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Hi everyone, it's Vanessa grigoriadis. I

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want to tell you about another podcast. I think you'll

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like it's from a series called witnessed.

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This season is entitled friendly

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fire. So, here's a setup. In

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2003, a man named Marty

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Carson was working for the sheriff's department in

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East Tennessee. He was the

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drug officer, his partner John,

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John Yancey was a K-9 Officer

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one night. They had

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a tip that a guy was cooking meth inside

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a mobile home nearby. they rounded

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up the two other officers and they had it

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over marty knocked and

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and don't and stayed out moments

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later charge on man inside and

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then there was a dungeon marty

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ran out the back door screaming that there

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was a man inside with a shock though

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what happened in that mobile home

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i'm gonna play you a clip from family

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fire season get an idea

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of the way the podcast plays out

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two thousand three john janna been married

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to his high school sweetheart laurie for

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thirteen years they had three young

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sons the oldest was seven

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laurie was a nurse in the emergency room at a local

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hospital with this day the friday after

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thanksgiving she's off the

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taken the boys to knoxville to look for christmas

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tree while john john was at work the

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way home round eight eight fifteen

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he stops by mom's house the

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message the john john and called and

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i try to calling back then it went

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to voicemail when lawyer was at home she'd

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usually have a scanner running in the background receivers

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it picks up on chatter small the emergency frequencies

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we left it on pretty much all the time a that

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night specialists are jobless worked in at night

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i just felt like will safety

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things you notice will bale the hear

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his voice i syria guess he still talks

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in his okay a few minutes after she

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tries to call john john or his

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brother calls the house

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the i understand her own are ya listening to the

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scanner and he said and

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there's and so we

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didn't have a scanner on man

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and his you know that six the line when

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i said an oscar of inside

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he turned on this crackling

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sheriff's office just spewing

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not really his

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father's name and out of it

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as talk radio yeah

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the partial or

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, get enough resources

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and really i have no idea

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what's going to cry psyche

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however and a lotta background

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noise and and i can't complain

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the here jon jones who was on there

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and , wasn't here and anything anything

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that for supervisor what are our twelve

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years and morty berger am

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just fine and and fight it turns out that

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was offered some games credit card and

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photographer it up we have a twenty years lorries

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try not to panic because the

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share superman right

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and if not john john trapper we

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don't know which one it is a kind when

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they get it's emergency rooms he is okay

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thanks

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and then on the scanner laurie

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here's the medics ambulance calling into the

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on the same one were shoes

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nice him , a house that

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they were bringing in a thirty five year old male

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a journalist thirty five years old they

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said old had said they wound

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to the test the

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cbr sit

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still

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gunshot wound to the chest cpr

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in progress how

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did not not

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any good now

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i got back to the you read

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any gaps back

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, the scene scene officer

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confirms that

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it is

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the noise brother calls and i know you're

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not was given to promote that was my bed around

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that shortage of rather not on job

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okay now we

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don't they are there was his

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employers police cars everywhere the parking

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lot is for

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i'm in it which parses

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people every one sided

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some and on and only know he know on just

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i guess that is left my mom guess straining

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east and the which room

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because we usually have a designated trauma ram

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scientists , straight to that ring only know

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if anyone tries to stop their know and i can't even

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remember states on in the surgery time

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i made the away or sad every

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rare they were doing everything

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that they couldn't say time

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soon stay in , corner

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of the way little ones

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are do and that

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emigrate that can be down for

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a while and they ,

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no reason i mean he was

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breathing as and slinging

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the them stop

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as a disconnect the northwest this

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is the

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they do a hard to the morning

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the next day saturday is a blur

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course of this lorries in shock

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the on none of this makes

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sense or even seems real

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layton a day three deputy some the

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sheriff's department under lorries and

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not the you tell me that that

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get lunar

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report acts said it was

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actually more a first the sky that

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headshots the

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boy to killed their husbands the amount

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of marty gun they

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said that the

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sheriff is so it said that he

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can tell me it's else

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the sheriff jim carson is

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especially upset about the whole ordeal in

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large part because he also happens

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to be marty spot

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the season on witnessed friendly

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fire okay his car somewhere

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on the record was born yesterday say

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yes most vulnerable to that cs

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who's telling the truth i thought they were three

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best , some

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wrong this whole scenario really

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piecing together versions of the same story

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why , that's of million dollar

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question question story that isn't about

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who did it added get taught up taught how

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case because how what happened

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, one by happened about watch

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if china ,

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up a little if dealer er

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zu sp intentional another

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the close and er me if you handed over

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her you go on here fifteen

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hundred dollars or how have and how

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they took place and

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will we ever no return

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probably not unless somebody comes bowl we

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can take a pretty good stab at it though

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The excerpt you just heard is from 1

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of Friendly Fire. A story.

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That isn't about who did it. It's about

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why Who's Sean Flynn

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will sort through all the different versions

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of same story to uncover the

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truth from campsite media.

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