The Cheat Sheet: Mockingbirds and Misconduct

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[00:03:05] Quince.com slash msheet. Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder and violence, including the death of a teenager. And we will also be discussing some crimes of a sexual nature, including stalking. So, today on the cheat sheet, we're heading all around. We're going to the United Kingdom, doing a lot of UK cases recently. We're going to Wisconsin.

[00:03:35] We're going to Tennessee. And we're going to Oregon. And the two cases I picked were cases we've covered on the cheat sheet in the past and kind of wrapping up what happened in them. Ready? Do it. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney. And this is The Murder Sheet. We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases. We're The Murder Sheet. And this is The Cheat Sheet.

[00:04:04] Mockingbirds and Misconduct.

[00:04:51] I think people might be surprised if they knew how much time we spend just before we record these trying to come up with a title. Yeah. That's fair. And people will be surprised by a lot of things going on around here. Yes, but yeah, you don't want to clear the track for The Cane Train until we have a title for the episode. Cane Train. Is it at least one of those fancy old-timey trains that, like, the movies are on and there's, like, a mystery and, like, everyone has their own fancy little cars?

[00:05:21] Okay. Yes. The answer is yes. If I'm going to have to have a train, I want it to be a train with style and class. Yeah. I think that's what I deserve. Well, it's nice that you think so. No, you deserve an elegant, old-fashioned, unwieldy train. Thank you. I remember the first time I traveled Amtrak business class, the whole long story in college, we were going to a newspaper thing.

[00:05:47] And for some reason in my head, I was, like, imagining something that was different than what was actually – I don't know why. Like, there was no reason for me to be thinking of, like, a fancy, like, murder on the Orient Express sort of situation. But I felt let down and then I was, like, trying to – like, wait, why do I feel kind of disappointed? Oh, it's because I had completely ridiculous expectations here. So – And you've actually written about your experience riding trains in your former life as a reporter for Business Insider. Yeah, some real hot, hot news there, real hot scoop. How I did on a train.

[00:06:17] I broke that story. It was quite a scoop. Second only to the Watergate reporting. I mean, geez. Anyways. With that in mind, why don't we get to it? Let's do it. So this first case is out in the United Kingdom. This is a horrible murder and we've covered it before. Again, my two picks are ones where there's kind of a conclusion in a case we previously covered. And this occurred on July 9th, 2024.

[00:06:43] It's absolutely horrifying and it's kind of the stuff that nightmares are made of, but I think it's important to talk about. This is the murder of a mother and two daughters, Carol Hunt and her daughters, Hannah and Louise Hunt. And they were murdered in Hertfordshire by Louise's ex-boyfriend, a man named Kyle Clifford. And they were murdered with a crossbow and a knife.

[00:07:11] And this is just the most horrifying. Louise was a young woman who met this guy Clifford on dating apps. And I think they dated for like 18 months. He cheated on her. He had two relationships that he did not disclose. And he belittled her.

[00:07:36] He made misogynistic and racist and transphobic comments in front of her that made her really uncomfortable. And she just didn't want to be with him anymore because he was a complete loser. I mean, like there's nothing there's nothing else. I mean, he was just he was not a person she wanted to be with anymore. Now, at first, she got the impression that he was OK with that. And, you know, he sent her a text talking about how they both heal and kind of move on.

[00:08:04] So it seemed like everything was was OK. But it wasn't because he was actually plotting to murder her and her whole family. And he he said about that. He talked. He basically got the mother, Carol, to open the door to the house. And. Stabbed her to death once, you know, once she let him in, he claimed to be returning some of her daughter's possessions. Then he waited until Louise came into the house.

[00:08:33] She had been out in kind of the garden. There was a kind of an area where she did some work with her dog grooming business. And he attacked her, tied her up, raped her for hours, for several hours. And then as her sister started coming home, he shot her with the crossbow, shot Louise and then attacked Hannah when she came in.

