May 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Welcome back to the Lethal Library, friends! This week, Dani and Stephanie unravel a true crime story from Idaho that's both shocking and unbelievably dumb. On May 9th, 2007, hikers near Boise stumble upon a gruesome scene that leads to an intense investigation. As detectives dig deeper, they uncover a tangled web involving meth, a baseball bat, and staggeringly poor life choices. With two women at the center of this twisted tale, you'll want to stay tuned to find out how it all unravels. Spoiler: this one will leave you both furious and flabbergasted!
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Dani (00:32):
Alright, everyone, welcome back to the Lethal Library.
I am Stephanie.
I'm Danny, and we are here againto tell you another true crime
story in Idaho.
Danny has a fresh one for usthis week.
What do we got on the plate?
Well, we have all worked withsomeone.
We couldn't stand, never.
Never.
I have literally quit a job overit.
(00:54):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It can be too much.
But one woman took it a littletoo far.
Oh, and she didn't even hatehim.
This is already getting veryjuicy.
In today's episode, we havemeth.
A baseball bat and twounexplainably strange women.
(01:14):
Okay, love a strange woman.
They're bad.
Strange, Ooh, creepy, sourcesused, today are the Idaho
Statesmen and the Times News.
Let's go on May 9th, 2007.
Some hikers.
Were taking advantage of theearly spring weather and headed
(01:34):
up.
The five mile trailhead nearBoise, Idaho At a nearby
campsite, they saw what lookedlike a man laying down.
They approached the man andquickly stepped away.
Uh oh.
Called 9 1 1.
Said he's not taking a nap.
No.
Taking a dirt nap.
Yes.
(01:55):
Sorry.
Insensitive.
That was rude of me.
That, but maybe he was really,that was rude.
He wasn't really, that waspretty fucking It was.
It was.
Sorry, guys.
Authorities arrived at thecampsite of Rocky Canyon Road
and discovered a body that hadbeen beaten and stabbed.
Ooh.
So they knew right away he'snot, yeah.
(02:16):
They walked up on that.
They're like, oh no.
This isn't a relaxing time.
This is gotta, gotta go.
Too many owies.
police were unable to locate anykind of identification on the
body, so investigators reachedout to the public for help
identifying it.
They released details about hisbody piercing, and a photo of a
(02:36):
black baseball cap with threeskulls on it.
Here we go again.
Baseball cap.
Very, it was kind of a, peoplelike those unique hats, they
like to make'em their own backthen.
Yeah, distinct.
He was later identified byfingerprints as 31-year-old Sean
Thomas Halcomb Sean was recentlyworking on turning his life
(03:00):
around.
Said the staff at River ofLife's Men Shelter, where he was
living at the time.
Sean participated in the worksearch program and was working
two jobs at the time of hisdeath.
He was on track to leave theshelter for his own place within
the next month.
Stephanie (03:19):
Damn am.
Dani (03:22):
Yeah.
A friend of Hal come's.
Jennifer Bloom said she met himat a AA meeting.
He had adopted a Buddhistattitude towards life and went
out of his way not to burdenothers with his problems.
He loved his pre-teen daughter.
Quote, one thing he told me,which I will never forget, what
(03:44):
is that?
If someone ever killed him, hedidn't want them to die for it.
Sean said, an eye for an eyemake just makes the world blind.
Hmm.
So completely new outlook onlife.
Really trying to reframeeverything it sounds like.
Yeah.
Hmm.
He made a little trouble gettinghis stuff together.
(04:06):
I mean, well, and what a greatway to look at it is that I
don't wanna be a burden,
Stephanie (04:11):
I don't wanna be the
Dani (04:11):
victim.
Right.
He was, yeah.
He was just like, my problemsare my problems and I'm gonna
take care of it, and I'm workingon it.
Wow.
A few days later on May 12th.
A man was looking through trashcans at Ann Morrison Park when
he located a bag.
Mm-hmm.
(04:32):
When he searched through thebag, he found Sean's id.
A liquor bottle.
A liquor receipt, and a brokenpart of a baseball bat.
Oh no.
This gave authorities theirfirst real lead in the case.
People are stupid.
Again, and again and again.
(04:54):
The receipt led detectives to aliquor store on State Street in
Boise where they were able toobtain video of two women that
was timestamped the same time asthe receipt.
Easy peasy.
The two women were identified asJennifer Mecado, age 22, and
Diana flatter.
John, age 33.
(05:17):
Police also locate witnessesthat saw Shawn with the two
women in downtown Boise on theWednesday before they found
Shawn's body.
They were arrested and chargedwith first degree murder right
away.
Gotcha.
You were on tape.
Yeah.
Well, and they probably thought
Stephanie (05:36):
they were so sly dumping it in some random
dumpster and someone's like,
Dani (05:40):
oh, just let, just, yeah.
Neatly in a bag.
Yeah.
Altogether.
Yeah, in one nice package, put abow on it.
Smart.
They are not authorities.
State, both Mercado and flatter.
John, were on probation at thetime of the murder.
Mercado was previously convictedfor grand theft in Canyon County
(06:02):
and possession of a controlledsubstance in 2004.
Weird drugs just dipping ourtoes into a little drug.
she was released in January,2006 on probation Fluter.
John had prior felonyconvictions that included felony
injury to a child and possessionof meth.
(06:26):
This is gonna piss you off.
This is gonna piss you off in2004.
She left her 10-year-olddaughter home alone for six days
while on a meth binge.
So disgusting.
But this is so common in like,and people never hear about it
because some of these kids, likethey can kind of fend for
(06:49):
themselves a little bit
Stephanie (06:50):
and nobody knows.
And if school's not in, or if noone checks, there's tons of
people that do this that arejust like whoopsie.
I was gone for four days.
I was gone for this many days.
There was, I think last yearthere was a huge story about a
gal that went on a vacation
Dani (07:04):
and left like a 9-year-old and two littles.
Went on a vacation.
Why?
And was like, uh, there's likesome mac and cheese and shit.
Like the house wasn't, I lookedto the checkbook kiddo.
Yeah.
It's just horrendous that it'slike, eh, that'll be all right.
I, at 10, I was waking myself upand getting myself on the bus.
(07:26):
Yeah, me too.
Uh, well you had a parent thatworked nights.
Mm-hmm.
My mom was a bartender.
Worked nights at 10.
I was getting myself up, butalso.
But also my mother was thereevery day.
Yes.
It, it wasn't just like, momhasn't been here for a week,
(07:46):
we're running out of food.
I guess I gotta go to the CircleK.
The lights got shut off.
Lights do.
I gotta go to the Circle K.
Like what do you do if theelectricity gets shut off and
you're just a kid?
Yeah.
You don't have any idea what todo.
It.
It's scary.
10 years old.
Like, can you make yourself somecereal?
Yeah.
But for several nights and daysand.
Not even really knowing what dayit is.
Like it's just terrible.
(08:08):
Don't do that to your kids.
What about laundry?
You know?
Oh no, you're the smelly kid forsure.
Futter John was released inNovember of 2005.
Fluter John's life.
Went off the rails at 29 yearsold as kind of a big age.
Yeah, this big girl age.
(08:29):
When she became a daily methuser and dealer.
Oh, not good drugs.
in a probable cause hearing,shortly after the women's
arrest, it revealed little aboutthe motive for murder.
Mecado told investigators shebought a baseball bat for 50
(08:50):
cents.
Were we at a yard sale?
I'll take it.
I don't think a, a baseball batwas not 50 cents back then.
We're not that far back.
No, no.
It's 2007 Salvation Army.
