Small Town Murder - The Brutally Batted Bartender - West Liberty, Iowa - Part 1

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

This week, in West Liberty, Iowa, we messed up! There was just too crazy of a story to fit into one episode. A young man, who is the small town's most popular & beloved bartender, is horribly beaten to death, in his own bed. The problem with solving this case, is that there are just too many suspects. The victim had at least 4 girlfriends, and a fiance. Plus, he's dabbles in some recreational drugs, and other extracurricular activities. Was it a angry girlfriend? One of their angrier husbands? The possibilities are nearly endless!!   Along the way, we find out that you might not want to call your buddy "Bacon", that being a small town bartender gives you all sorts of social advantages, and that it's incredible when someone that everyone seemed to like, still had so many people who may have killed him!!   New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!! Check us out on VIDEO Wednesday and Friday evenings on Netflix! www.netflix.com/smalltownmurder Donate at patreon.com/crimeinsports or at paypal.com and use our email: [e-mail] Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!   Follow us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/smalltownpod   Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

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Okay. Let's go on a trip, shall we? We are doing. Yeah, we're going. We are going to Iowa this week. You can hear the. excitement. He can feel my voice trembling. We're going to West Liberty, Iowa, which is in far eastern Iowa, unlike the Illinois border there. The west side of the town on the east side of the state.

Exactly. Well, yeah, because there's a liberty in Ohio that they named it after. So this would technically be West Liberty. You'd have to skip a couple states to get there, but it's West. Oh, it's super west. Yeah, there's two states over, but it's there. It's about 50. It's almost called California, West New York. Well, it could have been anything. I heard. Yeah, I heard West Nebraska was kicked around a little bit, but they decided against him. 50 minutes to Cedar Rapids, about three hours to Chicago, and about three hours and 45 minutes to our last Iowa episode, which was early Iowa.

That was cold-blooded, quote, hero, that episode. Episode 687, that's a fun, twisty one. So check that out. It's a regular length episode. This is in Muscatine County. Area code, we all know old Muscatine County, area code 319, population here, 3847. Very small. Small little town here.

Median household income, little below the national average. It's $58,488, so not too high, but lucky for everybody there. The housing is about half of the rest of the country, too. Very cheap. Yeah, median home cost here, $180,600. So, yeah, with $60,000. year you could actually afford that house so that's not bad a little bit of history it was first known as the uh wapasana wapasani soniac wapasana ni knock wapasana nioch no nioch no ninoch you're getting

there something like that hug hand us to you and see what you do with it i'm not going to get there you are no i'm not even there i'm not there either that's the point i'm nowhere near it i'm all Native American language is so, it's so confusing because there's so many S's, P's, Ns, and I don't fucking confusing. A lot of times it's like Japanese, though, it's pretty phonetic, but this is just a hard one for me for some reason. It means smooth surfaced meandering stream. So that was the original town. It was the first village was located a little northwest of the present-day town, and it was laid out by a guy named Simon Bagley. his niece, Louisa, they let her name the town.

They let her name the post office for some reason. Let's let a kid name it. And she said they wanted it to be West Liberty because she liked Liberty, Ohio. So this is what happens when you let a nine-year-old name your town. You end up with this. They want to name it Liberty. We can't do that. At least they didn't like name it after their puppy or something.

You know what I mean? Kids want to name like weird things. Or don't Rupert. Let your four-year-old name the dog. dog and see what the fucking that's I've seen that before where you're like what's your dog's name? They're like I let my four year old name and oh okay yeah

I have friends that have a dog named a tartar sauce because of that same reason yeah that's what I mean you let the kid you should go you can name the kid and they go tartar sauce and you go never mind and you push me get the hell out of here we're going to name the dog a name we'll handle it yeah reviews of this town

okay here or two that are extremely similar and I don't understand either one of them. Okay. Five stars. It's a very Pacific town. P-A-S-I-F-I-C. Pacific? Do they mean Pacific? Well, we'll get there. It's a very Pacific town with no disturbances. People are friendly and kind. Furthermore, rent is affordable. There's also a turkey plant, which offers a lot of jobs for newcomers in town. We all know that parting out poultry is the job everyone desires. get it. You need a job. You need a job. But that's not like a, you know, oh, my career. I can't wait to do that. That's a rough, gross job. It's a hard job. A field foul slaughterhouse.

Yeah, that's a dirty, nasty, gross job. It's tough. It's a tough one. Even though it's a small town, it offers great opportunities for family entertainment, such as public parks and a small affordable theater. Now, here's another five-star one from a year apart, so they're not even like next to each other. It's a very Pacific place. to live. Meaning, and this is spelled, this is spelled like the ocean with a sea instead of an S, like the other person. It's a very, I don't know.

And I tried to figure it out. It's just these two people with very friendly people habitating. It has tons of trees around its house with makes the town look beautiful during spring and fall. It is safe and quiet. Furthermore, it has nice places to go have fun at, such as a small theater, car races, several restaurants that have delicious food. Lots of small words.

That's a person who named their dog tartar sauce. Yeah. Three stars. Everything is connected, which I like, but of course, with preference kind of families. You got me. I love this. I don't know. I love the support with sports and the academic success, which I hope you didn't have

because that would that would bow. negate this whole thing. Exactly. Three stars here. It's a pretty small town. You can meet everyone and make easy connections with families. Too spensive. S-P-E-N-S-I-V-E.

Too-spensive to be a small town, but is a quiet town with great sport support for our students. You need to get English support for your students. Fuck, sports. It's got to be specific. It's got to be the other word they're trying to use. But two different people said Pacific and spelled it differently. That's what I didn't get to.

When I saw the first one, I said, yeah, that's what I thought too. But then I saw the other one. I'm like, no, this is crazy. Things to do here, the Muscatine County Fair, everybody. Yeah. Let's do it. By the way, I went to the Duchess County Fair so I could help make fun of it on the show here. And it was worth it.

There was a guy, I went with Sarah and we did the squirty things. We were just having fun. We're going around eating hot dogs and looking at cows and shit. Those are a scam somehow, and I don't know how. We did the square, and we're like, yeah, yeah, we'll do it. We sit down and they're like, oh, we need like three more people before we can start. We're like, okay. So then we sat there for 10 minutes while this guy, Carnies need to do.

Carnies used to be good. They used to be like, hey, come over here. Wouldn't that lady a prod? Come on over here. They'd give their pitch. This guy was literally going, we need three more people. Come on. Come on, guys.

We need three more people. And Sarah and I are like looking at each other like, this is the worst pitch of all time. Like, give us the stuffed animal. We'll fucking do the pinch. But it took a while before we actually did it. I did that with my daughter and my son. I won once. And then I kept sitting there trying to win again.

