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True Crime Time For February 2, 2026 | Mardi Gras Shooting, Sexual Crimes & Family Tragedies
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Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime time for Monday, February 2, 2026. And I am Cindy Overton. And Woody will be here tomorrow and then we should be back and reunited on Wednesday. It's just a bunch of different things going on right now. I'm sure you you're quite tired of hearing that, but it's the truth. I know Woody has quite a few things that he is going to fill you in on when he does the show tomorrow if I don't join him. I've been holding back on a few things to say that I'm sure like I said, he will say. But let's get started with True Crime Time for this Monday and on this day in 2013, legendary veteran Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield were tragically murdered by Eddie Ray Rouse at a shooting range while attempting to help a fellow veteran. Chris Kyle was born and raised in Texas and was a Navy Seal from 1999 to 2009 when he was honorably discharged so he could spend time with his family. Kyle had 160 confirmed kills and 255 claimed kills, making him America's most successful sniper in American history. So I want to thank Chris Kyle for his service and all veterans out there for protecting the great United States of America. Let's get on to some pressing news. A man reported his credit card stolen but later realized he had simply misplaced it and police say the case has been declined. There was a burglary reported at a local bakery. Investigators say the suspect kneaded the dough. Police responded to reports of loud arguing on a construction site. It turned out to be a heated debate over concrete evidence. A man was arrested for stealing a ladder from a hardware store. Police say he took it to another level. And finally, police say a man was detained after stealing a clock from City Hall. He is expected to to FaceTime. That was just a little funny to start off the show, but I did neglect to tell my brother, happy heavenly birthday, Taylor Bug, I hope that you are eating a Reese's Peanut butter cup and we love you and miss you. And I also have to say this is actually kind of funny. Last week when I was editing the last episode that I did by myself, I said I did the opening welcome to true crime time for whatever date and I am Woody Overton. And so if you go back to that episode and notice that the name that I am part is beeped out, it's because I said I am Woody Overton. I almost left it in to be funny, but I was laughing actually as I edited it and heard that's what I said. Anyway, I thought, again, I thought that was funny. But getting down to the real serious news today, I have a sad and to me it's mean. Well, you know how I am. Any of these stories are sad to me, but I'm going to take you to my home or our town that we live in, Clinton, Louisiana. And Clinton is just a quintessential small town. It's got the oldest working courthouse in the state of Louisiana. It's where the center of the town is, the courthouse. And it's beautiful. Just what you would picture if you pictured a Louisiana courthouse, in my opinion. But I guess it would be kind of the way I would picture almost any courthouse. But it's a square building with beautiful building with columns all the way around it and big beautiful trees and greenery. And it's up on a hill. You have to walk upstairs, you know, to get up to it. And it's just a beautiful building in town. And Clinton, in my opinion, is just a great small town. And again, a quintessential small town. Shop owners, small shops, little boutiques, a little coffee house, delis. As you go through town, there's not a red light, there is very few stop signs. It's just everybody somewhat knows everybody. And this last weekend we had a parade as occurs every year during Mardi Gras season through Clinton. And they go around the courthouse. And the courthouse is significant for me because of Woody and because of his, you know, grandfather and grandfathers and his daddy and just the family history in that, in that courthouse. But unfortunately, Mardi Gras and the country on Saturday turned really dark and scary for many people that come to Clinton for that small town feel parade. They come to town hoping to get away from those larger parades like New Orleans parades, where you can Expect gunshots to be fired and some amount of violence and pickpocketing and, and all of the things that Woody always talks about. Well, that didn't happen. Five people were shot, including a six year old child when gunfire broke out at the start of the parade on Saturday. The shooting happened just as the parade began at noon and obviously