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[Music] if you're afraid of snakes then everything you think you know about them
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is wrong my name is Ben renick I'm with Ben renck reptiles and this is my story Ben renck is an artist when it
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comes to breeding snakes and this is a project that I'm actually a really big fan of are there some species of snakes
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in here that Ben used to work with yeah actually right behind me there's a reticulated python and Ben was actually
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very fond of his reticulated pythons Ben renck was a great businessman he was a young upand
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cominging rock star in the reptile world my wife and I uh mainly run this company
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Linley renick is a kind soul a devoted mother and I would say a genuinely caring person they were happy you know
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they were very busy you know they weren't a lot and there was never any instance of
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anything ever being wrong on June 8th of 2017 at about 5:30 in the afternoon Linley renck drives
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home to where her home and her and her husband's snake facility is she goes inside and she finds her husband Ben
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renck lying face down in a pool of blood I got a call from Linley she was hysterical complete in
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panic 911 with the address emergency the ground everywh and I went in to try and
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find Ben and when I found Ben and um and his body I knew that uh it was too late oh my God my brother's dead what
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what may have happened he got killed by a snake I assumed it was a snake 1850 the whole building full of snake a
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snake every 4 in I don't know what it's St someone being killed by a snake is not something that happens every day
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especially in Missouri paramedic said there's a bike mark on so there's a snake loose in here so watch
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your being the coroner walking into a death scene with thousands of snakes jumping at the cages it was just a crazy
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scene to be at do we have anybody we could call to deal with an anaconda I'm going to kill it we'll see
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it how could you have something big enough to kill a person here I still didn't know what to
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think I'm squatted down next to the body there's significant damage there's blood
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all around when I saw that shell casing on the Shelf just above his head I knew this was not from a snake this was
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something much more heinous I knew that this was a homicide at that time who would want to kill Ben renck
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that was the question you couldn't have imagined anything like that and it was a long wait until we got that
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answer [Music] [Music] I don't care if it's a if it's a 5 in Long steak and somebody trying to bite
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me I'm going to going to light on a hot Missouri summer day in June 2017 Montgomery County sheriff's
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deputies were called to a unique and potentially dangerous death scene a literal snake pit a building
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with more than 3,000 exotic serpents something got him watch your the First Responders aren't sure if one of these
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snakes may have killed renowned breeder Ben renck who is Ben that's Ben renck oh sure
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there's no snakes around the victim yeah excuse me coroner Dave Colbert had never
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seen anything like it they're holding shotguns in hand they were guns out you could just feel the anxiety amongst
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everyone there no one knew where the killer could be coiled or lurking but while examining Ben's body the corner
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made that surprising discovery Ben's body lying face down hid the true cause of death he hadn't been bitten by a
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giant snake Ben had been shot eight times once at close range this was something that was not just a random
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act it's a snake honey nearby was Ben's wife Linley she had discovered his body and she was
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visibly upset uh what you would describe as somebody who is grieving and you know
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just lost a loved one okay Lynley had called Sam who rushed to the scene Sam L got here
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before I did so I don't know that okay he was always shot in the back almost exclusively I don't I don't think he saw
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it coming at all Ben had such a future ahead of him you know he was 29 years old he was almost
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30 a lot was lost near this remote Highway about 80 Mi west of St Louis once stood a
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world-renowned snake breeding facility renic reptiles where Ben renck built his Empire of
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serpents welcome to the basement of uh Ren reptiles uh we keep particular pythons blood pythons wh pythons green
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anacondas Ben had his first snake at a very young age and that became a somewhat of a passion for him came a uh
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a hobby did build into a business business and he was he was very good at what he did at the time of the murder
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Sam and Ben renck were living in separate houses with their families on this 70 acre spread we lived out there
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together and raised our kids out there together that we went fishing on the weekends and you know we were close Ben
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and Lin Lee first met when they were teenagers they reconnected in 2011 says local attorney Katherine burer they hit
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it off right away and their relationship got pretty serious pretty quickly um I think they moved in
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together within the first year of dating Linley had a son from a previous relationship Sam says Ben became a
