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Hi, everyone. Ashley Flowers here

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from CrimeJunkie and Apple Podcasts

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top new show The Deck.

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We actually came across case while working

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on the deck that we immediately knew

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we had to investigate ourselves. And

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what we uncovered, we'll have you on

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the edge of your seat. This is a case that

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has never been covered in-depth

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anywhere before, but you'll wonder

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why, because we were able to go

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so deep and uncover so many

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twists and turns, so many

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in fact, that I couldn't fit it into just

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one or two episodes. So I

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story. Argus

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Indiana is small, more

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cornstalks than people in nineteen eighty

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four. It's one of those places

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where neighbor means something different.

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Everyone's your neighbor, but each house

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is a corn or soybean field away.

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The home of the host family was just

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like that, tucked away off a major

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road through town with fields to the front

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and back. Ron Holz built

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the home himself for his wife, Darlene, and

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her three daughters. He picked the because

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his parents and his siblings also had

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plots of land and homes nearby. It

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was an idyllic Midwest life.

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Ron's dad would sometimes pedal his bike

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the quarter of a mile over from his house to

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theirs in the mornings after Ron left for work

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to say hi to his grandkids. In

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fact, he did just that on August

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seventeenth nineteen eighty four.

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Besides him, there weren't many other pop

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in visitors. But that morning after

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he left, there was another knock at the

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door. The two

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older girls who were six and A only heard

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bits of what was happening from where they were

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in the bathtub. But what they

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heard was strange, growling

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and grunting, low and guttural.

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When they left the tub, what they found

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was a man, knelt over their

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mother trying to tape her eyes

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and mouth shut.

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I remember her saying don't hurt my babies,

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and she was screaming to blood curtling

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screams while she was fighting. So there were

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grunts and it was just like surreal.

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It was completely surreal. I just

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remember him coming towards me. And me

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thinking, he's gonna get me done. It's gonna

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get me. And I think that's when she said

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to run run run

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when the girls ran out the front door, they

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had no idea that would be the last

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time they'd see their mother.

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Twenty eight year old Darlie HOLSE

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was abducted from her home just yesterday,

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but the search for her ended here in

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this patch of woods to six miles from

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her home. mother of three was found

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dead. And while investigators haven't

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released a cause of

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death, they're calling this a homicide. And

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the manhunt is underway. It's

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been thirty eight years since that manhunt

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began and there have been no

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arrests. In those thirty eight years,

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eight year old Marie, six year old Melissa,

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and one year old Kristen had to grow up not

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knowing who took their mother or why.

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I remember sitting on the steps

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in the garage and asking, some

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things. And I'll never

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forget one time Melissa said the one thing that

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shared regrets was not getting me,

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not grabbing me when there were, you know,

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happened. I think that's piqued my interest. Like,

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what do you mean? Like, where where was I?

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What was going on? So then start

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asking more. And I just

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watched

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myself. When I get older. I wanna

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do some digging. Digging

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up the truth can be hard in

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a case that is as cold as an Indiana

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winter. But the more weaved

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up, we've come to believe that

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truth might be right below

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the surface if you know where

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to look. And the answers to

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decades old questions could be a whole

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lot closer to home than anyone

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ever wanted to believe.

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And so I looked him in the eyes

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and here were the the just

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the red He

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looked like a monster. He

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doesn't look like the person that's walking

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out there right now. This

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case has the potential to be solved

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within weeks if the people in

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charge make it a priority. And

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what the hell takes so long with the DNA? Which

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kinda corrects that?

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So if they came, would you give them your DNA to just

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really lie? They haven't. They

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haven't.

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They took it from me years ago.

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If they didn't still have it and they needed a new sample,

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would you be cool with it? No.

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I'm not gonna work with them at all. But

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until then, we're knocking on every

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door and leaving no stone unturned.

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I wanna cross you off the list. I have a long

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list. You're one of many people. Leave

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me the fucking home. From

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we're bringing you an investigation that

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is too big for just one episode

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of the deck. I'm Ashley Flowers,

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and this is the deck investigates.

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In season one, we're diving deep into

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the murder of Darlene Holz, the four

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of hearts from Indiana. You can

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