Stephen Mcdaniel - when killers do TV interviews — Transcript
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- 0:00all right good morning everybody and
- 0:03welcome back to true crime loser how you
- 0:06doing I hope you're doing well
- 0:08I really do all right I'm not gonna
- 0:11waste any time we're gonna get into this
- 0:12so this is part three of my Steven
- 0:15McDaniels coverage the troll head
- 0:18himself today I wanted to talk about his
- 0:23crazy interview that he did and kind of
- 0:26just talk about when killers do
- 0:28interviews in general TV interviews and
- 0:33I was thinking about I think there's two
- 0:36types of people that do interviews after
- 0:41they commit murder the first type is
- 0:44they're just appearing to be they're
- 0:46trying to appear to be innocent
- 0:48so they commit the murder and then right
- 0:50after the murder they're forced to start
- 0:54doing the I'm innocent little monkey
- 0:56dance so in their head they're
- 0:57constantly filtering every decision with
- 1:01how would an innocent person look and as
- 1:05we know it's real hard to do the I'm
- 1:07innocent monkey dance and not look
- 1:09stupid and to be doing that dance and
- 1:16having a news crew point a giant camera
- 1:19and zoom in in your face is just makes
- 1:23for unbelievably crazy clips so like I
- 1:27said first type of person they just want
- 1:30to appear innocent you know that's like
- 1:32the Chris Watts up there going like like
- 1:36if someone has them and they're not safe
- 1:39I just want everybody to come home I
- 1:44just want everybody to be safe you know
- 1:46he's up there and usually what happens
- 1:49to in these interviews is you end up
- 1:51doing way to you end up trying to push
- 1:55the narrative that you're going with way
- 1:57too much so in the McDaniels one he's
- 1:59doing a lot of like I mean no one's seen
- 2:03her hiyee I haven't seen her since
- 2:06Saturday I mean you know he's doing this
- 2:08like I mean just acting weird
- 2:12and the first type of people that are
- 2:16just trying to appear innocent and
- 2:17trying to get away with it they probably
- 2:20don't want to do the interview but in
- 2:22their head they're just thinking this
- 2:25you know I'm trying to appear innocent
- 2:27an innocent person would do this
- 2:29interview so therefore I'm going to do
- 2:31it so again I think Chris looks like he
- 2:34just does not want to be there just
- 2:36going like like I just want everybody to
- 2:40be safe and then the second type are the
- 2:47people that want to appear innocent but
- 2:48also they're trying to insert themselves
- 2:51into the narrative as to be a part of
- 2:55their creation I think a lot of the
- 2:57murderers like serial killers and stuff
- 2:59they they look at it is they're like
- 3:02painting a picture of this murder you
- 3:05know it's their creation and they I
- 3:07think almost can't help themselves
- 3:09by not wanting to be a part of the
- 3:15official story I think anything that
- 3:16gets into press like if Steven got away
- 3:19with this murder I think he ki would
- 3:20have sat there for the rest of his day
- 3:23you know looking at that clip of him
- 3:25being like oh no one's seen her since
- 3:31Saturday and just being like hey I got
- 3:35away with it and again he's pushing the
- 3:40narrative also he's really pushing the
- 3:42narrative that him and Lauren were
- 3:44friends a lot of this like yeah we you
- 3:47know her friend group work we don't know
- 3:50where she is you know we've been looking
- 3:52around and he even starts talking about
- 3:54her family and how he met her family and
- 3:57it's like Jesus Stephen Stephen come on
- 4:00Stephen I think Stephen was living out
- 4:08this crazy sex murder killer fantasy and
- 4:15like I said just couldn't help himself
- 4:17seeing a news crew down there and just
- 4:19be like I need to be you know a part of
- 4:22this official
- 4:24huh it's kind of like when killer send
- 4:27like a puzzle to the newspaper or
- 4:30something or try to get something
- 4:31publish like send Clues in or something
- 4:33I think they just want to be a part of
- 4:36their what they call their creation like
- 4:41I just want everyone to be safe okay so
- 4:45why it's insane to do an interview if
- 4:49you committed murder and it's very
- 4:52simple because your face and your body
- 4:54do strange things when you're pretending
- 4:57to do the monkey dance of being innocent
- 5:00like if you watch Chris if you watch the
- 5:03Chris Watts one there's times where you
- 5:05like closes his eyes
- 5:07weirdly for a while the point is is if
- 5:11you're gonna lie that you didn't if
- 5:13you're gonna lie and try to convince
- 5:14everyone you didn't commit murder it's
