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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three stories about people who
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Speaker 1: were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. At eight forty am on
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Speaker 1: July seventh, nineteen sixty seven, a seventeen year old girl
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Speaker 1: named Nancy McEwen was driving along a highway in.
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Speaker 2: Brooklyn, New York.
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Speaker 1: She was on her way to her job as a
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Speaker 1: second terry at her dad's office in Brooklyn, and she
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Speaker 1: was coming from her home in Long Island, New York. Now,
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Speaker 1: the commute to her office took about an hour, but
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Speaker 1: Nancy didn't mind because her dad had just got her
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Speaker 1: this beautiful, brand new yellow Camaro and she loved driving it,
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Speaker 1: and the highway she was on had this amazing view
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Speaker 1: of the beach and ocean down below, and so that
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Speaker 1: day Nancy rolled down her window so she could feel
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Speaker 1: the ocean breeze as she drove, and then she took
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Speaker 1: in a deep breath and she smiled. At the same
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Speaker 1: time Nancy was doing this, a police lieutenant was driving
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Speaker 1: in his car a couple cars back from Nancy, and
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Speaker 1: as he was just driving along, he suddenly sees this
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Speaker 1: yellow Camaro that to this point had been driving completely normally,
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Speaker 1: suddenly veer off the road, miraculously missed the oncoming cars,
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Speaker 1: and then smashed into a tree on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road. And so the police lieutenant instinctively jammed on
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Speaker 1: his brakes and veered over to the shoulder and stopped
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Speaker 1: behind the Camaro. And as the lieutenant got out of
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Speaker 1: the car, he was thinking, clearly, the driver must have
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Speaker 1: just had some kind of medical emergency, because he didn't
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Speaker 1: see any obstacles in the road, and you know, the
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Speaker 1: car of the Camaro had been driving completely normally to
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Speaker 1: that point, so like, what would cause them to veer
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Speaker 1: and crash into the road at such a high speed
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Speaker 1: other than a medical emergency? And so the lieutenant jumps
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Speaker 1: out of the car, runs over to the driver's side window,
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Speaker 1: and he looks inside and he sees this teenage girl,
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Speaker 1: this blonde teenage girl, and she's slumped over the wheel,
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Speaker 1: and she's not looking up at him. She's not making
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Speaker 1: any sound, she's just sitting there. And so he opens
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Speaker 1: up the door and he asks her, like, are you okay?
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Speaker 1: And she didn't say anything, but she did moan, and
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Speaker 1: so she was breathing. She was alive, and there weren't
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Speaker 1: any obvious physical injuries, Like clearly, she's just crashed into
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Speaker 1: this tree at high speed, so she's definitely shaken up,
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Speaker 1: but there weren't any obvious grievous injuries that have occurred here,
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Speaker 1: at least none that he could see. And so he
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Speaker 1: asked her again, like, hey, are you okay? What's going
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Speaker 1: on here? And she just continued to moan. And so again,
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Speaker 1: considering he's looking at her, and she seems, you know,
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Speaker 1: basically okay, all things considered, he thought, you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: she's drunk. I mean, that would kind of explain, you know,
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Speaker 1: this sudden veering off the road. And so with this point,
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Speaker 1: the lieutenant radioed for backup and also called for an ambulance,
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Speaker 1: and while he waited, he began searching the car, just
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Speaker 1: basically looking to see if maybe there was some clue
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Speaker 1: in the car as to what happened here, like, for example,
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Speaker 1: containers of alcohol. And so he's looking around and he
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Speaker 1: doesn't see any empty bottles, and he can't smell any
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Speaker 1: alcohol in the car. But still this whole time, the
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Speaker 1: girl is not responding. She's just moaning and just kind
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Speaker 1: of slumped over there. And then a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: later he hears sirens and he looks up and a
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Speaker 1: bunch of first responders came over. They pulled the girl
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Speaker 1: out of the car, got her in the ambulance, and
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Speaker 1: off to the hospital she went. Once Nancy got to
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Speaker 1: the hospital, medical staff was able to determine that she
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Speaker 1: was not drunk, but she did clearly appear to be
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Speaker 1: having some kind of medical emergency, but they didn't know
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Speaker 1: what it was. And again, there was no visible injuries
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Speaker 1: on her. I mean, she just basically looked really shaken
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Speaker 1: up and was non responsive. And quickly after Nancy was
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Speaker 1: at the hospital, her condition only got worse, to the
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Speaker 1: point where doctors were giving her shots of adrenaline to
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Speaker 1: try to keep her alive, but it didn't work. At
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Speaker 1: eleven thirty am, roughly two and a half hours after
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Speaker 1: Nancy crashed into the tree, she died. And it was
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Speaker 1: only then, after Nancy was dead, that the medical staff
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Speaker 1: made a discovery something they had totally missed when Nancy
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Speaker 1: had first came in, and that was on the back
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Speaker 1: of her head, hidden amongst her hair was a small
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Speaker 1: circular hole. It was a bullet wound, and for some reason,
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Speaker 1: it didn't bleed at all. Clearly, Nancy did not just
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Speaker 1: randomly veer off the road and smash into a tree.
