Episode 315

<v Speaker 1>Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
<v Speaker 1>not intended for all audiences.
<v Speaker 2>Listener discretion is advised.
<v Speaker 3>And then I noticed some red in the water and
<v Speaker 3>a blanket, a blue blanket with hair underneath, which I
<v Speaker 3>had to convince myself with moss.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I hope you appreciate this one, because I had
<v Speaker 1>to drag my depressed ass out of bed after what
<v Speaker 1>happened in Minneapolis this week. This is Sword and Scale,
<v Speaker 1>episode three hundred and fifteen. Let's go, I guess. In
<v Speaker 1>the quiet city of Beaverton, Oregon, life moves at a
<v Speaker 1>predictable pace. Those who live there usually know what to expect.
<v Speaker 1>Families dine and cozy restaurants, children play in well kept parks,
<v Speaker 1>and parents only rarely have to worry about the few
<v Speaker 1>dreadlocked gypsies that have migrated from downtown Portland. And before
<v Speaker 1>you complain about me using the word gypsy because it
<v Speaker 1>offends you, just realize that I don't give a shit.
<v Speaker 1>But despite a few dirty hippies here and there, Beaverton
<v Speaker 1>seems like a wonderful place. I mean, it was originally
<v Speaker 1>named after all the beaver dams they had. What's cuter
<v Speaker 1>than that? Once a relatively small community, Beaverton has maintained
<v Speaker 1>its reputation as a safe place for both residents and
<v Speaker 1>business owners. It's also quite beautiful, naturally, a lot of
<v Speaker 1>the West Coast is except for the people.
<v Speaker 4>Of course, citizens value safety hugely here, but our department shines.
<v Speaker 4>It keeps us safe and it's highly valued. And that's
<v Speaker 4>absolutely another key reason to why businesses locate here in
<v Speaker 4>value being here in Beaverton.
<v Speaker 1>Aside from becoming home to corporate giants such as Nike
<v Speaker 1>and Tektronics, the city's public transit is another unique contributor
<v Speaker 1>to its booming economy.
<v Speaker 5>Beaverton is on the easterly edge of Washington County, and
<v Speaker 5>it is really the hub for transport to choices. We've
<v Speaker 5>got great transit options here. We have the Max Train,
<v Speaker 5>the West Train. We also have a tremendous bus network.
<v Speaker 1>Despite its growth, Beaverton's wooded trails, quiet streams, and parks
<v Speaker 1>are what make the city unique. It's got the best
<v Speaker 1>of both worlds. But like anywhere, there are aspects of
<v Speaker 1>Beaverton that aren't exactly advertised on postcards or in travel brochures.
<v Speaker 1>It's not an escape for everyone. For many the forests
<v Speaker 1>of the Pacific Northwest are less a refuge and more
<v Speaker 1>of a last resort, a place where the ever growing
<v Speaker 1>homeless population struggles to survive when there's nowhere else to go.
<v Speaker 1>Sixteen year old Daniel Ryan Gore was one of the
<v Speaker 1>city's underbelly residents. But he wasn't living in the woods
<v Speaker 1>out of necessity. He was there by choice. In his eyes,
<v Speaker 1>anything was better than living at home with his parents.
<v Speaker 1>He was born in Oklahoma, and his family moved to
<v Speaker 1>Beaverton when he was only eleven years old. A short
<v Speaker 1>time later, they relocated again, this time to the more
<v Speaker 1>affordable town of Salem.
<v Speaker 6>What thought you guys? Oh okay, I think it was
<v Speaker 6>one of my parents' jobs. And then you got too.
<v Speaker 6>Was it the Beaberton area initially into the New New
<v Speaker 6>York And so mom and dad are down there. Do
<v Speaker 6>you have any family up in this area?
<v Speaker 7>We are.
<v Speaker 1>Allegedly, his parents did what they could to provide him
<v Speaker 1>with better opportunities. I have my doubts, but Daniel wasn't
<v Speaker 1>like most kids. He started feeling more like an outsider
<v Speaker 1>with each passing year. Constantly moving around and being placed
<v Speaker 1>in new school districts made it hard for Daniel to
<v Speaker 1>make friends. He struggled academically and spent most afternoons at
<v Speaker 1>the lunch table alone. He was often seen wearing headphones
<v Speaker 1>blaring heavy metal and rap music to block out the
<v Speaker 1>world around him. Eventually, Daniel did break out of his shell,
<v Speaker 1>but not in a good way. By the time he
<v Speaker 1>entered high school, Daniel had established a reputation as a
<v Speaker 1>class clown, and instead of being the popular funny guy,
<v Speaker 1>he was more known as the weird goth kid who
<v Speaker 1>would randomly scream and class for laughs that were rarely received.
<v Speaker 1>As he strayed further from his peers, he leaned more
<v Speaker 1>into music, connecting with underground artists more than any of
<v Speaker 1>his classmates. That's when Daniel discovered Seven, a progressive metal
<v Speaker 1>rapper out of Atlanta, Georgia.
<v Speaker 7>He was pretty obsessed with this artist, like loved everything
<v Speaker 7>he did, every song he came out with, every post
<v Speaker 7>he made. He would re post like Instagram videos or
<v Speaker 7>tiktoks about people. Other people obsessing over this artist.
<v Speaker 1>On the rare occasion when Daniel did converse with other students,
<v Speaker 1>Seven and his latest song became the only thing he
<v Speaker 1>cared to talk about. He was fixated. Unfortunately, the other
<v Speaker 1>kids weren't that interested. It wasn't long after that Daniel
<v Speaker 1>convinced himself he just didn't belong, not just in school,
<v Speaker 1>but in society. Right around that time, he dropped out
<v Speaker 1>and had plans to run away from home. Shortly after
<v Speaker 1>his sixteenth birthday, he packed an oversized duffel bag and
<v Speaker 1>bought a bus ticket to Portland. Without any savings or
<v Speaker 1>a place to go, he ended up living on the
<v Speaker 1>streets of Oregon's busiest city. I'm sure you've seen the
<v Speaker 1>homeless encampments out there and all the rioting and drug use.
<v Speaker 1>Daniel found himself in parks or underneath the overhang of
<v Speaker 1>the First Interstate Bank. After a few months, he eventually
<v Speaker 1>got sick of being woken up by cops or having
<v Speaker 1>business owners kick him off their property. That's when he
<v Speaker 1>decided he needed to move somewhere more remote, somewhere quiet
<v Speaker 1>and safe from all the tweakers roaming around downtown Portland
<v Speaker 1>like zombies. Nothing says compassion like continuing to let that happen. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>While he certainly could have gone back home to his
<v Speaker 1>parents in Salem, that thought never crossed his mind. After
<v Speaker 1>hopping on one of the computers inside the city library,
<v Speaker 1>and a few Google searches later, it was settled. Sixteen
<v Speaker 1>year old Daniel was headed back to Beaverton.
<v Speaker 6>Okay, So you.
<v Speaker 8>Take a bus from stay Along to Wilsonville and then
<v Speaker 8>you get on the map shrink in Wilsonville and there okay,
<v Speaker 8>And it's three bucks for that long to that.
<v Speaker 6>Shot a bo Okay.
<v Speaker 1>By now, he was well versed in public transportation, so
<v Speaker 1>hopping on a bus at Union Station was nothing new.
<v Speaker 1>After panhandling long enough to afford a one way ticket,
<v Speaker 1>Daniel was on the next bus out of town. When
<v Speaker 1>he arrived, Daniel spent the little cash he had left
<v Speaker 1>on supplies with plans to set up camp in the woods.
<v Speaker 1>After walking for miles, he eventually came across the Progress
<v Speaker 1>Ridge shopping center in Beaverton's south end. At an ace
<v Speaker 1>hardware store inside the plaza, he purchased a camping tent
<v Speaker 1>and blue blanket before walking through the parking lot towards
<v Speaker 1>the tree line. As he finished setting up camp, Daniel
<v Speaker 1>felt a sense of calm wash over him. His new
<v Speaker 1>home was quiet, serene. Besides the faint noise of cars
<v Speaker 1>and the shopping mall roughly two football fields away. Daniel
<v Speaker 1>had the woods all to himself. If he needed something
<v Speaker 1>to eat, he'd walk the short distance to the shopping
<v Speaker 1>stone center to dig through the dumpsters for food that
<v Speaker 1>had been recently tossed away. When that didn't work, he'd
<v Speaker 1>hit New Season's Market, an overpriced grocery store located in
<v Speaker 1>the plaza where the rich folk of Beaverton shopped. Luckily,
<v Speaker 1>for Daniel, money was no object, literally he had none.
<v Speaker 1>Right before the last register was about to close, Daniel
<v Speaker 1>would stroll the aisles, pretending to shop, before secretly stuffing
<v Speaker 1>a package of hot dogs or a can of chili
<v Speaker 1>in his coat pocket. After that, he walked across the
<v Speaker 1>parking lot into the woods, where he'd start a campfire
<v Speaker 1>and cook himself a meal. A stolen one doesn't sound
<v Speaker 1>that bad, to.