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second father to the child in 2014 Ben and Linley decided to tie the knot uh they had a beautiful wedding it was
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beautiful small family event and it was very special soon they had a baby of their
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own a a growing family to go with their booming snake breeding business Linley found Ben's passion interesting she
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would work day and night helping Ben with the snakes handling them cleaning them sorting them in 2016 they opened a
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second business a CA Spa in Columbia Missouri a longtime dream of Linley who once worked as a massage therapist hi
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I'm Lindley I'm the owner here I know that when she started her Spa business is just something that she had always
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wanted to do that you know that empowered her quite a bit by 2017 renck snake business was
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wildly successful he was shipping his snakes around the world from the UK to Japan and traveling to reptile
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conventions across the United States he was so successful Ben realized that if he sold a portion of renic reptiles he
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could make some real money Ben had planned on selling the majority of his ball python collection for uh
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from my understanding it was about $1.2 million things were going to be very good for uh my brother and and Lenley
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the couple had received their first payment of at least $200,000 but then Ben was
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murdered when you heard that he was dead what did you think might have happened to him so the first question that I
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asked was uh how many snakes were missing a facility like Benz um it unfortunately attracts a lot of bad
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people bad people that see these snakes not as these beautiful amazing creatures
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that they are but see them as dollar signs to understand the world of snakes that Ben lived and worked in we spoke
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with Ben's friend Dave Kaufman who introduced me to a reticulated python a snake Ben was known for throughout the
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world because of how he bred them in captivity Ben Loved These snakes because how can you not love these snakes I mean
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really when it comes down to it they're big they're beautiful they're personable
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she's going to go right over your shoulder and try to go on the cage behind you let's see if I'm right oh no
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she's going to wrap around yeah my new scarf there you go Kaufman is also a snake breeder have you ever seen a blood
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pipe on this big and a documentary filmmaker who also travels the world tracking rare and exotic reptiles for
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his YouTube channel this is a first it is a remarkable sensation it is investigators looked into the theory
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that Ben's murder may have been a robbery gone bad but ruled it out no snakes were missing Dave Colbert says it
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made sense to look more carefully at those closest to Ben we definitely didn't want want to exclude anybody from
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being a possible suspect I didn't know if Sam was involved didn't know if Lindley was
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involved the day after his brother's murder Sam renck was brought in for questioning I don't know where it starts
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okay and they also brought in Linley any questions for what happen what I mean what do I
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do love your friends and family but soon enough those same friends and family would have reason to question everything
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they thought they knew about Lenley reck Lenny that we knew back then was uh very
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sweet uh kind however there was there other size of that we didn't know with law enforcement discovering that
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Ben renck had not been killed by a snake and quickly ruling out the possibility of a robbery gone bad Sam renck had one
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major question who would have want to been dead a Missouri State Highway Patrol detective had the same question
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when he spoke with Ben's wife Linley could you see anybody you know being upset with been to the point
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where that may happen both Linley and Sam were Cooperative in their initial interviews
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are you willing to submit to a shotgun or shot gun shot anything you want got okay Sam says he understood why police
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would first focus on them and he told investigators he could never imagine Linley being involved I didn't think
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that Linley would have been capable of murder like that Linley also agreed to a gunshot
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residue test but in her one-on-one interview with a detective Linley made a startling claim saying that Sam might
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have had a motive to kill his brother was there any family issues like between D and
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yeah an issue Linley said was Ben's plan to possibly sell the property where they
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all lived she claims Sam was upset about it Ben had inherited the property after
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another tragedy on the renck Family Farm just 5 years earlier the suicide of Ben
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and Sam's father Frank renck Ben found him uh he came and got me and I we went there together
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and uh it was a tough day Frank renck shot himself in 2012 after being implicated in a multi-million dollar
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Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent stock certificates there's a lot of people that lost a lot of money you know due to
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my father unaware that Lynley was implicating him Sam wondered whether Ben had been killed in an act of Revenge
