November 20, 2025 • 29 mins
On this weeks episode it's time to catch up on everything that we have missed in the last couple of weeks in the true crime world. From a few cold cases being solved to everything going on right now in the true crime world. We are going to catch up on it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk
right now in true crime, and then together we're going
to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go.
Warning this episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen
with discretion.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It drives me crazy thinking about her bones, you know,
laying out somewhere and just being herself.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We took a nap in the van and she got
up one and go in them all And she went
in supposedly, and I fell back to sleep for a
while and woke up and went in looked for I
made a mistake, but letting you go with them off.
I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
This season. On Missing in Hushtown season two, Bethany Markowski.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
I still ask one of our CID people about and
their response, but they assured me that not one time
was she seen on any video going inside that mall.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Bethany Leanne Markowski was never seen entering the mall, walking
through the mall, or exiting the mall.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Number one, the most important thing to me is to
find out what happened to Bethany.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's time to.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Find Bethany, let her rest, and just know the truth.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Bethany has paid the ultimate price, and you're not.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Nobody can convince me that he didn't have anything to
do with it.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
And if I make people mad, I don't care, because
the ultimate goes to fond Bethany.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Are we ever going to know what happened?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I know Bethany is not the most famous missing person.
She is to me, and I know she's not the
most important person in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She's me.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You are now a part of Bethany's brigade.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Missing in Hushtown. Season two is executive produced in partnership
by Fireeyes Media LLC's Jules Thorpe and Jen Rivera, as
well as mom Cast Productions Rachel Holloway and Heather Northcraft.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime.
It's Kylie. We are going to do things a little
bit differently this week. I have a lot to talk
about for right now in true crime, So this week's
episode is just going to be a right now in
True Crime catchup. But I will say there is quite
a bit of breaking news in a bunch of different
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cold cases, So that's primarily what we're going to be
talking about, So kind of an ode to what I
normally do, but also a little bit different. And then
the episode I had planned for this week, I'm saving
for the weekend after Thanksgiving so I can take some
much needed time off from researching and scriptwriting and all
of the things, because I very much want to have
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a whole week off to enjoy some time off of
my full time job and spend some time with family.
So let's get into it. In November of twenty ten,
in Michigan, there were three boys who went missing, Andrew, Alexander,
and Tanner, ages nine, seven, and five, and they were
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the sons of John and Tanya. John and Tanya were
going through a divorce a little bit of a custody dispute,
and the kids were visiting John in Mourenci, Michigan, for Thanksgiving,
and then the boys were supposed to be returned to
their mom, but they never were returned to their mom.
He had come up with the story that the boys
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were with a friend of his that he had met
and that she was making them on a road trip
to Florida, and that's kind of his story. It was
very convoluted. There was a lot of back and forth.
They of course, have done everything they have been able
to to try to locate the boys. There has been
a large scale searches, investigations over the last fifteen years,
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spanning across multiple different states, talking to multiple different people
that might know something, and the boys still have not
been located. And that happened in twenty ten. So John
has been in prison since twenty ten because he was
given fifteen years three counts of unlawful imprisonment and failing
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to return the children originally in twenty ten to their
mother Tanya. So he has been locked away ever since then,
and he was set to be released from prison on
November twenty sixth. It was in the headlines he was
getting out. They still didn't know what happened to the boys.
He still isn't saying anything. He's basically just saying that
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he had nothing to do with anything. He doesn't know
where they are. Tanya and her family have been very
much trying to get the judge to declare the boys
legally dead, because if that were the case, then they
can move forward with hopefully pressing some charges against John.
So they asked for that in March of this year
and the judge granted that. So they officially have said
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that the boys have been legally dead since November twenty
six of twenty ten. So here's where investigator's law enforcement
are very much trying to work on building their case
against John because if it goes to trial, they want
to make sure that any charges that are brought against
John are going to stick and that he will be convicted.
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So he is currently being held on a sixty million
dollar bond and they have charged him. He is now
fifty three years old. He was charged with three counts
of open murder and three counts of tampering with evidence.
Open murder basically means there is no bodies at this
point in time. So I very much think that they
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were very strategic in the way that they planned this
because he was set to be released just in the
next week or so, and they were very strategic about
the timing of things, everything that they have been trying
to do, because I think, unfortunately with this one, the
writing is on the wall. The person that John said
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he allegedly gave the kids too for this road trip
to Florida never even existed. It was somebody that had
befriended Tanya on a online forum type of website, and
it was actually John that created the profile basically to
keep tabs on Tanya. I guess this guy is allegedly,
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in my opinion, just not good news. And I think
law enforcement really did everything they could to try and
make sure that the charges stick and that there is
a conviction. So that is kind of where we stand
on things with that. I'll tell you prison has not
done well for him. He looks a hell of a
lot older than his age. He looks like he has
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been through it. He has a court appearance on November
twenty fourth for it's a probable cause conference, and then
he has a preliminary examination on December first, So I
will be sure to keep you guys updated on that.
Like I said, the boys' remains have never been found.
