My Bloody Valentine: Part 2

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Dear listener, Welcome back to the
Valentine's Day Special. We have seven more

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tales of Love Gone Wrong once again. If you enjoy any of these episodes,

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support that show by subscribing to them
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need a reminder, all of the
names of the podcast you hear today are

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in these show notes, accompanied by
a link to their show. Without further

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ado, once again, here is
your host, Shane Waters. Welcome back

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to My Bloody Valentine, our two
part Valentine Day Special. If you're just

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joining and haven't listened to the first
part of this special, I suggest you

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do so. I have seven more
podcast or friends who will be joining me

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for crime stories of love gone Wrong
in this episode. But first, are

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you curious who this mysterious Saint Valentine
is? Well, it's really a mystery.

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We know that the Catholic Church recognizes
at least three different saints by that

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name. One legend goes that Valentine
was a priest that served during the third

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century in Rome. One of the
Roman emperors decided to outlaw marriage for young

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men because they made better soldiers.
A priest named Valentine defied the emperor and

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continued to perform marriages for young lovers
in secret. Later the emperor found out

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and Valentine was put to death,
but others will say it came from Valentine

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of Tyranny, a bishop who was
also beheaded by the same Roman emperor.

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Both Valentines saints after their deaths.
Whichever may be the case. Valentine's Day

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is a day of love until that
love goes wrong, which brings us to

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our next story from My Friend's Raven
and Mandy from Sirens. My wife,

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My wife, my wife life.
My wife is dead. Bird please bird,

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the doctor. I've been trying to
keep you up. I've been quick.

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If you cannot bringing it, I
don't get please okay, I'm try.

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Yeah, I'm gonna hang up black
and please okay. February fourteenth,

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two thousand and one, Susan Hamilton
had been strangled and brutally beaten in her

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own bathroom. Her naked body was
discovered by her husband John that Valentine's Day

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morning. Doctor Hamilton was an ob
ui and doctor who had privileges several different

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Oklahma City hospitals, one of which
I worked at. I was an office

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manager for a doctor and would see
him in the doctor's lounge on several occasions.

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So according to doctor John Hamilton himself, he had been up at dawn

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for a seven am surgery at an
outpatient clinic. That surgery was over by

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eight am, and afterwards John stopped
by the hospital where he had another procedure

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scheduled for later that morning. Afterwards, the doctor decided to swing back home.

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He was only at home for a
few minutes because at nine am his

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patre went off. It was the
hospital calling him to get back for a

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second surgery. By nine thirty he
was scrubbing up for the operation, a

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complicated removal of a tumor. The
procedure went off without a hitch, and

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later none of the other doctors reported
anything at all unusual in his behavior.

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By ten forty five, he was
on his way home again, which is

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when he says he discovered Susan in
a pull of blood. So the timeline

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was extremely tight for the doctor to
even be considered as a suspect. Investigators

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found a Valentine's Day card at the
scene from Susan to John, and it

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was opened. The card had been
found inside John's Jaguar. Susan's message inside

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said quote Obviously I bought this before
last Monday, so I guess maybe they

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don't seem as appropriate now, But
I do love you. Have a good

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day, Susan. Susan's friend Susan
Johnston, who lived next door, and

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said Susan had noticed that John was
getting a lot of cell calls. Susan

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demanded to see John's cell phone bill. She finds a huge number and I'm

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talking close to a hundred phone calls
to this phone, back and forth to

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John, and she gets very suspicious
and confronts John about it. John had

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an explanation for his wife that the
patient had been having some serious psychological problems

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and had even threatened suicide. John
the good doctor, was simply trying to

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counsel her, and while he may
have stepped over his boundaries professionally, he

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said he never had an affair with
her. Elina Aguire, a topless dancer

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for eight years, testified she had
performed table dances at two of the clubs

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in Oklahoma City for the doctor.
She said that he overpaid her for dances

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that only cost twenty dollars each.
The dancer, also known as Nina,

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had first went to doctor Hamilton in
the early nineties when she saw him at

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his office for an abortion. She
said he would give her samples of medication

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she needed for depression when she didn't
have any money to buy any of the

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prescription ducks herself. Nina said that
he was calling her like ten or more

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times a day, and on February
eighth, after Susan learned of the cell

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phone calls, that doctor Hamilton wrote
Nina in a letter saying he could no

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longer be her doctor. The dancer
said Hamilton told her that he loved his

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wife and didn't want to get a
divorce. Soon after arrival, the investigator

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started questioning doctor Hamilton himself. By
then, there'd been that neighbor's tip about

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problems in the Hamilton marriage from Susan
the next door neighbor. The doctor's behavior

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in the minutes after finding Susan dead
seemed off. Hamilton had told the nine

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one one operator he was performing CPR, but when the first responders showed up,

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firefighter David Bradbury arrived on the scene
and he thought there was something odd

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about the way that the doctor was
performing the chess compressions. David Bradbury said,

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quote he had one hand on her
chest one hand on her abdomen,

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the way that we are taught to
do CPR, we interlock our hands.

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The poem goes on the center of
the chest, on the sternum, something

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in which doctor Hamilton should have been
well versed in. Doctor Hamilton had said,

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I talked to the surgery nurse and
she said the surgery before yours started

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thirty minutes late. I still had
fifteen or twenty minutes leeway in there.

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But because it was Valentine's Day,
I wanted to give Susan her first Valentine's

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Day card, start her day off
right before she got busy with her meeting.

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And Susan's getting ready, you know, trying to get dressed, and

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we kissed. I gave her Valentine's
card. She went into the closet and

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got one and gave it to me. It has also stated that by Susan's

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daughter that Susan had threatened divorce in
December, but decided against it and to

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go to therapy with John. This
was just two months prior to the murder.

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As the detectives looked more closely into
the doctor's timeline that day of surgery,

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they learned that the second surgery originally
scheduled for nine am, hadn't actually

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started until nine forty am, and
why was it delayed because doctor Hamilton was

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late. To investigators, that delay
opened up the doctor's window of opportunity by

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up to an hour late. That
Valentine's Day afternoon, they arrested John Hamilton

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for the murder of his wife,
and the investigators then placed doctor Hamilton in

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the back of the police car and
it was there that they kind of noticed

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odd behavior. Detective Teresa Sterling said
that he was acting very upset. He

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was banging his head into the screen. He was jailed immediately and denied any

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bail. She was talking about leaving
him, and so the motive was lost

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love. Believing that Susan Hamilton's threat
of divorce was enough to make the doctor's

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snap, prosecutors developed a theory that
the couple had argued that morning after exchanging

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the cards. The doctor then came
back later with murder on his mind.

