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TCC #20 The Napa Halloween Massacre · True Crime California

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Speaker 1: Hi guys, Hey everyone, welcome to True Crime California. I'm
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your host Cindy and I'm glad you're here. Hey everybody,
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I'm back with another case. Sorry, I think I'm like
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a day late. Here we go, but a no fault
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eviction about a week ago from our landlords. They're going
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to renovate this entire house, and when we moved in,
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they didn't bother telling us that, so we've only been
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here for a year. We told them we wanted to
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stay here long term, and they basically just nodded and smiled.
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And now they're kicking us out because our country is
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a capitalist healthscape nightmare and fuck everybody. So we've been
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having to move all week, which has put recording on
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the back burner a little bit. So I apologize for
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being late, but in any case, it's October my favorite
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month of the year, so nothing's going to bring me
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down for too long. And to celebrate October and Halloween
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and spooky season, I'm going to be doing cases as
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many as I can find that are worth the time,
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that involve murders on or around Halloween night or Halloween
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themed murders. And I'm starting with a classic. It's a
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modern day classic. This occurred in two thousand and four.
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I feel like a lot of the cases I've been
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covering have been a little bit more vintage, so I'm
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bringing it into the two thousand and this is the
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case of the Napa Halloween Massacre of two thousand and four. Now,
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the story begins at the beginning of two thousand and four,
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maybe like around April, when twenty six year old Adrian
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and Sonia and twenty five year old Laura Mianza move
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in together into a three bedroom home in Napa, California
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on Dorset Street. Napa is wine country. It's a super
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sleepy town, very very quiet, no real nightlife, a lot
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of families and pretty well off families. Like I said,
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it's wine country, so there's tons and tons of vineyards.
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I would say anywhere from like Santa Barbara to Napa
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in California along the coast is going to be good
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wine growing land, but Napa is really known for it.
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So if anybody listening is a wine drinker, you have
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probably had some wine from Napa before. So it's a
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very rich, very quiet, very chill place to live. And
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Adrian had actually grown up in Calistoga, which is like
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basically in Napa. She was born in Napa and then
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Lauren grew up in the same area, so they were
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friends before they moved in together. Adrian was a recent
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graduate from San Luis Obispo, where she attended until two
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thousand and one, receiving her degree in engineering, so no,
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there was not overlap between her and Kristin smart. They
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missed each other by about a year, but again lately
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everything's been coming back to Kristin, which is interesting. So Adrian,
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after graduating, was hired as a civil engineer by the
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city of Napa and decided it would be a great
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place to settle into her adulthood because she really liked
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the chill vibes. Lauren was similar. She was career oriented
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and enjoyed living in Napa because of the quiet vibes,
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because it was safe. You know, I think there's two
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types of people. There's the type that grow up somewhere
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quiet and easy, and they yearn for craziness and chaos.
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That would be me, So we moved to big cities
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and we get kind of swept up in you know,
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big city living. And then there's people like Adrian and
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Lauren who just want to continue the chill. They just
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want to stay somewhere quiet. Some are easy, somewhere nice,
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and that's what these two did. So totally. I totally understand.
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Now when I say Napa was safe, I mean it
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still is. What I'm saying is, before this case, there
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had not been a murder in Napa for over two years,
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which may not sound like much, but it is very significant. Now.
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Big cities like la where I live, have as many
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as three hundred or more murders per year. So comparatively,
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this place is like the Truman Show, which I'm dating
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myself by saying that if you haven't seen it, it's
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a Jim Carey classic. Check it out. Anyway. After a
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few months in the house, the two invite a third
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woman to live with them. This woman is twenty five
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year old Leslie Moraza, who had recently moved to the
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area to be closer with her mother, or closer to
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her mother. She was already very close with her mother.
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Leslie was a former beauty queen from South ca Carolina
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who had just had like kind of a bad and
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weird breakup and I'll talk about it in a minute,
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but she needed to be closer to her mom for support,
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and she just kind of wanted to start over now.
