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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,

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Speaker 1: a production of iHeart Media and Crime Online. Blooming Prairie, Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: with a population of around two thousand. If you look

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Speaker 1: at a picture of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, it looks like

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Speaker 1: main Street of Mayberry. I don't know if you know

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Speaker 1: about Andy of Mayberry, Andy Griffith, but I sure do,

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Speaker 1: and I know all about Mayberry, not too far from Raleigh.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, looks just like the real live, blooming prairie.

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Speaker 1: Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. So how does a man end up

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, Killers amongst Us, joining me an all star

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Speaker 1: panel to break it down and put it back together again.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Tess Coster, longtime friend of David and

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Speaker 1: Louis Reese. Ashley Wilcott, judge, trial lawyer, anchor COURTDV, doctor

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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, Psychoalens to the Stars, joining me from Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 1: Cloyd Steiger thirty six years Seattle, PD and author, Joseph

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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University and author Callen

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Speaker 1: Thompson KIMT News three, Rochester, Minnesota. Let's start at the

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Speaker 1: very beginning with Blooming Prairie. The city of Blooming Prairie

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Speaker 1: is known for its historic downtown. There are tunnels underneath

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Speaker 1: Main Street that we're dug during the Prohibition era. The

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Speaker 1: tunnels were used for making and peddling moonshine. This quiet town,

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Speaker 1: with its old bones and its midwest field, went almost

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Speaker 1: thirty years without having a murder. You are hearing our

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Speaker 1: friend Aaron Bluie Devil we know podcast. You know. To me,

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Speaker 1: when I look at Blooming Prairie, it looks like Andy, Oh,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're like, nothing would ever go wrong there? To

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Speaker 1: Callen Thompson, I guess you got a pretty low crime, right,

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Speaker 1: huh right, You're completely right. It's like out of a movie.

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Speaker 1: It's small town Minnesota, close knit community. You wouldn't think

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Speaker 1: anything like that would happen here, you know. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at pictures of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and literally it reminds

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Speaker 1: me of where my grandparents on my dad's side lived, Oglethorpe, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: There was one main street and at the end of

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Speaker 1: the main street it's just a bunch of trees. Now

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Speaker 1: that's more than I had where I grew up in

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Speaker 1: Middle Georgia. But I'm looking at look at this, Jackie,

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Speaker 1: the water tower in Blooming Prairie with the flag on it.

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Speaker 1: Am I correct? There's only about two thousand people there. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you are correct. It's very small. And like you said,

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Speaker 1: main street. If you drive too fast you might miss it. Honestly, well,

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Speaker 1: I know this. It's been there since eighteen sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: It was incorporated eighteen seventy four, and it's actually on

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Speaker 1: the National Register of Historic Places. Now here's the kicker,

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Speaker 1: because before Prohibition it was let me just say, not dry. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so it was a big city because a moonshine. But

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Speaker 1: that's how long Blooming Prairie has been around population two thousand.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's very important to the murder of David

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Speaker 1: Reese and the disappearance of his wife. To Joseph Scott Morgan,

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Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jackson State University, author of Blood Beneath My

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Speaker 1: Feet on Amazon, jo Scott, why is that critical to

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Speaker 1: figuring out who murdered David Reese? And to Lewis Hey Nancy. Look,

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Speaker 1: with most homicides. We think about people that are in

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Speaker 1: our intimate circle, and you're talking about this beautiful place,

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Speaker 1: which to me, Minnesota is one of the pretty states

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Speaker 1: in the Union. It's absolutely gorgeous. Small town. You've got

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Speaker 1: limited number of people that are surrounding you, and so

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Speaker 1: how many people would you actually have in your circle?

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Speaker 1: Would I would venture to guess that there are not

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Speaker 1: that many homicides that take place in this pretty lavele.

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Speaker 1: Looking at at Cloyd Steiger, now you did thirty six

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Speaker 1: years Seattle PD, twenty two of that as homicide detective

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Speaker 1: author Seattle's Forgotten Cereal Killer, Gary Jane Grant at Cloyd

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Speaker 1: Steiger dot com. Cloyd, now you're used to sleuthing and

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Speaker 1: solving murderers in Seattle. That's a far cry from Blooming Prairie.

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Speaker 1: Blooming Prairie as the kind of town where the neighbors

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Speaker 1: from where you police. Yeah, this is answer is I

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Speaker 1: I bet you they have had less than five murders

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Speaker 1: different because of that. So straight out to test coster tests.

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Speaker 1: How is it that you manage to meet up with

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Speaker 1: Dave and Lois Reese. Lois and Dave came to Blooming

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Speaker 1: So Dave liked to fish, My husband liked to fish.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Lois opened daycare. All the daycare moms and

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Speaker 1: She brought stake for everyone, cleaned up afterwards, served us

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Speaker 1: So Dave and Lois show up for weekend at your

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Speaker 1: Dave Reese. Take a listen to our friend Aaron Bluie

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Speaker 1: Devil We Know podcast. Dave decided to follow us dreams

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Speaker 1: Court TV at Ashley Wilcott dot com. It's really hard

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