My Bloody Valentine: Part 1

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Dear listener, thank you for tuning
in today. I have something a little

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different for you. Instead of the
usual tapes from the Dark Side episode,

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I have a special compilation and celebration
of this holiday that we call Valentine's Day.

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Fourteen stories to celebrate February fourteenth.
Today we'll have seven and tomorrow will

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also play seven stories, and there's
even one from yours truly myself Tez.

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If you hear a story that you
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your app and subscribe to that show. All the names are in these show

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notes, and there will also be
a link to each of those shows.

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And now here is our host of
the My Bloody Valentine's Special, mister Shane

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Waters. Oh hey, it's good
to see you. I'm Shane Waters,

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the host of foul Play crime series, and tonight on this special Valentine's Day

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two part episode, I'm going to
ask you the age old question, will

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you be my Valentine? If you
find it agreeable, we will explore the

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history behind this romantic day and fourteen
podcast or friends of mine will be joining

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us throughout our trip to share crime
stories of love gone wrong. So what

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do you say? Welcome to my
bloody Valentine. Here, let's take a

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seat in this restaurant. I had
to make reservations way ahead of time to

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get us in. The atmosphere is
really nice, the candle lighting and romantic

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music. While we wait for our
food and my first friend to show up

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with our first story, I'll feel
you in on some details. Valentine's Day

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and of course, occurs every February
fourteenth, and candy, flowers and gifts

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are often exchanged in the name of
Saint Valentine. Now I really want some

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candy chocolates. Oh hey, Kristen. Kristen is the host of murder,

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she told, I'll let you take
it from here with our first story of

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the night. The box was perfectly
delightful, wrapped in brown paper with the

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prettiest pink satin ribbon. Mary Dunning
wondered who would send her such a gift

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in the mail. There was no
return address. The only clue was the

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smudged ink of the postmark San Francisco. Mary was across the country in Dover,

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Delaware, but she had lived in
the Golden City in years past.

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The pink satin slipped off in beneath
the rapping was a box of chocolates,

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pretty little dark colored bonbon sitting on
a brand new lace handkerchief. Somebody forgot

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to remove the tag and Mary couldn't
help, but notice it came from the

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luxury department store city of Paris.
Somebody wanted to spoil her, but who

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Inside there was a handwritten note that
said simply with love to yourself and baby

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missus c Mary assumed it was most
likely a thoughtful surprise from her friend,

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Missus Corbiley, who knew Mary adored
candy. But Mary curbed the urge to

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spoil her appetite with a treat and
decided to bring them to a dinner gathering

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later that night at her sister's home. Two days later, on August eleventh,

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eighteen ninety eight, both Mary and
her sister were dead, and three

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others from the party followed. All
five had suffered a slow and agonizing death,

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hallucinations and delirium, severe stomach pains, and violent sickness. Household remedies

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had no effect. The doctors thought
it was food poisoning, but curiously,

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not everyone from the party got sick, just the five who fancied the chocolate.

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Mary's father, who was a former
congressman for Delaware had a chemist analyzed

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the chocolate and discovered that they contained
a large amount of arsenic Who poisoned the

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chocolates? Better yet, who sent
them? And who was missus? C

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The woman on the bench intrigued thirty
two year old John Dunning. There was

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something magnetic about her. She was
forty one, a former vaudeville actress,

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and wasn't like the other women in
San Francisco. She was fun, free,

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easy. She liked to gamble,
drink, and hang out with the

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boys at the brothel. Her name
was Cordelia botkin In. Despite the buttoned

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up society lady's disdain for promiscuity,
she knew the power she had over men,

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and Cordelia wanted John Dunning. It
did take long before John and Cordelia

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were tangled up with one another,
literally and physically. Both were married.

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Cordelia was separated from her husband,
but John's wife, Mary, was oblivious

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to the affair. The adulterous duo
commiserated over their partners and grew closer over

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late nights, booze and gambling.
John worked for the Associated Press as a

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seasoned reporter and often had assignments overseas. His long absences put stress on his

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marriage. Mary and John were only
hanging on by a thread. But around

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eighteen ninety five, when Mary found
out about Cordelia, she ended it humiliated

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that apparently all of San Francisco knew
about this affair except her. She left

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him to be with her family in
Delaware. With Mary out of the picture,

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John and Cordelia were free to do
as they pleased, but John had

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picked up some new habits, heavy
drinking and gambling. He had racked up

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a huge gambling debt, so he
stole four thousand dollars which is about one

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hundred and forty four thousand today from
his employer to pay it off. When

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the AP found out, they fired
him. After about three years of love

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and lust, when the world was
on the verge of the Spanish American War,

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the AP hired him back. They
needed a veteran reporter stationed in Cuba

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to cover it. This was John's
wake up call. He cut it off

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with Cordelia and told her that he
wanted to get back with Mary. After

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he returned, Cordelia was devastated.
She begged him not to go, but

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he told her he would not be
returning to San Francisco. While John was

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stationed in Cuba, Mary had been
receiving handwritten letters in the mail from San

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Francisco from an anonymous author. They
detailed John's sordid affairs around town, with

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quote an extremely attractive woman, and
the mystery writer urged Mary not to take

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John back. The letters sat in
a drawer until after Mary's death, when

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her father discovered them. During the
investigation, John e returned to Delaware after

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learning what happened, and Mary's father
confronted him with the letters. John admitted

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to everything the letter said, and
he also recognized the handwriting it was Cordelia's.

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When he was shown the note inside
the chocolate box, he was stunned

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it matched Cordelia's handwriting. His mistress
had murdered his wife, and the four

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other people who had also died were
innocent bystanders. Meanwhile, investigators in San

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Francisco identified the brown paper and pink
ribbon as the signature rapping of a local

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chocolateer, George Haw's Confectionery. They
spoke with a clerk who remembered an odd

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encounter with a short, stout woman
with dark hair. He sold her at

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half a box of candy, and
she claimed that she was filling the rest

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of it with her own homemade chocolates. Police tracked down the post office clerk

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who accepted the package, the department
store, a saleswoman who sold her the

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lace handkerchief, and finally the drug
store clerk that sold her the arsenic.

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All four workers described a woman who
looked like Cordelia in her hotel room.

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Police discovered left over paper wrapping from
the candy store, and Cordelia was arrested

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on murder charges. There was a
legal argument about who had jurisdiction in this

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strange case. The victims had died
in Delaware, but Cordelia sent the poisoned

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chocolate from California, but it was
settled that the trial would be held in

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California in December of eighteen ninety eight, four months after the crime was committed.