- 5:17probably a good idea not to let someone
- 5:20with a big camera zoom in and tape your
- 5:23face all right I think people like Chris
- 5:29that lie all the time
- 5:30think they're so good at it but in
- 5:33reality people that lie all the time
- 5:34they think they're like getting it past
- 5:36everyone and most of the time everyone
- 5:38just knows you're a liar but they don't
- 5:40care enough to call you out on it it's
- 5:44just like oh all right yeah whatever you
- 5:47say but but and they're not like looking
- 5:53usually so say like if chris watts and i
- 5:56are friends and he's sitting there lying
- 5:58to me you know when i'm not making eye
- 5:59contact with him the whole lie you know
- 6:02looking at his face I'm just like oh
- 6:05he's lying okay I look down I look over
- 6:07here okay yeah no problem man Thanks and
- 6:10that's the end of it but with a camera
- 6:14zooming in on your face it's just your
- 6:17face and it's being taped for eternity
- 6:19and you're up there like I just want
- 6:21them to be safe and you know Stephens up
- 6:25there I don't know we'll get into it
- 6:27just go hunt who could do something like
- 6:31this stay even cried too we'll get to it
- 6:36I'm getting there
- 6:38I saw singing even the best actors
- 6:44probably wouldn't nail a realistic
- 6:49interview after they just killed someone
- 6:52and you know actors rehearse for hours
- 6:56if an if Meryl Streep was doing a scene
- 6:58where she was crying about somebody that
- 7:03had been taken from her life she would
- 7:09rehearse for a long time and also
- 7:12probably not nail it on the first take
- 7:15and also probably not nail it while in
- 7:20their head trying to get away with
- 7:22murder I mean it the stakes are never
- 7:25hire for this acting you know live on
- 7:28camera their life's on the line they're
- 7:31playing for keeps and to get up there
- 7:34and to think you're just gonna nail a
- 7:35perfect take while some news person
- 7:38while not having any experience acting
- 7:40is just it shows you how delusional
- 7:45these killers are that they just think
- 7:48they're smart and they think how good of
- 7:50Liars they are and really it's just a
- 7:52troll head and a monkey boys sitting
- 7:54there going no one's seen them doing
- 7:57weird face stuff okay then the second
- 8:02reason other than just to appear
- 8:10innocent or to put themselves into the
- 8:12story to do one of these interviews is
- 8:16they attempt to get their narrative in
- 8:19so Chris Watts was rambling about how
- 8:22she could have left or how you know how
- 8:24she went on a play day and he doesn't
- 8:26know where she is
- 8:27and Stephen died even his narrative that
- 8:32he was pushing was that over and over
- 8:37again that maybe she went running and
- 8:39someone snatched her you know she runs a
- 8:41lot and no one's seen her so he was
- 8:45really pushing the she was running and
- 8:49someone snatched her but both Chris
- 8:51Stephen push it way too hard you end up
- 8:56just saying too much that's really you
- 8:58end up saying too much and doing like
- 9:00weird stuff with your hand like Stephen
- 9:02will kept pointing back every time he
- 9:05lied it and it's like what is back there
- 9:07no nothing you know he's like yeah we
- 9:09were both lost dude and so we can't find
- 9:11her and she went running and you know
- 9:15the whole time the people shoot in the
- 9:17news are just like yeah so this guy has
- 9:23troll hair yeah so they're trying to
- 9:31push the narrative that is not them
- 9:35murdering the people and usually end up
- 9:40looking like an idiot okay so let's get
- 9:44into Stephens actual actual interview so
- 9:52he starts by saying no one's seen her
- 9:55about 45 times okay
- 9:58one how do you know that no one's seen
- 10:01her Stephen you haven't seen her but
- 10:04maybe someone else is sceners diving any
- 10:09you know rambles about how good of a
- 10:12person she was and how personable she is
- 10:15I was funny he's it's like Stephen
- 10:21they're gonna talk to her friends
- 10:23they're gonna talk to her her real
- 10:25friends and they're gonna say that she
- 10:28wasn't friends with Stephen they're
- 10:31gonna say no one was really friends with
- 10:32Stephen but he's up there being like she
- 10:35was as nice as can be so lots of
- 10:39rambling that no one's seen her and the
- 10:47news people are like was there anyone
- 10:49does she have any Eman and enemies or
- 10:52does anyone want to hurt her and
- 10:55Stephens like I mean we don't know where
- 11:00she is
- 11:00that was his answer to is there someone
- 11:03that would want to hurt her and he
- 11:05in there just with a troll head going no
- 11:10one has seen her I mean I haven't seen