<v Speaker 6>Be honest, how long have you been stand.
<v Speaker 1>In the texts, Daniel had been living outside for a
<v Speaker 1>couple of months up to this point. As much as
<v Speaker 1>he enjoyed the privacy, he was I was a sixteen
<v Speaker 1>year old boy, and eventually Daniel got bored. That's when
<v Speaker 1>he started frequenting the shopping mall more often, not to
<v Speaker 1>steal hot dogs, but to socialize. The AMC movie theater
<v Speaker 1>at the Plaza was one of the main places Daniel
<v Speaker 1>started hanging out. Eventually he met some kids his age who,
<v Speaker 1>like him, had nothing else to do on a Friday
<v Speaker 1>night but catch the late night showing of Avatar two.
<v Speaker 1>Didn't see it, but I heard that was shit. Finally
<v Speaker 1>Daniel had a solid group of friends. For the first
<v Speaker 1>time ever, he felt accepted. Imagine that the local teens
<v Speaker 1>who attended high school in Beaverton, a few miles down
<v Speaker 1>the road, knew he was homeless, but never judged him.
<v Speaker 1>If anything, they were concerned for his well being, especially
<v Speaker 1>when the colder months rolled around. One day in January
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty two, Daniel arrived at the AMC Theater to
<v Speaker 1>meet up with his new friends, but they noticed his
<v Speaker 1>clothes were soaking wet. It was clear he'd been struggling
<v Speaker 1>to survive in this tent just a couple hundred yards away.
<v Speaker 1>Daniel told his friends he was fine, but after visiting
<v Speaker 1>the camp, they knew from the damaged tarps ready to
<v Speaker 1>cave in from the fresh snowfall that they really needed
<v Speaker 1>to get Daniel out of the woods. I wonder what
<v Speaker 1>his parents were doing.
<v Speaker 9>Around this time, I was having friends over. I had
<v Speaker 9>recently met a new group and they asked me to
<v Speaker 9>invite one of their friends over, and I said yes.
<v Speaker 1>During one particular visit to a friend's home, Daniel and
<v Speaker 1>a group of others were hanging out watching TV. At
<v Speaker 1>one point, while the group was eating a meal the
<v Speaker 1>mother prepared, Daniel's friend mentioned that he was homeless.
<v Speaker 9>I was made aware that he didn't have a house,
<v Speaker 9>and I told my mother that, and she started crying
<v Speaker 9>and told me he could do his laundry whenever he wanted.
<v Speaker 1>The girl's mother instantly broke into tears and insisted he
<v Speaker 1>stay with them that night. Well, he wasn't used to
<v Speaker 1>accepting a helping hand. This time he did and was
<v Speaker 1>genuinely thankful. From that point forward, anytime the weather was harsh,
<v Speaker 1>the mother of Daniel's friend insisted he stay with them.
<v Speaker 9>Eventually it started snowing, and my mom was even more
<v Speaker 9>sad and wanted him to be safe and let him
<v Speaker 9>stay the night every once in a while when it
<v Speaker 9>was really cold. At different times when he was hungry,
<v Speaker 9>she would of course let him eat our food, and
<v Speaker 9>sometimes I'm pretty sure got him canned food from either
<v Speaker 9>pantries or our pantry.
<v Speaker 1>One night, when Daniel showed up at the door, the
<v Speaker 1>mom surprised him with a gift. It was a brand
<v Speaker 1>new orange puffer coat. Daniel couldn't have been more grateful,
<v Speaker 1>as the weather was only getting worse. Turn the favor,
<v Speaker 1>Daniel would offer to help around the house during his
<v Speaker 1>overnight stays. He was polite and came across as a
<v Speaker 1>genuine teenager who just needed some help. Accepting it, though,
<v Speaker 1>was something Daniel struggled with. After retreating back to his
<v Speaker 1>campsite and vanishing behind the trees, Daniel started to isolate
<v Speaker 1>himself again, left with nothing but his thoughts and dark
<v Speaker 1>lyrics from heavy metal music crackling through his cheap headphones.
<v Speaker 1>As the snow continued to fall, his friends and their
<v Speaker 1>families feared that Daniel might not make it through the night.
<v Speaker 1>But it wasn't just the harsh elements that they had
<v Speaker 1>to be concerned with, as there was no way of
<v Speaker 1>knowing the sheer violence that was about to unfold in
<v Speaker 1>those very same Oregon woods. For Daniel Gore, life wasn't easy.
<v Speaker 1>At just sixteen years old, he left home with no
<v Speaker 1>plan and barely enough cash to purchase a bus ticket
<v Speaker 1>to Portland, Oregon. When life on the streets became too harsh,
<v Speaker 1>he sought refuge in the nearby woods of Beaverton and
<v Speaker 1>set up camp behind the Progress Ridge Shopping Center. Unfortunately,
<v Speaker 1>with homelessness often comes danger and sometimes the threat of
<v Speaker 1>extreme violence. While he struggled to find his way in
<v Speaker 1>the world, any chance of starting over for Daniel was
<v Speaker 1>inevitably destroyed when a harrowing discovery was made on May tenth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty two, past three pm, a group of local
<v Speaker 1>residents was walking along Barrows Road before veering onto the
<v Speaker 1>west Side Regional Trailhead, directly located behind the Progress Ridge
<v Speaker 1>Shopping Center in Beaverton.
<v Speaker 3>We walked through into the forest wooded area and walked
<v Speaker 3>around for a while. We didn't see much.
<v Speaker 1>After a short trek, they came across a pair of
<v Speaker 1>ripped sweatpants hanging from a branch, as well as a
<v Speaker 1>pair of high top converse sneakers that were stuck in
<v Speaker 1>the mud. The group became worried almost immediately after walking
<v Speaker 1>towards the items, they noticed something else.
<v Speaker 3>And then I noticed some red in the water and
<v Speaker 3>a blanket A blue blanket with hair underneath, which I
<v Speaker 3>had convinced myself with moss.
<v Speaker 1>The blanket was draped over a shallow creek that ran
<v Speaker 1>through the woods. As they neared closer, they noticed the
<v Speaker 1>raised and pression of something underneath. What was even more
<v Speaker 1>suspicious was that the blanket had been weighed down by
<v Speaker 1>several logs and rocks. It was at this point that
<v Speaker 1>the group stepped back and shocked, before running out of
<v Speaker 1>the woods and notifying police.
<v Speaker 6>Are you talking about this little spot way down the years? Okay?
<v Speaker 6>Do you guys want to wait way up here for me?
<v Speaker 6>And then we'll come back up.
<v Speaker 7>And in a few minutes.
<v Speaker 1>When authorities arrived, the scene was immediately secured as people
<v Speaker 1>started to swarm around the caution tape perimeter.
<v Speaker 10>I saw like a bevy of cops in like a circle.
<v Speaker 10>Seems like they were doing a search. I was very
<v Speaker 10>surprised to all the police here. I mean, I had
<v Speaker 10>to connect the dots. They're they're being very you know,
<v Speaker 10>quiet about it.
<v Speaker 1>All that well, the vast presence of s UV's and
<v Speaker 1>police users lined the streets just behind them and down
<v Speaker 1>the small ravine. Crime scene texts started carefully gathering evidence
<v Speaker 1>in the woods.
<v Speaker 11>Well, I could tell about the blanket that it appeared
<v Speaker 11>it was weighted down and there was definitely something under it.
<v Speaker 11>It looked like I had noticed human hair in the water,
<v Speaker 11>and at some point I think I pointed that out.
<v Speaker 1>Upon examining the blanket waiting in the water, forensics started
<v Speaker 1>lifting the stones and debris.
<v Speaker 12>We removed the blanket and it was photographed in place.
<v Speaker 12>There were multiple branches and large rocks that had been
<v Speaker 12>placed on the body to hold it down and in
<v Speaker 12>place in the water.
<v Speaker 1>The body of a deceased teenage victim was found. The
<v Speaker 1>individual was completely nude except for their socks. Ligature marks
<v Speaker 1>were visible on their neck. The face was swollen and bruised.
<v Speaker 1>Investigators then took notice of one of the victim's fingernails.
<v Speaker 12>It actually had been snapped back at the nail bed
<v Speaker 12>and it was just kind of hanging.
<v Speaker 1>The victim's family was notified immediately. That same evening. The
<v Speaker 1>city of Beaverton, Oregon, fell into a collective state of
<v Speaker 1>shock when authorities released the name of the teen found
<v Speaker 1>dead in the woods.
<v Speaker 13>We want to get straight to some breaking news out
<v Speaker 13>of Beaverton tonight. Police say they've found the body of
<v Speaker 13>a missing.
<v Speaker 14>Student tonight, we know the circumstances surrounding the girl's death
<v Speaker 14>are suspicious.
