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You Won_t Believe These PLOT TWIST Murder Cases · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: It always starts small, a myst call, a text that
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound quite right, a noise in the hallway when
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Speaker 1: no one's home, and you ignore it until you can't.
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Speaker 1: And the stories you're about to hear. Reality unravels slowly
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Speaker 1: and then all at once. A woman vanishes, but our
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Speaker 1: messages keep on coming. A quiet college student is led
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Speaker 1: into the woods in broad daylight but never comes back.
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Speaker 1: And a family home seems haunted. And the truth is
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Speaker 1: eerier than you can imagine. And each story begins simply enough,
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Speaker 1: but things aren't what they see. This is murders with
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Speaker 1: a twist. And by the end of these stories, you'll
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Speaker 1: question just how well you really know the people around you. Crime, conspiracy, cults,
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Speaker 1: serial killers, and murder all things that I love to consume,
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Speaker 1: and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, intellectual,
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Speaker 1: beautiful minded freak. And today we are talking about just that,
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Speaker 1: murders with a twist. Three different stories with absolutely crazy
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Speaker 1: endings that you are not gonna expect. So, without further ado,
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Speaker 1: let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go MAK five down the highway,
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Speaker 1: slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into
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Speaker 1: these murder with the twist cases together. David Cropo was
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Speaker 1: a thirty six year old auto repair shop manager starting
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Speaker 1: a new chapter in Omaha, Nebraska, and he had recently
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Speaker 1: separated from his long term partner, Amy, the mother of
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Speaker 1: his two children, and he was kind of nervous about
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Speaker 1: getting back into the dating scene again, as you are,
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Speaker 1: especially when you're a little bit further along in life,
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Speaker 1: it can be daunting. And not long after he would
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Speaker 1: actually meet someone, and that's someone was Shanna Liz Goliar,
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Speaker 1: who was also a single parent of two children. So
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Speaker 1: Dave and Shanna just kind of casually dated for a
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Speaker 1: few months in twenty twelve, because Dave made it very
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Speaker 1: clear that he was not looking for anything serious at
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Speaker 1: the time since he was just getting back into the
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Speaker 1: dating scene, and Shanna was totally cool with that. She
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Speaker 1: was kind of on the same page. So it was
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Speaker 1: around the same time, after a few months of dating Shanna,
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Speaker 1: that Dave would actually meet a woman named Carrie Farvar
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Speaker 1: and Carrie was a thirty seven year old single mom
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Speaker 1: and she was a brilliant computer programmer, and they would
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Speaker 1: actually have a little bit of a meet cute because
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Speaker 1: Carrie would actually bring her forward explorer in to see
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Speaker 1: Dave at his shop, just for maintenance, but it wasn't
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Speaker 1: just maintenance that happened, and sparks ended up flying. That
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Speaker 1: was terrible. I'm sorry, But Carrie was very independent, she
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Speaker 1: was very intelligent, and she was very lively, exactly the
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Speaker 1: kind of person Dave enjoyed is spending time with. So
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Speaker 1: that November Dave would actually ask Carrie out, and their
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Speaker 1: first date went exceptionally well. After dinner, they headed back
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Speaker 1: to Dave's apartment, but as they walked in, they unexpectedly
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Speaker 1: crossed paths with Shanna Gouler, who had stole by without notice,
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Speaker 1: Shanna being the other woman that Dave was seeing, and
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Speaker 1: the two women exchanged only a brief passing glance in
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Speaker 1: the hallway, and Dave didn't think much of it because
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Speaker 1: both these women knew that he was just casually seeing
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Speaker 1: people at this point. He wasn't committing to anything. So
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Speaker 1: Carrie would spend the night that night, and Dave figured
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Speaker 1: life would carry on normally, but he had no idea
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Speaker 1: what was coming next. So on the morning of November thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: at twenty twelve, Dave left his apartment to go back
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Speaker 1: to work before Carrie did, and before he left for work,
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Speaker 1: he would give her a kiss goodbye, And the same morning,
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Speaker 1: Dave actually received a strange text from Carrie, and in it,
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Speaker 1: she abruptly proposed moving in with him, even though at
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Speaker 1: this point they had only been casually dating for about
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Speaker 1: two weeks, and Dave was stunned because this was completely
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Speaker 1: out of character for Carrie. You think you know someone
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Speaker 1: after two weeks, you know. But both of them had
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Speaker 1: mutually agreed that they weren't seeking a serious relationship with
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Speaker 1: one another once again, So he was like, what, why
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Speaker 1: is she just being all weird all of a sudden.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't really know who Carrie was, but he
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Speaker 1: replied and politely but firmly declined, and he said that
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Speaker 1: moving in together was completely off the table at this point,
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Speaker 1: and almost instantly her tone flipped and Carrie would fire
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Speaker 1: back with texts slaced with profanities. She would be going
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Speaker 1: to say, fine, I hate you, I'm dating someone else,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to see you anymore, go away, And
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Speaker 1: Dave's jaw just dropped because what had just happened? How
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Speaker 1: did the funny, kind woman he'd been with hours before
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Speaker 1: turn so vicious, so quickly, and that evening, Dave returned
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Speaker 1: home to find Carrie gone from his apartment, which was
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Speaker 1: understandable after the vicious exchange they just had. So for
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Speaker 1: two days Dave kind of was hoping to hear from Carrie,
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Speaker 1: mostly out of concern, but he heard nothing. But then
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Speaker 1: the messages resumed and Carrie began bombarding him with texts
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Speaker 1: saying I hate you, you ruin my life. You're a
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Speaker 1: terrible person, and Dave was just taken aback by the
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Speaker 1: the straight venom coming out of Carrie, so, feeling very unnerved,
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Speaker 1: he decided it was best to just cut off all contact,
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Speaker 1: probably for the best, and he would think to himself
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Speaker 1: that he dodged a bullet trying to just shug off
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Speaker 1: the unease of all those vicious messages, but he would
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Speaker 1: have no way of knowing how literal that thought would become.
