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The hidden VHS tape that changed everything - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In December of nineteen ninety, a very concerned father was
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Speaker 1: pacing around his kitchen, hoping that his daughter would call,
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Speaker 1: But the phone stayed silent, and as it did, you know,
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Speaker 1: an anxious pit formed in his stomach.
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Speaker 2: He was really worried about his daughter.
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Speaker 3: He thought maybe she was in trouble, and also he was.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's story. On the night of Friday,
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Speaker 1: December seventh, nineteen ninety, a thirty nine year old woman
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Speaker 1: named Janet Dennis set four dinner plates on the kitchen
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Speaker 1: table at her home in a suburb of Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: She had just finished making dinner for herself and her
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Speaker 1: three kids, who at the current moment were watching a
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Speaker 1: Christmas movie in the living room.
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Speaker 2: Janet hummed along to.
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Speaker 1: The TV as she brought the food over to the table,
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Speaker 1: and then she called her kids to come over and eat.
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Speaker 2: The kids got up, they rushed over, they sat.
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Speaker 1: Down, and as they began eating, Janet told them about
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Speaker 1: all these fun holiday plans that she had made for
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Speaker 1: them over winter break.
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Speaker 2: So Janet really loved Christmas.
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Speaker 1: She typically would decorate her house like the instant Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: was over, and earlier that same day, she had gone
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Speaker 1: to a toy store and filled the entire backseat of
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Speaker 1: her car with gifts for the kids. But Janet really
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Speaker 1: wanted this Christmas to be especially memorable for her kids
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Speaker 1: because the past few months had been really tough on them.
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Speaker 1: Back in July, Janet had divorced their father, Leroy, and
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Speaker 1: so now the kids only saw their dad about once
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Speaker 1: a week. Now, Janet knew the kids missed him terribly,
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Speaker 1: but actually Leroy had never really been a very present father,
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Speaker 1: which was part of the reason that Janet had asked
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Speaker 1: for the divorce in the first place. They'd been married
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Speaker 1: for sixteen years, and for most of that time, Janet
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Speaker 1: had pretty much felt like she was just a single
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Speaker 1: parent on top of being the primary breadwinner for the family.
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Speaker 2: And this was because.
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Speaker 1: Leroy owned and operated this ranch that was located about
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Speaker 1: ninety miles away in a rural town called Ceiling, and
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Speaker 1: this ranch really had never made much money, and so
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Speaker 1: Leroy had begun working all these crazy long hours to
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Speaker 1: basically avoid hiring extra help. But because of that, he
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Speaker 1: was usually gone before sunrise every single day, and he
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Speaker 1: didn't get home until very very late. So he's gone
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Speaker 1: all the time working but for not return not much money.
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Speaker 2: And so for years Janet had picked up the slack.
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Speaker 2: She worked as a school nurse.
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Speaker 1: That way she could you know, make some money, and
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Speaker 1: then also she could be home to meet the kids
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Speaker 1: after school every single day. And then when she was home,
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Speaker 1: she'd managed the house by herself as well. And so
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Speaker 1: that was ultimately really why a judge awarded her full
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Speaker 1: custody of the kids back in July when the divorce
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Speaker 1: was finalized. I mean, Leroy undeniably loved his kids, but
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Speaker 1: he simply couldn't provide for them. And besides, at this
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Speaker 1: point he was now living on that ranch and ceiling
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Speaker 1: ninety miles away full time, and so, you know, his
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Speaker 1: kids' schools and social lives were here in Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: It just it wasn't a match.
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Speaker 1: And so now Janet put another serving of mashed potatoes
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Speaker 1: on her plate, and as she did, she reminded her
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Speaker 1: twelve year old son, Tad, who was her oldest child,
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Speaker 1: that he had a wrestling tournament at school in the
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Speaker 1: morning and that they had to leave really early so
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Speaker 1: they could get to the competition on time. After dinner,
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Speaker 1: Tad helped his mom clear the table, and then they
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Speaker 1: all went out to the living room to fish watching
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Speaker 1: that Christmas movie together. And then when it was over,
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Speaker 1: Janet followed her kids upstairs and helped get them all
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Speaker 1: ready for bed, and then once they were all tucked in,
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Speaker 1: she came back downstairs to finish cleaning up the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Now this was about the time that Leroy, if they
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Speaker 1: were still married, would be coming home from work. But
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Speaker 1: now that Janet was divorced, she got to spend her
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Speaker 1: evenings however she wanted. She thought about heading out to
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Speaker 1: the garage to grab all those gifts she had purchased
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Speaker 1: out of the car and bring them in to wrap them.
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Speaker 1: But then as she was about to head out, she
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Speaker 1: saw a pair of headlights pull into her driveway.
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Speaker 2: At five point thirty.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, Janet's twelve year old son, Tad, shut
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Speaker 1: off his alarm clock and rolled out of bed to
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Speaker 1: get ready for his wrestling competition. Once he had his
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Speaker 1: stuff together, he went downstairs, expecting to find his mother
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen already making breakfast, but he didn't see
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Speaker 1: her in there, so he just went down the hallway
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Speaker 1: to her bedroom and he opened up her door and
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Speaker 1: he looked in and there was his mom still lying
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Speaker 1: in bed with the covers pulled all the way up
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Speaker 1: over her head. So Tad, thinking this whole thing was
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Speaker 1: a little bit odd because his mom was all over everything,
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Speaker 1: he still called out for her to wake up because
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Speaker 1: it was time to get ready to go, but his
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Speaker 1: mom didn't move, and so he walked into the bedroom
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Speaker 1: right next to the bed and pulled down the covers
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Speaker 1: to shake her awake. But when he did that, he
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Speaker 1: realized his mom is not in the bed at all.
