Crazy nudist murders

Crazy nudist murders

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Browns signing a twenty year stadium rights deal with
Huntington Bank. It's a I guess going to be their
new home. And you were even saying, Josh, You're like, man,
I can't call it, you know, Huntington what National Bank Stadium.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Or Huntington It's Huntington Field, Huntington Field, So you're struggling
with that. Huntington Bank Field is technically what I guess.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
However, they're gonna call it.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
But I mean, I get they've got to do this
corporate thing. They're not going to turn down the money.
We all know the Browns are trying to build a
big dome stadium just outside of Cleveland. That money I'm
sure can help fund that. But I mean, it's listen,
I'm not gonna sit here in crying the traditioner. If

(00:44):
you want to call it Cleveland Brown Stadium, which I
plan on still doing where you're going, I'm going to
Cleveland Cleveland Brown Stadium to watch the game, go ahead
and call it that. No one's forcing you to call it,
But don't don't complain. It's twenty twenty four. It's the NFL.
They're chasing every dog they can get, so don't act surprise.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Or incredulous about it, That's all I asked. Yeah, and
you even said to me, let's bring in Alex Stone.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
By the way, ABC News, Alex is joining us now
he's a sports fan.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah. You even asked me. You were like, hi, Alex,
welcome to the show. Brother gentlemen. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, we were just talking about, you know, the Browns
signing a twenty year stadium rights deal with Huntington Bank,
and and you know.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
The Steelers just went through it.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh. And Josh, you even said to me before we
were off air, you said, you know, you probably still
call it Hines Field. I'm like, yeah, you're right, I
do call it Hines. I refer to it as Hines. Yeah,
unless I happen to think far enough ahead while I'm
speaking to say Atrosure, but I always Hines just comes out,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
And any of these you know to me, like Staple
Center is Staples Center, it's not Crypto dot Com Arena.
And Mile High is whatever? Mile High is it just
Mile High Stadium?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's it now, That's exactly it. There are certain stadiums
like you know that it just I call it whatever
you want. I don't care how much money.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
You know, you could.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Throw a billion dollars at the Kansa Chiefs. That place
will always be called Arrowhead always. Nobody will ever call it,
you know, you.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Know, I don't even know what it is dot Com
Stadium or whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, it's like so Fi now being brand new. It's
just always going to be so Fi right that it's
not even the name of the company. It's just what
we know it as. What's changed it to, Like Dorito's Stadium,
it wouldn't be the same place.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
What's the Raider? What's the in Vegas? What's Allegiant? Allegiant
Allegiant Field. It'll always be known as Allegiant Stadium Field whatever.
That's such a.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
That's a name.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I have a hard time relating to the Raiders and
my image in my head of what I think about
the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
You know that the raid is but yet to say
you because it was built with that name. It's just
kind of what it is, right Like again, for me,
it's not a company name. It's just a stadium name
versus Crypto dot Com Arena.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Which is by the way, my cousin was by total luck.
When I was leaving Saturday Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
He texted me.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
A picture of the top of Caesar's palace. He sent
me the picture. I go, oh, are you here? This
is This is my best man's brother, a little bit younger.
Wayne is his name, And I said, are you here
in Vegas? And he's like, yeah, we got where are you?
And I said, I'm here. He goes, where are you staying?
I go, I'm getting ready to get on a plane.
I'm flying out. He goes, Oh, they went.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
To l s U. USC they went the LSU game. Yeah, yeah,
they did. They did that? Was that? Was that a legion? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh I have it like in Vegas. But it's all
about the money, baby, yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
And so they went and it was a spectacle, you know.
I mean I was watching it.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's a great matchup, by the way, and good on USC.
Thank you for representing the Big ten your first year here.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Uh I hate L s U. I hate the SCC.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
So now I want to beat your ass every time
I play you USC, But thank you for for repping
the Big Ten in the manner in which you did that.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Was really Impreferences are nuts now, Like you look at
some of them and you just go, man, there's all
kinds of West coast teams and all their opponents are
on the East coast. And how's the volleyball team going
to do that? And the softball team? It's crazy?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Now, So is this it's two point four billion?

