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hey weirdos I'm Elena and I'm Ash and this is morbid morbid I have just like stretched one of
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those good strong deep stretches when I said that that's why it came out a little crackly that's okay I was yawning
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while you said hey weiro all works out it's early it's early it's wedding week I'm tired it's just all of that we're
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working we're twerking I'm really trying to learn how to twerk I was just going to say we are not twerking you could
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twerk if you wanted to you can twerk if you want to give it a try no Ash is on a quest I am and I'm
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not going to interfere in that Quest I'm just going to be on the sideline and I'm
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going to cheer her on thank you the Tik Tok girly say that you just lean forward
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and shift the weight between your heels but I look like a duck when I do that so
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but I was doing it the other day in my mirror and I think I'm getting somewhere oh I think I I can't show you quite yet
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I'm really perfecting the strategy but I think I figured something out good I mean I I shall wait with baited breath
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I'm glad that's me on my twerk Journey thanks for hearing me out brought to you by twerk joury
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ass we're silly goofy today we are you know it's it's a crazy week because Ash is going to be a you know married lady
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at the end of it whoa so that's fun that's cucko nuts bananas Elena charge yeah and then we just go back to regular
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life well for like a minute but then I leave again yeah but like first Thanksgiving I wasn't going to leave for
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that I [ __ ] love your Thanksgiving and last year I got the neuro virus on Thanksgiving so I was I
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couldn't cook and then I tried to take over Thanksgiving and nobody wanted me to so cuz I've I've really put my stamp
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on Thanksgiving no it's if I can't cook it apparently I can't have I mean pretty
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much actually was the answer that I was given but this year I the worst part was
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last year was I had all the stuff ready to go and I I was cuz I always have like
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all laid out I have some things cooked the night before like at least prepared the night before and I woke up in the
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morning and started dying and got full-blown neuro virus literally the morning of thing like woke up at 4:00
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a.m. and that was that yeah so nobody so you know everybody had store bought Thanksgiving that year uh last
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Thanksgiving was the most depressing thinging ever cuz last year was depressing though last year was so
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depressing Drew's dad had Co last year so we could go to like his parents for Thanksgiving so we literally just like
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sat at home and that was like the worst year anyways like we had a lot going on people were making our lives miserable
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not you guys trust me no never you guys the people who didn't know who they are and uh we're not going to have that this
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year no cuz this year we said behold my field of [ __ ] for it is Barren you will
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not ruin it Dave's Ys Dave's Ys you don't know what that means but I do but yeah it was a rough it was rough
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actually my youngest this year literally asked me last night she said um um can you promise not to get the tummy bug
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this Thanksgiving and I was like you're like let's not talk about it I that was not my intention last year I did not ask
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for that I did not manifest it but you should take you should start taking Airborne I'm going to I'm going to do
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everything I'm like cuz now I'm scared I like the I like the this is not sponsored but the Elderberry um
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Elderberry Airborne first of all they taste delicious and second of all Elder Elderberry is like just one more punch
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to the season all right you heard a your first okay Elderberry or Elderberry if you're from Boston I know every time I
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say it I'm like someone's going to correct me but that's just like if you're nasty respect your Elder berries
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okay oh gosh I'm in such a silly mood but I have to tell you a pretty rough tale awesome I do have a Tupa for you a
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Tupa kid Tupa uh we're going to be talking about Sharon Kenny today also known as La Pista very familiar that
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name yeah I actually like IID heard her name before but I did not know the details of this case I think that's
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where I am I've heard the name I don't know anything about what you're about to tell me well I kind of love that because
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this is a wild tale from start to finish um part one is pretty like fast-paced like we're going to get through a lot
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and then I will tell you part two is a little bit trial heavy in the beginning okay but I have to make it that way just
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like it makes sense for the setup but once we get through the trial stuff in part two [ __ ] goes down okay like so
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just know that like bear with me through that in part two yeah and I know some of
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you like like really like going through the trial part so you know you'll love that it's some people's cup of tea it's
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other people's not cup of tea personally it's actually not my favorite tea it's the trial part yeah it's like I would
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drink it but I wouldn't drink it it wouldn't be my first choice yeah I feel you you know what I mean let's let's get
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into it we're going to talk about Sharon Kenny let's go but before she was Sharon
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Kenny she was born Sharon Elizabeth Hall on November 3 1939 in Independence Missouri Missouri
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Missouri her father was Eugene and her mother was Doris Hall Eugene was a steel worker and Doris was a
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homemaker when she was young her father actually Sharon's father heard himself on the job and became unemployed due to
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that injury that he got so once he was out of work he started drinking heavily and he really paid no attention to his
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kids so dark from the start I was going to say so we're killing it already yeah and we're not really going uphill at all
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because Sharon's mother Doris was equally distant especially when it came to her daughter and as a result Sharon
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started to develop a very creative imagination I think God of loneliness that makes sense you know and a former
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school friend told reporter she take us on Explorations down through a sewer on the way home from school she' talk about
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finding money and jewels that were hidden there we didn't even see the filth or know it was there until we got
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home and our mother started howling so she was like just join me in the sewers but I kind of love that she was such an
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adventurous like let's go find hidden Jewels I love that that was me as a kid that was a cool thing about her I always
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making that [ __ ] up oh no yeah you like that about child that's the thing I don't know anything about this case so I
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didn't know if Sharon was yeah I don't know what's going on she's the per but either way that's that was me as a kid I
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used to want to do weird [ __ ] like that and you feel bad for kid Sharon like her
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parents were basically just like [ __ ] off yeah you know it's true now by the time she reached High School Sharon's
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creativity had taken a a more serious guarded tone Oh okay another former friend said I think Sharon was always
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strange and alone oh and as a teenager I know it is as a teenager her complexion