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Speaker 2: No, she had been shot.
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Speaker 1: About thirty minutes after this discovery was made, a detective
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Speaker 1: named Albert Seedman was standing next to Nancy's crashed car
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Speaker 1: on the side of the highway. Seedman had a reputation
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Speaker 1: as being this totally no nonsense detective who effectively would
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Speaker 1: stop at nothing to try to solve a case. By
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Speaker 1: this point, he'd already spoken to Nancy's parents, who obviously
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Speaker 1: were devastated and very confused by their daughter's death. They
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Speaker 1: said that Nancy never got in trouble and certainly didn't
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Speaker 1: have any enemies, and so it made no sense that
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Speaker 1: somebody had just shot her as she was dry, and
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Speaker 1: Detective Seedman had to agree this was not an average
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Speaker 1: murder case. But regardless, he knew the best place to
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Speaker 1: start this investigation was Nancy's car. The car was actually
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Speaker 1: in pretty good shape. I mean, despite striking this tree
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Speaker 1: at high speeds, you know, the body of the car
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Speaker 1: basically remained intact. And so Seedman began going inside the
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Speaker 1: car and looking all around it, you know, looking for
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Speaker 1: bullet holes to see where this bullet came in and
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Speaker 1: struck the driver.
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Speaker 2: But he found none.
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Speaker 1: Really, there was nothing in the car that gave any
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Speaker 1: information away about what actually happened. Here. Also adding to
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Speaker 1: the mystery here is Seedman knew there had been that
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Speaker 1: police lieutenant who just happened to be driving a few
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Speaker 1: cars back from Nancy when she suddenly veered off the
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Speaker 1: road and crashed. And he would say that he did
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Speaker 1: not hear any gunshots, although admittedly he wasn't really listening
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Speaker 1: for gunshots. But he said everything was normal and then
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Speaker 1: the car just veered and crashed. He couldn't understand it.
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Speaker 1: Detective Seedman had briefly considered that, you know, maybe Nancy
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Speaker 1: had been shot by somebody inside of her car. But
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Speaker 1: because of the presence of that lieutenant who mediately was
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Speaker 1: on the scene and was basically looking at the car
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Speaker 1: from the time it crashed all the way until the
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Speaker 1: ambulance arrived, he said, there was nobody else in the car,
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Speaker 1: and I did not witness anybody fleeing the scene. The
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Speaker 1: whole situation was very bizarre. But Detective Seedman, thinking logically, thought, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, we know she's been shot, so even though
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Speaker 1: nobody knows how that happened, well, there has to be
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Speaker 1: a shell casing somewhere for the round that struck her.
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Speaker 1: And so for the rest of the day, Seedman and
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Speaker 1: his team canvassed that whole highway all around that area
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Speaker 1: looking for a shell casing or really any clue that
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Speaker 1: a gun had been fired in the vicinity, but they
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Speaker 1: found nothing. By the end of the day, Detective Seedman
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Speaker 1: was beginning to feel pretty disappointed about how the investigation
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Speaker 1: was going so far, but he thought to himself.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I know I haven't found anything.