I think with the judge declaring them legally dead, that
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there is a very small probability that the boys are
still alive and out there. But if anything more does
come out, I will be sure to keep you guys updated.
But this one is one I did not see coming.
I was honestly so upset that they were going to
be letting this man out and there was going to
be no charges, no further charges brought against him. So
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when I saw the charges that they put against him.
I was elated to see that they are kind of
on the same wavelength as all of us the public.
But the good news is he will not be getting
out anytime soon. All right. Cold case update, There has
been an arrest announced in the nineteen ninety one murder
of a woman named Cynthia Gonzales. They arrested a woman
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named Janie Perkins. And the way that this case was
solved is so fascinating to me. I got chills reading
the news article about it. So this happened in Arlington.
Arlington Police announced an arrest in a thirty four year
old case on Monday. Detective solved the nineteen ninety one
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murder of Cynthia Gonzales with the help of none other
than a group of criminology students at the University of
Texas at Arlington, So. Cynthia Gonzalez was reported missing in
September of nineteen ninety one. She was a twenty five
year old mom. She was a adult entertainer and she
had left to meet a client and was never seen
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alive again. She was reported missing by her ex husband
and then her car was later found abandoned on September
twenty second of nineteen ninety one, her remains were found
and she had been shot multiple times and her body
was very much decomposing, and for three decades nobody knew
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what happened to this young mom. Arlington Police Department does
not have a full time cold case unit, so they
turned to the University of Texas at Arlington and at
the start of the twenty twenty five fall semester, they
launched a course with the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department
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and this group of students was given access to the
materials from Cynthia's case and through them looking through the
evidence what they had in correlation with detectives, they went
on to requestion a woman named Janie Perkins, and she
is now sixty three years old. The students thought that
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she needed to be requestioned because they noticed that her
and Cynthia were friends and they also had a romantic
partner in common, so that could have been means for
a motive. And actually, several weeks before the homicide occurred,
the partner that they shared had told Jane that they
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were going to end the relationship because this person wanted
to be with Cynthia. So again you have two people
that were friends, they shared a common romantic interest. The
romantic interest decides he's going to break up with one
and then the other one ends up dead. So of
course she's like suspect number one in my book, and
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I think that's what these students thought as well. We
need to re examine this, They need to go back
and they need to requestion this woman. So they requestioned
Janie and she had no alibi for the night that
she went missing. She also failed to polygraph tests and
when she was first questioned. I don't know why this
wasn't a red flag, but she was asked if she
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knew who was involved in her disappearance and death, and
she said no, but she did say that she was
glad that she was dead and had even said that
she had thought about killing her or having someone else
kill her for her. So why wasn't this person the
biggest red flag number one suspect. I have no idea
what was going on, But the students went through this information,
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they realized this girl needs to be requestioned. So that's
exactly what they did. And when investigators went back through
all of the files and all of the interviews they did,
they even discovered that different witnesses had said that Janie
had admitted that she was the one involved in the
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murder and even given specific details about it, and she
gave the details that only the killer would know. So
she was arrested on November sixth on one count of
capital murder and hopefully she will get her day in court.
The students, of course, had such a big part in this.
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They said that they combed through four to five hundred files,
photographs from the crime scene, and all of the different information,
and there was just something about this particular person that
stood out to them and they thought that it needed
a second look. And when investigators gave it a second look,
all of the things, all of the evidence was right there.
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And that is what I say when I mean it
just takes one person with fresh eyes to look at
something and see something that maybe somebody else didn't see.
Maybe back in nineteen ninety one, what they had wasn't
enough to bring charges and wasn't enough to have a
case go to trial. But upon further inspection and looking
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at things a little fresher with twenty twenty five eyes,
everything changed. And that is exactly what has happened here
with this case. So Cynthia's daughter, who is named Jessica.
She was only six years old when her mom was
brutally taken from this earth, and she is quoted as saying,
I am so grateful for this program, and so proud
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of these students at UTA, and so thankful for the
time they have spent an effort they have put into
this case. End quote. I was beside myself and I
only found out last Thursday, So it's been a process
and I'm still processing this end quote. She of course,
is trying to navigate all of the emotions that come
with this, from her mom's case being cold and at
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the bottom of a pile on someone's desk to it
being solved so simply by students in a criminology class.
It actually makes me so hopeful for our future that
there are students out there who are learning and willing
to re examine things and have a passion for helping
others and solving these cases that so desperately need our attention,
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because there's families and real people behind them. And this
story for me is just another reminder of why I
like to share the cases that I share on here.
And that class is also in the process of reviewing
two other cold cases, which I think is so amazing,
and I think there's been renewed hope now that this
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is something that is ongoing. And I think every college,
if they have a large enough department, should be partnering
with law enforcement on some of these cold cases, because
so often we hear that police departments don't have enough
people to work these cold cases, so they don't really
have a dedicated person or persons or group that are
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sitting down and go through stacks and stacks and stacks
of evidence and interviews and suspects, crime scene photos that
is really what they need. So I think that this
is a step in the right direction, and I think
it's really cool to be alive in a time where
students in a criminology class are helping crap hold cases.
