May 12, 2026
The Book of the Dead Case Files: What Happened After the Episodes Ended
From shocking revelations and cases that remain painfully unsolved, this special episode revisits the first cases covered on The Book of the Dead. I'm breaking down the biggest developments, new evidence, court updates, and unanswered questions surrounding the stories that have stayed with listeners long after the episodes ended. Some families finally got answers. Others are still waiting.This is where the cases stand now.
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About - Daniel Robinson Foundation. (2025, February 6). Daniel Robinson Foundation. https://danielrobinsonfoundation.org/about/ABOUT US. (n.d.). Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation. https://www.snpfoundation.org/aboutColleen E. Ritzer Memorial Fund, Inc. (2021, April 27). About - Colleen E. Ritzer Memorial Fund, Inc.https://colleenritzer.org/about-us/Court tosses out key records of Kobe serial child killer in 1997 case | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch. (n.d.). The Asahi Shimbun. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14747612Father of 1997 Kobe murder victim criticizes court’s disposal of case records. (2023, February 15). The Mainichi. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230215/p2a/00m/0na/015000cFioresi, D. (2025, February 13). Stephanie Lazarus, former LAPD detective who shot ex-lover’s new wife, has parole denied again. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/stephanie-lazarus-former-lapd-detective-who-shot-ex-lovers-new-wife-has-parole-denied-again/Game over | Breck Foundation. (n.d.). Breck Foundation. https://www.breckfoundation.org/game-overGarrett, S. (2026, January 30). Tacoma police investigating individual who says they are Teekah Lewis, missing since 1999. KIRO 7 News Seattle. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/tacoma-police-investigating-individual-who-says-they-are-teekah-lewis-missing-since-1999/52MMMKUUPVDFFPG37LUORNWLGM/Kobe court discards all records on then juvenile tried over 1997 child murders. (2022, October 20). The Mainichi. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221020/p2a/00m/0na/011000cPlease Help Find Daniel. (2026, February 18). Please help find Daniel Robinson. https://pleasehelpfinddaniel.com/Riley, N. (2024, October 9). Teacher’s family says “evil” Philip Chism can’t be rehabilitated amid appeal for new murder trial. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/philip-chism-appeal-colleen-ritzer-murder-danvers-teacher/Riley, N. (2025, February 25). Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers math teacher Colleen Ritzer, denied new murder trial. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/philip-chism-appeal-murder-trial-sentence-colleen-ritzer/Robinson, D., II. (2025, December 29). Support the “Please Help Find Missing Americans Act” (Daniel Robinson Law). Change.org. https://www.change.org/p/support-the-please-help-find-missing-americans-act-daniel-robinson-law?recruiter=1122433152&recruited_by_id=58c081c0-b378-11ea-b618-7b868614c4c4&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&utm_medium=copylinkTeekah Lewis’ mother launches foundation to support families of missing children. (2026, January 24). KOMO. https://komonews.com/news/local/teekah-lewis-mother-launches-foundation-to-support-families-of-missing-children-tacoma-cold-case-missing-child-investigation-nonprofit-missing-people-pnwTeekah’s Legacy Foundation. (n.d.). https://sites.google.com/view/teekahslegacyfoundation/home?authuser=0
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Hello, Hello, Welcome to the next chapter in the Book
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of the Dead. Over the last almost four years, I
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have covered one hundred and forty one cases. Some are salved,
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some are unsolved, and some are on determined. Since my
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very first chapter, many of the cases I've covered have
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had updates over the years, some of which may be
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very minor, but others have had significant updates, and today
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I'd like to share them with you. All of the
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cases I've researched over the years are all so important
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to me, and I've gone back and looked into all
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of them to as always bring you the most accurate
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information possible. For more information about the case is mentioned today,
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and of course I'll give a short description of that case.
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Take a listen to my past episodes before I begin.
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I won't be covering all one hundred and forty one
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cases today or in general, some have no updates. But
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them in one episode, so in a few weeks I'll
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make another part for the episodes that I don't go
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over today. In chapter two, I cover the murder of
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Breck Bedner. For longtime listeners, you'll remember my mom Lisa
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would join me to talk about these cases and she
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was horrified. Breck Bedner was fourteen years old from Surrey
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who encountered a predator while playing online games with his friends.