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In December of two thousand and one, doctor John Hamilton was being tried for

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her murder. The medical examiner had
determined that Susan had been strangled with two

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neckties, but her fatal injuries came
from being bludgeoned with a blunt object never

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found at the scene. Investigators had
to interpret the blood evidence left behind,

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and for that they hired a blood
stained expert named Ross Gardner. Gardner carefully

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examined every thing the doctor had been
wearing that morning. A lot of the

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blood on his clothing could be explained
by his attempt to administer CPR, but

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the expert looked at john shoes,
the left one in particular. The shoes

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were found near Susan's body. John
said that they fell off his feet as

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he was attempting to revive her.
The expert, though Gardner, was certain

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that whoever was wearing that left shoe
that day was present when Susan was being

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bludgened. Also, but the most
damning blood evidence of all may have been

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found in the doctor's car, on
the steering wheel and the driver's side seat

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and Doorsill crime scene investigators recovered strands
of Susan's hair and pieces of her flesh.

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Tom Bevill, the blood spatter expert
hired by doctor John Hamilton as the

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last witness in the trial. He
refuted a lot of the prosecution's findings and

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bolstered his client's case. The prosecutor
tossed out an open ended question, Well,

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mister Bevil, is there anything that
the state experts of Oklaimacity Police Department

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missed in their examination of the evidence. The blood spattered expert on the stand

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on the payroll of the defense something
he noted and what would later be regarded

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as the atomic bomb of the trial
of doctor John Hamilton. It was about

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that bloody shirt taken from the doctor. He said in my examination, I

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found additional blood that was not talked
about anywhere on the inside of the right

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cuff. The defense expert was saying
that doctor John Hamilton most likely created those

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bloodstains by bashing his wife's skull.
On redirect, doctor Hamilton's lawyer tried to

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defuse the bombshell testimony, but his
argument would not be enough. It took

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the jurors just two hours to reach
their verdict. The doctor realized he'd been

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scuttled by his own man. A
great way to spend Valentine's Day is to

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go shopping together. It could be
fun, therapeutic, and you can,

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of course by each other gifts to
show each other how much you appreciate them.

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If that's their love language. Of
course, we are meeting my next

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friend here, Robin from the Trail
went cold. So for this Valentine's Day

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special, I'm going to be discussing
the perfect Valentine's themed cold case, as

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it involves a couple who got married
on Valentine's Day, the husband being found

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murdered on Valentine's Day exactly one year
later, and his wife becoming a suspect,

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and there are just so many crazy
elements to this story. The victim

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in question was twenty six year old
William Edward Trimbach, who went by the

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name Billy, and he was originally
born in Morgan County, Colorado, before

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he moved to carl In, Nevada
during his childhood. Billy had two children

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with his first wife before their marriage
ended in divorce, but on February the

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fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, he
got remarried to thirty seven year old Cindy

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Trimbach, who had four children of
her own from a previous marriage. The

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couple then moved to Billy's home state
of Colorado, where he started his own

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automotive and diesel repair business in the
unincorporated community of Stoneham. However, Cindy

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would soon receive some life changing news
when she learned she had contracted the HIV

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virus, which developed into AIDS,
so doctors gave her about two years to

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live. Since Cindy's ex husband,
Bob Osmanson, also contracted AIDS, she

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suspected that she originally got it from
him. To further complicate matters, Cindy

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was also pregnant with Billy's child.
During this time period. She would give

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birth to a daughter named Allison,
who turned out to be perfectly healthy and

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did not have the AIDS virus.
Most of the money made from his business

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went towards Cindy's medical care, and
they would even travel to Mexico to seek

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out experimental treatments for her disease.
While on the couple's one year wedding anniversary,

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which happened to be Valentine's Day in
nineteen ninety three, Cindy contacted the

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Weld County Sheriff's office in order to
report Billy missing, claiming that she had

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not seen him since the previous morning
of February the thirteenth. Cindy's nine year

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old son, James Osmanson, told
police that he saw Billy leaving their house

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that morning with an unidentified man driving
a white sports car, and he believed

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that Billy was planning to help the
man repair something while on the same day

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he was reported missing, Billy's body
was discovered in neighboring Morgan County in a

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snow bank on the north side of
the Interstate seventy six frontage Road near the

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small town of Wiggins. He had
been shot at close range in the head,

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abdomen, and arm. The location
was about forty five miles away from

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Stoneham, and it was suspected that
Billy was shot elsewhere before his body was

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dumped by the road. In an
odd coincidence, on the night before Billy's

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body was found, the Morgan County
sheriff had actually driven by that exact spot

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and recalled seeing multiple vehicles parked there. In retrospect, the sheriff believed he

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may have unknowingly driven past Billy's killers
dumping his body. Investigator started to become

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suspicious of Cindy when she told them
she had also driven by that same spot

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on the evening of February the thirteenth
while she was searching for Billy. Butlike

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I just mentioned, the location was
forty five miles from where the trim box

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lived and Billy and Cindy did not
have any known ties to the area,

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so why would she have felt the
need to drive all the way out there.

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It almost appeared as if Cindy was
trying to fabricate a cover story in

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case any eyewitnesses sar in Morgan County
that night. Investigators also discovered that a

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four hundred and forty thousand dollars insurance
policy had been taken out on Billy's life

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shortly before his death, and it
appeared that his name had been forged on

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the application. They decided to perform
a search of Cindy's Chevy Suburban and found

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some small amounts of dried blood on
the back seat which were consistent with Billy's

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blood. There were also some items
in the vehicle which seemed to match items

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which had been discovered near the spot
where Billy's body was dumped. While the

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murder weapon was never found, a
nine millimeter handgun Billy owned was missing from

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his home, and his gunshot wounds
were consistent with a nine millimeter. Due

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to the cloud of suspicion surrounding her, Cindy decided to take her kids and

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leave Colorado Almost immediately after Billy's funeral
and they relocated to Cindy's original hometown of

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Butte, Montana. But then the
case would go in a truly tragic and

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unexpected direction. On April the twelfth, nineteen ninety four, the Butte based

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newspaper, The Montana Standard, published
an extensive article about cindy struggles with AIDS

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and her being a suspect in Billy's
murder. It was common knowledge throughout the

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community that Cindy and her first husband, Bob, were both dying of AIDS,

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and their son, James, who
was ten years old at this point,

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was frequently teased and bullied by the
other kids about this while attending Margaret

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Leary Elementary School. Well it appeared
that James finally reached his breaking point because

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on the very same morning that The
Montana Standard ran their article about his mother,

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James showed up at school with a
twenty two caliber pistol. James then

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proceeded to pull out the gun on
the playground, challenged one of his tormentors

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to a fight, and then fired
off three shots. One of the shots

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wound up striking an eleven year old
student named Jeremy Bullock in the head behind

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the ear Jeremy died the following day, and to make the situation even more

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tragic, he was not one of
the kids who had been bullying James and

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was only caught in the line of
fire. At the time, James was

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considered to be the youngest school shooter
in American history, though that record has

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since been broken. Given his young
age, James was too young to be

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charged with murder, so he was
since to two years in a residential psychiatric

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treatment center and wound up being placed
in foster care following his release. By

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that point, James's mother and father
had both died due to complications from AIDS,

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with Cindy passing away on March the
first, nineteen ninety five at the

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age of forty. Morgan County investigators
eventually decided to travel to Montana to reinterview

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James, and he finally admitted that
his story about having seen Billy leave their

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house with a man in a white
sports car was false and he had lied

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to protect his mother. However,
even though Cindy is now deceased, the

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authorities do not consider this case to
be closed, as they believed that she

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hired at least two people to kill
Billy Over the years, various informants have

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told law enforcement that a drug dealer
from the municipality of Fort Morgan had bragged

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about murdering Billy with an accomplice.
It's been reported that one of these potential

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suspects was ready to confess to the
crime, but his attorney would not allow

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him to be interviewed, and he
decided to kill himself in nineteen ninety eight.

