WEBVTT - My Guitar Gently Weeps: George Harrison's Stalkers 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.760 Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda land Audio in 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:15.640 partnership with I Heart Radio. Hello, and welcome to another 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.279 episode of Criminalia. This season, we're exploring the lives and 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.840 motivations of some of the most notorious stokers throughout history. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.280 I'm Maria tram Marquis and I'm Holly Fry And today 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.760 we're talking about stalking behavior that's happened in the more 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.800 recent past than some of our other episodes, specifically related 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.280 to the Beatles. Before we get into the specific beatle 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.240 we're going to focus on today, we're also going to 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.199 talk about the Fab Three for just a minute. Yes, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.360 the Fab Three. So let's start with the legendary founding 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.000 member of the Beatles, John Lennon. So, as most of 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.720 us know, Lennon was assassinated by an obsessed fan named 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.640 Mark David Chapman on December eight. Lennon, who was forty 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.040 years old, was shot four times at close range with 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.280 a thirty eight caliber revolver in the Archway of the Dakota, 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.399 which was his Manhattan address at the time. And Chapman 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.040 had been a fan of the Beatles, but that fandom 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.080 soured when John Lennon commented that the Beatles were and 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.399 we quote and it's a rather famous quote, more popular 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.959 than Jesus. Chapman was very offended by this and allegedly 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.000 started planning to assassinate Lennon three months before he actually 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.440 carried out that act. He had intended to cite J. D. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.040 Salinger's famous novel The Catcher in the Rye as his manifesto. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.680 He pleaded guilty to murder after he was taken in 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.399 and he remains incarcerated in upstate New York. He was 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.320 denied parole for the eleventh time. John Lennon is the 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.800 most fantasty stock Beetle, but he certainly wasn't the only 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.640 member of the band who was stopped. So let's look 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.160 at Ringo Star for instance. Now, there are so many 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.280 stories of fans grabbing at him, like just literally at him, 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.080 at his clothing, at his hair, his body. He had 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.640 his hair snipped, he had it actually pulled out, he 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.200 had jewelry stolen, and including is one time when a 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.359 necklace was actually stolen while he was wearing it. Yeah, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.760 just no sense of boundaries or respect at that point. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.200 And then we have to talk about Paul McCartney. McCartney 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.520 produced a song called Fixing a Hole, which appeared on 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.799 the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and that song, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.080 of course, was not literally about fixing a hole. According 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.359 to McCartney's own account, it was based on the surge 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.560 in the number of fans who were utterly and scarily 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.320 obsessed with the group since the whole Beatlemania thing began. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.480 That we know is when fans became so obsessed that 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.920 they started trying to get things such as an item 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.760 of clothing or even a lock of hair from a 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.480 member of a group, or stealing their necklace right off 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.119 of their person, all while screaming that's the Beatlemania thing. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.560 And every one of these members feared the stalkers that 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.919 he was getting, which were increasing in number as time 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.000 went on. Yeah, And in nineteen sixty seven, Paul McCartney 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.120 was quoted about the song in The London Times where 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.920 he said, it's really about the fans who hang around 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.600 outside your door day and night, and he reflects it 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.320 in the song's lyrics, which include see the people standing there, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.639 they worry me and never win, and wonder why they 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.120 don't get in my door. So now let's talk about 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.000 George Harrison. No member of the Beatles was safe from stalkers, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:44.040 and George had at least two experiences with obsessed fans, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.800 and specifically, there were two who actually got into his 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.640 home and one of them almost murdered him. George in 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.960 an anthology Beatles Anthology, his quote was, they used us 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.680 an excuse to go mad. The world did it, and 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.880 then they blamed it on us, which I think is 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:07.160 a great quote when we're talking about stalkers. Yeah, particularly 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.760 when it comes to celebrity. So we're going to take 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.240 a break for a word from our sponsor. Yes, you 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.800 may have gathered this is a little bit of a 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.200 heavier episode than some of them, And when we get back, 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.960 we're going to talk about how Kristen Kellerher broke into 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:34.160 George Harrison's Hawaii home. Welcome back to Criminaliot. I want 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.400 to hear about the woman who drank George Harrison's rout 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.120 here because I know we do. First of all, we 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.520 are going to start with this woman whose name was Kristen. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:48.000 In mid October of twenty seven year old woman Kristen 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:53.680 Kellerher began obsessing over George Harrison and on December twenty three, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.599 of that year, Kristen broke into Harrison's sixty one acre 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.280 estate near Hanna on the island of Mao. And those 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.760 sixty one acres were full of trees and bushes very 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:11.960 very intentionally meant to discourage paparazzi and fans like Kristen 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.760 from reaching the family's mansion. But somehow Kristen did reach 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.680 the mansion. And she walked through an open sliding glass door. