Murder in Apartment 12 - Ep. 1: Death of a Beauty Queen
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It should have been a season of joy, choirs and twinkling lights and bright paper packages. |
| 0:13.9 | And it certainly started out that way in a little place called Dover, Arkansas, population about |
| 0:20.2 | 1300, where middle school teacher Janice Jones |
| 0:24.1 | was in a Christmas frame of mind. Of course she was. Her youngest son, Kevin, was home from college, |
| 0:31.3 | and it agreed to be Janice's date to her school's holiday party. I'd laughingly offered him the opportunity to take me on a date Thursday night to our staff |
| 0:42.7 | Christmas party. |
| 0:43.7 | Sure. |
| 0:44.1 | And he accepted as long as there was a big steak. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.4 | Made a joke about, is there an open bar? |
| 0:51.2 | I'd like to see some of my former teachers, you know, a little tipsy. |
| 0:54.0 | They thought that would be very humorous. |
| 0:56.2 | What fun it should have been. |
| 0:59.0 | But no. |
| 1:00.7 | On this night, December 15, 2005, |
| 1:04.1 | the season of light suddenly turned very dark indeed, |
| 1:09.2 | with a call to 911. |
| 1:12.0 | I must keep your mind, okay. |
| 1:15.6 | It was the night of the awful discovery. |
| 1:19.2 | Is she breathing at all? |
| 1:20.7 | No, no, she's cold. She's not breathing. She doesn't have a cold. She doesn't have a cold. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm completely dead. |
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