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09/07/2025

This Thai resort is a TOURIST (DEATH) TRAP

Today's story has a very surprising ending, and I do sort of tip off what actually happens, you know, earlyish on in the story, but I'd be very surprised if people actually picked up on it and put it together before I reveal what actually happened. But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do, and we upload once a week. So, if that's of interest to you, please offer to make the like button a nice fresh bowl of oatmeal. Except don't use milk, use glue. Also, please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's story. [Music] Early on the evening of June 12th, 2012, a 25-year-old woman named Noami Belloner opened up the door to her hotel room on P*e Island, which is a major tourist destination in Thailand. Once the door was unlocked, Noami pushed it open and she held it for her little sister, 20-year-old Audrey, who came in wheeling all their suitcases. No and Audrey were both from Quebec, Canada, and they were also both college students, and they were on this big month-long vacation to celebrate the end of the school year. They had been in Vietnam for the past 3 weeks, and today they had arrived in Thailand, and their plan was to stay here for a bit before finally heading back to Quebec. But for right now, No in particular was feeling really exhausted. I mean, there was a lot of travel getting here today. And, you know, the past 3 weeks had been loads of travel and Noami was kind of hitting a wall. And so as soon as she got into the room, all she really wanted to do was just flop down on the bed and just lay there for a little while. But she had also become a fairly experienced traveler by this point and she knew before she did that she just wanted to make sure that, you know, the bed was cleanly, you know, I mean, make sure there were no bed bugs or, you know, unclean sheets or something. And so she went over and pulled the sheets back and checked and the sheets were pristine. It was beautiful. The room felt super nice. And so she just flopped down on the bed and just enjoyed the air conditioning. And at the same time that she was doing this, Audrey, who very likely was also feeling all the, you know, the symptoms of travel over so many weeks, I mean, she likely was very, very tired. But she instead of laying down, went right into the bathroom and started getting ready for the night. And Noam sort of understood why. So while the girls were in Vietnam, they had met these two really nice guys who were from Brazil. And they had kind of hit it off. And you know, they had left today to go to Thailand. And wouldn't you know it, it turned out those guys, their itinerary included them coming to Thailand today. And so it was kind of like this revelation at the end of their time in Vietnam that they would not have to say goodbye basically forever, but instead, you know, the good times could keep on rolling in Thailand. And so the plan was that night they would meet up with these two guys, these Brazilian guys out on the beach and basically party with them and just have a fun night. Now, Noammy was looking forward to this night out with these two guys, but she also had a little bit of apprehension about it. I mean, these guys were perfectly nice, and she and her sister had spent time with them in Vietnam, and really things had been fine. But, you know, Noam felt like Audrey was a little bit more naive and sort of like easier to be taken advantage of than she was. I mean, she was younger than her by 5 years. And also when the sisters had gone on this trip, their parents had been really apprehensive about, you know, two young women traveling alone together all over the world. I mean, they were sort of vulnerable. And so the way Noam had sort of played it to her parents is, you know, don't worry, I'm the big sister. I'll keep my eye on Audrey. She'll be fine. And Audrey kind of played the role of younger sister and was like, yep, I'll do what my big sister says. And so Noam sort of felt like she had a responsibility to keep Audrey safe. And so she was feeling a bit apprehensive about whatever they were going to do that night with these guys. It just sort of seemed like things were sort of moving quickly with these two guys. You know, they should have maybe just stopped in Vietnam, but they're here and so who knows what was going to happen. And so Noammy, as she's laying there and Audrey's getting ready, Noam decides to just give her parents a call because one of the things Noami had been doing over the past several weeks they'd been on this big vacation is sort of constantly updating her parents to assuage their concerns that anything was wrong, you know, with their two kids. You know, Noammy wanted her parents to see that she was doing everything she could, you know, to keep her and her sister safe. And so she pulled out her phone and she was about to call her parents when suddenly Audrey appeared from the bathroom and said, "Stop." And she told her like, "Hey, remember, you know, it's it's evening for us, but back home in Canada, it's the middle of the night, so you're going to be waking them up and they're going to have loads of questions like, "Why are you calling in the middle of the night?" And probably you're going to have to tell them about, you know, how we're going out tonight with these two guys and they're going to worry. Like, don't do that. Spare them. We will talk to them tomorrow. They don't need to know what we're doing tonight. Everything is fine. And Noam was thinking, you know what? She's right. This is a bad time to call. No actually forgot. You know, the time change was so significant. And she also, you know, wasn't sure what she would say to her parents about, you know, going out with these two guys because it would raise some red flags. And so Noamie put her phone down and decided, you know what? Tonight's going to be just fine. I just got to let things go. And so she actually climbed off the bed and she joined her sister in the bathroom and began also getting ready for their big night out. A little bit later, Noam and Audrey left their hotel room and they headed out to the beach. And sure enough, there right outside of a beachfront bar were the two Brazilian guys they were meeting up with that night. And as the two girls approached, they saw that each of these guys were holding these big buckets. They almost look like, you know, a toy that a child would use on the sand, you know, to fill it up and make a sand castle with, like a big, you know, beach bucket. And, you know, the girls as they're walking over, they're wondering what these buckets were for. And they thought it was maybe like some joke these guys were going to play or they didn't know what. But as they got closer, they realized that these buckets these guys were holding were filled to the brim with ice and liquid. There was some sort of drink in these buckets. And so, the girls walked up to them and they said, "Hello." And very quickly, the conversation turned to these big drinks. they were holding and Noi and Andre were like, "What are those?" And the guys told them, "These are like these amazing cocktails that you can only get in this part of the world." The girls asked, you know, like, "Well, what is it? What's inside of the drink? What makes it so special?" And the guys kind of looked at each other and laughed and they're like, "I don't know. Just try it. It's really good. It'll make you feel great." Now, No, being the sort of more responsible one did not immediately begin drinking either of these drinks. Instead, she sort of paused and thought about it. But Audrey, on the other hand, was totally sold. She reached forward, grabbed