<v Speaker 1>At around seven am on Monday, May ninth, a Cell
<v Speaker 1>Lee arrives home from her overnight shift at the Nike
<v Speaker 1>store in Beaverton. She hasn't seen her daughter, Milana since
<v Speaker 1>the evening before when she left for work. She calls
<v Speaker 1>out for her, but there's no answer. Thinking Milana must
<v Speaker 1>have simply left early for school, she decides to check
<v Speaker 1>her daughter's bedroom just to be sure. When a Cell
<v Speaker 1>cracks open the door, Uneasiness sets in when she notices
<v Speaker 1>milan This book bag is still in the corner of
<v Speaker 1>the room. A Cell starts making phone calls and reaches
<v Speaker 1>out to Milana's friends, but no one is seen or
<v Speaker 1>heard from her or worry deepens. She calls the school,
<v Speaker 1>hoping for reassurance, only to learn that Milana never showed
<v Speaker 1>up that day. This is when panic starts to set in.
<v Speaker 1>After nearly twenty four hours and still no sign of her,
<v Speaker 1>a Cell and a group of Milana's friends take to
<v Speaker 1>the streets and nearby woods, retracing her usual route, but
<v Speaker 1>then they find something off the wooded trails of Barrows Road.
<v Speaker 1>Scattered along the damp forest floor are Milana's shoes and
<v Speaker 1>torn pajama pants, the same items she was last seen wearing.
<v Speaker 1>Moments later, they spot a blue blanket lying flat over
<v Speaker 1>a slow running creek. Unaware at that moment that beneath
<v Speaker 1>that pile of debris is Milana's savagely beaten body.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's just horribly sad.
<v Speaker 4>Officers say that that young lady was Milana Lee.
<v Speaker 9>And we're just finding out about this in the past
<v Speaker 9>hour or.
<v Speaker 4>So, and already some community members have put.
<v Speaker 9>Flowers here near where her body was found.
<v Speaker 6>They found her body in a small stream over here.
<v Speaker 4>This is the west Side Linear Park near the West
<v Speaker 4>Side Trail.
<v Speaker 6>Police just left this scene.
<v Speaker 4>They had this all blocked off near Barrows Road for
<v Speaker 4>this investigation.
<v Speaker 1>Once the body was removed from the water and transported
<v Speaker 1>by the corner in preparation for an autopsy, a group
<v Speaker 1>of investigators expanded their search and proceeded further into the woods.
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't long before they came across a homeless encampment
<v Speaker 1>roughly two hundred yards from Progress Ridge Shopping Center. The
<v Speaker 1>site appeared to have been someone's long term dwelling as
<v Speaker 1>indicated by a series of tarps meticulously tied from various
<v Speaker 1>trees covering the small camping tent. Fresh food wrappers and
<v Speaker 1>recently burnt embers inside a small fire pit suggested that
<v Speaker 1>whoever was staying there hadn't left long before police arrived.
<v Speaker 1>Directly adjacent to the camping tent was the discarded packaging
<v Speaker 1>of a blanket consistent with the same blanket used to
<v Speaker 1>conceal Milana's body. The authorities searched inside the tent, they
<v Speaker 1>found a diary. Upon reading it, they immediately took notice
<v Speaker 1>of the phrase I feel like dexter ominously written inside
<v Speaker 1>the journal. Something else that struck the deputy's azad was
<v Speaker 1>a collage of artwork found etched into a nearby tree.
<v Speaker 1>Chiseled into the bark were several skulls with joker type smiles,
<v Speaker 1>adorned with a unique set of devil horns each of
<v Speaker 1>the cartoons heads. It was unclear what the images were,
<v Speaker 1>but all the pocket knife carvings depicted a rendition of
<v Speaker 1>the same character. Back at the primary crime scene, additional
<v Speaker 1>items of evidentiary value were being collected In addition to
<v Speaker 1>the clothing and broken fingernail. The victim's purse was found
<v Speaker 1>a few meters north waiting in the creek. The bag
<v Speaker 1>was partially filled with water and missing one of its
<v Speaker 1>leather straps. Investigators eventually recovered the missing strap in a
<v Speaker 1>nearby bush. Inside the purse was Milana's phone case, but
<v Speaker 1>her device was missing.
<v Speaker 12>We did an emergency connection with her phone through T
<v Speaker 12>Mobile to try to get her Latin longitude, but where
<v Speaker 12>her cell phone was last seen so we would have
<v Speaker 12>an idea of where to start looking.
<v Speaker 1>Once a subpoena was successfully filed through Milana's phone carrier,
<v Speaker 1>authorities learned that her device showed activity throughout Beaverton several
<v Speaker 1>hours after the murder and had just recently been powered off.
<v Speaker 1>Upon accessing the victim's final texts and online messages, they
<v Speaker 1>found a Facebook correspondence that started the afternoon she disappeared.
<v Speaker 1>This conversation was between Milana and a sixteen year old
<v Speaker 1>named Daniel Gore surprised, huh, come on, this is sortan scale.
<v Speaker 1>On May eighth, twenty twenty two, Milana contacted Daniel at
<v Speaker 1>around two thirty pm. She asked him what his plans
<v Speaker 1>were that afternoon. Daniel responded to the message stating he
<v Speaker 1>was at the local library so that he could use
<v Speaker 1>the Internet. The fuck is the purpose of libraries in
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five now that we have the Internet? Oh right,
<v Speaker 1>masturbatoriums for homeless people and a huge waste of taxpayer money.
<v Speaker 1>If you asked me, leave your outrage in the comments, Karen. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>Eventually the two arranged to meet up Daniel and Milana
<v Speaker 1>with the intention of getting drunk with some mutual friends.
<v Speaker 1>Over the course of several hours, Milana and Daniel continued
<v Speaker 1>to communicate on Facebook. Milana sent several more messages asking
<v Speaker 1>Daniel who would be joining them that evening. Daniel responded
<v Speaker 1>by providing the names of one male and at least
<v Speaker 1>two other girls, but said he wasn't sure if they
<v Speaker 1>were going to make it. At around six pm, location
<v Speaker 1>data placed Milana at her residence before traveling towards the
<v Speaker 1>shopping plaza less than half a mile away. At six
<v Speaker 1>thirty pm, Milana's cell phone pinged at Menshi's Frozen Yogurt
<v Speaker 1>at the Progress Ridge Shopping Center. Surveillance footage from inside
<v Speaker 1>the business corroborated Milana's location when she was seen entering
<v Speaker 1>Menshe's accompanied by a male teenager.
<v Speaker 15>It depicts May eighth, twenty twenty two. It will show
<v Speaker 15>Daniel Gore and Malana Lee together around six forty pm,
<v Speaker 15>enter the location and a leave three minutes later.
<v Speaker 1>Milana is seen in the footage wearing pajama pants and
<v Speaker 1>high top converse sneakers as she orders a cup of
<v Speaker 1>frozen yogurt, while the male suspect is captured on camera
<v Speaker 1>wearing a bright orange puffer jacket. Minutes later, surveillance captures
<v Speaker 1>Milana and the suspect walking through the parking lot to
<v Speaker 1>a bus stop. The two are seen boarding a bus
<v Speaker 1>before its doors close and they start traveling eastbound. Minutes later,
<v Speaker 1>they're captured on surveillance a few blocks away, exiting the
<v Speaker 1>bus at a nearby intersection before boarding another one. The
<v Speaker 1>evidence indicated that the pair rode a series of buses
<v Speaker 1>for a total of twenty five minutes before finally getting
<v Speaker 1>off at a walgreen It's less than a mile north
<v Speaker 1>of where the trip started. Imagine riding public buses for fun.
<v Speaker 1>What it is to be young and stupid. The next
<v Speaker 1>time the pair was spotted was at seven forty five pm,
<v Speaker 1>walking south in the vicinity of the shopping Plaza and
<v Speaker 1>approaching the West Side Regional Trail.
<v Speaker 16>This is the very last time Malala ley is caught
<v Speaker 16>on him and was haunting about this energy.
<v Speaker 2>She has no idea did in just over an hour
<v Speaker 2>her life.
<v Speaker 10>Would be ticket.
<v Speaker 1>After identifying the individual who was believed to be Daniel Gore,
<v Speaker 1>of course, investigators started looking into his online activity. Through
<v Speaker 1>both his Facebook and Instagram messages, authorities were able to
<v Speaker 1>track down friends of the suspect who he'd been communicating
<v Speaker 1>with before and after the murder. Hours after Milana's body
<v Speaker 1>was found, detectives arrived at an apartment complex in Beaverton,
<v Speaker 1>where a female friend of Daniel's met them in the
<v Speaker 1>doorway and welcomed them inside. As they entered the home,
<v Speaker 1>one of the officers immediately noticed what was hanging on
<v Speaker 1>a nearby coat rack.
<v Speaker 15>There was an orange goose down puffy coat hanging at
<v Speaker 15>the entrance. The coat had a noticeable amount of mud
<v Speaker 15>on the hood, and there was also a bag of
<v Speaker 15>laundry in the living room that I later learned was
<v Speaker 15>potentially relevant.
