#516 - The Office Stalker - Woodbury, Minnesota
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express. Yay, and two, too. Oh, yay, indeed, Jimmy. Yay, indeed. My name is James Petrigallo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wissman. Thank you, folks, so much for joining us. Why are you here? You want lots of murder in a small package, and we got it for you here with Small Town Murder Express. A very wild story. A very...

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And I'd like you to shout. You'll scare your coworkers, but do it anyway. Deep breath and let's all shout. Shut up and give me murder. Let's do this, everybody. Here we go. Let's go on a trip, shall we? We shall. Let's do it, Jimmy. A trip that we will be making next month. We are going to Minnesota. We're going to... We love Minnesota, especially anytime pre-November. It's wonderful. It's wonderful.

I still don't even mind that. It's just, it's abrasive. Yeah. It fucking sucks. Yeah. Walking off a plane in nine degrees. It's tough. That's a lot. It's a little poof, especially when you're coming from Arizona. It's like, oh, Jesus, what's going on here? And that wasn't even their cold time yet. No, no. There was college kids walking around with shorts and t-shirts on. Shorts and shorts.

Chicks with like their belly showing and cleavage. And I'm like, it is nine degrees outside. You're just wandering. They're not even, they're not even like arms crossed. Nothing. They're just like casually strolling, vaping and shit. Like it's nothing. I'm like, these kids are nuts. You're a different breed. Wow. This is Woodbury, Minnesota, which is in Eastern Minnesota. It is just East of St. Paul. So,

So if you know how it works, Minneapolis, then St. Paul is just to the east of that. And then just east of that is going to be Woodbury. It's a suburb of the whole deal here. It is in Washington County. It's about a half hour to Minneapolis from here.

To get to our live show at the State Theater on September 20th. That's where you'd go. You can still get tickets for it. Shut up and give me murder.com. Anyway, this is in Washington County. Area code 651. The population currently has blown up in the last 20 years. The population. Oh, it's gotten huge. It's currently 74,014 people.

Well, that's because Minneapolis is almost unlivable for money. It's so expensive. It is, and it's expensive out here. This is like a pricier suburb. Really? Yeah, this is where you'd move...

If you're really successful in Minneapolis. Yeah. This place had less than 20,000 people when this murder occurred, and it wasn't that long ago. It wasn't like the 60s or anything either. So it's really blown up. Like in the last 20 years, it's doubled in population. So median household income here, $114,252. Oh, they're doing great. Usually $69,000 is the national average for that. So that is well above the average. And median home cost here is going to reflect that.

Four hundred thirty five thousand eight hundred dollars median. So you're coming out here with some money. This is like we're going to have good school districts and all that kind of stuff here. Little bit of history. It was originally named Red Rock, this place. Oh, yeah. Because there was a sacred stone supposedly painted by the famous Dakota chief, Little Crow.

And then, though, in 1859, when they, you know, went to incorporate the town or whatever, the state legislature discovered there was another Red Rock township in Minnesota and said, well, you can't have that. We already got one. It's in Minnesota. Pre-Google, they couldn't just look it up. They had to wait years until the legislature uncovered it somehow. I think that's where they were going in the Hateful Eight, going to Red Rock. Were they? I think that's right. That's possible. Minnesota, though?

It was fucking snowing. I don't know where they were coming. So Woodbury was named after Judge Levi Woodbury, who was from New Hampshire. And he was he was a friend of the first town board chairman. Yeah, I like this guy so much. I'm going to name a town after him, even though he doesn't live here.

Sounds good. 1844. Yeah. 1844 is kind of the settlement of the place here. The land was mostly the woods. It was all trees. And then it was converted to farmland. Knock all that shit down and grow shit. And that's what they're doing now. One of the farms still survives the Charles Spangenberg Farmstead. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

A lot of the people, everyone who came here, the immigrants at first were German, Irish, Swedish, Swiss, Scottish, Denmark, all, you know, Danish. Very. No, not just white. Yeah. Very white. Incredibly white. Tall white people. That's who people named Sven with blonde hair. Yeah.

So we've never been here. Let's find out some reviews of this town. Here we go. Five stars. I've lived in Woodbury for two years. Woodbury is a well-educated, diverse, high class and accepting of all people. High class. We've never had a review that called a town high class before. I would change nothing. Exclamation point. Not a thing. Nothing. It's perfect. Five stars. Well, that is five stars. So they understood the assignment at least.

Great play. Everybody, even the one stars aren't that, what they're complaining about isn't much here. Here's a three star. I am not quite sure how the crime is in my neighborhood.

That's the whole review. That's why it's three stars. If they could tell me about it, it might be five stars. Let me ask you something. When you go outside, are you afraid? Yeah. No? Then it's fine. There you go. That's the crime. You're very well aware of how safe it is. If you were unsafe, you'd know it probably. Yeah. Here's a two star. While it's a great place to live, everything is way too far apart to be able to get around without a car. It's not the inner city. That's how it all works. Three stars. There are many popular fast casual places.

Fast cash.

If there's a place where you can go get a quiet drink, you're doing great. I think that's fine, yeah. Here's three stars, the last one I'll read here. You better have boots and four-wheel drive. There are oftentimes unplowed streets. Oh, no, not unplowed streets. My cul-de-sac didn't get plowed. Oh, God, take two stars away. Boots and four-wheel drive. To get to your car, to get to your four-wheel drive vehicle. Things to do here, Woodbury Days.

Woodbury Day is a three-day family-friendly fun celebration to bring together and celebrate our great Woodbury community. It's packed with great entertainment. They say great a lot in this thing. Everything's great. Great entertainment, delicious food, and many other wonderful activities. Wonderful ones. Do you think they got the thesaurus out for that one? I think so.

They're like, good. Great. Great. Okay. Great. It's good. Shit. Wonderful. There we go. Wonderful. That sounds even better. More syllables makes me sound smarter. It says here, live music is back. Woodbury Days is already one of the best places to enjoy a meal with your friends and family. Our exceptional live music performances at the band Shell make it even better. Oh, we got a Shell. A Shell. Friday's live music, Cole Thomas.

No. No. Sometimes you're like, oh, okay. No, nothing. Performing all of the top piano bar favorites. That's why I don't know. So it's Piano Man over and over again. Basically, he's going to do a Billy Joel cover set.

He might throw a couple Elton Johns in there. A tiny dancer will come out probably. That's about it. Saturday night's all right. There's a little time left over. They're fighting. He might throw in a Stevie Wonder, possibly. Maybe, possibly. Maybe Georgia, do a little Ray Charles.

And maybe Alicia Keys. And he's going to do audience requests as well. So you can request any of this stuff. You got regrets. You almost got it right. But request something that's not done on the piano, please. Yeah. Request like Fugazi. You know what I mean? Like, just make it weird. Like, totally fucking. Something with a keytar. Yeah, something straight. There you go. Request Flock of Seagulls. Say, do that.

