Episode 315

At just 16 years old, Daniel Gore had already fallen through the cracks. While homeless in Beaverton, Oregon, he kept mostly to the confines of his tent in the woods while looking inward for a sense of belonging. Survival on the fringes wasn’t easy - especially when a body was discovered near his camp in May of 2022. While the community demanded answers, investigators worked to piece together a timeline...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Listener discretion is advised.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
And then I noticed some red in the water and
a blanket, a blue blanket with hair underneath, which I
had to convince myself with moss.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, I hope you appreciate this one, because I had
to drag my depressed ass out of bed after what
happened in Minneapolis this week. This is Sword and Scale,
episode three hundred and fifteen. Let's go, I guess. In

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the quiet city of Beaverton, Oregon, life moves at a
predictable pace. Those who live there usually know what to expect.
Families dine and cozy restaurants, children play in well kept parks,
and parents only rarely have to worry about the few
dreadlocked gypsies that have migrated from downtown Portland. And before

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you complain about me using the word gypsy because it
offends you, just realize that I don't give a shit.
But despite a few dirty hippies here and there, Beaverton
seems like a wonderful place. I mean, it was originally
named after all the beaver dams they had. What's cuter

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than that? Once a relatively small community, Beaverton has maintained
its reputation as a safe place for both residents and
business owners. It's also quite beautiful, naturally, a lot of
the West Coast is except for the people.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Of course, citizens value safety hugely here, but our department shines.
It keeps us safe and it's highly valued. And that's
absolutely another key reason to why businesses locate here in
value being here in Beaverton.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Aside from becoming home to corporate giants such as Nike
and Tektronics, the city's public transit is another unique contributor
to its booming economy.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Beaverton is on the easterly edge of Washington County, and
it is really the hub for transport to choices. We've
got great transit options here. We have the Max Train,
the West Train. We also have a tremendous bus network.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Despite its growth, Beaverton's wooded trails, quiet streams, and parks
are what make the city unique. It's got the best
of both worlds. But like anywhere, there are aspects of
Beaverton that aren't exactly advertised on postcards or in travel brochures.
It's not an escape for everyone. For many the forests

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of the Pacific Northwest are less a refuge and more
of a last resort, a place where the ever growing
homeless population struggles to survive when there's nowhere else to go.
Sixteen year old Daniel Ryan Gore was one of the
city's underbelly residents. But he wasn't living in the woods

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out of necessity. He was there by choice. In his eyes,
anything was better than living at home with his parents.
He was born in Oklahoma, and his family moved to
Beaverton when he was only eleven years old. A short
time later, they relocated again, this time to the more
affordable town of Salem.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
What thought you guys? Oh okay, I think it was
one of my parents' jobs. And then you got too.
Was it the Beaberton area initially into the New New
York And so mom and dad are down there. Do
you have any family up in this area?

Speaker 7 (04:33):
We are.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Allegedly, his parents did what they could to provide him
with better opportunities. I have my doubts, but Daniel wasn't
like most kids. He started feeling more like an outsider
with each passing year. Constantly moving around and being placed
in new school districts made it hard for Daniel to
make friends. He struggled academically and spent most afternoons at

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the lunch table alone. He was often seen wearing headphones
blaring heavy metal and rap music to block out the
world around him. Eventually, Daniel did break out of his shell,
but not in a good way. By the time he
entered high school, Daniel had established a reputation as a
class clown, and instead of being the popular funny guy,

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he was more known as the weird goth kid who
would randomly scream and class for laughs that were rarely received.
As he strayed further from his peers, he leaned more
into music, connecting with underground artists more than any of
his classmates. That's when Daniel discovered Seven, a progressive metal

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rapper out of Atlanta, Georgia.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
He was pretty obsessed with this artist, like loved everything
he did, every song he came out with, every post
he made. He would re post like Instagram videos or
tiktoks about people. Other people obsessing over this artist.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
On the rare occasion when Daniel did converse with other students,
Seven and his latest song became the only thing he
cared to talk about. He was fixated. Unfortunately, the other
kids weren't that interested. It wasn't long after that Daniel
convinced himself he just didn't belong, not just in school,

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but in society. Right around that time, he dropped out
and had plans to run away from home. Shortly after
his sixteenth birthday, he packed an oversized duffel bag and
bought a bus ticket to Portland. Without any savings or
a place to go, he ended up living on the
streets of Oregon's busiest city. I'm sure you've seen the

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homeless encampments out there and all the rioting and drug use.
Daniel found himself in parks or underneath the overhang of
the First Interstate Bank. After a few months, he eventually
got sick of being woken up by cops or having
business owners kick him off their property. That's when he
decided he needed to move somewhere more remote, somewhere quiet

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and safe from all the tweakers roaming around downtown Portland
like zombies. Nothing says compassion like continuing to let that happen. Anyway,
While he certainly could have gone back home to his
parents in Salem, that thought never crossed his mind. After
hopping on one of the computers inside the city library,

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and a few Google searches later, it was settled. Sixteen
year old Daniel was headed back to Beaverton.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
Okay, So you.

Speaker 8 (07:46):
Take a bus from stay Along to Wilsonville and then
you get on the map shrink in Wilsonville and there okay,
And it's three bucks for that long to that.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Shot a bo Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
By now, he was well versed in public transportation, so
hopping on a bus at Union Station was nothing new.
After panhandling long enough to afford a one way ticket,
Daniel was on the next bus out of town. When
he arrived, Daniel spent the little cash he had left
on supplies with plans to set up camp in the woods.

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After walking for miles, he eventually came across the Progress
Ridge shopping center in Beaverton's south end. At an ace
hardware store inside the plaza, he purchased a camping tent
and blue blanket before walking through the parking lot towards
the tree line. As he finished setting up camp, Daniel

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felt a sense of calm wash over him. His new
home was quiet, serene. Besides the faint noise of cars
and the shopping mall roughly two football fields away. Daniel
had the woods all to himself. If he needed something
to eat, he'd walk the short distance to the shopping
stone center to dig through the dumpsters for food that

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had been recently tossed away. When that didn't work, he'd
hit New Season's Market, an overpriced grocery store located in
the plaza where the rich folk of Beaverton shopped. Luckily,
for Daniel, money was no object, literally he had none.
Right before the last register was about to close, Daniel

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would stroll the aisles, pretending to shop, before secretly stuffing
a package of hot dogs or a can of chili
in his coat pocket. After that, he walked across the
parking lot into the woods, where he'd start a campfire
and cook himself a meal. A stolen one doesn't sound
that bad, to.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
Be honest, how long have you been stand.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
In the texts, Daniel had been living outside for a
couple of months up to this point. As much as
he enjoyed the privacy, he was I was a sixteen
year old boy, and eventually Daniel got bored. That's when

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he started frequenting the shopping mall more often, not to
steal hot dogs, but to socialize. The AMC movie theater
at the Plaza was one of the main places Daniel
started hanging out. Eventually he met some kids his age who,
like him, had nothing else to do on a Friday
night but catch the late night showing of Avatar two.

