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True Crime Campfire

Tangled Web: The Murder of Bernie James

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Do you believe in love at first sight? What about love at first sound? The sound of a soft, sexy voice, that is. There's something uniquely intimate about a phone conversation, especially when you're having it late at night. There's anonymity because you can't see each other, but there's intimacy too. You can bond quickly, share secrets you'd be too scared to share face to face. How many of us have had one of those marathon, up-til-dawn phone sessions with a new love interest? How many of us have fallen asleep while still on the line? Soo sexy. Sexy enough, perhaps, to cloud your judgment. The guy in tonight's story found that out the hard way. Join us for a wild story about a manipulator who was years ahead of her time.

Sources:
Investigation Discovery's "Evil Stepmothers," Episode "Deadly Role Play"
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1988-11-02-8803040310-story.html
http://miamiheraldstore.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1980532&CategoryID=58643&ListSubAlbums=0

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0:00.0

Hello campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:04.2

Wear your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney and we're here to tell you a

0:09.2

true story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and

0:13.0

marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

0:20.2

Do you believe in love at first sight? What about love at first sound? The sound of a

0:26.2

soft sexy voice that is? There's something unique about a phone conversation

0:31.0

especially when you're having it late at night. There's anonymity because you

0:34.8

can't see each other but there's intimacy too. You can bond quickly. Share secrets

0:39.8

you'd be too shy to share in any other context. How many of us have had one of

0:43.8

those marathon up till dawn talks with a new love interest? How many of us have

0:48.2

fallen asleep while still on the line? So sexy. Sexy enough perhaps to cloud

0:53.0

your judgment. The guy in tonight's story found that out the hard way. This is

0:57.6

a tangled web, the murder of Bernie James.

1:16.8

So as we were saying campers there's something extra intimate about a phone

1:21.2

conversation and I can attest to that personally because my husband and I met

1:25.5

on an internet message board in 2002 in the early days of such things and

1:31.4

although our initial one-on-one contact was via email the fire works didn't

1:36.0

really start flying until we started talking on the phone and Tim Ott can back

1:41.0

me up on this. In 1986 Tim was 32 years old working the graveyard shift as an

1:46.8

emergency dispatcher at a fire and ambulance service in Broward County, Florida.

1:51.3

Tim was a sweet guy but he was painfully aware of what he considered to be his

1:55.4

limitations. He worked alongside hot firefighters and EMTs every night and as

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