So along with guitarist Joe Roszkowski, he'll be there as well. So can't miss Joe. After that Saturday's music, Crowfather will be playing. Yeah. You know Crowfather's a great band because they have the coveted 2 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. time slot that all entertainers want to have. 2.30. That's great. Open door and open air. That's community theater performers singing music from past community theater. Probably.

Shows. Oh, boy. Yeah, like My Fair Lady and shit they're going to sing to you. Yeah, some rent. Things like that. Oh, boy. And their favorite pieces from the musical theater canon. So just musical theater bullshit. Jordan Johnston and The Elevation will be performing. Okay. And then you got Bloodline will be there.

I don't know what the bloodline is. And then finally, the big headliners, High and Mighty from 7 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. They have a three and a half hour set, which sounds like a lot. What? They got to dig deeper. They've got to better act. Sunday, Haley James is there. Nope. Don't know.

Not sure. I don't know. Isn't that the chick who said she spits on people's dicks? Isn't that her? No, I don't know. It possibly is. There you go. So that said, let's talk about a murder. Yeah. What do you say? Let's do it here. Let's go all the way back in time, not too far, to 1989.

Yeah, very recent. Yeah, 1989, a magical time. Not really, it was pretty lame. Dick Spitter wasn't even born yet. People thought those voices were coming out of Milli Vanilli at this time. They said, those European men that can't speak English, I'm sure, sing like southern black men who have an extra 40 pounds on their girth. You know what I mean?

That sounds right. That sounds like grits to me. Yeah. I saw the documentary, by the way. You should watch it. The Milli Vanilli. It's so funny because when you watch it now, one guy's singing it and he barely speaks English. He has like a high German accent and a high voice. And this guy's like. The light one or the dark one? The lighter one. The lighter one. Rob. Rob. Fab's the dark one. Is that right? The darker skin of the other. Yeah. I don't know the name. The dark one. He's the dark one. That's not what I meant to say. You know what I'm talking about.

But you hear, you see him singing Blame It On The Rain. It's like, blame it on the rain. It's like, that's a fat Southern man. He said on. And duh. Blame it on the rain. That's a fucking fat man.

From Tennessee. That is not a European man who weighs a buck 30. That man sings in a church choir somewhere. Stop this. Yeah. He'll tell you all about the Lord and you'll believe it because it sounds so good. So let's talk about this. Let's talk about a young lady here, Sharon Phyllis Bloom. Okay. She is born on November 2nd, 1951. Yes.

She is the daughter of Ida and Leonard Bloom. Here, those are her parents. Comes up in a nice family in Chicago is where she grows up. Very much into science and math, growing up.

Growing up. Yeah. She is like she won a science award when she was a junior in high school and that sort of thing. She also would she danced and did shit like that, too. And like, yeah, like was in like a dance troupe type thing, I think here. She did something with her troupe at a folk festival when she was like in high school. So, yeah, she does stuff. She gets out there. Everybody says she's very bubbly. She wrote an essay about loneliness for the Chicago Tribune when she was in ninth grade.

Smart kid. Yeah. I couldn't write a postcard about having a boner in the ninth grade. I would fucking... She's published. Yeah. She's writing to the... She's published about emotions. About emotions. Yeah. What were your emotions when you were in ninth grade? I'm horny and mad. Because they always said no. Mad and horny is what I am. That's not really an essay. It's going to be over soon. So...

They they she wrote that she had went and she's Jewish. She visited Israel at one point. And her father said that when reading her writings about it, she said, I don't remember ever reading them about his writings. And he said he read it about when he did read it. It was about her description of the sunset over the mountains. And he was like, wow, she's a goddess.

She's a really good writer. Holy shit. Like she's also so she's into math and science and the other side of her brain works, too, though. She can write. So it's a rare, well, well-rounded person. You know, math and science go together like peas and carrots. But that emotional part is oftentimes disconnected from those other side of the fucking brain. That's right. They don't work together very often. So she ends up in about 1981. She's about 30. She moves to the Minneapolis area.

And that is to take a job with 3M, which is in Woodbury here. She's going to invent Post-its. Yeah, I think she is, actually. We've had many Romy and Michelle references lately. 3M certainly did invent them. They did, actually, yeah. So she moved from Illinois to this area to work as a computer, a systems analyst for 3M. That's her shit. Wow.

Wow. Smart lady, let's just say. Cutting edge early adopter. Yeah. This is an 81 she's doing that. So, I mean, she knew what the future held and was getting right into it here. She, about 1987, she's been working at her job for a few years. She meets a young man and they seem to hit it right off. His name is Dave Kofod, K-O-E-F-O-D. And they hit it off right away. And within the next year and a half, they're living together.

And everything like that. They met doing volunteer work at KTCA-TV.

That's where they met. So I had a volunteer work for a TV station network. Yeah. I don't know if it was like a fundraiser, like your, you know, phone banks type of thing like they did with PBS back in the day or what. But she's first of all, she's pretty black hair, green eyes, real attractive. But he said it was more than that. He said, quote, she was sheer energy. She could be like a champagne uncorked.

So just exploding out everywhere with energy. That's a weird reference, but okay. I've never heard a human compared to uncorked champagne before, but I'm... You know what? That's not bad, actually. You get what he's saying. That's probably why he's got a gal. It paints a picture. He's good with his words. He's good with them words.

So they live together and they start remodeling a home that they bought. Oh, this is a great way to find out. Let's find out if we can make it together here when we're in Home Depot arguing about shades of white. I don't give a fuck. It's white. No, this is eggshell. No, this one. But look at it. It's darker than that. Who fucking cares? None of that matters. Just.

It's a great way to find out if you're compatible. Rebuild and remodel. Perfect. You couldn't get any perfect. It's like on 30 Rock when they were like, Ikea is the ultimate test of a relationship. Yeah, take the shit home from Ikea. Try to put it together. That's the test of the relationship. So she has some troubles at work from 88 into 89. All of a sudden, there's very weird things are happening to her. Pranks and harassment are happening at work.

And this is like 3M. She's not working at a. Yeah. Mom and pop. She's not working like a telemarketing bullpen with a bunch of people who just got out of prison. Like these are all like nerds. So it doesn't make any sense who's harassing her. But they are people. People start. She had a few suspicions of who it might be in the office, but couldn't figure it out. Pranks like several sets of her car keys and house keys had been taken from her desk.

What? Like several times it was like, you know, the end of the night and there's not a lot of people there and she can't find her car keys and they've been taken from where she keeps them. And so she, you know, they have she calls security and says, what the fuck? So she's terrified. Yeah. She doesn't want to go stand out in the dark in the dark in the parking lot and.

Or worse off, get home and somebody's already there. That's scary, too. Yeah, you figure people at your job, A, know what car you have and probably know you can get your address, too. Absolutely. And so she ended up, after a while, she had taken to safety pinning her keys to her purse.

