Small Town Murder - #321 - Sins Of The Stepfather - Lemmon Valley, Nevada

Episode Date: September 30, 2022

This week, in Lemmon Valley, Nevada, when a teenage girl is last seen, riding into the hills on horseback, no one knows what could have happened. No one, except either her stepfather, or maybe two hillbillies, living in a makeshift shack, with crude drawings of dead girls, and women made out of electrical tape. Things quickly unravel, when ripped up pieces of paper are reconstructed by detectives to reveal a diary that uncovers a sick & twisted relationship that could have led to this. It's a real mystery, and one strange & crazy story!!Along the way, we find out that most of northern Nevada is made up of trailer parks, that some things are just as bad to admit as murder, and that sometimes things don't always end up the way we thought they would!!Hosted by James Pietragallo and Jimmie WhismanNew episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [e-mail] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Like Jack Lemon, not like a lemon. This is in northwestern Nevada. It's a suburb of Reno. Really? If Reno 911 was real, Sheriff's Department, they would be coming out here, for instance. Reno's got suburbs?

Yes. That's like where they would go and jack galifianakis was like had his like a camouflage painted school bus with like a pregnant teenage wife and nine children running around with a pool like one of those little plastic pools yeah yeah yeah that he's hiding things under it's out in that section of reno in the okay in the dirt section especially back when this happened exactly, too. So it's, like I said, northwestern Nevada. It's about 15 minutes to Reno, so just outside Reno, about two and a half hours to Sacramento.

That's actually the closest other city is that way. It's like seven hours down to Vegas. And then two hours to Imlay, Nevada, which was the last Nevada episode, episode 216, March of 2021. It's been a while since we've been there. Yeah, it's been a long while. That was a crazy episode one, too. That was a guy who was crazy and thought that there was triangles in the desert. I remember that.

Of course. He was nuts. Population of this town, 5,362. Median income and home price are like right at average median income is 54 grand a year for the household home price 293 grand so it's like average in every respect here um quick quick history here this is basically known as one of the largest trailer areas there is really outside of reno sun valley panther valley all these valleys outside of reno are all lemon valley they're all known for having massive trailer parks and

massive amounts of trailers because it was the way the sewage system was back in the day like you weren't allowed to build things into this so you had it was a very odd rules that they had in this area caused everybody to have trailers here rather than i'd like to know what the rules were like you can only have septic tanks or like you can only have one service so they're like fuck it we'll put 700 people on the service it was really it was a really boring thing about septic systems and shit so i was like we don't have time for that but it's what it was there's something to do with septic systems is where they needed trailers. So reviews of this town very quickly.

Five stars. Here's one. Five stars. Quote, there is very little crime in this area. Maybe criminals don't want to travel that far to inflict crime. So it's more about you than the criminals. They're just like, too far out there. The criminals are just lazy around here.

Yeah, you know. But the visibility of police is always present. A motorist can barely speed down Lemon Drive without being pulled over. Five years ago- Well, don't fucking speed, you idiot. Well, don't speed on the main road, probably, then. Every town has the roads you can't speed on. Lemon Valley, and the main drag is probably Lemon. Don't speed there.

Five years ago, we had a miscreant break into cars and steal some things. A miscreant? We've never had that word in a review before. But that was the only thing that's happened. Well, except if a person leaves their bike outside. For some people, for some reason, people like to steal bikes, but that's about it.

Yeah, people steal everything. Yeah, that's everywhere. If you leave a bike unlocked outside. The prevalence of crimes is very little and the visibility of police is very concentrated on the main street. That's why you shouldn't speed there, dummy. In the neighborhood, people speed up to 40 miles an hour, and I wish the cops caught them more for that, but I know the police are busy, too. My only concern would be to catch speeders in the neighborhood because kids are walking to school, and some them are in first grade don't want to see them get run over that's their whole review of the town it's just about speeding and speed enforcement yeah what some of them are in second

grade too is it a nice town or what are we talking about i heard nothing wow uh four stars my favorite part of lemon valley is that we are far enough from the casinos that we can see the stars at night. It's quiet and the people are friendly. That's nice. Very nice. Four stars. There are plenty of there are plenty great on getting all the they are plenty great on getting all the roads worked on. And if there is a fire, I can count on the fire department to be there that's a plus great that is talk about as basic as you get like if you call the fire department they'll come terrific wow that's good let's show up some of the police staffed generally care but then a small portion is corrupt only looking to fill their quotas you are most likely

to get pulled over and ticketed in reno in most cities. Okay, because it's all tourists from everywhere. Okay, one star. This is the person who hates it. Crime has been definitely brought up to Lemon Valley. Considered much smaller than its counterparts in the new construction industries like De Monte and Spanish Springs, crime is higher than both of those areas combined houses are cheaper but the problem is the area is very separated in other words there are a lot of free and open land between the buildings making it look rural and suburban at the same time great good for you goddamn government's important crime and then the last line is definitely lower income so there you go um this is like like Reno's trashy north side here.

Things to do. Reno River Fest. Oh, buddy. First of all, enter the Cornhole Championship there. They have the last two years winners on there, the first, second, and third. Two years ago, Beavis and Butthead came in first. And last year, the Dude Dads took the title. Yeah, of course it is.

That's nice. Just in case you're wondering if it's like crooked or if this is like a real, like if you can count on this shit. Is this sanctioned? The Northern Nevada Cornhole Officials will be on site at the tournament. So this is all going in the books officially. This is no bullshit. Yeah. It's no backyard horse shit here.

They're measuring between the two boards and then while you're cornhole and you're gonna want to rock to some tunes i guess oh you're damn right so they're gonna kick it off here uh the headliners for these nights are lindsey l e l l oh i don't know it's country shit jimmy you're supposed to know this stuff don't look at me. And then Ryan Griffin. Not Brian Griffin, the dog from Family Guy. Ryan Griffin. Do you know who that is? I'd rather have Brian. Do you know who that is by any chance?

I don't. I've heard him sing. He can croon. He's good. Also, those are the headliners, mind you. Wow. Then they have Nevada 445. I assume that's their area code.