one of the buckets, and just began chugging this drink. And so Noam is looking at her like, "Come on, like, you can't just jump into this. We don't know what this stuff is." But, you know, after a couple of chugs, Audrey lowered the bucket and looked at her sister, and she just grinned and she handed it back to her guy. And then she told Noam like, "These tastes great. This is awesome. Like, you got to try it. Loosen up." And so, at this point, Noami, you know, she's considering the situation. you know, they were in Vietnam with these guys and these guys were out partying with them. They were drinking with them and you know, they seemed perfectly trustworthy and they were clearly drinking from these buckets and it didn't seem nefarious. And also No looked around the beach and suddenly realized that basically everybody had these big buckets. You know, this was not just these two guys. Everybody's drinking this thing. And so Noam is thinking, okay, well, if they think it's okay and it's sort of normal, uh, you know, in this part of the world, then it's got to be okay. And so she reached forward, grabbed the other bucket from the other guy, and took a big sip. Several hours later, well after the sun had gone down, Audrey and No were having a great time with their Brazilian friends. They were still near this beachfront bar. They were actually dancing right outside of it because now there was a DJ blaring some music and there were all these people and actually the sisters had sort of broken up and were sort of doing their own thing with their respective guy but they were sort of near enough each other they could kind of keep tabs on each other and they were just having a great time. You know by this point they had jumped in the ocean and gone swimming. They had eaten a ton of local food and Noami had lost count of how many of these these big bucket drinks they had all consumed together. But they were really just having a blast. I mean, no vision was a bit blurry and she was kind of stumbling. And she'd look over at Audrey and she was kind of in the same state, you know, as were the two guys they were with. I mean, they're they're buzzed. They're having a great time. And so, the two girls and their guys are just out there dancing, doing their thing. It's about 1:00 a.m. at this point. And Noam's guy says to her, "Hey, do you want to head back to the hotel room together?" And Noam is like, "Yeah, let's go back, but hold on. I want to talk to my sister first." And so Noam kind of stumbles her way over to Audrey who's in the middle of this big dance routine with her guy and she stops Audrey and she whips around and Audrey's all smiles too. And Noam is like, "Hey, do you want to go back to the hotel room? We're going back now. Do you want to come?" And Audrey's like, "No, I want to stay here. I'm having too much fun. This is awesome. We're just going to keep on dancing. You guys should stay, too." But no was like, "No, I got to go. You know, we're going to go back. So, you sure you want to stay?" And Andre was like, "Yeah, we'll stay. We'll see you at the hotel soon. Now, typically Noami and her sister really rarely separated, especially when they were out drinking and partying, you know, because of all the inherent risks of being alone at night, potentially intoxicated. And so, you know, this was kind of a rare thing for her to break away from her sister and separate. But it just seemed like this was okay. It was safe. And, you know, these guys they were with, they really seemed like standup guys. And again, they were just having a blast here. her and Noam didn't really want to stop her from having a good time. And so ultimately she did say bye to her sister and said she'd see her soon. No turned and with her guy she headed back to the hotel and Audrey kept on dancing with her guy in front of the beach bar. Hey guys, just want to remind you that year round we have amazing Mr. Ballin merch available all the time. It does not sell out. It's called Ballin Basics. You can get it at shopmallin.com. 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And basically, if they didn't get a response, this staff member was going to have to unlock the door and just go in there. And so one more time, they knocked on the door and called out, you know, housekeeping, you know, just in case somebody was in there. But again, there was silence. So the staff member put their card into the door. They unlocked it. They opened it up and stepped inside. And seconds later, that staff member was literally running out of the hotel room screaming for help. At 9:00 p.m. that night, a team of police officers led by Lieutenant Colonel Rat Sombo arrived at the hotel room. Sombo was an experienced police officer, and he'd already been briefed on what was found inside the hotel room. So when he and his team walked inside and saw it for themselves, he wasn't shocked. When they got in there, they found two women inside. It was No, and Audrey Bellanche, and both of them were lying in their respective beds, tucked up in their sheets, lying perfectly still, and each of them was completely surrounded by vomit. Sombo estimated that these two women had been dead for between 12 and 20 hours. And his first theory as to what might have killed them was alcohol poisoning. I mean, that would explain the vomit. This was also a big tourist destination and clearly these people were tourists and so maybe they were out partying and they died from alcohol poisoning. However, when Sombo looked more closely at the bodies, he noticed a confounding detail. There was all this dried blood on the girls gums and also under their fingernails. And so that was not consistent with alcohol poisoning. And so Sombo thought, okay, well, you know, maybe the reason they have blood in these parts of their body is because those are defensive injuries. you know, maybe somebody attacked these girls and that's how they've been killed. But after doing a cursory check around the hotel room, there was no sign of a struggle or any sort of break-in or anything like that. And so, you know, if there had been some sort of lethal struggle in here, it certainly didn't show. And so, Sombo and his team really didn't have any idea what had happened here. I mean, they had some ideas, but clearly they needed more information. Specifically, they needed to do an autopsy and a full toxicology report on both women. that would be the only way to really see what happened here. But that would take time. And so while they waited for those results to come in, Sombo decided that what he would focus on instead is trying to figure out what these girls were doing in the hours before they died. You know, where were they, what did they eat, what did they drink, and who were they with. Over the next couple of days, Son and his team interviewed several of the hotel staff. And from those interviews, they learned that Audrey and Noi were visiting Thailand from Canada. And on the first night they were here, the two women went out early in the evening. And then one of them came back with some guy, some unidentified man at 1:00 a.m. They came back to the hotel. And then at 4:00 a.m. the other girl came back to the hotel also with an unidentified man. And so there are no and Audrey and these two unidentified men that are in the hotel room presumably from 4:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. when both of these unidentified men left the hotel room together. and the two girls were presumably left inside the hotel room. Lieutenant Sombo reviewed some security footage from the hotel, which confirmed this entire timeline was correct, which meant Sombo really needed to speak to these two unidentified men because they clearly were the last