Guilty Google Search Murder - Winchester, Indiana

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It's in the, I guess it's within the township of White River, but it's its own town also. I hate when they do that. It's very confusing. A lot of states do that. It happens like in the East Coast, states a lot, the North. So much. Yeah. This is actually, it's a hamlet in a township inside of a, it's like enough for any with that ship. This is an eastern Indiana, about an hour and a half to Indianapolis, about an hour fifteen to date, no, hi, oh, and about two hours and ten minutes to Columbus, Indiana, our last Indiana episode, episode six, ninety three, poison, putting problems, fuck which I went a little crazy with the eliteration and I don't regret it. That's fine. Poison, putting problems. This is in Randolph County, area code seven, six, five population here, five thousand and sixteen, so a decent sized town inside of another town. Median household income is almost about twenty thousand below the rest of the country in terms of average. It's fifty one thousand nine eighty five, but that's not bad when you look at the median home cost. You go, oh, okay, that fits. Median home cost here, one hundred eighteen thousand dollars, which is from another century those prices. Amazing. In the middle of the road home for one to one, one eighteen, it's got, it's got nicknames that are wild. The first one I really don't get, the world's fastest half mile. There's no race track here, but it's Indian, I get it, Indiana's into the racing, but not, it's not here. There's no racetrack or that I can find anyway. The other nicknames are even stupider. One is dub C and then in parentheses, WC, Winchester, no, no. Nope. That's not what I think of for that. Don't do that. Nope. Nope. And then the water closet we've established. And then the, yes, exactly. Oh, we're in water closet, Indiana. Then the other one is even grosser sugar cream pie capital. They have the words. Wow. Cream pie capital in their fucking town motto. Sugary one. Sugary the cream pie in your sugar. What have you been eating, sir? Gross. Is that just sugar? Cream pie for you. How about that? A little bit of history of this town, man. It was laid out in 1818, as the county seat was the county seat of Randolph County, five early settlers donated land for the purpose of the town. And they're pretty sure it was named for Winchester, Virginia, because I think one of the people is from there. So that's what they do. It became not actually notable in the mid 1800s because Randolph County was a major spot for the underground railroad. Wow. Yes. Now, Indiana is famous for being one of the clan heaviest cities in our states in the country. They had a huge, I mean, they controlled all their politics and police forces. Yeah. Oh, in the 20s and early 1900s. But here they were. It was big in the underground railroad, big in the abolition movement before the Civil War. So that's pretty cool. Then they had oil and natural gas and other resources. They found about the late 1800s and Winchester transformed from a farming community into an industrial town after that, factories and, you know, black is not so bad. Is it Indiana? That's right. It comes from the ground. It's Texas T right there. So they all of this enabled the glass making industry to thrive here. So a lot of glass making here. That was the big deal here was the glass making and they had the fuel from the natural gas and oil to be able to burn those furnaces because you got to get a pretty high temperature to burn melt glass. Tornados, they've had a couple of those in 2024, which very recently, a quarter mile wide EF3 tornado hit Westchester. Oh, it sounds big. Hit Winchester? Or Winchester. What did I call it? Westchester. Westchester. I lived near Westchester. I apologize. The damage was dealt to the Goodwill, the Goodwill store, so we're fine still. That dumpster outside spread. People's garbage clothes. They don't want it everywhere. Right. There it is. Severe damage to somebody else's trash. That's it. The lodge at Summers Point and a strip mall. Just a strip mall wiped out so the subways gone. The Freedom Life Church and the Taco Bell were flattened. They flattened the Taco Bell, that's tough. Where are we going to get diarrhea now? This is bad. The good news is it didn't break anything that was intolerant. No, it didn't break one shell. They were already cracked on the bottom. Already fucked. 38 were injured and three were critically injured, and one of the three died weeks later. And then June 2024, three months later, the remainder of the strip mall was demolished, and it's subsequently they rebuilt, I think they rebuilt something into a Wendy's, and then Taco Bell underwent repairs and reopened. There you go. It's back. Reviews in this town. Here's five stars. I think Winchester is an excellent place to raise a family in a perfect place to settle down and put roots. Yeah. It's a very cozy small town that feels like home. This place will always be my home. I grew up here. I have no interest in the outside world whatsoever. I don't have any guess. Wow, Winchester will always have a special place in my heart. Here's three stars, and this is the perfect review for three stars. It's your average town in the middle of a cornfield. Easy to miss. Everyone knows just about everyone there, not sure if that's a really nice thing or terrifying. Middle of the road. This is a three star review, people take notes. This is how it works. Great place to take an F3 to the chest. Not bad. Well, at least the Taco Bell takes one to the chest. It's nice about this little town. I think most can agree on is that is you know it like the back of your hand, and it has a little diner that's known for miles around. Not well, that everything's fine. It's not much, but it's home. It's not much, but it's ours. That's something. Three stars. Winchester. as a cute little hometown feel to it. I grew up in Winchester. That's probably why it feels like a hometown to you, 'cause it's yours. - It's yours, yeah. - But recently it has fallen victim to a lot of major drug use, and I would definitely like to see that change as I have lost loved ones to this horrible disease. And then finally, two stars. It's not a good place to raise a family. It traps, I guess, traps you in the town. - Yeah, I suppose. - It's stuck in that. - Yeah, cyclical Winchester lifestyle. - Yeah, things to do, two things. One makes sense, and the other one makes none. So that'll be-- - Nothing, no sense. First is the Westchester. See, I almost did it again. Winchester Main Street Festival. Normal Festival, it says it's an attempt to embrace a Mardi Gras theme and to infuse Hoosier Life with Southern Flair. - Oh, yeah, I forgot their Hoosiers. - Yeah, what does that mean? - I know God damn idea. - Where an eye in a U on your chest, oh my god. - That's it, even when people abuse kids, you'll have them, you have long as they wear a red sweater, and say whatever you want to these fucking kids. - Whatever you want. - So they have normal things. Parades, shit like that. Family night with fireworks, carnival blowout, normal shit. Then is the one that doesn't make sense. The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival. - What? - An Eastern Indiana. No idea why they chose this to, I don't know. - The manufacturing plant must be somewhere nearby 'cause they're nice guitars, I've got one right there. - No, they're very nice, but it says it's, I don't know why they would have a Hawaiian guitar festival in Eastern Indiana, that's a-- - It's a strange place. - It's a brand. - I got it, but they're doing Hawaiian music. That's the, you know what I mean? - Oh, they're doing Hawaiian music too? - Winchester Indiana's Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival brings together musicians from across generations and cultures. - I can't stop laughing. - Yeah. - I'm not hearing anything about Hawaii yet. - Welcoming native Hawaiian artists alongside performers from across the Continental United. What do you think I wrote this down? - What is that? - You think I didn't fucking know what it was? Performers include the Williams Twins, 96-year-old twin sisters who've been singing and playing guitar together at the festival for nearly 50 years. - 96? - Wow. - They can play guitar at 96. - That's amazing. - I can barely turn-- - Runch is my-- - Yeah. - I have so much arthritis and I've never played guitar a day in my life. - Well, maybe that's the key. Maybe it keeps you loose. - Maybe so. - I got to learn this. - You're not playing that fucking thing. It's sitting there, but you're not doing anything with it. - I tried so hard. - I played already. - Alan Akata, a member of the Hawaiian music hall of fame and one of the foremost masters of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. 