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Julie Benavali
I think that people should know that we're doing six episodes this week. We're recording six episodes this week.
Patrick Hines
We're recording six episodes this week.
Julie Benavali
We used to record one episode a week.
Patrick Hines
That's insane.
Julie Benavali
Back in the day. Can you remember?
Patrick Hines
No.
Julie Benavali
Like, what were we doing?
Patrick Hines
It feels fake. Who is she? Who is that?
Julie Benavali
Hi. Julie Benavali.
Patrick Hines
Hello. Patrick Hines. Also, we're saying that with love, we are thrilled that we get to do this.
Julie Benavali
I'm just saying gratitude.
Patrick Hines
It's a lot by Sunday. My voice. Because we're recording on Saturday this week, too. So we're doing a Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, over the weekend. I know usually we're Tuesday, Thursday, girlies, but we have a whole lot going on. Anyway, we love you. Hi. Hi.
Narrator/Commentator
All right.
Julie Benavali
What are we talking about today, girl?
Patrick Hines
This is our 15th bonus episode. This is that series that we love, Murder Has Two Faces. This is the third and last episode of the series.
Julie Benavali
What year is this from? Do you know?
Patrick Hines
Like, it just came out this year.
Julie Benavali
So maybe they'll make more.
Patrick Hines
Maybe. Yeah.
Julie Benavali
Okay.
Patrick Hines
But it's only three episodes out. And this is the third one. It's called Good Guys Gone Bad.
Narrator/Commentator
Between the Craigslist Killer and the Tagged Killer, they're eerily similar.
Julie Benavali
They were these nice guys that had conventional good looks from these regular middle class homes. And they both had been living double lives. Now, sources do tell me that the suspect comes from a law enforcement family.
Narrator/Commentator
They had a side of violence nobody saw coming. You're just a normal guy.
Julie Benavali
You would think that these cases would get the same type of attention, and they don't.
Narrator/Commentator
Craigslist Killer's first victim, she was able to escape. She was taken seriously. And the Craigslist Killer, he's caught after two weeks with Tag. You have four women killed, only one who's able to escape, but it takes months to find him.
Tiffany Taylor
Usually when somebody comes to the police and they tell a story like yours, there's press conferences and news bulletins, but there was none of that. There was none of that. The silence. Days after I escaped, he was already killing again. If they would have just believed me, who knows how many girls would still be here.
Julie Benavali
We open with a 911 call that has an AI dispatcher.
Patrick Hines
Don't. Don't like that.
Julie Benavali
No. And I was like, did the dispatcher say something so horrible that we couldn't use their audio? We'll get back, we'll get to the call again in the episode so we can talk about it more then. But I was like, that was weird.
Patrick Hines
No, I'm not cool.
Julie Benavali
But this is the episode comparing the Craigslist killer and someone being called the Tagged killer. Tagged is an app I've never heard of.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And also we covered the Craigslist killer. Yeah, we did that.
Julie Benavali
Such an idiot. Like, this was like maybe the dumbest murderer we've ever covered.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. So Tiffany Taylor is here. She is a survivor. She was abducted by this person and she is here to tell her story and explain how this. So much of this could have been avoided.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. People just listened to her, believed her, and taken her seriously.
Patrick Hines
Yeah.
Julie Benavali
We're in Philadelphia. We're learning about the murder of Robin West. Now this, the murder of Robin west happens before Tiffany Taylor becomes involved in this case. But we meet Robin's dad, Leroy. He was a police officer and a pastor. Robin was his youngest. We now are watching Leroy and Robin Roberts watching a video of Robin singing. And they are sobbing. And I am sobbing.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. She was a singer. And, like, we hear her voice. And I was saying to you before that Robin Roberts, our victim, is Robin.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And Robin Roberts is our host. And this is her show. Like, she's producing it.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
She really is so kind and warm and she. You can really tell that she takes so much care. But these people trust her. They want to tell her their story. And that is rare and can be hard to do. And it just shows how much Robin gives a shit and how much work goes into this. Because it's not easy.
Julie Benavali
No. And you can tell how much, like, this is Robin Roberts, baby. Because we were saying this off mic. They leave in a lot of things that other documentaries don't, if the conversations even happen at all. We've talked about this on other episodes. We really need to move forward in this movement to have, like, mental health professionals on set during interviews like this. Like, I think it is really necessary and. And would be really valuable. But they leave in things like Robin talking about the reason why they're doing the interview, what we're meant to get from the interview, why the interview is important, why the dad retraumatizing himself by talking about his daughter's brutal murder is valuable and important and what he's giving to the world by doing that. And I love that it all gets, like, left in.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. It should be normal. It shouldn't be so surprising and refreshing to see, for lack of a better term, this is how you should be handling these kinds of things.
Julie Benavali
We then meet Azrian. Who? Or Adrian. It's either Adrian or Azrian, but he's Robin's brother.
Leroy (Robin's father)
And he's just like, Robin is my father's favorite. It was as if she was another half of him. I think the pain of losing Robin truly weighed him down. She was just full of life.
Patrick Hines
She was awesome. She was full of life. She just always, like, brought a smile to your face. Everyone loved her voice. And Robyn was so young. When she's 15 years old, her family starts to notice changes in her because.
Julie Benavali
Her parents have separated. And, like, the dad is saying that, like, that's really hard on any kid. And for Robyn, it manifested in, like, not going to school, not going to class. She's suddenly arguing with people. She's just different.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And she was like, of course, like, this sucked. She was acting out. And also her father was a cop and a pastor. Super strict household.
Julie Benavali
The brother Adrian is like, he was very, very. And I get it. It is not. That's not my parenting style. I am not like a loosey goosey parent by any means. But, like, overly strictness is we. Daisy and I have been talking so much about sneaking out because she heard me and Steve talking about it after the Emily Longley episode. So every night Daisy's like, so, Daddy, when I'm older, what's going to happen if I sneak out? I'm like, well, you're not going to sneak out. And then we have to have, like a conversation about last night. I told her about the time when I was 14 and I snuck out with my sister.
Patrick Hines
Really? Where'd she go?
Julie Benavali
No. That was Daisy's first question. We went nowhere. We walked around the neighborhood. We were bored. After 45min, we, like, came home and went back to bed and knocked on the door. No. But we told our mom the next day, she's like, that was dumb, Daisy. Daddy, there could have been a killer out there. And I was like, tell me you're the kid of a true crime podcast.
Patrick Hines
Or without telling me you're the kid of 2025.
Julie Benavali
I know, Daddy. There could have been a killer out there.
Patrick Hines
She's right.
Julie Benavali
I know.
Patrick Hines
So, yeah, I mean, obviously. And she's, you know, going through it with her parents. Separation, like, acting out. Of course she was, you know.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. And so, like, her birthday was coming up. Robyn was super excited about it. She's posting about it all over social media.