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This eighteen year old Lewis Danes, groomed Breck using lies
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and manipulation to gain his trust until he was finally
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successful in luring Breck to his home. Breck was murdered
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by Lewis Danes on February seventeenth, twenty four, fourteen. Following
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the murder of her oldest child, Breck's mother, Lauren LeFave,
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founded the Breck Foundation to save other children and families
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from falling victims to online predators. The mission of the
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Foundation is to quote empower the digital generation to be
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smart and safe online and advocate for their well being
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to be at the center of internet safety policies and
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practices across government businesses and wider society. Lauren travels around
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the UK, visiting schools, businesses, police departments, and various government
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agencies to tell her son's story and educate on the
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importance of internet safety. The foundation also provides various resources
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in an effort to equip parents and children with the
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tools necessary to stay safe in a digital era without
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restricting children's access to the things they find enjoyment in. Recently,
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playwright Mark Wheeler wrote the play game Over, which tells
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Breck's story using his own words as well as words
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from his family and his killer, to educate students on
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the day of the digital world. It has been adapted
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into a fifty minute performance for secondary schools and For
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more information about the Brack Foundation, as well as the
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resources they provide, you can visit brackfoundation dot org or
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see the link in the source notes. There has been
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no significant update on Lewis Danes, who is still serving
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a mandatory life sentence and will not be eligible for
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parole until twenty forty. In chapter five, I covered Saka
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Kabara Sato, the Kovid child killer whose real name is
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Shinichiro Azuma. This was an incredibly graphic case and one
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of the very few cases where I covered the murder
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of a child under the age of fourteen. It's something
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I very rarely do. They're so hard to stomach, but
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this was a case that so few people knew about.
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In March of nineteen ninety seven, in Kobe, Japan, someone
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was attacking the children there. The first victim was a
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ten year old girl named Ayaka Yamashida, who had been
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attacked with a hammer and a knife. An hour later,
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a nine year old girl was also tact but she survived.
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That May, an eleven year old boy named jen Hessei
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went missing for three days before his mutilated head was
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found at the gate of his elementary school. Considered Japan's
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own Zodiac killer, the media was sent notes in red
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ink signed Saka Kebara Sato. The perpetrator was caught a
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few weeks later and discovered to be fourteen year old
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Shinnanchiro Azuma. Following his sentencing, he was remanded to Canto,
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a medical juvenile training school. He was transferred in two
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thousand and one after turning eighteen, to a different facility
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after a positive assessment, and was given a provisional release
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in March of two thousand and four at the age
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of twenty one, which was met with public outrage. He
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later wrote a book called Seka, detailing his crimes and
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alleging to feel remorse, which the families of his victims
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tried in vain to have blocks from publication. Azuma made
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ten million yen in royalties, and now in his forties,
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he has led a relatively quiet life. However, a month
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after I released my episode in October of twenty twenty two,
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the records of fifty two high profile cases with juvenile offenders,
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including the records involving the Kobe childs killer, were disposed
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of after the storage dates expired. According to an article
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for the Sahi Shimbun, the Kobe Family Court was in
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violation of Supreme Court orders for discarding of these records,
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which included the ruling a trial. There were in confessions,
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his psychiatric evaluation, and other information. The Supreme Court requires
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that lower courts keep records indefinitely of cases that attracted
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significant attention or met other criteria, and the disposal of
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these records meant that society as a whole will be
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unable to scrutinize this case. Ordinarily, cases involving juvenile offenders
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restored ontil the offender turns twenty six. Momourojissei Jin's father
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met with the Japanese Supreme Court in February of twenty
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twenty three and criticized the disposal of these records. He
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demanded measures to be put in place to prevent this
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from happening again, and Supreme Court General Affairs Bureau Chief
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Shinya Onodera apologized, saying, quote, it was not appropriate to
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have disposed of the records. According to an article for
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the Mayini Ussay said, quote, the common sense of the
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judiciary is detached from that of the public. I hope
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courts will change for the bereaved families. Case records play
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a major role in understanding why the incidents happened. There
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was a world of difference between having records and not
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having them kept. I hope that bereaved families will be
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able to access records more freely. Proper preservation of case
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records will be the first step to achieving the school.
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In chapter eighteen, I cover the murder of Colleen Ritzer,
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a twenty four year old high school teacher from Massachusetts
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who was murdered by her fourteen year old student Philip Kisom,
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a rising soccer star originally from Tennessee. Both Colleen and
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Philip are reported missing within a couple of hours of
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each other on October twenty second, twenty thirteen. Philip was
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found walking along the highway in the neighboring town of
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Topsfield at twelve thirty the next morning, but there was
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still no sign of Colleen. When police searched Philip's belongings,
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they found a knight as well as a box cutter
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with blood on it, a sweatshirt, a mask, credit cards
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belonging to Colleen, and a pair of women's underwear, which
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he claimed to have found before later saying he stole
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them from Colleen's car. Philip was brought to the police
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station and he refused to have his mother or a
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lawyer present with him, and he eventually admitted to police
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that the blood on the box cutter belonged to his
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algebra teacher, Colleen Ritzer. Philip claimed that she had set
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something to trigger his rage, and he killed her by
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cutting her throat with the box cutter. Philip draw a
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map where they could find Colleen's body behind Danver's High School,
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as well as where they could find her phone, which
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he had disposed that behind the Hollywoodhills movie Theater, Colleen
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Ritzer was found naked from the waist down, covered in
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leaves and other debris in an effort to hide her body.
