Pain in Puyallup - Part 1

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With fast, isolated stretches of open road carving a path through the immense

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forest in many areas, it's the perfect playground for those that have a passion

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for the outdoors. Though as has been evidenced, time and time again, the areas that

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have remained rugged outside the city limits can also be the ideal devil's

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playground for many different types of misty needs. So think about that

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next time you tell me that the lumberjack chic all a dexter is so safe.

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Hi Cassie. Hi Caitlyn. Hi creepy people. Hello! Hello! If you're new to our

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creepy corner of the world, this is PNW Haunts and Homicides where we chat about

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true crime, paranormal and all things creepy in the Pacific Northwest. We also do

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a tarot reading at the end of every episode for deeper insight into our topic

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for the episode. So make sure you stick around if you're into that. We will be here.

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Yeah. Are you into it? Us and our crystals and our wine will be here.

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Yeah. You know what? We're going to have to procure a lighter at some point for

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our candle. Oh yes. You can't make flames with your fingers

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yet. Come on. I cannot. Basic which one? I am basic but...

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All right. Well, I feel like we're very clearly stalling now. And I know why I am. I

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don't know why you would want to stall that. I want to talk about ghosts. Okay. Well,

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you know, maybe later. Promises have been made. I mean, I said maybe. I feel like a

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mom at the mall. I said maybe. She's about to throw herself on the floor. Oh, I will

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throw tantrum. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. The Pacific Northwest has at

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times been thought of even referred to outright as a safe haven for serial killers.

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Oh, I don't like that. Neither does that car driving by. I thought that was a plane.

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Yeah. It I mean could have been anything. Could have been a guy on a lawn mower. That's

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so funny. My first thought was lawn mower. But I was like motor cycle. Seems more

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plausible. But you know what? Let's just go with it. With fast, isolated stretches of open

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road, carving a path through the immense forest. In many areas, it's the perfect playground

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for those that have a passion for the outdoors. Though as has been evidenced time and time

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again, the areas that have remained rugged outside the city limits can also be the ideal

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devil's playground for many different types of misdeeds. So think about that next time

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you tell me that the lumberjack chic a-la-Dexter is so sexy. I mean, I have nothing to say.

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Although I prefer the devil's playground to be hell, just like playing your own space,

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you know? Yeah. Stay in your lane. Puyallup.com, boasts the Washington State Fair held in Puyallup

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is the largest event held each year in the state of Washington. Ooh, I didn't know that.

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Yeah, I didn't either, actually. And it's kind of a big deal. Kids get out of school early

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and according to some locals that we actually know from what happens in the woods. Hey, hey,

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the kids are even given some free tickets. Oh, so pretty sweet. That's cool. I know.

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Between foot and road traffic for the fair, Puyallup's population is said to temporarily

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roughly quadruple. Whoa. Yeah. So like people are coming from out of town, converging on

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core wrecked. I was going to have you say. Puyallup. Puyallup. Puyallup. Okay. According to

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the city website, the fair repeatedly ranks as one of the top 10 fairs in the United States.

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Dang. What's one through nine? Go. I don't know. Damn it. Not, not rank in them. Not what

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we're doing here. Each year, the Washington State Fair hosts two annual events, the larger

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event spanning roughly two weeks of the month of September, while the spring event in April

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lasts less than a handful of days. The fair is a huge draw for visitors throughout the

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state, as well as elsewhere in the region, although apparently maybe not all the way down

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here in Portland, since neither of us knew about it, but yeah, I don't know. No event of this

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scale in the Pacific Northwest would be complete without remarkably tasty and unique food

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to match the desires of the local populace, because you know, we some foodies. Why are you

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talking about food? I'm hungry. I know. I'm so sorry. You picked a really bad episode to

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show up hungry. Oh, no. Should we cut for a food time? Yeah, let's after eight minutes

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of recording. Let's go. Because we've worked really hard. We've been working so hard. Larry

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Ball, the owner of earthquakes burgers, shared his own arrest journey from Usher in the grandstands

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of the fairgrounds to pervert of beloved burgers. It's like a real rags to reach his kind

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of a, it's cute. Yeah. I love it. Oh, yeah. A building yep. So I can tear you down. Don't

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tear down the earthquake burgers. Not the burgers. He had worked the grandstands for 15

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years while he was busy living life and trying to make ends meet through various side hustles

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and seasonal gigs. Eventually, he decided to set up his own burger stand. Initially,

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the stand was built out of plywood with a plastic roof located outside the gates to the

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fairgrounds. Oh, the gates in this story play a prominent role just as many others have

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throughout all of mankind's often brutal existence. The wait, gates, gates, gates, yeah, gates,

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you know, letting people in, keeping people out. Oh, okay. Yeah. I was very confused. I wasn't

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sure. Yeah, I was like, I'm not sure where we do you know what do you want another visual

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I had in my head. Yeah. I've just like gates closing on people and like smashing them. Okay.

