Conspiring To Murder

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, kJ You're back with another episode of Unspeakable? What is going on?

1:02 I am so excited. I hope you can tell in my voice how excited I am because I finally get to roll out a huge announcement for everybody, and it's that you want more Unspeakable. You're about to get it all right, because I've got a highly produced, highly detailed, long series that is going to be dropping starting on November third, where I do cover the highly requested over and over and over again. Derek Toddley, I'm gonna do the series on the South Louisiana serial killer. I'm gonna go in depth. If you came to my live show. There's even that I did on this a while back. This is gonna be even more detailed than that live show.

1:42 So you're not gonna be hearing the same thing, and I cannot wait to let y'all hear it. It's highly produced, it's gonna be different than my regular episodes, and so for the very first time, I'm gonna let y'all hear the trailer for DTL. Here we go. Take a listen. In the sultry heat of Louisiana, where the Bayous whisper secrets and the air hangs heavy with the scent of magnolias, a darkness lurked beneath the surface. Dereck Todd Lee was a man whose charm masked a sinister reality. He was a monster. Lee, a seemingly ordinary man with a disarming smile, led a double life that would unravel in a series of murders in the capital city of Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas. As the first reports of disappearances and murders began to surface, South Louisiana was thrust into a nightmare, igniting a frantic search for answers. The true horror was just beginning, and the hunt for a serial killer eventually known by just three letters, would reveal not only the depths of Dereck Todd Lee's depravity, but also the resilience of those most affected by his evil acts, the families and the survivors. This is DTS. Yeah, so what do you think? Do you like it? I've been working so hard and as much as you think you know about

3:15 a subject, and I'm telling you I'm well versed in his cases. There's always more to learn, there's always more people to talk to, there's always more I can do, and so I think you're going to really enjoy this. And so this is not going to fill up your week as far as I'm concerned. Starting November third, you will get your DTL episodes on Monday, Then on Tuesday, if you're a Patreon member, you'll get your regular episode, or Wednesday if you're a regular listener, and that's fine too, right, You'll get your regular episode in the week, and then on Fridays you get your Crime Wire weekly episodes with Gemini. So full week coming, and I'm just so proud and ecstatic that we were making these moves. So get ready, mark your calendars. November third, it's heading your way. I also need to be screaming from right here in the studio all the way to San Antonio, Texas to miss Ronda. George, how are you, Miss Randa? I hope you see me waving at you. Thank you so much. I've loved talking with you on Patreon and we've had some really cute conversations, and so thank you for supporting the show. You're the best and you make the difference. So thank you. All right now, I know I just said she was in San Antonio, Texas, but we're gonna go right back to Texas, but in Houston, Texas for today's episode. Jimothy's doing something weird right now, and he's walking over here. I don't what are you doing?

4:34 Okay? Can you hear me? Now? Yeah? I don't have my headphones on. Do I sign? Okay? It sound good? So do I sound like Elvis? Yes? Okay? Good? All right, everyone. I have a surprise for kJ that she is. Looking at me now like she has no idea what I'm doing, because she does not. I did not tell her about this. So she is going to talk to y'all for a minute and give me just about thirty seconds to grab something, so talk to me. Well, hey, I have no idea what he is doing right now. He usually won't. Ever nobody interrupts somebody while they're podcast And so where are you going? This is he's a happy birthday. Oh my god, Unspeakable, Happy birthday to Unspeakable. Happy birthday, Kelly, and Unspeakable, Happy birthday to you.

5:26 Look, y'all, I can't sing, but. I have a cookie cake that has no writing on it, because hey, that will require planning. I don't do. So. I had planned on it saying happy birthday and Speakable, But y'all, today is exactly three years since Unspeakable started episode one. So happy birthday to Unspeakable. And I don't even know if she likes cookie cake. Yes I do. I love it, and thank you so much. You're welcome, and I am going back behind the board now where. I belong, Get back in your corner. Oh my god, no, I love cookie cake. And if I come back next week and I'm fourteen pounds heavier on camera, we know why.

6:09 Thank you, Jim, Hey, thank y'all. Really a lot, this, y'all know, started out as a I don't know what a hobby I guess to see how it would go. And I never would have imagined three years ago that i'd be doing this the way that I'm doing it now. So and Jim, thank you, by the way, from my heart tears, thank you so much for telling me that I could do this when I really didn't think I could and I couldn't believe anyone would listen. But here we are, y'all, all right, back, here we go. This is awesome. So but we're going to go to Texas. But we're going to be in Houston, Texas, like I said. And it was five days before Christmas in nineteen ninety six when an elderly gentleman named Bob Boney, which I kind of liked the name. I think it's gonna neat.

6:57 But Bob Boney realized he needed to get some gas. We all do this right, Oh my god, I'm low on gas. I better pull in and fill up the tank before I run out. So he turned his blue Cadillac into this nearby convenience store and then he got out and started pumping his gas. It was a normal thing. It was about nine pm, but it was in a well lit area and it wasn't a place that you would really worry about as far as filling up the tank. So after the pump clicked, it said gold, Hey, you got enough gas. He said, well, let me go inside and let me pay. So he hung up the pump right back into the slot and he went inside to pay the clerk. So he and the cashier when he got in there, they exchanged some basic niceties, and then he headed back out to leave, and he unlocked the door, slid into the seat, and he got settled to start the car. But as he turned to pull the door shut, he was met with a loaded pistol in his face.

7:51 And I'm gonna tell you something. People who have had guns pulled on them, whenever they are asked by police what kind of gun is it, the standard answer is it was a big one. And the reason is because if you're watching me a podcast on Patreon right now, we can pretend my eyeglass case is a is a gun. It's because when someone pulls it and they put it in your face, like I'm doing right now with my eyeglass case, it looks really really big. Okay, it's a scare tactic, obviously, But he turns and this gun is in his face, and the man holding the gun very pointedly and without any hesitation, said give me the keys and get out of the car. Well, Bob's a smart man, because he complied. He got right out of the car.

