Small Town Murder - #524 - Trust Game - Skygusty, West Virginia

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

This week, in Skygusty, West Virginia, one of the strangest stories that has ever happened, all starts with an odd family, with a creepy background. The murder is a brutal two day torture ses...sion, which includes a bad batch of homemade meth & a motive that seems unclear. Then, the body is dug up, multiple times, for insane reasons. Everything becomes clear when the strangest wedding, possibly in history, takes place! Awful people, doing awful things!!Along the way, we find out that you can go dangerously far into an old coal mine "for fun", that when the homemade meth doesn't turn out right, just throw it out, and that some ministers will marry ANYONE!!Hosted by James Pietragallo and Jimmie WhismanNew episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: crimeinsports@gmail.comGo to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:02:56 go on a trip shall we do it let's do it we are going to west virginia of course yikes west virginia never lets us, as far as crazy goes. We've had Laylen, West Virginia was the guy dangling off the bridge. Groundhog for Breakfast was another West Virginia. So there's been some classics. This is going to eclipse those two in terms of insanity. And this is sky gusty West Virginia.
Starting point is 00:03:20 That's a town. Sky gusty. That's too. It's not sk-gusty? It might be, but it's so small that there is no, That's not good. Gusty. It might be, but it's so small that there is no, it's impossible to find a pronunciation for like nobody space between the Y and the G. Nope. Nope. Sky. Sky gusty. That's it.
Starting point is 00:03:34 It's sky gusty. Sky gusty, West Virginia. And it's in far, far Southern West Virginia, all the way at the bottom there, the bottom tip in the, in the mountains, and oh boy, it is about two and a half hours to Roanoke, Virginia, that's the closest, like, bigger place, about five hours to Wheeling, West Virginia, our last West Virginia episode, Born to Be Bad, which was crazy as usual, West Virginia.
Starting point is 00:03:59 West Virginia has so much crazy to choose from. If we're doing a West Virginia episode, you go, oh Jesus, it's West Virginia. This is going to be insane. You just know it. It can almost be a podcast about how fucked up West Virginia is. Yeah. Well, the standard for cases for picking them is way higher for West Virginia.
Starting point is 00:04:16 It has to be insane to even be part of their pantheon. Otherwise, every other show we make is from West Virginia. Yeah, it's ridiculous. So now the people of this is kind of the whole area. This isn't really the town, because there isn't much of a town here. There's a cemetery, and that's pretty much it. That's the town.
Starting point is 00:04:33 There isn't much of a town. So it's about 3,800 people in the whole area of this town. But there's nobody here. The entire McDowell County has just over 19,000 people in it Very small place now ours sparse median household income here $29,219 which money is scarce to Wow. Yeah, that's normally almost 70,000 Median home cost here buckle up everybody $55,400 That's less than your average pickup truck cost now literally
Starting point is 00:05:08 a new that is that is what your truck cost you could trade a Dodge Ram for two houses in West Virginia in this town that's crazy unbelievable this county McDowell County has a 22.4 percent unemployment rate let me repeat that that. 22.4, the rest of the country, it's about 4% right now. 22.4 almost. 22.4, and this is like, for these people, it's not temporary. These are people who are terminally unemployed, we'll put it, kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Perpetually. Perpetually. History of this town, little bit here. First half of the 20th century, this county was all coal mining, obviously. By 1950, it was the leading coal producing county in the US of A. Oh boy. Which is saying something because they were tearing coal out of everywhere. 16% of the county's population in 1950 was employed by the mining sector. However, automation
Starting point is 00:06:08 is what killed mining, by the way. Whatever people want to say, automation is what killed mining jobs. That's what killed jobs. They got machines to do shit that used to take ten guys to do and a couple of them might die. Instead, they just got a machine that will just do it. So that's where the jobs went there. And that happened in the 60s and the 70s and even By the late 50s that was going on the backhoe and the dump truck. Yeah Well, no the things that bore into the ground too. Oh places used to have to send men you can now send machines So it was different by 1960. So from 50 it was 16,000 by 1960
Starting point is 00:06:40 It was down to 7,000 people were working So that's how much the automation caught up from 50 to 60. It was so bad here that while running for president, this was a famous thing, John F. Kennedy came here to say, I'll help you people if you elect me. This place is a fucking, you're poor, everybody has nothing. And his first executive order created a food stamps program
Starting point is 00:07:02 and the first recipients of the food stamps were in McDowell County. Made sure to do that. So that's how that worked. And then he put a sweater vest on and sat on a yacht. And put a pipe in his mouth, banged a movie star, and got shot in the head. So reviews, this is for McDowell County,
Starting point is 00:07:20 because there's nothing for Sky Gusty. OK, one is one star. This is the only one that I could find for the county. It used to be a wonderful area drug. When was this 1945? Drugs have taken over and jobs have left. I love it, but I'm leaving ASAP We are retired and it's no longer feasible for us to remain here My husband has battled cancer and the drive to his treatment alone took two hours each way." Holy! This is very rural. We don't even have nearby hospitals if we needed care. Plus,
Starting point is 00:07:51 lack of stores and restaurants, it's no longer convenient for people of our age. Not to mention some of the activity in our neighborhood. Now, then I found on Reddit, someone posted that they're thinking of moving to MacDowell County and asked if it's nice. What's the answer? The first one and it's got a lot of all the all up fucking votes on this one, zero down votes. It's literally like moving to a third world country.
Starting point is 00:08:18 Please, please believe me when I say this. I'm not exaggerating. Why would you move there? That's what I mean. And then somebody responded to that and said, grew up in McDowell County I've been gone for more than 30 years returning only only for funerals which is hilarious. Just go bury folks and leave. And take the fuck off. This person is not exaggerating it is absolutely a third world country. Nothing on earth could ever convince me that returning there to stay is a good idea. There's absolutely no hope for that area. No hope. No hope. None. None, he
Starting point is 00:08:53 says after that as a sentence. When people leave in the numbers that they have in the last half century, it should be reason enough to ask why why I ask that you spend three to four days there before you commit Yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean it'd be great if there if you had any sort of like Necessity picking up you know except you gotta go to fucking Roanoke for anything That's move to Roanoke you might as well and that and this is the thing too This is very much like the American Hollow documentary. This county is very much like that.
