WEBVTT - Missing Pieces PT 1

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Kate Winkler Dawson. I'm a journalist who's spent the

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<v Speaker 1>last twenty five years writing about true crime.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm Paul Hols, a retired cold case investigator who's

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<v Speaker 2>worked some of America's most complicated cases and solve them.

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<v Speaker 1>Each week, I present Paul with one of history's most

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<v Speaker 1>compelling true crimes.

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<v Speaker 2>And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring

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<v Speaker 2>new insights to old mysteries.

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<v Speaker 1>Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime

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<v Speaker 1>cases through a twenty first century lens.

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<v Speaker 2>Some are solved and some are cold, very cold.

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<v Speaker 1>This is buried bones.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, Kate, how are you doing?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing really well. But more importantly, how is Coorra doing?

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<v Speaker 1>Because we haven't had a Cora update in a really

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<v Speaker 1>long time. What's going on with your dog?

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<v Speaker 2>Actually? You know, Cora's doing really well. She of course

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<v Speaker 2>is getting older, she's going to be turning twelve this Easter,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, slowing down quite a bit. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>she's actually had quite a bit of a quality of

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<v Speaker 2>life improvement lately. You know, I had posted maybe four

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<v Speaker 2>months ago on Instagram a picture of Cora down in

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<v Speaker 2>my man cave, which is in the basement, and just indicated, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>this is very unusual. She's really struggling to navigate stairs.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I thought maybe it was an eyesight problem.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I'd have to kind of guide her down

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<v Speaker 2>and she'd be really tentative to come down the stairs.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's about fifteen steps. It's not a short, short

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<v Speaker 2>thing for her at all. Yeah, and then a couple

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<v Speaker 2>of the people, I think about five different people talked

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<v Speaker 2>about this, this medication that helps with arthritis pain and

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<v Speaker 2>I hadn't even thought about that, and took her into

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<v Speaker 2>the vet. She said Cora was a good candidate. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>she has some muscle wasting in her legs just from age,

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<v Speaker 2>but she got she's on these shots now and it's

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<v Speaker 2>like a new dog in many ways. You know, she's

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<v Speaker 2>able to get up and down the stairs. She's still

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<v Speaker 2>a little tentative. I think there is some eyesight issues,

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<v Speaker 2>but even when she goes out for her walks, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>she's got a little more pep in her stuff, and

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<v Speaker 2>that in part maybe because it's you know, we've predominantly

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<v Speaker 2>been through the colder season out here in Colorado, and

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<v Speaker 2>she loves the snow. She loves the cold. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>right now, things are doing good and so far, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>she's still cancer free, so everything is going good on

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<v Speaker 2>Cora front. So you know, for a ninety pounds yellow lab,

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<v Speaker 2>yet she's not a small lab. You know, she's a

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<v Speaker 2>big lab. And you know she's you know, up there

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<v Speaker 2>for the size of dog that she is. But you

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<v Speaker 2>know she's been well taken care of. And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the quality of life I think is as improving as

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<v Speaker 2>a result of the you know, the social media suggestions

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<v Speaker 2>that I got.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I end up getting great suggestions from listeners,

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<v Speaker 1>some not so great. Most of the time, I think

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<v Speaker 1>they're really helpful. Most of the time. They're really helpful

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<v Speaker 1>when you have experts out there, and some many of

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<v Speaker 1>our listeners are so smart, which is great. I love

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<v Speaker 1>smart listeners and they have all of this expertise. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I've had just lists of people say I'm in forensics,

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<v Speaker 1>or I work with DNA analysis, or I had one

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<v Speaker 1>person email me which I loved, who said, I'm an

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<v Speaker 1>expert in like colonial weaponry. If you guys ever want

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<v Speaker 1>to come out and shoot well, which I think is great, Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>very cool. So you know, I really I love getting

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<v Speaker 1>suggestions like that, and so especially something that's going to

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<v Speaker 1>improve the life of someone we care about so much.

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<v Speaker 1>Would you think that the bear encounter was the biggest adventure, trauma,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you want to call it in Cora's life so

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<v Speaker 1>far at age twelve, almost, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, I would say obviously from our perspective. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>she had her side tore open, she got a bite

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<v Speaker 2>on her tail, she got some sort of maybe a

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<v Speaker 2>claw that went dug into her forehead and had half surgery,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. Traumatic for my wife who was with her

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<v Speaker 2>at the time, for sure, but Cora didn't seem to care.

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<v Speaker 2>And she still tried to take off after a bear.

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<v Speaker 2>And when bears come in through our yard, she's barking

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<v Speaker 2>at him, you know. So that that said, don't think

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<v Speaker 2>that she's going to be scared of bears. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>she's still going to go after him. Yeah, which is

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<v Speaker 2>just it's so weird. We have so many deer, bunny, rabbits, turkeys,

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<v Speaker 2>you name it. Kora just ignores them. Yeah, but if

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<v Speaker 2>it's a bear, you know, she turns in to almost

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<v Speaker 2>a vicious dog.

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<v Speaker 1>Just your look. Yeah, she's like you, she's after the

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<v Speaker 1>big prey. That's what she's looking for.

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<v Speaker 2>I think is the big prey.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the whole point of this.

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<v Speaker 2>That's kind of a way to put it, I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Okay, Well, I'm glad we had a coorra update,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm sure we'll get a fish update at some point.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't have time right now, frankly, for a fish update, Paul,

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<v Speaker 1>because you really geek out on your aquarium. I'm assuming

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<v Speaker 1>everything is okay with the aquarium as of now.

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<v Speaker 2>As of now, yeah, you know it's right here to

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<v Speaker 2>my right, I can almost touch it, and yeah we can.

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<v Speaker 2>We can talk fish some other time.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, we have a busy day. So this is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be a two parter. You know, this is a

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<v Speaker 1>story in Canada, set in Canada. Love Love, Love Canada.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a story I think about a complicated family,

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<v Speaker 1>complicated relationship. But it starts the way I'm always interested

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<v Speaker 1>in these sorts of stories, starting, which is with a

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<v Speaker 1>body part found near water. So that isn't that usually

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning of a pretty decent true crime story, one

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<v Speaker 1>that we want to really dig into.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I've had multiple cases that you know,

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<v Speaker 2>parts of body have been on the shoreline, so it

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<v Speaker 2>usually means something bad has happened.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, okay, let's go ahead and set the scene.

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<v Speaker 1>We are in nineteen forty six Ontario, Canada, and we're

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<v Speaker 1>in the city of Hamilton, which is on the western

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<v Speaker 1>end of Lake Ontario. So for sort of a sense

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<v Speaker 1>of geography, because I don't know much about Canada, Okay, well,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I've been to Toronto, I've been to Vancouver,

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<v Speaker 1>I've been to Montreal, and that's it for Canada. But

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<v Speaker 1>I loved all three of those cities.

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<v Speaker 2>What about you, Yeah, you know, I've been to Vancouver,

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<v Speaker 2>and then I flew into Toronto and gave a presentation

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<v Speaker 2>to some college students there, then drove to Ottawa, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and ended up it was like a four

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<v Speaker 2>hour drive, and so it was first time I've ever

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<v Speaker 2>experienced sort of the Canadian countryside, you know. And I

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<v Speaker 2>always enjoy driving and just looking around, so that was

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<v Speaker 2>really cool. But don't have much experience at all up

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<v Speaker 2>in Canada.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I didn't either, And I actually had to

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<v Speaker 1>look up quite a few things, just procedural stuff that

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know about. You'll care about it in a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit, okay, let's get back to Canada. So nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>forty six, Ontario. We're in Hamilton, which is about forty

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<v Speaker 1>miles southwest of Toronto fifty five miles northwest of Buffalo,

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<v Speaker 1>New York. I always forget how close parts of New

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<v Speaker 1>York and Canada are. In Hamilton, the population is at

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<v Speaker 1>about one hundred and eighty thousand in the mid nineteen forties.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's a pretty big placing.

