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  Speaker 1: Strongsville, Ohio used to be just another typical quiet American suburb.
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  Speaker 1: Nice homes, nice families, nice restaurants, and themaal. But in
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  Speaker 1: late twenty seventeen, a discovery was made in Strongsville that
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  Speaker 1: put this town on the map in the worst way possible.
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  Speaker 1: To understand this discovery, we need to go back to
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  Speaker 1: early twenty sixteen, when this town's nightmare began. In early
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, two longtime Strongsville residents Bruce and Melinda Pleskovic,
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  Speaker 1: received some very exciting news their twenty year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: named Anna and her twenty year old fiance named Jeff
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  Speaker 1: had just told them they were expecting a baby, a
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  Speaker 1: baby girl, and so Bruce and Melinda were totally excited
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  Speaker 1: about the prospect of finally becoming grandparents. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, they knew Anna and Jeff did not have
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  Speaker 1: very much money. Anna still lived at home with Bruce
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  Speaker 1: and Melinda. She did have a job, but she made
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  Speaker 1: very little money. She was a waitress at a local
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  Speaker 1: Applebee's restaurant. And as for Jeff, he had a better
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  Speaker 1: job working as a service technician for a heating and
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  Speaker 1: air company, but he didn't have enough money to support
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  Speaker 1: him and Anna. In fact, he didn't even have enough
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  Speaker 1: money to move out of his parents' home. He was
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  Speaker 1: still living with them on the other side of Strongsville.
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  Speaker 1: And so this couple, they're really excited about their baby,
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  Speaker 1: but Bruce and Melinda are thinking, you know, we really
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  Speaker 1: got to find a way to support them because they
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  Speaker 1: they are just not prepared for this first child. And
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  Speaker 1: so Bruce and Melinda they talked it over and they
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  Speaker 1: decided the best way to support this young couple was
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  Speaker 1: to tell their daughter, if she wanted to, she could
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  Speaker 1: invite Jeff to come stay at their house. That way
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  Speaker 1: the two of them could be together, and once they
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  Speaker 1: had their daughter, Bruce and Melinda could be the great
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  Speaker 1: grandparents and help take care of the baby, and in general,
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  Speaker 1: this would allow the couple to just continue to save
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  Speaker 1: money and move out when they were ready. And so
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  Speaker 1: when they told Anna they were willing to do this, Anna.
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  Speaker 2: Was so happy, she was so grateful.
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  Speaker 1: She called Jeff, and Jeff was equally happy and grateful
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  Speaker 1: and said, yes, I would love to move in with
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  Speaker 1: you guys. So it took several months, but finally, in
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  Speaker 1: June of twenty sixteen, which was the same month that
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  Speaker 1: Jeff and Anna welcomed their daughter to the world, Jeff
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  Speaker 1: would leave his parents home.
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  Speaker 2: And move into Bruce and Melinda's home.
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  Speaker 1: And almost immediately after he moved in, he and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of Anna's family began experiencing some very strange and
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  Speaker 1: disturbing things around on their property. Just a few days
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  Speaker 1: after Jeff had moved in, he and Anna were home alone.
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  Speaker 1: They were on the main floor of the house, and
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  Speaker 1: they were having dinner at the kitchen table, and at
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  Speaker 1: some point Jeff just happened to glance out one of
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  Speaker 1: the back windows that looked out into their backyard. And
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  Speaker 1: now this property had this huge, sprawling backyard. Basically, they
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  Speaker 1: had all these houses kind of in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: they all had almost like a communal.
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  Speaker 2: Backyard, this big open space.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jeff is looking out into this huge backyard
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  Speaker 1: and he sees off in the distance something strange. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really nobody's looking at because it's nighttime, it's dark,
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  Speaker 1: but he stands up and he walks over to the window,
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  Speaker 1: and as he's looking out, he sees way off on
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  Speaker 1: the backside of their property are of these four strangers
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  Speaker 1: just standing there, appearing to be smoking something, and they're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of looking.