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Speaker 1: Promising yet, but remember she was shot, not in some
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Speaker 1: secluded area. She was shot on a major highway in Brooklyn,
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Speaker 1: New York, a city of over two and a half
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Speaker 1: million people, I mean someone somewhere must have seen or
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Speaker 1: heard something. And so, instead of continuing to look for
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Speaker 1: a shell casing, Seedman abandoned that idea and decided to
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Speaker 1: go find witnesses. Over the next five days, Detective Seedman
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Speaker 1: and his team scoured Brooklyn and interviewed hundreds and hundreds
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Speaker 1: of people looking for anybody who had any information about
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Speaker 1: this shooting. They also put out a public plea for information,
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Speaker 1: and we're fielding tips that way. But at the end
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Speaker 1: of those five days, despite the huge number of interviews,
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Speaker 1: they really hadn't gotten anywhere. As Seedman began to feel
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Speaker 1: his frustration rising because once again it just felt like
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Speaker 1: they were hitting another dead end on this.
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Speaker 2: Case, he told himself, like, they must have missed something.
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Speaker 1: They've talked to a ton of people, but maybe they
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Speaker 1: were too quick, maybe they weren't asking the right questions.
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Speaker 1: And so on July twelfth, he gathered up his team
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Speaker 1: and he circled some spots on a map of Brooklyn
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Speaker 1: and said, look, guys, we're going to go back to
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Speaker 1: these key areas that are sort of positioned in the
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Speaker 1: best angles to have maybe heard or seen something with
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Speaker 1: the shooting, and we're going to ask some more questions
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Speaker 1: and just see if maybe these people have something we
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Speaker 1: didn't catch. In one of those circled areas, the police
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Speaker 1: discovered a gas station that was owned by a guy
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Speaker 1: named Theodore Delsi, and it was located only two blocks
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Speaker 1: away from.
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Speaker 2: Where Nancy had been shot.
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Speaker 1: And on the morning of July twelfth, when the police
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Speaker 1: officers rolled up to this gas station, Theodore was working
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Speaker 1: and he saw the police coming towards him, and right
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Speaker 1: away he knew this had to be about Nancy McEwen.
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Speaker 1: So Theodore had been following this case really closely as
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Speaker 1: it was developing for two reasons. One, Nancy had been
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Speaker 1: shot really close to his gas station, so there's that
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Speaker 1: proximity bias. And two, Theodore was actually friends with Nancy's
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Speaker 1: father and had known Nancy growing up, and so this
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Speaker 1: case really hit close to home. When the police walked
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Speaker 1: inside the gas station, Theodore immediately asked them, are you
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Speaker 1: here about Nancy? And they would say yes, and that's
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Speaker 1: when he would tell them his connection to Nancy and
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Speaker 1: how he was following this case really closely. But despite
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Speaker 1: his proximity to where she had been shot, he said unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: he hadn't seen or heard anything.
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Speaker 2: But then Theodore.
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Speaker 1: Quickly followed that up and said that, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: while he had been at the gas station in the
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Speaker 1: morning for a little bit, he did take off at
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Speaker 1: some point to go fishing out on the water in
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Speaker 1: his boat, which was not too far away. But even
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Speaker 1: from there too, he still said he didn't hear or
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Speaker 1: see anything, but it was kind of noisy out on
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Speaker 1: the water anyways, so you know, he really wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: hurt anything out there anyhow. The police nodded and asked
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Speaker 1: some simple follow up questions to Theodore about, you know, still,
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Speaker 1: you know, take.
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Speaker 2: Us through what happened that morning. What'd you see?
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Speaker 1: Were there other fishermen out there, you know when you
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Speaker 1: were at the gas station, did you see anything unusual?
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Speaker 1: Just kind of seeing if there was anything that would
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Speaker 1: jog his memory? And Theodore was answering every question as
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Speaker 1: truthfully as he could, and at some point he began
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Speaker 1: to think really hard about what he actually saw when
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Speaker 1: he was out on the water fishing, and suddenly it
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Speaker 1: all clicked. Theodore knew who killed Nancy. It would turn out,
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Speaker 1: at eight forty am on July seventh, the exact moment
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Speaker 1: Nancy was shot, veered off the road and crashed. Theodore
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Speaker 1: was in fact out in his boat fishing, except at
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Speaker 1: eight forty am he was actually fishing.
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Speaker 2: Instead.
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Speaker 1: He had a can, and he threw that can into
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Speaker 1: the water, and once he saw the can, he kind
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Speaker 1: of kept staring at it, and then he raised his
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Speaker 1: rifle and he fired a shot at the can, but
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Speaker 1: he missed, and the bullet, by some fluke of physics,
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Speaker 1: ricocheted off the surface of the water, went up into
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Speaker 1: the highway right as Nancy had rolled her window down,
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Speaker 1: struck her in the head and killed her. Theodore knew
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Speaker 1: he had been shooting his gun out on the water,
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Speaker 1: but what he saw was the bullet hit the water.