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<v Speaker 1>I have very little reference for Canada as far as

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<v Speaker 1>the size of cities, but it did seem like a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good size for in the nineteen forties. So we've

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<v Speaker 1>talked about this so many times. It's unreal. Kids finding

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<v Speaker 1>terrible things because kids are kids and they like to

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<v Speaker 1>get into stuff and mess around. So on October sixteenth,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a group of kids that are hiking along a trail.

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<v Speaker 1>This is near an area called Albion Falls, and they

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<v Speaker 1>stumble upon a male torso. So this is probably my

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<v Speaker 1>nativity with this, but it's limbless and headless. I would

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<v Speaker 1>know this. I understood this part, but I guess I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't also know that the definition of the torso would

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<v Speaker 1>be the back, the abdomen, and the chest and the

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<v Speaker 1>pelvis And the reason that this is even a thing

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<v Speaker 1>is because the torso is dressed in a pair of

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<v Speaker 1>shorts and an undershirt, which seemed really weird, And at

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<v Speaker 1>first I thought shorts on a torso, But then you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Maren said, well pelvis is included with that traumatizing scene

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<v Speaker 1>for these kids.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, no, absolutely, you know this is a headless,

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<v Speaker 2>limbless body, right, so in essence, you know, of course

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<v Speaker 2>I want to hear how the dismemberment occurred, right, because

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<v Speaker 2>oftentimes the body is bisected, you know, through the abdominal area,

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<v Speaker 2>because all you know, the hardest part is just cutting

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<v Speaker 2>through the spine. But here you've got somebody. Sounds like

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<v Speaker 2>they're trying to remove the body parts that could lead

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<v Speaker 2>to identification, the head, the hands. So that's interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>They're leaving on shorts and an undershirt. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>why I found that weird and surprising, but I did.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, well, I think the question is is did they

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<v Speaker 2>actually leave those items of clothing on, or did they

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<v Speaker 2>redress this torso maybe for you know, moving the body

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<v Speaker 2>around for you know, I don't know if you want

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<v Speaker 2>to say, if it's just to make it a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit less bloody, for them. Do you have pictures?

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<v Speaker 1>No, I don't know you've loved have pictures of the

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<v Speaker 1>HEADLESSLM mis torso, do not. I have a picture of

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<v Speaker 1>the area, though, which could be helpful. The police, of

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<v Speaker 1>course respond, I'm imagining it's cold. It's March in Canada,

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<v Speaker 1>so that's good news for us. But these are body

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<v Speaker 1>parts that are found along or near a trail. So

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<v Speaker 1>let me show you the scene, which is probably going

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<v Speaker 1>to be the most helpful photo that I have, So

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<v Speaker 1>hang on so you'll see the really helpful little black

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<v Speaker 1>arrow pointed to where it's found. And the police essentially

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<v Speaker 1>say they think that that the killer or somebody was

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<v Speaker 1>driving along this road and just toss the torso out.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not buried, it's not really hidden, it's just sort

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<v Speaker 1>of dumped.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So I'm looking at a picture and this appears

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<v Speaker 2>to be a picture where the photographer is capturing what

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<v Speaker 2>appears to be a dirt road that has a relatively

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<v Speaker 2>steep embankment going off of the far side of the

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<v Speaker 2>road from where the photographer is standing, and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>fairly significant number of trees and bushes with no leaves

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<v Speaker 2>on them, so it's obviously now fall wintertime. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>I think the determination of whether the torso was pushed

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<v Speaker 2>out of a moving vehicle or had been pulled out

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<v Speaker 2>is more you know how the torso was positioned, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>down this embankment as well as you know this car

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<v Speaker 2>is moving and the torso is just kind of pushed out,

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<v Speaker 2>And that's not necessarily an easy thing if you're dealing

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<v Speaker 2>with just a single offender who's also driving. But if

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<v Speaker 2>that torso has momentum forward, then of course it's going

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<v Speaker 2>to tumble some distance if the car has any speed,

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<v Speaker 2>and so there would probably be a fair amount of

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<v Speaker 2>abrasion showing this tumbling action. And that's where you know,

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<v Speaker 2>photos could be helpful. But at this point in time,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, this looks like a relatively straightforward body dump location.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a location in which, once the torso has put

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<v Speaker 2>down the embankment, if it falls far enough down this embankment,

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<v Speaker 2>then people passing by probably would not pay any attention,

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<v Speaker 2>not know that it's there.

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<v Speaker 1>If they are trying to conceal the identity of this man,

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<v Speaker 1>then why would they just not cut off the head

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<v Speaker 1>and cut off the hands, Because fingerprinting would have been

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<v Speaker 1>a thing in forty six. Why not cut off the

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<v Speaker 1>hands and cut off the head and that's it. Why

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<v Speaker 1>go to the trouble of this total dismemberment. Would you

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<v Speaker 1>think at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, I think there's a couple of reasons.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, first, if the dismemberment is just to prevent

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<v Speaker 2>identification or delay identification, I've got a body, an old

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<v Speaker 2>cold case in which the head and the hand's been

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<v Speaker 2>cut off, and then the body was weighed down in

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<v Speaker 2>the Sacramento River delta, but it ended up bobbing. So

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<v Speaker 2>now we had a headless torso, if you will, bobbing

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<v Speaker 2>in the waves and was easily found. When you think

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<v Speaker 2>about identification, of course, people are thinking about the facial features,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the fingerprints from the hands. Now does this

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<v Speaker 2>torso have any identifying tattoos on the upper arms, on

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<v Speaker 2>the legs, and is there a reason to remove those

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<v Speaker 2>limbs to prevent the tattoos from being seen or other

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<v Speaker 2>characteristics that might help somebody identify the body. Oftentimes, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the limbs are removed in order to have a smaller

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<v Speaker 2>package to move around, you know. So there's also that

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<v Speaker 2>component of dismemberment. But that's where you start to see

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<v Speaker 2>as I mentioned earlier, now the torso itself is bisected

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<v Speaker 2>in the abdominal area, so now you have smaller packages

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<v Speaker 2>to be able to package up and distribute, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>across the countryside. If that's what your plans are.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you remember the story of the woman who either

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<v Speaker 1>murdered or participated in the murder of a man and

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<v Speaker 1>carried his torso wrapped in I think what they were

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<v Speaker 1>describing as like a hat strap, where you would, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>have a hat box and put straps around. And she

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<v Speaker 1>had this torso wrapped up in this package and carried

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<v Speaker 1>it on a train, and people thought it was so odd.

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<v Speaker 1>And that was the idea of exactly what she said,

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<v Speaker 1>which is it was easy to transport. And then she

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<v Speaker 1>did kind of this. She dumped it by our riverbank,

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<v Speaker 1>I think, is what it was in that case, So

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<v Speaker 1>that makes sense. I will say, there are some odd

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<v Speaker 1>identifying things about this torso. So if they were aiming

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<v Speaker 1>to not be able to have corroborating details between who

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<v Speaker 1>we find out the victim is versus this torso, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think they did a great job. But let me

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<v Speaker 1>tell you a couple of things first. Okay, so they

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<v Speaker 1>don't find any other body parts. Okay, so it's just

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<v Speaker 1>this torso. And they think the torso has been here

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<v Speaker 1>for about ten days. And as I said, they thought

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<v Speaker 1>that it was tossed out of a moving car before

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<v Speaker 1>winding up in this resting spot. Now there's a little

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<v Speaker 1>list of interesting things. Okay. There are two superficial gunshot

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<v Speaker 1>wounds on the chest. No bullets, so skimming or whatever

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<v Speaker 1>you want to call it. They don't know what the

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<v Speaker 1>size are, but the medical examiner said this did not

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<v Speaker 1>kill him. They're superficial wounds. But somebody was shooting at

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<v Speaker 1>the sky, so no casing, no bullets. There are two

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<v Speaker 1>features that they are going to find helpful and I

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<v Speaker 1>might need your help on both. One is assist on

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<v Speaker 1>the torso's posterior. That's like tushi, right. I know that's

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<v Speaker 1>not the technical term, but if they're saying posterior, it's

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<v Speaker 1>the backside.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean it could be the buttocks, it could be

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<v Speaker 2>the back Okay. But yeah, obviously there's some sort of mass,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, cysts like mass on the back of this torso.

