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True Crime Time For January 22, 2026 | Unsolved Cases, Fraud, Crimes Against Minors & Global Crime
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Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime. Time for Thursday, January 22, 2026. And I am Cindy Overton and I am riding solo today. Lots of things are happening and we're just going to get straight down to business. So Woody has been reading or telling stories or little summaries of crime and history. A really good lifer sent us last year and I don't want to say who I think it is because I don't want to be wrong. But it's two of you that I have in my head that I know sent us this calendar and it's a day by day calendar and each day has a summary of a true crime. So on this day in 2007, Karen Bodine, a mother of three, was found dead. And Bodine's naked body was discovered at the entrance of a gravel pit in Rochester, New York. An autopsy determined that she had been strangled to death and law enforcement is still looking for information that could lead to the killer. So I am actually going to look up and see if the killer was ever found. And as of January 27, 2025, the case still remained unsolved and there is no new news about Karen. And I hope that this cold case is solved one day. I'm going to start us off with. This story is from yesterday and it is straight from Honolulu, Hawaii. We have a former flight attendant for for a Canadian airline. And this flight attendant posed as a commercial pilot and as a current flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from US airlines. Dallas Pokernick, who is 33 years old of Toronto was arrested in Panama after being indicted on on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded guilty Tuesday following his extradition. According to documents, he was a flight attendant for a Toronto based airline from 2017 to 2019. Then he used fake employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. I remember Woody and I talked about this story, but this is somewhat. Well, this is definitely an update. US Prosecutor said Tuesday that he requested to sit in an extra seat in the cockpit, which is typically called the jump seat, and it was not clear from court documents whether he ever actually rode in a plane's cockpit, and the U.S. attorney's office declined to say. Well, that kind of tells me he possibly did. The indictment did not identify the airlines except to say that they are based in Honolulu, Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas. Representatives for Hawaii Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines, which are respectively based in those cities, didn't immediately respond to emails from the Associated Press seeking comment. Air Canada, which is based in Toronto, also did not respond. The scheme lasted for four years, according to US Prosecutors in Hawaii. The US Magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered Pokernick to remain in custody. His federal defender declined to comment. In 2023, an off duty airline pilot riding in the cockpit of a Horizon flight said, I'm not okay just before trying to cut the engines mid flight. That pilot, Joseph Emerson, later told police he had been struggling with depression. A federal judge sentenced him to time served last November. The allegations against Poker Neck are reminiscent of Catch Me if youf can, the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio that tells the story of Frank Abagnale posing as a pilot to defraud an airline and obtain free tickets. So there you go. Our first story of the day is a Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
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It's time for Effed Up Professionals.
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Cindy Overton
For this next story we are going to Carroll County, Georgia and A former Carroll county teacher who was already facing child molestation charges is now facing new charges. Warrants issued earlier this month accused Rico Thompson, a former teacher of Villa Rica Middle School, of sexual battery, cruelty to child, improper sexual conduct by an employee and grooming of a minor. They say the 50 year old continually referred to a 13 year old girl as his favorite and told her no one else can have you but me. The warrants go on to say that Thompson grabbed her by the neck, touched her inappropriately and removed a piece of candy from her mouth over a four month period. In December, it was reported that Thompson was no longer employed with Carroll County School District after an inappropriate act involving another student, according to jail records Thompson is being held without bail and I'm sure we will keep you updated on the events that follow with this. I don't know if y' all have heard of this and it's not actually a crime, but I thought that it was interesting. In Monroe, Michigan, people will soon be able to feast on the same Last Meals as some of the most infamous people in American history. Michigan is getting its first true crime restaurant as the owner of the Last Meal plans to open its second restaurant of its kind in the country, and the first is located in Ohio. Naep Thompson, who also owns the Michigan Museum of Horror, says everything on the menu and at the Last Meal is actually Last Meal request of serial killers. He says, I've