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True Crime Time For February 16, 2026 | Domestic Violence, Carla Walker & Mardi Gras Crime
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Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime time for Monday, February 16, 2026 and I am Cindy Overton, and Woody's not in the studio with me today. I know that we both have promised you, apart from each other that we would be back in the studio together soon, and I do not make promises that I will not keep. So I do promise that we will be back together as soon as humanly possible. But I can tell you that we've got some great things going on behind the scenes. I truly do not want to give anything away. I will hint that it is forward progress and a major just hashtag justice4series and I'm going to leave it at that because I really think our lifers are going to at least I got goosebumps as I said that. I think that you will at least feel a little bit of a sigh of relief and it's somewhat bittersweet and I'm not going to say much more about it. But we also have the new case that Woody is starting and I think that the location of this murder will show y' all that Woody didn't back down from anything with justice for Bradley and hashtag Justice4AO. But anyway, let's get started with today's episode. I'm going to start with what happened today in history. So on this day in 1974, Carla Walker and Rodney McCoy, which were high school sweethearts at Western Hill High School in Fort Worth, Texas, attended their Valentine's Day dance. And after the dance, the couple ended up at a nearby bowling alley when an assailant opened the car door. This assailant bludgeoned Rodney and then abducted Carla. Carla was found two days later and she was bloody and she had been strangled. Her murder remained unsolved until September of 2020. So I'm looking up the case and it says that on February 16th that this happened. But according to the Internet, Glenn Samuel McCurley murdered 17 year old Carla Jan Walker on February 17th of 1974. And it was as you, as I said before September 2020, it was a 46 year old cold case. And McCurley was arrested after new DNA technology linked him to evidence found on the victim's clothing. So the crime that the Internet says occurred on February 17 says that Carla was abducted from a parking lot of a bowling alley, just as I read before where she was with her boyfriend Rodney McCoy. And McCoy was knocked unconscious and Walker was later raped, strangled and injected with morphine before her body was disposed of in a ditch. McCurley was considered a person of interest early in the investigation because he owned a.22 Ruger pistol, which happened to be the same type as a magazine clip found at the scene. But there was not enough evidence to arrest him at the time. In August of 2021, there was a capital murder trial for McCurley. And at that time he changed his plea to guilty after admitting in a recorded interview, I guess I choked her to death is the exact quote he said. So McCurley was sentenced to life in prison and he died in a Texas prison on July 15th of 2023 at the age of 80. So that is a little bit more detail than what our calendar said about this story. And it goes back to this. Modern DNA advancements and technology is amazing and it's really, you know, doing some honestly great things. I just wish people would realize that and stop murdering people. You're going to get caught. All done. And dark comes to light sooner or later. Today is also another important day and it's President's Day now. We used to call it George Washington's birthday and then over time people wanted to recognize Abraham Lincoln and then eventually it became all US Presidents and it is observed on the third Monday in February. So this definitely is not meant to be political in any way, shape or form. Our presidents are our presidents. It's just meant to recognize the office of the presidency and obviously its role that's been played in American history. So sometimes people are off. If you work for federal government or for a school and you don't really actually know the holiday that what it means or whatever. You're just like glad to have an extra day off. That is why you are off. And for us here in the south, this is the pre game day of all pre game days. This is Lundy Graw. And so down here in Louisiana, we affectionately call this Lundy Gras, and it literally means Fat Monday. And it's the Monday before Mardi Gras, which literally means Fat Tuesday. So if you don't celebrate Mardi Gras, and I mean, it's cultural and, you know, not everybody across the United States or the world celebrates it. It's the period of celebration that leads up to Ash Wednesday. And Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent in a Christian calendar. And most people that practice follow Lent or practice Lent. Would practice Lent be correct? Are Catholics, but. But basically, Lundy Graw is the big day of buildup. It's the day before the grand final alley. And Woody always has told me that the streets of New Orleans, like back in the day, I don't know if it's still true today because we're never there on Mardi Gras Day. Everything ends at midnight. Parades are done, streets are cleared. All the machines are out clearing up all of the mess. It is just done. Everybody is. You go to sleep, you stop drinking, you. You know, you're. It's officially Ash Wednesday. I don't know if that is possibly the case anymore, but that has traditionally the way it used to be. So happy Lundy Gras for everybody. And I hope you are enjoying today, and I hope you enjoy tomorrow. Wear your purple, green and gold. I guess I'll give you a little bit of history. This is not meant to be a history show, but I know it's true crime. The traditional colors of purple, green and gold were officially established in 1872 by the Rex Organization. And the leader of the Rex Organization is. Has been known as the King of Carnival. These colors were later assigned specific symbolic meanings during the 1892 Rex parade. And purple represents justice. It's historically associated with royalty, and it also serves as a reminder of balance and respect between the indulgence of Carnival and the penance of the coming Lenten season. Green represents faith, and it symbolizes spiritual