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The Strange Disappearance of Trevaline Evans · Crime Night

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Speaker 1: Picture this. It's the warm Saturday evening of June sixteenth, nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Ninety Okay, setting the scene.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in the picturesque, quaint tourist town of Llanngalin,
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Speaker 1: North Wales. You step through the back door of a
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Speaker 1: small dusty antique shop right the door creak shop behind you,
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Speaker 1: and inside the silence is just heavy. I mean you
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Speaker 1: look around this dimly lit room and see a handbag
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Speaker 1: left careleckally.
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Speaker 2: On a chair, which is an instantly unnerving.
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Speaker 1: Exactly, a set of keys sits resting right on the counter,
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Speaker 1: and beside those keys is a makeup compact flipped open,
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Speaker 1: completely untouched. The powder's perfectly smooth. And when you walk
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Speaker 1: to the front door and look out through the glass
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Speaker 1: onto the quiet street, there's a handwritten sign swaying slightly
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Speaker 1: in the evening breeze, and it just reads simply back
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Speaker 1: in two minutes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, from an investigative baseline, you are looking at
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Speaker 2: the absolute definition of a frozen moment in time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is.
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Speaker 2: The physical environment completely contradicts the reality of this situation.
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Speaker 1: Well, well, welcome to this deep dive. Today. We are opening
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Speaker 1: up a massive stack of raw investigative case files sifting
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Speaker 1: through witness statements and unpacking local reports regarding the baffling
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Speaker 1: disappearance of fifty two year old Treveline Evans.
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Speaker 2: Local police have actually gone on the record calling this
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Speaker 2: the strangest case they've ever.
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Speaker 1: Worked, and you can see why.
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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely so. Our mission today is to reconstruct Trevelyne's
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Speaker 2: final known movements, you know, cut through three decades of
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Speaker 2: small town rumors and examine a modern day discovery that
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Speaker 2: points to a potentially horrifying cover up.
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Speaker 1: Because we are going to trace a path from that abandoned,
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Speaker 1: silent antique shop to a terrifying secret hidden beneath the
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Speaker 1: floorboards of a local golf club.
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Speaker 2: It's quite a journey, it is.
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Speaker 1: But to understand how a human being simply evaporates from
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Speaker 1: the timeline, we first have to track their final known footsteps, right.
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Speaker 2: So, the official investigation begins late that Saturday night.
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Speaker 1: That's when the husband calls it in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Trevlyn's husband, Richard calls the police. He tells them
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Speaker 2: she didn't show up for their dinner date and he
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Speaker 2: has already checked her shop. And when police arrive at
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Speaker 2: the shop, they find the exact scene you just described.
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Speaker 1: The compact the keys, everything.
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Speaker 2: It's the sheer normality that makes it so chilling. Her
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Speaker 2: cars parked right outside, her jacket, her purse, her keys,
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Speaker 2: I mean, every single item a person would reflexively grab
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Speaker 2: they were leaving for any real length of time, is
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Speaker 2: still sitting inside.
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Speaker 1: Look I look at that back in two minutes sign
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Speaker 1: and to me, it's like a paused VHS tape.
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Speaker 2: That's a good analogy, right.
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Speaker 1: It implies a very temporary, highly specific interruption. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: say closed for the day. It says she expected to
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Speaker 1: be right back to finish applying her makeup exactly.
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Speaker 2: So police start building a timeline of her final days,
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Speaker 2: you know, hoping to find the catalyst for the sudden interruption.
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Speaker 1: And what did the files show?
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Speaker 2: Well, the timeline immediately reveals a crack in her routine.
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Speaker 2: According to the witness statements. On Thursday and Friday, multiple
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Speaker 2: people report seeing Treveline around town, but she isn't alone.
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Speaker 2: She's seen repeatedly with an older, smartly dressed man. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Witnesses specifically describe him wearing a sharp navy blue suit
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Speaker 2: and carrying a black briefcase.
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Speaker 1: Is walking around, walking.
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Speaker 2: Together, chatting comfortably. She's waving to friends. I mean, everything
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Speaker 2: seems totally normal on the surface, except no one in
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Speaker 2: this tight knit town has any idea who this man is.
