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Thank you so much. 12 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,200 Before we start this episode, I wanted to give a low heads up. 13 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,680 The story contains graphic descriptions of violence, so if 14 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,320 you're sensitive to that, listener discretion is advised. 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,440 Some of the names in this case have been changed to protect 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,280 their identities. Enjoy the episode. 17 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,040 He kept telling us that he was dangerous, that he was capable 18 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,240 of, like, terrible things or something of the sort. 19 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,400 Is that who attacked Ghani earlier? 20 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,320 Like, what's going on? She tells me. 21 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,720 That Blake killed Phillip. My heart sank. 22 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,400 I'm like what from HV Studio this is. 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:52,020 Unnerved. Welcome back to the Unnerved 24 00:01:52,020 --> 00:01:55,420 podcast. It's where normal people share 25 00:01:55,420 --> 00:01:59,680 their abnormal stories, and if you enjoy true stories of the 26 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,320 strange and terrifying, then you're in the right place. 27 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:13,570 I'm your host, Chris Fricke. At some point in your life, 28 00:02:14,250 --> 00:02:18,610 you've likely had a roommate. Whether you're in a college dorm 29 00:02:19,090 --> 00:02:24,130 or renting an apartment, sharing the cost of a living space is 30 00:02:24,130 --> 00:02:28,730 ideal with someone that is trustworthy and makes you feel 31 00:02:28,730 --> 00:02:33,440 safe in your shared home. Perhaps you've lived with a 32 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,000 roommate who at first seemed to be the perfect fit, but as time 33 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,640 went on, that person wasn't what you expected. 34 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,600 In today's story, Destiny shares how she discovered a rental 35 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,960 property that appeared to be the perfect living arrangement. 36 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,760 But not long after moving in, she found herself descending 37 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:06,000 into a nightmare of violence and bloodshed. 38 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:12,640 This is her story. My name is Destiny. 39 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:17,200 I'm from Austin, TX. I've lived in Austin since 2006. 40 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,800 At the time of the event, I was living in Cedar Creek, which is 41 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:25,840 about 20 minutes outside of Austin. 42 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,440 I had landed a job at a resort in Cedar Creek. 43 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,200 The place that I was living at the time was in that area. 44 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,040 Things didn't work out with my roommate and I had to find a 45 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,480 place like very quickly. So I was kind of in a rush to 46 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:46,160 find a place. I ended up finding a house on 47 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,400 Craigslist. It was a six bedroom house. 48 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,160 The landlord, he rented out rooms to individuals, so we all 49 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,040 had our own lease. It was a mix of people, 50 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,720 different personalities on a piece of property that was, it 51 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,080 was like 20 acres, right by the river by the Creek. 52 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,720 I could go fishing. There was a pool. 53 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,960 It just seemed too good to be true and it was about 10 minutes 54 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,960 from where I was working, which was too good to be true. 55 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,079 It seemed like a dream. I went and looked at the place, 56 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,360 decided to go ahead and sign a lease and move in, and things 57 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,400 were things were good at first. There were definitely like signs 58 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,800 of concerning things that arose upon moving in. 59 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,560 There was a variety of people living there. 60 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,720 Having so many people living in one house that don't know one 61 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,880 another, the social dynamics there can be a little funny. 62 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:40,280 And it turned out that some of the people living there, they 63 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,240 were just questionable characters, very slighty. 64 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,240 It didn't seem like the landlord was very thorough in his 65 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,640 evaluation of these people before they moved into the 66 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,320 house. You know, I put a lock on my 67 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,200 door. I definitely appreciate my 68 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,880 privacy at home, so I tried to maintain that in this kind of 69 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,120 somewhat chaotic living environment. 70 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,520 Shortly after moving into the house, about a month or two 71 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,480 after moving in, one of my roommates had moved back in. 72 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,680 She had a long history living on the property, and she knew the 73 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,240 landlord for a number of years, but she had moved out of town 74 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:20,520 and moved back into the house. We ended up falling in love and 75 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,960 dating. We'd got engaged. 76 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,200 It was like a it was kind of a fast track romance. 77 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,280 I was in love, close to work, you know? 78 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,280 It seemed too good to be true, kind of at first. 79 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,120 So as time goes on living in the house, there's people moving in 80 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,120 and out of the house. Like frequently. 81 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:44,200 At one point there was a guy named Blake that moved in and I 82 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,600 remember the day that Blake came with his family to to look at 83 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,720 the room. His family had come with him. 84 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,080 He was raised by his grandmother and and grandfather as far as I 85 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,640 know, but they had come with him that day. 86 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,520 They were really nice people. Christians like, very church 87 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,160 driven, very friendly, super friendly. 88 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:06,280 And Blake was actually a very nice guy. 89 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,600 He was kind of emotional, but very perceptive. 90 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,960 I remember the first time that I met him, he was like, he 91 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,960 complimented me and my energy because I'm kind of an outgoing 92 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,680 person and he just, he was very like, gave me many compliments. 93 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,600 Just a really nice guy. You could tell that he was a 94 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,360 little sheltered. It seemed like it was the first 95 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,680 time he had moved out of his family's house. 