October 10, 2022 • 31 mins
Debra, Diana, and Jesi talk about the peanut butter prison break, how a hot summer can reveal what lies beneath, and a girl who survived her own murder... and 10 days that went missing in 1582.
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https://www.britannica.com/story/ten-days-that-vanished-the-switch-to-the-gregorian-calendar
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/02/541115659/ala-peanut-butter-jail-escape-ends-with-capture-of-final-inmate
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/alabama-inmates-escape-peanut-butter.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/15/millennia-of-human-activity-heatwave-reveals-lost-uk-archaeological-sites
https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-sam-shelton-who-tried-to-kill-ashley-reeves-now
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/02/541115659/ala-peanut-butter-jail-escape-ends-with-capture-of-final-inmate
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/alabama-inmates-escape-peanut-butter.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/15/millennia-of-human-activity-heatwave-reveals-lost-uk-archaeological-sites
https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-sam-shelton-who-tried-to-kill-ashley-reeves-now
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(00:00):
We are the ladies who sparked myinterest. It's so much fun because there's
this anonymity. You are a twinkie. I want to see Jesse use a
twinkie. Yeah. I have ahard time thinking about putting my lips to
that. Yeah, all right,Diana take it away. I thought water
could turn to wine, but metal, man, I am still itchy.
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Oh from the Oh my god,you started the allergy shots, didn't you.
I did. Okay, wait,so we haven't heard this yet,
and now I'm very anxious to hearit. But a couple episodes ago,
you did the needles in the backwhere they test you to see what you're
allergic for, and you were allergicto like pages and pages of things,
and so they're developing this like serum. Right, well I took it.
I took Oh my god. Sothey got it done that fast. That
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was fast. And they basically justgive you doses of your allergy and that's
that's not much to it. Andthey give you four separate shots for the
four different groupings, well in mycase, for different groupings of what I
was allergic to. So it waslike trees was one of them. That
was like cats and weeds, andthen one of the one was all grass
and the other one was like dogsand some other stuff. And most of
them are all right, but thetrees that gets it just blew up my
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arm. It was just like morethan a plum size. Le might say,
it's bigger than a plum on yourarm. They have to reduce your
dosage because I had to go ona double dose of zertec. They usually
say, don't take more than onein a twenty five period. They're like,
no, take another one because Iwas still like rhinitis, sneezing,
all that stuff just from the shots. How many shots did you have,
Well, you get four shots.Each one has has the different grouping of
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allergen. So you had two ineach arm. Yeah, two in each
charm, and they put it inthe same place every time you get the
therapy, right, And in thiscase, they're like, yeah, we're
going to lower your tree dose.The other ones are fine, but they're
not really concerned as much about thelocal reaction as they are about your systemic
reaction. Because I was having asystemic reaction to the shot. They're like,
we need to lower the dose becauseyou're already on anihistamines and you're still
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having this reaction. So so didyou have to stay there for a while
when they gave you the shots tosea? Yes, so you have to
bring and you have to bring whatthey call up something beaut all that inhaler,
and then you have to wait thirtyminutes after the shots in your car
because they don't have a huge likeblobby just in your car and let us
know if anything starts to go awry. Oh man, never tell a hypochondriact
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that I did. Oh, Idon't know, maybe it is. Well.
At first, I was like,I'm not having any respiratory issues,
but my nose just started running likecrazy and I was starting to sneeze,
and throughout the day it was startingto get worse. And I wasn't getting
like asthma or anything, but itwas really like I hadn't taken bill Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I was like, I took in a fullolergy pill.
I should be fine, and I'dtake a second one to be normal.
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How many times do you have todo this? Well, it kind
of depends on how long it takesyou get over it. So they start
you off on what they call thebuilding phase, or you take small,
small doses and then once you canhandle those without so your reactions, then
you build up and then you getto like this maintenance phase. And after
the maintenance phase, if you stopreacting, they say you're cured. Wow.
Some people never get cured, somepeople do. So the key to
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though I found out, is youhave to go in with zero inflammation ideally,
so you don't want to be sick. You don't want to be having
an allergical action to something else,So you want to be like they basically
said to me, They're like,take two zero tech before you come in,
and then take two more zertech inthe morning, so you're all like
a huge dose and then you shouldhave no response to this ideally, because
if you have a response, you'renot solving the problem. You need to
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trick your body into being like,there's no reason to be afraid right now,
there's no reason to respond to this. That is so crazy. So
more updates to come. And ifyou want to hear more of those updates,
which why wouldn't you, you needto tune in DEUK those exciting allergy
therapy stories. Never seriously, I'mgoing to help somebody problem. Yeah,
true, there will definitely help otherpeople. So if you want to be
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a part of that learning journey withus. We are the ladies that spark
my Interest podcast. My name isDiana, I'm Debrah, I'm Jesse,
And every week we get together.We gather articles that we found online or
in books or in magazines, andwe share them with one another, and
at the end of every episode,we vote to see who had the most
spark. The article prize mains CBD. At this point, we don't care.
We're just in it for the gloryof that win. And I know
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we all brought it today. Butbefore we get to those stories, I
know we do have a spark meup, Jesse, I believe you brought
it right. I did. Thisis a quick one. So we kind
of cover calendars from time to time, and interesting calendars. I can't blin
how many good ones. We havesome good ones. Yeah, this isn't
top notch, but it's I thoughtit was interesting. Did you know that
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when they switched from the Julian calendarto the Gregorian calendar in some places,
ten days were just lost. Sothe church basically decided that they didn't want
to skip any major Christian festivals,so they waited for the feast of Saint
Francis of Assi on October fourth,fifteen eighty two, and then after that
they're like, it's October fifteenth,go hard, So what my birthday,
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dallars? Yeah? Or what ifyou had planned like no, we're getting
married on the seventh. Yeah.But it wasn't like a worldwide rollout either.
So some non Catholic countries eventually didbegin to adopt the Gregorian calendar,
but there were going to be theselike date discrepancies. Yeah, they were
going to lose ten days at somepoint, that's right, Oh weird,
Yeah, we're never going to getthose ten days back. Those kind of
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like the leap here too. LikeI understand why we have the leap here,
but I'm always like February twenty eighthcomes and then I'm like, now
it's March verse, but what dayis it? Really? Yeah, it's
whatever we say it is. Imean it's still a day. Yeah,
Like you're losing days off the endof your life. You're just renaming them
a rose by any other name,Debra, a day by any other date.
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So true, Jesse, way toput it into perspective, there it
is. Well, I'm sparked andalso a little annoyed like I do those
ten days they deserve to be had, but very interesting. Thank you for
bringing it, Jesse, I cango ahead and take us into our sparkler
spot. Our sparkler spot at theweek is Caleb from Vancouver, Canada.