Yeah, I think, I think we wereat the thrift store or we found
a yard sale, or maybe it waspart of a crack deal.
Throw the, throwing the baseballbat.
Yeah.
50 cents.
I'll give you an extra 50 cents.
(09:13):
Fluter.
John got a knife from agentleman.
A gentleman of course,
Stephanie (09:19):
an esteemed gentleman who I'm sure his apartment
smelled of rich bound leatherbooks.
And Mahogany.
Dani (09:26):
Yes.
A gentleman.
Yeah.
What crackhead was it?
Come on.
They bought some alcohol andpicked up Sean.
The trio then headed up to acampsite near the five Mile
Gulch Trailhead to party.
Sure Mercado told investigators,they all sat around the campfire
for a while footer.
(09:48):
John said eventually Jenniferstruck Sean in the back of the
head with the baseball bat.
She continued to strike him withthe wood bat until it broke.
And that's a lot.
And for, again, what was thereason?
This is a 22-year-old guy and Idon't know, like.
(10:08):
I don't think she was liftingweights, you know what I mean?
Like sometimes crack headstrength though.
They've got some endurance, youknow?
But you know what?
There was no indication in anyof my research that they were
high on drugs.
So let's see if they were thereto party.
If you're a crack head, youdon't really want to just drink.
Oh, it's not that fun.
(10:30):
You want all, you want all ofit.
All of it.
Mm-hmm.
All the party.
Mm-hmm.
Flutter.
John then stabbed Sean threetimes in the neck, quote, so he
wouldn't wake up.
Oh, that'll do it.
Mercado then took the knife andstabbed him seven more times in
(10:50):
the chest.
Not waking up.
Yeah.
We're we're going a littleoverboard here.
The bat is broken three times inthe neck, seven more times in
the chest.
This has, it's feeling verymethy.
Are they meth around?
I think they're, yeah.
The coroner said it was theblows to the head that killed
(11:13):
Sean, so he was already gone.
All of that was just weird girlsbecause beating somebody in the
head with a bat will kill them.
Stephanie (11:21):
Yeah, especially if you break the bat that that's
probably a good indicator.
Dani (11:26):
I don't care what kind of bat it is.
I know it was 50 cents.
Yeah.
Ooh, that is, that makes mehurt.
Thinking about it, someonebreaking a bat on you.
People that know Mercado andFlutter John are shocked.
They showed up to work every dayand passed regular drug and
(11:46):
alcohol screenings, functioningaddicts.
They found the secret key.
They also attended their classesand were courteous to their
probation supervisors.
Because the two were living atthe Chrysalis.
Women's transitional living.
It is a group home that helpswomen convicted of felonies
(12:07):
enter back into society.
Fantastic.
That's why they were getting thedrug tests.
They had to go to work.
They had, they had rules mm-hmm.
That they had to follow in orderto stay there.
I am sure one of those rules isdon't beat the fuck outta
someone until they're dead,while camping and partying.
Yeah.
(12:27):
I don't know.
Maybe they're lenient on thatstuff.
They're like, no drugs.
If you beat someone and you'renot high, that's fine, but if
you are high beating someone,you're out of here.
Sister, no more rooms for you.
No, but
Stephanie (12:41):
I'm, I'm sure there's
Dani (12:42):
something on the streets, something in the bylaws,
something in the, in the termsof service that are like.
Yeah.
You can't be out like murderingpeople either.
There's no murdering Yes.
In the halfway house.
Sorry about it.
Yeah.
Very strict here.
the bear had lived there forover a year when this happened,
so they got their routine down.
(13:04):
I love your just fucking, theywere shitty people and I'm like,
they were doing so good andstuff's like, no, they weren't.
Mm.
Stephanie (13:12):
If they're out randomly doing this
Dani (13:14):
shit,
Stephanie (13:15):
how good can you be doing as a person?
It is.
Dani (13:18):
I cannot wait.
Oh God.
Okay.
Maybe I'm wrong about a lot ofthis and I'm willing to say, mm,
no.
Okay, but shitty people are justshitty people.
Yeah.
Okay.
the two Mercado and Flutter Johnmet while on a rider at the
South Boise Women's CorrectionalCenter in late 2005.
(13:39):
So like, Hey, bestie.
Hey, you know, we love a goodbestie and you can crawl
yourself out of a gutter with abestie.
But yeah.
That's not how this went.
So, but you know, everybody wasso shocked'cause they were doing
so good, but there may have beena red flag or two.
Oh hmm.
(14:00):
Maybe just a few here or there.
Mercado was enrolled at BoiseState University as a psychology
major, and she had been writinga paper for her psychology class
about the mind of a serialkiller.
Stephanie (14:14):
Okay.
Dani (14:16):
Which.
I research.
Yeah.
Murders every day.
Danny could probably be writingseven papers, but she had a
podcast and she talked aboutmurders.
No, I'm not doing this.
Yeah.
Have you bought a cheap batrecently?
Danny Knife from a gentlemanborrowed a knife from a
(14:36):
gentleman.
Oh shit.
Mercado Met Sean at work, allAmerican publishing.
they worked in the call centerthere.
I remember that job.
You know this business.
Yes.
I worked at a different callcenter where other people had
come over from that place andthey said it was like a shit
show.
(14:57):
People were swearing atcustomers.
It was like a scammy.
Mm-hmm.
Like getting people to buymagazines and stuff.
Mm-hmm.
Telemarketing.
And Did they sell the, theschool calendars too?
I think they might've.
Or the sports calendars.
Yeah.
Or something like that.
They did a lot of stuff likethat, but I remember them being
like, no, you can straight upswear at customers.
Like they don't give a shit.
(15:17):
Um, and I was like, I knew youhad, knew this,
Stephanie (15:21):
knew no
Dani (15:21):
that
Stephanie (15:22):
and man that, and it's right around that time
where I worked at it, it waslike oh eight.
Yeah.
That I worked at a different oneand I heard about American
publishing or what, is that whatit is?
Dani (15:31):
Yeah.
American publishing.
Yes.
Wow.
That can't believe I rememberedthat in my brain.
I, um, had a family member thatgot outta jail that went and
worked there.
Yes.
They hired a lot of people thathad it.
It's records and stuff.
This business works.
With the state probationofficials to find job for exit.
Oh my gosh, this is crazythinking that while this was
(15:53):
happening, I was at anotherlittle trashy ass call center.
I mean, it was nothing to braghome about, but it was like, you
think we are bad?
You should hear about what goeson All American over there.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
How funny.
Yeah.
Um, I knew you'd know.
I did.
And I mean, I think it's a coolthing that they're like.
(16:13):
But they're also getting bangedfor their buck, right?
Mm-hmm.
They're probably, they're payingnext to nothing.
Right?
They can fire you for whateverreason they want.
They can call your probationofficer.
You're, when you're being a dba,yes.
You're not getting insurance andget you in lots of trouble, so.
Mm-hmm.
You know, they really had youprobably.
Yes.
Yeah.
(16:42):
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This is something that we'veworked closely with over the
(17:03):
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from.
They also host Kim Fest everysummer, which started as a
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(17:23):
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We also are gearing up for ouryearly festival that we have
(17:47):
called Kim Fest, and there'sseveral events that we have to
raise funds for this free familyfestival.
the first one coming up is theBaca or Bikers against Child
Abuse after Ride Party.
That's gonna be May 17th atValhalla in Nampa.
Feel free to stop by there tocelebrate.
Additionally, we've got acommunity yard sale that is May
(18:08):
24th and 25th.
