Four Seasons

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You’re listening to. River City

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Mystery podcast, the show that

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delves into the Evansville and

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surrounding Tri-State area’s

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many mysteries, including

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unsolved crimes, murders, and

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disappearances.

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A show that isn’t afraid to jump

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down the rabbit hole to

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investigate reports of local

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hauntings, sightings of UFOs and

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cryptids, among other paranormal

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phenomena.

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With your host, co-founder of

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the Humans of Evansville

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Facebook page.

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Law office worker by day.

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Insomniac researcher of the
bizarre by night.

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Matt Deig.

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Welcome to the first episode of
River City Mystery podcast.

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Thank you for joining me.

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Hope you enjoy the show.

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Our first episode takes us to
the west side of Mount Vernon,

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Indiana, just outside of town.

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Right off the highway sits a

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little motel called the Four

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Seasons.

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It’s easy to miss if you’re
flying down the highway there,

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but it’s it’s set off the
highway there for a long time,

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and it’s run by Rodney Cox and
his mother, Jean Rodney, and his

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mother actually run the motel
today, and they also ran it

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together back in the fall of
nineteen ninety four, which is

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when our story begins.

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The motel business certainly has
its challenges, as Rodney and

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Jean found out.

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Now, they were no strangers to

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dealing with issues that

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standard motel owners would deal

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with leaky toilets, guests

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losing their room keys, noise

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complaints, things of that

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nature.

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In the fall of nineteen ninety

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four, Rodney and Jean began to

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hear familiar complaints coming

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from one particular room at the

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motel.

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At first, they kind of brushed
it off as being odd, but guest

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after guest night after night It
came to them with similar

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complaints, and Rodney and Jean
could no longer brush it off as

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being quirky or strange.

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They knew they had to deal with
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And this particular issue, they
couldn’t just call in a plumber

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or a roofer, or somebody from
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deal with this, Rodney and Jean
had to put their heads together

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and come up with a game plan on
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So Rodney and Jean placed a

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phone call to the only person

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they knew who might be able to

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help.

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In the first episode of River
City Mystery Podcast.

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You’re going to learn why Rodney

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and Jean resorted to calling a

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preacher.

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Now, before we get into why the

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preacher was called to deal with

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the issue at the motel, I need

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to back up a little bit and kind

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of set the stage and give some

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context into what was going on

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there.

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On September two, nineteen

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ninety four, about a month or so

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before the preacher had been

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called out to the motel, Jack

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Barnett was with his girlfriend,

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Terri Rideout, at American

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Legion Post forty four in

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Newburgh, Indiana.

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They had stopped by the post to

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grab a quick bite to eat before

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Terry’s shift started that

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morning at eleven o’clock at

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Burger King on Main Street in

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Now, as far as anyone can tell,
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Jack and Terry said that they
had a great relationship, and

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there was even talk that they
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They’d been living together for
the last three months at a home

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in Chandler, Indiana, and Jack
and Terry enjoyed going to

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Jack’s River camp.

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Uh, they both really enjoyed
going down to the river and

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having fun down there.

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And that was kind of their thing
that they did together.

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Terry loved the river so much.

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She named her dog River, and her
dog often trailed her wherever

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she went, including to the river
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So it wasn’t too unusual.

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You’d find Jack, Terry and River
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Now, I mentioned that Terry

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worked at Burger King, and she

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had that shift at eleven o’clock

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that morning.

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She’d only been working there
for about a month at this point.

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And according to her district
manager, Connie Weinzapfel, she

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was doing a really good job.

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And she called her a very
intelligent, responsible woman.

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So she was, you know, doing a

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good job there and nothing

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unusual.

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Jack Barnett was an employee at
Sejko.

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Southern Indiana Gas and
Electric Company, and Jack was

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an equipment operator for Sejko.

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Now, Jack Jack had had a rough
couple of years.

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He was divorced about three

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years prior, he was married to

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Julie Waters.

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And, um, they maintained at that

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point a, a friendly

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relationship.

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And they also had a thirteen
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Now, another reason that, uh,

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Jack had had a rough couple of

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years was in September of

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nineteen ninety.

