Murder With My Husband - 21. Jeremy Strohmeyer - The Casino Crazy

Episode Date: August 3, 2020

On this episode of Murder With My Husband, Payton and Garrett discuss the murder of Sherrice Iverson. 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer met her in the middle of the night in a casino and tragically took her life. LIVE ONLINE SHOW TICKETS HERE! https://www.moment.co/murderwithmyhusband Case Sources: https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/strohmeyer-jeremy.htm https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-19-mn-5552-story.html https://medium.com/@ashleyhorsfall/the-bad-samaritan-the-murder-of-sherrice-iverson-1b8e8f32a46f https://www.thecriminaljournal.com/murder-of-sherrice-iverson-by-jeremy-strohmeyer-7-year-old-girl-was-found-dead-inside-a-restroom-stall-at-a-casino/ https://coffeeordie.com/homicide-detective-most-gruesome-case/ https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/7-year-old-girls-murder-at-nevada-casino-still-haunts-20-years-later/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QpLVXXOfY Social Media Channels: https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Yes, you energy, energy for everything. Captain Banner now to our podcast. This is Murder with My Husband. I'm Peyton Moreland. And I'm Garrett Moreland. And he's the husband. And I'm husband. Welcome back to another episode of Murder with my husband. I need to give an update on the story from last week. We had so many people write in and want to hear the story of

Garrett almost getting arrested by the cops for stealing Amazon packages. I did forgot about that to mention that. Yeah, so I'm going to clear that story up real quick right here. So we were living at this place, and we're like, let's go eat some food. So we opened the door and the house we were living in. We were living at this place. I don't like all sketchy. It was just an apartment building. And there was a big, long staircase up to our apartment.

So we go out the door door and we look down the stairs and in the parking lot, there's two cop cars literally surrounding Garrett's car. It was like a suburban and so there were windows on all sides of the car. And they literally boxed him in like we couldn't get in the car and as right as we go out, I'm such an idiot, but I'm like, I like gasp and so all of the cops turn over

and look at us and I look at Garrett and I'm like, did you hit somebody? That was my first thought, was I you would hit somebody and just drove away or something, you were like, no. I remember that. And I was like, oh my gosh, why is that your car? And then the cops yell up, they're like, is this your car? Garrett's like, yeah, and we just start walking down the stairs

and we go out and the cops like rush up to meet us and they're like, can you guys please take a seat on the sidewalk? Gerrard's like, what's going on? And they're like, are you the owner of this car? Where do you, like is this your permanent address just like bombarding him with questions? And so after we answered all of the questions, and I'm like freaking out, and that's when they asked me, like they asked me something,

and I couldn't even come up with the answer because I was so scared. And it was weird because they said, a neighbor saw you steal an Amazon package off their porch and put it in the back of that car. Yeah. And I was like, what in the world? And he did, he had a, well, no, he didn't steal.

No, I did not steal anything. He had packages in the back of his car because we were just delivering stuff. Yeah, and so Garrett explains that, like, oh, that's my job. I'm delivering the product that's in those packages back there, I can open it up. You can look at them, they wouldn't even let him walk

over to his car. And they were being so serious, and they're like, well, we've had multiple complaints that that exact car is stealing packages and get it. It was like, go over, look at them. It's one product. All the boxes are the same product. So eventually they like calm down and looked at the product

and was like, oh, it's not your car. You're not the person that was stealing the packages. Gared's like, no, we ended up driving away. And it was all good. But it was, I was so scared because they were being so serious. They thought for sure I stole all those packages. No, they thought for sure that you murdered someone. That's how they were acting.

They really boxed in your car. Yeah, they were not happy. I was like, I still wanna know what neighbor completely lied and ratted us out for doing nothing. Cause you could see the boxes, like you could see the boxes in the back of your car. I was like, oh, I still stuff an Amazon.

