# The Two Most Insane True Crime Cases I've Ever Covered | 183

An episode of [Lazy Chill True Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1815534472), 23 Feb 2026, 27 min.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Hey everyone, it's Jimmy here yet again with another episode
[0:02] of my series where we explore the most interesting and
[0:05] disturbing solve true crime cases.
[0:07] As usual before we continue, remember to hit the like and
[0:10] subscribe buttons and to Ding that notification bell and turn
[0:14] on all notifications. On August 13th, 2020, 28 year
[0:20] old Cody De Lisa was shot twice in the head inside his own home
[0:24] in Adams County, Colorado. His body wasn't discovered until
[0:29] the following day when his employer and landlord, concerned
[0:33] that he hadn't answered his phone, requested a welfare
[0:36] check. Deputies from the Adams County
[0:39] Sheriff's Office found Cody unresponsive, lying in a pool of
[0:43] blood. What investigators would
[0:46] eventually uncover was a plot that hadn't been brewing for
[0:50] months, or even weeks. It had materialized, apparently
[0:55] spontaneously, in the span of a single, fateful bus ride.
[0:59] Cody's girlfriend, Ashley White, would ultimately be convicted
[1:04] for her role in orchestrating his death alongside a man she'd
[1:08] met just hours before the killing.
[1:11] The case is remarkable not only for the senselessness of the
[1:14] crime itself, but for the bizarre chain of events that led
[1:18] to it and the troubling questions it leaves about the
[1:21] triggerman. In the months leading up to the
[1:25] killing, White and Cody's relationship had become deeply
[1:29] strained. The couple lived together in a
[1:31] residence located in Commerce City, Co, and the central source
[1:36] of friction between them was employment.
[1:39] Cody frequently criticized White for her inability to secure a
[1:43] full time job, and this constant pressure created a toxic
[1:47] atmosphere within the home. White, for her part, grew
[1:51] increasingly resentful, and she wrote in her personal diary that
[1:55] she regretted ever meeting Cody. This is a detail that
[1:59] prosecutors would later use to establish her state of mind in
[2:03] the period before the slaying. Despite this, by all
[2:07] indications, neither party was willing to walk away from the
[2:11] relationship, and the resentment continued to build with no
[2:14] healthy outlet. Also, this is one of the parts I
[2:18] find so baffling about this story.
[2:20] Since these two had no kids and were renting a home, they had
[2:24] nothing concrete binding them together aside from a
[2:27] relationship both of them apparently hated.
[2:32] The tension didn't stay confined to verbal arguments.
[2:35] Prosecutors described an alarming incident in which White
[2:38] attempted to drown and then burn Cody's cat.
[2:42] And no, you don't have to rewind here.
[2:44] He stayed together with her after she attempted to end the
[2:47] life of a theoretically beloved pet, a fact that strikes me as
[2:52] particularly disturbing. I don't want to engage in
[2:55] serious victim blaming here, but I absolutely have to question
[2:59] why this wasn't the final straw for Cody.
[3:02] I suppose he may have been looking for a way out and he may
[3:05] have been concerned that a breakup could push her over the
[3:08] edge to even more serious violence.
[3:12] Naturally, this behaviour raised serious concerns about White's
[3:15] mental well-being and signalled a dangerous escalation in her
[3:19] frustration. While the cat apparently
[3:22] survived the ordeal, the episode painted a deeply disturbing
[3:26] picture of a person whose emotional state was
[3:29] deteriorating rapidly. It also showed that her capacity
[3:34] for violence was growing, since sick puppies like this often
[3:38] vent their anger on helpless animals first.
[3:41] The relationship, by all accounts, had become a pressure
[3:44] cooker, and what it needed was a spark, which came on August
[3:48] 13th, 2020. On that day, White attended a
[3:54] job interview in Denver. A neighbor had reportedly driven
[3:58] her to the interview, and she was returning home by a public
[4:01] transit. During the ride, she texted Cody
[4:05] about how the interview had gone, and his response was
[4:07] dismissive. Delisa expressed skepticism
[4:11] about her chances of landing the job, and this upset White
[4:14] considerably. It was during this exchange of
[4:18] messages while sitting on a public bus surrounded by
[4:22] ordinary commuters going about their daily lives, that the
[4:26] seeds of the crime were planted. White began talking to a
[4:30] stranger on the bus, who introduced himself as Scott.