always thought it would be unique to have a restaurant where you could eat the same last Meal as others. I'm very excited to bring the Last Meal to Michigan as it's always been a goal of ours to do that. So the Last Meal is located at the Mall of Monroe, just a few minutes down the road from the Museum of Horror. Thompson says the milieu will be similar to the Ohio restaurant with some exclusive items specific to the Michigan location. Meals will include John Wayne Gacy's chicken wings, strawberries, fried shrimp and fries, and Ted Bundy's Parmesan Steak Loaded Steak Fries. I've always had a passion for cooking and serving food, and I figured if I could make it a themed attraction similar to the Museum of Horror, it would appeal to visitors in a similar yet different way, thompson says. The goal is to open the Last Meal in Monroe this April, and this will be the only place around where you can actually say the food really is to die for. So if you live in the area or if you're traveling to the area, you might want to go there. The Last Meals and the Last Words are always something that has intrigued Woody and will not just Woody, many, many other people. We've received a few cookbooks over the years of Last Meals of People and we've received different things around like serial killers and things along those lines over the years and they are on our bookshelves in. For the next story. We are going to California where we have two teenage boys from Oakley that were arrested on Monday on suspicion of attempted murder and kidnapping. Just after 1pm officers arrived at East Cypress Road and Frank Hingle Way in Oakley and found multiple juveniles at the corner of Reuben's Way and East Cypress Road. One of the boys had a grazing head wound caused by a gunshot. Investigators believe a group of three Oakley residents including a male female and a juvenile female Picked up two juvenile males also from Oakley. Well, the five of them began hanging out at Cypress Grove park in a car belonging to one of the females and the boys that had just been picked up became angry when no one would take them to buy weed. A third male got out of the car, leaving the two females inside, and at that point the two boys forced the females to drive away at gunpoint. The driver went down Reuben's Way but then refused to drive any further. She and the other girl were then forced out of the car at gunpoint. Then the two boys took off in the car toward East Cypress Road. According to police, the male victim, who had previously exited the vehicle, saw everything that was going on and ran towards the fleeing suspects and caught up to them at the intersection of Frank Kingle and East Cyprus. One of the boy suspects shot at the male through the windshield several times and struck him in the head with a grazing shot and he was treated at the hospital and released. The two boys then fled the scene and got on State Highway 4. A deputy with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office saw the vehicle the suspects were in speeding westbound on Highway 4. A pursuit was initiated all the way into Orinda, ending when the suspect's car became disabled on State Highway 24. Both boys were arrested and taken back to the Oakley Police Department where it was determined there were warrants out for their arrest. They were booked into juvenile hall for the warrants and on suspicion of attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, carjacking and kidnapping. A convicted thief who detailed his past bank heist and conviction in a self published autobiography was accused of robbing yet another bank in Colorado earlier this month. Charles Christopher Martinez, who is 48 years old, was found on January 8, three days after he held up a teller at the US bank in Denver. According to authorities, Martinez demanded money from the teller before fleeing the bank, though it's unclear how much cash he was able to grab, if any. The Denver Police Department and the FBI Denver office posted a crime alert with pictures of the suspect and he's a middle aged man wearing a bright orange jacket, a floppy black beanie and gray sweatpants. The picture that they have in the article is different. It's him in a restroom taking a selfie with a black muscle shirt on and black sweatpants and he's got his arms flexed. Cops later id'd the suspect as the self professed true crime author and officially announced his arrest in an update on January 12th. So Martinez actually wrote an autobiography, the Life of an outlaw in 2018 and this autobiography provided an inside look at his previous bank robberies or heist and his membership in the Serenos, which is a prison gang he claimed was run by hit by the Mexican Mafia. In the book description, Martinez wrote that he had to use his connections to survive imprisonment in some of the most ruthless and bloody prisons the America justice system has to offer in the dog eat dog world of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Of the real life bank robber dive into the world of the federal prison system, where life is never guaranteed, Martinez teases in his Book summary. Martinez cited acclaimed offers like John Grisham and Cornwell as his literary inspirations. His autobiography has a single yet glowing review on Goodreads from a woman whose son was raised by the California Corrections Institute. This is her Goodreads review. This