May 19, 2026

Deadly Prank: The Murder of Paul Harris

Deadly Prank: The Murder of Paul Harris
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Season 10

On an ordinary night in Billings, Montana, 33-year-old Paul Harris was enjoying a drink at a local bar when a lighthearted prank involving a bicycle spiraled out of control. What started as harmless fun between acquaintances triggered explosive rage in Ezdeth Highley. She waited outside in the darkness and stabbed Paul three times, killing him in an instant. Kelly Jennings uncovers every chilling detail: the seemingly innocent joke that ignited the violence, the troubled background of the perpetrator, the devastating toll on Paul’s family and friends, and the shocking courtroom outcome that left many questioning justice.

Timestamps
06:49 Tension in the Bar
10:18 The Prank Gone Wrong
17:22 The Aftermath of Violence
19:30 Understanding the Criminal
22:01 The Cycle of Crime
29:34 Consequences of Release
34:44 Life After the Murder
36:54 Transformation or Manipulation?

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast. Or I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's

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kJ You're back with another episode of Unspeakable. If you

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have been listening to this show and you're up to

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date on episodes, then that is that's a cool thing

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because that means that the last episode you heard was

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about Daniel Marsh who murdered mister Chip and Miss Claudia.

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And the reason I'm bringing this up again is because

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you know, he was trying to claim that he was rehabilitated,

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and that came only whenever a new law passed and

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he realized that there was a new opportunity for him

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to be released if you know, he was rehabilitated, and

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so that jump started him into pretending basically that he was.

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And I do hope that you learn some things whenever

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I'm covering these cases, not just true crime fan just

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because of the story, but I hope that I can

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teach you a thing or two along the way. I

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hope it opened your eyes to the manipulation attempts by

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many offenders, and how important it is that we look

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at the psychology of someone who killed and we really

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invest our time into understanding who these people are. On

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some level, even if it's just the fact that we

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can understand them, we cannot we cannot empathize, we cannot sympathize,

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we cannot understand how someone could do the things that

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they did. But at least when the games are played

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by these people and they're playing chess from behind bars,

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that you realize the reason that I'm that I'm stressing

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the importance of the victims that are behind all of this,

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and and my I'm tipping my hat, you know, to

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Sarah Rice for speaking with me, and and for being

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upfront and and honest and very vulnerable that her life

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was greatly affected by what happened after the conviction, and

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it still still is today. The people who are left

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behind the loved ones go through so much, and a

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lot of people don't realize it. They think that after

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the trial, when the coverage wanes and it kind of

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fades off in the public eye, that it's gone and

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it's over with, and it's absolutely not over with. As

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more time passes, more people forget or it fades all

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the horrors that are inflicted, because you know, time goes by,

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and it goes by slowly for some while others it's

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just the blink of an eye. Well, this case is

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probably going to fall into that same category. So to

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that point, I want you all to come with me

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to Missoula, Montana. Now we're going to go back into

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nineteen ninety nine to start and to get yourself situated

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with that time. Let's let's talk about some big moments

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that you may or may not remember from nineteen ninety

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nine so that you can really put yourself in that era. Okay,

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The Sopranos made its debut on HBO in January of

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that year. In April, just a few months later, the

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Columbine High School massacre would leave everybody just stunned and

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in shock. It was all over the news and then

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just when we're gripping with that July would come around.

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Some people may not know this one, but some may.

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But in July of ninety nine, the electric chair was

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used for the very last time in Florida when Alan

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Lee Davis was executed. So some big things happened in

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the US during this timeframe, but it was a year

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full of ups and downs, you know, there were some

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good things that happened too. And that was the same

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year that thirty three year old Paul Harris found himself

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grinning ear to ear And it was October whenever. He

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just was smiling so big. He had a lot to

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be happy about to y'all, because he had just become

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a brand new father. But not just a one baby.

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He had gotten two. That is right, He had two

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brand new baby girls that he lived for. This was

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a guy that was built to be a daddy and

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he loved these two girls. Now, while he and his

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girlfriend Tracy had not yet tied the knot, they had

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been dating for two years, they were very very much

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committed to one another. And now I mean they were

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just over the moon. They both. These babies brought them

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such joy. Everyone knows that twins make it that much

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more special, and this was the beginning of something amazing.

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And life was good. Do you hear me? Just so good?

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And looking at Paul in some ways, he had kind

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of a Morgan Wallen quality to him. To give you

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a little visual. He had a mustache, a wavy hair,

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easygoing and fun dude. And Paul was someone that just

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loved a good laugh. I'm talking about someone who just

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loved a good laugh. If he wasn't smiling at life

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in general or picking on his sister, then he got

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a huge chuckle out of practical jokes. That was his jam.

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He thought that that was just the best. And he

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was a great brother. He was loved very very much

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by his family, especially his sister Leslie, and the bond

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that they had while growing up was one that you

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would really look at, like how it's romanticized in movies,

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the brother and the sister who may have fought, yet

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they always had each other's back. So on the evening

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of the night before Thanksgiving, Paul was going to spend

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some time at a local watering hole, hanging out and

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relaxing with friends before the next day's celebration, sure to

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be full of good food and giving thanks and just

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all the joys that the holidays bring, and then it

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would officially become Christmas season, and you just know that

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Paul and Tracy were gonna go nuts. They were gonna

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go buy gifts for those two baby Girlsays were going

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to be in full swing, and it was just a wonderful,

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wonderful time. Now in the bar where Paul was hanging out,

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the music was playing and the patrons were milling around.

