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On cult leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press, media, and other resources cannot always be verified.

Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cult leader.

I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry, and this week we've got not one, not two, but three stories all in one.

That's right, baby, a triple dipper. And boy am I stoked to talk about them, my dear, dear cult babes.

I don't think it's going to take you guys a long time to figure out. I know you're a bunch of little sleuths to figure out where this episode is headed.

The theme of today's list episode, I should say. But you know I love a little twist. So what I think

we're going to do is we're just going to get into it. Okay, I'm going to tell you guys the first

story. And by then I think you'll have it figured out. And it's actually a story that you are

probably already

familiar with, longtime listeners. We have talked about this story back in the day when it was all

unfolding, but it involves a woman named Carly Russell. Carly was a 25-year-old nursing student in

Hoover, Alabama, which Hoover is just outside of Birmingham.

And she also worked part-time at a spa. And by all accounts, she was, you know, hustling.

She's doing the thing. She's working. She's going to school. She's doing it all.

This story, I forgot how actually wild it is until I went back through my notes and I was like,

oh, yeah, and we've got some updates to some different information than we talked about in a

little leader a very long time ago. So July 13th, 2003, it seems like a very normal day for

Carly. She gets off of work around 8.20 p.m. goes, runs some errands.

She grabs some food at this place called Tazikis, and then pops on over to a nearby Target

and gets some snacks, some cheeses, some granola bars, as if she's going on a little road trip,

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