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Cases With The Most INSANE Twists You've Ever Heard · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: What is up, EWU crew? Recently, more cold cases than
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  Speaker 1: ever are being solved, but sometimes the long-awaited conclusion of
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  Speaker 1: these cases can take surprising and bewildering turns. Today, we
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  Speaker 1: are taking a deep dive into three solved cold cases
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  Speaker 1: that have shocking and unexpected twists. Today's first case is
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  Speaker 1: rather unusual and begins with a mystery that seems so
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  Speaker 1: strange It could be straight out of a movie. But first,
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  Speaker 1: we must set the stage. Likely born in 1937, Dorian
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  Speaker 1: Corey was a drag performer and renowned dressmaker who graduated
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  Speaker 1: from Parsons School of Design. During the 1960s to 90s,
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  Speaker 1: Dorian created a name for herself in the Harlem drag
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  Speaker 1: ball scene. Dorian had a difficult life, struggling with acceptance
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  Speaker 1: while living in near poverty. But after years as a
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  Speaker 1: veteran drag queen, Dorian began mentoring younger performers and offering
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  Speaker 1: her support to her drag family through what she called
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  Speaker 1: the House of Corey, a haven where all were accepted
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  Speaker 1: and cared for. Dorian eventually appeared in the 1990 documentary titled,
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  Speaker 1: Paris is Burning, where she spoke about the Harlem drag
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  Speaker 1: scene and appeared in interviews as a witty and unflappable character.
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  Speaker 1: In the film, Dorian remarks, everybody wants to make an impression,
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  Speaker 1: some mark upon the world. Then you think you've made
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  Speaker 1: a mark on the world if you just get through it,
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  Speaker 1: and a few people remember your name. Little did Dorian know,
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  Speaker 1: her name would be remembered. but likely not in any
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  Speaker 1: way she expected. Tragically, in August of 1993, Dorian passed
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  Speaker 1: away from complications due to AIDS at the age of 56.
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  Speaker 1: Her friend, Lois Taylor, had taken care of Dorian during
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  Speaker 1: her final days, but Lois had no idea that her
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  Speaker 1: close friend and pillar in the drag community was hiding
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  Speaker 1: a dark and disturbing secret. Despite being dead, Dorian's story
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  Speaker 1: was about to take a shocking twist. In October 1993,
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  Speaker 1: Lois and two friends went in search of the perfect
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  Speaker 1: Halloween costume. As Lois had been planning on selling some
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  Speaker 1: of Dorian's famed clothing from her years of performances, the
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  Speaker 1: extensive wardrobe in Dorian's Harlem apartment seemed to be the
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  Speaker 1: perfect place to look for costumes. Hunting through Dorian's closet,
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  Speaker 1: they found countless feathers and sequins, but also something hidden
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  Speaker 1: behind the racks of clothes. Within, Lois discovered a green
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  Speaker 1: and plaid garment bag folded and abandoned on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Intrigued by what could be hidden within, she tried to
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  Speaker 1: pull the garment bag from the closet, but found that
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  Speaker 1: her 135 pounds couldn't lift whatever was within the bag. Undeterred,
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  Speaker 1: Lois sought out scissors and began to cut into the material.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't clear what Lois thought she would find, but
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  Speaker 1: when a foul smelling puff of air escaped from the
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  Speaker 1: garment bag, she deserted her efforts to see what was
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  Speaker 1: within and called the police. Investigators collected the heavy and
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  Speaker 1: stinking garment bag and slowly peeled back multiple layers. Below
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  Speaker 1: the zipper were wrapped layers of a faux leather which
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  Speaker 1: when cut away, revealed another layer of plastic. Tucked into
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  Speaker 1: the layers were pull tabs from the tops of beer
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  Speaker 1: cans that had been used in the 1960s and 70s.