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He was charged with battery with
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He pled guilty on the charge and

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did avoid serving serious jail

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time.

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But he did have to serve several
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So that probationary period had

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just come to an end, uh, by this

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point.

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So from an observer’s point of

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view, things seem to be headed

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in the right direction for Terry

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and Jack.

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Now, Terry’s car was having some
mechanical problems, so she was

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kind of relying on Jack to give
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So about ten thirty that

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morning, they left the American

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Legion and started to head

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towards Burger King on Main

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Street in Evansville so that

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Terry could be at her eleven a m

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shift.

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They, um, she made it there on
time and worked the entire

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shift, eleven to seven.

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Around seven o’clock, her
manager asked her if she would,

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uh, on the night deposit to
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And she did that.

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So according to her coworkers,

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Terry had told them, uh, see you

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tomorrow.

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And she was in a good mood.

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And the last they saw was Terry

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driving off in Jack’s red pickup

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truck.

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A few days later, on September
six, nineteen ninety four, Jack

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was spotted at Don and Donna’s
Sports Bar in Newburgh, Indiana.

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Gail Chapman, a, uh, an employee
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happened to be a good friend of
Terry’s and also a former

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roommate of hers, had talked to
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September sixth and confirmed
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But even though it was a little
odd that Jack was there by

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himself that day, according to
the bartender, he wasn’t acting

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strange or odd.

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He didn’t.

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He didn’t mention anything about

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Terry or why he was there by

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himself.

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So it didn’t really raise any
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Three days later, on September
nine, nineteen ninety four, Jack

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Barnett pulled into the parking
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Mount Vernon, Indiana.

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Jack had brought two items with
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One was the movie Falling Down,

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starring Michael Douglas and

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two.

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His gun.

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Jack walked into the lobby of

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the motel and asked if they had

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They did.

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He purchased his room for the
evening, signed off on the

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paperwork, grabbed his key and
headed down to his room.

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Jack walked down to his motel
room, unlocked the door, walked

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in, making sure to have his two
items with him.

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Shut the door behind him, locked

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it, and also locked the security

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chain.

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At some point that evening, Jack
walked up to the VCR in his

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room, inserted the VHS tape of
the movie, falling down, and

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watched the movie.

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If you’re not familiar with the
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in nineteen ninety three, which
is about a year before this

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story takes place.

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It stars Michael Douglas, who’s
a unemployed defense contractor

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who’s divorced and just having a
really bad day.

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He’s stuck in traffic.

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I think it’s in Los Angeles and
just everything goes wrong.

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And he just he literally snaps.

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So he basically arms himself,
just parks his car on the

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freeway, and then just kind of
goes on a bit of a rampage

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against society in general.

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Um, but basically it’s a guy
that just kind of snaps up who

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is kind of living a normal life.

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No one suspected that he would
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And, um, so that’s, that’s the
movie that Jack took with him.

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That’s the movie.

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That’s the last movie he watched
that night falling down.

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When the movie ended, Jack

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walked over to the desk, sat

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down, grabbed a piece of paper

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and a pen, and wrote out a

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little note to his thirteen year

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old daughter.

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He said something along the
lines of grow up to be a good

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girl and I love you.

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Then Jack got up and walked
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second item that he had brought
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He grabbed it, opened his mouth,

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inserted the gun, and pulled the

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self-inflicted gunshot wound
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The next day, September tenth,
nineteen ninety four, hotel

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workers noticed that he still
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As of four thirty, and there was

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a Do Not Disturb sign hanging on

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his doorknob.

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the door and wake him up, the

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hotel staff went to go get a key

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and they were able to partially

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open the door, but when they

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blood all over the floor, and

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they immediately called the

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and he says that he’s convinced
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Jack did end his own life, uh,
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door was locked from the inside
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family and friends gathered to

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remember the life of Jack

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Barnett.

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But they weren’t the only ones
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Hidden in the back were
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They weren’t investigating
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They were investigating the
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Jack’s girlfriend, Terry, hadn’t

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been seen since she left her

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shift at Burger King that night,

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September two, nineteen ninety

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four.

