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[Music] [Music] a violent murder takes place in a large home that sat empty and silent
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the home is located at the very end of a quiet street a road that sees no through traffic
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in fact the road here in this case officially titled Lane to give it that certain neighborhood charm
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dead ends and then splits off into two long driveways at the end of Chelsea Lane if one were
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to go to the left they would travel a driveway that extends approximately 500 feet
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and then you would be standing right in front of 2149 Chelsea Lane if one were to go right instead of left
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well then you would travel a driveway that extends approximately 200 or so feet up the driveway and now you are
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standing in front of 2147 Chelsea Lane inside of this single family four bedroom home
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a successful woman and mother at the very top of her game was murdered there as The Story Goes
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she was there on that rainy day to meet a prospective client that opportunity sadly turned into the
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woman's tragic demise instead of Landing a buyer for the home that sat quiet and empty
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the successful saleswoman met her death [Music] in the middle of a secluded neighborhood
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in an area where at the time crime consisted of traffic violations and child Pranksters
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was the killer someone she knew or a complete stranger the killer remains unknown more than 25
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years later some of the very important details in this case remain a mystery as well
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unknown to all of us all of these years later a realtor was found shot and strangled
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and throughout most of the investigation the authorities were almost as mysterious as the murder itself
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refusing to divulge the time of death the caliber of gun used and the important details that their
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investigation would uncover was it necessary to keep this information Secret over 25 years later and where the case
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sits today is firmly in the unsolved and open filing cabinet she was killed on a rainy work day
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on that Thursday afternoon by someone out there and for reasons that remain unknown as well
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it was not about looking at the home it was not about contemplating one of life's biggest purchases
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it was what turned into preventing a lovely lady from going home that day why was the motive
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from everything that I can see this is a cold case and as our long time listeners
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know all too well cold cases present many investigative challenges there is no perfect investigation
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regardless of the jurisdiction or the law enforcement entity conducting the investigation
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but as we all know there is no perfect murder and this murder certainly is not the
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exception to that rule during the course of a murder investigation means and opportunity are often easily
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determined the motive for murder is more elusive means an opportunity are some of the
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best dividing factors when separating the suspects from all other possibilities in this case I believe the motive could
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separate the prime suspect from all others this is the still unsolved homicide case
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of Charlotte fimiano and this is true crime garage [Music] yes [Music] [Music] as the morning cold newspaper put it it
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didn't matter that the house on Chelsea Lane stands in the middle of a secluded neighborhood
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in a location where crime is akin to speeding citations and vandalism rather than murder but forty-year-old Charlotte
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fimiano was killed there anyway this is in the Hellertown lower Saucon Township area of Pennsylvania
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so not terribly far from New Jersey and just east of Allentown and Bethlehem two
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larger cities in Pennsylvania murder that took place on Thursday September 11 1997.
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the cold case that is very solvable in my opinion and you know how much we love to be able to put those words together
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such close proximity Charlotte fimiano was born Charlotte Christie Edinger in 1957 to parents
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Donald and Anna May Ettinger at the time of the murder in 1997. Charlotte was married and was the mother of one
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her husband is Christian fimiano and her daughter is Christy Everett fimiano her
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daughter Christy is older she's grown up she's a senior in college still living at home with Mom and her stepdad who
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from my understanding raised her as his own in 1997 Charlotte was a very successful
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realtor in fact she had been quite successful in this line of work pretty much from the time that she started in
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the business she worked for Weichert Realtors in Bethlehem for about 10 years and I do want to give a little bit of
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clarification here Captain Weichert is a larger company they have several offices
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in fact she worked at the Easton office for many years before transferring to Bethlehem to that location where she had
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only been for about a year year and a half prior to the murder so she worked for Weichert for about 10 years and then
