April 14, 2025
Roadside Terror: How Stephen Judy Became Indiana's Most Infamous Killer
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Disclaimer: All defendants are INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY in a court of law. All facts are alleged until a conviction!
00:00 - Introduction to Stephen Judy's Case
09:10 - The Initial Meeting on I-465
17:28 - The Brutal Crime at White Lick Creek
25:44 - Stephen Judy's Troubled Background
32:14 - The Investigation and Arrest
36:34 - Trial, Confession and Death Sentence
42:19 - Additional Details and Newspaper Coverage
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Welcome to 69 South, where we cuss and discuss true crime, current events and hot topics, along with our state of society today.
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This is your trigger warning.
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Our podcast content is produced for viewers and listeners 18 years of age or older.
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We discuss topics that may be triggering to some listeners, so sit back, relax and enjoy 24-year-old Stephen Judy, is facing the electric chair with remarkable calm.
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This was his first public comment in more than a year, the last before his scheduled execution.
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There is a coldness about him when he talks about his crime murdering a young mother and her three small children.
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I can't say.
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I regret it honestly.
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I don't lose sleep over it.
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It's just something that happened.
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About his own death, it's something I look forward to.
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About efforts of the ACLU and others to stop the execution.
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They're actually going against my wishes.
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They don't represent me and as far as I'm concerned, it's illegal.
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And about society, which he blames for all his troubles.
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They've had their chance.
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They've never really tried.
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They've known from the time I was 10 years old that I was a very dangerous person.
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Welcome back to 69 South everyone.
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I'm Chop your host for the evening, and always with me is my beautiful co-host, julie.
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Hey everyone.
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Today we're diving into a story that's difficult to tell, one that shook the Indianapolis, mooresville, martinsville, brooklyn communities back in 1979.
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It left a lasting scar on the communities.
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This is the case of Terry Lee Chasteen, a 23-year-old mother and her three young children, misty, stephen and Mark, and the man who took their lives, stephen Timothy Judy.
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This isn't an easy episode, people.
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It's a somber look at a tragedy that unfolded on a cold, rainy day in late April and the troubled life that led up to it.
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So settle in and let's walk through this together.
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This story begins with a moment that at first seemed like an act of kindness.
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It was April 28, 1979.
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Terry Lee was driving her three kids Misty, who was five, steven was four and Mark was just two along the I-465 loop in Indianapolis.
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If you're not from Indianapolis or don't know too much about it, the entire city has an interstate I-465, that circles the city, making a complete circle um the highway that loops around indianapolis that I mentioned before.
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It's really the beltway hugging all of the suburbs, forming a rectangular loop around the heart of Indy.
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It doesn't just skim downtown, it gives a wide berth, keeping I-65 and I-70 as the only interstates cutting through the core.
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And that's basically just what it is.
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People call it the loop today because it just like loops around the inner city of Indianapolis.
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Yeah, you could drive on it for hours.
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I think it takes a whole hour to get around it.
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Hell.
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When we was young, we would just drive around it and around it, and around it and around it just fucking around honestly.
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Now Terry Ann was heading to drop her three small children off with a babysitter so she could go to her job.
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She worked in a produce department of Marsh Supermarket.
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Life felt normal, routine even, but that day everything changed when a blonde-haired blue-eyed young man flagged her down on the side of the road.
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Now this man was driving like a decked-out construction truck with lettering on it.
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Looked like someone you would trust.
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Back then, in the late 70s, things were a little bit different than they were today.
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Crime wasn't as rampant as it is today.
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I mean, you didn't have cell phones.
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People relied on each other more Now.
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He flagged Terry down and told her that he looked like one of her tires was coming loose and he offered to help.
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She must have been grateful, relieved, even, as he worked on her car.
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But what she didn't know was this was no random good Samaritan.
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This was Steve and Judy, and he had a plan.
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I'm confused about this plan.
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My mind can't imagine anywhere where a vehicle is pulled over, waving other drivers down, especially on 465.
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No one slows down, and have not for years.
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I'm sure it was just as bad in 79.
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What do you think?
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Well, I mean, it was different back then, man.
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I mean people trusted each other.
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We were just out of the hippie era.
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You know what I mean If somebody was flagging you down especially.
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I mean I've seen pictures of this dude.
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He looked like a normal blonde-haired, blue-eyed handsome.
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All-American type boy yeah all-American young dude man, and she probably thought, damn, he's trying to help me out.
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So she pulled over and he was like hey, lady, it looks like your back tire.
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Hey, I'm going to hook you up.
