Welcome back to Mama Mystery. I am your host, Kelly. And today is an episode of the weekly

docket where we recap the headlines in true crime for the week. Before we get started with

all these stories today, I want to make a note about our last episode, which was a Mama

Minute episode. These episodes are not related to true crime. This is more of like a trending

topic type of episode to kind of balance out the heaviness of true crime. And so I really enjoy doing these episodes. And if you ever have a story that you would like for me to cover or if you want to send me your own story that you want to vent on the airwaves, you know, you can go to mamamistry.com and send me a message through my website. If you want me to know who you are, you are going to have to tell me. Otherwise, it will be anonymous. But I thought it might be fun. Okay, so let me actually back up a little bit. This morning I went to breakfast with one of my best friends, Emily. Her mom listens to this podcast, but Emily does not. She's just not into true crime, which I totally

forgive her for. But we had a great conversation. We laughed constantly. I could have sat there and

talked to her for hours, honestly. But we were talking about icks that our spouses give us.

We love our spouses, obviously. I love my husband. She loves her husband. But she had some of the

funniest stories about things that ick her out love my husband. She loves her husband. But she had some of the funniest stories about

things that ick her out about her husband. And I thought it would be funny to maybe include a segment.

If you have an ick that you really just want to get off your chest and just vent about,

you can go to mamamystery.com and send me a message and I'll read it on the next Mama Minute episode next week. So I just wanted to throw that out there because I thought it would be kind of funny and maybe therapeutic, you know, to get some things off your chest that just really bug you. And it's not like you're going to divorce your spouse over these icks, but it's like, come on, can you just not? Like last night, I'll just be honest with you guys. Last night, Austin and I were having a conversation, and he had white strips in his mouth.

He was whitening his teeth. And he kept talking to me and he had this like lisp because he was talking with these white strips. And finally, I just had to shut it off and be like, listen, I love you. But you need to go brush your teeth and get that crap off. I can't listen to it anymore or I'm going to lose my mind. It was really late. It was at the end of the day and I was just spent and I was like, I cannot listen to you talk like this. Like I just can't. I can't. And that was an ick for me. So, you know, that's just one example. I love you, Austin. He can't even,

he's not even going to know that I said this. Someone's going to come up to him in public and say, you've been whitening those teeth, and I can't wait for that moment. All right, without further ado,

we've got a lot of stories to cover. So I'm going to shift gears into more serious true crime, Kelly.

Let's dive in.

This first story is out of Dakota County, Minnesota, and the key names to know up front are Jack Joseph Ball and his sister, Bethany Ann Israel.

Jack is 24 and from Lakeville, and Bethany was 30 years old, lived in Bloomington, and the medical examiner determined that she was between

17 and 18 weeks pregnant when she was killed. Now, here is what happened. According to the Dakota

County Attorney's Office, everything unfolded on Thursday, May 23rd of 2024. Bethany had plans to

have dinner with Jack at a residence in Lakeville earlier that evening.

When she did not return home, family members started getting pretty worried, so their mom

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