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everything. In a world where

1:31

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1:33

there's a designer version of just about

1:36

anything we can think of. But

1:45

have you ever heard about designer

1:47

snakes? While most

1:49

of us might picture snakes slithering through

1:52

the grass or haunting our dreams, In

2:01

2017, Ben Renek

2:04

was a man who turned the selective snake

2:06

breeding into an art form, specializing

2:08

in what he affectionately

2:10

called designer pythons. From

2:13

the time he was a teenager, Ben

2:15

spent his life breeding rare variants of

2:18

pythons, creating patterns and colors

2:20

that were the envy of the reptile

2:22

world. What started out

2:24

as a passionate hobby had turned

2:26

into a highly successful and highly

2:29

sought after business. However,

2:32

it wasn't the serpents in his

2:34

collection that posed the greatest threat,

2:36

but someone very close to him,

2:39

ready to strike, when least expected.

2:42

Join me now, as we unravel

2:44

the coils of the mysterious murder of

2:47

Ben Renek, a young father of two

2:49

and a rock star in the world

2:51

of reptiles. You'll hear

2:53

how greed, deception, betrayal and

2:56

forbidden desire led to a

2:58

complicated murder plot, and how

3:00

a conspiracy of silence kept

3:02

the reality hidden for years

3:05

until the truth finally slithered

3:08

its way to the surface.

3:15

June 8th, 2017 was

3:18

supposed to be a special night for married

3:20

couple Ben and Lin Lee Renek, who

3:23

wasn't much really, just a simple date night

3:25

to go see a movie. But

3:27

after being married for three years,

3:30

running two businesses and raising children

3:32

together, they both knew the importance

3:34

of scheduling some time off together

3:37

just for themselves, a

3:39

way to keep the flame of

3:41

romance alive despite their ultra busy

3:43

lives. 29-year-old Ben

3:45

Renek spent the day working from

3:47

home. He was a

3:49

world-renowned snake breeder who operated out

3:52

of his own reptile facility, a

3:54

large, state-of-the-art laboratory he built on

3:56

his family farm outside of New

3:58

Florence, Missouri. It was

4:00

here at Renick reptiles were been

4:03

housed his massive collection of exotic

4:05

snakes valued at well over a

4:08

million dollars. And

4:14

clean up. And

4:21

are person he still. He

4:26

says and this is exactly what set

4:28

up every baby so once it comes

4:30

out of the egg goes into a

4:32

box that says and then with that

4:34

I'm up in the pub where the

4:36

average hip and a full of water.

4:39

And are basically it. For

4:41

Boom Renick Reptiles was more than

4:43

just the full time job he

4:46

was suspension. From breeding

4:48

to clean to sewing and shipping

4:50

his occupation was usually and all

4:52

consuming. seventy of we can def

4:54

her. Well. Then attended his

4:57

duty Stuff morning. his phone buzzed

4:59

with a message completely. Open

5:01

your.benson enticing nude photo of

5:04

his wife. He. Was a

5:06

playful and flirtatious way of reminding

5:08

them of their upcoming date night.

5:10

something when will you Was apparently

5:12

looking forward just as much as

5:14

he was. For. The past

5:16

year when we had been the

5:18

owner and manager of a sensuous

5:20

bar located in Columbia, Missouri, a

5:22

city about forty five minutes away

5:24

from the home. Between.

5:27

Menacing her business full time

5:29

caring for children. Finding.

5:31

Amounts of spare time was also a

5:34

real luxury for the hard working mother.

5:36

In order to facilitate their special

5:39

night, Lindley had arranged for the

5:41

family so long time babysitter to

5:43

watch their children. Each year

5:45

old Matthew and four year old Amelia

5:47

that evening. As the

5:49

day progressed, Linley since then a

5:51

few more revealing photos but also

5:54

indicated she wasn't feeling her past.

5:57

Suffer from migraines think of feel.

6:00

another one was coming on strong. Eventually,

6:03

Ben received a message asking if you'd

6:05

be willing to pick up the children

6:07

after school instead of Lin

6:09

Li. Unfortunately, her

6:11

migraine had not gone away.

6:15

Just after five o'clock that evening, Lin

6:17

Li closed up shop at the spa and

6:19

headed home. But during the

6:22

drive, she received a call from the

6:24

children's school, informing her of

6:26

something alarming. Ben never

6:28

arrived to pick them up. This

6:30

was extremely unlike Ben. No matter how

6:33

busy he might get, the dedicated father

6:35

wasn't one to forget his children if

6:37

he agreed to pick them up. Lin

6:40

Li had made a series of attempts

6:43

to contact Ben, calling his cell as

6:45

well as the snake facility's landline. She

6:48

also sent messages and left voicemails,

6:50

but each time she called, she

6:52

never received an answer. It

6:55

was after 6pm by the time Lin Li

6:57

made it to the school and picked up

6:59

the kids. She'd message Ben

7:01

again saying she was starting to get

7:03

worried about him. In

7:05

fact, she already called off the

7:08

babysitter. Between the migraine

7:10

and the worry, date night was

7:12

officially cancelled. She was

7:14

just after 6.30pm when

7:16

she finally pulled into the driveway

7:19

of Renek Reptiles. In

7:44

the morning, she was walking in a pile of blood. And

7:47

then I ran out of the facility. Maddie

7:49

and Emma were already out of the car

7:52

and they were walking up towards the door.

7:54

And so I yelled at them that they

7:56

needed to get back in the car. And

8:00

then I called Sam. Sam

8:02

Rennick was Ben's older brother. He

8:05

lived with his wife and children in his separate residence

8:07

on the same 72 acre farm as

8:09

the snake facility. At

8:12

6.31 he received a frantic call from Lynn

8:14

Lee. I was trying to

8:16

tell him something happened with Ben. He

8:19

couldn't understand me. And

8:21

so I got off the

8:23

phone with Sam and then I called 911 and

8:27

the dispatcher couldn't understand what I was saying

8:29

either. Hearing Lynn

8:31

Lee's frantic tone, Sam

8:33

immediately raced over to the snake facility.