ended the event. All five victims survived the shooting, thank goodness. East Feliciana Parish Sheriff Jeff Travis said three people were taken into custody. He said they were all armed and were questioned about their possible involvement. Travis is quoted as saying, it's just a real sad situation what happened today. The six year old victim was shot in the leg. The gunfire sent paradegoers running for safety as the family friendly event quickly turned chaotic. Marlasia Rogers was on a float heading down the route when the shots rang out. She said, how did this happen this quick and the parade didn't even start yet. It's like you can't go nowhere anymore without something happening. That's a correct a quote from Rogers. Taja Smith heard the shooting unfold. She's not from Clinton, but has attended the parade many times before. She's quoted as saying, everyone was telling me, like, get back in the car, they're shooting, they're shooting. I'm just like, oh my gosh, we just pulled up. It's pretty sad knowing that, you know, kids are out here and their families and, you know, no one got to celebrate Mardi Gras. Law enforcement agents from several nearby parish quickly converged onto the scene to help with the investigation. There's a whole lot of people we gotta talk to. There's a whole lot of people that saw things today that we've got to get to. We're just in the middle of an investigation. Sheriff Travis said. Following the shooting, multiple state leaders reacted, including Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrell and Governor Jeff Landry. I'm praying for the victims and their families, especially the injured six year old child. Thank you to the law enforcement officers and the first responders who rushed to the scene. This is completely unacceptable, especially at a Mardi Gras parade meant for families. Everyone responsible must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, the Attorney General said. Governor Landry offered support for those impacted by the gunfire. This is absolutely horrific and unacceptable, Governor, Governor Landry said, we will not allow lawlessness in the state and please join Sharon and me in praying for the victims. Thank you to the law enforcement who immediately responded to the scene and anyone with information can help. That can help. Investigators is urged to contact the capital region Crime stoppers by calling 225344, 7867. That's just very scary. We were not there. We it has been many years since I've taken the the kids to this particular parade, or truly any parade for that matter. But we are we like I said at the beginning of this, we stay away from because of the things like that that have been happening for so long at parades and it's just unfortunate. I'm going to read a social media post that our Sheriff has left and it will answer a few questions. Why? Because we are 30 minutes or actually 30 miles north of Baton Rouge and we butt up to a few. Obviously we have a few parishes around us, but our Sheriff had reached out because of events that had happened at prior parade. So I'm going to read you a post that explains what a great job I feel like our Sheriff Travis did in the preparing and planning of this event that helped this not become worse than what it could have been. So this is what was said on the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office Facebook page. There have been several posts commenting on a large State Police presence in Clinton today for the Mardi Gras parade. While planning for the event, we met with LSP Louisiana State Police approximately six weeks ago and asked for their assistance. They graciously agreed to help us. We also requested assistance from West Feliciana Sheriff's Office. In addition, we canceled all leave for our deputies. A large percentage of our deputies were assigned to extra patrol duties today and those who were not actually working were on standby for callout. Our preparation was based upon our experiences in years past with problems in the parish. After the parade in Clinton was over, LSP was not detailed to work the actual parade, but were staged in the area to be available after the parade. Their assistance after the shooting today was invaluable and we greatly appreciate their efforts. We also wish to thank the West Feliciana Sheriff's Office, Zachry PD and atf. The shooting response and investigation have both been team efforts and a textbook example of multi agency cooperation and I know if Woody was here he would do this. Woody has worked with Sheriff Travis and knows many of the people that work at the Sheriff's Office here locally and he holds Sheriff Travis in the highest regard for helping him and working with him on many things over the years. And I know