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was described as quote Mo uh modeled and salow sometimes pimply which made her the target of a lot of bullying and
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shitty comments from people at school oh that sucks and then when she was 14 The
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Family actually moved briefly to Washington due to rumors that Sharon had secretly married an named Man Who quote
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died when his truck plunged over a cliff in Idaho what the wild thing is there's not
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evidence to indicate whether these rumors are true or not but when Sharon did eventually marry her question mark
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first or second husband James Kenny she did list herself as a Widow on the marriage
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license what yeah that's just like so bizarre just came out of and then when you learn secret man who
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plunged over a cliff in a truck like what well when you learn about like what Sharon is all about huh maybe that did
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happen I don't know damn wild that is wild widowed or not the Halls ended up moving back to Independence about a year
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later when Sharon was 15 and she resumed her increasingly solitary life in the summer of 1956 she met 22-year-old James
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Kenny at a Mormon church function and even though she was six years younger than his 22-year-old self oh James on
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that yeah James was instantly attracted to the 16-year-old uh unlike Sharon who was
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smart Savvy and emotionally mature James was shy he was deeply self-conscious and
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he was a student who was uh home on break from Brigham Young University it makes sense that he was you know
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emotionally immature and like not you know because I mean she's 16 exactly 22 like what are you g what you have to
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connect on if you're not emotionally immature now Sharon noticed James was staring at her all night but he didn't
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make any move to come over and talk to her so she actually took the initiative and approached him instinctively sensing
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that his attraction to her kind of gave her the upper hand in the situation yeah
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now to James a shy Mormon boy on campus surrounded by you know chased proper Morman girls Sharon's boldness was very
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exciting and also her unfamiliar sarcastic biting wit kept him off balance the entire time they talked
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which was even more exciting to him in my opinion also still wrong because you know she's 16 years old and he's 22 yeah
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it's not this is not a a cute moment no it's not but Sharon knew that she had the upper hand like I said so she made
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it seem like she wasn't super interested but she did end up giving James her phone number before abruptly walking
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away wow now in all reality James or someone like him offered a potential escape from this small town life that
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she'd been dreaming of since since her family came back to Missouri the year before she wanted out here she's she's
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bored she's lonely she's neglected so exactly yeah author James C Hayes wrote Sharon maintained ambitious dreams she
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wanted to find a prince who'd speared her off to anywhere that wasn't Independence Missouri she wanted to be a
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woman of Glamour and wealth now James Kenny may have not may not have been a prince exactly but Sharon saw that she
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could use his for lack of a better term na to her advantage and while she figured she might have been able to do
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better than him she definitely could have done worse wow what a what a dream ambition yeah so James did not wait long
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to call Sharon and despite the considerable age difference they did start dating very quickly and quickly
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they became Inseparable I'm uncomfortable me as well I also feel like it's it doesn't excuse this
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Behavior but I feel like this was so much more common in like the 50s oh yeah definitely was like yeah there's no
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excuse for it at all but you're right like this was a much more common thing that was just kind of like not side eyed
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no it really was the thing it's and it's so strange to look at now it really is cu it's again I always think we're in
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the year 2000 here so I'm like you know like 50 years ago it was that's a long time but I'm like no it was a lot longer
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than 50 years ago now so like that's a long time ago and it makes sense now that we're like oh like what the [ __ ]
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what the [ __ ] we're like that about a lot of things yeah but the more infatuated James grew with Sharon the
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more people around him became suspicious or uncomfortable with her there was something off about her okay for example
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just after uh after just a few weeks James father Haggard Kenny had become so uneasy around Sharon that he actually
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voiced his concerns to his son W and he said he was worried about the way she quote played James like a marionette o
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he was like I think she's got the upper hand here and like sure that could be fine but she's playing you yeah that's
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the thing it's like you want to have some balance here nobody should be the all powerful being in your relationship
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right and James he loved and respected his father immensely like they talked about a lot they were close but he did
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not agree he simply could not see what others saw on Sharon and dismissed their concerns without even a second thought
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I've seen so many people like this love blind so when the summer came to an end and James headed back to college in Utah
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Sharon got really really anxious about the fact that she might be losing her ticket out of Independence she might not
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have been in love with James I personally don't really think she was and I don't really think he was in love
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with her at that point I think they were maybe getting there yeah but she did know that he was her best chance to get
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out of small town life it's codependence it's codependence exactly and she was very very worried that with him heading
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back to school some other girl might take that away from her O So playing into his religious sense of moral
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responsibility Sharon sent him a letter at school in September saying quote The Sins Of Summer have produced a child in
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my womb shut the [ __ ] up but don't worry I don't expect you to sacrifice your education and return to Independence
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I'll handle the situation that is so dark to do and so manipulative that's unbelievably
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manipulative and just like the way she phrased that the sins of Summer The Sins Of Summer have produced a child in my
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womb I got to go I got to go uh the sins of summer had not produced of course not one part of me believed
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that in case anybody else out there was like wait is she no she's not she's not pregante I don't even know this story
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and she is not there's about me that thought she was telling the truth no no but she knows what she's doing because
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he's deeply religious so her saying she's essentially saying saying I'll take care of this
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Situation's deeply religious and obviously that would trigger something in him precisely wow yeah wow she's like
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16 just going to say isn't she 16 that is high level manipulation Sharon Sharon operates at a higher level I'm not
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saying it's a better level but she operates at a higher level it's a higher level of of depravity it is exactly
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that's that was a beautiful sentence I like I like when you say depravity I like depravity that's good yeah now
