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Oh, hey, it's good to see

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you. I'm Shane Waters,

1:13

the host of foul play crime series. And

1:16

tonight on this special Valentine's Day,

1:18

two part episode, I'm going

1:21

to ask you the age old question, will

1:24

you be my Valentine? If

1:26

you find it agreeable, We will explore

1:28

the history behind this romantic day.

1:31

And fourteen podcaster friends of mine

1:33

will be joining us throughout our trip to

1:36

share crime stories of love gone

1:38

wrong. So

1:40

what do you say? Welcome

1:47

to my bloody Valentine. Here,

1:50

let's take a seat in this restaurant. I

1:53

had to make reservations way ahead

1:55

of time to get us in. The

1:58

atmosphere is really nice. The

2:00

candle lighting and romantic music. While

2:03

we wait for our food and

2:05

my first friend to show up with our first story,

2:08

I'll fill you in on some details about

2:10

Valentine's Day. And,

2:12

of course, occurs every February fourteenth.

2:15

And candy flowers and gifts are

2:18

often exchanged in the name of Saint Valentine

2:22

Now I really want some candy chocolates. Oh,

2:27

hey, Kristen. Kristen is

2:29

the host of murder she told. I'll

2:32

let you take it from here with our first story

2:34

of the night.

2:44

The box was perfectly delightful,

2:46

wrapped in brown paper with the prettiest

2:49

pink satin ribbon. Mary Dunning

2:51

wondered who would send her such a gift in

2:53

the mail. There was no return

2:55

address. The only clue was

2:57

the smudged ink of the postmark San

3:00

Francisco. Aerie was across

3:02

the country in Dover, Delaware, but she

3:04

had lived in the Golden City in years past.

3:07

The pink satin slipped off and beneath

3:09

the wrapping was a box of chocolates. Pretty

3:12

little dark colored bond bond sitting

3:14

on a brand new lace tankerchief. Somebody

3:17

forgot to remove the tag and Mary

3:19

couldn't help but notice it came from

3:21

the luxury department store, City of

3:23

Paris. Somebody wanted

3:25

to spoil her. But who?

3:27

Inside, there was a handwritten note

3:29

that said simply with love to

3:31

yourself and baby. Missus

3:33

c. Mary assumed it was

3:36

most likely a thoughtful surprise from her

3:38

friend, missus Corbelly, who knew Mary

3:40

adored candy, but Mary

3:42

curbed the urge to spoil her appetite

3:44

with a treat and decided to bring them to

3:47

dinner gathering later that night at her

3:49

sister's home. Two

3:51

days later, on August eleventh eighteen

3:53

ninety eight, both Mary and

3:55

her sister were dead, and three

3:57

others from the party followed. All

4:00

five had suffered a slow and agonizing

4:02

death, hallucinations and delirium,

4:05

severe stomach pains, and violent

4:07

sickness. Household remedies

4:09

had no effect. The doctors thought

4:12

it was food poisoning, but curiously,

4:14

not everyone from the party got sick.

4:17

Just the five who fancied the chocolate.

4:19

Mary's father, who was

4:21

a former congressman for Delaware, had

4:23

a chemist analyze the chocolate. And

4:26

discovered that they contained a large

4:28

amount of arsenic. Who

4:30

poisoned the chocolate? Better

4:32

yet? Who sent them and

4:34

who was missus c. The

4:38

woman on the bench intrigued thirty

4:40

two year old John Dunning There was something

4:42

magnetic about her. She was forty

4:45

one, a former Vaudville actress, and

4:47

wasn't like the other women in San Francisco.

4:50

She was fun. Free. Easy.

4:53

She liked to gamble, drink, and hang out

4:55

with the boys at the bathroom. Her name

4:58

was Cordelia Bakken, And despite

5:00

the buttoned up society ladies disdain

5:02

for promiscuity, she knew the

5:05

power she had over men and cordelia

5:07

wanted John Dunning. It

5:10

didn't take long before John and Cordelia

5:12

were tangled up with one another, literally

5:14

and physically. Both were

5:17

married. Cordelia was separated

5:19

from her husband, but John's wife

5:21

Mary was oblivious to the affair.

5:24

The adulturist duo commiserated over

5:26

their partners and grew closer over

5:28

late nights, booze, and gambling.

5:32

John worked for the Associated Press

5:34

as a seasoned reporter and often had

5:36

assignments overseas. His long

5:38

absences put stress on his marriage.

5:40

Mary and John were only hanging on

5:42

by a thread. But around

5:45

eighteen ninety five, when Mary found

5:47

out about cordelia, she ended it,

5:49

humiliated that apparently all of

5:51

San Francisco knew about this affair except

5:54

her. She left him to be with her

5:56

family in Delaware. With

5:58

Mary out of the picture, John and Cordelia

6:01

were free to do as they pleased. But

6:03

John had picked up some new habits, heavy

6:05

drinking, and gambling. He

6:08

had racked up a huge gambling debt.

6:10

So he stole four thousand dollars,

6:12

which is about a hundred and forty four thousand

6:14

today from his employer to pay it

6:16

off. When the AP found out,

6:19

they fired him. After

6:21

about three years of love and loss,

6:23

when the world was on the verge of the Spanish

6:25

American war, The AP hired

6:28

him back. They needed a veteran reporter

6:30

stationed in Cuba to cover it. This

6:33

was John's wake up call. He cut

6:35

it off with cordelia and told her that

6:37

he wanted to get back with Mary after he

6:39

returned. Cordelia was

6:41

devastated. She begged him

6:43

not to go, but he told her he

6:45

would not be returning to San Francisco.

6:49

While John was stationed in Cuba, Mary

6:51

had been receiving handwritten letters in

6:53

the mail from San Francisco from an

6:55

anonymous author. They detailed

6:57

John's sordid affairs around

6:59

town with quote, an extremely

7:02

attractive woman. And the mystery

7:04

writer urged Mary not

7:06

to take John back. The letter

7:09

sat in a drawer until after Mary's death

7:11

when her father discovered them during the investigation.

7:14

John had returned to Delaware after learning what

7:17

happened. Mary's father confronted

7:19

him with the letters. John admitted

7:21

to everything the letter said, and he

7:23

also recognized the handwriting. It

7:25

was cordelia's. When he was

7:28

shown the note inside the chocolate box,

7:30

he was stunned. It matched

7:32

cordelia's handwriting. His

7:34

mistress had murdered his wife.

7:37

And the four other people who had also

7:39

died were innocent bystanders. Meanwhile,

7:43

investigators in San Francisco identify

7:45

the brown paper and pink ribbon as

7:47

the signature wrapping of a local chocolateier,

7:50

George Haw's confectionery. They

7:52

spoke with a clerk who remembered an odd

7:54

encounter with a short stout woman

7:56

with dark hair. He sold her half

7:58

a box of candy, and she claimed that

8:00

she was filling the rest of it with her own

8:02

homemade chocolates. Police

8:04

tracked down the post office clerk who accepted

8:07

the package, The department store saleswoman

8:09

who sold her the lace handkerchief, and

8:12

finally, the drugstore clerk that

8:14

sold her the arsenic. All

8:16

four workers described a woman who

8:18

looked like cordelia. In

8:20

her hotel room, police discovered

8:22

leftover paper wrapping from the candy

8:25

store. And cordelia was arrested

8:27

on murder charges. There

8:29

was a legal argument about who had jurisdiction

8:32

in this strange case. The victims

8:34

had died in Delaware, but cordelia

8:36

sent the poison chocolate from California,

8:39

but it was settled that the trial would be held

8:41

in California in December of eighteen

8:43

ninety eight, four months after the

8:45

crime was committed. The

8:48

media couldn't get enough of cordelia

8:50

Botkin in her scandalous lifestyle.

8:53

This was the trial to end the century.

