S5, Chapter 1: Exterminator
Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology
T. Z. Borden
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🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Shaver (26) lived in Texas with his wife and high school sweetheart, Laney (24), and their two young children, Natalie (7) and Emery (3). Laney had just become pregnant as a surrogate for their close friends and Daniel was working hard to support his family.
Daniel worked as a pest exterminator for big box retail stores and one area he serviced often was located in Mesa, Arizona. His company would put him up in a hotel for the night when he traveled there. He was staying in a “La Quinta Inn” hotel on the night of January 18, 2016, and in all regards, it seemed like a routine work trip. One he had made dozens of times before.
Though on that particular night, a series of unfortunate events led to the police being called, and Daniel was held at gunpoint by the Mesa Police Department. The ensuing 5-minute video from the body camera of officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford records the entire baffling interaction. It is often cited as the most disturbing police shooting ever recorded. This is the story of the execution of Daniel Shaver.
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| 0:00.0 | Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality. |
| 0:09.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:13.0 | All right, and re-wrote a song last night, and we are recording it for our third time. |
| 0:28.6 | Um, I did it with my moon! |
| 0:31.6 | And what is your song called? |
| 0:34.6 | I love you, Daddy. |
| 0:36.6 | You ready? Yes! |
| 0:38.3 | All right. |
| 0:40.3 | I remember when you were happy, oh my daddy. |
| 0:49.3 | The voices that you hear singing are Lainey, who was once married to Daniel Schaver, the subject of our episode today, and one of their two young daughters, Emery. |
| 1:01.0 | You could talk me in bed one more time time you were mine |
| 1:18.6 | January 18th, 2016 should have been an ordinary Monday for Daniel Shaver, |
| 1:23.6 | and up until 9 p.m. that evening it was. |
| 1:26.6 | But that fateful night, the 26-year-old |
| 1:29.3 | Daniel, was gunned down by a group of law enforcement officers in the hallway of a hotel |
| 1:34.3 | where he was staying for work. Daniel was unarmed, wearing gym shorts and a t-shirt, |
| 1:41.6 | crawling towards officers on his hands and knees as instructed. |
| 1:45.0 | One of the officers, Philip Mitchell Brailsford, who fired the fatal shots, later contradicted |
| 1:51.0 | the facts as we now know them to be, and said that the real reason Daniel was crawling |
| 1:56.1 | towards them was to gain a tactical advantage. |
| 2:01.6 | Daniel had suffered a knee injury in the weeks prior and he was still recovering from |
| 2:06.4 | this injury. |
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