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Speaker 1: male model. The attraction is instant. Author Carol Vaughan, who

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Speaker 2: They locked eyes across the punch mail, and they moved

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Speaker 1: We've pieced together this meeting from a number of sources. Apparently,

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Speaker 2: It was written in stone right then and there they

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Speaker 1: for which one of them stand trial from Exactly Right

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Speaker 1: media and iHeart podcasts produced by Blanchard House. This is

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Speaker 1: Helen Heaven, I'm Becky Milligan. Chapter two, Trouble in the Valley.

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Speaker 1: Two years after first meeting in Virginia, John and Anne

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Speaker 1: All sorts of stories began to circulate they were laundering

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Speaker 1: Later, Jesse and Matty would be bystanders to the terrible

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Speaker 1: Pale pink delicate orchids grow tall along the path. And

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Speaker 6: I've always loved nature, and when I heard about Costa Rica,

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Speaker 1: It was in the nineteen seventies that Jesse first visited

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Speaker 6: In common reason. I always say we're escaping something. Some

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Speaker 1: And he bought a little land.

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Speaker 6: Planted it to exotic fruits where we have over two

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Speaker 6: They weren't even supposed to tell their wife anything, not

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Speaker 1: Set apart in their big new house on the hill,

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Speaker 1: As Anne became weaker, John took her health into his

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Speaker 7: Yes, oh hi, my name's Becky Milligan.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving someone who we're calling Michael a call. He

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Speaker 1: I didn't know him, but was told that he was

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Speaker 7: So what would you call yourself? What would how would

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Speaker 1: It quickly became clear that Michael was the sort of

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Speaker 9: We're not related to military at all.

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Speaker 9: Basically, I don't like the term. I don't like the term.

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Speaker 9: I retired in two thousand and eight, but I still

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Speaker 1: So at the time trouble is brewing for John Bender

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Speaker 1: in the valley, Michael's phone starts to ring.

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Speaker 9: I was contracted by a third party to kind of

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Speaker 9: intercept mister Bender and send him to the stakes. So

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Speaker 9: we've worked on intelligence to get mister Bender's whereabouts and

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Speaker 9: what we did. We mounted an intervention to kind of

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Speaker 1: Who wanted John Bender intercepted? And why? That's next time

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Speaker 1: on Hell in Heaven and they went back to get

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Speaker 1: the money. What did you hear though? Tell me what

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Speaker 1: you heard? All I heard was a shot. You've been

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Speaker 1: listening to Helen Heaven from Exactly Right Media and iHeart

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Speaker 1: podcasts produced by Blanchard House, hosted, written and produced by

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Speaker 1: me Becky Milligan. The producer and co writer is Poppy Damon.

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Speaker 1: Music is by Daniel Lloyd Evans, Louis Nankmanell, and Toby Mattamoon.

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Speaker 1: The sound recordist and head of sound and Music is

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Speaker 1: Daniel Lloyd Evans. The lead sound designer is Vulcan Kiseltoog.

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Speaker 1: The artwork is by Vanessa Lilac for Exactly Right Media.

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Speaker 1: The executive producers are Karen Kilgarreth, Georgia Hardstark, and Danielle Kramer,

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Speaker 1: with consulting producer Lilly Ladderwig and associate producer Jay Elias.

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Speaker 1: The creative director of Blanchard House is Rosy Pye. The

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Speaker 1: executive producer and Head of Content at Blanchard House is

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Speaker 1: Lawrence Griselle. Listen to Helen Heaven on the iHeartRadio app,

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