Body Part Scavenger Hunt - Emerson, Nebraska

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Ever heard of that? No. No. Is the answer. Large population drives a Chevy truck. I think so. You don't think it's Ford country, maybe? You never know. No, sir. No F-150s around here. I can't handle it. Emerson, Nebraska, it's in northeastern Nebraska, like far northeastern Nebraska, but it's a rural farming town. It's about 35 minutes to Sioux City, Iowa, so that's the closest place to it. About an hour 45 to Omaha, Nebraska, if you'd like to go there. And then two hours and five minutes to Clarks, Nebraska, our last Nebraska episode, episode 672, Murder Mystery on Wheels. I'm telling you, Nebraska brings it with the murder. They do. They always have crazy stuff. Now, this town is in three different counties. The town is 0.47 square miles. It's not a big town. The Tri-County area. Well, you'll find out about the Tri-County later on. This is in Dixon, Dakota, and Thurston counties. I don't know why they couldn't just pick a county there, but area code 402, population here. Eight hundred fifty-four. How did they get on three counties? Half a mile, nine hundred people, and a lot of those people are out kind of away from the town, too, because it's a lot of big farms and stuff. Median household income here, $56,346, which is below the national average, by about $13,000. But good news, median home cost also extremely low, less than half the national average here. One hundred fifty-three thousand two hundred bucks. You're telling me it's not in demand? It's strange that northeastern rural Nebraska isn't just the hottest real estate market going, but it's not weird. History, it was laid out in 1881 to be a railroad junction. That's all it was. Just like it's a junction of counties, it's a junction of railroads. It was a railroad of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railways. Dang. So they all came together here. In 1880, the railroad bought a hundred acres of land for a town site. Sure. Literally, they said, we'll build a town for our junction. That was it. The first two buildings were a depot and a section house. And well into even the 1930s, Emerson had up to 67 trains a day. Wow. Imagine how irritating it would be to live in that fucking town and hear 67 train whistles a day. You'd lose your mind. Unless you're one of those adults that just fucking loves trains. Yes, for the seven of those guys that are standing. Staring at the trains the whole time. For everybody else, they're like, well, enough with the fucking whistles. We get it. You're here. Goddamn. Dressed like an engineer. Yeah, with the hat on. The overalls. We saw the same guy. It was first known as Kennesaw Junction. And then they found out that you couldn't name it that because it was already at Kennesaw Junction, Nebraska. It already exists. So they decided to name it Emerson in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet. Wow. Who was born and died in Massachusetts. And it has nothing to do with Nebraska whatsoever. He died. He died. No, no, no, no. That's no, no, that's not another guy with three names, right? It's God damn it. Gatsby is Scott Fitzgerald. Thank you. And yeah, it's Ella Fitzgerald. Yeah. It's Ella Fitzgerald's dad. Ralph Waldo. What do you write? He's a poet. Yeah. And he died a couple of years earlier. That's the only reason I could think possibly. A posthumous gift. An honorary, I don't know. So there you go. The town was incorporated in 1888. Now, there's only a couple of reviews of this town. We'll give them out here. See what other people think of this town. Sure. With some reviews. Here is four stars. I've lived here all my life, and it's a great place to live. My name is Luke Stolz, and I will be a sophomore next year at Wayne State College. I am studying the field of secondary physical education with an endorsement in coaching with the goal of. I'm studying the field of secondary physical education with an endorsement in coaching with the goal of. become a high school physical education teacher and a coach. Well, with that kind of grammar, gym teacher's a good spot, I think, for you there, Luke. Slam dunk. Yeah. I have always wanted to be a PE teacher. I've never heard anyone say that before. Wow. That's good. You know what? Go do it. Good for you. As soon as I saw a man wearing shorts to work, I was like. Yeah. That's for me. It's like, I like whistles. Yeah. I'd like to have one of those around my neck all the time. I'd like to yell at teenagers. Yeah. to change their fucking shorts faster. That seems like fun. I always saw myself in some sort of sports-oriented field. That is not it. No. That's not a sports-oriented field. My mom has coached sports in the past, and I have wanted to follow in this path for myself. PE teacher is about bottom rung of sports, right? If you can call it sports, yeah. I mean, you're having to play a sport today. That's like saying karaoke bar host. You're having to play a sport today. Yeah. Yeah. It's like saying a karaoke bar host is in showbiz. Not really. Let's be honest. Let's be honest here. Yeah. They're just handing out. You sing. In the same way they're giving balls to non-athletic kids. Whether or not they're good isn't going to matter in a sec. You're just giving them the mic. Either way. Yeah. Giving them the mic or a dodgeball. Either way, it's the same shit. Doesn't mean they know how to throw it. So, three stars, small, quiet town. It was a railroad town that was established in the mid-1800s, which is now a small farming community. Those are the reviews of this town. That's all that exists. So, things to do here. James already told us that. You did. Yeah. So, we already know that. We read the history, stupid. Things to do here, Emerson Tri-County Days. There you go. The Tri-County Area. You knew it was going to happen. So, we got a movie night. We have a twin duo pair dress-up themed fun run. So, dress up as a duo and then go run. Yeah. There's a petting zoo. There's kids races, pony rides. Okay. Line up at the. high school and the Emerson high school for the parade, all are welcome to Show up in March if you want to there. All sorts of stuff. A cornhole tournament. Then at 8 p.m., the dance on the ball field with music by Dane Lewis. And there's $1 beers while that's going on. Wow. That sounds great. You'll dance with somebody. That's a deal. That doesn't exist fucking anywhere anymore. No. And then the next night, there's a hay bale toss and a kid's tractor pull. How far can you throw a hay bale? We're going to find out. Six feet is the winner for sure. And that's just a big sum bitch. It's not going to be exciting. Someone's going to win like 6'1 to 5'11 probably. It's not. But, I mean, it'll be close. Somebody's going to throw their back out. For sure. So that said, let's talk about a murder. What do you say here? Okay. All right. Let's talk about a man first here. Let's talk about Craig, and that's with a K. Craig Donald Kubik, and that's with a K also. K-U-B-I-K. And he goes by, apparently, according to. What I've seen, he goes by Boomer. Oh. That's what people call him. Boomer. Boomer Kubik here. Now, he's born December 2nd, 1973, and he's from Council Bluffs, Iowa. I almost said Idaho. I do that every time. He's got parents named Donald and Jeanette, and he's got a brother named Kirk and a sister named Christy. All Ks. Whoa. Yeah. At least they don't give their kid middle name with a K. That would be disturbing. But all Ks. They're all KK. All KK. Craig was welding, started welding when he was four years old, which is irresponsible parenting at best. He shouldn't have been near that machine. You can't teach a kid to fucking weld at four. That's dangerous. Yeah. That's dangerous. He's one of these guys that can fix anything. If he has to, he'll weld it together, but he'll fix it. It's going to happen. He graduated from Emerson Hubbard High School in 1992. And while attending. He was attending school, which he wasn't a big. He didn't really care. He wasn't going to college, really, or anything like that. He was going to work here. While attending school, he helped his dad farm, and he repaired cars and tractors, and even did some welding work in buildings as well during high