13 Year Old Realizes His Twin Brother Is A Killer In The Middle Of Interrogation
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A forensic DNA test usually scans about 20 fixed markers of DNA. It may take a few days but it’s enough to differentiate a suspect from the rest of the world with a near perfect level of certainty.
Except for identical twins.
It’s not a perfect analogy but think of DNA as a 3 billion letter book. Most people have about 20 chapters that are completely different. For identical twins, their entire book is identical except for about 8 typos. Not 8 different chapters, or sentences, not even 8 different words. 8 letter typos amongst 3 billion letters.
The technology to find these is only available at a handful of labs and costs hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Thankfully, identical twin crime is rare.
Except for Ohio.
A woman who lives alone is raped and murdered in her own home, and the DNA left at the scene traces back to a set of identical twins.
Two 13 year old boys are the main suspects but which twin is innocent?
And which twin is guilty?
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welcome to part two of the two-part audio podcast that is the cart twins case if you haven't already
listened to part one i highly recommend doing so we uncovered that a 64 year old woman by the name
of denise tenpenny was essayed and murdered in her own home in her own bed and the only thing left
behind was dna evidence that dna evidence led investigators right across the street 50 feet
away from denise's home to two people which is weird because how is dna evidence viable for two
people is it two people's dna well this is where it gets tricky it leads them straight to two 13
year old brother twin brothers identical twins so technically their dna is identical and the police
have decided they think that only one of the twins is involved they bring both twins along with their
mother into the police station they're interrogating them separately and this is where all hell is
going to happen
break loose so with that being said let's get started
hunter and levi's mom becca is in the waiting area of the police station so she's been brought
out from the room where the
they kept like telling her to eat the raisin canes they bring her out and the twins dad kyle has since
joined and they're both just wanting answers why can't they get the twins why can't the twins come
out why can't they get the twins a lawyer what the hell are the investigators talking to them
about without them or the lawyers present when there is a situation where identical twin dna is
involved the best thing investigators can do is look for evidence that's not dna related and they
find it under denise's body the investigators come out to talk to becca
and kyle and they tell them it's not that they randomly targeted the twins it's that quote i don't
know what in the world happened we're not talking to him anymore i mean he doesn't want to really
talk anymore i don't know what happened we have a lot of other evidence too i'm just trying to figure
out what happened she says i don't know they tell her it's not just the dna there's some certain
things we're going to tell you that we have that are bad okay that watch that we showed you that
belongs to one of the twins was under her body
becca starts freaking out she starts sobbing alternating between putting her head in her
hands to holding her chest she's pacing the area she seems like she can't sit still she doesn't
really even know what to do with this information it appears eventually she asks what happens now
he's only 13 oh my god oh my god eventually she's on the floor and she even apologizes to the
investigators for being rude earlier out of all the suspects and perpetrators parents becca seems like
maybe one of the few that's going to be able to get out of this situation
i don't know how relevant it is but hunter talks to investigators of how much their family has
gone through and it does appear that becca has really tried to shield her sons from anything
that could have happened the fact that she regularly puts them in therapy encourages
them to talk about their feelings they even found her journal where she writes about how
she's trying to parent and by all accounts it seems like she just doesn't know what to do
she genuinely is a good parent the fact that she's been trying to be helpful this entire
investigation the fact that she is apologizing to being rude to the investigators which in reality i
honestly think that she was still just protecting her children there's really nothing to apologize
for she never behaved in a way that made it feel like she was enabling her kids or shielding them
from consequences or not participating in the investigation but when she's told it's her son's
to the same green nitrile gloves in his closet they've also found a pair of bloody ll bean boots
located in his room with visible staining and now one of the twin brothers is going to find out that
his brother is guilty as well the officers leave levi's interview room about an hour in to let him
finish his food and really like sit with his thoughts and when they come back in the first
question they ask him is hey do you think sometimes people do something that they regret that is out
of character for themselves and he's like no i'm not going to do that i'm not going to do that i'm
like do you think they do something and they kind of get scared and they don't want to talk to or
tell anyone about it they ask him how his dna ended up at denise's house levi asks well how is it my
blood that's what we're trying to figure out they tell him that they took his dna swabs and they