<v Speaker 1>When authorities asked the girl who the jacket belonged to,
<v Speaker 1>she said Daniel. She went on to say that he
<v Speaker 1>regularly stayed over on cold nights due to the fact
<v Speaker 1>he was homeless. When asked when she saw him last,
<v Speaker 1>the suspect's friend told police on May eighth, at around
<v Speaker 1>eight forty five pm, wearing the orange jacket, I.
<v Speaker 9>Noticed scratches on his face and I asked him how
<v Speaker 9>he got those, along with how he had met on
<v Speaker 9>his pants, and he said he fell.
<v Speaker 1>According to her statements to police, he was acting a
<v Speaker 1>bit strange at the time.
<v Speaker 9>He was more standoffish, which was another observation my mom
<v Speaker 9>and I talked about. But I was definitely disappointed because
<v Speaker 9>he's usually really respectful to my mom.
<v Speaker 1>He was abnormally quiet and at one point retreated to
<v Speaker 1>the bathroom.
<v Speaker 9>He went to the restroom to make a private call,
<v Speaker 9>which wasn't normal for him, and so it was kind
<v Speaker 9>of secretive.
<v Speaker 1>According to the witness, Daniel changed his clothes a short
<v Speaker 1>time later before leaving the residents. After gaining permission to
<v Speaker 1>search the property, investigators made their way to the garage.
<v Speaker 1>Inside one of the trash cans was a pair of
<v Speaker 1>men's jeans soaked in water and covered in dirt. After
<v Speaker 1>tracing Daniel's call made from his friend's bathroom, investigators were
<v Speaker 1>led to a young woman named Eva, Daniel's ex girlfriend
<v Speaker 1>who had known him since the third grade.
<v Speaker 7>It was a really, really unhealthy relationship. There was a
<v Speaker 7>lot of codependency from both sides in my relationship with him.
<v Speaker 7>I was very isolated from the people in my life,
<v Speaker 7>including my parents and friends, and really he was the
<v Speaker 7>main support that I felt I had.
<v Speaker 1>Long before Daniel was homeless and wanted for suspicion of murder,
<v Speaker 1>Eva was one of the few friends he had. She
<v Speaker 1>herself was a loner, which led the two of them
<v Speaker 1>to form a deeply codependent and emotionally unstable relationship. When
<v Speaker 1>they first started dating years before, Eva became increasingly defiant
<v Speaker 1>towards authority figures, a character trait surely mimicked and learned
<v Speaker 1>by her boy friend Daniel. Over the years, they fed
<v Speaker 1>off each other's chaos, cycling between intense closeness and explosive arguments.
<v Speaker 7>We were both very extremely reliant on each other emotionally.
<v Speaker 7>We needed to be in contact almost constantly. There were
<v Speaker 7>times where if I wouldn't answer him, he would find.
<v Speaker 7>He would always find a way. If it wasn't text,
<v Speaker 7>he would find. Ever since we'd started dating in eighth grade,
<v Speaker 7>he would find a way to email me or even
<v Speaker 7>text me from an xbox.
<v Speaker 1>Like most toxic relationships, Eva and Daniel brought out the
<v Speaker 1>worst in each other, and when she inevitably started to
<v Speaker 1>pull away, Daniel became increasingly erratic and controlling.
<v Speaker 7>He was an extremely jealous person. He didn't want me
<v Speaker 7>having guy friends or really contact with any guys. Anytime
<v Speaker 7>I mentioned any guy saying anything like one just called
<v Speaker 7>me a nickname, he would threaten them and literally say like, oh,
<v Speaker 7>I want to kill them.
<v Speaker 1>These behaviors didn't go unnoticed by Eva's friends, but more
<v Speaker 1>notably her parents. You see, they were actually paying attention.
<v Speaker 7>He would make me feel like he was the only
<v Speaker 7>person that could make me feel loved or happy, and
<v Speaker 7>would encourage me to do things to go against my
<v Speaker 7>father or my parents in general, which really created a
<v Speaker 7>big divide between me and my family.
<v Speaker 1>Eva's parents were so worried about her safety that they
<v Speaker 1>eventually put the relationship to an end for her. Sometimes
<v Speaker 1>you gotta just do what you gotta do, even if
<v Speaker 1>your kids hate you for it. As long as she
<v Speaker 1>was living under their roof, Eva was no longer allowed
<v Speaker 1>to see Daniel. From that point on. Well, she may
<v Speaker 1>not have seen it at the time. Being exiled from
<v Speaker 1>Daniel very well may have saved her life. But it
<v Speaker 1>wasn't just women and Daniel had a problem with. It
<v Speaker 1>was the law as well. Roughly three months before Milana
<v Speaker 1>was found dead, faced down in a creek, Daniel was
<v Speaker 1>placed on probation in February twenty twenty two. At the time,
<v Speaker 1>the juvenile courts of Salem, Oregon, found him guilty of
<v Speaker 1>multiple offenses, including second degree theft, criminal mischief, and arson.
<v Speaker 1>According to court records, Daniel was arrested after attempting to
<v Speaker 1>burn down a movie theater in the Portland area. As
<v Speaker 1>a result, the Washington County DA recommended that he beheld
<v Speaker 1>in juvenile detention, but despite the DA's concerns for public safety,
<v Speaker 1>the Washington County Juvenile Department released him back to his
<v Speaker 1>family in Salem. I mean, they'd done such a great
<v Speaker 1>job up until this point. Weeks later, Daniel ran away
<v Speaker 1>from his home to start a new life as a
<v Speaker 1>homeless person living in the woods of Beaverton. What a life.
<v Speaker 1>In April of that year, Daniel's father emailed Salem's Juvenile
<v Speaker 1>department to inform them that his son might be somewhere
<v Speaker 1>in the Beaverton area, but for whatever reason, Daniel's father
<v Speaker 1>was ignored and the Juvenile Department failed to notify the
<v Speaker 1>DA or the local police. Despite their breakup, Eva and
<v Speaker 1>Daniel continued to communicate regularly, and while there was physical
<v Speaker 1>distance between the two, he managed to keep an emotional
<v Speaker 1>hold on her, But as time passed, she was able
<v Speaker 1>to see the situation for what it actually was.
<v Speaker 7>Over time, I had separation from Daniel, and so there
<v Speaker 7>was a lot less of that fear in that. Also,
<v Speaker 7>like I loved him and I wanted to be able
<v Speaker 7>to have him in my life, and so as there
<v Speaker 7>was time in my life where he wasn't a part
<v Speaker 7>of it, it became a lot easier to see the
<v Speaker 7>situation without the emotional lens.
<v Speaker 1>When Eva was ultimately questioned by police after a body
<v Speaker 1>was found in the woods, she admitted that Daniel called
<v Speaker 1>her from his friend's house not long after Milana was
<v Speaker 1>last seen alive.
<v Speaker 7>He's calling me, and he sounded stressed or upset in
<v Speaker 7>some way, and he started telling me that like he
<v Speaker 7>had done something and he couldn't tell me what it was,
<v Speaker 7>and so I kept like pressing and pushing, being like
<v Speaker 7>what did you do? Where were you? Because at this point,
<v Speaker 7>like I have no idea what's going on, and he's
<v Speaker 7>just telling me like I did something bad, Like I
<v Speaker 7>can't tell you what it is. I was just telling
<v Speaker 7>me that he had gone to hang out with Milana
<v Speaker 7>and was just telling me that he did something. He
<v Speaker 7>took care of it, he handled it, and was implying
<v Speaker 7>that he had done something bad to her.
<v Speaker 1>After speaking with the suspects ex girlfriend, locating him became
<v Speaker 1>that much more dire as he was still out there
<v Speaker 1>walking amongst the public.
<v Speaker 11>We were following up on every lead. I would encourage people,
<v Speaker 11>no matter how small they think, that their tip is
<v Speaker 11>to call us in because it could be that thing
<v Speaker 11>that leads us to the portion of the case that
<v Speaker 11>we need to solve.
<v Speaker 1>It became clear from the very start that Daniel Gore
<v Speaker 1>was much more dangerous than the innocent drifter he portrayed
<v Speaker 1>himself as to his friends around Beaverton. His exact connection
<v Speaker 1>to the victim was still unknown, but as someone who
<v Speaker 1>knows the woods of Beaverton better than anyone else, there
<v Speaker 1>was no telling where he was given the state in
<v Speaker 1>which he left Milana's body not far from his campsite.
<v Speaker 1>Authorities weren't blind to the fact that provided the opportunity,
<v Speaker 1>there wasn't much stopping Daniel from committing further acts of violence. Then,
<v Speaker 1>on the evening of May tenth, authorities received a call
<v Speaker 1>from a state member of the Murray School's Branch library
<v Speaker 1>and Masturbatorium in Beaverton. The caller told dispatch that he
<v Speaker 1>believed a man matching Daniel's description was using the Internet
<v Speaker 1>and sitting at one of the computer kiosks. When officers
<v Speaker 1>were dispatched, Daniel spotted police with their guns drawn as
<v Speaker 1>they made their way through the front door.
