October 1, 2025 • 63 mins
In this gripping episode of 'Lethal Library,' Dani and Stephanie dive into the chaotic life of Bruce Marchant - a criminal who just couldn’t stay out of trouble. From arson and armed robbery to shootouts with police, Marchant's life was a train wreck you can't look away from. Tragically, it culminated in the 2016 murder of 18-year-old Boise State University student Sierra Bush. The hosts explore the multiple failures in the justice system, Marchant’s erratic behavior, and the devastating impact on Sierra's family and community, all while sprinkling in their trademark dark humor and wit. A must-listen for true crime fans.
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Dani (00:00):
I fan girl over Halloween.
It's your thing.
but anyways, I got it.
And then she got me the skullthing.
We love.
Have you, do you have a name forhim?
The skeleton or the, he needs abetter name.
I know he's called Scully on theapp.
Scully's nice.
Huh?
I'll, I'll think about it.
Okay.
I can rename him on the app.
Let us know if you guys have.
(00:21):
Suggestions.
That's, anyways, he's sitting inmy garage just for no reason.
What is he eight feet?
Uh, he's just six and a half.
Oh.
He seems much larger.
I know.
What would you name a over sixfoot skeleton.
The talks badass.
Yeah.
(00:41):
Alright, Denny.
Let's get into it.
What do we got?
Mm-hmm.
A man whose life was a trainwreck of crime, violence, and
destruction, Bruce a Marchant.
He started in the early eightiesby burning down his own mobile
home in Nebraska.
From there, it was a steadydescent armed robbery in
(01:03):
Georgia.
Shootouts with Idaho deputies,years of prison stints filled
with violence, and even asuspicious inmate death that was
never prosecuted.
The drama already.
But the darkest chapter came in2016 when 18-year-old Boise
State freshman Sierra Bushvanished.
(01:24):
Her body was later discovered inthe mountains near Idaho City.
The man responsible.
The same Bruce Marchant who hadspent decades bouncing between
parole boards, prison cells, andpolice standoffs.
This is a story of a man whoseemed destined to destroy
everything around him and ayoung woman whose life ended far
(01:44):
too soon.
Sources used today are articlesfrom My Favorite Bitch, the
Idaho Statesman.
Love Her, daily News, theLincoln Star and Coeur d'Alene
Press.
Okay, already this is full ofscandal and ridiculousness, so I
(02:07):
am really intrigued already tosee what's in store.
(02:43):
All right everyone.
Welcome back to the LethalLibrary.
We are a True Crime podcastfocusing on cases in the Pacific
Northwest and especially Idaho.
Danny has clearly anotheramazing story for us today.
I have not heard of this one.
Hope that it's new for you too.
But we are always open to seeingyour thoughts, so reach out and
(03:06):
Danny.
Let's get into it.
Let's go.
This is gonna span, we'restarting in 1982.
Stephanie (03:16):
Oh, wow.
Dani (03:18):
So, and it's gonna span till 2016.
Stephanie (03:23):
No shit.
Dani (03:24):
Yeah.
This is, A little ala Robin Rowesque, type of a story where,
you know, I was trying to, whenI was trying to think about the
layout of the story, and I'mlike, we're just gonna start at
the beginning and go to the endbecause the buildup Yeah, I'm,
it sounds like things escalateand it's crazy to think because
like with Creech and Robin Rowe,that these were people operating
(03:50):
in the same timeframes.
Doing all these crazy things.
So to put it into context withother cases that we've done is
crazy to me.
Yeah.
You got away with mad shit backin the day.
Uh, yeah.
Not no more.
Come on, Marchant.
What you got In January, 1982,Bruce a Marchant 26, was charged
(04:12):
with first degree arson inNebraska.
Prosecutors claimed he threw ablanket over a kerosene heater
during a fight with his wife.
Oh my
Stephanie (04:21):
God.
Dani (04:21):
arson investigator Michael Hoch said Marchant had thrown a
blanket over the heater in theliving room.
The mobile home valued at$9,000was a complete loss.
Stephanie (04:34):
Those things go up like a box of matches.
The older ones.
Dani (04:38):
Yeah.
Marin's wife, Sandra tolddetectives.
That he forced her and theirthree children, ages six, three,
and one to stay in the home forsome time, but March and denied
the claim saying he woke thechildren to get them out safely.
Stephanie (05:00):
I don't know about this because I can totally
picture a psychopath type man.
I trying to family annihilator.
And why,
Dani (05:10):
why would she make that up?
Yeah.
he admitted he had set themobile home on fire trying to
kill himself, but quote,chickened out.
Stephanie (05:19):
It's a weird way to kill yourself, especially with
your family inside, especially,yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Most people that are trulysuffering and wanting to end it
don't want anything bad tohappen to those around them, to
their
Dani (05:30):
loved ones.
Stephanie (05:32):
This is a very different scenario.
Dani (05:35):
In April, Sandra filed for divorce.
Stephanie (05:39):
Go girl,
Dani (05:40):
get out.
Do it lady.
Bye.
Yes.
It's so
Stephanie (05:44):
hard to do.
There's so many obstacles.
Dani (05:48):
Well, and three small children.
Oh, but, oh, you're a fuckertrying to kill me and my
children.
Yeah.
That's how I would be like,they're my kids Now if he,
Stephanie (05:59):
if he didn't really try to do that, I don't see why
someone would.
Leave so abruptly and be like,absolutely the fuck not.
Yeah.
If it was truly an accident, noone's gonna be like, get the, I
gotta get the hell outta here.
Yeah, no, she, this sounds likeshe was fearful.
Dani (06:17):
Marchant was convicted of third degree arson and sentenced
to 90 days in jail and fiveyears probation,
Stephanie (06:25):
third degree arson.
That is incredible.
'cause I feel like, oh.
Oh, I know that it would beharder to prove or whatever, but
that is attempted murder timesfour.
Three kids and your wife.
Yeah.
And you get, oh my gosh.
(06:47):
It's just ridiculous
Dani (06:48):
baby sentence.
That's what it was.
Stephanie (06:50):
That's not even a slap on the wrist.
That's a slight breeze acrossyour neck when you didn't want
it.
Yeah.
Like what the fuck?
Dani (06:57):
Well, he's a bad dude.
Yeah.
So, I will let you know how badof a duty is.
Here we go.
A year later, in 1983, he wasconvicted of armed robbery in
Georgia and sentenced to 10years in prison.
So I will say this about, Itried to find more information
(07:17):
on this one.
One place I read.
That it was in Texas, that hewas convicted.
I even went to my pacer accounttrying to find, any information
on, mm-hmm.
On federal crimes because heeither robbed,'cause he did get
convicted of a federal crime.
He either robbed a post officeor he robbed.
(07:39):
A bank.
Stephanie (07:40):
Damn.
Dani (07:41):
He did something of that nature.
And you're gonna see it later onin the story because I was, but
I tried to hunt this down, butit
Stephanie (07:47):
was for sure a federal crime.
It was either of those, or,yeah, because he ends
Dani (07:50):
up spending time in federal prison for this
conviction.
and then he's in and out.
It's kind of messy.
So I included that because you,you know.
Armed robbery is a big dealanyway, but then you're gonna
see him jumping in and out fromstate prison to, federal prison.
You're gonna be like, what thehell?
So I searched, I tried, I wenteverywhere.
(08:12):
I couldn't find any articles onit.
that gave me great detail.
I got some of this informationfrom some parole hearings that
he had later on in life, so Isee.
Stephanie (08:23):
But if you know.
Shoot us an email.
Please comment on our Facebook.
Dani (08:28):
We'll give an update.
Stephanie (08:29):
We'll give you a shout out if you like, or if you
don't wanna shout out, we don'thave to do that.
But if you know, we'd love tohear.
Dani (08:38):
By 1986, Marchant was in a Seattle jail where he met Victor
Wright.
Both were released on December1st, 1986.
Stephanie (08:48):
Twinning,
Dani (08:49):
Marchant had been held on a failure to appear for reckless
driving and right for pettytheft.
Marchant would later say he wasa derelict and a drunk living on
the streets of Seattle when hebecame friends with Wright.
Stephanie (09:03):
Very transparent, very honest.
Dani (09:06):
And listen, you are gonna hear some more stuff in here,
but I'm telling you, Wright waslike, oh dude, you have a car.
let's be friends because marmerchant did have a heart a
Stephanie (09:17):
hundred percent.
Dani (09:18):
I think that's kind of, I mean, not that march and sitting
fucking thing to write homeabout, but he did have a
vehicle,
Stephanie (09:24):
a friend with a car.
When you have no car and you'rea derelict homeless,
Dani (09:28):
let's go
Stephanie (09:29):
living in luxury baby
Dani (09:30):
best buddies, it's a
Stephanie (09:32):
vehicle, it's a home.
It's your new bestie who you'retwinning with on your release
date.
It's like you're being borntogether back into the world.
What a treat.
Dani (09:45):
On December 5th, 1986, Marchant and Wright came to
Northern Idaho.
Wright wanted to join the whitesupremacist Aryan Nations
movement.
Class Act.
They were going to meet ReverendRichard Butler, the head of the
Aryan Nations church.
Did not know they had a church.
Stephanie (10:07):
A church quotations heavily.
He
Dani (10:09):
racist.
Son of a bitch.
Marchant later said he didn'tknow that that was rights
intention and had not come toIdaho to join the racist group.
He was just kind of a long, he'sjust following his buddy's
directions.
I
Stephanie (10:24):
believe that you guys are.
Jailbird Rebirth Twins at thispoint.
And you, that's a little bit ofa long drive.
It never came up.
Not even once.
Yeah.
Dani (10:35):
Seattle too.
Yeah, it's, it's not Spokane.
Yeah, it's Seattle,
Stephanie (10:38):
not the Spokane.
Dani (10:44):
So the pair came over and stopped into the Hayden Inn.
And had a few drinks where theymet Robert Parks and Randy
Corden.
What is up with these peoplejust casually hooking up in
bars.
We did another episode wherethey're like, they became
besties, like, yeah, let's go.
Like what?
Stephanie (11:04):
And listen.
I think most women willunderstand, like besties for the
night and every once in a while,girls in the bathroom, the best.
The girls in the bathroom aregoing to make sure you're not
texting your Fs.
They're gonna fix your makeup,they're gonna hold your hair
while you puke.
They're gonna call you an Uber,they're going to sing songs with
you.
They're gonna do all that.
Yes, besties for the night.
(11:25):
Maybe every once in a while itturns into like a true bestie.
I don't know, I'm a hermit.
Maybe some of y'all that are thesocial butterflies always meet
besties in the bathroom.
But yes, they, we've had manycases where it's like
Dani (11:37):
they went to the bar and drank and then, and then they
Stephanie (11:39):
didn't stop talking to each other for like six
months.
What's, what's that?
Dani (11:45):
So they went in with the drinks and met Robert Parks and
Randy Cordon, Marchant andCordon Convinced Parks to go
show them the ary nation'slocation north of Hayden.
Corden was just some dude thathe met in the bar that afternoon
and he is like, Hey, yeah, let'sgo see where it's at.
Stephanie (12:06):
Hey, where's the Klan meeting though?
And
Dani (12:08):
also mind you just remember, Marchant want nothing
to do with the Aryan Nations
Stephanie (12:15):
marchant, or no?
It was, yeah, Marchant
Dani (12:17):
said he didn't, that wasn't his gig.
It was Wright's gig.
Stephanie (12:21):
Oh, right.
Dani (12:22):
Okay.
But you know where Wright stayedright in the bar?
Stephanie (12:26):
I thought this was your deal, dude.
Dani (12:27):
Right?
He didn't give a shit.
Yeah, he stayed back.
Marchant who did not come toIdaho to join the ary nations,
met some other dude and thethree men got in the car
together.
But instead of following partsand parks instructions, Marchant
drove out to a logging road.
How does this even, fuck?
(12:48):
I'm just wait stuff.
I don't even know how thisfucking happens.
Drinking, drinking.
You're meeting a stranger, goingto the ary nations, but then you
stop on a logging road and guesswhat?
Drinking.
They threatened parks with a 12gauge shotgun and ordered him to
get out of the car.
Stephanie (13:05):
What the hell happened?
Dani (13:08):
Drinking,
Stephanie (13:09):
drugging.
I love that TikTok.
You guys have to go see Tammy dothe judge duty drugging.
Dani (13:17):
Oh,
Stephanie (13:19):
I love that.
Dani (13:21):
But when parks attempted to walk away, Marchant fired
shots at him.
The fuck?
Yeah.
He's like, no, no, no, no.
We're serious.
Parks was told to lie down onhis stomach and was robbed of
about$250.
Marette told him he would killhim if he told the police.
Stephanie (13:39):
Ooh.
Dani (13:40):
But after the robbery, they brought parks back to the
tavern,
Stephanie (13:45):
you know.
Wow.
Dani (13:47):
Where he called the
Stephanie (13:48):
police.
Chivalry isn't dead at thispoint.
It really isn't dead.
They brought him back.
They gave him a ride back.
How sweet
Dani (13:55):
This is where March didn't.
Wright hooked back up and theywent to a next door business,
the Foxy n ooh, Foxy.
Where marching got into anargument with the manager Bob
Spur.
While the men were arguing,Wright went to the car and
retrieved the shotgun.
(14:16):
Not again.
He's just wielding firearms
Stephanie (14:20):
brandishing.
Oh.
Dani (14:22):
when Wright walked back into the business, a couple of
women got up to leave and Wrightasked if there were any more
women who would like to leave.
Shivery.
My
Stephanie (14:33):
gosh, what a gentleman.
I know.
Dani (14:37):
just about that time to Ney County Sheriff's deputies
arrived on the scene becauseremember the other guy that got
robbed?
Yeah, he, he got ahold of, hecalled'em.
well, March hit and Wright leftthe tavern.
There's a police car followingthem.
Stephanie (14:53):
Okay, good.
Dani (14:54):
This quickly turned into a police chase and they chased the
two into a cul-de-sac in aresidential area.
Stephanie (15:02):
Uh oh.
Dani (15:04):
This is like a movie.
Okay.
Marchant turned his car to facethe police done, done, and
Wright got outta the car and waslike, yo, you got me?