Starting point is 00:09:27 Like these Hollows that people live in and their whole families live in the one Hollow and they, you know, none of them have jobs and they're all picking ginseng and shit to survive and it's rough man, it's rough going. Things to do here, the Coletown Beach Blast. That's I think of the beach when I think of that this is in Welch nearby get ready for some family fun in the sand and sun in downtown Welch West Virginia this has got to be a river a pond or something yeah I was there's no not an ocean no cold town beach bass bash festivities include family activities, games, free watermelon, okay, bouncy houses for the kids, beach music, whatever the hell, just Jimmy
Starting point is 00:10:09 Buffett over and over again. And the Beach Boys. And the Beach Boys. Then just Kokomo. Just Kokomo and Margaritaville in a fucking loop. Is that Little Deuce Coop? Is that them? No. That's the Beach Boys, yeah. Yeah, Little Deuce group. Yeah, Vendors and Fireworks at 9.30. Then there's the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine. Ever wanted to get in a coal mine? Well, now's your chance. Here it is, folks. It says tour underground, visit the coal camp.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Why would you want to visit a torch? That's like when people go to prisons to visit. It's like, no, people have had horrible existences here. This isn't a fun tourist event. I went to Caverns in Missouri somewhere. Merrimack? Is that Merrimack Caverns? Is that right?
Starting point is 00:10:51 I have no idea. I went to some Caverns there where Billy the Kid used to hang out, or Jesse James, or some fucking outlaw. That shit is terrifying. And those are like natural that they're not gonna collapse. No, no, they've been there for a thousand years. This is shit that we made.
Starting point is 00:11:04 These collapse all the fucking time. While they were working. I want nothing to do with this. Here, one can ride through the dark passages of a vintage coal mine. No. No thanks. I don't like them when they're brand new. And they said the guides are veteran miners who provide first-hand accounts of the daily responsibilities. Back when I used to have a job with benefits and stuff.
Starting point is 00:11:26 From Billy hit a gas pocket right there. Burned him a lot. Burned him up, yeah. Him and the canary, right? At the same time. Visit the weavers, the log house, and the one room school house and experience quote, this is in quotes, reading, writing, and arithmetic. Great. As it used. Great. All good.
Starting point is 00:11:45 You can experience as it used to be, you know. Not that. So there we go. That's the setting for this town right away. Fascinating. Fascinating. Let's talk about some murder here, one of the craziest fucking things we've ever talked about.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Okay. Let's talk about a pair of sisters first. I don't know why they're sisters again. We had Tennessee a couple weeks ago with the sisters Sisters are doing some shit. Okay, Amanda Michelle Naylor McClure home, let's talk about one person one person Amanda Michelle She's born McClure her married and divorced name is Naylor and later on her adopted name when her When she has there's some problems as home. So Yeah Amanda Naylor will call her and then there is adopted name when she has, there's some problems, is home. So, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:25 Jesus. Amanda Naylor we'll call her. And then there is, Amanda Naylor, it's great. It's like a fucking Bart Simpson joke. Yeah, it's like a prank call when you call a butt. It's a 12 year old's prank call. And then her sister is Anna Marie Chowdhury, and she also goes by Anna Holm as well.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Yeah. Okay. And this is in 2019, we're gonna start here. Okay. Very recent. Okay. Amanda Nailer. I need Amanda Nailer.
Starting point is 00:12:57 There's a woman in 2019 named Amanda Nailer. Amanda Nailer, yep. Isn't that amazing? When I wrote that down, I was like, her name is Amanda Nailer. Yep. Isn't that amazing? When I wrote that down, her name is Amanda Nailer. That's wild. That's incredible. Well, in 2019, Amanda is 31, Anna is 32. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Okay. It sucks that they both have A names, so try not to confuse them here. Okay. They were adopted when they were 10 and 11 or 9 and 10 by Alan and Gwen Holm A nice family that took them in and actually had a nice raised them nicely actually real sisters They're real sisters. Okay total sisters. They were adopted like you like you adopt pugs that are inseparable brother and sisters Kind of I don't know what happened to their mom But I'll tell you what happened to their dad. And you'll understand why they needed to be adopted.
Starting point is 00:13:47 Now, by 2019, Amanda is living in Minnesota, in Chisago City, Minnesota. Chicago with an S, basically. That's where she's living, and that's where she finds a man. Amanda Naylor meets Amanda Naylor. Fantastic. She got one. meets a man to nail her. So, she finds John Thomas McGuire, M-C-G-U-I-R-E, McGuire. He's 38, he goes by Bama, that's his,
Starting point is 00:14:13 everyone calls him Bama, cause his family is from Alabama and so is he. So if you're in Minnesota, there's not a lot of Alabamans around, you're getting the nickname Bama, that's it. You talk like that around here, we're gonna call you that. Yeah, yeah, you're getting the nickname Bama. That's it. If you talk like that around here, we're going to call you that. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:28 They're like, those would be the funniest two accents to try to have a conversation with each other. Deep rural Alabama and that real pinched Minnesota together would be an amazing conversation that I would love to fucking watch. But they both believe in the same thing. Mind your own goddamn business. Yeah. that. And then you can send a guy from Staten Island
Starting point is 00:14:48 in to make it really interesting. Yeah, mind your own business. Yeah, mind your own fucking business. I agree with this fucking broad dad, Bama. What are you doing? So Bama is 38 at the time. So he's a few years older. He lives in Owatonna, Minnesota. He has a daughter
Starting point is 00:15:06 and a son and then a couple of step kids too from an ex-wife here. Daughter, Justice, son, Jacob, his ex-wife. This is his ex-wife says this about him. He has a heart of gold, the gift of gab, and he was friends with everyone. That's the ex-wife here. Justice said she didn't always have the best relationship with her dad But she always loved him and she said he's my dad and I love him. So, you know Justice said he truly loved everyone. He cared for everyone and always wanted to make sure everyone had a spot in his life He would make sure you felt safe and he would always give you what you need Even if even though he didn't have a, he wanted to make sure that you did.
Starting point is 00:15:46 Yeah, he's giving it all away. That's not bad. Now, John had a wife, his ex-wife's name is Angela, and they've been divorced for a long time, but they, as the way she put it, actively co-parented together. So, he was apparently in his kids' lives. He even, I guess his stepkids had his name, like they
Starting point is 00:16:07 took his last name and all that kind of shit. So apparently was a good father. His ex-wife said he always tried to be there for her, meaning justice, the best he could. John had some hard, hard times and made some bad choices, but he was a good person. Very often times too. Yeah, not these choices though. His choices are much worse than ones that we've made. He's got some serious problems. It's no secret John has a lot of difficulties mainly surrounding substance abuse. He loves meth, loves it.
Starting point is 00:16:39 Really? Loves meth. Loves, loves, loves, loves it so much. And so does Amanda. All things to choose. So does Amanda is the problem here. That's when we'll talk about that. But they said he's got a heart of gold,
Starting point is 00:16:51 and he's a selfless man. As long as he gets his fix, he's fine. Everybody's happy. A little bit about John here. I'm gonna run down about Bama, some of his criminal record for you. This is just what I found on some background sites. Yeah, okay So there's way more than this is what that means October 10th 2007 theft taking slash using
Starting point is 00:17:14 Transferring movable property stealing a car a motorcycle of riding mower something. Yeah theft Of a shit car because it's regular theft not grand theft so he stole somebody's fucking 81 fucking Nova and it's a piece of crap. February 4th 2009, endangering a child, situation that could cause harm slash death. July 25th 2008, harassment, stalking, intent to injure, assault second degree with a dangerous weapon. That's July 25th. August 24th, 2009, driving after revocation, DWI alcohol.