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  Speaker 2: Up at the Plaskovic house.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jeff is looking out the window at these four,
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  Speaker 1: not really sure what to make of them, and he
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  Speaker 1: calls Anna over, and so Anna walks over, and the
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  Speaker 1: two of them are looking out, not really sure what
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  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, on the one hand, these four people,
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  Speaker 1: who they clearly didn't know, or they believed they didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: we're definitely trespassing. But at the same time, they weren't
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  Speaker 1: really doing anything. They were just kind of standing there smoking.
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  Speaker 1: But as they're watching these four people. One of them
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  Speaker 1: begins walking up the property towards their home and then
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  Speaker 1: stops alongside the Pluskovic trampoline, which was in their backyard,
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  Speaker 1: and this person begins fiddling with the trampoline, and so
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  Speaker 1: at this annas like, you know what, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. I feel totally uncomfortable, and so Anna
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  Speaker 1: would actually call the police, and so the police they
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  Speaker 1: come out. But by the time the squad car arrived
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  Speaker 1: in front of the Pleskovic house, the four people in
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  Speaker 1: back must have seen the car and they took off running.
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  Speaker 1: And so when the police officer went in the backyard
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  Speaker 1: and looked around, there was no one there, and there
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  Speaker 1: was also no sign they were there. There was no
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  Speaker 1: drop cigarette butts or anything.
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  Speaker 2: They just kind of vanished.
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  Speaker 1: And so the police officer told Jeff and Anna, if
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  Speaker 1: they come back, you know, let us know.
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  Speaker 2: And so the officer left, and then a little while later,
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  Speaker 2: when Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: And Linda came home, Jeff and Anna would tell them
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  Speaker 1: about what happened, and they would agree that that was
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  Speaker 1: totally stress that in all the decades they had lived
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  Speaker 1: in Strongsville, they had never had anybody stroll onto their
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  Speaker 1: property and just loiter in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: and so for the next couple of days, the family
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  Speaker 1: was definitely on edge, but after a little while, this
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  Speaker 1: whole incident was largely forgotten about. Fast forward about five
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  Speaker 1: months to November twenty sixteen, and Anna was home alone
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  Speaker 1: with her young daughter, and she's playing with her daughter
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  Speaker 1: on the first floor of the house towards the front
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  Speaker 1: of the house. And as she's playing with her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: she suddenly hears what sounds like someone trying to open
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  Speaker 1: the back sliding glass store on the back of the house,
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  Speaker 1: and so instinctively Anna thinks, Okay, you know, Jeff must
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  Speaker 1: be out there, or my parents must be out there,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't have a key or something, and so
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  Speaker 1: she scoops up her daughter and she begins walking towards
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  Speaker 1: the back of the house to open the store for them.
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  Speaker 2: And when she walks.
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  Speaker 1: Into one of the back rooms, before she reaches the
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  Speaker 1: back door, she happens to look out one of the
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  Speaker 1: windows that looked out into the backyard, and standing right
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  Speaker 1: up against the glass is this unknown male thing with
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  Speaker 1: his face pressed up against the glass, and so Anna
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  Speaker 1: just freezes and stares at this guy. And then this
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  Speaker 1: guy he notices Anna, and he ducks down out of view.
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  Speaker 1: And now Anna's thinking to herself, this is the guy.
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  Speaker 1: He must have been trying to break in my back door.
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  Speaker 1: I'm home alone. I don't know what's going on here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to try to break
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  Speaker 1: it again. And so she just turns and runs back
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  Speaker 1: towards the front of the house. She runs upstairs, she
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  Speaker 1: goes in a bedroom, she locks the door, and she
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  Speaker 1: calls the police. But by the time the police come
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  Speaker 1: out there and they look around, they can't find this
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  Speaker 1: unknown figure that was at the back of the house,
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  Speaker 1: and there's no sign of an attempted forced entry. And so, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: they told her, look, you know, I'm sure this was
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  Speaker 1: very traumatic for you, but there's really nothing we can
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  Speaker 1: do here. There's no evidence to suggest who did this,
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  Speaker 1: and so please just, you know, keep your house locked,
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  Speaker 1: and if you see anybody suspicious on your property, call
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  Speaker 1: us back. And so, naturally, after the police left and
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  Speaker 1: Anna had a chance to contact Jeff and her parents,
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  Speaker 1: they were horrified and they rushed home to comfort her.
