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Speaker 1: this two story house that's very modest, very plain. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing unique about it, and it's even set far off
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Speaker 1: the road behind some trees, so you really can't even
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Speaker 1: see it. But today, when I tell you what happened
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Speaker 1: Located in the middle of America is a little town
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Speaker 1: called Hartford, Wisconsin. Downtown, they have the biggest automobile museum
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Speaker 1: in all of Wisconsin. They also have a bowling alley
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Speaker 1: called Dave's Lanes, which sells cheap beer and the best
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Speaker 1: frozen pizza in town. Around the corner from the museum
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Speaker 1: and Dave's Lanes are two other very popular local spots.
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Speaker 1: One is called Scoop Deville, which is an ice cream
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Speaker 1: parlor that's themed like it's the nineteen fifties and they
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Speaker 1: specialize in raspberry Sundays. And the other popular spot is
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Speaker 1: called the Mine Shaft, and it's this big, family friendly
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Speaker 1: restaurant that offers comfort food and arcade games. On warmer days,
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Speaker 1: you can find residents of Hartford out on the many
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Speaker 1: walking trails of Woodlawn and Willowbrook, which are two big,
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Speaker 1: very well maintained parts that are right outside of the
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Speaker 1: downtown area. And on virtually any day, whether it's warm
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Speaker 1: or cold, you can find Hertford residents packed into the
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Speaker 1: Shower Arts Center, which is a local theater, to watch
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Speaker 1: the local theater Troupe perform. But none of these attractions
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Speaker 1: are why anybody knows about Hertford, Wisconsin. The reason we
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Speaker 1: know about Hertford, Wisconsin is because of Jesse Blodgett. Jesse
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Speaker 1: Blodgett was a miracle. She was born just outside of Atlanta, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four to her loving parents, Buck and
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Speaker 1: Joy Blodgett and Buck and Joy for the longest time
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Speaker 1: they couldn't have kids. In fact, they were kind of
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Speaker 1: adjusting to their reality that they would not be able
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Speaker 1: to have biological children. When Joy discovered she was pregnant,
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Speaker 1: the couple couldn't believe it. It was like the most
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Speaker 1: incredible thing that either of them had ever experienced. Joy
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Speaker 1: would give birth to Jesse at home with no drugs,
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Speaker 1: no doctors, just Buck, his mom, and a midwife, and
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Speaker 1: when little Jesse poked her head into the world for
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Speaker 1: the first time, Buck and Joy fell instantly in love
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Speaker 1: with her. Not long after Jesse's birth, the Blodgett family
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Speaker 1: would leave Atlanta, Georgia and move to Hartford, Wisconsin. And
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Speaker 1: it was there, inside of their modest, two story home,
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Speaker 1: about five minutes drive from the downtown, that Jesse would
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Speaker 1: grow up. And it was also inside of that modest
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Speaker 1: two story home where many years later, Jesse would come
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Speaker 1: face to face with a monster. Jesse was always someone
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Speaker 1: the other kids looked up to She was a brilliant
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Speaker 1: musician who could sing, and she could play the piano
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Speaker 1: and the violin. One of her very close friends growing up,
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Speaker 1: a girl named Jacqueline Knights, said that whenever she went
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Speaker 1: over to Jesse's house, she would walk in and have
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Speaker 1: to yell at the top of her lungs just to
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Speaker 1: get Jesse's attention, because Jesse was permanently playing the piano.
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Speaker 1: But Jesse's musical talents were not the only reason people
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Speaker 1: were attracted to her. From a young age, Jesse became
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Speaker 1: outraged by bullying and unfairness of any kind, and so
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Speaker 1: very quickly she developed a very strong moral compass. She
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Speaker 1: became a fierce defender of animal rights, environmentalism, sustainability, social justice,
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Speaker 1: and ultimately ending violence against women. By the time she
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Speaker 1: graduated from high school in twenty twelve, Jesse had become
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Speaker 1: very popular amongst her peers and also amongst teachers and parents.
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Speaker 1: Jesse just came off as someone who was wise beyond
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Speaker 1: her years. Jesse always talked about wanting to change the world,
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Speaker 1: and after high school she kind of figured out how
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Speaker 1: she was going to do that. She decided she would
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Speaker 1: study to become a choir director for either a university
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Speaker 1: or a high school, because through that role, she would
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Speaker 1: be able to teach and mentor upwards of one hundred
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Speaker 1: young lives every single year. So, in the fall of
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, Jesse would leave Hartford and head off to
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Speaker 1: the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, which is about an
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Speaker 1: hour southeast of Hartford, and there she would enroll in
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Speaker 1: their musical education program. And during that first year at
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Speaker 1: the school, Jesse did so well in that program that
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Speaker 1: she was offered a talent scholarship for the following year.
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Speaker 1: After wrapping up her incredibly successful freshman year in college,
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Speaker 1: Jesse came back to Hartford, Wisconsin to live with her
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Speaker 1: parents for the summer. Now, unlike other college kids that
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Speaker 1: were back home for the summer, Jesse was not treating
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Speaker 1: this break like it was a vacation. Instead, she decided
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Speaker 1: she would just jump right into her musical education career,
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Speaker 1: and so as soon as she got home, she started
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Speaker 1: her own business teaching voice and piano and violin to
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Speaker 1: kids in Hartford, and within weeks of starting this brand
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Speaker 1: new business, she had over twenty five kids signed up.