school. Adult shit. Yeah. That's what I mean. I think from four, he was like, no, I'm just going to join the union. Yeah. You know, just he was ready to go. Black coffee and palm oils. Yeah. He's like, do they make Carhartt and tiny? Is that a thing? Is that possible? Little Tykes Carhartt. My first Carhartt from Little Tykes. So that's what he's doing. He graduates and started working for L to Z or LZ Manufacturing Company. Lazy, maybe. Manufacturing building, manufacturing company. He would build and repair horse race track equipment. That's a very specific sphere that you're working in. He's not doing chariot racing. So that would mean like the posts, right? Yeah. And the gates. The gates. It has to be a lot of gate work. I mean, those gates have to work, don't they? If they don't work on time. How much repair do they need? I don't know. That's what I'm wondering. It seems like. It's a thousand pound behemoth flying through that thing. It probably gets bent. Oh, and how many racetracks are there? How many horse tracks are there around? There can't be more than one. Can't be more than one in a small area, right? So it's interesting. He also worked for several construction companies doing steel work and cement work. Shit, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a guy with a strong back, Craig. Let's just put it that way. He continued also. He would do like repair work at his home in his spare time, too. He took side jobs. If you need a lawnmower fixed or some shit, he'll do it. While he was employed with one of the companies, he helped build the new Cornerstone Church in Sioux City. And he also worked at several ethanol plants in the area as well. So doing work. Okay. He does hard work. Does he do refinery? Yeah. His work is all hard. Fucking hell. That's brutal. He's good at the piano also, which you don't get a lot across. I'd love to see the Venn diagram between pianists and welders and just see how much of that comes together, right? Or ethanol workers. Or ethanol. Literally anything he does and pianists, I'd like to put them together. Usually, if you can repair shit, usually that's that side of your brain works and the artistic side usually doesn't work as well. But this guy, apparently it does. Is the piano, is that a string or a percussion? What is that one? Is it percussion? It's a percussion, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It's hitting the. He also is super into Guitar Hero, the video game. Yeah. Loves that. Who the fuck was it? Which makes sense. Now, by the 2010s here, because we'll catch up with him in 2016, and by then he's got a daughter and a son also. Okay. Not married. Not sure where that would happen with that or relationship-wise, whatever. Gal says you're playing Guitar Hero. She's going to suck. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. His daughter's a few years older than the son. The son's about five years old in 2016 and I won't give their names even though they're all over the newspaper for some reason. I don't know why these little kids' names had to be in the paper. As children in 2016? Absolutely. They're all over the place. So in 2016, he's got a girlfriend named Jacqueline Maher, M-A-H-E-R. And so, you know, he's got her. You know, he's seeing her. They don't live together. She also has a child, I believe, and lives in her own place, but they've been seeing each other for a while now. November 1st, 2016, okay. Let's catch up here. Jacqueline saw him, Kirk Boomer, at about 7:00 p.m. Now when Jacqueline left Boomer's house, he and his six-year-old son were at the home at that point. So he was just home with a six-year-old. And earlier that afternoon, he had had a couple of dates. Yeah. He had a couple of visitors, a couple of guys talking about -- he's been in some ongoing dispute over a broken-down, shitty Red Dodge Charger for a good amount of time here. It's sitting in the driveway. One of the tires is flat. It's just sitting there. And he's been in an ongoing dispute with these two idiots over it. And they've been going back and forth for a while. These guys were there earlier in the day talking about it, and she had seen them there and all that kind of thing. And now it's just him alone. Is it an old Charger or a new Charger? Do we even know? A new one. It's a newer, crappier -- yeah, it's like a broken-down, eight-year-old Dodge Charger or something. Yeah. Nothing special. Now, Jacqueline received a text message from Boomer around 10:30 p.m., and after that, he stopped responding to her texts, which -- this is the type of guy who seems like he's up with the fucking crow, you know what I mean, or up with the rooster here. Yeah. Like, he's a -- 10:30. That boy's out of energy. I mean, if you've been welding and, you know, Ethan-auling all day, I think that's -- you're probably tired. That'll take it out of you. Real sleepy by then. So she thinks the same thing. He probably has to get up early or something. So November 2nd, 2016, the next morning, Jacqueline drops her child off at school and then goes over to his house, goes over to Boomer's house, arrives there around 9:00 a.m. Okay? Yeah. Now, she arrives and sees Boomer's son, the five-year-old -- Yeah. -- standing out on the deck of the house. On the porch. On the porch. Just standing there. Now, he should be in school. It's 9:00 a.m. He should have already -- Boomer's taking his ass already. Yeah. So that's strange. So she's like, "That's weird. Why is he just standing?" And Boomer's not around. It's just a five-year-old standing on a deck by himself. He's not, like, drinking coffee and, you know, reading Vanity Fair or anything. Yeah. He's, you know, he's doing something here. Doing the New York Times crossword. He's just doing it. He's like, "I do it in pen." Yeah. You know, some people have it. You never know. She also sees that there's air compressors, which have not -- weren't there last night when she was here, located near that red Dodge Charger that's being stored on the property. There's also a pair of boots there, a flashlight, and what appeared to be a puddle of blood. Oh. So he apparently was just eviscerated from space. Yeah. And he left boots with, like, smoke coming out of them, you know. Yeah. And a puddle of blood, apparently. Sometimes when you lift off, you leave a little behind. Yeah. You never know what goes on. You don't need all that up there. No, no, no. I figure he just got zapped by a laser, and, you know, he's just, you know. So that's what she sees. And so she starts calling for him, you know, and she's calling around, and he's not answering. It's just the five-year-old on the deck, and she can't find Boomer. And the five-year-old gives no information of where he is? He has nothing to offer at this point in time. He'll talk plenty later. Yeah. He's got nothing to say. So what does she do here? Call the cops, maybe? Mm-hmm. Because she calls, so she's texting Craig, calling Craig, can't get ahold of him. Right. Here's a puddle of blood and boots and a lone five-year-old, and I can't find the guy. But if you call the cops and they find him, now he's got neglect on his hands. I guess. Because the kid's here. I think the puddle of blood kind of— Signifies—yeah. That goes over—yeah. That's the— Certainly. Yeah. Yeah. I think that definitely takes precedence over— It's an escalator, for sure. Yeah. It's an escalator. If it was like two drops, no. But it's a puddle, you know. It's a lot. You see a puddle, like more than a normal human would lose at a time in a normal course of action. If your car lost that much oil, you wouldn't drive it. That much. You'd go, there's a problem here. There's a problem. I should call somebody. So she doesn't call the cops, though. She instead takes the son to school. She's like, you're late for school, and she takes him to school, okay? Then she called some of Boomer's friends to see if they had seen him. And then they hadn't seen him, either, so she finally goes—because she's been They've been seeing each other for a while. She has keys to his house and shit. She goes in his house and starts looking at footage from his home surveillance system to see if she can see anything. She does see that the two guys he's been arguing with about the charger