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Eden & Briana: Bye.
Eden & Briana: TP for my bunghole. Oh my god. She said that right as we were doing the intro. So if you hear a little giggle. Yeah, I tried to keep my mouth shut. but hey Hey, hey.
Eden & Briana: Yesterday it was deep. Today it's higher than a kite. Jesus. Martha, girl. I can't help it. So what's up? Not much.
Eden & Briana: Freezing my boobies off. Y'all, it is like negative 34 here. Yeah. yeah And it's not fun. No. And you want to know what my daughter tried to do?
Eden & Briana: What? She had cheerleading practice, right? She was getting ready to leave at the same time I was leaving. She tried to go in a t-shirt and shorts. ah It's 35 below.
Eden & Briana: Go put some pants and a coat on. Well, the two littles inside wanted to go outside, and I was like, uh, no. Why? i said it's negative 34 degrees outside.
Eden & Briana: But we already got our stuff on. was like, 10 minutes. That's it. They didn't even last five. I didn't figure as much. Gee, mini Christmas. Oh. What was that?
Eden & Briana: Air. What kind of air? Flatulates. I hope that cracked out. Flatulates. I thought it was going to be quiet.
Eden & Briana: You thought wrong. was just a little... Just a little air kiss from your bong hole. Yeah. Kissing all my bitches.
Eden & Briana: Oh my god, I don't think they want those kind of kisses. well Anyways, ah so, what you got True Crime News? Okay, let's get to it.
Eden & Briana: True Crime News. In Florida, 15-year-old Jesse Stone was sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating and sexually assaulting a 91-year-old lady in her home.
Eden & Briana: He also will have to register as a sex offender, attend anger management, and undergo a mental health evaluation. Okay. For more information on this and other crimes, you can go to truecrimenews.com.
Eden & Briana: Is she okay? She did survive.
Eden & Briana: my Lanta. That poor woman. 91, and to have to go through that by some punk-ass kid. How old was he? 15. Gross.
Eden & Briana: Yep, I can't wrap my head around any of it. Just the end. Ugh, ugh. Uh-huh. Motherfucker. Right? I said trucker, Brad. Oh, sorry, Brad.
Eden & Briana: For the maybe the F instead of the T. So, what are we doing today? Well, I'm springing this one on you. I'm calling this episode the Uber Slang.
Eden & Briana: Oh, God. I'm never going to take an Uber again, am I? Probably not so much. Well, yeah. Why? Why? Well, because it's not the writer that got murdered.
Eden & Briana: Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. so So let's get there. um This crime is fairly recent, so some of the information that I dug up is what would be considered, I think, in legal terms or lawyer-ville, hearsay.
Eden & Briana: So when I tell you all the information that I have not been able to fact check, I will let you know beforehand. So for this episode of Minors of Mayhem, we're going to Lincolnwood, Illinois to the year 2017. Oh, wow.
Eden & Briana: Yep. And there's not that much information yet? Nope. I suppose trials can take years to come to. Well, there's a few things still going on, but...
Eden & Briana: happenings, I'm just gonna keep going, happenings in 2017 included, this first one intrigued me to no end, like me and your dad were looking up information because I wanted to know where, when, how, why it So the location of the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea, 72 years ago,
Eden & Briana: seventy-two years after it was sunk by a Japanese submarine was located. um wow. Yep, it had been under the beautiful ocean for 72 years.
Eden & Briana: It totally intrigued me. Now ask me to repeat anything that I didn't write down, can't do it. But we looked up the time frame and everything and to kind of figure out what was going on at that time. And from what we gathered, it was carrying some of the atomic bomb parts, delivering them well for like when we bombed Hiroshima.
Eden & Briana: oh So it it it was very interesting, you guys. I don't know, it intrigued me anyway. um A Massachusetts, I can't say to this, a Massachusetts Woman wins $758.7 million dollars in the Powerball lottery, making it the largest jackpot in North American history. Wow.
