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Anya Cain
The brand Quint has become our go to when it comes to clothing that's classic, well made and high value. Seriously, I'm about to go on another shopping spree there and the big question I have is what pieces are going to make me the happiest as summer winds down?
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Kevin Greenlee
Quince has good stuff that will last you for years to come. Their items are half the cost of that of their competitors. They pass the savings on to you by cutting out the middlemen. I just recently got their 100% European linen utilities shirt in martini olive. It's just like the kind of shirts I'm used to wearing, only it feels better made, so it's like an elevated version. I love how comfortable the fabric is, how it breathes. What's most important is that Anya likes what the color is doing for my eyes.
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Anya Cain
I also got a little blue beret because Kevin insists I wear more hats. It's very cute. I love it. I'm also looking at their 100% European linen dresses as well as more cashmere and cotton sweaters starting at $40, not to mention their washable silk tops and denim pants. I can't wait to see the latest selections from Quints and we'll definitely let you all know about what we get next.
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Kevin Greenlee
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Anya Cain
I wanted to pop in here super quickly and tell you all that we're doing a number of events and book signings around our new book, Shadow of the Bridge. We'd love to meet you, sign the book, say hi to, talk about fish sandwiches, whatever you want to do. I will be including a link in all of our future episodes that goes to our website, which is murdersheetpodcast.com events and that way you can follow along with this and get any links you need to get in order to purchase tickets. Our launch event is going to be on Tuesday, August 26th from 7pm to 9pm we're so excited to be doing an event with Turn the page books and it's going to be taking place at the Christ United Methodist Church in Westfield. This is a ticketed event, so please purchase your tickets. And in addition, we're going to be doing a August 30, 2025 signing from 11:00am to 1:00pm in Delphi, Indiana at the wonderful Buttermilk Biscuit Company. You can also go on our website and check out what events are coming up in the future. We're going to Greenwood, Columbus, Noblesville, Kendallville, Franklin and Carmel and we'll also be going to Louisville, Kentucky. We're probably going to be doing even more events than what I just listed. Please keep an eye on that events page and you can follow along. And we'd love to meet some of you and it would be just delightful. And we' love to sign your book and get to thank you in person for supporting us.
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Anya Cain
Audible.Com wondery content warning this episode includes discussion of murder, including the murder of a child.
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Kevin Greenlee
That's correct.
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Anya Cain
So today on the Cheat Sheet, we're going all around.
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Kevin Greenlee
We're going all around. But recently you've had us jetting all over, going through tunnels and tunnels and windmills and in balloons and all this other stuff to go all around the world. But I think this time you're tired, as we all are tired from all of that travel. And I think we're going to be just in America, right?
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Anya Cain
Well, we're going to be in the Americas because we're actually going to Mexico, our southern neighbor here in the United States.
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Kevin Greenlee
I got to go dig out my passport again.
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Anya Cain
You have to dig out your passport again. But, you know, it's a. It's.
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Kevin Greenlee
We're, We're.
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Anya Cain
We share a border, so, you know, we're right there.
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Kevin Greenlee
So we don't need a plane. The cane train can take us to Mexico.
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Anya Cain
Yeah, we don't need to do any special planning. And it's, you know, we know a lot of people who like to vacation in Mexico and visit there. So I think that's going to be a. A very easy thing for an easy jaunt.
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Kevin Greenlee
Easy jaunt. On the train we ride in comfort. Air conditioned for our comfort.
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Anya Cain
Right, of course.
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Kevin Greenlee
Whoa.
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Anya Cain
What do you think the cane train is some kind of like, steerage class thing on wheels?
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Kevin Greenlee
What about the dining car? We haven't talked about the dining car.
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Anya Cain
Sumptuous. Only the finest for the cane train passengers.
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Kevin Greenlee
Let's get on with it.
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Anya Cain
My name is Anya Cain. I'm a journalist.
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Kevin Greenlee
And I'm Kevin Greenlee. Hi. I'm an attorney.
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Anya Cain
And this is the Murder Sheet.
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Kevin Greenlee
We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases. We're the murder Sheet.
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Anya Cain
And this is the cheat sheet. Football and fathers.
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Kevin Greenlee
Sam, I have to say, at the end of the program, after the promotional announcements, there'll probably be a Mr. Cotter like anecdote. But now we're going to begin the episode with Anya making some comments about a case she found of interest.
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Anya Cain
Yes, so this is an Indiana case, and this is a tough one because this involves the murder or the alleged murder of a child in Elkhart County, Indiana. And this, you know, was a six year old little boy who, again, early reports, and my sources for this were whsv, but also reviewing the probable cause affidavit in the case, a little boy who was. Was killed and is now dead. And the Elkhart County Prosecutor's office has charged Franklin Elmore Jr. The child's biological father, and his wife, the child's stepmother, Cheyenne, with, you know, with charges relating to the death. So what the probable cause affidavit notes is that on August 3, 2025, a, you know, 911 is called, Emergency services are dispatched, dispatched to a residence in Elkhart, Indiana. And what's been conveyed to first responders is that this six year old boy had been hitting himself in the head, self harm, behavioral issues, things like that, and then was unconscious and not breathing. And they transported him to Elkhart General Hospital where he died. And then the county homicide unit comes in to Investigate this. So Detective Zach Ulis of the homicide unit goes to the hospital, observes the child's body, observes bruising, abrasion on his buttocks, back, hips, legs, arms, hand, face, head. He's covered in injuries, he's underweight, he looks malnourished. Medical staff are telling him this kid had a brain bleed, this kid had a punctured lung. All of these different injuries. And the trauma surgeon and another emergency room doctor tell him we do not believe all these injuries were self inflicted. So immediately looking, looking bad. I mean, obviously in any situation, Kevin, I would imagine the death of a child is going to be looked at, but when claims are being made about self inflicted injuries, that's going to be something that can be cross referenced to the actual injuries. If you're saying the kid did all of this to himself and doctors are saying, we don't think that's possible, we don't think that's likely, that's going to be a problem for the parents who are making these claims.
