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necessary. Over Hello,

1:01

campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around

1:03

the true crime campfire. We're your

1:05

camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney.

1:08

And we're here to tell you a true

1:10

story that is way stranger than fiction. We're

1:12

roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime

1:14

campfire. Patricia

1:22

Highsmith's novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, follows

1:24

a young man named Tom, whose deep-seated

1:26

jealousy and ambition leads him down a

1:29

very dark path. He

1:31

wants the jet-set lifestyle his trust-fund friends are

1:33

living, and he sets out to get it

1:35

using his intelligence and skill at deception. Tom

1:38

Ripley is a pretty realistic depiction of

1:40

a psychopath. To get

1:42

close to the wealthy people he unves, he

1:44

puts on a convincing mask of helpful friendliness.

1:47

But underneath, he's scheming with every breath,

1:50

biding his time. And

1:52

no one is safe around him. Join

1:54

us for the story of a real-life Mr. Ripley,

1:56

a man who was good at being charming, but

1:59

bad at being bad. being good. A man

2:01

who left one person dead, one heartbroken

2:03

and defrauded, and a pretty little town

2:05

in shock. This is the

2:08

talented Mr. Field, murder in

2:10

an English village. So

2:24

campers, for this one we're in the

2:26

pretty little English village of Maids Morreton

2:28

in Buckinghamshire, October 2015. It

2:32

was bright and early in the morning

2:34

when a cleaner arrived to tidy up

2:36

the house of 69-year-old university lecturer and

2:39

novelist Peter Farquhar and found him unresponsive

2:41

on the couch. The house

2:43

cleaner ran to call 999, the British

2:45

version of 911. The

2:47

dispatcher got an ambulance on the way

2:50

and the cleaner's next call was to

2:52

Peter's 25-year-old lodger slash roommate, Ben Field.

2:55

Within a few minutes of her call, Ben showed up.

2:58

He got there even before the paramedics, in

3:00

fact, and when they arrived, Ben took charge,

3:03

explaining that Peter had been sick a lot lately. He

3:06

had a serious alcohol problem, Ben told

3:08

them. And in fact, when

3:10

the paramedics went in to check on Peter Farquhar,

3:12

they found a mostly empty bottle of whiskey on

3:14

the table next to him and a glass knocked

3:16

over on the floor. It was

3:19

immediately obvious that the older man was dead.

3:21

Poor guy. It certainly wasn't the

3:23

first time the EMTs had come upon a

3:26

scene like this. People drank themselves to death

3:28

way too often. It was

3:30

sad, but not unusual. A talk

3:32

screen would show that Peter's blood alcohol level

3:34

was three times the legal limit for driving

3:37

at the time of his death. The

3:39

coroner ruled that he'd most likely died

3:41

of alcohol poisoning. So

3:44

for the first responders, it was a quick scene

3:46

to wrap up. A 69-year-old

3:48

man in poor health, nothing suspicious

3:51

there. And if Peter's

3:53

friend, Ben's reaction seemed strange. Peter's brother

3:55

later said that he seemed completely casual

3:57

as if Peter's death was a lie.

4:00

was no more momentous than a parking ticket.

4:02

Well, people react differently to grief,

4:04

right? Even as close

4:07

as Ben and Peter were, sometimes there's a

4:09

delayed reaction. And a

4:11

few days later at Peter Fauqure's funeral

4:13

at his beloved local church, Benfield gave

4:15

the eulogy. The church was

4:18

standing room only if you could get in at all.

4:20

Peter had been much loved and respected

4:22

in life by friends and colleagues and

4:25

students, and hundreds of people showed up

4:27

to pay their respects. Some

4:29

of them had the feeling, listening to Ben's

4:31

eulogy, that there was something slightly off

4:33

about it. It was

4:36

very clever, funny at times, lots of

4:38

wordplay, but it seemed to be missing

4:40

any genuine grief. It didn't

4:42

really seem to be about Peter at all.

4:45

It was more a showcase of Ben's

4:47

literary abilities. But that

4:49

was kind of typical for Ben. He was

4:51

an intellectual young guy. He

4:53

taught undergrad lit classes at the university, and he

4:56

was studying to be a vicar. Even

4:58

giving Benny boy the full Benny of

5:00

the D, I don't think

5:02

it's a good idea to use your friend's

5:05

funeral to practice your monologuing skills. Just a

5:07

tip for the awkward, but well-meaning campers out

5:09

there. Probably not. Ben

5:13

had been part of Peter's life for several years

5:15

by now. They'd met when Ben

5:17

was a graduate student in one of Peter's

5:19

literature courses at Buckingham University. They

5:22

bonded over their mutual love of books and

5:24

poetry, became friends outside of

5:27

school, and their relationship grew into

5:29

something more than friendship. Ben

5:32

took a room in Peter's house. And

5:34

then finally, in 2014, a

5:37

vicar performed an emotional private betrothal

5:39

ceremony for them. People

5:41

close to Peter knew that he'd always known

5:44

he was gay, but he struggled with it,

5:46

as most gay people in his generation did,

5:48

especially the ones who were devout Christians like

5:51

Peter. Sadly, he always

5:53

felt like he couldn't allow himself to

5:55

act on his sexual orientation, which had pretty

5:57

much doomed him to loneliness. until

6:00

Ben Field came along, that is. To

6:02

Peter, Ben was just too good to be true,

6:05

too good to resist. But

6:08

the good times were peppered with bad. Peter's

6:10

health had been declining rapidly over the past

6:13

few years. There had been

6:15

some embarrassing incidents where Peter had shown up

6:17

in public, barely able to stand up straight.

6:20

Ben confided that Peter was drinking,

6:22

a lot. He was worried about

6:24

him. And Peter was worried

6:26

about himself. He told

6:28

close friends he was starting to

6:30

forget things, even hallucinating sometimes. He

6:33

was afraid it was dementia. His

6:35

friends were grateful that Ben was there to look after

6:37

him. Most people thought highly of

6:40

Ben and saw that despite the age difference, he

6:42

really cared about Peter and took good care of

6:44

him. So in the summer

6:46

of 2016, when Ben inherited a

6:48

huge chunk of Peter's estate, people

6:50

figured that was understandable. Ben

6:53

got 20,000 pounds plus half the value

6:55

of Peter's house, altogether about

6:57

160K. Pretty

7:00

major for a guy in his 20s. He

7:02

used about 100K to buy himself an apartment.