ones to see these girls alive. And so the police department put out an announcement about Noi and Audrey's deaths, as well as a public call for help in identifying these two unidentified men. And shortly after making this announcement, the police learned that these two men were Brazilian. And unfortunately, they had already left Thailand on their way back to Brazil. And so, obviously, Brazil is outside of his jurisdiction. And so, he had to appeal to Interpol, which is an international police organization, and appealed to them to find these two Brazilian men and interview them. About a week later, Sombo finally got a call from Interpol. They had found these two men and they had interviewed them. And they told Sombo that when they informed these two guys that Noi and Audre had died, the two men seemed genuinely shocked. And then when they were asked, "Why were you so quickly on a flight out of Thailand back to Brazil?" They said, "No, no, no, no. There's nothing suspicious about it. We already had booked those tickets way in advance. We just got on the flight and left. There's nothing more to it." And so Interpol said they continued to press these guys and ask them, you know, hey, you were the last ones who were with these girls before they died. tell us about their condition. Tell us how you left them when you left the hotel at 6:00 a.m. And the two guys, they said, "Look, like they did seem like maybe they were already hung over or sort of sick from, you know, partying the night before. They definitely did seem a little bit down, but they were basically fine." However, Interpol said it was fairly interesting that the two men did admit that following, you know, their night out with No and Andre that the next two days they were stuck in bed themselves, totally sick, vomiting, ill. They didn't know what from, but they said they were very, very sick following their encounter with these two girls. Son thanked the Interpol officer and then hung up. And even though Sombo couldn't help but feel still pretty suspicious of these two Brazilian guys, he now was thinking, okay, well, if they said they got really sick after, you know, spending time with Noi and Audrey, maybe what happened here is, you know, all four of them got sick with something, some illness, and the guys survived it and the girls didn't. And so Son began to think of, you know, what type of illnesses could they have contracted? And the first thing that Sonboom began to think about that could have been an illness that all four of these tourists could have contracted was food poisoning. You know, tourists come to Thailand and try the local food and sometimes it makes them really, really sick. In particular, there were two types of food in Thailand that were sort of notorious for giving tourists just the worst food poisoning. One of them was a particular type of mushroom and another was blowfish. and these two items, you know, if your body reacted badly enough to them, it could be lethal. However, when Sombo got back the autopsy reports and the toxicology reports, he realized his theory about food poisoning was definitely wrong. So, it would turn out those drinks that the girls had with the guys in those big buckets, they were unique to Thailand. Those are not drinks that are served really anywhere else in the world. And that's because those drinks are just not safe. And for whatever reason, it sort of blossomed in Thailand and it's sort of an accepted thing. But when you hear the ingredients of what's in this drink, you'll understand why it's not like a sanctioned or more popular thing outside of this small part of the world. So there is no alcohol in these big buckets of liquid. Instead, it includes crushed up narcotics. It includes cough syrup and Coca-Cola and in some cases pesticide. In fact, specifically DE, which is the main ingredient in mosquito repellent. And wouldn't you know it, in the reports that Sombo got back, he saw both of these girls clearly had ingested DE, which again is a highly toxic chemical. However, despite learning this, even though this seemed to be clearly what happened here, this is a DE poisoning case. Soun's thinking to himself, how could this have happened? I mean, these drinks, which are called 4x100s, are pretty popular in Thailand. And people are not just turning up dead left and right. It's a dangerous drink, no doubt. But you know, people do not die with any regularity from drinking it. And so Sombo thought, you know, what must have happened here is whoever mixed this particular batch of 4x100s must have accidentally included too much DE. And so that would explain how, you know, the two girls died from DE poisoning. You know, too much DE in their drinks. and that very likely the guys as well consumed the same batch which had tons of DE in it but you know their bodies were able to withstand it and they survived it despite getting very very sick and so 9 days after the two girls had died their bodies were sent from Thailand back to Canada along with the Thai police's official findings that this was an accidental deep poisoning. However, when Noami and Audrey's remains arrived in Canada, they did not go straight to their family. Instead, they went to a leading coroner in Quebec whose name was Renee Rousell. So, by this point, the girl's parents were obviously heartbroken. But more than that, they were furious. The way they found out about the deaths of their daughters was on the media. I mean, despite the fact that the police were immediately called when the girls were found dead, the Thai police did not get in touch with the family. They only got in touch after their investigation was done, and they're like, "Hey, by the way, your daughters are dead." And uh it was a deep poisoning. It is what it is. Good luck. And so the parents felt like, are you kidding me? Like you didn't loop us in at all? We're spending days trying to get in touch with our daughters and you knew all along they were already dead. Like so the parents have no faith, no trust in the Thai police. And then to find out, wait a minute, so they they drank this drink that apparently is sold at this beach bar all the time and oh yeah, it killed them. No big deal. What? there's no warnings at this beach bar about how dangerous this drink is. Shouldn't there be like a tourist warning or something? And also, it's kind of a a lazy explanation that well, you know, the two guys they were with drank the same poison, but they didn't die just cuz and our daughters did. Like, that doesn't add up either. This whole thing feels like laziness, you know, at best or at worst a cover up. You know, maybe this looks really bad for Thailand that these tourists have died and it could have been prevented. And so the parents felt like we can't just take their explanation at face value. Like clearly something is going on here. Something's wrong. And apparently the Canadian government felt the same way as the parents. You know, this case was all over the news. And they also felt like, wait a minute, guys. Like we haven't looked closely enough at this. What's really going on here? And so it was actually the Canadian government who told Renee Rousel to go ahead and do another autopsy on these girls' remains. Let's really see if it was DE that killed them or maybe if it was something else. And when Renee checked Noami and Audrey's bodies, she did discover there was DE in their system. However, not nearly enough to kill them. So, while it seemed plainly obvious that yes, they must have consumed those 4x100 drinks, that couldn't have been the thing that actually killed them. However, Renee didn't find any other poisonous substances in these girls' bodies. like there wasn't another explanation. It just showed