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00:04She was the all-American girl next door, prom queen, homecoming queen, captain of her high
00:11school cheerleading squad. She was blonde, white, just a small-town blonde white girl
00:19with her whole life ahead of her. Do I have your attention? Good, because forget what I just said.
00:28I was just trying to keep you engaged, because market research tells me what you want, and
00:36it's white chicks murdered 24-7. The truth is, the women at the center of our story might
00:45not fit your typical true crime show victim profile, which is all the more reason to keep
00:52watching. Sometimes the criminal justice system...
00:56It was more like guilty until proven innocent.
00:59Isn't all that just?
01:00Which stage of sleepwalking involves murder?
01:06That's scary.
01:08Of course it is.
01:09You don't give up, do you?
01:11I'm Jenna Friedman, and this is Indefensible.
01:17This episode is about a guy who thought he could get away with murder by preying on vulnerable
01:22women. And what's worse is that he was right.
01:31Some new information tonight now in the death of a college student from Montclair. Police say
01:36they have arrested a suspect in the murder of Sarah Butler. The 20-year-old disappeared
01:41days before Thanksgiving. Sarah graduated from Montclair High School. She was very popular. She
01:47was very into dance. And you could see some of her videos of her dancing. She just has such
01:54exuberance. Reporter Julia Martin covered the case.
01:57She was the first in her family to go away to college. She had a lot of jobs. She was
02:03just a
02:03go-getter. And she was going to better her life. In 2016, Sarah Butler is home for Thanksgiving
02:10when she starts messaging with a guy on the social networking site, TACT. He had offered to get
02:17together with her and offered her money. And she had agreed reluctantly. And then she got so nervous she
02:25didn't show up. And then two days later, she says, sorry, I stood you up. Sorry, I was nervous.
02:33You're not a serial killer, right? Wow. On the evening of November 22nd, Sarah goes out to meet him.
02:42She never comes home. The minute she disappeared, her family would not rest. They were frantic. Sarah's
02:50sister, mother, and two best friends were literally in the Montclair police station every single day.
02:57After meeting with police, Sarah's friends take the investigation into their own hands and relentlessly
03:04pursue every lead. They went to the butler's house to hack into Sarah's computer. They're like,
03:11we gotta act. Sarah's friends soon find her tagged account. They create a profile and arrange a date
03:19with the same guy Sarah had met up with just prior to her disappearance. When they go to meet him,
03:25they bring the Montclair police with them. Assistant prosecutor Adam Wells.
03:32The Montclair police didn't tell them to do this. They did this on their own.
03:35Um, they actually went to the restaurant. A friend of Sarah's sister was standing in the door
03:42of the restaurant waving at him to let him know that she was there. Um, and as he started getting
03:48out of the car, the two plain clothes, uh, detectives from Montclair approached and asked him if they
03:54could, if he would be willing to help them with a missing persons investigation. Wow. Okay. Um,
04:00that's so scary. They were dedicated to the purpose.
04:03The man police encounter is a 20 year old named Khalil Wheeler Weaver, who comes from a family
04:10of law enforcement. When Sarah's body is found five days later, police use cell phone and DNA
04:18evidence to arrest him for her murder. Police believe Weaver strangled the 20 year old New Jersey
04:24City University student, killing her. He then took her car, police say, and left her body at Eagle Rock
04:30Reservation. Sources say he was most recently working as a security guard at this shop right
04:37in Union. That's a little disconcerting, I would say. Very as a matter of fact. Do you think that
04:44the case would have been as strong if the friends had not set up that social media profile to find
04:50the killer and apprehend him? The friends who were looking out for each other, those friends are the
04:55ones who made sure it got to where it needed to be. And this is true with Sarah's case, but
05:00also with
05:01the other victims' cases. That's right. Sarah wasn't his only victim. In fact, authorities soon learn they
05:09might be dealing with a serial killer.
05:14As prosecutors begin preparing the case against Sarah Butler's killer, they make a shocking
05:20discovery. Tracking data from Khalil Wheeler-Weaver's cell phone helps them uncover two more women he
05:26murdered. On August 31st, nearly three months before he killed Sarah Butler, Wheeler-Weaver claimed another
05:34victim, a 19-year-old from Philadelphia named Robin West. Robin West had a family that loved her
05:43and that did their best to keep track of her. But once someone is, you know, over 18 and in
05:49the
05:49throes of some mental health issues, you know, a parent can only do so much. After he murdered Robin
05:55West, he discarded her body in a house and set it on fire. Back in September, a fire broke out
06:02here and
06:02police found the body of a 19-year-old woman inside. The crime went unsolved, but now law
06:08enforcement sources say investigators are actively checking to see if this is the man who murdered
06:14that person. When Robin West disappeared, she was working as a sex worker in Newark. Her friend who
06:23was with her was similarly employed at the time. And to look out for each other, when one person would
06:29get in the car, they would jot down the license plate. When she disappeared, Union Township Police
06:34are looking for Robin West. They went to take a statement from the owner of that vehicle. The owner
06:39of that vehicle, of course, is Khalil Wheeler-Weaver. He appeared cooperative. The fact that you're the
06:44last person that we know of to be with somebody who's missing doesn't mean you killed him and it
06:49doesn't mean you committed a crime. You're at this point a potential source of information.
