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Episode 59: Jacob Larosa
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Jacob had quite the record before the age of 14 including throwing a glass mason jar at his 7 year old sister, theft, throwing rocks at cars and probation violations. One day he came home in his socks and underwear drunk and covered in blood. His story isn't even close to the truth. Take a listen & please excuse the shit show of the extro.
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Transcript
Exhaustion from Travel
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Eden & Briana
What's up, bitches? Think anybody heard that? Probably not. please We'll see.
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Eden & Briana
What's up? What's up with you? look tired. Yeah, I guess you could say that. I might be a little tired too. so kind of been a long day.
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Eden & Briana
Has been. We left the state and came back again. dead We did. We did. Now I'm tired.
Awareness Topics in April
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Eden & Briana
so So, guess what I got?
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Eden & Briana
What? Oh, welcome back to Miner's Mayhem. Did you say that? No. Oh. It's yours. I just did. It's all good now. So guess what I got? What?
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Eden & Briana
A few April awarenesses. Wow. Look at us go. Yes. So, awarenesses for April include Stress Awareness Month.
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Eden & Briana
Amen. ah Earth Month. Oh, love that. i do too. Autism Acceptance Month. Huh? Autism Acceptance Month.
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Eden & Briana
Are there people that are like, have phobias against autism? I don't know.
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Eden & Briana
I don't know. What the hell? I don't know. i don't know exactly what that means. I mean, we can Google it and see. Yeah. i umm Not for a second. But anyway.
MMA Fighter Sentencing
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Eden & Briana
Yeah. And then we have Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
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Eden & Briana
Very nice. Very nice. What do you got for True Crime News? Oh, you're going to hate me. Oh, fudge packer. So. Wait, can I say that?
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Eden & Briana
Say whatever you want. It's our podcast. Okay. Well. Okay. Okay. So in true crime news.
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Eden & Briana
A former MMA cage fighter, Robert Buskey Jr. was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for the 2024 starvation death of his five-year-old daughter. Oh, oh my.
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Eden & Briana
how well do you want some more? Yes. Okay. First responders were called to follow a report up on a and an unknown on anne unresponsive child. Upon arrival to the home, they found the body of five-year-old Charlotte Buskey inside a portable crib in a locked bedroom.
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Eden & Briana
The home was described as being in deplorable condition. The kitchen was stocked with food, but the girl was emaciated and had no traces of food in her system.
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Eden & Briana
her three-year-old brother was found in a makeshift cage in the living room. According to prosecutor robert according to prosecutors, excuse me Robert kept the children locked up so he could play video games and do drugs without being interrupted.
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Eden & Briana
Both children tested positive for cocaine. For more information on this and other true crime news, you can visit truecrimenews.com. Okay. I see ya. You're waiting. You're biting your tongue. I see it.
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Eden & Briana
So you mean to tell me this guy is probably sitting well with money, correct? Well, he he was an MMA cage fighter, you would think? Okay. Well, I don't know. Maybe he didn't do so well. I don't know.
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Eden & Briana
um
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Eden & Briana
But if he can afford cocaine, um you think you could... ah Hire a nanny to take care of the kids, maybe? Or here, how about, if we're not going to take care of them, let's give them up for adoption.
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Eden & Briana
Right? Let's not lock them in makeshift cages. They're not fucking animals. Excuse my language, Brad. But damn. Right? Are you effing kidding me? No.
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Eden & Briana
No. That's... disgusting I want to say that she where was the mom don't quote me that did not say anything about the mom so if I mean I'm sure there's way more that could be found but um I want to say that her weight at five years old was 30 pounds
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Eden & Briana
was the The boy okay?
Introducing Jacob LaRosa
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Eden & Briana
Yeah, he was taken. I mean, I... Could you imagine? No, no, no, nope no, no. Sure can't because that doesn't happen overnight. That takes months and months.
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Eden & Briana
No, no, I can't imagine. It makes me ill. And I don't understand. Yeah, that's a whole subject, but...
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Eden & Briana
Yeah.
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Eden & Briana
Oh, he's gonna love prison. I hope they give... I hope those inmates... They don't... talk They don't do well They do not do well with... Crimes against children.
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Eden & Briana
Correct.
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Eden & Briana
He might be some... What He might be somebody's bitch.
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Eden & Briana
Yeah. Yeah.
