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Speaker 1: Bethel was a great little town, just a small town

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Speaker 1: deep in America's heartland, and it tucked away rural Ohio

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Speaker 1: town and alarm went out in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 1: It was the weekend of jo and the massive farmhouse

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Speaker 1: of a wealthy family was on fire and burning to

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Speaker 1: the ground. The flames are everywhere, I mean they're everywhere.

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Speaker 1: All four residents inside were dead, and not a single

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Speaker 1: person died in the flames or smoke. So the question

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Speaker 1: becomes what killed them, and more importantly, who for something

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Speaker 1: like this to happen in the town where everybody leaves

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Speaker 1: their doors, you know, unlocked, where everybody kind of knows

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Speaker 1: each other. People are still they still talk about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm m William Phelps, an investigative journalist in New York

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Speaker 1: Times best selling true crime author. This season, I'm not

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Speaker 1: chasing them missing person's flyer. I'm chasing a wanted poster.

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Speaker 1: Numerous homicides I've investigating. I've probably spoken to three cycle paths,

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Speaker 1: and he's one of them. You'll hear conversations with those

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Speaker 1: closest to the victims. My brother says, Carol, something's up.

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Speaker 1: There is too much blood. Interviews with investigators and suspects

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Speaker 1: just can't be sloppy like he was. He was a

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Speaker 1: likable guy too. I don't know why he just couldn't

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Speaker 1: behave him so. In decades old audio from unearthed law

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Speaker 1: enforcement tapes, no one has ever heard that. Joe thinks

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Speaker 1: you ever hard, that you do well, she said, I

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Speaker 1: to family, This investigation took me to places I never

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Speaker 1: saw coming. I mean she was shooting, pulled on you

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Speaker 1: and just shoot you. She did not even need to

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Speaker 1: think about it. How the mob works say, don't believe anybody.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna set an example. You owe us money, You're

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