Starting point is 00:17:53 August 16th, 2010, possessing drug paraphernalia. August 26th, 2010, theft, taking, using transferable movable property, harassment, stalking, intent to injure. Again? Again. That's August 26th, 2010. transferable movable property harassment stalking intent to injure again again that's august 26 2010 november 28 2011 speeding in an urban district june 24 2013 more speeding july 17 2013 driving after revocation possession of drug paraphernalia november 4, fifth degree controlled substance crime, prohibited person in possession of or use of tear gas slash stun gun. May 23rd, 2014, driving after revocation of course.
Starting point is 00:18:34 He never has a license so that's always. He's never fixing that. If he's driving he's going to jail. That's all there is. Disorderly conduct, offensive, abusive, noisy, obscene behavior. Doing something. July or June 27th, 2014, the very next month, operating a motorcycle without protective eyewear, careless driving, and driving after revocation.
Starting point is 00:18:55 In West Virginia apparently is. Not to have the proper eyewear. Ten days later on July 7th, 2014, driving after revocation again. November 20th, 2014, interference with a 911 call. That's not good. Oh, don't do that. January 2nd, 2015, controlled substance crime in the fifth degree. July 2nd, 2015, possession, possessing, controlling, manufacturing, selling, furnishing, dispensing
Starting point is 00:19:21 of hypodermic needles. Oh no. July 6, 2015, fifth degree controlled substance crime, prohibited person possessing a tear gas slash stun gun. Again. 2015, these are his crimes. Yep, August 6, 2015, fifth degree controlled substance crime possession. October 26, 2015,
Starting point is 00:19:43 fifth degree controlled substance crime possession. November 26, 2015, fifth degree controlled substance crime possession. November 1, 2016, speeding, driving after revocation. November 5, 2016, controlled substance crime in the fifth degree. In like three weeks, he got arrested like five times. He's got, wow, man, the amount of police activity he had. It's not over. Oh, boy. January 7, 2016, driving after revocation. October 28, 2016, drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia,
Starting point is 00:20:12 use or possession. December 28. Hey, let's party. December 28, 2017, theft, taking, using, transferring movable property, and drugs, fifth degree marijuana possession of schedule one two three four Not small amount of marijuana. So get a lot shitloads of that and also possession of a hypodermic needle January 9th 2018 drugs fifth degree possession of a scheduled one two three four not small amount of marijuana again
Starting point is 00:20:41 Then March 29th 2018 third degree DWI controlled substance not marijuana. So he is running from something. He hates sobriety. My Christ. April 18th 2018, driving after revocation. March 14th 2019, driving after revocation. Okay, so that's where we are. That's where we're caught up to him now. All right. Amanda might not be the best partner for him because let's have a small snippet of her criminal record. Oh boy, Amanda. There's some shit here though. This is a different thing.
Starting point is 00:21:11 2014, drugs, third degree, possessing three grams or more of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine. Test refusal in the third degree. So she refused a drug test or a test on the road. I don't know which one that is. Then another charge, the next month of fifth degree, what is this, October 2nd, 2014, drugs fifth degree, possessing schedule 1, 2, 3, 4, not small amount of marijuana.
Starting point is 00:21:38 June 2015, drugs fifth degree, same exact crime, not small amount of marijuana. Also drugs third degree, three grams or more of cocaine, not small amount of marijuana. Also drugs, third degree, three grams or more of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine. Test refusal as well again. Then there's other unspecified dates for drugs there and conspiracy to commit a felony. Those are in West Virginia. Then 2016 theft, use, transferring a motor movable property, whatever the fuck in Minnesota those are all fine and dandy but then I found this on a record animals two counts of animal mistreatment in 2012 June 11 2012 from the same day I don't care for that but that's even compared
Starting point is 00:22:20 to this regular dash death of a child by parent, guardian by child abuse. Gross neglect of a child creating risk of injury or death to a child one to five years old. Murder of a child by parent, guardian or custodian or other person by refusal or failure. Neglected or kidded to dying apparently at some point. Child abused a kid to death. Apparently so, allegedly so. So that's who...
Starting point is 00:22:48 Adjudicated. Adjudicated. That's who we're dealing with here. These are our two. I don't know those. I don't know of the conviction status of those, but she was charged with those things. So her kid, let's say she doesn't have any kids at this point probably, but other than that...
Starting point is 00:23:01 I hope not. Yeah. So this is the couple, Amanda and John. Oh man. I mean you might as well just have a cruise or follow them because they're gonna get into something. They're gonna break a law. Just yeah just hang out outside their house you're gonna get an arrest that day. So February 2019 we'll catch up with them. John, Bama. She is out of prison. Oh yeah yeah no she's not in prison. We don't know how long this when this happened. We don't know if this was a long time ago date wasn't on there. I looked Fucking just far and wide and high and low to find anything on that and I couldn't so that's all we know
Starting point is 00:23:38 She was charged with it. They're filing cabinets in West Virginia may not be very good. That's the other thing We don't know if they just throw it out in a barn or something. We have no clue. So Bama blast makes contact with his family and friends in February, early February, texting with the mother of his kids, just you know how they do and checking in with them. Then the mother of his kids, Angela Erickson, said Mother's Day came around of 2019 and she said it was clear after Mother's Day went by and he didn't call that something was wrong. He said he always called me and his own mom to tell us what good mothers we were.
Starting point is 00:24:17 And then Jacob, his I guess stepson, said when he didn't call after my birthday, I pretty much just started to prepare myself for the worst. He said his father never missed his birthday, especially it was his 16th birthday. He would have never missed that. Yeah, that's a big day. So that was in like May. Then in June 2019, Angela finally files a missing person report, even though a month before she said she knew something was wrong. And they said they didn't know what to expect. Justice said the whole thing seemed pretty surreal. Angela said, I think we all thought that we would file this report and then call us tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:24:51 They'd call us tomorrow and tell us everything was fine and he was fine. People would say that they saw people would say that they saw him walking somewhere. As happens, how many times when someone's missing do we get sightings of them all over? That's why I like the Lacey Peterson sightings I'm like, you don't know what day that was, you know people Madeline McCann Jesus Christ. She's yeah everywhere She said that really hurt me because I knew there if he was back he would have called So she's like if he's all if he's around why isn't he calling? So where the fuck is Bama? Tell me well February 5th ish. Okay, 2019, Bama and Amanda
Starting point is 00:25:28 decided they were gonna drive from Minnesota down to Alabama to visit his family. Their vehicle breaks down in Indiana. Of course. Shockingly, they don't have a fit vehicle for the road here. For an 1,100 mile journey. Yeah, for a long journey. So from border to fucking ocean.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Yeah. So they are doing that. So Amanda calls someone to come and pick them up in Indiana. She calls her estranged biological father. Really? This only gets weirder, guys. This is fucking nuts. How far down the list did you well not very?
