Feels Good: Helping A Veteran; True Crime Investigation

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Friend Show is on.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It feels good.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I could do these happy stories. We share him with
you every day on the program to give you faith
in the universe, Kaylin Go Ahead.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Journalist Karen Swinson couldn't believe it when she saw a
veteran named Dylan McCormick working under the hot sun in
ninety degree temperatures at a wind Dixie located in New Orleans.
She struck up a conversation with him, where he explained
that he needs the labor intensive job to survive the
US Air Force vet even walks more than a mile
to work because he can't drive. So Swinson, who used

(00:31):
to work at WWLTV and NOLA, started a fundraising push
that instantly took off. So far, as of yesterday, two
hundred and twenty two four hundred and ten dollars has
been raised through GoFundMe after it was started earlier this week,
with thousands of contributors chipping in. She said she's blown
away by stranger's generosity, and when she broke the news

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of the high fundraising mark to McCormick, who was also
in shock, she told him, Hey, the funds are going
to be transferred in a couple days and if he
wants to remain working, he can, but it will be
his choice now that he's getting money to live in
comfort go WHOA yeah, yes, so.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You guys, I'm a huge true crime guy. But a
class of high schoolers managed to solve the thirty five
year old case of the Redhead murders in Tennessee and
surrounding states. So it started at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee,
where a teacher named Alex Campbell was looking to engage
and inspire his students through an unorthodox sociology assignment. So

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he wanted to teach him about profiling, how you can
build a picture about someone based only on known actions
taken by them, but with no other details. So it
turned into a true crime investigation, mostly based on his
wife's fascination with this case. So pulling out old case
files and looking at the different victims between nineteen eighty
three and nineteen eighty five, the students started to use

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details of the case, like character of the victims, the
places they were found, their age, occupations, all these different things.
Turns out they were able to identify the killer of
this cold case tips from people DNA. So these high
school students found the murderer all because his teacher wanted
to teach them something.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Gen Z can do.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Finally they can creep. But no, there you go, we
get there, you go putting into good use. But that's
very that's very interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
That is amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
You can do all of that. And I'm sure this
guy is like, damn it, and his mugshot right here,
it's like, oh my god, it's thought I got away
with them nineteen eighty four, like you, that guy was
resting easy, those meddling kids. Yeah, it's like, damn it.
Social media, if only they ban TikTok. What more Fred
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