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You could hear the crack of the pool balls hitting

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one another on the pool tables. There's just the hum

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of people chatting and smoking and laughing and just having

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a good time, and everything in the place was chill.

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The vibe one point, so the door opened and in

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walked a guy known in town and already was an

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acquaintance of Paul. This guy's name was Michael, and Michael

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was known to ride his bike for transportation. So, in

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typical fashion, as Michael walked into the bar, he was

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rolling his bike beside him and then he rested it

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up against the wall right there on the side of

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the bar. So Paul looked up. He gave a nod

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to Michael, who then approached him and was like, hey, man,

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what's going on and not much, just a little bit

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of chit chat. And then he said, look, would you

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mind helping me keep an eye on my bike because

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I want to go over there and play some pool,

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but I'm gonna leave the bike inside. Paul's like, yeah, man,

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no problem whatever, And so he's gonna help watch the bike,

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and then Michael walks over and it's gonna start up

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some friendly competition with the others on the pool table,

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and who knows, maybe he could even shark up some

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money in the process. Maybe it was his day to

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make some money. So the bartender was doing his thing,

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pouring drinks. Everyone's having a good time until the bartender

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happened to look over and there was a tip jar

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that was kept right there on the counter, and that

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tip jar had money in it because the night had

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been rolling and now that tip jar was empty. So

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I have no way of knowing how much money was

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in that jar, but I mean, it could have been

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anything from twenty bucks to two hundred. But regardless, that's

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how the bartender really made his money. I mean, he

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was very upset about the whole thing. You just don't

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steal tips. We all know that. So while he was

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trying to determine who may have taken the cash. At

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some point, Michael was believed to have been the person

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that was nearest to the jar or the bar whenever

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it was last seen, and so it was kind of

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believed that he may have been the one who took

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the cash, and the bartender was not gonna let this slide,

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so he came from behind the bar. He approached Michael

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and accused him basically of taking the money, and he said,

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I want the money back. This is not cool. That's

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how I make my living. Well, Michael, as you can guess,

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got pissed and he said, look, I didn't take your money.

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I didn't touch that jar. I didn't take the cash.

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And if you ever come up to me and you're

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gonna accuse me of something, you better make damn sure

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that you have your information straight. And to give you

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a little more information on Michael, I mean, he was

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rough around the edges. He was not someone who would

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cower to any accusation whatsoever. He just wasn't that personality.

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Growing up. He came from a life that was less

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than ideal that you know, didn't know his dad type situation.

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Michael was already an alcoholic. He was not above fighting

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for sure, and so he was pissed and he let

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everybody know he was pissed that he had been accused,

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and he denied it, flagrantly denied that he had taken

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any of that cash, and he went back to playing pool. Well,

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a little more time passed and the bartender came up

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and approached him again. So Michael's like, you know, with

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the fuck now he's mad about it, you know, blah

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blah blah blah blah. But this time the bartender actually

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was not in accusation mode. It was actually quite the opposite.

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The bartender in that time that had passed, realized he

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had made a huge mistake, and with his head down,

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hat in hand, as they would say, he approached Michael

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man to man and he said, look, man, I just

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want to apologize. I need to apologize to you. The

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person who took the cash has been found. He admitted

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to taking the money, and I want to say that

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I am sorry. I'm sorry that I accused you, and

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I would like to just address you, Manda Man and

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say I'm sorry I was wrong. Well, Michael was still

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really really agitated, and although the apology was given and

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it was genuine. It did not help Michael's mood much.

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He did not improve at all. And the more he

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thought about it, the matter he got. And he was

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drinking and he was playing pool, and he just would

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not necessarily accept that apology for what it was. In

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the meantime, Paul was still in the bar, and he

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was oblivious to any of that that was going on, okay,

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and he hadn't been a part of it, so he

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was kind of oblivious, and he was in the midst

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of setting up to pull a prank on Michael. Yes,

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he had agreed that he would watch Michael's bike, but

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he thought, oh, man, wouldn't it be funny if the

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bike disappeared and no one knew where it went, right,

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And so all the buddies that are standing there start chuckling,

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And so Paul and another buddy snuck the bike out

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of the door while Michael was playing pool, and they

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were chuckling and laughing, and they went and they took

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the bike and they put it in the back of

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that friend's truck outside. And the plan was that whenever

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Michael went to look for it, they were gonna all

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get played dumb and say, oh my God, what happened

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to the bike? We don't know what happened before, you know,

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busting out, laughing and giving the bike back. It was

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just one of those practical jokes, right. They once the

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bike was in the truck, they all went back to

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acting normal. They hurried up, got back inside, acted normal,

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and they just waited for the moment to strike because

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it was going to be freaking hilarious. All right. So

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some more time passed and everybody's partying, drinking and having

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a good time, and eventually Michael looked up and he noticed,

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oh shit, my bike's gone. So he went up to

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find Paul and he was like, bro, I thought you

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were gonna help me watch my bike. You said you

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were going to watch it. And he kind of slapped

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Paul on the shoulder when he did that. Hey man,

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you said that you were gonna you were gonna watch

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my bike. Well, Michael, Paul tells Michael, look, I didn't know,

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you know, I don't I don't know where your bike went.

