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His Night Out Sparked Killer Conspiracies_ The Strange Case of Riley Strain [True Crime Documentary] · NO FILTER

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Speaker 1: In March twenty twenty four, Riley's Strain was on a
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Speaker 1: pub crawl with friends down Broadway in Nashville, the popular
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Speaker 1: main strip packed with shops, bars, and restaurants. The twenty
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Speaker 1: two year old left his last bar of the night
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Speaker 1: at just past nine thirty pm. He seemed to vanish
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Speaker 1: only minutes later. Even with cameras retracing his steps through
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Speaker 1: the city, there were gaps in his movements, witnesses coming
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Speaker 1: forward that could not always be trusted. Clues were being
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Speaker 1: uncovered that raised more questions than answers, and amateur sleuths
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Speaker 1: online were both helping and herding the investigation. Hi there,
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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just Thought Lounge. Today's case
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Speaker 1: has recently gone viral across social media. Amongst the mystery
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Speaker 1: of Riley's disappearance is a family desperate for answers, bizarre
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Speaker 1: clues that seemed to defy common sense, and a few
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Speaker 1: outlandish theories. Let's take a look. In early March twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, brothers from the Delta Chi fraternity in Missouri
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Speaker 1: were on a short visit to Nashville, Tennessee. One of
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Speaker 1: the frat brothers, twenty two year old Riley Strain was
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Speaker 1: a recent business and financial planning graduate who had just
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Speaker 1: landed an internship at Northwestern Mutual. At six foot seven
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Speaker 1: with a thin build, Riley stood out in a crowd.
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Speaker 1: The recent grad was extremely close to his family and
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Speaker 1: kept in frequent contact with his mother, Michelle. The two
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Speaker 1: regularly shared messages and phone calls as often as two
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Speaker 1: to three times a day, and so it was while
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Speaker 1: on a Friday night out in Nashville, Riley facetimed with
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Speaker 1: his mother sometime between seven thirty and eight pm while
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Speaker 1: having a drink at Garth Brooks's Bar, Friends in Low Places.
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Speaker 1: Michelle recalled that her son was enjoying himself, but he
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Speaker 1: did not strike her as drunk, just in good spirits.
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Speaker 1: Only an hour and a half later, however, at Luke's
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Speaker 1: thirty two Bridge Food and Drink, a location just minutes
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Speaker 1: away from Brooks's bar on Broadway Street, Riley was asked
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Speaker 1: by a member of staff to leave. There had been
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Speaker 1: no altercation, physical or otherwise, but after being served one
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Speaker 1: beer in two glasses of water at Luke's, Riley was
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Speaker 1: deemed too intoxicated to remain at the establishment. He was
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Speaker 1: walked to the exit by a friend. There, they parted ways.
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Speaker 1: Riley told his companions that he would walk back to
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Speaker 1: the hotel where the larger group were all staying, the
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Speaker 1: Tempo by Hilton. It was a short walk, maybe ten minutes,
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Speaker 1: requiring him to take only one right hand turn off
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Speaker 1: of Broadway. Riley walked out of the bar, but instead
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Speaker 1: of retracing his steps down Broadway, he went east and
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Speaker 1: began walking parallel to the Cumberland River. It was nine
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Speaker 1: thirty five PM when Riley left Lukes thirty two. It
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Speaker 1: would be hours later before his friends would realize that
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Speaker 1: he had not made it back to the hotel. The
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Speaker 1: rest of the group returned to the Tempo that night
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Speaker 1: at around three fifteen am, at which time they saw
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Speaker 1: that Riley wasn't there. He also wasn't found in any
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Speaker 1: of the other rooms where roughly thirty members of the
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Speaker 1: fraternity were staying, so they went back out to look
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Speaker 1: for him, trying to track him using snapchat locations. When
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Speaker 1: that proved fruitless, the brothers thought they should place a
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Speaker 1: call to Riley's mother, Michelle and his stepfather Chris. The parents, distraught,
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Speaker 1: immediately set out on the roughly six hour road trip
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Speaker 1: to Nashville. One of Riley's friends named Braydon had been
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Speaker 1: one of the young men out searching for Riley. Me
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Speaker 1: to his cell phone went straight to voicemail. At one am,
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Speaker 1: Radon called nine one one to report his friend missing.
