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grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] [Music] the brannigans were not rich
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but they certainly were comfortable and happy Richard branigan's job as a sales representative for a cement company
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based out of New Jersey provided well for his family they were able to buy a house in an
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exclusive section of Bethlehem Pennsylvania house on Pine Top Trail was in a secluded wooded area
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the driveway allowed for privacy the house came with all the benefits of suburban life in the 1970s
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quality schools quality friends and the safety of a well-to-do group of Neighbors
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the Brannigan family was a typical 1960s family Peg and Richard had two children Sean
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and his little sister Holly and Peg was a stay-at-home mom but life can change on a dime
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and it did for the brannigans when Peg was diagnosed with leukemia she fought hard but ended up losing her
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battle in November of 1976. throughout her illness the family Dynamic changed at 14 Holly started to take over the
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role of the Homemaker she did her best to keep the family unit moving through everyday life as her
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mother Slipped Away this role she assumed without complaint and the three of them had pulled
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together to keep moving forward three years after Peg passed the children had grown it was 1979. Sean was
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a freshman at Lehigh University but Holly was a junior at Freedom High School Sean was interested in cars and he
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worked at renters service station in Hanover Township this was a Mobile gas station that also
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serviced vehicles Holly grew into a respectful quiet teen she was an average student and saying
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Alto in the Senior Choir at school she was also the manager of the boys school soccer team
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Holly did work a summer job at the local Holiday Inn as a server but had recently
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left the job for part-time work at the mall her plans after high school were to attend Penn State University
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with their dad traveling most of the week for work the Brannigan children became very independent
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they didn't have the typical parental supervision Holly and Sean both lived their own
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lives they looked out for each other but each had their own group of friends and
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habits this never was an issue until March 28 1979. yeah foreign [Music] on Wednesday March 28 1979 17 year old
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Holly Branigan attended school and took the bus home as usual she entered her house and proceeded on with her day just
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like any other this meant calling her friends and talking on the phone at length that day at school Holly had made
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plans with friends to go out for pizza she was going to be picked up at her house at 6 pm
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Holly was on the phone in her bedroom with one of her friends when at 4 40 PM she told her friend that someone was at
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the door Holly placed the phone on her bed and went to answer the door the friend would wait a few minutes
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listening to the radio playing in the background a couple of minutes later Holly picked up the phone in the kitchen
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and informed her friend that someone was there and she would have to end the call
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at 4 45 PM Holly called her father's office and asked his secretary B if her father had already left for his business
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trip B told her he had indeed left the office and was on his way to Atlantic City
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at 5 PM Holly's friend calls her back side note here there there are two versions of this and it may be important
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we can evaluate that later but some reports state that the phone rang but no one answered the phone other Reports say
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that the friend heard a busy signal at 6 PM one of Holly's other friends this is her friend Sally arrives to pick
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her up to go for pizza the friend knocks on the front door and is greeted by the
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family dog the dog's name is Clancy and the dog of course is barking because Somebody's knocking on the door her
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friend knocks again but once again nobody answers the friend assumes Holly is either in
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the shower running late for their plans or maybe she has changed her plans and was already out of the house so her
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friend decides to walk around to the side of the house to a staircase that leads to the kitchen sliding glass door
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she stops at the base of the stairs when she quote had a bad feeling end quote her feeling caused her not to ascend the
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stairs at the same time as Holly was home after school Sean her brother was at his friend's
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house his friend's name is Mark Viola yeah Mark was 18 and Mark lived with his parents at the time when Mark's mother
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made dinner that night she asked Sean if he would like to stay for dinner and this was an offer that that happened
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regularly and Sean never turned down this offer you know you know how it goes when you're at a buddy's house and
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you're a teenager 18 19 and his mom's cooking dinner you stick around right you stick around for a couple hours well
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and his his mom just passed away also and so then you know I grew up living with my father so if anybody offered me
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food I took it because he didn't have the mom at home cooking the good meal the weird thing here Captain is not only
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has his mother passed away but on this night his father would be out of town traveling for work which was not an
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uncommon occurrence and then he has his younger sister who's at home but the vibe that I get from this situation is
