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

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

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Speaker 1: Vera Kendrick was something of a mascot to the surfers

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Speaker 1: of Domino Beach. Homeless by choice, the nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: bohemian spent most of her days selling handmade jewelry and

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Speaker 1: candles on the boardwalk, and most of her nights sleeping

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Speaker 1: in a tent on the sandy shores of the Pacific Ocean.

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Speaker 1: Vera was a ray of light, a true free spirit

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Speaker 1: who perfectly personified the idyllic little town she had adopted

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Speaker 1: as her home. She was found raped, beaten, and strangled

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Speaker 1: to death just after dawn on the morning of Friday,

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Speaker 1: September eighteenth, nineteen ninety two. My name is Courtney Barnes,

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Speaker 1: and that's a passage from chapter one of my book

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Speaker 1: All Fall Down, The Story of the Domino Beach Murders.

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Speaker 1: When it was published in nineteen ninety nine, I made

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Speaker 1: the rounds on all the talk shows and recounted the

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Speaker 1: grizzly details of the year's long murder Spray to Maury

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Speaker 1: and Ricky and Sally Jesse and all the rest It

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Speaker 1: was an exciting time for me, but to tell you

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Speaker 1: the truth, I was glad when interest died down and

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Speaker 1: the public fascination moved on to whatever the next horrible

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Speaker 1: thing was. It's tough when you're defined by tragedy and violence,

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Speaker 1: but that's what it was like for not just me,

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Speaker 1: but everyone who lived through it. We're all scarred from it,

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Speaker 1: and even though they're emotional scars, there's still the kind

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Speaker 1: the place where it all happened.

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Speaker 2: Admit it.

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Speaker 1: If we were playing that word association game and I

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Speaker 1: said Domino Beach, the first words out of your mouth

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Speaker 1: would be serial killer. But it wasn't always like that.

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Speaker 1: Once upon time, Domino Beach was just a sleepy little

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Speaker 1: California coastal town about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.

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Speaker 1: And I certainly never intended to end up there, and

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Speaker 1: I also never intended to return there thirty years later

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Speaker 1: to revisit one of the worst killing sprees in the

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Speaker 1: history of southern California. This is the Murder Years, Episode one, Paully.

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Speaker 1: When I graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in

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Speaker 1: journalism in May of nineteen ninety two. It was right

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Speaker 1: on the heels of the Rodney King riots, which cost

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Speaker 1: the city fifty three lives a billion dollars in damages,

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Speaker 1: and honestly, it's soul. I was appropriately naive and idealistic

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Speaker 1: about entering the newsworkforce at a time when my hometown

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Speaker 1: and the whole country for that matter, was in such turmoil.

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Speaker 1: I was determined to land a job at a big

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Speaker 1: time newspaper or magazine, work my way to the top

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Speaker 1: with my unique and powerful prose, and win a pulletzer

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Speaker 1: by the time I was twenty five. But as it

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Speaker 1: turned out, I couldn't even score so much as an

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Speaker 1: unpaid internship anywhere in La. The closest I could get

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Speaker 1: was about seventy miles south in a little town I'd

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Speaker 1: and got an internship at a small newspaper called The

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Speaker 1: so Cal Journal, which had a modest readership mainly through

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Speaker 1: wasn't even close to what I wanted, but beggars can't

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Speaker 1: be choosers. It felt like I was slumming it like

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Speaker 1: my career was starting off on the wrong floor. But

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Speaker 1: when I first arrived in town in early June, I

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Speaker 1: got to admit I just fell in love with the place.

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Speaker 1: There was something about the warm, welcoming vibe of Domino

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Speaker 1: Things moved at a much slower pace than up in

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Speaker 1: it didn't take long to feel like the Domino Beachers

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Speaker 1: were the ones who were doing this whole life thing right,

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Speaker 1: city itself had a population of about twenty five thousand,

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Speaker 1: Delsoul County. The downtown area covered eight square blocks and

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Speaker 1: was filled with bars, charming restaurants and cafes, cute little

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Speaker 1: On the south end, there's a boardwalk where you could

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Speaker 1: the White Sandy beaches were well kept houses and condos.

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Speaker 1: for more than anything else before the murders, of course,

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Speaker 1: Vera Kendrick, who would be nineteen forever. After my ten

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Speaker 1: I gained great experience getting coffee, replacing printer ink, and

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Speaker 1: I was offered an actual paying job as a copy editor.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't much, but I decided it was worth continuing

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Speaker 1: Via Kendrick's murder. The So Call Journal was a tiny

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Speaker 1: operation with very few full time reporters. One of them

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Speaker 1: who would officially put an end to the Reagan Bush

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Speaker 1: Cal Journal's editor in chief, called and woke me up

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Speaker 1: at six thirty am and told me I was going

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Speaker 1: it up.

