S. 17 Ep. 14 GREED: The Murder of Jack Irwin

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71 year old disabled veteran Jack Irwin had a wonderful life in Mt. Baldy, California. But as he was getting older, he was in fear he might need more assistance and purchase a home in Upland, California, closer to hospitals. Upon putting his cabin in Mt. Baldy for sale, he met two lesbians that were interested in his cabin but couldn't afford it. So Jack offered them a rent to own deal that would benefit all of them. Upon moving to Upland, a few months later the women would come to stay with Jack with the pretense of taking care of him. What they care of was his savings...and a few other things.... Jack would never be seen again after the women left his home a few months later.

True crime quickie from Massachusetts, the murder of Patrick Sequeria Ferreria.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hey, they're warriors. It's me your Galcey j. I hope
you're well. The kids are back home with their dogs.
I did a deepish clean of the house while they
were gone, and I even rented a carpet cleaner to
steam our rugs. It's amazing how much filth gets tracked
into the house from our feet and from the dog's paws.

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Lots of sand and fur too. Oh yeah, and the cats.
But the house looked great for a day or so.
Then the kids came home. Oh, well gotta live. I
guess I've often wondered if I lived alone without any pets,
if I could be one of those people in a
lavish apartment with white furniture and carpets. I still don't

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think I could. It looks really appealing on television and
in movies, But first, I'd miss having a pet too much.
In second, I think I'd probably buckle under the pressure
of keeping everything pristine. The main case I have for
you this episode is one I had never heard of
before until I began researching it. As Fabulosa said, we

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are headed to the southern California area. Mount Baldy in Upland,
to be more precise, Mount Baldy is an unincorporated community
in the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County. It's
also partly in Los Angeles County. During the Prohibition era,
it was known as a place that you could go

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and get a drink without the watchful eyes of the police.
A brochure that was made in the nineteen hundreds headlined
it as being far from the crowds above the clouds.
The nearest law enforcement is a sheriff department about a
half an hour away. In San Dimas. It's been estimated
that Mount Baldy had a population of around five thousand

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people in nineteen ninety nine. There's a resort there, and
it's been there since nineteen fifty two because Mount Baldy
apparently has beautiful natural slopes for skiing and snowboarding. But
other than offering a great place for tourists to partake
in snowsports, Mount Baldy has mostly been home to those

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who are wishing to escape the hustle and bustle of
city life. It's for those who want to be somewhat
off grid and just enjoy the splendor of the outdoors
and the tranquility of nature. Which sounds lovely and drama free, right,
and it should be, really. But in nineteen ninety nine,

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seventy one year old Jack Irwin was a disabled Korean
War veteran. He loved his life in Mount Baldy, but
with his physical health declining, he had a tough time
speaking and walking. He thought it might be best for
him to sell his cabin in Mount Baldy and move
to a place in Upland, California, a place where he

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could find assistance should he need it. He purchased a
nice home in a cul de sac for one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars in Upland. Upon putting his cabin
on the market, Jack met two women, forty four year
old Marcia Ann Johnson and her lover slash girlfriend, fifty
one year old Judy Gellert. The women were interested in

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purchasing Jack's cabin, but they didn't have enough funds to
do so. Still, the women kept coming around Jack's home
and quickly befriended him. Jack wasn't a recluse. He liked people,
and he liked socializing in small amounts, so he was
happy to have some new friends. Jack, for being disabled

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and seventy one years old, was fiercely independent. He wasn't
wealthy by any means, but he did all right for
himself thanks to a prior real estate investment. He had
almost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in his savings account,
and he kept ten thousand dollars tucked away in his cabin.
He also kept his wallet thick with bills, which left

(05:05):
a large lump in his back pocket. Jack was frugal, though,
and very cautious on what he spent his money. On.
Most likely that's how he was able to have a
good savings account in cash on hand. He kept busy
around his property, cleaning his countertops in his kitchen, keeping
his pencils sharpened on his desk, and every three months,

