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CROSSOVER_ 5 cases that were solved in 2020 (Merc YouTube) · Luke's English Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This episode contains true crime discussion. Listener discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 1: Goodie and welcome into a special crossover episode of Disturbed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host Chad. This week I'll be playing two
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  Speaker 1: episodes from guest narrator Alexandria Tucker's YouTube channel Merk. So
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  Speaker 1: come along and join me as we explore the realm
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  Speaker 1: of true crime. This first episode is titled five Cases
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  Speaker 1: that Were Solved in twenty twenty from the YouTube channel
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  Speaker 1: Merk with narration by Alexandria Tucker. And make sure you
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  Speaker 1: show notes.
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  Speaker 2: Pamela Rose Aldridge McCall born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Pamela
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  Speaker 2: Rose Aldridge McCall was described by her mother as free
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  Speaker 2: spirited and transient, as she spent her years hitchhiking throughout
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee and Virginia, where she resided in the community of Topping.
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  Speaker 2: In early nineteen ninety one, the thirty three year old
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  Speaker 2: hitchhiker went missing near spring Hill, Tennessee, and according to witnesses,
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  Speaker 2: was last seen traveling with a semi truck driver. In
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  Speaker 2: March of the same year, Pamela's body was discovered near
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  Speaker 2: the off ramp of a road in spring Hill. In
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  Speaker 2: another tragic turn, it was discovered that Pamela had been
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  Speaker 2: twenty four weeks pregnant at the time of her death,
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  Speaker 2: and her unborn child had not survived. Her autopsy report
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  Speaker 2: also revealed that she had died of strangulation, with additional
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  Speaker 2: evidence indicating that she had been raped by her assailant.
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  Speaker 2: DNA from the perpetrator was recovered, but due to the
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  Speaker 2: nacency of DNA technology and the lack of other forms
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  Speaker 2: of hard evidence, her case soon went cold and was closed.
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  Speaker 2: It remained closed until April of twenty nineteen, when spring
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  Speaker 2: Hill police contacted the twenty second Judicial District Attorney's Office
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  Speaker 2: in Tennessee, requesting assistance and reopening the investigation into Pamela's murder.
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  Speaker 2: The request came as a result of an initiative by
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  Speaker 2: the DA's office starting in twenty fourteen to investigate unsolved
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  Speaker 2: homicide cases in the district. District Attorney Investigator Tommy Gowits
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  Speaker 2: reopened the case and submitted the DNA evidence acquired in
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety one murder to a Tennessee Bureau of
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  Speaker 2: Investigation lab, where a DNA profile was compiled.
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  Speaker 3: When submitted to the FBI's.
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  Speaker 2: National Combined DNA Index System CODIS, the DNA matched DNA
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  Speaker 2: evidence recovered in two other unsolved homicide cases in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 2: both from nineteen ninety two. The dyea's office discovered that
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  Speaker 2: these cases were likely also linked to this unidentified truck
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  Speaker 2: driver that Pamela was last seen with. With the assistance
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  Speaker 2: of the Wyoming detectives and a host of federal agents,
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee investigators narrowed their search to Clark Perry Baldwin, a
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  Speaker 2: fifty nine year old former truck driver living in Waterloo, Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Baldwin's DNA matched the DNA evidence recovered from all three
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  Speaker 2: crime scenes, and Baldwin was arrested in May of twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: charged with two counts of first degree murder, one for
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  Speaker 2: Pamela and one for her unborn child. He is currently
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  Speaker 2: pending extradition to Tennessee, where he will face trial. He
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  Speaker 2: is also expected to be charged with two additional counts
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  Speaker 2: of murder for his involvement in the Wyoming cases. Baldwin's
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  Speaker 2: indictment is not only a victory for prosecutors and Pamela's family,
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  Speaker 2: but also yet another victory for the Tennessee DA's office
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  Speaker 2: initiative to reopen cold cases in the spring Hill area.