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The media couldn't get enough of Cordelia
Botkin and her scandalous lifestyle. This

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was the trial to end the century. She pled not guilty, and though

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she did admit to buying the arsenic, she insisted it was for cleaning purposes

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only. The jury disagreed, found
her guilty and sentenced her to life in

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prison. A year or so later, the judge from her trials spotted Cordelia

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out and about in San Francisco.
He launched an investigation and discovered that she

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may or may not have been trading
favors for privileges with the guards. When

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the word got back to her about
the investigation, she claimed that it wasn't

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her but a look alike and that
the judge was mistaken. While the Shenanigans

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were unfolding, Cordelia's legal appeal,
too, was playing out. The Supreme

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Court of California agreed with her attorneys
that her trial judge had given improper jury

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instructions and overturned to the ruling,
sending it back to the DA if they

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wanted to try her again. After
many delays, she was tried again and

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convicted again, and though nine voted
for her to be hanged, the jury

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had to be unanimous to impose the
death penalty, so in nineteen oh four,

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she was sentenced once again to life
in prison, though not culpable in

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any legal way. John was the
one who brought Cordelia into their lives and

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invited her wrath. If anyone,
it was he who deserved her ire.

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But he escaped justice. He even
got his job back, at least until

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the trial ruined what little reputation he
had left. And what a tragedy it

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was that Mary's generosity with the chocolates
condemned four others as well, their deaths

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too or on John's head. Cordelia
was an incorrigible hustler. She tap danced

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throughout her life, twisting and warping
narratives to bend people to her will.

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But the iron bars and cinder block
walls of San Quentin State Prison could not

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be conjoled, and after ten years
of incarceration, at the age of fifty

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six, Cordelia Bakin drew her last
breath. Carnivals are a popular place to

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go for a romantic getaway, strolling
down the aisles, playing the games to

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win praises, and riding the roads
like my all time favorite the Zipper.

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Here, I picked us up some
cotton candy. Oh look, there's Cambo

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buying your corn dog. Cambo is
the host of True Crime Island. It's

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Valentine's Day nine and ninety four.
Two women are found dead in a burning

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massage parlor in Sydney. Grab a
beer and pull up a deck chair.

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So my Valentine's case is from nineteen
ninety four in Gladesville, Sydney, Australia.

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So usually Valentine's Day is where loving
couples go and spend a load of

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cash, maybe book a francy restaurant, give gifts or whatever. They usually

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don't order a hit on their significant
honor, but we'll get to that later.

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Now. Fireman a call to four
Flagstaff Street, Gladesville at around seven

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thirty pm on Valentine's Day. This
is the location of Harry's Oasis, a

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massage therapy business owned and run by
a thirty six year old Kerry Pang and

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her de facto husband, fifty seven
year old Mark Lewis. It wasn't the

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sort of place she'd go for a
sports injury. It was more of a

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rub and target happy ending massage parlor. Mark Lewis he ran a similar place

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up the road at West Ride.
When the fireman gained entry to the burning

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building, they check one room and
they find the dead body of a woman

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that would be identified as twenty five
year old Fatima Osnall, shot three times

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in the head. Further towards the
back of the premises where the fire was

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burning was an office. Inside was
a woman that they dragged out into the

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hallway thinking she may still be alive, but on closer inspection she was already

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dead. She would be identified as
the owner, Kerry Pang, and she

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had suffered eighteen stab wounds to her
head, neck and body, had been

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shot in the eye and her throat
had slashed. The fire was extinguished and

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police called Mark Lewis. He arrives
at the scene from his massage parlor in

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West Ride and when he saw what
was happening, he had to be restrained

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by police and firefighters from entering the
building. He was screaming, oh,

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carry, carry, and he ended
up collapsing, as is the procedure.

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Mark, being the de facto,
would be interviewed by investigators about his movements

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that afternoon. Now he tells police
he called Carry to come to his massage

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place to pick him up as he
wasn't feeling well. Kerry did go and

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get him, but they ended up
driving back in separate cars back to Kerry's

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oasis. When there, he said
he was going to leave his point to

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to caliber rifle, which was in
the back of his van. At Kerry

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Oasis's office, but as they both
reached the front door, he changed his

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mind and he put it back in
his van. Then he drove back to

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his massage parlor. He also meant
to investigators how he had received a call

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earlier that afternoon from a caller that
said he was going to kill Kerry.

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Now Lewis said he got back to
his massage parlor at a round seven pm.

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Now police searched his car that he
had on the night, the tarago

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van, and indeed they found a
point two to caliber rifle in a rifle

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bag. Inside the bag were a
couple of blood spots, as well as

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some on the outside of the bag. Now, Mark Lewis's clothes were taken

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and his shorts also had a blood
spot on them. Autopties on the women

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showed they had been shot by point
two two caliber rounds, and empty shell

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casings found on the site were also
point two to caliber. Lewis's rifle was

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tested but wasn't a match for the
recovered rounds, nor were any of his

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other seven rifles matched what was found
at the scene. Now, one strange

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piece of evidence found at the scene
was a small nose piece from a pa

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A spectacles. Now, when police
checked out Mark's story. They found that

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most of it was probably true.
The timeline, though, was out by

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about an hour according to other witnesses
and phone records. Now this put him

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at the scene of the crime just
before the fireman were called and when the

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women had probably been killed. But
although the blood spots on the rifle bag

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and Mark Shortz would match Kerry Pang, they lived and they worked together,

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so it really didn't hold that much
weight, so the case sort of went

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cold. Even though they had suspicions
about Mark Lewis, they didn't have enough

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evidence to charge him. Then,
just over a couple of years later,

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Lindsay Rose, a small time crook, was drinking in a pub with a

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mate and happened to mention how he
killed these women on Valentine's Day and had

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killed others. Now Rose called himself
the Mechanic, after the Charles Bronson nineteen

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seventy two movie where Charles plays the
part of a hitman called the Mechanic who

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wants to retire, but some young
guy wants to learn the trade and becomes

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his apprentice. Lindsey Rose goes on
to tell his mate he had an apprentice

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on the night called Donnie Well,
This mate at the pub was actually a

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police informant and tipped off investigators about
what Rose had told him. Investigators found

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the apprentice Donnie, who immediately confessed
and grasped out Rose. Donnie's name was

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actually Ron Waters, an out of
work tattoo artists, and his story was

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that Lindsay Rose had approached him at
the pub and asked if he could help

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him out as he needed to talk
to this woman at a massage joint,

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but if they saw him they wouldn't
let him in. Rose told him that

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all he had to do was knock
on the door and when they opened it,

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he would step in and talk to
this woman. Rose off had run

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five hundred bucks, which was big
money back then, especially for an outer

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work to two artists. Ron said
he and Rose went to carry oasis at

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around seven pm. Ron knocked on
the door as planned and it was opened

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by Fatima. Then Rose rushed in
silence, pistol in hand, and man

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handled Fatima into one of the massage
room, telling her as she did what

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he asked, she'd be fine.
Then Ron shouted out the Rose, alerting

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him to the fact that he could
see two people approach the entrance. As

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they were about to open the door, Rose put three rounds into Fatima's head

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and waited. As the door opened, it was Carrie, and as she

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ended, Rose grabbed her and a
struggle broke out. Kerry fighting as hard

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as she could, managing to hit
Rose and break his spectacles, which landed

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on the ground. Behind her was
Mark Lewis with a rifle. Ron saw

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the gun immediately and he lunged at
Lewis, pinning him to the ground.

