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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell
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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are
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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this
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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,
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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,
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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so
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evil many feel they are unspeakable.
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Warning.
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Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended,
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then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all,
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kJ here, I'm back for another episode of Unspeakable. Did
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you miss me last week? I'm so sorry. I had
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some things I had to take care of. But I'm
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back and this is a good one. I'm not even
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lying to you, all right, So let me give you
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a couple of shout outs real quick though, because I
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haven't I haven't listed these here in a hot minute,
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So I'm gonna start in Hoover, Alabama, Miss Susan Barfield.
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Hey Susan, thank you for joining.
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I love Hoover, Alabama makes me think of baseball, and
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so you're good people. I know it just because of
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where you live. And then this name just tells me
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you're good people. Alexa Jennings, Hey girl, Hey Valley Center, Kansas.
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What's going on out there? How are you doing? Are
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we cousins? I guess we are, Thanks for joining. I've
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got Miss Kathy Blackman. Now, Miss Kathy, you didn't tell
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me where you live, so I can't. I can't be specific,
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but just know Miss Kathy is out there. She has joined,
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and I'm so thankful to have her on my team,
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as well as Kathleen Butler from Mobile, Alabama.
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I got some al people, Alabama peoples in the house.
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I love it.
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And then right here locally, I've got April Pate from
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hey, April, you're just a hop, skip
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and jump away from me. So thankful to have you
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here today. And last but not Lisa, Miss Lisa Baker
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from Denham Springs, Louisiana. Now, a little birdie told me
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that you work with my friend Wendy and that y'all
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do mammograms together on the affectionately called titty Bus.
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So I hope we're having a great week with Lisa.
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I hope you're smashing boobs and you're saving lives and
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I'm so thankful that you think enough of me to
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join in and be a part of my patreons. All right,
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So this case, y'all, it's a current trial that just
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wrapped up, So this is not an old one, literally
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like a week ago.
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This just wrapped up. So it's one you may have
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been following.
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But if not, get ready because this one it's one
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for the books. So it's gonna take place in Tennessee,
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and I'm telling you this is gonna be one that
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pierces your soul.
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And it it.
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Made me physic like repulsed, if I'm being honest, and
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it almost pulls the aggressive side out of me, which
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I know people know I'm already aggressive, but let's see
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how it strikes you and see if you feel the
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same way when I'm done. So this one takes place
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in twenty nineteen, but it just went to trial last week.
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Because remember, just because something happens one year doesn't mean
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it's going to go to trial, especially when it's one
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of this magnitude. So it's recent and it's big in
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the crime news. If you're following these up to date cases,
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then the name Jennifer Paxton is gonna ring a bell.
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If not.
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Let me tell you a little bit about her. She
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was born in nineteen eighty four, same year as me,
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and she was raised by her grandmother. Now, I want
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to tell you it was a decent upbringing. When she
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was younger, her her cousins lovingly remembered, you know that
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she was a fun kid. She was a blast to
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be around. But the light in her started to just
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fade away as she got older. So when this took
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place in twenty nineteen, she was now thirty six years old,
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and she had found herself in a place that she
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never expected to be, and honestly, she was struggling in life.
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So there had been a series of setbacks mixed with
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poor decision making, and it just found her spiraling into
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drug use that led her to just be a full
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blown heroin addict and suffering also with alcoholism. So over
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the years, she gave birth to seven children and they
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would all eventually be removed from her custody. And at
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the time that this took place, her children ranged in
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age from twelve to twenty one years old. She was homeless,
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and she just wandered the streets day after day. And
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I know that what I'm saying, right now doesn't seem
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very positive, but it's the truth. And I want you
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to know that Jennifer wasn't having a good time. My
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heart as a mama hurts for her. That she had
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seven children, that she lost custody of all of them.
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Heart hurts for those children. Obviously there was a reason why,
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and I could see why you would just become desperate
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and fall into despair. Now, her mother was still alive
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and her father was in prison, and she never had
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a relationship with him. She lacked a strong male figure
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in her life, and the only time she would really
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go visit family or her mother was to beg for
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money from her grandmother, who would get a Social Security
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check on the first of the month. So when you're
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looking at photos of her, because I did, I looked
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at these photos. She wanted to be pretty, y'all. She
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would take selfies with a phone if she had one.
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Her hair was brown, it was just below her shoulders,
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and at times you could tell when she was having
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I guess a better streak in her life because she
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would have highlights in her hair. She had a toothy
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smile when she grinned. Usually she had no makeup one
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and she had brown eyes and just an average looking
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woman living a hard life and time was paying a
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toll on her body. But she was trying to be pretty.
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I don't think there's a woman that walks the earth
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that wants to be unattractive. She was trying, but her
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lifestyle was not very conducive to maybe what she wanted.
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Her home life was a mess growing up. Now, when
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I said she had a decent upbringing, I mean her
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grandmother did a decent you know, did the best she
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could to raise her. But her home life was just
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an absolute, you know mess. And obviously this cycle was repeated.
