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Jody Kilgore_s Birthday Celebration · Luke's English Podcast

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Speaker 1: In Tragedy a true crime podcast, we discuss crimes that
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Speaker 1: may be violent in nature. At times, we may cover homicides,
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Speaker 1: missing people, and other topics that may be unsettling. Listener
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Speaker 1: discretion is advised. Welcome to Tragedy, a True crime podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm Alisa and I'm Michael, and the focus for today's
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Speaker 1: episode will mostly be about Joe Dye and the big
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Speaker 1: birthday celebration that's coming up. We have a couple of
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Speaker 1: things to share about that. But before we get into that,
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Speaker 1: we do have a couple of updates on our other case,
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Speaker 1: Ian Rogers, who has been missing for almost a year
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Speaker 1: now in August twenty sixth, So we do know that
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Speaker 1: one of the local news reporters, hopefully we'll be reaching
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Speaker 1: out to Teresa coming up on the one year anniversary
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Speaker 1: and doing a story on Ian's disappearance. Who are really
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Speaker 1: excited that the media is getting involved and you know,
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Speaker 1: put some more exposure on this case. And because of that,
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Speaker 1: you know, last time, remember Michael, when we talked to Teresa,
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Speaker 1: she said that she hadn't heard from Walcoala County Sheriff's
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Speaker 1: office for for a while.
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Speaker 2: That's correct, and now that the news have reached out,
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Speaker 2: she has heard from them, and so we have a
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Speaker 2: couple of updates regarding who's assigned to the case and
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Speaker 2: some clarifications on a few details.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we had heard from Captain Sarachi several months ago
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Speaker 1: that the main point of contact for Ian's case was
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Speaker 1: Detective Wester because Detective Wester is over criminal investigations. And
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Speaker 1: so remember we had talked one night about how we thought,
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Speaker 1: well that was sort of interesting. Does that mean that
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Speaker 1: maybe there's something going on that we don't know about,
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Speaker 1: which was totally fine. This is also kind of surprising
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Speaker 1: to Teresa because she didn't know that that change had
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Speaker 1: been made, while as it turns out, that change hasn't
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Speaker 1: been made. Detective del Biato did reach out and spoke
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Speaker 1: with Teresa after the news reporter reached out to Walclla
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office, and Detective del Biato did confirm with
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Speaker 1: Teresa that he is the lead and Ian's case is
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Speaker 1: still considered a missing person's case. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: if you have any information that you would like to
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Speaker 1: share with the Wacolla County Sheriff's Office that needs to
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Speaker 1: go directly to Scott Delbiato and that's going to be
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Speaker 1: s D E L b E A t O at
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Speaker 1: Walcola County Sheriff's Office dot org. So we want to
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Speaker 1: make sure that any tips that people are sharing are
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Speaker 1: getting to the correct person. So we thought that was
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Speaker 1: really really important.
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Speaker 2: Just as a point of clarity, are you saying that
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Speaker 2: originally we talked about this being a escalator to a
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Speaker 2: criminal case. Are you saying that it's not a criminal case,
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Speaker 2: that it's still being treated as a missing person case.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying, and that is
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Speaker 1: what Teresa found out earlier this week. And of course
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Speaker 1: she communicated with me right away to let me know that, yay,
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Speaker 1: she had heard from the we'll call it Counta Sheriff's Office,
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Speaker 1: which is something you know, she had been hoping for.
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Speaker 1: And that's yes, it was still a missing person's case.
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Speaker 1: So somewhere along the line, the wires got kind of
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Speaker 1: mixed up at we'll call it Canta Sheriff's Office. This
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Speaker 1: is not a criminal investigation. And so that's just the
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Speaker 1: small quick update that we have on Ian's case that
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Speaker 1: we wanted to share with everybody. And so now let's
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Speaker 1: get into our main focus for our conversation tonight, which
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Speaker 1: is the annual birthday celebration for Jody.
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Speaker 2: Right, So what we're gonna do als Well, we'll talk
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Speaker 2: to Cindy and let's go and get into it.
