THE MASHED POTATO MURDERER

so today's video is going to be another solved true crime case today we're going all the way to australia which we haven't done in a while we've just kind of stayed in the uk stayed in america today we're going to australia it was one of you guys that sent me a link to an article on this case and as soon as i read the phrase the mashed potato killer i was like okay gotta put my research hat on i've gotta do this video it's literally one of the most interesting murderer nicknames i think i've ever heard but before we get into that case i just want to let you know that i'm going to be away from my channel for two weeks this video is sponsored by foot asylum who are whisking me away from my little true crime corner for two weeks and putting me into a huge house to live with nine other youtubers for two weeks and all of it is being uploaded onto foot asylum's youtube channel think challenges games maybe even some drama and the best part is is that you guys can get involved you guys will 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you subscribe i want to see you all over there make sure you've got notifications on i'm excited so now let's get into this case but before we do i just want to give my usual disclaimer that i mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that i talk about in this video this video is for educational purposes and everything that i'm about to say is just information that i have found on the internet and i'm compiling into one video so like i said today's video takes us all the way to australia specifically a city named dubba in new south wales in 2013. 24 year old sarah tarant and 33 year old lois res had been in a long-term relationship for almost a decade sarah was just 15 years old when she met a lois who was actually almost a decade older than her he was 24 when they met in newcastle newcastle in australia not newcastle in the uk and sarah's parents immediately disapproved of lois because of the age gap this huge age gap and as you'll come to find out later on in the case he was a bit of a wronging for a little bit i say her parents didn't approve but it was more just sarah's mother her father wasn't really in her life anymore her mother and father split up when she was still very young i think her father was a sex offender and so she was mainly raised by her mother and her mother had an issue with sarah dating the much older lois and this resulted in a lot of arguments things were getting worse and worse tensions were rising and rising and rising and eventually it got to the point where the fights were so bad between sarah and her mother about this relationship that sarah just ran away and went to live with lois and his mother lois was still living with his mother at the time his mother was named zhonya and so there was just those three in the house zhonya lois and sarah like i said they lived in a city named newcastle in australia and that was where the two of them met and two years later they started a family there together sarah had her first child when she was still 16 years old i believe almost 17. and over the next few years sarah and lois would go on to have three more children making them a family of six with four children well seven if you count zhonya who lived with them alois mother and everything was going great inside of the relationship however on the outside things weren't going so well because like i said lois was a bit of a wrong-in he had associations with a gang a motorcycle gang he was once part of the rebels outlaw motorcycle gang and i don't know too much about them but i know they're very dangerous very very dangerous they carry guns they use the guns they're not afraid to use them alois had been part of this gang but then he wanted to leave the gang and not many people leave the rebels outlaw gang and live to tell the tale and so he left the gang he wanted a new life with his family but he was in constant fear that the gang would be out to get him and out to harm him and his family because it's like once you've been in the gang you know too much and then when you leave the gang and you're no longer affiliated with them they can't trust you to keep all of their gang secrets and like i said not many people leave and live to tell the story and for that exact reason the family moved around a lot they were scared that the gang found out where their new location was so they had to move they went to the central coast they went to port stephens and then eventually ended up in dubai and double was like 400 miles away from newcastle so they were taking this very seriously they were very serious about getting away from this gang and the reason they chose dubba specifically was because that was where lois was raised zonia gave birth to lois in dublin and it was what they knew however sarah and all four of their children had never been to dubbo before so this was this was a huge change for them and they were getting getting used to a new life in a new city hundreds of miles away from what they knew when they first moved to dubai in june of 2012 they were staying with a family friend named raymond roth and raymond roth was in his 50s he was actually friends with zhonya they'd been to school together and raymond actually had a son who was around lois's age so the two of them had played football together and stuff on the weekends basically the family went way back with this man raymond roth had known of the family since the 1970s and so when they were planning on moving to dubba they still had to find a house and stuff but they just wanted to be there to be able to look at houses and so raymond offered for them to come and stay with him for a few days until they kind of got on their feet and raymond was more than happy to have people around at his house because he was feeling very lonely at this point in his life he was just 51 years old and he lost his wife to cancer just a few years prior and he didn't have anyone else other than his wife and so when she passed away he