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talk some true crime [Music] Monday December 21st 1992 the start of a new week not just any week but the work
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week leading up to Christmas inside Christy Merrick's sixth grade classroom her students awaited her arrival now she
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was the type of teacher that would bring gifts to make the Christmas special for
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them unfortunately she would never make it out of her front door someone brutally attacked this young woman and
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left her lifeless body inside her townhouse police were notified and arrived on the
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scene very quickly the scene was processed evidence was collected and the investigation started The Usual Suspects
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were all interviewed and All Leads were followed but all were dead ends as said in the first episode what we found in
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the reports it looks like initially three men were considered to be suspects by the police but of those three the
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fact is all three of the investigators initial suspects were absolved because they were tested and in all cases found
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that their DNA did not match the DNA evidence found at the crime scene one very strange thing here that I'm
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sure the community was struggling with at the time of her murder because this was such a safe Community this is an
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area where murders just don't happen that often now I did check back over the last 15 years in the rate of violent
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crime in Lancaster county is higher than the national average but that's all relative because the murder rate is
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quite low right they only average like four or five murders a year in the county in the last 15 years more
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specifically this Township where the murder of Christy Merrick took place the crime rate is quite quite low violent
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crime is almost 46 percent lower than the national average and in 2017 and so far in this year in 2018 the murder rate
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is zero so a strange thing for this community back then a young woman well a girl this is 16 year old Lori show she
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was found murdered inside her home one year and a day before Christy Merrick was discovered murdered in her home
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so Lori's show was found on December 20th 1991 Christy Merrick discovered December 21st 1992 in the same Township
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so forget about County we're talking about the same Township here two young women found one year apart murdered
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inside their homes there was reason there was reason for the the public to think these might be connected and
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sometimes we see this with serial killers where they will kill almost on an anniversary of another killing and
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the strange thing here for the public you know by this time by the time of Christy Merrick's murder they had in
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fact made an arrest in the previous murder the year before in Laurie schwa's case but for the community when when
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there's Doubt cast upon that arrest that's made you have a community that is not used to
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experiencing murder and so when a young woman 25 years of age is found killed in her town home and
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then you go wait this seems familiar oh yeah one year ago this happened to a 16 year old girl and
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she was found murdered inside her home right so this is a very strange thing for this Township this community these
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people to go through now we would later learn because of an arrest made in Lori's Show's case and in later
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convictions that took place that this would not in fact be connected law enforcement did receive a good deal
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of help from the community as far as cooperation and tips that turn to leads that they were followed up on but the
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tips that once inundated the police in the weeks after the homicide of Christy Merrick well that slowed with the
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passage of time law enforcement would not give up on solving this case however proof of such they upped the ante and
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they asked the FBI for their help the FBI behavior analyst unit in Quantico Virginia stepped in and they worked up a
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profile of the Killer Christie's case received National media attention and Lieutenant Renee Schuler
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the lead detective on the Merrick case participated in an intensive 11-week training course at the FBI Academy in
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Quantico this took place in 1995. so let's review what the FBI and Lieutenant Schuler had come up with this is the
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Killer's profile It is believed that this attack and murder is the work of a single
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individual one man acting alone possibly 25 to 35 years old at the time of the murder
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this man had knowledge that at about 7 A.M on Monday December 21st Christie Merrick would be alone getting ready for
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school in her townhouse the murderer is described as someone who wouldn't stand out in a crowd he is an
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observer not the center of attention or the life of a party he probably had not killed before but
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might have committed date rape he likely went into a rage when Christy either rejected him or wouldn't stop resisting
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him this was a huge case and even bigger investigation over 1500 interviews were
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conducted and by 1995 forensic testing would exclude 60 suspects so 60 men suspected tested and not a matched to
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the evidence collected at the murder scene then in 2002 another very sad part to this story
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to this by 2002 now Cold Case Christie's mother Jerry is dying from cancer and she makes a deathbed plea in the
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newspaper for new information in the case Jerry and the Merrick family spoke with
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the I believe it was called either the Lancaster News or the Lancaster newspaper but since the murder in late
