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Members Only! Murder Monday!- Pacific NW, Pig Farmer & More · Cosmic Peach

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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's my penis.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to American Top 40.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Casey Kasem.
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  Speaker 3: Monday, Monday, so good to me Monday morning, it was
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  Speaker 3: all I hoped it would be Oh, Monday morning, Monday morning,
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  Speaker 3: couldn't guarantee And you would still be here with.
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  Speaker 1: Me Happy Monday, everybody Thank you for being here It's
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  Speaker 1: another beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: And we're going to hit it pretty hard today. I
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  Speaker 4: hope you're ready. There is some current events in the
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  Speaker 4: murder world that we're going to be talking about just
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. And it's the inspiration for today's segment
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  Speaker 4: of Murder Monday. Apparently, some shit's popping off in Portland.
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  Speaker 4: found some bodies, found some dead animals with the dead bodies,
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  Speaker 4: some real weird shit, but it got me to thinking.
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  Speaker 4: The Pacific Northwest, with its foggy, rainy, mountainous, vast landscape,
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  Speaker 4: is home to some of the most prolific serial killers
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  Speaker 4: of all time, and it seems like there's always serial
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  Speaker 4: killers in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe this is some type
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  Speaker 4: of a training ground, I don't know, but California, Oregon, Washington,
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  Speaker 4: parts of Canada, Alaska, they're all pretty fucked up. In
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  Speaker 4: the serial killer department. But yeah, we're going to be
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  Speaker 4: taking a look at some Pacific Northwest weirdness today. But
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  Speaker 4: how you doing? Thanks for being here. Thanks for being
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  Speaker 4: listeners and supporters of the Cosmic Peach Podcast. Looks like
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  Speaker 4: you guys enjoyed last week's Murder Monday episode. believe it
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  Speaker 4: was lori who commented lori how you doing she said
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  Speaker 4: her husband's a sagittarius and he's always asking her if
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  Speaker 4: she's okay it's a sagittarius thing don't get mad at
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  Speaker 4: him i do it i know many other sagittarians who
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  Speaker 4: do it i don't know why we do it it's
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  Speaker 4: just a thing it's just a thing maybe that's why
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  Speaker 4: i'm always asking you how how you doing at the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of every episode are you okay are you guys
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  Speaker 4: okay out there you okay are you okay Well, you
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  Speaker 4: might not be after today's episode. We're going to be
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  Speaker 4: hitting it hard and heavy. But before our little story
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  Speaker 4: time today, here is what's current in Murder World.
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  Speaker 2: Subsequently, the remains of five people were discovered, as well
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  Speaker 2: as multiple deceased domesticated animals. I will say that in
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  Speaker 2: my 22 years here, I have not been a part
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  Speaker 2: of or witnessed a scene quite this complex involving this type.
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  Speaker 3: Of an investigation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to lead in and say that I
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  Speaker 2: recognize that this incident is deeply concerning to our community.
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  Speaker 4: So apart from some shitty, nasty stuff popping off in Portland,
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  Speaker 4: also home of the grunge scene, completely contrived, don't get
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  Speaker 4: it twisted. I'm gonna introduce you to a serial killer
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  Speaker 4: from the Pacific Northwest you probably have never heard of,
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  Speaker 4: but he did some real nasty shit. Probably a Sagittarius.
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  Speaker 4: Just some nasty, just nasty shit. We're gonna be taking
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  Speaker 4: a look at this together. Now let me pull this
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  Speaker 4: article up here. I got an article. And it is
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  Speaker 4: about the Cowden family.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 4: It is now time, my friends, for a little story.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be breaking this down with you, and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to blow the tits off of this case here.
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  Speaker 4: All right, if you're ready, I'm ready. Let me introduce
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  Speaker 4: you to the Cowden family. Richard Cowden, 28 years old,
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  Speaker 4: and his 22-year-old wife Belinda, living in White City, Oregon,
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  Speaker 4: had been married for about two years. Richard supported his
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  Speaker 4: family by working as a logging truck driver. At the
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  Speaker 4: time of this mystery, the couple had two children. David
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  Speaker 4: was five years old and Melissa was just five months old.