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  Speaker 1: And then after the initial shock of this incident had
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  Speaker 1: worn off, the family began to speculate you know, do
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  Speaker 1: you think this might be connected to those four strangers
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  Speaker 1: we saw on our property a few months ago. It
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  Speaker 1: just seems odd that those two things would happen so
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  Speaker 1: close together. And then the family began to think, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well then who is this person? Who are these people?
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  Speaker 2: What do they want? Why are they targeting us? What's
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  Speaker 2: going on? Because as it was the Plaskovic.
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  Speaker 1: Family, they didn't have any enemies, at least none that
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  Speaker 1: they knew of. If anything, the people of Strongsville adored
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  Speaker 1: this family, especially Melinda, the mother. For the past twenty
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  Speaker 1: plus years, she had been a middle school teacher in
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  Speaker 1: town and her students adored her. She was also a
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  Speaker 1: big time soccer coach in the community because she had
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  Speaker 1: played in college and she was still very passionate about it,
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  Speaker 1: so she was this amazing coach, and in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of many parents in the Strongsville community, Melinda was a
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  Speaker 1: bit of an inspiration because she was not only.
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  Speaker 2: The mother to Anna, she was also the mother of.
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  Speaker 1: An eighteen year old boy named Kyle, who had Down
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  Speaker 1: syndrome and was nonverbal, and Melinda just had this unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: away with him where she was so good to him.
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  Speaker 1: She incorporated him and everything. She got him so involved,
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  Speaker 1: she gave him the best life he could possibly have,
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  Speaker 1: and so anytime you saw Kyle with his mother, Kyle
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  Speaker 1: would be all smiles. Even though Kyle couldn't speak, it
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  Speaker 1: was so obvious his mother made him incredibly happy. But
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the reason for these strangers to be lurking
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  Speaker 1: around their property, the Pleaskavic family was now totally on
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  Speaker 1: edge and found themselves constantly looking out the windows, especially
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  Speaker 1: at night, in fear these strangers were going to come
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  Speaker 1: back and might try to break in again. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: these strangers would come back in January of twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: So two months after Anna saw that unknown figure at
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  Speaker 1: the window and heard the back door sliding around, Bruce's
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  Speaker 1: car was broken into. It was sitting in the driveway
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  Speaker 1: of their property. Someone got inside of it and stole
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  Speaker 1: his laptop, and so Bruce he calls the police and
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  Speaker 1: he says, you know, I've got to believe this has
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  Speaker 1: to do with the people that are harassing my family.
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  Speaker 1: And the police believe him, and they began looking around
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  Speaker 1: and asking around, but they could never track down the
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  Speaker 1: laptop or the thief, and so once again the family
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  Speaker 1: was kind of left on their own, and the police said, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you see anything else, let us know,
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  Speaker 1: but there's not much we can do here. A few
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  Speaker 1: months later, in July of that year, Anna, Jeff, and
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  Speaker 1: their daughter were all home together one night when Anna
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  Speaker 1: happened to look out one of the back windows on
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  Speaker 1: their first floor, and out on the very back of
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  Speaker 1: the property were three strangers just standing in that same
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  Speaker 1: spot where they saw those four strangers smoking the year before,
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  Speaker 1: And these three strangers are just standing there looking up
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  Speaker 1: at the house, and so horrified, Anna calls out to
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  Speaker 1: Jeff and says, look, there are three people in the
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  Speaker 1: back of our property. And so Anna she pulls out
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  Speaker 1: her phone and she's calling the police. And as she's
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  Speaker 1: calling the police, Jeff, who's totally upset that there are
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  Speaker 1: these people harassing him and his family and making them
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  Speaker 1: feel unsafe, he just grabs a flashlight and storms out
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  Speaker 1: the back door to go confront these people. But as
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  Speaker 1: soon as Jeff went out the back door, before he
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  Speaker 1: could even shine the light on them, the three people
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  Speaker 1: had turned and ran and vanished.