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The other potential suspect appears to be
a man named James Samuel England,

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who was arrested in April of two
thousand and eight on unrelated burglary and carthaft

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charges and publicly named as a person
of interest in Billy's murder by the Morgan

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County Sheriff's office, But it seems
apparent that investigators lacked the necessary evidence to

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found murder charges against England or anyone
else who might be involved. In twenty

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eighteen, on the twenty fifth anniversary
of the crime, the authorities did confirm

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that the investigation was still opened and
they believed there was still a killer on

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the loose in rural Colorado. Well, we have now officially reached the thirty

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year anniversary of the crime, but
Unfortunately, the murder of Billy Trimbach continues

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to remain unsolved. So yes,
I'll say it. I guess you could

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say the trail went cold and happy
Valentine's Day, yess. Skydiving with your

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Valentine is fun if you're into thrills
an adventure. You can both take the

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jump together to feel alive and energized
for the rest of the year. Up

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next is Method and Madness with my
friend Dawn, Sweetheart, my true heart.

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I know there are girls with more
shapely bodies, but I'm not caring

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what they have. I have the
greatest part of all blessings, a noble

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man's deep, true, eternal love. How impatient I am and will be.

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I want to look up into your
dear face for hours as you touch

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my body close. The words,
the language, it was all indicative of

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the time period a century ago,
the Roaring twenties, Prohibition, jazz,

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and Americans bringing the latest gadget radios
into their living rooms. But these words

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were not lyrics from a ballad.
No, these words were written in lead

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pencil on paper found amongst other torn
letters just like it in the grass near

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the two bodies on Philip's farm.
It was there, under a crab apple

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tree in a field of golden rod
outside New Brunswick, New Jersey, that

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the lovers were discovered that Saturday,
September sixteenth, nineteen twenty two, purely

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by chance. It was a man
and his underage girlfriend that came across the

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scene while out for a walk.
It was obviously foul play. The couple

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was lying on their backs next to
each other. She was dressed in a

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polka dot dress and stockings, her
legs crossed. He in a dark suit,

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his coat torn and muddy from being
on the ground for so long,

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and his panama hat pulled down over
his face. His right arm was outstretched

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and propped against his foot was a
business card that identified him. It read

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Reverend Edward W. Hall, Church
of Saint John, the Evangelist, New

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Brunswick, New Jersey. The forty
one year old pastor of a local church,

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was a victim of a homicide,
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His companion was thirty three year old
Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, a soprano in

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the church choir. Her wounds hinted
that the killer or killers had targeted her

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more aggressively. She had three bullet
wounds to her head and underneath a scarf

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covering her neck, a deep laceration
to her throat, and it would be

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determined years later her tongue had been
cut out. The pair had been dead

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for at least thirty six hours.
The scene, including the placement of the

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two bodies, suggested a purposeful,
thought out act of murder and staging,

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from love letters strewn about the bodies
to the way the bodies were positioned.

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She called him Babykins. He called
her his wonder heart. The two victims,

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it turned out, were married,
but not to each other. Their

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affair began about four years previously in
the church, knighting rumors and prompting whispers

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of a scandalous nature. A pastor, a member of the choir love letters

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tucked safely inside hymn books and passed
back and forth to each other. On

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Sundays. Now, in a symbolic
display, those letters were out in the

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open. The affair exposed, the
rumors confirmed the whispers now of a different,

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darker nature. Victim Eleanor Mills was
married to James Mills, an officer

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of the church. Victim Reverend Edward
Hall was married to Francis Stevens, a

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wealthy heiress. She was insistent that
the relationship between her husband and Missus Mills

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was purely platonic, not romantic in
nature. The killer clearly one of the

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public to believe otherwise. But despite
the not so subtle staging of the scene

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and potential for u of evidence,
this double homicide was mishandled from the start,

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from the police arguing over jurisdiction,
to reporters handling the reverend's business card,

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from the curious public flocking to the
grassy area to snag pieces of dirt

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two peeling bits of bark from the
crab apple tree to keep as souvenirs,

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and that mishandling had a significant impact
on the investigation. What could have been

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an open and shut case would drag
on for years. Meanwhile, the tabloids

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were salivating. The crime had everything
that sells newspapers love, lust, betrayal,

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jealousy, violence, mystery. Some
headlines in the following weeks read murder

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of popular pastor and choir leader stirs
entire state and when murder lifts a small

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town's lid, And the news was
spreading outside that small town and outside of

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that state, at breakfast tables all
over the country, Folks would sit down

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with their cup of coffee and their
newspaper, eager to see what the latest

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headline would be. The tabloids out
of neighboring New York City fanned the fire

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and kept the country's interest in the
case, so much so that today it's

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been said those tabloids may have been
the reason a trial finally took place.

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They relentlessly reported on the lack of
progress in the case, with headlines like

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sorry, spectacle of justice and Hall
slain a year ago? But Justice slumbers.

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Accusations had been aimed in all sorts
of directions at the couple who discovered

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the bodies, then to the spouses
of the victims, of course, but

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ultimately it was Reverend Hall's widow,
Francis, her brothers, and her cousin

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that became official suspects, accused even
by an eccentric woman that swore she witnessed

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the murders despite doubts about her credibility. And it wasn't until four years later,

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the same amount of time that the
Lovers romance had sustained, that a

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trial took place in nearby Somerville,
New Jersey, The defendants were the reverend's

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widow, Francis, and her brothers
Henry and William. Their destiny, if

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convicted, was the electric chair.
It made sense like a Shakespearean tragedy.

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The two lovers ardent affair, found
out their written expressions discovered in a drawer

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by a jealous wife, the heroic
brothers coming in to defend her honor,

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a confrontation by moonlight, and then
the final scene as the two traders,

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the star crossed lovers meet their demise, with more violent attention paid to the

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young mistress in an additional act of
vengeance, but alas in the end.

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It was a comment in an article
from the Daily News on November twentieth,

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nineteen twenty two that predicted the outcome
quote, indictments will either be returned or

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the case will be forever relegated to
the Annals of Unsolved crimes. And so

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it was the latter. The trial
ended in December of nineteen twenty six with

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no convictions. All three suspects were
acquitted, and a century later, those

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murders still discussed in a more modern
sense on social media and Reddit forums.

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Books have been written, theories tossed
around, but the case remains officially unsolved,

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although only three people stood trial for
the Paul Mills murder and all three

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were acquitted. What happened on Philip's
farm in late September nineteen twenty two.