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Speaker 1: So before we talk about the big birthday celebration that's
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Speaker 1: coming up later this week, we do want to just
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Speaker 1: give a quick summary of Jody's case for those of
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Speaker 1: you who maybe just listen to Ian's Case. And we
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Speaker 1: covered Jody's case in the first six episodes of our podcast,
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Speaker 1: plus the one we just did last week right where
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Speaker 1: we had the geoprofiler and the forensic examiner, So we
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Speaker 1: thought we would just talk briefly about on Jodey's case
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Speaker 1: and even why we got to it for people who
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Speaker 1: maybe didn't listen to our first few episodes. So, do
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about Jody and your relationship to him,
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Speaker 1: because that's really what brought us here initially.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Jody Kilgore is one of my uncles
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Speaker 2: and this is one of those things that it actually
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Speaker 2: is one of the things that decided to get us
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Speaker 2: to kick off the podcast in the first place. And
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Speaker 2: it's been really interesting. It's been sad in a lot
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Speaker 2: of cases to kind of learn. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: details that I think that I learned as part of
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Speaker 2: this process as we as we kind of started, you know,
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Speaker 2: digging into some of the details of the case. But
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Speaker 2: it really kind of encouraged me to really want to
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Speaker 2: do more for the family, to do more for the community.
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Speaker 2: And you know, that's why we set up this platform
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Speaker 2: to start with.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, in the beginning, we were just thinking, oh,
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Speaker 1: we'll just do a couple of episodes, we'll tell people
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Speaker 1: about his case, and it's become so much more than that.
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Speaker 1: Right we are working with the family to get people
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Speaker 1: to the birthday celebration, which we'll talk about here at
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Speaker 1: the end, and it just really rallied behind the family.
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Speaker 1: So just briefly, Jody Kilgore was killed on October sixth,
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, in his driveway. We don't know too much
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Speaker 1: more about that because the Wacola County Sheriff's Office continues
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Speaker 1: to call this an open and active case, and despite
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Speaker 1: our requests through the Freedom of Information Act, we're not
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Speaker 1: getting any information from them. So really all we've been
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Speaker 1: able to learn have been in a couple of articles
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Speaker 1: that were in the walk call son and by talking
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Speaker 1: to you know, family members and doing records searches and
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Speaker 1: things like that.
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Speaker 2: Well, don't forget also about the community event that was
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Speaker 2: put on that I thought was actually a wealth of information.
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Speaker 2: And for anyone who hasn't listened to that episode or
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Speaker 2: any of the episodes one through six that cover this
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Speaker 2: case in a lot more detail, I highly encourage you
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Speaker 2: to take a look at that one because that is
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Speaker 2: the one and only time that we have on record
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Speaker 2: anyone from law enforcement even speaking about the case.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is.
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Speaker 1: Really due to the community rallying around Gladys Jodie's mom.
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Speaker 1: You know, we were putting our podcast out and continue
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Speaker 1: to on several of the Walcolla County Facebook pages, and
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Speaker 1: we got to reach out from the palle of our
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Speaker 1: Tree Theater and the person who is at that theater said, hey,
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Speaker 1: I have this recording from a few years ago and
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Speaker 1: you know, Sheriff Miller was there and Captain Sarachi and
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Speaker 1: Gladys and would you guys like to have that? And
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Speaker 1: we were like yes, and so that's good, thank you
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Speaker 1: for bringing back up. That's a reminder we did learn
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Speaker 1: a lot from that. I keep calling it a town
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Speaker 1: hall event where the well called kind of sheriff's office
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Speaker 1: did speak, So that is linked in episode three. If
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Speaker 1: people really wanted to kind of look into that, you know,
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Speaker 1: there have been it seems to be in the community.