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So next up, we're going to talk about a break
in the case of Lori Ann Powell. She was eighteen
years old when she went missing out of Virginia and
then her body was found a month later floating in
the James River near Craney Island. She was killed in
nineteen eighty eight. So this case has been cold for
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a long time and there has really not been a
whole lot of movement in regards to her case, and
Virginia Police announced that they have identified a suspect and
that is none other than a man named Alan Wade Wilmer, Senior,
and he has officially been declared the person responsible for
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her homicide and they were able to identify him by
forensic evidence. Unfortunately, but fortunately, he passed away in his
home in December of twenty seventeen at the age of
sixty three. But he has quite an extensive history and
background because her case is the fourth one to be
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tied to him. So this guy is an absolute horrific
human and monster. So in January of twenty twenty four,
State Police announced that DNA had linked him to the
death of a woman named Teresa Howell in Hampton in
July of nineteen eighty nine, and also to the deaths
of Robin Edwards and David Nobling, who were killed at
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Ragged Island Refuge in nineteen eighty seven. Howl and Edwards
had both been sexually assaulted and the DNA match none
other than Wilmer, so everything connected back to him. So
they ended up sending Lori's DNA to DNA Labs International
because she was found also kind of in the same
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general area that the others were found, and they thought
maybe it could be connected and they got a hit.
So he is responsible at least for four deaths, and
god knows, there's probably more. Lorie's sisters spoke at the
press conference and is quoted as saying to the dedicated investigators,
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forensic teams, and community members who never gave up finding
justice for Laurie Ann Now. Law enforcement has said that
Wilmer is the main suspect in the Virginia Colonial Parkway
murders because of the other victims, they do think that
this could be a serial killer. Obviously there's four people
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linked to him. He's a serial killer, but there could
very much be more victims. There are two other people
that went missing from that area in nineteen eighty eight,
and that is the disappearance of Cassandra Haley and Keith
call Now. Keith's carr was found on the Colonial Parkway,
but neither one of their bodies have ever been found. Now.
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On February first of nineteen eighty eight, there was a
body found partially closed, that of Brian Craig Peddinger, and
he had been tied up and dumped in the water.
So over a six month period of time, there were
four people that have been thrown in or around the
James River, all very much in the same area. So
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there very much could be a relation in all of
these cases. He could be responsible for all of them
and we just don't know it yet. And what I
think is very interesting is they always say a serial
killer has their mo they have a certain demographic. This
guy obviously does not care. He goes after men and women,
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and I think that is evidenced by who's deaths he
has been linked to. There's also a lot of other
cases that are suspected to be linked to this individual
as well, they just haven't been able to come up
with the evidence to officially link it. I actually think
I'm going to do a whole Colonial Parkway Murders episode
and go through everything because there is so much here,
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and investigators are still looking for any leads or investigative
tips that can help them solve the rest of these
cases that are unsolved, because if they can link them
to Alan Wilmer, then that is exactly what they want
to do, so they can officially market case closed and
the families can start to try and navigate their new
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normal of life, at least with having their loved ones
case solved. All right, moving on to our next case update.
So I talked about this briefly in a right now
in True Crime, the discovery of of the body that
was found in the tesla that belonged to Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
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She is a fifteen year old girl. She went missing
and then her body was discovered inside of an impounded
tesla that belonged to a singer named David. The A
in David is the number four. So this happened in September,
that's when she was found. And there's been a lot
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going on, kind of behind the scenes, I guess, because
initially they were saying that there was no evidence that
David was involved, there was even a person of interest necessarily,
but they officially have come forward, the Los Angeles Police
and said that he is considered a suspect in the
investigation into her death. Now, there were initial rumors that
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he was being cooperative with the investigation, but now it
is coming out that is not true. He is not
cooperating with the investigation and has never cooperated with the investigation.
There is a lot going on here. Because they allegedly
started dating when Celeste was only thirteen. David is twenty.
He is a grown human man, and there's no place
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on this planet that that is okay that you should
be having any type of relationship with a child. She
is a child, and her family I guess knew that
she was in a relationship with this individual, but I
guess she was also kind of missing at one point
in time. I don't really know the dynamics, but this
is just so messy and there's a lot going on here.
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I think even if he's not involved in her murder,
obviously he had a very inappropriate relationship with this young child,
not okay, not acceptable in any way, shape or form.
And then her body ends up in your impouded tesla.
It just isn't a good look. And it's being looked
at as a murder investigation, because there was even in
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a while when we weren't really even sure if they
were going to even say that it was a murder.
Was her body just put there? Did she die accidentally?
Did she overdose? There's so many questions that we still
do not have answered, and I really do think that
law enforcement is kind of keeping things hush hush on
purpose because they're trying to formulate and build their case.
But if anything more comes of this, which I'm sure
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it will, I will be sure to keep you guys updated.
