Deleting PDF Files - Vigilante Crimes

Marianne Bachmeier was more than nervous than she'd ever been in her life walking up to that courthouse. The 22-breda in her purse felt like it weighed 100 pounds. Her palms were sweaty, knees weak, mom's spaghetti, she was shaking almost uncontrollably. She gave a slight smile to the guards at the door and they waved her through without a second look. They felt too sorry for her to search the grieving mother. She found her seat in the gallery, the trial was already underway. Sitting right there in front of her close enough to touch was Klaus Grabowski. This is the man who had lured her seven-year-old daughter, Anna, into his home, slowly assaulted her, strangled her, stuffed her body in a bag, and then dumped her into a canal. This is the man whose defense team had just argued an open court that a seven-year-old girl had seduced him. Marianne sat with the gun in her purse and waited, and then she stood up, pulled the buret out and fired eight shots into Klaus Grabowski's back. Man I love me a good taking out the trash story, and boy do I have a couple for you today on Crime is fun. Look at your ladies and gentlemen I am not advocating for crime, but gosh darn is crime not kind of fun to listen to. Let me tell you about one of my favorite movies of all time. Y'all ever seen law abiding citizen? So good, man, the hero of the story, excuse me, the bad guy, I guess, played by Gerard Butler takes revenge on a couple of guys who violate and murder his wife and daughter. Well what if that was a true story? That would be kind of rare, but unfortunately there aren't many XCIA multi-millionaires like Gerard Butler's character out there, cutting off the PPs of trial offenders while fighting a broken criminal justice system, and the almost napom to courthouse. That's not that's not fun. Crime's not fun, but you can get your crime is fun, merch at bunker branding, check out the description below. So that's not true, unfortunately, but, but there are some people out there that have taken the law into their own hands when it comes to evil, existing, and our world. I want to be upfront about something before we get into these stories. I'm not here to tell you how to feel about any of this. Some of these people in this episode are, depending on how you look at it, either heroes or killers, kind of like Gerard Butler's character. And sometimes they're genuinely both at the same time. I don't like Gerard Butler's character. I mean, if you don't remember, he kind of put an AT4 rocket launcher in a modules 50 caliber machine gun on a bomb robot, drove it into a cemetery and blew some people up. God, I gotta watch that movie tonight. Some of the people we're going to talk about are clearly just killers who found a socially, palatable justification for what was when you strip it back murder. Some of them are parents acting out of grief so profound that the word crime barely fits the situation. Some of them were abused as children themselves, watched the system fell them then, watched it fell them again, and eventually made a decision to, you know, pop somebody or maybe stab him, hit him with a hatchet, etc etc. At least one of these guys I'm going to talk about thought it would be fun and cool and everyone would understand why he's slime someone. With that being said, I'm going to give you the facts. I'm going to give you the full picture and then I'm going to let you sit with it because I genuinely don't have clean answers for most of these stories now would be lying to you if I pretended I did. Here's the lineup for what we're talking about today, own crime is fun. We had a man in Arizona prison who was already serving 16 live sentences from a previous crime that we'll get into. Well he picked up a rock, put it in a laundry bag, and beat two child predators to death in the prison yard before breakfast, and told journalists from his cell that his only regret was that there weren't more people in line. He's currently awaiting a capital trial where he is going to represent himself. All right, all right, kind of like this guy. Next up we got a man in Alaska who was sexually abused for years as a child by his adoptive father, watched that man walk free in 1989 without serving a single day, then spent 25 years carrying that weight, and then in 2016, got on the public sex offender registry, looked up three addresses in Anchorage, and went to visit them with a hammer. His brother who survived the same household with the father abusing them, got a PhD and became a cybersecurity executive in California, and also smiled at the brother who took a hammer to sex offenders from across this courtroom sentencing. Which by the way, he's out now, on parole. Then we got a 24 year old in Houston who decided that police weren't doing enough, went on an app, posed as a minor, and spent weeks communicating with a convicted child pornographer until the man agreed to come to a park it for in the morning. This guy then drove to that park and shot this dude dead in a ditch. What about a man in Fremont, California who spent days browsing the state's public sex offender registry, picked a 71 year old former pastor specifically because he thought that would be an easy kill. He posed as an accountant, knocked on the door, chased the man into a neighbor's house when he tried to flee, stabbed into the death, then told police it was honestly pretty fun. What about the case of a female in Germany? We just kind of touched on that a little bit. It's a German mother and 81 who walked into a courtroom on the third day of her daughter's killer's trial pulled a bread up his slot of her purse and shot him six times in the back in front of the judge, the jury, the lawyers, and the entire gallery. And last but not least, we