7:05

Ben was moving on. But

7:08

there were doubts in the back of some people's

7:10

minds. Peter's brother Ian and

7:12

his wife especially. It was

7:15

nothing you could prove, nothing you could pinpoint well

7:17

enough to even say out loud really, but it

7:19

was there, like a tiny speck of grit

7:21

in the corner of your eye. Ian

7:24

was vaguely troubled about his brother's death and

7:27

about Ben Field. But

7:29

life went on the way life does and Peter's

7:32

loved ones mourned him and tried to get back

7:34

to some semblance of normalcy. What

7:36

nobody knew was that after collecting his

7:38

inheritance money, Ben Field had quickly moved

7:41

on to a new relationship with another

7:43

elderly citizen of Maids Morton, a woman

7:46

in her early 80s named Anne

7:48

Moore Martin. Anne

7:50

lived just a few doors down from Peter. In

7:52

fact, Peter's the one who introduced them. A

7:55

few doors down, their houses were

7:57

literally like spitting distance from each other,

7:59

just that. absolute arrogance of

8:01

that floors me. Yeah,

8:03

if it sounds like we're a little peeved with Ben,

8:06

you're right and soon you will be too. Like,

8:10

yeah. Like Peter,

8:12

Ann was a retired educator.

8:15

Ann was lonely living by herself in her big

8:17

house. She'd been really close to

8:19

her mom but her mom died and Ann didn't

8:21

have any children of her own though she was

8:23

close with her niece Ann Marie. So

8:26

imagine what it must have been like for this

8:28

80-something year old woman when Benfield, this handsome man

8:30

in his 20s, started coming

8:32

around like a love-struck suitor,

8:34

showering her with attention and

8:36

affection. One of the first things he did was

8:38

talk her into watching the 1971 movie

8:40

Harold and Maude, a rom-com about a young

8:42

man who falls in love with a 79-year-old

8:45

woman. Talk about priming the

8:47

pump. Yeah, and that's

8:49

a great movie, don't get me wrong, but like

8:51

there's a real obvious reason why he's wanting her

8:53

to watch it. He

8:56

also wrote her poems. He referred to the two

8:58

of them as the owl and the pussycat, a

9:00

joke on what an odd couple they were. They

9:04

bonded over their Christian faith just like

9:07

he and Peter had, having long conversations

9:09

about God, and he came on

9:11

to her sexually acting like he was just dying to get

9:13

in her pants. In one love

9:15

letter Ben wrote, Let's decide, I

9:17

love you very deeply. It was

9:20

more than Ann could resist. She was

9:23

like a giggling schoolgirl about Ben, according

9:25

to Reneece. She was smitten with him.

9:28

He was making her feel alive. Ann's

9:30

sister-in-law Jillian later told criminologist

9:32

author David Wilson she

9:35

said she loved him. They would sit together on the

9:37

sofa and he would put his arm around her and

9:39

fluff his eyelashes down her cheek. Butterfly

9:45

kisses in

9:48

public, in mixed company. Like

9:53

PDA is bad enough. Like I think PDA

9:55

is just fucking gross, but

9:58

butterfly kisses? Are you?

10:00

Yeah, that's rough. No, thank you. No.

10:06

He was really laying it on thick. He

10:08

drew her pictures of flowers, too, and stuck pictures

10:10

of himself all over her house, including a big

10:12

one in a frame that said, I

10:15

am always with you. And

10:17

put it in a place of honor on her mantle,

10:19

which is like deeply ominous, even if

10:22

he wasn't a total fucking creep in the first

10:24

place. Like

10:26

it goes back to the the knowing

10:28

the words, but not the music. Yeah.

10:32

If somebody said, I'm going to loom

10:34

over you constantly from your mantle piece,

10:37

I am always with you. Yeah, it's almost a

10:39

little bit hostile in a way, but that, of course,

10:41

is not how I end up. If somebody if somebody

10:43

said that to me, no matter what my relationship with

10:45

them, I'd be like, whoa, back up.

10:48

But, you know, every breath you

10:50

take. Doo, doo, doo, doo,

10:53

doo, doo. Oh, it

10:56

didn't take long for things to get sexual despite Anne

10:58

being 56 years older than Ben. At

11:01

one point, he bought her a sex toy. He

11:03

took pictures of Anne during their sexual

11:05

encounters, whether for his own gratification or

11:08

as potential blackmail material. I don't know.

11:10

Maybe both. My

11:12

God, imagine how an 83 year old English

11:14

woman would react to a blackmail threat like

11:17

that. And I don't think he ever actually

11:19

threatened her with that. Like, I think he

11:21

just kept it as insurance just in case

11:23

because that's how this little fucker works. Like

11:26

if his charms ever failed, he'd bring out

11:28

the big guns, give me your bank

11:30

account number or I'll show this to everybody

11:32

at your church. Sometimes

11:35

in the way a skeezy pickup artist on

11:37

TikTok might advise you to do, he'd pull

11:40

back from Anne, ignore her for a few

11:42

days or make comments about other younger women

11:44

he found attractive just to make sure she

11:46

was pining for him. He gave her

11:48

a clicker like the kind you use to count stuff and

11:50

told her to click it every time she thought of him.

11:52

Just barf. A

11:54

way for him to feed his own ego. Yeah.

11:58

Then He'd come back all full of. Love and

12:00

affection. It's an incredibly effective tactic

12:02

when your target is insecure and always

12:05

welcome back with open arms. And.

12:08

You know a lot of like a pickup. Artists

12:10

are like wealth. My methods work. Use it. They

12:12

think what were criticizing them for their methods don't

12:14

work, Know they work. It's just fucking toxic you

12:17

dumb ass. Thought

12:19

right. Of course and

12:21

had no idea he was dating a constant

12:23

string of other women women his own age

12:25

and bit older than with careful Akita's different

12:27

live separate. And.

12:30

I'm sure she had no idea

12:32

he'd been romantically are sexually involved

12:34

with Peter. Farquhar. Just.

12:36

A couple months and then answer for money

12:38

for the. First. He. Desperately

12:41

needed a new car he tools or

12:43

could she possibly help? And

12:45

gave him forty four hundred pounds which

12:47

been pocketed. He didn't need a car,

12:49

but he wanted to back up his bullshit story. so

12:52

he went out and rented one for a few days

12:54

just so he could show. It to an. See.

12:56

Which you got me is such a deer.

12:59

This. Was just the first request of many.

13:02

In the summer of twenty sixteen been

13:04

confided and and that his younger brother

13:07

Tom was desperately sick kidney failure he

13:09

said. Tom. Need a dialysis?

