Double-Murderer Kevin Sweat Tried to Kill Lawyer in Court

[Music] hey you and welcome my name is mike and in this whole video we are talking uh sweat big sweaty i mean that name ironically of course he is itty bitty in every way and you know what else is itty bitty the town of wilika but you know what that is okay in my book because it's it's in oklahoma there mysteries abounded for many years mysteries which got both clear and increasingly muddled as the years went by how about i tell you about them because honestly like some parts of the story shock so uh let's give it a go [Music] we walika is like almost in the geographic center of the good old usa the definition of flyover about 1 000 people live there with a hefty amount below the poverty line back in the day the railroad come true town but not so much anymore cue bruce springsteen harmonica i found a one review of the place on niche.com small town where everyone knows each other it has a family dollar and a nursing home whoa should have put that into tourism ads they also have a place called the indian center where kids can hang and play basketball witness downtown wilika a place where there are more churches than um really anything else i'm sure it's a lovely place but let's get to our story which ain't so lovely june 2008. that summer was hot the days were long and two girls were walking on a lonely dirt road just outside of walika skyla whitaker 11 years old and taylor placker 13 years old both from wilika both attended graham dustin just outside the town and on the 8th of june a sunday they were out walking together not far from taylor's home skyla wanted to be a vet when she grew up she'd walk everywhere barefoot followed by her many cats taylor her dream was to be a forensic scientist like she saw on the tv and she had a big heart it was a warm day they wanted to be out and about and there's not really a whole lot to do other than stroll the dirt roads and fields of middle america but then just as dinner time was approaching neither were answering their phones taylor's grandfather you know as i said who just lived a little bit down the road he went out to see if he could see them and he found them they were face down in a ditch about a quarter mile uh from the house taylor's granddad his first thought was that they had been knocked down on that road you know and flung into the ditch but that wasn't it and then this was at about 5 30 pm emergency yes somebody killed two girls over my daughter my grand baby your granddaughter yes am i her friend oh god they both had been shot dead and left there shocking would be an understatement unbelievable more fitting unfortunately though it had to be believed you know i was how could this happen we're working in concert to try to get this solved as quickly as possible and we're going out we're looking at specific details sometimes we're looking at timelines other times you're going through criminal backgrounds both girls had been shot multiple times skyler eight times taylor five they were both clothed there was no sign of a sexual trauma or anything like that it it seemed random in a place where random doesn't happen the fact that they were both shot so many times and ditched in a ditch it was very methodical as if someone could have a grudge against a child the oklahoma state bureau of investigations took on the case the hunt for suspects who could be anyone and anywhere but were more likely among the 1 000 people who resided in walika what was most likely you know people were saying was you know perhaps they saw something they weren't supposed to run into people they weren't supposed to drunks or addicts was what the locals said your crime in this region was on the up drugs playing a major part in that meth heads out in the woods that that sort of thing or perhaps a random shooting just for the for the heck of it maybe someone tried to abduct him went wrong and so they were just killed it was quickly learned that two different guns were used and so investigators began to think perhaps it was two people they ran into the entire region was in mourning for the two children a reward of 25 000 would be offered you know for any information leading to an arrest whatever the case though the reward which would later uh be you know substantially upped would never be claimed well authorities have received hundreds of leads but there has never been any arrests residents hope to finally get a breakthrough when an increase to the reward fund it's been two years now nothing's come out of it hank hinke comes all the way from texas to do his part to help i hope every who's ever responsible is caught but if not we'll be back here again to do it again next year and build this reward fund up until we do catch it a sketch was released this guy was seen by a witness who saw both girls only minutes before they were shot dead this guy was in a pickup and he looked sketchy the witness said shell casings were found right at the crime scene and the osbi and oklahoma state bureau investigations they sent out letters basically to to the registered owners of basically everybody who had that type of gun in the area asking them to come in so they could well have a look at your gun over 40 40 caliber gun owners you know showed up to the courthouse and they went to the police here fire away and unmatched the five shell casings though that were found at the scene they didn't ask for the 22 the other gun that was used i guess it seemed unlikely that um unless the killer stole and then returned uh the murder weapon i guess it seemed unlikely that the killer would go up by hey have