26. Dancer, Dealer, and Death: Unraveling Stan Trineer's Story

Welcome back to the Lethal Library! Dani and Stephanie dive deep into the murky waters of Idaho's true crime scene with a story packed with exotic dancers, paranoia, and more prison escapes than you'd believe possible. Follow the chilling case of Stan Trineer, a man with a knack for making enemies and a rap sheet longer than a CVS receipt. After disappearing in October 1989, Stan's frozen body was found a few months later, launching an investigation filled with shady characters, suspicious motives, and some incredibly bold escapes. Buckle up for a killer episode as we untangle the web of drama, deceit, and drugs!

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Transcript

Dani: 0:30

All right everyone. Welcome back to the Lethal Library. I'm Stephanie. I'm Danny. And today we're back to tell you another true crime tale out of Idaho. Danny, what do you got for us? Yeah, small time to big time. In today's story, we have an exotic dancer.

Stephanie: 0:48

Ooh,

Dani: 0:49

lots of trucks, lots of paranoia. A more than one prison escape sounds very juicy. Uh, The last time anyone heard from Stan Trier was October 13th, 1989. There was a lot of talk about the 44 year old's disappearance among family and friends in the Boise, Idaho area. But it took until January, 1990, before his estranged wife, Donna Trendier, reported him missing to the police Wowy. Wow. So you're gonna pick up on why that is. Okay. A little shady lifestyle maybe. Oh, he is just off doing crack activities. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Uh, on February 1st, 1990, Stan's partially decomposed frozen body was located in Boise County, Idaho. Yikes. authorities. Had to use snowmobiles to get to the body that was located only a quarter mile into the Boise County area. So, and this is gonna play a big deal because, you know, money, money, money, um, but literally a quarter mile into the county line, his body was dumped. Interesting. Okay. Right. Stan had been shot. Ada County Sheriff Captain Roy Holloway said quote, we don't know what the motive is. A clear cut one hasn't been offered yet. Donna has reportedly given several names to the authorities. Of like potential su suspects? Yes. Lots of enemies. Like this guy. Wait, that That same guy? That same guy. Oh, okay. Who would wanna stand dead? Stan had only been outta prison for four months when he was murdered. He was in prison for burglary of three cars in 1986. And police had him under surveillance at the time. Oh. I'm just saying, look, I find it kind of weird that the police are following him. Yeah. Why is he under surveillance? Like a car burglar, right? Was he like, was that big time? Maybe he was connected to some big time drug dealers or something like, he's gonna take us to the kingpin. They didn't wait for that. No, they didn't. You broke into three cars. Let's go. You are done. According to authorities, Stan had a really bad rap sheet. Ro Judge Schwarzman sent Stan to prison for up to five years due to his long list of prior felonies in Oregon. They're like, you're just doing too much. Yeah, you're not getting it. He wasn't getting it. Mm-hmm. In 1974, he was sentenced to 10 years. For robbery in Oregon and was paroled after only four years in 78, but his arrests date back to 1962 at the age of 14 and beginning at age 18. Stan's records show theft, narcotic and robbery convictions living on the edge. Apparently it's a lifestyle. His wife, Donna. Asked Judge Schwarzman two years earlier to release him from prison because hit men were closing in on him. But the, yeah, but the judge refused. Wouldn't one of the safest places he could be would be jail, you would think. Okay. She has accused an Oregon based criminal enterprise. Linked to more than 50 robberies and major heroin trafficking in the early 1980s. So she's like, there are people after him. Yikes. Very Kel. Well, there was a king pen, Steven Kessler. And several associates that have been sent to prison in the early eighties. Stan was a witness in Kessler's 1982 trial. That's not good. Federal prosecutor Turner said quote, I remember when Stan got off the stand, he and Kessler exchanged nods and a few words. I dunno what they said. Turner said he was contacted by Donna a couple years ago and she was concerned that Stan had been approached by Kessler operatives inside the Idaho prison. So he's got the homeboys in there doing his bidding. Prosecutor Turner wrote a letter to the fourth district Judge Alan Schwartzman, stating the wife's concerns were not overstated. Oh. Okay. Quote, the system is full of Kessler people. I wrote and explained the danger that incarceration represented for him. His life was in jeopardy. So a serious threat this time? Yeah. Okay. But he made it through it. I know what they said to each other.'cause it, when you see it say nods and words, it was probably like, you're fucking dead. You know you're dead. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So all of that went down. But I mean, he did get out. He, he had been out of of jail for four months when this all went down. But I would say that based on not only his wife, the prosecutor too. Mm-hmm. But the prosecutor from Oregon was like, yeah, dude, credible threat. It is a very fucking credible threat. He somehow made it through that. That'd be fucking scary.