(10:30):
Didn't see it, but I heard that was shit. Finally
Daniel had a solid group of friends. For the first
time ever, he felt accepted. Imagine that the local teens
who attended high school in Beaverton, a few miles down
the road, knew he was homeless, but never judged him.
If anything, they were concerned for his well being, especially

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when the colder months rolled around. One day in January
twenty twenty two, Daniel arrived at the AMC Theater to
meet up with his new friends, but they noticed his
clothes were soaking wet. It was clear he'd been struggling
to survive in this tent just a couple hundred yards away.

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Daniel told his friends he was fine, but after visiting
the camp, they knew from the damaged tarps ready to
cave in from the fresh snowfall that they really needed
to get Daniel out of the woods. I wonder what
his parents were doing.

Speaker 9 (11:28):
Around this time, I was having friends over. I had
recently met a new group and they asked me to
invite one of their friends over, and I said yes.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
During one particular visit to a friend's home, Daniel and
a group of others were hanging out watching TV. At
one point, while the group was eating a meal the
mother prepared, Daniel's friend mentioned that he was homeless.

Speaker 9 (11:53):
I was made aware that he didn't have a house,
and I told my mother that, and she started crying
and told me he could do his laundry whenever he wanted.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
The girl's mother instantly broke into tears and insisted he
stay with them that night. Well, he wasn't used to
accepting a helping hand. This time he did and was
genuinely thankful. From that point forward, anytime the weather was harsh,
the mother of Daniel's friend insisted he stay with them.

Speaker 9 (12:25):
Eventually it started snowing, and my mom was even more
sad and wanted him to be safe and let him
stay the night every once in a while when it
was really cold. At different times when he was hungry,
she would of course let him eat our food, and
sometimes I'm pretty sure got him canned food from either
pantries or our pantry.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
One night, when Daniel showed up at the door, the
mom surprised him with a gift. It was a brand
new orange puffer coat. Daniel couldn't have been more grateful,
as the weather was only getting worse. Turn the favor,
Daniel would offer to help around the house during his
overnight stays. He was polite and came across as a

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genuine teenager who just needed some help. Accepting it, though,
was something Daniel struggled with. After retreating back to his
campsite and vanishing behind the trees, Daniel started to isolate
himself again, left with nothing but his thoughts and dark
lyrics from heavy metal music crackling through his cheap headphones.

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As the snow continued to fall, his friends and their
families feared that Daniel might not make it through the night.
But it wasn't just the harsh elements that they had
to be concerned with, as there was no way of
knowing the sheer violence that was about to unfold in
those very same Oregon woods. For Daniel Gore, life wasn't easy.

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At just sixteen years old, he left home with no
plan and barely enough cash to purchase a bus ticket
to Portland, Oregon. When life on the streets became too harsh,
he sought refuge in the nearby woods of Beaverton and
set up camp behind the Progress Ridge Shopping Center. Unfortunately,
with homelessness often comes danger and sometimes the threat of

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extreme violence. While he struggled to find his way in
the world, any chance of starting over for Daniel was
inevitably destroyed when a harrowing discovery was made on May tenth,
twenty twenty two, past three pm, a group of local
residents was walking along Barrows Road before veering onto the

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west Side Regional Trailhead, directly located behind the Progress Ridge
Shopping Center in Beaverton.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
We walked through into the forest wooded area and walked
around for a while. We didn't see much.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
After a short trek, they came across a pair of
ripped sweatpants hanging from a branch, as well as a
pair of high top converse sneakers that were stuck in
the mud. The group became worried almost immediately after walking
towards the items, they noticed something else.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
And then I noticed some red in the water and
a blanket A blue blanket with hair underneath, which I
had convinced myself with moss.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
The blanket was draped over a shallow creek that ran
through the woods. As they neared closer, they noticed the
raised and pression of something underneath. What was even more
suspicious was that the blanket had been weighed down by
several logs and rocks. It was at this point that
the group stepped back and shocked, before running out of

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the woods and notifying police.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
Are you talking about this little spot way down the years? Okay?
Do you guys want to wait way up here for me?
And then we'll come back up.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
And in a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
When authorities arrived, the scene was immediately secured as people
started to swarm around the caution tape perimeter.

Speaker 10 (16:45):
I saw like a bevy of cops in like a circle.
Seems like they were doing a search. I was very
surprised to all the police here. I mean, I had
to connect the dots. They're they're being very you know,
quiet about it.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
All that well, the vast presence of s UV's and
police users lined the streets just behind them and down
the small ravine. Crime scene texts started carefully gathering evidence
in the woods.

Speaker 11 (17:09):
Well, I could tell about the blanket that it appeared
it was weighted down and there was definitely something under it.
It looked like I had noticed human hair in the water,
and at some point I think I pointed that out.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Upon examining the blanket waiting in the water, forensics started
lifting the stones and debris.

Speaker 12 (17:26):
We removed the blanket and it was photographed in place.
There were multiple branches and large rocks that had been
placed on the body to hold it down and in
place in the water.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
The body of a deceased teenage victim was found. The
individual was completely nude except for their socks. Ligature marks
were visible on their neck. The face was swollen and bruised.
Investigators then took notice of one of the victim's fingernails.

Speaker 12 (17:56):
It actually had been snapped back at the nail bed
and it was just kind of hanging.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
The victim's family was notified immediately. That same evening. The
city of Beaverton, Oregon, fell into a collective state of
shock when authorities released the name of the teen found
dead in the woods.

Speaker 13 (18:17):
We want to get straight to some breaking news out
of Beaverton tonight. Police say they've found the body of
a missing.