Starting point is 00:26:08 Larry Paul McClure senior is the father. Of course. He made a junior. He is dad of Amanda and Anna He's 55 years old at this point. He spent most of their daughter of his daughter's childhood in prison He's just only gotten out of prison for the last few years. He was convicted. Yeah He's just only gotten out of prison for the last few years. He was convicted. Yeah, he's finally back. No. Yeah, he's got it together enough. Three years removed from prison
Starting point is 00:26:31 to come several states over. He was convicted on July 22nd, 1998 of first degree sexual assault for abusing a family member between the ages of six and 12. Hell of a guy. By the way, both his daughters were between the ages of six and 12. Oh no. And they By the way, both his daughters were between the ages of 6 and 12. Oh no.
Starting point is 00:26:47 And they lived in the house. So it's the daughters, we think. He served 17 and a half years in prison for that. So he got 30 years or something and served 17 and a half years in prison. So he got out in 2015 or so and he's been out for a few years. They didn't make it public but when he went to prison Amanda was nine and her sister was ten. Now Larry by the way he pulls up you know he's got in the car with him. Anna, the other sister because she has just moved in with him in Sky Gusty, West Virginia. They pick up Amanda and Bama and they are very,
Starting point is 00:27:29 what Larry, the dad, will describe as dopesick. Perfect. They're having withdrawals and they need shit. So they all drive to Larry McClure's very rural home in Sky Gusty. Okay. You're telling me they packed the car that broke down
Starting point is 00:27:45 two states away with just enough dope for like eight hours? I think they were going down there probably to try to go get more. Yeah, so they were probably ran out of options up there. So this is it's 11-7-15 Sky Gusty Highway is the address and like I said it's so now it's all four of them in the car. Anna, Dad, Amanda, and Bama. So the two daughters and their dad had reconnected about six months earlier, which is crazy. So all right, Anna said that the couple, Amanda and Bama, were coming off meth pretty hard, quote unquote, and they decided when they got back, this is what they decided to do.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Not, hey, you know, I know where there's like day work so you can buy some meth. They decided to brew a new batch of meth. Let's make it. Let's make it ourselves. So Larry helps them buy ingredients for it. Dad, he's a great dad, isn't he? Let's buy meth making.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Dad's just love Home Depot, that's what it is. He's like, I'll get something there. I'll get some buckets. Wow. So the ingredients though, because these people, none of them seem like the brightest bulbs that have ever fucking shown. The ingredients don't coalesce properly. It doesn't come together as a good meth basically. It's really lumpy. I don't know what makes a good meth. You gotta whip the lumps out, like if you have a powder dressing or something. It's gotta blend nice, yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:10 But Amanda keeps the liquid in a jar anyway, even though it didn't come together right. It's okay. Now, February 14th, 2019 is a banner day. It's not only Valentine's Day, it's also Bama's 38th birthday. Oh happy birthday. So it we are going to celebrate good times tonight baby. So John here Bama he buys a bottle of wine for Valentine's Day. Anna said that during this time she saw her
Starting point is 00:29:42 father and Amanda go quote off to the side But didn't know what they were talking about. They kept going off to the side together and chit-chatting You know what was going on? She then said that her father Anna says her father asked her to cut some pieces of rope For her for him. She said that request didn't seem strange at that time Hey, Jimmy, we've kind of bunch cut these rope in like lengths, no, no, like three feet. They got to be very specific. You'd be like, what is this for, James?
Starting point is 00:30:11 You would absolutely ask me, what are we talking about here? Why am I involved in this? Am I DNA on these ropes? I don't like this. So then they ate a holiday meal, steak, potatoes, wine. This is like a real meth royalty here. This is real romantic for a dad and his two daughters and one of their boyfriends. Yeah, the dad who most likely molested these two girls sitting there with the two girls and the boyfriend with a
Starting point is 00:30:38 badly cooked batch of home meth sitting in a jar up on the counter, sitting there eating steaks and potatoes. A bottle of barefoot breathing. And Anna says, quote, that's when things started to get strange. Started to get strange. Okay. That's, it started. Okay. She said, quote, this is Anna, when Larry said he wanted to play a game Larry is dad dad said he wanted to play a game a trust game sounding very John Wayne Gacy ish
Starting point is 00:31:11 it's gonna get worse Amanda had been joking about how she was able to get out of anything okay she was able to tie herself up and nobody but nobody would believe she could tie herself up that way she doesn't tie herself up and nobody would believe she could tie herself up that way. She doesn't have to tie herself up for some, who would practice that? Number one. Yeah. BTK, calm down. Fuck. So yeah, that's the only other person.
Starting point is 00:31:33 So during the quote trust game, Bama's feet are tied. And Anna said that her dad, Larry, quote, sat down and I don't know, it was a grin that I'll never be able to describe. Probably the same grim you saw when you were nine, I would assume. Yeah, yeah. She said, but as John sat up and bent over to untie his feet, it all happened so quick. Amanda stood up and grabbed that wine bottle
Starting point is 00:32:03 and bashed him over the back of the head with it Hit Bama? Hit Bama in the back of the head Why? You cannot even guess or imagine the fucking reason why That's what's so amazing, okay? What is going on? They're both dopesick She said, and the next thing I know, John had reared up and was leaning back against the wall holding his head, as one would do
Starting point is 00:32:25 She said, and that's when Larry looked at me, Larry's dad, and told me if I knew what was best for me and my children and wanted them to live, I would follow all instructions that were given to me from that moment on. And this is a man who has been very scary. So that was when the torture begins what they gas that's what I mean West Virginia what the fuck jar jar meth is not good it's bad stuff no so Anna said that Larry and Amanda tied up Bama accused him of being a federal informant. Oh yeah. Which yeah, obviously.
Starting point is 00:33:06 He's dope sick. Fuck, they were yelling and demanding to know who he really was. Now Amanda's been with him for months. They've been together for a while. This makes no sense. Anna said John kept telling them you have the wrong person. I don't know who you're looking for, but you have the wrong person. So this torture session is going to last from late Thursday night into Saturday morning two days
Starting point is 00:33:30 Basically like 36 hours of torture. They're gonna put this Anna said they prevented her from leaving and she said they kept torturing Bama all through the night before moving into a bedroom where he was hog-tied with a rope around his neck They threatened to inject him with truth serum You can't even make meth properly how the fuck are you gonna make truth serum? Drive him back to Minnesota in the back of a truck and quote basically leave him there for everyone to find Which sounds like a fine option compared to what we got going on now. I wish you would leave me now Take me wherever you want in a pickup truck and leave me there. That sounds great. I'm not gonna be embarrassed. Trust me. This is fine
Starting point is 00:34:17 Then on February 15th the next day, even though they're torturing him through the day There's Facebook posts posted to Bama's account. Why? Okay, they said, one said, job completed, the Firefox is dead. Ha ha ha, the mad hatter. That's what it said. What is going on? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Then a second post had laughing emojis and said, you are all fucking just like Firefox and you will all end up the same way. Ha ha ha. It doesn't make any sense. These are meth people. Back to torture. Okay. Amanda comes up with two syringes.
