True Crime for the Short on Time: Murder in Amish Country

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to check the locks presents true crime for the short on time as always.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm John Connor.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Olivia Courtney.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Same thing for joining us this week as we dive in to yet another truly terrifying bite size true crime case.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get started, I was Olivia my friend, my buddy, my co-host, how you doing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: How do we ban which went up to?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My week's just really kind of getting started.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got a vacation coming up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I got a lot of work to do between now and then.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, I'm kind of tired today, but I'm here making it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Pump day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How are you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, babe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you've seen me since I have jumped out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I look crazy today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went to bed at two in the morning last night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got up at six.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm currently drinking beer while I were recording the podcast and I'm delirious.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's wild.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, all of them do great.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's wild enough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I told Olivia, I was like, I'm running on alcohol and like exhaustion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just like, I'm going to make it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're listening to this, just remember, John just started drinking beer again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I'm going fucking ball to the wall.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He has about one three times a week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got my little summer candy and my super manly beer, but it's a tall boy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's a big handsome big candy got there and began.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we doing drinking forties don't get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm like first I'm going to drink this sixteen ounce can and then I'm going to have a forty ounce of old English because I used to okay straight up a little confession time I used to love forties.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would drink forties of old English and I would drink forties of Miller High Life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love knowing my life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We could have been friends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I can't drink anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It does something to my stomach.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is like, ungodly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just messes me up beyond belief.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, you should get two of those for like four dollars and have a heck of a night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, you know, it's, can I give you a fun fact?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I have a four day in my refrigerator or something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, of something maybe called, is there a fosters?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Foster is the attempt or is that Italian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Australian Fibia.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I have a four day of that in my refrigerator.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when my parents come, my dad likes to drink beer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He does not drink fosters, which is why I'm so confused as wise as to why it is in my refrigerator.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you ain't see out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a big forty game of fosters.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We used to do something on Sunday night with a big off sweet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but that's new forties and buy cats and see how well that got every so much fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we used to do before Millie was born and we liked a party.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We would do an Easter beer hunt every year instead of an Easter egg hunt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so like we had a giant backyard at the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we would hide like sixty beers in the backyard, but the golden egg was the big giant can of fosters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that would be hidden somewhere, so whoever found that got the prize.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But we'd start at like ten a.m.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So by two thirty three o'clock, like everybody was just smashed playing cornhole.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just like done for the day at two o'clock.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, my dad doesn't drink faster.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was just like, why'd you buy this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like he was like, well, I just wanted like, you know, a forty, you know, two forties for the weekend or something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, okay, he's, that's the best they had.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just remember being, you know, I didn't start drinking until I was nineteen, which is under, you know, the eight, but my most of my friends at high school drank stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I started a little late, but I just remember being like, your super broke is a teenager, you know, the young twenties, but you could get five, six bucks together, get a couple of forties and you were good for the whole night, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I had a shout out to my friend Mark who I can my birthday party.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You probably met him, but we used to drink Southern Comfort in Mountain Dew.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My mom used to do Southern Comfort in Strawberry Icees.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, see, none of that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess, you know, I can't smell Southern Comfort now that I want to get sick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, I just remember back in the day, just being it didn't taste good, but he only drank Mountain Dew, so that's all he had.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was just, yeah, it was gross.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, so that we're do railing on like we're a bunch of drinkers here, and even one of us hardly drink.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll come up with my only true crime back when I used to underage drink.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, you're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I all that to say, it's been an interesting day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad to be here with you and have my little manly beer, my little Bruce Gubier and get to hang out with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And cover story this week is my week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I have to tell you, I'm super excited to go over this with you because