Patrick Hines
And it's her 20th birthday, so she's not 15 anymore, still incredibly young, but she. Yeah.
Julie Benavali
And she makes plans to, like, meet up with friends in New York. Like, that's the plan for the birthday weekend.
Patrick Hines
And so she goes to New York City from Philly and to go party with her friend and she never comes home. And this is, you know, her family doesn't hear from her. She's not responding to calls and texts. Very, very unlike her. Especially I'm sure, you know, when your father's a pastor and a cop, you have those check ins. You have to call and check in maybe more than a 20 year old woman.
Julie Benavali
Yeah, I was going to say like remind her that she is 20. So it does take the family a couple days to realize that she's not around. But brother Adri is like, I scoured her Facebook.
Leroy (Robin's father)
I was contacting every single person who left a like on her most recent post, I heard nothing.
Julie Benavali
And he says he gets nothing back from anybody.
Patrick Hines
Nothing. And so Leroy, Robin's father and again a cop calls police and he says, I think this is so important. He says, well, there was only one officer who even responded to me.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
Emphasizes me.
Julie Benavali
I will say Leroy does not mince words when it comes to how the police handled this case.
Patrick Hines
Yeah, it's like wall of blue. But maybe not if black or maybe if your daughter, you know, like. Yeah.
Julie Benavali
Once it becomes like your kid, it becomes very personal. And you would think, I mean, my God. That we are again dealing with the fact that she was not at home. She was in a jurisdiction in another state. They say she was going to New York, but she actually went to New Jersey. This all happens in New Jersey.
Patrick Hines
Yeah, we get a lot of selective like, you know, protect your own if you're a cop. They pick and choose when they want to do.
Julie Benavali
It is kind of wild to think that there were like, like the cops in New Jersey not calling back this Philly cop to help like figure out what's going on with his daughter. That seem really crazy to me.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. Like no investigators or detectives reached out. Like no information is given to the family.
Julie Benavali
And we will learn more about why in a minute.
Tiffany Taylor
Travel down the road.
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Julie Benavali
We don't know. But, like, all of the counties that this takes place is. Is in New Jersey. It's not really clear, but that's kind of where this happen.
Patrick Hines
So the friend she went to meet called police as well and says Robin got into a car and she never came back. And thank you, awesome friend, because the friend took a picture of the license plate and gave it to the cops.
Julie Benavali
Now, just stop on this to say for a minute. They immediately identify the last person Robin was with. Like, she gets in this guy's car. The friend takes a picture of the license plate. It gets to the cops. The cops interview this guy briefly. He says that he had nothing to do with her disappearance and they just let him go.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. So I'm like, really? Like, she was last seen driving off with this guy. We're just going to take him at his word. I'm not saying go straight to corruption.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
But, like, maybe let's keep this guy on our list. And then I'm like, oh, silly. Me, there isn't even a list. So, yeah.
Julie Benavali
So I think the reason, and this is not an excuse, I do not believe in this excuse at all. But we meet Officer Paul and he's.
Officer Paul
Saying, the police report said that Robin got into a car on Nye Avenue in Irvington, which is also known as a area where people can walk the streets.
Julie Benavali
There's the assumption that the young ladies were involved in sex work. Immediately Robyn is considered a sex worker. And they think it's a high risk lifestyle and the cops are just not that interested in investigating this case.
Patrick Hines
And so they're wondering if maybe that's why her friend was so fast to snap a photo. Like maybe they were working together and looking out for each other. And so this friend knows, always take pictures of the license plate in case something bad happens.
Julie Benavali
And my God, like, that is really, really smart. You're getting in a car with a stranger. You know what I mean? And we do learn. Reporter Anthony tells us that this is something that people who do sex work in this area will do to sort of watch out for each other. And it's very smart.
Patrick Hines
And so, like, Robyn's family is trying to get her story on the news and it's not working because of this whole bullshit, like, she put herself in that situation nonsense that we don't subscribe to. But, like, the minute people hear sex work or bad neighborhood or anything unsafe, they just make these assump that end up really devaluing the person. Because Leroy, her own father, is like, yeah, she's still a human being with people who love her.
Julie Benavali
And like, I want to point out too, that, like, this guy goes on to become a serial killer.
Patrick Hines
And the point is that Robyn is black because over in Boston, the Craigslist killer is all over the news even though he too is targeting sex workers.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. And it's handled very differently. We meet Nicole, who's a news anchor up in Boston, and she says that, like, the similarities between the two cases are kind of staggering. Like, both are targeting sex workers. We just have to say it. Because the Craigslist killer was happening in an affluent area and the sex workers he was targeting were white and the killer himself was white. This gets much more widespread attention. So we can't even just say, oh, the media is not going to cover stories of sex workers. No, the media is not going to cover stories of black sex workers.
Patrick Hines
Right. And Leah Webb is here. She's a New York State Senator, 52nd Senate District.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
She says, of course, like, stories and cases about black women and girls are underreported to a staggering degree.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Tiffany Taylor
She adds, there's stigma. Black women have always been hypersexualized. So when we're talking about black female sex workers, it actually becomes even more negative.
Patrick Hines
And in Boston, like, the media attention helped women. It saved lives. It alerted women.
Julie Benavali
But it was also part of the story because, you know, our reporter friend is telling us that, like, the story. And I was in Boston when this happened, so I remember this. The story in Boston at the time was, women in Boston are under attack, and who's going to be next? You know, it's all spit. I mean, it's valuable. I'm glad that they're, like, they're looking for this guy and they're trying to protect the women of Boston. But, like, all. All people need to be protected.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And, like, because this case wasn't covered, women weren't aware and more people died because of it.
Julie Benavali
Exactly.
Patrick Hines
That's just a fact.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
So September 13, 2016, Robyn is missing for two weeks.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And this is when Robyn's body is found.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. And, like, her dad, Leroy, tells this just horrifying story because, like, as a parent, I think his. His point here is, like, you can't imagine that your child is actually dead. And so, you know, his ex calls him and says, they found Robin. And he tells this horrible story of, like, great, let's gas up the car and go get her. But no, they found her body. The dad literally collapses on the floor.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And Leroy, her dad says that Robin was this guy's first victim. And by the way, he was the person the cops spoke to. They had his license plate, they went to his home, they spoke to him, and they did nothing. And so, like, when people try to, quote, do everything right, they look out for each other, they take the photo, they call the police. The people who are supposed to be there to help you don't do shit. So what are we supposed to do?
Julie Benavali
Right.
Patrick Hines
Like, Robyn's friend did everything she was, quote, supposed to do.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And now look what happened. Absolutely nothing.
Julie Benavali
And we're about to meet Tiffany Taylor, and it gets so much worse here because she's got the name and they don't care.