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Speaker 1: He didn't think for a second he could have fired
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Speaker 1: up towards the highway. It was when police began asking
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Speaker 1: questions that he thought, oh, my goodness, it is possible
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Speaker 1: a ricochet could have struck her in the head. Theodore
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Speaker 1: was charged with homicide, but ultimately a grand jury chose
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Speaker 1: not to indict him, citing that this truly was an accident.
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Speaker 1: Theodore did not serve any jail time, but he was
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Speaker 1: fined one hundred dollars for firing a rifle within city limits.
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Speaker 1: evening of September seventeenth, twenty twenty one, a forty two
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Speaker 1: year old preacher named Jason Thornberg was cleaning up his
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Speaker 1: motel room in Euless, Texas, which is a small city
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Speaker 1: between Dallas and Fort Worth. Jason was going to be
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Speaker 1: hosting a small Bible study group in his motel room
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Speaker 1: in a few minutes, and even though really it was
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Speaker 1: not that dirty, he was really taking time to ensure
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Speaker 1: it was as clean and inviting as he could possibly
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Speaker 1: make it. So normally, Jason would host these Bible study
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Speaker 1: groups at his house, but unfortunately, Jason's house burned down
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Speaker 1: just that past summer and he lost everything. But Jason
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Speaker 1: was so committed to God and spreading the Word of
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Speaker 1: God that he still wanted to continue having these Bible
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Speaker 1: study groups, even if it meant, you know, doing it
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Speaker 1: in this kind of crummy motel room. And so Jason
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Speaker 1: walked around the room picking up laundry and straightening up
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Speaker 1: his bed, and then, after kind of arranging chairs in
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Speaker 1: a circle for the very his participants he was expecting,
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Speaker 1: he went over to a cabinet, pulled out some bibles,
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Speaker 1: and right as he was about to start placing these
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Speaker 1: bibles on each chair, he heard a knock at the door,
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Speaker 1: and Jason was really excited because he knew that had
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Speaker 1: to be someone who was here for this Bible study,
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Speaker 1: and so he walked right over bibles in hand to
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Speaker 1: the door. He opened it up, and standing outside the
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Speaker 1: door was this big guy covered in tattoos, kind of
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Speaker 1: looking down at Jason, and Jason broke into a big smile.
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Speaker 2: He was so happy to see this guy.
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Speaker 1: The man's name was David Luars, and Jason had previously
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Speaker 1: met him when he was out on the street doing
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Speaker 1: outreach for his church, and he had invited David to,
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Speaker 1: you know, anytime he wanted to come by the motel
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Speaker 1: and be a part of this Bible study group. Now,
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Speaker 1: Jason knew that David was really not the kind of
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Speaker 1: guy who went to church or really showed any real
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Speaker 1: interest in God or you know, the Bible. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Jason took all kinds and he was just hopeful that
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Speaker 1: maybe David would show up someday, and now.
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Speaker 2: Here David was.
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Speaker 1: However, David told Jason that the reason he was here
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Speaker 1: was actually not for the Bible study group. He was
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Speaker 1: here because he was in the middle of a crisis
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Speaker 1: and he didn't nowhere else to turn. He confessed to
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Speaker 1: Jason that he had begun using drugs and gotten mixed
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Speaker 1: up and some criminal activity, and you know, there's some
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Speaker 1: dangerous people out there that he was sort of running with.
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Speaker 1: And now his concern was some of those dangerous people
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Speaker 1: were coming to get him, and so he literally felt
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Speaker 1: like his life was in danger. Now, when Jason heard this,
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Speaker 1: he was surprised, but at the same time, you know,
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Speaker 1: he could tell that David was being very authentic and
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Speaker 1: just needed help. And Jason felt like, you know, his
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Speaker 1: job ultimately was to serve God and all of God's people,
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Speaker 1: and David was one of those people and he was
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Speaker 1: in need of help. And so if all Jason did
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Speaker 1: was simply provided safe haven for David inside of this
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Speaker 1: motel room, then that was serving God and it was
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Speaker 1: the right thing to do. And so Jason immediately said,
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Speaker 1: no problem, David. He handed him a Bible and said
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Speaker 1: come on in. David took the Bible awkwardly and just
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Speaker 1: kind of stood there for a moment, not.