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as said only about a year and a half at the Bethlehem office she was a member of
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their million dollar sales Club a repeat member I think that's a an annual club or annual award that they give out
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in 1990 Charlotte was named Woman of the Year by the American Business women's Association Starburst chapter now an
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overview of the case is pretty much the same as the information that was released in the early goings of this
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investigation early on the information was coming out from primarily three sources
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the corner a detective and a fellow realtor so let's go through the overview and
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include all of the known early information and after that we will see if we can add some additional details
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there are some very interesting theories here and while we don't have any publicly named suspects I think we will
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be able to conjure up a few to discuss and see if the puzzle pieces fit early on law enforcement was very tight-lipped
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on what they were sharing with the public in this investigation it makes you wonder what they were finding out
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and when they were finding it out because they would start to release some other information as this investigation
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would drag on but let's go to the beginning okay so one of the more well-known headlines here in this case is from a
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Saturday September 13 1997 newspaper the morning call out of Allentown Pennsylvania the headline reads
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Bethlehem realtor found slain in lower Saucon home for sale immediately one's mine starts to fill in the blanks this
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information is from the Northampton County coroner Zachary LASIK telling us that the realtor Charlotte
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femiano age 40 who lived on Allen Street in Bethlehem Township died from a gunshot wound to the head and
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strangulation he very quickly ruled the death a homicide however he would not release
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the suspected time of death or the caliber of gun used in the murder Charlotte's body was found just after 7
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10 a.m on Friday February 12th the police also would not confirm nor comment if Charlotte went to the
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property to meet a client or a prospective buyer later we would get some better clarification as to what
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their investigative efforts would uncover but as anyone can understand in the early stages the detectives are
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going to be looking to see if they can confirm who was the last person she was with
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why was she there and who was she meeting with and here they don't want to show their hand right this is a
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Pennsylvania State Police Case by the way a state police investigation they may not want the person to know
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that they are able to identify or have a lead on who that person may be that she
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was going to meet so that's why you keep that Secret the manager of the weiker office where
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Charlotte worked out of did talk to the newspaper as well so this is the manager her name is Marcy
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Carter she fills in some more details from which we learned that Charlotte femiano was reported missing right
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around midnight on Thursday remember the body was recovered the following morning
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Friday after 7 A.M and the newspaper that is giving out the first details of the case is from that Saturday September
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13th her co-workers describe Charlotte as Plucky and aggressive the manager of the
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weiker office Marcy Carter says quote everyone is so sad and that Charlotte was well loved and the real estate firm
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is offering one hundred thousand dollars a one hundred thousand dollar reward for
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information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Charlotte's death
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Marcy tells the newspaper that Charlotte's husband Christian was the one to report her missing around
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midnight on Thursday the night before her body was found the home where she was found was listed
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for sale and was vacant at the time now it said the police were not going to comment on if Charlotte went to the home
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to show the place to a prospective buyer and Marcy very wisely did not want to jam up their investigation
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so she didn't comment on that either however the newspaper reporters Kathleen Parrish Denise Seaman and Phil Boyle
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were doing some dogged investigative work themselves and discovered that the Lehigh Valley board of realtors left
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voicemail messages for area members one to inform them of Charlotte's murder and
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two to warn them warning them to be extra careful when showing properties so law enforcement is being very
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tight-lipped to the public but then we have these Realtors coming out saying hey hey we have to be careful because we
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don't know if this is going to be a repeat event if this is somebody targeting real estate agents so let's
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let's dive into a couple events on the timeline yeah before we get into the crime scene details I think
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there's some important times to highlight on this timeline remember around midnight on Thursday September 11