13:11

But he couldn't afford the machine and it

13:13

was so heartbreaking because all Tom wanted in

13:15

the world was to go and study at

13:17

Cambridge. But there was no way he could

13:19

go there without buying a dialysis machine to

13:21

take with them and stare. Was just no

13:23

chance at all of affording. It. The

13:26

machine was twenty seven thousand teams.

13:29

Obviously none of this was true or is

13:31

he couldn't tell them I sarcastic tone. Like

13:34

who buys their own dial it like as other thing.

13:36

I mean I've known people on dialysis they just go

13:38

to the clinic and get it like that and with

13:40

think you buy your own the same and anyway it

13:42

was a very was bullshit. And

13:44

of course and couldn't allow her true love's

13:46

brother to suffer. She. Gave him

13:48

the money, But. Then

13:51

had bigger plans. He. Wanted

13:53

more than some lousy thirty thousand bucks?

13:55

He wanted everything he could squeeze out

13:57

of an More Martin, including her big

13:59

house. And. He said about getting

14:01

it. And nice. Anne

14:03

Marie started to notice that she couldn't get hold of

14:05

her on see on the phone. The.

14:08

For been came into the picture. Anne Marie

14:10

would visit and every weekend but now and

14:12

was always busy. And she

14:14

seemed off. Absent. Minded and

14:17

away she'd never been before. In

14:19

fact to a year earlier she taken

14:21

a routine cognitive function tests with. Her. Doctor

14:24

and her results were terrific. No.

14:26

Signs of dementia or any cognitive

14:28

decline at all. Clearly.

14:31

Been was isolating her from her support system

14:33

and I think he might have been dragging.

14:35

Her to so we don't know that for sure.

14:38

Been. Kept a journal which the police

14:40

would find later and in it he

14:42

strategize possible ways of murdering. An. He.

14:45

Could make it look like seed choked on

14:47

her dentures. She could fall down the stairs.

14:50

She. Could have a heart. Attack. During sex. In.

14:53

The meantime, he worked on her

14:55

psychologically. One. Of his tactics

14:57

was to move things around and her he's.

15:00

An would go looking for something see use all the

15:02

time and it wouldn't be where she always put it.

15:05

Then. Ben who by now had a key

15:08

to the house would signed it like oh

15:10

Am look you put your Bible in the

15:12

fridge again. You. Do that

15:14

enough. And your victim starts to down

15:16

herself. She. Starts to depend on

15:18

you more and more. And.

15:20

That's exactly what our boy wanted. One.

15:24

Of the ways been manipulated an was through

15:26

her religious faith which he claimed to share.

15:29

He signed all his love letters with Love

15:31

and in Christ men. And.

15:34

Was Catholic and more developed than most and

15:36

it became a very effective angle of entry

15:38

for been to pull on her. Puppet. Strings.

15:41

He. Was in a stationary shop one day

15:43

and he saw one of those tens that's

15:46

made to write on glass and then had

15:48

a little inspiration. Who I know, what

15:50

I can do with this he thought. What?

15:53

He did with it was start writing

15:55

messages from God. On and bathroom

15:57

mirror. I. Was

15:59

so. Making this up, the messages

16:01

would say stuff like pray for

16:03

Ben Ben loves you. And.

16:06

A little later leave your house to

16:08

Ben. And an believed

16:10

in these notes from God.

16:13

This. Is unbelievably creepy.

16:16

I. Would hate to live one

16:18

single day in Benz. Creepy

16:20

walnut sized brain. Yeah.

16:23

And this is one of the reasons why

16:25

I suspect he was drugging. And to this

16:28

was an intelligent woman. Okay, she'd been a

16:30

school principal for most of her career. Why

16:32

would she fall for this if she wasn't

16:34

under the influence of some kind of drug?

16:36

And as you'll see later, Benji has a

16:39

history of sprinkling a little fairy dust. Get

16:41

what he wants out. of his targets so

16:43

it wouldn't be the first team. After.

16:46

A while these messages from God.to

16:48

and so much that she actually

16:50

did change her will, leaving her

16:52

entire estate, house and all to

16:54

Ben. Ben. By

16:57

the way to pictures of these mirror messages

16:59

for some resistance. Like you can see his

17:01

dumb ass standing right there, taken the picture

17:03

legitimacy of reflected in the mirror and he

17:05

stuck him in his journal with all the

17:07

rest of the evidence that prosecutors would later

17:09

use against them. When

17:11

that help or other. Bless. His

17:14

heart just couldn't resist bragging

17:16

to himself and to his

17:18

friends last possible accomplice, Martin

17:20

Smith, who he showed the

17:22

Pixie Later, Martin was a

17:25

grad student and a really

17:27

really city magicians. So.

17:29

City that audiences had walked out of

17:31

his shows before and demanded their money

17:33

back. Yeah, it's hard

17:36

to be that bad at stage magic Gay.

17:38

I mean, the basics just ain't that hard.

17:41

This guy like polar rabbit out of a hat in

17:43

the rabbit which is burst into flame as I guess

17:45

at. That

17:47

didn't really happened. Oh, Yeah,

17:49

he actually thought his assistant half.

17:54

Just. Kidding. Unless.

17:58

Said. Yeah

18:01

most of stage magic you just by the trick.

18:03

that's the crazy thing I believe he literally by

18:05

as by the trick and it's really like the

18:07

your. Other do it. It's like

18:09

the acts of us. Martin.

18:12

Had real world of one is

18:14

a motley intervene in yes so

18:16

least. charismatic. Guy in the entire

18:18

world. Pillow. It it tonight regulated

18:21

is a very jealous is it said

18:23

is be like dropping like he's dropping

18:25

the top that are like accidently toward

18:27

us turning the the case. Or always

18:30

the they see the like a secret compartment.

18:32

it's like. Steers.

18:35

Doves Loud the happens is shit all over

18:37

every party. And then burst and I'm

18:39

like. Oh.

18:42

My. God. He should

18:44

have done on ago an answer them on those like.

18:47

Was. It prestige one of those proceeds machines where

18:49

he actually has to layer of create a clone

18:51

of himself and then kills the clone. It

18:54

cause he would have been more successful that way.

18:56

Anyway, I'm. Martin.

18:59

Had rented a room and Peters house before his

19:01

death and for a while he moved in with

19:03

an more martin. Two pence idea

19:05

of course. We. Say he

19:07

was up possible accomplice have banned because

19:09

he didn't have charged in this case

19:11

he was acquitted so nothing was ever

19:13

proven. So big Old Capital A Allegedly.