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Leslie was a little different than Adrian and Lauren because
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she liked to go out, she liked to date. She
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wasn't as career focused. She had had like a fairly
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you know, serious job in South Carolina, but coming out
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to California, she was kind of taking it easy, living
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her young life, doing the twenties thing. And in fact,
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when she moved out to Napa, she landed a job
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as a hostess at a winery owned by Francis Ford Coppola.
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So again not looking for a career, just looking for
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a job, looking to get back on her feet, and
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enjoying her youth.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Even though they were all very different, the three women
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got along really well and Adrian at one point told
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her mom that she planned to live in the house
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as long as she was able. She loved the house,
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she really liked her roommates. Everything was going really well.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: As I had mentioned, Adrian and Lauren were both from
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the area, and as a result, they had friends from
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childhood who they were still very close with. One of
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these friends, Lily Prudom, considered Adrian like her best friend
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or one of her very best friends, and was close
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with Adrian's entire family, including like her mother and her sister.
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You know. So it made sense that on the night
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that Adrian and Lauren moved in, Lily and her fiance,
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Eric Copple, would not only help them move in, but
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celebrate with some glasses of wine that same evening. Now,
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when I say that Lily and Adrian were good friends,
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I mean they were like super close and in fact,
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just a couple of months after Adrianne moved in, she
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and Lily got together to celebrate the tenure anniversary of
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Adrian surviving a car accident that should have killed her
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when she was sixteen years old and still in high school.
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This was a very significant milestone for Adrian, As she
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referred to that date of the accident. As the nun,
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she was supposed to die, which, considering what happens next,
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lends an extra level of eeriness to this story. Now,
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as far as Lily and Eric go, they were engaged
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to be married, but they'd put their wedding on hold
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and weren't yet set on a date despite having been
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together for nearly eight years. Eric was very quiet and shy,
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but he was a really nice guy, really helpful with
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the move and while he was quiet, Lily was very
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loud and boisterous. So they made for an odd but
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seemingly really good couple, sort of filling in the gaps
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on the other's personality in a way. Now, beyond these
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two friends, Adrian and Lauren had other friends in the area,
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and Adrian was also dating a man named Christian, with
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whom she had been on again off again for quite
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some time, most recently around the fall of two thousand
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and four. Adrian had really started pushing for Christian to
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commit to her, but he kept telling her he wasn't ready,
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and this led to a lot of arguments between the two.
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And like, I totally understand this. They're in their mid
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twenties and I think Adrian had always sort of been
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on this like more mature track, like she's trying to
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get to, like, I don't know, like the adult part
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of her life. And what I have to tell you
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is like I'm kind of with Christian here, like, don't
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be in a hurry to grow up, enjoy your youth,
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go out, have fun. Shit only gets harder as you
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get older. Trust me, I'm an old ass lady. I'm
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forty two. Like you want to enjoy the years while
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you can. But anyway, I think you know. This caused
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a lot of sort of arguing between the two. Nothing crazy,
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but they definitely were known for like making up and
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breaking up, and it's like, you know, they really liked
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each other, but they just couldn't get on the same page. Now,
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Lauren was single, didn't seem to be dating, and lived
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in the bottom room of the house with her dog.
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Now Leslie, the newest roommate, who lived in one of
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the upstairs rooms next to Lauren, as I mentioned, loved dating,
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loved meeting new people, and was off and out on dates,
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kind of always looking for mister Wright or maybe even
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just mister right now. Before Leslie had moved to Napa,
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she did have a long term boyfriend, but eventually had
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to break it off because his dad was creeping her
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out by calling her multiple times a day, quote, just
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to talk, according to him, and he would do this
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when he knew his son wasn't home. So like, his
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son was in this very serious relationship with Leslie and
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this dad was just like super creeping on her. Leslie
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eventually said he made her so uncomfortable that she couldn't
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continue the relationship with his son, so she broke it
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off with him and left for California to get a
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fresh start. Now, I believe just before this breakup, she
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had actually dated another young man who, after she broke
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it off with him, dedicated an entire website to her.
