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Get ready. Get ready. So, we haven't even said what the case is yet.
So... The case is the case of Sarah Kolb.
Her, I'll say accomplice, but he was pretty involved.
Corey Gregory. And the victim is Adrienne Reynolds.
Poor Adrienne. I know. This case is fucked.
It is. This is a hardcore one. So this is one that a lot... For some reason, I just remember this being one of the first cases that I really...
Like one of the first like non-serial killer cases that I really dove into.
So like we said, the three main players in this one are Sarah Kolb.
Corey Gregory and Adrian Reynolds. They were teenagers attending an alternative high school.
It was called Blackhawk College Outreach Program in East Moline, Illinois.
And this happened in 2005. Which actually isn't that long ago.
No, it's really... It's the year after I graduated high school.
In this... I looked it up in this college... outreach program still exists.
It's still there. And it really is kind of like a community college situation.
But I guess it was more for kids that needed to get their GED, you know, kids who got kicked out or dropped out of high school, had behavioral problems, all that good stuff.
I saw a bunch of documentaries about this case and a lot of the kids that hung out with these three people. all said the same thing, that it was kind of for troubled youths.
Makes sense. In one of the words of one of the students that was interviewed for the docs I watched about this, it said, quote, Blackhawk Outreach was the kind of school that the rejected kids, the kids that didn't excel in school, people that got in a lot of trouble were sent.
Now let's talk about Sarah Kolb. Sarah Kolb was 16 years old at the time and she was a popular girl in the school, but popular is like a weird term to use here because it's not the same kind of clique situation that a traditional high school has.
Because it's sort of like a different high school.
Yeah, so it's kind of a different situation.
These are a bunch of rebellious and troubled kids, like we said.
So she was a self-proclaimed juggalo. I'm sure a lot of you know what Juggalos are, but it's people who are very much into the fandom of ICP, the Insane Clown Posse.
It's any kind of label. You know what I mean?
But they all have in common that they really dig ICP and the style and the message.
Music. Which, by the way, if you look into ICP, they're like some of the most charitable humans.
Oh yeah, you told me that. And they're very quiet about it.
They don't say a word. They just like do good things.
That's what nice charities are. Exactly.
They don't do it to get a pat on the back.
Exactly. So, you know. just know that these kids are these kids might give juggalos a bad name but like they're not bad people it has nothing to do with them being juggalos but it's just this is what fun fact this is what brought them together.
So everyone described Sarah as someone who would speak her mind as someone you did not want to cross.
And she was also described as mouthy and inconsiderate at times.
All right. She had a fiery temper. She lashed out a lot.
In fact, Corey said when she got mad, she would get mad at the littlest things and she would fly off the handle, throw things, scream.
Serious anger problem. Now, because of this, she was seen as an alpha female and basically the queen bee of this group of outcasts.
Even the cops in the doc I was watching described her as a leader and very confident in herself.
Oh, good. So she had something that drew people to her.
Which is a super shame considering she turned out to be a hideous murderer.
It's just always kind of shitty when people mess up potential like that.
It's like you obviously have something about you that draws people in.
Like use it for a good thing. Yeah, exactly.
You could have done it for good. So as they often did at this school, one day Sarah and some other students were outside on campus smoking.
Like between classes. According to a friend, in November 2004, Sarah saw a brand new girl. who had just transferred to the school and said, quote, hey, she's hot, and that was it.
She was going to get to know her. This girl was Adrienne Reynolds.
Now, Adrienne Reynolds was from Texas. She moved to Illinois because she was getting in a lot of trouble.
She moved from Texas to live with her dad and stepmother because she was having huge issues living with her biological mother and stepfather in Texas.
Her mother had her at 16 years old. I know there's tons of success stories about this out there for sure.
Like a lot of. people who this happens to they you know get it together and they're good moms this was not one of those situations that's sad Unfortunately, before she turned 12 years old, she had three assault charges on her and a stint in rehab under her belt.
Oh, wow. Before 12 years old. Do you know what she went to rehab for?
No. I don't know exactly. I'm assuming it was... I mean, they said she was into... You know, she was drinking.
She was... shit i mean she was probably like smoking pot and it's kind of like you know well maybe drinking i don't know yeah They might have just done it to get her straight.
You know what I mean? Try to get her on the straight and narrow.
Her father, Tony, acknowledged that she was pregnant.
Like she was probably smoking pot and drinking and just being a bad kid while in Texas.
But he thought he could be the one to put her on the right path.
In the words of her dad, quote, Adrian was a handful, putting it lightly.
So she came there. She had had a lot of... trouble going on she had obviously she had assaults under her belt she was in rehab she was now cutting so she was self-harming and was obviously in a bad place So that's a lot to take on all at once.
Definitely. But they gave it their best shot.
By all accounts, her father and stepmother were loving parents.
So besides the obvious issue she was dealing with, her dad said that they sent her to Black Hawk Outreach because she didn't have nearly enough high school credits to catch up in a regular high school setting.
So Black Hot provided students with a way to get their GEDs, which is what she was going for.
Because they said she just didn't like going to school.
She didn't like homework. She didn't like doing any of that.
You know, a lot of kids. I was going to say.
I was going to say. So Sarah and Adrian met that day, November 2004.
They became quick friends. Sarah kind of took Adrian under her wing.
Adrian's stepmom said that she was so excited that she had not only met a friend so fast, but that Sarah was like a popular chick at the school.
Like she had a lot of power. We all know high school is all about popularity, no matter where you are.
So they talked on the phone all the time.
They spent a ton of time together. Like they clicked right away.
Adrienne's parents were not thrilled about this friendship.
Well, because she's like the popular girl outside. exactly at like a a place where a bunch of outcasts right exactly so there and they kind of judged sarah on her appearance which i guess in this case Turned out to be correct.
Right. But they saw that she was dressed in all black.
She had the chains. She had black hair. Well, they were probably a little jaded.
Because of what they were handling. Exactly.
So I think they just wanted her to be... on the right path and this was seeming to be a little scary for them.
Side note, I was watching a documentary about this.
And Sarah's friend, I think her name was Amber Erhard.
I can't. pronounce her last name but it doesn't matter amber she's in the i think it was an episode of i killed my bff is what i was watching which those are so bad though so they're like so bad that they're good but i had to watch it she's amber is a star Why, what does she do?
She's so theatrical. Oh, no. It seems like she's acting, but she isn't.
Like, it's great. What does she say? She's great.
I don't even know how to describe her. Like when she describes things, it seems like she's acting from a script.
Like she's what you need in one of those documentaries when they're like, talking about the murderer I'm gonna find it you have to find a clip of it on YouTube or something because it's amazing Amber she's great so back to this Now, apparently Adrian was also known to be pretty flirtatious with the boys at school.
She was like a boy crazy person. 16 year old.
I mean, same. Everyone's been, look where I ended up.
It's fine. And, but she was also pretty flirty with Sarah immediately.