06:53Despite already being on the police's radar for the disappearance of Robin West,
06:59Wheeler-Weaver kills again just a month and a half later.
07:08Prosecutors say he also killed 33-year-old Joanne Brown in this vacant house in Newark and left her
07:17there. Joanne was actually reported missing officially by a social worker at the program
07:23where she was living. Before he murders Joanne Brown, Wheeler-Weaver lets her use his cell phone
07:29to check in with a friend. One of the victim's friends had his license plate. Yes. Another had his
07:37phone number. Yes. And then Sarah's friends actually were able to track him down using the same social
07:43networking site that Sarah met him on. Yes. So there's so much evidence connecting him to
07:50each of these women. Yes. Once you find it and take it seriously, yes. It's almost like he's trying
07:55to get caught because he's leaving such a paper trail. As one of the people who was involved in
07:59catching him, no, he was not trying to get caught. But yet knowing that his license plate is out there
08:05connecting him to a victim and knowing that his cell phone is on some other victim's phone, it didn't
08:12seem that it slowed him down. Oh, it most certainly did not slow him down. And why do you think
08:17that is?
08:18Because he believed that these women didn't matter. That's the way he used them. From the investigation,
08:25there were other women with whom he had what I'll describe as a normal or reasonably normal
08:31relationship that, so far as we are aware, he did nothing wrong to. And were those women sex workers?
08:40No, those women were college students. So while he's literally murdering these
08:45marginalized women, he's having affairs with women who are college students? Yes.
08:51That don't result in their death? Again, he did seem to be operating
08:56one way with one group of people and one way with another. Like he felt that these women were
09:01disposable that they could have his information, they could have his license plate or his cell phone.
09:09And who would believe them? And who would believe them?
09:13The day of Wheeler Weaver's arraignment for Sarah Butler's murder, Adam Wells learns of yet
09:19another victim. The only difference is that this one survived.
09:27On December 13th, 2016, prosecutors discover Khalil Wheeler Weaver had a fourth victim.
09:34Her name is Tiffany Taylor, and not only did she survive, but she goes on to be the state's star
09:41witness at his murder trial.
09:44I wanted you to see that I took actually that night.
09:51Oh my god. The night that after it happened?
09:54After it happened, that was the hotel room I was in.
09:57And you can see the...
09:58You can see the kind of the debris right there on my face from the duct tape.
10:02Oh my god. And what does the caption say?
10:06Feeling pretty with no makeup on.
10:09Oh my god.
10:10Yeah, I was trying my best to still hold my head up.
10:13To just like keep up, wow.
10:16On the night of November 15th, 2016, Tiffany Taylor gets a call to meet up with an unknown man.
10:25Tiffany is homeless at the time, and she's staying at a local motel with a friend.
10:30She needs money, and the man who calls says he wants to pay her to drive him somewhere.
10:36After she gets inside the car, he knocks her out.
10:41That night, I kept passing out and waking up, and that's when he handcuffed me, and
10:50put that tape around my whole head like that.
10:53And he took his mask off, and I'm like, oh my god.
11:00This guy's gonna kill me. He's definitely gonna kill me.
11:07When she comes to, she recognizes her attacker as Khalil Wheeler Weaver,
11:13someone she had met before through a friend.
11:17He seemed regular, like a regular kid.
11:21A kid?
11:22He was like 20?
11:24He was only 19.
11:2519 when you first met him.
11:26Yeah.
11:28If he would've just put the tape like this, I probably wouldn't have been able to talk.
11:31But it started lifting from the sweat.
11:33So once I was able to talk, I said, you know, I left that phone in the hotel room that
11:40we were texting
11:41back and forth on. When the police find that, they're gonna have everything.
11:46So then he went into panic mode, and he's like, oh my god, you gotta go back and get the
11:51phone.
11:52I'm like, yeah. I can't believe he even believed it. But he did.
11:58And as he was driving, I was saying to myself, if he don't,
12:05if he passed that hotel room and don't follow what I say,
12:11I was gonna have to trick him out with the handcuffs from the back seat while he was driving,
12:17and possibly kill us all.
12:23I said, you almost killed me.
12:26He said, I know what I'm doing. I did this before.
12:30He said, um, I wasn't gonna kill you yet.
12:35Yet?
12:40After he takes her to the motel, Tiffany manages to escape and lock herself inside her room.
12:48But her ordeal isn't over.