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Kevin Greenlee
Exactly.
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Anya Cain
So they talk to the child's father, Franklin Elmore, and he waived his rights to, you know, not incriminate himself. Is that so? That would be something. What does that mean in this situation where you, you know, you get the Miranda warning and you say, I'll talk to you anyway?
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Kevin Greenlee
Well, of course, as American citizens, we have the right not to be forced to give testimony against ourselves. You know, the government can't like put a gun to your head or any equivalent and say you have to talk or you're going to get in trouble. You have a right not to do that. You have the right to remain silent. Which is why in all the police shows you've watched over the years, that's one of the first things that the police officers say when they arrest someone. With that said, some people make the choice, well, it's in my interest to go ahead and talk to the police. So I know I have this right. I understand I have the right to remain silent. I'm not obligated to talk, but knowing all of that, I'm going to choose to talk anyway.
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Anya Cain
So they talk to the father and they also talk to the stepmother. And the father says that he likes to discipline the child by making him run and do dumping jacks, lift hand weights, and that he had hit his child with a belt or put bars of soap in his mouth. Abusive behavior and that, that. But you know, the child had been tested with all these behavioral problems, but had never been formally diagnosed. Let me just make a comment here. You know, oftentimes in a dysfunctional, abusive family, kids will have behavioral issues because they're dealing with abuse. So I'm just throwing that out there. And then the. The kid gets sort of symptomified or, you know, they're the problem, but the real problem is the whole family and what they're doing to this child. So, you know, he's claiming, well, you know, the family's claiming, well, you know, the kid started acting up after the stepmother got pregnant, and, you know, the child started behaving badly and hitting himself. And that. That night after they ate at McDonald's and the kid went to bed, they found him rubbing his head on the floor and then started. He started seizing. His pupils were small. They called 91 1. And yeah, so it. It. It. There's no real explanation to how all of these injuries occurred. They just kind of say, you know, the stepmother also said in extreme cases, they would, quote, whoop him, and that the day prior, her husband had whooped his child or whatever that means. And. And she even admitted that this kid wouldn't really physically get out of control, but verbally would. So it's not like he's running around hitting other people. He may just be sassing them. So detectives pull the phone data. They pull surveillance footage, and what they find is disturbing. In. In one instance, they. They find the. The. You can't even make this up. They find Franklin Elmore Jr. He's pacing around his yard. His hands are on his head. This is before the 911 call comes in. And he can be heard muttering. And one of the words he's muttering is the word jail. Okay, so that doesn't look good.
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Kevin Greenlee
Does not look good at all.
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Anya Cain
No. And the. The surveillance footage captures the son looking normal, going into the residence, walking normally. He's fine. And then it. You know, you keep the surveillance footage and the cell phones place everybody inside the house. At one point, you can see the kid. You know, like, there's a. There's a surveillance camera inside of this kid's room, which is weird, in my opinion, but you can see him doing jumping jacks and whatnot. And then it gets worse. So jumping jacks is what he's been made to do as a sort of a punishment. But then at a certain point, Franklin comes in and throws this kid to the ground. The. The. So hard that the door is like, bouncing on. Off the wall. He's on top of his own child. He's in the child's face. And after that, you see the kid stumbling. He's falling on the ground. His dad grabs him up by the arm, yanks him up, and his body appears to start seizing. And then after that, this jail thing happens, then they call 911. So obviously it's a pretty horrific case, but now these folks are facing charges in regards to that. Frank Franklin Elmore Jr. Specifically is facing murder charges. So just a horrific child abuse case.
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Kevin Greenlee
That's terrible.
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Anya Cain
Obviously all this is alleged because he's not been convicted. So constitutionally he's innocent of anything. But if he's on film hurting his little boy and then the little boy dies, then that's pretty bad. So, you know, just abusive. This, this sort of child abuse is just unfortunately rampant in our society. And you know, we need to, we need to, you know, a kid can't defend themselves. A kid can't defend themselves, especially from people who are supposed to be taking care of them. And this kind of physical harm. First of all, it doesn't even discipline kids. I mean, like, the studies are pretty clear. I'm not one of those people who's like, yeah, let your kids do whatever. I don't think permissive parenting is good, but like beating your kid viciously for making a mistake. What are you teaching them? You know, I mean, being a parent is hard, but I, I, I don't think it should be hard to not like physically assault your child. What are you teaching them? You know, in this case, like, I mean, truly physically. I don't mean like a smack on the wrist or, you know, an occasional spanking, I, which I know people also, you know, feel like is bad. And certainly I, I agree with that. But I understand that that's not really what we're talking about here right now. We're talking about like severe violence that could hurt somebody. So, I don't know, makes me mad, as it should. People doing bad stuff to kids makes me really mad, as it should. So yeah, I guess we can go out of Indiana to one of your states.