Patrick Hines
Right. So November 15, 2016. It's two months after Robyn's murder. Yes, Tiffany Taylor is here. She is a survivor. She is here to say in no uncertain terms, she tried her damnedest to tell the police her story. They did not listen to her.
Julie Benavali
And what I love is just another amazing thing about this series. Robin. Robin says to Tiffany, as She's beginning the interview. And I think it is so important to show the care that Robin Roberts takes before launching into getting Tiffany to tell her story again. Because we're gonna learn this horrendous attack that Tiffany suffers. The police are gonna tell her that they lose her police report. They make her do it twice. She's gotta tell this story twice to the cops. She's doing it again here with Robin Roberts. And Robin Roberts says to her, it.
Tiffany Taylor
Can'T be easy to share a story that at one time nobody believed or wanted to hear. What's your feeling? I'm ready. I'm ready to talk about.
Julie Benavali
Can't be easy sharing a story that at one time nobody believed or wanted to hear.
Patrick Hines
You know, and then the aftermath of that.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
Like. And what that means for someone like Tiffany, who's like, again, I tried to do everything right. And maybe if I, you know, the Tiffany's of the world will say, well, maybe if I did it better, maybe, you know, like, take on that guilt when it's not her fault and none of this is her fault.
Julie Benavali
And it's also just the acknowledgement from Robin Roberts. Like, I know that you're giving us your story, and we see you and we appreciate you and we're grateful, and it's just like, every interviewer needs to learn from this.
Patrick Hines
Absolutely. So Tiffany tells us about herself. She's from Jersey City. She says that she grew up in the projects, but her mom kept her very, very sheltered. She said, they were very protective of me.
Leroy (Robin's father)
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And she had a rough go of it, Tiffany. Like, she fucking went through it.
Julie Benavali
Her mom gets sick with cancer. Tiffany didn't know if her mom was going to live or die. Tiffany says, we lost everything. We were homeless. It was rough.
Patrick Hines
Yeah.
Julie Benavali
And then she says, like, Tiffany, to learn how to take care of myself and my mom, too. Now, as a person who has done this, if you've ever had to care for a person who's suffering from cancer, that is brutal. And Tiffany was a kid and homeless. And I'm thinking where, like, is. Is she taking care of her mother in the. While also living navigating the shelter system or living in a car like, like, you know, those.
Patrick Hines
Those, you know, lowcost motels or whatever.
Julie Benavali
And Tiffany is just like, you know, you can see just by looking at her for two seconds, she's like the most selfless person in the world.
Leroy (Robin's father)
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And she says, like, in order to figure this out, she said that she started running the streets just to get by.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
So in 2016. Tiffany gets pregnant, and she tells us.
Tiffany Taylor
I was so happy once I got pregnant. I just stopped everything. I just wanted my baby to have the life that I didn't have.
Julie Benavali
She just wants to give her kid the life that she didn't get to have.
Patrick Hines
And she's happy about this pregnancy, and she's focusing on herself and focusing on the baby. And so it's November 15, 2016, and she explains what happened. She says that she just goes. She goes to meet up with, quote, a guy.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And when Robin Roberts is like, what was this person like? And she goes, he was just a regular kid. Like, it was just a guy. Like, she said she was staying at the Ritz Motel at the time. She's five months pregnant. And Tiffany explains. She goes, look, this guy knew what she calls her situation. He knew she needed money.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And so they just, like, arrange a meet. And so the guy picks up Tiffany. But this is interesting. The guy picks up Tiffany, but then they switch seats, and Tiffany gets behind the wheel.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. And she's explaining that, like, she's driving and driving, driving. Doesn't really know where he wants her to go. But then he says he's got to go to the bathroom. Can we turn down a side street.
Patrick Hines
So he can pee?
Julie Benavali
So he can fucking pee. So as they pull down a side street, he then attacks her. And in Tiffany's own words, she describes, he rapes her, he duct tapes her. And Tiffany describes how people were, like, walking by and not noticing.
Patrick Hines
Not noticing. And he handcuffed her. Like, he just choking her.
Julie Benavali
She says, I was trying to scratch his face, and he grabbed my hands and very calmly says, no, no, I know what I'm doing. I've done this before.
Patrick Hines
What a piece of shit. So Tiffany is trying to get out of the situation alive, and she is just. I just can't imagine what it's like for your mind to be racing and that, to sort of, like, land on an idea and see if it works.
Julie Benavali
But she nails it.
Patrick Hines
What she does, and she says, oh, shit. She tells him, I said, you know.
Tiffany Taylor
I left my phone at the hotel with all our text messages and everything on it. That's when he got all frantic. You gotta get that phone. You gotta go back and get the phone.
Julie Benavali
She describes how he goes from being calm to being frantic, and they've gotta get the phone immediately. And Robin Roberts is saying to her, like, how were you managing to, like, stay so calm while you were doing this? And she says, I was not gonna let this guy kill me and my daughter she was so fucking determined.
Patrick Hines
And there's this really great exchange that really shows, like, the relationship that Robin has with the people that she's talking to and how comfortable they feel with her and how it feels like it's just old friends talking. Because Tiffany explains that she breaks out of one of the handcuffs and Robin goes. Goes without letting him know. And Tiffany goes without letting him know.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And it was just a really. There was like, a level of comfort there, just in that exchange where you just felt like, oh, they really, like, admire and trust each other.
Julie Benavali
Exactly. Exactly.
Tiffany Taylor
Travel down the road back again, fam.
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Thank you. And so we see the surveillance video, and this is important, we see the surveillance video of her in the parking lot with her attacker. She's running up the stairs. She says she darts into the room. And then, quote, I think I almost broke his hand with how hard I slammed the door on it. And I was like, yes, Tiffany, yes.
Patrick Hines
So she calls 911 again. She does the right thing, right? She gets away. She tells police. Right away she goes, somebody just kidnapped me. And this is where we hear it. I don't know if he's still outside. Holy fuck.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
Have the body cam footage Okay.
Julie Benavali
I wonder if the cops forget that they're being recorded.
Patrick Hines
They absolutely have.
Julie Benavali
This is some of the most shocking police body cam footage I have ever seen.
Patrick Hines
And just in terms of the conversation, because they are instantly victim blaming her, because they're going to like the Ritz Motel, which is known for sex work. They're basically saying, like, the injuries aren't bad enough for them.
Julie Benavali
We see her say, look at the injuries on. Look at the bruises on my face.
Patrick Hines
And they're like, yeah, rough sex, right? He paid for it or whatever. Like, bullshit. But then, oh, my God, she's. When did he duct tape you?
Officer Paul
Huh?
Julie Benavali
In the car.
Patrick Hines
In the car.
Julie Benavali
So you let him duct tape you or what happened?
Tiffany Taylor
I just need to know when he said this. So you let him. They did not believe me at all.
Patrick Hines
Oh, so you let him put duct tape on you?