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it wouldn't be be terribly uncommon for Holly even being a minor to stay home by
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herself yeah but I think once you get into you know late middle school high school
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it's pretty common that you're left home alone well the the two young men uh Holly's
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brother Sean and his friend Mark at Mark's house they were working on a vehicle and even after dinner they
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decided hey look things are going good on this project let's just stay and finish up this project
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so let's after dinner let's get back to working on the car now Sean knew that this would run very late into the night
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and he would probably be spending the night at Mark's home yeah so he's gonna call home to tell his sister that he's
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spending the night at his buddy's house he's going to get the Busy Signal though
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he won't actually speak with Holly and from my understanding he tries to call several times that night to let her know
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but keep in mind his sister that he's trying to reach she's a junior in high school and one thing we do know about
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her typical day is that she spent the evenings on the phone right so calling home getting the busy signal it's not
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going to set off any red flags for Sean because he's at his friend's house he's calling home trying to reach his sister
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one could assume that she would be on the phone that night just going about her normal business well the following
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day the next morning on March 29th one of Holly's friends arrives at the house to pick her up for school the friend
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knocks on the door but the only answer she gets is the dog her friend knocks again and leaves for
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school without any contact from Holly now her brother Sean arrived home in the morning and found Holly's lifeless body
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lying on the kitchen floor near the sliding glass door she was lying in a dried pool of blood
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with a blade of a 10 inch kitchen knife sticking out of her right side of her back the handle to the murder weapon was
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lying on the floor near Holly the handle had snapped and broke off Sean sees the
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kitchen phone is off the hook and a clock is broken and on the floor the hands of the clock had stopped and
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remained at 5 20. Sean leaves the house and calls the police and then calls his father's office the office calls Richard
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and he returns home immediately the police arrive and they start to process the scene this police force
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unfortunately has very little experience in Murder investigations they fail to tape off the house in the
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yard instead of limiting access to the scene they let several people enter and leave the house they do process the
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scene as best as they know how they collected fingerprints and took many photographs the handle to the knife was
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collected on further examination it was determined that the handle had been wiped cleaned it contained no prints
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there was talk of a bloody towel being recovered from the scene but no evidence of that exist to this day
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there was no sign of anything missing from the house Holly's body was taken to the corner and
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it was determined that she had 18 wounds mostly to the back out of the 18 wounds
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15 would have been fatal stab wounds three were less serious wounds and Holly had a couple of defensive wounds on her
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hands so let's talk about what that could mean here Captain we see that we have 18 wounds 15 of them were fatal
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stab wounds that's a serious that means any one of these 15 stab wounds would have killed her
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and we talked about the weapon being a 10-inch kitchen knife so this is something that most likely might have
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been grabbed In the Heat of the Moment and she's stabbed repeatedly well wouldn't we know this I mean when we
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know if the knife came from inside the house or if it came from outside the house yes it came from the Brannigan's
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home it belonged to the brannigans and so we have this situation here where most of the wounds are to her back
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she had very few defensive wounds there's a chance that whoever decided to attack her and for whatever reason
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waited until her back was turned and then they went after her and she would have died very quickly during this
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attack and then she's left on the floor let's just go over this a little bit more so
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she's on the phone with one of her friends and she puts down the phone says hey there's somebody at the door so she puts
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the phone down right so we don't know if her friend on the phone if she heard dog
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barking or not right right her friend heard a radio so when when Holly put the phone down
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the radio was playing either in the house or inside Holly's room at that time she was on the phone in her room
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right okay so when she put the phone down her friend could hear the music that was playing on the radio so she
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could in the background right she never I couldn't find any reports of her saying that she heard the dog barking
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um looking at the layout of the house there could have been a decent amount of distance between Holly's room and the
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front door yeah and so with the radio being on even you know I have a couple dogs and they bark regardless they bark
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whether it's somebody they know or somebody they don't know if somebody knocks on the door so
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given the distance between her room and the front door and the added fact that the radio's on that could have drowned