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Speaker 1: See, let's look closely at the body language there, because
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Speaker 1: the psychological shift over those forty eight hours is staggering.
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Speaker 2: It really is.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to Friday night, the evening before she disappears,
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Speaker 1: around eight thirty, a local couple is stopped at a
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Speaker 1: traffic light on Castle Street and they spot Treveline.
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Speaker 2: But she's not chatting comfortably anymore.
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Speaker 1: No, she's acting entirely at a character. She's standing in
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Speaker 1: the dark stoop of a shot, repeatedly poking her head
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Speaker 1: out and looking frantically down the street.
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Speaker 2: She just darting in and out, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Completely ignoring the people in the car who know her.
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Speaker 1: She is just popping in and out of the doorway.
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Speaker 1: It's the frantic, anxious by language of someone desperately waiting
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Speaker 1: for a car to pull up and extract them from
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Speaker 1: a situation.
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Speaker 2: Right Because during the day she is strolling openly with
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Speaker 2: the smartly dressed man in the navy suit, hiding in
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Speaker 2: plain sight. But by Friday night, by Friday night, she
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Speaker 2: is anxious, distracted, and waiting in the shadows, we are
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Speaker 2: seeing the transition from a casual encounter to a perceived
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Speaker 2: threat or maybe an urgent escape plan.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Then we move to Saturday, the day of the disappearance.
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Speaker 2: A friend drops by the antique shop for coffee in
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Speaker 2: the morning. They chat. They actually make plans for a
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Speaker 2: girl's night the following week.
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Speaker 1: Which, you know, making plans for the future usually indicates
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Speaker 1: someone who intends to be around to fulfill them. Exactly so,
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Speaker 1: moving through Saturday, at twelve forty, a passerby sees Treveleene
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Speaker 1: locking the front door of her shop. Shortly after, she's
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Speaker 1: seen at a local market buying an apple.
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Speaker 2: And a banana a quick snack.
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Speaker 1: Right. And then at two thirty, a woman who knows
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Speaker 1: Trevelene spots her walking near her own home, heading back
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Speaker 1: towards the center of town. She is entirely alone, and that.
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Speaker 2: Is the last confirmed sighting. That's it, But the physical
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Speaker 2: evidence left behind in the shop introduces a massive contradiction
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Speaker 2: to that timeline us well. When police eventually process the
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Speaker 2: antique shop, they find a fresh banana peel in the
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Speaker 2: rubbish bin. Okay, but they never find the apple.
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Speaker 1: Wait wait, let me put my investigator hat on for
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Speaker 1: a second and push back on the interpretation of that
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Speaker 1: rubbish bin.
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Speaker 2: Go for it.
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Speaker 1: If she returned to the shop after two thirty to
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Speaker 1: eat the banana, why didn't she take her open makeup compact,
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Speaker 1: her keys, or her cash when she supposedly left again?
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Speaker 2: That is the big question.
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Speaker 1: If you step back into your business, eat a snack,
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Speaker 1: and then head out for the rest of the day,
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Speaker 1: you grab your purse. Does that banana peel actually prove
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Speaker 1: she came back or are we looking at a classic
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Speaker 1: red herring?
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Speaker 2: You think someone else planted it?
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Speaker 1: I mean someone else could have tossed it in the
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Speaker 1: bin later, or it could have been from a totally
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Speaker 1: different day.
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Speaker 2: You are identifying the friction between behavioral evidence and physical
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Speaker 2: evidence here.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't add up.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't without the apple being accounted for, and given
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Speaker 2: that her purse and keys were completely untouched, that banana
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Speaker 2: peal creates a deeply flawed narrative. It forces investigators to
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Speaker 2: choose between two unlikely scenarios. Either she acted in a
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Speaker 2: way that defies all human habit by leaving her valuables
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Speaker 2: behind twice, or the scene was manipulated.
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Speaker 1: Well, when the physical evidence at a scene turns into
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Speaker 1: a dead end. Investigators have to widen the net. They
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Speaker 1: have to look at the people closest to the.
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Speaker 2: Victim, and naturally they start with the phantom. You know,
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Speaker 2: the mystery man and the navy.
