WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: The Jefferson Davis Eight

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<v Speaker 1>Thinking Sideways. I don't know stories of things we simply

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<v Speaker 1>don't know the answer too well. Hi, They're welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>Thinking Sideways the podcast. I am Steve as always enjoying

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<v Speaker 1>my co host Deven and today we we've got another

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<v Speaker 1>Actually it's not another. This is actually a really complex

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<v Speaker 1>mystery that we're going to go into. This is I

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<v Speaker 1>would say, this is the first time we've done anything

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<v Speaker 1>like this. Yeah, and this is I know, this is

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<v Speaker 1>this is a tough case. I know it made Devon uncomfortable.

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<v Speaker 1>Number of times you were not happy researching. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>and it usually liked the murder I usually I usually do.

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<v Speaker 1>I just think there's something about this case as a

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<v Speaker 1>young female that is, you know, and granted I am

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<v Speaker 1>not of the similar situation of this case that we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to talk about, but just there's something, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>like I can totally do the like random unsolved kind

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<v Speaker 1>of mysterious murders, but like when we're talking about something

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<v Speaker 1>like this, yeah, you know, actually just makes me researching this.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you guys ever watched that show

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<v Speaker 1>was on for two seasons years ago, twin Peaks, They

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<v Speaker 1>ever watched that show? I did see some of it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's about this bucolic little town up in Washington, and

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<v Speaker 1>uh and it's like, you know, a little small town.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything's nice and everything, but then there's just all this

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<v Speaker 1>stuff going on underneath the surface. I mean a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of murder, a lot of just intrigue, all kinds of

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<v Speaker 1>people who really surprise you. You know, you thought they

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<v Speaker 1>were they were just regular folks. With what this of

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<v Speaker 1>With with that very descriptive introduction, before we get into

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<v Speaker 1>things I want to talking about, well, I want to

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<v Speaker 1>tell everybody right now that the story that we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about involves multiple murders and some very graphic things.

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<v Speaker 1>So if that's not your deal, if or if you've

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<v Speaker 1>got kids around right now, you should probably either skip

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<v Speaker 1>this one or listen to you know, listen to it later. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's this is this is a rough one. It

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<v Speaker 1>has the potential to be a rough one. And and

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<v Speaker 1>the story that we're going to talk about is the

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<v Speaker 1>Jefferson Davis Sate or you've also also it's also referred

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<v Speaker 1>to as the Jennings eight. Yeah, and and this was

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<v Speaker 1>this is this is not a small story. So again,

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<v Speaker 1>this is kind of one of those we've all taken

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<v Speaker 1>it on together to try and work through this, and

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<v Speaker 1>I've got to tell you right on the on the outset, Joiel,

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<v Speaker 1>We're not going to solve this, this one, even more

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<v Speaker 1>than any of the other times you ever say that, well,

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<v Speaker 1>we can solve this. In high level terms, there were

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<v Speaker 1>eight murders. Okay, well, don't don't. Don't get ahead of yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>And if he okay, am I wrong? All right? So

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<v Speaker 1>what we're gonna do here is is we're gonna do

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<v Speaker 1>this in a couple of different parts. So this is

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be set up a little bit differently than a

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<v Speaker 1>normal episode is we're gonna kind of break down some

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<v Speaker 1>of the players that are involved in some of the facts.

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<v Speaker 1>The person that did the most investigation on this story

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<v Speaker 1>is a man by the name of Ethan Brown. And

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<v Speaker 1>Ethan Brown he wrote a great article about this and

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<v Speaker 1>it was on me, it's on medium and were we

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<v Speaker 1>actually were lucky enough to talk to him, and so

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<v Speaker 1>we've got a pretty good, lengthy interview where he's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>walk through a lot of this stuff with you and

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<v Speaker 1>then we'll talk about some other stuff after that. But

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<v Speaker 1>I just kind of wanna before we get to that interview.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's lay down some groundwork. So by the way, he's

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<v Speaker 1>Ethan Brown is writing a book about this very topic,

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<v Speaker 1>which y'all are probably going to go out and get

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<v Speaker 1>a copy of, probably are um and I think it

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<v Speaker 1>would probably be helpful to mention on the outset. You

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<v Speaker 1>may or may not know our website we always post stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>but Steve has made this kind of flow chart graphic

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<v Speaker 1>description of what's going on. So if you want to

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<v Speaker 1>check out that document, it's a you can download it

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<v Speaker 1>as a PDF. We're going to make it available to you,

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<v Speaker 1>so right now go to Thinking Sideways podcast dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>You can just you know, click on it, check the

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<v Speaker 1>PDF or printed out whatever you want. It may actually

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<v Speaker 1>help you track this if that's something a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>you listen while you're at work, whatever, So don't worry

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<v Speaker 1>about it. We're gonna do the best we can. But

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<v Speaker 1>if you are interested, you should do that. Now. Print

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<v Speaker 1>out your like little Annie Orphan Annie. Hopefully your printer

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<v Speaker 1>can handle the leven by seventeen. View it online. It's easy,

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<v Speaker 1>but no it I we made this knowing that this

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<v Speaker 1>was a complicated case and this is the first time

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<v Speaker 1>we've had to do is and I think it's going

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<v Speaker 1>to really help. Okay, Okay, so now that you've downloaded

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<v Speaker 1>the pdf, Okay, so here, let's let's start out and

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<v Speaker 1>we'll just kind of take this in. Each person will

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<v Speaker 1>kind of take a different piece. So I'll go ahead

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll start off with our victims. And there are

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<v Speaker 1>eight victims, primary victims. And these are eight different women,

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<v Speaker 1>and those plus two other corpses. Well, yes, this is

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<v Speaker 1>why we're just talking about right now. We're just gonna

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<v Speaker 1>name off our primary victims, the eight and they were

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<v Speaker 1>murdered between two thousand five to two thousand nine. And

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<v Speaker 1>and on the outset. Again, if we haven't said this,

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<v Speaker 1>these murders are unsolved. Yeah. And and by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>this is this is in in Jennings, Louisiana, a little

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<v Speaker 1>small town of about what ten thousand people. Now I'm

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about this now we live in We live in

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<v Speaker 1>Portland's which average is about twenty murders a year. Portland

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<v Speaker 1>is infinitely larger than Yeah. Yeah, that's the first town

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<v Speaker 1>that size. That's a hell of a lot of murder. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and I guess that there's so they is the eight.

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<v Speaker 1>This is getting ahead of ourselves talking about let's just

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<v Speaker 1>talk about the eighth. So I'm gonna just list them

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<v Speaker 1>off in chronological order. On May two thousand five, the

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<v Speaker 1>body of Lynn Lewis was found. We're doing chronological of

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<v Speaker 1>discovery of discovery, yes, yes, thank you for clarifying that,

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<v Speaker 1>because we don't know the exact dates. So these are

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<v Speaker 1>all discoveries of the body. And also they might have

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<v Speaker 1>committed suicide. Just made it look like murderers, alright. So

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<v Speaker 1>next we have Ernestine Patterson, whose body was discovered on

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<v Speaker 1>June eighteenth of two thousand five. We have Kristen Lopez

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<v Speaker 1>whose body was found on March eighteenth of two thousand seven,

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<v Speaker 1>Whitney Dubois who was found on May seventeenth, two thousand seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Laconia Brown was found on May twenty nine of two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand eight. Crystal zen Zeno Rosino I think it's Zeno

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<v Speaker 1>Zeno was set Timber eleven, two thousand eight, was found,

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<v Speaker 1>Brittany Gary was found on November eleven of two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and eight, and then lastly, Nicole Guillory was found on

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<v Speaker 1>August nineteen of two thousand nine. And they're all young women.

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<v Speaker 1>The youngest I believe was seventeen and the oldest was

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<v Speaker 1>thirty years old, so they're they're in a very very

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<v Speaker 1>pretty tight age range. And we'll just talk a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit about the murder victims themselves. In this town, it's

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<v Speaker 1>rampant with drug use, each other, they all knew each other.

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<v Speaker 1>There's prostitution is known to have taken place, and these

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<v Speaker 1>girls were all prostitutes at one time. And I believe

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<v Speaker 1>that they were all prostitutes. I'm not gonna I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>gonnacent say, I'm not going to cast dispersions on the dead.

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<v Speaker 1>But they were also all known to frequent the same place.

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<v Speaker 1>Which is it the Joe helped with the pronunciation. Is

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<v Speaker 1>it more though? I think, and I think it's Boudau. Boudreau,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, is closed down now, yes, And this

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<v Speaker 1>will this will the Boudreau will and will come up

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<v Speaker 1>in our interview with Ethan. So again we're just kind

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<v Speaker 1>of laying these things out. But the end was it

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<v Speaker 1>sounded like a tin building that operated as a hotel.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeahs was a hotel eight yeah, not not even up

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<v Speaker 1>to that high standard, yeah, I know. And and there

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<v Speaker 1>was a lot of basically it was kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>den of iniquity, a lot of drug use, a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of prostitution, doing things like that. And Mr Brown will

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<v Speaker 1>talk about this a little bit. But Jennings is a

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<v Speaker 1>place that's very divided. There's the north side and the

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<v Speaker 1>south side, which are divided by literal railroad track and

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<v Speaker 1>the south side is apparently a den of kind of

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<v Speaker 1>people who are on a much lower economic class. Lots

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<v Speaker 1>of prostitution, drug use, crime. Doing what you think you

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<v Speaker 1>have to do to get is the best way I

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<v Speaker 1>can think of to say. I did a little street tour.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually I got on Google Maps and did just gun

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<v Speaker 1>on the street view and just buzzed around the streets

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of the north part of town. And

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't look that bad, you know. Um. And then

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<v Speaker 1>I got to try to go to the south and

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<v Speaker 1>apparently the Google car was afraid to go there. There's

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<v Speaker 1>not even Google ste pictures. Actually there are a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit there. But yeah, So there are also three cops

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<v Speaker 1>that are closely tied to this case. Well I think

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<v Speaker 1>I think I think it's three cops that that come

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<v Speaker 1>up the most is And you might want to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about the task force a little bit. There either is

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<v Speaker 1>a task force. It's like local cops. It's local cops

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<v Speaker 1>FBI and county coups and state cops and that b

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<v Speaker 1>I on there. I wasn't clear on that theoretically there theoretically,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're a local branch of the FBI, right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so these people all know each other. Um, But the

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<v Speaker 1>three main cop players that are kind of brought up

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<v Speaker 1>that are really tied into the case, Um, the first

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not tied into the sense we should stress that

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<v Speaker 1>that there's there's any indication that they have any they've

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<v Speaker 1>actually got involvement in the murders. Nefarious, but yeah, but

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<v Speaker 1>there's there's questionable actions we'll talk about. That's a little bit. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>let me let me preface what Joe said there. And

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, We're we're pretty deep in this, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's why I want us to back up a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit for our listeners. I don't know about YouTube, but

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<v Speaker 1>I've had my head deep in this story for three weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>to the point that I've been talking about this story

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<v Speaker 1>to everybody I know, to the point that I know

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<v Speaker 1>that my boss is tired of hearing about it, my

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<v Speaker 1>fiance is tired of hearing about it, my friends are

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<v Speaker 1>tired of here. But they want to talk. But we're

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<v Speaker 1>so deep in this is that I think that what

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<v Speaker 1>we need to get across before we get too much

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<v Speaker 1>in of the cops is this is a very tiny

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<v Speaker 1>a very small town, and everybody knows everybody. And so

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<v Speaker 1>when we're talking about these people and we're gonna make connections,

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<v Speaker 1>it's because if you've ever known anybody, or you've ever

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<v Speaker 1>lived it, who's in a small town, everybody knows everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>and everybody's connected. And that's that's the point of what

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<v Speaker 1>I think is the reason that we're bringing up these

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<v Speaker 1>these particulars and they have they have very defined actions

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<v Speaker 1>that connects them to the case. It may not be murders,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm going to talk about that right now. So

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<v Speaker 1>Paula Guillory, she was a deputy um in Jennings for

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<v Speaker 1>a while. She has no longer a deputy. She has

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<v Speaker 1>since been fired. She was part of the task force

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<v Speaker 1>and she was charged with managing the evidence in a

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<v Speaker 1>case against a guy named Frankie Richard, who we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about in a minute, because about four thousand

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<v Speaker 1>dollars was missing after it was cataloged. It just went

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<v Speaker 1>missing out of evidence. So she was excused of taking

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<v Speaker 1>that money. Yeah, it was actually one. She was turning

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<v Speaker 1>it into be catalog. That's when it came missing. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And then and I don't know that Ethan talked a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit about this, so we'll get a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>into the nitty gritty of that. Um. But she was

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<v Speaker 1>fired for theft and um claims of tampering with the

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<v Speaker 1>evidence or theft of evidence. And she was at one

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<v Speaker 1>time married to a man named Terry Guillory as also

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<v Speaker 1>a cop who was actually the warden at the local jail,

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<v Speaker 1>who was cousins with one of the murder victims, the

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<v Speaker 1>seventh murder victim. He was the warden at a local jail,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was alleged to have tricked out female inmates,

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<v Speaker 1>which I guess means that means you put really cool

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<v Speaker 1>accessories on he was. It's essentially he was pimping them out,

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<v Speaker 1>which is not a good thing to have somebody in

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<v Speaker 1>a position of authority doing that kind of stuff. Happens though.

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<v Speaker 1>And then Officer Warren Gary, who as far as we

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<v Speaker 1>can tell, has no actual relation to Brittany Gary who

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<v Speaker 1>was remember six if you're keeping track, and he I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to get too deep into it, but he

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<v Speaker 1>purchased a truck that was probably evidence and then detailed it,

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<v Speaker 1>thus negating any evidence that would be in said truck.

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<v Speaker 1>And he purchased it from Warden Terry Guillory actually broker.

0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.960
<v Speaker 1>This Guillory broker the sale. He actually bought it from somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry for passing, and that that evidence. Just so we

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<v Speaker 1>can tie back to our victims, would be it's related

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<v Speaker 1>to the Lopez murder, which is victim number three. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so those are the three main police officers that were

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<v Speaker 1>we'll talk about a little bit in regards to this case. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>Now we talked about the pulitzide, the Pope Poz. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk about some of the other local characters. There's there's

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<v Speaker 1>a guy that's kind of at the center of a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of this stuff whose name is Frankie Richard. Frankie

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<v Speaker 1>is an older guy and he's been around the block

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<v Speaker 1>a few times. He is has got his fingers and

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of pies in Jennings. He is rumored alleged

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<v Speaker 1>to be a major pimp, and it's it's rumored that

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<v Speaker 1>he actually pimped out all the women who were murdered,

0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.720
<v Speaker 1>all but one actually Okay, yeah, it was he yeah,

0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:29.760
<v Speaker 1>it was all but one of them he had pimped out. Yeah. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>He's involved in various other things like for example, um,

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<v Speaker 1>the raid where Paula Guillory, the policewoman that we just

0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.480
<v Speaker 1>talked about that got her in hot water, was a

0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.080
<v Speaker 1>raid on his house. So he had a bunch of

0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.960
<v Speaker 1>other people in this. In this particular instance, had been

0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.760
<v Speaker 1>running this rain where they they broke into people's homes

0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.480
<v Speaker 1>and stole stuff including cash and coins and jewelry and

0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:55.160
<v Speaker 1>stuff like that. And so they rated, including including Paula

0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:56.920
<v Speaker 1>Guillory and some other people. They rated his home and

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<v Speaker 1>arrested a few people and confiscated a bunch of material,

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<v Speaker 1>including the evidence that she was supposed to turn in

0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.000
<v Speaker 1>four thousand dollars was turned in missing, So that was all.

0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.800
<v Speaker 1>That was all Frankie ri Shard. So he's he's been

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<v Speaker 1>involved in a lot of this. And if you talked

0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.600
<v Speaker 1>to h if you talk to Ethan Brown, Ethan Brown

0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.560
<v Speaker 1>actually spent a lot of time hanging out with Frankie

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<v Speaker 1>ri Shard. He's kind of the he's kind of the

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<v Speaker 1>crime kingpan of Jenny. Yeah, he doesn't he doesn't sound

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<v Speaker 1>like the kind of guy I want to sit around

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<v Speaker 1>and have a beer with I've watched interviews with him,

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<v Speaker 1>and he is creepy. He's creepy. The word to use.

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<v Speaker 1>Creepy is the word that I would use, but in

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<v Speaker 1>the way that it's unsettling to talk to people who

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<v Speaker 1>might not be all the way they're generally. Oh, you

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<v Speaker 1>mean a long term drug users, somebody who's been using

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<v Speaker 1>drugs for a long time, and they're talking, he's talking

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<v Speaker 1>and stuff, but he's just not there's something there. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just like, you know, like a there's a wire that's

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<v Speaker 1>not totally connected. He's not in that weird it's hard

0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:08.480
<v Speaker 1>to describe. He himself admitted to like decades of drug

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<v Speaker 1>and alcohol abuse. Definitely. Yeah, And I unfortunately, just because

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<v Speaker 1>of where I grew up, I know a lot of

0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.880
<v Speaker 1>people like that, and so I can I totally understand

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<v Speaker 1>what you're saying. There's something you talk to somebody like

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<v Speaker 1>it's I guess it's that like there's like a bit

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<v Speaker 1>of like emotional connection that seems to be missing. And

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<v Speaker 1>I also think that it's the loose wire that you

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<v Speaker 1>talked about. Yeah, I actually think it's not loose. It's

0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.120
<v Speaker 1>connected to the wrong spot and they make a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of weird rapid jumps and that's that's unsettling. A lot

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<v Speaker 1>of heavy drug uses. And those are the people that

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<v Speaker 1>I've always found were like that. They just they skip

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<v Speaker 1>back and forth. It's it's like a needle on a

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<v Speaker 1>record that is in a car driving down the road.

0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.400
<v Speaker 1>It's just I've known people like that. And you know, again,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll post a link to a video an interview with him,

0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:07.000
<v Speaker 1>but it's uh, yeah, sorry, not until that's fine. But yeah, anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>so we talked about Frankie Ushard. Just another side about Frankie.

0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.040
<v Speaker 1>He was he was actually uh they actually tried to

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<v Speaker 1>put him on trial for one of the murders because

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<v Speaker 1>somebody named there's another character I'm going to produce you now,

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<v Speaker 1>Tracy Chase Song is a person who a female person

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<v Speaker 1>who claims that she saw Frankie and his god niece

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<v Speaker 1>Hannah Connor murder Dubois. Which who was which one? She

0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.880
<v Speaker 1>was the fourth victim? I believe? Yeah, Okay, so Tracy

0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.520
<v Speaker 1>actually claimed to a scene Frankie Richard murder a couple

0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.320
<v Speaker 1>of different people. And then of course I mentioned Hannah

0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.480
<v Speaker 1>Hannah Connor that is again Richard's god niece, and they

0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.159
<v Speaker 1>spent some time hanging out together. In terms of the

0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.040
<v Speaker 1>Dubois murder, which of course Frankie didn't never actually got

0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.639
<v Speaker 1>tried for because for lack of evidence. UM she claimed

0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.040
<v Speaker 1>that she was sitting around getting high with du Bois,

0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.919
<v Speaker 1>Hannah Connor, Frankie Rochard, and herself, and Frankie made a

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<v Speaker 1>move on. Du Bois wanted to like have sex with her.