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I want you to put a pin in that. Put a pin in that. Okay. No, I don't like it. No, I don't

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want it. No, just put a pin in that. I don't want it. Once he settled on the particulars

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of his plan in 1992, the first earthquake burgers were born aptly named for a burger of

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such ample serving size now with a reputation of seemingly near zeitgeist proportion to match.

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Oh, they be legendary. How big are they? Are you going to tell us? Fucking huge. They're fucking huge.

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They have a poundage. You know that they probably do. I could look really quick. Do you think it's

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like a pound burger? It's like a half pound burger. You know, let me see. I looked at a very

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specific article that talked about how big they were and I remember feeling like, it's got to be

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bigger because like McDonald's don't they do like a double quarter pounder, isn't that about like a

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half a pound? I think so. I don't know that it's like it's bigger than any other burger out there.

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I just think that typically at a fair, I don't know that you see like huge burgers like this. Yeah.

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But everything at fairs are like big. It's true, right? Like the giant turkey leg. That's what I

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usually think of the corn dog is like the like foot long corn dog. You like a big corn dog. I do. Yes.

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If a picture of me eating one and a guy in the background staring at me if we want to post it to

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Patreon. Yeah. Yeah. We do. Yeah. To dig that one out. That's hilarious. It is really funny. Wow.

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It looks like they're like half pound burgers. It says nearly two pounds of burger, a half pound

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of beef, grilled to perfection, and a pound of curly fries per order await. That's like what?

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So like the whole meal that's two pounds? I think so. I think that's what they're saying. Yeah. So it's

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just like epic proportions. Curly fries. Oh, that's so funny. It opened for 13 years. This fixed

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location drew a crowd of diners near and far. Earthquakes giant burgers, which once came in smaller

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sizes such as the tremor. Oh, designed for a mere mortals digestive tract at a still hefty

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quarter pound weight. Have often compared to the likeness or the likewise legendary miners burgers

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near Yakima. Wow. Can I get a vegan tremor, please? I don't think so. Yeah.

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Rude. Well, I don't know. Suck it up buttercup. I think this is a really cute quote from Larry.

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Oh, Larry said they make a damn good burger. I'm happy to be compared to miners anytime.

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Oh, that is cute. That is cute. All right. But believe it or not, we're not here to proselytize about

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any of the Pacific Northwest, many seemingly supernatural number of burger chains.

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Many of which arguably reach near mythical levels of fandom. When was the last time that in

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and out opened and people absolutely lost their shit? Like two years ago. Yeah. And there's a bunch

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of other burger chains that have been like opening up over time. I think one of them's called super

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deluxe. There's shake shacks opening up all over the place. I don't know. America just likes its

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burgers. I love our burgers. But how fun would it be to do a podcast where we enjoyed one of the

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Pacific Northwest greenest natural resources and reviewed local food? I'm down.

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TM. TM. I want to do it right now. Can we review some food right now? I don't care what it is. I'll

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review it. I'll agree. Instead, this week, we have something of a historical walkabout.

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Maybe it's just because I've been binging lost for the first time. But I really do think it all

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has a cohesive way of explaining why there's plenty of pain in puyaleb. And we'll barely scratch

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the surface because we aren't going to touch on indigenous populations in the territory. For now,

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that's honestly a topic in the Pacific Northwest that could be an entire podcast in its own right.

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And while I'm probably not the right person for that particular desk for that show,

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I'm sure we'll be back and I'll do my best like always. But nailing Puyallup so far, so...

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Y-Y-Y-Y-Y- Indeed. Which leads in nicely to something else that I want to say. It's not entirely

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a tangent. But you know what? Whatever. Here it goes. I have to take a moment to say that I'm

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deeply touched by the listeners that reach out to us with case suggestions. And particularly those

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that reach out with incredibly rare nuggets and gems from communities that we may not be a part of,

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particularly, to help us share new and important stories. I'm looking at all of you in the Facebook

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discussion group. And particularly I wanted to mention our dude, Dewi. Hopefully it's okay that I

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called you, dude. Dewi, dude? Yeah. You should know it's a hardy term of endearment in my book. I agree.

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Yeah. My one wish is to have more hours to do this each week. Join our Patreon.

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Keep sending the suggestions in because I promise you we're furiously working away at as many of them

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as the inspiration and resources line up for each story. Actually just recently someone

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mentioned a topic in the Facebook discussion group that we're not only planning to cover,

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but that we'll be visiting very soon. Oh really? Is it the thing that we're going on next weekend?