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out the noise of the dog I would assume the dog was barking at that time so then
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she goes and answers the door Holly goes and answers the door correct she then gets back on the phone in the kitchen
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not immediately not immediately yes some time passes a few minutes several minutes pass and
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then she it's believed that she picked up the phone in the kitchen and says to her friend hey
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um somebody's here I'll have to call you back it almost seems like Holly doesn't
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know this individual because if it was somebody that was common to her and her friend she would say Hey you know Jake
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is here well that's that's the tricky thing and uh that is what the investigators were hoping to find out
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now the weird thing here though is think about that sequence of events so she puts down the phone goes and answers the
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door and her friend remains on the phone for several minutes before Holly returns
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to the phone regardless if it's the phone in her bedroom or in the kitchen regardless of what phone several minutes
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pass right before Holly then says hey I'm going to have to call you back somebody's here what that tells me is
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two things when she answered the door can can we can we agree that there's a chance if it was somebody she didn't
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know she might not answer the door I'm not saying it's 100 but there could be a small chance that hey I don't recognize
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this person I'm home alone I'm just not going to answer the door right that's a possibility that's a possibility so I
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think that that links to the point of either she knew the person or at least the person seemed to be non-threatening
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there was no obvious signs of a threat she willingly opens up the door engages in some kind of conversation with this
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individual to the point of this person may have been unexpected I think it was somebody that was either expected or
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somebody that she knew very well she might know immediately hey I'm going to talk to this person or welcome them in
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and then tell her friend almost immediately hey so-and-so's here I'm gonna have to call you back right but
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what happens instead is several minutes pass it's almost like when she answered the door and saw this person and then
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engaged in conversation with them she did not know from the get go that this was going to turn into a longer
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conversation a longer visit than expect and then so there's two things one she doesn't know this individual so that's
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why she's telling her friend someone quote unquote someone or she knows this individual it's uh maybe a guy that
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she's seeing on the side and that she's not telling her friends about because that happens and so when she goes to
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tell her friend hey I mean she could have been sitting there at the door flirting with this guy we don't know and
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she gets back on the phone and tells her friend uh somebody's here because I can't tell you who is here
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so either or in my mind the tricky thing becomes then she hangs up the phone and
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she calls her father's work to find out if he's left on his trip yet right so one it could be
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junior in high school has a guy come over wants to make sure her father left you know on his trip and so we can sit
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here and hang out have the house to ourselves worst case scenario my brother comes home but that's not a big deal
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right right or it's I want to see if my father left because this guy's asking about my
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father or I need to speak to my father for some reason I lean towards the point towards the side of she was looking to
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speak with her father with knowing how often he traveled for work I think that it wouldn't be tough for her to put
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together plans if she had plans of hanging out and doing things maybe that her father wouldn't approve of I don't
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think it would have been very hard in a single parent home with the with a father that's traveling often for work
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right so more to me I feel like this is almost like she needed to get a hold of her father for some reason and this
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reason was unexpected whatever came up came up it just came up and she's trying to get a hold of her father you know
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back in the day well before cell phones you have to call the office to try to get a hold of Dad well here's where it
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gets a little more tricky because did this individual know her father and say hey I'm here to see your father so she
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calls and says hey I'm gonna hey has my dad left yet you know she might not have
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went into details of because there's somebody at the house to see him or did this person not know her father
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and it was just a ruse to get into the house right yeah I mean like hey I'm here to see your father because if I use
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that as a ruse well my father's not here so I mean like um it's kind of like if somebody asks
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you is your parents home you're always supposed to say yes if they called on the phone back in the 80s that was the
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thing like people would call and be like are your parents at home right and you're supposed to say yes even if
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they're not like but they're in the shower or whatever right so but what a great ruse to get inside the house you
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know hey I'm here to see your father right oh well he's not here oh where is he at and that to me that makes a little
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bit of sense because like you said she would know her father's travel Arrangements a little bit since he's
