the Cubic residence, and the Cerber Farm, and the boots and clothing found at the Galvan residence and other evidence is shown to all be consistent with Cubic as well with Boomer. A knife found near the Impala had Serber's fingerprints on it, but not Galvan's or Cubics.

[B]

Any blood of Cubic?

[A]

Yes, all the blood's Cubics. All of it.

[B]

His fingerprints, his blood, his blood.

[A]

So Q. Cerberus fingerprints, weather guy's blood. Yeah, in fingerprints. In blood, too. Now then they get surveillance video from Cubic's trailer that shows Serber and Galvan enter Kubik's home, then exit with him as the three of them walk to the car. Apparently that's what you see on the surveillance. Now, Serber has a story here of what happened later on we'll talk about. But he's gonna say that this is, you know, this was all just some crazy event, that self defense that happened.

[B]

Oh, he's.

[A]

Yes. Because in most self defense cases you dismember the other party.

[B]

When you're done, you don't stop.

[A]

It's mainly just for you. It's like a celebration thing to show that you've won the confrontation. So you're going to take them apart and try to.

[B]

He doesn't even go with, we left to go get the money and he went back home. I guess he doesn't say that.

[A]

I don't know. Yep, we'll get into it. But it's wild. Investigators later found surveillance video from November 1st of a Wakefield convenience store where Serber and Galvan bought a gas container of a substance used to ignite fires. So gas. A similar gas container was found next to the burn barrel, brand new. From there. Also, video surveillance from the next morning, November 2, showed Galvan at the Wakefield convenience store exiting the vehicle that was originally searched at his residence. Server's vehicle was spotted by a witness at the Dixon county residence that same morning. That's the Denali, I think. Then there's a. Witnesses said they heard loud noises coming from the Wakefield residence at around 7:40 in the morning. That's the Galvan residence. Another witness saw a person walking south on the county road away from the cerber residence around 10 or 10:30 that morning, which would be probably Cerber. That would make sense. A vehicle that fit the description of Cerber's was later seen picking up the man and driving away from the residence. So someone picked him up in his own car. Witnesses also say they've seen Serber at the residence in the past and heard gunshots coming from the area when he was there. So he's been going there to shoot the abandoned farm. So Serber's arrested, obviously. Certainly they're both gonna be arrested that day. I mean, one guy was already in cuffs because he ran away. But now Serber's arrested too, and charged with murder. I don't think there's enough in dirty clothes, in dirty garage clothes smelling like oil. Now that's November 2nd. All they have is some flesh and one arm and one leg that was in a trunk. Where the fuck is the rest of them?

[B]

Right?

[A]

That's the thing. They're really wondering, like they couldn't have. There's no bones in the burn barrel. There's no way they burned it up. So where the fuck is the rest

[B]

of Them and just a knife?

[A]

Yeah. And why the hell did you keep one arm and one leg? None of this makes sense. It's crazy. So, November 5th, about four miles away from the Cerber farm, where the body parts were found in the trunk here. This is in a creek. In a culvert area by a creek. They find the rest of Craig. What? They find his head and his torso, not together, but both there. Along with several organs and intestines. Why? And a severed arm and a severed leg. The other one.

[B]

The other parts of him.

[A]

Everything was found here, but all taken apart. All the organs are out. It's crazy.

[B]

Like they just abandoned the situation.

[A]

I'll just throw it in this creek. That'll do it. But I'm gonna keep an arm and a leg for myself.

[B]

Forgot the other pieces.

[A]

Keep those for later. Wait till you hear why that's crazy. Okay, I can't wait. So the cause of death is determined to be a gunshot wound to the head with dismemberment after the death. Because they have the skull, he died from a small caliber wound behind the left ear. The medical examiner said the gun was basically, or almost touching the skin. So total point blank. They removed the bullet from his head. It was taken to the state lab, but they said the damage to the bullet was so great they couldn't determine exactly what caliber it was. It could have been a nine millimeter Luger, a.38 Special, a.357 Magnum or a.357 SIG, one of the three or one of the four. So that's not small. Number one of 357 is a fucking hand cannon.