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Speaker 1: What he was looking at underneath the covers was actually
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Speaker 1: a pile of pillows arranged to make it look like
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Speaker 1: she was still sleeping in bed, which was really weird
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Speaker 1: because to Tad it now seemed pretty obvious that his
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Speaker 1: mother had actually left the house, but for some reason,
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Speaker 1: she seemed to want him to think that she was
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Speaker 1: still home, and so just to make sure, Tad left
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Speaker 1: the bedroom and ran to the garage to check, and
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Speaker 1: sure enough, his mother's car was gone. And now Tad
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Speaker 1: like he really didn't know what to do because in
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Speaker 1: his entire life, his mother had never just left without
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Speaker 1: telling him. And so Tad went back to the kitchen
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Speaker 1: and he looked over at the clock on the oven
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Speaker 1: and saw it was already six am, which meant he
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Speaker 1: was already going to be late to his wrestling tournament.
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Speaker 1: He wondered if maybe his mom had just like run
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Speaker 1: out to the gas station or something quick like that,
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Speaker 1: and she'd be home any minute.
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Speaker 2: But a few more minutes passed by.
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Speaker 1: And she still didn't come home, and so at this
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Speaker 1: point Tad was becoming really anxious, and he started to
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Speaker 1: worry that his mom had maybe gotten into a car
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Speaker 1: accident or something.
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Speaker 2: So he did the only thing he could think of.
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Speaker 1: He went over to the kitchen phone and he called
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Speaker 1: his dad, who was out at the ranch in the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: and when his dad picked up, he told him everything
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Speaker 1: that was going on.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Leroy was admittedly sort of confused by this whole thing,
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Speaker 1: but he told his son, don't worry.
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Speaker 3: Your mom's going to be home any minute. I'm sure
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 1: But he also told him that just in case, he
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Speaker 1: would start driving over to their house right now, just
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Speaker 1: to make sure everything was okay. Two hours later, Tad
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Speaker 1: heard the sound of his father's truck pull into the driveway,
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Speaker 1: and the instant he heard it, he jumped off the
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Speaker 1: couch to go unlock the front door. When his dad
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Speaker 1: walked into the house, the first thing he asked his
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Speaker 1: son was his mom.
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Speaker 3: Home, and Tad said, no, she's still not here.
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Speaker 1: Leroy nodded, but reassured his son that his mom was
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Speaker 1: going to be home soon, that she would have a
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Speaker 1: good explanation.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, but you know.
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Speaker 1: As Tad followed his father all around the house at
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Speaker 1: this point, basically looking for Janet and looking for any
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Speaker 1: sign of maybe where she had gone, Tad began to
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Speaker 1: notice a look of concern growing on his father's face,
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Speaker 1: and that sort of gave Tad this sick feeling in
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Speaker 1: his stomach that maybe something's really wrong here. And then
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Speaker 1: sure enough, at some point, as dad, after searching the
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Speaker 1: whole house and just sort of standing there for a moment,
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Speaker 1: he turned to Tad and he said, we got to
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Speaker 1: call the police. Two days later, on Monday, December tenth,
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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Detective Craig Gravel with the Oklahoma City Police District
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Speaker 1: knocked on the door to Janet Dennis's house.
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Speaker 2: He had spoken on the phone that.
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Speaker 1: Morning to Janet's ex husband, Leroy, and now he heard
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Speaker 1: LeRoy's voice again, but from inside of the house, right
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Speaker 1: in front of him, calling to his kids to go
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Speaker 1: on upstairs for a minute. And then a moment later,
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Speaker 1: the door opened and Leroy invited Gravel inside. So, even
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Speaker 1: though it had been two days now since Leroy had
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Speaker 1: called nine to one one and reported Janet missing, Gravel
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Speaker 1: had only just been assigned to her case that morning.
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Speaker 1: His captain had wanted to wait out the weekend before
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Speaker 1: investigating formally because there had been no signs of violence
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Speaker 1: at her home, and generally speaking, most adults who get
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Speaker 1: reported missing show up within forty eight hours. But that morning,
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Speaker 1: when the case landed on Gravel's desk and he'd begun
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Speaker 1: reading over the details. His gut told him that something
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Speaker 1: had happened to her. From all appearances, she was a
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Speaker 1: very responsible and loving mother with no history of just
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Speaker 1: disappearing like this. So Gravel had immediately put out an
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Speaker 1: alert to all the police stations in the area to
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Speaker 1: be on the lookout for Janet's car, which was a
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Speaker 1: red Chevy Blazer. And then he had called Leroy and
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Speaker 1: asked if they could speak. And so now Detective Gravel
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Speaker 1: stepped inside of Janet's home and right away he noticed
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Speaker 1: how tidy and how covered.
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Speaker 3: In Christmas decorations it was.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the whole house seems so festive, which made
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Speaker 1: Gravel think that Janet very likely had planned to be
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Speaker 1: home for the holidays, And so he followed Leroy into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen. They sat down at the table and the
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Speaker 1: first question he had for Leroy was have you heard
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Speaker 1: from Janet since we spoke this morning? But Leroy said no,
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Speaker 1: He said all he knew was that Janet had disappeared
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Speaker 1: at some point between maybe nine pm on Friday night
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Speaker 1: when the kids went to bed and they had seen
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Speaker 1: her when they went to bed, and six am the
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Speaker 1: next morning, when Tad had called him saying, Mom's not here,
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Speaker 1: and Leroy said, you know, despite the fact that you know,
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Speaker 1: Janet is his ex wife and there wasn't a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of love lost there, He said he was really
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Speaker 1: worried because Janet would never just leave their kids alone.
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Speaker 2: Never.
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Speaker 1: However, he did tell the detective that while he had
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Speaker 1: been just walking around the house for any clues about
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Speaker 1: where she might have gone, he said he had noticed
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Speaker 1: that her toiletrys bag was gone, so now he didn't
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Speaker 1: really know what to say. That sort of did suggest
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Speaker 1: that maybe this was.
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Speaker 3: Planned, but just very out of character.