Speaker 14 (18:22):
Student tonight, we know the circumstances surrounding the girl's death
are suspicious.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
At around seven am on Monday, May ninth, a Cell
Lee arrives home from her overnight shift at the Nike
store in Beaverton. She hasn't seen her daughter, Milana since
the evening before when she left for work. She calls
out for her, but there's no answer. Thinking Milana must
have simply left early for school, she decides to check

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her daughter's bedroom just to be sure. When a Cell
cracks open the door, Uneasiness sets in when she notices
milan This book bag is still in the corner of
the room. A Cell starts making phone calls and reaches
out to Milana's friends, but no one is seen or
heard from her or worry deepens. She calls the school,

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hoping for reassurance, only to learn that Milana never showed
up that day. This is when panic starts to set in.
After nearly twenty four hours and still no sign of her,
a Cell and a group of Milana's friends take to
the streets and nearby woods, retracing her usual route, but

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then they find something off the wooded trails of Barrows Road.
Scattered along the damp forest floor are Milana's shoes and
torn pajama pants, the same items she was last seen wearing.
Moments later, they spot a blue blanket lying flat over

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a slow running creek. Unaware at that moment that beneath
that pile of debris is Milana's savagely beaten body.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
Yeah, it's just horribly sad.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Officers say that that young lady was Milana Lee.

Speaker 9 (20:12):
And we're just finding out about this in the past
hour or.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
So, and already some community members have put.

Speaker 9 (20:18):
Flowers here near where her body was found.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
They found her body in a small stream over here.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
This is the west Side Linear Park near the West
Side Trail.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
Police just left this scene.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
They had this all blocked off near Barrows Road for
this investigation.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Once the body was removed from the water and transported
by the corner in preparation for an autopsy, a group
of investigators expanded their search and proceeded further into the woods.
It wasn't long before they came across a homeless encampment
roughly two hundred yards from Progress Ridge Shopping Center. The

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site appeared to have been someone's long term dwelling as
indicated by a series of tarps meticulously tied from various
trees covering the small camping tent. Fresh food wrappers and
recently burnt embers inside a small fire pit suggested that
whoever was staying there hadn't left long before police arrived.

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Directly adjacent to the camping tent was the discarded packaging
of a blanket consistent with the same blanket used to
conceal Milana's body. The authorities searched inside the tent, they
found a diary. Upon reading it, they immediately took notice
of the phrase I feel like dexter ominously written inside

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the journal. Something else that struck the deputy's azad was
a collage of artwork found etched into a nearby tree.
Chiseled into the bark were several skulls with joker type smiles,
adorned with a unique set of devil horns each of
the cartoons heads. It was unclear what the images were,

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but all the pocket knife carvings depicted a rendition of
the same character. Back at the primary crime scene, additional
items of evidentiary value were being collected In addition to
the clothing and broken fingernail. The victim's purse was found
a few meters north waiting in the creek. The bag

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was partially filled with water and missing one of its
leather straps. Investigators eventually recovered the missing strap in a
nearby bush. Inside the purse was Milana's phone case, but
her device was missing.

Speaker 12 (22:43):
We did an emergency connection with her phone through T
Mobile to try to get her Latin longitude, but where
her cell phone was last seen so we would have
an idea of where to start looking.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Once a subpoena was successfully filed through Milana's phone carrier,
authorities learned that her device showed activity throughout Beaverton several
hours after the murder and had just recently been powered off.
Upon accessing the victim's final texts and online messages, they
found a Facebook correspondence that started the afternoon she disappeared.

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This conversation was between Milana and a sixteen year old
named Daniel Gore surprised, huh, come on, this is sortan scale.
On May eighth, twenty twenty two, Milana contacted Daniel at
around two thirty pm. She asked him what his plans

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were that afternoon. Daniel responded to the message stating he
was at the local library so that he could use
the Internet. The fuck is the purpose of libraries in
twenty twenty five now that we have the Internet? Oh right,
masturbatoriums for homeless people and a huge waste of taxpayer money.

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If you asked me, leave your outrage in the comments, Karen. Anyway,
Eventually the two arranged to meet up Daniel and Milana
with the intention of getting drunk with some mutual friends.
Over the course of several hours, Milana and Daniel continued
to communicate on Facebook. Milana sent several more messages asking

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Daniel who would be joining them that evening. Daniel responded
by providing the names of one male and at least
two other girls, but said he wasn't sure if they
were going to make it. At around six pm, location
data placed Milana at her residence before traveling towards the
shopping plaza less than half a mile away. At six

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thirty pm, Milana's cell phone pinged at Menshi's Frozen Yogurt
at the Progress Ridge Shopping Center. Surveillance footage from inside
the business corroborated Milana's location when she was seen entering
Menshe's accompanied by a male teenager.

Speaker 15 (25:03):
It depicts May eighth, twenty twenty two. It will show
Daniel Gore and Malana Lee together around six forty pm,
enter the location and a leave three minutes later.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Milana is seen in the footage wearing pajama pants and
high top converse sneakers as she orders a cup of
frozen yogurt, while the male suspect is captured on camera
wearing a bright orange puffer jacket. Minutes later, surveillance captures
Milana and the suspect walking through the parking lot to

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a bus stop. The two are seen boarding a bus
before its doors close and they start traveling eastbound. Minutes later,
they're captured on surveillance a few blocks away, exiting the
bus at a nearby intersection before boarding another one. The
evidence indicated that the pair rode a series of buses
for a total of twenty five minutes before finally getting

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off at a walgreen It's less than a mile north
of where the trip started. Imagine riding public buses for fun.
What it is to be young and stupid. The next
time the pair was spotted was at seven forty five pm,
walking south in the vicinity of the shopping Plaza and
approaching the West Side Regional Trail.

Speaker 16 (26:23):
This is the very last time Malala ley is caught
on him and was haunting about this energy.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
She has no idea did in just over an hour
her life.

Speaker 10 (26:35):
Would be ticket.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
After identifying the individual who was believed to be Daniel Gore,
of course, investigators started looking into his online activity. Through
both his Facebook and Instagram messages, authorities were able to
track down friends of the suspect who he'd been communicating
with before and after the murder. Hours after Milana's body

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was found, detectives arrived at an apartment complex in Beaverton,
where a female friend of Daniel's met them in the
doorway and welcomed them inside. As they entered the home,
one of the officers immediately noticed what was hanging on
a nearby coat rack.