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Speaker 2: Who is it that you're wanting to report us missing?
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Speaker 2: It's we're here on a fraternity formal trip. It's it's
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Speaker 2: one of my good buddies.
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Speaker 3: What is his name?
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Speaker 2: His name is Riley Strain his white, twenty two year
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Speaker 2: old six' five Blonde and what was he last scene
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Speaker 2: wearing outside Of Luke brian's bar last night at like
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Speaker 2: ten and then the last time his location on his
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Speaker 2: phone was by The sheriff's office at like ELEVEN. Pm
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Speaker 2: he's wearing, jeans booths and a half black shirt half
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Speaker 2: brown by. Brown, Okay and you said it last showed
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Speaker 2: outside the sheriff's, department like around that area by the
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Speaker 2: river by The sheriff's department over.
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Speaker 4: There.
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Speaker 1: Okay When michelle And chris finally arrived In, nashville they
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Speaker 1: were hurt and disappointed to find that the fraternity brothers
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Speaker 1: appeared to have no intention of pausing their weekend plans
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Speaker 1: in the midst Of riley's. Disappearance one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: young men helping in the search could have been an
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Speaker 1: overwhelming help to the. Effort, instead the parents watched on
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Speaker 1: as the fraternity prepared for their formal, event, partied and carried.
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Speaker 1: On the couple were further deflated when they learned that
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Speaker 1: within these first crucial hours and days After riley went,
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Speaker 1: missing law enforcement In nashville allegedly failed to assign a
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Speaker 1: detective to the. Case this was the first of a
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Speaker 1: few apparent missteps by The Nashville Metropolitan, police which seemed
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Speaker 1: to slow down the investigation and frustrate family. Members, friends,
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Speaker 1: volunteers and social media warriors would descend upon the city
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Speaker 1: in the following, days all motivated to find answers and
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Speaker 1: to Find riley. ALIVE a timeline of the night of
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Speaker 1: his disappearance was slowly being pieced. Together the festivities began
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Speaker 1: in the early evening At Miranda Lambert's Cassa, rosa a
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Speaker 1: venue known for its tex, mechs fair and. Cocktails the
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Speaker 1: group spent just over an hour at the. Restaurant by
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Speaker 1: about seven, thirty the frat brothers moved. ON a two
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Speaker 1: minute walk On broadway brought them To Garth brooks's, Bar
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Speaker 1: friends In Low. Places it was there between seven thirty
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Speaker 1: and eight pm That riley facetimed his mother and had
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Speaker 1: a quick. Chat michelle said later it didn't even sound
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Speaker 1: like he was drinking a. Lot bank records and subsequent
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Speaker 1: interviews with friends showed that the next stop was Kid Rock's,
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Speaker 1: bar just a stone's throw further Down. Broadway they spent
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Speaker 1: about an hour at that. Bar riley's bank records confirmed
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Speaker 1: that he was, there but what he ordered has not
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Speaker 1: been publicly. Confirmed the group turned up At Luke bryant's
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Speaker 1: thirty Two, briak Bar riley's final stop of the, night
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Speaker 1: at nine fifteen. Pm, There riley would have passed through
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Speaker 1: door security and SHOWN id before. Entering, evidently his behavior
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Speaker 1: was not a concern at that, time as he was given.