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<v Speaker 1>Also something I really know nothing about, which is a

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<v Speaker 1>undescended testicle. What does that mean? You see, you're smiling.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this really something you can use in help anything

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<v Speaker 1>helpful in an investigation?

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<v Speaker 2>Potentially, because when males are developing, the testes of course

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<v Speaker 2>developed internally, and then as this male develops, the testes

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<v Speaker 2>descend down into the scrotal sack, and you can have

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<v Speaker 2>boys born with undeescended testicles or one undeescended testicle as

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<v Speaker 2>it sounds like in this case. So it's a physical

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<v Speaker 2>feature that could potentially be useful to help identify this body.

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<v Speaker 2>If a loved one comes forward, a spouse, a family

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<v Speaker 2>member and says, hey, you know our son, my husband,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever is missing. What are some physical characteristics and outside

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<v Speaker 2>of size, highweight or whatever, it's like, well, also the

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<v Speaker 2>undeescended testes, you know, that could be something that they go, okay, well,

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<v Speaker 2>this is like this torso's matching up with the description

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<v Speaker 2>of this missing person, and it may be something that

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<v Speaker 2>could be used, you know, in nineteen forty six put

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<v Speaker 2>in the newspapers. It's a little bit personal, but you know,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're trying to figure out who this guy is,

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<v Speaker 2>that's a feature.

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<v Speaker 1>They finally put it together who the torso is, and

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<v Speaker 1>he is a thirty nine year old man. His name

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<v Speaker 1>is John Dick and he came from Russia to Canada

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<v Speaker 1>about twenty years earlier, in the nineteen twenties, and he

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<v Speaker 1>is missing. He's been declared missing for around two weeks

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<v Speaker 1>ten days, which is how long the medical examiner thought

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<v Speaker 1>the torso had been there. He's a bus and streetcar

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<v Speaker 1>driver for the Hamilton Street Railway, which is the city's

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<v Speaker 1>transport agency. He was last seen March sixth, nineteen forty six,

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<v Speaker 1>so ten days earlier, but we don't really know where.

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<v Speaker 1>The reports have varied. Some say that he was as

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<v Speaker 1>cousin's house, where he was living at the time, even

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<v Speaker 1>though he's married. Others say that he was eating a

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<v Speaker 1>meal at the Windsor Hotel in Hamilton. But really the

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<v Speaker 1>big deal is that he is married, and the police

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<v Speaker 1>want to talk to his wife, whose name is Evelyn,

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<v Speaker 1>as soon as possible. He has just been newly married

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<v Speaker 1>six months earlier. So they don't know very much about

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<v Speaker 1>him except that he's a laborer and you know, see

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<v Speaker 1>no record, seems to be a good citizen and now

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<v Speaker 1>he is this torso And they don't have any other

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<v Speaker 1>body parts so far, and they don't have a conclusive

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<v Speaker 1>cause of death.

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<v Speaker 2>How old did you say?

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<v Speaker 1>He was thirty nine? So what did you think about

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<v Speaker 1>that with the dicended testicle?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so, who reported him missing?

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds like his wife, So.

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<v Speaker 2>I would assume that she's aware that, you know, this

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<v Speaker 2>is one of his characteristics. And when they find this torso,

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<v Speaker 2>you know she comes in and reports John missing, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>this would be something where they'd call her up and say, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>can you give us some more information about, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>his physical state.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and if she.

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<v Speaker 2>Mentioned this and they're going, okay, we might be on

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<v Speaker 2>the right track here that this could be John. But

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<v Speaker 2>in terms of you know, that physical trait, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I would never rely upon something like that as the

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<v Speaker 2>sole means of identification. It's just a consistent feature. And

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<v Speaker 2>so now more needs to be done to identify this torso.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Well, it sounds like they're fairly confident. I guess

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<v Speaker 1>some of the clothing from the torso matches his, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's been missing, and Evelyn is completely freaking out his

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<v Speaker 1>wife and they've only been married about six months. I

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<v Speaker 1>will tell you that they obviously think this is murder,

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<v Speaker 1>and they think Evelyn had something to do with it,

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<v Speaker 1>because there's no one right now in his inner circle

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<v Speaker 1>that they can identify that would be problematic. Ethlen Dick

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<v Speaker 1>is problematic as a suspect and as a witness. And

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<v Speaker 1>I will also say that this is going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a story involves slutshaming, which I hate that phrase, but

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<v Speaker 1>there's no other way to describe it in this story.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I think that our edict is to figure

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<v Speaker 1>out the actual facts in this case, because it is

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<v Speaker 1>still a mystery here versus you know, what is all

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<v Speaker 1>the smoke and mirrors and the circumstantial stuff that happens.

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<v Speaker 1>They are very quickly zeroing in on Evelyn because she

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<v Speaker 1>has quite a reputation, and we can kind of talk

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<v Speaker 1>about your experience maybe with that in more modern cases too.

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<v Speaker 2>You mentioned that John was living with his cousin at

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<v Speaker 2>the time he goes missing, and not with Evelyn. M hm.

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<v Speaker 2>So it sounds like he's estranged in the marriage. Even

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<v Speaker 2>though they I mean literally been married only six months.

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<v Speaker 1>They've been having a really hard time almost immediately, they

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<v Speaker 1>had a hard time, okay, And I can give you

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<v Speaker 1>some background on her and on them, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>normally I would sort of take you through different suspects

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<v Speaker 1>and different potentials there aren't any other potentials here. It's

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<v Speaker 1>whether or not. This is a strong case, I think

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<v Speaker 1>with Evelyn, and there are a lot of people involved.

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<v Speaker 1>So he's living with a cousin right now because they

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<v Speaker 1>are having almost immediate problems in their marriage.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely okay. So they obviously after figuring out this torso

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<v Speaker 2>is John, then they interview Evelyn.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep, they do. She is upset and frantic and confused

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<v Speaker 1>about what happened, and the police start digging around and

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<v Speaker 1>trying to figure out who she is. Because it doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>take long to figure out that Evelyn has had quite

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<v Speaker 1>a reputation. She's sort of unframed as a social light

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<v Speaker 1>in the nineteen forties in a socialite Paul, because she

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<v Speaker 1>has dated really powerful people in this area, in this

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<v Speaker 1>part of candidate, powerful men, so that that immediately puts

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<v Speaker 1>her on their on the police's radar because they start

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<v Speaker 1>thinking immediately, well, who else could be responsible? She wants

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<v Speaker 1>to knock this guy off for whatever reason. And I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if that's fair yet, We'll have to see.

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<v Speaker 2>No. And when you say powerful men, I'm assuming politically

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<v Speaker 2>and or financially powerful.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep, business politics, you name it. Okay, So the facts

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<v Speaker 1>are right now John is dead fifteen years older, so

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<v Speaker 1>her husband's fifteen years older and he is dead. She

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<v Speaker 1>is upset. She claims to know nothing about this, but

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<v Speaker 1>they are now really quickly on unraveling who Evelyn Dick is,

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<v Speaker 1>and the police don't like it in Canada, which is

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<v Speaker 1>fairly conservative.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, So Evelyn is roughly twenty four years old, She's

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<v Speaker 2>been married to John for six months. She's had dating

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<v Speaker 2>relationships with these powerful men. Yep. Were these relationships all

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<v Speaker 2>before the marriage or were there some relationships occurring during

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<v Speaker 2>the marriage?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes to both of those. Yes, And I mean

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<v Speaker 1>throughout from the first week when they got married all

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<v Speaker 1>the way back through she's had relationships. So even though

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<v Speaker 1>Evelyn is on their radar, there's a long list of

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<v Speaker 1>suspects as far as this goes, you know, who could

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<v Speaker 1>have targeted him.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and at this point, pretty much you're putting all

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<v Speaker 2>the chips in on Evelyn and this pool of men

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<v Speaker 2>that have been in her life for either a while

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<v Speaker 2>or recently.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there anything about, you know, the victimology of John

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<v Speaker 2>that is separate from this that we need to worry about,

0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:13.880
<v Speaker 2>you know, in terms of you know, what I'm trying

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<v Speaker 2>to figure out is the reason John is dead because

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<v Speaker 2>of something he got involved with versus the marriage to

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<v Speaker 2>Evelyn and whatever is going on there.