I don't know what we want me to do. Yeah, oh, it was so, it was funny after, but in the moment I was so scared. Garrett wasn't scared. He was just talking to the other guy. I was, I was freaking out. I was so scared I couldn't get over it. That was a five, totally forgot about that story

till last week. I know, it's crazy. That's funny. Okay, so this week's story was suggested by Melissa Mendoza, so thank you, Melissa. I try to keep our episodes broad, covering all types of true kind cases, you know, unsolved, murder, survivor, kidnapping, all types.

But when I came across this story, I knew that I just had to do it this week. So I'm going to list my case sources. Murderpedia.org, la times.com, medium.com, the criminal journal.com, coffee or die.com, review journal.com, and then there was a YouTube series to part on this called the Bad Samaritan. So if you just look that up, you can watch it. Like the movie? It's not a movie. It's just a YouTube series.

Oh, okay, nevermind. Wait, there's a movie called the bad Samaritan. I thought there was. I thought there was a movie called, yeah, there's a movie. I just looked it up. There's a movie called Bad Samaritan. What's it about? It was released in 2018.

I don't know. I just, I feel like I've heard of it. You just knew the name and so you said it? I feel like I've heard of it. So that's why I asked. Maybe it's about this. Oh, I don't think so. I think it would have came up when I was researching.

Here, I'll read the, okay, read it. It says a young ballet breaks into a man's home and discovers a terrified woman who's chained and gagged after nothing, the police, after notifying the police, he soon becomes a target of the psychopath's wrath. And he tries to rescue the victim that he left behind. No, not it, but I should watch that. Oh, I don't know about that. Okay.

Okay. So let's just jump right in. Okay. 18 year old Jeremy Strowmeyer and 17-year-old David Cash are wandering around the arcade at the Prima-Donna Casino, which is 43 miles south of Las Vegas. They had traveled there from Long Beach, California, with David's dad from Memorial Day Weekend on May 25, 1997. Jeremy was wearing baggy shorts and a backwards UCLA Bruins baseball cap according to Nora

with Los Angeles Times. He was working his way around the casino showing off his fake ID, his pierced tongue, and nipple rings to as many teenagers as he could find. As time went on, now into the early morning hours of the 25th, and David's dad was still gambling away, Jeremy and David grew bored. They decided to try and urinate on some slot machines and see if they would get caught. What? So they just went around,

started peeing on slot machines to see if they'd get kicked out. But they never got kicked out. That's so weird. Keep in mind they're 17 and 18. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, not that it doesn't make a way for us, but. Jeremy was adopted into a well off Long Beach family at 18 months old. He was an

honor student, 3.5 GPA, that could have been a 4.0 if he had put in the effort in. He was smart, taking advanced classes and building his own computers. He already had his pilot license. He had traveled with his family, living in Singapore for a year, his sophomore year of high school. His family had maids, a four-seater plane, and many nice cars. He's 18. 18. Wow.

Jeremy's adoptive parents noticed him acting out after returning to school from Singapore. He was hiding things, started using drugs, and lying. He was known as a party goer that drank too much and flew into rages that ended up in him getting kicked out of most of those parties. He was killing animals and fighting with friends and family. He had a girlfriend named Agnes that he became obsessed with. She started to pull away from him, he clung to her.

By senior year, his parents chalked it up to, you know, teenage rebellion and his friends chalked it up to him having senior idols. Yeah. Jeremy decided to move out and began hanging out with David Cash because of all the turmoil going on with his parents. His senior year, he was like, I'm moving out. But it sounds like his family was very wealthy. Yes.

Okay. So he meets David Cash, his friend that he's in Las Vegas with at the beginning of this episode. And they start hanging out. Together they, you know, start wreaking havoc on Long Beach, California. They harass sex workers and homeless people. I'm not going to go into detail, but they were not being very good kids. Yeah, it's not good.