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And this wasn't a like fuck Leslie website. This was
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a like You're an angel on Earth, I'm in love
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with you, I'll never get over you kind of website, which,
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while less like angry, is also real, real fuck creepy.
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So there's something about her. I mean, she was a
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beauty queen, but I think she was also just a
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really charismatic person and something about her just drove men wild. Anyway,
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everything went well at the house for a while, but
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on October twenty ninth, two thousand and four, the roommates
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ended up getting into a little bit of a not
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a fight, but maybe like a stressed conversation over Leslie
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bringing home one of the men she was dating. Now,
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apparently none of the women had had a single man
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stay the night to this point, and it hadn't ever
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really been something that came up in discussion, mostly because
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it hadn't needed to before this point. But apparently beyond
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this never being something that they discussed, Leslie and this
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particular man friend were I say, man friend, man friend
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were pretty loud that night, if you catch my drift,
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and Adrian and Lauren were both like, not real cool
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with that, which totally fair. The trio had a house
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meeting and eventually came to the conclusion that they were
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all adults and that they could have men spend the night.
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But I do expect they probably laid some ground rules
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before they came to this agreement. But with this, harmony
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was restored to the home and the young women went
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back to life at usual as usual at least for
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the next two days. On the night of Halloween October
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thirty first, two thousand and four, the three women stayed
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home together and passed out candy, and as later confirmed
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by Lauren, they were all in bed by eleven pm. Now,
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around two am, Lauren, who again was in the downstairs room,
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woke up when she saw the security light gone outside
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the house. Now this happened from time to time, and
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she sort of just, you know, told herself, Oh, it's
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one of Adrian's cats walking around outside. Go back to
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bed now, quick note, does this remind anyone else of
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a particular case that is much more recent? This has
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Idaho murders all over it, And as we know, Brian
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Koberger was a big true crime person. So I'm wondering
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if he knew about this case, because if he didn't,
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a hell of a fucking coincidence like down to like
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the downstairs upstairs, the downstairs roommate being left alive, like
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it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't attack the downstairs
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roommate on purpose to make it like this case, because
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he's that fucking crazy anyway. So a minute or so
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after the light goes on, Lauren begins hearing what sounds
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like somebody moving around downstairs, and she's like, oh, it's
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probably one of Leslie's boyfriends. I didn't know they were
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coming over, but they're trying, obviously trying to be quiet.
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I'll just leave it alone. Now, her dog started barking
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at this point, and so she quieted the dog down
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and tried to go back to sleep. Moments later, she
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hears what sounds like a fight upstairs, and then she
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hears Adrian yelling for help. She later said that she
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heard Adrian yell, oh God, please help me, Somebody help me.
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Lauren came out of her room and as she was
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coming out, she saw a man running down the stairs.
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Now she panics at this time, which is totally fair,
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and she runs out the back door into the yard
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before realizing there's no way out from there. So she's like,
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oh my god, I'm stuck in this yard. If this
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man comes after me, he's gonna kill me. Luckily, she
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saw the man run back out the way he came
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in through the front of the house, and as soon
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as he was gone, she ran back inside and went
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upstairs to help her roommates. Now what she saw was horrific.
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Leslie was lying in her bed, I believe, face down
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in a huge pool of blood, completely covered by stab
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wounds and not moving. Adrian was crouched next to the bed,
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still able to talk, but bleeding profusely and very quickly
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losing consciousness. She was asking for help, so Lauren ran
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downstairs to call police from their landline, but it was dead.
