Hey guys, welcome to episode 179. It's a true crime couple podcast. I'm Kay.

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John, do you want to hear something crazy?

Of course. John, do you want to hear something crazy?

Of course.

On August 3rd, 2013, 17-year-old Alexis Murphy

was only weeks away from starting her senior year at Nelson County High School.

The beginning of the school year also meant the starting of the volleyball season.

Alexis's senior year was going to be her best yet. She was the school

star player and she'd been looking forward to practicing and winning games with her

teammates to whom she had grown close with over the years of them

playing together. But unfortunately later that month there would be an empty

desk in each of Alexis's classrooms,

and the volleyball team would be forced to practice and play without the glue that held them together so well,

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