[4:35] The conversation quickly took a dark and unusual turn when Scott
[4:39] asked White whether she was in a relationship, which isn't all
[4:43] that unusual. But then the man started asking
[4:46] a series of bizarre questions about whether she was being
[4:49] indecently assaulted by Cody for whatever reason.
[4:53] White told him that he had been doing these sick acts to her,
[4:57] and Scott's response, according to prosecutors, was immediate
[5:01] and extreme. He told White that they needed
[5:05] to kill Cody and that he had the perfect gun they could use for
[5:10] just such an instance. The two of them got off the bus
[5:14] together, some distance from White's home but close to
[5:16] Scott's residence. They spent time together and
[5:20] even fired Scott's weapon before making their way to White's
[5:22] residence. The speed with which this plan
[5:25] came together is staggering. In a matter of perhaps an hour
[5:29] or two, a complete stranger had proposed a killing, and White
[5:34] had agreed to it. When White and Scott arrived at
[5:38] the residence, Scott introduced himself to Delisa as White's
[5:42] brother visiting from Texas. Cody apparently accepted this
[5:46] explanation at face value and welcomed the man into their home
[5:50] without suspicion. And I say apparently here
[5:54] because this is her story of what happened, but I do find it
[5:57] hard to believe a mystery brother was accepted so readily.
[6:02] A short time later, Cody was shot twice in the head,
[6:05] allegedly by Scott, and he died inside the home he shared with
[6:09] White. Before leaving.
[6:11] White and Scott stole the Lisa's wallet, and the two then spent
[6:15] the next few days together in the area before Scott departed.
[6:19] White later told investigators that she never saw him again
[6:23] after that, and she wasn't even sure if Scott was his real name.
[6:28] Cody's body wasn't found until August 14th, when deputies
[6:32] conducted a welfare check prompted by his employer and
[6:35] landlord. He hadn't answered his phone all
[6:38] day, which was unusual enough to raise immediate concern.
[6:43] When deputies arrived at the residence, they found him lying
[6:46] in a pool of his own blood, quite obviously already
[6:49] deceased, and his girlfriend was nowhere to be found.
[6:53] White was identified as a person of interest relatively quickly,
[6:57] and she spoke with investigators where she gave the account we
[7:00] now have. Ultimately, she was arrested on
[7:04] August 16th, 2020, and she was charged with the premeditated
[7:09] slaying of her boyfriend. One of the most unusual aspects
[7:14] of this case was the identity of White's accomplice.
[7:17] She told investigators about a man named Scott, but she claimed
[7:22] she didn't know his real name or where he'd gone after they
[7:25] parted ways. For three years, the identity of
[7:30] this man remained a mystery. But then in 2023, a woman
[7:36] contacted the district attorney's office with a
[7:39] startling claim. She said she was the girlfriend
[7:43] of a man named Michael Stratton, and she believed Stratton was
[7:47] the shooter. She laid out details of a
[7:49] confession Stratton had allegedly made to her, and those
[7:53] details matched White's account of the crime with disturbing
[7:56] precision. Stratton, it turned out, was
[8:00] already in custody, and he'd been arrested for the killing of
[8:03] a 39 year old man named Michael Hunt in Pueblo, Co.
[8:09] Hunt had been homeless in Pueblo for some time, and his body had
[8:13] been found in an alley on S Union St. on August 30th, 2020,
[8:17] just weeks after Cody's was found.
[8:21] If Stratton was indeed the man who shot Cody, then he committed
[8:25] a second killing less than three weeks later in a different
[8:28] Colorado city. However, Stratton was eventually
[8:31] deemed incompetent to stand trial in the Pueblo case, and he
[8:35] has never been charged in connection with this case.
[8:40] White's case took nearly five years to reach trial, partly due
[8:44] to the court delays stemming from the events of 2020.
