'Gilbert Goons' Reign of Terror Ends In Murder of Preston Lord, 16

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

They called themselves the "Gilbert Goons", a group of teens that were suspected of assaults at parties and parking lots, as well as armed robberies. Defended by their parents, the teens' reign of violence culminated with the fatal beating of 16-year-old Preston Lord. Preston was at a Halloween Party with friends when one of the "Gilbert Goons" stole a cheap necklace from a friend of Preston Lord. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will tell the story of how a town in Arizona was terrorized by a group of entitled teens who were defended by their entitled parents for years until they almost got away with murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction: Group Think

00:03:56 Discussion of group of teens in Gilbert, Arizona

00:07:22 Discussion of Gilbert Goons videotaping the beating

00:11:15 Talk about the assaults attributed to the teens in Gilbert

00:16:09 Discussion of how the beating of Preston Lord continued

00:21:07 Discussion of a bully

00:25:45 Talk about parents joking about the beating

00:30:19 Discussion of severe blunt force trauma

00:33:52 Discussion of shoe imprint on the body of victim

00:38:02 Conclusion: judgement is coming.

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Some people, I think, are surprised by the behavior of wild animals. I'd like to say that I've never been
0:31.8	surprised by them. I have been. I think that it's because
0:36.4	you know our species, the human species, we have order about us but you know animals have an order
0:42.3	too. But it's when you get a
0:45.4	collection of animals together and maybe they do something that is not just odd but scary. It really makes you question
1:02.4	your own reality I think and I think that that can be
1:06.8	applied sometimes to the behavior of humans you get them together in a group and we hear about things like group think and all that
1:18.1	but you get a group together and they have a purpose they have their own constitution if you will and what
1:29.9	if what if their document What if? Their document, though it might not be written, their agreement that they've
1:37.7	entered into, its foundational element is violence and violence that is directed toward the most defenseless, maybe the weakest, those that don't have an ability
1:58.4	to fight back.
1:59.6	Today we're going to delve into very troubled waters here. We're going to take a deep dive into a
2:11.1	case that has become known as the Gilbert goons.
2:17.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. There was a movie I guess it came back came out I guess it was probably
2:29.6	in the 80s it had a Nicholas Cage in, but it was it featured Kathleen Turner and it was
2:37.4	Peggy Sue got married. I love that maybe Dave and there's a line
2:41.3	Yeah, yeah.
2:43.0	Why did he go with that voice?
2:45.0	Why was Nick Cage doing that voice as the young guy?
2:48.0	I know, but that's Cage, you know, that's the way he rolls.
2:52.0	There was a comment though that was
2:54.6	made I don't know if you recall this uh Peggy Sue of course had gone back in time
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