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Speaker 1: the next episode of Lethal Lit. But first, here's a

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Speaker 1: quick word from our sponsor. A got sacred hopes and

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Speaker 1: not has to them? Why is that so? This is

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Speaker 1: Jane Ferranti recording for Something in the Water. I'm in

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Speaker 1: Hollow Falls at the take Back the Falls party as

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Speaker 1: The event was conceived in hope, but in reality is

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Speaker 1: rank with despair, thick with the unavoidable, pervasive truth. Death

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Speaker 1: stalks them all. The murderers have one and Hollow Falls,

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Speaker 1: and these young people's lives will forever be tied to

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Speaker 1: And right on, cue, come on, let's get them out front.

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Speaker 1: Lift higher, Max, I'm trying. What's happening, none of your business, Jane,

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Speaker 1: Get out of the way. Poisoned? Was there a music

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Speaker 1: box accidentally ate some oysters? Shell fish allergy. How do

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Speaker 1: it tig with you? I thought you all made up.

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Speaker 1: the falls follow the trail this way. Audio courtesy of

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Speaker 1: Jane Ferranti, host of the forthcoming Something in the Water podcast.

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Speaker 1: Are we working together? Well? After she hears this episode,

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Speaker 1: maybe not. I'm tig Torres and this is lethal lit.

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Speaker 1: While Max and Wyn we're scrambling to get Walter help.

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Speaker 1: I was in a predicament of my own. After weeks

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Speaker 1: We're going to be in this for the long haul,

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Speaker 1: Ali Price. And I didn't even know if you were

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Speaker 1: And of course you're gonna hate me? You have every

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Speaker 1: You don't have to worry. You don't have to be

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Speaker 1: Confession time? Uh, I kind of already knew the floor

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Speaker 1: Here you were with him. Damn it, Ali, I was

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Speaker 1: What voices? Who did you hear? Two people? One man

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Speaker 1: Oh I don't ah that boys Levinson. Levinson's filming. He

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Speaker 1: is that Walter in the background too? Brock Stephanie, you

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Speaker 1: I have something very important to tell you. I know

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Speaker 1: you're not the music box Killer. Oh thank god, I

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Speaker 1: I'm following when Abbot, the resident muscle of Tig Torres's crew,

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Speaker 1: every corner, stop talking? Oh what who was that? What

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Speaker 1: the anything to say to the listeners out there? Denise

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Speaker 1: Walter was a sadist. He deserved it the most out

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Speaker 1: music Box Killer herself, folks, But what drives someone to

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Speaker 1: going to use all this? This is golden ni'se Trust me,

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Speaker 1: everyone is going to know your name. Hay Lee. The

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Speaker 1: the listeners take Torres here There's always more to the mystery,

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Speaker 1: am tig torres for more clues and inside info. Take take,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy? Who want to kill me? Besides when? Maybe Max?

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Speaker 1: didn't kill Tony. I was with you, remember Ali, I

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Speaker 1: They must have brought their haul down the river and

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Speaker 1: Trust me? Everyone is going to learning Take when stay back, Shane, Denise,

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Speaker 1: I'm just here recording. Everyone chill out. No one else

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Speaker 1: new piece has just been added to the board. We

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Speaker 1: have answered the burning question. Where is Ali Price? And

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Speaker 1: guess what He's right here? Are you going to tell him, Denise?

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Speaker 1: You look familiar. Older, yes, but you were that girl

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Speaker 1: me guess, Walter Stephanie Brock. That's right. The victims of

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Speaker 1: They were all horrible, horrible people. Oh, when I heard

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Speaker 1: it's true. Ali. They made me give you up, all

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Speaker 1: that's over now. OHI please please say something. Take I'm sorry, Ali,

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