So he staggered towards theofficers and surrendered ENT
refused officer's order tosurrender.
(15:27):
The police even let Wright goback to the vehicle to try to
talk marcha into putting downthe gun.
Stephanie (15:33):
Talk some sense into your buddy, your prison Twinsie.
Dani (15:37):
Who does?
Who does that?
Stephanie (15:39):
Cops that don't want it.
They're like, if you could do ithere.
Yeah.
We'll, we'll wait here if you,we'll
Dani (15:45):
let you go.
We'll let we
Stephanie (15:45):
trust you, man.
He doesn't really like us.
Dani (15:50):
Next thing you know, Martin and Wright were wrestling
on the ground with the gun.
Stephanie (15:56):
Wonderful.
Dani (15:56):
And Ryan finally escaped and fled back towards the
police.
He said
Stephanie (16:00):
hell to the, no, it's turning into WE out here.
He just tried to gimme a piledriver with a shotgun,
Dani (16:09):
and the whole time Marin's threatening to shoot his new
best Buddy Wright,
Stephanie (16:13):
you guys are twins.
Dani (16:15):
And that's when Mart got out of the car with a shotgun
and fired a shot at the police.
You
Stephanie (16:21):
can't do that.
Dani (16:23):
But during all this chaos with the fighting over the gun
and rolling around on theground, other officers, because
of the cul-de-sac, hadpositioned themselves behind
marching, tucked in with sometrees.
Stephanie (16:36):
Oh, they, they went full swap mode.
Yeah,
Dani (16:38):
he was, he was, you were surrounded.
He was really surrounded.
Stephanie (16:42):
Truly surrounded.
Dani (16:43):
And when Marchant caught that, he turned around and
pointed the shotgun at thoseofficers.
And that's when they fired.
Oh shit.
Marchant was shot three times.
When he fell to the ground.
A small dog jumped out of thecar and began licking his face.
Stephanie (17:05):
Is this a Hallmark movie or a cop episode?
What
Dani (17:09):
the dog doing?
What
Stephanie (17:12):
now?
Upcoming Hallmark moviesponsored by cops.
That boys.
What you Well, I can just hearit now.
Where did the dog come from?
I don't know, but the dog waslike, dad, uh, I wish he was,
are you injured?
All this shit.
You all right?
Dani (17:28):
Well, they got him good 'cause they, he was shot three
times.
Paramedics took march it to thehospital.
While in the hospital, this guyMarchant joked quote, can you
find enough electricity for thischair referring to his hospital
bed?
And he was making all kinds ofoff color comments like that're,
Stephanie (17:48):
you're literally, if you're in the hospital instead
of jail right now or dead,you're in like a fivestar
resort.
Like ask for the pain meds andthe good hospital food, whatever
the best meal on their menu youcan find.
'cause this ain't gonna lastlong.
Dani (18:04):
He had surgery for gunshot wounds to the chest, face and
hand.
Stephanie (18:10):
Yeah.
'cause they are not shooting tomaim if you shoot at them.
I can't believe a firearmgetting
Dani (18:15):
shot three times and you're breathing.
Wright was held on twomisdemeanor charges.
One for displaying a dangerousweapon and the other for
resisting arrest.
Listen, was it really resistingarrest when they let him go to
try to confiscate the gun fromhis buddy?
And I feel like he wascooperating fully at that point.
Stephanie (18:36):
No, I think so too.
It was marchant,
Dani (18:38):
he was driving, it was his car.
Stephanie (18:40):
And I've seen a TikTok recently of someone with
that had a dash cam that doessomething and ends up in a high
speed chase and there is afriend in this front seat that
is like, bro.
You're gonna kill us, please.
And he's like trying to try tograb the wheel a little bit, but
the guy's very calm andbasically like, fuck everything.
almost like he's on a suicidemission.
But the friend is like, pleasestop bro.
(19:02):
and they're going way too fastfor him to get out.
So I cannot imagine being inthat type of situation.
And I don't think, if you can'tprove that they were encouraging
it or whatever, a passengershouldn't be.
Because some of these dudes doit with their wives and stuff.
They get in high police, highspeed police chases, and their
wife is like, please get me thefuck outta here.
Dani (19:24):
yeah.
I just feel, I mean, he did,
Stephanie (19:27):
he tried to help them.
That should count for something.
It
Dani (19:29):
should count for.
I mean, it should
Stephanie (19:30):
cancel out.
Pendo, you, maybe you resistedarrest, we don't know, but then
you encouraged arrest.
Cancel out.
Dani (19:37):
Cancel pendas.
Stephanie (19:39):
It's science.
Dani (19:41):
Science bitch.
A Cordon 29 was charged witharmed robbery.
Remember his new best buddy?
Mm-hmm.
His other new best friend.
He received that charge while hewas already in jail for
burglarizing a Hayden business.
Twice.
He was charged with two countsof second degree burglary and
two counts of grand theft forthat conduct.
(20:05):
So he, from what I gather, he, Ithink he either stole from his
current place of employment orpossibly post employment.
Yeah, that happens a lot.
'cause, it was a, it was thesame business, so I'm not quite
sure.
So they'd already arrested himon that and then they figured
out he was the guy that was withMarchant taking the guy.
(20:27):
Out taking parks out to thelogging road.
Yeah.
to steal 250 bucks.
Stupid.
So anyways, so he was already injail.
Not a hard find, lot
Stephanie (20:36):
of burgling, burgling all over the place.
I love that word.
Dani (20:42):
Corden's parents posted a $7,500 bond for his release.
Damn,
Stephanie (20:46):
that's a lot back then.
Yeah, that's a lot now.
Dani (20:48):
It's a lot now.
he was released on May 13th,1987.
The next day, Cordan died in acar accident when he failed to
negotiate a curve on Highway 41near Rath.
The car flipped five times andCordon was e ejected.
Stephanie (21:06):
That's an insane crash.
And failed to negotiate a curve.
That's a, I'd say that's aeuphemism.
That means I'm picturing likethe same thing that happened at
NNU.
We've mentioned this severaltimes.
Guys look up the article ofsomeone literally not slowing
down for a curve, probably goinga hundred miles an hour and
(21:27):
jumping a house and going inthrough the roof of another.
This is what I'm picturing Yeah.
Of failing to negotiate a curb.
Dani (21:36):
And there is some background there.
I think that he might've hadeither some drinking or
substance issues.
Drinking or drugging.
Yeah.
Oh.
and so, you know, just gettingoutta jail, he might've been
like, it's my time to shine.
Let's go get this.
There.
I, I don't know.
I didn't find anything else.
Stephanie (21:52):
Yeah.
Maybe you feel invincible.
Listen, I was yelling.
Maybe he was angry, pissed.
I driven too fast in a carbefore.
Mm-hmm.
Myself.
I'm I, but just
Dani (22:02):
one day.
One day.
Stephanie (22:04):
One day later, gone.
That's crazy.
Dani (22:08):
Marant pled guilty to armed robbery and assaulting a
police officer.
Stephanie (22:13):
Well, you did.
Dani (22:15):
In June at age 31, he was sentenced to two 20 year
indeterminate sentences to runconcurrently.
He said he shot at the feet ofpolice officers to intentionally
draw fire, hoping they wouldkill him.
Stephanie (22:29):
Suicide by cop,
Dani (22:31):
maybe.
I don't think so.
March.
It was released in 1992.
I don't even know how thishappens.
in 1994, he violated parole andwent to federal prison.
In 1996, and then in 1999 he wasback in the Idaho Department of
(22:58):
Corrections custody.
So that's why I had to includethat little part about
Stephanie (23:02):
mm-hmm.
Dani (23:03):
A post office or he robbed something federal.
It was
Stephanie (23:06):
very serious.
Dani (23:07):
Uh, and then he is flip flopping and violating parole
and going here and there.
Anyway, I couldn't, I wanted to,I looked.
When he committed the Idahocrimes in 1986, federal
prosecutors charged him with hisparole violations.
Therefore, when he was releasedfrom prison in 1992, he was sent
(23:27):
to a, a federal prison inCalifornia.
Stephanie (23:31):
Mm.
Dani (23:32):
Four years later, the Idaho Parole Board received
reports that Marchant had been adisciplinary problem since he
arrived at the federal prison.
He refused to accept a move fromspecial housing unit to general
Pop.
Stephanie (23:45):
Mm-hmm.
Dani (23:46):
Refused to get up and work, and he refused an order to
go to his room during quiethours, telling an officer that
he wanted to be sent tosegregate, segregation unit
where he could be waited on adiva.
Di it down.
Marchant was up for parole inFebruary, 1996, but due to all
(24:07):
of this behavior, he was notreleased until April of 1999.
He was then returned to custodyof the Idaho Department of
Correction on parole violations.
No, those years are also filledwith disciplinary problems.
Look, they're like, no, not
Stephanie (24:25):
him.
Dani (24:28):
Oh my God.
So he's just like in and out,like parole viol.
Okay.
Send him here.
Another parole violation.
Federal parole violation.
Idaho, you're fucked.
Oh, he is a disciplinaryproblem.
We see you.
Come here.
Come here.
Stephanie (24:41):
Yeah.
Certified menace.
Dani (24:44):
Absolutely.
In 2000 March and cellmateJoseph Edmund Chastain, age 38,
said he had fallen on prisonstairs on July 2nd, 2000.
He died the next day in amedical prison cell.
(25:05):
He had suspicious bruises in hisabdominal area that were
inconsistent with a fall and anautopsy said he died from
abdominal bleeding.
Stephanie (25:16):
Oh, shit.
Dani (25:17):
Yeah.
Chestain had recently beensentenced to 20 years to life
for a Canyon County robbery.
Marchant admitted to authoritiesthat they had had a fight and
he, that he had probably killedthem.
Stephanie (25:31):
Oh.
Dani (25:33):
A disciplinary report indicated that Marchant told a
correction officer that he hadkilled Chastain, but no charges
were ever filed.
Ada County Sheriff Patrick, orsaid it appears the prosecutor
reviewed the investigation anddecided in October of 2001 not
to file any criminal chargesagainst Martian.
Stephanie (25:55):
That's a shame.
It's a
Dani (25:57):
fucking, he
Stephanie (25:58):
admitted
Dani (25:58):
that
Stephanie (25:59):
I probably, whatever I did, bro, I killed him.
Hello.
Open and
Dani (26:04):
shut and learn.
I also think it's kind of theattitude of the system.
I mean, you know, this guy was aconvicted robbers.
Since we're making up wordstoday, he's fucking
Stephanie (26:21):
robbers.
Dani (26:24):
Anyways, he had been convicted, whatever, that poor
guy, because if you look atMarin's history, I would not put
it past him at all.
Stephanie (26:36):
And he basically, he said,
Dani (26:38):
I, I probably did it
Stephanie (26:40):
because I was
Dani (26:41):
fighting him.
And then that guy being newly toprison was like the
Stephanie (26:47):
oldest, the oldest excuse in the book fell down the
stairs.
Yeah.
Dani (26:54):
Oh right,
Stephanie (26:55):
okay.
But
Dani (26:56):
marching's shit continued when he was up for probation in
2003, the board declined torelease him early, noting quote,
his history is serious and thecommission considers him high
risk.
Shocker, no shit.
Yeah.
but he was finally released onSeptember 26th, 2008, after
completing a sentence oh eight.
(27:17):
So five years later.
Okay.
But I mean, he's been in since86.
Stephanie (27:22):
Right?
So, and every time he's out.
He is frolicking in crime, justabsolutely doing a triple axle
on the crime.
Yeah.
And
Dani (27:34):
he, he, he doesn't stop.
He has a few good clean gears,maybe, I don't know where he
wasn't caught.
Mm-hmm.
So we're not 2014, he hasmanaged to keep his nose clean
for eight years.
Impressive.
I doubt for him.
For him.
I doubt it.
(27:54):
I I just think this is onlyluck.
I think he was in and out oftrouble with parole, but they
couldn't
Stephanie (28:03):
pin it on him.
No.
Because he seems like he'sgallivanting in.
He's
Dani (28:07):
manipulative.
Stephanie (28:08):
Yeah.
Dani (28:09):
in 2014, two roommates of Marchant,
Stephanie (28:13):
oh God said
Dani (28:14):
he had physically assaulted both of them at an
Orchard Street house.
And I want you to get an idea ofwhat this house is.
It's not quite a halfway house,but it's someplace for people.
maybe, down on their luck.
Yeah.
mental illness, people gettingout of, there's assistance.
Addiction, right.
There's a place where you can gorent a room.
Stephanie (28:36):
You gotta learn to share though.
And that's very tough forsomeone like Margie.
Dani (28:41):
Well, One of the roommates said he had a nasty disposition.
Stephanie (28:46):
Nasty.
Dani (28:48):
Ms.
Jackson, quote, if he doesn'tget his way, he will get
violent.
We've seen it.
Marchant was accused of hittingthem in two, in October of 2014.
Which resulted in a misdemeanorbattery case.
According to court records,Marchant did intentionally and
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unlawfully touch or strike thewomen, but the charges were
later dropped due to a nenegotiated deal.
One of the women said, Marchantgroped her.
And when she said No, walkedaway, he punched her twice in
the back.
Stephanie (29:26):
What a fucking loser.
I'm so, oh my, I'm so disgusted.
she just gimme a second punpunched in the back.
What?
A toddler response to notgetting your I'M horny needs
met.
Go away you fucking
Dani (29:47):
dweeb.
Another roommate, Tara Hall,said Marchant slammed him
against a wall with noprovocation whatsoever.
Stephanie (29:56):
We're just slamming.
It's w He's literally living theWE life.
Yeah.
And back then, I think it wasWWE F still, but
Dani (30:05):
no, he just like, oh, I don't like you.
I'm gonna get physical.
It's just the people's elbow.
He said Marchant often talkedabout sexual things and was rude
to women.
Shocker.
Wow.
Terrell said Marchant wasevicted from the house on
Orchard Street after the 2014battery case.
Stephanie (30:25):
Thank God for those people having to live with his
psychopath ass.
Dani (30:31):
In February, 2016.
Marchant's psychosocialrehabilitation worker contacted
police.
