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Murder Mysteries That Are Mostly Disturbing & Strange · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: Certain true crime cases can be just so strange and
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  Speaker 1: off-putting that they don't even seem like they could happen
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  Speaker 1: in real life. Missing students, computers being scrubbed, and even
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  Speaker 1: strange religious cults. But today we're going deep into some
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  Speaker 1: weird ones. Here are five disturbing and strange murder mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Number five, the mystery in the desert. Adrienne Salinas was
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  Speaker 1: just 19 years old when she went missing. A student
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  Speaker 1: at Gateway Community College in Maricopa County, Arizona, she had
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  Speaker 1: dreams of becoming a journalist, looking to use her love
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  Speaker 1: of movies and reading to craft a future in storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: But Adrienne's real-life story was tragically cut short, her life
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  Speaker 1: ending in a way that seems senseless and, to this day,
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  Speaker 1: remains a mystery. On the night of June 14th of 2013,
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  Speaker 1: Adrian and her roommates were hosting a party at their apartment.
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  Speaker 1: While most people there were having a good time, Adrian wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: as she watched across the room with her boyfriend, Francisco Ortega,
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  Speaker 1: and chatted it up with several other girls. Francisco had
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  Speaker 1: been Adrian's first love. Their dating history went all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to the 8th grade, so he had a
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  Speaker 1: long history of many ups and downs. and they decided
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  Speaker 1: to leave the party together around 2.30 a.m. to talk
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  Speaker 1: things over at Francisco's place, away from all the noise.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't end with a reconciliation, and so he
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  Speaker 1: ended up driving her back home around 3 a.m., and
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  Speaker 1: that's where, according to him, their night ended. But Adrienne's
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  Speaker 1: story didn't stop there. At around 3.30 a.m., one of
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  Speaker 1: her roommates caught a glimpse of her leaving the apartment
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  Speaker 1: once again. This time, Adrienne was carrying an overnight bag
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  Speaker 1: her face determined. She couldn't stop thinking about her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and looking to make things right, she decided to head
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  Speaker 1: back to his place. She hopped in her car, and
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  Speaker 1: then at exactly 3.45 a.m., a call came in to
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  Speaker 1: the Tempe police station describing a car driving erratically. This
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  Speaker 1: vehicle hit the median near Ash Avenue in Rio Salado Parkway.
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  Speaker 1: The driver was Adrian. She drove away with two blown-out tires.
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  Speaker 1: The car drove away even though it had two damaged tires.
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  Speaker 1: She hobbled that car to a nearby convenience store, where
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  Speaker 1: her phone records show that between 4.10 a.m. and 4.45,
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  Speaker 1: she called Francisco 11 times. Desperate to reach him, she texts,
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  Speaker 1: letting him know she's on her way, but Adrian never
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  Speaker 1: makes it. The last known communication from her is with
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  Speaker 1: a cab driver arranging a pickup. but when the driver arrives,
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  Speaker 1: Adrienne isn't there. Her phone is then turned off at 5.07am,
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  Speaker 1: and from that moment on, she's gone. Adrienne's father, Rick,
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to hang out with her on Father's Day
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  Speaker 1: on June 16th, but he couldn't reach her, and she
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  Speaker 1: never reached out to him. He drove into town to
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  Speaker 1: look for her, his gut letting him know that something
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  Speaker 1: was horribly wrong. It was then that he spotted her car,
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  Speaker 1: still at that convenience store, but There was no sign
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  Speaker 1: of his daughter. That's when he reached out to police
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  Speaker 1: who conducted a thorough search for the young woman. They
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  Speaker 1: combed through every inch of Tempe, but only came up empty-handed.
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  Speaker 1: They questioned everyone, Francisco, the cab driver, people at the party,
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  Speaker 1: but no one has ever officially been a suspect.
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  Speaker 2: I was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: My phone was on silent error.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear you. I was asleep. I was already
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  Speaker 2: at my house. I was already asleep.