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Now, while still fighting with Kerry, Rose yells out to Ron, hey,

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that's the guy that's paying for the
job now. Kerry ended up breaking

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free at Lindsay and tried to escape
by running out to the back office,

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but this was in vain Lindsay caught
up with her. He stabbed a raiding

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times, shut her in the eye, and slashed her throat. He then

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set fire to the office and left
with Ron in one car, while Mark

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left to go back to his massage
parlor in the van. Now, when

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police finally found Rose, they asked
him about a nine and eighty four double

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murder, and he confessed straight away. They then asked him about the murder

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of Carry and Fatima, and again
he confessed immediately. Investigators had also gone

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around to ap Thomastris in the area
and had found Rose had dropped a pair

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of spectacles in for repair just after
Valentine's Day in nineteen ninety four. Now

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Rose said that mark Lewis had been
on to him for months to kill Kerry,

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and when he finally upped the amount
to twenty grand, he agreed to

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it. So we were just shut
up about it. Now. Mark Lewis

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also applied the pistol, So now
the cops had the real story of what

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went on that Valentine's night, and
now they had enough evidence to charge Mark

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Lewis for murder. In the end, Lindsay got five sentences for five people

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he confessed at killing and his file
was marked never to be released. Mark

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Lewis got eighteen years for Fatima's murder
and life for Kerry. Now Ron Ron

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Waters well he got eight eight months
periodic detention as he really had no idea

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what was going to happen that night. He was tricked into it and he

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did confess as soon as he was
arrested. So why did Mark Lewis arranger

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hit on his de facto wife with
five kids, one of them being his

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own. Well, he didn't like
her working at the massage parlor. He

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probably suspected her of boning some of
the customers, so he had it killed.

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Too gutless to do it himself,
he got his hitman mate to do

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it for him. Fatima just happened
to be in the wrong place at the

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wrong time. She was the mother
to a six year old girl. And

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why it was Carrie so brutally murdered
aiden stab wounds, shot in the eye

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and a throat slashed. Usually this
would be done by someone in a crime

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of passion. Well, Rose had
once been in a relationship with Carrie and

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they'd broken up on bad terms.
Such a tragic Valentine's Okay, so that

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was a very brief version of the
case, and have a very happy Valentine's

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Day. Often couples go on a
meditation date together to relax and bond and

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maybe for some of us, try
not to fall asleep. You see,

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the trick is, don't close your
eyes all the way here, try it

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with me. Close your eyes,
but not all the way. Breathe in

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deeply and intently, Now breathe out. Isn't that better? Did you feel

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all your life? Stress fall away. Now let's hear another terrifying story about

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love gone wrong. This one is
from my good friends Jerry and Tracy from

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the Hillbilly Horror Stories. I have
a very unique Valentine's Day ghost story for

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us. Oh cool, I like
those, all right, So we're gonna

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go back to midnight. On Thursday
February fourteenth, eighteen sixty seven, there

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was two lovers that stood on the
bridge in Sefton Park, Liverpool, England.

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Her names were William Roberts and Alice
Harwood. They both knew, though,

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that very soon that they were gonna
have to go their own separate ways

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in life because Williams stern middle class
parents had pressured him into an engagement with

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a wealthy heiress, so he wasn't
feel in it then, No, he

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wouldn't feel in it. But this
is the eighteen sixty so you did that

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kind of stuff back then. So
they're on this bridge, it's midnight.

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You could hear the clock in the
background and it chimes the twelfth hour.

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William tearfully told Alice that their three
year affair would have to end for the

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sake of his future bride. She
was heartbroken. Oh I bet she was.

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Alice didn't say anything. She just
kind of stared off at the reflections

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of her and William in the waters
below, and then she suddenly turned and

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kissed him, with tears streaming from
her eyes. Before party no, Alice

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said in a trembling voice, William, will you grant me one last favor,

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the only one that I'll ever ask
of you on this earth? And

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William waited for her request as he
look she said, promised to meet me

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here twelve months from tonight, at
this exact same time, the same hour.

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William wasn't really big on that suggestion, because you know, he's getting

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married and stuff. But somehow,
deep in his heart, he knew that

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he had to see his first real
love at least one more time, and

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so in a broken voice, he
replied, I will come one year from

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today. Well good. The year
dragged by, and exactly twelve months later,

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William and Alice were reunited on that
same bridge, But William told Alice

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that things were a little bit different
now he's married, and he no longer

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cared for her in a romantic way
like he did beforehand. Well, despite

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William being as honest as he could
with her, Alice was still deeply in

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love with him, and before they
left that night, she begged him for

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one more final reunion at the bridge
in one year again, February fourteenth,

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at midnight. William said that that
would be impossible. He certainly had no

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intentions of jeopardizing his loyal relationship that
he had with his wife, even though

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he came to this one. Oh
well, that's true. He was okay

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with that. Well, but he
promised her, and then he didn't have

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no way getting a hold of her
and saying, hey, I can't make

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it right. They didn't have cell
phones back then, eighteen sixties. Yeah,

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anyway, so Alice starts to cry, and she reminds him that you

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know, hey, we did it
last year, let's do it again,

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And William reluctantly said, okay,
one more. Only one though, So

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they leave the bridge in February eighteen
sixty nine, and William was involved in

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a shooting accident and he had a
really bad leg injury and he really wasn't

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able to walk except for the use
of a crutch. So in the night

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that they were supposed to be meeting
on Valentine's Day, William wondered if he

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was even going to be able to
get to the bridge at all, and

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it was even gonna be able to
make his way out there. He even

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thought about postponing, but again no
cell phones. Yeah, no cell phone,

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and you know, I don't know
if he had access to a carrier

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pigeon or anything. And even so
on that short notice, a carrier pigeon,

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you know, But he was a
man who kept his word, and

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he decided to go to the park
Bridge anyway. Now they had an old

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trusted servant of his family by name
of Bob, and Bob already kind of

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knew about the affair, so I
guess they even had the broke hold back

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then Bbo wasn't gonna say nothing about
it, Yeah, and he agreed that

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he would help William get to the
park Bridge. He and Bob arrived at

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the bridge and Bob watched William walked
unsteadily, I might add, on his

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crutches until he reached the middle of
the bridge. The young man sat there

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and he was pretty impatient as he
was waiting for Alice to arrive. William

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actually shouted back to Bob, what
on earth am I doing here standing on

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the middle of this damn bridge in
the freezing night, waiting for a girl

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that I don't even care for anymore. Well, Bob wisely stayed silent because

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as the clock, because as the
clock was chiming midnight in the back there

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walked up Alice, and William kind
of looked over. He could suddenly see

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her starting to appear, and he
says, William says, what it's about

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time. But as Alice started to
reach William, she didn't show any kind

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of signs that she was getting ready
to slow down or anything. She looked

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like she was just going to start
walking right past him. So William kind

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of figured, you know what,
she's probably pissed off at the comments I

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just made. So he reached out
and was going to try to grab her.

