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paranormal listed. And now for today's case. We're going back to the beginning of 1974.

On January 2nd, 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a law making the national speed limit

in all states 55 miles per hour or 89

kilometers per hour. The law was in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The hope was that people

would drive slower, thus save on gas. Law also ended up contributing to many lives being saved.

Fidelity rates drop from 4.28 per million miles traveled

in 1972 to 2.73 in 1983. Days after changing the speed limit, on January 4th, Nixon refused

to hand over tapes subpoenaed by the Watergate Committee. On January 13th, Super Bowl 8 was held at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.

The Miami Dolphins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7. It was Miami's second consecutive Super Bowl win.

On January 15, 1974, the number one song was the sole classic, show and tell, by Al Wilson. It was Wilson's only number one hit song. The number one song was the number one song was the sole classic, show and tell by Al Wilson. It was Wilson's only number one hit song.

The number one movie at the box office was the horror classic, The Exorcist. The supernatural horror film

directed by William Freakin eventually spent 12 weeks in the top spot. The Exorcist became the first

horror movie to be nominated for

Best Picture at the Academy Awards. They received nine other nominations. They won two awards,

best sound and best adapted screenplay. In early 1974, 21-year-old Taylor Eugene Courtney

lived alone in the apartment in Phoenix, Arizona.

Courtney worked as a welder.

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