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  Speaker 2: Since twenty fourteen, five unresolved homicide cases have been solved,
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  Speaker 2: with three individuals convicted on murder charges and two pending judgment.
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  Speaker 2: Margaret Peggy Beck. Peggy Beck was only sixteen years old
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  Speaker 2: when she was sexually assaulted and strangled to death at
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  Speaker 2: a Girl Scout camp in nineteen sixty three. A Girl
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  Speaker 2: Scout since she was nine, Peggy was attending a summer
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  Speaker 2: Girl Scout camp in Jefferson County Colorado. She was excited
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  Speaker 2: to be a camp counselor for the first time, but
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  Speaker 2: tragedy struck on August eighteenth, nineteen sixty three, when a
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  Speaker 2: fellow camper found her body in her tent after she
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  Speaker 2: failed to show up for breakfast that morning. Her tentmate
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  Speaker 2: had been in the infirmary the night of the murder,
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  Speaker 2: leaving Peggy alone in her tent. Sometime during the period
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  Speaker 2: between Peggy's last appearance before turning in for the night
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  Speaker 2: and breakfast the next morning, the brutal rape and strangulation
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  Speaker 2: took place. Investigators scoured the scene and searched fervently for
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  Speaker 2: any leads, but with no witnesses and little evidence, the
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  Speaker 2: case quickly went cold. Over the following years, the case
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  Speaker 2: remained open, with investigators still searching for possible suspects. Little
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  Speaker 2: changed over the next forty four years after the incident.
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  Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, detectives at the Jefferson County
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office created a John Doe DNA profile from evidence
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  Speaker 2: collected at the crime scene and entered it into the
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  Speaker 2: FBI's CODIS database, the same one used to help identify
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  Speaker 2: the killer in the Pamela McCall case. While this initial
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  Speaker 2: effort to use DNA to identify a suspect failed to
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  Speaker 2: turn up any new leads, it set the stage for
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  Speaker 2: investigators to create a more comprehensive DNA profile twelve years
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  Speaker 2: later in twenty nineteen. With this new profile, investigators enlisted
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  Speaker 2: the help of a private DNA testing company, United Data Collect,
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  Speaker 2: to test the new profile against UDC's database. This process,
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  Speaker 2: genetic genealogy, involved DNA being matched to public genetic genealogy
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  Speaker 2: databases to find relatives of a potential suspect. In a
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  Speaker 2: stroke of luck, the test found matches linked to family
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  Speaker 2: members of the individual to which the DNA belonged. After
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  Speaker 2: further inquiry, James Reynold Taylor was identified as the primary suspect,
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  Speaker 2: with his DNA matching DNA evidence collected from the scene
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  Speaker 2: of the crime. Despite this breakthrough and an arrest weren't
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  Speaker 2: issued in April of twenty twenty, Taylor remains at large,
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  Speaker 2: having fallen off public radar since his last known spotting
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  Speaker 2: in the Las Vegas, Nevada area in nineteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor would now.
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  Speaker 2: Be eighty years old if still alive. According to investigators,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor was living in Edgewater, Colorado, a municipality located in
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  Speaker 2: Jefferson County, during the time of the murder. He was married,
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  Speaker 2: with at least one child, and worked as a television repairman.
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  Speaker 2: Little else is known about his life, whereabouts, or motivations. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: the identification of Taylor as the presumed killer makes this
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  Speaker 2: the oldest known case to have ever been solved through
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  Speaker 2: genetic genealogy. Detectives at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office have
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  Speaker 2: encouraged anyone with knowledge of Taylor to contact their office
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  Speaker 2: so that justice can be achieved for Peggy's murder.
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  Speaker 3: Karen Spencer.
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  Speaker 2: At aproximately ten pm on November twenty ninth, nineteen seventy two,
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  Speaker 2: seventh grader Karen Spencer left her home in fair Haven, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: telling her family that she intended to borrow a book
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  Speaker 2: from a nearby classmate's house. Tragically, this would be the
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  Speaker 2: last time her family saw the twelve year old alive.