showed up at about 1030 the night before, right when he stopped returning text messages. These two guys are Andres Serber, S-U-R-B-E-R. He's 25. And I guess Brian, Brian, B-R-A-Y-A-N is his first name, which I've never seen before. Brian? That's Brian, right? Brian. Brian. Yeah, Brian. Brian. Brian Galvan Hernandez, G-A-L-V-A-N. He's only 18, okay? Okay. So on the footage, the three of these guys, Boomer, Serber, and Galvan, are all seen on the footage walking toward the Red Dodge. And then a headlight, headlights of a vehicle can be seen backing out of the driveway. They had been there earlier in the day, too, to argue about it. So this is not new. Now, while this is going on, while she's looking at surveillance footage, Boomer's son is at school. Okay. Boomer's son walks up to his teacher and says that his dad is dead. How does he know that? He just walks in and says, my dad's dead. And the teacher's like, huh? You know, what the fuck? And he says. He says, black cat killed him. Black cat killed him. So he goes, she's like, black cat killed him. My dad's dead. I better get the principal. I mean, he is five. He could be whatever. But I don't want this to be on me. Let's run this up the flagpole and see how it goes. I'm going to teach the rest of the kids to color in the lines. So Cubic's son then tells the teacher also that there was blood on his father's boots and on a flashlight, which was over by the air compressor. Those things. So, OK. Now, the principal, the boy goes to the principal's office and the principal calls the cops from the school, you know, and says, quote, he was telling, meaning the boy, he was telling me how his father was dead and how there was blood everywhere. That's what the principal said. So when questioned by the principal, the son repeated the same information and then also mentioned a gun and an air compressor as well. OK. So the principal attend. Tried to get a hold of Boomer, but couldn't reach him. So that's when she called the police to call in a welfare check on the house just to see if this kid was crazy. Kids are weird. You never know. But they say some wild shit. Yeah. He could have accidentally seen part of a movie or something. And, you know, five year olds are totally different thing. So the welfare check happens. Now, this is the Dakota County sheriff does this. When the sheriff pulls up, he meets Jacqueline Marr and Boomer's dad is there as well. OK. So he's there. Now, the girlfriend tells the sheriff that she was certain Boomer had been kidnapped or that something has happened to him. She's sure. Yeah. Positive. She shows the sheriff the patch, which looks like blood. And alongside that are possible what looks like drag marks. OK. Yeah. That these are, you know, pretty big clues. And yeah, there's blood. And then from the blood puddle looks like there's drag marks away. So in the dirt pulling. Yeah. So also she shows him the video footage. And so they bring in additional cops to try to figure this out because this guy can't do it on his own. They did. The cops described finding blood in the grass near the back of a red Dodge Charger and alongside two different air compressors. What looked like a lawnmower and a single standing boot. Just a boot. Just one boot. One boot sitting there. So the cops then attempt to ping the cell phone. Boomer cell phone to see if they can find it. But it's they're unsuccessful. So it must be. Nothing. Yeah. So then they meet up in Wakefield, Nebraska. All the cops to continue this investigation, put their heads together. So they're some they send cops out to different spots. Some cops are at the cubic residence. Others went to the school to speak with the son. See if they can get anything from that. And by this time, since they had seen them on the surveillance footage, they're going over to talk to Cerberus. They're going over to talk to Cerberus. Cerberus and Galvan as well. Not even that they're suspects or anything, but just that you saw him at 1030. Anything. Let's talk. Yeah. Yeah. Just see. It's interesting. So where are Cerberus and Galvan? We got to find them now. The cops learn that Cerberus was dating Galvan's sister. Okay. She's pregnant, as a matter of fact. He's not going anywhere. He's there. And that Galvan, the Galvan family residence was in Wakefield, Nebraska. So about an. Eleven at 11:00 a.m. That morning, the officer, one of the officers does a drive by of the Galvan residence and sees a black GMC Yukon Denali with in transit stickers. What's I don't know what those are shipping. I don't know if stickers that just say in transit on it. I'm not sure. That's usually that means like in tow, right? It's being towed, I guess. That's what I mean. I don't know why it's not. It's sitting in the driveway, but maybe it was not at one point. Right. That's. I mean, that's. That's what it is, is that it was being drugged behind another vehicle. I don't know. It's a stickers, too. I don't know. Whatever. Either way, that's only because that identifies that as belonging to server because those are on his car. So that's parked outside. So we know that server is at the Galvan residence, probably with his girlfriend. So the officers then after they do the drive by and find out he's there, they go get some backup and they come back to the residence. Galvan was outside when he saw the officers, the 18 year old. He ran as soon as he saw them. Perfect. Bad sign. They pull in the driveway. He runs. That's you're asking for, you know, some the problem, a little suspicion there because he's on his property. It's not like it was out somewhere else. Galvan was told to stop and he did. Oh, so they just when they should when they got out of the car, they should have said, don't run. And he would have just stayed still. So he listens. Anyway, he was handcuffed after. After he ran and responded yes when asked if server is in the house also. So Galvan then gives the officers permission to enter the house to go find server, which they do. They're doing a sweep of the property, by the way. So they're inside the house looking for server and they're outside the house doing a sweep of the property in, I think, the garage. They find a pair of bloodied boots and a pair of pants with blood on them. Yeah. Bad sign. Meanwhile, the officers in the house find server and they're questioning him about Craig Kubik's, you know, whereabouts. Do you know anything about this server had apparently just got out of the shower and is only wearing a towel and this was sexy, hot. So they just they make the decision the cops do to get server server out of the house. We're going to take him with us to talk to him. One deputy allowed him to go get some clothing. To put on because they're going to take him in a towel. The deputy had been informed that bloodied clothes had been found in the garage. The deputy noticed that server walked up to the pile of clothes that they noticed that had blood on them. The deputy with server then observed what appeared to be fresh blood and flies on the clothes as well. Nice. Very nice server then walked to a different part of the garage. Oh, those are the gross clothes with blood on them. I can't wear those. I don't want to wear those. Those will look whatever we have to talk about. Those will look bad. I probably shouldn't wear a viscera stain to the police station. That's not good. Leave these flies to these clothes. Yeah. So then server walked to a different part of a garage, found a different pile of clothes, which, by the way, the deputy noted in his report as being, quote, dirty. So he walked over to a different pile of no clothes. First of all, his dresser is a garage. Number one. Yeah, that's why. That's why he just keeps them in a pile on the floor of the garage. Yeah. On law. And garage. And garage almost have the same letter. I'm sure they're both French based. Sure. Why not? Garage. I keep my clothes in the garage. The garage. You can see it works. So then he puts those dirty clothes on and goes with the cops. Now, how do they know Boomer? Well, the investigators find out that server and Galvin had confronted Boomer earlier in the day, the day before on the first, demanding the return of a car that once belonged to server or that cubic mule. Now, how do