Check Mate: The Murder of Bill Stout

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The longest tournament chess match ever recorded happened in Belgrade in 1989. It lasted 269 moves and took over 20 hours to complete. Strategy can take time. Some killers lash out in the heat of passion, but others take their time. They may want to toy with their victim for a while first, ratcheting up the torment bit by bit until finally it’s time to pounce. Or they may be biding their time to make sure every game piece is perfectly placed before they make their final move. Whatever the reasons, sometimes murder is a long game. Sometimes all this strategizing pays off, and the killers walk away free. But other times, a player might be supremely confident that she’s made all the right moves, but overlook something crucial and end up losing big. Join us for a bizarre story of stalking and murder.

Sources:
https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/stout-anne.htm#:~:text=Supreme%20Court%20upholds%20Stout%20murder%20conviction&text=Stout%20was%20convicted%20following%20a,term%20later%20that%20same%20year.
https://missoulian.com/news/local/darby-woman-charged-with-murder-takes-the-stand/article_1f5286ef-913f-5969-ba4a-7a0763ccc66d.html
NBC's "Dateline," Episode "The Box"
Oxygen's "Snapped," Episode "Anne Stout"

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0:00.0	Hello campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.2	Wear your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a
0:09.2	true story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and
0:13.0	marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:21.1	The longest tournament chess match ever recorded happened in Belgrade in 1989.
0:26.2	It lasted 269 moves and took over 20 hours to complete. Strategy can take time.
0:32.7	Some killers lash out in the heat of passion, but others take their time. They
0:37.8	may want to toy with their victim for a while first, ratcheting up the
0:41.0	torment bit by bit until finally it's time to pounce. Or they may be biting
0:45.9	their time to make sure every game piece is perfectly placed before they make
0:49.6	their final move. Whatever the reasons, sometimes murder is a long game.
0:53.8	Sometimes all the strategizing pays off and the killers walk away free. But
0:58.5	other times, a player might be supremely confident that she's made all the right
1:02.2	moves, but overlook something crucial and end up losing big. This is Checkmate,
1:07.1	the murder of Bill Stout.
1:23.8	So campers we're in rural Montana, June the 10th, 2007. It's 4.30 in the
1:32.7	afternoon when a 911 call came into the local dispatch from a rural area
1:36.8	outside Darby. The caller was a 42-year-old woman named Anne Stout. She was
1:42.2	crying. She said, I just got home and there's something wrong with my husband.
1:45.6	His eyes are open and there's blood and his eyes are all bruised and he's
1:48.6	cold. She'd been out shopping all day in
1:51.6	Missoula with one of her two teenage sons and they'd just gotten home and she'd
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