Eden & Briana: Right? Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies at the age of 91. Mm-hmm.
Eden & Briana: And the notorious cult leader, Charles Manson, dies at the age of 83. He had been in prison for 46 years.
Eden & Briana: Fashion trends in 2017 included glitter, glitter, and more glitter. Yep. And I still love glitter. Off the shoulder shirts, small sunglasses, fanny packs, still love them.
Eden & Briana: Vintage floral print, belted coats, and really statement earrings. Big. So that was kind of interesting.
Eden & Briana: Lincoln Wood is an inner suburb of Chicago. It's actually referred to as a village. It shares a border on the south, east, and a smaller section on the west side with Chicago.
Eden & Briana: And it also borders Skokie on the north and the remaining west section. The 2020 census put the population at 13,463 peeps. It is praised for its small town charm while being close to big city amenities. 16 year old Eliza Wozni lived with her single mother and was a student of Taft High School, a public school in Chicago. However, reports indicated that she had not attended school since February.
Eden & Briana: So that's an estimated three-month absence. Now, I couldn't figure out why the absence but I do know that prior to this, she had apparently been in and out of various psychiatric facilities for treatment of unspecified mental issues.
Eden & Briana: And like I said, unspecified. um and It's so interesting, as I was researching this case,
Eden & Briana: Other than living with her single mother, her mother's name, i could not locate it. I could locate nothing. Like no statements from Eliza's mother.
Eden & Briana: and i was not able to locate anything. So as far as her upbringing, clueless. I'm totally clueless. Okay. So...
Eden & Briana: What I say, hey, what happened? Sorry, technical issue. Like, why did that do that? What in the hell?
Eden & Briana: My tablet is being... Uh-oh. I think we better pause it. It's doing something. What's up, bitches? We're back. Sorry about that. um My program completely shut down and wouldn't reopen.
Eden & Briana: So not sure what kind of little if issue we're having there. But anyway, back to it. um What I say next is unconfirmed. So this would be, you know, the hearsay that I was talking about.
Eden & Briana: But according to a Facebook post that I came across, she had stopped taking medications prescribed for her mental health. And like I said, take this with a grain of salt. It is not fact-checked information.
Eden & Briana: Mm-hmm. Friends of Eliza said that she was a kind and considerate person who would give you the shirt off of her back, which makes this episode even more heinous and bizarre.
Eden & Briana: I could not wrap my head around this crime, like, at all. And it just did it again, Brianna. What in the hell? Why is this happening?
Eden & Briana: Pausing. Yeah. Sorry about that. We're back. I have it pulled up on my phone also, so if it crashes again, we will just try to move on to my phone.
Eden & Briana: Where we leave off at? So let's get into it. Okay. I think. So yeah, buts but let's get into it. At 1.25 a.m., 16-year-old Eliza was picked up by her first Uber ride in Chicago's Elmwood Park neighborhood, dropping her off at the Des Plaines train station at 2.18 a.m.
Eden & Briana: Now, I already have two personal issues in this very first paragraph. And my first is, what in the hell is a 16-year-old doing out and about at that time?
Eden & Briana: Which... As of the time I'm researching this, there's zero explanation available. But I'll be damned if my 16-year-old would be out at 1.30 at night. So this leads me to believe that either we know nothing about the parenting or she snuck out and mom wasn't aware.
Eden & Briana: Either issue. Yeah. But I have an issue with a 16-year-old being out at 1.30 at night. ah agree. Okay. My second issue... Do as I say, not as I do.
Eden & Briana: The second issue being Uber policy prohibits anyone. That's what I was just going to ask you. under a Yes. Age. It prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from its service unless accompanied by an adult.
Eden & Briana: So I have unanswered questions about how a minor was able to get away with not one, not two, but three Uber rides that she used in those early met morning hours.
Eden & Briana: And we will get into that as much as we can at some point. um Maybe. I'm not sure. okay So moving on.