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Was it the reverend's wife? Had
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Did she insist his relationship with Eleanor
Mills was platonic as part of a

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greater plan to maintain innocence? Or
was it Eleanor's husband, the officer of

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the church, who set out one
evening to kill his wife, the mother

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of his two children and her prominent
lover. Or another theory that it was

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the work of the ku Klux Klan, who had been active in areas of

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New Jersey in the nineteen twenties.
If only that crab AppleTree could talk the

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true extent of the romance between Edward
Hall and Eleanor Mills. Their love for

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one another would live on through those
letters they'd poured their hearts into, along

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with diaries they had each capped and
wrote in daily to express how much they

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missed each other, how one couldn't
live without the other. Those writings would

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become their legacy. We'll be right
back after a quick break stay with us.

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way to enjoy a nice evening together.

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I brought a picnic for us to
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Here is my friend Laney from True
Crime Cases with Laney. A swinger's

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lifestyle can be great for some,
or it can be problematic for others.

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For one newly married couple, a
wild night of sex and drugs turned deadly

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okay onto the show. In March
twenty thirteen, Actora Bankhead was released from

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the Indiana Department of Corrections. He
had been convicted on February thirteenth, nineteen

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ninety seven, of carjacking. Actora
met Diane Lynde Smith shortly after leaving the

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Department of Corrections. After dating for
a week and only knowing each other for

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less than four weeks, they married
on April twenty third, twenty thirteen.

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The couple moved into Diane's house on
Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street in Indianapolis.

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According to Actora himself, he found
a job just a few days after

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being released from prison and was set
on following the straight and narrow path.

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Actora also believed Diane was the love
of his life and a godsend. On

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June fifteenth, two thirteen, two
bodies were found in a vacant lot and

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the eleven hundred block of Miley Avenue
in Indianapolis, Indiana. An attempt had

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been made to burn the bodies.
The two were identified as twenty seven year

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old Michael Height and thirty four year
old Cristel Lucas. Actora Bankhead was soon

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arrested for the two murders, as
it was Diane who had called the police

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to report the bodies and how they
had gotten there. In the early morning

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hours of June seventh, two thousand
thirteen, Diane had come home from work.

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Diana and Actora were in bed when
Actora received a phone call from Michael.

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He got up and went downstairs to
talk to Michael. Now. Not

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long after, Michael came over to
their house, parking his car on Indianapolis

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Avenue near their house. Diane stayed
upstairs while Actora and Michael sat downstairs drinking

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and talking. Some time later,
Diane heard a female's voice join in,

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and she heard Michael tell Actora he
had just met this woman, Cristel,

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at the liquor store. Anne went
to sleep, but just after she drifted

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off, Actora came to the bedroom
and woke her up, asking her to

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drive the trio somewhere to get some
crack. Diane said no initially, but

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Ectora kept on pestering her until she
finally agreed. Diane drove them to an

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apartment at thirty eighth Street and Boulevard
Place, where Michael got out and went

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inside. He was in there for
about ten minutes before returning to the van.

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Once they returned to the house,
Diane again went upstairs and went to

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sleep. Yet again, Acta came
in and woke her up, saying he

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was high and he wanted all four
of them to have sex. Diane said

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she didn't roll like that and refused, but once again Actora pestered her until

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she relented. Michael and Cristel joined
them in the bedroom and they swapped partners.

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Cristel became upset when she realized Michael
had sex with Diane without protection.

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Crystel knew Michael was HIV positive and
related this information to Diane. Diane became

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angry, and so did Actora,
saying this was like a death sentence for

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Diane. Actora lured Michael into the
basement, where he attacked him with a

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stun gun. Once he had Michael
subdued, he hog tied him and popped

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his neck. Worried about Cristel going
to the police and believing Diane to be

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jealous of her, he decided to
kill her too. As with Michael,

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He lured Cristel downstairs and subdued her, then popped her neck too. Although

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it sounds as if he had broken
their necks with his bare hands, the

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coroner reported that they had died from
asphyxiation. Cristel's highoid bone was fractured,

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and Michael had a fracture to his
thyroid cartilage. The next afternoon, Diane

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went to work, not knowing what
had transpired in her basement. She returned

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home in the early morning hours of
Saturday, when Actora told her that Michael

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and Cristel were gone. When she
asked for clarification, Actora made a hand

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gesture across his neck. He admitted
to killing them, and then took Diane

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into the basement to show her their
bodies. Diane saw the two naked and

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hogtiede lying on top of each other. Actolder told her she would have to

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help dispose of the bodies or she
would wind up like them. Diane went

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to work on Saturday afternoon, and
when she returned home early Sunday morning,

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they began disposing of the bodies.
The two loaded the bodies into Diane's minivan,

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then Diane drove following act Tora's directions. He instructed her to drive to

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a vacant lot on Miley Avenue,
and they placed the bodies in some trees

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at the edge of the lot.
While act Tora removed the plastic, Diane

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returned to the van. He put
the plastic in trash bags, then poured

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gasoline on the bodies and lit them. Diane later told police that it was

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raining and the bodies would not stay
lit. After they left, Actora had

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Diane drive to an apartment complex,
where he threw the trash bags in the

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dumpster. After return home, the
couple removed valuables from Michael's car, including

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the stereo. Diane then drove it
to another apartment complex before they returned home

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and went to bed. Over the
next week, Actora kept a close eye

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on her and would not let her
leave his side. During the same time,

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a friend of Michael's who knew he
was at the Bankhead's house, began

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distributing missing Persons flyers in Diane's neighborhood. Michael had called this friend and said

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he was visiting with Actora, and
then the friend saw Michael's car on Indianapolis

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Avenue before Diane moved it. On
Friday, June fourteenth, one week after

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the murders, Actora finally left Diane
alone for a time. She called the

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Indianapolis Police and changed the locks.
Diane spoke to the detective, Harry dunn

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and told him about the murders and
where to find the bodies. When Detective

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Dunne sent an officer to the lot
on Miley Avenue, the bodies were located

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in a severe state of decomposition and
infested with maggot. In addition to the

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two murder charges, Actora was charged
with intimidating Diane. While in jail awaiting

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trial, Actora met Jeremy Bullock.
Jeremy was in jail awaiting trial on two

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burglary cases. Jeremy had previously been
in prison for a murder he committed when

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00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:22.719
he was seventeen. While in prison
for his murder charge, Jeremy had been

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attacked several times for being a snitch. When Actora went on trial, Jeremy

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00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:31.840
testified that Actora had confessed to him
in jail. Actora's attorney wanted to introduce

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00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:37.400
evidence that jeremy sentence had been reduced
due to his testimony in the David cam

409
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.519
case, but the state objected to
this. In a concession, However,

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00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:46.599
the court did say the defense attorneys
could question Jeremy about testifying in a different

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00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:52.920
murder trial because his motive and trying
to bargain for himself was relevant. The

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00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:58.599
defense questioned Jeremy about his involvement with
the two thousand and six murder trial and

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00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:04.119
his sentence modification, and afterwards they
also mentioned his current charges and the expected

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00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:09.599
sentence. Interestingly, they also discussed
how in October twenty fourteen, Jeremy had

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written a letter to a judge asking
for leniency in his probation revocation case since

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00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:20.679
he was cooperating with some murder cases
in Marion County. Additionally, in the

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00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.840
nine months he had been in jail
awaiting trial, Jeremy had written eight letters

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00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:30.280
to the Marion County prosecutor, each
one talking about other defendants, most in

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00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.760
jail on murder charges despite the somewhat
uncanny act Jeremy seemed to have for hearing

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00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:42.119
confessions. Actora was found guilty on
two charges of murder, but not guilty

421
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.559
on the intimidation charge. He was
sentenced to one hundred and twenty five years

422
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:50.599
in prisons, sixty years on one
charge, sixty five years on the other.