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Speaker 1: So while Dave tried to move on, Carrie's family was
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Speaker 1: growing alarmed because Carrie had always been a very devoted
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Speaker 1: mother to her fourteen year old son, Max, and she
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Speaker 1: was very closely connected to her own mother, Nancy Rainey,
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Speaker 1: And after November thirteenth, Carrie never returned home and she
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Speaker 1: would end up missing very important family events in the
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Speaker 1: following weeks, including a relative's wedding, her own birthday, and
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Speaker 1: even her son's birthday, so there was never any appearance,
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Speaker 1: but only bizarre text excuses. Nancy would actually receive a
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Speaker 1: text from her daughter, Carrie saying that she had actually
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Speaker 1: taken a new job in Kansas, which made no sense,
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Speaker 1: so naturally, her mother, being worried about her, would try
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Speaker 1: to call her, but Carrie would never answer, which was
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Speaker 1: highly unusual for her according to her family, and Nancy
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Speaker 1: had knew that her daughter had struggled with depression and
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Speaker 1: bipolar disorder in the past, and she warned Carrie might
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Speaker 1: be in a crisis and off of her medication, so, naturally,
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Speaker 1: being super desperate as a mother worrying about her child,
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Speaker 1: Nancy went to the police in mid November and reported
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Speaker 1: her daughter, Carrie Farver missing, and initially authorities were not
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Speaker 1: urgent in the search because the messages from Carrie's phone
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Speaker 1: indicated she might have left on her own accord, and
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Speaker 1: upon hearing of Carrie's mental health history, one officer suggested
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Speaker 1: it wasn't uncommon for people with bipolar disorder to exhibit
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Speaker 1: erratic behavior and take off on unannounced trips, and this
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Speaker 1: just made Nancy really frustrated because she knew her daughter
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Speaker 1: wouldn't just abandon her life without a word. But for
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Speaker 1: the moment, Carrie's disappearance was treated as a voluntary absence
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Speaker 1: rather than foul play. Meanwhile, Dave, the man Carrie was seeing,
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Speaker 1: continued receiving an onslaught of harassing message from Carrie, and
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Speaker 1: in the texts and emails, Carrie bounced back and forth
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Speaker 1: between lonely pleas and frightening threats. One moment she'd write,
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Speaker 1: we belonged together, Dave, and the next would be I
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Speaker 1: will do what I can to make you suffer. So Dave,
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Speaker 1: being you know, terrified, changed his phone number multiple times,
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Speaker 1: but somehow the messages always found him. He did know
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Speaker 1: she was a computer programmer after all, so she was
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Speaker 1: pretty smart, but she seemed to just have unlimited resources
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Speaker 1: in reaching him and had an obvious, very unhealthy obsession
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Speaker 1: with him. As weeks passed with no physical sighting of Carrie,
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Speaker 1: she effectively became a ghost that lived in Dave's devices,
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Speaker 1: and at this point Dave and Shanna, the first woman
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Speaker 1: he was seeing, started to grow closer because they empathized
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Speaker 1: with each other over this actual terrifying situation, and Shanna
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Speaker 1: claimed she too was receiving hateful messages from Carrie as well,
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Speaker 1: accusing her of stealing Dave, and even on one occasion,
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Speaker 1: Shanna phoned Dave in tears saying her garage door had
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Speaker 1: been vandalized, and Dave would rush over immediately to see
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Speaker 1: what the graffiti was, and the words on her garage
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Speaker 1: would say from Dave. So this is obviously extremely unsettling
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Speaker 1: to Shano, so she would file a police report, pointing
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Speaker 1: the finger at Carrie as the culprits, because I mean,
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Speaker 1: only an idiot would sign under something that they wrote terribly,
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Speaker 1: and the harassment would just escalate further and further. Both
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Speaker 1: Dave and Shanna would live simultaneously and get emails full
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Speaker 1: of threats whenever they spent time together, and one chilling night,
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Speaker 1: as Dave would try to relax on his recliner, a
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Speaker 1: text would pop up saying, I see you. You're sitting
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Speaker 1: in your chair with your feet propped up, wearing a
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Speaker 1: blue shirt, and this was exactly what Dave was wearing
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Speaker 1: and doing in that moment. Woo so creepy, but a
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Speaker 1: prickling sensation crawled over Dave's skin, so the stalker at
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Speaker 1: this point wasn't just behind the screen, but they were
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Speaker 1: physically watching him. And by early twenty thirteen, the terror
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Speaker 1: went beyond words because Dave would spot a familiar SUV
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Speaker 1: parked near his apartment one night, and it was you
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Speaker 1: guessed it, Carrie's Ford expedition, the same one that she
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Speaker 1: met Dave when they went for the little meet cute
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Speaker 1: at his shop. He now found it stalking him, so
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Speaker 1: he would naturally alert police, who would examine the vehicle
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Speaker 1: and inside they would find one single fingerprint on a
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Speaker 1: mint container, but oddly enough, it didn't match Carrie or
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Speaker 1: anyone in the law enforcement databases. So it was now
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Speaker 1: as if Carrie had just evaporated, leaving behind only traces
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Speaker 1: of angry digital echoes. So even as the messages continued,
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Speaker 1: no one ever saw her in person. And while all
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Speaker 1: this is happening, her son Max decided to message mom
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Speaker 1: on Facebook after having received messages that sounded off, and
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Speaker 1: his mother would respond, but when he asked his mom
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Speaker 1: also to verify his middle name and their dog's name,
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Speaker 1: the account went silent. I love how it child is
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Speaker 1: cracking the case more so than the police at this point,
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Speaker 1: so to those who loved Carrie, it was becoming very
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Speaker 1: clear that the real Carrie was not behind these messages
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Speaker 1: and something was very wrong. So over the years twenty
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Speaker 1: thirteen and twenty fourteen, the stalker campaign against Dave, supposedly
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Speaker 1: by Carrie, intensified to a horrifying degree, and Dave's ex girlfriend, Amy,
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Speaker 1: the mother of his children, and even received threatening messages
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Speaker 1: herself despite having no involvement in their love triangle. And
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Speaker 1: one evening, while Dave had a romantic partner over, someone
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Speaker 1: attempted to break into his apartment by jiggling the door
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Speaker 1: handle and just like Googles up my spine, yuck. And
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Speaker 1: later that night a brick was thrown through his window,
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Speaker 1: and another time Dave's autoshop was vandalized as well. So
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Speaker 1: it seemed no one in Dave's life was off limits
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Speaker 1: at this point, and the stalker's obsession with Shanna was
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Speaker 1: particularly fierce. Dave got an email from Carry with a
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Speaker 1: picture of a woman tied up in the trunk of
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Speaker 1: her car and threatened to kill Shawna, and Dave, seeing
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Speaker 1: this picture, freaking out thinking as Shanna would call her
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Speaker 1: to make sure that she was unharmed, but luckily she
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Speaker 1: wasn't and Carrie was just bluffing. But in another cruel trick,
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Speaker 1: Dave received a link to a fake obituary for Shauna,
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Speaker 1: as if Carrie was fantasizing about eliminating her rival. And
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Speaker 1: then came the most drastic incident, because in August of
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Shanna Gouler's house burned to the ground, tragically
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Speaker 1: killing her pets, which she had two dogs, a cat,
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Speaker 1: and a snake, and investigators would obviously investigate and determine
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Speaker 1: it was Arson, so Liz immediately voiced her suspicion that
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Speaker 1: Carrie was responsible because she had been getting tons of
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Speaker 1: threats and so had Dave, and Dave was horrified that
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Speaker 1: the stalker's threats had escalated to real violence, so, fearing
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Speaker 1: for his safety and his sanity, Dave armed himself with
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Speaker 1: a nine millimeter pistol, and by now nearly everyone believed
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Speaker 1: Carrie Farvar was an unhinged woman committing these acts because
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Speaker 1: she couldn't let go of this relationship and rejection in
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Speaker 1: the relationship, and for over two years, Carrie existed only
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Speaker 1: as a vengeful phantom, tormenting Dave and Shanna from Afar.
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Speaker 1: So Carrie, the loving mother and talented programmer as she
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Speaker 1: was known, was nowhere to be found. But the truth,
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Speaker 1: when it finally emerged, would prove more twisted than anyone
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Speaker 1: could have ever imagined. So in twenty fifteen, with the
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Speaker 1: harassment still ongoing, with no sign of Carrie in the flesh,
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Speaker 1: law enforcement decided a fresh look was needed. So Potawatammi
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Detective Ryan Avis and Jim Dottie volunteered to
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Speaker 1: tackle the cold case, and they would approach it from
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Speaker 1: two different angles. One assumed Carrie was alive and the
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Speaker 1: other assumed she was dead to cover all possibilities, and
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Speaker 1: quickly red flags would start to here. Detective Dottie was
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Speaker 1: struck by one name that kept popping up in these
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Speaker 1: case files, and that was Shanna Liz Golyard. And Shanna
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Speaker 1: had never met Carrie beyond the passing moment in that
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Speaker 1: hallway when Dave was on his first date with Carrie,
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Speaker 1: yet she was the supposed target for most of Carrie's wrath,
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Speaker 1: So why would a brief acquaintance like Carrie's fixate so
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Speaker 1: much to Shanna? So the detectives began to suspect that
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Speaker 1: perhaps Carrie had never been the stalker at all, and
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Speaker 1: perhaps something terrible had happened to Carrie back in twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: and the person truly behind the stocking was working hard
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Speaker 1: to make everyone believe Carrie was still alive, and not
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Speaker 1: just alive, but full blown crazy. So investigators would revisit
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Speaker 1: all of the digital evidence, and there was a lot.