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one, I have never heard of it, even though it made national news.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And number two, it's in a community that we really don't talk about very much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we haven't really, this might be the first time we've actually delved into anything happening in this type of community.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I am super excited to jump into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you say?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Should we just break it down and get into this week's case?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm saying I'm excited to get into this kind of community because I used to love living by set the community.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, they make a great fireplaces I've heard and big.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, let's just get started to everyone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's talk about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For this week's short on time, we're going to the quiet farmlands of Sparta Township, Pennsylvania.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Deep in homage country.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the morning of February, twenty-six, twenty-twenty-four, and twenty-three-year-old Rebecca Byler was doing what she did most mornings, caring for two young children and tending to the family's laundry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her husband, twenty-four-year-old Andy Byler, was getting ready to head out for the day to check out a few roofing jobs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As in tradition in their community, Andy used what's called an Amish Taxi Service.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now this is a paid driver who transports those who do to religious beliefs don't operate her own cars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At around ADM, Andy kissed his pregnant wife goodbye and left her at home with their two-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But what he didn't know was that he had just said goodbye to his wife for the last time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just after twelve p.m.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Andy returned home, and as he stepped inside, something felt wrong.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On the floor near the entryway, they were Becca's cat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her traditional head covering, something that she'd never leave behind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then, as he moves through the house, his worst nightmare became a reality.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rebecca was there, lying in a pool of blood, her body already cold.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her throat had been slashed, and she had also been shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Their two children were still inside the home, alive, but traumatized.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Andy's driver, Julie Warner, quickly called nine-one-one, and police arrived and began processing the scene.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Inside, they found a Nike Air Force One-style shoe print, a torn piece of a latex glove, and tire tracks in the driveway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When investigators questioned Andy, he had mentioned something strange.

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[SPEAKER_01]: About two weeks earlier, a bald white man dressed in black with a pistol on his hip had shown up on their property late at night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The man was wandering around the property seemingly scoping things out, and when Andy confronted him, he asked if the home was for sale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Later, Andy's three-year-old son would tell detectives that a man wearing a green hat had come into the home and heard his mother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Police also interviewed family members who lived nearby, and they were called seeing a red jeep circling the area that morning around ten a.m.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That vehicle would lead police to fifty-two-year-old Sean Cranston, a truck driver and former Amish taxi driver who's red jeep had been spotted in the area several times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The least would execute a search warrant at Cranson's home, and what they found was Dammy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A pair of Nike's matching the shoe print from the scene, the same brand of latex gloves used in the crime, and most critically, Cranson's DNA on the torn glove recovered from the biler home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The tire impressions in the driveway were also a match to his vehicle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cranson was arrested and charged with homicide for the deaths of both Rebecca and her unborn child.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was also charged with burglary and criminal trespassing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, his attorney would argue that the case was circumstantial.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there was no murder weapon and no clear motive, but Judge Amy Nichols wasn't buying it and she ruled that the evidence was strong enough to proceed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At trial prosecutors laid out their theory that Cranson had been casing the home for a burglary, and when Rebecca encountered him that morning, it turned deadly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The jury agreed, and on July twenty-eight twenty-five, the now fifty-three-year-old Sean Cranson was found guilty on all counts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was sentenced to two life terms, one for the death of Rebecca, and one for the death of her unborn child.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now obviously, this sentence won't bring Rebecca back, but for her husband, her children, and her community, hopefully it's a step towards healing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's this week's case Olivia.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?

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[SPEAKER_01]: As always, where's your head at?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, in this case is wild.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, I feel like the Amish community probably mostly leaves people alone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure within their community, they have their own issues and their own predators and things happening with any other culture there, you know?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they deal with their own.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if you're an outsider, why leave them alone?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just leave them alone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They live on their land.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They mind their business.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're already, you know, not super wealthy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they make good money.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But like, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they already have limited things.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I just leave them alone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What is he looking for?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What was?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What did he need to burglarize them for?

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[SPEAKER_02]: And she was obviously pregnant.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So unless there's something about him that we don't know about where he's just kind of a creeper and he'd been creeping on her and he has somewhere fantasy fetish thing with like women and unborn children, but I just don't get what his motive was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess I just have too many answered questions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, everything that I found in the research and this case I will say and I don't know if it is because it is the Amish community and they play everything so close to the best like they're like

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[SPEAKER_01]: very well known for being like we purposely isolate ourselves from the rest of society, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we handle our own, we deal with our own, you know, conflicts, the way that that we do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know if that is why, but if you are someone who likes to look at the articles that we use for research and stuff like this, this episode has probably more links in it than

