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- 0:28Speaker 1: When I was a teenager, I was living with my
- 0:30Speaker 1: mom and my little sister. She had me when she
- 0:33Speaker 1: was really young, and my dad didn't stick around after that,
- 0:36Speaker 1: so it was just us, which made ME want to
- 0:39Speaker 1: find a way to show how much we cared as
- 0:41Speaker 1: Mother's Day was coming up. The only problem was I
- 0:45Speaker 1: didn't have any money, so I couldn't exactly take her
- 0:48Speaker 1: out for a nice lunch or anything like that. All
- 0:50Speaker 1: I could think to do was spend the day at
- 0:52Speaker 1: a spot where the three of us could have fun together.
- 0:55Speaker 1: It was the San Joaquin River, which is close to
- 0:57Speaker 1: where we live in central California. I learned there was
- 1:00Speaker 1: a popular swimming area that only the locals really knew about,
- 1:04Speaker 1: so a few days before Mother's Day, we piled into
- 1:07Speaker 1: the car and drove out to the river, planning on
- 1:09Speaker 1: having a nice family day of swimming and sunbathing. When
- 1:12Speaker 1: we got there, I was expecting to see a lot
- 1:15Speaker 1: of other people, but it was actually pretty empty. I
- 1:18Speaker 1: thought it was weird since it was so close to
- 1:20Speaker 1: a holiday, but we had a large area of the
- 1:23Speaker 1: river to ourselves, so it turned out to be a
- 1:25Speaker 1: good thing. We all got changed. Then my mom set
- 1:28Speaker 1: up a chair to lounge on the river bank while
- 1:30Speaker 1: my sister and I got in to swim. We were
- 1:33Speaker 1: having a blast, splashing each other, racing, seeing who could
- 1:36Speaker 1: hold their breath underwater the longest, stuff like that. Eventually
- 1:41Speaker 1: I needed a great so I started swimming back to
- 1:44Speaker 1: the shore. My sister didn't come with me, though she
- 1:46Speaker 1: somehow still had energy to keep going while I was exhausted.
- 1:50Speaker 1: While I was climbing the rocks getting up to shore,
- 1:53Speaker 1: I could see my mom's sun bathing and basically passed
- 1:56Speaker 1: out on her lawn chair. It seemed like she was
- 1:58Speaker 1: relaxed and asleep. When I finally climbed up to the shore,
- 2:02Speaker 1: I went to dry myself off with the towel. I
- 2:04Speaker 1: was there for a few minutes when I heard something unusual.
- 2:11Speaker 1: It took me a second to realize that I was
- 2:14Speaker 1: hearing my little sister screaming for help. I stood up
- 2:21Speaker 1: and saw her in the middle of the river, way
- 2:23Speaker 1: farther downstream than earlier. The river had suddenly swelled up
- 2:27Speaker 1: and the current was racing now. She wasn't strong enough
- 2:30Speaker 1: to fight it. I knew I should have gotten off
- 2:32Speaker 1: that rock immediately and gone to help her, but I
- 2:34Speaker 1: just froze. I saw my mother sprint by in a blur,
- 2:38Speaker 1: but I didn't follow her. I just watched and did nothing.
- 2:41Speaker 1: My mother caught up to my sister on the river bank,
- 2:43Speaker 1: then jumped into the water after her. She swam so
- 2:47Speaker 1: fast and was at my sister within seconds, holding on
- 2:50Speaker 1: to her and trying to keep her head above the water.
- 2:52Speaker 1: She was able to, but I could tell she was
- 2:54Speaker 1: struggle and guess my sister was panicking. And I was
- 2:57Speaker 1: still one hundred feet away. When I saw them slowly
- 3:00Speaker 1: heading toward the shore. I finally kicked myself into action.
