Okay, Jessie. Last week's Hampton murder was just in time for summer. What are we doing this week?

When a rookie FBI agent gets involved with a small Kentucky cold-town girl

while busting bank robbers and drug rings, it spells disaster for all involved.

I'm Andy Kassette, and I'm Jessie Prey, and this is Love Murder.

Hey, Andy. Hey, Jessie. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about awful affairs,

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have embraced the sticker. Okay, Andy, we have a really compelling story this week. I used

above suspicion by Joe Sharkey. It was incredibly written. He's the same one who wrote the source

material for our John List episode. I thought that name sounded familiar. Yeah. Yeah, he has a third one

too that I'm going to look to see if it can fit in the Love Murder milieu because he's an incredible

writer who interviews literally hundreds, if not thousands of people, to get like the deepest,

dankest details of the story, dankest, dankest. Without further ado, let's jump right into this week.

It was a drizzly, dark winter day as an olds mobile,

careen through hairpin turns on narrow mountain roads in the hills of rural Kentucky.

It was February of 1987, and the car contained a small and beautiful family on their way to a new life

and opportunity. Patriarch Mark was tall, dark, and handsome, a former college athlete who maintained

his physique with a meticulous commitment to working out. His wife Kathy was six months younger than

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