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<v Speaker 1>You are a brilliant man, Pouls, because yes, yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>there's all sorts of intersections of him getting involved in

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<v Speaker 1>some things he shouldn't be, but that also involved Evelyn.

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<v Speaker 1>So let me, I'm so cryptic everything I've felt the

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<v Speaker 1>last five minutes.

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<v Speaker 2>You always are.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the last five minutes have been the most

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<v Speaker 1>cryptic I've ever been with you. Let me tell you

0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.040
<v Speaker 1>about Evelyn because all of this is important. Her family

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<v Speaker 1>details are important. So she's twenty five and he is

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<v Speaker 1>thirty nine. She is the only child of two immigrants.

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<v Speaker 1>So remember John came from Russia. Her parents, Donald and

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<v Speaker 1>Alexandra come from Scotland, and when she was a baby,

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<v Speaker 1>they moved from Beamsville, Ontario, to Hamilton and Donald also

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<v Speaker 1>drove street cars. The dad, her dad, drove street cars

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<v Speaker 1>for the Hamilton Street Railway. And it sounds like that's

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<v Speaker 1>how John and Evelyn met was because Donald the dad

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<v Speaker 1>and John worked at the same place. Does that make

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<v Speaker 1>sense so far?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So it's like Donald, Evelyn's father, is the one

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<v Speaker 2>that potentially introduced John and Evelyn.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, so, according to what Marin found in the

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<v Speaker 1>source material, Evelyn had a tough childhood. It sounds like

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<v Speaker 1>Donald was very temperamental and alcoholic. It sounds like she

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<v Speaker 1>was physically abused by both of her parents, and at

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<v Speaker 1>times Donald and Alexandra, the mother, would live apart, and

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<v Speaker 1>Evelyn often stayed with her mom and Donald, which this

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<v Speaker 1>will become important later on. Was really bad with money,

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<v Speaker 1>and during her childhood the family lived away beyond their means.

0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.800
<v Speaker 1>And Donald got this extra income by stealing from his employer.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's the same employer that John works for. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the railway place. The Waterloo Chronicle, which is

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<v Speaker 1>a newspaper, reported that Donald had ripped off the railway

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<v Speaker 1>for hundreds of thousands of dollars in nineteen forty six.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a lot of money by pilfering fair box money

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<v Speaker 1>and tickets over several years. So this is not a

0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:28.800
<v Speaker 1>grab money from the till and run. This is somebody

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<v Speaker 1>who's stealing money for years and years and years. So

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<v Speaker 1>you can imagine that probably John knew about that, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's why I'm saying the story is a little more

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<v Speaker 1>complicated than you know, just a bad marriage. Now you've

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<v Speaker 1>got a father in law who you know has been

0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:46.720
<v Speaker 1>doing some pretty bad things, and it would be very

0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:48.920
<v Speaker 1>difficult to think that John would not know about it.

0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:49.800
<v Speaker 1>We don't know yet.

0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:53.560
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm wondering if John and Evelyn benefited from Donald's

0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:56.359
<v Speaker 2>theft of the railways.

0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.920
<v Speaker 1>Maybe so, you know, it's interesting that she stayed close

0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:04.359
<v Speaker 1>with her dad despite their history. But she's apparently close

0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:07.560
<v Speaker 1>to both of her parents. She lived with them. I

0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:11.359
<v Speaker 1>guess they got back together Alexandra and Donald into her twenties,

0:26:11.800 --> 0:26:15.800
<v Speaker 1>and you know, Evelyn grew into being an attractive woman,

0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.639
<v Speaker 1>sometimes described as a socialite. She is also this is

0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:23.640
<v Speaker 1>where we get sexist, boy. Sometimes she's described as an

0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:27.720
<v Speaker 1>escort or a sex worker, and it's mostly because Paul,

0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.360
<v Speaker 1>I mean nineteen forty six. It's mostly because she does

0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:33.720
<v Speaker 1>have money and not the job that should be paying

0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:38.440
<v Speaker 1>her that money. I suspect that it is her benefiting

0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:41.320
<v Speaker 1>from her dad. There's zero evidence that she was ever

0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:44.080
<v Speaker 1>a sex worker or an escort, but you know, that

0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:47.760
<v Speaker 1>is one thing is that you know, she is described

0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.760
<v Speaker 1>as this woman who lives beyond her means, and nobody

0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:52.480
<v Speaker 1>knows where the money is coming from.

0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:55.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, if Dad's stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars

0:26:55.960 --> 0:26:59.240
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen forty six money, you know, that's a fair

0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:03.240
<v Speaker 2>amount of health that he could distribute to Evelyn. It

0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:06.000
<v Speaker 2>does come down to how does this factor into John's

0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.000
<v Speaker 2>homicide though, you know that's going to be the key.

0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:11.960
<v Speaker 2>If did John blackmail Donald yet know something to that effect.

0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:16.800
<v Speaker 2>He's estrange from Evelyn at the time of his homicide,

0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:22.120
<v Speaker 2>so he's basically saying, I still need money coming from you, Donald,

0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:25.320
<v Speaker 2>or I'm going to tell you know, there could potentially

0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:28.320
<v Speaker 2>be a motive there. I'll just note that at this

0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:29.080
<v Speaker 2>point in time.

0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:34.440
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so we'll move along here. Evelyn, as she got older, attracted,

0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:37.800
<v Speaker 1>as I've said before, many different kinds of men, and

0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:40.520
<v Speaker 1>she dated a lot of rich and prominent local men.

0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.879
<v Speaker 1>She didn't marry any of them. The Globe and Mail,

0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:46.800
<v Speaker 1>which is another newspaper, reported that at the time she

0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:50.080
<v Speaker 1>claimed to have had sexual relations with most of the

0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:53.040
<v Speaker 1>movers and shakers in Hamilton. This is not against the law.

0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.840
<v Speaker 1>She can sleep with whoever she wants. And she also

0:27:55.960 --> 0:28:00.159
<v Speaker 1>had a string of out of wedlock pregnancies in her

0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:04.040
<v Speaker 1>early twenties. Now you can see in nineteen forty six Canada,

0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:07.600
<v Speaker 1>why when the police start learning about all of this stuff.

0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:08.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean, this is I know it's one hundred and

0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:11.560
<v Speaker 1>eighty thousand people, but still it wouldn't have taken long

0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:15.679
<v Speaker 1>to figure out her reputation. They zero in on her.

0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:19.560
<v Speaker 1>Now that I've heard about Donald and what he is doing.

0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:22.479
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm less concerned about Evelyn, a little bit more

0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:25.160
<v Speaker 1>concerned about Donald. But you know there are intertwined.

0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:28.119
<v Speaker 2>What do we know so far with this type of

0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:31.840
<v Speaker 2>victimology with John? With what you have said so far?

0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:34.480
<v Speaker 2>You know that the big question is is who benefits

0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:39.719
<v Speaker 2>from John being killed? And what is that benefit? You know,

0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:44.000
<v Speaker 2>Evelyn sounds like she has no problem attracting men, and

0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:48.400
<v Speaker 2>she can attract men that have far more assets, if

0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:52.000
<v Speaker 2>you will, than what John can provide. You know, why

0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:55.960
<v Speaker 2>does Evelyn ultimately marry John? You know what kind of

0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:58.480
<v Speaker 2>arrangement was there? Did they truly fall in love? Is

0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:00.800
<v Speaker 2>there some other reason for that man marriage? And Evelyn

0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:04.640
<v Speaker 2>didn't want that marriage, So that's I think a factor.