- 3:03Speaker 1: I ran as fast as I could to reach them,
- 3:05Speaker 1: but they were nearly at the shore when I caught up,
- 3:08Speaker 1: so I jumped into the shallow edge, holding my hands
- 3:11Speaker 1: out to help them out of the river. They reached
- 3:13Speaker 1: me in a few seconds, and my mother pushed my
- 3:15Speaker 1: sister off out of the water. Take her, got her,
- 3:24Speaker 1: You're okay now. I grabbed her and carried her over
- 3:26Speaker 1: to the land, But when I turned back, my mother
- 3:29Speaker 1: wasn't behind me. The current had quickened again in a
- 3:35Speaker 1: flash and dragged her out of the shallows and back
- 3:38Speaker 1: into the river. I jumped in after her, swimming as
- 3:41Speaker 1: fast as I could, but no matter how hard I tried,
- 3:44Speaker 1: I just couldn't catch up. The river was thrashing me around,
- 3:47Speaker 1: and I knew my mother had to already be exhausted.
- 3:50Speaker 1: The current had also picked up a ton of dirt,
- 3:52Speaker 1: making it impossible to see through the water, so before
- 3:55Speaker 1: I knew it, I couldn't even find her. Then I
- 3:58Speaker 1: realized I was in dail. I kept getting dragged under
- 4:01Speaker 1: as I was trying to catch my breath and ended
- 4:04Speaker 1: up swallowing water, almost inhaling it all into my lungs.
- 4:08Speaker 1: My instincts took over and I started swimming to shore
- 4:11Speaker 1: instead of towards my mother. I was barely able to
- 4:13Speaker 1: get out, but I managed to get to safety, collapsing
- 4:16Speaker 1: in the dirt. I dragged myself up and went back
- 4:19Speaker 1: to my sister. We caught our breath and looked out
- 4:21Speaker 1: over the water, but there was no sign of our mother.
- 4:24Speaker 1: When we weren't grasping for air anymore, we were sobbing.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Help came soon after, but by then she was long gone.
- 4:32Speaker 1: It started pouring rain as they started the search party,
- 4:35Speaker 1: making it even more difficult to find her. They had
- 4:38Speaker 1: to call off the search that night. It took until
- 4:40Speaker 1: the afternoon of the next day until she was found,
- 4:43Speaker 1: but it was far too late. Since then, nothing has
- 4:46Speaker 1: ever been the same for me and my sister. We're
- 4:49Speaker 1: living with our relatives now, but we can never sleep
- 4:52Speaker 1: like we used to. I wish I'd never even mentioned
- 4:54Speaker 1: that river. It should have been me who jumped into
- 4:57Speaker 1: the water to save my sister. This story was inspired
- 5:09Speaker 1: by a horrific Mother's Day incident. On May ninth, a
- 5:12Speaker 1: mother named Brenda Duran jumped into the San Joaquin River
- 5:16Speaker 1: in central California to rescue her drowning daughter. The mom
- 5:20Speaker 1: watched her children playing in the water of a popular beach,
- 5:23Speaker 1: but when her daughter could not keep her head above water,
- 5:26Speaker 1: Duran rushed into the river trying to save her, but
- 5:29Speaker 1: struggled to stay afloat due to the river's current swallowing
- 5:32Speaker 1: the mom. Her son then saw his mom in trouble
- 5:35Speaker 1: and jumped back into the river to try to grab her,
- 5:38Speaker 1: but he unfortunately could not get to her in time.
- 5:41Speaker 1: First responders, including rescue dive teams, spent hours in the water,
- 5:46Speaker 1: but visibility and safety concerns forced the search to be
- 5:49Speaker 1: paused around eleven pm. Police said Duran's remains were recovered
- 5:53Speaker 1: around five thirty pm on May eleventh. The river the
- 5:57Speaker 1: incident took place in is known for its teeming wildlife economy,
- 6:01Speaker 1: fuel tourism that includes paddling, swimming and fishing, and hydroelectric power.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Duran was just thirty years old.
- 6:26Speaker 2: After I divorced my first wife, I met my current wife,
- 6:30Speaker 2: Hope in my thirties. We both already had children, so
- 6:33Speaker 2: I knew she would be an excellent mother to my kids.