again, if Woody was here, I'm sure he'll touch on it tomorrow. He would have a lot of personal experience to say what a great man Sheriff Travis is. And we thank you for the whole sheriff's office, you know, preparing for being proactive rather than reactive. And I feel like that truly created an environment that shut that shooting down as quickly as it could and made it not be able to escalate into something more. And our heartfelt prayers go out to all that were there, all of the shooting victims and everybody, I mean, that had to have been a very traumatic, traumatic experience. And we just want to wish everybody a speedy and full recovery. We have a, we're going to go to Florida now. A Florida woman has been charged with posing as a teen to molest five middle school aged boys. And her dad claims that his daughter is mentally defective and the real victim of these sex crimes. Before Alyssa Ann Zinger, who is 25 years old, was arrested for, I have to say it, allegedly having sex with underage boys. The accused pedophile grew up in, quote unquote, a good Christian home in suburban Tampa. But she dealt with a myriad of mental disorders including adhd, add, ocd, Tourette syndrome and anorexia. And this is all according to her father, Josh Zinger. She had a lot of problems growing up. Our daughter has been to 10 to 12, psychologist and psychiatrist throughout her life, the 55 year old dad said, adding that Zinger only scored a 72 on an intelligence quotient test, IQ test, well below the assessment's 100 point average. He goes on to say she's defective, mentally defective. And do you know what that means under the law if somebody is mentally defective and has sex with somebody, no matter their age, it's illegal to have sex with a mentally defective person. In all actuality, she is the victim. He goes on to say Zinger was arrested when she was 22 in November of 2023 for engaging in at least 30 sexual acts with a boy between the ages of 12 and 15 after creating a fake Persona on social media posing as a homeschooled 14 year old in order to lure in underage victims, prosecutors say. But it was the boy who Josh distastefully dubbed as the little bastard who seduced Zinger and, and even took her virginity. Her father alleged that boy found her social media account, found her dancing like a 13 year old on it and said, hey girl, I'll Uber you to my $5,000 a month apartment. Come on and hang out, the dad said. And then when she got there, she never said she wasn't 14 to him, but, but he knew her real age and knew she was mentally unstable. Over the next five months, the young boy hid Zinger in his family's ritzy downtown Tampa apartment. Her dad claimed the child introduced her to his other middle school aged friends, four of whom would become additional alleged victims in the state's case against her. The boy who harbored her in his house for five months, he's the one who introduced her to his friends and they were all like, hey, this girl is 14. Wink, wink. High five, high five. Your turn bud, josh said, adding that this will all be proven in court. There will be no plea deal, there will be no sex offender registry. There will be, she'll get time served and adios, the father predicted. Five months after Zinger's first arrest in April of 2024, authorities identified four more alleged victims, all of whom reportedly attended Wilson Middle School. Middle school middle 1314 year old in Tampa's Hyde park neighborhood. Since then, Zinger has remained in jail without bail on felony charges of lewd or lascivious battery, lewd or lascivious molestation, possession of child pornography in state, transmission of child pornography by an electronic device and sexual cyber harassment. Back to good old Josh. The clink hasn't treated the accused predator well with there being shit in her food all the time. Fingernails, hair, objects, plastic because whoever was making her food knew who she was and they knew that food was going to a pedophile. When we go to court, we're going to chim them all up, flip this around, josh said. Well, Zinger's trial is scheduled for May of this year. The first victim told police he and Zinger had sex multiple times and that she sent him explicit photos and videos, while another said she sent a video depicting sexual intercourse with to several children through Snapchat. This is all according to arrest documents. She also told one of the victims that she had sex with other teens, their arresting document stated. So I'm sure we will be keeping you up to date on this story. And what do y' all think about someone with add, ADHD and OCD being like the dad assumes is going to happen? Just getting away with what she did? I don't know. I don't think so. I think she will be held accountable.