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Christian fimiano reports his wife Charlotte missing to the authorities at 7 10 a.m on Friday her body is found at
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the for sale residence 2147 Chelsea Lane there was a news conference with members
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of the State Police that same Friday night at this conference the police stated that Charlotte was reported missing when
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she failed to return home from work they also stated that that what they would refer to as an anonymous 9-1-1 call
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came in Friday morning directing police to the 2147 Chelsea Lane property they go out there immediately after
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getting this 9-1-1 call in fact there's indicators that the police were at the property in about 10 minutes time after
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receiving that call there they find Charlotte's vehicle parked in the driveway the body is then discovered inside the
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home the body is then removed from the scene at 11 30 a.m taken to Easton Hospital where the autopsy was conducted
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later we're going to learn that Charlotte was shot twice and strangled and it was ligature strangulation
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meaning that she was strangled with an object not someone's hands right at the time police would not say what room in
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the house that the body was found and from my understanding Captain there's been some speculation thrown out there
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and there's been a source at least one source says that she was found at the top of a stairs
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I was trying to figure out if this home had a basement or not because top of the
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stairs could mean second floor or ground level I want to be straight up here that
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that's not information that we've been able to confirm and it's also information that I don't believe has
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been publicly released by the police themselves and he said there's gunshot wounds and and strangulation do we know
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if she was strangled and and then shot or shot then strangled we don't but when we get to our speculation to our
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suspects and to our theories portion I'm gonna I'm gonna have some comments on and thoughts on that those actions that
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that we know did take place well we know you're never short of comments so police
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are saying that she's shot twice manual strangulation at the time again they won't say what room inside the home that
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the body was found they will not comment on the condition of the body the caliber
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of gun that was used or what was used to strangle her and would not comment on possible suspects they did say that
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police recovered some of Charlotte's personal items at the residence and did not know if anything was missing at this
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time they did say that they set up a command post at a nearby driveway they line the streets of the neighborhood
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with cop cars blocked off a two-block area of the neighborhood searched the neighborhood especially all wooded areas
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near the home maintained that post until late in the afternoon and recovered no weapon
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the state police captain Theodore kohuth said police do not have a motive for the
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murder now this is this is all very interesting here to me Captain because not only are they keeping it
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tight-lipped but what we do know what we can decipher from what they are saying is that
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they recovered no weapon so one we know that they were searching the area they're very likely were searching
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for the gun itself wondering if maybe somebody ditched the gun tossed the gun on their way out of the neighborhood or
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if the killer lives in the neighborhood on a retreat back to their own residence
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and there's two weapons that we're looking for or law enforcement is looking for one a gun and two
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some object that would be used for this triangulation and we always talk so much here in the
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garage about transfer Theory and transfer Theory to me it's not a theory it's a real thing and it's a very
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investing very great investigative tool transfer theory is the simple thought that a killer likely leaves something at
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a crime scene knowingly or unknowingly and the killer also will take something from the crime scene with him or her
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knowingly or unknowingly this can be any form of physical evidence could be a weapon
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what have you what what's really interesting to me here when we talk about this of course they're going to be
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searching the wooded area for a gun of course they're going to be searching the neighborhood for the gun but as you
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bring up Captain ligature strangulation we know that she was strangled with an item a rope a cord a wire what have you
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this makes me really wonder if that item came from inside the home or they had reason to believe that that item would
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have come from inside of the home one obvious sign of that to police would be if somebody used a phone wire or phone
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cord taken from one of the phones inside the murder house and out of the two weapons being left to me I would think
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it's more likely that you would leave the weapon that was used as a strangulation device because