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Speaker 1: When Jesse wasn't teaching that summer, she was often writing
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Speaker 1: original music with her friend Dan Bartelt, who was also
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Speaker 1: a very talented local musician, or when she wasn't doing that,
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Speaker 1: she was rehearsing at the Shower Arts Center, where that
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Speaker 1: summer she had auditioned for and landed a central role
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Speaker 1: in that summer's music, the Fiddler on the Roof. Jesse
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Speaker 1: was the fiddler, and she was very excited about this.
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Speaker 1: The musical opened to a packed house on Friday, July
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Speaker 1: twelfth at seven thirty pm, and Jesse and the rest
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Speaker 1: of her cast were incredible. And then the next night,
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Speaker 1: July thirteenth, Saturday, they had another big performance at seven
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Speaker 1: thirty as well, and then on Sunday, July fourteenth, they
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Speaker 1: had a matinee performance at two pm. After that matinee,
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Speaker 1: Jesse and the rest of her castmates headed off to
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Speaker 1: another cast member's house who had a pool, and they
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Speaker 1: had a big pool party to celebrate the end of
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Speaker 1: their opening weekend. And during this party, Jesse spent half
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Speaker 1: of her time sitting around the pool with her cast mates,
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Speaker 1: and the other half of the time she spent petting
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Speaker 1: lamas that were in a nearby field. Jesse would finally
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Speaker 1: leave the party and get back to her parents' house
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Speaker 1: sometime after midnight, and when she went inside, her mother
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Speaker 1: Joy was still awake, and so when Joy heard her daughter,
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Speaker 1: she came out to the front of the house and
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Speaker 1: she was getting ready to ask Jesse, you know how
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Speaker 1: with the party, when she noticed right away that something
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Speaker 1: was off about Jesse. She looked upset about something, and
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Speaker 1: so Joy asked her, you know, are you okay, And
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Speaker 1: so Jesse looked like she was about to maybe go
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Speaker 1: into a lengthy explanation about why she was feeling the
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Speaker 1: way she was feeling, but ultimately Jesse just kind of
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Speaker 1: stopped herself and in a tone that was less upset
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Speaker 1: and more just annoyed, she would tell her mom, you know,
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Speaker 1: the guys in the cast, you know, there are these
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Speaker 1: two older guys that were kind of hitting on me,
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Speaker 1: and you know, those are my friends, and I felt
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Speaker 1: like they were crossing the line. It just it was
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Speaker 1: just totally uncomfortable, and so Joy began asking some follow
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Speaker 1: up questions to get a sense of, you know, how
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Speaker 1: serious this was, and it just seemed like it wasn't
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Speaker 1: that serious. And pretty quickly the two women said good
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Speaker 1: night to each other and they both retired to their
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Speaker 1: rooms to go to bed. The next morning, Buck and
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Speaker 1: Joy got up fairly early, around seven am, and Jesse
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Speaker 1: she stayed in bed because her only commitment that day
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Speaker 1: was a lesson. She was teaching one of her students
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Speaker 1: at around noon, and they'd be coming by the house
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Speaker 1: for that life and so her parents knew she was
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Speaker 1: sleeping in, and so Buck and Joy they're kind of
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Speaker 1: going about their morning routine. Buck left ahead of Joy
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Speaker 1: probably around seven or seven thirty, and then at eight am, Joy,
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Speaker 1: right before she left the house, she brought some laundry
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Speaker 1: up to Jesse's room, and so she opens Jesse's door.
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Speaker 1: She goes inside Jesse's asleep and Joy she puts the
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Speaker 1: laundry down, and she considers going over and waking her
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Speaker 1: daughter up, just to say good morning and maybe goodbye,
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Speaker 1: But she thought to herself, you know, Jesse never gets
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Speaker 1: a chance to sleep in. She's always got something going on,
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Speaker 1: and so I'll let her sleep. And so Joy just
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Speaker 1: quietly left the room. She shut the door behind her,
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Speaker 1: and she headed off to work. At around noon, Joy
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Speaker 1: would leave her office and head back home for her
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Speaker 1: lunch break, and so when she walked into her home,
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Speaker 1: she was expecting to see Jesse awake, because Jesse had
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Speaker 1: one of her students arriving any time. But when she
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Speaker 1: walked inside, the house was silent. Jesse was not downstairs.
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Speaker 1: She apparently was not awake, and Joy had seen her
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Speaker 1: car out in the driveway, so she knew she had
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Speaker 1: and left, and so kind of annoyed, Joy walked to
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Speaker 1: the foot of the stairs and she yelled upstairs for
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Speaker 1: Jesse to wake up. You know, hey, your student's gonna
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Speaker 1: be here any minute. And then Joy left the foot
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Speaker 1: of the stairs and walked into the kitchen and made
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Speaker 1: herself something to eat. After a little while, as she's
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Speaker 1: finishing making her lunch, Joy hears a knock on the
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Speaker 1: front door. And now at this point, Joy is really
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Speaker 1: annoyed because Jesse has still not made a sound, she
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Speaker 1: has not come downstairs, and so Joy she goes over
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Speaker 1: to the front door. She opens it up, and sure
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Speaker 1: enough it's Jesse's student. She asked the student to come
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Speaker 1: inside and wait for a minute, and then Joy hustles
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Speaker 1: up the stairs. She goes right over to Jesse's bedroom.
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Speaker 1: She opens the door up. Jesse's still in bed, and
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Speaker 1: so Joy runs over to her to jostle her awake.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as she is standing right above the bed,
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Speaker 1: right over her daughter, and she has a clear look
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Speaker 1: down at her daughter's face, she freezes. Moments later, she
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Speaker 1: would call nine one one. Oh my god, what's your emergency?