She said Marchant was sexuallyaggressive toward her.
The behavioral health workertold police she was just eating
lunch at the Maple Grove house.
Another house like the OrchardHouse.
Stephanie (30:49):
Mm-hmm.
Dani (30:49):
When Marchant threw her food over the couch.
And when she went to Bend overto pick it up, he made sexually
suggestive and degradingcomments to her.
Marchant, then grabbed her shirtand tried to reveal her breasts.
What?
Even though she had repeatedlyworn Marant about the
inappropriateness anddisrespectful of these types of
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comments, he did not care.
Stephanie (31:14):
And listen up.
I know as women, we all have athousand stories.
That bear that are in a similarvein to this, but this is, so
Dani (31:24):
this was her job?
Yes.
She's a professional.
Exactly.
You're not getting cat
Stephanie (31:29):
called on the street.
Most men are much sneakier aboutit.
Mm-hmm.
If they're, you know, that theycould explain it away as an
accident where this is justabsolute toddler behavior.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And unbelievable.
Like, and that's what.
Oh, I, I'm just flab.
And she
Dani (31:49):
is a professional.
She understands how to deal withthis type of aggressiveness.
Mm-hmm.
And it's not, yeah.
Stephanie (31:56):
And so if it was that shocking to her, yeah.
It was.
If it was too much
Dani (31:59):
for her, it was too much.
Like she probably
Stephanie (32:04):
had her pa like, you know, you, it was shocking to
her.
Yeah.
Is what it sounds like.
And that's saying a lot, dealingwith these type of behaviors
constantly.
Dani (32:15):
Well, he would say things like.
Are you wearing a bra and othersuggestive comments?
But you were an
Stephanie (32:20):
11-year-old boy.
Yeah.
Dani (32:22):
Oh my gosh.
Another worker had quit workingwith Marchant after only three
weeks due to his behavior.
And these guys are professionaland listen up, even
Stephanie (32:34):
I can be professional if you're listening to this and
you know me in a work setting.
No you don't.
but you know, we're allprofessional.
this is.
Eons beyond what you wouldexpect to encounter.
Dani (32:52):
We're gonna get serious.
Stephanie (32:54):
Oh God.
Dani (32:56):
On September 27th, 2016, Mary Helen Green received a text
from her ex-husband, Phil Bush.
It said, quote, when you have achance, gimme a call.
I have not seen Sierra sinceSunday morning.
Sierra Green had last been seena few days earlier on September
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24th, near her family home atMaple Grove and Goddard in
Boise.
Stephanie (33:22):
Okay.
Dani (33:22):
She was supposed to meet up with friends on Sunday
evening around five o'clock atthe Boise State Albertsons
Library to discuss creating anart club for students who were
not art majors.
Genius.
I love that.
Stephanie (33:36):
Yeah.
Dani (33:36):
The group showed up to the library, but Sierra never came,
and they texted her.
But they got no response, whichwas outta character for Sierra
Boise.
Police began investigating thecase as a missing person.
Mary and her husband Bart Green,suspected Sierra had been
abducted Sierra's car was stillparked outside her house.
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Mary was sick with worry abouther only daughter's
disappearance.
Stephanie (34:05):
And we hear this over and over again and I know
there's rules for when peopleare adults and I don't know how
you would, she was pushedputting guidelines.
18.
Yes.
And I know it's technically anadult, but even people that are
35, 45, like, you know, if youhad called and texted me and I
had viewed it and not gottenback to you, you know, I can be
(34:28):
a little flaky sometimes, but Iwould never disappear for a week
at a time from you.
Dani (34:33):
Or two or three days from your parents?
Like Yes.
Or your partner.
Like when, you know, some there,there's people that know, you
know, I just wish that therewas, and I do see a little bit
of attitude changing, but it'slike I know that if my partner
mm-hmm.
Did not come home from work Yes.
(34:55):
And did not respond to my textwithin four or five hours I
would be.
Panicking because that's not,'cause you
Stephanie (35:03):
already tried to, oh, maybe there's this May.
Maybe he's stuck on a job.
You
Dani (35:08):
Right.
Stephanie (35:09):
And that's, I wish that there was like a box that
police could check of.
This is a person that fuckingknows.
Because I feel like in this, inthe cases where it's a very
flighty person that goes toCosta Rica because we've had the
goes interna, travelsinternationally without telling
people I don't know how to putthat into a form or to a, if A
(35:34):
plus B equals C.
But if there's someone that'slike, no, this person would
always answer my text if theywere on their deathbed.
Dani (35:43):
Right?
Stephanie (35:45):
So you just know something's fucking wrong.
And you know, the first 48hours, what?
I mean, how many re we're notasking for the choppers and the
infrared and the this and that.
Like can you just start, startit?
Dani (36:02):
Can you, can you get the phone company to ping her phone?
Stephanie (36:05):
Yeah.
Can you get some records saying,can we start somewhere saying
she's texting somebody or she'spurchasing and she might
Dani (36:12):
not wanna talk to me and I don't know why, but That's fine.
Just get ahold of her.
Stephanie (36:17):
Is she alive?
Yeah.
So sorry to take that on asidetrack, but.
It's so fr'cause there's so manycases that you like, God, what,
what if you know,
Dani (36:29):
well, Sierra Bush, she was 18 and was a first year Boise
State University student.
Oh my God.
And she's very smart.
She had entered her freshmanyear with 12 college credits
earned in high school.
Get it sis, let's go.
some of some people knew her asSimon.
I think she was, I love that.
(36:49):
Gender fluid.
one friend Evan Obe, quotedSierra, he said, quote, if I can
be as weird as I am, be as you,as you are.
Oh, I love that.
she had volunteered, she wasalso a volunteer at the Idaho
Humane Society for a couple ofyears, primarily working in the
(37:12):
cattery.
Stephanie (37:14):
What a sweetheart.
Yeah.
Dani (37:17):
And that just goes back to like she was thinking about
creating a club for people whoweren't art stu, art majors.
And she's like, let's get morepeople into art, even if they
aren't art majors.
you know, she was very involved.
Stephanie (37:29):
Well, and having that,'cause it can be very
siloed in college where like,this is my major, I can't focus
on anything else.
But that's so, people are somultifaceted in so many talents
that.
Why not?
Even if it's for your ownhobbies.
Mm-hmm.
And I think that that's bredinto a lot of people of our
generations is you've gotta makemoney on your hobby.
(37:52):
No, you can do your hobby ifyou're fucking terrible at it
and have fun if it brings youjoy.
If you're a terrible cook andyou wanna cook meals that aren't
good, if you garden and killhalf things, if you paint and it
looks like a toddler did it, butyou had fun doing it,
Dani (38:08):
do it.
Stephanie (38:09):
You don't have to turn it into a side hustle, like
fuck that shit.
So that's, I golf
Dani (38:14):
and I pay a lot of money to golf and I suck.
So, but I enjoy doing it.
Stephanie (38:19):
And that's the
Dani (38:20):
point.
I mean, that's a simple example
Stephanie (38:23):
that, and listen, I pay a lot of money to ride along
on a golf cart and spectate asif I am like a professional golf
commentator.
Dani (38:32):
Love that.
That would be a fun TikTok.
She lived with her mother andstepfather until about a month
after she graduated from highschool and then she went to live
with her father Phil Bush, inhis brand new duplex.
Her stepfather Bart Green, aMeridian attorney, said quote,
she has never exhibited anysigns of mental health problem.
(38:55):
She's never to our knowledgeengaged in any risky behavior or
shown any propensity to runaway.
She has never shown any signs ofsuicidal ideation or depression.
She has always been a verytimid, introverted, very
studious individual.
Stephanie (39:13):
So an extreme worry.
They've, they've crossed off allof stuff.
They're like, no, like, she'snot on drugs.
She's not a suicidal per Yeah.
Dani (39:21):
She's not depressed.
She's a little bit more quiet,but she's still involved in, in
things.
I mean,
Stephanie (39:28):
and she responds to people.
Dani (39:29):
Yeah.
On October 23rd, Sierra's NakedBody was found in Boise County,
south of Idaho City near MorrisCreek.
Police did not initially say shewas murdered, but called her
death suspicious.
Mm.
Look, I'm a little pissed offwith this investigation because
(39:51):
they started off with notwanting and there's a little bit
more down here.
Just call it what it is.
Yes.
She was abducted, like theparents said.
I think she was abducted insteadof that.
She's a missing person.
We can't save like.
Because her mother and herstepfather were convinced she
(40:12):
was murdered.
Yeah.
the Boise Police Departmentworked with the Boise County
Sheriff's Office with the BoiseCity Police taking the lead.
Sierra's Autopsy was performedin Ada County and investigators
said it would be several weeksbefore they received any test
results.
The police conducted nearly 200interviews while investigating
(40:34):
Sierra's.
Death now.
I guess now that they found her.
Yeah, they can say she wasabducted and murdered.
It just kind of, during theresearch it just kind of
irritated me how they were sostand.
Look,
Stephanie (40:50):
people need to know and they might, that might cause
someone that's like, oh, someonedied, like someone was murdered.
Not just an accidental death.
They might say.
I, when I saw her at this point,or when I saw someone else with
her, or even,
Dani (41:06):
even at the point where they just, she was missing,
there was clues that she hadbeen abducted and you're, or a
Stephanie (41:12):
business might remember and be like, oh, it's a
let me save those camera files.
Right.
Dani (41:19):
No, it was just, I didn't like how they came out and just
said she's a missing person, andthat happens a lot.
Missing persons.
Look, I'm gonna talk about itlater, but when you find a
substantial amount of blood insomebody's bedroom, they're
probably not just a missingperson.
Yeah.
So that's what fucking irritatedme.
They didn't
Stephanie (41:37):
Oh, accidentally cut themselves.
And coincidentally, they wereplanning on running away without
telling anyone.
how rare would that be?
Dani (41:44):
Stop.
In early December, authoritiesissued a warrant for Bruce Allen
Marchant for the murder, rape,and kidnapping of Sierra.
Oh shit.
Marchant was arrested in NewYork City on December 8th, New
York City, big for Big for aTater guy.
(42:04):
Wow.
Detectives learned he was in aNew York City VA hospital and
flew out to arrest him.
Marchant had checked himself infour days earlier.
Bart Green.
Stepdad told Idaho Statesmanthat he and his wife did not
know merchant.
He thanked countless lawenforcement officers in the
(42:25):
investigation, including thosein Boise, Wisconsin, and New
York, as well as the US MarshalService and the FBI.
Damn.
So as much shit as I talkedabout, I just, the Boise police,
I feel like didn't handle this.
Correctly from the get go.
But also, can I talk a littlebit more about Sierra?
Yeah.
Just really quick.
the cute thing, at her thathappened.
(42:48):
So she was in the cattery.
she wore bow ties all the time.
So, after she was found, as amemorial to her, they did, kind
of a benefit thing out of theHumane society.
And a lot of the cats werewearing bow ties.
Stephanie (43:06):
Oh my gosh.
She
Dani (43:07):
had a huge, vigil at, Boise State University too.
the whole, the, the communityreally came together.
It was, she was just a sweetperson.
so I just had to say that, andthat's
Stephanie (43:20):
one of those things I feel like a lot of people don't
realize what big, how large ofan impact.
That you make on people that,you know, people remember how
you make them feel.
Yeah.
Dani (43:37):
And, and she did because people were, there were so many
comments about her and just
Stephanie (43:45):
she, and she seems kind of like she, she was
probably a more reserved person,not like a big, no social
butterfly, but she made ameaning and lasting impact and
absolutely.
So many people don't realizethat and it's easy to get, you
know, ev look at the worldaround us.
It's easy to not be happy aboutshit.
(44:05):
Right.
Like
Dani (44:06):
she was and I, and yeah, she
Stephanie (44:10):
was, it sounds like she was full of hope and forging
her her way.
She was getting shit done.
Yeah.
12
Dani (44:15):
credits already going into college.
A
Stephanie (44:17):
fucking shame.
Dani (44:18):
All of this and, and also not just doing schoolwork.
But also creating clubs andvolunteering.
So
Stephanie (44:27):
caring about her community and people around her
and trying to make thingsbetter.
Dani (44:31):
and if you're a cat girly, you know?
Mm-hmm.
volunteering and being able tobe around cat.
I personally am not a cat girly,but there I know cat girlies or
cat guys and they're all abouttheir kitty cats.
So I was
Stephanie (44:44):
very anti catt.
I am pro cat now.
Not, we don't have a cat rightnow, but we had a cat that
changed our minds and I'm like,you know what?
These cats are kind of fuckingcool.
I
Dani (44:58):
maybe could, but Jared's allergic, so I don't even
entertain.
It's not in the
Stephanie (45:02):
cards for you.
No,
Dani (45:03):
but
Stephanie (45:03):
it might be for me and we'll see.
Dani (45:06):
And Harry's kinda like a cat.
Stephanie (45:07):
He really is
Dani (45:09):
so fucking high maintenance.
He's fluid.
He is.
So for him, oh, he is so highmaintenance.
Stephanie (45:14):
Okay.
His pronouns are cat dog.
Dani (45:16):
Oh, love it.
God.
He's such a dick.
He is.
neighbors from the cul-de-sacwhere?
Sierra's Duplex Sierra's.
And her dad's duplex waslocated, said they remembered
Marchant.
one neighbor, Justin Griggs,recalled Marchant as being very
quiet and he said he kept tohimself quote, he definitely
wasn't all there.
(45:37):
Mm-hmm.
I don't know if it was formental illness or drugs.
Another neighbor said that shethought the home was a halfway
house talking about whereMarchant lived.
Okay.
She said Marchant was friendly,but wondered if he was disabled
or mentally ill.
Phil Bush, Sierra's father wasknown to help people.
He meant through AlcoholicsAnonymous or Narcotics
(45:59):
Anonymous.
after merchant's arrest, theBoise County Coroner's Office
released his determination thatSierra's death was a homicide as
far as the manner of death.
They said it was a type ofasphyxiation, but would not
specify details.
Mm.
So merchants arrested in NewYork, and of course, he did not
(46:22):
waive extradition.
He would have a court date inNew York in February, 2017.
I have a fun fact.
Let's hear it.
