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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and I got a lot to talk to you guys about because we have not talked since Halloween. I hope everybody had a good safe time and is alive to talk about.

If you're new here, Cult Leader is a podcast about cults and murders and macabre history and whatever creepy thing I want to talk about each week.

And this week I'm going to start with the scariest thing of all. And that is Google search history.

I don't even know what is on my search history right now. I can probably tell you that there's something weird there. I'm sure. But I feel like most of us that are interested in true crime have search histories that can be sometimes questionable.

But I think about that all the time because I'm like, okay, say I'm preparing for an episode or whatever and I'm talking about a husband who kills his wife with anti-freeze.

I might Google husband kills his wife with anti-freeze or I might Google how to kill somebody with anti-freeze or how long does it take to kill somebody with anti-freeze, which in my head are innocent but in a courtroom would look pretty fucking terrifying.

So I guess I just got to be better about leading it, but I guess this I'm also just putting this out to the public so that people know if I'm ever framed for a crime, I was only googling how to kill someone with anti-freeze for a fucking episode.

Okay, get off my back. But anyways, I feel like when you Google things, you start getting advertisements based on things that you look up or Google. We all know like big brothers watching.

But this article has been popping up for the past week or so about this guy named Benjamin Schreiber.

And I don't know if any of you guys have seen it. I know some of you have because I think a few of you actually sent it to me.

But he's this guy Benjamin Schreiber, he's currently serving a life sentence at a state prison in Iowa.

He's been in there since 1997 after he was found guilty of committing first degree murder.

Have not read up on his case. Don't really know too much about his case, but fast forward to March of 2015.

He suffered septic poisoning as a result of these large kidney stones that he developed while he was in prison.

Well, the authorities found him unconscious and his cell in March of 2015. And he was rushed to the hospital where he was resuscitated five different times, meaning that he technically died.

So according to this guy, since he died, he fulfilled his life sentence term and should have been released afterwards.

The appeals court said a plane reading a bio a law says defendants guilty of a class a felony must quote unquote spend the rest of their natural life in prison, regardless of how long that period of time ends up being or any events occurring before the defendant's life ends.

So maybe technically he's right. According to the judge Amanda Potterfield, she wrote that Schreiber is either alive in which he must remain in prison or he's dead in which case this appeal is moot, meaning over for debate.

Like I get it, I get his logic and you know, it's he did die, but he's got he's probably got to stay there.

I again don't know the full details or the extent of his crimes, but he was charged with first degree murder probably belongs in jail, which is going to be a common thing we see throughout today's episode.

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