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Speaker 1: Entry in the next twenty one minutes that he spent,
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Speaker 1: There riley ordered one beer in two Waters by nine
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Speaker 1: thirty six, Pm riley walked out of the bar after
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Speaker 1: being kicked out by. Staff at nine six and nine
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Speaker 1: forty seven, pm two cameras Caught riley stumbling Along First
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Speaker 1: avenue and then Down Gay. Street he had made a
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Speaker 1: wrong turn off Of broadway and was walking close to
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Speaker 1: The Cumberland river instead of further, west where The Temple
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Speaker 1: hotel is. Located another camera Captured riley break into a
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Speaker 1: run briefly before he stumbled into a. Sign, afterwards he
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Speaker 1: appears to hold his hand to his head as he
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Speaker 1: continues down the. Street he was wandering further, north nowhere
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Speaker 1: near to his. Hotel it has been speculated That, riley
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Speaker 1: in a strange, city had perhaps googled the hotel address
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Speaker 1: and returned the walking directions for a software company called Your,
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Speaker 1: tempo which is located in the direction he traveled along
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Speaker 1: The Cumberland. River at nine fifty, Two riley was spotted
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Speaker 1: by a police officer On Gay. Street while the officer
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Speaker 1: examined a vehicle that had been broken, into he called
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Speaker 1: out To riley, Good are you? Good the twenty two
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Speaker 1: year old did not appear. Distressed the last of several,
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Speaker 1: videos which have not been released to the, public reportedly
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Speaker 1: Tracked riley moving north towards The James Robertson Parkway. Bridge
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Speaker 1: he paused just past a yellow sign for several, seconds
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Speaker 1: perhaps using his. Phone he sent a confusing text that
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Speaker 1: night to a. Girlfriend she asked him how he was,
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Speaker 1: doing And riley responded good. Lops his phone last pinged
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Speaker 1: at nine to fifty eight. Pm right after he walked
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Speaker 1: under the. Bridge under The James Robertson, Bridge riley stumbled
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Speaker 1: into a homeless. Encampment one man who lived at the,
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Speaker 1: camp who was perhaps the last to See riley, alive
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Speaker 1: recounted that the twenty two year old caused a commotion
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Speaker 1: when he walked, through adding that he was very.
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Speaker 5: INTOXICATED i seen the guy that went, missing came down to,
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Speaker 5: Here we heard a. Commotion we looked back. Up he
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Speaker 5: almost fell over at last bush right. There caught, him
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Speaker 5: but he was, very very very. INTOXICATED i. GUESS i,
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Speaker 5: mean it was somewhat Harder i've ever seen, him But
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Speaker 5: i've never seen him stumbled that hard.
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Speaker 2: Before.
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Speaker 5: Yell they, said, uh now he's just, Junk he's.
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Speaker 1: Okay this witness claims That riley continued on traveling north
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Speaker 1: parallel to the. RIVER a camera on the building just
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the bridge did not record
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Speaker 1: him emerging on that. Side law enforcement believed that the
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Speaker 1: most likely scenario was That riley fell from the embankment
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Speaker 1: at the homeless encampment and into The Cumberland, river but
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Speaker 1: no one saw this. Happen according to friends of the,
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Speaker 1: family it was not reasonable to believe that he could
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Speaker 1: have made it over a, fence all the way through
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Speaker 1: the rough terrain and into the water with no one
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Speaker 1: seeing or hearing a thing from the homeless. Encampment there
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Speaker 1: was no clear drop to the. Water at this, stage
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Speaker 1: it seemed far more likely that If riley went into the,
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Speaker 1: river he must have had some.
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Speaker 4: Help he did See, riley and he did see him
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Speaker 4: walk all the way down the sidewalk as to the
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Speaker 4: corner as far as he could. See until we had
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Speaker 4: the exact, information then we're going to continue to think
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Speaker 4: maybe he went outside of the, bridge maybe he got
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Speaker 4: into a car Like until we have the, facts we
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Speaker 4: can only assume that he kept going or we don't
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Speaker 4: know that he.
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Speaker 6: Failed nobody says he walked over the retaining wall or
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Speaker 6: went through that.
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Speaker 7: Fence, so now.
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Speaker 6: That you've looked at the terrain and see how drastic it,
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Speaker 6: is even If riley would have fallen at one, spot
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Speaker 6: you still got thirty feet before to even get to the.
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Speaker 6: Water that's after falling over twenty.
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Speaker 1: Feet the family was keen to speak to the other
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Speaker 1: individual who had reportedly Seen riley at the homeless encampment
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Speaker 1: after he stumbled the man who called out that he was,
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Speaker 1: okay just. Drunk after some asking, around they located that
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Speaker 1: individual who also requested ananimity person.