96 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,560 Like it was one of the first times he had lived, you know, 97 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,720 alone as an adult. I was 30 and we were around the 98 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,120 same age. So Blake moves into the house, 99 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,200 he decides to move in and he he kept to himself a lot. 100 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,960 He was kind of you could tell that he also appreciated 101 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,400 privacy. There was 3 levels to the house. 102 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,000 It was three stories. His room was on the 1st floor. 103 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,880 I lived on the 2nd floor. And then my girlfriend, Sage, 104 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,240 she lived on the third floor. So Blake moves in and he kind of 105 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,560 was the type of guy that played a lot of video games. 106 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,640 Again, he was a really emotional guy. 107 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,040 He was kind of constantly struggling internally with 108 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,840 something. I remember there was a pool 109 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,160 outside of the house and you know, one day we were sitting 110 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,240 out there enjoying the pool and he comes outside to talk to me 111 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,400 and Sage and he's just telling us about how he's just 112 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,160 struggling internally and we're trying to identify like what 113 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,320 what the problem was, like what's wrong. 114 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,200 You know, it was really hard to like to pinpoint what the the 115 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,160 actual problem was. You could just tell that he was 116 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,920 having a hard time emotionally. Me and Sage planned a trip out 117 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,600 of town. We were going to go visit 118 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,800 somewhere that's kind of remote, go camping and just get away for 119 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,600 a little while and trying to be nice and help him. 120 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,520 We invited him to come with us, and I remember he declined the 121 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,800 offer and he kept telling us that he was dangerous, that he 122 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,720 was capable of, like terrible things or something of the sort. 123 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,520 He declines coming with us and me and Sage just didn't 124 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,240 understand why he would say that. 125 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,440 We kind of laughed it off at first. 126 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,840 We thought it was just kind of like a ridiculous notion. 127 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,800 He really did seem like a like a nice guy, like a sweet guy. 128 00:08:27,870 --> 00:08:30,750 Paul owns the owns the property. There was two houses on the 129 00:08:30,750 --> 00:08:33,909 property that he owned. We called our house the pool 130 00:08:33,909 --> 00:08:37,510 house that he rented out, all the rooms and then their house. 131 00:08:37,510 --> 00:08:40,630 Him and his wife had a house that was probably about 500 132 00:08:40,630 --> 00:08:43,309 yards away, but they only live there part time. 133 00:08:44,270 --> 00:08:47,830 As time progresses, there's just certain things happening in the 134 00:08:47,830 --> 00:08:52,480 house that made me feel uncomfortable, that other people 135 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,520 that I'm living with just didn't seem to think that it was a big 136 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,680 deal. Things that were unacceptable 137 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,320 and in your home were happening that nobody else was addressing. 138 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,920 Like they weren't saying anything about it. 139 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,880 For example, our landlord, Paul, had put in cameras. 140 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,920 Like he put in cameras everywhere, like outside, you 141 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,520 know, on the porch facing outwards. 142 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,440 But then he had placed cameras inside of the house, like on top 143 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,840 of the refrigerator. And whenever he started 144 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,400 installing cameras all over the property and inside of our home, 145 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,480 like I addressed it, I was very surprised that no one else was 146 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,880 addressing it with me. But I just felt like it was 147 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,800 necessary. So I told him, Paul, you can't, 148 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,720 you can't have a camera inside of our house. 149 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,640 Like, that's unacceptable. I think it's illegal. 150 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,520 You know, you need to take it down South. 151 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,280 Events like that were happening and I just increasingly was 152 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,480 uncomfortable in my home, like the living environment. 153 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,840 It wasn't healthy, very chaotic. It was almost like our landlord, 154 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,320 Paul, would kind of fuel the drama. 155 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,120 He would employ some of the tenants to do like odds and ends 156 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,800 jobs around the the property. He would take off some of, you 157 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,000 know, some of your rent if you helped out with certain chores. 158 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,720 And he would use those as opportunities to kind of, like 159 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,120 stir up drama. There was a handful of times 160 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,920 that things like that caused problems between me and my 161 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,200 girlfriend. It was just irritating. 162 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,160 It was uncomfortable. I didn't like it. 163 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,000 I was very vocal about how I felt about it. 164 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,840 And somehow, you know, the result was that that I was the 165 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,440 problem and that maybe I should find another place to live. 166 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,760 And Paul suggested that I look into moving out and finding 167 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,040 somewhere else to live. As time goes on and things get 168 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,680 worse and worse and they're kind of, you know, climaxing and 169 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,000 progressing, I ended up agreeing with him. 170 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,720 And I wanted to move out, but I needed to find another place to 171 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,400 live. So around this time, Blake had 172 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,480 moved out of the house. There was some trip that he 173 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,320 wanted to go on, somebody special he wanted to go see, and 174 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,160 he had decided to go ahead and move out of the house. 175 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,240 I think he had been there for maybe a month or two. 176 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:58,040 So he leaves, and another of the room was rented out to somebody 177 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,160 else, a really sweet girl named Liberty. 