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He starts out and his email tous, writing in to say thank you.
My girlfriend is a fan of yourshow and I listen on occasion.
Podcasts aren't my thing. Okay,he's writing in. Yeah, there you
go. We'll take it, hesays, but I do enjoy your content.
My girlfriend's sister went to college thisyear at a state and it's really
(06:26):
hit her harder than expected. Afew episodes ago, you had a man
right in about how he and hisdaughter use your podcast as a sort of
touch point. Oh well, yeah, big thanks to that guy, because
my girlfriend started doing the same thing, only a step further. They both
listen to the podcast via the phone. It's like they have this dedicated bonding
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between them every Monday night. She'sstill bummed, but better. Thank you
for providing the content and for makingthis transition on both of them a little
easier. Caleb, Oh I lovethat guys. That shit is what warms
my heart. About this thing,like there are two sisters that are living
states apart and they listen to ourfucking podcast on a Monday night. Like
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that's together. Yes, that's awesomelistening. Now, hey ladies, yeah,
yeah, did he write Did heput their names in there? No,
he didn't. He just said mygirlfriend and her sister. His name
is Caleb. So whoever's dating Calebout there in Vancouver, Canada give my
hub. Yeah, thank you somuch Caleb for writing us in. Hopefully
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you're listening today and you can hearus read read this on the air.
Oh that was lovely. Thank you, Thank you so much, Caleb.
So we have been properly sparked andwe have heard from a listener, so
that can only take us into ourstory time. I have an article I
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used to Actually one is from MPRdot org. It was written on August
two, twenty seventeen, by AmyHeld, and the other one is nbcnews
dot com written August first, twentyseventeen by the Associated Press and Destiny Muse.
So this takes place in the smalltown of Jasper, Alabama. I
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looked them up just briefly. They'reabout a small town of fifteen thousand people.
And if you want proximity, they'reabout a thirty seven minute drive or
forty miles northwest of Birmingham. Sothis little town they have the Walker County
Jail. That sounds like a drink, doesn't it. I'll have a Walker
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County Jail. I didn't think that, But now maybe I'm gonna make that
shot. And we're going to haveone on Halloween. All right, let's
do it. Now we need tobe dressed as almates. There you go,
okay. So at the end ofthe very end of July twenty seventeen,
there were a dozen inmates at thisjail. They were all in for
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cases as small as having possession ofdrug paraphernalia, to attempt and murder,
and they had somehow tricked the newprison guard to open the door to the
outside versus opening the door and toand sell. And when he opened that
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door, these twelve guys escaped.How do you trick? Somebody was like,
come on, well, they hadto run across the field and it
took them ten minutes to get overthe fence, which had razor wire on
it. But these guys had didall twelve of them get out? They
all twelve got out, and theyhad blankets with them when they ran out,
so they could use the blankets asa means to crawl over the gate.
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And there were some cuts and scrapFor the most part, no one
really got hurt. One guy gota significant cut on his thumb, but
he even kept running. It sayssix inmates were captured shortly after their escape,
so almost immediately and then worth it. Man, Yeah, he's tucked
on a bunch of years right here. Six hours on the run. Yeah,
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and by I believe our twelve ofbeing gone, they had eleven of
the twelve inmates. They did thison a Sunday and on Tuesday, the
twelfth escape. His name was BradyPatrick. He was twenty four years old.
He was captured. Now mind you, this was Alabama. He was
in toe Questa, Florida. Andthere's one article said that he was with
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friends, but the other article saidit was his sister and brother in law,
So I'm not really sure the relationshipfor sure. But they got him,
and then the two that were helpinghim hide also got in trouble where
you'd be like, God, yeah, they're harboring a fugitive aiding in a
bed, right, Yeah, hehadn't done much. His charges were in
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regards to drugs. It was justpossession of drugs, so at least he
wasn't the attempted murderer. But still, what I find the most interesting about
this is how they got out.And they did take advantage of a new
guard. He was fairly new,and so they were like, okay,
I believe they just were like,this guy's fucking naive and we can play
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with him. And they had peanutbutter sandwiches at lunch, and they all
scraped the peanut butter from their sandwichesand then somehow used that peanut butter to
alter the numbers over the exit doorand a cell door. So when they
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said we want to get into theoutside, it was a cell room number
versus an outside door number. Andso that's why the guard let them out.
Oh my gosh, peanut but theycovered it. Yeah, they covered
numbers and no, they said thatthey manipulated the numbers on there. So
I'm guessing the numbers were written inlike a tan color. Yeah, and
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they used peanut butter to make Idon't know, like a nine looked like
an eight or something. Do youknow what I mean? How you can
amybate members. So look the waythey you want them to, Okay,
but that's what they did. Wowyeah, wow yeah. So it's like
a forty eight hour fiasco. Itmade it all over the news and everybody
got caught. Wow peanut butter.They I want to see that peanut butter
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sign. Yeah, they did nothave a picture of the work. But
the last line of this I thoughtwas funny. So they interviewed Sheriff William
D. Snyder in the Martin County, Florida jail where this Brady Kilpatrick was
being held, and so it reportersare all over it because this is like
a big news story in that area. And he said, they said,
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you know, are you worried abouthim, you know, escaping here?
If he can escape, what makesyou think he can't escape where you are?
And all this every gut but he'sgoing to be looking at it.
Well this Sheriff William Schneider or hejust replied, I can tell you this,
he won't be getting peanut butter anyway. I got a good laugh,
yea, And I thought it wasa fun story. Peanut butter. And
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one of those things is it doesmake life better. I think I love
peanut butter. Yeah to remove thatfrom your diet too for a stunt like
that, oh, not worth it. And just to be out for you
know, six twenty four hours forsure, I got a good one of
them. It's um showing the silverlining of global warming. Oh that sounds
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tricky. I'm actually very You've definitelysparked my interest here. Yeah, okay.
This comes to us from the Guardiandot com. It was actually published
four years ago August fourteenth, twentyeighteen, by May of Kennedy. It
was a particularly hot summer in theUK and eighteen and left a lot of
crops shriveled and gardens scorched. Andwhat happens is when you have a really
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dry surface. This is the theoryis that the moisture from below kind of
comes up to help support the dryarea. But when you have structures,
let's say a wall or something buriedunder the ground, that moisture doesn't always
come up the same way. Soyou have a difference between the moisture of
just let's say, grass over dirtversus grass over some structure under the ground.
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Do you know where I'm going withthis? I don't. Yeah,
So as a result, of thishot summer all over the UK, Whales,
Scotland. I like, burn itup right now. Yeah, But
all these archaeological sites with ancient Romanstuff or stuff they didn't even know existed.