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James he didn't like depravity but he was a little shocked and not really sure what he should do like yeah he's he's a
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kid he's not a kid but for all intents and purposes he kind of is well and it sounds like his you know he was
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emotionally very immature so it's like this is a this is a lot and it's to me it sounds like he lived a very sheltered
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life but I'm also like you you guys obviously committed some sins over the summer I mean yeah it's like so you
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can't have that you know you can't be that like connected to those those thoughts that you have those boundaries
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that you have like seems like they might be a little fake seems like it or it seems like sheram is like listen we're
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[ __ ] doing this yeah but it's like but so he wasn't sure what to do so he showed the letter to a female friend and
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she was like you know she might be lying to you to trap you into a relationship she was me she was like nothing about
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that is real she was like Poetic but yeah like wow but garbage garbage and James was like no Sharon would not lie
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to me she and I don't think she would lie about this I don't think she's capable of that she would and she
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absolutely would and having being having been raised in a strict Mormon family he
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just couldn't believe that a woman would lie to him especially about something like pregnancy but it's like you guys
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[ __ ] before you were married like you're not super connected to these ideals obviously that's the thing like
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the cherry picking here is really annoying it's just like okay well you can't be that upset about it because you
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guys [ __ ] so I don't know it's one of those things though where like they are super connected to those IDE this seems
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very cherry-picked what you're going to like be bothered by but it is kind of funny I'm like okay but he came to the
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con clusion that the only thing he could do was Return To Independence and make Sharon an honest woman marry her yeah I
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mean yeah Mormons pick that part why not yeah so in early October of 1956 James took a leave of absence from briam Young
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University packed up the few belongings he had headed back to Missouri intending
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upon doing the right thing on October 17th James his father and Sharon went to the Jackson County Courthouse to apply
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for a marriage license now having secured her future with James Sharon's attitude underwent a noticeable
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change according to author James Hayes who wrote the Sharon Kenny story quote she no longer shared complicity in the
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pregnancy but blamed the child on him alone she angrily reminded him that his lust interrupted her college and hinted
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at having been through this before with another man what Sharon has been around baby and she's just got so like I'm just
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like the high again the high level of manipulation here is just like really Sinister because she is a 16-year-old
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woman running around like she has seen some [ __ ] been through some [ __ ] and it
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kind of sounds like she had been through some [ __ ] that's the thing and it's like
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and I know I'm like I was like getting on James here for like cherry-picking what he was going to follow in his
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religious and moral beliefs here yeah which I stand by that's very cherry-picked because like you were
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having sex with an underage girl so like there's your first uh moral cherry picking and two you are [ __ ] before
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marriage that's your second world cherry picking but like I also believe he is clearly being like high level
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manipulated here which is like a wild part so there's like a lot of things going on here that I'm just like this is
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all wrong oh it's wild it only gets Wilder so she's she's saying like her that she's gone through this before
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she's upset with him now that he's back when it seems like that's exactly what she wanted and as she's filling out her
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portion of the paperwork she starts mum humbling all these kinds of shitty things about his father Haggard who is
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right there literally standing right next to her what and she's openly berting James for allowing his family's
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beliefs about virginity and religious Purity to rob her of the traditional church wedding that she thought she was
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entitled to what but it's like isn't this what you wanted but now you're upset because this
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is what she wanted but it's not hers I think she wanted to marry her but I think she wanted it to be this big
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[ __ ] bash in a church and like yeah she wanted all the there but like but it's like you're in a [ __ ] pickle
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right now you're 16 you're pregnant by this Mormon guy he's going to keep this Hush Hush he's not going to give you
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this big huge wedding that you think you're entitled to damn and we're going to pretend like you got pregnant after
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this Courthouse ceremony and it's like she's not pregnant and she's not pregnantly this is all just a lie so
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it's like you're the LIE is keeping you the lie that you from most of this the lie that you made
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up what the [ __ ] she's reaping what she's sewn and she doesn't like it but she thought she was she was sewing
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exactly this damn it's wild I'm this is just like so much there's so many layers
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of just like wrongness here oh just wait we about you know those like potatoes that people make where there's just like
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60 billion layers of crispy potatoes yeah that's the story but not a scrumptious yeah this is an a not
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delicious version of that this it's like um they've like Ratatouille no like they've gone bad at this point what did
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the cheese do yesterday it's coagulated coagul o yes this is the coagulated version of every layer is just yuckier
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yeah moldy even you cuz you know the cheese goes in the potatoes but it's bad after a while yeah this is just cuz like
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the manipulation is wild but it's by a 16-year-old so it's like the power Dynam here is so weird because it's like she's
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a younger young lady she's six years younger than him who is much younger than him where they shouldn't even be in
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a relationship to begin with but not mentally like that's the problem there mhm like the first problem and then it's
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like but then the manipulation is coming from the person who shouldn't have the power in that scenario like very strange
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it's a it's a weird power I don't I'm very upset by all of this you will continue to get it's all [ __ ] up
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personally it is but the next day the marriage license was approved and the two were married in a small ceremony
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held in the Kenny home not the big wedding that Sharon had hoped for no now believing he'd done the right thing
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James packed himself and his new wife into the car and the newly married couple returned to Utah of course they
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did where he was like I'm going to continue my studies cuz that's I have my future yeah now and now he was more
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determined than ever to quote unquote make something of himself and support his new because now again like he's he's
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got this strange set of ideals so it's like now he's he's being pulled in several different directions and he's
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probably feeling like okay now I really got to finish this because I'm going to be the provider like of this child that