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1992 so for over 25 years by this date this newspaper has covered this case every bit of it and they have done a
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very thorough and excellent job by the way covering Christie's case Jerry told the paper that she feared that she would
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die before the 10-year anniversary of her daughter's murder she feared that she would die never
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knowing the truth now we know how important these big anniversaries can be for a case and for an investigation
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and you had referenced earlier that with the death of with the murders of two individuals that we later learned are
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not connected being killed almost one year apart right how these anniversaries can mean something either to the uh
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perpetrator of these crimes it also gets people talking in the community one of the reasons why we try to highlight
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different cases especially around the time that they took place is that people start talking again and sometimes it's
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as simple as somebody overheard something at a party five years after the murder that could be the break that
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law enforcement needs yeah we'll highlight a case and we'll show it to you know and remind everybody in the
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garage about it but locally on the local level people start seeing news you know
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news reports recording on the case or Gatherings yeah and it reminds the it reminds the masses that this is not
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solved you know when we when we met with that group and spoke at the crime and Corruption event on Saturday
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they one of the questions we were asked was what are the general misconceptions you see with some of the cases that you
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cover and our answer was that sometimes people think that there is a conclusion to a case and there has not been right
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you know you even on a local level somebody disappears or they're murdered 10 20 years go by and people just start
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to assume that it has been solved yeah during this interview Jerry told the newspaper that her family was pretty
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much convinced that Christy knew her killer that she had opened the door for someone she knew or even maybe someone
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she was expecting to see that morning Jerry was fighting her third bout with cancer breast cancer that eventually
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metastasized to her brain Jerry said in the interview that she wanted to know who
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who and why and fighting through the tears she added quote was she that terrible a person
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that they had to kill her the very sad to read through this interview with with Christy's mother
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yeah I've heard that didn't have anything to do with her personality or or her character it had everything to do with
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the animal that killed her character yeah the monster that killed her and I think that's what you hear like when
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when I when I read this I almost heard her mother Jerry saying it to me or as if I were in the room and her fighting
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through the tears and saying was she that terrible of a person that they had to kill her meaning I've gone nine years
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since my my daughter's been murdered and I have no answers and I I I've been searching for these for nine years and
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now I'm at the end right I have no answers and I don't know what to say about this because it makes no sense
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the Merrick family all just also discussed their frustrations with the investigation not being able to produce
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the Killer by this point Jerry's husband and Christy's father Vincent Merrick said we did whatever they asked us to do
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we assumed they told us everything we needed to know we didn't talk we didn't say nothing to nobody the last thing we
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wanted to do was to jeopardize the case right and in this investigation it's tough because it seems like the
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investigators and law enforcement and even media is doing everything that they can and actually
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you know they're they're not coming up with the answers but they're checking things off the list I mean if you test
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you know what 60 60 something six zero people yeah that's a lot of semen um but you test that many people and you
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cross them off the list yes you don't have um the evidence is still funneling towards the truth
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and Vincent said as of this article that we're referencing that it's from 2002 that at that time at that time he saw
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things differently saying quote nice people finish last Christy's sister said I didn't get the feeling they were used
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to dealing with these kinds of things meaning murder investigation right now her brother
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said that they had so many changes of hands down there referencing the police department stating every time you talk
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to them somebody different was handling the case police response to the family statements
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and a good one in my opinion Lieutenant Schuler who was the original investigator who who'd been working the
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case since the beginning said that she understands the family's frustrations and their doubts but assured them and
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the public that the investigators have been diligent in gathering evidence and working to solve this crime this case
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has been on every police officer's mind in this County and Lieutenant Schuler takes this personally officers stated
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that although investigators have changed people get older move to new positions and retire that does not change the
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continuity right and the officers took this opportunity to remind the public that they will work this case until it
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is solved they believed that it can be solved and reminded the public for their continued help with the case adding we