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Speaker 6: Of improve that the family had been wanting to. Feed
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Speaker 6: the homework person that we knew had been the last
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Speaker 6: person to talk To riley up on top of the
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Speaker 6: roadway we got to talk to, finally he actually reached
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Speaker 6: Out saturday afternoon through some trends of ours that was
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Speaker 6: down there talking to the, homeless actually gave a tentment
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Speaker 6: him and another person That riley had come through there
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Speaker 6: had been, stumbling possibly fumbled into the little fence that right.
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Speaker 7: There they asked him if he was.
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Speaker 6: Okay he, says, yeah, Man i'm just, drunk something along those,
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Speaker 6: lines and they put him walking underneath the bridge north
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Speaker 6: passed through the detection center area.
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Speaker 1: While the searches continued primarily along The Cumberland. River this
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Speaker 1: witness Offered riley's family a glimpse of. Hope if he
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Speaker 1: had emerged on the other side of the, bridge then
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Speaker 1: there was a good chance that he had not fallen
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Speaker 1: into the. Water, however just a few days, later after
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Speaker 1: interrogation from The Nashville Police, department the unnamed person. Recanted
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Speaker 1: they said that they had not actually Seen, riley but someone.
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Speaker 1: Else the search.
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Speaker 7: Continued we're still hopeful we're bringing him.
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Speaker 8: Home time's, ticking we know, that but you, know we're
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Speaker 8: doing everything we can to find, him.
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Speaker 9: So the, people the volunteers that are keeping us.
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Speaker 1: Going as volunteers navigated the rough and steep terrain around The,
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Speaker 1: cumberland amateur Sleuths online commenced with their. Speculation reasonable theories
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Speaker 1: suggested that in his inebriated, State riley made himself a
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Speaker 1: prime target for. Thieves If riley had been, robbed he
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Speaker 1: could have been pushed into the river in the, process
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Speaker 1: but most speculation focused on another, scenario a more elaborate,
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Speaker 1: one That riley's strain was the latest victim of The
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Speaker 1: smiley faced. Killers for those of you who may be
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Speaker 1: unfamiliar with this, theory it was developed by a small
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Speaker 1: band of retired homicide And missing persons detectives to explain
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Speaker 1: a series of cases in which young men were found,
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Speaker 1: dead likely, murdered but whose deaths have been ruled accidental.
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Speaker 1: Drownings these cases have occurred primarily across The midwest And
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Speaker 1: New York, city though some have been identified elsewhere over
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Speaker 1: roughly the last two. Decades in each, instance the deceased
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Speaker 1: is a college aged or slightly, older athletic and or
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Speaker 1: otherwise accomplished. Male after a night out at a sporting
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Speaker 1: event or another celebration with, friends for, example they seemingly,
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Speaker 1: Vanish then, days, weeks or months, later their bodies are
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Speaker 1: found in a body of. Water all three in this
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Speaker 1: body of.
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Speaker 3: Water and don't forget how victim from seventeen comes out
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Speaker 3: of The celtics, Game william comes out of A bruins.
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Speaker 8: Game exact, things same exact, directions.
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Speaker 2: And then the il smiley face at the Harbor you
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Speaker 2: found smiley?
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Speaker 4: Face what three?
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Speaker 10: Stars three?
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Speaker 2: Stars? Correct in my, opinion that represents the three victims
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Speaker 2: from The Boston hobbor that were recovered by The boston
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Speaker 2: hobb Or unit three.
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Speaker 11: Men similar sets of, circumstances one final.