8:55

She plead not guilty, and though she did

8:58

admit to buying the arsenic, she insisted

9:00

it was for cleaning purposes only. The

9:03

jury disagreed, found her guilty,

9:05

and sentenced her to life in prison.

9:08

A year or so later, the judge from her

9:10

trials spotted cordelia out and

9:12

about in San Francisco. He launched

9:14

an investigation and discovered that

9:17

she may or may not have been trading favors

9:19

for privileges with the guards. When

9:21

word got back to her about the investigation,

9:24

she claimed that it wasn't her, but it'll look

9:26

alike, and that the judge was mistaken.

9:29

While the shenanigans weren't folding, cordelia's

9:31

legal appeal too was playing out.

9:34

The supreme court of California agreed

9:36

with her attorneys, that her trial judge

9:38

had given improper during instructions and

9:41

overturned the ruling, sending it

9:43

back to the DA if they wanted to try

9:45

her again. After many delays,

9:48

she was tried again and convicted

9:50

again. And though nine voted

9:53

for her to be hanged, The jury had to

9:55

be unanimous to impose the death penalty.

9:58

So in nineteen o four, she was sentenced

10:00

1 again to life in prison.

10:04

Though not culpable in any legal

10:06

way, John was the one who

10:08

brought cordelia into their lives and

10:10

invited her wrath. If anyone,

10:13

it was he who deserved her ire,

10:15

but he escaped justice. He

10:17

even got his job back At least

10:20

until the trial ruined what little reputation

10:23

he had left, and what a tragedy

10:25

it was that marries generosity with the

10:27

chocolates condemned four others

10:29

as well. Their deaths too

10:32

were on John's head. Cardelia

10:35

was an incorrigible, sler.

10:37

She tapped danced throughout her life,

10:39

twisting and warping narratives to bend

10:42

people to her will. But the

10:44

iron bars and sender block walls

10:46

of San Quentin state prison could

10:48

not be controlled. And after ten

10:50

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10:52

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four. Two women are found dead

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12:59

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13:01

Australia. So usually Valentine's

13:04

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13:06

spend a load of cash maybe book a fancy

13:09

restaurant, give gifts or whatever.

13:12

They usually don't order a hit on

13:14

their significant other, but

13:16

we'll get to that light up. Now

13:18

firemen have called to four flagstaff

13:20

Street, Gladesville at around seven thirty

13:22

PM on Valentine's Day. This

13:25

is the location of Carrie's Oasis,

13:27

a massage therapy business owned

13:29

and run by a thirty six year old Carrie

13:32

Peng and her de facto husband fifty

13:34

seven year old Mark Lewis. It

13:36

wasn't the sort of place she'd go for a sports

13:39

injury. It was more of a rub

13:41

and tug happy ending massage pilot.

13:44

Mark Lewis, he ran a similar place

13:46

up the road at Westside. When

13:49

the farm and gain entry to the burning building,

13:52

they one room and they find

13:54

the dead body of a woman that would be

13:56

identified as twenty five year

13:58

old Fatima Ozanol. Shot

14:00

three times in the head, further

14:02

towards the back of the premises where the

14:04

fire was burning was an office. Inside

14:07

was woman that they dragged out into

14:09

the hallway thinking she may still be

14:11

alive. But on closer inspection,

14:14

she was already dead. She would

14:16

be identified as the owner, Carrie

14:18

Peng, and she had suffered eighteen

14:21

stab wounds to her head, neck, and body

14:23

had been shot in the eye, and her

14:25

throat had been slashed. The

14:27

fire was extinguished and police

14:30

called. Mark Lewis, who arrives

14:32

at the scene, from his massaged power

14:34

in West Ride, And when he saw

14:36

what was happening, he had to be restrained

14:39

by police and firefighters from entering

14:41

the building. He was screaming, oh,

14:43

Kerry. Kerry. And he ended

14:46

up collapsing. As

14:48

is the procedure, Mark Ben the

14:50

de facto would be interviewed by investigators

14:52

about his movements that afternoon. Now,

14:55

he tells police. He called Kerry

14:57

to come to his massaged place to pick him

15:00

up as he wasn't feeling well. Kerry

15:02

did go on getting but they ended up

15:04

driving back in separate cars

15:07

back to Carrie's Oasis. When

15:09

there, he said he was going to leave

15:11

his point two two caliber rifle, which

15:13

was in the back of his van at

15:15

Carrion Oasis' office. But

15:18

as I both reached the front door, he

15:20

changed his mind and he put it back in his

15:22

van, then he drove back to his

15:24

massaged power. He also mentioned

15:26

to investigators how he had received

15:28

a call earlier that afternoon from

15:30

a caller that said he was going

15:32

to kill Kerry. Now, Lewis

15:35

said he got back to his massage parlor

15:38

at around seven PM. Now

15:40

police searched his car that he had on the night,

15:42

the Charago van, And indeed,

15:44

they found a point two two caliber

15:46

rifle in a rifle bag. Inside

15:49

the bag were a couple of blood spots as well

15:51

as some on the outside of the bag.

15:54

Now Mark Lewis' clothes were taken

15:56

and his shorts also had a

15:58

blind spot on them. Or tofties

16:00

on the women, showed they had been shot

16:02

by point two two caliber rounds

16:04

and empty shell casings found on

16:06

the site were also point two two caliber.

16:09

Lawson's rifle was tested but wasn't

16:12

a match for the recovered rounds nor

16:14

were any of his other seven

16:16

rifles matched what

16:19

was found at the scene. Now

16:21

1 strange piece of evidence found at the scene

16:23

was a small nosepiece from

16:26

a pair of spectacles. Now

16:28

when police checked out Mark's story, they

16:30

found that most of it was probably true.

16:33

The timeline though was out by

16:35

about an hour according to other

16:38

witnesses and phone records. Now

16:40

this put him at the scene of the crime just before

16:42

the firemen were called and when the women

16:45

had probably been killed. But

16:47

although the blood spots on the rifle

16:49

bag and on my marked shorts would

16:51

match Carrey Pang, they lived

16:53

and they worked together. So it really

16:56

didn't hold that much weight. So

16:59

the case sort of went cold.

17:01

Even though they had suspicions about Mark

17:03

Lewis, they didn't have enough evidence

17:05

to charge him. Then just over

17:07

a couple of years later, Lindsay

17:09

Rose, a small time crook, was

17:11

drinking in a pub with a mate and happened

17:14

to mention how he killed these women on Valentine's

17:16

Day and had killed others.

17:19

Now Rose called himself the mechanic

17:21

after the Charles Bronzo nine eight seventy

17:23

two movie where Charles plays the

17:25

part of a hitman called the mechanic

17:28

who wants to retire, but some young

17:30

guy wants to learn the trade and becomes

17:32

his apprentice. Lindsey Rose

17:35

goes under Kelly's mate He had an apprentice

17:37

on the night called Donnie. Well,

17:40

this night at the pub was actually

17:42

a place informant and tipped off investigators

17:45

about what Rose had told him. Investigators

17:48

found the apprentice Donnie who immediately

17:50

confessed and grasped out Rose.

17:53

Donnie's name was actually Ron Waters,

17:56

an out of work tattoo artist. And

17:58

his story was that Lindsey Rose

18:00

had approached him at the pub and asked

18:02

if he could help him out as he needed

18:04

to talk to this woman at a massage joint,

18:07

but if they saw him, they wouldn't let

18:09

him in. Rose told him that all he had

18:11

to do was knock on the door, and when they opened

18:13

it, he would step in and talk to this woman.