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  Speaker 2: And so finally when.
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  Speaker 1: The police did show up, they were aware of all
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  Speaker 1: the calls they had gotten from this family, and so
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  Speaker 1: they went out there and they did a serious search
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  Speaker 1: for these three strangers, but like always, nothing was found,
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  Speaker 1: and so the family once again was told, if you
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  Speaker 1: see anything else, let us know. The following month, which
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  Speaker 1: was August, Anna was home with her daughter along with
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  Speaker 1: her mother who was upstairs. And as Anna is in
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  Speaker 1: the front of the house in the playroom with her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: she hears the sound of somebody trying.
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  Speaker 2: To open that backsliding door.
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  Speaker 1: And now immediately her radar is up because she knows
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  Speaker 1: what happened the last time she heard the sound, there
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  Speaker 1: was that person in the window. But she's thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can't just immediately call the police. I need to
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  Speaker 1: at least look and see if there's someone that I
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  Speaker 1: know at the back door, and so she scoops her
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  Speaker 1: daughter up, She stands up, and she walks around to
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the room she's in and she kind
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  Speaker 1: of peeks her head down this hallway that will give
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  Speaker 1: her a clear view of this backsliding glass door. She
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  Speaker 1: finally has a full view of whoever is there. She
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  Speaker 1: screams because there are two large adults, as she would say,
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  Speaker 1: standing at the back door trying to force open the store,
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  Speaker 1: and so when she screams, these two strangers they hear it.
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  Speaker 1: They turn around and they run and Melinda, she was upstairs,
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  Speaker 1: she hears her daughter screaming. She comes flying downstairs. She's
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's going on. Anna is hysterical.
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  Speaker 1: The baby's crying, and so Melinda actually calls the police
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  Speaker 1: about what her daughter has just seen. The police come out,
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  Speaker 1: they search the property, they can't find anyone, and so
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  Speaker 1: again the police leave and they tell the family, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry this is happening to you, but
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  Speaker 1: we can't do anything. So please just let us know
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  Speaker 1: if anything else happens, and we'll be out here as
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  Speaker 1: soon as we can. You know, we're bound to catch
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  Speaker 1: these people, but you know, right now, we just don't
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  Speaker 1: have much to operate. On the following month, which was September,
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  Speaker 1: one of Melinda's car keys would go missing, and whoever
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  Speaker 1: had these keys, whoever had stolen these keys, would use
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  Speaker 1: it to randomly start Melinda's car in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, and they also used it to set off
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  Speaker 1: her car alarm at odd hours of the night. And
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  Speaker 1: then also during this timeframe that her keys were missing,
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  Speaker 1: they also discovered that there were nails jammed into the
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  Speaker 1: tires of Bruce's car, and so, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the family calls the police and tells them about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, but the police can't do anything, and so,
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  Speaker 1: very frustrated, Melinda actually takes to Facebook and posts that
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  Speaker 1: someone stolen her keys and please just give them back,
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  Speaker 1: and just overall she's pleading with whoever is harassing her
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  Speaker 1: family to just leave them alone. But unfortunately this post
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  Speaker 1: would not do anything. The harassment would continue. A month later,
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  Speaker 1: on October nineteenth, Jeff was home alone when he heard
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  Speaker 1: the sound of the backsliding glass door rattling. And now
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  Speaker 1: he knows that every time this has been heard by Anna,
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  Speaker 1: that there's always some stranger at the back door, and
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  Speaker 1: so Jeff grabs the family dog and he very carefully
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  Speaker 1: turns and looks down that hallway towards the back door
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  Speaker 1: to see who this is. And right as he pokes
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  Speaker 1: his head out, he sees there's this large adult figure with.
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  Speaker 2: A hood up trying to open this back door.