22-year-old Miley Lyman, one of the brightest rising stars in Hawaiian music. It's a Hawaiian festival, not just the guitar. - Wow. - It's a whole festival, which is crazy. Anyway, that said, let's talk about some murder. - That is shocking. - I don't know why. I was like, "Just let me tell you." - Yep, I get a question. - I feel bad now, but I'm like, I don't have-- - I don't have-- - Let me read one sentence. All of this will be explained. - That's so funny. - So it's just the music. That's interesting. - Yeah. - I can totally see where you're coming from. You're like, "But I have one of the guitars. It's a guitar." - I have one. - That's right there. - All right, murder in this town. Let's go back to 2018, not very far. - No, really. - We're getting eight years, not bad. - Those ladies were still in their 90s. - They're fucking, yeah. - Still, well, almost. - Almost the other 88. - They're pushing. So let's talk about a guy here. David L. Brumley, L-E-Y, by the way. He's born February 13th, 1957 here. So, getting up there, an age, here, 61 years old. He's the son of Robert and Dolores Brumley. He has a brother named Tim. He graduated from Winchester High School in 1976. He is Mr. Winchester. Still lives there, lives on West South Street and Winchester. Been there all the time. He works for Omega Enterprises, whatever the hell that is, but that's what he works for. Now, in the neighborhood, he knows everybody's from this town. It's a small town. If you grew up here in your 61, you pretty much know everybody. It's a long time. - Yeah. - You have to know everybody. So, he knows all sorts of people, all sorts of friends that are like, describe his childhood friends all the time. So, he still knows them. Seems like a lot of people are born here and they die here. You know what I mean? They're happy about it. So, good for them. I guess. - Or at least content. - Yeah. - There you go. At least content. A friend of his across the street from him, actually, go right kind of near, right across the street. A buddy of his, he's known for his whole life. So, that's kind of fun. And his buddy kind of helps him out with stuff a little bit as we'll talk about. He's got a car that he's real into that his buddy helps him out with. This is Monty Joseph Cook. Okay? Monty Cook. He's born September 59, so they went to high school together, you know, they know each other. They grew up there. They remained friends as adults, always. Now we'll talk about it, but Monty wasn't around for about 15 years. Where'd he go? He was local pretty much, but not available. Put it that way. Oh! He wasn't available to hang out at the time. You could see him, but he couldn't really make plans to see you. - From time to time. - Yeah. At very certain times, on very certain days, you could see him. With a couple of hours. Very specific hours. So yeah, they grow up and Monty would help David Brumley with projects around the home sometimes, you know, and not even like for money, like, you know, they just help each other out. He liked doing stuff. And he liked turning a wrench or fixing something and doing shit. He also hung out with Brumley in the garage. Brumley's got a little house with a detached garage where he's constantly working on and polishing and making better his prized show car, which is a 2006 Mustang. Oh. Now there's some debate over whether it's 2004 or 2006, but I'm 99% sure it's 2006, and it's the same body style from like, oh, 1-0-8, so it really doesn't matter. - And that's not really a classic, but it's his prized possession, and that's okay. - Well, yeah, he's got it jacked up to. He's got, it's a GT, it's like maroon with dark, with the black stripes on the hood, and it's got the big black scoop on the hood and all that shit. Like he's got it all. - Okay. - Yeah, I think they stopped making the cobra by then. - I believe so. Yeah. It also has the chrome pins in the front of the hood. It's like making it look real race, like what you would do in Grand Theft Auto if you had tons and tons of money and you get a car and go to the shop there and hook it up. Like that's pretty much what he did do it. - He must hang the fine car, whatever. - Yeah. - It's a nice dashboard. - Yeah. - They're fine. So, yeah, he, a lot of people hate them. - It's despised. - Yeah, it's just the only car that Ford ever built that's really fast, except for the Shelby ship. - Yeah, well that was, that's a whole, I'm the GT, of course, and that's a whole different issue. - That's a Mustang, though. - Now the Ford GT, the, - The hell is that? - The 500 GT, the 500 GT, like the, that's a totally different thing, but that's like a fucking $400,000 car, so or whatever, so if you want that. - It's on a Mustang platform in it. - I don't know about the engine, but the, it's a down low, lower, it's not, then look at anything like a Mustang. - Oh, were you talking about the, I know you're talking, that's the, that's the Shelby Cobra, right? - No, they're newer ones, the, is it the 500 GT, is it called, the hell's it called? They knew a guy who had one, and they're insanely expensive, yeah, they're really like crazy expensive Ford's, like it's wild. - Yeah, I thought that was, I thought that that's the, the Mustang built, it doesn't matter. - It doesn't matter, it has really relevant to the story, much like the Hawaiian guitars, really relevant to the story. So, now, mod T, by the way, as a job, he delivers campers and RVs, that's his job. - Yeah. - A lot of RV stuff is made around here, as we'll talk about. So the Mustang is this guy's prized fucking possession, okay? And he, he takes it to car shows, and I mean, he's, this is David Brumley's prized possession here. Yup, he's got license plate, RSP657, and here we go. Now, a little background on Monty, his buddy across the street, they hung out a lot in the young, in their younger days, they're real close, but in the late 2000, in the late Aughts and 2010s, they weren't hanging out because Monty was a little busy, and let's find out why. In July of 2003, at, was this July, I believe, 5th, at 2.23 AM, state and federal agents began an investigation of a fire that caused seven and a half million dollars in damages to a factory. - Oh, a factory. It's a 35,000 square foot factory burned down, huge, and everything inside, everything in it gone. So they said, quote, by seven hours into the call, we had a lot of resources here to use, saying, you know, that this was the first, the fire chief said, this was the first time since he's been in fire, that the federal department of alcohol tobacco and firearms and explosives were to be involved in an investigation, he goes, those guys showed up. We were like, what, what are you guys doing here? - ATF. - ATF is there. The president of the company that the, it's all the warehouse or factory had one company. It's called MasterCraft. - Oh yeah. - They both. They make shit for boats and RVs. They make furniture for boats and RVs. That's where it comes from here. So they said the Cliff Reynolds, who's the president of that company, said he's confident the business will return some day to full production when they obviously have a place to put it. He said our main focus is to take care of the customers and our