- [Instructor] What is up you EWU crew? Today we are covering five solved murders. The first story begins with
79 year old Beverly Bobrick, a kind soul who touched
many people's lives in her community. As a devout Christian and the president of her church's women's group, she was beloved by all who knew her. Although she lived alone
after her husband passed away, she always had the company
of her loyal dog, Pepe. Neighbors knew her routine well, every Sunday morning like clockwork, the first thing on Beverley schedule was coming outside to
pick up her newspaper. So when the morning of
September 11th 2005 went by, and the day's paper remained untouched in front of the elderly woman's house, they started to get concerned. A group gathered to check
up on their neighbor and make sure that
everything was all right. They knocked on the door, nothing, not even a bark, which was strange. Reassuring themselves that
maybe Beverly and her dog had just gone out to run errands or we're on a trip of some kind, they hurried to check the garage. But they knew something was wrong, the moment they saw her
car's still parked inside. Beginning to panic, they strained to see inside the windows and doors, desperately attempting to catch a glimpse inside the eerily silent home. As soon as the group reached
the back of the residence, their hearts immediately dropped. Not only had a large window
been forced wide open, but the screen behind it was pushed in. From what they could see
if the home's interior, Beverly his belongings and furniture were completely ransacked and
then upon closer inspection, their worst fears were confirmed. Beverly lay lifeless on
the floor of her bedroom, and Pepe, who most likely perished trying to defend his
owner, was beside her. When the police saw Beverly his wounds, they said that the significant
trauma to her head, as well as multiple defensive wounds, painted them a clear
picture of the attack. Only one month after the murder, a man was arrested from a string
of recent local burglaries. His name was Brian Vincent Stoll and he lived nearly two blocks
from Beverly's household. Stoll was 19 years old at
the time, and his crimes seemed to have a target
demographic, the elderly. Specifically, he would
wait until their homes were unoccupied and then loot the place, stealing valuables, cash
and prescription drugs. Maybe he hadn't expected
Beverly to be at home during his intrusion, but all the same, it wasn't uncharacteristic
of him to become violent when his robberies were
interrupted by the homeowner. Due to his proximity to Beverly and his known criminal methodology, he was an obvious prime
suspect in her murder. Especially since weeks before her passing, her house had been broken
into while unoccupied. $80 had been stolen from her,
along with some medicine, which deputy say must have
been Stoll's doing as well. In 2006, Stoll confessed to
numerous violent break-ins and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Even with all their cause for suspicion, the police simply didn't have
enough evidence at the time to prove Stoll was the
perpetrator, so the case went cold. But 14 years later, a single hair follicle they had collected at the crime scene would finally provide
the breakthrough needed to put an end to Beverly's
case, once and for all. DNA analysis was evolving
and after years of trying, investigators were able to match that one strand of hair to Stoll. However, the police
emphasized that this hair was not their sole piece
of evidence against Stoll. Over the years, many local witnesses have come forward and shared
their disturbing accounts of actually seeing Stoll and an accomplice on the day he had murdered Beverly. Multiple people gave accounts
of witnessing the men disposing of tainted garments. Stoll even had the audacity
to tell other people publicly that he had just murdered
an old woman and her dog. - [Narrator] 34 year old Brian Stoll broke into Bobrick's home
through a back window when he was 19 and beat
Bobrick and her dog to death. Stoll is a convicted criminal
serving 23 and a half years for break-ins and theft around
that time with similar Mos. - [Instructor] As 2019 drew to a close, so did Beverly's convoluted case. If Stoll, now aged, 34 was
hoping to get out of jail after serving half of his
23 year sentence from 2006, that option was out the door
when he was finally charged with first degree premeditated murder. Thankfully, Beverly's loved
ones were able to get justice and closure after 14
long years of waiting. Now, our next murder
case is of Adam Brundage. From 2004 to 2020, a man named Damon Smoot Brundage's roommate and friend
lived a comfortable life. He stayed in a very nice house
and drove an expensive car. He seemed to have it all, but these things didn't belong to him. He told people his old roommate had gifted these assets to him, but that was far from the truth. In reality, Smoot had been freeloading off his friends property, whom he had viciously
murdered in a jealous rage, and he got away with it for 16 years. Before Smoot's attack,