Speaker 15 (27:16):
There was an orange goose down puffy coat hanging at
the entrance. The coat had a noticeable amount of mud
on the hood, and there was also a bag of
laundry in the living room that I later learned was

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potentially relevant.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
When authorities asked the girl who the jacket belonged to,
she said Daniel. She went on to say that he
regularly stayed over on cold nights due to the fact
he was homeless. When asked when she saw him last,
the suspect's friend told police on May eighth, at around
eight forty five pm, wearing the orange jacket, I.

Speaker 9 (28:03):
Noticed scratches on his face and I asked him how
he got those, along with how he had met on
his pants, and he said he fell.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
According to her statements to police, he was acting a
bit strange at the time.

Speaker 9 (28:15):
He was more standoffish, which was another observation my mom
and I talked about. But I was definitely disappointed because
he's usually really respectful to my mom.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
He was abnormally quiet and at one point retreated to
the bathroom.

Speaker 9 (28:28):
He went to the restroom to make a private call,
which wasn't normal for him, and so it was kind
of secretive.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
According to the witness, Daniel changed his clothes a short
time later before leaving the residents. After gaining permission to
search the property, investigators made their way to the garage.
Inside one of the trash cans was a pair of
men's jeans soaked in water and covered in dirt. After

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tracing Daniel's call made from his friend's bathroom, investigators were
led to a young woman named Eva, Daniel's ex girlfriend
who had known him since the third grade.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
It was a really, really unhealthy relationship. There was a
lot of codependency from both sides in my relationship with him.
I was very isolated from the people in my life,
including my parents and friends, and really he was the
main support that I felt I had.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Long before Daniel was homeless and wanted for suspicion of murder,
Eva was one of the few friends he had. She
herself was a loner, which led the two of them
to form a deeply codependent and emotionally unstable relationship. When
they first started dating years before, Eva became increasingly defiant

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towards authority figures, a character trait surely mimicked and learned
by her boy friend Daniel. Over the years, they fed
off each other's chaos, cycling between intense closeness and explosive arguments.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
We were both very extremely reliant on each other emotionally.
We needed to be in contact almost constantly. There were
times where if I wouldn't answer him, he would find.
He would always find a way. If it wasn't text,
he would find. Ever since we'd started dating in eighth grade,
he would find a way to email me or even

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text me from an xbox.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Like most toxic relationships, Eva and Daniel brought out the
worst in each other, and when she inevitably started to
pull away, Daniel became increasingly erratic and controlling.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
He was an extremely jealous person. He didn't want me
having guy friends or really contact with any guys. Anytime
I mentioned any guy saying anything like one just called
me a nickname, he would threaten them and literally say like, oh,
I want to kill them.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
These behaviors didn't go unnoticed by Eva's friends, but more
notably her parents. You see, they were actually paying attention.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
He would make me feel like he was the only
person that could make me feel loved or happy, and
would encourage me to do things to go against my
father or my parents in general, which really created a
big divide between me and my family.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Eva's parents were so worried about her safety that they
eventually put the relationship to an end for her. Sometimes
you gotta just do what you gotta do, even if
your kids hate you for it. As long as she
was living under their roof, Eva was no longer allowed
to see Daniel. From that point on. Well, she may

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not have seen it at the time. Being exiled from
Daniel very well may have saved her life. But it
wasn't just women and Daniel had a problem with. It
was the law as well. Roughly three months before Milana
was found dead, faced down in a creek, Daniel was
placed on probation in February twenty twenty two. At the time,

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the juvenile courts of Salem, Oregon, found him guilty of
multiple offenses, including second degree theft, criminal mischief, and arson.
According to court records, Daniel was arrested after attempting to
burn down a movie theater in the Portland area. As
a result, the Washington County DA recommended that he beheld

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in juvenile detention, but despite the DA's concerns for public safety,
the Washington County Juvenile Department released him back to his
family in Salem. I mean, they'd done such a great
job up until this point. Weeks later, Daniel ran away
from his home to start a new life as a
homeless person living in the woods of Beaverton. What a life.

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In April of that year, Daniel's father emailed Salem's Juvenile
department to inform them that his son might be somewhere
in the Beaverton area, but for whatever reason, Daniel's father
was ignored and the Juvenile Department failed to notify the
DA or the local police. Despite their breakup, Eva and

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Daniel continued to communicate regularly, and while there was physical
distance between the two, he managed to keep an emotional
hold on her, But as time passed, she was able
to see the situation for what it actually was.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
Over time, I had separation from Daniel, and so there
was a lot less of that fear in that. Also,
like I loved him and I wanted to be able
to have him in my life, and so as there
was time in my life where he wasn't a part
of it, it became a lot easier to see the

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situation without the emotional lens.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
When Eva was ultimately questioned by police after a body
was found in the woods, she admitted that Daniel called
her from his friend's house not long after Milana was
last seen alive.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
He's calling me, and he sounded stressed or upset in
some way, and he started telling me that like he
had done something and he couldn't tell me what it was,
and so I kept like pressing and pushing, being like
what did you do? Where were you? Because at this point,
like I have no idea what's going on, and he's

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just telling me like I did something bad, Like I
can't tell you what it is. I was just telling
me that he had gone to hang out with Milana
and was just telling me that he did something. He
took care of it, he handled it, and was implying
that he had done something bad to her.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
After speaking with the suspects ex girlfriend, locating him became
that much more dire as he was still out there
walking amongst the public.

Speaker 11 (35:05):
We were following up on every lead. I would encourage people,
no matter how small they think, that their tip is
to call us in because it could be that thing
that leads us to the portion of the case that
we need to solve.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
It became clear from the very start that Daniel Gore
was much more dangerous than the innocent drifter he portrayed
himself as to his friends around Beaverton. His exact connection
to the victim was still unknown, but as someone who
knows the woods of Beaverton better than anyone else, there
was no telling where he was given the state in

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which he left Milana's body not far from his campsite.
Authorities weren't blind to the fact that provided the opportunity,
there wasn't much stopping Daniel from committing further acts of violence. Then,
on the evening of May tenth, authorities received a call
from a state member of the Murray School's Branch library

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and Masturbatorium in Beaverton. The caller told dispatch that he
believed a man matching Daniel's description was using the Internet
and sitting at one of the computer kiosks. When officers
were dispatched, Daniel spotted police with their guns drawn as
they made their way through the front door.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
As I approached kind of more of the backside of
the library, I saw a gentlemen that kind of matched
his description get up and run out the back door.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
As he fled through an emergency exit, Deputies chased after him,
but somehow Daniel managed to escape. That little fucker was
fast back inside the library. One of the staff members
stood guard at the computer the suspect was using, only
to notice a Facebook Messenger tab still active on the screen.