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  Speaker 1: When it was all finally cut away, police were met
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  Speaker 1: with a gruesome sight, a mummified corpse. The mummified body
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  Speaker 1: was curled into the fetal position, wearing only the tattered
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  Speaker 1: remains of blue and white boxer shorts. The skin of
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  Speaker 1: the corpse had turned splotchy purple and yellow, the ears
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  Speaker 1: completely disintegrated, and there was a hole in the head
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  Speaker 1: from a bullet. Residue on the corpse indicated that it
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  Speaker 1: had been covered in baking soda, likely to help disguise
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  Speaker 1: the smell of the putrefying body before being wrapped within
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  Speaker 1: layers and then shoved into the garment bag. The body
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have been hidden in the recesses of Dorian's
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  Speaker 1: closet for a couple decades at least 15 years, but
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  Speaker 1: likely over 20. Even though the corpse was decomposed beyond recognition,
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  Speaker 1: the layers of plastic and faux leather had actually managed
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  Speaker 1: to preserve the body's fingerprints. Luckily for investigators, the victim
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  Speaker 1: had an extensive criminal record and they soon had a
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  Speaker 1: name for the mummy in the drag queen's closet, Robert
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Worley. Bobby had been born in December of 1938.
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  Speaker 1: Not much is known about Bobby's life except for his crimes,
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  Speaker 1: including his arrest in 1963 for assault, which he served
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  Speaker 1: three years in prison for. Soon after his release, his
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  Speaker 1: family lost contact with him and hadn't heard from him
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  Speaker 1: at all since the late 1960s. Because of his past,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't even sure that he was missing but he
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  Speaker 1: seemed to have vanished into thin air. Any investigation into
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  Speaker 1: Bobby's whereabouts went cold. By all accounts, there was no
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  Speaker 1: plausible reason for Dorian and Bobby to have known each other,
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  Speaker 1: nevermind a way to logically explain how Bobby ended up
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  Speaker 1: dead and mummified in the closet of a stalwart drag performer.
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  Speaker 1: Though the evidence appeared that it was likely that Dorian
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  Speaker 1: had been the one to kill Bobby as she presumably
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  Speaker 1: lived with his body in her closet for decades, no
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  Speaker 1: one around the drag performer would have thought she was
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  Speaker 1: capable of such a heinous crime. Theories about what happened
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  Speaker 1: between the two swirled, and some who knew Dorian claimed
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  Speaker 1: that she couldn't have been the one to kill him,
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  Speaker 1: but was actually protecting the real killer. This theory includes
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Dorian moved apartments in 1988, during the
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  Speaker 1: period when Bobby's body would have already been mummified. Rather
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  Speaker 1: than lugging a corpse undetected between apartments, this theory maintains
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  Speaker 1: that Dorian moved into an apartment where the body already was,
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  Speaker 1: and rather than call the police, she kept it a secret.
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  Speaker 1: Another theory, one that is more believable, but still purely speculation,
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  Speaker 1: is that Bobby may have attempted to rob Dorian, and
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  Speaker 1: she could have ended up killing him in self-defense during
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  Speaker 1: the ensuing struggle. Allegedly, Dorian had attached a note to
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  Speaker 1: the body saying that, this poor man broke into my
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  Speaker 1: home and was trying to rob me. But the existence
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  Speaker 1: of this note was never verified. However, there is one
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  Speaker 1: detail of Bobby's body that may be the hint to
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  Speaker 1: the true nature of how Bobby and Dorian knew each other.