Because I got two kids. I can't leave here with one fucking stuffed animal. Good luck. I'm going to be the worst dad ever. Eventually, I just bought all of the seats just so that my son could get a toy too. I was like, I can't leave with this. And they made me do like six rounds of it. And I kept losing.

I'm like, you're scamming me. And I don't know how. It's making me really mad. I was like, watch, I'm going to scam you. I'm buying all the seats. Give me a prize. I'm going to scam you. Here's all my money.

And they're like, boy, he sure did get us, didn't he? Boy, did he pull one over on us. Man, he figured it out, boy. We're going to have to start making rules against that. You know what I mean? Anyway, this place has a queen and princess contest. which is always uncomfortable. No kings.

No kings, no. Bacon buddies, which is actually kind of nice. They get developmentally disabled children and help, and they show pigs. They do the pigs and the pigs show. They like teach them how to do it and they get into it. Oh, that's fun. That's a nice thing to do. It's really nice.

I don't know. I hope they explain to those children that we're going to slaughter things. Like, you like bacon? They're bacon buddies. That's, I'm sure they get the kind of, you know, I don't know how delayed you have to be, but you're going to get that reference, you know. Trailer race. There's a trailer race. I don't know.

However that is. You get your house and pull it on down. And a Bill Riley talent show, not Bill O'Reilly, Bill Riley talent show. Don't know what happens there. And the lineup musically will be Confederate Railroad, which that sounds. No. Wow. Okay.

I'm not listening. Josh Ross, sounds kind of plain, and Mark, oh God, Jesus Christ, I assume that's chestnut. I put Mark Chestbutt,

which is not going to be in the internet. Mark Chestnut's good. How about Mark Chestnut? Is he any good? You look like an old guy. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like he's trying to think,

because there's a chestnut. I don't know if it's Mark Chestnut. It's got to be Mark Chestnut. That's who they've got to get. Who the fuck knows? Late 90s, early 2000s. Yeah, it's going to be that kind of thing. There's also the Great Plains Puppet Train, Regional Puppet Festival.

You know what they have there? Puppets. Fuggetts. Moving on. Let's talk about some murder. Who care? We're going to talk about puppets? They do marionette shows.

They literally have a workshop on shadow puppets there. A workshop on... Yes. To show you how to... Which is a great skill when you're eight and there's a film strip, but I don't think they show film strips anymore, so it's really a lost art at this. There's a guy on Instagram that I watch. It's amazing at it.

Yeah. It's kind of fun. Okay. There you go. Maybe he's teaching the workshop. So that said, let's talk about some murder here. Let's do it. Let's talk about a young man first here.

Corey Lee Weneke or Wineke. Wienke. Corey. Corey's born March 25th, 1970. He's the only child of James and Susan Weneke. He went to West Liberty High School. played center on the football team was a starting center

he's only like 5-9 but he's over 200 pounds he's a sturdy like thick dude but not like a fat guy or anything there's like a real thick guy one of those little you know fire plug guys the team went all the way to the class

double a yeah team went all the way to the class double a semi-finals he graduated from high school in 88 his dad said this about him Corey was just like a big brother to

everybody in the whole neighborhood. He's very good socially and he's very kind of an outgoing guy, Corey. All right. Another friend said this. He was a fun guy. He was friendly, outgoing, charming. Everybody was his friend. I mean, I didn't know anybody that didn't like Corey.

That's high school Corey. Nobody didn't like him. Good guy. Now, his job when he graduates is, I don't think he went to college or anything. Instead, he worked at Wink's Tap, which is a, a, a, bar that his family owns, his grandmother, Betty, owns it. So it's kind of the, it's in downtown West Liberty. It's the bar in downtown West Liberty.

The bar. Winks? Winks. Wink, like wink. Wink. Yeah, he's because it's Winnekey. He's, I guess it's Winky probably. He started there as a kid, you know, just doing the ice and that kind of shit.

And then he ended up on his 18th birthday. Maybe that's the law in Iowa. I don't know, but that's when he moved behind the bar. When he was 18, he became the bartender. And within, by the time he's 21, he's like, you know, he's a hugely popular guy in town. He's the bartender of the downtown bar. He serves your beers every night. Everybody knows him.

He works to late shift. So he's the guy that's there at closing time becomes real popular. He's got a, by 1992, he's bartending. He drives a blue Cadillac, a big old, like a 70s Cadillac from what I gathered. Yeah. Like one of the boats like my grandmother had where the doors. When they slam, they're like, like it sounds like a bank vault closing. Yeah.

Yeah, one of those. He's got a 454 in it. It's a big one. Huge monster. So this means everybody knows his car. It's a bright blue enormous Cadillac. So there's Corey driving by. You can't miss him, basically.

By 22, he's also into partying. I mean, he's a bartender, and he works till two in the morning, and he's into partying. He knows where they're at. He smokes some weed. He does some Coke here and there too. Like some Coke, smoke some weed, does some drinking. And apparently, too, there's a bunch of different guys he gets drugs from. There's a guy named Slim Zamora, which is the best drug dealer name of all time.

Slim Zamora? That sounds awesome. Not bad. Another guy way less cool of a drug dealer name, Ken Hammond. That's not fun. That's like a sitcom dad. That's no fun. Yeah.

Slim at least sounds Mexican. He might be, he might get you good shit. At least he's got a nickname. You know what I mean? Slim. Slim's got, you know, does so much coke. He's slim. I don't know, something.

But then there's Otis Sanders, which is kind of in between as for a drug dealer name, not here nor there. Now, he's not really selling drugs or anything, Corey. But he's the bartender that if you want something, he can make a phone call and get it for you. He's that guy. Yeah. So he might make. 20, yeah, he'll make a extra 20 bucks off an eight ball or something.

But he's, the bartender knows everything, everybody. The bartenders have connections. I know there's a lot of, whenever I mentioned working in restaurants, people explain. I work in a restaurant and I never had those experiences. Good for you. That's great. I'm sure you didn't. But every restaurant I ever worked at and I grew up working in restaurants and my family

like everybody there knows how to get drugs and does drugs. It's just one of those things. If you work till 2 in the morning, you tend to do more likely that you're doing drugs. Yeah. Don't know why. You're just bored. There's the difference between working at an actual restaurant with a sous chef than working at fucking Panda Express. That's not a restaurant.

No, no, that's not a restaurant. Well, it's a restaurant. Jesus, because I got yelled at for making, never mind. Forget it. I'm not even going to bother. What? Not belittling your career. However, you know that it wasn't your first choice.

You didn't. On career day, you didn't say, I'm going to work the fries. Yeah, exactly. You didn't say that. Thank you. You say, because they treat you like a special Olympian or something. So they do. They do.