It's under these fields of grass andyou can see the outlines of all
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these old ancient structures in this drygrass because of the difference between the dirt
and the structures underneath and how theydry out the land. And so all
these aerial photographers were going out andtaking like pictures of all this stuff to
document it. So they have thishuge library now of all these archaeological places
that haven't yet been discovered. Reallyyeah, some of them been rediscovered or
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discovered for the first time, andnow they know where they all are.
Because of this rare hot summer,they were able to see them in the
grass. That is really neat andalso terrifying, you know. Yeah.
Yeah. It says that the fewof the newly identified sites will ever be
excavated, but now their location isknown and many will be given protection from
deep plowing or development. I'm wonderingif somebody's gonna be like, oh no,
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Noah's Ark and where all those peoplethere are? The gent comandments,
but they're saying, you know,some of the stuff goes back to you
know, thousands of years ago.Yeah, that's incredible. With all the
flooding and the droughts all over theplace, we're seeing cities have been underwater
for so long not be underwater y. Yeah. Yeah, the bits of
history coming up in other areas goingunderwater for the first time. Yeah,
(15:54):
there's scary. So much taking placeright now. I feel like you don't
see enough of it in the news. But it's like, how many typhoons
can you have at one time?And hurricanes and earthquakes, typhoons or tsunamis
what is the difference then, betweena hurricane and a typhoon. I was
just gonna ask the same thing.So the difference between hurricanes, typhoons and
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cyclones is that they're actually the samekind of storm. It just happens to
be where they originate from. Soif it's in the Atlantic or the closer
to the United States side of thePacific, it's called a hurricane. If
it's over towards the eastern side ofthe Pacific, so all along the Asian
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coast and Australia, that's a typhoon. And if it's south of the equator,
it's a cyclone. Wow, decidedthat I had no idea. It
feels like in the days sometimes whereI'm like, what, how is this
happening? And then you don't hearabout it all. You're like, oh,
should I be worried? Am Iworried enough? Like crazy crazy stuff
going. Well, I think there'syou know, there's global warming happening,
right, but there's also the twentyfour hour new cycle now and instantaneous information,
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so we eat all of this inthe news and that's what's so alarming
about it. Same things going onin Iran, like we don't hear enough
about that as well. You haveto be kind of on social media to
get all of those those oh thevideos on TikTok alone with Ivan, with
people being like, I don't knowhow long I'm gonna have my internet,
but here's what's going on. Thatis insane and I have such empathy for
(17:26):
them. I hate what's going onover there. It's inspiring and saddening at
the same time. These these womenum cutting their hair and everything and a
lot a lot going on. Yeah, um, that that is bleak And
I can bring us into a story, and I wish you was a little
bit more of a feel good storybut has a happy ending. I will
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say that, Okay, I'll takeus home. My article comes from Oxygen
dot com published June eleventh, twentytwenty one, by Gina Tron and also
Truecrime Daily dot com on February sixthof twenty seventeen. I do not have
an author listed for that one.On April twenty seventh, two thousand and
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six, in Belleville, Illinois,junior in high school she was seventeen years
old named Ashley Reeves, was brutallyattacked in a park and then left for
dead. So Ashley was considered avery funny and bright student. She had
a lot of friends, and shehad a steady boyfriend named Jeremy. She'd
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been dating for like two years.That day, that afternoon, she left
her parents house. She's like,I have a job interview. She didn't
have her own car, so shetook her boyfriend's SUV to drive fifteen miles
to the interview. She did notreturn. So she's a very popular girl.
Her friends, her family, everybody'slike where is she? She should
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have been home by now, Likewhat's going on? They call and text
everybody there calling and texting her.Nothing, nothing's happening. So that evening
her parents are like, well,I mean, hopefully we're being dramatic,
but we don't know. They calledthe police and they're like, oh no,
you always don't worry about being dramatic. You just fucking call the police
exactly. They did the right thing. So they're in a panic. They're
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like, she should be around.So the police are like, we're on
it. They quickly find her boyfriend'sparked suv. It's empty and it's sitting
at Laderman Park in Belleville, likeback where she's from, not where she
was going to get her interview.So Jeremy is like a parents' dream come
true. He treats her really well. He's just kind of enamored with Ashley
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and he's been her study boyfriend fortwo years. Regardless at that point,
he's going to be the prime suspect. Yep. So the police are like,
we're talking to him, stat theytalked to him and this guy he's
like like they can just tell.They're like, he has nothing to do
with this, Like he has nothingto do with this. He's just genuinely
concerned and answers everything super quick.You can just tell he's like on the
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ball with like great information. Sothrough their conversation though with Jeremy, they
received a really big clue from him. He's like, Yeah, she told
me she was going through this interviewand then she was going to go play
basketball in the park. And they'relike, going to play basketball in the
park. Okay, Why is thisgirl going to an interview and then playing
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basketball in a park that's so faraway from her house. It's not the
local park, yeah, that shewas found at so close. Friends of
Ashley's tell the police that Ashley oftendid meet with a guy that they all
knew to play basketball. And thisguy was not a boy their age.
He was a twenty seven year old. His name was Samson Sheldon, and
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he was the driver's ed teacher ata rival school. Now, what the
fuck why is she hanging out thisguy? So the next morning, her
parents go through her phone because itwas left in the car, and they
dial any number that they see inher call logue but don't recognize, and
they find one that's in the calllogue multiple times. So when they call
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it this Samson Sheldon, he answers, this guy was her middle school gym
teacher. Middle school gym teacher.So he tells them that I don't know,
I haven't seen her in a while. They're like, do you play
basketball with her? Her friends aresaying that you play basketball with her,
and he's like, well, sosometimes she just wants to play basketball and
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we'll meet at your local park andplay. But like that's all we do.
And I haven't seen her in months. Why are you calling her exactly?
So they think something is obviously suspicious. The parents are like, I
don't know. Something doesn't sit rightwith us. They tell the police,
Hey, we talk to him,and we think this is kind of fucked
up. So they go to hisnew school where he is the driver's teacher
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and he's also a basketball coach thereand they just pull him out of practice.
So like, bitch, you're comingwith us, like we're going to
talk to you. So they takehim in and they start talking to him
and he's just like yeah. Hesticks to the story. He's like,
no, nothing ever happened between us, like legitimately, like we've known each
other and since she was a studentin middle school, we play basketball sometimes.
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That's it. Hours into questioning thoughhe's kind of like, okay,
so here is one thing. Yes, we played basketball, but honestly I
could tell that she was becoming reallyobsessed with me, Like she was just
so this really popular girl with thepopular boyfriend. Yeah. Yeah, So
he's like, so, yeah,I did see her yesterday, but I
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just told her, like, youneed to leave me alone, and maybe
that upset her and she might havejust like run off. Now that's his
new story. Then he admits thatthey're like it was there anything going on
between you two? And he waslike no, like we would only hug.