development, reflection, and the resurrection or rebirth that occurs in nature during springtime. And gold represents power, reflecting wealth and nobility. And gold signifies the joy, plenty, and strength of community celebrated during the festivities. And these are major festivities, and there are many I know in New Orleans this time of year. They have celebrity kings for each crew. They have a king or a grand marshal. And so this year, the king of Bacchus, which is one of the best parades, is actor Patrick Warburton, and he's known for his role in Seinfeld the Tick and voicing Kronk in the Emperor's new groove. So he will be the king of Bacchus. Orpheus has actor Noah Weil, who is known for his roles in ER and the Pit. And then Endymion has a power couple, which is Gwen Stefani and Blake Sheldon. And they will be the ones that literally take the parade into the Superdome. It's an amazing experience I haven't ever experienced, but Woody has and they ride. My mother has and his parents have. And it's, it's a really cool deal to be there. And so they take the parade through the Superdome. And so that's what Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani will do. But I know you are not here to hear all about that, but I hope you found it somewhat interesting. I'm going to get down to some true crime time.
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We're going to start off today in New York. And a man fatally shot his partner inside their New York home before turning the gun on himself. Paul Trofimovich, who is 68 years old, killed Valerie Kapotic, who was 63, inside their port Jefferson home. Suffolk County Police Department has confirmed officers had arrived at the $800,000 home after being called to carry out a welfare check when Valerie failed to appear for work on Monday. When they arrived, when the police officers arrived, they found the couple dead from gunshot wounds inside the address. Following an investigation, they determined that Paul murdered Valerie before shooting himself. It really remains unclear at this time what led up to the shooting, and police say that they do not have any further information. According to records, Valerie owned the Port Jefferson home and also owns property in Florida. And she was employed as the executive director of the Long Island Adolescent and Family Services Incorporated, which is a social services agency. The company confirmed her employment while adding that she worked out of their offices in Stony Brook, which is a short drive from her home, and she had worked there for over two decades. It was reported that six precinct officers responded to 135 Oakwood Road 4A welfare check after Valerie failed to appear at her job that morning. When officers arrived, they discovered the two residents of the home dead from gunshot wounds. Starting off hard with this one. So we have a Utah man who pretended to be a king at princess themed parties for little girls. And he was leading a double life buying and producing child pornography. Perry J. Hunter was 63 years old and he was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison last Monday for traveling to the Philippines to exploit children. And this is According to the U.S. attorney's Central District Office of California. The pedophile was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution for his despicable actions, which prosecutors say occurred over the course of several years. And that is not enough money, although I know he's not going to be making money in prison. But he admitted to one count of sexual exploitation of a child as part of a plea deal, which there were 16 charges that were dropped from. The Midvale man had a registered LLC called Princess Festival and he role played as the king and various young girls got to play Princess. A 2014 poster from his business remains on his Facebook profile showing him dressed as a king bowing to a young girl in a pink princess gown who curtsy back at him I'm gonna be.
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Quince.comrlrc Hunter started using WhatsApp to message to message parents in the Philippines about engaging in illicit sexual conduct with their daughters in 2020. And this is according to the criminal complaint. And this, this is straight from the Daily Mail News. These words. The creep also appeared to solicit and pay for the production of child pornography. Graphic content investigators found on his devices victimized children as young as 3 to 5 years old. And Hunter traveled to the Southeast Asian country in September of 2023 to meet with a mother he had been texting. The complaint goes on to say that he discussed the illicit sexual acts he intended to perform with the child in conversations with the woman leading up to the trip. He then returned to the US in October of 2023 and he landed at LAX. Customs and Border Protection agents conducted a border search and went through his phone where they discovered child sexual abuse material. The complaint says that he waived his Miranda rights while speaking with investigators and told them he had a sexual interest in young children and that he paid a Filipino mother to take inappropriate pictures of her daughter. He also admitted that he has sent tens of thousands of dollars to women for photos of themselves and their kids. He was arrested in December 2023 and charged with multiple crimes under Utah state law. He was transferred into federal custody in Los Angeles in October of 2024. And while none of his charges were connected to the Princess Festival events he hosted, the investigator handling the complaint noted that these festival events obviously gave him access to children. He also reportedly told agents in an interview, they had me in a king chair and I was on the chair. Little girls would come up to me here. I wouldn't let them sit on my lap because I didn't want any idea of that. The investigator also alleged that he discovered that a minor had accused Hunter of sexual assault in 2014 and the victim told police that she was abused by Hunter after she and her mother moved in with him in 2013. She said that Hunter would touch her inappropriately and make sexual remarks towards her. And that is and I'm assuming the mother left him and I don't know anything else about that.