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Kevin Greenlee
I have two cases in two separate states which are thematically linked. They're not linked in terms of there's different people in them and so on, but they're thematically linked. And the, the theme is that somebody screwed up.
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Anya Cain
Oh, no.
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Kevin Greenlee
And in one case, it took, it appears like, many years for that screw up to be discovered. And in the other case, fortunately, the screw up was discovered much more rapidly. So let's go first of all to Minnesota, the great state of Minnesota, the Minnesota Twins. Charles Schultz came from Minnesota, I believe.
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Anya Cain
Oh, we love him.
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Kevin Greenlee
My sources for this are the cbsnews.com and npr news.com and this involves a 1998 murder conviction that the county attorney, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, has asked to be vacated. A man named Brian hooper senior, a 54 year old, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years for killing a woman named Ann Prasniak. After his conviction, he fought the case in a number of appeals, and apparently it is said that some of the witnesses against him ended up recanting, but his appeals were unsuccessful, and so he remained incarcerated. But there was enough there that the Hennepin county attorney, Mary Moriarty, said her office was investigating it in their Conviction Integrity Unit. And so then while they were already investigating it, they get a letter out of the blue from a woman. I'm going to pronounce her name. Chalaka Young, who is serving time in Georgia for another offense, a four year sentence. And Ms. Young was a witness at Mr. Hooper's trial. Ms. Young's fingerprints were at the scene of the murder. And she indicated in her testimony that basically she was forced to stand guard while Mr. Hooper committed this terrible crime. But now, again, of her own accord, she's saying, I found religion and it's time for me to tell the truth. And it was actually I who committed the murder. And she says this knowing full well that it will result in her getting charged with the murder and facing some pretty serious consequences. So because of that combined with the previous witnesses recanting and such, Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty is asked for the conviction of Mr. Hooper to be vacated. What are your thoughts, if any?
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Anya Cain
I'm reading an old Star Tribune article about the murder of Ms. Prosniak, who's called Ms. Anne in the area. It's horrible. She was duct taped, thrown in a garbage bag, and put upside down in a cardboard box in a closet in her apartment. And apparently her building was notorious for just being basically an open air drug market for crack addicts in the 90s. So that's the context of some of this.
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Kevin Greenlee
Yeah.
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Anya Cain
And even this article notes in 1998 that somebody else's fingerprints were on the duct tape or were on the packaging tape that was used to bind her. So, yeah, you know, he. So he confessed to people, it sounds like, but he.
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Kevin Greenlee
It was testified that he confessed. Mm.
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Anya Cain
But then. But then. Now that's falling apart. It's really upsetting when you have a situation like this where it does seem like there is very good reason to believe that the wrong person was incarcerated for so Many years.
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Kevin Greenlee
Yeah. And Hannepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said he served so many days in prison for this, we don't want him to have to serve another. They're convinced that he's innocent and a terrible mistake was made.
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Anya Cain
This is just horrible. I feel terrible for him and his family, and I also feel. Feel terrible for Anne Prosniak and her family. This is something where even more people were victimized, perhaps. You know, it sounds like, I mean, you know me, after some of the things we've seen, I'm very skeptical about innocence claims. You know, I think there's just that they're a dime a dozen, and, you know, frankly, not everything's a wrongful conviction. A lot of things are not. I would actually say wrongful convictions are probably, in my opinion, rarer than they're made out to be in the media, because sometimes you scratch the surface of these things and you're like, that's not a wrongful conviction.
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Kevin Greenlee
Yeah.
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Anya Cain
Maybe at most there should be a new trial because something, you know, rights were violated, and that's a separate. I mean, that's a. That's a wrongful conviction in the sense that it should be redone, but it's not a wrongful conviction in the sense that we're talking about some sort of factually innocent angel who, you know, whatever. But in cases like this, where this does happen, it sort of shows you that, you know, sometimes they're the cases that are not necessarily getting as much press as some of the more nationally known ones that are, you know, alleged wrongful convictions.
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Kevin Greenlee
Yeah. And the fact that there are so many false wrongful conviction claims make it more difficult to find the real ones. I want to read a quote from Andrew Markquart, who leads the Conviction Integrity Unit at Hennepin county, and he says, quote, it's a big deal for us to support an exoneration of it is not something we take lightly at all. So if we're going to stand up here and endorse an exoneration, it's only going to be after a very thorough investigation. End quote.
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Anya Cain
Yeah, absolutely. Well, I commend that prosecutor for doing the correct thing here. And again, I feel terrible for Mr. Hooper and his family.
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Kevin Greenlee
So many years lost, decades lost. Now I'm going to hop down to South Carolina and tell you a story where about 69 days were lost, and it's lost just because of stupidity, because of careless mistakes. So there is a murder, and the police get a tip from a credible source indicating this is the person who did It. And they spelled the name correctly. And they then. The police then go, the person who was murdered, by the way, was Jasmine Roach. And the police get a tip that the murderer was a person named, pardon me here, Tyren Dixon. And that is spelled T, y, apostrophe H, e, n, d I, c, K, s o, n. And that's a person who weighs about 180 pounds. The police end up arresting a person named Tyrann Dixon, spelled T, y, apostrophe R a, n, D I, x, o, n. And this is a person who's a former football player. He weighs 300 pounds. So there is quite a disparity in the physical appearance of these two people, despite the similarity of the names. And again, the tip that came in with the credible information spelled the name correctly.