Eden & Briana: As you know, she was dropped off at the Des Plaines train station, but there's not any information saying excuse me what she did at the train station. But approximately 40 minutes later, she was picked up by another Uber driver about a half a mile from the train station.
Eden & Briana: This time she was dropped off at a Walmart in Skokie. I think if you turn that to the side, you might be able to. That's right. Okay. She went into the Walmart where she obtained a hunting knife and a machete, saying something threatening to the security guard as she passed by with a hunting knife and machete without paying for them.
Eden & Briana: Now here's another issue I have. Unfortunately, not one Walmart employee attempted to stop her nor contacted authorities to report the theft, even though she passed by at least six Walmart employees.
Eden & Briana: I was going to say, isn't there like a... Aren't there laws about buying a machete? Like buying a gun? Like you can buy ah shotgun...
Eden & Briana: and a rifle at what, 18? And 25 for i a handgun? Okay, my... 21. Yeah, so kids under the... In North Dakota, kids under the age of 18 cannot buy a knife with a blade longer than... Five inches?
Eden & Briana: Four, three, five, something. i don't know. just took my CCW too. Yeah, you should know. can't remember. But I would imagine that that would vary per state because that would probably be a state law.
Eden & Briana: And this is another reason of why we always say, if you see something, say something.
Eden & Briana: and i can't believe none of them reported it or tried contact contacting the authorities. It did not. They did not, and which floors me to no end.
Eden & Briana: Yeah. So,
Eden & Briana: after stealing her weapons, Eliza walked approximately a half a mile to the west, where she would be picked up by her third Uber driver.
Eden & Briana: However, other accounts say that she was picked up at the Walmart, but either way, it doesn Either way, wherever she was picked up doesn't change the outcome. 34-year-old Grant Nelson, who was also a waiter at a Northbrook restaurant, enjoyed dinner with his family before heading out to make extra cash being an Uber driver.
Eden & Briana: At 3.18 a.m., May 30, 2017, Grant, being just a few blocks from Eliza's location, would be the one to pick her up.
Eden & Briana: Now, Within two minutes of picking up Eliza, she took out her stolen weapons and began stabbing and slashing Grant from her black backseat location.
Eden & Briana: As you can imagine, completely Grant was completely taken off guard and he was restrained by his seatbelt, so he had zero chance to defend himself.
Eden & Briana: He managed to escape the car and reach an apartment building or a condo building, it's been referred to as both, where he would knock frantically saying, quote, help me, help me, I'm going to die, unquote.
Eden & Briana: Now, Eliza tried to flee in Grant's car, but she crashed the car into a media into a median and abandoned it with the engine still running and fled on foot.
Eden & Briana: As she was fleeing, she discarded her blood-soaked shirt on the ground. An ambulance arrived within minutes, finding Grant laying in a pool of his own blood with multiple deep wounds to his arms, side, head, and chest.
Eden & Briana: He was able to relay that his attacker was the girl who had been riding in his car, telling it permit a paramedic, quote, she came at me with a machete, unquote.
Eden & Briana: Grant was transported to St. Francis Hospital and went directly into emergency surgery.
Eden & Briana: While this was happening, police obviously began their search for the attacker. they From the building, they followed a blood trail, which led them out to where, you know, They could see Grant's car still crashed up against a medium media medium median barrier, and it was still running. And they did locate his phone laying on the floorboard with the Uber app still open showing his last passenger as someone named Eliza.
Eden & Briana: Another detective noticed movement at an office building across the road and on his way to investigate the source of the movement, he located the discarded with blood-soaked shirt laying on the ground and then spotted a young woman hiding behind an air conditioning unit and ordered her to come out.
Eden & Briana: She did come out and she was dressed only in a bra and leggings and she was completely covered in blood spatter. In her left hand, she clutched a blood-soaked hunting knife. Is it spatter or splatter?