- 11:14her I mean she went running and maybe
- 11:18someone snatched her
- 11:20he uses the word snatched like six times
- 11:27okay and then he really hammers home the
- 11:33things that he has going for him in the
- 11:34case so we really hammers home he's like
- 11:37yeah I mean her friends came over and
- 11:40had a key so had a key that's where they
- 11:45got in they had a key his friends came
- 11:48over and had a key so there's no forced
- 11:50entry I think he even says that which I
- 11:52guess kind of makes sense because he's a
- 11:53lawyer so everyone's gonna think he's
- 11:55kind of trying to be a lawyer but and
- 11:58then he goes out of his way to say the
- 12:00door was locked when everyone got here
- 12:03being like whoever whatever happens the
- 12:06door was locked so there was no struggle
- 12:08no forced entry and the door was locked
- 12:11and then we get to the infamous part
- 12:16where the news lady goes you know did
- 12:19you hear up that they found like a body
- 12:23and stive in goes body
- 12:33I think I need to sit down and he goes
- 12:37over and plops down and I think a lot of
- 12:40people are gonna disagree with me a lot
- 12:42on this a lot of people think that the
- 12:44body and that the whole thing of going
- 12:48to sit down is genuine I've watched it a
- 12:52bunch of times and I don't think that
- 12:55it's genuine I think that that's his bad
- 12:57acting I can spot bad acting a mile away
- 13:02okay I did a I did I did a pilot for MTV
- 13:08okay I worked with MTV I know bad acting
- 13:12all right and it's almost like you know
- 13:18when one of those movies is so bad
- 13:22it turns awesome it's like troll two is
- 13:25one and then whatever the movie that the
- 13:27disaster artist is about that's the type
- 13:30of acting as it looks like like in the
- 13:31movie where the killer finds the body
- 13:34and the body can't you picture just like
- 13:37a whole movie theater of like a cult bad
- 13:41b-movie and the star goes body and
- 13:44everyone cheers favorite part here's why
- 13:49I don't think it was real cuz if
- 13:50anyone's not surprised that there's a
- 13:52body in the trash it's Steven just Ivan
- 13:56put the body there and sorry I got a
- 14:03text and so I you know he of course he's
- 14:09not he's gonna be the least surprised
- 14:11that there's a body in the trash because
- 14:13he just put a body in the trash and I
- 14:16mean I'm sure he's real bummed that they
- 14:18didn't find it but I think that I don't
- 14:22think that that news wouldn't make him
- 14:24actually need to sit down I mean he just
- 14:28dismembered a body with a saw in a
- 14:32bathtub a few days before so someone
- 14:35that can pull that off doesn't need to
- 14:37sit down when they hear that there's a
- 14:39body I think that he launched into
- 14:43pretending I'm innocent that was his
- 14:46little monkey dance
- 14:47could be
- 14:47wrong I'm just a dude on YouTube you
- 14:50know but I really think that that's his
- 14:53body just his bad acting and then is
- 14:59where the this is where the interview
- 15:01just goes into crazy land
- 15:05it's just crazy after that whole body
- 15:09and then having to go sit down and after
- 15:11everything that he said already and he's
- 15:14already set I mean like 40 times he
- 15:17comes back he comes back and he starts a
- 15:23lie cry
- 15:26we got a lie cry people official lie cry
- 15:29I didn't know how long it would take to
- 15:32stumble in to another one but if you
- 15:34haven't been following the channel what
- 15:36a lie cry is it's where you're lying but
- 15:39also you're crying the cry lie was it a
- 15:42cry lie or a lie crack doesn't matter
- 15:44you're crying
- 15:46but also you're lying it's not a good
- 15:49place to be in it really isn't
- 15:51if if you find yourself like crying it's
- 15:55probably time to just take a deep breath
- 15:58and just start apologizing to everyone
- 16:01around you and just face the music it's
- 16:04not a good place to be in but we got a
- 16:07lie cry and so it's just nuts that he
- 16:10comes back and is crying and going who
- 16:15do this maybe if I heard something I
- 16:19could have a helped it's like Steven why
- 16:26are you crying
- 16:27that's why I wanted to be the whole
- 16:29that's why I wanted to say the whole
- 16:31time is diving diving the [ __ ] are you
- 16:35crying for listen I've had a look I like
- 16:39my neighbours all water their plants all
- 16:42pet their cat and feed their dog while
- 16:45they're gone I'll check their place you
- 16:48know but if my neighbors died I'd just
- 16:51be like man that sucks you know dang
- 16:56that is rough I hope they went down
- 16:58fighting you know I I wouldn't cry