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Now I don't know if it was cut or if
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it just happened to not be working. She then goes
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back upstairs, checks on the roommates, grabs her cell phone,
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and runs out into her car while calling nine one
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one for five help. Now, I think it's very smart for
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her to get in her car if the man is
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still there, if he's coming back, She's gonna be a
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lot safer if she can drive away or just lock
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the doors. You know. I know that when you're on
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the phone with a nine one one, they're going to
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try to get you to help the injured victims. But like,
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there was nothing that she could do at this point,
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and he could have still been around, So she calls
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nine to one one, but unfortunately, by the time the
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paramedics arrived, both Adrian and Leslie were dead. Now, shockingly,
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police took this incident extremely seriously right from the jump
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and with good reason, With zero solid leads and not
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a lot of evidence. The killer could be anyone, anywhere
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and could strike again at any time. The residents of
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Napa were all terrified, and the families and friends of
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these young women were completely destroyed. They were just you know,
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and Lauren having survived like the nightmares she endured the trauma.
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I mean, it's unspeakable. It's just terrible. Friends and family
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held candlelight vigils in the victim's names, and it really
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brought many of their friends together in grief. Lily, Adrian's
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closest friend, was especially affected and had a very hard
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time in the following weeks and months. As a result,
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she decided it was finally time to marry Eric, with
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whom she had been on again, off again in terms
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of their marriage plans. In fact, what's crazy is they
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had originally been meant to wed on November first, the
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day that Adrian and Leslie were murdered, and she and
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Eric took it as a sign that they were meant
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to be and thought that maybe if they had married
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on that date, none of this would have happened, because maybe,
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you know, Adrian would have been at her wedding instead,
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which I think is something that happens when people are mourning,
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Like they come up with different ways to cope, like
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finding signs and meanings and things, and I totally understand that,
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and also like they're not wrong necessarily right. So the
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two wed the following summer, and Adrian's mother and sister
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were invited to speak at the wedding in memory of Adrian,
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who absolutely would have been a bridesmaid, if not the
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maid of honor. Meanwhile, the police are going real hard
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on this case. Both Leslie and Adrian were stabbed to death,
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and while Lily was killed, not Lily. While Leslie was
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killed in her bed and had no signs of defensive wounds,
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Adrian had put up one hell of a fight. Now,
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because of this, police expected to find the killer's blood
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in the room, as bloody knife handles tend to get
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a little slippery, which can lead to attackers accidentally cutting
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themselves on the blade. Add to that the fact that
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Adrian was a former student athlete, and police figured you'd
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have an attacker who was almost certainly injured, and they
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were right in Leslie's room on either a wall or
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a curtain. By the wall, police found a spot of
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blood that they found did not belong to either victim.
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They took this blood and got a DNA profile and
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found it belonged to a white man of European ancestry,
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who likely had blonde hair and blue eyes. It's crazy
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that they can get that specific even in two thousand
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and four, but they certainly could now at the I'm seeing.
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They also found three cigarette butts smoked down to the filter,
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meaning whoever did this was outside pondering their decision for
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a while before taking action. Police ran these for DNA
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and as you can guess, it matched the blood found
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in the house. And further, they found that the brand
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of cigarette was Camel Turkish Gold, which in two thousand
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and four was a new and difficult to find brand,
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so definitely not something everybody would smoke. So that would
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probably help them find their suspect. All they had to
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do is find people smoking that brand and go from there.
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So this was a great lead, but police did not
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release this information right away because they weren't ready yet
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to pounce on their suspect and they didn't want people
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suddenly switching brands right now. Throughout the investigation, police interviewed
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something like a thousand people. They got DNA from over
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two hundred men in the area and hundreds of pieces
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of evidence as well. They also got DNA from basically
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any any man who had been in these women's lives. Now.