they make good on the money he owed server? There's some dispute of they think Boomer hasn't paid fully for this car that he has that he bought from server. That's what this is all about. So apparently here there they then he server says that he went to the trailer that, you know, Boomer was living in about ten forty. The two had, you know, the ongoing dispute over a broken down Dodge Charger server, said he planned to repossess that car. The car that day possess it and had gone with Galvin to cubic's home that night to air up the flat tires so they could haul the car away the following day. That's why there's a compressor there. OK, the next day, we don't we're not going to morning pump it up and then leave and then come back and get it. We're going to pump it up and come back for it another time. If they're flat, it's probably going to be flat again. By the way, I'd fill it up right before. You drive. How about that's a good idea. Yeah. Before you wheel it on a trailer, whatever one of the two. Yeah. So maybe that's it. They're coming back with a trailer now. While the officers were at this Galvin residence, there's another deputy who receives a phone call from Serber's mother. Now, how does this mother know to call this deputy specifically? Because they're neighbors. That's why. The mother and deputy, Roger Peterson. Peterson, the deputy, had actually seen Serber at approximately 8 a.m. that day driving away from Wakefield and within five or six miles of the Serber family farm. OK, now they're the mother tells the cop that her son, Serber, had been near rural Dixon County near their farm, which is at the near the 579th Avenue and old U.S. Highway 20 intersection. Old U.S. Old U.S. Highway. We don't use that one anymore. Fucking trees growing in the middle of the lanes and everything. It's huge. So Peterson, the deputy, had driven by the. Farm to check for Serber's vehicle before it was spotted at the Galvin residence. So he had already gone done a sweep by there. Now, upon reaching the deputy, Serber's mother told the deputy that if something was going on with Serber, that the deputy should know that Serber had been at the farm that morning. Just in case you want to put my son in jail, let me help you. I'm not even sure he did anything, but just in case something happened there, I can gladly make sure that I can put him at the crime scene. Absolutely. And you'll understand why she would probably want to. Kind of get him away from her when we talk when we get into this a little more. So the farm included a house, but no one resided at the property. It's been abandoned. Yeah. This property. The property was owned by Serber's uncle, who was his mother's brother, who lives in New York. They don't even live here. OK. Now, when he was contacted. So they contacted the owner of the property, the brother. And when he's contacted, he gave them permission to search the property. Telling law enforcement. Quote, go ahead and do what you need to do. Right. I don't give a shit. I don't even live there. Knock yourself out here. It's abandoned. Nothing there is worth anything to me. No. So if it was, I would have taken it with me or stayed there to protect it. So the Serber family farm in Dixon, Nebraska, law enforcement kind of converges on there to search. They find a silver Chevy Impala that had a window broken out and would appear to be blood on the rear bumper and lid of the trunk. That's a good. Sign. Fresh blood out of the car. Yeah. Yeah. Not not dried. Been there for six months. Blood or anything. So the deputy said that he responded to a had responded to a recent accident that Serber had been involved in and that Serber had been driving this silver Chevy Impala when the accident took place. Oh, this is his car. It's such a small town that the same people investigate traffic accidents and possible murders at the same fucking time. Yeah. I know this guy. I was doing the traffic report on that. I did a traffic report. I did a traffic report on this in my homicide suit. Yeah. Or or I investigate murders in my uniform. One of the two. Yeah. So the Impala's vehicle registration, the VIN comes back to Serber and the plates on it were not for this car. The plates on it are registered to a red Dodge Charger formerly owned by Serber. OK. Now, near the Impala. The officers also discover blood droplets around on the ground as well as, you know, on the car. So they find what they also dried blood on the back of the bumper. One of the cops there said when he saw the blood, quote, my heart kind of sank. He said kind of knew that this was a bad sign. Then nearby, there's a burn barrel. Yes. They can smell in the air that it's been burning recently. Right. So they go over to the burn barrel. And what they find in the near the burn barrel are ashes. What appears to be flesh of some kind. Yeah. A red gas can, a spray bottle with what appeared to be blood on it and a bloody knife. That's what they find near there. And flesh that they assume is human. Right. Not really great thing to find, obviously. Or the best thing, depending on which side of this you're on. It's bad. So then they call in to get a warrant for the trunk of the Impala. Because they're like, this isn't good. We obviously need to get in there. I suppose you got constitutional rights and shit, but that kind of blood isn't probable cause. I think they're trying to make sure that everything is done above board so nothing gets thrown out. In this type of situation, there's no rush. Yeah. I guess you got to assume that this person's dead anyway. If that flesh belongs to him, he's not alive and you're not looking for him. Yeah. So at this point. At this point, let's make sure the legalities and no one gets off on a technicality. We got a lot of blood in a lot of different locations. All over the place. Yeah. And we got flesh now. So he's. Near in a burn barrel. Yeah. That's not good. God. Which is a cannibal barbecue. It's so hard. Disgusting. To burn a body. Yeah. I think that's what they found out. It sounds like it. It's not easy. It's so hard to burn all of it. It really doesn't work very well. Those ovens at the morgue or whatever get up to like 1800 degrees or something. Yeah. You can't get your. That's the thing. That's the thing that most people evidently don't know. You can't get a burn barrel up that high. You just can't. No matter how much gas you put on it. It's just not going to work. Not going to work. And even those guys that cremate shit, they still have to put what's left through a grinder. Yeah. To turn it into dust and sand. Because there's still chunks of body. It doesn't. It works about as well as those conveyor pizza ovens do. Like. Yeah. It's a shitty job and you got to put it through again probably to get the result you want. Works about as well as you can. You should expect it to work. Yeah. At home. Stop having such lofty expectations about everything. That's why you can bury someone, but you can't. There's no like at home cremation thing. No. There's no. You ever seen a kit for that on Amazon? Because it doesn't fucking exist. That's why. And even when you bury a person, they're not just gone. No. No, no, no. That shit sticks around so long. Oh, it's got to decompose. So they open the trunk here. Okay. Let's get to this. They open up the trunk and inside the trunk is a severed arm and a severed leg. One of each. Yeah. One leg, one arm. That's all that's in there. That's it. Nothing else. A leg and an arm. Yeah. So further searches of the Impala were completed after that was impounded. They found more blood along with two cell phones, at least one of which definitely belonged to Boomer here. So that's not good. Paperwork in the glove box indicated that it is. It is Cerber's car DNA testing on the blood from the Impala, the cubic residents and the Cerber farm and the boots and clothing found at the Galvan residence and other evidence is shown to all be consistent with cubic as well with Boomer. A knife found near the Impala had Cerber's fingerprints on it, but not Galvan's or cubics. Any blood of cubic? Yes. All the blood's cubics. Yeah. All of it. Um, his fingerprints, his blood. So you Cerber's fingerprints, weather guys, blood in fingerprints in blood too. Now, then they