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that possibly wouldn't have as many ties back to that individual as much like how
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firearm wood yeah especially if that item came from inside the home again they could have recovered that item from
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inside the home and just flat out lie to the newspapers I don't believe that to be the case here and we can go through
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that more when we get to the suspects but again think about this scenario it's it's a vacant home it's sat vacant for
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some time and she is there and I know that we're saying early on that police won't say the firm that she worked for
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won't say that she was there to meet a potential client or if she was meeting somebody she knew or didn't know
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that's all well and good but you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that she's in the business of selling
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homes this home is for sale and we know at least one other person was there with her
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because the killer was there with her so it's not much of a leap early on and later we would in fact learn that that
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was the case that she was there under the ruse of showing the home to a prospective buyer a lot more details to
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the thing one key player in this murder investigation of course is going to be the crime scene the murder house the the
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home that was listed for sale and to me this is what is so intriguing about this
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case this is one of those added elements that you don't get in other murder investigations right the home does not
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belong to the person that was killed there and as far as we can see I don't think
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there's any reason to believe that the home belonged to the person that owned it or the the killer own the home it
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that would seem like a pretty quick fix for law enforcement to solve this case and here we sit 25 more than 25 years
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later with an unsolved case so let's go through that key item here that home and
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what we do know about that home so this house was owned by Gary Peters and he is from my understanding or was
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at the time a successful dentist that lived in a neighboring City or not too terribly far away from where this home
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was uh I don't know why they moved out of the home from everything I could see this is a was a beautiful home but you
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know people people go through separations maybe he wanted to live closer to his practice uh there's any
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number of reasons why this individual or his family would have moved out of the home but obviously if you're in law
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enforcement you have to vet anybody that owns the home correct because one they they would have access to the home into
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the property right and so you're you're looking for a suspect here and you're also going to be going through what you
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find on your victim in her car or inside that residence that she brought with her
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to help lead you to a suspect and we'll get into some of that here in a minute we do know per police they did say we
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did recover some of her belongings inside the residence and we did find her vehicle parked in the driveway out front
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of the home now one thing we need to be very clear here on and we talked about this a
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little bit in the trailer today is this house is very secluded we did talk about
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it being in a neighborhood but it's kind of On The Fringe of that neighborhood and this would be an ideal place for
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many people to live because you at this location in 1997 and if you look up this
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on any map app you will still see this today this home and property offers the feel of like country living secluded
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Retreat country type living but you would have all the amenities of living in a city
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you know you're nearby all of your places to work it would be a short commute to schools or to to work but you
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would also feel like you're kind of out in the middle of nowhere so the properties actually I I seen it listed
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multiple different ways and that is because we talk about the house being vacant
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it had been listed from as far as I could see starting in January of 1997. Charlotte fibiano is killed in this home
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in September of 1997. and the home the listing would typically run in the Sunday newspaper and it would
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give a price and a description and it had run fairly regularly during the months that it was for sale
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and some of the listings would say over three acres well the the closest I get could get to an exact
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specifications on the the dimensions of this property several of the listings say 3.5 acre lot
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and several say 3.6 acre lots so you can tell from that that you have this country feel living but with all
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the amenities of the city the other thing too is the positioning of this property on the road itself as
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we talked about in the trailer you would have to go one would have to go to the dead end
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of Chelsea lane and then from there it splits off into two driveways and both of these driveways are not only lengthy