there was de but that was basically it. And so Renee, she's thinking like there's got to be some explanation here. And so Renee really began to do some serious research into this whole case. And eventually she found something. And it horrified her. It horrified the family. It horrified the world. It would turn out from Renee Rousel's additional research, Noami and Audrey were far from the first tourists to die this way in Thailand. Between 2009 and 2015, at least 20 tourists have been found dead under very similar circumstances. Now, Renee believed that what must have happened here is all these people, including Noi and Audrey, must have been poisoned, but the common denominator did not appear to be food or drink. It had to be something else that was poisoning them. something that was damaging blood vessels that would account for the blood under the fingernails and the gums, but also metabolized so quickly that after death, this particular poison could not be detected. And Renee figured out she was correct. So when Noami and Audrey first arrived in Thailand, they went to their hotel room and one of the first things that Noam did is she pulled back her sheets to check for bed bugs. you know, she wanted to make sure her bed was clean before she laid down and relaxed. And when she looked, it appeared clean. And it was because the sheets were clean. They had actually just been treated for bed bugs. So, there were no bed bugs. However, the way this hotel and other hotels, not just in Thailand, but in other parts of the world, the way they were treating for bed bugs, was by spraying the sheets with pesticide, specifically phosphine gas, which is highly toxic to bed bugs. So, it gets rid of the bed bugs, but it's also highly toxic to people. For reference, it is illegal to do this. You're not allowed to spray sheets with pesticide. And so based on all the evidence, it's believed that what actually happened to Noi, Audrey, and the two Brazilian men they were with is that they climbed into those beds on the night they came back. And you know, the men were in there with them for some time. And all four of them were being exposed to this phosphine gas. It was going in through their skin. They were breathing it in. And they likely had no idea. And so they're getting sicker and sicker. And then finally the two men, they get up out of the beds and they leave at 6:00 a.m. They've now been, you know, totally contaminated by this poison, but not enough to kill them. So they go home and over the next couple of days, they get really sick from their exposure to this gas. But Audrey and No, they didn't leave their bed. They stayed in those beds all night. And unfortunately, as they laid there, their bodies continued soaking in all of this poison. And their bodies just could not handle it. And so it eventually killed them. But despite learning this and despite the fact that clearly something illegal was done here, you cannot spray your bed sheets in a hotel with pesticide to get rid of the bed bugs. It's incredibly hazardous. You can't do it. Despite that, to this day, no one has been held accountable for these girls deaths. [Music] Thank you so much for watching. Let me know what you thought of today's episode in the comments. And remember, we have hundreds of videos for you to binge right now. But if you're looking for a recommendation from me of that one video that's worth your time, well, it's this one right here. So give it a watch. All right, until next time.

08/24/2025

The Vicious Story Of Lisa Straub & Johnny Clarke

today's case examines the brutal double homicide of a young couple in a quiet suburban neighborhood the case was unusual with a friend claiming to overhear the start of the attack over the phone [Applause] [Music] and as the investigation unfolded it seemed that many of those closest to the couple were unwilling to share what they knew with police did he sound like he was out of breath no did he sound like he was scared or nervous no did he sound like he knew them people that's why i said i think that whoever did it he knew it would take nearly a year for investigators to sift through the web of lies and half-truths before an arrest could be made yet ten years later questions remain do police really have their killer and who else was involved this is the disturbing case of johnny clark and lisa straub before we start we would like to send our deepest sympathies to the loved ones of johnny clark and lisa straub who fell victim to the abominable acts described in this case [Music] you [Music] love me it was mid-winter in toledo ohio snow covered the streets of the quiet suburban neighborhood of holland residents had long since turned in for the night but at 2161 long acre lane a nightmare was unfolding officers arrived at the house on long acre lane sometime just before 2 am they found there were lights on inside the home but no one was answering the door a search of the property revealed nothing suspicious and with no probable cause to break into the home they left 2161 long acre lane was the home of jeff and mary beth straub three days earlier the couple had left for a cruise to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary leaving their daughter 20 year old lisa straub and her boyfriend johnny clark age 21 in charge of the house lisa and johnny had been dating off and on since the summer of 2009 for the first time the pair had rented an apartment in toledo but with johnny attending barber school and lisa working part-time at tgi fridays while attending nursing college money was tight in december 2010 lisa's parents agreed to let the couple move back into the family home with their extended vacation coming up it seemed like an arrangement that would benefit everyone just three days after the straubs left for their cruise johnny's mother may t would place the first of four nine one one calls made that evening listen ma'am i am a concerned mother okay four [ __ ] cars were already out at this residence they're not there and kurt carr is in the driveway i want to know where my son's at okay i want to know where my son and his girlfriend are at i want to know if they got abducted by whoever tried to assault them and rob them and it's pretty funny that this girl named tiffany which is there right now by the residents waits two hours to call somebody and report this okay well like i said we were out there there was nothing going on there okay where is my son and his girlfriend and her purse in the driveway uh how would i know that man i need to report my son missing i have a feeling you set up my son my son is missing he's nowhere to be found officers returned to the house where they found several people waiting at the property johnny's parents metis and johnny clark metis cousin and tiffany the friend who had alerted johnny's mother to the concerning phone call police searched the property for a second time blinds and shutters prevented them from seeing inside the house and once again they left the clerks now searched the premises themselves at the back of the house mr clark spotted a window containing partially opened blinds he hoisted metis cousin up to peer through the slats you need to get the police out to the long acre lane my son is in the basement tied up at this house i just saw him through the window i the police were now here earlier and did absolutely nothing both cell phones are on the ground and we can see the people him and his girlfriend are tied up in the basement okay all right we'll get them out there get them out here we need to calm down we'll get them out there but you'll get me another contact they're unconscious ma'am oh okay you said they're unconscious yes okay all right before officers could arrive