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against their father we were concerned however that you know someone could have been upset enough to to have waited done
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something like this but that theory never took off and Sam who had tested negative for gun residue on his hands
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was ruled out after cooperating fully with investigators I provided them you know everything I had my cell phone the
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shirt off my back uh my alibi to where I was when the murder happened I I gave a
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polygraph as Highway Patrol detectives continued their investigation the reptile Community stepped up to help
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Ben's wife and children we have a male fire cinnamon they held this online auction of donated snakes to the pretty
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girl guys raising more than $40,000 guys remember all this money is going to a great great great cause you
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guys banded together and you got thousands of dollars to Linley to help her during this time of Cris T of yeah
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we we raised tens of thousands of dollars to help Linley and the kids because you felt she was a victim that's
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correct but that supposed victim had a startling confession when Lindley spoke with detectives again just 11 days after
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Ben's murder so have you been talking to anyone or did you have a relationship Linley admitted she had
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been unfaithful just just did he think the same yes detectives checked that man's Alibi
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and cleared him of any suspicion investigators then interviewed Ashley Shaw one of linley's employees and a
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close friend who she had confided in which may have been a mistake I mean I'm sure that you know she was having um an
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affair a couple of actually um Ashley the manager at asensa spa said that Linley had also been seen another man
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named Brandon Blackwell who she had met on a dating website she said Linley was hooking up with Brandon before Ben's
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murder I know Brandon was like really a short time before that I believe along with linley's affairs investigators had
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discovered Facebook messages between Ben and Linley they revealed that Ben had found out the spa was losing money and
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that Lenley had lied to him about it Ben sent a message to Lenley just hours before he was
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murdered no more lying no more keeping things from me no more not paying people and thinking it's okay to pay later 4
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months after Ben's murder Lenley was in front of cops again and agreed to take a
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polygraph exam okay how do you think you did l I just think okay not exactly linley's
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polygraph test was a dismal failure so the results of the polygraphs showed that you failed to the test when
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I asked you did you shoot that man you failed test expain why I just failed that but I didn't K them but
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investigators suspected she did and may have had help from yet another man in her life his his name is Michael
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Humphrey an old ex-boyfriend and excon fresh out of prison on drug possession charges who she texted and called
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numerous times including on the day her husband was murdered coming in from the yeah but the thing is is that that right
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there is very suspicious it appeared Linley was close to Breaking but she continued to deny any
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involvement dozens of times have anything to do with this there is so much circumstantial
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evidence against you in this case it's minding but linley's gunshot residue test had come back
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negative with no Witnesses no murder weapon found or direct evidence linking her to Ben's
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murder I need to go get my she left that interrogation room a free woman the investigation went cold for
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nearly 3 years until unexpectedly someone came forward with everything Missouri Highway Patrol investigators
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were looking for [Music] the boas are long gone pythons packed up snakes in new homes The Reptilian
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Paradise turn crime scene now a vacant frozen field eight fatal shots unanswered
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I wasn't sure what to think unaware that investigators suspected Linley Ben reck's Brother Sam was left more than a
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little uneasy it was very very tough knowing um that someone's out there that had essentially gotten away with murder
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um I was conserve for my own safety and without an arrest serpent lovers were also left
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rattled so when the case went cold we would all contact each other asking if anybody had any information on what was
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going on it was frustrating it was frustrating to have all this time pass and not have a culprit in custody all
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Dave Kaufman knew for sure humans do things other than what you expect snakes do not and the most unexpected Behavior
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came from the human closest to Ben renck his widow Linley we wanted to be you know as
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understanding as possible however in time when she refused to talk to us or allow us to talk to the kids or even
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uh receive my brother's belongings we knew something was wrong in fact just weeks after Ben's
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murder with her Spa business failing Linley had sold the family property closed up shop and left town in a
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hurry so like one day she was there and the next day just left and then never came back today Beth maybery works at
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that same location but back then she was just one more True Crime buff in Columbia Missouri riveted by a case