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Police initially believed that Leslie had been the target, as
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she was killed first while in bed, and you know,
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it makes sense because she was dating around, she had
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so many suitors, and also it looked as though Adrian
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was only killed because she heard the commotion and unfortunately
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got involved. Although police definitely checked in on adrian sometimes
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boyfriend Christian, he had a rock solid alibi, and everybody
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was like, no, he's not They're not to the point
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where he wants to kill Adrian. Like most of the time,
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if you're not married to somebody and like legally bound
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to them, you're not gonna kill them because they want
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more out of a relationship than you do, like you
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just break up, you know, So it didn't make sense
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for him to kill her, and also everybody was like,
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no way, And also he had an alibi, and also
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his DNA didn't match, but they did look into him.
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So they focused on Leslie's love life because they're like,
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that's probably where we're going to get the best leads,
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and at first they really looked into the X with
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the website as well as Creepy Dad, but both of
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them were like across the country in South Carolina, and
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you know, a website friend was weird, but sweet creepy
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Dad just had proof that he wasn't in California, But like,
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what the fuck? Bro like so fucking weird? Really really
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don't love that, So they keep looking at, you know,
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all of her other men that she's dating and people
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that she's like hanging out with. Unfortunately, none of these
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suspects led anywhere, and after almost a year it seemed
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like police were running out of leads. But remember they
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still have those cigarette butts and had been smart in
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not releasing information about them to this point. Now finally
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they've collected all this DNA and they feel like they
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are running out of leads, so it's time to let
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this out into the public and to clarify. They hadn't
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actually even told anyone that they had found cigarette butts,
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so it wasn't even just like, oh, we don't know
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the brand. They hadn't released any information about the cigarettes.
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So finally they say, hey, oh, why everybody, we found
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cigarettes at the location like outside the house, they matched
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the blood of the suspect. Now, upon hearing this, Lauren,
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who had obviously, you know, since moved out of the house,
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reaches out to police and she's like, hey, I only
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know one person in Adrian or Leslie's life who smoked.
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Now that person was Lily's husband, Eric Copple. Now the
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police have this information, they decided it's a good idea
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to release the specific cigarettes being smoked, noting their camel
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Turkish gold. Eric's family, including new wife Lily, heard this
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information and immediately knew Eric was the killer, and before
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he could be arrested, they convinced him to turn himself in.
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Now I want to note here that Eric had given
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his DNA to police, but they hadn't run it as
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far as I know, because he'd not been considered a suspect.
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And I think like it was definitely the mix of,
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like his willingness to cooperate, the fact that, like he
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was so close with the family, and the fact that,
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like Leslie had so many potential suspects that kind of
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kept him off the police radar, but also the way
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he played along was like super super fucking scummy. Now,
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this was obviously super upsetting to people, as they still
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couldn't understand why it took so long to catch him
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when he was right there in front of police again
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a wolf in sheep's clothing. It was obviously also extremely
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shocking to Adrian's friends and family, including Lily, who pretty
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much immediately annulled the wedding and distanced herself from Eric
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the moment she found out what he did. Now, upon
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turning himself in, Eric offered no motive and did what
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all little bitch ass motherfuckers do when they get caught,
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pretended he didn't remember what happened, though, He's like, yeah,
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I know I killed Leslie and Adrian, but I just
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can't remember any of the specifics. He basically said, Oh,
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I have a drinking problem and I'm depressed, and that's
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why this all happened, and that's it, and that's like
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all he would fucking say, which is really fucking irritating.