Sarah openly identified as bisexual. Friends said that Adrienne That's what Corey said.
He said she wasn't openly bisexual, but she was definitely starting to have feelings for Sarah.
Dipping her toe in the water. She was just dipping her toe in the water.
And it was Sarah who she wanted to have her experiences with.
She was interested. So according to Corey, they started talking about... dating like they were trying to feel each other out they were trying to get this thing going so once their friendship really started taking off, Adrienne started kind of like adapting to Sarah's way of dressing and music and all that.
She just wanted to fit in. Like she's brand new.
She's trying to keep Sarah liking her. You know what I mean?
She's like a powerful chick. So she just kept going with it.
Now, Sarah basically introduced Adrian to all the cool kids at school, like cool kids, whatever that means.
Right. One of the kids was Sarah's best friend and former, I guess, former boyfriend.
They say they dated slightly for like a minute.
Corey Gregory. Dun, dun, dun. The two of them, Sarah and Corey, were literally inseparable, according to friends, and Corey had been infatuated. infatuated with sarah he was in love with her oh god and it was since they met he said the second they met he was in love with her and to this day that dude is like That dude has it bad.
Like, it's like she formulated a love potion.
It's like in the craft when... He's sipping the scissors.
When Chris is showing up at her door and being like, I just need to be around you.
And her name is Sarah. Oh, my God. It'd be wild if his name was Corey.
That's Corey. but and it's a c i guess i don't know we're close it just reminds me of it because he's so like he's got these big eyes and he's just like sarah i am loyal to sarah and i'm I'm like, you're in prison.
He had hooked up with, in the craft, he had hooked up with Nancy.
Oh yeah, you're right. Who in this case would have been Sarah.
Oh my damn. This banana. Yeah, this is a lot.
We just made a connection here. A weird map.
This is the craft. That was a journey. Back to the original.
This is the craft before the craft, or after the craft, but whatever.
So yeah, so Corey was in love with Sarah.
Sarah was like hot and cold on him and mainly just wanted to be best friends.
Problem was she was also super possessive of him.
Oh, good. And wanted to control him. everything about him like he was not gonna hang out with other girls that just wasn't gonna happen she didn't want him but nobody else could have him either Friends said that Sarah literally had Corey wrapped around her finger and could tell him to do nothing. anything and he would do it as evidenced by what happens now with adrian joining them they were the three of them were inseparable at this point everybody said the three of them went everywhere together uh cory's own mom said quote cory really wanted to be boyfriend and girlfriend with sarah really bad and i think cory in the back of his mind thought if he just hung in there long enough as her best friend she would someday see him as a boyfriend because he was loyal to her and hung in Wow, this is sad.
I like not. Corey expressed his feelings to Sarah in a letter. he said quote i love you i have since i first laid eyes on you you are all i think about you are the only one i felt i could speak my emotions to And I want you to know I'll always be that for you.
Wow. High school love is such a specific kind of love.
So theatrical, too. And also... he's telling the truth like he will always be there for her even in prison till death do them part.
Yeah it's so true because he's hanging in there.
Or prison do them part. Yeah prison does them part.
So Sarah was, you know, with all this going on, Sarah was developing serious feelings for Adrian.
Oh, okay. And friends said Adrian was was ready to try things like they were on the precipice of this wonderful relationship that i wonder if it had happened what would have happened I feel like it would have ended badly in a different way.
Something would have happened badly, but it's like, I wonder what would have happened.
So rumors started flying around this time about them, you know, like, are they, aren't they?
It's like the Brad and Angelina. Right. So, but things started changing a little bit at this point too.
Adrienne was into Sarah, but she was also getting noticed by a lot of boys at school.
Like, every dude that they had on any interview I watched all commented on Adrienne's looks and how dudes all over school were into her.
It's like she was like... She was the it girl.
She was like Regina George. Oh, shit. But Katie Herring because she was the it girl.
But Katie Herring, exactly. Oh. You are on the movie references here.
So yeah, apparently every dude was falling all over themselves for her.
So because of this, Sarah began feeling like Adrian didn't need her anymore.
I bet she loved that. Oh yeah, because you know, Sarah seems very, like she will relinquish control very easily.
Well, it's like when Regina George realized that Katie didn't need her anymore.
And you know how that happened. Some people listening right now are like, who the fuck are we talking about?
Really? So we're going to get a one-star review on iTunes that's like, don't listen to these valley girls.
They talk about mean girls way too much.
Ah, iTunes reviews. So because of this, Sarah obviously was feeling a little out of control here.
She was starting to feel like she was losing.
Right. And she was also kind of feeling like she was taking over her spot as Queen B of the school here.
So the control issues were... Now, even though she was starting to get concerned for her top spot, she was still interested in dating Adrian.
So Sarah said to friends that because of all this happening, she was starting to feel a little like she was losing the grip here.
She was like, I need to test Adrienne. She wanted to see if she was loyal and she was like, I need to see if she's the kind of person I do want to date.
Uh oh. Because I feel like she might not be loyal to me.
I feel like a Sarah Cole test is not something you want to fail.
Never take a Sarah Cole test. Never. No way, honey.
No. Her tests are no... You fail, no matter what.
It's always a failing grade. Even if you pass with flying colors, you fail.
So one night... Sarah and Corey invited Adrian to a party at a place in Rock Island called Party House.
I would love to go to Party House. You were Party House.
I mean... You're not wrong. Yeah, this would be, except I don't know if this would be your kind of party house.
This would be where I would do my dance.
This would be your goth dance. Yeah. Yeah, that would be you.
And they'd be like, you can do that right out the door, sir.
They'd be like, bye. You don't belong. Apparently it was a known party place that some of the Juggalo gang rented.
Once they all got there that night, Adrian and Sarah arrived together, but then Adrian started talking to a guy and getting a little flirty.
As this happened, Sarah was getting fucking rage.
Just... People said she was just like, she was turning red.
Like steam was coming out of her ears. And Adrienne ended up sleeping with this guy at the party.
Yikesies. Sarah took this as full-on betrayal.
Like, she failed the test. That was it. I brought her to a party.
That's it. You know high school. It's very black and white.
You fail, that's it. No more. Goodbye. There's no gray area.
Have fun eating lunch in the bathroom. Now that night, Sarah ended up pulling a knife on Adrienne.
What the fuck? Yeah, her friends all said they saw it as, like, ridiculous.
They were like, what the fuck, Sarah? But they also knew Sarah to be a person who... constantly hurled empty threats at people.
They said she was always saying, I'm going to beat the shit out of this person.
I'm going to kill this person. I'm going to do this.
Clearly she didn't do it. So they were just kind of like, okay, that's Sarah.
She's crazy. So Sarah was clearly jealous of Adrian for a myriad of reasons.
One, she was into her and she was pissed that she felt like she was being led around.
Two, she was getting a lot of attention from guys and this pissed off Sarah too because... She used to be in that spot.