Do you know, in order to beextradited, the act must be
considered a crime in both therequesting and requested
(46:43):
jurisdictions?
Stephanie (46:45):
I didn't know that, but it makes sense because what
if you like.
Marijuana and the state whereyou're at is like, we don't
think that's bad.
Like you want us to, we're not,you want us to put our resources
'cause it.
There's travel officers.
(47:06):
Mm-hmm.
And so they're like, why wouldwe be hauling someone off when
we don't think it's a crime?
That, I never thought about thatin detail.
Sorry.
If y'all heard me just crackingmy knuckles.
I know.
A SMR.
Maybe you liked it, let us know.
Dani (47:24):
I dunno.
I didn't, I mean, I know.
I just looked into it a littlebit.
I wanna dig deep intoextradition, which can I just
tell you, I cannot spell thatword to save my life?
'cause I wanna spell it adifferent way.
Every time I wrote that down, Ityped it, think off or spell
(47:44):
that.
It was underline red.
Every time can
Stephanie (47:46):
I tell, recommend I know how it's spelled.
I can't type it out correctlybecause it doesn't look right
the way that it's right.
And I will auto correct andright click and spell check
every time.
Yeah.
Recommend why.
I, I spell w way morecomplicated words than that.
(48:06):
There's so many more that I, Icannot fucking do recommend and
I have to use it a lot.
Dani (48:13):
Uh, yeah.
You know what I meant?
You know what I meant?
You should just have autocorrectlike they do on your text.
Well, come on, Microsoft, getwith it.
So
Stephanie (48:21):
sometimes that's even worse.
So who knows what it would'veput in there.
I don't know.
Dani (48:27):
On February 3rd, 2017, Marchant appeared in a New York
City courtroom for hisextradition hearing.
He did not return to Idaho afterthat hearing because a warrant
releasing Marchant to 80 countyauthorities, which needed to be
signed by Governor Andrew Cuomohad not been filed by the court
Stephanie (48:49):
fucking Cuomo, as if we needed another reason.
As if we needed another that wasjust for you,
Dani (48:57):
sis.
Stephanie (48:59):
I'm not gonna forget that.
Dani (49:01):
March and sixth court date was set for March, in a hearing
on March 24th.
Judge Larry East.
Stephan Steven is spelt with apH.
Who knows?
Larry Stephan P.
Good old.
It's good old lair.
Good old lair.
Denied a writ of habeas corpusfiled by Marchant, challenging
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his deten detention.
The judge signed the papersordering merchant's extradition,
and asked Idaho to pick him upon April 6th.
So in order for this extraditionto happen.
Stephanie (49:35):
A lot of boxes gotta be checked, is what I'm saying.
Yeah.
The
Dani (49:37):
governors have to both sign this is, which I'm, so they
have to do a pinky promisePretty much.
They have to kiss
Stephanie (49:44):
it.
Yeah.
Dani (49:45):
I would just think this would be handled more by like,
police author, some, I
Stephanie (49:50):
know you gotta get,
Dani (49:51):
or an attorney general, something like that.
No, we gotta get the big dogsout and apparently the big dogs
were too busy to be signing somepaperwork.
Stephanie (50:00):
They have to do a, like a hand clapping, Yes.
Bubble gum.
Bubble gum in a dish.
How many pieces do you wish theyhave to do?
A whole, all of that.
It's in the law books, folks.
Look it up.
Dani (50:14):
That was, that was fucking great.
A tip to police identifiedmarching as a potential suspect
soon after Sierra'sdisappearance.
Mm, then came the Kowski crash.
A report filed with the IdahoTransportation Department
suggested that merchant ran offa curve on US 12 and ended up in
(50:35):
an embankment,
Stephanie (50:37):
those fucking curbs.
Dani (50:40):
an Idaho County sheriff's deputy who responded to the
crash found no signs thatMarchan tried to break after
leaving the road.
Stephanie (50:49):
So you were Tokyo drifting.
Dani (50:51):
March's Ford was towed and the deputy gave him a ride into
town, something.
Their eye, they already had his,their eye on him.
Mm-hmm.
Somehow, some way, that's why, Idon't know the tip word was out.
but his Ford held crucialevidence in the case, and that's
(51:13):
why.
To a norm, it would look like acar accident.
Yeah.
They already had his number.
They're
Stephanie (51:18):
like, no, we're not letting you go on nothing.
Bitch.
Dani (51:23):
When detectives spoke with Marchant, he admitted they asked
him and he admitted he knew whoSierra was, but he said he had
no personal relationship withher.
Mm.
He also said that she had neverbeen in his vehicle at any time
for any reason, and he gave aDNA sample to the police.
Stephanie (51:43):
And I feel like Maury right now, I'm just gonna go
ahead and spoil it.
We've got the DNA results in.
Mm-hmm.
And they confirmed that was alie.
You are the suspect.
Dani (51:56):
Yeah.
so somehow Marchin purchased,purchased another vehicle and
headed east, and how hepurchased another vehicle is
that he just applied for loansand loans and loans and loans
and loans.
They're like,
Stephanie (52:10):
can I give you a 75% interest rate?
He's like, sure, sure,
Dani (52:13):
let's go.
he did get a little VA money.
He was, as one does retired fromthe Navy, from Vietnam.
So it wasn't a whole lot ofmoney.
Stephanie (52:23):
It's, it's a ni, it's enough to keep it going.
Dani (52:26):
it's enough to apparently buy a car.
It's probably buy or pay here.
33% interest is what he got.
Combs car grill.
he left town while the Texaswere waiting for the test
results.
Mm-hmm.
Sierra's Blood was found in thewebbing of a glove that was in
the vehicle.
Brett Row, DNA from Marchant andSierra.
(52:47):
Oh yeah,
Stephanie (52:49):
yeah, yeah.
Yep.
Dani (52:50):
Marchant drove as far as his gas money would take him,
which was well Milwaukee.
He spent several weeks at a VAhospital there and then drove to
New York.
Stephanie (53:01):
That's crazy to me 'cause he would think that.
They'd have a VA hos, I don'tknow.
I wouldn't wanna be goinganywhere where I have to give my
real name.
Dani (53:12):
Yeah.
But the VA's just checking youin.
Like,
Stephanie (53:14):
I want a see motel where I can say my name's like
Joe Namath and no one is.
They're like, sure Joe Namath.
Dani (53:24):
Oh, well.
And what do we do while awaitingtrial?
Stephanie (53:26):
What?
Dani (53:27):
We write a letter to the local newspaper.
Oh,
Stephanie (53:30):
I thought he was gonna burle something else.
Yeah, I I was like, bankrobbery.
Let's hear it.
No, he's like,
Dani (53:35):
let me talk about it.
let's get the press involved.
And a letter to the Idahostatesman.
March.
Marchant conceded that he wouldprobably be in prison for the
rest of his life, but that wasnot his biggest concern.
He wrote to say how difficult ithad been to vote in the last
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presidential election inNovember of 2016.
This poor guy
Stephanie (54:00):
recount, recount those fucking votes.
He knows
Dani (54:04):
around that time he was in the VA in Milwaukee, March and
said, quote.
There were 30 of us in there andwe were not allowed to vote.
Nuh, he claimed most all of uswould've voted for Democrat.
Hillary Clinton Marchant toldthe paper, I think this needs
(54:25):
looking into the Idaho statesmandid look into it.
they reached out to Ada County'schief election official.
Phil McGrain said he couldn'tfind a record of Marchant being
registered to vote in Idaho, gota
Stephanie (54:40):
register, bruh,
Dani (54:42):
and he wouldn't be eligible to vote in Wisconsin
because he wasn't a residentthere.
But if he had been registered inIdaho, it would've been his
responsibility to ask for anabsentee ballot.
Mm-hmm.
Case closed.
Check, check.
Stephanie (55:01):
He's like, listen up folks.
There's a fucking conspiracy.
Mm-hmm.
I know that some girl might havebeen murdered, but here's the
real issue.
The
Dani (55:10):
real problem is, let
Stephanie (55:12):
me tell you what's wrong with our country.
It was just, sir, you are anabsolute fucking menace.
Thank you to society.
And he's like, I'm doing thisfor our country.
Take a nap.
Sir.
We've heard, we've heard enough.
Dani (55:35):
on September 5th.
Marchant pled guilty to firstdegree murder in a plea deal
with prosecutors.
The rape and kidnapping chargeswere dropped.
That happens in the plea deal.
He got the big one.
when Marchant was asked byfourth district Judge Jonathan
mea, whether he committed firstdegree murder, he replied,
quote, yes, sir, your Honor.
(55:57):
The judge asked him why he pledguilty, and Marchant said that
if the case went to trial, thecourt would have no choice but
to give him the maximum penaltyand quote, I want to plead
guilty because that's whathappened.
Okay.
Judge Medina wanted to make surethat Marchant understood the
consequences of pleading guilty,especially after Marchant
claimed that he would receive ahundred thousand dollars a year
(56:19):
while in prison, and that he hadinvented the Toyota Prius.
Stephanie (56:27):
Also, ever heard of a Tesla?
I made it.
Ever heard of sliced bread?
That was me.
March ditch motherfucker.
I'm, I'm so sorry.
I'm so, what else?
What else could he, electricity
Dani (56:48):
who was flying a kite with a key on it?
Stephanie (56:51):
I was,
Dani (56:52):
uh, when the judge pressed marching again, which good for
the judge, right?
Yes.
He's like,
Stephanie (56:56):
thank you, judge, for being like, when the judge
pressed
Dani (56:58):
marching again, asking if he understood what was going on
in the court hearing, Marchantreplied that he was not sleeping
well, and that is why he seemedconfused.
Then Marchant said, quote, Ichoked Sierra Bush with my hands
until she died.
Marchant's sentencing hearingwas on December 6th.
(57:19):
Mary Hillen told the courtquote, I miss her smile, her
laugh, and talking to her abouteverything.
They were very close, judge.
Yeah, judge Mea said quote, inmy view, Mr.
Marchant is a dangerous person.
Mr.
Marchant has been dangerous fora long time, thank
Stephanie (57:38):
you,
Dani (57:38):
and will continue to be dangerous until the day he dies.
Marchant was sentenced to lifein prison without the
possibility of parole.
So how, how did Marchant knowSierra
Stephanie (57:54):
Exact, how did they encounter each other?
Dani (57:58):
Marchant had been renting a home from Phil Bush, Sierra's
dad, Phil, this is what's so,ugh, Phil, because he was
helping, he was into helpingpeople that needed help.
Uh, oh my God.
Phil evicted him from theproperty due to misconduct.
We all know wish everyone whoever encountered this
(58:18):
motherfucker reported neighborsaid Phil had gone out of his
way to help Marchant and othersstruggling with mental health
and addiction issues.
After kicking Marchant out, Phileven agreed to loan him cash,
but Marchant never came to getthe money.
On the morning of September25th, Marchant showed up at Phil
(58:42):
and Sierra's house.
Phil was at church.
Although authorities didn't knowwhether Marchant came that hou
to the house that day to pick upcash or to get revenge for being
evicted, they said that therewas evidence that he had
previously peeped in Sierra'swindows.
Marchant broke into the housethat morning and raped and
(59:03):
killed Sierra.
There was a large amount ofblood found on various surfaces
in her bedroom.
Stephanie (59:11):
Absolutely fucking terrible.
Dani (59:14):
as of 2025, merchant is 69 years old and in custody at the
Idaho Maxim SecurityInstitution.
Bruce March's Life was ablueprint for chaos, arson,
armed robbery shootouts withdeputies.
Endless parole violations and atrail of violence that prison
(59:34):
walls couldn't contain.
In the end, it all led to themurder of Sierra Bush, an
18-year-old, with her whole lifeahead of her,
Stephanie (59:43):
and I'm so sorry I, I know that this is one case, but
I'm so fucking sick of hearingthis again and again and again
of either someone that's.
Dancing on the lines of beingjailed or not, and different
loopholes and this and that,allow people to act.
(01:00:08):
And, I mean, this wasacquaintances and therapists and
pe Other people are this guy'sout
Dani (01:00:15):
of control.
Like, and I feel like evenadvocating, like, you know, I
look at some of these storiesthat I researched mm-hmm.
And the mental illness is athing.
Sure.
Like, and I feel.
Terrible.
if you are mentally ill andhave, but it's, if you're not
taking your medication andyou're a danger to society,
there has to be an alternative.
(01:00:37):
Mm-hmm.
So that other people do not get
Stephanie (01:00:42):
hurt there.
The protections for people thatare being harassed and stalked
and.
let's say if she knew that hewas peeking in her window for
months or years, or he was evengoing into their house and they
couldn't really prove it.
There's so many stalking caseswhere until you're physically
harmed.
Dani (01:01:02):
Mm-hmm.
Stephanie (01:01:04):
Too bad.
And also essentially, and thelaw enforcement doesn't want to
say that, but legally that'smm-hmm.
That's what they can say.
And so for this.
Dani (01:01:14):
And I, mental illness is a real issue, but it should not be
excuse.
Stephanie (01:01:18):
And so, no, like, just like you said, it's not an
excuse.
So,
Dani (01:01:24):
and very sad.
I mean, there was, there wassome funny incidents in the
beginning, yes.
With ridiculous choices.
but in the end, I mean, and hewas an old man.
Look at how
Stephanie (01:01:34):
it, look at how it fucking ended up.
Dani (01:01:37):
He was 61 years old and he did this.
Stephanie (01:01:40):
What a fucking loser.
I'm sorry.
Dani (01:01:42):
Right.
Stephanie (01:01:44):
Retire, bro.
And
Dani (01:01:46):
she, and she was just, she was this tiny little thing and
he's, he's a big guy,
Stephanie (01:01:51):
but in making a positive impact, what a fucking
shame.
Fuck you, bro.
Rocked.
And he is, is all I have to say.
Dani (01:02:00):
And he is.
Stephanie (01:02:01):
And.
Absolutely.
Fuck you.
Thank you for telling the storyand doing that much research
because what a shit show.
This was, this spanned like adecade and a half, two decades.
Dani (01:02:17):
Uh, let's see, we started in, uh, 82.
Yeah, up in 2016.