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Anya Cain
Okay.
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Kevin Greenlee
And it's come out that during this time when Tyrann Dixon, the innocent man, was incarcerated, some of the police started to wonder, well, is this the right guy? Should we show pictures of him to witnesses or what have you? And they didn't do it for a while. And so because of this, this man was held in jail again for 69 days.
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Anya Cain
Oh, my gosh.
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Kevin Greenlee
And it's basically for a clerical error.
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Anya Cain
That's horrible.
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Kevin Greenlee
So that's. That's also upsetting. 69 days, in the long run, that's not a huge deal in a person's life. But can you imagine spending 69 days behind bars knowing you're facing murder charges and not knowing if you're going to be able to get out of them? And for a murder you had nothing to do with?
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Anya Cain
How on earth does something like this even happen? How on earth does something like this even happen in this day and age? That's what I want to know. Why were people who were saying we should check this seemingly not either doing it or not being encouraged to do it? Yeah, I think there needs to be an accounting there. Mistakes happen. Law enforcement isn't perfect, but I think people should have. The people should be able to expect that you're not going to be held for 69 days for a clerical error. That's ridiculous.
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Kevin Greenlee
My source for this, by the way, is wrdw.com but they. Yeah. Internal emails show investigators were questioning whether they had the right person in custody. Allegations that officers discussed showing a photo of Dixon to a witness already in custody to confirm the identification but never follow through. So Dixon, the innocent man, is filing a lawsuit. Justifiably so, in my opinion.
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Anya Cain
Yeah, I think so, too. I think his rights were violated there. I mean, Again, like, I'm not saying, you know, if they went and questioned him, oops, we got the wrong guy, then maybe the damage is not as bad. If you're going and you're holding a guy for, like, that long. Yeah.
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Kevin Greenlee
Name misspelled. And a huge disparity in physical appearance between the person you've arrested and the actual suspect.
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Anya Cain
That's just a mess. Yeah, that's a mess. I. I hope he. You know, I mean, that shouldn't. And also that's concerning because that shouldn't happen to anybody. Like, that's. If that can happen to one guy, can happen to anybody. So that should be.
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Kevin Greenlee
It's very upsetting. There's a lot of people out there named Kevin Greenlee, so.
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Anya Cain
I know there are. There are. Yeah.
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Kevin Greenlee
You're lucky. I think you're just about the only onion.
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Anya Cain
I mean, only on a ca. So if you ever hear about an on you cane doing something bad, unfortunately, it's probably me.
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Kevin Greenlee
I think maybe one other. Isn't there?
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Anya Cain
I don't think so. There can only be one.
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Kevin Greenlee
Yeah. That's your code. That's your little law.
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Anya Cain
We'll duel it out. No, I mean, but, like, seriously, that's horrible. And, you know, I'm. Again, I'm. I'm somebody where I'm like, you know, you want law enforcement to be looking at stuff and, you know, there might be room to make mistakes in instances, but not when it violates someone's rights to this extent and really messes up his life. I mean, like, that. Like, I would wonder. He may have, like, lost his job or there may have been, like, stuff that he missed. Like that. That's stuff that, you know, it's just concerning. And again, like, it would be one thing if they were like, oh, we just thought we had the right guy, but if they're like, I don't know if we have the right guy, then, like, how did it happen that nobody was able to figure that out quicker?
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Kevin Greenlee
I would assume he's going to get a settlement in this.
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Anya Cain
Yeah, no, I mean, he should. I hope he does. I mean, this is totally ridiculous.
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Kevin Greenlee
Probably won't reach trial. Just. You just get.
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Anya Cain
Yeah, this is. Seems like in a big embarrassment, and it raises questions.
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Kevin Greenlee
It seems pretty egregious.
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Anya Cain
I totally agree.
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Kevin Greenlee
Shall we get out our passports and take the train down to Mexico?