That was all. We would justhug when we would leave each other.
That was it. More hours intoquestioning, he finally admits, okay,
(23:07):
like, well, we want tobe adamant. We never kissed.
We never kissed. We did havesex last night and I felt terrible about
it, and so I told herthat we could never do that again,
and she was so distraught that sheran off. So now that's his new
story. They're like, this guy, but we didn't kids do it.
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They didn't kiss, but they didhave sex. God, don't worry,
they're kissing involved. We didn't havesex, but we didn't kissed. So
there's a whole thing in here wherehe lives with his grand his mother and
his grandma, and he's very closeto his grandma. And they're, you
know, on the back end,learning all the stuff that they possibly can
about this guy, and they're like, guys, really close to his grandma.
So they bring her up. They'relike, what would your grandma think
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about everything that you're doing right now? And it gets to him, it
works, you know, and he'slike, Oh, I just need a
moment to really think. I justneed to think, and so they give
him a moment alone. When theycome back, it's like twelve hours of
questioning, and at that point,he just admits everything. He just confesses
like, Okay, here's what's goingon. He not only admits to harming
her, but he's like, Ican tell you where the body is.
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So he tells them that they weresitting in the car and basically they had
an argument, and he's like,he's trying to be like a professional wrestler
at this time, and he wascalled the teacher was his calling, which
was just on a wrestler on hername anyway, So he put her in
a choke hold and yeah, andso then he heard her neck pop and
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he freaked out and he's like,oh my god, what am I supposed
to do now? So he saysthat he dragged her into the woods,
away from the park and left her. So the police take him to the
woods. It's a cold, rainy, dark night. They have their flashlights
kind of all over the place,and it takes thirty minutes of searching and
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they finally find Ashley's like broken body. Here's the thing, it has been
thirty hours since she occurred. Yeah, yeah, she's breathing. I was
gonna say she might still be alive. Yeah, yeah, she is breathing.
She's in bad shape, she's mangled, she's cold, and she has
hundreds of insect bites, which I'mlike, that is just adding insult to
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in your oh. But she's miraculouslyalive. So she was left for dead
for thirty hours. Samson says thatthey had gotten in that argument and so
he dragged her into the woods andthen he was like, I don't know
what to do. And he showsup to a countryline dancing club. And
the creepiest thing about this is thatthere is video footage of him at this
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club. You would not know thatanything's wrong. He's just like just dancing
along in his countryline dancing. I'mlike, oh my god, this is
so creepy. So anyway, yeah, they find her. She is alive.
They take him back to the station. Obviously he's going to jail.
Yeah, and this guy is soself absorbed. He's asking questions, not
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really like how is she? What'sgoing on? I can't believe she's alive.
I was so terrified, like noneof that. He's like, um,
so, am I gonna get mycontact solution because like I can't take
my contacts out without that, andlike I am really adamant about my toothbrush,
Like I'm gonna need that toothbrush.He says, I'm gonna need to
have my own private toilet because Ican't pee in front of other people and
(26:34):
I have urinary stress disorder, right, Brilli, don't wait to line you
up in front of all the inmates. I'm really going to be uncomfortable if
I can't pee. These cops arejust like, oh my god, just
diving into his psyche. Like thisguy could not care about anybody else,
Like he's just so self involved.He got twenty years a twenty year sentence
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and he's still in prison today.Why only twenty years? I know I
thought so too, because it's attended. This is so fucking bullshit. Though
he should be there for life.He should be there for life for sure.
Ashley was in a coma for weeks. He did break her next she
was technically paralyzed, but when shecame to within a year, she had
(27:19):
full range of her whole body.Again, really, yes, full range.
So she says that she does notshe has very little memory of the
incident, and it's probably a blessing, probably, But yeah, that is
the story of Ashley Reeves. Ihad never heard about it. But how
creepy that this former teacher of hershad been grooming her and they were having
(27:41):
a sexual relationship. Yeah, Ido think it was an accident, but
he her neck popped and he freakedout and then left her for dead and
then went dancing. That's the creepiestthing. But it all worked out in
the end. But yes, Iagree, the sentence is way too yes
for this piece of shit. Unlesshe's gonna be ninety years old when he's
(28:03):
let out. You know, hewas twenty six when he did it.
Yeah, he's gonna be a fullycapable man of doing this shit again.
I'll see what happens. You know, this is kind of a downer of
an episode, right, I likedmy peanut Butter guys. They at least
gave me a laugh. You peanutButter escape. So we started out with
we had hidden structures underground that showedduring a droughtful warming or heating global warming
(28:30):
silver lining. I liked her.Yeah, And then we have Ashley Reeves
Survivor. Wow, I gotta goAshley Reeves. I mean me too.
I love a good survivor story.She actually you can find her. She
does things with Elizabeth Smart Now likeum episodes of like true crime things together
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and I love that as well.Yeah, I do two survivors. Jesse,
how are you voting? Yeah,that's pretty astounding, Like make me
afraid for my daughter. I'm justgonna be like, yeahsh yeah, I'm
put a tracker on her and don'tlet her get too close to any teachers,
right, Yeah, have any adultsor I just have this theory of
like, like you know, howyou can track family members and things on
(29:14):
find my iPhone. My family justkind of agreed amongst the adults, like
we would all be on each other'sjust so we all know everybody is.
If there's an Nancy, I thinkI like, as a an, the
parent of a team, I'd belike, look, I don't care where
you are, what you're doing.I just want to know that you're safe.
That's all I care about. Soif, like, I know,
maybe you don't want me to know, I'm not going to look unless it's
an emergency. And I'll never faultyou for being in the wrong place.
(29:37):
I just want to know where youare if you need me. Yeah,
I don't blame you. Yeah.One of my sisters uses find my iPhone
with her kids and they're all gamefor it. Yep. Yeah. I
mean one of her kids is incollege and he's always like, make sure
you turn that on, Like whenhe's driving back and he's going to be
in the car for a few hours, just like you got that on,
right, He's like, I FI'm in a car accident or whatever.
(29:57):
He wants to know if somebody's outto find Yeah. Absolutely crazy. But
she was separated from her phone,so yeah, that's when you get the
microchip. Oh man, So didyou go Ashley Reeves as well? Jesse?