have an army veteran in Arkansas who shot and killed the man accused of abusing his teenage daughter, got charged with murder, announced he was running for sheriff while facing the murder charge, won the Republican primary by defeating the incumbent sheriff, had the murder charge dismissed five days ago from this recording, and because the police lost the dashcam footage, he is now the Republican nominee for a low-nope county sheriff in the November 2026 general election. Bro, if you're watching this, please contact me, we would love to see you on our unsubscribe podcast. Well, there's six stories we're going to talk about and you can tell me in the comments below if you think they're bad people, good people in between or don't care. This is crime is fun, let's get into it. Ricky Kurt Wassenar was 63 years old and it's been 40 of those 63 years in prison. Yeah, he's been in and out for a while, that means he's been incarcerated for more than 60% of his entire life. He's spent more time inside to sell than most people spend at any single career. Should he spend more time in prison than I've been alive? He was first arrested in 1986 for armed robbery and assault where he served 10 years. He was released and then was out for all of four months before he walked into a video store, a Tucson, robbed it and led police on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash. This is a fucking crazy person. That second conviction landed in a 28 year sentence without parole at the Lewis prison in Buckeye, Arizona. So he's back inside for a while, he's just another inmate doing his time. But in 2004, he got a wild hair on his ass and decided to do something crazy. Wassenar and another inmate attempted a prison break. I don't know exactly how they thought it was going to go, but it didn't go the way that they planned. They ended up having to retreat to a prison guard tower where they barricaded themselves with two correctional officers. And it wasn't just a visiting the correctional officers for some coffee and crumpets, they took them hostage. They took them hostage for 15 days. This was one of the longest prison hostage standoffs in American history. It was 15 days of negotiations, standoffs and whatever was happening in that tower between four people, with very different ideas about how the situation was going to resolve. Wassenar and the accomplice eventually came to the conclusion that, hey, we're not getting out of this when they're probably not going to give us $3 million in a helicopter to go to an island where they never going to find us again. So they surrendered and went to trial. Wassenar ended up being convicted and sentenced to 16 life sentences on top of the time he was already serving. It's safe to say he is going to die in prison. Honestly, at this point, he really doesn't give a shit and we're going to get into, uh, we're going to get into that. The homie has nothing left that they can take away. He's already going to be in prison for the rest of his life. In the words of homelander, yes, I will lose everything, but then I'll have nothing to lose. Before I tell you about what happened last year in 2025, I need to tell you something about where he was housed. He was at the simmer-on unit at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson. That unit is a sex offender unit that houses convicted children and people who did things to children, then I'm not going to get into. He was placed inside the sex offender unit because at some point during a time in prison, he had been convicted of a sexual assault charge stemming from an incident inside. He denied being a butt pirate but went to trial and still lost. He maintains to this day that he is not a sex offender, but the conviction meant that he got placed in that unit and, well, he didn't take it very well. In November 2024, prison officials placed a new cellmate in his cell. The cell's name was Joseph Desisto. Desisto was a convicted sex offender. According to Wastonar, who told this story openly and in detail to journalists and investigators, he applied an armbar to Desisto and then strangled him with his hands until he stopped moving. Oh no. The cellmate, of course, was found dead in the cell. So they did not, and it could not definitively determine that he had been murdered. The medical examiner could not rule out natural causes. I don't ask me how. The prison did not believe Wastonar's account and no charges were filed. His response to this was to tell an investigator that his DNA should be all over the body that he absolutely had killed him and that he had killed him because he didn't want to share a cell. He was annoyed that nobody believed him that he killed him. He described the killing of him as practice. Later on, on April 4th, 2025, it's seven in the morning, Wastonar woke up and went to work. His cellmate that morning was Saul Alvarez. Alvarez was in prison for kidnapping, violating and murdering a 15-year-old girl. Wastonar looked at the guy and said, "Yeah, they'll do." So he suffocated him. Well, he looked around and decided, "Uh, you know, one peto's not enough." Let's go find some more, so he picks up his fish nest style gym bag and puts a big rock in it Then he walks out to the fenced-in area outside the dining hall where a group of inmates were waiting in line to be led in for breakfast Tutu's name Thorn Harnage and Donald Lashley fucking crazy names were in that line both were convicted Serving sentences for crimes against multiple children Wasted our season makes a beeline for him and start swinging the laundry bag Well, he manages to beat them both to death with his makeshift medieval mace It took me four times to say that sentence in the process Oh, he injured another inmate anyways before breakfast. He had slimed