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Speaker 1: At an early class I didn't want to wake you.

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Speaker 1: I love you, ensue you. Tonight, I was staring in

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Speaker 1: All in all, I felt like I had the world's

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Speaker 1: the migraine hangover. But some things you never get used to,

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Speaker 1: Like murder. I kept thinking about Amma Laura, a student

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Speaker 1: that worked the grinder by day, a violent killer by night,

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Speaker 1: It just didn't make sense to me. If it was

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Speaker 1: He killed her, but to cut her up it just

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Speaker 1: didn't fit. DJ Kevin Hargan here. It's I don't know

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Speaker 1: about you and New Sharon, but after the winter we

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Speaker 1: my voice wishes it would rain. I have a better idea.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to end the show with a track by Maryland.

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Speaker 1: I didn't oversleep often, but I was running a bit late.

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Speaker 1: That's when Anne called me. Hello, Oh good, you're still there.

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Speaker 1: What's up? Heard? What? He He killed another one? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Who killed another one? What are you talking about? They

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Speaker 1: had to let him go. Wait, slowed down for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Start from the beginning, Laura. They had to let him go.

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Speaker 1: He was sitting in a jail still last night when

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Speaker 1: it happened. When what happened? Another murder? The guy killed

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Speaker 1: somebody else last night. M Laura had an air tight

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Speaker 1: alibi since he was in custody, so it can't beat him.

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Speaker 1: Now they're looking all over for it. For what her head?

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Speaker 1: Whoever killed her took her head? Oh my god, I

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Speaker 1: know right, this isn't over. It's just the beginning. How

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Speaker 1: soon can you meet me at the time I'll leave

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Speaker 1: right now. Excuse me, part of me. New Sharon isn't

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Speaker 1: a big school now and back in n it was

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Speaker 1: even smaller, the kind of school people referred to as

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Speaker 1: at least in those days. Between you and your friends,

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Speaker 1: Someone on campus killed two women. Who why? Those were

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Speaker 1: the questions, but getting the answers just became infinitely more difficult.

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Speaker 1: When I got to the Times, the place was buzzing

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Speaker 1: found Anne locked away in her office. She was tacking

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Speaker 1: up a picture of Gail Kerman on a court word.

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Speaker 1: Next to her was a new face, a face that

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Speaker 1: I'm sad to say I recognized. Oh no, Charlotte Foster.

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Speaker 1: You knew her, I did. I mean, I'd seen her

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Speaker 1: but not lately. Because you hand me some push pens

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Speaker 1: here you go. They look a little bit alike. Don't

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Speaker 1: you think it's hard to say cute, dirty blonde? Other

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Speaker 1: handle this. We need to write something about her. I

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Speaker 1: It's the only way this thing is going to stop.

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Speaker 1: Whoever is doing this needs to see these women as

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Speaker 1: real people understood. I get it. You want me to

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Speaker 1: take Henry? Yeah, I knew her too. Make it more

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Foster, a Scama Phi Beta sorority house. The front

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Speaker 1: It was like a memorial service had already taken place.

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Speaker 1: It seemed pretty ironic to think about writing a story

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Speaker 1: I would ever write wasn't about people's lives, but about

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Speaker 1: their deaths. Hi. Can I help you? Hi? I'm Henry

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Speaker 1: Dinnon with the school paper I was. I was hoping

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Speaker 1: to know who she was a little better. Oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: I told you. Um, we had an art history class together.

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Speaker 1: Come on in you Is this the most recent picture

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Speaker 1: Did you know her? I did a little. We had

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Speaker 1: They went to a few sit ins. Do you mind

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Speaker 1: if we hang out in the parlor? No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: guess you got lucky I was here. I appreciate your

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Speaker 1: talking to me. Charlotte was She was the best I

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Speaker 1: it's true. She was pretty. Did you know she was

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Speaker 1: some scholarship money to pay for school. What's this picture from?

