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Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you? Doing pretty good. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. I know we always like

don't know where to go from there after we ask each other how we're doing. How? How do you not know how to?

I give up. Yeah. All right. So we'll just get right into it this week.

So in the past, we have joked a lot about the fact that we

use a lot of the same words to describe the story that we are about to tell you. And I'm sure

everybody is just as sick of hearing us say, wow, this is a crazy story, maybe even just as sick,

you know, as we are of actually saying that. So this week, I decided to look up a few new

words. The story we're about to tell you is absolutely preposterous, bewildering, and abominable.

It is an unbelievable story about the long string of events that eventually led to the murder

of a 20-year-old man from early Iowa. And before we get into the story this week, we're going

to tell you a little about maybe early Iowa, maybe just Iowa in general in this week's

segment of we Googled the city. I appreciate your faith in me that you thought I could come

up with some facts about early Iowa, but you were basically right on the second part.

So early Iowa is located in

Western Iowa and as of the 2010 census had a population of 557 people making this, I think,

the smallest town we've ever talked about in Google this city. Can you think of anything that's

been smaller? I don't even remember being under the thousands ever. No. No.

So it should come as no surprise, as Mandy was basically saying, that that's really my only fact

about the town of early. But I did find a ton of fun facts about Iowa. So without further ado,

and with no one except Mandy to be able to stop me, I'm going to continue. So Olympian Lolo Jones was born in Iowa

and is not only a summer track and field star, but she also joined the winner teams on the U.S.

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