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like clockwork, he would make sure that the oil in
his nineteen ninety three Subaru was changed. Although he hardly
ever drove anywhere, Jack also received a Social Security check
every month for seven hundred and twenty two dollars, most
of which he never really spent. He put out maybe
sixty to one hundred dollars on utilities and much less

(05:51):
on groceries. His groceries consisted mostly of peanut butter, raw
and soup, and frozen hash brown patties. The rest of
his would go into savings or his cash stash in
his cabin. He was simple and that worked for him.
As a serviceman in the military, Jack was working on

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a helicopter when a hand grenade blew up the tent
that he was working in. He woke up in a hospital.
He was then transferred from a hospital in Hawaii to
San Francisco, and not long after that, his superiors told
him that they were discharging him because he had a
wonky eye. Jack told them his eye was wonky before

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he was drafted, but the army still threw him out.
He was able to keep his military benefits. Of course,
as he aged, he was diagnosed with dystonia. Dystonia is
a neurological movement disorder characterized by sustained muscle contractions leading

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to twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. It can
affect various parts of the bar, including the face, neck, limbs,
and trunk. So when Jack spoke, most people, especially strangers,
they couldn't understand what he was saying. It almost sounded
like he was trying to gargle and speak at the

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same time. Marcia and Judy, the women who befriended Jack,
saw him as an opportunity week and alone. You see,
these two lesbians were grifters, con artists, scammers. It was
their job to prey on the vulnerable, to capitalize on

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others' hardships for their own personal gain. Now, these women
worked honest jobs too. Marsha was a computer programmer. She
did work here and there, but only on a part
time basis, and Judy she worked at the Chino Women's
Prison as a drug counselor. Jack listed his cabin in

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Mount Baldy for only forty eight thousand dollars, but since
the women couldn't afford his asking price, Jack offered them
a deal. He would hold on to the title of
the house and they could pay him five hundred and
eighty two dollars a month. They could do this for
ten years until they paid the cabin off. This was
a hell of a deal. I can't even imagine paying

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only five hundred and eighty two dollars a month for
a rent to own home. This was a bargain to
get a little ind too. The women's backstory By her
own account, Marcia had a rough childhood. At the age
of ten, she had a nervous breakdown. She was molested
at the age of thirteen by her male neighbor who

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was a police officer. Her mother rarely talked to her
and never said that she loved her. Marcia's mother would
also parade Marcia naked in front of her father. Her
father would beat her. Her grandfather tried to rape her
in One of her violent ex boyfriends almost killed her.

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She drank a lot of alcohol, she did hard drugs,
and she had sex with whoever. She lived a very
risky lifestyle. She dropped out of school when she was
in the eighth grade, and she learned computer programming on
her own. In her late teens, Marcia decided men were gross.

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By her mid twenties, she came out as a lesbian,
but not before becoming suicidal and trying to slash her wrists.
When she slashed her wrists, she would spray her wounds
with bug killer. She had also tried to shoot herself
in the head, but the bullet went elsewhere. Just before
her twenty fifth birthday, she and a friend got drunk.

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They decided they wanted to Thelma and Louise it that's
a movie reference in case she weren't sure. The two
young women wanted to drive off of a cliff and
end their life wives, but before this could happen, police
were informed of their plan and they put a stop
to it, arresting Marcia and her friend in jail, which

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Marcia hated. By the way, she tried to hang herself
with her own shoelace, and she was put into a
mental facility. She was only there long enough to get sober,
and then she was released. In nineteen ninety Marcia was
back in the mental facility after trying to offer herself
with a knife. She was depressed after her girlfriend left

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her because she was crazy. She was diagnosed with having
manic bipolar disorder and auditory delusions. Again, she was released
from the facility. In nineteen ninety three, Marcia tried to
overdose due to being despondent over a ring she had lost,
and after having a fight with her girlfriend Judy. In

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nineteen ninety six, she overdosed again, and this time it
was because she heard her dead father's voice in the wind.
He was telling her to join him. In nineteen ninety eight,
she was institutionalized on a temporary psychiatric hold one more time,
and this was for banging her head repeatedly against a

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wall and jumping out a window. Judy, on the other hand,
had a much different life than Marcia. Judy was much
more mentally stable. She grew up on a farm in Indiana,
went to college majoring in physical education, and got married
to a man, though her marriage would end in divorce

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seven years later. After her divorce, Judy started drinking, She
started smoking weed, and she got a little lost in
med She was able to pull herself out of all
of it and got clean. And once she did, she
volunteered at a drug treatment center in San Diego, California.