employees. So they make a polstered furniture and mattresses for the RV industry. And I guess boats too, for when I understand it. - Boats are insane that they build. - I bet. So they say it was destroyed by fire. Now this was originally a smaller building and I found in the newspapers where they added on every couple of years, they build another part and build another section. They've grown and grown and grown for like 30, 40 years in this area. - Now it's ashes. - Yeah, it's a pretty nice story. You know, of a local business growing like that. So employees had not worked in the buildings the last three days because they had a three day weekend for the Fourth of July holiday. So they went off for a three day weekend turned out to be a lot longer weekend than that. Obviously. Now, what ended up happening there? There's 300 people working at the plant. They don't have a job at the moment here. They ended up suspecting old Monte Cook of doing this. - Why would they suspect that? - He's got reasons. Cook gives statements to the, an Indiana police investigator at an agent of the ATF. And he gave a statement against his own interests, but not a confession. So we're all about to push them over the edge here. - Yeah, I was there. - What about it? - Well, saying he knew who did it or he might have been there at the time, but he didn't light the fire. - Why would he say that? - I may know the guy who did it 'cause I may have been watching him do it. But, one me. - Yeah. - All right. - What a dumb fucking thing to say, dude. You imagine that. - You did it. - You did it. - So, the investigators focus on Cook after learning that he had left threatening messages on the mastercraft telephone answering machine over the course of several weeks. He's been like threatening the RV upholstery, factory with the hell you doing. It makes more sense when you understand that his wife or estranged wife at this point. Kelly was an employee at the plant, the time that the calls remain. That's why. - Okay. - So he doesn't like her. Oh, we'll find out, definitely not. He's a little jealous and possessive, I would say. - Monty. - And he has like a daughter too and all this stuff's like, come down, bro. Mastercraft reported the incidents to police and had addressed the concern by adding extra security. And the extra security didn't matter much. The one of the prosecutors here said it had escalated in volatility. We believe one of his motives over committing the crime is that he was angry over a relationship. He thought his wife was having a mastercraft. He thought his wife was fucking one of the other employees. So he said, I will burn this motherfucker to the ground. To the ground. - Didn't even have rock solid evidence. - No, that's. - Under suspicion, he burnt it down. - That's the crazy part. He went in there looking for evidence of it. That's what he was looking for. - Oh my God. - That's what's crazy. Seven and a half million dollars in damages. Now they arrest him. The plants in Shipshawana, I guess it's called. Or Shipshawana, either one. He remains in on a $250,000 bond here. So that's higher than normal because of the extent of it. And also the fact that he didn't get his wife. So they're worried he might go after his wife now too. So they said that he broke into the factory. It's about 40 miles east of South Bend to find information on his estranged wife. He's originally not booked on Arson charges, but booked on charges of failure to appear in court the week before for an invasion of privacy case involving guess who is wife. - That's why. - And also there was two arrest warrants already out for him. When he did that, for invasion of privacy and violating a protective order against who is wife. - Yeah, so. - Why don't you grab some turtle wax and head on over to your buddy's house and-- - Yeah, this is what you do. Have a beer, bitch about your wife, and then go home and fucking jerk off and go to bed. That's what you do. - Shine the car about it. - That's what you do, but that this guy, he, it's crazy. So he ends up admitting it. He has to admit it eventually. Here, he broke into the craft or to master craft. He rummaged through drawers and offices. And then he admitted that he lit a match to some fabric and left the building. So he's like, I mean, I didn't, I didn't make sure it burned down. I threw it and said, let the fates land where they may. - Go with God. - Oh, God. - Jesus. - That's right. The equivalent of putting a child on a raft and pushing him down the river. Like, I don't know, he could be fine or he could be eating my wolves. I'm not sure. Either one could happen. - We'll see. - Technically, either, either outcomes possible. He might be raised by the king or eating my wolves. We're not sure. - That's a wild thing to do. - It's fucking crazy. He said that he thought his wife was sleeping with another employee master craft. And then he found photos of the two of them in one of the desk drawers. That's what pissed him off. And we found it in the desk. So then after that, he said he was looking for pay stubs for some reason. He wanted to know more about this guy. Probably his address and things like that. - Yeah, but that's also usually where the company discloses sexual relationships. - Absolutely, that's right there. It's under the fight, I believe, right? - He will be lying under that I think they used for that one. - Cox taken and then it shows. - Yeah, Cox taken. Yeah. So, he said that he set the fire to get back at them. Those children. - Oh, 'cause they're fault. - So burn the whole building down. I will fire them. - They hired the fucker to the ground. - Terry. - They hired and facilitated her being able to take this. - Their CFs, cock facilitators and he's not taking it. So after the fire, he went to a friend's house in Millersburg so he could watch the fire on television. It's a huge blaze and he was like, well, there's constant local coverage of this. Let's watch this. So, he's in jail in March of 2004, 'cause that was July 2003. And then he gets worse somehow if you could want. If you, I don't know how you could go to jail and make it worse, but he did. - Yeah. - Here's the headline from the newspaper, kidnapping added to list of cooks charges. - Who would he take? - Well, that who he took, it's who he wanted to take. He's already charged with arson finally now. Now, he's accused of plotting to kidnap two women in an attempt to get bond money. - Two. - Two. He's gonna kidnap people to get ransom money so he can use it to spring himself on bond. Think about that. Have you ever heard of that one before? - That's crazy. - That's, you have too much time. - Talk about robbing yourself to pay nobody. - Pay nobody. Yeah, robbing Peter to fucking shit on Paul's chest, it makes no sense. - Robbing Peter to do Paul's time. - It's so weird. - You're not getting out. - So, he's got to appear in front of a judge on two charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. That's not great. He's accused of writing to someone he met in jail. Somebody came into the jail while he was in there waiting. This person was in there for like 30 days for a minor, they called it in the newspaper, quote, a minor felony, you know, as small as a tiny fella. Yeah, apparently. So this guy was getting out in 30 days. So, Monty was like, "Hey, do me a favor." And he's writing to this guy asking him to kidnap the two women, get the ransom and then bail him out with it. 