8:35 He put up no fight, and the guy jumped in the vehicle and sped away, And just like that, in mere seconds, mister Bob stood there with nothing. He was lucky to be alive, but everything just drove away that he had worked so hard for. So he went inside. He reported that carjacking to police, who responded, and the story when they got there was absolutely confirmed by a witness who was there, saw it happen and was completely terrified thinking that that old man was going to be shot. So her name was Kim Trujillo, and she watched it all go down. She got a really really good look at the suspect and she was able to give that description to police. But here they were just like any other carjacking that goes on in these cities, and they had little to go on other than this woman's description.

9:27 But I mean, the suspect she described looked like damn near anybody in the area based on the description that she gave. So they were going to keep an eye out. They were going to be looking for the vehicle. And then they put out bolos letting the additional shifts that would be coming on. Look y'all be on the lookout for this blue Cadillac. It was carjacked. If anything. Right now in the story, we can all take a collective sigh that mister Bob was okay and that he was able to get a safe ride home that night. But a few miles away was where Ezekiel Fromseca Junior and his wife of twenty five years. Her name was Carmen. They had created their life together and they were the parents of four children who they proudly passed down their Hispanic culture while raising the kiddos in the Sagemont subdivision which is right there near Houston. Now. Carmen, the doting mother, loved her children and she cared for them at home.

10:21 While Ezekiel, who was known as Big Zeke or just Zeke before his children were born, but I'm going to refer to him as Big Zeke so we can tell the difference. He worked hard to provide for these kids and to provide for Carmen. So he was employed at Crown Cork and seal in Sugarland where he spent his days on the manufacturing floor. And he was referred to as Big Zeke because one of his sons was named after him, and he was lovingly referred to as Little Zeke. And we have this in my own family. There's Big Jerry and Little Jerry, and we know the difference. And it was almost Christmas time as this story begins to unfold, and the stores are booming with sales for the holidays. It was cold outside and that joy in the air was palpable. Even those that were working outside doing these construction jobs, they were getting excited too, and that included Johnny Mendoza and all of his workers and his construction crew because they were working on a portion of the Texas eight Beltway, but they were looking forward to their upcoming time off. They were excited to get some well needed days of rest and relaxation for the holiday. When they started their early morning routine for the day, there was some work to be done in that area. Thus they realized pretty quickly that there was a vehicle that looked to have wrecked in the early morning hours of December twenty second, but it was still on the roadway, so they went to investigate, although they hadn't heard a crash or anything like that, so they went to go kind of see, well, what's going on with this vehicle,

11:52 And as they got closer, they observed a white Lincoln town Car and was up alongside a concrete barrier on the side of the roadway. The vehicle wasn't severely crashed, so it wasn't initially apparent if it had actually crashed or if it was just parked there or ran out of gas or something along those lines. But even if it had broken down, the driver's side door seemed really close to the concrete barrier. The front bumper did have some damage to it, but also as the workers walked up, it became pretty obvious that there were bullet holes down the side of the car. Luckily, though, as they approached, there was no one inside of it, but that was until they got up on it and looked inside and then realized that there was an adult male inside the car and he was slumped over the console with blood everywhere.

12:47 The air bag had deployed and there was blood all over the air bag as well as the interior of the car. This had been a very very brutal incident that had taken place. So the workers ran to call police, who arrived on scene, as well as an ambulance that was called for the gentleman. So the EMTs jumped out, they ran up, they were going to start rendering aid, but they very quickly realized that this guy was beyond help. The man had actually been dead for a while. His left hand was dangling down from his maroon coat, and his gold watch was still on his wrist. His body was slumped over to his right and kind of leaning over the center console. The airbags were deployed, like I said, and there was a lot of blood in this car, more than what you would expect for this crash of this level, and an air bag just deploying. So the medical examiner is going to be called in obviously, and are the coroner's office, and police and detectives get there, and they realized that he had gunshot wounds all throughout him.

13:55 He had them in his head, they were in his chest, and then there were bullet casings strown about the ground right there nearby. So this told investigators that the man was lying right where he had been shot, or at least nearby, because it looked as though the vehicle may have continued to roll to where it had its final stop, and that murder weapon, based on those casings, was a nine to milimeter So, in an attempt to idea the victim, officers looked for his wallet, but they realized that was missing too. So what an odd combination of events because this looked to be a drive by but also a robbery.

14:35 Those two don't typically go together. That's just not the norm a drive by shooting, and we all know about these to some extent. Those are usually done for retaliation, you know, turf wars for gangs, but not precursors to robbery on a highway. That's just not how this usually goes. I mean, the shooters in a drive by, they want to shoot quickly and then keep moving. That's the purpose of the drive by. If not, it's called a stop and shoot and rob you know. So it just wasn't fitting. They would be able to run the plates and check their registration though, and make an ID, but before that would happen, a woman would come upon the scene and jump out of her car, running towards the police and not wanting them to interfere with their investigation. Or get up in the middle of a crime scene. They're like, wow, wow, whow back up, what are you doing? What are you doing?

