Episode 224: Anna Marie Emry

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On August 13th, 1994, a 9-year-old little girl is snatched from her bed in the middle of the night. Hundreds of volunteers sweep the cornfields of Brighton, Iowa, desperate to locate the little girl. Local law enforcement exhaust their every resource to find her: canine units, helicopters, off-road vehicles, over 500 missing child posters, internet forums, and more. But no matter how hard they look, investigators only discover one clue: a screen door that was removed from its tracks and placed outside the house where the little girl was sleeping. After five days of searching with nothing to show for it, the little girl’s family, the police, and local residents are losing hope. Until, suddenly, the very same man who installed the dismantled screen door confesses. In episode 224, Jac and Alexis explain how Lary Lane Morgan shattered his friends’ trust and destroyed the safety of an entire community when he kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered Anna Marie Emry.

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	First degree.
0:10.0	The first degree.
0:12.0	Get on the news.
0:14.0	Get on the K-3.
0:16.0	Get on the Facebook.
0:18.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:22.0	I think I was just in my mind like,
0:26.0	she's got to be out there and they've got to find her, you know, any, any minute.
0:28.0	Now, they're going to find her.
0:30.0	She's probably just was outside playing and I've done that before.
0:34.0	I've gone on, you know,
0:36.0	little walks or chasing a cat or something like that.
0:40.0	Like, they've got to find her.
0:42.0	They'll find her.
0:44.0	And I think it was, again, no one knew anything.
0:48.0	It was more like the slow girl's missing.
0:50.0	We got to find this little girl.
0:52.0	Welcome to the first degree.
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