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The Disappearance of Theresa Rideout · River City Mystery - Investigating mysteries in southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and western Kentucky

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  Speaker: Law office worker by day.
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  Speaker: Insomniac researcher of the bizarre by night Matt Deig.
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  Speaker: Welcome to the third episode of River City Mystery podcast.
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  Speaker: Thank you for joining me tonight.
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  Speaker: We're going to be looking into the disappearance of Teresa a
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  Speaker: Rideout of Chandler, Indiana.
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  Speaker: We talked a little bit about her in episode one four seasons, she
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  Speaker: was Jack Barnett's fiancée slash girlfriend, who ended up missing
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  Speaker: at the end of that episode.
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  Speaker: Investigators were hoping she would show up at Jack Barnett's
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  Speaker: funeral, but she never did.
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  Speaker: She never showed up, and she was not heard from or seen since.
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  Speaker: There hasn't been a whole lot
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  Speaker: written about this
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  Speaker: disappearance, there's not a
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  Speaker: whole lot of information on the
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  Speaker: internet.
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  Speaker: As a matter of fact, when I
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  Speaker: started looking into this case
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  Speaker: several years ago, that's what
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  Speaker: caught my attention with this
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  Speaker: particular case.
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  Speaker: I first heard about the story a few years ago, when I was
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  Speaker: looking through one of the Evansville Courier press stories
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  Speaker: about cold case files.
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  Speaker: Teresa's case information was
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  Speaker: one of the few cases mentioned
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  Speaker: on there.
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  Speaker: So I did a little background search to to see what I could
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  Speaker: find out about it.
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  Speaker: And there was just a remarkable lack of information about this
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  Speaker: particular case, about Teresa, there was almost nothing.
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  Speaker: The Indiana State Police website, which I've got a link
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  Speaker: in the show notes.
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  Speaker: If you go to River city mystery
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  Speaker: dot com slash three, I'll have a
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  Speaker: link to that particular Indiana
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  Speaker: State Police post, but it still
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  Speaker: has her name spelled
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  Speaker: incorrectly.
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  Speaker: It's, um, that's not the spelling of Teresa.
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  Speaker: There's no photo of the missing person, which you think they
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  Speaker: could have found a, some kind of photo or drawing or sketch of
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  Speaker: the missing person.
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  Speaker: The National Missing and
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  Speaker: Unidentified Persons System,
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  Speaker: also known as Namus, has a very
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  Speaker: similar listing.
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  Speaker: It looks like they're.
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  Speaker: Those listings are connected.
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  Speaker: Also, no photo of the missing person.
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  Speaker: Just very, very short details on what happened.
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  Speaker: Um, it literally says, um.
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  Speaker: On September eleventh, nineteen ninety four, Teresa Rideout was
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  Speaker: reported missing by a friend.
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  Speaker: She's never been located.
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  Speaker: It is suspected that foul play could have caused her
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  Speaker: disappearance, and that is the end of the description of what
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  Speaker: may have happened to Teresa in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker: Normally when a person is missing, they have family and
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  Speaker: friends who kind of.
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  Speaker: There's always there's usually someone who can kind of step up
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  Speaker: and be that point person who's always keeping everybody on, on
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  Speaker: task and looking and looking and, and trying to dig into all
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  Speaker: of the details of the case.
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  Speaker: As I did my research, I found
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  Speaker: out that Teresa really didn't
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  Speaker: have many people in her life
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  Speaker: that were dependable, especially
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  Speaker: family.
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  Speaker: Her family was basically out of the picture.
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  Speaker: I had to really struggle to find information on even who she was
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  Speaker: or where she was from and what kind of history she had, and I
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  Speaker: knew it was going to be tough to get that information.
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  Speaker: So I actually set up an ancestry dot com account, and I was
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  Speaker: trying to dig and find out who her connections were.
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  Speaker: Was she.
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  Speaker: Did she have any siblings?