Yeah. And three, she was getting popular and it was coming easy to her.
It was just happening. So she wasn't needing to be attached to her all the time anymore.
And this really fucked with Sarah. People said like this was really affecting her.
The fact that Adrian was becoming self-sufficient and wasn't needing her was like really just where it all went wrong.
Sounds like a very awful relationship. It is.
It's such a... It's a toxic relationship because it's like...
She needs Adrian to need her. Right. And once she doesn't need her, like she needs her to be totally dependent upon her.
And they're like, who actually wants that?
That's such a bad relationship. Like, don't ever be in a relationship like that, guys.
No. When one person... is absolutely needing you to be fully dependent on them and requires it.
That's no good. So there ended up being another party at the same house.
And I believe everything I read, I think I saw that it was like the next night, actually.
Shit. Adrienne, yeah. And I think Adrienne went to this party without Sarah.
She went by herself, which... That in itself was like she's branching off.
She doesn't need to walk her into the party.
Now, while she was there, she hooked up with another guy and Sarah showed up.
Oh, God. when she found out Clearly she was mad.
Again? She began yelling, screaming at her, calling her a whore, calling her a skank, and all that shit.
In front of the entire party. Oh, that's horrible.
Sarah felt like... So a friend who was there said Sarah was totally rude, totally aggressive.
They were like, nobody thought it was okay.
She was humiliating her in front of this party.
And like nobody was even there. Yeah, and everybody was just like, what the fuck?
And at one point she told her, you don't deserve to live.
Which people were like, that's way too much.
Like, take it down a notch, Meryl. She needs, like, some downers.
Yeah, she just needs to chill. Actually, just some stabilizers.
Like, take a yoga class. I don't know. Get us together.
Now, Adrian ended up running out of the house crying.
Oh. As most of us would do. I would be like, see ya.
And honestly. Go Google a picture of Sarah Kolb.
If she's yelling at you like that, I would run out of the house crying.
Is she scary looking? That bitch has some demon to her eyes.
I don't know what it is. And it's like she's...
I don't know what... It's one picture of her when they arrested her.
She's wearing like a... And she's wearing like a...
A turtleneck. No, she's wearing like a turtleneck white sweater.
It's like a very, she just looks scary. I don't even know how to describe it.
She's got these very demony eyes. That's Adrienne.
As a Sarah? That's a more recent picture of Sarah.
So she ended up running out of the house crying.
Now... Corey was the one who ran outside and that's when she was arrested.
Oh, yeah. She looks really scary. Something about those eyes, man.
She has very empty eyes. She does. That's what it is.
They're very empty eyes. She also has a very, very circular jaw.
It's... It's her eyes. She has very empty eyes.
That's exactly the way to describe them.
Yeah, that's really spooky. And so Corey, like I said, Corey was the one who ran out and consoled Adrian when she ran out of the party.
Now, this is when Adrian started seeing Corey as more than just Sarah's friend.
You know what I mean? Like, she was like, oh, this guy is really nice.
He's helping me. Corey in an interview said they had hung out a couple of times alone before this.
Without Sarah's knowledge. And there was chemistry between them.
He was like, we liked each other. This really pissed Sarah off even more.
Remember, Sarah needs to control Corey. Well, and that's like for man.
That is the one. Adrian is one thing. Corey?
He's like on a pedestal. Sarah was the one who convinced Corey to transfer to this school.
Oh, shit. Yeah, I guess they met at a mall.
Like, you know. That's very 2000s. So this moment when he runs out to console her is when everything changes between Sarah and Adrian.
This is when just nothing's going to be the same.
Uh-oh. So Corey and Adrian began passing flirty notes besides behind Sarah's back, which is so high school.
Oh, I miss notes. uh one note in adrian's journal said pinky and cory written on top people called her I guess so.
And said, quote, I love Corey Gregory because he is respectful, cute, nice, honest, and the sweetest guy I've ever met.
And I think I'm beginning to trust him. This makes me want to scream because she trusted this jagweed.
That's actually so fucked up. Like she literally wrote down, I think I'm beginning to trust him.
That, like, gives me the chills. Now, one night...
Adrienne and Corey went to the movies together and didn't tell Sarah intentionally because they knew she was going to freak out.
She pulled a knife on Adrienne. Well, Sarah found out.
Wow, this show would have been so different if Corey was like actually like a stand-up guy.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There's many times he could have stepped in and really stopped a lot of the tension from building.
But so Sarah found out because Sarah Kolb will always find out.
Whatever you're doing right now, Sarah Kolb's gonna find out.
She's all-knowing. Like, I just feel like she knows.
She knows that we just made fun of her mugshot.
She did. I'm terrified. Like, is Sarah cold?
I don't know, man. Something about her. Well, spoiler alert, I don't think she's coming out.
Yeah, I don't think so either. But like, I feel like she knows still.
She's around. I don't know. Sarah Kolb, go away.
Major yikes. So Sarah was, you know, mildly upset about it.
Moderately. She felt betrayed by Corey and she was threatened by Adrian again.
So she started telling everyone not to talk to Adrian and started bad-mouthing her to everybody.
Calling her terrible name. She's a slut.
She's a whore. She's all this good stuff.
And so again, very high school. All of this is so high school, but so dark high school.
This is very... Reform school. Oh, reform school.
This is very reform school drama. It is very reform school.
This is like a high school fever dream. Yeah, it is.
It's like... So, Adrian, so she was going, you know, bad-mouthing Adrian, all that good stuff.
Adrian decided she wasn't going to go back at her.
Like a lot of people might do. So it probably wasn't worth it.
Adrian's resolution was she was going to try to win Sarah's friendship back.
That's probably smart. That's what I would want to do.
It didn't work out, but it's good to tell.
Good tactic. The more Sarah pulled away, the more Adrian wanted her back in her life.
Adrienne started writing Sarah a ton of notes and shit.
She was calling her every day, multiple times a day.
Corey said she called her all the time. It was kind of getting to be a lot.
One note said, quote, Sarah, why do you hate me so much and why do you want me to die?
Jesus. She was persistent and she was genuine and Sarah was fucking awful to her in response.
Then, on January 21st, 2005, out of the blue, Sarah asked Adrian at school if she wanted to go get lunch with her at Taco Bell.
As one does. I fucking love Taco Bell. I haven't had Taco Bell in so long.
Taco Hell. Taco Hell. She had told a lot of people she was going to try to patch things up with Adrian.
And she told Adrian that, too. She was like, let's go talk.
Let's fix this. Oh, no. So Sarah, Adrian, Corey, and a kid named Sean McKittrick, who is never mentioned in this.
Like, he's rarely mentioned in... All the documentaries completely leave him out.
He was there. He was there. Yeah, because I watched a ton of documentaries on this.
He wasn't there for the murder. He was in the car though for part of it.
And he's never in any of them. I wonder if he was a minor and got off.
No, he wasn't there for the murder. So I think they just don't... think of him as pertinent, but he was there in the beginning.