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Speaker 1: So crucially, back in twenty thirteen, both Dave and Shanna
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Speaker 1: had willingly allowed police to dump the contents of their
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Speaker 1: phones when the harassment was first reported. The data had
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Speaker 1: just been filed away and untouched for years, but a
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Speaker 1: digital forensic expert, Anthony Cava, now combed through the evidence
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Speaker 1: with fresh eyes, and what he would find was stunning
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Speaker 1: because on Shanna's phone backup there were photos of Carrie
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Speaker 1: Farver's SUV the Ford expedition, taken about a month before
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Speaker 1: police found the vehicle in January of twenty thirteen, So
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Speaker 1: that meant that Shanna somehow knew where Carrie's missing vehicle
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Speaker 1: was long before the authorities did red flag. And even
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Speaker 1: more damning, the mysterious fingerprint in Carrie's SUV was finally
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Speaker 1: matched and if you haven't guessed by now, feel like
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Speaker 1: it's kind of obvious, but it was Shanna's fingerprint, So
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Speaker 1: in that instant, the narrative completely flipped. Shanna was not
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Speaker 1: another victim of Carrie's abuse. Shanna was impersonating Carrie, and
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Speaker 1: piece by piece, the team gathered evidence of Shanna's elaborate
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Speaker 1: web of deception. I mean, this is years and years
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Speaker 1: of crazy. And they discovered that the frightening photo of
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Speaker 1: a bound woman in the trunk emailed from Carrie had
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Speaker 1: been taken with Shanna's phone, and a surveillance video uploaded
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Speaker 1: under Carrie's name was traced back to Shanna's home IP address,
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Speaker 1: and Shanna had gone so far as to even use
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Speaker 1: software to mask her IP and schedule messages, allowing Carrie
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Speaker 1: to send harassing texts even when Shanna was sitting right
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Speaker 1: next to Dave, thereby deflecting suspicion. So for three years,
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Speaker 1: Shanna had effectively played the role of Carrie Farvar, sending
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Speaker 1: approximately fifteen thousand emails and fifty thousand text messages in
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Speaker 1: Carrie's name, just a full time job of obsessive crazy torment,
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Speaker 1: and the most chilling revelation Carrie Farver had been dead
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Speaker 1: the entire time, So investigators now believe that Carrie was
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Speaker 1: murdered on the very day that she disappeared in twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: likely within hours of her last sighting at day Apertmit.
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Speaker 1: But proving a murder with nobody would be a challenge,
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Speaker 1: so detectives kind of needed a breakthrough at this point,
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Speaker 1: and Shanna herself provided one because in December of twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 1: when suspicions closed in on her, Shanna pulled a desperate stunt.
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Speaker 1: She would shoot herself in her leg and call nine
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Speaker 1: one one, claiming that Stay with Me, Dave's ex Amy Flora,
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Speaker 1: had ambushed her at a park at night. Girls really reaching,
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Speaker 1: just reaching for the stars with that one, And it
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Speaker 1: was basically just a terrible attempt to frame Amy as
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Speaker 1: the real stalker, and police immediately saw through it because
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Speaker 1: you know, they're not five years old, because the injury
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Speaker 1: and the story was very inconsistent, and Amy had an
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Speaker 1: ironclad alibi. So this backfired spectacularly on Shanna Shanna whatever
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Speaker 1: the fuck her name is. Confirming her very manipulative behavior
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Speaker 1: basically was her nail in the coffin. So good, han
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Speaker 1: Ya Shanna. So with this, investigators convinced Shanna to let
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Speaker 1: them download her phone again under the pretense of investigating
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Speaker 1: Amy's supposed harassment. The manipulative gets manipulated. You know, I
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Speaker 1: like that police w moment, and naively, Shanna would agree,
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Speaker 1: and the new data yielded more golden evidence because logs
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Speaker 1: of twenty to thirty fake email addresses Shanna had created
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Speaker 1: using variations of Carrie's name popped up, and that app
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Speaker 1: that let her schedule future text messages popped up as well.
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Speaker 1: So as part of their plan, Dottie and Avis convinced
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Speaker 1: Shanna that they believed her and actually requested her help
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Speaker 1: to get Amy to incriminate herself. I love this, This
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Speaker 1: is good. So suddenly Shanna began forwarding emails from Amy
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Speaker 1: confessing to shooting Shanna at the park. How convenient, and
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Speaker 1: they continued to push Shanna to get more and one
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Speaker 1: email mentioned that Amy had stabbed Carrie three to four
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Speaker 1: times and put her in a trash bag, and Shanna
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Speaker 1: grew frustrated when no arrest happened after that email came out,
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Speaker 1: because the police know that she's full of shit, but
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Speaker 1: they couldn't put Amy away just yet. They needed details
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Speaker 1: that only the killer would really know, just full on entrapment.
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Speaker 1: But I'm here for it. And almost immediately they received
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Speaker 1: more confession emails from Amy mentioning that Carrie had been
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Speaker 1: stabbed in her car, and acting on that tip, they
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Speaker 1: reinspected Carrie's vehicle for a third time, peeling back the
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Speaker 1: fabric from the front passenger seat, and this time they
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Speaker 1: found bloodstains soaked in the foam padding. How did you
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Speaker 1: not look for that before? But that's you know what, whatever, whatever,
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Speaker 1: this all years could have been avoided, but whatever, peel back,
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Speaker 1: they'll fucking foam next time. It's not my job. I'm
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Speaker 1: just judging from the outside, but anyway, DNA testing confirmed
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Speaker 1: it was Carrie Farber's blood and it was preserved under
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Speaker 1: the upholstery. It just sucks that they didn't look closer
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Speaker 1: the last time, because like this could have been solved
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Speaker 1: so much earlier and caused the family so much less stress.
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Speaker 1: But again, not my job. But now the mountain of
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Speaker 1: evidence was undeniable, and investigators executed a search warrant on
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Speaker 1: Shanna's property and in her home they found items belonging
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Speaker 1: to carry, including a digital camera and a camcorder that
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Speaker 1: had been taken from Carrie's residence, and Dave would also
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Speaker 1: recall that he actually had a tablet in storage, and
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Speaker 1: the tablet had a memory card that had been in
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Speaker 1: Shanna's phone around the time of the murder, and the
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Speaker 1: memory card would have a gruesome photograph and it was
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Speaker 1: of a decomposing human foot with a tattoo, a tattoo
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Speaker 1: matching one of Carrie Farver's, and this would be the
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Speaker 1: closest thing to finding Carrie's remains. So, armed with overwhelming evidence,
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Speaker 1: police arrested Shanna on December twenty second, twenty sixteen, and
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Speaker 1: charged her with first degree murder, and the trial in
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen was staggering for those that heard the full story,
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Speaker 1: and prosecutors painted Shanna as a diabolical mastermind consumed by
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Speaker 1: jealousy after Dave chose to date Carrie instead of her,
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Speaker 1: and within days of the brief encounter in the apartment hallway,
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Speaker 1: Shanna had alleged ambushed Carrie, likely staffed to death in
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Speaker 1: Carrie's own suv, and then she dedicated years to impersonating
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Speaker 1: her victim and terrorizing anyone connected to Dave, and Dave
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Speaker 1: was floored by this revelation. I can't even imagine he
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Speaker 1: would go on to say, then to learn that Carrie's
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Speaker 1: not only not at fault, but she's been murdered and Shanna,
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Speaker 1: the person who I leaned on, was responsible. It's still
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Speaker 1: hard to process. No shit, oh my like that is.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know how you trust anyone after that.
