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Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cold leader. I'm your cold leader, Spencer Henry. And now that the cat is out of the bag

about me living in Nashville, I figured I'd throw in a local case, local to me now case. And it's

actually kind of a funny story how I learned about this case. The other day, I was going to meet

with my trainer at the gym, and I had gotten

there, I think, like 15 minutes-ish early. And the gym that I've been going to is really close to

this one cemetery in Nashville. It was still fall at that point. So there was like all the leaves

and everything were happening. And it's just a really beautiful cemetery. And so I'm like, okay, I've got some time to kill. Let's let's pull in.

I said to myself, pulled into the cemetery and I'm driving around. There's some beautiful tombstones in

there, some really, I mean, some of them are like hundreds of years old. And whenever I see an

interesting one, I'll usually stop and try and look into the person. What was their life like? Especially if

they have a huge epitaph or this massive memorial at a cemetery. I'm like, okay, clearly

this was an important person. Like, what's the deal here? What was their career? How did they get to this

point? Were they from a wealthy family? All of the questions that one might come up with. And then I

started looking into the notable tombstones there and ended up through that research learning

about today's case that I'm going to be talking about. And it actually has nothing to do with the

cemetery in particular, but it's a case that I had never heard of before. Even if you aren't fully

familiar with Nashville, you may have heard of the iconic Bluebird Cafe. It's a well-known spot,

kind of a tourist trap, to be honest. It's where artists like Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift

scored their big record deals. And every year, at least 70,000 visitors pop in to see the best

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