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  Speaker 1: His body was found wearing only boxer shorts, and the
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  Speaker 1: way that he was shoved into the garment bag led
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  Speaker 1: investigators to believe that he hadn't been wearing other clothing
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  Speaker 1: at the time of his death. Ruling out the chance
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  Speaker 1: that he had tried to rob Dorian in only his underwear,
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  Speaker 1: investigators came to the conclusion that the two could have
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  Speaker 1: been in a tumultuous relationship, one that purportedly ended in
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  Speaker 1: a crime of passion and Bobby being shot. There is
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  Speaker 1: other evidence towards this theory, such as Dorian's semi-autobiographical story
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  Speaker 1: about a transgender woman who killed her lover, which was
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  Speaker 1: possibly written about her and Bobby. As well, before he vanished,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby had reportedly called his brother while drunk and complained
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  Speaker 1: about a fight with someone named Dorian. Though we may
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  Speaker 1: never know exactly what could have motivated Dorian to allegedly
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  Speaker 1: kill Bobby, and decide to live with his mummified corpse
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  Speaker 1: for decades. Many theorists believe that Dorian had been the
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  Speaker 1: one to take Bobby's life and got away with it
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  Speaker 1: undetected during her lifetime. Our next case is no less tragic,
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  Speaker 1: but filled with even more unexpected twists. Jerry Michael Williams,
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  Speaker 1: who went by Mike, was born October 16th, 1969 to
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  Speaker 1: dedicated and self-sacrificing parents. Mike's father was a Greyhound bus
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  Speaker 1: driver while his mother worked at a daycare. Rather than
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  Speaker 1: save their money to buy a house and move their
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  Speaker 1: family out of the trailer where they lived, Mike's parents
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  Speaker 1: saved all of their money for him and his brother
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  Speaker 1: to attend North Florida's Christian High School in the hopes
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  Speaker 1: that it would help secure their successful futures. Mike excelled
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  Speaker 1: in school and went on to get an urban planning
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  Speaker 1: degree from Florida State University. He was hired as a
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  Speaker 1: property appraiser where he reportedly made $ 200, 000 a year and
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  Speaker 1: married a woman named Denise Merrill in 1994. The two
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  Speaker 1: had a daughter in 1999, seeming to fulfill his parents'
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  Speaker 1: dreams for his prosperous future. In 2000, the couple was
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  Speaker 1: planning more of their future together, discussing having another child
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  Speaker 1: and even looking to take a family trip on a
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  Speaker 1: Hawaiian cruise. However, not everything was as it seemed, and
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  Speaker 1: soon Mike's idyllic life came crashing down. On Saturday, December 16th, 2000,
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  Speaker 1: Mike woke up early to go duck hunting on Lake Seminole,
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  Speaker 1: a reservoir between Florida and Georgia. Mike told his wife
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  Speaker 1: he would be back midday so that the two could
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  Speaker 1: celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary later that night. However, when
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  Speaker 1: Mike didn't return by noon, Denise became worried and called
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  Speaker 1: her father. She also called Mike's best friend, Brian Winchester,
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  Speaker 1: a man who had initially been Denise's childhood friend before
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  Speaker 1: he later became close with her husband. Brian and his
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  Speaker 1: own father went in search for Mike, and after hours
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  Speaker 1: of driving around Lake Seminole, They believed they located his
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  Speaker 1: Ford Bronco at a remote boat launch at Jackson County.
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  Speaker 1: Mike's boat was confirmed to be found by the Florida
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  Speaker 1: Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 225 feet from the boat launch.
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  Speaker 1: But there was no sign of Mike. In the boat,
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  Speaker 1: they found Mike's abandoned shotgun, but nothing that suggested foul play.
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  Speaker 1: It was concluded that Mike's boat must have hit a
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  Speaker 1: stump hidden below the water level, causing him to lose
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  Speaker 1: his balance and fall out of the boat and into
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  Speaker 1: the water. Search and rescue were deployed, but it was
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  Speaker 1: quickly assumed that Mike had drowned when he fell from
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  Speaker 1: the boat. When Mike's body never floated to the lake's surface,
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  Speaker 1: as is typical for drowning victims, a search was conducted
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  Speaker 1: to retrieve his remains from where it was believed to
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  Speaker 1: have been caught along the lake bed. but his body
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  Speaker 1: was never found. Investigators were forced to reevaluate their theory,
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  Speaker 1: and they concluded that Mike must have been eaten by alligators,
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  Speaker 1: with turtles and catfish eating whatever remains were left. Lake
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  Speaker 1: Seminole was known to be a site with at least
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  Speaker 1: 80 other deaths where the bodies were never found, and
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  Speaker 1: so Mike was believed to be another victim of the
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  Speaker 1: mysterious alligator-filled depths. During the search, Denise avoided the media,
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  Speaker 1: but six months after Mike vanished, she had him declared
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  Speaker 1: legally dead through a court petition. It was assumed that
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  Speaker 1: Mike's body would never be found after his unfortunate accident.