Jeremy decided after a while to move back home after speaking to a teacher that he looked up to very much at school, but his parents set some strict rules, you know, you have a curfew, you have to be here or you're getting kicked back out and we're not providing for you. After crashing their car and then piercing his tongue and nipples, Jeremy's parents were relieved when David Cash's dad offered to take David and Jeremy to Vegas for Memorial Day weekend. Isn't that funny that we call it Memorial Day weekend?

Wait, yeah, that is kind of funny, but I was going to ask why were the, so the parents were relieved that yeah, because they were like, he's finally off our hands. Oh my gosh. Okay. So I mean, this was just a kid who was acting out against his parents and, you know, figuring out who he was, right? No one expected what would happen on May 25th, 1997. Seven-year-old Cherisse Iverson and her brother were exhausted and alone at the Prima-Donna Casino. Their 58-year-old father, Leroy, had driven them from their South Los Angeles home to Prim, Nevada,

Lee Roy had driven them from their South Los Angeles home to Prim, Nevada, to Gamble, a normal occurrence for them. He was a fairly protective father, but their home life was a little bit tumultuous. Lee Roy Iverson and Sheree's mother, Yolanda Manuel, had been fighting for years. After meeting 45-year-old Lee Roy while Yolanda was only 15, she moved in with him and dropped out of school after getting pregnant, so there was a 30-year gap between them. It was this massive age gap that had hurt them in their later years. Just two weeks before the Prima Donna Casino gambling trip, Yolanda had actually moved out,

leaving Cherice with Leroy. Okay. That Memorial Day weekend in 1997, Leroy did not have the money to get a room for the kids to stay in. So when he got to the casino, he dropped them off at the arcade that was inside and expected them to just play there together while he went and gambled. So Leroy took him and his kids, or took his kids to Vegas just to gamble for the weekend. But didn't have enough money to get a room for them.

That first night. So left him in the arcade. So just left the kids in the arcade and went to gamble. His plan didn't run as smoothly as he had hoped. Cherice being returned to him by security twice after getting lost alone in the casino. Oh, man. One of those times she'd actually wandered across the street

to another casino whose security then called their security and said, does this little girl belong to someone in your casino? And they were like, yeah, we've already returned her to her dad once. One and picked her up, returned her to Leeroy. Oh my gosh. Security told him, you know, Leeroy,

who was severely drunk by this point that he either needed to tend to his two children that were in the arcade, that were not a babysitter. You know, you can't just leave your kids in the arcade or he needed to get his kids and leave the casino. So, probably if they knew he was drunk, they didn't just call the police. He brushed them off and continued to gamble.

So, yeah, yeah, I'll do it, send the kids back to the casino and continue to gamble. Okay. Cherice returned to the arcade and fell asleep in the seat of a race car game. So, you know, how you can like sit down and just sit with the inn you race it. So, she fell asleep in one of those seats.

I feel like as a kid, those are kind of comfortable. She was tired and it was 3 a.m. at this point. It was the middle of the night and he was still gambling. And so these kids were just like exhausted. After she woke back up, because I can't imagine you're getting very good sleep in the middle of a casino, she and her brother decided to run around and start playing again.

Sharice was pelting her brother with paper wads when one missed and hit someone else. A young man who was showing off his tongue piercing to a 16 year old girl, a young man named Jeremy Strowmeyer. Oh man. Jeremy picks up the paper wad and tosses it back to Sherees. They start playing back and forth. She runs away in her blue sailor dress and black cowboy boots and he starts to chase her. You can see

this security footage on YouTube of them playing. The older kid, Jeremy starts to chase the little girl. Yes, so Jeremy, who we talked about at the beginning, is now chasing Cherise, who we just talked about around the casino and you can go on YouTube and watch this footage. For 11 minutes, the two run up and down the casino aisles, playing hide and seek, Jeremy, an 18-year-old wealthy teenager from Long Beach and Cherise from LA, who weighed around 46 pounds. She's in second grade. Jeremy whispered to Sherees that the only place that she would be safe from him because they were playing hide and seek. The only place that she would be safe from him finding her during their game would be if Sherees went into the