Okay. So it's harder to swipe. You can't just grab them. You'd have to undo like four safety pins to have to do it. So just little things like that, but very weird stuff like the keys and also a set of transparency she needed for a presentation was stolen from her desk.

She had all her stuff for head projector. She had all her stuff ready. And there's one thing was completely missing. Then like three days later, it was right back where it was put right back where it was, where on her desk, where nothing else was anymore. So it was like, that's scary. Someone's fucking with her. Obviously, uh, coffee was poured on her chair. At one point, someone soaked her chair seat in coffee. Uh,

Because it's cushioned. Yeah. She sat in it. Yeah. All her ass is all brown. Yep. She had to go home and change her clothes because she was covered in fucking coffee. People stole her glasses. Her glasses were stolen. You don't steal someone's glasses. That's crazy. Number one. Fucked up. What are you going to do with them? And number two, they fucking need their glasses to see. That's a whole other level of weird, you know? Yeah.

So 3M decided after all of this that they would install hidden cameras around her desk to catch who the fuck was doing this. So these cameras were set to be installed on November 5th, 1989.

That was the date with these. And she knew about it, but no one else did. They brought her in and said, listen, are you okay? Because they had to ask her permission to, you know, whatever. She said, yeah, yeah, please, please do it. I want to see who's fucking doing this. So November 5th, they're waiting for. Then on November 2nd, 1989, Dave is waiting for her at home and she doesn't come home.

She doesn't come home. And so he reports her missing to the police. And he also goes out and looks for her himself.

That's what he says anyway, Dave. He drives to 3M and finds that her Honda is still in the parking lot. Oh, boy. So that's not great. They say the police asked the coworkers when was the last time everybody saw her. Last time they can get a time where anybody saw her was 1130 a.m. Standing outside the front entrance of the building. The middle of a shift. Lunchtime at work.

Yeah. Not usually dangerous. When you're leaving your office, you're not thinking, oh, boy, this is a prime kidnapping time here. Boy, I'm going to be swiped. So it's very fucking strange. Her boyfriend called all the hospitals, police stations all around different towns. He was calling police stations. And then finally, the Woodbury police report her officially missing and all of that sort of thing. So her her cousin says her cousin Norma, who talked to her all the time,

that her dad called her cousin to ask whether she had talked to Sharon that day when the dad knew she was missing. And the dad had told her if Sharon was angry, upset, or anything, you'd be the first person she'd call. So do you know if she needed some time to herself or something? Because they talked every day. And the cousin said, no, not at all. They used to babysit together and do all that kind of shit. And she said, no, I haven't talked to her. Hmm.

It's tough. So police go to the coworkers now. It's a huge place, by the way. There's hundreds of people work here. So this is tough. The factory in town. Yeah. It's a big place. You basically have let's talk to all the guys first. Who's more likely to swipe a woman from a parking lot? Probably not another lady. So they talk to about 100 coworkers.

And family members and friends, past boyfriends, people she talked to at a bar three weeks ago, anybody they could find. And they learned, that's when they learned about the harassment at work. And they were like, really? She's being harassed. They said, this has been going on for over a year. Just constantly fucking with her. Then they find out that her keys had been taken. And when her keys were taken, they were never returned. They're still missing. Every time she got new sets of keys, that's what she had to do. Wow.

So they're all out there. So somebody has four sets of house and car keys of hers. Shit. So that's interesting. They also found out that her glasses, sometimes they'd be stolen and never taken back, never given back. And then sometimes they'd be taken and then put in a place that was already searched for them. Like,

Out in the open. On the filing cabinet. Where they already looked, which was very weird. One time, one of her other materials for a presentation got taken, not the transparencies, another time. And then she found them returned to her locked desk after the presentation. That's where she found them. Oh, no way. Right after they were in her desk, in the locked desk. So she's like, okay, someone's got my desk keys too.

It's a lot. And they said it's been going on for more than a year. Her friends knew of the harassment and knew of all that kind of thing and that she had expressed concerns for her safety because she didn't understand why someone was doing this. They must really have it in for her. And can this escalate to something worse is what she was worried about here. So the harasser had not been identified.

But several people had a guy they thought maybe it was, a guy named Stephen Zantar, Z-A-N-T-E-R, Zantar, I guess. And Stephen is, I guess, Stephan, I guess it would be, S-T-E-P-H-A-N. So that's Stephan. Stephan. Stephan. But he's not a Stephan.

No, no. He's like a half Japanese small guy. His mom's from Japan. His dad's American. Yeah. So interesting. Stefan, I guess they worked together for years and he was the former occupant of her desk.

I guess when he had moved to another department, she took over that desk. So that's why she suspected him because she said he might have the desk keys still. Okay, yeah. So that's the only reason why she suspected him. Now, so they're trying to get alibis. They were able to alibi her boyfriend, Dave.

And they were able to get alibis for pretty much every single coworker, like 100 people. They were able to alibi up because they were all elsewhere. They went out to lunch together, half of them in the break room eating together or whatever it is. The only person they could not quite nail down a solid alibi on is Stefan Zantor.

Zantor? Zantor. Can't get Zantor here. Really? Yes. And one of her coworkers, Tamara House, said that Zantor had loaned her a computer manual in 1986 or 1987. This is weird. Okay. A couple years ago. A couple years ago, he lent me a computer manual. I had it the whole time. Then in 1989, she discovered that the manual was missing from the cabinet above her desk.

And so she couldn't find the manual. She approached Xanter, and he said, yeah, I took it back. And she said that she was very angry because he entered her cubicle without her permission. Yeah, that's weird. Which is weird. Also, when you borrow something, you should return it within three years probably. Yeah.

Yeah, I gave you a three-year window. Yeah, you know, I'm not going to judge him on that action alone because he might have been like, it's been three years, lady. I'm sorry, but he could have asked for it. I feel like I gave you ample opportunity. Yeah. Still, you don't enter people's space without. And if you've worked in an office, people are fucking weird about their cubicles, man. They're real territorial about that shit. Like anybody wants pictures of your shitty kids, don't worry. No one's taking anything.

It's your space. It's the only thing in this cold shit place that's mine. Stay the fuck out of it. No, don't come in here. It's like a seat on a bus. Don't put your elbow over here. This is all I have.

Fucking horrible. So a little bit about Stefan Zanter here. He is born in 1955, so he's around her age. Like I said, half Japanese, mom born in Japan, came over when she was a kid, like after World War II, and then met her dad and all that kind of thing. So they had worked at the same desk, and I guess the two of them, Zanter and Bloom, apparently were...

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utilize the same desk at one point in time. That's wild. So weird. So he left work that morning, which by the way was two days before her birthday. And she, he had left work and she had last been seen at 11, 20 AM outside. So,

So they're like, he had left work and they don't have like a why everyone knows where he was. He was with somebody else. He was by himself. He gets to leave at any point. What a wild job. Fuck. So November 12th night, they trust nerds. That's why. People like us, all the jobs we've had, there's always been like somebody looking at you or a clock. Yeah.