0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.800
<v Speaker 1>She refused, so he got angry beat her up, and

0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.959
<v Speaker 1>that supposedly Hanna Khan her and Hannah Connor held her

0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.720
<v Speaker 1>down and they drowned her. I don't know how that works.

0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.920
<v Speaker 1>Exactly four seven up down her throat until she can't

0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.000
<v Speaker 1>breathe anymore. But yeah, well we won't go into the

0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.920
<v Speaker 1>grizzly details, but let's just say that she was found

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<v Speaker 1>next to um, what's it's canal because the area it's

0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.200
<v Speaker 1>in Louisiana, so it's surrounded by canals, and they drowned her.

0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.560
<v Speaker 1>She she was drowned. And and actually that brings up

0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.440
<v Speaker 1>one thing that I did forget to mention when we

0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.720
<v Speaker 1>were talking about her victims is that six of our

0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.200
<v Speaker 1>eight victims we don't have a confirmed cause a death.

0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.800
<v Speaker 1>They were two they were too decomposed. They believe it

0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.960
<v Speaker 1>was aphyxia, but they can't confirm that. And then the

0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.320
<v Speaker 1>other two, which this is terrible. With the other two,

0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.880
<v Speaker 1>they know the cause of death because their throats were

0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.679
<v Speaker 1>cut they slit. So so yeah, so I I just

0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.919
<v Speaker 1>because that one, I know, they talked about drowning this

0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.199
<v Speaker 1>particular individual. Okay, Now, speaking of speaking of some of

0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.080
<v Speaker 1>the other characters involved, there's a couple of guys Byron

0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:24.199
<v Speaker 1>Jones and Lawrence Nixon, who are just just general narrative

0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.720
<v Speaker 1>wells who hung around Jennings. They were charged for Patterson's murder.

0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.720
<v Speaker 1>Patterson was the second the second victim. She was discovered

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand six, two thousand seven five. Okay, so

0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.919
<v Speaker 1>they were charged with her murder. About the charges were

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<v Speaker 1>dropped due to lack of evidence. Yeah, just a reoccurring theme.

0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.359
<v Speaker 1>They're just yeah, there's not a lot of evidence, and

0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.640
<v Speaker 1>yeah and so and and either these guys are really

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<v Speaker 1>good but or you know, covering up evidence or you know,

0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.400
<v Speaker 1>I guess if you toss the body somewhere and it's

0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:55.919
<v Speaker 1>not found for a long time, but by the time

0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.359
<v Speaker 1>they find the body, all the evidence has sort of

0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:02.480
<v Speaker 1>been washed away. You know. That's so Connie Siler. So

0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.720
<v Speaker 1>she was the last one to see Lopez alive. Lopez

0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.000
<v Speaker 1>was the third victim, and she was involved with this

0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.480
<v Speaker 1>pickup truck that was broken by this one cop to

0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.240
<v Speaker 1>another cop who bought it and the audio, yeah, which

0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.600
<v Speaker 1>we talked about just do. But she was perfectly involved

0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.000
<v Speaker 1>because of her pickout truck. Maybe she used the money

0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:22.360
<v Speaker 1>from that sale to pay off a bunch of bad

0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.880
<v Speaker 1>checks and get herself out of trouble. So those are

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<v Speaker 1>just some of the other major players. Now let's let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk about a couple of the because I know you

0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.600
<v Speaker 1>in the beginning you mentioned that there's some other murders

0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.159
<v Speaker 1>and when we talk to Ethan, and this will come

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<v Speaker 1>up in the interview, is that there is a huge

0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.639
<v Speaker 1>murder rate and there's a huge unsolved murder rate. But

0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.920
<v Speaker 1>her number of murders. But there's a couple of clearance right, Yeah,

0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:46.600
<v Speaker 1>low clearance rate is a good way to put it.

0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.400
<v Speaker 1>There's a couple of other facts that you should probably

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<v Speaker 1>know before we get too far along, although we're already

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<v Speaker 1>pretty far along. Uh. There is a death of a

0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:04.000
<v Speaker 1>local man who is let Crochet, and he died on

0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:09.520
<v Speaker 1>in April of two thousand and five, Croche was was

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<v Speaker 1>killed in the term is has been dubbed a botched

0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.800
<v Speaker 1>police raids. So there was a bunch of people at

0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.320
<v Speaker 1>the house. They were all doing drugs. The cops came

0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.360
<v Speaker 1>in and the electricity had been cut off. There's no electricity,

0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.560
<v Speaker 1>and and for reasons unknown, the cops opened fire in

0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.920
<v Speaker 1>the middle of this what was otherwise a peaceful drug raid. Yes,

0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.560
<v Speaker 1>and killed this man and killed this man. And there

0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:39.880
<v Speaker 1>have been theories positive that these women we know for

0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.040
<v Speaker 1>sure at least one of the victims was there, but

0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:47.400
<v Speaker 1>it's been positive that they all knew something about that

0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.000
<v Speaker 1>police shooting and that was the reason that they were

0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:55.159
<v Speaker 1>all targeted. Yeah, and in a small town, everybody talks.

0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.199
<v Speaker 1>They won't talk to the cops, but they'll talk to

0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.600
<v Speaker 1>each other and they will share information and red rumors

0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.359
<v Speaker 1>like wildfire. Yeah. Although I gotta tell you though, I

0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:07.800
<v Speaker 1>am I really don't buy into that theory personally, No,

0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.720
<v Speaker 1>I think I think that's weak sauce. But I want

0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:12.720
<v Speaker 1>to put it out there. Some people are aware of

0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:17.240
<v Speaker 1>that one. Yeah, there is. There's there's two other deaths

0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.760
<v Speaker 1>that I want to talk about. One of them is

0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.960
<v Speaker 1>in relation to the fourth victim, which is whitneyd Wi

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<v Speaker 1>And there was a man by the name of Harvey

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<v Speaker 1>bird Dog Burier. I believe I'm pronouncing that right. I

0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:37.560
<v Speaker 1>think it's either yeah, Okay, we'll go with that. Everything

0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:39.720
<v Speaker 1>is kind of French and yeah, and that's why I'm

0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:45.439
<v Speaker 1>not good with friendships. Yeah. So bird Dog was was

0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:50.040
<v Speaker 1>shot to death. You're right, he was stabbed to death.

0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what I'm on a shooting thing. Evidently

0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:58.399
<v Speaker 1>he was stabbed to death after telling people that he

0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:03.359
<v Speaker 1>was close to figuring out who was responsible for the

0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:09.120
<v Speaker 1>Dubois killing Whitney Dubois. So he died because of that,

0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.280
<v Speaker 1>and his murder has never been solved, well not necessarily

0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.080
<v Speaker 1>because of that, but it is a little suspicious. Well again,

0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.600
<v Speaker 1>it's you draw one another. He's walking around town telling

0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.800
<v Speaker 1>everybody he's working on the case and he's figuring out

0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:25.719
<v Speaker 1>and then suddenly he's stabbed down. Yeah. And then another

0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.119
<v Speaker 1>victim that's on the periphety that I want to talk

0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:34.240
<v Speaker 1>about is Ussell Carrier is a carrier carrier Okay, we'll

0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:36.560
<v Speaker 1>just say carrier and we'll probably be wrong on that,

0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:43.520
<v Speaker 1>but Russell Carrier, Uh, he after Crystal Zeno, how did

0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:50.040
<v Speaker 1>we anyway? Crystal? After the Zenno murder, he reported seeing

0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:54.000
<v Speaker 1>three men leaving the woods, leaving the woods where the

0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.080
<v Speaker 1>body was found, leaving the woods where the body was found,

0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.440
<v Speaker 1>and and he said that he had spotted these three men.

0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:04.400
<v Speaker 1>And it is a man by the name of Irvin

0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:13.080
<v Speaker 1>Tyson Morton, Eugene dog Ivory and Ricardo Tiger Williams. And

0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:15.880
<v Speaker 1>those middle names are all nicknames. They are. Yes, yeah,

0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.320
<v Speaker 1>that's that's a good thing to say. Those there, by

0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:22.800
<v Speaker 1>the way, they are all close associatests Frankie Richard and

0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:28.600
<v Speaker 1>all people the task force had named as suspects in

0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:33.119
<v Speaker 1>the Lopez homicide. Well, actually no, um Irvin was the

0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:36.840
<v Speaker 1>only one that had been specifically that I know had

0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:41.480
<v Speaker 1>specifically been targeted in the Lopez murder. But they're all,

0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:47.000
<v Speaker 1>as Joe said, they're all associates of Richard. And here's

0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:51.800
<v Speaker 1>here's the the weird thing is that Um is Russell.

0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:54.880
<v Speaker 1>His cause of death was he laid down in front

0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.520
<v Speaker 1>of a train. Yeah, I know. That's that's one of

0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:00.640
<v Speaker 1>my favorite napping spots is on railroad tracks. Yeah. Yeah,

0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:02.680
<v Speaker 1>he was snoozing on the tracks and the train came

0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:09.840
<v Speaker 1>along and killed him. So nothing suspicious about that. You know.

0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:13.560
<v Speaker 1>Some people said, oh, yeah it was a suicide, but like, no,

0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't know that there's any documented cases of somebody

0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.679
<v Speaker 1>laying in front of a train. People do it, you know,

0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:22.960
<v Speaker 1>but but you freak out right, you have your last

0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:26.159
<v Speaker 1>minute of like you're just like primal. Whatever we're going to,

0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:31.360
<v Speaker 1>I think it would be that that commits suicide via

0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:35.320
<v Speaker 1>train usually jump from just lay down because when you're

0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:38.600
<v Speaker 1>laying down, you know your natural inclinations to think about things,

0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:41.760
<v Speaker 1>so that it's very jumping in front of a train.

0:25:41.840 --> 0:25:44.080
<v Speaker 1>You know, Suicide by train is very common in places

0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:47.560
<v Speaker 1>like Japan, but in places like Louisiana, guns are pretty plentiful.

0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:49.480
<v Speaker 1>This it would be a lot easier and quicker to

0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:51.240
<v Speaker 1>grab a twelve gage just stick it in your mouth.

0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.080
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, you just run out to one

0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:57.360
<v Speaker 1>of those canals yourself to the fishes. Yeah. Yeah, it's

0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:59.680
<v Speaker 1>lot of ways to do it, definitely better quicker, easier

0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:02.640
<v Speaker 1>ways and laying down the tracks. So okay, I think

0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:05.760
<v Speaker 1>are we all in agreement that we've kind of laid

0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:09.439
<v Speaker 1>out as a skeleton overview the case. Yeah, do we

0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:12.480
<v Speaker 1>want to just like quickly mentioned that a couple of

0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:17.879
<v Speaker 1>the eight were interviewed about murders that happened previous to

0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:21.080
<v Speaker 1>their murders. That's actually probably a very good thing. So

0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:25.200
<v Speaker 1>Kristen Lopez, who there's a lot of connections, she seems

0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:28.400
<v Speaker 1>to be one of the big more connected. She's kind

0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:31.240
<v Speaker 1>of a hot spot. Yeah, she was interviewed about the

0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:35.320
<v Speaker 1>Lynn Lewis murder, which was the first body that they found,

0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:38.639
<v Speaker 1>and then I guess, just not so long after she

0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:43.760
<v Speaker 1>was interviewed, she was murdered. And then Brown, who was

0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:47.800
<v Speaker 1>the fifth person to be found, was interviewed about the

0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:51.359
<v Speaker 1>Patterson murder, which was the second murder or the second

0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:54.280
<v Speaker 1>body to have been found. Again, we don't totally know

0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:58.399
<v Speaker 1>when the murders happened, we know when they were found. Um,

0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:01.119
<v Speaker 1>so she was interviewed at that and then you know,

0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:05.600
<v Speaker 1>if you kind of add the bird Dog and Russell

0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:10.080
<v Speaker 1>potential murders in with that, I guess that would be

0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:14.680
<v Speaker 1>about four people who were interviewed or said something about

0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:17.080
<v Speaker 1>the case. And I think that's a company I think

0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:21.080
<v Speaker 1>that does talk about this. It's much clearer, it's much clearer.

0:27:21.080 --> 0:27:24.360
<v Speaker 1>But they foundation all knew each other we're all wrapped

0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:28.720
<v Speaker 1>up in it. And it's also been positive. There's Sessaman

0:27:28.840 --> 0:27:30.960
<v Speaker 1>said that they were all informants for the local, and

0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:33.120
<v Speaker 1>that's thank you, Joe, because that's right where I was going,

0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:37.880
<v Speaker 1>is that these ladies were all supposedly informants. I think

0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:44.640
<v Speaker 1>that the clearest case, I believe it was um Nicole Guillory.

0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:50.560
<v Speaker 1>She had a pretty serious rap sheet and she had

0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:54.159
<v Speaker 1>a lot of things on her rap sheet, but she

0:27:54.760 --> 0:27:57.040
<v Speaker 1>the d A decided not to follow it. And Joe,

0:27:57.040 --> 0:28:01.520
<v Speaker 1>do you remember the phrase for when you're an informant

0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:04.439
<v Speaker 1>and they don't want to follow through because you're an

0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:07.359
<v Speaker 1>informant And I don't remember that. I don't remember that.

0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.119
<v Speaker 1>There's a phrase. It's a Latin phrase, but essentially what

0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:13.160
<v Speaker 1>it means is that we don't want to follow through

0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:15.520
<v Speaker 1>because you're our informant, and we don't want to get

0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:18.000
<v Speaker 1>you out of the field because then we're not getting

0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:22.000
<v Speaker 1>information out of you anymore. And all these women had

0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:25.600
<v Speaker 1>things like that against him. We're copscious, like, oh no,

0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:27.479
<v Speaker 1>we don't, we don't want to pursue that case. So

0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:30.760
<v Speaker 1>you beat that guy with an axe handle, Well, that's okay,

0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:32.800
<v Speaker 1>that that John deserved it. We don't want to follow

0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:36.160
<v Speaker 1>that case. It literally cases like that. So yeah, So

0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:38.400
<v Speaker 1>one of the things that I suspect with these if

0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.400
<v Speaker 1>if they were all informing to the local police, if

0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:44.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, and and it appears that Jennings actually had

0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:46.840
<v Speaker 1>really kind of a crime syndicate. There's kind of a

0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:50.280
<v Speaker 1>mafia there, and they probably had at least one mole

0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.959
<v Speaker 1>inside the police department, which means that if you're informing

0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:57.360
<v Speaker 1>and on members of the crime syndicate, then the mall

0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:00.480
<v Speaker 1>gets the information back to the crime syndicate, that would

0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:03.080
<v Speaker 1>be possibly a factor and you're getting murdered somewhere later

0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:06.400
<v Speaker 1>on down the line. All these women were informing, and

0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:08.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure there was a mole at least one corrupt

0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:12.280
<v Speaker 1>cop inside inside who was passing information along with the criminals.

0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:16.040
<v Speaker 1>A little bit feel like we should talk about a

0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:19.400
<v Speaker 1>lot of this police stuff that we're talking about our

0:29:19.960 --> 0:29:27.440
<v Speaker 1>recent revelations based around Ethan Brown's investigation. So I think

0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:30.240
<v Speaker 1>that a little bit we should say for a long

0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.200
<v Speaker 1>time people thought that there was just a really crazy

0:29:33.240 --> 0:29:38.280
<v Speaker 1>serial killer on the loose in Jennings, um that it

0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:40.960
<v Speaker 1>was one person who was killing a lot of people.

0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:43.680
<v Speaker 1>And it's still you know, it's still totally plausible that

0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:46.520
<v Speaker 1>it's just one person, but that that person, you know,

0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:49.400
<v Speaker 1>was on a killing spree from two thousand two thousand

0:29:49.520 --> 0:29:51.680
<v Speaker 1>nine and moved to you know, I've even seen I've

0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:54.719
<v Speaker 1>seen a lot of stuff in my research, um just

0:29:55.080 --> 0:29:58.320
<v Speaker 1>looking through like you know, looking through threads on Reddit

0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:03.520
<v Speaker 1>or looking at a are kind of internet investigation places

0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:06.200
<v Speaker 1>where people kind of talk, you know, on forums, and

0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.240
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people say, oh, yeah, the Jennings cases,

0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:12.360
<v Speaker 1>the Jennings eight are connected to this serial killer that

0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:16.480
<v Speaker 1>they apprehended in California two years later, and it was

0:30:16.560 --> 0:30:19.479
<v Speaker 1>just like that this person was passing through there. So

0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:22.400
<v Speaker 1>I think it's very and just decided to stick around

0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:25.000
<v Speaker 1>for about four years. And yeah, well, I think it's

0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:28.920
<v Speaker 1>important to mention that for a really long time that

0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:34.440
<v Speaker 1>was the assumption, including the task forces assumption that there's

0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:39.400
<v Speaker 1>just a crazy serial killer killing prostitutes. Jennings not an

0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:42.760
<v Speaker 1>outrageous assumption. I agree with it. Yeah, yeah, it's not,

0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:45.480
<v Speaker 1>but it's not not necessarily be the case. There might

0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:48.040
<v Speaker 1>be multiple murders. I know that Frankie Shardaki is one

0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:50.920
<v Speaker 1>of the local cops of being responsible for the murders

0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:53.120
<v Speaker 1>because and I can't remember the cops name, and I

0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:54.400
<v Speaker 1>don't want to repeat it because I don't want to

0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:58.880
<v Speaker 1>slander anybody's day. But this guy apparently was a little

0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.600
<v Speaker 1>bit kinky and none to frequent the prostitutes of Jennings

0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:07.760
<v Speaker 1>and when the ladies he did and uh and when

0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:11.760
<v Speaker 1>he died, the murder stopped. Now Frankie Shark, Frankie Shard

0:31:11.800 --> 0:31:14.840
<v Speaker 1>claims that it was probably him. But at the same time,

0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:17.959
<v Speaker 1>Ethan Brown, for example, thinks that doesn't place a lot

0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:22.080
<v Speaker 1>of credibility in that. He doesn't. He thinks he's people

0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:24.840
<v Speaker 1>believes that that cop possibly is in well, that one

0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:26.840
<v Speaker 1>of the murders, but not all of them. Yeah, So

0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:28.760
<v Speaker 1>I think I just think it's really important to talk

0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:33.800
<v Speaker 1>about the fact that until Brown published his article, really

0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:38.160
<v Speaker 1>in terms of the coverage that this was getting nationwide,

0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:41.920
<v Speaker 1>it was always a serial kid. It's just a serial killer. No,

0:31:42.080 --> 0:31:44.080
<v Speaker 1>that's that's a very good point to make, And thank you,

0:31:44.120 --> 0:31:47.480
<v Speaker 1>I think miss that I totally forgot to bring that up.

