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S1E1 - Case Summary of the Murder of Jody Kilgore(M4A_128K) · Luke's English Podcast

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  Speaker 1: On Monday October sixth, twenty fourteen, George Kilgore, referred to
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  Speaker 1: as Jody by friends and family, was supposed to work
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  Speaker 1: a small job with his former business partner Joe Gregory
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  Speaker 1: known as Toby. That morning, Jody's wife, Susan Kilgore, left
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  Speaker 1: their home in Crawfordville, Florida, to teach at the local preschool.
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  Speaker 1: According to sources, Toby Gregory was supposed to pick Jody
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  Speaker 1: up so they could travel to the worksite together, because
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  Speaker 1: at the time, Jody did not have a driver's license.
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  Speaker 1: Toby lived just around the corner from Jody. Multiple sources
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  Speaker 1: reported that no one else was at the Kilgore residence
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  Speaker 1: that morning. According to news reports, at ten twenty one am,
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  Speaker 1: a phone call was made to nine to one one.
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  Speaker 1: This call was made by Toby Gregory from the Kilgore residence.
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  Speaker 1: At ten thirty six am, the corner declared Jody Kilgore
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  Speaker 1: deceased at the scene of his residence. This is a
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  Speaker 1: very tight timeline, indicating that the event had likely occurred
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  Speaker 1: some time between seven and seven thirty when reports state
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  Speaker 1: that missus Kilgore left for work and the nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one call was made by mister Gregory at ten
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  Speaker 1: twenty one am. Family members of mister Kilbore were made
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  Speaker 1: aware by law enforcement, and they gathered at mister Kilgore's
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  Speaker 1: mother's house before traveling to the Sheriff's office. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: according to mister Kilgore's family, they were apprised that Jody
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  Speaker 1: had been murdered. According to news reports, shortly before ten am,
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor reported hearing arguing, but didn't think anything of
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  Speaker 1: it until law enforcement arrived on scene. Jody Kilgore was
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  Speaker 1: a master electrician and co owner of Kilbour and Gregory, LLC,
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  Speaker 1: a local business that had dissolved two years before the homicide.
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  Speaker 1: He was also known as an avid fisherman and a
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  Speaker 1: dedicated family man. Those are the facts as we currently
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  Speaker 1: know them, and due to this case being an open
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  Speaker 1: and active case, we have not yet been able to
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  Speaker 1: gather any additional information from law enforcement. My name is Elisa,
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  Speaker 1: and what brings me to this case is my love
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  Speaker 1: for true crime. This started for me in the eighties
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  Speaker 1: and nineties when two big cases came out that were
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  Speaker 1: in the public eye. The first case for me that
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  Speaker 1: really brought me to true crime was the Menendez case
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  Speaker 1: and if you follow true crime at all, you know
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  Speaker 1: that this case is currently in the news. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, well right after that was the OJ Simpson case,
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  Speaker 1: and many of us who are and my generation watched
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  Speaker 1: that case on TV. We watched how that case ended
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that happened in California as a
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  Speaker 1: result of that case. Those are the two cases that
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  Speaker 1: really brought me to true crime. And then fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to about three years ago, this new medium called podcasts
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  Speaker 1: came out. I had never heard of a podcast. My
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  Speaker 1: sister in law said, you should listen to these podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: and so we started listening to podcasts, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: with my love of true crime. The first podcast I
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  Speaker 1: ever listened to another one that people in the true
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  Speaker 1: crime world really know and love is Sereal, of course,
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  Speaker 1: another case that is very very well known and currently
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  Speaker 1: in the news. A couple of other podcasts that really
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  Speaker 1: have stuck with me and I've listened all the way
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  Speaker 1: through are Inhuman, a true crime podcast, and my absolute
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  Speaker 1: favorite is True Crime Bullshit. So that is what brought
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  Speaker 1: me to wanting to do a podcast about true crime.
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  Speaker 1: It really is just my love of true crime that
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  Speaker 1: started years and years ago, and continues.
