Overlooking Red Flags - August 3 2025
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🗓️ 3 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
| 0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
| 0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
| 0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
| 0:12.9 | Some red flags don't seem that bad until looked at in hindsight. |
| 0:20.2 | On August 3, 1989, a young man was born who would |
| 0:23.7 | wave a few red flags here and there, ones that maybe didn't seem that serious at first. But when |
| 0:31.0 | all was said and done, seemed far worse when looked at in the aftermath of his crimes. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones |
| 0:40.2 | chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. On March 20th, 2012, at about one in the |
| 0:48.9 | afternoon, police in Waller, Texas, were called and asked to do a welfare check at the home belonging to the Sessler family. |
| 0:56.8 | According to the caller, a relative, she had not been able to get into contact with anyone inside the home for a bit and was worried that something might be wrong. |
| 1:06.7 | When police approached the front door, everything initially seemed completely normal. |
| 1:12.8 | Nothing looked out of place at first glance. |
| 1:15.3 | But when their knocks went unanswered, they decided to peek inside the windows |
| 1:19.6 | and saw that inside the Sessler home was in complete disarray. |
| 1:25.1 | Things were thrown everywhere, and when they looked into another window, they saw |
| 1:30.4 | something even more troubling, a human body. This was clearly a crime scene, and calling for backup, |
| 1:38.6 | the responding officers kicked down the door and started going from room to room to see |
| 1:43.3 | exactly what happened inside |
| 1:45.1 | of the Sessler residence. Inside the master bedroom, they found the bodies of Lawton and Rona |
| 1:51.1 | Sessler, lying in pools of their own blood, and in the bathroom, they found the body of the |
| 1:57.1 | couple's 26-year-old son, Mark. All three had been shot to death with a high-powered |
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