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We're going to go back to New York and we have a Walmart shopper in New York who said she was stalked around the store by employees because her service dog, which was a golden retriever, was not on a leash. Crystal Pratt had just entered the Walmart in Albany when a greeter in a winter coat approached her golden retriever. Bella Pratt, who uses a mobility scooter inside stores, said that she told the woman, the greeter, to step away from the dog. She then said she was reportedly ordered to leave the store because Bella wasn't on a leash. The Americans with Disability act explicitly allows a service animal to be off leash when a handler's disability prevents the use of one, a point Pratt said she repeated over and over again. Bella had been trained to perform a task known as retrieval, helping Pratt pick up items she cannot reach due to multiple cancers, surgeries and mobility limitations that she has. Bella had also been trained to perform the task called blocking, where she stands between her owner and somebody so that she doesn't get knocked over due to limited muscle tone in her leg after her surgeries. The golden retriever Bella was officially certified in 2023 by All Dogs D A W G S, an Albany training center specializing in service animals. But Pratt said that Walmart workers ignored everything she told them, including specific ADA FAQ numbers she cited throughout the ordeal. They just kept yelling from across the aisles that she needed to be on a leash, pratt said. I must have told them a thousand times to look up Adafaq 27. They refused. These are Pratt's words. Pratt said that she became even more confused as the employees who were confronting her were not wearing Walmart uniforms but winter jackets, and she said this made her believe they were aggressive customers. However, the employees informed her that they were members of Walmart's asset protection team, who often dress incognito. According to Pratt, as many as five employees trailed her through the store, recording her while demanding she leash Bella or leave. Pratt then began recording them as well, and she also called police. But by the time police arrived, she was already at the checkout, and instead of correcting the employees, Pratt said police told her that they were obligated to escort her out because Walmart wanted her removed for trespassing, a request she said came after she started filming. Pratt insisted she did nothing wrong and says she was simply trying to buy a small gift for her younger sister, who's battling metastatic breast cancer. And she said I wasn't even able to finish shopping their their lotion is locked up behind cabinets and I knew no one was going to help me. I just wanted to get something to cheer my sister up. And Pratt said that she thinks Walmart should apologize and even send her sister a gift themselves. And she goes on to say, I don't think that that's unreasonable. They ruined the entire trip, she said. Bella has never caused issues inside stores, and commenters on the local news story backed her up. Several people Claiming to be Walmart or Sam's Club employees wrote that Bella is always well behaved, even when walking a few feet ahead of Pratt. Others, Pratt says, flooded social media with personal attacks, including jabs about her weight. One person even went to her personal Facebook page to post insults. And as I said at the beginning, Pratt has undergone multiple cancer treatments and walks with a cane or a walker. And she says Bella's work is essential to her independence. She's not an option and certainly not a recreational dog. And she's so pretty. Bella is. Bella has been trained to retrieve groceries from low shelves, brings Pratt her cane when it's out of reach, and even helps navigate beaches before carrying the cane from shore to water. Pratt says she is now seeking legal help. She has contacted Disabilities Right New York and plans to file a complaint with the state's Division of Human Rights, but said she cannot afford a private attorney. Her goal, she said, is not just personal vindication, but public education. People bring emotional support animals into Walmart all the time, and I understand why employees get suspicious, but there's a huge difference. Once a customer says it's a service dog and explains the task, they need to back off. Unless the dog is out of control and