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The Poisoned Call: Secrets Buried at Pell Road Fence Post · True Crime: Killer Confessions

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  Speaker 1: On February 11, 2019, a county surveyor named George Parker
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  Speaker 1: pulled a wax-sealed amber bottle from a rotted cedar fence
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  Speaker 1: post on the northeast corner of a Pell Road parcel
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  Speaker 1: in Holton Township and stood there in flat February light
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  Speaker 1: trying to make sense of it. The job was to
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  Speaker 1: measure a property line. He was not supposed to find anything.
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  Speaker 1: The bottle was small. Cork stopped. The cork itself sealed
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  Speaker 1: with candle wax, pressed in careful rings, as if someone
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be certain. Inside, a folded square of paper
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  Speaker 1: and a quantity of white powder. Parker held it up.
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  Speaker 1: The powder did not shift the way soil does. It
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  Speaker 1: sat still, dense, deliberate. He logged it and turned it in.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence clerk in Holton noted the contents and filed
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  Speaker 1: the report. No crime could be attached to a bottle
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  Speaker 1: in a fence post. There was no predicate offense. So
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  Speaker 1: the bottle went into a numbered evidence box, and the
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  Speaker 1: numbered evidence box went onto a shelf, and for four
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee winters that wax seal held. What no one in
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  Speaker 1: that evidence room knew, what no one yet had any
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  Speaker 1: reason to know, was that a man had lived on
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  Speaker 1: Pell Road. He had died on it, and the bottle
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  Speaker 1: had been waiting at the edge of his property the
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  Speaker 1: entire time. Keith Farrell had moved to Pell Road 11
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  Speaker 1: years before he died there. He was 62 years old,
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  Speaker 1: a retired freight broker from Knoxville, who had spent three
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  Speaker 1: decades building a business out of knowing which truck went
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  Speaker 1: where and at what price. He was good at it,
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  Speaker 1: he was also done with it. When he retired to Holton,
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  Speaker 1: he did not leave a forwarding address for the industry.
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  Speaker 1: Holton is the kind of place where the diner opens
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  Speaker 1: at 6, and the owner knows whether you take your
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  Speaker 1: eggs over easy or scrambled before you sit down. Patricia
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  Speaker 1: Ng ran that diner for 22 years. She could tell
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  Speaker 1: you that Keith Farrell came in every Wednesday and every
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  Speaker 1: Friday took the same stool at the counter, ordered two
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  Speaker 1: eggs over easy wheat toast, black coffee and asked after
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  Speaker 1: whoever was working that morning. He wanted to know about
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  Speaker 1: the dishwasher's daughter's school play. He remembered. That was the
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  Speaker 1: kind of attention he paid. He had a bad heart.
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  Speaker 1: He had known it since his mid-50s. A documented cardiac
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  Speaker 1: arrhythmia that his cardiologist, Dr. Philip Crane in Knoxville, had
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  Speaker 1: been managing for years. Farrell did not dramatize it. He
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  Speaker 1: took his medication, kept his appointments, and continued walking the
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  Speaker 1: road in the mornings. Every Wednesday evening at 9.10, without exception,
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  Speaker 1: he called his daughter Melissa in Chattanooga. The time was
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  Speaker 1: fixed because her children were in bed by 9, and
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  Speaker 1: she could talk without interruption. He never missed it. Melissa
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  Speaker 1: said later that she could set a clock by it.
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  Speaker 1: She always could. On the morning of February 19, 2015,
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  Speaker 1: Farrell's neighbor Ted Abrams noticed something wrong. The lights in
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  Speaker 1: Farrell's house had been on Wednesday night. They were still
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  Speaker 1: on at noon Thursday. Abrams went to the door. Farrell
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  Speaker 1: was unresponsive inside. Dr. Philip Crane signed the death certificate.
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  Speaker 1: The cause of death listed was cardiac arrhythmia. The man
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  Speaker 1: had a documented heart condition. There was no reason to
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  Speaker 1: look harder. No autopsy was ordered. Keith Farrell was buried,
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  Speaker 1: and Holton grieved quietly the way small places do. And
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  Speaker 1: life on Pell Road continued. Four years passed. The bottle
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  Speaker 1: sat on its shelf in Holton. Nobody connected them. There
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  Speaker 1: was nothing yet to connect, but the last call Melissa
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  Speaker 1: Farrell received from her father was on February 18, 2015,
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  Speaker 1: the evening before Ted Abrams came to the door. She
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  Speaker 1: would think about that call for years. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed ordinary. It was only much later, at a
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  Speaker 1: courthouse in 2023, that she would learn what her father
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  Speaker 1: had told her during it, and what she had said back,
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  Speaker 1: and that it was the last thing they ever did together.