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While he glanced at the conversation between the suspect and
one of his friends. The library employee retrieved a roll
of Scotch tape and a piece of computer paper to
cover the screen until police could take a closer look.

Speaker 10 (37:03):
I saw two lines of print. They said, comps are here.

Speaker 16 (37:08):
I think they're looking for Milana.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Immediately following his escape, all units were dispatched to the
surrounding areas. Within the hour, police retrieved a tip that
the suspect had been spotted entering a nearby apartment unit
located a few blocks away. As officers surrounded the complex,
they eventually noticed movement upon a second story balcony. The

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individual pressed against the wall, attempting to hide, and was
quickly identified as their suspect. Daniel was surrounded, and, after
realizing there was nowhere to run, he walked out of
the building's main entrance with his hands in the air.
As he made his way towards the officers, they could

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see he was holding something while being placed in cuffs.
One of the deputies ripped the object away from him,
only to find what appeared to be a white Halloween
mask that was an exact replica of the skull drawings
etched into a tree at Daniel's campsite in early May

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of twenty twenty two, Acel Lee returned home from an
overnight shift to find that her daughter, Milana, was missing.
At first, she assumed she may have left early that
morning for school, but as the hours passed and Milana
failed to answer her phone, concern turned into panic Assel

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and a group of Milana's friends started searching the neighborhood,
calling out for her. Their efforts led them to a
trailhead off of Barrows Road, where they found her shoes
and torn pajama pants scattered near a wooded area. The
search came to a tragic end on May tenth, when
Milana's loved ones stumbled upon a blue blanket in a

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shallow creek just off the West Side Regional Trail. Underneath it,
weighed down by rocks and logs, was Milana's lifeless body.
She had been beaten, strangled, and left for dead. The
discovery triggered a full scale homicide investigation, prompting authorities to

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piece together her last known movements. Data pulled from Milana's
device showed that she'd been active on Facebook the afternoon
she disappeared, chatting with a sixteen year old named Daniel Gore.
Their conversation revealed plans to meet up that evening in
surveill footage later confirmed they'd spent the night wandering through Beaverton,

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boarding buses and eventually making their way into the woods.
Authorities ultimately tracked their suspect to a public library. When
police arrived, Daniel fled, only to be arrested a short
time later when he was found hiding at a friend's apartment.
With their suspect now in custody. Detectives finally had the

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opportunity to speak with Daniel when he was brought in
for questioning and try to piece together why you have
the right.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
To remain silent. They can understand what that means. Okay,
tell me what that means?

Speaker 8 (40:41):
Right? So when when did you argue?

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Very want to talk to me about what you've and
staying stuff. It was a states An area.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
The conversation started off casually, with detectives asking Daniel about
his day to day life. He seemed excited when the
topic of the library came up. I wonder why he
was eager to tell detectives how he spent a lot
of his time watching police body camp footage and true
crime videos on YouTube of all things.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
All right, yeah, we don't we don't like that or
anything like that or nothing like that. Body camp done?
Is it really that interesting? Usually that's the most fascinating
thing you've seen. I've seen so many comes to top. Also,

(41:39):
I don't remember how I watching. I don't remember. Can
I haven't mind saying about it? Oh, actually no, I
don't want any of lot I watched. It's called Code
Blue game.

Speaker 8 (41:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Eventually, the conversation shifted to the night of May eighth,
twenty twenty two, the last night Milana Lee was seen alive.
Daniel admitted that he and Milana had been drinking alcohol
together that evening, and that he was drunk before the
two boarded the first bus. Now here's an idea for
a law that makes sense. I'm sure you legal experts

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will tell me in the comments. Why is it legal
to sell alcohol or any other vices for that matter,
to the homeless? Can you give me a good reason
for that? Why don't we just make it illegal across
the board federally. That sure as hell would be a
deterrent to becoming homeless in the first place.

Speaker 6 (42:34):
And then you said you were drinking any monius was
like Nike started induction alcohol person, So how did you
get your hands on that.

Speaker 15 (42:48):
Good connections.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Daniel described how it was raining heavily that night, yet
struggled to recall any other key details. He insisted that
he and Lana eventually parted ways and that when the
night was over, he simply went back to his tent alone.
That's when detectives decided to confront Daniel about the blatant
scratches covering his face and arms.

Speaker 8 (43:14):
Help me understand how you got the scratches on the
outside of your right.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
Hand walls like brick walls. Okay, when did you do
that to your uh?

Speaker 10 (43:30):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
The authorities were certain Daniel was already well aware, detectives
chose to inform him that Milana had been found dead
in the woods just hours before.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
So I have some news about Milana, okay, and I
want to share with you. She was found today. She
was diseased, Yes, female aware.

Speaker 12 (44:00):
Well that's what yeah, you but you know, we're out
chatting with people to find out you know, it's.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
Much information as that can She would sound kind of
the progress area. So I wanted to talk to you
about what.

Speaker 8 (44:15):
You may know that you give us, you know, points
in a direction of who we can talk to or.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
Well, do you know anything about how she may have died?
Because I'll be honest with you too, because, like chat said,
I was doing this for quite a while. If you're pretty.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
I guess unemotional when we give you news that you
were the last person seen with someone who has now deceased.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
To me, there doesn't doesn't seem to be any worry
or it's just kind of this flag affect. I mean
sort of like it's just like I don't know how
to descarded.

Speaker 16 (44:56):
It's just like because I didn't know that well, stuff
like that, stuff like involved stuff.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
I guess I'm just like I've seen.

Speaker 16 (45:04):
I'm just like, yeah, stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
What kind of death is that you familiar?

Speaker 7 (45:12):
With?

Speaker 16 (45:13):
Some of my friends as into I'm sure you mail
like cour videos. They would watch that on or on
and was just I saw it on it was just
like seeing it too much and it was.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Like Daniel Gore is into Gore. Great, I'm gonna go
ahead and leave the dad jokes out of this one.
The story's pissing me off more than anything.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
A lot of people that live in your position would
at least be a little bit worried or concerned they're
the last person to be seen with the dead girl.