'Cause that's a foolproof plan, that'll work. - You already can't vote. - So, I could do this from, how about this part? Yeah. This guy, by the way, the minor felon, he gets these letters asking them to commit a major felony. He's like, "I have a level of felon that I'm comfortable with "and it's not this high up. "It's a much lower level felon than this." He took the letters to his probation officer and told them on Monty. He's like, "We're not that good, friends. "The fuck are we doing here?" So, rather than that close, so rather than just busting him for that right there, the probation officer gave it to a sheriff's detective, Jeff Campos. This Campos had said, "No, go ahead and respond to him. "Tell him no problem. "Let's set up a meeting and we're gonna set up a meeting." So, they set up a meeting with undercover officers at the jail. This guy said, "Come back to the jail "and bring your kidnapper friend with you "and we'll just meet at Visiting Day." And we'll set this up. Okay, this is all really brilliant. One officer posed as a bail bondsman and the other officer posed as the man's cousin. That's how they did. I'm gonna commit a felony so I brought my cousin with me and my bail bondsman. So, Monty Cook proposed kidnapping the women. One is the wife of a mastercraft employee and the other one is the wife of an old friend. Just kidnapping random people. For ransom's ranging from $70,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on his mood. What he was talking about at the time. The, they said, "We were notified by a private individual "who'd been receiving some fairly disturbing correspondence "from Mr. Cook. "This person brought the letters in. "We followed up with an undercover officer coming to the jail and meeting to discuss with Mr. Cook the plans he detailed in the letters. So the officer posed as his cousin and said that, yeah, you know, we'll talk about it. They said that Cook willingly talked to the undercover officer who got the evidence on recording. So unbelievable. Idiot. Cook wanted the would be kidnappers to abduct these women from their homes, pull them from their beds and then hold them for money, which is crazy. One of them, they lived in two different cities, two of these women, they went out like they were in the same house. They said, grab that one and then this one. The two women were acquainted with Cook and the prosecutor here said, I think he believed the individuals may have sums of money enough to accomplish his plan. Cook told the undercover instructions on getting the ransom money and told him not to hurt the victims. This is just for money. Get me out of here. I'm not looking to hurt anybody. He said, we believe he was trying to acquire enough money to post bond to be released and probably flee the area. You would assume what an unbelievable plot that what a dumb fucking plot. Yeah. That's again, a guy with way too much time on his hand sitting in jail going and way too few brain cells evidently because that's not going to work way too few IQ points and too much time. Too much time, too little smarts and you're going to end up with some dumb shit. So he scheduled to stand trial on the arson and burglary charges, which could result in prison sentences up to 20 years and eight years respectively. And now these new charges could carry up to 50 more years in prison if convicted. So what he's just going to ask you, this is this is why so much is what we're doing is like, yeah, you can get. This guy is dangerous. He should not be on the street. He should be doing 78. Yeah. Yeah. This is what he comes up with as a solution to his problem that he got himself in to do a huge problem that cost $7.5 million because he wanted to stalk his wife more. That's crazy. Right. So he knew she wasn't in there. He wasn't even there. It's fucking incredible. So yeah, he wanted evidence. He thought this was the perfect time to break into the plant because no one's there. Yeah. Working in the factory. So the prosecutor said he's incredibly foolish trying to plan a conspiracy from a jail cell. You're not a mob boss. This is not going to work. You don't have people that are working for you. He said, you don't have organized criminals though. He said, obviously we knew he was dangerous because of the arson, but now he's suggested doing something even more serious. And then he also said, I know he really thought he was going to get away with it. He really thought this would work. Monty's a moron. I think it's safety. He's a fucking moron. So in court, he's got, I mean, he's on recording talking to two cops, giving them specific and really detailed kidnapping instructions, take two women and spring them from the junk. So he's got to plead guilty. I mean, otherwise he's going to jail forever. He's never getting out. So he pleads guilty to a class B felony of arson, a class C felony of burglary. Then in the separate case, pleaded guilty to two counts of class B felony conspiracy to commit criminal confinement, which I guess is a little under kidnapping. Yeah. It's kidnapping without the stank on it there. Yeah. So during sentencing here, the prosecutor said, I want a 39 year sentence. Don't care if you bloody said that the destruction of property, destruction of lives, and the destruction of an industry in our town, this is like a terrorist act, basically they're saying, right? You put 350 people out of work in a small town. Like that's crazy. Yeah. This place a tourist destination for bikers only. Yeah. Absolutely. Now, think about this. This is 2004. He shows photos and court the prosecutors, big blown up side by side photos of the burned out factory and buildings that have been destroyed and are in Baghdad during the Iraq war. They look exactly the same to me. Yeah. That's crazy. I didn't break out the World Trade Center picks, pile a rubble. You see a difference? He's a terrorist. Someone's paying for 9/11 and I propose it's Mati Cook. That's what I'm saying right now. I had to say. Yeah. The towers at least left a cross. I don't see a cross here. God doesn't love us. We're all fucked. We're all fucked. We're all fucked. Sorry. So the factory owner, Clifton Reynolds, this fucking part owner of mastercraft, he said he had extensive loss of property and equipment, lost to his employees, lost to his suppliers, vendors, everybody. If you have an order waiting, it's not going to be ready for a while, but that way. He noted also that his personal loss, he said the building was his father's dream and he took over for his father and he's built it up and he said he was proud of his employee base and wanted to settle in ship's, ship's Hwana or ship's Hwana, whatever it is. Now the factory had to move to South Poplar Street in Lagrange and to find another place to be because they have to rebuild a 30,000, 5,000 square foot factory. So the prosecution says, let's do 39 years without any suspended and order him to repay damages as restitution, seven and a half million dollars in damages. That's good enough. Yeah. For a guy who delivers RVs, that'll work. He said to set the record straight 39 years and jail is warranted considering all he has done. His defense attorney said, come on, I mean, the guy could be Sherry burned a building down, put a whole industry out of business, but it was in a fit of passion. So let it all fall to him. Yeah. He loves real hard. He just loves hard. And the conspiracy charges that he said that they were construed, it could be construed as entrapment if you really think about it. So that shouldn't even be on here, you know, he pled guilty to it, but let's be realistic. If we really went to court, we could say that was probably, you know, entrapment. Who knows if that would even stand and his mental state was compromised. And he also challenged the amount of damages stressed by the prosecution saying that I was less than that. It wasn't seven and a half billion. That's a overblown estimate. And then also says that he should give him concurrent sentences, not consecutive sentences before the kidnapping plots and the arson. They should just all go together rather than laying them out like that. Monty passed a talk. He has to say something during sentencing. Show your passion, Monty. He has to sit there. He said that, quote, if I could change everything I would, I'm extremely sorry, apologize to my family, especially my daughter for putting them through this. Unbelievable. They say you, sir, may fuck off four years at the Indiana Department of Corrections for the burglary. That's just the burglary, 20 years for arson. Those are concurrent. So 20 years. And in the conspiracy to commit criminal