Eden & Briana: Isn't it the same? Spatter, splatter? Well, shit, now I don't know. I don't know. Google it because now you're going to drive me nuts. Okay, keep going. Splatter or spatter?
Eden & Briana: Blood spatter, splatter. Isn't that word the same? um my gosh. I know. I thought I was up on my English language, but apparently I'm not.
Eden & Briana: Spatter versus splatter. Yeah. What is it? um Read it to me. Spatter and splatter are both words that describe the action of liquid spreading in drops, but splatter usually implies a larger or messier spread.
Eden & Briana: Okay. So we're going to, I use that wrong then. We're going to go with splatter for this one. All right, cool. So I wasn't wrong, but I wasn't right. I was in the middle.
Eden & Briana: In the middle. Okay, now in her left hand. In her left hand. she I'm not sure I like it when you're reading long on another device. I'm not reading ahead.
Eden & Briana: Okay. Plus it would have took you like five minutes to find your place. Shut up. That is the perks of getting old. we We get to do things like that.
Eden & Briana: Oh, okay. You'll get there someday. In her left hand, she clutched the blood-soaked hunting knife, and in her right hand was the blood-dripping machete. She was ordered to drop her weapons, but this stupid... She literally refused to drop her weapons. You've got a police officers right there, probably like... And she doesn't drop her weapons.
Eden & Briana: They have tasers, pepper spray, a loaded gun. Yeah. And you think you're going to do something with a hunting knife? Don't bring knife to gunfight. Exactly. exactly um Eventually, she had to be tased in order to be taken into custody. Good. For the safety of the police officers, I'm assuming.
Eden & Briana: Now... Back at St. Francis Hospital, despite the determined efforts of the emergency surgeons, Grant succumbed to his injuries ah about around the eight o'clock in the morning.
Eden & Briana: The vital blood vessels had been severed, resulting in just massive blood loss. They just, they tried, they did their best, but it just wasn't to be. And there goes my Frickin' frackin' frallawackin'. I thought I had the keyboard locked.
Eden & Briana: Just...
Eden & Briana: Where did I leave off? this Blood loss. Got it.
Eden & Briana: This would change her charge of assault and attempted murder to a first-degree murder charge. And although Eliza was a juvenile, defendants charged with first-degree murder are automatically tried as an adult. Ooh, I like that. I do too.
Eden & Briana: But there's there's one thing here in this next paragraph that I'm going to read, do not go ahead, that I don't like. And I will vent my rage about it.
Eden & Briana: Cook County Judge Michael Hood denied bond for the teenager, calling the killing a random act of violence. And she was sent to a juvenile facility to await her trial date.
Eden & Briana: Now, unfortunately, Illinois put an end to the death penalty in 2011, meaning the maximum penalty that she could serve for this brutal, unprovoked crime is life in prison.
Eden & Briana: And I hate this. This was unprovoked. It was a heinous murder. There was absolutely zero question as to who did it, making it the perfect death penalty case.
Eden & Briana: There was no motive for It was just a random act of violence. She never gives a motive. She never gives a statement. Well, she had absolutely never seen or laid eyes on Grant Nelson until he picked her up on that fateful middle of the night, early morning hours.
Eden & Briana: There was no reason for this whatsoever. I think it should have been a death penalty case. An eye for an eye. There was absolutely, I mean, nobody could come back 30 years later and say, oh, she didn't do it.
Eden & Briana: Bullshit. She did it. Period. Yep. I mean, she was covered in the man's blood. She did it. And it was unprovoked. yeah just I could 100% stand behind the execution of this piece of shit of a human.
Eden & Briana: Like I said, an eye for an eye. Instead, taxpayers will feed and house her for years on end. But before I go into a full blown tangent, I better get back to the rest of the case because there is more.
Eden & Briana: Eliza may very well face even more charges for her ill behavior in the juvenile detention center where she has been va involved in several disciplinary infarctions, including infarctions, including pushing, kicking and biting correction officers.