three pdf files Shortly after he spoke to journalists from his cell and said he wasn't remorseful and that he wanted to talk about it He said quote child molesters. I want to kill them all. That's all I can say It would only he went on to say the taxpayers no longer have to pay for them I'm paying my debt to society about this cell made he killed first that morning He said well, he came to the country legally then he kidnapped and 15-year-old little girl. I decided favor by killing him I can't personally argue with that then he talked about the due to her in the yard that morning waiting to get into breakfast Harnage and lashley. He said they were both That molested several victims. I did society a favor again. Yeah, no, I can't argue with that one either His only stated regret about the entire morning was that there weren't more people in the line outside of the dining hall Boy, he was on a tear he ended up being indicted on three counts first degree murder and aggravated assault His arraignment in December 2025 despite having already confessed in detail to multiple media outlets He pled not guilty. His court appointed attorney withdrew from the case after he decided to plead not guilty Like I said, this is after he told the media hell. Yeah, I killed him Old boy who has defended himself in multiple prior trials and turned at least one of them into what journalist described to as a circus Will likely represent himself again Last month in May 2026 the pineal county attorney filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty the aggravating factors were his Extensive criminal history the 1997 robbery the 16 life sentences he had previously received and the three murders Which was technically for but no one would believe him that he killed that first one the DA said I believe the death penalty is the Appropriate sentence given the defendant's extensive history of violence He's already 63 years old. What do you guys think should they give him the death penalty or just let him live his life out in prison moving on Let's talk about Jason Vukovic also known as the Alaskan Avenger. The story starts with two brothers Growing up in the same house and the same parents the same childhood these two brothers grew up and as adults are two Completely different people not because one is specifically smarter or stronger or more deserving It's just thousands of small variables that compound over time and till the gulf between them is so wide it seems impossible They started in the same place Jason Vukovic and Joel Fulton are brothers I'm gonna talk about Jason Vukovic and Joel Fulton they have the same mother the same adopted father and like I said the same childhood in Anchor, Alaska Their adopted father was a man named Larry Lee Fulton who was a devoted Christian who had them in church two or three times a week He liked a quote scripture and he was an upstanding community presence What people didn't see behind closed doors is that he was a man who beat his children with pieces of wood and whipped them with belts Something that no one in the community saw also was that he was Both the boys for years When Jason was 16 the two brothers ran for it They fled to Washington state with no identification no money and no plan They were just minors wandering around alone with nothing the adopted father was eventually charged with second degree abuse of a minor in 1989 and ended up serving no prison time neither one of the boys ended up getting any counseling or help and no one followed up On what it meant for the two teenagers who had just survived years of sustained abuse to be sent out in the world with nothing Joel somehow after all that rebuild he went to college got a PhD and became the chief information security officer at a data analytics software company in California He started a family and continued receiving counseling for his childhood trauma well into adulthood Jason on the other hand went a different direction With no idea money or support system and a psyche that had been systematically dismantles and shouted he turned to theft to survive He built a criminal record across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California It was mostly petty stuff but enough to compound and enough to follow him around At around 2008 he moved back to Alaska and racked up a couple of more charges like drug possession and theft He was by his own admission trapped in a cycle of self-hatred that had been installed in him before he was old enough to understand what was being done to him He later stated, "My silent understanding that I was worthless, I throw away the foundations laid in my youth never went away." A 2016 Jason Vukovic was 41 years old and had eight prior felony convictions He was regularly using meth and had been in and out of the criminal justice system for 30 years This of course meant that he never received any treatment for the trauma of what happened to him as a child Sometime in 2016 he described what he called as an "overwhelming desire to act." He ends up getting on a computer and pulling up the Alaska sex offender registry The sex offender registry is available to anyone with an internet connection So what did he do with this registry? Well, he started looking up names and addresses Three names popped out to him that was Wesley, Demarest, Charles, Albe and Andre Barboso They were all living in the Anchorage area so he goes to their homes with a purpose and a plan in mind For at least one of those visits, he had a hammer So he attacks Demarest and Barboso with his fists and robbed all three of them But when he got to Charles Albe, something escalated He brought the hammer down on Albe's head so hard he fractured his skull He ended up living but the damage was permanent, the guy now had difficulty