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  Speaker 1: And so the dog sees this person and starts barking
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  Speaker 1: and running towards the door. Jeff runs after the dog
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  Speaker 1: and this big person outside who's trying to break in.
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  Speaker 1: He sees the dog, he sees Jeff running, and he
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  Speaker 1: turns and he runs away, and so Jeff and the
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  Speaker 1: dog they stay inside the house and they watch this
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  Speaker 1: guy just take off across the property and disappear into
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  Speaker 1: the trees, and Jeff would call the police, but like always.
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  Speaker 2: The police came out and there just was nothing they
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  Speaker 2: could do.
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  Speaker 1: Four days later, on October twenty third, Jeff, along with
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  Speaker 1: his young daughter and Bruce, they went to the local
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  Speaker 1: Applebee's where Anna worked, to have dinner there and have
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  Speaker 1: Anna wait on them, and then after they were done eating,
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  Speaker 1: they said their goodbyes to Anna. They left the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: They hopped in their cars, and they drove back to
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  Speaker 1: their house. When they got there, Bruce was the first
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  Speaker 1: up the steps and he got to the front door
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  Speaker 1: and it was locked, and so he knocked and Kyle,
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  Speaker 1: his son, he came and unlocked the door. Bruce went inside,
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  Speaker 1: followed closely behind by Jeff, who was holding his daughter.
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  Speaker 2: They get inside and Bruce walks through the house.
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  Speaker 1: To the back of the house where the kitchen is.
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  Speaker 1: He flips on the lights and there's something on the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen floor and when Jeff sees it, he immediately turns
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  Speaker 1: around and runs out of the house carrying his daughter.
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  Speaker 1: He grabs Kyle along the way and just takes them
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  Speaker 1: straight out of the house. And then once Jeff was outside,
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  Speaker 1: he called nine one one, And when you listen to
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  Speaker 1: his nine to one one call, it sounds like Jeff
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  Speaker 1: is unable to process what he has just seen. Nine
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  Speaker 1: one one.
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  Speaker 3: What's the atter?
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  Speaker 2: Severe emergency. Somebody's been attacked to my house.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's been what attack?
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  Speaker 2: The attacked too? Who was attacked?
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  Speaker 1: No Pluskivic?
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  Speaker 2: No Pluskivic was a he was attacked by whom?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know? No, we just came home.
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  Speaker 2: She's on a kitchen floor.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff and Bruce had just discovered Melinda lying on the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen floor.
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  Speaker 2: She had been.
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  Speaker 1: Stabbed over thirty five times and shot three times. She
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  Speaker 1: would be rushed to the hospital, but she would die
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  Speaker 1: that night. Although the family was in shock and couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even begin to process us what had just happened, they
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  Speaker 1: were all acutely aware that whoever had done this to
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  Speaker 1: Melinda had to be connected to all of these strange
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  Speaker 1: and suspicious people that have been lurking around their property
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  Speaker 1: for the better part of two years. In fact, literally
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  Speaker 1: after Jeff had called nine one one, Bruce was inside
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen, kneeling next to his dying wife, and
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: he called nine one one and he would tell the
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: dispatcher that the Strongsville Police Department really dropped the ball
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: nine one one.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: What city is the emergency? Please come to one or
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Blazing Star. I think my wife's someone. Tell me we've
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: had people breaking it offing house. Now someone get killed.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Her, Sir, tell me the city you need.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: To talk to strong Zille, Ohio. Okay, you need to
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: be transferred. Don't hang up.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Nine on the city of your emergency, Strong Jill Ohio.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: We have people on the way already.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: What's the address, poor Blazing Star?
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I think someone killed my wife?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Do you think someone killed your wife? Yeah? I can't.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: We've had people trying to break into a year sure.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Sir, I need to ask you questions.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, are you there right now? I just got in
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the door with my new.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Son in law. My son Kyle was here way, sir.
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  Speaker 3: What I want you to do is walk outside.