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00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.920
Actora appealed to sentence, stating the
prosecution prejudiced him by showing the photo

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00:37:55.960 --> 00:38:00.639
of the bodies riddled with maggots.
However, this photo was never shown during

425
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:06.639
the trial, only mentioned. He
also appealed because his defense was limited by

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00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:09.760
not being able to mention the David
Cam trial. The third point of the

427
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:15.960
appeal was the dubiousness of Diane's testimony. All three points were overturned and the

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00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:21.320
sentence affirmed. On the second point, the appeals court said his attorneys were

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00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:27.679
able to question Jeremy Bullock without mentioning
David Cam's name. The appeals court also

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00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:31.280
said that the dubiousness of Diane's testimony
was not valid because she was not the

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00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:36.880
sole witness. Because Michael's friend knew
that Michael was at the Bankhead's home.

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00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:44.400
He also testified Diane was never charged
with anything, a fact that leaves Ectora

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00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:50.039
Bankhead puzzled and angry. In writings
he did available on the internet, he

434
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:54.360
claims she was a master manipulator and
a pathological liar. He says he did

435
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:59.920
not have anything to do with the
murders and accuses Diane, but this leave

436
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.599
some questions, such as how did
she get the bodies out of the house

437
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:09.280
on her own and how did she
commit the murders. Actora continues to appeal

438
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:14.679
his sentence and is confident he will
get it overturned some day. He writes

439
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:16.719
from prison, and wants to sell
his work to try and earn money for

440
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:22.280
a better defense. He claims he
was railroaded from day one and says investigators

441
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:28.400
overlooked obvious clues he was not involved, although he does not say what these

442
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:32.760
are. Nothing about Diane could really
be found, except she filed for divorce

443
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.760
on June twenty six, two fifteen, and the divorce was granted on September

444
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:44.119
twenty eighth, two fifteen. A
detailed obituary was not located for Cristel,

445
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:49.079
just a passing mention about her services, which were held several weeks after her

446
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:53.400
body was found. However, an
obituary was found for Michael Hite. His

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00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:58.400
family said he had a loving heart
and was the epitome of a Southern gentleman.

448
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:14.800
His smile lit up a room.
Finding places where live music is playing

449
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:20.599
and just relaxing is another popular date
night. The trick is to make sure

450
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.599
you know what kind of music your
partner enjoys and match their taste well.

451
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.800
Otherwise you may just be annoying them
with music they hate for the entire evening.

452
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:40.760
Up next as My Friend Charlie from
Crime Lines. It is a story

453
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:46.840
of love that turned to control and
then to murder. It started innocently enough,

454
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:52.400
with Daphne Wright logging into a chat
room in the late nineteen nineties looking

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00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:58.079
for love. Having been born deaf, the Internet introduced Daphne to a larger

456
00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:02.480
group of people to communicate with.
She met a woman named Jackie from Sioux

457
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:08.239
Falls, South Dakota, and she
moved from Maryland to South Dakota to start

458
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:14.760
her new life. This relationship didn't
last, but the two remained friends and

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00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:19.559
roommates. In August of two thousand
and two, Daphne met the love of

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00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:23.480
her life, Sally Collins. Sally
and Daphne left the state for a little

461
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:28.679
while, but when they decided to
move back to Sioux Falls, Jackie welcomed

462
00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:34.079
them to live in her house to
help out with the bills. The problem

463
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.599
was that Jackie and Sally didn't get
along well. In part due to this

464
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:44.639
tension, and in part due to
her cooling feelings towards Daphne, Sally moved

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00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:49.639
out. She found an apartment in
a complex known as the Deaf Apartments because

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00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:54.079
a lot of deaf people lived there. Though Sally had taken a big step

467
00:41:54.119 --> 00:42:00.559
away from her four year relationship with
Daphne right by moving out, they were

468
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:05.639
still seeing each other off and on, with Daphne growing more and more anxious

469
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:10.360
as she was the losing control of
Sallie's heart. While playing cards one day

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00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:15.239
at the local Deaf club, Sallie
met forty two year old Darlene van der

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00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:21.159
Geeson and the two became fast friends. It was a friendship that made Daphne

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00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:25.760
jealous, believing that Darlene was trying
to steal Sallie from her. It was

473
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:31.119
an irrational jealousy because Darlene only dated
men, and she and Sallie were and

474
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:37.360
always would be just friends. One
night in late January two thousand and six,

475
00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:44.639
Daphne went over to Sallie's apartment unannounced
and found her hanging out with Darlene.

476
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:50.880
Daphne's anger boiled over and she started
signing to Darlene that she was ruining

477
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:57.239
her relationship with Sallie. Sallie told
Daphne to leave, and when she refused,

478
00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:02.920
Sallie then asked Darlene to leave just
to diffuse the situation. As Darlene

479
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:08.480
left, Daphne made an obscene gesture
towards her. Daphne and Sally continue to

480
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.639
argue until Sally called the police,
and the police told Daphne to go.

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00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:20.440
Daphne stormed off, telling Sally she
would be very sorry. Then, five

482
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:24.480
days after the argument, Darlene van
der Geeson didn't show up to work.

483
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:30.760
The next day, her parents reported
her missing. A family member told the

484
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:36.440
police that Darlene had been getting some
insulting emails from a woman named Wendy Smith.

485
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:40.840
These emails called Darlene fat and told
her that she had elephant feet.