19:15

All over this, you know, right? right? Yeah,

19:17

he was acquitted Amina Or it's very possible

19:19

Benz's like. With. Hoodwink and

19:22

him along with everybody. It's very possible

19:24

he's just stupid. You best is set

19:26

them free most of. What?

19:31

We do now is that Martin was in close

19:34

proximity to both cases and a good friend have

19:36

been fields. Anyway, After

19:38

a year plus of gas lighting manipulating

19:40

an isolated and Ben finally convinced her

19:42

to change her well, making him her

19:44

primary beneficiary. This. Was in December

19:47

of twenty seventeen and as far as I can

19:49

tell and and tell any family or friends that

19:51

she changed her, well. But. A

19:53

couple of months later and had

19:55

a stroke, a mysterious. Stroke, as several

19:57

sources describe it. There. Was heavy,

20:00

This mission that and had been drugged. Her.

20:02

Knees and Murray rushed to the hospital to

20:05

be with her, and it was only then

20:07

that they finally got a chance to talk

20:09

about in recent lasting memory: Butters lodger, Martin

20:12

Smith but Benfield and the messages from God.

20:15

And. Of course about the will. Be.

20:17

A nice immediately realize what's going on she

20:20

to already been suspicious. A ban just because

20:22

of the age difference. When a twenty five

20:24

year olds are sitting on a woman in

20:26

her eighties, you tend to suspect that something

20:28

might be a bit askew. which you know

20:30

I'm We're not saying that true love doesn't

20:32

exist. Okay, I'm

20:34

sure whoever your gaming is

20:37

dating loves her. But. Just

20:39

you know, keep your head on a swivel. Make.

20:41

Sure it make sure your ask and or the right

20:43

questions. Buffer. Amery, it

20:45

was. All certainly makes sense now. The.

20:48

Sky was after her aunt is money. She's.

20:50

Not sure of it, especially when she went to

20:52

and has to pick up some stuff and ran

20:55

into Ben who'd moved in and was strutting around

20:57

like the lord of the Manor. She.

20:59

Was already acting like this was his house.

21:03

Nice. Anne Marie had seen enough. She

21:05

called the police and as part of

21:07

their investigations the police soaked and attorney.

21:10

Know. This attorney just happened to be

21:12

Peters former lawyer to and when he

21:14

heard that an changed her well to

21:16

make Benjamin Feals her beneficiaries his eyebrows

21:18

hit the ceiling. Benfield.

21:21

The. Same Benfield who inherited Peters estate.

21:23

What in the hell is going on

21:25

here? Yet. Both

21:28

the police and nice and Murray told Ben he

21:30

better not go anywhere near And again, it took

21:32

Anne Marie in the rest of the family a

21:34

few months to convince and she'd been conned, but

21:36

she did finally come to realize it. Her.

21:39

Heart and he says she cut been out of her

21:41

will. Here. And

21:43

I cannot even. Imagine how humiliated she

21:45

must a cell and how betrayed

21:47

me she. Loves us asshole

21:49

and she thought he really

21:51

loves her and really wanted

21:53

her out. Absolutely devastating. Devastating.

21:56

Enough that and died. Two weeks

21:58

later, You die of a

22:01

broken heart. Sure, As hell looks like

22:03

she did. If. There was a silver

22:05

lining to this awful story. It was that

22:07

police were finally on to Benfield. They.

22:09

Suspected him of attempting to murder and more, martin

22:12

of drugging her in defrauding her. and they were

22:14

about a crawl all the way up his ass

22:16

to investigate. Not. Only that, but

22:18

they know realize that there might be a lot

22:20

more to the story of Peter's dad to decide

22:22

looking to that too. But or gonna

22:24

put a pin. And now as for a second.

22:27

Been. Sealed grew up in a normal

22:29

middle class family and less usher. His.

22:32

Dad was a baptist minister. His mom

22:34

worked in politics. Ben. Was there

22:36

middle child? He. Was close with has

22:38

two siblings, especially his. Brother. Tom. Then

22:41

war, a pretty convincing mask of normality,

22:44

but some people could sense a darker.

22:46

Side underneath it. Then

22:48

found normal. Mind numbingly

22:50

boring. He. Liked to push

22:53

boundaries societal an person all. At.

22:55

University He started going on grinder and other

22:57

hook up type apps to find men willing

23:00

to pay for oral sex. He'd.

23:02

Let guys go down on him for money

23:04

like thirty to fifty pounds apart. But.

23:07

According to criminologists David Wilson, whose book a

23:09

Plot To Kill was one of our sources

23:11

for this case, it wasn't about the money.

23:14

It. Was about the boundary pushing. It

23:16

was about the thrill. And. The power

23:19

of being desired. Ben

23:21

is about as clear cut a narcissist

23:23

as I've ever seen in. like all

23:25

my decades. And years of true crime

23:27

obsessions and for. A narcissist, there

23:29

is no stronger drug than adoration.

23:32

He also like to push legal boundaries.

23:35

In. Two thousand and eleven. he got caught shoplifting

23:37

at a clothing store. He. Also

23:39

got in trouble multiple times for

23:41

trespassing, which I find interesting because

23:43

we seen this a lot with

23:45

serial killers. this predilection for creepy

23:47

crawling around people's houses. it gives

23:50

them a sense of power and

23:52

control, which is again, basically psychopath

23:54

crack. And. Speak in

23:56

a cracked. Benji like the little snorter to a

23:58

cocaine now and then. He'd. Say. Then those

24:00

to bring himself that noon so he could sleep.

24:03

Despite. These extracurricular as though been

24:05

managed to be successful in school

24:07

and work. He. Graduated from

24:09

university enrolled and graduate courses,

24:11

even taught seminar. Classes. He.

24:14

Was active in church, studying to be

24:16

an Anglican vicar. While.

24:18

Much of the stuff was going on with Peter and

24:20

and then worked part time at a nursing home called

24:23

red House which says as a weird ass name for

24:25

a nursing home if you ask me. but there you

24:27

go. Perfect. Job for

24:29

a sweet young guy like Ben, right? Yeah.

24:33

One. Of his favorite pastimes they are apparently

24:35

was to taunt the old people about the

24:37

fact that nobody ever came to visit them.

24:40

There's. Video of one of these instances

24:43

which this little prick evidently took himself.

24:45

presumably. for him to re watch and

24:47

giggle over later. In the

24:50

video been as gleefully taunting this old

24:52

woman with dementia about how lonely she

24:54

is. He. Sense of like: Does

24:56

it make you angry? The loneliness. Does it

24:58

make you wanna kick someone? You want

25:00

to kick me? And. Then he encourages

25:02

or to kick early. Go ahead,

25:04

kick me. It is no joke. one

25:07

of the most blood curdling things

25:09

I have literally ever seen. Just pure

25:11

sadism with the mask all the way

25:13

off. Guys. Like him,

25:16

always work real hard to put themselves

25:18

in positions of power over vulnerable people.