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Eden & Briana
karma has a way of coming back yes it does just look at dommer well and and too like it makes you wonder not only the cocaine messing up his brain But MMA is a very, like... Violent violent sport.
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Eden & Briana
How many times did he get... Kicked in the head? Kicked, punched, body slammed onto the head. i don't know the rules of MMA. Don't know. It would be very interesting to go digging.
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Eden & Briana
Yeah. No shite. I mean, i just I just can't understand the... i Yeah, I don't understand. Why even procreate?
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Eden & Briana
I mean... yeah and that does make me wonder, where was mom? And it makes you wonder, like,
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Eden & Briana
if you know at a certain age that you don't want kids, go take care of it. So this doesn't happen. Right. Right. But I do want to know what happened to mom and like why which why she wasn't in the picture. i am sure we can dig and dig and find out.
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Eden & Briana
Yep. I'm going to do that after after this. I know. Okay. oh Poor babies. Okay. Yeah. Well, hopefully that three-year-old.
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Eden & Briana
I mean, at his age, hopefully he will not recall any of it. A person could only pray. Yeah.
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Eden & Briana
And what about, like, his family members? I don't know. Isn't that... ah Okay. I gotta to go digging.
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Eden & Briana
I know, because we don't know the whole... My skin is, like, itching. We don't know the whole thing. I mean, we don't even know how... ah who called the first responders for an unresponsive child, you know? Right. i This is just the gist of the story. huh Probably somebody who went there to do cocaine. who i well Well, she was in a locked room. i and Oh, we yeah.
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Eden & Briana
I don't know. Anyways. Anyways. So I have a case that you're also not going to like and neither are our listeners but her story deserves to be told and it's going to be told and this little bastard um yeah there's that oh well i guess freaking lay it on me okay jacob la rosa was born july 1999
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Eden & Briana
When Jacob was about the age of four, his mom, Megan, married Randall... I'm gonna... Lucer... Lucer... Lucer... Lucer there we go sorry i did i just did not do good there and they lived in niles ohio his biological father edward lived in youngstown which according to google is approximately only twelve miles from niles okay but Jacob and his father's relationship was reported as being very poor.
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Eden & Briana
okay. Yeah. So. Off to a wonderful start. Off to a great start. By the time Jacob was eight years old, he showed significant developmental difficulties.
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Eden & Briana
He had like an extremely low IQ measurement at 64 feet. And just for a reference, the average IQ of an eight-year-old is between 90 to 109 with a low normal of 85. And he was 64.
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Eden & Briana
So at this point, he did begin receiving counseling. And by the age of nine, he was officially diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, opposition oppositional defiant disorder,
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Eden & Briana
and additional mood and behavior disorders. okay So they they went ahead and they placed him in special education classes, like in the first grade, due to severe difficulties retaining information.
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Eden & Briana
Like he just couldn't keep a hold of any of it. Which coincides with ADD. Yeah. and by the age of 14, Jacob had already racked up quite the juvenile record.
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Eden & Briana
To include throwing a mason jar at a seven-year-old little sister, hitting her in the eye area requiring 18 stitches to repair. Oh! Shoplifting, breaking into cars. At age nine, you said? by by By the age of 14. Oh, by the age of 14. Yep. Okay.
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Eden & Briana
And throwing rocks at cars. And while he was serving time in a juvenile detention center, he threatened violence against another resident.
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Eden & Briana
He used another resident's computer to send sexually explicit emails to a teacher, and he was caught masturbating while looking at images of women.
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Eden & Briana
His mother had to file multiple missing person reports for running away and leaving while on house arrest, with his mother reportedly stating, quote, he comes and goes as he pleases, unquote.
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Eden & Briana
Doors were being locked at night to prevent Jacob from stealing their personal items, and apparently Randall slept with a gun under his pillow in fear of Jacob's violence. I'm going to take little break for a second. Any questions?
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Eden & Briana
I'm sorry, but if you feel the need to sleep with a gun... under your pillow because of a 14 year old's violent tendencies maybe that would have been a good time to consider ah like a psyche valve and mental institution for a while some rehab some something yeah some good meds
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Eden & Briana
Under a doctor's orders. And like professional staff supervision. Just saying.
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Eden & Briana
But we don't know the whole situation, so there's that. But but yes. I mean, to go to the extent of sleeping with a gun. Yeah, that's an issue.
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Eden & Briana
Because of, not because you live in ah a bad neighborhood or There was a recent break in your step kid. ever Because. OK. I just have a feeling all of this could have been prevented.