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doesn't exist exactly yeah now when they arrived in Provo James and Sharon moved
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in with James's friend temporarily while he worked to find a place of their own but unfortunately any hope that they
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that James had of Sharon settling down now that they were married was immediately dashed once they settled in
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Utah shocked from the moment they arrived Sharon complained to about absolutely everything from their
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temporary accommodation which was pretty cramped to the fact that he never had time to take her anywhere because he was
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studying just everything and her constant negativity and cruel comments made it impossible for him to focus on
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his studies because they were always fighting yeah it's just this is abusive exactly and in late December after just
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two months in Utah they ended up moving back to Independence which is exactly where she wanted to get away from and
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the second she got away from it she sabotaged it that's the thing it's like that's what I mean she doesn't know what
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she wants she doesn't she does not she thinks she knows what she wants she doesn't that's the thing she wants power
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she wants control but it sounds like she wants chaos as well so it's like I don't
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well I think she's somebody that thrives in chaos without recognizing it now back
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in Missouri James and Sharon moved into the uh a small house next door to his parents which his father owned so like
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allowed them like gave them a home to live in and Sharon is constantly talking about how much She [ __ ] hates this
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man oh man she also hated living next door to the In-laws she looked down on them she constantly mocked them for
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their conservative ways and their deep held religious beliefs which just like what the [ __ ] is it to you man well it's
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like also this is the person that you chose to trap so that's the thing it's like this is the family you married into
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you know what you were getting into this is the beliefs they held they weren't hiding them no like that's the thing now
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while James's father had already realized what kind of person Sharon was was and that's exactly why she didn't
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like him had her number from the jum but his mother refused to believe that any kind of young woman could be so cruel
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and calculating believe it girl according to Hayes James's mom quote believed in storybook relationships and
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thought that a mother and her son's wife should be close she sounds like a very sweet woman I was going to say I mean
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yeah that sounds delightful and that is absolutely like the ideal well and Sharon's mom barely ever made time for
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her in her childhood and once they came back to Independence James and Sharon the mom Sharon's mom still wasn't
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involved but James's mom went out of her way to be kind to Sharon she offered to
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pay their bills when they fell behind she would take Sharon on shopping trips she'd take her out to lunch she sounds
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like that's like your ideal mother-in-law are you kidding me like she's acting like a mom like stepping in
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being like a mother figure to you and when you're not necessarily the nicest person to her husband or her son I was
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just going to say you've been a [ __ ] fantastic person to her son and her husband like she's you're mocking their
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like religious beliefs you're mocking all everything about them and she's still being kind to you I mean that's
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the that's the way that people you know are supposed to be is like nice to people exctly but Sharon she was like
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[ __ ] youu the [ __ ] now not long after they resettled in Independence Sharon started filling her days spending what
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little money James was making at the time which quickly turned out to not be enough to satisfy her spending habits so
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as a result she set out to find her own job to subsidize her constant need to spend money now even though she was very
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skilled at nearly every job she tried she worked in a print shop she was a babysitter at one point she was a legal
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secretary a a hotel receptionist and she was great at all of those things but every time she started a new job she
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just got bored easily and the second she got bored she quit and like spent zero time at so she's just she has no staying
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power for something like she's not going to stick it out even if she's good at it
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it's just mundane to her if she's bored she's it's not going to happen exactly even if it's a good thing even if it is
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and when she was working and making money she also insisted that the money she made should not be considered family
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income instead she thought of the money that she made as hers to use as she pleased and even with her own income she
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continued to spend money recklessly usually charge charging things to James's account instead of her own this
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is dysfunctional it's the definition of dysfunctional I mean you do what you want with your bank accounts in your own
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homes like that's your business this is dysfunctional to me this is not well [ __ ] because everybody is not happy
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with this Arrangement so because it started out on a lie yeah and it's still I mean isn't she still claiming to be
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pregnant M and we're like that's going to come when there's no actual pregnancy or child yeah that's she have to fess up
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no she doesn't no okay so what we're there okay guys and just uh quickly trigger warning for like mention
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of pregnancy loss oh one afternoon several months after they settled back in Independence I think she realized
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like I'm not pregnant I'm not going to start showing anytime soon so I got to do something about this she decided she
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was tired of the pregnancy ruse since it had served its original purpose of getting James to marry her so she was
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like nah I'm done with this so James came home that evening and he this is so sad he found her in a panicked State and
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she told him that shortly after he left left work that that morning her body quote began to reject the baby so she's
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claiming she suff miscar which is [ __ ] this [ __ ] I can't even yeah [ __ ] this
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[ __ ] honestly so James was confused and Sharon used the opportunity to gain even
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more sympathy from him by making it seem like his high security job at the Bendix
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Corporation had put too many barriers in place for her to reach him and that's why she hadn't told him sooner so she's
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literally manipulating him by saying that it's basically like your fault that you this she saying I've had I'm like
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I'm suffering a miscarriage since you left for work this morning and I the reason you don't know is because I
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couldn't reach you so this is your fault that's so [ __ ] Sinister if you are able to fake a miscarriage and like
00:27:17
carry on that that lie to the the father quote unquote quote something is deeply
00:27:24
deeply wrong with you like that's [ __ ] you on another level you're faking a miscarriage [ __ ] you [ __ ] you yeah into
00:27:32
Oblivion yeah that's [ __ ] up so in January 1957 not long after ending the pregnancy scam if you will Sharon
00:27:40
learned that she was pregnant for Real's this time and in the fall she did give birth to the couple's first child a
00:27:47
daughter which they named I think it's either Dana or Dana Dana two NS I would say Dana Dana was my first instinct okay
00:27:54