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Man, you got kids.
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I'm going to try to tighten your back tire up.
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But it didn't go that way.
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Well, judy did pretend to fix the tire, then claimed there was an issue with her emergency brake.
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He looked under the hood and disconnected the coil wire from the distributor cap, disabling her engine.
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With her car now stranded, he offered Terry and her kids a ride in his warm truck.
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The weather that day was cold and rainy, lows in the 40s, highs barely reaching the 50s or 60s.
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It's easy to see why she accepted.
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They headed south on the Kentucky Avenue exit towards State Road 67, passing through Camby, where her babysitter lived Now.
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At first it might have still felt okay to her, but when Judy passed the turn to the babysitter's house she knew something was not sitting right.
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I bet when he passed the Canby exit she was like what the hell's going on?
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By then they were heading deeper into the countryside Now.
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State Road 67 in 1979 was a far cry from what it is now mostly cornfields and quiet stretches of road.
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Judy drove just south of Mooresville to a bridge over White Lick Creek, a spot known back then as a peaceful place.
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People fished for smallmouth bass there, I mean, kids splashed in the water and families enjoyed their calming nature.
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But for Terry and her children this turned into a nightmare.
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According to Judy's own confession, he forced the kids ahead of him and Terry down the path towards the creek.
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That's when the horror began.
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He stopped Terry, assaulted her brutally, physically and sexually.
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He tore her clothing to shreds, tied her hands and feet with strips from her own clothes, leaving her helpless.
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Then he strangled her to death with a strap from her purse.
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The children, hearing their mother's cries, ran back toward her.
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We can only imagine the terror they felt, the unimaginable scene they witnessed as they saw their mother's lifeless body.
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And then it got worse.
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Judy, in a cold and calculated act, threw each one of the three kids, one by one, into the seven foot deep icy waters of White Lick Creek where they drowned while they, the others, watched.
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After the assault, he left Terry on the creek bank naked and bound, and drove off as if nothing happened now one good thing.
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If you guys don't know this area around here, about this time of year, around Easter usually a week before to Easter week to a week after Easter the mushrooms begin to pop up.
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Well, the next day, mushroom hunters were hunting mushrooms around that little neck of the woods right there by Whitelit Creek just south of Mooresville, that little neck of the woods right there by White Lick Creek just south of Mooresville.
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They stumbled across Terry's body near the creek, naked and bound and showing signs of the brutal attack.
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Nearby they found Misty's body in the water, drowned next to her mother.
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They contacted the detectives and the police department and they launched a more extensive search where they soon recovered Stephen and Mark, downstream their small bodies, carried by the current.
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The autopsy confirmed that Terry died by asphyxiation, from strangulation, though drowning was also a factor and the children's deaths were real drownings.
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It's a scene that's hard to even process, joey, the brutality, the loss.
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It's really overwhelming to me to even think about what them children have seen and the whole situation.
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I mean, the poor woman was headed to work, taking the kids to the babysitter and then within 30, 40 minutes, man, all this shit goes down.
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It had to be like a horror film, like it wasn't even written at this time.
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It is Chop.
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But to understand how this happened we need to look at Steve and Judy's life.
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Most cases like this don't start with such vicious crimes out of nowhere.
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They build over time, and Judy's story is no exception.
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He was born on May 24, 1956, right here in Indianapolis, to Myrtle and Vernon Judy.
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His childhood was a nightmare, steeped in violence, alcoholism and dysfunction.
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His father, vernon, was abusive, often arrested for beating Judy's mother.
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Myrtle Judy later recalled moments that stuck with him his mother pulling a gun on his father during a fight and his father killing the family sheepdog in a rage after catching Myrtle with another man.
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His defense attorney, stephen L Harris, put it simply that's all he's known since the day he was born.
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See that chaos shaped him early, julie.
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His criminal behavior started young.
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By age 10, in 1966, he was already showing signs of trouble.
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He had stabbed a classmate with a compass at school, tried to burn down a neighbor's garage and began molesting high school girls by pushing them to the ground and assaulting them.
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Authorities kept catching him, but they just sent him back to his parents, no real consequences.
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Then, at 13, in 1969, he took a terrifying leap.
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Posing as a Boy Scout, he tricked his way into a woman's house in Indianapolis, raped her and stabbed her with a pocketknife until the pocketknife broke.
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Then he grabbed a hatchet, fractured her skull.
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The pocket knife broke, then he grabbed a hatchet, fractured her skull, severed one of her fingers as she fought back.
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He was caught.