get surveillance video from cubics trailer that shows Cerber, Cerber and Galvan enter cubics home, then exit with him as the three of them walk to the car. Um, apparently that's what you see on the surveillance. Now Cerber has a story here of what happened later on. Uh, we'll talk about, but he's going to say that this is, you know, this was all just some crazy event that self-defense that happened. Oh, he's yes, because in most self-defense cases, you dismember the other party when you're done. You don't stop. It's mainly just for you. It's like a celebration thing to show that you've won the confrontation. So you're going to take them apart and, you know, he doesn't even go with, we left to go get the money and he went back home. I guess he doesn't say that. I don't know. Yep. So we'll get into it, but it's wild. Investigators later found surveillance video from November 1st of a Wakefield convenience store where Cerber and Galvan bought a gas container, uh, of a substance used to ignite fires. So gas, um, a similar gas container was found next to the burn barrel, uh, brand new from there. Also video surveillance from the next morning, November 2nd showed Galvan at the Wakefield convenience store, exiting the vehicle that was originally searched at, uh, his residence. Cerber's vehicle was spotted by a witness at the Dixon County residence that same morning. That's the Denali. I think then there's a witnesses said they heard loud noises coming from the Wakefield residence, uh, at around seven 40 in the morning. That's the Galvan residence. Um, another witness saw a person walking South on the County road away from the Cerber residence around 10 or 10 30 that morning, which would be probably Cerber. That would make sense. Uh, and then there's a witness who said they heard loud noises coming from the Wakefield residence at around 7 40 in the morning. Um, a vehicle that fit the description of Cerber's was later seen picking up the man and driving away from the residence. So someone picked him up in his own car. Um, witnesses also say they've seen Cerber at the residence in the past and had heard gunshots coming from the area when he was there. So he's been going there to shoot, to shoot the abandoned farm. Yeah. So Cerber's arrested. Obviously, certainly they're both going to be arrested. Um, that day, I mean, one guy was already in cuffs cause he ran away. Uh, but now Cerber's arrested. rest of to and charged with murder i don't think there's enough dirty clothes in dirty garage clothes smelling like oil now that's november 2nd all they have are is some flesh yeah and one arm and one leg that was in a trunk where the fuck is the rest of them right that's the thing they're really wondering like they couldn't have there's no bones in the burn barrel there's no way they burned it up so where the fuck is the rest of them and just a knife yeah and why the hell did you keep one arm and one leg none of this makes sense it's crazy so november 5th about four miles away from the serber farm where the body parts were found in the trunk here this is in a creek in a culvert area by a creek um they find the rest of craig what they find his head and his torso not together but both there along with several organs and intestines why and a severed arm and a severed leg the other one the other parts of him everything was found here but all taken apart all the organs are out it's crazy like they just abandoned the situation just i'll just throw it in this creek that'll do it but i'm gonna keep an arm and a leg for myself forgot the other pieces keep those for later wait till you hear why that's crazy okay so the cause of death is determined to be a gunshot wound to the head with dismemberment after the death because they have the skull he died from a small caliber wound behind the left ear the medical examiner said the gun was basically or almost touching the skin yeah so total point blank they removed the bullet from his head uh it was taken to the state lab but they said the damage to the bullet was so great they couldn't determine exactly what caliber it was it could have been a nine millimeter luger a 38 special a 357 magnum or a 357 sig one of the three or one of the four so that's not a small number one of 357 is a fucking hand cannon i mean a nine millimeter is decent size it's one of the better stopping power it's why police carry it yeah yeah that's what i mean it works and you can hold a lot of them it's a good mid-range i think in that area so now the physical evidence they do lab testing on numerous blood smeared items and collected um during the investigation and everything is craig's dna boomer's dna is on everything all the blood um the evidence shows that a fingerprint on the knife found uh containing the uh the remains matched serber's right thumb blood matching cubic's dna was found inside serber's car on his boots and a pair of his pants as well um the gun used to kill cubic though was never found as serber said he threw it in a creek as we'll find out later probably that one probably that they couldn't find it um tan pants and boots worn by serber had blood on them that we were talking about uh the knife also a piece of tissue uh not to blow your nose with human flesh human tissue yeah turned out to be cubic's um and in the impala his right arm and leg were found that's what they said the right one and a piece of paper and a red stain uh found on the floor of the impala also test positive um an air compressor hose leaves and grass collected outside of boomer's uh property come back to him as well um the chances of the dna belonging to anyone else were one in 6.26 octillion yeah so octillion there's zero chance there's 27 zeros there that's a lot of zero the earth could go the sun will burn out before that many people live on this earth that's what's crazy um the that's wild so it's him um there's also a witness now fucking galvan's sister serber's pregnant girlfriend pregnant gal what'd she have to say well she said here uh she traveled with serber a few months earlier to his cousin's house in sioux city where he bought a revolver from another man that she didn't know serber told her it was a nine millimeter and called it his quote little nine that's cute a nine millimeter revolver never even heard it so i mean i think i think she's mistaken there i think it's a 38 or 357 probably a three three eight year old no i don't think so you yeah i don't know is it the revolver so he constantly she said he constantly carried it tucked into the front of his waistband too like a dildo um this is fucking 60s bank robber yeah uh she testified that serber serber handed the galvan the partner there the same gun um november 2nd when she came home during her lunch break and to find him acting weird quote unquote he first asked her then at one point after the murder happened he asked her to shave her head her own head her head shave your head she recalled him telling her previously that if he committed another crime he was going to shave his head his head oh she wants he wants her to shave his head okay shave my head and because he had said previously if i commit another crime i'm gonna have you shave my head yeah okay he this woman then asked her to shave her head and said that serber did not say what crime he committed but she told him that she didn't have time to cut his hair i gotta go back to work he then handed her his revolver and said will you kill me so either shave my head or kill me you gotta do one of the two um i need help here she said i told him if i was gonna kill him i wouldn't shoot him oh in other words you've really pissed me off and i want it to be more painful and slow that's too fast when you least expect it uh just so here's some local reactions george burner who's a cashier at the pony express convenience store yeah it's emerson's lone gas station he said the store was just buzzing with the news all day he said quote he came in here quite often to get his stuff with his little boy he was a pleasant guy a lot of people liked him talking about boomer um another hero of an owner a former owner of the tri-county bar on main street in emerson said she remembered cubic when he was a kid he said i'm gonna kill you i'm gonna kill you i'm