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Everything Unsolved Mysteries Leaves Out About The Oslo Plaza Woman · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: All right, everyone, get ready, because today we're diving headfirst
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  into a case that's colder than a Norwegian winter and
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  way more mysterious. The unsolved death of the Oslo Plaza woman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one has it all. A mysterious death, a
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  possible cover up, and enough twist to give you whiplash.
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  It's a real head scratcher.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. We're talking about a woman found dead in a
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  fancy hotel room back in nineteen ninety five, and even now,
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  almost thirty years later, nobody knows for sure if it
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  was suicide or something way more sinister.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and the stuff you sent over, man, let me
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  tell you, it's got enough twists and turns to make
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  a spy novelist jealous.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding. To make sure we're all on the same page, though,
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  Let's start with the basics. It's May nineteen ninety five
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  and a woman checks into the Oslo Plaza hotel. Right,
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  use the name Jennifer Fairgate. Seems pretty normal so far, right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not quite. Turns out Jennifer Fairgate was probably an alias.
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  This journalist Lars Christian Wegner, has done some amazing work
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  on this case, and he found inconsistencies with practically everything
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  she told the hotel, the name, the Belgian address she gave,
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  even hints that there might have been another person with her,
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  someone named Lois. It's almost like she just materialized out
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  of thin air.
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  Speaker 1: And get this, she didn't use a credit card when
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  she checked in, no payment info whatsoever. I've stayed in
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  some pretty sketchy hostels in my day, and even they
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  wanted a credit card.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is the Oslo Plaza hotel we're talking about,
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  not some roadside motel. Right off the bat. That tells
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  you either someone messed up big time or Jennifer had
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  some kind of understanding with someone at the hotel. That's
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  when this whole thing starts to get really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got this woman who's basically a ghost
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  checking into a really nice hotel without paying.
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  Speaker 2: What happens next, So Jennifer, she pretty much keeps to herself.
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  You know, we know she ordered room service, some bratwors
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  and potato salad, which you might think, who cares, right,
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  But that little detail that's going to come back in
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  a big way later.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, I love it when that happens. It's like a
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  Chekhov's gun. But with Bratwurst. All right, so she's laying low,
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  enjoying her room service. What could go wrong? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, on the third day, a security guard's doing his
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  rounds and he hears something that sounds like a gunshot
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  coming from Jennifer's room. Uh, oh, you got it. He
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  radies it into a supervisor right away. But here's the thing.
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  It takes about fifteen minutes for them to actually go
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  into her room. Fifteen minutes is a long time to
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  wait when you hear a gunshot.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think in a movie?
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  Speaker 2: It feels like forever exactly. And when they finally get
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  into the room, they find Jennifer dead on the floor,
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  gunshot to the head, nine millimeter Browning pistol in her hand.
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  Open and shutcase, or so it seemed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I think we're about to find out that fifteen
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  minutes is a very long time in a case like this.
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  But first, a Browning huh? Something tells me it wasn't
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  that simple.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be right to be suspicious. Turns out it wasn't
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  a real Browning. It was an older Hungarian copy.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, but an older model? I mean, does that really
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  tell us much?
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  Speaker 2: It might? Because get this there weren't any fingerprints on
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  it at all?
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  Speaker 1: Really, Now, that is strange. You'd think there'd be something, right, Like,
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  I know, they had fingerprint technology back then exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So if this was a suicide, had the gun get
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  wiped clean? And why use an unregistered weapon in the
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  first place? That doesn't really add up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the gun's a bit of a mystery. What
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  about everything else? Anything else off about the scene?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a bunch of things. Remember how that security
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  guard found the gun still clutched in her hand. Yeah, Well,
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  the forensics experts they took a look and they said
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  the gun was totally in the wrong position. Her thumb
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  was on the trigger, which I don't know about you,
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  but that's a weird way to shoot yourself, you know,
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  especially with the recoil from a nine millimeter.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's not how you Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's way more likely someone put it there after tried
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  to make it look like a suicide.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, so let me get this straight. The guns
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  wiped clean, it's a weird model, and it was placed
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  in her hand wrong. Are you think of what I'm
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  thinking staged?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying I'm not sold on the suicide thing.