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Yeah. What was the suggestion? It was oh okay. Yeah. Anyways, that is probably already too many

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beans spilled. Everything in this is food. Don't spill beans! I’m talking about nuggets. Now I'm talking about beans. I'm so sorry.

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It's completely unintentional, but I'm clearly a witch. God damn it. If you were a witch, why didn't you

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tell me to eat? You know, you win some, you lose some. While not every episode will be laden with

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bombshells of earth shattering truth, I will do my best to find plenty of those cases that help us

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to focus on something that I feel like is bigger than any one person and certainly bigger than

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our little show. Although we're pretty excited today because we just found out that we are about to be

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a show that takes up a little bit more space. Yeah, we are. We're women and we're taking up space.

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Watch out. Oh my god. No man spreading allowed in the pod lab. Only woman spreading. Yes.

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I promise you though, there's no case that's too obscure for us to care deeply about. Only those

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that I cannot find source material for. I hope that makes sense to all of you. Please don't think you

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can't just DM us a missing person poster because we'll share it. If the case is new or unknown,

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even if I can't offer you the coverage that it deserves because I don't have network backing

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somehow yet. We'll share it. We believe that each of those cases deserve to be shared so

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whatever we can do will strive to always. Before we get into a true crime case ripped from the

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headlines of our youth, we're going to get into the way back machine. What I stumbled on through

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the course of my research is nothing short of heart wrenching and it reverberates throughout

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decades of Pacific Northwest history. Because what I learned is that even in just the last 100

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years or so, the very same grounds where the fair has been held have been the setting of more human

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misery than I could have imagined. In some cases, racism and nationalism driven by war and the

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accompanying fear rapidly growing the world over has been the catalyst. In others, that suffering has

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been produced in some form or fashion by what most of us can only imagine as an evil, animalistic

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impulse. In any case, that human suffering can quickly turn countless strangers into a community

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bonded by whatever shape that shared trauma takes in the face of unimaginable tragedy.

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But first, back to the fair. Okay. Established in 1900, the Washington State Fair

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was far from its infancy. When Camp Harmony was established, that sounds nice. Yep, Harmony,

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it's a good thing, right? Harmony. But that name is simply a euphemism and I have to say that

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Camp Harmony is a rather flowery one in this case. The Puyallup assembly center, as its otherwise

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known, was a temporary facility during World War Two. And even that is a euphemism compared to the

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commonly accepted nomenclature in modern times, which so far as I'm aware is internment camp.

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I know where you're going with that. You did. I was like, I'm not sure if she's uncomfortable because

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she knows exactly where I'm going or if she can't quite like. Yeah, as soon as you said camp, I was like,

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okay, I know where this is going. Land, a camp, true crime, I get it. Yeah.

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Specifically, the facility housed several thousand Japanese Americans during World War Two.

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Not hundreds, thousands. And they were kept in deplorable conditions that by today's standard,

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I think you now have to book a glamping trip through Airbnb to experience from a weekend.

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But, excuse me. Except back then, you didn't get to pick the place where you'd end up.

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And when you arrived, it might be filthy or cold. Which, to be honest, sounds like our Airbnb

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last year for PNW True Crime Fest.

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filthy cold and haunted. Yeah. And you may end up having barely enough to eat, which sounds less

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familiar. You can't take the vast majority of your stuff, which getting cold again because you know

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we overpacked for that podcast trip. Yeah. And that stuff you left, well, it may or may not be there

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when you get back later. And no one gives a shit about your one-star review.

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I do. Yeah. Basically, what I'm saying is we might have ended up with a less-than-steller

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booking for that trip, but it pails in comparison, obviously. Yeah. But, you know, just trying to put

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this in terms that the kids can relate to these days, you know? The kids. The kids. Where are the kids?

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We are. I act like one. A little bit. Based on the widely accepted figures of the time,

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the roughly 7,400 people interned in Puyallup account for doubling the population of Puyallup during the

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internment period. Yep. They had the population all in one area.

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So the entire fairgrounds were inhabited by the same number of people as everywhere else in Puyallup.

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Holy shit. Put that like as plainly as possible so you can just kind of sit with that fact for a second.

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Yeah, you said it way better than I did because my mind was just like, yeah. What? The mind, it boggles.

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These were individuals of Japanese descent primarily from the west coast,

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from areas like western Washington and even as far as the state of Alaska.

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Damn. Yeah. They just round them all up. Yes. Yes. What the fuck? It's so much worse than you think.