Eden & Briana: She smashed a bucket against a sink and tried to sneak off with one of the jagged, sharp pieces, but thankfully she was stopped. She has missed court appearances due to hospitalization after she suffered a concussion and other head injuries, and she showed up to court visibly bloody at one appearance where she had repeatedly bashed her head into a wall.
Eden & Briana: This woman needs help. She also... okay Why are you doing that? She also told other juvenile detainees.
Eden & Briana: She hoped to one day go on a killing spree and discussed how to dispose of body parts. Wow. Yeah.
Eden & Briana: To top it off, she used her own blood to write the word die on one of the walls of the correction center or detention center.
Eden & Briana: The assistant public defender filed a motion to keep Eliza at the juvenile center even after turning 18. But this motion was denied and she was transferred to Cook County Jail on her 18th birthday where she remained until her trial date.
Eden & Briana: And in August, 2020, Eliza pled guilty to the murder of Grant Nelson and was sentenced to 27 years in prison. She was also ordered to undergo continued mental health assessments and three years of mandatory mandatory supervision following her release.
Eden & Briana: She will only be 44 years old when she is released. I was just doing the math. I was like, she's not even going to be 50. Yep. So I find her sentence a disgrace. At 44, she will still be able to make a life for herself, which is more than Grant Nelson can do.
Eden & Briana: I didn't read to to see how the family felt about her sentencing. I have no clue. But to me, she should... Life in prison life and prisonability without the possibility of parole of parole because there is no death penalty.
Eden & Briana: If there was a death penalty, I would say execute her. Do not delay because she has 100% done the crime for no freaking reason. She took an asset of society out of society with her freaking heinous crime.
Eden & Briana: You know, I'm actually surprised that you didn't say that she pled you pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, she did not. That's crazy.
Eden & Briana: I know, right? So i I'm really, and and I will look for updates on her and her case and to see if any more information can be uncovered about her upbringing and all that.
Eden & Briana: But as of right now, I got nothing. So a civil lawsuit naming Allied Universal, Monterey Security, Universal Protection, Walmart, Uber, and Chicago Behavioral Hospital is pending after a judge denied motions to dismiss the lawsuit.
Eden & Briana: So I will be looking for the outcome and will give an update at some point because I'm almost willing to bet that the information is not out there maybe because of some of this civil lawsuit, I am almost positive over the next few years or how many ever years, we will get more information.
Eden & Briana: Now, I would like to end this episode talking about Grant Nelson. He was a 2001 high school graduate gra graduate who went on to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Eden & Briana: And I will tell you about him by quoting his sister, Alex Nelson, who said, quote, Grant was an extraordinary figure in our lives He was a gentle soul.
Eden & Briana: He was a good man. He was a wonderful lover of animals, classical music, opera, military history, just a wide variety and wide breadth of interests.
Eden & Briana: The loss of intelligence and conversation and nuance and thoughtfulness that he brought into all of our lives is going to be felt and it will reverberate with us throughout the coming weeks and months and years.
Eden & Briana: It's not a hole that can be easily filled, unquote. Now, before we jump into talking about this, I'm going to say that my sources for this episode included the New Zealand Herald, Killer Kids, Murder data by the murder Database, Facebook, and My Crime Library.
Eden & Briana: So that is the end of my case. If you don't want to listen to us discuss it a little further, you can exit and we will see you next week. Thoughts and feelings, Brianna?
Eden & Briana: For one, oh there's just so much information that is missing, but I want to know what her upbringing was like. If she had father figure issues.
Eden & Briana: Correct. If there were ah like influence, bad influences like drugs, alcohol.
Eden & Briana: that sort of thing. I want to know if that plays a part. I want to know why she stopped taking her meds. If she did, that was hearsay. If that if that's what it was. yeah Or if she was taking them,
Eden & Briana: um like why weren't they trying other medications? Maybe it was in a period of trial, I don't know.
