Initially I thought I was a tactical mistake to bring that female detective in the room. The fact that LR's mother was addicted to meth while he was a child as well as the mention of his success with the opposite sex made me predict that her emotional way of pleading/reasoning with LR was going to not work very well. I felt he would be well prepared to dismiss her emotional engagement. Although I can't say how effective her strategy was on its own, it clearly wasn't a hindrance. It did not make him withdraw as I thought it would. In the end, his confession to murdering Savannah Gold was from a job well done from both of those detectives. Hearing LR enter a plea of not guilty makes me so thankful that interrogators like this work so hard so scumbags like him can't avoid their comeuppances. Thoughts and prayers to the Gold family.

Carolyn Devins yes I’ve seen that happen before and they’ll actually take the woman out and replace her with another man,idk why or how they decide when the time is for that but hopefully one day 🤞🏽

@Dante Good well actually we where agreeing but in another video investigation one male detective was actually going to balls up the confection with his in put and the narrator pointed that out so not every police is perfect at there job 😝

Carolyn Devins - Gotta love the hubris of message board fools, who have convinced themselves they know more than seasoned professionals with high level education and training backing them. Who are you to question her tactics (actually the tactics of the whole team since this was all designed)? Especially when her tactics worked?

@KREEDofSPADES yes i agree.. I was just worried that his guilt and evilness would make him clam up rather than what she was intending to do

Carolyn Devins i don’t know but I would assume female detectives if not trained too,will willingly cry and create an emotional connection w the victim or their family,that’s just smart thinking IMO

@KREEDofSPADES yes but it was they she went full on pleading was a bit much to start i wasn't sure of but then she must have known that was the right card to play with him

It’s very interesting to see all these guys reactions to a woman being present during an interrogation...some men shut down and refuse to talk around a woman figure and some almost seem to lean towards a female detective...very bizarre

I agree with what you first said i thought the way she was getting emotional to him was going to make it to soft and he doesn't seem to have a soft side... It didn't seem professional but aw well


The cop getting emotional was very disconcerting. When imagining an interrogation you’d expect some aggression and lots of questions but a perpetrator isn’t going to see that display of emotion coming. That combined with the juxtaposition between the very different demeanors of the two cops probably made him more unsettled. Good tactic, and it worked.

i didn't like her ways..guy was doing fine on his own with her on the side applying pressure sometimes but i guess the emotion swap startled his adderalled ass


i find it interesting when he mentioned his own mother while in distress, but he never thought of savannah's mother when he murdered her child.

I mean, it sounds like he wasn't really thinking of anything. His impulse control is awful, and clearly he acts in self preservation (hiding the body, lying, pleading innocent), but he doesn't seem evil in the sense that he really desired to hurt someone.

selfishness. only cared about what happened to him and nobody else


somone get these detectives a raise, they work together perfectly, the female detective was also super impressive

I liked how she was able to keep her mouth shut most of the time. A rare trait in females.


The cut from the tape that showed him just about to confess to the details of her horrific murder was bone chilling. It sucked to see a human in pain like he was but I feel no sympathy considering how she must have felt more fear and pain at his hands.

i think being murdered in the back of someone's car is a little more uncomfortable

To me, in these circumstances it doesn’t suck at all to see a human in pain like this. I only feel a slight satisfaction seeing this violent murderer in pain like this, and also a remaining feeling of injustice since no other punishment than ‘an eye for an eye’ would feel like true justice to me in this case.


It is surprisingly distressing to see a guy repeating "I don't know" about a person he murdered, the same way i remember repeating "I don't know" about who broke X when i was a child, and remembering how it felt.

I get exactly what you're saying bro. its a sort of mental and emotional desperation where you know you're wrong and have nothing else to really say, but you're afraid of both being known as a liar AND committing whatever action you did.

but its also sort of reassuring to know that I'll never be in a situation like THIS GUY

@milk testing woman That's actually a sign of relatively high emotional intelligence. <br>The fact that he can accurately distinguish exactly what is going on inside a murderer's head and what emotions he's feeling by using a simple run of the mill average childhood experience.

@milk testing woman That's actually a sign of relatively high emotional intelligence.
The fact that he can accurately distinguish exactly what is going on inside a murderer's head and what emotions he's feeling by using a simple run of the mill average childhood experience.

This episode, on "i can relate to this murderer because i knocked over a vase as a kid"


It’s a shame that he threw away his prosperous career prospect at the bonefish grill

It’s not glamorous, but it’s honest hard work. It’s kind of sad how many people think they’re too special for a career like that. It’s probably why we have millions of people who sit on their fat asses living off the government and purchasing nothing but slave labor goods, rather than work more than 40 hours a week at a thankless profession.