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Speaker 1: Destination there are further similarities that link these. Cases the
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Speaker 1: deceased are often in an unfamiliar city when their bodies were,
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Speaker 1: Found they were often not in a state of decomposition
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Speaker 1: consistent with being in the. Water throughout the length of their,
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Speaker 1: disappearance suggesting that they were killed on land and later
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Speaker 1: put in the. Water the smiley, faces often spray, painted
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Speaker 1: were routinely located near to the alleged crime. Scenes the
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Speaker 1: Smiley face gang theory was first popularized by Retired New
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Speaker 1: York city Detectives Kevin gannon And Anthony. Duerte the duo
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Speaker 1: argue that law enforcement is generally disinclined to accept serial killer,
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Speaker 1: theories causing a systematic pushback to their evidence that these
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Speaker 1: smiley faced killers. Exist in these, cases the detectives claim
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Speaker 1: that not, one but likely a collection of killer cells
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Speaker 1: based in major cities are committing murders and coordinating. Online
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Speaker 1: the detectives claim to have found A url linked to the,
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Speaker 1: group one that enables their communication over the dark, web
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Speaker 1: but they were unable to access. It the detectives have
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Speaker 1: connected seventy deaths to the smiley faced. Graffiti around thirty
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Speaker 1: of them were men who were found to have the
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Speaker 1: date rape DRUG ghb in their. Systems the similarities in
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Speaker 1: the disappearance Of Riley strain to the circumstances seen in
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Speaker 1: The smiley faced cases were too stark for many on
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Speaker 1: social media to. Ignore although the search to Find riley
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Speaker 1: alive continued speculation. Online Ran.
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Speaker 12: Wild i'm a Retired Pennsylvania state. Trooper there has been
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Speaker 12: a lot of chatter on social media about the police
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Speaker 12: are or are not handling this investigation. Properly they should
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Speaker 12: have done, this they should have done. That if you're
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Speaker 12: not if you're not a trained police, officer your speculation
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Speaker 12: is just, that just. Speculation i've been in constant contact
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Speaker 12: With Detective, chandler AND i know that they have been
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Speaker 12: making every effort that they can to bring this, investigation
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Speaker 12: this search to a. Close so, please you, know you
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Speaker 12: have folks out there on social, media think real hard
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Speaker 12: about what you're going to post before you post. It
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Speaker 12: and that goes as well for posts about the family
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Speaker 12: and about this. Investigation you, know the family doesn't really
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Speaker 12: need to see posts on social media that, say, well
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Speaker 12: maybe there's a serial killer out there and that's where
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Speaker 12: he chunked him in the. Water that's not.
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Speaker 6: Cool we need to talk about.
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Speaker 1: This why are so many young men's bodies found in?
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Speaker 11: Water two nights, AGO i looked at my husband AND i,
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Speaker 11: said when they Find Riley, strain they will find him
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Speaker 11: in a body of.
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Speaker 10: Water, okay. Guys so this is.
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Speaker 11: CRAZY i just found a little theory that might just
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Speaker 11: blow your.
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Speaker 7: Mind. NOW i don't know if you've.
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Speaker 3: Ever heard of, this but it's called The Smiley face murder.
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Speaker 9: Theory there's a network of drug trap on me and human.
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Speaker 5: Trafficking there's a, Possibility cason that he was a victim of.
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Speaker 6: That there's so many different.
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Speaker 2: THINGS i don't know why you.
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Speaker 1: Knows THE fbi has examined The Smiley face killer's cases
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Speaker 1: and concluded that the majority of the deaths were accidental.
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Speaker 1: Drownings The center For Homicide research examined forty of the
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Speaker 1: cases and concluded the. Same many critics of the theory
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Speaker 1: are also quick to point out the popularity of the smiley.
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Speaker 1: Face it is a simple and ubiquitous. Image it is
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Speaker 1: well known and easy to. Draw, nonetheless support for the
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Speaker 1: theory exploded after michelle Stepfather, chris as well As riley's,
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Speaker 1: Father Ryan gilbert and Stepmother Millie, gilbert gave an interview
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Speaker 1: expressing their concerns over the details Of riley's case that
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Speaker 1: had emerged so. Far they didn't have the whole. Story what's,
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Speaker 1: More michelle revealed that she had been in contact With
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Speaker 1: riley once. More after the FaceTime At brooks's, Bar riley
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Speaker 1: had texted her and said that he thought his drink tasted.
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Speaker 1: Funny he sent me a.
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Speaker 13: Text and said they hid or ordered to who was
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Speaker 13: your ear roum and? Coat and it didn't taste Good
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Speaker 13: AND i, said, well you probably shouldn't drink. It then he, goes,
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Speaker 13: well it tastes like, barbeque AND i, go, well that sounds,
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Speaker 13: awful and he, said, well it sounds, good but it's not.