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And I know that we learned a lot about this in history, but there's a lot of stuff that

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was really glossed over or specifics that we just are not made aware of on a, just a fundamental

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level of like historical education. So I've learned more like researching ghosts in this fucking

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podcast than I did in school. Yeah. Literally. Yep. But as might be implied by the term temporary

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facility, many, if not the majority, would be carted off to other encampments such Minidoka, Tule Lake

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and heart mountain throughout Idaho, California and Wyoming. All of which was

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authorized by the War Relocation Authority under Executive Order 9066. The War Relocation

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Authority. Authority under an Executive Order. In case you're not keeping track,

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it's typically the individual in the Oval Office that issues executive orders.

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So let me be blunt. If you think elections don't matter, particularly presidential elections,

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I'd like you to consider the impact of being able to issue the type of order that involuntarily

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displaces, relocates and essentially in prisons somewhere in the neighborhood of 110,000 people

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based on little more than what amounts to superstition. The cowboys probably have more

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justification for disliking Jessica Simpson, which is a ridiculous comparison, but

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which brings up a whole nother point about feminism, but it's fine. We won't go there. Yeah. I mean,

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this patriarchy. Yeah. Deep cut sports saying reference, but like it's the only one I have.

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Cassie, if you remind me at the end of this, I'll tell you the one and only sports adjacent joke

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that I know. Oh, okay. Does it have to do with balls? Not really. Darn. Yeah. You had a question. Yes.

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Are you going to tell us who the president was during World War II? Yeah. It was a

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bruise. Now that you say it, I'm like, I want to know. Yeah. It was, I mean, it's a president that's

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typically beloved. I hope it's not friend of the pod FDR. We're going to have to stop calling

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in friend of the pod, which is fine. I will take back things that I've said. Franklin D Roosevelt

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was our 30 second president 1933 to 1945. When was the war? It ended right towards the end of his

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presidency in most places in the world. So it was him. It was. So Franklin, Delano Roosevelt. Yes.

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Cancelled. No longer a friend of the pod. I think we really we only called him that because he kept

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showing up in the story, not really because we had like an affinity towards him. Is that what you say?

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Yeah. Yeah. I've never seen. The cap word of the week. I've been listening to a lot of books. Okay.

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Shm ready pants. There was a word you said earlier. I meant to ask what it meant. I didn't. I didn't.

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Well, you said some big word in the beginning. And I was like, the fuck does that mean?

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Prosletize. Yes. Prosletize. I'm going to read you the definition because I feel like now you're

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going to be able to judge me on whether or not I used it correctly. So, um, okay. So there's two

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definitions. When you Google prosletize, convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion,

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belief or opinion to another or advocate or promote a belief or a course of action. So in this case,

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we would be promoting burgers. Makes sense to me. Okay. Cool. I've gotten that note from some of my

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friends who listen and they're like, Caitlyn uses a lot of big words. And I like when you ask what it

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means because I was going to ask when it meant. Okay. Well, that makes me feel like kind of an asshole.

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No, no, no. I don't think it's like you're just like educating me more than like, okay.

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Like in a fun way, not a douchey way. Yeah. Okay. I just don't want to sound like a douche.

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It's like one word in episode. It's not like not every episode. It's not like constantly. You're like,

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I don't like this podcast. She makes me feel dumb. I like that about it. It happens to me with other

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podcasts too. Like I've had that happen with podcasts. Sure. Yeah. Like how else are you supposed to

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learn words? It's not like I read like a bunch of like academic bookage. Yeah. But bookage.

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I think the word you're looking for is literature. Bookage. And the risk of sounding like a douche.

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I love myself. Okay. I love you too. Okay. Some people attempt to be a force for good and for change.

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George Tsutakawa created a memorial statue that's located just within the entrance of the fairgrounds.

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But it's not the only piece in the state of Washington that has been lovingly created to commemorate

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both the place of his family's upbringing and the complicated past that it carries.

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One such piece, the Tsutakawa Memorial Gates, disappeared from Seattle's Washington Park

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Arboretum on March 18th of 2020. The whole ass gate disappeared? Mm-hmm. Just days after the Pacific

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Northwest entered lockdown during the Great Panini crisis. Wow. All attempts at joking aside.

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I don't relish the thought of the potential Asian hate sentiment that may have been behind.

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What I view personally as kind of a heinous act of vandalism at the time. Yeah.

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I'd like to think that was just the result of lockdowns, stir craziness.

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But the last few years have left me with a feeling that's probably unlikely. Yeah.

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But let's dwell on the words of a true artist far more gifted than myself instead of that thought.

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And I've edited only for brevity. This is a quote from him. Actually from his son.

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The antique bronze gates subdued in the reflected sunlight are cunningly designed,

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but so sturdily built as to resist time and its erosion. As noted by a 1976 Arboretum bulletin,

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covering the installation of the gates designed by UW professor George Tsutakawa, a noted American

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sculptor. And this is the quote from his son. My father expressed the idea that the sturdy bronze

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material he used for dozens of sculptures and fountains could last for hundreds of years.