25:20

I mean, we see so many killer

25:22

nurses and doctors, so many predatory priests,

25:24

sony terrible teachers. That's why you really

25:26

have to pay attention to people you're

25:28

allowing in your circle. A

25:30

priest color a stethoscope doesn't like burn

25:32

a bad person when they put it

25:35

on. Your phone

25:37

wearing. Peter.

25:39

Farker had been a much loved professor.

25:41

Of English Literature for years and years.

25:44

He. Retired in two thousand and four to

25:46

focus on his own writing, and he'd published

25:48

several novel since then. But. After

25:50

a while Peter got bored. He

25:53

missed the classroom, the great conversations he'd

25:55

have with the students, so he went

25:57

back to teaching part time as a

25:59

guest lecturer. Poetry Classes. And.

26:01

That was where he met them field. Every

26:04

teacher gets excited about a student whose

26:06

genuinely interested in what they're trying to

26:09

teach. Genuinely engaged. Especially if

26:11

the student is really smart and

26:13

funny. and Benfield was. Then.

26:15

Caught peters attention. The classroom. First as

26:17

one of the most talented graduate students he'd

26:19

ever had. And. Peer obviously

26:22

caught Benz I to. Know

26:24

whether he was a mark for been from day

26:26

one or been was actually attracted to him. We

26:28

can't be sure. I think there's actually some evidence

26:30

on both sides and they they get into that

26:32

a lot more in that book I was telling

26:35

you about. really. Kinda. Interesting, but you know,

26:37

the two things aren't really mutually exclusive anyway,

26:39

so it doesn't matter to me at the

26:41

end of the. I think

26:43

Benz and opportunists to take advantage. Of

26:45

any and everybody in his life has given the

26:47

chance. This might be a

26:49

good time to talk about cognitive empathy,

26:51

which is something a lot of people

26:53

with psychopathic traits have. It's very different

26:55

from emotional empathy, which is what helps

26:58

you put yourself in somebody else shoes

27:00

and genuinely feel for them. Cognitive.

27:02

Empathy means that you can understand

27:05

intellectually what somebody is going through,

27:07

but without any emotional. Resonance.

27:10

Psychopaths. Can actually have very

27:12

high cognitive empathy. They. Can

27:14

be experts at reading people something

27:16

out there vulnerabilities and as you

27:18

can imagine, some. Of them. Use this

27:21

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manipulated, Peter systematically chronicling his progress in

28:52

a journal which is how we know

28:54

a lot of these inside details. They'd.

28:57

Already bonded over literature class than Ben

28:59

started inviting himself over for t and

29:01

out to dinner. They became close friends,

29:03

started playing chess. the other Ben with

29:05

let him win a lot of the

29:07

time. They. Watch movies.

29:09

They had long passionate debate about

29:12

poetry. Peter. Was amazed by bends

29:14

intelligence. He was working on his dissertation at

29:16

the time and had all kinds of fresh

29:18

ideas. The. Other main pillar

29:20

and Peters I was his faith so been

29:22

got busy working his way in there to

29:24

going with Peter to church services on the

29:26

regular and cozying up to the congregation and

29:28

clergy. Eventually he volunteer to

29:31

take the minutes a church meetings. He

29:33

knew the church world well. His dad was a

29:35

minister. In. Twenty Thirteen Knowing

29:37

Ben was looking for a place to live,

29:39

Peter invited him to rent a room in

29:41

his house. As. Far as a family

29:43

new, Peter had always been celibate. this session

29:45

to is Christian faith. He felt conflicted about

29:47

being gay and christian and I guess this

29:49

was his way of trying to reconcile the

29:51

two things in his mind. Has.

29:54

So sad to me especially have

29:56

been sealed. Really? was his first

29:58

actual lover? Like is. Such a

30:00

shame to wait your whole life for romance and

30:02

then have an end. Up like this

30:05

says heartbreaking. Then. Also

30:07

got Peter a little dog named Kipling. Criminologists,

30:10

David Wilson has an interesting perspective on this

30:12

detail. He says it was away for burned

30:14

to isolate Peter from friends and family because

30:17

he'd have to turn down invitations to stay

30:19

home with the puppy. We know that abusers

30:21

like to do this separate you from your

30:23

support system from anybody who might. Be the

30:25

voice of reason in your life. It's

30:28

a diabolically effective tactic and then use

30:30

that to full advantage with both Peter

30:32

and an. There's.

30:34

Also, cultural element to I Bends Plan worked

30:36

so well. David Wilson talks about in his

30:38

book how they lived in the starchy little

30:41

village in England. The kind of place where

30:43

people sort of tend to look the other

30:45

way about people's private bedroom business. It's not

30:47

like they didn't know Peter and been romantically

30:50

involved, it's just that nobody really set it

30:52

out loud. right?

30:54

It was sort of an open secret and

30:56

nobody wanted know too. Much about the particulars.

30:58

I mean Peters. Peers were churchgoing people

31:00

in their sixties and seventies, so it's

31:03

not like he felt super comfortable like

31:05

confiding in them about his gay relationship.

31:08

Yep! And that enabled them to maneuver

31:11

without a lot of scrutiny. He let

31:13

the relationship develop for a while. First

31:15

got Peter good and hugged, and then

31:17

he began a carefully plotted gas lighting

31:19

regimen. This. Is gas lighting? In

31:21

the purists definition of the word. Like.

31:24

He later do with an Ben would hide

31:26

peter stuff move things around, break things. His.

31:29

Goal very literally was to make Peter think

31:31

he was going insane. He hoped maybe the

31:34

old guy would kill himself eventually. But.

31:36

Sometimes he'd let up. Give. Peter a

31:39

chance to get back to normal again and make sure

31:41

you still had a from emotional grip on him. Of

31:44

course, Peter had no idea that Been was

31:46

secretly dating other people. One of these was

31:48

a young woman named Laura, who later said

31:50

she had no idea Ben was living a

31:53

double life. She. Just thought he was

31:55

a sweet, smart kind of nerdy guy who cared about

31:57

her. He. Even took her to meet Peter. Once

31:59

or twice. The. Satin Peters front room

32:01

drinking tea. Neither Peter nor Laura knew

32:03

that he was sexually involved with both

32:06

of them, making both of them pretty

32:08

promises. And. Of course, they weren't the

32:10

only ones. She.