Stephanie: 6:59

Yeah.

Dani: 6:59

It would be so scary to be in jail and know that people wanna kill you because you don't have options. No, you can't. I mean, you can weaponize yourself, I guess. But I mean, then, and I feel like all of the, the convictions that stand, they were there were petty. Mm-hmm. I mean, he's not out there battering people crazy or murdering people, or he's robbing outta cars and selling drugs, likes to steal things. Little collect. They're pretty much legal now in Oregon to do all this shit. So they found his body February 1st. Mm-hmm. On April 2nd. Donna 45 dies of natural causes. Wow. And I just found that just so sad.'cause um, I know that they were estranged, but she loved them still. She was concerned about'em. She was looking out for him. She was the one. And I think that that's part of the reason why it took a minute for them to, for her to report. I was like, all right, we're not together. Mm-hmm. But in her obit, it does say that she is the wife that really, she was proceeded in death by her husband. So I do think she, they cared, just set of differences and, and from what I gathered, she died of cancer. Oh, that's terrible. When she was young. Yeah. 45. Okay. On June 4th, 1990, Steve Paul priest, age 26, was arrested in connection with the murder of Stan Trendier. Priest is officially charged with first degree murder authorities. Didn't have to search hard for priest. He was in the Idaho State Prison on a parole violation. Oh, there he is. Well, you're here. Exactly. You don't even want, we've been wanting to ask you. I You don't have anywhere to go. Anywhere to be, right. Can we talk to you about something quick chat? Can you Oh, well, I'll bring that up in a little bit. I. So, who is Priest? Yeah, who is Steve Priest. We have a list of crimes for this guy too. He was convicted for first degree burglary, for writing a check on a closed account. You can't get away with that shit now, by the way. Mm

Stephanie: 9:22

mm

Dani: 9:23

Um, while serving time for this offense in May of 1985, priests escaped from the Idaho State Prison. These damn escapes in the seventies and eighties. So easy. Yeah. He and another inmate, Paul Erickson stole a prison van to escape taking that thing hot rod. Who left the keys in the fucking van, bro? Yeah. Who does that? I don't know. Oh. And he thinks they're gonna get away with it. So he is going for check fraud. And now he just escaped from prison. I mean, that's essentially that, that's what's happening here. Yes. He's Tokyo drifting that van. Right. The hell. Well, he Tokyo drifted all the way to New Orleans. Damn. Same van. Or did they pick up a different vehicle? He's like, I'm out. Uh, this thing's roomy. This is nice. Just pillow. Little mattress back in here. Well, they do leave the gas card in there as well, like. Priest was on the run for 21 months before he was finally located in New Orleans. That's on November 13th, 80 seven's. Long stretch, but he was, he got arrested on a minor charge there, and then they found out, it's like, you fucking idiot. You just escaped prison and then you, you keep doing low profile. I don't know what the minor charge was. I couldn't find it. I, I, I looked, but you know, you're like, oh, you're that guy. Priest is a small, I went to New Orleans and looked up in the newspaper.com and nobody gave a shit. They're like, yeah, that's Lisa. He probably was selling some pot on the corner or something stupid. in June of 1990, priest test a preliminary trial on the charge of first degree murder. A woman that was living with Priest Anova Snow. Colette testified. Is she a stripper? It sounds very Strips. It sounds Strips and draggish. Yeah. She testified that priest had told her he was going to commit the murder because Trier had been stealing. Dealing drugs and setting up himself. She also said that Priest and Trier had worked together doing drug deals. Weird snow stated priest said he had done it and proved it with a package of cigarettes that appeared to be blood stained. They were the same brand that trendier smoked. Snow said quote, he said, it's blood as proof. I killed Stan and he took the pack of cigarettes. He's like, oh, you know those aren't gonna do you no good. Yeah, I'll take those. Keep that in mind. Okay. Snow seems to know a lot, but never went to the authorities. Why? Snow is a small time drug dealer herself. And Moonlights as an exotic dancer called it, nailed it. And you know what? She's a working woman. She's like, I got business to do. I can't be dealing with no missing people and cops and yeah, you tell me you killed somebody and I can't find him, but fuck that. I'm not even gonna go. It's a male dominated industry. Okay. She was doing what she had to do exactly. She sold eight balls several times to an undercover cop.