Where's that asshole? Did he leave already? That's what happens when you have no skills. People just like they have to keep an eye on you. Whereas if you have any kind of skills or anything like that, they just trust you'll do it and not fuck off.

So November 12th, 1989, there, this is 10 days later, the police interview Stefan finally. Yeah. After they figure out, you know, it takes a while to clear 100 people on alibis. Sure. So Ray DiPrima here, he's an agent with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and David Hines, an investigator with the Woodbury Police Department, they go to his home to interview him and try to see if he's got an alibi. Now his wife Barbara is there, and she's going to sit with him through the whole time. Okay.

This is weird, by the way, rather than usually if you have any kind of you take the person to the station at all. Yeah, you say because that's your environment. You have everything there. Number one, it's safe. He's not going to pull a gun out from under the couch cushion and shoot you. And number two, it's your environment. You can set it up how you want it. You can make him wait and stew for a while. You can control everything to sit in his living room and do it.

That shows me that he's not a suspect or they were trying to make him think he wasn't a suspect or something. But his wife is there the whole time. His daughter was present for the first half of the interview as well. Gather around, kids. Daddy's got a murder interview to do. He's got a murder interrogation here. You mind if my daughter sits on this? No, no. No problem. Yeah, she's really into criminal justice. So the interview is about four and a half hours long.

And during the interview, he acknowledged that he was aware of the harassment of Sharon. I knew about, I heard about it. He said that, yeah, I know that some of my coworkers considered me to be a suspect, but I'm not, I didn't harass her. I don't know. I wouldn't do that. What the hell am I going to do that for? He said that in front of his wife. Yeah. He said, people think I'm doing this shit for some reason. He said, I think it's just because we shared the same desk. I don't know what it is. He goes, but it's not anything like that, which is fair. I mean, who knows? Yeah.

So they said, all right, well, what do you have for November 2nd? An alibi. By the way, she's born November 4th, 1951, not November 2nd. I messed that up earlier. And he's about to get it. She's about to get cameras on the 5th of November. The 5th. The day after her birthday. The day after her birthday or when the cameras are going to be installed. Happy birthday. We'll figure this out now. Now, they said, where were you on the 2nd? And he said, well, I was working at 3M. I left work at about 11 a.m. I drove to the 3M employee store in Maplewood, Minnesota.

And I went there to purchase some items. He said, I don't remember what I went there to get, but whatever. But he left the store without making any purchases. So don't know if he changed his mind or they didn't have what he was looking for or whatever here. So then he drove to a Burger King for lunch. So it's a Burger King. He's got his Whopper in him. And then he said that shortly after leaving Burger King, he was driving along a busy street when his car broke down.

Oh. So he was stuck. He said he waited for a while. I don't even know how long. This is his pre-cell phone, so you don't know how fucking long anything is. That's a significant day. It's like noon, too. It's still early.

So his car breaks down. He said he waited for a while before finally somebody pulled over and helped him jumpstart his car. So somehow his battery died while he was driving, which I don't know how that happens. It doesn't make any sense. I've never heard of somebody. I've never seen someone on the side of the road need a jumpstart. Yeah. They were already driving. Not a battery. Yes. That's a different thing completely. But that's I'm not a car expert. But that's one thing I do know is.

Usually it doesn't start. You need to jump to start. They tell you, don't shut it off until you get where you're going. Let it charge. Because it'll get you there. Yeah. Right. Charge it up. And if the battery's bad, then it won't start back up if you stop it somewhere. Then you're fucked. Yeah.

He remembered that the individual that helped him was male. They said, okay, a guy came and jump-started your car. A description, height, weight, black guy, white guy, green guy, anything. How about the car? Big car, little car, truck, red, green. What do you got? Does he remember any of this? He said, I don't know his age, race, appearance, height, or the type of car he drove. Don't remember that. Ten days ago, I stood on the side of the road for an hour,

praying that someone would pull over and help me. Someone finally did, and I can't remember a fucking thing about him. Nothing. I'd know, yeah. He could be everything. It could be J.R. Ryder coming from the Timberwolves. Yeah. Kevin Garnett could be helping him, or it could be, you know, a 5'4", 75-year-old white man. We have no idea. He has no...

It's one of them or the coach. We don't know. He said, I don't see race or age or gender or fucking hair color. This man's mad progressive. I don't see anything, man. I'm completely blind to people and what they are. I just see people. I just see people. He was a person driving a car. That's all I saw. Heartbeats and organic matter. That's all I see. That's it.

So after he got his car cranked and he said he went home because he was cold because he was sitting out there with no heat for an hour in November in fucking Minnesota. So he was cold. So at about 2 p.m., he called 3M to tell his supervisor that he wouldn't be coming back to work that day. He's like, well, it's already 2. I came in early anyway. I'm leaving. He said that he spent the remainder of the afternoon just kicking around home, you know.

farting around the house just doing whatever his wife's not even worried about that car that's dead in the driveway no what are you gonna do it's dead that's it we'll figure it out later so just kicked around the house his wife's a teacher so she's not at home she's at work um so approximately three to four hours into the interview with him the detective was paged

And so he said, can I use your phone quick? Yeah. Calls the office and learn that, oh, Sharon Bloom's body has just been found. Oh, that's...

Terrible news. Terrible news, but amazing to see a guy's reaction to it. Yeah. You normally don't get to see that because at that point. We get to give him breaking news that nobody on the planet knows. Nope. Nobody at all. And I mean, they've just paged the investigating detective to tell him about it. I'm about to tell you something that her parents don't know. They didn't. So her body was found that day. So after 10 days of being missing, nobody had much hopes. It's not good.

Found by a guy named Dennis Sutter, who's a farmer, just after 3 p.m. on that day. It's a Sunday afternoon. He's out picking corn on his farm. And he finds this horrible fucking site here. He said he had just started working in that field when he saw the body lying about 20 feet from the dirt road that runs at the field's northern edge. So somebody ran down a dirt road and just dumped her right there.

So he called the authorities right away. He said that he hasn't looked over that field for more than a week. About 10, 11 days probably we're going to say. She, when they find her, she's wearing a coat and blouse, but no skirt that she had or nothing on the bottom. No. Her glasses are nearby.

So there's that. But her purse and other personal belongings are not there. And they search the field. They get dogs in to find any kind of anything. They can't find anything.

There's a couple other details that we'll talk about, too, here. So 10 days after this, this is 10 days after she's gone. There's also her undergarments are nearby. So her underwear there and a man's black sock was the undergarments and a man's black sock were wadded into a ball next to her stomach.

So that's very weird. They found on her a gold acrylic fiber. So they found a fiber and it's gold acrylic and a gray olefin fiber as well. Olefin, I don't know how you say that. O-L-E-F-I-N. Some material. I don't know. They find that. That was found on the sock. And a gray olefin fiber was found on the suit jacket that she was wearing on her body.