<v Speaker 2>As I approached kind of more of the backside of
<v Speaker 2>the library, I saw a gentlemen that kind of matched
<v Speaker 2>his description get up and run out the back door.
<v Speaker 1>As he fled through an emergency exit, Deputies chased after him,
<v Speaker 1>but somehow Daniel managed to escape. That little fucker was
<v Speaker 1>fast back inside the library. One of the staff members
<v Speaker 1>stood guard at the computer the suspect was using, only
<v Speaker 1>to notice a Facebook Messenger tab still active on the screen.
<v Speaker 1>While he glanced at the conversation between the suspect and
<v Speaker 1>one of his friends. The library employee retrieved a roll
<v Speaker 1>of Scotch tape and a piece of computer paper to
<v Speaker 1>cover the screen until police could take a closer look.
<v Speaker 10>I saw two lines of print. They said, comps are here.
<v Speaker 16>I think they're looking for Milana.
<v Speaker 1>Immediately following his escape, all units were dispatched to the
<v Speaker 1>surrounding areas. Within the hour, police retrieved a tip that
<v Speaker 1>the suspect had been spotted entering a nearby apartment unit
<v Speaker 1>located a few blocks away. As officers surrounded the complex,
<v Speaker 1>they eventually noticed movement upon a second story balcony. The
<v Speaker 1>individual pressed against the wall, attempting to hide, and was
<v Speaker 1>quickly identified as their suspect. Daniel was surrounded, and, after
<v Speaker 1>realizing there was nowhere to run, he walked out of
<v Speaker 1>the building's main entrance with his hands in the air.
<v Speaker 1>As he made his way towards the officers, they could
<v Speaker 1>see he was holding something while being placed in cuffs.
<v Speaker 1>One of the deputies ripped the object away from him,
<v Speaker 1>only to find what appeared to be a white Halloween
<v Speaker 1>mask that was an exact replica of the skull drawings
<v Speaker 1>etched into a tree at Daniel's campsite in early May
<v Speaker 1>of twenty twenty two, Acel Lee returned home from an
<v Speaker 1>overnight shift to find that her daughter, Milana, was missing.
<v Speaker 1>At first, she assumed she may have left early that
<v Speaker 1>morning for school, but as the hours passed and Milana
<v Speaker 1>failed to answer her phone, concern turned into panic Assel
<v Speaker 1>and a group of Milana's friends started searching the neighborhood,
<v Speaker 1>calling out for her. Their efforts led them to a
<v Speaker 1>trailhead off of Barrows Road, where they found her shoes
<v Speaker 1>and torn pajama pants scattered near a wooded area. The
<v Speaker 1>search came to a tragic end on May tenth, when
<v Speaker 1>Milana's loved ones stumbled upon a blue blanket in a
<v Speaker 1>shallow creek just off the West Side Regional Trail. Underneath it,
<v Speaker 1>weighed down by rocks and logs, was Milana's lifeless body.
<v Speaker 1>She had been beaten, strangled, and left for dead. The
<v Speaker 1>discovery triggered a full scale homicide investigation, prompting authorities to
<v Speaker 1>piece together her last known movements. Data pulled from Milana's
<v Speaker 1>device showed that she'd been active on Facebook the afternoon
<v Speaker 1>she disappeared, chatting with a sixteen year old named Daniel Gore.
<v Speaker 1>Their conversation revealed plans to meet up that evening in
<v Speaker 1>surveill footage later confirmed they'd spent the night wandering through Beaverton,
<v Speaker 1>boarding buses and eventually making their way into the woods.
<v Speaker 1>Authorities ultimately tracked their suspect to a public library. When
<v Speaker 1>police arrived, Daniel fled, only to be arrested a short
<v Speaker 1>time later when he was found hiding at a friend's apartment.
<v Speaker 1>With their suspect now in custody. Detectives finally had the
<v Speaker 1>opportunity to speak with Daniel when he was brought in
<v Speaker 1>for questioning and try to piece together why you have
<v Speaker 1>the right.
<v Speaker 6>To remain silent. They can understand what that means. Okay,
<v Speaker 6>tell me what that means?
<v Speaker 8>Right? So when when did you argue?
<v Speaker 6>Very want to talk to me about what you've and
<v Speaker 6>staying stuff. It was a states An area.
<v Speaker 1>The conversation started off casually, with detectives asking Daniel about
<v Speaker 1>his day to day life. He seemed excited when the
<v Speaker 1>topic of the library came up. I wonder why he
<v Speaker 1>was eager to tell detectives how he spent a lot
<v Speaker 1>of his time watching police body camp footage and true
<v Speaker 1>crime videos on YouTube of all things.
<v Speaker 6>All right, yeah, we don't we don't like that or
<v Speaker 6>anything like that or nothing like that. Body camp done?
<v Speaker 6>Is it really that interesting? Usually that's the most fascinating
<v Speaker 6>thing you've seen. I've seen so many comes to top. Also,
<v Speaker 6>I don't remember how I watching. I don't remember. Can
<v Speaker 6>I haven't mind saying about it? Oh, actually no, I
<v Speaker 6>don't want any of lot I watched. It's called Code
<v Speaker 6>Blue game.
<v Speaker 8>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Eventually, the conversation shifted to the night of May eighth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty two, the last night Milana Lee was seen alive.
<v Speaker 1>Daniel admitted that he and Milana had been drinking alcohol
<v Speaker 1>together that evening, and that he was drunk before the
<v Speaker 1>two boarded the first bus. Now here's an idea for
<v Speaker 1>a law that makes sense. I'm sure you legal experts
<v Speaker 1>will tell me in the comments. Why is it legal
<v Speaker 1>to sell alcohol or any other vices for that matter,
<v Speaker 1>to the homeless? Can you give me a good reason
<v Speaker 1>for that? Why don't we just make it illegal across
<v Speaker 1>the board federally. That sure as hell would be a
<v Speaker 1>deterrent to becoming homeless in the first place.
<v Speaker 6>And then you said you were drinking any monius was
<v Speaker 6>like Nike started induction alcohol person, So how did you
<v Speaker 6>get your hands on that.
<v Speaker 15>Good connections.
<v Speaker 1>Daniel described how it was raining heavily that night, yet
<v Speaker 1>struggled to recall any other key details. He insisted that
<v Speaker 1>he and Lana eventually parted ways and that when the
<v Speaker 1>night was over, he simply went back to his tent alone.
<v Speaker 1>That's when detectives decided to confront Daniel about the blatant
<v Speaker 1>scratches covering his face and arms.
<v Speaker 8>Help me understand how you got the scratches on the
<v Speaker 8>outside of your right.
<v Speaker 6>Hand walls like brick walls. Okay, when did you do
<v Speaker 6>that to your uh?
<v Speaker 10>There you go.
<v Speaker 1>The authorities were certain Daniel was already well aware, detectives
<v Speaker 1>chose to inform him that Milana had been found dead
<v Speaker 1>in the woods just hours before.
<v Speaker 6>So I have some news about Milana, okay, and I
<v Speaker 6>want to share with you. She was found today. She
<v Speaker 6>was diseased, Yes, female aware.
<v Speaker 12>Well that's what yeah, you but you know, we're out
<v Speaker 12>chatting with people to find out you know, it's.
<v Speaker 6>Much information as that can She would sound kind of
<v Speaker 6>the progress area. So I wanted to talk to you
<v Speaker 6>about what.
<v Speaker 8>You may know that you give us, you know, points
<v Speaker 8>in a direction of who we can talk to or.
<v Speaker 6>Well, do you know anything about how she may have died?
<v Speaker 6>Because I'll be honest with you too, because, like chat said,
<v Speaker 6>I was doing this for quite a while. If you're pretty.
<v Speaker 8>I guess unemotional when we give you news that you
<v Speaker 8>were the last person seen with someone who has now deceased.
<v Speaker 6>To me, there doesn't doesn't seem to be any worry
<v Speaker 6>or it's just kind of this flag affect. I mean
<v Speaker 6>sort of like it's just like I don't know how
<v Speaker 6>to descarded.
<v Speaker 16>It's just like because I didn't know that well, stuff
<v Speaker 16>like that, stuff like involved stuff.
<v Speaker 6>I guess I'm just like I've seen.
<v Speaker 16>I'm just like, yeah, stuff like that.
<v Speaker 6>What kind of death is that you familiar?
<v Speaker 7>With?
<v Speaker 16>Some of my friends as into I'm sure you mail
<v Speaker 16>like cour videos. They would watch that on or on
<v Speaker 16>and was just I saw it on it was just
<v Speaker 16>like seeing it too much and it was.
<v Speaker 1>Like Daniel Gore is into Gore. Great, I'm gonna go
<v Speaker 1>ahead and leave the dad jokes out of this one.
<v Speaker 1>The story's pissing me off more than anything.
<v Speaker 8>A lot of people that live in your position would
<v Speaker 8>at least be a little bit worried or concerned they're
<v Speaker 8>the last person to be seen with the dead girl.
<v Speaker 16>Just like I said, I've been very sensitized.