0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:49.400
<v Speaker 1>So that's perfect. I think, you know, while we're kind

0:31:49.400 --> 0:31:51.800
<v Speaker 1>of talking, what we're talking about all this police corruption,

0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:54.120
<v Speaker 1>but that police corruption didn't really come to light until

0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:57.040
<v Speaker 1>I guess when did the article come out. It was

0:31:57.080 --> 0:32:03.120
<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and ten, later than Ethan's article came out,

0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:06.200
<v Speaker 1>relatively recently. I'm sorry, I'm getting my dates. Yeah, and

0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.400
<v Speaker 1>by the way, I know I mentioned his book earlier,

0:32:09.440 --> 0:32:12.640
<v Speaker 1>but he's been he's still since reading that writing that article,

0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:14.520
<v Speaker 1>has been still on the case and talk to a

0:32:14.600 --> 0:32:18.520
<v Speaker 1>lot more people and says that he's uncovered a lot

0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:22.760
<v Speaker 1>more stuff. Yeah. So and unfortunately, so what we're gonna do.

0:32:22.840 --> 0:32:25.400
<v Speaker 1>I think at this point it's a good time to

0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:28.200
<v Speaker 1>to to bring in our interview. So we were lucky enough,

0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:31.120
<v Speaker 1>like I said before, to to talk to Ethan. Uh.

0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:33.680
<v Speaker 1>And there's a couple of things. So I know Devin,

0:32:34.000 --> 0:32:37.920
<v Speaker 1>ironically enough, you wouldn't be here because she was in court.

0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:43.360
<v Speaker 1>She was actually luckily off. She got a good lawyer.

0:32:48.160 --> 0:32:51.440
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, so Devin wasn't able to join us. But

0:32:51.560 --> 0:32:53.440
<v Speaker 1>Joe and I did talk to it. I have reviewed

0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:56.040
<v Speaker 1>the interview. Uh, And there's a couple of things that

0:32:56.040 --> 0:32:59.960
<v Speaker 1>I want to say, which is Ethan, we do bound

0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:02.680
<v Speaker 1>it around a little bit, and we tried to take

0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:05.080
<v Speaker 1>it in order. But this case is such a tangled

0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:07.760
<v Speaker 1>mess that it may feel like we're jumping around, and

0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:11.080
<v Speaker 1>that's not intentional. We're just following threads. That's why we

0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:14.200
<v Speaker 1>try to lay everything out. Yeah, because it's already even

0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:16.560
<v Speaker 1>just in this last you know, thirty minutes that we've

0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:18.720
<v Speaker 1>been trying, however long we've been talking about it, it's

0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:23.600
<v Speaker 1>a mess. You are absolutely, by the way, I believe

0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:26.000
<v Speaker 1>that these murders are never going to be solved. Yeah.

0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:28.960
<v Speaker 1>The the other thing I will tell you is, uh,

0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:32.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, usually we get really lucky when we're recording

0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:39.560
<v Speaker 1>an interview. Unfortunately, our connection on this interview wasn't the best,

0:33:40.120 --> 0:33:42.120
<v Speaker 1>and that's going to happen. There's just nothing we can

0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:44.600
<v Speaker 1>do to control that. So there are times that the

0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:48.840
<v Speaker 1>audio is a little rough, and we've done what we

0:33:48.880 --> 0:33:52.640
<v Speaker 1>could to clean that up. So bear with us as

0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:55.640
<v Speaker 1>as the interview plays out. Sometimes it gets a little funny.

0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:58.840
<v Speaker 1>That's what happens when you record a phone call. But

0:33:59.000 --> 0:34:03.280
<v Speaker 1>with that having been said, let's go ahead and let's

0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:05.960
<v Speaker 1>talk to Ethan and then we'll we'll talk some more

0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:09.759
<v Speaker 1>about the case. Okay, So to start off with what

0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:12.200
<v Speaker 1>I was kind of hoping is, because this story is

0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:16.279
<v Speaker 1>pretty convoluted, is the best description that I can come

0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:18.920
<v Speaker 1>up with. I was hoping you could kind of walk

0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.200
<v Speaker 1>us through the story a little bit just to to

0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:26.160
<v Speaker 1>help kind of illustrate it for our listeners. Sure, I'll

0:34:26.200 --> 0:34:29.520
<v Speaker 1>walk you through the Barrett Mowings version of it first perfect.

0:34:31.400 --> 0:34:36.280
<v Speaker 1>So from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine,

0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:44.560
<v Speaker 1>the bodies of eight female prostitute. We're found um in

0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:51.640
<v Speaker 1>swamps and kind of abandoned roads and and and voided

0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:57.680
<v Speaker 1>areas of a town called Jennings, which is the parish

0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:03.760
<v Speaker 1>seat of Jefferson Davis Parish in Louisiana. UM. In Louisiana,

0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:09.320
<v Speaker 1>what we have is parishes, not county. So in other

0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.600
<v Speaker 1>states you would have come from Maryland, you would have

0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:17.400
<v Speaker 1>Montgomery County for example, right, So in Louisiana and you

0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:22.760
<v Speaker 1>have parishes. So Jennings is the parish to Jefferson Davis Parish,

0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:26.799
<v Speaker 1>and Jefferson Davis Parish is a tiny parish in the

0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:33.799
<v Speaker 1>very very far west corner of Louisiana's exactly. It's very

0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:38.000
<v Speaker 1>close to Texas, UM. And the population is only about

0:35:38.000 --> 0:35:42.799
<v Speaker 1>thirty thousand for the entire parish, and the population of

0:35:42.880 --> 0:35:50.960
<v Speaker 1>Jennings is about ten thousand, so it's even smaller. So again, oh,

0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:53.440
<v Speaker 1>I just say I took a little, a little street

0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:56.840
<v Speaker 1>tour on Google street View yesterday, and it's not a

0:35:56.840 --> 0:36:01.240
<v Speaker 1>bad looking little town. Um, but I noticed there was nobody.

0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:03.000
<v Speaker 1>There was nobody out and about. It was like you

0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:06.000
<v Speaker 1>see cars driving. I always saw one human being on

0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:09.360
<v Speaker 1>a sidewalk. It was kind of scary. Right. It's a

0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:14.719
<v Speaker 1>very very small town. And what's interesting about it is

0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:19.960
<v Speaker 1>that the it's a it's a very divided town. The

0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:25.799
<v Speaker 1>north side of Jennings has things like the library, the courthouse,

0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:30.640
<v Speaker 1>a few car dealerships, you know, sort of typical small

0:36:30.680 --> 0:36:36.320
<v Speaker 1>town stuff. Right. The south side, which is actually divided

0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:42.279
<v Speaker 1>by railroad tracks, so the cliche across the tracks, it's

0:36:42.320 --> 0:36:50.520
<v Speaker 1>completely truelier. South side, uh, conversely, is abandoned homes, trailer parks,

0:36:51.120 --> 0:36:56.440
<v Speaker 1>very very small single family homes and things like that.

0:36:56.480 --> 0:36:59.640
<v Speaker 1>So it's it's quite different than the north side. Like

0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:02.680
<v Speaker 1>of a race racially segregated town. I mean, it's like

0:37:04.000 --> 0:37:10.759
<v Speaker 1>it's not. And that's also what's interesting. It's segregated by class. Um.

0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:14.680
<v Speaker 1>South side Jennings is actually African American and white. And

0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:17.400
<v Speaker 1>we talk to folks I've actually been doing. I have

0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:20.600
<v Speaker 1>a book deal to write a book about this case.

0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:23.200
<v Speaker 1>I've been doing a lot of a lot more investigations

0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:27.200
<v Speaker 1>since the article came out, and you hear phrases used

0:37:27.280 --> 0:37:30.880
<v Speaker 1>by south side residents talk about the north side like

0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:36.520
<v Speaker 1>high class, high falutin and things like that. So it's

0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:40.879
<v Speaker 1>a class devide, it's not a race divide. South Side

0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:43.719
<v Speaker 1>Jennings is very racially mixed actually, so you have these

0:37:43.719 --> 0:37:46.960
<v Speaker 1>two separate sides of the town and south Buds Tennings

0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:50.480
<v Speaker 1>is where all of these women who were killed. Uh,

0:37:50.480 --> 0:37:55.200
<v Speaker 1>we're firm, so there's very bare bones. Uh. Sketch of

0:37:55.239 --> 0:37:57.400
<v Speaker 1>the story is that from two thousand and five or

0:37:57.400 --> 0:38:01.279
<v Speaker 1>two thousand and nine, eight female obstitutes, all from the

0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:05.160
<v Speaker 1>south side of Jennings were killed and their bodies were

0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:11.360
<v Speaker 1>dumped either in canals I'm kind of dirt roads or

0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:16.520
<v Speaker 1>in wooded areas uh in and around James so um

0:38:16.560 --> 0:38:18.759
<v Speaker 1>and and all. And it's important to note, obviously that

0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:24.200
<v Speaker 1>every single one of those murders is unsolved. Um. At

0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:28.560
<v Speaker 1>one time, very briefly, charges were brought in one of

0:38:28.640 --> 0:38:32.360
<v Speaker 1>the cases, the case of a woman named Kristin Darry Lopez,

0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:36.560
<v Speaker 1>who was murdered in two thousand and seven, and charges

0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:40.680
<v Speaker 1>were brought against the very notorious temp on the south

0:38:40.760 --> 0:38:44.719
<v Speaker 1>Side and Frankie re Shard, But those charges were very

0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:48.319
<v Speaker 1>quickly dropped, so all the homicides are un sold. But

0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:51.640
<v Speaker 1>the charges, I guess we shared. Those are based on

0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:57.120
<v Speaker 1>what's your name is? Tracy? Tracy chefs On is very interesting.

0:38:57.200 --> 0:39:01.320
<v Speaker 1>She's the cousin of the first them, whose name is

0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:07.560
<v Speaker 1>Florida chefs Song. And um, she was for a very

0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:11.280
<v Speaker 1>long time a pimp, I'm sorry at a prostitute working

0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:17.200
<v Speaker 1>for Rechard's attempt and the reason it's not entirely clear

0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:21.160
<v Speaker 1>why the charges against Rechard were dropped, but it appears

0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:27.440
<v Speaker 1>to be that she provided inconsistent statements to the police

0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:32.600
<v Speaker 1>regarding that homicide. Yeah, now she she's she originally told

0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:36.360
<v Speaker 1>the police that she had witnessed Richard and Hannah Connor

0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:42.360
<v Speaker 1>murder Kristin Lopez next to a canal. Yeah, and correct.

0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:47.040
<v Speaker 1>Hannah Connor is a kind of a god niece Frankie Eschard,

0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:52.960
<v Speaker 1>who was also very close with all the murdered women. Yeah,

0:39:53.040 --> 0:39:59.320
<v Speaker 1>and so the was it Tracy is a chess On? Yeah, okay,

0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:01.440
<v Speaker 1>Tracy just on that now she was a source? Was

0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:04.440
<v Speaker 1>the source also the accusation about the pickup truck No,

0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:09.480
<v Speaker 1>she was not in in in two thousand and seven

0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:12.840
<v Speaker 1>and advert about us a bid in my piece, a

0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:17.560
<v Speaker 1>detective with the Jennings Police named Jess the Ewing interviewed

0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:24.400
<v Speaker 1>to female inmates who provided statements to him in which

0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:31.319
<v Speaker 1>they talked about Hannah Connor confessing her involvement in at

0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:36.600
<v Speaker 1>least one of the homicides and I think perhaps two

0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:40.920
<v Speaker 1>as well. And they all I mean inmates also said

0:40:40.960 --> 0:40:47.799
<v Speaker 1>that Connor confessed to them that Frankie Eschard worked with

0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:53.280
<v Speaker 1>actually the chief criminal investigator of the Jefferson Davis Parash

0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:58.160
<v Speaker 1>Sheriff's Office, a guy named Warren Gary, to dispose of

0:40:58.239 --> 0:41:02.480
<v Speaker 1>DNA evidence in the Kristen Garry lott Is homicide. Yeah,

0:41:02.520 --> 0:41:05.000
<v Speaker 1>but but she supposedly was murdered by the banks of

0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:08.160
<v Speaker 1>the canal where she was found. Correct, that's according to

0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:13.279
<v Speaker 1>the Shafton statement. It's not clear that that's correct. It's

0:41:13.320 --> 0:41:16.480
<v Speaker 1>complicated little town. It seems like everybody was informing on everybody.

0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:20.720
<v Speaker 1>It's a it's a very complex town. But the more

0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:26.640
<v Speaker 1>time I've spend there, the more I realized that it's

0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:30.560
<v Speaker 1>it's a town that's very much doomed by its geography,

0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:36.920
<v Speaker 1>meaning that Jennings is literally like if you're driving on

0:41:37.000 --> 0:41:41.840
<v Speaker 1>I ten and a big highway that connects um Houston

0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:45.399
<v Speaker 1>to New Orleans. If you're driving on I tent, it's

0:41:45.440 --> 0:41:50.239
<v Speaker 1>like a driveway kind of off ten. It's literally on

0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:54.000
<v Speaker 1>the highway. And I've spent in that area is a

0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:59.640
<v Speaker 1>major major drug trafficking route. And then the amount of

0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:05.440
<v Speaker 1>drug us coming through Jennings and around Jennings is staggering.

0:42:06.200 --> 0:42:11.360
<v Speaker 1>And it's cocaine, it's craft, it's prescription pills, it's everything.

0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:15.920
<v Speaker 1>So Jennings is really really that's kind of the heart

0:42:16.360 --> 0:42:20.520
<v Speaker 1>of the drug trade in that area. And I've actually

0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:24.960
<v Speaker 1>since my pieces has around, I've actually talked to people

0:42:25.160 --> 0:42:28.200
<v Speaker 1>who were in the drug game for a long time

0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:31.000
<v Speaker 1>and Jennings and you know, they they would tell me

0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:35.360
<v Speaker 1>stories about you know, oh, you know everybody, and Jennings

0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:37.960
<v Speaker 1>knows that, like you know, when you're growing up there

0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:41.160
<v Speaker 1>that the way to get money in the easiest way

0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:44.840
<v Speaker 1>to get money is to make these little drug runs

0:42:45.000 --> 0:42:49.799
<v Speaker 1>Houston for cocaine or prescription pills and bring them back

0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:52.920
<v Speaker 1>to Jennings Um. And it's very easy to do, it's

0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:56.920
<v Speaker 1>very available, and it's very lucrat so Jennings is a

0:42:57.120 --> 0:43:00.200
<v Speaker 1>tiny town that has this tiny town setting in some

0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:02.360
<v Speaker 1>trees stall like from some of the images that you

0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:05.719
<v Speaker 1>looked at online. You know, you look at the downtown

0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:08.719
<v Speaker 1>and there's the post office in the library of the courthouse,

0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:12.200
<v Speaker 1>and it looks like a small town that could be anywhere.

0:43:12.880 --> 0:43:15.960
<v Speaker 1>But but yet it's it's really kind of a bull

0:43:16.080 --> 0:43:19.120
<v Speaker 1>dye area as far as the drug trade is concerned.

0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:22.120
<v Speaker 1>That's a shame. That's sort of a side question, which

0:43:22.160 --> 0:43:24.200
<v Speaker 1>is while you were there doing your investigation, did you

0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:29.839
<v Speaker 1>pack heat? No? I did not. Yeah, I gotta ask

0:43:29.840 --> 0:43:34.239
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people thretten me or you know, uh,

0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:38.360
<v Speaker 1>did I bring kound of me? And whatnot? When I

0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:42.520
<v Speaker 1>go out there there. And actually, interestingly, as I was

0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:45.960
<v Speaker 1>doing this piece, this is completely changed since the peace

0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:49.480
<v Speaker 1>came out, But prior to the piece coming out, I

0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:52.799
<v Speaker 1>was sort of looked at as a you know, as

0:43:52.880 --> 0:43:57.400
<v Speaker 1>a kind of They're like, oh, well, there's this strange person,

0:43:58.160 --> 0:44:03.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, coming to town a lot um not from here.

0:44:03.800 --> 0:44:06.680
<v Speaker 1>No one paid attention to what's going on here. Isn't

0:44:06.680 --> 0:44:09.680
<v Speaker 1>it sort of interesting that this guy is coming here.

0:44:10.040 --> 0:44:13.600
<v Speaker 1>You know, it was sort of you know, I was

0:44:13.640 --> 0:44:18.759
<v Speaker 1>actually treated quite well by everybody that I saw for

0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:22.480
<v Speaker 1>this piece, including law enforcement, because they had no idea

0:44:22.600 --> 0:44:25.680
<v Speaker 1>what to make of me. And I think also just

0:44:25.719 --> 0:44:29.120
<v Speaker 1>as importantly, this this case has been covered quite a

0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:32.360
<v Speaker 1>bit in the media. There's Seen End covered it, The

0:44:32.719 --> 0:44:36.920
<v Speaker 1>Times covered it, and everybody covered it from the same perspective,

0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:41.480
<v Speaker 1>which was there's a crazy serial killer loose in the

0:44:41.600 --> 0:44:46.399
<v Speaker 1>swamps of southwest Louisiana and that's it. And I think

0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:49.000
<v Speaker 1>they just expected me to do that piece that everybody

0:44:49.000 --> 0:44:52.879
<v Speaker 1>else has done, and you know, they were quite surprised

0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:55.960
<v Speaker 1>when that was not the piece that that that I did,

0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:59.800
<v Speaker 1>and very unhappy about that too. So they were unhappy

0:44:59.800 --> 0:45:04.800
<v Speaker 1>about Oh yeah, I mean the people of Jennings overwhelmingly,

0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:08.040
<v Speaker 1>and I've worked from a lot of people overwhelmingly we're

0:45:08.400 --> 0:45:13.840
<v Speaker 1>very happy about it. The d a's office, the Sheriff's office,

0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:19.919
<v Speaker 1>the police department were extremely unhappy about yeah, extremely And yeah,

0:45:20.040 --> 0:45:23.040
<v Speaker 1>So since the piece has come out, I've had to

0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:29.359
<v Speaker 1>radically change how I go out there because it is

0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:35.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, there is a legitimate thread of many people

0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:40.040
<v Speaker 1>out there wanting to do harm to me. So since, yeah,

0:45:40.080 --> 0:45:43.800
<v Speaker 1>since the Pieza has come out, I've had to really

0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:48.120
<v Speaker 1>limited my time out there I need with people in

0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:52.759
<v Speaker 1>places like Lafayette or in Calfish you parish, which is

0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:55.680
<v Speaker 1>the parish next to Jeff David's parish. So I really

0:45:55.680 --> 0:46:00.040
<v Speaker 1>have to radically alter how I move out there. And

0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:04.120
<v Speaker 1>in fact, for the first at least two months, maybe

0:46:04.120 --> 0:46:07.720
<v Speaker 1>even three months after the peace was out, I didn't

0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:11.239
<v Speaker 1>even go near there. It's completely stayed away, just that

0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:14.480
<v Speaker 1>one can to have a cool down a bit. But yeah,

0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:20.360
<v Speaker 1>so now, yeah, I do have to really watch myself.

