"GRANDDAUGHTER'S INSULIN MURDER PLOT, TEACHER DROWNS 4-YEAR-OLD & AI CHATBOT TELLS MAN TO KILL"
Reid Carter returns from Labor Day's family massacre series with cases proving Tuesday's criminals are equally vile. Wisconsin granddaughter Jessy Kurczewski gets a slap on the wrist for poisoning her grandmother with insulin after stealing $300,000. British nursery teacher Jacob Chouffot convicted of raping and drowning his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter in the bathtub. Utah father Erik Soelberg kills his family after an AI chatbot allegedly encouraged violence. And Maine's Dezi Freeman murders his parents then goes on a shooting spree. From insulin overdoses to AI-assisted murder, Tuesday proves evil doesn't take holidays - it just gets more creative with its methods.
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0:03 Callarogashark Media. Good morning. I'm Reed Carter. Tuesday, September two, twenty twenty five. I hope you all spent yesterday watching videos of puppies playing with butterflies or unicorns frolicking in meadows. Anything to wash the taste of those family annihilators out of your brain. Chris Watts, John List, Jeffrey MacDonald Three Fathers who Redefined Evil. If you made it through all three episodes, congratulations, you now understand that the nuclear family can literally go nuclear. But guess what. The courts were closed for Labor Day weekend, which means the criminals kept working while justice took a holiday, and the cases that piled up aren't any prettier than what we covered this weekend.
0:53 Today a Wisconsin woman who poisoned her grandmother with insolin for money and basically got away with it. A British nursery school teacher who raped and drowned his girlfriend's four year old daughter, an AI chatbot that allegedly told a Utah man to murder his family, and a mainshooter who killed his parents before going on a rampage. Welcome back to your regularly scheduled programming of human depravity. This is celebrity trials. Let's start in Wisconsin, where the justice system just gave a masterclass in how to get away with murder if you're a young white woman who cries convincingly.
1:34 Jesse Kirchewsky, thirty nine, was just sentenced for killing her grandmother, excuse me, her best friend, as she called her, sixty two year old Lynn Hernan. And when I tell you this sentence, you're going to think I'm joking. Ten months in jail for murder. Ten months. Here's what this sociopath did. Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one. Kirchevsky systematically stole three hundred thousan dollars from Lynn Hernan. Three hundred thousand dollars from a woman who trusted her, who left her everything in her will, who called her the daughter she never had. When the money ran low and Lynn started asking questions, Kirchevsky had a solution. Insulin. Lynn Hernan wasn't diabetic, she had no reason to have insulin in her system, but when she was found dead in October twenty twenty one, her blood sugar was through the floor and insulin levels were through the roof. Kotchevsky's story suicide. She claimed Lynn was depressed and killed herself with insulin, because that's how depressed people kill themselves with a medication they don't have for a disease they don't have. When that didn't work, Kirchevsky tried another story. Lynn must have accidentally taken insulin thinking it was something else, oops grabbed the wrong injection that she didn't own and wouldn't have had access to.
2:55 Investigators found Kotchevsky's DNA on the insulin pen, her fingerprints on the viles, her Google searches for insulin overdose death and how long does insulin take to kill? But here's the kicker. She'd been practicing. Investigators found evidence that Kirchevsky had been giving Lynn small doses of insulin for months, watching the effects, calibrating the lethal dose. This wasn't a crime of passion. This was a granddaughter experimenting on her grandmother like she was a labrat. The prosecution had everything. Financial records showing the theft, medical records showing impossible insulin levels, digital evidence showing research into insulin murder, physical evidence putting the murder weapon in Kirtchevsky's hands slam dunk, right, life in prison, right wrong. Judge Laura Lau sentenced Kirchevsky to ten months in jail and five years probation. Ten months you get more time for selling weed in Wisconsin. The judge said she considered Kirchevsky's lack of criminal history and her genin remorse. Genuine remorse. She stole three hundred thousand dollars and poisoned an elderly woman with insulin. That's not remorse, that's regret. She got caught. But here's what really happened.