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Speaker 1: Suit, right, the guy from Thursday and Friday.
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Speaker 2: The search for this man sparks a massive, decade long
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Speaker 2: man hunt. For eleven years, police circulate a composite sketch
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Speaker 2: of this smartly dressed.
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Speaker 1: Man eleven years.
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Speaker 2: Eleven years. They assume he is the lynchpin. They theorize
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Speaker 2: he might be an antique dealer she was doing business with,
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Speaker 2: or or perhaps a secret.
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Speaker 1: Lover, but no one recognizes him.
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Speaker 2: Over a decade, not a single person comes forward to
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Speaker 2: identify him.
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Speaker 1: How does a man in a distinct navy suit vanish
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Speaker 1: from the collective memory of a small town.
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Speaker 2: It's wild, right.
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Speaker 1: The answer comes in two thousand and one, and it
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Speaker 1: completely shatters the prevailing theory.
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Speaker 2: Oh, this part is crazy.
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Speaker 1: A woman looks at the sketch that has been plastered
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Speaker 1: everywhere for eleven years and tells police that's not a
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Speaker 1: mystery man. That's Treveline's brother Phil.
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Speaker 2: Just a total curve ball. The mechanics of how this
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Speaker 2: happened are fascinating though.
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Speaker 1: How did no one know it was her brother?
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Speaker 2: Well, Phil traveled frequently for work and was just visiting
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Speaker 2: from Switzerland that week. Huh out of town right? Locals
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Speaker 2: would have recognized him because he lacked the context of
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Speaker 2: a local resident. When people look at a police sketch,
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Speaker 2: they are scanning their mental rolodex of neighbors and regulars,
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Speaker 2: not out of town relative.
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Speaker 1: But hold on, if it was just her brother, why
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Speaker 1: didn't he identify himself to the police on day one?
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Speaker 2: Back one point?
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Speaker 1: The sketch was on the evening news. He was in
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Speaker 1: every newspaper. If you see a sketch of yourself links
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Speaker 1: to your sister's active missing person's case, you march into
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Speaker 1: the station and clear your name so they could look
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Speaker 1: for the actual suspect.
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Speaker 2: You would think so. The intentional silence implies a deeper
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Speaker 2: layer of complexity. It really does, if we follow the
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Speaker 2: investigative logic. If the brother was intentionally staying quiet, what
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Speaker 2: was he hiding? Was he helping her escape a secret life?
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Speaker 1: Because the case files reveal a persistent rumor that Treveline
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Speaker 1: had recently inherited ten thousand pounds from a deceased lover.
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Speaker 2: Which is a massive detail.
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Speaker 1: Ten thousand pounds in nineteen ninety was a massive sum
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Speaker 1: of money, and the revelation of a deceased lover completely
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Speaker 1: dismantles the narrative that Richard her husband had been aggressively
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Speaker 1: feeding to the press about their perfectly happy, tranquil marriage. Right.
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Speaker 2: It introduces two powerful opposing motives.
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Speaker 1: Okay, blay them out.
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Speaker 2: Either she had the financial means and the personal motive
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Speaker 2: to orchestrate a fresh.
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Speaker 1: Start escape down with the mound.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, or someone close to her discovered this hidden life
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Speaker 2: and the money and had a massive motive to stop her.
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Speaker 2: If the brother was helping her escape, we have to
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Speaker 2: ask what she was escaping from.
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Speaker 1: Which directs our focus entirely onto the husband, Richard. When
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Speaker 1: Treveling vanishes at two thirty on Saturday, Richard claims he
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Speaker 1: was an hour away in a town called Rudland, renovating
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Speaker 1: a retirement bungalow they had recently purchased. That's his alibi,
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Speaker 1: but the investigative files contain local reports that place Richard
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Speaker 1: at a plub in Rudland at two thirty thirty, the
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Speaker 1: exact window of time his wife disappears, and.
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Speaker 2: His behavior in the immediate aftermath is what seasoned investigators
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Speaker 2: call highly anomalous.
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Speaker 1: What does he do?