18:16

Rose offered run five hundred

18:18

bucks, which was big money back then,

18:20

especially for an outer work to two

18:22

artists. Ron said

18:24

he and Rose went carries Oasis at

18:27

around seven PM. Rant knocked

18:29

on the door as planned and it was opened

18:31

by Fatima. Then rose rush

18:33

in silence pistol in hand and

18:35

manhandled Fatima into one of the massaged

18:38

rooms telling her if she did

18:40

what he asked. Should be fine. Then

18:42

Ron shouted at the rose alerting him

18:44

to the fact that he could see two people

18:46

approach the entrance. As they were about

18:49

to open the door, rose put

18:51

three rounds into Fatima's head

18:53

and waited as the door opened.

18:56

It was Kerry, and as she ended,

18:58

Rose grabbed her and a struggle broke out,

19:00

carry fighting as hard as she could,

19:03

managing to hit rose and breaky spectacles

19:06

which landed on the ground. Behind

19:08

her was Mark Lewis with a rifle.

19:10

Now, Ron saw the gun immediately, and

19:13

he lunged at Lewis, pinning him

19:15

to the ground. Now while still

19:17

fighting with Kerry, Rose yells

19:19

at it to run, hey, that's

19:21

the guy it's paying for the job. Now,

19:24

Kerry ended up breaking free at Lindsay

19:26

and tried to escape by running out

19:28

to the back office, but this was

19:30

in vain. Lindsay caught up with

19:32

her. He stabbed her right in tines, shot

19:35

her in the eye and slashed her throat.

19:37

He then set fire to the office and

19:39

left with Ron in one car while Mark

19:41

left to go back to his massaged parlor

19:44

in the van. Now when police

19:46

finally found Rose, they asked him

19:48

about A90 eighty four double murder,

19:51

and he confessed straight away. They

19:53

then asked him about the murder of Carrie

19:55

and Fatima and a gang. He

19:58

confessed immediately. Investigators

20:01

had also gone around to optometrists in

20:03

the area and had found rows,

20:05

had dropped a pair respecticals in for

20:07

repair just after Valentine's

20:10

Day in nineteen ninety four.

20:13

Now Rose said that Mark Lewis had been on

20:15

to months to kill Kerry.

20:17

And when he finally upped the amount to

20:19

twenty grand, he agreed to

20:22

it. So he would just shot up about

20:24

it. Now Mark Lewis also

20:26

supplied the pistol. So

20:28

now the cops had the real story of

20:30

what went on that Valentine's night. And

20:32

now they had enough evidence to charge

20:34

Mark Lewis for murder. In

20:36

the end, Lindsey got five sentences

20:39

for five people he confessed to killing

20:41

and his file was marked never to

20:43

be released. Mark Lewis got

20:45

eighteen years for Fatima's murder

20:48

and life for Kerry. Now

20:50

run run orders. Well, he got

20:52

eight a month's periodic detention. As

20:54

he really had no idea what was gonna

20:57

happen that night, he was tricked into

20:59

it and he did confess as soon

21:01

as he was arrested. So why did

21:03

Mark Lewis arrange a hit on his de facto

21:05

wife with five kids? 1 of them

21:07

being his own. Well, he didn't like her

21:09

working at the Massage parlor. He

21:11

probably suspected her of boning

21:14

some of the customers. So he had to

21:16

kill. Too gutless to do

21:18

it himself. He got his hitman mate to

21:20

do it for him. Fatima just

21:22

happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong

21:24

time. She was the mother to a

21:26

six year old girl. And while

21:28

was Carrie so brutally murdered, aiding

21:31

stab wounds shot in the eye and a throat

21:33

slashed, Usually, this would be done

21:35

by someone in a crime of passion.

21:38

Well, Rose had once been in a relationship

21:41

with Kerry, and they'd broken up are

21:43

bad

21:43

turns, such a tragic

21:46

Valentine's. Okay. So

21:48

that was a very brief version of the

21:50

case and have a very

21:52

happy Valentine's Day.

22:04

Often, couples go on a meditation

22:06

day together to relax

22:08

and bond. And maybe for

22:10

some of us try not to fall asleep.

22:13

You see the trick is, don't close

22:16

your eyes all the way. Here,

22:18

try it with me. Close

22:20

your eyes, but not all the

22:22

way. Breathe in deeply

22:24

and intently. Now,

22:29

breathe out.

22:34

Isn't that better? Did you

22:36

feel all your life stress fall away?

22:39

Now, let's hear another terrifying

22:42

story. About love gone

22:44

wrong.

22:45

This one is from my good friends, Jerry

22:48

and Tracy, from the Hillbelly horror

22:50

stories. I

22:55

have a very unique Valentine's

22:59

Day ghost story for us. Oh, cool.

23:01

I like those. Alright. So we're gonna go

23:03

back to midnight on Thursday, February

23:06

fourteenth eighteen sixty seven.

23:10

There was two lovers that stood on the

23:12

bridge in Sefton Park Liverpool,

23:14

England. Their names

23:16

were William Roberts and Alice Harwood,

23:20

They both knew though that very soon

23:22

that they were gonna have to go their own separate

23:24

ways in life because Williams stern

23:27

middle class parents had pressured

23:29

him into an engagement with a wealthy heiress.

23:32

Say what, that he wasn't feeling it then.

23:35

No. He wouldn't film it. But this

23:37

is the eighteen sixty, so you did that kind of stuff

23:39

back then. So they're on

23:41

this bridge. It's midnight. You could hear the clock

23:43

in the background. And it

23:45

chimes the twelfth hour. William

23:48

tearfully told Alice that

23:51

their three year affair would have to

23:53

end. For the sake of his future,

23:55

Brad. She was heartbroken.

23:57

Oh, but she was.

24:00

Alice didn't say anything. She just kinda

24:02

stared off at the reflections of

24:04

her and William in the waters below and then she

24:06

suddenly turned and kissed him with tears

24:08

streaming from her eyes. Before

24:11

party, no, Alice said in a trembling voice,

24:15

William, will you grant me one

24:17

last favor? The only one that I'll

24:19

ever ask of you on this Earth. And

24:22

we awaited for her request. As

24:26

he looked, she said, promise

24:28

to meet me here twelve months from tonight

24:30

at this exact same time, the

24:32

same hour. William

24:35

wasn't really big on that suggestion because you know he's

24:37

getting married and stuff. But somehow

24:39

deepen his hardy knew

24:41

that he had to see his

24:43

first real love at least one more time.

24:46

And so in a broken voice,

24:49

he replied, I will come 1 year

24:51

from today. Oh, good. The

24:54

year dragged by and exactly twelve months

24:57

later William and Alice were reunited on

24:59

that same bridge, but William

25:01

told Alice that things were a

25:03

little bit different now. He's married

25:05

and he no longer cared for her in a romantic

25:08

way. Like he did beforehand.

25:12

Well, despite William

25:14

being as honest as he could with her, Alice

25:17

was still deeply in love with him and before

25:19

they left that night, she begged

25:21

him for one more final reunion

25:23

at the bridge. In one year,

25:25

again, on February fourteenth at midnight.

25:28

William said that that would be impossible. He

25:31

certainly had no intentions of jeopardizing his

25:34

loyal relationship that he had with his wife.

25:37

They even know he came to this

25:38

1. Oh, well, that's true. Yes. He was okay

25:40

with that. Well, but he promised her and then he

25:42

didn't have no way of getting a hold of her saying,

25:44

hey, I can't make

25:46

it.

25:46

Right. They

25:46

didn't have they

25:47

didn't have cell phones back then in the eighteen sixties.

25:49

No. So yeah. Anyway, so Alice

25:51

starts to cry. And she reminds him

25:54

that, you know, hey, we we did it last year.

25:56

Let's do it again. And

25:58

William reluctantly said, okay, one

26:01

more. Only one though. So

26:05

they leave the bridge.