Yeah, I did. Well,look at us. We got at
one leg of a terokee. Wegot a street going. Yeah. If
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(31:00):
listening. We appreciate you all,and until next week, we hope you
all gets sparked
We are the ladies who sparked myinterest. It's so much fun because there's
this anonymity. You are a twinkie. I want to see Jesse use a
twinkie. Yeah. I have ahard time thinking about putting my lips to
that. Yeah, all right,Diana take it away. I thought water
could turn to wine, but metal, man, I am still itchy.
(00:21):
Oh from the Oh my god,you started the allergy shots, didn't you.
I did. Okay, wait,so we haven't heard this yet,
and now I'm very anxious to hearit. But a couple episodes ago,
you did the needles in the backwhere they test you to see what you're
allergic for, and you were allergicto like pages and pages of things,
and so they're developing this like serum. Right, well I took it.
I took Oh my god. Sothey got it done that fast. That
(00:44):
was fast. And they basically justgive you doses of your allergy and that's
that's not much to it. Andthey give you four separate shots for the
four different groupings, well in mycase, for different groupings of what I
was allergic to. So it waslike trees was one of them. That
was like cats and weeds, andthen one of the one was all grass
and the other one was like dogsand some other stuff. And most of
them are all right, but thetrees that gets it just blew up my
(01:07):
arm. It was just like morethan a plum size. Le might say,
it's bigger than a plum on yourarm. They have to reduce your
dosage because I had to go ona double dose of zertec. They usually
say, don't take more than onein a twenty five period. They're like,
no, take another one because Iwas still like rhinitis, sneezing,
all that stuff just from the shots. How many shots did you have,
Well, you get four shots.Each one has has the different grouping of
(01:30):
allergen. So you had two ineach arm. Yeah, two in each
charm, and they put it inthe same place every time you get the
therapy, right, And in thiscase, they're like, yeah, we're
going to lower your tree dose.The other ones are fine, but they're
not really concerned as much about thelocal reaction as they are about your systemic
reaction. Because I was having asystemic reaction to the shot. They're like,
we need to lower the dose becauseyou're already on anihistamines and you're still
(01:52):
having this reaction. So so didyou have to stay there for a while
when they gave you the shots tosea? Yes, so you have to
bring and you have to bring whatthey call up something beaut all that inhaler,
and then you have to wait thirtyminutes after the shots in your car
because they don't have a huge likeblobby just in your car and let us
know if anything starts to go awry. Oh man, never tell a hypochondriact
(02:14):
that I did. Oh, Idon't know, maybe it is. Well.
At first, I was like,I'm not having any respiratory issues,
but my nose just started running likecrazy and I was starting to sneeze,
and throughout the day it was startingto get worse. And I wasn't getting
like asthma or anything, but itwas really like I hadn't taken bill Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I was like, I took in a fullolergy pill.
I should be fine, and I'dtake a second one to be normal.
(02:37):
How many times do you have todo this? Well, it kind
of depends on how long it takesyou get over it. So they start
you off on what they call thebuilding phase, or you take small,
small doses and then once you canhandle those without so your reactions, then
you build up and then you getto like this maintenance phase. And after
the maintenance phase, if you stopreacting, they say you're cured. Wow.
Some people never get cured, somepeople do. So the key to
(03:00):
though I found out, is youhave to go in with zero inflammation ideally,
so you don't want to be sick. You don't want to be having
an allergical action to something else,So you want to be like they basically
said to me, They're like,take two zero tech before you come in,
and then take two more zertech inthe morning, so you're all like
a huge dose and then you shouldhave no response to this ideally, because
if you have a response, you'renot solving the problem. You need to
(03:20):
trick your body into being like,there's no reason to be afraid right now,
there's no reason to respond to this. That is so crazy. So
more updates to come. And ifyou want to hear more of those updates,
which why wouldn't you, you needto tune in DEUK those exciting allergy
therapy stories. Never seriously, I'mgoing to help somebody problem. Yeah,
true, there will definitely help otherpeople. So if you want to be
(03:43):
a part of that learning journey withus. We are the ladies that spark
my Interest podcast. My name isDiana, I'm Debrah, I'm Jesse,
And every week we get together.We gather articles that we found online or
in books or in magazines, andwe share them with one another, and
at the end of every episode,we vote to see who had the most
spark. The article prize mains CBD. At this point, we don't care.
We're just in it for the gloryof that win. And I know
(04:04):
we all brought it today. Butbefore we get to those stories, I
know we do have a spark meup, Jesse, I believe you brought
it right. I did. Thisis a quick one. So we kind
of cover calendars from time to time, and interesting calendars. I can't blin
how many good ones. We havesome good ones. Yeah, this isn't
top notch, but it's I thoughtit was interesting. Did you know that
(04:28):
when they switched from the Julian calendarto the Gregorian calendar in some places,
ten days were just lost. Sothe church basically decided that they didn't want
to skip any major Christian festivals,so they waited for the feast of Saint
Francis of Assi on October fourth,fifteen eighty two, and then after that
they're like, it's October fifteenth,go hard, So what my birthday,
(04:53):
dallars? Yeah? Or what ifyou had planned like no, we're getting
married on the seventh. Yeah.But it wasn't like a worldwide rollout either.
So some non Catholic countries eventually didbegin to adopt the Gregorian calendar,
but there were going to be theselike date discrepancies. Yeah, they were
going to lose ten days at somepoint, that's right, Oh weird,
Yeah, we're never going to getthose ten days back. Those kind of
(05:16):
like the leap here too. LikeI understand why we have the leap here,
but I'm always like February twenty eighthcomes and then I'm like, now
it's March verse, but what dayis it? Really? Yeah, it's
whatever we say it is. Imean it's still a day. Yeah,
Like you're losing days off the endof your life. You're just renaming them
a rose by any other name,Debra, a day by any other date.
(05:36):
So true, Jesse, way toput it into perspective, there it
is. Well, I'm sparked andalso a little annoyed like I do those
ten days they deserve to be had, but very interesting. Thank you for
bringing it, Jesse, I cango ahead and take us into our sparkler
spot. Our sparkler spot at theweek is Caleb from Vancouver, Canada.
(06:03):
He starts out and his email tous, writing in to say thank you.
My girlfriend is a fan of yourshow and I listen on occasion.
Podcasts aren't my thing. Okay,he's writing in. Yeah, there you
go. We'll take it, hesays, but I do enjoy your content.