All right, onto Idaho for news. BK has been ordered
to pay additional restitution. So he already is supposed to
be paying three hundred thousand dollars plus in a restitution
and they have added on an additional three thousand dollars
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to that amount because he needs to pay for the
earns of Kaylee and Maddie. And honestly, my opinion on
the matter is this individual should have zero in their
commissary at all times and every things should just go
to the families for the rest of time. So he
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actually has to live a super super miserable life behind
bars and have no amenities, no fun snacks, nothing. He
just exists and he eats prison food and prison food only,
and he's just a miserable human behind bars because that
is exactly what he deserves. I'm tired of talking about
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this guy, but any time that it's good news for
the families and they get any little bit of anything,
I want to talk about it. There was also another
death on a cruise ship. A young girl named Anna
Kepner was found deceased underneath the bed of her room
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on a cruise ship, and now there's an uncle coming
out that says that her stepbrother is the one who's responsible.
That is a whole deep dive kind of situation. She
was only eight ten years old and she was allegedly
found stabbed and under the bed in her room on
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this cruise ship. I'm not going to talk a whole
lot about it because there's still stuff coming out. But
as things start to develop more, I will go a
little more in depth and talk a little bit more
about it. But right now things are just kind of
in limbo. I know, they said that they do have
surveillance video of them on the cruise together, so it's
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obvious that this person was there and it's going to
be interesting to see what ends up coming out with that.
Sean Ditty Combs faces new sex battery accusations. Color me shocked.
So they have started an investigation into this new accusation.
There is a male music producer and publicist who said
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that he was asked to come to a photoshoot with
Diddy in twenty twenty at a La warehouse, and Sean
exposed himself while masturbating and told this individual, the music producer,
to assist him, and he is now coming forward with
his story. So this guy is just never, ever, ever
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going to change. I'm glad he's in jail for a
little while longer. I hope the accusations and charges keep
piling up on him. But unfortunately, this man is just
a demon of a person in my opinion, allegedly, and
I just think it's going to keep stacking and stacking
and stacking and stacking. So it will be interesting to
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see if anything more comes of all of these new accusations,
because I feel like every week things are coming out,
and that's exactly the way it should be, because he
is an actual monster. All right, last thing we're going
to talk about, Speaking of horrible, monstrous humans. OJ Simpson's
estate officially has agreed to pay ron Goldman's dad fifty
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eight million dollars thirty whole years after his life was
brutally taken. As we know, O. J. Simpson passed away,
so it is now in the estates hands and they
are going to be paying Ronald Goldman's dad fifty eight million,
which I am all about because that poor man and
his poor family have been through so much in everything
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that has transpired. I honestly can't believe that that happened
thirty years ago. I think that was the first trial
I ever watched on court TV with my mom. I
remember it being on so well, and I was so
invested in it, even though I was only nine years old.
I was very invested, and I think that's probably where
part of my fascination and obsession with true crime kind
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of came in, because I was so glued to this
case and I couldn't even get over when they found
him not guilty. I was shocked by that entire thing.
So I've been following ever since and all of the
different and things, all of the different things with OJ
him eventually going back to jail for the veguas situation
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that happened. I'm just glad that that man had to
serve some time in jail, regardless of what it was for.
But I'm also really glad to hear this news that
the Goldman family is going to be getting more money
from the estate of OJ Simpson, which is exactly what
should be happening. So that is it for this little
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weekly crazy long catchup in Right Now in True Crime.
I am going to be releasing an episode on Thanksgiving
that is being brought to you by my friend Kadra
from Perplexity, a mystery podcast. This case actually takes place
on Thanksgiving, so it's appropriate that I release it. And
of course, I know people probably aren't going to be
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listening to true crime podcasts on Thanksgiving Day, but it
will be there when you are ready to listen to it,
so please tune in for that, and then I will
be back the next week with a brand new unsolved
case I have been diligently working on. I very much
wanted to get this true crime catchup done and out
because I feel like it has just grown over the
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last couple of weeks. They didn't do it Right Now
in True Crime last week, and I feel like if
I waited any longer that I was going to have
to do an hour long episode on Right Now in
True Crime because so much has gone on. There's been
so many different things happening in a bunch of different cases,
and I thought this was a great way to kind
of bring it all together and wrap everything up. So
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I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend ahead, have
a great Thanksgiving, do all of your Black Friday and
Cyber Monday shopping. Get all of your Christmas shopping done
because we are going to be in December before you
know it, and I hate the mad rush of December.
Get all of your Christmas shopping done asap. This is
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my PSA to you. It is not too late Amazon
dot com. And if you're looking for something to buy me,
I am a size farmhouse with a wraparound porch on
like seventeen acres of land with no neighbors. So keep
me in mind for your Christmas list and I will
see you guys officially in two weeks for a brand
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new unsolved case. Have a good one bye,
Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk
right now in true crime, and then together we're going
to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go.