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but they're leading to large properties so the one of the best listings that I could find it's a little short here but
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um it said that this home had a indoor Jacuzzi or hot tub several fireplaces has a great view again over three acres
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lot it was listed this is another interesting little tidbit here Captain this home was listed with Weichert
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Realtors but it's not listed by Charlotte femiano she's not the listing agent right in 1997 Sharon Adams is the
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listing agent who also works for Weichert Realtors yeah so I don't know a ton about the real estate business or
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being a real estate agent but if you're the listing agent you're responsible obviously for the contracts for staging
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the house if it's going to be staged for the photographs that are taken it be enlisted and the details in which
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it's listed so as far as what Charlotte is doing is mainly she's just going to be showing that to clients yeah so it's
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very common for to have two people both parties represented the the seller is often represented by a realtor unless
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it's a fsbo right for sale by owner or and you also have the buyer who is typically
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represented by a realtor now if you are a first-time homebuyer do not know much about the housing market and you are
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looking for a home and you're thinking well I'll just go It Alone no get a realtor because you as
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the buyer do not pay any commissions to the realtor the seller always pays the commissions
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so you get free advice free advisory uh on your big decision on on making one of
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the biggest purchases of your life so right but what's weird here and and I think a lot of people are going to latch
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onto this rather quickly could we have a scenario where the listing agent gets upset
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with Charlotte for showing her listed property right the the listing agent would get
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100 commission 100 of the commission if the buyer is not represented by a realtor
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it does cut into their money however they don't lose the commission they split the commission with the buying
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with the buyer's realtor so back in 1997 you know commissions have changed over the decades I don't
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know what they would have been in this area in 1997 I'm guessing what was popular
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here in the late 90s was between like a four and six percent commission right so
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if you're splitting that two ways it's it's two each two and a half each three each somewhere in that neighborhood
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so this property as said was listed for approximately eight to nine months before the murder takes place it was
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eventually sold even after the murder I don't recall when but they did drop the price over the course of that time
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period that it sat and did not sell it was originally the first price that I could find listed here Captain was for
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279 thousand dollars and at the time of the murder it was listed at a selling price of 259
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000 now why is that important because again we are talking about people's livelihoods people that are in the
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business of working off of commission and so it is important to know that this at the time in 1997 in this area this is
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considered to be a higher end property to have as a listing also higher end property to be showing
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to a potential buyer yeah I understand that but it's not like you're cutting out their commission completely so it
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just seems like a kind of a weak motive to be looking at the listing agent as a possible suspect and I think that this
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case is rather complicated and I think that the part of the complications involved in this case is
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again going back to the motive motive is Elusive and many of these investigations in fact there's often
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times where a case will go to trial and you will get a conviction and still nobody is certain of what the exact
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motive was here in this case I really believe that if you could figure out the motive then
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you could separate your Prime Suspect from all these other people that are just kind of jamming up your
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investigation right the the listing agent is somebody you should look at why they would have reason to cut somebody
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out but like you said it's not a it's not you don't have to make much of a leap to
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get to the listing agent and to start looking at that person yeah I think it like I said it's a very weak motive and
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you have to look at the owner of the property because they have access so the same goes for the listing agent because
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they have access to the property as well the other thing we should keep in mind as well is that really truly because the
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property is listed with with her real estate firm anybody that works for that real estate firm would
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have access to that home right into that property now we do know that you know today often you will see the lock boxes
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on the the doors that will you punch in a code and every realtor has a very specific unique code to get that key out