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Speaker 1: Common advice for avoiding a potentially spiked drink is to
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Speaker 1: stop consuming it if it appears murky or tastes salty or.
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Speaker 1: Bitter most of these, drugs, however are colorless and, odorless
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Speaker 1: making them difficult to. Detect although statistically women are overwhelmingly
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Speaker 1: more likely to have their drink, spiked it is estimated
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Speaker 1: that well over half a million men each year are also.
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Speaker 1: Drugged this number could also be under. Reported anecdotal accounts
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Speaker 1: of men having this experience In nashville began pouring, in
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Speaker 1: giving the, impression whether accurate or, not that the city's
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Speaker 1: bar scene had a particular issue with drugs such AS.
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Speaker 11: Ghb kind of embarrassed by, it almost AND i saw
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Speaker 11: your saw your, article AND i sent it over to
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Speaker 11: my coworks AND i, said holy, crap this is this
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Speaker 11: is too. Similar we have to we have to call.
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Speaker 14: Them nearly the same exact thing happened two days before
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Speaker 14: to two other male, tourists again talking to two women
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Speaker 14: sharing drinks at Kid rocks and then remembering nothing else
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Speaker 14: after they were. Robbed detectives say there have been other similar,
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Speaker 14: incidents and there's no telling how many such cases have
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Speaker 14: not been, reported likely something the suspects are counting.
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Speaker 1: On questions were being raised. Online if this was what
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Speaker 1: had occurred To riley's, strain was it in connection to
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Speaker 1: the Notorious Smiley face murder cells Would riley be found
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Speaker 1: in the? Water TikTokers descended on the city and the,
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Speaker 1: embankment searching For riley and any clues that could help
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Speaker 1: lead to his, whereabouts at.
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Speaker 11: Least for that guy's. Tendons because you're talking about how, cold.
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Speaker 12: What you want to?
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Speaker 5: Go we gotta hang, Out we gotta hang up with the.
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Speaker 1: Pot nashville Based TikTokers AND A, klendening a, musician And Brandy,
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Speaker 1: baynan an, artist were searching along the river near To
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Speaker 1: Gay street and The james Robertson Parkway bridge when they
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Speaker 1: Discovered riley's bank card in amongst the rocks and. Trash
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Speaker 1: the location was near to where law enforcement had speculated
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Speaker 1: that he had fallen into the. Water For riley's, family
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Speaker 1: this discovery implied that a crime likely took place his
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Speaker 1: card was out of his. Wallet there were no further
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Speaker 1: signs Of riley identified near to his bank. Card in
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Speaker 1: the midst of this, development the family's frustrations over the
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Speaker 1: handling of the case By nashville police came to the.
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Speaker 1: Forefront you, know don't shoot the.
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Speaker 3: Messenger BUT i think if we had people with badges
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Speaker 3: right now that was covering this as strongly as the media,
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Speaker 3: has we'd Have riley.
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Speaker 9: Home we've not seen anything or really heard from them
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Speaker 9: too much throughout the week the previous, week so we
22:04
Speaker 9: were getting. Frustrated we wanted to see what they. Had
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Speaker 9: so it's not like this was one of those. Deals
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Speaker 9: it came up after we called them to tell them
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Speaker 9: that the TikTokers had found the debit, card because they
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Speaker 9: didn't know that it had been. Found, supposedly they didn't
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Speaker 9: know that the callin came. In we arrived before the
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Speaker 9: Police we've also heard multiple people that have tried to
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Speaker 9: call crime stoppers and leave tips and been told they
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Speaker 9: don't know anything about A riley strain. Case so lots of.
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Speaker 9: Confusion we you, know we're. Struggling we're ten days. In you,
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Speaker 9: know it's uh, yeah disheartening mind.
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Speaker 3: That you, know the card that was found yesterday and
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Speaker 3: the family's mind is evidence that there was a. Crime
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Speaker 3: yet we're being, told, well that may not be what
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Speaker 3: it takes to reclassify this from a missing.