girl's bathroom. So at 3.47 a.m. on May 25th 1997, Cherice ran into the lady's room at the Primadonna Casino and 18 year old Jeremy quietly followed her in there. So Jeremy just left his friend and the girl that he was showing the piercings off with and just started chasing the little girl around. Yeah, just start playing with her. It's what you call it. David Cash, Jeremy's friend, who had watched Jeremy play with a seven-year-old Sherees, curiously entered the bathroom as well. When he walked in he saw Jeremy and Sherees playing with wet paper towels. They had gotten them wet and then we're just throwing them at each other. Sherees then picked up the yellow wet floor

sign that it was in the bathroom and like hoisted it up and hit Jeremy. Not hard just like they were playing and so she hit Jeremy with it. David says something in Jeremy snapped at that point. Like the many parties they had been to, like the many fits of rage that he had seen Jeremy have but this time it was on Sharice. Jeremy picked her up, covered her mouth with his hand and brought her into the handicap stall that was in the ladies room. He locked the stall door behind him. David ran into the stall next to him, jumped up on the toilet, and looked over the top of

the stall. What he saw was Sharice struggling, Jeremy holding her down, covering her mouth, telling her to shut up or that he was going to kill her. What the heck? David says he didn't say anything. But when Jeremy looked up at him, he looked back with an urgent face. The game they had been playing had gone way too far.

He even reached down and like swatted Jeremy's hat off his head trying to get his attention. But Jeremy wasn't having it. He looked back down. And according to David, he had a glazed look over his face. David jumped off the toilet and walked back out of the restroom. He didn't want to see what Jeremy was going to do. He'd only been in the restroom for two minutes. And we know that because of the security footage you see him

go in and two minutes later come out. I thought he was going to like jump over the stall or something. You would think. Yeah. After David left, Jeremy took off Sharice's boots lifted up her dress and took her underwear off and Started to molest her. That's the only details I'm gonna go into about that part. Oh, that's horrible. Two women entered the bathroom in the middle of this Groose and attack and Jeremy hid Sharice on the top of the toilet so that there was only one pair of legs if someone were to look down under the stall. Jeremy held his hand over her mouth so that she wouldn't make any noise, but he was squishing her onto like the toilet with his body. When the women left, Jeremy turned around and realized that Shreece was non-responsive, he had been crushing her. Her breathing was labored, he strangled her at that point and attempted to snap her neck twice. He said that he thought she was brain dead.

And so he said, I might as well just kill her. That's so horrible. He put Sheree's boots, pants and underwear inside the toilet bowl, and then put her legs in the toilet bowl and folded her body over them. So she was completely tucked up off the floor and just folded sitting on the toilet bowl. He used toilet paper to clean up and then walked out of the bathroom 24 minutes after he had followed Shereeson. It's crazy.

He would be smart enough to think, oh, there's all these security cameras around. How many casino in Las Vegas? And I just spent 24 minutes in here. Yeah. No one's ever going to know I did it literally. Jeremy walked out, found David and told him him I just killed that little girl in there. Oh, they left the casino briefly after that with David's dad. And on their way, continued to show off their piercings to people, the valet, everyone.

David didn't say anything. He just walked out with him. They continued on their trip to Las Vegas. They played slot machines, drink beer and even rode the New York New York roller coaster. They did talk about what had happened at the pre-Madonna Casino. David told Jeremy that the cameras had to have caught him. They were definitely cameras in there. Jeremy said he thinks that the cameras weren't working.

The more they talked about the crime, the more paranoid David grew. Jeremy seemed fine. According to Los Angeles Times, if they got caught, they were gonna say that they were just in the bathroom playing hide and seek, and that the little girl locked herself in the stall, and then David left, and Jeremy followed him out. But then David was like, well, if we say that,

they're not gonna see you walk out of the bathroom, and he said, I'm just gonna say that I walk directly over to the men's bathroom. And then I, my stomach hurt and so I was in there for the rest of the 23 minutes. Okay. They left Las Vegas on Monday night and dropped Jeremy off at his home in Long Beach at 3.15 AM.