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Eden & Briana
But since we're here, it wasn't. So. Right. I guess this is going to be maybe a lesson. Right. These things stress me out. i know.
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Eden & Briana
Well, this isn't going to be any better. So.
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Eden & Briana
Especially when I pull up pictures. Oh, no, I ain't looking. You can't pay me. I could sit on you. You weigh what, 80 pounds? I could easily lift you off me. i don't think so. Your mom is getting junkier.
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Eden & Briana
so Oh, I'm sorry, 85. Oh, piss off.
Details of LaRosa's Crime
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Eden & Briana
So here we go. On the evening of March 31st, 2015, 15-year-old Jacob LaRosa showed up at home covered in blood, wearing only his socks and underwear.
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Eden & Briana
He was really having a hard time talking, and his words were quite slurred. And his simple explanation to his family was that a group of teens jumped him, they had beaten him, and poured alcohol down his throat.
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Eden & Briana
Now, as I said earlier, this kid was no stranger to trouble. In fact, just that very morning, he had been released from a juvenile detention center for a probation violation.
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Eden & Briana
Unfortunately, Jacob's mom often justified his actions instead of holding him accountable. Oh, fudge, Packer, okay. Okay. okay Now that's all I found about that. Like, I didn't find any situations to put it in perspective, but this was in multiple resources that I used that that was in there.
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Eden & Briana
I believe on one of the court documents that was on there, I mean it's got to be hard. Yeah, I'm sure. I mean, with all... i I know this is a completely different thing, but, like, I was in denial about my son for the longest time.
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Eden & Briana
And even though I was in denial, like, I was still putting him in bubble wrap. Yep. Protecting him. Like, oh, no, he can't he can't go outside when it's less than 70 degrees or if it's over. I was very particular...
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Eden & Briana
may overprotective yeah yep you even sneeze you wouldn't let me in the house pretty much yeah
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Eden & Briana
huh okay uh so it's gotta be hard oh i couldn't imagine i could not imagine But then, denial, grief. I don't know. All that stuff.
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Eden & Briana
I don't know. I don't know because I haven't walked in her shoes, I guess. I know. And sometimes media and sometimes things can misconstrue things. Yes. And you do want to protect your child pretty much at all costs. Yeah, you love them. They're your children. Well, yeah. It's hard.
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Eden & Briana
It's hard. No judgment. No. No. So obviously after hearing Jacob's story and his bloody half-naked appearance, his mom did call 911. Officers and EMTs arrived at the house where they find Jacob clearly drunk and covered in blood.
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Eden & Briana
He repeated the story that he'd been jumped by a gang of teens who had beaten him and poured alcohol down his throat, but this time he added that they had a gun and one of them put the gun to his head and made him drink alcohol straight from the bottle.
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Eden & Briana
Okay. his story is already changing. So after, you know, just doing and the initial look over and checking his vitals and stuff, he was deemed stable for transport to the hospital.
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Eden & Briana
An officer walked to his car to follow the ambulance to the hospital so he could get a formal statement from Jacob. But before he could leave, a woman from across the street waved him down.
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Eden & Briana
Need a drink? Need a breath? Need a something? No. I guess just keep going. I don't wanna. She explained that she had just arrived to visit her mother, 94-year-old Marie Belcastro.
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Eden & Briana
But when she entered the house, she found the living room complete disaster with blood everywhere. And when she called out to her mother and didn't get a response, she was afraid that she may be seriously injured but found herself afraid to go into the house any further.
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Eden & Briana
The officer told her to wait outside and he would check the house. He immediately knew something was seriously wrong. There was pools of blood on the floor. There was blood soaked into the couch. And there was blood on the walls and on like a lamp.
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Eden & Briana
There was also a pair of sweatpants and women's underwear laying on the floor along with a purse and its contents dumped out.
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Eden & Briana
He followed a trail of blood down a hallway
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Eden & Briana
that led to the master bedroom where Marie lay in a fetal position on her bed. She was naked from the waist down and she had terrible, terrible head trauma.
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Eden & Briana
Unfortunately, Marie's daughter did not remain outside and saw her mother in that condition. oh I can't even pretend to imagine what she felt. Just the the sheer trauma of seeing a loved one in that condition is just not something anyone should have to endure.
