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They made a gruesome discovery in a Target parking lot - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In June of two thousand and five, a customer at
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  Speaker 1: a gas station in Darry, New Hampshire carried a prepaid
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  Speaker 1: cell phone to the counter. They paid for it in cash,
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  Speaker 1: and then afterwards they went out to their car and
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  Speaker 1: cut open the packaging. Then, once they had the phone,
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  Speaker 1: they dialed a number to activate it. But when the
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  Speaker 1: customer service rep asked for their name, the customer hesitated
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  Speaker 1: because the whole reason they'd bought this prepaid phone in
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  Speaker 1: the first place was specifically so nobody could trace the
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  Speaker 1: calls back to their real identity. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: On an afternoon in June of two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: a fifty seven year old truck driver named Jack Reid
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  Speaker 1: took a sip of his margarita at a barbecue in
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  Speaker 1: a park in Derry, New Hampshire. Now, he usually didn't drink,
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  Speaker 1: but today he was celebrating. It was his daughter, Meghan's
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  Speaker 1: high school graduation party, and this was a big deal
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  Speaker 1: for Jack. He'd grown up in the foster care system
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  Speaker 1: with nothing, and he'd worked really hard to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: his kids were set up for a better life.
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  Speaker 2: Than he had.
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  Speaker 1: So he was just really proud of Meghan for making
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  Speaker 1: the right choices and finishing school. Now he looked over
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  Speaker 1: and he saw Megan sitting at a picnic table with
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  Speaker 1: her brother, Jack Junior, and also their mother of Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he and Virginia were not together anymore, they
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  Speaker 1: were still on good terms and he was glad the
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  Speaker 1: whole family could be there for the special occad But
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  Speaker 1: then Jack tensed up as he spotted somebody else who
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  Speaker 1: was walking across the grass toward them, Megan's boyfriend, Walter. So,
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  Speaker 1: Megan and Walter had moved in together recently, and Jack
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  Speaker 1: was definitely not thrilled about it.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have anything against.
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  Speaker 1: Walter in particular, but his daughter was just eighteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: and he thought that she was definitely too young to
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  Speaker 1: be living with a boyfriend. But Jack didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: pick a fight about it on a day like this,
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  Speaker 1: so instead he actually got up and walked over to
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  Speaker 1: Walter and gave him a big, friendly hug and said
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  Speaker 1: he was glad to see him. Then they both sat
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  Speaker 1: down at the table and joined the family's conversation, and
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  Speaker 1: as Jack took another sip of his margarita, he actually
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  Speaker 1: felt himself relax.
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  Speaker 2: That evening.
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  Speaker 1: After the party was over, Jack drove his car home
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  Speaker 1: and stopped at a gas station along the way.
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  Speaker 2: He parked at the pump. He went inside and then.
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  Speaker 1: Passed the cashier a few bills for a tank of guests,
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  Speaker 1: and also.
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  Speaker 2: A lottery ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Jack was a regular lottery player, and even though he'd
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  Speaker 1: never won anything particularly big, he was always home that
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  Speaker 1: one day he would hit the jackpot and strike it rich.
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  Speaker 1: So he put the ticket in his pocket and then
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  Speaker 1: went back outside and filled up his car. Then he
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  Speaker 1: got in his car and he drove a few more
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  Speaker 1: blocks to his home, which was a trailer parked behind
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  Speaker 1: a warehouse on the edge of town. And one big
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  Speaker 1: reason Jack chose to live here was because there was
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  Speaker 1: plenty of room to park all of his work vehicles,
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  Speaker 1: including a large red and black dump truck. After years
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  Speaker 1: of working as a truck driver, Jack had built his
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  Speaker 1: own trucking business from the ground up. He did garbage
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  Speaker 1: removal and moving and other odd jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And he was making a decent living.
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  Speaker 1: But he still lived frugally in his rented trailer so
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  Speaker 1: he could save up for retirement. His goal was to
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  Speaker 1: save enough so that in a couple of years, once
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  Speaker 1: Jack Junior was done with school, he could leave the
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  Speaker 1: cold New Hampshire winters behind and moved to sunny, beautiful
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. He'd gotten the idea a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: ago when he'd done a moving job for a local
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  Speaker 1: self made millionaire who was moving from New Hampshire to Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: He saw the millionaire as.
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  Speaker 1: A huge success story, and he believed that if he
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  Speaker 1: worked hard, or maybe got lucky enough, he could follow
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  Speaker 1: in this same path.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Jack got out.
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  Speaker 1: Of his car and he walked over to his trailer.