They treat you like your, he's brave to come out here. He's so brave to put himself out there. That's how they treat. It's fucking. Don't worry, guys. They don't parade me out with the bacon buddies. No. You're going to get Jimmy a bacon buddy is what it sounds like.

sometimes. I'm like, stop treating Jimmy like that. He's a grown man and he's a own ass. He's a grown man and he's a dick sometimes too, unlike Special Lippians, which is why I love him. That's the point. That's why I love you. Because you're a dick sometimes and that's great. That makes me laugh. It's so nice. I get a lot.

I get a pass a lot. Yeah, yeah. They treat you like, well, Jimmy doesn't know any better. It's like, what are you talking about? Technically, he has finished a higher level of education than I have. So make me the guy who doesn't know any better. It's more fun, I think. It sounds like just because I have to talk.

It's like, I don't want to do all this talking. This is just I read better. I'm sorry. So anyway, back to this. I'm real bad of that. Corey ran a also a little gambling operation out of Winks as well. All right. Corey's making a buck or two here where he can.

He's a small town bartender. He's also got some girlfriends here. Let's talk about. First of all. Several, huh? Well, here's one named Jody Hatz. She's 22 in 92, same age as him. She and Corey went to school together, started dating when they were like 17.

She works at a bank in Iowa City. He works nights, so they don't really see each other that often. But the fall earlier and the fall of 91, they announced their engagement. She had an engagement ring on, so they're engaged. It's a great relationship. Yeah, they live in a small two-bedroom house on a piece of land on a gravel road about three miles outside of West Liberty that her father owned,

so they're not really worried about the rent. You know, it was kind of not a great, kind of a falling apart kind of a house, but you're both 22. It's your first place. Who cares? I lived in a horrible apartment when I was that age, so. The other thing, though, he has at least four relationships going on. That's the problem.

Sexual relationships. Wow. Oh, he gets around this small town. Later on, a police officer will say there was Hots. That's Jody, the one he was with there, HOTZ, a woman named Wendy Marshall, anette. A woman named Annette. And then there's also a fourth relationship, too, that we'll talk about here. The thing is, Jody knows about all this shit.

Joey seems to know he's Tom Katten around West Liberty. Awesome. Yeah, she knew there was another woman, other women, and she was still planning the wedding. She thought, oh, this is just him getting his wild oats. And then once we get married, he'll settle down and we'll have kids. It's like John Lovitz. Yeah. Just slaying it.

Just slaying it. Yeah, we had a long John Lovitz conversation before the show. That's a fun joke for us. And you're like, what are you talking about? Other people don't know. John's done well. He's done well. Well, there's also Wendy Marshall, Wendy with an eye.

She's 20 at this point. In July of 92, she gave birth to a daughter. Guess who the father is? Is it Mineke? It's Corey. Yeah, Wennockie. Winneke. He did not formally acknowledge paternity, and his interactions with the baby were limited.

So he was saying, I don't think that's my kid, basically. Really? Now, Wendy wanted a future with him, and she was, you know, really like, she thought they were having a relationship. And we're going to, you know, we have a baby. Things are going to happen. Then there is the mystery woman, and we think the mystery woman is a woman named Missy Morrison, who was married to a farmer named Bob Morrison, who lived near where Corey and Jody live. So he comes. They met at the bar.

Yeah. Or shit, it's just some local farm wife from down the road from him. So, who knows? Well, they did me at the bar, though. She would frequent local bars and have affairs with younger men. The farmer's wife is coming in from the fields. That a girl. Yep.

One of them, according to a witness, was Corey. So if there's a woman around throwing it around everybody, Corey's going to catch a piece of it. Put it that way. He's going to be one of the guys. Corey's going to reel in some. Yeah. Then there is a net. D. Hazen. D. is not the initial D. E. It's D. E. E. Annette D. Hayeson, later on McCrab, later on, Cahill. So lots of names for her.

She's done well, too. Yeah. Well, she's not doing too great here. She's about seven years older than Corey. All right. So she's the older lady, which is, you know, 29, not an old lady. By any stretch, she had been married and divorced and has two kids at this point. So totally different. different life than Corey at this point. After the divorce, she moved in with her brother, her brother, Denny Hazen, and his wife, Jackie, with a Q, by the way. I was calling her Jacques in my head the whole time. I'm like, I'm like, it's her brother, Jacques. And then I'm like, wait, Denny, his Jacques is married to a chick named Denny. And then I'm like, wait, that's Jackie.

They, J-A-C-Q, or C-C-U-E. that's Jacques. That's Jacques. That's Jacques. That's I thought. Look up Cousteau. I'm pretty sure that's exactly how you spell it. That's fucking, it's more Jacques than Jackie.

I'll tell you that much. Jacques-E, I don't know. Jacques-Hugh, I'll call her. I don't know. So he lives with Denny and Jacques-Eau in their two-story farmhouse a few miles from West Liberty. She brings her kids to live there. She and Jacques Q become close to sister-in-law is here. Perfect.

They like each other. Now, she worked basically when she needed money, Annette. She's not really a, they don't really have a career or anything going on. Yeah, I don't know. But she doesn't have a real, like, steady career. She worked at Winks on and off. She would open some mornings. She would cover some shifts here and there, but she's not like a staple.

And she went out at night and hung out and partied. She liked to drink and do Coke. That's her jam. that. Yeah, she sounds fun. An investigator said Annette was living day to day, going to work when you needed money, going out at night, partying, still trying to live that lifestyle that Corey's living, which Corey's 20-year-old stuff. Yeah.

Corey's 22. That's the difference. You're not. You're almost 30 and you have two kids. So it's interesting, though. Other thing about Annette, she's never been, despite kind of going out at night, drinking, doing a little Coke here and there. She's never been arrested for anything or anything like that.

She's not. Okay. Keeps up between the white lines. Yeah. Now, the thing about her is, this is why I was kind of like, that's not that great here. They knew each other, she and Corey, before she came to work at the bar. That's because she met Corey when he was 16 and she was 23. Oh, how did they do that?

They were fucking. She said they didn't have sex at that point, which I'm not sure about, but they just messed around. In other words, I molested the 16-year-old, is what she's saying. Yeah. A 23-year-old was hanging out with romantic ideas? With a 16-year-old, yeah. I mean, if you're 16, you'd think that's jackpot times, a 23-year-old. But also, if you're 23, that's pretty pathetic, honestly.

That's sad. Incredibly. Either way. No matter which way the sexes go, obviously, with the male, that's fucking disgusting. But it's really fucking pathetic. Get a life. Get a life. You're not going to fuck a 16-year-old boy's psyche up by fucking them.

That's not. You're just not. We've been, and people go, oh, yeah, I remember, no. Maybe some. We've been 16-year-old boys. There is very little that anyone could do to you that your friends already haven't done to you. You know what I'm saying? To make you feel awful.

Your friends are there to kick you in the balls when you're feeling good. So the majority of 16 year old boys are trying to put that in something already anything A 23 year old. We don't care how old she is. Great. Yeah. Yeah. That's terrific.