0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:24.640
<v Speaker 1>I don't know though that having a gun necessarily it's

0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:27.160
<v Speaker 1>going to be the best thing for me out there.

0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:30.800
<v Speaker 1>I think it's more about moving in very smart ways

0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:33.479
<v Speaker 1>out there when to go out there, that that makes

0:46:33.480 --> 0:46:36.719
<v Speaker 1>a lot of sense. Now, um, I know that one

0:46:36.760 --> 0:46:39.440
<v Speaker 1>of the things that you found when you were in

0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:43.960
<v Speaker 1>your piece is there was a lot of police involvement

0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:47.000
<v Speaker 1>maybe nefarious is the word I would use. That people

0:46:47.040 --> 0:46:50.520
<v Speaker 1>hadn't made the connections before And is that kind of

0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:55.719
<v Speaker 1>what really rankled the feathers. Yes, particularly the information that

0:46:55.760 --> 0:47:00.719
<v Speaker 1>I got about Warren Gary and his involvement and disposing

0:47:00.760 --> 0:47:04.600
<v Speaker 1>of the DNA evidence in the Christin Gary Lopez case

0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:08.560
<v Speaker 1>and the other piece that makes them very unhappy. Which

0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:13.360
<v Speaker 1>they're stuck with and uh, you know, and these people

0:47:13.400 --> 0:47:17.600
<v Speaker 1>are not my witnesses, they're their witnesses. Was I obtained

0:47:18.000 --> 0:47:24.120
<v Speaker 1>dozens of task Force interviews witness interviews, as the task

0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:27.560
<v Speaker 1>force is a multi agency task force that was created

0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:32.400
<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and eight to investigate these homicides. And

0:47:32.760 --> 0:47:37.080
<v Speaker 1>I obtained dozens of task Force witness interviews, and in

0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:43.960
<v Speaker 1>these witness interviews, witnesses the name specific cops who they

0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:49.000
<v Speaker 1>believed were involved in murders. And what so upset them

0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:53.800
<v Speaker 1>about this was that for years, and going back probably

0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.600
<v Speaker 1>the two thousand and seven or so, when the power

0:47:56.719 --> 0:48:01.560
<v Speaker 1>when people in town started wondering about law enforcement and

0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:07.040
<v Speaker 1>their potential involvement in this. Law enforcement's response was, well,

0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:10.759
<v Speaker 1>you're just wondering about this. You're just hearing rumors. There's

0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:14.440
<v Speaker 1>nothing to it. There's nothing to this at all. Don't worry,

0:48:14.760 --> 0:48:18.480
<v Speaker 1>you're just hearing rumors. And what I did was by

0:48:18.480 --> 0:48:23.440
<v Speaker 1>obtaining those task course interviews where their witnesses and I

0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:27.480
<v Speaker 1>emphasize that a lot, it's it's their witnesses, not my witnesses,

0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:31.480
<v Speaker 1>where their witnesses nain specific cops aspects, and that as

0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:34.240
<v Speaker 1>said us so much because They can no longer say

0:48:34.360 --> 0:48:38.000
<v Speaker 1>it's a rumor, right when your own witnesses are coming

0:48:38.040 --> 0:48:43.320
<v Speaker 1>forward and saying, for example, Deputy Danny Berry, who is

0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:47.680
<v Speaker 1>a deputy who's actually now deceased, was involved in these homicides.

0:48:48.239 --> 0:48:51.400
<v Speaker 1>And you can't say it's just some guys or girls

0:48:51.480 --> 0:48:54.680
<v Speaker 1>or whoever talking on the street about Danny Berry. These

0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:58.760
<v Speaker 1>are actual witness statement that completely freaked them out, and

0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:02.680
<v Speaker 1>it's now just stroy their narrative. This is the narrative

0:49:02.760 --> 0:49:06.839
<v Speaker 1>that they have voisted upon this case. And if and

0:49:07.000 --> 0:49:09.600
<v Speaker 1>this is the narrative that they definitely want the town

0:49:09.680 --> 0:49:13.320
<v Speaker 1>to believe, is that anything you hear about lawforcement just

0:49:13.440 --> 0:49:18.759
<v Speaker 1>a rumor, Well, that's absolutely you know, crap, and it's

0:49:18.840 --> 0:49:22.120
<v Speaker 1>proven by their own witness interviews. So you know, it

0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:25.760
<v Speaker 1>was really the two two pieces of one, the warrant,

0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:29.320
<v Speaker 1>the statements about Warren Gary and again those are their witnesses,

0:49:29.360 --> 0:49:32.879
<v Speaker 1>not mine. Those are witnessed state statements taken by the

0:49:33.320 --> 0:49:37.400
<v Speaker 1>Jennings Police. And then it was to the witness statements

0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:42.120
<v Speaker 1>taken by the task force where cops and Sheriff Staptise

0:49:42.160 --> 0:49:47.120
<v Speaker 1>are named to suspects, actually destroyed their narrative about how

0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:51.360
<v Speaker 1>many how many different law enforcement personnel were named. Um,

0:49:51.400 --> 0:49:55.240
<v Speaker 1>I would say about four to five, Okay, that includes

0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:59.680
<v Speaker 1>Warren Gary and Danny Berry. Warren Gary, Danny Barry, the

0:49:59.680 --> 0:50:03.080
<v Speaker 1>the former warden of the parish jail, a guy named

0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:06.719
<v Speaker 1>Terry Guillory, hitch former wife paul Guillory, who was the

0:50:06.800 --> 0:50:09.399
<v Speaker 1>jeopudy with the Sheriff's office. And there's quite a few

0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:13.200
<v Speaker 1>ask and many of those people are very high ranking.

0:50:13.360 --> 0:50:15.880
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you're talking about war and Gary was the

0:50:15.960 --> 0:50:20.000
<v Speaker 1>chief criminal investigator for the Sheriff's office, and Terry Guillory

0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:23.759
<v Speaker 1>is the warden of the parish too. So speaking of

0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:26.239
<v Speaker 1>Paula Guillory, I was kind of curious you interviewed her.

0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:31.200
<v Speaker 1>So she got fired for mishandley evidence. Um, but it

0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:33.800
<v Speaker 1>looks like yeah, And I read the Sheriff's memo and everything,

0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:35.440
<v Speaker 1>and it sounds he named a whole lot of the

0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:39.440
<v Speaker 1>whole list of grievances against her, including Louise. And I

0:50:39.480 --> 0:50:42.359
<v Speaker 1>would say, even though he fired her really quickly, there

0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:47.399
<v Speaker 1>was never any investigation or prosecution. So do you think

0:50:47.440 --> 0:50:51.040
<v Speaker 1>he fired her simply for the straight up reasons he specified,

0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:55.279
<v Speaker 1>or because perhaps she wasn't on board with the cover up,

0:50:55.440 --> 0:50:57.319
<v Speaker 1>or perhaps on the other side, maybe he thought that

0:50:57.400 --> 0:51:00.360
<v Speaker 1>she was involved in the crimes and wanted her just gone.

0:51:00.719 --> 0:51:02.480
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's really hard to stay because there's a

0:51:02.560 --> 0:51:06.279
<v Speaker 1>lot of competing narratives about polic Guillary, including from Paul

0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:10.560
<v Speaker 1>Guillary yourself. I interviewed her for my piece briefly, and

0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:14.440
<v Speaker 1>she claimed to me that the missing evidence that she

0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:18.239
<v Speaker 1>was fired for was evidence seized in a raid on

0:51:18.360 --> 0:51:22.360
<v Speaker 1>Frankie Richard, and Frankie Richard's the prime suspect and in

0:51:22.480 --> 0:51:25.759
<v Speaker 1>several of these murders from Frankie. This was a raid

0:51:25.800 --> 0:51:30.799
<v Speaker 1>on Frankie Richard's house. So she told me that she

0:51:31.000 --> 0:51:34.360
<v Speaker 1>turned on the evidence and it simply disappeared. She didn't

0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:36.560
<v Speaker 1>know what happened to it. She said that she was

0:51:37.080 --> 0:51:42.040
<v Speaker 1>then terminated and actually the personnel file that I obtained

0:51:42.440 --> 0:51:49.000
<v Speaker 1>on her, which contained the investigation into her activities, she

0:51:49.040 --> 0:51:51.520
<v Speaker 1>had actually never even seen that, which I thought was

0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:54.880
<v Speaker 1>really interesting too, and like I was reading bits of

0:51:54.920 --> 0:51:58.080
<v Speaker 1>it to her to have her respond right to the

0:51:58.080 --> 0:52:03.319
<v Speaker 1>allegations and the investigation, and she had never heard any

0:52:03.320 --> 0:52:07.440
<v Speaker 1>ofthing before. So she was very quickly moved out of

0:52:07.480 --> 0:52:11.800
<v Speaker 1>her job. And you know, if you believe the investigation,

0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:15.759
<v Speaker 1>the internal investigation into her. It's you know that the

0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:20.920
<v Speaker 1>reason is is that she took something like three thousand

0:52:21.000 --> 0:52:24.880
<v Speaker 1>dollars that was taken into evidence and essentially just stole it.

0:52:25.920 --> 0:52:31.279
<v Speaker 1>And is that what happened? Well, I don't know, you know, um,

0:52:31.320 --> 0:52:34.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, she says that's not what happened. The sheriff's

0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:37.760
<v Speaker 1>office says that is what happened. When I interviewed Frankie

0:52:37.840 --> 0:52:39.880
<v Speaker 1>Richard about it and I quoted him about this and

0:52:39.960 --> 0:52:43.759
<v Speaker 1>the peace, he made a comment which he meant kind

0:52:43.760 --> 0:52:46.120
<v Speaker 1>of as a joke, but I took actually very seriously,

0:52:46.160 --> 0:52:48.840
<v Speaker 1>which which was, you know, I want to thank Paula

0:52:48.880 --> 0:52:52.200
<v Speaker 1>Guillory pursuing evidence in that case because it caused the

0:52:52.239 --> 0:52:57.080
<v Speaker 1>charges against me and my mom to get drunk. And

0:52:56.040 --> 0:52:59.200
<v Speaker 1>Paula and she was pretty upset when she heard that,

0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:04.080
<v Speaker 1>wasn't she She wasnt really upset. She I read that

0:53:04.200 --> 0:53:06.279
<v Speaker 1>quote to her and she was very upset about that.

0:53:06.520 --> 0:53:09.520
<v Speaker 1>You know, she claimed she's a just a good cop

0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:13.600
<v Speaker 1>who was doing her job and really wanted to go

0:53:13.640 --> 0:53:17.440
<v Speaker 1>after Frankie Richard. And then I have a number of people,

0:53:18.239 --> 0:53:23.040
<v Speaker 1>including the private investigator who's working on the case, Kurt Bnard,

0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:27.759
<v Speaker 1>who have told me that right around the time that

0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:33.359
<v Speaker 1>Bola Guillory disappeared, that evidence she was a deserved at

0:53:33.440 --> 0:53:39.240
<v Speaker 1>Frankie Richard's home socializing with him, and she was also

0:53:39.280 --> 0:53:43.239
<v Speaker 1>observed at a house on the south side of Jennings

0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:46.279
<v Speaker 1>that was basically a crack house where all the just

0:53:46.360 --> 0:53:48.799
<v Speaker 1>about all the women hung out. She was deserved at

0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:52.800
<v Speaker 1>this crack house socializing with a number of people there.

0:53:53.640 --> 0:53:56.719
<v Speaker 1>Uh so, well, I was I was gonna ask, you know,

0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:58.839
<v Speaker 1>we've we've kind of dipped her tone in the water.

0:53:58.920 --> 0:54:02.879
<v Speaker 1>About Frankie ree Shard, he seems to be at the

0:54:02.960 --> 0:54:05.400
<v Speaker 1>middle of a lot of this stuff, and I'm just

0:54:05.480 --> 0:54:08.160
<v Speaker 1>kind of I haven't been able to wrap my brain around,

0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:12.480
<v Speaker 1>like what exactly is his involvement in all of this? Right,

0:54:12.520 --> 0:54:15.640
<v Speaker 1>he is at the center of Frankie is at the

0:54:15.680 --> 0:54:20.400
<v Speaker 1>center of the entire case because for a number of reasons. One,

0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:24.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, and this is biazone admission, Like he he

0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:29.360
<v Speaker 1>pimped out pretty much all but one of the women um,

0:54:29.800 --> 0:54:35.480
<v Speaker 1>the one exclusion being Ernestine Patterson Um, one of the

0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:39.320
<v Speaker 1>early victims in two thousand and five. So he pimped

0:54:39.320 --> 0:54:42.399
<v Speaker 1>out all of these women. He also pimped them out

0:54:42.440 --> 0:54:46.719
<v Speaker 1>from one specific place, and I wrote about this a

0:54:46.800 --> 0:54:51.719
<v Speaker 1>bit in my piece, which is a motel that's right

0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:55.360
<v Speaker 1>on I tend called the Boudreau in so he and

0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:58.640
<v Speaker 1>those women were doing their business out of the boucher

0:54:58.840 --> 0:55:03.040
<v Speaker 1>in Um. He was also again by his own admission,

0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:06.080
<v Speaker 1>and at least two of the cases, and those with

0:55:06.280 --> 0:55:09.880
<v Speaker 1>the Kristin Lopez and what he do blah. He was

0:55:09.920 --> 0:55:12.640
<v Speaker 1>one of the lost people to be seen with at

0:55:12.680 --> 0:55:15.200
<v Speaker 1>least two of the victims. And then he also again

0:55:15.200 --> 0:55:20.680
<v Speaker 1>by his own admission, had pretty significant fights through disagreements

0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:22.759
<v Speaker 1>with at least two of the victims right before they

0:55:22.760 --> 0:55:27.560
<v Speaker 1>were killed over drugs and money. So you have all that,

0:55:27.920 --> 0:55:33.240
<v Speaker 1>and then you also have the fact that Frankie's relationship

0:55:33.880 --> 0:55:38.480
<v Speaker 1>with the both the Task Force and the Sheriff's office

0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:44.200
<v Speaker 1>is very interesting and suggest that he's and in both

0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:48.880
<v Speaker 1>informant for them and also someone who assists them in

0:55:49.080 --> 0:55:54.040
<v Speaker 1>covering up the things that they do. I obtained an

0:55:54.080 --> 0:55:58.680
<v Speaker 1>email exchange between Kirkmanard, the private investigator on the case,

0:55:59.200 --> 0:56:02.960
<v Speaker 1>and one of the top ranking members of the task Force,

0:56:03.680 --> 0:56:09.480
<v Speaker 1>where Manard says that he sent two witnesses over to

0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:13.040
<v Speaker 1>be interviewed by the Task Force and the task force

0:56:13.560 --> 0:56:17.440
<v Speaker 1>told these witnesses that Frankie Richard works for them. You

0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:21.200
<v Speaker 1>also have the witness statements that were taken by the

0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:28.040
<v Speaker 1>Jennings Police where the witnesses say that Frankie Richard worked

0:56:28.040 --> 0:56:33.239
<v Speaker 1>hand in hand with Chief criminal Investigator Warren Gary disposed

0:56:33.280 --> 0:56:37.680
<v Speaker 1>of DNA evidence in the Christin Garry Lopez case. So

0:56:37.920 --> 0:56:41.240
<v Speaker 1>Frankie is deeply connected to the women, and he's deeply

0:56:41.239 --> 0:56:44.800
<v Speaker 1>connected the law enforcement. He's very much of the center

0:56:45.719 --> 0:56:48.400
<v Speaker 1>of this case. And he's spent accused of course, two

0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:52.480
<v Speaker 1>of the murders, Kristin Lopez and Whitney Boa. He was

0:56:52.600 --> 0:56:56.200
<v Speaker 1>charged in Kristin Lopez, he's never charged and Whitney do Ba.

0:56:56.680 --> 0:57:00.600
<v Speaker 1>The circumstances around the death of Whitney do Bo highly

0:57:00.640 --> 0:57:05.319
<v Speaker 1>suggestive he was involved because she was found in kind

0:57:05.360 --> 0:57:09.319
<v Speaker 1>of a swampy area that has a little crawfish ponds,

0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:13.319
<v Speaker 1>very very desolate area, and she was found on the

0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:18.880
<v Speaker 1>road near one of these ponds by a guy who

0:57:19.120 --> 0:57:22.520
<v Speaker 1>works kind of on the streets for Frankie Richard, and

0:57:22.600 --> 0:57:26.120
<v Speaker 1>the guy claimed to have found her and claims those

0:57:26.200 --> 0:57:28.720
<v Speaker 1>seen or something like a half mile away from where

0:57:28.760 --> 0:57:33.520
<v Speaker 1>she was um And it's it just seems highly implausible

0:57:33.600 --> 0:57:37.160
<v Speaker 1>that this guy would just suddenly pop up, you know,

0:57:37.240 --> 0:57:40.640
<v Speaker 1>in this desolate area where there's nothing around, and fine,

0:57:41.120 --> 0:57:44.360
<v Speaker 1>when you do, I don't winly happened through Frankie Chard too.