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  Speaker 1: He opened up the door and he went inside. He
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  Speaker 1: turned on the lights, and he was just about to
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  Speaker 1: sit down to take off his shoes when he heard
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  Speaker 1: a noise outside. Immediately, he went to the window and
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  Speaker 1: pulled back the curtains and he looked outside into the
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  Speaker 1: woods behind the property, but he didn't see anything. Still,
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  Speaker 1: he felt his heart racing and he actually had to
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  Speaker 1: take a few deep breaths to calm himself down. So
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  Speaker 1: almost two years ago, there had been an incident where
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  Speaker 1: Jack heard someone creeping around outside his trailer. He'd grabbed
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  Speaker 1: his gun and went out to confront them, and he'd
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  Speaker 1: seen a man standing at the edge of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: The man had stared right at him and actually called
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  Speaker 2: out his name.
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  Speaker 1: Jack had actually fired his gun at this man, who
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  Speaker 1: then ran away into the woods and never came back.
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  Speaker 1: But Jack had never figured out what the encounter was about.
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  Speaker 1: As far as he knew, he didn't have any enemies,
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  Speaker 1: so it really just didn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: But again, since this.
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  Speaker 1: Strange guy was never caught, Jack was still very on
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  Speaker 1: edge whenever he heard strange noises outside and around his trailer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as he looked out the window and he felt sure
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  Speaker 1: that there was nobody there, Jack closed the curtains and
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  Speaker 1: took the lottery.
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  Speaker 2: Ticket out of his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: He sat down to the table and he started scratching
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  Speaker 1: off the silver foil with a coin, and he was
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  Speaker 1: not a winner this time, but it didn't dampen his mood.
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  Speaker 1: Next time, he knew might be his lucky break. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks later, on the morning of Monday, June
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Jack climbed up into his dump truck and
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  Speaker 1: rolled down the windows. It was already pretty hot outside
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  Speaker 1: and he was on his way to the only job
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  Speaker 1: he had lined up for that day, a trash disposal
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  Speaker 1: gig that would likely only take a few hours. So
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  Speaker 1: he started the truck and as he pulled out onto
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  Speaker 1: the road, his cell phone rang. He answered it, and
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  Speaker 1: a man spoke and said his name was Charlie and
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  Speaker 1: that he had heard Jack did some work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hauling stuff away, and that you know, he had this
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  Speaker 1: new barn that really needed to be cleaned out and
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  Speaker 1: could Jack do it. Jack said sure, he could actually
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  Speaker 1: do that afternoon, and then he grabbed his log book
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  Speaker 1: off the passenger seat, and he flipped to a blank
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  Speaker 1: page and he scribbled down Charlie's name and address, which
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  Speaker 1: was in Deerfield, almost thirty miles away.
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  Speaker 2: Jack told Charlie he would.
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  Speaker 1: Let him know as soon as he was on the way,
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  Speaker 1: and then the two men hung up. Around three pm
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon, Jack drove down a very secluded two lane
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  Speaker 1: road in Deerfield. It was sweltering outside and he was
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  Speaker 1: already exhausted and dripping with sweat from his trash disposal
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  Speaker 1: gig that morning. He had no idea what to expect
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  Speaker 1: going into this barn cleaning job with the sky Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: but he was hoping it wouldn't take too long. Jack
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  Speaker 1: slowed down as the trees to his right parted and
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  Speaker 1: a gravel driveway appeared. He turned onto the driveway and
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds later he pulled up right outside of
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  Speaker 1: a white two story house with a big barn out back.
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  Speaker 1: Jack parked his dump truck and walked right up to
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  Speaker 1: the front door. He ran the doorbell, and a moment
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  Speaker 1: later the door opened. Two days later, on the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: of June twenty ninth, Jack's daughter, Meghan and her boyfriend Walter,
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  Speaker 1: walked up to the front door of Jack's trailer. Megan
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  Speaker 1: noticed that Jack's dump truck was not parked outside, which
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  Speaker 1: seemed wrong, and so she immediately felt this not in
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  Speaker 1: her stomach. About an hour earlier, Megan had gotten a
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  Speaker 1: call from her mother, Virginia, saying that Jack had not
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  Speaker 1: shown up to a job that morning and he was
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  Speaker 1: not answering his phone. This was unlike him, so Megan
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  Speaker 1: had said that she and Walter would just go over
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  Speaker 1: to his trailer and make sure he was okay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: initially Megan had assumed her dad had just overslept or
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  Speaker 1: maybe forgot about the job, but now it looked like
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  Speaker 1: he'd actually left for work because the dump truck wasn't there,
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  Speaker 1: but never actually made it to the job.