178 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,720 She moves into his old room and there's no vacancies in the 179 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,800 house. The landlord, he allowed people 180 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,840 to move their RV's onto the property, like right outside of 181 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,400 the house. There was one RV that was like 182 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,480 in front of the house, parked right out front. 183 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,560 You know, they were given permission to come in and use 184 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,720 the restroom facilities in the kitchen, which, you know, it's 185 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,480 already 6 people living in one house. 186 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,720 And again, personalities that are just very just causing a lot 187 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,600 of drama, causing problems. It's driving me crazy just 188 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,120 because I'm trying to like have a stable life and I'm with 189 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,720 someone who is affected by the drama and she's being sucked 190 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,080 into all of this drama and it's causing problems between us. 191 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,760 He had let another person put their RV around the backside of 192 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,040 the house, which we had no idea who this person was, who these 193 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,160 people were. I didn't know what was going on, 194 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,040 so that made me feel uncomfortable. 195 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,480 I'm complaining about it. I'm being very vocal. 196 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,000 People agree with me that it's kind of crazy and weird and 197 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,160 uncomfortable, but I'm the only one really saying anything about 198 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,040 it. Things are just getting to the 199 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,000 point where it's unbearable for me to be there. 200 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,400 Blake's trip had, he was wrapped up. 201 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,280 He was, you know, the trip was was over. 202 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:14,360 He contacted Paul asking if he could move back into the house. 203 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,120 Paul lets him know. Well you know your room has been 204 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,600 rented out to someone else. I I don't have a room. 205 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,280 There's nowhere for you to live to move into. 206 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,760 But that could change soon. So let's stay in touch and and 207 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,040 I'll let you know if we can accommodate somehow he seemed 208 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,560 like very eager to let Blake move back in like he really 209 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:42,000 wanted him to to be back. So he comes up with this idea to 210 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,120 to transform the living room and and kitchen den area. 211 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,880 He wanted to build a wall in that room so that the living 212 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,000 room would be shut off for Blake to live in. 213 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,320 And the first floor, whenever you first walk in the door, like 214 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:01,240 to the right was 2 bedrooms, one of which was was Blake's old 215 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,760 bedroom that Liberty is now living in. 216 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:08,040 And to the left, it opened up into a big area, vaulted 217 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,320 ceilings, like it was the living space. 218 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,360 And then there was a bar with the kitchen. 219 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,360 So it's just one big area where it was kind of a communal space. 220 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,400 So Paul has this idea to build a wall. 221 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,200 There was a maintenance man that lived on the property that put 222 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,880 up this makeshift wall. It was super janky. 223 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,240 It was just like multiple different doors and like just 224 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,360 random building materials that were leftover from something 225 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,760 else, probably that were pieced together to create this wall. 226 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,200 He tells us that this is happening and everybody's like, 227 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,960 what? You're going to do what? 228 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,400 Paul's building a wall in the living room. 229 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,480 Are you serious? This is outrageous. 230 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,560 So we're just kind of, like, standing back, like, watching 231 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:49,960 the construction go down and wondering what this is all 232 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:51,880 about. I'm like, I've got to get out of 233 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:52,400 here. I need. 234 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,640 But I didn't have another place to move to. 235 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,360 I wasn't going to, like, put in my 30 days and start packing up 236 00:13:58,600 --> 00:13:59,920 if I didn't have a place to live. 237 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:05,240 That's ridiculous. So we knew that Blake was going 238 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,840 to be coming back. He lets us know that he has a 239 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,320 friend named Phillip. He called Phillip the Prophet 240 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,640 for some reason. I'm I'm not sure why. 241 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:19,040 And I guess it's important for me to mention that Blake, I 242 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,840 believe he was schizophrenic. I don't know that for a fact. 243 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,160 He never told me that himself. I did know that that he had a 244 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,640 disability check. His income was sourced from, you 245 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,120 know, a disability of some kind. He didn't work. 246 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:32,960 That was that was kind of how he paid his bills. 247 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,840 It was something mental. I believe that he was 248 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,880 schizophrenic. You know, he would just kind of 249 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,800 say kooky things, like off the wall, things like calling his 250 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,120 friend Phillip the prophet. And we're like, OK, so Blake's 251 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,360 coming back and I guess he's bringing his friend with him. 252 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,520 So whenever he gets back and Phillip is with him, he's 253 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,560 introducing Phillip to everyone, which is there's a large group 254 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,440 of people. It's like a whole social network 255 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,800 there. And whenever he was introducing 256 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,640 Phillip to everyone, it kind of comes out that not only is he 257 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,560 just his friend, he was like his pseudo brother. 