story really hit home. Thank you for being so brave by sharing your story. May God bless you and keep you safe, she wrote. The author, though, was booked in the Denver jail and it's suspected to be in Court on February 3. Obviously, bank robbery is a federal offense punishable by upwards of 20 years in prison, so his case will likely be transferred to the federal court system in Denver. So this story is out of Virginia, and it's a man that was identified as the suspect in a series of murders that shook Virginia in the 1980s, and he's been linked to two more of the killings known for decades as the Colonial Parkway Murders. The crimes involved the deaths of three couples along Virginia's Colonial Parkway and the suspected death of a fourth couple, although their bodies were never recovered. Alan Wade Wilmer, of Lancaster county was determined to be the perpetrator in the deaths of Kathleen Thomas and Rebecca Dowski, who were found dead inside their vehicle along the colonial Parkway in 1986. And this is according to the FBI Norfolk field office. The killings of Thomas, who was 27 years old at the time, and Dowski, who was 21, were among at least eight murders and disappearances of young people that occurred along or near the parkway in its surrounding areas between 1986 and 1989. The crimes went unsolved for decades, giving way to one of the most complex and enduring cold case investigations in Virginia history, according to the FBI. Investigators said modern forensic testing has in recent years allowed them to connect Wilmer to the murders and disappearances of at least six young people in Virginia over the three year period in which the Colonial Parkway murders occurred. In addition to Thomas Endowski, he was also identified in in 2024 as a suspect in two of those killings as well as a third unrelated murder. At the time, Virginia State Police named Wilmer as a suspected assailant in the 1987 fatal shooting of David Knobling, who was 20 years old, and Robin Edwards, who was only 14, as well as the unrelated strangulation death of Teresa Lynn Spall Howell, who was 29 years old in 1989. Wilmer died in 2017 at the age of 63, but authorities have said he would have been prosecuted in the murders of Thomas Dowski, Knobling, Edwards and Howell if he were alive. Dominique Evans, who was a special agent in charge of of FBI's Norfolk field office, said in a video statement that her office would continue to actively investigate other cases linked to the Colonial Parkway murders and called the breakthrough in Thomas and Dowski's cold case a testament to the tenacity of generations of investigators. Our message today underscores the that we will not stop, we will not forget and we will seek justice no matter how long it takes. The FBI has asked anyone with information that may be related to these cases that remain unsolved to report what they know to law enforcement. And as we know, tips get answers. So kudos to them for sure. And my prayers go out to the families and friends of the victims. In Indiana, police have upgraded a missing persons alert for a 17 year old girl to endangered, meaning they believe she may be at risk of harm and unable to return home on her own. Hailey Busby left her home in Fishers, which is northeast of Indianapolis, overnight on January 5th and has not been seen since. The department said she left her house willingly and with a plan, but did not act alone. Because this is an active investigation and to protect Haley, many details about the search for her cannot be shared publicly, police said, asking the public to continue to provide any tips to local, state and federal law enforcement as they continue to search for the girl. Investigators said Busby has brown hair and eyes, was last seen wearing a white blouse, gray jeans and a black puffer jacket, and was carrying a pink Vera Bradley duffel bag. So if you have any information in that area, please call 911 or the emergency line. 317773, 1782. We're going to Ohio, where a man, you know needed to get some stuff done. He needed to run some errands, and he didn't have a car to do so. So he got creative. An Ohio man was indicted this month on abduction charges after he requested a test drive at a car dealership. And then he used the vehicle to run errands with the sales associate still inside. So this actually happened on December 19th of last year. And Todd Mars, who was 51, went to performance Luxury. I mean, he didn't just go, he went, got him a car. He went to Performance Luxury in Marysville and asked to test drive a Jeep Wrangler. The associate said that she noted that Mars had taken a different route from the normal test drive route and that he stopped at a warehouse and sat in the parking lot for five minutes. When the associate told him to drive back to the dealership, he replied, no, now you will sit there and wait like a good girl. The associate texted co workers and shared her phone's location. But when she tried to call a co worker, Mars grabbed the phone and threw it onto the floorboard. Then Mars drove to a hospital in Marysville and picked up a friend telling the associate he wasn't going back to the dealership until he was done running errands. And he was a man of his word. Eventually, he went back with his friend, was also now in the car, and he was indicted this week on charges of abduction and disrupting public services.