mr clark kicked in the front door on the floor of the kitchen he found johnny and lisa laying on the floor with their hands bound with duct tape and plastic bags over their head he ripped open the bags only to find that his son and lisa were dead i found them and i ripped off the bag off my son's head you found them tied up by how much bags are on their head and went to her and did the same detective jeff kozak who later would lead the investigation was the first on the scene soon it would be swarmed with police and forensic experts lisa and johnny lay on their backs on the kitchen floor both their hands and johnny's ankles had been bound with black duct tape plastic grocery bags had been placed over their heads and secured around their necks with duct tape their deaths would later be recorded as due to strangulation from the duct tape and exfixiation moving room by room investigators documented the crime scene downstairs a plant pot and a clock had been knocked over cabinets lay open broken pieces of a cell phone were scattered across the floor and a torn photo of the couple was left in the sun room the door between the garage and the kitchen showed signs of bowing at the deadbolt upstairs had been ransacked the master bedroom in particular dresser drawers were open and emptied and the mattress was pushed off of the box spring clothes had been flung around the walk-in closet and a dresser pushed forward a panel behind the dresser led to a crawl space that had been opened and a hole had been made in the drywall the lock on lisa's bedroom door showed inward impact damage if this was a botched robbery it was a strange one six envelopes containing 4. 6 million in iraqi dinars was left discarded the equivalent of about 4 500 other valuables including laptops and jewelry were also untouched only two twenty dollar bills were taken from the house clearly the perpetrators had been looking for something specific police began piecing together a picture of what had happened the perpetrators they believed had entered the house via the garage door johnny and lisa had likely spotted them and attempted to block them from entering the house hence the damage to the internal door at some point lisa had likely fled and locked herself in her bedroom before the door had been forced inward police concluded that more than one perpetrator must have been involved the timing of the attack suggested they knew the straubs were away and therefore had some connection to the couple other clues suggested the attack had been planned the duct tape had been brought to the house as well as the plastic bags and then there was the unusual mo these murders would have taken time to execute they smacked to police of something personal on march 1st police announced at their press conference their belief that johnny and lisa had been specifically targeted news of the double homicide in the suburban neighborhood made national headlines police came under fire by journalists for failing to enter the home earlier joey jackson do you realize that the police in coming there two different times the first time they stayed i think 11 minutes the second time they came 30 minutes they knew that the 911 said that the son and said who are you why are you here and it's the family that had to find the bodies with the plastic bags over the heads this is a horrific circumstance by all means gene you know i mean listen in terms of probable cause or objective standard whatever you want to call it there's more than ample here you have a phone call to 911 repeatedly by the mother you have the the girl who's describing the friend who's saying it's ransacked the lights are on you have the car there and they're not there it's problematic and even if you say there was no objective credible reason or probable cause gene what about an exigent circumstance something needed to be done something needed to be done immediately and it wasn't done and it's unfortunate and i hate to besmirch the character of our members in blue they protect us they keep us safe but something is amiss reporters and internet sleuths meanwhile went into overdrive speculating over motives and digging into the backgrounds of everyone involved and there was plenty of dirt to uncover both johnny and lisa had grown up in loving homes they had been well adjusted and they were athletic teens who were liked by all of their peers but teenage partying had turned into regular drug use and by 2011 both were habitual users of pharmaceutical painkillers at 18 johnny had spent a year in jail for robbing two men at gunpoint former friends had distanced themselves their social circle had come to include some seriously shady characters many with long rap sheets for drug and violence related crimes police now depended on this community for leads on the couple's killers of the numerous items taken from the house only small samples of dna evidence had been recovered these had been lifted from the duct tape binding johnny the inside of johnny's pockets johnny's cell phone and a half a dozen cigarette butts including one that had been conspicuously discarded near the door to the garage this dna identified as belonging to five different unknown males and females no matches were found for the profiles on codis detectives were left with the job of collecting dna samples from all of those connected with the couple in the coming weeks they would collect dna swabs from nearly 40 people and conduct dozens of interviews in an attempt to establish potential leads it would be a process more complicated than anyone could have imagined many of the couple's so-called friends were reluctant to divulge information that could put them on the wrong side of the wrong people or implicate themselves in a different felony many had had issues with johnny who owed money to people and had a reputation for bragging and a recent rumor had circulated that lisa's parents owned a safe containing a hundred thousand dollars a topic that had been discussed at length during a party just weeks before the murders front and center of the police attention was tiffany williams a girl who had overheard the start of the attack police would interview tiffany several times along with 17 year old zachary burkett who had gone with tiffany to the house two hours after receiving the troubling call at the time of the interviews tiffany was pregnant to a man named ap ap was the ex-boyfriend of a girl called alex casino they were names that would crop up again and again throughout the investigation tiffany told police that she and zack had planned to meet the couple that night which involved getting some pills and shooting some pool at the straub home johnny had agreed to pick them up from east toledo after lisa had finished her shift at tgi friday at 10 pm at 10 41 pm tiffany had called johnny to let him know they were heading out but would be back in time for their lift let's talk about talking to johnny and lisa was there supposed to be a party no no party there wasn't supposed to be a party they didn't invite anybody else no it was the last minute hey do you guys want to come over and play pool okay a last minute thing nobody knew what was going on and what time do you remember about what time you guys were was this on the phone yeah all right or texting no it was on we were on the phone but you're texting too at the same time no i mean if you're not okay no i had text lisa while she was at work because we had talked to johnny and johnny said they were going to get pills when lisa got off work and i was like can you find on me one and i'll give you the money back tomorrow he said he had to ask lisa so i text lisa's phone that's where the texting came in okay then by the time lisa got off work