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  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, Meghan knocked on.
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  Speaker 1: The trailer door just to be sure her dad really
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  Speaker 1: wasn't home, and there was no answer. And so at
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  Speaker 1: this point Megan called her mom to tell her what
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  Speaker 1: she had seen and know the fact that her dad
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  Speaker 1: wasn't here, and she also told her mom that she
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  Speaker 1: was starting to feel pretty worried. And then a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, Virginia pulled up in her car. Meghan, Walter,
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  Speaker 1: and Virginia all just stayed there right at the trailer
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  Speaker 1: all afternoon, hoping that maybe Jack would just show up
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  Speaker 1: at some point, And.
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  Speaker 2: The whole time they're calling him over and over.
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  Speaker 1: Again, but it just kept going straight to voicemail, and
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  Speaker 1: then finally, around six thirty pm, when still they had
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  Speaker 1: not seen or heard from Jack, they decided it was
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  Speaker 1: time to call the police. On Tuesday, July fifth, so
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  Speaker 1: six days after Jack was reported missing by his family,
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  Speaker 1: Dairy Police detective Mike Cool pulled into the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: of a Target store about an hour's drive south in Saugut's, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: Hule slowed down and began to sort of slow roll
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  Speaker 1: through the rows of cars, keeping an eye out for
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  Speaker 1: one particular vehicle. Hule was in charge of Jack's missing
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  Speaker 1: person's case, which had not really been going anywhere so far.
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  Speaker 2: According to his family.
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  Speaker 1: The last time anybody had seen or heard from Jack
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  Speaker 1: was actually on June twenty seventh, so two days before
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  Speaker 1: he was reported missing to the police, but his family
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  Speaker 1: could not think of anywhere Jack might have gone or
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  Speaker 1: anybody who might want.
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  Speaker 2: To hurt him.
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  Speaker 1: So initially, Hule had figured that Jack must have just
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  Speaker 1: driven off for some time alone and that he would
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  Speaker 1: just come.
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  Speaker 2: Home sooner or later.
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  Speaker 1: But that morning he'd gotten another call from Jack's daughter Megan.
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  Speaker 1: She said the family had put up all these missing
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  Speaker 1: posters around town for Jack, and somebody had called her
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  Speaker 1: and said they actually saw Jack's dump truck at this
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  Speaker 1: particular target in Saugu's, more than forty miles away from Derry. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this tip was unique enough that Hule decided he would
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  Speaker 1: just drive out and take a look for himself. And now,
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  Speaker 1: as he slowly made his way towards the back of
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  Speaker 1: this parking lot, he saw it a red and black
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  Speaker 1: dump truck parked near the back corner. So Hule stopped
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  Speaker 1: his car and he walked over to look at this truck,
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  Speaker 1: and right away he saw the license plate confirmed this
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  Speaker 1: truck was definitely Jack's. When Hule peeked in the driver's
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  Speaker 1: side window, though he didn't see anybody inside, but there
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  Speaker 1: were flies buzzing around the back of the truck, basically
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  Speaker 1: the open section of the dump truck. There was something
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  Speaker 1: in there the flies were attracted to, and there was
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  Speaker 1: also very clearly a rotten, awful smell wafting out of
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  Speaker 1: the back of this truck. And so Hull put on
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  Speaker 1: some gloves and he climbed up the side of the
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  Speaker 1: dump truck.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the actual bed of the dump truck.
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  Speaker 1: Was covered by a tarp, and so Hull grabbed the
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  Speaker 1: tarp and he pulled it back, but he still did
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  Speaker 1: not have an unobstructed view because whatever was in the
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  Speaker 1: bed was also wrapped in plastic, and quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: of it, so he pulled out a knife and began
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  Speaker 1: cutting through the plastic. Less than an hour later, Detective
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  Speaker 1: Hoole stood by as workers from the Medical Examiner's office
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  Speaker 1: loaded Jack's body into their van, and he was still
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up in plastic. Hull really wanted to get a
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  Speaker 1: look at Jack's body to figure out how he died,
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  Speaker 1: but that would require cutting through all the plastic that
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  Speaker 1: he was wrapped in, and Hule knew he needed to
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  Speaker 1: leave all that intact for evidentiary purposes, so he just
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  Speaker 1: have to wait until the autopsy to find out the
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  Speaker 1: cause of death. Here, but from the way Jack's body
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  Speaker 1: had been disposed of, hidden in a parking lot forty
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  Speaker 1: miles from his house, hule was already guessing that this
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  Speaker 1: was one a murder, and two it was carefully planned,
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  Speaker 1: probably by somebody.