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Shar
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Cindy Overton
He was given a $250,000 bond at his arraignment. I've often wondered about that when people go and test drive cars, when we've test driven, obviously, most of us have always test driven many cars in our lives. And how scary is that? I mean, I know they get your driver's license, but there was a time that they didn't get your driver's license. That's just scary, scary, scary. Well, I don't know if you could tell that by my stories today that maybe I chose them. Woody usually sends me his stories. Leah Marie sends Woody stories and then Woody divides them between me and him. Well, today he's so busy that that didn't happen and so I chose my own and I don't know why I chose this one. But we're going to go to Miami.
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It's time for Family matters.
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Cindy Overton
And in Miami we have a 15 year old boy who does not look 15 in this picture. He's pleaded guilty to second degree murder in connection with his mother's stabbing death in 2023. So Derek Rosa pleaded guilty four days before jury selection for his trial. Derrick Rosa pleaded guilty four days before jury selection for his trial was to begin. Rosa was 13 years old on October 13th of 2023 when he stabbed his mother. She was 39 year old Irina Garcia. He stabbed her 46 times while she slept. Her two week old daughter, which was Derek Rosa's sister, was next to the bed in a crib. It's been reported that Rose's defense attempted to have key pieces of evidence thrown out at numerous pre trial hearings. The day before he killed his mother, Rosa reportedly showed his girlfriend a graphic video of a US army veteran committing suicide, according to prosecutors, and she broke up with him. After Rosa stabbed his mother, prosecutors said he took selfies with the body and texted them to a friend. He also made comments that he wanted to be like Jason, the villain from Friday the 13th movie franchise. The Miami Herald reports that after the stabbing, Rosa confessed to a 911 operator and later two detectives interviewing him. Rosa was an honor student in eighth grade and had no history of mental health issues, but he was charged as an adult, Miami Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said at the sentencing. The pain Garcia suffered from the 46 stab wounds could only have been surpassed by the knowledge that the person killing her was her own young son. When he stole his mother's life, he also stole so much of his own future. Rosa's stepfather, Frank Ramos, addressed the court and spoke of his grief, having to care for the new baby alone and being accused of Garcia's murder. Garcia's father, Francisco Garcia Acosta also spoke, saying Garcia's death led him to have two heart attacks. The Miami Herald reports Rosa will get credit for two years of jail time served and will have 20 years of probation following his sentence. As part of the plea deal, Rosa is to have no contact with Ramos, no contact with Ramos or with his sister. So Derek rosa will spend 25 years behind bars followed by 20 years of probation as a result of the deal. And like I said before, he will receive two years credit. And somehow that is definitely not enough. He stabbed his mother with his baby sister lying next to her. And like I've said before, I've always said, why put people through the torment? Just you're guilty. We know you're guilty. Plead guilty. Don't intend it to be. Plead guilty and get like a lesser sentence for it. That's ridiculous. Just save, save some time and energy and some money and plead guilty that way. But people like that don't think like me.
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Cindy Overton
Hey Kimmy, we're in Fort Worth. Police are issuing a warning after a man stole from customers credit cards at a McDonald's in northwest of Fort Worth. Police in Springtown say that 19 year old Giovanni Blunt of Poolville took legitimate payments from McDonald's customers, then tapped customers cards again on a personal device creating a fraudulent charge of anywhere between 10 to 20 dollars and this money would go to an account he controlled. Police say they counted more than 50 fraudulent charges and investigators believe Blunt collected about $680 before he was arrested on Sunday. He faces a first degree felony in the fraud case and investigators say blunt posted a $30,000 bond on Monday. Springtown police said this incident serves as an important reminder that financial crimes can happen quickly and go unnoticed without regular monitoring. So to help protect yourself and your finances, the Springtown Police Department recommends a few things. 1. Report suspicious charges immediately to your financial institution. 2, avoid handing your card out a site when possible. 3, use mobile wallets or contactless payments that tokenize card information and prevent any third party from having physical control of your card. Four, regularly change PINs and online banking passwords. Five, check credit reports periodically for unfamiliar activity. Six, review bank and credit card statements frequently, including pending transactions. And seven, set up transaction alerts through your bank or card issuer for real time notifications. I remember when I was reading that, I remember my daddy when I got my checking account, making me sit down and balance that darn checking account. And they have like on the back they had the ledger where you could like go through you check like they had the ledger in your checkbook and then you had on the back of your statement. The graph, whatever it was. I think it's still on statements. Maybe it's not. We don't get paper statements anymore. But I think when I put them up for tax season, I think I see them. But anyway, yeah, I remember having to do that. But.