which was at i'm guessing 10 o'clock at least that text me back and was like you know i thought you was a friend and then that's when i called he said like no no no you took that in the wrong way it wasn't nothing like that tiffany is referring to an argument she had had with the couple three days earlier over drugs i want to go over that conversation again in detail that's fine all right you call johnny on the phone how many times did it ring you think um once or twice okay one to two rings picked it right out you know it was johnny yes how long of a pause before he said anything he didn't say hello all right so he never said anything never said hello so all right so you're on the phone how long before you hear anything on the phone did you what did you like as soon as he picked it up he didn't say hello to me but he was like bro what are you doing all right i want to get this down again bro what are you doing okay okay and he said that approximately three times okay then all right let me give me his voice was it bro what are you doing or bro what are you doing yeah just like that he sounded pi**ed yeah did he sound scared no he just started pi**ed just pi**ed yeah all right so you hear bro what are you doing three times johnny sounds pi**ed all right then what'd he say then the next thing he said was who the hell are you how many times um once and then that's when i heard the other person in the background but i couldn't hear what he was saying so you overheard a voice in the background you sure was a guy a positive it was a guy have you ever heard it before no well i really couldn't tell you know what i mean but okay all right so then what then he asked again bro what are you doing after he said after the three times he started here he said it again yeah and that's when this guy was talking so that's why i couldn't hear him is because johnny was saying um bro what are you doing once again all right did you hear anything in the background like a door closed footsteps it sounded like johnny was did he sound pi**ed here again did he sound pi**ed here yeah did he sound like he was out of breath no did he sound like he was scared or nervous no did he sound like he knew them people that's why i said i think that whoever did it he knew did zach talk about the inside of that house did he say anything did you ever hear johnny talking about a safe in that house never once heard johnny talk about a safe in the house never i never heard johnny talk about money being in that house the only thing that johnny ever bragged about was lisa's family had money okay that was the only thing why had she not called authorities right away tiffany told detectives there were drugs in the house and she didn't want anyone to get in trouble but she hadn't phoned anyone else for two hours despite lisa or johnny no longer responding to calls or messages and there were inconsistencies in her account that bothered police tiffany told detectives that johnny's last words had been tiff i'll call you back but she told johnny's mother metis that she heard johnny drop the phone he couldn't do both metis had also told dispatch that tiffany had been concerned when she'd gone by the house because it looked like it had been ransacked but officers who had visited the house that night reported being unable to see inside seventeen-year-old zack agreed to take a polygraph test which he failed but with no other evidence linking the couple to the crime police turned their attentions to other leads phone records showed that minutes before tiffany's call to johnny at 10 41 pm johnny had phoned a close family friend according to this friend johnny had repeatedly told her that he was waiting for a visit from a dealer called anthony watson as it happened police had also received a tip that anthony had been implicating his brother chris in the crime police now called anthony in for questioning did you see johnny that day nope i didn't see anything at all what time did you start talking to johnny on the phone i probably talked to him in the morning but when i started talking to him like i i mean i talked to him every day all day you know what i'm saying okay but yeah but that's what i'm um he probably caught me in the morning when he woke up around like one you know when he sleeps in a lot sleeping a lot so you probably call me around noon one and i probably talk to him and then when i talked to him i think i talked to him when i got my mom's house and then when i left we talked did he call your mom's house or are you on yourself household myself home so johnny called in the afternoon but you never saw him not that day when did you guys start making plans for him to come over well i was about to leave my mom's house boy he said he was going to when he um gets he gets home he's a good tough work he's going to come over and then it ended up being i think about like 9 9 30 when we got home from my mom's house and i was talking to him on the phone and about 10 10 30 he called me said he was gonna come over and like no it's too late i'm going to go i'm going to sleep around school in the morning well we've interviewed a lot of people you know i mean you know we've talked to a lot of people i mean you here yeah they come down and talk to cops do you have a feeling about who might have done this the person i thought had done it i already passed an eye detector test so you know person i had my mind the only person i could pop up and be like oh i think he did all right detectives you're talking about ap yeah all right who do you think you'd have done it with see i said i had no idea you know i know i think you do have it i know who it was when ap did came into my house you know what i'm saying who was he with uh well this is what the word on the street was he was with mike gonzalez and um adam gonzalez it was m3 when they robbed you ap was with mike and adam gonzalez that's what the word on the street was you know what i mean the ap anthony mentions here is the same ap that tiffany had spent hours with on the day of the murders and who was the father of her baby that's the warrior that was aware of the street that wasn't it for facts for sure i never even know if you like what did it right what he said all right let's let's take mike and adam gonzalez out of that picture right there and you got ap who else i had no idea to be honest no idea what about chris my brother yeah you know like they tried to kill me you know like my brother's not hanging out with ap you know they came in my house shooting he ain't gonna hang out with ap he don't like the kid he wanted to fight him and i was like bro just leave it alone i don't know if he's the one did it you know what i'm saying well i'm gonna come right out and ask you do you ever make the statement i think my brother chris did this no you didn't say that to anybody so if more than one person would have sat here and told me that tone said that he thinks his brother would have done this everybody else is lying yeah it has to be ain't here for my mouth i'll tell you that people talk you know i know people talk to people i think you're lying to me right now anthony i think you have a feeling who might have done this and the reason you have that feeling is because do you know something i know nothing anthony suggested that police look more closely at another of the couple's friends a girl by the name of alex casino 21 year old alex was a single mom of two who had been involved in two bust-ups with johnny one just two months prior to the murders in october 2010 johnny and lisa had visited alex and noticed she had a pitbull puppy that wasn't being cared for properly they offered to buy it off her and agreed to pay a hundred dollars but they only ever paid 50.