Julie Benavali
It is the most unbelievable. Now we're gonna learn later. This guy has killed before. Tiffany, tried to kill Tiffany, and is going to kill again after Tiffany. And Tiffany says, I had all of the information. I had his Facebook, I had his name. I knew exactly where he lived. She says, they did not believe me at all. I just felt like they wanted to lock me up. Tiffany could have gotten a murderer off the streets in that moment, but the cops just didn't believe her.
Patrick Hines
And they didn't take her seriously. Or they thought like, well, like, you're a sex worker in their minds, whatever the shitty translation is of calling her names or whatever. Like, this is part of the gig, girl. Like, too bad. Yes, they were bothered by it. And the term let him put duct tape on you is unbelievable.
Julie Benavali
And he says it as though he's repeating back what she said, right?
Patrick Hines
And she's like, I didn't say that.
Julie Benavali
She duct taped me is what I. So you let him put duct tape on you?
Patrick Hines
No.
Julie Benavali
What?
Patrick Hines
Literally not what she said. So the next day, again, doing everything. Yeah, right. On paper. Everything we're told to do, Right? Like, Tiffany's mom picks her up, she gets the sexual assault evidence kit done, and she says she was so scared.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And this is when the cops tell her that her statement got lost and she has to do it all again.
Julie Benavali
Now, for people who don't know what that means, she has to sit down and tell a probably male cop everything that this man did to her. And she's already had to do that once. We know how traumatizing it is for them to have to relive the trauma like that for her to then have to do it a second time. We sort of scoot right past this. Like, that is absolutely traumatizing. To have to do that twice. Yeah, to have to do that once.
Patrick Hines
And I really don't get the sense that they, I don't know, like, apologized or understood the weight of what it meant that they. 1. To hear that the story that she told the first time got lost is such a fucking punch in the gut. Like, what it signifies to Tiffany after feeling like they wanted to lock her up.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
So then it's like, oh, you didn't give a shit enough to, like, put it in the proper file.
Julie Benavali
Okay, cool.
Patrick Hines
So now I have to do it again, and you're so annoyed by me. And she's like, once again. Full name, his address, Facebook page, his phone number.
Julie Benavali
Yes. She got all of the information. And I just want to say one more time, the way that Tiffany said, says, they told me it got lost. Like, that either means that they just threw it away, or it was like they didn't care enough. Like, this is a woman who's been raped, and they didn't take enough care in the way that they took her report to, like, file her report appropriately. How hard is that?
Patrick Hines
Yeah, it's not hard.
Julie Benavali
No.
Patrick Hines
And so the producer plays the body cam footage for one of the cops, and I'm like, holy shit. Like, this is what I'm talking about. People behind the camera need to do more of this.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And this is Paul. Right. And the producer's like, there's a consent implied there.
Narrator/Commentator
Where is that coming from?
Julie Benavali
I.
Officer Paul
You would have to ask that officer why he would phrase the question that way. I really can't answer that.
Patrick Hines
Now, Paul, the cop says, I don't know. You'd have to ask that officer. Now, he's not 100% wrong to say he was not there. He didn't say it. The production. I understand what they're doing. I appreciate it. We need more of this. But the production wants him to say on the record that that cop was wrong to do that, and Paul's just never going to do that.
Julie Benavali
My thing about that, though, is that, like, so we called the police and asked to interview y', all, and you're who they sent, so have a fucking answer.
Patrick Hines
Right.
Julie Benavali
Sorry.
Patrick Hines
Oh, but, like, he's never gonna do that.
Julie Benavali
Of course not. But, like. But. But the. Like, he. He's been sent there because he wasn't the cop who did that.
Patrick Hines
Right. You know, and, like, yeah, like, keep pressing them. Yeah, but I was just gonna say. And he eventually says, like, he was ready to kill her if he put duct tape across her mouth, like, he was absolutely gonna kill her. But Tiffany thought quickly and got herself out of there as to say, like, I won't get. I won't tell on you. Like, I'll delete that text message. Like, come on. But say he was ready to kill her.
Julie Benavali
And. But also, Paul, there is another thing you can say, which is to say that's not the appropriate way to handle that. You know what I mean? But there's like, you always say, like, there's such the blue wall, like, he's never going to say anything bad about that cop that he's probably going to have to see at the fucking golf course.
Patrick Hines
And it's really selective blue wall bullshit because Robin, our other victim, like, her dad was a cop and they didn't give him any information or help him at all. So, like, it's very. They get to. They pick and choose when they're going to be the fucking blue wall of whatever.
Julie Benavali
And then Paul is also here to.
Officer Paul
Say that in New Jersey, the wealthy in the Are next door neighbors. We try to give every victim the same type of attention, but our resources, whether it's personnel or equipment or vehicles, they're always stretched.
Julie Benavali
We're really short on personnel and equipment and vehicles. And I'm like, are we really talking about police cars right now?
Patrick Hines
Did you have a hard day at work today?
Julie Benavali
This woman had to report her rape twice. And we're talking about the number of cop cars you have, the job you.
Patrick Hines
Signed up for, like, the oath you took. You're going to be, like, complaining about it now in the face of just. Just the fact that, like, her race, her socioeconomic status, like all of that is. It's just a fact. Like, there's no opinion here. And no amount of bullshitting from the cops is going to change what the facts are. Yeah, like, no hemming and hawing. Like, that's what the fact is.
Julie Benavali
And now we're going to see, like, how similar the cases of the Craigslist killer and the tagged killer are, but how different the coverage actually was. So we learned about Trisha Leffler, and she was the first victim of the Craigslist killer. And once again, we learned that this all went down at the Western Hotel, Copley Square, which is in the rich part of Boston. It's in Back Bay. And we see video of Trisha. And I'm glad that this was her experience. I am not denying Trisha this at all. But she's on the news talking about how respectful and kind the cops were to her.
Patrick Hines
They were very respectful towards me. They didn't say, you know, you're not supposed to be doing this, you know, anything like that.
Narrator/Commentator
Tiffany Taylor and Tricia Lefler, their stories are similar. They're tied up attack act with Trisha Lefler. They took her seriously.
Julie Benavali
I think this is the best example of what this show is trying to do to show how similar the cases were and how different because it was both. You know, both cases involved a sex worker who escaped. And in Trisha Lefler's case, she gets, like, put on the news and, you know, and. And good for her. I'm glad that she was. But in Tiffany's case, like, she is ignored and victim blamed, and they lose her police report about her rape.
Patrick Hines
And Tiffany knows her attacker. She has his name, his address, his phone number. He's on the surveillance, came cameras. And yet crickets.
