Real Talk With Jayden Perkins

In October 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the landlord of an apartment complex in the Tacony neighborhood went to inspect the apartment owned by then 51-year-old Linda Ann Weston after receiving reports of suspicious activity. The landlord went into the apartment and discovered four mentally disabled adults locked in the basement in deplorable conditions as part of a Social Security benefit fraud scheme. They were all huddled under a stained, urine-soaked blanket in the cold, dark boiler room that was 6 feet tall by 15 feet wide. One of the men was even chained to the boiler. Linda and four others, including her own daughter, were arrested and charged. But a look at Linda’s background showed an extremely sinister past.

On January 3rd, 2022 in Slaughter, Louisiana, police received a call from Sheila & Clay Fletcher regarding their disabled daughter, 36 year old Lacey Ellen Fletcher, who was unresponsive on their couch. When the police arrived, the crime scene uncovered over a decade of horrible abuse and neglect.

Brenda Spencer was a girl who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction as a teenager. After her parents separated, her and her father Wallace Spencer slept on a single mattress on the floor that was littered with empty beer bottles. In the summer of 1978, she was arrested for shooting out the windows of the elementary school across the street from her house. After this incident, it was suggested that Brenda be admitted to a mental hospital for chronic depression, but her father refused to let her go there. For Christmas that year, he bought her a Ruger semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition. Acquaintances said Spencer showed a lot of hostility toward policemen, had spoken about shooting one, and had talked of doing something big to get on television. On January 29, 1979, she did just that.

Monroe Betterton by all accounts seemed to be a normal guy living a normal life with his wife Elizabeth and their several children. But it seemed that once he got angry, a switch flipped inside his head and he became an entirely different person. During one of the many arguments between him and his wife, he beat her until she was unconscious, as she later died from her injuries. Somehow, Monroe wasn’t charged for this fatal assault and he quickly married another woman. However, things didn’t go so smoothly again, as two years later, he and his second wife got into an argument, and in his drunken state, he stabbed her three times, even pouring whiskey on her face as she was dying on the ground. He was sentenced to 99 years, but he was somehow paroled after 11. And of course, he got married again.

The story of David Edwin Mason’s life was the result of childhood neglect combined with an undiagnosed mental illness. Even as a young kid, he suffered from abuse in multiple ways, while also not being mentally strong enough to deal with the bullying he received. As a teenager, he experimented with multiple ways to commit suicide, like hanging, cutting, throwing himself down the stairs and even setting himself on fire. David then turned his aggression outwards and began attacking fellow classmates and teachers, getting into several run-ins with the law. After a failed stint in the Marine Corps, he went back to his criminal ways, even resorting to murder seemingly for menial financial gains, as his victims were the most vulnerable of our society. Even behind prison walls, his thirst for blood couldn't be quenched.

Danny Figueroa was just like any other kid before the invention of cellphones, as he loved being outside and spending time in nature. But these habits still carried on into adulthood, as it seemed like Danny’s mental state remained that of an adolescent. He called himself a survivalist, infatuated with military fatigues and sleeping outdoors, as he wandered through the woods with his rifle. In his twisted mind, he was on the battlefield scoping out the enemy. But in reality, innocent people were on the other end of the gun.

On Saturday, June 4, 1966 in Westminster, CA, police received a strange call. 19 year old Robert Liberty told them that his girlfriend Marcella Landis was dead in their apartment. When the cops showed up, Marcella was found just like Robert had described. But her body was sprawled on the couch with a silk stocking wrapped around her neck, candles lit around her from head to toe and a Bible on her chest. Even more strangely, Robert was sitting next to her body, strumming a guitar. He was quickly taken into custody, but a judge ruled him insane, and he was found not guilty of the murder due to insanity. Only 3 years later, Robert was released from the mental hospital as a free man, and as you might expect, the killing continued.

Nestor Pirotte had come from humble beginnings, but since he and his brothers played with the children of the aristocrats, he started to claim that he was a part of that group. When he grew up and eventually joined the military, he still had these claims, but he admitted to stealing from his comrades and other forms of theft. At the age of 21, he believed that his aunt had sold cattle and had a large amount of money, so Nestor grabbed an iron bar and beat her to death, only to find out that the money was already spent. But even after receiving a life sentence for this murder, he gamed the system multiple times, being able to roam Belgium freely and keep killing.

Leopoldine Kasparek seemed to have a good life, coming from a respectable Austrian family while also being married to a man that worked at her father’s coffeehouse. Once her husband was called to serve in World War 1, her newfound freedom led to a sinister change in her personality. She began to commit several thefts and robberies, but she received very little prison time. Leopoldine then escalated her crimes to befriending wealthy old women before strangling them and ransacking their homes. Her cruelty knew no bounds, as she even lit one of her victims on fire. Multiple women were dead before she was caught, making this one of the most sensational cases in Austrian history.

On May 27, 2018 in Springfield, Massachusetts,  Stewart Weldon saw that he was about to get pulled over for a busted taillight, so he floored it. The chase ended when he tried to ram a police car and his vehicle stalled. As the cops approached the car, they saw a woman tied up in the backseat. She yelled to the officer that she was being kidnapped and Stewart was arrested. The woman told the police that she was held captive for a month, repeatedly beaten and raped. For some reason, the police didn’t bother to search his house. It was only until Stewart’s mother informed them that she smelled something foul at her house, three days after the incident . As the police searched, they found the decomposing bodies of three women.

