GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- In October 2020, a Kent County judge described George Yzaguirre as “clearly a monster” for stabbing two people to death, including a roommate stabbed 70 times.
Yzaguirre’s brutal and heinous crimes are now being examined in a true crime TV show. Yzaguirre ended up committing suicide in prison about seven months after he was sentenced to life in prison. He was 37.
The “Evil Lives Here” show on the Investigation Discovery channel will look at Yzaguirre’s case in a broadcast set to air Sunday, July 3 at 9 p.m. The episode can be seen the same day on the Discovery+ streaming service.
Yzaguirre was living with 34-year-old David Isner Jr. at a Kentwood duplex in November 2019. They had been longtime friends.
Kentwood police said Yzaguirre told detectives he was upset at something Isner said to him. So he waited for Isner to go to sleep before attacking him.
Evidence showed he stabbed Isner more than 70 times. He then dumped the body in an open area near Lake Michigan Drive and Wilson Avenue NW.
Police think Isner died Nov. 28, 2019.
Officers responded to the duplex on Dec. 2, 2019 on a missing persons report filed by Isner’s family, who had not seen him in several days. Officers found “an alarming amount of blood” inside the unit, but no sign of anyone.
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The following morning, Yzaguirre went to a Home Depot near 54th Street and Division Avenue and asked a worker to call police because he wanted to turn himself in “for killing two of his friends.”
It was then that they learned, in interviewing Yzaguirre, where to find Isner’s body.
Yzaguirre also told them he killed another man, 63-year-old Ed Fuller, at Fuller’s home in the Pinegate Village Mobile Home Park off Division Avenue south of 76th Street. He intended to rob Fuller. Police went there and found the body.
Yzaguirre ended up pleading guilty in August 2020 to two counts of murder.
At his sentencing, Kent County Circuit Judge Mark Trusock described his crimes as “an extremely disturbing set of circumstances.”
““You, sir, clearly are a monster and a threat to society,” Trusock said.,
Yzaguirre’s attorney said his actions were fueled by drug and alcohol abuse and that the “demons won out.”
Isner was a father to three, including a son just a few months old.
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