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[SPEAKER_01]: Any episode we've done, just to be honest with you, but all of the links say roughly the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where I was just like, man, it's really hard to get most cases that we do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can kind of keep digging and find extra details.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like this was very much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is all the information that you get.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, in one article,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It did say that a woman who claimed to be this guy's stepdaughter was saying that his grandchild had been adopted by someone in this Amish community and that he was wanting to get his grandchild back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I can only find that in one article.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a quick blip where I found nothing else to substantiate it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't want to say that's what the motive was or something behind it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the general consensus and everything that I've read is that this was just he was looking for somebody to rob.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if it's, you know, because of the type of community, if he thought it would just be an easy target, just be like, you know, I'm going there and take what I want.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, these aren't the people that are going to put up much of a fight or try to stop me or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he probably wasn't expecting Rebecca to be home or the kids to be there and panicked and

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, by the time you figured out what he had done, it was too late.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is it kind of the vibe that I got and doing the research, but yeah, again, this is just such a, I don't want to say vulnerable because vulnerable is in the right word, but they're.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are proud people, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we do things our way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is our community.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is how we operate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like you said, leave us be and we'll do our thing and you do yours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I just don't understand what it is about this particular group of people that he felt he had to target them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why Kranson was like, yep, this homage community is the town that I'm going to go in and try to rob a bunch of stuff from him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, especially since he was like a taxi driver for them and wouldn't help them out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so he wasn't necessarily a stranger to the community.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and I don't know if that's, you know, part of why he felt like, you know, doing the taxi driving, if that was just him doing another like, hey, I'm casing, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, kind of seeing how these people live and what their houses look like and things like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just super glad that this guy is going to be behind bars, like forever at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's he's not getting out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, these stories are always sad, but especially when it's like an unborn child, you know, and somebody who is excited, you know, I mean to be a parent and to bring this baby in the world, and then that's just stolen from you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, it's like, we just really sad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm glad that this was a case where, like, we know for sure he's being held accountable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's always for these kind of cases.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Always makes me feel good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree with all of that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's if I'm thinking about the deadbolt test.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think what makes it higher.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like there's some sort of, there's got to be some sort of connection or something to this particular family.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I almost wonder if

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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he did work for him or something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just speculating.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But having an unborn baby makes me want to put it higher.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think we'll put it out of seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to probably put it up around an eight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the reason I would probably put it as high as I would is just the fact that like your home with your kids and your community that you feel is safe, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you're just home doing your normal thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then all of a sudden there's some stranger in your house with a gun and a knife.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, and then to think that your kids are in the house when that happens, you know, and they have to see that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That to me, that's terrifying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would definitely put it in an eight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's got you putting it in a seven?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What, what elements are you thinking?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the unborn baby makes it higher for me, but I think I don't feel like this is just like a random act of murder.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like there's more to the story.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like he knows her or knows their family.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't feel like it's just a random act.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think if it was random and she was pregnant, I'd probably put it a little higher.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just putting that aside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what's crazy about when I look at the, like again, going through all the research, it's like the neighbors biler, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're all related.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's this community where it's like it seems like everyone is related in some way, and they all live close to each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so like I said, I don't know if it's just that, you know, he started doing the, the Amish Taxi thing and was like, oh, I could rip these people off easy, you know, and because where they can do catch you on your ring door bell camera,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean on their fancy security systems, it's like, you know, they don't have any of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think for me that that makes the most sense, it's just like, hey, this is a really good opportunity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can just go in and taste stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said, you know, we're talking like antiques probably pass now from generation to generation and things of that nature.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I said, I don't know if we'll ever truly know what the motive was because even in the trial that nothing came out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just, you know, your guilty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just, it's just, it's so terrifying to think you're just at home and doing your thing and then all of a sudden somebody's in your house said, that's, that's very scary to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of my, if you listen to this podcast, you know, one of my biggest fears.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's why, you know, you shower.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I shower with the curtain open in the door.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even have a shower curtain anymore.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got a glass door.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can see him coming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like to think that you like you don't have a glass door.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're just in like a free standing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ready?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ready.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Got my squeegee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that is where we fall on the Deble test.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Olivia's put it in a seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm coming in at an eight, but as always, who want to hear from you?

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