0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:09.680
<v Speaker 2>And then is there a spurned lover of Evelyn? Which

0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:13.960
<v Speaker 2>sounds like there very possibly could be, and that spurned

0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:17.640
<v Speaker 2>lover decided to take John out, and then of course

0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:23.120
<v Speaker 2>all the financial aspects that sounds like this family is

0:29:23.200 --> 0:29:25.240
<v Speaker 2>involved with on a criminal level.

0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:28.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure John Dick knew what he was getting

0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:31.800
<v Speaker 1>into when he married Evelyn and into the family, which

0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:34.800
<v Speaker 1>sounds volatile to say the least. Let me tell you

0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:38.600
<v Speaker 1>a little bit about her background with kids, which is

0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:43.600
<v Speaker 1>also important. So in nineteen forty two, she was twenty

0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:46.120
<v Speaker 1>one and she gave birth to a daughter named Heather.

0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:48.840
<v Speaker 1>Less than a year later, she gave birth to a

0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:51.960
<v Speaker 1>stillborn little girl. About a year and a half later,

0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:55.920
<v Speaker 1>she had another child, whom she named Peter, a little boy.

0:29:56.440 --> 0:29:59.400
<v Speaker 1>He was healthy. We don't know anything about these fathers.

0:30:00.160 --> 0:30:04.120
<v Speaker 1>She gave Peter up for adoption to an organization called

0:30:04.160 --> 0:30:07.960
<v Speaker 1>the Children's Aid Society when he was about ten days old.

0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:11.120
<v Speaker 1>So all of this is to say, you know, I

0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:13.480
<v Speaker 1>had mentioned that before this this would be something that

0:30:13.600 --> 0:30:16.000
<v Speaker 1>her parents or would tell the police, or you know,

0:30:16.000 --> 0:30:19.160
<v Speaker 1>people would say, this is part of her reputation. She's

0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:22.440
<v Speaker 1>given birth, she hasn't been married. John's her first marriage.

0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:25.920
<v Speaker 1>So this is all stuff that builds into I think

0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:29.760
<v Speaker 1>what'll eventually be the slutshaming part. Of this, it's all

0:30:29.800 --> 0:30:32.480
<v Speaker 1>sort of coming together as this is a family, well

0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:34.960
<v Speaker 1>at least with Evelyn, this is a family that's troubled.

0:30:35.320 --> 0:30:38.480
<v Speaker 1>And now you know, John is dead. None of the

0:30:38.560 --> 0:30:41.640
<v Speaker 1>men involved seem right now to be coming into play,

0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:44.480
<v Speaker 1>any of the fathers of these kids. But it sounds

0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:48.080
<v Speaker 1>like they're all different, you know, fathers. Let's see. Now,

0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:52.160
<v Speaker 1>let's get to when she marries John. It's presumably through

0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:54.920
<v Speaker 1>her father's work, as I said, with the transportation, with

0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:59.959
<v Speaker 1>the railway agency. They meet in summer of nineteen forty five.

0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:04.160
<v Speaker 1>He is killed in early March of nineteen forty six.

0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:08.520
<v Speaker 1>Who talk about whirlwind. So they meet in the summer

0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:12.120
<v Speaker 1>of forty five. First lie. She says to John that

0:31:12.200 --> 0:31:15.320
<v Speaker 1>she was widowed after her husband was killed at war,

0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.480
<v Speaker 1>and that was a lie. So first lie. But so far,

0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:21.440
<v Speaker 1>that's all I've been able to find on Evelyn. They

0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:25.800
<v Speaker 1>were engaged within weeks of meeting, and then married just

0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:28.080
<v Speaker 1>a couple of months after that in October, and then

0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:31.040
<v Speaker 1>he's dead in March. So this was very very quick.

0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:34.720
<v Speaker 1>He does not have any money, he really doesn't, and

0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:37.280
<v Speaker 1>it is you're right, a big question mark about why

0:31:37.400 --> 0:31:40.080
<v Speaker 1>this guy when she probably could have married somebody who

0:31:40.120 --> 0:31:43.760
<v Speaker 1>was middle class versus maybe more working class. And so

0:31:44.240 --> 0:31:46.200
<v Speaker 1>one of the things I think the speculation is that

0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:49.040
<v Speaker 1>maybe John sold himself as having more money than he

0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:52.280
<v Speaker 1>did because this was so WorldWind I know, Donald was

0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:55.280
<v Speaker 1>unhappy about this. Her dad did not want this marriage

0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:57.720
<v Speaker 1>to happen, and that's why I'm saying it was unlikely

0:31:57.800 --> 0:32:00.160
<v Speaker 1>that he was the one who introduced the two of them.

0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:03.080
<v Speaker 1>He was very unhappy that they got married. I'm assuming

0:32:03.120 --> 0:32:05.000
<v Speaker 1>that he wanted her to marry one of these rich

0:32:05.040 --> 0:32:06.240
<v Speaker 1>guys that she was dating.

0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:10.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so Donald's perspective is John, you know, he's got

0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:15.120
<v Speaker 2>eyes and ears around the job, you know. And maybe

0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:19.640
<v Speaker 2>Donald is trying to operate with this financial theft and

0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:23.800
<v Speaker 2>doesn't need a family member paying attention to him. So

0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:26.840
<v Speaker 2>there's I can see where Donald is not liking this

0:32:26.960 --> 0:32:31.000
<v Speaker 2>relationship just from that perspective, and whether or not Donald

0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:34.440
<v Speaker 2>was wanting his daughter to actually, you know, marry wealthy

0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:37.480
<v Speaker 2>or you know, marry well, you know, that's that could

0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:40.640
<v Speaker 2>be a factor. But Evelyn ultimately is one that has

0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:44.560
<v Speaker 2>to be making the decision to marry John, and so

0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:49.480
<v Speaker 2>I wonder considering who else she has been in relationships

0:32:49.560 --> 0:32:53.520
<v Speaker 2>with It still comes down to why John. And maybe

0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:57.880
<v Speaker 2>she saw John as a bit of a patsy, somebody

0:32:57.880 --> 0:33:02.280
<v Speaker 2>that she could manipulate for whatever reason, and decided to

0:33:02.320 --> 0:33:06.040
<v Speaker 2>take advantage of that. And whether or not that occurred,

0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:09.800
<v Speaker 2>who knows, But that's something I'm curious about. That relationship

0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:14.480
<v Speaker 2>seems odd considering everything surrounding Evelyn during you know, the

0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:16.160
<v Speaker 2>years leading up to the marriage.

0:33:16.400 --> 0:33:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Well, let's talk about odd. Odd is that she made

0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:22.640
<v Speaker 1>the down payment on their house. She's the only one

0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:25.520
<v Speaker 1>on the deed to this house. That could not have

0:33:25.760 --> 0:33:29.160
<v Speaker 1>made John feel very good. Or maybe he thought, kaching,

0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:32.120
<v Speaker 1>I found a woman who has more money than I

0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.120
<v Speaker 1>do at dad's money. Yeah, you know, I don't know

0:33:35.160 --> 0:33:38.440
<v Speaker 1>what he was thinking, but that was a pretty unusual arrangement.

0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:40.960
<v Speaker 1>But she is the only one on the deed, which,

0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:44.440
<v Speaker 1>because we're talking about a true crime case, is important.