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  Speaker 4: David was Belinda's child from her prior marriage, but they
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  Speaker 4: had this blended family thing going on. The young family
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  Speaker 4: had made last-minute plans to go camping over Labor Day
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  Speaker 4: weekend in 1974 in the rugged mountains of southern Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: And here we go, ding, ding, ding, on August 30th,
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  Speaker 4: the family of four, along with their basset hound Droopy,
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  Speaker 4: would arrive at a campground near Carberry Creek. They would
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  Speaker 4: park their 1956 Ford pickup truck on Carberry Creek Road,
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  Speaker 4: which was only a short distance from the campsite. The
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  Speaker 4: next thing that is known is that two days later
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  Speaker 4: on September 1st, Richard Cowden and his young son David
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  Speaker 4: would walk to the nearby Copper General's store around 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: They would purchase a quart of milk and head back
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  Speaker 4: on foot to their campsite. Belinda's mother, Ruth Grayson Smith,
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  Speaker 4: actually worked at this Dollar General or whatever. She made
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  Speaker 4: plans with Richard to have dinner with the family at
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  Speaker 4: their campsite that night. As far as what happened to
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  Speaker 4: the Cowden family after that is something we're still trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out more than 50 years later. Later that
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  Speaker 4: evening on September 1st, Ruth Smith arrived at the campground
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  Speaker 4: to find an eerie scene. The camping area had been
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  Speaker 4: abandoned and it seemed like it had been abrupt. A
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  Speaker 4: pack of Pepsi was still cooling in the stream, a
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  Speaker 4: dishpan full of water, Melissa's diaper bag in plain view,
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  Speaker 4: some cigarettes found on a rock nearby. The milk that
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  Speaker 4: Richard purchased that morning was there and food was on
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  Speaker 4: the picnic table. She saw fishing poles leaned up against
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  Speaker 4: a tree. She also found Belinda's purse with exactly $ 23
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  Speaker 4: inside and Richard's trousers. with the pickup truck keys inside,
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  Speaker 4: as well as his very expensive Rolex watch. The couple's
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  Speaker 4: truck was parked nearby. It seems that almost all of
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  Speaker 4: the family's belongings and camping gear was there. But there
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  Speaker 4: was one thing that Belinda's mother thought was missing, and
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  Speaker 4: it is something that may be a clue to help
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  Speaker 4: in this investigation. Ruth said that the family's swimming clothes
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  Speaker 4: were not at the campground. She speculated that perhaps the
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  Speaker 4: family was kidnapped from a swimming area near their campsite.
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  Speaker 4: By 7.30 p.m. that night, with no sign of anyone,
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  Speaker 4: she alerted police that her family had gone missing. A $ 1, 000
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  Speaker 4: reward was offered and about 100 military personnel would conduct
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  Speaker 4: a thorough search of the grounds near the Applegate and
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  Speaker 4: Rogue Rivers, as well as the Siskiyou National Forest. Every
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  Speaker 4: road and trail was checked within a 25-mile radius. The
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  Speaker 4: search was said to be hampered due to where the
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  Speaker 4: search area was and Described as rugged terrain, deep gullies, canyons, streams,
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  Speaker 4: abandoned mines, and heavy forest. Something would then show up
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  Speaker 4: during the investigation that could be a possible clue. But
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  Speaker 4: getting information would prove to be impossible. because the clue
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  Speaker 4: was the couple's basset hound droopy showing up at the
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  Speaker 4: copper general store at three in the morning after the
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  Speaker 4: disappearance he was scratching at the door He had a
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  Speaker 4: habit of chasing his owner's truck and had reportedly been
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  Speaker 4: seen as far as five miles away. It was theorized
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  Speaker 4: that maybe Droopy perhaps chased the abductors as they fled
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  Speaker 4: or was even taken and then let out later. So
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  Speaker 4: it was a relief that to those searching for the
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  Speaker 4: Cowden family to get Droopy back, but it was ultimately
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  Speaker 4: very frustrating because you can't have an interrogation with a
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  Speaker 4: Basset Hound. What happened to Droop's owners? We shall never know.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was distraught over the disappearance of this family. Belinda's mother,
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  Speaker 4: David's biological father, Richard's mother, They're all searching the campgrounds
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  Speaker 4: day and night, just hoping that a flit of a
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  Speaker 4: flu of a flea of some type of glue is
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  Speaker 4: going to show up. And this is actually one of
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  Speaker 4: the most tragic parts of this whole story. So Richard's mother, Florence,
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  Speaker 4: was said to be so distraught that she could not
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  Speaker 4: bring herself to even go to the couple's home after
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  Speaker 4: their disappearance. She was like, I can't even see it.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even look at it. I'll lose my mind.