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and unlock the the home in this case from my understanding I don't know if there was a lock box but
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what I do know is that at the real estate office where they worked there was a key there
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and this is interesting so this is how we're going to we got to start filling in some of the blanks here because
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there's some really interesting phone calls that take place and it would take a very long time for police to release
00:37:07
this information and in fact some of the information ends up coming out from her
00:37:12
real estate office so at the time there's approximately a little more than 50 people that work at this office it's
00:37:20
located about five and a half to six miles away from the listed property what they did back then and I'm sure this is
00:37:29
fairly common in different lines of work where you're primarily paid in commissions
00:37:36
what they did was they would have a rotation where you would get the you would be the
00:37:42
person that would be assigned the cold calls right so what this is is calls that would come in or people that would
00:37:49
potential clients that would drop into the the building unannounced with no appointment scheduled
00:37:56
and from my understanding Captain they actually had two agents that would do this task for a one for
00:38:03
one week period to many that have never worked in in a line of work where you're
00:38:08
paid solely on commission you would think oh well this is annoying busy work who would want to do that you'd want to
00:38:14
keep all of your appointments well I think that's why they would assign two agents so that if you did have some
00:38:20
appointments you could keep them and make arrangements with the other agents so that there was always somebody to
00:38:25
answer the phone and also really somebody to greet any walk-ins that they may have and in fact if you work on
00:38:32
commissions you you want to catch this task periodically because this is an opportunity for you to get new clients
00:38:41
by them just calling in or just walking into the office so for my understanding Captain
00:38:47
Charlotte and another agent were put on this task for that week now remember we know the murder takes
00:38:55
place on a Thursday and the bodies found on a Friday it's been reported that the appointment if
00:39:04
you want to let's call it an appointment but it's kind of a happened it's kind of a last minute appointment
00:39:09
right she catches this appointment by answering the phone that week so she's answering the phone for the office
00:39:16
that week a call comes in the day before the murder and I hate I'm gonna I'm gonna be straight up with everybody
00:39:24
right now because I think there's some devil in the details here and the problem is the details are a little
00:39:31
shaky right and part of that is because police have not released information and
00:39:36
still haven't all these years later the the details that are shaky is that one it seems across the board everybody
00:39:44
agrees that the call came in the day before somebody called and said hey I want to see this property I could be
00:39:51
there tomorrow at 1pm that's the way that it's reported most of the time we're going to dive into that a little
00:39:58
bit more but let's stick with that for now okay Wednesday Charlotte receives a cold call
00:40:05
she writes down this individual's name writes down the property and agrees to meet them there at 1 pm on Thursday okay
00:40:13
I have a question yes sir so when she is getting this call is this coming into her own private line or like a line
00:40:24
that's dedicated towards her or is it just coming in to the real estate company and she's just happened to be
00:40:31
the one that answered the phone all indicators are was that this was not a call that where somebody asked for
00:40:38
Charlotte femiano or that somebody was calling her direct line every every Source says that she was
00:40:46
working these cold calls along with another agent and that's how this appointment was set up
00:40:53
yeah because if you want to Target Charlotte right I'd go well what listings does Charlotte have I'll
00:41:01
set up a appointment to see one of those houses so I can make sure I'm getting my
00:41:09
target I think there's evidence to show that that possibly the person didn't care who showed up to show them the
00:41:17
house right and here here's the other problem with this information okay this I believe this information to be good
00:41:23
information the problem is it's not detailed enough again the devil is always in the details right
00:41:29
the information is that she catches this cold call that comes in and she agrees to meet an
00:41:36
individual the following day at 1 pm out at this property and the thing here though is when you
00:41:43
start looking at source information the sources report this differently several sources state that the caller a
00:41:53
male caller called asking to see a secluded vacant property now we don't know the details of that conversation
00:42:03
and I don't believe for a second that that conversation was one or two sentences long I think this was probably
00:42:10
a lengthier conversation because a good salesperson and which what do we know about Charlotte she was a great
00:42:16
salesperson is going to try to get as much information from the potential buyer their potential client as possible and
00:42:25
so we don't know the details of that conversation but again several sources are saying that the male caller asked to
00:42:33
see a vacant secluded property okay so some of them crazy doesn't seem to me that this killer
00:42:44
choosing his victim but he's choosing the location the location seems to be more important
00:42:51
while that could also go along with the other the other source information the other source information is very
00:42:58
different to me it says that the mail caller was asking specifically about this property right 2147
00:43:07
Chelsea Lane but to me Captain those are two very different conversations right if if somebody calls and says I want to
00:43:16
look at 2147 Chelsea Lane that means they are aware of a couple things they're aware of the property
00:43:25
and they're aware that it's for sale and in this case we now know that there's a
00:43:31
murder there then they also knew that it was vacant now this doesn't mean that anybody has
00:43:36
to have a great knowledge of this real estate company their firm in their listings I mean they could have just
00:43:43
seen this property in the newspaper on a Sunday and decided to drive out there and go yeah that that the paper says
00:43:49
it's vacant and that looks pretty secluded right so it could be a complete stranger and you're right it could be
00:43:57
somebody that's not targeting Charlotte at all just targeting female realtor but the problem here is
00:44:04
again the other source information saying that the mail caller asked to see a vacant
