Cradle to Grave, Volume II: Two More Killer Kids

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Adults like to think of kids as the embodiment of innocence—and in a lot of ways, they are. But…remember what it was like to actually be a kid? Did other kids seem innocent to us then? Not so much. The playground could be a battle zone. Gym class could be Lord of the Flies. Kids have strong, complicated emotions just like we do, but without the impulse control that comes with a fully-developed prefrontal cortex. Most of the time, the worst thing that comes from that is a tantrum in the middle of Costco, or a loud, teary breakup in the middle school cafeteria that ends up going viral on TikTok. But for some kids, just like some adults, the outcome is much, much darker. Case 1: The story of a 14 year old aspiring serial killer who murdered his unsuspecting best friend. Case 2: A greedy young man took the lives of his entire family just to inherit some cash.

Sources:
A&E's "American Justice," episode “Millions of Reasons to Kill”
Court papers: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-caed-1_06-cv-00186/pdf/USCOURTS-caed-1_06-cv-00186-7.pdf
LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-13-mn-49271-story.html
Chicago Tribune: https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/05/19/2-cops-work-5-years-to-prove-son-had-family-killed/
Investigation Discovery's "Signs of a Psychopath," episode "I'm Not the Monster I Was"
Medium, Rivy Lyon: https://medium.com/the-crime-center/14-year-old-lures-friend-to-a-gruesome-death-in-middle-school-bathroom-b5ee8df8e915
The Ledger: https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2004/03/20/state-releases-teen-slaying-suspects-journal/26105617007/

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime
0:14.2	campfire.
0:17.0	Adults like to think of kids as the embodiment of innocence, and in a lot of ways, sure, they are.
0:27.0	But remember what it was like to actually be a kid?
0:30.0	Did all the other kids seem innocent to us then? Not so much. The playground could be a battle zone.
0:38.0	Gym class could be Lord of the Flies. Kids have strong complicated emotions just like we do, but with lies. Most of the time the worst thing that comes from that is a tantrum in the middle of Costco or a loud teary breakup in the middle school cafeteria that ends up going viral on Tik-Tock.
1:00.0	But for some kids, just like some adults, the outcome is much, much darker.
1:06.3	This is Cradle to Grave Volume 2. Two more killer kids.
1:17.0	Case one, because we're such good friends, the murder of Jaime Gough.
1:25.0	So, campers, for this one, we're in Miami, Florida, February 3rd, 2004.
1:32.0	The kids and teachers at Southwood Middle School were just getting their school day
1:35.8	going. On his way to his first period class, one student realized he needed to take a quick bathroom
1:41.3	break first. He rushed to the boys's room on the second floor of the
1:44.6	building. As he pushed the door open, another boy was just leaving. It wasn't one of his friends,
1:50.3	so they didn't speak to each other. The other kid just brushed past him and out the door.
1:55.0	Now alone in the big echoy bathroom, the boy noticed something strange. There was a backpack sitting on the floor near the sinks and all over the tiles little drops of blood still wet
2:07.8	The blood drops made a trail to one of the bathroom stalls
2:11.6	The stall door was shut. Maybe somebody was hurt in there. The boy
2:17.0	leaned down and looked to see if he could spot any feet and he did, but they weren't
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