Julie Benavali
Yes, which, by the way, is the exact same thing with the. Trisha doesn't know the name of the killer, but it's the same thing arranged through the Internet. I love that they spend time to talk about how dumb these men are. They just let themselves be caught on surveillance camera everywhere. But these cases are identical except for the socioeconomic status of the victim.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And so when Robin's father, our victim, Robin's father, Leroy, said earlier that his daughter was this guy's first victim. He means his first murder victim, I think, because Tiffany survived this piece of shit. Only, no, nobody knew about it.
Julie Benavali
Right.
Patrick Hines
So. November 23, 2016. It's eight days after Tiffany's harrowing ordeal. We learn about the story of Sarah Butler. She is a college student. She is a black woman. She is reported missing. And she had been missing for a few days by the time she was reported to the police.
Julie Benavali
And like, just some important details, like it happened over Thanksgiving weekend. She'd asked to borrow her mother's van. She took off early in the evening, never comes back. So Sarah, we learned, had been communicating with people on this tagged app, which is where a lot of the women in the New Jersey cases are. And it's. We learned this is an app for hookups, but it also can be an app for sex work.
Officer Paul
You can have fake identities and exchange money for sex, so no one really knows who you are.
Julie Benavali
A lot of times women who find themselves on websites like Tagged or back then Craigslist don't present as your typical kind of sex worker.
Narrator/Commentator
It was younger women, maybe women who haven't told friends and family they're on this site. So Nobody knows to look for them, and nobody knows if they're safe.
Julie Benavali
When women go missing, no one knows to look for them there.
Patrick Hines
And it's just scary because, like, you know, you. They say you could have fake identities and exchange money and no one knows who you are, and it's sort of untraceable. And I know people have to do what they have to do, but it just seems so scary.
Julie Benavali
And it. All of this could be solved if sex work was legal and regulated.
Patrick Hines
I mean, come on.
Julie Benavali
You know what I mean?
Patrick Hines
We gotta help out these women. The stigma is. It's so ridiculous. Like, why. Like, is it worth it, really? Can we just have the conversation that people don't want to have for what I know.
Julie Benavali
And I'm. I'm not correcting you at all because I know what you mean. But it's like, not just women and like, this know. It's.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. Just. It's ridiculous.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
So three days after Sarah goes missing, her mom's van is found along with Sarah's red weave. And we're told that, like, that was kind of her signature.
Julie Benavali
It's also important to point out that, like, Sarah's friends are going to get really involved here. And the. The weave was found next to the van and was only identified as Sarah's weave because the best friend was like, Sarah wore a. A red. You know what I mean? Like, the. The friends got really involved and gave the information that the cops wouldn't have had had. And one of our talking heads said that if the friend hadn't told the cops that they would have missed it completely.
Tiffany Taylor
Yeah.
Julie Benavali
And the weave is what is connecting Sarah to the van.
Patrick Hines
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Patrick Hines
So Sarah's BFF is very important to this investigation. And she was able to get onto Sarah's computer.
Julie Benavali
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Patrick Hines
And I love this. And so she goes on the computer to get information about like, who Sarah was talking to and what she was doing and where she was meeting. And she finds that Sarah was talking to this guy who. His name is Lil Yockrock. Yeah, so whatever. So, but we see the screenshot and it's just like they are just getting right to it. He says, do you want to make money? Sex for money? And Sarah goes, how much money? Question mark. Then she says, 500. And then she says the thing that is just like, oh my God. But it's what so many people I'm sure say. She goes, you're not a serial killer.
Julie Benavali
Right, I know.
Patrick Hines
Lmao. And he just says, no. No punctuation, no nothing. And to see that in writing is like, oh my God. But like, I'm sure. How many people make jokes like that?
Julie Benavali
How many people make the joke thinking, if I make the joke, then this plane gonna crash. You know what I mean?
Patrick Hines
Yeah, tell me about it.
Julie Benavali
I know, but that's what I'm saying. Like that. That's a thing that you say when it's like, if I say it then it can't. Then it won't be true.
Patrick Hines
But Sarah's saying it. And then she goes, him. So she says it. He says no. And she gets nervous or whatever and she bails.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And he follows up with her and he's like, like, hey, are we doing this? And of course, because she's a woman, we would all do it. She apologizes and she goes, sorry, I got really nervous. And it's like this is an app. It's just so indicative of, like, who she is and just like, how women have to navigate the world because they. The whole. We're told that the app is built so that you don't know these people from a hole in the wall.
Julie Benavali
Right.
Patrick Hines
She doesn't owe him an apology. She doesn't owe him a response. She doesn't owe him anything.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
But because of how we are navigating in the world and black women in particular and sex work, like, end, end, end. She's like, sorry, I got nervous. She feels like she has to apologize to this piece of shit.
Julie Benavali
And then she, like, agrees to the meat. She agrees to do it.
Patrick Hines
So Sarah's bff, oh, my God.
Julie Benavali
If you don't say, let the women do the work.
Patrick Hines
Teams up with Sarah's sister. Sarah's sister and friends took matters into their own hands. They could tell the kind of women that he was interested in.
Tiffany Taylor
So they created this fake profile.
Patrick Hines
It was a catfishing scheme that they knew would attract him. And it did. It works.
Julie Benavali
It 100% works.
Patrick Hines
They meet up at Panera.
Julie Benavali
Oh, my God. Of course.
Patrick Hines
They head to Panera, starving, hopefully. Got the green tea, of course. Which is my favorite. The like, what is it? The papaya.
Julie Benavali
Yeah, yeah. Y.
Patrick Hines
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Julie Benavali
Yeah. I do love too that the police are like, thank you for setting this up. We will take it from here.
Patrick Hines
Like, please.
Julie Benavali
But also, I feel like, let's keep the girls. Let's keep the ladies safe. Like, I think that's the right thing to do.
Patrick Hines
Well, yeah. So the sister and the BFF tell the cops about everything and, like about the meetup. And this is what we said, and this is what he's going to be wearing, blah, blah, blah. And the piece of shit is picked up and he gives them his real name, which is Khalil Wheeler Weaver.
Julie Benavali
And they say he's super cooperative. Presents himself like a hard working, nice young man. He's a security guard at a supermarket.
Patrick Hines
His family is a law enforcement.
Julie Benavali
Yeah, but I mean, his family is law enforcement and that is big because of what happens next. The police question him for like a little bit. He gives the timeline of his night with Sarah. He's like, we hung out, she dropped me off. I went to hang out with one of my buddies they call the buddy. The buddy's like, yeah, he was with me all night. They let this fucking guy go.
Patrick Hines
And so the cops, quote, don't see him as a threat. Right. But because Tiffany wasn't taken seriously, they don't know about her case. So they can't see any similarities, if any. And so they just drop it.
Julie Benavali
Right.
Patrick Hines
And the family being in law enforcement cannot be ignored because this is once again selective.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
Today, in this moment, they're gonna use it to not pursue this kid. And can I just say for the second time.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. Like once again, Tiffany had this guy's name. Yeah. And he used his real name with the cop. Now in the case of Sarah and.