486
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:45.719
Darlene didn't know anyone with the name
Wendy Smith, so she believed it was

487
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:52.360
someone using a fake name to send
these emails. The police took Darlene's computer

488
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:55.920
in for a search and found the
emails. Based on some of the specific

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00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:02.800
grammatical errors, the investigators deduced writer
was likely deaf like Darlene, and English

490
00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:10.199
was their second language after American Sign
language. In continuing to check Darlene's inbox,

491
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:16.000
they also found an email from Daphney
Wright that matched the same syntax from

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00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:22.400
the emails that came from Wendy Smith. So they checked the IP on the

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00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:25.480
Wendy Smith emails and it led them
write to downtown Sue Falls, to the

494
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:32.039
home of Jackie, where Daphne was
still living. At first, Daphney denied

495
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:37.159
to the police that she sent the
Wendy Smith emails, but eventually fessed up

496
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:40.599
to it. Over the course of
the interview, Daphne changed her story seven

497
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:46.480
times, but she denied having anything
to do with Darlene's disappearance. She admitted

498
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:51.000
she wanted Darlene to stay away from
Salie, but she insisted that she and

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00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:57.199
Darlene had smooth things over after the
argument at Sally's apartment. Based on the

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00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:01.280
email scent and Daphne's changing story,
the police got a search warrant for her

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00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:07.320
house, and when they entered,
they were immediately hit by a number of

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00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:13.440
smells, the strongest of which were
paint and cleaning chemicals. The smell grew

503
00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:17.079
stronger as they approached the basement door. When they headed down the stairs,

504
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:23.039
they found swatches of blue paint on
the walls and the floor and the stairs,

505
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:29.920
not an even coat, but rather
a quick, spotty patch job.

506
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.920
In scraping the paint they found small
amounts of blood, tissue and bone fragments

507
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:44.480
and bone chips, and in a
trash can upstairs they found a half empty

508
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:51.360
bottle of chainsaw lubricant and a receipt
for a chainsaw. They sent the biological

509
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:57.559
material to the lab to test it
against Darline's DNA. Believing that Darline vander

510
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:01.480
Keisen had not just been killed,
but also dismembered by Daphney Wright, they

511
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:07.440
began a landfill search. The next
day, the DNA results came back on

512
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:14.039
the blood and biological matter from the
basement, it was Darlene's. Additional DNA

513
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:19.159
from Darlene was found on the bumper
of an suv that Daphne regularly used,

514
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.840
so even without a body, they
felt they had enough to move forward.

515
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:30.360
With the significant amount of circumstantial and
forensic evidence. Forty three year old Daphney

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00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:35.760
Wright was arrested and charged in the
murder of forty two year old Darlene Vandergeesen,

517
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:42.400
but this wouldn't continue as a nobody
case for long. The search of

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00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:46.880
the landfill continued, and five days
after starting the search, Darlene's partial remains

519
00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:53.440
were found, along with additional evidence
linking her to both Daphne's home and to

520
00:46:53.679 --> 00:47:00.360
Daphne herself. More of Darlene's dismembered
remains were later found in a day in

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00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:05.719
Minnesota. At trial, the state
claimed that Daphne had lured Darlene to her

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00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:10.400
house by telling her she was planning
a Valentine surprise for Sally. Once she

523
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:15.800
had her there, Daphne killed Darlene
and dismembered her in the basement. Daphne's

524
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:22.719
defense was the Robert Durst defense.
Sure, the state could prove Daphne dismembered

525
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:29.440
Darlene, but they couldn't prove she
killed her. Perhaps Darlene had died falling

526
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:35.280
down the stairs, and Daphne,
afraid of being blamed, dismembered her body

527
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:39.199
and tried to dispose of the evidence. The jury didn't buy it and convicted

528
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:45.159
Daphne, but she was spared the
death penalty. She remains in prison for

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00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:51.480
murdering a woman she perceived as a
romantic rival who was really just being a

530
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:55.360
good friend to the woman. Daphne
didn't just want to love, but to

531
00:47:55.960 --> 00:48:13.519
control. Riding horses is a fun
date. Horses are majestic and riding them

532
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:17.920
is fun, especially on trails you've
never been on before. If you aren't

533
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:23.920
comfortable with riding horses, carriage rides
are always the next best thing. Up

534
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:37.079
next is love murder with my friends
Jesse and Andy. Love, nothing else

535
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:43.800
has the incredible power to move people
like love. A mother's love can give

536
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:47.280
them the strength to lift a car
to save their toddler. It can inspire

537
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:52.480
incredible works of art and literature.
It can bring communities together. But the

538
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:58.320
flip side of love is a very
dangerous thing. Indeed, that kind of

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00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:02.800
love is the kind that topples empires, burns down villages, and thirst for

540
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:08.960
revenge at any cost. After all, hell hath no fury, like well

541
00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:14.679
anyone scorned. But today, yes, we are talking about a woman,

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00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:20.599
and her name is Grace Lusk.
In nineteen thirteen, Grace was a prim

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00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:23.559
thirty one year old school teacher who
had recently moved to Waukashaw, Wisconsin.

544
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:28.119
She was incredibly well read, she
was well traveled, she had been to

545
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:32.280
Europe a couple times, and she
had a sterling reputation as both an educator

546
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:37.119
and a loyal friend. She was, however, a relatively shy individual,

547
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:43.679
and it seemed like Grace had given
up the idea of a grand love affair

548
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:46.239
a long time ago in her life. She was pretty sure she wanted to

549
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:52.159
stay single and be schoolmarmish for lack
of a better word. That is,

550
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:59.320
until she met the dashing doctor David
Roberts at a party. So doctor Roberts

551
00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:04.360
was not only the local veterinarian,
but he was also a wealthy man who

552
00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:13.320
ran a dairy operation, a cow
tonic business, go back cow do business,

553
00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:19.000
which I believe was some sort of
special dairy cow medication, because again,

554
00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:22.880
this is nineteen thirteen ish, and
he had also published a series of

555
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:28.920
veterinary textbooks that had netted him the
big bucks. Not to mention, he

556
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:34.559
reportedly had a fine head of hair
and a big, bushy mustache, two

557
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.440
things I definitely look for in a
man. Don't we all? The only

558
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:44.239
problem was that doctor Roberts had a
wife. Well, this was hardly an

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00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:49.679
obstacle for the randy couple, who
began a torrid affair. The relationship went

560
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:53.119
on in secret for nearly four years
until Grace got sick of being the side

561
00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:57.960
piece and began to put pressure on
her bow to ditch his wife and make

562
00:50:58.039 --> 00:51:04.760
her the new missus. Doctor Roberts
gotta get that cowtonic money now. David

563
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:08.400
Roberts was very happy to carry on
and put Grace off this idea. Well,

564
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:13.639
Grace wasn't having it and wrote the
following letter to missus Mary Roberts,

565
00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:17.360
who was fifty two years old to
Grace's thirty five. Grace wrote, it

566
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:22.960
has been a desire with me for
a long time to tell you finally about

567
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:27.800
the state of affairs between doctor Roberts
and myself. You must have known for

568
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.920
a long time that your husband's affections
have passed from you, that he cared

569
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:37.639
for someone else. She went on
to quote a feminist writer in saying,

570
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:45.400
in the Eternal Triangle, our souls
require the elimination of one character. Raf

571
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:52.159
Unfortunately, both women desired to eliminate
the other. Doctor Roberts cowardly told his

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00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:58.960
wife that Grace was simply an unstable
spinster with a crush. This drove Grace

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00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:04.119
to madness. She appeared on the
Roberts' doorstep with a gun and threatened Doctor

574
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.880
Roberts while begging him to choose her. Then not so good Doctor called the

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00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:13.679
police to escort his lover back to
her boarding house. The very next day,