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  Speaker 4: And she actually had known tragedy well as Richard's older brother, Terry,
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  Speaker 4: had just died of cancer a few years prior. Then
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  Speaker 4: just a year ago, Florence herself had her face crushed
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  Speaker 4: in a horrible car accident. Then the Cowden family would
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  Speaker 4: suffer yet another horrible tragedy as on December 14th, 1974,
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  Speaker 4: just a few months after his son's disappearance, Robert Cowden,
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  Speaker 4: his father, age 61, would use a gun to commit
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  Speaker 4: suicide at his home. No doubt the disappearance of his
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  Speaker 4: son could have been a part of his ultimate decision,
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  Speaker 4: but They say he was having domestic problems, depressed and grieving.
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  Speaker 4: And then a few months later, the Cowden family would
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  Speaker 4: experience yet another horrific tragedy. On April 12, 1975, Roger
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  Speaker 4: West and Marvin Proctor were out panning for gold when
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  Speaker 4: they found skeletal remains approximately six miles northwest of the
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  Speaker 4: Cowden's campsite. said to be high up in a hillside
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  Speaker 4: in heavy brush and timber. Skeletal bits and pieces strewn about,
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  Speaker 4: but there's more to this story. Authorities were notified and
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  Speaker 4: an extensive search of the immediate area was conducted. Three
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  Speaker 4: other bodies were found hidden in a shallow cave about
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  Speaker 4: 200 yards away from the first body. The Cowden family
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  Speaker 4: had finally been found. It would be determined that Richard
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  Speaker 4: Cowden was the body that was initially found in the
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  Speaker 4: heavy brush, but that's putting it lightly. They found some
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  Speaker 4: of his body in the heavy brush. The rest of
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  Speaker 4: his body apparently had been strung up in a tree,
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  Speaker 4: and pieces of him, as he decomposed, fell out of
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  Speaker 4: the tree and were scattered about by animals. And the
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  Speaker 4: three other bodies, being Belinda and the children, were hidden
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  Speaker 4: in a cave. And autopsies were completed. The state medical examiner, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: William Brady, said that Belinda Cowden died of at least
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  Speaker 4: two gunshot wounds to the head. Five-year-old David was also
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  Speaker 4: shot in the head. Five-month-old Melissa died of some type
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  Speaker 4: of unknown blunt force trauma to the head. And God
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  Speaker 4: only knows what happened to Richard because half of him
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  Speaker 4: was strung up in a tree. The rest was scattered
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  Speaker 4: about by animals. It's unclear what his cause of death was,
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  Speaker 4: as they say. And it's also interesting that the area
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  Speaker 4: they were found had been searched several times prior. So
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  Speaker 4: why weren't they discovered before now? So there was a
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  Speaker 4: reward that was claimed. The people who found the bodies
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  Speaker 4: makes me wonder if they couldn't have been involved in
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  Speaker 4: this network. They were like, oh my God, let's just
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  Speaker 4: keep acting like we can't find the bodies until somebody
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  Speaker 4: starts offering up some dollar dollar bills, yo. And then
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  Speaker 4: we'll show them right where they are. They cashed in
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  Speaker 4: a little $ 2, 000 reward. In the 70s, I bet that
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  Speaker 4: was quite a little jackpot. But here's the thing. The
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  Speaker 4: clues and what little evidence was available eventually would point
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  Speaker 4: to a convicted killer who would come under the radar
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  Speaker 4: as a possible suspect. And he's the serial killer you've
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  Speaker 4: never heard of and definitely working in a group. His
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  Speaker 4: name is Dwayne Lee Little. And he's a pretty sickened,
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  Speaker 4: twisted individual. He was sentenced to life in prison in
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  Speaker 4: 1964 for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.
