A quick warning. We talk in detail about suicide in this episode.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide,

you can call 988 anywhere in the US to talk with someone who can help.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On this episode, we'll wrap up our look at the Netflix Three Week Special Event for Unsolved Mysteries, volume three.

This time, we'll discuss the episode, Body in the Bay.

My children need to know what happened to their dad.

It's not a pretty story and it doesn't have a

conclusion. We don't have answers, but I am still trying. Today we're talking to director Robert M. Wies.

Patrick Lee Mullins was a well-loved school librarian

and an experienced teacher.

After his small boat never returned from an afternoon trip, search crews scoured the waters in and around Tampa Bay.

Days later, his body was discovered in a shallow part of the bay,

carefully tied to his own anchor,

but his empty boat was recovered far out at sea.

At first, investigators assume this was a straightforward suicide, but the cause of Patrick's death wasn't drowning.

It was a shotgun blast to the head, and neither blood nor a weapon were found in his abandoned boat.

Body in the bay explores whether Patrick set off to take his own life and hide his own body beneath the salt water,

or whether he encountered something he

shouldn't have seen something that could have cost him his life.

He clearly wasn't killed in that boat. There's zero biological evidence in there.

So he was killed elsewhere, which pretty reasonable person would conclude

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