compared it to the dna in the house and denise's house and it's not only denise's blood but his
blood is mixed in with it he doesn't seem wowed he just asks well how does that work well everybody's
dna is unique everybody has different dna everybody it's like fingerprints nobody has the same
world even brothers even brothers now the match to the dna was to both of them but it's interesting
that that's his response and i think that's just what the investigators are trying to get at
when dna is brought up again he says i guess everybody's is unique i just mean like my brother
is literally well my twin i don't know how that would happen to begin with how my blood would be
at her house if levi says it's not his blood then whose blood is it and there's one interesting
thing that levi says the investigators do the whole well we think whatever happens
here is not malicious we think it's a stupid mistake and that everyone needs to be honest
so that we can talk about it but when they say that levi responds i don't think that murder is
stupid though which is like an interesting response it's kind of odd back at the house
there's a search warrant being executed and investigators find marshmallows sitting very
calmly just hanging out what stops investigators though is not just that marshmallow is incredibly
calm and the demeanor of marshmallow is very approachable but it's also very calm and
comfortable which marshmallow doesn't seem that stressed out about this move even that the fact
that officers are in there just flipping up the house looking for evidence when officers approach
he flops over so they can pet his tummy and that is when they notice that his claws are too small
to make the injuries on levi's face even if marshmallow were pissed off what does that mean
like he's like the scratch mark on his nose to get five stitches they're saying like his claws
specifically are too small interesting okay which that's what they say
they find in the drawer of the left nightstand of a bed confessions of a serial killer the book
and a brown leather journal that just reads on the first page okay so on the very first page it
has levi's name on there and the second page reads i will kill you kkk killer and in big chunky
blocky letters the last page of that notebook has a handwritten instruction page on how to balance
on one leg it reads stand with both feet planted firmly on the ground next slowly raise one of your
feet and stand with both feet planted firmly on the ground next slowly raise one of your feet and
stand with all your body weight on the opposite leg you should be balanced on one leg reach your
raised foot forward which points to it being levi because he was working on his mobility
i see but it's not just the journal it's what's on levi's phone versus what's on hunter's phone
on his devices he's talking to someone on tiktok and levi messages them i have very low empathy
which has been confirmed also my plan i'm on track found my mo he takes screenshots of serial
killers mo's their psychological analysis
equipment used for transport body disposal naming possible planning execution methods body dump
sites clothing appearances there are several photos of levi of himself that he's taking like
selfies where he's choking himself and taking a photo which uh okay i looked into it and it seems
like sometimes people with very morbid interest who want to see what someone would look like dead
will sometimes google pictures but then maybe it's not good enough so then they'll like
in other messages to unknown tickets
i've seen a lot of videos of levi talking about how he likes to hurt animals because he has a severe lack of empathy he likes hurting animals in his childhood and i guess this person tells him that he can never hurt a fly like i don't think you could ever hurt a fly levi responds i've killed animals before on my own with a knife you're right i probably couldn't hurt a fly though because they're too fast for me he states that he doesn't kill while he hunts he says i don't go hunting and he's talking about killing he says cats dogs some squirrels then he sends a message that reads trying to understand my own problems are you sadistic at all i'm
fairly curious not too long after he googles causes of being sadistic then he takes screenshots of
information of how serial killers subdue their victims before killing them as well as how to
strangle someone and how long that process takes which denise was found smothered to death and the
night of the murder authorities are able to track becca hunter and levi's phones 12 53 a.m hunter
plugs in his phone into the charger and locks his phone screen 2 12 a.m levi locks his phone
2 19 a.m hunter locks his phone then from 2 30
to 2 52 a.m levi's on his phone using his camera but we don't get any other information from that
wait what's happening so at two o'clock ish both brothers lock their phone yeah like as in like
it just shows that they turned off their phone like you know they can track when you unlock
your phone lock your phone so they were both awake around yes that time okay and levi turned
on the camera for how long 2 30 to 2 52 a.m 20 minutes 5 21 a.m he unlocks his phone and
again and starts searching up fairfax ohio police department fairfax ohio fairfax ohio police department
photos then later when levi goes to his dad's house he starts googling again fairfax ohio photos
fairfax ohio police department photos fairfax ohio police department does ohio have restrictions on
using familial dna searches what was ted bundy's diagnosis what was ted bundy's kill kit fairfax
ohio woman found dead fairfax ohio woman found dead what was ted bundy kill kit
- Why do you think he's searching about Kill Kit?