Warning this episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen
with discretion.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It drives me crazy thinking about her bones, you know,
laying out somewhere and just being herself.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We took a nap in the van and she got
up one and go in them all And she went
in supposedly, and I fell back to sleep for a
while and woke up and went in looked for I
made a mistake, but letting you go with them off.
I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
This season. On Missing in Hushtown season two, Bethany Markowski.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
I still ask one of our CID people about and
their response, but they assured me that not one time
was she seen on any video going inside that mall.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Bethany Leanne Markowski was never seen entering the mall, walking
through the mall, or exiting the mall.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Number one, the most important thing to me is to
find out what happened to Bethany.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's time to.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Find Bethany, let her rest, and just know the truth.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Bethany has paid the ultimate price, and you're not.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Nobody can convince me that he didn't have anything to
do with it.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
And if I make people mad, I don't care, because
the ultimate goes to fond Bethany.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Are we ever going to know what happened?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I know Bethany is not the most famous missing person.
She is to me, and I know she's not the
most important person in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She's me.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You are now a part of Bethany's brigade.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Missing in Hushtown. Season two is executive produced in partnership
by Fireeyes Media LLC's Jules Thorpe and Jen Rivera, as
well as mom Cast Productions Rachel Holloway and Heather Northcraft.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime.
It's Kylie. We are going to do things a little
bit differently this week. I have a lot to talk
about for right now in true crime, So this week's
episode is just going to be a right now in
True Crime catchup. But I will say there is quite
a bit of breaking news in a bunch of different
(02:47):
cold cases, So that's primarily what we're going to be
talking about, So kind of an ode to what I
normally do, but also a little bit different. And then
the episode I had planned for this week, I'm saving
for the weekend after Thanksgiving so I can take some
much needed time off from researching and scriptwriting and all
of the things, because I very much want to have
(03:10):
a whole week off to enjoy some time off of
my full time job and spend some time with family.
So let's get into it. In November of twenty ten,
in Michigan, there were three boys who went missing, Andrew, Alexander,
and Tanner, ages nine, seven, and five, and they were
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the sons of John and Tanya. John and Tanya were
going through a divorce a little bit of a custody dispute,
and the kids were visiting John in Mourenci, Michigan, for Thanksgiving,
and then the boys were supposed to be returned to
their mom, but they never were returned to their mom.
He had come up with the story that the boys
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were with a friend of his that he had met
and that she was making them on a road trip
to Florida, and that's kind of his story. It was
very convoluted. There was a lot of back and forth.
They of course, have done everything they have been able
to to try to locate the boys. There has been
a large scale searches, investigations over the last fifteen years,
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spanning across multiple different states, talking to multiple different people
that might know something, and the boys still have not
been located. And that happened in twenty ten. So John
has been in prison since twenty ten because he was
given fifteen years three counts of unlawful imprisonment and failing
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to return the children originally in twenty ten to their
mother Tanya. So he has been locked away ever since then,
and he was set to be released from prison on
November twenty sixth. It was in the headlines he was
getting out. They still didn't know what happened to the boys.
He still isn't saying anything. He's basically just saying that
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he had nothing to do with anything. He doesn't know
where they are. Tanya and her family have been very
much trying to get the judge to declare the boys
legally dead, because if that were the case, then they
can move forward with hopefully pressing some charges against John.
So they asked for that in March of this year
and the judge granted that. So they officially have said
(05:23):
that the boys have been legally dead since November twenty
six of twenty ten. So here's where investigator's law enforcement
are very much trying to work on building their case
against John because if it goes to trial, they want
to make sure that any charges that are brought against
John are going to stick and that he will be convicted.
(05:46):
So he is currently being held on a sixty million
dollar bond and they have charged him. He is now
fifty three years old. He was charged with three counts
of open murder and three counts of tampering with evidence.
Open murder basically means there is no bodies at this
point in time. So I very much think that they
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were very strategic in the way that they planned this
because he was set to be released just in the
next week or so, and they were very strategic about
the timing of things, everything that they have been trying
to do, because I think, unfortunately with this one, the
writing is on the wall. The person that John said
(06:28):
he allegedly gave the kids too for this road trip
to Florida never even existed. It was somebody that had
befriended Tanya on a online forum type of website, and
it was actually John that created the profile basically to
keep tabs on Tanya. I guess this guy is allegedly,
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in my opinion, just not good news. And I think
law enforcement really did everything they could to try and
make sure that the charges stick and that there is
a conviction. So that is kind of where we stand
on things with that. I'll tell you prison has not
done well for him. He looks a hell of a
lot older than his age. He looks like he has
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been through it. He has a court appearance on November
twenty fourth for it's a probable cause conference, and then
he has a preliminary examination on December first, So I
will be sure to keep you guys updated on that.
Like I said, the boys' remains have never been found.
I think with the judge declaring them legally dead, that
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there is a very small probability that the boys are
still alive and out there. But if anything more does
come out, I will be sure to keep you guys updated.
But this one is one I did not see coming.
I was honestly so upset that they were going to
be letting this man out and there was going to
be no charges, no further charges brought against him. So
(07:52):
when I saw the charges that they put against him.
