Hi listeners I'm Alexa Burke and I'm jumping into your regularly scheduled

listening to tell you about one of the wildest American scandals to happen in

plain sight on the new season of Cro City, season 3, Dixon, Illinois, I'll take you to a city in the

heartland of America where a woman managed to drain her hometown dry in pursuit of her passion. Hundreds of champion quarter horses. Here's a bigger deal. This is Lee Berry Hill. After her and her husband Leonard heard about Rita's arrest, they

headed to the Mary Jay Ranch in Wisconsin. The helicopters were everywhere and

they're hanging out with big lenses and they're outside the gates of the Mary Jay trying to take pictures and you know you're just like

Wow

The Mary Jay Ranch was home to Rita's boyfriend, Jim McIllips, and many people wondered if he might have been involved in some way. Leonard Berry Hill was one of the first people to see Jim after Rita's arrest.

Jim was in shock.

He says he did not know what was going on and I believe it.

He's told me enough things and I and I have added two and two together on what reader would say many times.

I just don't think he didn't.

He always said that he would ask her sometimes about where's this money coming from.

And she'd just tell him, it's my money, and that's the end of the story.

And he'd always say, well, I'm just keeping my mouth job.

Jim asked me if I would go with him to get Rita out of jail, and I said,

sure. So, Lee and Jim and and myself we went to the jail.

When they brought her in with the leg chains and handcuffs, I thought Jim was going to have a heart attack. He turned all kinds of white.

She was in shackles in an orange up suit and two big FBI guys, one in front, one and back. I felt so sorry for her. She looked very old, tired, worn out. It just seemed surreal.

And that was quite a different scene to see someone that you have seen at the top of the world.

My other handc handcuffs in an orange

jumpsuit. That was pretty emotional.

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