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okay, she would have attended

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Jack’s funeral.

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That’s what everybody said she
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But she didn’t.

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She never showed up.

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As a matter of fact, she was
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Friends and acquaintances
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Jack to look for clues as to
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The only unusual thing they

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found at the house was the fact

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that River Terry’s dog was

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missing.

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Terry and River met similar

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But we don’t know, and we may
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As of today, Teresa Rideout
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case in the state of Indiana.

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By now, you’re probably
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the fact that a preacher was
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issues at the motel about a
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Jack died, the room he was in

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became a bit of a hotspot for

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paranormal activity.

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At first, Rodney Cox and his
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off as being, you know, strange
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Guests were consistently saying

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that the TV was turning on by

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itself exactly at ten p m every

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night, and Rodney got a little

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irritated.

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He would go to the room and, uh,
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the wires or whatever he was
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and um, they’d check out the
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come in and they would have a
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Hey, the TV keeps coming on at
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What’s going on here?

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electrical problem or something

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like that.

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So, Rodney, it started being

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less funny and a little more

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concerning.

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So Rodney started bringing in
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He took out the old TV in that
room and would bring in a new

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one, plug it in, get it all set
up, and another guest would come

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in and same, same concerns.

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Ten o’clock TV would turn on and
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so much that they.

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They actually told Rodney and

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Jean, hey, this, this room is

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haunted.

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There’s something not right
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You need to do something about
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hadn’t advertised that that room

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was where someone had killed

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themselves within the past

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month.

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So there’s really no way that
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they would have known that other
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perspective, these concerns were

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pretty valid because the guests

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had no contact with each other

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and they were all saying very

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similar things.

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church to deal with this issue.

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So they called in the preacher
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a cleansing of the room and
asked for the spirit of Jack

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Barnett to leave, to remove
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And after that cleansing, Rodney
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no more issues and complaints
about the TV turning on, or

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anything else paranormal going
on in that room.

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So I guess we can say that the
Four Seasons Motel was a haunted

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motel, but is no longer.

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Whether or not we believe that
these events are actual

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paranormal events where there’s
some sort of spirit activity

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going on due to the due to a
traumatic death in the room.

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Um, that’s up to you to decide
what you believe about that.

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Um, I find it interesting no

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matter what, whether or not it’s

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a haunting or if it’s merely a

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coincidence.

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It’s pretty amazing either way.

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Um, I think it’s important to
have an open mind about these

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sorts of things.

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And, um, that’s what I intend to

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do with the podcast is to

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present mysteries of, uh, of all

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types.

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And I’ll do that with an open
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Um, and I’m going to let you
decide what you think.

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And, um, you can share your

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thoughts at my, um, website,

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which is RiverCityMystery.

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com.

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I’ve actually set up a forum I
call the study.

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So each episode is going to have
its own forum heading there.

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So we’ll see how that goes.

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Uh, I’ve also got Facebook and
Instagram set up, but I kind of

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just want to base everything off
of my website if possible.

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So we’ll see how it goes.

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I’m also not sure yet how often

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I’m going to be releasing

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episodes.

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I do work full time, so this is
a hobby.

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I will never do this to make
money or anything like that.

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So it’s not going to be a, um, a

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money making venture or anything

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like that.

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This is just totally one hundred

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percent a, a hobby of mine I

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love.

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I’ve always loved mysteries and

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paranormal things and stuff like

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that.

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So the idea of being able to
kind of dig in to local

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mysteries and paranormal stuff
is just really fun to me.

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Uh, it’s just I’m not quite sure

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yet how the scheduling is going

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to work.

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So I hopefully we’ll be able to

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have some sort of regular

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schedule.

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But since this is early on, I
just don’t know.

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I thank you for joining me in

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the first episode of River City

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Mystery Podcast.

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Again, if you’d like to join us
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check out the forum there and
tell us what you think.

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If you have a show topic, ideas,

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or information on this

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particular episode or any other

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that I may do, feel free to

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contact me.

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I’ve got a contact page on my
website so you can just reach

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out to me there.

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Thanks again for listening.

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Until next time, take care.