[00:08:57] And she was able to text her boyfriend that she was being tied up by Clifford and to call the police. And, you know, that kind of got things rolling. It seems apparent that Clifford was also planning to kill John Hunt, who is the father of Louise and Hannah and the husband of Carol. He's a racing commenter for. So he's like, you know, well known for that. But because Hannah did this, he was, you know, police were alerted.

[00:09:27] And when they got there, Hannah was still alive, but she died shortly thereafter. And it just like just the senselessness of this and the cruelty of this. Recently, before the sentencing, John Hunt, again, the father who lost these two girls and his wife, made a comment or, you know, gave a statement to the court talking about this. And I wanted to read excerpts from this because I thought this was just so incredibly powerful.

[00:09:56] This man speaking about his loss, speaking directly to the man who killed most of his immediate family. One of Hunt's daughters, Amy, does survive. She was, you know, not there, but he lost two of his daughters. I mean, just the unimaginable loss. And again, our source from this is the BBC. And thanks to the listeners who recommended this and sent us these statements because incredibly powerful. This is what John Hunt said, quote,

[00:10:23] I also want to confirm to the world the truth, especially how Louise conducted herself within a textbook mature breakup on her part, understanding the conflict of saying goodbye to someone she once loved, but not allowing those memories to cloud her certain knowledge that you simply failed to be the person she needed. You failed. I am so proud of all my girls. Unlike you, Kyle, at every step of their lives, they made the correct choices to improve themselves as people. Louise enjoyed more success and fulfillment in one morning than you achieved in your entire miserable life.

[00:10:53] End quote. And it continues, quote, Do you recall, Kyle, how kind we all were to you, helping you and Louise enjoy trips away? Do you remember how she loved a swanky hotel? You were always invited to meals out, a Sunday lunch at the pub or a special celebration. You were always made welcome. The only Christmas you spent together was at our house. Was it four or five days you spent with us? The food, the games, the laughter, the normality. What was it about that blissful existence you hated so much, Kyle?

[00:11:21] Could you not handle how pleasant it was such a contrast to what you were used to? End quote. As I mentioned, Louise ended up coming into conflict for him. Like just some of his views were really radical and messed up. And keep in mind that this guy Clifford, his older brother, is also a murderer. He killed somebody in like a road rage incident. And, you know, she was disturbed by the fact that he didn't seem to think that was a big deal. And let me just ask you, like, I know we're not supposed to do this, but I don't really care.

[00:11:51] How badly do you have to mess up as parents to raise two people like this? I understand that there are aberrations and that I believe that good parents can produce a kid who turns out bad for any number of reasons. Be they socioeconomic, mental health, you know, there can be a number of factors. But how bad? Like, I mean, at that point, like, good Lord. At some point you have to be looking at, like, what are people learning in their upbringings that make them think it's okay to, like, kill other people?

[00:12:21] Anyways, I'll continue. This is something that made me tear up. So John Hunt continued, quote, Louise's favorite novel from her school days was Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird. She was captivated by the goodness of Atticus Finch, both as a father and as a lawyer. She would often quote lines from the novel to match life's challenges.

[00:12:44] One of those quotes that comes to mind right here in this moment is that of Miss Maudie reasserting Atticus's assertion that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. She said, Your father's right. Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs. They don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. All their lives, Carol, Hannah, and Louise similarly spent their time bringing joy and color and happiness to other people's lives.

[00:13:12] You killed three beautiful mockingbirds, Kyle. I'm sorry. That's just my heart goes out to. Mr. Hunt and his daughter, Amy. And he went on to tell Kyle Clifford that he's going to burn in hell. And I think that's appropriate. I just think. The fact that their family went through this, it's just it's shocking. It should it should horrify everyone and it should make people examine. You know. Exactly.

[00:13:42] The level of misogyny that led to this, the level of wanting to control this young woman, Louise, despite the fact she treated this man with kindness when he was obviously worthless. I think I think society has a real sickness that we're producing young men like this. I agree. So let's go to Tennessee now. Yes. Let's go to Tennessee. My sources for this are the Williamson Herald and WSMV.com.