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Speaker 1: My daughter is blue. I went to wake her up,
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Speaker 1: and I just got home the hoo for lunch and
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Speaker 1: she won't wake up. Oh my god. Okay a second, Okay,
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Speaker 1: So is she breathing?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. No, you cancer all in. It
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Speaker 2: looks like strangulation marks. If there are strangulation marks, what
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Speaker 2: it looks like. I don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Joy would gently pull
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Speaker 1: her daughter out of the bed and lay her down
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Speaker 1: on the ground. She would put a pillow underneath her head,
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Speaker 1: and then she would begin doing chest compressions to try
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Speaker 1: to save her daughter's life, but it was already too late.
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Speaker 1: When police and paramedics arrived moments later, they came into
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Speaker 1: the bedroom, and they quickly determined that Jesse was deceased.
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Speaker 1: When police looked at Jesse's body, they too saw the
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Speaker 1: marks on her neck that her mother had referenced on
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Speaker 1: the nine one one call, and they also saw these
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Speaker 1: same ligature marks on her left wrist and also on
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Speaker 1: her ankles. As a result of these findings, the police
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Speaker 1: on scene quickly concluded that this was not a naturally
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Speaker 1: occurring death, This was not a suicide, This was a homicide,
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Speaker 1: and so as gently as they could, the police ushered
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Speaker 1: Joy out of her daughter's bedroom and led her downstairs,
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Speaker 1: because at this point her daughter's bedroom was a crime
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Speaker 1: scene and they needed to keep at Pristine's that could
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Speaker 1: find evidence to figure out who did this. Once downstairs,
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Speaker 1: Joy was reunited with her very distraught husband Buck, who
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Speaker 1: had just come home as well. And the two of them,
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Speaker 1: I mean, their life is destroyed. Their beautiful baby girl,
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Speaker 1: their only child, is now suddenly gone, and it didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. During the search of Jesse's bedroom and
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Speaker 1: then also the Blodget house at large, the police were
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Speaker 1: not able to find any cord or rope or ligatures
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Speaker 1: that could have been used to strangle Jesse to death.
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Speaker 1: The police also noted that there was no sign of
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Speaker 1: forced entry anywhere in the house and and it appeared
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Speaker 1: nothing in the house was stolen, and so quickly the
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Speaker 1: lead Hartford police detective named Richard Thickens began operating under
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Speaker 1: the assumption that the killer knew Jesse and targeted Jesse,
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Speaker 1: that they would have known where she was in the house,
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Speaker 1: they knew how to get in the house, and they
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Speaker 1: went straight for her. They killed her, and they left.
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Speaker 1: When Detective Thickens spoke with Buck and Joy just hours
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Speaker 1: after they had discovered their daughter dead, he asked them
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Speaker 1: if they had any idea who would want to hurt
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Speaker 1: their daughter, And at first the parents said, no, we
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Speaker 1: don't know anyone, But after some more prodding, Buck would say, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, recently, there were some tree limb cutters that
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Speaker 1: were cutting limbs right outside of Jesse's bedroom window, and
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Speaker 1: so maybe they looked in and they saw a teenage
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Speaker 1: girl who was all alone, and they came in and
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Speaker 1: they attacked her. And then Buck also said that in
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Speaker 1: addition to teaching music that summer, Jesse had picked up
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Speaker 1: a few hours working at a restaurant down the road,
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Speaker 1: and recently she had come into conflict with one of
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Speaker 1: her co workers who began acting very inappropriately with her.
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Speaker 1: He basically would walk past Jesse and intentionally bump into
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Speaker 1: her and rub into her and just get inside of
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Speaker 1: her personal space. And this coworker was aware of the
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Speaker 1: fact that Jesse was really upset and had already told
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Speaker 1: her family, and so perhaps this coworker was disgruntled and
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Speaker 1: was seeking revenge. Also, Joy would point out to the
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Speaker 1: detective that the night before, when Jesse came home, she
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Speaker 1: had seemed really upset about something she had said. It
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Speaker 1: was about these two guys that were hitting on her
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Speaker 1: at the party and it made her uncomfortable. But Joy
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Speaker 1: and Jesse didn't really get into it, so there was
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Speaker 1: something obviously on her mind the night that she was killed.
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Speaker 1: Following this discussion, Detective Thickens would go out and track
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Speaker 1: down those tree trimmers. He would also track down the
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Speaker 1: coworker at the restaurant, and he discovered that they had
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Speaker 1: rock solid alibis and they were ruled out as suspects.
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Speaker 1: As for the two older guys, the cast members from
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Speaker 1: the pool party that had made Jesse uncomfortable, Detective Thickens
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Speaker 1: found them and he very quickly ruled out one of them,
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Speaker 1: but he was not able to rule out the other.
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Speaker 1: His name was Randy Talley. When Detective Thickens spoke to
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Speaker 1: Randy on July fifteenth, the day that Jesse was found
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Speaker 1: Randy would deny having anything to do with Jesse's death.
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Speaker 1: When Detective Thickens asked him, you know, where were you
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Speaker 1: the night before after the cast party, where'd you go?