0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:49.360
<v Speaker 1>Actually at the same time, you know, maybe he actually

0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:51.480
<v Speaker 1>legitimately did. Because if he'd just gone out there and

0:57:51.480 --> 0:57:54.440
<v Speaker 1>disposed of the body and then turns around and says, hey,

0:57:54.480 --> 0:57:56.560
<v Speaker 1>I found a body, you know, I would tend to

0:57:56.640 --> 0:58:00.880
<v Speaker 1>associate myself from dead bodies, you know, I'm involved. What

0:58:01.360 --> 0:58:04.680
<v Speaker 1>one would think though, And that's the point, although there

0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:09.160
<v Speaker 1>is actually this odd kind of phenomenon of and I

0:58:09.240 --> 0:58:11.120
<v Speaker 1>have this in a case that I'm another case that

0:58:11.120 --> 0:58:16.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm working on, where someone who's involved the murder finds

0:58:16.840 --> 0:58:20.720
<v Speaker 1>a body or claim to find a body, and they

0:58:20.760 --> 0:58:24.840
<v Speaker 1>believe that it will actually take suspicion off of them,

0:58:24.920 --> 0:58:28.880
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. You know, I go, well,

0:58:28.920 --> 0:58:31.480
<v Speaker 1>I just look at me. I'm part of the search party,

0:58:31.480 --> 0:58:33.760
<v Speaker 1>and I just happened to find this body. The man

0:58:33.840 --> 0:58:37.440
<v Speaker 1>who found Duba, his name is Jamie Trahan. He's a

0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:42.440
<v Speaker 1>very close associated Frankie Reech Shard, and he presented it

0:58:43.120 --> 0:58:45.200
<v Speaker 1>and I spoke to do was a number of people

0:58:45.360 --> 0:58:48.920
<v Speaker 1>in the do Wa family about the way Trahan presented

0:58:49.440 --> 0:58:53.080
<v Speaker 1>himself to them after finding her body. And you know,

0:58:53.080 --> 0:58:55.360
<v Speaker 1>he presented it as, oh, I was just out here

0:58:56.160 --> 0:59:00.680
<v Speaker 1>and you know, I want to I'm just trying to help,

0:59:00.760 --> 0:59:03.000
<v Speaker 1>and I'm you know, I'm so sorry, and and and

0:59:03.040 --> 0:59:07.439
<v Speaker 1>at one point he even offered to put down quite

0:59:07.440 --> 0:59:09.960
<v Speaker 1>a bit of money to help pay for her funeral extent,

0:59:10.240 --> 0:59:13.840
<v Speaker 1>which the doo Bos family also found incredibly suspicious. That

0:59:15.360 --> 0:59:17.280
<v Speaker 1>you know, you would think if you had any involvement

0:59:17.640 --> 0:59:19.720
<v Speaker 1>in something like this, you'd want to be nowhere near it,

0:59:20.280 --> 0:59:22.800
<v Speaker 1>especially if you were somebody was so closely connected to

0:59:22.840 --> 0:59:26.160
<v Speaker 1>Frankie re Shark. But I think some sometimes people think

0:59:26.160 --> 0:59:30.400
<v Speaker 1>that by presenting themselves is like, oh, that's like innocent

0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:34.280
<v Speaker 1>person who happened stumble upon this horrible thing that that

0:59:34.520 --> 0:59:38.480
<v Speaker 1>that that moves the spotlight off of them some ways, Yeah,

0:59:38.600 --> 0:59:41.960
<v Speaker 1>doesn't make sense to me. But yeah, and and you know,

0:59:42.040 --> 0:59:45.840
<v Speaker 1>as we're talking about Frankie Richard's associates, I remember you

0:59:45.920 --> 0:59:48.440
<v Speaker 1>had there was a part in there where you were

0:59:48.480 --> 0:59:52.600
<v Speaker 1>talking about Brittany Gary when uh and the three men

0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:55.160
<v Speaker 1>that were seeing leaving the woods where she was found.

0:59:55.680 --> 1:00:00.840
<v Speaker 1>What was it? Irvin Eugene and Ricardo. Yeah, that was

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<v Speaker 1>actually not that was Crystal Shade ben Wah. That was

1:00:08.560 --> 1:00:13.040
<v Speaker 1>a different victim. Yeah, And and three men we're seeing

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<v Speaker 1>she was found in this wooded area on the outscripts

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<v Speaker 1>of Jennings, and three men closely associated with the restart

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<v Speaker 1>we're seeing were leaving the wooded area after her murder.

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<v Speaker 1>And the man who saw them was a man named

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<v Speaker 1>Rousel carry a and carry a mysteriously was run over

1:00:36.920 --> 1:00:45.960
<v Speaker 1>by a train and Jennings Yeah, yeah, as soon after that,

1:00:46.000 --> 1:00:50.120
<v Speaker 1>witness identification and law enforcement said it was a suicide

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<v Speaker 1>and his family does not believe it was a suicide.

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<v Speaker 1>Now did he say did he? At one point, I'm

1:00:56.920 --> 1:00:59.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm racking my brain here, I thought that when he

1:00:59.240 --> 1:01:01.680
<v Speaker 1>was making this Eavens, did he tell somebody else that

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<v Speaker 1>he was trying to figure out who had done it?

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<v Speaker 1>And he had almost figured it out. That was the

1:01:07.400 --> 1:01:09.000
<v Speaker 1>other guy that was the brother of one of the

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<v Speaker 1>that wasn't yet another person Actually yeah, that was a

1:01:12.400 --> 1:01:17.800
<v Speaker 1>drug dealer named Harvey bird Dog Burleigh who was a

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<v Speaker 1>very close, very close to the due Boas family. And

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<v Speaker 1>he said that he was working the streets and gathering

1:01:25.520 --> 1:01:28.640
<v Speaker 1>tips on the homicides, and then he was stabbed to

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<v Speaker 1>death and Jennings and his murder he was death and

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<v Speaker 1>Jennings I believe in two thousand and seven, and his

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<v Speaker 1>murders unsolved as well. Yeah, I was gonna say quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>That's another piece of his story that's so fascinating, which

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<v Speaker 1>is you have eight unsolved homicides in a town of

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<v Speaker 1>ten thousand people, which is extraordinary, exactly eight homicides and

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<v Speaker 1>that side of the town is extraordinary in itself, but

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that all of them are unsolved more extraordinary.

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<v Speaker 1>But what has even another level of craziness to this,

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<v Speaker 1>to this story, is you have homicides like bird dogs

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<v Speaker 1>that are unsolved, and there's quite a few of them.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you were to add up the eight women

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<v Speaker 1>plus the other unsolved homicides in town over the past

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<v Speaker 1>decade or so, comes close to twenty. Oh. Yeah, I

1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:20.320
<v Speaker 1>didn't really do it was that high. Yeah, it's really

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<v Speaker 1>just truly remark what and I can say, and I've

1:02:23.640 --> 1:02:27.080
<v Speaker 1>been writing about crime and working in this field for

1:02:27.120 --> 1:02:31.880
<v Speaker 1>a very long time, never seen anything like this anywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>And they're both in terms of the levels of law

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<v Speaker 1>enforcement corruption and the number of homicides and the number

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<v Speaker 1>of unsolved timicide it's not just popular. It doesn't sound

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<v Speaker 1>like they solved any homicides ever in that town. They

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<v Speaker 1>actually had a homicide early this year that they solved. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that's pretty unusual. My interest in this story actually this

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<v Speaker 1>had to be taken out of peace just for Space Tree,

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<v Speaker 1>and was really began in two thousand and eleven. I

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<v Speaker 1>was out there um and visiting with Kirkmanard, the private investigator,

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<v Speaker 1>just to get a sense of the story. And actually

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<v Speaker 1>within days of being out there, UM there was a

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<v Speaker 1>murder of of of a drug dealer Engenna named bow Legs.

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<v Speaker 1>And I actually just met bow Legs the night before

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<v Speaker 1>he was murdered, and you know, it was pretty amazing,

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<v Speaker 1>and this had never happened to be before Right interviewed.

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<v Speaker 1>Right was introduced to somebody in their murder the next day,

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<v Speaker 1>and that that murder, which dates back to either June

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<v Speaker 1>or July of two thousand and eleven, members also unsolved.

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<v Speaker 1>And bow Legs also, by the way, dated at least

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<v Speaker 1>two of the women who were killed in this case.

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<v Speaker 1>That when you intervated bow Legs, did he give you

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<v Speaker 1>any any useful information? And it was it was just

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<v Speaker 1>a introducing kind of introduce, very brief introduction to him.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't actually interview that um my trip back then,

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<v Speaker 1>which was just essentially meeting people. Um so the Legs

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't saying a powder keg of information and he had

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<v Speaker 1>to be silenced. More likely he was, you don't think so.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he was, you know, a casulty as some

1:04:17.400 --> 1:04:20.480
<v Speaker 1>sort of drug beef. But but you know, his murders

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<v Speaker 1>in solved, just like the rest of them, which is interesting. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>another another piece in this whole story is that I

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<v Speaker 1>believe in correct me if I'm wrong. Here's that of

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<v Speaker 1>these eight women, a number of them were present at

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<v Speaker 1>a police shooting prior to their deaths, and so we're

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<v Speaker 1>all of them are just a couple of them. I

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<v Speaker 1>thought it was just one, just a couple of them, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>just just I've been able to confirm just one, which

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<v Speaker 1>is Kristen Gary Lopez. I've heard though that it was

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<v Speaker 1>two or perhaps three. Uh. It was a shooting from

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<v Speaker 1>April of two thousand and five the Bots drug Rade

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<v Speaker 1>in South Jennings that was carried out by the d

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<v Speaker 1>a's Office Louisiana Probation and Parole. The Sheriff's office, and

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<v Speaker 1>I believed the police department. They rated a drug house

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<v Speaker 1>in South Jennings. Drug HOUSEE was like complete completely shrouded

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<v Speaker 1>in darkness when they rated it. I don't think even

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<v Speaker 1>the electricity was on. And for one, for some unknown reason,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the probation and prowl agents opened fire on

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<v Speaker 1>a man named Leonard Crochet, who apparently with us to say,

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<v Speaker 1>had his hands up when he was when he was shot.

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<v Speaker 1>But regardless of whether you know, there's dispeaed about whether

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<v Speaker 1>or not he had his hands up. But but no

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<v Speaker 1>one disputes the fact. Actually, and this is interesting because

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<v Speaker 1>I obtained the Louisiana State Police report on an incident.

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<v Speaker 1>No one, no one, no one disputes the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>he was unarmed when he was shot to death. There

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<v Speaker 1>was he had no weapons on him or near him,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was shot to death. And at least one

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<v Speaker 1>and perhaps more of the women who would later be

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<v Speaker 1>killed were witnessed that incident. And I also know for

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<v Speaker 1>a fact that, for example, Christin Gary Lopez, who was

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<v Speaker 1>murdered two thousand and seven UM, she was brought in

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<v Speaker 1>by cops and interviewed about it. I believe the Lauretta

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<v Speaker 1>Cheffon murdered the first victim in two thousand and five.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's a pattern of these women being being uh

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<v Speaker 1>interviewed as witnesses and other homicides and then getting killed.

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<v Speaker 1>And and is there any connection or any thought that

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<v Speaker 1>whatever statements they gave or what led to their death,

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<v Speaker 1>if if we're going with the police are definitely deeply

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<v Speaker 1>involved the responsible kind of aspect of it. Yes, I

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<v Speaker 1>believe so, I believe. I believe you know, I think

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<v Speaker 1>you he has had an over and over again. And

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<v Speaker 1>you see it with Lopez being interviewed in uh learn

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<v Speaker 1>of Schafson. You see it in Laconia Brown who's a victim,

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<v Speaker 1>and two thousand and eight she was interviewed about the

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and uh five homicide, or Mistine Patterson. You

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<v Speaker 1>see that pattern over and over again where these women

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<v Speaker 1>are witnesses. Then the other pattern that you see over

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<v Speaker 1>and over again is that the women, just before they

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<v Speaker 1>were killed, I would say, I know who's doing this.

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<v Speaker 1>The police are involved. I fear from my life, and

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<v Speaker 1>many of them says I know I'm going to die,

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<v Speaker 1>and then they will be killed. I sort of wonder

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<v Speaker 1>why more than just leave towns are going to hiding

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<v Speaker 1>or something. Yeah, that's a good question. I mean I

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<v Speaker 1>feel you know, you know, we're talking about the population

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<v Speaker 1>that's like extremely poor and it has very very few options.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think they were just sort of stuck where

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<v Speaker 1>they were leaving option. Yeah, yeah, not a not an

1:08:01.320 --> 1:08:06.200
<v Speaker 1>easy option. That said. One. One thing that's interesting to me,

1:08:06.440 --> 1:08:09.040
<v Speaker 1>particularly since the piece came out and doing the investigation

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<v Speaker 1>that I'm doing, just that there are quite a few

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<v Speaker 1>survivors of that of that era who do know quite

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<v Speaker 1>a bit and they're still you know, they're still around,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, so, um, they didn't get everybody. You know

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<v Speaker 1>that there are a number of women who were in

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<v Speaker 1>that scene who do know quite a bit about what happened,

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<v Speaker 1>who are still Yeah, because the I wanted to bring

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<v Speaker 1>me back. I wanted to come back for a minute

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<v Speaker 1>to Danny Barry. You know, as you know, uh, Richard

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<v Speaker 1>said that Barry was the killer because they all stopped

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand nine when he died, correct, I believe, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think he died in two thousand and ten, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but the last palmicide was two thousand and nine. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think Rechart as his own purpose for

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<v Speaker 1>making that claim, which is it's him. My My sense

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<v Speaker 1>of Danny Barry, especially from reading all the witness interviews

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<v Speaker 1>about him that the Task Force conducted, is that Barry

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<v Speaker 1>was deeply involved in the prostitution scene in South Jennings,

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<v Speaker 1>which is where all these women were from. He would

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<v Speaker 1>pick up these women and bring them back to his house,

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<v Speaker 1>and at least one witness pass force witness talked about

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<v Speaker 1>Barry having some sort of dungeon in his house with

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<v Speaker 1>change and I assume that was one of the prostitutes

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<v Speaker 1>that he took back home with him. Yeah, And I'm

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<v Speaker 1>developing now, I don't have you know, I'm not there yet,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm developing information as I go about his involvement

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<v Speaker 1>in the his puzzle involvement, I should say, and in

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<v Speaker 1>the murder of Brindy Gary, the very young seventeen year

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<v Speaker 1>old victims who was killed old in two thousand and eight. Well,

1:10:03.920 --> 1:10:06.439
<v Speaker 1>and and his involvement. I mean, if we if we

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<v Speaker 1>believe Richard the task Force, I understand it's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>working on the assumption that it's you know, the one

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<v Speaker 1>mad killer and he would fit that bill easily, wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>he if based on these statements of the dungeon. Barry

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<v Speaker 1>would fit that bill for my investigation. I don't believe

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<v Speaker 1>that he is the killer. I don't believe and then

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<v Speaker 1>I say this in the piece, that there is one killer.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's a number of people. I think that

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<v Speaker 1>you could cone in on Barry for at least one

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<v Speaker 1>of the homicides. But I don't think that he's responsible

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<v Speaker 1>for all of them, even though he fits as you say,

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<v Speaker 1>if it's the bill, because he's deceased. He's a an

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<v Speaker 1>easy mark. Correct, He's a very easy mark. Have you

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<v Speaker 1>been able to talk to his widow? I haven't yet.

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<v Speaker 1>Know that's something I want to do. I haven't yet

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<v Speaker 1>talked at his widow. He gave a statement before he

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<v Speaker 1>died to the task Force that was extremely unilluminating mode

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<v Speaker 1>and it was unhelpful, primarily because the task Force is

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<v Speaker 1>so terrible for conducting interviews. Um. He also told the

1:11:17.520 --> 1:11:22.880
<v Speaker 1>task Force that his wife, now Wadow, was refusing to

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<v Speaker 1>be interviewed by the task course. Now the private investigator, Kirkmanard,

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<v Speaker 1>that's his name, correct, Correct? What what has been his contribution?

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<v Speaker 1>Because I've seen stuff about him, but I'm not really

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<v Speaker 1>clear on exactly what he's doing good. Question what Manard

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<v Speaker 1>is doing, And I don't want to speak for him,

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<v Speaker 1>but but this is my impression of what he's doing,

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<v Speaker 1>is that he's able to talk to a number of

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<v Speaker 1>people who pass would not talk otherwise, and he then

1:11:56.400 --> 1:12:00.599
<v Speaker 1>forwards those people directly to the task Force. So essentially,

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<v Speaker 1>what he is is like a kind of a conduit

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<v Speaker 1>between people on the street who might not feel comfortable

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<v Speaker 1>going correct good to the task Force to what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's kind of a neutral party for them. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he's kind of futral party, and and and that, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's what he's doing. You know, he's in a very

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<v Speaker 1>awkward position now though after he had sent these two

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<v Speaker 1>witnesses to the task Force and they told these witnesses

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<v Speaker 1>things like Frankie Richard works for us. He's he's in

1:12:30.600 --> 1:12:32.920
<v Speaker 1>an awkward position because I don't think he knows what

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<v Speaker 1>to make of the task Force now. And I wouldn't

1:12:35.720 --> 1:12:38.640
<v Speaker 1>want to be in his position either, because it's a

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<v Speaker 1>strange place to be sending witnesses to a task force

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<v Speaker 1>that has a huge problem. You know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean to me, to me, the task Force, which

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<v Speaker 1>is dominated by the sheriff's office. By the way, um

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<v Speaker 1>and I mentioned that in the piece, really is not

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<v Speaker 1>to be has zero credibility in my in my view,

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<v Speaker 1>because what you have is a task force that's dominated

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<v Speaker 1>by the sheriff's office taking witness statements, and in the

1:13:11.080 --> 1:13:15.320
<v Speaker 1>witness statements, the witnesses are saying Deputy so and so

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<v Speaker 1>and Deputy so and so are involved in the homicides,

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<v Speaker 1>and the people taking those statements are co workers of

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<v Speaker 1>the people implicated in the murders. It's really it's just,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's couldn't be more of a clear conflict

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<v Speaker 1>of interest, and it couldn't be more of a clear problem, uh,

1:13:36.200 --> 1:13:39.400
<v Speaker 1>you know, a huge problem. You know, how is a

1:13:39.520 --> 1:13:44.760
<v Speaker 1>task force supposed to conduct an investigation when all of

1:13:44.800 --> 1:13:47.400
<v Speaker 1>their friends and coworkers, you know, I'm sorry, when their

1:13:47.479 --> 1:13:52.120
<v Speaker 1>friends and co workers are are suspects. So, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a it's a huge problem, and I think the

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<v Speaker 1>task force is kind of v problem. And in making

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<v Speaker 1>any headway in this case, you just can't tell me

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<v Speaker 1>that the task force can investigate its own It's just

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<v Speaker 1>it's just not possible. And you know, so that's the problem,

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<v Speaker 1>is there is there any occation that the governor's office

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<v Speaker 1>has gotten any interest in this, or that the FBI

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps would come in and take over the investigation. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a good question, you know, from from the state side.