15:30 But she's like, no, no, no, no, no. My name is Carmen Fonseka. My name is Carmen. That is my husband's car. So when she says this, they're like, oh, okay, hold on, and they're more obliged to wanting to talk to her. So she obviously didn't know that he was still inside of the vehicle, and so she explained to investigators, Look, my husband didn't return home last night, and that's not normal for him. So you know, here's his car. Where is he? You know? So while this wasn't normal that he didn't come home, she was even more alarmed when a coworker of his named Philip ol mixin as, how I believe you would pronounce that. But Philip had called the house asking, look, is is your husband coming to work because he hasn't shown up this morning. That was the very morning that they found the body. So she then confirmed her husband's name was Ezekiel Fonseka Junior, and freaking out, she had jumped in her car and she was driving along the route that she knew he normally took to see if she could find him. She said, I thought he might have broken down or run out of gas or something along those lines. But she never could have imagined that she would find him, or she didn't know it was him, but find his car and it be considered in the middle of a crime scene. And this was more than just a random shot or a stray bullet too, if that was even going to be considered an investigator's mind, because he was absolutely, without question, the intended target of

17:00 this shooting. So Ezekiel had been shot at least seven times. The bullets had struck him in the head, in the torso, and in the neck, and in very rapid succession, he never stood a chance. Once that trigger was pulled by whomever was behind it, they unloaded and those bullets, a lot of them made contact with what they wanted. So understanding what she now had just driven up to, Carmen was horrified. She was beside herself, but she agreed, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna come back and accompany the police to the station to talk more, because this just wasn't the place, the best place for her to be. While she's talking to the police, I'm sure we can all imagine. So gathering more information about their family life, police did realize that there were struggles in the marriage, but this was nothing outside of any dysfunction that over half of the population is living through today. It was nothing completely and totally wild, I guess, as you would possibly call it.

18:05 So as far as who was in the home, police wanted to know, Okay, let's first identify who all is in your home and let's get some groundwork about Big Zeke's life. She said, we have four children, and I'd already mentioned that to you, and that the relationship between her kids and their father was also a typical relationship. His namesake, Little Zeke had his fair share of trouble with the law, but not he was He wasn't one that would have anything to do with his father's murder. Okay, so you know, she protected her son. She loves her son. But even if he was a little badass, he wasn't a badass towards his dad. So Little Zeke at this point was a younger teenager, and he also had a friend that was like family that lived with them. I'm not gonna say full time, but he was one of those kind of kids that was always at their house and his name was Mark. He stayed over a lot.

18:58 But like I said, he wasn't blood family or anything like that. But as far as enemies or anyone inside the home that would have had a vendetta against Big Zeke, absolutely not. She had no clue. And this is almost seeming random, although it doesn't to investigators feel that way. So, allowing Carmen to now absorb the confirmation that her husband had been murdered, she was given room to grieve as the detectives continued to work the case. So some three days would pass when a blue Cadillac in Angleton committed a traffic violation and an officer pulled over that vehicle.

19:39 Now what would have been a rather non serious stop to begin with suddenly turned completely chaotic. The car sped away and the officer had to start chase this with this car, and he chased for ten blocks. I mean, this wasn't like it was, you know, they just shot off a little bit or whatever. This was ten block chase. So when everybody ran and they spread out, they left the car. And so obviously a search of this car was going to be done. And as you're probably guessing because you've been a true crime fan for a long time. This was the blue Cadillac of mister Bob's from that car jacking just days prior, and so no wonder all these morons took off running. Well, during that search of the car, thirteen rounds of nine millimeter ammunition was recovered, so in and of itself, all right, whatever they found bullets in a stolen car, shocker said, no one ever, but they take the car, the guys get away, but the female is detained. Well, another three days would pass when Angleton police officer Richard de Leon induced a traffic stop on a red Saturn for another traffic violation. So when he approached the vehicle, the driver was a teenager, and at first this teenager tried to run away, but this time this officer gave chase and was able to tackle him and take him down, so he was The

21:09 suspect was handcuffed and he was identified as Mark Sam Arthur. Now, during a search incidental to this arrest, a black nine millimeter glock was found in the console. So obviously I shouldn't even have to explain this. But a kid had no good nor legal reason to be in possession of this weapon, not to mention that the vehicle he was in command of was also, drum roll please, a stolen vehicle. So he was taken into custody and police had some questions for him. So to be clear, this is the same Mark that little Zeke was close, families friends with.

21:51 And I told y'all little Zeke was a little badass too. Well, it's no shocker that the people he was running with kind of you know, birds of a feather locked together. And I know when we're close to people, we sometimes don't readily put out to the masses their problems. Okay, well this was the case for little Zeke's friend Mark. The Fansekahs loved him. They accepted him into their home, and being completely frank with you, you and I would probably have known better than to let our kid hang out with this boy. But they're friends. And why do I say this? Is it because I'm mean and I'm judgmental. No, it's because it's the fucking truth. It hurts. But here's a little background on Mark. He wasn't someone that we would want our kids hanging out with, unless your teen boy probably did the same shit, And that's kind of the gist that I got here. So Mark and little Zeke became friends when they were about fourteen years old, and they were now seventeen, so they'd been buds for a while. And Mark had family that was in Mexico.

23:02 He also had grown up in Chicago, but he was now home based in Texas. And his complete heritage I don't know, because he never met his dad. He never knew who his dad was. What I can tell you is that his mother was Mexican Indian and she was a single mom, a beautiful woman, and she just seemed to struggle with her man choices. There seemed to be a lot of revolving doors of new relationships starting and ending, and Mark was there along for the ride that said she did finally meet and marry a man worth his salt. This guy's name was Homer Milburn, and Mark took to him and considered him to be his father. Homer was the first one to look Mark in his face and say, look here, little boy, you need to get your shit together.