Mark Mackey. He'll be there kaiser soze will be there oh that's a great and then matt rainey and the dipping sauce i hate all of them yeah this sounds like shit while people are cornholing we don't need any of that what we do need though is to talk about a murder let's just do that let's do that um okay this is this is weird okay let's go back in time to 1974 oh okay now think about this area in 1974 did not i mean this is the west was nothing like it is now in 1974 phoenix was like a little city yeah with nothing around it you know what i mean it was so much desert it was so much desert reno city with nothing around it. You know what I mean? It was so much desert. It was so much desert.

Reno was fucking nothing. And it was just concentrated in the city of Reno. So people who lived out here lived in trailers on sand dunes, essentially, is what it like. It's a bleak place back then. It's all it was was trailers, too. And everything that happens here is trailers. It's all trailer stuff. And, yeah, this is a really kind of you know out there not a lot of air conditioning like i'm shocked that people survived yeah that's what i mean how fucking hot it is in the west it is

it's mind-bogglingly hot yeah wrote people to come to you should come too oh okay we'll pack right up writing this through the blisters on my lips guy gets out there he's like he's doing his shirt and he's like one thing you forgot you know you mentioned the jobs you mentioned that was nice you mentioned the landscapes and one thing you failed to mention the fucking searing searing of hellfire heat that this place general what the fuck are we doing here i blinked and i could feel how hot my eyelids are on the bottom eyelids we're all wearing black suits what are we the hell is wrong with us you know what it's a hot out and like you blink and like the sill

of your eye hits the bottom one and you're like oh my god that God, that's fire. Oh, my God. Well, this here, at this point, too, there's a lot of horse people that live out here. There's such open land that there's horse people out here, people with a bunch of horses. And a lot of the people who live here aren't even, like, huge horse people have horses to, like, ride around on because that's just what people do out here because it's the Wild West. Back then, Reno was known for had a few casinos and you could go there and get a divorce in six weeks you could that was the thing in like the 1960s it took forever to get a divorce you if you went to reno and established residency for six weeks you can get a you could get a right now divorce there so people would move there for six weeks and then then leave married in vegas divorced in reno that's it that's how it works got a full system that shoots you out to idaho

when you're gone so let's talk about a gentleman here um in 1974 he's 34 years old yeah he is born in 1940 edward nevin crockett nevin is n-e-V-O-N. Crockett with two Ts. So Eddie Crockett here. Now, Eddie's a construction worker. Nice going here. He's a construction worker out there. They live out in Lemon Valley. He got married in July of 1973.

He marries a woman named Chickalotta. Chickalotta is her name. She sounds hot as fuck. C-H-I-Q-U-L-A-T-A. Chickalata. You betcha. I love her. Chickalata Ann is her name.

Chickalata Ann Harrington at the time. She becomes Chickalata Ann Crockett. What the fuck? Where did they get Chickalata? Chickalata Ann. I don't know. Harrington. Harrington. What the fuck? Where did they get Chickalotta? Chickalotta Ann. It's not. I don't know. Harrington.

Harrington. Harrington might have been her former married name, though. I don't know what her maiden name is here. Now, they live, all of them live, these two get married. They live in a trailer park, or a trailer, not a trailer park, a trailer home in Lemon Valley. Nowadays, this is a much more built up area. But back then, there was nothing out here. park or a trailer not a trailer park yeah a trailer home in levin and lemon valley nowadays this is a much more built-up area but back then there was nothing out here it was just them in a fucking trailer just a random trailer out in the middle of the desert like i looked up the address

and i'm like oh there's like stuff around there now like it's nothing like they described this right around their their trailer back then so um now uh chickaletta here, she has- Chickalotta? Chickalotta, sorry, Chickaletta. Chickalotta, Chickaletta sounds better for some reason. Chickalotta has brought all of her- That's when you put tomato juice in your margarita. Well, chickpeas and tomato juice. It's like a hummus tomato juice.

You call it a Chickalotta. That's what it is. Gross. Pour your thick hummus into your tomato juice you call it a chicolata that's what it is gross pour your thick hummus in your juice you gotta whip it up real good otherwise really chew your drink it doesn't really dissolve so much but it's pretty good it's nutritious now chicolata has with her also uh her six children. Oh, my God. Six children. She has there's a little girl, four little boys and a 15 and a half year old daughter. That's who she has in a trailer. So we're talking eight people in a trailer. OK.

And they have like horses and shit, too. It's weird. They own horses and all this stuff the daughter's name the 15 year old's name is blithe harrington which sounds like the bad guy in an 80s movie it sounds like he's blithe harrington that sounds like he's got like a sweater tied around his neck and he's got like blonde feathered hair and he's making fun of michael j fox for not getting pussy or something that's what that's anything blithe harrington sounds like a swashbuckler blithe harrington it does or like an even an english author blithe harrington

you know he wrote that whole series of books on jack the ripper remember him either way blithe here uh blithe harrington 15 year old girl um actually she's just a nice girl she's not not an 80s bad guy movie she's just a nice girl she's not not an 80s bad guy movie she's just a nice teenage girl okay unfortunately named yeah yeah it's just a difficult thing to do named in the 80s yeah it would have been tough so july 2nd 1974 so basically July weekend here. Blythe takes off at about 5.15 p.m. She takes off on her horse to ride. She's riding toward Antelope Valley. Yeah.

Okay. On her horse here. It's a path where she rides all the time. Her and the stepfather, Edward, here ride all the time. He's an avid rider too. They go out on rides through here all the time. He's an avid rider, too. They go out on rides through here all the time. So to see her trotting out this way, extremely normal.