32:12

Had not even close. He had a

32:14

whole string of other relationships in the

32:16

same. And. Then was proud of

32:18

the way he manipulated and gas lit. As

32:21

victims one. Of his favorite books

32:23

was how to Use Your Enemies a

32:25

seventeenth century guide to success through deception.

32:28

According. To one of his journals, then have

32:30

the whole thing planned out on a specific timeline.

32:33

There's. A line in there that absolutely.

32:36

Made. My blood run cold he wrote.

32:38

Twenty. Fourteen. Cordial,

32:41

Marriage to be will. Next

32:43

to that, there's a subtle doodle of a

32:45

gravestone with the phrase. Holes the goal

32:48

next to it. As. And Peter

32:50

in a whole is the goal. When.

32:53

He says. Can. Still gaslight for

32:55

fun. Twenty

32:57

Fifteen. And Peter. Can.

33:01

Still gaslight for fun! This is our

33:03

boys idea of high amusement and despite

33:05

his a legend high intelligence, he's out

33:08

here providing a step by step instructions

33:10

on how to prosecute him. Home.

33:13

I actually have a theory about this. I

33:15

think Ben and people like him are so

33:17

tickled pink at their own genius of they

33:19

want to brag. Unfortunately, what they're doing is

33:21

illegal. in there too smart to run their mouths

33:23

unlike seen have some. Killers he talked about.

33:26

so instead they brag to a

33:28

journal. It. Also explains the pithy

33:30

little jokes he makes as well. He

33:32

just so he says so excited he's

33:34

like oh my gosh holds the goal

33:36

ss like south of fuck up you

33:38

nerd Jesus. Although. I.

33:41

At this bears repeating. Book Smarts has nothing

33:43

to do with real. World Intelligence. I just I

33:45

just wanna throw that out there. Peter.

33:47

Kept a journal to and the contrast

33:50

between his and Benz is just. Gut

33:52

wrenching, Then writes about Peter

33:54

the way you'd write about some lab rat

33:56

you're running. Psychological Experiments and

33:59

Peter. About been the way you write

34:01

about the great love of your life. He.

34:03

Is exceptionally humane. And thoughtful

34:06

Peter wrote in one journal entry. right?

34:09

On schedule and twenty fourteen. Then ask

34:11

Peter to marry him. Peter.

34:13

Was ecstatic. He. Wrote. Then

34:16

made this an exceptional and wonderful

34:18

birthday. He. Presented me with a

34:20

beautiful jet and mother of pearl knife

34:22

and asked formally. And with great dignity

34:25

and beauty if we could be be

34:27

truth. This. Is one of the

34:29

most magnificent and happy days of my we've. Lost

34:32

his sweet soul. He spent his entire

34:34

life alone And this is what this

34:37

little streak of filth. Decides to do

34:39

time. It's as. Kills. Me:

34:43

They had a betrayal little ceremony. At

34:45

church exchanging. Pocket knives instead.

34:47

Of. Rings. Benz. Idea.

34:50

City. And. The music

34:52

was an odd choice to fox Goldberg

34:54

Variations, the same piece that Hannibal Lecter

34:56

was listening to, and Silence of the

34:59

Lambs when he killed that prison guard

35:01

and ripped say sauce. Knowing.

35:03

Then I suspect he picked that one on

35:05

purpose. This. Is a man

35:07

like Usa and who really likes to sign

35:10

his crimes in subtle little ways. He thinks

35:12

only he'll be clever enough to recognize. Now.

35:17

As if we didn't already have enough

35:19

to hate about our boy, Ben Ben.

35:21

He also considered himself something of an

35:23

amateur rapper. Which. Is.

35:25

Hilarious. Slights: This guy has an

35:27

accent like David Attenborough and he thinks

35:29

he's gonna like spit some bars. Her footsteps.

35:33

And luckily for us, been linked recording

35:35

himself at this little hobby and Oh

35:38

God. It's just.

35:40

Cringe. Is not even the word. There's no. we're

35:43

big enough. Here's. Part of

35:45

one of his masterworks recorded around the

35:47

time he pledged his eternal love and

35:49

devotion to Peter. Benjamin's.

35:51

My right hand by which will allow

35:53

you to suffer and field as the

35:56

soil of the ground I'll put you

35:58

under. think this is suicide, you're losing

36:00

y l disconnect as use from life

36:02

does nothing in your future. When I

36:04

do use in it's. You so you've

36:07

been of use The nicest. Oh

36:12

boy. Okay, they're notorious Capote's

36:15

ease with all those entendre

36:17

as he thinks. He's Kendrick

36:19

Lamar. more like. Ben.

36:22

Dick. Lamer. If.

36:27

It's a good p E rhymed suicide

36:29

and losing twice. Yeah. And then he

36:31

said man oh man it when I

36:33

do you than it's youth are you

36:36

have and use it. I like that

36:38

you said the same thing twice. He

36:40

said it twice. Do it just gets

36:42

it was. You know what? he's assuming

36:44

the intelligence of his audience was you'd

36:46

never dale rights. He said he's like

36:49

they'll never understand that. The word uther,

36:51

they'll never get it. right? Of

36:53

course I. Will. Well.

36:56

That's a others have been thinks of everybody.

36:58

Nobody's as smart as he is. And of

37:01

course this little wrap was what he really

37:03

thought of Peter. He. Liked to

37:05

refer to him as the f word for gay people

37:07

in his journal seat which is interesting come from a

37:09

guy who's constantly hooking up with those on Grinder. bit

37:11

like. Okay, Peter.

37:14

Didn't have long to enjoy his bitter with all to

37:16

the love of his life. Then.

37:18

Stepped up his gas lighting campaign and

37:20

added two new elements. He. Started

37:22

telling people that Peter was an alcoholic

37:25

and showing signs of dementia. And.

37:27

He started dragging him said it is and

37:29

adding pure green whiskey to. His drinks. Then

37:33

not only murdered Peter in the and

37:35

he stole his dignity first. At

37:37

one point, Peter had shown up to a

37:39

book launch for one of his novels barely

37:42

functional because been had dragged him with floor

37:44

as of him beforehand. They. Had

37:46

to take him home. Everybody saw. It.

37:48

Was humiliating. And.

37:50

As Peter became more and more

37:52

frail and more and more dependent

37:54

then was relentless. Erase.

37:57

All phone contacts. He. Wrote in his journal.

38:00

In his diary, Peter wrote. For.