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  Speaker: Uh, children.
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  Speaker: Was she married?
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  Speaker: Uh, because none of that information was available.
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  Speaker: On any of the, um, in any of the
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  Speaker: news articles that I was able to
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  Speaker: find.
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  Speaker: And I was able to find out a little.
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  Speaker: Bit about Teresa's family life.
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  Speaker: She had a mother who died when
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  Speaker: she was only six years old, and
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  Speaker: her father died when she was
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  Speaker: seventeen.
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  Speaker: She had no siblings, and she ended up going to live with her
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  Speaker: aunt and cousins in Kentucky.
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  Speaker: Shortly following the passing of her mother.
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  Speaker: Not long after her father passed
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  Speaker: away, Lisa married Michael
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  Speaker: Rideout.
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  Speaker: They lived together in Henderson, Kentucky, and they
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  Speaker: had one son together.
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  Speaker: In June of nineteen eighty, I
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  Speaker: was able to connect with one of
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  Speaker: Michael Rideout's relatives on
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  Speaker: ancestry dot com to ask if she
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  Speaker: could provide me with any
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  Speaker: information on Teresa or the
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  Speaker: disappearance or any kind of
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  Speaker: family story that she may be
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  Speaker: able to provide to help me do my
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  Speaker: research.
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  Speaker: And she responded, she did
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  Speaker: respond, and she said, that's
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  Speaker: basically a big family mystery
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  Speaker: that nobody really knows what
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  Speaker: happened.
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  Speaker: She was not aware that there was any sort of foul play.
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  Speaker: She said that Theresa was known to have loved the river.
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  Speaker: They went to the river.
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  Speaker: She and Jack Barnett went to the river all the time.
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  Speaker: Went along with Theresa's dog River, who was named River.
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  Speaker: The belief of that side of the family which.
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  Speaker: This was Theresa's first husband's family.
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  Speaker: The belief is that she drowned.
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  Speaker: They just think she drowned in
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  Speaker: the river and that there was no
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  Speaker: foul play.
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  Speaker: And she may have just drowned.
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  Speaker: According to this person that I spoke with on ancestry dot com,
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  Speaker: Theresa kept to herself.
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  Speaker: She really didn't have very
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  Speaker: close connections with family or
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  Speaker: many others.
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  Speaker: She mentioned that her son,
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  Speaker: Matt, had to go to court to
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  Speaker: declare his mother dead in order
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  Speaker: to collect on an insurance
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  Speaker: policy.
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  Speaker: So on August twelve, two
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  Speaker: thousand and two, a death
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  Speaker: certificate was generated for
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  Speaker: Teresa Rideout, and the death
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  Speaker: certificate states that she is
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  Speaker: presumed dead.
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  Speaker: Last seen September second, nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker: Teresa and Michael divorced in the mid eighties, not long after
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  Speaker: their son Matt was born.
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  Speaker: It appears as though Teresa just kind of took off and it was even
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  Speaker: paying regular payments, or that she was ordered to pay some
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  Speaker: payments to Michael for his caring for their child.
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  Speaker: And it doesn't appear as though she had much of a relationship
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  Speaker: with her son, Matt.
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  Speaker: Michael ended up remarrying, and, uh, he ended up passing
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  Speaker: away from complications of diabetes at the age of fifty
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  Speaker: two, and Theresa's son Matt, died in December of twenty
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  Speaker: eighteen in Las Vegas at the age of thirty eight.
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  Speaker: And with Matt's passing there,
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  Speaker: really, that was the family, um,
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  Speaker: that really had anything to do
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  Speaker: with Theresa.
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  Speaker: I'm not.
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  Speaker: It doesn't appear as though Matt had much of a relationship with
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  Speaker: her at all, but Michael was her her former husband.
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  Speaker: He was no longer in the picture, so we're not sure where Theresa
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  Speaker: spent from the mid eighties to the mid nineties.
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  Speaker: That's not clear exactly.