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Speaker 1: But indeed, Shanna had deceived Dave and everyone by pretending
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Speaker 1: to be his comfort and ally, all while secretly tormenting him.
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Speaker 1: But because Carrie's body was never fully recovered, the case
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Speaker 1: was entirely built on circumstantial evidence and Shanna's digital footprints,
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Speaker 1: and in a bench trial, Shanna waived her right to
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Speaker 1: a jury. The judge would find the evidence compelling, and
20:53
Speaker 1: he would find A Shanna Liz gall Yard guilty of
20:56
Speaker 1: murder in twenty seventeen and sentence her to life in prison.
20:59
Speaker 1: Good and the judge would note how utterly bizarre and
21:02
Speaker 1: chilling the entire case was, something completely out of a nightmare,
21:07
Speaker 1: yet extremely real. But even years after the verdict, Ta
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Speaker 1: Shanna still maintains her innocence, astonishingly claiming that the real
21:15
Speaker 1: killer is still out there and she herself was somehow
21:18
Speaker 1: framed but no one believes her eyes sure's shit. Don't
21:21
Speaker 1: believe her. But in contrast, Carrie's family had finally got
21:25
Speaker 1: clarity to what happened to Carrie, though it was obviously
21:29
Speaker 1: a very devastating truth, and Nancy, her mother, and Carrie's
21:33
Speaker 1: son Max, were heartbroken to learn how her life had
21:36
Speaker 1: been stolen away from her, but they were grateful that
21:39
Speaker 1: her name was finally cleared and in Carrie's honor, those
21:42
Speaker 1: detectives and the forensic team helped establish a scholarship in
21:45
Speaker 1: her name, and it would be at a local community
21:47
Speaker 1: college where she actually once studied, hoping to preserve the
21:50
Speaker 1: memory of who she really was, and her mom would
21:53
Speaker 1: go on to say, Carrie was only thirty seven when
21:55
Speaker 1: she died. I want her to be remembered as the fun, loving, talented,
21:59
Speaker 1: smart woman that she was. It was a misty spring
22:07
Speaker 1: dawn in rural Darden, Tennessee, and pink light would creep
22:11
Speaker 1: over the tree tops as twenty year old Holly Bobo
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Speaker 1: sipped coffee and study at the kitchen table, and she
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Speaker 1: would be dressed in her favorite pink blouse and jeans.
22:20
Speaker 1: And Holly was a nursing student and she often woke
22:22
Speaker 1: up early to prepare for classes at UT Martin, and
22:26
Speaker 1: at this point in the day her parents had already
22:28
Speaker 1: left for work, so it was quiet in the house
22:31
Speaker 1: and it was only Holly and her older brother Clint
22:34
Speaker 1: that were home. And shortly after seven thirty am on
22:37
Speaker 1: April thirteenth, twenty eleven, Clint would hear the family dog
22:41
Speaker 1: start barking furiously outside, so curious as to why the
22:45
Speaker 1: dog was barking, he would peer through the window and
22:48
Speaker 1: he would see a man in head to toe camouflage
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Speaker 1: talking with Holly in the garage. Now, Holly had a boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: Drew Scott, and he often went hunting and very often
22:58
Speaker 1: dressed in camouflage, so Clint naturally assumed that it was Drew,
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Speaker 1: but he would see they were kind of getting in
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Speaker 1: an argument of sorts. Holly appeared to be in some
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Speaker 1: sort of distress, kind of whispering and arguing, and Clint
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Speaker 1: believed it look like they may actually be breaking up,
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Speaker 1: so he kind of wanted to give them space. So
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Speaker 1: after a while, Clint's mother, Karen, would call the house
23:19
Speaker 1: after a neighbor reached out claiming that they heard a
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Speaker 1: scream and seemingly out of nowhere. Karen would tell Clint
23:26
Speaker 1: to get the gun and shoot the man, and she
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Speaker 1: would say, that's not Drew. And Clint at this point
23:31
Speaker 1: was very confused as to what he was witnessing, and
23:34
Speaker 1: he would double check to see if the man outside
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Speaker 1: was Drew or not. And he would ask his mom
23:39
Speaker 1: on the phone, you want me to shoot Drew because
23:42
Speaker 1: he was looking outside and who he was looking at
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Speaker 1: was his sister's boyfriend. But as he was on the
23:47
Speaker 1: phone and looking outside, he would see that Holly and
23:50
Speaker 1: Drew were walking into the woods behind the house, and
23:53
Speaker 1: he would have one hand gripping Holly's arm, and Clint's
23:57
Speaker 1: heart was just pounding in this moment, not knowing what
23:59
Speaker 1: to do, but he would quickly grab the gun and
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Speaker 1: he would run outside, and when he did go outside,
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Speaker 1: he would find blood near Holly's car in the garage,
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Speaker 1: and in that instant, Clint realized something was terribly wrong.
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Speaker 1: And by this time, Holly and seemingly Drew vanished into
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Speaker 1: the dense trees, and this quiet, normal morning just exploded
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Speaker 1: into a nightmare. So Holly Bobo had been abducted at
24:22
Speaker 1: dawn mere steps away from her home. So at this
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Speaker 1: point Clint would frantically call nine one one, choking out
24:29
Speaker 1: what he'd seen, and law enforcement would arrive pretty quickly
24:32
Speaker 1: after about ten minutes later, but they did not begin
24:35
Speaker 1: the search in the woods for at least two hours,
24:38
Speaker 1: and then the community and law enforcement mobilized in a
24:41
Speaker 1: massive search, and the blood by Holly's car suggested some
24:44
Speaker 1: sort of struggle, and investigators believed that Holly was taken
24:47
Speaker 1: as she was heading to her car with her school
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Speaker 1: lunch and her books. And in those first desperate days,
24:53
Speaker 1: hundreds of volunteers combed the woods of Decatur County for
24:57
Speaker 1: any trace of the blonde, blue eyed nursing student, and
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Speaker 1: searchers did find Holly's lunch box discarded on a rule
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Speaker 1: road a few miles away, hinting the kidnapper had driven
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Speaker 1: off in that direction, and some other items were located
25:10
Speaker 1: as well, including a school paper of Holly's and her
25:13
Speaker 1: cell phone and simcart, and these were all located separately,
25:16
Speaker 1: but nothing much would come from these discoveries at this point,
25:19
Speaker 1: and despite exhausted efforts in foot searches, ATV sweeps, and
25:23
Speaker 1: prayer visuals, nothing of value surfaced, and Holly's disappearance would
25:27
Speaker 1: make national headlines, and the image of her smiling face,
25:31
Speaker 1: a pretty young woman with everything ahead of her, was
25:34
Speaker 1: plastered on missing posters offering a two hundred and fifty
25:37
Speaker 1: thousand dollars reward because who would do such a thing
25:40
Speaker 1: in such a close knit community, and fear would just
25:43
Speaker 1: start gripping the entire area. So as days turned to
25:46
Speaker 1: weeks without any sort of answers, speculations started to swirl,
25:50
Speaker 1: and law enforcement didn't name suspects initially, but they didn't
25:54
Speaker 1: really have to because rumor mills filled in the blanks
25:57
Speaker 1: because in emotionally charged cases, the closest person to the
26:00
Speaker 1: victim often falls under suspicion, and is often the case
26:04
Speaker 1: in most cases. And Clint almost positively knowing that this
26:07
Speaker 1: man that walked her into the forest was Drew, obviously
26:11
Speaker 1: made him a suspect, and this, of course fueled speculation
26:15
Speaker 1: and rumors. Was it a breakup like Clint had guessed,
26:18
Speaker 1: was it a jealous argument, or did Drew just snap?
