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Listener discretion is advised. A recent scientific experiment shows what may happen if you traveled backwards in time and had sex with a caveman. Spoiler alert, nothing good. Nothing good is going to come out of it.
And then we travel to Virginia to take a look at a bizarre mystery that is currently going on and one that is barely being investigated by the Lynchburg police department out there. When a young man is found dead in his apartment, the police quickly call case closed. He died of natural causes. But how could they come to that conclusion when not only was his apartment full of blood and feces, there's also videotape of him screaming for help as he's brutally being murdered today on Dead Rabbit Radio.
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dead Rabbit Radio. I'm your host, Jason Carpenter. I'm having a great day. I hope you guys are having a great day too.
I hope you guys are having tons of fun. Trust me, you probably won't be by the end of this episode. We got two stories. One's a nice fun one about having sex with cavemen.
The second story is pretty disturbing, even for Dead Rabbit Radio. We'll get to that. It's a fun one after I've gotten you got you to laugh a little bit. Oh, man makes me mad.
That second story really makes me mad, but we'll get to that in a second. First off, walking into Dead Rabbit Command right now, let's give it up to one of our longtime Patreon supporters. Everyone on your feet for Banked Sassy Pants. Woohoo!
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So thank you so much. Banked Sassy Pants. Let's go ahead and toss you the keys to the Hare hovercraft. We're going to leave behind Dead Rabbit Command, glide us all the way out to the Salt Lakes of Utah.
Banked is driving us all on out there. He's doing donuts on the salt. Everyone's eyes are all rawed by the time we get there. Every so often, I play this game with myself.
I do a lot of this stuff. I have the amnesia game. I talked about that before on the show where I walk around like the movie section of a Walmart or a Best Buy and I pretend I had amnesia for the past 20 years and I'm amazed at all the movies. I keep myself highly entertained.
I spend a lot of time alone. So I'll be like, oh, my God, there's a Transformers 4. Like, what? I didn't really make a Transformers 1.
And I'm like looking on the back of the movies. I was like, oh, my God, I can't wait to watch these movies. Shut off because you'd have to conserve that battery power. Right.
You could show them some images showing your like webms and GIFs that you have saved on there. They're like, oh, that kitten is trapped in your phone. Can I see it? I'm like, nope.
I'll pull it out at another convenient time. But the magic only works every once in a while. And once the battery runs out, the magic's gone. I usually have, what else do I have in my backpack?
I have medicine. I have like muscle relaxers. I could be throwing those into the Black Knight's mouth as he's about to go like, he's like, oh, I'm getting sleepy. He can't hold up his sword anymore.
But yeah, it's like what could you usually have like a knife and pepper spray and stuff like that. I mean, those are practical weapons. I probably should have named those first. I think about this.
I wouldn't say all the time, but it does pop up in my head. I do think, what would happen if zombies attacked right now? What would happen if a dog attacked right now? That's a pretty constant thing I got through my head.
I'm constantly turning my head on a swivel because we have a whole episode about the dog attack. And then I'll put it in the show notes. And then what if I traveled back in time with what I have on me? Now, obviously, I would appear as a god because I have like all of this metal.
I guess they had metal back then, but I have all these, I have these devices that only show them occasionally. My clothes would be magical, right? I have really cool boxer shorts. And actually, that's a good segue because what we're going to be looking at here is not just not an episode about the things I do when I'm alone.
It's about, I defeated the Black Knight, right? He's sleeping in the hay. He's dying of an overdose of muscle relaxers. I poured them on his mouth.
I go, I'm the villain now. And now it's time to boink the beautiful princess, right? That's part of it. That's part of the story.
You get to have sex with the princess because now you're the king and she's your queen. That's the cool end of the story, right? You find true love. You're trapped back in time.
You're going to die of dysentery in about two weeks. But until then, you're going to have the hand of this fair maiden. Now I always thought, you know, we'd be compatible. But according to this recent science that's coming out, yeah, we'd be compatible in some ways.
But is it possible that my 21st century body would actually kill, non-purpose, even though I just declared myself the villain, is it possible that my 21st century body could accidentally kill a 14th century princess? It's an intriguing thought, isn't it? It's quite disturbing. Let's take a look at this scientific experiment that just went on.
There's a guy named Nicholas Rode. I'll tell you right now, when he did this experiment, he never once thought it would be extrapolated to could Jason have sex with a princess. He never once popped in his head. But Nicholas Rode works for the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Biology.
And he goes, I want to run a test on something. He goes, Sea monkeys. Sea monkeys, those little things you used to be able to get out of the back of comic books. They're brine is what they actually are.