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I think if you plan a page, I don't know, we'll see how it goes because I don't know all of the facts of the case. But we're going to Syracuse for this story and I apologize in advance, I'm kind of tearing up before I even start it. So we have a brief encounter between a police officer and a grieving widow that led to a meaningful change in both of their lives and an unexpected friendship. A chance encounter between an officer with the Syracuse Police Department and a woman carrying groceries became a lifeline for her after months of homelessness. On December 13th of 2025, while parked in his patrol car, Officer Jamie Pastarello, 33 years old, noticed Ray Holmes struggling up a hill with a box of groceries and offered her a ride. And he goes on to say he was like, I thought he was like I thought I have to go help give this lady a ride. Holmes 55 years old, revealed she was headed to a cemetery in Syracuse where her husband was buried. During the short drive, she spoke about her 26 years marriage and her faith, thanking him repeatedly for stopping to help. Before getting out of the car, Holmes asked Pastorello to take a photo with her, and the department later posted the image on Facebook the days before Christmas, describing it as a moment of kindness during the holiday season. The post spread widely, even reaching a maintenance worker at the cemetery who recognized her and contacted authorities with concerns. The worker had seen Holmes regularly since the summer and believed she had been sleeping in the cemetery, often on her husband's grave. The information shocked Pastorello. He said, we deal with homelessness every day. She had no signs whatsoever. As it turns out, Holmes had been living at the cemetery for about eight months, near the graves of both her husband and her father. She slept on a tarp laid across her husband's grave, wore the same outfit every day and stored limited grocery items nearby. She avoided drawing attention to herself and never asked for help. I never imagined I'd be in this situation, never in a million years, she said. Before losing housing, Holmes worked as an administrative assistant. Her husband, Reverend Eddie Holmes, was a minister and musician who also worked as a security guard. But he died suddenly in 2020 at the age of 69 of a heart attack. After his death and consumed by grief, Ray lost her job and was eventually evicted. She avoided shelters because she felt safer on her own, surviving frigid winter nights outdoors and using nearby campus bathrooms to maintain basic hygiene. Despite her circumstances, she continued volunteering at food pantries and churches, she said, I just kept giving to others. It was the only way I could keep going. She said she believes her faith letter to Pastorello. God put Jamie there, she emphasized. He knew I needed help and he guided me to him. After learning the full extent of her situation, Pastorello helped secure temporary housing for Ray and started a GoFundMe that raised over $27,000. He told her, you're not going to sleep outside again. I'm not going to let that happen. She was later connected with a local organization that provides small, thoroughly furnished homes for those in need and moved to a fully furnished unit on January 5th of this year. As Syracuse temperatures dropped well below freezing during the recent snowstorms, Ray was safely indoors and she said, I know I wouldn't have made it if that ride hadn't happened. When it did, I don't even want to imagine. Over a month after their first meeting, Pastorello said he and Ray have become great friends, talking on the phone nearly every day and often meeting up for coffee. Sometimes it's just about showing up. A simple act at the right time can change everything. Well, thank you Leah for sending that to Woody and thank you Woody for sending it to me to tell. That was a great, great story. And it's so cold outside right now. I cannot imagine living on my husband's grave. I don't know. Prayers to her and many, many things. For Pastorello.
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It'S time for Effed Up Professional.
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Started off the show in Clinton where we currently live and I'm going to take us now to Denham Springs. Officials with the Denham Springs Police Department say a former Denham Springs High School football coach turned himself in to officers on Monday, December 28, a spokesperson for Denham Springs Police Department issued warrants for Tyler Love, who is 30 years old of Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, after officers began investigating allegations of misconduct involving Love and a student at the school. Love resigned from the school on Dec. 3, according to Livingston Parish School Board. Due to the sensitivity of the matter, further details will not be released, the spokesperson said. Love was booked into Livingston Parish Jail on two counts of indecent behavior with juveniles and one count of prohibited sexual conduct between educator and student. He's bonded out and he there's no other information about this so I'm sure we will be keeping you updated on this bad professional. Going to take you to Chi Town Chicago A pregnant mother was killed when she was stabbed 70 times by a man who was buying a truck from her husband that was listed on Facebook Marketplace. Her name was Elisa Morales. She was five months pregnant with her second child. Both she and her unborn child died. Morales leaves behind a two year old daughter and the stabbing happened Monday outside Morales home in Downers Grove, Illinois just outside Chicago. The suspect, 19 year old Nidus Revacus, now faces first degree murder charges for the deaths of Morales and her unborn child. Court documents show. Revacas went to buy a pickup truck for Morales's husband that was listed on Facebook Marketplace. He later told detectives he was upset about the condition of the truck and decided to take out his frustration on Morales. Revukas got into a fight with her who told him she was pregnant. He then stabbed her 70 times. After killing Morales, he started a fire inside her home. He also when done yet he decided that he was going to also stab the family's dog. The family, the pet was able to escape and actually survived. Morales's family obviously is now grieving her loss and her own. The the baby's loss describing the death as horrific and violent. They say that she fought for her life. Pure evil, her mother in law, Angelica Silva said. None of us get it. She did not deserve this. No one deserves anything like this. And her cousin Carolina Castro said that the death is a huge shock to the family. She's a sweetheart and she didn't deserve this, castro said. It's just too painful and honestly you just don't expect this to happen. The family said they planned to continue raising Morales's two year old daughter the way she would have wanted. Goodness gracious. You don't like the way the truck looks so you're just gonna go stab a woman who's pregnant 70 times and you're not done and start a fire and then you stab the dog.