Very calm. That's just what she does. So a little before 5 p.m., Edward returned home from his construction job. And everybody said he saddled up his horse when he got home, like right away. Didn't change clothes or anything. Saddled up his horse and went on the same path okay um in the end we'll find out that he traveled approximately 19 miles jesus that horse got to be worn out i guess how much stamina does a horse have so yeah i wrote listen i so i wrote out of the grand canyon 13 fucking miles on one of those they let that horse stay the night at the top before they take him back to to the corrals down and make sense and if he walks in then he's not

allowed to hike back hike anybody back out what is he a truck driver that's good though don't break the horse yeah don't break that's what i meant is they're like is he on speed check him for speed no they shouldn't fucking torment these horses but that's what like 19 miles is a long fucking ride that's long so um anyway they're yeah they're doing this now sometime between 11 and 11 30 p.m they realize that she never wears blithe she's not home and um so chicolata and edward are sitting there going where the fuck is blithe kids are bouncing off the walls of a trailer a little you just hear sounds of tin all the time, things hitting tin. So between 11 and 11.30, he ends up, because some time goes by,

and we'll find out what he did in the meantime and what Chickalotta did, but Edward calls the Washoe County Sheriff's Department to report what he found up on Antelope Mountain. Oh, no. He went up on Antelope Mountain, and he went up on antelope mountain and he said he found his stepdaughter's nude body up there oh no yeah he went up there he said him and him and the menchicalata founder they found um they said it was in a remote area near a little used dirt road that you wouldn't know is there unless you were a local basically so um one of the horses

the horse she rode out on was found tied to a tree nearby just standing there you know fine alive and healthy in better shape than poor blithe you know what i mean poor blithe is dead here um so crockett said after a while he searched for her on horseback and couldn't find her on horseback. So he returned later with his truck because the horse got tired or whatever. So she had to come back with the truck. And he said once he went around with the truck, him and his wife were looking for the girl. And that's when they found this area up here and they found her up there. Now, what happens is the cops have they just cordon off the area around here they do

like a 15 foot radius around the body which by the way is not a big enough crime scene no no fucking all yard radius you need a lot for footsteps for things for that tracks of any kind 15 feet that means anybody can walk and kick dirt and do anything they want outside of 15 feet yeah if someone is shot a shell casing could be way more than 15 feet i mean like it's you gotta you gotta fucking really have a bigger crime scene than that but it's 1974 in the middle of the desert somewhere so they're just like that should be good right all right just keep the holes away from her somebody rips a shoe off her and throws it they'll throw it further than 15 absolutely but they go that should be a good

well they just do that and they wait for daylight to arrive they don't have any like lights or anything they could bring out here for a dead teenage girl fire up the 1k and let's get out there no leave her on the ground they left her on the ground jesus and stood there over a dead a nude dead teenage girl on the ground for what, five, six hours? At that July, five hours, July, and it's 5 a.m. The sun comes up in the summer in the West. So hot. That's disgusting.

That is just gross. And it's even hot at night. Not out here, though, because it's the desert. So it's not that hot. So either way, once daylight comes, several additional officers arrive, and that's when they begin gathering evidence and doing photographs and all that. Meanwhile, it's been sitting out in the dryness, in the elements. You could be losing physical evidence. There's a lot of things going on here.

The pathologist arrived around 10.30 a.m. Can't be bothered at 7 a.m. Body's been there maybe 12 hours at this point we don't know because it was found at about 11 the autopsy performed found uh basically found body tissue fluid hair foreign material samples and all that shit that we'll get to that's what they did for that they found out that she was shot three times in the back with a.22. Good Lord, man. That's what they figure out. It's a.22 pistol, they figure, is what they're thinking about here.

Now, they're asking about that, and they ask Edward, well, because they have to ask the family, what kind of guns do you have? Right. And he said, well, I got a.22 that I carry around with me all the time when I'm out there. And they said, well, we'd like to take a look at your gun, make sure it hasn't been shot. And he said, well, while I was riding around to look for her, I shot at some beer cans as I was riding my horse. So I have shot it tonight. I bucked a few shots off at beer cans out there. Because when I'm looking for my missing stepdaughter, I go, you know what?

Let's do some boot scooting target shooting right now and just pop pop pop and some beer can somebody done left their miller lot i think i'm gonna shoot it now find your stepdaughter what the fuck man so he's like yeah just carry that around so i you know bucked a few shots off who knows i'm a cowboy what do you want from me? How many did you shoot, sir? Because if it's three, we're going to have a talk. Where are the fucking casings? So several days later, the sheriff's department gets a warrant to search their whole residence. Just for, they said, and you can, they're looking for, that made them suspicious. I have a.22.

I was shooting it around there. So like, yeah, we want to look. But they're also saying we just have to look through all her stuff and make sure that, you know, whatever. You never know. So they look through them. They're looking for certain guns, ammunition, clothing that might match fibers, things like that. So during the search, there's a small box on top of a closet shelf, and they knocked it over off the shelf by accident they were sweeping the shelf and it got hit and knocked down out of the out of this tiny box in the closet it's a

bunch of just bits of torn paper like if you tore up a note in the little pieces and then put it in a little box for later okay torn pace pieces he ed says, I don't even bother picking them up. I don't care. Was it scraps of paper? He goes, I'll vacuum it later. So don't even worry about picking them up because they started picking them up because I don't worry about it.

One of the cops, as he's picking up the scraps of paper, sees just where it's a little scrap of paper, but they see the sole word written on this scrap of paper is the word love. Oh, it looks like it's written in like a, like a younger late younger females handwriting uh-huh so he says uh let the other cops go we're taking the scraps too

so they take all the scraps they don't know what it means but just in case they take maybe this will be about a boyfriend that fucking could be she could be meeting up with somewhere it up and she's mad at him and being murdered to be mad at her who knows that's what i mean so they you never know they need some kind of they just have a dead girl in a fucking on a mountain so one of the officer puts the paper bits into his pocket which is not i don't think proper evidence procedure i think that's protocol i mean what i gotta just put them in my pocket there for later i don't mix it up with my cigarettes and i here we are on the we are at the crime scene everybody fill your pockets we'll empty them at the station everybody wear cargo pants good good we're gonna fill our pockets

with what we got here we'll come back for the rest fill them pockets up what is happening the brim will meet at the station and rendezvous and really put it together. We'll dump it all out on one table and see what we got ahead of us, man. We'll have to divvy it up together. So he, Crockett, Edward, says when he walks in there, just check on what's going on. He said, what happened to all those scraps that were on the floor? They said you didn't have to pick them up. And they said, well, we're taking them with us.