[8:48] The proceedings began on January 6th, 2025, and the trial would
[8:53] be unexpectedly contentious. Over the course of nearly three
[8:57] weeks, the jury heard extensive testimony about the volatile
[9:01] relationship, the chance encounter on the bus, and the
[9:04] events of the night of August 13th.
[9:07] The prosecution presented evidence, including White's
[9:10] diary entries and her own detailed statements to
[9:13] investigators. Prosecutors argued that White
[9:17] bore significant responsibility for Delise's death, having
[9:21] conspired with a stranger to carry out the attack and then
[9:24] participated in robbing the victim afterward.
[9:28] The jury ultimately convicted White not in the first degree,
[9:33] which had been the original charge, but of the lesser charge
[9:36] of second degree murder. She was also found guilty of
[9:40] conspiracy to commit the crime as well as the subsequent
[9:44] looting of his body. The distinction between a first
[9:48] and second degree charge is significant.
[9:50] Under Colorado law, first degree requires proof of deliberation
[9:55] and premeditation, while second degree involves knowingly
[9:58] causing the death of another person.
[10:01] Now, personally, looking at the facts here, I don't see how this
[10:04] wasn't a virtual slam dunk on the greater charge, but I've
[10:08] never practiced criminal law. The jury's decision suggests
[10:13] they believed White acted knowingly, but perhaps didn't
[10:16] find the level of premeditation required for a first degree
[10:20] conviction. They may have also had
[10:22] reservations about the precise nature of her involvement in the
[10:26] actual shooting itself, but I find this less likely given her
[10:30] own statements to detectives. White's defense attorney pushed
[10:35] back forcefully against the conviction.
[10:38] In a statement to the Denver Post, she maintained that her
[10:41] client was innocent and declared that the case was far from over,
[10:46] indicating plans to appeal. She argued that the district
[10:50] attorney's office should be prosecuting Cody's actual killer
[10:53] instead of focusing on White, noting that authorities knew who
[10:57] Scott was. This was an apparent reference
[11:01] to Michael Stratton, who had been identified as the likely
[11:04] shooter, and I do have to specify that he was only
[11:08] identified as the likely shooter and was never conclusively
[11:12] identified even by White. She claimed he remained
[11:17] uncharged in connection with Cody's death due to being found
[11:21] incompetent to stand trial in his other case.
[11:26] For that last point, I agree that the defense's position
[11:30] raises uncomfortable questions about the case.
[11:33] If Stratton was indeed the person who pulled the trigger,
[11:36] and if he can't be tried due to mental incompetency, then the
[11:40] legal systems ability to deliver justice for Cody is inherently
[11:44] limited. White was convicted for her role
[11:47] in conspiring to bring about the crime, but the actual shooter
[11:51] may never face a jury for this particular crime and wasn't even
[11:55] part of the proceedings. Whether 1 views this as a
[11:58] reasonable outcome or a miscarriage of justice likely
[12:02] depends on how one weighs White's culpability against
[12:05] Stratton's apparent mental state.
[12:09] Now, here's one thing I find very unusual and interesting
[12:12] about the investigation, and I bet a bunch of you watching may
[12:16] have thought the same thing. White attended at Scott's home
[12:20] to see the weapon and fire off some shots, at least according
[12:24] to her own statement. If that's to be believed, we
[12:28] also know that she was texting Cody while she was on the bus.
[12:32] Since she was expressing dissatisfaction with her job
[12:35] interview, I have to question whether detectives attempted to
[12:40] obtain any sort of tracking information from her phone which
[12:44] may have indicated exactly where Scott's house was.
[12:48] At any rate, I suspect that the appeals process in this case
[12:52] will be incredibly lengthy, and I hope to have further updates
[12:56] on this case in the coming years.
[13:00] There's also another possibility that I considered while
[13:02] researching this case, and another one I'm sure many of you
[13:06] are thinking as well. It's also theoretically possible
[13:10] that Scott wasn't even a real person and that the story was
[13:13] just invented to attempt to shift blame.
[13:16] That said, all evidence does seem to indicate that there was
[13:19] a very real and very deranged person on that bus, and that it
[13:23] was likely Stratton, especially given his subsequent acts.