- 6:36Speaker 2: I ended up adopting all her children as well, and
- 6:38Speaker 2: then we even had our own son together. That all
- 6:41Speaker 2: started when we were both still very young. But now
- 6:45Speaker 2: four decades have passed, all our kids have moved away,
- 6:48Speaker 2: and as we've gotten older, I've been burdened with declining health.
- 6:52Speaker 2: I'm always sick and can't move around for shit. However,
- 6:56Speaker 2: in what was clearly the final years of my life,
- 7:00Speaker 2: taking it upon herself to make me even more miserable,
- 7:03Speaker 2: she started distancing herself from me, basically ignoring me like
- 7:07Speaker 2: I didn't exist. During minor holidays like Mother's Day, she
- 7:11Speaker 2: would leave the house and disappear for hours. She admittedly
- 7:14Speaker 2: said that she was having an affair and that she
- 7:17Speaker 2: would rather have me out of her life. The feeling
- 7:20Speaker 2: was mutual, except I couldn't bring myself to divorce her
- 7:23Speaker 2: after being with her for so long, so I ended
- 7:27Speaker 2: up complacent and let her do whatever she wanted. But
- 7:30Speaker 2: recently something has been horribly disturbing. I can tell Hope
- 7:34Speaker 2: didn't want me alive. When I did simple things like
- 7:38Speaker 2: sit around watch TV or eight, she would stare daggers
- 7:41Speaker 2: at me from the corner. In fact, without any prompt
- 7:44Speaker 2: or context whatsoever, she would say, weird, disturbing shit like
- 7:49Speaker 2: I wish for Mother's Day you would go away forever.
- 7:52Speaker 2: She would then give me this evil smile, like she
- 7:55Speaker 2: was already making the preparations for a while. I've been
- 7:58Speaker 2: sleeping on the couch and the room. I never get
- 8:01Speaker 2: any privacy, and I'm often afraid to fall asleep as
- 8:04Speaker 2: our catch Hope staring at me in the darkness like
- 8:07Speaker 2: an evil witch.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Go away.
- 8:09Speaker 2: I'm trying to sleep, get out o here. I have
- 8:14Speaker 2: sleeping pills, but I'm trying to avoid taking them because
- 8:17Speaker 2: of her. I'm scared of not being alert to fend
- 8:20Speaker 2: for myself, just in case she tried to pull something.
- 8:23Speaker 2: When Mother's Day finally came, I expected hope to be
- 8:26Speaker 2: in a sour mood since I was still alive, But strangely,
- 8:29Speaker 2: it was quite the opposite. She had this giddy energy
- 8:32Speaker 2: about her all day. It was weird as hell. I
- 8:36Speaker 2: just went about my day like usual until it was
- 8:38Speaker 2: finally time to get back on the couch and try
- 8:41Speaker 2: to fall asleep. I didn't know I was in for
- 8:44Speaker 2: the most terrifying night of my life.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Oh God, she's watching me sleep again.
- 8:56Speaker 2: She's so creepy.
- 8:58Speaker 1: What the hell is the man? If I pretend to
- 9:02Speaker 1: be asleep, maybe she'll go away. No, no, don't come
- 9:10Speaker 1: near me, you freak to leave me alone. Come on,
- 9:13Speaker 1: just go away. What do you want? Oh soety, it
- 9:21Speaker 1: looks like you're having trouble sleeping again. Sit up for
- 9:25Speaker 1: me so you can take your meds.
- 9:27Speaker 3: I already took it.
- 9:28Speaker 1: I'm fine.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Back up, okay, fine, dear, comes the airplane.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Coming in for a languid. Here you are, my dear.
- 9:46Speaker 2: That's it to drink, drink and drink.
- 9:49Speaker 1: God, what are you doing? Just take the glass already,
- 9:58Speaker 1: I'm tired.
- 10:28Speaker 3: It was the night after Mother's Day. My mom called me,
- 10:31Speaker 3: crying hysterically. She told me through her tears that my
- 10:33Speaker 3: father had passed. I didn't know what to do, so
- 10:36Speaker 3: I just went over to the house, finding it sworn
- 10:38Speaker 3: by police.