Patrick Hines
So did Robin's friend.
Julie Benavali
Yes. So if the cops had looked to these black women at any point and actually believed them and taken some kind of fucking record of this guy's name, these women wouldn't be dead.
Patrick Hines
Yeah, yeah. They had many opportunities to do the right thing and they just kept not doing. And like in this instance, we're see how clear it is that they didn't do the same right thing.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
You know what I mean? Like they didn't pursue this guy. They knocked on this guy's door twice, only they didn't know it was twice. Because nobody's talking, because nobody's taking these.
Julie Benavali
People seriously and nobody's putting his name in the system. Nobody's making a report about this guy.
Patrick Hines
You know, it makes you want to jump out a window.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
Doesn't it? Don't you feel like exasperated just saying it?
Julie Benavali
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Patrick Hines
She's living it.
Julie Benavali
I know. I mean it's really crazy.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And now like the black women of it all, you know, the sex, you know, it's just like it never, it never ends. And, and, and, and, and, and, and so both killers here, Boston and New Jersey or whatever, I think people have.
Narrator/Commentator
Built in their mind the image of a killer and it's not the tagged killer and the Craigslist killer. You have young attractive predators preying on their victims. What makes made the Craigslist Killer case so interesting was he was an all American guy, a guy that you would be friends with on social media.
Patrick Hines
They're hiding in plain sight, but they're both using the Internet to do this.
Julie Benavali
And we were talking about this off mic a little bit. I actually appreciated that they pointed out that the killer in New Jersey is attractive. And the reason I think that that's important is because the Craigslist killer was hot. Like that was the whole thing. And it's just another way in which these cases are the same. A hot guy attracts a sex worker who escapes, who has the details and the story to tell, and the. And the Craigslist Killer becomes famous, and no one's ever heard of this guy.
Patrick Hines
You know, I. I know that this took place in 2016, and I think that was probably about maybe the. The. The end of, like, well, he didn't look like a killer. We. When did it become. When did we start doing this? 2018.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
You know what I mean?
Julie Benavali
2017.
Patrick Hines
You know, it's like. Well, yeah, it doesn't. It kind of doesn't. That's kind of the point. It can be anyone.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
So we got to stop with this whole, like, y. I hope that this is sort of the tail end of that, but he was bookish. What the fudge does that mean?
Julie Benavali
And that's the whole thing is that, like, this is all wrapped up in, like, selling newspapers and magazines and even getting people to watch episodes of this show. You know what I mean? It's like, it all. Yeah, it all sucks.
Patrick Hines
So it's December 1, 2016. Sarah Butler has been missing for nine days. And the whole investigation is online, basically, like texts, apps, whatever. And they are able to find Sarah's body because of her cell phone. So they're using, like, the towers and all of that information, and they're making.
Julie Benavali
It sound like the killer didn't know that this is how cell phones worked.
Patrick Hines
Well, because they're led to Eagle Rock reservation, which we're told is like, a lot of forest area, super hidden. Has a history of bad things happening. So they say. I'm sure it's also lovely.
Julie Benavali
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Patrick Hines
Don't come for me, I'm sure. But, like, it's just one of those places where it can be, you know, off the beaten path or whatever.
Julie Benavali
So.
Patrick Hines
So Sarah's body was hidden under a bunch of leaves, and the van was found in Orange, New Jersey. And so the cops are using surveillance footage to track the movements of the van to see, like, how did we get from. How is the van here and how is Sarah here? How do we merge the two together?
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
So the van is seen in the parking lot of 7 11. And they see Sarah in the van, like, in the footage in the passenger.
Julie Benavali
Seat of the van that she was driving.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And so the kids killer. It's weird how he's. I mean, I guess it's a power thing, but, like, he had Tiffany switch seats, so, like, he picked up Tiffany, but then Tiffany drove.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And now in this, you know, it's weird. So the killer goes into 7 11. He's wearing all black, wearing black gloves. And this is where we're told in surveillance photos the man is fixated on his BlackBerry. The device made it easy to find him.
Narrator/Commentator
The Craigslist killer and the tagged killer were preying on their victims because they of the Internet and the Internet was the smoking gun.
Patrick Hines
They just like forgot about the surveillance in 2016.
Julie Benavali
And this isn't like 2001, this is 2016.
Patrick Hines
But it's weird because they're both attached to their phones.
Julie Benavali
I know.
Patrick Hines
And pretty well versed in technology that like they're able to, you know, they use these apps or whatever, but they just sort of like they were. It just proves that they were totally distracted by their need to do these horrible things that they're not clocking the surveillance camera at a 7:11.
Julie Benavali
And also they're not trying to not get caught. That's the other thing. It's like this guy, the killer in the New Jersey cases has already been caught and let go twice.
Patrick Hines
Well, and then it's like, well now he's more emboldened.
Julie Benavali
Right.
Patrick Hines
And they're both targeting people that quote, maybe you know, people wouldn't care about, but not necessarily in Boston because they're like high class escorts at fancy hotels and get to be on the 6 o' clock news being like, oh, how did she get into this? Something horrible must have happened to her. But meanwhile, Tiffany made her fucking choices. She let him duct tape her. Like, what are you saying to me?
Julie Benavali
Exactly?
Patrick Hines
It's if you to take certain, you know, race or neighborhood out of it. It's the same thing.
Julie Benavali
You could like do the check mark like arranged on the Internet, you know, involved a sex worker. A sex worker who got away, you.
Patrick Hines
Know, met at a hotel. If you, if it's not, don't use a descriptive word if it's just a hotel.
Julie Benavali
Exactly. Thing like both of the killers caught on surveillance video, like that's the Internet is their downfall. They weren't paying attention to, you know, how the Internet works and what they can like, it's exactly the same.
Patrick Hines
So they finally, they like find this guy.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And they charged this murderer with Sarah' murder and then they're able to quote, link him to other crimes. I'm like, oh, are they, are they now finally able to do that when you let him go twice before based on two separate people telling you exactly who he is? Robin's friend and Tiffany, they had his.
Julie Benavali
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Patrick Hines
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Julie Benavali
I mean it's unbelievable.
Patrick Hines
They knocked on his door twice and asked him what was going on. But because we have the jurisdiction bullshit or whatever, they didn't know they went to him twice.
Julie Benavali
Exactly. Exactly.
Patrick Hines
So I'm like, oh, are you? Are you really now? You're going to take credit for it now?
Julie Benavali
Also Tiffany's here to say, like, I think there's a lot more victims of this guy. She said, I don't believe I'm the only survivor.
Patrick Hines
I agree.
Julie Benavali
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Patrick Hines
And, well, I mean, even at the end of this, I still agree.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
You know, like, we'll get more information, but I still agree with Tiffany.
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Patrick Hines
When we. Because he tells us what happened.