- 17:01and he sit there going who it is
- 17:05and it's again the cops they're gonna
- 17:06talk to her friends and they're gonna be
- 17:08like Stephen didn't really ever hang out
- 17:12with her well why is he crying maybe I
- 17:20could have helped it's just like what
- 17:24are you doing Stephen go in your
- 17:26apartment and figure out how you're
- 17:28gonna get rid of the key to her
- 17:30apartment and her underwear sitting
- 17:34there cly crying this might be - I heard
- 17:37that
- 17:38what part of this interview was live so
- 17:40people this is big this is a possible
- 17:43live cry lie I don't know if that has
- 17:49ever been done before just a live cry
- 17:51lie anyway bah bah bah yeah he's the
- 17:59nicest person that there is and he
- 18:04rambles on all the hot the most cringe
- 18:06part of the whole interview he starts
- 18:07rambling on about her family like how we
- 18:13met him once and just what a creep job
- 18:19you know why would anyone do this maybe
- 18:24if I heard something that could have
- 18:25helped said that a bunch of times maybe
- 18:30it sounded like yeah he just was trying
- 18:32to make it sound like they're best
- 18:34friends like you know a lot of we and
- 18:36I'm in her friend group and I was
- 18:42thinking before I even watch the
- 18:45interview last night is I don't know
- 18:52after doing Russell Williams and now him
- 18:55I think if you're a female and you live
- 18:57alone you got to get yourself a dog you
- 19:01know get yourself a 50 pound you know 50
- 19:0460 pound dog that's gonna bark if it
- 19:06hears a noise and you're good it's worth
- 19:11it you know that's what we that's what
- 19:13us humans have used
- 19:14for for hundreds and hundreds of years
- 19:19of just like alright Fido we're going to
- 19:23bed so if you if a bear comes or if
- 19:26something scary comes out of the woods
- 19:28you bark like hell and let us know and
- 19:30we'll come out with you know we'll come
- 19:32out with weapons and save the day but
- 19:34your job is to let us know and the dogs
- 19:36like yeah yeah they love it I can't help
- 19:41but think if Steven started coming
- 19:44through that door and a in a fifty pound
- 19:46dog barked a few times I think the door
- 19:48would have just closed and locked and he
- 19:50would have been out of there and staying
- 19:51with same with Russell you know and then
- 19:55so I'm thinking about that just be like
- 19:58god I'm getting my daughter if I ever
- 20:00had one a dog and get it get it like if
- 20:02you don't feel like raising a puppy get
- 20:04a seventy five to seven-year-old dog
- 20:06they'll be totally trained all they want
- 20:09to do is sit there and just guard you
- 20:11basically so I was thinking about that
- 20:15and then I started watching the
- 20:16interview and he actually tells a story
- 20:19about how Lauren had a dog and it got
- 20:21hit by a car and I was like damn so he
- 20:27even knew that she she even knew that
- 20:29she wouldn't have had a dog that was
- 20:31gonna bark that's like living next to a
- 20:35troll face for that long it's just
- 20:39nothing good is gonna happen from that
- 20:46okay where am I
- 20:48oh yeah he tried to insert her boyfriend
- 20:51they were like do they have a boyfriend
- 20:52and he's like he's like crying like and
- 20:55then he immediately stops crying was
- 20:57like yeah she has a boyfriend in Atlanta
- 20:59and we're trying to talk see if he's
- 21:01seen her she's trying to you know get
- 21:04everybody looking everywhere else I
- 21:07mentioned she thought oh yeah you know
- 21:11just a terrifying part that to me shows
- 21:16that this wasn't just to appear to be
- 21:18innocent that he wanted he wanted to you
- 21:24know get over on all of us and to be
- 21:26like I did the interview he
- 21:28like rambling and cry lying about how
- 21:32somewhat she has she had told her
- 21:34friends that she had thought that
- 21:35someone had been in her apartment which
- 21:37it's obvious least Ivan and he's like
- 21:42like I wish I would have lend her a
- 21:44handgun that I have for protection it's
- 21:48like the only person the only troll hair
- 21:50that she needs protection from is you
- 21:53so put your gun down and just keep your
- 21:57hands to yourself porn boy and then he
- 22:03has this line that's like if she's
- 22:04scared in her apartment then get her out
- 22:06of the apartment and it's like yeah yes
- 22:09Steven that's what we all wish would
- 22:11have happened and then I had forgotten
- 22:15this until I watched the interview but
- 22:21this he killed her the lap the day
- 22:23before she was gonna move out
- 22:25so I think that supports my theory that
- 22:31he didn't want to lose her and he didn't