8:36

And then Sam was walking up the driveway

8:38

and he asked me what was going on and

8:41

I told him it's Ben. Sam

8:43

went into the facility and saw Ben on

8:46

the ground. Checking for

8:48

any signs of life, Sam rolled

8:50

Ben onto his back and was

8:52

horrified to see that Ben's face

8:54

appeared to have been crushed. Meanwhile,

8:57

Lynn Lee was still on the

8:59

phone, hysterically trying to communicate to

9:01

911. The

9:04

dispatcher couldn't understand me but she

9:06

had heard somebody else walk up

9:08

and so she

9:11

asked me if I could give the phone to them and I

9:15

ran back to Ben. And

9:18

so I started trying to check for

9:20

a pulse and

9:23

I couldn't feel one. And

9:26

so I told Sam, I can't feel anything. And

9:28

Sam said check to see if he's still breathing.

9:32

I leaned down and I put

9:35

my head over Ben

9:37

to try to see if I could hear him breathing. And

9:42

there was nothing and his

9:44

mouth came over.

9:48

And I started yelling at Sam like he's

9:50

not breathing, I can't hear anything. And

9:53

I was just playing

9:55

there with my head on Ben. Trying

9:57

to see if I could hear his heart. I'm

10:01

really feeling shit. Just something.

10:07

Once Lin Lee handed the phone over

10:10

to Sam, he was able to successfully

10:12

communicate with the operator. But

10:14

even though she could clearly hear the words

10:16

coming from Sam, she could hardly

10:19

believe them. Oh

10:21

my god, my brother's dead. What

10:24

may have happened, he got killed by a snake.

10:28

Ben was telling her that Ben must have

10:30

been attacked by one of his own snakes,

10:32

information that was quickly passed on

10:35

to paramedics and police. EMT

10:37

Deanna Wasman was one of the

10:40

first responders to receive the call.

10:45

We got a phone call for a

10:47

man that was injured. The

10:52

911 call was very sporadic. The

10:54

911 call that we received through dispatch was

10:57

that a 600-pound Anaconda take a

10:59

shot at

11:02

him. When I arrived on scene, Mr.

11:04

Renning had puncture marks in his arm and we

11:06

were worried that it was a poisonous snake. Before

11:10

police could fully assess the situation,

11:12

they had to ensure the scene

11:14

was safe and secure for first

11:16

responders. With guns drawn,

11:19

officers combed through the facility, threatening

11:21

to shoot any snake they found

11:23

slithering out of their cages. The

11:26

first thing that I saw whenever I came in was

11:29

when we curled up in the fetal

11:31

position just inside of the

11:33

doorway. She was

11:35

rocking back and forth saying,

11:37

what snake could not have done that? I

11:41

was the one that administered aid

11:43

to her after her husband

11:45

had been declared dead because

11:47

she was in such a state that

11:50

she needed to be monitored. She

11:53

was hysterical. She

11:56

had a elevated pulse, blood pressure,

11:58

respiration. She

12:00

accepted to call her father and could

12:02

not communicate, so I was the

12:04

one who communicated with him. Lindley's

12:07

father, Lendell Galatin, soon arrived and

12:09

took the children away from the

12:11

property back to his home in

12:13

Columbia. I got a

12:15

phone call from Lindley and all I

12:17

heard her say was, Dad, and she

12:20

totally lost it. The next thing I

12:22

know, someone, the woman's voice says, Can

12:24

I have your phone? Some lady said,

12:28

Your daughter is hysterical right now.

12:32

Her husband is not

12:34

with us anymore. And I told her

12:36

I'll be there as soon as I

12:38

can. As soon as I hung up, I got

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spending hours searching high and low,

13:46

police on the scene failed to

13:48

locate any loose snakes, and

13:51

eventually the scene was declared secure.

13:54

The Montgomery County coroner was then

13:56

called in to examine Ben. the

14:00

scene, I met the ambulance supervisor of the

14:02

day on the roadway who stopped me and

14:04

informed me that there was an individual at

14:06

the scene that had been deceased by the

14:09

axe of a snake. As

14:11

I approached the body, we were telling

14:13

the pretense that this was a snake

14:15

attack. For hours,

14:17

the entire team of police and

14:19

EMTs had been under the impression

14:21

that Bennett died from a snake

14:23

attack, but within 30 seconds

14:26

of beginning his initial examination, the

14:29

coroner discovered something

14:31

shocking. I crouched

14:34

down to take a closer look and

14:36

when I did this, I then saw

14:38

some divots in the floor. I

14:40

also saw some injury to the face that

14:43

I would say was more consistent with not a

14:45

snake injury but a gunshot wound. And

14:48

then I saw a shell casing on

14:50

a shelf just above the decedent's head.

14:54

It turned out that Lend-Lee had been

14:56

right all along. A

14:58

snake definitely could not have done this.

15:01

Bennett had been shot a total of

15:03

eight times. Seven rounds

15:05

fired into his back, but

15:07

the final bullet was fired

15:09

into Ben's temple at close

15:12

range. For

15:16

troopers with the Missouri State Highway

15:18

Patrol, the crime scene itself offered very

15:20

little insight as to what had taken

15:23

place. Inside of the

15:25

boats and shell casings, detectives weren't

15:27

able to find any evidence or

15:29

clues as to who pulled the trigger.

15:32

The first theory they pursued was the

15:34

idea this might have been a robbery

15:37

gone wrong, as many of

15:39

the snakes in Ben's facility were

15:41

worth tens of thousands of dollars

15:43

apiece. Police learned

15:45

that at the time of the murder, Bennett

15:47

had actually been in the process of selling

15:49

off a large portion of his snake business.

15:53

He'd agreed to sell off his

15:55

entire bald python collection to an

15:57

NHL hockey goalie named Robin Lenner.