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He spent six months in juvenile detention and then he was sent to Central State Mental Hospital from October 1970 to January 1973.
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There they labeled him a sexual psychopath.
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No shit Later, calling him a dangerous sadist and a psychopath.
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But they still said that he was legally sane, able to tell right from wrong.
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Now you know what, Whenever I had posted that we were going to do this story, we had a lot of comments, and some of these comments took me by surprise and I just want to read some of them to you.
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See, I grew up around Central State Hospital man.
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I lived right down the road from that and me and my buddies we used to ride our bikes and shit down through there.
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I was born in 73, and that's showing my age, so this would have been a little bit after he was there.
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But they had like a 12 foot fence around Central State man and all the crazy dudes would be in there like the criminally insane people and we'd be up there throwing them cigarettes and shit.
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It was pretty wild.
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I mean, it was kind of cool as a kid.
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We go, you know, drive our bikes to the crazies and shit it was.
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It was pretty wild.
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As a child.
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We check that shit out wow, that's crazy but you had some people reach out that some of their family members actually took care of steve and judy when he was in central state yeah, one of the comments that we got was like my grandma took care of him when he was at central state hospital and I just thought that was kind of cool.
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You know that there was so many people around that remember this case.
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It was big, big, big news back then.
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Yeah.
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My dad actually went to school with Steve and Judy at Washington High School.
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For a small minute, I mean, I remember them telling me that as I was growing up, like, yeah, your dad went to school with this crazy dude, with this crazy dude.
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But could you imagine, though, even 13 years old, to have the mindset to pretend like you're a boy scout, get into some elderly woman's house, stab her until the knife breaks and then grab a fricking hatchet man and try to crush her skull and cut one of her fingers off, I mean, and then do three months in a juvenile detention center and then, obviously, locked up for three years at Central State, which that's pretty fucked up deal as it is, but still.
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Well, exactly that's chilling At 13 years old with that level of violence.
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And it started even earlier, at 10.
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After his release in 73, the state police or the state placed him in foster care with Robert and Mary Carr.
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But they weren't told the full story, just that he'd accosted a woman and had a breakdown.
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Mary Carr later said that she felt betrayed by the system and that they'd put her family and society at risk by hiding his past.
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And she was right.
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He didn't stop.
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Over the next few years he kept up a pattern of violent sexual crimes.
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By 1979, when he crossed paths with Terry Chastain, he was on a $75,000 bond for a supermarket robbery.
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He'd pulled back in 1977.
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Now he got out on bond.
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It was April 24th of 1979, and he murdered Terry Chaston four days later.
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Not to mention we also found out during our research that he was still on parole In Illinois From a three-year bit he did in Illinois.
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Exactly Based on what we know, here's how his criminal history unfolded over the years.
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At 10 in 1966, he was molesting the high school girls that we had spoke about.
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He was molesting the high school girls that we had spoke about.
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He burned down a garage and stabbed a classmate.
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At 13, in 1969, there came the rape and attempted murder with a hatchet.
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God bless her soul.
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In his early teens, around 1970-73, he committed multiple sexual assaults and rapes.
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Exact dates are fuzzy until his later confessions.
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At 17 in 1973, he confessed to murdering two women in Louisiana while staying in New Orleans.
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At 21, in November of 1978, he murdered Linda Overzacht, a disco dance instructor in Indianapolis, and raped another woman here, leaving her tied to a tree in a wooded area.
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Her survival is unclear.
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Around the same time, 78 to 79, he confessed to kidnapping and raping a woman in Louisiana, throwing her into a swamp, fate unknown.
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He was also suspected in other murders across indianapolis and beyond then, at 22, on april 28th of 1979, he committed the crime that brought us here, raping and murdering terry lee chastening, drowning her three children, misty, stephen and mark, in white lit creek.
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The penalties, or lack of them, tell a story too.
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From 10 to 13, he kept getting released back to his parents no real punishment, probably because he was a kid and the system wasn't tough enough.
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Then, from 17 to 22, those confessed murders and rapes in lou, texas, california and Indianapolis.
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No penalties recorded.
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He slipped through until 1979.
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It wasn't until he was arrested in May of 1979 at the age of 23 that justice caught up, and I would like to talk about how he got arrested in Terry Chastain's murder, because it's an amazing story actually.
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It's definitely an amazing story and it's definitely an act of God in my eyes.
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See, there was this young man and he went to Mooresville Christian School and every day this boy and we're going to mention his name later because he is a hero in my eyes Every day he would sit out.
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He would sit and watch out the window in his classroom and the construction company that Steve and Judy worked for, that, I believe, his adopted father owned, which his adopted parents were victims to, as far far as we know the research we've done.