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  Speaker 1: The Strongsville Police Department would come out in force for
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: this case and they would solve it in just four days,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and when they went public with who killed Melinda, no
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: one could believe it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Back on October twenty third.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: So this was the night Melinda was discovered. Jeff along
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: with his young daughter and Melinda and her son, Kyle.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: They were all together in the house and at some
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: point Jeff had put his daughter down in her playpen
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: and then went into the kitchen where Melinda was and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: he walked up to her, pulled out a knife, and
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: stabbed her over thirty five times. And then when Melinda
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: fell to the ground, Jeff drew a gun and shot
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: her three additional times to make sure she was dead. Now,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: while he was doing this, his daughter is literally just
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: a few feet away, and Kyle presumably is also right nearby,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: but he has no way of understanding what's happening to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: his mother. And so with these two totally innocent lives
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: just right nearby, Jeff would clean off his weapons, and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: he'd take off his bloody clothes and he would hide
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: them inside of his car, and then he would just
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: scoop up his daughter and he would leave the house,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: leaving Kyle alone in the house with his dying mother
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen, just leaves him there shuts the door
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: locks it, and then Jeff and his daughter would drive
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to Applebee's to have dinner.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: With Melinda's husband and her daughter.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: And then after several hours, when they got back to
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the property, Jeff knew what was waiting for them inside,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and he still allowed Bruce to go inside first and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: discover his dying wife on the kitchen floor. Very little
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: is known about why Jeff did this, because Jeff has
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: actually never come out and given his motive for the crime.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: The running theory is that Jeff actually was not going
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to be able to pay for the wedding which was
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of days, and the wedding
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: venue had actually contacted Melinda and said, hey, you know,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: we're canceling the wedding because your future son in law
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: can't pay for it, and so Melinda apparently confronted Jeff
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: about his financial troubles, and the theory is he snapped
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and killed her. However, that can't possibly be the entire
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: story for why he did this, because it would turn
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: out Jeff was found to be responsible for literally every
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: single suspicious event that had taken place around the Plascavic
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: property leading up to the attack, meaning every time they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: had seen strangers lurking around their property or people trying
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to break into their house that had been because of Jeff.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Either it was literally Jeff outside being one of these
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: suspicious people, or he had asked friends or hired someone
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: or groups of people to pretend to be suspicious people
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: on the property, or Jeff had been the only person
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to see these vicious people and then miraculously, when other
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: people attempted to look.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Outside, you know, they were gone. And so obviously Jeff
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: was lying.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And so I actually had the opportunity to speak with
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: one of Jeff's childhood friends who was actually living roughly
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: in the Strongsville area when this horrible murder took place.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And what this person told me is that what is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: kind of generally accepted as why Jeff did this, according
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to the people in Strongsville, is that Jeff apparently loathed Melinda.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Even though she had opened her house to him, he
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: loathed her, and as soon as he moved in in
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, he began plotting to kill her. And so
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all of these suspicious events were Jeff's attempt at building
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: this really intricate alibi that they had these strangers out
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: there that were targeting this family and so that when
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: she would ultimately be killed by him, it would look
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: like these strangers had done it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And at first it totally worked.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Everybody believed, the police, the family friends, that strangers had
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: broken into the house and killed Melinda. In fact, there
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: was still little suspicion on Jeff after her murder, that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Jeff actually served as a pallbearer in Melinda's funeral.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: But ultimately the police would discover.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The knife and some bloody clothes in the back of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Jeff's car, and so they would arrest him and they
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: would present this mountain of evidence against him, and Jeff
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: would confess to killing Melinda. However, he wouldn't give any
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: additional information about the crime. He would just basically say, yes,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I did kill her. He would also never give an
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: apology or explanation to the family. He would ultimately be
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison, with the opportunity for parole after.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Thirty three years.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: During Jeff's trial, there was this totally heartbreaking moment when Bruce,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Melinda's husband, spoke and he would say, their son Kyle
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: does not understand that his mother is gone, and so
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: now every time they go out to eat, which is
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: something Kyle really likes to do and he used to love.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Doing with his mother.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: He'll just sit and stare out the window, eagerly expecting
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: his mother to show up any minute.
• 20:58
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• 21:01
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