From about 15 years on and

15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form or another.

Yes, I am not 100 hundred percent, but I am you.

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

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So today's podcast was voted for by patrons and will be on the murders of Russell and

Shirley Derman.

So let's dive right in.

So I want to tackle this a bit differently since this case is, as of this recording, still

unsolved.

People get murdered every single day on this planet and it is so easy to forget the names and faces of these people.

And it is also easy to feel bad for, but regardless, dismiss the murders or deaths of elderly people.

It's sad that goes without saying.

But I think people sort of smooth that over with the fact that, you know, at least it wasn't a child or at least they had gotten to live a full and happy life.

This case was suggested by one of you and as I began to dig I felt myself feeling the you know adequate amount of empathy for this couple's children and grandchildren the local community so on. So I made myself stop and look at it through

the lens of, you know, this could have been my beloved grandparents who never wronged anyone,

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