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<v Speaker 1>After my peace ran a local news station out there,

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<v Speaker 1>asked the Attorney General, the Louisiana Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell,

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<v Speaker 1>you know they're doing anything, and you just sort of

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<v Speaker 1>punted on the question and said, oh, well, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>there's the task Force and that's what we're doing. Okay. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>The FBI side is interesting and also very depressing in

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<v Speaker 1>the sense that the task Force is depressing because when

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<v Speaker 1>you look at the task Force interviews, it has obviously

1:14:58.600 --> 1:15:01.920
<v Speaker 1>the name of the interviewing, you know, slash witness, and

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<v Speaker 1>then it also has the names of law enforcement folks

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<v Speaker 1>who are present during this interview. I will say, like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Witness Ethan Brown present, Deputy you know so

1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:16.840
<v Speaker 1>and so, and then Deputy so and so, and then

1:15:16.880 --> 1:15:21.040
<v Speaker 1>occasionally it will say, um that an FBI agent is present,

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<v Speaker 1>and these are FBI agents from the Lake Charles office

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<v Speaker 1>and Lake Charles and Calcasie Parish which is next to

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Davis Parish. And many times when the FBI agents

1:15:31.640 --> 1:15:37.000
<v Speaker 1>are present. There are very clear allegations of law enforcement

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<v Speaker 1>involvement in the murders being made by witnesses, and the

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<v Speaker 1>FBI agents are present for you know, when these allegations

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<v Speaker 1>are made, and what's happening there, what is the FBI

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<v Speaker 1>doing about this? Because any kind of misconduct is about

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<v Speaker 1>under the sun by law enforcement can be prosecuted federally,

1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:02.920
<v Speaker 1>and there's a statute, there's a federal statute called deprivation

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<v Speaker 1>of rights under the color of law. So if I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a cop, wish to say, I live in New Orleans

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<v Speaker 1>and i'm and I'm an n OPD cop, and I

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<v Speaker 1>walk outside my house and I see somebody jaywalking right

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<v Speaker 1>and I grabbed them and I you know, kick his

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<v Speaker 1>head in. That can be prosecuted federally. You know, if

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a cop, If I'm a cop and I go

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<v Speaker 1>out to a crime scene and I dispose of evidence,

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<v Speaker 1>that can be prosecuted federally. I mean, there's so many

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<v Speaker 1>entryways into this case federally, and it's stunning to me

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<v Speaker 1>that none are taken. And it's particularly given the fact

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<v Speaker 1>again that I know for a fact, because I've seen

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<v Speaker 1>the interviews that FBI agents are present when allegations of

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<v Speaker 1>law enforcement misconduct are made. So I but I can't answer.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know why nothing is happening, but I do

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<v Speaker 1>know that the FBI is aware of it. Have you

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<v Speaker 1>tried to reach out to them or they just ignoring

1:17:06.040 --> 1:17:09.759
<v Speaker 1>you or I have I do know for a fact

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<v Speaker 1>that the U. S. Attorney's Office in the Western District

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<v Speaker 1>of Louisiana is looking at This is a where I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what they're doing. Again, like it's it's a

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<v Speaker 1>mystery to me, my guest, and this is only my guess,

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<v Speaker 1>is that the local FBI office out in Lake Charles.

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<v Speaker 1>I fear that they're close with, you know, many of

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<v Speaker 1>the law enforcement folks that are under a cloud of

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<v Speaker 1>suspicion on this, and that they're not moving as a

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<v Speaker 1>result of that. You know, although again I should I

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<v Speaker 1>should say it, it's really complicated. You know, there was

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<v Speaker 1>there was a lot of police misconduct during an after

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<v Speaker 1>Katrina in New Orleans, and it took years for those

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<v Speaker 1>cases to go federal. Why did it take as long

1:18:06.680 --> 1:18:09.599
<v Speaker 1>as it did for those cases to go federal? What

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<v Speaker 1>was the what was the route right that that those

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<v Speaker 1>cases took exactly? You know, I don't know. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think anybody knows other than people who work

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<v Speaker 1>for the U. S. Attorney's Office down here. Yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 1>but nobody. But then it's pretty to that sort of information.

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<v Speaker 1>Why did it take as long as it take, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>as it took? You know, it could be nothing more

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<v Speaker 1>sinister than government inertia, you know, how to ponderous the

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<v Speaker 1>federal government can be. Sometimes it might be that simple. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And it's also it might be as simple as you know,

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<v Speaker 1>product of bad discretion in kinds of the case, in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of the cases they pursued. You know, why do

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<v Speaker 1>they pursue this and not that they have a lot

1:18:51.360 --> 1:18:55.640
<v Speaker 1>of discretion there, So it could be simple something simple discretion.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, what the doing, you know. I think that

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<v Speaker 1>I know that under Eric Holder, police misconduct is a

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<v Speaker 1>big priority for d J to prosecute. I know that,

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<v Speaker 1>um so I hope that this would catch their attention

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<v Speaker 1>because of that priority. But it hasn't me get as

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<v Speaker 1>far as I know now. It might be too that

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<v Speaker 1>they've actually reviewed it pretty carefully and realized that there's

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<v Speaker 1>no way they can come out of it looking good

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<v Speaker 1>because they can take over the case. But let's face it,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's a lot of conflicting information and doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>there appear to be hardly any physical evidence, um, and

1:19:36.040 --> 1:19:38.920
<v Speaker 1>so let's and of course the trail is very cold.

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<v Speaker 1>The last murder was five years ago, so the possibility

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<v Speaker 1>of the Fed's coming in and you know, on their

1:19:44.320 --> 1:19:47.320
<v Speaker 1>white horse and actually solving these murders is pretty limited.

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<v Speaker 1>So maybe for that reason alone, they realize it's not

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<v Speaker 1>a case that's going to cover them with glory. It's

1:19:53.200 --> 1:19:55.360
<v Speaker 1>going to be a case that they'll take over the

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<v Speaker 1>great fanfare and then grind along for a few years

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<v Speaker 1>and then not solve either coact. I mean it is.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a very complicated case, a lot of narrativeness

1:20:05.720 --> 1:20:11.320
<v Speaker 1>and completely uncomftable witnesses, and you know, they are old cases,

1:20:11.360 --> 1:20:13.840
<v Speaker 1>which makes them harder to sell. You know. All of

1:20:13.880 --> 1:20:17.960
<v Speaker 1>that said, I do think that they they do have

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<v Speaker 1>a number of ways in particularly when it comes to

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<v Speaker 1>you know, federal cases in particular, are are are all

1:20:25.160 --> 1:20:29.400
<v Speaker 1>built on flipping people against one another, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>in this case, you have quite a few people who

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<v Speaker 1>could be easily slipped. Being one, I think and there's

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<v Speaker 1>quite a few others. When the Fed's prosecuted the n

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<v Speaker 1>op D misconduct cases, they would get people, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they would haul people before a federal grand jury, and

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<v Speaker 1>if one of the cops engaged in the sort of

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<v Speaker 1>flying and that that they had engaged in the past,

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<v Speaker 1>they would get a federal charge with going up for

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<v Speaker 1>a federal grandjury and lying is a federal crime. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so so yeah, I mean, I don't know. I I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like the FED wield such an incredible hammer no

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<v Speaker 1>matter who they're going after that that it's doable well,

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<v Speaker 1>and that that gets to the question for you, which is,

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<v Speaker 1>do you think that any of these will actually ever

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<v Speaker 1>be solved? Good question. I like, don't believe the task

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<v Speaker 1>force of the world will ever solve them. I do

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<v Speaker 1>believe the only hope in this case would be federal

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<v Speaker 1>interest do o J interest, and specifically interest from the

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<v Speaker 1>DOJ Civil Rights Division, which goes after law enforcement is conduct.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's the only way. Now will that happen?

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<v Speaker 1>I have no idea, but I think that's that's yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it seems unlikely because so you know, this has been

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<v Speaker 1>going on for a long time and they haven't they

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<v Speaker 1>haven't stepped in. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>Well that's that's our interview with Ethan, And yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>hope you guys enjoyed listening to that. Yeah that, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean that that is a lot of information and it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's hard to digest it. And by the way, a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of thanks to Ethan again for absolutely making the

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<v Speaker 1>time to talk to us. Yeah, no, I mean, I know,

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<v Speaker 1>it took us a while to catch up with him,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm glad that he was able to move the

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<v Speaker 1>schedule around to do it, because it really, I think

1:22:26.360 --> 1:22:29.000
<v Speaker 1>it it does this story a lot of justice to

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<v Speaker 1>get all of the information straight from the proverbial source,

1:22:34.000 --> 1:22:36.599
<v Speaker 1>and Ethan really kind of has been the source here

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<v Speaker 1>as he talked about you know, nobody thought he was

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<v Speaker 1>doing the story he was doing, so even the details

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<v Speaker 1>they gave. Yeah, and it's interesting to fall out for him.

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<v Speaker 1>It is like, you know, at first everybody was willing

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<v Speaker 1>to talk to him, and now some people are a

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<v Speaker 1>little ticked off with him, and he's got tread lightly

1:22:51.320 --> 1:22:53.080
<v Speaker 1>around some people be a little more careful and a

1:22:53.120 --> 1:22:56.599
<v Speaker 1>little more circumspect now now I think Joe Joe had

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned this before is Ethan has been working on this

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<v Speaker 1>for a good while and as he said, the original

1:23:03.320 --> 1:23:06.080
<v Speaker 1>article he wanted to submit with thirty thousand words. The

1:23:06.160 --> 1:23:08.920
<v Speaker 1>article that's up is eight thousands. So that's a huge

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<v Speaker 1>amount of information. And he has he's since gotten the

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<v Speaker 1>book deal. He's gotten a book deal. I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>we've talked about that yet, and it's it's on the

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<v Speaker 1>order of a hundred thousand words. But so there's the

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<v Speaker 1>book deal and then there's some other things. Oh, I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it doesn't necessarily pertain to Ethan so much

1:23:28.680 --> 1:23:32.679
<v Speaker 1>as it pertains to this kind of vague speculation that

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<v Speaker 1>the TV series, the HBO TV series True Detective, which

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<v Speaker 1>some of you may or may not be familiar with,

1:23:39.920 --> 1:23:43.439
<v Speaker 1>is loosely based on this story. Um, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's fair to say that it's not. It doesn't you know,

1:23:47.360 --> 1:23:49.840
<v Speaker 1>derive facts from this story or anything like that. But

1:23:49.920 --> 1:23:53.439
<v Speaker 1>I definitely, you know, in the I saw I I

1:23:53.479 --> 1:23:55.800
<v Speaker 1>watched True Detective as it was on, you know, coming

1:23:55.840 --> 1:24:00.400
<v Speaker 1>out originally, So I guess it's been gosh, I'm gonna say,

1:24:00.439 --> 1:24:04.280
<v Speaker 1>four or five months since, um, the last episode of

1:24:04.439 --> 1:24:08.839
<v Speaker 1>the first season aired and immediately, you know, I've vaguely

1:24:08.880 --> 1:24:12.360
<v Speaker 1>been aware of Jefferson Davis eight or the Jennings eight,

1:24:12.640 --> 1:24:14.960
<v Speaker 1>But as soon as I started really getting into it,

1:24:15.200 --> 1:24:18.439
<v Speaker 1>I just kept thinking, this sounds so much like true,

1:24:19.280 --> 1:24:23.120
<v Speaker 1>just the like vague ideas of you know, X number

1:24:23.160 --> 1:24:29.000
<v Speaker 1>of murders, the like weird in a parish in Louisiana,

1:24:29.640 --> 1:24:37.400
<v Speaker 1>the kind of weird twisted people of the whole situation. Yeah,

1:24:37.439 --> 1:24:41.400
<v Speaker 1>and also the you know, not to to do spoilers

1:24:41.439 --> 1:24:43.960
<v Speaker 1>or anything, but also like a certain amount of potential

1:24:44.000 --> 1:24:47.599
<v Speaker 1>police involvement and how much that allegation may or may

1:24:47.600 --> 1:24:51.439
<v Speaker 1>not be true. And you know, I think if you

1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:53.960
<v Speaker 1>haven't watched Your Detective and you have any kind of

1:24:53.960 --> 1:24:57.960
<v Speaker 1>stomach four things like this, watch it just like immediately.

1:24:58.000 --> 1:25:00.600
<v Speaker 1>But I think it's also very interesting the parallels you

1:25:00.600 --> 1:25:03.920
<v Speaker 1>can draw between these things. Absolutely, and I think that

1:25:04.040 --> 1:25:06.240
<v Speaker 1>we should probably you know that that was part of

1:25:06.240 --> 1:25:08.160
<v Speaker 1>our interview, and we haven't. We haven't shared that with

1:25:08.200 --> 1:25:11.120
<v Speaker 1>everybody yet, but let's let's share that part of the

1:25:11.160 --> 1:25:15.040
<v Speaker 1>interview with Ethan where he talks about some of that stuff. Yeah,

1:25:15.080 --> 1:25:17.759
<v Speaker 1>and actually I should mentioned on one thing. I've definitely

1:25:17.840 --> 1:25:20.720
<v Speaker 1>mention it. I think I briefly mentioned this, but I

1:25:20.720 --> 1:25:23.439
<v Speaker 1>should be more specific about it. I have a book

1:25:23.479 --> 1:25:27.000
<v Speaker 1>deal with Scribner, which is a division of Simon and Schuster,

1:25:27.520 --> 1:25:33.000
<v Speaker 1>write a book about this, and it's I'm quite excited

1:25:33.040 --> 1:25:36.479
<v Speaker 1>about it for a number of reasons. One, the original

1:25:36.560 --> 1:25:40.000
<v Speaker 1>draft that I turned in for the piece was almost

1:25:40.040 --> 1:25:43.160
<v Speaker 1>thirty thousand words and what ran was about eight pounds,

1:25:43.160 --> 1:25:46.880
<v Speaker 1>So you know, I've got a lot of stuff that

1:25:47.240 --> 1:25:49.479
<v Speaker 1>I have not used at all, and a lot of

1:25:49.520 --> 1:25:53.719
<v Speaker 1>material that I'm still developing. So it's exciting for that reason.

1:25:54.400 --> 1:25:59.760
<v Speaker 1>And it's also exciting because um Scribner publishes Nick Kitzlato,

1:26:00.439 --> 1:26:03.519
<v Speaker 1>the Heat Creator a True Detective, and a lot of

1:26:03.520 --> 1:26:08.479
<v Speaker 1>people have noted the similarities between True Detective Season one

1:26:08.760 --> 1:26:12.000
<v Speaker 1>and the Jeff Davis eight case. I don't think actually

1:26:12.200 --> 1:26:15.439
<v Speaker 1>that I think the similarities are really due to the

1:26:15.479 --> 1:26:17.519
<v Speaker 1>fact that it's the same, no you. I don't think

1:26:17.560 --> 1:26:20.559
<v Speaker 1>that it's that it's Pits Alato being inspired by one

1:26:20.720 --> 1:26:23.360
<v Speaker 1>specific case. But I think it's very similar, no you.

1:26:24.040 --> 1:26:27.240
<v Speaker 1>But regardless of it's a cool it's a very exciting

1:26:27.240 --> 1:26:30.920
<v Speaker 1>thing to both people to expand on a piece that

1:26:31.080 --> 1:26:35.200
<v Speaker 1>was extremely expansive when I turned it in, and then

1:26:35.240 --> 1:26:37.720
<v Speaker 1>also and then also to be with the publisher that

1:26:37.880 --> 1:26:40.719
<v Speaker 1>you know did did great things with Nick pits Alatto.

1:26:41.080 --> 1:26:46.680
<v Speaker 1>So um and and people shouldn't if you think the

1:26:46.720 --> 1:26:51.240
<v Speaker 1>case is sprawling after reading eight thousand words of a way,

1:26:51.280 --> 1:26:56.200
<v Speaker 1>do you read nearly a hundred thousands? Yeah? I did this,

1:26:57.360 --> 1:27:01.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, somewhat with my first book, a book called

1:27:01.080 --> 1:27:03.960
<v Speaker 1>Queen's Ring Supreme, which is which I which random I

1:27:04.000 --> 1:27:09.360
<v Speaker 1>was published. But but this case is so complicated that

1:27:09.400 --> 1:27:14.439
<v Speaker 1>I could actually see a gigantic kind of outline of

1:27:14.520 --> 1:27:17.679
<v Speaker 1>the cast of characters coming at the beginning of the book.

1:27:18.439 --> 1:27:22.320
<v Speaker 1>Um that the number of characters and uh that I'm

1:27:22.360 --> 1:27:25.200
<v Speaker 1>going to explore in the in the book is just

1:27:25.200 --> 1:27:28.080
<v Speaker 1>going to be seen. And when when do you think

1:27:28.120 --> 1:27:30.320
<v Speaker 1>that book is is going to be out? Do you

1:27:30.360 --> 1:27:34.960
<v Speaker 1>have a date yet? I don't. My guess would be

1:27:35.560 --> 1:27:40.200
<v Speaker 1>two thousand and sixteen. Okay, you got a title plan

1:27:40.320 --> 1:27:43.000
<v Speaker 1>for you yet? I do? Yes, I do have actually

1:27:43.000 --> 1:27:48.120
<v Speaker 1>a very queer battle plan. Um. I have. As I said,

1:27:48.240 --> 1:27:51.080
<v Speaker 1>I have been doing quite a bit of investigation since

1:27:51.120 --> 1:27:56.599
<v Speaker 1>the piece came out, and I've also identified a case

1:27:56.920 --> 1:28:01.600
<v Speaker 1>from Calcusu Parish in the nineties that I believe is

1:28:01.640 --> 1:28:04.800
<v Speaker 1>sort of the door opener to this case. Um, which

1:28:04.840 --> 1:28:07.720
<v Speaker 1>is going to be fascinating to people, I think. And

1:28:07.760 --> 1:28:13.599
<v Speaker 1>then I've also got new sources. Not I don't mean

1:28:13.800 --> 1:28:17.800
<v Speaker 1>individuals or people, I mean actual sources, like you know,

1:28:18.080 --> 1:28:20.280
<v Speaker 1>in the sense of like the past force documents that

1:28:20.320 --> 1:28:24.840
<v Speaker 1>I got for the piece. I have new new sources

1:28:24.880 --> 1:28:27.720
<v Speaker 1>that are witness interviews and what not to to pour

1:28:27.840 --> 1:28:31.280
<v Speaker 1>over that are just that are going to that are huge,

1:28:31.400 --> 1:28:33.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, cass of information that I'm going to be

1:28:33.720 --> 1:28:38.920
<v Speaker 1>able to utilize as well. It should be really interesting. Yeah,

1:28:39.280 --> 1:28:42.519
<v Speaker 1>we can't wait to read the book. Yeah, well, I

1:28:42.560 --> 1:28:45.400
<v Speaker 1>I don't know about the pair of you, but I'm

1:28:45.439 --> 1:28:47.880
<v Speaker 1>definitely definitely glad that we got to talk to Ethan's

1:28:47.920 --> 1:28:50.840
<v Speaker 1>just earlier. And I'm definitely looking forward to when the

1:28:50.880 --> 1:28:54.599
<v Speaker 1>book comes out. I think that it's going to be

1:28:55.320 --> 1:28:57.519
<v Speaker 1>definitely it's gonna be a patron But I don't think

1:28:57.960 --> 1:29:01.760
<v Speaker 1>in the sense that I can't stop reading as and

1:29:01.840 --> 1:29:04.000
<v Speaker 1>I think I'm gonna be turning the pages and then

1:29:04.040 --> 1:29:07.479
<v Speaker 1>going back and turning the page back and checking because