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are not on an island we need phone calls and letters to continue and I say Captain to these investigators God bless
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them right do you see you see what they did here Captain they they handled it exactly exactly how I have said
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investigators should handle questions and the media attention in regards to an open case these people are brilliant I
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tell you you go out there and you say we're working the case very hard we still have some leads we are still
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collecting evidence we still need the Public's hell we believe this can be solved that's how you address the public
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and that we're getting closer that we feel like we're getting closer not only that that puts the pressure on them but
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you know and but you know the family is gonna have some Kickback after so many years and I I understand why oh I don't
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fault them frustrated but you know I think their frustration went probably towards the wrong people sadly on
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November 4th 2002 this just a couple months after the newspaper article that we just discussed Mrs Jerry Merrick just
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not just 59 years old died at her home in Shamokin death came just one day after Christy would have celebrated her
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update off the record I'm loving that show Captain I love doing it thank you and we've had fun doing it we've
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received a lot of praise and a lot of great feedback so far and sometimes I'm allowed to actually talk on that show we
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allow we allow Captain to talk from time to time well here's the thing captain regarding Christy Merrick in the open
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investigation into her murder her family does something that is absolutely brilliant and it's it's it's following
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the advice of all the experts I've ever spoken to all the experts that I've ever
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seen on TV or read about they all say the same thing if a loved one of yours is murdered or missing do your very best
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no matter how long no matter how many people you have to remind do not let the case fade from the public eye keep it
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out in front of the public and remind them that your loved one needs Justice or needs to be found
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and Christy Merrick's brother Vince in 2007 he puts up a couple Billboards uh regarding his sister's murder asking for
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tips telling the public hey this is a cold case and we need your help so applaud Vince there for his efforts
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and working on his sister's case that's a good brother in 2009 Vince takes it a step further and he starts a Facebook
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page for his sister Christy's murder and the investigation that followed now we would start to see some traction on
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this thing okay remember this when when back when the crime was committed there was
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there was DNA that was collected and when those samples were first tested they were put into a criminal database
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but at that time this was in 1993 when they were placed into the database at that time there was no match right the
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perpetrator had no record he was not on file for anything and this would be the case for many many
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years now in 2016 Merrick's case was transferred to the district attorney in Lancaster Pennsylvania
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DNA left at the scene was sent to a new lab which created a DNA phenotype composite of the com of the Killer's
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attributes this including hair color eye color skin tone we've seen this with the
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April Tinsley case it's almost like that we could eyewitness composite sketch without there being an eyewitness yeah
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the the phenotype report included visual Composites of what the killer would look
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like at various ages and these were released to the public in November of 2017. I think we've not referenced this
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as the phenotype composite in the past when we discussed this but it's the lay term is what something like snapshot DNA
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or snapshot uh something identification based off of DNA so the Breakthrough came when the DA's office started
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working with parabon Nano Labs a DNA technology company to perform genetic testing on DNA samples collected from
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the crime scene in 1992 you basically they submitted a DNA profile that was found on the carpet underneath of our
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victim right the D.A pointed out at this time because what you do is you submit this stuff and then you kind of have to
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just sit back and wait to see what they come up with so the DNA pointed out to the public that although this process
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has been used in other cases throughout the country it had not been used to solve a homicide in Pennsylvania now
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parabon Nano Labs uploaded the Merrick suspect DNA to an open source genetic DNA database called GED match GED match
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shows the amount of shared DNA between two people and a loud parabon to find distant cousins of the suspect
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so then they build family trees and then suggest a suspect's name to law enforcement that's very similar to like
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what they did with the Golden State killer as well it's actually the the exact same thing so they're exactly
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they're exactly right and it's performed by the exact same company so God bless this this parabon Nano labs and
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hopefully I'm saying their name right because they are doing God's work I'm sure you're saying their name exactly
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right and if the if the drinking game word is exactly um this episode then uh we got a lot of
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drunk listeners authorities would not say which relative of the suspect LED them to him but the suspect they came up
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with well his name is Raymond Rowe the district attorney said that Roe had lived only a few miles from where the