Stephanie: 13:01

Well,

Dani: 13:03

many times. Several. When she was arrested, the authorities learned of her connection with priest. Snow was offered a reduction in the drug charge to testify against him, and she said, hell yeah, I'm just gonna say I want, I'm gonna repeat a lot of her testimony. I feel the practice was there'cause she was young and when I start quoting her later on, you're gonna be like. That sounds so rehearsed. Mm. It does sound very, so you let me know what you think. Okay. Also testifying in the preliminary hearing is a friend of priest Kimball Johnson. He said priest took him to Stan's body while they were out gathering wood in the fall. Ew. Ew. David. Ew David. Well, and who's like. Hey man. Wanna hang out today? Yeah. Look who get some firewood. I wanna see a dead body stop. I'll stand by me. Yeah, yeah. I don't, uh, Kimball said quote, he said, come down here from a distance. I saw a body lying on the ground. It looked like Stan. That was my first thought because of the tattoos. Oh. Dude, I've been so fucking scared. I feel bad for this guy. You know, they're probably doing drugs like, let's go get some firewood. He is like, cool dude, let's go.

Stephanie: 14:43

Yeah.

Dani: 14:44

And then he is like, oh, wait, no, no. I didn't sign up for dead bodies. Yeah, I'm here for the cocaine, bro. I'll help you get some firewood for some cocaine. I didn't think I was gonna have to look at a dead body. Kimball said he felt the blood drain from his face and he started climbing up the slope. He's like, what the fuck? Quote, Steve was behind me calling for me to slow down, calm down. No sir. What? Do any of those things, and especially when someone shows you that and then tells you to calm down, you're like, calm down. The fuck the fuck? Uh. Quote, he was laughing about it. Also eerie. He enjoyed it man. Standup guy Kimball said he feared for his life on the ride. Back to Boise. Fiercer. Little shaking in your boots there. Yeah, yeah. he said he was too afraid to call the authorities. I. Well, it's because of drugs for you and we've got this kingpin Kessler that's like, is this a buddy of his, like getting in a little too deep. He was just there for the cocaine. Saw a dead body. He was there for the cocaine and firewood. Yeah, I'm probably a little snow. Getting a little bit of snow. I see what you did there. Uh, but he was too afraid to call the authorities, but was relieved when the police came to question him about it, and Kimball was the one that guided the authorities to the body on snowmobiles because it was February. So he gets to ride a snowmobile. Okay, that makes it a little cooler. Priest pleads, of course, not guilty, and the trial is set for July of next year. In July, 1991, priest wants a new attorney.

Stephanie: 16:44

Hmm.

