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Killers Amongst Us: Murder on the Waxworm Farm (part 1) · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,
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Speaker 1: a production of iHeart Media and Crime Online. Blooming Prairie, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: with a population of around two thousand. If you look
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Speaker 1: at a picture of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, it looks like
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Speaker 1: main Street of Mayberry. I don't know if you know
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Speaker 1: about Andy of Mayberry, Andy Griffith, but I sure do,
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Speaker 1: and I know all about Mayberry, not too far from Raleigh.
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Speaker 1: In my mind, looks just like the real live, blooming prairie.
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Speaker 1: Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. So how does a man end up
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Speaker 1: shot dead in his own property, his wife missing. I'm
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, Killers amongst Us, joining me an all star
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Speaker 1: panel to break it down and put it back together again.
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Speaker 1: First of all, Tess Coster, longtime friend of David and
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Speaker 1: Louis Reese. Ashley Wilcott, judge, trial lawyer, anchor COURTDV, doctor
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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, Psychoalens to the Stars, joining me from Beverly Hills.
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Speaker 1: Cloyd Steiger thirty six years Seattle, PD and author, Joseph
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University and author Callen
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Speaker 1: Thompson KIMT News three, Rochester, Minnesota. Let's start at the
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Speaker 1: very beginning with Blooming Prairie. The city of Blooming Prairie
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Speaker 1: is known for its historic downtown. There are tunnels underneath
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Speaker 1: Main Street that we're dug during the Prohibition era. The
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Speaker 1: tunnels were used for making and peddling moonshine. This quiet town,
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Speaker 1: with its old bones and its midwest field, went almost
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Speaker 1: thirty years without having a murder. You are hearing our
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Speaker 1: friend Aaron Bluie Devil we know podcast. You know. To me,
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Speaker 1: when I look at Blooming Prairie, it looks like Andy, Oh,
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Speaker 1: maybe you're like, nothing would ever go wrong there? To
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Speaker 1: Callen Thompson, I guess you got a pretty low crime, right,
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Speaker 1: huh right, You're completely right. It's like out of a movie.
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Speaker 1: It's small town Minnesota, close knit community. You wouldn't think
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Speaker 1: anything like that would happen here, you know. I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at pictures of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and literally it reminds
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Speaker 1: me of where my grandparents on my dad's side lived, Oglethorpe, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: There was one main street and at the end of
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Speaker 1: the main street it's just a bunch of trees. Now
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Speaker 1: that's more than I had where I grew up in
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Speaker 1: Middle Georgia. But I'm looking at look at this, Jackie,
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Speaker 1: the water tower in Blooming Prairie with the flag on it.
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Speaker 1: Am I correct? There's only about two thousand people there. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you are correct. It's very small. And like you said,
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Speaker 1: the water tower is right at the end of the
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Speaker 1: main street. If you drive too fast you might miss it. Honestly, well,
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Speaker 1: I know this. It's been there since eighteen sixty eight.
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Speaker 1: It was incorporated eighteen seventy four, and it's actually on
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Speaker 1: the National Register of Historic Places. Now here's the kicker,
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Speaker 1: because before Prohibition it was let me just say, not dry. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so it was a big city because a moonshine. But
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Speaker 1: that's how long Blooming Prairie has been around population two thousand.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's very important to the murder of David
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Speaker 1: Reese and the disappearance of his wife. To Joseph Scott Morgan,
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Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jackson State University, author of Blood Beneath My
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Speaker 1: Feet on Amazon, jo Scott, why is that critical to
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Speaker 1: figuring out who murdered David Reese? And to Lewis Hey Nancy. Look,
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Speaker 1: with most homicides. We think about people that are in
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Speaker 1: our intimate circle, and you're talking about this beautiful place,
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Speaker 1: which to me, Minnesota is one of the pretty states
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Speaker 1: in the Union. It's absolutely gorgeous. Small town. You've got
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Speaker 1: limited number of people that are surrounding you, and so
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Speaker 1: how many people would you actually have in your circle?
