Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all- new episode of Serialessly with me, Annie Elise. Today is headline highlights, which means we're going through all the breaking cases, all the news, everything happening in the true crime world.

But really quickly, before I get into all of the cases that we're going to be talking about today,

I just want to talk about the fires that are happening right now in California.

Because one of the biggest and the most prominent headlines in the news right now are, of course, the wildfires.

And these fires have caused

so much destruction so much heartbreak really all across the LA area. I personally live in California.

Luckily I am a little bit further south from where these fires have, you know, broken out and

just taken so much. But I have friends who have lost their

homes, who have lost their family members' homes, tons of friends who have been evacuated and

have had to flee. And it's just, it's really devastating. And it's insane when you really

think about the amount of destruction. And I could be here all day long and going on a rant about the fact that we didn't have water in the hydrants, the fact that certain people are evading questions and everything into it. But I just feel like there's so much I could say, but if you're one of my listeners who has been

affected by these fires, I just want you to know my heart is with you. I am so sorry for everything

that you're going through. This has been incredibly devastating. I know not just for people in

California, but really for everybody who is watching this as it's unfolding because they're still not fully contained yet.

Yes, some of them have been, but not the major ones.

So what I want to do today, before I get into the headlines, is kind of just give you like

top side information about these fires.

I'm not going to go into all of the nitty gritty, but I just want to like level set a little bit of

what's been going on because social media,

of course, always portray something as one thing, right? And one of the biggest things I'm seeing

right now is, you know, who cares? It's the celebrities. It's millionaires. They can rebuild. And I

just kind of want to remind people that that's not really true. I mean, the land is valued at one thing,

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