Louisa Dunne

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Warning, this episode contains graphic crime scene detail as well
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as talk of sexual assault. Please listen with discretion. Warning,
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this episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen with discretion.
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Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie.
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Let's talk right now on true crime and then together
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we're going to work on warming up some cold cases.
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Let's go.
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Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime.
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It's Kylie.
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We are going to go ahead and get into right
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now on true crime before we get into this week's case.
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So let's start with the obvious, which is the Lizzie
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Clancy trial. So at the end of last week, we
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were still kind of in a holding pattern. And when
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Friday deliberations resumed, the jury did, in fact, come back
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and say that they were not able to reach a
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unanimous verdict. And it was alluded to that essentially there
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was one holdout and they were not able to successfully
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all come to the same conclusion.
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But where the issue lied was there.
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Were reports that this juror said that there was reasonable doubt,
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but that they were not going to change their vote.
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So it got into a lot of back and forth
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between the... judge and the defense, Kevin Reddington, about if
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this juror should be removed or not because they weren't
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following the letter of the law, meaning if you do
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have reasonable doubt, then you have to side accordingly and
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that wasn't happening.
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So there was a lot of back and forth and
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back and forth.
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Essentially, the judge decided not to remove the juror and
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the Kevin tried to fight to make sure that this
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juror was removed so they could resume deliberations because they
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had been deliberating for many days at that point in time.
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But ultimately, it did end, in fact, in a mistrial.
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So now there are, of course, jurors who are speaking out.
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And that has all just started happening as of today.
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I'm recording this on Wednesday. So, so far, I think
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we've heard from a total of four jurors and three
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of them kind of spoke out together and they were
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just speaking on their experiences and how things were in
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the jury room. And they said that initially they were
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not all on the same page, but after going through
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several different things, they were able to all pretty much
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come to the same conclusion that they did believe that
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Lindsay was not mentally in her right mind when she
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was took the lives of her children, and then tried
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to take her own life.
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So they were all.
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At one point thinking that everybody was on the same page,
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but the Wunder said that he was not going to
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change his mind. even though he said he had a
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reasonable doubt, he also was refusing to change his mind.
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So I think.
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There's a lot of gray area there. Honestly, I don't
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really know. I wasn't in the jury room. I don't
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know anything about like that aspect of things. I have
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never been a juror, but I assume after days and
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days and days, they were all really frustrated. I know
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they said that at some points people would just get
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up and start walking around because nothing was getting accomplished
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or I've also heard at times that this juror just
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kind of shut down and stopped participating, and it was
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just a hot mess disaster.
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And I imagine because they had been.
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There for so long, not just deliberating, but everything, the trial,
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all the evidence, everything that they had to sit through
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and listen to and shift through, going through all of
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the evidence once they were officially brought into the jury room,
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everything that they had to look at, all of the evidence.
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I am assuming.
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That they were very, very overwhelmed and I think that
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by the end of it, they were all just at
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their wit's end with everything. So that is kind of
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where things stand today. Obviously, the prosecution can make the
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decision to retry the case against Lindsay, but we do
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not know if that is going to happen yet. So
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everything is kind of in a holding pattern right now.
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But let me tell you, the Lindsay Clancy case and
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the trial brought so many people out of the woodworks.
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And I think a lot of people that normally typically
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don't consume true crime, so they really don't understand the
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way that the court system works and how things work logistically.
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And I think.
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That there was just, there's a lot of internet talk,
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a lot of chatter, a lot of people, like I said,
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who don't normally consume true crime, putting their opinions out
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there and a lot of keyboard warrior action going on.
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So I'm going to keep you guys updated on this one.
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I don't really know what to think about all of it.
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I think it is a very complicated case. Obviously, it's
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a very complicated case. There is a lot. I do
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believe that women's mental health and postpartum issues are real
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and relevant. I do believe that Lindsay did everything she
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could to try and seek help. And there is evidence
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of that. There's also evidence that she did not get
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the help that she needed. She... tried so hard to
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get help for herself. And unfortunately, the system failed her
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and failed her children. That is my personal.
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Opinion on it. But we will see what comes of it.
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I will be sure to keep you guys in the loop.