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Speaker 1: Gravel nodded and then asked Leroy could he think of
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Speaker 1: any place that Janet might go to, maybe to go
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Speaker 1: blow off steam or something like, someplace.
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Speaker 2: If she was really stressed, where would she go?
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Speaker 1: Le Roy said, you know, in the past, Janet had
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Speaker 1: gone to Las Vegas to gamble, but again, she would
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Speaker 1: never just go without warning and also would never just
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Speaker 1: leave the kids unsupervised.
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Speaker 2: Leroy said, at a minimum, she would have let.
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Speaker 1: Him know if she was going away, because again, they
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Speaker 1: have kids together. Even though they were divorced, they still
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Speaker 1: basically were on decent terms. Gravel nodded and wrote down
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Speaker 1: everything Leroy said. Now, to him, Leroy was definitely a suspect,
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Speaker 1: but at this moment he seemed to be cooperating. So
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Speaker 1: Gravell wrapped up the interview and headed out because for
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Speaker 1: right now, what he really wanted to do was go
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Speaker 1: speak to another person who had also called the police
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Speaker 1: station that weekend about Janet Dennis. Later that morning, so
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Speaker 1: on Monday, December tenth, nineteen ninety, Detective Gravel pulled up
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Speaker 1: to the home of Arthur Olson, who was Janet's father.
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Speaker 1: Arthur had also called the station that weekend repeatedly to
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Speaker 1: ask if any progress had been made on his daughter's case.
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Speaker 1: When Arthur opened his door, he looked frazzled, and he
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Speaker 1: asked if Gravill had found his daughter yet or had
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Speaker 1: any idea where she might be, or if she was okay.
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Speaker 1: Gravell told Arthur that no, they still did not know
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Speaker 1: where she was yet. However, he said that Leroy had
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Speaker 1: told him that occasionally Janet would go to Las Vegas
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Speaker 1: to gamble to.
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Speaker 2: Blow off steam.
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Speaker 1: But Arthur echoed the same sentiment as Leroy when he
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Speaker 1: brought this up, which is like, yeah, Janet would occasionally
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Speaker 1: go to Las Vegas, but she would never do that
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Speaker 1: without first making sure her kids were okay. She would
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Speaker 1: never just leave in the middle of the night.
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Speaker 2: That is not something she would do.
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Speaker 1: And also, Arthur said, if she had gone to Vegas,
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Speaker 1: like if that's where she was now.
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Speaker 2: She wouldn't be alone. She would have gone with her
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Speaker 2: new boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: And when Arthur said this, that caught Gravel by surprise
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Speaker 1: because Leroy, the ex husband, had definitely not mentioned a
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Speaker 1: new boyfriend. In fact, no boyfriends had been mentioned at all,
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Speaker 1: and so Gravell asked Arthur to tell him more about
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Speaker 1: this boyfriend because this is the first he was hearing
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Speaker 1: of him, at which point Arthur said, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: my daughter's actually been keeping this boyfriend a secret.
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Speaker 2: Both from Leroy and from the kids.
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Speaker 1: Arthur said the guy's name was Jim Umbenhauer and he
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Speaker 1: was a soldier stationed at Fort Sill, which was an
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Speaker 1: army base just a few towns over. But then this
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Speaker 1: look of regret crossed Arthur's face. He told Gravell that
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Speaker 1: he had actually only just met Jim for the first
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Speaker 1: time this past weekend, after Janet was already missing, and
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Speaker 1: the reason he met with him is he gave Jim
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Speaker 1: a key to Janet's house. Gravel at this point looked
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Speaker 1: up from his notepad and asked Arthur, like, what does
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Speaker 1: that mean?
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Speaker 2: Why did you do that? Now?
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Speaker 1: Arthur went from looking regretful to looking straight up embarrassed
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Speaker 1: as he explained, and he told Gravell that just a
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Speaker 1: few hours after Janet was reported missing, Jim had actually
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Speaker 1: called him, and Jim had told him that some of
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Speaker 1: his belongings were actually at Janet's place and that Janet
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Speaker 1: would definitely not want Leroy to find those things because
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Speaker 1: their relationship was a secret. So Jim had told Arthur
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Speaker 1: that his plan was to wait until Leroy took the
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Speaker 1: kids out somewhere, and then when the house was empty,
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Speaker 1: he would sneak in using the key that he was
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Speaker 1: asking Arthur for and he would just grab up all
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Speaker 1: his stuff.
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Speaker 2: That way, you know, Leroy wouldn't find it.
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Speaker 1: Gravel when he heard this, was shocked because to him
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Speaker 1: it was like, so obviously a bad idea for Arthur
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Speaker 1: to have given Jim that key, because as far as
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Speaker 1: Gravel was concerned, Janet's house could be an active crime scene.
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Speaker 1: But Arthur seemed to guess what Gravel was likely thinking here,
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Speaker 1: because he said, you know, he knew now that that
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Speaker 1: had been a mistake, but back on Saturday, he just
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Speaker 1: didn't believe Janet was truly missing.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 1: He expected her to come home like this couldn't be
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Speaker 1: a big deal, right, But now, he said, he was
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Speaker 1: absolutely sick with guilt. Shortly after this, Gravel wrapped up
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Speaker 1: their interview and then he hopped in his car and
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Speaker 1: he drove right back to the station. His top priority
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Speaker 1: now was to track down the secret boyfriend, Jim Umbenhauer,
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Speaker 1: but as soon as he got back to his desk,
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Speaker 1: he learned there was actually a more pressing lead for
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Speaker 1: him to follow up on. Janet's car had been located
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Speaker 1: at the Oklahoma City Airport. An hour later, Detective Gravel
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Speaker 1: turned his car into the long term parking garage at
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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Airport. He was there to follow up
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Speaker 1: on the lead about Janet Dennis, who had disappeared from
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Speaker 1: her house overnight on Friday, leaving her three young kids unattendant.