- 10:39Speaker 2: I didn't understand why.
- 10:40Speaker 3: At first. All I wanted to do in that moment
- 10:42Speaker 3: was comfort my mother, grieve with my family, and bury
- 10:44Speaker 3: my father. Afterwards, I wanted to spend more time with
- 10:47Speaker 3: my mom, and that's when I noticed her strange behavior.
- 10:49Speaker 3: I asked her how it happened, but she just looked
- 10:52Speaker 3: right through me and said she couldn't tell me. Something
- 10:54Speaker 3: about it was just really off putting. Weeks later enough
- 10:57Speaker 3: people started saying the same thing that my mother was
- 10:59Speaker 3: all but admit taken out her husband. Not a person
- 11:02Speaker 3: who knew her hadn't had some weir encounter with her
- 11:04Speaker 3: basically admitting and saying what he did subliminally. Unfortunately, I
- 11:08Speaker 3: had to agree with everyone. I had to send my
- 11:10Speaker 3: own mother to prison.
- 11:15Speaker 2: For this Mother's Day, we had to feature one of
- 11:17Speaker 2: the scariest mums to walk the face of the earth.
- 11:20Speaker 2: The moum we are talking about is a seventy one
- 11:22Speaker 2: year old woman named Hope Shriner. Hope was married to
- 11:25Speaker 2: our husband, Robert for over four three years. After making
- 11:28Speaker 2: it past the seven year reach surviving the empty nurse
- 11:31Speaker 2: syndrome and settling into retirement. It seemed as if the
- 11:35Speaker 2: couple had a long lasting, successful relationship, but their picture
- 11:38Speaker 2: book story ended the day Hope snapped and bludgeoned Robert
- 11:42Speaker 2: to his demise. Robert, who was hampered by mobility issues
- 11:46Speaker 2: from a near fatal car accident, battled numerous health problems
- 11:49Speaker 2: in his seventies. He lost a lung to cancer and
- 11:52Speaker 2: suffered chronic pneumonia and glaucoma, and it was during this
- 11:55Speaker 2: period Hope and Robert's relationship went downhill. Hope began an
- 11:59Speaker 2: affair with an the man named Donald Burrey seventy seven.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Hope dreamed of starting a new life with Beret, but
- 12:05Speaker 2: he would ultimately turn her down. On the afternoon of
- 12:08Speaker 2: the second of June two thousand and four, when Hope
- 12:10Speaker 2: called nine one one to say she had found her
- 12:12Speaker 2: husband bleeding in their driveway, emergency responders arrived and declared
- 12:16Speaker 2: Robert was a gonner. At the scene, the medical examiner
- 12:19Speaker 2: determined blunt force trauma was the cause of his passing.
- 12:22Speaker 2: It was also discovered that Robert had ingested a large
- 12:25Speaker 2: dose of sleeping aid in the days after her husband's passing,
- 12:29Speaker 2: Hope began saying disturbing things to her family and friends.
- 12:32Speaker 2: One friend expressed fear about the case being unsolved and
- 12:35Speaker 2: that a killer was running around their rural community, but
- 12:38Speaker 2: Hope whispered to her saying, don't worry, I did it.
- 12:42Speaker 2: When Hope's daughter asked how her adopted father passed, Hope said,
- 12:46Speaker 2: I can't tell you. Hope also told a neighbor, I
- 12:48Speaker 2: just snapped. I put sleeping pills in his coffee. Another
- 12:51Speaker 2: friend that volunteered with Hope at the library told investigators
- 12:54Speaker 2: that Hope told her I wanted to get rid of
- 12:56Speaker 2: my husband. Police later found evidence connecting to Robert's passing
- 13:00Speaker 2: in hope spasement. The day after Robert's funeral service, detectives
- 13:04Speaker 2: arrested Hope and charged her. Accordingly, Hope was eventually sentenced
- 13:08Speaker 2: to seventeen years to life in prison, becoming of a
- 13:11Speaker 2: month's oldest female inmate.