confinement, he was ordered to serve an extra 15 years twice. So 30 years altogether for those. So basically they gave him, when it all adds up, but it was 30 years, but then they broke it. And he said, I'll do it concurrent because he was saying, like, I could lay him out, but I'm going to do it this way. So basically it's 35 years is what he got 20 years and then 15 years, basically. So that's what he's got 35 years. The prosecutors said, I think Judge Brown was very fair considering the destruction. And that's that. Now the 2018 here is when he gets out of jail. So he's in for 15 years. He does half the time, basically, yeah, gets out and then that's when he's hanging out around here, helping David Brumley fix up his Mustang and, you know, hanging out doing housework and delivering RV parts because what else is he going to do? He just got out of prison for being one of the worst people in the area. Like everyone in the area. He's the guy. Everyone's got to be mad at him. He went to high school at this one guy who burned down that whole factory. I went to high school with that guy. Remember him? Like that's what they're all talking about. Jerk. Almost ruined it. Yeah. October 31st, 2018. David Brumley gets a bank loan. His furnace broke. Yeah. And that's one of those things that you need a new furnace. You need an, it's October in Indiana and, right? It's November, tomorrow. You better get cash. Taking out a loan. Ouch. That's brutal, man. It's brutal. So many people live. How many years? Was that? I remember sitting in terror of something like that breaking, like I can't fix it. So he gets this $5,000 loan to fix his furnace from the bank. Then the next day he doesn't show up for work. Strange. He's a pretty dependable guy. And November 2nd. The next furnace has taken a long time to install. Wild. So that's a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. He doesn't come to work. So that's odd. In Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, is when they decide, where is he? Somebody calls to get a welfare check on him. They don't even know if he's home. So check it out now. So it's a Saturday at about 1 p.m. And officers go to his residence and we'll give his exact address. But it's West South Street for a welfare check. When they enter the home, first of all, they see that the Mustang is not in the garage. Oh. So they're like, okay, maybe he took the Mustang somewhere. Like him at all to do this. But three day ride and a Mustang, that's expensive. Three day stang varieties going for. Then they open the door to his house because they have to do a welfare check to make sure he's someone asked for it. And in the entry room of Brumley's home, they find scraps of black electrical tape and clear packaging tape, little pieces. ripped off. The scraps of it everywhere. Look, that's funny. They also find a cardboard box right up there by the front door containing a white disposable dust mask, multiple used zip ties, two belt loops from a pair of blue jeans, just the loops, one of which had a zip tie fastened to it tightly. These are all very strange things that they're finding. Yeah. Then they go into the bedroom, somebody with a Mustang has, you got to have a lot of zip ties. Yeah, I got to have zip ties. Yeah, I got to have those. Put it back together. I don't know why you would zip tie a belt loop. Not to put blue, no, let's your seat belt, bro. It's a lot of weird shit. So they go into his bedroom when they find David in there. He's seen better days. Let's put it that way. He's been here for three days and it's not good. Oh shit. His body is kind of wedged between the bed and a wall, like in a bad motel room, you know, and his head is covered by, this they can't even see his face. I don't even know if it's him at first, his head is covered by a pillowcase and a black plastic garbage bag. Oh no. It's horrifying. The pillowcase was secured over his head by black electrical tape, which was wrapped around his neck. This is a nightmare. Fucking night worse. Then the garbage bag was secured over the pillowcase. He made sure that David couldn't chew through it or something. That was secured over the pillowcase by clear packaging tape, which was wrapped around this face. Oh no. So imagine finding lists. This would be a disturbing fucking thing to find this poor guy. You don't expect that whoever did that gives a fuck whether this person lives or dies. Well, they're, no, they're trying to kill him, obviously. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Keep breathe through that. No, no. He also had electrical tape wrapped around tightly around his right wrist and he was wearing a pair of blue jeans with two missing belt loops. Yeah. Hey, look at that. We sell the buttons. Yep. And an autopsy reveals that he died from his fixia due to ligature neck compression and suffocation. So they didn't just suffocate him, put that out of the strangle amount. They strangle him too. God damn it. This is the best line in the whole story that I read. I don't even know why a reporter would put this. His death was ruled a homicide. No shit. Really? You think? Well, I guess, I guess if you saw what happened to like the Kung Fu guy, you'd probably think they couldn't have done that to himself. Oh, that made him come. Shit. Okay. Never mind. I guess he did. Yeah. I hate when they fucking just say he died of strangulation. And we're not investigating. Just say that. The man's mom reads this. Yeah. Actually, that'll death will work just fine. It's all good. I don't need to know all the details. I really don't. I mean, I want to, but I don't need them is what I'm saying. It is funny. I agree. Exactly. It is good for jokes for 30 years, but besides that, his poor mother. Yeah. Mother's got to be hurt. So his friends and family now, people that know him, reacting no David Brumley here. Brumley's childhood friend Sandra said of his death that it's on everyone's mind. She said, I think it's suspicious, but the cops are keeping hush hush about it. We don't know what they know. That's when it first came out. They didn't tell everybody, Hey, he was found a lot of his weird shit on his head and everything like that. They just said he was found dead in his house. And we think it's homicide. She said it was her brother who noticed Brumley was missing several days of work in a row. And he's the one who notified the police. He said, she said, my brother called his brother. And he sent some of his friends down there to check on him. They called the police. Then everything got roped off and no one was allowed in. They said then everything stopped as far as what we know. Now publicly, they said it was that they wasn't publicly. They're really not saying anything about his death or any of the details. All they're saying is he was found and they have ruled it a homicide. Yeah. That's it. She has her own theory of what went on because why not? They like find a weird people named Kelly's theory. Let's see what Oh, Sandra's her name, Sandra Kelly. She said, I know they're calling it a death investigation, but I believe he got murdered, but I don't know that for sure. You got it. She also says, that's if they say death and investigation, they think that too. They're pretty sure they're looking. They're pretty fucking sure of it. Yeah. If they found him at the hometown buffet or at the golden corral hold his chest on the ground, they go, it's probably heart attack. We probably could clear this one up pretty quick. We don't very little investigation. No. So this woman said here that this death has left the whole town terrified, but she thinks if they find the missing car, that'll lead to the answers. That's the she is real good. She is a detective. Somebody where this bitch in. Wow. Yeah. Now November, 2018, this month right now, he's wanted, Monty Cook has wanted for several things, by the way. There's two arrest warrants issued for him in November by judges in Randolph County. November 5th, he was charged with theft. A level six felony carrying a standard one-year