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Hey guys, welcome to episode 114
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of macabre misfortunes. I'm
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Jerry and I'm Tracy Tracy.
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This story is a
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gruesome one. Actually, we
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have two stories and
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both a gruesome. I
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don't like gruesome. I know you don't. So
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this first one we're going to discuss an incident from 2008
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in Great Britain. So
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let's first get some background. David
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Fial, he lived alone on
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Bodmin Road in Eastley, England.
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Okay, he was 50 years
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old at the time. The
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apartment that he lived in was about to
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be demolished. So they had
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already told people, hey, you're about to move. We're
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going to put something else here. And they
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found them some other places to live. Apparently
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David had some mental
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issues, some mental health issues. He'd
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had epilepsy. He had
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some mobility issues. So
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he had some stuff going on. He
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was, and I quote, irrationally
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opposed to moving. And
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that was to the people who told him he had to move when
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he pretty much threw fits about it. I mean,
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was the place in such bad despair that
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that's why they decided to do that? I'm
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not sure what the reasons were for them wanting
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to do that. I don't know if they just
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wanted to put something else there or what situation
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was. But he pretty much refused to leave. He
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was given 11 adequate
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places to move to, but he still
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refused. A
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formal eviction notice was then served on
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him. This
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sounds like the
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eviction letter was a straw that broke the camel's back.
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So let's go to November 2008. There
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was a nine nine nine call coming
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into police from David's elderly parents. Now,
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of course, nine nine nine is their nine one. They
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were concerned because they hadn't talked to
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him in almost two weeks and that
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was unusual. So
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police and the parents go
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to his apartment. Police
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had his parents wait outside while
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they went inside and check things out. Tracy,
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what police saw would be one of the
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most gruesome scenes that they had ever come
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across. The
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lounge was covered in
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blood. What? The lounge? You like
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when they walk into the place? Yeah, like
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the living room area. I'm
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talking cabinets, the
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walls, the floor, and
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even the ceiling. On
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the floor they found a man
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lying face up. Um,
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literally. He had been fully
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decapitated. Oh my gosh.
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By a chainsaw. Oh!
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But not just any chainsaw. This
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one had been suspended by ropes
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in a pulley system. The
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trigger had been duct taped down.
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So as you can imagine, the police
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were thoroughly confused at
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this odd contraption that he
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had obviously built and
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was hanging from the ceiling. Oh,
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him the victim? Yes, it
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was a… he wasn't hanging. No,
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no, no, but he built it. It
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was a homemade pulley system that
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would allow the user to drop the
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chainsaw onto them. This
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pretty much made it a modern day guillotine. Oh
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my goodness. So upon
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further investigation, they eventually figured out
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that this was indeed David Fyle.
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David had lived there for eight years, and
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his death was ruled a suicide. They
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later found that he had been planning
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this suicide for some time. He
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was meticulously building this device
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and going to great deals of trouble to… assemble
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the whole getup. You mean since
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they worked to
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be evicted is when he started it? It's
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thought that he did the suicide
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in this manner to draw
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attention to the injustice that he felt like
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was being placed upon him.
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Oh, honestly, I don't think it proved
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anything. Deputy coroner Simon
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Burge, not Burch, said
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that in the last 15 years that
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he'd been coroner, this was the most
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bizarre case that he could ever recall.
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Man, I don't... That,
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I mean, it
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just seems far-fetched even that he would think
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all that. I mean, surely he knew it
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was going to kill him. We've either...
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I don't think we've covered the story on here, but it's
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one I looked at. But
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there's another story very similar to this. It
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happened here in the US, but
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it was a boy who would go working with
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his dad a lot. He was a carpenter, so
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he learned a lot of carpenter skills. He's probably
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17, 18 years old, and
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he would go to work with his dad every day and
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just do whatever... His
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dad owned his own company, so he would go work for him.
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Then he asked his dad if he could start working on a
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project of his own. So he worked
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this project up in his bedroom, and every day he
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would be in there working on it. His dad would hear him nailing
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and stuff like this. This went on for three or four weeks, and
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he had literally built a
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device like that that he had in his
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closet that had like a
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timer on it and gears
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to where when it reached a certain point,
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it would decapitate him. And
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he... That's what he did. And his dad said
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he had no clue that's what he was in there working on. And
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then when he heard something
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one day that was really loud, which was
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that machine going off... He
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went in and found it, but they
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said this thing was so detailed. And
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so it was like a remake of
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like a medieval torture device that
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this kid had spent literally weeks
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making. That's so sad. My goodness.
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Could just use it on a stuffed animal or
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something. Why do you have to go that far? Well,
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I think the whole point was they wanted to end
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themselves. I know. They wanted to do it
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in an elaborate way. Oh my gosh. For some
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of it. And I think he left a letter
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to his dad at what was going on. Really? Yeah,
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that's a very way more details than what I'm
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giving in just this little synopsis. All
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right, Tracy. So that was obviously a
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as I said in the beginning, this
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say that it's bad on so many levels but
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it will show you that
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there might be a little bit of karma involved when
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you least suspect it. Now
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have to be careful when you research some
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of these stories because for
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example the last story we talked about with David
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Fowl I found one story that said he was
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58 years old but I found five
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other stories and all of them said he was
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50 years old. I mean
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that doesn't seem like much but that's
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an eight-year difference in age. Yeah. And
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one story compared to what he actually
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was. This story's got some situations
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like that too and I'll tell you as we
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go. But in
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the end he's dead anyway. Correct. It really
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doesn't matter. Correct. But I'm just saying
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this story is gonna have more details that would
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leave you guessing so it
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does make more of a difference.
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22 year old Bethany Stevens she
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lived in Virginia. She
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had some pit bulls that
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she lived with her father. The pit bulls stayed
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with her and her father and
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Bethany was working
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where she was not being able to come
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home every single day. She was coming home four or
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five days a week. Okay. So that
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left some of the responsibilities
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on her dad to take care of the dogs.
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Well on this day she
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comes home she sees her father and
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her two pit bulls by the name of
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Tonka and Pac-Man. These
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dogs were everything to her. She had them
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as puppies. She didn't
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get them at the same time but they were from the
11:45
same litter. So she got one
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as a puppy and then the other one went
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to a couple different houses ended up back at
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the breeder I guess and then she took the
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dog on. So it could be what it's a
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brother. They were both males. On
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December 13, 2017, Bethany came to the house and she left the
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house around 3.45
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to take the dogs for a walk. The
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plan was to be home in about 30 minutes.
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Well, she didn't return in
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30 minutes. Her father
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became concerned. The
12:23
police were called the police and the
12:26
police jumped on the situation after missing for two hours. That's
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not what happened. So
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that's not what happened. What happened was that
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a couple of her friends showed up and said,
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Hey, is Bethany there? And her dad said, Well, I
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thought she was with you guys. So
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the friends started looking for her
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and then they eventually got police
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involved. So police did get involved, but it wouldn't
12:53
exactly the way I had read it. So
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police go and they start talking
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to neighbors. And
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one of the neighbors said, you know what? There
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was some blood curdling screams that
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were happening earlier today. It's probably about
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4 30 and it was right
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