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Speaker 1: And then where were you this morning? Randy would tell
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Speaker 1: him that after the party, he went back to his
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Speaker 1: apartment and that is where he has been the entire
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Speaker 1: time until right then. When Detective Thickens asked him if
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Speaker 1: there was anyone that could corroborate his story, Randy said no,
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Speaker 1: he was alone in his apartment the entire time. Shortly
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Speaker 1: after speaking with Randy, the police were still searching Jesse's
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Speaker 1: bedroom for evidence and they discovered her diary, and her
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Speaker 1: final entry in this diary only made Randy seem more suspicious.
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Speaker 1: Despite downplaying the incident that j yes he had had
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Speaker 1: with these two older cast members at the pool party.
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Speaker 1: After Jesse had spoken with her mom briefly when she
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Speaker 1: got back from the party, she had gone up to
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Speaker 1: her room and then made this final diary entry, and
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Speaker 1: in it she talks about being really upset about what
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Speaker 1: these two guys had done to her. She said that
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Speaker 1: these two guys were corrupting her and that they were
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Speaker 1: taking what should be platonic love and perverting it into
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Speaker 1: a competition. Her closing lines seemed to indicate that she
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Speaker 1: might have been expecting some sort of future confrontation with
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Speaker 1: these two guys. The lines read, I am not helpless.
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Speaker 1: I will recognize problems and confront them without fear. God
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Speaker 1: be with me. Between Randy's lack of an alibi and
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Speaker 1: then Jesse's kind of ominous final message that seemed to
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Speaker 1: be talking about Randy, Randy quickly became the primary suspect
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Speaker 1: in this murder investigation. But Randy's cell phone records indicated
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Speaker 1: that he had not had any interaction, no calls, no
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Speaker 1: text messages with Jesse leading up to her death, and
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Speaker 1: around the time in the morning of July fifteenth, when
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Speaker 1: she would have been killed, Randy's cell phone was in
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Speaker 1: his apartment, far away from Jesse's house, and so while
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Speaker 1: this didn't definitively mean that Randy could not have killed Jesse,
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Speaker 1: because he could have just left his cell phone at
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Speaker 1: his apartment when he carried out the attack, what it
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Speaker 1: did mean was there wasn't any real evidence to support
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Speaker 1: the idea that Randy killed Jesse, and so the Hartford
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Speaker 1: police had to go back to the drawing board and
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Speaker 1: try to find new leads to chase down and on
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Speaker 1: July sixteenth, just twenty four hours after Jesse was discovered,
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Speaker 1: When Melissa pulled her car into the dirt parking lot
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Speaker 1: and so as she's driving in, she looked over at it,
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Speaker 1: matter to Melissa, but she definitely took note of this
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Speaker 1: person in this van, and so she drives past the
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Speaker 1: blue van on her left. She drives all the way
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Speaker 1: across to the other side of the dirt lot. She
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Speaker 1: parks her car, she hops out, she gets her little dog, Remy,
19:23
Speaker 1: out of the car, and then she walks away from
19:25
Speaker 1: the parking lot and heads onto the walking trail into
19:28
Speaker 1: the woods. The trail that she was walking on was
19:31
Speaker 1: basically a big loop that ended at the entrance to
19:35
Speaker 1: the dirt parking lot, and so when she was done
19:38
Speaker 1: with her walk, she would be walking directly across the
19:41
Speaker 1: entire parking lot, which would mean she would be walking
19:44
Speaker 1: on foot past that blue minivan if it was still
19:48
Speaker 1: there when she was done. And so Melissa does a
19:50
Speaker 1: thirty minute loop. She gets all the way around, and
19:53
Speaker 1: she reaches the entrance to the parking lot, and she
19:56
Speaker 1: sees the blue minivan is still parked where it was,
19:59
Speaker 1: except the the driver no longer has their feet poking
20:02
Speaker 1: out of the window. Now she can't see if there's
20:04
Speaker 1: anybody in the van at all. And so Melissa, again,
20:07
Speaker 1: she's not really thinking about this. It's crossing her mind,
20:09
Speaker 1: but she's not on edge about this van. And so
20:12
Speaker 1: she lets go of the leash of Remy, and Remy
20:14
Speaker 1: starts running to the car, and Melissa pulls out her
20:17
Speaker 1: keyfob and she opens up the trunk to the car,
20:19
Speaker 1: and so Remy runs over he leaps into the car,
20:22
Speaker 1: and then Melissa just continues to walk across the lot
20:24
Speaker 1: towards her vehicle. And when Melissa walks just far enough
20:28
Speaker 1: that she is past the blue minivan, she turns to
20:31
Speaker 1: look at it, and she sees the person who had
20:34
Speaker 1: been sticking their legs out of the window. The driver
20:37
Speaker 1: is now sitting in the passenger seat of the blue minivan.
20:41
Speaker 1: The door is open, and this person is sitting there
20:44
Speaker 1: staring at Melissa. And so Melissa she makes quick eye
20:47
Speaker 1: contact with this person and immediately averts her gaze. She
20:50
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be rude, and she just keeps on
20:52
Speaker 1: walking towards her vehicle, but again, she's not worried about
20:56
Speaker 1: what's happening with this van. She's just aware of this
20:59
Speaker 1: person and the Span. But after averting her gaze, she
21:03
Speaker 1: hears the sound of someone running towards her from behind,
21:07
Speaker 1: and so she whips her head around and she sees
21:09
Speaker 1: the same person who was sitting in the passenger seat.
21:12
Speaker 1: The driver of the Span has run up to her,
21:15
Speaker 1: and as soon as she turned around to face this person,
21:17
Speaker 1: they came to a complete stop and they were just
21:20
Speaker 1: staring directly at Melissa. They were only about ten feet apart,
21:23
Speaker 1: and Melissa kind of reflexively said, oh, you scared me.