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Because he's playing along with the prank. And rather than

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Michael freaking out and them going outside to find the

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bike and then ha ha ha and laughing about it,

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it shifted into something much more tense than what was expected. Now,

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I have nothing to base this on. What I'm gonna say.

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Accept my opinion, but it's based on, you know, everything

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I know about what's going on in the moment. But

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Michael's approach to things seemed to have made it not

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fun almost instantly, like one of those things where it

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was meant to be fun. But the tone that Michael

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took wasn't like an innocent like, oh my god, where's

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my bike where they could laugh and joke. It was

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more like aggressive and pissed off, where another guy would

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kind of cock his head to the side and be like,

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what the hell, bro Like, you know, so I don't.

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I got the feeling that it turned almost into a

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pissing contest from the jump, rather than it getting to

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be the comical thing that it was intended to be.

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So Michael said that the bartender said they needed to

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take it outside. Nobody else has really said that either way,

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whether they went outside to go look for the bike

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or whether the bartender told him to leave. Either way,

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they ended up outside, so Paul opened the door and

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the two of them walked outside and went across the street.

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Most likely towards the truck to go get the bike

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from the truck. But Paul would never even make it

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too the truck to be able to say anything, because

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the very same man who was indignant to the fact

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that he was being accused of stealing cash you know

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a little while before, pulled out a knife and attacked

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his friend Paul before he even knew what was happening.

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Before Paul even knew that he was in a fight,

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Michael pulled out a knife and jugged Paul three times,

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Boom boom boom with the knife, and Paul immediately fell

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to the ground. And if anyone knows anything about being stabbed,

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you should never ever remove the knife or the object

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that has impaled you. But Michael didn't care. Michael was

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in a full blown rage. He stabbed as hard as

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he could, pulled out, stabbed as hard as he could,

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pulled out, stabbed as hard as he could, pulled out,

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all in a matter of seconds. So by doing this

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multiple times and then removing the blade, the damage that

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was done to Paul's abdomen was catastrophic. The bleeding would

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go uncontrolled as there was no one around to give

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immediate aid. In that exact moment, and any aid of

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any purposeful help wasn't available. And the other issue is

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that while alcohol and knives certainly don't mix, I can

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only assume that Paul had been drinking and celebrating while

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he was inside of the bar. And we all know

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that alcohol in your system will thin your blood and

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it will reduce your clotting abilities. And so this meant

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that in an instant, Paul's chances of survival would have

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been lowered even more from the start. So Michael's pissed

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attacks Paul, who has no clue that this is coming.

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And when Paul collapses to the ground, Michael then turns

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and flees the scene, takes off running on foot gone

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So as Michael ran, Paul was laying on the ground

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in immense pain. But that wouldn't last long because someone

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would find Paul and they would call for an ambulance,

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which rushed to the scene. But by the time the

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ambulance got there, it was just of no use because

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Paul was already dead. He was well beyond any help

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when they arrived. He had lay there in the dark

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and bled to death on the street side. In an instant,

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in an absolute instant, two little girls had no daddy.

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They were still infants, and the chance to know him

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was now gone. Tracy didn't know it yet, but she

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was now the single mother of twins. And for what

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for what? How did we escalate this quickly in this podcast?

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That is what happened in this real life situation that quick.

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Paul was a good guy, y'all, and because he went

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to go play a prank, he was dead. Make that

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make sense. It's unbelievable. It's not one of those cases

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where two drug dealers, you know, we're shooting it out,

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or a bad guy, you know, does something to another bat.

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I mean, this is a good guy dead, just over

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a prank. And it didn't take long for police to

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id who was responsible for the stabbing and murder of

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Paul Harris, because everyone in the bar knew that there

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had been tension all night surrounding Michael highly for a

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multitude of situations. So he was tracked down by the

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very next day and he was arrested, and rightfully so,

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he was charged with first degree murder and he sat

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in jail awaiting his trial. So right now you're like, well, wow, Kelly,

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that was a really short and sweet episode. We'll hold

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your horses here, because you know that there's going to

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be more. You know there's going to be more. There's

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no wild story here as to Michael Higley's conviction, okay,

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but it's after his conviction where this story becomes another

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sick reminder that the victims lose the spotlight and the

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killers will take over. I have followed up with mister

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Chip and Missus Claudia's murders with this case for a reason.

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I want you to see this happen over and over

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because dead doesn't mean irrelevant. It should never mean irrelevant.

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Just because the victims are dead doesn't mean that they

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are now irrelevant. But here we go again. So looking

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into the history of Michael Highley, it turns out that

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he had actually been a hothead for a very very

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long time. Likely his entire life would be very accurate.

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He loved to drink, he loved to fight, and he

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really liked to do things that were against the rules.

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And this is all per his own admission, by the way,

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when he was a kid, when he was young, I

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think starting at like nine years old, he was drinking.

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He got a little bit older, and you know the

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young punk teenager phase and he started running with the

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local gangs. He was constantly in trouble. So it makes

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you wonder, it really should make you wonder, where was

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the accountability at that point, at that point, what was

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going on? Because between the ages of fifteen and nineteen

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years old, excuse me, fifteen and twenty nine years old,

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he was arrested multiple times for drugs, weapons possession, and

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then as he got older, parole violations. So just for

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example here, when he was a teenager, he stole his

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stepdad's rifles that he had and he sold them. Why

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did he do that, Well, he wanted the cash that

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he could get so he could buy drugs, and because

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he just wanted to get even with a stepdad because

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he was mad at him, so he took what he

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loved and sold it off. Now, those guns were eventually

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turned into police and Michael was arrested for that. But

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even late into his twenties, I mean, he was still

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always in trouble. Because let's make common sense here. If

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you have parole violations, then you must have been on parole,

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which means you've already been in serious trouble prior to

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this murder of Paul Harris. So basically My point here

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is that this guy was in trouble from the jump.