16:00

A drill depend friend a

16:02

fellow snake peter named David

16:04

Levinson helped arrange. Running

16:07

was an insanely three games I

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just mentioned as you wanna see

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such manner and I'll be made

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and it's hard to. I don't

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go with an arm as to

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the initially met each other a

16:21

it always wearing contacts and then

16:24

presented a chance to remind the

16:26

business com and whether it's automatic

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or and will choose to me

16:30

Juri would have given my insistence

16:32

on those and sees a more

16:34

serious. Or

16:38

the beginning of two thousand and

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seventeen. Robin and Been had reached

16:42

an agreement for Rob to purchase

16:44

Bends Python collection for an eye

16:46

popping one point two million dollars.

16:49

Even detectives were surprised or

16:51

just how much potential money

16:53

was slithering room Pence facility.

16:56

But. After thoroughly examined the inventory,

16:58

detectives discovered that every single

17:00

snake was accounted for. Nothing

17:03

has been stolen. The.

17:05

Robbery theory was soon crossed off

17:07

the list. Detectors

17:12

denim covered another possible motive

17:14

for murder, although it didn't

17:16

have much to do with

17:18

Ben, rather been sleep father

17:21

Frank Reynolds. Been. In

17:23

Sam have been raised on their seventy

17:25

two acre farm by their parents Franken,

17:27

Charlene, For. Many years Frank

17:29

Wren would appear to be

17:32

a highly successful pets company

17:34

called Spectrum Factor. Her company

17:36

worth millions of dollars. Of.

17:38

The entire facade came crashing down

17:40

in two thousand and twelve just

17:43

four years after their mother, Charlene

17:45

had passed away from cancer. It

17:48

turned out frankie been operating as

17:50

company like a giant ponzi scheme,

17:52

ultimately defrauding over two hundred and

17:55

fifty members of the community out

17:57

of more than seven million dollars.

18:00

Frank was indicted on charges of mail

18:02

fraud and was facing up to sixty

18:04

years in prison. On father's

18:07

day, two thousand and twelve Frank

18:09

committed suicide by shooting himself, forced

18:11

to see them, went to trial.

18:14

Even though the whole deal at

18:16

taken place five years prior depends

18:18

murder, they're still were people in

18:21

the area holding a grudge against

18:23

the family. The.

18:26

Drama surrounding pencil a father also

18:28

added another element of in treat

18:31

to the case. Because.

18:33

Before his death. Frank. At

18:35

place the entire farm in to

18:37

trust in this children's name. a

18:39

situation to cost no small amount

18:41

of friction between been in his

18:43

older brother Sam. According

18:45

to Sam, the inheritance from their

18:47

father had left been in control

18:50

of the front property itself, with

18:52

Sam rethinking the fault of financial

18:54

assets. Over the years,

18:56

predictable, presently disputes had risen

18:59

over how to divide everything

19:01

in a way that would

19:03

make everyone happy. During her

19:05

initial interview with police, Linley

19:08

told detectives have been Sam

19:10

soft to ten chess relationship

19:12

insinuating that she believed he

19:14

might be responsible for murdering

19:16

her husband. But Sam did

19:19

everything he could to convince

19:21

police otherwise. he fully cooperate

19:23

with every request. turning over.

19:25

Supposed taking a polygraph which

19:27

he passed with flying colors

19:30

and submitting to a gunshot

19:32

residue test which he also

19:34

passed as the weeks to

19:36

don't always found absolutely nothing

19:38

Lincoln Sam to the murder

19:40

of his brother. This place

19:42

with only one more potential

19:44

suspects might have had a

19:47

financial motive for killing. A

19:50

person close to him and the person

19:52

who discover the crime scene in the

19:54

first place. lindley renick

20:00

According to Lin Li, she hadn't been

20:02

anywhere near the crime scene when the

20:04

murder took place. Instead,

20:06

she'd been at her spa in Columbia,

20:08

45 minutes away.

20:11

Two of her employees supported her

20:13

alibi, and Lin Li's gunshot residue

20:15

test had also come back negative.

20:18

But still, as police began

20:20

looking into Ben and Lin Li's

20:22

relationship, a number of red flags

20:25

started to appear. In the years

20:27

after high school, Lin Li became a massage therapist and had a string of

20:51

unsuccessful relationships, one

20:54

of which resulted in the birth of her

20:57

oldest son Matthew, who Ben had been in

20:59

the process of officially adopting at the time

21:01

of his murder. And then,

21:04

one day out of the blue, Lin Li

21:06

and Ben's worlds collided again. This

21:22

is the first time that I've ever seen

21:24

him in a movie. In

21:28

the beginning, I was the only one of those

21:30

who sent me a message. And

21:33

we just started catching up talking about, hey,

21:35

how have you been? There

21:38

was such a huge difference between

21:40

the relationship that I had just left

21:42

and there, and

21:45

Ben just treated me

21:47

differently. And he was respectful and

21:49

kind and compassionate. And it was

21:51

just very easy for us to

21:53

be around each other. Lin

21:56

Li quickly realized she was falling in

21:58

love with Ben. But if

22:01

Ben really wanted to be a part of Lendly's

22:03

life, there was one more thing

22:05

she needed him to be compatible with. After

22:30

what many described as a whirlwind romance, Ben

22:59

and Lendly soon had a daughter of their

23:02

own and officially tied the knot in the

23:04

spring of 2014. Before

23:07

long, Ben had even recruited

23:10

Lendly to become his full-time

23:12

employee at Rennick Reptiles. When

23:15

I first started helping Ben, I actually

23:17

started and I cleaned most

23:20

all of our large constrictors. Ben went through and

23:22

he put little stickers on a lot of the

23:24

cages. If they had smiley faces, it was okay

23:27

for me to get them out. Then anything else,

23:29

Ben would get it out for me and then

23:31

I would just clean the enclosures. That

23:34

kind of graduated and grew as Rennick Reptiles grew.