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Eventually they hired her there as a counselor. It was
here where she would meet Marcia. In the late nineteen eighties,
the women had become a couple and they had been
together a little over ten years before they met up
with Jack Irwin. Although Marcia and Judy's relationship was tumultuous
with many ups and downs, they disagreed on nearly everything

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and they would pick at each other over the smallest things.
In nineteen ninety eight, both women had filed for bankruptcy
because they had massive debt piled up. They did have
a few assets, like they owned a motor home that
they lived in and they would use it to travel
to RV parks. They did all this in the southern

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California area, which is how they ended up in Mount
Baldy in December of nineteen ninety eight. In January of
nineteen ninety nine, they started to check the campground's bulletin
board and that's when they saw Jack's cabin for sale.
They really wanted a more permanent home, but because of
their bankruptcies, they could not afford to finance even if

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they tried to get a loan to buy Jack's place.
There were really no banks that would loan to anybody
who just went through bankruptcy. So they agreed to Jack's
rent to own terms, and Jack moved to his four bedroom,
two story home in the quiet cul de Sac of Upland, California.
Jack had a few neighbors in Mount Baldy who absolutely

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loved him, and they would adopt him on holidays. Now
he was in Upland, but once he got past his
speaking disability, his new neighbors adored him. They thought he
was sweet and funny. In the summer of nineteen ninety nine,
Marcia and Judy Well they paid Jack a visit in Upland.

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Technically it was more than a visit. It seemed like
these women were moving in with Jack in his new
home home. Sensing that something was off about these two women,
this situation made his neighbors very uncomfortable and worried for Jack.
And realizing that Jack's new neighbors weren't so cool with

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the two openly gay women moving in with Jack, Marcia
explained to them about purchasing Jack's cabin in Mount Baldy,
and that's when they became very fond of him. But
after not being able to reach Jack by telephone, they
were worried about him and they decided they should move
in with him in Upland at least for a while,

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to take care of him by keeping hows, cooking and
make sure that he took his meds on time. Marcia
was sure that the neighbors didn't like them because they
were gay, but that just wasn't the case. The neighbors
didn't like Marcia and Judy because to them, these women
were up to something and it wasn't good. When Marcia

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and Judy moved into the Upland home, Jack's purse strings loosened.
He bought a new television, a satellite dish system, a
new stove, and a dishwasher. Jack boasted to his neighbors
he could now get four hundred channels on his new TV,
four hundred and when his neighbors asked him how many

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of those four hundred channels he watched, Jack said, oh,
only four. And then Jack told his neighbors that the
girls took him to the San Diego Pride parade and
he had never seen anything like it. People were walking
around wearing virtually nothing, but he had fun. Jack seemed

(15:39):
genuinely happy to have the girls living with them, at
least for a while. He had never married, nor had
any children of his own. Any family that he had
were long gone. It was tough, though, for the neighbors
to ever get Jack alone to talk with them, and
they wanted to. They wanted to see if he was

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okay with the women living with him, but every time
they tried to talk to him, it seemed that Marsha
and Judy were hovering around in the background, calling Jack
dad and reminding him to eat. Several months later, Jack
told one of the neighbors that he and the girls
were family now, and since they were family, he put

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their names on his trust fund. They would inherit everything
if something ever happened to him, and if they should
die first, he got whatever they had. The neighbor asked
if Jack was crazy, as the girls didn't have anything
or bring anything to the table. By the end of August,
Martia and Judy began telling Jack what he could and

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couldn't do. For instance, he was not to leave the
dinner table until everyone was finished. Jack said but this
is my house. The girl said it didn't matter, he
couldn't do it. Jack confided in a close friend from
Mount Baldy that he was no longer happy with this
current living situation. By September, Marcia and Judy went back