1:29:07.520 --> 1:29:10.760
<v Speaker 1>this is going to be there's so many players in

1:29:10.800 --> 1:29:12.760
<v Speaker 1>this and it's gonna be so hard to track, and

1:29:12.840 --> 1:29:17.439
<v Speaker 1>I think it's gonna be absurdly interesting. But such a

1:29:18.280 --> 1:29:20.479
<v Speaker 1>He does a great job. You know, his article is

1:29:20.560 --> 1:29:26.960
<v Speaker 1>really great at succinctly laying out what's going on. It's

1:29:27.000 --> 1:29:30.760
<v Speaker 1>it's easy to follow what's kind of going on in

1:29:30.760 --> 1:29:34.880
<v Speaker 1>this case. That's just a tangled rama. Yeah, it's a

1:29:34.920 --> 1:29:37.479
<v Speaker 1>bol of spaghetti. But yeah, yeah, it's probably one of

1:29:37.479 --> 1:29:39.000
<v Speaker 1>those books where you want to make notes as you

1:29:39.040 --> 1:29:42.840
<v Speaker 1>go along, especially names of people and their relationships and

1:29:42.840 --> 1:29:45.400
<v Speaker 1>stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately we don't have a

1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:48.160
<v Speaker 1>title because he didn't tell us what the title of

1:29:48.200 --> 1:29:50.960
<v Speaker 1>the world is and maybe have done that on purpose. Yeah, yeah,

1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:53.000
<v Speaker 1>maybe he doesn't have a title yet. Maybe he hasn't

1:29:53.120 --> 1:29:55.719
<v Speaker 1>quite decided exactly what it's going to be. Maybe bodies

1:29:55.760 --> 1:29:57.559
<v Speaker 1>in the Buy You or Buy You Full of Bodies,

1:29:58.240 --> 1:29:59.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Well, he's got a couple of years

1:29:59.880 --> 1:30:03.599
<v Speaker 1>to to get a year ago, so well let's let's

1:30:03.680 --> 1:30:06.880
<v Speaker 1>I I just want to know what you know. We

1:30:06.960 --> 1:30:11.559
<v Speaker 1>haven't really dove into personal theories so far. We've we've

1:30:11.640 --> 1:30:13.960
<v Speaker 1>kind of been relying on the information we've got from

1:30:13.960 --> 1:30:16.400
<v Speaker 1>Ethan and we know what we've read. But I want

1:30:16.439 --> 1:30:18.680
<v Speaker 1>I want to know what you guys think. I know

1:30:18.720 --> 1:30:21.439
<v Speaker 1>what my theories are, but what have you what have

1:30:21.520 --> 1:30:24.760
<v Speaker 1>you go ahead and start us off, and you want

1:30:24.760 --> 1:30:29.360
<v Speaker 1>to go ahead, Joe, Okay, the murderer is drum roll please,

1:30:30.400 --> 1:30:38.400
<v Speaker 1>Nicole the cold gillery uh died or what's her body

1:30:38.439 --> 1:30:41.320
<v Speaker 1>was sound August two thousand nine. I think she murdered

1:30:41.320 --> 1:30:43.879
<v Speaker 1>all the rest of them and then she died apparently

1:30:43.880 --> 1:30:47.520
<v Speaker 1>of asphyxia, they think. So. I think she auto asphyxiated

1:30:47.520 --> 1:30:50.040
<v Speaker 1>and threw her threw herself into the bayou. So you're

1:30:50.120 --> 1:30:52.479
<v Speaker 1>you're you're just going for you don't have a real

1:30:52.760 --> 1:30:57.200
<v Speaker 1>idea and you're just making something pretty much. Yeah, you know,

1:30:57.360 --> 1:30:59.439
<v Speaker 1>it could have been it could have been the owner

1:30:59.479 --> 1:31:01.720
<v Speaker 1>of the boot row in who was really ticked off

1:31:01.760 --> 1:31:03.960
<v Speaker 1>that all these women cause so much, so much of

1:31:03.960 --> 1:31:07.000
<v Speaker 1>a fuss, and that his place got closed down. I

1:31:07.040 --> 1:31:09.679
<v Speaker 1>think his place would have got closed down. Yeah, thanks,

1:31:09.720 --> 1:31:14.400
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, but but it's really hard to say. I mean,

1:31:14.439 --> 1:31:18.320
<v Speaker 1>it's there are a lot of questionable characters in this town.

1:31:18.360 --> 1:31:20.719
<v Speaker 1>A lot of them have peripheral involvement in this story,

1:31:21.240 --> 1:31:24.080
<v Speaker 1>and they're also at the same time involved in the

1:31:24.120 --> 1:31:28.400
<v Speaker 1>drug trade. So okay, so when you're in prostitution, that

1:31:28.439 --> 1:31:31.840
<v Speaker 1>makes you kind of uniquely vulnerable. Right then you put

1:31:31.880 --> 1:31:35.599
<v Speaker 1>yourself into a lot of bad situations. And then also

1:31:35.680 --> 1:31:38.639
<v Speaker 1>but when you're also involved in the drug trade, as

1:31:38.640 --> 1:31:40.240
<v Speaker 1>most of them seem to be, then that's that's a

1:31:40.240 --> 1:31:45.400
<v Speaker 1>whole another layer of motives from murder. There. So it's

1:31:45.880 --> 1:31:47.840
<v Speaker 1>really really hard to say. And of course I don't

1:31:47.840 --> 1:31:51.280
<v Speaker 1>want to commit liabel or anything like that, so I'm

1:31:51.280 --> 1:31:54.439
<v Speaker 1>not gonna say, and frankly I don't I don't really know.

1:31:54.600 --> 1:31:56.400
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's just there's just so much going on

1:31:56.520 --> 1:32:00.519
<v Speaker 1>here and there's no real hard evidence against anybody. Yeah,

1:32:00.800 --> 1:32:05.599
<v Speaker 1>so I'm going to go with space aliens. Okay, still

1:32:05.600 --> 1:32:13.519
<v Speaker 1>my theoryard people, Okay, Okay, you can have space aliens.

1:32:13.560 --> 1:32:15.559
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to say it's the same person who did

1:32:15.600 --> 1:32:19.599
<v Speaker 1>the Hagley Woods thing, the body down in the tree. Okay, Devin,

1:32:20.080 --> 1:32:24.160
<v Speaker 1>what you know? Again, just like Joe, I don't necessarily

1:32:24.200 --> 1:32:28.280
<v Speaker 1>want to commit any kind of libel. I only know

1:32:28.400 --> 1:32:34.639
<v Speaker 1>what has been published. But in my estimation, I guess

1:32:35.160 --> 1:32:40.120
<v Speaker 1>you look for the common denominators, and you know, you've

1:32:40.160 --> 1:32:43.519
<v Speaker 1>got drugs and prostitution, and it's a small community, and

1:32:43.560 --> 1:32:46.840
<v Speaker 1>so okay, fine, those are all common denominators, but they're

1:32:46.880 --> 1:32:50.760
<v Speaker 1>also all tied to this Frankie Richard, guy who I

1:32:50.800 --> 1:32:55.280
<v Speaker 1>find to be super creepy, and there's been depositional testimony

1:32:55.400 --> 1:32:59.960
<v Speaker 1>it seems to the fact that he has a violent stree,

1:33:00.160 --> 1:33:05.280
<v Speaker 1>particularly when high and people say no to him. And

1:33:05.479 --> 1:33:08.599
<v Speaker 1>you know, I again, I don't want to say it's

1:33:08.640 --> 1:33:12.320
<v Speaker 1>it's definitely this person. I don't have access to all

1:33:12.360 --> 1:33:15.200
<v Speaker 1>the evidence. You know, it's they're open cases, so there's

1:33:15.240 --> 1:33:17.880
<v Speaker 1>a lot of stuff that the just general public cannot know.

1:33:19.280 --> 1:33:22.640
<v Speaker 1>And you know, as Ethan said, some people in the

1:33:22.640 --> 1:33:27.120
<v Speaker 1>Task Force have said, Richard is is an inform he

1:33:27.160 --> 1:33:31.080
<v Speaker 1>works for us, so you know, so, and it's just

1:33:31.120 --> 1:33:32.760
<v Speaker 1>one of those cases of like, I don't know who

1:33:32.840 --> 1:33:37.240
<v Speaker 1>to believe, but my gut instinct is to say that

1:33:37.439 --> 1:33:41.679
<v Speaker 1>it's him. But you know, the thing that's the most

1:33:41.680 --> 1:33:44.679
<v Speaker 1>frustrating about this, I you know, this this little TV

1:33:44.760 --> 1:33:46.360
<v Speaker 1>spot that I watched, and you know, one of the

1:33:46.400 --> 1:33:48.880
<v Speaker 1>locals said, the thing that's most frustrating about this is

1:33:48.920 --> 1:33:53.600
<v Speaker 1>that somebody knows who killed all these women. May not

1:33:53.680 --> 1:33:55.720
<v Speaker 1>be the same person. It may be a syndication, it

1:33:55.800 --> 1:33:59.400
<v Speaker 1>maybe a group of people, but at least one person

1:33:59.479 --> 1:34:02.599
<v Speaker 1>knows each one person. Yeah, and maybe that the murders

1:34:02.640 --> 1:34:05.040
<v Speaker 1>are not not actually all that interconnected, and it might

1:34:05.080 --> 1:34:07.040
<v Speaker 1>be there is no single one person who knows who

1:34:07.120 --> 1:34:09.240
<v Speaker 1>killed all those true, But you know, as far as

1:34:09.240 --> 1:34:12.120
<v Speaker 1>Frankie Schard goes, like, for example, he was accused by

1:34:12.160 --> 1:34:20.240
<v Speaker 1>Tracy Chasson of murdering along with Hannah Connor, of murdering

1:34:21.280 --> 1:34:25.240
<v Speaker 1>Dubois in front of her. And that's that was her accusation,

1:34:25.320 --> 1:34:27.400
<v Speaker 1>and so why that's why he was charged with that initially.

1:34:27.439 --> 1:34:30.040
<v Speaker 1>But but when you think about it, her story makes

1:34:30.040 --> 1:34:33.360
<v Speaker 1>no sense because you know, here he is committing murder

1:34:33.439 --> 1:34:35.320
<v Speaker 1>right in front of this person. It's like, you know

1:34:35.360 --> 1:34:38.960
<v Speaker 1>what it is about Tracyson that makes Frankie Chard and

1:34:39.280 --> 1:34:42.040
<v Speaker 1>his god niece Hannah Connor believed that they can commit

1:34:42.120 --> 1:34:44.160
<v Speaker 1>murder right in front of her And it's perfectly okay.

1:34:44.200 --> 1:34:48.519
<v Speaker 1>And she's not going to say anything to anybody. Don't know.

1:34:48.720 --> 1:34:51.040
<v Speaker 1>I I I hate to say, but I think I

1:34:51.080 --> 1:34:56.920
<v Speaker 1>can answer that question, which is herug adult No, no,

1:34:57.120 --> 1:34:59.920
<v Speaker 1>not at all. Is when you're in a small town

1:35:00.000 --> 1:35:02.800
<v Speaker 1>own again, I've I've seen these kind of communities and

1:35:02.840 --> 1:35:05.040
<v Speaker 1>I've been around, I've been you know, I've lived in

1:35:05.080 --> 1:35:09.760
<v Speaker 1>these places as you know everybody, and hey, can I

1:35:09.800 --> 1:35:12.760
<v Speaker 1>trust you can I vouch for you. I've done things

1:35:12.800 --> 1:35:14.800
<v Speaker 1>for you, and you've done things for me, and you

1:35:14.840 --> 1:35:17.799
<v Speaker 1>know you're not gonna say anything, and I'll do favors

1:35:17.800 --> 1:35:20.960
<v Speaker 1>for you down the line. So you scratch my back,

1:35:21.000 --> 1:35:25.400
<v Speaker 1>I scratch yours. Kind of mentality that I don't have

1:35:25.439 --> 1:35:27.759
<v Speaker 1>the exact way. I mean, this would take a long

1:35:27.840 --> 1:35:32.240
<v Speaker 1>time to suss out, but I think that if you

1:35:32.400 --> 1:35:37.559
<v Speaker 1>have somebody so scared of you, I mean, think about

1:35:38.479 --> 1:35:43.800
<v Speaker 1>let's look at people who are, um, you know, abducted,

1:35:43.880 --> 1:35:47.439
<v Speaker 1>and they're so afraid, like kids, they're so afraid of

1:35:47.479 --> 1:35:49.840
<v Speaker 1>the person that that has abducted them that they can

1:35:51.000 --> 1:35:54.280
<v Speaker 1>brainwash them. Is the word I want to use into saying, yeah,

1:35:54.400 --> 1:35:57.599
<v Speaker 1>saying don't tell anybody or I will go kill your

1:35:57.600 --> 1:36:00.840
<v Speaker 1>mom and dad. That that kind of that kind of

1:36:00.960 --> 1:36:04.519
<v Speaker 1>influence over somebody. So I can see how that that

1:36:04.640 --> 1:36:09.000
<v Speaker 1>maybe the reason that he if if indeed Richard is

1:36:09.040 --> 1:36:11.920
<v Speaker 1>responsible for this particular murder, I can see how he

1:36:11.960 --> 1:36:13.519
<v Speaker 1>could have gone. He could have done it in front

1:36:13.560 --> 1:36:15.799
<v Speaker 1>of her and said, well, you're not going to talk

1:36:16.160 --> 1:36:18.920
<v Speaker 1>because you know if you talk, I will come after you.

1:36:19.280 --> 1:36:21.080
<v Speaker 1>But then you don't want me after you, But then

1:36:21.680 --> 1:36:25.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, but then she did talk, and she didn't

1:36:25.080 --> 1:36:28.000
<v Speaker 1>wind up murdered. She talked, she didn't wind up murdered

1:36:28.120 --> 1:36:31.640
<v Speaker 1>because a bunch of evidence against him disappeared, Right, I mean,

1:36:31.680 --> 1:36:35.559
<v Speaker 1>I guess, yeah, it's not a solid theory. I'm not

1:36:35.600 --> 1:36:38.680
<v Speaker 1>saying that I have any kind of thing, but I'm

1:36:38.720 --> 1:36:41.960
<v Speaker 1>just saying that I think her story is not entirely credible,

1:36:42.040 --> 1:36:44.960
<v Speaker 1>which is fair. And then there's a lot there's a

1:36:44.960 --> 1:36:47.120
<v Speaker 1>lot of things in this story that don't make sense.

1:36:47.120 --> 1:36:49.120
<v Speaker 1>And like when we talk to Ethan, is the whole

1:36:49.160 --> 1:36:53.320
<v Speaker 1>thing about the Chevy Silverado and supposedly transporting in the

1:36:53.360 --> 1:36:57.040
<v Speaker 1>body of Lewis, which does not make any sense if

1:36:57.320 --> 1:36:59.519
<v Speaker 1>if they murdered her by the canal and she's found

1:36:59.520 --> 1:37:01.439
<v Speaker 1>in the canal, why they put her in a drum

1:37:01.479 --> 1:37:05.760
<v Speaker 1>and drive her around? And then although Ethan did say

1:37:05.800 --> 1:37:08.559
<v Speaker 1>that there's it's not a certain that she was actually

1:37:08.640 --> 1:37:10.840
<v Speaker 1>murdered by the canal, right, but the whole thing about

1:37:10.840 --> 1:37:15.360
<v Speaker 1>it is is trans You know, if you murder somebody

1:37:15.479 --> 1:37:18.760
<v Speaker 1>and transport them around your pickup truck, then what you

1:37:18.800 --> 1:37:20.439
<v Speaker 1>do is when you get home, you get out the

1:37:20.520 --> 1:37:22.800
<v Speaker 1>garden hose and he hose out the back real good

1:37:22.800 --> 1:37:24.920
<v Speaker 1>and get the blood in the DNA of you and

1:37:25.720 --> 1:37:28.920
<v Speaker 1>and a lot of people understand that, but not everybody

1:37:28.960 --> 1:37:34.160
<v Speaker 1>thinks about that, especially if not all the cylinders are firing.

1:37:34.240 --> 1:37:38.400
<v Speaker 1>Because your high as a kite on something welleta means

1:37:38.479 --> 1:37:40.840
<v Speaker 1>or whatever it is, you don't think about these things.

1:37:41.200 --> 1:37:43.759
<v Speaker 1>You get around a tweaker, they do some weird stuff

1:37:43.760 --> 1:37:47.000
<v Speaker 1>because they think that they know what they're doing. It's true.

1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:49.880
<v Speaker 1>But but and then if you have this and one

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<v Speaker 1>of the things about the truck, it was bought by

1:37:52.479 --> 1:37:55.439
<v Speaker 1>one of the local cops for a below market price,

1:37:55.680 --> 1:37:58.240
<v Speaker 1>and then he took it to the car wash, and

1:37:58.360 --> 1:38:00.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, detailed it all out, supposed destroying evidence in

1:38:00.920 --> 1:38:05.280
<v Speaker 1>the meantime, Well, if you want to destroy evidence in

1:38:05.320 --> 1:38:07.280
<v Speaker 1>the back of your pickup truck, you don't need to

1:38:07.320 --> 1:38:09.479
<v Speaker 1>sell the pickup truck to a local cop to take

1:38:09.520 --> 1:38:10.920
<v Speaker 1>to the car wash. You can just take it to

1:38:10.920 --> 1:38:14.479
<v Speaker 1>the car wash herself. Well, except for that person was

1:38:14.520 --> 1:38:19.479
<v Speaker 1>in jail, weren't they. Oh yeah, but I'm not sure

1:38:19.479 --> 1:38:22.320
<v Speaker 1>how much I know she had been Yeah, Siler, I

1:38:22.360 --> 1:38:23.840
<v Speaker 1>know she had been charged, but I don't know that

1:38:23.880 --> 1:38:26.519
<v Speaker 1>she was in jail at the time. But but I mean,

1:38:26.560 --> 1:38:28.320
<v Speaker 1>this is this is the problem with this case, there's

1:38:28.360 --> 1:38:32.960
<v Speaker 1>so many weird lips. Now. Personally, I think that some

1:38:33.320 --> 1:38:37.479
<v Speaker 1>of the murders are connected. I don't think they're all connected, because,

1:38:37.520 --> 1:38:40.320
<v Speaker 1>as we talked about in the interview with Ethan, I

1:38:40.520 --> 1:38:43.080
<v Speaker 1>tends I think it's I ten is right there, and

1:38:43.120 --> 1:38:45.760
<v Speaker 1>so it's a major thoroughfare, and so I think that

1:38:46.240 --> 1:38:49.960
<v Speaker 1>it's not on. It's not an uncommon thing to discover

1:38:50.120 --> 1:38:52.559
<v Speaker 1>that we've got a trucker who killed a woman, so

1:38:52.600 --> 1:38:54.320
<v Speaker 1>I think that that might be part of it. I

1:38:54.360 --> 1:38:56.800
<v Speaker 1>think the drug trade is part of it. I think

1:38:56.840 --> 1:39:00.640
<v Speaker 1>that just weird interconnections. I think this whole thing is

1:39:00.680 --> 1:39:04.400
<v Speaker 1>a cesspot and there's a lot of not good things

1:39:04.439 --> 1:39:09.559
<v Speaker 1>going on. But I also think that in this small community,

1:39:09.640 --> 1:39:12.880
<v Speaker 1>you're right, as we said before, everybody knows, at least

1:39:12.920 --> 1:39:17.400
<v Speaker 1>somebody knows, but they all have their reasons for not

1:39:18.040 --> 1:39:22.519
<v Speaker 1>I believe the phrase is snitching. You don't snitch, Well,

1:39:22.640 --> 1:39:25.760
<v Speaker 1>there's a good reason not to snitch, because when you snitch,

1:39:26.040 --> 1:39:29.880
<v Speaker 1>retribution comes down. Well, because especially in this case, it

1:39:30.000 --> 1:39:32.080
<v Speaker 1>does appear, as I said earlier, that there is a

1:39:32.080 --> 1:39:34.479
<v Speaker 1>mole in the police department. The police are corrupt, and

1:39:34.920 --> 1:39:37.680
<v Speaker 1>I think everybody knows that if they snitched, you know,

1:39:37.760 --> 1:39:41.040
<v Speaker 1>the cops are going to immediately inform on them. Yeah,

1:39:41.080 --> 1:39:42.800
<v Speaker 1>and you know a lot of these women, as we

1:39:42.800 --> 1:39:44.960
<v Speaker 1>talked about in the interview, they were afraid to talk

1:39:45.120 --> 1:39:47.919
<v Speaker 1>because or they knew that they had talked and they

1:39:48.040 --> 1:39:49.720
<v Speaker 1>made a mistake and it was going to come back.