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Speaker 1: Would I would venture to guess that there are not
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Speaker 1: that many homicides that take place in this pretty lavele.
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Speaker 1: Looking at at Cloyd Steiger, now you did thirty six
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Speaker 1: years Seattle PD, twenty two of that as homicide detective
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Speaker 1: author Seattle's Forgotten Cereal Killer, Gary Jane Grant at Cloyd
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Speaker 1: Steiger dot com. Cloyd, now you're used to sleuthing and
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Speaker 1: solving murderers in Seattle. That's a far cry from Blooming Prairie.
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Speaker 1: Blooming Prairie as the kind of town where the neighbors
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Speaker 1: know when somebody doesn't show up for work, they notice
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Speaker 1: when you don't bring your newspaper in from the frame
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Speaker 1: your driveway, Okay, they see it. That's a lot different
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Speaker 1: from where you police. Yeah, this is answer is I
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Speaker 1: look at them because of the town. To myself right now,
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Speaker 1: I bet you they have had less than five murders
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Speaker 1: in their entire history. If fat many, I mean, so
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Speaker 1: this is a really unusual thing, and the way you
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Speaker 1: go about investing this crime is going to be completely
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Speaker 1: different because of that. So straight out to test coster tests.
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Speaker 1: How is it that you manage to meet up with
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Speaker 1: Dave and Lois Reese. Lois and Dave came to Blooming
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Speaker 1: Prairie two thousand and four, two thousand and five, something
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Speaker 1: like that, and we met them as the new people
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Speaker 1: in town. It's a small town. There's not a stoplight,
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Speaker 1: there's not a movie theater. It's just a close knit group.
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Speaker 1: So Dave liked to fish, My husband liked to fish.
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Speaker 1: They got to know each other that way. We'd go
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Speaker 1: have a beer at the Services Club or at J
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Speaker 1: and H liquor run into him here and there. Then
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Speaker 1: Dave start opened his waxworm farm, which is right on
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Speaker 1: their property. And okay, right there, what is that? What's
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Speaker 1: a waxworm? It is a little white worm that people
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Speaker 1: fish with, usually panfish, so like some dish boogills perch.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, Lois opened daycare. All the daycare moms and
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Speaker 1: dad thought she was great. She was always a happy,
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Speaker 1: fun loving very sweet, nice person, happy go lucky person.
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Speaker 1: Went bowling with the bowling She was on the bowling team.
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Speaker 1: The bowlers all loved her. In about two and ten,
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Speaker 1: we invited them as a couple day than Lewis to
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Speaker 1: come to our lake home along with some of our
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Speaker 1: employees and their spouses, and she was just a wonderful guest.
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Speaker 1: She brought stake for everyone, cleaned up afterwards, served us
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Speaker 1: all breakfast. The guys all went out fishing, We went pontooning,
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Speaker 1: had a great time. Dave had this infection infectious laugh.
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Speaker 1: So he was always fun to be around because he
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Speaker 1: was telling jokes and making everybody feel good and happy.
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Speaker 1: So Dave and Lois show up for weekend at your
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Speaker 1: lake house and they're wonderful day, fun to be around.
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Speaker 1: Lois brings steaks for dinner for everybody, gets up and
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Speaker 1: fix his breakfast. Now that's kind of people you want
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Speaker 1: to invite over. So this is what we know about
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Speaker 1: Dave Reese. Take a listen to our friend Aaron Bluie
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Speaker 1: Devil We Know podcast. Dave decided to follow us dreams
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Speaker 1: and open a bait shop in Rochester with a friend
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Speaker 1: of his. Beat shop was very successful, when he decided
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Speaker 1: to sell the shop an open prairie wax farm farm
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Speaker 1: which he owned with another friend. He had a true
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Speaker 1: passion for the outdoors and was always fishing, hunting, or boating.