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Speaker 1: PERSON a reclassification would eventually be made two weeks After
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Speaker 1: riley first. Disappeared on the morning Of march twenty, second
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Speaker 1: a worker on the river was removing items from the
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Speaker 1: water when he came across a. Body he was eight
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Speaker 1: miles down river from The James Robertson.
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Speaker 11: Bridge my company works on the.
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Speaker 15: RIVER i have just found a dead.
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Speaker 13: BODY i believe it to Be.
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Speaker 2: Riley, okay and you, said you guys found a dead, body,
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Speaker 2: yes ma'am in the. River hey sounds.
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Speaker 11: Ocasion it looks like a mail, yes.
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Speaker 15: Ma'am as they were removing an object from the, river
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Speaker 15: they saw they noticed what appeared to Be. Riley caught
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Speaker 15: up the fire department was called and retrieved the body
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Speaker 15: from the. River The Medical examiner's office reviewed the body
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Speaker 15: and that it Is Riley. Stray the family has been.
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Speaker 1: Contacted the chief was clear in his statement the medical
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Speaker 1: examiner had been called it down to the water to
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Speaker 1: Observe upon the initial, examination they found no signs of foul.
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Speaker 1: Play the preliminary results of an autopsy made the same,
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Speaker 1: determination while a final report was. Pending the family took
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Speaker 1: a step back on their critique of law enforcement and
24:44
Speaker 1: simply thanked everyone who had banded together to support.
24:47
Speaker 7: Them to The Nashville Police, department we know this hasn't been.
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Speaker 7: Easy we've tried to handle it with as Much grayson
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Speaker 7: poise as we. Can it's never quick enough when it's
25:02
Speaker 7: your your family. Member LIKE i told everybody numerous, times
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Speaker 7: if he was two blocks away from us and they
25:10
Speaker 7: were walking to, us it wasn't quick. Enough we want
25:14
Speaker 7: him two inches in front of. Us so.
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Speaker 13: Appreciate everyone support and love and prayers because we feel.
25:22
Speaker 13: Them we felt every one of, them every single. ONE
25:28
Speaker 13: i just asked that you mama's out there hug your
25:31
Speaker 13: baby's tight.
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Speaker 2: Tonight please.
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Speaker 13: Please for me to hug your baby's tight.
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Speaker 1: Today there were curious details about the state of riley
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Speaker 1: strain when he was found that are not clearly. Understood
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Speaker 1: riley was found without his cowboy boots. On he had
25:51
Speaker 1: no pants. On he wore only a, shirt boxer, shorts,
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Speaker 1: socks and a. Watch Doctor bill, bass A tennessee based
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Speaker 1: world leading experts on body tea, composition was asked to
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Speaker 1: assess the likelihood That riley could have been partially undressed
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Speaker 1: after drowning in the.
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Speaker 2: Water it's.
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Speaker 10: Unusual, normally if you're falling, ouder it's very difficult to
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Speaker 10: get your pants. Off, no they would not come off by.
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Speaker 10: THEMSELVES i would say that somebody took them. Off if
26:28
Speaker 10: you research on, this which is very difficult because you
26:32
Speaker 10: got to kill a person to do. It but it's
26:35
Speaker 10: difficult get your pants. Off it's diff about when your
26:39
Speaker 10: lave to get your pants.
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Speaker 1: Off in, Addition riley's wallet was, missing but what he
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Speaker 1: did have on his person was His Apple. Watch it
26:49
Speaker 1: was this detail that suggested to many that there had
26:52
Speaker 1: been no. Robbery to, others the watch meant. Nothing most
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Speaker 1: thieves knew better than to take watches with jeep he has,
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Speaker 1: tracking and were more likely to have stolen only his,
27:03
Speaker 1: cash perhaps also his expensive. Boots the preliminary examination results
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Speaker 1: do not offer any indication That riley was not in
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Speaker 1: the water for the two weeks he was, missing nor
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Speaker 1: has anyone uncovered a smiley face near the bridge where
27:19
Speaker 1: he likely went. In along with no signs of, trauma
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Speaker 1: were a notable lack of cuts or bruising On riley's,
27:26
Speaker 1: body injuries that one would expect to see had he
27:30
Speaker 1: fallen tens of feet down a steep and rocky cliff
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Speaker 1: before reaching the. Water but one detail of the autopsy
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Speaker 1: sounded the most alarm. Bells riley was found with little
27:41
Speaker 1: to no water in his. Lungs understandably confused by the,
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Speaker 1: circumstances the family ordered a second independent. Autopsy the, results
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Speaker 1: though not publicly, released are said to be consistent with
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Speaker 1: that of the. First the death was determined to be an.