Dani: 16:46

This is only two weeks before his trial. Oh. We're gonna go a different direction. Yikes. Boss. I wanna go a different direction, but fourth district Judge Gerald Schroeder said Nope. Yeah. The time for that has passed. He said there is insufficient grounds for priests to drop his attorney. Ooh. This doesn't cause a delay in the trial, but several motions from the defense does. Ooh, it is pushed out to September, and we have to talk about the cost for this a little bit. Okay. The cause for the trial is draining the small Boise County, just so everyone knows. Contrary to popular belief, Boise. The capital. The city is not in Boise County. Boise is in Ada County. So Boise County's a very small populated county. They only have 3000 residents at the time. Yikes. Yeah. So this is these million dollar trials. Are killing it. Yeah. They're not excited about this. No. They're just like, can you just give'em the death penalty and be done with that? Do not murder in my town. Uh, I do feel like if they had, if they could do like a vote, they'd like just. We're gonna vote on if he's guilty or not. And he's guilty and we're not having a trial. Yeah. He was a quarter mile, uh, on our boundary line. Can we just redraw the line? Yeah. Let him let him have it. Neighboring county. You guys can have that. I'm just They could do that actually. That's brilliant. I'm like, can we just cut this little quarter look, this little chunk out of this mountain? Yeah. Boise, ADA County can have this. It's. We're done. Free land for you for the small prize of a million dollars. Come on guys. Because it was, where he was found was 10 miles away from Boise. Mm-hmm. Which is quarter mile in a Boise count. That would fucking piss me off if I was a county official. Like you guys roll him. Could down the hill or something. Could you find a steeper fucking hill please? That sucks. You know that there was that talk like, come on guys, there's gonna be no raises for anybody in the county. Yeah. For like five years because they decided to drive an extra 500 fucking feet. Really? It is. Yeah. Oh man, that was that. Really? It is that 500 feet? Probably a little bit more. Isn't a mile like 2,400 feet? Oh my God. Oh, we're gonna have to fact check Google. Um, because I just feel like we should know this, how many feet in a quarter mile? 1300 feet. Oh, 1,320 feet. Yeah. A mile's. Like was I thinking yards? Why is the fucking system so stupid? Why are we not on the other one? Um, I think a mile. I'm thinking of a ton being like 2000 pounds, I think. Yeah. No, a mile is like, okay, let's just, I. It is 13, 20 times four. It's like 5,000 steps, I think. Yeah. 5,200 feet. That sounds better. Okay. Okay. I'm not even gonna Google that. We'll just roll with it. I think that's, that sounds right. 1300 feet. Yeah. Come on. That's like from here to the end of the subdivision. Mm-hmm. You couldn't have give him a little noise. He kind of drove a little less. Yeah. Anyway, they got fucked, essentially. Yeah. Bottom line. It really is. And there's other cases going on right now, and so it's like, it was like a big deal. Um, and I'm gonna talk about one of'em later. It on my, okay. It's on my last. so they're just getting hammered mm-hmm. With these attorney fees and all the drama and, uh. Uh, priest is very busy in pri. He, he wants to be educated. Educated.

Stephanie: 21:12

Oh

Dani: 21:13

no, he does some shit in prison. So the trial begins on September 9th. In opening statements, deputy attorney Michael Kane said, quote, he did it and we're gonna prove it. Kane told the jury that the backdrop of the case is a dark mix of illicit drugs and ex-felons. Very exciting quote. You may not like some of these people. I think he was talking about snow, and there's another guy here. Hang on. If you saw hi them on the street, you might cross it to avoid them. He also explained how Stan and Priest had met while they were in prison together, and priest later hired Stan to act as a bodyguard for snow. Wow. Mm-hmm. Boise County Public Defender, Robert Chastain, declined to present an opening statement. He reserved that option for the start of the defense case. All La Lori Vallow.

Stephanie: 22:16

Right,

Dani: 22:17

right. I don't get that. It's not very common. No. Most of the time, you see, here's our, here's the prosecution, here's the defense. To answer to it. It's your but opportunity, but the defense can wait until the prosecution's done. Little ri.

Stephanie: 22:38

Mm-hmm.

Dani: 22:38

Is that a word? It's our word. Thank you. Matthew Taylor, a client of stands, testified, I don't know what to call'em. A customer? A client? Maybe. Customer, yeah. Because I'm like, wow, this is very sophisticated. Mm-hmm. He says Stan was supplying him speed and that is how he met priest. he says Stan was supplying him speed and that is how he met priest. Priest was fond of a 38 caliber dinger that Matthew owned. Matthew stated he sold priest the gun only a week before the murder of Stan. And it was like, he said, it was like, it was like$50 a week. I don't know what the total amount was, but like it was on payment plans, having a nice little steady drug supply payment plan. Yeah. And probably after all of this went down, he is like, I, you own it. Like, I don't even know this gun anymore. Yep. He testified that priest told him Stan was stealing from the people priest worked for. Oh, okay. You ready to hear from our girl Snap? Yes I am.'cause she seems to know some things. snow is on the stand. She said she had known Stan and his family for a long time, and that he looked out for her after she was assaulted while doing an exotic dance gig. Stan introduced her to Priest. That hit me hard.'cause we know what that means. Yeah. Without deeds wasn't related to drugs, but yeah. Priest was to be her bodyguard in return for a place to stay. Food and the use of her car. That's quite a lot. Gotta live with you. Mm. Drugs. Snow said priest was very intelligent in white collar crimes, ways of killing people and how to carry and place bugging devices. Drugs. Yeah. Okay. Ready? I'm ready. Quote, priest told me the secret of robbing or killing someone was to watch the person's patterns. I.