258 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,640 I'm not exactly sure what Blake's background and 259 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,400 upbringing was, but it it may have been kind of rocky, 260 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,200 something along the lines of being raised by Phillip's 261 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,080 family. Like at one point Phillip's 262 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:20,200 family had taken Blake in so they know each other from being 263 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,600 children. They grew up together and that's 264 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,160 kind of how he was in his life. Blake was my age, so 30 at the 265 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,080 time, but he was a little immature. 266 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,080 He kind of acted childish at times, had this boyish attitude 267 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,520 to him. Phillip was just young. 268 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,160 He's a young man. I think he was 20 or 21 and you 269 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,880 could definitely tell from his physical, you know, like 270 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,840 physically he looked like a young man, like possibly even a 271 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,680 teenager, and behaved like that as well. 272 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:53,560 I think that Phillips just like manners, were different than 273 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,160 Blake's. Since Blake had lived in the 274 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,480 house and kind of knew all of us and had like established 275 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,760 relationships with us. He was very courteous. 276 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,080 And you know, he would never eat our food out of the kitchen or 277 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,600 you know, he was very mindful and and wanted to maintain those 278 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,600 relationships. And when Phillip arrived with 279 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,200 him, Phillip, he had a different attitude about things. 280 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,120 He just kind of just like a teenager would kind of just 281 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,800 expecting things to be OK and you know, and not being 282 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,080 courteous, not paying attention to certain things that he's 283 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,640 doing that might affect other people. 284 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,520 Definitely not very self aware. And like I mentioned before, 285 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,400 there was a Creek on the property. 286 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,320 There's a Cedar Creek runs through the property and one of 287 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,440 the residents of the property that lived in an RV, I'm going 288 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,800 to call him Ronnie. Ronnie had lived on the property 289 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,040 for about 5 years. He lived on the Creek pretty 290 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,200 much. He was always fishing the day of 291 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,560 the incident. Ronnie comes up to the house and 292 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,520 you can kind of tell he's like, out of it, like, not himself. 293 00:16:53,560 --> 00:17:01,600 And we're like, what's up? He tells us that he had went to 294 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,640 go fishing on the Creek earlier that day and he can't recall 295 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:07,760 what happened. He has no idea what happened, 296 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,599 but he just woke up. He blacked out. 297 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:30,460 He blacked out. He woke up on one of the trails 298 00:17:30,460 --> 00:17:33,220 leading to the Creek. He can't recall what happened 299 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,500 and his things had been rummaged through. 300 00:17:35,860 --> 00:17:37,620 He didn't have anything of value on him. 301 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:40,860 He didn't have a lot of things of value, I don't think, but he 302 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:43,100 said that all of his things had been rummaged through, like his 303 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:46,300 backpack had been gone through, but it was all still there and 304 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:48,140 he just has. He doesn't know how long he was 305 00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:49,980 there. He has no idea like what made 306 00:17:49,980 --> 00:17:52,860 him black out or what happened. He just woke up on a trail pass 307 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,080 the day before. That is whenever the wall was 308 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,880 built in our living room. Blake comes back and there's so 309 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,960 much activity going on with everybody that is just strange. 310 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,600 I feel I felt uncomfortable, like I felt like I didn't want 311 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,360 to be in my house. I'm just like, this is 312 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,720 ridiculous. So Donnie tells us that he 313 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,480 blacked out on a trail path. And, you know, we think that 314 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,320 maybe he was attacked. It sounded like he was attacked 315 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,920 is what it sounds like. When this happened, I was like, 316 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,880 you know what? I can't be here anymore. 317 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,960 And I told Sage, I'm like, look like if you love me, you will 318 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,080 come with me. I just want to leave for 319 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,960 tonight. Let's just go get a hotel room. 320 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,120 I just, I can't be here anymore. This is so chaotic. 321 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:36,960 Like, it's really affecting me. Like, please come with me. 322 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,040 Let's just pack a bag and let's get out of here. 323 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,800 We were both financially, not really in a position, like, we 324 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,640 didn't have enough money to go get a hotel room. 325 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,240 We were kind of hurting financially. 326 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,640 I made such a big deal about it that she wouldn't pawn some of 327 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,000 her valuable things so that we would just have enough to get a 328 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,800 room and I would feel safe and be OK. 329 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,160 She was like, doing it for me. We'd get enough money to get a 330 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,440 hotel room. I just like, threw a pile of 331 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,240 laundry, like, whatever, just in a bag. 332 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,280 Got in the car and checked into the hotel room. 333 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,920 I guess everything that was happening didn't. 334 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,760 She didn't seem as concerned about it as I did. 335 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,160 You know, she had a history on the property. 336 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,680 She had been there for like 5 years, and I think the chaos and 337 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,120 Paul's creepiness and the weird things he would do, she was just 338 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,840 used to it, like she'd been there for so long. 339 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,440 It did. It wasn't as big of a deal to 340 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:34,720 her as we're in the hotel room. She's messaging some of the 341 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,200 people that were living there. She was messaging Genevieve. 