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.800 And I think back to The Boy Jones, and it's 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.600 always how did the boy Jones get into the into 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.400 the palace? Oh, through an open window like and just 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:34.279 walk right in, just straight in. So, uh, the circumstance 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.400 of what Kristen did while she was there is actually 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.920 kind of more interesting than how she got inside. So 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.080 while she was there, she cooked a frozen pizza, she 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.159 drank root here from the family's refrigerator, did some of 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.920 her own personal laundry, and then called her mother a 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.880 long distance in Long Branch, New Jersey. And this is 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.159 all according to the police. And although she was obsessed 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.080 to the point of delusion, Kristen admitted authorities that there 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.039 was actually really no particular motive or reason for her visit. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.800 I have so many questions like did she bring dirty 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.200 laundry with her so I think she could play house. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.599 Did she just take off what she had worn, wash 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.919 it and then put it back on. I'm very fascinated 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.359 by the laundry in particular. In my mind, she actually 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.360 has like a pillow ka stack of laundry that she 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:31.640 took with her. But that's very like Sullivan's travels. So 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.320 she was discovered an hour later by in house security, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.360 who proceeded, to, of course, called the police. Don Carroll, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.800 who was the caretaker and manager of the estate, stated 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.839 at her hearing that she did not have any permission 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.400 to be in the house, and he also added that 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.919 Kristen had approached him a few months earlier, in October 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.560 of that year, to tell him that she was hoping 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.280 that she would run into the Quiet Beetle. It wasn't 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.320 just Dawn who reported Chris didn't as an obsessed fan. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.000 There's a written statement that was sent to the court, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.560 and it was reported that Kristen had previously visited the 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.080 home of Harrison's brother in law asking to see the singer, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.720 and she was quoted saying, I thought I had a 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:19.160 psychic connection with George. So after this break in, Kristen 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.760 was arrested, as you might suspect since we've been mentioning 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.840 the hearing, and she was taken to the Maui Community 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.280 Correctional Facility that was at four thirty am on Christmas Eve, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.960 and the charge was actually burglary and theft, plus she 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.600 also pleaded no contest to trespassing inside the estate, and 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.560 Kristen was held on five thousand dollars fail or possibly 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.320 three thousand. We came across both numbers in her records, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.920 but that's not really a super important detail, so we 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:52.440 didn't really dwell on it. Ultimately, she served four months 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.920 in jail for entering the house without permission and of 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.560 course for the theft of eating frozen pizza and drinking 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.040 root and probably that long distance phone call as well. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.680 But upon her release from jail, a few more years 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.120 of probation were added to her sentence, and as it 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.800 turns out, in a bit of good fortune, the Harrison 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.480 family was not actually at their Hawaiian home when Kristen 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.400 broke in, at least according to the Maui Police. It 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.680 was reported in the London Times that Kristen was dangerous 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.200 and that she would have tried to attack the Harrison's 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.160 had they been at home. Maui police, though, replied that 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.160 they and we quote wouldn't go so far as to 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.679 call her a danger to the Harrison's. Those investigators believed 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.240 that she was homeless and looking for a place to 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.000 do her laundry and get a pizza and some root beer, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.240 writing a little snack while it was in the dryer. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.880 But Okay, I'm joking right now, but this actually becomes 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.719 way more tragic when you look at Christian's life after this. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.560 On December nineteenth, two thousand and six, that puts Christen 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.840 at about age thirty four, and that puts us about 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.480 seven years to her visit to the Harrison home, she 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.040 was found dead as the result of a murder suicide, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.040 and she had been fatally shot in the head outside 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.840 of a Toyota Forerunner. According to the Nevada State Deputies 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.640 on the scene, a man named Stanley Merchant, who was 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.600 seated in the car had shot himself in the head 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.319 as well. Both her shot with a twelve gage shotgun, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.400 and to this day, there is still no answer as 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.880 to why this happened. I am not George Harrison and 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.839 can't imagine what it would have been like. But I 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.520 would imagine this was all rather unsettling, I bet. However, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.040 Kristen's story is not the end of his stalker experiences. Strangely, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.360 she was one of two cases that actually happened very 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.840 close together on the timeline. She was arrested just one 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.800 week before Harrison encountered another intruder. That was a man 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.679 named Michael Abram at Friar Park, which is George's estate 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.959 in Henley on Tham's, oxford Shire. So we are going 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.400 to take a break for a word from our sponsor 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.440 right now, and when we're back, what motivates one man 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.920 to scale a brick wall that's topped with barbed wire 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.280 just to get to a member of the Beatles, we'll 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:24.920 talk about it. Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's talk about 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:30.280 the night George Harrison was stomped. Okay, So over the 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.600 years there have been a variety of burglary attempts at 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.120 the Friar Park estate. It's about twenty five miles outside 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.520 of London. There was a reported arson attempt in and 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.360 George also received a number of written death threats over 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.599 his decades as a member of the Beatles in response 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.760 he had installed some pretty serious security. It had powerful 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.840 lights and security cameras, electronically controlled gates, and the grounds 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.120 were protected by a high brick wall which was topped 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.920 with barbed wire, and there was a team of security 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.120 guards as well, and they had guard dogs and all 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.040 of this was on a premiss. George was the first 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.200 Beatle who decided to retreat from the limelight and he 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.559 moved to this protected country mansion. The grounds there were 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.480 where Harrison fell in love with gardening, but they were 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.960 also known for a network of caves amaze, as well 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:29.719 as vast underground and underwater features. Oh and charmingly, Harrison 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.840 salvaged more than one gnome as he was tending to 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.920 the overgrown landscaping. He unearthed them and he always kept them. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.880 He kept everyone. That's a great little detail. And I 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.520 actually encouraged you to go look at this firepark estate 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.360 because the previous owner from the Harrison's they're the ones 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:52.200 who did this like underground water system and underground cave network, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.760 and they did kind of some creepy photography there too, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.560 so it's all very There are a lot of pictures 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.400 of it available on Yeah. Yeah, I highly encour despite 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.240 all the security measures that are in place. On December 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:09.520 thirty three, year old Michael Abram, who was a native 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.480 of Liverpool, entered their estate. And I tell you it 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:19.640 was not to make their pizza. No, Michael somehow scaled 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.360 that wall with the barbed wire on top and entered 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.360 the Harrison's mansion. This was an approximately three thirty am 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.400 and he got in because he broke a window with 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.120 a statue and climbed through. And as you might expect 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.400 when the statue comes through your window, it woke up 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.960 the family. He would think. It actually makes me wonder 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.559 if the family wasn't staying at the Hawaiian estate at 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:46.120 the time, why was the sliding glass door open. Let's 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.760 ask Don that question next time he's around the manager 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.679 of the state. I've always been curious. I'm like, why 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.680 is that open? I always wonder if open just means 0:12:54.720 --> 0:13:01.559 it wasn't locked. Maybe, but come on down on. George's wife, Olivia, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.800 is actually the first who heard the noise, and when 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.040 she heard it, she thought it actually wasn't an intruder. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.439 She thought that maybe chandelier had fallen, which I mean, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.240 to be honest, that's always my first thought when I 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.240 hear a big noise in my house. It must be 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:22.640 a chandelier. But she quickly realized that someone was actually 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.760 in their house, and she called security, and she called 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.319 the police. And while she was doing that, George put 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.400 on a jacket over his pajamas and pulled on a 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.640 pair of boots to go downstairs and check things out, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.160 which to me seems like it would have been quite 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.240 a sight in his boots. And but that's where the 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.880 fun part ends, because when he went downstairs, Michael stabbed 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.240 George several times in the torso with a seven inch knife, 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.559 and in the process he punctured his right lung. George, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.120 in a written statement to the court, said, when we 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.640 quote there were times during the violent struggle, I truly 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.960 believed I was dying. He said that he chanted Hari Krishna, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.360 his attacker, in an effort to distract him, but this 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:07.560 just confused Michael. The struggle led the three Michael, George, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.480 and Olivia through three rooms of the mansion, and that 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.280 didn't stop until Olivia struck Michael with a lamp. That 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.000 finally was the act that caused him to drop his weapon. However, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.320 when he attacked Olivia and attempted to strangle her with 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.720 the lamp cord. She finally escaped that and she escaped 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:31.600 with minor injuries and bruises. Unlike George, she didn't require hospitalization. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.680 Despite their injuries, the pair were able to overpower the 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.280 intruder until authorities arrived. I have to say, if you 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.000 didn't already just respect George Harrison for his musical genius, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.640 you have to have mad respect for him with a 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.640 punctured lung, working together with his wife to subdue someone 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.480 who is clearly not in their right place and violent. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.880 As it turns out, the police station was just shy 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.600 of a quarter of a mile down the road, So 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.760 the police were at the estate quickly, just in a 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.600 blink of an eye, and when they arrived they found 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.800 this bloody scene, and they arrested Michael, the couple's twenty 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.840 one year old son, and Olivia's mother, it's reported, were 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.800 at home during the attack, but neither of them were injured. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.640 Can you imagine hearing that if you were in the 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.920 other part of the house, It's terrifying. It would be 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.600 very terrifying. Yeah. So, when questioned about Michael Abram, his 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.760 family and his friends, his neighbors gave that common and 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.360 ever so clichee answer, and we all know he was 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.800 mild mannered. Family later said that Michael had recently developed 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.600 an obsession with the Beatles, and he was already released 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.040 on bail for allegedly criminally damaging a Beatles advertising billboard 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:50.680 in Liverpool. Investigators believed George was likely specifically targeted by 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.600 Michael when he attacked Harrison. He stated that he believed 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.160 he had been sent by God to murder him. Michael 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.040 also believed all of the Beatles were witches and that 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.520 George specifically was trying to possess him. And this is 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:10.040 really not where it ends. According to psychiatrist Philip Joseph, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:16.160 Michael's mental stability began to significantly deteriorate after the Eclipse 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.920 of August, interestingly enough, and that is when Michael believed 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.120 that the world would come to an end. And at 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.560 that time, Michael also began to believe that Madonna could 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.000 read his mind. He thought that the Oasis song wonder 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.320 Wall was actually about the walls of his own apartment, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.440 and perhaps most interesting is that he also believed that 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:44.000 he was the fifth Beatle. Before his Oxford Crown Court trial, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.720 Michael was admitted to a psychiatric unit for observation. Michael 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.120 had reportedly been in and out of psychiatric hospitals over 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.920 the years, and just six weeks before this attack, he 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.520 was released from the psychiatric unit at Whiston Hospital because 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.600 he was by the staff not to have any psychiatric illness, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:09.680 but they were obviously wrong. During observation, three psychiatrists unanimously 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:14.280 diagnosed him with a complex delusional disorder. So although this 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.560 didn't really happen all that long ago, today's experts probably 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.159 would more likely have said that he was suffering from 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.760 untreated schizophrenia with paranoia and may have been having delusions 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:30.080 as well. Olivia, George's wife, described Michael as quote crazed 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.879 and frenzied on the night of the attack, that his 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.080 hair was long and unkempt, and that he wore a 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.679 black leather jacket. She also said, this is so creepy 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.560 to me that throughout the attack he was silent. He 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.679 did not say a word, which she describes as and 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:50.800 we're quoting her odd. An investigation into the attack determined 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.439 that it wasn't a burglary gone wrong, that it was 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.320 a planned attack on George, and Michael was charged with 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.800 attempted murder. When he appeared in court, Michael had short 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.679 blonde hair. He wore a black pinstripe suit, a white shirt, 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.600 a pink tie, and round spectacles. He showed no emotion 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.960 at the reading of the statement that George had given 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.760 to the police after the attack, and he stated that 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.640 he was grateful to his family and to his lawyers, 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.840 who all continued to support him, and he said quote, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.600 if I could turn back the clock, I would give 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.400 anything not to have done what I did in attacking 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.600 George Harrison. But looking back on it now, I have 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.080 come to understand that I was at the time not 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.439 in control of my actions. I can only hope the 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.679 Harrison family might somehow find it in their hearts to 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.840 accept my apologies. In addition, at the close of the trial, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.960 he gave another statement apologizing to the Harrison's for his actions, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.280 and it was read aloud in court by his attorney 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.040 and we quote here, I'm writing this letter in the 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.359 hope that it would be passed on to Mr and 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.960 Mrs Harrison. I wish to say how sorry I am 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.200 for the alarm, distress and injury that I have caused 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.480 while I was ill. I have seen many doctors prior 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.440 to the attack, and I was never told I was 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.240 suffering from schizophrenia or any mental illness. I thought my 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.280 delusions were real and everything that I was experiencing was 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.359 some kind of witchcraft. I know that Mr and Mrs 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.119 Harrison fought for their lives and that they must have 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:28.080 been terrified by the lunatic in their house. The jury 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.800 took just over an hour to return its verdict. Michael 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.600 was found not guilty by reason of insanity and he 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.919 was sentenced to Scott Clinic that's a medium security mental 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.760 health unit without time restriction. He was released from that 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:46.439 facility in two thousand two. George, who was originally taken 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.160 to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, was moved to the Thoracic 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.560 unit at Hairfield Heart Hospital where he could be treated 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.800 by specialists. He did not attend the trial because he 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.199 was still recovering from his injuries. And George was it 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.399 was once quoted as saying, and this wasn't immediately after 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.720 this attack, and this was just in general. He was 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:11.440 saying that the whole magnitude of our fame made me nervous, 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:16.879 which actually really becomes clear in these two weeks of 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:22.040 his life. Yeah, across the world she attacks is very scary. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.200 The chief executive of the Royal Berkshire, who was a 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.119 man named Mark Gritten, was quoted at the time saying 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.440 that although Harrison was shocked by the incident, he had 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.639 not lost his sense of humor. He shared that George 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.360 had told him we quote, the man wasn't a burglar, 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.200 but he certainly wasn't auditioning for the Traveling Wilburies. That 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.520 was great that he get still laugh about it, and 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.520 that's funny. Um. So, while we remember George as the 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.560 Beatles guitarist who wrote and sang songs including Here Comes 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.040 the Sun and while my Guitar gently weeps, he did 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.320 die of cancer in two thousand and one at the 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.719 age of fifty eight, and that was just one year 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:03.600 before Michael Abrams is released. Upon his death, Paul McCartney 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.800 told reporters of Harrison quote, he was a lovely guy 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.320 and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.000 of humor. He is really just my baby brother. And 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.800 Ringo Starr said, and this is also a quote. We 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.359 will miss George for his sense of love, his sense 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.080 of music, and his sense of laughter and There's also 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.080 one more quote from the former Beatles producer Sir George Martin, 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:30.080 who described Harrison as a quote very peaceful person who 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:35.480 hates violence of any kind. So that is George Harrison. 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:51.440 So Holly, please tell me that you named this drint 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:56.600 eleanor whiskey. I didn't, but it does have whiskey because 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:02.080 I love you, because you love me. So I briefly 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.399 thought about something with root beer because of the first entry, 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.520 but I shied away from that um. And then, of course, 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.359 like the obvious thing is to figure out a drink 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.880 called a Sergeant Pepper. But if you do a quick 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.880 Internet search, you discover that a jillion people have done 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.720 a Sergeant Pepper. And I mean, Mr Mustard is probably 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.800 going to go a weird direction in a drink, right, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.280 But I still really liked the idea of something with 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.960 pepper in it. So I decided on a drink that 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:34.800 I am calling the Peppery Sergeants, And it starts with 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:39.040 two ounces of whiskey, and into that whiskey you're gonna 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:45.080 put a table spoon of hallopeeno jam I would do 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.240 at this point the whiskey neat, I wouldn't add any 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:49.439 ice at this point, and you let the jam and 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.080 the whiskey sit together just a little bit and then 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:54.480 give it a stir so that your sugar can dissolve 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.280 into the whiskey, and then you pop your ice into 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.600 your glass on top of it, and then you just 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:05.159 top it off with club soda. Oh that's really easy. 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:09.760 It's really easy, and it's really interesting and fun, and 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:12.399 it's quite light. Like one of my problems with whiskey 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:14.119 is that the taste of it to my palate is 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.960 very hard and heavy. Because you're diluting the whole thing. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.639 You just end up with kind of a light, crisp tasting, 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:28.800 really surprisingly refreshing beverage. So hallepeen your jam where it's at. Also, 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:34.679 for anybody that just is similarly struggles with whiskey, you 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:40.879 can put any jam in whiskey. You can do the 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:44.200 same exact thing with like a fake jam. You can 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.840 do like an apricot jam, which is also very yum. 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:50.040 The The key is that you have to just be 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:52.439 ready for the fact that, depending on the nature of 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:55.480 your jam. Mine was a homemade halle peen your jam, 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.520 so it had definitely like chunks of chopped up hallepeen 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:00.320 you in it. So you just have to know that 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.159 there's going to be some texture to your cocktail. And 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.680 if you're not into that, you could strain it after 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:09.960 you dissolve the jam into the whiskey. But I actually 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.000 like that extra little kick that you get from, like, oh, 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:14.320 a piece of hallopeen. You just hit my tongue. That's 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:18.560 the peppery, sergeant. It's like a little surprise surprised. Well, 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:21.840 that's excellent whiskey drink. I never thought it would happen 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:27.600 like a jammy whiskey drink. I've done others. I've done others. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.080 I'm forever trying to figure out ways I can mend 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:35.640 my relationship with whiskey. We never had a falling out. 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:37.920 We just we circle each other. We have a lot 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:40.359