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  Speaker 1: After five years following her husband's tragic demise, Denise appeared
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  Speaker 1: to have moved on when she remarried none other than
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  Speaker 1: her and Mike's mutual friend, Brian Winchester. The two claimed
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  Speaker 1: that they had grown close after Mike's death. Despite the
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  Speaker 1: fact that most of Mike's loved ones had come to
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  Speaker 1: terms with his passing, Mike's mother, Cheryl, was unconvinced that
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  Speaker 1: her son had simply fallen from his boat and been
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  Speaker 1: eaten by alligators. Her biggest clue was the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Mike's hunting license had been found and bore no markings
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  Speaker 1: of alligator teeth. Cheryl campaigned to have her son's case
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  Speaker 1: reopened And with the help of officers who agreed that
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  Speaker 1: Mike's death appeared suspicious, despite the lack of evidence of
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  Speaker 1: foul play, his missing persons case was opened again in 2004.
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  Speaker 1: The alligator theory was eventually thrown out once it was
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  Speaker 1: realized that alligators rarely hunt during cold months. And as
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  Speaker 1: Mike vanished in December, they wouldn't have been active to
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  Speaker 1: eat his drowned remains. So where was Mike's body? Even
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  Speaker 1: though investigators agreed that it seemed like Mike hadn't died
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  Speaker 1: at Lake Seminole, they had no evidence to say what
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  Speaker 1: had actually happened to him. His case was closed in
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  Speaker 1: 2007 and declared cold, but Cheryl refused to give up.
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  Speaker 1: For years, she campaigned, wrote letters, and lobbied to have
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  Speaker 1: Mike's case once again reopened. During this same time, Denise's
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  Speaker 1: life was once again tumultuous. as she and Brian were
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  Speaker 1: separating in 2012 and divorced in 2015. The year following
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  Speaker 1: their divorce, there was a shocking incident when Brian snuck
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  Speaker 1: into Denise's car and threatened her with a gun. Brian
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  Speaker 1: kidnapped her, claiming that she was ignoring his calls and
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  Speaker 1: that he had never wanted to get divorced. Luckily, Denise
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  Speaker 1: managed to calm him down and escape, immediately heading to
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  Speaker 1: the police to report what had happened. When Brian was
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  Speaker 1: brought in for questioning, a shocking twist was revealed. According
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  Speaker 1: to his friend, Brian had been concerned that after the divorce,
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  Speaker 1: Denise would start talking about, quote, this guy who died
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  Speaker 1: 10 or 12 or 15 years ago. It was then
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  Speaker 1: revealed in court documents that before Mike died, He and
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  Speaker 1: Denise had taken out a $ 1 million life insurance policy
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  Speaker 1: through none other than Brian, whose occupation was as an
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  Speaker 1: insurance agent. Brian was soon sentenced to 20 years for
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping Denise. But the very next day, it was announced
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  Speaker 1: that Mike's remains had been discovered by search dogs buried
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  Speaker 1: at the end of Gardner Road in Northern Leon County,
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  Speaker 1: only five miles from where he had grown up. On
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  Speaker 1: May 8th, 2018, Denise was arrested and charged with first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder, conspiracy to commit first degree murder and accessory
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  Speaker 1: after the fact. During an extensive trial, it was revealed
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  Speaker 1: that Brian and Denise had reportedly been having an affair
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  Speaker 1: through much of her marriage to Mike. Online reports detailed
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  Speaker 1: their secretive romance. They had apparently attended a Sister Hazel
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  Speaker 1: concert in 1997 and made their first step across the
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  Speaker 1: line by sharing a kiss while both of their loyal
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  Speaker 1: and oblivious spouses were out in the parking lot. In
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  Speaker 1: the following years, Brian explained in his testimony at his
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  Speaker 1: trial that the two would sneak away to have private
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  Speaker 1: meetings and getaways. Reportedly, the reason Brian eventually left his
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  Speaker 1: wife was to pursue a committed relationship with his new lover, Denise.