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Speaker 2: Okay, check check check.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember you showing up at the beach

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Speaker 3: that morning, green as they come, and twice as hungry.

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Speaker 1: That's Damon Stokes, sheriff of Delsall County at the time

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Speaker 1: of the Domino Beach murders.

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Speaker 3: Tell you the truth. You looked so young to me.

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Speaker 3: I thought you were with the high school paper.

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Speaker 1: Not quite okay, So what do you remember about the

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Speaker 3: Ah, well, it was a long time ago, courtey. I

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Speaker 3: mean we're talking more than thirty years ago, you know,

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Speaker 3: so I know.

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Speaker 2: But whatever you can remember is fine, right.

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Speaker 3: All right? Well, well, Barrick Kendrick's body was found about

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Speaker 3: fifty yards or so north of Surface Point, which was

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Speaker 3: you know. I speculated, based on the bruises around her neck,

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Speaker 1: Confirmed that the coroner's report would also reveal that Vera

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Speaker 1: had been raped and beaten prior to her death. In

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, DNA testing was still a relatively young

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Speaker 3: There was no semen found, no blood or skin under

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Speaker 3: her fingernails, and any hair or prints that might have

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Speaker 3: been left behind were washed away. The morning tide would

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Speaker 3: little before we got there.

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Speaker 1: When I arrived at the beach that morning, the first

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Speaker 1: immediately regretted it, and not just because it was a

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Speaker 1: stupid and unprofessional thing to do. It was the first

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Speaker 1: two eyes. She was completely naked, and her skin, although

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Speaker 1: I never met Vera, but she looked like a hundred

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Speaker 1: looked like me. Seeing her like that made me feel

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Speaker 1: very fragile and vulnerable. I didn't even realize i'd snapped

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Speaker 1: them for some reason. I've still got them. I haven't

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Speaker 3: You had a lot of nerve coming into that crime

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Speaker 2: Know, I know, thanks for not doing that.

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Speaker 3: Kind of had my plate full. Besides, from the look

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Speaker 1: When I was back on the other side of the tape,

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Speaker 1: I tried to shake off that eerie, ichy feeling and

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Speaker 4: It was one of the worst fucking days of my

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Speaker 4: life back then, and it's still ranks pretty high up there.

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Speaker 4: I mean that we knew Vera.

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Speaker 1: You know, Connor was one of the most well known

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Speaker 1: and well liked residents of Domino Beach. To some, he

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Speaker 1: was Domino Beach. He was the quintessential surfer dude, tanned

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Speaker 1: If it sounds like I had a little crush on him,

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Speaker 1: it's because I did, so did everyone. But the morning

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Speaker 1: and I had actually ever spoken.

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Speaker 4: Me and Brody Hannigan. Brody and I were in a

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Speaker 4: and lead vocals. At that time, we were calling ourselves

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Speaker 4: slapping bow Zones. Really liked it because that was what

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Speaker 4: some people called playing dominoes and thought it was a

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Speaker 4: way to make us the unoffvisual hometown band, you know,

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Speaker 4: but it always made me think of jerking off.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then, so when you found Vera's body.

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Speaker 4: Right, all right, I get distracted easily. We were first

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Speaker 4: When the sun started coming up, I saw what I

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Speaker 4: thought was some trash over by the rocks. Sometimes the

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Speaker 4: and we'd clean up after them. But when we got

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Speaker 4: This was before everyone had a cell phone, right, So

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Some of them told me I should take off, that

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Speaker 1: But I said no, Why did they think you should leave?

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Speaker 4: Because of my dad? They knew he wouldn't want me

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Speaker 4: It wasn't like I could do anything to be more

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Speaker 1: You know, is that what you wanted to upset your father?

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Speaker 1: And is that why you sent Brody to call the

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And I don't know if I thought about it like that.

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Speaker 4: She was my friend, you know.

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Speaker 5: Of course I knew Connor and Vera slept together. It

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Speaker 5: She was all into that free love shit, and she

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Speaker 5: it wasn't my business why or who Connor did when

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Speaker 5: No? But Connor came over after I was twenty two.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, I'd worked late the night before, so I was

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Speaker 2: He still lived with his parents.

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Speaker 5: Of course he did. It's not like he could afford

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Speaker 2: He loved messing with his dad.

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Speaker 5: Who was racist as fucked by the way, guy was

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Speaker 2: So what did Conor say about Vera that day?

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Speaker 5: I don't know, nothing, really, He just didn't want to talk.

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Speaker 5: it was really sad, all right. Vera was very sweet

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Speaker 2: Your door unlocked? No?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: And why not in case.