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Speaker 1: And right away Gravell saw another police cruiser at the
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Speaker 1: far end of the garage, park behind a Chevy Blazer
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Speaker 1: Janet's Chevy Blazer, and so Gravel he pulled up behind
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Speaker 1: the other cruiser and then he got out and just
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Speaker 1: began walking around.
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Speaker 3: Janet's car getting a look.
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Speaker 1: And eventually he walked up and cupped his hands over
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Speaker 1: his eyes so we could look through the window.
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Speaker 2: Into the back seat.
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Speaker 1: And when he looked in there, he saw it was
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Speaker 1: completely full of new toys, which she assumed were Christmas
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Speaker 1: presents for her kids. And when Gravell saw those presents,
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Speaker 1: he instantly had a bad feeling in his stomach, like
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Speaker 1: his gut was telling him that Janet did not drive
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Speaker 1: her car.
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Speaker 2: To this location. Somebody else did.
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Speaker 1: And also at this point, Gravel also had proof that
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Speaker 1: she wasn't in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 2: So right before Gravel.
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Speaker 1: Had come out to the airport, his team had called
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Speaker 1: into the centralized database that could access all of the
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Speaker 1: hotel reservations in the Las Vegas area, and there were
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Speaker 1: no reservations anywhere in the entire city under Janet's name. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course she could be there with somebody else, maybe
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Speaker 1: under their name, but this at least suggested, very strongly
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Speaker 1: suggested that she was not there. And so now Gravel
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Speaker 1: was confident that Janet had not skipped down for some
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Speaker 1: spur the moment gambling trip. Now, at this point, if
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Speaker 1: something had happened to Janet. Well, Gravell's primary suspect at
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Speaker 1: this point was Janet's new boyfriend, her secret boyfriend, Jim Umbenhawer. However,
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Speaker 1: Gravel still had not looked into him yet, which meant
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Speaker 1: if he was involved in any way in Janet's disappearance,
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Speaker 1: well by today, By now he could be anywhere. And
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Speaker 1: so as Gravell is thinking about this, he was interrupted
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Speaker 1: by the sound of a vehicle approaching, and he turned
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Speaker 1: and he sees a car pull up right behind his cruiser.
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Speaker 1: And then after they parked, this guy got out, wearing
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Speaker 1: a full army uniform and he walked over to Gravel
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Speaker 1: and he introduced himself as Jim Umbenhauwer. Late that afternoon,
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Speaker 1: Gravell sat in an interview room at the station, across
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Speaker 1: from Janet's secret boyfriend, Jim Umbenhawer, and Jim was hooked
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Speaker 1: up to a polygraph machine. So back at the airport,
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Speaker 1: Jim had claimed that he'd been worried sick about Janet
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Speaker 1: all weekend and he'd been literally driving around town looking
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Speaker 1: for her car. He claimed he had no idea that
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Speaker 1: it the car or Detective Gravel would be at the
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Speaker 1: airport when he arrived and it had just been like
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Speaker 1: a total coincidence that he had just happened to find
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Speaker 1: Janet's car at the exact moment police had found it.
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Speaker 2: To Gravel, this felt like a fairly.
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Speaker 1: Obvious lie, because the chances of Jim just running into
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Speaker 1: Janet's car at the exact moment that police are finding
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Speaker 1: it and that he's arriving to look at it.
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Speaker 2: It just felt like not possible.
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Speaker 1: And Gravel figured that Jim must have already known where
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Speaker 1: Janet's car was and had somehow learned that the police
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Speaker 1: had found it, and so he had just sort of
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Speaker 1: shown up. Gravel knew it was actually common for killers
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Speaker 1: and kidnappers to actually intentionally insert themselves into an ongoing
17:38
Speaker 1: investigation of their victims, to like influence the investigation or
17:42
Speaker 1: just keep a pulse on what's happening under the guise
17:45
Speaker 1: of being really helpful, and right away Gravel had gotten
17:48
Speaker 1: the sense that Jim was doing just that. So Gravell
17:51
Speaker 1: had immediately asked Jim to not only come back to
17:54
Speaker 1: the station to talk, but to take a polygraph test,
17:58
Speaker 1: and Jim had agreed, and now the polygraph examiner, so
18:02
Speaker 1: the person actually administering the polygraph nodded to Gravel that
18:05
Speaker 1: they were ready to start, and so Gravel asked, Jim,
18:08
Speaker 1: why did you ask for a key to sneak into
18:11
Speaker 1: Janet's house that past weekend? Now, Jim looked genuinely surprised
18:14
Speaker 1: that Gravelly even knew about that, but he told Gravell
18:17
Speaker 1: that he had simply gone over there to get a
18:19
Speaker 1: box of love letters from Janet's bedroom that were between
18:22
Speaker 1: he and Janet. He said that Janet had wanted to
18:25
Speaker 1: keep their relationship private, especially from Leroy. As a precaution,
18:29
Speaker 1: he had asked Arthur to get the key to go
18:31
Speaker 1: in and get the letters, and he said, you know,
18:33
Speaker 1: the letters were actually right now out in his car. Now,
18:36
Speaker 1: Gravel knew that would be easy enough to verify, so
18:39
Speaker 1: he just moved on and he asked Jim, where were
18:42
Speaker 1: you on Friday night, which was the last night that
18:44
Speaker 1: Janet's kids had seen her, And Jim actually said that
18:48
Speaker 1: he had been at Janet's house that night, which caught
18:51
Speaker 1: Gravel completely off guard. Jim explained that he had gone
18:54
Speaker 1: over to Janet's house after the kids had gone to sleep,
18:57
Speaker 1: so that he and Janet could secretly spend some time
18:59
Speaker 1: to get Now, at this point, Gravell really had to
19:02
Speaker 1: just stop for a second and collect his thoughts before
19:04
Speaker 1: asking more questions, because he really had not seen this coming.