So she has been killed by blows to the head with a heavy rounded object. Oh, no.

Yes, this is, I mean, she's just been battered and bashed and it's like, you know, 15 blows to the head with a fucking, they're thinking like a rounded object, possibly a hammer, maybe a ball peen hammer, maybe a tire, maybe a rock if they can find the right rock. They don't know exactly. There's also semen present. She was attacked and sexually assaulted as well, but it's very degraded.

Because there's been animals out here. Oh, no. She's been out in the elements for 10 days. Yeah. So it's been, you know, things have been happening. The 3M offered a $15,000 reward for finding her, and the farmer ended up getting 15 grand out of this. Attaboy. That's a lucrative corn-picking day for you. Yeah. Of course, now you're traumatized. You just saw a nice woman's fucking corpse battered and beaten. In a horrible, yeah. Worst state you can imagine. Oh, man.

So they immediately they're worried about is this connected to another missing woman? The day she went missing the same fucking day. Another woman, Heather Lampert, was last seen outside her office at Northern States Power Company at Fort Street and Nicolette Mall in downtown Minneapolis. Oh, my God. A half hour away. Her body was later found the next day in Chizago County. So.

The body of Louise Johnson, who had been missing for four months, was then found on November 3rd. She had last been seen at a supermarket in Roseville on July 3rd.

So the cops are checking possible connections between these women disappearing. So bad. This could be very bad. They're like this. Do we have something real, real bad here? Um, they tell the parents, they tell Sharon's parents, Leonard and Ida there. And Leonard said he received word of his daughter's death from a nephew who lives a few blocks from the home. They said that dad said he wasn't surprised. He said we had anticipated the worst because her credit cards and checking account had not been used. Um,

She can't run away and not use money. You know what I mean? She said it sounded very bad right from the beginning. So this is happening in the middle of interviewing their main suspect, by the way. Right. Yeah. So he hears this, goes, and the two officers tell Steph and Xanter that we just found Sharon's body, by the way. Yeah.

and we found Bloom's body, and at that point, he became emotionally distraught, which, if it's just somebody at your job that you know and you found out dead, maybe you'd become emotionally distraught. That's what you would think. If we're here just talking about a missing girl, that's pretty fucked up, and now you're telling me the girl that...

has my old desk is dead. That would be normal. But then he said something very fucking weird. He said, quote, I was hoping she wouldn't be found. What? His wife jumps in and goes, I think he means that they were, they were, we both hope that she had been not found dead. We hope that she was like, just took off somewhere. We'd hope she wasn't like found in a field. That's what he's trying to tell you. We hope that she'd come. Wow.

Old fucking wife Barbara Esquire over here is going to, he means this. Don't worry. Good save, Barb. Then he began to sob and wail and moan. That is not okay. It's not his kid or his wife. I mean, that's like, you know, we found your daughter, you sob and wail and moan. We found your wife, you sob and moan. Not your coworker that you barely fucking know.

He eventually goes from sobbing and moaning to crumpling down into a fetal position. Hello? Fucking weird reaction. Yeah. That's a crazy reaction to someone that you don't, unless you love that person. Yeah. Oh, that's terrible. Fuck. I loaned her a compact Presario manual. I'm losing my shit. Curling into a fetal position.

His wife, Barbara, became concerned and asked the officers, please don't leave. Please stay. Don't leave me alone with this guy. She did. I've never heard of that before. Please stay in my home and interrogate my husband about a murder because I'm freaked the fuck out here. So then after he gets his breath enough to speak, because he's literally just like a three-year-old. Toddler. Yeah.

He gets his breath up and he says, are you going to take me to jail? What? Bad. Everything he said is wrong. All of this is wrong. They responded by asking, is there a reason why we should take you to jail? Why should we take you? Exact correct thing to say, which he wouldn't. And then he just stopped answering questions. He didn't like answer and he stopped making eye contact.

Both officers thought later on they said they found his behavior highly unusual. I would say. I've never heard of it. No. Foreigner shows it. I've never heard of this. 500. 500. 516 this episode is. This is the first fucking time we've heard this reaction. No one's ever done that. This is crazy. So they're like, that's awfully strange there. So they end up saying that they found it weird. And then the officers, they just go, okay, well, we're going to take off now. And they leave.

We're going to note this, but we'll be back. I'm not leaving until I get kicked out or he confesses. Those are my two fucking, because he obviously knows what the fuck happened if I'm these guys. I'd ask him if he wants to maybe go get a soda, jump in the car. Let's go. We'll talk about it on our way. Go get a cup of coffee, me and you. You know what I mean?

Share a basket of fries. Shit. But they definitely are suspicious as fuck of the guy, obviously. So November 16th, 1989, the police applied for a search warrant for both for his home and to take blood and hair samples from his body as well. Yeah. Because we have a little bit of DNA technology at this point. They could narrow it down just not to one in 75 billion. It'd be like, you know, one in 6,000 would be your thing, which is still a narrow. It's helpful just but it's not really like a slam dunk in court.

Especially because people don't know what the fuck DNA is yet, so it doesn't really help. So they do this. The affidavit is in support of the warrants that say they're looking for... They're saying he's a suspect in the harassment of Bloom. The police were unable to verify his alibi because he's by himself. He acted in an unusual manner upon learning that her body had been discovered. And so they do issue a search warrant looking for... And it's very important what they're authorizing them to search and seize...

Clothing and personal effects belonging to or owned by Sharon Phyllis Bloom, including a skirt, shoes, underpants,

underwear, and a gray and brown purse and its content. It was his underwear. It was male underwear, not her underwear with the male sock, by the way. Keys, credit card, calendar, address book, identification, a heavy blunt metal object indicating the presence of hair, blood, or bodily fluids, sample of hair, blood, and bodily fluids, and possible fingerprints of Sharon Phyllis Bloom, if you can find them in there, too.

Can we also look in his underwear drawer and see if he's wearing those that we found? Let's see if... He was coming a three-pack or six-pack back then. Let's see if Thursday's missing, shall we? Let's check this out.

It is not Monday through Friday minus a year. Let's find out, man. So when they execute the warrant, he was painting his master bedroom at the time. So they had recently moved into a newly built home here. So why are they painting? It's newly built. That's weird. Yeah. I mean, they oftentimes just paint it white and then come back through and change colors. I guess, yeah. So during the search, they seized several items, including photographs found in his briefcase. Okay. Uh-oh.

The photographs are not sexually explicit, but many were women in bathing suits and things like that. And several were of women sitting on the toilet.

So more Mormon porn. Listen. Yeah. That's me on the toilet. I'm sorry. OK, I don't care about at this point. We're usually evidence people. But between the sobbing, the wailing, the moaning, saying I was hoping she didn't want to be found and then pictures of women sitting on the toilet. I'm arresting him for something. This is fucking weird. You're tripping me out. That's who has several pictures of.