Bella wasn't. There's so many things that, about this story that are just frustrating. Well, I don't even know where to start with, with all of this. We have had dogs that are taken to be trained to be service dogs, train other dogs to be service dogs, to help dogs that have been abused and as, like a service dog for, for a dog. And when a person actually, like when a person actually needs this dog to. To survive and maintain some sort of independence that needs to be respected, and they could have handled it so much differently. But I, you know, I've noticed a lot more because I'm getting older in age, Woody's getting older in age, and, you know, it's. You just notice things. And, you know, you see people walking with canes, you see people walking with walkers or using the mobility vehicles and can barely move. And you think, well, why even go out? Like, at the beginning of this story, I'll be honest, I was thinking if I was her, I would have just ordered it, you know, and had it delivered to my house. But for her, all this woman wanted to do is have some sort of independence and be able to go out and, and pick it out for. It was symbolic. She wanted to get something for her suffering sister. She didn't want to just press a button on her phone or computer and have it delivered to her. She still wants to have her independence and she wasn't breaking any rules. And I hope that people educate themselves about these types of service dogs. I understand. You know, there's this lady that goes around town and she has her itty bitty dog with her and it's no more, she flat out said it's no more of a like an emotional support dog than it's, she claims it as an emotional support dog, but it's not one. But she gets to bring it into the stores with her just because she wants to and she doesn't want it to stay at home and sit in the kennel and yap and make noise and you know, maybe make a mess in the kennel. It's just, you know, she just wants her puppy with her. So she just claimed it as an emotional support dog. That's a problem. This, this just breaks my heart to be quite honest. But anyway, I'm going to try to get over that and go down to Alabama.
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So in Alabama we have a woman named Loretta K. Carr who was 46 and she was finally jailed on Thursday for conspiring with her daughter to murder 38 year old Mary Elizabeth Isbel in a national park. What was their master plan? Well, Isabel, who was last seen in late 2021, was thrown off a cliff in Little River Canyon National Preserve in Alabama and Carr and her 24 year old daughter Jesse Kelly are the ones that did it. You may ask why? Well, we'll get to that. The pair were charged with Isbel's killing in 2023 and Carr pleaded guilty to first degree murder and kidnapping on Thursday. Kelly pleaded guilty to murder last year. This is what they did. Carr tied herself with a rope to the barrier at the overlook, forced Isbel or Isbel to climb over the barrier and then forced her off the side of the canyon. This is said by District Attorney Summer Summerford. Kelly was sentenced to 40 years in prison and is currently being held at the Cherokee county jail. So October 18th of 2021, the killer mom and daughter went to Isbel's home to confront her about a relationship she had with Carr's relationship boyfriend. And authorities say that there was definite signs of struggle at that home car and Kelly attacked Isabelle, taking her against her will and placed her in their vehicle. And later that night they took Esbel to Wolf Creek Outlook at Little River Canyon where they pushed her to her death. Isabel was reported missing by her ex boyfriend on December 27th of 2021 and authorities searched for her, to no avail until June of 2023. Police eventually identified Carr and Kelly as the bad guys, and this came from a litany of statements from the duo, along with witnesses that led them to Isbel's remains. And at the time, investigators said that the pair knew Isabel through another person and that other person was, quote unquote, a boyfriend. The Kalb County Sheriff investigator described the crime as the most heinous he had seen in his career, and it has also been revealed that Carr shared a photo of herself near the murder site, and she posted that in January of 2019. At a previous press conference, DeKalb county officials called the murder a brutal and inhuman crime.