19:08
Speaker 1: I mean all day he had been trying to place
19:11
Speaker 1: someone at Janet's house after nine pm on that Friday,
19:15
Speaker 1: and now here was Jim admitting he had been there
19:18
Speaker 1: at the house on that Friday night after nine pm,
19:21
Speaker 1: making him the official last known person to have seen Janet.
19:25
Speaker 1: After a minute, Gravell told Jim to just go on,
19:27
Speaker 1: tell me more about your last time seeing Janet, and
19:30
Speaker 1: Jim explained that he had stayed at Janet's house for
19:32
Speaker 1: a few hours and he had left really late to
19:35
Speaker 1: drive back to Fort Sil because he was actually supposed
19:38
Speaker 1: to deploy to Afghanistan the very next day, but when
19:41
Speaker 1: he got back to base that night, he learned that
19:43
Speaker 1: his deployment had actually been delayed for a few weeks.
19:46
Speaker 1: So Jim said the next day he had called Janet's
19:48
Speaker 1: house to tell her the good news that they had
19:51
Speaker 1: a few more weeks together before he went overseas, but
19:54
Speaker 1: he said Janet didn't answer the phone. Family member had
19:57
Speaker 1: and they had said that Janet was missing. Gravell just said,
20:00
Speaker 1: back in his chair, taking all the sin to him,
20:02
Speaker 1: it just seemed impossible that Jim would be the last
20:05
Speaker 1: person to see Janet before she just vanished. And then
20:09
Speaker 1: he also just so happened to find her car at
20:11
Speaker 1: the exact moment the police.
20:13
Speaker 3: Arrived to investigate.
20:15
Speaker 1: So Gravell began asking Jim more questions, predominantly about his
20:18
Speaker 1: personal life, and it was at that point that he
20:21
Speaker 1: learned that Janet was not Jim's only girlfriend right now.
20:26
Speaker 1: He was actually living with another woman in a town.
20:29
Speaker 2: Closer to Fort Sill.
20:30
Speaker 1: Now, Jim admitted that he knew this looked bad, but
20:33
Speaker 1: he swore that the relationship with this other woman wasn't
20:36
Speaker 1: working and he really just wanted to be with Janet.
20:39
Speaker 2: But Gravel at this point felt like he had heard enough.
20:41
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy really had dug himself a hole,
20:44
Speaker 1: and so what he really wanted to do was just
20:46
Speaker 1: discuss the results of this polygraph test with the examiner
20:49
Speaker 1: in private.
20:50
Speaker 2: So he ended the interview and.
20:51
Speaker 1: Sent Jim home, and once Jim was gone, Gravel turned
20:55
Speaker 1: to the examiner and the examiner said, yep, Jim failed
20:59
Speaker 1: his test, which meant he had been lying throughout the interview,
21:02
Speaker 1: and this was sort of unnerving for Gravel, I mean,
21:05
Speaker 1: because this guy that he had just interviewed very likely
21:08
Speaker 1: was the man responsible for Janet's disappearance. But Gravell knew
21:12
Speaker 1: that he would need more than polygraph results and sort
21:15
Speaker 1: of a gut feeling to arrest.
21:17
Speaker 2: Jim and charge him with some sort of crime.
21:19
Speaker 3: Right now, he needed more evidence.
21:30
Speaker 1: A few days later, Detective Gravel was in his office
21:33
Speaker 1: pacing around reading through some documents. So after his interview
21:36
Speaker 1: with Jim, Gravell had decided to go to the school
21:39
Speaker 1: where Janet worked to speak to her colleagues about her
21:42
Speaker 1: relationship with Jim. Now, he didn't even know if anybody
21:45
Speaker 1: at the school would know about her relationship at all,
21:48
Speaker 1: because she had basically kept it secret, and so Gravell
21:51
Speaker 1: had been really surprised to learn that not only did
21:54
Speaker 1: everybody at the school seem to know about Jim, but
21:56
Speaker 1: when they talked about Jim, they spoke with you know,
21:59
Speaker 1: huge ac I mean, they really loved Jim and thought
22:02
Speaker 1: that he was great for Janet. And on top of that,
22:05
Speaker 1: they all seemed to think, sort of collectively that Leroy
22:08
Speaker 1: was a terrible husband and had been glad when Janet
22:11
Speaker 1: finally dumped him. They said Leroy was very argumentative, and
22:15
Speaker 1: he was very controlling and said the divorce had been
22:18
Speaker 1: really messy. And for Gravell, you know, he found that
22:20
Speaker 1: kind of interesting because until that point he had thought
22:24
Speaker 1: that Leroy and Janet were basically on good terms, but
22:28
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it seemed like maybe that.
22:30
Speaker 2: Was not the case.
22:31
Speaker 1: So Gravell had gotten his hands on a copy of
22:33
Speaker 1: Janet and LeRoy's divorce settlement, and those were the documents
22:36
Speaker 1: he was looking through. And as Gravele thumbed through it all,
22:40
Speaker 1: he saw that Leroy actually owed Janet a lot of money,
22:44
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars plus half of his ranch in Ceiling,
22:48
Speaker 1: and that ranch, I mean, that was a really big
22:50
Speaker 1: deal because that was LeRoy's entire livelihood, so to owe
22:54
Speaker 1: her half on top of the cash was like a
22:56
Speaker 1: huge deal. Plus Gravell also knew that Janet had given
23:00
Speaker 1: full custody of their kids.
23:02
Speaker 2: And so the way Gravell saw it, I mean, Leroy
23:04
Speaker 2: he had a lot of reasons to be mad.