The next morning, David and Jeremy woke up to the video footage of them following Sherees into the bathroom, being plastered all over the news. Oh. Do you recognize these men? That's crazy. It obviously didn't take long for fellow kids from school to recognize two of their classmates. It wasn't a secret that they had gone to Vegas together. And Jeremy had actually already told two other people what he had done, but no one believed him because he was a partier.

He was a drunk. He was into drugs. That has to be like such psychopath behavior right to tell the people. Oh, I killed someone. Exactly. And just be so nonchalant about it. Classmates ended up calling the police, and panic finally started to set in for Jeremy. Three days after the murder, Jeremy packed his bag, burned his clothes from that night and was ready to leave town.

The cops were stationed outside of his home in Long Beach and when he waited for his mom to pull up and then when she came walking into the front door he slipped out the back door and made a run for it, but cops saw him in a chasing suit. Jeremy's mom was confused when the front door was unlocked and she went in, but Jeremy wasn't home. He never left their house unlocked. She went up to his room and found his ADD medication bottle empty and there was a note. It said, I am so sorry. I just pray that this is enough to finish me off. Please, Lord, let me die. I'm sorry, mom.

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Police captured Jeremy, obviously, and took him into the station. Jeremy waved his right to have an attorney present during his interview and gave his confession twice. Saying I killed her. I went in, followed her in there, killed her, gave details. It's like the story I just told you is what he told them. Such strange behavior. David, his friend that was with him went to the police station with his dad and gave his statement, implicating Jeremy said, yeah, I followed him in there. He was holding her in the stall. I walked out, he came out, said he killed her.

So I wonder how much I'm sure you're gonna talk about it but I'm curious how much trouble, what a quick trouble he can get into. It's a big part of this case. Okay. So the next day at school, like David goes to school the next day, he was pulled out of his first hour class and told that he couldn't attend the rest of the year and that his diploma would be melt in.

Because he wasn't arrested, only Jeremy was. Jeremy was charged with first degree murder, first degree kidnapping, and sexual assault of a minor. Jeremy hired Leslie Abramson, who represented many high profile cases as his attorney. He changed his story once he hired an attorney like most people do and said that he was high at the time and he actually doesn't remember the murder and that he thinks David actually possibly did it and then turned around and blamed it on him. Even though David was only in there for two minutes. I just thought it was crazy that he turns around and just blames his friend.

Yeah. Um, this is when the details of Jeremy's birth parents came out. According to LA Times, Jeremy's biological father is serving a 32-month sentence for possession with intent to sell marijuana. For most of the past 10 years, Jeremy's attorneys would learn that he had been in California prisons for drug-related crimes. Jeremy's birth mother was from an upper-class family, but she had a drug problem. At the time of Jeremy's birth, she was in her teens, confined to a psychiatric ward at

the county hospital having been declared unable to care for herself. Diagnosis is schizophrenic. She had been committed to a California state hospital for 11 years. In the course of her life, she has been committed 70 times, according to court records. Does Jeremy know about any of this? No. Like, had he ever known about this before? No, this was the first time it came out was when the attorney started digging.

Okay. His mom had been diagnosed as having obsessive compulsive disorder and possibly a form of alcohol dependence. Jeremy's trial was scheduled for September 1988, as the prosecution built up a defense. They found hundreds of images of child pornography on Jeremy's computer. There were chat room logs of him talking with other men about child sex.