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without a conclusion how much is this renic case talked about around here it's a lot and what do people say what do
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they think L um crazy it's crazy um and people did start to wonder maybe Linley did it maybe she had someone do this um
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it did become a question a question without an answer until January 2020 when cops
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followed up on a jail house tip we're investigator for I'm here because you used to be
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dating Lenley that's correct out of nowhere comes this you know what what I'm sure the investigators would would
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think as a god a godsend journalist Dave McKenna of Defector media was following the case
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that was about to change fact fast for investigators your dad gave me a call today and said that you wanted to talk
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to us yeah just lays out the whole story and it is very detailed it was Brandon Blackwell the
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man Lin Lee met online the lover she was hooking up with the very weak Ben was murdered her husband is freshly dead
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body's still warm and she's found another warm body only a year and a half after Ben was killed Blackwell and
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Linley had a child together but Linley alleged Blackwell had become threatening and they had broken up Linley got an
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order of protection and Blackwell was then charged with violating that order and stalking her charges he denies he
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was jammed up in jail and looking to make a deal getting out of that cell now you're coming to us when you're in a
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pickle so right Blackwell's tale began weeks before and reic was shot dead when he
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says Linley and Spa employee Ashley Shaw whipped up a toxic shake for Ben he was
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given a protein drink one night that was laced full of enormous amounts of Narcotics and somehow live through it
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but the plan was for that to be the last day of his life a poison potion served to a husband by his wife Brandon says
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Linley confessed that and much more to him my information is out of the horse's mouth okay so when pills failed to kill
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Brandon says Linley turned to onetime boyfriend Michael Humphrey they drove to the
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farm he had gloves he had a firearm plan was for him to do it um they get there he hands her the
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gun and says he doesn't feel comfortable doing it something she's got to take care of she walks in with the gun and
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just shoots him a bunch of times and according to Blackwell linley's Spa employee Ashley Shaw was
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once again involved Brandon Blackwell told the police that Ashley was in on it intimately from from the start of the
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planning the Cold Case was blown wide open on January 16th 2020 cops made their moves Linley renick and Michael Humphrey
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were arrested charged with the murder of Ben renck loved ones and Friends never saw it coming what that moment was like
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for you disbelief I thought they got the wrong person it took us years to find out that Linley was lying and that she
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was living in a double life sociopath uh if you look that up that's linley's picture will be sitting right there with
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it but what motive could Linley have to murder the man she had built so much with some say it was as cold blooded as
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a cobra money Lindley still to gain millions of dollars from the death of my brother between the life insurance the
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sale of the snakes and the family farm that she would inherit it was significant still
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investigators needed someone to flip they arrested Ashley and fast let her know exactly what her future reality
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might look like now is a time you're either on team Lenley or you're on team Missouri and team lindley's going to
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jail they're going to prison for first-degree murder in exchange for leniency Ashley turned under her onetime
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boss starting with the toxic ingredients in linley's venomous smoothie Ashley would say that Linley told her Ben had
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abused her she asked if I could get any um thing any prescription pills or any thing in the amount that could um help
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her kill him and so I got her um per it was peret I'm pretty sure and there was um I think 15 of them according to
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Ashley after the shooting Linley claimed Michael Humphrey was the trigger man but
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she says a few days later Linley changed her story Ashley now claimed that Linley
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confessed to being the Killer and she said oh no once we got there I I was fine to do it and so he handed me the
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gun and I did it after the murder sh seor sorry never no but as the case headed to trial
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linley's legal team insists Michael Humphrey was the real shooter and they argue the state's case isn't based on
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truth but on the fearful coerced testimony of Ashley Shaw you're either on team Lenley or you're on team
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Missouri and team Lenley is going to jail how would that impact somebody a woman like Ashley Shaw do you think well
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if Ashley Shaw ever wants to leave that interview room for the rest of her life or for the indefinite future she's going
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to change her story it was only after that threat that she changed her story and implicated Lyle
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renck I don't know what happened with him I don't know it took a lot of time to just process you know the lies that
