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Speaker 1: The following podcast contains explicit descriptions of violence, including sexual violence,

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Speaker 1: that some listeners may find upsetting. Continue at your own risk.

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Speaker 1: My name might have been, my name has never was.

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Speaker 1: That's a lyric from the nineteen ninety eight Whole song

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Speaker 1: Celebrity Skin. It's also the opening line of a letter

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Speaker 1: I recently received in the mail. Here it is in

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Speaker 1: its entirety, My dearest Courtney, my name is might have

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Speaker 1: been ben My name is never name as never was?

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Speaker 2: Why because you stole my name and leave it to

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Speaker 2: someone else? Oh, Courtney, it's been so long. I saw

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Speaker 2: a video of one of your most recent lectures online,

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Speaker 2: and time has not been kind to you, is it?

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Speaker 2: You're one school to name, air is now gray. You're

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Speaker 2: once kerky breasts now sag almost to your navel, and

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Speaker 2: you must now hide those pretty blue eyes behind horn

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Speaker 2: rimmed glasses.

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Speaker 3: But you're not alone.

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Speaker 2: When I look in the mirror, I almost don't recognize

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Speaker 2: the old man looking think at me, what has become

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Speaker 2: of us? I was inspired to reach out to you

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Speaker 2: one more time for reasons of my own that I

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Speaker 2: will not disclose to you, but suffice to say I

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Speaker 2: miss you. I miss you so much, but I am

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Speaker 2: also angry with you. You profited off my work while I

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Speaker 2: never got.

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Speaker 3: Any recognition at all.

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Speaker 2: I suppose there is solace in the fact that another

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Speaker 2: man is in prison for my so called crimes, but

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Speaker 2: there's an unsatisfying element to it, like fucking without rusting

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Speaker 2: a nut.

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Speaker 3: Fun sure, but incomplete. Maybe, my dear Courtney, We're not

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Speaker 2: Maybe you can bring anything this full circle. Who knows,

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Speaker 2: you might even get another book out of it. Come

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Speaker 2: back to Domino Beach, Courtney, come home.

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Speaker 3: I'll be waiting for you with love.

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Speaker 1: DBK the real Domino Beach Killer. I'm Courtney Barnes and

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Speaker 1: this is the Murder Years, Episode eight, Celebrity skin. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot to unpack there. This letter came

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Speaker 1: to me in the mail in the fall of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. I read it once, then again, then a

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Speaker 1: letters I received in fall of nineteen ninety four and

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Speaker 1: spring of nineteen ninety five. Style is the same, the

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Speaker 1: handwriting is the same. All three letters could easily have

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Speaker 1: been written by the same person, but scans of the

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Speaker 1: original letters have been online for years, often in side

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Speaker 1: by side comparisons to the Zodiac Killers letters to police

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Speaker 1: or the Unibomber's manifesto, they wouldn't be hard to copy.

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Speaker 1: It's not the first time someone has tried to scare me.

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Speaker 1: When your name is forever linked to a serial killers,

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Speaker 1: you're an easy target for disturbed minds with twisted senses

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Speaker 1: of humor. My initial reaction was to dismiss this letter

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Speaker 1: as some sick bastard's idea of a joke, But lying

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Speaker 1: awake in bed night after night, some just kept needling

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Speaker 1: at me. First of all, the author's choice of song

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Speaker 1: lyrics and the lead singer of the band Hole was

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Speaker 1: Courtney Love. Not only do I share a first name

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Speaker 1: with her, but she was married to Kurt Cobain, who

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Speaker 1: wrote the lyrics Polly Wants a Cracker that were painted

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Speaker 1: near the body of the first victim via Kendrick in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. I tried, but I couldn't shake the

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Speaker 1: feeling that there might be something to this. That's why

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Speaker 1: I decided to do this podcast. My book All Fall Down,

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Speaker 1: The Story of the Domino Beach Murders, was published in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. For over a year, I traveled the country,

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Speaker 1: doing book signings, sitting on panels, and appearing on talk shows.

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Speaker 1: When things settled down, I chose not to return to

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Speaker 1: Domino Beach or even California. Instead, I bounced around the

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Speaker 1: eventually quit writing and started teaching journalism at a community college.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't set foot in Domino Beach in twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: A few months ago, two weeks after I received that letter,

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Speaker 1: I flew into Lax, rented a car, and made the

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Speaker 1: hour long drive south to the place where my career

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Speaker 1: began and so many lives ended. It's weird being back here.

