"THE UBER DRIVER WHO BURNED LA: Jonathan Rinderknecht's ChatGPT Trail to Arson & Murder"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media, good morning. I'm read Carter. Friday, October tenth, twenty twenty five. Wednesday, federal authorities arrested Jonathan Rinderconnect for starting the Palisades Fire. Twelve people dead, more than six thousand homes destroyed, the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history, and it started because an angry uber driver walked up a trail with a lighter on New Year's Day. His chat GPT history told the story months in advance. July create an image of a burning city. August I literally burnt the Bible. It felt amazing. December thirty. First, he listens to a French rap song about setting fires nine times in four days. January first, twelve, twelve am. He starts the fire, then asks chat GPT, are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes.

1:03 The fire gets put out, but underground it keeps smoldering. Six days later, the winds from Santa Ana hit, the underground fire surfaces explodes. By the time it's contained, twelve people are dead and Los Angeles looks like a war zone. I'm red Carter today. The uber driver who burned Los Angeles plus Fraser Boehm fighting to dismiss murder charges for the Pepperdine crash and Jay Cutler's four day jail sentence. This weekend, a special two part series on ed Gain, timed with Netflix's Monster series The Butcher of Plainfield, who murdered women, robbed graves, and made furniture from human skin.

1:45 Saturday and Sunday. Don't miss it. This is Celebrity Trials. Jonathan Rinderconnect is twenty nine years old, born in France, former Pacific Palisades President Uber Driver, and, according to federal prosecutors, the man who burned Los Angeles. July twenty twenty four, Renderconnect asks chat Gpt to create an image a dystopian painting of a forest fire with poor people trying to escape while rich people watch from behind a gate, laughing and dancing as the world burns. That's not art, that's a manifesto. August first, he tells a family member he burned his Bible. August thirtieth, he elaborates to chat GPT, I literally burnt the Bible that I had. It felt amazing.

2:36 I felt so liberated. Destruction as freedom, fire as empowerment. Late December, Rinderconnect discovers a French rap song by Yosman called unz der Unte. It's about despair. The lyrics translate to everything we burn is counted in grams. The music video shows Yosman lighting things on fire. Between December twenty eighth and thirty first, rinder Connect listens to it nine times, watches the video three times. December thirty first, twenty twenty four, New Year's Eve, reinder Connect is working as an Uber driver. Two passengers tell investigators he seemed agitated and angry. At eleven twenty eight pm, he plays the Josmin song again while driving. He drops off a passenger in Pacific Palisades, his former neighborhood. He drives to Skull Rock trailhead, one block from where he used to live. Tries calling a former friend, doesn't connect, gets out, walks up the trail he's hiked hundreds of times. Eleven forty seven pm, he takes two videos from the hilltop. No fire's visible, just normal Pacific Palisades. Below, he has a green lighter. Investigators will later find video showing this lighter in his apartment earlier that day. Twelve twelve a m. January First, Environmental sensors detect the Lochman fire on skull Rock trail. Cell Phone data confirms Rinder Connect is the only person in the area. He tries calling nine to one one no service on the hilltop. While trying, he opens chat GPT,

4:09 Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes? Creating a cover story, establishing an innocent explanation. Chat GPT responds yes. He runs down the trail, gets service, calls nine one one. A nearby resident has already reported it. Fire crews respond render. Connect flees, then turns around and follows the fire engines back at high speed. Parks walks up to watch the firefighters work. At one o two am. He takes videos of the scene, documenting what he started. Firefighters suppress the Lochman fire, about eight acres burned, no structures destroyed. By mourning, it's contained, everyone goes home except underground, in root systems of dense vegetation, the fire is still burning, smoldering, slowly consuming organic material below the surface. Nobody knows. For six days it burns underground, waiting. January seventh, the underground fire surfaces and explodes within minutes. The contained eight acre fire becomes the Palisades Fire, an inferno spreading through Pacific Palisades in Malibu faster than anyone can contain it. Evacuation orders can't keep up, traffic gridlocks. Officials tell people to abandon cars and run on foot. A bulldozer clears abandoned vehicles to make way for fire crews. By January thirty first, twenty four days later, twelve people are dead, more than six thousand homes destroyed, more than twenty three thousand acres burned.

5:43 Paris Hilton's mansion gone, Tom Hanks's house gone, Entire neighborhoods reduced to ash. January twenty fourth, federal investigators interview render connect He lies says he was near the bottom of the trail when he first saw the fire. Geolocation data shows he was standing thirty feet from the fire at the ignition point. The complaint notes that whenever investigators asked about how the fire started, his neck artery would pulsate visibly physical stress response. Investigators spend months building the case. They exclude fireworks, lightning, power lines, cigarettes. They conclude it was an open flame, likely a lighter applied directly to vegetation.

6:27 They review his entire digital footprint, the burning Bible, the dystopian burning city images, the French rap song played nine times, the question about cigarettes asked at the exact moment the fire started. October eighth, Tuesday, federal agents arrest Rendercnnect near his home in Florida. He'd relocated to Orlando after the fire. October ninth, Wednesday, he appears in federal court in Orlando, charged with destruction of property by means of fire Mandatory minimum five years, maximum twenty years. Acting US Attorney Bill Assali. The complaint alleges that rinder Neck started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day, a blaze that eventually turned into one of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history. Among the evidence collected was an image he generated on chat GPT depicting a burning city. Special Agent in charge Kenny Cooper was blunt. People do evil things for whatever reason. Evil people do evil things, not mental illness. Evil.