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So moving on to Barry Morphew, a guy that just
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can't seem to stay away from getting in trouble. He
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was arrested, actually, in relation to charges that stem from
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a hit and run that occurred in Denver. So Barry
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has been charged with careless driving, leaving the scene of
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an accident, failing to report the accident, driving without a
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driver's license, and failure to display proof of insurance in
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his connection with this collision. He is scheduled for a
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court date on September 15th for a plea hearing. So
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obviously we know Barry is awaiting trial on the charge
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of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Suzanne Morphew.
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He has pled not guilty, has denied all involvement. We
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have obviously a lot of probable cause and things that
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have come out, and.
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I think we're going to learn a lot more in trial.
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But now he is involved in this hit and run,
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and he looks horrible. He really looks like he has
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been struggling, and I love that for him personally. But
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that is just my opinion. Now, they have increased his
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bond from $ 3 million to a $ 10 million cash-only bond
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because of this hit and run, because obviously he is
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having a difficult time abiding by the laws. And speaking
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of someone who doesn't like to abide by the laws,
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Alec Murdaugh, they have officially set his trial for Sumter County,
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South Carolina. next year in April of 2027. The trial
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is scheduled to begin the week of April 5th, and
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it is going to be under Judge Deborah McCaslin. So
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I will be sure to keep you guys updated on
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this one. Will he testify? Will he not? Is there
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going to be more that comes out? I don't know
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what's going to happen. It's going to be interesting and
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it's going to be a long trial. I just have
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a feeling. So that is really it for right now
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in true crime. If there are any other breaking things happening,
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I will be sure to update them and put them
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on my social media. Sometimes it's really hard for me to,
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I don't like to record right now on True Crime
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on Thursday. I like to do it on Wednesday so
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that way I can get the edited episode spliced together
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and released on Thursday. But I swear every time I
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record anything and I think I'm done, something big happens
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on Thursday and then I feel like I have to
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go back in and re-record and all of the things.
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But if anything does happen on a Thursday when I've
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already recorded, I will just be putting it on socials.
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And if I really need to talk about it, I
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will do an emergency type of episode to talk about it.
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So that is where everything stands right now. This week's
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episode is one that I think is so important to share.
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And I really hope you guys.
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understand the importance of me sharing episodes like this because
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it is so important in the unsolved true crime community
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that episodes like this get shared and people realize that
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there is a reason that we do these cold cases
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because there is a way somehow or another for them
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to get solved. And this episode is proof. So let's
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go ahead and get into this week's case. Alrighty guys,
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today we are jumping into a brand new case and
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I think that this is one of the most interesting
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cases that I have ever covered. And the reason is
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because I'm going to be telling you about one of
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the oldest cold cases to ever be solved in the UK. Now,
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this is a case that was recently solved and somebody
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was finally apprehended. After a 57-year investigation, there has finally
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been resolution in the case of Louisa Dunn.
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And I really want.
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To highlight this case because this is a homicide that
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happened in 1967, which obviously in doing the math is
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a long time ago. And it was a case that
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looked like justice was never going to be served. just
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because of how much time had gone on. But it
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also is proof that it truly never is too late
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and that DNA evidence and advancing technology is completely changing
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the game. So in today's episode, I'm going to be
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telling you about the now-solved homicide of Louisa Dunn. Louisa
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was 75 years old when her life was tragically cut
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short in Bristol, England in 1967. We are, as always,
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going to get into a little bit of her background
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and how her case was finally solved. after all of
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this time. Because this is an older case, there really
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isn't a ton of public information out there about Louisa,
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but I was able to find an article that was
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published by ITV.com that really went into detail about Louisa
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and her life and who she was as a person
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before her life was taken. So I am going to
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be relying heavily on that article for the background information
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on Louisa for this episode before we get into what
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happened to her. Louisa Jane Jarrett was born in 1892
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in Gloucestershire, England. Louisa eventually went on to meet and
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marry Edwin Teddy Parker in 1915, and he is described
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as a rising star of the city's socialist movement. He
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was a union leader and a labor counselor for the St.
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Paul's Ward.
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Together, they had two daughters, Edna and Iris, and their
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life together was very much based around politics.
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Teddy was even set to.
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Be up for a mayoral run, but ended up suffering
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a stroke and was bedridden and in the hospital for
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much of the early 40s. Teddy passed away in 1945.
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There is actually a photo of Teddy being wheeled in
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to vote from his hospital bed. So he was very,
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very dedicated in a political sense. So once Teddy passed away,
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Louisa was 53 years old and she found herself as
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a widow. Edna's daughter and Louisa's granddaughter, Mary, recalls through
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pictures how much her grandmother, Louisa, supported her grandfather, Teddy.