[B]

I mean, a nine millimeter is decent size. It's one of the better stopping power. It's why police carry it.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I mean. It works. And you can hold a lot of them. It's a good mid range, I think in that area. Now, the physical evidence. They do lab testing on numerous blood smeared items and collected during the investigation. And everything is Craig's DNA. Boomer's DNA is on everything, all the blood. The evidence shows that a fingerprint on the knife found containing the remains matched Serber's right thumb. Blood matching Kubik's DNA was found inside Serber's car on his boots and a pair of his pants as well. The gun used to kill Kubik though, was never found. As Serber said, he threw it in a creek. As we'll find out later. Probably that one, probably that. But they couldn't find it. Tan pants and boots Worn by Serber. Had blood on them that we were talking about. The knife. Also a piece of tissue not to blow your nose with. Human flesh.

[B]

Human tissue, yeah.

[A]

Turned out to be cubics. And in the Impala, his right arm and leg were found. That's what they said. The right one. And a piece of paper and a red stain found on the floor of the Impala. Also test positive. An air compressor hose. Leaves and grass collected out outside of Boomer's property come back to him as well. The chances of the DNA belonging to anyone else were one in 6.26. Octillion. Yeah, octillion.

[B]

Zero chance.

[A]

There's 27 zeros there.

[B]

That's a lot of zeros.

[A]

The earth could go. The sun will burn out before that. Many people live on this earth. That's what's crazy. That's wild. So it's him. There's also a witness now. Fucking Galvan's sister. Serber's pregnant girlfriend.

[B]

Pregnant gal. What'd she have to say?

[A]

Well, she said here she traveled with Serber a few months earlier to his cousin's house in Sioux City, where he bought a revolver from another man that she didn't know. Serber told her it was a nine millimeter and called it his, quote, little nine. That's cute.

[B]

A nine millimeter revolver. Never even heard of it.

[A]

I mean, I think. I think she's mistaken there.

[B]

I think it's a.38 or.357. Probably the 3, 380 year old. I don't think so. You? Yeah.

[A]

I don't know. As a revolver. So he constantly. She said he constantly carried it tucked into the front of his waistband too, like a dildo.

[B]

This is fucking 60s bank robber.

[A]

Yeah. She testified that Cerberus Serber handed the Galvan, the partner there, the same gun on November 2nd when she came home during her lunch break. And to find him acting weird, he first asked her. Then at one point after the murder happened, he asked her to shave her head.

[B]

Her own head.

[A]

Her head. Shave your head. She recalled him telling her previously that if he committed another crime, he was going to shave his head. His head. Oh, he wants her to shave his head. Okay, shave my head. Because he had said previously, if I commit another crime, I'm gonna have you shave my head. Okay. This woman then said that Serber did not say what crime he committed, but she told him that she didn't have time to cut his hair. I gotta go back to work. He then handed her his revolver and said, will you kill me? So either shave My head or kill me. You gotta do one of the two. I need help here. She said, I told him if I was gonna kill him, I wouldn't shoot him. In other words, you've really pissed me off. And I want it to be more painful and slow. That's too fast.

[B]

When you least expect it.

[A]

So here's some local reactions. George Burner, who's a cashier at the Pony Express convenience store. It's Emerson's lone gas station. He said the store was just buzzing with the news all day. He said he came in here quite often to get his stuff with his little boy. He was a pleasant guy. A lot of people liked him. Talking about Boomer, another here, an owner, former owner of the Tri County Bar on Main street in Emerson, said she remembered Kubik, when he was in high school, coming in to play pool with his friends. She said, this is nothing. This is like nothing that's happened in the last 46 years she's lived in Emerson. This is the craziest thing that's happened. She said, this is just a little bitty town. We can't believe something like this is going on. We're just mortified. All right, then. So Serber files several motions to suppress items relating to searches conducted at the Galvan residence and the Serber family farm, even though permission was given by the owner. Serber argued that the warrant for the trunk of the Impala was invalid because it was a telephonic warrant and it should be suppressed.

[B]

They need him to go down.

[A]

They need to look in the judge's eyes and fucking. But you can totally get a warrant over the phone.

[B]

Needs to be a west signature.

[A]

Yeah. Serber also argued that the search of the Galvan residence was not supported by probable cause. I think once they find blood, there's probable cause for a lot of things. There's a lot. As to the Impala, the district court ultimately concluded that the search was invalid due to violations of statutory law, though not a constitutional violation. But that didn't matter because the brother of Serber's mother already gave consent for the search. So the warrant was superfluous anyway. They didn't need the warrant. The warrant was just on top. They didn't get the warrant correctly, but luckily they got permission, so it still stands.

[B]

Perhaps you committed crimes on somebody else's property. You don't get to say whether or not exactly. They didn't search that anymore. We asked the owner, and the owner said, fine, go ahead.