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Speaker 2: Really sure what to do. But then Jason said, hey, relax,
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Speaker 2: just come inside, take a seat. Oh, David did.
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Speaker 1: He walked in, he sat down with the Bible, and
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Speaker 1: then Jason actually came over and sat down next to him,
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Speaker 1: and the two of them for about fifteen minutes, just
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Speaker 1: made kind of awkward small talk. Jason could tell, you know,
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Speaker 1: David is completely on edge. She was staring at the door,
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Speaker 1: which was now closed, and he just clearly was very
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Speaker 1: anxious and paranoid. And so Jason really wasn't talking about
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Speaker 1: the Bible or God or anything. He was just you know,
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Speaker 1: trying to calm David down and show him that this
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Speaker 1: was a safe place. And then after about fifteen minutes
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Speaker 1: of this, when David had somewhat calmed down, and also
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Speaker 1: by this point nobody else had showed up for this
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Speaker 1: Bible study group, Jason decided, Okay, you know what, maybe
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Speaker 1: I'll just begin the Bible study with David.
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Speaker 2: It kind of gives us something to do. And so
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Speaker 2: Jason got up.
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Speaker 1: He locked the door, you know, showing David that it's
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Speaker 1: just going to be them, it's safe here, and he
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Speaker 1: told David to go ahead and open his Bible to
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Speaker 1: a certain page, and then the two of them just
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Speaker 1: began reading the Bible together. And for hours they just
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Speaker 1: sat there reading the Bible, and Jason spoke to David
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Speaker 1: about you know, teachings of God and how to lead
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Speaker 1: your life in a way to serve other people. And
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Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, David did completely calm
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Speaker 1: down and seemed to really be embracing this Bible study.
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Speaker 1: But eventually, despite how well this Bible study was going,
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Speaker 1: it did need to come to an end at some point,
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Speaker 1: at least in Jason's mind. And when he began to
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Speaker 1: notice it was getting dark outside, he sort of began
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Speaker 1: wrapping it up and he shut his Bible and sort
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Speaker 1: of expected that David would take a hint and leave,
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Speaker 1: but David didn't. Instead, when David began to realize that, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is over now and it's time for you to go,
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Speaker 1: David looked at Jason and begged him to please let
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Speaker 1: him stay in this room overnight, that he can't go
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Speaker 1: out there.
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Speaker 2: It's not safe for him.
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Speaker 1: Now, Jason knew he did have some level of responsibility
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Speaker 1: for David. I mean, David had told him he was
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Speaker 1: in danger, he had already invited him inside and was
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Speaker 1: basically providing safe haven for him, And it did feel
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Speaker 1: kind of wrong to be like, now, go back out there.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, Jason felt a little uneasy.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't really know David, he didn't really
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Speaker 1: understand the situation, and so there was some hesitation at first,
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Speaker 1: but after looking again at David and seeing how desperate
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Speaker 1: he was to just please stay here overnight.
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Speaker 2: Jason said, okay, you can stay.
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Speaker 1: So Jason grabs some extra blankets and pillows and created
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Speaker 1: a makeshift bed on the floor, and then after that,
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Speaker 1: the two of them actually reopened their bibles and just
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Speaker 1: began reading some more from the Bible for a couple
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Speaker 1: more hours, basically another round of Bible study. But eventually
17:23
Speaker 1: they both were very tired, so they put their bibles down,
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Speaker 1: they said good night, they each climbed into their beds,
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Speaker 1: and they closed their eyes and fell asleep. For the
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Speaker 1: next five days, Jason's motel room remained mostly closed, and
17:35
Speaker 1: the only thing anybody heard coming from his room was
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Speaker 1: gospel music, and it was being played at a very
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Speaker 1: high volume basically the entire time, to the point where
17:44
Speaker 1: other residents of this motel began to complain about how
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Speaker 1: loud the music was. However, the owner of the motel
17:50
Speaker 1: was getting these complaints from residents who were only there
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Speaker 1: for hours at a time or days at a time,
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Speaker 1: and you know the room they're complaining about.
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Speaker 2: Jason's room.