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  Speaker 1: That part comes later. What matters first is the bottle,
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  Speaker 1: and a pharmacist who had worked quietly in Holton since
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  Speaker 1: the early 1990s, and a black composition notebook that his
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  Speaker 1: granddaughter would find in a fireproof safe, and initially assume
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  Speaker 1: was a business ledger. Leon Morgan had worked quietly in
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  Speaker 1: Holton since the early 1990s. He ran an independent pharmacy
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  Speaker 1: on Clement Street. Nothing remarkable, nothing large. He sold his
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  Speaker 1: dispensing license in 2014 but kept the building. By the
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  Speaker 1: time anyone thought to look at him closely, he was
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  Speaker 1: already gone. The composition notebook Cassie Holt found in January
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  Speaker 1: 2020 was plain black, the kind sold in school supply sections.
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  Speaker 1: She was settling her grandfather's estate. The safe had a
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  Speaker 1: key in his desk drawer, the way practical men keep keys.
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  Speaker 1: She opened it, expecting insurance documents, property records, The ordinary
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  Speaker 1: paper trail of a life. What she found instead was
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  Speaker 1: a ledger, or something that looked like one. The entries
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  Speaker 1: ran from 2009 to 2014. Each line followed the same pattern,
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  Speaker 1: two initials, a chemical abbreviation, a dollar figure, a single
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  Speaker 1: capital letter, and a date. The chemical abbreviations were not
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  Speaker 1: household terms. Cassie's boyfriend recognized one of them. KCl potassium chloride.
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  Speaker 1: He looked up the others. Dig-Doo was a digital's compound.
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  Speaker 1: ACAM was a notation consistent with echinatine, a cardiac toxin
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  Speaker 1: derived from a common plant. She sat with that notebook
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  Speaker 1: for more than a year before she called anyone. She
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  Speaker 1: finally called TBI in February 2021. The agent who answered
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  Speaker 1: was Sandra Oates. While Cassie described the notebook, Oates pulled
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  Speaker 1: the 2019 evidence log on the same call. The amber
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  Speaker 1: bottle from the Pell Road fence post was still in
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  Speaker 1: the system, still logged, still sitting in a cardboard evidence
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  Speaker 1: box in Holton. Oates connected them before the call ended.
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  Speaker 1: The single capital letters at the end of each entry
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  Speaker 1: were D or R. Most entries carried D. Seven carried R.
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  Speaker 1: Cassie assumed D meant delivered and R meant refused, that
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  Speaker 1: some customers had declined the order. The notebook went to
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  Speaker 1: Clifford Fisher, a retired TBI cold case consultant, who worked
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  Speaker 1: out of a wood shop outside Murfreesboro. Fisher spent two
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  Speaker 1: full days with it before he said anything definitive, he
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  Speaker 1: confirmed D and R. But he said the R entries
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  Speaker 1: did not mean what they appeared to mean. Fisher cross-referenced
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  Speaker 1: the R entries against obituary records and regional death certificates,
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  Speaker 1: seven R entries. Four of the corresponding individuals had died.
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  Speaker 1: all of them with documented cardiac or respiratory conditions, all
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  Speaker 1: within the dates the ledger covered. The three remaining individuals
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  Speaker 1: were harder to place, but one R-entry carried a date
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  Speaker 1: in 2011. Fisher found a name that matched the initials.
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  Speaker 1: That person was not in an obituary. That person, according
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  Speaker 1: to the records Fisher could access, was still alive. The
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy board records answered the sourcing questions. during three months
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  Speaker 1: in 2012 and 2013, Leon Morgan had ordered bulk quantities
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  Speaker 1: of potassium chloride that exceeded what his legitimate prescription volume
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  Speaker 1: could account for. The shortfall was consistent across those months.
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  Speaker 1: It was small enough, deliberate enough to avoid triggering an
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  Speaker 1: audit flag. The compound went somewhere. The ledger told investigators where,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan's morning route on Pell Road was confirmed by Roy Sims,
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  Speaker 1: a delivery driver who passed the same stretch daily. Morgan
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  Speaker 1: used the road as a through route. His pharmacy was
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  Speaker 1: on Clement Street, not on Pell Road. He had no
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  Speaker 1: business reason to be there. What he did have was
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  Speaker 1: a gravel pull-off 40 yards from the northeast fence post,
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  Speaker 1: the exact post where Parker found the bottle and knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of exactly when Keith Farrell walked that road in the mornings.