My girlfriend's sister went to college thisyear at a state and it's really
(06:26):
hit her harder than expected. Afew episodes ago, you had a man
right in about how he and hisdaughter use your podcast as a sort of
touch point. Oh well, yeah, big thanks to that guy, because
my girlfriend started doing the same thing, only a step further. They both
listen to the podcast via the phone. It's like they have this dedicated bonding
(06:46):
between them every Monday night. She'sstill bummed, but better. Thank you
for providing the content and for makingthis transition on both of them a little
easier. Caleb, Oh I lovethat guys. That shit is what warms
my heart. About this thing,like there are two sisters that are living
states apart and they listen to ourfucking podcast on a Monday night. Like
(07:10):
that's together. Yes, that's awesomelistening. Now, hey ladies, yeah,
yeah, did he write Did heput their names in there? No,
he didn't. He just said mygirlfriend and her sister. His name
is Caleb. So whoever's dating Calebout there in Vancouver, Canada give my
hub. Yeah, thank you somuch Caleb for writing us in. Hopefully
(07:32):
you're listening today and you can hearus read read this on the air.
Oh that was lovely. Thank you, Thank you so much, Caleb.
So we have been properly sparked andwe have heard from a listener, so
that can only take us into ourstory time. I have an article I
(08:01):
used to Actually one is from MPRdot org. It was written on August
two, twenty seventeen, by AmyHeld, and the other one is nbcnews
dot com written August first, twentyseventeen by the Associated Press and Destiny Muse.
So this takes place in the smalltown of Jasper, Alabama. I
(08:26):
looked them up just briefly. They'reabout a small town of fifteen thousand people.
And if you want proximity, they'reabout a thirty seven minute drive or
forty miles northwest of Birmingham. Sothis little town they have the Walker County
Jail. That sounds like a drink, doesn't it. I'll have a Walker
(08:46):
County Jail. I didn't think that, But now maybe I'm gonna make that
shot. And we're going to haveone on Halloween. All right, let's
do it. Now we need tobe dressed as almates. There you go,
okay. So at the end ofthe very end of July twenty seventeen,
there were a dozen inmates at thisjail. They were all in for
(09:11):
cases as small as having possession ofdrug paraphernalia, to attempt and murder,
and they had somehow tricked the newprison guard to open the door to the
outside versus opening the door and toand sell. And when he opened that
(09:31):
door, these twelve guys escaped.How do you trick? Somebody was like,
come on, well, they hadto run across the field and it
took them ten minutes to get overthe fence, which had razor wire on
it. But these guys had didall twelve of them get out? They
all twelve got out, and theyhad blankets with them when they ran out,
so they could use the blankets asa means to crawl over the gate.
(09:58):
And there were some cuts and scrapFor the most part, no one
really got hurt. One guy gota significant cut on his thumb, but
he even kept running. It sayssix inmates were captured shortly after their escape,
so almost immediately and then worth it. Man, Yeah, he's tucked
on a bunch of years right here. Six hours on the run. Yeah,
(10:22):
and by I believe our twelve ofbeing gone, they had eleven of
the twelve inmates. They did thison a Sunday and on Tuesday, the
twelfth escape. His name was BradyPatrick. He was twenty four years old.
He was captured. Now mind you, this was Alabama. He was
in toe Questa, Florida. Andthere's one article said that he was with
(10:43):
friends, but the other article saidit was his sister and brother in law,
So I'm not really sure the relationshipfor sure. But they got him,
and then the two that were helpinghim hide also got in trouble where
you'd be like, God, yeah, they're harboring a fugitive aiding in a
bed, right, Yeah, hehadn't done much. His charges were in
(11:05):
regards to drugs. It was justpossession of drugs, so at least he
wasn't the attempted murderer. But still, what I find the most interesting about
this is how they got out.And they did take advantage of a new
guard. He was fairly new,and so they were like, okay,
I believe they just were like,this guy's fucking naive and we can play
(11:28):
with him. And they had peanutbutter sandwiches at lunch, and they all
scraped the peanut butter from their sandwichesand then somehow used that peanut butter to
alter the numbers over the exit doorand a cell door. So when they
(11:48):
said we want to get into theoutside, it was a cell room number
versus an outside door number. Andso that's why the guard let them out.
Oh my gosh, peanut but theycovered it. Yeah, they covered
numbers and no, they said thatthey manipulated the numbers on there. So
I'm guessing the numbers were written inlike a tan color. Yeah, and
(12:11):
they used peanut butter to make Idon't know, like a nine looked like
an eight or something. Do youknow what I mean? How you can
amybate members. So look the waythey you want them to, Okay,
but that's what they did. Wowyeah, wow yeah. So it's like
a forty eight hour fiasco. Itmade it all over the news and everybody
got caught. Wow peanut butter.They I want to see that peanut butter
(12:33):
sign. Yeah, they did nothave a picture of the work. But
the last line of this I thoughtwas funny. So they interviewed Sheriff William
D. Snyder in the Martin County, Florida jail where this Brady Kilpatrick was
being held, and so it reportersare all over it because this is like
a big news story in that area. And he said, they said,
(12:56):
you know, are you worried abouthim, you know, escaping here?
If he can escape, what makesyou think he can't escape where you are?
And all this every gut but he'sgoing to be looking at it.
Well this Sheriff William Schneider or hejust replied, I can tell you this,
he won't be getting peanut butter anyway. I got a good laugh,
yea, And I thought it wasa fun story. Peanut butter. And
(13:18):
one of those things is it doesmake life better. I think I love
peanut butter. Yeah to remove thatfrom your diet too for a stunt like
that, oh, not worth it. And just to be out for you
know, six twenty four hours forsure, I got a good one of
them. It's um showing the silverlining of global warming. Oh that sounds
(13:41):
tricky. I'm actually very You've definitelysparked my interest here. Yeah, okay.
This comes to us from the Guardiandot com. It was actually published
four years ago August fourteenth, twentyeighteen, by May of Kennedy. It
was a particularly hot summer in theUK and eighteen and left a lot of
crops shriveled and gardens scorched. Andwhat happens is when you have a really
(14:05):
dry surface. This is the theoryis that the moisture from below kind of
comes up to help support the dryarea. But when you have structures,
let's say a wall or something buriedunder the ground, that moisture doesn't always
come up the same way. Soyou have a difference between the moisture of
just let's say, grass over dirtversus grass over some structure under the ground.
(14:28):
Do you know where I'm going withthis? I don't. Yeah,
So as a result, of thishot summer all over the UK, Whales,
Scotland. I like, burn itup right now. Yeah, But
all these archaeological sites with ancient Romanstuff or stuff they didn't even know existed.
It's under these fields of grass andyou can see the outlines of all
(14:48):
these old ancient structures in this drygrass because of the difference between the dirt
and the structures underneath and how theydry out the land. And so all
these aerial photographers were going out andtaking like pictures of all this stuff to
document it. So they have thishuge library now of all these archaeological places
that haven't yet been discovered. Reallyyeah, some of them been rediscovered or
(15:09):
discovered for the first time, andnow they know where they all are.
Because of this rare hot summer,they were able to see them in the
grass. That is really neat andalso terrifying, you know. Yeah.