[00:14:11] I think one thing, Anya, that's important to remember when we talk about crimes, especially when there are crimes involving people who are related to each other. The crime itself is like a snapshot of a particular moment. And if you really want to have an understanding of why that moment happened, you have to go into the past and try to get some context.

[00:14:38] So before I get to the new stuff, I want to go back all the way back to July 20th of 2020 to talk about an incident. Some of you might remember. An 18 year old young man named Grant Solomon was with his father, a former WSMV news anchor named Aaron Solomon.

[00:15:08] And Grant, the young man, I believe was unloading some stuff from the back of a truck. And the father, Aaron says he turns his head. And the next thing he knows, the truck runs over his son, ultimately causing him injuries, which tragically take his life. And he says, you may or may not recall hearing about that story back in 2020.

[00:15:36] If you do recall it, the odds are the reason you do is because a number of people, rightly or wrongly, I haven't looked into that case in depth. But a number of people seemed concerned or became convinced that the whole truth of the incident was not being told. And that the father, Mr. Solomon, bore some sort of criminal responsibility for his son's death.

[00:16:06] Now, I think at this point, it's important to stress that, you know, investigation was done and the father, Aaron Solomon, never faced any charges. Despite that, Solomon's wife and daughter, his daughter is named Angela Solomon and his, pardon me, his wife is named Angela Solomon and his daughter is named Gracie.

[00:16:34] They were some of the ones who were saying, maybe something's not right here. And they were the ones who said, oh, there's suspicious circumstances. And maybe the father, Aaron, bears some responsibility here. And they had some theories involving he was allegedly trying to cover up some sort of abuse that was going on. And again, these have not been substantiated.

[00:17:03] And the father, Aaron, strenuously denies those claims. Was there any history of like CPS calls, domestic violence calls, anything like that? Not that I'm aware of. But if you go looking into this case online, it won't take you that long to stumble across some of these conspiracy sites who have very complicated theories accusing the father of basically killing a son.

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[00:19:28] So, this happened, again, back in 2020. And the reason I'm going into all of that history now is because Aaron Solomon's now ex-wife, Angela, was recently arrested because she was caught trying to hire a hitman to kill Aaron, the father. Oh, there you go. There you go.

[00:19:54] And she says apparently one of her motives was she wanted to ensure that her daughter would get access to some kind of a trust fund. Are you kidding me? So, that's the... So, she's not saying I want revenge for my murdered son who wasn't really murdered. She's saying I want the money. So, that sounds about right. So, like, basically bashing him in the first place was probably similarly motivated.

[00:20:18] Yeah, if you end up getting caught trying to kill someone, your earlier comments about what a louse they are seem to have a lot less credibility. They have no credibility. Yes. Because a person who, like, once you cross the line of murdering someone or attempting to have someone murdered, you're done in my book. That's it.

[00:20:41] You know, unless this, I mean, I guess there would be some very, very specific circumstances where it's like, okay, we can still hear somebody out or they both could be bad. But, I mean, in this, I mean, trying to exploit the death of her son in order to, like, stick it to the husband and then trying to have the man killed. I mean, what a sickness.

[00:21:04] Yeah, she met with an undercover law enforcement officer who was acting as a hitman or pretending to be a hitman on April 11th, less than a week ago, and tried to arrange this. And soon after that meeting, she was arrested. If you go to the conspiracy sites, it's all a big frame up. Oh, naturally. Of course. When you say conspiracy sites, like, what are you talking about? Is this, like, social media or, like, do they set up their own little sad websites?

[00:21:34] More of the latter. I found a couple of websites with stuff going back for quite some time about it. I vaguely recall hearing about the tragic truck accident at the time, and I remember that it had caused a stir at the time in some quarters. I didn't realize that conversation was ongoing.

[00:21:58] And I always assume that investigating officers generally have access to a lot more information than I do. And if a decision is made not to charge someone with a crime, there's usually a good reason for that. And if you're someone who, as we all should be, we all should be concerned about wrongful convictions.