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  Speaker 1: Then, nearly two months later on August 6th, there was
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  Speaker 1: a break in the case, only it wasn't a good one.
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  Speaker 1: In the desert, near Apache Junction, a man spotted some
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  Speaker 1: vultures circling above his property. When he investigated there, he
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  Speaker 1: found human remains. The body had been exposed to the elements,
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  Speaker 1: the desert heat and rains taking their toll. But DNA
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  Speaker 1: did confirm that the remains belonged to Adrian Salinas. The
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  Speaker 1: autopsy was unfortunately inconclusive. The medical examiner was unable to
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  Speaker 1: determine a cause of death or even a manner of death.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to Adrienne that night remains a mystery, but
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  Speaker 1: the police are certain of one thing. This was no accident.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody moved her body, likely dumping it in a remote location.
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  Speaker 1: The storm may have carried her remains to where they
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  Speaker 1: were finally discovered. It's likely this was all some sort
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  Speaker 1: of opportunistic killing. That someone spotted her in that parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: offered her a ride she so desperately needed, and she
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  Speaker 1: took it. And was it someone she knew? Possibly. Though,
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  Speaker 1: it could have been a total stranger as well. Regardless,
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  Speaker 1: whoever is responsible for Adrian's death is still out there.
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  Speaker 1: And until they are found, the mystery of what happened
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  Speaker 1: to her will continue to haunt this case, and all
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  Speaker 1: those who knew her. Number 4. The Vanishing of Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Guimond Another college, another party, and now another vanishing. This
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  Speaker 1: time over in Minnesota, at St. John's University. On the
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  Speaker 1: night of November 9th of 2002, 20-year-old poli-sci major Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Guimond was hanging out at a casual dorm party in
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  Speaker 1: the Mettencourt building, playing poker with friends. He had a
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  Speaker 1: good amount to drink, something like 7 to 12 brews,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't seem overly intoxicated, according to his boys. However,
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  Speaker 1: he did pull an Irish exit at around 11.45 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: He just quietly slipped out of the gathering without a word.
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  Speaker 1: It was a short walk back to his dorm in St. Muir.
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  Speaker 1: A mere three minutes, yet Joshua never made it. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: at the party gave Joshua's absence much thought. Perhaps he
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  Speaker 1: had gone to use the bathroom, or maybe he had
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  Speaker 1: gone back to his dorm to crash for the night.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, it wasn't a big deal that he
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  Speaker 1: was gone. There was no reason to worry. But the
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  Speaker 1: following afternoon, when he failed to show up for a
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  Speaker 1: mock trial hosted by the school's pre-law society, people started
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  Speaker 1: to worry. The friends called around to one another, and
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  Speaker 1: no one had seen him. No one at his dorm
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  Speaker 1: had witnessed him walking around. They then called Josh's mom
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  Speaker 1: to see if she had heard from him, but she hadn't.
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  Speaker 1: They reached out to campus security, who in turn reached
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  Speaker 1: out to the local authorities. Josh's car was found on campus,
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  Speaker 1: so he hadn't driven off anywhere. A look at his
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  Speaker 1: computer showed that he had played some music. Between 11.50
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  Speaker 1: and 12.30 a.m. that night, he went missing. And it
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  Speaker 1: showed that some tracks were skipped, which implied someone was
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  Speaker 1: there skipping them. Presumably Josh, though. It's impossible to know
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Police interviewed everyone from that gathering. The search
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  Speaker 1: parties combed the campus. diving into the vast wooded ground
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  Speaker 1: surrounding the university and searching the icy waters of nearby lakes.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators theorized that perhaps Joshua had stumbled drunk and fallen
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  Speaker 1: into the freezing depths of Stump Lake. It seemed plausible
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  Speaker 1: because his route home would have taken him over the
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  Speaker 1: lake's bridge, but nobody ever surfaced. There were no clues
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  Speaker 1: in the water, and that theory began to unravel.
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  Speaker 2: At first, authorities suggested Josh had been drinking and wandered
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  Speaker 2: into a lake or marsh, but dive teams searched the
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  Speaker 2: water on the campus. The lakes were lowered and dragged.