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Back to the Browns in this Huntington Bank Field or
Huntington Field or whatever it's going to be called, two
point four billion dollar dome.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is that's what they've propoposed.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, so, and they want half privately funded, half taxpayer funded.
And basically the Cleveland City of Cleveland told the Browns
and the House to go yourself, so they only wanted
one point two billion though, Josh, I mean four point
two billion from taxpayers for a football stadium.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
What what?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
The Browns They're almost in the super Bowl every year,
so the fans should be that.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
They're going to build like a mega Bridge Park kind
of a concept around it. And Alex, when I say
Bridge Park, it's I'd have to I explained to you
off here.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
It's a place here in Dublin, near where I live.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
But it's uh, basically, you live there, you eat there,
you work.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
There's a cool concept and it's really neat and there's
a lot of it's what they call the concept.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, yeah, essentially, all your retail shops are there, groceries
are there.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
They've got everything. It's basically it's basically living in Santa Costco.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's essentially what it is. No, no, no, Because in
Bridge Park you have to pay a tax just to eat.
It's called the Bridge Park Tax. You pay a tenix
just to have the proof. Yes, look at your bill
anywhere you go. What look you go out to eat
in Bridge Park? Oh I have, yeah, yeah, I never
looked at the fine, but look at it. There's a

(05:44):
special test all the businesses collect and distribute amongst themselves.
In Bridge Park. You literally pay a separate tax to
the privilege of eating at Bridgewark.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh man, I didn't even realize that.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah. Man, it's a cool area, Alex. You would you would,
uh yeah, you would dig it. I mean concerts there
in the summer. As a matter of fact, our sister
station throws concerts that.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a whole lot of fun. But there
it is.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Hopefully you guys, sooner rather than later, we'll get a dome.
That way, you don't have to worry about the lake
effect snow.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Alex. You should see what happens in Cleveland sometimes, Like
the snow is ridiculous. It's just stupid.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I mean, I've been there during some crazy times of
the year and it's it's horrendous. Yeah, I'm in my
waffle house.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I'm telling you, Cleveland and Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Nobody gets pounded by snow worse than Cleveland or Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's nuts because, yeah, because of the because of the
lake effect right there. It's almost like you go, you're
down the road two hours in Columbus where we're at,
you go up the road to Cleveland, you go north
and you just go mind the same state. You know,
it's like you went to a winter wonderland, like a
ski resort. You know, it's like, is this in Ohio?
You know, it's crazy, pretty nuts man, Alex, what a

(06:57):
bizarre story that you are today. But tell us about
this the search ending for this missing nudist couple.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, so this has been no one from the beginning,
and it got kind of weirder late last week and
then today they've officially called off the search. But the
headline being the murder on a nudist ranch, and that's
been the kind of the big banner on it.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
But it's a newdiest community.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Out in the desert east of la and it's in
a town called Redlands. But seventy three year old woman
Stephanie Minard seventy nine year old her husband Daniel Minard,
they went missing in late August and police were searching
for them for days. There was a tip that came
in that led them to Minard's neighbor. The neighbor name
is His name is Michael Sparks, and police moved in

(07:46):
last week with a crazy amount of force with this
tank like vehicle with a big like stick on the
front of it and just ripped apart his home based
on that tip, and they said they felt like that
he was hiding in there. Turned out he was, and
that they just destroyed the home, moved in and just
obliterated it believing that he was in there. I mean,