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Now. We're going to go down to St. Petersburg, Florida where a mother has been arrested after she was accused of suffocating her four year old son to death. Officers with the St. Petersburg Police Department were called to a property off of Tanglewood Drive Northeast around 3:30pm on Tuesday, January 27th. Upon their arrival, they found 4 year old Finley Cullum had died and initially believed he was stabbed to death. The victim's 16 year old sister contacted police after she found the brother's body. She walked into the house and she said she saw blood everywhere and then she saw her four year old brother. Also during the visit to the home, authorities found Finley's mother Diana Cullum injured with stab wounds throughout her body. Diana, who's 43, was transported to a hospital for treatment and later spoke to investigators. We don't know if they're self inflicted, but right now for what will be from evidence it looks like the mom stabbed the baby. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Diana was officially arrested on Wednesday, January 28th and was charged with murder in the first degree. While authorities originally believed that Finley was stabbed to death, medical examiners have since determined that there were no stab wounds on the child. Instead, it's now believed that the child was suffocated. Holloway said during a press conference that a knife and a note were found at the crime scene which were believed to have belonged to the mother. However, it's not currently clear what the note said. The evidence leading up to the incident have not been revealed. While Diana's mental health history has also not been publicly disclosed. Officials also confirmed that Finley's father was not home at the time of the incident. Holloway said that the boy's father has been notified and spoke to investigators shortly after his son's death.
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Before Diana was arrested, investigators spoke to neighbors on the evening of December 27th as they worked to obtain an arrest warrant. According to the police chief, detectives were looking at everything in order to determine exactly what happened to lead to the child's death. Holloway is since confirmed that there is no history of 911 calls from the home and Diana is currently in custody, according to online court records, and is not yet known if she entered a plea or retained legal representation following her arrest. Holloway goes on to say a lot of these officers, they have kids and then you have a 16 year old who's coming home from school and finding her brother and her mother and then you're having a father here, the officer said. So now everyone in the neighborhood, everybody's heart is heavy.
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It's time for effed up Professionals.