lost all his kind of social life so he was happy to have the family with him even if it was just for like 10 days until they found a home which they eventually did they moved into a house on alfred street so eventually they found this home they moved out without raymond although they stayed in contact with him they stayed very close friends he was always around at the new house he helped them with renovations and stuff and he particularly got very attached to sarah tarrant and the children he would often look after the children for the family and because he spent so much time with sarah the two of them got like really close friends they were really close around this time lois reconnected with an old friend named hamish lure and hamish was a little bit tight on money at this point in his life and lois offered to move in hamish and his younger son into their house and give them a place to stay until hermis got back on his feet so now this family of seven turn into a family of eight or nine if you count him ish's son i don't know if he was permanently there but there was eight people in this house hamish and lois now that they were finally you know back together back friends they grew really really close they were like best friends and hamish described a lois as a big teddy bear with a rough exterior that wasn't hard to see past he said that he was a really great dad and he was just a nice guy in general so the four adults in the home got to work renovating the house and like i said raymond would come around to help out and the four children were kind of settling into their new school and it was around this time that sarah tarant began having doubts about her relationship with lois he was becoming very lazy he was controlling i believe he abused her from time to time physically abused her and she was very close with rim and roth the older man sarah tyrant was in her 20s and this man was in his 50s so he was like old enough to be her father and she began confiding in raymond that she wasn't happy in her relationship and he would confide in her that he was feeling very lonely he was very broken after the passing of his wife they used each other as as like a therapist like a friend therapist and they would have these kind of deep conversations quite often and the two of them as they began having these deep conversations more and more and more they began feeling stronger feelings for each other more than just the platonic feelings that they once had this became romantic and despite the 27-year age gap sarah would make sexual remarks at raymond she would imply things about them sleeping together and this was quickly reciprocated by raymond it wasn't one-sided this was a very flirty relationship that they had going on and then it became a little bit more than just flirting when sarah began sending explicit pictures of herself to raymond roth and things just escalated from there she would secretly expose herself to him when he was at the house when the children and her boyfriend were in the house she would kind of like sneak off with raymond and then in march of 2013 this relationship turned sexual they began sleeping together behind a louis's back they would meet up every single day sometimes even twice a day outside of the house to have sex somewhere often under this bridge by a river they would go onto a riverbank to have sex and that was because everyone kind of in their neighborhood knew of raymond roth he'd lived there for a long time and now they were learning of this new family that had four kids if sarah and raymond were seen in a car together or something like that people would put two and two together and they were trying to make this a secret so under this bridge on the riverbank they couldn't be seen and it was around this time in march that sarah became obsessed with raymond roth she would write him love letters saying that he'd given her a new meaning to life and she finally had something to live for and in these letters she even said that she wanted to marry him one day now bear in mind she wasn't even married to a lois a man that she'd been with for 10 years had four children her she didn't want to marry him but she wanted to marry raymond roth and he would write back to her in these love letters saying that you know he could be a very good husband for her and a good father for her four children so this affair was going way beyond just the sexual aspect they were planning a future together in like a fantasy world where they could get married but in reality there was one thing standing in the way and that was a lois around may of 2013 sarah taran found out that she was pregnant and she knew in her heart that this was raymond ross it wasn't a lois's and so she went and told the father of the baby rim and roth that she was pregnant and he gave her an ultimatum he said you have three weeks he gave her a deadline of three weeks you either leave a lois and have this baby with me or i'm gonna leave you i don't want to see you raise my child with a lois and pretend it's not my child so she was faced with this ultimatum she had to leave this man that she'd been with for 10 years had four children to her that was all she knew to be with this older man this 51 year old man that she was now pregnant with and this was a very easy decision for sarah to make she knew that she wanted to be with raymond roth and not a lois and at this point lois was suspicious of her relationship with raymond he'd been picking fights with her and then eventually he just confronted her and said look i know that you're cheating on me and this fight got worse and worse and worse and like i said he would occasionally get physically abusive and on this particular night he was ragging her around by her hair dragging her along the hallway by her hair and in the middle of this attack sarah managed to get to her phone and text raymond roth and ask him to call the police to her house and to come and rescue her and so he did the police arrived and when they did sarah told them that