- 13:32Speaker 1: This happened a few years ago on Mother's Day, and
- 13:34Speaker 1: it still haunts me till this day. I used to
- 13:37Speaker 1: live with my mom, who was a hard working woman.
- 13:40Speaker 1: She used to cook, clean and take care of me
- 13:43Speaker 1: and my siblings while working a part time job. When
- 13:46Speaker 1: I eventually got older and had a wife and kids
- 13:48Speaker 1: of my own, I moved out in a small bungalow house.
- 13:52Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave her to fend for herself,
- 13:54Speaker 1: so I ended up taking her in. My wife was
- 13:56Speaker 1: a bit hesitant at first, but eventually gave in to
- 14:00Speaker 1: the idea since the kids really liked her company. So
- 14:03Speaker 1: when it was eventually Mother's Day, I of course wanted
- 14:06Speaker 1: to celebrate not only my wife, but my mother as well.
- 14:09Speaker 1: We invited our cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, basically the
- 14:14Speaker 1: entire family. It was a perfect day, honestly. The kids
- 14:18Speaker 1: were outside playing in the front lawn while myself and
- 14:20Speaker 1: the other relatives did grown up stuff. It was around
- 14:23Speaker 1: the evening time when I got up to grab another
- 14:26Speaker 1: beer from the fridge. That's when I noticed an unfamiliar
- 14:29Speaker 1: car parked on the street in front of my house.
- 14:32Speaker 1: It was a dark sedan with tinted windows, just sitting
- 14:36Speaker 1: there idling. I then went out to the porch and
- 14:38Speaker 1: saw the kids playing on the lawn and my mom
- 14:41Speaker 1: at the edge of the yard facing the car. I
- 14:43Speaker 1: remember hearing her saying something like what do you won't
- 14:47Speaker 1: get the hell out of here. The car didn't move,
- 14:50Speaker 1: it just parked there. She then shouted again, saying, if
- 14:53Speaker 1: you don't get out of here, I'm calling the cops.
- 14:57Speaker 1: You got that. My mother was a very confrontation person
- 15:00Speaker 1: and didn't take shit from anyone and would call out
- 15:03Speaker 1: anyone on anything if she thought they were in the wrong.
- 15:06Speaker 1: That's just how she was. But something about yelling at
- 15:09Speaker 1: a random vehicle was alarming as hell. I didn't want
- 15:12Speaker 1: her causing any unnecessary drama in printing a target on
- 15:15Speaker 1: our house, so I called out to her, saying, Mom,
- 15:19Speaker 1: just ignore them and come inside. She ignored me and
- 15:22Speaker 1: continued me and mugging the vehicle. I figured it had
- 15:25Speaker 1: to either be some careen neighbors down the street that
- 15:27Speaker 1: were trying to file a noise complaint, or just a
- 15:30Speaker 1: group of teen troublemakers looking to get a kick out
- 15:32Speaker 1: of bothering an elderly lady. I tried to make out
- 15:35Speaker 1: who was inside the car, but it was hard to
- 15:37Speaker 1: see as the windows were tinted and it was getting
- 15:39Speaker 1: a bit late. I called out to my mom once
- 15:42Speaker 1: more to get inside and that the other adults were
- 15:44Speaker 1: waiting on her. Once again, she ignored me and continued
- 15:48Speaker 1: to have a stare down with the vehicle. I was
- 15:50Speaker 1: getting nervous as hell and got a bit closer so
- 15:53Speaker 1: I could see the plate number, just in case whoever
- 15:55Speaker 1: was in the car tried to pull something. As I
- 15:58Speaker 1: squinted my eyes to look at the front plate, I
- 16:00Speaker 1: realized that it was either removed or being covered. That's
- 16:03Speaker 1: when I knew something was horribly wrong. A million red
- 16:06Speaker 1: flags raced through my mind. I started freaking out and
- 16:09Speaker 1: yelled at my mom and the kids to immediately get
- 16:12Speaker 1: back in the house. The kids immediately started scrambling inside,
- 16:15Speaker 1: while my mom stood in the same spot, yelling at
- 16:17Speaker 1: the car and telling them she was going to call
- 16:19Speaker 1: the cops. I then started walking towards her, just so
- 16:22Speaker 1: I could pull her back into the house and away
- 16:24Speaker 1: from the vehicle. That's when the car suddenly rolled down,
- 16:26Speaker 1: their windows refilling two or three men wearing ski masks.
