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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome the Monday's Morbid Minute, a brand new

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Speaker 1: weekly bonus episode of Mother Nos Death. This is your

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Speaker 1: quick rundown of the week's most fascinating stories involving death, disease, medicine,

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Speaker 1: and injury, making headlines and rippling through the pop culture.

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Speaker 1: We'll tease the cases here, then we'll do a deep

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Speaker 1: dive into the pathology, forensics, and medical mysteries later on

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Speaker 1: in our normal Mother Knows Death episodes, in articles over

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Speaker 1: in the Gross Room, and during our weekly YouTube live

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Speaker 1: bonus episode exclusively for Grossroom members. If it's dark, disturbing,

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Speaker 1: medically bizarre, or just too good not to dissect, you'll

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Speaker 1: hear it first on Monday's Morbid Minute. Hi everyone, We're

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Speaker 1: going to start off with true crime and court cases.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we are going to talk about a story

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Speaker 1: that has been shaking headlines across the country this week.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie, the eighty four year old mother of Today's

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Speaker 1: show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for more than

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Speaker 1: a week after disappearing from her Tucson, Arizona home on

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Speaker 1: January thirty first. Investigators are treating the case as an abduction,

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Speaker 1: saying blood matching her DNA was found at the scene,

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Speaker 1: No suspects or vehicles have been publicly identified, and authorities

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Speaker 1: Allege ransom communications demanding millions in cryptocurrency have surfaced and

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Speaker 1: are being vetted by law enforcement, and the family has

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Speaker 1: released emotional video please saying they are willing to pay

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Speaker 1: for her return, although there has still not been verified

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Speaker 1: proof of life. Search efforts have expanded to include property searches,

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Speaker 1: even septic tanks, and follow ups on new messages, but

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Speaker 1: police have not disclosed any major BREAKTHROUGHSI has also deployed

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Speaker 1: billboards and increased outreach to encourage public tips. Now, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about a story that fell off the

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Speaker 1: radar earlier this week. Bill Stevenson, the seventy seven year

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Speaker 1: old ex husband of former First Lady doctor Joel Biden,

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Speaker 1: they were called to Wilmington, Delaware, whom in late December

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Speaker 1: and later pronounced dead. After a week's long investigation, a

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Speaker 1: grand jury indicted Stevenson, who remains jailed on a half

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Speaker 1: Biden was married to Bill Stevenson for five years and

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Speaker 1: they divorced in nineteen seventy five. In Columbus, Ohio, autopsy

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Speaker 1: suffered by Spencer and Monique Tepe, a husband and wife

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Speaker 1: found shot to death in their home in late December.

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Speaker 1: The Franklin County Coroner's Office confirmed that Spencer was struck

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Speaker 1: As we talk about these stories of domestic violence, there

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Speaker 1: is also a broader warning coming from federal authorities. The

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Speaker 1: US Department of Homeland Security has issued an intelligence bulletin

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Speaker 1: alerting law enforcement to an increasing trend of domestic partners

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Speaker 1: using chemical and biological toxins, including cyanide and racin to

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Speaker 1: complicating detection and prosecution. New developments emerge in the mysterious

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Speaker 1: dead in November aboard a family's carnival cruise ship. Her

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Speaker 1: cause of death was due to asphyxia from a bar hold.

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Speaker 1: Federal authorities have now finally arrested and charged her sixteen

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Speaker 1: year old stepbrother in connection with her death. Court proceedings

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Speaker 1: were sealed because of his age. If you're interested in

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Speaker 1: In Las Vegas, investigators uncovered what they believe was an

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Speaker 1: Investigators searched the property, they found a lab, equipment, refrigeration units,

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Speaker 1: We have an update on a story from October of

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Speaker 1: the doctor's entries made five patients appear ineligible for life

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Speaker 1: saving organs without their family's knowledge. Tragically, three of those

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Speaker 1: Just nine days before her race, Vaughan completely ruptured the

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Speaker 1: and in celebrity deaths. This week, Brad Arnold, the lead

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Speaker 1: at the age of forty seven from metastatic kidney cancer.

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Speaker 1: out of Las Vegas is drawing national attention. A local mother,

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Speaker 1: Stacy Norris, says she was twice told by her doctors

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Speaker 1: Tiana first noticed something was wrong after starting Manjaro, a

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Speaker 1: In Pennsylvania, police responded to a disturbing scene inside of

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Speaker 1: Despite frantic efforts by staff to intervene and the rapid

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Speaker 1: death news, our last story comes out of Chelsea, Michigan,

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Speaker 1: staff discovered something unexpected while sorting through donated items, what

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Speaker 1: appeared to be a human skull wrapped in a shirt.

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