26:07

In February eighteen sixty nine, a

26:09

William was involved in a in a shooting

26:11

accident,

26:12

and he had a really bad leg injury. And

26:15

he really was unable to walk except for

26:17

the the use of a crutch. Mhmm. So

26:19

in the night that they were supposed to be meeting

26:21

on Valentine's Day, William wondered

26:23

if he was even gonna be able to

26:25

to get to the bridge at all and and was even gonna

26:28

be able to make his way out

26:29

there. He even thought about postponing.

26:32

But,

26:32

again,

26:32

no cell phones. Yeah. No cell phones. And,

26:34

you know, yeah, I don't know if we had access to a carrier

26:36

pigeon or anything.

26:37

No. No.

26:38

And even so on that short notice.

26:39

Oh, yeah. Carrier pigeon, you know. Yeah. But

26:43

he was man that kept his word and he decided to

26:45

go to the park bridge anyway. Now

26:48

they had an old trusted servant of

26:50

of his family by the name of Bob.

26:52

And Bob already kinda knew about the affair.

26:54

So guess they even had to broke hold back then. Bob

26:57

wouldn't say nothing about it. Yeah. And

26:59

he agreed that he would help William get to the

27:01

park bridge. He and

27:03

Bob arrive at the bridge. Bob

27:06

watched William, walked unsteadily,

27:08

and might add on his crutches until

27:10

he reached the middle of the bridge. Young

27:13

man sat there and he was pretty impatient as

27:15

he was waiting for Alice to arrive. William

27:18

actually shouted back to Bob what on

27:20

Earth am I doing here, standing on the middle

27:22

of this damn bridge in the freezing night,

27:24

waiting for a girl that I don't even care for anymore.

27:28

Well,

27:30

Bob Wesley stayed silent because

27:32

as the clock silent, Bob. No, sir. Because as

27:36

the clock was chiming

27:39

midnight in the

27:39

back, they're walked up Alice.

27:41

And

27:44

William kinda looked over, he could suddenly see

27:46

her starting to appear. And

27:49

he says William says, what's about

27:51

time? But

27:54

as Alice started to reach

27:56

William, she didn't show any kind

27:58

of signs that she was getting ready to slow down

28:00

or anything. Looked like she was just gonna

28:03

start walking right past him. So William

28:05

kinda figured, you know what? She's

28:07

probably pissed off at the comments I just made.

28:09

So he reached out and was gonna try to

28:11

grab her. As

28:14

he put his arms out

28:15

though, his arms passed right through

28:17

her. Oh, boy.

28:19

Alice glanced back at

28:21

an astonished William I might add and

28:24

with a terrible look of sorrow in her

28:26

eyes, she whispered I will

28:28

always love you. William

28:31

kinda trembled as he watched Alice continue

28:34

to walk to the end of the bridge. And there

28:36

she disappeared right in plain

28:38

sight of old Bob that was standing there.

28:41

On the following day, William visited Alice's

28:43

family because he was really confused about this strange

28:45

encounter. As

28:48

William told her parents about this strange encounter,

28:50

Alice's parents looked at each other

28:53

and miss Heartwood kind of broke

28:55

down and started crying. And then the father

28:57

went on to tell William that

29:00

his daughter had died of a fever

29:02

last night shortly before

29:04

midnight. So

29:06

William almost fainted when he heard this

29:08

news.

29:09

Then the the nurse that had been in the house that had

29:11

been helping take care about us, she

29:15

even added something that made it

29:17

even more disturbing to William. She

29:20

said that on the girl's deathbed, she

29:24

kept constantly repeating the words

29:26

dead or alive, I must go to

29:28

that bridge and see William. I must

29:31

tell him that I love him. It

29:34

has said that every year at midnight on February

29:36

fourteenth, the lonely loyal

29:39

ghost of Alice Hartwood has seen crossing

29:41

that bridge and self in park. Still

29:44

apparently hoping to meet her long

29:46

dead lover. As

29:48

recently as May of two thousand 1, a

29:50

park ranger saw a beautiful, young,

29:53

outdated looking woman, stroll

29:55

into the park with a parasol. As

29:57

she crossed the bridge, the lady

29:59

vanished into thin air. So

30:01

I guess the moral of the story is, even

30:04

in death, love never dies.

30:06

Very sweet.

30:08

Alright. Well, Happy Valentine's Day, Cass.

30:10

Yeah. Happy Valentine's Day, and that's a really

30:12

sweet story. And I'm glad that she got

30:14

to tell him.

30:16

That he you know, she would always love him, and

30:18

that's very sweet. Mhmm. That's I'm glad

30:20

that he showed

30:21

up. That

30:21

was very nice to him too. So you imagine

30:23

how pissed she would have been if he would have if he wouldn't

30:26

have showed up and she shows up dead.

30:28

Mhmm. So, like, what's your excuse? I showed up dead.

30:32

You can come. You gotta hurt leg. Yeah.

30:35

So Was. Anyway, thank you

30:37

guys, and we appreciate you listening to it.

30:39

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we're talking. Our

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next story comes from tapes from the

32:22

dark side, from my friend Tyler.

32:29

There's an old urban legend I grew

32:31

up with. You may have heard it too.

32:33

Go something like this. After

32:35

sundown, a pair of high school kids, fueled

32:38

by hormones, parked their car on

32:40

an isolated lover's lane. Just

32:42

as I start to get down to business, the girl

32:44

says she hears strange sound

32:47

coming from outside the car. The

32:49

boy says he didn't hear anything, but the

32:51

girl is spooked and she insists

32:53

that she wants to go home. The boy

32:55

begrudgingly turns over the engine and

32:57

with a hint of resentment presses down

32:59

hotly on the accelerator. The

33:01

car marches forward and they're on their

33:03

way. Once back at the

33:06

girl's house, she waste no time in exiting

33:08

the vehicle, now longing for the comfort

33:10

and safety of her own home. As she reaches

33:12

behind her to push close the car door,

33:15

she sees it hanging from the

33:17

door handle, a metal

33:19

hook, The kind that would

33:21

make for a rudimentary replacement

33:23

for a hand, though this one has been

33:25

sharpened to a menacing and deadly

33:27

point. And thus our story

33:29

concludes a pity little

33:32

morality tale. Yet what

33:34

many don't know is that it's partly based

33:36

on a true story. The Texarkana

33:39

Moonlight Murders of nineteen forty

33:41

six. It's

33:46

a week after Valentine's Day and the

33:48

nineteen year old Mary and her twenty

33:50

five year old boyfriend, Jimmy, are out

33:52

on a movie date. On the way home,

33:54

they take a detour to secluded stretch

33:57

of Bowie County Road, a place that

33:59

was known as a local lover's

34:01

lane. Just as things

34:04

are getting hot and heavy, The moment

34:06

is interrupted by a bright flash of

34:08

light coming from outside the driver's

34:10

side window. At first, the couple

34:12

of things they've been called by the police If

34:15

only it had been the cops, as

34:17

they will soon learn, the reality of their

34:19

situation was much worse.

34:22

A man wearing a white cloth

34:24

bag over his head approaches the

34:26

car. He's strange car

34:28

resembles a pillowcase, and

34:30

has eye holes cut out so the stranger

34:33

can see. Before the man says

34:35

anything, Jimmy mumbles under his breath.

34:37

Sorry, guy. You have the wrong

34:39

car. The man takes a step

34:41

forward confrontationally and

34:43

replies.

34:44

I don't want to kill you, so

34:46

do what I say. He

34:49

orders them both out of the car and then

34:52

tells Jimmy to take off his pants.

34:54

Seeing that this guy isn't playing around. Jimmy

34:56

does so quickly, and that's when the man

34:59

suddenly bashes him in the head twice.

35:01

With the broad side of his heavy flashlight.

35:04

He struck Jimmy so hard as to cause

35:06

multiple skull fractures and the

35:08

sound of the flashlight hitting his skull

35:10

was so intense that Mary said she

35:12

thought that the man had actually shot Jimmy.

