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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 red reptiles and this is my story ben renick is an artist when it comes to
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breeding snakes and this is a project that i'm actually a really big fan of are there some species of snakes in here
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that ben used to work with yeah actually right behind me there's a reticulated python and ben was actually very fond of
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his reticulated pythons ben renick was a great businessman he was a young up-and-coming
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rock star in the reptile world my wife and i mainly run this company lindley rennick is
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a kind soul a devoted mother and i would say a genuinely caring person they were happy you know they were very
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busy you know they worked a lot and there was never any instance of anything ever being wrong
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on june 8th of 2017 at about 5 30 in the afternoon lindley renick drives home to where her home and her and her
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husband's snake facility is she goes inside and she finds her husband ben renick lying face down in a pool of
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blood i got a call from lindley she was hysterical complete and panic nightmare moments here's the emergency
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[Music] and i went in to try and find ben and when i found ben and uh and his body i knew that uh
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it was too late oh my god my brother's dead what what may have happened he got killed by snakes
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i assumed it was a snake [Music] every four inches in here i don't know someone being killed by a snake is not
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something that happens every day especially in missouri paramedics said there's a bike mark on them so there's a
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snake loose in here so watch your being the coroner walking into a death scene with thousands of snakes jumping at the
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cages it was just a crazy scene to be at do we have anybody we could call to deal with an anaconda
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i'm gonna kill it how could you have something big enough to kill a person here i still didn't know what to think
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i'm squatted down next to the body there's significant damage there's blood all around when i saw that shell casing
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on the shelf just above his head i knew this was not from a snake this was something much more heinous i knew that
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this was a homicide at that time who would want to kill ben renick that was the question
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we couldn't have imagined anything like that and it was a long wait until we got that
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answer you