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Yet this is one of those revolving door criminals in

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and out of the system with no real consequences, at

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least at the level of stupidity that we are dealing

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here with Michael Highly. So, even when he was in

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jail and eventually would end up in prison, I want

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you to know, he continued to use drugs behind bars

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with no desire to get sober or to turn his

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life around. So it also turns out that right before

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the stabbing murder of Paul Harris, Michael Highly was just

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released from prison. He was twenty nine years old when

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in early nineteen ninety nine he was approved to be

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released by a parole board. When you are released by

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a parole board, guys, there are conditions that are non

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negotiable that you must comply with. If an offender breaks

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those rules, then there's going to be a revocation of

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their release opportunity, and that's documented, okay, and arrest warrant

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is issued and then they have to return to custody

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for the remainder of their sentence. That's how parole works.

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Those rules and those conditions are stated in writing and

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they are part of an agreement which is signed by

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the parole lea. You cannot feign that you didn't know, okay,

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the rules and the regulations, and one of Michael's was

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no drinking whatsoever and no bars. That was a rule,

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a conditional release based on following that one rule, we

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will let you out of prison. But obviously Michael didn't

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give a shit what conditional release he was under, as

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evidenced by this very case. A parolee too, I want

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to give you some insight to parole. A parole is

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also supposed to pay a supervisory fee each month when

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they are under supervision. And fun fact about that. So

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that's all great when people say, oh, well, yeah they're

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paying a fee, you know, they're paying for their own

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supervision when they're out on parole. Fun fact here, the

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parole or the committees that are in place may vary

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state to state who decides this, but they can choose

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to reduce or waive that fee all together. I mean,

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they can suspend the monthly payment all together if they

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feel like it's going to cause the parole significant financial hardship.

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And it makes me wonder, I wonder, I wonder if

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Paul's family and his now two fatherless children, if they

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faced any financial hardships that went unnoticed since his death,

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because I'm sure those funeral fees weren't waived, and after all,

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there is no committee for victims left behind where they're gonna,

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you know, offset any hardships that these children may face

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or their family may face. But the parole is sure

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does get that benefit. If it's seen that he should

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get that, he should have been assigned a parole officer

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who he had open and constant communication with, with one

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of the main parole revocation discussions being that he should

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have no drug use, no alcohol use, no using of weapons,

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blah blah blah blah blah. But yet he was out

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free from prison on parole for four months, only four

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months before he murdered Paul Harris. So really think about that.

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He was approved for early release and murdered someone within

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four months. So there is an issue here. Wherever you

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want to place the blame, there is an issue here. Okay.

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So when you're checking in with a parole officer these

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you know the frequency and whether the offender is considered

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high risk, all of that kind of stuff that's a

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lot is going to go into how often they're going

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to check in with their parole officer. So I don't

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have the documents in Michael Highley's plan for whenever he

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was released, but I can tell you this, back in

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the nineties, once a month wasn't uncommon. So this would

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mean that he would have possibly only seen his parole

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officer Max three times before he went and he murdered someone.

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So why was Michael in prison in the first place

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that he had to be parolled out? Well, due to

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the age of this story that I'm starting with, to

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tell you is going to be difficult because documentation is limited. However,

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I want to give you some backstory according to his

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own mother. Okay, whenever Michael Highley was just a teenager,

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he was completely ungovernable and no matter what efforts his

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own mother put into trying to turn him around, no

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matter what she did, he did whatever he wanted. He

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did not listen. He ran free and crazy, and she

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always was concerned about him because she knew about his temper.

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All right. He would get mad and then do something

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completely out of pocket and never even think before he

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did it. That's who Michael Higley was. He would rage,

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and then he would flash out does that sound like

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someone who should be granted parole or does that sound

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like somebody who's able to put on a good show.

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I'm going to let you, the listener decide either way.

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Whenever he was a teenager, he got into trouble with

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a drug dealer who ended up chasing him back to

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his house, so Michael ran home, ran into the house,

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he grabbed his sister's rifle, pointed the rifle out of

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the window, and shot the drug dealer through the window.

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So the dealer ended up living in this situation, and

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Michael was charged, but his family then open moved from

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Chicago to Montana, and Michael was never locked up for

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that shooting. Can you right now, can you ever imagine

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shooting someone and nothing happening to you, no follow up,

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even if it was a justifiable shooting, which in this case,

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I don't know. Man' you're you stole from a drug dealer.

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Looks like you're both kind of in the wrong here. Okay,

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today we have a felony or a shooting that happens

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during the commission of a felony, and that's a different charge.

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I know, we didn't necessarily have it back then, but like,

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this isn't like some just innocent guy defending his homestead. No,

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he was acting up and he shot somebody, and just

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because he moved away, nothing really happened to him. So

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they moved, and the reason they moved is that his

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mom was trying to get him out of that environment.

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But no matter what they did, Michael continued not to listen.