I was elated to see that they are kind of
on the same wavelength as all of us the public.
But the good news is he will not be getting
out anytime soon. All right. Cold case update, There has
been an arrest announced in the nineteen ninety one murder
of a woman named Cynthia Gonzales. They arrested a woman
(08:16):
named Janie Perkins. And the way that this case was
solved is so fascinating to me. I got chills reading
the news article about it. So this happened in Arlington.
Arlington Police announced an arrest in a thirty four year
old case on Monday. Detective solved the nineteen ninety one
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murder of Cynthia Gonzales with the help of none other
than a group of criminology students at the University of
Texas at Arlington, So. Cynthia Gonzalez was reported missing in
September of nineteen ninety one. She was a twenty five
year old mom. She was a adult entertainer and she
had left to meet a client and was never seen
(09:02):
alive again. She was reported missing by her ex husband
and then her car was later found abandoned on September
twenty second of nineteen ninety one, her remains were found
and she had been shot multiple times and her body
was very much decomposing, and for three decades nobody knew
(09:22):
what happened to this young mom. Arlington Police Department does
not have a full time cold case unit, so they
turned to the University of Texas at Arlington and at
the start of the twenty twenty five fall semester, they
launched a course with the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department
(09:46):
and this group of students was given access to the
materials from Cynthia's case and through them looking through the
evidence what they had in correlation with detectives, they went
on to requestion a woman named Janie Perkins, and she
is now sixty three years old. The students thought that
(10:07):
she needed to be requestioned because they noticed that her
and Cynthia were friends and they also had a romantic
partner in common, so that could have been means for
a motive. And actually, several weeks before the homicide occurred,
the partner that they shared had told Jane that they
(10:29):
were going to end the relationship because this person wanted
to be with Cynthia. So again you have two people
that were friends, they shared a common romantic interest. The
romantic interest decides he's going to break up with one
and then the other one ends up dead. So of
course she's like suspect number one in my book, and
(10:53):
I think that's what these students thought as well. We
need to re examine this, They need to go back
and they need to requestion this woman. So they requestioned
Janie and she had no alibi for the night that
she went missing. She also failed to polygraph tests and
when she was first questioned. I don't know why this
wasn't a red flag, but she was asked if she
(11:15):
knew who was involved in her disappearance and death, and
she said no, but she did say that she was
glad that she was dead and had even said that
she had thought about killing her or having someone else
kill her for her. So why wasn't this person the
biggest red flag number one suspect. I have no idea
what was going on, But the students went through this information,
(11:38):
they realized this girl needs to be requestioned. So that's
exactly what they did. And when investigators went back through
all of the files and all of the interviews they did,
they even discovered that different witnesses had said that Janie
had admitted that she was the one involved in the
(11:59):
murder and even given specific details about it, and she
gave the details that only the killer would know. So
she was arrested on November sixth on one count of
capital murder and hopefully she will get her day in court.
The students, of course, had such a big part in this.
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They said that they combed through four to five hundred files,
photographs from the crime scene, and all of the different information,
and there was just something about this particular person that
stood out to them and they thought that it needed
a second look. And when investigators gave it a second look,
all of the things, all of the evidence was right there.
(12:39):
And that is what I say when I mean it
just takes one person with fresh eyes to look at
something and see something that maybe somebody else didn't see.
Maybe back in nineteen ninety one, what they had wasn't
enough to bring charges and wasn't enough to have a
case go to trial. But upon further inspection and looking
(13:00):
at things a little fresher with twenty twenty five eyes,
everything changed. And that is exactly what has happened here
with this case. So Cynthia's daughter, who is named Jessica.
She was only six years old when her mom was
brutally taken from this earth, and she is quoted as saying,
I am so grateful for this program, and so proud
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of these students at UTA, and so thankful for the
time they have spent an effort they have put into
this case. End quote. I was beside myself and I
only found out last Thursday, So it's been a process
and I'm still processing this end quote. She of course,
is trying to navigate all of the emotions that come
with this, from her mom's case being cold and at
(13:45):
the bottom of a pile on someone's desk to it
being solved so simply by students in a criminology class.
It actually makes me so hopeful for our future that
there are students out there who are learning and willing
to re examine things and have a passion for helping
others and solving these cases that so desperately need our attention,
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because there's families and real people behind them. And this
story for me is just another reminder of why I
like to share the cases that I share on here.
And that class is also in the process of reviewing
two other cold cases, which I think is so amazing,
and I think there's been renewed hope now that this
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is something that is ongoing. And I think every college,
if they have a large enough department, should be partnering
with law enforcement on some of these cold cases, because
so often we hear that police departments don't have enough
people to work these cold cases, so they don't really
have a dedicated person or persons or group that are
(14:52):
sitting down and go through stacks and stacks and stacks
of evidence and interviews and suspects, crime scene photos that
is really what they need. So I think that this
is a step in the right direction, and I think
it's really cool to be alive in a time where
students in a criminology class are helping crap hold cases.
