#312 Mr. Anime

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On March 20, 2012, Trey Eric Sesler, a 22-year-old YouTuber, shot and killed his parents and brother in Waller, Texas. He had planned a school shooting at Waller Junior High School after murdering his family, but while sitting in the parking lot…changed his mind. Investigators say that Sesler was heavily inspired by the Columbine High School massacre, as well as other infamous killers.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael and you know Andy's here with me. Oh, I am. Michael, can you just, I'm so comfy over here. Got my hoodie on now. Yeah, man. It's almost, it feels like spring. It really does. Yeah, well, it's going to get hot again. It's going to get so fucking hot. We're going to be sweating in here in no time, Andy. You don't worry about it.
0:22.3	Get the tank tops out, baby.
0:23.6	Brack the guns. Yeah, well, it's going to get hot again. It's going to get it. It's going to be sweating in here in no time, Andy.
0:21.5	Don't worry about it.
0:22.3	Get the tank tops out, baby.
0:23.6	Brick guns.
0:25.1	That's right.
0:26.2	We'll figure it out.
0:27.0	We'll suffer through it.
0:28.4	But guys, before we get into this case that we're going to suffer through today, it is a brutal one.
0:33.7	It is a family annihilator, but it's not the father. No, it's not.
0:38.2	It is not.
0:38.8	Is he still a family annihilator? Would you still call him that? Yeah. If you're not the father. I've never heard that term used for someone who was not the father, though. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. We've covered people who've done this before, but yeah, they always, they never, they always going to skip that term if you're not the father. They do. But guys, before we get into it,
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1:08.7	Sessler. Yes, he was, he was in on YouTube in the, what I like to call the early days, Andy, you know, 2005, 2006. The Wild West days of YouTube. The Wild West of YouTube, it wasn't connected to Google. Yeah. You know, there were no parameters for YouTube content. There were no guardrails. There were no guidelines.
1:31.3	Like, could you imagine how many people would get doxed nowadays?
1:33.9	Yeah, the stuff that they put on YouTube back in the day?
1:36.8	Dude, you could find anything on YouTube in the early days.
1:38.1	It was an open source.
1:40.2	It was basically the Silk Road of videos.
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