a go at that and a year later two years later please went out asking for anyone someone to come forward to help solve this horrendous crime for the two best friends who died that day in june of 2008 folks will never give up hope that their killer will surface until somebody does talk there isn't really much that can be done with it except that it isn't a closed case it's just a little old the police went unanswered this is not a cold case the reason being is we continue to get leads so i don't want anyone to think this is a cold case it's still being worked by number of agents that number differs every day depending on what kind of information we have to run on we'll continue doing that until it's solved or we have no more leads to run i mean i can't find a reason anymore to smile i know no other way to explain it but pure hell that girl meant everything to me and him for the past year i spent most time by myself but no reason is ever going to be good enough there's nothing that can justify doing that to children like that about 35 minutes north of walike lies another small town i mean a few but one the town called oakmulgee it's home to over 10 000 people and has a fair bit more going for it then we will it was okamology 23 year old ashley taylor was from and it was there she disappeared ashley celeste taylor was last seen by a relative on the 15th of july 2011 over three years since the double homicide in wilika ashley was a church-goer an animal lover and a passionate family woman she had a brother a sister and a full life ahead until july 2011. that is she was last seen in oakmology her hometown where she lived i last seen that was last time she was seen like properly that is because she was seen two days later she was seen just off the highway near shelter south of okmulgee the route you'd probably take if you were going to walika ashley though was reported missing on the 29th of july so two weeks after she was actually last seen uh she was reported missing by her mother who well she hadn't heard from her and so you know ramping up your investigation the first people the police went to speak with was her fiance ashley's fiance a guy named kevin sweat big sweaty though as i said that name is a bit misleading because his brain is small his body is small his dick is small though i'm sure all are sweaty he was questioned about the last time he saw his girl see when ashley's mother told the police about the last time she spoke with her that was the 15th of july ashley said her and kevin were going to louisiana to get married see kevin and ashley were high school sweethearts holy monkey they were supposed to have returned from louisiana back to their home in oakmoji by the 29th of july and of course when ashley didn't uh the police got a ring ring yeah well see her mother thought it was odd that she didn't hear from her daughter when she was getting married actually supposed to have contacted someone in louisiana when they arrived she never did ashley's brother's birthday came and went without a call from ashley and ashley was a real family woman very family orientated you know that sort of thing and obviously no one could contact her and so the police thought well the next best thing worst thing is kevin her fiance but kevin who never missed the day's work never took any time off um because it seems like there was no trip to louisiana at all [Music] and so it was kevin who said he had last seen her on the 17th of july on the side of the road in the shoulder of a highway or so he said [Music] spiel right get a lot of this was that they were driving southbound going to louisiana yeah lads and they got into some kind of argument roaring their heads off at each other and so he pulled over into the shoulder of the highway said your audi 5000 of the air and he wasn't driving so he let her out inside of highway said good riddance off he went then he drove around he said went to his dad's home in walika where he burned some tapes and some notebooks presumably related to his future uh well not so much future misses and then went back to their home in oakmoji a few days later that story changed again definitely not for the better this time he said they had gotten into a fight that morning on the 15th physical a physical fight as they were driving they pulled over to a lake uh she punched him he threw a knife at her like a ninja she grabbed it she started cutting herself went down to the pier on the lake and i like sound like he grabbed the knife and he cut her throat and he dumped her body in the lake as you do the lake was searched and there was no sign of ashley but what the police did do was go to kevin's father's house in wilika and it was there they found the remains of the fire in that fire they found bones ashley's dna was also found on an axe kevin was arrested and charged with the murder of ashley taylor kevin was born in 1986 a native of an oakmoji okay with me pal he had two siblings two older brothers and he attended wilson high school in oakmoji where kevin was bullied and it was there he became friends with ashley after high school he worked in a few fast food restaurants he had been in the naval reserves which is weird when he was from a landlocked state and he had high hopes of becoming a cop yo taylor was arrested and charged with the murder of his fiance actually he had been like in the trouble he had been in trouble with the law like at all a few few minor incidents like you know having drug paraphernalia and that that sort of thing but like nothing nothing violent as i said kevin and ashley became friends in high school two loners who