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  Speaker 2: Josh never turned up, and people close to him never
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  Speaker 2: thought the story was that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Then came a twist. Bloodhounds brought to the scene tracked
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  Speaker 1: Joshua's scent, a bridge near Stumpf Lake. The problem was,
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  Speaker 1: they were brought in a month after the disappearance, which
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  Speaker 1: isn't ideal when trying to follow someone. The canine suggested, though,
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  Speaker 1: that he was there, and that if he wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: the waters below, well, maybe he'd been taken by somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Further investigations reveal that Joshua's computer back in his dorm
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  Speaker 1: room had been mysteriously tampered with after his disappearance. The
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  Speaker 1: room was not sealed off like a crime scene, so
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  Speaker 1: really anyone could have gained access here. And somebody had
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  Speaker 1: deleted files, wiped browser data, and left behind clues that
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  Speaker 1: pointed to something far darker. See, Joshua had been exploring
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  Speaker 1: an online world, engaging in conversations with unknown men, using
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  Speaker 1: a false female persona and picture. This is a fact,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he had arranged to meet somebody that night.
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  Speaker 1: Had he crossed paths with an online stranger on that bridge?
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  Speaker 1: Worth noting is that around the same time Joshua disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: the three other young men in nearby towns around his
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  Speaker 1: age also vanished. each under mysterious and unsettling circumstances. Often,
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  Speaker 1: they had been out drinking, and some were found drowned, others,
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  Speaker 1: like Joshua, were never found at all. Was this just
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  Speaker 1: a coincidence, or were they all tied together in some
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  Speaker 1: sort of way? To this day, Joshua remains missing. No body,
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  Speaker 1: no definitive answers, and his case is haunted by a
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  Speaker 1: trail of dead ends, strange coincidences, and chilling possibilities. And
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  Speaker 1: did he actually fall into the cold waters of Stump Lake,
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  Speaker 1: his body lost forever in the murky depths, or was
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  Speaker 1: he taken, abducted by someone who had done this several
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  Speaker 1: times before? In the summer of 1980, Dean and Tina
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  Speaker 1: Klaus were just beginning a new chapter of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Young and in love, and now parents to baby Holly Marie,
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  Speaker 1: They left their hometown in New Smyra Beach, Florida, and
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  Speaker 1: moved to Louisville, Texas, lured by the promise of a
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  Speaker 1: better future. Dean, an adept cabinetmaker, had dreams of building
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  Speaker 1: a stable life for his family in the booming construction
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  Speaker 1: industry of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. But by October that year,
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  Speaker 1: something went terribly wrong. McClelland's family disappeared without a trace,
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  Speaker 1: leaving their loved ones back in Florida in anguish and confusion.
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  Speaker 1: The months passed without a word from the couple. Were
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  Speaker 1: they simply starting a new life, or had something far
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  Speaker 1: more sinister happened? It wouldn't be until January of 1981
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  Speaker 1: that the horrifying truth began to finally emerge. It was
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  Speaker 1: a grim day when a dog wandered into the swampy
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  Speaker 1: woodlands north of Houston, Texas, and returned to its owner
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  Speaker 1: with something horrifying clutched in its jaws, a human arm.