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Speaker 1: Fuels abandoned, the ferris wheel and roller coaster on the

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Speaker 1: the waves, but it's no longer a tourist destination, sparely

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Speaker 1: interviews I wanted to do for this podcast, I looked

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Speaker 1: everyone up for the first time in ages. Connor Langford

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Speaker 1: was easy to find, Still serving two consecutive life sentences

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Speaker 1: in California State Prison in Los Angeles County, the prison

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Speaker 1: van Connor made it easy for me to interview him

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Speaker 1: over the phone several times. Connor's father, former Domino Beach

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Speaker 1: City councilman, Greg Langford, lost his bid for reelection the

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Speaker 1: year after his son was convicted. He and his wife

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Speaker 1: of a heart attack in twenty eleven. Damon Stokes was

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Speaker 1: re elected sheriff of Del Soul County every cycle until

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Speaker 1: he retired in twenty fifteen and moved to nearby La Joya.

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Speaker 1: I did my interview with him in his home over

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Speaker 1: the course of two afternoons. Only Maya Morales still lives

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Speaker 1: in Domino Beach, where she cares for her invalid mother.

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Speaker 1: I did my interview with her at her office. She's

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Speaker 1: a broker in the last real estate agency still operating

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Speaker 1: in Domino Beach. In the four hours I spent with her,

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Speaker 1: Here's Maya now with more on the evidence that proved

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Speaker 1: critical in sealing Connor Langford's fate.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I get why he was so easy to convict.

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Speaker 4: The letters you got from the killer were written on

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Speaker 1: I bought myself, identified by the faulty watermark and stored

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Speaker 1: at Connor's band's rehearsal space, which.

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Speaker 4: By the way, a lot of people had access to,

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Speaker 4: not just Connor, who else, well a lot of Okay,

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Speaker 4: here's what I think. And at the time I told

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Speaker 4: Sheriff Stokes and anyone else who would listen what I'm

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Speaker 4: about to tell you, but I always got waved off.

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Speaker 4: Go way, stupid girl, know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, yes I do. Go on.

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Speaker 4: Okay, First, the door to the rehearsal space was locked

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Speaker 4: by one of those number thingies, you know, like the

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Speaker 4: little metal buttons right under the knob and you have

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Speaker 1: Well, they they weren't exactly.

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Speaker 4: Super careful with who they gave that code to, and

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Speaker 1: What was it? Four twenty?

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Speaker 4: Of course it was easy to remember, though, right.

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Speaker 1: So you're suggesting someone else use that code to get

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying there were like at least a dozen

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Speaker 4: work out said lists, write songs, sketch out tattoos they

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Speaker 4: wanted to get it, roll joints, whatever. People grab stocks

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Speaker 1: No one cared.

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Speaker 4: So sometime in it must have been late nineteen ninety three,

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Speaker 4: Connor and Brody started looking for a new bass player

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Speaker 4: And I bought that paper in like January or February

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you know what a pain.

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Speaker 5: In the ass?

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Speaker 4: Con was?

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Speaker 1: Back then?

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Speaker 4: They went through at least seven or eight bass players

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Speaker 1: And you think one of these bass players.

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Speaker 4: I think it's way more likely it was one of

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Speaker 1: Do you know their names?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: Connor and I started having our troubles early on in

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Speaker 1: But you didn't break up until February of nineteen ninety five.

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Speaker 1: A year later.

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Speaker 4: Well that was when I caught him cheating and ended it,

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Speaker 1: For real real.

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Speaker 4: But Connor and I had broken up and gotten back

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Speaker 4: together like a million times over the years. It was

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Speaker 4: kind of like our thing anyway. I'm telling you, if

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Speaker 4: you want to find out anything new, you got to

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Speaker 4: go look into those bass players. If you want to

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Speaker 4: find out anything new, you gotta go look into those

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Speaker 7: We did.

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Speaker 1: You probably know by now. That's Damon Stokes, retired sheriff

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Speaker 1: of Delsaul County and the lead law enforcement official in

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Speaker 1: the investigation of the Domino Beach killer.

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Speaker 5: It turned up nothing. You have to understand. Maya Morales

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Speaker 5: is just as much a victim of Connor Langford as

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Speaker 5: any of the people he killed. He used her, he

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Speaker 4: I stood by someone I cared for. I chose not

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Speaker 4: to believe all the lies that were being said about him.

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Speaker 4: That makes me a victim.

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Speaker 1: Fuck him.

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Speaker 4: I am nobody's victim. And maybe he called the couple

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Speaker 4: He was all in on Connor. And if it turned

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Speaker 5: I would have been thrilled if the killer was anyone

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Speaker 5: know it's difficult for Miss Morales to accept, but you

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Maya's whole the bass player did it. Theory never

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Speaker 8: really gained much traction. Even my own lawyer didn't buy

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Speaker 1: That's Connor Langford talking to me from California State Prison.

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Speaker 8: The thing was in ninety four. I was starting to

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Speaker 8: use drugs pretty heavily, and Maya and I were fighting

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Speaker 8: all the time. I just didn't pay much attention to

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Speaker 7: The rehearsal space. That was Brodie's thing. He was more

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Speaker 1: Brody Hanigan, your friend and the drummer in your band.