Speaker 16 (45:44):
Just like I said, I've been very sensitized.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Daniel was then asked if authorities could expect to find
his DNA at the crime scene.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
The one is her DNA found the affair. Else there's
either be any DNA inside her body or anywhere line
her body that would have otherwise he'd ever up with clothes.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
While he denied any involvement in the crime throughout his
police interview, the evidence doesn't lie, and the truth behind
what really happened to Milana that night in the woods
is well, let's just put it this way. The following
description of events is speculative based on all the available

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police reports and witness testimony and all the other information
we could find, but it captures a broad truth of
what happened that night.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
It was just before eight pm on May eighth. The
rain is pouring down heavily in Beaverton, Oregon, and Milana
and Daniel are approaching the woods behind the Progress Ridge
Shopping Center. They'd spent the better part of the evening
riding city buses and sneaking SIPs of alcohol hidden inside
Daniel's backpack. The sixteen year old has downed more than

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a few of his pre mixed margaritas, Milana's only had
a single corona. As the two make their way towards
the West Side Regional trailhead, they eventually exit the park's
surveillance camera's frame. The distant street lights beyond the trees
slowly fade away with each step they take into the

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woods as they trudge through the mud along the narrow path.
The alcohol in Daniel's belly keeps him warm. The two
laugh intermittently on their trek as the rain drops over
the thick canopy of leaves above. Somewhere along their route,
Milana's carefree demeanor shifts a bit. She looks around, only

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to realize how included she is now alone in the
darkness with a boy she barely knows. The thrill of
underage drinking has worn off, and Milana tells Daniel she'd
better get back home. Daniel stops in his tracks and
turns to Milana, but says nothing. With a drunken grin.

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He steps towards Milana and presses his dirt covered palms
around her waist. She stiffens and both disgusted and surprised,
but Daniel persists and leans in to kiss her. Immediately,
she rejects his advances and shoves him. She turns to leave,
but Daniel reaches for her arm and pulls her body

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into his. Milana swipes at his arm, and Daniel becomes enraged.
As Milana turns to run, she's knocked to the ground
from a harsh shove to the back, setting her purse
flying through the air. She hits the dirt and screams
for help. Without a second to react, Daniel's fist lands

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on the side of her cheek. Milana raises her hands
in defence, but not quickly enough. As Daniel delivers a
series of blows.

Speaker 17 (49:14):
She has a number of examples of blunt injury. In particular,
we can see some bruising on her left shoulder and
on the left side of her face.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
As the rain water mixes with the blood now pouring
from Milana's nose, she manages to get to her feet,
but her shoes seep deep into the mud. With her
feet planted, unable to move, Milana claws and swings her
hands wildly, scratching Daniel's face and hands in the process.

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This only infuriates him more, and Daniel throws another right hook,
splitting Milana's lip as she falls to the ground again.
While laying on her back, Malana continues to rake her
nails across her attacker's face, being one of them off and.

Speaker 17 (50:02):
Not only did it take the prosthetic nail, but it
also took her native nail underneath and pulled it up.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
She tries to crawl away, but Daniel flips her body
over and forces his way on top of her. With
his knees pressed into Milana's ribs, Daniel proceeds to choke her.
He then reaches for her purse just inches away. One
of the last things Milana sees is the strap of
the purse raise over her head before feeling it wrapped

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tightly around her neck. Daniel pulls back on the leather
strap as hard as he can, becoming aroused at the
sight of Milana's life leaving her body. Eventually, the purse
strap snaps and the woods becomes silent. Daniel stands over
Milana's corpse with the ligature dangling uselessly in his hand,

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but he isn't finished and now plans to take what
he came for. Now that the victim is no longer
a threat, Daniel removes Milana's mud covered converses before ripping
off her pajama bottoms and top layers of clothing. He
undos his belt buckle before pulling down his jeans past

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his waist. Daniel is a necrophiliac.

Speaker 17 (51:26):
The source of the blood in the vagina was this
laceration in the hymen.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Milana's autopsy confirmed she had been raped. The post mortem
examination showed visible signs of bruising and tearing to her
vaginal walls, along with the presence of male DNA located
inside the victim's body. Once finished with his depraved act,
Daniel moves methodically through the woods, the ones he knows

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like the back of his hand. He arrives at his
campsite moment slater, where he retrieves a blue blanket inside
his tent. After retracing his steps through the dark and
back to the crime scene, Daniel dragged Milana toward a
shallow creek located just a few feet away. At the

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water's edge, he rolls her over face down for draping
the blanket over her. He then rushes to gather several
rocks and logs and toss them on top of the
fabric to better conceal the body. Then he grabs Milana's
cell phone from her purse before fleeing into the night,

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leaving the purse, clothing, ligature, and his DNA behind. The
medical examiner's opinion was that the primary cause of death
came as a result of manual strangulation, but the water
found in Milana's lungs presented the possibility that she may
have still been alive at the time her body was

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dumped in the creek the horror.

Speaker 17 (53:05):
In this case, evidence that would indicate drowning include that
frothy liquid that was coming out of her nose that
might be seen in a.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Drowning, corroborated by cell phone data, surveillance and witness statements.
Daniel arrived at his friend's house across town a short
time later. After discarding his genes in the trash and
changing out of his clothes, he excused himself to the bathroom,
where he called his ex girlfriend Eva, only to be

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arrested roughly two days later.

Speaker 14 (53:38):
Tonight, we know the name of the juvenile charged with
murdering Milana. Lead was found dead at a Beaverton park
last week. The Washington County Sheriff's Office in The DA's
office says the alleged killer is sixteen year old Daniel Gore.
They say Gore was on probation for nonviolent charges, including
theft and arson. Gore was charged with first degree murder

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in juvenile court yesterday.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Did that motherfucker just say that arson is a nonviolent crime?
What is it with the media these days? Mostly peaceful protests?
Get the fuck out of here. In addition to first
degree murder, he was later charged with first degree rape.
Given the fact that he was a juvenile, a key
legal battle inevitably emerged concerning whether Gore would be tried

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as an adult. According to Oregon's original statute, juveniles fifteen
and older charged with violent crimes such as murder and
rape can be prosecuted as adults, but so called juvenile
justice reforms that passed in twenty nineteen introduced more leniency,

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prioritizing rehabilitation over lifelong incarceration, which meant that Gore could
avoid a life sentence. But to see, Daniel wasn't the
only juvenile in this story, and a lot of you
bleeding heart assholes always seem to side with the perpetrator

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instead of the actual victim. You see the victim was
also a juvenile. In fact, Milana was only thirteen thirteen,
barely a teenager, most certainly still very much a child.