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Speaker 1: I think people remember most about Dave, however, is how
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Speaker 1: he had a great sense of humor. Nancy, let me
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Speaker 1: jump in here and say that is one of the
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Speaker 1: things that people comment about David and Lewis Reef is
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Speaker 1: how well they were liked in the community. With me
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Speaker 1: here in the studio, Jackie, Howard, Jackie, what do you know?
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Speaker 1: I know that Test Coster and her family stepped in
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Speaker 1: and helped David and Lewis Reef a little bit more
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Speaker 1: than what she said before. Let's listen to Amy Bennett
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Speaker 1: Williams with the News Press. A year after they moved there,
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Speaker 1: a fire tore through their home. Soon, donation cans appeared
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Speaker 1: throughout downtown, and Rod and Test Coster, who owned a
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Speaker 1: bluing prairie used car lot, put the couple up on
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Speaker 1: the second floor of one of their downtown buildings while
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Speaker 1: the races rebuilt. Dave served on board of the local
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Speaker 1: Serviceman's club, where the couple often grabbed meals. Lois went
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Speaker 1: bowling with the gals of Bunkies a vintage four lane alley.
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Speaker 1: She fit right in with all the bowling gals, and
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Speaker 1: I mean was friendly to everybody in town. Lois set
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Speaker 1: up a childcare business, babysitting town children. Lois Reese was
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Speaker 1: a daycare provider for a good friend of mine, her
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Speaker 1: son when he was a little She was around the
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Speaker 1: community more than he was. My friend used to talk
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Speaker 1: about taking his little boy off to her place, and
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Speaker 1: he thought she was a nice lady. I mean, and
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Speaker 1: so did I think. Most of the people in town.
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Speaker 1: Smiley and warm seeming, appeared to love her young charges.
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Speaker 1: Caring for others was part of her identity. Lois and
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Speaker 1: Dave may have been from somewhere else, but they fit
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Speaker 1: comfortably into the life of Blooming Prairie, which embraced them.
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Speaker 1: Dave served on the board of the local Serviceman's club,
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Speaker 1: where the couple often grabbed meals. Lois went bowling with
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Speaker 1: the gals of Bunkies a vintage four lane alley. She
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Speaker 1: fit right in with all the bowling gals, and I
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Speaker 1: mean was friendly to everybody in town. Lois set up
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Speaker 1: a childcare business, babysitting town children. Lois Reese was a
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Speaker 1: daycare provider for a good friend of mine, her son
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Speaker 1: when he was a little She was around the community
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Speaker 1: more than he was. My friend used to talk about
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Speaker 1: taking his little boy off to her place, and he
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Speaker 1: thought she was a nice lady. I mean, and so
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Speaker 1: did I think most of the people in town, smiley
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Speaker 1: and warm seeming, appeared to love her young charges. Caring
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Speaker 1: for others was part of her identity. Lois and Dave
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Speaker 1: may have been from somewhere else, but they fit comfortably
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Speaker 1: into the life of Blooming Prairie, which embraced them. So
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Speaker 1: getting a picture of what life is like for this couple.
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Speaker 1: Joining me friend of the Reese family, test Coster ask Wilcot,
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Speaker 1: let me go to you judge trial while your anchor
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Speaker 1: Court TV at Ashley Wilcott dot com. It's really hard
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Speaker 1: for me to reconcile this happy picture. And there's a
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Speaker 1: beautiful little town of two thousand, Blooming Prairie in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: And know for a fact that he David Reese, is
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Speaker 1: shot dead and Lois goes missing. Well automatically, with those facts,
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Speaker 1: it's suspicious. And you know what it makes me think
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Speaker 1: is who has come in to this beautiful, little quaint
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Speaker 1: town and done such a crime, and I would go
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Speaker 1: directly in my mind towards kidnapped, taken, absponded with his wife.