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Speaker 7: By then, friend was stretching it.

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Speaker 8: He was already starting to get fed up with me,

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Speaker 8: and he moved to Seattle in October that year.

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Speaker 1: In court, Brody leaving Domino Beach was cited as a

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Speaker 1: reason why you became sloppy, like in the failed abduction

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Speaker 1: of Angela Bowers.

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Speaker 8: And if I really was the killer, that would have

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Speaker 8: been true. I was really bummed when he left.

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you, Brody never wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to me about you. I tried to interview him back

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Speaker 1: when I was writing my book.

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Speaker 8: Which is complete bullshit by the way, covered a fucking cover. Sorry,

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Speaker 8: but it has to be said, even if you'll probably

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Speaker 1: I also tried to get Brody to take part in

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Speaker 8: Look, Brody, like I said, we weren't on the best

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Speaker 7: And then he believed it.

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Speaker 8: Okay, he believed everything they said about me, and I

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Speaker 8: bet he still does. He thinks I killed Vera, and look,

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Speaker 7: You know, he told her to tell me to rotten hell.

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Speaker 7: He had his reasons to hate me.

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Speaker 8: I mean, he may be the one who left town,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really sad when all this started. They

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Speaker 1: Have you talked to him since m not in a

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Speaker 9: You mean he won't take your calls or return them exactly.

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Speaker 9: Look way back when I was trying to get him

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Speaker 4: Same thing to me. So you know what I did.

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Speaker 4: I flew up there and I kind of ambushed him.

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Speaker 1: Did it work?

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Speaker 4: Well, he didn't come testify at the trial, but at

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Speaker 1: Right, you're saying I should just go to Seattle and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, I haven't spoken to him in

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Speaker 1: But it it's worth a try. Yeah, I decided Maya's right.

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Speaker 1: Brody Hanigan is still living in Seattle, still working in music, apparently,

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Speaker 1: he has his own business where he designs and hooks

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Speaker 1: bell and okay, one more time, Brody Hanigan, Hello, anyone home?

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Speaker 1: Who is it, mister Hannigan. Hi, It's Courtney Barnes. I

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Speaker 3: I said, I wasn't interested.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually you never responded to my calls or emails,

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Speaker 1: I'm I guess you did. I don't know if you remember,

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Speaker 3: I remember you newspaper reporter.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's me.

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Speaker 3: You wrote a book too, write a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: Write again, and well, I'm I guess you could call

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Speaker 1: I'm doing like a follow up kind of revisiting the

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Speaker 3: These years, and I'm one of the players.

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Speaker 1: Well, you were there at the start, weren't you. You

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. It was bad enough to see her

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Speaker 1: She was.

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Speaker 3: I cared about her, and the.

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Speaker 10: Fact that Connor used me the way he did made

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Speaker 3: I'll never forgive him.

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Speaker 1: I understand, and I can only imagine how traumatic look.

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Speaker 3: I have no interest in whatever this is.

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Speaker 10: I know Connor's always maintained his innocence and all, but

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Speaker 3: I know he did it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well maybe we can talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about what makes you so sure. I promise I will

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Speaker 1: fuck it, come on in, Okay, great? Thank you?

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Speaker 6: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 10: If I record this and rather you didn't, I'll give

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I understand.

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Speaker 3: Have a seat.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, So if you don't mind, can I ask you

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I recently got diagnosed with lung cancer stage three.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I am so sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm probably not going to be around much longer.

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Speaker 10: So living in the past, digging up these bad memories

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Speaker 1: I don't have, I understand. And again, I'm really sorry

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Speaker 3: I already said, okay.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, okay. The main thing I wanted to ask

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Speaker 3: October ninety four, that's when I moved up here.

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Speaker 1: And why did you leave Domino Beach.

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Speaker 10: Well, it was the nineties and I was a musician.

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Speaker 10: Seattle was the place to be. The band was going nowhere.

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Speaker 10: Connor's heart wasn't in it anymore at the time. I

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Speaker 10: that wasn't long after those spring Break Girls got hacked up.

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Speaker 10: I had plenty of reasons to leave Domino Beach. What

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about your last few months there. You

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Speaker 1: and Connor were looking for a new bass player, right, yeah, yeah, we.

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Speaker 3: Were, man. We went through a ton of them.

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Speaker 10: Some were in a good fit, some didn't like the

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Speaker 3: Some just, I don't know, just didn't work out for

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm sure you remember. One of the key

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping to track down some or all of

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Speaker 10: Why, oh no, wait, let me guess Connor convinced you

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Speaker 1: No, he didn't convince me. I just think it's worth

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Speaker 10: But that's been this story for damn near thirty years.