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Speaker 1: He was a long term resident and so had a
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Speaker 1: sort of higher priority with the owner, and so the
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Speaker 1: owner just didn't feel like bothering Jason. He wanted him
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Speaker 1: to stay and keep paying for that room, and so
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Speaker 1: the owner didn't do anything about the noise complaints. And
18:10
Speaker 1: also the owner did know that his motel had sort
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Speaker 1: of a seedy reputation, and so generally speaking, he didn't
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Speaker 1: really care too much about the music to begin with.
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Speaker 1: And so over the course of these five days, the
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Speaker 1: music kept on blasting. And really the only other thing
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Speaker 1: of note again that happened in this period of time
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Speaker 1: was that these two other people entered Jason's motel room
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Speaker 1: and didn't leave either. So basically there's four people in
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Speaker 1: the room, they haven't come out again. Super loud music.
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Speaker 1: That's all going on for five days. And then on
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Speaker 1: the fifth day, the morning of September twenty second, a
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Speaker 1: single person walked out of Jason's motel room, and they
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Speaker 1: were wearing a full body hazmat suit and carrying some
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Speaker 1: sort of luggage and they would leave the motel, get
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Speaker 1: in a car and drive away. Forty five minutes later,
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Speaker 1: about twenty five miles away from that motel, the fort
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Speaker 1: Worth fire department got a call about this raging dumpster
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Speaker 1: fire in a residential neighborhood.
19:04
Speaker 2: Firefighters quickly got to.
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Speaker 1: The scene and put out the blaze, and after it
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Speaker 1: was gone, they walked up to the smoky dumpster and
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Speaker 1: looked inside just to get a look at what was burning,
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Speaker 1: and what they saw caused them all to back up
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Speaker 1: and call the police. It would turn out David was
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Speaker 1: right when he said he was in danger. However, what
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Speaker 1: he didn't understand is hiding out in Jason's motel room
19:25
Speaker 1: was not going to protect him from that danger. Shortly after,
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Speaker 1: he and Jason wrapped up that second Bible study that night,
19:31
Speaker 1: and the two of them climbed into their respective beds,
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Speaker 1: Jason in his actual bed and David in the makeshift
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Speaker 1: bed on the floor. Well, David did fall asleep pretty quickly,
19:41
Speaker 1: but Jason didn't. Jason waited until David was asleep, and
19:46
Speaker 1: then Jason got up, got a knife and then slit
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Speaker 1: David's throat. Then he cut David's heart out and ate it.
19:55
Speaker 1: Because Jason the preacher really actually believed that human sacrifice
20:00
Speaker 1: the best and purest way to serve God. Over the
20:03
Speaker 1: course of the next five days, after killing David, Jason
20:06
Speaker 1: would remain in his motel room, lasting gospel music, and
20:10
Speaker 1: over those five days he would basically lure those two
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Speaker 1: women into his room, very likely on the promise of
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Speaker 1: Bible study, but they too would be sacrificed. And then
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Speaker 1: on the fifth day, the person who exited the motel
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Speaker 1: room in the full hazmat suit was Jason, and that
20:26
Speaker 1: luggage he was carrying with him contained the body parts
20:29
Speaker 1: of the three people he had just killed, and he
20:31
Speaker 1: brought those body parts to that dumpster in that residential
20:34
Speaker 1: neighborhood and lit them on fire, and so when the
20:37
Speaker 1: firefighters put out the fire, what they saw inside were
20:40
Speaker 1: burned up bodies. Jason was arrested, and while he was
20:43
Speaker 1: awaiting trial, he confessed that David and the two women
20:47
Speaker 1: were not actually his first victims. He said that just
20:50
Speaker 1: a few years earlier, he had sacrificed his girlfriend, and
20:53
Speaker 1: that house fire that destroyed all of his belongings and
20:55
Speaker 1: prompted him to go live in this motel was set
20:59
Speaker 1: by Jason himself because he had sacrificed his roommate and
21:03
Speaker 1: needed to get rid of the evidence. Ultimately, law enforcement
21:07
Speaker 1: was only able to show that Jason killed those five people,
21:10
Speaker 1: but there could have been more. Jason was found guilty
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Speaker 1: of capital murder and sentenced to death. He is currently
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Speaker 1: on death row in Texas. On the evening of Thursday
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Speaker 1: May twenty first, twenty fifteen, a sixteen year old girl
21:34
Speaker 1: named Lily walked into the home gym inside of her
21:37
Speaker 1: house in Hong Kong looking to do a workout. Now,
21:40
Speaker 1: she sort of expected the gym would be empty and
21:42
Speaker 1: she could kind of have the run of the place,
21:44
Speaker 1: But as soon as she walked in, she saw her
21:46
Speaker 1: dad was in there and he was doing some.
