First Murder in Ridgefield in 21 Years

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of Connecticut's safest towns having not only its first
murder in twenty one years, but it's the grizzliest, like,
get ready, it's the grizzliest thing you can imagine. But again,
of course I should just produce this and have this
so that you could just hit the button. Crime has

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had a fifty year low. Violent crime is way down
thanks to the Biden administration. Connecticut's never been safer. And
yet one of Connecticut's safest towns has had its first
murder in twenty one years. And according to The New
York Post, it's straight out of a horror movie. Now,
this is brought to my attention by one of my kids.

(00:44):
My daughter is like, are you covering the Ridgefield? The
murder in Ridgefield? That guy terrifies me. If you've been
covering that on your show. I'm like, I don't even know.
I had to go and look for it, you know,
quick Google search, and this New York Post story came up.
At the very relief a man his father and left
quote unquote left his organs outside his body in what

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his defense attorney called a quote unquote tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions.
That's that's his attorney. It's like, all right, how do
I approach the fact that he killed dad? You extracted
his organs and left them outside his body? How do

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I frame that? You know what this is? This is
this is Shakespearean. I don't know how these people do this,
these attorneys, And then New York Post goes on to say,
this is this is a sleepy Connecticut town's first murder

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in more than twenty years. What an odd thing to
keep itally on. Authorities responded to a caller who said,
I think I might have hurt my father. Was that
when you were scotch taping his liver to the paneling
in the kitchen? Is that when you or was it

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when you were using the electrical tape on his a
order tape get to the screen on the screen door
to the front porch. Is that when you thought you
might have heard him Saturday? Last Saturday? Officers responded, Because

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that's what police do. You know. Police have to go
and they see the insides of bodies pulled out, They
see the lifeless bodies, They flip them over, They look
at that, They go into houses where they might be next.
This is all lost on Americans and has been for
years now. They were greeted by this thirty one year old,

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thirty one year old son who's outside the house, hands
in the air like I just don't care. But he
had his hands in it, you know, just like I'm
giving up. He was in his boxers. I mean, you
don't want to get all of Dad's blood and gods

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all over a nice Paulo shirt or something like that.
You want to stripped. I'm surprised he didn't go the
tarp route. He was described as sweating profusely with blood
on his hands, and the police said, walk forward, arms extended.

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They inspected him for weapons, and then they asked him
what happened here? And they asked, were you the one
who placed the call about maybe hurting your father? Which
is when he just said three words, I murdered him.
And then he added after that they stood there imagine this,

(03:58):
oh okay and confessing like right out, I mean, you
murdered him. This genius, this thirty one year old, this
latest living breathing illustration that mental health has still not
even we haven't even scraped the surface of it in
the state, added these three words, really really badly. I

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mean I did that. I murdered him, really, really badly.
Who adds that to the sentence I murdered someone like
I murdered it. There's murder and then there's what holy
when you get in there. I think my daughter said
something along the lines being honest about like that. The
organs were almost on a clothesline in the house. They

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were on display, which we watch these Netflix series. I
do believe that's one of the problems. Is our odd
not really mine necessarily, but I mean I've got my
quirks too. I shouldn't separate. But there's that series You'll
Kill Her Fascination. We love those. There's memes about it,
like it's funny. The investigators then entered the house. They

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found the blood on the stairs, the sides of the wall,
a knife top of the stairs. Eighty three year old father.
He was in his bedroom. His groin and abdomen had
been mutilated. Internal organs found outside outside his body. You

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got to take a look at this guy too. I
mean books and covers, we say, oh, don't judge a
book by its cover. I can't buy this most of them,
not all. It would be fair. It was one of
the first promos, you know, Henry ever on the show.
But going all the way back to twenty ten, I
remember saying I do judge books by their cover. If
I'm at Barnes and Noble. This is the exact promo

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STU bad. We couldn't find it. That's a little clip
that you hear, you know, around the clock to get
pay Hey, who's that? You know? Maybe I'll listen to
that show. I said, I do judge books by by
their cover. I mean more often than not than you can.
If I'm at Barnes and Noble and I pick up
a book and there's a vampire on the cover, I'm
pretty damn sure when I go to read that book
it's going to be about vampires. Yeah, that's when you knew.

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That was as twenty ten, and that's when they knew
great uh oh, greatness is coming, Insight is coming. I
wasn't even unpop. Hartford must have started then, like we
gotta get that show. I don't get wuel I in that.
Well here he was taken into custody, obviously, and they're saying,

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you know, obviously this has shaking the entire town up.
It's a very safe community. None of our communities are
really safe anymore. In Connecticut. I mean not for good.
It can we can get back to where we were,
but not until a governor, not until elected officials admit, yeah,

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we've got a problem. But the first up is admitting
there's a problem. And then the guy went on to say,
the thirty one year old, yeah, it'd been really agitated
because I took a quarter of a bottle of advil earlier.
And then you just look at the mugshot and it's
like he's just a mess of a human. Arranged Monday,

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Danburry Superior Court, where he quote unquote appeared catatonic and
had to be carried into the courtroom, slumped his head
on the defense table until the judge ordered him please stand,
at which point he was nearly pulled to his feet
by a nearby officer. That's when he was told the
judge that the killer had quote unquote significant mental health history.

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And Connecticut continues to talk about mental mental health, money
allotted for mental health, mental health. I don't know where
that's money you going. I don't know where that money's going,
but I know where it's not to mental health.