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Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

So on December 16, 2004, Becky Harper made a call to 911.

It was just after checking in on her 23-year-old daughter,

Bobby Joe. So Bobby Joe, who was eight months pregnant, was lying on the floor in her home and something was horribly wrong. Paramedics raced to the scene where they found Bobby Joe dead with devastating

injuries to her abdomen. So Bobby

Joe had been brutally killed and her unborn baby was missing. In today's episode, A Life for a Life,

we'll discuss this case as well as a couple of similar cases and the phenomenon of fetal abductions.

Investigators found no signs of forced entry into

Bobby Joe's home, which suggested that she may have known her killer. An Amber alert was put out for the

baby as detectives canvassed the neighborhood. They did find one witness who reported seeing an

unfamiliar car parked out front, investigators would learn that

Bobby Joe's murder was premeditated, and the motive was the abduction of Bobby Joe's baby.

So efforts to find the baby and solve this murder would lead investigators to a very twisted

plot and a predator who many people wouldn't have expected. So today's beer is the sixth

glass quadruple ale brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City. This is a quad. It's a 10.2%

alcohol by volume. These are pretty hefty beers, very filling. It's a dark amber color, thick, sticky, tan head,

has a nice aroma, kind of dark fruit, bread, molasses. It tastes a little bit like raisin bread

molasses, a little spice late, very full-bodied, and alcohol's hidden pretty well. So be careful

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