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All right, so it's what do you always say, get in

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your way back machine? Get in the way back machine.

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There you go, buckle up. To the time when Ash should

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have been alive. Oh, God. Maybe

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not like here, but yeah. But

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the 70s. The 70s for sure, I wish.

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But here we are. Here we are in

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the 20s. All right, well, Price.

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Let's talk about Price, Utah. Back then, it was

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a pretty safe place to live, and it was

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a great place as far as Loretta Jones

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was concerned to raise her four-year-old

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daughter, Heidi. Loretta was a single

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young mom at just 23 years old. She

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had so much on her plate. She

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was taking accounting classes. She was being

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a full-time mom. But guess what? She

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was getting the fucking job done. And

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her daughter, Heidi, who again was four years

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old, absolutely adored her mother.

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They had this close

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bond, the two of them.

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Now, she remembered being with her mom,

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following her around the house as Loretta would do,

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like ironing or cooking household chores. And

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she remembered getting ice cream with her mom

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and how much Loretta loved to listen to music. She'd put on

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the radio. the radio and just dance all around the house.

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I love that. Core memories. Yes,

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beautiful core memories. And all

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of Heidi's memories of her mother up until

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the morning of July 21st, excuse me, 31st, 1970, they're

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precious memories that every

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kid should have with their mom, memories that

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they can just reminisce on later in life

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and just have a good time being like,

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oh my gosh, Mom, do you remember when we used to do this?

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But unfortunately, that was not the case

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for Heidi or Loretta. They were robbed of

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that opportunity.

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When Heidi woke up at four years

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old on July 31st, 1970, she

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remembered that she was scared. And

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she wasn't so sure what exactly she was

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scared of, but there was just this feeling in the air

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that freaked her out. And she was so apprehensive

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that she actually peeked out of the keyhole of

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her bedroom door before venturing out

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into the living room. That's wild. That four,

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she already had that intuitive

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sense. Our bodies do. They

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totally do. We just don't listen to them as adults.

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That's the thing. But kids do.

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And that's why kids are way more

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subject to paranormal activity and things

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like that. Because they're just open. They are. So

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Heidi looks through the keyhole of her room. And

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so she's in her room looking out into the living

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room. And when she peeks through, she

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sees that somebody's lying on the floor in

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blood. And when she opens up that door

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to inspect a bit closer, she realizes

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that the someone lying on the floor was

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her mother, 23-year-old Loretta Jones. Oh

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my god. And she was four? Four years

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old. So she ran outside to

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see if she could get any help. And that's when she saw

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one of her neighbors out in his front yard. He

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was like a little kid. And in every

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source, it says that he was looking for bugs and

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critters just to use his bait to go fishing

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later that day. And I just feel like

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that is such a good example of

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how you can just be so totally oblivious

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to what other people might be going through.

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And you might just be having a perfectly

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great day. And this is what's going on in that store.

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You have no idea what's happening. The perfect

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example of, again, why we should always treat others

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with COVID.

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So when Heidi ran

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up to the boy, she told him, I think my mommy is dead. Oh

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my God. Which ruined me reading that. Oh.

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So the boy runs over to her house with her and they peek into the

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doorway and he's like, I think you're right. So

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he runs, he tells his parents, they

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take Heidi in and they call the police. And

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when the police arrived, there was no doubt that Loretta Jones

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had died. She had been murdered. She was lying in a pool

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of her own blood on her own living

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room floor. My God. So

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immediately the police wondered, if this case

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had anything to do with an incident that

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they'd actually been called to the night before, just

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a couple of blocks away from Loretta and Heidi's home. So a few

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blocks away, a 10 year old girl named

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Lori Kula was outside playing with her brother and his friend.

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And the brother and his friend were

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out in the front yard playing and she was in the same area,

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but she was kind of riding her bike.

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I think out in the street, it doesn't sound like

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it was very busy. It was like later at night. She's

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doing little loops on her bike. And

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apparently the two boys didn't realize that she was still outside when

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they went back inside. And it actually

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took Lori a few minutes too to realize that she was outside

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alone. And she was

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like, oh, like it's dark out. I got to get inside.

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So she starts to head in for the night,

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but as she's doing so, she

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sees a man out of the corner of her eye. And she just

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thinks for a second, like registers that.

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And she immediately noticed his hat.

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It was a bright yellow hat and it had

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some kind of bold floral print all over

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it. Hmm. Now, before she knew it,

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this man came rushing toward her. What? She

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grabbed her from behind. She was struggling

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to get away with him, or from him, because

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the way that he grabbed her made it so that both

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of her arms were behind her back. Oh my God.

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And he had a hand over her mouth. Now, luckily,

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she was able to actually get her hand away from

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her mouth for like a split second. And

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I read in a couple sources that it was because she

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was chewing bubble gum and she pushed the

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bubble gum out of her mouth as she was screaming. Oh

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my God. And he just must have taken his hand to

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fucking away. Yeah, like not knowing what it was. Mm-hmm.

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So as he left the house, his hand away for like a split

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second she let out like a blood curling

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scream and the man let

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go of her instantly and started running away

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from her. Good. Just as Lori's brother

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and his friend were coming outside to see why the heck she

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was screaming. So she quickly tells them she

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points in the direction. She's like, this man

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tried to grab me. So the boys run

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off after him, but it's too late. But

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something they noticed too was this man's

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yellow hat because it had fallen off as he

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was running away. And he actually even took a second

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to pick it up

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and like grab it up as he was running

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away. Which is wild that he chose to wear that

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hat.

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To do these horrible

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things that he definitely did. Yeah,

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it is. So this man

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managed to get away that night, but

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this man would end up serving time for

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the attempted abduction. Good. And eventually

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they would get him on murder charges. Oh.

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Same man. It might just take 46

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years to do the latter. Holy shit.

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