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Speaker 1: I was like, promise me, you're going to call me back,

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Speaker 1: and she said I promise and click.

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Speaker 2: That was it.

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Speaker 1: That was the last I spoke to her.

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Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, Libby Caswell was found dead in a

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Speaker 2: motel room in Independence, Missouri. She was twenty one years old,

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Speaker 2: a young mom working hard to get by. The police investigation.

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Speaker 1: Was brief, this is not a promicide. This is a suicide.

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Speaker 2: But Libby's mom doesn't believe the official story.

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, they must have missed this fingernail. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't till much later, and I thought, why would they

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Speaker 1: not search the car.

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Speaker 2: She assembled a team of experts who looked at the

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Speaker 2: evidence and think Libby was murdered. We have a term

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Speaker 2: called JDLR, which means just don't look right. Libby's case

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Speaker 2: stands out in my mind and keeps you awake at night.

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Speaker 1: Sooner or later, somebody talks.

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Speaker 2: My name is Melissa Jelson. I'm a reporter who covers

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Speaker 2: violence against women. On season two of my podcast What

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Speaker 2: Happened To I take a closer look at Libby Caswell's

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Speaker 2: life and death. She was just like a gright happy person.

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Speaker 2: Libby don't get me and said Nathan, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Something just seems off right now. I've spent the last

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Speaker 2: year talking to Libby's friends and family, uncovering details of

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Speaker 2: her life and the secrets that may have endangered it.

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Speaker 1: I knew she was doing something, but she just wouldn't

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Speaker 1: admit it to me at Birst and so I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of like what did he just hit her?

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Speaker 2: She told me like she was done, Like she's done

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Speaker 2: going back and forth, and now she's finally going to

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Speaker 2: do what she needed to do for her. This is

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Speaker 2: a podcast about the systems that are supposed to help women,

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Speaker 2: but don't. We have very strong stereotypes about the ways

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Speaker 2: that victims of domestic violence are supposed to act.

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Speaker 1: I think the law is set out to punish families.

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Speaker 2: Those agencies are failing to do the right thing, And

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Speaker 2: it's about one mom's search for justice.

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Speaker 1: She started advising me, get your records, get your stuff together,

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Speaker 1: because this is going to be the fight of your life.

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Speaker 2: Join me on a journey to uncover what really happened

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Speaker 2: to Libby Caswell. Everyone deserves to know the truth and

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Speaker 2: if there was something that was not right and someone

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Speaker 2: should be held accountable, Somebody dropped the ball. The medical

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Speaker 2: examiner ruled Libby's death undetermined. They go, what do you

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Speaker 2: mean they undetermined? I wish I could go back in

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Speaker 2: time and go stay with her at that hotel. It

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Speaker 2: was crying, and I said, and I was like, man,

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Speaker 2: what happened.

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Speaker 1: If this was a powerful woman with status, this case

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Speaker 1: would have been resolved by now and the killer would

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Speaker 1: be in jail.

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Speaker 2: But Libby Caswell didn't have status.

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Speaker 1: What happened to her is unknown, and it's something that

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Speaker 1: I need to know.

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Speaker 2: Listen to What Happened to Libby Caswell starting November two

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

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