0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:49.440
<v Speaker 2>No, absolutely, it sounds from Evelyn's perspective. You know, any

0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:52.840
<v Speaker 2>time you have let's say this, these deeds with property,

0:33:53.080 --> 0:33:55.680
<v Speaker 2>you know, typically you hold on to that property for

0:33:55.960 --> 0:33:59.719
<v Speaker 2>a period of time, and if it's a married couple,

0:33:59.840 --> 0:34:03.880
<v Speaker 2>you usually both people are on that deed. The fact

0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:07.440
<v Speaker 2>that in nineteen forty six, a woman is the sole

0:34:07.720 --> 0:34:12.960
<v Speaker 2>owner of that property even though she's married. That just

0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:17.839
<v Speaker 2>speaks that from whatever perspective she had, there was a

0:34:17.960 --> 0:34:21.440
<v Speaker 2>lack of permanence with the marriage to John, and she

0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:25.720
<v Speaker 2>was ensuring that, you know, this property would be hers

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:29.719
<v Speaker 2>after the marriage. You know, of course, different states have

0:34:29.920 --> 0:34:34.600
<v Speaker 2>different community property aspects, you know, in divorce scenarios. But

0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:38.360
<v Speaker 2>you know, right now this we're talking Canada, right, So

0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:40.680
<v Speaker 2>I don't even know how that would work up there.

0:34:41.200 --> 0:34:43.880
<v Speaker 1>She must have figured out his money situation before they

0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.960
<v Speaker 1>got married. I mean, I can't even imagine. Maybe she

0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:49.960
<v Speaker 1>really loved him. I don't know. Obviously, was smart of

0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:55.120
<v Speaker 1>her putting the money down and making payments I presume

0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:57.959
<v Speaker 1>from her dad. She's not working. We don't know where

0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:00.600
<v Speaker 1>she's getting the money from. I'm not buying sex worker

0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:03.759
<v Speaker 1>stuff just yet. So now let's talk about some big

0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:08.879
<v Speaker 1>red flags. Their marriage immediately fell apart, so she would

0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:11.520
<v Speaker 1>later say that within days of her wedding she was

0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.360
<v Speaker 1>I mean, to Evelyn's credit, she's very open about this stuff.

0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:17.440
<v Speaker 1>Within days of their wedding, she had already cheated on

0:35:17.600 --> 0:35:20.120
<v Speaker 1>him with this guy who will be important later on.

0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:23.520
<v Speaker 1>He's twenty seven years old and his name is Bill Bohazik,

0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:28.239
<v Speaker 1>so closer to her age, but still she reportedly she

0:35:28.400 --> 0:35:32.600
<v Speaker 1>admits to sleeping with more men in the following weeks

0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:35.960
<v Speaker 1>of their marriage, and after just three months, the couple

0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:39.200
<v Speaker 1>separated and John moved out because it was her house

0:35:39.520 --> 0:35:42.799
<v Speaker 1>and he moves in with his cousin. And despite the separation,

0:35:43.480 --> 0:35:46.880
<v Speaker 1>he really wants her back. He loves her. He doesn't

0:35:46.880 --> 0:35:50.680
<v Speaker 1>want to get a divorce. He calls Evelyn's dad, Donald

0:35:51.320 --> 0:35:54.719
<v Speaker 1>and says, please get her to come back to me.

0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:58.279
<v Speaker 1>You know, I'm good for her. But Donald basically says,

0:35:58.280 --> 0:36:00.480
<v Speaker 1>go kick Rocks. I have zero interesting you being my

0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:02.920
<v Speaker 1>son in law anymore. You're not good enough for her anyway,

0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:07.240
<v Speaker 1>and that's it. John is getting nowhere in getting Evelyn back.

0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:09.799
<v Speaker 1>So she has the house, you know, because it's in

0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:12.719
<v Speaker 1>her name, and he is out in the cold on

0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:13.840
<v Speaker 1>his cousin's couch.

0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:16.120
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like, well, it just it just speaks to

0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:21.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, Evelyn is not changing her lifestyle even though

0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:24.680
<v Speaker 2>she's entering into a marriage with John. I mean, considering

0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:28.120
<v Speaker 2>she's with Bill, you know, a couple of days after

0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:31.719
<v Speaker 2>the marriage, which would generally be you know, at least

0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:35.320
<v Speaker 2>in this day and age during the honeymoon period, right, Yeah,

0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:38.080
<v Speaker 2>and so this really calls into question in my mind

0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:40.920
<v Speaker 2>as to well, why did Evelyn even bother marrying John?

0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:44.759
<v Speaker 2>How does it benefit Evelyn to be married to this man?

0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:49.680
<v Speaker 2>And so I start questioning Evelyn's motives for this marriage,

0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:54.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, and part of maybe this spousal relationship the

0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:58.840
<v Speaker 2>legal aspect of being a spouse. And again we're talking Canada,

0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:01.880
<v Speaker 2>so I have no idea, but I'm looking at it

0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:06.080
<v Speaker 2>from a perspective, well what kicks in that benefits Evelyn

0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:10.640
<v Speaker 2>when this marriage goes away and John is killed? And

0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:12.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, number one thing that comes into mind is, well,

0:37:12.640 --> 0:37:14.839
<v Speaker 2>did she take out a life insurance policy on him?

0:37:15.080 --> 0:37:18.000
<v Speaker 1>There's no evidence of that, no evidence of that kind

0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:21.320
<v Speaker 1>of financial gain. We don't see that. Okay, that being said, Paul,

0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:23.719
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how you work for something like a

0:37:23.800 --> 0:37:26.880
<v Speaker 1>railway and not have some kind of There must have

0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:28.920
<v Speaker 1>been some kind of financial benefit for her.

0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:32.279
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what, but potentially, yeah, because you could

0:37:32.360 --> 0:37:37.040
<v Speaker 2>see where you know, John is thirty nine. Do we

0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.560
<v Speaker 2>know how long he was working for the railway? This

0:37:39.800 --> 0:37:41.279
<v Speaker 2>HSR was it?

0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:43.359
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I mean I think if this was a long

0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:46.000
<v Speaker 1>term thing, this was not an immediate I think this

0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:46.960
<v Speaker 1>has been a long time.

0:37:47.200 --> 0:37:51.040
<v Speaker 2>So yes, he potentially has some some sort of long

0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:54.680
<v Speaker 2>term benefits that would be passed to his surviving spouse,

0:37:54.920 --> 0:37:56.719
<v Speaker 2>you know, And so there could be some sort of

0:37:56.719 --> 0:38:00.280
<v Speaker 2>gain on Evelyn's part. But then she could pretend, actually,

0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:04.400
<v Speaker 2>I've been rewarded financially by getting involved with some of

0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:07.400
<v Speaker 2>these other wealthier men than getting involved with John.

0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:11.239
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Well, now let's get to another one of Evelyn's

0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:15.680
<v Speaker 1>really big mistakes. Her big mistake was trusting John to

0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:19.040
<v Speaker 1>keep his mouth shut about a family secret. So when

0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:22.000
<v Speaker 1>Donald says, bug off, I don't want you with my

0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:26.680
<v Speaker 1>daughter anyway, John says, your daughter told me about what

0:38:26.719 --> 0:38:30.120
<v Speaker 1>you've been doing, that you've been stealing money, and paul

0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:32.880
<v Speaker 1>I looked it up. The amount was probably in the

0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:36.440
<v Speaker 1>one and a half to two million dollar range these days.

0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.759
<v Speaker 1>That's a lot of money over a few years that

0:38:39.880 --> 0:38:42.640
<v Speaker 1>he's been stealing. He says, I know all about it.

0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:46.240
<v Speaker 1>Your daughter told me all about it, and basically said,

0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:49.279
<v Speaker 1>I'll expose this secret if you keep being a jerk

0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:53.719
<v Speaker 1>to me, And in response, Donald not surprisingly said I'm

0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:56.360
<v Speaker 1>going to kill you. I'll kill you. So John goes

0:38:56.400 --> 0:39:00.479
<v Speaker 1>to the police. Oh, and says this guy threatened me. Now,

0:39:01.080 --> 0:39:03.480
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he's he has gone to the

0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:05.440
<v Speaker 1>police and said this is what happened, and it sort

0:39:05.480 --> 0:39:08.800
<v Speaker 1>of exposed this. I don't know how how quickly. I

0:39:08.840 --> 0:39:11.880
<v Speaker 1>don't know the timeframe, like if they said if he

0:39:12.000 --> 0:39:15.319
<v Speaker 1>went to the police and exposed the whole scheme, or

0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:16.960
<v Speaker 1>if he just said, my father in law said I'm

0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:19.120
<v Speaker 1>going to kill you. I don't know which one. I

0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:23.080
<v Speaker 1>know that Donald was not under arrest for stealing money

0:39:23.600 --> 0:39:26.719
<v Speaker 1>at the time of this torso being discovered, so if

0:39:26.719 --> 0:39:29.279
<v Speaker 1>they were investigating, they were at the beginning stages of it.

