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True Crime Bullsh**

Unsafe Spaces: 0104 | It Was Steven (Binge the first season now)

True Crime Bullsh**

Studio BOTH/AND

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Binge the rest of season one of Unsafe Spaces, at Unsafe Spaces: Tampa's Missing Men, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Scott Schweickert's house is searched, disturbing photos are found on Steven Lorenzo's computer, more Lorenzo assault victims come forward, someone confesses, and another gay man goes missing.

This episode was written, researched, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
With additional research by: Kaz

Featuring:
• Dr. Scott from LA Not So Confidential
• Drew Mackie from Gayest Episode Ever

This is a Studio BOTH/AND production: bothand.fyi
For an ad-free experience: patreon.com/studiobothand

Music by: Evolving Scapes, Grisly Bill, Light in the Shadow, Hynogogia, Yehezkel Raz, and Yotam Agam
Featured music by: Chris Garneau

Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hey everyone. I recently wrapped my other show Unsafe Spaces.

0:24.0

It's an investigative serialized true crime podcast that looks into

0:29.2

Stephen Lorenzo and Scott Schweichert, two gay men who were targeting and murdering other gay men in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

0:38.0

Season one is complete and bingeable now, so while you're waiting for the next season of true crime bullshit, coming next to bing

0:44.0

now,

0:45.0

for the next season of true crime bullshit, coming next month. I'll be sharing the first four episodes of unsafe spaces with you here.

0:50.0

Listen and then head on over to Unsafe Spaces and Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening now and

0:56.5

binge the rest of the season. This is a studio both and production. A no. On November 2nd of 2004,

1:25.0

2nd of 2004, Stephen Lorenzo implicated Scott Schweichert and Scott Schweicherker alone in the disappearance of Jason Gail House.

1:37.6

This followed a month-long online sting operation wherein Scott Schweicher admitted to assaulting a man in Tampa, Florida, among other things, and following an interview with witness A.

1:50.0

A man who claimed that Stephen Lorenzo and his friend Scott drugged and assaulted him.

1:57.0

And after reviewing dozens of chats between Stephen Lorenzo and Scott Schweichert, which discussed, of The next day on November 3rd of 2004, a search warrant was finally executed on Scott

2:18.7

Schweichert's family home in Peru, Illinois.

2:32.4

Throughout the search, police recovered and seized a compact Presario laptop computer and one external zip drive, Scott's cell phone, a business card belonging to Stephen

2:37.5

Lorenzo, Scott's checkbook, and some unspecified documents.

2:45.0

During the search, Detective Columbia and Agent Albrecht briefly interviewed Scott on the premises.

2:51.0

And Scott told them that he did in fact know Stephen Lorenzo, that he

2:56.7

had briefly lived in Orlando, Florida from October of 2003 through December of that same year and that not long after meeting

3:07.7

online, Scott drove to Tampa and met Lorenzo in person at a bar.

3:14.0

He said that during that meeting, Lorenzo told him he'd been in trouble with the law on narcotics

3:18.6

charges.

3:22.1

Scott said that shortly after leaving Florida he lost touch with

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