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As he put his arms out,
though his arms passed right through her.

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Oh boy. Alice glanced back at
an astonished William, I might add,

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and with a terrible look of sorrow
in her eyes, she whispered,

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I will always love you. William
kind of trembled as he watched Alice continue

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to walk to the end of the
bridge, and there she disappeared, right

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in plain sight of old Bob that
was standing there. On the following day,

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William visited Alice's family because he was
really confused about this strange encounter.

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As William told her parents about this
strange encounter, Alice's parents looked at each

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other and Miss Hardwood kind of broke
down and started crying. And then the

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father went on to tell William that
his daughter had died of a fever last

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night, shortly before midnight. So
William almost fainted when he heard this news.

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Then the nurse that had been in
the house, that had been helping

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take care of Alice, she even
added something that made it even more disturbing

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to William. She said that on
the girl's deathbed, she kept constantly repeating

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the word dead or alive. I
must go to that bridge and see William.

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I must tell him that I love
him. It has said that every

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year, at midnight on February fourteenth, the lonely loyal ghost of Alice Harwood

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has seen crossing that bridge in Selton
Park, still apparently hoping to meet her

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long dead lover. As recently as
May of two thousand and one, a

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park ranger saw a beautiful, young, outdated looking woman strolling through the park

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with a parasol as she crossed the
bridge, the lady vanished into thin air.

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So I guess the moral of the
story is, even in death,

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love never dies. Very sweet,
all right, Well, happy Valentine's Day,

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guess Yeah, Happy Valentine's Day.
And that's a really sweet story.

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And I'm glad that she got to
tell him that he you know, she

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would always love him, and that's
very sweet. And I'm glad that he

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showed up. That was very nice
to him too. So did you imagine

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how she would have been if he
would have if he wouldn't have shown up?

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And she shows up dead? So
like, what's your excuse? I

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showed up dead? You can go. We've got a hurt leg. Yeah,

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so us. Anyway, thank you
guys, and we appreciate you listening

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to us. We'll be right back
after a quick break. And after the

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break is the tapes from the Dark
Side Valentine's Day story. Stay with us.

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Another popular date night is a road
trip, just taking a cruise.

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Maybe we're headed to our favorite spot, or maybe we have no destination in

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mind. A good drive always feels
good, doesn't it. The trick is

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to find the scenic route, play
some chill music you can sing to,

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and put the phones down. Now
we're talking. Our next story comes from

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Ta from the Dark Side, from
my friend Tyler. There's an old urban

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legend I grew up with. You
may have heard it too, goes something

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like this. After sundown, a
pair of high school kids, fueled by

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hormones, park their car on an
isolated lover's lane. Just as they start

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to get down to business, the
girl says she hears a strange sound coming

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from outside the car. The boy
says he didn't hear anything, but the

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girl is spooked, and she insists
that she wants to go home. The

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boy begrudgingly turns over the engine and
with a hint of resentment, presses down

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hotly on the accelerator. The car
lurches forward, and they're on their way.

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Once back at the girl's house,
she wastes no time in exiting the

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vehicle, now longing for the comfort
and safety of her own home. As

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she reaches behind her to push close
the car door, she sees it hanging

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from the door handle, a metal
hook, the kind that would make for

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a rudimentary replacement for a hand,
though this one has been sharpened to a

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menacing and deadly point, and thus
our story concludes a pithy little morality tale.

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Yet what many don't know is that
it's partly based on a true story,

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the tech Sarcana Moonlight Murders of nineteen
forty six. It's a week after

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Valentine's Day and the nineteen year old
Mary in her twenty five year old boyfriend

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Jimmy are out on a movie date. On the way home, they take

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a detour to a secluded stretch of
Bowie County Road, a place that was

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known as a local lover's lane.
Just as things are getting hot and heavy,

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the moment is interrupted by a bright
flash of light coming from outside the

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driver's side window. At first,
the couple things they've been caught by the

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police. If only it had been
the cops, as they will soon learn,

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the reality of their situation was much
Where a man wearing a white cloth

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bag over his head approaches the car. He's strange garb resembles a pillowcase and

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has eyeholes cut out so the stranger
can see. Before the man says anything,

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Jimmy mumbles under his breath, sorry, guy, you have the wrong

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car. The man takes a step
forward, confrontationally and replies, I don't

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want to kill you. So do
what I say. He orders them both

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out of the car and then tells
Jimmy to take off his pants. Seeing

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that this guy isn't playing around,
Jimmy does so quickly, and that's when

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the man suddenly bashes him in the
head twice with the broadside of his heavy

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flashlight. He struck Jimmy so hard
as to cause multiple skull fractures, and

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the sound of the flashlight hitting his
skull was so intense that Mary said she

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thought that the man had actually shot
Jimmy. Jim falls to the ground instantly,

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unconscious, and that's when the man
turns his attention to Mary. She

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tries to reason with him, offer
him money, but this seemed to have

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the opposite effect. He lashes out
at her, striking her with a flashlight,

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but not as hard as he hit
Jimmy. This is more of a

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warning strike. She jumps back,
and that's when he looks her in the

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eyes and says one single word one. I'm Tz the host of a true

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crime podcast called Tapes from the dark
Side. If you're enjoying this segment,

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Go to Tapes from the dark Side dot

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to the show. Mary doesn't need
to be told twice. She takes off

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in a full sprint. Some reports
say she was still wearing her high heels

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at the time, so I imagine
this was not a breakneck speed. Mary

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headed down Bowie County Road desperate to
find so anyone but the couple had parked

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about a hundred yards from the nearest
house. She sees a car parked on

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the side of the road in the
distance and runs towards it, but alas

409
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finds it empty, and that's when
the masked man suddenly reappears. Why are

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you running, he asked quizzically.
The question puzzles her, because you told

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00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.639
me too, she says. He
screams out a liar and forces Mary to

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00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:29.320
the ground once again, brandishing the
pistol. Mary is pinned under the weight

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00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.599
of this well built, six foot
tall man, and in this moment which

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00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:37.679
will haunt her for the rest of
her life, she feels completely and utterly

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00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:42.760
powerless. He begins to lift up
her dress, sliding her underwear to the

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side and ramming the barrel of the
gun into her. After the masked man

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00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:53.320
finished sexually assaulting Mary, he took
off on foot down Bowie County Road and

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00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:59.559
disappeared into the woods. Mary wandered
aimlessly through the night for half a mile

419
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.719
until finally approaching a random house.
The couple who answered took her in and

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00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:08.679
found the police. Thus ended the
first of what would be four separate attacks

421
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:14.079
in that year nineteen forty six by
a man in a white hood who would

422
00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:17.880
come to be known as the Phantom
Killer. This was no urban legend.

