Welcome, listener.

I'm glad you're here.

Take a seat, next to the fire.

Welcome to Obscira, where we shine a light on the dark. Listener, when creating Obscura, I have a philosophy behind how I construct episodes.

You see, there are a lot of creators that fluff up every episode with unneeded information.

For listeners that want to know what the color of the grass was for every single episode.

But sometimes, I consider myself a bit of a true crime taste maker, for lack of a better term.

You see, listener, I go through hours and hours of footage.

I go through plenty of case files.

I dig and dig.

Part of my job as a true crime creator is finding what's interesting for you

and not just digging up the most popular case and copying the homework of other creators to bring you

the millionth episode on Ted Bundy.

So there is a lot of footage that I view that I don't present.

And there is a lot of audio that I hear that I don't bring to you either because it doesn't

work out.

It doesn't work out for a podcast or it's not engaging.

But today's episode, when I ran into it, I thought, wow, this is something special.

Even on its own, it tells a story.

And sometimes what I like to do with Obscura is I don't like to get in the way of what the audio or the footage has to tell.

So for this episode, I'm going to set up both parts of the footage and audio that I have, but I'm going to get out of the way of the audio

when it's not necessary for me to interject, because that would be insulting your intelligence.

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