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  Speaker 2: To this day. Yeah, And what was interesting for me
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  Speaker 2: is I'd never really followed true crime. And you know, Alisa,
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  Speaker 2: whenever she we would travel, you know, we'd end up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, listening to podcasts, and of course she would
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  Speaker 2: somehow inherently travel us to a location, and then while
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  Speaker 2: we're enjoying our time in the outdoor, she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Israel Keys, you know, buried a body around here.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, great, so this is this is
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  Speaker 2: where we're at. Or you know, we'd be in you know,
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  Speaker 2: a National park, and so I would hear, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, you know, I was listening to National
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  Speaker 2: Park after dark on the way to this park, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, then we're finding ourselves on the trail where
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  Speaker 2: this giant bear attack happened. And I was like, great, thanks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so now you know, but you know, over
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  Speaker 2: time what ended up happening was I started to develop
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  Speaker 2: a real interest in listening to true crime. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the more and more we got into it, I finally
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  Speaker 2: mentioned to Alisa here that I said, do you realize
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a unsolved murder in my family and
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  Speaker 2: so I'm actually related to the Kildgar family. Susan Kilgore
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  Speaker 2: is my aunt on you know, on my dad's side,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's one of those things that the
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  Speaker 2: more we looked into it, the more interested we got,
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  Speaker 2: and we felt thought maybe maybe even to help out
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  Speaker 2: the family, you know, getting getting more people talking and
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  Speaker 2: picking an an alternative like podcasting on it to get
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  Speaker 2: the message out to more and more people may actually
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  Speaker 2: help increase conversations about it. Maybe people who have been
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  Speaker 2: unwilling to talk come forward. Even law enforcing themselves have
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  Speaker 2: said that they're kind of at a standstill in this
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  Speaker 2: case until the public helps. Well, this is our chance
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And this is why Lee and I
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  Speaker 2: decided to start putting together this podcast to to really
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  Speaker 2: kind of dive into this case in a way that
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  Speaker 2: was you know, meaningful and in a way that kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, showed the facts, talked about the rumors.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to try to involve as many interviews as
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  Speaker 2: we can to the people that were directly and somewhat
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  Speaker 2: indirectly involved, you know, family members, friends, as much as
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  Speaker 2: we can to put as you know, as much information
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  Speaker 2: out there in the public as we can, and we're
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  Speaker 2: hoping that this helps. We're hoping this this you know,
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  Speaker 2: solves the case, you know, closes the case that's been
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  Speaker 2: you know, unsolved for so many years, and it be
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  Speaker 2: also it being the only unsolved murder in this county anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So realistically, you know, I have tons of questions, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of one of the things that comes up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in this because there's there's a lot known, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot not known, and then there's there's it's a
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  Speaker 2: difficult under difficult to understand difference between what's fact, what's rumor,
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  Speaker 2: what's just flat out fiction, and where all that comes from.
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  Speaker 3: So do we have an established timeline? Do we know the.
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  Speaker 2: Last time we saw Jodie and then the nine to
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  Speaker 2: one one call? At this point we know that he's
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  Speaker 2: likely deceived.
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  Speaker 1: It's really difficult to tell. As we mentioned sort of
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the case summary, this is an
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  Speaker 1: active case and so we have not been able to
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  Speaker 1: access any lease reports anything like that that would give
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  Speaker 1: us a tighter timeline, nor do any of the news reports.
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  Speaker 1: There have been a handful of reporters who have covered
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  Speaker 1: this case, maybe three or four that we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: the local newspapers and the local TV and every single
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  Speaker 1: time they interview someone from law enforcement and they say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is an active case. We can't release
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  Speaker 1: you any information this time. So everything that we're able
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  Speaker 1: to tell from the perspective of timeline, it is from
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  Speaker 1: newspapers and the time of the nine one one call,
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  Speaker 1: which we know to be ten twenty one am according
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  Speaker 1: to newspaper reports, and the time of death, which was
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  Speaker 1: also in a report at ten thirty six am. As
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  Speaker 1: far as when.
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  Speaker 3: He was declared dead on site.
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  Speaker 1: Though correct, yes, yeah, from the time from when the
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  Speaker 1: phone call was made at ten twenty one to when
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  Speaker 1: the coroner declared him dead is fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Minutes wow one to ten thirty, which without having crime
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  Speaker 2: scene photos that we can review, it's probably safe to
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  Speaker 2: say that, you know, there was no question when law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement got there that they it was really more of
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  Speaker 2: a formality to declare him.