Women on the toilet. On the toilet. It's not his wife. It's just. That's the thing. It's not his wife. It's not either. Now, whatever your kink is, is fine, but not the toilet. That's not fine. That's the only one that I'm not okay with is fucking is that. So the agent here, agent to Prima immediately recognizes one of the women in the photographs as being a co-worker of Sharon and Stefan. Yeah.

On the toilet? In bathing suits and shit like that. Oh, my. Yes, there's 25 photographs, basically. Most of them are just shorts and swimsuits in boating or vacation settings. So someone's beach pictures, like someone's vacation pictures. And yeah, the woman that they found in many of the photographs is Donna Sommerfelt Billick.

She's a 3M employee. And until the discovery was brought to her attention, she had never, she didn't know her photographs had even been stolen. These are her pictures, except for the toilet ones.

OK. And that's a different thing. When she picked up her processed rolls of film and noticed that some prints were missing, she assumed that the company 3M photo service, because you can get your film developed at work there, failed to print some of the negatives and just fucked it up. So she just reordered prints of everything and didn't think twice about it. Meanwhile, he fucking stole them from that. Creepy.

I would say imagine it's fuck. Imagine what other weird shit he's doing. So neither Xanter nor any of his family members were in any of these photographs. So these are not his pictures. They seize the photos because they assume they're stolen and anything that was related to the alleged harassment at 3M. Now, the police did not confirm the photos were stolen until they talked to that woman. And she said, holy fuck, there are my pictures.

Oh.

There's a missing woman. There's a dead woman. There's a dead woman. Oh, my God. Let's make time. What do you say, guys? This is some small town shit here. Bring someone in from Minneapolis, can we? There's a big city right there. You only got one guy? Holy fuck. Split him up. So because the police had removed what they thought to be seminal material from Sharon's body, they believed that they'd be able to compare DNA in that with samples of his DNA. But what?

They couldn't get anything. They don't know if they actually had semen or not. They're not positive it's semen. It's degraded. They can't figure it out. So that's a problem. So they can't compare that. September 5th, 1990. The next year. Months and months go by. They don't arrest him, even for the theft of the pictures. Nothing. Oh, boy. This is when they get another search. This is 10 months after the first search.

They are seeking this. The affidavit for that one says that it set forth additional evidence that focused suspicion on Zantor, including preliminary conclusions by the BCA lab indicated that a head hair and a pubic hair found with Sharon's body were microscopically similar to known samples taken from Zantor. But that means nothing. Nothing at all. Similar, whatever.

Similar is so hard to fucking tell. But that's whatever. They said that there was that. Also, Zanter had been painting his master bathroom when the police executed the first warrant. Luminol testing had in the past been successful in revealing trace blood on painted walls. So they said maybe we can still use it even though it's painted.

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It's free, available for download on Google Play and the App Store. The photograph seized during the first search had been confirmed to be stolen. His car battery showed no signs of having recently been connected to cables back then either. He had the dust on the connectors. Oh, yeah. You can see if someone recently put cables. You can see it. It wasn't there. It was still all, it was still just the dust.

So there's that and other inconsistencies in his alibi. So this time the lab personnel actually come into the house too. They execute the warrant. They use luminal testing procedure to attempt to find trace blood on the painted walls. They don't find anything.

They also conduct a second exhaustive search of the home. Luminescent testing revealed no blood on the master bathroom walls. A blue sock similar to a sock found between the legs of the victim was seized. They found the fucking left to the right there. Carpet fibers from the sock found on the victim are comparable to carpeting in his home. Oh, yes. In the previous place they live, they move into a new place now.

The police did not arrest him, though. We got similar carpet hair. We've got the other sock. So the press... We want the jizz. We want the jizz. The press are asking, will you prosecute this man? Okay. Are you going to prosecute anyone? And they said, this is what they say. They say, the police tell the press that they questioned a suspect and tested his DNA. They spoke of calling a grand jury and building a murder case, the prosecutors said.

But then it didn't happen. The DNA tests were inconclusive. And because they're not great back then, too. We're talking about 1991 here. No one was arrested. No murder weapon was found. Her skirt, purse, and shoes are still missing. So they're like they don't really have a case is what they're saying. Woodbury Police Chief Greg Orth said, who was one of the first to look into this, believes he knows who killed her, he said. I think I know who did it, but I can't prove it.

He said he suspects a man who was among those police questioned whose story about where he was when Bloom disappeared wasn't quite right. He is someone that Bloom knew. He said, but if I was a juror, I couldn't convict him. He said, I don't have the evidence. He wouldn't say if the suspect worked with Sharon, but he said that Sharon made an appointment to see the man the day she disappeared.

Who would she make an appointment to see? That's interesting. The witnesses last saw her in the lobby of her building just before lunch. She was wearing her coat and appeared to be waiting for someone, and her Honda Accord was in the parking lot the next day. Now, the chief said, my suspicion is that the person didn't plan to kill her. Something just got out of hand.

He said the man he suspects still lives in the area. He wouldn't say if the police are watching him all the time, this guy. He did say that he's frustrated with the investigation. The chief did. He said it may be even more frustrating when you think about when you think you know who did it. But you need those couple extra pieces to prove it. Now, the another cop they talked to said we have an obligation to prove our case beyond a reasonable doubt. This is the prosecutor. And juries don't always agree with police and prosecutors about what that is.

This guy, the chief, again, said that Sharon was fastidious and blunt and, quote, was not the star of the office. But he didn't believe that her killer was the one who harassed her. That's what he says. He says, I don't think it's the same person. I think we're making a connection. He said it's a pretty big jump from stealing keys to murdering someone. True. Certainly puts you in the argument. There's just nothing else. Now, Dave, at this point, the boyfriend...

He's like he says he hopes that the chief suspicions are wrong. He said it's easier for me to accept a complete stranger. I don't want to think that she knew someone that beat her to death. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. He said they were remodeling their small home in South Minneapolis when she disappeared. And he said that the plasterboard walls remain unfinished and he's yet to put the doors on the bedroom closets.

I'm waiting. Wait till she gets home. He said, I was fixing it up because that's the way we wanted it. I was doing it for a purpose. Now that purpose isn't here. So he said he's trying to start over. He started dating again. He refers to her murder as a room I try not to go into anymore.

Tries to block it out. He said, I don't wish this hurt on anybody, not on anybody. The person who did this doesn't deserve to be out there with the human race. So you would think despite all of this stuff going on, there'd be something. No progress whatsoever. Not a drop of it. Nothing. The parents are pissed, by the way, her parents, and they fucking kind of deserve to be here.

They're pissed off. Her father, Leonard, said, I was never a very religious person, a very pious person. But now he goes to synagogue every morning to pray for her. And he says, the only reason I go so often is because of Sharon. So he's changed here. February 1992, Agent DePrima has not stopped work in this case. He interviews several of Barbara Zanter, Stefan's wife's co-workers.