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to the cabin in Mount Baldy. Neighbors in Upland noticed
that they hadn't seen Jack around, but they couldn't ask
Marsha and Judy because they were gone. The next time
Marcia came back to check the mail in Upland, a
neighbor approached her and asked where Jack was. Marcia calmly
told her that Jack was traveling. The neighbor asked where,

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and Marcia said he was currently in Seattle. He went
to see the space needle. Marcia said she dropped him
off of the train station so he could hop a
train for Seattle. The neighbor asked where he was staying
and when he was coming back. Marcia simply answered, I
don't know. Each time one of the women would come

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back to the Upland Cul de Sac, a neighbor would
ask if they had heard from Jack as he sent
a postcard. The answer from Marsha duty was always no.
The neighbors finally asked Marcia, weren't they worried, and she
would say, We'll give it a few more days. In
early October, neighbors were fed up with Marcia and Judy's

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vague answers. One male neighbor confronted the women and said,
it's time you report Jack missing to the police, and
if you don't, I will. Marcia begrudgingly called the Upland
Police department and she tried to place a missing person's report,
but the officer said Jack was a grown man and

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if he wanted to go on a trip, he could.
Marcia liked this response. A longtime friend of jackson Mount
Baldy noticed that Jack hadn't returned any of her phone
calls and that wasn't like him. When she saw Marcia
and Judy in the small post office that she worked in,
she asked where Jack was. They told her Jack was

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on vacation. This friend said bullshit and over a decad
on Mount Baldy that she had known Jack. He never
went anywhere, let alone on vacation. Immediately, this friend called
the Upland Police and spoke to a detective. That detective
didn't seem overly concerned about Jack being missing. This same

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friend made Missing Jack Irwin flyers and she hung him
up all over Mount Baldy. Later, she said she secretly
did this just to piss off Marcia and Judy, because
she suspected that Jack was dead and that these women
had something to do with it. Within the next few months,
Jack's savings of over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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would be wiped out. Marcia purchased a new Jeep Wrangler
for Judy. She would forge Jack's signature and sell his
old Subaru and buy herself a Corvette. Then the couple
would purchase a brand new RV, complete with a washer
and dryer, a nice bathroom, a satellite dish, big television, refrigerator,

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and freezer in a queen's size bed. The vehicle was
so big it blocked a lane of the road near
Jack's cabin, and it blocked a Mount Baldy's neighbors driveway.
People who were inconvenienced by this RV called the sheriff
and they complained about the RV. Marcia told the police
that the people here just don't like us because we're lesbians.

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One day, Marcia walked into the post office, and she
screamed at Jack's friend who hung up the missing posters.
She said that the woman was telling people that she
killed Jack. Marcia threatened to sue the woman for slander,
and don't think I can't do it either. I have
the money. I'm the richest person on Mount Baldy. The

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friend didn't doubt Marcia had money, and she was sure
it was all Jack's money. In June of two thousand,
Marcia and Judy traveled to San Diego for a vacation
and probably for the Pride festivities again. When they returned
back to Mount Baldi in July, they called the police
and reported that somebody had broken into their cabin through

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a doggy door, and whoever did it stole a number
of things. Insurance ended up sending the women a check
for nearly ten thousand dollars for the loss of their items.
In August, the women felt that the Mount Baldy community
was continually harassing them, so they took their new RV
and they moved to an RV park in Lake Elsinore,

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California for a bit. The women decided to sell Jack's
house in Upland and to purchase their own home in
San Diego. Then they received a phone call that the
cabin in Mount Baldy was on fire. The fire investigation
team suspected it was arson, and that's when Marcia really
began to push the the people of Mount Baldy did it?

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They hate us because were lesbian's card one hundred years ago,
they would have strung us up in the trees, she continued.
But the community in Mount Baldy could really give a
shit about what sexual identity the women were. They just
didn't like the shady women. One of the former Mount
Baldy neighbors said, no one here would start a fire.