- I don't know.
the fact maybe well there's more curiosity yeah then he sends a message to someone on tiktok
a few days after the murder i'm probably going to get caught and then deletes that message then
there's more searches on google saliva drug tests saliva swabs juvenile detention center cincinnati
hamilton county youth center ways cops mess with you in the interview ways cops mess with you in
the interview room two hours later after that search hunter and levi are called in for police
interviews meanwhile on hunter's phone they find messages between hunter and becca they do a full
search of hunter's phone becca is texting him that she's in the er with levi be careful around
marshmallow why he's being feisty about the house moving around okay he's trying to hug me right now
lol part of the reason we're in the er is because marshmallow was sleeping on levi's face and then
startled each other and he got scratched on his face he took a shower and slipped and hit his face
on the tile oh yikes if he gets moody just get up and walk away from him and keep him away from your
face
it seems like all of the digital evidence hunter like his phone did break he was sick in the
bathroom there's no messages there's no weird google searches his phone was off during the time
of the crime whereas levi is googling a lot of the fairfax ohio so hunter it seems he did look
up the case but in the very normal way of like what's going on like local news reporting yeah
and with hunter it seems like at first investigators wanted to know if they were both involved but
primarily they suspected levi in the beginning but after seeing hunter's reaction to everything
it just didn't strike them that he would be involved but more importantly aside from dna
matching because he and levi are the same dna there's really zero evidence tying him to being
involved at all i mean there's nothing in his phone his journals there's nothing in his room
there's nothing on his face or body to indicate any scratches and he also doesn't believe that
his brother is involved hunter tells the investigators i'm sure from your head and
the other investigators you guys were probably thinking about like of course he has scratches
on his face he left the house he had to go to the hospital all that stuff that we told you you know
is very much so corresponding to what happened and i just want you guys to know that i have no
faith that my brother would be able to do something like that like i don't know if you guys know i
don't i don't know if this is spreading too much information but our family have gone through
some very very traumatic things also knowing that i also know that having a very traumatic
childhood could make somebody be able to do something like that so again that's that's
another thing that i feel like it's just a coincidence like way too many coincidences
like his face being scratched from him going through traumatic experiences so it's completely
possible that and there's just so many times hunter looks like he's seeing the coincidences
that are forming but he stops himself and he continues i don't know like in a different
universe he did that right but personally i believe i thought about it i imagined it because
i'm a very imaginative person
i imagine like what if leave i made up this story of scratching his face and then with like what
actually happened oh and then he snuck out at that night and did that horrible thing but like that
was just actually i didn't believe that like that's something i don't believe that's something
he could actually do after i imagined i was like no all three of us are very very very we express
our feelings very much so i know that he has a lot of trauma he's basically saying i know levi has a
lot of trauma but we all talk about our feelings like we're very open we're all in therapy like
that's not how we do it he even says the day after levi has a lot of trauma he's basically
talking about how he got back from the hospital remember he went to go stay with his dad hunter
says that the reason was because he was triggered and i know that sounds suspicious but he
and it seems like hunter has another moment and then he stops talking he says that levi told him
he just wanted to leave the house because i don't know if he was upset about getting the cat scratched
in the face but it was just like the house you know he's crying and he was like just this house
makes me feel traumatized i don't know i feel like traumatized feeling but i'm not feeling
traumatized that's the words he used
has a lot of trauma he gets triggered he you know he's feeling triggered whenever i would talk about
what happened across the street explain what you mean by that i don't know i'm just gonna keep
saying this but this makes me feel really upset because a lot of evidence is piled up against him
but i mean i don't know if you guys suspect him of anything but i truly don't believe that he
could do anything like that even though he has all these things he's never talked about anything
like that with you about hurting somebody when he gets triggered no no he he doesn't like he
doesn't behave weirdly when triggered he just doesn't he's just quiet he's it's upsetting for
back to the house because he said he never gave us an explanation to why he was triggered
like i'm just i am sure you guys can't tell me whether or not you're suspecting him i'm just
going to tell you right now i don't believe that it's not possible it's just not possible did he
say something to you no that's not what i'm saying i'm saying it's not possible he would be able to
do something like that hunter says it doesn't make sense because even after the investigators came and
took their dna he says i mean we joked about it i like how does it feel having your dna in the
system now because he would say he's told me that he doesn't think he would be a serial killer when