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Instead, the memorial gates, which sat near the north entry to the Washington Park Arboretum

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at the Graham Visitors Center, were destroyed almost 45 years after they were lovingly installed

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and dedicated. Thieves cut through the supports and quickly loaded the two heavy gates,

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20 feet wide in total, into a truck to be hauled away and sold for scrap. Presumably.

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Is it because they were made of copper? Did you say copper? Bronze.

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Sorry. Yeah. That doesn't even make any sense. I was like copper. Okay. Don't people like sell copper

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for shit, right? Yeah. Bronze? They do. I don't know. I don't know if bronze has a similar.

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Clearly, there must be a similar market. That's a lot of fucking work though. Yep. It's almost like it

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seems as though you'd have to be trying to make some sort of a statement beyond just the theft,

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because I'm sure there would be easier things to steal. Yeah. Well, somewhere between the involuntary

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imprisonment of men, women, and children in this country, then later the maddening theft,

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dating to a more recent time, is another disappearance. And it's not the only one of its kind in the area,

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sadly. And while we could probably talk about some of the dark history of the area for multiple

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episodes, I'm actually going to change gears just slightly, because as I said, there's plenty of pain

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in Puyallup. This is the story of the mysterious disappearance of Misty Copsey from the Washington

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State Fair in Puyallup, Washington in 1992. Hopefully she had a taste of the earthquake burgers.

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My hopes so. We're going to bounce around a little bit. I'm flexing my herstory muscles a bit.

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Oh, that's my favorite thing. Yeah. The further I fell down the rabbit hole, the further it seemed

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that there was for me to fall. Misty Copsey was born in 1978 to Diana Smith. That's Diana's

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maiden name, because I'm going to start calling her Diana Copsie through the rest of this.

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And Buck Copsie. Buck. Buck. Oh, man, I always go to kill Bill in my head. Is there a buck in that?

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Yeah. I don't remember my name so long. Buck. Oh, huh. I watch. He also says that.

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Anyways, they were essentially already separated by the time that she came along, in fact, though.

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Misty was primarily raised by her mother thereafter. As she grew up, Misty was a successful student

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who played multiple sports, softball, basketball, volleyball, and was popular amongst her peers.

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Misty's best friend was Trina Bevard, aka Bean. Oh, and she referred to Misty as Bunyan. Bunyan?

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No idea. I kids. I don't know. It's kids say the dirty things. Bean and Bunyan.

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It's something that a lot of sources commented on. They're kind of weird, but also pretty cute.

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I don't know. I don't get it, but oh, it's so cute. I don't know. If someone started calling me Bunyan

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as a nickname, I think I'd be like, yeah, I'm out. Maybe she was just always attached to her foot.

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I don't know. I don't know if that makes a lot of sense, but you know what? We're rolling with that.

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She was a they were attached to the foot. Yep. Good old Bunyan. My friend used to call everything Bunyan's.

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So just like anything on her foot, if it like heard or something, we'd be like, oh, we have a Bunyan on

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our foot. I think we just thought it was a funny word. Yeah. I've never had a Bunyan. So yeah, I don't

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I don't know. So weird. Kids are weird. All right. Misty had grown up in the Green Meadow

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mobile park in Puyallup before she and her mother moved to a duplex in Spanaway. It was a nicer

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area and generally seemed like an upgrade for their family life as a duo. Though Misty would keep

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in touch with friends she'd made while living at Green Meadow. Kids are friends. They stay friends.

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Oh, it's a close. I mean, relatively like it's a nearby community. It's not super close. It's,

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I mean, drivable, but they're not driving age yet. Is it like a phone or like a pen-pal situation?

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A little bit more. And then like they did still live close enough that, you know, activity is

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like going to the fair. You know, they could do things like that together still. Oh, yeah.

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Diana was a caregiver for an elderly woman in her 90s and she worked nights.

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So Misty spent many of her evenings alone at home. Misty and her friend Trina wanted to go to

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the fair in Puyallup as young teenage girls the thought of attending unshap around was undoubtedly

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incredibly alluring. The pair had managed to pull it off. Misty's mother, Diana Copsey,

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reluctantly dropped them off. The girls were eager for a taste of freedom, but not one of the aforementioned

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trio could have known how a night of frivolity might turn sour. Diana would later state that the

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last words they exchanged were "I love yous," followed by - and this is coming from the mother Diana -

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"Just don't screw this up or I'm never going to let you do anything else."