gonna kill you i'm gonna kill you he was in high school coming in to play pool with his friends um she said his compare this is nothing this is like nothing that's happened in the last 46 years she's lived in emerson this is the craziest thing that's happened she said this is just a little bitty town we can't believe something like this is going on we're just mortified all right then um so serber filed several motions to suppress items relating to searches conducted at the galvan residence and the serber family farm all right even though permission was given by the owner um serber argued that the warrant for the trunk of the impala was invalid because it was a telephonic warrant and it should be suppressed was they need them to go down they need they need to look in the judge's eyes and fucking but you can totally get a warrant over the phone needs to be a wet signature yeah uh serber also argued that the of the galvan residence was not supported by probable cause i think once they find blood there's probable cause for a lot of things enough right there's a lot as to the impala the district court ultimately concluded that the search was invalid due to violations of statutory law though not a constitutional violation but that didn't matter because the brother of serber's mother already gave consent for the search so the warrant was superfluous anyway they didn't need the warrant the warrant was just on top they didn't get the warrant correctly but luckily they got permission so it still stands perhaps you uh committed crimes on somebody else's property you don't get to say whether or not exactly we search that anymore we asked the owner and the owner said fine go ahead and the court further concluded that the automobile and emergency exceptions applied as well because they find blood and pieces of people they have to wonder if this person's missing a chunk of flesh or not so um as to the galvan residence the court agreed that the search was not supported by probable cause but that the boots and clothes with blood on them were in plain view therefore that that's a problem yeah that's admissible that you can admit the other stuff they found you can't on the residence but the stuff that was in plain view is admissible and that happens to be the stuff with boomer's blood all over it so that's that's the stuff we care about most okay now we get to find out how crazy serber is because he's what is fucking on as we found out from the interaction with his girlfriend he's a fucking loon what's his deal it gets he's a lunatic uh here we go okay this is in a pre-trial hearing with both serber uh serber and galvan they're both there they're going to be tried separately but here we go um okay there it's just basically a routine matter in which the judge and attorneys agreed to future hearing dates they're there just to set schedule until galvan gets up to his feet and begins with the newspaper called quote a profanity laced outburst outburst that led to his removal from the courtroom yes that is awesome um so apparently this started with the district judge was discussing with the lawyers the likelihood of a trial date not taking place that day and at that point a security go officer looked over at serber and said knock it off he was doing something yeah and what appeared to be this outburst then he's in restraints and seated in the second row of the courtroom he began to scream profanities out before standing up and then the security officer officers you know guards obviously converged on him at that point when they did Before they got to him, they had a miniature standoff for a second where he said, you know who I am? You know who he is, Jimmy? Is he Jesus Christ, James? I'm fucking God. Of course he is. Okay, he shouts that out. I'm fucking God. And then the judge says, why do they always do it? Can you take God to his holding cell, please? Because, you know, he's a little loud in here and, you know, it'll give him his own space for a while. Put God on G block, I guess. Yeah, I guess see if God wants a bologna sandwich for lunch because he's going in the clink here for a while while we talk about his fucking upcoming shit. So is he competent? I'm fucking God, God damn it. He is not confident, right? Well, later on, he claims to be other beings who may or may not exist, which is pretty interesting, too. Yeah, that'd be great if he said, I'm Zool. We've had a Zool recently. So after this happens, counsel seeks a competency evaluation, which is granted. Yeah, right. We'll talk about that. So following this evaluation, Cerberus found not competent to stand trial. But Dr. Klaus Hartmann here, the guy who's working on him, opined that there was reasonable likelihood that they could restore his competency. Yeah, a little bit of lithium. We'll get him. We're good to go. So he's placed at the Lincoln Regional Center here to try to get his shit together. He was not cooperative with any of their treatment efforts, though. In August of 2017, the state sought court approval to administer involuntary treatment. We're going to shove drugs up his ass if we have to. As part of the process, the LRC was able to administer medications involuntarily as on an emergency basis for 14 days. All right. By the time of the hearing on the state's motion, the LRC was able to administer medications involuntarily on an emergency basis for 14 days. By the time of the hearing on the state's motion, the LRC was able to administer medications involuntarily as on an emergency basis for 14 days. The evidence showed that he had voluntarily continued to take his medication after the 14-day time period. So the court declined to order involuntary treatment because he's voluntarily doing it. December of 2017, Galvan pleads guilty. Or no contest is what he pleads, actually. Makes a deal. The assistant attorney general here, who's appointed as the special prosecutor, said that Serber is the one who did the shooting. And Galvan, though, either knew that Serber planned to shoot Boomer or helped him plan the shooting. He said the state would contend that Mr. Galvan was an aider and a better in the homicide of Craig Kubik. They said that Kubik's watch and house keys were found in Serber's vehicle. A spot of blood found inside was tested and the DNA matched Kubik. And they're talking about the pants and everything that was linked to both of them. So the defense said that Brian has accepted. Responsibility for his part in this horrific crime. So in exchange for this plea, the state agreed to reduce the original charge of first-degree murder and dismiss two ancillary offenses as well. And just from that. So they said that, you know, they just think he helped. So at sentencing, he speaks. Galvan does. And he's 18 still, this guy. Just turned 19. He said, I didn't know Serber was going. To kill him that night, he said in a quiet voice. And then he apologized to Kubik's family members who were present and especially to Kubik's five-year-old son, who was at the time home and possibly saw this father's body. They killed him at his own trailer and then dragged his ass away and then took him to two different. It's crazy, dude. Okay. So the defense attorney here says Brian's problem was he hung out with him and he got caught up in these events. I think the evidence is clear that Mr. Serber is the one who pulled the trigger on that night. So the judge says, okay, fine. You, sir, may fuck off 50 to 60 years in prison somewhere in there. Yeah. Anywhere in there. Okay. Even if he does it all, he could get out before Social Security. So that's good. Do we get an answer of who Black Cat is? No idea who Black Cat is. One of these two is Black Cat. Neither of them are black, by the way. So what the fuck? I don't understand. Or did he think that because, like, the noise. Black Cat? Like a bottle rocket, maybe? Or I don't know. I don't know where Black Cat. Maybe that was his nickname and that's what Boomer called him. But that's never established in court. It's easier to figure out Black Cat than, however, to pronounce Bright. Brian. Brian. Imagine being a teacher going, I'm calling you Brian. I'm calling you Black Cat. I can't get Brian every time out. I got to talk to you. Black Cat. That makes as much sense