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Speaker 1: If you took me like maybe ten people and said
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Speaker 1: who were around at the time, because it's been eleven
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Speaker 1: years now, so there seems to be some pretty firm
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Speaker 1: thinking about a particular person who who has a high
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Speaker 1: level of involvement. A name was taken to the state
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Speaker 1: Attorney's office and at the time there wasn't enough evidence
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Speaker 1: to file charges against that person. So this case remains
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Speaker 1: open and active. There have been no arrests made, and
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Speaker 1: there may have been persons of interests and suspects and
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Speaker 1: things like that. But you know, it's you'll hear from
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Speaker 1: Cindy today and we've also heard from Robin if you
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Speaker 1: listen to her at so that Gladys, Jodie's mom, she's
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Speaker 1: you know, she's getting up there and she's been taken
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Speaker 1: to the hospital a couple of times to my knowledge,
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Speaker 1: in the last few weeks. And they really, the family
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Speaker 1: really want some resolution for Gladys, and that's why we
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Speaker 1: continue to talk about this case, and particularly coming up,
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Speaker 1: you'll hear from Cindy about the importance of attending this
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Speaker 1: birthday celebration. You know, they do a birthday celebration for
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Speaker 1: Jody every year since his homicide, and then they also
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Speaker 1: do a vigil on the day of his homicide, which
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Speaker 1: is in October, and as we get closer to that,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that. So if you are in
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Speaker 1: the Crawfordville, Tallahassee Soop Choppye Panacea that area, it's really
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Speaker 1: important that you listen to Cindy and even just try
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Speaker 1: to find time just to go over for ten or
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, meet the family and let them know that
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Speaker 1: you're still there for them. And so we'll hear from
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Speaker 1: Sindy and she'll tell us a little bit more about that.
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Speaker 1: Today we're really excited to talk to Cindy, and Cindy
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Speaker 1: is another of Jody's sisters, and today we'll be talking
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Speaker 1: specifically about the upcoming birthday celebration. We want to make
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Speaker 1: sure we have as many people present and participating in
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Speaker 1: the birthday celebration, and so we're really glad that Cindy's
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Speaker 1: here to talk that up for us and welcome Cindy
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Speaker 1: thank you, of course. And Michael's here too.
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Speaker 2: I'm also here.
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Speaker 3: You're always here.
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Speaker 1: So the birthday celebration is coming up at seven pm
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, August sixteenth, and it looks like it's in
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Speaker 1: Spring Creek, near the intersections of Spring Creek Highway and
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Speaker 1: Ben Willis Road. We did map this a little bit.
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Speaker 3: It looks like if people get to the.
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Speaker 1: Boat launch, they might have passed it. But can you
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Speaker 1: give us a little more information about where the birthday
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Speaker 1: celebration will be for people who aren't familiar with the area.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you drive all the way to Spring Creek, all
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Speaker 3: the way to the very end. It's right past the
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Speaker 3: old Spring Creek Restaurant, which is still up there, and
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Speaker 3: it will be on the right side. There's a point
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Speaker 3: where the water is and there's a piece of land
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Speaker 3: there that they always let us have the celebration there
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Speaker 3: because that's where Jodie fished at all the time. So
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Speaker 3: if you go to the restaurant, just take a right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we'll have signs up and everything, so there's
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Speaker 3: no way you can miss it.
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Speaker 1: So you're saying if people head out is off the
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Speaker 1: Spring Creek Highway and just head south.
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Speaker 3: Yes, go straight down all the way to the water.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that helps me a little bit because we've
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Speaker 1: been to shell Point that Springfig Highway, right, but you
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Speaker 1: turn off to go, but they're gonna just keep going towards.
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Speaker 3: The ward, keep straight yep, and then look.
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Speaker 1: For the signs. Right. I think that's really helpful. So
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Speaker 1: what do you Thays do at the birthday celebration? What
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Speaker 1: does it kind of normally look like?
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Speaker 3: Okay, we usually have a dinner. Everybody brings the covered
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Speaker 3: dish and we'll all eat and everything, and then we'll
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Speaker 3: do like a birthday cake and then we light off lanterns.
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Speaker 3: As soon as it turns dark. Well, we'll have the
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Speaker 3: lanterns to light off. It's like the Japanese lanterns. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: and you put them in the water like that. No,
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Speaker 3: they go up in the air.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they're like balloom. I think I've seen this. I
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Speaker 1: guess I saw it on I don't know if it
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Speaker 1: was on Facebook or if it was in one of
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Speaker 1: the news reportings, but I did see that, so I
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Speaker 1: can picture that in my mind.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, they're they're really neat.
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Speaker 1: That looks really interesting.
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Speaker 3: So the first year that we did on them. Actually,
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Speaker 3: when we let some of them go, they formed a
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Speaker 3: jay in the sky, which that was kind of crazy,
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Speaker 3: but that's that's how it happened. That is a little wild.
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Speaker 1: I'm here from.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Do people need to let you know they're coming, Like
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Speaker 1: do you organize like bring certain kinds of covered dishes
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Speaker 1: or just bring what works for you?
