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One day in mid-December 2003, Detective Mark Kelly walked into a small kitchen inside of a home

in Fort Worth, Texas. The house belonged to a potential suspect in a homicide case.

While his partner was interviewing that suspect in the other room, Kelly was poking around. And honestly, he wanted

to hurry because the kitchen he was in was disgusting. There was grime all over everything,

there was trash everywhere and rotting food, there were dishes stacked up practically to the ceiling.

I mean, the place was a complete festering mess.

Kelly could hear his partner talking in the other room as he grabbed the nearest drawer and

pulled, and instantly he regretted it.

Because when he opened that drawer, about a dozen cockroaches spilled out, crawling all over

his hand, and so Kelly gasped and jumped back and watched as the

bugs skittered away. Kelly was ultimately searching for clues here, and so far he hadn't found any.

However, as he was standing there in the kitchen, revolted by what he had just seen and felt,

he started to wonder if maybe the actual filth of this house, the actual griminess of this place. What if that's a clue?

And as it would turn out, Kelly would be right. But before we get into that story, if you're a

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