Today's episode is a fan favorite. The audio and the story has been remastered for today's episode.

On a summer morning in 2001, a woman in Alabama woke up in a cold sweat, like she just had a

nightmare. But the woman knew what she saw while she was sleeping was not a bad dream. It was real.

So she grabbed her phone and made a frantic call. Later that morning, police arrived

at an old wooden house on the outskirts of a small rural town. They stepped inside and they were

absolutely shocked because the woman really had led them to a horrifying crime scene.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do,

and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.

So, if that's of interest to you, please go to the Follow Button's Medicine Cabinet

and replace everything with laxatives.

Okay, let's get into today's story. The On the afternoon of June 19, 2001,

44-year-old Debbie Triplett and her husband Billy were stocking shelves in the small country grocery store that they owned in Clay County, Alabama.

Billy and Debbie had run the store together for almost

20 years, and they had stocking shelves down to a science. They barely even had to look while they were

doing it. So today, like most days, they spent the time talking and joking with each other. For as long

as they'd been doing this, Billy and Debbie never got bored working at the store together.

In fact, they didn't understand how anyone would get bored working with the person they loved.

Because the two of them had been pretty much inseparable from the moment they met back in 1982.

At the time, Billy, who was eight years older than Debbie, already owned the grocery store.

But he'd been having trouble running it by himself.

So when Debbie came in looking for her job, he'd hired her right away.

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