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  Speaker: She likely bounced around from maybe living with different
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  Speaker: coworkers or or people she she might have known.
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  Speaker: That's not known.
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  Speaker: But we do know that she resurfaces in the mid nineties.
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  Speaker: In nineteen ninety four, she starts dating Jack Barnett and
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  Speaker: according to a friend of theirs, they had been living together in
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  Speaker: Newburgh for about three months before the disappearance.
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  Speaker: So what exactly happened that day that Teresa disappeared?
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  Speaker: We have to start off earlier in the day.
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  Speaker: Now.
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  Speaker: She had a shift at Burger King.
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  Speaker: She had to be at Burger King in
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  Speaker: Evansville on Main Street at
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  Speaker: eleven a m, according to an
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  Speaker: Evansville Courier and Press
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  Speaker: article.
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  Speaker: Witnesses claim that Jack and
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  Speaker: Teresa were both spotted the
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  Speaker: morning of September second,
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  Speaker: nineteen ninety four at the
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  Speaker: American Legion Post forty four
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  Speaker: in Newburgh.
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  Speaker: Teresa had to be at work at eleven a m, so they left the
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  Speaker: post, according to witnesses, at ten thirty a m, so that she
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  Speaker: could be at her shift on time, which it appears as though she
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  Speaker: did make it to work on time.
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  Speaker: A friend of Teresa's had stated
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  Speaker: that Teresa's car had had
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  Speaker: mechanical problems and was
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  Speaker: still parked at the house in
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  Speaker: Newburgh.
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  Speaker: So they were both riding around in Jack's red pickup truck.
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  Speaker: And this is a bit of a sticking point with me that I can't quite
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  Speaker: put my finger on.
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  Speaker: I can't quite figure it out.
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  Speaker: And it's always been kind of like a festering in my head.
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  Speaker: Joe and Teresa drive from Newburgh, from the post forty
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  Speaker: four to Burger King on Main Street in Evansville so she
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  Speaker: could make her shift.
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  Speaker: And it's unlikely that Jack would have that.
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  Speaker: They would have gone to their
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  Speaker: Newburgh home first before going
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  Speaker: to Evansville, because there was
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  Speaker: no mention that she was late
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  Speaker: that day.
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  Speaker: That just wouldn't make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker: So Jack and Teresa drive to Burger King.
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  Speaker: Teresa gets out of the truck, goes to work.
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  Speaker: My question would be, did Jack drive off and come back and pick
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  Speaker: her up at the end of her shift because she worked a shift?
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  Speaker: According to her manager, she was in a good mood and she said
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  Speaker: at the end of her shift, she, um, she said, see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker: And that was it.
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  Speaker: There was nothing there was no
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  Speaker: weird vibe or anything like
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  Speaker: that.
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  Speaker: So my question about the truck is she was seen driving when she
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  Speaker: left her shift.
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  Speaker: Her manager actually asked her to drop the night deposit off.
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  Speaker: She hadn't worked at Burger King Burger King very long, but she
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  Speaker: had gained the trust of her manager, and everyone seemed to
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  Speaker: think she was a good worker and dependable enough so that they
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  Speaker: trusted her to take the deposit with them, with her, so that she
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  Speaker: could drop that off at the Citizens National Bank up the
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  Speaker: street, which she did.
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  Speaker: So she was seen driving off from
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  Speaker: work that night in the red
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  Speaker: pickup truck.
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  Speaker: If she did drive the red pickup truck as she was leaving work
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  Speaker: that night, Jack Barnett had to be in that truck.
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  Speaker: I think he would have come back and picked her up unless she
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  Speaker: dropped him off at home before driving to work, which I don't.
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  Speaker: It doesn't seem like she would have done that.
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  Speaker: So when she left work, I believe Jack would have been with her.
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  Speaker: That's my theory.
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  Speaker: I don't see that posted anywhere in any articles, but I would
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  Speaker: love to see the.