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So next up, we're going to talk about a break
in the case of Lori Ann Powell. She was eighteen
years old when she went missing out of Virginia and
then her body was found a month later floating in
the James River near Craney Island. She was killed in
nineteen eighty eight. So this case has been cold for
(15:37):
a long time and there has really not been a
whole lot of movement in regards to her case, and
Virginia Police announced that they have identified a suspect and
that is none other than a man named Alan Wade Wilmer, Senior,
and he has officially been declared the person responsible for
(15:57):
her homicide and they were able to identify him by
forensic evidence. Unfortunately, but fortunately, he passed away in his
home in December of twenty seventeen at the age of
sixty three. But he has quite an extensive history and
background because her case is the fourth one to be
(16:20):
tied to him. So this guy is an absolute horrific
human and monster. So in January of twenty twenty four,
State Police announced that DNA had linked him to the
death of a woman named Teresa Howell in Hampton in
July of nineteen eighty nine, and also to the deaths
of Robin Edwards and David Nobling, who were killed at
(16:42):
Ragged Island Refuge in nineteen eighty seven. Howl and Edwards
had both been sexually assaulted and the DNA match none
other than Wilmer, so everything connected back to him. So
they ended up sending Lori's DNA to DNA Labs International
because she was found also kind of in the same
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general area that the others were found, and they thought
maybe it could be connected and they got a hit.
So he is responsible at least for four deaths, and
god knows, there's probably more. Lorie's sisters spoke at the
press conference and is quoted as saying to the dedicated investigators,
(17:26):
forensic teams, and community members who never gave up finding
justice for Laurie Ann Now. Law enforcement has said that
Wilmer is the main suspect in the Virginia Colonial Parkway
murders because of the other victims, they do think that
this could be a serial killer. Obviously there's four people
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linked to him. He's a serial killer, but there could
very much be more victims. There are two other people
that went missing from that area in nineteen eighty eight,
and that is the disappearance of Cassandra Haley and Keith
call Now. Keith's carr was found on the Colonial Parkway,
but neither one of their bodies have ever been found. Now.
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On February first of nineteen eighty eight, there was a
body found partially closed, that of Brian Craig Peddinger, and
he had been tied up and dumped in the water.
So over a six month period of time, there were
four people that have been thrown in or around the
James River, all very much in the same area. So
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there very much could be a relation in all of
these cases. He could be responsible for all of them
and we just don't know it yet. And what I
think is very interesting is they always say a serial
killer has their mo they have a certain demographic. This
guy obviously does not care. He goes after men and women,
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and I think that is evidenced by who's deaths he
has been linked to. There's also a lot of other
cases that are suspected to be linked to this individual
as well, they just haven't been able to come up
with the evidence to officially link it. I actually think
I'm going to do a whole Colonial Parkway Murders episode
and go through everything because there is so much here,
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and investigators are still looking for any leads or investigative
tips that can help them solve the rest of these
cases that are unsolved, because if they can link them
to Alan Wilmer, then that is exactly what they want
to do, so they can officially market case closed and
the families can start to try and navigate their new
(19:45):
normal of life, at least with having their loved ones
case solved. All right, moving on to our next case update.
So I talked about this briefly in a right now
in True Crime, the discovery of of the body that
was found in the tesla that belonged to Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
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She is a fifteen year old girl. She went missing
and then her body was discovered inside of an impounded
tesla that belonged to a singer named David. The A
in David is the number four. So this happened in September,
that's when she was found. And there's been a lot
(20:28):
going on, kind of behind the scenes, I guess, because
initially they were saying that there was no evidence that
David was involved, there was even a person of interest necessarily,
but they officially have come forward, the Los Angeles Police
and said that he is considered a suspect in the
investigation into her death. Now, there were initial rumors that
(20:50):
he was being cooperative with the investigation, but now it
is coming out that is not true. He is not
cooperating with the investigation and has never cooperated with the investigation.
There is a lot going on here. Because they allegedly
started dating when Celeste was only thirteen. David is twenty.
He is a grown human man, and there's no place
(21:14):
on this planet that that is okay that you should
be having any type of relationship with a child. She
is a child, and her family I guess knew that
she was in a relationship with this individual, but I
guess she was also kind of missing at one point
in time. I don't really know the dynamics, but this
is just so messy and there's a lot going on here.
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I think even if he's not involved in her murder,
obviously he had a very inappropriate relationship with this young child,
not okay, not acceptable in any way, shape or form.
And then her body ends up in your impouded tesla.
It just isn't a good look. And it's being looked
at as a murder investigation, because there was even in
(22:00):
a while when we weren't really even sure if they
were going to even say that it was a murder.
Was her body just put there? Did she die accidentally?
Did she overdose? There's so many questions that we still
do not have answered, and I really do think that
law enforcement is kind of keeping things hush hush on
purpose because they're trying to formulate and build their case.
But if anything more comes of this, which I'm sure
(22:22):
it will, I will be sure to keep you guys updated.