1:39:49.840 --> 1:39:53.160
<v Speaker 1>I think just by the sheer fact that I think,

1:39:53.160 --> 1:39:55.519
<v Speaker 1>you know, Ethan said there's something like twenty, but there's

1:39:55.560 --> 1:40:01.639
<v Speaker 1>solid evidence for eleven at least unsolved histories or unsolved

1:40:01.720 --> 1:40:05.479
<v Speaker 1>murders in a well, in a community of ten thousand.

1:40:06.120 --> 1:40:10.320
<v Speaker 1>You know, at that point, it's it's clearly a systemic problem.

1:40:10.320 --> 1:40:13.559
<v Speaker 1>It is no longer just an anomaly of a weird

1:40:13.640 --> 1:40:18.400
<v Speaker 1>unsolved mystery. There's something larger going on. If that high

1:40:18.439 --> 1:40:23.639
<v Speaker 1>a percentage of murders are just unsolved for a lot

1:40:23.680 --> 1:40:27.280
<v Speaker 1>a lot of years in a community that's small, because

1:40:27.320 --> 1:40:29.320
<v Speaker 1>there are other let's be fair, there are other small

1:40:29.360 --> 1:40:32.960
<v Speaker 1>communities of that size on huge interstates that are drug

1:40:33.000 --> 1:40:37.160
<v Speaker 1>trafficking havens. It's not you know, this Jennings is not

1:40:37.240 --> 1:40:40.800
<v Speaker 1>the only place on it ten in between Austin and

1:40:40.880 --> 1:40:42.880
<v Speaker 1>New Orleans, right, is that what he said? Or wherever,

1:40:44.320 --> 1:40:47.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, wherever he is not the only small community

1:40:47.600 --> 1:40:50.840
<v Speaker 1>that's just you know, inundated with drugs and violence and

1:40:50.880 --> 1:40:54.240
<v Speaker 1>gang crime and things like that, but they are the

1:40:54.280 --> 1:40:59.080
<v Speaker 1>only ones that have this kind of murders. Yeah, and

1:40:59.120 --> 1:41:01.320
<v Speaker 1>so I think it's in this scary that is the scale.

1:41:01.320 --> 1:41:03.720
<v Speaker 1>It's the it's the fact that there's somehow there is

1:41:03.760 --> 1:41:06.240
<v Speaker 1>a systemic problem and where whether that is just like

1:41:06.479 --> 1:41:09.799
<v Speaker 1>pure incompetence and stupidity on the part of the police

1:41:09.840 --> 1:41:13.800
<v Speaker 1>department there, or if it's something more sinister, that's hard

1:41:13.840 --> 1:41:16.519
<v Speaker 1>to tell. But I think, you know, I just think

1:41:16.560 --> 1:41:20.160
<v Speaker 1>that it's just this is just such a messed up Yeah,

1:41:20.160 --> 1:41:22.559
<v Speaker 1>I know, this this whole thing is is Yeah, it's

1:41:23.320 --> 1:41:25.880
<v Speaker 1>it's awkward and it's hard to track. Yeah, Jennings is

1:41:25.880 --> 1:41:28.960
<v Speaker 1>a scary little town. If I don't go to Jennings, well,

1:41:29.600 --> 1:41:31.719
<v Speaker 1>don't don't go there and try and dig up answers

1:41:31.720 --> 1:41:34.600
<v Speaker 1>on your own lass. Please stay home if you go,

1:41:35.360 --> 1:41:38.320
<v Speaker 1>if you go there, packy, don't packy. Just don't go.

1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Don't go there. Well. Again, as as we said before,

1:41:42.520 --> 1:41:45.479
<v Speaker 1>Ethan's book is coming out next year and there should

1:41:45.479 --> 1:41:50.600
<v Speaker 1>be some more fun filled facts and the facts has

1:41:50.640 --> 1:41:52.360
<v Speaker 1>been doing a lot more research, so you're gonna want

1:41:52.400 --> 1:41:54.439
<v Speaker 1>to read that book. So when that book comes out

1:41:54.600 --> 1:41:56.439
<v Speaker 1>and we find out what it's going to be, we

1:41:56.479 --> 1:41:59.880
<v Speaker 1>will definitely put something up about it. But in the meantime,

1:42:00.439 --> 1:42:03.240
<v Speaker 1>all of the links and a good a good spot

1:42:03.240 --> 1:42:06.080
<v Speaker 1>of the research that we did and we got access

1:42:06.160 --> 1:42:10.160
<v Speaker 1>to about this story will be on our website. The website,

1:42:10.160 --> 1:42:13.200
<v Speaker 1>as always, is going to be Thinking Sideways podcast dot com.

1:42:13.560 --> 1:42:16.200
<v Speaker 1>You can read all the links there, you can find

1:42:16.240 --> 1:42:20.200
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1:42:20.760 --> 1:42:22.559
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1:42:22.600 --> 1:42:26.280
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1:42:36.880 --> 1:42:38.880
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1:42:38.920 --> 1:42:41.799
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1:42:41.840 --> 1:42:44.960
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1:42:44.960 --> 1:42:47.559
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1:42:52.680 --> 1:42:56.000
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1:42:56.040 --> 1:43:01.400
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1:43:01.760 --> 1:43:04.160
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1:43:07.320 --> 1:43:09.920
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1:43:09.960 --> 1:43:13.120
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1:43:13.160 --> 1:43:16.559
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1:43:16.600 --> 1:43:20.639
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1:43:20.720 --> 1:43:23.080
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1:43:23.120 --> 1:43:27.720
<v Speaker 1>tell us, you've got story suggestions, you've got leads for us,

1:43:28.160 --> 1:43:31.240
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1:43:31.280 --> 1:43:35.439
<v Speaker 1>Thinking Sideways Podcast at gmail dot com. As a matter

1:43:35.479 --> 1:43:38.960
<v Speaker 1>of fact, this story was suggested to us by a

1:43:39.040 --> 1:43:44.400
<v Speaker 1>listener via emails. Thomas. Yeah, thanks, Thomas, thank you. And

1:43:44.520 --> 1:43:47.240
<v Speaker 1>at the same time I kind of regret you having

1:43:47.240 --> 1:43:50.080
<v Speaker 1>done that because I've we've just gotten so deep into

1:43:50.160 --> 1:43:52.920
<v Speaker 1>such a crazy story. No, it was very good. But

1:43:52.960 --> 1:43:58.120
<v Speaker 1>at the same yeah, I really am. I'm gonna keep

1:43:58.200 --> 1:44:01.720
<v Speaker 1>making info graphics about this until the day I die.

1:44:02.000 --> 1:44:05.759
<v Speaker 1>That's probably true. It kind of might be now, Colonel

1:44:05.840 --> 1:44:10.519
<v Speaker 1>Mustard in the study with candle still is that your answer?

1:44:11.439 --> 1:44:15.080
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, thank you, Joe. I appreciate that. And before

1:44:15.080 --> 1:44:18.719
<v Speaker 1>we forget speaking of emails, we did get an email

1:44:18.760 --> 1:44:22.160
<v Speaker 1>this week or we got well, I was gonna say, yeah,

1:44:22.160 --> 1:44:24.720
<v Speaker 1>we got an email this week that whatever I say that,

1:44:24.760 --> 1:44:26.800
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh, this one stood out. I really liked it.

1:44:26.840 --> 1:44:29.840
<v Speaker 1>I really had a fun time. Yeah, so I didn't

1:44:29.880 --> 1:44:33.200
<v Speaker 1>know who wanted to read the email this week. I

1:44:33.240 --> 1:44:35.680
<v Speaker 1>don't care. I'll read it. This email is from a

1:44:35.720 --> 1:44:40.880
<v Speaker 1>guy named Jacob. Hi Jacob j H. Jacob. It says, Hi,

1:44:41.439 --> 1:44:43.920
<v Speaker 1>I really liked your show, and after finding it at

1:44:43.920 --> 1:44:47.799
<v Speaker 1>the start a sixteen hour drive, I proceeded to listen

1:44:47.880 --> 1:44:52.639
<v Speaker 1>to sixteen hours of thinking sideways. I'm so sorry. Jacob

1:44:52.800 --> 1:44:54.600
<v Speaker 1>act said the same thing too, but he said it

1:44:54.680 --> 1:44:59.240
<v Speaker 1>was awesome. Didn't keep you awake to sleep. He says

1:44:59.280 --> 1:45:00.920
<v Speaker 1>it was a great man aar thon, and I really

1:45:00.920 --> 1:45:04.200
<v Speaker 1>liked your interpretation of these events. I'm currently working as

1:45:04.240 --> 1:45:08.640
<v Speaker 1>a scientist, but still fall for imaginative or fantastic explanations

1:45:08.760 --> 1:45:12.360
<v Speaker 1>for many stories that have rather than the logical choices.

1:45:12.760 --> 1:45:15.960
<v Speaker 1>For example, I read about the love and past incident

1:45:16.040 --> 1:45:19.800
<v Speaker 1>oh a while ago. Apparently I can't read today. I'm sorry,

1:45:19.960 --> 1:45:24.080
<v Speaker 1>and could only conclude radiation and or monsters, which probably

1:45:24.120 --> 1:45:30.439
<v Speaker 1>makes me a pretty expletive deleted scientist. Your walkthrough of

1:45:30.520 --> 1:45:35.200
<v Speaker 1>the story using the avalanche hypothesis makes such great sense. Um,

1:45:35.280 --> 1:45:39.559
<v Speaker 1>he has as everybody who emails us, almost everybody, he

1:45:39.600 --> 1:45:42.520
<v Speaker 1>has a little suggestion and he gives us his scientists

1:45:42.720 --> 1:45:49.840
<v Speaker 1>take on it, which was really really interesting. No, no

1:45:49.880 --> 1:45:53.040
<v Speaker 1>on the story he suggested, Yeah, um, And then he

1:45:53.120 --> 1:45:54.519
<v Speaker 1>goes on to say, I'd be happy to give you

1:45:54.560 --> 1:45:57.080
<v Speaker 1>my take on things if interested. Keep up the good work,

1:45:57.160 --> 1:45:58.560
<v Speaker 1>and I hope you guys are finding a way to

1:45:58.600 --> 1:46:02.360
<v Speaker 1>get compensated for this h show. Well, we're working on

1:46:02.400 --> 1:46:07.639
<v Speaker 1>that one of these days. Should we put a tip

1:46:07.720 --> 1:46:13.839
<v Speaker 1>jar on our page? Yeah? I probably should, Yeah, we should. Anyways,

1:46:13.840 --> 1:46:16.759
<v Speaker 1>thank you, Jacob. I don't know what kind of scientists

1:46:16.760 --> 1:46:19.360
<v Speaker 1>you are. Maybe maybe Steve or I will follow up

1:46:19.560 --> 1:46:23.080
<v Speaker 1>or Joe. Joe doesn't know how to do email, so bad.

1:46:23.120 --> 1:46:25.600
<v Speaker 1>I didn't ask you what kind of scientists you know.

1:46:25.920 --> 1:46:29.840
<v Speaker 1>We may just need we just might need a residence science. No. Actually,

1:46:29.880 --> 1:46:31.840
<v Speaker 1>I think having a consulting scientist to be a good

1:46:32.000 --> 1:46:35.880
<v Speaker 1>a good idea. Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. Did

1:46:35.960 --> 1:46:40.640
<v Speaker 1>you say a scientist or scientologists? He said? Scientists? Okay, yeah, okay,

1:46:40.680 --> 1:46:46.560
<v Speaker 1>we don't need a resident. We got five of those already.

1:46:46.560 --> 1:46:50.880
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, all right, ladies and gentlemen. Well, that that

1:46:51.040 --> 1:46:54.160
<v Speaker 1>is what we have on the Jefferson Davis eight I

1:46:54.280 --> 1:46:57.000
<v Speaker 1>also known as the jennings A, the jennings A, I

1:46:57.040 --> 1:47:01.200
<v Speaker 1>hope sometimes the jeff Davis yeah us, Yeah, for the

1:47:01.240 --> 1:47:03.519
<v Speaker 1>j D eight if you want to be hip and

1:47:03.520 --> 1:47:12.840
<v Speaker 1>abbreviow or just anyway, Okay, Well, so I hope that

1:47:13.120 --> 1:47:16.519
<v Speaker 1>while we didn't necessarily solve the issue, we might have

1:47:16.560 --> 1:47:19.960
<v Speaker 1>hopefully clarified some of the facts that you've heard about

1:47:20.080 --> 1:47:21.880
<v Speaker 1>or you've read about, and it gives you a better

1:47:21.920 --> 1:47:24.759
<v Speaker 1>perspective on it, because I think in this particular story,

1:47:25.680 --> 1:47:28.479
<v Speaker 1>that's about the best we can do, because this one

1:47:28.720 --> 1:47:31.559
<v Speaker 1>is a long way from being solved, and I think

1:47:31.880 --> 1:47:34.240
<v Speaker 1>even hit on the until we get some some big

1:47:34.280 --> 1:47:36.840
<v Speaker 1>government intervention, we're not going to get it. I don't

1:47:36.880 --> 1:47:38.479
<v Speaker 1>think that. I don't think the FBI is going to

1:47:38.560 --> 1:47:40.600
<v Speaker 1>solve this either. Don't think they're gonna step in, but

1:47:40.760 --> 1:47:42.559
<v Speaker 1>they're not going to. But but it's a it's a

1:47:42.600 --> 1:47:45.120
<v Speaker 1>cold trail, let's face it, you know, I mean. And

1:47:45.160 --> 1:47:47.160
<v Speaker 1>the problem is is all the witnesses and all the

1:47:47.200 --> 1:47:50.240
<v Speaker 1>people that come forward saying anything about it, well, a

1:47:50.320 --> 1:47:52.320
<v Speaker 1>lot of are dead and but a lot of the

1:47:52.320 --> 1:47:54.400
<v Speaker 1>other ones that are a drug adult and not necessarily

1:47:54.479 --> 1:48:00.439
<v Speaker 1>reliable people. So yeah, sort of important. Yeah. So other words,

1:48:00.439 --> 1:48:02.639
<v Speaker 1>it's not just enough to get somebody to snitch on somebody.

1:48:02.640 --> 1:48:05.360
<v Speaker 1>You need some actual physical evidence to I don't I

1:48:05.360 --> 1:48:08.440
<v Speaker 1>think that's all been sort of washed away or from

1:48:08.479 --> 1:48:11.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, the oldest one is nine years gone. That's

1:48:11.920 --> 1:48:15.479
<v Speaker 1>that's a hard I'm thinking it's not likely that this

1:48:15.560 --> 1:48:19.680
<v Speaker 1>is going to be solved. Yeah, Steve, Well, I did

1:48:19.680 --> 1:48:22.320
<v Speaker 1>you hear that I did? Did anybody else notice it? Yeah?

1:48:22.960 --> 1:48:25.920
<v Speaker 1>Joe has admitted that we have not solved a mystery.

1:48:26.080 --> 1:48:30.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm always solved it. Somebody did it at a high

1:48:30.600 --> 1:48:33.920
<v Speaker 1>level kind of you know, but a far specifics. I

1:48:33.960 --> 1:48:37.600
<v Speaker 1>think that I think that No, No, it's okay. You know,

1:48:38.680 --> 1:48:41.280
<v Speaker 1>sideways can break this thing wide up. And but we

1:48:41.400 --> 1:48:46.000
<v Speaker 1>need to go to Jennings and we're gonna need money,

1:48:46.080 --> 1:48:48.559
<v Speaker 1>so you guys send us money. Joe, can we just

1:48:48.600 --> 1:48:51.879
<v Speaker 1>go to Stoneheng instead? Yeah, we're going to go someplace.

1:48:52.200 --> 1:48:53.920
<v Speaker 1>That's a good point. Yeah, I picked another one. Let's

1:48:53.920 --> 1:48:57.640
<v Speaker 1>go to Hagley Woods. Okay, we'll go to one of

1:48:57.640 --> 1:48:59.960
<v Speaker 1>those places. Okay, So listeners send us a bunch of

1:49:00.040 --> 1:49:01.880
<v Speaker 1>running and then we'll go there on the spot and

1:49:01.920 --> 1:49:05.120
<v Speaker 1>we'll solve the crap out of stuff. With that, we're

1:49:05.160 --> 1:49:08.200
<v Speaker 1>going to wrap this up, so thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

1:49:08.520 --> 1:49:11.559
<v Speaker 1>I hope you've enjoyed it, and we will bring another

1:49:11.560 --> 1:49:14.720
<v Speaker 1>one to you next week. All right, everybody, I'm sad

1:49:14.760 --> 1:49:17.680
<v Speaker 1>I can't blame aliens this time. I'm God, it's not

1:49:17.720 --> 1:49:20.320
<v Speaker 1>too late. Go ahead and blame them. It's the aliens,

1:49:20.439 --> 1:49:23.640
<v Speaker 1>all right, Eddie