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Welcome to Secrets True Crime, the Eric Cates and Gypsy Story.

I am your host Amber Sitten.

What is done in darkness will eventually come to light.

That is the purpose of this podcast.

To shine light on the story of Eric Cates, his beloved dog gypsy, and the town of Empire, Alabama.

Listener discretion is advised, the subject matter may involve violence, sexual content,

murder, and adult themes.

It's not suitable for younger listeners. This is episode 12 of a serial

podcast and they are designed to be listened to in order. Yesterday, March the 21st was the five year anniversary of having found Eric and Gypsy at Empire School, burned in the truck.

You know, looking back over four and a half years, just really disgusted, absolute, at times in shock that no more has been done on

Eric and Gypsy's case. I feel like with the tips and the

information that the family and I received that things should have been done that wasn't done and I know that the people

listening to the podcast a lot of them think that too and it's been very hard

and frustrating to have to fight all the obstacles that not only the

Sheriff's Department, previous and current, the DA's office, the Fire Marshal,

the coroner, have put in our way to just get basic answers to the questions that we had concerning Eric and

Gypsies horrific murders. I mean we just recently now had the validation that it wasn't

suicide or accidental. We have a sheriff that is telling us that it is a homicide.

So with all that I have to put four and a half years behind us because I think the past six

months so much has come to a lot and we have made substantial progress with the help of the

podcast with Amber, with Michael with Echo, Fox

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