35:15

Jim falls to the ground instantly unconscious

35:18

and that's when the man turns his attention

35:20

to Mary. She

35:23

tries to reason with him offer him

35:25

money but this seemed to have the opposite

35:27

effect. He lashes out at her

35:29

striking her with a flashlight, but not as hard

35:31

as he hit Jimmy. This is more

35:33

of a warning strike. She jumps

35:36

back and that's when he looks her in the eyes

35:38

and says 1 single word.

35:41

What? I'm

35:47

TZ, the host of a True Crime podcast

35:49

called tapes from the dark side. If

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36:02

to the show. What?

36:07

Mary doesn't need to be told twice. She

36:09

takes off in a full sprint. Some

36:12

reports say she was still wearing her high

36:14

heels at the time. So I imagine this

36:16

was not a breakneck speed. Mary

36:18

headed down Bowie County Road desperate

36:21

to find 1, anyone. But

36:23

the couple had parked about a hundred yards

36:25

from the nearest house. She sees a car

36:27

parked on the side of the road and the distance and

36:29

runs towards

36:30

it, but alas finds it empty. And

36:32

that's when the masked man suddenly reappears.

36:36

Why

36:36

are you running? Yes. Squisically, the

36:39

question puzzles her. Because

36:41

you told me to. She says, he

36:43

screams out a liar enforces

36:45

Mary to the ground once again brandishing

36:48

the pistol. Mary is pinned

36:50

under the weight of this well built

36:52

six foot tall man. And in this

36:54

moment which will haunt her for the rest of

36:56

her life, She feels completely and

36:58

utterly powerless. He begins

37:00

to lift up her dress, sliding

37:03

her underwear to the side, and

37:05

ramming the barrel of the gun into her.

37:10

After the masked man finished sexual officially

37:12

assaulting Mary, he took off on foot down

37:14

Bowie County Road and disappeared into

37:16

the woods. Mary wandered

37:19

aimlessly through the night for half a mile

37:21

until finally approaching a random

37:23

house. The couple who answered,

37:25

took her in and phoned the police Thus

37:28

ended the first of what would be four

37:30

separate attacks in that year nineteen

37:32

forty six by a man in a

37:34

white hood who had come to be known

37:36

as the phantom

37:37

killer. This was no urban

37:40

legend. It was after

37:42

the second double murders they start

37:44

using the name Phantom in the local

37:46

newspaper. No one felt like

37:48

he or she was safe. And, of course, we

37:50

had the everything locked and we had our

37:52

guns handy. Jimmy and Mary

37:55

both miraculously survived and

37:57

it would be the only attack of the four

37:59

in which no one was killed. The

38:01

Phantom roamed the lanes of Texarkana

38:03

after dark looking for couples who were

38:06

parked on the side of the road. He killed

38:08

five people over the course of ten

38:10

short weeks that spring, a manhunt

38:12

ensued, the likes of which had never been

38:14

before seen in Texarkana covering

38:17

Miller County Arkansas in Bowie

38:19

County, Texas, but the killer was

38:21

never caught. The phantom

38:23

killer is technically a serial

38:25

killer as he's killed more than two people

38:28

with a cooling off period in between each

38:30

kill. Now the statistics tell

38:32

us that serial killers are possible

38:35

for less than one percent of all murders,

38:37

which is an insignificant portion.

38:40

But if there are fifteen thousand

38:42

murders annually in the US, That

38:44

means that around one hundred and fifty of

38:46

those victims are likely the work of

38:48

such killers. And per FBI

38:50

statistics there are likely twenty

38:53

five to fifty active serial killers

38:55

operating in this country at any given

38:57

moment. So dear listener,

39:00

I would ask of you, if you happen to take

39:02

a midnight ride with your lover this Valentine's

39:05

Day, please be cautious.

39:08

It's far from likely but you

39:10

wouldn't want to later find a hook on

39:12

your car handle door or

39:14

a mass man peeking through

39:17

your window. Texarkana

39:20

today still looks pretty much the same.

39:22

And if you should ask people here on the streets

39:24

what they believe happened to the phantom

39:26

killer, Most would say that he

39:29

is still living here and

39:31

is walking free.

39:50

I love movie theaters. I

39:53

actually worked at one as one of my first

39:55

jobs. There's nothing

39:57

like seeing a movie on the big screen. And

40:00

don't get me started on the popcorn. That

40:03

smell and the taste. Now

40:06

I really want some movie theater popcorn. The

40:09

bag microwave stuff just isn't the

40:11

same. Meeting us

40:13

here is Alison Amaghi from coffee

40:16

in cases.

40:20

It wasn't even supposed

40:23

to be a nineteen year old,

40:25

n c state fresh man, Jesse McBean's

40:27

night with the car that he shared

40:29

with his brother. But

40:32

it was Friday, February

40:34

twelfth nineteen seventy one,

40:37

two days before Valentine's

40:39

Day, and Patricia Mann,

40:42

Jesse's girlfriend of three years,

40:44

who was a twenty year old nursing student

40:46

at Watts Hospital in Durham, North Carolina,

40:49

had a school dance that she

40:51

thought she was going to have to miss. Oh.

40:55

Is he surprise her? He

40:57

does. He was a good boyfriend and

40:59

to her surprise, Jesse had actually made

41:01

a deal with his brother to

41:04

trade days with the car, and

41:06

he was so excited to let Patricia

41:08

know that he was soon to be

41:10

on his way to her. He was so

41:13

happy in fact that he jumped

41:15

in the car to drive through the misty cold

41:17

rain to get to her and he did it so

41:19

quickly that he forgot at home

41:21

the candy that he had purchased to

41:24

also bring to her as a surprise.

41:27

Oh, well. Now he could just eat that later.

41:29

That's right. That's perk for

41:31

him. Jesse and Patricia

41:33

had a wonderful time at the dance.

41:36

They were so obviously in love

41:39

to everyone who saw the

41:40

lovebirds, and there was even talk

41:42

of an engagement. And then

41:44

it was just so weird. Neither

41:46

one of them wanted the night to end.

41:49

So given the chance to spend

41:51

a little bit more time together, they took

41:53

it. When Patricia's school

41:55

extended the curfew from

41:58

midnight until one AM,

42:00

Patricia checked out of her dorm

42:02

at eleven thirty, and the two

42:04

of them went to a nearby neighborhood that

42:07

was known to be a local make out

42:09

spot. Okay? Very collegey. Oh,

42:12

very. Yeah. They're just wanting to get a little

42:14

bit more alone time. By the next

42:16

morning, Saturday, February thirteenth,

42:18

Patricia's friends were milling about

42:20

the school, seeing how everyone's night had

42:22

gone, and it was then that

42:25

they noticed that Patricia had not returned

42:27

to her dorm in the early

42:29

morning hours. That

42:32

was not like the responsible

42:34

Patricia they knew, and Jesse

42:36

was not the type to break rules either.

42:39

So they began calling local hospitals

42:42

to make sure that the two hadn't been involved

42:44

in an accident on their way back to

42:46

the dorm. No hospitals had record

42:49

of either Jesse or Patricia, having

42:52

been seen or admitted.

42:54

So did the college not do anything

42:58

when curfew passed and Patricia wasn't

43:00

back? No. It wasn't until

43:02

the next morning that people are starting to

43:04

notice that she didn't come back.

43:07

Without answers, yet knowing

43:09

where the pair had likely gone

43:11

with their extra time the night before. Some

43:14

of Patricia's co work from the hospital

43:16

where she worked, went looking for them.

43:19

And that's when they saw the car,

43:21

just not like how they had

43:23

expected to find it. At

43:26

the end of one of the local coldest acts

43:28

was Jesse's car. Peering

43:31

in since the car was locked,

43:33

They saw Patricia and Jesse's coats

43:36

in the back seat neatly placed

43:39

and no sign of a struggle. Okay.