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Speaker 1: None of this makes sense, and it paints a very
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Speaker 1: unwelcoming picture of someone coming into this beautiful place and
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Speaker 1: committing not one but two. Cry daughter, Bethany Marshall. It's
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Speaker 1: like murder in Mayberry. You just don't see it coming.
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Speaker 1: It's like I always compare it to Scott Peterson in
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Speaker 1: a different way because there were many people that thought
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Speaker 1: Scott Peterson was handsome. I mean, he was a golf pro,
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Speaker 1: he was a star in high school. I think he
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Speaker 1: may have had a golf scholarship, roomed with Phil Mickelson
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Speaker 1: at college. Beautiful wife, beautiful home. I was at their
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Speaker 1: home many many times. And then suddenly his wife turns
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Speaker 1: up dead. Okay, people would look at Scott Peterson and
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Speaker 1: think impossible. Why many people think he's handsome? He's smart
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Speaker 1: at college degree, great job, great personality. He would never
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Speaker 1: do this. That's what it feels like. When you look
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Speaker 1: at Blooming Prairie, You're like, I know who would kill
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Speaker 1: him and take away lois hard for us to take
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Speaker 1: in Well, Nancy, You're right, the facts just don't add
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Speaker 1: up the beautiful town. If it were a larger city,
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Speaker 1: you might think about a crime of opportunity. But this
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Speaker 1: is this bucolic setting with very few people. Everybody knows
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Speaker 1: each other. If just one spouse was killed or had
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Speaker 1: gone missing, you would look at the other spouse, right,
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Speaker 1: you would begin to think about, you know, was there
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Speaker 1: attention or in the marriage, had somebody taken out of
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Speaker 1: life insurance policy, something like that. But here one spouse
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Speaker 1: is shot, the other goes missing. If the husband was
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Speaker 1: shot and the wife was left alone, I would have thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, he started this new business, the waxworm farm.
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Speaker 1: I would wonder, you know, was there a lot of
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Speaker 1: cash in the business. Had a employee come and tried
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Speaker 1: to and disfuntled employee who was angry at Dave? Or
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Speaker 1: there are a a lot of cash and an employe he
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Speaker 1: wanted access to it. But then just Dave would have
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Speaker 1: been shot. Here you have one partner shot and the
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Speaker 1: other one goes missing. There's no pattern I can think
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Speaker 1: of that matches up with this crime. You know, Blooming Prairie,
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Speaker 1: the crime right is eleven times lower than the national average.
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Speaker 1: Eleven times lower take a listen to our friend Aaron Bluie.
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Speaker 1: After a couple of weeks, Dave's co workers finally decided
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Speaker 1: to call the police to report him missing. He hadn't
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Speaker 1: been seen or heard from. One of Dave's friends told
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Speaker 1: the police that they received an odd text message from Dave.
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Speaker 1: The content of the message wasn't what seemed off. What
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Speaker 1: was striking to the friend was the fact that the
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Speaker 1: message used punctuation. Dave never used punctuation, not even a period,
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Speaker 1: whenever he wrote a text message or an email. On
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Speaker 1: March twenty third, twenty eighteen, after receiving the missing person's report,
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Speaker 1: the police discovered Dave's body in the bathroom of his home.
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Speaker 1: The investigator and corner weren't able to pinpoint the exact
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Speaker 1: time or date that Dave died. His cell phone was
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Speaker 1: found on the kitchen counter. Police believe that Dave probably
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Speaker 1: had been dead when his friend received the text message
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Speaker 1: WHOA straight out? To Kalen Thomson KIMT News three, Rochester, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: Kalen so, a couple of weeks pass, He's not showing
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Speaker 1: up to the worm farm, and for a while, nobody
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Speaker 1: was worried because they had gotten a text message from him.