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Speaker 3: Just bring whatever you want to bring. Normally I do
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Speaker 3: a bunch of food, so if nobody else brings food,
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Speaker 3: we usually have enough. But it's nice to have extra.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: That kind of sounds like the South.
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Speaker 3: Right, that's the South, and yeah, get together.
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Speaker 2: In the South. We always like to have extra.
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Speaker 3: And I'm always counting.
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Speaker 1: I'm like how many people And he's like, why are
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Speaker 1: you counting? Just get plenty of food.
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Speaker 3: Right, That's how we do it. I've always do two
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Speaker 3: or three cockpots full of like cowboy beans, and we
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Speaker 3: usually have a chicken dip and sometimes we have seafood,
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Speaker 3: you know, like shrimp, wood shrimp or something like that.
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Speaker 3: But we always have enough for everybody, sir.
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Speaker 1: I'm learning that that's the matra. Doesn't matter what time
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Speaker 1: or how many people there are, there will always be
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Speaker 1: enough for everybody correct, right, like goe up at two
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Speaker 1: in the morning, but there's.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'm always going to cook a bunch of
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Speaker 3: food to take down there, sir. I love that.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell us why this is important to your
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Speaker 1: family that we get as many people as we can
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Speaker 1: to the celebration.
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Speaker 3: Because it the murder hasn't been solved yet, and my
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Speaker 3: mother is eighty and she's not doing very well, and
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Speaker 3: I would just like to have everybody that can come
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Speaker 3: out there to you know, to support my mom, to
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Speaker 3: show my mom that there is still people that are
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Speaker 3: aware that this hasn't been solved and that they care
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Speaker 3: enough about her. And my mama knows everybody in Wilkolla
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Speaker 3: County and tons of surrounding counties, so we should have
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Speaker 3: a full house, you know what I mean. So I
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Speaker 3: just want everybody to come support my mom.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for that reminder. I mean, we were
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Speaker 1: able to speak with her, maybe it was episode.
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Speaker 4: Six, actually I'm pretty sure it was episode six, and
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Speaker 4: she you know, we asked her like, what do you
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Speaker 4: need from the community, and that's exactly what she said, right.
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Speaker 4: We need to show up, we need people to be present,
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Speaker 4: we need people to remember, we need people to send
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Speaker 4: in tips. Just keep it, you know, in the forefront
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Speaker 4: as much as possible.
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Speaker 1: Right, all right, So as a quick recap, everybody, get
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Speaker 1: in your cars, get on down the Spring Creek Highway
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Speaker 1: head towards the water, and it's going to be Saturday,
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Speaker 1: August sixteenth at seven pm. And if you get to
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Speaker 1: the boat launch, she went too far and watch for
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Speaker 1: the signs. That's right. Anything else that we haven't thought
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Speaker 1: about that you would like to make sure that people
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Speaker 1: in the community are aware of. No.
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Speaker 3: I just want everybody to show up. Give my mom
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Speaker 3: some peace.
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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you so much, thank you. Despite extensive
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Speaker 1: investigations by the Wacolla County Sheriff's Office and the Florida
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Speaker 1: Department of Law Enforcement, no arrests have been made and
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Speaker 1: the case remains unsolved. It is the only unsolved homicide
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Speaker 1: in Wacolla County. Authorities continue to seek information from the
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Speaker 1: public to help solve the case. The Kilgore family has
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Speaker 1: been vocal in their pursuit of justice, keeping the case
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Speaker 1: in the public eye and urging anyone with information to
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Speaker 1: come forward. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has also
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Speaker 1: shared appeals for assistance on social media. Emphasizing the importance
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Speaker 1: of community involvement in resolving this case. If you have
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Speaker 1: any information related to Jody Kilgore's murder, please contact the
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Speaker 1: Wocala County Sheriff's Office or the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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Speaker 1: You can also call the tip line at eight five
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Speaker 1: oh two nine six eight six nine oh and leave
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Speaker 1: any information you may have. All identifying information will be
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Speaker 1: removed and the tips will be shared with Major Wester
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Speaker 1: at the Wollcala County Sheriff's Office. Alternatively, you can email
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Speaker 1: us at who Killed George Kilgore at gmail dot com.