A drunk Kansas man plowed into a 75-year-old driver at an intersection, going more than 130 mph before colliding with her, and then went on YouTube to casually discuss how he fled justice and is now a victim, according to cops and reports.
“I had just found out that my fiancee was cheating on me over Christmas,” Isaiah Sadowski claimed in a June 2024 interview with YouTuber Jesse Crosson, who goes by the handle @second_chancer, about the events leading up to Barbara Patterson’s death in the Dec. 27, 2021 crash.
“I was still reeling from finding out that I was being cheated on,” Sadowski told me. “I was twenty years old at the time. As a 20-year-old, you’re cheated on by a girl you’re engaged to, and everything is over, right?
The world is crashing down on you. This marks the end of it all. That night, I went and drank. I was involved in a car accident and later charged with murder.”
According to court records, Sadowski was arrested on Aug. 20 in Colima, Mexico, in a joint operation involving the US Marshals Service and Mexican authorities after allegedly fleeing justice following the crash, according to The Kansas City Star.
He has already agreed to pay $1.5 million to Patterson’s son after being named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Jackson County Circuit Court and opting to settle, according to The Star.
According to court records obtained by Law&Crime, Sadowski agreed to a payout in June 2022 under an insurance policy he held at the time.
“I believe that both cars caused the car accident,” Sadowski told Crosson in the June 2024 YouTube interview, which The Star verified and first reported on.
“Both cars ran the light,” Sadowski claimed.
“Okay, but if one light is green, one light is red, I assume somebody got T-boned?” Crosson responded. Sadowski responded, “The other person’s light was amber, amber, amber—just turned red—and then my light was solid red, but I was braking leading up to it.” So we both ran a red light.”
Sadowski, who is being held without bond, is accused of second-degree murder in connection with the high-speed crash in Overland Park. Police say he collided with 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 openly discussing what happened and his difficulties in finding a lawyer to represent him.
“I’m no longer in America,” Sadowski admitted. “I’m trying to figure out what the next steps are because there was no legal way forward.
I had a nationally recognized defense attorney with over 300 five-star Google reviews. When I first hired him, he said, ‘Listen, here’s the game plan.’ I had seen the case file.
He met my parents. He told my parents about the plan, and it sounded great. And then, two months later, he simply gave up on me.”
Crosson directly asked Sadowski at one point if 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, reportedly requesting that he 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,” according to Watt.
Sadowski told Crosson that “the only chance that I even really see” in his case is for a new district attorney to come in and say, ‘Hey, this doesn’t seem right.
Now we have this kid in Belize who is going on podcasts and talking to different people, which is not a good look for us. “Let us just work something out while you’re there.”
Sadowski claimed he was “charged and prosecuted for a crime that I did not commit,” and that the evidence supported his claim.
“And you might say, ‘Well then just take it to trial and let the justice system do what the justice system does,'” Sadowski recounted to Crosson. “Unfortunately, I’ve invested $300,000 in this. I’ve had three defense attorneys who gave up on me.”
According to the Star, after Sadowski was initially arrested for the crash, a judge ordered his release without having to wear an ankle monitoring device.
A Patterson family member 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
According to jail records from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Houston, Texas, Sadowski was booked on August 21 after being apprehended in Mexico. He has waived his right to be extradited and returned to Kansas, according to The Star.