23:37

I took care of our large snakes and then

23:39

I also tacked on to taking care of all

23:41

of the baby snakes that we had. Ben

23:45

was incredibly career driven, which

23:47

was also just really impressive to

23:50

me. He was very analytical, just

23:52

logical about everything. He had such

23:54

a way of seeing the world

23:57

as what mattered and...

24:00

What needed his energy

24:02

or his attention and what didn't and

24:04

it was just amazing Despite

24:07

Lin Lee's best attempts at adopting her

24:09

husband's passion as her own After

24:12

a while Lin Lee realized it

24:14

wasn't something she wanted to do

24:16

forever And so

24:18

before long Lin Lee and Ben were

24:20

making plans for her to open up

24:23

her very own spa It

24:25

was always just kind of a dream to be

24:27

able to you know Own one and run it

24:29

and do it right because I saw a lot

24:32

of the things that were wrong with the

24:34

ones that I worked in and so we started talking

24:36

about that and Ben

24:38

and I were both in agreement that this would be

24:40

a business that if we could get it off the

24:42

ground and do It right and get it up and

24:44

running We could be able to hire other people to

24:46

really take care of it and just you know still

24:48

own it and oversee it But

24:51

we would be able to step away and have our

24:53

own kind of freedom at some point Lin

24:56

Lee decided to name her new business Ascentia

24:58

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25:01

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25:04

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25:06

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26:15

the beginning, you know, it would

26:17

just be a couple

26:19

of snake sales and then that would cover it

26:21

and that was no big deal. It was just

26:24

sell a couple snakes, it covers it, it's fine, let's

26:26

move on. The

26:28

price tag on some of Ben's

26:31

snakes was truly staggering. So

26:33

we had a literally key

26:36

positive albino, green anaconda. He

26:39

actually originally kind of made his name

26:41

in the reptile industry because he was

26:44

one of the first

26:46

people ever in the world

26:48

to be able to successfully, captively, read

26:50

green anacondas. Anacondas

26:53

don't lay eggs, they give life first. So

26:56

there are a lot of aspects of

26:58

that and the babies of

27:00

that letter he also bred with another

27:02

very rare genetic morph of anaconda that

27:04

Ben was one of the only people in the

27:06

world to have. And so

27:09

those babies we had for sale for

27:11

upwards of $25,000 a pair. As

27:15

the months went on, Lin Lee's business

27:17

fell further and further behind on its

27:19

bills and eventually the spa

27:22

was losing approximately $1,000 a week. And

27:26

soon the financial strain on a

27:29

sentient spa began taking its toll

27:31

on the couple's relationship with

27:33

the frequency of their arguing increasing

27:36

and their intimate life falling apart as

27:38

well. I woke

27:40

up one morning and was getting

27:43

ready before I woke the kids up to

27:45

get them ready and Ben was standing

27:49

there in the closet door just

27:52

watching me angrily as I was

27:54

getting dressed and so we're already

27:56

having fights and tension and I

27:58

just popped up. and I'm like, what?

28:01

I'm like, what did I do? And

28:04

then he told me, he was

28:06

like, I just can't believe that

28:08

you didn't wake up when I was having

28:10

sex with you last night. And it just,

28:14

it just kind of shocked me. And I didn't,

28:16

I don't even think I replied to him.

28:18

I was just standing there staring at him.

28:21

I continued getting ready. And I

28:24

don't even know if he tried to say anything else to

28:26

me. I got the kids ready and I left. And I'm

28:28

just sitting with this like, did

28:30

I just hear that right? Like trying to

28:32

process what he means by this.

28:39

It wasn't just the financial troubles

28:41

or intimacy issues that caught the

28:43

attention of detectives. What

28:45

truly alarmed them was when they learned

28:47

Lin Lee had been cheating on Ben

28:50

and not just with one man, but two.

28:53

Lin Lee's first affair began in the summer

28:55

of 2016. With

28:58

a married man, she'd hired to produce

29:00

radio advertisements for the spa. Using

29:03

their business relationship as a cover, he

29:06

and Lin Lee frequently used the rooms

29:08

at the spa for the romantic rendezvous.

29:11

The other man she'd been having an

29:13

affair with was a man she'd met

29:16

on an online dating site marketed to

29:18

people who were married looking for affairs.

29:21

The man's name was Brandon Blackwell.

29:23

And it turned out they'd hooked

29:25

up for the first time just

29:27

two days before Ben's death. In

29:30

addition to the affairs, police also

29:32

learned that Lin Lee was the

29:34

sole beneficiary of Ben's $1 million

29:37

life insurance policy. Suddenly,

29:39

Lin Lee wasn't looking so

29:41

innocent after all. Missouri

29:44

state troopers interviewed both of Lin

29:46

Lee's lovers, but could find no

29:48

connection between them and Ben's murder

29:50

either. However, there was

29:52

still one more person police knew they

29:55

needed to talk to. And

29:57

his name was Michael Humphrey, an older.

30:00

Alex's boyfriend, police discovered Lin Lee had

30:02

been in contact with on the day

30:04

of Ben's murder. Both

30:06

Lin Lee and Michael claimed he'd simply

30:09

come to the spa for a massage,

30:11

but there was just something about this

30:13

simple explanation that didn't sit well with

30:16

the lead detective. Then,

30:18

in October 2017,

30:21

five months after the murder, Lin Lee

30:23

was given a polygraph test to better

30:26

involvement in Ben's death. And

30:28

according to police, she failed. Yet

30:31

despite their suspicions and the failed polygraph,

30:34

there was little they could do about

30:36

it, as long as Lin

30:38

Lee and Michael were still telling

30:40

the same story. After

30:45

six months of intensive investigation into

30:48

the lives of everyone connected with

30:50

Ben, Lin Lee stood alone as

30:52

the primary suspect in his murder.