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00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.599
missus Mary Roberts showed up at Grace's
house and demanded an explanation for her

577
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:23.599
quote assinine performance the night before.
Wow, Man, they do not use

578
00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:29.760
words the same way they used to
anymore now. Grace showed Mary proof of

579
00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:31.960
the affair. There were some letters
and photos of the two of them,

580
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:37.920
at which point a furious Mary called
her husband and demanded that he come to

581
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:43.000
Grace's boarding house to have a conversation. As doctor Roberts approached, he heard

582
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:46.440
the sound of three gunshots ringing out. He ran to the door, and

583
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:50.719
at the top of the stairs he
found his wife in a pool of her

584
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:55.000
own blood, having been shot to
death by his lover. Grace had then

585
00:52:55.159 --> 00:53:01.000
turned the gun on herself and was
bleeding from the chest is Doctor Roberts flew

586
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:06.639
up the staircase. Where is my
heart? She asked her veterinarian lover,

587
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:12.280
who then pointed to his own chest. Grace then fired the gun once more

588
00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:16.719
into her own chest, but did
not succeed in killing herself. She saw

589
00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:22.199
my two gunshot wounds. Two gunshot
wounds to the chest. Well, it

590
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.440
took her nearly a year to be
healed. So by the time she had

591
00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:30.639
healed, she went to trial,
where her ex lover was the star witness

592
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:36.199
against her. Doctor Roberts painted Grace
as a delusional temptress who refused to leave

593
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:40.199
her alone. The defendant stood up
and screamed at the man she had once

594
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:44.360
believed to be the love of her
life. That's not true, she screamed,

595
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:49.760
that's not true. Oh you dog
dog. Grace Lusk was found guilty

596
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:53.360
and sentenced to nineteen years in prison
for the murder of her romantic rival,

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00:53:53.840 --> 00:54:00.679
missus Mary Roberts. Upon hearing the
verdict, spicy Grace leapt at the prosecutor

598
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:06.119
and attempted to strangle him. Honestly, this is so dramatic. She went

599
00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:09.440
from not wanting to ever be with
someone to killing someone to try to be

600
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:14.320
with this dude. I think it
was repressed. I think that she got

601
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.800
to a certain age. I mean
we're talking about nineteen thirteen at this point,

602
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:21.159
so thirty one was considered a little
bit over the hill. Yeah.

603
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:22.159
I think at that point she was
like, well, I'm going to dedicate

604
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:28.559
myself to my students. New year
knew me. I'm gonna do this thing

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all my own. And then she
got a taste and she did not want

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to let it go. So five
years later, the court pardoned her in

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nineteen twenty three due to her supposedly
failing health, and she did get out

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and Mary a brave soul named Edwin
Brown, which goes to show that there

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really is someone for everyone. She
then did pass away in nineteen thirty at

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the age of fifty two. Speaking
of marriage, that old dog doctor Roberts

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00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:04.199
was married a total of four times
in his life. In December of nineteen

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forty eight, he married his fourth
wife at the age of eighty three.

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Stop it was Mary number one.
I'm not entirely sure to be honest.

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Okay, His new wife, Andy
was thirty three years old. She was

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00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:25.440
fifty years younger than him. The
old Kajer boasted to the ap more than

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fifty women have told me that they
loved me. But now I'll have to

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tell all the rest. Goodbye,
girls, I'm through, Okay, mister,

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that is the tragic tale of schoolmarm
Grace Lusk who killed her romantic rival,

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missus Mary Roberts. Wow, that
was a real, incredible short little

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Valentine's Day taste. Well, thanks
so much for listening. It got real

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love Murdery, I've been here.
Thanks to all of you guys for giving

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us a shot to close out this
Valentine's Day spacial. My good friend Wendy

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and I will be sharing a story
from my podcast foul Play crime series.

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Everything will be Wonderful someday. These
words were tattooed on an arm that was

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00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:37.440
found sticking out of a garbage bag
that had been dumped in a ditch along

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with a number of other body parts
in Clay County, Nebraska. It was

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December the fourth, twenty seventeen,
and the police knew immediately that they had

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found the remains of Sydney Luf,
who had been missing since November the fifteenth

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that year. So what had happened
to Sydney that day and how had she

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ended up here? Let's go back
to a Wednesday, November fifteenth, twenty

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seventeen, Sydney was excited. Last
night she had been on a date with

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Audrey, a lady she met on
Tinder, and they had hit it off

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00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:22.599
straight away. Sydney had even sent
a picture of the two of them together

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00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:28.920
to her firm, Brittany. Sydney
applied her makeup and pulled on a cream

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00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:35.039
shirt before grabbing her white Columbian brand
jacket to complete her outfit. She took

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00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:39.599
a quick selfie and posted it to
Snapchat, saying ready for my date before

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heading out the door. Her mother, Susan, saw the message later in

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00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:49.639
the evening and was excited for her
daughter, sending her a quick text saying

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00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:52.880
how come you didn't tell me you
had a date. She was glad that

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00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.039
Sidney was getting out and meeting people, and deep down hope that this could

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be the start of happier times for
her, who had been suffering from depression.

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The next morning, Sydney failed to
turn up for her shift at the

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local home improvement store that she worked
in. Her colleagues were concerned and went

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00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.679
to her apartment, where they found
her car outside but nobody home. They

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00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.599
contacted her mother, Susan, who
lived one hundred and fifty miles away.

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Susan was shocked to receive the call, but also had a garf feeling that

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something was wrong. Sydney hadn't replied
to her message last night and hadn't called

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00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:37.159
her today. They were very close
and spoke most days, so she had

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already started to worry a little.
Susan filed a missing person's report Sheriff Alan

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00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:49.920
Jay Moore, the sheriff of Saline
County, Nebraska, after David and Court

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stated quote. On November sixteenth,
twenty seventeen, the Lincoln Police Department received

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00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:01.239
a report of a missing person.
The missing person was identified at Sydney Louf,

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a twenty four year old female date
of birth August twenty first, nineteen

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ninety three, who had been residing
in northeast Lincoln. According to a co

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00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:16.400
worker, Sydney was last seen leaving
her job at Menards, located at thirty

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00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:22.519
five hundred North twenty seventh in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, on the

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evening of November fifteenth, twenty seventeen. Sidney failed to show up for her

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00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:32.440
shift. On the morning of November
sixteenth, twenty seventeen, Sydney was reported

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00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.559
missing by her mother, Susan Louf, who lives in Neely, Nebraska,

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00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:45.960
at approximately five pm on November sixteenth, twenty seventeen. Quote. The search

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00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:52.000
for Sydney began. Missing Persons posters
were issued showing three pitches of Sydney,

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including the selfie taken just before she
went out on her date. She was

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00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:01.199
described as five foot seven inches tool
one hundred and thirty five pounds, with

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blonde hair and blue eyes. Her
family took to social media begging people to

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01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:12.920
come forward if they knew anything.
Twelve days after Sydney's disappearance, Lincoln Police