43:43

Weird. Able to push

43:45

open one of those triangular vent

43:47

windows that are commonly found in older

43:50

cars. A friend was able to

43:52

get the car unlocked. Inside,

43:56

they also saw Patricia's pantyhose

43:58

neatly folded in the passenger

44:01

floorboard. But Jesse

44:03

and Patricia, it seemed, had

44:06

vanished. A lot of people

44:08

began to wonder could they possibly

44:10

have decided to elope? But

44:13

if so, why not take the car

44:15

with me? Yeah. They need car. Yeah. And

44:18

If they didn't a dope, why

44:21

had they just left this perfectly

44:23

performing car abandoned?

44:27

And why had the car

44:29

been wiped of fingerprints as

44:33

they found when the police tested it?

44:35

So until they knew answers, Durham

44:38

County Police Department, who had been called

44:40

to the scene, decided to treat

44:42

this like a missing person's case. But

44:45

as the days passed with no word,

44:47

the outlook for Jesse and Patricia's fate

44:51

was becoming more and more

44:53

grim. Then on

44:56

February twenty fifth, twelve

44:58

days after they were last seen,

45:01

there was finally a development,

45:05

just not the development that

45:07

any family wants to hear. A

45:10

surveyor had been out working on a

45:12

one lane dirt road near the border

45:14

between Durham and Orange County, North

45:16

Carolina when he saw something

45:19

out of place. It looked like

45:21

a human leg sticking

45:23

out of a pile of leaves. When

45:27

Orange County Sheriff's Office responded,

45:30

they found an extremely disturbing

45:32

scene indeed. Jesse

45:35

McBean, and Patricia Mann

45:37

had been tied to a tree

45:40

with a thick rope. Mhmm. The

45:43

rope was nodded around their hands

45:46

and their necks. They

45:48

had been strangled slowly.

45:53

Major Tim Horn from the Orange County

45:56

Sheriff's Office told Sara Krueger

45:58

of WRL, quote,

46:00

It wasn't one continuous pulling

46:03

tight of a rope around their necks to

46:05

strangle them to death. It appeared

46:07

to be a situation where the rope was tightened

46:11

then they let it go, let

46:13

them regain their breath, regain

46:15

consciousness possibly, and

46:17

then they were strangled again.

46:20

And Oh my god. Mhmm.

46:23

This is very vindictive, very

46:25

personal. I feel very yeah.

46:28

This theory was consistent with the fact that

46:30

there wasn't just one rope a mark

46:32

around the neck of each of the victims. But

46:34

several strangle marks on

46:36

each of them. So this had been a process that

46:38

was repeated over and over.

46:42

The couple had also been stabbed according

46:44

to the medical examiner, though most likely

46:47

post mortem. Additionally, Patricia

46:49

had suffered from an internal injury,

46:52

a half inch tear in her liver

46:54

consistent with being punched, stomped,

46:57

or kicked in the stomach. So

46:59

like you said, Maggie, whoever had

47:01

done this, had wanted

47:03

the pair to suffer. It also

47:06

seemed clear like you said that anger,

47:08

revenge, or just a desire to

47:11

torture, were the motive.

47:13

Since Jesse still wore his watch

47:16

and his glass ring. And Patricia

47:18

still wore her jewelry as well,

47:20

so nothing was stolen. There also

47:22

was not sexual assault.

47:25

Rather, it is law enforcement's working

47:28

theory that the couple had been approached on

47:30

lover's lane and forced

47:32

into the trunk of the perpetrator's car

47:35

before being driven to this remote

47:37

location. 1 argued

47:40

in a separate WRL article,

47:42

quote, the suspect knew

47:44

this area, knew this

47:46

location. It's our opinion

47:49

that this wasn't the first time he came down

47:51

here. He felt comfortable torturing

47:53

and murdering these two young people

47:56

and he felt comfortable enough

47:58

that no one was going to come

48:01

and that no one could hear them

48:03

cry, scream, plead,

48:06

what have you, end quote. So

48:09

the perpetrator, according to law enforcement,

48:12

was not a random stranger

48:14

passing through. Instead, this

48:16

was both local and

48:19

personal. Unfortunately, even

48:22

though many organizations, the Orange

48:24

County Sheriff's Office, the Durham County Sheriff's

48:26

Office, the Durham Police Department, the

48:29

State Department of Investigation, the FBI,

48:32

and the Department of License and Theft

48:34

were involved. All of those agencies

48:37

There was an obvious lack of collaboration

48:40

among them with each getting a small

48:42

piece of the

48:42

puzzle, but with no willingness

48:45

to share findings with any other depart

48:48

that's frustrating, mhmm, despite

48:50

the lack of camaraderie, there

48:52

were several suspects for the crime, including

48:55

one. Who topped everyone's

48:58

list, a doctor

49:01

at Watts Hospital where Patricia worked,

49:03

who has refused to cooperate

49:06

with law enforcement, consistently

49:08

refused to provide DNA, and

49:12

who has an intimate knowledge of

49:14

the wooded area where the bodies

49:16

were found. More recently,

49:19

a new DNA procedure called mVAC,

49:21

able to extract DNA from

49:23

places that were previously inaccessible, like

49:26

the rope used to bind the pair, was

49:29

used. Since the rope from the crime

49:31

scene had been well preserved over the years.

49:34

Unfortunately, Horn, nearing

49:37

retirement in the summer of two thousand eighteen

49:39

when he received the call, heard

49:41

that the testing had provided

49:44

no new leads. Now,

49:47

as a waiting game, Until

49:49

even better, DNA testing is available

49:52

or until someone who

49:54

has knowledge of the crime. Finally

49:57

has the nerve to come forward.

49:59

Anyone with information about the murders of

50:01

Jesse McBaine and Patricia Mann,

50:04

dubbed the Valentine's Day murders

50:07

is asked to contact the Orange County

50:09

Sheriff's Office at 9196443050.

50:24

Ice skating and rollerblading is something couples

50:26

enjoy learning to do on Valentine's Day.

50:29

Personally, I don't enjoy

50:32

falling on my face or breaking a bone,

50:34

but all to their own. I

50:37

did go ice skating once in college

50:39

and it wasn't for me.

50:41

The room was too cold in all honesty. Speaking

50:45

of cold, My friend Vincent

50:47

is here from gone cold.

50:54

Perhaps no feeling elicits the

50:57

compulsion for revenge as

50:59

intensely as betrayal. An

51:01

act of harm caused by a friend

51:03

a family member or lover.

51:07

Trust is the required prerequisite

51:09

to the experience of betrayal. Betrayal

51:13

has a range of potential effects

51:16

from shock, sadness, and

51:18

grief to anger, obsession,

51:20

and morbid preoccupation. Most

51:24

of us can either abstain from revenge

51:26

entirely. Or go

51:28

no further than performing subtle

51:31

acts of passive aggression. However,

51:34

some give in to their compulsion for

51:37

revenge, whether the result

51:39

of an extended period of obsession

51:42

or an impulsive reaction caused

51:44

by the immediate shock of the actions

51:47

of the betrayer when caught in the

51:49

act. Clara

51:59

Suarez came to the United States

52:01

from Colombia in the late nineteen

52:04

eighties to obtain a master's degree

52:06

in dentistry. After

52:08

graduating, the University of Texas

52:11

School of Denistry, Clara was

52:13

crowned miss Columbia Houston.