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Of course Misty agreed. Of course. Yep. The plan was for them to get a ride home from a friend or

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ride the bus. Trina's parents were under the impression that the girls had transportation and some

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level of supervision it sounds like the whole time. They were not fully aware of what the situation

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really was. That happens. Yeah. And here's the thing. I won't pass too much judgment about Diana

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going along with what seemed like kind of a harmless white lie because I know it's something she's been

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beat up from all directions about. But she obviously knew she wasn't going to be able to pick up the girls

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when they were done at the fair. So she was aware that obviously they didn't have a ride home.

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They were going to find someone or take the bus, but I don't know. There's something about

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the fair being in a public place. I'm sure that didn't seem like a very unsafe thing to do.

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In 1992, I think in a place like Puyallup. Yeah. Me and my friends used to take the bus all the time.

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Yeah. Well, not saying to let your kids do that. I'm just saying like, I'm saying that because there's

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another piece that yeah, well, you'll see. Okay. As girls attending a carnival or a fair might likely do

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in the best of circumstances, Misty and Trina lost track of time. Before they knew how much time

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had passed, the pair realized that they were too late to catch the last bus that might set them off

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on an easy course towards home. No. That particular bus line stopped running shortly before

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9 p.m. Which doesn't seem very late, but it's also not at this point in time a huge busling metropolis either.

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and needed a ride home. Though Misty's mother Diana had gone along with the girls' white lie to

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Trina's parents about escorting them both ways, she truly was unable to leave her post at work.

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I mean, she's caring for a woman that's, you know, over 90 years old. Yeah.

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She always worked nights as a caregiver to that elderly woman. So Misty knew that that was the

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situation. So Diana told her daughter Misty that she needed to go through the electronic organizer.

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She purchased for her recently and find either a family member or friend that would be able to give

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her a lift. Because obviously the bus is no longer an option. Diana and her daughter had actually

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hit a rough patch or two as she entered her teen years. Particularly after one fight over the summer

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in 1992, which led to Diana filing a missing persons report. Some say by mistake or an error,

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but in the end later she was too embarrassed to reach out to law enforcement to cancel the report.

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Which to law enforcement would later look like a little bit of a red flag. Maybe this is a kid that

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runs away from home frequently. But the fact that law enforcement had failed to follow up a single

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time in the months that followed on a report of a missing young girl would be lost on some people.

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Oh. Yeah. Interesting. It's September at this point. Wow. So the fact that the police are not aware

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that Misty did in fact make it home. I think that's kind of on them personally. But all that they

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would see was a woman struggling with what most would describe as functional alcoholism.

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Diana appeared to be a problem drinker with multiple DUIs and a conviction for welfare fraud on her

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record for which she was able to negotiate a deferred sentence. She was a single mother doing what she

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had to in order to support her daughter holding down a job providing her a nice home. I mean, I think

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certainly maybe some of that stuff didn't work in her favor, but also Diana's not on trial here.

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She's, you know, she has a missing child. Yeah. In fact, Diana's current position had enabled her to

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buy Misty a nice stereo and new clothes as they entered the school year. Misty attended Spanaway

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Lake, junior high that fall. And by all appearances, she was a happy, healthy and overall well-adjusted teenager.

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But as the days festivities were winding down for the girls at the fair and the dusky sky was

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settling in on the valley, Misty was still left in need of a ride back to her home in Spanaway.

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It was already getting dark and it was certainly too far to walk even in such pleasant summer weather.

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It's believed that as Misty worked through the names and her electronic organizer, she did ask

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her friend Rheuban Schmidt for a ride, but he claimed he didn't have enough gas to pick her up.

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Getting a ride from Rheuban would have been in direct conflict with her mother's wishes at the time,

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but it seems that without transport, Misty thought it was worth a shot. Certainly that might have

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been more appealing than some of the other alternatives. Rheuban, for his part, was an 18-year-old high school dropout

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that Misty's mother did not approve of and with good reason. He drove a green 1974 Chevy Nova,

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but more importantly, he also had a crush on Misty. Diana was made very uncomfortable by what

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she overheard Rheuban saying to Misty on a particular phone call. It was super cringe,

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and you didn't need to be her mom to think so. Honestly, I felt very embarrassed on his behalf.

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Misty had remained friends with Rheuban despite her mother's disapproval, but she did not return his

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feelings. She was not interested. I mean, he's older, like a lot older. He's like a man. I mean,

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it's all relative, but not 10. Oh, how old is she? Yeah, I think she would have been 14. I mean,

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either way, 13, 14, like, you know, that's too young. Like, I'm sorry. Like legally, it's too young.