38:02

Know explicable reason the mobile had or

38:04

a so my text numbers. Isolation

38:07

and gas lighting in one without

38:09

when. He. Said careful

38:11

notes on the drugs he was giving Peter

38:13

and the dosages. Fourteen.

38:15

June Breakfast in bed Two

38:17

Point five Meg diazepam on

38:19

toast. In. His journal

38:21

that day Peter wrote. Then. Made

38:24

up for yesterday by giving me breakfast in

38:26

bed. What? He'd done

38:28

yesterday. I'm not sure, but there was. Definitely.

38:30

Some friction between them around this time.

38:33

Pm. May have had his suspicions as

38:35

early as Twenty fourteen One morning he

38:37

wrote in his journal i am sleeping

38:39

much longer at nine. What? A contrast

38:41

the year before, but there's something not right

38:43

about it. There. Are

38:45

a few other entries were Peter speculated to

38:48

himself about whether been really loved him, was

38:50

in it for some other reason. And

38:53

it's not hard to see why. He'd wonder

38:55

another time Peter found one of them notebooks

38:57

full of nasty stuff about himself. And.

38:59

Shut them up really badly. Peter.

39:01

Road his own diary. Immediately.

39:04

Discovered it was all about me and negatively.

39:06

so he records daily any sign of loss

39:08

of memory and worse. and fictional A he

39:10

records how much alcohol I drink, Before

39:13

my corner skippy he recorded I had drunk

39:15

Jin. A pure invention. He's also

39:17

recorded that he shared this information with friends and

39:19

the church in with his mother and brother. See.

39:22

This has been planned to get everybody thinking Peter

39:24

had a drinking problem so nobody would be surprised

39:27

when he turned up dead. Peter.

39:29

Went on. It. This clandestine

39:31

activity we're not happening. Everything would be

39:33

so perfect. I know hesitating about changing

39:35

the will. But. Of course

39:37

as we know he changes. Anyway, If

39:40

you're not relationship that makes you say something like this, You

39:43

need to get ahead. If. It wasn't

39:45

for this one giant issue that makes me doubt

39:47

everything. It would be perfect. Bad

39:49

relationships aren't bad all the time. same

39:52

way. happy relationships are happy. All the time.

39:56

I think poor Peters and experience of the clearest

39:58

here because if he had more relations. He'd

40:00

be more savvy. I'm.

40:02

Sure, By this point she was so

40:05

confused, had barely think straight on his

40:07

constant diet of booze saturday as the

40:09

occasional psychedelic. Peter.

40:11

Told his friends that he'd spent one

40:13

horrible night curled up on the bathroom

40:15

floor. hallucinating Swarm: The awful black insects

40:17

crawling all over the walls. I.

40:21

Felt like King Lear in the midst of his

40:23

mental breakdown, Peter told his friends. Around

40:25

the same time evidence would later show been

40:28

googled cyanide poisoning. he scribbled notes about

40:30

how he might take Peter out if drugs

40:32

or drinking didn't do a faster. Henner

40:35

he wrote. Street. I.

40:40

Had a lovely meal tonight, but I felt quite

40:42

ill afterwards. Peter wrote in his journal. Florida.

40:45

Pam on toast been wrote. And.

40:48

Just as he had with the elderly dementia patients

40:50

he'd abuse at a nursing home, Bend took a

40:52

video of his handiwork with Peter. As

40:55

a heartbreaking video or Peters lying in

40:57

bed clearly loopy from the drugs, Fenwick

40:59

flipping him and he says. I'm

41:01

so dependent I, I actually used to be

41:04

sort of competent. That worries me. Of

41:07

course, of course. Then says from behind

41:09

the camera mister sympathy. How.

41:12

I think this is one of the top

41:14

five worse people I've ever come across. If

41:16

not the worse. Like I fucking hate this

41:18

piece. Of shit he needs to be feared and to

41:20

the front of video is when the saddest thing that ever

41:22

seen in my life. For reflect a like it's

41:24

it's just. It's just

41:27

chilling. but I'd I'd. There's.

41:29

No reason for him to have taken

41:31

that video and it's like you are

41:33

seen through his eyes. It's. Yeah.

41:36

It makes me sick. It. Is

41:38

as trophy. I am an asset. Plain and simple it is.

41:40

It's as her of its way Took. The pictures of

41:42

those messages from God that he wrote

41:44

on and mirror to he likes that

41:46

stuff. This was fun for him am.

41:49

Sick. On

41:51

the sand. Ben would later say. Most.

41:54

Of my pleasures had been privately held. It's

41:56

the habit of lifetime to be living inside

41:58

my head. He makes

42:01

him sound intellectual. All that. I don't think that's

42:03

li med. Den was

42:05

the poster child for the mask of

42:07

Sanity that Harvey Correctly used to describe

42:09

psychopathy when he first wrote about in

42:11

the nineteen forties. He showed the world

42:13

the mask of a pious, witty, philosophical

42:15

young scholar who loved helping people. Because.

42:19

If he showed them is true insides,

42:21

they'd run screaming. The. Pleasures

42:23

he talking about or sadistic and

42:25

not in that fun spanky way.

42:27

sadistic like can still gaslight for

42:29

fun. And. Yet he has

42:31

the nerve to write in one of his journals that

42:34

he really did like the old fella and appreciate all

42:36

he done for him. Lot. Of

42:38

Intel. And. This goes back

42:40

to my point about why he was the journal's in

42:43

the first place. He was self aware enough to know

42:45

that he couldn't. Take off and. Then.

42:47

Clearly considers himself a Professor Moriarty like

42:49

criminal mastermind, which is hilarious given how

42:51

careless he was to try and pull

42:54

this shit twice in a two year

42:56

span. His. Diary is full

42:58

of smug self satisfaction about all the

43:00

little strings he was poland to keep

43:02

his victims. Clueless and at his

43:04

mercy. Not. Really sure how proud you

43:07

should be of your manipulation skills when you've gotta

43:09

keep people dope to the gills to get him

43:11

to comply. But okay, Doctor.

43:13

Wilson even thinks he might have based his

43:15

murder ammo on one of Peter Parker's own

43:18

books were one lover is poisoned by another

43:20

using what else floor as a pound. With.

43:23

Matches be a sick burn to kill

43:25

him with his own fictional murder plot

43:27

brilliance. God. What a putz you

43:29

are Benjamin The only thing this guy's virtuosity

43:31

out? his smugness. And if you don't believe

43:33

me, he actually preached a sermon about that

43:35

thou shalt not kill commandment while he was

43:38

out on bail on the murder charge. He's

43:40

about to get stuck with air in a

43:42

minute and his take was basically, sometimes you

43:44

just gotta bend the rules a little bit.