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It's time for Worldwide Crime.
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Cindy Overton
For our last story, we're going across the pond. We're going to go to Glasgow and there we have a man, Mikhail Akram, who was found semi naked, face down on a bedroom floor in a Glasgow flat more than a year ago. He had been dead for hours. The 37 year old had drugs in his system, but there were also bruises on his face, limbs and body. Pathologists found small stab wounds to his shin deep enough to fracture his legs and likely inflicted after his death. His family believe he was the victim of foul play, but after a year long criminal investigation, the cause of his death remains unexplained. His body was found as police investigator reports that another man had been assaulted with a knife and robbed in the same flat which McHale was visiting after a night out in the city. The property was operated by Mears Group, a company contracted by the Home Office, which is Capital Letters Home Office, to provide temporary accommodation for asylum seekers. Though the death in the initial stages of the investigation made headlines, Mikel's name was never reported in the press and his mother, Sheena Miller, is now speaking about it for the first time. More than a year later, she told the BBC she was no further forward in finding out how her son died. It's awful. You can't even imagine what it's like. My family are not getting any answers, she said. I haven't slept the whole year, my hair has fallen out, I have to wear a wig and I've just gotten really ill over it. This was my child. This was my firstborn baby. Mikhail, who was born Michael Murray, had been studying to become a nurse but had dropped out of the course months prior to his death on August 14th of 2024. That night he had gone out with a female friend after leaving a late night bar in Glasgow's Trongate. They traveled by taxi to a man's flat in Springfield road, Parkhead at 3:10, according to the Porsche modem report seen by the BBC. They were joined by three others at the first floor property where they continued drinking, the report says. It was reported that at the time Mikhail was seen to consume multiple tablets which were assumed to be Valium. It is not clear from the history provided what happened over the remainder of the evening. Police were called to the property around 10:13 on August 15, about 19 hours after Mikhail arrived at the flat following reports of an assault of another man. The injured man alleged he had been assaulted with a knife and robbed by the occupant of the flat and that was 42 year old James Carter and he was arrested and charged with assault and robbery. Then police entered one of the flat's bedrooms where they discovered the body of Mikhail. The condition of his body suggested he had been dead for several hours. His mother did not find out about his death for another two days. Sheena said that after she was given the news she couldn't even function. She said my son had broken bones right down to the fibula. He had stab wounds, bruises all over his body. The length of time he had been lying dead added to her anguish. Three men, including James Carter and the man who had claimed he had been robbed, were initially arrested in connection with assault but later released pending further inquiries. It was the start of a year long investigation into how Mikhail had died. The postmortem concluded by pathologists in November of 2024 made several significant findings. In his body, McHale had alcohol and bromozolam, which is a newer form of deadly street Valium that had swept Scotland in recent years. The report said his history suggested he was not a regular user of the drug and while the combination of drink and street volume increased his risk of significant and potentially fatal intoxication, the report said the amounts recorded were at the lower end of the ranges for a drug death and his tolerance was unknown. The report also highlighted the injuries sustained by Mikel before and after his death. These included a number of bruises and abrasions on his face, body and limbs. The report goes on to say that he was found face down on the floor and being face down on the floor could account for these findings, but other methods of trauma, including an assault, cannot be completely excluded. There were also four stab wounds to his right leg, one of which was associated with a broken bone. The wounds were caused by a sharp implement, a knife, a screwdriver or scissors. Blood trails suggested it was likely he had been stabbed and after he had died. This man may have died as a result of Valium and alcohol intoxication, but for the reasons discussed, including unknown tolerance and unclear circumstances, it makes the cause of death less certain. Furthermore, this man also sustained injuries which, while whilst not of the severity to definitely account for his death, add to the uncertainty of the events surrounding it and for those reasons the cause of death was considered best regarded as unascertained. The BBC shared the report with a retired forensic pathologist