21:27
Speaker 1: And then Melissa just turned her back on this person
21:30
Speaker 1: and continued walking towards her vehicle. And after taking only
21:33
Speaker 1: a couple of steps, once again she heard the sound
21:36
Speaker 1: of this person behind her start running towards her, and
21:39
Speaker 1: immediately she whips her head around again, and again this
21:43
Speaker 1: person comes to an abrupt stop as soon as Melissa's
21:45
Speaker 1: looking at them, except now Melissa knows something's not right,
21:48
Speaker 1: and worst of all, she looks down and in this
21:52
Speaker 1: person's right hand by their hip is a knife. A
21:55
Speaker 1: split second later, this person charges Melissa. They tackle Melissa
21:59
Speaker 1: to the ground. Melissa smashes down onto her stomach and
22:02
Speaker 1: she's pinned on her stomach, and this person they attempt
22:05
Speaker 1: to stab Melissa, but Melissa fights back like mad. She
22:10
Speaker 1: turns over and she grabs the blade of the knife
22:13
Speaker 1: and she wrestles it away from her attacker, and she
22:17
Speaker 1: pulls the knife under her body and she puts it
22:19
Speaker 1: under all of her weight, and the attacker is so
22:22
Speaker 1: surprised that this has happened. They actually stopped for a
22:25
Speaker 1: second before kind of reaching down and trying to yank
22:27
Speaker 1: the knife out from underneath Melissa, but Melissa is not
22:30
Speaker 1: letting it go, and so finally the attacker just kind
22:33
Speaker 1: of sits up on her back and says, can I
22:36
Speaker 1: just go? And Melissa says no. But at that exact moment,
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Speaker 1: the attacker leapt up and started running back towards the
22:43
Speaker 1: blue minivan. And so Melissa she's not waiting around to
22:46
Speaker 1: see what they're gonna do, and so she jumps up.
22:48
Speaker 1: She's still got the knife in her hand. Her hands
22:50
Speaker 1: are completely ruined. Melissa runs to her car. She leaps inside.
22:54
Speaker 1: She throws the bloody knife onto the floorboard, of the
22:56
Speaker 1: passenger seat. After making sure Remy is in the car
22:59
Speaker 1: with her, she shuts the back hatch, she locks the doors,
23:02
Speaker 1: and then she turns around and she sees her attacker
23:05
Speaker 1: in the van peeling out of the lot, driving away,
23:08
Speaker 1: And so Melissa is relieved, but she also just wants
23:11
Speaker 1: to get the heck away from where she is right
23:13
Speaker 1: now she's totally alone, and so she fires up the
23:15
Speaker 1: car and she drives to the hospital. After getting fifteen
23:18
Speaker 1: stitches to repair the three very deep cuts in her hands,
23:22
Speaker 1: Melissa was transferred to a recovery room where a man
23:26
Speaker 1: named Joel Clossing, who was a detective with the Washington
23:29
Speaker 1: County Sheriff Department. He came into the room and he
23:32
Speaker 1: took down Melissa's statement. Now, Melissa was very shaken up
23:36
Speaker 1: about what had just happened. She had no idea who
23:38
Speaker 1: this person was why they attacked her. But despite being
23:41
Speaker 1: shaken up, Melissa had the most incredible memory of the event.
23:46
Speaker 1: She knew exactly what her attacker looked like, all the
23:49
Speaker 1: little details, and she knew everything about the vehicle, to
23:53
Speaker 1: include the fact that she knew it was a Dodge
23:56
Speaker 1: Caravan minivan, so she knew the exact type of car.
24:00
Speaker 1: She guessed it was probably from the years two thousand
24:02
Speaker 1: to two thousand and two. And so Melissa gives this
24:05
Speaker 1: incredible statement, and Detective Clossing he goes back and he
24:09
Speaker 1: has a composite sketch made of the attacker, and then
24:13
Speaker 1: on this sheet that showed the attacker, there was a
24:15
Speaker 1: description of the vehicle and where it was located, and
24:18
Speaker 1: some details of the case. And so Detective Clossing releases
24:22
Speaker 1: this sketch and the information to the media and he
24:24
Speaker 1: puts it around town, and he's expecting someone in town
24:28
Speaker 1: to know who this person is because the description is
24:31
Speaker 1: so so good, and someone would come forward. On July sixteenth,
24:35
Speaker 1: so one day after Jesse had been killed, a deputy
24:39
Speaker 1: from the Washington County Sheriff Department. He came forward and said, hey,
24:44
Speaker 1: I saw your flyer and I read the description Melissa
24:47
Speaker 1: gave about the type of vehicle this person was using,
24:50
Speaker 1: and I have seen that vehicle parked in the exact
24:54
Speaker 1: same spot in that park. I was there a couple
24:56
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I saw it there. There was something
24:59
Speaker 1: weird about it. The driver was acting strange, and so
25:02
Speaker 1: I actually ran the license plates to see if there
25:04
Speaker 1: was some outstanding warrants or something going on with this person.