[A]

And the court further concluded that the automobile and emergency exceptions applied as well, because they find blood and pieces of people. They have to wonder if this person's missing a chunk of flesh or not. So as to the Galvan residents, the court agreed that the search was not supported by probable cause, but that the boots and clothes with blood on them were in plain view. Therefore, that.

[B]

That's a problem.

[A]

Yeah, that's admissible. You can admit the other stuff they found. You can't. On the residence, but the stuff that was in plain view is admissible. And that happens to be the stuff with Boomer's blood all over it. So that's good stuff.

[B]

The stuff we care about most.

[A]

Okay, now we get to find out how crazy Serber is. Cause he's what is fucking. As we found out from the interaction with his girlfriend. He's a fucking loon. What's his deal? He's a lunatic. Here we go. Okay, this is in a pretrial hearing with both Cerber and Galvan. They're both there. They're gonna be tried separately, but here we go. Okay. It's just basically a routine matter in which the judge and attorneys agreed to future hearing dates. They're there just to set schedules. Schedule in toll. Galvan gets up to his feet and begins with the newspaper called a profanity laced outburst that led to his removal from the courtroom.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

That is awesome. So apparently this started with the district judge was discussing with the lawyers the likelihood of a trial date not taking place that day. And at that point, a security officer looked over at Cerber and said, knock it off. He was doing something in what appeared to be this outburst. Then he's in restraints and seated in the second row of the courtroom. He began to scream profanities out before standing up. And then the security officers, guards obviously converged on him at that point. When they did, before they got to him, they had a miniature standoff for a second where he said, you know who I am? You know who he is, Jimmy?

[B]

Is he Jesus Christ, James?

[A]

I'm fucking God. Of course he is. Okay. He shouts that out, I'm fucking God. And then the judge says, why do

[B]

they always do it?

[A]

Can you take God to his holding cell, please? Because, you know, he's a little loud in here and, you know, we'll give him his own space for a while.

[B]

Put God on G block, I guess.

[A]

Yeah, I guess. See if God wants a bologna sandwich for lunch because he's going in the clink here for a while while we talk about his fucking upcoming shit. So is he competent? I'm fucking God. God damn it.

[B]

He is not confident. Right.

[A]

Well, later on he claims other to be other beings who may or may not exist, which is pretty interesting too. That'd be great if he said I'm zul. We've had his recently. So after this happens, counsel seeks a competency evaluation which is granted.

[B]

Yeah, right, we'll talk about that.

[A]

Following this evaluation, Serber is found not competent to stand trial.

[B]

Really?

[A]

But Dr. Klaus Hartman here, the guy who's working on him, opined that there was reasonable likelihood that they could restore his competency.

[B]

Yeah, a little bit of lithium.

[A]

We'll get him back.

[B]

We're good to go.

[A]

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[B]

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Now back to the show.

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[B]

Somewhere in there.

[A]

Yeah, anywhere in there. Okay. Even if he does it all, he could get out before Social Security, so that's good.

[B]

Do we get an answer of who Black Cat is?

[A]

No idea who Black Cat is. One of these two is Black Cat. Neither of them are black, by the way, so what the fuck I don't understand.

[B]

Or did he think that because like the noise Black Cat, like a bottle

[A]

rocket maybe, or I don't know, I don't know where. Black. Maybe that was his nickname and that's what Boomer called him. But that's never established in court, so

[B]

it's easier to figure out Black Cat than however to pronounce. Bra Bright.

[A]

Bray. I am another.

[B]

Call him Black Cat. Bray.

[A]

I ain't being a teacher going, I'm calling you Brian. Good.

[B]

I'm calling you Black Cat.

[A]

I can't get Brian. You're out every time out. I gotta talk to you.

[B]

Black Cat makes as much sense as whatever the fuck you're about to tell me.

[A]

This says totally. So. January 2018. The state again seeks involuntary treatment for Cerber. He's not taking his meds again. Testimony from doctors, they say that Serber had taken his medications for a time, then refused because he experienced side effects

[B]

of Course he's a pain in the ass.

[A]

Why wouldn't he be? Of course, the doctor indicated Serber's claim side effects were not commonly reported. And in any case, Serber's presentation of psychosis was very unconventional. And he said he displayed selective symptoms that mimicked the symptoms of other patients at the center. Okay. For example, one patient barked like a dog. So Serber began barking like a dog. He's just real easy going. He's just going with the, I don't want to make you feel weird, so I'll bark, too. Another patient drooled, so Serber stopped barking and started drooling. And then he licked his balls, which was the most impressive thing ever.