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  Speaker 1: This gruesome discovery sparked a search that would reveal two
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  Speaker 1: decomposing bodies near Wallaceville Road. Their identities, however, remained a
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  Speaker 1: mystery for decades. The male, found partially skeletonized, showed signs
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  Speaker 1: of brutal violence. He had been bound and gagged, and
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  Speaker 1: his skull showed evidence of being beaten to death. Just
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  Speaker 1: feet away, a female body was discovered, strangled. Both have
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  Speaker 1: been dead for months and their remains too decayed to
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  Speaker 1: offer many clues. The victims, soon dubbed the Harris County Does,
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  Speaker 1: were buried in anonymous graves, their identities and stories swallowed
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  Speaker 1: by time. Back in Florida, the Klaus and Lynn families
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  Speaker 1: were desperate for answers. It had been months since they
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  Speaker 1: last heard from Dean, Tina, or baby Holly. By 1981,
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  Speaker 1: Dean's mother Donna reported the young family missing, yet police
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  Speaker 1: did little, and they believed Dean and Tina had simply
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  Speaker 1: cut off contact with their families. There were even reports
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  Speaker 1: of a strange nomadic religious group returning the Clauses' car
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  Speaker 1: to Florida, deepening the mystery. The family's grassroots efforts to
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  Speaker 1: find Dean, Tina, and Holly went nowhere, and frustration mounted
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  Speaker 1: because what no one knew was that Dean and Tina
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  Speaker 1: were already dead. and buried as nameless victims in an
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  Speaker 1: unmarked grave just outside of Houston. In 2011, thanks to
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  Speaker 1: advances in forensic science, the Harris County Doe's bodies were
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  Speaker 1: exhumed for DNA testing. It wasn't until a decade later
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  Speaker 1: in 2021 that forensic genealogists using the GED match database
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  Speaker 1: finally cracked the case wide open. After 41 years, the
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  Speaker 1: Harris County Doe's were identified as Harold Dean Klaus Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: and Tina, Gail Lynn Klaus. I will remember that phone
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  Speaker 1: call for the rest of my life. She says we
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  Speaker 1: had so much to know that we found him. He
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  Speaker 1: had been murdered. The revelation was bittersweet for their families.
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  Speaker 1: After years of holding on to hope that the couple
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  Speaker 1: might still be alive, their worst fears were confirmed. But
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  Speaker 1: amid the heartache, there was still one burning question. Where
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  Speaker 1: was baby Holly? Some speculated that her remains had been
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  Speaker 1: missed at the scene or that she'd been taken by
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  Speaker 1: whoever killed her parents. Miraculously, in 2022, after more than
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  Speaker 1: four decades of mystery, Holly Marie was found alive in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: This is the photo they gave to you? This was
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  Speaker 1: a face to a name.
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  Speaker 2: It means the world.
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  Speaker 1: It changed my whole world, this little picture right here.
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  Speaker 1: She had no memory of her traumatic infancy. and had
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  Speaker 1: been raised by an adoptive family, completely unaware of her
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  Speaker 1: true identity. Holly's discovery at the age of 42 brought
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  Speaker 1: both closure and new questions. According to investigators, Holly had
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  Speaker 1: been left in an Arizona church by two barefoot women
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  Speaker 1: dressed in white robes, claiming to be part of a
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  Speaker 1: religious group. In the church, unaware of the dark circumstances
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  Speaker 1: surrounding Holly's abandonment, arranged for her adoption, For over four decades,
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  Speaker 1: Holly lived a life of normalcy, completely removed from the
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  Speaker 1: horror that had taken her biological parents. Despite Holly being found,
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  Speaker 1: the murder case remains open and active, with investigators still
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  Speaker 1: piecing together the puzzle of who took Dean and Tina's
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  Speaker 1: lives and why. 2. Moosehead Brewery's Darkest Secrets Richard Olin
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  Speaker 1: was born into privilege. The Olins were old money, one
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  Speaker 1: of Canada's wealthiest families, owners of the iconic Moosehead Brewery,
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  Speaker 1: the oldest independently owned brewery in the country. On paper,
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  Speaker 1: Richard's life seemed perfect. He was a successful businessman, married
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  Speaker 1: to Connie Olin for 46 years with three children. But
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  Speaker 1: his story was no fairy tale. Beneath the polished exterior,
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  Speaker 1: Things were far from ideal. In the 1980s, a bitter
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  Speaker 1: sibling rivalry between Richard and his older brother Derek for
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  Speaker 1: control of Moosehead Breweries led to a family schism. Richard
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  Speaker 1: lost that battle and, forced out of the family business,
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  Speaker 1: he started fresh, founding his own successful companies. By 2011,
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  Speaker 1: he had amassed a fortune of nearly $ 37 million. As
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  Speaker 1: the saying goes, more money, more problems. And when you're
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  Speaker 1: worth as much as Richard, you can easily get a
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  Speaker 1: target put on your back. On the morning of July 7, 2011,
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  Speaker 1: Richard Olin's lifeless body was found by his personal assistant,
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  Speaker 1: Maureen Adamson. Facedown in his office, the place totally soaked
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  Speaker 1: in blood. This wasn't just a murder, it was a savage,
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  Speaker 1: brutal attack. As police sergeant Mark Smith put it, I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen anything like it. It was the worst crime
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  Speaker 1: scene of my career.