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Twenty yards away in a recycling bin. Were her clothes,
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bloody gloves, and a note saying I hate you all.
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In surveillance footage, Philip was seen following Colleen into the
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girl's restroom at three eleven p m. And then later
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removing her body from the bathroom in the green recycling bin.
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Philip was charged with first to be murder as an adult,
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as well as robbery and aggravated and unnatural rape as
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a juvenile. He was not guilty in December fifteenth, twenty fifteen,
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and sentenced to twenty five years for murder and forty
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years for rape and robbery, with the possibility of parole
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after serving forty years. The sentences were to runk concurrently,
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with eight hundred and fifty seven days credited for time served,
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meaning he is eligible for parole at the age of
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fifty four. In October of twenty twenty four, Philip appealed
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to his conviction, asking the courts to vacate the murder
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conviction and order a new trial. His attorney, Michael Schneider,
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said to the High Court. According to CBS, there was
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no question that the defendant was the once to kill
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the victim. However, he was arguing that Chism was unable
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to make a full insanity defense. This was due to
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expert testimony of the scans of his brain being excluded
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from his original trial that allegedly showed him to be
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suffering from mental illness. This was due to Philip having
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never been previously diagnosed with the traumatic brain injury or
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a disorder lick schizophrenia. A statement was issued by Collin's
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family that said quote, it is clear and agreed to
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by a trial and jury of his peers that the
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convict's actions were premeditated, calculated, and committed a pure evil
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based upon overwhelming evidence. Without any admission of remorse. This
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evil individual cannot be rehabilitated. It is unthinkable that Cosin
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could be eligible for parole at thirty nine years old
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if his sentence is reduced. In February of twenty twenty five,
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Philip Kism was denied a new murder trial, with Associate
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Justice Frank Gaziano stating quote the defendant asked that we
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exercise our extraordinary power and either order a new trial
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or reduce the murder verdict. After carefully reviewing the record,
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we conclude that none of the asserted errors, standing alone
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or accumulatively, requires a new trial, and that there is
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no other basis on which to disturb the Stury's verdict.
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Colleen's family released a statement saying that the new ruling
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would allow them to finally grieve the loss of calling properly.
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They also hold a five K walk in her honor
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annually to support the Colleen Richter Foundation, with this year's
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having just passed, and you can learn more about the
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foundation and the memorial scholarship set up in Colleen's name
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to support aspiring teachers by visiting Colleen Richard dot org.
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Chapter twenty two and twenty three was my two parter
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on the murder of Shari Resmussen. Twenty nine year old
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Cherry Resmusen, the director of nursing at the Glendale Adventist
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Medical Center, was murdered in while police insisted for twenty
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three years, was a robbery gone wrong in her vanny's
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apartment on February twenty fourth, nineteen eighty six, she had
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been shot three times in the apartment where she lived
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with her husband of three months, John Rotten, was ransacked,
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but only her car and marriage license were stolen. After
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years of Sherry's father begging police to look into John's
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ex girlfriend, a fellow police officer to Texas in two
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thousand and three finally took another look at the case
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and realized that the police had gotten it wrong all
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those years ago. The key was in the saliva taken
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from a bite wound on Shrefry's arm, and a notation
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in the file that police had rarefied that John's ex
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really was law enforcement, but they never followed up with her.
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Stephanie Lazarus, a detective in the art Theft division of
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the LAPD, was obsessed with John Rutton and enraged that
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he was marrying another woman. She killed Cherry Resmusen and
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staged the scene to look like a robbery, finally being
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arrested after her DNA off of a cup from Costco
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was matched to the saliva from the bitemark. Twenty six
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years after Sharry's murder, Stephanie Lazarus was sentenced to twenty
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seven years to life in prison. In twenty twenty three,
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Stephanie was eligible for parole, was granted, but then rescinded
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when Governor Gavin Newson expressed various concerns, including quote, evading
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justice for more than two decades, and she did not
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appear to begin taking full accountability for the murder until
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she was finally caught. In fact, Stephanie did not actually
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confess to Sharry's murder until that parole hearing in twenty
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twenty three, stating, according to CBS, quote, it makes me
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sick to this day that I took an oath to
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protect and serve people, and I took Shary Resmussen's life
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from her a nurse. All I could think about was
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