If you're interested in donatingespecially clothes or household
items for this yard sale, pleasevisit us on Facebook or on the
website to find out how you cando that, or stop by on May 24th
or 25th if you'd like to browsethe yard cell.
we've also got a night atMeridian Speedway.
That's gonna be June 7th.
(18:28):
there's races going on thatnight.
It's gonna be a really greatnight to see races, great event
for the kids.
We also do a 50 50 raffle there,so that's where.
You can buy tickets for a raffleand however much money we spend,
we split that 50 50 with onewinner.
so the most recent MeridianSpeedway event that I went to,
there was$4,000 raised for thatspecific cause, and so the
(18:52):
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So if you don't have anythinggoing on, we'd love to see you
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If you have questions, you canreach out to us or just go to
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And Instagram profiles.
That's the best way to keep upto date with these and we would
love to see you there.
Thanks guys.
(19:22):
In late May, prosecutors dropped the original murder
charges, but state, both womenwill be recharged.
We want a deal over Mulligan.
But the women are still beingheld on just probation
violations.
Yeah.
'cause they're already like, no,you done fucked up.
You can't be up.
So, you know what, we're justgonna, we're just gonna do a
(19:43):
redo.
You just sit here and wait aminute.
We've got time to get our ducksin a row.
Yeah.
You guys, we are getting lots ofducks in a row.
Maybe a goose.
You're sitting fucking righthere.
We'll be back with you shortlyor whenever we feel like it.
Bye.
but in June, the new charges arebrought against them.
Each are charged with firstdegree murder, conspiracy to
(20:04):
commit murder and robbery.
So that means planned plus theconspiracy.
What in the hell happened?
You're gonna be so mad.
I'm I, I'm already mad.
And late September Mercadopleads guilty to first degree
murder because they had her bythe fucking balls.
(20:26):
They had her by the pubic hairs.
Stephanie (20:28):
Mm-hmm.
Dani (20:31):
In a plea deal with prosecutors, she will have to
testify against footer John.
But that's not gonna happenbecause in December footer, John
also pleads guilty cons toconspiracy to commit murder.
They're both foot, they havehim.
So down they both flipped oneach other.
They're trying to, it soundslike.
Yeah, and they're just like, no,the evidence was just.
(20:55):
Hello.
First of all, they spilled theirguts to investigators.
Oh, yeah.
Trying to get the other one.
I, I believe, trying to get theother one in more trouble, like,
but they're giving him enoughinfo, right?
And they're like, no, we gotyour number.
We can see y'all on the damntape together.
Bitches got your number.
(21:16):
But it's gonna, we're going tohear some, some testimony, some
quotes.
Yeah, some.
So how do we get here and why?
Yeah.
A series of events that began inearly may show that Mercado
needed money to pay her cellphone bill.
Stephanie (21:33):
Okay?
Dani (21:34):
Her first plan was to sell meth at the halfway house where
they were living.
Stephanie (21:37):
Easy enough there.
I'm sure there's plenty ofcustomers there.
Dani (21:41):
Then she talked about possibly ripping off a drug
dealer, risky business, veryrisky.
Then she said she would just robsomeone.
Okay.
I'm really disappointed at thelack of creativity here.
I mean, this is like basic.
This is before the big likecrash.
(22:02):
Mm-hmm.
This is oh seven.
Right?
Right.
Hunky dory out there.
You're, and
Stephanie (22:09):
listen,
Dani (22:09):
there's ways to make money.
We're not using our fullpotential here.
Right.
You could literally just askpeople for money.
Yeah.
They would give it to you.
Like, well, but she just thoughtthis Mercado texted Fluter, John
on May 9th quote, I wanna roband kill someone I work with.
(22:33):
How about Sean?
He just got paid.
Pardon the fuck.
Why not just rob him?
He's a Buddhist now.
Stephanie (22:46):
Buddhism, I had to, it just came right into my
brain.
Dani (22:52):
I know.
I wanted to follow up with theother things.
Piper.
No, thank you for that.
Stephanie (23:01):
I can't believe I didn't do it earlier.
It didn't, it didn't click.
Dani (23:04):
I'm like, I want all of it.
Yes.
Piper, no.
Gonna live in.
Oh, that was fucking dumb.
I have bronchitis
Stephanie (23:14):
as well, so excuse my laugh.
Dani (23:17):
Mm.
Stephanie (23:18):
Um, but yeah.
Uh, why?
Sean?
Sean will probably be like,
Dani (23:22):
because he just got paid.
He'd probably be
Stephanie (23:24):
like, you know what, this is probably a problem I've
brought onto myself, so go aheadand have my paycheck.
Dani (23:28):
Right.
I'm just saying, bitches.
I wanna slap them.
They're so.
How did we get here?
That's what I said.
She also texted Flutter, John,that Sean lived at the shelter
and wouldn't be missed.
Okay.
(23:49):
Like you're talking about some,you live at the shelter, some
fucking stray squirrel orsomething.
Ugh.
Not gonna be missed.
After Mercado purchased thebaseball bat and flutter, John
borrowed the knife from agentleman.
(24:09):
He was a gentleman.
They went to meet Sean.
He.
He was at a restaurant where hejust finished eating pizza with
his 8-year-old daughter and hisex-wife.
Oh my gosh.
He introduced his daughter toMercado and flutter John before
he left with them.
Stephanie (24:28):
I am going to explode out of my skin.
Dani (24:34):
They are fucking assholes.
How do you get here of beinglike, I can't pay my cell phone
bill.
I have free room and board at mylocation.
But my cell phone and I've beenwanting to kill someone about
it.
I've been doing some researchon, so color this, need the
Courtney Kardashian voice,
Stephanie (24:54):
Hey, hey, you got some organic beer.
Let's go get Sean and Murder androb him.
Come, come.
I fucking love that.
That's exactly like, how didthis come to be?
How did, and.
For one person to say it becausemaybe they've got some fucking
(25:15):
weird shit going and they'vejust always, well, screw us.
Danny, if you texted me this,you're like, you know what?
My car payment's a little late.
I, I'd like to kill
Dani (25:24):
someone from work.
Are you down?
I'd be like, uh, ma'am.
Yeah, I'm down.
Get into my car.
We're going to, Intermountain iswhere we're going.
I'm getting you committed.
Immediate
Stephanie (25:38):
because
Dani (25:39):
yeah, get him a car.
Stephanie (25:40):
And especially like with no plan, I'd be like, no,
there's seriously somethingwrong.
If Danny has no plan, like
Dani (25:45):
we'll get a back some beer.
Easy peasy.
Let's go.
No, we, we.
That would be a big red flag.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Red flag or two, if there's notan Excel spreadsheet or like a
to-do list with several pages.
I know something's fuckingwrong.
I surely, uh, well, I probablywould bargain by a bat.
(26:07):
I'm, I'd be smarter than that.
Like I would buy the bat theyear before a yard sale.
Mm-hmm.
And nobody would even know.
Never, no trace of the bat.
And I surely wouldn't tellinvestigators that I bought a
baseball bat when they found ahalf of a baseball bat.
Right.
I'm sure it covered in blood.
I didn't read that, but I'm sureit had broken, uh, with the,
with the dead man's id.
(26:29):
Wonderful ladies, I truly amflabbergasted, baffled.
Just are you flabbergasted?
Incredibly gassed and I.
If there's anyone I'd want totalk to, it'd be these two to be
like, what the fuck were youthinking?
Okay.
Pardon me?
What the fuck?
Literally the fuck Judge Bellsaid he was struck by mercado's.
(26:52):
Lack of remorse after themurderer.
Yeah.