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Speaker 1: I'm the same way when I text, no punctuation, no capitals, nothing,
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Speaker 1: you know. I try to do a couple of spaces
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Speaker 1: between sentences. I speak in broken English because it's just
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Speaker 1: you know, like shorthand. I get it. If I wrote
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Speaker 1: a full on sentach with capitols and punctuations, Jackie here
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Speaker 1: in the studio would know somebody had my phone because
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Speaker 1: I would not be doing that. So tell me about
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Speaker 1: the discovery off his body. What do we know? What
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Speaker 1: the cause of death is? Kiellen? Sorry, Well, this brings
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Speaker 1: us to Saturday, March twenty fourth. As the weekend anchor,
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Speaker 1: we have the scanners going in the newsroom and some
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Speaker 1: of my jobs to kind of keep an ear on
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Speaker 1: that as I'm producing the show, just to make sure
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Speaker 1: we don't miss anything as far as news goes. And
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Speaker 1: we were hearing about a death investigation in Dodge County
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Speaker 1: and the Prairie wax worm farm address was being relayed
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Speaker 1: from law enforcement, so I was thinking, Okay, we better
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Speaker 1: send someone out there. So this is Saturday night, it's dark,
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Speaker 1: it's so cold in Minnesota. I think there's possibly still
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Speaker 1: snow on the ground as well, so we send a
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Speaker 1: reporter out there to Prairie wax Worm Farms on Highway
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Speaker 1: twenty eight Highway two eighteen, just outside of Blooming Prairie
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Speaker 1: in Dodge County, and of course she wasn't able to
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Speaker 1: get any information at the scene, but she did get video,
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Speaker 1: possibly not the highest of quality just because of how
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Speaker 1: dark it was, but that's all we knew at that
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Speaker 1: point was there was law enforce and on scene and
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Speaker 1: it was suspicious activity going on in that small town
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Speaker 1: of Blooming Prairie. So then Sunday rolls around. I was
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Speaker 1: able to make some calls, but of course nothing really
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Speaker 1: came out of that, still tight lipped, and then Monday
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Speaker 1: rolls around, Mark twenty sixth, and as a reporter, I
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Speaker 1: was assigned to go to Blooming Prairie that day to
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Speaker 1: see what I could go find out. So I made
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Speaker 1: the forty minute drive from Rochester, Minnesota to Blooming Prairie
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Speaker 1: and drove up to the Prairie wax worm Farms, and
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Speaker 1: of course there was law enforcement still on scene. I
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Speaker 1: was able to grab video, and then I made my
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Speaker 1: way down to main Street to see maybe what I
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Speaker 1: could break up there. And as I was going from
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Speaker 1: business to business. It was pretty certain early on that
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Speaker 1: I wasn't really going to get much from this community.
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Speaker 1: They were pretty tight lipped and they did not say much. However,
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Speaker 1: I was able to get one business owner on camera. However,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't able to identify her and I couldn't show
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Speaker 1: her face. I just had to record her hands. But
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Speaker 1: she knew of what had kind of went down as
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Speaker 1: far as what happened at the prayer wax weren't farm
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Speaker 1: of just there was suspicious activity there. And when I
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Speaker 1: did ask her if she knew of the Riese family,
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Speaker 1: she said she did. Guys, I'm looking and you could
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Speaker 1: do it too. I'm looking right now at the address
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Speaker 1: and I can see the home. I can see the
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Speaker 1: wax worm farm and the home are on the same place. Right,
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Speaker 1: Is that right, Keillen? That's correct, So he had it's
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Speaker 1: wax worm farm. I guess out behind his home and
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Speaker 1: it is beautiful. There's all green grass, beautiful trees all around.
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Speaker 1: It's like rolling country. And I bet that was a
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Speaker 1: big surprise Kellen Thompson when you suddenly here there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of police activity at seven five eight five nine
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Speaker 1: US two eighteen Blooming prairie, Like, what the hey, what
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Speaker 1: was your first thought when you heard that? Right? Well,
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Speaker 1: when I pulled up to the scene, and because I
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Speaker 1: had never been to the Prairie wax worm farm, so
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Speaker 1: when I pulled up, I was like, oh, there's a
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Speaker 1: house right next to it, and then there were law
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Speaker 1: enforcement vehicles there, and like you said, You're just like, well,
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Speaker 1: this isn't supposed to be happening. Here. Just doesn't look great.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a three hundred and sixty degree view,
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Speaker 1: and behind the home I can see there's plowed up earth.