[00:22:19] We don't want people facing criminal charges just because there is a hubbub online and just because some people can point it at a detail or two and say, I don't understand that. It must be suspicious. Get him. Oh, he has a bruise on his thigh. Well, maybe that could be determined through the investigation to have been caused by the truck. Like, yeah, like there you go.

[00:22:40] If I have a coroner or rather a pathologist saying that or a medical examiner saying that, I'm going to trust that a hell of a lot more than some random person who's posting picture online and saying, well, I don't get this. Yeah, you don't get a lot. That's why you're making a website like this, obviously. I mean, like that's not that's not credible. And I'm not. I think there are cases where you have a mysterious death and where there may very well have been a crime committed. But there's not enough evidence.

[00:23:08] And that must be the most frustrating thing for a family. And my heart goes out to families who are in that situation. That that's like I know something happened that kind of looks like something happened, but we just can't quite get there to facilitate charges against a specific person. But then there's cases where people are just trying to find someone to blame. And that's where I kind of don't. Yeah, I don't. You know, it's like my heart. My heart goes out to families in that first instance that you talk about where it's generally known that this is the person responsible.

[00:23:36] But for a variety of reasons, charges can't be filed. Or there's just like who gave them the fentanyl? We don't know. Or like, yeah, it looks like it could have been one thing or another, but we'll never know because the bodies to get decomposed. There are situations where you won't find answers through the criminal justice system because you need evidence for that. And there's not enough evidence. And that. That's horrible. And so I don't denigrate people who or or people who feel like, hey, I think the police kind of gave a glancing glimpse at this. They didn't really do a thorough investigation.

[00:24:04] I want a second look like all of that. All of that can fit into what I think is absolutely fine and you should do and you should advocate for your family. But then there's the side of this to where it's like, let me use this tragedy as a cudgel to beat other people down. And I do not care for that genre of this. Of this. And again, whatever credibility she had about her original concerns, that credibility is gone now.

[00:24:31] And it seems like there was no chargeable evidence against this man. As you say, there are frustrating situations for families sometimes. I'm not saying this is one of those where they feel that they know who did it and why and charges can't be filed. Now, my mind goes back a few years ago. I don't think we talked about it on the show, but we went to a public meeting. Oh, yeah.

[00:24:53] Between families of homicide victims and police officers and and the prosecution, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office. And there was an instance there. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail, but there was an instance where someone's family member got into a car with someone else and the someone else shot them. And so we know who shot this person and who killed this person.

[00:25:22] But that person is claiming self-defense. And the problem is, since the crime or since the incident happened in a closed car, no one else saw it. So there's no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was not self-defense. As it turns out, the victim was kind of I believe she was an older woman and the perpetrator was a larger guy. So maybe that is an argument against self-defense, but doesn't rise to the beyond a reasonable doubt standard.

[00:25:52] And my heart went out to that family. But there's nothing that could be done. Yeah, I think I think people need to be aware of the limitations of the criminal justice system so that they can brace themselves in situations because you expect we're going to get help. We're going to get justice. And that's not always going to happen depending on the circumstance of the case. And that's brutal to say, but it's just true. Because if you if people are aware of that, then they can seek healing elsewhere.

[00:26:20] And honestly, I think a lot of people who go through the criminal justice system, they don't find healing there because the whole process is so brutal and clinical. And that's not anyone's fault. That's not anyone being mean. It's just the way it needs to operate. And yeah, I think the expectations. But in this case, I just have suspicion of any of the claims of somebody who's then willing to go hire a hitman to kill somebody in order to get money. Like I think it's Angelia. Is that it? Angelia Solomon.

[00:26:46] I mean, and the fact that like you have these conspiracy websites that are probably like run by her friends or, you know, fellow obsessives who then can't when faced with this can't even really engage with that in an honest way. Can't say, well, OK, let me reassess what I've been told over the years. They can't like I have so much respect when people are kind of being fed one thing and they have a moment where they're like, wait. Maybe I should at least consider the other side.