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  Speaker 2: That Jack knew.
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  Speaker 1: Poole had already found out from the family that Jack
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  Speaker 1: had five children with two different women, and so he
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  Speaker 1: figured there could be some hidden tensions between any of them.
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  Speaker 1: But he also thought the murder could be tied to
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  Speaker 1: Jack's business. Now, as far as Jack's family knew, everything
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  Speaker 1: Jack did with his business was above board, but it's
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  Speaker 1: entirely possible that he might have gotten involved with sketchy
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  Speaker 1: people or maybe done something that made a client angry
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  Speaker 1: that the family didn't know about. Also, I mean, leaving
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  Speaker 1: Jack's dead body in the back of his own dump
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  Speaker 1: truck definitely seemed like a way to send a message.
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  Speaker 2: So once the forensics.
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  Speaker 1: Team had taken photos and swabbed the truck for DNA
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  Speaker 1: and fingerprints, Poole pulled on a pair of latex gloves
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  Speaker 1: and opened up the driver's side door. There was no
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  Speaker 1: blood inside the cabin of the truck, no sign of
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  Speaker 1: a weapon, and really nothing that struck him as.
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  Speaker 2: Unusual or helpful.
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  Speaker 1: That is until he saw the log book that was
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  Speaker 1: tucked into a pocket on the passenger side door. He
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  Speaker 1: reached for it, pulled it out, and began to flip
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  Speaker 1: through it, and he saw there was a list of
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  Speaker 1: all of Jack's appointments, along with the name, addresses, and
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  Speaker 1: phone numbers of the clients who had hired him. The
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  Speaker 1: last job that was recorded in this book was on
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  Speaker 1: the morning of June twenty seventh back in Derry where
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  Speaker 1: Jack lived. Now, there were no other jobs noted down
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  Speaker 1: for that day, but a couple of pages later, on
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  Speaker 1: an otherwise blank page, Hule found an entry that Jack
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  Speaker 1: seemed to have scribbled down in a rush. It was
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  Speaker 1: just an address one forty five North Road, no town listed,
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  Speaker 1: and the name was just Charlie for the client whole
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  Speaker 1: placed the log book inside of an evidence bag and
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  Speaker 1: he sealed it. And then as he sort of looked
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  Speaker 1: around the area, he noticed all the security cameras on
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  Speaker 1: light posts all over the parking lot, and there happened
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  Speaker 1: to be one that was pointing directly at Jack's truck.
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  Speaker 2: The next day.
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  Speaker 1: So Wednesday, July sixth, Whole was back at the precinct
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  Speaker 1: and derry, reading over an autopsy report that had just
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  Speaker 1: been sent over from the Massachusetts Medical Examiner. The description
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  Speaker 1: in the report said that Jack had been severely beaten.
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  Speaker 2: He had broken.
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  Speaker 1: Ribs, skull fractures, and a softball sized hole in the
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  Speaker 1: side of his head.
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  Speaker 2: His face had been so mangled that it.
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  Speaker 1: Actually had to pull Jack's dental records to confirm that
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  Speaker 1: it was actually him. Hull thought this level of violence
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  Speaker 1: definitely made this murder feel really personal. And it only
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  Speaker 1: made it more confident that Jack's killer or killers was
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  Speaker 1: somebody who knew him. Just then, Hule heard a knock
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  Speaker 1: at his door and he looked up as an officer
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  Speaker 1: peeked his head into Hule's office and asked him to
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  Speaker 1: come take a look at something. So Hule stood up
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  Speaker 1: from his desk and he followed the officer down the
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  Speaker 1: hallway to another room where a team of investigators were
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  Speaker 1: pouring over that security footage from the target parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Hull watched over their shoulders as the investigators pulled up
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  Speaker 1: a specific clip and he could see from the timestamp
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the screen that this footage was
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  Speaker 1: from around five thirty pm on June twenty seventh, which
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  Speaker 1: was the day of the last job written in Jack's
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  Speaker 1: log book. Once it was up on the screen, wol
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  Speaker 1: nodded for the investigators to press play, and then he
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  Speaker 1: watched as the footage played on screen, and it showed
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  Speaker 1: Jack's dump truck pulling into the parking lot, followed closely
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  Speaker 1: by a white minivan. After Jack's truck parked, two people
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  Speaker 1: got out of the truck, and unfortunately it was impossible
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  Speaker 1: to identify really anything about these people.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't tell if they were men or women, or
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  Speaker 2: man and woman. It was just totally unclear.
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  Speaker 1: However, there was one thing that was definitely true about
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  Speaker 1: these people, and it was what they were actually doing.
