Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: Can I Spill The Beans Now?

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Starting point is 00:01:17 I'll be joined by a bunch of our podcast friends, and we'll all be telling stories on video, and it will be live streamed. And don't worry if you happen to miss it or you can't make it. the audio versions will be available in the following week's episode. I hope to see you there, though. These are always a lot of fun. This week, we have a story by Donna, titled, Can I Spill the Beans Now? Decades ago, I was in college studying a few different courses, including journalism.

Starting point is 00:01:49 I was nervous about taking this program, and I didn't know anyone in the class. Once I started, though, it was nice to be in a classroom. room with other people like me. Everyone was creative, the writer types, so I made friends, including one who would go on to be my child's godparent later down

Starting point is 00:02:09 the line. The journalism teacher was a really difficult marker. If he found one spelling or grammar error, he would fail an entire article. And even worse, he would write a jaunty little

Starting point is 00:02:25 jab like, Cheers, you fail. It was tough, but it became all of our goal one day to get the loftly perch of having no errors in his eyes. We dared to dream. Anyway, the way the course worked

Starting point is 00:02:43 was that at any point during the day, the journalism teacher would show up to assign a story to us. We grew to dread seeing his curly hair bobbing as he walked through the classroom door, since we knew that our evenings were about to be consumed by an assignment. But this day was different.

Starting point is 00:03:03 On this day, we knew we were going to have an assignment because we were taking a field trip to the law courts. When we arrived, he let us pick a courtroom to write a story about whatever was happening there. We all worried that we would pick some crappy, boring procedural or something as the docket doesn't give much info. So it seemed like it was very much a crapshoot, or so we thought. My best friend and I were looking over the lists

Starting point is 00:03:33 when a slightly older guy came over to us. He had an official look about him, and he whispered, Be in courtroom 415 at 1.30. It's a good story, trust me. Hmm, trust some guy hanging out at the law courts building? What could possibly go wrong? we decided to take this lead and we headed over and grabbed a seat

Starting point is 00:03:58 by way of orientation I need to explain this is a small courtroom it was nothing like the giant ones that you see in shows or movies there were maybe two rows of chairs then the defense and the crown for American listeners the crown is like the DA

Starting point is 00:04:17 beyond the crown there's a raised bench and then the judge The court reporter wasn't there, which was explained as things got rolling, so it was just me and my best friend with the guy who had tipped us off about coming into this courtroom. He turned out to be an actual journalist. The lawyers then took their seats, and then the defendant, who was in shackles but dressed nicely, was walked in next.

Starting point is 00:04:46 The guy was creepy with a capital C. He had dark hair and a dark. beard. He stared at me and my friend barely blinking. We had no idea what he was accused of, but his staring and intensity gave us the willies. And I began wishing that we had just gone to traffic court or something like that. This was the proceeding to determine if certain evidence will be deemed admissible. This was a bit unusual, though, since the Crown wanted the trial to reopen. The main charge was murder. The creepy guy had. had bludgeoned his wife to death.

Starting point is 00:05:24 As if that wasn't bad enough, he kept her and ate parts of her. Yes, we were watching the trial of a murderous cannibal. He pleaded mental illness, and it seemed everyone had accepted that he was crazy, and they were planning to send him to a hospital. Except just after everything was closed, the defendant had turned to the Crown attorney and said,

Starting point is 00:05:50 can I spill the beans now? I'm actually not crazy. It was all deemed inadmissible since the Crown had already rested its case. The defendant just kept staring at us even when the judge announced that the guy would be sent to the hospital instead of prison.

Starting point is 00:06:12 It was so intense to watch. We couldn't get out of that courtroom faster if we tried. So, to the news, not crazy, murderous cannibal guy? Let's Not Meet. Don't miss our full-length episodes of Let's Not Meet released every Monday morning. And if you're new here, be sure to subscribe

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Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: Can I Spill The Beans Now?

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