Stephanie: 25:08

Hmm.

Dani: 25:10

People get a lot of bra like bravado on the cocaine and the meth and overstate their abilities. So I can totally see someone being like, I'm kind of the best at a lot of things. Snow said she got confused and didn't know who to believe at times. Who could be trusted? Stan or Priest. There was lots of drugs. Mm-hmm. Priests told me people were after me and I soon stayed hiding in my house. Well, that's very convenient for a bodyguard to say, because you wanna stay employed, right? You got to create that. Oh yeah. Yeah. On the day stand died, priest told her, today is the day I am gonna kill Stan. Just saying it. Just announcing it. Snow said, priests believe stand to be responsible for a drug bust of one of priest's friend's home. Mm. Mm-hmm. This is all paranoia. Yeah. Drug fueled bullshit. Quote, priests told me the officers came into the house and went directly to the coat that Stan had left there moments earlier and found the drugs in Stan's coat pocket.

Stephanie: 26:23

Hmm.

Dani: 26:24

Yeah. Not sounding. Super credible to me. Paranoia drugs. Mm-hmm. Priest told me he had told trendier that he had some information about the bus and he was gonna set trendier up to get rid of him. Snow said that priest told trendier that they were to cut some trees. Yeah. So the firewood, you know, situation, it worked out for him several times. Yeah, like let's go get some wood. I just saw a spot up here. Yeah. And I wouldn't wanna be in that spot. On the morning of the murder priests left the house mid-morning and didn't return into the afternoon snow. Said quote. When priests returned to my house, we decided to get something to eat. He was hungry. Long day. We had to stop at the car wash and wash all the traces of dirt from the car. When we arrived at King's Table for dinner, priests pulled out a pack of camel filters that had what appeared to me be dry blood on the opening of the package of the cigarette. Priest said, here's proof that I killed Stan. These are very strange statements. Do you, do you see like that? Very, I feel like it's very rehearsed. It's very dry. It's not how people talk. That was all quotes. Snow also testified when she asked for her set of car keys, priest said they were in Stan's pocket and asked her if she would like to go with him to get'em. Ew. No go. I said no Pass. Priest continued by saying people died differently. Stan cried and begged for his life. Well, that's awful Kimball Johnson is on the stand again. He told how Priest took him up to the woods to give firewood and showed him the body On the drive back, Kimball said, quote, priest was laughing about it and said Stan didn't die an honorable death, and that I would get over it in a few days. He said, that is what happens to people who mess with the wrong people. He told me that I wasn't going to tell the police because he had an inside helper at the police department. A priest was around me all the time after that, I couldn't get rid of him. That's terrifying. Can you imagine the drive back too? And someone like just laughing casually and you're like, ha, ha, ha. What the fuck is the big deal? Oh, I murdered somebody. You were Shut the fuck up. Like yeah. Ah, and I mean, that was his speed deal. Mm-hmm. Like I drugs. Oh yeah. People are willing to put up with a whole lot. Like, I don't wanna bother you, Mr. Drug dealer, but could you not show me dead bodies? Thank you. No, you're, you're killing all my fun. I'm coming down. You're ruining my high. I don't wanna go on any more field trips. I can just come to your house and, yeah. Better yet, you can just drop it off. DoorDash. DoorDash Stove, all a DoorDash. The delivery lift up on at the mat, there's the money. Just put it right there. Yeah. The defense said the prosecution failed to prove their case. Attorney Chastain said, quote, the prosecutor's key date of October 13th is misleading. There has been testimony that Trier was spoken to as late as October 18th. The FB, I couldn't tie the bullet to anything. And that maybes are not good enough.

Stephanie: 30:15

Hmm.