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01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:16.719
asked for the public's assistance. They
were trying to locate two persons of interest

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01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:23.480
Bailey Boswell, aged twenty three,
an Aubrey trail Age fifty one. No

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01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:30.480
further information was provided, no connection
to Sydney was specified. They just stated

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01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:34.719
that it was part of an allgourn
investigation, and then the following day,

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01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:39.480
on November the twenty nine, Lincoln
Police Department posted a picture of Sydney on

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their Facebook page with the words quote. The investigation into the disappearance of Sydney

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01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:53.519
Louth continues as investigators search various areas
in Selene, Engage Counties. Searchers are

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01:00:53.559 --> 01:01:00.480
being conducted in multiple agencies, including
the Gauge County Sheriff's Office, Suddenly County

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01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:07.280
Sheriff's Office, United States Marshall's Surface, Nebraska State Patrol, Lincoln Police Department,

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01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:12.760
and the FBI. Investigators are searching
for any evidence that may help locate

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01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:16.639
Sydney. If you see law enforcement
officers searching, we ask that you avoid

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01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:22.760
the area to avoid disruptions to the
search. Sydney's family and law enforcement are

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01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:29.760
diligently working to locate her and encourage
anyone with information on her whereabouts to call

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01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:36.639
LPD at four or two four one
one six zero zero zero. Quote.

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In the comments under this post,
there were many praising the police and supporting

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01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:45.519
the family. The hidden between them
were two posts that stood out. A

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01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:52.880
lady posted quote the suspects posted two
new videos end quote with links to the

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01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:59.199
videos in question on YouTube. These
videos were removed very quickly, but I

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01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:04.800
did find an other video by Aubrey
Trail dated November thirtieth. Trail is a

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01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:08.599
heavy set man with dark hair and
is wearing a black zipop hoodie. The

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01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:16.360
video is just over nine minutes long. Here are some snippets. I've been

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01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:22.559
watching a lot of posts and comments
today so so far today from the comment,

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01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:30.880
we have apparently murdered this lady.
We have apparently put her into human

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01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:35.679
trafficking and sold her. And not
only did we do that, we use

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01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:38.679
the money we went to the casino
that weekend and use the money that we

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01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.960
sold her for. Bailey didn't drop
her in a friend's house. She dropped

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01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:49.639
her off and her drop deal was
out Bayley's. According to the comments you

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01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:53.559
guys are making, We've pretty much
decided to turn ourselves in and see where

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01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:59.119
this goes, because now we're seeing
on the news the people of Wilburg are

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01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:06.599
terrified because I guess we're guilty by
association, which is saying because I've never

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01:03:06.679 --> 01:03:08.519
made an excuse for anything I've done
in my life, I do what I

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01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:15.920
do. And there is a second
video from both Trail and Boswell, again

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01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:21.119
denying all allegations that they were involved, but admitting that Boswell was the person

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01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:24.440
who went out on a date with
Sydney that night. The second video is

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01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:30.840
really creepy. They are sat in
a car, Boswell in a black hoodie,

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01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:36.159
hood up and large sunglasses. Trail
is off to the side and a

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01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:40.320
black hat. Throughout the nine minute
video, Boswell does not move, just

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01:03:40.519 --> 01:03:47.199
staring straight faced into the camera.
So how did the police find a link

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01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:53.519
to Bailey Boswell and Aubrey Trail.
The FBI traced the ping from Sydney's phone

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01:03:54.000 --> 01:04:00.400
to Wilbourne, Nebraska, about forty
miles from Sydney's apartment, and more specifically,

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01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:05.840
the pain was from the apartments where
Boswell and Trail lived. Both of

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01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:12.480
them had extensive criminal histories, including
theft and scams, but nothing violent.

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01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:16.119
When the police turned up to question
them, they were nowhere to be found,

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01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:23.400
but their landlady mentioned that their apartment
had smelt strongly of bleach. A

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01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:28.440
police warrant was obtained, and as
they searched the basement apartment, they found

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01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:32.360
a few unusual items. A dog
leash, even though the couple did not

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01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:39.079
own a dog, a sauna suit
with a crotch cut out, zipties,

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01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:45.199
a hatchet, a plastic dropcloth smeared
with blood, and a book on anatomy.

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01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:51.360
The apartment was filthy, untidy,
and cluttered, apart from one room

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01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:58.679
which had been scrubbed clean. Alarm
bells were ringing. The police followed Boswell's

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01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:03.599
cell phone data from the day that
Sydney went missing, searching roadsides, ponds

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01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:10.480
and scrubland. It was along one
of these roads the first garbage bag was

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01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:15.159
found in a ditch, quickly followed
by a further twelve in the surrounding area.

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01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:23.320
Most of Sydney's dismembered, bruised body
was recovered, apart from her upper

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01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:29.199
left arm and her internal organs,
which have never been found. The autopsy

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01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:34.920
showed Sydney's cause of death a suffocation. Trail said that Sydney had died during

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01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:41.440
a b DSM game gone wrong and
that Boswell was not involved. Both Trail

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01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:45.559
and Boswell were challenged with first degree
murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and

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01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:51.880
in proper disposal of human remains.
Trail stood trial in June twenty nineteen.

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01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:57.639
During the trial, many women testified
who said that they had met Boswell on

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01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:02.480
Tinder and being given money and luxury
items to engage in group sex and scams

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01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:08.559
with Trail and Boswell. It was
like a cult, and the trial became

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01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:14.760
even more bizarre when Trail rose from
his seat shouted quote, Sydney is innocent.

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01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:18.639
I curse you all end quote and
slit his throat with a sharpened pen.

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01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:26.119
Trail survived. He also suffered two
heart attacks and a stroke during his

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01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:30.159
three week trial, but was finally
convicted on all three counts and sentence to

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01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:35.519
death. This is what Trail had
to say after his sentencing. I would

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not say I'm sorry, as there
would be an insult to you have to

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01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:42.360
when I put you through, and
I will ask for forgiveness of that as

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01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.199
I don't knew there is such a
thing. Boswell, whose trial took place

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01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:50.639
in September twenty twenty, was also
found guilty on all three counts and sentenced

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01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:57.159
to life imprisonment. Thank you for
listening. Tinder can be fine, but

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01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:00.519
it can also be deadly. Stay
alert, meet in a public place,

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01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:17.119
and stay safe and happy Valentine's Day. I hope you've enjoyed this special collaboration

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01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:21.960
episode I've put together with my team, and I'd like to thank each of

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01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:28.000
my podcast or friends for joining in
with me and sharing their story. Love

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01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:34.320
is desired, love is complicated,
and sometimes love is deadly. But when

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01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:40.559
you find it, and when it's
true, I'll argue it's worth the journey

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01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:46.519
and risk to find it. Just
be cautious. And be safe. All

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01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:51.039
of the podcasts you heard from are
listed in the show notes. Again,

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01:07:51.280 --> 01:08:01.199
I'm Shane Waters from foul Play.
It's been my pleasure being your Valentine. Tonight were