0:39:29.360 --> 0:39:31.799
<v Speaker 1>I feel like he just said he threatened me. I

0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:34.560
<v Speaker 1>don't think he exposed anything, but he reported it.

0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:39.240
<v Speaker 2>Well obviously you've been holding back on me. Once again,

0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:44.040
<v Speaker 2>you're welcome. And that was one of the you know,

0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:46.799
<v Speaker 2>one of the early theories that I just kind of,

0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:50.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, noodled on. Now at this moment in time,

0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:55.560
<v Speaker 2>I think, you know, putting you know, myself in John's mind.

0:39:56.719 --> 0:40:02.200
<v Speaker 2>You know, he is he's been benefit from Donald's left

0:40:02.239 --> 0:40:04.239
<v Speaker 2>of this money, and it may be because of the

0:40:04.280 --> 0:40:07.520
<v Speaker 2>pass through from Evelyn and who knows if John was

0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:11.240
<v Speaker 2>getting any you know, hand me downs front directly from Donald,

0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:14.839
<v Speaker 2>and so on one hand, you know, you could see

0:40:14.880 --> 0:40:19.200
<v Speaker 2>where he recognizes that he has leverage against Donald, you know,

0:40:19.560 --> 0:40:23.200
<v Speaker 2>stop treating me poorly, or I'm going to expose this.

0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:26.399
<v Speaker 2>But on the other hand, if he exposes it, then

0:40:26.440 --> 0:40:29.120
<v Speaker 2>he loses out of any of the financial benefits that

0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:32.200
<v Speaker 2>he's been getting as a result of the marriage to Evelyn.

0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:35.799
<v Speaker 2>But when Donald threatens him, I'm going to kill you,

0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:38.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, now John is worried. So he goes to

0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:42.960
<v Speaker 2>law enforcement with that perspective just to get Donald to

0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:47.640
<v Speaker 2>back off of that threat but still maintain that desirable

0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:51.840
<v Speaker 2>quality of life through the financial means that Evelyn can provide.

0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:55.000
<v Speaker 2>So I can see where Donald would have have kind

0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:56.879
<v Speaker 2>of walked that line a little bit.

0:40:57.320 --> 0:40:59.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, as I said, I don't know what he exposed

0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:03.560
<v Speaker 1>to Hamilton police, but Donald was not under arrest at

0:41:03.600 --> 0:41:06.680
<v Speaker 1>the time. So let's go back to the Torso kind

0:41:06.680 --> 0:41:08.680
<v Speaker 1>of back to the beginning. So we're back to mid

0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:12.240
<v Speaker 1>March nineteen forty six. We know now that the Torso

0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:17.799
<v Speaker 1>is John Dick, and they start wondering about alibis. They

0:41:17.840 --> 0:41:20.520
<v Speaker 1>want to know where everybody was, so they start looking

0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:25.439
<v Speaker 1>into Evelyn's whereabouts ahead of her husband's disappearance. They learned

0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:27.640
<v Speaker 1>that the day that he was last seen alive, which

0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:31.760
<v Speaker 1>was March sixth, that Evelyn had borrowed a nineteen thirty

0:41:31.760 --> 0:41:35.640
<v Speaker 1>eight packard from the owner of a local auto garage

0:41:35.840 --> 0:41:39.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of a rental car agency and rudimentary one. This

0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:42.120
<v Speaker 1>was something that she did often, So she borrows this car.

0:41:42.560 --> 0:41:45.640
<v Speaker 1>She returns at the next morning at eight am. So

0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:49.560
<v Speaker 1>this is when we start getting into evidence. Whether or

0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:51.920
<v Speaker 1>not you think this is important. I mean, you'll think

0:41:51.960 --> 0:41:54.480
<v Speaker 1>this is important, but we really want to see if

0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:58.040
<v Speaker 1>this absolutely ties Evelyn to this. They search the car,

0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:00.440
<v Speaker 1>they find the car, They search the car. There are

0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:05.080
<v Speaker 1>numerous blood stains which are determined to be Type OH,

0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:08.360
<v Speaker 1>which is John's type. So of course they're doing blood typing.

0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:11.640
<v Speaker 1>But nothing else is common or not common or.

0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:15.000
<v Speaker 2>What is that? No, it's very common, Okay, so it's

0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:18.080
<v Speaker 2>not helpful. Really. Yeah. Basically, Type A TYPEO are the

0:42:18.080 --> 0:42:22.000
<v Speaker 2>two most common blood types by and then ultimately AB

0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:24.680
<v Speaker 2>are rare. So if you get type A type OH,

0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.200
<v Speaker 2>you know, because I used to do this ABO testing,

0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:31.360
<v Speaker 2>it really does not limit the population that you can

0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:35.640
<v Speaker 2>include or exclude. So the fact that it's consistent is

0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:39.960
<v Speaker 2>important with John's blood type, but at this point you

0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:43.080
<v Speaker 2>can't say with any level of certainty it is in

0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:44.360
<v Speaker 2>fact John's blood.

0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:48.440
<v Speaker 1>Okay, the blood is mostly concentrated on the front seat,

0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:51.920
<v Speaker 1>but there are also stains on a necktie and a

0:42:52.080 --> 0:42:55.960
<v Speaker 1>sweater that have been left behind that are John's.

0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:58.520
<v Speaker 2>This is so sloppy. This is sloppy.

0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:02.240
<v Speaker 1>I mean it really is. If she's the one responsible,

0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:05.480
<v Speaker 1>it is. And it gets worse because she returns the

0:43:05.480 --> 0:43:10.240
<v Speaker 1>packer with the front seat's slipcover missing, and a blanket

0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:11.960
<v Speaker 1>had also been laid out on the seat and that's

0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:16.560
<v Speaker 1>also gone. And Evelyn had basically said the blood on

0:43:16.680 --> 0:43:19.840
<v Speaker 1>the seats were from her daughter, who had cut her face,

0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:22.200
<v Speaker 1>so she obviously gets to see her daughter and was

0:43:22.280 --> 0:43:25.000
<v Speaker 1>rushed to the hospital in the car. But this was

0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:27.920
<v Speaker 1>of course not true. So I don't care if it's

0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:31.040
<v Speaker 1>Evelyn or Donald or Alexandra the mother. Somebody does not

0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:33.840
<v Speaker 1>know what they're doing here, because this is very sloppy.

0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:38.440
<v Speaker 2>You're right, yeah, no, this is a very unsophisticated, unorganized

0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:43.200
<v Speaker 2>on one part. You know, when you start evaluating offenders

0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:45.640
<v Speaker 2>and their actions, you know you have to take into

0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:49.840
<v Speaker 2>account that most offenders have never killed before, and so

0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:52.520
<v Speaker 2>this is the first time. It's not like there's a

0:43:53.440 --> 0:43:56.200
<v Speaker 2>you know, a school that you can go to and

0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.319
<v Speaker 2>learn how to commit a homicide and get away with it.

0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:02.279
<v Speaker 2>You know, you might take time to think about it,

0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:06.680
<v Speaker 2>but the dynamics of what happens in the real world

0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:09.680
<v Speaker 2>when you try to commit these crimes often is the

0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:13.640
<v Speaker 2>undoing for the offender and gets these offenders caught. I'm

0:44:13.680 --> 0:44:16.640
<v Speaker 2>going to assume this necktie and bloody shirt that we're

0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:22.600
<v Speaker 2>in this packard probably matches items from John, you know,

0:44:22.920 --> 0:44:26.360
<v Speaker 2>to leave those behind and turn the car back to

0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:30.759
<v Speaker 2>the this I forget what you called it, but this.