A job is a job, whatever pays the bills.

Kek everyone acting like theyre making over 100k a year in this section....

Restaurant management makes more money than most people in this thread lol.

@LAVATORR You don't know very much about the restaurant industry do you?

What? This dude had an awesome career ahead of him....what a life he would of given her.....

@LAVATORR restaurant employees use drugs more than any other field or job

I heard he makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches in the pen...they have the radiator grill marks and everything

@LAVATORR lol some people only know about their small ecosystem, so they'll try to cling to it. evidently, that ignorance can push someone to kill

@Kryptonite i mean if Bonefish Grill is a place where scabby junkies speedballing meth and heroin are murdering each other, rising to the level of Manager must be on par with being a Made Man in the Mafia

from what he described of his background, holding a steady job requiring any level of skill was probably a huge success. unfortunately, he still kept one foot in the old life


Detectives: "What's your favorite color?"

Lee: recites the entire Lord of The Rings movies "And that's why my favorite color is blue"

Detectives: "What's your favorite color?"

Lee: *recites the entire Lord of The Rings movies* "And that's why my favorite color is blue"

@4Legacy Or with the late Harry Potter movies ... Everything's so damn dark end green

@Grace Rivard I associate green with The Matrix

Green is the color I associate with the movies more. Like hobbiton and the cloaks they all wear. You could argue white, but I only associate that with the end of Return of the king. The only time blue stands out to me is at the battle of helms deep. So if his anchor to the films is that part, I guess I understand where he's coming from

Blue is a n ice colour ,,, it definitely looks healthy!

😂😂😂😂😂 on god

😂😂😂😂😂 on god


After watching too many of these interrogation videos, this is how I intend to have any conversation with a detective, no matter what’s happening:
Me: “I won’t speak to you without a lawyer present.”
Cop: “We’re just gathering some info from you to determine what happened! We’re not even charging you with anything.”
Me: “Just to be safe, I want a lawyer before we sit down to talk.”
Cop: “You only have a right to an attorney if you’re under arrest. Shall we arrest you?”
Me: “Wait — if I’m not under arrest, does that mean I’m free to leave?”
Cop: “Actually, we just really need you to answer some questions first.”
Me: “Am I being detained, or am I free to leave?”
Cop: “Oh. ummm yeah i guess you’re free to leave.”
Me: exits immediately

After watching too many of these interrogation videos, this is how I intend to have any conversation with a detective, no matter what’s happening:
Me: “I won’t speak to you without a lawyer present.”
Cop: “We’re just gathering some info from you to determine what happened! We’re not even charging you with anything.”
Me: “Just to be safe, I want a lawyer before we sit down to talk.”
Cop: “You only have a right to an attorney if you’re under arrest. Shall we arrest you?”
Me: “Wait — if I’m not under arrest, does that mean I’m free to leave?”
Cop: “Actually, we just really need you to answer some questions first.”
Me: “Am I being detained, or am I free to leave?”
Cop: “Oh. ummm yeah i guess you’re free to leave.”
Me: *exits immediately*

@Shoshanna the  title is "the bizarre case of Stephen McDaniel"

@S KoRona what was Steven’s full name so I can find the video? Or the name of the video ?

@Shoshanna that's true.<br>I suggest you watch that episode. The guy was so weird.

@Shoshanna that's true.
I suggest you watch that episode. The guy was so weird.

@S KoRona I’d still want a lawyer! But yes, saying as little as humanly possible is good.

@Shoshanna he literally answered all the questions of 2 detectives with "yes" "no" "I don't know", with a straight face and creepy manner for 3 hours. No confession at the end!! So, the tactic worked in his favour.

@AJ Genuinely like the coke guy. Id drink one with him.

@S KoRona which video & what was the tactic?

You might want to take up Steven's tactic from another video. That works quite well also.

Get out of interrogations with this one simple trick. COPS HATE IT

@James Upton to which you reply “I won’t speak to you without a lawyer present.”

To get picked up a day later on an arrest warrant.


For those new here wondering what happened:

Lee Rodarte Jr., 31, received his sentence on Thursday (March 11 2021), nearly three years after he was charged with killing Gold, with whom he worked at a Bonefish Grill in Mandarin, Action News Jax reports. Rodarte reached an arrangement with prosecutors in February and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder; in exchange, prosecutors proposed a sentence of 40 years with credit for time served, and the judge agreed.