23:54 What you're doing ain't gonna work. You've got to be a good man. You need to start treating your mom right. Quite frankly, you need to show a little damn respect all right, So he was harsh with Mark, not that he didn't beat him or stuff like that, but he was pretty strong with him because Mark was just being a teenage thug and ass had and he was continually making bad decisions. Ungovernable would be the term that we might would use legally about how Mark was behaving. Well, when mister Homer really built up Mom and showed Mom that she could do this and that he was going to take care of her, they came forward on a united front and they wanted rules, and they wanted those rules enforced in this home. Well, guess what. Mark obviously didn't like that. And the thing was, before mister Homer came into his life, Mark did not feel that he was had love or acceptance with these other men that his mother was dating. Okay, so what did he do to kind of fill that void? Well, he went and did what a lot of young people do. He went searching for love and acceptance, male acceptance specifically elsewhere, and he found all that he needed in the Maniac Disciple Nation, which is a gang that branches off of the Folks Alliance.

25:12 If you know about gangs, you know what I'm talking about If not, maybe I can do a further episode on that. What do you think? Hey, how about this? Y'all message me on Patreon. I'll put out a little questionnaire here. But do y'all want to know about gangs? Would y'all like would you be interested in some episodes explaining those? Because I love I love learning about gangs. I've done a lot of research on them and I got a lot to share if you want it. But I don't want to bore you. But Mark's explanation of why he loved his gang was because he claimed that the gang had purpose. This gang wanted growth and betterment for their community. His exact words were one love one hate, you mess with one, you mess with all. Well, that sounds real warm and gooey inside, doesn't it. Don't you just feel like we all should run out and become Maniac disciples. Okay, no we don't, because if you aren't with that brotherhood. Here's what a gang intelligence unit from the Department of Justice would explain to you about that gang.

26:13 It's a young Latino organization and it did originate in Chicago in the sixties. Right now, as we speak, we do have active members across the US, but specifically in six major states, but I say major states larger states. Most members are going to be Puerto Rican males, and they are going to focus on the street level distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana PCP. That's basically the goals and the inner workings of what this gang does for income. But they also are very very active in criminal additional criminal activity, but more violent because they are known for assaults and auto thefts, carjackings, drive by shootings, home invasions, murder, money laundering, and weapons trafficking. So you're a freethinker, I hope listening to this, and so I'm gonna let you decide whose information you choose to believe. You can think of Mark's description of the gang, or you can choose the Department of Justice. But you decide because you're a free person and you're a freethinker. So Mark also was talking to the police and was like, look, dude, I'm not into drugs. I don't do drinking. And he said, I'm not necessarily super athletically talented either, And so he had to find a way to establish his value, I guess to himself, but also to the streets. And so the way that he chose to do. That was that, look,

27:44 I may not be good at basketball, I may not be a huge guy, and I may not want to do drugs, but I like to fight. So that was his chosen method method of establishing his dominance amongst his peers. Now, he had a good friend who she was a little bit older than him, and her name was Nicole Andrews. Now, listen to me here, I'm gonna say allegedly right now, everyone hear me say this allegedly because I'm not convinced that that's her real name. Because he had a friend I found in some legal documents named Tracy Goodman. Follow me.

28:28 He met this quote unquote Nicole Andrews in January of nineteen ninety three, when he was fourteen years old and she was eighteen. When I first learned this, that kind of was like, hmm, why would an eighteen year old female be willing to hang out with a fourteen year old male. That seems a bit of a gap there, and you have so much different you have different goals at fourteen versus eighteen. But what it seemed to be was that he tagged along with older people and his goal here was to be accepted amongst these older people. That made him cool. He had a super tough guy attitude.

29:09 He always was bragging to these people about being in a gang, and they had hung out for about eight months or so, but then she ended up moving away. So he believed that he was his tough, hard thug you guy. But for the older crowd looking at him, they kind of laughed at him a little bit. They thought it was a bit much and that he was just trying to put off more than he really was. The reality, though, was that he was a problematic team. So when the police questioned him about the stolen vehicle and this gun he was in possession of, he just couldn't shut up. He just could not shut up. He was proud of all of his accomplishments. He called it his machismo chest out. I'll tell you about all of it, and he wanted to talk. Man, he wanted to talk about all of his accomplishments. So he would talk about you know, they would. He ran the streets. He liked to fight chase girls with his best friend, Little Zeke, and both of them, he said, were in the Maniac's Disciple gang. They like to burglarize cars. They like to rob people in their houses and the police are like, wow, man, this is so cool. Let me get out my cool people notebook and write your name in it. And they're like, whatever, you punk ass kid, Click click, you're going to jail.

30:30 But that's when the police from the area of the original carjacking of mister Bob they showed up at this jail too, because they had been looking for him in that case and they wanted to have a word with him. So as all of this is going down, another bit of information would hit the detective's desk. There had been a shooting that Mark was involved in. And no, I'm not even talking about Big Zeke's shooting. But this is an interesting tie nonetheless, And I love learning about investigations and how they take all these random puzzle pieces scattered everywhere and they're able just to kind of place them together.

31:17 So follow me here. In December of nineteen ninety six, Mark and another friend. This guy's name is Mason Hughes. They were both sixteen at the time. They were also both on the run from the law. Because it turns out they were hanging out together on the porch of that friend who I'm now going to refer to as Tracy Goodman. When they're hanging out on this porch and another car pulls up to that house, so Mark either approaches the car or the guy got out of the car. I'm not sure which direction it went. But Mark and that man whose name would be referred to as TJ. Gooseman, they began talking. But that talk started to escalate for real, unknown to me, And I want to tell my listeners it's not because of lack of trying. It's because remember he's sixteen years old at this time. That's a juvenile incident, and juvenile records are typically sealed. So either way, this argument is escalating. And whatever the case, Mark pulled out a nine millimeter and he began shooting at TJ. Guzman And they'd probably say Guzman, So shout out if I'm saying that without the right dialect. But after pulling the trigger BA and unloading on this dude, he tore off running, but he had really nowhere to go. Mark was on the lamb. Now he knew he had just shot up this guy, and so he needed a place to lay low.