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victim lived at the time of the murder in fact he lived approximately four miles away he would have been 24 years
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old at the time of Christie's murder so he's one year younger than than Christie
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herself correct this guy was not like the profile would suggest who was somebody just another
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person in the crowd this was somebody that actually enjoyed some of the spotlight most of his adult life he went
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by DJ freeze was his stage name uh someone who performed he I guess he started off as like a break dancer in
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the early 80s but I think everybody was a great dancer in the early 80s and he started DJing shortly after he soon
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became a popular house party DJ by the mid 80s after winning some local DJ battles and then in the early 90s he he
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started DJing clubs and some of these were rather big night clubs with dance parties with people like five six seven
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hundred guests through the door yeah and he looks like a real jackass though right yes yes he certainly does in 1997
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he opened up a DJ Pro retail store called the 12 spot selling DJ equipment records CDs and clothing then he
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launched his DJ School based out of his retail store so this is somebody that spent a lot of
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years building this career as a DJ he's also created this retail store and now he's training and teaching others to go
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into the business as well the thing is though he's a POS right Captain he's one big POS because
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his DNA matches the DNA that was found on our murder victim and on the carpet that was found underneath of her body
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right and we kind of told you how they ran the DNA through a system so then we can get to having a suspect and yes his
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DNA match but how did they get his DNA because that's pretty interesting okay so right although parabon Labs played a
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crucial role in finding the suspect for this case for this murder well starting again starting by finding the relatives
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and then finding the suspect well parabon saying hey law enforcement this is your guy this is not that's not
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enough on its own because investigators have to be sure that Raymond Rowe is in fact their guy so officers from the
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Pennsylvania State Police they went undercover at an elementary school function where Roe was playing music he
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was work talking as a DJ there must have been some short comps on May on May 31st of this year May 31st 2018
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authorities observed row with a water bottle and chewing gum and obtained them when he threw them in the trash
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they they took these items they tend to be better if he threw it on the ground that son of a [ __ ] was littering and we
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just picked up the gum but he had a you know he's thrown in the trash he threw it in the well the the exact report says
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he abandoned them no he probably threw him on the ground the sick son of a [ __ ] which means one of two things he
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he threw him in a trash can or he put the gum in the empty water bottle and left it on the table where he was
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performing work and just you know just left it there so I think he put it on the ground
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they took these items that he had abandoned quote abandoned uh and tested them for DNA uh against that of the
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suspect's profile it was confirmed that the DNA from those items the gum in the water bottle matched the semen sample on
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the carpet and the samples that were found on Merrick's body the odds of this being a match one in 200 octillion now I
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went to school for computer so I do not know how big of a number octillion is I'm guessing that's what like 200
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followed by eight zeros I have no idea somebody will let us know somebody will let us know
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how big of a number that is um the world's population is like seven and a half to maybe eight billion people octillion
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I can tell you this I do know octillion is much bigger than than a billion so that more people on Earth and Mars and
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Pluto combined correct so Roe was he was never a suspect at the time of the initial investigation and I couldn't
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find anything to suggest that he was in fact the suspect at any time during the investigation yeah but he knew her right
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you have to assume that you have to assume that because it I think what where the profile was right and where
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and this was something that you know police knew this I think they knew this before they asked the FBI for additional
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help the the statement in the profile where it says it was a single individual acting alone that knew that somehow knew
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Christy Merrick would be alone at 7am on that December morning inside her townhouse that to me is the number one
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factor inside that profile yeah while this guy lives like we said four miles away
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he's a DJ he's roughly the same age so if she goes to any clubs he knows who she is 16
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000 people in this community I live in a a pretty small town I'd say about 45 50
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000 people and there's a couple hole in the wall bars I go there I know everybody right it doesn't matter which
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hole in the wall bar I pretty much know everybody if you if you go to the hole in wall bars a couple times you pretty
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much know everybody that goes to them yeah so this guy he's been arrested less than two months ago so what I'm curious
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to see is what's going to come out about him and the connection to Christy right
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you know what what are we going to learn at the trial and now okay so Raymond Rowe was arrested at his home and he's
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charged with criminal homicide now keep this in mind captain we're talking about