[B]

The fucking chameleon starts pissing on fire hydrants.

[A]

Is he a dog or a chameleon? Which one? We haven't figured it out yet. Then he stopped drooling and started talking to himself, claiming he had many children who were all angels. Not good kids. Literally angels in the sky. Okay.

[B]

A lot of abortions out there.

[A]

Oh, boy. According to the doctor, symptoms of legitimate psychosis. Psychosis remained consistent, and he believed Serber was malingering. They also noted that it was not clear if Serber was also suffering from actual mental defect because he wouldn't take his medication or comply with treatment efforts. He also indicated that he thought Serber understood the proceedings. He also thought Cerber would be likely to interfere with the court proceedings. He's gonna be a dick about it. That's a fact.

[B]

He's stand up in court and scream about how much he's got.

[A]

He's gonna talk about his father talking about the fetuses. He's gonna talk about fetuses with wings. He's gonna talk about fucking whatever. Ultimately, they thought that the treatment should be continued to ensure the restoration of his competency. Though they said that his treatment should continue, Serber's lawyer indicated that Serber was competent and that trial should proceed. The state, meanwhile, asked that the doctor's request for additional time to ensure his competency be granted, which is usually the opposite. It's usually the defense doing this and the state saying, let's go to trial, and this time it's backwards. The court agreed, and Serber was declared incompetent. He was sent back to the center. He appealed the order, but it was dismissed. Now, October 2018, there's a status hearing on his competency, and everyone agrees that he's competent now. He's Good now. Okay. April 2019, the defense says we should check that again. Okay. The staff Psychiatrist and psychologist should do an evaluation. So the psychiatrist testified that it was his belief that Serber was not oriented to time and place. But the psychiatrist, and this is the craziest thing I've ever heard, had no opinion as to his competence.

[B]

I got no opinion.

[A]

Oh, well, we don't have any paycheck for you then, you fucking idiot. You come up with an opinion? Yeah.

[B]

I didn't ask you if you like my wife's cooking. I said, is this guy capable of understanding what's going on?

[A]

I didn't say, those are nice tits. Huh? That's not what I said. This is a professional opinion. The psychologist testified that Serber was clear and oriented when they spoke, but that Serber's judgment did appear to be impaired, and the psychologist could not tell whether that was due to mental illness or a behavioral disorder that he could control. So he was again ordered a competency evaluation to be conducted. Again, May 2019, another competency hearing. This is in court. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenic affectiveness disorder and bipolar symptoms. He continually talks out loud to himself during court hearings, occasionally interrupting the proceedings. He disrupted this hearing very quickly, challenging the judge by telling him that I'm paying my bond and leaving. I'm out of here.

[B]

Your honor. Check, please.

[A]

Then he said, quote, open my cuffs and get me the fuck out of here. I'm done. I've had it. I'm done. I'm so bored.

[B]

I'm not participant anymore. And I refuse to leave a tip.

[A]

I'm not doing it. Yeah, you're not getting a tip from this.

[B]

Give me my check. He's doing this to the judge. Give me the check.

[A]

You tell the chef, piss. Poor job too. Not good.

[B]

Open my cups. I'm leaving.

[A]

Open them up. I'm leaving. Prior to the ruling, the judge gave Serber one more chance to speak. And he said, quote, I'd say full competence because I'm my own lawyer. Then he said, I'm Lucifer, or you can call me Andres, but I go by that.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

What the fuck are you? So now he's God and Lucifer, but also Andres. And Andres too. He's easy going. He left the courtroom and continued to speak out loud to himself. And then, while sheriff's officers waited with him at the elevator to return him to jail, he, quote, howled like a dog.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

He's a fun guy. At the courthouse. So they found him incompetent to stand trial, and he goes back to the center there, July 2019, he was refusing to take his Meds and was requesting narcotics instead. I'd like heroin.

[B]

Can I, please?

[A]

Hey, this fucking Haldol's not working. How about if you spike me with some fucking junk? What do you say? Anything?

[B]

Have you got any fentanyl? I'm so tired of all this Paxil.

[A]

Jesus. I can't do it. Shit. He's probably got lithium.

[B]

Shelby has some pretty decent antipsychotics.

[A]

They gotta chill him out. January 2020. Get another doctor performs an evaluation, and the doctor says his sanity is restored. Oh, so that's all good now? He's fine.