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we were given by Lenley in late 2021 Sam renck was bracing himself for the trials
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of his brother's alleged Killers my biggest concern was keeping my composure during the whole
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time first up linley's old boyfriend Michael Humphrey the prosecution said Linley fired the gun and that Humphrey
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was in on the plan prosecutor said he was in on the plotting he provided the weapon he helped knock off her
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husband but that murder weapon had not been recovered Humphrey's defense argued that he had been lured to the Snake Farm
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by Linley who claimed she wanted protection when asking Ben for a divorce Lindley had then surprised him and
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pulled out a gun and shot her husband they painted him as kind of a fawning Suitor of this pretty blonde
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petite uh snake salesman the jury didn't believe Humphrey's story of being an innocent spectator after deliberating
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for just 5 hours jurors convicted him of first-degree murder Linley is a manipulator and I
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truly believe that he was manipulated into where he is right now then facing Life Behind Bars Michael Humphrey
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changed his story lindley's trial attorney Tim hesman and Catherine Berger he decides to flip why does he do that
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he's convicted of first-degree murder after a jury trial uh he agrees to cooperate with the state in the hopes
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that he might be able to parole out eventually humfrey now admits that he provided the gun that Linley used to
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shoot her husband and he tells them where they can find it which is in his girlfriend's mother's attic with the
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murder weapon in hand jurors in Linley upcoming trial would have to answer one unresolved question who pulled the
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trigger this is case number 307 State versus Lenley renck the defendant Lenley renck shot
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her husband Ben eight times killing him we're going to come back and ask you to find her guilty of murder the
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prosecution painted lyy as coldblooded as one of her husband's snakes a killer who shot Ben and then went about her
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daily routine as if nothing had happened she goes to the school picks up her two
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children and drives them back to the place where she knows she is going to find their father's dead body because
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she killed him Lenley is being deceptive to Ben the defense counters by saying that while Linley lied and cheated on
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Ben that doesn't make her a killer she's not planning a murder she's planning a divorce pointed the finger at the man
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already convicted of murdering Ben renck Michael Humphrey took it upon himself acting completely independently took
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Ben's life himself but linley's employee and Confidant Ashley Shaw now the prosecution star witness swears Michael
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Humphrey and Linley were full partners in crime Michael is going to come to the spa and they were going to go together
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to her house his business um to kill him at home or at at work Shaw says after the murder Linley returned to the spa
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not for a massage but to wash away her sins so Linley goes back there and she tells you to do what uh to give her a
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shower and she asked me to scrub her body and her hands really well and she washed then Ashley tells the jurors what
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Linley told her about what really happened at renck reptiles the day Ben was killed she said that Michael got uh
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too nervous or didn't want to do it and so he handed her the gun and she actually killed him she said that she
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put the gun to his back and shot him several times but the defense claims Ashley Shaw just like Michael Humphrey
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made up this story in order to avoid life in prison how are you able to be so calm when you're being questioned about
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murders that you evidently claim to be involved and how is that Ashley I don't know there are so many aspects of Ashley
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Shaw's story that simply are not credible and now in a strange Twist of judicial fate the prosecution called an
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unlikely key witness to the stand now what am I holding up that's that's my that's what your gun is convicted
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murderer Michael Humphrey who now swears he's telling the truth about how Linley
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killed her husband I heard a shot come out so I kind of ducked a little bit I looked down through there and she was at
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the end of the um Corridor whatever you want to call it posed up like this with a
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gun all right thank you so much are your next wit as the trial neared its end the
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defense took a chance on a star witness of their own Linley began by detailing the troubled and sometimes violent
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marriage she claims she was trying to escape Linley uh was there ever any other occasion where an argument with
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Ben turned physical yes Ben and I had been arguing at the house and he grabbed my arm and pushed me into the
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refrigerator and was like I'm not done with this we're going to finish it now Linley renick never filed any police
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reports about the alleged physical abuse abusive is a word that I would not use with Ben he was very kind very loving
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then came her chance to explain why she asked Michael Humphrey to accompany her that fatal day hey my marriage is
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falling apart will you please just go with me just to make sure like you know I'm safe and I can get some stuff and go