Dani: 30:17

I don't know. In my opinion, I'm like, does it really matter what exact day? I'm just seeing that if somebody shows me a dead body and if I'm high on a lot of meth, maybe I don't even remember the date. Right. Okay. They kind of run into each other. I can't remember if I was. Picking myself to death. I was scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush or killing people on that date. I just, I'm a very busy drug user. Priest did not testify in his defense. Bummer. No shit. After three hours of deliberation, the jury convicted priest of first degree murder. Quickie. Hmm. On October 4th, less than six weeks before his sentencing priests dismissed his public defenders. Robert Chastain and Jeffrey Wilson. Priests claimed his attorneys were not adequately prepared for the trial and that their tactics were doing nothing. They said, quote, that less was best, and I mean. Can't disagree. Shut the fuck up. Yeah. Chastain said the priest was not cooperating with counsel, which doesn't surprise me. No, he's kind of a know-it-all. Anyway. I'm surprised he didn't wanna represent himself. Me too. You know what though? I give him a little credit. He's smart enough to know, Lori, you do not represent yourself. Right? Well, there's a saying, right? He who represents himself as a fool for a client. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Uh, in June, 1993, priest is finally sentenced, so I wanna take just, there's a, I have never seen this months and months and months, month. In June, 1993, priest has his sentencing hearing. There is three possible sentences, okay. For the jury, for the judge to consider life with a possibility of parole life without the possibility of parole and the death penalty. And the prosecutors are like, yep, let's fuck this fucker up. Let's go. He, they want the death penalty. Okay. Several people testified in priest's behalf, Jenny Auer, priest's fiance testified that she lived with him for three and a half months before his arrest, and they plan on getting married three and a half months. Wow. Yeah. Very deep connection. Super deep. She said the priest helped her overcome her low self-esteem and served as a good father figure to her daughter while on drugs. Mm. Yeah. I don't, I don't buy any of that quote. He's been trying really hard to do things the right way. Have you, sir?

Stephanie: 33:18

I

Dani: 33:18

don't think so. Auer also said that priest hopes to practice law after he is released. Oh. And that he has became a certified paralegal while serving time in prison on a parole violation. And he did. Good for you, bud. Maybe you should have just represented yourself. I wonder if he's still thinking back. Ah, gosh. If I only would've let me, Adam, a prison guard. Randy Anderson said Priest was a role model for other inmates. He said priest was respected among inmates because he helped them with legal issues.'cause he was paralegal. Hmm. A certified, he found something else to do. Yeah. Oh, I'm not hustling drugs. I'm gonna hustle. Legal advice. Yeah, I bet you got so much shit for that. Like, you want me to write this up? Yeah. Okay. Well I need your commissary for the next six weeks, right? Oh yeah. Fuck yeah.

Stephanie: 34:19

Mm-hmm.

Dani: 34:20

Uh, can you get your family to put some money on my books? Alright. See what I can do. So this is June, 1993. All this is going on and my research, I was like, what the fuck happened? Looking, looking, looking. Nothing until March 25th, 1994. This is not how this works. Yeah. This is not how this works. You don't go to a sentencing hearing and have it drag on for nine fucking months. Yeah. I wonder what the hell? It was weird. I'm like, wait, and I immediately like the story's gonna go nowhere. I'm like searching and there's nothing. It does go somewhere, but. Nine months later on March 25th, 1994, three inmates escaped from the Canyon County Jail. Oh, priest, Daniel Alvarez Cortez and Michael Allen Jala. He's on my list, escaped from their cells around 10:00 PM Canon County Jail. Yeah, priest has not been sentenced yet. It's fucked. This just blew my mind. Priest is at the county jail for his March 28th, sentencing nine months. A series of defense motions has delayed the sentencing hearing that originally started in June of 1993. Well, and since he's a paralegal, he probably knows everything to do to jam up the system. I, I totally feel that. Can you, ima nine months after your commit, we see six weeks, eight weeks, even three months with all their jostling and getting pre-sentencing, hearing, uh, psychological, all that stuff. Mm-hmm. No. Nine months. You don't hear that? No, but he sounds like he was plotting and scheming a scammer scam. So the group entered jaw cell before evening lockdown, and then they knocked a hole through the ceiling. What They pry up a metal ceiling tile with a piece of metal taken from a folding table. They made their, they made their way off the main jail roof and jumped down onto the roof of the workout center. Jola and Cortez were located in minutes. Officers finally located priests two hours later sitting in a pipe on the roof, so they didn't get too far. They called the fire. The fire department was a, it was a fucking mess. Could you imagine the excitement from the other inmates though? Like what an exciting happening? There were several incidents. I should do a whole episode on just how many people escaped or attempted to escape. I can't, I think it was like seven people.