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He would look out the window and he would daydream about doing construction.
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He saw the same construction truck there at this job site every single day.
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So on the Saturday morning, him and his father had went to some kind of a prayer breakfast or a prayer brunch or something.
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Well, he saw the same truck that Steve and Judy had been parking at the construction site, parked at the bridge near White Lick Creek.
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And when all this came about about Terry Lee Chasteen and the babies being found to drown, they went to the police and said hey, this truck has been seen, has been parked at the construction site right across from my classroom window.
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What a freaking amazing story.
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That is man that just blows me away, and I was aware of this story for a long time, but that is a part of it that I was completely unaware of.
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He wasn't the only witness that said they saw that truck there, but he was the one that mainly put him, put Steve and Judy at the scene at the time.
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Just to thank a little 10, 11 year old boy just daydreaming out the classroom window.
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You know like they all do, not paying attention to what they're supposed to.
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And thank God, you know his eyes were on that truck because he remembered it vaguely.
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You know his eyes were on that truck because he remembered it vaguely.
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Now.
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The arrest came quick after the Chastain murders.
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Julie Judy first denied it, saying he was with his girlfriend, but she contradicted him, evidence piled up.
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A semen-stained coat was found at the scene, witnesses tying him to the truck and he confessed, though he pleaded not guilty.
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By reason of insanity, his trial started in January 1980 in Morgan County Superior Court with special Judge Jeffrey V Bowles presiding.
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I'm familiar with Jeffrey Bowles too, boy, he is a hell of a judge.
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He was actually a judge in Hendricks County and one of our kids actually got in trouble back in the early 2000s and Judge Jeffrey Bowles presided over it.
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I'll tell you what he was a force to be reckoned with.
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I don't know if that old man still alive, but he was a cool-ass judge.
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He was something else, I'm telling you.
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Prosecutors Thomas Gray and Stephen A Oliver laid out their case and Judy's own testimony where he detailed the rape and the murders sank in his defense.
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On February 2nd 1980, the jury convicted him of four counts of first-degree murder.
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We've got some newspaper articles from the trial.
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We'll read later Coverage that captured the shock and outrage as this unfolded.
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For now, let's keep going with what happened next.
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Now the sentencing phase is where things got wild.
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It was divided into guilt first, and then sentencing, and then Judy took over.
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He ordered his attorneys not to present any mitigating evidence, nothing to soften the jury's view.
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He then stood up in open court and told them I honestly want you to give me the death penalty because someday somehow I might get out.
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He said he'd kill again if he could, maybe even them, the jurors or the judge.
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He went further, threatening each jury individually claiming he knew where they lived.
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Jury individually claiming he knew where they lived, making sure they saw him as a danger.
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That wouldn't stop.
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He didn't let up either.
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During final arguments he told his attorneys not to fight the death penalty.
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They followed his orders, only suggesting to the judge that he consider the death penalties statutes constitutionally.
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Judy wanted this.
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He craved the spotlight and in the end it brought.
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On February 25, 1980, he got his wish, sentenced to death by electrocution.
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It was a big deal.
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Indiana hadn't electrocuted anyone since 1961.
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After a Supreme Court ruling in 72 paused death penalties nationwide.
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The state brought it back in 77 and Judy's case made it real again.
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I'll tell you something cool that I also figured out during researching this case.
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They called the electric chair Old Betsy.
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They called the electric chair old Betsy and they actually made old Betsy out of the wood, out of the old guillotines that they used to use to execute people in Indiana.
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The guillotines is the staircases that went up where they used to tie the noose around people's necks and hung them.
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They took the wood out of that when hanging become obsolete and they used that to make O'Betsy out of Wow, that's pretty freaking cool.
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If you ask me, that's crazy.
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Another spotlight for these articles, Julie.
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We'll dig into how the papers covered that sentencing later.
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But O'Steven Judy didn't drag it out.
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He waived all his appeals, speeding things up.
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In the week before his execution he confessed more to his foster mother, Mary Carr, rapes and murders Across the states, including those two women in Louisiana in 1973, Linda Yunver zagged in 78 and others he couldn't confirm.
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Like that woman he tied to a tree and another thrown in a swamp.
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Some even wondered if he was tied to the 1977 murder of Indiana University student Ann Harmeyer, but jail records show that he was locked up then and he denied it when asked.
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Those confessions left questions denied it.
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When asked, those confessions left questions.
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His true body count is still a mystery, limited by the forensic tech of the time.
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