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traveling so much and he's traveling on a school night right but it seems like she almost called the
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office to say hey is he available to talk or is he coming back so again but that's where it becomes
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tricky because it wasn't just a ruse to get in the house or or did this individual actually know her father but
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then you have to question why does the individual want to be in the house in the first place
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regardless of if they use a ruse or if or if it was known to Holly who this person was right because we have the
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coroner who would later determine that there was no signs of sexual assault they also claim that there might have
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been some material under her fingernails so her nails were clipped and preserved
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I question If that had anything to do with the actual crime itself was seeing so many of the wounds to her back
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and very few what we would call defensive wounds I almost wonder if there was really no defense put up at
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all it seems like this perpetrator did not bring a weapon with them right gets in the house at some point grabs a knife
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starts stabbing our why she's back facing him um and then like you said it's so vicious I mean 15 stab wounds that are
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fatal I mean that seems um like there's some rage yes this is a strong angry person that
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did this this is a strong angry person so yeah keep that in mind that's what I think we're dealing with here we I think
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we're dealing with somebody that that might have been welcomed into the home for some reason that showed up to the
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house with didn't intend to kill her because they or maybe they did well they they could have but not bringing a
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murder weapon to a murder scene usually suggests that they weren't planning to kill the internet but if you knew this
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family pretty well and that you knew that she was going to be home alone uh father is going to be out on a trip all
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I have to do is get into the house and get to the kitchen again no signs of sexual assault and the thought is that
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nothing had been stolen from the house foreign [Music] cheers me mateys cheers Captain alright
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so I have a couple questions so at 4 40 she's talking to her friend she tells the friend hey somebody's at my door at
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4 45 according to the secretary Holly then calls her father's work to see if he's left yet on the business
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trip then we have this broken clock at 5 20. correct so maybe their clock is a little off some people's clocks are a
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little off in their house but let's assume that is correct or or even roughly correct if it's within a few
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minutes it's still helpful right so we can assume that the attack probably happened around that point correct that
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so talking with somebody last week about this case I did throw this out there and
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I know it's not a very high probability but I did throw this out there just for my own personal experience I told him I
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said you know uh at any given point in my life it's very likely that I had one Broken Clock
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hanging on a wall somewhere in my house I just do like they quit running I never
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look at them for actual time and they're more there for decoration the battery goes out at some point and it stops
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running until I change it months and months and months later correct so that we're not ignoring that as a very small
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slight possibility that it was just a clock that happened not to work that it's said 520 all the time right
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um that yeah but that but the likelihood seems very incredibly slim because here's the deal I think what we can
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assume here is that with her being found dead inside the home yeah I think we can
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assume that she's already dead by 6 pm because of the friend coming to visit I I think that there's no evidence to
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suggest anything otherwise right we have we have her on the phone we know she's alive at approximately 4 40 p.m if the
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secretary's timing is right and I I tend to believe secretaries when they give quotes on time why because think about
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the typical setup at an office you're stationed at a desk your phone your secretary phone is on your secretary's
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desk there's almost always a clock in the room and sometimes you're trained to you know when I used to answer the phone
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for my boss one of the things he wanted to know about what time the person called right you know that was included
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in my little note to him so um I tend to believe that the secretary's time is fairly accurate so
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we know that Holly is alive at 4 45 p.m we know at 6 PM approximately 6 p.m when
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her friend shows up the door is not answered she knocks several times so I think it's only likely to assume assume
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that she may have been lying dead in the house at 6 pm and that clock somehow was
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broke in the altercation that took place between Holly and the offender okay those were some of my bonehead questions
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so how about you lead us down the initial investigation not bonehead questions at all Captain because the I
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will tell you what my questions are the time the time frame on this is very important I think and so will the
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investigators so after the police are finished up at the house and everything's been cleaned up Richard and
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Sean moved back into the home the police begin their investigation interviewing the friends who had last contact with