Fuck if she's 55. I'm trying to put it in something and see what it's like. Younger than your mom. Awesome. Basically. You don't, you wouldn't care. M.

Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. There you go. So, but this is, it shows poor judgment on anyone who's 23 and has any sort of relationship with a 16 year old. Never mind the legalities of it or just the moral grossness of the whole thing. Just fucking bizarre.

Yeah. Then three years later, once he's like 19, it became an on again, off again thing where they would fuck here and there, basically. By 92, they're fucking pretty consistently. So he's got living with a chick he's engaged to, banging some broad he has a kid with. He's got this one and also the farmer's wife when she comes in from the fields once in a wild town. Corey is dipping his wick, my friends.

So the summer, fall, 92, he and Annette are having sex several times a week at the bar in cars in an apartment above the bar. At the farmhouse, at her brother's farmhouse she lives in. They drink, they do coke together. You know, they're having a good time. So by fall of 1992, here is the way it works. Wendy Marshall, the one he had a baby with, knows about Annette. Okay?

Annette knows about Wendy Marshall as well. So they know about each other. Jody Hots, the one he's living with and engaged to, had heard about both and sort of knew about both. So they all kind of know about each other at this point, which is not great. They should because he should be saying, I can't fuck yet because I just fucked in a house today.

I'm raw. I'm down to life. I fucked in a car. I've taken two layers of skin off my penis and I feel like I need to let it heal for a minute. I can't believe he's... That's a virile young man. He's 22-year-old.

You know what I mean? That's what it's about. Does it ever stop? He's out and you're looking for everything. So later on, an investigator summed up Corey saying, quote, he was involved in drugs. He was involved with a lot of different women. And some of these women even knew about each other,

but some of them didn't. Wild-style life, babe. All right. October 12th, 19. 1992, Annette here opens Winks Tap that morning. She opens the bar. She works a shift and then stays the rest of the night. All day.

All night. So her whole day is this bar. Yep. Now, Corey came in to work the evening shift and Annette stayed at the bar while he worked and he drank. And basically, she spent 14 hours inside this tavern that day. Now, her plan was the bar is going to close at two and then they're going to go hang out. together. She tells people that they're going to move to Branson together next week is what she's telling people. Really? Okay. Yeah. That's it. So she's thinking this is the last week and she's

going to spend an Iowa. We're going to Branson. She said that they were going to take off the following weekend and that they were going to look for bars for sale in Branson, Missouri. Oh, you know, we're going to buy one. Yeah. She said we had talked about skipping town. In fact, the following Monday, we were supposed to go or Saturday. I'm sorry. We were supposed to go to Branson to look at bars for sale. I loved Corey deeply. I really, truly did.

I didn't think it was going to last. To be perfectly honest, he was so much younger than me, and he slept with anything that walked through the door. He wasn't for one person. No, 22-year-old bartender is not the guy to marry. I'll tell you that right now. It's just not, you know. I still don't understand 22-year-old.

fresh out of college with a degree. I don't think that's the person to marry. I don't think you should be getting married until you're after 30. It's just it's no. You don't know. I assure you, you don't know who you are. And you sure as fuck shouldn't be having kids till you're after 30.

I'll tell you that much. So, I mean, you can. I did. We both did. So this isn't like a, we're not judging anybody.

This is more of a, from our experience, it's easier if you were over 30. Just put it that way. I was barely not 30, but I was still not 30. Yeah. 30. Well, shit, you were in your mid-20s when your son was born.

Were you 26? 29. Your son's... 18. Yes, you're 45. 28. I was 28 when he was born. Okay, all right. Yeah. I was like, that's... Okay. Wait. Was I 27?

I think you were 27, probably. And I was, yeah, I was 23 when my daughter was born. Yeah. Which was way too young. Yeah, I must have been 27, because that's 18. Yeah. He's 18. I know that. I know that before. 23 and 28 when my kids were born And you were like 27 and 30 I think so yeah

It's yeah That's exactly what I was I know I was 30 when she was born I know that for sure season Yeah So Corey Apparently the whole evening Corey's treating her kind of shittily In the bar basically

Okay Late evening October 12th Annette is tanked She's fucking hammered everybody says Multiple people After work Yeah she's been in the bar Since it opened

So yeah she's shit faced At some point, before the closing of the bar, she left the bar. But she didn't go home. She went out to Corey's Cadillac, opened the passenger door and just sat there and waited in the car for him. Okay. So October 12th, this is the same night. Well, same night now 2 a.m., so technically the 13th, but that night. Okay, the bar closes.

Corey comes out of the bar with Wendy Marshall with him, the mother of his child. Yeah. Okay. Now, Wendy was going to, they're leaving the bar together. They get to the car and there is fucking Annette sitting in the passenger seat. Now, luckily, they all know about each other, so it's a little less awkward than it might have been. It's not who's this bitch. It's, oh, this bitch, which is better.

Yeah. It's better than who. She wouldn't leave. Annette said, I'm not getting out. So, Corey says, okay, let's get in the, Wendy, you get in. We'll drive Annette home first and then we'll do our thing. Okay. So they're driving.

They go down. Apparently, Annette said she was incredibly mad at this point. Super pissed, okay? Because she thinks they're running away together. Yeah. So they drive down the road a little bit. Annette reaches for the door handle and she's acting like she's jumping out of the car while it's moving. Oh, boy.

Like, I'm done here. So Corey stops the car. They get out on the side of some farm road in Iowa somewhere in the middle of the night and have a fucking screaming match with each other while Wendy sits in the back seat, which is even funnier. Okay. So they get done arguing. They get back in the car. Corey then drives Wendy Marshall back to her car, which is parked at Wink's Tap. Yeah.

And he tells, Annette's there too, and he tells Wendy, I will come to your house after I drop Annette off. I'm going to drop a net off quick. Okay. So, Corey drives Annette to the farmhouse where she lives, the Hayes and Farmhouse with her brother. By Annette's description, she said, quote, we argued, got back in the car. took that girl, whoever she was, she had a child by Corey. That's who she was. You fucking know who she is, too.

You know her name. There's 3,000 people in the stand. You just gave a very specific fact about her that makes it why being in his car is fine. Whoever she was, random, dropped her off somewhere, drove back to the farm, and we had sex that night. I think it was angry sex. So they have angry farmhouse sex after that. Fucked a 14-hour Drunk.

Post-14-hour shift drunk lady. He's like, that ought to shut her up. Okay. There, take that. Take that. So about 3.4 a.m.

He leaves the farmhouse. Still doesn't go to get Wendy or go where his fiancee is sleeping at his house. He instead then finds an after-hours birthday party for his friend.