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married uh I don't know if he was married at the time of his um arrest but what I do have here in my
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notes that he's been divorced three times oh real winner uh he also does not have much of a criminal history he's
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probably like it was it was all their faults and maybe the the most surprising thing to me anyway was that he was still
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living in Lancaster at the time you know sometimes these people move far away yeah so here's what I want to know is
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how did this guy that we don't see an obvious connection to our victim how did how is the profile right in the fact
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that he knew she was alone inside of that home by herself well that's what I'm saying I think
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I think the direct connection is that he DJs at clubs and he probably saw her and
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she's attractive female and followed her home or or newer through the clubs I mean she might enjoyed dancing
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you know I was I was married to a a lady that enjoyed dancing so what does she do when you go to the club she tells
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the DJ what she wants to hear so she can dance to it right then she kind of gets
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to know the DJ a little bit probably same thing happened here you know or the group of girls knew the DJ I mean this
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guy is a douche wagon for sure but you know he's not a bad looking gentleman I shouldn't even call him Jonathan he's
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not a bad looking he's not a douchebag but so I just think you got this uh a very small town probably not a lot to do
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and he probably knew the local DJ if you went out no she's 25 years old I get that what I'm saying is for the for
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this crime to have been carried out in the way that it was that this individual had to know
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specific knowledge about the victim meaning he knew she was home alone at that time that when she when he for
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whatever reason that he approached her well he might have been a creep and and stalked her that's what I was asking you
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if you thought maybe he had followed her home uh watched her got to know her routine or could it be something
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oh look you know maybe not first thought but maybe did he know the roommate and then in in some kind of turn knew
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Christie's movements through that so I'm curious to see how it's going to come out and what will come of it of how this
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perpetrator victim relationship was not to suggest that they had a relationship but what how did he know her and how did
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he know her movements also curious to know if he turns out to be the man that the neighbors said that
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they saw on the day of the crime right can we figure I couldn't find out what kind of car this guy was driving at the
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time of the murder he says douche wagon because we have a description of that vehicle 1991 douche wagon well and given
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what he did to Christy and regarding what we know about this crime and this murder you have to wonder
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first of all you have to wonder has he ever raped other women oh yeah and like we said you know
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probably date rape I mean he's in the you know he's putting himself he's probably a Serial date rapist
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uh that that I'm gonna put money on that right now I'm just going to go on a limb
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or it could just be a rapist mate has nothing to do with with dating no no but that's I think you're getting that
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confused because what I'm saying is he's a DJ in a club and look even if you're feeding he might get drinks for free
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right gets paid a little bit of money gets some drinks for free hey if you're feeding a girl too many drinks that's a
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form of Date Rape right so I think this guy was put in this guy is a creepo he has serious issues and he was putting
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himself in situations over and over and I guarantee you that he probably had some drug problems throughout the years
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as well well I questioned just rape outside of Date Rape or whatever you want to call it because regarding the
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crime we know he has committed even though he's not been convicted yet it's 200 octillion one in 200 octillion it
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looks to me like this guy came and pushed in someone's door knocked him to the ground and raped him on the floor
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right and that that is much different than feeding somebody drinks or going out with them or anything it was
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still rape and I and I hope you know his genitals get cut off in prison well you
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also have to wonder did anybody else know I mean because and I say that because 25 years has passed did he tell
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anybody yeah I think people in this because this is the case that um as it was coming out as it was
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unfolding we had a great listener of ours I will not use her name but she I think I could promote her being her
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band that's freaking awesome they're called alien knife fight she grew up in this town and this guy constantly hit on
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her constantly tried to date her constantly was kind of creepy towards her and she constantly said no I'm not
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interested um so if you get a chance check out alien Knife Fight great band um but yeah so I think maybe they didn't
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know but it was known in this community that this guy was a little bit of a creepo well and here's what's great
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about this case you know so we have the we have the Golden State killer case and
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we know the outcome of that they finally after all these years been able to arrest the believed perpetrator of those
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rapes and murders right from California as of this last weekend and we discussed