43:47

Yeah, you know those ten commandments. A really

43:49

morbid general guideline at the end of the

43:52

day. Well. Played man way to stay

43:54

under the radar. Yeah, gentle guideline. That's why

43:56

the consequence of breaking them as a lake

43:58

of fire. So. We. The already

44:00

know how the story. Is. Peters

44:02

House cleaner found him dead on the couch

44:04

with a mostly empty bottle of whiskey next

44:06

to him. As. A time

44:08

nobody thought anything of it. But.

44:10

After the and more martin affair that

44:13

all changed. There. Was a bright

44:15

spotlight on been sealed and police knew they

44:17

had to take a much closer look at

44:19

Peter Parker's Does. The. Investigators

44:21

had to go to Peters brother and sister

44:23

in law and tell them the worse news

44:25

imaginable. That. They suspected than had

44:27

murdered him. He and

44:30

said he was stoned for just a moment.

44:32

Then it all made sense, as though some

44:34

deeply buried part of him had known and

44:36

all along. On

44:39

May Thirtieth, Twenty seventeen, Peter Parker's

44:41

body was exude. For a more

44:43

thorough autopsy. Since. Before

44:45

Peers death then had pushed and narrative that

44:47

he was drinking himself to death and he

44:50

pushed that same narrative with the paramedics and

44:52

other first responders at the scene and they

44:54

bought it. But. Now science

44:56

was ribbon that story to shreds. And

44:59

Peters hair. They found floor as a

45:01

Pam Diazepam and other drugs that match

45:03

the notes and Bends diaries. It

45:06

was clear, and they'd been administered bit by

45:08

bit over the course of at least a

45:10

couple. Months. More. Than

45:12

that, a liver specialists concluded that Peter

45:15

had never been an alcoholic. There.

45:17

Was no sign. Of it whatsoever. So.

45:20

How did Peter to? I'll

45:22

most likely He was sedated and

45:24

smothered with a pillow The medical

45:26

examiner theorized. This matched up with

45:28

some of the notes been wrote to himself when

45:30

he was brainstorming. About how to kill peter. Smothering

45:33

and strangulation were to of the methods

45:35

he considered. One. Of

45:37

the worst details in this case or

45:39

something else investigators. Found in Bends diary.

45:42

A scribbled description of what. He planned

45:44

to say to Peter as he took his

45:46

last breath. Much. Like he'd

45:48

done with the old people at the nursing home

45:50

where he works been taunted Peter as he died.

45:53

I. Hated you all along. He told him.

45:56

Then he crowed about how we'd con peter. Into

45:58

changing as will for him. This is

46:00

my house now he said as Peter

46:02

struggled against the effects of the sedative.

46:05

Peter. Had learned this man with his whole. Suit.

46:08

This. Was his thinks. These.

46:10

Were the last words he heard. Before. His life

46:13

force flickered and. He. Was finally

46:15

time to but the hey be. As grab us on

46:17

do. Fans. Little buddy Martin Smith,

46:19

who at that point they suspected as

46:21

an accomplice. They. Charge them

46:23

with the murder of Peter the attempted

46:25

murder. Of and more Martin and a slew

46:28

of fraud charges, As. They

46:30

sat in the back of the cop car together on

46:32

their way to jail been set to Martin. I expect

46:34

to get away with most of it. Yeah.

46:37

I you know you're being recorded back there

46:39

right then. Been? He.

46:42

Was wrong. Of course He. Couldn't

46:44

have done more for the prosecution if

46:46

it actually filmed himself smothering peter. Then.

46:49

Trail happened in October of Twenty

46:51

nineteen, almost exactly four years after

46:53

Peters murder. His. Notebooks,

46:56

recordings and diaries were a road map of

46:58

his crimes, and although he took the stand

47:00

and tried to say they were nothing more

47:02

than fiction, nobody bought it. Then

47:05

cop to defrauding peter and an but

47:07

he said he didn't kill anybody. I

47:10

have deceived absolutely everybody that I have

47:12

any kind of relationship with. He told

47:14

the jury. That murder. Clutch.

47:17

The pearls of course. The

47:20

jury's response. Sure gem.

47:23

They. Found him guilty of everything except the attempted

47:26

murder of and more Martin The jury didn't think

47:28

there is no evidence for that. He

47:30

did admit he hated Peter though. Sat right there

47:32

on the witness box said I didn't like it

47:35

all. it was told to get money. Smooth.

47:37

Move Ma'am I'm sure the jury love yeah. In.

47:41

A striking contrast. Peers brother Ian told the

47:43

press he felt awful for bends mom who

47:45

sat in the courtroom and cried throughout the

47:47

trial. I don't know which

47:50

is worse in said finding out your brother was

47:52

murdered or finding out your son's a murderer. See.

47:55

That is human empathy, something then seems

47:58

to lack on a molecular love. It's.

48:02

Too bad that didn't happen the state, because I'm

48:04

pretty sure Ben would have gotten life without parole.

48:07

At. Stands he got a minimum of thirty

48:09

six years. Pretty. Blistering for the

48:11

Uk, but still not enough for me.

48:13

I hope he serves every nanosecond of

48:15

it. If. He does when he gets or

48:17

not. He'll be about the same age as Peter when they

48:19

first met. Ben.

48:22

Wanted to live the high life on somebody else is

48:24

time. At least now we know

48:26

he'll spend the rest of his use behind

48:28

bars, all because he got cocky and try

48:30

to repeat his little romance/murder scheme A few

48:32

months later and three doors down, How's.

48:35

That for irony, Mc Flamer. Wonder.

48:38

How the other inmates will feel about his rap

48:40

lyrics. Of you know

48:42

I. Can't help but they drained without then

48:44

volunteering to Freestyle one night at the inmate

48:46

talent show and getting pelted with run tomatoes

48:48

the other guys were saving up to make

48:51

clear now. We

48:53

can dream. Please

48:56

get some news please! And

49:00

somebody take video Please. One.

49:03

Of the things investigators found in

49:05

Benz diary was a list of

49:07

hundreds of potential victims. Many of

49:09

them elderly. He. Called it his

49:12

client list. Included.

49:14

Some of the people he'd cared for

49:16

at the nursing home: his own grandparents,

49:18

people from church, and his younger brother

49:21

Tom. So. Our

49:23

boy wasn't done. Not. Even

49:25

close. I. Think he'd have done this

49:27

as many times has he could get away with

49:29

until somebody stopped him. Thank. God

49:31

somebody finally did. So.

49:34

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