Yeah, that's weird. So yeah, Sean McKittrick was in the car with them.
They just leave him at Taco Bell. They all got into Sarah's car.
They went to Taco Bell. Sarah was driving, Adrian was in the front passenger seat, and Corey and Sean were in the back.
Corey said the tension was... insane in that car he said he was just waiting for the fight to happen like it was just hanging out there They pulled into the back of the Taco Bell and almost immediately the two girls started screaming at each other and shit just started going bad.
Now, the details are fuzzy. He's released a little now, but Sarah and Corey are the only ones left alive. that were there for the whole thing.
And they both are titanic sized hemorrhoids.
The documentary I was watching had Corey Gregory saying, quote, I don't want to touch upon that subject as far as the specifics of that day.
What happened in the car that day is between Sarah, Adrian, and myself.
Like, her fucking family doesn't deserve to know what happened to her?
It makes me... Like, what... What an asshole.
That's just the last thing you have. Adrienne's dead.
To imply that she's part... Of like this little secret triad of like fucking shittiness that includes Corey and Sarah is unreal to me.
So like her murder is between all three of us.
It's between the three of us. no it's not between her too she's dead yeah she died you guys killed her right don't act like she's part of this little secret society of yours you killed her Like it just, I don't know why that went up my ass.
It makes me really mad. It's like he's almost including her like in the crime as an accomplice.
Like, you know what I mean? Like, he's almost including her on their level.
It's just really gross. So, of course, he maintains that he didn't know what was going to happen when he got in the car.
The argument in the car started over the fact that Corey and Adrian had hung out alone and kissed without telling Sarah.
Yeah. And it quickly escalated. Sarah started hitting Adrian.
And according to Corey, quote, Sarah just kept screaming and screaming.
And then grabbed her hair and started whispering in her ear.
And then Sean, Sean told her to stop. And she told Sean, if you don't like it, get out of my car.
So Sean got out of the car and walked away, which props to Sean for not sitting by and watching this bullshit happen.
Why didn't you take Adrian with you? But I think he was just like, I'm not involving myself in this.
Like, it's two teenage girls. If they're going to fight it out, that's it.
So then Sarah grabbed her by the back of the hair, turned her to Corey and said, you stay away from him.
Corey... Now, Corey is a tough guy and a real man of honor, just so you know.
So he just sat back there and didn't do anything.
Good. Yeah. In the interview I saw, he said...
The tension was so bad that it just the fight seemed inevitable.
It was just going to happen. So he figured the best thing to do was just to let them fight it out.
Yeah, but there comes a point where you need to step in.
Stay classy. Like when somebody's hitting somebody, you should probably step in.
And you know it's over you. Get involved.
That's why you're fucking sitting there watching it.
He probably felt great. Yeah, he loved it.
So he did open up to Dateline about what occurred.
So he said before, no, it's between us. And then Dateline came a knocking and he was like, I'll talk.
So he said, quote, about what happened in that car.
He said, quote, Sarah's on top of Adrian and she's choking Adrian.
And then Adrian goes out and Sarah gets off her and sits in the car, sits back in the front seat.
We sit there and smoke a cigarette for a while.
We thought she just passed out. We were waiting for her to just wake up.
And then finally we looked back and her face was blue.
And we just started freaking out after that, you know.
We didn't know what to do. Now, what has now come to light is that that's not the way that that happened.
Yeah. That's bullshit. Because didn't he choke her too?
So Corey, though very loyal to Sarah... threw her the fuck under the bus and was like she did it right just sat there um Adrian ended up landing.
What happened was Adrian ended up landing a punch on Sarah's nose.
And this is when Corey stepped in. He grabbed his belt. and held Adrienne's arms while they strangled her together with the belt.
Even in the interview today, he said, quote, What the fuck?
Right? And he said it, I think, I can't remember which one it said.
You had a chance with Adrian. Yeah. And I don't know which one it's in, but like he's sitting there and it's like, it just clips to him and he's just sitting there and he has these huge eyes that are like bug eyes.
And he's always smirking, and he sat there and smirks and just goes, I'm always on Sarah's side.
And you're like, okay. Now, don't worry, guys, because...
According to Corey, Sarah started to cry once she had beaten and strangled Adrian.
Oh, when she was done. Don't worry. She cried, guys.
So she's somewhat human. Of course, that didn't last for long because then they were like, cool, cool, cool.
How do we get rid of this now? Like, what do we do?
So like, we can't call the police. We can't do that.
We can't call an ambulance. Let's not call an ambulance because we're not medical doctors and don't know if she's dead.
So Sarah was like, my grandfather has a farm.
That seems like a great place to dump a body.
So they drove out there and attempted to bury her in the ground, but the ground was frozen.
So these two awesome folks wrapped Adrienne in a tarp, poured gasoline on her, and used a torch to burn her.
How the fuck do you do that to somebody?
And somebody who was your friend. You hung out with this person on a- And somebody that you was like, both of them liked her.
You were intimate with. Yeah. Like, that's insane.
Now, I'm assuming they're dumbasses assumed it would just turn to a pile of ash, but that's not how it works with human bodies and fire, as we have touched upon in a few episodes.
Days and days and days and days. And a constant like 2,000 degree heat for like hours and hours and hours and hours.
And... So they actually had to go to a store again in the middle of this to get more gas.
Which, like, really smart by him. Yeah, exactly.
Just fucking gasp. Now, the worst thing about this is Corey is such a bullshit artist.
He said in one interview that they chose to light her on fire because it seemed proper to cremate her since they couldn't give her a proper burial.
Sure. Like, LOL, Corey. You're such a gentleman.
Like, we're supposed to believe. Like, even the interviewer was like, Uh, nah, dude.
I think you just didn't want to get caught and you had to get rid of the body.
Yeah, like, fuck. You two were so upstanding that you wanted to get rid of her.
You wanted to cremate her. And he was like, no, we liked her.
We wanted it to be proper. You murdered her with your bare hands.
Yeah, that's fucked. Like, no. Also, it takes a long time to choke somebody to death.
Oh, yeah. And it takes a lot of strength.
You have to really be angry to do that. And it's personal.
You have to look them in the eye as they die.
I think I like watched a movie once where like these two girls drown their mom.
Oh, I know that movie. Yeah, it's called like Sisters or something.
It's a good-ass movie. Yeah, that is a good movie.
I think it's based on a true case. It is, I think. but they i think it took like seven minutes to drown her like it can take like between four and six minutes or something like just thinking suffocation i'm sure it takes at least like a full five minutes oh yeah it's like they're struggling so you think that you would realize like oh shit i gotta stop oh yeah somebody turns blue But nope, they kept going.
And then they were like, we thought she just passed out.
Well, even if you had choked her until she passed out, that's beyond messed up.
Right. Whatever. So the body didn't burn.
Shocker. So now Sarah's like, well, we have to cut it up. obviously this girl is that's the next logical thing right now cory's a gentleman So he was like, I won't do that.