Yeah. It says that the fewof the newly identified sites will ever be
excavated, but now their location isknown and many will be given protection from
deep plowing or development. I'm wonderingif somebody's gonna be like, oh no,
(15:31):
Noah's Ark and where all those peoplethere are? The gent comandments,
but they're saying, you know,some of the stuff goes back to you
know, thousands of years ago.Yeah, that's incredible. With all the
flooding and the droughts all over theplace, we're seeing cities have been underwater
for so long not be underwater y. Yeah. Yeah, the bits of
history coming up in other areas goingunderwater for the first time. Yeah,
(15:54):
there's scary. So much taking placeright now. I feel like you don't
see enough of it in the news. But it's like, how many typhoons
can you have at one time?And hurricanes and earthquakes, typhoons or tsunamis
what is the difference then, betweena hurricane and a typhoon. I was
just gonna ask the same thing.So the difference between hurricanes, typhoons and
(16:17):
cyclones is that they're actually the samekind of storm. It just happens to
be where they originate from. Soif it's in the Atlantic or the closer
to the United States side of thePacific, it's called a hurricane. If
it's over towards the eastern side ofthe Pacific, so all along the Asian
(16:37):
coast and Australia, that's a typhoon. And if it's south of the equator,
it's a cyclone. Wow, decidedthat I had no idea. It
feels like in the days sometimes whereI'm like, what, how is this
happening? And then you don't hearabout it all. You're like, oh,
should I be worried? Am Iworried enough? Like crazy crazy stuff
going. Well, I think there'syou know, there's global warming happening,
right, but there's also the twentyfour hour new cycle now and instantaneous information,
(17:03):
so we eat all of this inthe news and that's what's so alarming
about it. Same things going onin Iran, like we don't hear enough
about that as well. You haveto be kind of on social media to
get all of those those oh thevideos on TikTok alone with Ivan, with
people being like, I don't knowhow long I'm gonna have my internet,
but here's what's going on. Thatis insane and I have such empathy for
(17:26):
them. I hate what's going onover there. It's inspiring and saddening at
the same time. These these womenum cutting their hair and everything and a
lot a lot going on. Yeah, um, that that is bleak And
I can bring us into a story, and I wish you was a little
bit more of a feel good storybut has a happy ending. I will
(17:48):
say that, Okay, I'll takeus home. My article comes from Oxygen
dot com published June eleventh, twentytwenty one, by Gina Tron and also
Truecrime Daily dot com on February sixthof twenty seventeen. I do not have
an author listed for that one.On April twenty seventh, two thousand and
(18:11):
six, in Belleville, Illinois,junior in high school she was seventeen years
old named Ashley Reeves, was brutallyattacked in a park and then left for
dead. So Ashley was considered avery funny and bright student. She had
a lot of friends, and shehad a steady boyfriend named Jeremy. She'd
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been dating for like two years.That day, that afternoon, she left
her parents house. She's like,I have a job interview. She didn't
have her own car, so shetook her boyfriend's SUV to drive fifteen miles
to the interview. She did notreturn. So she's a very popular girl.
Her friends, her family, everybody'slike where is she? She should
(18:55):
have been home by now, Likewhat's going on? They call and text
everybody there calling and texting her.Nothing, nothing's happening. So that evening
her parents are like, well,I mean, hopefully we're being dramatic,
but we don't know. They calledthe police and they're like, oh no,
you always don't worry about being dramatic. You just fucking call the police
exactly. They did the right thing. So they're in a panic. They're
(19:18):
like, she should be around.So the police are like, we're on
it. They quickly find her boyfriend'sparked suv. It's empty and it's sitting
at Laderman Park in Belleville, likeback where she's from, not where she
was going to get her interview.So Jeremy is like a parents' dream come
true. He treats her really well. He's just kind of enamored with Ashley
(19:44):
and he's been her study boyfriend fortwo years. Regardless at that point,
he's going to be the prime suspect. Yep. So the police are like,
we're talking to him, stat theytalked to him and this guy he's
like like they can just tell.They're like, he has nothing to do
with this, Like he has nothingto do with this. He's just genuinely
concerned and answers everything super quick.You can just tell he's like on the
(20:07):
ball with like great information. Sothrough their conversation though with Jeremy, they
received a really big clue from him. He's like, Yeah, she told
me she was going through this interviewand then she was going to go play
basketball in the park. And they'relike, going to play basketball in the
park. Okay, Why is thisgirl going to an interview and then playing
(20:30):
basketball in a park that's so faraway from her house. It's not the
local park, yeah, that shewas found at so close. Friends of
Ashley's tell the police that Ashley oftendid meet with a guy that they all
knew to play basketball. And thisguy was not a boy their age.
He was a twenty seven year old. His name was Samson Sheldon, and
(20:52):
he was the driver's ed teacher ata rival school. Now, what the
fuck why is she hanging out thisguy? So the next morning, her
parents go through her phone because itwas left in the car, and they
dial any number that they see inher call logue but don't recognize, and
they find one that's in the calllogue multiple times. So when they call
(21:15):
it this Samson Sheldon, he answers, this guy was her middle school gym
teacher. Middle school gym teacher.So he tells them that I don't know,
I haven't seen her in a while. They're like, do you play
basketball with her? Her friends aresaying that you play basketball with her,
and he's like, well, sosometimes she just wants to play basketball and
(21:37):
we'll meet at your local park andplay. But like that's all we do.
And I haven't seen her in months. Why are you calling her exactly?
So they think something is obviously suspicious. The parents are like, I
don't know. Something doesn't sit rightwith us. They tell the police,
Hey, we talk to him,and we think this is kind of fucked
up. So they go to hisnew school where he is the driver's teacher
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and he's also a basketball coach thereand they just pull him out of practice.
So like, bitch, you're comingwith us, like we're going to
talk to you. So they takehim in and they start talking to him
and he's just like yeah. Hesticks to the story. He's like,
no, nothing ever happened between us, like legitimately, like we've known each
other and since she was a studentin middle school, we play basketball sometimes.
(22:21):
That's it. Hours into questioning thoughhe's kind of like, okay,
so here is one thing. Yes, we played basketball, but honestly I
could tell that she was becoming reallyobsessed with me, Like she was just
so this really popular girl with thepopular boyfriend. Yeah. Yeah, So
he's like, so, yeah,I did see her yesterday, but I
(22:42):
just told her, like, youneed to leave me alone, and maybe
that upset her and she might havejust like run off. Now that's his
new story. Then he admits thatthey're like it was there anything going on
between you two? And he waslike no, like we would only hug.
That was all. We would justhug when we would leave each other.
