Hey, everyone is Jen.

And this is Lindsay.

And this is Corpus DeLicti.

Y'all are so lucky.

We are doing a bonus episode.

Yeah, we are, well, we're experiencing more free time on our hands because neither of us are having to

commute to and from work. There's no sports practices, no nothing, as you guys are well aware.

So we said for our own sanity and y'alls, let's see if we can do some extra episodes. So here we are.

So while you're sitting at home quarantined, whether it's self-imposed or somebody told you you have to because you tested

positive for whatever it is you have, sit back and listen because we have one of the best

locked room mysteries for you. Now, locked room mysteries, they are

brain teasers that amateur sleuths love to try to solve, which includes some unsolvable

and impossible crimes. They appear in a lot of the crime shows, books, and even some escape

rooms nowadays. So we're talking Edgar Allan Pope.

We're talking Hardy Boys while the clock ticked.

So these involve a crime that occurred in a space where no one could have allegedly come in and committed the crime.

So like Jen said, you see them in a lot of fiction TV shows and books and stuff like that.

So while they seem like something that's used most often in fiction, today's story is actually

one of the earliest real life locked room mysteries. So that's pretty fascinating. So our story starts

on March 9th of 1929 and Lockland Smith was at home

settling in for the evening. Around 10.30 p.m. she heard what sounded like sounds of a struggle.

There were screams and the sound of blows. Now it's important to distinguish here that these were blows meaning blows to the head, blows to the stomach, blows. Now, it's important to distinguish here that these were blows, meaning

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