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Speaker 1: Accident upon receiving the results of their independent second, examination
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Speaker 1: the family retained the law Firm morgan And, morgan which
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Speaker 1: has launched its own investigation with the aim of finding
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Speaker 1: answers to the many outstanding.
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Speaker 13: Questions where's there's a hole in my? Heart there always will,
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Speaker 13: be and we may never know what happened that night
28:25
Speaker 13: and that makes it even worse for. Me but, YEAH
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Speaker 13: i would like to know everything that happened that.
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Speaker 1: Day there could be an explanation for the little water
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Speaker 1: found In riley's, lungs according to the medical, examiner Doctor Michael.
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Speaker 1: Baden he stated that drowning without finding water in the
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Speaker 1: lungs is, possible particularly after Locating. Riley two weeks after the,
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Speaker 1: fact the toxicology results were not released alongside the conclusions
28:54
Speaker 1: of the preliminary. Autopsy it would be weeks before these were.
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Speaker 1: Processed On june, sixth twenty twenty, four News channel five
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Speaker 1: reported that the toxicology results had been finally.
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Speaker 16: Completed when an autopsy report takes a little while to be,
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Speaker 16: released it makes individuals somewhat suspect that maybe there's a criminal.
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Speaker 14: Investigation News channel five has learned toxicology is now back
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Speaker 14: to go along with the completed, autopsy and all indications
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Speaker 14: are what happened was an accidental death a.
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Speaker 1: Drowning they reported that by all, indications this was an
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Speaker 1: accidental death in, drowning and that there was no evidence
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Speaker 1: of trauma or That riley had been. Drugged riley's family
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Speaker 1: has not commented on these, results though a private investigator
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Speaker 1: who claims to have been retained by them has stated
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Speaker 1: that the conclusions of the examination have been. Misrepresented what
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Speaker 1: the investigator has uncovered to counter these, results if, anything is.
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Speaker 1: Unclear Riley strain is remembered as an easy going and
30:04
Speaker 1: caring young man who was full of. Potential riley had
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Speaker 1: loved the. Outdoors he was said to have found his
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Speaker 1: peace when spending time by the. Lake in the wake
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Speaker 1: of his tragic, loss A Change dot competition is calling
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Speaker 1: for a bill Called Riley's act to be. Passed this
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Speaker 1: law would make it mandatory for bars and their employees
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Speaker 1: to call cabs or ubers for intoxicated or disoriented. Customers
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Speaker 1: there are also investigations ongoing as to Whether riley was
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Speaker 1: over served at the bars On broadway that night that
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Speaker 1: was the tragic case Of riley's. Straying thank you for
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Speaker 1: watching and especial thanks this week to See, Meredith Stephanie,
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Speaker 1: Solger Stephanini docerel And Sheila wilson for joining the members.
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Speaker 1: Lounge I'm, kevin this is just thought lounge And i'll
31:03
Speaker 1: see in the next. One.
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Speaker 6: Repeat gotta take my time because these crimes get. Deep
31:09
Speaker 6: but these, stories can't.
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Speaker 1: Hide let me find my, Seat, kevin go ahead and settle.
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Speaker 6: In gotta be, selective doing all the, research keeping it,
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Speaker 6: objective always being.
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Speaker 16: Effective can say he got a, neck pick it a.
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Speaker 1: Litter you see How newton got his.
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Speaker 6: True con feels like the whole world is on line
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Speaker 6: for true. Crime watch him on the, run but it's
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Speaker 6: not a.
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Speaker 7: Race disappear