[B]

This guy's been restored three, four times.

[A]

He's back again. The assistant attorney general said, quote, he's doing nothing but putting on an act. If his competency is restored in two days, two weeks, two months, two years or 22 years, the state's gonna be there to prosecute him for the death of Mr. Kubik. So. So he can wait all he wants. We'll be here August 13, 2020. His defense attorney wants to get out of this. He's like, this is crazy. I gotta go.

[B]

Can't do it anymore.

[A]

So they found out. On Aug. 17, the court found that Serber could represent himself. But upon request by defense counsel, the court reconsidered that ruling and then reversed it on August 18th. The next day, Serber's counsel filed a motion to determine his competency again. And he had another evaluation. Finally, he's goddamn competent, ready to go at his trial. He said he's representing himself with the assistance of counsel, apparently. I don't know if they're allowing him to question anybody or anything like that. In openings, the defense said that Kubik was shot in self defense over this Dodge Charger. He said that. Reminding the jury that they need to rely on the facts and not anything else here. He said, what the state just gave you was a trailer to a movie. Don't make your decision based on the trailer. Don't judge a book by its cover. Don't judge a movie by its trailer. The sheriff does his. You know, all the shit, he said. And they said, what did you find when the trunk was open? And he said, quote, an arm. Specifically, it ended my hopes of finding Mr. Kubik alive. I would say the sister, the pregnant one, Serber's girlfriend. She testifies all the stuff we said earlier. And she also said that in cross examination, they challenged her memories. And they said, your memory back then may be more accurate than your testimony today. Do you agree with that? And she said yes, because she had some Inconsistencies in the year and a half that's been, Serber testifies.

[B]

Fantastic.

[A]

Yes. There we go. He openly admits to dismembering and disposing of Kubik's body.

[B]

Look, man, I won the fight. I'm gonna.

[A]

I mean, what, do you want to

[B]

go all the way?

[A]

I kept an arm and a leg as a souvenir, so people know better not to fuck with me next time. Over the course of an hour and a half, he said he killed Craig in self defense, dismembered the body to conceal his actions, but then left an arm and a leg in the trunk so he'd get caught. He said, just because I went over there in the beginning doesn't mean I wanted it to happen. He said, I got there at about 10:45pm at his trailer, and I was trying to resolve this dispute. And he said, I went in there, I went to air up the tire so I could repossess it. He said, quote, when he pulled out a gun, that all changed. He's saying Kubik pulled a gun out. He says as they were walking in the car to fix the tire, Serber said Kubik reached into his waistband and pulled out a gun. But only this dipshit carries a fucking gun in the front of his waistband like a moron.

[B]

Is it everybody in this town? Nobody has a holster?

[A]

Nope. And he said he pulled it out. Serber said he rushed Kubik and after a brief scuffle, was able to get the gun from him, point it at him and fire a shot. So he's saying, I didn't even.

[B]

His own gun.

[A]

I didn't even bring a gun. This is his gun is what he said. He said, I wasn't intending to kill him. I was just reacting to the situation. He said he shot him behind the left ear. He didn't know where the bullet hit him, though. And he said he thought he was still alive. He said that he and Galvan then returned to Wakefield to get his Impala to take Kubik to the hospital because the SUV he was driving was full of boxes and there was no room for him. So rather than just take the boxes out, throw the body in there, take him to the hospital, let's go get a different car. He'll be fine. They returned more than an hour later, which I'm sure he's still good.

[B]

I didn't know if I was gonna kill him, although I shot him exactly where everybody that tries to kill people shoots somebody.

[A]

You know, when they're executing Them.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Surveillance video also showed that they can see them dragging Kubic's body to the Impala. They had that footage. He said that he put plastic in the front seat and placed Kubic inside. Previous evidence showed only a small smudge of blood, determined to be cubics on the floor and on a piece of paper found inside the car. Serber said he later burned the plastic and his clothes. He said he took the gun and threw it over a bridge into a creek near Wakefield. He said that he and Brian, who had been at Kubik's trailer with Serber at the time of the shooting, they drove around for hours with Kubik's body, winding up several miles away at the vacant farmhouse. He said, the sun came up, we took him out, and I cut him up. He said he panicked. That's why he did it. He said he cut up the body, dumped the torso, the intestines and an arm and a leg and a culvert and kept the other two in the car's trunk. He said he doesn't deny the print on the knife was his. He said he used both knives recovered by investigators to dismember his body because he didn't know what else to do. He said, this is a great line. I was scared to get into trouble, you think, and I wanted to hide the body. Well, that's honest.