[13:29] The killing of Cody De Lisa is a case that resists easy
[13:32] categorization. It wasn't a carefully plotted
[13:36] assassination or a crime of passion in the traditional
[13:39] sense. It was something stranger and
[13:42] more unsettling, an attack that was conceived and executed
[13:46] within the span of a few hours, born from a chance meeting with
[13:50] a violent stranger on a public bus.
[13:53] Having covered hundreds of these cases on this channel, this may
[13:57] be the most bizarre and unsettling fact pattern I've
[14:00] seen outside of serial predator cases.
[14:06] Hey everyone, thanks for making it this far.
[14:09] Just jumping back in quickly to give a gentle reminder to hit
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[14:14] But hey, you do you. When I'm watching YouTube on my
[14:18] TVI personally never hit the subscribe button.
[14:25] On the evening of December 28th, 2017, a 28 year old father of
[14:31] two named Andrew Finch stepped onto the front porch of his
[14:35] mother's home in Wichita, KS. He'd seen police lights flashing
[14:40] outside and wanted to know what was going on.
[14:43] Within 10 seconds of opening that door, he was dead, struck
[14:47] by a single rifle round fired by an officer positioned to cross
[14:51] the street. Finch hadn't committed any
[14:54] crime, he wasn't armed, and there were no weapons in the
[14:58] house. He had absolutely no idea why
[15:02] armed officers had surrounded his home, because the entire
[15:06] situation had been manufactured by strangers he'd never met.
[15:11] These individuals were playing a video game he'd never played,
[15:15] fighting over a wager worth literally $1.50.
[15:20] The killing of Andrew Finch became the most high profile
[15:23] case of swatting in American history.
[15:27] It forced the country to reckon with a dangerous intersection of
[15:30] online culture and gaming toxicity, as well as police
[15:35] training issues. It's a case where every single
[15:38] person involved made choices that compounded into
[15:42] catastrophe. That is, except for the one man
[15:45] who paid the ultimate price. Before getting into the
[15:50] specifics, it's worth understanding what swatting
[15:53] actually is, especially for those who aren't familiar with
[15:57] the darker side of gaming and online culture.
[16:00] The term refers to making a fraudulent emergency call,
[16:04] typically reporting a violent crime in progress to trigger a
[16:08] massive armed police response at a specific address.
[16:12] The name comes from SWAT teams, the tactical units that respond
[16:17] to hostage situations and active shooters.
[16:21] By the mid 2000s, swatting had become an increasingly common
[16:25] form of harassment and retaliation within certain
[16:28] online communities. It was particularly popular
[16:32] among gamers and Internet trolls who generally viewed it as a way
[16:36] to bring real life consequences to their perceived online
[16:40] enemies. Perpetrators generally used
[16:43] caller ID spoofing and voice over IP technology to disguise
[16:48] their location while placing these calls.
[16:51] For many, the thrill was watching chaos unfold, sometimes
[16:56] through the victim's own live stream.
[16:59] It was generally treated as a quote UN quote prank, a flex of
[17:03] digital power. But what happened in Wichita
[17:06] proved just how deadly that so-called joke could become.
[17:11] The chain of events began with a highly contentious match of Call
[17:14] of Duty World War 2 that was played with real money on the
[17:17] line. Casey Viner, an 18 year old from
[17:21] North College Hill in Ohio, was playing online with Shane
[17:25] Gaskell, a 19 year old from Wichita.
[17:29] The two got into a heated argument after Gaskell allegedly
[17:32] caused them to lose a match through friendly fire.
[17:35] Viner, furious over the loss and a wager reportedly worth just
[17:39] $1.50, threatened to have Gaskell swatted.
[17:44] It wasn't an idle threat, since Viner knew someone who could
[17:47] make it happen and had a long history of the practice.
