Unsafe Spaces: 0103 | It Was Scott (Binge the first season now)

True Crime Bullsh**

Studio BOTH/AND

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Steven Lorenzo's friend and accomplice is identified as Scott Schweickert. And the pair's history is revealed through AOL instant messages and a mutual friend. Tampa PD investigate multiple assaults within the Tampa gay community, leading to an arrest and a second search warrant. And the relationship between Steven and Scott gets complicated.

This episode was written, researched, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
With additional research by: Kaz
Audio editing by: Darron Wood (The Defense Diaries podcast)

This is a Studio BOTH/AND production: bothand.fyi
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Resources include:
• The Charlie Project
• NAMUS
• The Tampa Bay Times: Which one is the real Scott?
• Newspapers.com
• CNN.com
• Equity Florida Action, Inc

Music by: Yehezkel Rez, Circles, The Bows, Spiriturn, and Colour Book
Featured music by: Owen Pallett

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. I recently wrapped my other show Unsafe Spaces. It's an investigative
0:06.8	serialized true-crime podcast that looks into Stephen Lorenzo and Scott
0:12.3	Schweichert, two gay men who were targeting and murdering other gay men in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida.
0:19.6	Season one is complete and bingeable now.
0:22.6	So while you're waiting for the next season of true crime bullshit,
0:25.8	coming next month,
0:27.2	I'll be sharing the first four episodes of unsafe spaces
0:30.7	with you here.
0:31.8	Listen and then head on over to Unsafe Spaces and Apple
0:35.5	Podcasts or wherever you're listening now and binge the rest of the season. This is a studio both and production. Scott Paul Schweikert was born in Peru, Illinois on August 10th of 1965.
1:08.6	The Schweikerts were a prominent and well-connected family in the area with 13 children.
1:14.0	According to the Tampa Bay Times, Scott was a quiet and polite boy who attended the
1:19.9	local Catholic Church and graduated high school with a 3.64 GPA.
1:26.2	He went on to earn two bachelor's degrees from Illinois State University.
1:31.4	His family and community had high hopes for him.
1:35.0	Of course, by now we all know what happened during Scott's time at ISU,
1:42.0	an assault and attempted rape on a fellow student, for which
1:46.3	Scott merely served six months in jail. Halfway through that jail time, his
1:52.4	parents wrote to the judge,
1:54.9	requesting that Scott be let out early,
1:57.5	so he could attend their 50th anniversary party.
2:02.2	Make of that what you will.
	...

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