12:52It took a lot for me to call 9-1-1. I didn't know if I was gonna end up
13:01the one going to jail,
13:03because it sometimes happens like that.
13:09When officers arrive on the scene, they treat Tiffany as if she's the culprit.
13:16I had one handcuff on, one handcuff off. It took them an hour or so to even take the other
13:22handcuff off. So I felt like this guy was still on me, you know? And, um, they were making jokes
13:30like,
13:32where'd you put the duct tape? And they were telling me to retract my statement and say it never
13:37happened. They didn't even take me to get a rape kit done. I had to wait for my mom to
13:42come pick me up in
13:43the morning to get a rape kit done. They didn't believe me at all. At all. At all. And I
13:53had
13:53everything for them. I gave them his name, showed them his Facebook, how he looked. Then eight days
14:04passed. He's still on the loose. I'm homeless, scared to death, because I knew he was looking for me.
14:11And then Sarah pops up. Wow.
14:16A few days later, Tiffany sees a newspaper story that stops her in her tracks.
14:22Khalil Wheeler-Weaver has just been arrested and charged with a murder of another woman,
14:28Sarah Butler.
14:30I'm like, oh my God, they caught him. Thank God they caught him. They caught him. They caught him.
14:35I was so happy they caught him. But I wish they would have caught him before. All the police had
14:43to do was believe me, and Sarah Butler will still be alive.
14:50After an 84-day killing spree, Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is finally apprehended. But why did it take the
14:58murder of a woman who wasn't homeless or a sex worker for the killer to finally be brought to justice?
15:06Unlike many infamous serial killers who are profiled in countless true crime documentaries,
15:12research suggests that most serial killers don't prey on upper-middle-class white women.
15:18Many often target more disenfranchised groups, like sex workers, or people struggling with
15:25homelessness or drug addiction. People from more marginalized groups, particularly indigenous
15:31women. And it's because these motherf***ers know they can get away with it.
15:38Authorities have not made any arrests or even officially labeled anyone a suspect.
15:44Sex workers are reportedly 18 times more likely to become victims of serial killers. And law
15:50enforcement is far less likely to solve their murders when they go missing. The victims were
15:57engaged in a high-risk business. I don't want anybody to think that we have a Jack the Ripper running
16:03around. It's not that type of situation. Since no police involved in this case would talk to us,
16:09we sat down with current Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stevens to learn why the cops
16:14allegedly dropped the ball with Tiffany Taylor. Sometimes the type of individual who
16:20the investigator deals with reminds them of someone they've dealt with before,
16:25who perhaps has not been proven to be credible or otherwise as reliable as some other individuals.
16:33You don't have to answer this, but do you think that the police in this case did a good job?
16:42I'm not going to answer that.
16:43Okay.
16:48She gave me an out.
16:49She gave you an out.
16:50And I took it.
16:53But I'm not going to answer that as worse.
16:55I think you can answer that in a way that...
16:58That's less indicting that I'm not going to answer that.
17:01Overall, I think the police did a very good job on this case. I think that they followed leads
17:07and the leads took them to the killer. And that's a great thing. We can always find fault with the
17:15manner
17:16or the efficiency that the investigation took. But overall, they did their job.
17:24Ultimately, it was thorough police work that led to the killer's conviction. But try telling that to Sarah
17:32Butler's family. Do you think he thought he could get away with it?
17:38I don't think he can... I think... I don't think he thought... I mean,
17:43maybe he did because they had his Google records, right? And he was Googling how to kill a human with
17:52household items, how to put a rag over somebody's face, what to use to make them pass out. The same
17:59time he was Googling the police practice tests. I swear, like, they were about to give him my badge
18:04and a gun. And he was like, I'm going to really use it. It was about to be a monster
18:11on the loose.
18:12And I had to stop him. And you did. You were the star witness. You did.
18:22And although Tiffany's heroic story of survival seems made for TV, or at least one of the billion
18:30true crime podcasts out there... You guys are the first people that are really hearing me like this.
18:36Yeah. You haven't been on Dateline? 60 Minutes? 2020? Haven't talked to Keith Morrison? Lester Holt?
18:47Nancy Grace. Have you been on Crime Town? No. My favorite murder?
18:55Wine and crime? No. White wine true crime? No. True crime brewery? No.
19:04In December 2019, in part thanks to Tiffany Taylor's testimony, Khalil Wheeler Weaver is convicted on
19:12three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. So that's one serial killer off
19:19the streets. But how do we stop these murderous motherf***** from preying on vulnerable and
19:25otherwise marginalized people? Stay tuned to find out. Just kidding. There is obviously no quick fix,
19:34but there are tangible things we can do to make vulnerable groups safer, like implementing anti-poverty
19:41programs, as well as decriminalizing sex work. And maybe, just maybe, we could also hold law
19:48enforcement accountable when they let serial killers slip through the cracks.
20:16All right.
20:25You
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