Starting point is 00:34:59 While Anna says she later learned that both syringes were filled with the bad batch of meth. Anna says, quote, they told me that since I was the one with nursing experience, you put a dog down, you put some, I was going to be the one to inject him and they gave me the syringes and instructed me to inject him in the, in the carotid artery. and they gave me the syringes and instructed me to inject him in the in the carotid artery. So she did as she was told and she said afterwards Amanda once they went in Amanda went well that should be enough to kill him it's two needles full of a bad meth batch that should be plenty
Starting point is 00:35:37 but it didn't kill him instead it awoken him into a meth craze he went into like a meth frenzy you know crazy meth strike thing where he was like, ah, you know, a fit. Yeah. And he began to struggle. So Anna said they stood over me and told me I needed to finish it and I needed to strangle him. So that's what I did. They made Anna do it. They made Anna do it. But they all helped. Larry stood on They made Anna do it. They made Anna do it. But they all helped. Larry stood on Bama's back while his face was pushed into the cushions and the rope
Starting point is 00:36:09 around his neck was pulled, Anna said. Amanda sat by Bama's head laughing and asking him did he really believe he was going to end up back north? What is going on? Did you really think you were going to get out of here laughing at him? Okay. Larry backs up the story. She said a black garbage bag was wrapped around his head by Amanda. Anna strangled him. I held him. The three of them did it together. Then they've said they made Anna gather up all his belongings and burn them in a bonfire. And then they told Anna to put the body in a garbage bag.
Starting point is 00:36:47 Why is Anna doing that? Well, I mean, I guess you do, right? I mean, especially with these people. And if you're terrified of your father, who's been literally fucking been your boogie man since you were a child, maybe you would, I don't know. And meth, I'm sure, plays a part in this. So she said that the effort required to snap the limbs
Starting point is 00:37:07 out of Rigor Mortis to get him in the bag. Oh, for Christ's sake. She said, that's a sound I never wanna hear again. They instructed me as to what to do and stood back and watched me do it. She had to break his fucking limbs out of Rigor, which is really hard, by the way. It's, wow.
Starting point is 00:37:24 I mean, you're basically snapping them, way. You're, it's wow. So now- I mean you're basically snapping them, right? You're snapping bones. Yeah, you're snapping bones. Yeah, that's, yeah, you got it, because it's set. So now where the fuck, where do you put a body? What do you do now?
Starting point is 00:37:33 What do you do now? So rather than dump the body, Larry initially suggested, Dad said, why don't we dump them in a mine shaft, which is a great idea. It's the first thought I just had. You're in West Virginia. If you you search those mine shafts there? That's where the Iceman used to put people you go to West Virginia throwing down mine shafts that he did that for a long time He would take people in there to torture him to remember he set the radio camera up with the rats
Starting point is 00:37:58 Yeah, with the one guy. Yeah balls. Yeah, so They instead though. They drove around for the rest of the day before stopping and saying oh, let's dig a grave So they dig a grave in the yard a two-foot shallow grave Larry said it was two to three days of hell later that morning. We buried him in a two-foot grave behind the house now Okay, here's the bombshell you You want to know the weird part? I'll hit you with the weird part. Up till now everyone's going, there's another weird part? Okay, after this, after they get him buried, Larry and Amanda, and this is according to Anna,
Starting point is 00:38:38 quote, went on like nothing happened and started having a relationship as soon as he was buried. Eww. Amanda's now having a sexual relationship with her fucking father. Unbelievable. She's now, they're sleeping in the same bed fucking now at the house. Okay, as soon as Bama was in the ground. Yeah. That's what this was all about by the way. And meanwhile they drove all over town just to bury him in the backyard.
Starting point is 00:39:04 Yeah. Meth, that's meth. But that's what this was all about by the way. Just to bury him in the backyard. Yeah. Meth. That's meth. But that's what this was all about, by the way. Dad wanted rid of Bama because he was jealous, because he wanted to fuck his own daughter. Again. She was like, cool, sounds good. Wow.
Starting point is 00:39:17 So then about February 22nd or so, they dig up his body. This is some meth shit here. Okay. Anna says quote Amanda insisted that she wanted proof that he was actually dead. He's been buried unless there's dirt moved. If there's still dirt on top of him he's fucking dead. I'll tell you that. Yeah that's what I mean unless you see like a kitty paw pop through the dirt. It was actually dead and had me uncover the body and started ranting and raving about how she didn't think he was actually dead because the hair on his head was still growing and everything.
Starting point is 00:39:57 What? She measured it? No, you can see it. You can tell when you die shit grows still. And a lot of times the nail beds were seeded as it looks longer, but the what I don't she insists that he's alive He's been buried for days. He can't five days. He's been under the ground. They murdered him He was dead as fuck. You buried him in the ground for five days and she broke rigor stole on wow. It's over So that's wild dad said quote. he would make sure he was dead. I'll take care of this sweetie. I'll make sure he's dead. Then he took bed rails and a sledgehammer and pounded them through the body and
Starting point is 00:40:37 down into the ground. Like, cause like I'll make, I'll anti zombie. This motherfucker, he's staked through the heart of it to the the ground, just stake him into the ground to show, see he won't get up and hurt you, don't worry about that. Okay, now the weirdest thing in the entire story happens. Oh gosh, it's gonna get weirder. It's gonna get weirder everybody. March 11th, 2019, so sweet, everybody loves
Starting point is 00:41:00 a spring wedding, it's wedding bells. They're gonna get married? For who you may ask? For Dad and Amanda. How? They're getting married. How can they do that? He's marrying his daughter.
Starting point is 00:41:14 You can't do that. Well you can if you drive to Tazewell County, Virginia. Where a Methodist minister will marry you. Gross. The marriage license indicate that Amanda gave someone else's name as her Biological father that's all she did and Anna had to go with them to Anna said they took me and said I needed to act Like a happy witness. Yeah Congratulations, we need a witness
Starting point is 00:41:40 Okay, let's let's just stop for one second and just Let's catch our breaths. Okay, let's let's just stop for one second and just Let's catch our breaths. Okay, this is 2019 this is 2019 this is in America in 2019. This is going on This is the craziest shit he married his daughter. We've never had anyone do that before in 524 episodes. That's a first. We don't come across a lot of firsts. Legally, it's done. It's their legally married couple.