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Was originally scheduled for March 30, was also originally facing the death penalty. She is currently being held in DeKalb County Jail, where she's been incarcerated since her arrest. And in the months leading up to her disappearance, Isba was suspected of theft in DeKalb County. The sheriff's office said the theft involved an apartment she was living in with her boyfriend, James Allen Wright. James Allen Wright was arrested by the Sheriff's office in September 2021 and released to a Florida rehab facility in November of 2021. This is just getting mixed like lots of different things going on here, the sheriff's office said. While he was in jail, Isabel was essentially homeless, moving between friends houses and living where she could in DeKalb County. Her mother, Debbie Wood, said that Isabel got caught up, entangled with a bad crowd. I think she got mixed up with some wrong people, said the mom. She described Isabel's relationship with Wright as new but troubled and said they were always getting into fights. District Attorney Summer Summerford said this is an example of a senseless act destroying a family. A mother who was left without a daughter, sisters are left without their sibling, and a son is left without his mother. This family has been through so much, but they have walked with us in law enforcement throughout this process and have been so responsive and helpful. So that is a lot going on. But that's what happens when you get mixed up in the wrong crowd. Unfortunately, circumstances happen and sometimes people don't make the best decisions when, you know, at those times. Okay, so apparently this was labeled for Cindy. So we're going to Louisville, Kentucky and Louisville Metro Police got an unexpected assist from a four legged friend when they were searching for a missing child. And I think that Jenny Wyatt and Leah Marie both tagged this as a story for me to tell. And I'm already teared. I'm really not that soft. I'm really hard, hard, hard, hard, hard. Like I, I'm. Woody will say I'm pretty tough. Like I'm physically tough. I could tell you some stories about that. Like for example, I broke my arm in two places and didn't even cry. I mean, it hurt, but it didn't. I didn't cry or I refused to have a epidural with my daughter Sophie. The first birth I had because I was so afraid of the epidural, headaches and all of that. And then I wasn't in pain, I was watching. So I was in the room. There wasn't enough room in the delivery, like in the hospital that I was in. I had to be in a room with other people while I was in labor. And we were just like, it was almost like an er. We're just partitioned like curtains. And so I was watching people who were further along than me or not quite as far along with me. I saw the monitor of everybody having their contractions and this one woman who was a little bit ahead of me was getting contractions and she ahead meaning she had dilated more and she was screaming like she was dying and she had an epidural. So I started second guessing myself and I'm like, well, I really don't want to go through that. So I asked the doctor or the nurse if it was too late for me to get an epidural and they were like, well, it's risky. Like you might, it might not take effect. But I mean, it's better to have a little bit of something than nothing. So in the time Frame between me getting the epidural and me dilating more. By the time I got the epidural, literally rolled over. They checked me and I was, it was time to go. And so after. And I'm very, very blessed that once, like my labors are long, my deliveries are the shortest labors probably like known to man or, you know, there's probably other people that I've talked to, other people over the years that also have the short deliveries, like I do. I maybe pushed three times with her and with la, I pushed once and WL was an emergency C section, so. But I pushed three times and she was out. That epidural did not kick in yet, so I had her and I wasn't in like pain. I'm a tough, tough, tough cookie. But when it comes to emotions like this, and I have to say that, you know, when Woody had trigeminal neuralgia and I was pregnant with wl, I was the one that was by his side the whole time, didn't leave him, made his medical, you know, decisions. And I didn't, you know, I just was in that moment, like, you have to survive, you have to push, you have to be strong, you know, you can't be weak for him. Like, you have to put on the brave face. And I did that and I'm very proud that, you know, we were able to do that. And then, you know, a couple years ago, same thing with brucellosis, I went nose to nose with a couple of doctors and there was no tears coming out then. I'm a tough, tough cookie. And there's probably a better way of saying that I can, you know, but. But when it comes to some of these things that are emotional, dogs and kids and all that, yeah, yeah, I do, I do kind of get a little bit emotional about that. But, you know, we're all different. And so again, like I said, you tell me about a missing child and then you tell me about a dog helping find the missing child. Probably going to get some tears. And on January 7th of this year, officers of Louisville Metro Police, 7th Division, were searching for a three year old child whose parents could not find him. And officers were searching on foot with a drone and with the air unit. And we've used a drone to look for our dogs. And that is the heat sensing drones. The guy that was doing ours is the Baton Rouge police officer. And he came on his own accord, like he wanted to. His girlfriend is a friend of my really good friend Miranda. Doctor. Our doctor friend that we always talk about. And he came out all on his own and did this for us. And he couldn't find the dogs, but he saw he could literally look at the size and the movement of the animals that we could see and say, oh, that's a deer, that's a coyote, that's a bunny rabbit. Like it was so cool to watch. So they're using that while looking for this three year old child. And there was a neighbor with a ring camera who was able to give the initial location, but they weren't having any luck. And then a dog appeared. And the dog that appeared happened to be a collie mix and it barked at officers and urged the officers to follow him. It reminds me of Lassie having no other leads. Officers followed the dog. What you gonna do? And they followed the dog to a yard. Officers looked inside the house but noticed the dog kept signaling to a car and looking back at them. And once the officers checked the vehicle, there was a child inside the dog. Leading the officers to the car was the easy part. Then they had to convince the child to unlock the vehicle. The young boy was scared and he was unharmed, but he was just scared. And he finally listened to them on how to unlock the vehicle. And he was quickly reunited with his family. And of course it was a huge moment of relief for everyone. And as the dog, as I said before, as the dog walked away, one of the officers called him Lassie. Another officer is heard saying, Lassie found him. One officer said he has never seen the dog in the two years he patrolled the neighborhood. He said, I don't know where that dog came from, but it was a blessing from God that day. And not to be political or religious or any of that, you believe what, like what he always says, you believe what you want to believe. But I will, I will second that. It was a blessing from God that day. So thank y' all for sending that. That is not necessarily a crime. No one took the child that we know of. He might have just happened to, you know, go along and accident, you know, just being a three year old get into the vehicle. We don't know all of that backstory, so it might not have been a crime, but it sure is a good story to tell.
