S5, Chapter 5: Where in the World is Charles Langley?
Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology
T. Z. Borden
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🗓️ 12 December 2022
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Summary
Nearly our entire focus up to this point has been on Mitch Brailsford. And for good reason. He was the one to pull the trigger ending Daniel Shaver’s life.
But what if there was another individual who may indeed hold more culpability for what happened on the night of January 18, 2016? An individual who was in charge of the scene from the very beginning. An individual who gave incoherent orders and authorized the use of lethal force. And an individual who conveniently took early retirement from the Mesa PD and then moved his family to the Philippines.
This chapter is about that individual. Sergeant Charles Langley.
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| 0:00.0 | Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality. |
| 0:10.0 | Listener discretion is advised. I can't even eat this food. My friend just bought me right now. I'm just really emotional. |
| 0:30.8 | It's April 26th. My daughter was born on April 20th. The birthday was six days ago. |
| 0:36.1 | That was the day that we were at the park when |
| 0:39.2 | we heard the verdict for the trial this last week. That pretty much ruined her birthday. And |
| 0:46.8 | every day since, she's been putting off doing her birthday cake that's been sitting in the fridge. |
| 0:52.6 | And she just said that she wanted to do it. |
| 0:56.7 | But she said, don't worry about the happy birthday |
| 0:58.7 | or the candles, I just wouldn't eat the cake. |
| 1:01.9 | 12 years, and I've never not seen happy birthday to my daughter. |
| 1:06.2 | And yet, even the thought of doing that right now |
| 1:08.5 | feels so freaking difficult. Mesa will never understand what this is done to my children. |
| 1:13.6 | I think everyone has a bit of a fascination with the dark side. |
| 1:32.3 | I myself always love the dark side as well. |
| 1:35.3 | I think it's something that everyone secretly longs for and wants. |
| 1:42.3 | A cop who killed fired from the force is now getting paid, collecting a taxpayer-funded check every month for the rest of his life. |
| 1:51.0 | The dark side. |
| 2:03.6 | The dark side. |
| 2:05.6 | While Lainey's Sweet was mourning the loss for husband, and trying to come to terms with the fact that as killer walked free, she was also struggling to make ends meet. |
| 2:18.6 | Daniel Shaver was the primary breadwinner for the family, and now Leni found herself with two kids |
| 2:24.1 | to raise, plus rent payments, car payments, and legal fees to try and fight a civil court battle |
| 2:29.4 | against the city of Mesa and their police department, and she was doing it alone. |
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