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Anya Cain
Yeah, we're going to cross the Rio Grande and go into Mexico to talk about something that doesn't really involve murder but certainly involves crime. My source for this was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Which recently released a press release on this situation. I'm very interested in history. I'm specifically interested in history of the colonization of North America by the British, or really the English, as they were known at the time. And they were. You know, it's all about Jamestown. That's my favorite topic in history. But I also am interested in just sort of the general, you know, the. The differences between the Spanish colonization and the British colonization, the English colonization and just kind of. There's really kind of a fluke of history that we're not speaking Spanish right now, because Spain was actually up there and was interested in that area, and it didn't really work out for a number of reasons. I'm not going to bore you with, but there was even kind of a bit of a cold war between, you know, King King James and, you know, the king of Spain, Philip, and he. You know, they were. They were kind of uneasy about the English being in Jamestown. They're kind of like, what's that about? Are you gonna, like, set up a place to attack Spanish ships? And they're like, no, we're just looking at minerals. Geez. And it was a whole thing. But anyways, you know, it would have been very easy for them to take out. And in fact, there's indications that there were Spanish spies at Jamestown who were kind of keeping an eye on the whole thing and writing up, you know, maps of the fort and sending them to Ambassador Zuniga in London. And just sort of, you know, there was some concern. So Spain got a huge leg up in the Spanish in the colonization of the Americas, thanks to conquistadors who were in south and Central America, including Hernan Cortez, who was instrumental in the sort of brutal fall of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. So why am I bringing this up? And a lot of people died as a result of that. And there's even some indications that, you know, he and his kind of guys may have actually, like, done some murders in order to kind of make that happen. Right. But, you know, I. Let's. Montezuma being the kind of, you know, person that they might have killed. But let's go into what happened with the FBI recently. So FBI agents just recently returned a manuscript from Hernan Cortez to the government of Mexico. This thing dates back to 1527. And the statement cites Special Agent Jessica Dittmer of the Bureau's Art Crime Team, who is with the FBI nypd, Joint Major Theft Task Force. And what the document actually is talking about is, like, spice lands and sort of like, you know, gold and sort of running, running the, running the land and whatever. You know, just kind of business stuff. But still very interesting from a historical perspective. And the reason this ended up in the United States was no one knows quite when, but Sometime between the 80s or the 90s, specifically between 1985 and October 1993, they, this thing was stolen from Mexico and ended up in the United States. And specifically El Archivo General de la Necion, the National Archives in Mexico. They, they were, they, you know, have since placed it back in with the rest of their hand signed Cortez documents. This, this, they noticed it missing back in 1993. They were doing microfilming at the time and doing like an inventory thing, and they realized like, 15 pages are missing. What's going on here? So now it's back in Mexico. They found. Sounds like they've not determined, like, no one is going to prison for this. They have not caught the thief necessarily. They're not going to charge people. They have realized that over the years, this thing has just changed hands so many times. It's just I, I imagine in a situation like that, it could be very hard to bring charges. Right, because someone might have it and they didn't do anything wrong. They just have it. You know, they didn't steal it. They didn't know it was stolen. They just, you know, it's just not a situation. And, you know, but this is actually not the first time this has happened. In 2023, the FBI also sent another letter from Cortez about rose sugar back to the Mexican government. So they've been finding some of these things. It's important that they go back to the rightful owners, which are with the cultural institutions of Mexico. I mean, this is a very important figure in Mexican history. Certainly a very controversial and, you know, like, did a lot of stuff that is pretty violent and crazy, but part of the Mexican history. And so the fact that it's floating around the United States is not fair. So it's good to see the FBI kind of tracking some of those things down and certainly not as morbid or, you know, kind of disturbing as some of the murder cases. But, but certainly, you know, something important to do as, as someone who cares about history. I, I, I think it's interesting and it's fascinating. Yeah. And, and again, I sent Montezuma earlier. It was actually Montezuma ii. He's often known as Montezuma, but he was the one. He died mysteriously as the conquistadors were sort of taking over the Aztec empire. What they said happened was that he was killed by his own people. Some historians think perhaps he was murdered by the conquistadors because they realized he was not really of useful pawn to them. He was sort of being held hostage. So very violent time period of conquest and whatnot. And certainly a very interesting one. I'm not as familiar as that again, as I am with the English one in Jamestown, which was also extremely violent and crazy. But yeah. So that's what the FBI is doing around the art. Art world. Or I guess art artifact perhaps is a better way to say it.
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Kevin Greenlee
So now, before we get into your promotional remarks.
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Anya Cain
No, I don't want. You do the promotional remarks. I did the last two.
- [33:37]
Kevin Greenlee
Okay, okay. You're gonna have to remind me of certain information, but I just worry that people say, oh, the promotional remarks are coming. We're gonna tune out. So one of us. One of us?
- [33:46]
Anya Cain
What is this, like Paul Revere? The promotion's coming.
- [33:49]
Kevin Greenlee
One of us at the end of the promotion will share an anecdote.
- [33:53]
Anya Cain
No, maybe I was gonna tell you. We're not making that a thing.
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Kevin Greenlee
Well, just. Just until the promotional thing the next couple of weeks. Maybe it'll be me. Maybe. Maybe it'll be amusing, maybe it won't be amusing. Maybe it'll make you shed a tear.
- [34:04]
Anya Cain
Maybe it'll make you uncomfortable and not want to listen to the show anymore.
- [34:08]
Kevin Greenlee
But people need to have a reason to keep on listening.
- [34:13]
Anya Cain
People. Okay, what, so I don't have.
- [34:16]
Kevin Greenlee
So one of us will share an anecdote?
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Anya Cain
Do the promotions.
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Kevin Greenlee
So I don't have my promotional notes in front of me, so you're gonna have to. I'm doing this from memory. I'm. I'm doing this without a net. I'm like. I'm like blindfolded, just sailing through the air as usual. As I understand it, we have a book coming out that's going to be released on August 26th. Feel free to pre order it. If you like it, feel free to leave a positive review. And if you pre order it and let us know, you get a free signed book plate signed by the two of us.
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Anya Cain
Yes, that's true.
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Kevin Greenlee
We're going to be making some appearances in connection with the publication of said volume. The first appearance will be on August 26th in Westville. Westville. Westville Field.
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Anya Cain
Okay, what just happened? Let's just unpack that for a minute. So first you have us going to the notorious Indiana prison to do our book signing. Then you make up some sort of weird sounding food. West. Veal. It's Westfield. It's in Hamilton County, Indiana.
- [35:20]
Kevin Greenlee
And the information about where exactly in Westfield, I assume there's going to be a link in our show notes and certainly on our Facebook page. Certainly. That goes without saying.
- [35:29]
Anya Cain
And like, if you email us and you're like, what's going on? We'll send you the link or I.