26:21
Speaker 1: And Holly's family would stand by Clint, yet whispers always
26:25
Speaker 1: spread about her brother as well, and they were asking
26:27
Speaker 1: questions like why hadn't he immediately recognized the danger? Was
26:31
Speaker 1: it possible that he knew the abductor, why did he
26:33
Speaker 1: decide to go check the garage instead of rushing after
26:36
Speaker 1: Holly into the woods. But Clint would insist that he
26:39
Speaker 1: really thought that the man with Holly was her boyfriend Drew,
26:43
Speaker 1: and that he was just frozen by confusion in the
26:45
Speaker 1: moment and by the time reality set in, it was
26:48
Speaker 1: just too late. And the suspect, according to him, was
26:51
Speaker 1: a man that was five ten to six feet tall,
26:53
Speaker 1: who was one hundred and eighty to two hundred pounds
26:56
Speaker 1: and had long, dark hair. So investigators publicly stated they
26:59
Speaker 1: did not consider Clint a suspect the brother, and Clint
27:03
Speaker 1: later said that he was shocked that some people eyed
27:06
Speaker 1: him with suspicion. The community just desperately needed someone to blame.
27:10
Speaker 1: So if it wasn't the boyfriend or the brother at
27:12
Speaker 1: this point, perhaps it was maybe the local sedule offender.
27:17
Speaker 1: So police zeroed in on a man named Terry Britt,
27:20
Speaker 1: and Terry was a convicted defender who lived not far
27:24
Speaker 1: from the Bobo's home, and Britt was known to prowl
27:27
Speaker 1: for victims. How are you known for that and you're
27:29
Speaker 1: not in jail. That doesn't make any sense for me.
27:32
Speaker 1: But anyway, so detectives would search his property, vehicles, and
27:35
Speaker 1: even put him under surveillance for months, but Britt had
27:39
Speaker 1: an alibi and no initial evidence tied him to Holly
27:42
Speaker 1: at all, so it was a very frustrating dead end.
27:45
Speaker 1: But behind the scenes, other names bubbled up, and those
27:48
Speaker 1: names were Zach Adams, Dylan Adams, and Shane Austen and
27:52
Speaker 1: Jason Autry, and these were men from the area known
27:55
Speaker 1: for criminal behavior and heavy drug use. In fact, Holly's
27:59
Speaker 1: own Karen Grimly remembered that she had taught both Zach
28:04
Speaker 1: Adams and Jason Autrey in elementary school years and years earlier,
28:08
Speaker 1: and as boys, she remembered that they were troublemakers and
28:12
Speaker 1: as adults they were deeply involved in meth and morphine
28:15
Speaker 1: and they were widely regarded as bad news around town.
28:19
Speaker 1: So tips had actually come in early in investigation about
28:22
Speaker 1: these men, but initially their alibis appeared to check out,
28:25
Speaker 1: with no physical evidence or witnesses directly linking them to
28:29
Speaker 1: the case. So months would pass and then a year
28:32
Speaker 1: and there was still no sign of Holly, and the
28:34
Speaker 1: Bobo family's torment was only amplified by intense media attention
28:37
Speaker 1: and Holly's parents made tearful public appeals begging for their
28:41
Speaker 1: daughter's safe return, and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents followed
28:45
Speaker 1: hundreds of leads, and Holly's disappearance became one of the
28:48
Speaker 1: most infamous unsolved cases in Tennessee history, just casting a
28:53
Speaker 1: long and fearful shadow over the entire community. So it
28:56
Speaker 1: seemed that Holly Bobo had just vanished with out of trace,
28:59
Speaker 1: but in true with critical clues and witnesses were slowly
29:03
Speaker 1: coming together and a shocking, grizzly picture of what happened
29:06
Speaker 1: was about to emerge. So for more than three years,
29:09
Speaker 1: the town of Darden lived in limbo. Holly's friends and
29:12
Speaker 1: neighbors were just haunted by the unknowns, and many locals
29:15
Speaker 1: kept the story alive with prayer visuals each year, refusing
29:19
Speaker 1: to let hope die. But as time more on, hope
29:21
Speaker 1: was kind of hard to sustain and some evidence would
29:24
Speaker 1: trickle in in twenty thirteen, because in twenty thirteen, a
29:28
Speaker 1: purse thought to be Holly's was found in the woods,
29:30
Speaker 1: only for Karen Bobo to confirm it wasn't hers, so
29:34
Speaker 1: it was just another discouraging false lead, and TBI agents
29:37
Speaker 1: and the Decatur County Sheriff quietly continued working the case
29:41
Speaker 1: in the background. But the turning point came in twenty fourteen,
29:44
Speaker 1: nearly three years after Holly vanished and investigators descended on
29:48
Speaker 1: the property of Zachary Zach Adams. And as I mentioned before,
29:52
Speaker 1: this was like the local criminal and during this encounter,
29:56
Speaker 1: Zach was described as so nervous he was shaking, and
29:59
Speaker 1: he led would not give his cell phone number or
30:02
Speaker 1: allow law enforcement inside his home Red Flag, so after
30:06
Speaker 1: law enforcement left, he also allegedly did a number of
30:09
Speaker 1: suspicious things, like vacuuming his car for an hour and
30:13
Speaker 1: hosing down a mattress outside double Red Flag. And Zach's
30:18
Speaker 1: younger brother, John Dylan Adams was arrested on an unrelated
30:22
Speaker 1: weapons charge and eventually he took a plea deal for
30:24
Speaker 1: no jail time in exchange for information. And he claimed
30:28
Speaker 1: that on April thirteenth, twenty eleven, he had gone to
30:31
Speaker 1: Zach's house to get his vehicle, and while he was there,
30:34
Speaker 1: he saw his brother Zach dressed in camouflaged clothing, and
30:38
Speaker 1: he also saw Jason Autrey and Holly Bobo, and Zach
30:42
Speaker 1: had allegedly told him that he had recorded a video
30:46
Speaker 1: of him essaying Holly, so finally an arrest was made
30:49
Speaker 1: and shorter thereafter. More arrest followed Zach Adams and Jason Autrey,
30:54
Speaker 1: and another associate, Shane Austen, who was allegedly present during
30:58
Speaker 1: the crime, but he cut a secret immunity deal in
31:01
Speaker 1: exchange for cooperation. However, when he was later accused of
31:05
Speaker 1: not being truthful, the deal was revoked, thank god, and
31:08
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, Shane Austen would commit Slewer Slide Easy
31:12
Speaker 1: Way Out Bitch. Though no clear motive was confirmed, some
31:16
Speaker 1: speculate it was due to guilt or fear, but as
31:19
Speaker 1: the gruesome allegations came out, the community's worst fears were confirmed.
31:23
Speaker 1: Holly had likely been attacked and killed shortly after being abducted.
31:27
Speaker 1: But where was she because the suspects weren't talking at
31:31
Speaker 1: this point, at least not about the most important detail.