All right, onto Idaho for news. BK has been ordered
to pay additional restitution. So he already is supposed to
be paying three hundred thousand dollars plus in a restitution
and they have added on an additional three thousand dollars
(22:43):
to that amount because he needs to pay for the
earns of Kaylee and Maddie. And honestly, my opinion on
the matter is this individual should have zero in their
commissary at all times and every things should just go
to the families for the rest of time. So he
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actually has to live a super super miserable life behind
bars and have no amenities, no fun snacks, nothing. He
just exists and he eats prison food and prison food only,
and he's just a miserable human behind bars because that
is exactly what he deserves. I'm tired of talking about
(23:26):
this guy, but any time that it's good news for
the families and they get any little bit of anything,
I want to talk about it. There was also another
death on a cruise ship. A young girl named Anna
Kepner was found deceased underneath the bed of her room
(23:47):
on a cruise ship, and now there's an uncle coming
out that says that her stepbrother is the one who's responsible.
That is a whole deep dive kind of situation. She
was only eight ten years old and she was allegedly
found stabbed and under the bed in her room on
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this cruise ship. I'm not going to talk a whole
lot about it because there's still stuff coming out. But
as things start to develop more, I will go a
little more in depth and talk a little bit more
about it. But right now things are just kind of
in limbo. I know, they said that they do have
surveillance video of them on the cruise together, so it's
(24:28):
obvious that this person was there and it's going to
be interesting to see what ends up coming out with that.
Sean Ditty Combs faces new sex battery accusations. Color me shocked.
So they have started an investigation into this new accusation.
There is a male music producer and publicist who said
(24:51):
that he was asked to come to a photoshoot with
Diddy in twenty twenty at a La warehouse, and Sean
exposed himself while masturbating and told this individual, the music producer,
to assist him, and he is now coming forward with
his story. So this guy is just never, ever, ever
(25:13):
going to change. I'm glad he's in jail for a
little while longer. I hope the accusations and charges keep
piling up on him. But unfortunately, this man is just
a demon of a person in my opinion, allegedly, and
I just think it's going to keep stacking and stacking
and stacking and stacking. So it will be interesting to
(25:36):
see if anything more comes of all of these new accusations,
because I feel like every week things are coming out,
and that's exactly the way it should be, because he
is an actual monster. All right, last thing we're going
to talk about, Speaking of horrible, monstrous humans. OJ Simpson's
estate officially has agreed to pay ron Goldman's dad fifty
(25:58):
eight million dollars thirty whole years after his life was
brutally taken. As we know, O. J. Simpson passed away,
so it is now in the estates hands and they
are going to be paying Ronald Goldman's dad fifty eight million,
which I am all about because that poor man and
his poor family have been through so much in everything
(26:23):
that has transpired. I honestly can't believe that that happened
thirty years ago. I think that was the first trial
I ever watched on court TV with my mom. I
remember it being on so well, and I was so
invested in it, even though I was only nine years old.
I was very invested, and I think that's probably where
part of my fascination and obsession with true crime kind
(26:47):
of came in, because I was so glued to this
case and I couldn't even get over when they found
him not guilty. I was shocked by that entire thing.
So I've been following ever since and all of the
different and things, all of the different things with OJ
him eventually going back to jail for the veguas situation
(27:09):
that happened. I'm just glad that that man had to
serve some time in jail, regardless of what it was for.
But I'm also really glad to hear this news that
the Goldman family is going to be getting more money
from the estate of OJ Simpson, which is exactly what
should be happening. So that is it for this little
(27:30):
weekly crazy long catchup in Right Now in True Crime.
I am going to be releasing an episode on Thanksgiving
that is being brought to you by my friend Kadra
from Perplexity, a mystery podcast. This case actually takes place
on Thanksgiving, so it's appropriate that I release it. And
of course, I know people probably aren't going to be
(27:52):
listening to true crime podcasts on Thanksgiving Day, but it
will be there when you are ready to listen to it,
so please tune in for that, and then I will
be back the next week with a brand new unsolved
case I have been diligently working on. I very much
wanted to get this true crime catchup done and out
because I feel like it has just grown over the
(28:13):
last couple of weeks. They didn't do it Right Now
in True Crime last week, and I feel like if
I waited any longer that I was going to have
to do an hour long episode on Right Now in
True Crime because so much has gone on. There's been
so many different things happening in a bunch of different cases,
and I thought this was a great way to kind
of bring it all together and wrap everything up. So
(28:35):
I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend ahead, have
a great Thanksgiving, do all of your Black Friday and
Cyber Monday shopping. Get all of your Christmas shopping done
because we are going to be in December before you
know it, and I hate the mad rush of December.
Get all of your Christmas shopping done asap. This is
(28:55):
my PSA to you. It is not too late Amazon
dot com. And if you're looking for something to buy me,
I am a size farmhouse with a wraparound porch on
like seventeen acres of land with no neighbors. So keep
me in mind for your Christmas list and I will
see you guys officially in two weeks for a brand
(29:18):
new unsolved case. Have a good one bye,
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