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  Speaker 1: During his trial, Brian discussed the allegation that he and
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  Speaker 1: Denise had conspired Mike's death so that the two of
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  Speaker 1: them could get married. As part of his testimony, Brian
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  Speaker 1: emotionally confessed to the following. On the day Mike died,
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  Speaker 1: Brian had gone with him to Lake Seminole, where he
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  Speaker 1: pushed him off of the boat. But when he didn't drown,
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  Speaker 1: Brian shot him with his own shotgun. Brian also claimed
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  Speaker 1: that it was allegedly at Denise's insistence that he later
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  Speaker 1: bury Mike's body. In February of 2019, Denise was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison for the death of her husband,
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  Speaker 1: which was overruled in January, 2020, as there was no
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  Speaker 1: physical evidence linking her to Mike's death. Her conspiracy to
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  Speaker 1: commit murder charge was upheld, however, and so she will
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  Speaker 1: be in prison for 30 years. Though Brian confessed to
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  Speaker 1: killing Mike in court, it has been reported that he
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  Speaker 1: did so in exchange for immunity in this case. This
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  Speaker 1: means that although he is serving his sentence for the kidnapping,
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  Speaker 1: it is reported that once those 20 years are completed,
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  Speaker 1: he will walk free. Despite this, It seems that Cheryl's
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  Speaker 1: mother's instinct was right all along, and she has finally
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  Speaker 1: seen some justice for her son. Today's last case is
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  Speaker 1: a chilling story filled with mystery and unanswered questions. Born
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  Speaker 1: on November 14th, 1974 in Hawkinsville, Georgia, Tara Faye Grinstead
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  Speaker 1: grew up to be regarded as a beautiful and loving
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  Speaker 1: person by all who knew her. She was known for
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  Speaker 1: her huge radiant smile and being a committed friend. At
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  Speaker 1: age 25, Tara competed in a pageant and won the
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  Speaker 1: title of Miss Tifton in 1999, as well as the
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  Speaker 1: chance to compete in the Miss Georgia Beauty Pageant. More
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  Speaker 1: than just a pretty face, Tara used her winnings from
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  Speaker 1: pageants to pay for her college degree, where she pursued
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  Speaker 1: her passion in education. After completing a master's degree studying education,
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  Speaker 1: Tara became a history teacher at Irwin County High School
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  Speaker 1: in Osceola in 1998. It was in this position that
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  Speaker 1: Tara flourished. She loved her students and was committed to
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  Speaker 1: helping them achieve their dreams. Her students were said to
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  Speaker 1: love her back as they could feel that she sincerely
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  Speaker 1: cared for them. But sometimes it seems that tragedies strike
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  Speaker 1: against those who deserve it. the least. 30 year old
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  Speaker 1: Tara spent the afternoon of October 22nd, 2005, helping the
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  Speaker 1: young girl she mentored get ready for an upcoming beauty pageant,
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  Speaker 1: as she often did. Later that afternoon, she attended a
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  Speaker 1: barbecue before heading home around 11 p.m. No one heard
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  Speaker 1: from Tara after this, but as she lived alone, no
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  Speaker 1: one thought too much of it. That is, until she
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  Speaker 1: didn't show up on Monday morning to teach her history class.
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  Speaker 1: Because of her dedication to her job, this was highly strange.
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  Speaker 1: It was well known that Tara would always show up
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  Speaker 1: for her students, and that if she couldn't be in class,
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  Speaker 1: she would have at least contacted a substitute. Her concerned
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  Speaker 1: friends went in search of her. At her home, her
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  Speaker 1: car was found in the driveway and cell phone in
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  Speaker 1: the house, but her purse and keys were nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: be found. There were no signs of what had happened
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  Speaker 1: to Tara beyond her alarm clock being thrown under the bed,
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  Speaker 1: and her bedside lamp was broken and knocked over. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: discovered a latex glove near Tara's front stoop and collected
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  Speaker 1: DNA evidence from the item. And though they could tell
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  Speaker 1: it had been a man who wore the glove, they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't match a name to the DNA sample. Hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: tips came in about Tara's whereabouts, but none ever led
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  Speaker 1: to finding her. It appeared that Tara had simply vanished.