30:55

But with zero evidence to make a

30:57

case against her, the case eventually went

30:59

cold for the next two and a

31:01

half years. Lin Lee

31:04

and her children moved in with her

31:06

father and cut off almost all ties

31:08

with Ben's family, including Sam.

31:11

Eventually, Ben's family learned through social

31:13

media that Lin Lee was seriously

31:15

involved in another relationship, and although

31:18

they weren't aware of the connection

31:20

at the time, her new

31:22

boyfriend turned out to be Brandon Blackwell.

31:25

The man she met on the dating

31:27

website for married people looking to have

31:29

affairs, and by 2019, they had a

31:31

son of their own. But

31:35

by mid 2019, Lin Lee

31:37

and Brandon's relationship had already

31:40

completely fallen apart. Lin

31:43

Lee even took out a restraining order

31:45

against Brandon, which he violated on a

31:47

number of occasions. Eventually,

31:49

in 2020, Brandon was arrested

31:52

and jailed on charges of

31:54

stalking Lin Lee. Which

31:57

is when Brandon decided to tell authorities.

32:00

He had some inside information

32:02

guarding the murder of panoramic.

32:08

Brandon was looking at serving some

32:10

serious jail time for repeatedly violating

32:12

the restraining order against him. so

32:14

in an effort to get some

32:17

leniency, he offered to tell police

32:19

everything he knew about men smarter.

32:22

According to Brandon Linley, I

32:24

confess to him multiple times

32:26

as being the one who

32:28

murdered her husband. Or

32:30

the spring of two thousand and

32:32

seventeen. Linley have become convinced that

32:34

Been was going to divorce her.

32:36

She was sucking too much money

32:38

out of his business in their

32:41

marriage was falling apart. At

32:43

the Spa Linley it also

32:45

be done confiding with their

32:48

office manager a woman named-saw

32:50

a better Problems with fan

32:52

actually feel sorry for Linley

32:55

and Together Tuesday inspired. Not

32:59

just once or twice. The

33:01

first attempt team in the form of

33:04

the poison protein shake. Personally

33:06

supplied Linley with what she believed

33:08

would be lethal dose of percocet

33:10

painkillers and lily ground of the

33:12

pills into the shake. Given it

33:15

to Ban about two weeks before

33:17

his death. Although been have become

33:19

violently ill, the poison shaped hadn't

33:21

been enough to kill him from

33:24

their Lillian Ashley attempted to find

33:26

a hitman by reaching out to

33:28

Lend Lease ex boyfriend Michael Humphrey,

33:30

a drug dealer and convicted felon.

33:33

She hadn't spoke to a nearly

33:35

seven years. And according to

33:37

Brandon, Michael had agreed to become a

33:39

part of this new plot to kill

33:41

ban. On the day

33:43

of the murder, Michael team to

33:45

the spot to pick up Lindley

33:47

in his own vehicle. Then both

33:49

Michael and Lovely purposely left their

33:51

phones behind at the spot so

33:53

their cell data would show. They'd

33:55

never laughed. He also remembered that

33:57

Lumley was very upset with Michael.

34:00

for not filling up his gas tank before

34:02

picking her up. A situation that

34:04

forced Lin Li to use her own bank

34:06

card at a nearby gas station, leaving

34:09

an unintended paper trail of their murder

34:11

trip. Their original plan

34:13

was for Michael to shoot Ben at

34:15

the snake facility, but as they approached

34:17

the farm, Michael got cold feet

34:20

and handed the gun to Lin Li, telling

34:23

her she would have to pull the trigger.

34:25

Which is exactly what she did, around

34:28

4pm on June 8th. Detectives

34:32

were also able to corroborate their

34:35

Facebook messages that Ben had indeed

34:37

become extremely sick from a protein

34:39

shake just weeks before his murder.

34:42

They were also able to verify the

34:44

existence of Lin Li's gas station purchase

34:46

just after 3pm on

34:48

the day of Ben's murder. At a time,

34:51

she'd told police she'd been at the spa.

34:54

Police then interviewed Ashley Shaw,

34:56

who agreed to confess to

34:58

everything in exchange for complete

35:00

immunity. And when she

35:02

confessed, her story matched Brandon's

35:04

version to a tee with

35:06

a few additional details. After

35:52

The failed attempt at poisoning, Ashley

35:54

told detectives how they enlisted Lin

35:56

Li's ex-boyfriend, Michael Humphrey, to become

35:58

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36:00

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Her first Michael was reluctance to be

37:29

a part of it, but eventually agreed

37:31

to give Linley a hand gun. Coming

37:33

down to the spot for the murder

37:35

and past and has over two were

37:38

in the days that followed when we

37:40

talk Michael into becoming a hitman for

37:42

the job. I was only

37:44

gonna lie and they are only

37:46

go together to around a little

37:48

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filling out of and he was.

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Seeking. As

38:04

part of their murder plot, Lindley planned

38:06

in advance to leave her phone with

38:08

Ashley at the front desk. Ashley

38:11

claimed that it was actually her who'd

38:14

messaged Ben from Lindley's phone around 4pm

38:17

asking if he would pick up the kids. Ashley

38:20

also said that another employee Rachel

38:22

Hunt had also known about the

38:24

murder conspiracy prior to Ben's death.

38:27

And on the day of the murder, they both

38:29

made sure to create an alibi for themselves. We

38:32

went to the bank and to the gas station

38:34

that was, or the convenience store that was down

38:37

the street. We wanted

38:39

to make sure that we were on camera in

38:41

Columbia. Sure enough,

38:43

when investigators checked surveillance tapes,

38:46

Ashley and Rachel had made trips to the

38:48

bank in a convenience store while Michael and

38:51

Lindley were en route to the snake facility.