No shit.
Mercado sent a text message to afriend saying quote, why don't.
Want another crazy part?
I don't even feel bad.
Oh, it was a rush.
Oh, you fucking weirdos.
What?
How did we get here?
(27:12):
And another text message betweenRicardo and Fluter John.
Flutter.
John, ask Mercado quote, do youthink you can be forgiven if you
feel no remorse?
Stephanie (27:24):
Wow.
Really deep questions wereconcerning ourselves with.
Dani (27:28):
Why are you fucking, it's fucking 2007.
There's technology.
Yeah.
This isn't 85, bro.
they killed Sean for$267 that hereceived after getting paid
earlier that day.
You fucking loser ass dweebs.
What the fuck?
Like this is Oh man.
(27:53):
You wanna just murder someonerandomly because you need to pay
your cell phone bill when all ofyour other needs are met.
Right now you're not a murderer.
Like you have some felonies forsome drugs and also being a shit
parent, which fuck you, but.
This is like what a disgrace is.
(28:14):
All I, you're struggling withunderstanding.
This is why I, even though,because normally it was a
struggle for me to research thisand, and it's a little bit of a
shorter case because they bothended up pleading out, but I was
like, this is absolutely fuckingridiculous.
Yeah, this is one of thestupidest, and we
Stephanie (28:34):
don't even have anything like we've had with
other cases where it's like,well,
Dani (28:37):
actually they are missing half their brain because they
shot the, you know, they wereshot in the head.
We've had two of those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's two people where they'relike, yeah, good chunk of their
brain's missing where I'm like.
Sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
What the fuck?
What is happening here?
And they were passing all oftheir drug.
I'm not saying you can'tmanipulate that, and they
couldn't figure it out.
But they had their livestogether enough to do it.
(28:58):
Were they were smart enough tomanipulate it.
What the fuck?
So we're in 2008.
on January 22nd, 2008, judgeDebra Bell sentenced Mercado to
life in prison with thepossibility of parole in 45
years.
That's a long time'cause she was22.
(29:20):
Good.
During the sentencing hearing,Mercado said quote, Sean didn't
deserve to die.
Die.
If it means giving up the restof my life, I would do it.
I feel like that was just, thatwas something that you saw on a
fucking Hallmark card orsomething you heard on another
like movie.
Fine.
I'll say something.
Wish I could take it back.
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Wish it was me, not him.
To just so callously do that.
It's just wild for anyone,especially a woman.
And Shawn's family wasunimpressed with her statements,
her tears and her sentence andhe said,
Stephanie (29:57):
yeah, anyway.
Fuck this.
They
Dani (29:57):
wanted, they wanted the death penalty.
I bet they did.
But you know, Idaho struggleswith that.
So, um, and I really feel like Iwas, so it was because they were
a woman that they did not getlife without parole, at least.
Right.
I really truly believe that.
(30:19):
there was nothing in the paperthat, suggested, you know.
Mitigating circumstances, like,oh, I was beat, or, oh no, they
were just fucking, they wanted$267 and you know what?
They probably spent at least$10at the liquor store.
So, yeah.
I mean, you had some cash.
Yeah.
(30:39):
And they didn't have rent,electricity, water, sewer,
trash.
Did they even have a car?
Did they have a car?
Pa Like even that like.
Yeah, this is for a cell phonebill.
Cell phones weren't even superpop.
Like they were kind of withyounger people, but there was
almost everyone still had ahouse phone.
Yep.
Around that time, I would say.
(31:00):
Yep.
It was still very common.
Payphones were still everywhere.
Yep.
It wasn't like a dire thing,like now when you don't have a
house phone or you might need itfor your job or whatever, you
are not using your phone foryour job in oh seven.
You had a, if you were fancy,you had a fucking pink razor and
you were the shit.
I had a red one.
Yep.
Thank you.
So yeah, these fucking girls,I'm so just disgusted and
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disappointed of what the hell,in February of 2008 flood, John
is sentenced to life with apossibility of parole after 35
years.
All right, because she justborrowed the knife.
Wait from a gen.
Was she the one that had the oneknife from the gentleman?
Oh, sorry.
(31:45):
I've, I've gotten now I'vefucking too emotionally
involved.
Oh, Mercado Dipped by thebaseball Bat Mercado.
Bat Fluter John Knife.
Yep.
Borrowed Dream team folks.
Wow.
Sean's ex-wife, Susan Denny,testified about the impact of
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the murder that it made on their9-year-old daughter.
Yeah, how traumatic is that?
She met these fucking horriblepeople
Stephanie (32:18):
and they said hi to her and probably were very sweet
and cutesy.
Dani (32:23):
The girl has nightmares about being murdered and doesn't
believe having friends is safe.
Fair.
Well, yeah, dad thought that hehad some friends, me and my
friends, he thought that theywere nice enough that he
introduced them to his daughterin front of his ex-wife.
So, I mean, that's sayingsomething.
If you think someone's just likea little fling or whatever,
(32:44):
you're not gonna bring'emaround.
The ex-wife.
No.
Stephanie (32:47):
You're gonna say, these are my friends that are
also, you know, getting better.
We're all working on ourselves.
We're gonna go, we go AAtogether, we're gonna go hang
out.
Dani (32:56):
Oh my gosh, these cunts, I'm sorry, both of y'all are
cunts to meet the daughter andstill be like, yes, the$200 is
worth it.
I
Stephanie (33:05):
might even get a new raise of Verizon has a deal.
Dani (33:09):
Fuck you.
This is why I told you thisstory and 2025.
There is nothing like, there'sno appealing.
They just pled like it is whatit is.
So in 2025, Jennifer Mercado iscurrently 40 years old, residing
at the Pocatello's WomenCorrectional Center.
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She'll be eligible for parole in2052, and Diana Futter, John is
51 also.
Residing at the Pocatello WomenCorrectional Center, still kind
of roomies, just differentunits.
How lovely that they get totravel through life together.
I wonder if they still enjoyeach other's company just as
(33:51):
much.
After this many years, being ina fucking prison cell, was it
worth it for your bestie and hercell phone bill?
The thing is, I don't even thinkthey were fucking bestie stuff.
They weren't, they seem likeacquaintance, like out of
convenience.
Like you're living
Stephanie (34:08):
together like
Dani (34:09):
kind of roommates, right?
Yeah.
I always wanted to kill someone.
I work with you down.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Dope idea sis.
What?
And you know what?
They were all working there.
They knew exactly what Shawn'spaycheck was.
It wasn't like he had some likebig thousand dollars a week
(34:31):
thing.
No, he was getting paid minimumwage and$200 wasn't even a lot
back then.
I mean, of course it was more,but it wasn't like a big
windfall.
No, it wouldn't change.
He was your life.
He was making five bucks anhour, probably.
So anyways, thank you fortelling me this story, even
though it pissed me off at thesedumb.
Dipshits.
(34:52):
Once again, thank, thank youladies for showing that women
can be some of the most stupid,dumb idiots.
Callous for no reason too.
And I hope that you rot becausewhat the fuck I, when it's for
no reason like this, whetherit's a man or woman, it just
makes me like upset.
But you don't usually see itwith women of this just random.
Stephanie (35:17):
Uh, it's Wednesday.
My phone bill's due.
I've, I'm gonna kill about it.
Announce us.
Let's go.
Let's Skippy Lou down the road.
Dani (35:28):
But anyway, Danny, thank you for an infuriating story.
Wow.
Really gets the blood pumping.
I hope you guys also felt alittle bit of that.
You know, gotta get yourexcitement where you can.
