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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts. It was a freeze. It was a freezing. It was a freezing night in January of 2018.

A car pulled over on a quiet stretch of road in northeastern Vermont.

Inside was Jerry Banks, a jail guard.

He put the car in park and took a deep breath.

Then he picked up his phone.

He'd been preparing for this night for months.

A neighbor of his back in Nevada,

a man named Aaron Etheridge, had come to him with a job.

Banks did a reconnaissance mission and figured it was going to be more complicated than he

thought, so he upped his fee.

And now here he was.

Banks pulled a ski mask with a U.S. Marshal's insignia on it down over his face,

then turned on police lights on the dashboard of his white Ford

Explorer and drove a short distance down the road to the house of Greg Davis.

The day after Davis's body was found, a state trooper was on patrol just outside Alma,

Kansas when he noticed a vehicle stray from its lane.

He turned on his lights and pulled it over,

a white Ford Explorer.

It was a little after 2 p.m. on an overcast winter day.

As the trooper approached the vehicle, he noticed the back seat was folded down and a mattress

spread over the back of the car.

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