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An Arizona pizza slinger will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a co worker and he thought was moving in on his Crush Tyler Ross. McGuire will never walk freely again after the 31 year old pizza shop manager received his mandatory life sentence earlier this month for the premeditated 2023ambush killing of his perceived romantic rival Diesel Segai. Court documents claim that Segai was 22 years old, worked at Rounders Pizza in Mesa, where McGuire was the manager. The two men also worked with a woman who has not been named. Her age was also not provided. Prosecutors argued in court filings that McGuire had become fixated on the female employee and even became an HR nightmare when he told the woman he had a crush on her. Prosecutors claimed that she made it clear to her boss that she was not interested. But later that same month, McGuire physically confronted the victim, believing he was also pursuing a relationship with with the woman. Prosecutors said that McGuire spent the next year growing increasingly angry with the victim sei and in time he purchased a gun and searched for Sei's address. On December 11, 2023, the victim was found dead inside his vehicle parked in front of the apartment complex he lived in. According to witnesses, McGuire approached the vehicle and shot the victim multiple times in the chest and neck before running away, court documents confirm. Witnesses told police that they saw a man wearing a dark colored hoodie fire shots into the vehicle before reaching in and taking something out of the car in. It was unclear if anything was taken from the vehicle at the time of the arrest. Maguire had a cell phone and a black handgun which he used to carry out the revenge killing. The bullets inside the gun matched the bullet casings found outside Segai's car and McGuire demanded an attorney as the handcuffs were clicking around his wrist. Days after his arrest, the defendant's mother contacted police about a diary belonging to the defendant. Entries in the diary detailed the defendant's plan to kill the victim and his reasoning for doing so. A dire entry stated, these are quotes I decided a while ago I needed to kill someone. This person hurt me. And then another entry stated, if I had my way, I'd be with her, although that opportunity was stolen from me. It was unclear why McGuire believed his workers were romantically involved, and authorities have never actually said if they were able to determine if Segai and the female worker ever had a workplace romance. The defendant carried out a planned and unprovoked killing, leaving a family to endure an unimaginable loss. That was said by County Attorney Rachel Mitchell. The sentence delivers justice for the victim and affirms that this level of violence will be met with the strongest consequences under the law. The sentence was handed down earlier this month after A jury found McGuire guilty of of one count of first degree murder in Sei's death in November of 2025. I worked with people in the past that what kids say now caught feelings while we work together like closely but by the grace of God, nothing like that ever happened. Of course, I didn't ever have a workplace romance either. Well, I have a workplace romance now, but there's no one to get in the middle of that. We're going to go to Yellowstone National Park. The title of this is Idiot Kidnap Newborn Elk at Yellowstone National Park. It goes on to say there are plenty of those stories about tourists and European museums trying to take pictures with priceless artifacts only to knock them over and destroy things that can never be fixed. Unfortunately, there are just as many news reports of tourists acting foolishly when confronted with the real and raw animal kingdom. And we've seen that before. Well, like people go into zoos and they want to just get into the cage with the gorillas or lions or tigers and then they end up getting attacked. Well, this is different. A group of tourists visiting Yellowstone national park came across a newborn wild animal. And while no one is quite sure what prompted their thinking, the group kidnapped the newborn animal before leaving it in the hands of the authorities. So let's see what else happened. Some people just try to do the right thing while completely forgetting where they are, what they are dealing with, and what the fallout from their decision might be. Perhaps they acted without thinking because they believed consequences would be dealt with later. And critical thinking was low when a group of tourists came across a newborn baby elk on Memorial Day weekend and in Yellowstone National Park. According to this story, the group of tourists saw the elk, presumably alone, with no mother or adult elk nearby, and flew into a panic. One assumes that they thought that the baby was in danger since it had no mother or chaperone in sight. Their thinking, however, seems to have ended there because the tourists managed to grab the baby elk and throw it in their car. After that, they drove down what was presumably U.S. highway 191 before arriving at the West Yellowstone Police Department. It's hard to say exactly what happened next, much less how the police responded to the incident. Initially, the park reported that the elk calf later ran off into the forest and its condition is unknown. However, the National Park Service later reported that the elk calf was abandoned by its herd and had to be euthanized. So the lack of details in this story fills the imagination with possibilities. What was the car ride down Highway 191 like with a terrified newborn elk in the car? Did the group of tourists second guess themselves