423
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:23.280
It was after the second double murderers
they started using the name Phantom in the

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00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:28.599
local newspaper. No one felt like
he or she was safe, and of

425
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.000
course we had though everything locked,
and we had our guns handy. Jimmy

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00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.400
and Mary both miraculously survived, and
it would be the only attack of the

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four in which no one was killed. The Phantom roamed the lanes of Texarkana

428
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.639
after dark, looking for couples who
were parked on the side of the road.

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00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:50.079
He killed five people over the course
of ten short weeks. That spring,

430
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:53.000
a man hunt ensued, the likes
of which had never been before seen

431
00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:58.960
in Texarkana, covering Miller County,
Arkansas in Bowie County, Texas, but

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00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:04.599
the killer was never caught. The
Phantom Killer is technically a serial killer,

433
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.800
as he's killed more than two people
with a cooling off period in between each

434
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:13.960
kill. Now, the statistics tell
us that serial killers are responsible for less

435
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:19.480
than one percent of all murders,
which is an insignificant portion. But if

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00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:23.000
there are fifteen thousand murders annually in
the US, that means that around one

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00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:28.400
hundred and fifty of those victims are
likely the work of such killers. In

438
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:34.400
per FBI statistics, there are likely
twenty five to fifty active serial killers operating

439
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:38.159
in this country at any given moment. So, dear listener, I would

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00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:42.519
ask of you, if you happen
to take a midnight ride with your lover

441
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:47.599
this Valentine's Day, please be cautious. It's far from likely, but you

442
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.800
wouldn't want to later find a hook
on your car handled door or a mass

443
00:36:52.880 --> 00:37:00.280
man peeking through your window. Texic
Canada today is still looks pretty much the

444
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.920
same, And if you should ask
people here on the streets what they believe

445
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.639
happened to the Phantom Killer, most
would say that he is still living here

446
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:31.800
and is walking for you. I
love movie theaters. I actually worked at

447
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:37.000
one as one of my first jobs. There's nothing like seeing a movie on

448
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:42.159
the big screen. And don't get
me started on the popcorn that smell and

449
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:49.119
the taste. Now I really want
some movie theater popcorn. The bag microwave

450
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:53.599
stuff just isn't the same. Meeting
us here as Alison and Maggie from Coffee

451
00:37:53.599 --> 00:38:05.039
and Cases. It was even supposed
to be nineteen year old NC State freshman

452
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:09.639
Jesse McBain's night with the car that
he shared with his brother, But it

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00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:17.400
was Friday, February twelfth, nineteen
seventy one, two days before Valentine's Day,

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00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:22.440
and Patricia Mann, Jesse's girlfriend of
three years, who was a twenty

455
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:28.039
year old nursing student at Watt's Hospital
in Durham, North Carolina, had a

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00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:34.079
school dance that she thought she was
going to have to miss. Oh is

457
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.519
he surpriser? He does. He
was a good boyfriend, and to her

458
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:43.800
surprise, Jesse had actually made a
deal with his brother to trade days with

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00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:47.280
the car, and he was so
excited to let Patricia know that he was

460
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.079
soon to be on his way to
her. He was so happy, in

461
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:54.639
fact, that he jumped in the
car to drive through the misty, cold

462
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:59.480
rain to get to her, and
he did it so quickly that he forgot

463
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:04.239
at home the candy that he had
purchased to also bring to her as a

464
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.119
surprise. Oh well, now he
could just eat that later. That's right,

465
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:14.159
that's perk for him. Jesse and
Patricia had a wonderful time at the

466
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:19.679
dance. They were so obviously in
love to everyone who saw the love birds,

467
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:24.400
and there was even talk of an
engagement in the astre. Neither one

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00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:29.760
of them wanted the night to end, so given the chance to spend a

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00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.920
little bit more time together, they
took it. When Patricia's school extended the

470
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:40.920
curfew from midnight until one am,
Patricia checked out of her dorm at eleven

471
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.159
thirty and the two of them went
to a nearby neighborhood that was known to

472
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:51.599
be a local makeout spot. Okay, verycollegy, Oh very yeah, they're

473
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.039
just wanting to get a little bit
more alone time. By the next morning,

474
00:39:54.159 --> 00:40:00.440
Saturday, February thirteenth, Patricia's friends
were milling about the schools seeing how

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00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:05.440
everyone's night had gone, and it
was then that they noticed that Patricia had

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00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:12.159
not returned to her dorm in the
early morning hours. That was not like

477
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.960
the responsible Patricia they knew, and
Jesse was not the type to break rules

478
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:22.639
either, so they began calling local
hospitals to make sure that the two hadn't

479
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:27.119
been involved in an accident on their
way back to the dorm. No hospitals

480
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:34.079
had record of either Jesse or Patricia
having been seen or admitted, So did

481
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:38.760
the college not do anything when kurfew
passed and Patricia wasn't back. No,

482
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:44.360
it wasn't until the next morning that
people are starting to notice that she didn't

483
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:50.880
come back without answers yet knowing where
the pair had likely gone with their extra

484
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:54.360
time the night before, some of
Patricia's co workers from the hospital where she

485
00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:00.440
worked went looking for them, and
that's when they saw the car, just

486
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:05.199
not like how they had expected to
find it. At the end of one

487
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:09.679
of the local cul de sacs was
Jesse's car. Peering in since the car

488
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:15.480
was locked, they saw Patricia and
Jesse's coats in the back seat, neatly

489
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:22.559
placed and no sign of a struggle. Okay, weird. Able to push

490
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:29.239
open one of those triangular vent windows
that are commonly found in older cars,

491
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:35.440
a friend was able to get the
car unlocked. Inside, they also saw

492
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:42.599
Patricia's pandyhose neatly folded in the passenger
floorboard, but Jesse and Patricia, it

493
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:49.239
seemed, had vanished. A lot
of people began to wonder could they possibly

494
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:53.039
have decided to Elope? But if
so, why not take the car with

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00:41:54.000 --> 00:42:00.760
r Yeah? And if they didn't
Elope, why had they just left this

496
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:10.400
perfectly performing car abandoned? And why
had the car been wiped of fingerprints as

497
00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:15.679
they found when the police tested it. So until they knew answers, Durham

498
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:20.760
County Police Department, who had been
called to the scene, decided to treat

499
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:24.599
this like a missing person's case.
But as the days passed with no word,

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00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:31.280
the outlook for Jesse and Patricia's fate
was becoming more and more grim.