Okay.
And follow us on TikTok.
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(35:49):
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All righty.
Ten four rubber ducky.
Fuck yeah.
Alright, everyone, welcome back to the Lethal Library.
I am Stephanie.
I'm Danny, and we are here againto tell you another true crime
story in Idaho.
Danny has a fresh one for usthis week.
What do we got on the plate?
Well, we have all worked withsomeone.
We couldn't stand, never.
Never.
I have literally quit a job overit.
(00:54):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It can be too much.
But one woman took it a littletoo far.
Oh, and she didn't even hatehim.
This is already getting veryjuicy.
In today's episode, we havemeth.
A baseball bat and twounexplainably strange women.
(01:14):
Okay, love a strange woman.
They're bad.
Strange, Ooh, creepy, sourcesused, today are the Idaho
Statesmen and the Times News.
Let's go on May 9th, 2007.
Some hikers.
Were taking advantage of theearly spring weather and headed
(01:34):
up.
The five mile trailhead nearBoise, Idaho At a nearby
campsite, they saw what lookedlike a man laying down.
They approached the man andquickly stepped away.
Uh oh.
Called 9 1 1.
Said he's not taking a nap.
No.
Taking a dirt nap.
Yes.
(01:55):
Sorry.
Insensitive.
That was rude of me.
That, but maybe he was really,that was rude.
He wasn't really, that waspretty fucking It was.
It was.
Sorry, guys.
Authorities arrived at thecampsite of Rocky Canyon Road
and discovered a body that hadbeen beaten and stabbed.
Ooh.
So they knew right away he'snot, yeah.
(02:16):
They walked up on that.
They're like, oh no.
This isn't a relaxing time.
This is gotta, gotta go.
Too many owies.
police were unable to locate anykind of identification on the
body, so investigators reachedout to the public for help
identifying it.
They released details about hisbody piercing, and a photo of a
(02:36):
black baseball cap with threeskulls on it.
Here we go again.
Baseball cap.
Very, it was kind of a, peoplelike those unique hats, they
like to make'em their own backthen.
Yeah, distinct.
He was later identified byfingerprints as 31-year-old Sean
Thomas Halcomb Sean was recentlyworking on turning his life
(03:00):
around.
Said the staff at River ofLife's Men Shelter, where he was
living at the time.
Sean participated in the worksearch program and was working
two jobs at the time of hisdeath.
He was on track to leave theshelter for his own place within
the next month.
Stephanie (03:19):
Damn am.
Dani (03:22):
Yeah.
A friend of Hal come's.
Jennifer Bloom said she met himat a AA meeting.
He had adopted a Buddhistattitude towards life and went
out of his way not to burdenothers with his problems.
He loved his pre-teen daughter.
Quote, one thing he told me,which I will never forget, what
(03:44):
is that?
If someone ever killed him, hedidn't want them to die for it.
Sean said, an eye for an eyemake just makes the world blind.
Hmm.
So completely new outlook onlife.
Really trying to reframeeverything it sounds like.
Yeah.
Hmm.
He made a little trouble gettinghis stuff together.
(04:06):
I mean, well, and what a greatway to look at it is that I
don't wanna be a burden,
Stephanie (04:11):
I don't wanna be the
Dani (04:11):
victim.
Right.
He was, yeah.
He was just like, my problemsare my problems and I'm gonna
take care of it, and I'm workingon it.
Wow.
A few days later on May 12th.
A man was looking through trashcans at Ann Morrison Park when
he located a bag.
Mm-hmm.
(04:32):
When he searched through thebag, he found Sean's id.
A liquor bottle.
A liquor receipt, and a brokenpart of a baseball bat.
Oh no.
This gave authorities theirfirst real lead in the case.
People are stupid.
Again, and again and again.
(04:54):
The receipt led detectives to aliquor store on State Street in
Boise where they were able toobtain video of two women that
was timestamped the same time asthe receipt.
Easy peasy.
The two women were identified asJennifer Mecado, age 22, and
Diana flatter.
John, age 33.
(05:17):
Police also locate witnessesthat saw Shawn with the two
women in downtown Boise on theWednesday before they found
Shawn's body.
They were arrested and chargedwith first degree murder right
away.
Gotcha.
You were on tape.
Yeah.
Well, and they probably thought
Stephanie (05:36):
they were so sly dumping it in some random
dumpster and someone's like,
Dani (05:40):
oh, just let, just, yeah.
Neatly in a bag.
Yeah.
Altogether.
Yeah, in one nice package, put abow on it.
Smart.
They are not authorities.
State, both Mercado and flatter.
John, were on probation at thetime of the murder.
Mercado was previously convictedfor grand theft in Canyon County
(06:02):
and possession of a controlledsubstance in 2004.
Weird drugs just dipping ourtoes into a little drug.
she was released in January,2006 on probation Fluter.
John had prior felonyconvictions that included felony
injury to a child and possessionof meth.
(06:26):
This is gonna piss you off.
This is gonna piss you off in2004.
She left her 10-year-olddaughter home alone for six days
while on a meth binge.
So disgusting.
But this is so common in like,and people never hear about it
because some of these kids, likethey can kind of fend for
(06:49):
themselves a little bit
Stephanie (06:50):
and nobody knows.
And if school's not in, or if noone checks, there's tons of
people that do this that arejust like whoopsie.
I was gone for four days.
I was gone for this many days.
There was, I think last yearthere was a huge story about a
gal that went on a vacation
Dani (07:04):
and left like a 9-year-old and two littles.
Went on a vacation.
Why?
And was like, uh, there's likesome mac and cheese and shit.
Like the house wasn't, I lookedto the checkbook kiddo.
Yeah.
It's just horrendous that it'slike, eh, that'll be all right.
I, at 10, I was waking myself upand getting myself on the bus.
(07:26):
Yeah, me too.
Uh, well you had a parent thatworked nights.
Mm-hmm.
My mom was a bartender.
Worked nights at 10.
I was getting myself up, butalso.
But also my mother was thereevery day.
Yes.
It, it wasn't just like, momhasn't been here for a week,
(07:46):
we're running out of food.
I guess I gotta go to the CircleK.
The lights got shut off.
Lights do.
I gotta go to the Circle K.
Like what do you do if theelectricity gets shut off and
you're just a kid?
Yeah.
You don't have any idea what todo.
It.
It's scary.
10 years old.
Like, can you make yourself somecereal?
Yeah.
But for several nights and daysand.
Not even really knowing what dayit is.
Like it's just terrible.
(08:08):
Don't do that to your kids.
What about laundry?
You know?
Oh no, you're the smelly kid forsure.
Futter John was released inNovember of 2005.
Fluter John's life.
Went off the rails at 29 yearsold as kind of a big age.
Yeah, this big girl age.
(08:29):
When she became a daily methuser and dealer.
Oh, not good drugs.
in a probable cause hearing,shortly after the women's
arrest, it revealed little aboutthe motive for murder.
Mecado told investigators shebought a baseball bat for 50
(08:50):
cents.
Were we at a yard sale?
I'll take it.
I don't think a, a baseball batwas not 50 cents back then.
We're not that far back.
No, no.
It's 2007 Salvation Army.
Yeah, I think, I think we wereat the thrift store or we found
a yard sale, or maybe it waspart of a crack deal.
Throw the, throwing the baseballbat.
Yeah.
50 cents.
I'll give you an extra 50 cents.
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Fluter.
John got a knife from agentleman.
A gentleman of course,
Stephanie (09:19):
an esteemed gentleman who I'm sure his apartment
smelled of rich bound leatherbooks.