[B]

I think it's fascinating that the only thing he tried to burn were his

[A]

clothes and the plastic and some flesh, though. I think he attempted to start burning the flesh. It didn't work. And he said, we gotta dump this shit somewhere else.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Perhaps he just cut him up and got some on him, and that flesh maybe fell off of the clothes. I don't know.

[A]

There was a hunk they found on the ground nearby, I think, so it seems like he was seeing if it would work.

[B]

If it doesn't, could he have just tried that little piece that was on the clothes then was like, well, that didn't burn. So there's no way all that's burning.

[A]

No idea. Well, he said, quote, after he dumped the shit in the culvert, the shit. Poor guy's fucking parts. He said, quote, I kind of had a guilty feeling. So he decided to leave an arm and a leg in the trunk of his car so that the authorities would find them and he'd get in trouble.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

During cross examination, they're going back and forth. He's not an easy cross examination. He says to the prosecutor, you're just gonna say whatever you can to find me guilty? And yeah, then he said, what am I doing here? What are we doing here? I already said what happened, happened. And the prosecutor said, I'm trying to expose your lies. And Serber said, I'm trying to expose your lies. He said that he changed his mind about concealing Kubik's body and wanted to get caught. And they said, well, why didn't you just call police and turn yourself in then and say, this happened by accident? Didn't it bother you at all? And Serber said, yes. And they said, why did it bother you? And Serber said, you ever taken someone's life?

[B]

No, that's why I'm not in Cops. Also, how great is it to have just an absolute moron, dipshit and lunatic on the stand that he can ask you a question and you can be just dead straight honest with him with zero worry of it? Singing again. Oh, I'm here exposing your lies.

[A]

You're trying to expose your lies, see? Oh, all right. Well, then let's go back and forth. Since you're being honest, I'll be honest, too.

[B]

Here's my court testimony strategy, and I can give you the whole game plan and you don't know how to fuck it up because you're a moron.

[A]

You'll still fuck it all up. And you're crazy, but you are God, so you never know. Verdict comes in. He is found guilty of first degree murder, use of a firearm to commit a felony, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. He's an idiot. During sentencing, he spoke briefly and he was hard to hear. They said. But all they could say is that they could understand because there's no cameras in the courtroom here. So the press was able to understand his last line that he said, which is, quote, I still love my Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian. No idea what that means. What? We don't know what that means. We don't know what he said that led into that. That's the biggest mystery of this entire. What the hell are you talking about? The judge said, this entire situation is sad. I know that any sentence will not make things right, but let's give it a shot. You said may fuck off. Life for first degree murder, 25 to 50 for using a firearm to commit a felony, 25 to 50 years of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, all consecutive.

[B]

Oh, shit. Swing.

[A]

Yeah, he's fucked. He's got 50 to 100 on top of life. He's fucked.

[B]

I don't know how to sentence you. I'm gonna Give it my best shot. That's a fucking swish, sir.

[A]

It's not bad.

[B]

Splash.

[A]

He is credited with 1465 days already served. From all the mental institution stuff here. Cubic's father said it's a relief. It's as good as it can get. There's no question about who done what I'd say, right. The prosecutor pretty much said the same thing. He said the fact that this was not a death penalty case doesn't take away from the fact that it was a cold, calculated murder. Mr. Kubik had his faults. Why would you say that now?

[B]

What?

[A]

What difference does that make now? Mr. Kubik had his faults, but his fate was undeserved. The consequence is that Mr. Serber never set foot outside of a prison cell again.

[B]

We all have faults.

[A]

Everyone has faults. No one needs to be dismembered.

[B]

Episode says Dateline. Done.

[A]

Fuck, man.

[B]

I'm sure every one of those people had faults. That's just not nice to say today.

[A]

It's crazy. He had his faults. Why say that? It's almost like he didn't like him personally or some shit.

[B]

Yeah, shit. Fisherman.

[A]

They said they're going to appeal. And on appeal, basically they file a few stupid things about the stuff he was trying to get, the searches and stuff like that. Nothing comes to any fruition. That was 2000 2022. They're in there forever.

[B]

Forever.

[A]

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[B]

Bye.

[A]

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[B]

Hello.

[A]

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[B]

Yes.

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[B]

See you on the road.