They're little tiny sea creatures. And what's interesting about them, the reason why you can ship them across the country, is once they lay eggs, those eggs are dormant until the environment is just right for them to hatch. So you can have these eggs last for decades. Decades!
These eggs can just sit there and once you add the right amount of water, they'll hatch. Now the interesting thing about sea monkeys is that they evolve very rapidly because they're constantly giving birth, right? They're constantly having new little babies. And so we can actually see adaptations in our lifetime of the sea monkey.
And so Nicholas Rode goes, what if we actually introduced a current sea monkey to a sea monkey from the past and made them have sex? Like what would happen? Because what we know is the mating procedure of the sea monkey is the dudes grab on to the girls and they don't let them go. They'll hold on to them.
They'll impregnate them. And then they'll hold on to them a little bit longer. Not because they want to cuddle, because they want to make sure that these female sea monkeys don't go out and have sex with other male sea monkeys. They want their genetic offspring to be birthed by this female.
So over time, the sea monkeys have developed pretty, the male ones, have developed pretty strong hands. They've developed pretty well-defined, strong hands. And the ones who could grab onto the females the longest and hold them the longest were the ones whose children would be birthed. And the ones with the tiny little hands they couldn't grab onto the women that they wouldn't pass on those tiny little hands.
Now, evolution is always an arms race. So the females, because they want the strongest males of the species to have babies with, they've developed over time to become better wrestlers. The strongest females are the ones who can get away from the dudes quicker. And then they choose their mate.
They make sure that they're mating with the singular strongest male they can come across. And they're passing on their wrestling genes to their female descendants. So we've seen this within our lifetime. And what Nicholas said is he goes, let's take sea monkeys.
He didn't use the term sea monkey over and over again. That's me. I just love that word. Let's take some brine from the salt lakes in Utah because we know that they're there.
And because these eggs last for so long and because we know the geological history of these different areas, I'm going to gather eggs from 1985. I'm going to gather eggs from 1996. And I'm going to gather eggs from 2007. And we're going to hatch them.
We're going to put them in water. We're going to watch them hatch. And then I'm going Walking around and you had like Cleopatra, I think we I think we would have sex and that would be fine because all they know about Cleopatra is she was played by Elizabeth Taylor. I think like there were certain time periods where I could have sex with women in the past and not die.
And then you I think you would start to hit a point. I'm sure some Pilgrim woman. I don't know why these women are all trying to kill me. I'm not saying that they would ride me so hard.
But you know what I mean? Like I'm trying to think like at what point would I as a 21st century man, because I think like a Pilgrim, let's take Pilgrims, for example. If you had a Pilgrim dude and a Pilgrim woman, that Pilgrim dude is stronger than that Pilgrim woman. But I don't want to bet a dollar to a donut that a Pilgrim woman is stronger than me because she's out there with like pitchforks and stuff, throwing hay, finding out Martin Lawrence in the hay.
She's like, get out of there. Sewing. I imagine that's really good for your forearms, right? They didn't have sewing machines, so she's constantly sewing stuff.
She's like, oh, another flag. How many of these do I need? 50? Oh man.
I'm sure like she, I'm sure like Pilgrim women were pretty like, I wanna say like yoked, but I'm sure they were, I'm sure one of them could take me. That's basically what I'm saying. The European princess, I don't think could kill me. Let's go forward.
I mean, like, no, go to the Serbian story. This is actually creepier than if I would be. I wonder if I went forward in time, would I be able to have sex with women from the future? Because I imagine that they would be like frail and stuff because they wouldn't be doing nothing.
They have robots to sew all those flags. You just have robots walking around. I could probably beat up a dude from the future. I bet you there is that moment where you could, you could pretty much take any warrior from the past and they could beat me up.
And then you could probably take any peasant from the past and they could probably beat me up. But in the future, like when everyone's kind of just like walking around being all philosophical and stuff and being like, what? Robots do everything. I just get to sit and do art.
Dude, I would, I would controlled. I would be like Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man and just be walking around pushing everybody. I think I could take them. I think I could take them.
And I think that's where the danger would be. Like if I went far enough in the future, who knows how frail the human body will be, right? So I probably could have sex with people from the past, is what I'm saying. I think I could be in danger.
I don't think they would be in danger. But basically, I'm just about to warn women of the future. Look out. You might be killed if I have sex with you.
I'm talking like hundreds of thousands of years in the future women that I meet from here on out. Don't be worried. I'm not talking about like evolutionary wise. Is it possible that the, because I think that's kind of the theory, right?