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  Speaker 3: That he had passed away.
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  Speaker 1: Right, as far as what we know the timeline of
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  Speaker 1: like an open window for the event to happen, we
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  Speaker 1: know from interviewing family members that his wife of your aunt, Susie,
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  Speaker 1: generally left the house between seven and seven thirty every
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  Speaker 1: morning to go to work. We're not aware that there
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  Speaker 1: was anybody else in the home at that time other
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  Speaker 1: than her and Jody, And so it seems that somewhere
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  Speaker 1: between seven am to ten twenty one or seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: am to ten twenty one is when the event happened.
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  Speaker 1: The one other thing that we were able to discover
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  Speaker 1: again through news reports is that shortly before ten am,
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor said he'd heard arguing. That's in one of
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  Speaker 1: the reports. So, I mean, that's the only information we have.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a busy street. It's not like people were
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  Speaker 1: traveling up and down the street all the time. You'll
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what the neighborhood looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can talk about that now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean one of the things that stuck out to
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  Speaker 2: me is, you know, during the research we were doing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we found you know, several references to this
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  Speaker 2: was a cul de sac. And so when I think
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  Speaker 2: of a cul de sac, I think of something that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of an around or oval shape and then you
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  Speaker 2: can kind of see everyone's front yard.
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  Speaker 3: That's what everyone envisions the traditional cul de sac to be.
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  Speaker 2: But if you go actually look at the overhead Google
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  Speaker 2: map of this area, I think a cul de sac
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  Speaker 2: is not a great way to describe this area. It's
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  Speaker 2: better to describe this area more of a dead end.
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  Speaker 2: And they own the house at the end of a
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  Speaker 2: dead end road, and it's pretty offset from the other
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  Speaker 2: neighbor's house. If you look around, it's pretty heavily wooded,
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  Speaker 2: it's not really aligned with other houses. And so it's
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  Speaker 2: feasible to assume that it was pretty difficult for neighbors
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  Speaker 2: to see the front yard, I mean, without you know,
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  Speaker 2: responding to the arguing. And what's interesting is do we
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  Speaker 2: know a timeline when that argument was.
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  Speaker 1: Reported, the neighbors said shortly before ten am, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't really think anything about it, according to the news report,
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  Speaker 1: until massive amounts of law enforcement showed up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so what makes that even more interesting is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to jump to a conclusion, which I
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  Speaker 2: think we're really too early for that right now, you
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  Speaker 2: could actually shrink the timeline from a three to three
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  Speaker 2: and a half hours down to almost thirty minutes if
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  Speaker 2: you make that assumption. You know, what's the only people
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  Speaker 2: The only person we know there was Toby who did
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  Speaker 2: the actual call, you know, because we believe at this
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  Speaker 2: point the house was empty. It was reported that the
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  Speaker 2: house was locked and Jody was waiting to be picked
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  Speaker 2: up for this job. So yeah, I mean it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty tight time, like if you believe that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, that's all speculation. Now, that's not not
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  Speaker 2: confirmed because again we don't have access to law enforcement report.
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  Speaker 2: So other than Toby, though, do we know anyone else
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  Speaker 2: was at the house supposed to be at.
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  Speaker 3: The house to at the house? Do we know anything
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  Speaker 3: like that?
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  Speaker 1: The kill Gores have two sons. What has been reported
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  Speaker 1: to us is that one of the sons was either
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  Speaker 1: gone for the day or out of town, and that
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  Speaker 1: the other son was away. We don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of information about where either of those adult children were.
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  Speaker 3: At the time, right, and so no one else was
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  Speaker 3: at the house.
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  Speaker 2: Susie was at work, and we know she was contacted
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  Speaker 2: at work by her sister.
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  Speaker 1: So from what we can currently gather, the Kilgore family
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  Speaker 1: all gathered at Jodie's mother's house and from there they
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  Speaker 1: went to the sheriff's office. Now Susie's family is a
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  Speaker 1: little different. Her sister, Brenda, was notified and then Brenda
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  Speaker 1: either went to the school where Susie was teaching or
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  Speaker 1: called this school and that is how Susan was notified.