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  Speaker 2: They were clearly dumping Jack's body.
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  Speaker 1: One of them went around to the back of the
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  Speaker 1: dump truck and checked to make sure that tarp was secure,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: and then they both walked over to the white minivan,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: got in and drove away. And so Houle's mind was
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: racing now because it looked like there were at least
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: three people involved in Jack's murder. There were the two
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: people that were just out and about sort of dealing
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: with the truck, and then whoever was driving the white minivan.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: But another their unfortunate reality was this footage was so
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: fuzzy that they couldn't even pull the license plate for
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: that minivan, and Hull was naturally pretty frustrated by that.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: But then the investigator said, there was actually one more
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: thing you wanted to show him, and he pulled up
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: another portion of security video. This one was from the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: evening of July fourth, which was seven days after Jack's
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: dump truck was left abandoned in the parking lot. And
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: one day before police I. E. Hoole found the truck
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: parked in that lot. The investigator told Hoole that this
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: footage he was about to see was from a different
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: security camera, which was positioned on the other side of
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the parking lot from where the dump truck was parked.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: And then when he hit play, he directed Fule's attention
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: to one particular car pulling into the parking lot. Now,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the angle on this car was much closer, so there
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: was a lot more detail visible than in the first video,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And as Hull watched, he saw what clearly was a
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: young woman get out of the passenger seat and walked
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: toward the store who leaned in close and squinted, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: he realized he knew this woman because it was Jack's
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: own daughter, Meghan. Later that day, Wul walked into an
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: interrogation room in the Dairy police station where Meghan was
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: waiting for him. When Hull walked in, he made a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: point to shake her hand and smile, you know, acting
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: as friendly and sympathetic as possible. He did not want
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: to let on that he was looking at her as
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: a suspect, so he didn't mention that they had video
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: of her in the same parking lot where Jack's body
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: was found just a day before they found it. But
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: as they started talking, Meghan actually brought it up herself
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: that she happened to have been in the exact same
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: lot that her father was ultimately found in. She said
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: she had been shocked when she found out one that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: her father was dead, of course, but also that he
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: was dumped in that target lot.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: She had been there recently. She said.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Her boyfriend Walter's sister lived in Saugus, and they had
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: visited her for the fourth of July in an attempt
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to get their mind off their father's disappearance because at
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the time, you know, he had not been fed. Meghan
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: said they had unexpectedly decided to spend the night there,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: so they had driven to the nearest target to get
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a contact case.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: And when she.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Said that, she just shook her head and said she
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: couldn't believe her dad had basically been right there, she
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: was so close to him. Hull had to admit this
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: story did not sound totally crazy.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: After all.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: In the security video, Meghan didn't go anywhere near the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: actual part of the lot where Jack's truck was parked. Still,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: he had a hard time believing that this was just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: one big coincidence, especially because when he was reviewing what
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Megan had told the police when she had first reported
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: her father missing, he realized that she had said she
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: last saw her dad on the night of Monday, June
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, when she and her boyfriend Walter had gone
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to his place to pick up an air conditioner. But
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: now Houle knew that was impossible because the security video
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: showed that Jack was already dead in the parking lot
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: on the night of June twenty seventh. So during this
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: interview with Meghan, Whole asked Megan again, when that's the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: last time you saw your father, and once again, without
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: missing a beat, she said it was the night of.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: June twenty seventh.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Who'll asked her if she was positive about the date,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and she said yes, absolutely so without tipping his hand
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that he felt like for sure Meghan was lying here.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Who'll let her go and immediately called in her boyfriend, Walter,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: who had been waiting in the hallway. According to Meghan,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Walter was the one who actually drove her to that
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: target in Saugus. Hull wanted to question the couple separately
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: so we could see if there were any contradictions in
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: their stories, but when he spoke to Walter, Walter repeated
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the exact same things Meghan had said about why they
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: were in the area and why they went to that
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: target to get a contact case. Walter also included the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: detail about the last time they saw Jack being the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: night of the twenty seventh, So basically Walter and Meghan's
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: stories are the same. But to whul the only thing
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: he thought when he heard this consistency is that clearly
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: what's happened here is Meghan and Walter have rehearsed this
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: story because it is their alibi. They don't realize there
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: was timestamped security footage that would contradict it. The following afternoon,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Hule sat at his desk combing through a copy of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Jack's phone records. He'd sent officers out that morning to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: interview all of Meghan's family and friends to see if
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: they knew anything that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Could really help them pin the blame on Meghan.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And they quickly learned that Megan and Walter had moved
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in together recently and.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Jack did not approve.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So who'll began to wonder, you know, maybe the young
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: couple might have killed Jack so he would stay out
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of their way. Now, Meghan at some point here found
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: out from her friends who were being spoken to that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: clearly Meghan was being investigated, and Meghan had already called