Starting point is 00:42:10 It is, by the way, illegal to marry your daughter in the state of Virginia. She lied to make it happen, but they did it. It's a misdemeanor though. So they're not really trying to keep you from doing it that much. They said said that one of the cops there, a Tazewell County Sheriff said that the crime has been in the books for many, many years. And he said that the statute hasn't been updated recently because, quote, it doesn't draw attention. It's just something you don't see. It's one of those things they didn't even really, they didn't even know, do we have
Starting point is 00:42:42 a law for that? Because who the fuck does that? No one's even done it to have to have a law for it because Basically fathers don't ever think I'll just marry my daughter. That's insane anymore anymore. Yeah So they said the marriage might spur an investigation later on so now the wedding night. All right Here's the wedding night. You want to hear about a romance. This is some romance. Yeah All right. Here's the wedding night. You want to hear about a romance? This is some romance. Yeah. What threshold did he cover? Carried her over. He carried her over the grave of her fallen lover. I believe. No,
Starting point is 00:43:11 it's worse than that actually. Anna says on the very night they were married, Bama's body was uncovered again, pulled from the ground, dismembered. Oh gross. It smells so bad. Yeah, dismembered, and then buried in two separate places farther away from the house because Larry wanted to landscape the property to sell it and didn't want the remains to be in his bushes and shit. Yeah, devalues the property. What the fuck is happening?
Starting point is 00:43:45 So they have buried this guy three times now by the way three times which is unnecessary obviously And he's got stakes through him. He's been dismembered with the corpse so much fucked with the corpse like crazy So Anna ends up heading to North Carolina after this in the next few weeks She moves to Boone, North Carolina, which isn't that far away. And then I guess it's far away, but whatever. And then and these two live together as man and wife, dad and Amanda. West Virginia. In Sky Gusty. Okay. They're going to end up in Kentucky about a month or two from now because he'll sell this property and then they move to Kentucky. September 2019, since
Starting point is 00:44:26 they had moved, one thing dad forgot to do when they moved was register as a sex offender, which he has to do. Oh, fuck. So state troopers come and arrest him for that. And he is in Welch, West Virginia for violating the sex offender registry. When the state trooper is talking to him, dad just reveals some serious shit. He just starts telling him what happened. About the murder? About all of it. The murder, I married my daughter,
Starting point is 00:44:56 we have meth and jars, the whole fucking thing. We dug him up, spills it. Imagine you're this guy. You're literally just going, how come you didn't fill out that paperwork that you have to fill out? Well, cuz I murdered somebody and he's like, let me tell you how I fuck my daughter and killed her boyfriend and dismembered him And like wow because I murdered somebody and that's not even the gross part. That's
Starting point is 00:45:17 The about fourth weirdest part of this entire story. I'm gonna tell you so We rarely tell a story where the murder is like way down the list of strange things that people are doing. Unbelievable. So the cops said on September 24th, 2019, we were advised of this crime by Larry Paul McClure. That's dad. Okay. So he told officers at the McDowell County holding facility, he wanted to speak with an officer regarding a murder. That's how he got to talk to them when they had him in the holding cell. And during this, they said, how much time before you dug him up the first time? And he responded, about six days.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Golly. Jesus. He also, here's a note that he wrote. And it's, I'll show you the note because it's in his handwriting and everything. Oh, it sure is. Yes, it is. What the fuck? He said, I just want it over. And then all underlined, all capital letters, no trial, no taxpayers' money spent for a trial.
Starting point is 00:46:13 It is hard for the state of West Virginia to fight against itself because I plead, and then in huge letters, guilty slash no contest. Then he says, thank you for your time on this matter, Larry Paul McClure, senior, and then signs it too. He wrote and signed just to make sure you know it's him, as opposed to some other guy who fucked his daughter and murdered her boyfriend. So in a letter to that's when he does,
Starting point is 00:46:41 he details the suffocation strangulation death, lists the roles of he and his two daughters, and it's everything Anna said. It's exactly the same thing. So they were all telling the truth. He said he states he's willing to plead guilty and he paints, he said Amanda was the ringleader of the murder, but he said I don't know what her motive was for it at all. I'm not sure. Couldn't have been my giant cock. Couldn't have been me and my fucking molestation. Jesus. He said, I cannot tell you why Amanda wanted John McGuire dead and said that he, he does say that Amanda's been cashing his social security checks since he's been dead. So maybe that's why he just said, I'm asking for this to
Starting point is 00:47:23 be over with and not wasting the taxpayers money and hurting the family members on both sides of this. John McGuire's family and my family. All I can do is hope for mercy on this, but my sentence on this really does not matter because I'm old and in bad health. I will never live to see the parole board in 15 years anyway. And that is okay. And he doesn't think he's going to make it on. This is murder after you've been in jail for over 17 years for horrible child molestation.
Starting point is 00:47:50 So you are not a good candidate for anything at this point. No, I don't think they're letting him out. No, he said, I will say I am sorry for my part in this crime for both my family and John McGuire's family. So he tells them where the body is. That day they go find the body. It's identified as John Thomas McGuire and his family is notified that his remains were located in dismembered remains were located in a shallow grave in West Virginia and we suspect foul play. That's a nice call to get. Found him. Yeah. So, whoa dude.
Starting point is 00:48:26 Amanda gets charged here. Amanda and Anna are charged at first just with concealment of a deceased human body. Because they know they, well they know that because when you charge, you have to present the evidence to charge them for an indictment within a certain amount of days. So if you, they know they have the evidence for this.
Starting point is 00:48:43 So they charge them with this and that way they're held. They're indicted and held and then they can work on the murder stuff here. That's how they do it and they said that father was arrested on a quote unrelated charge. Okay, now then Larry, Amanda and Anna, they say all planned and executed the murder. Anna is charged with first degree murder and conspiracy. Anna is charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy. Uh-huh. And Amanda also concealing a dead body. And Larry, at the time, they're working on his murder charges, but at the time he's just failing to register as a sex offender and concealment of a body.
Starting point is 00:49:16 July 2020, Amanda pleads guilty. She has to. Her sister and her father both gave the entire thing up. There's no way to get out of it. So she pleads guilty to second degree murder. Okay, we'll get to her sentencing in a minute though because August of 2020, dad pleads guilty to first degree murder.
Starting point is 00:49:36 First degree murder, not second. Sentencing for dad comes around here and wow, Bama's mom has a fucking field day here in court I mean imagine this scum killed your kid. You'd be like you scum of the earth Yeah, shitbag daughter marrying fucking scum piece. What the fuck? So at Larry's sentencing hearing Bama's mom said quote Yelled this out you and your kids are going straight to hell to marry your own daughter. That's low down. I think that's pretty nice. That's an understatement, right?