And he said, no, you're not. You're not taking those paper scraps that you found on the floor. You're not taking my garbage. Yeah, we are. And they're like, well, no. They have a warrant specifically to look for guns and shit. And this got knocked out of a smaller container that couldn't fit the things they're looking for when you're looking for large items that's why police will try to be vague as vague as they can be when they get a search warrant because that way they can find other shit but

when something like this that's not what they were looking for and not in plain sight because they had to knock the box off to get it to open now it's now you're in another area so they said fine we can get an additional warrant i mean obviously we'll get one and that's fine so he said okay fine fine i'll sign off crockett said i'll sign off on you taking it only if you tell me what what it says later tell me what's in there that's the deal you have to inform me of the contents of that shit later on okay what a bizarre request okay there you go great sounds good no problem high five fuck off all right good so go team see you around all right so they get all their stay empty their

pockets when they get back to the station they pile everything up and they're like wow look at what you found i found this that's it's like halloween would you you got full-size snickers oh man what is that a cock ring oh that was just mine. That wasn't there. Sorry, hold on. That wasn't for the, this is for later. This isn't for the part of the investigation. When they put all the, imagine being the guys who have to assemble the paper scraps. Oh, Jesus. They assemble the paper scraps, okay, after painstaking.

It's a lot of paper scraps, apparently, so it's hard to assemble. paper scraps apparently so it's hard to assemble it appears to be a diary written by blithe harrington basically exclusively detailing the ongoing love affair including detailed sexual relations with her stepfather god damn it why why why are we what are we doing no so at that point they're like hey eddie we'd like to have a chit chat with you now remember when you said you want to know what the letter is come on in think you knew what the letter was so he says yeah i've i had sex with her i fucked her that's what he says. I fucked her.

And they're like, well, yeah, we know that. We found the whole diary. It's pretty. He said so. She's either has an amazing imagination or and could have been like the foremost, you know, porn writer of the 1970s. Or you're disgusting. And I'd like to crack you with my nightstick in the skull. Or you've raped a child, sir.

He said, but he didn't kill her, obviously. What the fuck kind of statement is that, by the way? I fucked the child, but I didn't kill her. The only thing worse would be I fucked her, then I killed her. Or worse than that, I killed her, then I fucked. That's the worst one of all, probably. Either way, this is bad. This isn't good. That's the worst one of all, probably. Either way, this is bad. This isn't good.

That's a horrible person. And it's just a terrible criminal thing. It's crazy. Oh, my God. In the diary, too, she had said in the diary that she has loved him for seven years. Oh, God. She was eight this is not we don't know if the sexual right molestation started at eight but something certainly the brainwashing grooming started when

yes exactly she says she's loved him since she was eight so he was probably doing something fucking weird i don't know what's going on so that's crazy shit so now they need evidence besides that he was banging a stepdaughter because that's a that's a charge but that's crazy shit. So now they need evidence besides that he was banging his stepdaughter. Cause that's a, that's a charge, but that's not murder and she's dead. So we need to talk about this now. Uh,

doesn't look good for him right now. He came home, got on his thing, followed her. She bad. So that looks like also that they might've had a fight. He found the diary, tore up the paper and kept it.

You know what I'm saying? That's what it sounds like. So no one would find it. So now what they'm saying? That's what it sounds like, so no one would find it. So now what they know is that it's undisputed that both Edward and Blythe rode north on Lemon Valley Road, which is now a place where you get speeding tickets. Evidently, yeah. Back then it was a place. You used to be able to ride a horse.

It was a dirt road you rode your horse on back then. So that tells you how different shit is now. It's not the main drag. Fifty years ago you used to could ride a horse down here used to could ride it this is down the road to the second windmill a probably that's just you go down this far it's called the second windmill i guess there's two windmills first one then a second one approximately 9.4 miles from um this person's from a residence here okay this is a uh a witness that they find all right this mrs campbell is her name okay now the officers though who tracked the horse prints to

that point didn't determine whether the two horses were riding together or at different paces or from different times they don't fucking know who knows? walk it it's what it is so the they said though they couldn't figure out which who had horses and who didn't see only fucking thing here um they also by the time there's a trial the officers had quote lost the photographs taken of the of the trail of prince what the fuck man so yeah they did say though they knew at the time in the notes that one set of the footprints was made by Blythe. They figured that out. Made by her shoe was specific. The other set is made has what they're calling Chevron prints.

Yeah. Okay. On it. That, they said, was probably the killers because it was the person walking with her. Three sets of prints were found within the roped off area around the body. within the roped off area around the body. The Blythe's prints, the Chevron pattern print, and a single smooth-soled boot print.

One boot print. Which, would the person fucking come down on a guy? Honestly, did they come down on a jet pack, touch down with one foot, and push back up again? Like, that's impossible. Either you fucked up the footprints or it's from another time or you're out of your mind. So either way, that's what they found.

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Now Crockett's team is going to say that print was probably made by whoever else was participated. It looks like two guys were participating in a killing. So it was probably one of them, right? It seems like two men, two men's shoes here. So they made a cast of the smooth sold print and that print was larger than

Crockett's boot size. Okay. So they're not his size and not a, nothing he has or maybe a cop, but they also contended that the problems with the casting process, uh, or even the killer wearing an extra pair of socks might explain the disparity.

They said maybe he got bigger boots and just wore more socks. Which is you're really stretching that. So no prints from the trail made by Crockett when he found the body had been preserved for comparison because they wrecked all that shit. And they went crime scenes 15 feet no more.

Listen, we got an unlimited amount of that yellow tape. Now I'm just going to say it. We don't have hundreds of feet to be running it all everywhere. Pick the tightest crime scene you can, and I'll just run a little circle around it with this shit. What the fuck? Circumference, please. That's all there is to it. area of dispute and confusion here is the sorrel-colored hairs discovered on the tree to which

the officers found the Blythe's darker horse tied. So there was different horse hair there. The defense will say that the sorrel hairs, and that's Crockett's horse is a sorrel, by the way, came from the saddle blanket on Blythe's horse.

And the blanket contained a bunch of sorrel hares because the horses interact and mingle with each other all the time. So as to where- And the saddle probably is intermingled between other different horses, right? There you go. That's exactly what it is. And that's at least the blanket, especially. So as to where on the tree the hares were discovered, the side on which the victim's horse stood or the other side, they didn't know because they don't have pictures.

They lost these pictures. So they don't know whether the hairs were on the other side of the horse or on the side of the horse where they were on. So could this have been a horse that was tied up on the other side? What's going on? So it's a fucking mess.

Experts will testify later that the murder weapon was a.22 Marlin rifle. Crockett was seen both embarking and returning from his ride in Lemon Valley. Each time they saw him carrying a.22 pistol, but no one saw him carrying a rifle. But he did own a.22 rifle. Okay. Now, also, Crockett's stepsons testify later that they remember having his Marlin rifle. They had his Marlin rifle that afternoon.