cute name now from the outside Sharon seemed to be a devoted mother constantly doting on her daughter really living up
00:28:01
to every responsibility of domestic life she actually even started going to church with the family and if for a
00:28:07
second it seemed like she was embracing the Mormon lifestyle but like her attempts to hold
00:28:13
down a job she quickly got bored with the life of a homemaker and just went back to ex uh spending
00:28:19
excessively she's got to stick to something girl she's something she sticks to scheming well there you go
00:28:24
she's steady scheming she's steady scheming Now by 19 59 she'd given birth to another child a boy which they named
00:28:30
Troy and the family moved into a newly purchased home in a subdivision and the new baby in the new house seemed to
00:28:36
occupy Sharon's attention for a little bit which made her at least temporarily less abusive towards her husband oh nice
00:28:43
that's great yeah but the baby in the house also gave her a reason to spend more money and in response James
00:28:50
actually took a slightly higher paying second shift at the Bendix corporation which left Sharon alone with the
00:28:56
children in the evening and put more emotional distance between her and James with James working in the
00:29:02
evenings and the children children having gone to bed Sharon found herself with way more free time than she'd had
00:29:08
in years so she said I'm going to look up my old high school boyfriend John Bal now unlike her life with James which
00:29:16
was filled with constant arguments emotional distance you name it her relationship with John was exciting oh
00:29:24
because it was the forbidden fruit to because it was not this one that's why mhm and she reveled in the thrill of
00:29:31
infidelity sneaking around behind her husband's back to meet Jon at cheap motels in the backseat of his car girl
00:29:39
and where James had become increasingly immune to her domineering personality and manipulations John was easy to
00:29:46
manipulate and control because this was new and that made her feel powerful now even though Sharon eventually grew tired
00:29:53
of John 2 and only turned to him when she couldn't find another man to enter chain her for the night he was fallen
00:29:59
for it now by 1960 life in the keny house had deteriorated to a near breaking point it seemed to James that
00:30:07
Sharon was never home which was mostly fine by him except that she wasn't really living up to her end of the
00:30:13
domestic bargain yeah that he's working and she's not yeah doing anything remember this is a time where a man
00:30:19
worked during the day and came home to a hot meal and his children were fed and blah blah blah so he could no longer
00:30:26
expect a hot meal when he came came home and instead she was just leaving him out
00:30:30
frozen meals and she and that was not the only thing that she was absent in but she was absent from the children
00:30:36
yeah they were being neglected on a regular basis their basic needs were more often met by babysitters than their
00:30:42
own mother yeah it's like I'm sorry if you're going out to like uh [ __ ] other men and leaving your children to be
00:30:47
neglected like that sucks exactly like that's not cool yeah and that's the thing James was being like okay you're
00:30:54
not with the children I'm not getting hot meals where the [ __ ] are are you so he he caught on pretty quickly to the
00:31:00
fact that she was cheating on him but he had no idea to the extent which he was right and as a deeply deeply religious
00:31:07
person he knew that divorce would have been discouraged by everybody in his community and he was right whenever he
00:31:13
brought the subject up to his parents his mom would typically encourage him to work out their problems for the
00:31:18
children's sake that's never the way to go man it's never better I understand that like that was just the way it was
00:31:25
back then well I know it's like a religious thing still is now a religious thing that like you don't get divorced
00:31:30
you just suck it up and have a horrible marriage for your children people always
00:31:35
say like for the sake of the children the children are not going to thrive in an abusive household no they see
00:31:41
everything kids know when you're arguing and when you're not like loving each other and not having a respectful
00:31:46
discourse and if anything it's better to look at them and say sometimes these things don't work out and my father your
00:31:53
father and I respect each other enough to not continue just never for the sake of the children never really works out
00:32:00
in for not that I've seen at least well and it didn't here yeah it didn't at all
00:32:05
now as the weeks went on staying with Sharon seemed more and more impossible to James and finally in mid-march he
00:32:11
actually did bring up divorce to Sharon and she agreed that their marriage had reached it its end but her ter her terms
00:32:18
for a divorce were I knew this was going to come outrageous and unacceptable she
00:32:22
would have bankrupt yeah there was I was going to say there was no way she was just going to have be like let's
00:32:26
amicably divorce no and honestly her idea of like the terms of this divorce are so disturbing to me at least
00:32:35
according to Hayes she was willing to go along with the divorce but only if James
00:32:39
gave her the House Dana and $1,000 in cash [ __ ] Troy I was just going to say only one of your kids like I would like
00:32:47
this one she wants her daughter James can have the boy oh I hate how [ __ ] up I ha this a lot yeah that's fed up oh
00:32:54
yeah you love Dana so much you're leaving her in babysit and James was like uh splitting the
00:33:01
children up is out of the question they're siblings like you're just going to split them that's so crazy like this
00:33:06
isn't The Parent Trap girlfriend and so he was like no that's out of the question and with the idea of divorce
00:33:12
seemingly being moved away from his parents were relieved in fact after giving it some thought Sharon herself
00:33:18
even decided that she didn't love the idea cuz she wasn't going to win oh guys come on everybody involved here except
00:33:24
for James I'm like get out of here this por man honestly this poor man yeah at this point it's like geez like he's he's
00:33:31
given it his best shot here he is absolutely and the thing was so Sharon at this they talk about the divorce for
00:33:38
a little bit but then she's realizing he's not going to agree to her terms and then she realizes that her terms aren't
00:33:44
even really good enough for her it would get her out of marriage but $1,000 was not enough to live on for very long and
00:33:51
it definitely would not sustain her lifestyle and the salary that she was working for temporary jobs really gave
00:33:57
her little pay so it wasn't going to be a win for her but there was another way that Sharon could get out of the
00:34:03
marriage and it almost guaranteed that she would get everything she wanted and more oh no on Saturday afternoon March
00:34:10
19th 1960 the Jackson County Sheriff's Department received a frantic call from Sharon Kenny saying that her husband had
00:34:17
a heart attack and she needed help right away now when sheriff's deputies arrived
00:34:22
at the Kenny home however they found a very strange scene James Kenny was lying on the couple's bed his Target pillow
00:34:30
excuse me his target pistol on a pillow next to him pointing toward the large hole in the back of his head at the time
00:34:37
I feel like that's not a heart attack no it's very unclear why she says heart attack yeah I don't know if she thought
00:34:44
they were going to come faster yeah I think they would still come pretty fast if you said said he was shocked yeah I
00:34:51
don't know strange I don't know if maybe she didn't want something recorded on the 911 I don't know but at the time
00:34:57
that they they got there he was still alive but unfortunately he would die a short time later on the way to the
00:35:04
hospital so it was not instant which is really awful now this is so [ __ ] Sharon told the officers that he'd gone
00:35:12
into the bedroom a short time earlier to take a nap and then a short time later while she was in the bathroom getting
00:35:17
ready to go to church like a good woman she heard their 2-year-old daughter Dana
00:35:22
asked loudly how does this thing work daddy how does it work and then she said she heard the shot ring out I'm sorry
00:35:30
she's blaming this on her 2-year-old daughter she is blaming this on her 2-year-old daughter and not only that
00:35:37
she's going to get away with it shut the [ __ ] up she's going to get away with blaming it on her 2-year-old daughter
00:35:44
for a little while at least I'm without words without words now James had always had a fascination
00:35:53
with guns and he would take them apart to clean them but Sharon said that he was also forgetful and careless with
00:35:58
them according to her he would sometimes leave them lying around the house oh that's [ __ ] up it is on the kitchen
00:36:04
table next to the television where the children could easily reach them and the officers did note that his gun belt and
00:36:10
ammunition were lying next to the bed which did seem to support Sharon's claim but then that her statement was also
00:36:16
confirmed by James's parents he was an irresponsible that's [ __ ] up and that's just the truth of it but still
00:36:23
the death did seem suspicious accidental shootings did happen but not typically with a 2-year-old yeah and investigators
00:36:30
wondered why James would have laid laid down to take a nap with a loaded pistol lying next to his head like you can be
00:36:36
an irresponsible gun owner but I don't think it goes to that that's pretty far now and you can't be like I'm saying
00:36:43
there are irresponsible gun owners now unfortunately there wasn't much evidence to prove or disprove Sharon's claims
00:36:50
yeah the 22 caliber pistol was taken from the scene but it was covered in so much gun oil that it was impossible ble
00:36:56
to get any fingerprints off of it which is interesting then the lab technician also didn't bother to test either Sharon
00:37:05