Starting point is 00:50:10 Low down. Low down dirty shame. Low down is like, Oh, you, you know, a very small thing. Low down. This is, you put like an empty milk container back in the fridge. That's low down. Marrying your daughter is a whole separate- He stole from the Piggly Wiggly? You are low down. That's low down. But this is not low down. This is worse. No, this is murder. Shit. A lot of it. Yeah. She said in my book, all three of you need to die. You don't deserve to be on this earth
Starting point is 00:50:41 breathing. I'm going to live to see you or one of your kids die before I go. What gave y'all the right to play God?" She went off on that shit. She was pissed. That's Alabama coming out. Alabama angry she was. And the judge says, well, fair enough, you, sir, may fuck off life in prison and I like the way they put it in West Virginia without mercy that means no parole but they the official term is without mercy if anyone if anyone deserves no mercy for anything it's this asshole kid fucking just life-destroying asswipe. So October 2020 is Amanda's sentencing now. She's trying to get a light sentence here out of this.
Starting point is 00:51:31 She's trying to, well, I mean, from her point of view, from a lawyer's point of view, you'd say, well, Dad's obviously a monster. And she never, well, I guess you can't say she never killed anybody before, but I don't know. We don't know. I mean, we don't know what happened. No, the prosecutor said, quote,
Starting point is 00:51:51 this game of trust was one of the most evil things I've ever heard of. Indeed. It's exactly John Wayne Gacy. It was the rope trick. They did the rope trick with him. I guarantee you they did that because of him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:03 You think so? That's just one of well, probably, yeah. It's 2019. They probably saw a documentary and were like, good idea. The trust, Jesus. The trust game. Amanda then speaks here. By the way, this is via Skype.
Starting point is 00:52:17 She's being sentenced because it's 2020. So she apologized to Bama's mother, who was also on the call She alluded to the control over her that her father had which is what brought her here to begin with She said my dad had a lot of control over. She said I still don't know where sky gusty is She's like I didn't come here on my own. I was brought here. I don't even know how to get here Yep, she said I have to look at myself every day. My family didn't raise me to be this way. I've not only hurt John's family, I've hurt my own family. And that includes her
Starting point is 00:52:51 adoptive parents who now have to come up and plead for her too. Oh, God. Poor Alan and Gwen Holm. These are nice people who took in two girls and came from a bad situation and now they're like, fuck, we have to testify at a sentencing hearing? They accepted phone calls and communication from the man we were protecting them from. That's wild. Yeah. So he, they also apologized to the parents of Bama. She said, this is Alan Holmes said, I want to apologize on our behalf. I can't imagine what she, meaning Bama's mom is going through. They pleaded for mercy for their daughter who said it was under Larry McClure's spell when they committed the crime. Alan said the influence Larry had on her was a huge impact, which I would agree with that.
Starting point is 00:53:39 Now Bama's parents, they come up here, his mom said, I just really want to know why she thought she could be God and take my kid. She broke my heart and my grandkids hearts. They cry every night for their daddy. She said that she knew Amanda McClure took her son's checks after he died, but she said that can't be why you killed him for welfare, for social security checks. It's minimal money. SSI payments, like that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:54:06 She said, I hope that he, I hope that she has a good heart and gets straight with the Lord before she passes. She and her sister and her daddy are going straight to hell. I'm going to heaven. She's like, so I won't be seeing him later. This is the only time I can see them. It's the last time we're gonna see each other, here or there.
Starting point is 00:54:27 Fuck, so she said that her grandchildren are terrified that Amanda McClure will get out of prison and come after them. She said, I can't forgive her right now. Maybe later, but I can't forgive her right now. Then the judge asked Bama's mom, even if she were to tell you why, it won't ease your pain, he says to her.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Like, why does it matter, he's saying. Then Anna breaks in. Because it's a phone call, it's not like in court where you stand and you can just jump in. Yeah, it's just a Skype call with a bunch of people on it. So she said, Amanda said, Mrs. Smith, the only answer I can give you as to why things happened is John was with me. My dad didn't want anyone else near
Starting point is 00:55:11 me. That's my fucking trim right there. He said, that is gross. He's, she said, John McGuire told Larry he loved me and we were going to get married. That's what set dad off. And she said, I wish I could bring John back, he was a good man. So dad said, oh hell no, that ain't happening. I'm the only one who's gonna marry my daughter. But then why did he just go ahead and spill it? Is he not embarrassed?
Starting point is 00:55:39 He just said, fuck it, I'm done, I don't know. Yeah, I think he just was done. I think this is a guy also who did 17 and a half years in prison, so prison isn't a not a foreign concept to him, and he's just like, whatever, just put me away. I can't make it obviously on the outside. So I'm marrying my daughters already, guys. I'm killing people. I'm dismembering them.
Starting point is 00:55:59 I'm marrying daughters. I got a lot of problems. So the judge, as before he pronounced his sentence, said this was a heinous crime that lasted for two days and then reiterated all the details of the murder and he said that the three family members were able to tie him up by telling him it was a trust game. He said in his opinion, this had went, had this went to trial, you would have been convicted on first-degree murder. You've gotten a very favorable plea deal from the state
Starting point is 00:56:26 He also points out a man is extensive criminal history, which was 32 pages long That's I mean I just gave you a just it was on a couple of background sites 32 pages long and with her background you get it, but I Mean fuck he said there was no good reason for John Maguire to have been killed. He said that he was aware of the history of abuse to Amanda by Larry McClure, but noted that was no excuse for taking John's life. And he said most importantly though, he said, I don't think you're taking full responsibility for killing John.
Starting point is 00:57:02 You're blaming it on your father. After killing John, you dug him up later. When you dug up his body, when you dug, when you all dug him up, his body was dismembered and stakes of some kind were driven through his body. Then you reburied him. There was no reason for this. He's just like, you just fucked with this guy's corpse. You did crazy things, lady. There's no, yeah, it's like if you had a reason but there is no reason. Then he again he says you said you couldn't contact authorities. I don't believe that because she said that her dad wouldn't let her. She then says we can't unring that bell. Karen is not going to get her son back. Said the time you will serve is not an adequate amount of time for the pain you
Starting point is 00:57:45 have caused. Now, second degree murder charges a penalty anywhere from 10 to 40 years. So it's a lot of leeway for the judge. He says you ma'am may fuck off and he says, quote, I'm going to make it 40 years, which is the maximum sentence I can impose. You will serve 20 years. I hope and pray you will learn and change and when you do get out, you'll be a different person." Fingers crossed.
Starting point is 00:58:11 She'll be like 52 when she gets out or some shit. What the shit? I mean, hopefully maybe her meth appetite will subside and maybe that'll... But if she gets a taste by then, who knows what the fucking meth market's going to be. It could be super meth by then. We don't know. It could be even worse. She could be like, oh man, this is like super un-letted here. This is crazy. Yeah, she might have only a taste for fathers. You never know. Yeah. So January 28th, 2021, Anna pleads as well. She pleads guilty to second
Starting point is 00:58:39 degree murder. I'm originally charged with first degree murder. At the sentencing hearing here, the McDowell County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Denny Morgan called it, quote, the craziest case this office has ever seen, which you know what? Yeah. Yeah, I agree. It probably is. She went forward and consummated a wedding with her father. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:59:00 With her father. After they brutally murdered and dismembered and re-interred her boyfriend. Wow. Wow. Bama's mom, she's back again. She's there in all of these. She's not fucking around. She attended the hearing.
