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On a cold winter day in 2013, police officers rushed through the dense woods outside of a small town in Kentucky.

They weave their way through the trees, keeping their eyes peeled.

Then finally, one of them

shouted out. He saw what they were looking for in the distance. The other officers quickly

followed him into a clearing. And there, they saw a man with a long gray beard sitting in a large

self-made camp. It looked like the man had been living out here in the woods for months.

The officers just stared at him, and they almost couldn't believe it,

because they had just tracked down the man who they thought could help solve a murder

that had taken place a year earlier in a town 150 miles away.

But before we get into that story,

if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

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social security number and credit card information. Okay, let's get into today's story.

Okay. On the evening of October 28, 2012, 87-year-old Barbara Howe sat at the dinner table with a friend in her house at the Mount Pleasant Retirement Village in the small town of Monroe, Ohio. As the two women began eating, Barbara's friend had a huge smile on her face.

She couldn't get over how Barbara still loved to cook and how good she was at it.

At 87 years old, Barbara made it a point to stay active.

And she loved cooking and having people over to her house as often as she could.

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