25:07
Speaker 1: But after I ran the plates, nothing came up, and
25:10
Speaker 1: so I kind of just forgot about it. But now
25:12
Speaker 1: I've read this description and I'm pretty convinced it's the
25:15
Speaker 1: same exact vehicle, and so I can pull those plates
25:18
Speaker 1: that I ran, and we can see who owned that vehicle,
25:21
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe it's a match. And so the
25:22
Speaker 1: deputy he pulls up the information that he had pulled
25:25
Speaker 1: from the license plates of the van he had seen
25:28
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks earlier, and when they looked at
25:30
Speaker 1: the owner of that mini van, there was just no
25:34
Speaker 1: way they matched the description that Melissa gave. It just
25:37
Speaker 1: could not be the same person. And so briefly, Detective
25:41
Speaker 1: Clossing and the deputy believed that, okay, it was just
25:44
Speaker 1: some big coincidence that a very similar blue minivan was
25:48
Speaker 1: parked in the exact same spot a couple of weeks apart.
25:51
Speaker 1: But when Detective Clossing looked a little bit deeper into
25:54
Speaker 1: who the owner of that vehicle was, he would discover
25:58
Speaker 1: they had a relative that matched exactly the description that
26:02
Speaker 1: Melissa gave of her attacker. And so on the afternoon
26:06
Speaker 1: of July sixteenth, So, one day after Jesse has been killed,
26:09
Speaker 1: Detective Crossing tracks down the phone number of the relative
26:13
Speaker 1: who looks exactly like the attacker, and he punches that
26:17
Speaker 1: number into his cell phone and he put the phone
26:19
Speaker 1: to his ear. At the same time, ten miles to
26:22
Speaker 1: the northwest, Buck and Joy Blodgett were hosting a vigil
26:26
Speaker 1: for their daughter in their home, and so all of
26:29
Speaker 1: Jesse's very close friends and family, they were all there
26:32
Speaker 1: in the living room and they were sitting around in
26:34
Speaker 1: a big circle, crying together, grieving together, and then also
26:38
Speaker 1: sharing their favorite memories of Jesse. And so while they're
26:42
Speaker 1: all doing that, a phone starts to ring inside of
26:45
Speaker 1: the circle, and the owner of that phone, nineteen year
26:48
Speaker 1: old Daniel Bartelt, who was a very close friend of
26:51
Speaker 1: Jesse's and who had spent much of that summer coming
26:54
Speaker 1: over to the Blodgett household to make original music with Jesse.
26:59
Speaker 1: He stands up and he walks quietly away from the group,
27:02
Speaker 1: and then he answers the phone, and it's Detective Clossing
27:05
Speaker 1: asking Daniel to come into the station to talk about
27:08
Speaker 1: Melissa Richards. Daniel would make his way to the police
27:11
Speaker 1: station that afternoon, and he would be interviewed by Detective
27:15
Speaker 1: Clossing and another detective. And even though they had brought
27:18
Speaker 1: Daniel in to talk to him about Melissa Richards, it
27:21
Speaker 1: was not lost on these detectives how strange it was
27:24
Speaker 1: that Daniel is at the home of a recently murdered
27:28
Speaker 1: young woman where that case is unsolved, and he is
27:32
Speaker 1: now the suspect of another attack on another young woman
27:35
Speaker 1: that happened only a couple of days earlier and only
27:38
Speaker 1: a couple of miles away. And so as soon as
27:40
Speaker 1: Daniel sits down, Detective Clossing kind of casually asks him,
27:44
Speaker 1: you know, hey, why were you at Jesse Blodgett's house
27:46
Speaker 1: when I called you? And Daniel would say, well, you know,
27:48
Speaker 1: I'm very close with Jesse, and so we were there
27:51
Speaker 1: as part of her vigil because she was killed yesterday.
27:54
Speaker 1: And so the detective kind of did gradually shift to
27:57
Speaker 1: Melissa Richards, which Daniel would say he had nothing to do.
28:00
Speaker 1: But as they began asking him questions about Melissa, Detective
28:04
Speaker 1: Crossing and the other detective noticed that there were cuts
28:07
Speaker 1: on Daniel's hands, and so they kind of cut him
28:10
Speaker 1: off and they asked, Daniel, you know, how'd you get
28:11
Speaker 1: these cuts on your hands? And Daniel was very quick
28:14
Speaker 1: to say, well, you know I got them at work.
28:17
Speaker 1: A screw kind of jutted out and cut my hands.
28:20
Speaker 1: I move inventory around in a back room of an
28:24
Speaker 1: engineering company. That's my job, and you know, I just
28:27
Speaker 1: just cut my hand at work. And so at that
28:29
Speaker 1: point the police began really asking very pointed questions about
28:34
Speaker 1: exactly how he hurt his hands and what exactly did
28:37
Speaker 1: he do at his job. And at some point when
28:39
Speaker 1: it just seemed like there was something off about his
28:42
Speaker 1: story about how he hurt himself, one of the detectives
28:45
Speaker 1: just says to Daniel, if I were to call your employer,
28:49
Speaker 1: this engineering company, would they say you Daniel are currently
28:53
Speaker 1: employed with them? And Daniel he kind of paused for
28:56
Speaker 1: a minute and then said, no, I actually lost my
28:59
Speaker 1: job several weeks ago. And so now the detectives knew
29:03
Speaker 1: he had to be lying about how he cut his hand,
29:06
Speaker 1: because he's just told them that he heard it at
29:08
Speaker 1: work recently, but he wasn't employed recently, and so Detective
29:13
Speaker 1: Crossing kind of leans in and says, Daniel, so, how'd
29:16
Speaker 1: you really hurt your hand, and so Daniel he begins
29:19
Speaker 1: talking about how he cut it cooking, and detective Clossing is, like, Daniel,
29:23
Speaker 1: nobody would lie about cutting their hand cooking, so why
29:27
Speaker 1: don't you just tell us the truth? And amazingly Daniel would.