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this at length on our other show off the record on yesterday's off the Record the April Tinsley case there's been a
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major break and now an arrest in that case because of this parabon Nano labs and then we have Christy Merrick's case
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25 years old case an arrest and a DNA match that is one in 200 octillion so what I'm getting at here is
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this is the future my friends and what a great future it is for law enforcement what a great future it is for all the
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families of victims of cold cases that are out there because I I have to wonder how many other cases will be solved this
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way the information that I could find Captain if you have a good DNA sample a good DNA
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a profile of your suspect of a killer or of a rapist you can submit that to parabon Nano labs
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and guess what it costs to do the work that they done on Golden State do the work that they did on Christy Merrick's
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case and now April Tinsley's case what does it cost two thousand dollars for two thousand dollars you could submit
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that DNA profile that's not a lot of money when a community is is concerned about a killer on the loose no and you
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could clear a case off of your books and we're talking about some these cases these
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three cases that I've just referenced today these are famous cases these are cases
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that within their state people still wonder today who killed that individual who killed these
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individuals in California who killed that little girl in Indiana right and you get a big case like that off of your
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books you remind the community then and there with that action that we will not stop
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we will stop at nothing to pursue Justice for the victims come on you're also letting these freaking dirt bags no
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your days are numbered because you said so in this you said so in the off the Record episode yesterday you said you
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think that we're in we're going to be in the Golden Age of cold cases being solved and I think you're right my
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friend yes get ready for it because I believe that there will be countless there will be a countless number of
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cases being solved this way and what will end up coming to light is people that that were never suspected and
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people that you would never expect will be getting arrested for crimes from their past maybe from their distant past
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too this is a trend that is trending up and it's just in fact it's just starting
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and the other thing too that you have to wonder is what effect will this have on
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on a suspect holding a secret for so long and what I mean by that is people out there that killers that are
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hiding in the shadows out there for all these years pay attention to what's going on well they're paying attention
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pay attention because now you you have a limited amount of time you have a limited opportunity to go and say look
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I'm not proud of this this is what I did I'm turning myself in you have a limited amount of time
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because if they got your DNA on profile it's only it's it's gonna it's gonna be like a domino effect tick tick tick tick
00:36:36
boom we're gonna get to you eventually right you also have to wonder will we see an increase in suicides over the
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fear of these killers hiding in the shadow they're they're past catching up with them
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yeah I think you're gonna see that you're going to see that for them to save face uh with their family and maybe
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with their Community because maybe if uh if I'm dead they won't test my DNA yeah I think that's some people are
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gonna view it that way but for the other ones you're going to get caught and uh I hope severely bad things happen
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to you and in prison because I think that's what you got coming to you yeah I I can't wait and it's it's so
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interesting of a time right now for law enforcement and to be involved in True Crime
00:37:30
because it's with with the three that we've had so far like I said all very famous cases well-known cases to you and
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I and to all the listeners out there it's like man when you sent me that text the other day saying that there was an
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arrest in the April Tinsley case now when I when my phone buzzes anymore I'm wondering what case is next what famous
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case that we've wondered about all these years is next who did they bust and why
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and how you know if we're we're living in the Golden Age of it and like I said get ready for it there will be a
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countless number of cases being solved this way one that jumps off the page to me Captain did I thought of immediately
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as I was wrapping up my research and talking to you about this case will this be the way that they catch the Lane
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Bryant killer foreign [Music] I want to get back to giving out a little recommended reading this week we
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are recommending a book called tiny crimes very short Tales of mystery and murder each week Captain you and I you
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and I dive into heartbreaking real life stories on our show so this last week I needed a little fiction in my life to
00:38:47
take the edge off and let me escape for a bit and Tiny crimes was the perfect read this is a great companion travel
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along with you as you venture through your day or week because it's 40 very short stories all in the genre of crime
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writing from some of today's most imaginative and thrilling writers check out tiny crimes and you can check out
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that along with all of our other recommended titles by going to truecrime garage.com and click on the recommended
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page thanks for listening thanks for telling a friend till next week be good be kind and don't live there
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