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Dark Cast Network, the best in indie podcasts. I'm Griffin
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and you're listening to Beyond the Rainbow True Crimes of
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the LGBTQ Plus.
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Hey, this is a true crime show with adult content. No,
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I'm not recording well naked. I just mean that I
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sometimes drop swear words. Hey, they're Rainbow Warriors and welcome
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to Beyond the Rainbow True Crimes of the LGBTQ Plus.
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I'm your host, CJ. There will not be a new
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episode next week is I'll be on the road to
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the True Crime Paranormal Festival in Denver, and it's actually
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an eight day road trip, so I'm not one hundred
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percent sure if there'll be an episode the week after
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or not. We'll just have to see how the trip goes.
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So far, the trip's been kind of rocky for me,
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and I haven't even left. But that's because the breeder
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who said she'd deliver me a Multese puppy in Denver,
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she went and promised out all her puppies to other people,
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and she did not save one for me. She didn't
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take deposits, and I made the mistake of thinking our
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texting back and forth would solidify her bringing me a puppy,
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So that's gonna be a bummer for me. You know,
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I have this huge hole in my heart that Nilah
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held and I just can't seem to get it filled
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even a little bit. I did rent a van out
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for our road trip to haul me, my daughter, her boyfriend,
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and their two big dogs along. Oh yepie, that should
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be an interesting trip. But at least with the van,
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I don't have to strap my totes of merch on
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top of the vehicle just to lose it all over
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the highway somewhere. Are missing but not forgotten LGBTQ per
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in this episode is forty one year old Taylor Casey
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from Chicago, Illinois. Taylor went missing from a yoga retreat
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in the Bahamas, to be more specific, Paradise Islin and
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Nassau on June nineteenth, twenty twenty four. Exactly a week later,
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on Wednesday, June twenty sixth her phone was found in
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the ocean, but all of her other belongings were still
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at the retreat. The organizers of the retreat have asked
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the Bahama Police to investigate into Taylor's disappearance. These same
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people learned of her being missing when Taylor failed to
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show up for her classes on June twentieth. She was
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last seen late the night of June nineteenth. Bahama police
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seemed to be keeping whatever information they have close, and
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they're sharing very little of it. This generally means we
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don't know if it's because they don't have anything to share,
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or if they believe foul play is involved. They're not
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even saying if Taylor's phone in the ocean was found
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close to the retreat or not, although they are saying
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they've conducted an intensive investigation into Taylor's disappearance. I hate
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feeling doubtful that the Bahama police are competent, but I
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remember on the case of Rebecca Quorium on the Disney ship,
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law enforcement from the Bahamas was lackluster at best. Oddly,
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just after Taylor disappeared, the US issued a Level two
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travel advisory to the island due to crime, to which
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I say, damn. It'd be nice to know these things
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before a person actually travels to the place. Right. Taylor's
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family and friends are extremely worried about her. If you
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or anyone you might know was on this retreat, lives
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in the Bahamas, or may have information on finding Taylor,
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please contact the Bahama Police. Taylor is a light skinned
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black woman, standing five ten and weighing one hundred and
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forty five pounds and Taylor, we hope you're found safe.
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My friend. I'd like to preface this case by telling
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you it's an oldie. It's a double murder that occurred
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in nineteen sixty seven and remained a cold case until
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the killer confessed on their deathbed in two thousand and nine.
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She was a simple girl at the age of eighteen, tomboyish,
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really short hair, no makeup, sort of slouched when she walked.
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Her confidence and herself seemed to be lacking. She was
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a hard worker, though she had two jobs. One was
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at a hospital as a nurse's assistant, and the other
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she worked part time at Hyge's ice cream store in Stanton, Virginia.