52:16

In nineteen ninety one, the thirty

52:18

three year old dentist met Orthodontist

52:21

doctor David Harris, same

52:23

age. While working at the Castle

52:25

Dental Center. David

52:28

and Clara hit it off and their

52:30

fast moving bromine culminated

52:33

in a Valentine's Day nineteen

52:35

ninety two wedding with

52:37

a reception at the Hilton in

52:39

Nassau Bay overlooking Clear

52:41

Lake. It was less

52:43

than a year after their first date

52:46

that Clara Suarez became

52:48

doctor Clara Harris. With

52:51

David came a young daughter from a

52:53

previous marriage. The

52:56

year following the wedding, Clara

52:58

opened up her own dental practice that

53:00

eventually branched out to include several

53:03

locations, followed shortly

53:05

thereafter by David opening

53:07

his place. Space center orthodontics

53:10

near NASA, Houston. During

53:14

their outwardly appearing perfect

53:16

life, as husband and wife.

53:18

In nineteen ninety eight, Clara

53:20

gave birth to her and David's twin

53:23

sons. By all

53:25

accounts, the couple was living the

53:27

American dream come true. Love,

53:30

successful businesses, a family,

53:33

luxury cars and a nice

53:35

home in the mostly affluent town

53:38

of Friends Wood. But

53:40

things were not as they appeared,

53:43

at least eventually they

53:45

were not. In

53:48

the fall of two thousand one, David

53:51

Harris and his recently hired receptionist

53:54

Gail began a whirlwind love

53:56

affair. Gail too

53:58

was married. It

54:00

didn't take long for Clara to put

54:02

together the pieces. Unexplained

54:05

high dollar purchases and five

54:07

star hotel bills on their bank

54:09

statements and long hours

54:11

at the office were fairly solid

54:13

clues. Of her husband's betrayal.

54:17

In June of two thousand two, in

54:20

fact, she could no longer sit

54:22

idly by obsessing about

54:24

date its suspected affair. Clara

54:27

hired Houston based private investigator

54:30

firm, Blue Moon Investigations. Upon

54:34

confronting David with proof

54:36

of his impidelity gathered by

54:38

Blue Moon, Clara agreed that

54:41

they could, meant the marriage. But

54:43

only if her husband called off the affair

54:46

immediately. There was

54:48

one stipulation he needed to

54:50

add. David Harris told his

54:52

wife Because he declared

54:54

his mistress to believe that he and

54:56

Clara had an open relationship, David

54:59

said, he needed one last

55:01

dinner with Gail to call off the

55:03

affair face to face, to

55:06

explain and break it to her carefully

55:09

and easily. Clara

55:11

agreed, but unbeknownst to

55:14

David had asked her private investigator

55:16

to tail her husband to ensure

55:19

he was doing what he promised. He

55:21

apparently was not. Rather

55:24

than meeting up at a rest straw to put

55:26

an end to the affair. It

55:29

was later reported to Clara Harris.

55:31

David and Gail were sharing a room

55:33

at Nassau Bay Hilton. Where

55:36

Clara and David enjoyed their

55:38

wedding reception ten years earlier

55:40

alongside friends and family. This

55:44

was too much. The discovered

55:46

betrayal followed by David's

55:48

promise to stop and work toward

55:50

fixing what he'd done. And

55:52

then another betrayal right after

55:54

her. Clara snapped. She

55:58

immediately began speeding to Nassau

56:00

Bay to confront her husband and

56:02

his lover. Her

56:04

stepdaughter, David Harris's sixteen

56:07

year old daughter, was in the car.

56:10

Once at the Hilton, Clara saw

56:12

the Lincoln navigator that belonged

56:14

to her husband's lover. She

56:18

exited the car, walked up to

56:20

the vehicle, and began vandalizing it,

56:23

pulling the sharp end of her car keys

56:25

across the paint, forcefully. And

56:27

bending the windshield wipers. Clara

56:30

and her stepdaughter entered the hotel

56:33

where they found David Harris and

56:35

Gail in the lobby. Seeing

56:38

red and perhaps blacked

56:40

out by rage, Clara quickly

56:42

approached. You bitch.

56:44

He's my husband. She exclaimed,

56:47

slapping Gail immediately after

56:49

the words left her mouth. Claire's

56:52

attention then turned to the guest,

56:54

and the workers who in their

56:56

shock had either froze in a

56:58

stare or had avoided looking

57:01

altogether. Pointing at

57:03

her husband, Clara shouted. This

57:05

is doctor David Harris, and he's fucking

57:07

this woman. David's

57:10

daughter was traumatized. Angry

57:12

at what she'd witnessed, she began

57:15

hitting her father with her purse. She'd

57:18

have forgiven him eventually, of

57:20

course. Had she been given the chance?

57:24

Meanwhile, Clara focused on gayle

57:26

ripping the woman's blouse off as

57:29

she pulled it and her hair beat

57:31

her, and even bit her.

57:34

David pushed his wife off of Gail,

57:37

and she fell to the ground. Hotel

57:40

security quickly moved in and escorted

57:43

everyone out. In

57:45

the short moment, she waited at her

57:47

Mercedes Benz with her stepdaughter.

57:49

Clara was stewing in rage

57:52

and boiling with morbid preoccupation.

57:57

When she saw Gail and David leave

57:59

the hotel heading toward her Lincoln,

58:02

she sped toward them. Her

58:04

stepdaughter was horrified and begged

58:06

her to stop. Clara's

58:08

Mercedes clipped the Lincoln navigator

58:11

before hitting David Harris. Who

58:13

flew some twenty feet across the

58:15

parking lot from the impact. His

58:18

daughter opened the Mercedes door

58:20

screaming, but before she could flee,

58:23

Harris stopped the accelerator. While

58:26

David laid crumpled and unconscious

58:28

on the parking lot pavement, Clara

58:30

drove over him again. The

58:32

Mercedes violently rocking once

58:35

when the front tires rolled over him

58:37

and again with the back. She

58:39

continued to drive, you turned,

58:42

and ran over the man again a

58:44

third time. The Mercedes

58:46

stopped. And suddenly,

58:49

everything seemed quiet. Claire

58:53

stepped out or bolted from the car,

58:55

punched her stepmother in the face, and

58:57

dropped as she cried inconsolably. Clara

59:01

stepped out of the vehicle, 1

59:04

around some, and when the weight

59:06

of what she'd done can crashing down

59:09

on her, also began sobbing.

59:12

When police arrived, she was holding

59:14

her husband repeating I'm

59:17

sorry. I'm so sorry.

59:21

Immediately arrested and subsequently

59:23

charged with, and convicted of

59:26

second degree murder. Doctor

59:28

Clara Harris was sentenced to

59:31

twenty years in a Texas state penitentiary

59:33

on February fourteenth two thousand

59:36

three, Valentine's Day,

59:38

and the eleventh anniversary of

59:40

her marriage to doctor David Harris.

59:44

At eight twenty AM on Friday,

59:46

May eighteenth two thousand eighteen,

59:49

after she was previously denied

59:51

parole twice before. Clara

59:53

was released from prison early.

59:57

David Harris died for his betrayal

1:00:00

and for taking his life. Clara

1:00:02

Harris lost fifteen years of hers.

1:00:09

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to learn. You get to feel that

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sense of achievement

1:00:15

together. It's fun

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and exciting. If you're not afraid

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of heights that is, I need to get down from

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here. So

1:00:25

up next, we have Live Laff Larceny with

1:00:28

my friends Amanda and Treven.

1:00:36

How do I even begin to describe

1:00:38

the word love? Popular

1:00:41

songs throughout the years have tried

1:00:43

their best to do so, but all

1:00:46

seems so bleak. According

1:00:49

to Elvis, only fools

1:00:51

rush in. But he still

1:00:53

couldn't help but fall in love. Softgel

1:00:57

described the feeling of needing to

1:00:59

run away from their tainted

1:01:01

love. Even our Queen

1:01:04

Beyonce has been crazy in

1:01:06

love. Being quoted saying,

1:01:08

uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

1:01:11

Oh, no. No. About the subject.