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  Speaker 2: After going missing that night, the body was found three
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  Speaker 2: days later, buried under leaves in a patch of woods
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  Speaker 2: known to the residence of fair Haven as Feiffer's Field.
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  Speaker 2: Karen had been brutally beaten, dying of repeated blunt force trauma.
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  Speaker 3: According to her autopsy.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives identified a few possible suspects after their preliminary investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Among the Police department's persons of interest was sixteen year
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  Speaker 2: old James Jimmy Edwards. Edwards was believed to have been
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  Speaker 2: Karen's boyfriend at the time, though little else could be
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  Speaker 2: determined about the relationship between the two. Additionally, the case
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  Speaker 2: lacked a clear motivation for the brutal murder, and despite
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  Speaker 2: extensive investigation, police were unable to charge any of the
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  Speaker 2: suspects in Karen's death. Despite this, investigators did not give
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  Speaker 2: up hope and continued to search for new leads or evidence.
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  Speaker 2: The case was turned over to the Fairfax County Major
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  Speaker 2: Crimes Bureau Cold Case Squad and remained without any significant
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  Speaker 2: developments until the summer of twenty eighteen. In an unexpected breakthrough,
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  Speaker 2: two independent acquaintances of Jimmy Edwards, who died in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven, came forward to police, informing detectives that Edwards
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  Speaker 2: had confessed to them in the early nineties that he
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  Speaker 2: was responsible for Karen's murder. With this new information, police
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  Speaker 2: redoubled their efforts to solve this case. Now with the
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  Speaker 2: clear suspect identified, police worked with the public to gain
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  Speaker 2: as much evidence as possible to determine whether the individual
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  Speaker 2: accounts could be corroborated. Through additional exculpatory evidence that came
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  Speaker 2: to light during the second wind of the investigation, the
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  Speaker 2: other possible suspects in the case were ruled out. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen months after the initial breakthrough, police announced that as
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  Speaker 2: of April twenty twenty, their investigation had yielded sufficient evidence
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  Speaker 2: to arrest and prosecute Edwards had he still been alive.
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  Speaker 2: With this revelation, the case was officially closed with Edwards
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  Speaker 2: being the presumed killer. While justice came too late for
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  Speaker 2: Edwards to do time for his vicious murder of Karen Spencer,
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  Speaker 2: this news hopefully can bring some closure to Karen's surviving
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  Speaker 2: family and is a hard fought victory for the Fairfax
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  Speaker 2: County Police Department. According to police statements released with the
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  Speaker 2: case closure quote, the fact that the Fairfax County detectives
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  Speaker 2: never gave up, combined with our community's willingness to come
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  Speaker 2: forward with information, were critical in solving this case. Naomi Sanders,
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  Speaker 2: a divorced department manager, fifty seven year old Vallejo, California
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  Speaker 2: resident Naomi Sanders lived with only one companion, her poodle
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  Speaker 2: named Cindy. Naomi was cooking dinner on the night of
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  Speaker 2: February twenty seventh, nineteen seventy three. Her half cooked steak
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  Speaker 2: remained on the stovetop when her body was discovered by
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  Speaker 2: the police slater that night, she had been sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 2: and strangled to death by an unknown assailant before her
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  Speaker 2: meal could even be completed. In a last act of
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  Speaker 2: loving obedience, Cindy wa watching dutifully over her owner's body
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  Speaker 2: when police arrived. Investigators were worried from the beginning that
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  Speaker 2: this case would be difficult to solve, owing to Naomi's
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  Speaker 2: job as an apartment manager, a role that led her
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  Speaker 2: to frequently invite in prospective individuals looking.
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  Speaker 3: For an apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Without any clear leads, Naomi's case quickly hit a dead end,
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  Speaker 2: leaving investigators with no choice but to leave her case unsolved.