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Hul to revise her testimony. She was now claiming that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: actually the last time she saw her dad was on
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the night of the twenty sixth, not the twenty seventh,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: but holden by that she and Walter had both made
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the same mistake about the date. They both seemed really
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: confident when they said twenty seventh, and so Hule was
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: hoping that if he could just retrace Jack's steps on
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the day of his death, he'd find some proof that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Megan and Walter were somehow involved.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Hule had already called.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Around to check on the last scheduled job in Jack's logbook,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: which was on the morning of June twenty seventh, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that client had confirmed that Jack was definitely there, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: security footage from the local dump had shown Jack dropping
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: off the trash afterwards around two pm.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: But that left about a three hour gap.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of June twenty seventh where Jack's whereabouts
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: were unaccounted for, and really Jack had to have been
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: killed sometime in that window.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: So now Hule hoped.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: That Jack's phone records might help him figure out where
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Jack went after leaving the dump that afternoon. Hule had
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: been able to match most of the phone numbers that
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Jack dialed or received calls from to contacts in Jack's logbook,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: except for one. On the morning of June twenty seventh,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he had gotten a call from a number that wasn't
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: anywhere in his contacts list, And at two oh seven
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that afternoon, while Jack was finishing up at the dump,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and just a few hours before his dead body was
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: left in a target parking lot, he'd gotten a second
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: call from that same number, And so now Hoole called
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that number, but it went straight to boy smail. So
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: we called the cell provider and asked them to look
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: up who this number belonged to, and he found out
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it was registered to a man named Charlie was And
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: suddenly something clicked in Whole's mind, and so he reached
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: over and he grabbed Jack's log book, and he flipped
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to the page where Jack had scribbled down that address
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: one forty five North Road and also the name Charlie.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: This Charlie may be the same Charlie who.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Called from that unknown number, and also this Charlie may
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: have been the last person to see Jack alive, or
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: maybe Charlie.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Was the one who killed him.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: The cell provider employee also told Houle that that number
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: came from a prepaid phone, the kind you can buy
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: at a convenience store and load minutes onto without signing
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: up for a long term contract, and that it had
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: been activated on June nineteenth, just eight days before Jack's murder.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Who'll asked the worker to send over a full copy
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of the prepaid phone calls records, and then they hung up.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Then who logged onto the police database and looked up
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the name Charlie Was, But he didn't find anything, no
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: criminal records or driver's licenses or car registrations, and so
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Hule had a feeling that this had to be a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: fake name, that there was no Charlie Was. And what
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: seemed to confirm that even further was when he looked
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: up that address, the one forty five North Road that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was in the book next to the word Charlie. There
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: was no Charlie affiliated with that property at all. The
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: owner of one forty five North Road was somebody called
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Michael Conners, but that name didn't mean anything to Whole,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and it certainly wasn't Charlie. So Whole stood up from
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: his desk and he grabbed his car keys. It was
• 23:46
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• 23:49
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  Speaker 1: Hour later, Detective Hoole pulled onto a gravel driveway at
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: one forty five North Road, the address of the secluded
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: farm scribbled in Jack Reid's logbook. He parked his car
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and he walked up to the big white house and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: he rang the doorbell, and the middle aged man who
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: answered the door seemed very calm and composed until Hule
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: showed him his badge. Then the man started acting really jumpy.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: As they stood in the doorway. Who will ask the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: man if he was Michael Connors, and the man nodded
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and said yes. Who'll asked if he knew a man
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: named Jack Red, and Michael quickly said no. And when
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: who'll asked why his address was in Jack Reid's log book.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Michael stammered out that he didn't know.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: It seemed fairly obvious to Whole already that Michael clearly
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: knew more than he was admitting to, and so he
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: asked Michael where he'd been on the afternoon of June
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, and Michael, very nervously and very quickly said
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that he had spent all day doing repair work at
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a friend's lake house thirty miles away, and he didn't
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: get home until late that night. And then he gave
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Whol the names of a few other contractors who were
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: also working on these.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Repairs who could verify as Alibi so.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Hule without giving off how suspicious he felt of this guy,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: wrote down the contractor's names and contact information, and then,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: as commas could be, he asked Michael if he could
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: take a look around.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Both inside his house and outside.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Michael, who looked pretty resigned at this point, nodded and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: said yes, and then he stepped aside, and so Houle
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: walked into the house and began walking from room to room,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: but he didn't see any blood or anything really obviously suspicious.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: But then he went outside, and he found this muddy
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: path that led over to the bar, which was only
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a short distance from the main house.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And when he reached the.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Barn, he opened up the heavy wooden door and sunlight
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: flooded in. Hule stepped inside, and right away he was
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: struck by how neat it was in here.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: He began looking.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Behind the hay bales, and he shined his flashlights in
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the corners, and he bent down to examine the dirt
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and the straw on the ground. But it was like