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She said in all of the photos that she has seen,
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they were always together. And she also said, come to
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think of it, she never saw a picture of Louisa
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by herself. She was always with Teddy. After Teddy passed away,
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Louisa suffered what her granddaughter describes as kind of a
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mental breakdown. And she kind of spiraled and started to
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abuse alcohol, which eventually caused a rift between her and
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her daughters. Louisa later, in 1952, got remarried to a
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man named John Dunn, who was a night watchman. There
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isn't really much publicly known about their marriage or really
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much about her husband John at all, but he unfortunately
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ended up passing away in 1961, so Louisa was once
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again a widow. And at this point in time, she
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was 69 years old. She had had two of her
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spouses pass away. She decided to settle into life in
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the Bristol area of England. She lived at 58 Britannia
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Road in the Easton neighborhood, which is described as a
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working class neighborhood. The homes were all terrace type of homes,
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which are described as single family dwellings that sit in
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a row. They typically share sidewalls with properties next to them.
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Now I am going to have photos of Luis's home
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on my Instagram and Facebook pages.
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So you can see the type of home that I
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am describing.
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But with all of that being said, this was a
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very close community and everybody kind of knew everybody. Louisa
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was described as a pillar of the community and was
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always very friendly. She was at her front door, always
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ready to chat with her neighbors or those that were
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passing by. Since this was a very close-knit community, neighbors
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realized when something was off with one of their neighbors.
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If they noticed a window was randomly open when it
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typically wasn't, or when they would see that a neighbor
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hadn't been out and about as usual, they took notice.
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And that's exactly what happened in Louisa's case. So let's
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go ahead and get into her story. On June 28th
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of 1967, a neighbor of Louisa's had noticed that Louisa's
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sash window was open, and that was something very unusual.
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She always was very safety conscious, and she would not
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leave her window open. This was something that she did
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not do. So her neighbor proceeded to look into the
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window of Louisa's home where they spotted Louisa on the floor.
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She was deceased in her front room. Now, there were
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a couple of things found in Louisa's home that later
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would turn into what solved this case. But in 1967,
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it really didn't seem like much. They did have a
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palm print that was found on a rear window, which
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investigators believed definitely was the entry point for whoever entered
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Louisa's house that night. Now, back in 1967, there was
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no CCTV surveillance. There was no exterior street lighting or
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anything that would really deter anybody from breaking and entering.
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So this was an area of Louisa's home that could
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have been used to access homes and remain undetected. And
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that is exactly how this perpetrator was able to access her.
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Home that night.
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Louisa had been murdered by strangulation and was sexually assaulted.
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It was determined that she had been killed between 10 p.m.
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And 4 a.m.
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Louisa had been wearing a blue skirt when she was attacked,
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and her attacker had left behind physical evidence on the
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blue skirt. But that wouldn't be evident until many, many
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decades later. So we have the palm print that, again,
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is a great piece of evidence, but it's 1967. And
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we have a blue skirt that does have DNA material
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left behind on it. But investigators aren't going to be
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able to do much with any evidence until much, much
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later from a DNA standpoint. These pieces of evidence would
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be critical in solving Louisa's case, but it very much
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was a waiting game. They were waiting for technology to
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catch up, and they were also waiting for someone to
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take a second look at the evidence that was taken
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and collected back in 1967. Upon the discovery of what
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had happened to Louisa, Bristol's police department went ahead and
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launched a massive investigation. They took over 2,000 statements and
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went house to house in the area around Louisa's home.
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They were attempting to figure out who this palm print
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belonged to. and they took palm and fingerprints from 19,000
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men and boys located in the area surrounding Louisa's home.
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They did speak to someone who lived close to Louisa,
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a woman who was named Violet Fortune. And actually, Violet
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is the same woman that ended up finding Louisa after
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she noticed her window was open. Violet said that she
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had heard a scream in the night, and she said
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it sounded a little bit muffled, but enough that it
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concerned her. So she got out of bed and looked
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out her window.
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And didn't see anything. It was obviously dark.
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There were no streetlights. So she went back to bed,
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and after about a minute, she heard someone cry out,
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but that cry out only lasted for about two to
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three seconds. There was another neighbor who was also awoken
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by his dogs that night, and he also heard the scream,
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but he described it as a very muffled type of
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scream as well. Of course, obviously, hindsight is 20-20. And
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I'm sure none of her neighbors ever thought that something
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was seriously wrong until.