or Dana's hands for gunshot residue what the [ __ ] no idea why or excuse me I do
00:37:10
know why they believed at that time this particular lab technician believed that
00:37:14
those tests were unreliable why wouldn't you just do it anyway couldn't tell you
00:37:19
I feel like it's better just to do it and also how is that unreliable you either have gunshot residue on your
00:37:24
hands or you don't and it's like it's better to do it then argue about it later than to not do it and be like well
00:37:29
I guess we'll never know like if you do test their hands and Sharon has it on her hands yeah boom there you go yeah
00:37:36
what wow but the only other test that they did was to determine the pull necessary to fire the gun which was
00:37:41
smart now knowing that the pistol required a 3.25lb pull they returned to the Kenny house with a similar disabled
00:37:49
pistol to find out whether Dana actually had the strength to pull the trigger and
00:37:53
they did find out that she did she was able to in fact not only did she possess the strength to pull the trigger but she
00:38:01
also knew how to release the safety catch on the gun why the [ __ ] did she know that a 2-year-old why did this
00:38:07
2-year-old girl know how to release a safety on a pistol I do not know I'm just trying to think of my kids
00:38:13
at two and I'm like what is going on here like this is wild you would think of a 2-year-old like and you don't want
00:38:22
to think of a 2-year-old gun 2-year-old with a gun but when you do you would think that they'd be like Le it around
00:38:27
like that's the thing like you just I don't this is just so strange this is very strange it really is and I don't
00:38:34
know if it's a a thing where Sharon taught her how to do it so that she could shoot her father oh my God or if
00:38:43
maybe she just saw her dad shoot the pistol all the time maybe and like that's why yeah I I honestly have no
00:38:50
idea I don't believe that Dana shot her father seems highly unlikely to me I believe that Sharon did yeah or that if
00:38:58
Dana somehow did shoot her father it was because Sharon made you know she was set
00:39:03
up but in their statement to the Press Sergeant Herman Davis of the Kansas City Police told reporters the B quote the
00:39:09
bullet had entered from the rear and lodged just under the skin between the nose and the right eye now Davis
00:39:16
continued that this was consistent with the position of the gun which was quote lying flat on the pillow when it
00:39:21
discharged leaving a crease where it cut the cloth and powder Burns were on the pillowcase so the Press were also made
00:39:28
aware of the working theory that 2-year-old Dana had accidentally shot her father while he was asleep and they
00:39:34
did stress that their tests confirmed James could not have fired the shot himself yeah and the investigators
00:39:39
actually never bothered to ask Dana whether she'd fired the gun or not or any other questions about the incident
00:39:47
I'm sorry what they just felt like the evidence supported that Sharon what Sharon had told them there was no
00:39:52
evidence to their contrary and they were ready to rule the death and accident no one ever said to this 2-year-old who
00:39:59
they claim walked into a room and was like Daddy how does this thing work Daddy and then pulled the trigger took
00:40:06
the safety off and pulled the trigger no one was like you know we should ask this
00:40:11
uh Prodigy if she actually did that like we just ask her kids will tell you [ __ ]
00:40:16
oh yeah kids will tell you everything like any I'm sure any preschool or kindergarten teacher knows they know
00:40:22
everything about what happens in your house your kid's going to tell them everything you ever seen that Meme where
00:40:27
it's like my Mommy has two boyfriends yeah it's like literally like and it's like me like what yeah it's like it's
00:40:34
why wouldn't you ask that child like did you fire this gun in your dad in your parents' room like there's a way to ask
00:40:40
where you're not like scaring her making her feel like she did something they should have brought some kind of expert
00:40:45
in yeah bring a psychiatrist in like a child psychologist that can ask in a proper way 100% to get the proper answer
00:40:52
like a real no it's shotty police work it's also you couple that with the the fact that Sharon called and said he had
00:40:57
a heart attack and it's like why the [ __ ] wouldn't she have said and an accident happened here I couldn't find
00:41:04
anything to say that they really ever questioned that this is so bizarre it is what the [ __ ] maybe she was having an
00:41:11
affair with somebody on the police force I don't know what the hell is going on she was having lots of Affairs so who
00:41:15
knows that's complete speculation by the way but with the autopsy complete and the cause of death listed as accidental
00:41:21
officially Sharon was free to collect on the various life insurance policies that
00:41:26
had been taken out in the years before James's death including from the Veterans Administration life insurance
00:41:32
and homeowners insurance wow and with James dead the balance on the mortgage for the house was wiped out and
00:41:39
transferred to Sharon she received roughly $29,000 which today would be like receiving
00:41:46
$300,000 God so she cashed on this now if it weren't for her Reckless impulsivity Sharon Kenny might have
00:41:54
never become a suspect in her husband husband's death but she was arrogant and narcissistic and constantly looking for
00:42:01
something or someone to validate her and prop up herself esteem which is what led
00:42:05
her to Walter Jones now after cashing out on all those insurance policies she wasted absolutely no time spending the
00:42:12
money and actually long before James's death she'd been pestering him to buy her a Ford Thunderbird she really wanted
00:42:19
a Thunderbird and he refused because he was like one we have two children like that's not necessarily a family car not
00:42:26
two those are [ __ ] expensive and we don't have the money but now with James out of the way and her Pockets flush
00:42:33
with cash Sharon went down to the Rudy Fick Ford dealership on April 18th 1960 and she was helped by won Walter Jones
00:42:43
uhoh now Walter was said to be a handsome guy with a big friendly personality he had all the charm and per
00:42:49
se persuasiveness necessary to succeed in car sales say car salesman he is in fact at the time Sharon only intended to
00:42:57
get the air conditioner in James's old Nash fixed but Walter quickly and easily talked her into trading in the old car
00:43:04
her husband her dead husband's car for the one that she had dreamed about her new car yep and soon she was making
00:43:11
regular visits to the dealership if you catch my if you know what I mean it's like Globe Motors in The Sopranos now it
00:43:18
turned out while Walter may have been a good car salesman he wasn't really a great person no at the time he began his
00:43:25
affair with Sharon he was married married to his high school sweetheart Patricia Everybody chill the [ __ ] out no
00:43:32
they you're all too much the most they had gotten him and Patricia they had gotten married right out of high school
00:43:38
just before Walter enlisted in the Marines and they relocated to California now after he was just discharged they
00:43:44
moved back to Missouri but by then their marriage was doomed in fact Walter's Affairs began almost immediately after
00:43:52
they married and continued up until he met Sharon in the spring of 19 1960 and Patricia Patricia excuse me her choice
00:43:59
to stay with her husband was only because of their two children and her desire to work things out for their sake
00:44:05
and that is that I mean that's still a thing and it's and it like we were saying like it never works out it it
00:44:10
really doesn't it I I haven't seen many things work out in that when that's the motivation no but you can also
00:44:17
understand people's motivation for thinking that's going to be a good thing so I want to make sure you guys know
00:44:23
like we know why people do it yeah just we there's there's a lot of evidence to prove that it doesn't work and again of
00:44:30
course there's there's an exception to every rule that could work out course and this was a different time and that
00:44:35
was much more the thing back then like much more than is now now it's usually more to do with like morality things and
00:44:42
like religious things right but that was like the the norm yeah like back then it
00:44:47
wasn't just like religious people like let's not get divorced societal exactly now Walter's marriage was uh of course
00:44:55
was always a source of frustration for Sharon not because she was in love with him but because as long as he was
00:45:01
married she wouldn't have total control over him exactly so now determined to break up the marriage Sharon relied on a
00:45:07
strategy straty a strategy that had worked for her in the past and in miday she told Walter that she was pregnant
00:45:15
with his child and demanded that he end his marriage she's the worst she's not pregnant by the way yeah she's the worst
00:45:23
she is and she'll only get worse [ __ ] Sharon so the news came as a surprise to
00:45:27
Walter but he was hardly ready to give into those demands he was already cheating on his wife and two children
00:45:32
you think he's going to marry you and do the rightly please by that time his infidelity was actually not really that
00:45:37
much of a secret to his wife which had led to several arguments between him and Patricia who by then had threatened to
00:45:44
leave him and take the children multiple times which like go girl and faced with
00:45:48
the with the possibility of losing his wife and kids he actually started to reconsider his relationship with Sharon
00:45:55
she was controlling manipulative she could be cruel and now he'd actually begun to resent how dependent he'd
00:46:01
become on her for attention and the money that she occasionally provided with all those life insurance payouts
00:46:08
and to add to all of that during the week of May 27th while Sharon had been away on vacation he spent more time at