The one of the theories is that gray aliens are humans from the future. The human body becomes more and more frail. So if I went into the future, that might be cool because I get to like float around on Saturn and stuff. But I would be super celibate.
I'm like, oh man, I don't get to have any sex. And I'm like, well, maybe we have sex robots. And I was like, okay, that'll work. And then I get crushed by one.
So I guess the moral of the story is be careful who you have sex with. This is a really, this is a really long PSA because people in the past could probably physically kill you if things gone wrong and people in the future, you might accidentally kill them. Let's go ahead, Banked Sassy Pants. Let's go ahead and move away from that fascinating story slash fascinating look at my psyche.
I'm going to toss you the keys to the carpenter copter. We're leaving behind the salt lakes. Take us all the way out to Lynchburg, Virginia. This is an interesting story.
And it was sent to me by someone on Twitter named Psych for Fun. I'll admit, first off, thank you very much, Psych for Fun. I'll admit, when Psych for Fun first sent me this story, I thought I was being trolled. This story is so unbelievable.
I thought this might've been a parody news website. Like I actually started Googling some more and I was like, this is, this is insane. This story is nuts. Like I skimmed it at first and I was like, this can't be real.
This can't be as bad as this article is making it out to be. And the more I dug into it, it is true. It's horrifying. And I'm gonna play a piece of audio in a bit.
I will warn you before it comes up. It is terrifying. And I debated whether or not to play it for you. And the reason why I want to play it for you is because it will make you mad.
It will infuriate you at the Lynchburg Police Department in Lynchburg, Virginia. Let's go ahead and get this story started. And again, Psych for Fun, thank you so much for sending this over. Also want to give a shout out to Noreen Turan.
She covered this for ABC 13 News. That's pretty much the only media outlet covering this. This story is shocking. It is graphic.
It is disturbing. And it will make you mad. April 14th, 2022. Very, very recent story.
In Lynchburg, Virginia, there's this young man named Johnny Cashman. He's 38 years old. Johnny Cashman Jr. Johnny's family, they lived in Maine.
He was living in Virginia. And even though they were apart, he stayed in contact with them every single day. He talked or texted his mother every single day because he struggled with depression and alcoholism. Two very horrible things to be dealing with.
And he knew that his family was worried about him. He was worried about himself. And keeping in touch with his family was a way to let them know that he was still there. They still loved them.
So April 14th, talks to his mom. Everything's totally fine. April 15th, he doesn't contact them. April 16th, doesn't contact them.
April 17th, doesn't contact them. They're very, very concerned about what could be happening with Johnny. So on April 19th, 2022, his mom calls the Lynchburg police and asks, Can you do a welfare check on my son? He normally talks to me every single day.
I haven't heard from him in five days now. So they do. They go to his apartment and they do a welfare check on him. And then they call the mother back and they give just the worst news that any parent could hear.
Johnny's dead. Johnny has passed away in his apartment. The father starts talking to the police and the father goes, So what happened? What happened with my son?
Was it, was he murdered? Was there any sort of violence? Like he specifically asked those questions. So the police said to the father, It looked like he died of natural causes.
Like, that's what it appears to us, that he just died of natural causes and he was just kind of slumped over, as if he had died instantly. The father goes, totally natural. And they're like, yeah, totally natural causes. We're not going to do an autopsy on him.
It just, we know how he died. It just happens, you know? We're not planning on doing an autopsy on him. It's, you know, sometimes these things happen.
We know it's sad for the family, but it's just a medical illness. The father goes, are you sure? The police said, yeah, case is closed. It's just natural causes.
So the family from Maine contacted a mortuary service in Lynchburg. They had the body picked up from the morgue and cremated. And the ashes sent back to Johnny's family. On April 29th, Johnny's ex-girlfriend and the girl's mother, the girlfriend's mother, we'll call her Trisha.
She didn't give her real name. That's totally fine. I'm just making the name up. Trisha.
They contacted Johnny's family and said, hey, you know, I have some of my stuff at Johnny's apartment. Do you mind if I go in there and get the stuff? And the family said, sure, no problem at all. You can do that.
So Trisha and her mom show up at Johnny's apartment. And what they saw boggles the mind. Trisha walked in to a bloodbath. There are bloody fingerprints on the wall.
There's blood streaks across the chair. There's blood on the floor. And in the bathroom, there is so much blood. It looked, I thought I was being trolled.
It is like a human exploded, like a Pennywise balloon. And not just blood. It's blood and fecal matter in this pool on the base of the toilet. Like, just if someone just blew up, it's all over the bathroom.