32:43 Well in that incident, that place that he went was none other than Lil Zeke's house. So Miss Carmon Lil Zeke's mom, Big Zeke's wife. Right, She wasn't one that would really tell on the kids. And I mean, I can look down my nose and I can say that's really really bad parenting, because I do think it's bad parenting, but it's just the way that it was. She wasn't gonna go out and call the police and say, oh my god, this boy shot up a house, you know whatever, he's staying at my house. No, she wasn't gonna tell him the kids, and since it was really really cold outside, she convinced Big Zeke to let the boy stay at her house, at their house. So as crazy as that sounds, really think about this. The boys were honest with her that he had just shot someone, shot at someone multiple times, pulled the trigger. But she still protected them because she didn't really divulge all of that to Big Zke, and she was able to convince him just let him stay because it's cold outside. That gun used to shoot at Guzman that may have been the same gun that was confiscated from the traffic stop whenever he tried to run away in that red Saturn you're following me, So police would take that glock and they were gonna run ballistics on it. So when the report came back, the answer was, yes,

34:13 that was the same gun used in the Guzman shooting. But it was also the same weapon used in Big Zeke's murder. This was the very gun Mark was in possession of, the very gun used to kill his best friend's dad. Police weren't necessarily expecting that in terms of social structure, but I guess badasses are going to be badasses. It's not that much of a shocker that the gun was used to kill his best friend's dad. But Mark now had some explaining to do, so talking again with police, their main goal was to determine just because Mark was in possession of the gun at that moment it was confiscated from him, that doesn't mean that he had the gun the whole time, because illegal weapons get traded and sold and bought all the time. So who had the gun and in what time frames did they have possession of the gun? And remember they're all in this same gang getting these weapons. Was it passed around amongst youth or was it solely in Mark's possession? They needed to ask Mark because he had the gun directly at that time.

35:22 And his answer was pretty crazy because they said, did you have the gun at the time that Big Zeke was killed? And he looked him in the face and said, yes, I had it. So you had the gun that killed your best friend's dad. He said, yeah, it was in my possession, and it was in my possession when it happened too, basically saying I killed him. But with that revelation, now there's a million more questions. But he would explain that all wasn't as it seemed. See through the years, Carmen had become like a mom to Mark after he had stayed away from his own home. Remember when his stepdad Homer came in, they started laying down the rules of behavior and Mark didn't want to follow suit, so he went and stayed more and more and more at little Zeke's house and Missus Carmen became like a mother to him, a mother figure. So Carmen knew that the boys were getting into trouble, but like I told you, she would protect them. She wouldn't run and tell the dad, Big Zeke what was going on. And I find that to be such a problem. If two parents are not on a united front on kids. Then these teenagers specifically, they'll figure that out. They will sniff that out in a heartbeat that they can. You know, these parents have different goals or whatever for them, so she wouldn't tell

36:56 Big Zeke if they had got arrested or whatever the case might be, and so do these teenagers. This equaled love and loyalty. But this also made a perfect home for kids who are always in trouble. When your mother and mother like figure looks at you and doesn't hold you accountable for your actions, I hope we all can agree that that's probably not good. Teenagers need mothers, Teenagers don't need best friends in a forty something year old's body. But eventually trouble would catch up with Little Zeke. He would be arrested on a completely different incident, but he was then going to be sent off to juvie for a long while. So during that time, because Mark and Little Zeke were homeboys, Mark understood it to be his job to take care of Miss Carmen, to check in on her and do all that kind of stuff while her boy was doing time. That's what homeboys do, right.

37:56 We take care of each other, and we take care of each other's families. So he explained that he went by to check up on her one day and when she came to the door, he was shocked to see that all well was not that all was not well on the home front because Big Zeke had beaten the shit out of miss Carmen. So he told police, They're like, all right, what do you mean beat the shit out of her? What would happen? And he says, look, she came to the door, she had black eyes, she had chunks of her hair missing from her head. He had burned her with a curling iron. I mean, it was very, very brutal domestic violence. And he said. He became instantly enraged, and he said, miss Carmen, who did this to you?

38:42 Who did this to you? And Carmen, you know she's a small, small little lady, and she looks at him and she sheepishly admitted it was mister Zeke. It was a big Zeke. So as a result of that day, Mark got it in his mind that he needed to equal the playing field, so shortly thereafter, he jumped Big Zeke and he beat the hell out of him. How do you like it, man? Huh? How does it feel to have your ass beat. Over your beating on a woman. The fuck is wrong with you. Well after the fight, Mark figured that they were square. It was like one of those eye for an eye street justice type things.

39:23 You're gonna beat on a woman, You're gonna get your ass beat. But later on Mark said that he got a phone call from big Zeke and big Zeke was threatening him, telling him, I'm gonna kill you. You little fucker. Think you're gonna jump me. Your ass is mine, and so that got him scared. He started saying, look, this man was gonna come kill me for real. So two weeks after that threat by phone, Mark decided he was gonna get big Zeke before big Zeke could get Helm. Of course, he was gonna have to do this the cowardly though, that's the only option, and he decided that he was going to do a drive by. He knew where big Zeke worked, he knew about what time he would get off, and so his idea was that he was going to go lie and wait and whenever he saw the car pass, he got in behind him and he wanted to be sure that it was him. Though he didn't want to go shoot up the wrong car, and so he drove up beside him, and whenever he drove up. At one point there was a sunroof or a moonroof whatever in the car that big Zeke was driving, and the light came through and it shone through the sunroof and for a moment it lit up the face and he knew he had his target. And he said, that's whenever I pulled up beside him, and then I started unloading the gun into Ezekiel Fonseka. He had him multiple times, and then out of reaction he said, I just sped up to get away. The issue here was

40:58 that number one, number one, he was shooting at someone, trying to murder them. But also big Zeke was bleeding out rapidly, so he slumped over, unable to breathe effectively. In essence, he's been shot multiple times. He doesn't know who is shooting at him, so out of just sheer reaction and adrenaline, he punched the gas. He's trying to get away, but he's now bleeding out profusely. All he's been shot through the neck, through the chest, and through the head. He is in dire straits. But that car kept driving well. Mark sped away and the vehicle that mister Fonseka was driving crashed into those concrete barriers, causing the airbags to deploy and further injuring the already dying man.