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And I'm going back home to Louisiana and more specifically New Orleans for this story. We have a New Orleans teacher that's now facing criminal charges after police allege she engaged in a sexual relationship with a student, which prompted her arrest and termination from her position at an all girls private school. Teddy Page, who's 29 years old, is a former biology teacher at the Academy of Sacred Heart and that is a good school. And she was arrested on Thursday, February 5th by on Woody's birthday by New Orleans Police Department and she was charged with prohibited sexual conduct between an educator and a student. Court records show the charge is a misdemeanor under Louisiana state law. The investigation began after the 18 year old student's mother reported the alleged relationship to school officials. The Times Picayune, which is the local newspaper, reported that the mother discovered the relationship after going through an old phone that she still was logged into and going through an old phone whose daughter's social media accounts were still logged in to, if that makes sense. So Paige appeared in court on Friday, February 6th and a judge set her bond at $15,000. The Academy of Sacred Heart has made a statement and it says when our school became aware of the recent concern about one of our employees, we took the matter very seriously and immediately followed our safety protocols. The employee was escorted off campus and her employment was terminated. We then referred the matter to the New Orleans Police Department. The school said all employees are required to undergo background checks and provide references prior to being hired, adding that Paige's background check and references did not raise concerns at the time of her employment. According to the statement, the school is now supporting the student and her family and providing counseling resources for students affected by the situation and it's unclear if Paige has retained an attorney who can speak on her behalf. So that is not good at all. Let's see if we can do one more we're going to go to Alabama and the Alabama woman was wounded after her romantic partner shot her multiple times before turning the gun on himself and an apparent attempted murder suicide while two children were present in the home. Police responded to a report that a man and a woman had been shot early in the morning of Tuesday, February 3rd. This is according to Rainbow City Police Department. The woman had been shot multiple times and was transported to a hospital by helicopter. A man identified as Eddie Charles Ellis Jr. Who is 46 years old, was found dead inside the apartment from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The woman, whom police did not identify, is currently in stable condition and Ellis and the woman had been in a romantic relationship at the time of the shooting. The two children under there were two children under the age of 16 inside the home, but they were both unharmed, physically unharmed. Can you imagine the mental. But this incident, incident, this horrendous act is still under investigation. So of course they say if well, so this is under investigation and we will report more as we get more. And I want to thank y' all again for listening to us. And I again promise that Woody and I will be back together on an episode soon. I look, we're really looking forward to what's coming ahead and I know that y' all will be very excited. And again, like I said, I think I said it, it's, it's bittersweet. But we've got some great things coming and we ask you to continue to call in your tips 313-RL-CTIP call in any tip that you have about Bradley, about Austin, Barbara blunt. We just got a tip about Barbara Blunt this morning. It continues to happen. We have lots of tips being called in and there's been some law enforcement departments reaching out to Woody for certain things. I'll say that. And it's just, again, we are just so happy and we thank you. We know that there's a lot of commercials. We offer commercial free early release episodes and Patreon and our app. And we just thank y' all for listening and we thank y' all for your support. We thank youk for this community that we've built. We are starting a new year of we just had a birthday and we're just grateful. We never ever. Woody and I looked at each other the other day and said, did you ever think that we would have this come from. Come from me saying, hey, you need to start a podcast? So neither one of us saw this coming. We certainly didn't know the family, the community that we would get. And we truly, truly mean this when we say that you guys mean so very much to us. We are so grateful for you and we truly look forward to what's going to come because we've got some big things planned. We're seven years in now, but that doesn't mean that we got the seven year itch. We are loving every single minute of it. We look forward to growing real life, real crime, to be the powerhouse, a bigger powerhouse than it already is. And we will do that with all of you lifers. And we give all of you lifers the credit for that. We thank you and please be safe out there. Tomorrow is Mardi Gras. Wear your green and your gold and your purple and just have a great, great, safe day.
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