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Speaker 2: He goes on local television, speaking directly to the camera,
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Speaker 2: pleading for his missing wife to come home. He portrays
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Speaker 2: a man baffled by a spouse who simply wandered.
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Speaker 1: Off, okay, But behind the.
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Speaker 2: Scenes, simultaneously, in the days following her disappearance, he initiates
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Speaker 2: a massive renovation of their primary shared specifically ripping out
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Speaker 2: the carpets and removing furniture.
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Speaker 1: Look, let's view that through a forensic lens, ripping up
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Speaker 1: carpet isn't just an eccentric way of grieving or keeping busy.
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Speaker 2: Definitely not.
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Speaker 1: It is the systematic destruction of the most crucial evidence
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Speaker 1: matrix in a home. Carpets hold everything ever, They trap
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Speaker 1: trace fibers, DNA, soil from shoes, and most importantly, they
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Speaker 1: absorb blood spatter in a way that is nearly impossible
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Speaker 1: to fully clean. If you genuinely believe your wife is returning,
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Speaker 1: you leave her sanctuary exactly as she left it. You
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Speaker 1: do not strip the floors down to the floorboards.
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Speaker 2: And the authorities clearly recognize the forensic implications of this
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Speaker 2: behavior all they noticed. In two thousand and one, the
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Speaker 2: police form a cold case task force. They publicly announced
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Speaker 2: that the town should completely disregard the sketch of the
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Speaker 2: mystery man they've been hunting for a.
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Speaker 1: Decade, right because they know it's the brother now right.
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Speaker 2: And on that exact same day they arrest Richard.
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Speaker 1: But the arrest doesn't stick. He has released the very
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Speaker 1: same day without any charges.
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Speaker 2: We have to look at the legal mechanics of that release.
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Speaker 2: In the UK legal system, police can only hold a
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Speaker 2: suspect for a limited amount of time without.
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Speaker 1: Charging them, and they need evidence.
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Speaker 2: Exactly to formally charge someone with murder without a body,
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Speaker 2: the Crown Prosecution Service requires an overwhelming amount of circumstantial
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Speaker 2: and forensic evidence to prove that the victim is actually dead,
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Speaker 2: not just missing.
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Speaker 1: So no carpet, nobody.
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Speaker 2: Because the carpet was gone and the shop yielded only
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Speaker 2: a banana appeal, they lacked the physical evidence to compel
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Speaker 2: a charge.
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Speaker 1: You know, the timing of the arrest is just a
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Speaker 1: masterclass in police pressure tactics. They tell the public to
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Speaker 1: stop looking for strangers and they put handcuffs on the husband.
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Speaker 2: It's a very loud statement.
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Speaker 1: It is a glaring, silent signal of their investigative conclusions.
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Speaker 1: But without a crime scene, the legal system stalls out.
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Speaker 1: So for nearly thirty years, Treveline Evans becomes a ghost
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Speaker 1: story whispered about in Langollen.
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Speaker 2: Until the found of the mystery is literally cracked open
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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that.
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Speaker 2: To understand the magnitude of this discovery, we have to
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Speaker 2: revisit the summer of nineteen ninety, right around the time
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Speaker 2: Traveling vanishes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are heading back to Rudland, the town an
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Speaker 1: hour away where Richard was supposedly renovating that.
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Speaker 2: Bungalow where's alibi was right.
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Speaker 1: There was a local golf club there, and during that
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Speaker 1: exceptionally warm summer, patrons sitting in the club's bar began
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Speaker 1: complaining about a smell seeping up through the floor.
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Speaker 2: And we are not talking about the faint scent of
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Speaker 2: damp wood. No witness accounts describe as smell so horrific,
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Speaker 2: so viscerally repulsive that patrons are abandoning their lunches on
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Speaker 2: the tables and fleeing the dining room.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the golf club was building an extension at
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Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, so the staff just assumes it's construction related.
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Speaker 2: They brush it off.
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Speaker 1: The contractors wave it off, insisting an animal must have
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Speaker 1: crawled under the floorboards and died in the heat. They
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Speaker 1: tell everyone the smell will naturally fade as it decomposes.