00:44:10
secluded property which sounds very nefarious right it sounds like why wouldn't Charlotte pick up on oh this is
00:44:19
probably not a great appointment to take I have a male caller who wants to see a
00:44:24
vacant secluded property it's the conversation the the caller likely would never have
00:44:31
called up and said yo I want to see a vacant empty secluded property that probably had a conversation where the
00:44:38
the it's a ruse where the caller says you know I'm looking for something that's kind of out of the way I don't like to
00:44:44
be in a busy neighborhood um I also want something that I can move into right away also means vacant right
00:44:51
right um so that that seems like a much less nefarious conversation again I don't have any I don't fault any
00:45:00
of this Source material because a lot of it's coming from newspapers and and very
00:45:06
good newspapers at that but it's reported two different ways and I think that to me anyway I think that that separates
00:45:14
some of the theories and some of the possibilities in the case if perpetrator was calling specifically about a
00:45:21
property and giving the address versus oh this is what I'm kind of looking for and she she would have pointed out she
00:45:30
would have known about this property it's listed with her firm right she may have suggested it
00:45:37
so that's a little bit tricky so we have that phone call that takes place everything says that that phone call
00:45:44
takes place on Wednesday we don't know what details police were able to decipher from the notes that she took
00:45:52
from that phone call other than they have said that they did have a name in her appointment book
00:46:02
and it sounds to me like they've confirmed that that is a fictitious name now that's Wednesday
00:46:12
so Thursday she goes out and shows the property and again the appointment is for 1pm this is information that has
00:46:19
come from the real estate firm and I believe later police have confirmed this but I I want to get into
00:46:25
why I have a problem with the timeline too especially on this Thursday now some more details here captain that
00:46:32
are are very interesting Christian femiano and his wife Charlotte femiano obviously they live together but
00:46:43
remember the daughter lives there as well Christy lives there and from my understanding at this point
00:46:49
starting in August of that year her boyfriend lives with them Christy is a senior in
00:46:57
college so she's grown Christian works at not so typical work schedule he works 10 hour days around six or
00:47:09
seven pm on Thursday the day in question Christy the daughter calls her stepfather Christian at work
00:47:17
and says you know it's 6 30 at 7 p.m mom's not home yet this is a little weird usually she's home by now and from
00:47:26
my understanding while this woman stayed very busy with her work and she was an extreme professional and extremely good
00:47:32
at her sales job she was also very much a creature of habit once her work day was done she was
00:47:39
an at-home person she was a home buyer yeah you can work hard and play hard and you can also not play hard and just
00:47:46
sit at home yeah but the playing hard could be uh work hard relax hard that's right so Christian says to Christy on
00:47:55
the phone you know I understand your concern but also keep in mind when when you work in
00:48:01
the sales business if you want to be really good at it your schedule is whatever your client's
00:48:08
schedule is if a potential buyer can only go and look at a home at 7 pm on a Thursday
00:48:15
well if you want to be successful you better take that 7 P.M appointment and Christian and Charlotte have been
00:48:23
together for well over a decade I think they got married in in the early 80s like 80 81
00:48:30
and so this is 1997. he says to Chrissy you know she's probably just out on a late appointment
00:48:37
showing a house to potential buyer or maybe she's taking a listing I'm sure it's nothing and I'm sure she'll be home
00:48:44
soon okay so that phone call ends Christian gets home from work after a little after 11 30. this is why the
00:48:52
missing persons report comes in so late he gets home and his stepdaughter Christy's like she's still not here okay
00:48:59
now Christian's concerned so he calls into police just before midnight shortly after arriving home hey my wife is
00:49:06
missing and an interesting thing too about this line of work Realtors are not like
00:49:13
completely unknown in their towns right you you're used to sometimes you'll see their their face
00:49:20
and name on their listings on the signs in front of the properties and it's not uncommon too to see their names and
00:49:27
faces on billboards yeah or in the newspaper in the newspaper exactly so yeah yeah or on urinal cakes my favorite
00:49:34
we have this person who's now missing she's Officially Missing reported missing so by her family
00:49:41
I found this detail to be very strange because you know that I love the anytime that there's a communication from a
00:49:48
killer or Anonymous person to the media or to law enforcement remember it's reported that an anonymous call comes in
00:49:55
to 9-1-1 on Friday morning that leads them to that property where they ultimately find her car and then her
00:50:03
body that call actually while it's listed as Anonymous in the newspapers I think they
00:50:10
may have done this for safety concerns that 9-1-1 call actually came from her husband
00:50:16
so what he does Captain is very early Friday morning he starts calling her office and other people that she worked
00:50:23
with and he's like look she didn't come home last night I reported her missing we think that this might be work related
00:50:33
and whoever gets the office rather early they're able to determine a couple things
00:50:40
one that the key for 2147 Chelsea Lane is still gone from their keyboard and two
00:50:49
it was Charlotte femiano that was scheduled to show that property I have a question do you know if there was other
00:50:56
properties that were pulled to show this individual or was it just this house because sometimes when you're looking
00:51:04
for a house the real estate agent will take you to multiple properties from my understanding this was the only property
00:51:10
that she was showing to this caller so police armed with this information they now drive out to that property and
00:51:19
immediately again they find her vehicle then they find her dead inside those all
00:51:24
those phone calls are very important it shows some movement and communication and an appointment set up by the likely
00:51:33
killer right the the person that called and set up the appointment doesn't 100 have to be the killer but would seem to
00:51:40
be the most likely of persons to be responsible for the murder [Music] [Music] I want to thank each and every one of
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you for joining us here in the garage and until tomorrow be good be kind and don't litter
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