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He just changed locations with her. So she ended up

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taking him to doctors for his anger issues, and the

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doctors would give advice and talk through what we need

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to do, but he never listened to any advice from

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the doctors. He refused to listen. So the mom was

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unable to help him no matter what she tried, and

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it finally came to a point where she just realized

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that she couldn't help him anymore. He was old enough

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that this is not something that it's out of her hands, basically,

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So when his mother found out now that Michael had

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gotten out of prison and then turned around and murdered

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Paul Harris, all she could really do at that point

470
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.960
was just shake her head. She's like, I taught him

471
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.680
all of the right things. I tried to impress on

472
00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:00.720
him you needed to learn to walk away being a

473
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.559
hot head. Don't let it take over. I tried to

474
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.440
make him stop drinking. I did not want him using drugs.

475
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:08.319
I tried to be involved in his life, but he

476
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:15.319
just didn't care. And that makes you just think. You know,

477
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.400
when someone's own mother recognizes that their kid is a

478
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.799
bad seed, and then he's able to make it out

479
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.839
on parole from a previous conviction and then go murder

480
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:32.799
somebody else, there's a problem. We cannot be soft on

481
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:35.359
crime like this. We cannot be soft on these people.

482
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:38.680
They're not going to be soft on us. Do we

483
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:41.559
not see this over and over and over again. So

484
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:46.599
in May of two thousand, Michael Highly pled guilty to

485
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:50.160
deliberate homicide and he was sentenced a few months later

486
00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:53.400
on August tenth of two thousand and four, the murder

487
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:57.119
of Paul Harris. Now here's the kicker. The judge that

488
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:02.000
would preside over Michael highly sentencing was the same judge

489
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.200
that Michael had been in front of in multiple other

490
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:10.119
cases that he had been charged with in the prior

491
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:16.079
six years before the stabbing of Paul Harris. Tell me

492
00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:19.000
you are not a massive issue to society when the

493
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.960
judge knows you by name. The only judges that know

494
00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:26.599
me by name are ones that I'm friends with, never

495
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.480
because I went before them that many times. Michael had

496
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.720
previous charges for burglary, possession of a deadly weapon, and

497
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.799
those repeated parole violations, yet he never went back to

498
00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:46.799
prison for those. The consensus amongst the judges, and to

499
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.160
an extent I agree here, is that prison should be

500
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:51.920
a last resort. Okay, I get that we shouldn't be

501
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.480
throwing people in prison for running stop signs. We shouldn't

502
00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:57.079
be throwing teenagers in prison and just getting rid of

503
00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:59.279
them because you know they're fistfighting at the high schools

504
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.519
or whatever. Okay, but hopefully you're seeing that this is

505
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:07.839
a different situation. How many chances? How many chances does

506
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:13.359
a person get before they then turn around and murder someone?

507
00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.160
In this case and unfortunately in many others, the answer

508
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.640
is a lot. There's consistency here that the benefit of

509
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:24.519
the doubt is continued to be given to offenders who

510
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:29.400
escalate and escalate and then kill people. Helly shot somebody before.

511
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:35.119
So while data differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, I want

512
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:36.400
to give you a little bit of information here. I

513
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:38.160
want you to be an educated listener, okay, and just

514
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:40.160
give you a little bit of information to work with

515
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:44.799
as we talk through this case. Research into prison populations

516
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:50.799
consistently shows that over ninety percent of prisoners, including those

517
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.440
that are serving time for violent crimes, not just like

518
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:58.319
you know, possession of a pipe or something, they are

519
00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:03.000
repeat criminals. A majority of them are repeat criminals. And

520
00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:05.640
I know metrics differ in data collection, but I have

521
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:11.839
heard people say that violent offenders, like those who murder people,

522
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.359
often they're going to say, oh, well, they don't murder again. Usually,

523
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.680
you know, it's just this one time instance. Blah blah

524
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.160
blah blah blah. And if they're released, if they're released,

525
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.839
that they're you know, they're not gonna they're not going

526
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:26.920
to commit another murder or they're not going to continue

527
00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:28.559
to do this blah blah blah. But I'm here to

528
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:32.359
tell you something. Everything in this lifetime is relative. Everything

529
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.680
is relative. If someone murdered somebody at thirty years old

530
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.799
and then they went to prison for forty years, let's

531
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.039
do some basic math. How old are they when they

532
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:43.759
get out, because the answer is going to be seventy

533
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:50.400
they're not gangbanging anymore. It's seventy. The value in their

534
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:56.079
correction was in the time they spent behind bars and

535
00:32:56.119 --> 00:33:01.680
they got old. The value is no in being locked up.

536
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:05.920
The value is in how long they were locked up.

537
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:10.559
You can't just trust the data on face value when

538
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:13.880
people say, oh, they're not likely to commit again if

539
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:16.279
they even if it's a nonviolent crime. Let's say it's

540
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:18.720
just you know, something bad. You know, they're selling drugs

541
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:20.920
at a mass quantity or something like that, and then

542
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:22.640
they go to prison for a long time and then

543
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.559
they get out and then the data shows, oh, they

544
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:26.880
didn't reoffend. Well you have to look at more than that.

545
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.359
How old are they? You know what I'm saying, like

546
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.079
not everything is black and white. So either way, the

547
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:35.720
judge here, this judge is Judge Larsen was the name.

548
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:39.519
The judge knew at this point. Look, someone's dead this end.

549
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:41.799
It's game over for you, dude, It is game over.