31:34
Speaker 1: So on a warm September day in twenty fourteen, two
31:38
Speaker 1: hunters were searching for Jinsing in a remote wooded area
31:41
Speaker 1: in a neighboring Decatur County, and deep in the brush,
31:44
Speaker 1: they stumbled upon a large human skull lying on the ground,
31:47
Speaker 1: and the skull had a bullet hole through the back
31:50
Speaker 1: and nearby investigators later discovered ribs and teeth, and dental
31:54
Speaker 1: records in DNA testing soon confirmed the devastating truth these
31:58
Speaker 1: remains were hollybos So after three excruciating years, Holly's family
32:04
Speaker 1: finally had proof that Holly was never coming home alive
32:07
Speaker 1: and the death was ruled a homicide by gunshot. So
32:10
Speaker 1: though the discovery was heart wrenching and also stealed the
32:13
Speaker 1: resolve of prosecutors to get justice, because now with Holly's
32:16
Speaker 1: body found, the trial could move forward so over twenty fifteen.
32:20
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, investigators gathered everything they could forensic evidence
32:25
Speaker 1: from the remains, witness statements and confessions from those involved,
32:29
Speaker 1: and the horrifying actual events of Holly's last hours gradually
32:32
Speaker 1: came to light, and this was primarily through testimony of
32:35
Speaker 1: one man who was willing to speak, and that man
32:38
Speaker 1: was Jason Autry. And the full truth was almost too
32:41
Speaker 1: awful to believe because, according to testimony and evidence presented
32:45
Speaker 1: later in court, the early morning of April thirteenth, twenty eleven,
32:49
Speaker 1: unfolded as follows, Zach Adams, high on drugs, allegedly decided
32:54
Speaker 1: to kidnap Holly Bobo, and according to Autrey, the motive
32:57
Speaker 1: may have involved a meth related dispute, but this version
33:00
Speaker 1: is uncooperated and conflicts with Clint Bobo's statements. And Zach
33:04
Speaker 1: wasn't alone in this abduction. His brother Dylan Adams and
33:08
Speaker 1: their friend Shane Austen and Jason Autrey were all implicated
33:12
Speaker 1: in a plot of a essay of Holly Bobo and
33:15
Speaker 1: Jason Autrey would eventually testify in graphic detail about that
33:20
Speaker 1: entire day, and he would say that after Holly was
33:22
Speaker 1: dragged into the woods, she was taken to a property
33:25
Speaker 1: and this was possibly Zach's home, and there Holly was
33:28
Speaker 1: allegedly essayed by the entire group, and this was based
33:31
Speaker 1: on statements from Dylan and implications in Autrey's testimony, though
33:35
Speaker 1: physical evidence was lacking in accounts conflicted, but Holly was
33:39
Speaker 1: terrorized and restrained and at some point she suffered a
33:42
Speaker 1: head injury from blunt force, and this was as evidence
33:45
Speaker 1: because she had trauma on her skull that showed it. So,
33:47
Speaker 1: believing that Holly might already be dead or nearly so,
33:51
Speaker 1: from that assault, Zach and Jason loaded her body wrapped
33:54
Speaker 1: in a blanket and put her in Zach's pickup truck,
33:57
Speaker 1: and Jason Audrey recounted that he initially thought that the
33:59
Speaker 1: role up bundle was a drug dealer that they'd killed
34:02
Speaker 1: for money, until Zack looked at him and chillingly said,
34:05
Speaker 1: that's holy bobo. And Jason, who barely knew Holly, was horrified,
34:09
Speaker 1: but nevertheless agreed to help Zach dispose of the body
34:13
Speaker 1: in exchange for drugs. So they drove to a spot
34:15
Speaker 1: by the Tennessee River under an overpass, and they planned
34:18
Speaker 1: to gut her body and dump it just so that
34:21
Speaker 1: animals wouldn't consume the remains. Just a gruesome, horrific plan
34:26
Speaker 1: fueled by meth fueled madness. But as they unrolled the
34:30
Speaker 1: blanket on the ground by the water, Holly moved and
34:33
Speaker 1: at this point she was still alive, and Jason would
34:36
Speaker 1: see her foot twitch and heard a muffled cry, and
34:39
Speaker 1: he shouted in shock, the bitch is still alive. And
34:42
Speaker 1: in a panic, knowing that Holly could identify them if
34:44
Speaker 1: she survived, Zach Adams grabbed his gun and as Jason
34:47
Speaker 1: stepped away as a lookout, Zach shot Holly in the
34:50
Speaker 1: back of the head, killing her instantly, and in that
34:53
Speaker 1: very moment, a boat was heard approaching on the river,
34:55
Speaker 1: startling the men, and they just abandoned their plan, and
34:58
Speaker 1: Autry later said Adams to hold him. They threw her
35:01
Speaker 1: out somewhere, though he didn't actually witness where the body
35:04
Speaker 1: was left, and over the next few days, guilt and
35:06
Speaker 1: paranoia set among the co conspirators, and fearing loose ends,
35:11
Speaker 1: Zach also tried to enlist Autrey to murder his own brother,
35:14
Speaker 1: which was Dylan, because Dylan would not stop talking about
35:18
Speaker 1: the crime and might get them caught. And Autrey pretended
35:21
Speaker 1: to go along with this plan with no intention of
35:23
Speaker 1: adding another murder to his tally. So these conversations, along
35:27
Speaker 1: with the statements Dylan Adams himself made to investigators, became
35:30
Speaker 1: key parts in the prosecutor's case. So Holly's abduction wasn't
35:34
Speaker 1: the work of a loan predator as many assumed, but
35:37
Speaker 1: rather a group of local young men who decided to
35:40
Speaker 1: commit an unthinkable act that morning. The early suspects that
35:43
Speaker 1: had been completely dismissed very early on in the case,
35:47
Speaker 1: and luckily, by the end of the trial, Zach Adams
35:49
Speaker 1: was found guilty on all counts which was kidnapping, grape,
35:54
Speaker 1: and murder, and the judge would sentence him to life
35:56
Speaker 1: in prison plus two consecutive terms of twenty five years,
36:00
Speaker 1: So he's gonna fucking rot. Good riddance, and as Zach
36:03
Speaker 1: was led away, he reportedly showed no remorse, while Holly's
36:06
Speaker 1: family wept in relief that justice was finally served. And
36:09
Speaker 1: John Dylan Adams entered an all FOURD plea in twenty
36:13
Speaker 1: eighteen and he would be sentenced to fifteen to thirty
36:15
Speaker 1: five years in prison, running consecutively for thirty five years
36:18
Speaker 1: without parole, and Jason Autrey got a lighter sentence due
36:21
Speaker 1: to his cooperation with authorities. However, in a bizarre turn
36:25
Speaker 1: after conviction, Autry actually began recanting parts of his testimony,
36:29
Speaker 1: claiming that he just lied under pressure. And this was
36:31
Speaker 1: a claim that emerged years later and was viewed very skeptically.
36:35
Speaker 1: But as of now, the perpetrators still remained behind bars,
36:38
Speaker 1: and the Bobo family, though deeply scarred by all of
36:41
Speaker 1: these events and by losing a dear dear family member,
36:45
Speaker 1: worked to keep Holly's memory alive. A portion of Highway
36:48
Speaker 1: six point forty one was renamed Holly Bobo Memorial Highway cool.