there wasn't an issue and she was sorry for wasting their time and you know victims of abuse do sometimes do this the police arrive and they don't want to get their partner into trouble or they don't want to make things worse by getting the police involved and so she just said that there was no issue but raymond roth couldn't understand that he was very angry at sarah for you know not reporting this this could have been the way that they get a lois out of their lives and they can spend the rest of their lives together raymond and sarah but instead sarah told police not to bother raymond was very embarrassed by this he was angry at sarah he was embarrassed that he'd called the police to their house and nothing happened and he reinstated this ultimatum to her and he said look this three weeks is running out you're gonna have to do something he even told her that he had a plan as to how she could do this and he handed her a bag of crushed up sleeping pills he'd kept these sleeping pills ever since his wife passed away his wife used to use them and he had no use for them up until now he gave them to sarah and told her that on june 25th 2013 zhonya or lois's mother was going to be aware for a week she was going away she wasn't going to be back for a while and that was her chance that was the perfect time to get rid of a lois and he told sarah that all she had to do was to drug whatever a lois was eating or drinking that day get him knocked out get him in such a deep sleep that no one can really wake him and then raymond was going to come over and take care of the rest so that night zanya left for her trip and sarah offered to cook lois a meal and she was thinking of something that could be kind of easy to hide crushed up pills in and she thought mashed potatoes so she successfully drugged this meal she gave it to a lois and he ate the whole thing and now it was just a matter of waiting all that was left for sarah to do was wait until lois had fallen into a deep sleep and then she would text raymond who would come and take care of the rest notice i keep saying that raymond would take care of it and that's because he didn't tell sarah what he was going to do he didn't say anything he actually said it was probably better if she didn't know the details so right now sarah just knew that she was drugging him and raymond would take care of it so anyway lois had ingested this drugged mashed potato and he's getting a bit drowsy and this whole time sarah is texting raymond update saying i'm hoping he drops off soon i'm sick of waiting and nothing is getting in the way of tonight and that's when hamish law a lois's friend who was staying with them arrived home with his young son and he noticed how drowsy lois had gotten and hamish was very concerned he even asked a lois if he'd taken anything if he was like high at the time because he just seemed out of it and always said oh no i think i just maybe took too many painkillers he was taking painkillers at the time for like his neck or his back or something and so he just put it down to maybe he'd taken too many by accident lois told him that he was just gonna go upstairs and crash and just sleep it off and the two men said goodbye and that was the last time that hamish ever saw her lois meanwhile the text was still going backwards and forwards between sarah and raymond raymond asking her all these questions making sure that she was prepared making sure she'd switched off security cameras left the front door unlocked he asked her if she'd switched off the sensor light on the front porch so that he could walk in without the light coming on and without neighbors seeing and she reassured him that everything was fine everything was going to plan she'd prepared she left out some towels on the bed where lois was sleeping and she was ready for raymond to come and so once the lois was in a deep sleep sarah text raymond and said okay it's it's time come to the house and so at 2 am raymond roth comes to the home and walks into the room where lois res was sleeping he then in some unknown way police still don't know how he did it but raymond roth murdered a lois res he then wrapped up his body in the bed sheets and carried him out to his car and when he got there he was out there for a while and sarah was thinking what is going on meanwhile sarah had been keeping watch the whole time remember they had four children plus hamish and his child all in the house as this was going on as alois res was being murdered and so sarah had to keep lookout in case someone woke up in case someone heard anything hamish even said that at one point he woke up and sarah was in the doorway of his bedroom just staring at him and he said what do you want and she just left so anyway raymond seems to be taking a while outside and so he comes in and asks sarah for a hand he can't lift a lois's body off the floor and into the boot of his car by himself he needs a hand so sarah goes out to the driveway and helps her new boyfriend lift the body of her old boyfriend her now deceased boyfriend into the back of his car raymond roth then gets into his car and drives away into the night he took a few of lois's belongings with him like his phone his tobacco things that you know a lois would normally take if he was leaving the house so it didn't look too suspicious it didn't look like he'd left on strange terms it looked like he'd just gone out of the house one day and gone missing and raymond dispersed of lois rosa's body somewhere in that area of australia somewhere police don't know where because unfortunately lois's body has never been found still to this day so that means that there was also no opportunity for an autopsy so we don't know for sure how alois was killed although we can assume it was it was quite a bloody murder considering he was wrapped up in bed sheets and we'll talk about another piece of evidence that hints that kind of possibility later and sarah claims that she doesn't know how a lois was killed or where his body was dispersed of because she