Shoulda been life

@cool guy 27 did you know that petty theft with a prior used to be a felony in California? Get caught stealing a pack of gum in two separate events would be a felony.  Death you say?

@cool guy 27 death is too easy, no punishment/rehab (when finishing time in jail)

All I am saying is that it's important to understand someone can change on the inside, therefore I don't want to wish upon them eternity in jail. I'm not insinuating that people should not go to jail and pay the price. But I'm a christian so my outlook on this may be very different from y'all's :)

Death should be the standard punishment for all felony crime.

@Titus you killed someone and then you just change to be free? is that fair? someone got killed just remember that.

I think it's important to remember that people can change. Even murderers.

Thank you. I was going to search for it  👍


I’ve watched a few interrogations, and I’ve never seen an approach like the one the female detective used, it’s extremely interesting actually. You can see him get uncomfortable almost immediately!


The amount of misogyny and gross comments in this comment section is just repulsive


It’s hard to feel sorry for him because he doesn’t feel sorry for killing a woman, he only feels sorry for himself. He’s got enough pity for himself, he doesn’t need any of mine.

@Riley Cyrus oh he said sorry, hes clear on my list

@Moses The Prophet for a prophet ur not very prophety

@Debby Blanchard He didn't know the camera was in there otherwise he wouldn't have made himself so vulnerable with his breakdown.

@lopendepaddo I disagree, I don't think he was sorry just sorry he got caught. After his "fucking Savannah" he thinks about him being on camera and the sorry to Savannah was all just an act. He has no remorse.

@Riley Cyrus also if you rewatch the whole interrogation for each question he was actually just building up the story to why he killed her people who feel guilty typically do this

@Moses The Prophet You don't know the context in his mind, "fucking savanna" could be just a plea of desperation in his irate state of mind, In tears after uttering those words he says "I'm so sorry savanna". And afterwards he even says to himself "Savannah was nice to you".

It was a murder of passion, in the moment of the murder he became irate, lost control of himself, afterwards he panicked and tried to save himself. He obviously feels guilt and frustration about his own actions, guilt towards Savannah and frustration that he threw his life away. The whole self defense motive he has now adapted is probably under coaching of his lawyer.

All in all its a damn shame probably 2 people lose their lives over a conflict that was probably trivial at it's core, but that is how most murders go.

He is making a stand-your-ground defense. That's not going to work.<br>He's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

He is making a stand-your-ground defense. That's not going to work.
He's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Riley Cyrus lets be honest, if I fought with my GF or wife and that happened, you would call the cops straight away and explain it was a freak event.  You’d also be vaguely hopeful they could resuscitate her.  People call ambulances for people who are stone cold dead and obviously so.  The initial reaction is disbelief.  He clearly did something wrong - may not have intended to kill her but he definitely knew it wasn’t an accident

@Moses The Prophet according to him he grabbed her neck and heard it pop so it wouldn't seem like he was trying to kill her; but we only have one side of "what happened." He does seem to have regret but it's more so that his life is over and as he brought up his mom he isn't the first failure in his family from his point of view and was trying to do better than other family members. Which is exactly why i want the rest of the confession. What we've seen so far only tries to show empathy but if so why did he lie and cremate her? I myself think it's because before he killed her he beat her to a state of near death

it’s so odd how i feel bad, i don’t want to but i feel the urge to give him a coke


Imagine if this narrator gets arrested. He is going to go anime on those detectives.

There’s a video on this channel where a cop/investigator of over 20 years is suspect of a murder, and during questioning even she acted a fool. The narrator makes a point to say that even if you know all the “tricks”, you likely won’t become some mind-judo jedi during an interrogation. Turns out, almost everyone sucks at lying one way or another. So yeah, best thing is to shut up and lawyer up, if you try to defend yourself then it’s potentially bad for you. Even if you are truly innocent, say little and get an attorney.

@Primethread Yup, there's no trick to it, just shut up and ask for a lawyer. Anything else is shooting yourself in the foot, whether you're innocent or guilty.

he'd somehow convince the detectives that they're guilty lol


Best tactic: feel cop, squat cop

One keeps touching on the crotch of the suspect and when he gets out of his seat to avoid being fondled, the other cop steals his seat.

Hah!  Good luck sitting down now!  Justice is served.


“How long did you know her?”
Lee: "The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
"

LOL, I haven't seen that one since 1989!

@Bigboikilljoy did you like, subscribe, comment and hit the bell button?