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Speaker 2: And it does fade until twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to twenty nineteen and her two brothers, Lee
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Speaker 1: and Andrew Sutton.
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Speaker 2: These guys change everything.
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Speaker 1: They really do. Lee is a professional carpenter and Andrew
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Speaker 1: is an accountant. Lee is doing some construction work in
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Speaker 1: Rudland and gets into a conversation with a local who
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Speaker 1: brings up the legendary putrid smell at the golf club
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Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 2: Now, the Sutton brothers are fully aware of the local
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Speaker 2: lore surrounding Trevelyne Evans. They know her husband, Richard's alibi
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Speaker 2: placed him in Ruttlin that exact weekend.
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Speaker 1: The timeline aligns perfectly, perfectly.
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Speaker 2: Driven by a deep sense of civic duty and persistence,
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Speaker 2: they decide to conduct their own investigation.
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Speaker 1: And what follows is pure diy espionage. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: tension of it plays out like a scene in a thriller,
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Speaker 1: truly they go to a local hardware store and purchase
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Speaker 1: a Stanley fiber optic LED inspection camera.
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Speaker 2: Which is brilliant those unfamiliar.
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Speaker 1: This is essentially a tiny high definition camera mounted on
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Speaker 1: a long flexible wire connected to a handheld viewing screen, usually.
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Speaker 2: Used by plumbers or mechanics.
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Speaker 1: Right, so they walk right into the busy golf club
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Speaker 1: bar on a Saturday morning, blend in and tell the
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Speaker 1: staff they need to test the floors for rot.
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Speaker 2: Just completely bold.
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Speaker 1: They locate an air brick in the foundation near where
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Speaker 1: that horrific nineteen ninety smell originated.
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Speaker 2: So, an air brick is a specialized structural component built
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Speaker 2: into a foundation. It has small perforations to allow ventilation
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Speaker 2: under the floorboards to prevent dampness.
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Speaker 1: And those holes are important, right.
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Speaker 2: The holes are tiny, but just large enough to accommodate
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Speaker 2: the lens of a fiber optic camera.
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Speaker 1: Imagine the scene. The bar is bustling with people. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: down at the floorboards, these two brothers are slowly sliding
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Speaker 1: this glowing LED camera through the dark, dusty holes of
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Speaker 1: the air brick.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: They feed the wire deeper and deeper into the pitch
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Speaker 1: black void under the floorboards ooof and they huddle around
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Speaker 1: the little monitor.
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Speaker 2: And the images the camera captures in the darkness are chilling.
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Speaker 1: What do they see?
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Speaker 2: The brothers use their phones to take photographs of the
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Speaker 2: handheld viewing screen. What those photos show undeniably looks like
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Speaker 2: the remnants of a human skull. Wow, you can make
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Speaker 2: out the orbital cavities. You can see what appears to
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Speaker 2: be a spinal column and a skeletal structure resting right
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Speaker 2: there in the dirt.
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Speaker 1: It's sheer disbelief. Two brothers with a tool from the
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Speaker 1: hardware store bypassed decades of police work and find a
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Speaker 1: skeleton under a golf club floor, directly tying to a
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Speaker 1: thirty year old missing person's case. Unbelievable, but finding a
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Speaker 1: body is only the first act. What happens over the
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Speaker 1: next few days transforms this tragedy into an alleged institutional
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Speaker 1: cover up.
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Speaker 2: So the Sutton brothers return a few days later, inform
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Speaker 2: the golf club management of what they saw on the
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Speaker 2: monitor and immediately contact police.
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Speaker 1: The police show up, a large.
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Speaker 2: Contingent of officers arrives at the scene. They are brought
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Speaker 2: to a kitchen prep area directly above where the camera
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Speaker 2: spoted the remains okay, and sitting right there on the floor,
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Speaker 2: hidden beneath a massive, heavy commercial freezer, is a trapdoor.
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Speaker 1: Lee, drawing on his expertise as a carpenter, manages to
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Speaker 1: slip into the room alongside the officers.
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Speaker 2: He wants to see it for himself.
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Speaker 1: He watches them heave the heavy freezer out of the way,
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Speaker 1: he watches them expose the edges of the trap door,
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Speaker 1: and he listens as they pry it open.