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  Speaker: When she was making.
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  Speaker: She did make the night deposit as well.
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  Speaker: She.
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  Speaker: That deposit was made and I would love if they had like a
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  Speaker: camera surveillance to see who was in that truck.
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  Speaker: Um, whenever they made that
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  Speaker: deposit, if there was something
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  Speaker: like that.
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  Speaker: One wonders if they didn't get
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  Speaker: in some argument on the way home
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  Speaker: if it was both of them, maybe
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  Speaker: Jack, maybe Jack was walking up
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  Speaker: and down Main Street drinking
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  Speaker: all day.
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  Speaker: He. Maybe he was drinking early that morning at the post and
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  Speaker: continued drinking that day on Main Street while, uh, Teresa
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  Speaker: was at work waiting for her to get off her shift.
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  Speaker: And maybe he was drunk and something might have.
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  Speaker: They might have gotten into an
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  Speaker: argument or something on the way
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  Speaker: home.
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  Speaker: Who knows?
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  Speaker: To me, that's a little strange
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  Speaker: that that it basically, I think
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  Speaker: Jack had to be in the truck with
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  Speaker: her when she drove off that
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  Speaker: night.
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  Speaker: That's my theory.
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  Speaker: Just a theory.
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  Speaker: And for me, that means that something could have happened on
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  Speaker: the way home.
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  Speaker: They could have gotten into a big fight or something.
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  Speaker: And and I don't know what that
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  Speaker: might have been about, but
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  Speaker: obviously.
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  Speaker: But it's just a sticking point with me when I was going through
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  Speaker: the details of this.
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  Speaker: It's.
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  Speaker: So maybe you all have some ideas on on if that's insignificant or
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  Speaker: if there's something to that After Teresa left work that
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  Speaker: night made the night deposit.
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  Speaker: She was not seen again.
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  Speaker: She never.
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  Speaker: She never came back and picked up her.
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  Speaker: She had some checks at a Burger King that were unpicked.
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  Speaker: They were never picked up.
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  Speaker: So she also made the night deposit.
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  Speaker: So if she was planning to make a just a run for it and quit, it
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  Speaker: seems like you wouldn't make that night deposit if you kind
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  Speaker: of planned on running or something like that.
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  Speaker: So she she didn't pick up her last checks.
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  Speaker: She just stopped showing up to
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  Speaker: work after September second,
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  Speaker: nineteen ninety four, which was
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  Speaker: very out of character for her
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  Speaker: based on comments from her
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  Speaker: manager.
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  Speaker: That was not like her.
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  Speaker: They said that she was dependable and it would be
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  Speaker: unlike her for her not to call in sick or to let her know that
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  Speaker: she wasn't going to be there.
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  Speaker: Some of the articles talk about
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  Speaker: some of the friends that Teresa
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  Speaker: had.
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  Speaker: One of them was Carl Smith of Newburgh, Indiana.
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  Speaker: Now, Carl was one of Teresa's closest friends in the area, and
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  Speaker: one of the articles Evans, one of the Evansville Courier and
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  Speaker: Press articles, Carl Smith is interviewed and he says that if
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  Speaker: she was in trouble, she would come over and tell me about it.
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  Speaker: We were just really good friends.
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  Speaker: I probably knew as much about her private life as anyone.
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  Speaker: She maybe would leave on the spur of the moment for a trip or
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  Speaker: something, but not without letting someone know.
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  Speaker: And it's unusual for her and the dog to both be gone.
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  Speaker: The article goes on to say that Carl checked the river camp that
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  Speaker: Jack Barnett owned.
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  Speaker: He actually went with Jack's
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  Speaker: ex-wife to check out the river
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  Speaker: camp.
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  Speaker: Now, Jack and Teresa loved the river.
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  Speaker: Apparently, according to
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  Speaker: everyone, they went there all
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  Speaker: the time.
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  Speaker: They loved hanging out by the river.