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Her name was Sharon Diane Crawford, but she went bire
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middle names of Diane. At High's ice cream store, she
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worked with two girls, two girls she had actually went
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to high school with, but were a little bit older
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than her. One was nineteen year old Connie Smoot's Heavener,
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who was a twin having a twin brother. The other
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girl was twenty year old Caroline Hevner Perry, whose parents
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owned that particular ice cream shop. Still on her teens,
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Connie was already married, but then again, it was nineteen
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sixty seven. Marriage and babies as teenagers it was pretty
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common stuff. Connie had married the brother of her best
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friend and co worker, Carolyne. The two girls had been
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cheerleaders together in high school, and since Carolyne's parents owned
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the shop, she too worked there. Carolyn also was married
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and she had a two year old daughter. It was
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uncharacteristically hot April eleventh of nineteen sixty seven of people
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had visited the ice cream shop for their favorite treats.
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Diane had called out sick that day and one of
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the other two girls was filling in for her. But
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Diane had problems with her two co workers of Connie
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and Carolyn. Mostly with Connie. Connie had taken to teasing
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and name calling Diane for her appearance. Lesbian, dyke and
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other names were meant to be derogatory. They were her
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go to insults. Diane very well could have been a lesbian,
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but she had no experience in dating girls. She didn't
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have any experience in dating boys, so Connie's jabs were
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solely based on Diane's looks, and that stung Diane to
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her core. Prior to the evening of April eleventh, Diane
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had called up an acquaintance, someone she worked at the
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hospital with, actually, and she asked this girl, Joyce Bradshaw,
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she wanted to go grab a burger with her. Joyce
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said sure. Diane picked Joyce up, and once they got
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to the burger joint, Diane had Joyce open her glove
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compartment and no, that's not a sexual innuendo. When Joyce
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opened the glove box, a twenty five caliber pistol was revealed.
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Diane called the gun her baby, and she said, there's
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two bullets in it. When is for my stepdad who
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had allegedly molested Diane? And when is for the girl
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I work with? We now know that Diane was referring
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to Connie. Well, Joyce had no clue who the girl
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she worked with was, nor did she ask who it
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might be or why Diane wanted to use the bullets
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on the two people she named, because actually, right now
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she was kind of terrified of this Roague girl that
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she was with. And to be honest, Joyce couldn't get
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home and away from Diane fast enough. Back to April eleventh,
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nineteen sixty seven. At the ice cream shop. It was
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eleven PM closing time. Hys had extended their hours until
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eleven due to the warmer weather that was occurring. Connie
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and Carolyn were starting there closing the store procedures. In
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the back door of the shop, a figure had opened
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the door and they had popped in. It was Diane.
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She had come to tell Connie she wouldn't be able
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to cover Connie's shift the following day. For some reason.
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This started a verbal altercation between the two girls. In
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a fit of rage, Diane grabbed her baby that she'd
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been hiding somewhere on her body, perhaps in a pocket
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or tucked into the waistban of the pants she was wearing.
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She held the gun and she shot Connie, who immediately
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slumped to the ground. Carolyn was startled and she saw
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what Diane had done. She rushed over to Connie and
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she knelt over her protectively. That's when Diane took the
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gun to Caroline and shot her too. As the girls
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lay one on top of another on the ground in
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a pool of their own blood, Diane grabbed the money
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the girls had collected from the register and were going
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to drop into a security box. The total amount was
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a hundred and thirty eight dollars. I know that doesn't
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sound like a bunch of money now, but in nineteen
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sixty seven money, it was a good lot of pocket change.
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Diane fled out the back door to her car and
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she drove around aimlessly, wondering what she was going to do.
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She was hoping no one had seen her go into
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the shopp or leave, but she was nervous. After hours
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of driving around in a daze, the answers suddenly came
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to her and she drove to a farm that she
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had been to dozens of times. The farm was owned
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by Dave Bocock, who just so happened to be the
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detective in charge of criminal investigations for the Stanton Police Department.