constructing sentences Well, Vukovic was caught, he was tried He didn't deny what he had done and he pleaded guilty to attempt a assault in robbery The judge sentenced him to 23 years in prison with five years suspended Ed sentencing his brother who was also abused in the courtroom He sat in that Anchorage courtroom and looked across at Jason and smiled at him The prosecutor's statement outside the courthouse was, people do not get to take the law into their own hands Just because they don't like a particular group of people Vigilantism is not something we accept in America I don't know sometimes it sounds kind of rad Are not, are not, don't break the law People Vukovic inside prison issued a statement that yes, he agrees with the prosecutor completely He publicly renounces actions that he hoped other abuse survivors would seek therapy rather than retribution He told the media a few have already lost her youth like me due to a child abuser "Please do not throw away your present and your future by committing acts of violence" A petition for his early release gathered thousands of signatures and he went before parole board They told him he'd have to wait five more years but weeks later he won an appeal The release kept getting delayed though pushed back and back again until late 2024 After serving roughly eight years he walked out of Spring Creek Correctional Center on parole He does have to wear an ankle monitor but he's on social media now and gives interviews And that is the story of the Alaskan Avenger Next up we have The Catfish Worst superhero ever, this guy's name is James Lewis Spencer III This one happened in Atlanta, Texas, I mean Houston, Texas, May 29, 2023 At around 350 in the morning a car drove slowly down northward street in the heights neighborhood It pulled up alongside a man who was walking along the road The man turned and looked at the car, wondering what the heck was going on But then someone inside the car fired multiple gunshots The victim went down into a ditch and the car just sped off into the dark Shortly after a driver was passing by and it's all a dude in a ditch so they called 911 The 37-year-old Sean Connery Showers was pronounced dead at the scene The dude had a cell phone on him so of course the first saying the best skaters did was check it The phone ended up telling the whole story, a little background on Sean Connery Showers When he was 23 years old he played guilty to a federal charge of child no-no picture possession A prosecutor in that case described the material as some of the most egregious child no-no pictures of young children he had ever encountered in his career He said it was content to graphic to describe own air This dirt bag ended up being sentenced to 30 months in prison and was required to register as a sex offender for life When he got out though he didn't register which this is a no-no it's illegal You know being caught for that try it again and in 2019 send us to another two years in prison for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements He's now a twice convicted felon with a lifetime registration requirement and a documented pattern of non-compliance In the weeks before he got slimed out in the ditch Showers had been active on social media app called Kick Well guess what he was doing on social media He was communicating with someone who represented themselves as a minor The messages according to prosecutors were sexual in nature This child that he was talking to wanted to meet him So showers agreed to come to a park in the Heights area to meet the child Well if you're kidding guess that the person on the other end of those messages was not actually a minor It was a 24 year old man from Alvin Texas named James Lewis Spencer the third Turns out Spencer had been telling all the people around him His friends and family for a while that he wanted to do this Hell he even told his girlfriend that he believed the police were not doing enough to keep pedals incarcerated He said if cops weren't going to do anything maybe he should kill them himself He told one of his buddies that he knew how to find him online through Daps and Registries and that men like that would do bad things to little children and other people Nobody really took it seriously but Damn if he didn't set up a kick account and start talking to a grown man He told this guy that he found on the sex offender registry Well meet me at the park mister He went to the park, waited to see this guy walking down the road and did a fucking drive by on him and he drove home like nothing had happened Seeing as all social media is traceable they just got on the kick account and found out where the dude lived Girlfriend riding him out immediately and said yeah he's been talking about this for a minute So he was arrested by some jump out boys on the Gulf Coast violent offenders task force And according to police he admitted it Cure to describe to him in a phrase I think is exactly correct and almost beside the point that to be frank This is a planned execution. He targeted an individual. He set up a meat New where he was going to be and then discharged a weapon multiple times and then just went back home like nothing happened Yeah, so he was charged with first degree murder in Harris County District Court So I couldn't find a confirmed final verdict or sentence in this case I'll report stop at this like February 2024 arraignment so I'm guessing the case is presumably still moving through the Texas court system I don't know what happened if you're listening this after it resolves. Please leave something in the comments below I can't tell you what is talking minute though a man who had been convicted twice once for possessing some of the most extreme PD files ever and then once for a few to