21:47
Speaker 2: Sort of cool down exercise on a yoga ball.
21:49
Speaker 1: So Lily's dad, whose name was Cau Kim's son, was
21:53
Speaker 1: a doctor and a professional, and normally at this time
21:56
Speaker 1: of the day she would never see him in the gym.
21:58
Speaker 2: He was typically locked.
21:59
Speaker 1: Upstairs in his study or you know, upstairs doing work
22:02
Speaker 1: or something, or he was just gone for the day.
22:04
Speaker 1: So for him to be here, it just didn't really
22:06
Speaker 1: line up with his schedule, And so Lily asked her dad, like,
22:09
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? What's going on? And her
22:11
Speaker 1: dad would tell her, well, actually, you know, work at
22:13
Speaker 1: the hospital was really slow today, so I took off,
22:16
Speaker 1: I played some tennis with friends, and now I'm just
22:18
Speaker 1: doing some cool down exercises cause i got nothing else
22:20
Speaker 1: to do.
22:21
Speaker 2: But I'll be out of your hair in a second.
22:22
Speaker 1: And sure enough, a couple of minutes later, her dad
22:24
Speaker 1: was up and out of the gym, and Lily just
22:26
Speaker 1: began her work out. The next day, May twenty second,
22:29
Speaker 1: around one o'clock, Lily was at home at her dining
22:32
Speaker 1: room table, sitting across from her mother, whose name was
22:35
Speaker 1: Wong Siu Fing, and Lily was eating a snack and
22:38
Speaker 1: staring at an open textbook. Now, normally at one o'clock
22:41
Speaker 1: on a Friday, Lily would be at school, but she
22:43
Speaker 1: had had the day off that day, and she had
22:45
Speaker 1: wanted to spend her day off seeing friends and just
22:48
Speaker 1: being a teenager. But her dad was really focused on
22:51
Speaker 1: her being successful academically, and he told her that absolutely not.
22:55
Speaker 2: You're not going anywhere.
22:56
Speaker 1: You were going to stay home and you were going
22:58
Speaker 1: to study all day long. He will not leave the house.
23:01
Speaker 1: That's what you're doing. So Lily just continued to stare
23:04
Speaker 1: at the textbook and basically do what her father said.
23:07
Speaker 1: And then a couple of minutes later, she actually heard
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Speaker 1: her dad coming down the stairs, and he came into
23:12
Speaker 1: the dining room, and he was clearly very pleased to
23:14
Speaker 1: see his daughter doing her work, or at least appearing
23:16
Speaker 1: to do her work, and he came over to her,
23:18
Speaker 1: gave her a kiss, he kissed their mother, and then
23:20
Speaker 1: he said he was off to work, and then he
23:22
Speaker 1: went out the door and.
23:23
Speaker 2: He was gone.
23:24
Speaker 1: And as soon as call was gone, Lily's mom looked
23:26
Speaker 1: over at her and said, I'm not going to make
23:28
Speaker 1: you study all day. Come on, let's go out and
23:30
Speaker 1: have a mother daughter shopping day. And Lily was stoked.
23:34
Speaker 1: She shut her textbook, she went and got ready, and
23:36
Speaker 1: then a minute later she and her mom climbed into
23:38
Speaker 1: her mom's yellow Mini Cooper car and they headed out.
23:41
Speaker 1: About two hours later, around four fifteen pm, a local
23:45
Speaker 1: jogger was running in the same neighborhood as where Lily
23:47
Speaker 1: and her family lived, and as they were running down
23:50
Speaker 1: the road, they noticed there was this yellow Mini Cooper
23:52
Speaker 1: car sitting on the side of the road, not moving,
23:55
Speaker 1: but it was still on. It was just sort of
23:57
Speaker 1: idling right there, and at first glance, it appeared there
23:59
Speaker 1: were people inside the car, but they weren't doing anything.
24:02
Speaker 1: They were just sitting there, not moving, and so the
24:04
Speaker 1: jogger was curious, and so they ran past and made
24:07
Speaker 1: a point to look inside the car, and they saw
24:10
Speaker 1: two women in the front two seats of this car
24:13
Speaker 1: slumped over. The two women were Lily and her mother,
24:15
Speaker 1: and so the jogger began to panic and banged on
24:18
Speaker 1: the glass to try to get the women to respond,
24:20
Speaker 1: but they didn't, and so a minute later police were called.