as whatever the fuck you're about to tell me this says. Totally. So January 2018, the state, again, seeks involuntary treatment for Cerber. He's not taking his meds again. Testimony from doctors. They say that Cerber had taken his medications for a time, then refused because he experienced side effects. Of course he's a pain in the ass. Why wouldn't he be? Of course. The doctor indicated Cerber's claimed side effects were not commonly reported, and in any case, Cerber's presentation of psychosis. Cerber's presentation of psychosis was, quote, very unconventional, and he said he displayed selective symptoms that mimicked the symptoms of other patients at the center. Okay? For example, one patient barked like a dog, so Cerber began barking like a dog. He's just real easy going. He's just going with it. I don't want to make you feel weird, so I'll bark too. Another patient drooled, so Cerber stopped barking and started drooling. And then he licked his balls, which was the most impressive thing ever. It's a fucking chameleon. It starts pissing on fire hydrants. Is he a dog or a chameleon? Which one? We haven't figured it out yet. Then he stopped drooling and started talking to himself, claiming he had many children who were all angels, not good kids, literally angels in the sky. A lot of abortions out there. Oh, boy. According to the doctor, symptoms of legitimate psychosis remain consistent, and he believes Cerber was malingering. They also noted that it was not clear. It was not clear if Cerber was also suffering from actual mental defect because he wouldn't take his medication or comply with treatment efforts. He also indicated that he thought Cerber understood the proceedings. He also thought Cerber would be likely to interfere with the court proceedings. He's going to be a dick about it. That's a fact. He's going to stand up in court and scream about how much he's got. He's going to talk about his fucking, you know, about the fetuses. He's going to talk about fetuses with wings. He's going to talk about fucking whatever. Ultimately, they thought that the treatment was going to be bad. The treatment should be continued to ensure the restoration of his competency. Though they said that his treatment should continue, Cerber's lawyer indicated that Cerber was competent and that trial should proceed. The state, meanwhile, asked that the doctor's request for additional time to ensure his competency be granted, which is usually the opposite. It's usually the defense doing this and the state saying, let's go to trial, and this time it's backwards. The court agreed and Cerber was dismissed. He was declared incompetent. He was sent back to the center. He appealed the order, but it was dismissed. Now, October 2018, there's a status hearing on his competency, and everyone agrees that he's competent now. He's good now. Okay. April 2019, the defense says, we should check that again. Okay. The staff psychiatrist and psychologist should do an evaluation. So the psychiatrist testified that it was his belief that Cerber was not oriented to time and place, but the psychiatrist, and this is the craziest thing I've ever heard, had no opinion as to his competence. Oh, well, we don't have any paycheck for you then, you fucking idiot. You come up with an opinion. I didn't ask you if you like my wife's cooking. I said, is this guy capable of understanding what's going on? I didn't say those are nice tits, huh? That's not what I said. It's a professional opinion. The psychologist testified that Cerber was clear and oriented when they spoke, but that Cerber's job was to make sure that Cerber was able to understand what's going on. Cerber's judgment did appear to be impaired, and the psychologist could not tell whether that was due to mental illness or a behavioral disorder that he could control. So he was again ordered a competency evaluation to be conducted again. May 2019, another competency hearing. This is in court. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenic effectiveness disorder and bipolar symptoms. He continually talks out loud to himself during court hearings, occasionally interrupting the proceedings. He disrupted this hearing very quickly, challenging the judge by telling him that, quote, I'm paying my bond and leaving. I'm out of here. Your Honor, check, please. Then he said, quote, open my cuffs and get me the fuck out of here. I'm done. I've had it. I'm done. I'm so bored. I'm not participating anymore, and I refuse to leave a tip. I'm not doing it. Yeah, you're not getting a tip from this. Give me my check. He's just doing this. This is to the judge. Give me the check. You tell the chef, piss poor job, too. Not good. Open my cuffs. I'm leaving. Open them up. I'm leaving. Prior to the ruling, the judge gave Serber one more chance to speak, and he said, quote, I'd say full competence because I'm my own lawyer. Oh. Then he said, quote, I'm Lucifer, or you can call me Andres, but I go by that. Huh? What the fuck? What the fuck are you? So now he's God and Lucifer. Yeah. That's nice. But also Andres. And Andres, too. He's easygoing. He left the courtroom. And continued to speak out loud to himself. And then while sheriff's officers waited with him at the elevator to return him to jail, he, quote, howled like a dog. So he's a fun guy at the courthouse. So they found him incompetent to stand trial. And he goes back to the center there. July 2019, he was refusing to take his meds and was requesting narcotics instead. I'd like heroin. Can I please? Hey, this fucking Haldol's not working. How about if you spike me with some fucking junk? What do you say? Anything? Have you got any fentanyl? I'm so tired of all this Paxil. Jesus, you can't do it. Shit, he's probably got lithium. He's probably got some pretty decent antipsychotics. They got to chill him out. January 2020, get another doctor, performs an evaluation. And the doctor says his sanity is restored. Oh. So that's all good now. He's fine. This guy's been restored. He's been restored three, four times. He's back again. The assistant attorney general said, quote, he's doing nothing but putting on an act. If his competency is restored in two days, two weeks, two months, two years, or 22 years, the state's going to be there to prosecute him for the death of Mr. Kubik. So he can wait all he wants. We'll be here. August 13th, 2020, his defense attorney wants to get out of this. He's like, this is crazy. I got to go. Can't do it anymore. So they found out on August 17th, the court found that Serber could represent him. He didn't represent himself, but upon request by defense counsel, the court reconsidered that ruling and then reversed it on August 18th. The next day, Serber's counsel filed a motion to determine his competency again, and he had another evaluation. Finally, he's goddamn competent, ready to go. At his trial, he said that he's representing himself with the assistance of counsel, apparently. I don't know if they're allowing him to question anybody or anything like that. In openings, the defense said that, Kubik was shot in self-defense over this Dodge Charger. Yeah. He said that, reminding the jury that they need to rely on the facts and not anything else here. He said, what the state just gave you was a trailer to a movie. Don't make your decision based on the trailer. Don't judge a book by its cover. Don't judge a movie by its trailer. The sheriff does his, you know, all the shit he said. And they said, what did you find when the trunk was open? And he said, quote, an arm specifically. It ended my hopes of finding Mr. Kubik alive, I would say. The sister, the pregnant one, Serber's girlfriend, she testifies. All the stuff we said earlier. And, you know, she's also said that in cross-examination, they challenged her memories. And they said, your memory back then may be more accurate than your testimony today. Do you agree with that? And she said yes, because she had some inconsistencies in the year and a half it's been. Serber testifies. Fantastic. Yes, there we go. He openly admits to dismembering and disposing of Kubik's body. Look, man, I won the fight. I'm going to go all the way. I kept an arm and a leg as a souvenir so people know better not to fuck with me next time. Over