108: A YouTube Lawsuit & the Disappearance of Lizabeth Wilson

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True Crime, History, Comedy

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, Matt Hoss created an exceptionally cringey YouTube video. He cast himself as the cool guy. He cast a hot young woman to act alongside him. He wrote a script where he gave himself all the good comebacks, and made the woman swoon for him. His video got millions of views. Then one day, YouTubers Ethan and Hila Klein of H3H3 productions created their own video reacting to Matt’s video. They gave him a bit of a roast, but ended on a respectful note. There was just one problem. Matt didn’t think their video was very funny.

Then Brandi tells us about a case that took place in the summer of 1974. On her way home from the pool, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth Wilson cut through the parking lot of Shawnee Mission East High School. She was never seen again. Suspicion circled around the school’s janitor, John Henry Horton, but without concrete evidence, the case grew cold.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:

“Bold Guy vs Parkour Girl,” Matt Hoss Zone on Youtube

“WE WON THE LAWSUIT!” h3h3Productions on Youtube

“The Big, the BOLD, the Beautiful (Re-Upload)” h3h3 Productions on Youtube

Matt Hosseinzadeh v Ethan Klein and Hila Klein court docouments

“Judge sides with YouTubers Ethan and Hila Klein in copyright lawsuit,” by Anthony Ha for techcrunch.com

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:

“State v. Horton” findlaw.com

“Conviction is upheld in 1974 murder of Prairie Village girl” by Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star

“40 years later, conviction upheld on teen’s killer” by Rick Dean, The Topeka Capital-Journal

“Judge Denies New Trial In Killing Of Kansas Girl” by Kelley Hoskins, Fox2Now St. Louis

“Chloroform killer of Prairie Village girl gets chance at release from prison” by Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star

“Parole denied for Shawnee Mission school janitor who killed Prairie Village girl” by Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star

Transcript

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0:00.0	I am so over this situation, Peter. I'm unbumble to find something real. You know, like someone
0:07.5	you can count on, someone who actually cares about what you think. I just want someone
0:12.5	who's ready for that long-term kind of love. Whether you're looking for your next boyfriend,
0:18.9	girlfriend, casual date or just someone who's truly gotcha, it's waiting for you unbumble.
0:25.6	One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts. I'm Kristen
0:35.6	Caruso. I'm Brandi Egan. Let's go to court. On this episode, I'll talk about a YouTube
0:41.7	lawsuit. And I'll be talking about the disappearance of Lizabeth Wilson. Brandi? Yeah. All I have to
0:49.4	say about this week's episode is in your face. In your face. Because I made a comment about
0:55.9	that sound like a boring topic. A comment? Okay, dear listeners, let me tell you some facts. So a
1:04.5	while ago, I was trying to brainstorm. And, you know, I don't know, you know this, but there's
1:09.5	no bad ideas in brainstorming. I was trying to brainstorm some ideas for topics for future episodes
1:15.7	that we could have people vote on. And I was like, ooh, wouldn't it be cool if maybe we did a theme
1:19.4	where we did all YouTube lawsuits. And I fell asleep while she was talking about it. She literally
1:25.7	pretended to snore while I was mid-sense. I was like, oh, well, I think it'd be cool. And you know
1:31.9	what? I'm doing one anyway. I'm so happy for you. And you're gonna be riveted. And that is the
1:37.6	may of our friendship and this podcast. By the way, guys, this is an after dark episode. Yes, it is. In
1:44.8	case, you couldn't already tell by our zing and tap. That's right. Should we talk about why it's an
1:50.0	after dark episode? Yeah, let's talk about it. Let's. Chiefs won the Super Bowl. That's right. The
1:55.1	Chiefs won the fucking Super Bowl. Okay. So the parade was like the big, you know, celebration
2:00.9	parade was during the time that we usually would record. And there was no way Brandi could have
2:06.8	gotten to my house. It would have been very difficult. Pandemonium. That's right. So she didn't
2:13.3	want to go. I didn't want to go to the parade. It was very cold. I mean, it was freezing cold. Yeah,
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