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It's like starting a fire in our own backyard. And
as far as you tube being lesbians, no one here
cares if Jack's dead. You two had the most to
gain from it. However, the insurance company came through again
for Martia and Judy and sent them a check for
over one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. This was to

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cover the forty eight thousand dollars cabin, mind you, and
all of the belongings they claimed were inside of it
when it burned, Even in spite of suspicious circumstances. By
summer of two thousand and one, the missing person's case
on Jack had went cold, even though the neighbor in

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Mount Baldi, who worked at the post office, continued calling
the police on a constant for updates. Finally, the police chief,
who feared that the case was slipping through the cracks,
reached out to the district attorney for help. The district
attorney then went to the San Bernardino law enforcement and

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the case caught new fire when Jack's file landed on
a detective's desk. This detective was in charge of elderly
abuse cases. The detective decided to first follow the money.
This led him to Martia and Judy, who made a
total of two five hundred and eighty two dollars payments
for Jack's cabin, but they had collected nearly half a

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million dollars of Jack's money trust fund and insurance claims.
The detective was positive that these women were frauds and
had illegally obtained the money, and now he wanted them
for more than elderly abuse. He wanted them for the
murder of Jack Irwin. Problem was, there was no body

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and no evidence to suggest Jack was murdered. There was
zero proof that Jack was even dead, But in time,
it was Marcia who gave the detective the biggest clue,
and that's when the detective went to talk to her.
She rambled on for hours about miscellaneous things, including how

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she planned to sue her therapist, which she had just
had a five month affair with. The detective didn't want
to delve into, as she said, she said, situation, and
he let the case sit until August of two thousand
and two. This is when the detective finally decided to
contact the Board of Psychology and he discovered Marcia had

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a past of mental illnesses. He also found out that
nine days after Jack's disappearance, Marcia was back in a
mental facility. She was telling her mom, Judy, and the
facility staff that she had killed Jack, but then again,
she also told them she had killed her brother and sister,
but they were very much alive. Judy took Marcia to

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a therapist. This is supposedly the one Marcia had the
affair with. Marcia was an asshole about it. She said
she was only there because her girlfriend made her go
and because she was fearful of being arrested because she
had spent sixty to seventy thousand dollars of Jack's money,
which was a modest declaration of how much she had

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actually spent. Over the next few months, Marcia would be
hospitalized four more times. Marcia and Judy would split up
from their relationship, and Marcia would start dating her new therapist,
who was actually an assistant therapist without the license. The

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assistant therapist denied this in court, though, saying she was
never attracted to Marcia, but she considered Marcia to be
her very best friend. Marcia claimed she performed oral sex
on the assistant therapist several times, but it was only
in the dark because of the body issues that the
therapists had. Either way best friend or sex partner. This

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was not a very professional thing for this assistant therapist
to do, and I'll bet she never got her license eventually.
Marcia would also tell this woman that she had killed Jack.
She told her that she shot him in the head
and then cut up his body with a chainsaw, wrapping
parts in saran wrap and foil, and then she rolled

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Jack's head down the side of Mount Baldy's Hills. She
also distributed the rest of his body all over the mountain.
The assistant therapist gasped she was still stuck on the
wrapping parts of Jack up. You mean you wrapped him
like meat. It was then that Marcia realized this assistant

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therapist didn't love her and she wasn't going to marry her,
so Marsha went back to Judy. In the meantime, the
detective working Jack's case still didn't have enough evidence to
prove a murder had taken place, but he had got
an arrest warrant for Marcia and Judy for secondary commercialized burglary,

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grand theft by embezzlement, theft of an elder causing fire
to a structure, grand theft, auto, and insurance fraud. When
he delivered the warrant, he told them they had two
weeks to turn themselves in. Over the next two weeks,
Judy called the detective and asked to meet him at
a McDonald's in Sanya Cidro, California. When Judy pulled into

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the parking lot, the detective pulled in behind her, blocking
her from escaping. He arrested her on the spot. Judy's
bill was set at half a million dollars, asking Marcia
to come up with fifty grand to bail her out.
Marcia couldn't do it. Judy and Marcia talked via phone
from where Judy was in jail. Marcia promised she'd turn

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herself in and take the blame and implicate herself, but
as she hung up, she instead went and picked up
her dogs from where her and Judy were living, and
she checked into a pet friendly motel. She talked to
Judy on the phone again from the motel room. Police
traced the call and they found Marcia. They arrested her

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within a couple of hours. Marcia was in an interrogation room.
She had a cigarette in one hand and a diet
coke in the other. She was telling detective she never
meant to hurt Jack, and then she blamed Jack for
exposing himself to her on multiple occasions, and she told
them that he had said some horrible things about Judy too.