found each other and uh well hey hey soon we're more than friends while kevin worked ashley cared for her mother and siblings who had special needs tragedy struck young kevin though in 2007 when one of his brothers died of a drug overdose something which was getting a tighter and tighter hold on the community kevin he lost the twinkle in his eye after that but it drove him to be closer uh to ashley they moved in together and soon he popped the question their relationship though wasn't perfect kevin was pretty angry as i said after his brother died and they fought a lot kevin had issues no [ __ ] and it seemed like as the years went by kevin was kind of he's kind of regretting uh asking the question he should have unpopped quirk he kept up a blog at this time on deviantart under the name joseph i morgan it's his middle name and his mother's maiden name on it he is uh well pictures of himself with lots of guns and where he also posted a lot of um very cringy like late naughties kind of stuff emoji style some of his artwork too which is shite name giuseppe morgan oh it's not joseph i morgan it's josepi i got that wrong oh well [ __ ] him age 19 likes anime drawing hentai nice video games music talking to sami koi dislikes pushy people the government rude people fears the most being alone dying alone never finding true love holy [ __ ] dude this is deep and in may 2010 he wrote i'm living on my own or somewhere i got engaged not too long ago biggest mistake of my life wish i knew she was a complete basket case medicated and suicidal before i got with her now i'm kind of stuck but no worries yet i'm saving up money so i can finally leave oklahoma once and for all it's not like i'm keeping all this a secret hell my family knows i'm planning on leaving just didn't tell them it was permanent you also gotta wonder how much slugger over here planned when his last post was three months to go huh ashley's mother said she was acting odd when she last spoke with her on the 15th of july things were going up [ __ ] creek and when the police searched kevin's home after he was arrested they found some shells which matched shell casings from an incident which happened three years prior that double homicide was suddenly back in the news we begin tonight with a major development in the unsolved murder of two little girls from wallika family members of a murdered ognolgi woman believe that her killer may have ties to both crimes and this wasn't the first time the police had spoken to kevin about the murders of skylar and taylor see back in 2010 in january 2010 they discovered that kevin had purchased the glock in 2007 and it was the same caliber of one of the guns that killed the two young girls now and the police that went to speak with him he said that you know that by that time he had sold a gun and he didn't know what the serial number was sorry so they left it ah that he was questioned about the elite commerce the girls say something did the girls throw something or what happened what happened that day that sets you off there would be no point of shooting kids i don't know what you're talking about listen there's no question we know that you were there that day we know that you were there that day when that happened with those two girls okay we have because we have forensic evidence kevin from the scene we have your dna it's not an issue here whether you were there we know that you were there we know that you're responsible okay we need to get over that i need to know what what happened that day what happened just tell me what happened that day look first of all i don't know listen well you do know kevin because you were there did those girls do something to you did they say something to you did something set you off that day or what there's no there's no doubt about it kevin there's no doubt about it that you were there and that you're responsible for that that's not the issue there i've never met them i never seen them before until i saw him on the news no until you that day kevin okay we know that we you were there and that you were responsible for that and he said he'd been driving along that road they were on that day north 3890 road and he happened to pull over at one point then he said he saw two monsters coming at him i don't want to hear no lies i didn't come here to hear lies i came here to hear the truth and we know that you were there we know that you were responsible i'm guessing i was mental issues i was seeing [ __ ] okay seeing what i don't know things monsters okay and what'd you do panicked okay okay so you saw two demons is that what you're telling me two demons he said we're just racing at him so we got one of the guns out started blasting then he got another gun and kept he didn't know what he had done two monsters two demons i just come at him what i i'd like to get rid of him i said that's all i can say i like him not to be on this earth anymore kevin sweat was escorted out of a courthouse in okemah after being inside only a short time a preliminary hearing was postponed after thousands of pages of documents sweat's attorney says he had never seen were introduced into evidence the defense says it needs more time to look at that evidence sweat has been charged in the murders of two alika girls taylor paschall-placker and skyla whitaker in 2008 but was already accused in the murder of his ex-fiance ashley taylor before that connection was made he has pled not guilty in both cases he was charged with the murder of skyla whitaker and taylor plank ooh that's a nasty black eye clumsy kevin the death penalty was on the cards for all the killings and