victim Adam Brundage had been a father of two children. He was only 26 years old, but was able to provide for his kids with the help of a $150,000 inheritance his father had left him after his passing. $80,000 of which he
used for a down payment on a house in Quakertown, where
he could live comfortably. His ex girlfriend and
mother of his children would visit occasionally. One day, he met a man named Damon Smoot through mutual friends, and the two eventually became roommates. Brundage had no idea that
this man he led into his home would soon show his true colors. On October 4th 2004, Smoot
and Brundage drove together to Haines and Kibblehouse quarry. Brundage needed to pick up some sand for a home repair project
he was working on, and Smoot just happened to
be employed at the quarry as a heavy equipment operator. But their friendly trip
would soon turn sour. The two began to bicker over money issues, Smoot overcome with jealousy about his friends sudden financial
gain, finally he snapped. Retrieving a baseball
bat from his vehicle, he struck an unsuspecting
Brundage in the back of the head. After a struggle, he was dead. Smoot then disposed of
his friend's remains in a nearby sand berm. After that night, Smoot couldn't seem to get his story straight. Whether it was the police or Brundage's own family questioning him, he seemed to make up a new reason for his roommate's disappearance. At first, he claimed he
was only driving the car while Brundage was traveling,
then said the young father had escaped town to avoid
paying child support, and later accused Brundage
of leaving the area to escape an arrest warrant. As the days went on, his excuses only became more outrageous as he continued lying
straight to the faces of his victim's family. Smoot eventually became tangled
in a web of his own lies. And his reign of terror didn't end there, somehow, he managed to
evade being convicted for Brundage's murder for over 15 years, but was sentenced for five
to 10 years in prison in 2012 after kidnapping,
assaulting and threatening to murder his ex girlfriend. When Brundage's cold case, finally reopened in January of 2020, Smoot agreed to lead
investigators to the spot where he had buried the remains, in return for a lighter sentence. As part of this deal, he finally
shared the chilling story of what he had done to
Brundage that night. - Damon's group was
jealous of Adam Brundage who had come into a small
but sizable inheritance and in his jealousy he
wanted to be come him, he wanted the things that Adam had and that Adam had access
to, so he killed him. - [Instructor] He pleaded
guilty to third degree murder, and is currently facing a
sentence of only 20 to 40 years. The third murder case is of Debbie Dorian, whose case remained cold for 24 years. Debbie was smart and hardworking. She maintained a job as a waitress, while Working towards her economics degree at Fresno State University. Those who knew her described
her as beautiful and energetic, the type of young lady who brings a smile to the face of everyone she meets. She was close to her family,
and had been planning a trip with her father for some time. They agreed to meet at his house the night before their departure, so they could head out together. But when the day came,
Debbie was a no show. Her father knew she
wasn't the type of person to flake out or forget plans, so he called her place of employment, asking when the last
time they saw her was. To his dismay, they reported that Debbie had neglected to show up for
her shift the previous day. Her father rushed to her apartment. The ominous signs were adding up and Debbie's boyfriend
was out of town for work, meaning she was all alone
in her tiny apartment. Upon reaching Debbie's residence, the crime scene her father walked into would be forever burned into his mind. Not only were the victim's hands and feet bound together by duct tape, but the adhesive material
was wrapped around her face. Authorities would later determine that the cause of her demise was the duct tape blocking her airways. It was August 22 1996 when
Debbie's remains were discovered, but her autopsy suggested
that she had passed away a full 48 hours before that. The police were able to
recover a bodily fluid sample to use for DNA testing, but
they couldn't find a match to their disappointment. When their search turned up fruitless, they were left with a
discouraging conclusion, the killer was not in their database. In other words, this dangerous
man was still out there posing a threat to other
young women in the area. And from 1996 to 2002, a
string of physical assaults popped up in Visalia, that
all followed a similar pattern in which young women would be attacked by a man shielding his face
with an article of clothing while he assaulted them. The Police suspected that the
same nameless, faceless man was responsible for Debbie's demise, and that she had been his first victim in the string that would follow. However, for some unknown reason, Debbie was the only
victim that was murdered. In 2002, a girl was assaulted