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That's not an opinion. The payphone she called her mom from was just a couple of blocks from the fair,

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right outside the police department. Oh, nonetheless, this particular evening quickly became every

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parents' worst nightmare. That fact just makes it all the more bizarre that Misty has never been

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seen alive again since the night of the fair. And no one knows exactly what happened to her after

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parting ways with Trina. Oh, no. Trina actually lived close enough to where the fair took place

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that she said she just intended to walk home. It would come to light, I think, quite sometime later,

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that actually she had her boyfriend come and pick her up and drive her home. I believe they said he

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was 23. Holy shit, but what's happening? Yeah. Despite her mother's concerns and the fact that some

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had argued there was a potential link to more than one repeated violent offender and even a serial

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killer, the police were insistent that Misty was a runaway. Of course they were. But as wild as all

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of that sounds, we won't get into any of it until part two. Okay, I'm good with the break. Yeah,

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you threw a lot at me here. Yeah. Can we go back to the burgers? Yeah, I know. Can we go back to

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the burgers? Can we have like some cotton candy at the fair? I'm hungry again. Yeah. We do. No, I'm not. Oh,

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man. Yeah, no, I'm not either. Yeah, totally. Yeah. I don't know what is in the water up there in

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Puyallup, but I mean, I'm sure it's not just there. No, a lot of scumbag men in the world who want to date

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little girls. Yeah. That's disgusting. And we haven't even gotten to the actual convicted

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violent sexual offenders or there's technically multiple serial killers that were active in this

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area at the time that only one of which makes a very compelling potential suspect, but oh, wow.

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So you're telling me it's unsolved and no one knows exactly what happened to her after parting

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ways with Trina. Oh, I mean, that could mean it's they know who killed her, but they don't know what

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happened or I don't know. No one knows exactly what I'm trying to think of the best possible scenario.

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Yeah, no, it's this is definitely an unsolved. The really good news is that we are going to get to

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talk about a couple of other solved cases. Okay. You are not going to like any of them. Like either way,

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I'm not going to like any of it. So no, I mean, the more bad people put away, I guess it's best, but

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yeah, none of it's good. It's not great. That's for sure. You ready to do some tarot? I'm like, can we do

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something else? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she would very much like that. Let's do some Tiro. Okay.

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Wow, that sounds it's very. I had a coffee and a match up today. Yeah, you're out of control.

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I'm going to flip to a page and see if it's the card we've all. Oh my gosh, no pressure or anything.

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No pressure. It's just like if it works, it works. It doesn't. Who cares? It's just going to be an

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interesting little test. Okay, testies here. You want a shuffle? Yeah, I do.

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Power power is in the deck. Okay.

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Right from the middle. Wow. I always do. What is it? Oh, God. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it's a dead bird.

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I'm assuming the three of swords. Oh, the three of swords. That makes sense.

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It's a dead birdy We'll look up the bird, but it's got a bunch of rose petals around it. Let's see

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what page I turned. Oh, I was way off. I was on the Queen of Pentacles. Yeah, you never know.

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Basically the same. It's a beaver. It would be. I figured the beaver. I'm going to read the

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keywords. Keywords are okay. Well, pretty much what you would expect. Suffering, heartache, regret,

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grieving, sorrow and loss. I have trauma and betrayal on here too, as well. Great. I don't know if you

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said either of those. Nope. Okay. Glad we had those to add to the batch. Trauma all around the town.

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Yeah, trauma. That's, yeah, it's an interesting one. Oh, boy. Do you want another bird? Yeah. Western

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Tanager. Tanager. Tanager. I don't know. I'm going to have to look that up. I have no idea.

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Yeah, like if I had honestly, that looks like someone, like those funny videos where they show

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people googling stuff spelled really terribly wrong. We did a lot of googling in this episode. We did.

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That's funny. It looks like somebody trying to Google teenager, but like horribly wrong, almost

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the way this is spelled. I don't know. Yeah, that's weird. Just looking at this heart with three

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swords piercing it is painful. And honestly, just to look at that one, it's painful.

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Birdy. One of the saddest cards in the tarot. It symbolizes deep emotional pain, heartbreak,

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and a real or perceived tragedy. You may not manage to avoid the suffering indicated by the three

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of swords. However, the card advises separating true grief from self-pity. The upright three

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signifies separation, severing a connection to something or someone you love.

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You feel isolated and cut off from something you found meaningful. A way of life, your home and

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family, a philosophy, pursuit, or job. It's like literally what you're talking about with people

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that went to the camps. Something in your life has died. Oh, yep. Yeah.

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Usually because it has lost its meaning or run its course and you need to let it go.

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There's an extra excerpt. Okay. The soul is a diamond in the rough, which must abide the

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blows inflicted by suffering in order to shine in all its brilliance. In a reading about money,

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the upright three represents losses due to relying on your rational mind or your emotions alone.