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  Speaker 2: Similarly to past cold cases solved through previously collected DNA evidence,
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  Speaker 2: Police attempted to match their gathered unknown DNA profile against
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  Speaker 2: the FBI's Code of database in twenty fourteen, but were
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  Speaker 2: met with no results. Reluctant to give up on the
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  Speaker 2: DNA evidence, police tried matching the profile against the California
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  Speaker 2: state database, but again they were met with disappointment. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, investigators turned to genetic genealogy, much like
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  Speaker 2: in the process employed to solve the Peggy Beck case.
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  Speaker 3: With the help of.
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  Speaker 2: A Virginia based company known as Paara Bond Nano Labs,
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  Speaker 2: police finally identified two new leads in the case that had.
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  Speaker 3: Long been cold.
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  Speaker 2: One lead took California investigators to Louisiana, but this turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be a false positive. The second led investigators
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  Speaker 2: to Robert Dale Edwards, who had died in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 2: three due to a drug overdose. Investigators were able to
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  Speaker 2: locate and solicit DNA from Edward's son, however, and at
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  Speaker 2: last they found their match. The deceased Edwards had been
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  Speaker 2: a coworker of Naomi's and had a long criminal history
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  Speaker 2: that ranged from theft to attempted murder. He would have
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  Speaker 2: been twenty two years old at the time of the murder,
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  Speaker 2: but police were unable to ascertain a direct motive for
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  Speaker 2: the rape and murder of Naomi. Nevertheless, police finally had
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  Speaker 2: enough evidence to close the case. Nearly five decades later,
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  Speaker 2: in February of twenty twenty. Like in the murder of
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  Speaker 2: Karen Spencer, Naomi's killer evaded justice in life, but thanks
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  Speaker 2: to genetic genealogy, Naomi's surviving family members can rest easy
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  Speaker 2: without wondering who was responsible for this heinous act.
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  Speaker 3: Tonia McKinley.
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  Speaker 2: New Year's Eve of nineteen eighty five, it would have
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  Speaker 2: been a time of celebration for young mother Tonia McKinley,
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  Speaker 2: who was twenty three years old with an eighteen month
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  Speaker 2: old son. The Pensacola, Florida resident had left a local
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  Speaker 2: bar around one thirty am after enjoying the New Year's festivities.
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  Speaker 2: Hours later, her body was discovered on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the road by a passing family. She had been raped
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  Speaker 2: and murdered before being discarded by an unknown assailant, according
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  Speaker 2: to her autopsy. Despite interviewing dozens of bar patrons who
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  Speaker 2: had last seen Tonia, police were unable to name any
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  Speaker 2: suspects in the murder. While new leads appeared over the years,
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  Speaker 2: police continued to hit dead end after dead end. In
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  Speaker 2: a particularly moving statement released by the Pensacola Police regarding
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  Speaker 2: the case, detectives reflected on the tragedy of the situation
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  Speaker 2: while the case remained unsolved. A baby boy grew up
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  Speaker 2: without a mother, parents buried their daughter without knowing justice,
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  Speaker 2: and a killer was walking around free. Thanks to the
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  Speaker 2: help of genetic genealogy, detectives finally found their opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: identify Tonia's killer. Using DNA database, Pensacola police were able
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  Speaker 2: to construct a family tree of relatives with similar DNA
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  Speaker 2: to that of the DNA evidence collected at the scene
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  Speaker 2: of the crime.
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  Speaker 3: Through this, detectives located fifty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Year old Daniel Wells, a relative to one of the
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  Speaker 2: matches found via the DNA database. Wells lived near Pensacola
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  Speaker 2: at the time of the murder and became the primary
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  Speaker 2: suspect for detectives. In March of twenty twenty, detectives trailing
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  Speaker 2: Wells were able to collect a cigarette butt dropped out
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  Speaker 2: of the car window. The DNA from the cigarette matched
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  Speaker 2: the DNA from Tonia's murder, and after more than thirty
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  Speaker 2: five years, police could finally make an arrest in the case.