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  Speaker 1: Farrell's routine was not a secret. Patricia Eng, the diner owner,
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  Speaker 1: knew his Wednesday and Friday breakfast order without asking. Two
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  Speaker 1: eggs over easy, wheat toast, black coffee. He came in
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  Speaker 1: after his walk, sat at the counter, and asked after
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  Speaker 1: the people around him by name. Her dishwasher's daughter's school play,
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  Speaker 1: her supplier's back surgery, a man that consistent on a
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  Speaker 1: road that quiet was not hard to track. The KCL
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  Speaker 1: shortfall established the supply, the route established the, and then
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  Speaker 1: there was the dollar column. 11. Unattributed deposits appeared in
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  Speaker 1: Leon Morgan's personal bank account between 2009 and 2014. They
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  Speaker 1: ranged from $ 4, 000 to $ 9, 000. They did not correspond to
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  Speaker 1: any documented income from the pharmacy or its sale. One
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  Speaker 1: deposit $ 9, 000 landed 12 days before Keith Farrell's death. The
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  Speaker 1: final ledger entry for the initials KF. Red. D. February 18, 2015.
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  Speaker 1: Picture the R entries as they first appeared to Fisher.
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  Speaker 1: Seven lines. Seven individuals with documented conditions. Seven instances where
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  Speaker 1: the expected outcome did not materialize. The obvious reading was
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  Speaker 1: that something went wrong on the delivery end, a missed approach,
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  Speaker 1: a refusal, a logistical failure. a refused delivery. That reading
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  Speaker 1: held until July 2021. Alan Vickers was 67 years old
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  Speaker 1: and living in a retirement community outside Cokeville when he
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  Speaker 1: saw news coverage of the feral investigation. He called TBI
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  Speaker 1: the same week. What he remembered was a morning in 2011,
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  Speaker 1: a morning on Pell Road. He had been walking the
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  Speaker 1: road regularly then. The way people do in quiet Tennessee neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: Leon Morgan had stopped him Two cups already poured from
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  Speaker 1: a thermos. Morgan had said something neighborly, offered the coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Vickers drank it. Within an hour he felt wrong. Rapid, heartbeat, nausea.
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  Speaker 1: A disorientation he could not account for. He went to
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  Speaker 1: a clinic. They told him it was a stomach bug.
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  Speaker 1: He recovered. He moved to Cookville three years later and
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  Speaker 1: filed the memory under the unremarkable things the body does
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  Speaker 1: when it fails unexpectedly. He was the R-Entry. Not a
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  Speaker 1: refused delivery. A failed one. The R did not mean
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  Speaker 1: Morgan stopped. It meant the person survived. That recontextualization changed
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  Speaker 1: everything about the ledger. Every R entry was now a
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  Speaker 1: record of a surviving target. Every D entry, and there
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  Speaker 1: were far more D entries, was a record of something
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  Speaker 1: else entirely. The four deaths Fisher had cross-referenced against the
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  Speaker 1: R entries were not the whole picture. They were a
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  Speaker 1: footnote to a longer operation. Those four deaths remain unconfirmed
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  Speaker 1: as Morgan linked cases. The investigation closed on Farrell and Vickers,
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  Speaker 1: and the others were not formally adjudicated, but the mechanism
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  Speaker 1: was now visible. And the question the mechanism raised was
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  Speaker 1: the one that had been waiting since Fisher first decoded
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  Speaker 1: the abbreviations. Someone had to have arranged this. Morgan kept
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  Speaker 1: a ledger because he was being paid. The 11 deposits
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  Speaker 1: the $ 9, 000 payment, 12 days before Farrell's death, the operational
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  Speaker 1: precision of the KF entry. None of this was the
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  Speaker 1: record of a man acting alone on private grievance. Someone
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  Speaker 1: identified Farrell. Someone made an arrangement. Someone knew that a
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  Speaker 1: man with a documented cardiac arrhythmia was the perfect candidate
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  Speaker 1: because the cause of death was already written before the
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  Speaker 1: compound was delivered. Douglas Pruitt had been Keith Farrell's business
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  Speaker 1: partner at a Knoxville freight brokerage. Their partnership ended with
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  Speaker 1: an unresolved civil dispute over a buyout settlement. Pruitt characterized
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  Speaker 1: his own role in a proffer to investigators as having
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  Speaker 1: introduced Morgan to what he called a theoretical conversation about
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  Speaker 1: untraceable compounds. He said it never went further than that.