(08:06):
it was an interesting way to execute a search warrant.
Instead of sending a swat team or trying to get
him to come out, they just ripped apart his home
and into a million pieces and then went in and
they found him in there. They found him hiding in
a concrete bunker underneath the home. And police said.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
This he did attempt to kill himself when police discovered him,
but the rifle misfired.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
So in that bunker they found human remains in bags
and they're waiting now on the medical examiner to know
for sure that that is the Minards and not somebody else.
But they believed that they were killed in that home.
So there have been a lot of vigils in the
nudiest colony, which, by the way, as our team's been
interviewing people, many of them have been nude in the
community and attendees saying.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
This, I just want to be very sensitive to everyone
that's going through this friend's neighbors, you know, residents that
knew the Menards and that just knew them as their
neighbors and didn't necessarily know them personal.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
She just heard the story.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Where was she nude to Alex when they were talking
to her just as she was.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
I think she came to celebrate their lives and she
might not have lived there. This man though, he does
live there, and he says, look, it's easy to make
fun of our community.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
As living in a new dis resort, we feel very
isolated because we do get judged. People do assume things
about our lifestyle and we're just people and then we hurt,
just like everybody else.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
I believe he had a shirt on at that time,
but at other times some people have not well they've
been interviewed, but a momentment. This is not clear. They
were last sing in August twenty fourth. Neighbors say that
Sparks and the Minards they clearly hated each other. There
was a fight recently over a pepper tree that the Sparks.
The Minards wanted the Sparks to trim it. He refused,
turned into a fight, so maybe it was about that,

(09:49):
but they charged. They filed charges today against Sparks for
murder and that they believe that he killed and then
chopped up the Minards.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
This isn't the Minards as in like then store money.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
I don't even know what you're talking about, but no
way to be on the buttons.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Ready to go.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, it's not that minard? Is it that?

Speaker 4 (10:12):
I don't believe What is that Minard?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't know. It's like a home depot home and
garden depots. Wow, because as soon as I heard the
last time, I'm like, WHOA is this A?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is this a? I mean? Is this newdest thing?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
You know?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
The guy trying to talk about we're people too. Of
course you're people to you're just naked. Stop acting like people.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Don't aren't fascinated by it or put off by it
or some sort of a response whenever they hear nudist
or they seen nudists.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's not a normal thing. So I think it's so
funny when people act like normally.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
I've often thought about like being nude. Unfortunately Station the
Net I like it.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh but no, I how much sunscreen do you have
to go through at a New Diest beach? Because I
feel like.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Living in the desert. And let me just say, when
they say resort, that is a very loose term. It
was kind of the desert and kind of a mobile
home community slash, you know.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
And to answer your son and to answer your sunblock question, Josh,
some use more than others.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Let's just put it that well. But I just feel
like that.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Would be like, oh my god, sunburn in certain places, man.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Good god. Yeah, I mean you could be going through
something like that. There's there's no question about that. What
a bizarre story this is.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
This guy had a bunker and bags, so there's still
a lot we got to figure out. But I want
to hear bunker.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I want to hear what those roommates, who that is?

Speaker 1 (11:49):
I mean, hopefully they'll be able to to DNA and
and you know go backwards here and figure out who
that that remain, because that could be some people who
were you know, clear went missing in that area murdered.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
That could solve some cold cake, you know what I mean,
Nick as well.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's why the medical examiner they got to figure out
is that the minards and if it is and kind
of case closed on that. If it's somebody else, then
where are they and who wasn't? Man?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
What a man crazy? You would think there's footage. Have
you seen footage of them going into that house with
the tank?

Speaker 4 (12:19):
No, nobody had anything so and again I mean they're
out in the desert. It's you know, not like a
dense suburban neighborhood. But they were neighbors and apparently did
not like each other, especially over that pepper tree.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, I get the man. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
What a bizarre, bizarre story will continue to follow.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I bet if you're picking peppers, I feel like you'd
have to be very careful, uh, you.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Know, being a nudist and all that. What is it
caf Sasan. Yeah, you don't want that caf sasan.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, I did that last night. I chopped it from
Helipegiu and then I rubbed my nose that burns.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sure, you call it your nose, okay, A whatever.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Some of the things I want to say, I'm not
because I don't want to get in trouble.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Right, Alex Stone, ABC News. Alex, thanks for joining us, brother.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Later, see you man, trafficing weather together from day and
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