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  Speaker 2: I received a.
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  Speaker 1: Call requesting that we attend 52 Canterbury Street regarding a male,
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  Speaker 1: not conscious, not breathing. The arrival was 8.56. Richard had
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  Speaker 1: been bludgeoned to death, with 45 blows being delivered to
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  Speaker 1: his head, neck, and hands. Offensive wounds showing he fought
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  Speaker 1: for his life. His spatter had soaked through the floor,
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  Speaker 1: staining the ceiling of the office below. But there was
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  Speaker 1: no murder weapon No clear suspect at first. With a
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  Speaker 1: crime like this, it seemed personal. Eventually, the police turned
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  Speaker 1: their attention to someone close to home. Richard's only son, Dennis.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Olin, Richard's youngest child, soon found himself at the
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  Speaker 1: center of the investigation. His relationship with his father had
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  Speaker 1: been strained, with Richard reportedly calling Dennis lazy, emotionally distant.
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  Speaker 1: On the day of the murder, Dennis had visited his
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  Speaker 1: father's office for a brief meeting, and it was the
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  Speaker 1: last to see him alive. Ultimately, they found some microscopic
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  Speaker 1: bloodstains on one of Dennis' jackets, four of them that
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even be seen by the naked eye. That DNA
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  Speaker 1: showed it had come from Richard. But Dennis always maintained
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  Speaker 1: his innocence. That didn't matter much, though, and he was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: The first trial in 2015 was the longest and most
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  Speaker 1: expensive in New Brunswick's history. Over 65 days, intimate and
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  Speaker 1: disturbing details about the Olin family's private life were exposed. Affairs, estrangements,
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  Speaker 1: deep-seated grudges. But the crux of the case rested on
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  Speaker 1: the forensics, those bloodstains on Dennis' jacket and the timeline
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  Speaker 1: of events.
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  Speaker 2: We suggest that the accused was aware that he may
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  Speaker 2: have been seen on security cameras.
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  Speaker 1: He was aware that there was a chance the police
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  Speaker 1: would be looking for the clothing. That was the only
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  Speaker 1: DNA evidence in the case, so it's hugely significant. On
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  Speaker 1: December 19th of 2015, Dennis was then convicted of second-degree murder.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, sentenced to life in prison. But apparently,
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  Speaker 1: the system had gotten it wrong. Because less than a
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  Speaker 1: year later, Dennis' conviction was overturned. the appeal court found
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  Speaker 1: that the jury had been misinstructed about key pieces of evidence,
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  Speaker 1: specifically some discrepancies in Dennis' statements about his clothing and
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  Speaker 1: what he had been wearing the day of the murder.
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  Speaker 1: On July 19th of 2019, after a retrial by Judge Alon,
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Olin was then found not guilty. The retrial focused
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  Speaker 1: on new evidence including witness testimonies about strange sounds and
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  Speaker 1: an unidentified man leaving the scene. But, To this day,
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  Speaker 1: the mystery remains. As of right now, no one knows
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  Speaker 1: who really killed Richard Olin. Looking back, it was a
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  Speaker 1: stupid idea, but it was done as a means to
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  Speaker 1: protect a little girl that went on and backfired in
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  Speaker 1: the worst way. It was October 3rd of 1980. Queensville, Ontario,
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  Speaker 1: when nine-year-old Christine Jessup was left home alone as her
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  Speaker 1: mother and older brother left for the day to visit
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  Speaker 1: her father, who was in jail at the time. Christine
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  Speaker 1: was too young to see her dad behind bars or
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  Speaker 1: even see a detention facility, and so this was what
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  Speaker 1: was best. However, this would be the last time anyone
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  Speaker 1: would see Christine alive. By that afternoon, as they returned
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  Speaker 1: home from jail, panic set in. Christine was declared missing.