Keep in mind he's 18. Yeah. And testimonial from friends who said, yeah, Jeremy talked about explicit things like that had to do with underage girls and children all the time, but we all just thought he was joking. Wow, so it obviously wasn't just this first time. It wasn't just like he went in there playing with a little girl and snapped. I think he knew what he was doing. Yes, I think the whole premise of this is what 18 year old spends 11 minutes running around a casino playing hide and seek with a second grader. Like that in and of itself is weird.

That's why I ask because I mean, it might be nowhere to be like, oh, hi, hi, yeah, I'll throw this. I'll throw this back to you that just didn't mean you kind of just go off on your own. You're talking to a 16 year old girl, which is way closer to your age But he saw her and it was instantly stopped talking to the girl wanted to play with this little girl So he was a pedophile Oh, yeah, he had a bunch of child pornography on his computer. Oh, yeah So it also came out during preparation for trial that Jeremy had asked Agnes to dress up his girlfriend to dress up as a little

schoolgirl during sex. Wow. Did you know that when you Google the words schoolboy, young boys in school uniforms pop up, just like a schoolboy, that's what, like when you think of schoolboy, that's what would pop up. But when you Google schoolgirl, provocative pictures of women in skanky schoolgirl uniforms pop up. Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying some people aren't ready for that conversation, so we'll leave

it at that, but this is the reality of the world. Jeremy was facing a death sentence. So after all of this evidence, an hour's before trial, Jeremy pled guilty to first degree murder instead of going on with trial. So he was tried in the Vada isum in not California. Yes. Okay. And he this whole time he was like, we're going trial.

His attorney was like, we're going to trial. She thought, I think we could totally call this off based upon, it could be genetic. Look at his messed up parents, he had no idea, he wouldn't have been taking drugs if he knew that both of his parents were dependent on drugs. Basically, and also saying he was high at the time, she tried to say that he was addicted to meth and that he was high at the time. And so he didn't even realize what was going on.

And obviously he had looked at this stuff before. So that's why he did it. It wasn't because, you know, he was just in the moment. I wonder if her attorneys ever think that that's the real reason or if they just convinced themselves that, oh, this is why this happened. Does that make sense? Yeah. I can see what you're saying. Well, because to me, it's like he, you read his, oh, so she said, oh, his two confessions were peer pressured by the cops. They told him to say that. It was very obvious what happened to that little girl. It wasn't like in question, what had happened. They had already talked to David. So they led him in that.

He, it wasn't his confessions. Plus they completely abused his right to have a, like an attorney present, which is just, it's just like all the evidence before that. Right. He left a note on the bed. He took all the pills and he told two other people at school. He was running away. Yeah. He even told Agnes that he had killed her. Oh, he did.

But he said, oh, I didn't rape her. David did. Oh, okay. That's interesting. He told his girlfriend that he didn't rape her. That's really interesting. Exactly. The cops were like, no, he literally came in and was like,

I know I could have an attorney, but they just kind of make everything messy and I just kind of want to get this out in the open, so I'm not going to bring one in. Well, yeah, but she was like, no, they abused his village whatever. So Jeremy was facing a death sentence. So then he says, OK, instead of going to trial, I'm just going to plead guilty so I don't have the death sentence.

He pleads guilty to first degree murder, first degree kidnapping sexual assault on a minor with substantial bodily harm and sexual and just regular sexual assault on a minor. On October 14, 1998, Jeremy Strohmeyer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at 18 years old. He was originally imprisoned at Eli State Prison, but was moved to Lovelock Correctional Center where he is today. He has tried to appeal his sentence multiple times, but no judge is having it this far. So they actually like made a rule saying, if someone 18 or under is sentenced to life in prison,

they get re-looked at because minors might not, even though he was 18, teenagers might not know what they're doing. But considering the severity of the case, I'm sure no. Yeah, the judges just were like, nope, sorry, that doesn't apply to you. You didn't go and rob somebody you, yeah. So the interesting part is that Jeremy is actually married. Yeah.