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Speaker 2: He described the sound right yeah.
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Speaker 1: He specifically notes the agonizing screech of the nails being
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Speaker 1: pulled up, a very specific acoustic signature that he says
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Speaker 1: professionally only happens when iron nails have been resting undisturbed
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Speaker 1: in wood for.
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Speaker 2: Decades, which proves nobody has opened that door in a
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Speaker 2: very long time. So this is the critical juncture of
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Speaker 2: the investigation. The trap door is open, the dark space
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Speaker 2: underneath is exposed to the light, and the very first
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Speaker 2: thing the police do is physically remove Lee from the room.
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Speaker 1: They kick him out, They.
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Speaker 2: Push him out into the clubhouse and tell him to wait.
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Speaker 1: And here's the twist that defies logic. The next day,
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Speaker 1: the police issue an official statement declaring that absolutely nothing
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Speaker 1: was found under the floorboards, no skeleton, no body, just
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Speaker 1: dirt and debris.
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Speaker 2: The Sutton brothers are absolutely baffled. The police assure the
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Speaker 2: public there's nothing to see, effectively closing the book on
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Speaker 2: the discovery.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I have to challenge the mechanics of this alleged
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Speaker 1: cover up.
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Speaker 2: Let's here.
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Speaker 1: Is it genuinely feasible that an entire police department coordinated
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Speaker 1: to smuggle a human skeleton out of a golf club
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Speaker 1: in broad daylight, with a crowd of patrons and the
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Speaker 1: Sutton brothers waiting just outside the door, and no one
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Speaker 1: saw a single bone leave the building.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like a stretch.
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Speaker 1: Or are we dealing with this severe case of peridolia.
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Speaker 2: Seeing patterns where there aren't.
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Speaker 1: Any Exactly that psychological phenomenon where your brain is desperate
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Speaker 1: to find patterns, so it tricks you into seeing a
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Speaker 1: human face and a pile of random rocks and dirt.
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Speaker 1: They had the Treveline case in their heads. They look
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Speaker 1: at a blurry, little led monitor and they see exactly
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Speaker 1: what they set out to find.
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Speaker 2: Look, the paridalia argument is a valid scientific challenge. Our
18:07
Speaker 2: brains are hardwired to recognize faces, but we have to
18:10
Speaker 2: evaluate the brother's defense against that theory. These are grounded
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Speaker 2: analytical professionals true. More importantly, Lee states that as the
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Speaker 2: police were shooing him out of the kitchen, he glanced
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Speaker 2: back at a larger monitor the police had hooked their
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Speaker 2: own equipment up to.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they had their own camera down there.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and he claims with absolute certainty that he saw
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Speaker 2: a ten inch human bone on the high definition screen.
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Speaker 2: He even pointed it out to an inspector in the room,
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Speaker 2: who simply.
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Speaker 1: Ignored him, ignored him completely.
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Speaker 2: Furthermore, we cannot ignore the husband's specific connection to this
18:43
Speaker 2: exact location.
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Speaker 1: Let's follow that thread. The investigative file suggests that Richard
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Speaker 1: wasn't just a patron who occasionally drank at the bar
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Speaker 1: at the Rudland Golf Club.
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Speaker 2: No, he wasn't. There are strong local reports that Richard
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Speaker 2: actually worked as a handyman at that very golf club
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Speaker 2: during the summer of nineteen ninety. Handyman we know his
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Speaker 2: trade was maintenance and renovation.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: If he was the handyman on site, he would possess
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Speaker 2: intimate knowledge of the building's layout. He would know about
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Speaker 2: the secret storage room off the kitchen, and he would
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Speaker 2: know exactly where the trap door leading directly under the
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Speaker 2: floorboards was located.
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Speaker 1: We are looking at a scenario where a husband has
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Speaker 1: the perfect access, the perfect cover of a construction site,
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Speaker 1: and a timeline that puts him an hour away from
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Speaker 1: his missing wife, but standing right on top of a
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Speaker 1: secret grave.
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Speaker 2: That's the implication.