- [35:33]
Kevin Greenlee
Don'T know, couple of days later would probably be after the Westfield appearance. Probably be hungry. So a couple of days later we'll be going to Delphi to get some biscuits.
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Anya Cain
Will we not eat between then?
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Kevin Greenlee
Well, I'm getting a little bit chunky. So then we from I believe like 11am to 1pm on August 30 would be at the biscuit place in Delphi.
- [35:55]
Anya Cain
You look perfect. You said you were chunky. I love the way you look. So just so I want to throw that in there. Don't be talking down to yourself.
- [36:03]
Kevin Greenlee
Go into CrimeCon. We're going to Crime Con.
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Anya Cain
We're going to Crime Con.
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Kevin Greenlee
Come see us at CrimeCon. Would love to shake your hand at CrimeCon and sign the book or whatever. Maybe have a conversation about the best places to eat fish in Denver. We're gonna be in Franklin, Franklin, Indiana in October. Are there any other. We're going back to Kendallville.
- [36:29]
Anya Cain
Yes.
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Kevin Greenlee
Going back to Kendallville.
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Anya Cain
Kendallville. The return.
- [36:34]
Kevin Greenlee
Going back to Columbus. Yeah, going back to Columbus.
- [36:37]
Anya Cain
Going there.
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Kevin Greenlee
I was out on that. Here. What am I forgetting?
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Anya Cain
Well, I'll just throw out some of the dates of those. I think you did a pretty good job. But yeah, we're going to be doing a lot. And if any of you are book club runners, presidents, people want us to speak in an event or a festival or whatever, email us@murdersheetmail.com. we're very interested. So.
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Kevin Greenlee
So let me ask you a question.
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Anya Cain
Well, let me do the dates.
- [37:02]
Kevin Greenlee
Okay. Okay. You talk about book clubs. Somebody online had an interesting question.
- [37:07]
Anya Cain
I love that guy.
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Kevin Greenlee
Which I'm going to paraphrase. Is there like a minimum number of people in the book club in order to get an appearance? Because one guy said, what if I just say I'm a one person book club? Are you then going to come and talk to me?
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Anya Cain
I don't know if we'll like come to your house because that might be kind of weird, but, but I mean, I, I guess I'm like, I respect the hustle and so we're probably not going to realize it till it's too late. I don't have a problem with it. I don't know what do you think?
- [37:36]
Kevin Greenlee
Well, maybe, maybe we'll do. Since this guy came up with the one person book club idea, maybe him, but nobody else, just him.
- [37:44]
Anya Cain
Yeah. Or if this guy wants to get creative and maybe if a bunch of other people have the same idea, maybe you all can get together and actually form like a one time book club. And we'll talk to all of you kind of the independent book club people who don't want to be in a book club. The. An anti book club to. No, that sounds like you're going to be not reading. But this would be like a. We can work something out where we can, we can.
- [38:07]
Kevin Greenlee
It would be over Zoom.
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Anya Cain
Also to this individual and to others. I believe there's a cool book club that we're going to be doing online with a. It's like a Facebook group that, that does, that does like cool. I think we, we signed up for that. There's a. There's gonna be a remote event. This is gonna be Wednesday, October 9th from 6pm onward on Zoom. And it's a Facebook true crime book club that we were invited to. So you can join that, that's free to join and you can just go to that one so you know and ask questions and stuff. So that would, that would maybe be a good solution.
- [38:45]
Kevin Greenlee
But you can join Patreon. We, we talk to people twice.
- [38:49]
Anya Cain
Yeah, but you have to pay for that. Which some people don't want to do. Which I understand and I appreciate everyone who supports us on there. Patreon's a good option. But also this Facebook thing on October 9th, that's going to be something that then you don't have to make a. I just imagine this guy suddenly like printing out a bunch of like fake cardboard people to sit behind him like. Yeah, of course, Steve, thanks for that question. He's doing different. He's like, what's it when you throw your voice? It's all an elaborate ruse. I love it. That was such a good question though. It made me laugh. But thank you for your question, sir. To everyone else, you know, if you have that idea Facebook, it's in the Facebook group somewhere. I'm sure we'll announce it soon, but that's a good option. And let's do some dates. So Buttermilk Biscuits is on August 30th at 11:00am to 1:00pm it's non ticketed. Westfield is ticketed. That's on the 26th. You mentioned that we're doing something at the library in Greenwood on the 12th of September of Columbus is the 15th of September there's going to be some Noblesville book signing on September 20th. Kendallville is Friday, September 26th, and October 3rd is an event in Franklin. And there's probably gonna be more than that.
- [40:13]
Kevin Greenlee
And a couple hours before the event in Kendallville, I at least will be appearing at the Grop's Fish Shack in nearby Milford, Indiana, and getting really an embarrassing amount of fish.
- [40:27]
Anya Cain
Yeah, probably too much fish.
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Kevin Greenlee
There's no such thing.
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Anya Cain
I don't know about that. But yeah. So those are some things that are going on. And as usual, if you want to buy a T shirt to support us and to show off your murder sheet merch, we have a new website, themurdersheet. Re.com lots of inclusive sizes, lots of different colors, lots of different types of merch. Totes different designs. We're going to be adding more designs. It's going to be super fun. And then if you want to go the kind of original route, you can do murdersheetshop.com and then we'll ship you out a shirt. Not as many options on that one, but still a good T shirt. And were there other things we're supposed to do?