he's older because it just doesn't make sense to me because that's just stupid he also says that
he has immense capacity for empathy for us it's just slightly less than for other people
so hunter is saying like he has empathy for his family there's no way that he could be a killer
hunter mentions levi would talk about how he feels like hurting people sometimes he feels empty and
he feels violent he's never active
on any of that he hasn't had any impulses to kill somebody i don't know for how long i just know that
for the last year it's been brought up to me i don't know how long he and mom have been talking
about it i mean i've been like for my whole life a very very happy child because i think me and levi
process our trauma very differently you know while growing our brains i don't know how differently i
don't know yeah hunter says that he feels like what if he's being crazy which means nothing is happening
but levi will know that hunter suspected him almost which means that levi would never talk to him again
because if that were hunter he would never talk to his twin brother because the betrayal
of suspecting your brother of being a killer would be too much but also if he did do it then they need
to know and hunter says he said multiple times he's not stupid enough to do that so it's not like he's
been acting erratically these past few days after he got scratched by the cat he's been acting pretty
much normal he just only acts slightly weird whenever i bring up the thing which makes sense
the thing that happened across the street yeah he's disabled he's very transparent to us and
his therapist about the way he feels also he's been acting pretty normal for the past few days
the doctors would have realized it and said something like they don't look like cat scratches
if they weren't cat scratches like i don't remember what it's called but they said like
a plastic surgeon came down and stitched his nose to make it look better wouldn't the nurses or
doctors have had suspicions because surely you'd be able to realize that something was a human's
nail or a cat scratch he later leans back and he's almost like looking off to the side as if
he's replaying the last few days in his head there's just no way obviously like there's just
no way he wouldn't tell me or tell somebody if he did do that like he just goes on with his day like
i know murderers do that but him i don't believe it i don't know why the investigators decide that
they want to be the ones to break it down for hunter like maybe they want to see his reaction
maybe they want to see if he's going to tell them something else to confirm whose belongings these
are i don't know but they show him like a very zoomed up picture of levi's watch and they it's
on his tablet it's clearly a crime scene photo but it's so zoomed in that you wouldn't know
what do you think about that what what do i think about what do i think about that
he's just looking at the picture of the watch he's like what do you want me to think about it's just
my brother's watch here let me widen it out they zoom out what do you think that's the picture of
he starts like i guess hyperventilating you don't hear it on the body cam but the officer tells him
to take a deep breath and he says we don't have any of those blankets right that's not your house
how does the watch in the struggle was it was broken
no i remember him saying that he lost his watch and when did he say that after he got home from
the er i don't remember him talking about it and then when he left he came back and he said he
doesn't know where he put his watch but hunter is still defending his brother the way he sounded
i don't know like it was like i don't know where my watch is i don't feel a person could say that
a person would say that knowing that they wore their watch if they did that they show hunter
a picture of a knife that he's never seen before and he tries to tell investigators
that's not the knife that they have inside their house there's just no way he did it like someone
had to have planted his watch or something like planted like only proof that you could
give me is if you find his sperm dna and if i'm right about her apparently being raped
because he was on the news only thing i can believe like i'll tell you this right now that's
not a possibility the way he acted after that happened after he saw the ambulance he was like
why is the ambulance outside there's no way that he could fake all of that so correspondingly to
the point where i could see none of it like i didn't see any of the cracks none of it he faked
all of his emotions hunter later tries to say maybe that's not even his watch he says
there's no way that my brother like there's no way someone in my family even though like all i'm going
to say is i don't believe it i'm going to say that i think there needs to be more evidence i think
there needs to be more evidence to convict him i think there needs to be more evidence i know you
probably haven't shown me all the evidence but that can't be enough evidence like i know there's
all these coincidences just stacked up against him but there's no way i mean my brain really
goes off topic i just thought what if he lost his watch at dad's and this is all just some sort of
misunderstanding and dad finds it or like he really did just miss his watch like he really did just
accidentally forget where his watch is and i made a mishap and i said that's his watch even though
that's not his watch and you guys show him that photo and he'll probably say like no that's not
my watch like do you guys think that's his watch yes do you guys think that he did this yeah you're
fully convinced yeah we haven't gotten into everything but that's why we're here and he starts
breaking down and he screams no no it's not possible and he starts frantically asking like
are you saying he purposefully hurt and then he's like no that's not possible and then he starts