342 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,400 Genevieve had the RV right outside of the front of our 343 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:48,000 house. I could tell by the expression 344 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,840 on her face that something had happened. 345 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,440 You know, she looks like she's about to start crying, like 346 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:53,680 something's up. I'm like, what? 347 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,960 Like, what happened? She won't answer me at first, 348 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,040 And I'm like, what's going on? She tells me. 349 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,760 Genevieve just told me that that Blake killed Phillip. 350 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:08,240 What? She's kind of like, in shock. 351 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,840 She literally saying that he killed him. 352 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:15,320 I grabbed her tablet and I looked at the text message and 353 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,400 I'm like, that's exactly what it says is Blake killed Phillip. 354 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,000 This heavy feeling just sunk through me. 355 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,120 You can't help but wonder, like you know what happened. 356 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:29,440 What do you mean he killed Phillip? 357 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,760 Like, was there an incident? Is that who attacked Donnie 358 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,120 earlier? Like, what's going on? 359 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,160 There's so many things I don't understand at that time, like 360 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:52,120 just trying to figure it out. It was just this really like 361 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:56,280 being stuck on an island, just cut off from things that are 362 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,280 happening. But it's all happening in real 363 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:04,600 time, so we can't get answers. Not being there, I knew that. 364 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,440 My intuition told me that this isn't like, I can't be here, It 365 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,240 shouldn't be like this. This isn't normal. 366 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,440 I just. I knew that I had that feeling 367 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,280 for a reason. And then it turns out that 368 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:19,480 something like that happened and I'm just blown away that a place 369 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,440 that I call home is an environment for something so 370 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,760 terrible to happen. She got that text message and 371 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,080 that was pretty much the only communication that we had. 372 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,120 She was kind of like trying to reach out to different people as 373 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,880 time went on. That night, obviously the police 374 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,680 arrived and there's an investigation. 375 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,960 A lot of the the roommates were taken in for questioning. 376 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:46,600 There was a lot that I didn't know until two weeks after just 377 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,720 how bad it was. Like when you hear that someone 378 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,080 has been killed in your home, that's just shocking, right? 379 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,520 It's unbelievable. I talked to Sage about it and 380 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,440 I'm like, look like I can't be there. 381 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,640 Like I couldn't be there before, but I really can't be there now. 382 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,600 There's no way. I don't know where I'm going to 383 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,080 go. I'm going to have to just, like, 384 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,360 figure it out and stay with a friend or in hotel rooms until I 385 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,960 do. I wanted to get a storage unit. 386 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,880 I couldn't really do it at the time, so she'd agreed to let me 387 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,160 put all of my things in her room so that Paul could be satisfied 388 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,440 because he had been at telling me that I probably needed to 389 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,000 find another place anyways. He was eager for me to leave 390 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,200 when we were at the hotel that morning that we were going to go 391 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,480 back and I was just. I was going to stay focused on 392 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,920 my packing up my things, getting everything up to her room. 393 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,880 I didn't want to. I didn't want to pay attention 394 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,920 to all the things that were happening inside of the house 395 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,320 after something like that happened. 396 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,680 You know, like I was scared. I was scared to go back. 397 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:57,440 We finally decided to go back to the house. 398 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,960 We're very nervous approaching whenever we get there. 399 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,320 The landlord, Paul, was the first person that we saw as we 400 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,080 walked through the door. When you first walk into the 401 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,240 house, directly in front of you is the staircase that leads to 402 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,800 the second floor in the room. On the second and third floor, 403 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,920 Paul was sitting in a chair like dead center of the of the 404 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,080 doorway, like of the threshold. The roommates are kind of like 405 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,480 active in the house behind him, like you see people coming in 406 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,960 and out of the living room where the murder happened with 407 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,440 cleaning supplies and stuff. And Paul's just sitting in the 408 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,320 chair front and center. And he looks at us and says 409 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,680 welcome to my nightmare and throws his hands up. 410 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,880 I could not believe that that's what we walked into after that 411 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,040 after someone was murdered in our home. 412 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:51,240 This guy who contributes to so much chaos and just an unhealthy 413 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,000 living environment. There he is sitting dead center 414 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,400 telling me welcome to my nightmare. 415 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,640 Are you kidding me? That that put me in a weird 416 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,560 headspace to begin with. Being back there, the roommates 417 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,640 were cleaning up all of the blood from the living room 418 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,880 because police, I guess after they come investigate and all 419 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,840 the red tape, once they take the body, they don't clean up the 420 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,600 mess. So we had a very brave roommate 421 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,240 that took on that task of, of cleaning up all of the blood. 