I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that.
So they immediately thought of another decent fellow in town named Nate Gaudette.
Who's a real shitbag. Yeah. Corey said, quote, Nate's into blood and gore.
He was the type of kid that would go around killing animals and stuff.
So Sarah figured he might help. Yeah. Wow.
Imagine having a friend to call if you needed to fucking cut up a body.
Calling a friend and being like, I know you're into a lot of blood and gore and you kill animals on the regs, so can you come cut a body out?
Can you cut up this body that I just murdered?
And he's just like, yeah. Yeah, I can. Yeah, that kid is disturbed.
Yeah. And feeling comfortable enough to call this person and be like, yo, we killed someone.
Can you cut it out for us? Because they weren't even, like, really friends.
No. It's just like an acquaintance. They just knew him.
It's a schoolmate. Like, what is happening?
He's like, be right there. So the next day, which was Saturday, they picked Nate up, told him about everything.
And he's like, wow. And asked him if he would cut up the body so they could move it.
Like, they literally did just do that. And they just rolled up his sleeves.
So... He said he would. It was literally that simple.
What the fuck. Now the next day, which was Sunday.
They picked Nate up and had him bring a saw with him.
Corey says he and Sarah talked about music. and all kinds of other things to keep their minds off of what was happening in front of their eyes.
Oh, as he was hacking her up? Adrian was being hacked up in front of them.
And they were talking about insane clown posse.
Nate was sawing off the head. sawing her arms and legs off and cutting her torso in half.
Do you know how... First of all, what saw was he using is what I want to know.
And two, do you know... What cutting a torso in half, what kind of mess that causes.
Because you have to cut through, like, so much bone.
And... Organs. Thick shit. Your organs would be, you cut in half, you would have organs spilling out on both sides.
So yeah, so right in front of their eyes.
They ended up dumping most of Adrian's remains in a ravine on the farm and covered them with branches.
Corey says he held open a trash bag as Nate placed the head and arms inside of it.
And then they drove to McDonald's to go get something to eat.
This is so gruesome. Right? Corey says... So many people have asked him...
But how did you go to McDonald's and eat?
Yeah, how did you eat? You literally just watched her get chopped up.
And then her head and arms are in your trunk.
As you're chewing on your fucking french fries.
Well, his answer is, we were high. We'd been smoking all day.
Dude. That's bold to blame that on weed.
You were high while chopping up a body? That would give you automatically the worst high ever.
He also ate a double cheeseburger, in case you were wondering.
Now, from there, they drove to a park called the Blackhawks Historic Site.
And they were basically just trying to find anywhere that they could bury the head and the arms because they were worried those were the two things that they could... used to identify her.
That's why they took the hands and the arms and the head.
Wow, this is like so well thought out in the most disturbing way possible.
Isn't it so disturbing how far they thought of it?
Like, they were like, head. dental records and obviously fingerprints that's where your everything is yeah fingerprints on the hands like so they got rid of the arms and the head and Now, meanwhile, the night she died on Friday, her dad and stepmother were freaking out because she hadn't come home from school.
And she had missed her shift at a local fast food restaurant.
I think it was at like a Checkers. It was at Checkers.
They said she wasn't an angel, but she never missed work.
That was one thing. They said she actually liked work.
So it was strange for her not to be there.
Right. By 730, 8 o'clock p.m. They called the police and filed a missing persons report because they were like, this just isn't her.
Right. News started broadcasting that she was missing.
This started right away. Police right away wondered if she had been a runaway because of her troubled past.
They were like, this is kind of... But her parents just were like, no, she didn't run away.
Like, this doesn't make sense. And her dad was like, she didn't pick up her paycheck from work.
What kind of teenager would run away without their paycheck?
Yeah. So police started asking around now to people she knew and Adrian's friends told police that she had left school that day for lunch. with Sarah Kolb, Corey Gregory, and another boy, Sean McKittrick.
An officer called Sarah at home, and this is how the conversation went.
The police officer said, okay, you had contact with her today?
Sarah, yes, I did. Police, when was that? sarah uh in between 12 30 and 1 police were you and cory giving her a ride somewhere sarah yes sir Sarah told then told the officer that they had dropped Adrian at the McDonald's after Taco Bell because that was right across the street. basically from where she lived and they did that because sarah said quote because she said that she didn't want her parents to see that she was in the car with a boy And before, when I had hung out with her one time, she told her parents that Corey was my brother, and he's not.
Now, her father, Adrian's father, Tony, says, I wouldn't have liked her in the car with a boy.
So that did ring like, okay, maybe. Okay.
Now, police said, okay. Sarah said, so I dropped her off at McDonald's, which is like right across the street from her house.
And then she said, and that was the last time I saw her.
Police. You haven't heard from her since then?
Sarah. No, I haven't. Then Sarah was like, she probably ran away.
And then she said, if you do hear anything, I would appreciate it if you would call me and let me know.
Wow, go fuck yourself. What a cold-blooded... Yeah, we'll call you.
Hi, you're under arrest. Exactly. Now, after a while, the police were not satisfied that she was just a concerned friend because they just had a feeling.
Right. They called her again. Police, hello, is this Sarah?
Sarah, yes it is. Police, this is Officer Allen, East Moline Police Department.
Are you friends with Adrienne Reynolds? Sarah.
To be honest, no. I don't like her. Like, you killed her.
She's dead. So then Sarah went into like a whole thing about how they had kind of a rocky relationship.
And so the officer was like, well, why would you give her a ride then?
Like, this doesn't make sense. You didn't like her. um why are you just saying that now exactly and sarah said we got into an argument at school and sarah said and i was like well let's talk it over at lunch She had been hanging out with my friend who likes me and I like him, but she likes him.
And we got into an argument about that because she wouldn't leave him alone.
For the love of God. Which is so fucking high school.
And the officer threw up in his wastebasket and then continued with his questioning.
You know that officer was sitting there like... digging a pencil like into his eyeball as hard as he could he was like just what like i don't feel like What does that mean?
She likes my friend, but I like him, and he likes me, and she doesn't like, and I don't know, and she needs to stay away from him.
He's like, okay. So I killed her. But... So then she said...
She dropped a bomb. She goes, I'll be honest with you, I hit her.
And the police said, okay. And she said, she hit me back.
In all props to her, she hit me pretty hard, too.
And then the police were like, interesting.
They were like, let's come get you. So then she said there was a fight that it did occur in the car.
And then she said we were parked at the Taco Bell restaurant, but it was during a busy lunch hour, which it was.
But I guess it was really cold out that day, so the windows were all fogged up, so nobody could see...
They did have one guy who said he walked by this car during this time and it was rocking around.
Oh, shit. And he said he thought it was two teenagers making out or people getting busy in the car.
So he was like, oh, I don't know. But he did come forward later and say, I walked by, I saw that car going around.
Well, it's the middle of the day. You probably don't expect much.