We're,
Stephanie (01:02:24):
we're in the decades, and so this is, I know how much
time it takes.
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Uh, he's just six and a half.
Oh.
He seems much larger.
I know.
What would you name a over sixfoot skeleton.
The talks badass.
Yeah.
(00:41):
Alright, Denny.
Let's get into it.
What do we got?
Mm-hmm.
A man whose life was a trainwreck of crime, violence, and
destruction, Bruce a Marchant.
He started in the early eightiesby burning down his own mobile
home in Nebraska.
From there, it was a steadydescent armed robbery in
(01:03):
Georgia.
Shootouts with Idaho deputies,years of prison stints filled
with violence, and even asuspicious inmate death that was
never prosecuted.
The drama already.
But the darkest chapter came in2016 when 18-year-old Boise
State freshman Sierra Bushvanished.
(01:24):
Her body was later discovered inthe mountains near Idaho City.
The man responsible.
The same Bruce Marchant who hadspent decades bouncing between
parole boards, prison cells, andpolice standoffs.
This is a story of a man whoseemed destined to destroy
everything around him and ayoung woman whose life ended far
(01:44):
too soon.
Sources used today are articlesfrom My Favorite Bitch, the
Idaho Statesman.
Love Her, daily News, theLincoln Star and Coeur d'Alene
Press.
Okay, already this is full ofscandal and ridiculousness, so I
(02:07):
am really intrigued already tosee what's in store.
(02:43):
All right everyone.
Welcome back to the LethalLibrary.
We are a True Crime podcastfocusing on cases in the Pacific
Northwest and especially Idaho.
Danny has clearly anotheramazing story for us today.
I have not heard of this one.
Hope that it's new for you too.
But we are always open to seeingyour thoughts, so reach out and
(03:06):
Danny.
Let's get into it.
Let's go.
This is gonna span, we'restarting in 1982.
Stephanie (03:16):
Oh, wow.
Dani (03:18):
So, and it's gonna span till 2016.
Stephanie (03:23):
No shit.
Dani (03:24):
Yeah.
This is, A little ala Robin Rowesque, type of a story where,
you know, I was trying to, whenI was trying to think about the
layout of the story, and I'mlike, we're just gonna start at
the beginning and go to the endbecause the buildup Yeah, I'm,
it sounds like things escalateand it's crazy to think because
like with Creech and Robin Rowe,that these were people operating
(03:50):
in the same timeframes.
Doing all these crazy things.
So to put it into context withother cases that we've done is
crazy to me.
Yeah.
You got away with mad shit backin the day.
Uh, yeah.
Not no more.
Come on, Marchant.
What you got In January, 1982,Bruce a Marchant 26, was charged
(04:12):
with first degree arson inNebraska.
Prosecutors claimed he threw ablanket over a kerosene heater
during a fight with his wife.
Oh my
Stephanie (04:21):
God.
Dani (04:21):
arson investigator Michael Hoch said Marchant had thrown a
blanket over the heater in theliving room.
The mobile home valued at$9,000was a complete loss.
Stephanie (04:34):
Those things go up like a box of matches.
The older ones.
Dani (04:38):
Yeah.
Marin's wife, Sandra tolddetectives.
That he forced her and theirthree children, ages six, three,
and one to stay in the home forsome time, but March and denied
the claim saying he woke thechildren to get them out safely.
Stephanie (05:00):
I don't know about this because I can totally
picture a psychopath type man.
I trying to family annihilator.
And why,
Dani (05:10):
why would she make that up?
Yeah.
he admitted he had set themobile home on fire trying to
kill himself, but quote,chickened out.
Stephanie (05:19):
It's a weird way to kill yourself, especially with
your family inside, especially,yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Most people that are trulysuffering and wanting to end it
don't want anything bad tohappen to those around them, to
their
Dani (05:30):
loved ones.
Stephanie (05:32):
This is a very different scenario.
Dani (05:35):
In April, Sandra filed for divorce.
Stephanie (05:39):
Go girl,
Dani (05:40):
get out.
Do it lady.
Bye.
Yes.
It's so
Stephanie (05:44):
hard to do.
There's so many obstacles.
Dani (05:48):
Well, and three small children.
Oh, but, oh, you're a fuckertrying to kill me and my
children.
Yeah.
That's how I would be like,they're my kids Now if he,
Stephanie (05:59):
if he didn't really try to do that, I don't see why
someone would.
Leave so abruptly and be like,absolutely the fuck not.
Yeah.
If it was truly an accident, noone's gonna be like, get the, I
gotta get the hell outta here.
Yeah, no, she, this sounds likeshe was fearful.
Dani (06:17):
Marchant was convicted of third degree arson and sentenced
to 90 days in jail and fiveyears probation,
Stephanie (06:25):
third degree arson.
That is incredible.
'cause I feel like, oh.
Oh, I know that it would beharder to prove or whatever, but
that is attempted murder timesfour.
Three kids and your wife.
Yeah.
And you get, oh my gosh.
(06:47):
It's just ridiculous
Dani (06:48):
baby sentence.
That's what it was.
Stephanie (06:50):
That's not even a slap on the wrist.
That's a slight breeze acrossyour neck when you didn't want
it.
Yeah.
Like what the fuck?
Dani (06:57):
Well, he's a bad dude.
Yeah.
So, I will let you know how badof a duty is.
Here we go.
A year later, in 1983, he wasconvicted of armed robbery in
Georgia and sentenced to 10years in prison.
So I will say this about, Itried to find more information
(07:17):
on this one.
One place I read.
That it was in Texas, that hewas convicted.
I even went to my pacer accounttrying to find, any information
on, mm-hmm.
On federal crimes because heeither robbed,'cause he did get
convicted of a federal crime.
He either robbed a post officeor he robbed.
(07:39):
A bank.
Stephanie (07:40):
Damn.
Dani (07:41):
He did something of that nature.
And you're gonna see it later onin the story because I was, but
I tried to hunt this down, butit
Stephanie (07:47):
was for sure a federal crime.
It was either of those, or,yeah, because he ends
Dani (07:50):
up spending time in federal prison for this
conviction.
and then he's in and out.
It's kind of messy.
So I included that because you,you know.
Armed robbery is a big dealanyway, but then you're gonna
see him jumping in and out fromstate prison to, federal prison.
You're gonna be like, what thehell?
So I searched, I tried, I wenteverywhere.
(08:12):
I couldn't find any articles onit.
that gave me great detail.
I got some of this informationfrom some parole hearings that
he had later on in life, so Isee.
Stephanie (08:23):
But if you know.
Shoot us an email.
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Dani (08:28):
We'll give an update.
Stephanie (08:29):
We'll give you a shout out if you like, or if you
don't wanna shout out, we don'thave to do that.
But if you know, we'd love tohear.
Dani (08:38):
By 1986, Marchant was in a Seattle jail where he met Victor
Wright.
Both were released on December1st, 1986.
Stephanie (08:48):
Twinning,
Dani (08:49):
Marchant had been held on a failure to appear for reckless
driving and right for pettytheft.
Marchant would later say he wasa derelict and a drunk living on
the streets of Seattle when hebecame friends with Wright.
Stephanie (09:03):
Very transparent, very honest.
Dani (09:06):
And listen, you are gonna hear some more stuff in here,
but I'm telling you, Wright waslike, oh dude, you have a car.
let's be friends because marmerchant did have a heart a
Stephanie (09:17):
hundred percent.
Dani (09:18):
I think that's kind of, I mean, not that march and sitting
fucking thing to write homeabout, but he did have a
vehicle,
Stephanie (09:24):
a friend with a car.
When you have no car and you'rea derelict homeless,
Dani (09:28):
let's go
Stephanie (09:29):
living in luxury baby
Dani (09:30):
best buddies, it's a
Stephanie (09:32):
vehicle, it's a home.
It's your new bestie who you'retwinning with on your release
date.
It's like you're being borntogether back into the world.
What a treat.
Dani (09:45):
On December 5th, 1986, Marchant and Wright came to
Northern Idaho.
Wright wanted to join the whitesupremacist Aryan Nations
movement.
Class Act.
They were going to meet ReverendRichard Butler, the head of the
Aryan Nations church.
Did not know they had a church.
Stephanie (10:07):
A church quotations heavily.
He
Dani (10:09):
racist.
Son of a bitch.
Marchant later said he didn'tknow that that was rights
intention and had not come toIdaho to join the racist group.
He was just kind of a long, he'sjust following his buddy's
directions.
I
Stephanie (10:24):
believe that you guys are.
Jailbird Rebirth Twins at thispoint.
And you, that's a little bit ofa long drive.
It never came up.
Not even once.
Yeah.
Dani (10:35):
Seattle too.
Yeah, it's, it's not Spokane.
Yeah, it's Seattle,
Stephanie (10:38):
not the Spokane.
Dani (10:44):
So the pair came over and stopped into the Hayden Inn.
And had a few drinks where theymet Robert Parks and Randy
Corden.
What is up with these peoplejust casually hooking up in
bars.
We did another episode wherethey're like, they became
besties, like, yeah, let's go.
Like what?
Stephanie (11:04):
And listen.
I think most women willunderstand, like besties for the
night and every once in a while,girls in the bathroom, the best.
The girls in the bathroom aregoing to make sure you're not
texting your Fs.
They're gonna fix your makeup,they're gonna hold your hair
while you puke.
They're gonna call you an Uber,they're going to sing songs with
you.
They're gonna do all that.
Yes, besties for the night.
(11:25):
Maybe every once in a while itturns into like a true bestie.
I don't know, I'm a hermit.
Maybe some of y'all that are thesocial butterflies always meet
besties in the bathroom.
But yes, they, we've had manycases where it's like
Dani (11:37):
they went to the bar and drank and then, and then they
Stephanie (11:39):
didn't stop talking to each other for like six
months.
What's, what's that?
Dani (11:45):
So they went in with the drinks and met Robert Parks and
Randy Cordon, Marchant andCordon Convinced Parks to go
show them the ary nation'slocation north of Hayden.
Corden was just some dude thathe met in the bar that afternoon
and he is like, Hey, yeah, let'sgo see where it's at.
Stephanie (12:06):
Hey, where's the Klan meeting though?
And
Dani (12:08):
also mind you just remember, Marchant want nothing
to do with the Aryan Nations
Stephanie (12:15):
marchant, or no?
It was, yeah, Marchant
Dani (12:17):
said he didn't, that wasn't his gig.
It was Wright's gig.
Stephanie (12:21):
Oh, right.
Dani (12:22):
Okay.
But you know where Wright stayedright in the bar?
Stephanie (12:26):
I thought this was your deal, dude.
Dani (12:27):
Right?
He didn't give a shit.
Yeah, he stayed back.
Marchant who did not come toIdaho to join the ary nations,
met some other dude and thethree men got in the car
together.
But instead of following partsand parks instructions, Marchant
drove out to a logging road.
How does this even, fuck?
(12:48):
I'm just wait stuff.
I don't even know how thisfucking happens.
Drinking, drinking.
You're meeting a stranger, goingto the ary nations, but then you
stop on a logging road and guesswhat?
Drinking.
They threatened parks with a 12gauge shotgun and ordered him to
get out of the car.
Stephanie (13:05):
What the hell happened?
Dani (13:08):
Drinking,
Stephanie (13:09):
drugging.
I love that TikTok.
You guys have to go see Tammy dothe judge duty drugging.
Dani (13:17):
Oh,
Stephanie (13:19):
I love that.
Dani (13:21):
But when parks attempted to walk away, Marchant fired
shots at him.
The fuck?
Yeah.
He's like, no, no, no, no.
We're serious.
Parks was told to lie down onhis stomach and was robbed of
about$250.
Marette told him he would killhim if he told the police.
Stephanie (13:39):
Ooh.
Dani (13:40):
But after the robbery, they brought parks back to the
tavern,
Stephanie (13:45):
you know.
Wow.
Dani (13:47):
Where he called the
Stephanie (13:48):
police.
Chivalry isn't dead at thispoint.
It really isn't dead.
They brought him back.
They gave him a ride back.
How sweet
Dani (13:55):
This is where March didn't.
Wright hooked back up and theywent to a next door business,
the Foxy n ooh, Foxy.
Where marching got into anargument with the manager Bob
Spur.
While the men were arguing,Wright went to the car and
retrieved the shotgun.
(14:16):
Not again.
He's just wielding firearms
Stephanie (14:20):
brandishing.
Oh.
Dani (14:22):
when Wright walked back into the business, a couple of
women got up to leave and Wrightasked if there were any more
women who would like to leave.
Shivery.
My
Stephanie (14:33):
gosh, what a gentleman.
I know.
Dani (14:37):
just about that time to Ney County Sheriff's deputies
arrived on the scene becauseremember the other guy that got
robbed?
Yeah, he, he got ahold of, hecalled'em.
well, March hit and Wright leftthe tavern.
There's a police car followingthem.
Stephanie (14:53):
Okay, good.
Dani (14:54):
This quickly turned into a police chase and they chased the
two into a cul-de-sac in aresidential area.
Stephanie (15:02):
Uh oh.
Dani (15:04):
This is like a movie.
Okay.
Marchant turned his car to facethe police done, done, and
Wright got outta the car and waslike, yo, you got me?
So he staggered towards theofficers and surrendered ENT
refused officer's order tosurrender.
(15:27):
The police even let Wright goback to the vehicle to try to
talk marcha into putting downthe gun.
Stephanie (15:33):
Talk some sense into your buddy, your prison Twinsie.
Dani (15:37):
Who does?
Who does that?
Stephanie (15:39):
Cops that don't want it.
They're like, if you could do ithere.
Yeah.
We'll, we'll wait here if you,we'll
Dani (15:45):
let you go.
We'll let we
Stephanie (15:45):
trust you, man.
He doesn't really like us.
Dani (15:50):
Next thing you know, Martin and Wright were wrestling
on the ground with the gun.
Stephanie (15:56):
Wonderful.
Dani (15:56):
And Ryan finally escaped and fled back towards the
police.
He said
Stephanie (16:00):
hell to the, no, it's turning into WE out here.
He just tried to gimme a piledriver with a shotgun,
Dani (16:09):
and the whole time Marin's threatening to shoot his new
best Buddy Wright,
Stephanie (16:13):
you guys are twins.