<v Speaker 1>Daniel was then asked if authorities could expect to find
<v Speaker 1>his DNA at the crime scene.
<v Speaker 6>The one is her DNA found the affair. Else there's
<v Speaker 6>either be any DNA inside her body or anywhere line
<v Speaker 6>her body that would have otherwise he'd ever up with clothes.
<v Speaker 1>While he denied any involvement in the crime throughout his
<v Speaker 1>police interview, the evidence doesn't lie, and the truth behind
<v Speaker 1>what really happened to Milana that night in the woods
<v Speaker 1>is well, let's just put it this way. The following
<v Speaker 1>description of events is speculative based on all the available
<v Speaker 1>police reports and witness testimony and all the other information
<v Speaker 1>we could find, but it captures a broad truth of
<v Speaker 1>what happened that night.
<v Speaker 2>Here we go.
<v Speaker 1>It was just before eight pm on May eighth. The
<v Speaker 1>rain is pouring down heavily in Beaverton, Oregon, and Milana
<v Speaker 1>and Daniel are approaching the woods behind the Progress Ridge
<v Speaker 1>Shopping Center. They'd spent the better part of the evening
<v Speaker 1>riding city buses and sneaking SIPs of alcohol hidden inside
<v Speaker 1>Daniel's backpack. The sixteen year old has downed more than
<v Speaker 1>a few of his pre mixed margaritas, Milana's only had
<v Speaker 1>a single corona. As the two make their way towards
<v Speaker 1>the West Side Regional trailhead, they eventually exit the park's
<v Speaker 1>surveillance camera's frame. The distant street lights beyond the trees
<v Speaker 1>slowly fade away with each step they take into the
<v Speaker 1>woods as they trudge through the mud along the narrow path.
<v Speaker 1>The alcohol in Daniel's belly keeps him warm. The two
<v Speaker 1>laugh intermittently on their trek as the rain drops over
<v Speaker 1>the thick canopy of leaves above. Somewhere along their route,
<v Speaker 1>Milana's carefree demeanor shifts a bit. She looks around, only
<v Speaker 1>to realize how included she is now alone in the
<v Speaker 1>darkness with a boy she barely knows. The thrill of
<v Speaker 1>underage drinking has worn off, and Milana tells Daniel she'd
<v Speaker 1>better get back home. Daniel stops in his tracks and
<v Speaker 1>turns to Milana, but says nothing. With a drunken grin.
<v Speaker 1>He steps towards Milana and presses his dirt covered palms
<v Speaker 1>around her waist. She stiffens and both disgusted and surprised,
<v Speaker 1>but Daniel persists and leans in to kiss her. Immediately,
<v Speaker 1>she rejects his advances and shoves him. She turns to leave,
<v Speaker 1>but Daniel reaches for her arm and pulls her body
<v Speaker 1>into his. Milana swipes at his arm, and Daniel becomes enraged.
<v Speaker 1>As Milana turns to run, she's knocked to the ground
<v Speaker 1>from a harsh shove to the back, setting her purse
<v Speaker 1>flying through the air. She hits the dirt and screams
<v Speaker 1>for help. Without a second to react, Daniel's fist lands
<v Speaker 1>on the side of her cheek. Milana raises her hands
<v Speaker 1>in defence, but not quickly enough. As Daniel delivers a
<v Speaker 1>series of blows.
<v Speaker 17>She has a number of examples of blunt injury. In particular,
<v Speaker 17>we can see some bruising on her left shoulder and
<v Speaker 17>on the left side of her face.
<v Speaker 1>As the rain water mixes with the blood now pouring
<v Speaker 1>from Milana's nose, she manages to get to her feet,
<v Speaker 1>but her shoes seep deep into the mud. With her
<v Speaker 1>feet planted, unable to move, Milana claws and swings her
<v Speaker 1>hands wildly, scratching Daniel's face and hands in the process.
<v Speaker 1>This only infuriates him more, and Daniel throws another right hook,
<v Speaker 1>splitting Milana's lip as she falls to the ground again.
<v Speaker 1>While laying on her back, Malana continues to rake her
<v Speaker 1>nails across her attacker's face, being one of them off and.
<v Speaker 17>Not only did it take the prosthetic nail, but it
<v Speaker 17>also took her native nail underneath and pulled it up.
<v Speaker 1>She tries to crawl away, but Daniel flips her body
<v Speaker 1>over and forces his way on top of her. With
<v Speaker 1>his knees pressed into Milana's ribs, Daniel proceeds to choke her.
<v Speaker 1>He then reaches for her purse just inches away. One
<v Speaker 1>of the last things Milana sees is the strap of
<v Speaker 1>the purse raise over her head before feeling it wrapped
<v Speaker 1>tightly around her neck. Daniel pulls back on the leather
<v Speaker 1>strap as hard as he can, becoming aroused at the
<v Speaker 1>sight of Milana's life leaving her body. Eventually, the purse
<v Speaker 1>strap snaps and the woods becomes silent. Daniel stands over
<v Speaker 1>Milana's corpse with the ligature dangling uselessly in his hand,
<v Speaker 1>but he isn't finished and now plans to take what
<v Speaker 1>he came for. Now that the victim is no longer
<v Speaker 1>a threat, Daniel removes Milana's mud covered converses before ripping
<v Speaker 1>off her pajama bottoms and top layers of clothing. He
<v Speaker 1>undos his belt buckle before pulling down his jeans past
<v Speaker 1>his waist. Daniel is a necrophiliac.
<v Speaker 17>The source of the blood in the vagina was this
<v Speaker 17>laceration in the hymen.
<v Speaker 1>Milana's autopsy confirmed she had been raped. The post mortem
<v Speaker 1>examination showed visible signs of bruising and tearing to her
<v Speaker 1>vaginal walls, along with the presence of male DNA located
<v Speaker 1>inside the victim's body. Once finished with his depraved act,
<v Speaker 1>Daniel moves methodically through the woods, the ones he knows
<v Speaker 1>like the back of his hand. He arrives at his
<v Speaker 1>campsite moment slater, where he retrieves a blue blanket inside
<v Speaker 1>his tent. After retracing his steps through the dark and
<v Speaker 1>back to the crime scene, Daniel dragged Milana toward a
<v Speaker 1>shallow creek located just a few feet away. At the
<v Speaker 1>water's edge, he rolls her over face down for draping
<v Speaker 1>the blanket over her. He then rushes to gather several
<v Speaker 1>rocks and logs and toss them on top of the
<v Speaker 1>fabric to better conceal the body. Then he grabs Milana's
<v Speaker 1>cell phone from her purse before fleeing into the night,
<v Speaker 1>leaving the purse, clothing, ligature, and his DNA behind. The
<v Speaker 1>medical examiner's opinion was that the primary cause of death
<v Speaker 1>came as a result of manual strangulation, but the water
<v Speaker 1>found in Milana's lungs presented the possibility that she may
<v Speaker 1>have still been alive at the time her body was
<v Speaker 1>dumped in the creek the horror.
<v Speaker 17>In this case, evidence that would indicate drowning include that
<v Speaker 17>frothy liquid that was coming out of her nose that
<v Speaker 17>might be seen in a.
<v Speaker 1>Drowning, corroborated by cell phone data, surveillance and witness statements.
<v Speaker 1>Daniel arrived at his friend's house across town a short
<v Speaker 1>time later. After discarding his genes in the trash and
<v Speaker 1>changing out of his clothes, he excused himself to the bathroom,
<v Speaker 1>where he called his ex girlfriend Eva, only to be
<v Speaker 1>arrested roughly two days later.
<v Speaker 14>Tonight, we know the name of the juvenile charged with
<v Speaker 14>murdering Milana. Lead was found dead at a Beaverton park
<v Speaker 14>last week. The Washington County Sheriff's Office in The DA's
<v Speaker 14>office says the alleged killer is sixteen year old Daniel Gore.
<v Speaker 14>They say Gore was on probation for nonviolent charges, including
<v Speaker 14>theft and arson. Gore was charged with first degree murder
<v Speaker 14>in juvenile court yesterday.
<v Speaker 1>Did that motherfucker just say that arson is a nonviolent crime?
<v Speaker 1>What is it with the media these days? Mostly peaceful protests?
<v Speaker 1>Get the fuck out of here. In addition to first
<v Speaker 1>degree murder, he was later charged with first degree rape.
<v Speaker 1>Given the fact that he was a juvenile, a key
<v Speaker 1>legal battle inevitably emerged concerning whether Gore would be tried
<v Speaker 1>as an adult. According to Oregon's original statute, juveniles fifteen
<v Speaker 1>and older charged with violent crimes such as murder and
<v Speaker 1>rape can be prosecuted as adults, but so called juvenile
<v Speaker 1>justice reforms that passed in twenty nineteen introduced more leniency,
<v Speaker 1>prioritizing rehabilitation over lifelong incarceration, which meant that Gore could
<v Speaker 1>avoid a life sentence. But to see, Daniel wasn't the
<v Speaker 1>only juvenile in this story, and a lot of you
<v Speaker 1>bleeding heart assholes always seem to side with the perpetrator
<v Speaker 1>instead of the actual victim. You see the victim was
<v Speaker 1>also a juvenile. In fact, Milana was only thirteen thirteen,
<v Speaker 1>barely a teenager, most certainly still very much a child.