These people party in the middle of the night in Iowa, man. This is awesome. That's a level of partying. I'm incapable. of. That's wild. These days, yeah. He meets up with Slim Zamora at the party, too. He's there, one of his drug guys. Then he went to Wendy Marshall's apartment, as he promised, about four o'clock in

the morning, woke her up, which I'm sure she was thrilled about, with fucking, with pussy on his breath. That's what you want. That's how you want to get up. Pussy on his breath and coke on his face. Yeah. They talked. He didn't stay long. He left. Before he leaves, he puts a brown paper bag in her refrigerator. Inside the bag is a six pack of beer and two shotgun shells, which I think just comes with a six pack in Iowa. I'm not sure. Empty ones are like ready to be shot.

No, no, not just ready to be shot. Unfired shotgun shells with beer, all in the paper bag put in the refrigerator for some reason, okay? A couple of Winchester's. We never figure out why he has two shotgun shells in the refrigerator, by the. That is the mystery of this entire story. Well, one of them. Okay. By 7 a.m. he gets home, lets himself in, gets in bed and falls asleep next to his fiance who's waking up because she has to go to work at the bank.

Oh, holy. Now, during about this same time, four or five miles away, a guy named Lester McGowan pulls up and picks up Annette. Okay. She slept for like two hours and she got in his truck and drove, they drove to a roofing job site in West Liberty where Lester McGowan ran a roof. crew. By the way, he used to fuck a net too. They used to have a relationship. This morning, he picks her up and they, he takes her to do roofing work today for some reason. She just worked 14 hours. Well, work is a, yeah, she just drank and she did a lot. She's drinking filled cups for a while. This is the only day in her life that she's a roofer. And she's a roofer today for some reason. She tears some shingles off a roof. By the way, Lester was married to a woman named Cynthia, but his affair with

Annette destroyed his marriage. So, yeah, okay. Well done last. Now, 8 a.m., Jody, Corey's fiancé, gets up, gets ready, takes off for the bank in Iowa City. All right. 8.30 to 9.30 a.m.

Annette's at the job site. You know, he was surprised to see a woman that he didn't know arrived to start doing roofing work. All the people like the, all the people like, who the fuck is this chick? Is she on our crew now? We're the guys in work boots.

Yeah. So this guy was told teacher had to tear off a roof. She didn't know what she was doing. And basically, they said she spent about an hour and a half doing a shitty job of pulling shingles off a house. And then that was it for that. Now, about 9 a.m., a local farmer drives down the gravel road that Corey and Jody live on, passing their house on his way to into West Liberty. He sees two people standing outside Jody and Corey's house next to a stopped vehicle, doesn't recognize either one of them, and doesn't really stare or anything. He just sees notes, two people, I don't know, and doesn't really get a good look.

About 9.30, 10 a.m., something like that. Jacques arrives in her car, old Jacques A. After discovering a new crab today. Pulls up at the roofing job site. Annette gets in and takes off. So she had her picker up there. Jacques and Annette, this is according to Jacques and Annanette, Jackie and Annanette, they stopped by Corey's place on the way to Iowa City. Now Jackie said Annette wanted to drop off a letter she had written or a book about something.

Annette said she knocked on the door, nobody answered. They left. They were there two minutes tops. Okay. Farmer. Remember that farmer or drove into Les Liberty? Well, now he's driving back up the road, gravel road. He didn't see anybody outside the house this time.

But about a half mile further along on the north edge of the road, he saw an aluminum softball bat lying in the gravel. Oh. Okay. It had not been there that morning. Oh. So all of a sudden there's a bat there. He didn't stop, though.

He just remembered, oh, look, there's a bat. And maybe some kid dropped it. Who knows? Now, midday in Iowa City. Annette and Jackie spent the middle of the day in Iowa City. It's about a half hour away. Jackie had a doctor's appointment for a knee problem and all this type of thing. Then after that, they went shopping, had various transactions around town.

She did a three-day typewriter rental. Oh. I don't think that's been done in a long time. Three days? I'm going to rent a typewriter. It's a long time. Look, I got a novel in me. I just got to flush it out.

Flesh it out? I got to get it out. Yeah. Three days. 72 hours at this time. Right, right. You should do it. I should do it.

I have a screenplay burning a hole in my fingertips. I need to get it out. I know I can get it out. Lightning speed. I can do it. Got lightning in these hands. I can do it. So they do the whole day.

They have one receipt, time stamped, 125 or 145. It's not been established. So they're in Iowa City at that point. The knee for Jackie turned out to just be pulled muscles, and she ended up going shopping at multiple locations in Iowa City that afternoon. But Annette was doing the driving because it's her gas pedal knee that hurts. Okay. In the afternoon, Annette and Jackie drove back from Iowa City, they said, to be at the farmhouse when her children got home from school.

Annette also described driving past Corey's area on a parallel road about a mile away but didn't stop. Then they stopped in town and called the house from a pay phone to try to reach him, but he didn't answer. Okay. 6 o'clock p.m. Jody gets home from the bank. Right away, shit is awry for her. The dog, they have a golden retriever, I believe, or a lab. I'm not sure which one.

The dog's outside and off her leash, off her chain. That's not normal. The screen door is open to the house also. And Corey's Cadillac is in the driveway, which he was supposed to be at work two hours ago. Oh. So she's like, what's going on here? So she walks into the house. It's a small house.

It's just, you know, one of those tiny houses. So she walks into the bedroom and she sees Corey. He is lying face down on the carpeted floor next to the bed in his underwear with his face turned toward the bed. And she couldn't see it. She couldn't see his face. She said, I couldn't see his face. His face was turned toward the bed. But I could see the rest of him.

There was blood. She said, I touched him and said his name and of course nothing. Uh-oh. So she calls 911. She said, I need someone to come out to my house. I think my fiancee is dead. They said, okay. She said, he's all bloody and he's not breathing and he's cold.

Oh, my God. So she said, he's on his, uh-uh, he's on the side of the bed. There's a lot of blood around it. It looks like he's been beat pretty bad. And they said, is he dead? Which she's been saying over and over. He seems dead. She said, yeah, pretty much.

Which is the, I don't know how to. I mean, you're in a weird. I don't know how you answer that, but yeah, pretty much is a real weird way to say that. Okay. I feel bad. It's a weird thing to say after any question. Especially something super final. You know what I mean?

Like if someone goes, did you get enough to eat? You go, pretty much. Yeah, I mean, I get some dessert or something, but I'm pretty good. But dead is dead or not. That's it. There's not a lot of, he's cold and he's dead, she says. So police arrive. And the first officer said, you could immediately tell this was blunt force.

trauma type of crime, and the beating had taken place. He had injuries to his back, obvious bloody injury to the back of his head. There's quite a bit of blood on the bed. Blood spattered on the wall and on the side of the bed, and of course on the floor where he'd been laying. All over. They said right away, the one detective said the house wasn't burglarized. There wasn't chairs or tables overturned.

So I think the motive was very specific and was there to do harm. So nothing's missing. Nothing's disturbed. Jody or the cops. Nobody can find a single item missing from the house. Nothing. Really? Not a dollar.