Dani (16:15):
And that's when Mart got out of the car with a shotgun
and fired a shot at the police.
You
Stephanie (16:21):
can't do that.
Dani (16:23):
But during all this chaos with the fighting over the gun
and rolling around on theground, other officers, because
of the cul-de-sac, hadpositioned themselves behind
marching, tucked in with sometrees.
Stephanie (16:36):
Oh, they, they went full swap mode.
Yeah,
Dani (16:38):
he was, he was, you were surrounded.
He was really surrounded.
Stephanie (16:42):
Truly surrounded.
Dani (16:43):
And when Marchant caught that, he turned around and
pointed the shotgun at thoseofficers.
And that's when they fired.
Oh shit.
Marchant was shot three times.
When he fell to the ground.
A small dog jumped out of thecar and began licking his face.
Stephanie (17:05):
Is this a Hallmark movie or a cop episode?
What
Dani (17:09):
the dog doing?
What
Stephanie (17:12):
now?
Upcoming Hallmark moviesponsored by cops.
That boys.
What you Well, I can just hearit now.
Where did the dog come from?
I don't know, but the dog waslike, dad, uh, I wish he was,
are you injured?
All this shit.
You all right?
Dani (17:28):
Well, they got him good 'cause they, he was shot three
times.
Paramedics took march it to thehospital.
While in the hospital, this guyMarchant joked quote, can you
find enough electricity for thischair referring to his hospital
bed?
And he was making all kinds ofoff color comments like that're,
Stephanie (17:48):
you're literally, if you're in the hospital instead
of jail right now or dead,you're in like a fivestar
resort.
Like ask for the pain meds andthe good hospital food, whatever
the best meal on their menu youcan find.
'cause this ain't gonna lastlong.
Dani (18:04):
He had surgery for gunshot wounds to the chest, face and
hand.
Stephanie (18:10):
Yeah.
'cause they are not shooting tomaim if you shoot at them.
I can't believe a firearmgetting
Dani (18:15):
shot three times and you're breathing.
Wright was held on twomisdemeanor charges.
One for displaying a dangerousweapon and the other for
resisting arrest.
Listen, was it really resistingarrest when they let him go to
try to confiscate the gun fromhis buddy?
And I feel like he wascooperating fully at that point.
Stephanie (18:36):
No, I think so too.
It was marchant,
Dani (18:38):
he was driving, it was his car.
Stephanie (18:40):
And I've seen a TikTok recently of someone with
that had a dash cam that doessomething and ends up in a high
speed chase and there is afriend in this front seat that
is like, bro.
You're gonna kill us, please.
And he's like trying to try tograb the wheel a little bit, but
the guy's very calm andbasically like, fuck everything.
almost like he's on a suicidemission.
But the friend is like, pleasestop bro.
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and they're going way too fastfor him to get out.
So I cannot imagine being inthat type of situation.
And I don't think, if you can'tprove that they were encouraging
it or whatever, a passengershouldn't be.
Because some of these dudes doit with their wives and stuff.
They get in high police, highspeed police chases, and their
wife is like, please get me thefuck outta here.
Dani (19:24):
yeah.
I just feel, I mean, he did,
Stephanie (19:27):
he tried to help them.
That should count for something.
It
Dani (19:29):
should count for.
I mean, it should
Stephanie (19:30):
cancel out.
Pendo, you, maybe you resistedarrest, we don't know, but then
you encouraged arrest.
Cancel out.
Dani (19:37):
Cancel pendas.
Stephanie (19:39):
It's science.
Dani (19:41):
Science bitch.
A Cordon 29 was charged witharmed robbery.
Remember his new best buddy?
Mm-hmm.
His other new best friend.
He received that charge while hewas already in jail for
burglarizing a Hayden business.
Twice.
He was charged with two countsof second degree burglary and
two counts of grand theft forthat conduct.
(20:05):
So he, from what I gather, he, Ithink he either stole from his
current place of employment orpossibly post employment.
Yeah, that happens a lot.
'cause, it was a, it was thesame business, so I'm not quite
sure.
So they'd already arrested himon that and then they figured
out he was the guy that was withMarchant taking the guy.
(20:27):
Out taking parks out to thelogging road.
Yeah.
to steal 250 bucks.
Stupid.
So anyways, so he was already injail.
Not a hard find, lot
Stephanie (20:36):
of burgling, burgling all over the place.
I love that word.
Dani (20:42):
Corden's parents posted a $7,500 bond for his release.
Damn,
Stephanie (20:46):
that's a lot back then.
Yeah, that's a lot now.
Dani (20:48):
It's a lot now.
he was released on May 13th,1987.
The next day, Cordan died in acar accident when he failed to
negotiate a curve on Highway 41near Rath.
The car flipped five times andCordon was e ejected.
Stephanie (21:06):
That's an insane crash.
And failed to negotiate a curve.
That's a, I'd say that's aeuphemism.
That means I'm picturing likethe same thing that happened at
NNU.
We've mentioned this severaltimes.
Guys look up the article ofsomeone literally not slowing
down for a curve, probably goinga hundred miles an hour and
(21:27):
jumping a house and going inthrough the roof of another.
This is what I'm picturing Yeah.
Of failing to negotiate a curb.
Dani (21:36):
And there is some background there.
I think that he might've hadeither some drinking or
substance issues.
Drinking or drugging.
Yeah.
Oh.
and so, you know, just gettingoutta jail, he might've been
like, it's my time to shine.
Let's go get this.
There.
I, I don't know.
I didn't find anything else.
Stephanie (21:52):
Yeah.
Maybe you feel invincible.
Listen, I was yelling.
Maybe he was angry, pissed.
I driven too fast in a carbefore.
Mm-hmm.
Myself.
I'm I, but just
Dani (22:02):
one day.
One day.
Stephanie (22:04):
One day later, gone.
That's crazy.
Dani (22:08):
Marant pled guilty to armed robbery and assaulting a
police officer.
Stephanie (22:13):
Well, you did.
Dani (22:15):
In June at age 31, he was sentenced to two 20 year
indeterminate sentences to runconcurrently.
He said he shot at the feet ofpolice officers to intentionally
draw fire, hoping they wouldkill him.
Stephanie (22:29):
Suicide by cop,
Dani (22:31):
maybe.
I don't think so.
March.
It was released in 1992.
I don't even know how thishappens.
in 1994, he violated parole andwent to federal prison.
In 1996, and then in 1999 he wasback in the Idaho Department of
(22:58):
Corrections custody.
So that's why I had to includethat little part about
Stephanie (23:02):
mm-hmm.
Dani (23:03):
A post office or he robbed something federal.
It was
Stephanie (23:06):
very serious.
Dani (23:07):
Uh, and then he is flip flopping and violating parole
and going here and there.
Anyway, I couldn't, I wanted to,I looked.
When he committed the Idahocrimes in 1986, federal
prosecutors charged him with hisparole violations.
Therefore, when he was releasedfrom prison in 1992, he was sent
(23:27):
to a, a federal prison inCalifornia.
Stephanie (23:31):
Mm.
Dani (23:32):
Four years later, the Idaho Parole Board received
reports that Marchant had been adisciplinary problem since he
arrived at the federal prison.
He refused to accept a move fromspecial housing unit to general
Pop.
Stephanie (23:45):
Mm-hmm.
Dani (23:46):
Refused to get up and work, and he refused an order to
go to his room during quiethours, telling an officer that
he wanted to be sent tosegregate, segregation unit
where he could be waited on adiva.
Di it down.
Marchant was up for parole inFebruary, 1996, but due to all
(24:07):
of this behavior, he was notreleased until April of 1999.
He was then returned to custodyof the Idaho Department of
Correction on parole violations.
No, those years are also filledwith disciplinary problems.
Look, they're like, no, not
Stephanie (24:25):
him.
Dani (24:28):
Oh my God.
So he's just like in and out,like parole viol.
Okay.
Send him here.
Another parole violation.
Federal parole violation.
Idaho, you're fucked.
Oh, he is a disciplinaryproblem.
We see you.
Come here.
Come here.
Stephanie (24:41):
Yeah.
Certified menace.
Dani (24:44):
Absolutely.
In 2000 March and cellmateJoseph Edmund Chastain, age 38,
said he had fallen on prisonstairs on July 2nd, 2000.
He died the next day in amedical prison cell.
(25:05):
He had suspicious bruises in hisabdominal area that were
inconsistent with a fall and anautopsy said he died from
abdominal bleeding.
Stephanie (25:16):
Oh, shit.
Dani (25:17):
Yeah.
Chestain had recently beensentenced to 20 years to life
for a Canyon County robbery.
Marchant admitted to authoritiesthat they had had a fight and
he, that he had probably killedthem.
Stephanie (25:31):
Oh.
Dani (25:33):
A disciplinary report indicated that Marchant told a
correction officer that he hadkilled Chastain, but no charges
were ever filed.
Ada County Sheriff Patrick, orsaid it appears the prosecutor
reviewed the investigation anddecided in October of 2001 not
to file any criminal chargesagainst Martian.
Stephanie (25:55):
That's a shame.
It's a
Dani (25:57):
fucking, he
Stephanie (25:58):
admitted
Dani (25:58):
that
Stephanie (25:59):
I probably, whatever I did, bro, I killed him.
Hello.
Open and
Dani (26:04):
shut and learn.
I also think it's kind of theattitude of the system.
I mean, you know, this guy was aconvicted robbers.
Since we're making up wordstoday, he's fucking
Stephanie (26:21):
robbers.
Dani (26:24):
Anyways, he had been convicted, whatever, that poor
guy, because if you look atMarin's history, I would not put
it past him at all.
Stephanie (26:36):
And he basically, he said,
Dani (26:38):
I, I probably did it
Stephanie (26:40):
because I was
Dani (26:41):
fighting him.
And then that guy being newly toprison was like the
Stephanie (26:47):
oldest, the oldest excuse in the book fell down the
stairs.
Yeah.
Dani (26:54):
Oh right,
Stephanie (26:55):
okay.
But
Dani (26:56):
marching's shit continued when he was up for probation in
2003, the board declined torelease him early, noting quote,
his history is serious and thecommission considers him high
risk.
Shocker, no shit.
Yeah.
but he was finally released onSeptember 26th, 2008, after
completing a sentence oh eight.
(27:17):
So five years later.
Okay.
But I mean, he's been in since86.
Stephanie (27:22):
Right?
So, and every time he's out.
He is frolicking in crime, justabsolutely doing a triple axle
on the crime.
Yeah.
And
Dani (27:34):
he, he, he doesn't stop.
He has a few good clean gears,maybe, I don't know where he
wasn't caught.
Mm-hmm.
So we're not 2014, he hasmanaged to keep his nose clean
for eight years.
Impressive.
I doubt for him.
For him.
I doubt it.
(27:54):
I I just think this is onlyluck.
I think he was in and out oftrouble with parole, but they
couldn't
Stephanie (28:03):
pin it on him.
No.
Because he seems like he'sgallivanting in.
He's
Dani (28:07):
manipulative.
Stephanie (28:08):
Yeah.
Dani (28:09):
in 2014, two roommates of Marchant,
Stephanie (28:13):
oh God said
Dani (28:14):
he had physically assaulted both of them at an
Orchard Street house.
And I want you to get an idea ofwhat this house is.
It's not quite a halfway house,but it's someplace for people.
maybe, down on their luck.
Yeah.
mental illness, people gettingout of, there's assistance.
Addiction, right.
There's a place where you can gorent a room.
Stephanie (28:36):
You gotta learn to share though.
And that's very tough forsomeone like Margie.
Dani (28:41):
Well, One of the roommates said he had a nasty disposition.
Stephanie (28:46):
Nasty.
Dani (28:48):
Ms.
Jackson, quote, if he doesn'tget his way, he will get
violent.
We've seen it.
Marchant was accused of hittingthem in two, in October of 2014.
Which resulted in a misdemeanorbattery case.
According to court records,Marchant did intentionally and
(29:10):
unlawfully touch or strike thewomen, but the charges were
later dropped due to a nenegotiated deal.
One of the women said, Marchantgroped her.
And when she said No, walkedaway, he punched her twice in
the back.
Stephanie (29:26):
What a fucking loser.
I'm so, oh my, I'm so disgusted.
she just gimme a second punpunched in the back.
What?
A toddler response to notgetting your I'M horny needs
met.
Go away you fucking
Dani (29:47):
dweeb.
Another roommate, Tara Hall,said Marchant slammed him
against a wall with noprovocation whatsoever.
Stephanie (29:56):
We're just slamming.
It's w He's literally living theWE life.
Yeah.
And back then, I think it wasWWE F still, but
Dani (30:05):
no, he just like, oh, I don't like you.
I'm gonna get physical.
It's just the people's elbow.
He said Marchant often talkedabout sexual things and was rude
to women.
Shocker.
Wow.
Terrell said Marchant wasevicted from the house on
Orchard Street after the 2014battery case.
Stephanie (30:25):
Thank God for those people having to live with his
psychopath ass.
Dani (30:31):
In February, 2016.
Marchant's psychosocialrehabilitation worker contacted
police.
She said Marchant was sexuallyaggressive toward her.
The behavioral health workertold police she was just eating
lunch at the Maple Grove house.
Another house like the OrchardHouse.
Stephanie (30:49):
Mm-hmm.
Dani (30:49):
When Marchant threw her food over the couch.
And when she went to Bend overto pick it up, he made sexually
suggestive and degradingcomments to her.
Marchant, then grabbed her shirtand tried to reveal her breasts.
What?
Even though she had repeatedlyworn Marant about the
inappropriateness anddisrespectful of these types of
(31:11):
comments, he did not care.
Stephanie (31:14):
And listen up.
I know as women, we all have athousand stories.
That bear that are in a similarvein to this, but this is, so
Dani (31:24):
this was her job?
Yes.
She's a professional.
Exactly.
You're not getting cat
Stephanie (31:29):
called on the street.
Most men are much sneakier aboutit.
Mm-hmm.
If they're, you know, that theycould explain it away as an
accident where this is justabsolute toddler behavior.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And unbelievable.
Like, and that's what.