who agreed to interpret its findings on condition of anonymity. The pathologist said it was unclear how Mikhail suffered bruising to his face and torso and described the postmortem stab wounds to his legs as absolutely extraordinary. One of them is sufficient to break the fibula. This is a significant trauma. You're going to ask why somebody would do that. The pathologist said the circumstances surrounding the death were suspicious. They described the post mortem report as very fair and said it was understandable that the cause of death remains unknown. If I were asked my opinion on the most likely cause of death, I think I'm probably coming down on the drugs, but that doesn't answer anything because we have this odd Circumstance. Police investigated Miguel's death throughout 2025 and meanwhile James Carter, the Gambian born resident of the property, was being held on remand over an alleged assault and robbery with a knife at the flat on the same night. However, the case was dropped in November last year. It is understood that prosecutors have been unable to cite the complainer to give evidence. A spokesperson for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service COPFS said the decision has been taken after careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case. Sources have told the BBC that Mr. Carter, who was born Abdou Ndao, was in the immigration system and had stayed at the property for a number of years before moving on in late 2024. His current immigration status is unknown to the BBC. The flat has been used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers since at least 2019 and was administered by the Mears Group on behalf of the Home Office. Both Mears and the Home Office said they do not have records of drug use or dealing at the Springfield Road flat and the Home office says it does not routinely comment on individual cases, while a Mears spokesperson added, as this is a police matter and subject to legal processes, it will not be appropriate to comment. The BBC approached Mr. Carter with questions about drug use and criminality at the property while McHale's death was not reported and how he came to have his post mortem wounds, but he did not respond to requests for comment. Sheena Miller believes her son was a victim of a crime and that not enough was done to establish what happened on the night he died. There was no plea to the public, she said. She added that Mikail's name has not been released to the media and my little boy was described as a dead body found in Parkhead for the last 15 months. That's heartbreaking. Police in Scotland told the BBC that significant inquiries have been carried out and that no criminality was established. A spokesperson said following a post mortem examination and toxicology analysis, the death is being treated as unexplained. However, should any new information be received, this will fully be investigated. The family have been kept fully updated throughout the investigation and we will remain in contact with them, a COPFS spokesperson said. We emphasize with the deep distress and pain experienced by the family of Mikel following his death. An investigation was carried out into the cause and circumstances of his death and it was concluded that no further action was required. The family were informed of the outcome of the investigation. We are to meet with Mikail's family soon to discuss the investigation and its conclusions. The Crown Office said it had the right to review investigations if further information becomes available. I just happened upon that story and unfortunately it reminds me a lot of Haley Johnson's story, JusticeForHalie and Ms. Barbara's fight for justice for her. And I just want to remind Everybody about the GoFundMe we are increasing every single day. Please again if you can give a dollar Ms. Barbara we'll be so grateful just sharing the post. Ms. Barbara will be so very grateful. We understand not everybody can donate monetarily but it doesn't cost a cent to share and we thank everybody that has shared so far and your generosity means the world to miss Barbara. We cannot wait to see what the evidence room finds and we look forward to sharing that with y' all no matter what it is. And we thank y' all for listening, liking and sharing every day. Thank you everyone that takes the time out of your day to to listen to us. We are so very grateful that we have you and we hope you have a wonderful day and stay warm. The weather's going to be changing here and I am off to the store to make sure that I have food and stuff to keep us warm for the next few days when it drops back down into the 20s. And it looks like it's going to be a really rough storm around here. So thank you all for listening today. Again, hashtag justice for Bradley. Justice for ao. Things are rolling, people. I can't tell you. Woody. Can't tell you. I certainly can't tell you. And hashtag justiceforhey. Hashtag justice for Barbara Blunt. Hashtag justice for everyone that needs justice. We will see you tomorrow.
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Haley
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