And Mahogany.
Dani (09:26):
Yes.
A gentleman.
Yeah.
What crackhead was it?
Come on.
They bought some alcohol andpicked up Sean.
The trio then headed up to acampsite near the five Mile
Gulch Trailhead to party.
Sure Mercado told investigators,they all sat around the campfire
for a while footer.
(09:48):
John said eventually Jenniferstruck Sean in the back of the
head with the baseball bat.
She continued to strike him withthe wood bat until it broke.
And that's a lot.
And for, again, what was thereason?
This is a 22-year-old guy and Idon't know, like.
(10:08):
I don't think she was liftingweights, you know what I mean?
Like sometimes crack headstrength though.
They've got some endurance, youknow?
But you know what?
There was no indication in anyof my research that they were
high on drugs.
So let's see if they were thereto party.
If you're a crack head, youdon't really want to just drink.
Oh, it's not that fun.
(10:30):
You want all, you want all ofit.
All of it.
Mm-hmm.
All the party.
Mm-hmm.
Flutter.
John then stabbed Sean threetimes in the neck, quote, so he
wouldn't wake up.
Oh, that'll do it.
Mercado then took the knife andstabbed him seven more times in
(10:50):
the chest.
Not waking up.
Yeah.
We're we're going a littleoverboard here.
The bat is broken three times inthe neck, seven more times in
the chest.
This has, it's feeling verymethy.
Are they meth around?
I think they're, yeah.
The coroner said it was theblows to the head that killed
(11:13):
Sean, so he was already gone.
All of that was just weird girlsbecause beating somebody in the
head with a bat will kill them.
Stephanie (11:21):
Yeah, especially if you break the bat that that's
probably a good indicator.
Dani (11:26):
I don't care what kind of bat it is.
I know it was 50 cents.
Yeah.
Ooh, that is, that makes mehurt.
Thinking about it, someonebreaking a bat on you.
People that know Mercado andFlutter John are shocked.
They showed up to work every dayand passed regular drug and
(11:46):
alcohol screenings, functioningaddicts.
They found the secret key.
They also attended their classesand were courteous to their
probation supervisors.
Because the two were living atthe Chrysalis.
Women's transitional living.
It is a group home that helpswomen convicted of felonies
(12:07):
enter back into society.
Fantastic.
That's why they were getting thedrug tests.
They had to go to work.
They had, they had rules mm-hmm.
That they had to follow in orderto stay there.
I am sure one of those rules isdon't beat the fuck outta
someone until they're dead,while camping and partying.
Yeah.
(12:27):
I don't know.
Maybe they're lenient on thatstuff.
They're like, no drugs.
If you beat someone and you'renot high, that's fine, but if
you are high beating someone,you're out of here.
Sister, no more rooms for you.
No, but
Stephanie (12:41):
I'm, I'm sure there's
Dani (12:42):
something on the streets, something in the bylaws,
something in the, in the termsof service that are like.
Yeah.
You can't be out like murderingpeople either.
There's no murdering Yes.
In the halfway house.
Sorry about it.
Yeah.
Very strict here.
the bear had lived there forover a year when this happened,
so they got their routine down.
(13:04):
I love your just fucking, theywere shitty people and I'm like,
they were doing so good andstuff's like, no, they weren't.
Mm.
Stephanie (13:12):
If they're out randomly doing this
Dani (13:14):
shit,
Stephanie (13:15):
how good can you be doing as a person?
It is.
Dani (13:18):
I cannot wait.
Oh God.
Okay.
Maybe I'm wrong about a lot ofthis and I'm willing to say, mm,
no.
Okay, but shitty people are justshitty people.
Yeah.
Okay.
the two Mercado and Flutter Johnmet while on a rider at the
South Boise Women's CorrectionalCenter in late 2005.
(13:39):
So like, Hey, bestie.
Hey, you know, we love a goodbestie and you can crawl
yourself out of a gutter with abestie.
But yeah.
That's not how this went.
So, but you know, everybody wasso shocked'cause they were doing
so good, but there may have beena red flag or two.
Oh hmm.
(14:00):
Maybe just a few here or there.
Mercado was enrolled at BoiseState University as a psychology
major, and she had been writinga paper for her psychology class
about the mind of a serialkiller.
Stephanie (14:14):
Okay.
Dani (14:16):
Which.
I research.
Yeah.
Murders every day.
Danny could probably be writingseven papers, but she had a
podcast and she talked aboutmurders.
No, I'm not doing this.
Yeah.
Have you bought a cheap batrecently?
Danny Knife from a gentlemanborrowed a knife from a
(14:36):
gentleman.
Oh shit.
Mercado Met Sean at work, allAmerican publishing.
they worked in the call centerthere.
I remember that job.
You know this business.
Yes.
I worked at a different callcenter where other people had
come over from that place andthey said it was like a shit
show.
(14:57):
People were swearing atcustomers.
It was like a scammy.
Mm-hmm.
Like getting people to buymagazines and stuff.
Mm-hmm.
Telemarketing.
And Did they sell the, theschool calendars too?
I think they might've.
Or the sports calendars.
Yeah.
Or something like that.
They did a lot of stuff likethat, but I remember them being
like, no, you can straight upswear at customers.
Like they don't give a shit.
(15:17):
Um, and I was like, I knew youhad, knew this,
Stephanie (15:21):
knew no
Dani (15:21):
that
Stephanie (15:22):
and man that, and it's right around that time
where I worked at it, it waslike oh eight.
Yeah.
That I worked at a different oneand I heard about American
publishing or what, is that whatit is?
Dani (15:31):
Yeah.
American publishing.
Yes.
Wow.
That can't believe I rememberedthat in my brain.
I, um, had a family member thatgot outta jail that went and
worked there.
Yes.
They hired a lot of people thathad it.
It's records and stuff.
This business works.
With the state probationofficials to find job for exit.
Oh my gosh, this is crazythinking that while this was
(15:53):
happening, I was at anotherlittle trashy ass call center.
I mean, it was nothing to braghome about, but it was like, you
think we are bad?
You should hear about what goeson All American over there.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
How funny.
Yeah.
Um, I knew you'd know.
I did.
And I mean, I think it's a coolthing that they're like.
(16:13):
But they're also getting bangedfor their buck, right?
Mm-hmm.
They're probably, they're payingnext to nothing.
Right?
They can fire you for whateverreason they want.
They can call your probationofficer.
You're, when you're being a dba,yes.
You're not getting insurance andget you in lots of trouble, so.
Mm-hmm.
You know, they really had youprobably.
Yes.
Yeah.
(16:42):
Alright everyone, so we justwould like to tell you about a
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their aim is to increase theaccessibility of family oriented
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This is something that we'veworked closely with over the
(17:03):
past several years.
and Danny's gonna tell you alittle bit more about what it's
from.
They also host Kim Fest everysummer, which started as a
memorial, for Kimberly Larsonand honor those who have died in
our community due to tragedy,like domestic violence, suicide
addiction, homicide, and mentalhealth disorders.
(17:23):
So kind your mind's mission isto create an inclusive space to
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To find out more about thiswonderful nonprofit, you can
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We also are gearing up for ouryearly festival that we have
(17:47):
called Kim Fest, and there'sseveral events that we have to
raise funds for this free familyfestival.
the first one coming up is theBaca or Bikers against Child
Abuse after Ride Party.
That's gonna be May 17th atValhalla in Nampa.
Feel free to stop by there tocelebrate.
Additionally, we've got acommunity yard sale that is May
(18:08):
24th and 25th.