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Holly the friend who was on the phone was interviewed but could not recall any details out of the ordinary she states
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that it was just an unremarkable conversation between two teenage girls when asked about the exact times of the
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call and when Holly left to answer the door the girl was not too sure about any of these times
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the police then interviewed the friend who stopped by around 6 pm to pick up Holly to go for pizza both girls could
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not provide any information for the police to start their investigation with no leads from either of these the ear
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witness or the person that stopped by the house we will Circle back to this Captain I assure you of that
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so the police then decide to widen their investigation Sean Holly's brother and his friend Mark well they fall under
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suspicion but very quickly their Alibi checks out and was confirmed also not only their Alibis but
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one it's weird that you'd ring the door and you can kind of roll out the father because why would the father show up she
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talks to the father then calls her father's work unless the father was like makes her call
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right to set up an alibi but it just doesn't seem you know I mean and and if it and if your father
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did show up you'd tell your friend on the phone hey my father's here I gotta go what was really weird about this
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though this is supposed to be a tight-knit safe community there didn't seem to be a whole lot of
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people that were willing to help the investigation along so her high school friends the friends of Holly that were
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under the age of 18. their parents kind of stepped in and wouldn't allow them to
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be interviewed or answer questions from the police the high school friends that were over the age of 18
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a lot of times attorneys were hired and they refused to be interviewed as well that's Cheney very shady so the police
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now hit a serious dead end not much evidence at the scene no fingerprints and no one to interview to provide any
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leads so the police decide to request the help of the amazing creskin George Kreskin is a mentalist he is
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known for hypnotizing people to pull details from their memory that they could not do with normal recall in this
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case he hypnotized the friend who was on the phone with Holly when the murderer or when someone had arrived at the door
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he was able to hypnotize her and have her identify the songs that were playing in the background while Holly went and
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answered the door they then took this information to the local radio station and they were able
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to determine the exact time that Holly answered the door this is back in the day when there's actually DJs probably
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picking the song and playing the song right that's probably not pre-programmed computer stuff back in back in that day
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yeah so let's see here let's say she was on hold for two or three minutes maybe maybe four so I'm guessing the way
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that they're determining this is the sequence of the songs that she heard like okay you I heard this this and then
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maybe the start of this song and they take it to the station they say well that occurred around 4 40 p.m on that
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Wednesday which is very interesting and it's actually a very creative way to try
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to get this time frame because the way we're reporting this Captain it it's not so much a mystery to you and I because
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we know the facts later afterwards right the initial investigations they gave us
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the facts yeah but the initial investigation the what they get from that person on the phone yeah they don't
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have any times they have no times to go off of it was sometime in the afternoon I think she originally told the police
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that it was sometime between four and five PM that they were on the phone and that's as much as they had right so they
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were able to really narrow this down instead of having a 60 Minute window or even a little more beyond that they're
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really able to nail this down to hey at about 4 40 p.m is when somebody knocked on the door so very key piece of
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information to know what time that phone call took place and what time it is believed that somebody had arrived at
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the door the other thing here too Captain the investigation what they're working with is they're seeing a scene
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where somebody took the time to clean scene somebody took the time to wipe fingerprints off of the handle of the
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knife and off of other locations in the house so police start working with a theory here that there was a very good
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chance that at six o'clock when Sally arrived to pick Holly up for pizza that either the murderer was still on the
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scene or had just left and was in the immediate area right this is why when she had that gut feeling that something
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was wrong Sally may have saved herself from an encounter with the murderer now with no leads the investigation stalls
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and Sean her brother started spreading rumors on May 10 1980 the mayor of Bethlehem Pennsylvania declared it Holly
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Brannigan reward fun day they set up a hotline for donations in holley's high school performed a play with the
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proceeds going to the reward fund they collected over five thousand dollars the lack of progress in the
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investigation really upset her brother Sean he started to spread a rumor that he and the police knew who had killed
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Holly yeah it's not a bad tactic well and he also starts telling people that not only only do they know who did it
