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Today we head back to Reynum, Massachusetts for Part 2, where we'll find out the conclusion of Mary Lou LaRuda. Welcome to Small Town Murder.

Hello everybody and welcome back to Small Town Murder. Oh yeah, oh yeah, here we are again. Thank you guys so much for joining us this week. Hope you've enjoyed it so far.

Thank you guys so much for listening and caring.

Thank you for listening, thank you for enjoying, thank you for reviewing. Keep that shit up, keep us on the charts.

Thank you guys so much today. It's been awesome. It has been awesome and I would like to make a slight disclaimer before we start. I would like to do this.

I mean, this honestly, everybody out there, if you're listening right now, we are comedians, okay, with says in the description, this is a comedy podcast. We are comedians. We take it seriously. I do so much research, I take this research seriously.

We're not throwing fucking insane. We're not throwing willy-nilly facts out there, but we're not journalists. If we do get something wrong, we apologize and we're sorry. And most of all, we make jokes. There's jokes through this.

We never, ever, ever in a million years intend to insult or denigrate the victim or their families. So if you're getting that out of this, you're completely listening wrong.

Because we go out of our way to make sure to not do that and not to not be offensive because it's not right to us. We don't feel good doing that. And we wouldn't feel good doing that.

Because we both have families, we both have children, we both give a shit about people and we don't want any of them to get hurt either. No. The fact is these fucking things happen. It happens. And there are facts that go along with it that when you piece them together, sometimes they're fucking funny.

And we make it. And it's not the victim we make fun of. Sometimes we make fun of the town a little bit. And that's just all in good fun. Most of the time we're making fun of incompetent people around the case. And most of all, the perpetrator who guess what? We can't do anything else to the guy.

He fucking deserves it. Deserve everything we get. We have our barbs are humor and that's all we can give. So that's what we give the person. And also too, we want it to be a little more.

These are morose crimes. A lot of them. They're depressing. All that. I don't want to listen to a voice.

I'm just throwing on about it and tell me and you know, then he murdered. I don't want to hear that. And it's hard to try to bring a little levity to the situation. It's hard to watch 24 hours or 48 hours or whatever those fucking shows are and listen to Keith Morrison, who's a legit, a legit journalist. And he's trying to make some sort of levity in it. And it's, yeah, it's just almost insulting. It's like stick to the fucking facts, Keith. Yes, but we're not journalists. Right. And we are comedians. Like I said, so guys, I just want to tell you if you do like the show, if you're enjoying the show, if you're interested in it, if you haven't opened my mind,

to having some humor in your true crime, thank you. Welcome aboard. We'd love to have you to if you do not think that comedy belongs in true crime at all, turn it off. I got no problem with that.

And then you're not going to enjoy it. It's not for us. You're not going to enjoy it. And we're not going to enjoy you getting offended by it. So take that and go take that with it, which you will. But everyone who is listening, we love you guys. Thank you. Take that and go. That's it.

Take it and go. If you enjoy it and you've enjoyed the past ones, stick around because we're going to have fun and we're going to work hard for you. We're going to have fun though. God damn it. We are going to make this shitty, shitty crime. A lot more power. We're going to try. We're really going to try. We're going to try to make it funny. We're going to try to make it entertaining. And we're also going to try to give you the best information we possibly can.

So let's wrap this up on the edge of my seat. What happened to her? Let's get into this here. Last we left off. Mary Lou Aruda was missing. She was kidnapped on September or going missing on September 8, 1978, around 4 p.m.

The guy who was on the street, he was a green Dodge Opel with a racing striping guy with early hair and glasses flying around somewhere. We had just found our main suspect. Mary Lou is still missing. She's not been found. Police search for her. We just found the main suspect. If you remember, the police were when we ended up, he had just given his alibi, which was we'll get into here about his.

We'll check out discrepancies there in a minute. We just got into his car where there was the car described by the witnesses that they had seen in the area. And also he had some incriminating things like Benson and hedges cigarettes.

Those are the same brand found on the road right by where she was abducted. They found the tire prints are very distinctive to that car because of a bearing problem in the wheel.

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