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  Speaker 4: But he was paroled. Now see, here's the thing. The
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  Speaker 4: Pacific Northwest, you'll find, they just can't keep a motherfucker
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  Speaker 4: in jail for some reason. He was paroled after just
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  Speaker 4: 12 years on a life sentence for raping and murdering
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  Speaker 4: a 16-year-old girl. He was out on parole in 1974
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  Speaker 4: when the Cowdens went missing. And then in 1980, just
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  Speaker 4: a few years later, he would be convicted of the rape, kidnapping,
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  Speaker 4: and attempted murder of a 23-year-old girl and was sentenced
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  Speaker 4: to 60 years in prison. But they supposedly could never
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  Speaker 4: get enough evidence to charge him with the murders of
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  Speaker 4: the Cowden family. Now, Dwayne Lee Little, he's got to
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  Speaker 4: be working with one of these bigger groups because it's
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  Speaker 4: like a Henry Lee Lucas situation. He's in jail, but
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  Speaker 4: they let him out. Just like Ted Bundy, Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 4: He's in jail, but they let him out. He reoffends.
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  Speaker 4: He gets put in jail again. And if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 4: they let him out again, even after the second conviction,
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  Speaker 4: which was a 60-year conviction. I'm pretty sure they let
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  Speaker 4: him out again after that. All of the facts and
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  Speaker 4: figures lead to him being responsible. Now, let's just take
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  Speaker 4: this for a second here and talk about two possible
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  Speaker 4: scenarios because this is Cosmic Peach Podcast and there are
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  Speaker 4: multiple scenarios. And just a disclaimer, if this family really
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  Speaker 4: did die, two children and you know, mom and dad,
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  Speaker 4: and they were a very loving family, R.I.P., and it's
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  Speaker 4: horrible and tragic. But, I tend to think sometimes old
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  Speaker 4: cases like this, where they never actually get solved, and
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  Speaker 4: they thought they had the killer, but he got away.
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  Speaker 4: If you look closely at the details, you'll find that
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  Speaker 4: it could possibly, this could possibly have been staged. This
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  Speaker 4: could possibly be a fake story. I think it's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's horrible to say this, but if you shoot in 1960s, 1970s,
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  Speaker 4: even 80s and 90s, it was real easy to do
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  Speaker 4: people because there wasn't as much social media stuff as
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  Speaker 4: there is now. So it was probably real easy to
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  Speaker 4: dupe a motherfucker into thinking a whole family was slaughtered. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Let's look at the details here. the Cowden family. There's
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  Speaker 4: limited pictures of them. First off, the dates are a
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  Speaker 4: little weird to me. They left on August 30th, right?
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  Speaker 4: The only survivor of the tragedy was their dog. The dog,
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  Speaker 4: the dog, the dog star. They left on August 30th.
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  Speaker 4: The only survivor of the tragedy is the dog. Droopy,
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  Speaker 4: the Basset Hound. There was no robbery. The Rolex and
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  Speaker 4: everything was left behind. So they want you to know
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  Speaker 4: and be terrified. See, this is the thing. Because it's
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  Speaker 4: scary if you get robbed and you inevitably get murdered
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  Speaker 4: because somebody's trying to rob you. It's scarier to think,
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  Speaker 4: and they put all the details out there, that they
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  Speaker 4: weren't robbed. This was a thrill kill. And in the
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  Speaker 4: 60s and 70s is when the thrill kill really started
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  Speaker 4: to become popular. Killing just for fun. The fact that
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  Speaker 4: they say the, what they say, the whole thing. ass
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  Speaker 4: military was scouring the area looking for bodies they had
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  Speaker 4: searched that area multiple multiple times and they never had
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  Speaker 4: found a body two totally random dudes panning for golds
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  Speaker 4: Find the whole slew of the family just massacred and
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  Speaker 4: hung from trees. And how do you miss that? If
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  Speaker 4: you've searched the area multiple times, how do you miss
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  Speaker 4: somebody being strung up in a tree? Sheesh! What a cliffhanger.
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