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Good morning and thanks for joining me for Rise in Crime. Your morning caffeine hit,

All About Crime. I'm Mama Jules and we have four cases today. A father unexpectedly shoots his

son and then himself in a rural airport in Nevada.

And we've got a man claiming to have founded Earth Day. Instead, he killed his girlfriend and locked

her in a trunk. And then we've got an animal story about sloths. And it doesn't end well.

And finally, a short update to the missing and dead scientists involved in the aerospace

industry.

And spoiler alert, there are more dead under mysterious circumstances.

So let's get into it.

Now, one thing is consistent about the stories I cover on this podcast. It is rare that a murder

story didn't have another option. And what I mean by that is, if you're Lori Daybell, just leave.

Give your kids to someone and run away to Hawaii with your weirdo prophet boyfriend slash hubby.

And then there's other cases. Let's go old school. If you're Casey Anthony, let's someone

adopt your kid. Or if we go more recent, like the absurdly sad story out of Shreveport,

Louisiana that I covered in the last episode where Shemar killed

eight kids. Well, Shemar knew he was breaking. So, I mean, a good option would be somebody

stepping in and taking his guns or better yet, Shemar forfeiting his guns. And maybe one story

where there potentially wasn't an option was the father,

Aaron Spencer, who shot his daughter's abuser and kidnapper, but those ones are kind of rare.

There seems to almost always be some sort of other option. And, you know, I might have people disagreeing with me. I bet I have

people listening who would say even Aaron Spencer had another option. But with that as a basis,

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