550
00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:46.160
But the sentence that was handed down was sixty years

551
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:51.920
in prison, and here's the keyword with with the possibility

552
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:57.440
of parole after fifteen years. So the requirement was that

553
00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.799
he had to complete mental health counseling programs. Mental health

554
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.519
programs had to complete them as well as drug dependency courses,

555
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.800
so there would need to be proof basically that he

556
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:16.400
was working on personal growth. Now, speaking on personal growth, okay,

557
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:22.480
this would mean that dead Paul Harris's kids wouldn't even

558
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.400
be eighteen years old. They would not have even had

559
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:28.239
their own personal growth to the age of eighteen, and

560
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:32.400
Michael highly could potentially be out walking the streets again. Possibly.

561
00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:37.880
That is sick to me. This is a lot for

562
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:41.400
a family to have to live with knowing that the

563
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:47.760
trial was just the beginning. Sentencing of Paul's killer was

564
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:50.840
going to now leave them in a continuous state of

565
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:55.239
what ifs in terms of his relief. Just the sentencing

566
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.199
alone sixty years sounds like a lot, but he has

567
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:00.480
the possibility of parole after fifteen years. So the tenancying

568
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:04.079
of Paul's killer was now going to leave them in

569
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.559
a continuous state of what ifs in terms of his release.

570
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:13.360
So as all of this is taking place, another blow

571
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:17.880
to the family of Paul would be dealt. And you

572
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:19.920
know his sister. I mentioned her, Leslie. She was a

573
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.239
young single mother of her own child by this point

574
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.239
and she was now facing another huge life altering issue

575
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:32.760
as a result of this case. Tracy, that was Paul's

576
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:34.639
girlfriend at the time and the mother of the twins,

577
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:39.400
she did not handle his death well. She didn't handle

578
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:44.079
it well. Not everybody has the ability to chin up,

579
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:47.480
chest out and power through and that's okay. This was

580
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:57.440
devastating to her. She went downhill very quickly, very very quickly. Emotionally,

581
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.880
she was destroyed and she not pull herself out of

582
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:07.039
the depths of despair. So Tracy and Paul's twin girls

583
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:11.400
ended up in foster care. She was not able to mother,

584
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:14.480
and damn it, I'm gonna stand up right now and

585
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:18.199
say I have a heart right here. This woman's life

586
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:24.320
was destroyed in an instant. She lost the love of

587
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:30.159
her life, the father of her children. So I'm not

588
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.440
gonna judge her here. The kids ended up in foster care,

589
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:36.440
whatever the case. And now Paul's family was struggling because

590
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.360
they wanted to make sure that the twins would be

591
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:41.360
placed back within their family. They're now fighting two fronts here.

592
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:46.239
We want Paul's kids and we need to know that

593
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:47.760
this guy's not going to get out again, and that

594
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.840
my brother's life mattered, and it mattered more than fifteen

595
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:56.159
years in prison, that's nothing. Both of those little girls

596
00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:59.760
were also now old enough to know and realize that

597
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:03.159
they're mama wasn't there, and they were really struggling without

598
00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:11.239
their family. The trauma here was unending, absolutely unending. So Michael,

599
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.920
either way, he was sentenced, and he was sent behind bars,

600
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:18.800
and years would pass. Okay, those years, as most of

601
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.320
us would hope, should have been spent working on himself

602
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:26.480
making progress. We can't just say we don't hope people

603
00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:28.880
progress behind bars. I think that'd be disingenuous. I do

604
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:30.880
want people to get better. I do want them to

605
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:33.119
make a difference in their own lives. At least the

606
00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:36.760
death of Paul would result in something good, you know,

607
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:40.760
in a weird way. At least somebody benefited from it.

608
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:42.079
And I don't even want to say it like that.

609
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:45.079
That sounds horrible, But we want good to prevail in

610
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:50.599
some fashion, right, whatever it may be. But by twenty sixteen,

611
00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:56.199
the only real change that Michael Highly had made was

612
00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:02.559
his emphatic announcement that he was now transender. That was

613
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:08.360
his big announcement, eighteen years after he stabbed Paul Harris

614
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:13.119
to death over a bicycle prank. He wanted the world

615
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:16.280
to know that he was now a new person and

616
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:18.559
that he was in the process of transitioning to be

617
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:22.800
a female. So at first you're like, okay, whatever, whoopedy shit.

618
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:28.440
But there is more to this than meets the eye,

619
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:33.840
because it is tied to a court decision in Indiana,

620
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:42.000
and that decision would allow convicted murderers to in Indiana

621
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:46.639
at least okay, it would allow convicted murderers there to

622
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:53.159
receive a taxpayer funded sex change surgery. And it all

623
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:56.639
stems from a lawsuit that was filed by an inmate

624
00:38:56.679 --> 00:39:01.159
who goes by Autumn Cordellion, who is so being fifty

625
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:04.440
five years in a state prison for the strangulation of

626
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:10.880
an eleven month old. We can't overlook this. I don't

627
00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:14.119
care what side of the aisle you're on about transgender issue.