@Christopher Lowery thanks captain obvious

@Bigboikilljoy  If the joke is that the dude is being evasive, providing an absurdly technical description of something unrelated. The content of what was copied doesn’t matter, the point is that it’s excessive in its detail. It’s not like copying someone else’s comment. Don’t be a dingleberry

Investigator: Ah.  8 months.  Very good.

Investigator: Ah.  8 months.  Very good.

@Bigboikilljoy no i obviously typed it all out by hand by sitting and listening to it second by second and even in a perfect recreation of the video even tho im not a native english speaker and it took me 69 hours to complete the comment, please like and subscribe and comment and hit the bell and report and delete this and have a good day


You mentioned that the segment of him sobbing at the end can be sometimes hard to watch, but thinking of what happened to savannah and watching his whole life fall apart made me glad to watch him sob

@Azzara7 He should've gone to the authorities, but he knew he murdered a person and he wanted to try and at least save himself ( even if you have morals, when you're in a situation where your life is threatened, unless you are suicidal, your first instinct is to do anything that will save your life ). I assume that he wanted to try and burn the body completely to ashes but he didn't know that he can't do that quickly so he disposed of it in a lake instead. Both of these ways of killing are ways with which you can destroy evidence, and that's probably what he wanted to do. If his intention was to dispose of her in a gruesome way he definitely wouldn't do it in these ways. You can see panic in everything he did - he did an awful, disgusting thing, realized he dug his own grave but still had hope that he can get himself out of it and failed.

@lopark I totally agree with you, also, even if it was an accident, he should have gone to the authorities straight away instead of disposing her body in such a gruesome manner and face the consequences.

@Ana Uribe He definitely is somewhat sad for taking her life. As you can see he definitely feels remorse. "I'm so sorry Savannah" and "Savannah was a nice girl" are lines where you can notice that he does actually feel bad for taking her life. Also the way he talks and sounds during the interrogation can kind of show that he was at least somewhat troubled because of what he did ( or maybe not, that's just how I feel about it ). And the fact that he was sentenced for second-degree murder, meaning an unplanned, intentional killing (reacting in the heat of the moment when angry), which was most probably, I would say definitely, what happened there. Maybe it's because I am a big empath, but I can see that his usual self wouldn't ever think of killing, but he got angry and acted like an idiot. He got what he deserved, I think he should've gotten more years in jail ( he got 40 ), but I wouldn't say he is a cold-blooded murderer or that he feels no remorse. I hope I don't sound like I'm defending him.

He’s sad for having ben caught, not for taking her life.


“Are you being honest?”

“Yes”

“Okay let’s start being honest” xD

@Let's Talk About Prepping

This is how it is, just by observation. First off, we start existence with two things...something, and nothing. So, 1 and 0.

The Greeks i believe defined zero as a number, as it was hard to do, even though it was used, it needed empirical law, and value...a true conundrum. When they did, they explained also the beginning and existence imo.

 The zero (nothing) has no value until it is an effect on a number (something) while simultaneously being the basis for every number. This number paradox, is also reality's. Reality is an always-paradox.  In order for something to ever exist, it needs the contrast of nothing, however there is no nothing, until it is created by the effect of something, which needs nothing to be. Its our polar Reality.

What is matter? There isn't an answer, but consider mine, and stay abstract.

Matter isn't moving (although it always is at some scale), no, matter IS movement.

So the actual big bang of this always-paradox, is 0 ÷ 1. The movement is a division, and matter is that movement.

Matter is the separation of something and nothing. It so far is treated as a linear expansion, but in fact it is a polar-expansion. There is polar-volume, infinite inside of everything, at every point. The smaller you go, the faster things are. More on that later.

So this expansion (division of something and nothing, called movement, which is matter) was in all directions, at all points, but also an *inspansion everywhere at all points. This straight line direction of movement will and does conglomerate, but would quickly lead to stasis, so this ex/in-spansion began to curve where it connected, and at all points and all directions this curving to avoid conglomeration led to spin, which leads to sphering, and thusseparation of these movement into units of spheres. This is our physical reality, sphering movements.

The straight line direction of expansion is the electro magnetic force, gravity is this same force curving into a sphere. Gravity is the opposite of expansion, the opposite of movement, however in a reality where all things (movement) refuse to touch, so therefore gravity becomes a capacity of movement, like a battery or coil. This is why more mass, the more potential energy, and the more energy needed to get the curve of gravity straight again.

This expansion therefore expands radially at all points, in and out, repeating pi at all points, with the .14... being the 'great mover' of Aristotle's vision, and the ratios of chemistry and electron coupling creating the intricacies of matter, from the atomic up to the molecular up to us, and down and in.