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the barn was spotless, almost like the barn had recently
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: been cleaned really thoroughly. When Hull was done in the barn,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: he went outside and walked back towards the main house,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and as he did, he saw Michael standing by the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: back door, staring right at him, like he had been
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: really watching him closely as he was over at the barn.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And so Hull walked over to Michael, and very calmly,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: he asked him one last question, did he know anyone
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: named Megan Reid? And Michael said no, But the way
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: he said it was noticeably less anxious, as if for
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: really the first time he was telling the truth. Here.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: After that, as Hull walked back to his car to leave.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: He thought that even though he hadn't found any hard
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: evidence at the farm, Michael's weird behavior seemed to be
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: saying a lot. Later that day, Hule hung up the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: phone in his office, feeling very frustrated. He called every
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: single one of those contractors whom Michael had given him,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and they had all confirmed his alibi. Michael had been
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: doing repairs at his friend's house, you know, thirty miles
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: away at the time of Jack's death, so who figured that.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: You know, Michael couldn't have been directly involved in the murder,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but based on his very suspicious behavior, it seemed like
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: he probably knew something had happened on his property, maybe
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: while he was away, And this gave Whol something to
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: work with, because it could mean that at least one
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of Jack's three or more killers was close enough with
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Michael that Michael was willing to lie to protect them.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: But that was about all he had to work with.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: There was no obvious link between Michael Connors and Jack's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: daughter Meghan and her boyfriend Walter, who were still really
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: his only real suspects, and so he was starting to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: think that maybe he'd been looking in the wrong direction,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and that Megan and Walter her.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe weren't involved.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: After all, it was still only a few days into
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the investigation, and there were plenty of other potential suspects
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to dig into, like Jack's ex partners and his adult
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: children from his first relationship, and all the other clients
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in his logbook.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: But just then Whole's fax machine.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Word to life the cell provider was finally sending over
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the call records from Charlie's prepaid phone. Once it was
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: done printing, Whole ripped the sheet out of the machine
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and began looking over the call log. The phone had
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: only been activated a week before Jack's murder, and it
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: hadn't been used at all since the evening Jack was killed,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and every single call that had been made or received
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: on that phone was to Jack's number except for one.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And when Hull looked into the owner of that one
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: other number, everything about the case began to fall into place.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Based on those phone records, as well as interviews with
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the various suss This is what police belief happened to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Jack read on June twenty seventh, two thousand and five.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: That afternoon, while Jack's dump truck was pulling into the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: gravel driveway at one forty five North Road. Two of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Jack's killers were inside of that house waiting for him.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: One of them was sitting on.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: The couch nervously tapping their feet, and then that killer
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: looked up and saw their accomplice staring right at them,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: looking very annoyed, like, stop tapping.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Your feet, and so they did. Just then the doorbell rang.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: The commer of the two killers walked over to answer it,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: while the more nervous ones stayed on the couch and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the nervous one they listened as the door opened and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: they could hear the sound of their.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Accomplice greeting Jack.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And then a few seconds later, Jack walked into the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: living room, and the nervous killer when they saw Jack,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: they kind of jumped to their feet and tried to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: act natural, but very likely they were acting incredibly nervous.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: But after a sort of awkward conversation between all three
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of them, they left the main house and they walked
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: down that dirt path towards the barn. As they walked,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the killer, who had been very nervous, sort of hung back,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: walking a few steps behind Jack. And then as they
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: got close to the barn, their heart began to pound.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, they'd rehearsed this a dozen times and they
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: knew exactly what they had to do, but actually doing.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: It was going to be the hard bark. Then the
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: doors to the barn.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Opened up, and inside Jack would have seen there were
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: two more people waiting for him. But before Jack could react,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the Nervous Killer leaped forward and tackled Jack to the ground.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And then a second later, the Nervous Killer heard a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: loud thump and looked up to see one of their
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: accomplices standing above them holding a hammer that was now
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: dripping with blood. The nervous Killer climbed to their feet
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and looked down at Jack, who was now lying on
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the floor of the barn with a gaping hole in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the side of his skull. It was so gruesome that
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the nervous Killer had to go outside and vomit. And
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: then when they came back inside the the other three
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: had unrolled this big piece of plastic on the floor
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of the barn and they were placing Jack's body in
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the center of it. Blood was still pouring out of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: his head, pulling into this big red puddle.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: On the plastic. I mean, it was so awful.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Then one of the killers grabbed the bloody hammer and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: said that if they could just stop Jack's heart, it
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  Speaker 1: would stop the bleeding. And so they raised the hammer
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  Speaker 1: and began pounding on Jack's chest, And after that the
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  Speaker 1: bleeding did slow down, and the four killers worked together
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  Speaker 1: to wrap Jack's body in the plastic. Then once he
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  Speaker 1: was all wrapped up, they carried him outside and loaded
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  Speaker 1: his body into the back of his own dump truck.