They were out using it. So they said he didn't have it. We had it. So, okay. Now, science comes in, okay, for this whole thing. There is testimony with expert testimony regarding examinations of pubic hair combings that was highly controversial i just said that way to accept pubic hair that was a lot it was most excitedly ever anyone's ever been about that the washington county sheriff's criminologist found

no foreign hairs there okay but they brought in other experts to check their work because i don't know i just feel like in Reno. Remember Reno 911? It was like Brian Posehn and he was stoned. So let's get someone else in here. Also, some people have lost some photos. Yeah. People have evidence in pockets.

Yes. Let's just have somebody else, please. And they don't handle a ton of murders. But you know who does handle a ton of murders? Vegas? The Oakland Police Department does. Yeah, they do. don't handle a ton of murders but right you know who does handle a ton of murders vegas the oakland police department does so they brought in an expert from the oakland forensics unit okay oakland nevada oh yes obviously it's oakland florida that is he discovered or she discovered i'm not sure a hair foreign to both blithe and Crockett in her pubic hair. Blythe's pubic hair.

So an expert from the California Department of Justice found two more foreign hairs that didn't match either of them. Oh, my God. So we have a grand total of three hairs being found by three experts. They find an average of one hair apiece. So incredible luck. They find an average of one hair apiece. So incredible luck. So the state says these foreign hairs were not definitively established to be pubic hairs.

They just say body hairs. And they speculated they might have been the result of contamination occurring during the initial examination by the criminologist. Now, that's the other thing. Sometimes, and this happens a lot, you'll get fibers and hairs on bodies later on, especially back then when there was less rigorous. Now they keep physical evidence way more, way better than they used to. But sometimes you will get hairs and things in the bags that they can't get out that will stick in there. Static electricity, things like that. So sometimes you don't get all the hair and something. So that'll be on there.

So they're saying that must be what it is. Okay. They say the processing of the other evidence concerning recent sexual relations was even worse. Microscopic examination of a sample of the vaginal swab from Blyde's body revealed the presence of sperm. Oh, okay. They said absence of acid phosphates on a tampon found near the body

created the inference that the sexual intercourse occurred on the scene. So it looks like it took her tampon. I'm not going to say it. You know what we're saying. Yep. Got it. God damn it. Ugh.

God, Jesus Christ. So they said that indicated whoever had sex with her was probably the killer because she's dead where you had sex. So they probably they probably didn't get up, walk away, say, well, that was wonderful. Walk away. Then another person comes up and murders her. That's probably unlikely is what they're saying. So they said the area around the body also showed no signs of a struggle whatsoever. No, that's that's interesting.

struggle whatsoever no good that's that's interesting now they confirm that um the oakland forensic unit did identify the one hair as a pubic hair but then the other the california one defined it as a body hair not specifically that it could be a pubic hair but maybe not this is also from the court document here quote credibility of the washoe county sheriff criminologist was severely impeached his method of handling the evidence in this case was said by the prosecutor himself to be the worst he'd ever seen you know who the prosecutor is by the way no who mills lane is that right yeah the boxing, if you've ever seen the tiny bald. One of the most respected people on earth. Judge Mills Laney had a fucking show. He had that show because he was the Washoe County prosecutor back then.

So he was like the top prosecutor. The most respected people ever. He's fantastic. They say also, with respect to the pubic hair combings in particular, the criminologist testified there were three totally disparate estimates of the number of hairs originally contained in the sample. This is a fucking mess is what this is. This is a bunch of dipshits.

Didn't know how to process a fucking crime scene is what it sounds like. They decide to arrest him. Okay. So they do. This is after a six week investigation. He's indicted. And he said, I'll give myself up if you indict me, because I'm not going to come in unless you indict me, because that's when you can arrest me. So they indict him, and then he voluntarily comes to the sheriff's office, and he's jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail.

Okay. Now, the next day, though, his bail is lowered. Why? It's been $75,000. They lower it to $10,000. That is really low. Yeah. He says so he can help his defense and all that sort of shit.

So it's reduced to $10,000, which is fucking interesting. So there he is. Well, they said he came in on his own. He surrendered voluntarily. He's not a flight risk, they're saying. And this is a thing that people don't understand about bail is whether you think this is right or wrong. The reason why there's bail in the law is to make sure you come back to court. And the reason why criminals, no matter how bad their crime, sometimes get bail is because they have a history of showing up in court.

had their crime sometimes get bail is because they have a history of showing up in court. So you'll get mob guys who've killed shitloads of people and done all this terrible shit racketeering. They'll keep getting bail because they always come to court. So that's what it is. There's a presumption of innocence. It's not. Yeah. You should be able to get out.

People look at bail like it's like a pre-punishment punishment. Like you need to raise that because we're scared you did the crime. But then you're not proven innocent. Right. that's not a presumption of innocence that's exactly of guilt so in order to have the presumption of innocence that's in the constitution you have to have the that so that's legally why that is anyway so her by the way the all the five other kids who are still alive they all get taken away by the father. Yeah. The father immediately, immediately goes to court.

Once they hear that Edward Crockett admitted fucking molesting his daughter and says, give me those fucking kids back here. And, uh, they are, they have a court custody battle and he gets the rest. He gets to have the kids all back.

Sure. By the way, the Crockett's have, they're still together while he's out on bail believable he he's literally in under indictment for killing her daughter and he's admitted to definitely raping her daughter and she's like that's fine take all my kids away i'm staying with him she traded six kids for him holy balls so that's fucking insane. They moved to a different place here in Sparks, Nevada for a minute here. The attorney over to Sparks, an attorney, Joseph K. Jr., whose wife is one of the three administrators for a reward fund for information leading to the conviction, says that he does not represent Crockett because people said he represented Crockett for some reason. So he's like, I'd like everyone to know not me. So

anyway, they make statements. They get statements from everybody. All the kids say two of the boys say they had the Marlin rifle that day, so he couldn't have had it. Other kids said they saw the rifle in the house that day, so he couldn't have had it. So we don't know which

is which. So while awaiting trial in September of 74, they get robbed. They get burglarized. Oh no. The Crockett's here. Vivian Rubin, who's assisting, she's one of the defense attorneys,

said the burglary was committed at her residence where Crockett and his wife, they're living at their attorney's house. That's where they're living. She can't work now. Where's he going to go? Who's going to hire this guy? She said that someone forced in the front door of her house

and took $25 to $30 of hers in rolled pennies. That's a lot of pennies. And they took $80 in change that the Crocketts had. Okay. What, do they just have a change table? Everybody put your change here, and there's two separate jugs. That's a lot of change. They have a lot of change in this house, man.