628
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:18.679
That is not the point here. My point is that

629
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:24.760
this guy fifty five years is the sentence he strangled

630
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:28.159
an eleven month old baby. The baby didn't even make

631
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:34.320
it to its first birthday, and yet the courts are

632
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:41.280
consumed with his sexuality. His argument is that basically it

633
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.639
was a violation of the Eighth Amendment, Cruel and Unusual

634
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:55.320
Punishment Amendment to deny him gender affirming surgery. And like

635
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:57.400
I said, I'm not getting up in the politics of

636
00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:01.320
sex changes. That is irrelevant to me right now. What

637
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:04.119
I will get into is the fact that the victims

638
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:08.639
in these cases, they were never afforded their right against

639
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:16.800
cruel and unusual punishment. This is ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous. I

640
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:19.159
don't care what type of social warrior you may be

641
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:25.440
think about these victims. Paul is dead, Paul is dead,

642
00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:30.159
yet we should entertain the sexual identity of his killer.

643
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.679
An eleven month old baby who couldn't even talk was

644
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:40.440
strangled to death. Yet we the people should not only care,

645
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:46.840
but fund the sexual identity of the child's killer. We

646
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:53.039
should care what he wants sexually. I find that absolutely

647
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:58.360
completely offensive and in direct contempt of what the purpose

648
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:04.199
of prison is. Prison is for punishment, and it's for

649
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:09.000
time to be spent reconciling what you have done to others.

650
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:11.840
And in both of these cases I've mentioned to you here,

651
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:16.000
it was taking a life. That is what it all

652
00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:20.880
boils down to. But instead these killers have spent their

653
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:27.119
time thinking about me. What's happening to me? So Michael

654
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:32.159
highly now claims that the only reason he killed Paul

655
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:37.599
was because of a gender identity issue. He was ashamed

656
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:41.800
of who he was and that was what made him angry.

657
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:44.519
It wasn't the alcohol that night that he was consuming

658
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:50.320
in direct violation of his parole conditions. It wasn't because

659
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:53.639
of the drinking and the anger issues. No, it's because

660
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:55.559
he wanted to be a woman. That's why he killed

661
00:41:55.599 --> 00:42:01.599
Paul highly Now, mind you, he was first eligible for

662
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.880
parole in twenty eleven, and in the time that he

663
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:10.719
spent in prison up to twenty eleven for starters, he

664
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.079
failed to show any remorse for what he had done.

665
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:22.559
He actually almost justifies murdering Paul Harris as he's justifying

666
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.800
it as part of his reaction to his own internal struggles.

667
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:33.079
I find it insanity that Paul's name would even be

668
00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:36.960
tied to this argument. Paul had nothing to do with

669
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:41.239
any of that. Paul was playing a prank on a bicycle,

670
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.440
you know, or with a bicycle. How the hell are

671
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.519
these two things even put in the same story. They're

672
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:54.599
two different things. Paul was murdered because a drunk in

673
00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:57.519
a bar, which was against parole violations, got mad over

674
00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:00.559
a joke. This guy, you know, Paul's being played. His

675
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:03.480
anger issues took over. He chose to carry a weapon

676
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:07.199
which was also in direct contempt and violation of the

677
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:09.800
parole rules, which he then took out and used to

678
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:14.880
stab Paul to death. Anyone willing to entertain anything else

679
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.119
in this case as to what happened as a cause

680
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.760
is literally, in my opinion, spatting on the grave of

681
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:28.480
Paul Harris. You are spatting on him. This seems to

682
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:34.280
me like a contrived attempt at a pity of you know,

683
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.159
he wants to get people's pity, and he's using a

684
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.639
socially hot topic to try and gain sympathy, as if

685
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:47.719
Michael has had some type of life altering enlightenment that

686
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:50.519
sweeps away all of the bad that he has done

687
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.039
and the quote unquote knew him should should shine through

688
00:43:55.280 --> 00:44:00.480
all of that. So what was his new name choice? Okay,

689
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.360
let's let's just let's just assume he's made these sweeping changes.

690
00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:09.039
Let's believe him. Okay, just for shits and giggles. What

691
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:12.880
is his new name choice? The new name choice, with

692
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:19.360
this new non threatening, non dangerous, enlightened persona, he's now

693
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:23.400
got what's the name. I'm glad you asked, because the

694
00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:27.719
name is as Death. How do you spell that? I'm

695
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.039
I know right now, you're like, wait, what how do

696
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.280
you spell that? Kelly? Oh, it's it's simple to remember

697
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:38.039
easy death, easy death, kind of kind of like a

698
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:42.239
Paul's was. I guess how how easy it was to

699
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:46.519
murder Paul? Easy? It was an easy death. It's just

700
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.639
appalling to even humor the idea. But but that's it.

701
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.480
His new name is as Death spelled easy death. So

702
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:00.800
I googled as Death because I I was like, there's

703
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.079
got to be something to this. Why what a weird name.

704
00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:06.239
He didn't pick Molly or Sarah or something like that.

705
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:09.159
Now he picked as Death, something very strange. So I

706
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.599
googled it to figure out what is this name about?

707
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:18.400
And I found that this is an anime character? Okay,

708
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.960
And all of these characters have personas of their own,

709
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.119
and they have like a premise to them, correct, So

710
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:27.079
I thought that I would give you the premise of

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00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:33.320
the as Death character. She's a sadist. She's a massive

712
00:45:33.400 --> 00:45:39.480
manipulator and a violence fiend who believes that the weak

713
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:45.880
should be purged and deserve no empathy. As Death is

714
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:51.400
a sadistic, barbarious, and bloodthirsty woman who lacks empathy for

715
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:55.599
people whom she deems weak, despite appearing to care about

716
00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:00.960
those working underneath her. Ever since, she is motivated by

717
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.599
her father's philosophy, which is the strong survive and the

718
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:09.039
weak perish. She has gone through torturous activities that involve

719
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:13.800
putting her enemies through great pain, both physically and emotionally.

