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Can you tell us what happened that night in May of 1970?

Not much that people knew about happened that night, although a neighbor, I think, did report hearing a scream.

Well, Welcome to The Knife. I'm Pasha Eaton.

I'm Hannah Smith. This week we speak with Beth Denton, who in 2009 started to look into the circumstances surrounding a murder of someone in her family.

We talk with Beth about her investigation of the crime that took place in 1970.

There are photos from Beth of her family members that we posted on our Instagram account at the Knife podcast. If you want to see pictures of the people we're talking about in

Beth's story, you can see them there. Let's get into it.

My name is Beth Dentton. My pronouns are she slash they.

Awesome. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm really looking forward to getting into this interview and hearing your story.

It is different from a lot of the pitches that we've received generally for the podcast because it has to do with your whole family. But before we get into that, can you give

us just a little bit of information about who you are and sort of where you grew up?

I'm a special education teacher. I also have a background in live

action role playing that included a lot of writing, which is sort of the context of this project

sort of happened because I had that writing background. I grew up in the South Suburges of Chicago

in Homewood. My mom actually grew up like one town over. My dad is actually from, he was born in Little Rock. He grew up in El Reno, Oklahoma, and came to the South suburbs as a teenager. Both my parents were teachers. They met sharing a classroom. It's kind of the ultimate teacher meet cute. Yeah. You know, even now my family is really close-knit. We all moved to Colorado at about the same time. My parents live

in a house about 20 minutes away from me, and my sister actually lives in the house right behind

theirs. They have a gate, so we're still a really tight family. I love that. Okay, I have to look

at El Reno. Okay. The ultimate teacher, meet cute. That's aspirational. I love that. Yeah.

He was hired first, and the first time he met her, he said, that is the tallest girl I have ever seen. Well, he hasn't met us. We're both really tall. We are. Yeah. I mean, at the time, she was six feet tall. Oh, yeah. That is tall. Yeah. That's how tall my mom is, too. Yeah. She used to claim to be six feet, but I think technically she was like

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