[00:27:13] No, of course, it's actually let me just protect my own ego by saying it's in the grand conspiracy. Oh, she's being framed. It all goes all the way to the top. It's like, come on, grow up, like literally just grow up and like like get a brain, you know, like it's really not that hard. I've said this on the show before up until I was in my early 20s, I was a devout believer in JFK conspiracy theories.

[00:27:40] But finally looking at the evidence, I was convinced that belief was incorrect. So I changed my mind. There's nothing wrong with changing your mind. Or at least you don't even have to fully do an about face here. You can literally just say, well. Well, this kind of raises some questions. Let's look into it. You know, like you can like like I need to process this. And instead of just going into defensive mode of like my whole life for the last four years, it will be completely wasted unless I make this mean something. So obviously she's being framed.

[00:28:11] It's like, you know, like whenever I see someone kind of crouching to protect their ego like that, it's just, you know, it's like that makes them not have any credibility to me. So, I mean, it's true crime. So I guess that's what we see a lot of. Let's hit the tracks and go over to Oregon. And my sources for this are the Portland Tribune and KPTV.com.

[00:28:37] This is an older case, again, that has some more recent developments. This involves the 1989 murder of Oregon Corrections Director Michael Franke. And as it turns out, a man named Frank Gable was arrested for that crime and convicted of that crime. But subsequently, it is developed that the case against him was very, very weak. And in fact, it was compromised.

[00:29:08] I'm going to quote a few lines from appeals court judge Jacqueline Union. She writes, quote, the facts on appeal are extraordinary. Since the trial, nearly all the witnesses who directly implicated Gable have recanted. Many explain they intended to frame Gable after hearing he was a police informant.

[00:29:29] They attribute their false testimony to significant investigative misconduct, which the state remarkably does not dispute. End quote. Because usually, when there's a wrongful conviction case or an alleged wrongful conviction case, that's something that is alleged by the defense. And the state says, no, it wasn't a wrongful conviction at all. And the things the defense are saying are not true.

[00:29:57] But in this case, the state is saying, well, yeah, they were true. And so, in fact, the state has formally recognized this guy is not guilty. And so because of that, the case has become an open, unsolved murder once more all these years later. And it's unclear who's responsible for Mr. Frankie's death.

[00:30:21] It's the time he was said to have been doing some investigations into allegations of different things. So it's unclear if that was a factor in his death. But in any case, I thought it was very interesting that recently the Oregon House of Representatives, in a bipartisan effort, Republicans and Democrats, have asked the FBI to open a new investigation into this decades-old murder.

[00:30:53] Wow. Republicans and Democrats working together toward a common goal in this 2025? That is pretty remarkable. That's remarkable in and of itself. Yeah. That's what caught my eye. Wow. I mean, yeah, because, I mean, geez, it sort of seems like everyone's in agreement here. I mean, without looking into it, I don't know. I'm always very reluctant to jump on an innocence bandwagon necessarily without really digging into it myself.

[00:31:19] But a lot of this seems pretty significant that all of these parties are in agreement to me. And, I mean, gosh. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Acosta said,

[00:31:50] And I'm seeing this. This is fascinating. Now I'm falling down the rabbit hole. There's one witness who said a different drug dealer did the killing, this Timothy Natividad, who was then murdered, who then killed himself later on. So you're probably, I mean, oh, man. See, this is what I think it is important to realize and hopefully kind of keep in your minds.

[00:32:18] And this is why it's so difficult sometimes to talk about conspiracy theories. Sometimes conspiracies do happen. And you have to go where the evidence is. That's the only difference between a conspiracy theory and a real conspiracy. If the evidence is pointing towards something that's, you know, then that could be real and that should be taken into consideration. That should be seriously discussed.

[00:32:40] But if, you know, if it's something, if it's something that's just kind of like that sounds good, but we don't really have any evidence for that, then that's not so not so good. Jeez. What a case. Yeah, it's a case that's full of twists and turns.