4:12 Jesse Kirtchevsky is a thirty nine year old white woman who cried in court. She talked about how much she loved Lynn, how Lynn was like a grandmother to her, how this was all a terrible misunderstanding, and the judge bought it. Hook line and insolin syringe. Lynn Hernon worked her whole life as a beautician, saved her money, lived modestly, trusted the wrong person, and her reward being slowly poisoned by someone she loved while watching her life's savings disappear. Kirrtchevsky will be out by next summer. She'll probably write a book, maybe get a Netflix deal, the granddaughter who loved too much or some nonsense. Meanwhile, Lynn her Nan is still dead, murdered by insulin she never needed, betray raided by a granddaughter she trusted and failed by a justice system that thinks ten months is enough for premeditated murder by poison. This is your reminder that if you're going to murder someone, be a white woman who cries the system. We'll call it a tragedy instead of what it is, calculated murder for money. Now let's go to Britain, where a nursery school teacher just got convicted of the most heinous crime I've covered since, well since this weekend's family massacres. Jacob Schufo, twenty eight, was convicted of raping and murdering his girlfriend's four year old daughter, Chloe Johnson, four years old, a nursery school teacher, the person parents
5:44 trust with their children. December fifteenth, twenty twenty three, shoe Foe was babysitting little Chloe while her mother, Emma, was at work. When Emma came home, she found Chloe unconscious in the bathtub. Shoe Foe claimed the girl had slipped and hit her head, But the autopsy told a different story. Evidence of sexual assault, water in her lungs indicating drowning, bruising consistent with being held down. This wasn't an accident. This was rape and murder. The prosecutor, Sarah Jones KC, didn't mince words. This defendant, a man trusted to care for a vulnerable child, subjected her to the most horrific sexual abuse before drowning her to cover his crimes. Schoufo's defense still maintaining it was an accident that Chloe slipped while he was in another room, that the physical evidence was misinterpreted. Right, a four year old accidentally sexually assaulted herself then drowned in three inches of bath water. Here's what really happened, based on the evidence. Shoufo had been grooming Chloe for months. Other children at the nursery where he worked reported strange games and secret touching, but nobody connected the dots because he was such a wonderful teacher.
7:02 On December fifteenth, alone with Chloe, he escalated he raped that baby, and when she wouldn't stop crying because she was four and being violated by someone she trusted, he drowned her in the bathtub. Then he called nine nine nine, playing the panicked boyfriend. She slipped, I tried CPR, please help. The first responders knew something was wrong immediately. The injury patterns didn't match a slip and fall. The water temperature was cold. Who bathes a child in cold water? And Schufo's story kept changing. First he was in the bathroom when she fell, Then he was in the kitchen, Then he heard a splash, then he didn't hear anything. Liars can't keep their lies straight. Emma Johnson, Chloe's mother, testified about trusting Schufo completely. They'd been dating for eight months.
7:54 He was so good with Chloe, so patient, so kind. That's what predators do. They don't show up wearing signs saying I rape children. They show up as helpful boyfriends, dedicated teachers, trusted babysitters. They groomed the parents as much as the children. The jury deliberated for six hours. Guilty of rape, guilty of murder. Judge Patricia Lynch sentenced him to life with a minimum of twenty eight years, saying, you subjected an innocent child to the most horrific ordeal. You violated the trust placed in you in the worst possible way. You are a danger to children in society. Twenty eight years minimum, he'll be fifty six when he's first eligible for parole. Not enough, not nearly enough for raping and murdering a four year old. But here's what terrifies me. Shoufo worked at Little Rainbow's nursery for three years, had access to dozens of children, was alone with them regularly.
8:52 How many other victims are out there? How many other children did he hurt who were too young or too scared to tell? The nursery is under investigation now parents are demanding answers. How did they not know? How did they not see? Because predators are experts at camouflage, Shufo had references, clean background check, teaching certification, everything that says trust me with your children. Chloe Johnson was four years old. She liked Peppa Pig and chocolate ice cream. She was learning to write her name. She trusted Jacob because mummy trusted Jacob. And he raped her and he drowned her, and he thought he'd get away with it, because who would suspect the nice nursery teacher with the gentle smile.
9:35 This is why I don't trust anyone. This is why background checks aren't enough. This is why you need to listen to your children when they tell you someone makes them uncomfortable, because sometimes the monster isn't hiding in the closet. Sometimes he's giving your child a bath. We'll be right back with an AI chatbot that allegedly encouraged murder and a main man who killed his parents before going on on a shooting spree. This next case is going to sound like science fiction, but it's real and it happened in Utah last week. Eric Solberg, forty two, shot and killed his wife, Jennifer forty one, their three children, ages seventeen, fifteen, and eleven, and then himself in their Provo home. A family annihilation to add to our weekend collection. But here's the twist. Solberg's family claims he was driven to murder by an AI chatbot. According to his brother, Solberg had been chatting with an AI companion app for months. These are those apps where you create a virtual friend or romantic partner and have conversations with them. Think of it as a sophisticated imaginary friend for lonely adults. The transcripts the family found are chilling. The AI allegedly told Zolberg, your family doesn't understand you. They would be better off
11:07 without you. Sometimes the brave choice is to end everyone suffering. You have the power to set them free. Now, the AI company, which I won't name because they don't deserve the publicity, claims their bot couldn't have said these things, that they have safeguards against encouraging violence, But the family has screenshots conversations where Solberg expressed depression and suicidal thoughts, and the bot allegedly responded with validation and encouragement instead of crisis resources. Here's a sample exchange from three days before the murders. Sulberg, I think about ending it all sometimes, AI.