00:46:14
home like than he ever had while he was dating Sharon and realized how much he actually missed his wife when Sharon
00:46:21
like when she was gone and he actually went to spend time with his wife what a guy he was like wow actually miss you
00:46:26
like I I remember why I married you romance can you [ __ ] imagine [ __ ] so given that he decided that when
00:46:33
Sharon returned in a few days he would end the relationship and really begin working on repairing his marriage okay
00:46:40
but unfortunately he would never get that chance uhoh on the evening of May 27th 1960 John baliz I'm sure you
00:46:48
remember that name Sharon's High School boyfriend scho boyfriend and you know side piece called the Jackson County
00:46:54
Sheriff's Department to report that he and his lady had taken a drive out to the lovers lane area just off of Phelps
00:47:00
Road a little outside of Independence and they'd made a horrible Discovery at first baliz told investigators the
00:47:07
couple had thought the woman who was illuminated by their headlights had just fallen asleep in the wooded area but
00:47:13
after getting out to investigate they had found four bullet holes in her head stomach and both shoulders he was
00:47:20
calling to report that he had found a body now when investigators arrived on the scene they found very little
00:47:27
evidence to work with the woman who would later be identified as Walter's wife Patricia Jones what the [ __ ] had
00:47:33
been shot four times and at least one of those shots had been fired close enough
00:47:38
to leave powder burs on her skirt oh my God now there was a surprising lack of blood at the scene which led
00:47:44
investigators to strongly consider whether she'd been shot elsewhere and dumped in the woods and her clothes
00:47:50
seemed to be disarranged but they hadn't been removed okay and there wasn't any other evidence of a sexual assault she
00:47:57
had not been sexually assaulted it appeared to investigators that Patricia had been killed elsewhere and dumped in
00:48:03
the woods and the scene had been staged yeah but as far as a motive they were lost now the next morning Walter was
00:48:11
brought into the sheriff's off Sheriff's Office for questioning and he explained
00:48:15
that he hadn't seen his wife the previous morning and actually he had filed a missing person's report when she
00:48:20
failed to return home the night before he even offered to take a polygraph test to prove his innocent
00:48:26
damn now the case took a surprising turn when investigators learned that bal's girlfriend was none other than Sharon
00:48:33
Kenny holy [ __ ] the woman whose husband was killed just two months earlier what
00:48:41
the [ __ ] Sharon's explanation for the death of her husband seemed a bit suspicious at the time yeah it did but
00:48:46
without any evidence to suggest anything otherwise investigators had no choice but to accept her statement but now her
00:48:53
proximity to two murders and a two month span raised those earlier suspicions a bit higher and to add to those
00:49:01
suspicions in his statement to the sheriff Walter admitted he'd been having an affair with one Sharon Kenny for a
00:49:08
little more than a month and also mentioned that one of his wife's friends had seen Patricia and Sharon together
00:49:15
the day before sh uh excuse me the day before Patricia went missing what the [ __ ] she was spotted with
00:49:22
Sharon not by just like a random eyewitness by one of Patricia's friends Sinister this woman is Sinister as [ __ ]
00:49:30
truly so according to Walter's statement he and Patricia had actually argued on the morning of Thursday May 26th and
00:49:37
then they went their separate ways she went to her job she worked at the IRS and he went to drop the children off
00:49:44
with the babysitter before heading to work himself and when he got home later that evening he expected to find her but
00:49:49
she was nowhere to be found so he starts calling all her friends and co-workers one of which was the woman who said she
00:49:56
had seen Patricia and Sharon together and then another friend told Walter that she'd asked to be dropped off at an
00:50:02
unusual location where quote they had seen Mrs Jones enter a 1957 or 1958 Dodge driven by a young woman huh so
00:50:12
upon hearing this Walter said he called Sharon who said that she had indeed spoken to Patricia that afternoon and
00:50:18
told her that Walter was having an affair with her sister so that's a little bit confusing
00:50:25
so Sharon contacts Patricia and says I know your husband he's having an affair with
00:50:31
my sister and I want to tell you about it cuz I think you deserve to know and that's how she gets her to do a car with
00:50:37
her Sharon sucks big time now Walter's statement and polygraph polygraph polygraph my grandma that's an Insider
00:50:48
his polygraph examination didn't rule him out entirely but it did go a long way toward removing him from the suspect
00:50:54
list yeah Sharon on the other hand did little to get herself off of that suspect list and pretty much everything
00:51:00
to get herself onto it yeah that's not shocking Walter had agreed to that polygraph exam and he actually signed a
00:51:05
written statement to his whereabouts Sharon made a verbal statement but she refused to sign anything and refused to
00:51:12
take a polygraph examination in her verbal statement she claimed she had only gone quote on about 12 dates with
00:51:19
Walter which like that's a lot he's still married with kids my friend and like your relationship has only been
00:51:24
going on dates two months that's standard she said that she called Patricia Jones and met with her that
00:51:32
Thursday afternoon to break off the relationship with Walter but it's like no you didn't you said that he's having
00:51:38
an affair with your sister like what the hell you were setting her up no exactly
00:51:42
the officer who took her statement recalled Sharon saying I'm very fond of Walt and I didn't want anything to
00:51:47
happen to him and his family so she said she called Patricia and told her there was something she needed to tell her
00:51:51
about her husband but that she needed to do it in person so you're you're fond of
00:51:55
Wal you don't want anything to happen to him or his family but you're going to tell his wife that you guys have been
00:52:00
having an affair you're going to blow up his entire family by saying that you uh
00:52:04
your sister and him have been having an affair now Sharon's story was that she had borrowed her father's car that
00:52:11
afternoon so thatal Dodge perhaps mhm so that Walt wouldn't recognize her car when she dropped his wife off at home
00:52:19
and that she picked up Patricia at the location where she was last seen by her cooworker so that was Sharon like honey
00:52:24
you did it you're admitting already like you're not getting out of this I hope please tell me once they were in
00:52:30
Sharon's car she told Patricia that Walter had been having an affair with her sister and she wanted her to know
00:52:36
because she felt it was inappropriate and needed to come to an end shut the [ __ ] up Sharon shut up Sharon now after
00:52:42
they'd spoken Sharon said you know it was awful I can't believe I had to tell her that and then I dropped her about a
00:52:48
block away from the Jones house which why would you drop her off a block away if you're in a car that he doesn't
00:52:54
recognize that's the whole reason you had that car exactly but she said she then looked in the rearview mirror and
00:53:00
quote saw Mrs Jones talking to a man in a two-tone green 1957 Ford so she so she
00:53:07
got out of the car and immediately this other guy's like here I am absolutely that makes total sense yeah according to
00:53:14
Sharon it came as a total shock to coincidentally happen upon Patricia's body where she and bod were out at The
00:53:20
Lover's Lane that evening yeah isn't that wild that you talk to the wife of the that you've been having an affair
00:53:26
with that day you dropped her off and then oh my God you just stumbled upon her dead body later that day you happen
00:53:31
to be the one who discovers it whoa buy a lottery ticket Sharon now as far as she knew she said
00:53:38
that Patricia was quote upset but not mad after she informed her of the affair so she couldn't imagine what could have
00:53:43
happened to lead to her death no of course you can't because nothing else happened you killed her so no way
00:53:49
there's that also you went to a Lover's Lane with your boyfriend she's in the [ __ ] up she's in her early 20s like grow
00:53:56
the [ __ ] up honestly well you have two children what are you doing shut the [ __ ] up it's wild we went to a L's Lane
00:54:02
like shut the [ __ ] Dave makes like little notes sometimes and he was like I know it may seem weird that they're in a
00:54:07
Lover Lane but please remember that she is in her early 20s because it's also just crazy to be like she is in her
00:54:13
early 20s and all of this has happened in her life in your head you're like Jesus Christ you're 35 what are you
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doing at a l Lane like grow up but she's she's young still she's done a lot yeah the autopsy determined that
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Patricia's cause of death was the gunshot wound in her head and they placed the time of death around 8 or 900
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p.m. on May 27th just a few hours before the body was discovered but unfortunately the three bullets that
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they retrieved from the shoulders and the head were so badly damaged that they couldn't be used for a match to the
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weapon and the fourth bullet had entered Patricia's stomach and exited out of her
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back and then presumably got lodged somewhere where she'd been killed so with no other leads detectives went back
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to the woods where the body was discovered and started searching with metal detectors hoping to find that