Julie Benavali
This is like the family from the very beginning.
Patrick Hines
Yeah.
Leroy (Robin's father)
I was filled with rage in seeing him and knowing what he has done. Khalil Wheeler Weaver killed Robin, put her body in a abandoned house and set her on fire.
Patrick Hines
I'm furious. Like, this whole thing fills me with rage.
Julie Benavali
And he's sobbing. Like, he's sobbing. I'm sobbing. It's just absolutely horrible.
Patrick Hines
And he says he's going to try to turn this pain into purpose, which, Leroy, you are absolutely doing. You succeeded, by the way, if no one has told you that. 5. He's like, Here, let this be a lesson. Like, listen to what people are telling you. Because remember, the cops spoke to this guy many times and didn't pursue him.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And so this is when Leroy's like, hey, do your fucking jobs.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. And even the cops will admit that if they had listened to Tiffany Taylor, Sarah might still be alive. Like, that's how this episode started, was by Tiffany saying, like, if they had just listened to me, more people didn't have to die.
Patrick Hines
Right. So by December 2019. Now it's like a few years later, because this was all in 2016. December of 2019, Tiffany testifies and she nails. Yeah, she. So now this is, what, the fourth time on the sand that she has to tell this horrible thing that happened to her.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And so now we learn about even more victims of this guy, because now that they're like, wait, Tiffany. And now they're, like, connected to Robin, and now they're going back and they're like, oh, wait a second.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And now these cops are like, well, maybe all these years later, we'll start to look into the connections and see all of the terror that this guy really did. So we learn about Joanne Brown, who's another victim who was found a few blocks away from the killers. Again, duct tape and strangled just like.
Julie Benavali
Tiffany in an abandoned house.
Patrick Hines
Yep. And then mawa Dumbia, who's 15 years old. It took three years to find her. He was later charged with her murder after Tiffany testified. So Tiffany, still doing the amazing work.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And then we're back with Leah Webb, the state senator, saying. And she gives these numbers that are like, I know we say it all the time, but when we hear it, it's pretty insane.
Tiffany Taylor
More than 250,000 women and girls go missing every year. And of that, 30% were black women and girls. It is a systemic failure.
Patrick Hines
30% of those are black women.
Julie Benavali
But also And I think this is really important, too. Like, our news anchor friends are telling us it was only at this point that the killer is named a serial killer, and that was the point at which the media paid attention. Like, that is what is like when he was individually killing these black women. Nobody cared. But you put the label serial killer on him, and all of a sudden he's getting the news coverage, and then.
Patrick Hines
It'S like, but he doesn't look like one. Let's all look at the serial killer who doesn't look like a serial killer. It's like, well, that's what serial killers look like. They look like anybody.
Julie Benavali
And they also talk about the problem with these stories, and we face this, too. The problem with telling these stories is that the killer can often become the center of the story because, oh, my God, all the time, what people are so fascinated by is what makes these people tick.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. Yeah. And so the killer gets 160 years in prison. The other guy from Boston killed himself in prison, but they caught him, too. Finally.
Julie Benavali
There's this one moment that we. Where Robin is. You know, Robin's dad is in the courtroom watching the sentencing, and he says, like, everybody in that room just wanted the killer to. To take accountability, which he does not do. Right. He says he didn't do it.
Patrick Hines
That'll be the day.
Julie Benavali
That'll be the day. Right.
Patrick Hines
Oh, my God.
Julie Benavali
But everyone is crying, and. And Leroy is saying, I actually had.
Leroy (Robin's father)
The opportunity to pray with his mother because she was sitting there in tears, and she was saying, where did I go wrong? And I had to say to her, you did nothing wrong. He did this. My anger is not going to bring my daughter back.
Julie Benavali
I just wondered in that moment if I could do that.
Patrick Hines
That's the pastor on him.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
You know?
Julie Benavali
Yes. And I would hope that I would be able to have that moment of humanity with the person who didn't do this, but did raise the person who did.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. Because we don't know her story.
Julie Benavali
We don't.
Patrick Hines
And we don't know if she tried or. We don't know what their relationship was like. That. That we don't know. But that was like, oh, Leroy, your pastor is showing.
Julie Benavali
And I know back in. In the beginning of tco, you and I used to always say, like, don't. Unforgiveness. We used to hate that so much. And I love this moment for Leroy, if that's what he means. I don't know if I'd be able to do it, but I thought it was, like, a really interesting thing for him to tell us.
Patrick Hines
Now, I think in Leroy's. Again, I'm just speculating wildly, but I think this is the type of forgiveness that Leroy has where it's. It does help him and it is for him.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And because sometimes it's, like, not for you, and it's something you feel like you need to do. Because we see this a lot where it's like, my girlfriends were telling me I had to forgive them, and I said, absolutely not. Like, leave. This is something that I think Leroy really did need for healing and to move on. So Leroy can.
Julie Benavali
He can have it.
Patrick Hines
He can have it, Leroy.
Julie Benavali
I'll give you this one.
Patrick Hines
I think it's a very. It's a case by case basis.
Julie Benavali
Yes, yes.
Patrick Hines
But at the end, Leroy, Robin's dad, speaks with Tiffany and we learn that, like, they have become family.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And Leroy says. Cause Tiffany, like, of course, has gone through Helen back and she's doing the amazing work. But of course, like, the trailer trauma is going to come out every now and again. She's going to feel guilty, like, if she just said the right thing or whatever. Like, Tiffany, it's not your fault.
Leroy (Robin's father)
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
And Leroy says as much and says, you are the definition of a strong black woman. You're sharing your story. Being scared doesn't mean you're weak.
Julie Benavali
Yeah. And if you think about their connection, Leroy and Tiffany, she's probably about the age of his daughter, Robin.
Patrick Hines
Yeah.
Leroy (Robin's father)
When I met Tiffany, immediately she took to me and my wife. I lost a daughter, but I gained a daughter for the rest of our lives.
Julie Benavali
It doesn't end here.
Leroy (Robin's father)
We got a whole lifetime to go.
Tiffany Taylor
Thank you. I appreciate you. Yes, I do.
Julie Benavali
Oh, God. She survived his daughter's killer. So, like, in a way. Oh, I'm just thinking about this now. She knows. Knows what his daughter went through.
Patrick Hines
Well, because she says, you checked on me and no one else did. And I want to say thank you. Imagine how lonely it must have been for Tiffany. Yes.
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
And Leroy says, like, he gained a daughter.
Julie Benavali
Yes. And she gained a father.
Patrick Hines
And so I just think it's a really beautiful way of, like, how people do find strength in each other in these moments. Because Leroy earlier was like, I just want to use this. This fury and this rage for good and for action. And it's like just the two of them coming together and helping each other heal in this really important. Only the other one could do for.
Julie Benavali
The other one for sure.
