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Good Morning, True Seekers and true crime junkies. Welcome back
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to another episode of Hit the Roadjack Finding the Zodiac
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to Welcome to the show today, Harriet Soousche, Good morning.
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I felt like Caat, I felt like Kat and a
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hat there and almost rhymed, let's welcome to the show today,
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Harriet Soouche. Anyways, I know Nolan said he was going
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to be here, although I did have a good conversation
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with him yesterday in regards to the follow up we're
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going to discuss so if no one comes in, we'll
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we'll introduce him to the show. At that point, he
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did say he'd be here, But I'm actually leaving off
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on last week's follow up with the Tim Miller situation
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and the Texas killing fields, so I wanted to kind
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of just recap the docuseries that I saw with Tim
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Miller in regards to the different suspects and victims, because
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it actually yielded some good information. It helped to actually
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take a couple of murders off the books. So I'm
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just gonna briefly go through that, and then we're going
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to climb right back into the follow up for the
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Peter Wilson wrongful conviction because that got exponentially more interesting.
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For you too for that case.
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Yay, okay, all right, well, so let me let me
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get through this real quick, and then we're going to
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hop right into that. So on the it's on Netflix,
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and it's crime scene the Texas Killing Fields in Galveston,
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Leed City, Dickinson and I forty five killer, So basically
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on Calder Road on an oil field. As Harriet had stated,
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I believe you said that you thought that that was
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a former Phillip sixty six station.
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Yeah, yeah, that was a former Phillip sixty six pump
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Jack station. So when I started coding that, I said,
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once I saw that Jack has got some information, that's
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what I will.
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See pump Jack. Hmm okay, yes. So so basically the
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bodies were laid out under trees as if they were posed.
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And that's something that we've talked a lot about in
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regards to Black Dahlia, the Oakland County child killer cases,
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like these bodies being out in the open and posed
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in a certain manner. So this actually set them of
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this particular killer for the killing fields. Aside from who
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we're going to hear further in what they talk about
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on this documentary. So one of the suspects was Clyde Hedrick,
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and that is the one that Tim Miller actually sued
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for a wrongful death, even though Clyde Hedrick had only
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been associated with I think it was abuse of a corpse,
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and that was in regards to Ellen Beeson. He supposedly
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had gone to the bar and they'd hung out, and
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then after that they went to go swimming, and of
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course he says that he looks into the water and
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there she is floating. He doesn't know what to do
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with her. He picks her up, he's going to take
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her to the hospital, but then he gets scared and
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he ends up dumping her in a field underneath a
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couch and some tires. So that is what ultimately gets
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him in trouble. For that, I think that they did
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actually exume that body and determine that there was a
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blow to the head that could not have happened if
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she had just dove in the water, so almost as
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if to say that he had hit her with something.
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But again we won't know the truth of any of that.
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So the victims were in the Texas Killing Fields. The
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victims were Heidiville real Fi and she went missing October
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nineteen eighty three. Found April sixth, nineteen eighty four because
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a dog had brought back a skull to its owner.
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Victim number two, which is Jane Doe. We now actually
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have names. I've been waiting all these years for names,
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or for them to finally figure out who Jane Doe
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and Janet Doe is from these series, and we have
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their names now. So Jane Doe found nineteen eighty six
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was they found a twenty two caliber bullet lodged in
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her spine. Her name is Audrey Lee Cook and she's
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thirty years of age. They did actually find a blue
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plaid shirt, as I'd indicated before, that's probably missing. I
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think that that's what it said. I've typed it up
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as it's missing now, So this shirt used to exists,
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but of course no DNA testing can be done on it,
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because now that we have the technology, the shirt is gone.
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Victim number three was Laura Miller. She went missing September
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tenth of nineteen eighty four and found in nineteen eighty six,
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basically right where Tim had been trying to coax everybody
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to look for her. So here she is in the
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Killing Fields. Victim number four is Janet Doe. She's the
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second well found in nineteen ninety one. Her name is
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Donna Prudehom and she was thirty four years of age.
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Now by nineteen ninety one, Robert Abel owns and runs
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a trail riding horse business, which I believe is Stardust
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Trail Rides, and he owns two properties next to the
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Killing Fields at this point, and he does eventually end up,
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I think, buying that particular property. So he was responsible
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for creating the Saturn Rocket because he worked for NASA,
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as Harry stated, And by nineteen ninety one he owned
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the Killing Fields, so he didn't technically own those in
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the beginning, and that's what I discovered through the documentary.
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Victim number five we thought was Laura Smithers. Now, of course,
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she was dumped in a completely different location, not where
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these other bodies were, and that's what kind of sat
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her apart. She went missing on April third, nineteen ninety seven,
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in Friendswood, Texas, and she was found near a waterway.
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And that's why I had included her in this particular presentation,
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because we know the zodiac had a lot of waterway associations. However,
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we did actually find out that she is. Now it
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has been claimed that where's his name? Bill Reese has
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taken responsibility for Laura Smithers, Jessica Kaine, and Kelly Cox.
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So these are three murders that I can remove from
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the presentation, and I feel fairly secure in doing so
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because it isn't just a confession where some of these
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individuals will confess to things they didn't do. He actually
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was on I think he was looking at the death
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penalty for another murder, and it turned out that he
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was offered to take the death penalty off the table
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if he showed them where the bodies were to these
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other victims, and he then did so. He showed them
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where Laura's Smothers was and where Jessica Kaine was and
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Kelly Coxy accepted responsibility for these murders. So that's kind
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of an update here on those. Even though they're much later,
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they're in the nineties. Again, that's what sets them apart
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from the killing fields. The killing fields were in the eighties.