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did you ask Michael to help you kill your husband no set the scene for me and the
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jury I walked up right right behind Michael and then Michael turned around and I saw a gun in his hands and then I
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heard shots ring out and I screamed and I ran outside and then I heard more shots go
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off and everything just went numb and I remember staring at the trees and then Michael running out of
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the facility and pushing me towards the car and telling me we have to go lle get
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in the car we have to go now claiming to be in shock Linley admitted she didn't tell tell the truth
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to investigators but said that didn't add up to murder and I understand what that means and how this
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looks I just I don't know how to fully Express that I I never wanted been dead and Miss Ren you
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and Michael the prosecution was ready to strike you were interviewed a bunch by a
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bunch of cops correct yes and you li to them every time yes but deep down in that heart of yours and in that brain of
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yours you know who killed him yes linley's lies to Cops included a terrible slander accusing Sam renick of
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killing his brother and then anytime the police asked me who I thought I just told them Sam I'm so
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sorry her trying to apologize to me on the stand and guard her sympathy with the jury did didn't sit well with me I'm
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sorry there's no low too low for for that one why should these jurors now believe
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you you now want these 12 people to believe you correct yes I bet you do while I regret that it took her 2 and
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1/2 years to tell the truth I think she was relieved that the full story had finally been told and now
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it was in the jury's hands who do you think pulled the trigger look at the evidence in the case at 48
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hours.com it had been almost five long years since Ben renck was murdered exhausted Sam waited for a jury to weigh
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the evidence against his younger brother's bride and for the record the and after 12 hours the judge revealed
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the verdict as to count one we the jury find the defendant Lenley renick guilty of
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murder in the second degree verdict as to count to we the jury find the defendant guilty of armed
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criminal action in that moment 33-year-old Lindley renick became a convicted killer
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she really believed that she was going going to get away with all this and she really believed that she was going to
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get what she had planned after murdering my brother the time still to be measured
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the length of her stay in a Missouri prison you may now retire to consider punishment in this
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case for that jurors gathered again for a separate sentencing hearing while life
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was an option the jury would settle on something considerably less punishment for murdering the second degree at 13
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years punishment for armed criminal action at 3 years 13+ three for Ben renick's life
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jurors never said why they chose such a seemingly light punishment but 6 weeks later Sam would tell the court that the
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sentence itself was an injustice I beg the common person to watch the trial again and ask themselves if my brother's
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life was worth only 16 years 16 years is why I'm here today he would recount That Hideous day
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that changed everything the web of Devastation travels far and spared no one she puts the children through this
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experience here I am covered in my brother's blood attempting to comfort the children despite them asking me if
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their daddy is dead Sam's frustration at the sentence seemed to be shared by the
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judge but under Missouri law he could not increase linley's punishment you're awful lucky ma'am you're going to get
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out in your 40s and my 40s weren't too bad I just hope you don't kill again that's
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it some reflected on the cast of Bad characters two convicted killers and Ashley Shaw granted immunity after
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plotting with Linley twice these people these creeps and dark characters behaving very badly and behaving
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inhumanely towards humans Ben renck had created an Eden for serpent lovers spot those clown but it was people not a
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snake that destroyed his paradise you can reduce it to a story of greed it may be as simple as that greed that left in
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its bloody wake children and a brother determined to carry on the kids lost their father my babies and Ben's baby
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I'm here to take care of them for the rest of my life and around the world wherever
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reptiles coil Slither and Slide the loss of a superstar is still felt what happened to Ben was a tragedy that
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absolutely did not need to happen and yet Ben renck lives on in a way he would surely have loved C celebrated
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with a new breed of snake named just for him The renic Ghost and what ghost is is
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a slight reduction of blacks color it gives the snake kind of a ghosty appearance to it and that is such a
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testament to what Ben meant to this community that he now has a mutation of a snake named after him you miss your
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friend every single Expo that we would see each other at there is a vacancy there that will never
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