alex admitted to police that she had been furious at the time but they soon resolved the issue then around thanksgiving 2010 alex bought a car off johnny who according to zack was desperate for cash not long after she had made the first payment of 750 half of the full amount to the car the car had broken down alex refused to give more money for the car did you use with johnny pills yeah smoke w**d did you buy your w**d from johnny yeah did you buy your pills who'd you buy your w**d from i mean i know all the players in this thing yeah i really do i know you do but see there's a lot of like with this whole situation like i'm from the east side i'm not from the south side so like a lot of people there i know i really don't know because they they won't like talk to me they won't have nothing because i am from the east side all right all right so okay after johnny and lisa broke up you guys sleep together did you still see johnny every so often you're just like in traffic bumping each other like out and about you know okay but like we didn't really hang on or nothing like that johnny had some good friends jerry had a lot of good friends right uh he had uh well one one of his good friends was tiffany did you know tiffany yeah i know tiffany her father child's father was killed in the house so i know tiffany okay and we don't get along you don't get along with tiffany you talk to zach a lot on the phone a lot i know i come all the time so you've talked you've talked to zach a lot since this whole thing's happened that's like i wouldn't that zack's like my family knows that my kids know that like they love him what's what's that been like since the homicide how has he been active the same same as always yeah but i know zach's got a real bad pill problem no bad that's why i'm glad he's doing that right now i just actually unless they took my letter there's um i wrote like a letter the whole time the whole entire time where i mean basically i felt like he was putting me in a corner because he kept begging me to buy the car off i'm like he really need the money i really need the money i really need the money like okay well i had the 1500 but i didn't want to give him all my money so i told him i'll give you half where'd you get that kind of buddy where'd you get fifteen hundred dollars just from like you know holidays and stuff no but um no i don't know just from around all right but um so i tell him that you know i'd rather wait he's just pestering me will not stop like he's begging me like he's really literally begging me like and i was johnny like i i'm what if you just you know take off of that money you know and so by the time we got back to zack's house we reached and agreed with how to give him half money 7. 50 and then it was a big situation with his mom his mom is like certified like crazy you're talking about my day yeah yeah certified like crazy like before this happened she was nuts okay so now you've got the car well see that that night everything was like you know on eggshells with my tape out the car but the next day things were fine like it wasn't it was a big deal but it wasn't a big deal because she knows johnny made that decision okay well it was johnny's car exactly he bought that money with his mother bought that car with his money she was just trying to you know be a mom and i understand though she was working out honestly i didn't even want to buy the car like i thought diners would not stop like he was so incessant it was just i just like shut up here take it like i don't even care i do need the car i got the money for it so just shut up please okay so did you ever you never got it transferred into your no never got switched over because i was gonna wait so i finished paying him all right so you didn't pay the rest because the car the tire fell off did you hit something no did you no pothole did you have a guardrail no i didn't hit anything how long after you bought the car to the wheel followed a week and a half maybe two weeks ago this is after you've moved to barry street okay johnny's father had picked up the car from alex and would later testify that alex had threatened johnny over the phone others would later testify that alex had also threatened lisa alex willingly gave her dna to police which was not a match she told detectives that she believed someone had murdered johnny and lisa over money owed and johnny she said owed thousands anthony watson returned to police with a scenario he'd heard from a female friend in which three men including someone by the name of samuel williams had attempted to rob the straub home he told police that according to the girl they had been looking for he**in and the rumored safe it wasn't faced you know i mean i guess it wasn't scene by face but it was you know i mean i guess it was from what it was she told me they were mascots who was messed up max though old masking oh okay so he confronted somebody yeah when he walked out and they pushed him back inside they brought them back inside and that's when they all went damaged from the house and couldn't find they couldn't find no safe nothing so i guess they started checking in walls anthony told detectives that the woman had also placed herself at the scene of the crime she was someone that police had already interviewed several times he said who had previously slept with johnny but now passionately hated him after this tip-off a pending felony burglary charge against anthony would be reduced to a misdemeanor but any further cooperation he could have offered ended with his life in 2018 when he was gunned down by an unknown assailant police now had a breakthrough the newport cigarette butt found near the garage door contained dna evidence that was a 50-50 match for two individuals samuel williams and cameo pedoway the same sam who had been named in the tip-off by anthony watson twenty-two-year-old sam williams had been in and out of jail for years sam and cameo were childhood friends and known to share a cigarette or two cameo had done several stints in prison and had reportedly been overheard saying he was looking for a big hit sam it seemed had been trying to turn his life around he had received his ged in 2010 and by the autumn of 2011 was studying sociology and criminal justice police arrested sam while out buying ci******es he would later say that he thought it was for a probation violation over domestic violence charges and had only become worried when he saw the fbi badges you know a guy named johnny clark if you don't know john clark you know a young lady named lisa straub no don't know johnny clark you don't know lisa slaw straw have you ever been to that house since springfield township no okay you're sure um positive all right all right 100 positive all right some more names yeah you know what i'm gonna throw some names at you you know you tell me you know you know what tom watson you know tom anthony tone always hangs out with uh i know a couple tonys but not you don't go by its own well anthony tony um hangs with a dude mixed dude zach fatzak you know who is it tony you know yeah i know one from the east side um starla my baby mom's other baby dad anthony wolf can we get to the to the meat of what we want to talk to you about then we no problem at that house last winter did you hear anything about it no okay a couple kids were following dead in there young adults and uh they were probably the victim of a burglary they got bum rushed into place you know what we're talking about bum rush somebody just crashes in on you maybe robs you or burglarizes your house i mean you know what we're talking about now okay so that's what happened to these young people so how did my name get brought up in this science i don't understand how well remember when these guys respond to a scene and they go in there you're a criminal justice major right he's cordoned off the area everybody that is involved in that scene goes in they start collecting evidence okay these guys collected a lot of evidence and they had a lot of evidence tested for dna do you know what dna is okay explain to us what you think dna is [Music] skin cells hair follicles all that stuff gives up an individual's individual characteristics do you buy that based on what you've been taught in school i haven't i'm only doing my like basic courses or no i'm not doing they will tell you soon enough that dna is like fingerprints you know there's no two fingerprints that are alike there's no two dnas that are alike now when these guys collected a lot of pieces of evidence in there that were involved in this crime we sent it down to bowling green for testing okay and items in that scene came back with your dna on it okay you know how do you explain that how can we explain that i don't know i know you've never been to that house never mind don't know those kids i don't know them people and your dna's in that house you have no idea do you