crying and then he goes back to there's no way he would do that like even if he did kill her there's
no way he's the one who raped her like he's not that type of person on top of that i don't believe
for a second i i think what's happening is that there's a really really meticulously planned smart
person who planted that watch there and had been planning this for a while and it just so happens
that levi had a lot of traumatic experience as he was trying to find that watch and then he goes
and he grabbed that knife and he took the watch and they did that he also tries to reason with
the investigators because he read on the news that whoever did this they referred to him as a man
and he was like and Levi's not a man Fox 19 said that he was a man he says the chances that this
is his twin brother's doing is slim to none I have no belief that Levi Levi doesn't have the
capacity to rape and kill somebody purposefully willingly harmfully having the person fight back
and also how would mom not find out about it and if she did find about it why the fuck would she
hide it she's not the type of person to hide it which I do agree with he's there's no way he's
stupid enough to leave his own watch on top of that use our knives he's a very smart and calculated
person he knows what he's doing he's not stupid enough I mean maybe on drastic circumstances he
was very very impulsive he really felt like killing someone he you know he had no other
weapons he could have just gone into her house and stole one of her knives like why is he faking
his empathy for us does
you
not actually care about any of us is that the reality we're facing here is the reality that
I'm facing here is that my loving brother for my whole life my brother that I've cared for and
cared for me and my mom has cared for and spent and dedicated her life to helping this person live
and then he asks if his brother is going to jail and what the chances are that he won't and he puts
his head down and he cries there's no way it's not possible there has to be someone who bloodied
the evidence there has to be some misunderstanding
and he keeps asking are you being 100% with me this is true this is true this is true they tell
him that his brother's DNA was at the scene and his head falls onto the table when Levi is confronted
with the fact that his watch and DNA were found in Denise's home they try to tell him you just
seem like a kind of just a young man I mean I'm a young boy I'm barely a teenager I know and
sometimes young boys make mistakes so they're trying to get him to confess and there's just a
lot of odd moments throughout his interviews like when they ask why he went to stay at his dad's
house he says that it was triggering and then there's moments where he like okay back and forth
this whole interview is like an hour and a half well the whole body cam footage is like two hours
long right but it's this weird back and forth of him trying to appear dumber than he is or at least
that's what my take of it and then him appearing way smarter than he is or trying to appear smart
it's like this weird back and forth so he talks about how he was doing his math homework at his
dad's house right what kind of math did he do and he's like I don't know I don't know I don't know
math I don't know how to describe it it's like trying to measure things like how long this would
be you know geometry I guess so yeah he like weirdly doesn't know the name of basic things
okay but he also says that he doesn't know if he went to the hospital to get the stitches he just
knows somewhere where there's doctors okay and then he says and then she was telling me that
we're going to urgent care and I was like so this is that urgent I can tell it feels like he
mentioned he doesn't know where he's going somewhere with doctors
like trying to appear dumb and then he mentions that his mom said we're going to urgent care
and then he is like oh so I was like oh this is urgent it's just weird I can't tell if he's trying
to cover up for the fact that he just said he didn't know where they went but then said urgent
care if he really doesn't know what urgent care is it feels more like the former he reiterates
again like I didn't know this thing was that urgent it's like a weird thing to say it's just
a lot to cover up for the fact that I feel like he knew it was urgent care but that's just my
feeling right but then later he will talk about how he slipped in the car and he's like I don't
the shower again and he says yeah I slipped and I hit like the shower sprayer right so it's like
naming things differently yes but then when the investigators look a little skeptical he'll
expand on that and he'll say I guess let me articulate it better I was holding the shower
sprayer I guess whatever it's called like I usually do because I was only holding it I slipped
and I felt like this and I guess I hit it and I guess it hit the wall he does start like cracking
his knuckles immediately after and then he further explains like I don't know how to make it make sense
yeah that's what happens when I fell and well because I'm disabled I was more likely to fall
I don't know if you're aware of that I've told you I'm aware of your illness it's not an illness
it's a disability disability right that's fair
it's so interesting like this and then he goes back and forth between again trying to appear dumb
and then trying to appear smart for example
like I said he doesn't know geometry he doesn't know urgent care but then suddenly when he's asked
about why his blood is at Denise's house he starts saying I don't know what explanation I could give
you or even come up with that would be equivalent to how that would happen well I guess it would
make sense if there was like a blood transfusion but that wouldn't make any sense because I haven't
had any blood transfusions and maybe I'm just reeling from the literacy crisis but like how do
you not know the word geometry when you're taking a geometry course for school but you know what a