[17:51] That someone was Tyler Barris, a 25 year old from Los Angeles
[17:56] who'd built a reputation in certain corners of the Internet
[17:59] as a prolific swatter. Operating under the online alias
[18:04] Swatastic, Tyler had claimed responsibility for dozens of
[18:08] fake bomb threats and swatting incidents across the United
[18:11] States and Canada. He'd already served time for
[18:15] calling in a bomb threat to a Los Angeles television station
[18:18] in 2016, and had been released months before the Wichita
[18:23] incident. Swatting wasn't something Barris
[18:26] did reluctantly, and he told a journalist that he found bomb
[18:30] threats fun and exciting and that he got a rush from evading
[18:33] law enforcement. His lifestyle appeared to bear
[18:36] this out, and he clearly wasn't doing it for profit as he was
[18:40] homeless, allowing him to essentially be a ghost to law
[18:44] enforcement. When Gaskell realized Tyler had
[18:49] started following him on Twitter and suspected what was coming,
[18:53] he didn't back down, but instead chose to directly challenge this
[18:56] swatter. He gave Tyler a former address
[19:00] in Wichita, a house on West McCormick Street where Gaskell's
[19:04] family had previously lived before being evicted in 2016.
[19:09] He taunted Tyler to go ahead and try something and even invited
[19:13] him to show up at his house directly.
[19:15] It was a reckless dare, and it put someone else's life directly
[19:18] in the crosshairs. Using the free Wi-Fi at a Public
[19:23] Library in South Los Angeles, Tyler placed a call to the
[19:27] Wichita City Hall, which was then transferred to the 911
[19:30] dispatch center. OK, so quick intermission.
[19:35] I had to make some changes to my script here since I originally
[19:39] described why this process worked so well.
[19:42] For safety reasons and to not get this video demonetized, I'm
[19:46] not going to explain the exact method of why this worked.
[19:50] Just to be absolutely clear, committing these sorts of acts
[19:53] of swatting is a serious crime and shouldn't ever be done under
[19:57] any circumstances whatsoever. Tyler, identifying himself as
[20:04] Brian, told the operator that he was at the McCormick Street
[20:07] address and that he'd shot his father in the head.
[20:10] He said that he was holding his mother and brother as hostages
[20:14] and that he was going to do the same thing to them.
[20:17] But if that wasn't enough, he went a step further to push an
[20:21] even more overwhelming emergency response from the cops.
[20:26] He said he'd poured gasoline around the house and was
[20:28] thinking about setting it on fire, potentially starting a
[20:32] blaze that could engulf neighboring houses as well.
[20:35] It was a harrowing scenario, the kind of call that demands an
[20:39] immediate and overwhelming police response.
[20:44] However, Tyler didn't realize he'd been bamboozled.
[20:47] And the address Tyler gave didn't belong to Shane Gaskell
[20:50] anymore. It belonged to Andrew Finch, who
[20:53] lived there with his mother, Lisa, and other family members.
[20:57] Finch wasn't a gamer, and he had no connection whatsoever to any
[21:00] of the three men involved in this event.
[21:03] He was a young father who loved his two children, was passionate
[21:07] about art, and had been studying to become a tattoo artist.
[21:12] He was, in the most complete and terrible sense, an innocent
[21:16] bystander caught in the crossfire.
[21:20] Wichita police officers arrived at the McCormick Street address
[21:24] at approximately 624 in the evening.
[21:27] Importantly, the officers who responded weren't members of a
[21:30] SWAT team and hadn't received specialized training for
[21:34] tactical situations or hostage rescues.
[21:37] They surrounded the house based entirely on the information from
[21:40] Tyler's fabricated call, believing they were confronting
[21:44] an armed killer holding hostages.
[21:47] Andrew Finch's mother, Lisa, noticed the police lights
[21:50] outside and opened the front door to see what was happening.
[21:54] Unfortunately, it was her son that then came to the porch to
[21:59] investigate what exactly was going on.
[22:03] What happened next took only seconds after officers ordered
[22:06] Finch to put his hands up. According to testimony, he began
[22:10] to raise them, but then lowered them again, perhaps being unsure
[22:14] what was actually happening. Officer Justin Rapp, who was
[22:18] positioned approximately 40 yards away across the street,
[22:21] armed with a rifle, fired a single shot which struck Finch
[22:26] Square in the chest. He was rushed to a nearby
[22:29] hospital but was pronounced dead just 17 minutes after being
[22:33] shot. Tyler was arrested the very next
[22:37] day in Los Angeles on a fugitive warrant connected to a prior
[22:41] bomb threat charge. He was extradited to Kansas in
[22:44] January 2018 and charged with involuntary manslaughter.
