Listener, if you've been here for a while, you'll know that from time to time, I drop a black

label episode to the free feed.

This is to help promote the Patreon.

Now, I need to give you a heads up on this one, because while black label is often dark,

and you should know that by now, this particular case is very brutal, and I happen to have the most detailed coverage of the

case. So even if you think you've heard it before, know that this one gets very, very extreme.

You've been warned. If you'd like to listen to more black label, head to patreon.com slash obscure

crime podcast. I'm an indie creator and any support

is greatly appreciated. Anyway, if you can't, don't worry about it. Please, uh, enjoy the episode.

Police officer and the police staff chaplain came to my house.

The chaplain by himself is a major statement. I mean, not too many times do those people

come to your house. I listened as calmly as I could as they informed me that they were pretty sure they had my boy,

that he was alive, but that he had been sexually assaulted and he was in the hospital and I needed to go down there.

I don't remember too much more beyond that. My whole system started shutting down.

All I could think of was he's alive.

And there's something I need to do.

And so I got my shoes on and I got in the car and drove down to the emergency room.

And the staff at the hospital was really very, very supportive.

My mother had gone with me. They they took us into a conference room, and the chief

surgeon or staff, Dr. Coombs, came in to tell us the details then of what had happened.

There was a psychologist there with us also in order to help us through this.

The more people that are there, the more tragic you know it's going to be, and yet I was not at all prepared for what the doctor had to say.

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