Trisha gets freaked out, obviously, by this, right? She was told that he died a natural death of some sort of medical thing. Now, listen, you can have gastrointestinal issues, right? One of the ways that you die, like, they always say this.
When you're taking too much ibuprofen, you can rot a hole in your stomach. You begin bleeding out your stomach. Your poop's black One minute, one minute after Johnny entered his apartment, we have audio of an assault and really of a murder. So same shot all the way down the staircase, Johnny's door to the right, and you just hear that sound coming out of Johnny's apartment.
If you skip that part, here's just the transcript. It says, dude, what the F? What are you doing, man? Yo, what the F, dude?
And then you hear banging noises and you hear someone yelling stop multiple times. Eight minutes, eight minutes passed watching that video footage. They have all this footage in this article on ABC 13. Eight minutes after Johnny walked in, seven minutes after you hear those noises, a man, an unidentified man whose face is clearly visible on camera.
This man on video leaves the apartment, walks all the way downstairs, turns around, walks back up, covers his hand with the sleeve of his jacket, wipes his fingerprints off of the doorknob, walks back down the stairs. And then there's a few moments of silence and you begin to hear Johnny yell from inside his apartment, help, help, help. So family contacts the police and they go, you told us that this was a natural death and we cremated his body. All of that evidence is gone, all of it.
And this is an actual quote from the detective regarding this. You said it was okay, we could cremate the body. You said case closed. And the detective said, quote, what I was trying to convey was it was a medical emergency and I was talking to your mom and I tried to clarify what I said originally and explain what I meant by the medical emergency being vomiting blood everywhere uncontrollably.
He is not saying we were wrong. He is not saying, sorry, we need to investigate this as a murder. He was saying, oh, sorry, miscommunication, bro. Sorry, you destroyed that evidence when we said case closed.
Here's a quote from the notice of the medical examiner case record. I actually got this screenshot from a really cool video done on this by a channel called Analyze This. I'll put that in the show notes. They really went over a lot of stuff.
One of the things they said was he wasn't slumped over, he was flat on his back in the living room. They really went over all these documents. It's a cool channel. It doesn't have a lot of subscribers, so if you're into true crime, it's a good place to check out.
I got this quote from the screenshot. It said, quote, blood with, this was involving like what they found at the scene, quote, blood with fecal matter mixed in found around home, likely gastrointestinal bleed per investigators. No trauma, no drugs, nothing suspicious. So they looked at this guy, they saw the blood and the poop and go, I must have just bled and pooped himself to death, which happens.
You'll rot your stomach out, right? The family says, though, that he just had a recent medical checkup in January. He had no gastrointestinal issues. Ibuprofen can do a lot of damage in a very short time period.
It's not going to make you scream out, what the F are you doing, dude? Stop, stop, stop. And then a guy wipe his fingerprints off of the doorknob. Ibuprofen doesn't do that.
Ibuprofen doesn't cover its tracks. Now, what's so interesting about this is I was digging in. That's the end of the story. The police have completely been like, well, we're kind of doing an ongoing thing now because now we've got a bunch of egg on our face because it turns out that they're not actually even saying we got egg on our face, that we were wrong or anything like that.
And not only that, they are actually intentionally or incompetently misleading people because what happened was I started looking more into this. On May 2, 2022, they started, the police released images from the stairwell and they said, we're looking to talk to this man. They identified him in the video as Stephen Church from Elizabethton, Tennessee. On May 23rd, they located him and he provided a statement.
There's no arrest. And I was like, what in the world? You have video footage of this guy entering the apartment. You hear a guy screaming for help.
And we see him wiping his fingerprints off the door. We see that. What is his statement? What was the statement he gave to the police?
What is the clarification? Now, the police said they were specifically looking for him. They said that he was, quote, seen leaving an apartment just before another man's death from apparent medical complications, unquote. So they're still sticking with that.
They're still saying that this dude died of medical complications. So let's play devil's advocate for a second. Let's play devil's advocate for a second. I'm adding this in because I'm editing the episode and I thought, let's look at the other side.
What? Because here's the thing. In the articles, it never specifically says it is Johnny's voice going, what the F, man? Stop, stop.
What the F? Never specifically says that. We know he's the one yelling help, help because he's the only person in the apartment. After Stephen leaves, there's probably about a minute of Stephen walking down the stairs, walking back up, wiping his fingerprints off the doorknob.
It's so ridiculous. I mean, the devil's advocate thing, we'll do it. But we have video footage of Stephen Church leaving the apartment right after we hear these noises, right? We hear somebody, either Stephen or Johnny, scream out, what the F, man?