You don't think somebody's getting murdered in a car.
That's fucked. Imagine having walked past that car.
Yeah. So then Sarah said, and I swear to God, you know, she was crying.
She's like, I'm afraid that you, you know, you're going to beat me up.
I was like, you know what? You're not even worth it.
I'm not going to get in trouble over some stupid minor who is a skank.
And I was like, let's just keep it simple.
Stay away from me and stay away from Corey.
This is what she told the police officer on the phone.
That police officer boldly, wore that pencil so far into his eyeball that it came out the back of his head and wrote on the wall behind him.
What? I would be like, I do not care about any of this.
Like, this is not useful information. Thanks, though.
I'd be like, just tell me where she is. I don't want to know what your life is.
He's like, I'm not a therapist, man. He's like, you're the worst therapist.
So now, interestingly enough, this school that they went to required students to keep journals.
Oh, I remember this. So Sarah's... They found out were pretty interesting because once they heard all this, they were like, huh, let's read her journal.
What's going on there? So her journals say one entry says, quote, I need a vacation so I don't hurt anyone or myself.
One just said HATE KILL DESTROY in all caps.
One said, what is it with people today? It seems as if everyone is driving me crazy and all I want to do is slaughter them like the fucking sheep they are.
So like who was in charge of reading the journal?
Supes normal. Exactly. Like no one was like.
No one read them. That's like where the fucking school failed.
Like what? So and on January 21st, 2005, the day they murdered Adrienne, she wrote in her journal.
So I might be getting expelled today for spreading the fucking gif.
Stupid bitch needs to back up off my Kool-Aid.
She's going to give him a note. yeah well I'll fucking kill her now it's not funny that she wrote I'm gonna kill her but the she needs to back off my Kool-Aid What is spreading the gif?
I wondered what that was, so I found something.
In one of the documentaries, one of the friends of this clique said that Sarah started calling Adrian Jif because she spread it. but when he explained it and this is just this whole thing let me just be clear because sometimes people get like pissy and moany that we laugh sometimes like and try to make this like Too light.
We're not making light of the fact that this girl was murdered.
We're just... There's certain parts of this that are kind of funny.
That are so high school. Because life is funny, okay?
So deal with it. So... This kid said she called her Jif because she smeared... or she smeared it or something like that like he didn't get it right oh he said so i'm listening to it i'm like what do you mean spreads like because he was like smeared like peanut butter and i was like No, you don't know the joke.
I was like, like that kid clearly wasn't.
He definitely got it like third hand. That's exactly it.
I was like, that dude was not part of this.
Let me tell you the joke. Let me tell you the inside scoop.
She smeared like Jif. So read that to me again, please.
Quote, so I might be getting expelled today for spreading the fucking Jif.
Stupid bitch needs to back up off my Kool-Aid.
She's going to give him a note. Yeah? Well, I'll fucking kill her.
For spreading the gif. That sounds like she's going to do something to her, which she did.
Yeah. Well, I think that's what she meant it like.
I'm going to spread the fucking gif. Like, Adrian's the gif.
I'm going to fucking spread it. But they called her Jif because she spread it.
Wow, that's fucked. Which is really fucked.
Creative. but fucked yeah that's not nice and the fact that she wrote that the day i mean kill her the same day she killed her she signed her death warrant with that one like You wrote in your journal what you were going to do.
So it literally proved premeditation. Pretty much.
And I guess she also detailed how she was going to trick Adrian to go to lunch with her.
So. Oh, so she literally planned on killing her.
She spelled out this plot. Because part of me for a while thought that like, you know, like.
It was like a crime of passion. No, I think she planned it.
Wow. Like I think she knew shit was going to get real in that car and she was ready.
And so only three days after the murder, Corey told his mom out of the blue, he was like, listen, Sarah got a lawyer.
We need a lawyer. And he went and spoke to police at the station.
They interrogated him. Everything went pretty normal.
His lawyer came out and told his parents everything went fine.
It was pretty normal. I don't think anything's going to come of it.
But shortly after going home, Corey suddenly broke down crying to his parents.
He told his dad he needed to talk to the police.
He was like, I have something else to tell them.
Can you imagine your kid saying that to you?
In the interview I read with his dad, his dad was like, did something happen in that car, Corey?
And he was like, yes. And he was like, did she get hurt in that car, Corey?
And he was like... And he nodded. And he goes, did she get hurt really bad, Corey?
And he nodded. And then she goes... Did she die, Corey?
And he just nodded. And he was like, holy shit.
I just got goosebumps all over my entire body.
It gives me chills to see him say it. So now his dad had to call the police on his son.
Oh, my God. Literally look at my arm right now.
Right? Me too. I feel it. Holy shit. Doesn't it... Like, this has so many layers.
That's fucked up. Now... When asked whether this was a difficult phone call to make, his dad actually gave like a super impressive answer.
What did he say? He said, Oh, I don't know if it was difficult.
It was the right thing that needed to be done.
A family needed to know where their daughter was.
Things needed to be straightened out. I mean you can't hide something like this it's the right thing to do he needs to face up to what he did what his part was which You go, dad.
For him to be like, a family needs to know where their daughter was.
Yeah, and not think of himself at all. And not to immediately think, like, I need to...
I need to, quote unquote, protect my son, which no parent is protecting their kid when they cover this kind of shit up.
Well, you can see what they're saying. But I get why people would do it, but it's like...
For him to recognize like, no, it's not what you should do.
There's a family of an innocent person that needs to know where their kid is.
And my kid did it. And he needs to face up to it.
Like, that's really badass. Like, that takes a pretty strong fucking person to do that.
I don't know a lot about his dad, but that one thing, I was like, whoa, dude.
Wow, that's fucked. So during his taped interrogation...
Corey agreed to show police exactly where Adrian was.
This was only like four days after it happened, too.
It happened real quick. Just after 11 p.m.
Again, four days after her disappearance, he led authorities down a steep, icy path where under a pile of dirt, they found a manhole cover.
And several feet below, the bag with Adrian's head and arms in it.
Now, there's photos from the crime scene.
They don't show the head and arms or anything.
Sure. But they show inside the manhole cover.
You can see the bag and you can see the shape of a head.
It's there. And it's to open that and see in there and be like, that's a head in that bag.
Like that must, that just like blows my brain.
That fucks you up. Yeah, it's just so much.
Did he bring them to the other parts, too?
He did, yeah. He brought them to all the parts.
At 2 a.m. that night, police called Adrian's parents.
Oh, no. And the worst part about it... Jesus Christ, they could not... Well, you don't want to wait until the next morning, obviously.
And you have to. You have to notify right away.
2 a.m yeah and the and talking to the dad the dad was like they called him and said we're like the it's the police and we're at your front door And he said, for a second, he was like, they have Adrian.
Oh, my God. Oh, I just felt immediately that I was going to cry.
And he said that he thought, he was like, she's in the hospital.