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  Speaker: They.
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  Speaker: Teresa's dog was named River.
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  Speaker: They just.
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  Speaker: That.
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  Speaker: That appeared to be their thing.
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  Speaker: They went there probably to drink a lot and, uh, hang out.
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  Speaker: He had his river camp.
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  Speaker: Carl thought that that would be a good place to go.
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  Speaker: Check to see where, you know, if there's anything amiss there or
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  Speaker: any evidence of anything weird.
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  Speaker: I actually did a, um, a property search looking for what river
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  Speaker: camp he might have owned.
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  Speaker: And I, I looked through a lot of
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  Speaker: them along the Ohio River and,
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  Speaker: uh, Spencer Warrick Vanderburgh
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  Speaker: counties.
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  Speaker: And I could not find what river camp he might have owned.
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  Speaker: Surely the police would have
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  Speaker: looked in that particular area,
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  Speaker: because that would be an
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  Speaker: interest.
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  Speaker: That would be a, a place to to hide a body.
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  Speaker: If you were going to, I suppose you would be very comfortable
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  Speaker: and familiar with that area, and you would know the locations
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  Speaker: that might be easily overlooked if the police went there and
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  Speaker: looked, which I'm sure it seems like they would have.
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  Speaker: Seems like they would have found
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  Speaker: something if if something was
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  Speaker: there.
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  Speaker: Carl said that they didn't see
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  Speaker: anything unusual when they went
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  Speaker: there.
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  Speaker: Uh, he goes on to say that, uh,
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  Speaker: he talked to Jack Barnett
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  Speaker: recently.
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  Speaker: He said, I talked to him
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  Speaker: recently and they had plans for
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  Speaker: the future and seemed to be
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  Speaker: doing fine.
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  Speaker: He said I was tickled to death
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  Speaker: that she found somebody like
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  Speaker: him.
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  Speaker: It just doesn't add up.
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  Speaker: Whatever happened to something that happened very suddenly?
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  Speaker: So Carl, who was the closest
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  Speaker: person to Theresa, had he seemed
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  Speaker: like he was just kind of taken
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  Speaker: by surprise that all of this had
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  Speaker: happened.
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  Speaker: He didn't seem to indicate that there was any abuse or anything
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  Speaker: like that going on that would indicate that Theresa would have
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  Speaker: been in harm's way a few days after September second.
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  Speaker: This would be on September six, nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker: Gail Chapman, who was a friend
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  Speaker: of Theresa's who also worked at
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  Speaker: Don and Donna's sports Bar,
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  Speaker: claims that a bartender who
• 16:53
  Speaker: worked at Don and Donna's sports
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  Speaker: bar told her that Jack Barnett
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  Speaker: came into the bar that day on
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  Speaker: September sixth.
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  Speaker: She said that Jack made no
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  Speaker: mention of Miss Rideout's
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  Speaker: whereabouts to the bartender or
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  Speaker: to anyone at the bar if
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  Speaker: something nefarious had
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  Speaker: happened.
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  Speaker: On September second, Jack, who you would think may have had
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  Speaker: something to do with her disappearance or murder or
• 17:23
  Speaker: whatever, had it all together enough to be able to go to Don
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  Speaker: and Donna's bar and sit there and calmly have a drink and eat
• 17:33
  Speaker: dinner or whatever he was doing there without mentioning
• 17:37
  Speaker: anything about Theresa, and apparently didn't appear off or
• 17:41
  Speaker: anything like that.
• 17:43
  Speaker: And as I discussed in the first
• 17:45
  Speaker: episode, Four Seasons on
• 17:47
  Speaker: September tenth, nineteen ninety
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  Speaker: four.
• 17:50
  Speaker: So several days later, Jack Barnett checks himself into a
• 17:54
  Speaker: motel in Mount Vernon, Indiana, and proceeds to shoot himself in
• 17:59
  Speaker: the head after leaving a suicide note to his daughter, making no
• 18:05
  Speaker: mention of anything about Theresa in this note.