41:42 And then the car rolled to a stop where it remained. And that's when Mark had already callously driven away, leaving him there to die alone. And I just think about, do you all when y'allt to listen to these stories, do you are you like me? Because I build a picture of people in my mind, And and mister Zeke, for some reason, reminds me of a student of mine's dad. Her name's Jalen. Shout out Jalen, my beautiful girl, and her dad is they're Hispanic, and her dad just I thought of him in this instance. Her dad is always dressed to the nines. He always has the best cologne on, his hair, is always groomed and in place. And he's a good man and he's a hard worker. And when I think about someone so that I can humanize it, you know, I think about someone doing that to a man like that, to know that he was terrified and that that car was just he's trying to speed away and then he gets in a car crash and he's laying there and he knows he needs help and there's nothing he can do but slump over and bleed out alone.

43:01 It is the most drive by is not enough for what this victim went through. For the news to say a drive by shooting occurred on the Beltway, one man was found dead, that's not what happened. This was predatory, This was horrific, and it was a monstrous end to someone's life. So where did Mark go after he shot up this man? Well, he went to a girlfriend's house because he needed to lay low. And this was a great story and all when Mark explained this all to them, but police took issue with a few facts from the actual scene. So Mark, man, look, thank you so much for giving us this full admission of what happened. You're really making our job easy. But we have a couple questions for you where the scene actually is. Because I've said this before, I believe it with my soul. Crime scenes speak to you. That's why I like looking at crime scene photos. It tells me a story that nobody could really explain to me. A picture's worth a thousand words.

44:09 So number one question was how did you drive by and actually shoot with such accuracy, Like, how did you have your eyes on the road in traffic and shoot with such great accuracy? I just did it? Man? Is that good? Okay? Well, then the next question we have is then why were there bullet casings that were very very close to the car. Because if you've never shot a pistol before, it's real simple. Your point and you pull the trigger. But the chamber where the where the round comes out, okay, the ejection port, it's gonna come back out. So the spent the bullet goes out of the gun, but the casing that the bullet is in is going to be ejected out of the ejection port, and it's going to be shot up and over your right shoulder. So if you were in the car shooting him, where would those casings land in the car or from the distance as you were traveling shooting the gun. But some of these casings were right outside of the car of Big Zeke.

45:19 It doesn't make sense, and science does. It just doesn't work that way. So there wasn't quite an answer to that question. And then the next question was do you have any reason to know why Big Zeke's wallet was missing? But he didn't really know anything about that, And so some question I have this wasn't necessarily one that the police had. They may have asked it, but something I had was I sat back on this and I said, hold on a damn second, Why would you think someone that you already beat the brakes off of you weren't afraid to approach him then and just manned a man beat him up. Why would you think that he'd be able to kill you now all of a sudden, so you beat him up, but now you fear for your life.

46:07 And just the egotistical way that this teenage guy Mark would talk, it just didn't seem to drive for me personally, it just didn't ring true. So they're asking these questions, they're trying to really get the answers here, and they wouldn't quite get their answers to those questions. So when Carmen was advised listen, I hate to have to break this news to you, but your own son's best friend is who murdered your husband, she was shocked. I mean, how could this even be true. I let him in my home, you know, I cared for him, I fed him, I loved him like my own and we put a roof over his head. We took care of him. There's no way did he really kill him? And they're like, look, it's it's true. We know for a fact he admitted it.

47:01 But for her to think that he was capable of killing someone like them, the people who cared for him, that was just too much. But she did also tell the police that Mark was right about one thing. She said, big Zeke had been abusing me. This wasn't anything new. So maybe Mark took that truth just too personal. And he was just young and a dumb kid, and you know, I was being beaten, and maybe it seems like he thought it was the right thing to do to go get even you know, young people are impressionable, they make rash decisions. But I just can't imagine he would take it that far. So when police addressed the disbelief that he drove himself to the drive by, all right, so back talking to Mark, that's when he finally cracked and he said, all right, look I had an accomplice. You're right, okay, fine, And he I did that accomplice as Mason hughes, that other boy that he was hanging out with, He says he was the getaway driver. He held the car steady while I shot all of those shots into the unsuspecting mister Fonseka. So obviously police want to go now have a word with Mason. Who Mason is just not a name for a thug. I'm sorry, I just I would hate to be named Mason Hughes and go to prison.

48:27 That's all I'm saying. But anyway, so police went to go talk with Mason, who, look, he admitted his role in driving in the murder, but he swore two things. He said, I didn't know that this was going to go the way that it was that it went. But he said I never robbed that man because remember the wallet was gone. He said, absolutely not. He said, we drove up Mason did shoot at him, and then he said we never stopped the car. We never got any closer from the driving vehicle. He said, he shot, I drove away. He said, I'm telling you that I was there. I did participate, but we did not rob that man, and we didn't even stop the car. No frickin' way.

49:10 But police are adamant, y'all, the scene tells a story and it did not align with what the scene was showing. So on January the sixteenth, Carmen was brought back into police and they were gonna have they were gonna talk again, and she was the one closest with the boys and the one who was being abused by her husband, and now he had ended up dead. So, as you can imagine, we need to talk to you a little bit more because you know, you're a victim in this in so many ways. They also had something that they wanted to ask her about, because phone records also showed that she was the last one to speak with her husband before he was murdered. And you know what was that about?