says that she wasn't in the room when raymond did it police have since tried to locate lois's body by following raymond's car on different cctv cameras all across like the whole city and his car was seen in various different places in a few different cities that night so there's not even a general area where police can focus it seemed as though raymond had driven all over that night and unfortunately the cameras don't follow his car a hundred percent of the time so he isn't actually seen parking the car getting the body out and disposing of it so anyway the next morning after they murdered a lois res sarah tarant wakes up and she goes and buys some new bedding for her bed because raymond had taken it with the body and then she gets on with her day as normal and it wasn't so unusual for lois to leave the house for a number of days i don't actually know what he used to do and what kind of life he lived but everyone seemed to think this was fine for a few days that was until his friend here michelle started getting a little bit concerned he was texting him saying look where i am it even got to the point where he was like just text me letting me know that you're okay like i won't tell anyone where you are if you don't want me to but we just want to know that you're okay sarah and raymond had agreed together that they weren't going to report lois as missing for a while just to kind of give themselves more time to come up with a cover story and come up with answers to every possible question that police might ask they wanted to make sure that their stories were solid and the same and they knew they would have a few days to do this at least because this was like a lois to just kind of go missing for a few days of course not for a full week and after about five days people started noticing that something was up by this point his mother had returned from his trip and his aunt sir his mother zhonya's sister was also pretty concerned where lois was and so they were talking about going to the police and so sarah and raymond decided to get there first so that sarah could look like the terrified girlfriend that's so worried about her boyfriend so together sarah and raymond go down to the police station and they said that they haven't seen or heard from a lois for a number of days now the two of them were briefly questioned just asked like what kind of person was a lois was he the type to just go off for a few days and why might he do that so that they can figure out where he is and that was when sarah mentioned that he'd been having issues with this motorcycle gang the rebels outlaw gang and she was concerned that maybe something had happened to him maybe they'd found him maybe they'd abducted him or hurt him she told the police that he'd been receiving threatening messages for the past few weeks things saying get out of town you know we're coming for you like really threatening things like that and police knew that this was plausible they knew what the rebels outlaw gang were capable of and they knew that they'd killed people before for being in a similar situation to a lois but they also thought that it just didn't line up too well with the circumstances alois had no contact with the rebels outlaw gang for the past few years it had been a long time since there'd been any contact why would they suddenly decide to come and hurt him years later after a long silence he was a few hundred miles away from the gang that he used to be a part of why would they travel 400 miles to hurt him surely they have you know other things to be doing and also he hadn't once come to the police about this about these threatening messages or anything when he had gone to the police when he lived in the newcastle area when he was terrified of them back then so it didn't kind of fit with his character if he was getting these threatening messages again he was the type to go to the police but he hadn't i don't know things just weren't fully adding up for police and plus if he was abducted in the middle of the night like sarah believes he was how did no one hear anything how did no one see anything you know police went to search the house not like a proper search but just to see if he'd left anything like a nut or if they could find any clues as to where he was and they found his wallet they didn't find his phone but they found his wallet and that's kind of odd because if you're gonna leave the house if you're gonna go somewhere you normally take both of them why would you leave just one and only take the other so they found it unlikely that lois had just been out and then he was attacked by the gang and abducted because why didn't he take his wallet with him so initially there were three people of interest due to the fact that no one seemed to hear or see anything when a lois went missing and those were the three adults in the house or close by the house that seemed so involved in this case hamishler his best friend that was living with him at the time sarah taran his girlfriend and the mother of his children and raymond roth who was his girlfriend's best friend and he also spent a lot of time at the house and he was the one that reported him missing with sarah so they were all questioned all three of them and none of them seemed to know anything they couldn't really help but then at one point during this questioning police uncovered the affair that was going on between sarah taran and raymond roth and i actually found a really funny clip where raymond roth admits to saving sarah taran in his phone as hot sexy yummy mummy so regardless now there was a motive in police's eyes for raymond roth and sarah tarrant to want to get rid of a lois res because he was the only thing standing in the way of them two being together them to being a public couple so both of them sarah and raymond were brought back to the police station for another questioning this time as suspects and as they were their phones were seized and being looked through in another room at the same time and as that was going on