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  Speaker 1: The $ 9, 000 deposit did not support a theoretical conversation. The
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  Speaker 1: ledger entry for February 18, 2015 did not support a
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  Speaker 1: theoretical conversation, and Keith Farrell's tissue elevated potassium inconsistent with
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  Speaker 1: any natural process confirmed by exhumation. Toxicology in March 2021
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  Speaker 1: did not support a theoretical conversation. The compound that killed
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  Speaker 1: Farrell used his own documented weakness as the alibi. Without
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  Speaker 1: a pre-existing arrhythmia on the death certificate, someone looks harder
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  Speaker 1: at the body. someone orders an autopsy. Leon Morgan understood
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  Speaker 1: cardiac pharmacology. He understood exactly how the cause of death
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  Speaker 1: would read, and he built the exit route into the method.
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  Speaker 1: The camouflage worked for six years. What broke it was
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  Speaker 1: not a surveillance operation or a confidential informant. It was
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  Speaker 1: a granddaughter going through a filing cabinet in Memphis and
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  Speaker 1: a wax-sealed bottle that had kept its seal through four
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee winters. Pruitt was arrested in September 2021. He was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder in April 2023.
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  Speaker 1: The sentence was life without parole, plus 22 years. Leon
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  Speaker 1: Morgan had died in December 2019, eight months after Parker
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  Speaker 1: found the bottle, before any charges could be filed. He
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  Speaker 1: was never arrested. He was never tried. The ledger was
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  Speaker 1: the only record he left that told the truth about
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  Speaker 1: what he had done. Alan Vickers was 67 years old
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  Speaker 1: when he walked into a TBI field office in the
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  Speaker 1: summer of 21. He had seen his own name, or
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  Speaker 1: what he now understood to be his own initials. Attached
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  Speaker 1: to a date in a dead man's notebook, he sat
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  Speaker 1: down across from Sandra Oates and described a morning 10
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  Speaker 1: years earlier, a gravel pull-off on Pell Road, a familiar face,
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  Speaker 1: a thermos and two cups, a cup of coffee that
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  Speaker 1: tasted slightly wrong. An hour later, His heart was hammering
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  Speaker 1: out of rhythm, and his hands would not stop shaking.
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  Speaker 1: He was told it was a stomach bug. He had
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  Speaker 1: believed that for a decade. Vickers was the R entry
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  Speaker 1: that Fisher had circled in pencil on the second day
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  Speaker 1: of his decoding work. Fisher had initially read R as refused,
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  Speaker 1: a delivery that never reached its target. Vickers corrected that
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  Speaker 1: assumption without knowing he was doing so. The delivery had happened.
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  Speaker 1: The target had survived. R meant failure, not refusal. That
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  Speaker 1: single re-contextualization closed the question of the seven entries and
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  Speaker 1: opened a harder one. How many of the D entries
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  Speaker 1: had been Keith Farrell? Only one, according to the ledger.
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  Speaker 1: One confirmed delivery. One confirmed death, the initials KF, the
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  Speaker 1: date February 18, 2015, and the notation D, delivered, on
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  Speaker 1: the line that ended Keith Farrell's life. The four other
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  Speaker 1: deaths Fisher had cross-referenced against the R entries, cardiac and
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  Speaker 1: respiratory deaths in patients with pre-existing conditions scattered across the
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  Speaker 1: same five-year period, remain unconfirmed as Morgan-linked cases. The TBI
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  Speaker 1: closed the active investigation on Farrell and Vickers. Those four
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  Speaker 1: names are in a file somewhere. Whether that file ever
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  Speaker 1: reopens is not known. Douglas Pruitt went to trial in
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  Speaker 1: early 2023. His defense leaned on the proffer, the theoretical conversation,
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  Speaker 1: the claim that he had never asked Morgan to act
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  Speaker 1: on anything, that the arrangement had existed only as speculation
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  Speaker 1: between two men at a sportsman's club. The jury heard
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  Speaker 1: eight years of silence. They heard the $ 9, 000 deposit. They
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  Speaker 1: heard the ledger entry dated the day before Farrell was found.
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  Speaker 1: They heard Alan Vickers describe a thermos and two cups
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  Speaker 1: on a gravel pull-off. They deliberated and returned a verdict
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  Speaker 1: of guilty on both counts, first-degree murder and attempted murder.
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  Speaker 1: In April 2023, Douglas Pruitt was sentenced to life without
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of parole, plus 22 additional years. Leon Morgan
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  Speaker 1: was never in that courtroom. He had died in December 2019,
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  Speaker 1: eight months after George Parker pulled the amber bottle from
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  Speaker 1: the fence post before a single charge could be filed.
