Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the Criminal Maker podcast.

Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today

we're going to be talking about the case of Tray Cezla, also known as Mr Anime.

Tray Cezla was a YouTuber, uh-huh, he joined YouTube right back in the early days of 2006

and he grew to be pretty popular on YouTube especially in the anime community.

But there was also a darker side to Tray's videos that became more apparent over time.

Lots of things started to go wrong in his life, he started to develop some pretty troubling

fascinations and you can literally see the demise of Tray's state of mind in the very

videos he uploaded to YouTube, which is just crazy to see, you can literally see him deteriorating

his mental health going downhill, him becoming darker, his thoughts, his feelings starting to

become more troubling, you can literally see it in front of your eyes and unfortunately

this led to some very tragic events and this case soon became pretty infamous on the internet

because of the fact that Tray was a YouTuber. So that is what we're going to get into today and

just a little disclaimer, this episode does contain discussion of sensitive topics such as murder,

animal abuse and school shootings. So please be aware of all of that before listening and with

that being said, let's dive in.

So Tray was born on the 3rd of August 1989 making him a Leo and he lived in Waller, Texas with

his mother Ronda, father Lawton and his brother Mark who was older than him, he was four years

older than Tray and Tray had a pretty normal whatever normal it is but he had a pretty normal

childhood, his parents were in a stable marriage, they were pretty comfortable, there was nothing

that I could find anyway that was out of the ordinary, his dad was a teacher at a local elementary

school and his mom worked at a local newspaper. And like I said, they were pretty comfortable,

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