Oh, I, I'm just flab.
And she
Dani (31:49):
is a professional.
She understands how to deal withthis type of aggressiveness.
Mm-hmm.
And it's not, yeah.
Stephanie (31:56):
And so if it was that shocking to her, yeah.
It was.
If it was too much
Dani (31:59):
for her, it was too much.
Like she probably
Stephanie (32:04):
had her pa like, you know, you, it was shocking to
her.
Yeah.
Is what it sounds like.
And that's saying a lot, dealingwith these type of behaviors
constantly.
Dani (32:15):
Well, he would say things like.
Are you wearing a bra and othersuggestive comments?
But you were an
Stephanie (32:20):
11-year-old boy.
Yeah.
Dani (32:22):
Oh my gosh.
Another worker had quit workingwith Marchant after only three
weeks due to his behavior.
And these guys are professionaland listen up, even
Stephanie (32:34):
I can be professional if you're listening to this and
you know me in a work setting.
No you don't.
but you know, we're allprofessional.
this is.
Eons beyond what you wouldexpect to encounter.
Dani (32:52):
We're gonna get serious.
Stephanie (32:54):
Oh God.
Dani (32:56):
On September 27th, 2016, Mary Helen Green received a text
from her ex-husband, Phil Bush.
It said, quote, when you have achance, gimme a call.
I have not seen Sierra sinceSunday morning.
Sierra Green had last been seena few days earlier on September
(33:17):
24th, near her family home atMaple Grove and Goddard in
Boise.
Stephanie (33:22):
Okay.
Dani (33:22):
She was supposed to meet up with friends on Sunday
evening around five o'clock atthe Boise State Albertsons
Library to discuss creating anart club for students who were
not art majors.
Genius.
I love that.
Stephanie (33:36):
Yeah.
Dani (33:36):
The group showed up to the library, but Sierra never came,
and they texted her.
But they got no response, whichwas outta character for Sierra
Boise.
Police began investigating thecase as a missing person.
Mary and her husband Bart Green,suspected Sierra had been
abducted Sierra's car was stillparked outside her house.
(34:00):
Mary was sick with worry abouther only daughter's
disappearance.
Stephanie (34:05):
And we hear this over and over again and I know
there's rules for when peopleare adults and I don't know how
you would, she was pushedputting guidelines.
18.
Yes.
And I know it's technically anadult, but even people that are
35, 45, like, you know, if youhad called and texted me and I
had viewed it and not gottenback to you, you know, I can be
(34:28):
a little flaky sometimes, but Iwould never disappear for a week
at a time from you.
Dani (34:33):
Or two or three days from your parents?
Like Yes.
Or your partner.
Like when, you know, some there,there's people that know, you
know, I just wish that therewas, and I do see a little bit
of attitude changing, but it'slike I know that if my partner
mm-hmm.
Did not come home from work Yes.
(34:55):
And did not respond to my textwithin four or five hours I
would be.
Panicking because that's not,'cause you
Stephanie (35:03):
already tried to, oh, maybe there's this May.
Maybe he's stuck on a job.
You
Dani (35:08):
Right.
Stephanie (35:09):
And that's, I wish that there was like a box that
police could check of.
This is a person that fuckingknows.
Because I feel like in this, inthe cases where it's a very
flighty person that goes toCosta Rica because we've had the
goes interna, travelsinternationally without telling
people I don't know how to putthat into a form or to a, if A
(35:34):
plus B equals C.
But if there's someone that'slike, no, this person would
always answer my text if theywere on their deathbed.
Dani (35:43):
Right?
Stephanie (35:45):
So you just know something's fucking wrong.
And you know, the first 48hours, what?
I mean, how many re we're notasking for the choppers and the
infrared and the this and that.
Like can you just start, startit?
Dani (36:02):
Can you, can you get the phone company to ping her phone?
Stephanie (36:05):
Yeah.
Can you get some records saying,can we start somewhere saying
she's texting somebody or she'spurchasing and she might
Dani (36:12):
not wanna talk to me and I don't know why, but That's fine.
Just get ahold of her.
Stephanie (36:17):
Is she alive?
Yeah.
So sorry to take that on asidetrack, but.
It's so fr'cause there's so manycases that you like, God, what,
what if you know,
Dani (36:29):
well, Sierra Bush, she was 18 and was a first year Boise
State University student.
Oh my God.
And she's very smart.
She had entered her freshmanyear with 12 college credits
earned in high school.
Get it sis, let's go.
some of some people knew her asSimon.
I think she was, I love that.
(36:49):
Gender fluid.
one friend Evan Obe, quotedSierra, he said, quote, if I can
be as weird as I am, be as you,as you are.
Oh, I love that.
she had volunteered, she wasalso a volunteer at the Idaho
Humane Society for a couple ofyears, primarily working in the
(37:12):
cattery.
Stephanie (37:14):
What a sweetheart.
Yeah.
Dani (37:17):
And that just goes back to like she was thinking about
creating a club for people whoweren't art stu, art majors.
And she's like, let's get morepeople into art, even if they
aren't art majors.
you know, she was very involved.
Stephanie (37:29):
Well, and having that,'cause it can be very
siloed in college where like,this is my major, I can't focus
on anything else.
But that's so, people are somultifaceted in so many talents
that.
Why not?
Even if it's for your ownhobbies.
Mm-hmm.
And I think that that's bredinto a lot of people of our
generations is you've gotta makemoney on your hobby.
(37:52):
No, you can do your hobby ifyou're fucking terrible at it
and have fun if it brings youjoy.
If you're a terrible cook andyou wanna cook meals that aren't
good, if you garden and killhalf things, if you paint and it
looks like a toddler did it, butyou had fun doing it,
Dani (38:08):
do it.
Stephanie (38:09):
You don't have to turn it into a side hustle, like
fuck that shit.
So that's, I golf
Dani (38:14):
and I pay a lot of money to golf and I suck.
So, but I enjoy doing it.
Stephanie (38:19):
And that's the
Dani (38:20):
point.
I mean, that's a simple example
Stephanie (38:23):
that, and listen, I pay a lot of money to ride along
on a golf cart and spectate asif I am like a professional golf
commentator.
Dani (38:32):
Love that.
That would be a fun TikTok.
She lived with her mother andstepfather until about a month
after she graduated from highschool and then she went to live
with her father Phil Bush, inhis brand new duplex.
Her stepfather Bart Green, aMeridian attorney, said quote,
she has never exhibited anysigns of mental health problem.
(38:55):
She's never to our knowledgeengaged in any risky behavior or
shown any propensity to runaway.
She has never shown any signs ofsuicidal ideation or depression.
She has always been a verytimid, introverted, very
studious individual.
Stephanie (39:13):
So an extreme worry.
They've, they've crossed off allof stuff.
They're like, no, like, she'snot on drugs.
She's not a suicidal per Yeah.
Dani (39:21):
She's not depressed.
She's a little bit more quiet,but she's still involved in, in
things.
I mean,
Stephanie (39:28):
and she responds to people.
Dani (39:29):
Yeah.
On October 23rd, Sierra's NakedBody was found in Boise County,
south of Idaho City near MorrisCreek.
Police did not initially say shewas murdered, but called her
death suspicious.
Mm.
Look, I'm a little pissed offwith this investigation because
(39:51):
they started off with notwanting and there's a little bit
more down here.
Just call it what it is.
Yes.
She was abducted, like theparents said.
I think she was abducted insteadof that.
She's a missing person.
We can't save like.
Because her mother and herstepfather were convinced she
(40:12):
was murdered.
Yeah.
the Boise Police Departmentworked with the Boise County
Sheriff's Office with the BoiseCity Police taking the lead.
Sierra's Autopsy was performedin Ada County and investigators
said it would be several weeksbefore they received any test
results.
The police conducted nearly 200interviews while investigating
(40:34):
Sierra's.
Death now.
I guess now that they found her.
Yeah, they can say she wasabducted and murdered.
It just kind of, during theresearch it just kind of
irritated me how they were sostand.
Look,
Stephanie (40:50):
people need to know and they might, that might cause
someone that's like, oh, someonedied, like someone was murdered.
Not just an accidental death.
They might say.
I, when I saw her at this point,or when I saw someone else with
her, or even,
Dani (41:06):
even at the point where they just, she was missing,
there was clues that she hadbeen abducted and you're, or a
Stephanie (41:12):
business might remember and be like, oh, it's a
let me save those camera files.
Right.
Dani (41:19):
No, it was just, I didn't like how they came out and just
said she's a missing person, andthat happens a lot.
Missing persons.
Look, I'm gonna talk about itlater, but when you find a
substantial amount of blood insomebody's bedroom, they're
probably not just a missingperson.
Yeah.
So that's what fucking irritatedme.
They didn't
Stephanie (41:37):
Oh, accidentally cut themselves.
And coincidentally, they wereplanning on running away without
telling anyone.
how rare would that be?
Dani (41:44):
Stop.
In early December, authoritiesissued a warrant for Bruce Allen
Marchant for the murder, rape,and kidnapping of Sierra.
Oh shit.
Marchant was arrested in NewYork City on December 8th, New
York City, big for Big for aTater guy.
(42:04):
Wow.
Detectives learned he was in aNew York City VA hospital and
flew out to arrest him.
Marchant had checked himself infour days earlier.
Bart Green.
Stepdad told Idaho Statesmanthat he and his wife did not
know merchant.
He thanked countless lawenforcement officers in the
(42:25):
investigation, including thosein Boise, Wisconsin, and New
York, as well as the US MarshalService and the FBI.
Damn.
So as much shit as I talkedabout, I just, the Boise police,
I feel like didn't handle this.
Correctly from the get go.
But also, can I talk a littlebit more about Sierra?
Yeah.
Just really quick.
the cute thing, at her thathappened.
(42:48):
So she was in the cattery.
she wore bow ties all the time.
So, after she was found, as amemorial to her, they did, kind
of a benefit thing out of theHumane society.
And a lot of the cats werewearing bow ties.
Stephanie (43:06):
Oh my gosh.
She
Dani (43:07):
had a huge, vigil at, Boise State University too.
the whole, the, the communityreally came together.
It was, she was just a sweetperson.
so I just had to say that, andthat's
Stephanie (43:20):
one of those things I feel like a lot of people don't
realize what big, how large ofan impact.
That you make on people that,you know, people remember how
you make them feel.
Yeah.
Dani (43:37):
And, and she did because people were, there were so many
comments about her and just
Stephanie (43:45):
she, and she seems kind of like she, she was
probably a more reserved person,not like a big, no social
butterfly, but she made ameaning and lasting impact and
absolutely.
So many people don't realizethat and it's easy to get, you
know, ev look at the worldaround us.
It's easy to not be happy aboutshit.
(44:05):
Right.
Like
Dani (44:06):
she was and I, and yeah, she
Stephanie (44:10):
was, it sounds like she was full of hope and forging
her her way.
She was getting shit done.
Yeah.
12
Dani (44:15):
credits already going into college.
A
Stephanie (44:17):
fucking shame.
Dani (44:18):
All of this and, and also not just doing schoolwork.
But also creating clubs andvolunteering.
So
Stephanie (44:27):
caring about her community and people around her
and trying to make thingsbetter.
Dani (44:31):
and if you're a cat girly, you know?
Mm-hmm.
volunteering and being able tobe around cat.
I personally am not a cat girly,but there I know cat girlies or
cat guys and they're all abouttheir kitty cats.
So I was
Stephanie (44:44):
very anti catt.
I am pro cat now.
Not, we don't have a cat rightnow, but we had a cat that
changed our minds and I'm like,you know what?
These cats are kind of fuckingcool.
I
Dani (44:58):
maybe could, but Jared's allergic, so I don't even
entertain.
It's not in the
Stephanie (45:02):
cards for you.
No,
Dani (45:03):
but
Stephanie (45:03):
it might be for me and we'll see.
Dani (45:06):
And Harry's kinda like a cat.
Stephanie (45:07):
He really is
Dani (45:09):
so fucking high maintenance.
He's fluid.
He is.
So for him, oh, he is so highmaintenance.
Stephanie (45:14):
Okay.
His pronouns are cat dog.
Dani (45:16):
Oh, love it.
God.
He's such a dick.
He is.
neighbors from the cul-de-sacwhere?
Sierra's Duplex Sierra's.
And her dad's duplex waslocated, said they remembered
Marchant.
one neighbor, Justin Griggs,recalled Marchant as being very
quiet and he said he kept tohimself quote, he definitely
wasn't all there.
(45:37):
Mm-hmm.
I don't know if it was formental illness or drugs.
Another neighbor said that shethought the home was a halfway
house talking about whereMarchant lived.
Okay.
She said Marchant was friendly,but wondered if he was disabled
or mentally ill.
Phil Bush, Sierra's father wasknown to help people.
He meant through AlcoholicsAnonymous or Narcotics
(45:59):
Anonymous.
after merchant's arrest, theBoise County Coroner's Office
released his determination thatSierra's death was a homicide as
far as the manner of death.
They said it was a type ofasphyxiation, but would not
specify details.
Mm.
So merchants arrested in NewYork, and of course, he did not
(46:22):
waive extradition.
He would have a court date inNew York in February, 2017.
I have a fun fact.
Let's hear it.
Do you know, in order to beextradited, the act must be
considered a crime in both therequesting and requested
(46:43):
jurisdictions?
Stephanie (46:45):
I didn't know that, but it makes sense because what
if you like.
Marijuana and the state whereyou're at is like, we don't
think that's bad.
Like you want us to, we're not,you want us to put our resources
'cause it.
There's travel officers.
(47:06):
Mm-hmm.
And so they're like, why wouldwe be hauling someone off when
we don't think it's a crime?
That, I never thought about thatin detail.
Sorry.
If y'all heard me just crackingmy knuckles.
I know.
A SMR.
Maybe you liked it, let us know.
Dani (47:24):
I dunno.
I didn't, I mean, I know.
I just looked into it a littlebit.
I wanna dig deep intoextradition, which can I just
tell you, I cannot spell thatword to save my life?
'cause I wanna spell it adifferent way.
Every time I wrote that down, Ityped it, think off or spell
(47:44):
that.
It was underline red.