422 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,560 I was so dead set on getting out of there and just just getting 423 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,600 myself out of this situation. I was hyper focused on that, 424 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,120 just getting out, leaving, moving out. 425 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,200 I didn't ask a lot of questions I guess, so I moved out. 426 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,920 Sage had decided she decided to stay, which I thought was crazy. 427 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,520 So I stay with a friend here and there and I couldn't like live 428 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,440 there all the time. But they they would let me crash 429 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,840 at their place from time to time. 430 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,120 And I was renting hotel rooms from day-to-day. 431 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:50,360 It was not a healthy day-to-day life. 432 00:24:56,670 --> 00:25:01,710 So I decided to go visit my family, trolling Facebook and 433 00:25:01,910 --> 00:25:04,950 you know, looking around online this and that, there's a news 434 00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:07,760 article that I had found describing what had happened, 435 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,920 describing the murder. That was the first time that I 436 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,160 that I had read or found out how brutal this murder was. 437 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:22,760 The article said that Blake had killed Phillip by bashing his 438 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,920 head in with a rock and then proceeding to to try and cut his 439 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:31,320 head off with a knife and ultimately like shoving a sock 440 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,240 or like suffocating him with something. 441 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,200 Somehow, like that's what had happened. 442 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,680 He had pretty much tried to decapitate him. 443 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,400 I just remember sitting on my grandmother's couch and reading 444 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,720 this news article and my heart sank. 445 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,640 I'm like what? In a horrific murder in Bastrop 446 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,480 County, a warning on this one, the details are graphic. 447 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,920 According to an affidavit, 29 year old Blake Vetter killed his 448 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,200 roommate at the home they shared on Shiloh Rd. 449 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,760 Near Cedar Creek on May 31st. Sheriff's officials say Vetter 450 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,840 admitted to hitting him in the head several times with a large 451 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,600 rock, smothering him, stabbing him with multiple knives, then 452 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,680 trying to cut off his head. Vetter now faces a murder 453 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,280 charge. In a house just off of Shallow 454 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,920 Rd. In Cedar Creek is where the 455 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,120 attack happened. Early Friday morning, Bastrop 456 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:20,320 County deputies found Phillip Presbolak beaten and stabbed to 457 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,080 death. Sheriff Maurice Cook told me the 458 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,320 victim's roommate, Blake Vedder, was later found and taken into 459 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,840 custody it. Appears that they were friends 460 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,800 up to this point. Of course you don't want friends 461 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,560 like this, but nevertheless, our indication are that they were 462 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,520 roommates and they were friends. Investigators say the odor of 463 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,320 the house where the attack happened rents it out to several 464 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,920 different people. Neighbors tell me the property 465 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,040 is somewhat of a communal compound. 466 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,000 I heard things are a little screwy back in there. 467 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,680 He he takes in some homeless people, I believe, but it's it's 468 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,880 close to home, you know, I'm, I'm a little worried now, but I 469 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,800 can take care of myself. Vedder was taken to the Bastrop 470 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,080 County Jail and charged with Presbylac's murder. 471 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,840 A court date has not yet been set for Vetter and a grand jury 472 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,160 review is not expected to take place until next month, if not 473 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,080 later. That will give investigators 474 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,120 more time to go through the bizarre details involving this 475 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,480 incident. The arrest affidavit was filed 476 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,360 with the Justice of the Peace in Elgin. 477 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,560 According to court documents, Vetter allegedly confessed 478 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,560 saying he hit his roommate with a rock, tried to suffocate him 479 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,640 by putting a cloth in his mouth, stabbed him with two kitchen 480 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,760 knives, breaking one, and then tried to cut his head off with a 481 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,840 third knife. He has told us why he did it, 482 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,760 but we are examining the truth of that. 483 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,400 Vetter allegedly told investigators he got upset 484 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,520 because Presbilac was snoring as he slept on a couch. 485 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,600 Was someone taking drugs or using drugs? 486 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,360 It's not a drug deal gone bad, though. 487 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,320 Was he high? Well, that's something that we 488 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,280 are yet to determine that we do have some blood tests. 489 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,200 When the case eventually goes to court, deputies are expected to 490 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,520 testify that as they took Veteran to custody, he allegedly 491 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,360 expressed concern for his roommate, saying there was no 492 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:12,680 way he survived the attack. I'm shocked at at the brutality. 493 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,320 I can't believe that Blake is capable of something like that. 494 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,200 Like, I I couldn't believe. Also, I'm angry. 495 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,160 I was so angry that like, no one told me how bad it was. 496 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,640 Like, how is it that I was living with a whole group of 497 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,280 people? They knew they'd had, they knew, 498 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,040 they had to have known. How is it that I was in love 499 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,200 with someone? We were engaged and no one tells 500 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,800 me these details, something that happened to my house. 501 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,080 So I was angry, I was shocked, I was in disbelief. 502 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,720 And at that point, I started asking more questions. 503 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,200 Like I started texting out of the roommates. 504 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,240 I start asking Paul questions, I start asking sage questions like 505 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,240 I'm looking for more news articles. 