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Eden & Briana
any Anyone. No, absolutely not. But, you know, they they lived. Who would have thought something like that, though? I would have thought, yeah, maybe she fell and hit her head.
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Eden & Briana
And maybe she was afraid to find how hurt she was. Who is thinking
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Eden & Briana
ah what I'm about to finish telling you?
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Eden & Briana
It's a nice community. i don't think things like that happen there. So anyway.
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Eden & Briana
Hmm. So back at the hospital, doctors couldn't find not one scratch on Jacob. So whoever's blood was all over him, it certainly was not his.
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Eden & Briana
The only thing wrong with Jacob was his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit.
Trial and Sentencing of LaRosa
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Eden & Briana
Ooh.
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Eden & Briana
Instructions to not let Jacob leave were sent to the hospital. A forensic team and detectives were sent to the hospital where they collected his clothing and all the items the hospital staff had used to clean him off with.
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Eden & Briana
And several swabs were also taken, which contained material matching Marie's DNA.
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Eden & Briana
So, further evidence was collected at the crime scene. Detectives figured that Jacob had broken into the house through a side door. He found Marie in the living room and immediately struck her with a mag light,
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Eden & Briana
Now, just in case and everyone's not familiar with a mag light, it's like a really heavy duty metal flashlight. They're not the cheap little chintzy plastic ones.
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Eden & Briana
Don't they usually use that in like correctional? Say that one? I'm sorry, what? Is that the type of ones they use in like corrections? um
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Eden & Briana
it's It's like that. Yeah. Yeah. Probably the same material. Heavy duty. Yeah, heavy duty. You said duty. Duty. So Marie was a very tiny lady. She was only four feet eight inches in height. Oh my God, just tiny. And she only weighed 85 pounds.
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Eden & Briana
oh so Not your size. Let's not give in the. Well, she's a little bit taller than me or shorter than me, though. Not by much. Shut up.
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Eden & Briana
Don't even go there. But could you I mean, i just.
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Eden & Briana
Let's take it. Let's not even take into fact how tiny she is. I don't care how healthy you are at 94. You're still 94 years
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Eden & Briana
And imagine living up till 94. No. when we talk about her, you're going to just cry. and
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Eden & Briana
that's the way you go out? No, no. and i'm sure her I'm sure her poor daughters think about that all the time. i hope. oh I think. Okay.
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Eden & Briana
You know, let's get back to it. I don't want to talk about it anymore. So.
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Eden & Briana
The attack on Marie was beyond her horrific. Her skull was so fractured that the ME could not with 100% certainty determine how many times she'd been struck.
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Eden & Briana
The top of her skull was crushed into splinters, both of her eyes were ruptured, and her hearing aid had been crushed inside her ear canal and parts of her brain were visible.
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Eden & Briana
Jacob then undressed Marie from the waist down and drug her down the hallway to the master bedroom where he tried to rape the still alive Marie.
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Eden & Briana
He then made his way through the house looking for valuables to steal. So was he unsuccessful with the rape? it's ah it From what I gathered, yes, it was unsuccessful.
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Eden & Briana
But...
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Eden & Briana
The only saving grace here is she had to be unconscious.
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Eden & Briana
Yeah. so he then made his way through the house looking for valuables to steal. And when he got to the basement, he found several bottles of alcohol and he drank them.
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Eden & Briana
When he was good and drunk, he made his way home. So he did this sober. Yep. He didn't get drunk till after. Jacob was arrested and charged with aggravated burglary.
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Eden & Briana
aggravated robbery, attempted rape, so he was not successful, and aggravated murder. And at the age of 15, Jacob was to be tried and as an adult.
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Eden & Briana
Now, while in juvenile detention awaiting his trial, Jacob loved to brag about his crime and that he had, quote, seen the old lady's brains, unquote,
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Eden & Briana
and that his plan had been to hide her body so that he could come back and abuse her later. Quote, I was saving her for later, unquote, he would say.
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Eden & Briana
So,
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Eden & Briana
does it say or did it say anywhere from the attempted rape to when she passed? No, it did not.
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Eden & Briana
I'm... I must... Her skull and stuff was so fractured. Yeah, but when you said he drug her to the... She was still breathing. she was still...
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Eden & Briana
It doesn't mean she was there. Right. Yeah. eight Right. Marie's autopsy showed cause of death as blunt cranial cerebral trauma.
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Eden & Briana
Her face was, quote, basically crushed, unquote. The skull fractured to such a degree that the number of blows blows was unable to be determined. Her eyes were ruptured inside her head.