29:31
Speaker 1: He would admit, after some serious pressure, that he hurt
29:34
Speaker 1: himself attacking Melissa Richards. He told detectives that after he
29:38
Speaker 1: lost his job a few weeks earlier, he didn't want
29:41
Speaker 1: his parents to know he had lost his job, and
29:44
Speaker 1: so he had just continued getting up early and leaving
29:47
Speaker 1: the house and coming back later in the day, kind
29:49
Speaker 1: of acting like he had been at work all day,
29:51
Speaker 1: when in reality, all he was doing was driving around
29:54
Speaker 1: town and sometimes going to parks and just sitting in
29:57
Speaker 1: parking spots in parks, and so only twe health the
30:00
Speaker 1: day that Melissa was attacked. That's exactly what Daniel was doing.
30:03
Speaker 1: He was pretending to be at work by sitting in
30:06
Speaker 1: that parking space, in that dirt lot in Richfield, and
30:09
Speaker 1: at some point he saw Melissa and he decided he
30:12
Speaker 1: just wanted to attack her. He told detectives that recently
30:15
Speaker 1: he had become overwhelmed in college and so he had
30:18
Speaker 1: dropped out and then he lost his job, and so combined,
30:22
Speaker 1: he was just feeling kind of scared of life, That's
30:24
Speaker 1: how he described it, and so he wanted somebody else
30:27
Speaker 1: to feel scared too, and so that was why he
30:30
Speaker 1: said he attacked Melissa. But despite admitting to this vicious,
30:34
Speaker 1: violent crime against Melissa Richards, Daniel, when asked if he
30:39
Speaker 1: had any connection to the Jesse Blodgett order, he would
30:43
Speaker 1: say absolutely not. I love Jesse, I would never hurt her.
30:46
Speaker 1: But when Detective Crossing reached out to Detective Thickens of
30:50
Speaker 1: the Hartford Police and told them you should look at
30:53
Speaker 1: Daniel as a potential suspect in your murder case, it
30:56
Speaker 1: would quickly come to light that Daniel was laying again.
31:00
Speaker 1: Daniel was raised in a good, loving family. He was
31:04
Speaker 1: extremely smart, straight a student. He was an incredible musician,
31:08
Speaker 1: and he was really well respected by his peers and
31:11
Speaker 1: even by his teachers and other instructors. I mean, this
31:14
Speaker 1: was a kid who had everything going for him. But
31:17
Speaker 1: something went wrong with Daniel, and no one knows exactly why.
31:21
Speaker 1: Shortly before he attacked Melissa, Daniel had become obsessed with
31:26
Speaker 1: killing and death and murder. His Internet search history shows
31:31
Speaker 1: that he spent a lot of time looking for actual
31:34
Speaker 1: snuff videos online. Those are videos of actual murder. He
31:39
Speaker 1: also spent a lot of time looking up serial killers
31:42
Speaker 1: and spree killers, and he was especially interested in anybody
31:46
Speaker 1: who killed lots and lots of women. And then, finally,
31:49
Speaker 1: right before he would attack Melissa, Daniel, based on his
31:52
Speaker 1: search history, had discovered this one particular pornographic snuff film
31:57
Speaker 1: and it was of this woman who was all tied
31:59
Speaker 1: up and hogtied, and after being assaulted, she was strangled,
32:03
Speaker 1: and Daniel watched this video over and over and over
32:07
Speaker 1: and over again. On that day, July twelfth, as Daniel
32:10
Speaker 1: is pretending to be at work, he's sitting in his car.
32:13
Speaker 1: He looks out and he sees Melissa. She's all alone,
32:16
Speaker 1: and something clicks in his head where he decides he's
32:19
Speaker 1: going to go reenact that wretched pornographic snuff film on Melissa.
32:24
Speaker 1: And so Melissa was likely just at the wrong place
32:27
Speaker 1: at the wrong time. Recovered in that dirt parking lot
32:31
Speaker 1: after the attack was this special, very strong tape that
32:34
Speaker 1: had been in Daniel's pockets during the attack. It had
32:37
Speaker 1: just fallen out, and so it's believed he was going
32:40
Speaker 1: to use that tape to subdue Melissa and then abduct her.
32:44
Speaker 1: But obviously Melissa fought back and Daniel got spooked and
32:47
Speaker 1: ran off. Three days later, on July fifteenth, it's believed
32:51
Speaker 1: that Daniel decided he wanted to try again. He wanted
32:54
Speaker 1: to act out this pornographic snuff film, but in real life,
32:59
Speaker 1: and this time he wasn't going to leave it up
33:01
Speaker 1: to some random victim. He needed his victim to be
33:04
Speaker 1: totally helpless. He needed his victim not to fight back.
33:08
Speaker 1: And who better than nineteen year old Jesse Blodgett, his
33:12
Speaker 1: close friend who inherently trusted him and would easily let
33:16
Speaker 1: him into her house, into her bedroom. It wouldn't matter
33:18
Speaker 1: if she was all alone, because she felt safe around him.