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They started to put pieces together.
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They really hadn't seen Louisa the way that they normally would.
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And they saw that her window was open. So after
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law enforcement gathered the prints of the 19,000 men over
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the next year, they had their work cut out for them.
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Back in 1967 in England, they didn't have a fingerprint
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database for comparison. So they pretty much, one by one,
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had to go through and compare all the prints that
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they had taken from different men and boys in the
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community and compare it to the print that was left
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at the scene of the crime.
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Also, super important to note.
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That the print that was left was a very specific
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area of the hand that was left. It was a
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print of the palm and wrist in the area between
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the pinky finger. So this was a very specific area
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of the hand that they were going to be analyzing.
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Although the investigation was thorough, and I really do want
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to say that I think the investigators did a really
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good job at looking into everything that they could. They
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were going around and fingerprinting different people, trying to compare
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it to the fingerprints left at the scene. I think
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that they really did do an incredible job considering the
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fact that it was 1967. They very much had limited
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resources and the technology just was non-existent. But despite all
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that they did, they came up empty-handed every single time.
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And this eventually led to the case becoming cold and
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no arrests or persons of interest were ever named. We'll
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learn soon enough, but unfortunately, the killer, the guy who
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ends up being identified as Louisa's killer, would end up
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living outside of the area where the door-to-door questioning and
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fingerprinting was done. So this individual was able to evade
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capture and remained free for many, many years and would
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go on to re-offend again before the time he was
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finally captured for Louisa's sexual assault and murder. So they
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did about a one and a half mile radius door-to-door questioning,
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fingerprinting of all men and boys in the area. If
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men were away for military service, they also had to
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submit their prints because they were trying to cross-check everybody.
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But they only did a mile and a half. And
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we will learn in a little while that this individual
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lived just outside of that mile and a half radius.
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And I mean just outside. So from 1967, we're going
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to fast forward to 2023. And yes, you did hear
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that right. We're going from 1967 to 2023, 56 years later.
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So in 2023, the Avon and Somerset Police Major Crime
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Review Team, which is called the MCRT, made a move
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on Louisa's case. So the MCRT's function is to basically
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go back through all of the unsolved crimes in their
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area and go back and review them and look at
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them with the lens of 2023 and, of course, 2023 technology.
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So they were in a period where they were going
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through older cases, and they asked themselves one question. Are
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there forensics available that have not been pursued? Is there
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DNA evidence? Is the DNA evidence suitable for testing and available?
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When they happened upon Louisa's case, they realized that there was,
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in fact, DNA evidence. The evidence had never been submitted
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for DNA analysis. Now, That simply just means that over
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the years before 2023, nobody ever went back and reviewed
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the fact that there was DNA evidence. Because Louisa's murder
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also involved a sexual assault and Louisa was wearing this
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blue skirt at the time of her assault and murder,
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that blue skirt did.
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In fact contain DNA evidence.
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So we also have to give credit to whoever collected
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the evidence back on that day in 1967. They tagged
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it appropriately, they bagged it appropriately, and they entered it
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into evidence, not knowing that one day technology would advance
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enough that they would be able to take the evidence
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from that skirt and link it to the suspect. In 1967,
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DNA analysis was not a thing. And this person who
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took this evidence did a great job of collecting it
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and then storing it. And all throughout the years, they
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were able to keep this evidence contained. It wasn't thrown away.
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It wasn't tossed to the wayside. They kept it and
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they kept it in good shape. So that way it
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could be tested in 2023. Now, they didn't just have
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the skirt. They also had the palm print, which was huge. Now,
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they had documentation of this palm print and they actually
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had the palm print from the window. And earlier, I
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talked about how they had tested 19,000 people to compare
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it to them, and unfortunately, all of their comparisons came
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up with no match. So at this point, they still
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didn't know who this palm print belonged to, but they
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knew if they could find out who the palm print
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belonged to, and they can match the DNA evidence from
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the blue skirt to them, that they would officially have
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their person. So they were able to test the DNA
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evidence from Louisa's blue skirt, and they did develop a
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full DNA profile of the suspect. It was a one
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billion times more.
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Likely that the suspect was.
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A man named Rylan Headley over anyone else. Rylan's DNA
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was in the national database associated with a 2012 assault
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on that he was questioned in but never charged in.