0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:32.280
<v Speaker 1>Auto autobody shop.

0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:36.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, with people knowing that you're the one that borrowed

0:44:36.640 --> 0:44:39.200
<v Speaker 2>that car to begin with. You know, it's just okay,

0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:43.200
<v Speaker 2>there's a lack of forethought going on there in terms of, well,

0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:48.279
<v Speaker 2>how can law enforcement backtrack utilizing the evidence as well

0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:53.320
<v Speaker 2>as the investigative leads. So I can see where now, yes,

0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:57.560
<v Speaker 2>Evelyn becomes a prime suspect in John's homicide as a

0:44:57.600 --> 0:45:01.279
<v Speaker 2>result of this, Now she the soul person doing it

0:45:01.480 --> 0:45:04.120
<v Speaker 2>or there are others. I think that's the big.

0:45:04.000 --> 0:45:07.160
<v Speaker 1>Question that is the big question. So a couple of

0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:11.480
<v Speaker 1>other key things that the neighbors were watching her in

0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:16.040
<v Speaker 1>awe as that night, she is desperately trying to squeeze

0:45:16.239 --> 0:45:20.240
<v Speaker 1>this very large car in their very small garage around

0:45:20.280 --> 0:45:23.160
<v Speaker 1>five o'clock or five thirty, so you know, I mean,

0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:25.320
<v Speaker 1>she's trying to obviously get the car in the garage

0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:27.439
<v Speaker 1>so she can clean it. Sounds like she actually got

0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:31.160
<v Speaker 1>it in. When investigators get a warrant, I presume, and

0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:35.120
<v Speaker 1>they go into her house, they find blood stained women's

0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:39.400
<v Speaker 1>rain boots, as well as that missing blanket covered in

0:45:39.440 --> 0:45:44.000
<v Speaker 1>blood that the auto shop owns, and it's cleaned and folded.

0:45:44.440 --> 0:45:48.240
<v Speaker 1>Now this is very damning, most damningly, I would say,

0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:52.799
<v Speaker 1>bone and teeth fragments are found in coal ashes that

0:45:52.840 --> 0:45:56.360
<v Speaker 1>have been spread outside the garage door just behind the house.

0:45:57.280 --> 0:46:03.960
<v Speaker 1>Eventually they say that these are John's incinerated remains. And

0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:07.600
<v Speaker 1>now this looks super bad for Evelyn and of course

0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:11.800
<v Speaker 1>for John. And you're right, now this turns into Evelyn

0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:15.719
<v Speaker 1>clearly is involved. We don't know to what extent, But

0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:18.840
<v Speaker 1>the big question is whether or not the mother and

0:46:18.880 --> 0:46:22.040
<v Speaker 1>the father, or boyfriends or lovers or businessmen or politicians

0:46:22.080 --> 0:46:24.360
<v Speaker 1>are also involved with this. Did she need help?

0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:28.840
<v Speaker 2>Well, she most certainly could have pulled this off by herself.

0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:31.800
<v Speaker 1>Poorly, very poorly, poorly.

0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:34.480
<v Speaker 2>Very poorly, for sure. No. But I think back to

0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:38.399
<v Speaker 2>the injuries on John. You've got two bullet grayses on

0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:42.160
<v Speaker 2>his torso, his head has been cut off. The bullet

0:46:42.200 --> 0:46:45.200
<v Speaker 2>grass as the pathologist said, they weren't fatal, and they

0:46:45.480 --> 0:46:48.520
<v Speaker 2>bullet grazes aren't. John likely was shot in the head

0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:54.520
<v Speaker 2>and then he was decapitated. And with the teeth fragments

0:46:55.040 --> 0:46:58.680
<v Speaker 2>in these ashes, it looks like in essence, you know,

0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:02.440
<v Speaker 2>at least his head and potentially his arms and legs

0:47:03.160 --> 0:47:08.359
<v Speaker 2>were essentially cremated. You know, in this this location, could

0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:12.040
<v Speaker 2>Evelyn have shot John in the head. Absolutely, And now

0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:16.080
<v Speaker 2>she's just having to manipulate his body, cremate the smaller

0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:18.960
<v Speaker 2>body parts, get rid of the torso. Getting rid of

0:47:18.960 --> 0:47:21.480
<v Speaker 2>the torso is not easy, you know. That's I don't

0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:23.560
<v Speaker 2>know how big John is, but I'm just going to say,

0:47:23.600 --> 0:47:27.200
<v Speaker 2>let's say he's an average size mail. You know, even

0:47:27.239 --> 0:47:29.480
<v Speaker 2>with his arms and legs and head missing, you know

0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:32.520
<v Speaker 2>that torso is going to be weighing one hundred and

0:47:32.560 --> 0:47:36.759
<v Speaker 2>twenty one hundred and forty pounds, if not more. The authorities,

0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:39.680
<v Speaker 2>the investigators say it look like his torso had been

0:47:40.120 --> 0:47:43.400
<v Speaker 2>pushed out of a moving car. I think that's hard

0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:47.560
<v Speaker 2>for any driver to do, you know, so that would

0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:52.640
<v Speaker 2>possibly suggest minimally a second person present. Then I'm speculating

0:47:52.960 --> 0:47:55.320
<v Speaker 2>on that at this point. But right now it's like, okay,

0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:58.280
<v Speaker 2>so where are we going from here? Evelyn is suspect

0:47:58.360 --> 0:47:58.839
<v Speaker 2>number one.

0:47:58.960 --> 0:48:02.640
<v Speaker 1>Here's where we're going from Paul. The police want, of course,

0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:06.399
<v Speaker 1>a really thorough search, so they want to find more

0:48:06.440 --> 0:48:09.320
<v Speaker 1>signs of John in the house. They climb the stairs

0:48:10.000 --> 0:48:13.480
<v Speaker 1>and this is John and Evelyn's house, and they locate

0:48:13.880 --> 0:48:16.960
<v Speaker 1>a suitcase. They're hoping to find more of his body parts,

0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:18.960
<v Speaker 1>like his head or something, you know, his teeth that

0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:21.800
<v Speaker 1>are out there. Like they're just looking for more evidence.

0:48:22.400 --> 0:48:26.319
<v Speaker 1>They find a suitcase. They open up the suitcase. When

0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:27.920
<v Speaker 1>I read this, I thought they were going to say

0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:31.560
<v Speaker 1>they found his legs. They did not. They found a

0:48:31.600 --> 0:48:35.800
<v Speaker 1>body and it was not John's body. It's a totally

0:48:35.880 --> 0:48:38.799
<v Speaker 1>different person. And I am not going to talk to

0:48:38.840 --> 0:48:41.000
<v Speaker 1>you about this for another week or so, so don't

0:48:41.040 --> 0:48:44.680
<v Speaker 1>ask any questions. But this woman has a person in

0:48:44.719 --> 0:48:47.560
<v Speaker 1>a suitcase in the attic of the home she shared

0:48:47.600 --> 0:48:51.799
<v Speaker 1>with the husband, who she clearly was involved in disposing of.

0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:54.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Evelyn is a dangerous woman.

0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:57.040
<v Speaker 1>She seems to be, and we'll learn a lot more

0:48:57.080 --> 0:48:58.800
<v Speaker 1>about that next week.

0:48:59.360 --> 0:49:02.760
<v Speaker 2>All right, Well, you've got me on the edge once again.

0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:06.960
<v Speaker 1>I like to keep you there. That's the point, to

0:49:07.080 --> 0:49:10.319
<v Speaker 1>keep you on the edge. Okay, I'll see you next week,

0:49:10.360 --> 0:49:12.120
<v Speaker 1>and I promise I'll have a conclusion for you.

0:49:12.440 --> 0:49:14.960
<v Speaker 2>All right, looking forward to it again. Thanks Lockiate.

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