School teachers. And some of them recalled that on November 3rd, 1989, day after this all happened, Barbara was distracted at work because on the previous day she had found freshly spilled blood on the carpet and walls of her new home. Say again? Pardon? What? Barbara asked her coworkers for suggestions on how to remove blood stains from carpet.

Google doesn't exist. You have to ask coworkers about it. That's a nice invention of dog pile and all these other search engines. So they said Jeeves came from that? All that bullshit from back then. The fucking stupid paperclip? I don't know what he was doing. Just showing you how to fill out the sheet. There you go. Fuck him. Xanter, they said, well, how did you get so much blood on the carpet and walls? Xanter accidentally cut himself, he said.

Oh, just spilled it everywhere. Lost like three pints, but I'm, you know, half bled out, but I'm okay. Enough on an accidental cut that you need advice on how to fix this problem? You need advice because it's not only soaked deep into the shag, but it's also sprayed on the walls. It's in the drywall. It's also spattered. So now the police want a third search warrant.

Yeah. The affidavit in this warrant says the only new information contained in the affidavit is that Barbara Zanter discussed the existence of blood at their house. And also that the day Bloom disappeared, a co-worker at Zanter's – no, that was then. Now, recently, a co-worker at Zanter's new job, because he left 3M under the suspicion. He works at the University of Minnesota now. Oh, my God. Yeah. Had reported her wallet stolen, someone he worked with. Uh-oh.

Oh, so they're like, you put that in there, too, because they try to connect it. Now they go back March of 1992. It's another search here. This time they are authorized to seize evidence related to the cause, matter or motive in the death of Sharon Phyllis Bloom, including Harris.

Right.

Now, warrant is executed at night and the Xanters have to leave their home overnight while the police toss their house. So during the search, they found evidence of blood on the underside of the carpet in the Xanter home.

But they couldn't figure out the origins of the bloodstains. We'll talk about that in a second. I mean, it has to be a crazy amount. If it gets all the way to the pad, that's a lot of blood. Yeah, you didn't sop it up real quick either. You didn't stub your toe, you know what I mean? Yeah, this is a six-hour search. Then they go down in the basement in the bottom drawer of a dresser in the side corner back in the basement somewhere. They find a set of keys.

Yeah. One of the keys is for a Honda. Oh, none of them own a Honda. Sharon owned a Honda. The police subsequently determined it's it's her Honda key. It's hers. It's hers. Now, the search for this fellow doesn't own a fucking Honda. That's crazy. No, he doesn't. No, he's not. He's driving American only. It's weird.

The search resulted in the discovery of blood-stained carpet backing on the stairs and landing going down to the basement. The Honda keys were found clipped to safety pins in a dresser drawer in the basement. Also, keys to Sharon's St. Paul condominium were found in the drawers in the master bedroom and bathroom. What's he doing? Spreading the keys out. The investigator who seized the keys was aware of Sharon's habit of pinning her keys to her purse.

The keys were for a car and her previous residence because at the crime scene, the police had found the keys Bloom had with her on the day she disappeared. They concluded that the keys found in Xander's basement were probably the keys possibly taken as part of the ongoing harassment of Bloom, but not proof of murder. True, true. Then, yeah, they talk about the it's fucking amazing. By the way, he cut his hand so bad that he was bleeding out in the house because he had car trouble earlier.

sliced his whole shit open on an engine and then got all the way there's no blood in his car like you know around the steering wheel or any of that shit just in his house he exploded when he got there yeah it took a minute that is fucking wild here um now testing available at the time determined that the dried blood from the carpet came from either a human an ape or a monkey

A higher primate, quote unquote. Yeah. I'm going to go with human. That's as far as they can narrow it down. I doubt there was an ape in the house. We'll put it that way. Have you as far as they can narrow it? That's it. They called a few zoos. No apes or monkeys were missing. So they assumed it was human. I assume probably a person. Probably a person. All their chimps. What are the odds? Yeah.

So October 1992, he is arrested, finally, is the answer here. He is indicted for first and second degree murder. A chimp, a gorilla, or a human. Or a human, one of the three. After the hearing, the district court suppresses a receipt that they found of his, the photos of the other woman at work, and the keys to the Honda and the condominium. That's all suppressed, which is brutal because you have to show he had that shit in his house to connect them.

That's the reason you arrested him. Yeah. So they they the state appeals this. And yeah, they say that the district court's admission of evidence of workplace harassment of Bloom Bloom statements regarding her fear and disbelief are in belief of physical threat and Xanthar's retrieval of a computer manual at work.

All that's suppressed and they want it back in. It's everything. It's everything. So the investigator sees the photographs testifying here. They said, you had a reason to believe they were stolen? And he said, I knew that one of the primary issues in our case was theft of property. And I saw a picture of Donna Sommerfeld, a woman who worked in 3M. So my alarm bells went off and said these could be stolen.

They said, follow that out a little. Why could they be stolen? Realizing, of course, Donna Summerfelt didn't think her pictures were stolen at that point in time. And the cop said, that's right. And I had only interviewed Donna Summerfelt on one occasion. However, they said the photos, they kept describing a large breasted woman in a bathing suit. He likes the titties. He fucking out of a hundred people. He goes, I remember Donna. Let me tell you something. I know why. Listen,

Oh, Donna. Big tits. Oh, Donna. I was singing shit to her, man. The guy turned into Richie Valens over here. I interviewed her breasts. I mean, I interviewed her for several hours. I talked to her. I couldn't pick her out of a lineup face-wise. If you showed me just mug shots, I'm not sure. But her tits, nah. Show me areolas. I'll tell you who she is. Yeah. Yeah.

He said, however, these did not appear to be the appropriate type of photographs that you would find in a businessman's briefcase. We had a sexual crime and one of these photographs in particular was of a very large breasted woman. And I was thinking, well, this is it. He's a tit man. Obviously, this guy. Me too, bud. Me too. Who isn't? That's so funny. Who isn't?

So the receipt here from Knox Lumber, the investigator who seized the Knox receipt, testified on direct examination during these proceedings that correspondence from World Book Encyclopedia was seized as a means of establishing residency. And we also took a receipt from Knox. That's the lumber place. The investigator did not testify why he seized the receipt and was unable to recall the location of the receipt in the master bedroom. The state argued that the receipt shows what his post-crime movements were.

The state showed that the receipt shows an opportunity to dispose of Bloom's body early on November 4th. Zanter told investigators that he went to 3M briefly at 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock a.m. on November 4th, then returned home. And the Knox receipt apparently indicates the purchase time to be 8.49 a.m. on November 4th.

He's supposed to be at work. Yeah, but he said he left because he said he went at five or six and then went home. A further investigation of the receipt indicated that it was for paint, brushes, spackle, and a drip cloth that had been purchased by check. So he was painting. When they searched the place on the 12th, he was painting. So the Court of Appeals also had held the state had not met a pretrial burden of showing that the suppression of the photographs would have a critical impact on the state's ability to prosecute.

