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This is 10-minute murder. Welcome to the brief and bingeable true crime podcast, 10-minute murder.

I'm Joe, the host, and thank you for being here.

And thanks to everyone that checked on me from the last episode.

I did that episode while we were under severe weather warnings with heavy rain and thunder,

which it turns out you couldn't hear at all through my microphone. I felt like in the moment it was really loud, and it would add to the spookiness and the ambiance of the whole thing, but you couldn't hear it at all. But I'm 100% okay, and I appreciate your concern. Now, as I mentioned before, I think it's important that I keep these episodes to as close to 10 minutes as I can.

That's why the show is called 10-minute murder.

Now, on occasion, I can get the interesting and important information in in just under 10 minutes.

And on the rare occasion that that happens, I don't add filler to it like I would with the college essay with the page minimum.

I just let it be what it is. Most of the time,, I go over just a little bit and that's okay too. Even more

rare, I throw the made-up rules completely away and do a much longer episode. If I feel like

there's more that I want to let you know or the story is just too interesting to cram into a 10-minute

long bag, I'll go

longer. And surprise, this is one of those episodes. A listener named Gina sent me a message on

Instagram and asked if I'd ever considered doing an episode on Gary Ridgeway. And I have,

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