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Darkness - Episode 7: Fifteen Years | The Orange Tree

<p>Laura Hall seeks to move on after her release from prison ... and she has a lot to say. Colton Pitonyak remains in a West Texas prison as his parents hold onto hope that he’ll someday return to Arkansas. Sharon and Jim continue to fight on Jennifer Cave’s behalf, and they also fight for strangers who find themselves in tragic and traumatic situations. Fifteen years later, the wounds have not healed.</p>

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Episode 7: Fifteen Years | The Orange Tree

Hi, I'm Haley Butler and I'm to New Thomas.

For over a year, we've kept sensitivity in mind when working on this story.

However, what you're about to hear contains strong language, drug and alcohol abuse, and

descriptions of physical violence that are gruesome in nature.

Some listeners might find this distressing.

If that's you, please take caution as we navigate the story about the life and death

In April of 2013, Eddie Patonia Cairns' private investigator Eddie Frankham.

Private investigator Frankham knows that Laura has a history of oversharing sensitive information

So he pays a visit to the RV park that our parents own to try and collect affidavits from neighbors

that Laura might have talked to about the case.

The neighbor he interviews says that in the summer of 2009, Laura told him, quote,

After she gets arrested, she's threatening the DA, talking horrible about Jennifer, about

her family, you know, just everybody involved and just keeps on, keeps on, keeps on, you

The mutilation in several is just like, it was like anger.

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	You're listening to The Drag.
0:08.3	Hi, I'm Haley Butler and I'm to New Thomas.
0:12.0	For over a year, we've kept sensitivity in mind when working on this story.
0:16.7	However, what you're about to hear contains strong language, drug and alcohol abuse, and
0:22.4	descriptions of physical violence that are gruesome in nature.
0:26.3	Some listeners might find this distressing.
0:29.1	If that's you, please take caution as we navigate the story about the life and death
0:33.3	of Jennifer Cave.
0:36.6	Previously on The Orange Tree.
0:39.0	In April of 2013, Eddie Patonia Cairns' private investigator Eddie Frankham.
0:44.2	Private investigator Frankham knows that Laura has a history of oversharing sensitive information
0:49.2	with those around her.
0:50.5	So he pays a visit to the RV park that our parents own to try and collect affidavits from neighbors
0:55.1	that Laura might have talked to about the case.
0:57.6	The neighbor he interviews says that in the summer of 2009, Laura told him, quote,
1:03.0	I capped that fucking core.
1:05.3	You have Laura.
1:06.3	After she gets arrested, she's threatening the DA, talking horrible about Jennifer, about
1:10.2	her family, you know, just everybody involved and just keeps on, keeps on, keeps on, you
1:14.9	know.
1:15.9	Like I said, it's not one big piece.
1:18.0	The mutilation in several is just like, it was like anger.
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