after they kidnapped the elk before realizing it was too late to undo their decision? Furthermore, what happened at the police station that allowed the newborn elk to abscond into the wilderness? It would be funny if it weren't so tragic considering that the newborn elk probably couldn't find its mother. This kind of behavior from tourists is misguided, selfish and absurd. You would hope that this was a one off incident, but unfortunately, incidents like these are all too common. Tourists misbehaving in the wilderness are so common that there's a term for them, turons, which is tourists plus morons. So these stories about misbehaving tourists happen all the time. We don't even have to leave Yellowstone national park to find several stories that will shock you and make you shake your head. People just don't know how to act around wild animals. That's the truth. We see that just the way. Well, anyway, in this story shared a few days ago, a video captures tourists just walking up to a bison in a field, getting less than 10ft away from the grazing animals, acting as if they were pets. As mentioned in the article, the summertime brings throngs of tourists to national parks and bad behavior along with them. The story mentions two other recent incidents. People caught a tourist trying to pet a squirrel in Grand Canyon national park, and others witnessed a tourist getting scarily close to a black bear at Canada's Jasper National Park. Remarkably, an incident eerily similar to the newborn elk story happened in Yellowstone several years ago. According to a weather.com story, two Canadian tourists to Yellowstone in May of 2016 arrived at a ranger station with a baby with a baby bison in their suv. According to them, the Turons, they put it in their car and eventually brought it to the ranger station because they thought it was getting cold. Tragically, attempts to reunite the calf with its herd were unsuccessful. To make matters worse, rangers were forced to euthanize the bison calf. These stories are heartbreaking and boggle the mind. Yet people still keep interacting with wild animals in dangerous ways. And that's why it's important to understand what to do when confronted with a wild animal. Well, for what I see, we are the ones confronting them. But we'll go ahead and mention a few things. In most of the scenarios mentioned, people are trying to do good even if the situations end badly. They are operating through emotional impulse, misguided beliefs, and lack of awareness. Or they have a savior complex. It's not that these things are inherently bad. It's just that the relationship between human beings and wild animals is precarious, complex and deserving of respect. People interact with wild animals without realizing that interference is almost always harmful. That's why it's important to understand some guidelines around these interactions. So the National Park Service has to have these rules in place. They recommend you stay at least 25 yards away from grazing animals like elk and 100 yards away from predators. Furthermore, the National Park Service says to never cross a barrier like a fence to get a better photo. Getting too close to any wild animal, whether predator or prey, is dangerous. Even with fines in place for doing so, as well as harsh state and federal crimes, wildlife tourists persist. Now, this is my guess. I'm just guessing. A lot of people, if they do not have the common sense to know to stay away from wild animals like a bear, they're probably not going to be able to gauge a distance of 25 yards or 100 yards. I could be very, very wrong and forgive me if I am. So they go on to say, sure, you may want to get the ultimate wildlife shot, but being a tourist in a national park comes with responsibility and requires respect. It bears repeating, never cross any barrier put in place by the park. Furthermore, use binoculars or zoom lens when possible. If a sign says no pictures allowed, it says it for a reason. As for food, you should never feed a wild animal, even unintentionally. A single piece of human food can make animals aggressive or ill. That's why it's important to make sure any food you have is secured and locked away tightly, especially if you are camping in a national park or really any wilderness area. And it goes on giving us all the different rules about young animals and how it affects if they're taken from their pack, you know, they're not being accepted back into it. It goes on and on and on. And unfortunately, we have to have those rules, obviously for a reason. People continue to take them. But I'm going to end that story there probably would have ended a long time ago if Woody had been sitting here. But don't take an animal, even if you think you're doing good, especially if you think this wild animal is going to get cold. That's why they have fur. But thank you all for listening to today's episode of True crime. Time for February 2, 2026. I am Cindy Overton, and I would like to say to Woodrow Overton, Woody Overton, Happy birthday, Eve. Eve. Eve. Happy birthday, Eve, Eve, Eve. And to my daddy in heaven, happy birthday, Eve Eve. So thank you all for listening. Woody will be here tomorrow. And our numbers are still in the charts. We're still charting. Means we're in the top 200. We've been in the 1-30s this weekend. That's exciting. I don't know what else to say. Thank you all for liking listening and sharing. Please consider giving to Haley. Go fund me to help Ms. Barbara get the forensic study that she needs to get done. As always, hashtag justicefor Bradley, justice for ao, justice for Barbara Blunt, and hashtag justice for everybody that needs it. 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