720
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.719
She has no qualms about her ruthlessness and battle or

721
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.679
killing innocent people to get what she wants, and rationalizes

722
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:27.239
her behavior with her father's old creed. You can look

723
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:30.760
it up yourself if you don't believe me. So as

724
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:37.719
Paul remains dead and his daughters without a father, this

725
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:43.480
is the greatest achievement and change that his killer has

726
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:50.400
made in all of these years. No apologies, no regrets,

727
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:54.679
just a new name. How would you feel if that

728
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:59.719
was your brother? I'm all about putting yourself in somebody's shoes.

729
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.039
The shoes I want to put on are the victims

730
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:04.199
in this case. How would you feel if that was

731
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:09.360
your brother? The courts just arguing over whether to give

732
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:15.239
his killer hormones and whether his killer should get surgery,

733
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:18.199
and whatever else. He feels like he needs to be

734
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:23.320
his true self all the while, Paul will never get

735
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:29.159
to be himself ever again. Growing up, and I know

736
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:31.840
this story is not about me, but I just have

737
00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:35.400
to say this. Growing up, my mama instilled something in me,

738
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:38.239
and it was this statement. She told me, Kelly, always

739
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:41.800
be nice to people because they might be angels in disguise.

740
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.079
And as an adult now, as an adult with my

741
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:49.920
own decision making choices and I can do whatever the

742
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:54.719
hell I want, I have chosen to continue with this

743
00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:59.480
thought process. I will be kind to people. I do

744
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:03.599
believe in loving people and treating everyone with kindness, even

745
00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:07.360
the people that I don't agree with, even people on

746
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:13.119
different spectrums of whatever situation we're talking about. Loving people

747
00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:21.039
comes just it's humanity, It's natural right. But Michael highly

748
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:27.119
as an adult, what thought process does he follow? Well,

749
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.039
I didn't get to talk to Michael, but what I

750
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:31.800
did do was I looked up what is as Death?

751
00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:36.239
The character what is her most famous quote? And this

752
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:41.719
is what it is? As Death says, I don't understand

753
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:44.800
the feelings of the weak. The law of the world

754
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.719
is survival of the fittest. It's how the weak are

755
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:51.320
weeded out. It just means those people that died were

756
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:59.079
too weak. It's only natural for the week to perish.

757
00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:03.679
I'm not impressed, guys. I do not feel sympathy at

758
00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:07.960
all from Michael Highley. If he suffered in his life,

759
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:11.760
so have tons of other people. And to that point,

760
00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:17.519
most people with gender identity issues don't commit murder. They

761
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.280
don't hurt other people as a response to it. They

762
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:29.920
are good people. This whole story, and the reason I

763
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:34.199
brought it to you is because it's just another control

764
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:39.400
tactic by Michael Highley to go against the grain. And

765
00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:41.400
in an interview that Michael Higley did, he said, and

766
00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:43.440
this is a direct quote, he said, I'm not quite

767
00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:48.039
as violent as I used to be. Not quite. You're

768
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:50.719
not quite as violent as you used to be. So

769
00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:57.079
you fall right underneath the violence level of murdering because

770
00:49:57.079 --> 00:50:00.360
you're a murderer. You're not quite a murderer anymore, because

771
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:02.960
that's just not impressive to me. The majority of the

772
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:05.840
people on the planet aren't murderers. And we don't use

773
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:10.840
that as a bragging point either. We're decent, good people.

774
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:17.599
We just act normal. We don't kill people. So as

775
00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:20.679
of right now, Michael Highley has been denied parole six

776
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.639
times and he remains incarcerated at the Montana State Prison

777
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:29.639
in Deer Lodge for the murder of Paul Harris. That's

778
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:37.199
a good thing. Michael was unruly. Michael was an alcoholic

779
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:42.239
and a drug addict. Michael shot a drug dealer. Michael

780
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:45.559
was in and out of prison and ignoring his rules

781
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:51.880
of parole. Michael stabbed and murdered Paul Harris. But now

782
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.960
Michael wants a clean slate with a new name and

783
00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:00.239
a polished story of rebirth. But here's the thing, guys,

784
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:06.159
Accountability doesn't get amnesia just because you updated your identity

785
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:12.639
like a damn Facebook profile. Real change leaves evidence. It

786
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:19.159
shows up in actions, in repair, and in taking actual accountability.

787
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:24.239
None of that is evident. There is no ownership, there

788
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:28.079
is no remorse. There is no weight carried on his

789
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:33.079
shoulders for the incredible harm that was done. Just a

790
00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:36.800
radical claim of change and the hope that everyone's too

791
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:42.719
distracted by his new change to remember about Paul. But

792
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:48.639
I remember Paul, I remember the callousness shown, and I

793
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:52.679
remember you, Michael Highley running away and letting him die

794
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:56.599
in the road. You can call it transformation. You can

795
00:51:56.639 --> 00:51:59.239
call it enlightenment, you can call it whatever the hell

796
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:04.039
you want. But it's giving Halloween costume. It's cheap, temporary,

797
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:19.239
and nobody believes that it's real m