24:23
Speaker 1: They dragged Lily and her mother out of the car.
24:25
Speaker 1: They were totally unresponsive. They were rushed to the hospital,
24:29
Speaker 1: but it was too late. They both died. The police
24:32
Speaker 1: would begin their investigation into their deaths by searching the
24:35
Speaker 1: yellow Mini Cooper car, and when they searched it, there
24:38
Speaker 1: really was nothing of note inside of it. I mean,
24:40
Speaker 1: the two women's purses were in the front of the car.
24:43
Speaker 1: There was some basic exercise equipment in the trunk, but
24:46
Speaker 1: the car was pristine, clean, not cluttered. I mean, there
24:49
Speaker 1: really was nothing in the car that gave away what
24:51
Speaker 1: could have happened to these two women. For the next
24:53
Speaker 1: six months, the police tirelessly looked for some lead as
24:58
Speaker 1: to what happened to this mother and daughter. They would
25:00
Speaker 1: interview all their friends and family. They would search their
25:03
Speaker 1: house top to bottom. They would basically take apart this
25:06
Speaker 1: mini Cooper and look for, you know, defects or flaws
25:09
Speaker 1: that maybe could have contributed to their death. I mean,
25:12
Speaker 1: they were looking everywhere, but it just didn't make sense.
25:15
Speaker 1: Nobody had any idea what happened to these two women,
25:18
Speaker 1: and so right as this case appeared like it was
25:20
Speaker 1: about to go cold, the detectives decided to just go
25:23
Speaker 1: back to the mini Cooper and see if, maybe, just
25:26
Speaker 1: maybe they missed something, and sure enough they had. It
25:30
Speaker 1: would turn out on May twenty second, twenty fifteen, the
25:33
Speaker 1: day that Lily and her mother died, Lily's father had
25:36
Speaker 1: told Lily to stay home and study. Not because he
25:39
Speaker 1: cared about her academics. I mean he did, but that
25:42
Speaker 1: day the reason for this was not for that. Instead,
25:46
Speaker 1: he wanted her to stay home all day to protect her.
25:49
Speaker 1: When police originally searched Lily's mom's car, they found the
25:53
Speaker 1: two women's purses and also some basic exercise equipment in
25:56
Speaker 1: the trunk, specifically a deflated yoga bawl, and at the
25:59
Speaker 1: time the police didn't think anything of these items. They
26:02
Speaker 1: looked into them, they considered them but they didn't seem
26:05
Speaker 1: to have any bearing on what happened to the women. However,
26:08
Speaker 1: they would turn out the yoga ball did have something
26:11
Speaker 1: to do with it. Specifically, two days before the women
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Speaker 1: were found dead, that yoga ball was inside of Lily's home.
26:18
Speaker 1: It was in her home gym. In fact, when she
26:21
Speaker 1: walked into the home gym and saw her dad doing
26:23
Speaker 1: cool down exercises and thought it was strange he was
26:26
Speaker 1: home right now, he was using that yoga ball, and
26:30
Speaker 1: Lily didn't think anything of it. But in reality, what
26:33
Speaker 1: her father was doing was not cool down exercises. He
26:35
Speaker 1: had not just come home early and you know, had
26:38
Speaker 1: played tennis in this and that. In reality, he had
26:41
Speaker 1: taken that yoga ball to the hospital where he worked
26:44
Speaker 1: and filled it with carbon monoxide and odorless, colorless.
26:48
Speaker 2: Poisonous gas.
26:49
Speaker 1: And his plan was to put the yoga ball in
26:52
Speaker 1: his wife's car, unplug it, and now it's sealed and
26:55
Speaker 1: the gas is going to leak inside the car, and
26:57
Speaker 1: then when his wife got in the car and shut
26:59
Speaker 1: the door, she would effectively suffocate and die. He didn't
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Speaker 1: try to kill his daughter, though he wanted her to
27:06
Speaker 1: stay home and study Ie. Don't go with your mom
27:08
Speaker 1: and get in the car, but the mother defied. The
27:12
Speaker 1: father brought the daughter along, and then after driving for
27:14
Speaker 1: only a mile, the two women collapsed and died. Cack
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27:21
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