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Milana's grandmother offered her opinion on why this piece of
shit deserves zero sympathy, no matter how leftist and backwards
you are.

Speaker 18 (55:37):
My grandute is gone, She's not this anymore here, so
I don't want he make here to other people.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
If he.

Speaker 18 (55:51):
Can plan so he can know what he's doing, So,
of course he has to go to as church as adult.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
During countless preliminary hearings, prosecutors argued the obvious that the
premeditated rape, strangulation, and disposal of thirteen year old Milano
Lee's body place Gore far beyond the scope of juvenile rehabilitation.

Speaker 13 (56:20):
This case is a horrific crime that occurred to a
thirteen year old girl. It is not the situation where
such leniency should be granted to a defendant who has
been found to have the adult like sophistication and maturity
of an adult. And there are certainly cases where a

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second chance should be given to young defendants.

Speaker 14 (56:45):
This is not one of them.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Thankfully, the judge agreed and Gore would stand trial. As
an adult, marking this case as a rare exception to
Oregon soft horseshit laws and propensity to protect violent assholes.

Speaker 14 (57:02):
The judge said Gore was sufficiently mature to understand his actions,
and keeping Gore in the juvenile system is not in
the best interest of Gore and society.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
When his murder trial finally started in November twenty twenty four,
the prosecution laid out a timeline of this brutal crime,
as well as Gore's personal connection to the victim. He'd
only known Milana for roughly two weeks prior to the murder,
when the two were introduced by mutual friends. According to witnesses,
Daniel was well aware that Milana was only thirteen, something

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that evidently didn't deter him in the slightest. Forensic analysts
testified to both the surveillance footage and the digital footprint
of the suspect leading up to Milana's last moments alive.
In addition to cell phone pings, the state also established
that Gore took Milana's phone and used it to send

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deceptive message is pretending to be her. Following the murder,
Gore also messaged multiple friends asking them to lie about
the last time they saw him, and even requested photos
from a recent trip to California in an attempt to
create a false alibi. Prosecutors presented evidence from Gore's Facebook
and Instagram as well, under the username body bag eighty six. Yep, yeah,

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the defendant's profile picture shows him wearing a white skull mask.
If only there were signs, you know, this image matched
the skulls found carved into a tree at Gore's campsite,
as well as the mask he had in his possession
at the time of his arrest. So what's up with
these skulls? Well, apparently the devil horn joker skull was

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the trademark of Gore's favorite musical artist, the trap metal
rapper named Seven. What the fuck is trap metal? You
might ask? Beats a fuck out of me. I'm fifty.

Speaker 7 (59:03):
He would draw this artist, and he made himself a
copy of the same mask that this artist had. He
definitely was less him. It made him feel very disconnected
and it really didn't feel like it was my boyfriend anymore.
Like all he cared about was just that mask and

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Seven and being like Seven.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Well, the artist isn't exactly well known. It's safe to
say he had no idea that he had a super
fan living in the woods of Beaverton, Oregon. I wonder
how many fans I have living out there in them woods.
Hopefully none. When the media first caught wind of the
defendant's journal that was located inside his tent, the words

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I Feel like Dexter written inside his notebook made headlines everywhere.
Why is every violent dumbass idolized Dexter? By the way,
oh right, right right? Network televisions accessible to the lowest
common denominator must be why so many stupid opinions keep
getting propagated. Local journals regurgitated inaccurate claims that Gore was

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inspired by the hit Showtime program that was later rerun
on CBS I believe distributed to the unwashed masses. They
love to promote their own shows, don't they, Those networks
News at eleven. But had they done the bare minimum
of research, the media may have realized that I Feel

(01:00:31):
like Dexter is actually the name of one of Seven's songs,
released just a few months before Milana was killed. So
the artist he idolizes is just as much of a dumbass.
Cool cool. Also, a little side note, here dexter didn't
actually kill innocent thirteen year old girls. He killed bad guys.

(01:00:54):
And also shout out to Michael C.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Hall.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
He's a good actor despite the show sucking. When looking
at Seven's Instagram page, the theme of murder appears to
make up his entire esthetic how edgy.

Speaker 7 (01:01:08):
He would dress up in a bunch of different kinds
of costumes, but the main thing is he had a
mask that like had the eyes cut out and a
drawn on smile on it, and usually it was paired
with like a hat, and it just made it so
you couldn't see his eyes, like his eyes were blacked out.
And in a lot of like his art or like

(01:01:30):
cover art, the mask would have blood on it, and
it was usually paired with pretty extreme clothing, usually black,
like just big boots and heavy black clothing with a
lot of like chains or chokers or stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Now I can't help but think that this unoriginal artiste.
Seven gets his name from the popular, very well made
David Fincher flick starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Great flick,
which gets its name from Oh I don't know the Bible,
seven deadly sins that sort of thing. I mean, how

(01:02:06):
many NPCs with not a speck of original thought are
walking amongst us these days? You know what, Let me
go see what these fuckers are all about. Give me
a second, I'll be right back. Okay, maybe I'm being

(01:02:31):
a little harsh. Music's not bad if you're in a
progressive metal It's really not my thing, but it's artistic.
I'll give him that. Maybe Grandpa needs to take a
chill pill and have a little nap. He's getting grumpy.
The murder of thirteen year olds will do that to
me anyway. In one photo on the artists Instagram, Seven

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can be seen wearing a female nurse costume while posing
over a makeshift operating tableting open a stuffed doll. Typical
edgy metal shit. I'll be honest, if I was seventeen,
on'd be all over it. The photo shows Seven blowing
a kiss to a wide angle lens while a blood

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soaked scalpel, metal hooks, and hatchet or seeing placed atop
a large rubber made container. His opposite hand is Seeing
clenched around the homemade doll.

Speaker 11 (01:03:25):
I e.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
His patient, which has its chest cavity exposed, with a
pair of scissors. Protruding from its ribs. For what it's worth,
the doll looks oddly familiar to Jigsaw, you know, the
puppet that rides the tricycle around before pushing you into
a pit of hypodermic needles and the movie Saw. Yeah,
that guy seems like a bit of a clusterfuck of

(01:03:48):
unoriginality if you ask me. But honestly, there's a lot
of that can't be too harsh. While it remained unclear
if Daniel Gore drew any inspiration from this violent rap music,
you can kind of see how dumb people are easily
influenced by the media, the defense called a neuropsychologist to

(01:04:09):
the stand to dispel this motivational theory.