If you could get an observation in atomic orbit, you would first have to be tiny, and move very fast, but once its speed and size and acceleration is relative to it's environment, so is its observable time. However if this experiment were performed in a lab, with the atomic probe carrying a clock, it would experience relative time, but much much more time would pass on the probes clock, then the labs clock. Both times would be relative to each observer, but more time would pass at the atomic level in the same time of the labs level.

So....and theres more to say that completes this theory, there very well could be a way to have these worlds and events. It could be advanced life in one of the infinite scales of this movement able to travel in and out. It might not even be technology, because matter might be life as well. Something with intent.

There is a divide in Matter, and it quantifies the metaphysical. Puts it right into physics, and thats amazing.

Its this: Life can be defined as "matter with intent". Thus, intent can be quantified, as we have matter with, and matter without, intent.

Consequently, matter with intent is made of matter with no intent. This observation can easily close this separation of the two matters. 'It all' could be a form of life.

@Mine Duck still waiting. I'll hold my breath if it helps

@Michael Knight and now for my grand unification theory of reality. I'm not kidding, get ready....

@Lucano Lallo: I think that is what's commonly referred to as "alcohol intoxication".

@Pataganja she asked him if he's being honest. And she intentionally makes it sound like she's asking if he has been being honest. So he answers yes, stating that he has been being honest.

But, she then switches how she meant it, and takes his yes as meaning he is now claiming he's going to be honest now, ignoring the past tense implication he answered to.

He thought he was affirming his story with a yes. She basically asked him if he's ready NOW to start being honest, making his previous statements seem like lies to her, which he stated yes to, thus affirming without intending, to implicate he was lying.

Mesmerizing like the globetrotters styling on some white guy.

That's actually brilliant, I caught it, and I'm going to use it when I'm being lied to.

Person lies. You ask them if they are being honest about the lie, they answer yes. Then, you switch the question, making it seem like he misunderstood it's intent, while acting as if he answered it the second way when he answered it the first way, by saying ok, so let's be honest, blah blah blah.

Harlem globetrotted.

"why are yo you geh"

"Who says I am geh"

"you are geh"


Man the second cop is annoying. Shed stress me the fk out.


*asking about neck wound @21:27
Detective: So that was in July?
Suspect: ...yea

he shoulda hit him with:
So why’d July?

My top comment on YouTube is a dad joke. I have achieved comedy.

@mia July ≈ you lie?

12:15 AM (yep!)
6/3/2021

@LARISSA ASSUNÇÃO AIRES MOREIRA you’re welcome!!! 🤣

10 out of 10 gets convictions 100% of the time.

@mia lol 🤣🤣🤣 really??? He said in July.... so why’d July sounds like why did you lie.

This one right here has to be the top comment

Hehe.<br>First time I actually laughed out loud at a yt comment.

Hehe.
First time I actually laughed out loud at a yt comment.


This cool how skilled these interrogators are. Man, the amount of training they had to take. I cant imagine. Theyre like verbal jedi.


What's crazy to me is how he admits to taking a schedule II without a prescription and the interrogators don't care. If Lee was smart (obviously not), he would've immediately known that the interrogators knew he killed Savannah because they aren't interested in busting him for a misdemeanor.


I can’t be the only one who wishes we had a new video from Jim daily!! This is one of my favorite channels

Eriq NAN quality and quantity on patreon!

He’s gotta make quality content not pump out quantity


Bro I live next to that bonefish grill I had no idea


I’ve since read that Lee Rodartes sister was arrested for an unrelated murder as well . Must be a helluva family.

Alex Ruland: I was just carrying on with the joke at hand. But yes, I do share a last name with a famous author as do several million other people with many famous authors. I was being facetious. I’ve been working on my novel for over 30 years now and should be done soon and then I’ll reveal my name, lol. Stay tuned!

@Ray Ray what author? just curious. if you aren't related, don't think talent prolly works like that unfortunately.

Alex Ruland: I have the same last name as a famous author and I’m still trying to write my first best seller, lol.

@Efrain Rodarte i get it, if i shared the last name with a killer i'd question it too. unless the killers name was like, smith.

@Alex Ruland you're right, there's no indication that we are related. But I'm just thinking somewhere up the Pike

@Efrain Rodarte just because you have the same last name? lots of people share a last name but aren't related. do you live in the same area?

i just googled it, it also involved a car. sounds like drugs were involved as well. although i don't know how much i believe him about the hard drugs she was doing.


put on a good show for the camera at the end