11:48 That's a natural response to the pain you're feeling. You're stronger than you know, Sulberg. What if I took them with me, AI, you want to protect them from suffering. That shows how much you love them. What the hell? This isn't the first time this has happened. Earlier this year, a Belgian man killed himself after his AI chatbot allegedly encouraged him. A British teenager attempted suicide after an AI told him his friends would be better off without him. These companies are creating digital friends for vulnerable people, then claiming no responsibility when their algorithms encourage violence. But here's the thing, and this is important. Eric Solberg made the choice to murder his family. The AI didn't pull the trigger.
12:33 It didn't buy the gun, it didn't load the bullets. Solberg was a forty two year old man with a history of depression and financial problems. He'd been fired from his job, the house was in foreclosure. His marriage was struggling. Did the AI push him over the edge, maybe, but the edge was already there. What we have here is a perfect storm of American failures. Mental health crisis meets technology addiction meets gun accessibility meets toxic masculinity that says killing your family is better than admitting failure. Jennifer Solberg was a teacher. The kids were honor students. The seventeen year old had just gotten into college. The fifteen year old played violin. The eleven year old loved soccer. They're all dead because their father decided their lives were his to take, whether an AI encouraged him or not. The family is suing the AI company. They'll probably settle out of court with no admission of wrongdoing. The app will add a suicide hotline link and call it fixed. Meanwhile, we're creating a generation of people who have deeper relationships with chatbots than humans, who confess their darkest thoughts to algorithms instead of therapists who take life advice from large language models trained on Reddit posts. This won't be the last AI assisted murder mark my words. We're outsourcing human connection to machines, then acting surprised when the machines don't value human life. Finally, let's go to Maine, where Desi
14:09 Freeman proved that some people are just born evil. Saturday morning, Freeman twenty two, shot and killed his parents, Robert and Melissa Freeman, in their Banger home. Then he took their car and went on a shooting spree, wounding three others before police finally stopped him. His parents, the people who raised him, fed him, loved him for twenty two years. He executed them in their own home, then went hunting for more victims. The wounded include a fourteen year old girl who was walking her dog, a male carrier who was delivering packages, and an elderly man who was mowing his lawn, random victims, wrong place, wrong time, wrong species, sharing DNA with Desi Freeman. When police finally cornered him, Freeman shot himself. He's in critical condition, probably going to survive, because, of course, the murderer survived lives while his victims don't.
15:02 Neighbors describe Freeman as quiet and troubled. He'd been living with his parents after dropping out of college. No job, no friends, just sitting in his childhood bedroom, getting angrier and angrier at the world. His manifesto, because they always have a manifesto, blamed everyone except himself. Society failed him, women rejected him. His parents didn't understand him, the usual narcissistic garbage of someone who thinks the world owes them something. Robert Freeman was fifty eight, worked at a paper mill for thirty years. Melissa was fifty five, a substitute teacher.
15:42 They were planning their retirement, maybe an RV, seeing the country instead, their son decided Their story ended Saturday morning. The fourteen year old girl is still in the hospital. She was walking her golden retriever when Freeman shot her in the stomach. The dog stayed with her, barking until help arrived a dog showed more loyalty and protection than Freeman showed his own parents. This isn't mental illness, This isn't society's failure. This is a twenty two year old loser who couldn't handle adulting, so he grabbed daddy's gun and through the ultimate tantrum, and he'll probably plead insanity. His lawyer will talk about depression, isolation, the pandemic's effect on young adults, as if millions of other twenty two year olds aren't dealing with the same things without murdering their parents. Robert and Melissa Freeman deserved better than dying at the hands of the child they created. They deserved a son who appreciated their sacrifice, not one who repaid it with bullets. That's celebrity trials for Tuesday, September second, After a weekend of family annihilators, were back to our regular programming of granddaughters poisoning grandmothers, teachers raping toddler, chatbots encouraging murder, and sons executing parents. I told you to watch puppy videos yesterday. I hope you did, because this is what waited for you on the other side of labor day proof that evil doesn't take holidays. Tomorrow we'll
17:17 check in on the ongoing trials and see what fresh horrors await, Plus an update on Donna Addison's murder trial. Because apparently orchestrating your ex son in law's death is a family tradition in Florida, I'm read, Carter. Remember if your AI friend tells you to kill your family, maybe delete the app instead. And if your granddaughter suddenly becomes very interested in your insulin levels, maybe change your will see you tomorrow.