Starting point is 00:59:13 She wished the killers a very miserable life. She said, I hope you have a very miserable life. Which is very fucking funny. And the judge said, when you strangled John, you knew at the time it was wrong. He said, as a question, and Anna said, yes, your honor, but look at my other options. I didn't feel like I had any choice.
Starting point is 00:59:35 Look at my other options? My other options, like running away, not doing that, calling the cops. What are you gonna do? She said she was so afraid. So he said, well, I have a choice to give you between 10 and 40 years I'm gonna exercise that right fucking now you ma'am may fuck off the maximum 40 years for Anna as well Everybody got the maximum they could get
Starting point is 00:59:57 She remains sitting in prison as does Amanda and Larry where all of them should be Yeah, we should probably just put them all in a cage and let them kill each other because this is insane. Yeah, like the Joker and the Dark Knight. Break a cue stick and throw half of it into the cage with the three of them. And let the sisters beat the father to death and then we'll go from there.
Starting point is 01:00:22 Yeah. Because this is- There's only room for one. There can only be one. This is really fucked because, I mean obviously Amanda's life before her dad got out of jail or before they made contact again was a disaster. And it's a predictable disaster.
Starting point is 01:00:41 She was 99% sure horribly sexually abused by her own father, which is I can't imagine what that would shatter your entire trust. Forget about trust or anything like that. And even if it wasn't them that he molested, the guy is a grade A groomer slash manipulator, obviously. Oh, obviously. He'll get you to murder someone to fuck his daughter.
Starting point is 01:01:07 And I believe that the judge pretty much let the cat out of the bag when he said, we understand your long history of abuse with this man. So I think that he basically said it was the girls. Well, it was an in-house family member between six and 12, and they were both six and 12. Yeah, so it seems like he liked Amanda better. But this is, what the fuck just,
Starting point is 01:01:27 we just talk about for an hour, that's insane. Holy shit, dude. Actual incest and controlling, manipulative, grooming behavior, yeah, that's exactly how it happens. Homemade meth batches with, this is. That's why the courts order you to never have contact with that person again Yes, exactly. But the problem is when they're an adult you can't you're you can only it's only till they're 18 They can't tell an adult that they're not allowed to talk to another adult
Starting point is 01:01:55 They can tell adult wants a restraining order. They can tell an adult they can order one adult to stay away from the victims of the crime Forever. Yeah. Yeah, they can do that. But if the... But if the victim actively searches them out... Nothing they can do, nothing the courts can do about it at that point. And that's, uh, that's fucking scary. Nobody's crying that they're a victim at that point. They're actually marrying them. Yeah, that's what I mean. A Methodist minister's like, I now pronounce you, here you go.
Starting point is 01:02:22 Kiss your child, bride. See, there are pictures of them that bride say McClure and McClure Yeah, it's legally that's what they are Oh, I want to be well nice thing is she didn't have to change her name because her name was McClure, so that's easy Let's fucking discuss. Where does this rank in our pantheon? I love people it's a let us know it's 1a well Rulo I'd love people. A filth? It's egg.
Starting point is 01:02:43 Let us know. It's one A. Well, Rulo, they made a guy rape his sons, and they fucked him with broom handles and all that kind of shit. In Phillips, Oklahoma, I mean, everyone was fucking everybody and killing them to stop them. But I don't think there was incest going on.
Starting point is 01:02:58 There was a guy fucking his mother-in-law. Was there an order for a man to blow his kid? That was Rulo. That was Rulo.ulo that was Rulo cuz that was a cult They made him do all sorts of weird sexual shit for control, right? But that wasn't like willingly like nobody. Yeah Yeah, nobody was getting off on that except for the people that were forcing him to do that No, just awful man. It's just awful like groundhog for breakfast is crazy because that's just a crazy kid But that's just two hillbillies having a wild morning. And that was so long ago.
Starting point is 01:03:26 This just happened. They're drinking purple drink in the front yard and shit at like 8 a.m. That's why they're having problems. This happened half a decade ago. That seems so short. After this was like the next year was COVID. Yeah, this is a sentencing post post fucking Pandemic this is crazy Bonkers yeah when I was looking at the court pictures and they're wearing masks in court. Yeah, like this is so recent way too
Starting point is 01:03:52 What the fuck happened man? How did this happen? What I do? Yeah, where did we go wrong people? What the fuck is happening and he looks way too much like the toy box killer for me. He does! He looks like every murderer, that's the thing. He looks like a bad guy. When we put the photo up on social media and you can see it, you're gonna go, oh my god, he looks like half the murderers you've put up. They all look like that guy.
Starting point is 01:04:18 It's bad, you guys. It's so bad. And the two sisters are, they look sorta similar except one's like about twice the size of the other one is the only difference. Anna's the heavier one. One looks like she ate the third. Yeah, I think Anna maybe, I don't know,
Starting point is 01:04:33 had to put on weight to keep her father away maybe or something, I don't know, you know what I mean? Yeah, it'd be less hot so her dad doesn't fuck up. Honestly, I don't know, that might be a psychological thing. People try to make them, I know that, I know people that are sexually assaulted, they will intentionally, subconsciously, try to make them. I know that that's a I know people are sexually assaulted. They will Intentionally subconsciously try to make themselves not attractive. So that's that'll happen. So who knows but there you go Everybody's guy gusty West Virginia and Amanda might be a child murderer too. We don't know about that
Starting point is 01:04:58 This this these people and this is a deep Disgusting well of like homemade meth and slime. That's what's at the bottom of this well. No water. I wish people never met her. Yeah, everybody does. He could have done his meth by himself and she could have done her meth by herself and everybody would have been fucking fine. But instead, you end up on small town murder. And that's what goes on. And you have me for an hour trying not to say Sky Rizzi like that drug that has constant commercials on all the streaming services.
Starting point is 01:05:25 Or rather than Skygusty. Yeah, I don't know what it does. I don't pay attention, I just hear it constantly. I just know, Nothing is everything. I just know that part, because I know the song constantly. Skyrizzy, West Virginia.
Starting point is 01:05:36 And like a lady jumps in a pool and comes out and everybody goes, Hey, you look great. And everybody's happy. I don't know what's going on. Having a good time. I think it's for your skin or your colon or something. I'm not sure.
Starting point is 01:05:47 Is it for psoriasis? Is that what it is? Yeah, but it does other stuff too, I think, is the thing. Because it's like, it's psoriasis. It also gets your A1C down at the same time or so. I don't know what the fuck's going on there. It's sky-rizzly. It's sky-rizzly and I've been trying for an hour
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