<v Speaker 1>Milana's grandmother offered her opinion on why this piece of
<v Speaker 1>shit deserves zero sympathy, no matter how leftist and backwards
<v Speaker 1>you are.
<v Speaker 18>My grandute is gone, She's not this anymore here, so
<v Speaker 18>I don't want he make here to other people.
<v Speaker 1>If he.
<v Speaker 18>Can plan so he can know what he's doing, So,
<v Speaker 18>of course he has to go to as church as adult.
<v Speaker 1>During countless preliminary hearings, prosecutors argued the obvious that the
<v Speaker 1>premeditated rape, strangulation, and disposal of thirteen year old Milano
<v Speaker 1>Lee's body place Gore far beyond the scope of juvenile rehabilitation.
<v Speaker 13>This case is a horrific crime that occurred to a
<v Speaker 13>thirteen year old girl. It is not the situation where
<v Speaker 13>such leniency should be granted to a defendant who has
<v Speaker 13>been found to have the adult like sophistication and maturity
<v Speaker 13>of an adult. And there are certainly cases where a
<v Speaker 13>second chance should be given to young defendants.
<v Speaker 14>This is not one of them.
<v Speaker 1>Thankfully, the judge agreed and Gore would stand trial. As
<v Speaker 1>an adult, marking this case as a rare exception to
<v Speaker 1>Oregon soft horseshit laws and propensity to protect violent assholes.
<v Speaker 14>The judge said Gore was sufficiently mature to understand his actions,
<v Speaker 14>and keeping Gore in the juvenile system is not in
<v Speaker 14>the best interest of Gore and society.
<v Speaker 1>When his murder trial finally started in November twenty twenty four,
<v Speaker 1>the prosecution laid out a timeline of this brutal crime,
<v Speaker 1>as well as Gore's personal connection to the victim. He'd
<v Speaker 1>only known Milana for roughly two weeks prior to the murder,
<v Speaker 1>when the two were introduced by mutual friends. According to witnesses,
<v Speaker 1>Daniel was well aware that Milana was only thirteen, something
<v Speaker 1>that evidently didn't deter him in the slightest. Forensic analysts
<v Speaker 1>testified to both the surveillance footage and the digital footprint
<v Speaker 1>of the suspect leading up to Milana's last moments alive.
<v Speaker 1>In addition to cell phone pings, the state also established
<v Speaker 1>that Gore took Milana's phone and used it to send
<v Speaker 1>deceptive message is pretending to be her. Following the murder,
<v Speaker 1>Gore also messaged multiple friends asking them to lie about
<v Speaker 1>the last time they saw him, and even requested photos
<v Speaker 1>from a recent trip to California in an attempt to
<v Speaker 1>create a false alibi. Prosecutors presented evidence from Gore's Facebook
<v Speaker 1>and Instagram as well, under the username body bag eighty six. Yep, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the defendant's profile picture shows him wearing a white skull mask.
<v Speaker 1>If only there were signs, you know, this image matched
<v Speaker 1>the skulls found carved into a tree at Gore's campsite,
<v Speaker 1>as well as the mask he had in his possession
<v Speaker 1>at the time of his arrest. So what's up with
<v Speaker 1>these skulls? Well, apparently the devil horn joker skull was
<v Speaker 1>the trademark of Gore's favorite musical artist, the trap metal
<v Speaker 1>rapper named Seven. What the fuck is trap metal? You
<v Speaker 1>might ask? Beats a fuck out of me. I'm fifty.
<v Speaker 7>He would draw this artist, and he made himself a
<v Speaker 7>copy of the same mask that this artist had. He
<v Speaker 7>definitely was less him. It made him feel very disconnected
<v Speaker 7>and it really didn't feel like it was my boyfriend anymore.
<v Speaker 7>Like all he cared about was just that mask and
<v Speaker 7>Seven and being like Seven.
<v Speaker 1>Well, the artist isn't exactly well known. It's safe to
<v Speaker 1>say he had no idea that he had a super
<v Speaker 1>fan living in the woods of Beaverton, Oregon. I wonder
<v Speaker 1>how many fans I have living out there in them woods.
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully none. When the media first caught wind of the
<v Speaker 1>defendant's journal that was located inside his tent, the words
<v Speaker 1>I Feel like Dexter written inside his notebook made headlines everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>Why is every violent dumbass idolized Dexter? By the way,
<v Speaker 1>oh right, right right? Network televisions accessible to the lowest
<v Speaker 1>common denominator must be why so many stupid opinions keep
<v Speaker 1>getting propagated. Local journals regurgitated inaccurate claims that Gore was
<v Speaker 1>inspired by the hit Showtime program that was later rerun
<v Speaker 1>on CBS I believe distributed to the unwashed masses. They
<v Speaker 1>love to promote their own shows, don't they, Those networks
<v Speaker 1>News at eleven. But had they done the bare minimum
<v Speaker 1>of research, the media may have realized that I Feel
<v Speaker 1>like Dexter is actually the name of one of Seven's songs,
<v Speaker 1>released just a few months before Milana was killed. So
<v Speaker 1>the artist he idolizes is just as much of a dumbass.
<v Speaker 1>Cool cool. Also, a little side note, here dexter didn't
<v Speaker 1>actually kill innocent thirteen year old girls. He killed bad guys.
<v Speaker 1>And also shout out to Michael C.
<v Speaker 4>Hall.
<v Speaker 1>He's a good actor despite the show sucking. When looking
<v Speaker 1>at Seven's Instagram page, the theme of murder appears to
<v Speaker 1>make up his entire esthetic how edgy.
<v Speaker 7>He would dress up in a bunch of different kinds
<v Speaker 7>of costumes, but the main thing is he had a
<v Speaker 7>mask that like had the eyes cut out and a
<v Speaker 7>drawn on smile on it, and usually it was paired
<v Speaker 7>with like a hat, and it just made it so
<v Speaker 7>you couldn't see his eyes, like his eyes were blacked out.
<v Speaker 7>And in a lot of like his art or like
<v Speaker 7>cover art, the mask would have blood on it, and
<v Speaker 7>it was usually paired with pretty extreme clothing, usually black,
<v Speaker 7>like just big boots and heavy black clothing with a
<v Speaker 7>lot of like chains or chokers or stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>Now I can't help but think that this unoriginal artiste.
<v Speaker 1>Seven gets his name from the popular, very well made
<v Speaker 1>David Fincher flick starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Great flick,
<v Speaker 1>which gets its name from Oh I don't know the Bible,
<v Speaker 1>seven deadly sins that sort of thing. I mean, how
<v Speaker 1>many NPCs with not a speck of original thought are
<v Speaker 1>walking amongst us these days? You know what, Let me
<v Speaker 1>go see what these fuckers are all about. Give me
<v Speaker 1>a second, I'll be right back. Okay, maybe I'm being
<v Speaker 1>a little harsh. Music's not bad if you're in a
<v Speaker 1>progressive metal It's really not my thing, but it's artistic.
<v Speaker 1>I'll give him that. Maybe Grandpa needs to take a
<v Speaker 1>chill pill and have a little nap. He's getting grumpy.
<v Speaker 1>The murder of thirteen year olds will do that to
<v Speaker 1>me anyway. In one photo on the artists Instagram, Seven
<v Speaker 1>can be seen wearing a female nurse costume while posing
<v Speaker 1>over a makeshift operating tableting open a stuffed doll. Typical
<v Speaker 1>edgy metal shit. I'll be honest, if I was seventeen,
<v Speaker 1>on'd be all over it. The photo shows Seven blowing
<v Speaker 1>a kiss to a wide angle lens while a blood
<v Speaker 1>soaked scalpel, metal hooks, and hatchet or seeing placed atop
<v Speaker 1>a large rubber made container. His opposite hand is Seeing
<v Speaker 1>clenched around the homemade doll.
<v Speaker 11>I e.
<v Speaker 1>His patient, which has its chest cavity exposed, with a
<v Speaker 1>pair of scissors. Protruding from its ribs. For what it's worth,
<v Speaker 1>the doll looks oddly familiar to Jigsaw, you know, the
<v Speaker 1>puppet that rides the tricycle around before pushing you into
<v Speaker 1>a pit of hypodermic needles and the movie Saw. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that guy seems like a bit of a clusterfuck of
<v Speaker 1>unoriginality if you ask me. But honestly, there's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of that can't be too harsh. While it remained unclear
<v Speaker 1>if Daniel Gore drew any inspiration from this violent rap music,
<v Speaker 1>you can kind of see how dumb people are easily
<v Speaker 1>influenced by the media, the defense called a neuropsychologist to
<v Speaker 1>the stand to dispel this motivational theory.
