The Hi-Fi Murders

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Discretion advised. This is ten minute
murder. On the twenty second of April

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nineteen seventy four, six men drove
to a Hall audio shop in Utah.

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They planned on robbing the store,
taking hostages, and killing anybody who they

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encountered inside. At the time the
men arrived, the store was just about

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to close and there were only two
employees inside, eighteen year old Michelle Annsley

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and twenty year old Stanley Walker.
Two of the assailants remained outside with the

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two vans they'd driven to the scene, while the other four men entered the

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store with their handguns drawn. They
quickly threatened and overpowered Michelle and Stanley walked

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them down into the basement and restrained
them before walking back upstairs and beginning to

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rob the store. A short time
later, another person came to the store.

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He was a sixteen year old boy
named Courtney Naisbitt, and he wanted

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to thank Stanley for letting him use
the parking lot while he was running errands

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earlier. As soon as Courtney walked
through the door, he became another hostage

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in the basement. That evening,
Stanley's father orin Walker arrived at the store

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concerned that his son had never come
home from his shift. Once again,

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Orn was taken hostage. The same
thing happened to Courtney's mother, Carol,

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who came to see if her son
was still at the store. By this

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point, the six assailants were now
managing a total of five hostages. One

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of the men left to get something
from one of the vans outside and came

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back with an empty bottle hidden in
a paper bag, which they poured drain

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cleaner into. They told Orin Walker
to force the other hostages to drink the

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drain cleaner, but when he wouldn't, he was tied up and gagged and

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left lying on his stomach. Then
the two perpetrators sat up the rest of

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the hostages and attempted to make them
drink the liquid by lying and saying that

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it was a mix of alcohol and
sleeping medication. They mistakenly believed that the

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drain cleaner would be a quick and
easy way to kill the hostages. Instead,

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it tortured them. As soon as
the liquid touched the mouths of the

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victims, it caused burns to their
tongues and made their lips blister and peel.

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Orin was the last person to be
forced to drink the poison, but

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he had seen the damage the liquid
had caused to the other hostages and didn't

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believe it was vodka. He pretended
to drink from the bottle, but did

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not swallow, and then forced himself
to scream and convulse like the others.

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One of the perpetrators, a twenty
one year old man named Dale Pierre,

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was frustrated that the victims weren't instantly
dying. With his handgun, he shot

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both Courtney and Carrol in the head. Carrol was killed instantly, but Courtney

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survived the wound. Dale then tried
to shoot Orrin and missed, so he

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fatally shot Stanley before trying to shoot
Orrin again. This time the bullet made

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contact, but it was only a
flesh wound. Believing that the rest of

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the hostages were dead, Dale then
sexually assaulted eighteen year old Michelle. After

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the assault, he let her get
up and use the toilet before throwing her

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to the ground and fatally shooting her. Michelle Ansley's last words were, I'm

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too young to die. At this
point, the perpetrators finally noticed that they

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had not succeeded in killing Orrin.
Dale climbed up on top of him and

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tried to strangle him with the length
of wire, but it didn't work.

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Then they placed an ink pin inside
of his ear canal and stomped on his

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head, causing the pin to puncture
his ear drum. Believing that Orrin had

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finally died, the men loaded up
their van and fled the scene. Three

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hours later, Orran's family came to
the store concerned after both Stanley and Orran

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failed to come home. They found
the store in disarray, and when Orrin's

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son heard strange noises coming from the
basement, he broke into the store through

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the back door while his mother called
nine one one. First Responders found that

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two of the victims, Annesley and
Stanley, were dead at the scene and

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unable to be revived. Carrol was
rushed to a nearby hospital, but was

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dead on arrival. Due to the
extent of Courtney Nasbitt's injuries, he was

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expected to die, but despite his
severe brain damage, he clung to life.

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After almost a year of intensive treatment
in the hospital, he was released,

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although he would suffer from his brain
injuries for the rest of his life.

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Despite Orin Walker being poisoned, shot, strangled, and stabbed, with

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a pin through his ear drum.
He was alive and lucid. While he

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had serious chemical burns to his face
from the drain cleaner and a damaged ear

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drum, he was able to describe
the assailants to the authorities. Only hours

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after the murders were reported on the
news, the police received a phone call

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from a concerned man who was in
the Air Force. He told them that

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he remembered a concerning conversation with an
Air Force helicopter mechanic, nineteen year old

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William Andrews, who had told him
quote, one of these days, I'm

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going to rob that high fi shop
and if anybody gets in the way,

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I'm going to kill them. Only
a couple hours later, the connection between

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the crime and the Air Force was
strengthened. A couple of kids had been

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dumpster diving at the nearby Air Force
space when they had found several wallets containing

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the driver's licenses of the victims.
The detective who arrived at the dumpsters found

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that a crowd had gathered, and, believing that the killers were connected to

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the Air Force, he thought there
was a good chance that they could be

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in the crowd. He decided to
try to scare the killers by putting on

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a dramatic show. He used tongs
to remove the evidence from the dumpster.

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Sure enough, he noticed that two
of the men in the crowd were acting

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suspiciously. While everybody else was silently
watching. As he retrieved the evidence,

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two men were engaged in a loud
conversation while anxiously waving their hands around.

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Those two men were Dale Pierre,
the man who shot Orrin had described to

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the cops, and William Andrews,
who had told a friend he was going

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to rob the store one day.
Both Dale and William were questioned while officers

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worked to obtain a search warrant for
their barracks rooms. Inside, investigators found

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several flyers for the store that they
had targeted, as well as a contract

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for storage unit. After getting a
second search warrant for the storage unit,

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they found several pieces of equipment that
had been stolen from the Hi Fi store,

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as well as a bottle of drain
cleaner that had been used to poison

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the hostages. Now the police had
two of the four perpetrators, and the

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hunt for the remaining men continued.
After a few weeks, a third man

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was identified. After questioning, he
was nineteen year old Keith Roberts, who

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was also an airman, but although
he admitted to being accomplice in the robbery,

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he claimed that he'd waited outside in
the van the whole time and had

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no idea about the horrors that Dale
and William were committing inside the store.

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All three perpetrators were charged with aggravated
robbery in first degree murder and a date

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was set for a joint trial.
Both Dale, Pierre, and William Andrews

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were found guilty of all charges and
sentenced to death. However, Keith was

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only found guilty of the robbery and
acquitted of the murder. During the trial,

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the jury learned that Dale and William
had agreed that they would rob the

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store and kill everyone inside. They'd
even spent time researching how to quickly and

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easily kill people. The use of
draincleaner had been inspired by a nineteen eighty

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three film called Magnum Force, where
a sex worker was forced to drink drain

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cleaner and then died immediately. The
two men had watched the film together several

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times, and without any further research, they decided that the drain cleaner would

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be the perfect way to instantly take
care of their victims. Before their executions,

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both Dale and William were viewed as
the scum of the earth by the

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other prisoners, especially on death row. In nineteen seventy seven, another murderer

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even addressed them using his last words
before he was killed by a firing squad,

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calling out quote I'll see you in
Hell as he walked past their cells.

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Despite the overwhelming evidence against Dale,
William, and Keith, there was

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never enough evidence to convict the remaining
three assailants, who remain unnamed to this

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day. Three of the people in
the High Fi store that day died tragic,

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painful deaths, and three of the
people who contributed to their deaths walked

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brewery. It's made by a brewery
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