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Speaker 1: There's a big field behind it, and three hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty degrees you don't see anything but in the distance
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Speaker 1: a farm and in the distance away from the house
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Speaker 1: across the street as a railroad track. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: don't see anything. And that means a lot too straight
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Speaker 1: up to you. Joe Scott Morgan, what does that mean
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Speaker 1: to you? There's nothing else around? Yeah, who would want
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Speaker 1: to go out to a location like this and perpetrate
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Speaker 1: a crime? I mean, this is the height of isolation. Nancy.
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Speaker 1: You know you gotta see it. Joe Scott, go to
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Speaker 1: zero dot com. Will That's where I get all my
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Speaker 1: if it was seven five eight five nine US Highway
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Speaker 1: two eighteen, Blooming Prairie. And it's just like Kellen Thompson
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Speaker 1: is telling us from KIMTV, and you can do a
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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five, three hundred and sixty degree
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Speaker 1: and it's about a twenty five hundred square foot home,
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Speaker 1: three bedroom, two baths, single family and it's it's very
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Speaker 1: pretty and honest, beautiful property. Okay, I butt it in,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, No, I mean, I know exactly what you're
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Speaker 1: talking about. You know, when I was little, my papa
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Speaker 1: raised horses. You know, we had a farm, if you will,
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Speaker 1: and it was isolated. Nancy. You have to it's not
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Speaker 1: someplace to show up by accident. It's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: You have to be purposed in going there. And so
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Speaker 1: when I begin to hear about cases like this, and
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Speaker 1: I think about things like this, the first thing that
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Speaker 1: comes to mind is, well, somebody did this that knew
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Speaker 1: this general, somebody did this that had a very familiar
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Speaker 1: relationship with him and that, or somebody that had a grudge,
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Speaker 1: some sort of disagreement. Because this is not random. I
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Speaker 1: can tell you that right now, and to you, Kellen Thompson,
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Speaker 1: k IMT News three. What can you tell me about
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Speaker 1: the caliber? I mean, this guy wasn't shot just one.
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Speaker 1: He was killed many times, over right? Sure? Well, for investigators,
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Speaker 1: we learned that it was a twenty two caliber gun
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Speaker 1: and he had multiple gunshot wounds. Whoa and where was
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Speaker 1: he on the property call? He wasn't he in his bathroom? Yes?
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Speaker 1: The investigator said that he was found on the bathroom floor.
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Speaker 1: And look when you hear wax room from him. Granted
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Speaker 1: I didn't know what the test cost. I had to
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Speaker 1: explain to me about it. Now I know what she's
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Speaker 1: talking about because whenever I take the twins fishing, we
22:30
Speaker 1: have to go get baked. You know, worms wax rooms
22:33
Speaker 1: can be very profitable up till like almost ten dollars
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Speaker 1: a pound. Okay, so you raise the worms, you can
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Speaker 1: make money off of them. Doctor Bethany Marshall joining me,
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Speaker 1: Psycho Wallens joining us out of Beverly Hills at doctor
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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall dot com. What does that tell you that
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Speaker 1: there were multiple shots in the bathroom with a small
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Speaker 1: caliber a twenty two. But let's start with the multiple shots. Well,
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Speaker 1: they killed him many times. This is what we call overkill.