[00:32:59] And I hope the FBI does what the Oregon House of Representatives is asking and reopens the case and begins investigating it once more. I should know that the Frankie family supports those efforts. Really? So they're even they're like, well, we don't think this was. Yeah. They have long maintained that this person who was convicted is actually innocent. What's your thoughts going, going, just looking at this?

[00:33:27] And obviously this is a cheat sheet, so we're not like doing a huge deep dive, but like your initial thoughts on looking at this. It's very, very troubling. And I know Mr. Gable has filed a suit against some of the investigators involved. Yeah, it's troubling. What do you think? Well, no, I mean, I told you what I thought. I thought, you know, it was interesting. But I mean, you know it probably a little bit better. So I was curious if you.

[00:33:54] I'm not convinced it was a big conspiracy, but I know I do tend to think more likely than not that Mr. Gable is not the person responsible for this. I accept all the authorities who say that he is not responsible for this. And that means whoever did this crime has escaped punishment for it. And the family deserves answers and there needs to be justice.

[00:34:16] So, again, I hope the FBI does what the Oregon House of Representatives is requesting and reopens this case. Yeah, it doesn't have to be a conspiracy, but it seems like there's a lot of questions here. All right. You're going to bring us home. One more case on the way. Yeah. So we're going to go back to Wisconsin. This is kind of our neighbor to the north. It's not our neighbor, but I mean, it's the same general. It's Midwest.

[00:34:44] But so this is a case that was requested a long time ago by somebody in Wisconsin and appreciate that listener. Thanks so much for kind of keeping us informed on this one. And this is the case of Wisconsin versus Stephen James Weiss. And Weiss is a sexual offender. He's he's pled no contest to these things. So I think I feel comfortable saying that. This guy worked in I.T. at Freighter Hospital in West Bend, Wisconsin.

[00:35:14] And Freighter is a kind of a major kind of hospital chain, I take it to be in Wisconsin. So there's several different ones. But the one in West Bend is where he worked. And he also worked at the Freighter Clinic, which has since been torn down. So he I'm not going to get into all the disgusting details. There were so many. And we covered this on previous episodes. But this guy was taking pictures of teenagers in his apartment's pool.

[00:35:43] He was stalking people. He was stalking children. He was surreptitiously taking pictures of children, surreptitiously taking pictures of women in their rooms that he can kind of see across the way. He was stealing women's menstrual products from work. He was the most perhaps he was he was putting his own bodily fluids and women's food at work. And one of the most significant things is he installed a camera in the employee bathroom

[00:36:12] at his workplace and was filming women use the bathroom without without their consent or knowledge. So the sheer magnitude of what this guy was doing cannot be understated. There was just like constant stalking, you know, sexual misconduct. Just really. Honestly, pretty disgusting to read about it. So he ended up pleading no contest to 31 counts.

[00:36:40] Before we go on, what does no contest mean? No contest is kind of like a halfway house or a halfway point between you're not saying you're guilty. You're not saying you're innocent. You're basically saying I'm not going to contest these charges. So you're basically acknowledging, OK, I think the state can prove their case. I'm not going to contest it. But you're not formally saying you did it.

[00:37:09] Is there any benefit to doing that versus like just saying I did it? If there's possibilities of civil suits, you know, that's one issue. There's, you know. OK. Well, yeah. So he was doing these things from 2015 to 2019, gets busted. And and now he is since based on those 31 charges, he's been sentenced to 44 years in prison and then 35 additional years with extended supervision.

[00:37:36] Given that he's in his late 40s is a pretty significant sentence. I don't know how things work in Wisconsin as far as like offender. You know, like how long you end up being there. Some states, you know, 44 years doesn't necessarily mean 44 years. It can, you know, this time off for good, good behavior and things like that. But obviously, again, a pretty significant sentence.