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Speaker 10: Why did you suddenly decide it's worth looking into?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Well, let's just say new information has come to light.

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Speaker 3: What kind of new information?

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Speaker 1: I don't think that I can hold on.

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Speaker 10: You come to my home, uninvited, unannounced. I answer your questions.

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Speaker 10: You say you have new information that can mean the

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Speaker 3: What it is.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mister Hanigan, but.

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Speaker 3: Don't call me that. That's not my name.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me.

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Speaker 6: My name is might have been. My name is might

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Speaker 3: Wait, don't my name is never lost. You still getting

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Speaker 3: right fucking to me? This feels right, doesn't it. I'm

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Speaker 6: Cancer, am I?

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Speaker 3: I'm your cancer? Did you thirty years taking you over?

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Speaker 3: Killing me?

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Speaker 1: It's good about you get off me.

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Speaker 3: No, it had to end this way. We both knew

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Speaker 3: it all along. That's say look at me. I want

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Speaker 6: Wherever you're going, I'll be following you there soon. And

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Speaker 3: You had your moment, Courtney. It's my turn.

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Speaker 2: You are always going to be my last.

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Speaker 3: Goodbye, Courtney.

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Speaker 4: Hello, my name is Maya Morales.

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Speaker 2: What you just.

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Speaker 1: The Ending.

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Speaker 4: After the Ending, Brody Hannigan was arrested two days later

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Speaker 4: He took by force which she wouldn't give him freely,

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Speaker 6: In fact, the.

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Speaker 4: rehearsal space. He saw they had black hole sun on

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Speaker 4: their set list, which inspired him to quote the lyrics.

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Speaker 4: A few days later, he killed my friend, my little brother,

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Speaker 4: and it worked. That was when Courtney said she started

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Speaker 4: to believe Connor was the killer. Brody made one more

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Speaker 4: trip to Domino Beach a few months later, in late

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Speaker 4: nineteen ninety five. He stole Connor's van, which was easy

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Speaker 4: then chose his final victim, Trudy Masterson. He had planned

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Speaker 4: to kill Courtney too, but after being spotted by homeless

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Speaker 4: woman Henrietta Jones, he abandoned that plan and left town.

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Speaker 4: But when Courtney showed up at his door thirty years later,

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Speaker 4: he finished the job. According to his oncologist, Brody Hannigan

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Speaker 4: has about two to three more months left to live.

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Speaker 4: I hope his death is long, slow, and painful.

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Speaker 1: As for the rest of us.

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Speaker 4: Damon Stokes, former sheriff of Del Soul County and lead

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Speaker 4: investigator in the Domino Beach murders, ended his involvement with

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Speaker 4: his podcast and issued a very lawyered statement about Courtney, Connor,

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Speaker 4: and Brody. It's kind of apologetic without admitting any fault

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Speaker 4: or taking any blame. Reading it here is not worth

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Speaker 4: my time or yours, but I understand his need to

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Speaker 4: express regret. After all, I'm the one who encouraged Courtney

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Speaker 4: to go to Brodie's house, and I'll have to live

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Speaker 4: with that for the rest of my life. Connor has

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Speaker 4: eight years. I suspect he will have a long adjustment

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Speaker 4: period ahead of him, and I plan to help him

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Speaker 4: in any way I can. Have you ever seen a

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Speaker 4: movie or read a story about like a dragon or

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Speaker 4: a monster that's terrorizing a medieval village and they have

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Speaker 4: to sacrifice people to keep the rest of the villager safe. Well,

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Speaker 4: Domino Beach had a monster like that, and it demanded

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Speaker 4: a hell of a sacrifice. Connor Langford had to give

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Speaker 4: up twenty eight years of his life and Courtney Barnes

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Speaker 4: had to make the ultimate sacrifice. But it worked. The

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Speaker 4: monster who terrorized our town has finally finally been vanquished.

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Speaker 4: The Murder Years in Domino Beach are over.

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Speaker 1: The Murder Years is a production of AYR Media and iHeartMedia.

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Speaker 1: Executive producer Elisa Rosen for AYR Media. Written by Tim Huddleston,

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Speaker 1: directed by Elisa Rosen. Editing and sound designed by Tristan Bankston.

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Speaker 1: Consulting producer Jean Chandil coordinator Olive Goldberg. Audio engineering and

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Speaker 1: mastering by Justin Longerbean studio engineer Josh Hook. Original concept

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Speaker 1: developed in partnership with Anne Margaret Johns and Greg Spring.

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Speaker 1: Executive producer for iHeartMedia. Maya Howard. Performances for this episode

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Speaker 1: by Erica Leniac as Courtney Barnes, Tom Virtue as Sheriff,

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Speaker 1: Damon Stokes, Alex Salem as Connor Langford Melon Faxis as

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Speaker 1: Maya Morales, John Ralston Craig as Brodie Hannigan