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Kevin Greenlee
Shop, ship, shirt. That's a little tongue twister you had.
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Anya Cain
Yeah, I guess.
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Kevin Greenlee
Shop and we'll ship you a shirt.
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Anya Cain
Yeah. Oh, and. And yeah, we are getting. I'm sure at this point, this. We recorded this on August 14th. This is coming out on, what, the 29th. So the book's out at this point. So.
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Kevin Greenlee
So you've already missed the Westfield event.
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Anya Cain
So why are we promoting it? Because this is in the future. Well, sorry, unless you have a. If you have a. If you have a.
- [41:37]
Kevin Greenlee
But you still have time. You still have time to go to the biscuit event, which I recommend because the biscuits are exquisite.
- [41:44]
Anya Cain
I will say this. At this point, we're probably getting review bombed by the haters in the Delphi Murders book situation. So if you want, if you enjoy the book, don't lie. I'm not asking anyone to lie for me. But if you did enjoy the book, we probably would appreciate a positive review wherever you leave your book reviews, whether that's Goodreads or Amazon, because I have a feeling a lot of angry people are going to be saying that we're the devil's spawn in those comments. And if you can let people know, hey, they're flawed people. They're not perfect. But, you know, they're. They're all right. They're not. They're not evil, then, you know, that would be good. If you like the book, if you like the book.
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Kevin Greenlee
So Anya had this idea that we'd close with a story. I think it's my turn now.
- [42:27]
Anya Cain
Yes.
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Kevin Greenlee
Okay. So a couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I spent the summer after my first year of law school hanging out with a judge. And I got credit for it. And really that's all I did. I hung out with a judge. And so people have questions like, what does that mean? And so I'll tell you this little anecdote. Like, my first or second day there, he said, kevin, I want you to get an idea of the wide variety of cases that come before a judge here in the great town of Columbus, Indiana. And so he says, go to this room. And this room was full of boxes with these thick folders all related to one particular case. And I read them all. And I'm going to be vague because I don't want to make it possible for the case to be identifiable. Yes, but it was a case involving a local man, who I never heard of, who believed he had been done wrong by a major local employer. Let's call the local employer Johnny.
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Anya Cain
Okay.
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Kevin Greenlee
The Johnny Corporation.
- [43:39]
Anya Cain
What a weird corporation.
- [43:41]
Kevin Greenlee
Well, there's no corporation named Johnny that I'm aware of. He thinks he has a really big grudge against the Johnny Corporation, and he's filed some suits against them. And this one, he's representing himself, which always means, basically, I couldn't find a lawyer who thinks this is a good case. I'm just doing it myself. Because if you have a good case, a lawyer would take it on and thinking, well, make some money. Make some money. So there was nothing. If there was something he could say in one sentence, he'd spend 10 pages on it. But I read this and I went to the judge and he said, what do you think? And I said, I'm not impressed. And he said, well, the main reason is there's a hearing in this case coming up next week. And the Johnny Corporation, as you know, Kevin, major local employer, they have top flight legal counsel coming down from Indianapolis. Top flight, Top flight, Top of the line.
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Anya Cain
They got their top men on it.
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Kevin Greenlee
The ship of the line, one of the big firms here is Ice Miller. Maybe it was Ice Miller, maybe it wasn't. But it was the moral equivalent of Ice Miller. It was a name. When he told me the name of the firm, I said, oh, this will be good. And he says, you're going to be in the courtroom and you will be able to hear these people make an argument. And this will let you know how it's done. You'll be really, really impressed.
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Anya Cain
Wow.
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Kevin Greenlee
And so I'm like rubbing my hands in childlike glee, like a child anticipating Christmas morning. I'm going to hear these lawyers make their argument. So the fateful day comes and I go into the courtroom. The plaintiff, who obviously I'm not going to name, he's sitting at his table and he basically, he looks like how I would look on a Saturday morning. You know, kind of a trying to eat some waffles. Kind of a middle aged man kind of has a dazed look on his face, like maybe a little bit tired. He's wearing a kind of an oversized T shirt and just looks really, really drowsy. He's representing himself, so he's going to be making his remarks. And then on the other side, these big shot lawyers come in and one of them is like this Ice Miller esque guy coming in and he has this really nice suit, perfectly tailored, just perfectly tailored. And a haircut you could cut glass with. It's just perfectly manicured. And with him is another little lawyer who's a few years younger and that's like the subservient lawyer. Like oh yes sir, yes sir. And he's like running after him. And they go and they sit down, they have their little briefcases and they put their briefcases on the table and open them and they take out their folders and, and they start opening up their folders and looking at them and nodding meaningfully and they take out their pen, start making notes and then. Oh yeah, that's a good point. And they have their notebooks and they start writing things in the notebooks and they think, oh, this is going to be great. This is going to look. Already I'm getting a show. These guys, they know what they're doing. They do, they have their notebooks. And then the judge says, okay, let's let the plaintiff speak first prior to the good attorneys. And the plaintiff stands up and his face, I said it was kind of a drowsy face, but like in the blink of an eye he's red faced and he's ranting, oh no. And his remarks take maybe five minutes, maybe 10 minutes, not that long. But in the course of his prepared legal remarks, he compares the Johnny Corporation to Nazis. What? And he also says they're also just like the people who nailed Jesus to the cross.
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Anya Cain
Oh my God.
- [47:46]
Kevin Greenlee
And then he says, okay, that's all I have to say about these people.
