in 2002 a rapper was found naked staggering through the streets staring at the sky screaming he was covered in human blood holding a human lung in his hands and it seemed to have a chunk missing when he was taken into police custody they performed a medical examination on his stomach and inside of his stomach they found pieces of human tissue this case begins on april the 10th 2002 in los angeles california the rapper in question was a man named antron singleton he was born in texas on september the 15th 1973 and from the young age
of seven he had a keen interest and passion for writing and reading poetry and he was quite talented too as he grew older he became influenced by the emerging hip-hop culture and at around 17 years old he decided that he wanted to try his hand at rap and he began a career in the genre his first stage name was g spade but due to being six foot seven he was given a new name big lurch inspired by the character from the adams family as he began getting a name for himself in rap he started working
with artists such as rbl potter sibo and e40 but just as he got his foot in the door tupac and biggie had died the two big artists in rap that pushed the genre into the mainstream their deaths resulted in the genre book of being somewhat unstable and uncertain but soon eminem had emerged on the scene and became incredibly popular very quickly with songs about killing his ex-wife kim mothers big lurch was heavily influenced by this after seeing his popularity skyrocket so he went in the direction of horoko or horror rap and as the name suggests
its themes contained extreme violence and aggression and it was this that prosecutors would later say was a telling sign of what was in his mind big lurch wrapped about some pretty dark topics and often included serial killers such as jeffrey dahmer and horror movie villains like freddie and jason in his lyrics on the 16th of september 2000 just one day after his 24th birthday he collided with a drunk driver that hit his car at some serious force the impact of the collision broke his neck and resulted in him being an excruciating pain at the hospital
they had to keep him heavily sedated to keep the pain at bay and when he was finally discharged his pain had not yet subsided so he took matters into his own hands and he began to use pcp as a painkiller the only thing is is that pcp is a drug known to cause hallucinations distorted visions and sounds but it can also make one have violent outbursts too but what started out as a pain relief soon turned into a terrible habit that would lead him to do something truly awful big lurch would participate in week-long benders
and stay high for weeks at a time and was often in really bad delusional states but during one particular session on the drug things got seriously bad at the end of april 2002 big lurch woke up from a two-week pcp induced coma he was asked if he remembered anything lurch said the last thing he remembered was thinking that the world was going to end and that he needed to find and kill the devil he was then told the disturbing reality of what he had done before slipping into the coma what i'm about to share is
incredibly disturbing so i do warn you before i proceed the official story is that's on april the 10th 2002 big lurch was partying with friends at his apartment lurch had two housemates thomas moore who was a known criminal and gangster and tanisha esses according to thomas more he and big lurch were in the apartment smoking pcp a group of the friends in the apartment partying also joined in and big lurch would later say that they kept passing him the pipe at some point big lurch kicked everybody out of the apartments apart from him and tanisha
so he and tanisha were alone it said that lurch came behind her and picked up a child scooter that belonged to one of tanisha's children he then swung it over the back of her head and she fell to the floor big lurch then got on top of her with a knife he then plunged it into her chest creating a cavity he then put his hands into the hull and opened up her skin he then pulled her rib cage apart exposing her internal organs after he did this he ripped out one of her lungs and plunged
a three-inch blade into her shoulder blade teeth marks were found on her face and body too it wasn't until later on when tanisha's friend alyssa came over to visit she found her friend dismembered on the floor with her internal organs exposed big lurch had no recollection of this ever occurring but it was soon after this when the police found him naked covered in blood screaming at the sky the trial began and the prosecutors received special access to his album which was titled it's all bad and they used his lyrics against him in court on the
song i did it to you he raps about freddie jason and michael myers and real killers like jeffrey dahmer and charles manson the prosecution team pushed this as evidence that he had a fascination with killers and had fantasies about committing his own murder big lurch was found guilty of the murder of tunisia but is this really what happened well some people aren't totally convinced even the victim's mother doesn't believe that big lurch was the one who killed her daughter let me delve a little deeper tanisha's mother firmly believes that her daughter was murdered by her
boyfriend thomas and that big lurch happened to have found her lung on the floor after thomas had killed her and because he was in such a delusional state because of the pcp he began to consume it under the impression that it was a piece of meat on the night of the murder tanisha actually had packed her bags ready to leave her boyfriend because he had been hitting her thomas was also known to be violent and a known gang member there was also a bloody handprint on the scooter that was used to hit tanisha over their
head but the handprint didn't belong to big lurch there was also bloody fingerprints and bloody footprints in the house that didn't belong to them either big lurch also claimed that his lawyer didn't represent him adequately too his lawyer was also the owner of stress-free records which was the record label that signed him big luch said that his only strategy was to make him appear as insane as possible to ensure a successful not guilty plea on the grounds of insanity but his lawyer knew full well that you can't use drugs to claim insanity in a californian
courtroom the bite max on the victim's face didn't actually match with lurch's teeth yet this was not investigated further as his lawyer didn't believe it would serve the insanity strategy big lurch claimed that he had a pit bull at the time of the murder and that he believes that the bite max would have been due to the dog it should also be known that after big lurch was sentenced his lawyer who was named milton grimes was forced to pay 1.2 million to the mother of a man fatally shot by the police after a jury found
that he had failed to properly litigate his civil wrongful death case against the police department so it's not totally beyond the realm of possibility that he could have poorly represented big lurch too after he was sent to prison his record label released his album it's all bad and decided to controversially use a picture of him holding a skull on a platter as the album's front cover and they did this without big lurch's permission they then released a documentary about him called drugs made me do it which was again done without his permission too big lurch
is adamant that they got him high deliberately to take advantage of him and to set him up tanisha's mother doesn't fully blame big lurch for what he did and she filed a wrongful death lawsuit against big lurch's label saying that he had been supplied the drugs in order to make him more violent and fit the rapper stereotype but nothing ever came of the lawsuit and big lurch is still in prison he was sentenced to life without parole for murder and aggravated mayhem since he has been in prison he has remained sober and hopes that his
story at least stares people away from drug use he spends most of his time studying law so it would be interesting to see if he attempts to represent himself in the future and he is still pursuing music whilst behind bars too friends of tanisha described the aspiring model as beautiful and one of them made a statement saying that no matter what was going on in her life she always knew how to keep smiling tanisha was the mother of two children and she was only 21 when she was tragically killed and cannibalized you