understand where that puts you do you understand where this is going in september 2011 sam pled not guilty to the murders of johnny clark and lisa straub soon after cameo pedoway was arrested and indicted as an accomplice the entire case for both rested on a small amount of dna found on a single cigarette butt but within days that would change while being held at the lucas county jail sam began making phone calls using another inmate's pin a tactic to evade police tracking phone calls on specific inmates the calls were made to stephen pettaway cameo's brother and the content of those calls were damning during one call sam said when you was in the joint man we took off man that was supposed to be me and you but you know little bro had to step up and take your spot man stephen pettaway responded yeah but you know he ain't gonna he ain't gonna do it right like i would do it right in a later interview with investigative journalist brian duggar sam would claim that the calls were taken out of context sam claimed he had been referring to the prostitution racket he had going on with stephen pettaway not the murders in another conversation he told stephen that he'd effed up and was going away for a long time but this he said was a reference to not having sold the drugs that he had in order to afford a decent lawyer meanwhile a woman named destiny madrid came forward claiming that she was with sam the night of the murder he was with me that night and i want to say i'm not quite sure but i want to say that we had went to the bedford hotel that night but i'm not sure i haven't went to the hotel i don't know if i can go to the hotel and get the like records all right what if i cleared up for you what if i tell you that you're not on the video with the bottom line on that night what do you mean the bottom line is video right you or sam are not on that video that night inside the bottom line or whatever bar that was was it the bottom line yeah we were sitting right by the front door like that table by the front door it was like right there there was four seats and i don't know who the other guy that was with us but i know it was me sam and larry and then there was another person but i don't know what his name was but we were sitting like here's the door and the table like right there we were sitting right there what was that tv that night the nfc football game the nfc oh the championship game yeah it was i want to say it was a sunday to be honest i want to say it was a sunday that we were there because sundays they normally have karaoke but i think the karaoke was not there that night detective kozak's challenge was a bluff the bar had no cctv camera but despite this destiny would never be called on to testify at sam's trial soon afterwards a jailhouse informant by the name of eric yingling came forward yingling was being held on the same floor of the lucas county jail as sam and had gained his trust by explaining that he'd already been sentenced and therefore had nothing to gain from being a snitch yingling told police that sam had gone into elaborate detail on his role in the murders of johnny and lisa this is an abbreviated version of his account he did tell me that he went through the garage and there was an entrance door to the home johnny clark was on the phone and he said that he went into the house and they started yelling and getting violent with it and johnny clark told lisa to go upstairs and they started yelling and screaming about where's the diesel where's the money and they're telling them there's nothing there they were searching for the stuff and couldn't find anything lisa had gone upstairs and went into a locked room sam had to push his way through the locked door to get in there and bring her out and bring her downstairs they were trying to torture lisa for lack of better words to motivate johnny to tell them hey here's where the money is here's where the drugs are and it never happened on the third time that lisa passed out she never woke up sam and cameo at that point went into the garage while they were in the garage eric taylor was inside killing johnny clark cam pettaway by sam's word is the one who had killed lisa straub they did not go there to kill anybody yingling also said that they had found some foreign currency in the straub home but they didn't know how to exchange it for u.

s currency the jury trials for the two men took place simultaneously in july of 2012 on different floors of the same courthouse the defense team in both trials argued that there had been errors made in collecting the evidence at the crime scene and that nothing definitely proved the cigarette butt had been left there the night of the murder or left there by sam or cameo neither sam nor cameo were the source of the dna found on the duct tape johnny's clothing or the broken cell phone the prosecution argued that gloves may have been worn cameo pettaway was acquitted on the grounds that the burden of proof had not been met the prosecution of sam williams however had not only the dna evidence but the jailhouse phone calls and the testimony of informant eric yingling detective kozak testified that the information about the iraqi currency was not public knowledge and something only the killer had known on july 27 2012 a jury found samuel todd williams guilty of two counts of aggravated murder kidnapping and burglary he was sentenced to two life terms without the possibility of parole justice had prevailed or had it in 2021 a deep dive investigation into the case by journalist brian duggar explored the various holes in the case against sam williams duggar revealed that information about the iraqi dinars had been public knowledge as early as three days after the murder it was mentioned on cnn yingling later admit that his wife had researched the case online during sam's trial his alibi for the night of the murders and the evidence and affidavits supporting that were not made available destiny madrid had been arrested for obstructing justice shortly after her interview with police sam maintained in his interview with duggar that he was at the bottom line bar on the night of january 30th for a friend's 21st birthday i know that i was at the bottom line bar watching the pro bowl with a few other people which one was destiny madrid the girl that got arrested on my case um my cousin larry gillhouse was there eddie flores um was there and there was other people that was in that bar obviously sam also claimed that phone records showed that his phone pinged off a cell tower near the bar at 10 27 pm 20 miles from the home of lisa's parents placing him far away from the scene of the call that was overheard by tiffany at 10 41 pm the call was to destiny who was on her way to the bar but sam admits that he had at least three cell phones at the time of the murders and there was no proof that the number he refers to was his about one thing there seems to be a consensus it would have taken more than one man to overpower johnny and lisa curiously cameo pedoway's cell phone did not receive or send any messages or calls from 6 35 pm on january 30th until 12 59 am on january 31st journalist brian duggar is pushing for police to use more advanced dna technology to help identify the other perpetrators in the attack one person in particular he suggests has not shared all that she knows with police that person he says is alex casino alex was the only person who knew both sam williams and johnny clark alex had known sam since she was 13 years old and considered him as a brother prior to their arrests alex admitted that she hung out a lot very often with sam and cameo during her court testimony she admitted to sending this threatening message to a girl in the early morning hours of february first just two days after the murders paraphrasing you don't know me i do this kind of thing watch the news these people get duct taped and tied up and left for dead you should have asked me and i would have told you who i am period and there are others too in september 2016 johnny's parents along with police veteran frank ramirez were convicted of hatching a plot to kill tiffany williams after firing shots at her from a car tiffany claimed in court that she had been stalked and harassed since the night of the murders meanwhile friends and family of both lisa and johnny were left to pick up the pieces i feel numb to the whole situation i just it's been very tough on me again she was my best friend so i've kind of just and for parents there's no respite from the pain if you found this case compelling don't forget to like the video comment down below your take on it and please subscribe to the channel also hit the notification bell in order to stay up to date each time we reveal a new shocking case until next time stay safe and keep your eyes peeled you never know what's lurking in the shadows

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