They looked for fingerprints, nothing. Footprints, ugats. Tire impressions in the gravel in the yard. Not a thing. Not a goddamn thing. They said the scene yielded very little helpful evidence. Now, also, it's 1992, so evidence you need like a puddle of blood or a clump of hair. This isn't like, oh, we can do some touch DNA stuff and figure out.

It's totally different. So what they think happened here is about 10, somewhere between 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. is the murder window here. Somewhere in there, someone walked into the house. There's no forced entry, but you could like push your way through the house. They said near the doorknob, there was a pane of glass missing that had been covered by a piece of particle board. So you could usually just open the door if you wanted to. After the murder, too, the particle board was found removed and sitting alongside the house. house. So somebody just opened the door. Somebody pulled that out. Yeah. It was just like leaned up.

Yeah. So they said he must have been in his bed, asleep or close to it. The first blow landed on the back of his head. The forensic evidence, the blood on the bed, position of the body, the bedding still wrapped around his legs, indicates he was struck while he was still in bed and that he rolled or fell to the carpeted floor beside it. Okay. He was hit 13 times. Wow. head back shoulders. Four of the blows were to the head. One of them split the back of his skull open in a large eight-shaped laceration.

Oh, fuck. They said that was the fatal one. They said that the other 12 injuries were inflicted before death, and that was the coup de grace there at the end there. No bruises on his hands or forearm, so there's no defensive wounds. This happened. He caught him asleep.

He's a big, he's 225 pounds, been in fights before. He's a bartender. He's played football. played on the offensive line. He could definitely at least make an effort to fight you off, for sure. And it's a golden lab, the dog, by the way, and it's known as being pretty protective as well.

They said, this isn't a dog that if you come in the house and it doesn't know you, it's not going to let you in. It's going to bark at you. It's going to try to bite you. It's going to keep you out. They said the dog was let outside and unchained at some point. So that's odd.

So that evening, Annette goes to work at Wink. and they say she and Jackie both say that's when they learned Corey was dead from the people at the bar. That's how she heard. And that's that. So they got into the car, Jackie and Annette, and drove to the police station to volunteer a full account of their day. This is what we did yesterday, just so you know we didn't do it. It's kind of a strange thing to do. Preemptively.

Yeah. Real weird. So Wednesday morning, October 14th here. The officers still have a section of the gravel road that Corey and Jody live on blocked off overnight, okay, because this is the next day. There's a news crew out there from Cedar Rapids. Rapids came all the way over here. This reporter named Mike Wagner was trying to get his car started on this road and couldn't. So he decided to walk up the gravel road toward the residence. So he does.

And about a quarter mile east of the house, he said, and we never know. exactly where it is, but he said he looked down at the north edge of the road and saw a metal bat. He went and told the cops, who came and looked at it here, the bat had white tape wrapped around the handle. It's an aluminum bat. It's a blue aluminum bat stamped on it, the words power flight heavyweight. You know, aluminum bats. The white lettering had what appeared to be blood stains on it. It's a youth-sized aluminum softball bat is what it is.

still has a barcode sticker affixed to it as well without the corners being torn off or anything. It's pretty new. They later confirmed the bat had been purchased at Walmart. That particular blue had shipped to the area a year before this, but it could have been left over

from the previous year's inventory. They didn't have everything on computer back then where they could go, oh yeah, that came from here and it's that. But it's a $15 softball bat. It had been bought on sale for 30. $13. Imagine that. $13 murder weapon.

$13. Pretty efficient. Kill people. That's crazy. So there's a criminologist that takes the bat off the road. And actually, we have the exact picture of this too here. Also, in that picture is the Muscatine County Sheriff, Ron Hazen, who happens to be Annette's uncle. Oh, my.

This is a small town, man. So that's crazy, right? Yeah. So the bat goes to the state crime lab. They put it, you know, they do the super glue fumes and all that to try to figure out what's going on. The fumes adhere to shit. It's the Beverly Hills Cop 2. Remember that?

Yeah. In the fish tank or the turtle tank with the, yeah, same thing. Put it in the bucket and put some super glue and get it real hot and you'll see fingerprints. So there's no fingerprints on the bat, none. No fingerprints at all they found, which, I mean, there's tape around the handle. part. Yeah. I'd wear gloves if I was going to do this probably.

But it's probably that's, yeah, for sure, yeah, but it's probably that sport tape that fucking holds shit, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, get yourself a batting glove. Get a Franklin. You'll be fine. I'm a Zuno. You'll slap it on. I'll keep it clean.

Now, the blood testing capability in 1992 in rural Iowa is blood type. That's it. That's all they got. Yeah. There is DNA that happens, but it doesn't happen around here quite yet. So, yeah, the blood on the bat was the same type as Corey's. And by the way, Jody said neither she nor or Corey owned any bat of any kind. So it didn't come from the house.

Okay, so people, obviously there's a ton of people saying, this sucks. We like Corey is a good guy. There are a few people, though, talking about how sometimes he rubbed people the wrong way, and there's a lot of people that might have wanted to kill him. One person, a family friend said he had a foul mouth, and a lot of people didn't like him around town on that account. They said he was generally a good kid, but people got mad at his foul mouth. A neighbor who knew him a long time said that sometimes Corey would say things that made people angry,

and it was never the type of thing that would cause someone to want to kill him probably. He said he was a pretty nice guy. He had problems once in a while, but everybody does. He wouldn't hurt a flee. And then he goes on to flee. this town's devastated. I'm still not thinking straight, the guy says. I could have come up with a better analogy.

I just said a flea. I don't know. I'm sorry. It's usually a fly, but I go with fleas. I'm so distracted, honestly, by this whole thing. What's the last time you even saw a flea to hurt it? You know what I'm saying? We've pretty much rid the fleas out of here with collars and the sprays.

It's all gone. Somebody's been hurting fleas. Somebody's been up to something. So now here are the theories. There's basically four theories. Maybe drugs. Maybe he owed people money. That's possible.

They looked at Slim, who had partied with Corey. That didn't work out. Maybe gambling. He was running a little book out of the bar. It's possible. No, not really there. Maybe a bar fight that escalated.

Maybe he got in a beef with somebody earlier in the night and they were seeking revenge or some shit. But they said nothing really happened that night or even close to that. Maybe it's a woman or a woman's husband. thought possibly because he's banging everybody. One investigator said, usually start with the spouse or boyfriend, girlfriend,

whoever it is, and then you work it out. With Corey, it's a bit more difficult because he had more than one relationship going on. Some of these women that he was having sex with had boyfriends, had husbands. That made it a bit harder than normal. That's crazy.