they weren't just doing those two things they also sent a search team and a forensic search team to the home to see what they could find and that forensic search team were looking out on the drive because they knew that the security cameras had been switched off so they knew something had gone on on the drive so forensic teams were scouring the whole drive looking at every single square inch of this drive and they found in a crack in the cement a blood drop and that blood drop when it was tested was found to be an exact match to a lois rez so now police knew that this was not just an abduction he wasn't missing he was more than likely dead at this point or at least severely injured and they had to find out what had happened around that same time as these searches were going on as the interviews were going on as they were looking at the phones everything happened so quickly in this case a fisherman was out fishing in the local river as he usually did when he noticed a huge bed sheet in the river and he knew that that wasn't normal people don't just put bed sheets in the river so he called the police who came down they took this bed sheet back for testing and they found dog hairs on this bed sheet and those dog hairs were a match to raymond roth's dog who had obviously been in his car and sir had that bed sheet so police went and seized raymond roth's car believing that this bed sheet had been in his car at one point and so there's probably more evidence in there and they were right as soon as they looked inside this boot there was a lot of eloise's blood along with an empty sleeve of sleeping pills that were prescribed to raymond roth's wife that passed away and on top of all of that on top of the physical evidence they also had the evidence from the phones all of the texts that they were sending to each other that night all of the confirmation texts that she just switched off the security cameras unlocked the door that alois was passed out and she just wants it to hurry up and nothing's getting in the way of tonight so these two sarah and raymond are being interviewed at the exact same time so they don't know what the other person is saying in their questioning and one of them cracks before the other while raymond is denying everything he says he knows nothing he had nothing to do with anything he doesn't know where lois is sarah starts talking police had printed out the transcripts between her and raymond's texts from that night and they were showing her them and they were saying look explain this explain what you mean by you can't wait for the pills to kick in and for him to fall asleep you know what do you mean by that and she's saying look you know what i mean she said i know you've read the messages raymond gave me the pills and i gave them to a lois they said well why why why did you want to give him the pills and she said to put him to sleep they asked how she did it she told them that she put them in the mashed potatoes he ate them and he fell asleep and that was when she texted raymond but other than that she said that she knew nothing more so police asked her well why why why did you do that what did you expect raymond to do to him and she said well i never expected him to hurt a lois i just wanted him to scare her lois but not only did police have an excessive amount of physical evidence now they also had the two main suspects contradicting each other raymond's saying he knows nothing sarah's saying what she knows is different to what he knows you know anyway all of this together meant that police could arrest both of them and charge them birth with murder and so a trial began so the courts accepted that sarah tarrant did not kill a lois res they don't even think she was in the room when it happened her side of things her involvement in this was more in the planning and the preparation but she didn't kill him and she didn't dispose of the body but they also believed that she knew full well that that was what was gonna happen that is what she was preparing for and that is what she cleaned up afterwards she wasn't as clueless as she was trying to say she was she was just as much involved in this murder as raymond roth who was the one that actually killed a lois and dispersed of his body the only difference is that she didn't physically kill him so raymond roth was found guilty of premeditated murder he was given 32 years in jail with a minimum of 24. he later appealed that sentence and said that it was too excessive for what he did and somehow the courts agreed somehow they allowed him a lower sentence so now he's down to just 25 years and parole after 18. sarah tarant on the other hand was found guilty of manslaughter on the ground that she was mentally unstable she didn't fully understand what was going on so she was given in essence an insanity plea she was given manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years and eight months in jail with a minimum of eight years and she's actually eligible for parole next month so within a matter of weeks sarah tarant will be applying for her first parole hearing just for an update on the unborn child that sarah taran had that kind of started all of this that's not me blaming the baby but you know what i mean she went ahead and had that child in police custody and it is now being looked after by her mother so not zonia sarah's mother and unfortunately still to this day alois reza's body still has not been found police have no idea how he was killed like i said we can speculate that it was stabbing or something like that something that would draw blood but we really don't know and raymond roth still to this day denies all involvement in this case so we're not gonna know where eloise's body is or how he was killed until raymond comes round which he might not ever do but yeah that 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Channel: Eleanor Neale

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Length: 33min 48sec (2028 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2020