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  Speaker 2: Wells now await trial for first degree murder and first
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  Speaker 2: degree sexual battery, and justice can finally be given to
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  Speaker 2: Tonia's family, including her son, now in his mid thirties.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing can make up for the loss, but at least
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  Speaker 2: now the investigation of Tonia's tragic death can act as
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  Speaker 2: another example of genetic genealogy, providing closure to victims and
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  Speaker 2: their families.
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  Speaker 3: Why are you here?
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  Speaker 2: I will find out? Read the first ominous letter. Derek
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  Speaker 2: and Maria Braddis were busy restoring and updating their newly
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  Speaker 2: purchased home at six five seven Boulevard. Derek had just
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  Speaker 2: finished a long day of painting the homes walls when
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  Speaker 2: he received this strange piece of mail. It read, dearest
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  Speaker 2: new neighbor at six five seven Boulevard, allow me to
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  Speaker 2: welcome you to the neighborhood. Six five seven Boulevard has
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  Speaker 2: been the subject of my family for decades now, and
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  Speaker 2: as it approaches its one hundred and tenth birthday, I
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  Speaker 2: have been put in charge of watching and waiting for
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  Speaker 2: its second coming. My grandfather watched the house in the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen twenties, and my father watched in the nineteen sixties.
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  Speaker 2: It is now my time. Do you know the history
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  Speaker 2: of the house. This was the first of many letters
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  Speaker 2: that would be sent to the couple who had just
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  Speaker 2: paid a whopping one point three million dollars to buy
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful house in the New Jersey neighborhood of Westfield
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  Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen. The neighborhood was that of the American Dream,
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  Speaker 2: one of the safest areas in New Jersey. It was classic,
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  Speaker 2: well kept and upscale, with the average household income nearing
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  Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars a year. Marie and Derek had
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  Speaker 2: worked their whole adult lives to be able to afford
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  Speaker 2: such extravagant home, and we're looking forward to starting their
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  Speaker 2: lives in it, but their dream would never be fulfilled.
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  Speaker 2: Built in nineteen oh five by a prominent town historian,
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  Speaker 2: the three story colonial style house boasts six bedrooms, high ceilings,
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  Speaker 2: elegant columns, multiple fireplaces, and a sleeping verdant garden. It
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  Speaker 2: was purchased from the original owners by the mayor of
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  Speaker 2: the town in nineteen thirteen for just one dollar. Eventually
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  Speaker 2: the mayor would sell it to his son and daughter
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  Speaker 2: in law for one dollar in nineteen forty seven. They
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  Speaker 2: would sell it to another couple a few years later
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty one, again for one dollar. That couple
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  Speaker 2: would sell the house to another couple in nineteen fifty three,
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  Speaker 2: again for just one dollar. That couple would sell it
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  Speaker 2: to another family in nineteen fifty five for just one dollar.
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  Speaker 2: This this was not some familial transaction where the homes
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  Speaker 2: sold for a dollar for tax purposes, as one would
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  Speaker 2: think at first glance, because something far more sinister was happening.