register for that was on an app talking sexually with a minor You know, I see a pattern here. I can't say it definitively But he was gonna reoffend maybe I don't know that you can't go around shooting these people, right? What about the Megan's law special? I'm gonna learn you about the Roon Suresh Roon Suresh is 29 years old and he lives in Fremont, California Dude is by all appearances an ordinary looking young man the kind of person you'd see at a coffee shop and not look at twice in 2021 four years before the events I'm about to describe the Roon was arrested for leaving a suspicious bag at a height place hotel in Fremont When police sat him down to interview him about it. He explained what was going on He told them that he believed the CEO of high hotels was a PDF file He said he wanted to take out the CEO and that he had been hunting that CEO for a while and he had been doing so Delivertly and with intent. Oh shit. We call that premeditated in legal jargon So he was charged with making a criminal bomb threat criminal threats and burglary I don't know the exact disposition of that case But what I do know is that four years later Varune was a free man with apparently no impediments to acting on the impulses He had described a police in 2021 at this point though The system did have his name his face his DNA his fingerprints and his state of desire to kill someone he believed was a PDF file at This point in the story He was browsing the California Megan's Law website looking for targets the Megan's Law website is a publicly accessible database of registered sex offenders in California It's got names photographs addresses physical descriptions and conviction details It was created so communities could be informed about who was living near them and who they probably didn't want to live around Who's yard to let their dog take a big runny shit in this registry is available to anyone with a laptop or an internet connection like our last story Varune used it just like the Alaskan Avenger. We talked about as a catalog I'll take that one and that one and that one and that one in the days leading up to September 18th 2025 he took screenshots of multiple profiles He was looking through names and photographs and addresses the way most people browse for something to watch on a streaming service During his any-meaning mind-em-most smoke-a-diddler session, he found a dude named David Brimmer David was 71 years old and a former pastor huh In 1995 David was convicted of committing lewd acts with a child This ended up putting him in prison for nine years and being put on Megan's Law Registry That means his photo his address and his conviction details were publicly listed Varune later told police that he selected Brimmer for a reason This was because he was old and he thought a 71 year old dude would be super easy to kill Yeah, solid assessment definitely a soft target and he ended up not being wrong about this I say that without any endorsement of what followed the plan was opposed as a CPA going door-to-door soliciting new clients for his services I mean it was a way to get David to open the door without being suspicious So Varune showed up at the address on the registry and knocked well David just came to the door and answered Get him a big ol smile and said what can I do for you a sunny? Well, we don't know exactly what was said during those first few moments But we do know was that at some point the former pastor realized something was wrong and tried to run But he didn't run away from Varune. He ran out of the front door Varune chased after him, but David ran into a neighbor's house trying to get to safety Varune followed him inside the neighbor's house and continued the attack where he stabbed him multiple times Well after he slashed his throat turns out if he cut someone's throat really deep with a knife they die Varune was found standing outside the neighbor's house covered in blood holding a knife He didn't put up a fight with the police. He was arrested without incident Didn't try to run from him. Wasn't really distressed about any of it And the police interview that followed he was a relaxed and communicative He straight up told police he had wanted to kill a sex vendor for years because well they hurt children They deserve to die he offered the officers a little bit of his own philosophy and I quote It is not your duty to decide whether heaven or hell accepts them. It is your duty to send them to the gates Okay, honestly that quote goes hard as fuck. He didn't tell him the killing was really fun So once again crime is fun. He said honestly, it was really fun. I'm not joking. He said that two cops He also said in what I think is the most revealing thing he said during the entire interview I'm hoping that because he's a PDF file like everyone hates PDF files so like should be cool. It should be cool Yeah, maybe But you did commit a lot of felonies in the process You know felonies like the ones he was charged with which was murder residential burglary and armed individual causing great bodily injury As of this recording the case is still pending. I mean it just happened last year. It was file September 2025 I can't find an outcome for it right now Varune is kind of different from everyone. We're gonna talk about in this episode because every other person This has kind of a story as to what led up to them hurting someone Like a specific identifiable experience that creates a direct line between what happened to them or someone they loved and what they eventually did To the violator like we have western R who they said was a butt pirate But he wasn't but he was placed in the same area as a bunch of PDF files So he beat a couple of dudes to death with a rock and a sock then we got the Alaskan Avenger who was