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And that is how they were able to figure out
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that his DNA was the DNA on this skirt. Now,
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at the time of the questioning, like I said, they
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did collect his DNA, but they never did take his
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handprints or his fingerprints or anything like that. And the
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reason that he avoided that from happening is because He
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told them that he had arthritis and he wasn't able
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to move his hand in the way that they needed
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him to in order for them to take his palm
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prints and his fingerprints and all of that. He said
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that he was older and he had arthritis and it
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was too painful for him to have his prints taken.
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So once they got a name of a suspect that
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matched the DNA found on Louisa's shirt, they ended up
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bringing in four fingerprint experts. and they all came to
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the same conclusion that they believed the perpetrator was Ryland.
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He was no doubt their guy. In November of 2024,
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law enforcement went to Ryan Healy's home, which was located
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on Clarence Road in Ipswich, England. At 92 years old,
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he was arrested and charged with the murder of Louisa Dunn.
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Ryland was a widow himself and a father and grandfather.
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And like so many other cases where the perpetrator has
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passed away, that was not the case here. This guy
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was still living and they were able to arrest their suspect.
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So let's get into Ryland and his background a little
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bit because obviously Ryland wasn't this upstanding citizen as we know.
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So he was 34 years old at the time of
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Louisa's murder and he was working as a railway worker.
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when he committed this crime. So he was 34 and
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he was apprehended at 92 years old. So let that
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really sink in. That is how long it took for
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this man to get caught. Ryland was married at the
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time of Louisa's attack. And like I said, it's truly
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no shock that he wasn't a super clean, upstanding citizen.
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In October of 1977, he sexually assaulted two separate elderly women,
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ages 84 and 79. He targeted them because they were elderly,
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they were alone, and they were vulnerable, just like Louisa.
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He broke into their homes and attacked them. He was
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convicted on two counts of rape in both of these cases,
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and he confessed that He was initially sentenced to life
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in prison in these two cases, but they ended up
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reducing it to seven years on appeal. Unfortunately, the DNA
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database didn't exist back then. If it had existed, he
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would have been apprehended probably sooner rather than later. Ryland
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lived on Picton Street in Bristol at the time of
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Louise's attack. Like I said, he was married. He lived 1.6
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miles away from Louisa's house. So although he was close by,
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he was outside of the window of people that they
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had gone door to door to and questioned and fingerprinted
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and all of that. Again, if they had gone out
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a little bit further, they would have fingerprinted him and
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gotten him pretty much right away, and he would have
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been off of the streets. And I say that in
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no way to undermine anything that law enforcement did, because
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I think they did an amazing job investigating Louisa's case
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for 1967. They could not go around and fingerprint everybody.
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They did a lot of fingerprinting. And I think they
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did the best they could. Unfortunately, this horrific human just
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happened to get lucky in a way of being able
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to escape authority for such a long time. Shortly after
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Louise's murder, he uprooted his family and moved to London.
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But later, Ryland would move back to Ipswich. So it's
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believed that Ryland had broken into Louise's home that night
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and he attacked her. Louisa fought back, and she truly
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did fight for her life, and that is why he
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proceeded to end her life. They believe her manner of
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death was consistent with strangulation and asphyxiation, consistent with a
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hand held over her mouth, and pressure applied to her throat.
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He also robbed her, and like I said, he sexually
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assaulted her. The judge said that he might not have
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intended to go in there and murder her, but she
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fought back to defend herself and defend her home, and
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Ryland took it upon himself to take actions to end
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her life. When he was arrested, Ryland played dumb and
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said he didn't know what they were talking about. But
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the evidence didn't lie. Ryland was found guilty in the
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crimes committed against Louisa. A jury of eight men and
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four women found him guilty on June 30th of 2025. Now,
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there were two holdouts that wanted to find him not guilty,
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but it wasn't an all-or-nothing type of case, so majority ruled.
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And I do think it's interesting and very shocking that
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there were two holdouts, and I can't help but think
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that maybe Ryland's age had something to do with it because...
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He is a 92-year-old man, probably a little bit frail,
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and often I feel like people can sympathize more with
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someone who is elderly being tried in court on something
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versus somebody who is younger being tried in court. I
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hear it a lot with Bill Cosby, and people say
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just leave him out of jail because he's old, but
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that doesn't mean that he doesn't deserve to pay for
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the crimes that he did. And that's the same in
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Ryland's case. But there was evidence. There was the DNA
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evidence and there was the fingerprint palm print evidence. And
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those don't lie. Needless to say, like I said, it
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was majority rules. So they found Ryland guilty. On July
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1st of 2025, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with
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a minimum of 20 years before parole eligibility, which will
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never happen because Ryland is 92.