- 22:33want anyone else to have her and he
- 22:35wanted kind of their stories to be
- 22:37married for the rest of time and this
- 22:40was the only way to do it and I think he
- 22:42freaked out and was living this crazy
- 22:43murderer lawyer I'm gonna get away with
- 22:49the perfect murder fantasy and it's just
- 22:54it's just tough to do that yes that's
- 23:00all I got that interview is just crazy
- 23:04it's just I can't imagine I can't even
- 23:07believe that it exists him crying and
- 23:11saying that if he heard something he
- 23:13could have held it's just mind-blowing
- 23:15that he did it one last thing that I
- 23:18wanted to talk about in this video
- 23:20someone had left a comment or there's
- 23:22been a couple comments saying that the
- 23:27way that he dismembered the body with
- 23:29the saw is gonna leave so much blood
- 23:31splatter and so much just material
- 23:35that's going to be impossible to clean
- 23:37up that that alone is going to be almost
- 23:41impossible
- 23:42to get you know to get away with the
- 23:45murder and that was one of the most you
- 23:48know they're looking around her
- 23:49apartment that there's no forced entry
- 23:50and no anything they haven't found her
- 23:52body yet so they're like I don't know is
- 23:54this even a crime and then it was
- 23:57finally seeing the bathtub where it just
- 24:00looks like a blood bath where they are
- 24:04like all right you know something grisly
- 24:06happened but it reminded me someone was
- 24:08like you know how would you dismember a
- 24:10body like that and think you're gonna
- 24:13get away with it I reminded me of a case
- 24:15in 2000 I think my UK people will
- 24:19remember this case it's Lucy Blackmon
- 24:23who was a pretty blond woman with long
- 24:28blonde hair was having money trouble in
- 24:32the UK and she learned that you could go
- 24:38if you're a pretty blond girl you can go
- 24:41to Japan and make a bunch of money being
- 24:43a hostess so it's not like a prostitute
- 24:46but you work in a hostess club and rich
- 24:50Japanese men pay to sort of just hang
- 24:54out with you to flirt with you and you
- 24:58know I'm not gonna get into it but Lucy
- 25:01ends up dead and the same thing is this
- 25:03crazy rich Japanese guy cuts her up with
- 25:08the same type of saw right dismembers
- 25:11are with the same type of saw and in
- 25:14Japan they have very little violent
- 25:17crime and the crime that they do have
- 25:20it's just part of the culture that the
- 25:21person admits it immediately there it's
- 25:24just no one it's not like America where
- 25:29everybody tries to weasel out of it and
- 25:32there's a lot of cunning you know it's
- 25:34just like everybody admits it so the
- 25:36Japanese police were not ready for a
- 25:38cunning rich murderer that wasn't going
- 25:42to admit to it and so this just turns
- 25:44into the whole trial and everything
- 25:45turns into this giant fiasco right
- 25:49and the defense team he's arguing that
- 25:54there's no way that you could dismember
- 25:57a body in an apartment and not have any
- 26:03blood and splatter or anything because
- 26:05they're the prosecution's arguing that
- 26:07he cut her up in her in his apartment
- 26:09but there's no splatter or anything and
- 26:13what's crazy is the prosecution figured
- 26:17out that he had bought in a bunch of
- 26:19camping supplies like a few days prior
- 26:23to when they think that he dismembered
- 26:27the body so the prosecution team went
- 26:30and bought the same tent that he bought
- 26:32and they bought a dead pig just this is
- 26:37crazy and they filled the dead pig
- 26:39because a dead pig like they take all
- 26:40the fluids out they fill the dead pig
- 26:43with water with red food coloring or
- 26:46something red and they bring it into the
- 26:50tent zip up the tent
- 26:51dismiss the [ __ ] lawyers dismember
- 26:54this pig inside the tent and prove that
- 26:57it's possible to cut to dismember a body
- 27:00inside a tent and not have the blood get
- 27:03out into the apartment isn't that crazy
- 27:05there's a whole book about it I'll
- 27:07probably do a video on this story
- 27:11there's a book about it a really long
- 27:13like if you can get past the really dry
- 27:15first chunk it's a really good book but
- 27:17it's called the people who eat darkness
- 27:20and it's just about this insane Lucy
- 27:22Blackmon case if you're from UK and you
- 27:25actually remember that case let me know
- 27:27I would be very interested but anyway
- 27:30that wraps up the video for today with
- 27:34Stephen thanks for subscribing everybody
- 27:36I love you all
- 27:38true crime loser out
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