at a bus stop in Visalia, by a man with a gun and
the DNA from that attack was finally matched with the
sample from Debbie's file. Even so, it wasn't until 2018 that a DNA analysis advancement called genetic genealogy was introduced and provided the big breakthrough needed. This technology was able
to identify the culprit, who had been the common thread between all the Visalia assaults, and his name is Nickey Stane. Although he is now
divorced, during the span of Stane's late 1990s
and early 2000s crimes, he had tried to show that
he lived a normal life. His wife and children had no idea of the insidious activities
he got up to in his free time and Stane somehow managed to uphold his two distinct personalities
without getting caught, like some kind of modern
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But now, the truth has come out. - Nickey Stane is every woman's nightmare. He appears to be a regular
person, and he is a predator who has terrorized women
throughout this valley. - [Instructor] And Stane's
days of masquerading are over. He was charged with the
full extent of his crimes, and is now eligible for
life without parole, and possibly capital punishment. The next case began when
Renee Pagel was found lifeless in her driveway on August 5th, 2006 after what looked like
multiple stab wounds. All eyes immediately turned
to her husband, Michael Pagel since the two were in the
process of getting a divorce, and Renee had expressed
to her close friends that she was growing increasingly wary of her husband's temper
and wrathful anger. Besides, there were no signs
of forced entry to the home, and no valuables had been stolen. Despite all these red flags, there was no substantial
evidence to charge Pagel. Renee's community in
Courtland Township Michigan grieved the loss of
such a wonderful woman. As a local school
teacher, she was described as being a light in many people's lives. She'd even given her kidney to the father of one of her students. She was just that type of person, giving and kind to the very end. In fact, one of the reasons that she may have been helpless
to her attacker was because she was still recovering
from the kidney donation. As the years went by, and
Renee's case went cold, Michael moved with his
and Rene's three children to a different county for a fresh start. It wasn't until almost 14 years
after her untimely passing, that authorities were
able to arrest Michael, on the grounds of incriminating statements he had made about his wife, one of these being journal entries, detailing his hatred towards her. But authorities say that
it was not ultimately a novel breakthrough that led to the closing of this long case, but rather, a simple
reexamination of old evidence, combined with the fact that Michael had really been their one and
only suspect for 14 years. However, even now, Michael
is shifting the blame onto someone else, his own brother. According to Michael, he did conspire with his brother Charles, and planned out to pay
Charles to do the deed, but Michael maintains that
it was Charles in the end, who actually committed the murder. He has used the alibi that
he was at his mother's house at the time of the murder and this excuse played a
crucial role in his ability to escape conviction all these years. It seems that the two brothers may have purposefully
executed the crime in this way to confound the police,
because it presented them with the conflicting
conclusions of the killer being someone who lived in the home while the only adult who
lived there had a solid alibi. It remains to be determined how the court will react to Michael's new story, but regardless of how he
tries to avoid responsibility, he has already been charged
with first degree murder. Luckily, two of his three
children are already adults, but that doesn't make
it any easier for them to come to terms with the fact
that they have been living with their mother's
murder this whole time. - This arrest marks the
end of the investigation and the beginning of a courtroom drama that many have been
waiting even praying for, but whether the arrest is good news depends on who you talk to. - [Instructor] Authorities
say that Michael likely manipulated them over the years, trying to make them take his side. Our final story is of a bright
young woman, Kelsey Smith. She was only 18 years old and
had just graduated high school in her hometown of Overland Park, Kansas. The coming fall, she
planned to go to college, and she was excited to
show her school spirit by becoming a member of her
University's marching band. Family and friends knew
she was a go getter and could do anything she set her mind to. However, Kelsey life would
tragically be cut short before she ever got the
chance to achieve these goals. On the night of June 2nd 2007, Kelsey was wandering
through her local Target, excitedly searching
the shelves for a gift. Her six month anniversary
with her boyfriend was approaching and like
any teenage girl in love, she was taking this
occasion very seriously searching for the perfect present. She chatted on the phone with