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Speaker 1: The Sutton brothers are so outraged by the police dismissal
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Speaker 1: that they file a formal, documented complaint against the police department,
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Speaker 1: accusing them of a deliberate cover up, but it doesn't
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Speaker 1: go far. The police review their own internal conduct and
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Speaker 1: unsurprisingly reject the complaint. The brothers are effectively sidelined as
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists.
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Speaker 2: But the narrative doesn't end with a dismissed complaint because
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Speaker 2: the pressure of a secret in a small town is heavy,
19:58
Speaker 2: and eventually that pressure finds a way to vent itself.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, a final chilling detail surfaces. Anonymous,
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Speaker 1: hand scratched metal plaques suddenly begin appearing in Rudland.
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Speaker 2: Just out of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: The first is bolted to a public bench in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night. It looks like a standard memorial plaque,
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Speaker 1: but the etched message is deeply unsettling. It reads, in
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Speaker 1: memory of Trevelline Evans vanished sixteen six, nineteen ninety found
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Speaker 1: Rudland GC fourteen three, twenty nineteen, removed nineteen three, twenty
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Speaker 1: nineteen rip.
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Speaker 2: The Sutton brothers vehemently deny manufacturing or placing the plaques.
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Speaker 1: Someone else did it.
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Speaker 2: The local authorities quickly dispatch crews to remove it, but
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Speaker 2: shortly after a second plaque appears, heavily bolted to the
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Speaker 2: brickwork outside an old miner's cottage nearby.
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Speaker 1: And the second plaque isn't a memorial, it is a
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Speaker 1: direct threat.
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Speaker 2: What does it say?
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Speaker 1: It reads, Justice awaits those responsible for the removal and
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Speaker 1: disposal of Trevelline Evans in this life or the next
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Speaker 1: from Rubland Golf Club on March nineteen, twenty nineteen, at noon,
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Speaker 1: and may the Lord have mercy upon their souls.
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Speaker 2: The sheer specificity of that plaque calling out March nineteen
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Speaker 2: at noon is staggering. At noon, it implies direct observation
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Speaker 2: of the alleged cover up. Someone was watching. When we
21:18
Speaker 2: synthesize the core tragedy of this case, we are left
21:21
Speaker 2: staring into an investigative.
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Speaker 1: Abyss we really are.
21:24
Speaker 2: We have a clock where the gears are turning in
21:26
Speaker 2: opposite directions. The psychological evidence points to a desperate escape
21:30
Speaker 2: fueled by hidden inheritance, money and a secret lover.
21:33
Speaker 1: But the physical evidence.
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Speaker 2: The forensic reality of ripped up carpets, points to a
21:38
Speaker 2: calculated domestic homicide, and the modern day discovery at the
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Speaker 2: golf club points to a massive, coordinated institutional failure.
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Speaker 1: And that leaves us with a lingering, deeply unsettling thought
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Speaker 1: for you to take with you as we close these files.
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Speaker 2: Think about it.
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Speaker 1: Think about the nature of small towns. They are ecosystems
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Speaker 1: where everyone knows everyone's business. Secrets of this magnitude are rarely,
21:59
Speaker 1: if ever, can by just one person. Exactly, if a
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Speaker 1: body was hidden under a busy golf club dining room
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Speaker 1: for thirty years, and if someone went through the arduous
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Speaker 1: trouble to hand carve metal plaques decades later, bolting them
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Speaker 1: to benches in the dead of night, it means there
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Speaker 1: is someone walking the streets of North Wales today who
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Speaker 1: knows exactly what happened.
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Speaker 2: Someone is holding that secret.
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Speaker 1: The silence we hear in this case isn't an absence
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Speaker 1: of knowledge. It is a conscious daily choice, and whoever
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Speaker 1: is making that choice knows exactly what happened in those
22:31
Speaker 1: final two minutes.
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Speaker 2: A choice that has lasted thirty five years, leaving an
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Speaker 2: untouched makeup compact waiting for a return that never happened.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us on this deep dive into
22:40
Speaker 1: the case files of Treveline Evans. Stay curious, keep looking
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Speaker 1: closely at the details, and always question the narratives you
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Speaker 1: are told. We'll catch you on the next deep dive.