If you're interested in donatingespecially clothes or household
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we've also got a night atMeridian Speedway.
That's gonna be June 7th.
(18:28):
there's races going on thatnight.
It's gonna be a really greatnight to see races, great event
for the kids.
We also do a 50 50 raffle there,so that's where.
You can buy tickets for a raffleand however much money we spend,
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so the most recent MeridianSpeedway event that I went to,
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(18:52):
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So if you don't have anythinggoing on, we'd love to see you
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If you have questions, you canreach out to us or just go to
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And Instagram profiles.
That's the best way to keep upto date with these and we would
love to see you there.
Thanks guys.
(19:22):
In late May, prosecutors dropped the original murder
charges, but state, both womenwill be recharged.
We want a deal over Mulligan.
But the women are still beingheld on just probation
violations.
Yeah.
'cause they're already like, no,you done fucked up.
You can't be up.
So, you know what, we're justgonna, we're just gonna do a
(19:43):
redo.
You just sit here and wait aminute.
We've got time to get our ducksin a row.
Yeah.
You guys, we are getting lots ofducks in a row.
Maybe a goose.
You're sitting fucking righthere.
We'll be back with you shortlyor whenever we feel like it.
Bye.
but in June, the new charges arebrought against them.
Each are charged with firstdegree murder, conspiracy to
(20:04):
commit murder and robbery.
So that means planned plus theconspiracy.
What in the hell happened?
You're gonna be so mad.
I'm I, I'm already mad.
And late September Mercadopleads guilty to first degree
murder because they had her bythe fucking balls.
(20:26):
They had her by the pubic hairs.
Stephanie (20:28):
Mm-hmm.
Dani (20:31):
In a plea deal with prosecutors, she will have to
testify against footer John.
But that's not gonna happenbecause in December footer, John
also pleads guilty cons toconspiracy to commit murder.
They're both foot, they havehim.
So down they both flipped oneach other.
They're trying to, it soundslike.
Yeah, and they're just like, no,the evidence was just.
(20:55):
Hello.
First of all, they spilled theirguts to investigators.
Oh, yeah.
Trying to get the other one.
I, I believe, trying to get theother one in more trouble, like,
but they're giving him enoughinfo, right?
And they're like, no, we gotyour number.
We can see y'all on the damntape together.
Bitches got your number.
(21:16):
But it's gonna, we're going tohear some, some testimony, some
quotes.
Yeah, some.
So how do we get here and why?
Yeah.
A series of events that began inearly may show that Mercado
needed money to pay her cellphone bill.
Stephanie (21:33):
Okay?
Dani (21:34):
Her first plan was to sell meth at the halfway house where
they were living.
Stephanie (21:37):
Easy enough there.
I'm sure there's plenty ofcustomers there.
Dani (21:41):
Then she talked about possibly ripping off a drug
dealer, risky business, veryrisky.
Then she said she would just robsomeone.
Okay.
I'm really disappointed at thelack of creativity here.
I mean, this is like basic.
This is before the big likecrash.
(22:02):
Mm-hmm.
This is oh seven.
Right?
Right.
Hunky dory out there.
You're, and
Stephanie (22:09):
listen,
Dani (22:09):
there's ways to make money.
We're not using our fullpotential here.
Right.
You could literally just askpeople for money.
Yeah.
They would give it to you.
Like, well, but she just thoughtthis Mercado texted Fluter, John
on May 9th quote, I wanna roband kill someone I work with.
(22:33):
How about Sean?
He just got paid.
Pardon the fuck.
Why not just rob him?
He's a Buddhist now.
Stephanie (22:46):
Buddhism, I had to, it just came right into my
brain.
Dani (22:52):
I know.
I wanted to follow up with theother things.
Piper.
No, thank you for that.
Stephanie (23:01):
I can't believe I didn't do it earlier.
It didn't, it didn't click.
Dani (23:04):
I'm like, I want all of it.
Yes.
Piper, no.
Gonna live in.
Oh, that was fucking dumb.
I have bronchitis
Stephanie (23:14):
as well, so excuse my laugh.
Dani (23:17):
Mm.
Stephanie (23:18):
Um, but yeah.
Uh, why?
Sean?
Sean will probably be like,
Dani (23:22):
because he just got paid.
He'd probably be
Stephanie (23:24):
like, you know what, this is probably a problem I've
brought onto myself, so go aheadand have my paycheck.
Dani (23:28):
Right.
I'm just saying, bitches.
I wanna slap them.
They're so.
How did we get here?
That's what I said.
She also texted Flutter, John,that Sean lived at the shelter
and wouldn't be missed.
Okay.
(23:49):
Like you're talking about some,you live at the shelter, some
fucking stray squirrel orsomething.
Ugh.
Not gonna be missed.
After Mercado purchased thebaseball bat and flutter, John
borrowed the knife from agentleman.
(24:09):
He was a gentleman.
They went to meet Sean.
He.
He was at a restaurant where hejust finished eating pizza with
his 8-year-old daughter and hisex-wife.
Oh my gosh.
He introduced his daughter toMercado and flutter John before
he left with them.
Stephanie (24:28):
I am going to explode out of my skin.
Dani (24:34):
They are fucking assholes.
How do you get here of beinglike, I can't pay my cell phone
bill.
I have free room and board at mylocation.
But my cell phone and I've beenwanting to kill someone about
it.
I've been doing some researchon, so color this, need the
Courtney Kardashian voice,
Stephanie (24:54):
Hey, hey, you got some organic beer.
Let's go get Sean and Murder androb him.
Come, come.
I fucking love that.
That's exactly like, how didthis come to be?
How did, and.
For one person to say it becausemaybe they've got some fucking
(25:15):
weird shit going and they'vejust always, well, screw us.
Danny, if you texted me this,you're like, you know what?
My car payment's a little late.
I, I'd like to kill
Dani (25:24):
someone from work.
Are you down?
I'd be like, uh, ma'am.
Yeah, I'm down.
Get into my car.
We're going to, Intermountain iswhere we're going.
I'm getting you committed.
Immediate
Stephanie (25:38):
because
Dani (25:39):
yeah, get him a car.
Stephanie (25:40):
And especially like with no plan, I'd be like, no,
there's seriously somethingwrong.
If Danny has no plan, like
Dani (25:45):
we'll get a back some beer.
Easy peasy.
Let's go.
No, we, we.
That would be a big red flag.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Red flag or two, if there's notan Excel spreadsheet or like a
to-do list with several pages.
I know something's fuckingwrong.
I surely, uh, well, I probablywould bargain by a bat.
(26:07):
I'm, I'd be smarter than that.
Like I would buy the bat theyear before a yard sale.
Mm-hmm.
And nobody would even know.
Never, no trace of the bat.
And I surely wouldn't tellinvestigators that I bought a
baseball bat when they found ahalf of a baseball bat.
Right.
I'm sure it covered in blood.
I didn't read that, but I'm sureit had broken, uh, with the,
with the dead man's id.
(26:29):
Wonderful ladies, I truly amflabbergasted, baffled.
Just are you flabbergasted?
Incredibly gassed and I.
If there's anyone I'd want totalk to, it'd be these two to be
like, what the fuck were youthinking?
Okay.
Pardon me?
What the fuck?
Literally the fuck Judge Bellsaid he was struck by mercado's.
(26:52):
Lack of remorse after themurderer.
Yeah.
No shit.
Mercado sent a text message to afriend saying quote, why don't.
Want another crazy part?
I don't even feel bad.
Oh, it was a rush.
Oh, you fucking weirdos.
What?
How did we get here?
(27:12):
And another text message betweenRicardo and Fluter John.