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but the police were getting ready to make an arrest yeah his father Richard warned him that this kind of talk might
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upset the murderer and make Sean a possible Target uh Sean didn't seem to care he continued
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to spread these rumors to everyone that was willing to listen that's a kind of a
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weird thing for the father to say well I don't think so I think he's been a victim once he's worried about something
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could happen to his son right so Sean is a sophomore at college and on September
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9 1979 there was an explosion at the Renner service station where he worked at 9 30 a.m as part of a regular cleanup
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routine Sean and his friend Mark were scrubbing the floor with two cups of gasoline to loosen the grease off of the
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floor the boys were scrubbing prior to using a power washer to wash away the grime Mark walked out as a customer had
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pulled up to get gasoline the doors to this area were shut when the explosion occurred inside the service station with
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Sean still inside Mark ran to the doors but the Flames were too great for him to
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enter he went around to the side and he found Sean climbing out of the window Sean was still on fire and had been
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burned over most of his body Mark put out the flames and comforted Sean until medical help could arrive
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Sean begged Mark not to leave him during this time the ambulance arrived and transported Sean to the hospital he was
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unable to talk but the police wanted to interview Sean about his sister's murder
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in case he had a deathbed confession to give they asked Sean yes and no questions
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that he responded to by moving his head he was asked if he had killed Holly or if he knew who killed Holly he signaled
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no to both questions Sean would die from his injuries the following day now Richard his father had lost his whole
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entire family right an investigation into Sean's accident was conducted by the State Fire Marshal it was concluded
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that the power washer had a faulty switch which caused an electrical Arc to ignite the gasoline fumes
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Richard would go to his grave believing that Sean was murdered by someone involved in Holly's death he believed
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the rumor Sean was spreading made the murderer frightened enough to kill Sean this belief was deepened in Richard's
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mind when the owner of the power washer was found dead under suspicious circumstances six years after Sean's
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death there's a lot to unpack here yes so they're working at the service station
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they they claim that the there's a faulty switch and the electricity that would go through the faulty switch that
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sparked and ignited the gasoline that would be all over the floor and all over the shop right and so then this guy ends
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up dead the guy that owned the power washer correct okay how did he die well let's go through that real quick and
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then we can we can Circle back yeah this is there's a lot of death here okay so the power washer that caused the
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explosion that killed Sean was borrowed from a restaurant from a business a few doors down from the renter's service
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station the owner of this place and it's called The King Chef lent the power washer to rent her service station on
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August 12 1985 Tony Soriano the owner of the King Chef Restaurant was found dead
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in his car two people on their way to go fish fishing past his car which was still running and discovered his body on
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the initial exam there was trauma to the back of Soriano's head this led people to believe that he was murdered but
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during the autopsy it was discovered that Mr Soriano had strychnine in his system and after this discovery the
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coroner ruled his death a suicide adding to the rumors of explain strychnine so it's it's it's it's highly poisonous
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okay if you take it you're going to die okay don't ever take that so strychnine don't take it right so but this is just
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one of these weird things here I think this is a weird coincidence it was his death was ruled a suicide okay and
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Sean's death was ruled an accident these both both these incidents were looked into they were looked into and they were
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ruled by people that that are paid to do so they have experience in this area it's it's not like both deaths are are
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labeled undetermined all these years later and I spoke with a uh a firefighter regarding the the Sean
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accident and you know there's not we don't have official documents to review but what we could find we reviewed
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together and he said look I used to I used to do these types of Investigations there's no reason to
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believe that this story isn't correct there's nothing that points out that this is not correct that's very likely I
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mean that's one of the reasons why they'd say I mean you can have static electricity off your clothes could start
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a huge fire in a gas station or your cell phone usage can start a fire so a faulty switch on a power washer
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uh definitely could start a fire well and I tell you what we you know we have so so much experience with gas and we
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use it daily I think that a lot of people take take it for granted how dangerous and how flammable some people
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yes can be yeah some people have more gas than others well the thing is though I think people forget how explosive gas
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can be given the right circumstances and if this is exactly how it went down the