Stephanie: 37:25

God damn.

Dani: 37:26

Uh, in a very short amount of time because the county, the Canyon County Jail was only 14 months old. Get a better fucking architect. Yeah, an engineer. Um, and it has been plagued with problems. IE prisoner breaks. George, uh, sheriff George Nurse said quote, certainly we need some work done on the ceiling. Yeah, I'm, I would say so. We paid someone to work on things, but it wasn't enough. No shit. There was a thing made out of cardboard or what. Great investment county. County winning. So these metal ceiling panels are riveted in. Sheriff nurse said he's looking into having them welded. Oh, you think finally on March 28th, 1994, priest is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Well, there you go. Couple couple prison breaks. Yeah. To have two. That's pretty extraordinary. He's like, anybody got a van with some keys in it? Well, and to be delaying it so far so that he doesn't go to a different,'cause he probably went to a different prison for his life, right. Life sentence or whatever. Yeah. The Idaho, he's so, he's like, yeah, this place is built out of bullshit. I need to have some more time to plop my, he had 21 months out of. Prison last time. Yeah. And so he's probably had some time to do a little bit better planning. And I do believe, like Snow said, that he is very smart. Mm-hmm. I mean, he's being a para, you know, I just, it's like, uh, who is that? Like the motorcycle mayhem one? Uh, he could have been a politician. Mm-hmm. Yeah. This guy could have been something, but you had to be a weirdo and be killing people and showing other people the body and doing drugs. Drugs. Drugs. Drugs. And then you get in prison where you can apply yourself and look at you. Look what you can do when you're not on drugs. Some people thrive in prison. They need that structure. Should have went into the military. His mama probably should have structured them. Yeah. Structured'em up. Right. Good. Mm-hmm. So in 2025, Stephen Priest is 61 and in custody at the Idaho State Correctional Center. I wonder if he's still selling his paralegal. Oh, damn straight. Yeah. Actually, I read an article and I couldn't find backup to it, so I didn't report it that he had become a licensed attorney in two states. Oh shit. But I couldn't find any backup. Like it sounds like he would. He's got nothing but time and he is already done other things. So I would, and I imagine that. If he can write up briefs for these people as a paralegal. Mm-hmm. And like submit. He's living a high life. Yeah. He has any flavor or ramen. He wants any flavor. And he probably has some tap potato or something. Oh yeah. Fuck yeah. He's, he's getting down. He might even have like fucking sodas. I know he has the JPay player. Oh yeah. Somebody bought that for him for sure. Mm-hmm. No, he's living the high life. I almost feel like it's, uh, Shawshank e. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So he's like we said, he's now the life, his legal advice. So he has an office set up in the library. Gosh, what a different path you could have had on the outside if you weren't dumb, and all these fucking drugs. Drugs are bad drugs. Yeah. Kids don't do drugs. Well, thank you Danny. This was a good one. I appreciated the two escapes by one guy. Yeah. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Rare, but apparently not unheard of and snow. Snow was fun. Snow was fun. Yeah. She was in her twenties just doing her thing. And she probably knew all the deeds being a dancer. She probably knew people. Yeah, she absolutely. But she was like, I know the deeds, but I don't wanna get involved. Oh wait, I have to get involved.'cause I sold eight balls. God, couple times I sold eight balls to an officer. I was new. Okay. This morning. Well guys, thank you for listening. Again. Follow us TikTok, Facebook. Instagram, we're available just about anywhere to listen and send us an email if you have questions, comments, concerns, or just wanna say something. It's the lethal library@gmail.com and I'm always looking for ideas. Yes. or inside. If you know any of these cases, please. We like it. Yeah, we'd love to hear from you. Well, Danny Tan, four rubber ducky. Fuck yeah.