Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm Ashley Flowers and today there is no Brit. That's because we were supposed to take the holiday week off, but I know you true crime junkies well enough to know that I have to give you a little something.

So today I'm actually joined by someone special, Delia Deambre, who some of you might recognize as the host of another audio check true crime podcast called Counter Clock.

Hey guys, I am so happy to be here and ready to talk all things counter clock, but I do want to let those of you know that have listened to season one of counter clock.

I am still actively working the Denise Johnson on salt homicide. So it's something I'll always be doing. But as I waited for leads to pan out and law enforcement to do their job, I started investigating another murder.

And it has been taking up my life for the last year or so. Yeah. So we've got season two actually coming out this week on September 10th. And I mean, seriously season two of counter clock is such a bananas case.

So to fill all you crime junkies out there in season two is actually on a 30 year old homicide, which I don't know how you keep doing this, but somehow takes place back in your hometown of Manio North Carolina.

So we're back in the outer banks where the Denise Johnson case also happened, which is just kind of crazy. Yeah. So I am back home. I cannot seem to get away from the outer banks in North Carolina.

It is a crazy case that a lot of people for 30 years have thought was closed and a man was convicted in 1991. So it's kind of like open and shut for a lot of people. But there is so much more to this story.

I know I'm so excited to tell everyone. So let's fill in all of our crime junkies on the story of Stacy's stand.

So our story begins on February 3rd 1990. It's 145 in the afternoon. And there's this waitress named Tina, who's just been informed by the hostess of the diner that she works at in downtown Manio North Carolina.

That her coworker 28 year old Stacy's stand is late for her afternoon waitress in shift. So the hostess tells Tina that Stacy should have been there by now.

She's getting kind of worried about why she's late, but I mean not worried enough like thinking something happened. Just thinking maybe she slept in. Maybe she had too much fun the night before, which was a Friday night.

So Tina decides you know what like she's only a few blocks away. I'm going to go check on her at her apartment. And when I say a few blocks away like her house was just a couple of streets away, which is literally like a five minute walk from the diner.

So when Tina arrives, she sees a newspaper on the top of the staircase to Stacy's second story apartment. And she picks it up and she has to go inside this small like outdoor enclosed porch.

And then from there enters both the porch door and the actual front door of Stacy's apartment. And you've actually seen the crime scene photos. You've seen reports on this case. What did Tina walk into?

Yeah, so when Tina walks inside of this like super small apartment, it is two bedrooms, but its orientation is really small. So she walks in and she goes down a small hallway and then goes to the left and passes a very small living room.

And she's calling out for Stacy this entire time. Like Stacy, where are you? You know, just waiting for some sort of response. So while she's walking past the living room, Tina drops the newspaper that she picked up in its plastic bag. She says she dropped that in a chair in the living room.

And she makes her way towards like the back of the apartment where there are two bedrooms thinking like maybe she's asleep. Right. So she's going towards the bedrooms.

And she's looking around and so she kind of ends up there. But then she doesn't see Stacy like there's no reply. Stacy's not in the apartment. So Tina says she kind of walks back, makes her way to the living room area.

And that's when she discovers Stacy's body, sprawled out in her small living room space. Just blood everywhere.

So this is something that's tripped me up for a while now. I don't understand. She had to walk through the living room to even get to the back bedrooms. How did she do that? Put the newspaper down, but not even register Stacy because it's not again. She's not like covered up by something. She's not like in a corner. I mean, you said sprawled out.

Yeah, so that's a very good question. And it's a question that I think every listener and anyone who like knows and learns about this story is going to ask, but we'll sort of be answered in the show. But really, I mean, her story is when I was going in, like I wasn't expecting to see a dead body like in the dimmer lit area of the living room sprawled out. So she caught it on the way back. So it's questionable. But that's her story.

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