38:54

She said they went to the facility

38:56

where he worked and he was really

38:58

attached by God of the

39:01

snake facility. And so she, they

39:03

got out of the park and he looked very

39:05

confused as to why his wife was there,

39:07

I guess, or somebody else. And

39:10

she said she would take the trash

39:12

and she had a friend that wanted to look

39:14

at snakes. She said that Michael got too nervous

39:16

or didn't want to do it and so he

39:18

handed her the gun and she actually killed him.

39:20

She said that she put the gun to his

39:22

back and shot him several times. According

39:25

to Ashley, Lindley returned to the spa

39:28

with Michael around five that evening. Upon

39:31

returning, Lindley took Ashley back to one

39:33

of the spa's Vichy showers and asked

39:35

Ashley to give her a shower. Something

39:38

prosecutors would later contend would have

39:41

easily erased any trace of gunshot

39:43

residue on Lindley's hands. Detectives

39:46

then spoke to Rachel Hunt, the

39:49

spa's esthetician. And

39:51

she was confronted. Rachel came

39:53

clean and admitted she'd known all about

39:55

it. Her and Michael

39:57

Humphries, Lindley and Michael Humphries were going to take the

39:59

trash. a gun and just go

40:01

see Ben and they said they were going to

40:03

murder him. Lin

40:10

Lee and Michael Humphrey were arrested just

40:12

days later on January 16th, 2020 and

40:16

charged with first degree murder. Had

40:19

Michael's trial in October 2021, he pleaded

40:21

not guilty to murder. So

40:25

he fully admitted to having gone with Lin

40:28

Lee to the snake facility that day. He

40:30

claimed he had no idea Lin Lee was

40:32

going to murder Ben. Instead,

40:35

he said, Lin Lee told him she was

40:37

going there to ask Ben for a divorce

40:40

and she wanted Michael to come along with her

40:42

for protection in case things became

40:44

violent. It was the

40:46

same story he'd tell on the stand

40:48

two months later at Lin Lee's murder trial.

40:51

She had asked me to come up there to the

40:53

spa to meet her and then to go with her

40:56

out there to her house

40:58

to help her gather up like a bag of

41:00

clothes so that she could go and stay at

41:03

some point with her dad. We

41:05

got out, walked around to the front of the car and

41:07

just as we got to the front of the

41:12

car from my right side

41:14

basically sort

41:17

of behind me. She

41:19

walked up to me and I feel

41:21

something in my hip and I end up turning around and looking at

41:23

it. It's the gun that I'd given

41:25

her. I shoved it back at her and after

41:27

basically what the hell she was doing, Ben

41:30

came out the door at the exact time

41:32

all this was going down. So she

41:34

walks around and ends up

41:36

telling him that I'm there to look

41:39

at snakes and that she had known

41:41

me from or

41:43

since high school or something

41:45

to that effect. He goes

41:47

over to a sink that's on the

41:50

left hand side of the walkway through there or something.

41:53

She comes in the door, walks right on past

41:55

me. I'm figuring she's going to go down there

41:58

and talk to her over and... And

42:03

then I heard a shock come

42:05

out, which inside

42:07

there was extremely loud. So I kind of ducked a

42:09

little bit and I looked down through there and she

42:11

was at the end of the corridor

42:14

or whatever you want to call it, posing up like this with

42:17

a gun. When

42:19

asked why Michael had never told police, even

42:22

though he claimed he was innocent, he

42:24

explained he thought it was unlikely police

42:26

would have believed him. I

42:28

was on probation and again

42:32

with the firearm. So what am I going to

42:34

do? I hand them, here you go. Here's a

42:36

gun that somebody just shot and probably killed somebody

42:38

with. I'm on probation. It's registered to

42:40

me, by the way. In

42:42

exchange for testifying at Lindley's trial,

42:45

Michael's charges were dropped from first

42:47

degree to second degree murder. And

42:50

although he's still serving a life sentence,

42:52

he'll now at least one day have

42:54

a chance of parole in the future.

43:00

When it came time for Lindley's trial in

43:02

December, 2021, she pleaded not guilty, but there

43:04

was no

43:08

question that her defense team was

43:10

facing a massive uphill battle. The

43:13

prosecution presented three witnesses who testified

43:15

that Lindley had been the one

43:18

to murder Ben. Both

43:20

Ashley Shaw and Rachel Hunt told

43:22

the jury how Lindley had orchestrated

43:24

the entire conspiracy and how Lindley

43:26

and Ashley had convinced Michael to

43:28

become a part of it. And

43:31

although Michael denied that the murder had

43:33

ever been a part of his plan,

43:35

he testified that he was there with

43:37

Lindley when she pulled the trigger. In

43:40

addition to these eyewitnesses, the prosecution showed

43:42

the jury evidence that Lindley and Michael

43:44

had been together on the day of

43:47

the murder and that Lindley had filled

43:49

up his gas tank on their way

43:51

from the spot of the Arenic Reptiles.

43:56

By the time the prosecution rested, nobody

43:59

had a clue. what Lindley's defense

44:01

strategy could possibly be. And

44:04

then she shot the entire courtroom by

44:07

taking the stand and testifying

44:09

herself. She first

44:11

addressed the alleged poisoning

44:13

attempt on Ben's life.

44:15

So one of the clients that had been

44:18

in one day had left some samples of

44:20

some, you know, protein drinks that she had for,

44:22

I don't know if it was an MLM, but

44:24

a company that she had. And so we

44:27

just all took a couple and tried them. I was

44:29

violently ill. Ben

44:32

was in our bathroom next to our bedroom the

44:34

whole night and we had another bathroom on the

44:36

opposite side of the house, like in

44:38

between. And so I was in that bathroom

44:41

posted up all night. According to

44:43

her, it had been nothing more than

44:45

a simple case of food poisoning that

44:47

had left both her and Ben incapacitated.