23:07
Speaker 1: And Gravel wondered if maybe he had been mad enough
23:10
Speaker 1: to do something to Janet. Just then, the phone on
23:13
Speaker 1: his desk rang, and Gravel answered it. It was an
23:15
Speaker 1: under sheriff named Jerry Jones, who worked in Dewey County,
23:18
Speaker 1: which is where LeRoy's ranch was located, and he told
23:21
Speaker 1: Gravel that he had heard about Janet's disappearance and he
23:23
Speaker 1: wanted to help with the investigation in any way that
23:26
Speaker 1: he could. And he explained that right now there were
23:29
Speaker 1: lots of rumors sort of flying around ceiling that Leroy
23:33
Speaker 1: had killed Janet and that one of LeRoy's neighbors had
23:36
Speaker 1: spotted a big bonfire on LeRoy's property just about at
23:41
Speaker 1: the same time that Janet had disappeared. The next day,
23:45
Speaker 1: Gravel was back in the interview room with the polygraph examiner,
23:49
Speaker 1: and this time Leroy was the one sitting across from
23:51
Speaker 1: the table from them, hooked up to the polygraph machine. Now,
23:54
Speaker 1: at first, Leroy definitely seemed nervous about taking this test,
23:58
Speaker 1: like he just seemed anxious, But as soon as they
24:01
Speaker 1: actually started, he quickly relaxed.
24:03
Speaker 3: It was almost like this was no big deal.
24:04
Speaker 1: Gravell began the interview by just asking him basic questions
24:08
Speaker 1: about his relationship with Janet and about their divorce, and
24:11
Speaker 1: Leroy would admit that he and Janet did fight a
24:14
Speaker 1: lot when they were married, and he said initially he
24:17
Speaker 1: had been very upset about owing Janet half of his
24:21
Speaker 1: ranch in the ceiling, but he insisted that these days
24:24
Speaker 1: they were basically on good terms and that he just
24:27
Speaker 1: really tried hard to focus on being a good father,
24:29
Speaker 1: and so not long after these sort of initial questions,
24:32
Speaker 1: Gravell asked Leroy to simply walk him through the night
24:35
Speaker 1: Janet disappeared, like, tell me where you were, what you
24:37
Speaker 1: were doing. Leroy told Gravell that he had been at
24:40
Speaker 1: his mother's house that night, which was near his ranch
24:42
Speaker 1: and ceiling, and that the two of them just watched
24:45
Speaker 1: TV together and then they both went to sleep. This
24:47
Speaker 1: was the same story that Leroy had already given Gravel
24:50
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when they first spoke, and Gravell
24:52
Speaker 1: had already called LeRoy's mom and she had backed it up. Now,
24:56
Speaker 1: at this point, Gravell really wanted to ask Leroy about
24:59
Speaker 1: that bonfire that someone had spotted on his property, but
25:02
Speaker 1: he didn't want Leroy to know how suspicious of him
25:05
Speaker 1: he was, so Gravell decided that first he would check
25:09
Speaker 1: the polygraph test so far to see whether Leroy had
25:12
Speaker 1: been truthful throughout the interview. So he asked Leroy to
25:15
Speaker 1: hang tight for a few minutes while he stepped out
25:18
Speaker 1: into the hallway and spoke to the examiner about his
25:20
Speaker 1: test results.
25:21
Speaker 2: Leroy was like, okay, great, yep, see in a few minutes.
25:24
Speaker 1: But as he sat back down, Gravell could see he
25:27
Speaker 1: definitely looked anxious, and so Gravel he went into the
25:30
Speaker 1: hallway and he walked over to the examiner, and the
25:32
Speaker 1: examiner told him that unfortunately, LeRoy's results were inconclusive, which
25:37
Speaker 1: meant that he couldn't tell if Leroy was lying or
25:40
Speaker 1: telling the truth, and so, feeling frustrated, Gravel went back
25:43
Speaker 1: into the room and just asked Leroy, Hey, would you
25:47
Speaker 1: mind taking this test again? Leroy, he glanced at his
25:50
Speaker 1: watch and said no, He'd been there for three hours
25:54
Speaker 1: already and he had to get home to.
25:55
Speaker 3: The kids, so no, he couldn't.
25:57
Speaker 1: He clarified to Gravel that he had actually moved the
25:59
Speaker 1: kids from Janet's house in Oklahoma City back to his
26:02
Speaker 1: ranch all the way out in Ceiling because the daily
26:04
Speaker 1: commute had been too hard for him, and so now
26:06
Speaker 1: he had a long drive back home and he just
26:09
Speaker 1: wanted to get going. He also told Grevell that he
26:11
Speaker 1: had heart problems and so part of him didn't want
26:14
Speaker 1: to take the test again, simply because it was too
26:16
Speaker 1: stressful and he was worried about his heart. Now, Gravel
26:19
Speaker 1: thought that was a pretty strange excuse. I mean, the
26:22
Speaker 1: kids were one thing, but heart issues being the reason
26:25
Speaker 1: you can't take a polygraph that just felt a little fishy.
26:28
Speaker 1: But at the same time, he couldn't force Leroy to
26:30
Speaker 1: stay at the station. Still, he didn't want to come
26:33
Speaker 1: out of this three hour polygraph session empty handed, so
26:36
Speaker 1: Gravell asked Leroy to do one last thing before he left,
26:39
Speaker 1: to sign a consent to Search form, which would allow
26:42
Speaker 1: investigators to come out to Ceiling and search his ranch, and,
26:45
Speaker 1: to Gravell's relief, Leroy said sure. The morning after Leroy
26:54
Speaker 1: took his polygraph test, Detective Gravel made the long drive
26:58
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma City to Ceiling, where LeRoy's ranch was located
27:01
Speaker 1: and where Gravell hoped to find the at this point
27:04
Speaker 1: body of his missing person, Janet Dennis. The previous night,
27:08
Speaker 1: Gravell had placed a call to under Sheriff Jones, the
27:10
Speaker 1: officer from Dewey County who had volunteered to help with
27:13
Speaker 1: Janet's case. Gravel knew that LeRoy's ranch was over fifteen
27:17
Speaker 1: hundred acres, so it's massive, and that it would likely
27:20
Speaker 1: take weeks to search the entire property. So Gravel had
27:24
Speaker 1: the under Sheriff's recon team actually begin that big search
27:27
Speaker 1: while Gravell and his team began speaking to some of
27:30
Speaker 1: LeRoy's neighbors. And so now Gravel pulled up a long
27:33
Speaker 1: driveway and parked outside of a big farmhouse, and then
27:37
Speaker 1: after he stopped, he got out and walked.