his attorneys argued successfully that he be tried for all tree murders at once one trial for all he was pleading not guilty he later waived his right to a jury trial in exchange for uh well a non-jury one and then just a few short days before the trial was due to start he pleaded guilty to all the murders now this is the paperwork from court today in it kevin sweat did change his plead to guilty for all three murders he accepted responsibility for killing his fiance ashley taylor in 2011 and the for those two horrific killings of those two young girls eleven-year-old skyla whitaker and thirteen-year-old uh taylor placker back in 2008. he wanted to avoid the death penalty because he knew he would get it the reason he pleaded guilty to it all was as a result of some new evidence which came to light new evidence which would finally show a motive as to why he killed the two young girls as part of his guilty plea he never had to explain why he did it or how he did it just that he did it the murder of his fiance actually could you know he could say the motive was well i mean he was just in a very unhappy relationship he's clearly a little bit unstable if he did that so um he just saw his only way out i guess maybe they they did fight and he killed her and then blah blah blah but why kill the two young girls see he wasn't crazy he didn't uh see monsters see demons legging it out that was just him you know dipping the old hoes in the insanity defense but psychological tests were done and they found him to be fit as a fiddle in the noodle he knew what he was doing that day he didn't see any goblins the only thing that was on and in his mind um when he shot two children was revenge he wasn't too happy with the placard family of which taylor was a member of remember his brother dying a few years before well kevin had come to believe that the placard family had been the one to sell him drugs tainted drugs which caused the overdose in that hotel room and so to kevin's mind it was i eye for an eye and christopher placker taylor's older brother would have testified at trial that he had in fact sold kevin's brother drugs shortly before he died so it seems like it was confirmed kevin plead guilty to it all and so would avoid any kind of trial he'd also avoid any kind of lethal injection he was due to be sentenced on the 24th of october 2014. and then things got just a little dramatic fusion i was inside the courtroom as i saw deputies running and later on we found out that kevin sweat had allegedly attacked one of his lawyers in the courtroom right before the sentencing kevin he was in a back room with his court-appointed attorney when all of a sudden the guards were locking up the place and telling everyone to get down see what happened get a load of this was that kevin had somehow managed to get smuggled in a razor blade from the jail and tried to murder his attorney in the back of the courtroom it is alleged that he produced a weapon possibly a small razor blade that he had hidden the fusky county d.a says moments before the sentencing sweat attacked his lawyer with that blade cutting him on the neck he was trying to slice open his attorney's throat now he didn't manage to get it cut in but it wasn't life-threatening he managed to get that in before the guards essentially bet the shite out of him he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole once for each murder shortly after he tried to withdraw his pleas he wanted a jury trial he was there saying he didn't kill anyone and he said that in those interviews where he you know sort of admitted to it that's an impostor convicted of three murders is headed to prison today a judge denied kevin swett's chance for a new hearing swept will spend his entire life in prison in july he entered a blind plea saying that he's guilty for killing his fiance and two young girls then last week sweat asked to withdraw that plea well that went over like a lead balloon but kevin ass man he still wants out he wants a new trial good uh look to annie to his next attorney who's representing them i hope they got a thick neck not long after he was sent away for the rest of his unnatural life three times someone messed them an alert was sent out that he was out of prison fully freaking everyone all the family members as you can imagine everyone who was even related to this case kevin has proven more than enough that he is a very uh willing killer he wasn't out of prison obviously it was a clerical error due to him being moved from the jail to the prison but well done scaring the [ __ ] out of everybody you know this treetop killer one time attorney slasher big sweaty little sweaty but that about wraps up his whole story you know somebody who was growing up was bullied then his brother died he wanted vengeance he's messed up you can read his blog links are always in the references down below it's weird weird as [ __ ] but there you go that's the whole that's the whole story tragic and just messed up for this slide you have a mad bastard full-on killer kev [Music] thank you so much for watching um i really appreciate you taking the time to do so and be here with this guy uh yeah sure guys i don't really know how to edit these videos i kind of say the same thing over and over again but i'm just glad you watched i really i really am um if you're hearing me right now i hope you're uh here listen i'll see as always real soon in the next o video which will be very soon as always go on i'm gonna stop talking now please take care of yourselves [Music] you

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Published: Tue Mar 08 2022