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  Speaker 1: The stroke took his capacity in October. December took the rest.
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  Speaker 1: The pharmacist who had built the mechanism, sourced the compound,
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  Speaker 1: memorized the route, and kept a ledger precise enough to
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  Speaker 1: convict his client, ended could, could, his client. That man
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  Speaker 1: died in a bed in Holton, untried with the notebook
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  Speaker 1: already in a safe and the bottle already in an
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  Speaker 1: evidence box. and neither one yet connected to the other.
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  Speaker 1: That is the part of this case that does not
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  Speaker 1: resolve cleanly. Clifford Fisher attended the sentencing in April 2023.
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  Speaker 1: He sat in the gallery, said nothing publicly, and drove
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  Speaker 1: back to his woodworking shop outside Murfreesboro that evening. He
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  Speaker 1: had a photocopy of the ledger page that bore Keith
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  Speaker 1: Farrell's initials, the page he had worked over for two
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  Speaker 1: days with a pencil and a pharmaceutical reference guide, the
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  Speaker 1: page that had broken the case open, he fed it
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  Speaker 1: into his wood stove. He said later that a photocopy
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  Speaker 1: in a retired man's wood shop seemed like the wrong
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  Speaker 1: place for Keith Farrell's name to spend any more time.
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  Speaker 1: Keith Farrell had lived on Pell Road for 11 years.
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  Speaker 1: He ate breakfast at Patricia Eng's Diner on Wednesdays and Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: two eggs over easy wheat toast black coffee, and he
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  Speaker 1: asked after the dishwasher's daughter's school play. He called Melissa
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  Speaker 1: every Wednesday at 9.10 in the evening. After her kids
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  Speaker 1: were in bed, without exception. He was 62 years old,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a bad heart, and he had spent
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  Speaker 1: the last years of his life in a house on
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  Speaker 1: a road that someone else had chosen for its usefulness.
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  Speaker 1: The last call was February 18, 2015. Melissa Farrell remembered
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  Speaker 1: it in detail because it was different. Her father paused
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  Speaker 1: longer than usual before saying what he said next. He
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  Speaker 1: told her he thought someone had been watching the road.
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  Speaker 1: She told him he was getting paranoid in his old age.
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  Speaker 1: He laughed. She laughed. They said goodnight. That was their
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  Speaker 1: last exchange. By noon the following Thursday, his neighbor Ted
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  Speaker 1: Abrams had noticed the lights still on and found him
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  Speaker 1: unresponsive inside. Melissa Farrell spent eight years believing that call
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  Speaker 1: was ordinary. A father being slightly strange on a Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 1: a daughter being slightly impatient, both of them laughing it off.
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  Speaker 1: Then the toxicology report came back, and the ledger entry surfaced,
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  Speaker 1: and the date on the line read February 18, 2015,
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  Speaker 1: the same evening, the same call, the same laugh. He
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  Speaker 1: had noticed something. He was right. There is no clean
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  Speaker 1: way to absorb that. There is only the fact of it.
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  Speaker 1: Keith Farrell knew something was wrong on the last night
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  Speaker 1: of his life, and the last thing he and his
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  Speaker 1: daughter did together was laugh. and she would carry that
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  Speaker 1: in two directions at once for the rest of her life.
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  Speaker 1: Grateful it ended in warmth, and unable to stop hearing
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  Speaker 1: the pause before he said it. The amber bottle that
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  Speaker 1: George Parker found on a routine survey, in February 2019,
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  Speaker 1: had kept its wax seal through four Tennessee winters. It
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: had waited in an evidence box while Farrell's family buried him,
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  Speaker 1: while Morgan had a stroke and died, while Cassie Holt
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  Speaker 1: found a notebook in a filing cabinet and called a
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  Speaker 1: number she wasn't sure anyone would answer. The bottle outlasted
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  Speaker 1: every person who knew what it meant, and then it
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  Speaker 1: was enough. Four deaths. Unconfirmed. The file sits somewhere. Keith
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  Speaker 1: Farrell's name is no longer on a photocopy in a woodshop.
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  Speaker 1: He was a man who ate breakfast at a counter,
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  Speaker 1: called his daughter on Wednesday nights, and noticed something wrong
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  Speaker 1: at the end. That is what this case found, after
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  Speaker 1: eight years of silence and four Tennessee winters. That is
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  Speaker 1: who he was. This show is made by Oboe Media.