it could maybe apply technically in this case if he were to donate blood and Denise had gotten a
blood transfusion and coincidentally happened to be from the kid across the street Levi's blood
but standard transfusions are packed with red blood cells which don't actually contain DNA so
like this is like random food for thought okay really yeah so standard blood transfusions are
mainly red blood cells they don't contain the DNA but if some donor white cells slip in it's
blood or like blood drips out of you and the DNA is collected there's going to be such few white
donor blood cells that it's highly unlikely that anybody else's DNA is going to come up even if
you've had a blood transfusion recently and white blood cells are typically cleared by the body's
immune system within days to weeks so it's a very short window now there are certain people who get
white blood cell transfers but those are really rare and like just really rare the only other
time that this could maybe happen where Levi's DNA would be there even though he had no blood
transfusion but let's say he did is if Denise had a lot of blood transferred into her system right
maybe then donor DNA could be detectable in the recipient but again if you had that much blood
like that massive of a transfusion you're talking like major trauma surgery you're going to be in
the hospital for days until that clears and that DNA is no anyway no it doesn't apply but the
blood transfusions is kind of odd to me also there I think you could maybe find donor DNA in like a
bone marrow stem cell transplant what are we doing here like that's not the point the point is why
are we taking a journey down the lane of hypotheticals when you don't know what geometry
is it's also very odd that he acts like he's too young and uninformed that he doesn't know
geometry but he offers up all of these other explanations and the officer straight up tells
him well it's not a blood transfusion he says I think you know I don't think I know could you not
remember I mean everybody doesn't remember things I know I mean I barely remember my childhood well
that's that's what I'm asking you could you have done something and not remember I think everyone
can like something that would happen a couple of weeks ago possible maybe possible anything's
possible I just need to explain it you know and so the investigator is like I just need some answers
and he says well thank you for explaining it to me I'm trying to give you the best explanation
that I can and come up with ways how we can figure this out I don't understand it just as
much as well you probably understand it more than me then he offers up the solution of well
if it's not from a blood transfusion then could it be from quote I just mean like did somebody put
my blood in that house for some reason oh I don't know will you tell me would they I didn't put your
blood in there I mean I'm only 13 I don't know why anybody would put my blood in a house do you
have any more questions for me or like well I want I want to get past this and we're not getting
past it you don't know I don't know so we're just not resolving anything well I'm not sure
if we can resolve it if I don't know and you don't know this is like a lot I don't ever recall being
able to speak like this when I was 13 like Hunter in the idea that I can see where a lot of his
over explaining comes from because he just seems really nervous and then he watched too many body
cam videos whereas Levi it's very like yeah he also over and under explains like he'll over
explain about the cat scratching him but then when he's asked where he hid his head in the shower
he just like palms his face and says like around here
just like a big surface area then he's asked if he knows Denise well which is a simple either yes
or no or maybe even not really kind of question maybe like one sentence of context but he goes
to explain in depth I just know she's our neighbor we waved a couple of times I thought she had a dog
but I guess when the two special agents came over they told us the dog had died like six months ago
I didn't really know her that well I thought that she I don't know I just thought that she
had a job I didn't think I just mean I didn't know her a lot I just thought this is this person
yeah and then he has like moments where he it's almost like a contrarian is trying to slip out of
him which like if you've ever had interactions with someone who must disagree with absolutely
everything you say it's incredibly frustrating and they cannot help it I guess even in police
interviews so one detective who has been largely quiet throughout the entire interview turns to
Levi and says listen I wholeheartedly believe that there are two types of people in this world
you've got monsters you've got people who make mistakes I think I don't know I don't know I don't
think I disagree with that personally what do you disagree with about that statement I just think
that there's a lot of different types of people in the world there's not monsters and people who
commit mistakes the officer says well I'm just simplifying it for the context of this murder
there's only two types of people that would commit a murder you know monsters and people who make
mistakes and Levi responds well if it's murder then it would be a monster right not necessarily
you don't think no no I think murders can happen many different ways well I think if it's murder
It would either be self-defense or manslaughter or something like that again. You don't know geography
but you know manslaughter he even sits like a contrarian like he's more intrigued at the idea
of like a moral dilemma and a debate than he is like getting away with something the investigator
is saying that's why i'm trying to find an explanation i can't put words in your mouth
levi responds i can't put words in my mouth either i mean i can so weird later levi brings up again