501
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:38.559
Then, on February twenty fifth,
twelve days after they were last seen,

502
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:46.079
there was finally a development, just
not the development that any family wants to

503
00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:52.559
hear. A surveyor had been out
working on a one lane dirt road near

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00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:58.000
the border between Durham and Orange County, North Carolina when he saw something out

505
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:02.079
of place. It looked like a
human leg sticking out of a pile of

506
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:10.480
leaves. When Orange County Sheriff's Office
responded, they found an extremely disturbing scene.

507
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:19.400
Indeed, Jesse McBain and Patricia Mann
had been tied to a tree with

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00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:25.079
a thick rope. The rope was
knotted around their hands and their necks.

509
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:35.199
They had been strangled slowly. Major
Tim Horn from the Orange County Sheriff's Office

510
00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:40.760
told Sarah Krueger of w R A
L quote, it wasn't one continuous pulling

511
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.119
tight of a rope around their necks
to strangle them to death. It appeared

512
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:50.960
to be a situation where the rope
was tightened, then they let it go,

513
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:57.480
let them regain their breath, regain
consciousness possibly, and then they were

514
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:04.840
strangled again. Oh god, this
is very vindictive, very personal. I

515
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.320
feel very Yeah. This theory was
consistent with the fact that there wasn't just

516
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:13.599
one rope of mark around the neck
of each of the victims, but several

517
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:16.440
strangle marks on each of them,
so this had been a process that was

518
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:22.400
repeated over and over. The couple
had also been stabbed, according to the

519
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:29.199
medical examiner, though most likely post
mortem. Additionally, Patricia had suffered from

520
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:34.119
an internal injury, a half inch
tear in her liver, consistent with being

521
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.840
punched, stomped, or kicked in
the stuff. So, like you said,

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00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:44.159
Maggie, whoever had done this had
wanted the pair to suffer. It

523
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.320
also seemed clear, like you said, that anger, revenge, or just

524
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:53.519
a desire to torture were the motive, since Jesse still wore his watch and

525
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:59.679
his class ring, and Patricia still
wore her jewelry as well, so nothing

526
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:05.320
was doolan. There also was not
sexual assault. Rather, it is law

527
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:10.320
enforcement's working theory that the couple had
been approached on lover's lane and forced into

528
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:16.920
the trunk of the perpetrator's car before
being driven to this remote location. Horne

529
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:23.760
argued in a separate WRL article quote, the suspect knew this area, knew

530
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:29.599
this location. It's our opinion that
this wasn't the first time he came down

531
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:35.880
here. He felt comfortable torturing and
murdering these two young people, and he

532
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:40.199
felt comfortable enough that no one was
going to come and that no one could

533
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:49.159
hear them cry, scream, plead
what have you? So, the perpetrator,

534
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.599
according to law enforcement, was not
a random stranger of passing through.

535
00:45:53.360 --> 00:46:01.199
Instead, this was both local and
personal. Unfortunately, even though many organizations

536
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:06.400
the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the
Durham County Sheriff's Office, the Durham Police

537
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:10.599
Department, the State Department of Investigation, the FBI, and the Department of

538
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:16.000
License and Theft were involved. All
of those agencies. There was an obvious

539
00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:21.719
lack of collaboration among them, with
each getting a small piece of the puzzle,

540
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.519
but with no willingness to share findings
with any other department. Well,

541
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:31.679
that's frustrating. Despite the lack of
camaraderie, there were several suspects for the

542
00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:39.840
crime, including one who topped everyone's
list, a doctor at Watt's Hospital where

543
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:46.880
Patricia worked, who has refused to
cooperate with law enforcement, consistently refused to

544
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:53.760
provide DNA, and who has an
intimate knowledge of the wooded area where the

545
00:46:53.800 --> 00:47:00.639
bodies were found. More recently,
a new DNA procedure called m VAC able

546
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:06.039
to extract DNA from polaces that were
previously inaccessible, like the rope used to

547
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.679
bind the pair, was used since
the rope from the crime scene had been

548
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:15.639
well preserved over the years. Unfortunately, Horn, nearing retirement in the summer

549
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:22.400
of twenty eighteen when he received the
call, heard that the testing had provided

550
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:29.840
no new leads. Now it's a
waiting game until even better DNA testing is

551
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:36.360
available, or until someone who has
knowledge of the crime finally has the nerve

552
00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:42.000
to come forward. Anyone with information
about the murders of Jesse McBain and Patricia

553
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:46.800
Mann, dubbed the Valentine's Day murders, is asked to contact the Orange County

554
00:47:46.800 --> 00:48:02.199
Sheriff's Office at nine one nine six
four four three zero five zero. Ice

555
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:07.920
skating and rollerblading as something couples enjoy
learning to do on Valentine's Day. Personally,

556
00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:13.719
I don't enjoy falling on my face
or breaking a bone, but I'm

557
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:17.639
all to their own. I did
go ice skating once in college. It

558
00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:22.719
wasn't for me. The room was
too cold. In all honesty, speaking

559
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:34.440
of cold, my friend Vincent is
here from gone cold. Perhaps no feeling

560
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:40.400
elicits the compulsion for revenge as intensely
as betrayal, an act of harm caused

561
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:47.039
by a friend, family member,
or lover. Trust is the required prerequisite

562
00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:53.760
to the experience of betrayal. Betrayal
has a range of potential effects, from

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00:48:53.800 --> 00:49:00.920
shock, sadness, and grief to
anger, obsession, and morbid preoccupation.

