A Kansas man who was intoxicated drove his car at over 130 mph, resulting in a fatal crash with a 75-year-old driver at an intersection. Following the incident, he went on YouTube to discuss his experience, including how he avoided capture and claimed to be a victim, as reported by authorities and news outlets.

Isaiah Sadowski recounted in a June 2024 interview with YouTuber Jesse Crosson, known as @second_chancer, that he had learned his fiancée had cheated on him over Christmas, which precipitated the tragic events of December 27, 2021, leading to Barbara Patterson’s death.

Sadowski described his emotions at the time, saying, “I was 20 years old, and finding out my fiancée had cheated felt catastrophic. It felt like my world was ending. I drank that night and ended up in a car crash, eventually being charged with murder.”

According to court records, Sadowski was apprehended on August 20 as a result of a joint effort between the U.S. Marshal’s Service and Mexican authorities in Colima, Mexico, after he allegedly escaped justice post-crash, reports The Kansas City Star.

Sadowski has since consented to pay $1.5 million to Patterson’s son, settling a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, according to The Star. Law&Crime found that Sadowski settled the suit in June 2022 via an insurance policy he held.

In his YouTube interview with Crosson, Sadowski stated, “I think both cars were responsible for the accident,” a claim The Star verified and initially reported.

“Both cars ran a light,” Sadowski alleged.

“Okay, but if one light is green, one light is red, I assume somebody got T-boned?” Crosson replied. To which Sadowski claimed, “The light that the other person was coming from was amber, amber, amber — just turned red— and then my light was solid red, but I was braking leading up to it. And so we both ran a red light.”

Sadowski, who is being held without bond, is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the high-speed crash in Overland Park. Cops say he slammed into Patterson’s car at the intersection of Quivira Road and West 127th Street.

Throughout his interview with Crosson, Sadowski appeared calm and relaxed, even smiling at times while speaking openly about what happened — and about his troubles with finding a lawyer to represent him.

“I am no longer in America,” Sadowski admitted. “I’m trying to figure out what the next steps are here because there was no legal path forward. I had this defense attorney, he’s a nationally reclaimed defense attorney, 300-plus five-star reviews on Google … And when I first retained him, he said, ‘Listen, here’s the game plan.’ I’d seen the case file. He met my parents. He told my parents the game plan, and it sounded really, really good. And then two months later, he just completely gave up on me.”

Crosson flat out asked Sadowski at one point whether he was in compliance with the court’s orders, to which he admitted he was not.

“Defendant, by his own public admission, has intentionally left the United States,” one of Sadowski’s three defense attorneys, Gregory Watt, wrote in an April 2024 court filing, as he reportedly asked to withdraw from representing him, according to The Star.

“Defendant has both violated the terms of his bond and violated the terms of the attorney/client contract with our office,” Watt alleged.

Sadowski told Crosson that “the only chance that I even really see” when it comes to his case is “a new district attorney coming in and saying, ‘Hey, this doesn’t seem right. Now we’ve got this kid in Belize, and he’s going on these podcasts and he’s talking to different people, and it’s not the best look for us. Let’s just work something out while you’re there.'”

Sadowski claimed he was being “charged and prosecuted for a crime that I did not commit” and he insisted the evidence supports that.

“And you might say, ‘Well then just take it to trial and let the justice system do what the justice system does,'” Sadowski told Crosson. “But unfortunately, I’m $300,000 into this. I’ve had three defense attorneys that have given up on me.”

The Star reports that after Sadowski was initially arrested for the crash, a judge ordered him released without having to wear an ankle monitoring device. A family member of Patterson’s who asked to remain anonymous told the local newspaper, “From the day we learned that the accused had fled the jurisdiction it has been an exercise in trying to believe in the idea of Karma, and what goes around comes around and that the accused was in some way already living in a self imposed prison of anxious fear and paranoia of looking over his (shoulder) wondering if he was going to be caught, however, based on what little I know about the accused, he probably didn’t give two (expletive), and wasn’t worried at all.”

Jail records for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Houston, Texas, show that Sadowski was booked there on Aug. 21 after being caught in Mexico. He has waived his extradition rights to be returned to Kansas, The Star reports.