44:50

However, although Ben was completely bedridden

44:52

the next day, Lindley felt fine

44:54

enough to wake up and go

44:56

to work the next day. And

44:59

then Lindley took a page out

45:01

of Michael's playbook and claimed the

45:03

only plan on June 8th, 2017

45:06

was for her to drive home

45:08

and speak with Ben about getting

45:10

a divorce. You

45:13

know, with this kind of train wreck

45:15

that's happening with, you know, Ben and

45:17

I arguing and my marriage going down

45:19

the drain and the spa is just

45:22

failing and I'm having this affair with

45:24

this guy and, you know, all of

45:26

this is lacking. And

45:29

at that time when I set it up,

45:31

you know, I'd already kind of talked to

45:33

Ashley about, you know, wanting to

45:35

separate and divorce. And so this

45:37

is a disaster and I

45:39

don't know if there's any recovering from this and coming

45:42

back and I'm checked

45:44

out. I'm not hearing

45:46

this marriage anymore. When

45:49

asked why Lindley decided to reach

45:51

out to Michael, her ex-boyfriend, she

45:53

hadn't seen him many years. Lindley

45:56

claimed she was embarrassed by

45:58

the situation and didn't want

46:00

her family to know about her marital

46:02

problems just yet. As

46:05

for the nude photos and flirtatious

46:07

texts. He's my husband.

46:09

I know he's going to enjoy nude pictures

46:11

of me he had in the past. And

46:15

selfishly I wanted to make sure that he

46:17

was going to be in a good mood

46:19

when I went to go talk to him

46:21

and confront him about it. According

46:25

to Lin Lee, all she thought was

46:27

going to happen that day was telling

46:29

Ben she wanted a divorce, but

46:31

things had gone sideways as soon as

46:34

she and Michael arrived. As

46:37

we were getting out of the car, Ben was

46:40

walking out of the facility and he had some bags

46:42

of trash. And

46:47

so he stopped and Michael and I were

46:49

standing there just right in front of him

46:51

and Ben was like, hey what

46:53

are you doing? Obviously surprised

46:55

to see me there in the middle of

46:57

the day let alone with somebody else and

47:00

I just panicked. Then I was

47:02

like, oh this is Michael he's an old

47:04

friend of mine. He's really interested in snakes

47:07

and Ben was like, okay obviously

47:09

confused by that. But

47:11

I went ahead and I

47:14

took the trash bags from Ben and

47:17

then walked down to the dumpsters that

47:19

we had and Ben and Michael went

47:21

on inside the facility. So

47:23

when I was walking into

47:25

the facility, Ben

47:27

and Michael were drying their

47:30

hands off and walking towards the back.

47:32

I was just trying to figure out

47:36

what to say to Ben and how

47:39

to approach this topic now. And

47:42

I walked up right behind

47:46

Michael when thirsty. And

47:49

then Michael

47:52

turned around and I saw Ben

47:54

in his hands and then I heard shots

47:57

from him and I just

47:59

couldn't believe it. I dreamed and I ran

48:01

outside and then

48:03

I heard more shots go off and

48:06

everything just went numb

48:09

and I remember staring at the

48:11

trees and

48:14

then Michael running out of the facility and

48:16

pushing me towards the car and

48:19

telling me we have to go Linli get in

48:21

the car we have to go now. Linli

48:26

claimed she didn't actually see

48:28

Michael Shuban. She only

48:30

heard the shots and then testified that

48:32

she and Michael drove back to the

48:34

spa in silence never once

48:36

asking him what happened inside the

48:39

snake facility. When

48:41

she got back to the spa she told

48:43

Ashley what had happened and asked her to

48:45

give her a shower. After

48:47

she had helped me get

48:50

stressed she

48:52

handed me my person

48:54

my phone and

48:56

she just let me know it was just like

48:58

you left us here earlier I answered some messages

49:01

for you you have to go pick up your kids now. And

49:05

so then we walked out to our cars together. Before

49:08

we got out into

49:10

our cars Ashley told me everything's

49:14

okay Linli. You

49:16

were here you never left and

49:18

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plus. Lynn Lee continued telling on this

51:04

excuse of traumatic denial throughout the rest

51:06

of her trial. She

51:08

maintained she didn't truly become worried

51:10

about anything bad happening to Ben

51:12

until she got the call from the

51:14

kids' school, saying they hadn't been picked

51:17

up. She said she

51:19

had no idea Ben was really dead

51:21

until she got home and found his

51:23

body. This, according to

51:25

her, explained why she didn't

51:27

call police or dial 911. It

51:31

explained why she was able to calmly

51:33

text a number of other people, including

51:35

one of the men she was having

51:37

an affair with, during her drive back

51:39

home. It also explained

51:41

why she sent Michael a message, inviting

51:43

him to come back to the spa

51:46

the next day to receive another massage.

51:49

She claimed she was just curious about

51:51

what had really happened inside the facility

51:53

when she heard the gunshots and was

51:55

hoping to ask him about it the

51:58

next day. My

52:00

question was, listen Mr. Enoch, was

52:03

if you're curious about this enough to find out

52:05

if Michael will come back to her spa tomorrow

52:07

and tell you about it, why

52:10

don't instead of touching your husband about the

52:12

baby's dinner, why don't you just pick up

52:14

the phone at that point in time and

52:16

call him? I

52:19

don't know. Lin-Li's

52:21

story also failed to explain why

52:24

she believed Ben had never called

52:26

or messaged her about the gunshots,

52:28

that is, if she really believed he might

52:31

still be alive. As

52:33

for why Lin-Li never informed police,

52:35

she knew who'd murdered her own

52:38

husband. Her only explanation was that

52:40

she'd become terrified of Michael Humphrey

52:42

after the murder. Still,

52:46

none of this explained why she'd done

52:48

her best to place the blame and

52:50

suspicion on her brother-in-law, Sam. Sam

52:53

didn't kill his brother, did he? No. Sam

52:56

wasn't liable to know who killed his brother, didn't? And

52:59

you never told Sam? No. And

53:02

worse than that, you

53:04

knew who the real killer was and

53:07

you told the police, not Michael

53:10

Humphrey, but they ought to investigate

53:12

Sam, correct? Yes. And

53:14

on every one of those occasions, every one

53:17

of those officers' jobs and goals was

53:19

to find out who killed Ben? Yes.