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Speaker 5: Fuck you up? How you lock a damn tent?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's no evidence to suggest that she was pulled

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Speaker 5: She didn't take any precautions. If you want to live

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Speaker 5: you've got to keep your guard up. I don't think

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Speaker 1: So there's one thing I haven't mentioned yet about the

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Speaker 1: Written on the rocks in black spray paint, within yards

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Speaker 4: I didn't think much of it either, not at first,

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Speaker 1: The song Connor was singing to himself was Polly by Nirvana.

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Speaker 1: Polly Wants a Cracker are the opening lyrics.

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Speaker 4: It's a pretty fucked up song. I listened to that

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Speaker 1: Connor's right, it's a pretty fucked up song. I learned

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Speaker 3: You know, you could have shared that information with us

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Speaker 1: I let the cops find that out the next morning,

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Speaker 1: by Courtney Barnes. The body of nineteen year old Vera

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Speaker 1: more disturbing details of the crime scene was a message

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Speaker 1: spray painted near where Vera's body was found. Polly wants

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Speaker 1: Polly by the grunge band Nirvana off their smash hit

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Speaker 1: Making the song even more disturbing is the fact that

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Speaker 1: What Vera's killer is trying to say by leaving this

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Speaker 1: while Vera Kendrick sadly did not manage to escape. We

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Speaker 1: the best article, but give me a break. Twenty one

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you how much I appreciated you call

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I was trying to give you a

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Speaker 3: As if I needed it. But to you, I was

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Speaker 2: Huh, something like that.

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Speaker 1: But as it turned out, I had called out the

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Speaker 4: I guess you know why you weren't a signed any

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Speaker 1: Not at the time, No, I thought that piece would

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, this is the kind of thing that happened

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Speaker 4: when you said something my dad didn't want to hear.

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Speaker 1: Vera's murder did not receive the attention it deserved. It

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Speaker 1: An investigation was performed, but very quietly, at the urging

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Speaker 1: Over the next few years, more would follow, too many more.

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Speaker 5: You know what, I don't get, why the hell are

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Speaker 5: you doing this? I mean, it's been thirty years. Is

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Speaker 5: it because your book isn't selling anymore.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not it at all.

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Speaker 5: Then why why are you rehashing these details? Why are

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Speaker 1: Why force myself and you and everyone else to relive

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Speaker 2: Of our lives.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Look, I have my reasons, okay, and I'm

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Speaker 2: Tell you.

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Speaker 5: Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So Maya is asking a good question, and she

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Speaker 1: deserves it answer, but it would just open a whole

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Speaker 1: can of worms that I am not ready to deal with.

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Speaker 1: What I am not telling her is I've been presented

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Speaker 1: with some, let's just say, some new information that indicates that,

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Speaker 1: after all this time, there's a chance, a chance that

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Speaker 1: the wrong person may have been convicted of these murders,

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Speaker 1: murders I personally profited off of, made my name off of,

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Speaker 1: and the person sitting in jail right now, the person

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Speaker 1: who is found guilty in a court of law by

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Speaker 1: a jury of their peers, I help put them there. Look,

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Speaker 1: best case scenario, this podcast will serve as a way

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Speaker 1: to clear my conscience. I am going to reanalyze every

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Speaker 1: aspect of the Domino Beach murders of the nineteen nineties,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully, hopefully come to the conclusion that we had

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Speaker 1: it right all along and my fears are unfounded. But

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Speaker 1: if what I now suspect proves to be true, that

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Speaker 1: an innocent person has been sitting in prison for decades

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Speaker 1: while the real killer walks free, I swear I will

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Speaker 1: do everything I can to fix it, to repair the

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Speaker 1: damage I helped cause, to deliver justice for the victims

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Speaker 1: and their families, and maybe maybe learn to live with myself.

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

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Speaker 1: iHeartMedia Executive producer Elisa Rosen for AYR Media. Written by

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Speaker 1: Tim Huddleston, directed by Alisa Rosen, Editing and sound designed

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Speaker 1: by Tristan Bankston, Consulting producer Jean chandil coordinator Olive Goldberg,

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Speaker 1: Audio engineering and mastering by Justin Longerbeam studio engineer Josh Hook.

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Speaker 1: Original music by Nathan Bankston. Original concept developed in partnership

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Speaker 1: with Anne Margaret Johns and Greg Spring. Executive producer for iHeartMedia.

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Speaker 2: Maya Howard.

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Speaker 1: Performances for this episode by Erica Leniac as Courtney Barnes,

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Speaker 1: Tom Virtue as Sheriff Damon Stokes, Alex Salem, As Connor Langford,

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Speaker 1: melon faxis as maya morales,