jail term. Four days later, he was charged with two counts of arson, more arson. He likes to burn shit this guy. Absolutely. Yep. The more serious of the arson charges is a level four felony with a standard six-year sentence. In that case, he's accused of all the way back on July 25th, a few months ago, setting fire to a house. He was in the middle of buying on a contract. So he I can't imagine why the guy wouldn't give him the price he wanted or something trying to negotiate. And he that's all of a way to back out of an agreement. Either I get it for my price or I burn it to the ground. Either I get my wife or I burn it to the ground. That's his answer. He was sentenced to 35. Only did 15. So he's technically on the hook for those other 20 bucks up, right? Yes. That's why they want him. They want to find him. But they can't find him now. That's the thing. He's charged with this and warrants are out, but they don't have him in possession. They don't know where the hell he is. So that's pretty crazy. That was in the 600 block of South High Street, by the way, the house he burned down. He was charged with auto theft on November 2nd, resulting in a third or active arrest warrant for him. He's described as five foot nine, two hundred pounds, brown hair, green eyes, wearing glasses, and quote recently seen limping on his right side. Okay. December 8th, the police finally released for a whole month. They say nothing publicly about David Brumley's death, nothing. Then on December 8th, they were finally identified the person of interest they've been talking about for the last month. We have a person of interest, but no suspects. They say this person of interest is Monty Cook. And he's got a shitload of felony warrants out for both theft and arson. So if you see him don't approach him, but definitely give him a little ringy ding to the old police force there. Now, what evidence do they have on him? Do they have any evidence that he did this or they just think he's a bad guy? Yeah. Right away, you'd go, well, he didn't burn the house down. That's a sign that it might not be him. There's a dead person. That's not his thing usually. Not so far. Then they find fingerprints on these scraps of tape that are identified as Monty Cook's. But then again, I mean, that's bad that that's a tape around. But he's there all the time working. Maybe he held the roll of tape, but then they found partial DNA profiles on the dust mask that was determined to be consistent with both David Brumley's DNA and a very strong match for Monty Cook's DNA. That's not good. But again, he's there all the time. Maybe they were sanding something out and they, you know, we put a mask on a mask being ever exactly. Who knows if they had got how many masks they had? Who knows? So as part of this, though, police obtained the internet browsing history associated with two Google email addresses that Monty Cook has known to use. And that's where we get the fun stuff. Here we go. One week. It is awesome. Here's some searches he made in the two weeks before David Brumley's death. Okay. Here's, give you a few jobs outside the US. That's fine. I mean, you're not allowed to leave even the state, I'm sure, but whatever. Maybe you're just curious. Probably have to ask to leave your house. Probably how to disappear off the grid. Okay, getting worse. But maybe he's just interested in conservation. Maybe that's all it is. Maybe he just doesn't want to, you know, put any more shit in the world. Who knows? Living off grid doesn't necessarily mean leaving town. No, no, that could just mean I'm going to live in that field and not be hooked up to county, you know, water for water. Exactly. Who knows? Maybe he's just trying to be self-sufficient. Then it gets a little weirder, though, how to get fake social security cards. I don't know. I don't know a law biting answer to that one. I don't know that there's a Google search that's going to give you that answer. Probably not. I mean, maybe the dark web or something. Yeah. Is there any poison which cannot be detected? Oh my gosh. Judging by how David was killed, I'm going to say that the answer is no to that one probably. I thought that he could get anyway. That's what he came up. Yeah. You're right. That his second thought is, well, I can burn it obviously because that's this guy, whether you can get DNA from a burn body, quote unquote. So he said, if I kill them, burn the house down, can they get DNA? Then how fast does it take a body to burn? Well, that depends on. We've done a lot of shows. Takes a long time because I'm not going to get it that hot. No, you need to have a goddamn incinerator. Yeah, like at the funeral home with thousands of degrees thousands of degrees. Yeah bodies do not burn up easy Can you dissolve a body and acid? Happen to know that for a fact the answer is yes. Yes. Yes. I know a guy Gangster guy is a long time - who's brother and it was like a kind of a specialty in that They had buckets and they would dissolve body parts that are real strong acid. Well, I mean you got to be patient That's the only thing out of buckets and shit Then he looked up 2004 Mustang, but it's a 2006 Mustang. He's just confused Next up trunk size in 2004 Mustang CC up maybe I'll kidnap him and take him somewhere maybe I'll do this then cabins in the Tennessee mountains Okay, he's what is that's before the murder? Yeah, then after the death Now he's got more searches here quote jobs in the Bahamas Oh, he's like I want it. I want to hear steel drums while I run from this shit. I need a vacate Yep, how to disappear. That's pretty straightforward Winchester Indiana murder investigation Okay How can I buy a legit social security number at a fake passport? He's still hasn't gotten that one yet. Don't go that one. He's working on he's got to get out of here This is my favorite search of all time I don't know what he expected to clean from this what result could possibly You could you get from this quote had her run from the law with no money He basically said had to buy a house with no money down But he said it like how can I get a there is no way to run from the law with no money That's the answer to that hiding a hole in the woods. I don't know what to tell you I do appreciate and enjoy Bring me to buy rule that he's on it is there. Oh fun. It's hilarious Because he's getting to you know, it's like you can see the You can you can literally see the gears finish hilarious and that last part is like oh, I have no money How do I run? How do I buy this and I don't even have any money never mind? How do I run without money? That's not there you end up you end up getting to the very first Google search you should have plugged Yeah, well then he's looking for inspiration obviously with quote fugitives on the run the longest Like what did they do maybe I can match that up then he looks up Monty Cook Indiana to see if there's any like articles about anybody looking for him And then he said what's the longest people have stayed hidden that were wanted for murder So never mind fugitives specific fugitives of murder. Maybe we'll got he's got a honing Then he visited Websites with news articles with these headlines police looking for Mustang taken from dead man's home in Winchester Police looking for a vehicle missing from deceased person's residence and man wanted in connection with death investigation in Winchester so He's reading online all about the investigation as much as he can and by the way Two days before the murder cooks girlfriend. Yes this guy has a girlfriend stop it this dude it is 50s who's just gotten at a prison for fucking arson for all this time No money the fact you whipped a bit. Bipa Bipa Bipa Bipa Bipa keep it going. It's happy humorous. Why he should be beaten off every day I do not want to hear anybody Say they can't find somebody Lower your standards and find someone cuz they're out there. That's it. That's they're out there. This is unbelievable there. So She reported that he was missing and possibly on the run at that time because of