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00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:07.760
Most of us can either abstain from
revenge entirely or go no further than performing

565
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:15.599
subtle acts of passive aggression. However, some give in to their compulsion for

566
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:22.599
revenge, whether the result of an
extended period of obsession or an impulsive reaction

567
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:27.960
caused by the immediate shock of the
actions of the betrayer when caught in the

568
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:42.400
act. Clara Suarez came to the
United States from Colombia in the late nineteen

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00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:49.639
eighties to obtain a master's degree in
dentistry. After graduating the University of Texas

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00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:55.599
School of Dentistry, Clara was crowned
Miss Columbia Houston. In nineteen ninety one,

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00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:01.480
The thirty three year old dentist met
orthodonist doctor David Harris, same age

572
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:07.559
while working at the Castle Dental Center. David and Clara hit it off,

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00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:15.760
and their fast moving romance culminated in
a Valentine's Day nineteen ninety two wedding with

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00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:22.039
a reception at the Hilton in Nassau
Bay overlooking Clear Lake. It was less

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00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:29.519
than a year after their first date
that Clara Suarez became doctor Clara Harris with

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00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:35.800
David came a young daughter from a
previous marriage. The year Following the wedding,

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00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:40.519
Clara opened up her own dental practice
that eventually branched out to include several

578
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:47.440
locations, followed shortly thereafter by David
opening his place, Space Center Orthodonics,

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00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:55.840
near Nassa, Houston. During their
outwardly appearing perfect life as husband and wife,

580
00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:01.000
in nineteen ninety eight, Clara gave
birth to her and David's twin sons.

581
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.760
By all accounts, the couple was
living the American dream come true.

582
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:14.199
Love, successful businesses, a family, luxury cars, and a nice home

583
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:20.880
in the mostly affluent town of friends
Wood. But things were not as they

584
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:28.239
appeared, at least eventually they were
not. In the fall of two thousand

585
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:34.280
and one, David Harris and his
recently hired receptionist, Gail began a whirlwind

586
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:40.079
love affair. Gail two was married. It didn't take long for Clara to

587
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:46.679
put together the pieces. Unexplained high
dollar purchases and five star hotel bills on

588
00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:52.280
their bank statements, and long hours
at the office were fairly solid clues of

589
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:59.199
her husband's betrayal in June of two
thousand and two. In fact, she

590
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:07.199
could no longer sit idly by obsessing
about David's suspected affair, Clara hired Houston

591
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:15.400
based private investigator firm Blue Moon Investigations. Upon confronting David with proof of his

592
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:21.320
infidelity gathered by Blue Moon, Clara
agreed that they could mend the marriage,

593
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:27.719
but only if her husband called off
the affair immediately. There was one stipulation

594
00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:32.239
he needed to add, David Harris
told his wife, because he'd led his

595
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:38.079
mistress to believe that he and Clara
had an open relationship. David said he

596
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:43.760
needed one last dinner with Gail to
call off the affair face to face,

597
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:51.280
to explain and break it to her
carefully and easily. Clara agreed, but

598
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:57.400
unbeknownst to David, had asked her
private investigator to tail her husband to ensure

599
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:02.760
he was doing what he promised,
he apparently was not. Rather than meeting

600
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.039
up at a restaurant to put an
end to the affair, it was later

601
00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:12.920
reported to Clara Harris, David and
Gale were sharing a room at Nassau Bay

602
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:19.840
Hilton, where Clara and David enjoyed
their wedding reception ten years earlier, alongside

603
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:25.760
friends and family. This was too
much. The discovered betrayal followed by David's

604
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:31.480
promised to stop and work toward fixing
what he'd done, and then another betrayal

605
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:39.280
Right after Clara snapped, she immediately
began speeding to Nassau Bay to confront her

606
00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:45.559
husband and his lover. Her stepdaughter, David Harris's sixteen year old daughter,

607
00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:52.320
was in the car. Once at
the Hilton, Clara saw the Lincoln Navigator

608
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:58.400
that belonged to her husband's lover.
She exited the car, walked up to

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00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:02.000
the vehicle, and began vandalizing it, pulling the sharp end of her car

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keys across the paint forcefully and bending
the windshield wipers. Clara and her stepdaughter

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entered the hotel, where they found
David Harris and Gail in the lobby.

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Seeing red and perhaps blacked out by
rage, Clara quickly approached You bitch,

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he's my husband, she exclaimed,
slapping Gail immediately after the words left her

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mouth. Claire's attention then turned to
the guests and the workers, who,

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in their shock, had either froze
in a stare or had avoided looking altogether.

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Pointing at her husband, Clara shouted, this is doctor David Harris,

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and he's fucking this woman. David's
daughter was traumatized. Angry at what she'd

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witnessed, she began hitting her father
with her purse. She'd have forgiven him

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eventually, of course, had been
given the chance. Meanwhile, Clara focused

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on Gail, ripping the woman's blouse
off as she pulled it, and her

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hair beat her and even bit her. David pushed his wife off of Gail,

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and she fell to the ground.
Hotel security quickly moved in and escorted

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everyone out. In the short moment
she waited and her Mercedes bends with her

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stepdaughter. Clara was stewing in rage
and boiling with morbid preoccupation when she saw

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Gail and David leave the hotel heading
toward her Lincoln. She sped toward them.

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Her stepdaughter was horrified and begged her
to stop. Clara's Mercedes clipped the

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Lincoln navigator before hitting David Harris,
who flew some twenty feet across the parking

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lot from the impact. His daughter
opened the Mercedes door screaming, but before

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she could flee, Clara Harris stopped
the accelerator. While David Laide crumpled and

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unconscious on the parking lot pavement,
Clara drove over him again. The Mercedes,

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violently rocking once when the front tires
rolled over him, and again with

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the back. She continued to drive
you turned and ran over the man again

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a third time. The Mercedes stopped
and suddenly everything seemed quiet. Clara's stepp

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daughter bolted from the car, punched
her stepmother in the face, and dropped

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as she cried inconsolably. Clara stepped
out of the vehicle, wandered around some

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and when the weight of what she'd
done came crashing down on her, also

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began sobbing. When police arrived,
she was holding her husband, repeating I'm

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00:56:54.480 --> 00:57:04.239
sorry, I'm so sorry, in
idiately arrested and subsequently charged with and convicted

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of second degree murder. Doctor Clara
Harris was sentenced to twenty years in a

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Texas State penitentiary on February fourteenth,
two thousand and three, Valentine's Day and

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the eleventh anniversary of her marriage to
doctor David Harris, at eight twenty am

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00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:30.360
on Friday May eighteenth, twenty eighteen, after she was previously denied parole twice

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00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:37.880
before. Clara was released from prison
early. David Harris died for his betrayal

644
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:47.960
and for taking his life. Clara
Harris lost fifteen years of hers Rock climbing

645
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:52.079
is a new scale couple's love to
learn. You get to feel that sense

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00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:58.239
of achievement together. It's fun and
exciting if you're not afraid of heights.

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That is, I need to get
down from here, so up next.

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We have lived laugh larceny with my
friends Amanda and Trevin. How do I

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even begin to describe the word love? Popular songs throughout the years have tried

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00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:28.559
their best to do so, but
all seem so bleak. According to Elvis,

651
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:32.440
only fools rush in, but he
still couldn't help but fall in love.

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00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:39.360
Soft Cell described the feeling of needing
to run away from their tainted love.