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way we just told this it seems almost like I mean forgive me for saying so you're
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playing with fire here right well also if you're cleaning and you know they said he's inside the service station
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they're using gasoline to be cleaning things inside the service station then you're also having all those fumes
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that they're not going anywhere right those places weren't properly ventilated back in the day no and I would guess
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that that normal protocol and procedure would be when cleaning with gas to open up and vent out the place they may have
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simply just turned on this power washer too quickly thus causing some kind of spark that ignites into this explosion
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so if you have a faulty power washer or a faulty engine or any piece of electrical part of that of that power
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washer is faulty right you could get a spark that in a closed environment filled with gas fumes would in fact
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create some type of explosion now when Sean was hanging out with Mark is this his buddy Mark that he spent the night
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with correct correct I mean it's kind of odd that he's hanging out with Mark the
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day his sister has murdered and then he's hanging out with Mark yeah he dies no I agree with that it's it seems like
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hey a little odd two coincidences in one unless you're hanging out with this guy
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every day anyways right then it appears that they work together that they worked
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on vehicles together we also have witness statements of of Sean saying that Mark he wanted Mark by his side
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when as he was dying it was one of those situations man his injuries were so bad
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they knew he was going to die they knew when we take him to the hospital he's not going to recover from this it's only
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a matter of time so Holly and Sean's mother passes away with cancer Holly is then murdered inside their home
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Sean then dies and what we think is an accident it's almost as if like their father or something made a
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deal with the Devil and that the devil's coming back to collect well that's the first thing that
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jumps off the page to you when you look at this case there's so much death there's so much
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tragedy surrounding Richard Branigan and you know I hate to say this because my initial suspicions
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they went toward Richard Branigan right just because it seemed to me that this just seems like too much but here's the
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thing we do know that his wife died from cancer I can't give you cancer I can't make you get cancer I can't make you die
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of cancer that's just that's just something that happened that's just something that happened and
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unfortunately in our lives nowadays we know it happens to have somebody we know somebody we love it happens in every
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family it's just an unfortunate terrible thing so that we need to ignore that that
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can't be part of the coincidence for us the other thing that we need to keep in mind here though too is her father from
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nothing that I could find was ever a suspect in her murder or in the investigation the
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investigation never seemed to lean that way that tells me a few things just like her brother Sean who had an
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airtight Alibi right you know we don't have to use our imagination too much to come up with an airtight Alibi for Sean
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Sean's actually received more suspicion over the years than his father Richard but see Sean we know was at his friend's
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house and we know that they stayed there that night and we know that the friends
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still lived with at least his mother if not both parents so Sean more than likely has multiple Alibis for the time
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of his sister's death as far as the father goes I'm going out on a limb here captain and
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I'm making the assumption that he has an alibi as well and I'm doing that based off of just that he was never listed as
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a suspect he was never discussed as a suspect where we even have Sean publicly being discussed as a suspect at some
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point well we do have a record of her calling her father's office at 4 45 and asking if the father's there and the
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father is gone on business so you would think that whether he's driving a car he
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would have had to have some Rental receipt or if he's flying on a plane he would have the airline ticket so those
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could be your airtight Alibis well he's going to have as you said receipts this could include gas receipts this also
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could include checking into a hotel somewhere and they could be able to easily verify that hey if if the
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secretary says he left at this time we have this gas receipt from here and he checks into the hotel at this time then
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there's very likely little possibility that he could have had the time to go out of his way return to his home attack
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and kill his daughter and then continue on his trip sometimes it's just an impossibility there's just
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not enough time and I think in all fairness we need to add in here that Holly's Father Richard never stopped
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searching for her killer it was not one of these parents that just disappeared moved off to another city went about his
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business as though nothing happened this man was severely affected by the loss of
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his whole family he was severely affected by the loss of his wife by his daughter and by his son and the man
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continued to live in that home in the home that Holly was murdered in until he was very late in age
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