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I really kind of now pay a lot of attention
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to this finale letter, the two thousand and five one,
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because it specifically said there was other people killing in
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the eighties. It wasn't definitely. Now we're actually seeing yeah,
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now we're actually seeing proof that there were other killers
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operating at the same time. But they weren't dumping in
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the same manner. They were hiding the bodies just like
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Clyde Hedgerock did so our killer. I believe for these three,
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the Heidiville Real, well, actually it's four, so it's the
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two Jane and Janet Doe, Laura Miller, and Villa Real
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five were all actually dumped in the killing fields, whereas
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everybody else was in different locations. But around that area.
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Let's see, there was a push to get fingerprints. And
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one of the things I did notice is that they
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stated at this time when they found Laura Smithers, is
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that it created a huge push for the school systems,
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and for everybody to take DNA samples and swabs. I
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remember this, like vaguely remember this back in the late nineties,
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the big push to get your children's finger prants, to
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get a DNA swab, to have all of these things
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on hand in case something happened to them, you could
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provide that git to law enforcement in hopes to find them.
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So there was a huge push for that. The murders
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then take off again in nineteen ninety seven. I really
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thought that this was a shoe in for Jack, because
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we know Jack returned in nineteen ninety seven. I believe
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that's when his mom died Floa or he had gone
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back to start taking care of her again ninety six hish,
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ninety seven ish before she passed away, So he was
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actually back in Texas. And there may be some there
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that we're going to talk about that he can be held,
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you know, or the proximity says that it's possible that
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he is the killer of those individuals and we'll get
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to them at that time. It looks like Tim Miller
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also he started with Clyde Hedrick as a suspect, and
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then he moved on to Robert Abel and evidently he
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was pounding the crap out of at least mentally pounding
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the crap out of Robert Abel and he ends up,
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actually Robert Abel ends up having to file a restraining
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order against Tim Miller to leave him alone. He's not
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the killer, He's not I'm not who you're looking for.
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And at some point in time, Tim Miller actually apologizes
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to Robert Abel. I believe this is in two thousand
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and five. I believe. I'm not sure if it's before
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or after. I would love to talk to Tim in
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regards to some of this, but he hasn't responded as
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whether or not that letter for the finale letter in
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two thousand and five came in before or after his
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apology to Robert Abel, and maybe after. And that's why
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he apologized, because the letter now coming from the suspect
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or killer of his daughter, is indicating that Robert abeles
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not the devil, that the blue sid you know, Blue Fuzz,
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is looking for kind of thing. So let's see here.
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And that we could get some more when I start,
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when I send you some of this stuff, then you'll
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understand a little bit more about how the evidence is
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telling the story. Yeah, I got eighty six. The names
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that you're saying were determined later. They apparently the government
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people already knew who was.
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There who Jane and Jeda done, Oh yeah, what you're saying, Okay, okay.
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Yeah, I'll send that to you because I don't want
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to confuse the listeners. I've already got gotcha, So let's
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just move, you know, guys, I don't want to because
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you're bringing up so much pertinent information here and this
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this is how you do this, right when you line
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out everything and then go and start for me, it's
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going to start decoding right well.
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In Mayam nineteen ninety seven is when all of this
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kind of came together. Sandra S. Paul was abducted by knife.
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Her car was acting up after a strange as she
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ran after she ran into a strange man at a
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convenience store, and all of that sounded very zodiac like, right,
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you know, manipulation of the car, the convenience store, all
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of these things seemed to run in tandem. So it
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was it was it was purposeful that they made the
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actual presentation. And so at any at any point, I
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guess that he says, you've got a flat tire, Can
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I help you. So again, we know that the Kathleen
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John's situation was a tire that had been loosened. The
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wheel had been loosened from the car, so she was
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actually put into this guy's truck, jumped out, and on
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October sixteenth of nineteen ninety seven, she identifies Bill Reese. So,
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now Bill Reese is the one I said that he
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had got off of the death penalty by showing them
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where the bodies were of Laura Smithers, Jessica Kane, and
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Kelly Cox. Now I'm not sure he actually showed him
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where Kelly Cox was or just accepting culpability for it,
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but he did show him where Lauris Smithers and Jessica
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Kaine was. Now Bill also leads PD to her body
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in exchange for death penalty. In an unrelated murder case,
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police view views something like sixty two hundred pictures belonging
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to Abel, so they've literally done a search on him
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quite like they did with Arthur Lee Allen and found
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nothing in all of his messes stuff. They and one
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of the guys commented that he had looked through sixty
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two hundred pictures and nothing showed anything. Nefarius on Robert
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Abel's end in.
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Two anyways, keep going.
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I know, I know, I know, I'm just putting out
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I'm not saying that the media is always correct and
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what they're saying. This is just what the media is
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leading us to believe at this point.
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That he then even trying to get help. Robert Abel
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is so that's why he's allowing all this to happen,
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you know, And in hindsight when I see this, he's
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allowing all this to happen, like please rest me, stop me.
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a killer. There are good people out there that can
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take an interest. I saw the investigative reporter on this
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Texas killing fields. She kept clippings, she followed everything, she
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ran around injecting herself into the case. Nobody called her
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a murderer. So that's what I'm saying. People can't keep
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using the fact that just because he assisted gave his
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courses and gave him, you know, freedom to his property,
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to say that that makes him a killer. I really
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just don't honestly believe yes, some do inject themselves into
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the case so that they can follow what's going on.