36:56
Speaker 1: In the fall of nineteen eighty six, in the town
36:59
Speaker 1: of Townsend, Massachusetts, a family began noticing odd occurrences in
37:04
Speaker 1: their home, and this family was the Bowen family, and
37:06
Speaker 1: his family consisted of a father and his two teenage
37:09
Speaker 1: daughters who lived in a cozy house that, by all
37:12
Speaker 1: appearances was perfectly ordinary. But as Halloween passed and winter
37:16
Speaker 1: set in, sixteen year old Tina and nine year old
37:19
Speaker 1: Karen Bowen insisted to their father, Frank, that something else
37:24
Speaker 1: was in the house with them, because on numerous occasions,
37:27
Speaker 1: objects would disappear and reappear in different places, and the
37:31
Speaker 1: TV would seemingly switch channels on its own or turn
37:34
Speaker 1: off and on, and at night they would hear really
37:37
Speaker 1: strange noises, and at times Frank would blame the girls
37:40
Speaker 1: for these weird occurrences, but they would deny it, but
37:44
Speaker 1: Frank would overall just dismiss it as overactive imaginations and
37:47
Speaker 1: he would say, you girls need to stop watching scary
37:50
Speaker 1: movies before a bit. But the servances only escalated, and
37:53
Speaker 1: one evening the family would even come home to find
37:56
Speaker 1: that someone had used their bathroom. It seemed Bill would
38:00
Speaker 1: creep through their spines, and Frank would begin to search
38:03
Speaker 1: the house for any sort of answer, wondering if there
38:06
Speaker 1: actually might be more to his daughter's claims. And that's
38:10
Speaker 1: when he would find it, and it was even more
38:13
Speaker 1: shocking and horrifying than he could ever imagine. But first,
38:17
Speaker 1: let's fast forward several months, because less than a mile
38:20
Speaker 1: away from the Bowens lived the Gustafsons, Priscilla and Andrew
38:25
Speaker 1: and their two young children, seven year old Abigail and
38:28
Speaker 1: five year old William. And Priscilla was thirty three and
38:31
Speaker 1: she was a church nursery school teacher and was actually
38:34
Speaker 1: pregnant with their third child, and her husband, Andrew, was
38:37
Speaker 1: a lawyer. And they were a very beloved, very wholesome
38:40
Speaker 1: family who had moved to Townsend five years earlier to
38:43
Speaker 1: build a life in this peaceful community. And their colonial
38:46
Speaker 1: home sat on a wooded lot at the end of
38:49
Speaker 1: a quiet street, and by late nineteen eighty seven, with
38:52
Speaker 1: Christmas just on the horizon, the Gustafsons were excitedly preparing
38:56
Speaker 1: for the new baby's arrival. It was just the kind
38:58
Speaker 1: of family and kind of home that just exuded warmth,
39:02
Speaker 1: but the Townshend's tranquility was about to be shattered because
39:06
Speaker 1: they began to notice certain items disappearing and reappearing in
39:11
Speaker 1: different places, including things like cordless phones and cable boxes,
39:15
Speaker 1: and some of these items were just never seen again,
39:18
Speaker 1: so the Gustafsons would report the item stolen, but their
39:21
Speaker 1: lives would just go on, and they would also notice
39:24
Speaker 1: weird happenings in the house here and there, noises and
39:28
Speaker 1: just an overall odd feeling in the home, but they
39:31
Speaker 1: were none the wiser as to the horrifying event that
39:34
Speaker 1: would soon unravel because on December one, nineteen eighty seven,
39:38
Speaker 1: a cold Tuesday afternoon, Townshend police would receive a frantic call.
39:42
Speaker 1: Andrew Gustafson, the father, had arrived at home from work
39:45
Speaker 1: at around five point thirty pm to a scene of
39:48
Speaker 1: utter devastation. All day, he had tried reaching his wife,
39:51
Speaker 1: Priscilla by phone, but she hadn't answered, which was highly,
39:54
Speaker 1: highly unusual, so he'd quickly drive home, not knowing what
39:57
Speaker 1: was going on with Priscilla, step inside his house and
40:01
Speaker 1: his whole world would collapse because in the master bedroom
40:04
Speaker 1: he found Priscilla's lifeless body on the bed, bound with
40:07
Speaker 1: a rope and gagged with a pillow over her head
40:09
Speaker 1: soaked with blood. She had been shot twice in the
40:12
Speaker 1: head at close range, and there were also signs of
40:15
Speaker 1: vicious sa as well. And Andy was so petrified by
40:19
Speaker 1: what he saw that he couldn't bear to search for
40:21
Speaker 1: the children. He would go on to say, I was
40:24
Speaker 1: too afraid of going to look for my children because
40:26
Speaker 1: I was afraid I'd find them dead. It was so
40:29
Speaker 1: shocking and unbelievable. I screamed, I wailed. So he would
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Speaker 1: just stumble out of the house and call the police.
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Speaker 1: At this point he was just numb with dread, so
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Speaker 1: when officers arrived and swept the house, his fears were confirmed,
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Speaker 1: and in separate bedrooms they discovered the small bodies of
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Speaker 1: Abigail and William, and each child had been drowned in
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Speaker 1: a bathtub, but the water had been drained, leaving only
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Speaker 1: the tragic evidence of what had occurred. And Abigail had
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Speaker 1: also suffered blunt force trauma to her head, indicating that
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Speaker 1: she had tried to fight back against her attacker, and
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Speaker 1: a veteran in Townshend police sergeant who found the children
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Speaker 1: later said quietly that it looked as though Abby had
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Speaker 1: fought to stay alive until the end, which is just
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Speaker 1: like so heartbreaking. So a family of four plus the
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Speaker 1: unborn baby had been destroyed in one afternoon, and the
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Speaker 1: town of Townshend was in shock because nothing like this
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Speaker 1: had ever happened. There, a loving young mother and her
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Speaker 1: kids slain in their own home. It is just insane.
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Speaker 1: So who could have done this? Before we get there,
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Speaker 1: let's go back to the Bowen house because who they
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Speaker 1: saw would be the same person that destroyed the Gustavuson family.
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Speaker 1: So back at the Bowen House. The situation reached a
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Speaker 1: terrifying climax in December of nineteen eighty six as we
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Speaker 1: were discussing because that night, someone emerged from a hiding
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Speaker 1: spot in the walls while Frank and the girls searched
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Speaker 1: their home because with his face painted, wearing a wig
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Speaker 1: and a hairy coat to appear monstrous, the young man
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Speaker 1: confronted the family with a hatchet and a wrench in hand.
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Speaker 1: And this man was Daniel la Plant and he was
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Speaker 1: the reason they were hearing things in the walls and
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Speaker 1: in the attic, and things were going missing, and things
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Speaker 1: were being moved left and right, and the TV was
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Speaker 1: turning off and on. It was Daniel the entire time,
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Speaker 1: which is so fucking scary. I'd rather my house behind it.
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Speaker 1: But he had been sneaking in and out of the
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Speaker 1: Bowen's house for weeks, just getting bolder each time. So
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Speaker 1: he coraled Frank, Tina, and Karen, and a visiting friend
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Speaker 1: into a bedroom at gunpoint, just a real life horror
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Speaker 1: movie unfolding in their house. And Tina, the older daughter,
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Speaker 1: who chillingly had gone on a date with Daniel Laplant
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Speaker 1: not long before, managed to keep her wits about her,
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Speaker 1: and when Danny was momentarily distracted, Tina bravely leaped out
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Speaker 1: of the second story window and ran for help, and
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Speaker 1: police would arrive minutes later, but Daniel la Plant had vanished,
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Speaker 1: so they would search the house, and they would discover
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Speaker 1: an astonishing sight because behind the cupboard and inside the
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Speaker 1: walls were cramped cross where Daniel had been hiding the
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Speaker 1: entire time. So the Bowens would naturally flee their house,
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Speaker 1: luckily unhurt but traumatized by these events. But two days later,
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Speaker 1: Frank would return home and he would see someone in
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Speaker 1: the window and call police again, and they would quickly
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Speaker 1: arrive and on the wall written hastily officers found threatening
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Speaker 1: messages left by Daniel saying I'm still here, come find me,
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Speaker 1: and one was written in magic marker, and one was
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Speaker 1: with a knife stabbing through the family photo fucking terrifying.