Flutter.
John, ask Mercado quote, do youthink you can be forgiven if you
feel no remorse?
Stephanie (27:24):
Wow.
Really deep questions wereconcerning ourselves with.
Dani (27:28):
Why are you fucking, it's fucking 2007.
There's technology.
Yeah.
This isn't 85, bro.
they killed Sean for$267 that hereceived after getting paid
earlier that day.
You fucking loser ass dweebs.
What the fuck?
Like this is Oh man.
(27:53):
You wanna just murder someonerandomly because you need to pay
your cell phone bill when all ofyour other needs are met.
Right now you're not a murderer.
Like you have some felonies forsome drugs and also being a shit
parent, which fuck you, but.
This is like what a disgrace is.
(28:14):
All I, you're struggling withunderstanding.
This is why I, even though,because normally it was a
struggle for me to research thisand, and it's a little bit of a
shorter case because they bothended up pleading out, but I was
like, this is absolutely fuckingridiculous.
Yeah, this is one of thestupidest, and we
Stephanie (28:34):
don't even have anything like we've had with
other cases where it's like,well,
Dani (28:37):
actually they are missing half their brain because they
shot the, you know, they wereshot in the head.
We've had two of those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's two people where they'relike, yeah, good chunk of their
brain's missing where I'm like.
Sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
What the fuck?
What is happening here?
And they were passing all oftheir drug.
I'm not saying you can'tmanipulate that, and they
couldn't figure it out.
But they had their livestogether enough to do it.
(28:58):
Were they were smart enough tomanipulate it.
What the fuck?
So we're in 2008.
on January 22nd, 2008, judgeDebra Bell sentenced Mercado to
life in prison with thepossibility of parole in 45
years.
That's a long time'cause she was22.
(29:20):
Good.
During the sentencing hearing,Mercado said quote, Sean didn't
deserve to die.
Die.
If it means giving up the restof my life, I would do it.
I feel like that was just, thatwas something that you saw on a
fucking Hallmark card orsomething you heard on another
like movie.
Fine.
I'll say something.
Wish I could take it back.
(29:42):
Wish it was me, not him.
To just so callously do that.
It's just wild for anyone,especially a woman.
And Shawn's family wasunimpressed with her statements,
her tears and her sentence andhe said,
Stephanie (29:57):
yeah, anyway.
Fuck this.
They
Dani (29:57):
wanted, they wanted the death penalty.
I bet they did.
But you know, Idaho struggleswith that.
So, um, and I really feel like Iwas, so it was because they were
a woman that they did not getlife without parole, at least.
Right.
I really truly believe that.
(30:19):
there was nothing in the paperthat, suggested, you know.
Mitigating circumstances, like,oh, I was beat, or, oh no, they
were just fucking, they wanted$267 and you know what?
They probably spent at least$10at the liquor store.
So, yeah.
I mean, you had some cash.
Yeah.
(30:39):
And they didn't have rent,electricity, water, sewer,
trash.
Did they even have a car?
Did they have a car?
Pa Like even that like.
Yeah, this is for a cell phonebill.
Cell phones weren't even superpop.
Like they were kind of withyounger people, but there was
almost everyone still had ahouse phone.
Yep.
Around that time, I would say.
(31:00):
Yep.
It was still very common.
Payphones were still everywhere.
Yep.
It wasn't like a dire thing,like now when you don't have a
house phone or you might need itfor your job or whatever, you
are not using your phone foryour job in oh seven.
You had a, if you were fancy,you had a fucking pink razor and
you were the shit.
I had a red one.
Yep.
Thank you.
So yeah, these fucking girls,I'm so just disgusted and
(31:24):
disappointed of what the hell,in February of 2008 flood, John
is sentenced to life with apossibility of parole after 35
years.
All right, because she justborrowed the knife.
Wait from a gen.
Was she the one that had the oneknife from the gentleman?
Oh, sorry.
(31:45):
I've, I've gotten now I'vefucking too emotionally
involved.
Oh, Mercado Dipped by thebaseball Bat Mercado.
Bat Fluter John Knife.
Yep.
Borrowed Dream team folks.
Wow.
Sean's ex-wife, Susan Denny,testified about the impact of
(32:08):
the murder that it made on their9-year-old daughter.
Yeah, how traumatic is that?
She met these fucking horriblepeople
Stephanie (32:18):
and they said hi to her and probably were very sweet
and cutesy.
Dani (32:23):
The girl has nightmares about being murdered and doesn't
believe having friends is safe.
Fair.
Well, yeah, dad thought that hehad some friends, me and my
friends, he thought that theywere nice enough that he
introduced them to his daughterin front of his ex-wife.
So, I mean, that's sayingsomething.
If you think someone's just likea little fling or whatever,
(32:44):
you're not gonna bring'emaround.
The ex-wife.
No.
Stephanie (32:47):
You're gonna say, these are my friends that are
also, you know, getting better.
We're all working on ourselves.
We're gonna go, we go AAtogether, we're gonna go hang
out.
Dani (32:56):
Oh my gosh, these cunts, I'm sorry, both of y'all are
cunts to meet the daughter andstill be like, yes, the$200 is
worth it.
I
Stephanie (33:05):
might even get a new raise of Verizon has a deal.
Dani (33:09):
Fuck you.
This is why I told you thisstory and 2025.
There is nothing like, there'sno appealing.
They just pled like it is whatit is.
So in 2025, Jennifer Mercado iscurrently 40 years old, residing
at the Pocatello's WomenCorrectional Center.
(33:29):
She'll be eligible for parole in2052, and Diana Futter, John is
51 also.
Residing at the Pocatello WomenCorrectional Center, still kind
of roomies, just differentunits.
How lovely that they get totravel through life together.
I wonder if they still enjoyeach other's company just as
(33:51):
much.
After this many years, being ina fucking prison cell, was it
worth it for your bestie and hercell phone bill?
The thing is, I don't even thinkthey were fucking bestie stuff.
They weren't, they seem likeacquaintance, like out of
convenience.
Like you're living
Stephanie (34:08):
together like
Dani (34:09):
kind of roommates, right?
Yeah.
I always wanted to kill someone.
I work with you down.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Dope idea sis.
What?
And you know what?
They were all working there.
They knew exactly what Shawn'spaycheck was.
It wasn't like he had some likebig thousand dollars a week
(34:31):
thing.
No, he was getting paid minimumwage and$200 wasn't even a lot
back then.
I mean, of course it was more,but it wasn't like a big
windfall.
No, it wouldn't change.
He was your life.
He was making five bucks anhour, probably.
So anyways, thank you fortelling me this story, even
though it pissed me off at thesedumb.
Dipshits.
(34:52):
Once again, thank, thank youladies for showing that women
can be some of the most stupid,dumb idiots.
Callous for no reason too.
And I hope that you rot becausewhat the fuck I, when it's for
no reason like this, whetherit's a man or woman, it just
makes me like upset.
But you don't usually see itwith women of this just random.
Stephanie (35:17):
Uh, it's Wednesday.
My phone bill's due.
I've, I'm gonna kill about it.
Announce us.
Let's go.
Let's Skippy Lou down the road.
Dani (35:28):
But anyway, Danny, thank you for an infuriating story.
Wow.
Really gets the blood pumping.
I hope you guys also felt alittle bit of that.
You know, gotta get yourexcitement where you can.
Okay.
And follow us on TikTok.
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we'll have some more for you.
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(35:49):
We're available just aboutanywhere to listen and email us
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All righty.
Ten four rubber ducky.
Fuck yeah.
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