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  Speaker 2: No one wanted to live in the beautiful home it
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  Speaker 2: was being watched. Eventually, the latest owners would try to
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  Speaker 2: make a profit from the house and sold it for
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  Speaker 2: one point three million in twenty fourteen to a hard
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  Speaker 2: working couple, Maria and Derek, who, within the first few
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  Speaker 2: days of being the new owners of record, started receiving
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  Speaker 2: disturbing letters. In early June, the couple received a note
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  Speaker 2: in the mail asking about if young blood was being
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  Speaker 2: brought in. It read, in part, in regards to their
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  Speaker 2: being new inhabitants. Once I know their names, I will
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  Speaker 2: call them and draw them to me. I asked the
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  Speaker 2: prior owners to bring me young blood. The thing was
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  Speaker 2: children were moving into the home. The couple had three children.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly a month later, on July eighteenth, another letter came,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: this one asking a worrisome question and making a disturbing statement.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Have they found what's in the walls yet? In time
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: they will. I am pleased to know your names, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: have the names now of the young blood you've brought
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to me. The last letter they received requested horribly specific information.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Who has the bedrooms facing the street? I'll know as
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: soon as you move in. It will help me to
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: know who is in which bedroom. Then I can plan better.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: The couple was so spooked that, besides calling the police
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: each time a letter arrived, they also hired former FBI agents,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: forensic linguists, and private bodyguards to assist in finding the culprit.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: The forensic linguist was only able to infer that the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: person writing the letter was of an advanced age that
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: they were probably elderly, which made the letters more legitimate
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: and even spookier, as they were evidently not just a
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: teenage prank. The letters had no return address, and police
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: had nothing to go on. There was nothing they could
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: investigate as there were no leads. Police claimed they were
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: investigating all possibilities and looking at all the neighbors as suspects,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: but never made any arrests or even had any specific suspects.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: The watchers seemed to have a fascination for the three
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: children set to move in, as a few of the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: letters specifically referenced the nicknames the couple used for each
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: of their kids, with one letter stating six 's five
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: seven Boulevard is anxious for you to move in. It
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: has been years and years since the young Blood ruled
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the hallways of the house. Have you found all the
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: secrets it holds? Yet? Will the young Blood play in
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the basement or are they too afraid to go down
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: there alone? The nicknames referenced and the letter were not
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: released to the public that would further endanger the innocent children.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: The couple were unable to move into their dream home
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: as they felt unsafe. In one letter, the Watcher wrote,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: allow me to watch you and track you as you
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: move through the house. The Watcher commented that the new
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: owners had updated the house so fancy and remarked that
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the remodel cries for the past and what used to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: be in the time when I roamed its halls. The
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Watcher also said that they ran from room to room,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: imagining life with the rich occupants there. The couple was
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: appropriately freaked out and disturbed by these highly intrusive pieces
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: of correspondence and attempted to sell the house to no avail. Later,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: they would file a lawsuit against the previous owners, alleging
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: that as they were aware of the stalker, known by
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this time as the Watcher, they should have disclosed that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to potential buyers, and that by not doing so, they
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: were in reach of contract. The previous owners definitely were
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: aware of the Watcher, as on May twenty sixth of
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, weeks before the deed would be transferred to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Maria and Derek, the watcher sent a letter noting that
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: there was a new family moving in to the home
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and who claimed a right of possession and or ownership
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: to the home. With the lawsuit unsuccessful and the police
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: not being able to solve the case, the couple applied
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: to have the land bulldozed and proposed building two smaller
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: properties side by side to sell at a lower price
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: or to rent out, but their application to the neighborhood
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Planning Commission was denied.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: They were stuck with.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: The watched house exactly as it was. Not only was
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the couple dealing with the fear of the letter writer,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: but the couple now had to contend with angry members
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of the neighborhood who believed that the couples reaching out
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to the press and the police was bringing unwonted attention
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to the otherwise quiet neighborhood. One neighbor even went as
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: far to s that Maria and Derek be quote tarred
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: and feathered for them having brought the previously relatively unknown
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: area into media spotlight. Neighbors were also offended that they
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: had been questioned by police as persons of interest since
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: attempting to sell the home multiple times each at a
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: lower price point. The couple has given up and is
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: now renting it out, but at a significant loss as
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the rent is less than the mortgage payment. The last
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: letter received was in twenty seventeen, after the failed attempt
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: at bulldozing the home. It read simply, loved ones suddenly die.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: You were despised by the house and the Watcher won.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: To date, no advances have been made in the case,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and the Watcher remains at large. Netflix has just purchased
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the rights to this intriguing story and will be producing
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: a feature length film on it. If you have any
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: information on the true idea of the Watcher, please do
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: not hesitate to contact the Westfield Police Department at area
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: code nine zero eight seven eight nine four zero zero zero.
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