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  Speaker 2: That seems strange to me. So do we know why
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  Speaker 2: Brenda was notified in not Susie. That's a question I
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  Speaker 2: haven't thought to ask yet.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That we even know that that's accurate. We have not
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  Speaker 1: yet had a chance to speak with either Brenda or
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  Speaker 1: Susie regarding what that day, what they experienced that day.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, I mean, as you can tell anyone
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  Speaker 2: who's listening right now, you can tell that there's not
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  Speaker 2: a ton here as far as what's been reported. So
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  Speaker 2: one of the approaches that you know, we decided to
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  Speaker 2: take with this podcast is really just start interviewing the
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  Speaker 2: various people in the family and you're going to start
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  Speaker 2: hearing that in some of the next episodes. One of
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  Speaker 2: the people we've already interviewed is Robin Stevens, and that
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  Speaker 2: is Jodie's sister. She's been instrumental and keeping the message
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  Speaker 2: out there. She organizes vigils things like that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to sharing excerpts from her interview because
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  Speaker 2: it was extremely forthcoming and very very heartfelt as far
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  Speaker 2: as you know, really trying to figure out what happened.
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  Speaker 2: We're also expecting to hear from a number of other people,
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  Speaker 2: but will wait to give those names once they're confirmed
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  Speaker 2: for interviews. We're also going to be diving into some
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  Speaker 2: of the previous people who've done various investigations from the
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  Speaker 2: new side and getting you know, some information from them.
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  Speaker 2: But the direction we're going to take this now is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what is known.
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  Speaker 3: In the community.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that you have to know about this area.
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  Speaker 3: Of Waukala County, specifically at Crawfordville.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those small towns that everyone knows everybody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even my grandmother. If you ask about my
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  Speaker 2: grandmother's name, everyone knows who this person is. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: so much so I'm surprised she's never been the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: And so that was one of the things that really
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  Speaker 2: stuck out, I think specifically to me, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: how you felt about it, but I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody knows something. I mean, this is too small of
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  Speaker 2: a community. And it's been interesting to hear a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these rumors that will be sharing in the future
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  Speaker 2: because there's there's connections to you know, various you know, infidelity,
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  Speaker 2: There's been references to potentially drugs. There's been references to
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  Speaker 2: you know, well you name it. I mean, and what's
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  Speaker 2: interesting is if you dig in those directions, you can
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  Speaker 2: find stuff. But is it relative, is it relevant?
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it not? I mean, is it one of
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  Speaker 2: those things that this is the thing that breaks the case?
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  Speaker 2: Or was this a random crime? You know and Jody
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  Speaker 2: was in the wrong place at the wrong time, having
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  Speaker 2: the wrong argument. I mean, hell, that's even one of
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  Speaker 2: the rumers is this was a random case dealing with theft.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was brought up that there was maybe copper theft involved,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for something that was on the truck.
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  Speaker 3: But you know when you dig into that that even.
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  Speaker 2: That rumor doesn't really have a lot of legs to it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't talk about the rumors for a second. In
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  Speaker 1: a small town like you just were discussing, people talk
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  Speaker 1: at the Dairy Queen, right right, People see each other
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  Speaker 1: at you know, what is that place called the huddle
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  Speaker 1: house and all these little places. Right What happens now
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  Speaker 1: with social media is people start talking about rumors on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: So as we get further into this, we will talk
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  Speaker 1: more about some of the things we're uncovering. Just by
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  Speaker 1: doing simple Facebook searches associated with Wacola County, associated with
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  Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department. And so this chatter and rumor stuff
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  Speaker 1: that normally has to go like from person to person
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  Speaker 1: to person, it's literally out there right on Facebook where
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  Speaker 1: we can read it and start connecting the dots and
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  Speaker 1: start talking to people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what's you know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that we will dive into as
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  Speaker 2: well is and that we found super interesting is this
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  Speaker 2: is unrelated. But we started asking questions and trying to
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  Speaker 2: set up interviews and various conversations with people that we
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  Speaker 2: know that we thought, you know, either they knew something
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  Speaker 2: or they had a story to share, or they.