Maybe she's in the hospital. Maybe she's in trouble.
Maybe she did something bad. But he was like, he goes, I just didn't think. that was going to be what it was like that.
And yeah, it just, that's just having like little, little kids now.
I can't even. wow that just made me so sad yeah it's literally like it sounds cliche to be like that's your biggest nightmare as a parent but that's your biggest night You don't know... Whether you know it or not.
If you choose to have children, just know that you... It's...
Gonna change the way you see And thank everything.
And I'm not saying this like, it sounds so cliche and so like overdone, but it, my husband and I have talked about this.
He was like, it has changed. everything about the way I think.
About the world, about situations. It makes sense.
It really does. It changes everything. You suddenly are so much more aware of of how awful the world is around you.
And you become so much more acutely aware of what you need to do. to keep your kids safe.
Like I don't, me comes so far behind my kids.
Like to think of like a police officer showing up in the middle of the night to tell me. that not only has my daughter been murdered, but by friends, two 16-year-olds... who she trusted.
It's just, and then who lit her on fire and dismembered her afterwards while they sat there and talked about music.
Like, I'm not a parent, but I feel like I, like, wouldn't want to know all those details that they went to McDonald's after.
No. I wouldn't want to know that she was burned or put on fire.
No. I would just want to know who did it and that's it.
Oh, I wouldn't want it. Because her father said that.
He said they didn't tell him immediately. what had happened but you find and he said it was bad enough that she was murdered but to hear what they did to her afterwards he's like i will literally never recover from that I mean you automatically picture things like that in your mind things that you never should have to picture in your brain and that's so horrible And it's, it's just so, this is just such a heavy case, but.
Now the next morning is when Corey led police to the place on the farm where they had burned Adrian's body.
And that's where the other remains were hidden, where they buried like her torso and legs.
So she must have been like unrecognizable.
Yeah. Totally. They said she looked, when they asked Corey what it, you know, basically what it looked like when this was all happening.
Because they were like, how did you just sit there?
Like, this is beyond... Because she was so burned.
He said it was beyond anything you could imagine in a horror movie.
It was the most horrific thing ever. And you just sat there stoned and then had a fucking cheeseburger afterwards?
And they said she was burned beyond recognition and they...
Also, for anybody that smoked weed, you're super fucking paranoid.
Well, that's what I was thinking. How would you not?
You'd be bouncing off the walls being like, I'd be pulling things out of like light bulbs being like, they're watching us.
No, yeah, you get really paranoid even if you haven't fucking murdered somebody.
I'll be like laying in my bed and I'll be like, the cops are coming.
And these people just straight up murdered someone and lit her on fire on a farm.
Aren't you supposed to be more chill? Yeah.
You're supposed to be more like, everything's fine, guys.
The other night I got really high and I put on this song and I said to Annie, I was like, Just hold my hand and close your eyes and listen to this song.
She told me that. That's what I do when I smoke.
I wish everybody was like that, man. I don't know what the fuck these people did.
Apparently they're not. I'm just trying to go on a spiritual journey when I'm high.
Well, that's what they needed. They needed a spiritual journey.
Well, unfortunately, it wasn't until Thursday after both Corey and Sarah were arrested that Adrian's parents... that she had been dismembered.
That's when they learned we had to go to two different places to get her. which I can't even imagine.
I wouldn't want to know that. I literally wouldn't want to know that.
I literally can't. But they obviously have to tell them that.
Yeah, they have to. I mean, and I think it's, like, must just be... you want to you don't want to know but you want to know it's one of those situations that yeah you i feel like you just don't know what you would do until you're in that situation It's probably not good for you either way, but you just don't know.
It's what you need in the moment. I try to move past something.
Yeah, no. You never get closure from that.
Because he said, her father said, like, I go running like three miles a day now.
And he said every step I think about what happened to her.
Oh. Like you can't escape it. You can't.
Like what therapy fixes that? Yeah. None.
I have no idea. Well, the good news is on February 1st, 2005, Sarah Kolb and Corey Gregory were charged with two counts of first degree murder.
Yeah, yeah. And they were charged with concealment of a homicide. um so Sarah was the first to go to trial um which like ironically began on Halloween day in 2005
That's just like right up her fucking alley.
She's so theatrical. She was theatrical till the fucking end.
Yeah, she really is. Well, she actually really was because...
The trial lasted two weeks and after 15 hours of deliberating, the jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict.
Oh yeah, I read this. um so poor adrian's parents were probably like what well so that they were a hungarian it resulted in a mistrial so they had to retry her And if that didn't make it bad enough, it was just one juror that was in favor of, um, they opted for acquittal.
How? how so 11 jurors were in favor of conviction and then i wrote but one dumb ass opted yeah seriously you are dumb why would you ever want to acquit her like she literally strangled someone with her bare hands in her own writings she wrote she wants to kill people like why would you ever let her go she like screamed at her at a party that she was gonna kill her exactly pulled a knife on her So because of the mistrial, they had to retry her, which then that began on February 6, 2006.
So it was like almost a full year later.
Jesus, these poor people. So she luckily was convicted on all counts and was sentenced a few months after her trial to 48 years in prison.
And then on top of that, five years for concealment of Alani.
So for a total of 53 consecutive years. good and she's serving her sentence now at the logan correctional center in lincoln illinois So write her a mean mail.
Write her a mean mail. And tell her she has empty eyes.
Yeah, tell her to fucking go fuck herself.
Fill your eyes, girl. Corey Gregory, on the other hand, pleaded guilty to all charges, and on July 10th, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder and five years for concealment. for a total of 45 years, which doesn't even seem fair enough.
No, it really doesn't at all. So he's serving a sentence at Stateville Correctional Center in Crestville, Illinois, near Chicago.
But... In 2016, a 28-year-old Corey claimed in a petition for... post-conviction relief that his 45-year prison sentence was unconstitutional.
Oh, obviously. Like, so is murdering someone, so I don't really care about your constitutional rights.
Like, you took someone's life. I feel like that's...
Pretty constitutional as far as I'm concerned.
And he thinks it's unconstitutional because he was sentenced.
Or excuse me, because he was 17 at the time of the offense and he wasn't sentenced as a juvenile.
Dude, I don't give a shit. If you're capable of murdering somebody, I don't think you should be tried as a juvenile.
In this case. The extent... To which he went to take care of that body.
Like you burned a body while high. You tried to bury her.
That didn't work. Then you guys lit her on fire.
You had to get more gasoline because that didn't work.
And you probably got high on the wagon. Then you were like...
Hmm. We gotta cut her up. You sat there.
You watched that happen while talking about fucking Pantera.
Or like ICP or something. And then you got a double cheeseburger.
And then you went and got a double cheeseburger and threw her down a manhole.
And then I'm pretty sure you went to sleep that night without doing anything.
So it's like, I'm sorry. So tell me again about the Constitution.
Yeah, don't care. So basically, he said to support his claim, he pointed to a 2012 Supreme Court ruling.