Every time can
Stephanie (47:46):
I tell, recommend I know how it's spelled.
I can't type it out correctlybecause it doesn't look right
the way that it's right.
And I will auto correct andright click and spell check
every time.
Yeah.
Recommend why.
I, I spell w way morecomplicated words than that.
(48:06):
There's so many more that I, Icannot fucking do recommend and
I have to use it a lot.
Dani (48:13):
Uh, yeah.
You know what I meant?
You know what I meant?
You should just have autocorrectlike they do on your text.
Well, come on, Microsoft, getwith it.
So
Stephanie (48:21):
sometimes that's even worse.
So who knows what it would'veput in there.
I don't know.
Dani (48:27):
On February 3rd, 2017, Marchant appeared in a New York
City courtroom for hisextradition hearing.
He did not return to Idaho afterthat hearing because a warrant
releasing Marchant to 80 countyauthorities, which needed to be
signed by Governor Andrew Cuomohad not been filed by the court
Stephanie (48:49):
fucking Cuomo, as if we needed another reason.
As if we needed another that wasjust for you,
Dani (48:57):
sis.
Stephanie (48:59):
I'm not gonna forget that.
Dani (49:01):
March and sixth court date was set for March, in a hearing
on March 24th.
Judge Larry East.
Stephan Steven is spelt with apH.
Who knows?
Larry Stephan P.
Good old.
It's good old lair.
Good old lair.
Denied a writ of habeas corpusfiled by Marchant, challenging
(49:23):
his deten detention.
The judge signed the papersordering merchant's extradition,
and asked Idaho to pick him upon April 6th.
So in order for this extraditionto happen.
Stephanie (49:35):
A lot of boxes gotta be checked, is what I'm saying.
Yeah.
The
Dani (49:37):
governors have to both sign this is, which I'm, so they
have to do a pinky promisePretty much.
They have to kiss
Stephanie (49:44):
it.
Yeah.
Dani (49:45):
I would just think this would be handled more by like,
police author, some, I
Stephanie (49:50):
know you gotta get,
Dani (49:51):
or an attorney general, something like that.
No, we gotta get the big dogsout and apparently the big dogs
were too busy to be signing somepaperwork.
Stephanie (50:00):
They have to do a, like a hand clapping, Yes.
Bubble gum.
Bubble gum in a dish.
How many pieces do you wish theyhave to do?
A whole, all of that.
It's in the law books, folks.
Look it up.
Dani (50:14):
That was, that was fucking great.
A tip to police identifiedmarching as a potential suspect
soon after Sierra'sdisappearance.
Mm, then came the Kowski crash.
A report filed with the IdahoTransportation Department
suggested that merchant ran offa curve on US 12 and ended up in
(50:35):
an embankment,
Stephanie (50:37):
those fucking curbs.
Dani (50:40):
an Idaho County sheriff's deputy who responded to the
crash found no signs thatMarchan tried to break after
leaving the road.
Stephanie (50:49):
So you were Tokyo drifting.
Dani (50:51):
March's Ford was towed and the deputy gave him a ride into
town, something.
Their eye, they already had his,their eye on him.
Mm-hmm.
Somehow, some way, that's why, Idon't know the tip word was out.
but his Ford held crucialevidence in the case, and that's
(51:13):
why.
To a norm, it would look like acar accident.
Yeah.
They already had his number.
They're
Stephanie (51:18):
like, no, we're not letting you go on nothing.
Bitch.
Dani (51:23):
When detectives spoke with Marchant, he admitted they asked
him and he admitted he knew whoSierra was, but he said he had
no personal relationship withher.
Mm.
He also said that she had neverbeen in his vehicle at any time
for any reason, and he gave aDNA sample to the police.
Stephanie (51:43):
And I feel like Maury right now, I'm just gonna go
ahead and spoil it.
We've got the DNA results in.
Mm-hmm.
And they confirmed that was alie.
You are the suspect.
Dani (51:56):
Yeah.
so somehow Marchin purchased,purchased another vehicle and
headed east, and how hepurchased another vehicle is
that he just applied for loansand loans and loans and loans
and loans.
They're like,
Stephanie (52:10):
can I give you a 75% interest rate?
He's like, sure, sure,
Dani (52:13):
let's go.
he did get a little VA money.
He was, as one does retired fromthe Navy, from Vietnam.
So it wasn't a whole lot ofmoney.
Stephanie (52:23):
It's, it's a ni, it's enough to keep it going.
Dani (52:26):
it's enough to apparently buy a car.
It's probably buy or pay here.
33% interest is what he got.
Combs car grill.
he left town while the Texaswere waiting for the test
results.
Mm-hmm.
Sierra's Blood was found in thewebbing of a glove that was in
the vehicle.
Brett Row, DNA from Marchant andSierra.
(52:47):
Oh yeah,
Stephanie (52:49):
yeah, yeah.
Yep.
Dani (52:50):
Marchant drove as far as his gas money would take him,
which was well Milwaukee.
He spent several weeks at a VAhospital there and then drove to
New York.
Stephanie (53:01):
That's crazy to me 'cause he would think that.
They'd have a VA hos, I don'tknow.
I wouldn't wanna be goinganywhere where I have to give my
real name.
Dani (53:12):
Yeah.
But the VA's just checking youin.
Like,
Stephanie (53:14):
I want a see motel where I can say my name's like
Joe Namath and no one is.
They're like, sure Joe Namath.
Dani (53:24):
Oh, well.
And what do we do while awaitingtrial?
Stephanie (53:26):
What?
Dani (53:27):
We write a letter to the local newspaper.
Oh,
Stephanie (53:30):
I thought he was gonna burle something else.
Yeah, I I was like, bankrobbery.
Let's hear it.
No, he's like,
Dani (53:35):
let me talk about it.
let's get the press involved.
And a letter to the Idahostatesman.
March.
Marchant conceded that he wouldprobably be in prison for the
rest of his life, but that wasnot his biggest concern.
He wrote to say how difficult ithad been to vote in the last
(53:55):
presidential election inNovember of 2016.
This poor guy
Stephanie (54:00):
recount, recount those fucking votes.
He knows
Dani (54:04):
around that time he was in the VA in Milwaukee, March and
said, quote.
There were 30 of us in there andwe were not allowed to vote.
Nuh, he claimed most all of uswould've voted for Democrat.
Hillary Clinton Marchant toldthe paper, I think this needs
(54:25):
looking into the Idaho statesmandid look into it.
they reached out to Ada County'schief election official.
Phil McGrain said he couldn'tfind a record of Marchant being
registered to vote in Idaho, gota
Stephanie (54:40):
register, bruh,
Dani (54:42):
and he wouldn't be eligible to vote in Wisconsin
because he wasn't a residentthere.
But if he had been registered inIdaho, it would've been his
responsibility to ask for anabsentee ballot.
Mm-hmm.
Case closed.
Check, check.
Stephanie (55:01):
He's like, listen up folks.
There's a fucking conspiracy.
Mm-hmm.
I know that some girl might havebeen murdered, but here's the
real issue.
The
Dani (55:10):
real problem is, let
Stephanie (55:12):
me tell you what's wrong with our country.
It was just, sir, you are anabsolute fucking menace.
Thank you to society.
And he's like, I'm doing thisfor our country.
Take a nap.
Sir.
We've heard, we've heard enough.
Dani (55:35):
on September 5th.
Marchant pled guilty to firstdegree murder in a plea deal
with prosecutors.
The rape and kidnapping chargeswere dropped.
That happens in the plea deal.
He got the big one.
when Marchant was asked byfourth district Judge Jonathan
mea, whether he committed firstdegree murder, he replied,
quote, yes, sir, your Honor.
(55:57):
The judge asked him why he pledguilty, and Marchant said that
if the case went to trial, thecourt would have no choice but
to give him the maximum penaltyand quote, I want to plead
guilty because that's whathappened.
Okay.
Judge Medina wanted to make surethat Marchant understood the
consequences of pleading guilty,especially after Marchant
claimed that he would receive ahundred thousand dollars a year
(56:19):
while in prison, and that he hadinvented the Toyota Prius.
Stephanie (56:27):
Also, ever heard of a Tesla?
I made it.
Ever heard of sliced bread?
That was me.
March ditch motherfucker.
I'm, I'm so sorry.
I'm so, what else?
What else could he, electricity
Dani (56:48):
who was flying a kite with a key on it?
Stephanie (56:51):
I was,
Dani (56:52):
uh, when the judge pressed marching again, which good for
the judge, right?
Yes.
He's like,
Stephanie (56:56):
thank you, judge, for being like, when the judge
pressed
Dani (56:58):
marching again, asking if he understood what was going on
in the court hearing, Marchantreplied that he was not sleeping
well, and that is why he seemedconfused.
Then Marchant said, quote, Ichoked Sierra Bush with my hands
until she died.
Marchant's sentencing hearingwas on December 6th.
(57:19):
Mary Hillen told the courtquote, I miss her smile, her
laugh, and talking to her abouteverything.
They were very close, judge.
Yeah, judge Mea said quote, inmy view, Mr.
Marchant is a dangerous person.
Mr.
Marchant has been dangerous fora long time, thank
Stephanie (57:38):
you,
Dani (57:38):
and will continue to be dangerous until the day he dies.
Marchant was sentenced to lifein prison without the
possibility of parole.
So how, how did Marchant knowSierra
Stephanie (57:54):
Exact, how did they encounter each other?
Dani (57:58):
Marchant had been renting a home from Phil Bush, Sierra's
dad, Phil, this is what's so,ugh, Phil, because he was
helping, he was into helpingpeople that needed help.
Uh, oh my God.
Phil evicted him from theproperty due to misconduct.
We all know wish everyone whoever encountered this
(58:18):
motherfucker reported neighborsaid Phil had gone out of his
way to help Marchant and othersstruggling with mental health
and addiction issues.
After kicking Marchant out, Phileven agreed to loan him cash,
but Marchant never came to getthe money.
On the morning of September25th, Marchant showed up at Phil
(58:42):
and Sierra's house.
Phil was at church.
Although authorities didn't knowwhether Marchant came that hou
to the house that day to pick upcash or to get revenge for being
evicted, they said that therewas evidence that he had
previously peeped in Sierra'swindows.
Marchant broke into the housethat morning and raped and
(59:03):
killed Sierra.
There was a large amount ofblood found on various surfaces
in her bedroom.
Stephanie (59:11):
Absolutely fucking terrible.
Dani (59:14):
as of 2025, merchant is 69 years old and in custody at the
Idaho Maxim SecurityInstitution.
Bruce March's Life was ablueprint for chaos, arson,
armed robbery shootouts withdeputies.
Endless parole violations and atrail of violence that prison
(59:34):
walls couldn't contain.
In the end, it all led to themurder of Sierra Bush, an
18-year-old, with her whole lifeahead of her,
Stephanie (59:43):
and I'm so sorry I, I know that this is one case, but
I'm so fucking sick of hearingthis again and again and again
of either someone that's.
Dancing on the lines of beingjailed or not, and different
loopholes and this and that,allow people to act.
(01:00:08):
And, I mean, this wasacquaintances and therapists and
pe Other people are this guy'sout
Dani (01:00:15):
of control.
Like, and I feel like evenadvocating, like, you know, I
look at some of these storiesthat I researched mm-hmm.
And the mental illness is athing.
Sure.
Like, and I feel.
Terrible.
if you are mentally ill andhave, but it's, if you're not
taking your medication andyou're a danger to society,
there has to be an alternative.
(01:00:37):
Mm-hmm.
So that other people do not get
Stephanie (01:00:42):
hurt there.
The protections for people thatare being harassed and stalked
and.
let's say if she knew that hewas peeking in her window for
months or years, or he was evengoing into their house and they
couldn't really prove it.
There's so many stalking caseswhere until you're physically
harmed.
Dani (01:01:02):
Mm-hmm.
Stephanie (01:01:04):
Too bad.
And also essentially, and thelaw enforcement doesn't want to
say that, but legally that'smm-hmm.
That's what they can say.
And so for this.
Dani (01:01:14):
And I, mental illness is a real issue, but it should not be
excuse.
Stephanie (01:01:18):
And so, no, like, just like you said, it's not an
excuse.
So,
Dani (01:01:24):
and very sad.
I mean, there was, there wassome funny incidents in the
beginning, yes.
With ridiculous choices.
but in the end, I mean, and hewas an old man.
Look at how
Stephanie (01:01:34):
it, look at how it fucking ended up.
Dani (01:01:37):
He was 61 years old and he did this.
Stephanie (01:01:40):
What a fucking loser.
I'm sorry.
Dani (01:01:42):
Right.
Stephanie (01:01:44):
Retire, bro.
And
Dani (01:01:46):
she, and she was just, she was this tiny little thing and
he's, he's a big guy,
Stephanie (01:01:51):
but in making a positive impact, what a fucking
shame.
Fuck you, bro.
Rocked.
And he is, is all I have to say.
Dani (01:02:00):
And he is.
Stephanie (01:02:01):
And.
Absolutely.
Fuck you.
Thank you for telling the storyand doing that much research
because what a shit show.
This was, this spanned like adecade and a half, two decades.
Dani (01:02:17):
Uh, let's see, we started in, uh, 82.
Yeah, up in 2016.
We're,
Stephanie (01:02:24):
we're in the decades, and so this is, I know how much
time it takes.
So thank you Danny.
Thank you guys for justlistening and we love your
comments and emails and.
Feel free.
We love to chitty chat.
Let's do it.
Send us an email.
Let us know what you want.
We've got some new stuff coming,some more casual stuff of just
(01:02:46):
us.
We're good at yaking, aren't we?
Danny?
Kind of yak.
We we can, we can yak for hours.
So if that's what you're into ofjust a, a casual Yap session.
We're doing it.
Dani (01:03:02):
And we appreciate you listening.
Word of mouth.
Huge.
Go follow us on our socials.
Tell your friends, let us know.
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Send it way.
Stephanie (01:03:19):
We're trying to be like the cool kids.
Anyway, everyone, thank you fortuning in.
I'm Stephanie and I once brokemy own nose with my knee
Dani (01:03:31):
and I'm Danny and I hate big generators.
Fuck'em.
Bye.
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