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England law rules.
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That you can only apply the laws at the time
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of the offense. So the judge had to go off
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of the 1967 laws when sentencing Ryland. Luckily, he's old
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enough that he will never see the light of day again.
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The judge made it very clear that Ryland will, in fact,
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die in prison. Ryland was a stranger to Louisa, and
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he targeted her because she was elderly and she was alone.
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And he probably didn't think that she was going to
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fight back. And he unfortunately would go on to do that.
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Again and again.
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And honestly, allegedly, in my opinion, I wouldn't be shocked
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if he's responsible for more sexual assaults. And who knows,
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maybe he's connected to some other unsolved homicides in England.
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Upon Ryland's arrest and subsequent trial and conviction, Mary, who
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is Louisa's granddaughter, she was 78 years old when all
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of this broke and all of this was coming out.
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And she was so surprised by the fact that they
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were able to actually catch the perpetrator. And I don't
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think it was something she ever thought was actually going
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to happen in her lifetime because, like I said, she
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is 78. She is two years older than Louisa was
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when Louisa's life was taken. And she said she did
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not know her grandmother well. She had only met her
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once when she was a teenager. But she does remember
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her being very keen and very friendly. And she would
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always hold her hand really, really tightly whenever they were together.
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And the murder of Louisa and their family was a
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very sore subject because Louisa Mary was 20 years old.
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She was in school at the time, and her mother
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was estranged from Louisa because Louisa had been grieving the
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loss of her husband, and it just kind of ended
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up straining their relationship overall. So Mary kind of went
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on to live her life, and they didn't really talk
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about Louisa's murder in the family very much at all.
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And then years passed, and she would just kind of
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randomly start thinking about her grandmother, and she would look
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at pictures of her grandmother, and then she realized that
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she really didn't know much about her at all. And
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she had pretty much resigned herself to the fact that
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there was never going to be anyone caught or held
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accountable for Louisa's murder. And she had basically accepted the
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fact that she would never find out who was responsible
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for killing her grandmother. And Ryland being caught and linked
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to Louisa's sexual assault and murder was deeply emotional for Mary.
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And it brought up a lot of feelings because Mary
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was not really close with Louisa. She didn't really know
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anything about her. But at the end of the day,
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they were family. And she does say that she feels
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a deep personal connection to her. And the fact that
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there is resolution in this case and she's been able
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to see the person responsible go to trial, get convicted,
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be sentenced, and go to jail is truly some type
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of miracle.
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It really, really is.
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Mary also said that over the years, she had encountered
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people who asked her, why are the police wasting their
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time and their money on trying to figure out who
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did this? But in her opinion, it needed to get
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all the attention that it did because there is always
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a chance that that can be solved. And What Ryland
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did to Louisa was horrific and horrendous, and he deserved
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to not be out and about walking amongst the regular
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population and living his life. He deserved to be behind
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bars for what he did to her. And that is
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exactly what is happening to this day. So I really
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do want to encourage everybody, if you have a cold
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case that you hold near and dear to your heart,
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I have many. Obviously, I cover a lot of cases
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on here, and I always say it's never too late.
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But I think that Louisa's case is proof that it
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really is never too late. because things are advancing. People
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are looking back into some of these older cases, and
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they are getting solved, and the people are getting apprehended.
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Whether or not the suspects are living or deceased, we're
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getting answers to a lot of cold cases. 2026 has
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been a wild year for cold cases in one right
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after another, right after another. So if you're listening to
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this as somebody that has a cold case that is
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very important to them and you feel like 20 years
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have passed and there's no way you're ever gonna get answers,
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look no further than Louisa Dunn's case. And that is
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exactly why I wanted to share it because I think
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it holds such an important message that time truly is
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not running out for cold cases, it's running out for
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the suspects. So I am going to leave you with that.
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And I hope you guys have a great weekend coming up.
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And I really do appreciate you listening to Louisa's story.
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And I'm going to be sharing photos of her on
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my Instagram and Facebook pages. and sharing a little bit
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more about her life and who she was, because it
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seems like she was this truly amazing person, and she
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did not deserve the ending that unfortunately was given to her.
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But thank you guys always. Have a good one, and please, please,
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please stay safe.
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Bye.