an ongoing arson-related investigation Yeah, so if that's not enough. That's pretty good proof and the DNA is decent proof But if you got a really good lawyer in there, it's possibly yeah Then they also have bank footage from November 1st, 2018. That's the day after Brumley got the bank loan and was last seen alive Security cameras and a Winchester bank recorded cook Depositing Brumley's loan check into his own Checking account He stole money the man didn't even He stole he just had her like wrote it over to him and template and deposit it in his fucking shit Or he got a cashier check or whatever it was is there a scummy or crime? This is complete the student is a complete piece of shit scumbag, isn't he the worst person he sucks so bad So cameras at other Winchester locations also recorded cook driving Brumley's Mustang using Brumley's debit card to make purchases and with draw cash Within three days he had spent them withdrawn over twenty five hundred dollars of Brumley's money as well This is shocking. This is fucking amazing. So he went in deposited the check into Brumley's checking account Because otherwise he couldn't get it and then just used his card to use all the money that he wanted to So the police are looking for Monty. They can't find him through December. They're looking for him. They can't find him. The car is found finally The car is found 2006 Ford Mustang GT found in Marion, Arkansas Oh, it went the other way about 12 miles northwest of Memphis. So that's where that was found Then Monty's car a couple days later was found of his pickup truck was found abandoned abandoned Winchester. So he now he's got Those are the two vehicles he had access to Where are they? He is gone. They're looking for him for about five months. They can't find this fucking guy He has no money. He's got connections. It's a Tennessee, right? Absolutely the complete opposite What he is in the fucking desert. That's where he is. He's a white man Arizona is where he is Of course he is. He said Where will I fit in? Oh, that's the scummyest fucking town in America. How about there? Just down the river from Wafflin. Yeah, they'll look at me and go well at least he's not picking meth source. What a good guy I'll get I'll get any job I want in Kingman Wow April 19, 2019 in Kingman. He is arrested At that unbelievable. He's charged in Indiana with a count of murder two counts of a level sick level six level six felony Level six felony theft and one count of a class a misdemeanor theft Apparently he's also held in Arizona awaiting the extradition on local charges in Arizona Taking an identity of another Possession of marijuana and credit card theft That's how they caught him. That's how they got him. Well, what he did? You know, he got to Arizona He hitchhiked a ride from Arkansas and Nevada With Alexander Gross who's a guy that cook met online Good another guy traveling. It was like hey people looking for people to ride with them places So they don't get bored or just throw the Mustang down their park didn't jump in his car jumped in his car once in Nevada Cook robbed gross at knife point And forced him to drive him to Arizona then forced gross to rent him a hotel room before Letting him go. Oh my that's how they caught him this guy went to the cops and said I yeah, no that guy I know he's I know what room he's in you can just go get him. I had to rent the room. It's under my name. Yeah, trust me go ask for me So this guy is a jerk off would be the best a dangerous jerk off I think would be the best way to put it right. I can't believe how dangerous he is Think about that he Everything nothing is above him nothing is beneath him. Yeah, but I'm above above or maybe you're way either way He'll do anything nothing's above him or below him. It doesn't matter. Yeah, he's a fucking mess those searches of just the What about this thought? Yeah, what do we know? That's a bad idea. Okay, this stuff spiral of desperation is is Very evident and he is willing to do absolutely anything to survive and not be caught Imagine if you're this guy's girlfriend. You're like Bullied dodged holy shit. God. I would have been dead. Oh, yeah. No shit. So this is this guy all the things he done that the increasing desperation I'll kill the guy This is all for what right? He got nothing he got mud. He's Mustang and spent $2,500 of his money That's all he got out of that James that money that monitor that He did not even have it was not his much he borrowed that he had to buy he was to pay that ship back with interest Right, and he's just pissing it away on thing. That is the scum me as thing. I've ever heard of that's terrible and I mean just to kill him over that is like kill somebody for for borrowed money Yeah, it's one thing if it was like, you know, we see all the time. Oh, they had a $800,000 insurance policy in 1995. Well, that's a reason to kill somebody. I guess that's true that desperate for money, but this is just I'd like to go on a little spending spree for the next couple days. So I'll kill my friend for it That's wild. So a couple of couches. I've had my eye on that's what this is. This is this is such a Tiny amount of money that a man didn't even have that he was so Yeah, this was to keep him from dying this winter. That's what the money was. So you got a couch of cup holders in it They have the old baby Billy there. Yeah, I got you a couch of cup holders in it. Do it right? I love that. So that's what he's charged with all this shit. I can't believe that's how he got to fucking Arizona That is who knew that was a website. I mean, I guess I was a website for everything. There's a website for every no if there's websites for that people you know, to stare at people's feet, there's got to be ones for, I need over there. Somebody, someone to hang out with while I drive, like that seems, that seems like less, more reasonable than I just want to stare at some weird, whatever the fuck's like growth. Seemake.com seems like it's been established long before. Vlogmate.com. Yes. Or like, you know, I like goiters.org or whatever the fuck, you know, some weird jerking off to people's growth or something. I have no idea. So they go to trial. Everybody does not plead. He says, you don't have evidence I did this. What? He's saying the stuff you found, the tape, the physical evidence you found, that could have just been for me being over there. You don't know it's not, even though it's on tape that's wrapped around the guy's head, both kinds of tape, but still, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on the tape. Okay. That's fine. The, the, the internet searches, yeah, I mean, maybe he's just curious. Maybe he's a curious little guy. That's all it is. Maybe he's just aware of more things than the cops give him credit for being aware of. Maybe he sees things and he goes, I wonder and looks it up. He's just, he's a knowledge seeker. That's all it is. Well, what about the, the surveillance of the, that's the problem, cashing a check when the guy was dead. That's the problem. How did you get? How'd you get his furnace money in your hand and then spend it, not on his furnace, you know what I'm saying? So that's kind of where it all falls apart. Even if you wanted to be the most pro defendant, you'd still be like, well, that's kind of hard to explain there. Money that he doesn't have, there's no way he could give it to you. And they also say circumstantial evidence is fine. You know, a lot of times you hear defense turn, you say this case is totally circumstantial. And then the prosecution will go up and go, yeah, it is. That's a shitload of circumstantial evidence, which those circumstances don't happen like that generally. Yeah. Those circumstances are crazy to be coincidences. Yeah. If they found like, you know, some of Brumley's blood on this guy's shirt, that would be physical evidence. That would be worth a giant pile of circumstantial evidence. They have to make a huge pile of it to equal one piece of physical evidence. But if you have enough of it, it's fine. You'd