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But the final straw for her was when Jack poisoned
her three dollars. That made her just snap. She told them, no,
motherfucker is gonna hurt me again. In her videotaped interrogation,
Marcia once again confessed to murdering Jack and to tossing
his body parts off a road in Mount Baldy. Of course,

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we know what Marcia accused Jack of doing was bullshit.
Marcia is a sick individual with a twisted sense of
morals and a distinction to manipulate any situation in her favor.
Marcia was charged with first degree murder, arson, grand theft,
abuse of an elderly person, and insurance fraud, along with

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some other charges like felony use of a weapon. Judy
was charged with several things, including being a necessory to
a murder. In a plea deal, she agreed to turn
on Marcia and testify against her as long as she
got a much reduced scent. She pleaded guilty to one
count of receiving stolen property and she was sentenced to

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six months in jail in five years of probation, along
with the hefty fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
She got off easy in court. Marcia would be found
guilty of twenty six charges, with first degree murder being
the strongest. She was sentenced to life in prison with

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no parole eligibility. To this day, Jack's remains have never
been recovered. Rest and Power Jack, our true crime quickie
comes to us from Brockton, Massachusetts in twenty eighteen. Twenty
seven year old Patrick Sequera Fererra has been described by

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friends and family as sweet, outgoing, and forever caring about others.
He loved the Celtics basketball team, soccer, and being around
his friends and family. Patrick had a brother and three sisters,
so you have to believe it was quite a shock
to all of them when their beloved Patrick was murdered.

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On November twelfth, twenty eighteen. Patrick had been dating a
twenty one year old man named Kean Willis in Brockton.
The two met when Patrick was attending classes for substance
abuse at the Office of Community Corrections. Kien worked there.
Although Keen liked Patrick a lot, he was fearful people

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would find out about his sexual relationship with Patrick, especially
his employers, who he felt would fire him for it.
So instead of just ending things peacefully and calling it
a day, Kean murdered Patrick by shooting him in his head.
Kean had invited Patrick to his home and then he
tricked him outside into the night. As the two walked

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along Keith Avenue, Kean fired a gun at Patrick three times.
One bullet struck Patrick in the chin and another in
his head. Someone hearing the shots called nine one one,
and Patrick would be rushed to a hospital. This is
where he died of his injuries. Kean's phone tracked him

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to being the last person known to have had contact
with Patrick, and it wasn't much longer before he was
being arrested for murder. At his trial, Kean was found
guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison with
no parole, rest and power. Patrick let the sunshine in Warriors.

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This story happened to an employee at a hardware store.
An angry customer walked up to the hardware employee, yelling,
why are you pushing a political agenda? It's just screwdrivers,
for fuck's sake. The employee says, sorry, sir, but what agenda.
The customer retorts by holding up a package of screwdrivers.

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This set is rainbow colored. I'm not here for your
woke propaganda. I just need tools. The employee looked at
the package. Ah, these are color coded for screw head types,
you know, Phillips, Torquees, flathead. The customer says, oh, so

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it's not a gay set. The employee responds, I promise
that these screwdrivers do not have a sexual orientation or
an agenda. The customer's relieved but still kind of angry.
Well good. He storms away, a little red and embarrassed

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the employees. Coworker walks by and says, it's wild man,
how people get offended by colors, but not by eighteen
ninety nine for a roll of duct tape. I love
your Rainbow Warriors. You matter so much. Keep being you,
and remember it's not a crime to be gay or

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to live your truth, unless you're a murderer.