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Her family would sometimes get messages through messenger, you know,
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asking her for food. And luckily, even through all of
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her struggles, Jennifer was loved. Her struggles were profound, but
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she did have at least one cousin who would keep
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tabs on her and would help her whenever.
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She was able to.
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And her cousin's name was Britney Payne, and like I said,
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she would do what she could to help her cousin.
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And this included things like she would drive to this
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wooded area where Jennifer had set up a tent and
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she would give her some money she would allow her
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to come over to her house from time to time
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to take a shower and try.
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To give her some decencies.
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Her cousin never said this, but having known drug addicts
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and known addiction, it's hard to love people who are
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in the active throes of addiction because you can't trust them.
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You don't know if they're gonna steal from you, you
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don't know a lot of things about them. So loving
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someone and opening your home to them, if you've ever
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been around an addict, they're two very different things. So
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Jennifer's existence was a pitiful one, but also self induced,
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and eventually it was realized that she was actually using
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her body for prostitution. Now what I've told you to
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this point is brutal honesty, but I do feel compelled
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to say this as well. I refuse to reduce her
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existence to the fact that.
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She was a junkie.
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I went through photos of her from years gone by,
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and I'm gonna tell you what I saw. I saw
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a young girl who was honestly trying to make it. Eventually,
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I saw a young mother who gave birth while in
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the throes of a horrible addiction. She was sick, she
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was not a waste. She was sick, and there are
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photos of her looking healthy and in a floral dress
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with slides on her feet and long brown hair. Photos
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of Christmas time with the family that she loved so dearly,
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and she's smiling ear to ear as a child on
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the same patterned couch my own grandmother owned. You know
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that brown and cream patterned couch in every early eighties
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home with the woodpanel walls. A matter of fact, today
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is my grandmother's birthday. I just thought about that. It's
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her first birthday in heaven, and that's okay. And maybe
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this is the kindred spirit that I feel with this
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girl that you know, we have a lot in common,
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although we have a lot that's not in common. But
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she was like me a young girl. She was full
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of hopes and dreams. There's photos of her sitting on
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Santa's lap and she's holding hands with her loved ones.
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Look at her blue roofed.
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Prom dress and her hair was all done up in
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another photo, huge smiles on her face. She had a
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life that was valuable, although now in current times she
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was suffering. Jennifer's mama loved her, and although loving her
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had been challenging, in the recent years because of her
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addiction and her behaviors, her family still wanted to know
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where she was and that she was relatively safe, so
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they usually spoke to her every couple of weeks when
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she came around for money. But they hadn't seen her
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since December the third, and it was now February going
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on almost two months, and they had not heard from her.
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And it was like clockwork when that check came in.
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That girl knew she was coming to try to get
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some money. So usually if she wasn't out in the
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woods at her tent or whatever, you could find her
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in jail. And they liked that, not because they were mean,
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but because again people who have experienced this will understand it.
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But you know that your loved one is safe, you
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know that they're being fed, you know that they're being
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given those basic decencies of living when they're in jail.
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But this time Jennifer wasn't there. Matter of fact, she
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wasn't anywhere they normally could find her. Most recently, Jennifer
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was known to walk around the area of a local
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I guess I'd call it a dive bar. It was
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called the Pinthouse on Merchant Drive and this was a
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place to get some greasy food. They'd boast arm wrestling
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and trivia nights. They have a seventy four percent recommendation
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score on Google. If you're wondering, I looked it up.
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I was curious what kind of.
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Place it was.
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So it also is a place that they could get
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rowdy at night. So there was like a baseball bat
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that they kept behind the bar that they would pull
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it out and bang on the bam, bam, bam. They'd
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bang on the desk if they needed security to come
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help them.
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To kind of give you a feel for the place.
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Well, Jennifer was commonly seen in that establishment using their restroom,
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even though that was frowned upon the workers. Again, they
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weren't mean. They just knew that once you let one
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transient in to use the bathroom, the floodgates would open
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and then all the non paying homeless people would be
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up in there using all of their facilities. But lucky
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for Jennifer, there was a cook there and he looked
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after her.
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Her off whenever she would come in. He had a
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soft place in his heart for her, and everybody knew it.
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Matter of fact, the other workers there picked on this
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cook and they claimed that she was his quote unquote girlfriend,
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and he would just laugh at off, knowing that she
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just needed help in life and that he was going
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to let her use the bathroom. So her family checked
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the restaurant as well as all of these normal places
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that she frequented, but she was just simply gone. So
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by February second of twenty twenty, Jennifer Gail Paxton was
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reported missing by her family. Now, considering that she was
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a transient with a high risk lifestyle, this would be
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a challenging person to find no matter what, but police
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were up for the challenge and they dug in hard
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to find her. To put it bluntly, though, the police
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found nothing. When I say nothing, I mean nuhhing, not
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a morsel. Nobody knew anything. It was like she just
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poof disappeared. No one had even spoken to her since December.
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The last known contact with her happened to be the
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police when they ran her name. They had an interaction
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with her when she was spotted just twirling in the
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roadway near the pint house. Now I don't know this
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for a fact, but I'm assuming that, yes, she was
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probably high and just innocently just twirling in the roadway.
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And that was the last time that there was a