So the trial gets delayed and delayed and delayed because one of his attorneys has another trial for some bank robber who stole a million dollars from a bank. So they got to do that first. So the trial doesn't come until 19- A couple of with this guy it's crazy right uh 1976 is when all this starts coming around finally the trial um they have motions to suppress evidence obviously filed here they seek to bar the box and the scraps of paper in the diary number one that's damning to the case without that there is no case essentially without that it's he found his stepdaughter and they go well he must have killed her case closed there's no proof or no motive or no anything he says the box was

illegally seized by the sheriffs after they went through the trailer um other evidence though they want suppressed include statements made by crockett you know like yes i molested my stepdaughter they'd like to get that that part's no good for me you'd like to winnow that out of the out of the presentation here um so all of that shit and um they the they deny this motion here and they even appeal that decision and they say still they're gonna let all that shit in and um so there you go now there's a woman named June Campbell. That's Mrs. Campbell, who saw the what we said. She's a witness here. She said during the grand jury testimony, she said about 515, she saw from her house a girl very much resembling Blythe Harrington riding a dark horse very slowly northbound on Lemon Valley Road. Because the time of death can't be accurately estimated medically, partially due to investigatory fuck-ups, by the way, because they fucked that up bad. And because Crockett has an alibi until at least 4.30 p.m. on the day of the killing, the testimony was crucial because it indicates that Bllythe is still alive at 515. So it's establishing a timeline. Prior to the trial, the defense located this girl, located a young girl bearing a striking resemblance to Blythe Harrington,

who initially stated on the day in question she had been riding a dark horse in the Lemon Valley area around Mrs. Campbell's home. Because the girl's statement cast doubt on mrs campbell's statement of the idea of blithe harrington the prosecutor stipulated to dismiss the indictment at that point however because they said well this is we don't really have we don't have much of a case yeah we don't have a timeline of where she was at that point if it wasn't her so they said we'd like to dismiss the indictment the judge said no you can't dismiss the indictment you have to go forward with the case so they went fuck all right well i guess we're going forward with this case so they have to even though they don't really have any evidence

then the girl changes her story okay she stated that she had not been the girl who was riding and said you know whatever she said she'd not been riding in lemon valley that day but had been riding in sun valley on a light colored horse different valley different horse not my valley not my horse is the thing there still later this girl said that washaw county's deputies had intimidated threatened and harassed her to change her story. She says all of this. She petitioned the court to protect her from, quote, Hitler-like tactics, she said in court documents. She said the sheriffs used to coerce her into signing her second statement. They put me on a train. They put me on, yeah, that was the thing.

So, yeah, to say that was it so she brought a motion for a protective order against the police um asserting that because of emotional instability suffered as a result of the prosecution's investigation she could no longer separate fact from fiction regarding her activities on the day in question okay now she made another statement though um in her last statement she told them that it was uh um that it was actually sun valley where she rode um the day blithe harrington died um she said that the friend sheila was a fictitious name she made up to to cover the name of her boss the real owner of the horse she rode because she's having like an affair with her boss oh my why is every young girl in this town fucking men i don't know i don't know how old this girl is she

might be 20 we don't know but they keep calling her a girl so that makes me think i don't like they call the women women and they call her a girl so i don't like that at all so she was a whole this is insane so the attorney who argued for her request of protection said that what the fuck. Basically, this girl changes her story all the time. He said, but she told me on the way to Lane Mills Lane's office what she later told Lane and convinced me that she was feeling greatly relieved at finally telling the truth. He said the girl claimed to have been confused all along about the difference between Sun Valley and Lemon Valley, but she says she knows the difference now and she's never sure that she wrote in Sun and Lemon Valley. Lane said the girl claimed she originally thought it was Sun Valley, but after meeting with the defense, they both claim that she originally thought it was the thing they're saying. But then after meeting with the other side, now it's not.

That's the other side. Now it's not. That's what it is. It's the other thing, yeah. Now, the thing is, the girl, there's one thing that she remembers. Specifically, she said in Lemon Valley, she said while she's driving, they took her around

to drive around to see which one looked familiar. She said that she couldn't remember anything about the area, but she remembered Mrs. Campbell's house as they drove past

but didn't know why she recognized it. She also informed the officers that she discarded a coke can a soda can at a cattle crossing she had just thrown it on the ground yeah so the officers find a coke can by the prescribed cattle crossing on valley on lemon valley road uh-oh so that means she was there and that fucks up the whole time everything yeah yes so here is mills lane versus horse girl okay that's what i like to call this so mills lane talks like this we're gonna do this all right all right him with a clean fight right here all right here yeah so uh yeah all right um lane at the hearing established that the girl's first statement

was tailored to suit the defense on the question of what color horse she wrote about and about the murder day. Then he then went after the validity of her second statement. She said in this statement, you signed for the sheriff's the truth as you recollect it. He asked her and she said, no, she yelled at her and repeated the same thing. She said, no, I only did it to blah, blah, blah. So she refused his demands that she single out what part of the second statement are untrue. She said a lot of things in there are untrue, but I don't want to get people involved who are not who are getting involved. What the fuck?