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Speaker 1: That's from the fourth of July talent show. I guess

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Speaker 1: singing Hey look me over. It was like a vaudeville

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Speaker 1: reviewed them. No, we have a film and theater critic

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Speaker 1: that covers those. She was great. Wait here, I'll find

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Speaker 1: probably had enough. There was so much sadness in her eyes.

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Speaker 1: Even though she lived in a house full of girls,

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Speaker 1: at that moment, she was lonely. At least I could

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Speaker 1: I couldn't bring her back age. Thanks, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of clippings here. Do you mind if I take them

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Speaker 1: with me to read later? As long as you promised

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Speaker 1: to bring them back, I want to make sure they

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Speaker 1: stay with the sorority history books. I promise, And thanks

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Speaker 1: for taking the time. Can I ask you a question. Sure,

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Speaker 1: why would why would somebody do this to her? It

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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. You're right, it doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: and fixed spring heeled jack brokers permanently. I didn't have

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Speaker 1: if I could at least do my pardon, write a

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Speaker 1: nice story to remember Charlotte Foster, then maybe that would help.

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Speaker 1: I said, high, with a little more force than usual,

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Speaker 1: stopped by for surreal art exhibit the Persistence of Charlotte Foster.

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Speaker 1: I stood there for a few minutes, wondering what had

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Speaker 1: willing to take someone else's life. Henry, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: believe this ship. Kevin, what are you doing here staying

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Speaker 1: on top of current events? Uh? Fine? What'd you hear?

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Speaker 1: I heard Captain Spencer called Dean Edwards. Not only did

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Speaker 1: they have to release m Laura, they don't have any

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Speaker 1: suspects at all. Wait, not one nobody. They're freaking out now.

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Speaker 1: a serial killer, wouldn't you? There's two dead girls now,

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Speaker 1: I know it's just what I haven't had a chance

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Speaker 1: to consider it yet. Well you should consider it a ship.

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Speaker 1: here looking for in Hey, if she asks, I was

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Speaker 1: never here. See you later. Who was that h oh,

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Speaker 1: no one. Uh, just some guy asking for directions to

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Speaker 1: the com I just got off the phone from Adman.

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Speaker 1: He want us to put new kirkw restrictions on the

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Speaker 1: and or bus. They're going to lockdown campus and try

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Speaker 1: infamous springheel Jack of English Folkhorn, a killer who stopped

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Speaker 1: Got scooped by who? Some reporter out of Boston. Spring

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Speaker 1: and I New England has spring heeled Jack, spring heeled Jack.

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Speaker 1: Who would have thought that they would stick? I had

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get the name out of my head, and

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Speaker 1: How about you out there in radio lane? What does

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Speaker 1: m There's so much blood in the trunk of my car.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where to begin. The note from spring

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Speaker 1: while I was teaching grading papers, he wants me to

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Speaker 1: But what would I tell them? I've worked late, I

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Speaker 1: Lee Metzker, Jared Gootstadt and Philip alder Stack, Written and

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Speaker 1: directed by Lee Metzker, starring Garrett Headland, My Little Ventimilia, Horizon, Guardiola,

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Speaker 1: Sydney Sweeney, Ken Marino, Al Madrigal and Brett Passenger. Audio

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Speaker 1: Up in house production by Georgiana Glick, Franzheim and Laura Ramada,

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Speaker 1: Edited by Carry Caulfield, Eric and Jeremiah Zimmerman. Sound design

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Speaker 1: and mixed by Jeremiah Zimmerman, scored by Jeff Peters. Songs

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Speaker 1: and music by Jared Gootstadt and Jesse Stebenberg. Strawberry Spring

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Speaker 1: is published in Stephen King's short story collection night Shift,

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Speaker 1: available in paperback and ebra from Anchor Books, and as

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Speaker 1: an audio book from Penguin Random House Audio. For the

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Speaker 1: full list of production credits, please visit audio up dot com.

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Speaker 1: You can find more podcasts from I Heart Radio on

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