have to be in the room while, while Brumley's being strangled and him to like, throw him the check and say, spend this for me and the money to be, yeah. And here's my debit card, too, because just take my wallet, you're going to need this. You're going to need someone better live it up, because I could never, since I can't, I want you to do it for me. Live for me, dab. Live. That's right. You take that fucking pompous ass lady and get room service. So Vernec comes in, they find him while he's accused of murder, auto theft and two counts of theft for the different, you know, money things. He's found guilty of auto theft, guilty of two counts of theft and guilty of murder as well. So that's everything. He does not testify at all or make any statement during the sentencing. Is that right? Doesn't seem wise, probably. He doesn't say shit, judge says something though, they say you, sir, may fuck off 62 years for murder, yeah, four years, two years for theft and they're consecutive. So 64 years is what you got there, okay, it's awfully lenient in it. It's 64 years and I believe he has to do all of it. Oh, and he's in his 50s. And he's like, yeah, so it's, it's not good. He has to do like 90% of it or some 95%. It's a lot. Yeah, way to hear his release date, it's, it's, he's in, he's going to be there for Vernec. Let's just put it that way. The prosecutor said the browsing history of this cold blooded killer painted a clear picture of someone planning to commit murder to dispose of a human body and to evade the authorities, authorities by going off the grid, yeah, combined with other evidence, this kind of internet activity is very legitimate piece of the puzzle. I'm proud our team of our team for helping ensure justice in this case and holding a violent criminal accountable under the law. The arson and all the other shit that he had when they were looking for, they just dismissed all of that. They're like, he's wipe it off. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. He's in for 64 years. Fuck that house. So 2023, he appeals on the, under the guys, he, what? He has got to appeal direct appeal. I guess, yeah. Insufficient evidence is what he played. I'm saying, yeah. All right. He said the sentence was inappropriate in late, in light of the nature of the offenses and his character. Oh, the nature of these fences are brutal murder and his character is a piece of shit who had burnt a factory down because he's mad at his wife. He's a scumbag. Yeah. Terrible guys. A sentient piece of shit is less dangerous. Yeah. Absolutely. You can at least trust it probably. Yeah. You can smell it. Come on. They said, when reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction, we neither re-way evidence nor judge witness credibility. This is just, we only consider the evidence supporting the judgment and any reasonable inferences that can be drawn from such evidence. We will affirm if there is a substantial evidence of probative value. So they said the state was required to prove that he knowingly or intentionally killed Brumley. Cook acknowledges that Brumley was murdered, but claims the state failed to prove it was him that did it. He was murdered, sure, I'll buy that, but you know, it's only one other person's fingerprints on this man. What me? But we have you on camera. What me? We went full shaggy. I'm the shaggy murderers. That's why I'm. This is unbelievable. It's crazy. He said there's no direct evidence that he was ever at Brumley's home when the murder occurred. He said, therefore, there's reasonable inference that he simply stole the car, debit card and loan check after finding Brumley dead. That's his, that's his excuse. I went in there to see him. He was dead, so I just stole all his shit and ran away, which is, that's not great either. We're talking about character. Right. Do you think that's a thing that he presented to his lawyer and his lawyer was like, there's not a fucking chance I'm doing that? He's like, well, it's either that or murder. So we're going what we're going with. You're just an opportunistic thief. That's what we're going with. How about that? So the law said here that murder conviction may be sustained on circumstantial evidence alone. The evidence need not negate every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. Just has to be, they just need to be sure it's you. That's it. That's what's all it is. So they said the evidence supports a reasonable inference that he's the person that killed him and cooks claimed the contrary is merely an invitation to re-way the evidence, which is not what we do here. So that's it. Was the sentence appropriate? They said, seem like it. They said we give substantial deference to the trial court's sentencing decision. The trial court's judgment should prevail unless it's overcome by compelling evidence, portraying it a positive light, the nature of the offense and the defendant's character. Well, swing it a miss, swing it a miss. Piece of shit did something terrible. It feels like it was light, to be honest. Exactly. It's not worse that we got life without or at least life. The trial court said that he had a lack of remorse, but they said no, the lack of remorse was merely an outward manifestation of his innocence. How could he be remorseful for something he didn't do? Well, I didn't do it. Duh. I'd come and check because I'm a piece of shit. The judge wrote, "Neither the nature of cooks offenses nor his character convinces us that his 64-year sentence is inappropriate." She said, "He carried out a premeditated, unprovoked and cruel murder of his longtime acquaintance before stealing his car and money and fleeing across the country." His beloved car. He said, "What's more, these offenses are just another chapter in Cook's alarming history of criminal conduct. Bad guy." I don't know what he did before the fire back in 2003 because he was under a full grown adult by then. I bet he had a shitload of charges. I looked them up. I couldn't find any, but I mean, that's pre-2000, a lot of shit. Paul Towne's not computerized. So they said, "Neither the nature of this nor his character convinces us that's inappropriate sentence. We think it's just right." Yeah. You can fuck off. And they said his internet browsing history really showed that what he was doing. Yeah. There's no way you burned down mastercraft on your first criminal attempt. Fuck no. No. So he's incarcerated at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He has a projected release date of October 2066 when he will be a hundred and seven years old. That's his first parole hearing, a hundred and seven. I think we're good on that guy, yeah, I would say. Bucco seven. If he does make it to a hundred and seven, I say let him out and just watch him. Watch him try. I don't say let him out. I say. Let him out. Push his eggs. Get him out. No, you have to leave now. Get the fuck out. But everyone I know is dead. That's all right. But I'd have no where to go. Green mile. Sorry. I don't know what to tell you. Light a fire for warmth. What the fuck do you want from us? I mean, good luck. Look, in the past we've had like women and children killed, obviously that's a terrible, terrible individual. Yeah. Yeah. This guy went and killed a man who was old. took a check and didn't even, money didn't even have. - Yeah, no. - And then went and blew half of it in a second. And then what? He was gonna do way worse when it's dangerous. - It's a dangerous guy. The house, the murder house still stands by the way. It's occupied and it's, the zest of it is $114,000 on it. - So it's off the cheek. - Two bedroom, one bath, 1600 square foot. Oh, there it is, detached garage. - Probably was not killing it. The poor man was, he just had his prized Mustang, the poor fuck. - That's what he spent his money on, it's all he had. So there you go, everybody, that is Winchester, Indiana, and just a twisted tail of a huge gaping asshole of a guy. - You want a monster? - Just a bad fucking guy. 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