Hi, Grime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And the story I have for you today takes place in small town, Winsborough, Texas, where everybody knows everybody.

Or at least they think they do.

You know who's trouble? You know who's got a temper, who to tell your teen daughter to stay away from.

So when a 19-year-olds found dead in her boyfriend's bed,

it doesn't feel random. You can practically hear the gossip at the gas pump in the church

parking lot echoing through the checkout line. There are men with motive, men with violent pasts,

men the town already talks about. But here is the thing I'm hung

up on. Only a handful of them even knew where she would be that day. And when the circle is that

small, someone inside it knows exactly what happened.

This is the story of Brittany McGlone. It's

It's mid-afternoon on May 4th, 2007, when Mom Patricia gets a call from her daughter's boyfriend, Jeff Stogner.

And that alone is kind of strange, because Patricia's not exactly Jeff's biggest fan,

so they've never been

like on casual calling terms. But she answers anyway to a concerned Jeff asking, have you heard from

Britney? And Patricia's like, what do you mean have I heard from her? She's supposed to be staying

with you. But he's saying that he left early that morning to pick up his grandma a couple of hours away, and every time he tried to reach Brittany, she hadn't been picking up her cell.

Whatever is happening feels wrong to Patricia.

So they hang up and she tries Britney's cell over and over, but she's not answering for mom either.

So she ends up calling Jeff back.

And as she does, it sounds like he's pulling up to his house.

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