One thing that bothered him here, he said, Corey was a strong young man. And for that type of crime to have committed it, I think a lot of people scratching their heads asking for one who could have done this, and for two, how could they have pulled it off

because it did not appear that Corey had fought back? Well, they walked in and found him sleeping, beat his skull in. That's pretty easy. They believe that he knew the killer, though, because of the dog,

the way the dog, you know, was allowed. The response to the person. Yeah. If he was barking, barking, that would have probably woke Corey up, and it would have been a different story. So now, the suspects,

First of all, he lives with Jody, so she's suspect one. She has a total alibi. She's been at the bank the entire day, and he was dead forensically well after she left. So couldn't have been. Bob Morrison now, remember Missy's husband? Bob, they called him a workaholic who did tons and tons of overtime. He took Tuesday, October 13th off, which is the day after the murder, the day of the murder, essentially. They said that he's a powerfully built man and was about the right height to have committed the homicide based on some forensic shit and some spatter shit they were talking about.

They also say that people said he was quick-tempered and known for his, quote, remorseless abuse of both animals and his wife. Okay. So it's capable of anything. Even if he didn't do this, let's keep an eye on him for a while. I was going to say, we should probably just put a car on him anyway and then work from there. Let's follow him around here. God, we are so far. Shit, I don't know how we're going to do this in time.

Okay. Annette then. Remember, Annette? Remember last time we left off with her, she was on the way to the police station here. She showed up. They walked in the police station. And one investigator said it did seem a little strange that she come up with all this stuff and that she wanted to present it willingly.

Like she had receipts. This is where I was today. But then I also kind of got the feeling that she was doing that because she was afraid. She really didn't want to go sit down in front of the cops. She was afraid of something, them finding something out. So she told them, yes, I went to his house. I went to the door where the, you know, the particle board thing where you can get in the, all of that is. She told them all of that. This is pretty close to when the murder is supposed to be happening too. She says, I stopped there. She put herself on the same. I mean, that's the truth. And this, now the cops say she knew

the farmer saw her and she was trying to get out ahead of it because remember the farmer saw them outside. But also the farmer didn't, why would you volunteer? And why would you put yourself at the murder scene before the farmer says that they saw you? So it can go either way. She gave them her coat, her shoes, fiber samples from the interior of her vehicle, her fingerprints, her palm prints her blood. She gave them everything. They tested everything, nothing matched. They asked her to take a polygraph and she said, okay, fine, and she passed it. Okay. They said she took the polygraph examination on that day and basically passed the polygraph. There was no conclusive evidence that they could say after she took the polygraph that would lead you to believe that she was guilty.

So they said at that point, they started working other leads because she passed. Yeah, that's how you'd eliminate people. So the case goes cold here. Wow. They said we interviewed some people and really didn't get a lot. We're getting the same name, same information, and it just went cold. Same dead ends. Oh, shit.

A year later that it was this big announcement in the Iowa City of some Gazette or some shit, one of the papers there that said like new information, blah, blah, blah. And then the next day it was like, there's no new information. That was a bad, our bad. Same old shit. Annette keeps checking in with the cop. She goes to the police station on her own every once in a while repeatedly. Okay.

They said she was unusually interested in the investigation. She would come to the police station of her own volition and check on things. She also started handing them other suspects. They said there's, investigators said there's always red flags, but the big giant red flags. The ones that are like on the top of a building screaming at you that this is a person is when your suspect starts coming forward providing alternate suspects. Yeah. Like that's not a good person.

Not me. No. By the way, 1995, remember Missy and Bob Morrison? Yeah. Well, Bob shot and killed Missy in 1995 amid accusations that she was fucking other people and was going to leave him and then he killed himself. Bob! That's a dead end now.

Bob and Missy. Incredibly dead end. That's the guy that beats animals and his wife? And his wife. Yeah. Shocking end.

You never would have thought, right? Not that guy. What a dickhead. So October 1995, they have a meeting, all the investigators. It's been three years. And they theorized

it's probably, it was probably Bob Morrison who killed Corey. That would make the most sense. So they do all of that. And they said, I mean, he was dead.

Now there's nobody to prosecute, though. So they kind of, he was their main suspect right now and now he died. So they lost interest in the case pretty much. It went cold. They were like, well, that was that. So over the years, they get more suspects, a guy named Dennis Stromer, a guy named Corey, a guy named Robert, Stephen Burke, William, James, Wade. These are all the ones they named. Steve Young. Hey, Steve Young was there. He's a scrambling, man. I don't think he did it. And there's a bunch more. There's a guy named Jeff Murdoch, who according to an interview with a guy, guy named Scott Payne, Jeff Murdoch was bragging about killing Corey at two different local bars on two separate occasions. Jeff was never interviewed once by the cops for this murder and he died in 2004, having never been interviewed. They're doing a bang up job, James. This is great.

There is no way we can finish this fucking story. I don't know how we're going to do this. Okay. There's a lot left. Really? And it's juicy and there's a lot to talk about. Can we do a two-parter on an express? That seems weird, right?

We have a long show for that. I don't fucking see why not. We can. We can do whatever we want. It's our show. But like, if I'm a listener, I'm going, hey, stupids, maybe you should have made that your regular length show. You do have a longer show. The point of this is a short story.

I don't know. I think dead man with a cop police force doing a bang-up job of fucking this up. It's a beautiful place to stop. It's pretty goddamn great. Yeah. We'll do a little bit more. And then we're not going to rush through it and not tell the story, basically. So let's do it.

That's what I mean. If there's an hour to go still, fucking see you next week. All right. Fuck it. Then we're in. Let's continue this then. So the, yeah, Jeff never got, never got fucking interview here. He's a guy who people say were actually like he was actually admitting it to people here.

Then there's a guy named Joey Brockert who lived in West Liberty at the time of the murder. the following year he was convicted of beating a man to death. Okay. Different guy, a beating, but a blunt force trauma murder. So he was a guy who was on the suspect list to begin with and then gets beaten fucking horribly. Okay. Wow. There's a guy named Mark Rodriguez here.

Mark Rodriguez is implicated by an ex-girlfriend named Megan Kaufman who told investigators that Rodriguez and Brockert, the guy who beat a guy to death the next year, were both members of a local group called The Clan with a C. Okay. How do you name your group, The Clan? There's already one of those. That is a connotation. I mean, there's a Wutang one.

But if you're, hey, if you're nine black guys, fine. People are probably understand that you're probably not going to go burn across on anybody's law. And they qualified that clan with the Wooten. Lou Tang part. That part differentiates it tremendously. Huge at that point. Yeah. Huge difference.

And they got some pretty great names each guy. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think there's a lot of guys in the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan? The Ghost Face Killer probably. I don't think there's a lot of the, they don't think there's a lot of old dirty bastards in there.

They are bastards. I'm sure that. They are. So a local group called the clan and were involved in dealing drugs. I got to know what the clan is all about. What do they do? I don't know if I want to know. Oh, God.