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  Speaker 1: The once quiet town turned into a frenzied search party
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  Speaker 1: as neighbors, friends, and local authorities joined forces to look
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  Speaker 1: for the missing nine-year-old. For three agonizing months, there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign of Christine. Then came New Year's Eve. Several
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  Speaker 1: hundred volunteers and police scoured a 30-square-mile area near Newmarket,
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  Speaker 1: north of Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: The search was massive. The whole town came out to help.
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  Speaker 1: On the last day of 1984, Christine Jessop's body was
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  Speaker 1: discovered in a desolate farmer's field in Sunderland, which was
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  Speaker 1: about 30 miles from her home. She'd been brutally assaulted
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  Speaker 1: and stabbed to death. The grisly details of the crime
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  Speaker 1: demanded somebody be brought to justice, and so they got it.
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  Speaker 1: and Guy Paul Morin. It was the 23-year-old quirky, soft-spoken
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  Speaker 1: neighbor who enjoyed playing the clarinet and keeping to himself.
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  Speaker 1: But in February of 1985, he was thrust into the
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  Speaker 1: spotlight of this investigation when Christine's own mother accused him
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  Speaker 1: of having an interest in her little girl. The once
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  Speaker 1: quiet neighbor was now the prime suspect, but was there
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  Speaker 1: any real evidence tying him to the crime? Well, not really. But,
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have anyone else to look at, so the
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  Speaker 1: investigation was riddled with tunnel vision, a deadly combination of
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  Speaker 1: poor forensic science, witness misstatements, and rushed conclusions. By 1986,
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  Speaker 1: Morin stood trial for the first time, and the jury,
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  Speaker 1: confused by a mountain of questionable evidence, acquitted him. But
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  Speaker 1: the Crown wasn't satisfied. A second trial followed, and in 1992,
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  Speaker 1: eight long years after Christine's murder, Guy Paul Morin was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: But Morin's story was far from over. A growing wave
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  Speaker 1: of public support, led by the Justice for Guy Paul
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  Speaker 1: Morin Committee, refused to allow him to sit there as
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  Speaker 1: there was no real evidence, because as it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: Morin didn't commit the crime. His fight for exoneration intensified,
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  Speaker 1: and in 1995, after 10 years of anguish, the truth
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  Speaker 1: came to light in the most definitive way possible, DNA evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Advancements in DNA testing conclusively proved what Morin had always maintained,
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  Speaker 1: that he was innocent.
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  Speaker 2: It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: It's about time. I know, I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I did not kill Christine Jessup.
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  Speaker 1: It's as simple as that, and finally, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: DNA has exonerated me 100%. On January 23rd of 1995,
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  Speaker 1: He was then officially exonerated. His case would become a
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  Speaker 1: turning point in how Canadian law enforcement approached wrongful convictions,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: but still for the Jessup family, there was no answer
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: as to who killed young Christine. Fast forward to 2020.
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  Speaker 1: With the advancements of genetic genealogy, new investigations were able
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  Speaker 1: to link DNA from the crime scene to a man
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  Speaker 1: named Calvin Hoover, a name buried in the original case files.
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  Speaker 1: Hoover had been a friend of the Jessup family, someone
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  Speaker 1: Christine had trusted, and he knew the plans of the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: family the day he abducted her. Back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: Hoover had even helped in the search for Christine after
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: her disappearance. He had hidden in plain sight, and chillingly,
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  Speaker 1: he had never even been questioned by police. In 2015,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Calvin died by choosing to leave this earth on his
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: own and taking any secrets he held with him to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the grave. So there were five disturbing and strange murder mysteries.
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• 24:13
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