• 18:08
  Speaker: According to Jack Barnett's
• 18:11
  Speaker: ex-wife and other friends of
• 18:14
  Speaker: theirs who checked out the home,
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  Speaker: there didn't appear to be
• 18:17
  Speaker: anything missing from the home,
• 18:19
  Speaker: and there was no body found in
• 18:22
  Speaker: the home or there was no
• 18:24
  Speaker: evidence of any sort of
• 18:25
  Speaker: struggle.
• 18:26
  Speaker: The only thing missing from the home was Theresa's dog River.
• 18:30
  Speaker: Now, I do have a couple of theories about what may have
• 18:33
  Speaker: happened to Theresa, and they're all just theories.
• 18:36
  Speaker: The first one is the obvious, and I think this is what the
• 18:39
  Speaker: investigators think happened.
• 18:40
  Speaker: And I think that's why there's little effort going into finding
• 18:45
  Speaker: the truth here.
• 18:46
  Speaker: Um. Is that Jack just snapped one night and killed her.
• 18:51
  Speaker: HID the body, killed the dog, hid it, hid the body.
• 18:54
  Speaker: Probably at the same place or whatever.
• 18:56
  Speaker: Dumped him in the river or whatever he did.
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  Speaker: End of story.
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  Speaker: Kills himself a week later.
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  Speaker: And honestly, that that's probably the most likely story.
• 19:08
  Speaker: There are other theories, though.
• 19:10
  Speaker: Another theory that has been
• 19:13
  Speaker: rattling around in my head is I
• 19:16
  Speaker: know from talking to people and
• 19:17
  Speaker: from.
• 19:17
  Speaker: There are some articles that mention that it's possible that
• 19:21
  Speaker: Theresa and Jack were involved in the drug trade.
• 19:25
  Speaker: They did have some shady
• 19:27
  Speaker: associates and maybe some shady
• 19:29
  Speaker: dealings.
• 19:31
  Speaker: Maybe they owed money to one of these shady characters.
• 19:36
  Speaker: Maybe threats were made against Theresa and the dog, and maybe
• 19:41
  Speaker: somebody followed through on it.
• 19:43
  Speaker: Jack hangs around for a week
• 19:46
  Speaker: because he thinks maybe
• 19:47
  Speaker: someone's calling a bluff or
• 19:49
  Speaker: something.
• 19:50
  Speaker: And when he finds out it wasn't a bluff, he kills himself.
• 19:54
  Speaker: Or maybe he.
• 19:55
  Speaker: Maybe he thinks that she ran off with one of these associates.
• 20:01
  Speaker: And after he loses contact with
• 20:03
  Speaker: her for a week, he realizes that
• 20:05
  Speaker: either she's dead or she's run
• 20:07
  Speaker: off with somebody, he kills
• 20:09
  Speaker: himself.
• 20:11
  Speaker: That may explain why he was hanging out in a bar on the
• 20:15
  Speaker: sixth, acting like nothing was wrong, because maybe he.
• 20:19
  Speaker: Maybe he was in a phase where he was thinking that the Theresa
• 20:24
  Speaker: was going to come back, or this was going to iron itself out
• 20:29
  Speaker: because one of.
• 20:29
  Speaker: One of the problems I have with the murder suicide is the time
• 20:34
  Speaker: difference between the murder and the suicide.
• 20:38
  Speaker: I did some looking into statistics, and there really
• 20:42
  Speaker: aren't a lot of statistics on the difference in time between
• 20:48
  Speaker: the murder and the suicide.
• 20:49
  Speaker: I was going to.
• 20:49
  Speaker: I was trying to find out if it's
• 20:51
  Speaker: very common for murder suicides
• 20:53
  Speaker: to take place with a week
• 20:56
  Speaker: difference between the two
• 20:57
  Speaker: dates.
• 20:58
  Speaker: I usually you hear of a murder suicide.