Speaker 19 (01:04:13):
Well, what we find is, well, there's been great concern
for musical lyrics from the point of view of predicting
who will commit a crime. It does not predict. In fact,
over the last ten years, as the music has become
more explicit, the crime rates actually gone down. So the
biggest concern is the misuse and misunderstanding putting people who

(01:04:37):
do write rap music, for example, on trial for their
lyrics when it doesn't predict at all.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Ultimately, Daniel Gore's obsession with murder rap only helped paint
Gore as a true weirdo to the jury. Something much
more damning, though, where his Internet searches roughly one month
before the murder. The jury learned that, on April twenty two,
Gore type the words girls and homeless people getting raped

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into his library's computer terminal. It also searched for videos
depicting women being strangled and suffering fatal neck injuries. Why
does a homeless loser have internet access?

Speaker 10 (01:05:19):
Again?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Oh, right, right, so that Democrats can get elected, thanks Obama.
The DNA found inside the victim was confirmed by forensics
to be Daniels, but the defense disgustingly argued that the
sexual encounter was consensual, as if you could have sex
with a thirteen year old consensually. Perhaps their one and

(01:05:44):
only benefit was that no DNA of Gore's was located
under the victim's fingernails, on her clothes, or anywhere else
at the scene. Having said that, the prosecution was sure
to remind the jury that Milana had been subjected to
the element for nearly two days before her body was found,
and again, she was only thirteen. I assume it's pretty

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easy to overpower a thirteen year old and walk away
with barely a scratch, probably harder to wrangle a house cat.
The defendant's ex girlfriend, Eva also testified, recalling her phone
call with the defendant following the murder, and while he
didn't say that he killed her explicitly, he may as

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well have.

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
And he told me that she tried to kiss him,
but that I shouldn't worry about it at all. I
know that it was rainy either that day or a
couple days after, because he had even mentioned like rain
washing away footprints and that the rain was a good thing.
He did mention going back and saying that he was
going to go move her.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
At the end of the seven day trial, deliberations lasted
less than ninety minutes, and on November twenty second, twenty
twenty four, Daniel Gore was found guilty on all counts.
His expression remained unchanged as the verdict was read. He
neither protested nor reacted, and maintained the same blank stare

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since the day of his arrest, undoubtedly mimicking the expression
of some hero of his and some piece of media
looping through his tiny, tiny, tiny brain. At his sentencing hearing,
prosecutors pushed for the maximum penalty, but before the final
ruling was handed down, the judge addressed Gore directly.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
And mister Gore, I had the misfortune, if you will,
of spending Thanksgiving weekend trying to figure out what I
was going to say to you. I got to spend
Thanksgiving with my family, including my child, who is the
center of my life, and you took that away from
miss Lee. It is beyond comprehension that you did to say.
For me to say it's morally reprehensible an un statement.

(01:08:00):
I have combed through this case. I have combed through
every page submitted to me trying to figure out what
on earth got into your head, ripping her hymen to
shreds and then strangling her. This was a failure on
so many levels, parenting, the juvenile system, peer groups, the
community at large. How a sixteen year old is in
a tent in the suburban area of Beaverton is beyond me.

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For as long as you did, anybody that watched that
interview with you and the police, you were fully engaged.
You knew fully what you were doing where you tried
to conceal her body, took pleasure in the fact that
water would wash away some of the evidence. I find
you knew exactly what you're doing, and I hope in
the long sentence you serve I hope, I hope that

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somebody finds out what's wrong with you. I hope I
never have a person that what you did in standing
in front of again.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
At age eighteen, Daniel Gore was sent to life in prison.
Of course, though that's not what he's actually going to serve.
You See, this is after all liberal Oregon. Oh my god,
he's talking about politics again. Murmer. Yeah, it's called the law.
Despite his life sentence on paper for the murder of

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a thirteen year old child and the rape of her
dead or possibly still a live body, juvenile justice reforms
as they're called, dictate that this pile of human feces
will be eligible for parole in just fifteen years. Daniel
Gore will likely be released from prison before his thirty

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third birthday, just in time for the next Antifa riot.
Let's just say, I hope karma finds him, and I
hope it finds him. Well, hope he's having a wonderful
day that day. When it does, it'll make it that
much sweeter.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
An eighteen year old who was sentenced to life in
prison this week for the rape and murder of a
thirteen year old girl, maybe eligible to leave risen in less.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
Than a decade.

Speaker 14 (01:10:01):
That's because he was only sixteen at the time of
the murder, leaving him under the protection of Oregon state law.
And this is drawing criticism from Washington County prosecutors.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
So there you have it, Justice JKJK. You can't help
but laugh, otherwise you have to cry. Despite his life sentence,
Daniel Gore will be eligible for conditional release, meaning he
will be back in the wild after only seven and
a half years. You'll be able to find him at

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your local fucking library. That worst case scenario could come
true as a result of a successful appeal, which Gore
is currently in the process of putting society through. I mean,
why wouldn't he it's free, well, not to taxpayers, but
to him. You get my drift. As for the question

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of whether violent entertainment creates a violent people, it's a
story as old as time, really, and perhaps an idiotic one.
To put it bluntly, you are responsible for your own
actions just because you see someone doing something on television

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or hear someone talking about something in a song doesn't
mean you have the right to go out and do it.
Doesn't mean you have to mimic that behavior. Duh. Quit
blaming media for shit parenting or non parenting. In fact,
that's really the key, if you boil it all down.

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Shit parenting is responsible for most of the ills of
the world, if not all. When you start stating that
sentiment out loud on Facebook, for example, you'd be surprised
by the amount of outrage and self reporting you'll get.
Shit parents will adamantly defend their shit parenting or no

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parenting or parenting via iPad. You want to cure all
the ills of society, make parents liable for what their
kids do instead of television or movies or music. That'll
fix society real quick. And if you can't be responsible
for your shit kids, then don't fucking have them. You'd

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really be surprised by how many defensive asshole parents are
quick to point out that you should shut up if
you're not a parent yourself, as if you have to
be a rocket scientist to point out that maybe the
rocket shouldn't blow up on the pad. Unfortunately, all these
rocket scientists parents out there are creating more exploding rockets

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just to get their fuck on. Maybe one day we'll
finally grow up as a society. Maybe one day we'll
wake up. Let's start taking accountability for our own goddamn actions. Maybe,
just maybe a boy can dream. Hey, asshole, the show's over.

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Do you know where your children are? If you're made,

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