- 16:30Speaker 1: The one closest to the window then pulled out a
- 16:32Speaker 1: firearm and started waving it around.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Happy Mothers Day, yelled fun, Today's gonna be your lucky day.
- 16:39Speaker 1: He then smiled at me and my mom, and that's
- 16:41Speaker 1: when I yelled, saying, Mom, get inside. As I started
- 16:45Speaker 1: running back towards the house, and as I made it
- 16:47Speaker 1: to the porch, all I could hear was a loud
- 16:49Speaker 1: bang sound. All I could remember was ducking for cover
- 16:53Speaker 1: as my relatives inside the house started screaming in despair
- 16:56Speaker 1: and confusion, not knowing what the hell was going on.
- 16:59Speaker 1: The car then imediately drifted off. I then got up
- 17:02Speaker 1: and slowly turned my back to see where my mom was,
- 17:04Speaker 1: and there she was, laying lifelessly on the lawn. She
- 17:08Speaker 1: was still eerily still. I then ran to her, screaming mom, Mom, Mom,
- 17:14Speaker 1: over and over again, but there was no response. I
- 17:17Speaker 1: took off my shirt and used it to cover her wound.
- 17:19Speaker 1: As my relatives called the cops. An ambulance with a
- 17:22Speaker 1: few cruisers showed up, taking her to the hospital, but
- 17:25Speaker 1: it was too late. She was gone. The police went
- 17:28Speaker 1: searching for the suspects, but unfortunately they were unable to
- 17:32Speaker 1: be found. There wasn't much evidence that my family and
- 17:35Speaker 1: I could provide to the police. We had no camera footage,
- 17:38Speaker 1: no license plate, nothing other than just some males wearing
- 17:41Speaker 1: ski masks. After providing police with our testimonies, they concluded
- 17:46Speaker 1: that the whole thing was just a senseless motiveless crime,
- 17:49Speaker 1: just really some sickles in a car. The next few
- 17:52Speaker 1: months after that tragic Mother's Day weekend was a blur.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep her eve, I was just numb. The
- 17:58Speaker 1: house felt empty, and the kids were understandably quiet and scared.
- 18:02Speaker 1: None of us wanted to step out of the house
- 18:04Speaker 1: and deal with the fact that we might see those
- 18:06Speaker 1: guys again. A few years after the incident, my family
- 18:09Speaker 1: and I moved out, but we couldn't deal with the
- 18:11Speaker 1: fact that those guys could still show up anytime, whether
- 18:14Speaker 1: it was a birthday, holiday, or Mother's Day again and
- 18:18Speaker 1: possibly target us for no apparent reason. This story was
- 18:24Speaker 1: inspired by a horrific incident regarding an Alabama grandmother who
- 18:28Speaker 1: was celebrating Mother's Day with her family when someone opened
- 18:31Speaker 1: fire on the outdoor party just after seven pm on Sunday,
- 18:34Speaker 1: May twelfth. Gloria Cruz, sixty four, was fatally struck issue
- 18:39Speaker 1: reportedly rushed children playing outside back into her house for safety.
- 18:43Speaker 1: She collapsed on her lawn cruise unfortunately did not make
- 18:47Speaker 1: it at the scene. Police are offering a one thousand
- 18:49Speaker 1: dollars cash reward to anyone who may have seen something
- 18:52Speaker 1: or know something and to come forward with any information
- 18:55Speaker 1: related to the suspect. Crew's daughter has set up a
- 18:58Speaker 1: GoFundMe to set up for funeral expenses. No arrests have
- 19:02Speaker 1: since been made, according to police, who say the case
- 19:05Speaker 1: is still under investigation.