• 21:00
  Speaker: It's the same time.
• 21:02
  Speaker: It's a murder suicide.
• 21:03
  Speaker: It's it's the same event.
• 21:06
  Speaker: You don't.
• 21:06
  Speaker: People don't normally wait a week to kill themselves and, you
• 21:10
  Speaker: know, go through their regular lives for a whole week.
• 21:14
  Speaker: Um, but I couldn't find statistics on to see how rare
• 21:17
  Speaker: that actually was or if that's unusual, I thought that would be
• 21:22
  Speaker: kind of helpful.
• 21:23
  Speaker: It just seems kind of strange that that he did wait a week
• 21:28
  Speaker: and, you know, was eating out and stuff like that.
• 21:32
  Speaker: Um, didn't mention anything
• 21:33
  Speaker: about it to anybody or act weird
• 21:36
  Speaker: to anybody.
• 21:37
  Speaker: So we don't know what happened to Teresa Rideout?
• 21:40
  Speaker: She's still a missing person.
• 21:42
  Speaker: She's still listed on these websites.
• 21:44
  Speaker: The Indiana State Police website on Namus.
• 21:49
  Speaker: She still pops up on every once
• 21:51
  Speaker: in a while, on a courier and
• 21:52
  Speaker: press article about the cold
• 21:54
  Speaker: case files with no new
• 21:57
  Speaker: information.
• 21:59
  Speaker: So I just I think that people
• 22:01
  Speaker: deserve to have their stories
• 22:03
  Speaker: told, even if they don't have a
• 22:04
  Speaker: massive family of hundreds of
• 22:07
  Speaker: thousands of people out there
• 22:08
  Speaker: looking and websites and
• 22:10
  Speaker: Facebook pages and things like
• 22:11
  Speaker: that.
• 22:11
  Speaker: Teresa really didn't have a, a
• 22:14
  Speaker: wide circle of people and really
• 22:16
  Speaker: not many of her friends that are
• 22:19
  Speaker: even listed in those articles I
• 22:20
  Speaker: referenced are even alive
• 22:22
  Speaker: anymore.
• 22:24
  Speaker: I know Carl Smith is not a
• 22:26
  Speaker: living anymore and he was the
• 22:28
  Speaker: closest friend.
• 22:30
  Speaker: There just isn't a network of people out there even looking.
• 22:33
  Speaker: But that doesn't I don't I think that that short.
• 22:36
  Speaker: I don't think she deserved that.
• 22:37
  Speaker: I think she deserves as much
• 22:39
  Speaker: attention on her case as anyone
• 22:41
  Speaker: else, so hopefully this
• 22:43
  Speaker: particular episode will
• 22:45
  Speaker: spotlight her disappearance and
• 22:47
  Speaker: let everyone know that it's just
• 22:48
  Speaker: as important as anyone else
• 22:50
  Speaker: who's missing.
• 22:52
  Speaker: And even if there are certain
• 22:53
  Speaker: assumptions that have been made,
• 22:55
  Speaker: that it's still an unsolved
• 22:57
  Speaker: case, that nobody really knows
• 22:59
  Speaker: what happened and anything is
• 23:02
  Speaker: possible.
• 23:10
  Speaker: You're welcome to join my discord server at RiverCity
• 23:13
  Speaker: Mystery.com/discord.
• 23:15
  Speaker: If you'd like to share any of
• 23:16
  Speaker: your thoughts or theories on
• 23:18
  Speaker: this particular case, I've set
• 23:20
  Speaker: up a channel for this particular
• 23:22
  Speaker: episode.
• 23:23
  Speaker: You're welcome to do so.
• 23:25
  Speaker: That about does it for this
• 23:27
  Speaker: episode of River City Mystery
• 23:28
  Speaker: Podcast.
• 23:29
  Speaker: Thank you again for joining me tonight.
• 23:31
  Speaker: Until next time, take care.