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00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:47.320
Even our Queen Beyonce has been crazy
in love, being quoted saying uh

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uh uh oh oh no no about
the subject. I'm sure love has its

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00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:59.559
good moments, but there seemed to
be many warnings about it as well.

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The petty crime story I'll be telling
you all today is about you guessed it.

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Love and the caution of keeping affection
separate from transgression. Nineteen year old

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00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:24.480
Ley You an eighteen year old girlfriend
Xiang Chu were deeply in love and living

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00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:31.679
in the Chinese province Sichuan during two
thousand and fifteen. With Valentine's Day approaching,

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Leigh wanted to do something special for
Shang. He wanted to give her

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00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:43.760
a romantic experience along with a pricey
gift, but his bank account just wasn't

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00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:50.000
cooperating. Your balance is still negative. Quit checking. That's when a brilliant

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00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:55.840
idea popped into his head. Leigh
was going to spoil his Valentine Rotten without

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spending a dime of his own money. The couple special date night began with

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01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:07.599
Lay driving up to a dark building
in a commercial area in town. What

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are we doing here, asked Zeang, confused, I told you it's a

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01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:19.960
surprise. Come on, Lay reassured
her, Stepping out of the car.

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01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:24.800
The couple walked hand in hand towards
the front door of a closed jewelry shop.

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01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.800
When they came to a stop.
You may want to stand back,

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01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:36.280
Lay lovingly warned. He then kicked
the store's door open with the passion of

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a man in love. I wanted
to get you something nice, Lay panted

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01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:53.000
heavily. But I wanted us to
pick it out together. Jang was speechless.

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01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:59.719
No one had ever broken into a
store for her before. She looked

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01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:05.400
around Fund the empty and barely lit
shop. Seeing jewelry and glass perfume bottles

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01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:13.280
glistening in the moonlight, She could
have swooned right there, but instead she

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01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:20.679
grabbed Lay's hand and the couple rushed
inside. Shang excitedly picked out some jewelry

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01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:24.320
and perfume and was ready to flee
the scene of their criminal shopping spree,

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01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:32.400
but Lay had one more surprise.
He busted open the store's register and gathered

679
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:38.719
the cash inside, forming a money
bouquet of sorts for his daid. You

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01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:44.320
deserve the world, but for now, how does some extra cash? Sound?

681
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:51.760
Lay said in his best prince charming
voice. The pair stared lovingly into

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01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:58.400
each other's eyes as they crouched down
behind the store's register. They both knew

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01:01:58.639 --> 01:02:01.960
they should run away from the door
in fear authorities may be on the way,

684
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:09.519
but the sexual tension overshadowed all logic. Both of them leaned their bodies

685
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:15.760
in closer and closer to one another, turned their faces and exchanged a fiery

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01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:25.119
kiss. Only once their makeout was
complete did the couple flee the scene.

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01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:32.320
Lay and Shang were blissfully unaware that
a store camera had captured their affection and

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01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:40.639
faces on CCTV. Shortly after the
theft, police analyzed and shared the CCTV

689
01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:46.320
footage, getting a tip from a
social media user that led to their arrest.

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01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:52.719
The store zonner, Gong Chen said
they were amateurs because apart from the

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01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:58.960
cash, they did not take anything
of value. There were cameras and laptop,

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01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:02.320
computers and smart phones, and they
left it all behind because they were

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01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:12.320
so busy kissing. That kiss was
their undoing. The left struck larcenist made

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01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:17.880
off with twenty one hundred one approximately
three hundred and one US dollars, jewelry

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01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:24.000
and perfume, but according to local
news reports, they were let off with

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01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:31.559
no charges following a full confession.
Perhaps this crime could have been avoided if

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01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:36.599
this couple would have been listening to
Can't Buy Me Love by the Beatles that

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01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:43.679
night. But we will never know. What I can say is that love

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01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:51.599
is nearly impossible to explain, and
even more unexplainable is the trouble it can

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01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:58.199
get us all into, and the
truth shall set you free. That's crazy.

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01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:02.480
The confession just gets it. I
don't know if the laws are different.

702
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:09.159
I'm sure they are guarantee that they
are all around the world. But

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01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:15.280
if I knew that just a simple
confession after a makeout sessh could get me

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01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:17.599
off the hook for committing a crime, Yeah, I think I would do

705
01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:20.960
that. Yeah, to be in
that much love. They were in so

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01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:26.199
much love, And I hope I'd
explained it as well as I could in

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01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:30.320
the story that really the only reason
they were caught is because they shared that

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01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:35.679
passionate kiss in the CCTV footage,
and then once the police shared it online

709
01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:40.760
because the way they turned their faces
and the way they were acting, somebody

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01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:45.199
was able to identify them online.
Wow. So really, this Valentine's Day,

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01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:48.440
you really need to be cautious with
your love. Yeah, for sure.

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01:04:48.599 --> 01:04:53.320
Maybe don't do it while committing a
crime, definitely not so. If

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01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:56.679
anybody has not heard of us or
listen to our show before we are live

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01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.800
laugh Larceny and we are the show
that takes petty crimes and tell them in

715
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:05.880
a dramatic way. But the details
may vary sometimes yours seems pretty standard.

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01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:11.679
Here is everything pretty much all the
truth here. Yes, they did still

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01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:15.599
that exact amount of cash, the
perfume, and the jewelry. It was

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01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:20.039
closed at the time. I don't
know exactly how they busted in the front

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01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:25.920
door, and I don't know if
it was really all his idea and he

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01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:30.760
was surprising her for Valentine's Day,
experienced slash gift. That whole thing was

721
01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:34.719
just me, you know, setting
the tone for the story. But everything

722
01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:41.239
about the crime itself, everything that
the store owner said was her actual quote,

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01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:44.800
and how they were cut was the
truth. Usually that's kind of how

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01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:48.559
it goes with our show will kind
of create the story in our own minds.

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01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:53.119
How did we get here? What
would cause a person to do some

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01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:57.119
of the ridiculous crimes that we cover, But we try to keep the actual

727
01:05:57.280 --> 01:06:00.039
facts of the crime as true as
true King get We just like to be

728
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:02.599
a little dramatic and petty with it. Yeah, we'd like to be fun

729
01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:06.079
and as I've always called it,
we basically make the movie version of it.

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01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:13.559
And with that story, we will
conclude the first night of this two

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nights special episode for My Bloody Valentine. As a quick reminder, all of

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01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:23.960
the podcast you heard can be found
wherever you listen to podcasts. A complete

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01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:27.760
list of the podcast names and links
to them can be found in this episode

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01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:31.920
show notes. I'll be back tomorrow
for the last half of this bloody Valentine's

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special, highlighting love gone wrong.
I'll see you then