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Morsel of Murder - Parrot Witness from February 9th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have just a little tiny what just a a
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  Speaker 1: morsel of murder? Is it a little?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? How tiny it's? You know, well, let's let
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  Speaker 2: us be the judge of it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, go ahead and get started.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get your music.
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  Speaker 1: When officers arrived at the home of Martin and Glenna Durham,
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  Speaker 1: the scene appeared by all counts to be a heartbreaking
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  Speaker 1: murder suicide. Martin lay dead with five gunshot wounds, while
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Glenna, still clinging to life, was found nearby
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  Speaker 1: with a gunshot wound at the head from the same
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  Speaker 1: firearm at their Michigan home. Glenna informed authorities that she
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  Speaker 1: had no recollection of the events, claiming she didn't see
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  Speaker 1: who had pulled the trigger. Detectives were stumped until an
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  Speaker 1: unusual witness inside the residents spoke up, offering crucial insight
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  Speaker 1: into what had truly transpired. The couples African gray parrot hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after the shooting, the bird, named Bud started repeating
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  Speaker 1: a disturbing phrase continuously and what family members would later
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  Speaker 1: identify as resembling Martin's voice. The parrot cried out, don't shoot,
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  Speaker 1: don't hug and shoot. Understandably, the parrot's utterances set off
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  Speaker 1: warning signals. Christina Keller, Martin's x wife, who subsequently adopted
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  Speaker 1: the parrot, believed that Bud was recreating a moment from
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  Speaker 1: that faithful night. Thank you forgetting that the picture up
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  Speaker 1: there at x ninety six dot com slash live.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe that a parrot's testimony is invisible in court.
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  Speaker 1: She Christina described the phrase as being delivered clearly with
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  Speaker 1: anger and repute, repetition, and always in that identical tone,
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  Speaker 1: sounding like her ex husband. Martin's parrots were similarly disturbed
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  Speaker 1: by the bird's statements. They believe that Bud may have
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  Speaker 1: witnessed the couple's confrontation and had return aimed Martin's heartbreaking
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  Speaker 1: last words. Those birds pick up everything, his mother told
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  Speaker 1: reporters he remembers it. Despite the unusual nature of the evidence,
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors initially considered whether Bud's repetitive statements could be presented
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  Speaker 1: in court.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this picture we have here is this but Marty
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  Speaker 2: before or after he was shot? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: However, the concept was ultimately abandoned about having the bird testify.
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  Speaker 1: Testify authorities determining the parrot could incredibly serve as a witness.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the bird wasn't the sole indicator pouring toward Glenna.
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  Speaker 1: As investigators dug deeper, police discovered multiple suicide notes she
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  Speaker 1: had written to family members. They also found the couple
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  Speaker 1: were buried in debt and experiencing serious financial troubles, primarily
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  Speaker 1: from gambling. The hypothesis that Glenna had murdered her husband
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  Speaker 1: before attempting suicide began to solidify. During the trials. Durers
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  Speaker 1: learned that Martin had been shot five times. Glenn survived
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  Speaker 1: her head wound. Family members describe her sitting emotionless as
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  Speaker 1: evidence was given and laid out. After just one day,
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  Speaker 1: the jury reached a unanimous verdict. But they're saying that
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the parrot kept saying that police decided
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  Speaker 1: to keep digging on this.
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  Speaker 2: So he did help. So Bud helped way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he couldn't testify, him still helped.
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  Speaker 2: I think they should have put him on the stand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tiny bible, give him the old you know, give
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  Speaker 1: him put his little claw.
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  Speaker 2: On this on the Bible. I do.
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  Speaker 1: But they they don't just repeat words. They mimic the
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  Speaker 1: actual sound of people's voices. And if they say but
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  Speaker 1: how creepy if like, don't shoot Glenna, don't shoot. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just keep hearing that over it. Don't shoot Glenna, don't shoot?
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  Speaker 2: Did that to yourself?
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  Speaker 1: How that hurts?
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  Speaker 2: I've been shot. Yeah, you wouldn't swear on the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew says he'd swear on Auto bonds, Birds of America
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  Speaker 2: or perhaps the Peterson Field Guide. Yes, don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I've been shot. We've given this parrot a light detective test.
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  Speaker 1: Is your name, Bud? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: He is your name, Bud?
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  Speaker 1: Where's your name?
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  Speaker 2: Is your name?
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  Speaker 1: But it's the plumber. I'm the plumber.
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  Speaker 2: I've come to fit a berg.
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  Speaker 1: In the chat room, they would try to swear in
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  Speaker 1: the parrot with the Bible, and he would say.
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  Speaker 2: God is just a construct. Polly want a tourniquet. They're
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  Speaker 2: all from the chat room. We want to cry. That's racist, right, Okay,