On November 18, 1994, Belinda Hinton was concerned about her brother Jay, as he failed to contact her on her birthday. Her fiance William went to check on him, but he had to break a back window to get in the house. Almost immediately, he was met with a foul odor, and with his room in disarray, William knew something was wrong. He then found the decomposing body of his brother-in-law. Jay’s face was crushed by a concrete stone sitting near his body, but the marks on his neck indicated that he was strangled to death. He had five broken ribs and multiple abrasions on his arms and legs, while also having a rag and toilet paper stuffed in his mouth. A receipt with the name of Tim Whitfield was found at the scene and a possible lead was formed, but it wouldn’t take long for the police to find their man, whose real name was Gary Ray Bowles. But as the authorities looked more into him, they learned that Jay wasn’t the only victim.

Wayne Henry Garrison seemed to have murderous urges at a young age, as he had already killed 2 children before he turned 18, as one was his 4 year old cousin, and the other was a random 3 year old boy that he kidnapped. For the second murder, he plead guilty to second degree manslaughter and out of jail before he graduated high school. Since he wasn’t properly punished, his pedophilic urges were allowed to continue, and it was only a matter of time before he claimed another victim, but he almost got away with this one.

Shirley Landruth was working the hotline for Shasta County’s Secret Witness program when she started receiving strange calls from a man in 1985. The line allowed people to provide details on unsolved crimes, sometimes for reward money. With the system being anonymous, the calls were never recorded, however, this particular caller was strange. The man gave precise directions to the location of a body, and over the next few years, that same man with the same distinctive voice called over 20 times. He reported various minor offenses, but the most peculiar part was that he gave the locations to 2 more bodies, something that raised the eyebrows of Shirley and the police.

On June 22,1990 in Tallahassee, Florida, Robbie Faye Vann was waiting in her car while her family shopped in the mall. Suddenly, a man armed with a knife attempted to steal her car, and Robbie fought back. She tried to honk the horn, and the man stabbed her 20 times, killing her. The car crashed and he fled on foot, but he was captured in a backyard, with the knife still in his hand. The suspect’s name was Donald Dillbeck, a convicted murderer who managed to escape from a prison catering event.

Rosemary Ndlovu was a relatively normal person growing up in South Africa. She joined the police force and worked her way up to become a sergeant. But unbeknownst to everyone, she had a gambling addiction, and she was in deep water with loan sharks. In order to clear her debts, she took out dozens of life insurance policies on her family members, hiring hitmen to kill them, although she wasn’t above murder herself. Even after she had earned over a million rand due to the deaths of six of her family members, her greed knew no bounds. She then plotted on her mother, her sister and her five children. But when one of the potential victims included a 5 month old baby, the hitman was disgusted and informed the police, who set up a sting operation. While an undercover policeman posing as a hitman drove her to her destination, Rosemary, unaware that was being recorded, gave the undercovers a detailed plan of how to execute this murder,but she was immediately arrested, putting an end to one of the country’s most sensa

To say that Axel Rudakubana was a violent kid would be a massive understatement. Even as a preteen, he frequently watched graphic videos of people getting killed and was obsessed with genocide. While in high school, he called a child helpline, admitting that he wanted to kill a kid that was bullying him, as he was expelled after admitting to bringing a knife to school 10 different times. Somehow, he was able to get the materials to make poison, as well as downloading a training manual from Al-Qaida. Now with his mind made up, he took a taxi under a fake name, stopping at the Hart Space, a dance studio where a group of little girls were doing yoga and making bracelets. Axel, wearing a hoodie and a face-mask walked in through the front door and did the unthinkable.

Tony Amati was someone who was considered to be highly intelligent, even exhibiting symptoms of OCD. After he graduated high school with Honors in 1994,it seemed like his whole personality changed. This supposedly normal guy had turned evil, recruiting his friends to help him rob a gun store. After they made off with a massive haul, Tony and his friends would then go around Las Vegas, shooting people, simply for the fun of it. After blood evidence linked him to one of the murders,he became the prime suspect. His two accomplices would be caught after they sold their stolen guns to undercover police, but Tony went on the run, using multiple fake IDs to avoid capture as he was even added to the FBI’s ten most wanted list.

The Briley brothers, Linwood, James and Anthony were growing up in Richmond, Virginia. Although the neighbors knew them as helpful, providing assistance with car repairs and lawn maintenance, the brothers would change once their parents separated. Their dad apparently kept his door padlocked overnight to protect himself from the three boys. In January of 1971, Linwood, only 16, aimed his rifle out of the window and shot his neighbor for no reason, killing her. However, his lawyer convinced the judge that it was only an accidental shooting and he only served a year in jail. After this, the three brothers along with another accomplice would embark on one of the deadliest killing sprees in the history of Virginia.

Gwen Graham arrived at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1986. She then met Cathy Wood, her supervisor on the floor. The two developed a close relationship, as they eventually fell in love with each other. But their bond took a deadly turn, as they decided to kill the patients they looked after to strengthen their love bond. Cathy would be the lookout while Gwen smothered defenseless victims to death, as the two would make a game out of it. Nobody was on to them until 1988, when Cathy’s ex husband waited over a year to divulge her secrets. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jaypeezy/support

Guy Georges was rejected early on, as he was given away by his mother because of the attitude towards mixed race kids in their hometown. He was made a ward of the state, before he was adopted by a family who had 7 biological children along with 13 foster children. At 14, Guy started stealing food from stores and carrying a knife around. He then attempted to strangle his mentally disabled sister, before attempting to strangle his other sister with an iron bar. His foster mother was fed up and sent him to a psychiatric hospital. After he was released, he continued to commit crimes ,mainly stalking and attacking multiple women in the area. Even though he was always caught for these assaults, his punishments were very light and he was able to run free in the streets as a violent sexual predator, as he soon progressed to murder, leading to the biggest manhunt in the history of France. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jaypeezy/support