<v Speaker 19>Well, what we find is, well, there's been great concern
<v Speaker 19>for musical lyrics from the point of view of predicting
<v Speaker 19>who will commit a crime. It does not predict. In fact,
<v Speaker 19>over the last ten years, as the music has become
<v Speaker 19>more explicit, the crime rates actually gone down. So the
<v Speaker 19>biggest concern is the misuse and misunderstanding putting people who
<v Speaker 19>do write rap music, for example, on trial for their
<v Speaker 19>lyrics when it doesn't predict at all.
<v Speaker 1>Ultimately, Daniel Gore's obsession with murder rap only helped paint
<v Speaker 1>Gore as a true weirdo to the jury. Something much
<v Speaker 1>more damning, though, where his Internet searches roughly one month
<v Speaker 1>before the murder. The jury learned that, on April twenty two,
<v Speaker 1>Gore type the words girls and homeless people getting raped
<v Speaker 1>into his library's computer terminal. It also searched for videos
<v Speaker 1>depicting women being strangled and suffering fatal neck injuries. Why
<v Speaker 1>does a homeless loser have internet access?
<v Speaker 10>Again?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, right, right, so that Democrats can get elected, thanks Obama.
<v Speaker 1>The DNA found inside the victim was confirmed by forensics
<v Speaker 1>to be Daniels, but the defense disgustingly argued that the
<v Speaker 1>sexual encounter was consensual, as if you could have sex
<v Speaker 1>with a thirteen year old consensually. Perhaps their one and
<v Speaker 1>only benefit was that no DNA of Gore's was located
<v Speaker 1>under the victim's fingernails, on her clothes, or anywhere else
<v Speaker 1>at the scene. Having said that, the prosecution was sure
<v Speaker 1>to remind the jury that Milana had been subjected to
<v Speaker 1>the element for nearly two days before her body was found,
<v Speaker 1>and again, she was only thirteen. I assume it's pretty
<v Speaker 1>easy to overpower a thirteen year old and walk away
<v Speaker 1>with barely a scratch, probably harder to wrangle a house cat.
<v Speaker 1>The defendant's ex girlfriend, Eva also testified, recalling her phone
<v Speaker 1>call with the defendant following the murder, and while he
<v Speaker 1>didn't say that he killed her explicitly, he may as
<v Speaker 1>well have.
<v Speaker 7>And he told me that she tried to kiss him,
<v Speaker 7>but that I shouldn't worry about it at all. I
<v Speaker 7>know that it was rainy either that day or a
<v Speaker 7>couple days after, because he had even mentioned like rain
<v Speaker 7>washing away footprints and that the rain was a good thing.
<v Speaker 7>He did mention going back and saying that he was
<v Speaker 7>going to go move her.
<v Speaker 1>At the end of the seven day trial, deliberations lasted
<v Speaker 1>less than ninety minutes, and on November twenty second, twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty four, Daniel Gore was found guilty on all counts.
<v Speaker 1>His expression remained unchanged as the verdict was read. He
<v Speaker 1>neither protested nor reacted, and maintained the same blank stare
<v Speaker 1>since the day of his arrest, undoubtedly mimicking the expression
<v Speaker 1>of some hero of his and some piece of media
<v Speaker 1>looping through his tiny, tiny, tiny brain. At his sentencing hearing,
<v Speaker 1>prosecutors pushed for the maximum penalty, but before the final
<v Speaker 1>ruling was handed down, the judge addressed Gore directly.
<v Speaker 2>And mister Gore, I had the misfortune, if you will,
<v Speaker 2>of spending Thanksgiving weekend trying to figure out what I
<v Speaker 2>was going to say to you. I got to spend
<v Speaker 2>Thanksgiving with my family, including my child, who is the
<v Speaker 2>center of my life, and you took that away from
<v Speaker 2>miss Lee. It is beyond comprehension that you did to say.
<v Speaker 2>For me to say it's morally reprehensible an un statement.
<v Speaker 2>I have combed through this case. I have combed through
<v Speaker 2>every page submitted to me trying to figure out what
<v Speaker 2>on earth got into your head, ripping her hymen to
<v Speaker 2>shreds and then strangling her. This was a failure on
<v Speaker 2>so many levels, parenting, the juvenile system, peer groups, the
<v Speaker 2>community at large. How a sixteen year old is in
<v Speaker 2>a tent in the suburban area of Beaverton is beyond me.
<v Speaker 2>For as long as you did, anybody that watched that
<v Speaker 2>interview with you and the police, you were fully engaged.
<v Speaker 2>You knew fully what you were doing where you tried
<v Speaker 2>to conceal her body, took pleasure in the fact that
<v Speaker 2>water would wash away some of the evidence. I find
<v Speaker 2>you knew exactly what you're doing, and I hope in
<v Speaker 2>the long sentence you serve I hope, I hope that
<v Speaker 2>somebody finds out what's wrong with you. I hope I
<v Speaker 2>never have a person that what you did in standing
<v Speaker 2>in front of again.
<v Speaker 1>At age eighteen, Daniel Gore was sent to life in prison.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, though that's not what he's actually going to serve.
<v Speaker 1>You See, this is after all liberal Oregon. Oh my god,
<v Speaker 1>he's talking about politics again. Murmer. Yeah, it's called the law.
<v Speaker 1>Despite his life sentence on paper for the murder of
<v Speaker 1>a thirteen year old child and the rape of her
<v Speaker 1>dead or possibly still a live body, juvenile justice reforms
<v Speaker 1>as they're called, dictate that this pile of human feces
<v Speaker 1>will be eligible for parole in just fifteen years. Daniel
<v Speaker 1>Gore will likely be released from prison before his thirty
<v Speaker 1>third birthday, just in time for the next Antifa riot.
<v Speaker 1>Let's just say, I hope karma finds him, and I
<v Speaker 1>hope it finds him. Well, hope he's having a wonderful
<v Speaker 1>day that day. When it does, it'll make it that
<v Speaker 1>much sweeter.
<v Speaker 5>An eighteen year old who was sentenced to life in
<v Speaker 5>prison this week for the rape and murder of a
<v Speaker 5>thirteen year old girl, maybe eligible to leave risen in less.
<v Speaker 6>Than a decade.
<v Speaker 14>That's because he was only sixteen at the time of
<v Speaker 14>the murder, leaving him under the protection of Oregon state law.
<v Speaker 14>And this is drawing criticism from Washington County prosecutors.
<v Speaker 1>So there you have it, Justice JKJK. You can't help
<v Speaker 1>but laugh, otherwise you have to cry. Despite his life sentence,
<v Speaker 1>Daniel Gore will be eligible for conditional release, meaning he
<v Speaker 1>will be back in the wild after only seven and
<v Speaker 1>a half years. You'll be able to find him at
<v Speaker 1>your local fucking library. That worst case scenario could come
<v Speaker 1>true as a result of a successful appeal, which Gore
<v Speaker 1>is currently in the process of putting society through. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>why wouldn't he it's free, well, not to taxpayers, but
<v Speaker 1>to him. You get my drift. As for the question
<v Speaker 1>of whether violent entertainment creates a violent people, it's a
<v Speaker 1>story as old as time, really, and perhaps an idiotic one.
<v Speaker 1>To put it bluntly, you are responsible for your own
<v Speaker 1>actions just because you see someone doing something on television
<v Speaker 1>or hear someone talking about something in a song doesn't
<v Speaker 1>mean you have the right to go out and do it.
<v Speaker 1>Doesn't mean you have to mimic that behavior. Duh. Quit
<v Speaker 1>blaming media for shit parenting or non parenting. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>that's really the key, if you boil it all down.
<v Speaker 1>Shit parenting is responsible for most of the ills of
<v Speaker 1>the world, if not all. When you start stating that
<v Speaker 1>sentiment out loud on Facebook, for example, you'd be surprised
<v Speaker 1>by the amount of outrage and self reporting you'll get.
<v Speaker 1>Shit parents will adamantly defend their shit parenting or no
<v Speaker 1>parenting or parenting via iPad. You want to cure all
<v Speaker 1>the ills of society, make parents liable for what their
<v Speaker 1>kids do instead of television or movies or music. That'll
<v Speaker 1>fix society real quick. And if you can't be responsible
<v Speaker 1>for your shit kids, then don't fucking have them. You'd
<v Speaker 1>really be surprised by how many defensive asshole parents are
<v Speaker 1>quick to point out that you should shut up if
<v Speaker 1>you're not a parent yourself, as if you have to
<v Speaker 1>be a rocket scientist to point out that maybe the
<v Speaker 1>rocket shouldn't blow up on the pad. Unfortunately, all these
<v Speaker 1>rocket scientists parents out there are creating more exploding rockets
<v Speaker 1>just to get their fuck on. Maybe one day we'll
<v Speaker 1>finally grow up as a society. Maybe one day we'll
<v Speaker 1>wake up. Let's start taking accountability for our own goddamn actions. Maybe,
<v Speaker 1>just maybe a boy can dream. Hey, asshole, the show's over.
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