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Eden & Briana
Her hearing aid was shattered and was compacted deep in her ear canal. Brain matter and skull fragment fragments were visible and her injuries were compared to that of a fatal high impact car accident.
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Eden & Briana
As in, you're going normal speed, you go head on with a standing still object.
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Eden & Briana
Jacob was brought to trial in February of 2018. He pled, quote, no contest, unquote, meaning... He accepts conviction and sentencing without formally admitting guilt.
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Eden & Briana
The judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. However, the Ohio appeals court reversed the sentence, reducing it to 25 to life. Are you effing kidding i am not kidding you. I don't, I don't know.
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Eden & Briana
I don't know. But I'm pretty sure there's...
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Eden & Briana
Does it have something to do with it's not ethical to sentence a minor to life in prison without the possibility? But look what he did in his history. I know.
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Eden & Briana
i know. There is a possibility that he could get out in 2040. forty And the only thing that this did was now the family is going to have to relive this every time that fucker comes up for parole.
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Eden & Briana
His family, Marie's family is going to have to go through this every fucking time that that little monster is up for parole.
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Eden & Briana
And I cannot believe who in their right mind... I would read this case over. oh he doesn't deserve life without parole.
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Eden & Briana
We're going to drop it down 25 to life. I'm sure that's not it. And I think i probably has something to do with that stoop with that law that says life in prison without parole is not and humane for minors or whatever, whatever that law was.
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Eden & Briana
I'm not 100% sure that's what it was about, but.
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Eden & Briana
So. it's just it's It's, in my opinion,
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Eden & Briana
and we've said this numerous times, now if this was Cody Posey.
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Eden & Briana
Totally different story. Yep. He doesn't deserve
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Eden & Briana
life in prison without parole.
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Eden & Briana
He was saving his own damn life. There's just, it's the wrong way, but I feel like there's a line. And this guy is way past that line.
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Eden & Briana
Yep. And I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the plea that he gave. I don't know. The no contest. I don't know. i mean, we could probably dig and find out, but he's a monster anyway. And that, that just the idea that he has a chance to get out is, is terrifying to tell you the truth and putting Marie's daughters and grandchildren and great grandchildren
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Eden & Briana
through having to go through parole hearings and relive that shit. I think I've said this like four times already because that is just disgusting. Disgusting.
Remembering the Victim
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Eden & Briana
So Marie was a 94 year old widow living alone in Niles, Ohio. Her husband, Fred died in 1989. So she'd been alone for a while.
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Eden & Briana
She worked, um She worked an electric company. I don't know exactly what she did, but she also worked as a school bus driver and an aide.
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Eden & Briana
I'm 94 years old. Well, I don't know. She had worked. She had. That'd be so cool. She enjoyed plants, cards, and time with family.
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Eden & Briana
Who does that remind you of? Just wait. It it gets better. Marie was remembered as an energetic woman known for her humor and loving nature.
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Eden & Briana
Marie loved fly fishing, which she learned on her 90th birthday.
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Eden & Briana
and she loved it. She go-getter. Yes, and just cute bug's ear. She left behind two daughters, several grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
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Eden & Briana
Our hearts go out to her family, and I pray that Jacob LaRosa never in his lifetime sees the outside of a prison. Ever. Ditto. And that's it.
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Eden & Briana
Okay, good, because my blood is boiling and...
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Eden & Briana
I know, right?
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Eden & Briana
Wait till I show you the pictures.
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Eden & Briana
So, yeah, if you have.
Engagement with Listeners
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Eden & Briana
questions, comments, concerns, case recommendations, anything, literally, if you just want to say hi or say a bad word or vent, whatever the case may be, you can email us at minorsofmayhem at gmail.com. You can find us on Facebook and send us a message on there. Just type in minors of mayhem in the search bar and we should pop up.
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Eden & Briana
Um, We love you and stay safe out there. stay safe. And see you next time. Don't lock your children in makeshift cages.
00:32:54
Eden & Briana
Geez. Way to round that up, Bree. Well, for Pete, i'm i know I'm telling you my blood is boiling right now. I got to get out of here. Okay. Goodbye. bye guys.
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Eden & Briana
Goodbye.
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Eden & Briana
She hit the wrong button. Sorry, guys. That was the wrong extra. Here your extra. Goodbye.
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Eden & Briana
Play.