27:39
Speaker 3: Up and knocked on the front door.
27:41
Speaker 1: A moment later, a middle aged woman answered, and Gravell
27:44
Speaker 1: explained who he was and that he had heard that
27:46
Speaker 1: one of LeRoy's neighbors had seen a huge fire on
27:49
Speaker 1: LeRoy's property around the time that Janet Dennis had disappeared.
27:52
Speaker 1: And this woman's eyes immediately went wide, and she said
27:55
Speaker 1: that she was the one who had seen the fire
27:58
Speaker 1: and it had caught her attention because there was an
28:00
Speaker 1: of smoke, so it must have been huge. Gravel felt
28:03
Speaker 1: the surge of adrenaline because he had this feeling that
28:06
Speaker 1: this woman was likely about to lead him directly to
28:09
Speaker 1: Janet's body. She was going to show like where this
28:11
Speaker 1: fire was. But then a guilty look came across her
28:14
Speaker 1: face and she apologized to Gravel, and she said, you know,
28:18
Speaker 1: after I had told some people about this fire, I
28:20
Speaker 1: learned that actually the fire I saw had occurred a
28:24
Speaker 1: few days before Jannet went missing. And for Gravel, I mean,
28:28
Speaker 1: this was truly crushing. But you know, he asked the
28:31
Speaker 1: woman if she had spotted any other weird behavior on
28:33
Speaker 1: LeRoy's ranch, but the woman just said no, So Gravel
28:38
Speaker 1: ultimately thanked her for her time and then felt completely
28:41
Speaker 1: defeated as he walked back to his car. Gravel spent
28:43
Speaker 1: the next few hours going door to door in the area,
28:46
Speaker 1: asking more of LeRoy's neighbors about the rumors flying around
28:49
Speaker 1: town that Leroy had killed Janet, but pretty much everybody
28:53
Speaker 1: said that those rumors were largely connected to the bonfire
28:58
Speaker 1: that actually happened a few days before Janet disappeared, which
29:01
Speaker 1: meant that by the time Gravel headed back to.
29:03
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, he had no actual proof.
29:06
Speaker 1: That either Leroy or Jim had been involved in any
29:10
Speaker 1: way in Janet's disappearance. He really barely had any evidence
29:13
Speaker 1: at all that a crime had even occurred, and even
29:16
Speaker 1: though he strongly believed that Janet had been abducted and
29:19
Speaker 1: potentially killed, it was still technically possible that Janet disappeared
29:24
Speaker 1: by choice and was alive and well somewhere, and so
29:26
Speaker 1: at this point Gravel was completely out.
29:28
Speaker 2: Of leeds and he would just have to wait to
29:30
Speaker 2: see what.
29:31
Speaker 1: Would turn up on the ranch at the end of
29:33
Speaker 1: this massive search of the fifteen hundred acres. Six weeks later,
29:37
Speaker 1: in early February of nineteen ninety one, Gravel answered the
29:41
Speaker 1: phone in his office and the person on the other
29:43
Speaker 1: end of the line said that they had information about
29:45
Speaker 1: Janet Dennis. And this was fantastic news because at this
29:50
Speaker 1: point Gravel's investigation had completely stalled out. Nobody knew what
29:54
Speaker 1: happened to Janet. She had not turned up. It was
29:56
Speaker 1: basically dead end after dead end. And also so far
29:59
Speaker 1: the so ch of LeRoy's property, which was still ongoing,
30:03
Speaker 1: had yet to turn up anything useful for this investigation.
30:06
Speaker 1: The only other recent development in the case had happened
30:08
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when Leroy had contacted Gravel about
30:12
Speaker 1: a box of Jim's belongings that he had found at
30:14
Speaker 1: Janet's house. Now by this point, you know, Jim was
30:16
Speaker 1: no longer a secret Leroy knew about the secret boyfriend.
30:20
Speaker 1: When Gravell looked inside this box, he found this VHS tape,
30:24
Speaker 1: and it was a pornography tape. Now it was not
30:26
Speaker 1: like homemade. It was not Janet or Lee Roy or
30:29
Speaker 1: Jim or anybody. It was you know, real actors in
30:32
Speaker 1: this pornography tape. But it was a really specific type
30:36
Speaker 1: of pornography. It showed this woman being tied up and burned. Fictional,
30:42
Speaker 1: but that was the script. That's how the pornography went.
30:46
Speaker 1: When Gravell saw this, he wondered if this tape was
30:49
Speaker 1: actually why Jim had tried to get the key from
30:52
Speaker 1: Janet's father to sneak into Janet's house, if the real
30:55
Speaker 1: reason for that was actually to try to find this
30:58
Speaker 1: tape this you know, torture or porn and get it
31:01
Speaker 1: out of the house. And so Gravell had actually brought
31:04
Speaker 1: Jim down to the station to question him about the
31:06
Speaker 1: pornography tape. But Jim swore up and down he had
31:09
Speaker 1: no idea where that video came from. And he had
31:12
Speaker 1: even taken another polygraph test and this time he passed.
31:16
Speaker 1: And so now Gravel really didn't know what to believe,
31:19
Speaker 1: and he was desperate for really any new information. And
31:23
Speaker 1: so this caller saying they knew something about Janet was
31:26
Speaker 1: like the only positive development in the case that he
31:29
Speaker 1: had seen in quite a while, and the caller said
31:31
Speaker 1: that they actually had remembered something that might be important,
31:35
Speaker 1: and that's when Gravell realized that he recognized the caller's voice.