506 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:56,440 I I need to know what happened in in my home the night before 507 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,000 the murder. Me and Sage were in the kitchen. 508 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:03,400 Sage is known for her cooking. So it's always like a treat when 509 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,880 she makes something for you. Like everybody's always excited 510 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,880 to eat a meal that she made. And we were in the kitchen and 511 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,480 she was making sandwiches and I just remember Phillip coming 512 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,320 into the kitchen and he was he was super meek. 513 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,680 It was really sweet, actually. He asked Sage. 514 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,600 Like, you know, will you make me a sandwich? 515 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:23,880 And it was almost like he was afraid to ask. 516 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,040 And she's like, yeah, of course I'll make you a sandwich. 517 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,480 Like, no problem at all. And Blake had come into the room 518 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,080 as he's asking that question. And you could tell that he was, 519 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,440 like, irritated with him for even asking for a sandwich. 520 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,240 You know, Sage just tries to, you know, reassure. 521 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,760 I mean, she's like, oh, no, it's no big deal. 522 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,040 Like, we're eating, like, let's have, let's have a meal. 523 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,280 And I just remember standing there and eating that sandwich 524 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,440 with him. And then it's like the next day, 525 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,960 like, wow, this. He was so young. 526 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,240 Like, it's it's really sad. Nobody deserves that. 527 00:30:08,690 --> 00:30:11,930 I was told that. The summary of that night goes 528 00:30:11,930 --> 00:30:16,690 as follows. Blake was increasingly 529 00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:19,330 frustrated with Phillip for being disrespectful at the 530 00:30:19,330 --> 00:30:21,090 house. He felt like he was being 531 00:30:21,090 --> 00:30:23,730 disrespectful towards the roommates, not being courteous 532 00:30:23,730 --> 00:30:26,170 enough and it was just like progressively getting worse 533 00:30:26,170 --> 00:30:30,520 throughout the day. Apparently after we had left, I 534 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,440 I guess everybody kind of like split up. 535 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,680 It was getting late. So from what I understand all of 536 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,600 the roommates were home. I know that Liberty was in her 537 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,920 room and then whenever it happened, they were in the 538 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,080 makeshift room. Phillip was asleep and I guess 539 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,560 he was snoring loudly or something like that. 540 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,560 And Blake just like snaps and starts attacking him and starts 541 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,800 beating his face in with rock and grabs a knife out of the 542 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:04,680 kitchen and proceeds to, you know, try to decapitate him. 543 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,640 And Liberty overheard everything, like she heard weird 544 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,160 noises and she was afraid and like didn't come out of her 545 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,600 room. So Blake commits the murder and 546 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:19,520 proceeds to walk over to Paul's house, which again is about 500 547 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,360 yards from our house. He's covered in blood and he 548 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,360 knocks on Paul's door and he tells him like, look, I like I I 549 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,080 just, I think I may have just killed Phillip. 550 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,600 My friend Phillip. And Paul decides to just put him 551 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,480 in the truck and drive him to his grandmother's house. 552 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,920 Like that's how he decided to handle the situation so he 553 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,680 doesn't call the cops. And his grandmother lived about 554 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,760 15 or 20 minutes from where where our house was. 555 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,640 And Paul just takes him over to his his family's house and drops 556 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,360 him off covered in blood. And Blake, he tells his 557 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,120 grandmother what he's done and the grandparents contacted the 558 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,240 police. So by the time all gets back to 559 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,440 the property from taking him over there, the cops are there. 560 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,120 Everything's taped off. It's lit up and and like that's 561 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,560 how everything kind of transpired. 562 00:32:14,290 --> 00:32:17,650 So let's say that I hadn't freaked out and and convinced my 563 00:32:17,650 --> 00:32:19,050 girlfriend to leave with me that night. 564 00:32:19,050 --> 00:32:22,370 Like, what would have happened, the sounds that are that my 565 00:32:22,370 --> 00:32:24,530 roommates described of it happening. 566 00:32:25,050 --> 00:32:28,160 Like, if I had heard that, I would have come downstairs to 567 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,000 see what's going on. Like, I know myself. 568 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,120 And if something weird like that, If I heard something like 569 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,640 that, I would definitely try and find out what's going on in my 570 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,720 house. Like, who knows what could have 571 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,800 happened if I had walked into that? 572 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,200 And I'm just so thankful that, yeah, that I avoided that. 573 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,080 I definitely will never question my intuition ever again. 574 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,120 If my gut tells me something's wrong, I listen to it no matter 575 00:32:51,120 --> 00:33:10,480 what. That fateful night, Destiny was 576 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,920 fortunate enough to listen to her instincts and leave the home 577 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,720 that quickly became a crime scene. 578 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,920 Blake's bitter rage reached its boiling point, which led him to 579 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,760 attack Philip, unleashing A brutal assault that left his 580 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,160 friend's lifeless body on the floor of their shared room. 581 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:39,160 Once considered a brother, Lake was now a cold blooded killer 582 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,840 with his hand stained with the blood of his former friend. 583 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,960 Destiny was not the only person disturbed by what happened that 584 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,160 night. Due to the trauma of the 585 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,560 incident and reckless actions of the landlord, Destiny's former 586 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,880 roommate Liberty, who was there the night of the murder, took 587 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:12,480 legal action to sue Paul on the popular courtroom TV show Judge 588 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:17,159 Judy. This episode aired nine months 589 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,120 after the murder. Paul Wallace owes for the return 590 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:27,440 of rent and security deposit. And hospital bills after she. 591 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,920 Witnessed a roommate murder another roommate. 