33:21
Speaker 1: Based on eyewitness testimony of someone who was driving through
33:24
Speaker 1: the blodget neighborhood on the morning that Jesse was killed,
33:28
Speaker 1: it's believed Daniel arrived in the driveway of the Blodgett
33:32
Speaker 1: household just a few minutes after Buck and Joy had
33:35
Speaker 1: left for work, and so he pulled into the driveway
33:38
Speaker 1: knowing that Jesse was all alone. We don't know exactly
33:42
Speaker 1: what happened inside of that house. We don't know if
33:44
Speaker 1: Jesse came down and opened the door or if she
33:46
Speaker 1: was still upstairs sleeping. But Daniel he entered the house,
33:50
Speaker 1: and when he went inside, he was prepared for what
33:53
Speaker 1: he was about to do. He literally had a bag
33:55
Speaker 1: full of supplies, things like that special tape. There were ligatures, cords, rode,
34:00
Speaker 1: there was alcohol wipes, zip ties, and so he makes
34:03
Speaker 1: his way upstairs to Jesse's bedroom and then once he's
34:07
Speaker 1: in there, we don't know if Jesse was awake or
34:09
Speaker 1: sleeping at this time, but either way, Daniel jumped on
34:13
Speaker 1: top of her and immediately put a homemade ballgag into
34:17
Speaker 1: her mouth and then wrapped that special tape around her
34:20
Speaker 1: head to make sure the gags stayed in her mouth.
34:23
Speaker 1: And then once she couldn't make a sound, he'd bound
34:26
Speaker 1: her wrists and her ankles and he hogtied her and
34:28
Speaker 1: then he viciously assaulted her, and then after he was done,
34:32
Speaker 1: he wrapped some cord around her neck and he strangled
34:35
Speaker 1: her to death. After she was deceased, Daniel attempted to
34:38
Speaker 1: clean her body with some alcohol wipes, and then after
34:42
Speaker 1: that he kind of repositioned her in her bed with
34:44
Speaker 1: the covers up over her to give the appearance that
34:47
Speaker 1: she was still sleeping to her parents when they inevitably
34:50
Speaker 1: would find her. Then Daniel rounded up all of his
34:53
Speaker 1: murder supplies back into his bag, except he did accidentally
34:57
Speaker 1: leave one of those special rolls of tape underneath Jesse's bed,
35:00
Speaker 1: and then he slipped out of the Blodgett household, and
35:03
Speaker 1: then he drove to Woodlawn Park where he disposed of
35:06
Speaker 1: his supplies into one of the trash cans. The next day,
35:09
Speaker 1: at Jesse's vigil, Daniel would attend, and according to the
35:13
Speaker 1: other people that were there, Daniel was by far the
35:16
Speaker 1: most talkative person in that circle. Daniel would ultimately be
35:20
Speaker 1: found guilty of murdering Jesse Blodgett, although he never admitted guilt.
35:24
Speaker 1: In fact, during the sentencing phase, Buck Blodgett would give
35:28
Speaker 1: this incredibly eloquent and heart wrenching speech about what it
35:32
Speaker 1: was like to lose his only child. And toward the
35:36
Speaker 1: end of this speech, Buck turned to his right, so
35:39
Speaker 1: away from the judge who he had been addressing, and
35:42
Speaker 1: he looked directly at Daniel, and Daniel looked back at him,
35:45
Speaker 1: and Buck says, Dan, I forgive you as I have
35:48
Speaker 1: every day since I found out it was you. And
35:51
Speaker 1: then a few moments later, Buck would also say to Dan, Dan,
35:55
Speaker 1: not only do I forgive you, but I love you.
35:58
Speaker 1: But when Daniel got his turn to stand up and
36:00
Speaker 1: say something on his behalf, he turned to face Buck
36:04
Speaker 1: and Joy, and looking right at them, he would tell
36:07
Speaker 1: them that he's innocent and that he doesn't have any
36:10
Speaker 1: answers for them because he didn't do it and his
36:12
Speaker 1: conscience is clear. Daniel was sentenced to life in prison
36:15
Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole, and as far as we know,
36:19
Speaker 1: he still denies having killed Jesse, despite the mountain of
36:23
Speaker 1: evidence against him. In the days following Jesse's death, Buck
36:27
Speaker 1: Blodgett walked into his daughter's bedroom and he laid down
36:31
Speaker 1: on her bed and looking straight up, he tried to
36:33
Speaker 1: hold his breath for as long as he possibly could,
36:36
Speaker 1: and as he began to struggle, he started to imagine
36:39
Speaker 1: what it was like for his poor daughter in her
36:41
Speaker 1: final moments, as she's being murdered, and it just crushed him.
36:45
Speaker 1: He thought to himself, I wasn't there for my little
36:48
Speaker 1: girl when she needed me the most. But instead of
36:51
Speaker 1: just carrying that terrible burden around with him for the
36:55
Speaker 1: rest of his life. Buck and his family decided they
36:58
Speaker 1: had to do something to honor their daughter's memory and
37:01
Speaker 1: maybe even change the world, which was something that Jesse
37:04
Speaker 1: always talked about wanting to do, and so Bach would
37:07
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37:11
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37:15
Speaker 1: end male on female violence and to inspire love over hate.
37:19
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37:24
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37:26
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37:30
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Speaker 1: We also put out near daily content on our Facebook
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Speaker 1: if you want to get in touch with me, please
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Speaker 1: on all of them is just at mister Ballin, and
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Speaker 1: then send me a direct message. I really do read
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Speaker 1: the majority of my dms. We have some really cool merchandise,
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Speaker 1: And if you have a story suggestion, please submit it
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Speaker 1: to our subreddit just called mister Ballin. It's linked in
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Speaker 1: the description below. So whether I see you on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook,
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Speaker 1: other YouTube channels, the podcast wherever, just know that I
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Speaker 1: really appreciate your support and until next time that's going
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Speaker 1: to do it. See you