the course of an hour and a half, he said he killed Craig in self-defense, dismembered the body to conceal his actions, but then left an arm and a leg in the trunk so he'd get caught. Oh. He said, quote, Just because I went over there in the beginning doesn't mean I wanted it to happen. He said, I got there at about 10.45 p.m. at his trailer, and I was trying to resolve this dispute. And he said, I went in there. I went to, you know, air up the tire so I could repossess it. He said, quote, When he pulled out a gun, that all changed. He's saying Kubik pulled a gun out. He says, as they were walking in the car to fix the tire, Serber said Kubik reached into his waistband and pulled out a gun. But only this dipshit carries a fucking gun in the front of his waistband. Like a moron. Is it everybody in this town? Nobody has a holster? Nope. And he said he pulled it out. Serber said he rushed Kubik, and after a brief scuffle, was able to get the gun from him, pointed at him, and fire a shot. So he's saying, I didn't even bring a gun. This is his gun, is what he said. He said, I wasn't intending to kill him. I was just reacting to the situation. He said he shot him behind the left ear. He didn't know where the bullet hit him. And he said he thought he was still alive. He said that he and Galvan then returned to Wakefield to get his Impala to take Kubik to the hospital. Because the SUV he was driving was full of boxes and there was no room for him. So rather than just take the boxes out, throw the body in there, take him to the hospital, let's go get a different car. He'll be fine. They returned more than an hour later, which I'm sure he's still good. I didn't know if I was going to kill him. Although I shot him exactly where everybody that tries to kill people. People shoot somebody. You know, when they're executing them. Right. Surveillance video also showed that they can see them dragging Kubik's body to the Impala. They had that footage. He said that he put plastic in the front seat and placed Kubik inside. Previous evidence showed only a small smudge of blood determined to be Kubik's on the floor and on a piece of paper found inside the car. Serber said he later burned the plastic and his clothes. He said he took the gun and threw it over a bridge into a creek near Wakefield. He said that he and Brian, who had been at Kubik's trailer with Serber at the time of the shooting, they drove around for hours with Kubik's body, winding up several miles away at the vacant farmhouse. He said the sun came up. We took him out and I cut him up. He said he panicked. That's why he did it. He said he cut up the body, dumped the torso, the intestines and an arm and a leg in a culvert and kept the other two in the car. He said he used both knives recovered by investigators to dismember his body because he didn't know what else to do. He said, this is a great line, quote, I was scared to get into trouble. You think? And I wanted to hide the body. Well, that's honest. I think it's fascinating that the only thing he tried to burn were his clothes and the plastic. And some flesh, though. I think he attempted to. He tried to start burning the flesh. It didn't work. And he said, we got to dump this shit somewhere else. Perhaps you just cut him up and got some on him. And that flesh maybe fell off of the clothes. I don't know. There was a hunk they found on the ground nearby, I think. So it seems like he was seeing if it would work. Yeah. It doesn't. Could he have just tried that little piece that was on the clothes and was like, well, that didn't burn. So there's no way all that's burning. No idea. Well, he said. Wow. After he dumped. After he dumped the shit in the culvert, the shit, the poor guy's fucking parts. Yeah. He said, quote, I kind of had a guilty feeling. So he decided to leave an arm and a leg in the trunk of his car so that the authorities would find them and he'd get in trouble. Okay. During cross-examination, they're going back and forth. He's not an easy cross-examination. He says to the prosecutor, you're just going to say whatever you can to find me guilty. And yeah. Then he said, what am I doing here? What are we doing here? I already said what happened. And the prosecutor said, I'm trying to expose your lies. And Cerber said, I'm trying to expose your lies. He said that he changed his mind about concealing Kubrick's body and wanted to get caught. And they said, well, why didn't you just call police and turn yourself in then and say this happened by accident? Didn't it bother you at all? And Cerber said, yes. And they said, why did it bother you? And Cerber said, you ever taken someone's life? No, that's why I'm not in cops. Also, how great is it to? How great is it to have just an absolute moron, dipshit and lunatic on the stand that he can ask you a question and you can be just dead straight honest with him with zero worry of it singing? Oh, I'm here exposing your lies. I'm trying to expose your lies. See? Oh, all right. Well, then let's go back and forth. Since you're being honest, I'll be honest, too. Here's my court testimony strategy. Yeah. And I can give you the whole game plan and you don't know how to come back because you're a moron. You'll still fuck it all up. And you're crazy. But you are God. So you never know. Verdict comes in. He is found guilty of first degree murder, use of a firearm to commit a felony and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. He's an idiot. During sentencing, he spoke briefly and he was hard to hear, they said. But all they could say is that they could understand because there's no cameras in the courtroom here. So the press was able to understand his last line that he said, which is, quote, I still love my Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian. No idea what that means. What? We don't know what that means. We don't know what he said that led into that. That's the biggest mystery of this entire fucking case is what the hell are you talking about? Okay. The judge said this entire situation is sad. I know that any sentence will not make things right, but let's give it a shot. You may fuck off life for first degree murder. Yeah. Twenty five to fifty for using a firearm. To commit a felony. Twenty five to fifty years of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. All consecutive. Oh, shit. He is swing fucked. Yeah, he's fucked. He's got fifty to a hundred on top of life. He's fucked. I don't know how to sentence you. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's a fucking swish, sir. It's not bad. He is credited with fourteen hundred sixty five days already served, you know, from all the mental institution stuff here. Cubix father. said it's a relief. It's as good as it can get. There's no question about who done what. I'd say right. The prosecutor pretty much said the same thing. He said the fact that this was not a death penalty case doesn't take away from the fact that it was a cold calculated murder. Mr. Kubik had his faults. Why would you say that now? What? What difference does that make now? Mr. Kubik had his faults, but his fate was undeserved. The consequence is that Mr. Serber never set foot outside of a prison cell again. We all have faults. Everyone has faults. No one needs to be dismembered. How many episodes has Dateline done? Fuck, man. I'm sure every one of those people had faults. That's just not nice to say today. It's great. He had his faults. Why say that? It's almost like he didn't like him personally or some shit. Yeah. Shit fisherman. They said they're going to appeal, and on appeal, basically, they file a few stupid things about the stuff he was trying to get. The searches and stuff like that. Nothing comes to any fruition. That was 2008. 2022. They're in there forever. Forever. There you go. That is Emerson, Nebraska, and we are super late on this. Going to buzz through the end of the show here. ShutUpAndGiveMeMurder.com is where you go for everything. Get your merchandise, tickets to live shows. September 18th, Milwaukee at the Pabst. Get your seats. And then the next night, September 19th, State Theater in Minneapolis. Get those seats. Get your seats for that. Get them right now. 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