592 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:36,360 Now it was one of those men who killed his cubby mate that 593 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,679 caused you ultimately to move. Yes, ma'am. 594 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,560 And what you want back is your security deposit and your 595 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,920 prorated rent for the month that you had already paid? 596 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,920 Yes, ma'am. And what was your security 597 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,760 deposit? $420.00. 598 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,199 And on what date did you move out? 599 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,040 I moved out on June 2nd. Had you paid for the month of 600 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:55,880 June? Yes. 601 00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:00,040 How much? $420.00 and I have the check 602 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,960 stub and everything. You acknowledge that she paid 603 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,200 the month of June? Your honor. 604 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:09,600 Now, there's no question that you are entitled to your deposit 605 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,920 back. You understand that. 606 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,120 You understand that you can't run a crazy house. 607 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,240 You may be able to rent rooms, but you can't run a crazy house. 608 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,240 You cannot cut a room in half, a kitchen, which is a communal 609 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,840 room, moving a cot and let people sleep there. 610 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,840 You can't do that. Respectfully, your Honor, it was 611 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,560 not a kitchen. It was a portion of the living 612 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,040 room. And it was not a bookshelf. 613 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,920 It was a wall. We built a wall. 614 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,560 I don't care what you built. I don't care if you built 615 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,480 another Berlin Wall if what you're trying to do is stuff as 616 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,360 many people in your house as possible to make your mortgage. 617 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,800 And that was not what this tenant bargained for. 618 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:52,360 She had a right to move out, especially when she says you 619 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,720 also had someone living on the property in a trailer, yes. 620 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,920 And when you had the most people in the house, how many people 621 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:01,120 live there? 6. 622 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,240 How many bedrooms are there? There's there are 7. 7 bedrooms. 623 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:08,160 Yes, it's a very large. House. 624 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,120 Do you occupy one? No. 625 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,160 You don't live there at all? No. 626 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,760 Even better, now she's entitled to her $420.00 deposit back and 627 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,800 she doesn't have to live in a house where people are murdered. 628 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,680 But I don't understand your lawsuit for $5000. 629 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,280 Do you understand? Yes. 630 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,000 Especially since you have no witnesses here, yes. 631 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,960 Do you understand? I do understand. 632 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,000 I've been diagnosed with PTSD since the incident. 633 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,760 What you have to do, if that's what you want, is you have to 634 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,240 have an expert witness, Yes, ma'am, Which you don't have. 635 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,280 I have a diagnosis and my therapy bills. 636 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,760 You lived there for a relatively short time? 637 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,080 Yes, ma'am. How long? 638 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,400 Less than a month. And where had you lived right 639 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,480 before that? With my. 640 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,800 Parents. So at any time during the course 641 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:54,960 of this, you could have gone home. 642 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,360 I mean, I did as as soon as it was over, but my parents wanted 643 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,120 me to deal with it on my own. So you would have difficulty at 644 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,840 home. I got. 645 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:04,400 So you don't have to go any further. 646 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,800 You have to give her her $840 back. 647 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,240 Judge me for the plaintiff. We're done. 648 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:14,360 I heard somebody being beaten to death, so it was very, very 649 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,240 emotional for me. Took me 9 minutes to get to the 650 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:19,520 house. I arrived. 651 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,040 When I walked past the kitchen, I heard him. 652 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:27,000 I heard Phillip snoring. And I immediately removed the 653 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,720 person. But later when I read the 654 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,520 article, I realized that was him choking on his own blood. 655 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,840 And I I had to take care of the business of removing the the 656 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,080 person from the premises. They asked all of the roommates 657 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,520 to go out on the porch. They basically, they processed 658 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,960 the scene through the night and they stood out on the lawn. 659 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,200 And then they went and investigated it and came out and 660 00:37:50,200 --> 00:38:00,200 told us that Philip had passed. In the end, the evidence against 661 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:05,560 Blake was overwhelming and he was ultimately convicted of 662 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,440 first degree murder. But the scars left from his 663 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,640 heinous act would linger long after that fateful night, 664 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:19,120 casting a dark shadow over everyone who lived in that 665 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,520 house. The homicide that Blake 666 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,880 committed is a haunting reminder to not only examine those around 667 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,560 you, but to listen to your instincts when danger is near. 668 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,760 Thanks again for listening to Unnerved. 669 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,320 If you enjoyed this episode, as always, please share it with 670 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,160 your friends and leave a review wherever you get your podcast. 671 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,720 It really helps the show out and I truly appreciate it. 672 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,120 And as always, if you guys want to see photos related to each 673 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:19,040 episode, including this one, be sure to follow our Instagram at 674 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,680 Unnerved Podcast. 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