abused along with his brother when he was a kid And we're about to talk about the Arkansas dad who Found a violator and smoked him. We'll get into that here in just a second. I'd say it's a crazy story Varune though the guy we just talked about doesn't really have that story if he does he didn't tell police He just straight up said that was super fun and then he thought everyone would understand and maybe he would walk free Let's get into the story we opened up this episode with Marianne Bachmeier also known as the revenge mother This story takes place in West Germany in 1980 and I think it's one of the most extraordinary true crime stories up come across This is because it contains one of the most extraordinary moments I've ever read about in true crime context Marianne Bachmeier was born in 1950 and lower Saxony West Germany She had a pretty difficult time before any of the events of the story we're going to talk about She had a childhood marked by poverty an absent father who had been a member of the sss and a series of difficult Relationships in adulthood. She ended up a single mother running a small pub in Lubbeck a city in north Germany She had given up two older children for adoption, but her third child the one she raised herself was a girl named Anna Anna Bachmeier was born November 1972 She was by all accounts very happy and open the kind of kid that the adults around her described as bright curious and warm She was seven years old in May of 1980 on May 5th 1980 and it didn't come home from school She had gone to the home of a 35-year-old neighbor and butchered named Kloss Grabowski at his house These seven-year-old was violated and strangled Grabowski then tied her body in a bag and disposed of it in a canal which was found shortly after He was caught because he told his fiancee what had happened and she went to the police Turns out he had had prior convictions for sexual offenses against children He had at one point voluntarily undergone surgical castration This was a procedure that was at the time offered in Germany as a form of treatment for sex offenders After the castration he had been given hormone injections to reverse the effects But then he reoffended and was arrested and went to prison For almost a year after the killing Mary and Bachmeier process would have happened to her daughter She tried to go through the legal process like showing up in court and watching the proceedings And then at some point during the trial Grabowski's defense team made a decision that to any decent human being is pretty fucking staggering They argued that the seven-year-old Anna had seduced him That she had initiated the encounter That she had threatened to tell her mother unless Grabowski paid her That the child was in some meaningful way responsible for what happened to her On March 6, 1981 the third day of Grabowski's trial Mary and Bachmeier walked into the Lubick district court She was dressed appropriately for a court appearance like she had been a couple of times before She carried a purse and walked in through a public entrance The guards who recognized her as the grieving mother from all the prior hearings felt so much compassion for her They felt so bad for her too that they didn't search her or her purse Well, in her purse was a 22 caliber beretta pistol Mary and walks into the court room and finds her seat She sits down, waits for a while, waits for the man who murdered her daughter to be directly in front of her And then she stands up, pulls the pistol out of her purse and fires eight shots at Klaus Grabowski Given the adrenaline and the situation and all the people in the courthouse It was a pretty good shot, six of those bullets hit him in the back He killed over and eventually died, choking on his own blood In the immediate aftermath, Mary and Bachmeier was subdued by police The judge wanted to speak to her immediately, he asked her what had happened According to the judge's later testimony, she said, "I wanted to kill him because he killed my daughter I wanted to shoot him in the face, but I ended up shooting him in the back and I hope he's dead Two police officers also reported hearing her refer to Grabowski as a pig They also heard her saying, "Unfortunately, I only got the pig from behind" Well, the news in Germany went crazy over this The coverage was immediate and overwhelming The German magazine Stern ran a sympathetic multi-part series on Bachmeier's life Hundreds of re- readers wrote letters to the newspaper. Some were condemning her and many more, though, were expressing support. Across the country, people were having a debate that had no clean answer was this justice or was this murder. Legally, at a minimum, it was manslaughter. There was not really any self-defense argument available, kind of popped him in the back eight times. Grabowski was sitting in a courtroom on trial, tended by guards in a judge in a jury, he was not an immediate threat to anyone. You know, he was kind of breathing the same air. Anyways, this was super premeditated, she had planned this, of course, she attained the gun, learned to use it and brought it into the courthouse hidden in her purse. So she was ultimately charged with murder. The defense argued that she had acted in a state of uncontrollable grief. They said yes, the planning was real, but that her mental and emotional state in the moment of the shooting had been so compromised by trauma that it constituted something less than premeditated murder. The court agreed partially, and in '83 she was convicted of manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm. They gave her six years, but she was released after three. After her release, she left Germany for a while and moved around. Eventually, she came back to Germany, and in 