[00:38:00] It kind of reminded me a little bit of the Kagan Klein case here in Indiana where you just had this kind of really prolific sexual offender doing all these kinds of like really just disgusting things. And, you know, oftentimes when you see that, you don't necessarily think that person is going to get a long sentence because that's just tends to not be how things work. But if prosecutors can really put together a strong recommendation that's based on the law and sort of stacks up these different charges, then you can end up getting a pretty long sentence.

[00:38:29] So Weiss got a long sentence. I imagine that's a relief to his victims and people in that community. And that is kind of the end of that saga, I think. So that's that's good. But is this also the also the end of the episode? I think it's the end of the episode, too. I guess just any fire shirts if you want. If you don't. Actually, even if you don't, go ahead and do it. Kevin, try to manipulate them with your lawyerly ways. My lawyerly tricks.

[00:38:59] And I feel also I should apologize because we talked the last couple of weeks we're doing an appearance in Columbus. And a number of you got excited about that very kindly. And it sold out very, very quickly, much more quickly than I thought. I thought I'd have to come on this program for weeks and talk talk up Columbus, Indiana. And I think me mentioning Zahara Coast, the ice cream parlor, is what really pushed us over the edge. So it sold out very quickly.

[00:39:26] And as a result, a number of people who wanted to come and who we would have loved to have seen there are not going to be able to come. So I apologize for that. In the future, we'll try to figure out if and when we do another live event. We'll try to figure out a way to make it more easy for more people to get access. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, we're hoping the book's coming out. The book is coming out. We're not hoping the book is coming out. I mean, the book is coming out, but we're hoping, you know, we can do events around that.

[00:39:56] So we really hope that we get to see each and every one of you at some point because that would be fun. It would be nice to meet you guys. We really enjoy sort of talking to you. But it's like a one-way conversation right now. We're just like talking at you. You're sitting there shaking your head thinking, why can't I get into Word Edgewise? But maybe eventually you will. So you can meet us in person. I think our listeners understand they're listening to a recording. Shaking their head roofily. These guys just never shut up.

[00:40:29] They are just yapping and yapping. So are you suggesting we start having long pauses in our episodes for people to talk back to us? And now what do you think? That's a great point. I can't believe Ani and I didn't think about that. Thanks for letting us know. Oh, man. But yeah, we had fun.

[00:40:57] Well, was there anything else that we had to do? I don't know. We said even if you don't want them, you should buy the shirts, right? Yeah. Is that an order from you? Sure. Why not? That was not an order. Badness gone to your head. Well, we hope you guys all stay safe and have a nice weekend. And just let us know if there's ever a case you want to cover or a tip you have on a case or inside knowledge. We always appreciate getting those.

[00:41:26] Let us know if there's a case you want us to cover. Yeah. Wait, didn't I just say that? I thought you said let us know if there's a case you want to cover. Oh, yeah. I think I was saying you want us. I don't know what I said. Yeah. If you guys want to start a podcast, make some bad decisions. Ani has a spreadsheet. I don't. What? Don't you have like a tip? It's called a PowerPoint, sir. Ah, it's all the same. Spreadsheet. That's not going to razzmatazz people. That's what a PowerPoint's for.

[00:41:58] So, but yeah, but we appreciate you guys listening. Seriously, it's fun and it's fun to get to engage with you. And in case some of you probably have noticed, but I'm on a massive, massive email trip to email back people as part of our backlog that we've gotten. Unfortunately, since trial, it's gotten worse. So if you send us an email like a year ago and you suddenly get a response, don't worry about it. I mean, you can respond, but apologies for the delay. Yes, Ani has been working very hard.

[00:42:24] She actually has gone all the way back and she's been responding to people even from 2022. I've been going nuts. People are going to be horrified, shocked. But I just feel bad when people write us and we don't get back to them. So I like to make that right. And that's good for my mental health right now. So we don't need to talk anymore about it. Okay, just hit the button. Hit the button. Thanks so much for listening to The Murder Sheet. If you have a tip concerning one of the cases we cover, please email us at murdersheet

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