Exactly. Mainly a person who could go to jail for what I'm fucking going to tell you here. Exactly. Mainly a person who could go to jail for what I'm fucking going to tell you here. So Lane says Mills Lane says, you mean you'd lie to lie to officers to get out of an investigation? And she said, you betcha. Yeah, sir. Oh, my God. Asked later by her own attorney about the fact that the sheriff's tape recorder caught her laughing while supposedly being coerced the girl looked at the judge and said apologetically

if I may she said she looked at the judge and looked back to Mills Lane and says quote I was kissing their asses I was playing the game I knew if I didn't go along with what they wanted they'd keep me there all night yeah I just want to watch Wrestlemania

she repeated under oath that her uh her earlier claim that one detective sergeant dan coppa her former junior high school government teacher by the way that's how small this town is said twice baby you had to go and open your big mouth oh god so yeah lane put uh detective commander lauren butner on the stand or butener we'll call him butner because these people fucked everything up they put on the stand to deny the girl's accusations of harassment he categorically denied each part of her claims sheriff he said they only contacted her three times and stopped when they said to stop that was it so she's he's like that's bullshit

he said i told her the next thing we'd like to do is go down to the station and get a statement and i heard no objection to that so he said in the room the door was wide open it wasn't a big deal so it wasn't like we were put her in a room and beat her with hoses and put a bright light on her now here at trial they go to trial with this the prosecutor here's the evidence that's going to be presented that the prosecution knows but the defense doesn't know okay and will not be presented by the prosecution in court yeah yeah yeah that's a brady violation what the fuck are we doing okay nice job mills so um let's see here what they found is later on through investigators the day of the murder the next day the morning when they fanned out through the area to look all around because they looked everywhere they took horses

and went all up and down the hillsides and the sagebrushes looking for evidence and shit what they found was a lonely cabin out in that direction, pretty near where the murder site was. Okay. At that cabin, sheriff's deputies found two men who had been there for a few days at this location, right by the murder,

this cabin, the walls of the cabin were marked with crude drawings. One of which a large drawing on the wall was of a naked girl with gunshot wounds in the same area as Blythe Harrington's body was had gunshot wounds on it. Cave painting their fucking. In addition to that, they found another, they found a target area made out of electrical tape in the form of a female, in a female form with like tits and curves and shit. Yes. They found that there. Oh my God. Now this was at the back slope of Granite Peak, about four miles north of where the body was found. This, um, the thing is they also found that the sheriffs found the two men driving a Mustang at the cabins.

I don't know if they mean a car or a fucking horse at this point. That's the great. I don't know if they mean an actual Mustang or a Ford. Two men on a Mustang. I don't know. I was there at the time of the murder. And anyway, the prosecutors have known about the cabin, but say there's no way to be sure the person who drew the figure also put the shots into the coincidental areas. You don't know if someone came and did that.

The existence of the cabin became known when the owners called to say they called the media to say that sheriffs had been out there tearing the fucking cabins down a week after they talked to a witness and found the cabin with the guys in it. The sheriffs came out and tore the cabins down. What the fuck is happening here? Yes. They said the human target mentioned by this could have obviously been exculpatory evidence. It's it's fucking ridiculous is what it is.

That's crazy. Oh, my God. They said that Mills Lane said, well, I mean, it wasn't right next to the body. That's later his excuse. It was close by. A report by the defense expert later on finds a ballistic ballistics test conducted by Washoe County Sheriff's investigators. This is discoverable evidence that you're supposed to give cannot be viewed as indicating Crockett's rifle killed the girl. His fucking ballistics on his rifle came up that it's not his rifle that killed the girl.

Testimony by this same expert that the footprints, which accompanied the girl's path from Antelope Valley to the scene of her death, also cannot be Crockett's. Sources say the defense expert will contradict sheriff reports claiming that the sole pattern wears indicate that it was his footprint. Now, what of these shoes? Evidence of distinctly Nevada shoe factory footprints. Apparently they make a certain kind of construction shoe, like a boot type of thing.

Nevada shoe factory footprints accompanied Blythe Harrington's footprints. You see these? We know where the shoes came from. Very specific, okay? footprints you see these we know where the shoes came from very specific okay um from there from the antelope valley road to her death scene 200 yards into the sagebrush they said that the nevada shoe port company or nevada shoe factory reports no record of ever having done business with edward crockett he's never bought anything with them never bought anything with them and he didn't have any of them in his house testimony from state's witnesses who saw crockett ride in and out of lemon valley on the day of the murder also said they saw no rifle they also suppressed they didn't call those people all the people who

said he had no rifle the prosecutor also because they knew all this didn't want to take the case to trial and the judge said you have to oh my god so the diary is admitted as evidence of his motive to kill his stepdaughter the trial continues because think of the evidence that's we're finding this out now that's not when the defense found it out defense doesn't find it out till after the trial all of this shit okay that's all the shit that's missing from the trial so um they said that um also they want to get the diary out because it's inadmissible hearsay. It denies Crockett's constitutional right to confront witnesses against him. Right.

From the dead is an exception they make, though, because she's not like she's like hiding in a motel room somewhere. Inadmissible as uncorroborated accusations of uncharged and unproven criminal conduct, even though he admitted to it, statutory rape, and inadmissible because its prejudicial impact would greatly outweigh its probative value. So, June Campbell comes out, the one who saw the girls riding from

her house. She testified she observed a girl resembling Blythe Harrington riding a dark-colored horse slowly, like we said. Okay? However, of course, later on, she also testified that approximately 30 minutes later, she observed a man resembling Crockett riding the easement road behind her residence much faster in the same direction there. Of course, they don't test. They don't they don't get the girl who said I had my friend out there and all that. She does. They don't call her to testify. And the defense doesn't know she exists.

to testify and the defense doesn't know she exists so during the trial this is the worst the defense discovered that unreported blood grouping tests had been performed by the sheriff's criminologist lab assistant yeah this is before csi forensic files this is before your average everyday person who might be on a jury knows dick about anything any of this investigator they know that you sit a guy down you put a bright light on him and you yell at him till he admits it that's it where were you on the night of right that's it nowhere you're going to you're going down so they um well okay the assistant admitted she had tested the vaginal swab taken from the body of blithe but had not reported the results because she considered them to be, quote, strange.

Or, you know, not what she thought was going to happen. Not the ones I wanted. The results showing a positive reaction for both A and B type secretions were hardly inexplicable here, though they're not. They are. A true B secretion would simply eliminate Crockett as her lone killer since his blood type is ARH positive and the victim is also A. So if there's a fucking B, there's somebody else. And if there's an A and B, it might have been two people. Right. The lab assistant indicated she thought perhaps it was a false B reaction caused by bacterial action.

Oh, for fuck's sake. A forensic seriologist testified that bacterial action can cause false B reaction, but if intact sperm were found, the bacterial level would be low, and it's highly unlikely that that would happen. He also testified that a sperm slide could be examined for the amount of bacteria present and could easily be preserved. The lab assistant testified she had examined a sample of the swab of the sperm at the time she made the unreported blood grouping tests and had found sperm with tail so should

have been fine still no one asked her to preserve the slide and she threw it away she threw it the fuck away jimmy she threw it away trial we're throwing it away the swab itself could no longer be tested because it also had not been properly preserved. She just threw it somewhere. It didn't like wrap it up and do all the whatever the fuck. I don't know. I don't have that job. It's not my job to know.