7:32 Rindercnect planned, executed, watched, documented, lied. That's malice, Mayor Karen Bass. Today's arrest marks an important step toward closure and justice. Closure. Twelve people are dead, six thousand homes are destroyed. There's no closure, just accountability for the man who started it. Uber immediately removed Rinderkneckt from their platform their cooperation with the investigation, But the question remains, how was a disturbed man with fire obsession driving people around Los Angeles renderconnect faces five to twenty years in federal prison. Twelve people are dead forever. The defense will argue what accident? The chat GPT searches argue against that coincidence. Being the only person at the ignition site, argues against that mental illness, his careful planning argues against that all because an Uber driver with a lighter anger and a French rap song about burning things decided to turn his chat GPT fantasies into reality. On New Year's Eve, We'll be right back with Fraser boem trying to dismiss murder charges for killing four Pepperdine students. Update on Fraser Boehm accused of killing

9:04 four Pepperdine Sorority sisters on Pacific Coast Highway October seventeenth, twenty twenty three. Nave Rolston twenty, Asha Weir twenty one, Peyton Stewart twenty one, Deslyn Williams twenty first, All Alpha Phi sisters, all seniors due to graduate in twenty twenty four. They just exited a car and were walking on the shoulder when Boehm allegedly slammed his BMW into three parked vehicles at one hundred four miles per hour in a forty five zone. All four killed instantly. Boehm is now twenty three, charged with four counts of murder and four counts of vehicular manslaughter. Wednesday, he appeared in Van Nuy's court with his defense team pushing their motion to dismiss all charges. His attorney, Jacqueline Spiranya, filed a fifty nine page motion, citing conflicting evidence and unreliable, glitchy surveillance footage.

9:59 The filing the people's theory of implied malice murder is thoroughly lacking in legal support. The charges must be dismissed. Judge Rubinstein scheduled November first for arguments. Prosecutor Nathan Bartos will file a response opposing dismissal. The prosecution's evidence. Black box data showing Boehm's BMW accelerated from ninety three to one hundred four miles per hour in two point five seconds before impact. That's not losing control. That's flooring it. Bartos at an earlier hearing, he consciously decided to get that vehicle up to one hundred four miles per hour and lost control. This was not an accident, Boehm claims.

10:40 Another driver in a white car swerved into his lane, clipped his mirror, caused the crash. His former attorney argued he was being chased in a road rage incident. LA Sheriff's investigators no evidence of an alleged road rage incident, no witnesses, no footage, no other damaged vehicles, just Boehm's claim and four dead sorority sisters. The defense argues implied malice doesn't apply, but driving one hundred four and a forty five zone at night on pH notorious dead Man's Curve with fifty three deaths between twenty thirteen and twenty twenty three, seems like textbook conscious disregard for human life.

11:21 The victim's parents have filed wrongful death lawsuits against Boehm and are suing California, La County, and Malibu for dangerous road design. Bohm's family is wealthy. His father, Chris, is a medical equipment executive. Boehm got the red twenty sixteen BMW as an eighteenth birthday present in his parents' divorced settlement. The settlement revealed an eight point seven million dollar Malibu estate. November first, the defense argues the murder charges should be dismissed that without implied malice, this is vehicular manslaughter at most, that Bohm made a mistake, not a choice. The prosecution will argue that one hundred four miles per hour on PCH at night is implied malice, that he knew it was dangerous, that four young women are dead because he chose speed over safety. Knive, Asha, Peyton and Deslon were awarded their degrees posthumously. They should have walked across that stage themselves. Should have had futures instead their memories and Fraser Boehm is fighting to dismiss murder charges because he claims the evidence isn't strong enough. November first, We'll see if the judge agrees. Quick update. Jay Cutler began serving a four day jail sentence Monday in Franklin, Tennessee, for DUI.

12:41 October twenty twenty four, Cutler rear ended another vehicle. Police said he was slurring his speech, refusing field sobriety tests, blood sample taken, Two firearms found in his vehicle, one loaded. He faced DUI reckless driving, implied consent violations, and unlock awfully possessing a firearm while intoxicated. He pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor DUI. The weapons charges were dismissed. Sentence four days in jail, three hundred fifty dollars fine, one year unsupervised probation, DUI safety course license suspended one year. Cutler shares three kids with ex wife Kristin Cavalari Camden thirteen, Jackson eleven, Sailor nine. They divorced in twenty twenty after seven years, still taking public shots at each other on social media. Last month, Cutler called it borderline slander when Cavalry claimed she never got a penny from their divorce.

13:38 He earned one hundred twenty eight million dollars during his NFL career and says no judge would let him keep every dollar after divorce. Four days in jail for DUI, that's what former NFL stars with good lawyers get. He'll be out Friday, back to arguing with his X on podcasts. Four days. That's it. That's celebrity. Trials for Friday, October tenth, twenty twenty five, Jonathan rinderconnect burned Los Angeles Lighter on New Year's Day. Fire smoldered underground six days, exploded into the Palisades Fire. Twelve dead, six thousand homes destroyed. His chat GPT searches told the story months before, burning bibles, burning cities, asking about cigarette fires while the fire he just set spread five to twenty years. Federal prison Fraser Boehm fights to dismiss murder charges for killing four Pepperdine Sorority sisters at one hundred four miles per hour November First.

14:38 The judge decides Jay Cutler served four days for dui out Friday. That's what one hundred twenty eight million dollars and good lawyers get you. I'm reed, Carter. This weekend are two part ed Gene Special The Butcher of Plainfield who murdered women, robbed graves, and made furniture from human skin. Saturday, The Crimes the Horrific Farmhouse Discovery. Bernice Warden and Mary Hogan murdered forty graves, robbed lampshades and chairs made from human remains. Sunday The psychology Augusta Geane's fanatical control, The Trial that Never happened, Ed's death in nineteen eighty four, and his legacy. How he inspired Psycho, Texas, Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. How we turned real horror into entertainment. Netflix just released Monster, The Ed Geen Story.

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