1:01:15

I'm sure I love has its good moments,

1:01:18

but there seemed to be many warnings about

1:01:20

it as well. The

1:01:22

petty crime story I'll be telling you all

1:01:24

today, is about you

1:01:27

guessed it love and

1:01:29

the caution of keeping affection

1:01:32

separate from transgression. Nineteen

1:01:39

year old, Lei Yu, an eight teen

1:01:41

year old girlfriend, Zhang Chu,

1:01:44

who are deeply in love

1:01:46

and living in the Chinese province, Sichuan,

1:01:49

during two thousand and fifteen, With

1:01:52

Valentine's Day approaching, Lei

1:01:55

wanted to do something special for Chang.

1:01:57

He wanted to give her a romantic experience

1:02:01

along with a pricey

1:02:02

gift, but his bank account just

1:02:04

wasn't cooperating.

1:02:07

Your balance is still negative. Quit

1:02:09

checking. That's when a brilliant idea

1:02:12

popped into his head. Leigh

1:02:15

was going to spoil his Valentine Rotten

1:02:18

without spending a dime of his

1:02:20

own money. The

1:02:22

couple special date night began with

1:02:25

lay driving up to a dark building in

1:02:27

commercial area in town. What

1:02:30

are we dealing here. Asked

1:02:32

Zeng confused. I

1:02:35

told you, it's a surprise. Come

1:02:37

on. Lei reassured her.

1:02:39

Stepping out of the car. The

1:02:43

couple walked hand in hand towards

1:02:45

the front door of a closed jewelry shop

1:02:47

when they came to a stop. You

1:02:50

may wanna stand back. Lay

1:02:52

lovingly warned.

1:02:54

He then kicked the store's door open

1:02:56

with the passion of a man in love.

1:02:59

More

1:03:03

I wanted to get you something nice. Lay

1:03:06

panted heavily. But

1:03:09

but I I wanted us to pick

1:03:11

it out together. Zheng

1:03:14

was speechless. No one had

1:03:16

ever broken into a store for her before.

1:03:19

How dare you? She looked around

1:03:21

the empty and barely lit shop.

1:03:24

Seeing jewelry and glass perfume

1:03:26

bottles glistening in the moonlight. She

1:03:31

could have swooned right there. But

1:03:33

instead, she grabbed Lace's

1:03:35

hand and the couple rushed inside.

1:03:40

Shanghai sidedly picked out some jewelry and

1:03:42

perfume and was ready to flee

1:03:44

the scene of their criminal shopping

1:03:46

spree. But lay had

1:03:49

one more surprise. He

1:03:52

busted open the store's register and

1:03:54

gathered the cash inside. Forming

1:03:57

a money bouquet of sorts for his date.

1:04:01

You deserve the world. But

1:04:03

for now, how does some extra

1:04:05

cash sound? Leigh

1:04:07

said in his best Prince charming voice,

1:04:11

the pair stared lovingly into

1:04:13

each other's eyes. As they crouched

1:04:15

down behind the store's register. They

1:04:19

both knew they should run away from

1:04:21

the store In fear, authorities may

1:04:23

be on the way. But the sexual

1:04:25

tension overshadowed all logic.

1:04:28

Oh, I Both

1:04:30

of them leaned their bodies in closer

1:04:32

and closer to one another, turned

1:04:35

their faces and exchanged.

1:04:37

A fiery kiss. Only

1:04:42

once their makeup was complete, did

1:04:45

the couple flee the scene? Lei

1:04:49

and Cheng were blissfully unaware

1:04:52

that a store camera had captured their affection

1:04:54

and faces on CCTV.

1:04:59

Shortly after the theft, police

1:05:01

analyzed and shared the CCTV footage

1:05:04

getting a tip from a social media

1:05:06

user that led to their

1:05:08

arrest.

1:05:10

The source owner, Gong Chen, said,

1:05:13

They

1:05:13

were amateurs because apart from

1:05:15

the cash, they did not take anything

1:05:17

of value. There were cameras

1:05:19

and laptop computers and smartphones

1:05:22

and they left it all behind because

1:05:24

they were so busy kissing. That

1:05:27

kiss was their undoing. The

1:05:31

left strike larcinist made

1:05:33

off with twenty one hundred one,

1:05:36

approximately

1:05:37

three hundred and one US dollars. Jewelry,

1:05:41

and perfume. But

1:05:43

according to local news reports, they

1:05:45

were let off with no charges. Following

1:05:48

a full confession. Perhaps

1:05:51

this crime could have been avoided if

1:05:54

this couple would been listening to can't

1:05:56

buy me love by the Beatles that

1:05:58

night, but we will never

1:06:00

know.

1:06:02

What I can say is that

1:06:05

love is nearly impossible to

1:06:07

explain.

1:06:09

An even more unexplainable? Is

1:06:11

the trouble? It can get us all

1:06:13

into.

1:06:15

And the truth shall set you free. That's

1:06:19

crazy. I know. confession just gets

1:06:21

you out of

1:06:21

it.

1:06:22

I don't know if the laws

1:06:24

are different. I'm sure they are.

1:06:27

Guarantee that they are. All around

1:06:29

the world. But if I

1:06:32

knew that just a simple confession

1:06:34

after a make out sesh could get me off

1:06:37

the hook for committing a

1:06:38

crime, Yeah. I think I would do

1:06:40

that.

1:06:40

Yeah. To be in that much love. They

1:06:42

were in so much love and I

1:06:45

hope I explained it as well as I

1:06:47

could in this worried that really the only

1:06:50

reason they were caught is because

1:06:52

they shared that passionate kiss in the

1:06:54

CCTV footage. And

1:06:56

then once the police shared it online, because

1:06:58

the way they turned their faces and the way they

1:07:00

were acting, somebody was able to identify

1:07:03

them online. Wow. So,

1:07:05

really, this Valentine's

1:07:07

Day, you really need to be cautious with your love.

1:07:10

Yeah. For sure. Maybe don't do it

1:07:12

while committing a crime. Definitely

1:07:14

not. So if anybody has not heard

1:07:16

of us or listened to our show before, we are Live

1:07:18

LaF Larsseny, and we are the

1:07:20

show that takes petty crimes until in a dramatic

1:07:23

way, but the details may

1:07:25

vary sometimes. Your seems

1:07:27

pretty standard

1:07:28

here. Is everything pretty much all

1:07:30

the truth here? Yes. They did

1:07:32

steal that exact amount of cash, the

1:07:34

perfume, and the jewelry.

1:07:37

It was closed at the time. I

1:07:39

don't know exactly how they busted

1:07:42

in the front door. Mhmm. And

1:07:44

I don't know if it was really all

1:07:46

his idea and he was surprising her real

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Valentine's Day experience slash gift.

1:07:51

Mhmm. That whole thing was just

1:07:53

me, you know, setting the tone for the story.

1:07:56

But everything about the crime itself,

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everything that the store owner said

1:08:01

was her actual quote, and

1:08:03

how they were cut was the truth. Usually,

1:08:05

that's kind of how it goes with our show.

1:08:08

We'll kind of create the story in

1:08:10

our own minds. How did we get

1:08:12

here? What would cause a person to

1:08:14

do some of the ridiculous crimes that we

1:08:16

cover, but we try to keep the

1:08:18

actual facts of the crime as

1:08:20

true as true can

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get. We just like be a little dramatic and

1:08:23

petty with it. Yeah.

1:08:24

We'd like to be fun and as I've always called it,

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we basically make the movie version of

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it. And

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with that story, We will conclude

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the first night of this two night special

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episode for My Bloody Valentine.

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As a quick reminder, all of the podcasts

1:08:41

you heard can be found wherever you listen

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to podcasts. A complete

1:08:45

list of the podcast names and links to

1:08:47

them can be found in this episode show

1:08:49

notes I'll be back tomorrow

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for the last half of this bloody Valentine's

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special highlighting love gone

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wrong. I'll see you then.

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