So with the with the keys, the Court of Appeals agreed with the trial court that no new probable cause existed for the parts of the third warrant that authorized the police to search the dresser in which they found the keys. OK, so they affirm the suppression of the keys. So 1995, the murder charges against him are dismissed.

After the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that some of the evidence taken, including the keys, had been illegally seized, DNA tests to match Bloom's blood with the blood found in his carpet and hairs on the body were inconclusive. So they don't have any evidence, basically. It's dismissed, which is fucking crazy.

They said one of the reasons why we dismissed the indictment in August 95 was to give the investigators an opportunity to see if further information could be developed. That's what the prosecutor said. Now, the reaction here, her brother, Sharon's brother, said, you hope that justice will be served. And it's a shame that it's taken so long. You still have to wait. It still has to be served. All you can do is hope for it. So that's it.

Now, November 2000, there is new DNA technology. This is 11 years later, literally 11 years. Technology available at the time couldn't tie the blood found in his place to a hair found at the body at the crime scene. Advanced DNA testing methods have since indicated that the hair more than likely belongs to Xanter. Uh-oh.

According to the complaint here, they say that DNA from blood found in the carpet of the home matched Sharon Bloom's DNA. Now they can match it. Now they have the technology. A different DNA testing technique found a match between Xanter's DNA and DNA segments on the head hair found on Bloom's body as well. So they matched his hair, his hair that's on her body, and her blood is in his house. That's right.

That's not good. That is all bad stuff. Police would later learn that the fibers matched the carpet of his house as well, where him and his wife lived. And there's also another fiber from his previous residence because they had just moved into the new one. Are the socks the same? They've got to be the same. They had never figured out the socks or they never found a purse, the skirt, nothing.

The paperwork says, at the time, DNA testing of hairs and fibers could not be done. Methods of sequencing the DNA have been developed in these years since Sharon Bloom's death was investigated. December 1st, 2000, he finally turns himself in. He's wanted. He turns himself in. He's held on $50,000 bail. But they're waiting to go to trial. He says he turns himself in. They think he's going to plead guilty.

And then in 2002, he claims to have lost all memory all of a sudden.

Of everything. Not just his whole past. It's all gone now. All gone. And, yep, he was evaluated to see if he could stand trial. And he was found competent to stand trial and also more than likely completely full of shit is what he's found. Yeah, probably remembers everything. Yeah, he remembers everything here. So they said on the day he was scheduled to appear in court, he was hospitalized for overdosing on sleeping pills, which his attorney said was an accident.

Right. Right. Then he wants out. So, yeah, he does. Finally, I think he's he's cracking mentally. Obviously, he breaks down and fucking admits it. He just actually admits it. I remember it all. I'm a liar. He says that he beat her to death with a hammer in his home. He drug her to his house.

Why did he do that? During a confrontation in which she accused him of harassing her. She had confronted him that day and said, you're the fucking asshole who's harassing me. So I guess he said, let's talk about it or whatever and got her in the car. Once he got her in the car, that's it. To the house. So Xanter said that he did it in his bedroom. That's why her bathroom there where all the fucking blood is spattered all over the wall.

And he had said that he pulled her body down to the basement, which explains the stairs. There's blood there. Then he put her in the trunk of his car, kept her there for a little bit, drove out and dumped the body in the cornfield off some country road that he found. Didn't know where it was located somewhere between Northfield and Faribault. He didn't, didn't go into detail there. He wouldn't talk about that. Yeah. But he did that at his house, I assume. Yeah. Yep. Um,

He the prosecutor said he realized we had a strong case against him and it was to his advantage to plea. It was not out of the goodness of his heart. No, nope. So there's that. They said people from her family and her work were here to hear the plea after 14 years. I think that speaks volumes to the type of person that she was. Yeah. I don't even remember people I worked with 14 years ago. If any of them died.

I'm not going to their funeral and I'm certainly not going to the plea hearing of the guy who killed her. I won't even remember. Like, did I work with that person? I don't know. So he's going to plead guilty to second degree murder. Really? Yep. Sentencing numerous victim impact statements.

They have to. They show a video of Sharon that was made shortly before her death and a 1992 video of her parents because they're both dead by now, by the way. Oh, for heaven's sake. They never got to see this. The parents talking about the daughter's murder and how it's affected them back then during the hearing. He.

He was they talked about Bloom remembered for her work in St. Paul's Jewish community as a loving family member and a role model for girls interested in technical fields. She was the senior systems analyst. She was she was hot shit. Her brother gave his impact statement and said, my parents never got the benefit of seeing this day. The taking of my sister's life is devastated. My parents, every time we watch the news or read about someone missing, were reminded of the days when she was missing and not knowing where she was.

Her boyfriend gives an impact statement, Dave, there. He said, there's a hole in my soul and a hole in the soul of every person she touched. They say time heals all wounds. They are wrong.

They had a retired executive talked about that, talked about her, and then said to our guy here, said to Dipshit, as you spend the next few years in prison, I hope sometimes you reflect on what would have happened if you would have had the courage and moral strength to confess what you had done so many years ago. Barbara goes up and talks for him, and there's letters from 21 of Xanter's friends and family members. Oh, my God, why would they read that?

portraying him as a good father who coached his daughter's soccer team and worked several jobs. This guy is like Dexter's dream kill right here. He's like, he's coaching soccer teams. He's killing women, uh, several jobs at times to provide for his family. Um, she says, the only thing I have to say is that this awful tragedy will forever affect both of us, Sharon's family and ours. Anything you got to say for yourself, dummy. He said, just that I'm very, very sorry. Um,

For what part? All of it, I suppose. You, sir, may fuck off 25 years in prison because he pled to second degree.

Not even to life, just 25 years. It's second degree. It's not first degree. Can't do life on second degree. Oh, my God. He's out right now. He pleaded guilty to second degree. They said that he is eligible for parole in 17 years. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. They said that, obviously, the reaction was they were happy to get him there, get him in there. March 16th, 2020, he is released from prison on parole. Jesus Christ.

He is on parole, it looks like, until 2028, June 23rd, 2028. But that guy is walking the fuck around right now. Oh my God. If he happens to steal any of your toilet picks or anything like that, his caseworker's name is L. Soderholm and the phone number is 507-334-0700. So just in case. Keep an eye out.

And poor Sharon is buried at Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park. It's in Chicago. So there you go. They made a TV show about this motives and murders cracking the case, which is a show I didn't never heard of before in 2012. And it's called Dying to Fit In.

So I can't believe the son of a bitch just gets to be out there. He's he's fucking wandering around Minnesota, just enjoying people's nice, nice demeanors right now. I'll tell you somebody who's not welcome at the state theaters. No, fuck you. No Xanters allowed. None. What the shit? I'm fucking perplexed as shit by that. Yeah, he's out. If I'm her family, I'm just like, we waited 10 years and then we got barely anything. Now he's out. Fuck this guy.

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