49:57 She said, oh, absolutely, yes, I talked to him. He would always call me on his way home from work, and so he called me and said, hey, i'm leaving work. I'll be there shortly. She said that, of course, yes, what's your point? Well, our point is that, why then did you immediately hang up with him and then call this number? Who is this number? This looks like it goes to a pager And she was surprised by that question. She said, oh, yeah, well I paged Mark. Okay, so your husband calls you and says he's leaving work, and then you page the boy who then kills him. Shortly thereafter, Are we missing something here? And she said yeah, but there wasn't like a real reason. I mean, he was staying here on and off and this was this was commonplace.

50:58 I paged him because I need to to him, like to just talk. I mean, I don't know exactly what we said, but that's that's all. That was okay, and that was true. There was there was communication to that pager. All right, Well, then we just have another question for you, and it's gonna have to do with life insurance. Do you have a policy on him? And yes she did, and it was two hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of policy and that's certainly a lot of cash. And so this is that fine line that you tread in an investigation of Carmen's a victim. Her husband has been murdered, and you don't want to point the finger that she may have been involved in this, but there is there's a lot of things you gotta admit that kind of look squirrely and they have to be explained away. So after a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure is applied.

51:55 Carmen did say, okay, look, in conversation in the past, I have confided in the boys that big Zeke was problematic in my life. Okay, no one wants to be abused. They can see the abuse. Yes, I said that he was not a good husband. Yes, I said all of these things, but it's true. Well, more interviews with Mark would bring to investigators' attention that after the time when big Zeke was murdered, Mark said that he met up with Carmen at a gas station like like the same night.

52:40 And knowing that Mark admitted to shooting Zeke, this is kind of interesting, okay, So they asked her, okay, well, or they asked, excuse me, rather, why did y'all meet up at a gas station the same night that he was murdered? And he the kid, you know, Mark goes, oh, I had to give Carmen his wallet. I hang on second, well, well, what lollo, I thought you said y'all just drove off after the drive by. Why also, would she think you had his wallet? So he says, oh, oh, oh, okay, all right, well all right after the drive by, and by the way, I'm going to give you a time from here. Six hours after the drive by, Mark went and drove by the car again, but this time he was alone when he went in and drove back to the crime scene. He got out and he said he walked up on big Zeke and something I read said that he heard a squeaking noise like he was making a big Zeke was not quite dead or his body was at least making some kind of squeaking noises. And so he pulled out the gun and he unloaded in him again at close range. So this answered that question of why the casings the police were right. The casings were right there because someone had shot him at close range.

54:05 But it was six hours later he shot at this man. That man laid there bleeding out suffering. No one really noticed him because it was through the night. It just looked like a car pulled over because his body was slumped. And then this bastard goes back six hours later and shoots at him again. And then he explained that he then opened the door, he pushed up on Zeke big Zeke, he rolled him over a little bit, and that's so he could pull out his wallet. Bingo. Mason was telling the truth the whole time. They didn't stop. When he was the getaway driver, Mark went back rolled him over and got his wallet and after Mark emptied the wallet and took out all the contents, he threw it out, and investigators were able to confirm that he was telling the truth because he showed them where he threw that wallet.

55:00 But now he had incriminated Carmen because Carmen is saying, no, it was just by chance. We talked and yeah, it's not not normal, you know, for me to go meet him at at a gas station. That's not weird. I mean that I took care of this kid. So when she was faced with this information, she spilled it. Okay, fine, we did discuss killing Zeke. Shortly after the shooting of TJ. Guzman. She told Mark in this conversation the route that Big Zeke took home from work, and then she paged Mark to let him know that Zeke had left work after Big Zeke called her and said, hey, Han, I'm on the way home from Mark. And when she says this, she maintained, but I didn't want him to die. That wasn't my plan. Okay, bitch whatever. But as the two were basically played against, you know, played against each other by detectives during all this questioning, they continued to sink each other because Carmen forgot, apparently to mention that the supposedly grieving widow had been the point person from the jump.

56:08 The two had literally sat down together and created a detailed plan of how this was gonna go down. She had told Mark in the upstairs bedroom of their home she wanted big Zeke dead after realizing that Mark, this teenage boy in her home, wasn't afraid to shoot somebody. Why did she know that? Because he had just shot TJ. Guzman. Big Zeke was supposed to be coming home for a two week vacation that he was looking forward to, two weeks off of work they get to celebrate the holidays together, and she knew that that was coming and she didn't want to spend the two weeks with him. She wanted him gone before the vacation. Also because of an insurance clause of some sword. I didn't dive that deep into what the clause was, but she needed him to be killed.

56:59 In the car, Mark still had the nine millimeter on him, and so she says, okay, cool. She goes and gets more bullets and gives them to Mark. Yeah, the woman who didn't want him to die, that just was talking about how he was supposedly a bad husband, so they had decided together that he would need an accomplice, and that's when they recruited Mason to be the driver. They went over the route, they sat down, they went over the route Big Zeke took home from work, and she pointed them to go past the specific exit called the Pearland exit, and that's where they needed to wait. Mark then stole the Cadillac from mister Boney, and get this, he hid it in big Zeke's own garage until it was time for the murder. He went and he picked up Mason. They drove to this cul de sac that connected the Beltway, connected the Beltway to another direction, and that's on the two switch seats. Mason was now driving.