- [47:50]
Anya Cain
All right. Good lord.
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Kevin Greenlee
And he sits down and then this, this really fancy pants lawyer, he just is Just sitting there, just kind of shocked. And he looks over at the defendant, and then he looks at the judge and says, I don't think I need to say anything.
- [48:07]
Anya Cain
Oh, damn.
- [48:09]
Kevin Greenlee
And he didn't, because then the judge ruled in his favor because just the guy's argument was so bizarre. So I never got to hear it.
- [48:18]
Anya Cain
Wow. So you missed the whole show because this guy did such a bad job with his opening statement.
- [48:23]
Kevin Greenlee
You don't compare. They're Nazis and they nailed Jesus to the cross.
- [48:29]
Anya Cain
By dint. Is he comparing himself to Jesus there?
- [48:33]
Kevin Greenlee
I think he was.
- [48:34]
Anya Cain
Yikes. Good Lord.
- [48:35]
Kevin Greenlee
So that's my anecdote.
- [48:36]
Anya Cain
Well, I appreciate that. That's a good one. I'm sorry you didn't get to see the fancy lawyers.
- [48:41]
Kevin Greenlee
So next week it'll be Omni.
- [48:43]
Anya Cain
I don't have any. Why do I have to. I don't. Like, I was literally. I need to tell Kevin. We need to not make the anecdote thing a thing just for a few weeks. And then I forgot to say, I don't wanna. I don't have any. Good.
- [48:55]
Kevin Greenlee
Because we have all these appearances we're talking about. People be tuning out, and they say, oh, Anya is gonna tell us a story about being on a boat with girls with bikinis. I don't know what that was. My story, okay.
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Anya Cain
I don't have a story. And I. Why are you making.
- [49:10]
Kevin Greenlee
But people say, oh, who knows what story Anya will tell next? So who know? I don't know what star year come up. I'm sure it'll be great.
- [49:17]
Anya Cain
Well, I don't know. I feel like my funny anecdotes always make people depressed. Like, oh, that's kind of sad. Then I tell, like, a sad dating story recently, but I got mad at about a guy about Abraham Lincoln. People want to hear that. Like, I don't know. I don't know.
- [49:30]
Kevin Greenlee
It's juicy stuff.
- [49:31]
Anya Cain
It's juicy. Yeah. We really. We've lived interesting lives.
- [49:35]
Kevin Greenlee
That's your. My story is about girls in bikinis.
- [49:39]
Anya Cain
I don't have a girl. What is this?
- [49:41]
Kevin Greenlee
And also Nazis and people nailing Jesus to the cross.
- [49:44]
Anya Cain
What are you, like, you're, like, doing, like a pulp thing or something over there. Like, oh, man. Well, I'm gonna. Yeah, I'll think about it. But I just. Don't get your hopes up, I guess would be my advice to the audience. They're like, anya, we're listening to the Cheat sheet. We kind of get that.
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Kevin Greenlee
Push the button. Thanks so much for listening to the Murder Sheet. If you have A tip concerning one of the cases we cover. Please email us@murdersheetmail.com if you have actionable information about an unsolved crime, please report it to the appropriate authorities.
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Anya Cain
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- [50:50]
Kevin Greenlee
Special thanks to Kevin Tyler Greenlee, who composed the music for the murder sheet and who you can find on the web@kevintg.com if you're looking to talk with.
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Anya Cain
Other listeners about a case we've covered, you can join the Murder Sheet discussion group on Facebook. We mostly focus our time on research and reporting, so we're not on social media much. We do try to check our email account, but we ask for patience as we often receive a lot of messages. Thanks again for listening.
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Kevin Greenlee
You know, Anya, we are in this true crime space. It's such a difficult place to be in sometimes. And one of the reasons is because you're talking about cases that people have a real emotional involvement in. And so if you reach a conclusion that some people don't like online, they're going to, like, start attacking you and even threatening you.
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Anya Cain
Yes.
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Kevin Greenlee
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That's fair to say.
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Anya Cain
What is Quint?
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Anya Cain
They do that because they basically cut out the middleman. You're just getting cut him right out. Yeah, they're getting it from the artisans. They're giving it to you. It's wonderful. It's going to be 50 to 80% less than those of their competitors. And you're just going to get some wonderful things. We recently went shopping to get some summer styles. We'd previously gotten some winter styles, but we wanted to update. So we went on quints and we both got something. Let's talk about what we got. I got this wonderful 100% European linen dress. It's a button front dress and it's in blue chambray stripe. I love this dress. I'm picky about dresses because, like, I feel like I'm have a weird shaped body and sometimes they cut me off in a weird way. This one just fits like a dream. I love the way it fits. It is very much a classic sort of style. So I'm not worried about it going out of style in like two minutes and then I'm looking foolish. It just looks like something I can wear for years and years. I know I'm going to be wearing this dress a lot this summer.
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Kevin Greenlee
I got a great shirt. I can't paint word pictures like you do, but I'm very happy with the shirt. I've gotten compliments on the shirt. It's a comfortable shirt.
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Anya Cain
For anyone who is interested in learning more about the the products that we purchased, he got a hundred percent European linen utility shirt in martini olive. So I think it looks really cute. I think that you look very cute in it. So I love it.
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Kevin Greenlee
And keep watching our Facebook page because we will probably, if I convince her, take a picture of Anya wearing her dress and her beret.
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Anya Cain
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