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  Oh and it gets even the blood splatter analysis. That
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  adds in another wrinkle to all this. So there was
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  splatter in the room, which makes sense, right, gunshot blood,
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  but there was hardly any on her hand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, stop, this is too much. It's like a bad
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  spy movie or something. So we've got an unregistered gun,
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  a weird grip, no fingerprints, and a clean hand. What
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  does it all mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, to me, it sounds like someone went to a
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  lot of trouble to make this look like Jennifer killed herself.
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  But the question is why go to all that effort?
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  And that brings us to the most interesting part of
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  all of this. Who was Jennifer Fairgate?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we might be dealing with a seriously
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  professional cover up here, but who was this Jennifer Fairgate?
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  What did we actually know about her?
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  Speaker 2: That's the million dollar question, isn't it. You mentioned earlier
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  she checked in with no luggage, right, not entirely true.
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  She did have a briefcase.
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  Speaker 1: Oooh, okay, a briefcase. Now we're talking. So what was
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  in it? Cash, jewels, secret plans.
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  Speaker 2: Even better, bullet bullets yep for that Hungarian pistol.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, hold on, I'm having trouble picturing this who
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  travels with a briefcase full of bullets?
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's a little unusual, to say the least kind
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  of implies she knew her way around a gun, don't
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  you think? Not exactly tourist material.
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. And speaking of unusual, you're going
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  to tell us about that room service.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, Oh yeah, the plot thickens. So they do the
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  autopsy and guess what they find.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me poison bratwurst, not.
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  Speaker 2: Quite undigested food, and it matched her last room service order.
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  But here's the kicker. She ordered that meal a full
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  twenty four hours before she supposedly died.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, so you're saying she died a whole day earlier
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  than they thought.
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  Speaker 2: The evidence seems to point that way. Throws that whole
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  timeline out the window, doesn't it is she died a
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  day earlier?
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  Speaker 1: Well, who fired the gun? That security guard heard? My
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  head's spinning. We got a maybe stage suicide, a mystery
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  woman with a briefcase full of bullets, and now the
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  timeline's all messed up. I need a minute to process this, and.
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  Speaker 2: We're not done yet. Remember how Jennifer gave that Belgian
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  address when she checked in. Yeah, the fake one, right, Well,
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  there are some interesting theories about that. Some people have
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  connected this case to another case that was happening in
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  Belgium around the same time, the Mark Dutrue case. The
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  serial killer, the one and only du True's crimes were
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  absolutely horrific. Abducting, torturing, murdering young women shook Europe to.
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  Speaker 1: Its core, I killly imagine now.
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  Speaker 2: To be clear, they never officially connected Jennifer's case to
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  do True, but the timing is, well, it makes you wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely makes you wonder. It's kind of a terrifying thought.
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  Speaker 2: Really for sure. And despite the DNA analysis they did,
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  which suggested some East German origins, the case is still unsolved.
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  Jennifer Fairgate, whoever she was, she took her secrets to
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  the grave.
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  Speaker 1: So to sum it all up, we have a suitcase
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  full of bullets, a suspicious last meal, a possible connection
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  to a notorious serial killer, and a woman who disappeared
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  as quickly as she arrived.
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  Speaker 2: It really it does sound like something straight out of
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  a spy novel, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Totally so, if Jennifer Fairgate was living a double life,
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  what kind of secrets did she take with her and
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  who was so determined to make sure those secrets stayed hidden.
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  Speaker 2: That's the mystery, isn't it? Was she a spy involved
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  in some kind of international intrigue. We may never know
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  the full story, but that's what makes these cases so fascinating,
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  isn't it. They remind us that sometimes truth really is
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  stranger than fiction. What do you think happened?
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  Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. This deep dive has been a
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  wild ride, but I tell you one thing, I'm not
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  going to forget Jennifer Fairgate anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: Me neither. And who knows, maybe one day someone out
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  there will uncover the missing piece of this puzzle and
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  finally give Jennifer Fairgate back her true identity.
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  Speaker 1: I hope. So thanks for walking us through this fascinating
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  case today. It's been a wild ride, and to everyone listening,
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  if you have any thoughts on this case, be sure
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  to check out the source material and let us know
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  what you think really happened.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely Until next time,