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He said the night it happened, he and Lily had
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been fighting because he drank too much and she was
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sick of his drinking. Apparently, like I said, he had
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a problem with this, which had been one of the
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main reasons they didn't get married before Adrian's death. So
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on this night, he was super drunk and Leslie was
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so angry with him that she refused to even talk
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to him. So Eric leaves wherever they are, and when
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he leaves, he's super pissed off. And while he's never
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admitted it, the police have a theory that he blamed
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Adrian for his problems with Lily, which makes total sense really, like,
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if he's this much of a fuck up, if he's
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like an alcoholic, he has depression, and he's really just
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kind of like a bummer dude, then Adrian, who really
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had her life together and really cared about Lily, would
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of course suggest that he wasn't good enough for her
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friend and that Lily could do better. And I mean,
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with all things we know, I think it's fair to
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say she was right. So in Eric's shitty little brain,
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he decided that Adrian is to blame for his relationship issues,
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because of course it's not anything he's done right, Like,
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he's just a victim, and so he decides on this
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night that he's going to do something about it. He
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of course can't remember where he got the knife, but
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he remembers breaking into the house and going upstairs and
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accidentally finding Leslie first. Now, as far as Leslie goes,
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he never gave a reason for killing her, and he
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didn't even really know her, so it was really just
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wrong place, wrong time, which is so fucking horrific. And
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it's also crazy that it sent the police on this
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wild goose chase for a suspect connected to her when
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she's just a very unlucky victim. So now they have
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Eric in custody, and you know, being the great guy
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that he is, even though he can't remember what he did,
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he knows he did it. So he decides to plead
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guilty to all charges to avoid the family having to
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go through a trial and in my opinion, probably much
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more likely to avoid the death penalty. So while he sentenced,
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the family is still able to make impact statements, and
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Lily also made one, saying she could not love Eric
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any less and apologizing to both families on his behalf.
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Eric is still in prisoned at this day with no
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chance of ever being released, and you know, this is
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just such a crazy story because it's so random that
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he would murder his girlfriend's best friend out of jealousy.
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Like usually, love triangles involve the people who are romantically
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involved and not just like a random friend that you're
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mad at. It's really fucking weird. And then for him
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to continue playing the supportive boyfriend, like I feel like, Okay,
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so there's Idaho murders, but then there's also Gabby Petito.
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What was that guy's name? Another fucking Brian. What's up
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with a dude's name? Brian? No offense if there's any
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Brian's listening. You're doing the lord's work, making your name,
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giving your name a better name, as it were. But
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like that guy when he's in that police interview is
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very clear that he needs to be seen as like
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a good guy and like helpful, and I feel like
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that's kind of what's going on with this dude Eric
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as well. He's like has to be seen as like
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the good guy, the helpful, stoic husband, like lifting his
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wife up in her time of need. When he's the
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motherfucking killer, it's like so twisted how people are. It's
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so evil. And to just kill Leslie randomly because she
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was there, I mean, dude, fucking sucks. I honestly think
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he probably would have attacked Lauren as well, but the
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dog was probably what stopped him Anyway, I'm glad he's
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locked up forever, and I hope the families, you know,
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find peace as difficult as I'm sure that is. You know,
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it's this time of year that this happened, and I'm
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sure they relive it every year. You know, it's been
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twenty one years. It's really fucked up, And uh yeah,
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that's my story. This one's a little bit shorter, short
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and punchy, as my old podcasting friend Diva used to say.
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But I think it's a really interesting case, and especially
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because of the way it ties into so many other cases,
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not so many, but like definitely the Idaho murders, and
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then sort of getting like the mentality of the murderer
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being so similar to that other fucking Gabby Potito dude,
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I forget his name, something laundry and Brian Laundry. Is
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that it? Anyway? Fuck that guy. So anyway, hopefully you
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guys like this episode. Sorry it's late. I am literally
26:02
sitting in my new house, So if I sound a
26:04
little echoey, like my neighbors are having a party, my
26:07
dogs won't stop licking their asses and barking, Like there's
26:10
just so much noise at my other house. So I
26:14
was like, fuck it, I have this halfway moved into
26:16
house with nobody in it. So I came over here
26:19
and started recording, and I think is a little bit better.
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So hopefully, hopefully this sounds okay. I shouldn't keep calling
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it out. I don't want anybody to focus on sound quality.
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I know a lot of any podcasts have issues with it,
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but it's really important to me to get it fixed,
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So just calling out again. Anyway, I'll be back next
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week with another hopefully Halloween inspired story, and thanks everybody
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for listening. Please like rate review, and until next week,
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stay safe.