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Speaker 1: And another message warned I'm going to kill you all
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Speaker 1: and another knife was through the family photo. And it
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Speaker 1: turns out his message was true because Daniel was still
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Speaker 1: in the house at this point and police caught him
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Speaker 1: inside the house, they would find him curled up in
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Speaker 1: a narrow space behind a panel, hiding like a human spider.
43:49
Speaker 1: So the officers would haul the bizarre, deranged teenager out
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Speaker 1: and would arrest him, and the townsend people breathed a
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Speaker 1: sigh of relief because the ghost was captured, but the
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Speaker 1: relief was short lived because Daniel la Plant was charged
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Speaker 1: for the Bowen break in and threats, and because he
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Speaker 1: was a miner, he was only held in a juvenile facility.
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Speaker 1: So in October nineteen eighty seven, less than a year later,
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Speaker 1: Daniel's mother took out a mortgage on her house to
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Speaker 1: bail him out, paying ten thousand dollars to spring this
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Speaker 1: fucking monster from custody. What kind of mom are you?
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Speaker 1: What the fuck? So the seventeen year old at this
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Speaker 1: point was released back into the community completely unsupervised, with
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Speaker 1: his criminal trial still pending, and the Bowens had understandably
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Speaker 1: left their home to stay somewhere else, away from where
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Speaker 1: Daniel might find them. But the towns in quiet neighborhood
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Speaker 1: were once again unaware of the danger that lurked, and
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Speaker 1: Daniel Laplant was free and his dark desires had only grown,
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Speaker 1: and this time his decisions were irreversible, and that is
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Speaker 1: when he went to the Gustavusen house. So fast forwarding
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Speaker 1: in time, after the horrible, atrocious crimes that Daniel Laplant
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Speaker 1: had committed in the Gustafson's house, the police were now
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Speaker 1: looking for him again. The police would begin to search
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Speaker 1: for the killer, and resident were terrified that a killer
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Speaker 1: could be on the loose in the woods near their homes.
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Speaker 1: And two days after this horrific event, a break would come.
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Speaker 1: So on December third, a local woman, Lynn McGovern reported
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Speaker 1: seeing something unsettling because she returned to her house on
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Speaker 1: Jewett Street, which was in the same neighborhood as the
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Speaker 1: Gustavusen House, and felt that someone was inside, So she
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Speaker 1: flagged down an officer nearby and together they entered, only
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Speaker 1: for a wide eyed young man to leap out and
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Speaker 1: sprint into the forest, and this young man being Daniel Laplant.
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Speaker 1: So at this point he had been moving house to house,
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Speaker 1: likely to shelter from this man hunt. And then he
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Speaker 1: attempted a carjacking, forcing a woman at gunpoint to drive,
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Speaker 1: but she bravely jumped out of a moving car to
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Speaker 1: escape being metal and then he would flee again on foot,
45:44
Speaker 1: and luckily the chase ended later that evening when officers
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Speaker 1: found him huddled in a dumpster behind a lumber yard
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Speaker 1: in the next town over in Ayer, Massachusetts. So the
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Speaker 1: Plant was finally caught for good. So at Laplant's trial
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight, the full narrative merged and piece
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Speaker 1: by piece like a macabre puzzle, and it turned out
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Speaker 1: that the Plant had stalked the Gustafson's home in much
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Speaker 1: the same way he did the Bowens, lurking, breaking in
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Speaker 1: and stealing small items, possibly even watching the family without
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Speaker 1: their knowledge, and court records and the Plant's own statements
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Speaker 1: revealed his confession of sorts. So on December first, he
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Speaker 1: broke in while Priscilla was out and he was upstairs
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Speaker 1: rubbing when Priscilla returned home with little Billy around one PM,
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Speaker 1: and normally he claimed he would have escaped upon hearing
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Speaker 1: someone come in, but this time he decided not to
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Speaker 1: run and instead he would confront Priscilla with a gun.
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Speaker 1: Then he would tie Priscilla to the bed and cruelly
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Speaker 1: lock her toddler son in the closet so the boy
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Speaker 1: wouldn't interfere, and then he proceeded to sa Priscilla and
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Speaker 1: after the assault, he would end her life by shooting
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Speaker 1: her twice in the head. And hearing the commotion, little
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Speaker 1: William likely cried out from the closet and the plant,
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Speaker 1: now done with Priscilla, turned his attention to the children,
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Speaker 1: so he would lead William to the upstairs bathroom and
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Speaker 1: drowned the helpless fib in the tub. And as the
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Speaker 1: plant was getting ready to leave, seven year old Abigail
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Speaker 1: came home from school and she walked on the door,
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Speaker 1: expecting to see her mom, but instead she found a
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Speaker 1: nightmare and this brave second grader scratched and kicked and punched,
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Speaker 1: but the seventeen year old would overpower her and he
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Speaker 1: would inflict a head injury to subdue her. And then
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Speaker 1: drown her in the bathtub downstairs, and in the span
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Speaker 1: of about twenty minutes he had annihilated the Gustavson family completely.
47:28
Speaker 1: So the trial was swift and Daniel Plant was convicted
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Speaker 1: of three counts of first degree murder and the judge
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Speaker 1: imposed three consecutive life sentences, which is a symbolic stacking
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Speaker 1: to ensure he never tastes freedom again. Thank god in
47:43
Speaker 1: Massachusetts didn't have the death penalty at the time, or
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Speaker 1: surely he would have been a candidate. And the Plant
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Speaker 1: showed zero remorse during the entire trial, And the haunting
47:53
Speaker 1: truth seems to be that Daniel Laplant just derived pleasure
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Speaker 1: from terrorizing others. And after all of this, Andrew Gustavson
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Speaker 1: was completely horrified and was devastated beyond words as to
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Speaker 1: what happened, and at the funeral for Priscilla, Abigail and
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Speaker 1: William Andy sobbed through a eulogy, then largely just withdrew
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Speaker 1: from the public view, and in a rare interview years later,
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Speaker 1: he revealed he kept two wedding rings on his finger,
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Speaker 1: his original from Priscilla and one from a new marriage
48:22
Speaker 1: he eventually entered as a way to honor both passed
48:25
Speaker 1: and then hope for the future. So Andy did remarry
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine to a kind woman named Carol,
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Speaker 1: who helped him rebuild his life, but Carol attested that
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Speaker 1: Andy was still plagued by nightmares of the murder until
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Speaker 1: the day he died of cancer in twenty fourteen. And
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Speaker 1: to this day, daniel Laplant still rots behind bars and
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Speaker 1: I hope it stays that way. And with that, I'm
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Speaker 1: ending the video. My heart just breaks for these families
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Speaker 1: and it's terrifying to think that this could happen to anyone.
48:55
Speaker 1: But I just want to tell you to be safe
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Speaker 1: out there and be respectful and know that I care
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Speaker 1: about you and I love you and I do appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: And if you would like me to cover any other cases,
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Speaker 1: let me know below. I always read the comments and
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Speaker 1: until then I will see your beautiful face. Stay safe, okay. Bye,