A woman started writing love letters to him in prison. And their wedding was in the visiting room in the Lovelock Correctional Center in 2009. Wow. Jeremy is now 40 years old. That's crazy. And there's an interview with the wife and she's like, listen, I'm not crazy.

I'm a normal girl. I just like, I just fell in love. So do they get to like see? Well, obviously get a seat. Oh, just in the visiting room. Yeah, there's just. Yeah. Yeah. But it was just more overletters. You can go. You can get on that. So how do they get married? You can get married in the visiting room like that. I don't know that. I think it's like a right of prisoners or something. To get married. To get married. So you can go online. I'm not sure what the website is,

but you can type in a name and see if they're willing to get letters, because there's prisoners out there who are like, yeah, right to me, I want to have Penn Powell or whatever. And so yeah, you can get on and. I didn't know that. So in October of 1999, and I just think this part is hilarious, Jeremy's adoptive parents

sued LA County and its adoption workers. They stated that social workers felt to tell them about Jeremy's birth parents' mental illnesses and that if they had told them they never would have adopted Jeremy. What? Oh my, are you serious? You can't do that. No, that's my problem. That is so disrespectful.

That is so disrespectful. I just think that's not okay. That's not okay. So what happened to David? So David Cash has never been charged for anything in this case. So David was never even charged as an accomplice or anything? Nope. He, at that time, in Nevada, it wasn't illegal to not report

to the police if you had seen a crime. Although he was morally incorrect, he wasn't lawfully incorrect. He attended UC Berkeley after all of this happened and there was a legit protest about his attendance. And I don't mean like, oh, the students were like, we don't want him here. Like they went out with signs and like picketed and marched in front of the university saying, we don't want him here. We don't want him here. The UC Berkeley didn't ever kick him out though because I mean he didn't

technically break the law. So even though what they think he did was completely inappropriate. You can't just illegally. Yeah you can't just kick him out. He has been nicknamed the bad Samaritan and has said some awful things about this case. So I'm gonna tell you some of of them. Oh, no. In an interview, they said, were you appalled that a friend said that he killed a little girl? David said, I'm not going to get upset over somebody else's life. I just worry about myself first. I'm not going to lose sleep over somebody else's problems. They said, well, then why don't you just turn Jeremy over to the police. He said, I

don't want to be the person who took away his last day, his last night of freedom. What? They said, do you still consider Jeremy a friend? He said, yeah, he didn't do anything to me. Oh my gosh, you're kidding me. According to murder, pedia. Cash, David Cash told Los Angeles Times that he did not dwell on the murder of Sheree's Iverson.

That's horrible. He said that this case has actually made it easier for him to score with women. Those were his exact words. He also told Long Beach Press Telegram, I'm not an idiot, I'm gonna make some money off of this case. I don't know, I don't. Everything he said just sounds crazy. After a couple of years, he did express some remorse over Iverson's death in a radio interview that he did. He said, I do have a lot of remorse towards the Iverson family.

It was a very tragic event. The simple fact remains though that I didn't know this little girl. I don't know this little girl. I don't know people in Panama or in Africa who are killed every single day. So I can't feel remorse for them. The only person I know is Jeremy Strowmeyer. So, would that be considered sociopathic behavior as well? So that's what people say. People call him a sociopath because he's still to this day like someone in an interview, someone asked him. So if you could go back because what he claims is I didn't know he was going to kill her.

I just thought they were playing around. I didn't know he was going to kill her. So someone asked him an interview, okay, well, if you could go back then, would you have done something differently? Would you have ran out of that bathroom and got security? Would you have tried to jump in the stall and help him? He goes, no, not really. I don't think I would have done anything differently. I don't really think I did anything wrong.

That's unbelievable. That's so mind-blowing. So is he still, I assume, just alive today and just hanging out? Just mad chilling, yeah. Where's he at? Well, we don't have to talk about that, I guess. Yeah, they haven't really set information, but he did go to UC Berkeley to become an engineer. Okay. That's all I know. Two probably just working somewhere. So Cherice Iverson's murder, and this is also according to murder, PDF led to the passage of Nevada State Assembly Bill 267 requiring that people report to authorities when they have reasonable suspicions that a child younger than 18 is being sexually abused or violently treated.