Stop, stop, stop. Stephen walks down the stairs, comes back up, wipes his fingerprints off the doorknob, and then walks away. And then probably about 30 seconds pass and you hear a voice from inside the apartment, which is Johnny, he's definitely going, help, help, help. So let's play devil's advocate just because I don't want to accuse a man of murder and get sued.
Let's play devil's advocate. It's possible that this was the scenario. Stephen was in the apartment. Johnny walks into the apartment.
A couple minutes later, we hear, what the F? Stop it, stop it. And it's, I guess it's possible. I guess anything's possible.
I talk about ghosts all the time and banging princesses. That voice was actually Stephen. And what was going on was Johnny walked in and began vomiting blood everywhere. And Stephen's going, stop it, dude, stop, stop.
And all the banging you hear and everything is just Johnny running around the apartment, vomiting blood and pooping out blood. That's the devil's advocate thing. That it wasn't a murder. It wasn't an assault.
It was a medical thing. Even if that's the case, even if that's the case. So if you just saw someone running around their apartment vomiting up blood, your reaction is to leave them while they're still alive because you hear Johnny clearly yell out, help. Your reaction, I mean, I guess you would want to get away from someone if they were vomiting blood.
But think about it. Stephen, let's say that devil's advocate, it's a medical emergency. Stephen then leaves the apartment very, very calmly, walks down the stairs, walks back up the stairs, appears to wipe his fingerprints off the doorknob, covers his hand up with his jacket, wipes the doorknob, goes back down the stairs. You just watched someone have a medical emergency.
You're not calling 911. You're not knocking on the neighbor's door. You're not alerting anyone. You're calm as can be.
You just walk away. And the police go, yeah, we're looking for him because he was there around the time or before the time of a medical emergency that may have resulted in someone. The devil's advocate, the devil's advocate theory, while possible, right? Johnny walked in, was having this gastrointestinal disorder.
It's possible, but that shows such callousness as well. That someone who you were letting stay at your apartment could watch you vomit blood and then just very calmly leave and not contact the authorities. Remember, it took five days before his body was even found. The family in Maine called.
So that's kind of what the narrative is. The police are going with this story, with this medical condition story, and it's absolutely nuts. It's absolutely nuts. Now I'm adding this part in because I was editing it and I was thinking, okay, I got to do the devil's advocate thing, even though this is a conspiracy theory podcast.
And I do think at this point there is a conspiracy theory to cover up this crime. Let's do the other side. I also want to make a correction. As I was editing this podcast, I was continuing to read articles because this totally fascinates me.
I say articles, really, it's just Noreen's article reprinted in different websites. There's not a lot of people talking about this. And as I was working on this, I see another podcast, a much bigger podcast than mine called Generation Y, I think it's called, covered this just a couple of weeks ago. So that, I didn't know that when I was doing the story.
And I'm glad that other people are covering this. Like, they're starting to, right? That's cool. Like, I found that out while I was editing this.
I was kind of looking around. I was trying to get that audio clip that I played for you. And I wish you had it. And I found that another podcast had covered this story.
Good. Awesome. More people should know about this. But while I had this time, I wanted to make a correction.
The neighbor, it's a minor correction. The neighbor was a woman. I kept referring to her as a him. That was just me.
I didn't catch that the first time when I was writing my notes down. I put it down as a The dude who died brutally and the police wrote it off as a natural cause. Think about all the pieces that had to fall into place for this to be uncovered. The ex-girlfriend had to show up and the apartment hadn't been cleaned up by the manager to be re-rented out.
She had to have... That was a big part was the ex-girlfriend showing up because she knew the neighbor. See? And he goes, yeah, I got video footage of this.
What if he didn't have the camera? If one of those two things were missing, his family would have just been like, Johnny, you know, poor Johnny. He struggled through his whole life and then he had this medical event and he died. He died far away from us.
I wish he was with us. But now that family is embroiled in a murder mystery with a suspect that the cops don't really seem that keen on catching. Absolutely bizarre. Absolutely infuriating.
And sad, right? Sad, sad story. Young man dies. It's always sad.
Young people die, you know. Absolute incompetence followed up by a cover-up. The Lynchburg police of Lynchburg, Virginia should be ashamed of themselves. But the problem is, they're not.
Because if they were ashamed of themselves, they would do whatever it took to catch this guy. I love being proved wrong. I really do. When it comes to stuff like this, I would love it if they catch him tomorrow.
I love being proved wrong. So Lynchburg police, please, prove me wrong about you. Dead Rabbit Radio at gmail.com is going to be our email address. You can also hit us up at facebook.com slash deadrabbitradio.
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