58:00 Minutes after they got there and switched seats. That's when Carmen paged him. They agreed upon Code forty eight right after Big z called to say that he was on his way home from work. That's whenever that page went through. The two teams sat there, they waited for the car to pass by, and that's whenever they pulled in behind him, verified it was him, and shot him to death. But what happened was that Mark started screaming for Mason. Stopped the car. Stop the car, want to get the wallet, Stop the car. I want to rob him. But Mason was so freaked out by what had just happened, he just he just tore out of there. He wanted the hell away from what had just happened. That's whenever Mason and Mark split up. Mason went home. Mark did go to a girlfriend's house, but he called Carmen, and Carmen said, you better go back and get that fucking wallet. Go get the wallet. Specifically, she wanted him to go get the wallet because she told him this kid Mark that it had over one hundred dollars in it usually and he could use that money to go on the run, but you better bring us credit cards back to me first, can you freaking imagine? So Mark did it. He went back, He walked up on him, shot him more times to make sure good and sure he was dead, stole the wallet, and then they met up at the gas station to exchange the wallet contents. So the case, as far as you and I are concerned, open and shut now. But wait, there's more. See after his arrest, Mark started writing that

59:36 old female friends from that friend from years ago, I don't know, maybe if he was bored, or maybe he was hoping to woo this girl for some commissary money or whatever, But either way he started writing her. And that said, those letters would be a very eye opening thing for in guest investigators, because when Mark was opening up his heart to his old friend, he mentioned something that had never been said to police. It turned out he was upset because of a baby. What the hell does a baby have to do with any of this? Well, turns out Mark and his best friend's mother, Carmen, weren't just the mother close son duo we have all come to believe. No, this was way more than that. It turns out Mark had been having a sexual relationship with his best friend's mother right underneath Big Zeke's nose and Little Zeke while he was locked up. Now, I want to remind you he was fourteen years old when he met this woman. He was seventeen years old when this murder went down. That affair, if you want to call it, that had resulted in a pregnancy. Seventeen year old Mark

1:01:07 had knocked up his best friend's forty year old something mother, which also makes her a pedophile. So in his writings, he cleared up why he would be so invested and willing to kill big Zeke because he wrote in these letters which that girl kept and even shared with police, he was in love with an older woman named Carmen, but he could never be with her again he had gotten her pregnant, and Carmen's husband found out. That's why supposedly, And I don't know if it's true or not, and I'm not putting it on big Zke because I don't have any proof of it. That supposedly, whenever he beat up Carmen and she in turn lost that baby, that supposedly, I don't know what actually happened. The killing that he did, and the reason he went and he killed big Zeke was actually a revenge killing for his baby's death, and so that the couple could stay together. She would be with him, they would live together in the home, and they would live happily ever after with the life insurance proceeds.

1:02:20 And it sounds wild, I know that, and no one would ever believe Mark, probably, But then Carmen gets called back in and she confirms this with police. Now it all makes sense. A pedophilic woman got pregnant by her teenage son's best friend, who in turn murders her husband so that he can take his life in more ways than one. Everyone was arrested in this case, Mark Mason and Carmen. Mason turned state's witness. He agreed that he would testify against Carmen in exchange for a deal to get ten years in prison. Mark was charged and convicted of first degree murder as well as a plethora of other charges, and he was handed down the death penalty. Carmen, she was indicted and she was ultimately tried for capital murder.

1:03:21 She was found guilty and her punishment was assessed at life in prison. But then the courts came back as far as Mark was concerned, because in two thousand and five, his death sentence was revoked because the Supreme Court went through this whole juveniles cannot be executed, so this then commuted his death sentence, making him eligible for parole now in twenty thirty seven, So is Carmen. By the way, So Carmen still today maintains, Look, I'm not an evil, seductive mastermind, and Mark I had to do this on his own. He murdered big Zeke as a sixth gift for me. But I didn't ask for it, and I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever, you're sleeping with a teenager, ma'am. You are exactly everything you are described as. But I want to give you this.

1:04:13 Netflix even has a special on Mark. Okay, it's on one of the I Am Killer shows, which I did go watch after I wrote this, and I want you to know this. They pissed me off. They pissed me off, and I want to challenge you as a listener to go watch it, okay, because they make Mark out to be some kind of poor, poor boy who killed for love or some shit like that, and that he was manipulated and blah blah blah. No, and I want to stop the agenda and quit with all this fucking propaganda because Mark Arthur, you can trust in me. I'm looking into it. And Mark Arthur had a criminal record dating back that started at the age of twelve. I had also been by the way on a massive twenty three day crime spree leading right up to the murder of Big Zeke. He had been a continual nuisance to society and he left a wake of destruction everywhere he went. Burglary, aggravated robbery, assault, car thefts, carjackings and murder are not all done by some poor old manipulated boy. No, they just chose to focus on that one aspect. So, knowing this story, I want you to do your unspeakable homework.

1:05:38 I'm gonna call it that. Do your unspeakable homework. Go watch I Am Killer Season two, episode five, honorable intentions. Go watch that episode and then reflect back on what I've told you, and you tell me if you can see the agenda that is there. That's what we as citizens and as freethinkers need to always remember. There is more to every single story than you will ever know. He was a gang member, He turned his back on his own mother and his stepfather because of the rules they employed. He was willing to shoot and kill people on multiple occasions. So forgive me if if the show fails to pull my pity for him. He wasn't a soldier of the streets. He was a volunteer of his own downfall. He traded positive potential for negative attention and guess what he got exactly what he wanted. And speaking of Mark will never get to see that parole date that he was awarded when his sentence was commuted because on October twenty sixth of twenty twenty two, a correctional officer found him dead in his cell from multiple knife wounds to his neck, courtesy of his own cellmate. When you actively trade wisdom for weapons, and guidance for gangs and rules for recklessness, you will reap exactly what you

1:07:10 sew and hell, I mean it even looks like his own cellmate agreed with me. Some people need to be removed from society, no matter how you slice it,