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  Speaker 1: The small community was rocked by Tara's disappearance. And for years,
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  Speaker 1: no one could explain what had happened to the caring teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and none could understand who would want to hurt her.
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  Speaker 1: In 2008, three whole years after Tara vanished, her case
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  Speaker 1: was featured on 48 Hours Mystery, where it was speculated
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  Speaker 1: that her disappearance was similar to another woman's, Jennifer Kesey,
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  Speaker 1: who went missing in Orlando, Florida. It was later ruled
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  Speaker 1: that the two weren't connected. In 2009, a video surfaced
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  Speaker 1: where a man proclaimed himself the Catch Me Killer, a
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  Speaker 1: serial killer who claimed to have killed 16 women, including Tara.
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  Speaker 1: It was revealed to be an elaborate hoax created by
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Haley, who lied about everything in the video in
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  Speaker 1: a bid for fame. Tara was officially declared dead in 2010.
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  Speaker 1: Even after years without a single lead, Tara's case was
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  Speaker 1: called the case that has never gone cold because tips
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  Speaker 1: continued to come in for over a decade. But the
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  Speaker 1: reality was the case had been cold since the day
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  Speaker 1: she vanished. It wasn't until 2017 that the first real
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  Speaker 1: lead was uncovered. A woman named Brooke Sheridan went to
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  Speaker 1: the police and told them that she thought her boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: had a dark secret. It took her months of pestering
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  Speaker 1: him to tell her what he was hiding from her
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  Speaker 1: before he finally confessed. Brooke's boyfriend, Bo Dukes, apparently admitted
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  Speaker 1: to her that his roommate, a man named Ryan Duke,
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  Speaker 1: no relation between them, had woken up one morning and
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  Speaker 1: told him something shocking. Bo alleged that Ryan had told
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  Speaker 1: him that he had accidentally killed Tara Grinstead. In a
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  Speaker 1: shocking twist, The two boys had actually attended the high
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  Speaker 1: school where Tara taught and Bo had even been Tara's student.
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  Speaker 1: Bo reportedly told his girlfriend that Ryan had allegedly been
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: burglarizing Tara's home on the night that she vanished. And
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it is said that when she returned, she surprised him
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: in the act. Bo reportedly claimed that Ryan told him
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: he was startled and that he had then purportedly strangled
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: her on her bed. Interestingly, Other reports claim that Ryan
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: simply broke in and found Tara already on her bed
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: before he allegedly proceeded to attack her. Regardless, he reportedly
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: told Bo he had used Bo's truck to move her
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: body to a pecan orchard that Bo's family owned. Supposedly,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Ryan had used Bo's truck and family's orchard in order
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to implicate him in his alleged crime. It is reported
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that after telling Bo what he'd done, Ryan asked for help.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: According to court documents, others overheard them claiming they had
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: purportedly burned Tara's body in a fire pit in order
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to get rid of the evidence. It apparently took two
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: days for her body to burn enough to be unrecognizable
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: before they are believed to have buried her remains in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the orchard. Online sources report that bone fragments were indeed
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: later found when this area was searched. To this day,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there is some speculation that Bo may have been part
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: of the robbery at Tara's house and that he possibly
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: played a much bigger role in her death than being
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: only an accessory after the fact. But for now, there
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: is no evidence to support this theory. Ryan Duke was
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: charged with Tara's murder. and Beau was charged with helping
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to cover up a murder and sentenced to 25 years
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in prison. Ryan Duke is currently awaiting his trial after
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it was initially delayed and has not yet been convicted.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: These three cold cases serve as reminders that sometimes the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: passage of time is all that is needed to reveal
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: long hidden secrets. And that sometimes when cold cases are
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: finally solved, they can have shocking twists.