her mom while she shopped, catching up and discussing
what Kelsey should buy. She was having a great time, but because all of her attention was focused on the task at hand, she was completely unaware that a man was stalking her through the store aisles. She wrapped up your
phone call with her mom, as she finally checked out and entered the dark parking lot around 7P.M. Her house was only eight
minutes from the Target. So when 7:30 rolled by
with no sign of Kelsey, her parents began to fret. Her father worked in law enforcement and enforced strict household rules when it came to obeying curfew and responding to texts and calls. After frantically trying
to reach their daughter, Mr. And Mrs. Smith knew they
couldn't wait any longer and reported Kelsey, missing. A few hours later, the
police found Kelsey's vehicle across the street from the Target store. Strangely, none of her
belongings had been stolen, but Kelsey herself was
nowhere to be found. Mr. Smith's law enforcement experience meant he knew just what
kind of twisted minds were out there and he did
everything in his power to find his daughter, knowing well, that anytime wasted could be fatal. Once authorities checked the
surveillance footage in Target, they saw him, a young man had very obviously been following Kelsey, with every turn she made in the store. He was watching her from afar, but when she got ready to check
out, he exited the building and that's where the footage ended. Kelsey's parents demanded
that her cell phone company release her recent location information so that investigators
could better triangulate an approximate area to search,
but they were turned down, the phone company claiming that they did not have
the legal right to do so. A determined FBI agent managed to reason with the Verizon worker, and after doing some serious convincing, the employee finally conceded. Upon receiving this crucial information, investigators immediately
searched the area where Kelsey cell had last pinged. A remote forest in Missouri, and there, they found her remains, lifeless and discarded in the woods. As the days went by,
investigators made a bold choice. They released the security
camera footage of the perpetrator to be displayed on News broadcasts. Soon, they were flooded
with thousands of tips. After some digging, one of these tips finally led them to the culprit, A 26 year old man named Edwin Hall. A neighbor had recognized
Hall's pickup truck from the surveillance footage
and alerted the authorities, but when the police
arrived at Hall's residents to arrest him, he was packing his things, preparing to leave on vacation
with his wife and child. While looking into the suspect, officials unearthed a sinister history. His MySpace interests
included eating small children and harming animals. He had also threatened
his sister in the past and got in trouble for hitting another boy with a baseball bat. They had the footage, the
evidence of past violence, so they were almost there, but the police couldn't quite
pin the crime on Hall yet, that is until they
matched the fingerprints. Indeed, fingerprints
that had been recovered from Kelsey's car the
night of her disappearance were perfectly matched to Edwin Hall. - Police are searching
for an 18 year old girl who was carjacked and
abducted on Saturday. Authorities now have surveillance video from outside the department
store that shows Kelsey Smith being forced into her own car. She hasn't been seen since. Cops found the vehicle at a shopping mall two hours after the initial incident but Smith along with her
cell phone and ATM card had gone missing. - I am so, so sorry for what I have done, that it, that's all I can say. - I don't know whether
he was sincere or not, but kinda like everybody
said in their statements, it really doesn't matter,
it doesn't change anything. - [Instructor] The
criminal was then convicted of assault and murder. However, he accepted a plea deal in which he confessed to the whole crime, in return for escaping
the capital punishment. His story is harrowing to say the least. To begin with, Hall thought
that she was 12 years old when he first saw her. He had been milling
around the area all day searching for a distracted or
oblivious young girl to kidnap and Kelsey just happened
to be his unlucky victim. When he left the store before her, it had been to grab his gun out of his car before lurking in the shadows until Kelsey came out of the store and that's when he threw her in the car. Upon searching Hall's house,
but disturbing cultic shrine was found in his basement
and this meshed up with the eerie pentagon-like
shape that he had made with sticks and branches
over Kelsey's remains. As tragic as Kelsey story is, her parents have been advocating
for the Kelsey Smith Act, which allows law enforcement to receive cell phone
information from phone companies to expedite cases when a person is missing and in harm's way. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to hit the like
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