And this ruling determined a mandatory life sentence of life without parole for juvenile offenders as unconstitutional.
I remember those as a lot of cases that got their sentences reduced because of that.
Well, because the decision was retroactive.
Anybody that felt like they got the shit under the stick, they got retried. mm-hmm which fuck all of them not really i don't really know all of them but um in his petition to the court he wrote that even though he was sentenced to 45 years the new Supreme Court ruling applied to him and And in the interest of justice, he deserved a new sentence.
Oh, in the interest of justice. Please gag me with a spell.
Justice for Corey Gregory. Yeah, like I'll get right on that.
So if you're not already nauseous enough by this petition, he also wrote that if he does survive his 45 year sentence.
He'll be in no way restored to useful citizenship and he will be too old to gain employment. where where where don't care hey um i bet adrian probably wanted to go to her job but you fucking murdered her and she He was gainfully employed and you, yeah, 16 years old.
You killed a 16 year old. I don't care that you're going to be like 60.
I love that. He's literally like, well, I won't be able to get a job.
I'm going to be old. It's like, okay. This is called a punishment.
Yeah, that's what that's about. So the state's attorney John McGee said he believed Corey Gregory had a fair sentencing and he would do whatever necessary to contest him getting a new hearing.
Same. In May 2018, Gregory's attorney argued all his claims of an unfair sentencing.
So what happens is if the judge, who is Peter Church... denies the motion to dismiss Gregory's petition, then the case will proceed to the next stage where attorneys will go over everything again.
And so they'll go over, like, all his claims and everything.
All his baseless claims. Yeah, and then they'll come to a decision of what to do in his sentencing. if the judge grants the request for a new sentencing hearing. then he could get the same sentence that he already has.
Yeah. Or it could be less. There's like no guarantee of what would happen.
Oh God, that would suck. And so it's unclear.
I was like researching if they had made a decision yet.
Yeah, I looked it up. I didn't see anything.
Whether or not they came to a decision. But it was only like... it was in may right so yeah so it could take a while yeah that shit takes forever so but i feel like it's good news that even if like he does say like oh yeah like we'll fucking retry yeah He could still come to the same conclusion.
Which they're going to look at the same evidence.
So Nathan got the fuck bag that chopped her up.
Oh yeah. He didn't really get that much.
He was also charged with concealment for his hand in dismembering the body.
He pleaded guilty and received a juvenile sentence of Five years.
That is such bullshit. So he chopped up a fucking human body and got five years.
Yeah, that seems about right. Which I'm confused as to why he was only... um charged with concealment and i'm like dismembering a body as a charge yeah i would think so so i don't know why he didn't get that But I believe it.
Maybe they couldn't get him on. Yeah, I was gonna say, maybe they just went for whatever was gonna give him the highest amount of... So, like I said, he pleaded guilty.
He served his... Actually, he only served almost four years.
He was released on November 11th, 2008. Yes.
But on April 16th, 2012, he died in a car accident.
Womp womp. What a bummer. Wow. So that's good, at least.
One of them's dead, and the two of them are in jail for a long-ass time.
And it doesn't look like anybody really cares about Corey's fucking... petition i mean i certainly don't i also read something about that um cory and sarah still had correspondence somehow But I did read that in Illinois, convicts can't.
They can't have a course about, like, they can't be pen pals.
Yeah. That makes sense. And I would think they wouldn't want the two of them.
So either somebody's running her Facebook on the outside, because she has no access to Facebook on the outside.
Yeah, obviously. But yeah, I read something about her Facebook still being active.
So if you want to go look that up. Yeah.
We'll give an update if we see anything cool.
But she's also gone through a... Quite a lot of transformation periods in prison.
All of her updated prison photos, she really did. there was one point where she shaved her whole head except the front two pieces yeah she just had two long pieces of hair that went in front of her face which like do you That's not going to do a lot for your trial, though.
But when you have super empty eyes and you murdered someone, that's a scary look.
If you're just walking around being you, by all means, do it.
But when you've murdered someone, don't do that. man she's just there's something about that girl that just she gives me still has mci she does she gives me the real heebs But I saw pictures of her like hugging a golden retriever in prison and stuff.
And I'm like, don't touch that dog. Don't touch that dog.
I feel like in prison, if you committed a crime like this, they should not burn you.
You shouldn't be able to touch dogs. Fuck that.
Don't. Don't taint the niceness. Like violent crimes, you shouldn't be able to touch dogs.
That's just not something. No. Like, there's one, and we'll... I think we're going to cover this case eventually, but it's such a rough one that that's going to be a... No.
A rough one. The Shanda Share case. And one of the... I won't go into it because if we do cover it, I want to surprise you all.
Oh, goody. But... One of the people who committed that crime now like trains dogs in prison, like has like all this access to dogs.
That was one of the most vicious crimes I've ever heard.
So it always upsets me when you hear. I'm like, no, you can't care about if you can't.
Care about a human being? How are you supposed to care about a dog?
Some of the cases that I hear about, and then you hear about their life in prison, I'm like...
Um, isn't prison supposed to be a punishment?
Oh, yeah. Like, sometimes it's not. No. It's really not.
Like that Luca Magnata. Yeah, Canadian prisons have like fucking pizza parties.
Like that shit is nuts. But yeah, so that's the story of the murder of Adrian Reynolds.
Go hug your best friend. Yeah, go be nice to each other, man.
Not too fucking tightly. Yeah, not too tightly. give her a light hug keep your belt on talk it out if you guys are if somebody's snagging your dude or you feel like he's snagging your dude and you guys are in high school It's high school.
One, it's high school. And just like talk about it, man.
Talk about it with your girlfriend. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you that everyone I dated in high school was very irrelevant.
Oh, 100%. To my life now, I don't talk to anybody I dated, nor do I care about them. them i dated one person all through high school and he's very irrelevant yeah she sure is so i'm just saying so And most people are irrelevant that you're going to date until you actually start dating, like, good ones.
I mean, yeah, Annie's wicked irrelevant.
Just kidding. I love you. Love you, Annie.
You're relevant. So relevant. So yeah, so that was the case for this week.
We hope you guys done yet. Thank you for listening.
Well, we're not going to tell you what next week's is because we're having fun just teasing you with it.
Yeah, this is fun. But it's going to be holiday themed.
Yes, that's a good point. The month of December, we are going to try to make all of our episodes holiday themed, but not holiday themed like, you know... candies and candy canes and sugar plum fairies and all that good stuff.
It's going to be some Dark ass holiday crimes.
You know, I'll just, I'm going to say one word for one of our episodes.
Krampus. That's all I'm going to say. Krampus.
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Weird. But not so weird that you murder your best friend.
Don't fucking do that. Don't do it. I'll be pissed at you.
And you know what? Juggalos are nice people generally.
Sure. I think they are. I've met a couple.
I don't know if I've ever met a juggalo that I knew they were a juggalo.
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