1996, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died on September 17, '96 at the age of 46. She was buried in the Bergh tour cemetery in Lubbock right next to her daughter, Anna. The German public broadcaster NDR later called the Bachmeier case the most spectacular case of vigilante justice in German post-war history. Alright, let's talk about Aaron Spencer. This is the most recent story in this episode and still unfolding as I record this. Some of the details may change, but what I can tell you is everything that I've researched leading up to right now. 37-year-old Army veteran Aaron Spencer. Paul Aaron is a farmer in Loneau County, Arkansas, and by all accounts, he's a quiet community-minded man with deep roots in the county he grew up in, and a family that he is very devoted to. What this family man farmer, Army veteran, wasn't expecting was his 14-year-old daughter to be abused by a 67-year-old man named Michael Fossler. By the time they investigated, Fossler was charged by prosecutors with numerous offenses, including Internet stalking of a child, violating a child, sexual indecency with a child, and possession of child-no-no-pictures. It was so bad the district attorney sought to have this dude held without bail, but the judge overruled them, just must be from California. Guy ended up being released on a $50,000 bond on July of 2024. The only thing the judge hit him with was a no-contact order, which is basically saying, "Don't you contact the victim now?" Well guess what he did, he kept contacting the victim. So at 1-12 in the morning on October 8th, 2024, Spencer's wife called 911 to report that the 14-year-old daughter was missing from her bedroom. Aaron Spencer got into his truck and started driving the roads around the home. Well, he found the 67-year-old defender's truck on highway 236 with his daughter inside of it. This is after midnight and in violation with the no-contact order. The first thing he did was start honking and flashing his lights, but the offender kept driving. Aaron Spencer, the father, followed them for approximately six miles and then he rammed Fossilers truck into a ditch. He ordered this man out of the vehicle, according to Dad Fossilers lunched at him so he fired his pistol 16 times. You know what? That's appropriate. 15 of those 16 shots hit Michael Fossilers, and then it appeared that Fossilers were still trying to attack the father so he pissed the victim after the shooting. 100% self-defense, I don't care what you say. Somehow after being shot 15 times, he died at the scene. That calls 911 and told the dispatcher that he had no choice. Police show up arrest him and he was charged with second-degree murder. At this point, most people in dad's situation would get a lawyer, keep quiet, and wait for the process to play out. But Aaron Spencer announced he was running for Sheriff. You know, I would vote for him. Yeah, he was running for Lone Oak County Sheriff. He announced his campaign while facing a murder charge saying the Justice System has failed his family and he intended to do something about it from the inside. His platform is centered on creating a dedicated team to combat sex crimes against children. I like this guy. So he ran against the sitting Sheriff John Staley and a third candidate, and he won. He won the Republican primary with more than 53% of the vote. Let me just say this one more time. This is while facing a murder charge, he beat the incumbent Sheriff. Then the trial was scheduled but then something happened that you almost couldn't ride into a movie. When the investigators had responded to the scene of the shooting, a detective removed the dashcam SD card from Fossilers truck. The camera had likely been recording that night and could have shown exactly what happened. It could have been key evidence for either side. The detectives reviewed the footage improperly without following evidence handling procedures and the SD card went missing and was never found. Spencer's offense argued that the footage could have been exculpatory, could have somehow shown Fossilers with his daughter in the truck, could have supported self-defense or defense of other arguments under Arkansas law. How did they argue Spencer could not receive a fair trial? On June 4th, 2026, special circuit court judge Ralph Wiltson Jr. agreed. He dismissed the second degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer in a 19 page ruling decided multiple violations. There was a compromise SD card, a manipulated dashcam and what he called other violations by law enforcement. His ruling described the conduct is so egregious that dismissal was warranted. He called it an "extraordinary and extreme remedy," but said the totality of the circumstances demanded it. Spencer released a statement saying, "First, I want to thank God, my wife, and my family. And I want to thank the people of Lono County who stood with us when it would have been easier to look the other way. I won't forget it. The sport we received has carried our family. Neighbors here in Lono County, people from every part of Arkansas, and folks I've never met from around the world reached out, prayed for us, and refused to stay quiet. When I couldn't speak for myself, you spoke for me." He is now the Republican nominee for Sheriff of Lono County and faces Democrat Brian Mitchell Sr. in the November 2026 general election. This is a county that heavily leans Republican and I really hope he wins it. I don't see how you could vote for a blue sheriff and we're not going to get into that because crime is fun. I hope you enjoyed this episode, let me know what you think in the comments below about these men and women I talked about. Check out the badass crime is fun, merch you can find that link below. Until next time, don't ed out.