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Dave was Diane's friend, and he was the one who
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taught her how to use her gun, which is why
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she had spent so much time at his farm. When
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she got to the farm, Dave, who was actually the
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first law enforcement at the crime scene, was home now,
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and Diane told Dave exactly what had happened. He told
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her not to worry, and he made Diane give him
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her gun. He then put it in a metal box
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and buried it somewhere on his property. The girls in
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the ice cream shop were discovered by a passerby who
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had used a payphone. This man called in saying he
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believed that there were injured people in the Highs ice
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cream store. He stated his name is Bill Thomas. Bill
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was a twenty four year old school teacher. Again, Detective
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Dave was the first law enforcement at the scene, and
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Detective Dave didn't yet know what had happened. But then
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more police in the ambulance arrived. Connie had already succumbed
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to her injury, but Carolyn was hanging on by a
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thin thread. She ended up passing away on the way
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to the hospital. To start their investigation that appeared to
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be a robbery gone wrong with money missing, police called
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upon Bill Thomas, the one who phoned the crime in.
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He was kind of a witness and it seemed like
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a good place for them to start, especially since DNA
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testing wasn't really a thing back then. They most likely
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dusted for fingerprints as well, but with so many people
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in and out of the ice cream shop, It kind
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of seemed like a daunting task. Once investigators had built
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down at the station, he told them he saw two
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men run off. One of the men was black and
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the other was white. The black man was big, he
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was six feet tall, and the white man he was
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even bigger. It soon came out that Bill was lying
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about seeing the two men. No one really knows why
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he decided to lie about a story, but you can
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bet it put him to the head of the murder
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suspect list. For someone to make up a story and
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try to involve themselves even more into a case, it's
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a little suspect for sure, and that's what the police
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thought as well, well, almost all of them, with the
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exception of Detective Dave Bocock, of course. But Dave was
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ready to let Bill take the fall for the crime
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with no guilt on his conscience whatsoever. Since Detective Dave
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was the lead on the case, very minimal was done.
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He didn't even interview the victim's family for leads because
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Dave didn't need to. He knew what had happened. It
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wasn't too long after the murders that Joyce Bradshaw remember her,
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She's the nursing coworker of Diane's who went out for
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burgers with her. Joyce went to see Detective Dave to
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tell him about seeing a gun in Diane's car and
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relaying the chilling statement that Diane had made about her
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gun having two bullets and who they were four. What
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Dave told Joyce was that he knew about Diane's gun.
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In fact, he's the one who taught her how to
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use it in Diane's a crack shot. Joyce somehow felt
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very intimidated and frightened by Dave's words, and this fear
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made her decide to just drop it and not pursue
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her knowledge of Diane's gun and the ominous threats any further.
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A couple of days later, Detective Dave got a hold
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of Joyce. He told her that he gave Diane a
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polygraph test in which she passed, and that the bullets
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that shot the ice cream shop girls didn't match the
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bullets in Diane's gun. He told Joyce this to ease
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her mind and to get her off of his back.
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You're probably getting the idea now that either Dave is
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a dirty cop or he for some reason has a
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strong need to protect Diane, or maybe both. Some sources
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have said that the answer is both, with Dave being
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heard telling someone how easy it is as an officer
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to manipulate the system. There's speculation also that Dave might
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have been Diane's birth father. Her birth certificate only list
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her mother on it, but he might have taken a
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keen fascination in Diane because perhaps he was her birthdad.
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More and more suspicion was cast it a upon Bill Thomas,
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the alleged witness. He was arrested a year later in
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nineteen sixty eight, and he was charged with the murder
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of only Connie. What CJ Why only one of the girls? Well, warriors,
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This was actually a very smart move by the prosecution,
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and the reason they went after Bill for only one
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of the murders was just in case he was acquitted.
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If the prosecution lost the case against Bill for Connie's murder,
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they could still go after him for Carolyn's murder. Otherwise,
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if the prosecution went after him for both and lost,
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they couldn't read try Bill due to double jeopardy laws, which,
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as you probably know, is when a person who's been
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accused is acquitted by a jury and they cannot be
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prosecuted for the same crime twice. Now. Bill was kind
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of his own worst enemy, and he was doing stupid
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ass things like going around town and telling people he
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killed the two girls. People thought he was crazy, and
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to be honest, with continually inserting himself into the crime,
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Bill must have been a little off culter. I mean,
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it's pretty dumb to first lie to the police with