Eden & Briana: But that sounds like that girl needs a lot of help. And it's super sad that Grant had to lose his life
Eden & Briana: because of her insanity. And it blows my mind she didn't plead, not guilty, plead. Plead? Plead? Plead?
Eden & Briana: Plead. Plead not guilty by reason of insanity. i I think it was a plea agreement. I don't think there was an actual trial.
Eden & Briana: I think. Oh yeah, because it said yeah, that's fucked. I want to know
Eden & Briana: I want to know more about her life for sure.
Eden & Briana: Yeah. I'd like to know more about Grant, too. but Like, obviously, his sister said wonderful things about him, but I want to know more. i do, too. He sounds like a hardworking man.
Eden & Briana: Yeah, that that... Was just trying to provide for his family. I don't even... He didn't even have a family. He was single, I think. I don't know if he had a... No, he lived... you You said he ate dinner with his family and then... His family being his mom and dad. Oh, okay. oh Yeah.
Eden & Briana: So, yeah. And he was only 34 years old. I mean, he was probably dating, but he hadn't. um I think he was still living at home, but he was he was doing it. He was out there doing what he wanted to do. And I. Yeah, I'd like to have more information on him also.
Eden & Briana: Wow. I don't know. It was just it's just so frustrating. The whole thing. i almost didn't do it because of the lack of information, but I thought, no, no Because this is just a random act of violence.
Eden & Briana: There was... She did not give a motive for this whatsoever. um just wish, like...
Eden & Briana: People that deserve... The people that are on death row... And should be on death row... Take them out back.
Eden & Briana: Get it done. Get it done so... Our taxes... Can go to... other things oh yeah like more supplies in the jails and the prisons because a lot of them don't have the budget for like things they actually need yeah i don't know too much about that i think that anybody that's in jail and deserves to be in jail should have nothing but the bare minimum yes but like they don't need the internet they don't need the film on television they don't need none of that they're in there for goddamn reason
Eden & Briana: The women need pads. like but Sanitary items. and Yeah, I get the necessities. yeah But why should they be allowed to have internet? Why should they have access to television?
Eden & Briana: Why any of those things? Those are privileges. When you go to jail, you should have zero privileges. You should all be solitary, pretty much. Oh, sure gosh. Yeah, I can't.
Eden & Briana: I think as a freaking whole... This whole world is going soft. Yeah. Like we used to... Cattle wrestlers, you...
Eden & Briana: steal somebody's cattle, they're going to take you out bat hurt out in the front and put you on display at the hangman's shop there. And they're going to watch you hang. And it's going to happen immediately.
Eden & Briana: And it they write on your headstone, I hereby lay here because blah, blah, blah. stole cattle. Exactly. Exactly. and we put to that And now everybody thinks that it's inhumane for that. No, it really.
Eden & Briana: If you think about what they did to get in jail in the first place, it's humane. Grant Nelson was innocent out making a buck. Yeah. Making a freaking buck. an innocent man just doing his job when this piece of shit no decided that he was going to be taken out. you I don't know.
Eden & Briana: that You guys, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. And you can do so by emailing us at minersonfmayhem at gmail.com. You can find us on Facebook. Just type in the search bar, Miners of Mayhem.
Eden & Briana: Make sure you click that follow button. That shit burns. Girl. Make sure you hit that follow button. We try to post photos of the perpetrators and the victims.
Eden & Briana: um Which I will do. Yeah. And... you just want to bullshit, if you need to vent, if you need ah lending ear, we are here for you.
Eden & Briana: We can always help you get the help you are searching for. We can point you in the right direction. Correct. um And there's no shame in admitting that you are struggling with your mental health.
Eden & Briana: If you see something... Say something. Oh my God. There's a gremlin in house, guys. Gremlin in house. Thank you so much for your continued support. We love you guys so freaking much. And we are just astounded that y'all stick around be through our shit. But I love you bitches.
Eden & Briana: Love you bitches so much. And we will see you next week. Bye.