that maybe there were three people in denise's house instead of two and the investigator asks
him was it i don't know i've already told you that i'm just saying possibilities possibilities
or possibilities nothing's impossible as i've repeated multiple times and it's interesting at
the very end levi almost tries to bring his brother down with him or at least that's how i
get a read of his intention because he says i don't know why i would lie i don't know why i
would be outside after dark i don't know why i would even do something like this he says i just
know i don't see a scenario where me alone
or me myself would ever do that which is like really weird he's saying i would never do this
but also if i did i would never do it alone which i have a theory and this is just a theory and
speculation that if like i know that both of them were into true crime but that's i mean i do think
that a lot of people watch true crime documentaries but it seems that levi's interest was a lot more
in depth i think the way that hunter was into it he's like watching body cam footage on youtube
probably and he's just like oh that's interesting oh look at how this person reacts
but the fact that he levi is looking up all of these um the psychology of killers it seems a
little bit darker it seems a little bit more in depth his curiosity and i wouldn't be surprised
if he did come across cases where identical twin dna did set killers free because it has happened
before there have actually been multiple cases where there was like a serial essayer and the
two twins were brought in and they wouldn't turn each other in the investigators had hoped that at
least one of them would say oh well you know what i don't want my brother to go down the road but
it was me but they didn't they even put them in the same room together to see if they would talk
about it but they just made small talk and then they were freed yeah i think that case is gonna
go to trial i think they're trying to use the novel dna of the sequencing or like the genome
like full so it's it's interesting that yeah it's just like very i wouldn't be surprised if he heard
of cases like that and thought that if he kept bringing up his brother it would end up a
situation where nobody would go to jail the investigator asks how about you with somebody
else if i was could you have been present when something happened maybe again i just i always
say anything is possible could you have been at the wrong place at the wrong time sunday morning
in february i don't think so again i i don't see how that correlates i just mean i don't see how
i would do that and i don't see why i would do that that's all i mean could you have been there
with somebody else i don't think so well see i don't think so really bothers me could you have
been there with somebody else no i guess see i don't like the i guess you either were there or
you weren't but we know that you were there well i mean you can i don't know you can think about
my full sentence and say or you know my full wording and say he said no i'm just saying i
guess says that is what i think i don't have a definitive answer for me to give and that's why
i'm saying i guess or i'm not i don't know but i'm not sure it's
possible because i don't have a definitive answer if i'm going to say no then in my mind i'm going
to say no i guess because i don't have an answer i don't have a real answer the investigator straight
up tells him i think you created this version of events and you want it so badly to be the truth
but it's not the truth i don't think i would want it to be the truth if i wasn't telling you that it
was the truth like why would i tell a story if i wanted it to be true i've never done that
your version's not the truth well if that's what you think that's what you think i've explained to
you everything i know in my version of events that i know is correct or that is in my memory i don't
know why you would think i'm lying or why you don't believe me i mean my brother's pretty chatty
pretty what chatty was your brother with you during that night that you got cut
no eventually they don't get a confession but november 10th of 2025 levi cart pleads guilty
to aggravated murder aggravated burglary and strangulation he receives the maximum sentence
allowed under juvenile law he receives the maximum sentence allowed under juvenile law
he will remain in the juvenile detention facility until he turns 21 he is expected to be released in
2033 wow yeah one neighbor told the police during the investigation that whoever did this to denise
needs to receive capital punishment because quote you know if he gets out he's going to do it again
you can't cure that other netizens have kind of sounded off online saying like that's actually
a really dangerous age to release somebody
and i do think i mean watching his interrogation video it seems like if he's that equipped at
responding to the police the way he did at 13 i can't imagine how much more fine-tuned that's
going to get in a cutthroat environment such as a juvenile detention center i imagine your capacity
to learn how to adjust and survive in situations like that will make you only that much more cunning
and evasive so what are your thoughts i mean it was such a
strange case to see i think it's interesting that the investigators handled the case the way that
they did i almost suspect that maybe they pled guilty because i don't know i just feel like the
investigators really shot their own foot with this investigation i think had it gone to trial i think
the defense would have had a good time finding a lot of legal murkiness with the way that the
investigators approached all of this and i think maybe that is what resulted in this plea deal
but that's just my speculation
what are your thoughts let me know in the comments and i will see you in the next one be safe
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