53:23

And you lied to them every time?

53:26

Yes. You never called them Michael? No. And

53:29

not only did you lie to them, you misdirected

53:31

them by telling them people like Sam Renner, correct?

53:35

Yes. Despite

53:39

the numerous contradictions and holes in

53:42

her story, there was no question

53:44

that Lindley had given an emotionally

53:46

compelling testimony on the witness stand.

53:50

But was it possible that the jury would

53:52

believe her story? That

53:54

Her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend had inexplicably decided,

53:56

for some unknown reason, that she'd

53:59

been killed? To Murder ending

54:01

cold blood. When. All she

54:03

wanted was to ask for divorce. Or

54:06

with the believe the prosecution's theory.

54:09

That. Lonely conspired with are Slim

54:11

Michael to murder or Spent in

54:14

order to collect his million dollar

54:16

life insurance policy. As

54:19

the our line now we the

54:21

jury find the defendant or literally

54:23

ran into guilty of or in

54:25

the second degree as submitted an

54:27

instruction number nine and that signed

54:29

by your foreperson. The

54:32

jury's verdict of second degree murder was

54:34

a shock to the court room has

54:36

it didn't seem to city person is

54:38

theory of the case. Clearly

54:41

at least one of the jurors

54:43

must have been sympathetic and least

54:45

partially to Lend Lease version of

54:48

events. Even. Though Lindley

54:50

was convicted of second degree murder,

54:52

she was still potentially facing life

54:54

in prison. But. The court

54:56

room was in for another surprise

54:58

during the penalty phase. Bird

55:01

as Excel along we the jury

55:03

haven't found the defendant Lindley Renick

55:06

guilty of murder in the second

55:08

degree assassin declare punishment for murder

55:10

in a second degree at thirteen

55:12

years. As

55:15

he said verdict is discount to we

55:17

the jury having found the defendant Lindley

55:19

ran a real the of armed Criminal

55:21

Acts in assessing declare the punishment for

55:23

armed criminal action at three years. Thirteen.

55:26

Years for second degree murder

55:28

was almost the lowest possible

55:30

sentence the jury could have

55:32

recommended. The minimum sentence been

55:34

ten. During sentencing he

55:37

became obvious that to judge

55:39

himself was disappointed in the

55:42

jury's recommendation. A. Lot of

55:44

people don't understand this largest want

55:46

to make this clear on the

55:49

letters. muzzle law does not allow

55:51

me to each see this. The

55:53

recommendation of did your on punished

55:56

or guess are gonna much all

55:58

letters know once given. The more

56:00

the more I can't move. He can't

56:02

do that under Missouri law. Okay, so

56:05

just want to make that clear. I

56:07

know some people probably won't hear that,

56:09

but I see. okay. The

56:12

judge them sentence Linley to

56:14

sixteen years behind bars thirteen

56:16

for murder and three for

56:18

armed criminal action. Then

56:20

spoke directly to Lend Lease. Baffled

56:23

that how the jury arrived at

56:25

the decision. I don't

56:27

know what they were cited. Some. Out

56:29

as.confused in my view. Taking you

56:32

out of the equation his brother.

56:34

it's still be alive. I don't

56:36

understand how you're going up there.

56:39

Was one minute you want a divorce

56:42

and admit to get Mr. Humphrey mad

56:44

enough to kill I don't know. Doesn't

56:46

matter if he killed this you or

56:48

the one the forty mark to it

56:50

your all whole lucky man. you're gonna

56:53

get out a new forties in my

56:55

forties more. Too bad I just hope

56:57

you don't feel again. That's

56:59

it. Wasn't.

57:04

The most remarkable aspects of this

57:06

to were guard list of who's

57:08

version you believe is how many

57:10

people were able to remain silent

57:12

for so long. As

57:14

feel Ben Franklin saying goes, three

57:17

to keep a secret to them

57:19

or dad. Eventually the

57:21

truth always comes out. Through.

57:24

The entire trial. Same renick

57:26

fan on the court room

57:29

stoically watch the testimonies of

57:31

all the conspirators involved in

57:33

his brother's murder. And

57:35

finally just before sentencing Sam

57:37

was given the opportunity to

57:39

have the last word has

57:42

a d is heartfelt impact

57:44

statement. The

57:46

evidence the premeditation seconds to

57:48

cover of of actions before,

57:50

during and after my brother

57:53

was executed. To

57:55

this day actually believe that when the linux was

57:57

the one that pulled the trigger a loading eight

57:59

bullets. into the back of my brother,

58:01

Benjamin Rutter. Lily covered up her

58:04

actions for years, as she

58:06

told countless lies to protect herself, as

58:08

she deceived others about her involvement in this case.

58:11

She left me to repeat to my brother's

58:13

body, and then put on a show, an

58:16

app, a display that will

58:18

forever haunt me for the rest of my

58:20

days. She cried

58:22

over my brother's dead body, yelling

58:25

why, how, pretending

58:27

to me that she did not know what she had done

58:30

to this beautiful young man. She

58:33

put the children through his experience. Here

58:36

I am, covered in my brother's blood, attempting

58:39

to comfort the children, despite them asking

58:41

me if their daddy is dead. What

58:45

Lily Renwick has done to her children will

58:49

forever be unforgivable, and

58:51

his life is stolen from him by the

58:53

sheer greed of Lily Renwick. We

58:57

have not seen my brother's children since Ben's funeral

58:59

service in 2017. Despite

59:02

constant attempts, all efforts to connect my

59:04

children with theirs have been blocked for

59:06

years. There are a lot of victims in this

59:08

case, from the very young

59:10

and innocent to the multiple broken families and the

59:12

forces that have happened as a result of Lily's

59:14

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59:17

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59:19

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59:21

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59:23

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