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fourth bullet now a team of investigators spent all day searching the woods for that that fourth bullet
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that passed through Patricia stomach but they had no luck finding it or any other
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additional evidence yeah because I don't think it happened out there it gets a little hairy okay and and you'll see
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where in part two but in the meantime Walter and John balis were both brought in for additional questioning and they
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both were given a polygraph examination which they passed it was then that Walter admitted when he learned that
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Sharon had been with his wife the night she went missing he did not call her like he had said originally he actually
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went to her house and confronted her in person oh damn wter yeah it gets worse according to Walter when Patricia's
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friend said that she saw her with Sharon he went to Sharon and after putting a knife to her throat demanded that she
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help search for his wife the these poor children involved in this kind of [ __ ] you just hope that
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they weren't around for seeing any of this like hopefully they were with her the babysitter that's raising them
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exactly and uh James Kenny's parents were still very involved in their lives but within an hour of that incident
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Sharon and Bal discovered Patricia's body in the woods how convenient I love that Walter shows up puts a knife to
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your throat tells you to go you like you better find my wife and you're like cool
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he leaves and you're like hey John you want to go to a Lover's Lane and just hang out and John's like yeah sure sure
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he's like absolutely and then you just stumble upon you're like wow good luck for me fortunately and it's like clearly
00:56:37
she led you to a certain area in this clearly Sheed like we all know that we all know that so she clearly LED you to
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the location where she knew your headlights were going to like illuminate patri oh my
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God that way she could like rid herself of the issue of Walter being like find my wife right and also be like oh she's
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gone that's crazy I saw her get into a car with some random ass man wow now the good thing investigation wise was that
00:57:05
each new revelation seemed to lead to some other piece of critical information about the case because when baliz was
00:57:11
asked about Walter's story he admitted that he and Sharon had indeed gone out to the woods not for intimacy but to
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look for Patricia I was going to say so that's how that explains that and that wasn't all he told investigators
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according to him a couple weeks before Patricia's murder Sharon had quote talked him into going to the Sheriff's
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Office to try to get James Kenny's pistol back but obviously they refused that request what the [ __ ] but it's like
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okay is that the same Police Department like investigating this death because would you not have that on note
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that some random man was like I need James Kenny's pistol back are the police okay here no the answer is no no the
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answer is not well [ __ ] they are not well [ __ ] like what you're not even asking that the fact that they didn't
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even talk to that 2-year-old to be like hey let's see what she says about whether she shot her dad or not like
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just give it a shot not doing that and then like this they're like oh yeah how crazy we don't we don't have that on
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file it's like what the [ __ ] like this lady's obviously got a lot of [ __ ] going
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on around her maybe like keep an eye when she asked for a pistol back that was involved in a murder or that or when
00:58:19
her like lover comes in and asks for it like come on it's like maybe make note of that while the detectives continued
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questioning Walter and B A team of investigators switched their attention from the wooded area where Patricia's
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body was located to an abandoned Farm building across the street and on the morning of May 30th investigators
00:58:38
searching the barn found two blanks with bullet holes and powder Burns leading them to suspect that Patricia may have
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been taken to the barn and killed before being dumped in the woods that's [ __ ]
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up and they believed that could account for the chunk of time where she was missing between when she was last seen
00:58:54
by co-workers and when she was discovered in the woods ah that was a theory now the search of the barn didn't
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give much in terms of new evidence but as investigators were starting to feel like they were losing momentum a
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coworker of Sharon's from the photo processing plant that she was currently working up came forward to police with
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what he thought was vital evidence according to this coworker a few weeks before Patricia's body was discovered
00:59:19
Sharon had pressured him into buying a high standard 22 caliber pistol for her how does she convince people to do these
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things she has a way with men she's manipulative she's got a way with men some women just do now when detectives
00:59:33
confronted her with this information Sharon quote explained she wanted the weapon for protection on her trip to
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Washington that she'd taken with Bal just days before the murder and claimed she left the gun with family in
00:59:47
Washington mhm okay now all right although their physical evidence was weak the circumstantial evidence against
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Sharon Kenny at this point was substantial she'd been having an affair with the victim's husband she was the
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last person to be seen with Patricia Jones she was the one to find the body in an out of thee way location yeah she
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had to go and find it she had gone out of her way to obtain a gun and then lost said gun she was refusing to make any
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sworn statement or submit a polygraph exam and on top of that her husband had died under similarly mysterious
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circumstances just two months earlier after which she colle Ed on insurance policies that not only gave her a clear
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title to the house but also solved any financial problems it may not have been a slam dunk case but she definitely
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looked guilty this is wild and it's also so weird that we chose cases this week that had to do with insurance payouts
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right in the nick of time before Financial ruin that is weird like that's the exact thing with the OC SE that is
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very strange very weird but on the evening of May 31st just hours after Patricia Jones's Funeral deputies from
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the Jackson County Sheriff's Department served a warrant at Sharon's home and she was taken into custody and charged
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with the murder of Patricia Jones good get her and that's where we're going to wrap for part one God I'm so sorry but
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in part two there is a lot to cover like I said part two is going to be a little
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bit trial heavy and you'll see why but once we get through the trial part of it which like if you're like me and that's
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not necessar not necessarily your thing we're going to get through it together and it's going to be worth it because
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then we go into a whole slew of other wild [ __ ] damn I don't know how this can
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get more wild but here I am you know what I was saying the same thing as I was writing this and then I was just
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like it got more wild it got more wild it got crazyer yeah wow so we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it
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weird but it's a weird that you try to Stage your husband's murder like your 2-year-old did it cuz that's just really
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[ __ ] up and weird [ __ ] up that's so wild I can't get over that just wait blaming it on her 2-year-old just wait
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it's [Music] wild