31:39
Speaker 3: They had actually spoken before.
31:46
Speaker 1: Based on forensic evidence and witness testimony, here is a
31:49
Speaker 1: reconstruction of what police belief happened to Janet Dennis on
31:53
Speaker 1: the night of December seventh, nineteen ninety. Late that night,
32:02
Speaker 1: the killer was standing inside of Janet's bedroom by the
32:05
Speaker 1: side of her bed, just watching her sleep, And as
32:08
Speaker 1: they stared at her sleeping.
32:10
Speaker 2: The killer was just filled with rage.
32:13
Speaker 1: Even though on the outside the killer sort of projected
32:15
Speaker 1: a very affable nature and just was a very calm
32:18
Speaker 1: and very kind person. Inside, they loathed Janet, and one
32:24
Speaker 1: of the primary reasons they hated her so much is
32:28
Speaker 1: because of her recent decision making. And so after standing
32:32
Speaker 1: there just taking in the sight of like the object
32:35
Speaker 1: of their rage, they reached over and grabbed a rag
32:39
Speaker 1: they had soaked in chloroform, which is a chemical that
32:41
Speaker 1: when it's pushed up against your face, it can cause
32:44
Speaker 1: you to pass out if you breathe it in, and
32:45
Speaker 1: the killer they put this rag right over Janet's mouth
32:49
Speaker 1: until she passed out, because they didn't want her waking
32:51
Speaker 1: up when they inevitably moved her. And then after using
32:55
Speaker 1: the chloroform, the killer grabbed Janet's purse and then also
32:59
Speaker 1: grabbed her toiletry to make it look like she had
33:01
Speaker 1: chosen to leave to go on a trip somewhere. And
33:04
Speaker 1: then the killer actually lifted Janet up out of the bed,
33:07
Speaker 1: put her on the ground. Remember she's passed out from
33:10
Speaker 1: this chemical. And then they put pillows in her bed
33:13
Speaker 1: under the sheets and kind of arranged them so at
33:15
Speaker 1: first glance it would look like Janet was still in
33:18
Speaker 1: bed with the covers up over her head. This really
33:20
Speaker 1: was just in case one of the kids came into
33:22
Speaker 1: the bedroom in the middle of the night.
33:24
Speaker 2: They would look and see their mom and they wouldn't
33:26
Speaker 2: think anything of it.
33:27
Speaker 1: And so now you know, with the pillows in place,
33:29
Speaker 1: and with the purse and the toilet trees in hand,
33:32
Speaker 1: the killer scooped Janet back up off the ground and
33:35
Speaker 1: then carried her out of the house. And once they
33:38
Speaker 1: were outside, the killer placed Janet's unconscious body in the
33:41
Speaker 1: back of the killer's vehicle and then they drove her
33:44
Speaker 1: to a nearby house in Oklahoma.
33:46
Speaker 2: City that they owned.
33:47
Speaker 1: The killer took Janet inside of this home and tied
33:50
Speaker 1: her up so that even if she woke up from
33:52
Speaker 1: this chloroform, she wouldn't be able to escape. And then
33:56
Speaker 1: the killer drove back to Janet's house, park their vehicle
33:59
Speaker 1: there and used Janet's keys they had gotten from her
34:02
Speaker 1: purse to get into her chefy blazer, and then they
34:05
Speaker 1: drove her blazer out to the airport and parked it
34:08
Speaker 1: in the long term parking lot. Then the killer took
34:11
Speaker 1: a taxi from the airport back to Janet's house, where
34:14
Speaker 1: they got into their own vehicle again and drove back
34:17
Speaker 1: to the house where Janet was tied up. Then the
34:20
Speaker 1: killer put Janet, who was still passed out, back into
34:24
Speaker 1: the killer's vehicle and they drove her to another house
34:27
Speaker 1: they owned. This one was outside of Oklahoma City, and
34:30
Speaker 1: when they got to this house, the killer dragged Janet
34:34
Speaker 1: out of the back of their vehicle. They put her
34:35
Speaker 1: on the ground, and the killer went and got a
34:37
Speaker 1: shovel and then came back over and smashed her in
34:40
Speaker 1: the head with it.
34:41
Speaker 3: Until she was dead.
34:42
Speaker 1: And then once Janet was dead, the killer burned her
34:45
Speaker 1: body in the fire pit on their ranch. Janet's killer
34:49
Speaker 1: was her ex husband, Leroy, who just basically hated Janet
34:53
Speaker 1: for getting full custody of their kids, for getting half
34:56
Speaker 1: of his ranch, for him being ordered to pay her
34:59
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollar. He hated her and resented her for
35:02
Speaker 1: all that, and then when he found out she was
35:04
Speaker 1: also dating this new guy, Jim, he was consumed by
35:08
Speaker 1: jealousy and decided he needed to do something, which was
35:12
Speaker 1: ultimately to murder his ex wife. And then after the murder,
35:16
Speaker 1: he invented an alibi and reported Janet missing himself in
35:20
Speaker 1: order to cast suspicion off of himself, But he was
35:23
Speaker 1: ultimately caught because LeRoy's neighbor remembered seeing smoke from his
35:27
Speaker 1: burn pit. It was the same neighbor that Gravell had
35:30
Speaker 1: spoken to. She had first thought the fire happened after
35:33
Speaker 1: Janet went missing, and then she changed her mind and
35:35
Speaker 1: thought it happened maybe before. But then a few weeks
35:39
Speaker 1: later she checked her calendar and realized she had gotten
35:42
Speaker 1: the date wrong again and that the fire was actually
35:45
Speaker 1: the day after Janet disappeared, And so she called Gravel
35:49
Speaker 1: right away and said, I have more information about Janet
35:53
Speaker 1: and it might be important, and so later that same day,
35:56
Speaker 1: after getting this information, the search team out at the
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