In closing, the closing argument, the prosecutor commented several times to the jury on Mrs. Crockett, Chickalotta, her failure to testify. They can't. They're not allowed to pick on if he doesn't testify you're not allowed to you're not allowed to make comments about someone pleading the fifth on that if they're in their own trial you are though however apparently allowed to say she didn't testify which means what do you think that means she thinks he did it so the defense uh following the defense counsel's final argument to the jury the court clerk then because there

was a rebuttal a re-closing rebuttal from the prosecutor the court clerk said to the prosecutor quote go get him tiger oh my god okay the verdict comes in yeah this is so ugly okay several hours of deliberation here it's around midnight and the verdict comes in that they cannot reach a verdict good the court inquired how they stood they heard it was 11 to 1 at this point so the judge says get your asses back in there and figure this out we're not gonna fucking it's been a five week they said it's been a five week trial and he tells the jury if a mistrial is declared it'd have to be tried all over again by some other jury so try real hard which judges say that all the time keep trying so shortly after they began deliberating again in like no time they came back with a fucking they came back with a with a verdict done so they come in and they find

him guilty of murder in the second degree it's a compromise they made we're not positive so we'll do that um yes so he is sentenced to you sir may fuck off life in prison yeah here he appeals this is about three what is it happened in 74 the appeals in 79 okay so three years after the trial after the trial they said um the circumstantial evidence in the case is sufficient to sustain a conviction, they say, in the trial. But however, in effect, the unreported blood grouping test indicating a B reaction was direct exculpatory evidence indicating, as it did, that someone other than Crockett had raped and killed Blythe Harrington. This test by itself, a prima fascist showing exonerating him. That's what the that's what the appeals court says. Of course, the prosecution attempting to explain away the B reaction by relying on the state's own mishandling of the swab to argue that the reaction was caused by bacteria.

Hey, we fucked it up. So so clearly it was bacteria. Clearly it was bacteria. We think we keep the shit. So clearly it was bacteria. Clearly it was bacteria. You think we keep the shit clean back here? Hell no. It's a fucking, look, it's a mess back here. There's so much bacteria in here. I got like a chicken Parmesan sandwich from three days ago sitting there.

That's got to have some bacteria on it. It was near that. I just sneezed on several slides. Oh, it was a lot. Had the test results been reported when made as required by the discovery order, as well as by prosecutors instructions to the lab assistant, then the sperm swab and sperm slide could have been preserved and reexamined to resolve any issue concerning validity of these apparently exculpatory initial results. Unfortunately, the scientific verification is forever foreclosed because the government admittedly did not properly preserve the swab. Jesus. Further, the sperm slide, which easily could have been preserved,

was intentionally, though not maliciously, discarded. The state now seeks to benefit from its own faulty procedures by urging the factual possibilities which proper procedures may well have foreclosed. So they're like, if we did do it right, it would have come out right. We're fine. They said, we think this approach is legally untenable we cannot permit speculative inferences uh adverse to crockett to be derived from the absence of evidence which the state should have preserved were we to do so it's

clear crockett would be prejudiced by this loss and our holdings would be offended so they said it's obviously not a case where an otherwise prejudicial loss may be ignored on the ground that the evidence is overwhelming. The evidence of guilt is overwhelming. They said it was it was a close case. They needed this. This physical evidence could have done it. So they said due trial can due process cannot be restored in this case by retrial since the swab is gone and there's no way fairly to eliminate the prejudice that this has caused we have an argument we therefore reverse the conviction and order the indictment against

crockett be dismissed wow you're not even allowed to try him again on this they said you fucked it up too bad so there is a dissenting uh opinion on this by the way there's a dissenting opinion on this one judge that says this should be fine um says the victim had recently experienced consensual uh intercourse and the lack of evidence of a struggle is indicative that the victim was familiar with the killer who knows if she had a boy what are you talking about if there's two guys there you're gonna be fucking you're not gonna struggle the court we don't have a gun to her head who fucking knows uh the court has heretofore recognized however that women can be and often are raped through fear rather than actual force once rape is accomplished whether through force or fear the assailant not infrequently proceeds to kill the victim the dissent also mentions that the decedent

was killed with a 22 caliber firearm and proceeds to notice that the appellant owned a 22 caliber rifle and was carrying a 22 caliber pistol on the day of the tragedy this is true expert testimony however showed that the appellant's pistol could not have been the death weapon furthermore according to the record others uh the record others and not appellant were in possession of this 22 rifle that day they go through all this and basically said it could have been him i don't know about a dismissal but it is fucking dismissed and uh they sell her trailer i see um later on and then their trailer that they had and then i found him he is still alive wow 82 years old living in mina m-i-n-a mina nevada mina nevada that's where he is so apparently shaky on if he's a murderer or not we don't know that but certainly a uh molester from back in the

day so absolutely a uh grooming uh yeah child rapist he's 82 now i'm sure he's probably slowed down a bit now but you know either way, fucking pretty disgusting overall. So never been solved. Her crime goes completely unpunished now. That is awful. I have a theory on this that's weird because I'm doing a lot of newspaper research on this thing. I found in the area and in other areas nearby, there were several other teenage girls found in areas of sagebrush, sexually assaulted and shot in a similar fashion.

And a guy is in jail for those, but they didn't tie others to him. And I found many other girls around the state that he wasn't tried for. So I don't know what's going on. I don't know if they ruled him out or this is shoddy, shitty police work. I don't know if they just said, fuck it. Who cares? And didn't like look around the state for similar crimes. I don't know.

But in the 70s in that area, so easy to be a serial killer. Yeah. Someone who's not a comedian needs to look into this. Basically, someone who actually has investigative skills or something like that. We're comedians. We're we have no I don't know anything about this. We're not good at preserving that something. So either way,

there you go. That is lemon Valley, Nevada, and a goddamn crazy case. We feel terrible for Blythe Harrington. They're just on, on, on justified and obviously, and no justice served.

And, uh, poor thing, man, that was just awful. What happened to her? And, uh, if you like the show though, let the know tell uh get on apple podcast or whatever platform you're

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