That was it. More hours intoquestioning, he finally admits, okay,
(23:07):
like, well, we want tobe adamant. We never kissed.
We never kissed. We did havesex last night and I felt terrible about
it, and so I told herthat we could never do that again,
and she was so distraught that sheran off. So now that's his new
story. They're like, this guy, but we didn't kids do it.
(23:29):
They didn't kiss, but they didhave sex. God, don't worry,
they're kissing involved. We didn't havesex, but we didn't kissed. So
there's a whole thing in here wherehe lives with his grand his mother and
his grandma, and he's very closeto his grandma. And they're, you
know, on the back end,learning all the stuff that they possibly can
about this guy, and they're like, guys, really close to his grandma.
So they bring her up. They'relike, what would your grandma think
(23:52):
about everything that you're doing right now? And it gets to him, it
works, you know, and he'slike, Oh, I just need a
moment to really think. I justneed to think, and so they give
him a moment alone. When theycome back, it's like twelve hours of
questioning, and at that point,he just admits everything. He just confesses
like, Okay, here's what's goingon. He not only admits to harming
her, but he's like, Ican tell you where the body is.
(24:18):
So he tells them that they weresitting in the car and basically they had
an argument, and he's like,he's trying to be like a professional wrestler
at this time, and he wascalled the teacher was his calling, which
was just on a wrestler on hername anyway, So he put her in
a choke hold and yeah, andso then he heard her neck pop and
(24:42):
he freaked out and he's like,oh my god, what am I supposed
to do now? So he saysthat he dragged her into the woods,
away from the park and left her. So the police take him to the
woods. It's a cold, rainy, dark night. They have their flashlights
kind of all over the place,and it takes thirty minutes of searching and
(25:03):
they finally find Ashley's like broken body. Here's the thing, it has been
thirty hours since she occurred. Yeah, yeah, she's breathing. I was
gonna say she might still be alive. Yeah, yeah, she is breathing.
She's in bad shape, she's mangled, she's cold, and she has
hundreds of insect bites, which I'mlike, that is just adding insult to
(25:26):
in your oh. But she's miraculouslyalive. So she was left for dead
for thirty hours. Samson says thatthey had gotten in that argument and so
he dragged her into the woods andthen he was like, I don't know
what to do. And he showsup to a countryline dancing club. And
the creepiest thing about this is thatthere is video footage of him at this
(25:49):
club. You would not know thatanything's wrong. He's just like just dancing
along in his countryline dancing. I'mlike, oh my god, this is
so creepy. So anyway, yeah, they find her. She is alive.
They take him back to the station. Obviously he's going to jail.
Yeah, and this guy is soself absorbed. He's asking questions, not
(26:11):
really like how is she? What'sgoing on? I can't believe she's alive.
I was so terrified, like noneof that. He's like, um,
so, am I gonna get mycontact solution because like I can't take
my contacts out without that, andlike I am really adamant about my toothbrush,
Like I'm gonna need that toothbrush.He says, I'm gonna need to
have my own private toilet because Ican't pee in front of other people and
(26:34):
I have urinary stress disorder, right, Brilli, don't wait to line you
up in front of all the inmates. I'm really going to be uncomfortable if
I can't pee. These cops arejust like, oh my god, just
diving into his psyche. Like thisguy could not care about anybody else,
Like he's just so self involved.He got twenty years a twenty year sentence
(26:57):
and he's still in prison today.Why only twenty years? I know I
thought so too, because it's attended. This is so fucking bullshit. Though
he should be there for life.He should be there for life for sure.
Ashley was in a coma for weeks. He did break her next she
was technically paralyzed, but when shecame to within a year, she had
(27:19):
full range of her whole body.Again, really, yes, full range.
So she says that she does notshe has very little memory of the
incident, and it's probably a blessing, probably, But yeah, that is
the story of Ashley Reeves. Ihad never heard about it. But how
creepy that this former teacher of hershad been grooming her and they were having
(27:41):
a sexual relationship. Yeah, Ido think it was an accident, but
he her neck popped and he freakedout and then left her for dead and
then went dancing. That's the creepiestthing. But it all worked out in
the end. But yes, Iagree, the sentence is way too yes
for this piece of shit. Unlesshe's gonna be ninety years old when he's
(28:03):
let out. You know, hewas twenty six when he did it.
Yeah, he's gonna be a fullycapable man of doing this shit again.
I'll see what happens. You know, this is kind of a downer of
an episode, right, I likedmy peanut Butter guys. They at least
gave me a laugh. You peanutButter escape. So we started out with
we had hidden structures underground that showedduring a droughtful warming or heating global warming
(28:30):
silver lining. I liked her.Yeah, And then we have Ashley Reeves
Survivor. Wow, I gotta goAshley Reeves. I mean me too.
I love a good survivor story.She actually you can find her. She
does things with Elizabeth Smart Now likeum episodes of like true crime things together
(28:51):
and I love that as well.Yeah, I do two survivors. Jesse,
how are you voting? Yeah,that's pretty astounding, Like make me
afraid for my daughter. I'm justgonna be like, yeahsh yeah, I'm
put a tracker on her and don'tlet her get too close to any teachers,
right, Yeah, have any adultsor I just have this theory of
like, like you know, howyou can track family members and things on
(29:14):
find my iPhone. My family justkind of agreed amongst the adults, like
we would all be on each other'sjust so we all know everybody is.
If there's an Nancy, I thinkI like, as a an, the
parent of a team, I'd belike, look, I don't care where
you are, what you're doing.I just want to know that you're safe.
That's all I care about. Soif, like, I know,
maybe you don't want me to know, I'm not going to look unless it's
an emergency. And I'll never faultyou for being in the wrong place.
(29:37):
I just want to know where youare if you need me. Yeah,
I don't blame you. Yeah.One of my sisters uses find my iPhone
with her kids and they're all gamefor it. Yep. Yeah. I
mean one of her kids is incollege and he's always like, make sure
you turn that on, Like whenhe's driving back and he's going to be
in the car for a few hours, just like you got that on,
right, He's like, I FI'm in a car accident or whatever.
(29:57):
He wants to know if somebody's outto find Yeah. Absolutely crazy. But
she was separated from her phone,so yeah, that's when you get the
microchip. Oh man, So didyou go Ashley Reeves as well? Jesse?
Yeah, I did. Well,look at us. We got at
one leg of a terokee. Wegot a street going. Yeah. If
(30:18):
you think you can help us getanother leg of a turkey going, we
would love to hear from you.You can reach us at our Gmail that
a spark My Interest podcast at gmaildot com. You can also reach us
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or Twitter at interest underscore spark Jesse. How do they rate and review us?
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Any platform that has podcasts on ithas some kind of reading like subscribe,
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