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You need to use both to avoid problems. Sometimes it suggests someone you trusted has with

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drawn support or you're grieving the loss of better times. If the reading is about your work,

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this card can mean losing a job you loved or you feel isolated and unhappy in your job.

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Maybe you regret an unwise business decision or you're thwarted, unable to do the work you enjoy.

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Try to see this as a sign. It's time for a change.

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In a reading about love, the upright three can represent a split with a partner or at least a

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sense of separation and despair. If the relationship is worth salvaging, heal the gap with compassion

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and understanding. In some cases, this card says it's time to move on.

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Wow. I mean, there was a lot there. Yeah, that's crazy.

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You've got the book out like you want to read a part of it. I mean, yeah, I can read this.

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I want to read the little interpretation. Yeah. Tanager. That's how we're going to go with it.

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Yep. We don't know. The Tanager, saying as he world through the sky, the sun shown on his back,

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causing his already bright plumage to iridesse, iridesse, iridesse, to iridesse into a million

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glowing hues of gold, red and violet. His heartbeat in a rapid tempo of elation as he dove

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toward the ground and spiraled back in an updraft. Spiral back on an updraft, not an updraft,

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but something. Yeah. As he flitted around the trees and buildings, his eye caught a gleam of gold.

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A light as bright as pure as perfectly suited to him as his own reflection.

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With each momentary glimpse, the songbird adjusted his course toward the gleaming light

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until he was flying straight towards it. Don't fly towards the light. You know,

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the glimmers of gold opened up into silver's reds, violets, and pure white as he darted toward the

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light. It consumed his field of vision as he approached and he opened his wings to meet it,

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to be welcomed into its embrace. The moment of impact came too fast, even to be a shock.

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And the light faded into darkness. Got, I literally cannot fucking duck. In the light faded to

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darkness before the teenager hit the ground. Wow. Okay. It kind of like when it was talking about

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all the colors and like the flying around, it like was like fair vibes. Yeah. Like they're having

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the time of their lives and then all of a sudden like, yeah, definitely like in that first part of

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the excerpt, it's like a very, you know, it's like this exalted portrait of like that taste of freedom

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and fun. The part that's a little bit strange to me is that there are some additional references to

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specific colors that we'll talk about in part two that even as I'm saying that there were things

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I hadn't remembered that now are coming up like okay. Wow. The whole like color thing is interesting

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too because we were literally talking about this Google sign and I was like, oh, look at all the

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different colors that are in it. And I'm like, should we take like get a bunch of different colored

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crystals that kind of like go with it? Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's interesting. I have to tell I'm going

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to do it offline, but I have to tell you there's there's something that's really actually kind of

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freaky about some of the color, some of the like symbolic or I would say more so some of the imagery

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and how it ties into kind of these minute details of part two. Oh boy. Yeah. Oh, that's

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it's actually kind of it's freaky me out. It's super interesting too how like the bird was blinded

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by the sun and it like couldn't see what was coming. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure. Yeah. I mean, I hope she

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didn't like see what was coming, you know. Yeah. Whatever that was. Yeah. I mean, none of it

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is likely to have been good. Unfortunately. Well, this is sad. I feel like we have had like a really

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sad one in a while. I mean, we've had like sad ones, but I don't know. Yeah. This one was pretty heavy.

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Yeah. I guess the last one we did do was heavy. I'm just blocking them out. Yeah. Yeah. Last one kind

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of personal. Yeah. This one is just very fresh. So it's yeah. Yeah. No. Good Lord. Should we go

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have a sleepover? Yeah. Slumber party. Yeah. Yeah. And we get to go chat with Caitlin. Yeah. Yeah.

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I got to Caitlin. Oh, let's face it. Most people can barely handle the one. Technically, I have three.

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That's true. Oh my god. Swimming and Caitlin. I'm a Caitlin collector. If you are a Caitlin,

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slide into my DMs and I will collect you. Oh boy. Okay. On that note.

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Are we going to say our thing? Yeah. Let's do a cap.

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Have a creepy ass day. See you next Tuesday.

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For part two on Tuesday. Unless you're a Caitlin, because then she'll see you soon.

446
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Okay. I've got a couple of pronunciations that I'm going to have to look up. What? Yeah.

447
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Caitlin, you didn't do this beforehand. I did for some of them and then some of them I was like,

448
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I'm going to have to hear it right before I say it. You know, I'm like obviously kidding,

449
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because of what happened with Ireland. What happened with Ireland? I know I'm kidding because of what

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happened with Ireland. Doesn't that make us sound like kind of cool? Yeah it does. We pissed off Ireland

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and do all. You can piss off all of Ireland. Pnwhauntsandhomicides.com