Patrick Hines
It's like. Like no one else could do that.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
Like, only Tiffany.
Julie Benavali
It's that shared experience that only they.
Patrick Hines
Have could do it for each other. And it's just like, oh well now I'm sobbing on a Wednesday.
Julie Benavali
I know. And then in the end we get the great. Like, I love that there's a lot of on screen text at the end but they really take the time at the end to do the. In memory of Robin west who was 19 years old, Joanne Brown, 33 years old. Sarah Butler who was 20 years old and Mawa Dumbia who is 15 years old. 15.
Patrick Hines
I know. So this got 160 years in prison. And also he is awaiting trial for the murder of 15 year old Mawa Dumbia. So. And he's pled not guilty.
Julie Benavali
Like off, off.
Patrick Hines
And you're going to die in prison.
Leroy (Robin's father)
Yeah.
Julie Benavali
The police came to your house. Like we. What are you, what are you doing?
Patrick Hines
Right? But I love that it's like, oh, we're not done with them. We're still going to charge him. Because how many times did we see two where it's like, well we got him for 150 years. If this is too hard of a. But like that's how easy this case is going to be.
Julie Benavali
Totally.
Patrick Hines
That. It's like, oh this, let's just like it. Yeah, let's just, let's get him, get him on this one. So yeah, he's currently serving 160 years in a maximum security prison. The following organizations did not respond to or declined our requests for comment. Union County Police Department, Elizabeth Police Department and the Montclair Police Department.
Julie Benavali
Just like fudgeing. Sit down and answer for yourself.
Patrick Hines
And those are all in Jersey, by the way.
Julie Benavali
How humanizing would it be for the cops to be like, yeah, we kind of fucked this up.
Patrick Hines
Look, we say this all the time. Don't you want to be a hero?
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
Don't you want to do the right thing? And what does it say about the system you're in?
Julie Benavali
Yes.
Patrick Hines
If you can't say that was wrong.
Julie Benavali
Right.
Patrick Hines
And we learned from that. And here's what we're doing better. That's a problem.
Julie Benavali
Because if police want to have more of the civic trust, this is how you earn it.
Patrick Hines
And they're never, I mean, but wouldn't.
Julie Benavali
You think, don't they talk the talk, you know, like they want the people to trust them. You want to feel safe when you see a police. How many documentaries have we covered lately where it's like. And that changed the way I look at policing forever. That's every time I pass a cop on the highway now I'm terrified. You want to earn back some trust, take some accountability. No one is expecting you to get it right 100% of the time. Wouldn't that be nice if you did? That is not an expectation anybody has. Sit down and say, we messed this up.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And it also ends with, if you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you are not alone. Yeah. And then rain. You know that RAIN, that great organization RAIN with two ends. So they have, like 24. 7 support. You can go to RAIN with two ends.org or you can call. Remember, phone calls.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
Toll free, 1-800-656-HOPE, which is 4673. So, yeah, I just love. I just got the cheesiest, like, urge to say, be the change you want to see in the world. But, like, that's kind of how I feel about that. It's like, do the right thing, everybody. And you're also not alone.
Julie Benavali
So here's the thing. Here's our petition. We want mental health professionals on the set for interviews, and we want cops to say that we fucked this one.
Patrick Hines
Up and Robin Roberts to rule everything. I know I can't. It's a lot to put on her shoulders, but I just love that she, like. Don't you feel like, oh, she's taking.
Julie Benavali
Care of everything 100%.
Patrick Hines
You know, I feel safe for round.
Julie Benavali
Like, Robin, give us more episodes, girl.
Patrick Hines
Oh, my God, Robin, please. I know you're busy, but, you know, thank you. Bye.
Julie Benavali
Oh, girl. We did. What's it called?
Patrick Hines
This is that show Murder Has Two Faces. I don't. Here's a. Here's a critique.
Julie Benavali
Yeah.
Patrick Hines
A bit of constructive criticism for the show. I don't love the episode titles. This is good Guys gone bad.
Julie Benavali
Oh, yeah, I agree.
Patrick Hines
I love.
Julie Benavali
You know, while we're doing this, like, there's a little lower third action. I like it when you bring the lower third back for the third or fourth time we see somebody.
Patrick Hines
Yes.
Julie Benavali
You know what I mean?
Patrick Hines
You know who never has lower thirds. Dateline. They say the name of the person.
Julie Benavali
Yes, you're right.
Patrick Hines
I like a lower third, but I know.
Julie Benavali
Now give us a low. Give us a lower third.
Patrick Hines
We have a lot of today anyway, fam.
Julie Benavali
We love you. Join the Facebook group. Join us on Patreon. Follow us on the socials. Oh, my God. And follow us on YouTube. We have over a hundred thousand subscribers now.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. And we will see you very soon. We are not done with these bonus episodes. So we will see you. I don't know. But soon.
Julie Benavali
Next Thursday.
Patrick Hines
Yeah. Well, it sounds from whatever day this is, whatever day. We'll see you very, very soon, all right?
Julie Benavali
We love you. Goodbye.
Patrick Hines
We love you by.
Release Date: October 9, 2025
Hosts: Patrick Hines & Julie Benavali
This third and final bonus episode on the Murder Has Two Faces series, titled “Good Guys Gone Bad,” examines the chilling similarities—and stark differences—between the high-profile case of the “Craigslist Killer” in Boston and the less-publicized “Tagged Killer” in New Jersey. Hosts Patrick Hines and Julie Benavali recap the documentary with their trademark humor, empathy, and candor, focusing especially on survivor Tiffany Taylor and the social context of the crimes. The discussion centers on victim-blaming, systemic racism, law enforcement failures, the politics of media attention, and the importance of survivor-centered storytelling.
Theme Introduction:
Memorable Quote:
| Segment | Time | |----------------------------------------|-----------| | Comparing the killers & opening theme | 00:38–02:09 | | Robin West’s story, policing failures | 02:13–13:52 | | Race, sex work & media bias | 12:14–14:22 | | Tiffany Taylor’s survival & dismissal | 15:51–26:24 | | Bodycam footage & law enforcement bias | 21:36–23:36 | | Boston vs. NJ response | 27:25–28:34 | | Sarah Butler’s friends as investigators| 34:30–36:59 | | Systemic critique and statistics | 47:44–48:20 | | Leroy’s forgiveness and reflection | 49:15–51:00 | | Hosts’ calls to action/advocacy | 54:49–54:55 |
This episode is a powerful testament to the dangers of selective media coverage and law enforcement indifference—particularly for Black, female, and sex-working victims. The hosts celebrate survivor Tiffany Taylor, honor all the victims, and highlight the crucial failures that allowed a serial killer to continue killing. Ultimately, the show urges society to listen, believe, and support all survivors.
“Only the people who have lived this can help heal it in each other.” – Julie (52:24)