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Speaker 1: Nancy and so whenever there's a case of overkill, you
23:07
Speaker 1: have to consider certain factors. The first thing I always
23:11
Speaker 1: think of is meth amphetamine, because that can cause overkill
23:15
Speaker 1: if the perpetrator is on some kind of drugs PCP,
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Speaker 1: crystal crystal, mess, whatever words you want to use. These
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Speaker 1: types of drugs cause an enormous amount of energy and
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Speaker 1: an enormous amount of rage. But I do not think
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Speaker 1: that Blooming Prairie is the mess capital of the world,
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Speaker 1: so I would have to rule that one out. The
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Speaker 1: second would be extreme ragefulness that whoever did this was
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Speaker 1: extremely enraged at Dave. But that doesn't make sense either,
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Speaker 1: because everybody in this town knew each other. So if
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Speaker 1: somebody had a grudge or something like that against them,
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Speaker 1: I think that somebody in this town would know. So again,
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Speaker 1: this crime is not fitting any pattern that is familiar
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Speaker 1: to me. It just seems very mysterious. Now, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, doctor Bethany Marshall. The
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Speaker 1: very first crime on the books to you, asked you, Wilcott,
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Speaker 1: you're a judge and trial lawyer, court TV anchor aske
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Speaker 1: Wilcot dot com. The very first murder we know of
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Speaker 1: Kine and Abel and they were in the garden of Eden. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so grudges happen even in small town absolutely. And to me,
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Speaker 1: what this means in the bathroom, close range, multiple shots
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Speaker 1: is that clearly this is somebody who had a grudge,
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Speaker 1: who knew him. And you know what, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: where you live, what you do, what you have, what
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Speaker 1: you don't have. Anybody can be a victim of a crime.
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Speaker 1: Well here's another thing. What about this fact to you?
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Speaker 1: Kloyd Steiger thirty six years Seattle, PD Cloyd Steiger dot com.
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Speaker 1: Multiple gunshots the guy shot in his bathroom and his
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Speaker 1: cell phone, isn't that right? Kallen Thompson kimt His cell
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Speaker 1: phone was there on the kitchen counter. Yes, I believe.
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Speaker 1: So what about that? What do you make of the
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Speaker 1: multiple gunshot wounds ployds Tiger? Well, what I'd want to
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Speaker 1: know looking at that is not just multiple, but where
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Speaker 1: on his body are they Because like shots to the
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Speaker 1: face generally making a more personal attack. So I'd want
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Speaker 1: to know as he shot multiple times in the face,
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Speaker 1: that would be someone who was angry at him, or
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Speaker 1: was it just because they had a twenty two and
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Speaker 1: to keep shooting him to kill him? And then the
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Speaker 1: phone on the We know that the person probably texted
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Speaker 1: with that phone, so you're gonna want to check that
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Speaker 1: for touch DNA and see where you can find from that. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about the multiple gunshot murderer, the life of
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Speaker 1: the party, David Reese, living happily with Lois Reese. They've
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Speaker 1: got children that have moved away. Why would any body
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Speaker 1: do that? And where is Lois Reese? Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to Kallen Thompson, our friend at Kamputs. We're at the
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Speaker 1: Prairie wall worm Farm. Saturday night. I'm told Reese lives
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Speaker 1: where Dodge County authorities are investigating, just right outside of town.
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Speaker 1: Is it next to that Prairie waxed worm farm. Yes, yep.
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Speaker 1: The house is located on the same property. And many
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Speaker 1: versions of the story of what people think happened are
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Speaker 1: going around town. But one thing is for certain. It's
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Speaker 1: a situation affecting the entire community of Blooming Prairie. I
26:25
Speaker 1: have gone to bed Saturday night thinking about what a
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Speaker 1: wonderful community this is because we had our Blooming Prairie
26:32
Speaker 1: Education Foundation auction. And then the next thing I know,
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Speaker 1: I hear this and it's just yeah, it just seems
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Speaker 1: unreal for our little community. Authorities are asking for your
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Speaker 1: help in locating Race. He's dead, she is missing. Where
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Speaker 1: is Lois Reese? And who gunned down David Reese in
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Speaker 1: the bathroom of his own home. Nancy Grace Killers amongst us,
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Speaker 1: signing off goodbye friend,