[22:50] As the investigation expanded, authorities uncovered the full
[22:53] scope of his activities. In November 2018, he pleaded
[22:58] guilty to 51 federal charges, including making a false report
[23:02] resulting in death, cyber stalking, conspiracy and dozens
[23:06] of other crimes. In March 2019, he was sentenced
[23:12] to 20 years in federal prison, believed at the time to be the
[23:15] longest sentence ever imposed for swatting.
[23:19] He was also ordered to formally apologize to the Finch family
[23:22] and pay restitution, though I suspect any apology was
[23:26] meaningless and that he had no means to pay anything
[23:29] regardless. Casey Viner, the Ohio teenager
[23:34] who'd initiated the swatting request, eventually pleaded
[23:37] guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
[23:41] Text messages revealed his panic after learning someone had died.
[23:46] He texted an associate that he was going to prison because he'd
[23:49] literally told someone they were going to be swatted.
[23:53] In the end, he received a sentence of 15 months in federal
[23:57] prison for his actions, a very questionable deal considering
[24:01] that without him, none of this would have happened.
[24:04] Shane Gaskell, who'd provided the old address and taunted
[24:08] Tyler into carrying out the attack, was sentenced to 18
[24:11] months in prison. The officer who pulled the
[24:15] trigger, Justin Rapp, faced a different kind of reckoning.
[24:20] In April 2018, Sedgwick County District Attorney Mark Bennett
[24:25] announced that Rapp wouldn't face criminal charges.
[24:28] Bennett explained that the officer's decision had been made
[24:31] in the context of the false information provided by Barris's
[24:35] call. He said that charging him would
[24:38] require evidence rather than the benefit of hindsight.
[24:42] Rapp had initially told investigators he thought Finch
[24:44] may have had a gun, but later testified that he never actually
[24:48] saw a weapon and instead fired based on Finch's hand motions.
[24:53] These two stories aren't necessarily mutually exclusive,
[24:57] and it likely speaks to the fact that these officers weren't on a
[25:00] SWAT team and had no specialized training for this situation.
[25:05] The decision not to charge Rap was met with outrage from the
[25:09] Finch family and the broader Wichita community.
[25:13] Making matters worse, the Wichita Police Department
[25:16] subsequently promoted Rap to the rank of detective, a decision
[25:20] criticized by Wichita's mayor and City Council members.
[25:26] The Finch family refused to let Andrew's death become just
[25:30] another statistic. They filed a federal civil
[25:33] rights lawsuit against Officer Rapp, the city of Wichita and
[25:37] other responding officers, initially seeking $25 million in
[25:41] damages. The family's attorney, Andrew
[25:45] Stroth, described the case as one of the most egregious police
[25:49] shootings in the country. After a significant five year
[25:53] legal battle with a number of preliminary hearings in March
[25:57] 2023, the Wichita City Council ended up approving a $5,000,000
[26:02] settlement to the family. The family's spokesperson said
[26:06] the money would go into a trust for Finch's two children, though
[26:10] she emphasized that no amount could replace their father.
[26:16] Andrew Finch's death prompted legislative action at both the
[26:19] state and federal level. In March 2018, just months after
[26:25] the shooting, the Kansas State Legislature approved a bill
[26:29] making it a Class 1 felony to create a false alarm resulting
[26:33] in injury or death. A mandatory minimum sentence of
[26:37] 10 years was brought in for such cases, with a maximum of 40
[26:41] years. Anyway, this story has really
[26:45] gotten to me on a personal level, probably because I'm
[26:48] something of a gamer myself and I've seen a bunch of stupid,
[26:51] petty disputes over games in my time.
[26:54] At the end of the day, Andrew Finch's life was taken and his
[26:59] family was torn apart, all because two idiots couldn't move
[27:03] on over $1.50. Then, when Gaskell knew he was
[27:07] being targeted by a known serial swatter, he decided it was
[27:11] appropriate to put complete strangers in the crosshairs.
[27:15] As for the officer himself, he has to live the rest of his life
[27:18] knowing that a split second decision ended the life of a
[27:22] completely innocent man.

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