Okay. The impetus for this bill stemmed from the if they witness a rape, a murder or a Lude act on a child. Of course, Sherees' family is left without a daughter, no matter who faces charges, but her mom did once say, David Cash shouldn't be able to get on with his life like nothing ever happened. I sure can't. be able to get on with his life like nothing ever happened. I sure can't. And I assume it would be considered double jeopardy. Go back and try to arch him because he was never charged. Right. And maybe it is because now that the law, it was passed after. After. You know, maybe there's like a statue of limitations or something saying we can't go back and press or charge old cases. But I mean, now there's literally, you can do gel time

if you don't report. Like, if you know that sexual abuse is happening to a kid and you don't report to the cops, you can do gel time for that. And I don't know David, obviously, but wouldn't you be kind of scared if you were living next to somebody that had that type of behavior? Oh, yeah. What I'm saying. Yeah, totally.

So it just seems kind of strange, but. So Sheree's was buried in Inglewood. Sherees would be 29 now. 29 years old if this had not happened. And that's the story of Jeremy Strohmeyer, the casino crazy. Dang, that was, that was a crazy one. That's so sad. I know. I know. So that's why I, it was another child murder. Uh-huh. Which I don't want to do two weeks in a row. I try to keep it, you know, sporadic or whatever. But when I, when I read that one, when it got sent in and I read it, I was like, I have to do this one.

I, I feel like I'm a, you know, I always talk about, oh, I love true crime. I know everything about true crime. And now that people are sending us in murders, I've decided that I don't know that much about true crime. Yeah. Because how do I not know about these cases? Well, it's good to be wearing awareness to these types of cases, right?

Two, right? I just want people talking for Shurikai. Yeah. And so that's why I was like, I absolutely have to do this murder. Totally. I'm sad that, you know, a lot of the cases that we see in the press are little mainstream. Well, it's just like everything is the same socioeconomic status or the cases that get in the press. I'm surprised that this one wasn't, because it seems like a pretty, I don't, it's so hard.

I use the word crazy so much. I don't know what other, I mean, I know. Well, I mean, I think all murder is crazy, especially murder like this where he didn't even know her. I mean, I said this to someone who wants to message us. All murder is crazy. All murder doesn't make sense to me, but murder for fun, especially doesn't make sense to me. Like I'm like, okay, well, that just came out

of absolutely no way. There was no revenge, it was just- Yeah, came out of absolutely nowhere. There was no revenge. Yeah, there was no motive. There was absolutely no motive. It wasn't, oh, you slept with my wife, oh, you did this or, you know, it's just random stuff. The scary thing is if it wasn't Cherisse, it would have been someone else down the road.

It's just, it's so, so, so scary. Which is, which is horrible. And also, absolutely horrible that there was hundreds of photos of child pornography on his computer. Yeah, oh no, 100%. Absolutely horrible. And also absolutely horrible that there was hundreds of photos of child pornography on his computer. Yeah, oh no, 100%. Absolutely horrible. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, his family was struggling with him a lot before this whole case, like I barely, barely skim the surface of the things that they were struggling with.

Just disrespect and back talking and a complete lack of respect for his mom. And, you know, they kicked him out. They let him move back in like his life had turned into turmoil. And he was actually a very smart kid. At the time of this murder, his GPA was 2.0, but he could have had a 4.0. He was smarter than a lot of people in his class. His SAT score was high. He had potential to go somewhere and do something.

Yeah. Yeah, instead he just was a loser. Dang. Yeah, so that's the story. Remember to get on our social media and check it out. We have a lot of discussions going on. It's super fun. That's murder with my husband, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Leave us a review, share on your stories or share with friends and family. It

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