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  Speaker 3: Just so they lived.
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  Speaker 2: They live, and they live and interact with the community,
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  Speaker 2: and so they hear things.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 2: While we were doing that, the news in Tallahassee actually
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  Speaker 2: was doing a report of their own, kind of a
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  Speaker 2: follow up report. We're hoping to get more information and
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  Speaker 2: what you know, what you know, you know spawned that
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  Speaker 2: idea because it's not associated with what we normally see
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  Speaker 2: these reports with, you know, being either his birthday or
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  Speaker 2: his death associated with the vigils. When you normally see
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  Speaker 2: these follow up reports. This one was random. So my
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  Speaker 2: question is one, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The last time it looks like any TV news report
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  Speaker 1: had occurred was twenty twenty one, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: the ten year anniversary of his passing was last year,
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  Speaker 1: right in October. So why now in the spring of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five do we have the Tallahassee station coming
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  Speaker 1: down and you know, talking to people and doing report
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  Speaker 1: like not that I'm like, ins, I think it's great
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  Speaker 1: because that is exactly what we need. But you know
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  Speaker 1: what spurred that?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: What did they have something? Anyway, We're hoping to talk
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  Speaker 1: to that reporter here in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: So as far as next steps, I mean, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we're preparing for is setting up additional interviews.
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  Speaker 2: Is like I said mentioned before, we're looking to talk
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  Speaker 2: about some of these rumors more publicly to figure out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is there any you know, any relationship. Is
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  Speaker 2: it just rumor? Is there some fact in there? Who
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  Speaker 2: are some of the people that have been most prominent
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  Speaker 2: and keeping that word out and hearing from them and
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of hearing their story. I mean, even me,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, one of the stories that I'd like to share.
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  Speaker 3: Is I was.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I was real young when I met Jody the first time.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: And you know, one of the things that always sticks
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: out to me is, you know, we would be collect
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: getting together over whatever type of event, you know, some
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: kind of family reunion or just some of a family
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: event over at MEMA's houses. You know what we called her, obviously,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: but anybody in the South knows what a Mema is,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: you know, people who maybe listening to the North or
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: if they may go, what is that? But you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I remember the biggest memory I have of Joey, not Joey.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm Jody.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Is. I guess it was Joey and Jody because they
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: were coming together, to be to be technical about that,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: but I remember, you know, the adults would show up
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and then they would go in the house.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: And they would kind of dump their kids off in
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the backyard.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Well, Jody didn't do that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Jody would show up and he would you know, throw
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: something down on the ground for Joey to sit on,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: because Joey was tiny at this point, you know, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: he would play with us. He would he would he
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: would throw the ball, he would hang out in the backyard.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: He was interested in making sure he had some time
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: with the kids in the backyard having fun, whether it
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: was playing tag or you know, just just hanging out.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And that's my memory of him.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I wish I had more memory of him, because I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: moved away, and so I don't have much more than that.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And I think I was either nine or ten during this,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: but I remember he was one of the adults that
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: took time with us, and I remember him being really
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: nice and friendly and just a just a great person.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And so to have this happen to someone that I,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: you know, really had in high regard, and it would
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: really you know, because think about it, I'm fifty years
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: old now, that's you know, you know, forty years ago
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: for me, and I remember that, and so that obviously
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: meant it was some It was impactful for me to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: have that memory so many years later, and I think
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: it's horrible as happened to him, and I'm I want
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: to help.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Despite extensive investigations by the Wallcolla County Sheriff's Office and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, no arrests have been
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: made and the case remains unsolved. It is the only
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: unsolved homicide in Walcola County authorities continue to seek information
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: from the public to help solve the case. The Kilgore
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: family has been vocal in their pursuit of justice, keeping
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the case in the public eye and urging anyone with
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: information to come forward. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: has also shared appeals for assistance on social media, emphasizing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the importance of community involvement and resolving this case. If
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: you have any information related to George Jody Kilgore's murder,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: please contact the Walcola County Sheriff Office, the Florida Department
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of Law Enforcement, or you can call Big Bend Crime
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Stoppers at eight five O five seven four eight four
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: seven seven, or you can email us at who Killed
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: George Kilbour at gmail dot com.