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  Speaker 1: The killer who had first answered the door, the commer
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  Speaker 1: of the killers, got in the driver's seat of the
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  Speaker 1: dump truck, and the nervous killer, the one who had
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  Speaker 1: been tapping their foot, the one who had initially tackled
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  Speaker 1: Jack to the ground, they climbed into the passenger seat.
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  Speaker 2: The other two, the.
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  Speaker 1: Ones who had been waiting in the barn, climbed into
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  Speaker 1: a minivan, and they followed behind them as they drove
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  Speaker 1: all the way across state lines to Saugus.
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts, more than an hour away.
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  Speaker 1: When they finally got to Saugus, they pulled into the
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  Speaker 1: first major parking lot they came across, a target store.
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  Speaker 1: They parked the dump truck near the back of the lot,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they got out the nervous killer double
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  Speaker 1: checked the tarp to make sure it was secure, and
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  Speaker 1: then they, along with their commer accomplice, walked across the
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  Speaker 1: lot to the white minivan and they climbed inside. After that,
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  Speaker 1: all four killers drove all the way back to New
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  Speaker 1: Hampshire to clean up the barn because the farm's owner,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Connors, expected it to be left in perfect condition. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Connors, the owner of the barn, was not directly
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  Speaker 1: involved in the murder scheme. However, he did know that
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  Speaker 1: the mastermind of the murder was going to be using
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  Speaker 1: his property while he was gone.
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  Speaker 2: However, he would testify.
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  Speaker 1: That he did not know what they were doing and
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  Speaker 1: just asked that they keep it clean when he got back. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: the reason he allowed his property to be used at
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  Speaker 1: all is because he was doing a favor to the
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  Speaker 1: mastermind of the murder, who was his longtime friend and
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  Speaker 1: business partner and also the very same self made Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas millionaire that Jack Reid himself had viewed as this
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  Speaker 1: big success story whose path in life Jack was hoping
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  Speaker 1: to emulate. The millionaire's name was John Brooks, and he
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  Speaker 1: believed that when Jack had helped him move it was
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  Speaker 1: a job he had done for him a few years back.
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  Speaker 1: That Jack during that move had stolen some of.
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  Speaker 2: His motorcycles and jewelry.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there was no evidence to actually back this up,
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  Speaker 1: but John Brooks was convinced and he held a grudge,
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  Speaker 1: so in retaliation, a few months after the move, Brooks
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  Speaker 1: had sent his son Jesse to Jack's home to scare him.
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  Speaker 1: That's who Jack had spotted in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: night on his property almost two years ago, the strange
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  Speaker 1: prowler who had literally called out to Jack by name.
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  Speaker 1: But when Jack came outside to confront him and literally
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  Speaker 1: fired a gun at Jesse, Jesse and his dad did
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  Speaker 1: not stop what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, broke Brooks only.
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  Speaker 1: Got angrier and he vowed to get revenge, so he'd
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  Speaker 1: sent four people out to New Hampshire to kill Jack.
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  Speaker 1: It was his son Jesse, Jesse's friend Michael Benton, who
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  Speaker 1: was not the same as the Michael who owned the farm,
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  Speaker 1: and the two other men who were named Joseph Ruman
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  Speaker 1: and Robin Knight. All five men were eventually convicted of
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  Speaker 1: taking part in the murder. John Brooks was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life in prison without the possibility of parole. Robin Knight
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  Speaker 1: was also sentenced to life. Michael Benton not Michael Connors,
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the barn, so Michael Benton.
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  Speaker 2: Got thirty three years to life.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Ruman was sentenced to between seventeen and thirty five years,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesse Brooks was sentenced to fifteen to thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: He was released on parole in twenty twenty three. Thank
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  Speaker 2: All right, until next time, see ya,