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Speaker 3: We're driving across the Pendleton Bridge, the one that runs

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Speaker 1: House boat was fully.

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Speaker 3: Engulfed, along with other multiple boats and docks, heavy fire

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Speaker 3: And then when they did dig through the remains, they

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Speaker 3: His charred remains were found in the bedroom of the boat.

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Speaker 3: At first, they thought the house fire had been some

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Speaker 3: and his much younger, estranged wife, April May Janis, was

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Speaker 3: beginning of a story that goes back twenty years and

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Speaker 4: Hello. Hey, this is Amy Propelling on. Hi. How are

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Speaker 4: you doing good? Can you talk?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I am fixing to get into a place away

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Speaker 3: According to the obituary for Douglas Michael Janis, he was

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Speaker 3: The obituary even mentions the many grateful fish who eluded

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Speaker 1: Police were suspicious of April two.

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Speaker 3: And on January fourteenth, twenty twenty one, April may Janis

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Speaker 3: We learned that April had been living there. She relocated

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Speaker 2: If you believe that April committed this crime. She would

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were trying to figure out what exactly went down.

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Speaker 3: They believed she was showing signs of deception during that interview,

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Speaker 3: Police also noted that April did not show any shock

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Speaker 3: The officer who scored the affidavit wrote he discovered that

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Speaker 3: Police talked to witnesses and found one who told authorities

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Speaker 3: They definitely recognized her. They saw her driving her blue

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Speaker 3: Stories about the case, no updates. We were able to

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Speaker 1: She didn't have to report to anyone. She was free.

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Speaker 3: The prosecutors apparently thought they just didn't have enough evidence

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Speaker 3: And then we found out something else. It turned out

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Speaker 3: This is a part of the world where things burned

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Speaker 4: This is hilarious because I got they started calling me

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Speaker 3: April and Doug well, April and Doug started dating when

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Speaker 3: she was very young. She was just thirteen years old

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Speaker 3: at that time. Doug would have been in his forties. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: we're not here to blame victims, but I do think

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Speaker 3: it's important to develop a complete picture of Doug Janis

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Speaker 3: in order to understand why someone would have wanted to

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Speaker 3: murder him execution style, and a big piece of that

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Speaker 3: puzzle is understanding what his exact relationship was with April.

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Speaker 3: Bob Thompson, April's father, wrote an entire book about April's

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Speaker 3: life and the night her mother, Anna was killed, Bob

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Speaker 3: passed away. We're going to be reading excerpts from his

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Speaker 3: book and we're going to try to piece this story together.

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Speaker 3: We're going to talk to someone very close to April,

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Speaker 3: and we're going to track down the witness who saw

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Speaker 3: Doug's boat burn into the ground. We're going to try

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Speaker 3: and we're going to try to figure out what happened

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Speaker 3: in that remote lakeside area way back in the woods.

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Speaker 3: We will also get into Anna Thompson's death a lot

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Speaker 3: more next week, but a lot of the records in

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Speaker 3: this case are sealed. From what we've been able to

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Speaker 3: figure out, it turns out that twenty one years ago,

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Speaker 3: Anna Thompson was shot in the back of the head,

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Speaker 3: just like Doug Janis.

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Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Townsend.

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