I mean, I want to know, but I'm going to be regretful when I find out. Not going to be thrilled with the results of it. No. So that's Mark Rodriguez there. So his ex-girlfriend told on him. So we have several people going, this person's, I heard this person say that they killed it. That's Joey Brockert they heard about. They heard about Mark Rodriguez.

They heard about Jeff Murdoch. Then there's a guy named Kenny Hammonds. Um, Kenny Hammons said that there's a guy named Jeffrey Lobdell and Jeffrey Lobbdell said that Kenny Hammins admitted to me that he dropped Corey off at home on the morning of the murder. So he's saying he put Corey. Now, I don't know why, how would Corey's car be there then? That doesn't make any sense. That, so that one that you discount just because we know Corey had a car when he left the bar. We know Corey had a car at several locations, including angry sex with Annette and the birthday party with Slim.

And then he stopped off at the other one's house too, Wendy, to talk to her and then got his car home because it's in the fucking driveway. Yeah, he got home at 7 a.m. and went to bed and his girlfriend went to work. What, he went back out? Yeah, it makes no sense. So we know that's not right. They might have their days mixed up, too. That's the other thing. Sure.

I mean, we were talking about years later, too. Like, yeah, we drove him home around then. Who knows? You know? Then there's a set of drug dealers from Missouri whom Corey reportedly owed money. That's according to a woman named Brenda Peterson. Corey owed out-of-town drug dealers money.

And there's that. So we have a lot of shit going on here. We have Jeffrey Lobb Dell and Kenny Hammonds. We got Brenda Peterson saying, they did that. We got the Mark Rodriguez guy who's drug dealing in the clan and his ex-girlfriend says

that he told her they did that. That he did that. Joey Brockert here who beat a guy to death. Jeff Murdoch, who's been heard in several different bars bragging about the murder as well. That in addition to

Morrison, who's dead. Yeah. And Missy who's dead. And basically, Jody, Annette, Wendy. I mean, anyone they have We got more people than the Wu-Tang clan.

Yeah, this is a Wutang, a veritable Wutang clan of suspects is what we have here. This shit is crazy. Yeah. This is, there are so many suspects. That's what I mean. Wow.

So then, and 2002 is the 10-year anniversary announcement of the case here. 10 years have gone by. It went a, decade without solving a man beaten to death in his bed? In his own bed, in his own home.

Wow. Seems wild. On the 10-year anniversary, a sergeant told the associated press that no motive has been developed and that no one has been identified as a suspect. We don't even know why he's dead. There's like 20 suspects,

but none of them are, you know, he can really grab onto and pull onto here. And the fact that no, they don't even have a fucking motive yet. So drugs, angry boyfriend, duty pissed off at the bar, could literally be anything. The same, now Susan, his mother, said, I can't imagine that somebody had something as awful against him. We didn't know he had any enemies at all, which I'm sure he didn't know he was banging 18 women and doing Coke at night either. So you're his parents.

Generally don't tell your mom that stuff. No, not at all here. And then there's the dog. They said that, you know, a lot of these people that are suspects are strangers in terms of they've never, they don't hang out at Corey's house. Yeah. So they're like, this dog, it has to be someone that this dog knows pretty well. Yeah. Like, pretty goddamn good.

Like, they have to have been over there 10 times. So. So wish a dog knew English. Please. Look at him and he's just staring at you with love. Who did it, boy? Who? Tell me.

Don't you just wish? Dogs have seen so much over the years. So much. So much. I'm glad mine can't talk. They've seen me naked so much. Oh, God, I'll tell you everything. Every divorce case, all they would ask is just let's bring the dog in.

The dog would be the witness. You too. The fuck out of that. He was a dick. She would bitch and moan a lot. Somebody get out the milk bones. I got some question to do. After every question, you got to give him a little piece of a bone.

He's like, my dogs would tell you everything. He can recall and testify, but must be bribed with treats. That's the greatest part of my dog witnesses. My dogs would sell me out so fast. Oh, God. Forget it.

Forget it. Oh, fuck. They got the dream bones. Oh, no. Two of my three dogs would fuck me in a second. In a second. Frankie keep her mouth shut. Frankie's hardcore.

Both of these fucking. They're so food secure, James. I've never had dogs where I can put food down and they'll still stare at me because they know that food's going to be, it's not going anyway. There's always food. Yeah. Our dogs all eat out of the same bowls. They don't even have separate bowls.

They share. They all share. And one will like take a bite and then step back and let the other one come eat a little bit. We gave Frankie a little bit of steak last night because we had some left over and put it on the floor because she's real old and losing weight. and she actually a plate of steak,

medium rare, fucking steak, backed away so Oscar could get a piece and then went back in that's how nice they are to each other. They would tell on us

so badly, Jimmy. So quick. So quick. They don't understand the amount of food that's here is because I love you.

There are so many houses that this shit doesn't exist because they don't give a shit about their dog. And I'm doing all I can. I feed you before I eat, you bastard.

Son of a bitch. Sons of bitches. And you tell the cops everything. Are you a dog? dogs, grazers are all at once eaters? Grazers? Yeah, I think it's a security thing. Mine are... It's food

security. Well, we started, Frankie was like that, and then the other dogs just took her example, I think, from that. Like, oh, we don't have to just scarf everything up. All right, cool. I think that's definitely part of it. They've got to go by example, because some dogs, they're just scared because there's another dog in the house, and they'll just wolf it all down. But if they

see one, take a few nibbles and walk away, they're like, oh, he's not going to take my shit. He didn't care about his own. Exactly. Oh, when we got Benny, we put him down, he was eating his food, and Frankie was a year old. She came over when he was a puppy, and he growled at her, and we went, no, no, when we pulled him away from the food. And then she took a couple bites, and then we put him back, and he's never done it again. After that, they started eating together out of the bowl. That's it.

It's been. These two never growl each other at all, and Dre steps on his fucking face. That's the only time they hate each other is when he crowds. Mine, too. They love each other. It's fucking awesome. So I guess that's where we'll have to leave this off here. I'll leave it off with this.

2009, okay, because then, yeah, the next thing is when the case blows open. Okay, 2009. 17 years. 17 years. The Iowa DCI set up a cold case unit finally. They figured, hey, we might have some cases that are old. Corey's murder was one of the roughly 150 cases that they hoped to revisit with new DNA technology now. We'll run all this evidence again and get some answers.

unfortunately, that takes a long time, and by 2011, the federal grant funding ran out in the unit collection. And they were like, that's that. Because the state couldn't afford it. So that was that. We have no money now. We have the technology and no way to run it. Nope. So there you go.

That's where it stops. And then it's going to. The most unlikely thing, people you haven't even fucking met yet are still to come in this story. And a suspect that you do know emerges. and it's so fucking crazy, and I want to give it the time it deserves because there's also very much question of the verdict and everything like that.

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