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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.
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Some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. 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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heyj You're back for another episode of Unspeakable. How's your
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week going. It's got to be going good. And I
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know it's going great because right now you're sitting here
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and you're listening to me. So I've got the part
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two for you of this Diana, Mike and Sherry saga
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that I started, and we're going to finish it up today.
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But before I start on that, I do want to
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tell you this. Listen.
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So go download the app and then if you're a member.
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You can watch me right there on your phone doing
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whatever it is that you're doing. You don't have to
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have a desktop. Also, I want to let you know
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that I will be at the Fall Fest in Denim Springs, Louisiana,
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so mark your calendar. That's going to be Saturday, October fourth.
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I will have a booth there. I should be on
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the main strip of booths, and I'll be somewhere in
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the middle. I'm not exactly sure where, but I've moved
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from the location that I've normally been in the past,
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so I'm still there, just in a new location. So
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if you want to come, say hey, I'll sign shirts,
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I'll do whatever you want, take a picture. I'll be there,
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probably sweating my butt off. Get too excited if I
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look like a hot mess, okay, but come by and
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see me. I'll be super excited. I'll have some of
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my new designs on some shirts and bags and stuff
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out there, So come and say hey. I'll be so
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happy to see you and take pictures or whatever. All right,
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So where I left off last episode, it was looking
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like Mike Dally was quite possibly the worst husband ever
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to husband in America, quite possibly across the US and
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the world combined. Okay, this guy was not doing a
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good job at all. His wife was missing, and he
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was coddling his mistress at the police station while his
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wife was still missing. He was holding hands with her,
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whispering little sweet nothing's in her ear. And she's the
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other woman. Diana is not his wife, the mother of
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his children. This is not who that is. It's another
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woman who's come in to his life and really shaken
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Sherry's world for sure. And she's also the only true
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suspect in what could have possibly happened to his wife, Sherry,
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and the only one who likely held the answer to
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where the mother of two little.
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Boys might be.
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So to say it was disgusting is just almost too nice.
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It was just beyond that. It was almost jaw dropping
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that someone would behave in this manner. But there was
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still one very large problem with this theory that Diana
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could have possibly done something to Sherry. Police couldn't understand
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how in the hell could this have possibly played out
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the morning of Sherry's disappearance if Diana was actually involved.
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Because the women had exchanged words before Sherry knew that
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Mike was having an affair with Diana. This was not
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a shop coming straight out of left field. She had
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addressed it straight on and with a very direct command,
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very direct stay away from my husband and stay away
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from my children. She knew who Diana was, and she
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knew what Diana looked like. So if Diana had abducted
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and killed Sherry, possibly, how in the hell did she
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get her in the car? It was seriously a glaring
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hole in this theory. I mean, we know that she
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had purchased a wig, but that would not have changed
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enough that Sherry would not know who she was. I mean,
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to me, it's like a gazelle not recognizing a tiger
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as it stalks her. Just because a tiger has mud
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on its face, You're still going to recognize a tiger
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for a tiger you know, your mortal enemy. And Sherry
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would have never gotten in a car with Diana, nor
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willingly submitted to be handcuffed by this woman, No fucking way,
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it wouldn't have happened.
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I mean shit.
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Every witness said that the two women spoke briefly before
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she was handcuffed in that parking.
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Lot, so they had this face to face.
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Interaction, and this part truly stumped investigators, and it made
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him wonder, maybe Diana wasn't actually the person who had
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affected that fake arrest in the parking lot. Maybe it
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wasn't her. So looking further into this affair, investigators were
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literally stunned when they uncovered just how brazen this affair
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actually was.
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What if I.
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Told you that Mike took Diana, not his wife and
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not his sons, his lover on a vacation while married
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to his wife. He took her on a vacation all
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the way to Mexico in March of nineteen ninety six.
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He was full on married.
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And still going out of town and living it up
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with his mistress, photos and all to prove this it
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was not. Maybe it happened okay, while his wife remained
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at home with their children. The brazenness of this was wild.
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Because you may not be me. I know I'm not you,
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but boo boo, Mama would have been on that plane
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to Mexico and I would have been cleaning house, whatever
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that may be in your mind. I would have been
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in Mexico. Get me a margarita on the rocks because
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Mama's coming. Okay, hain't no fucking way, all right, But
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this level of betrayal and then throwing this in Sherry's
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face was just flat out jaw dropping the level of disrespect.
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I mean, hell, I would have expect I would have
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expected Diana to be missing at this point. This case
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would have been much different. If that would have been
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my husband in Mexico with another woman, I would not
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have likely been the problem at that point. As far
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as being missing, I would have been the whole ass problem,
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because I would have shown up in Mexico and I
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would have been a whole ass cartel on my own.
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Mad Okay, But whether Sherry knew in that moment of
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them being together in Mexico, honestly, I'm not one hundred
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percent certain of that, and maybe that's why it went
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down the way that it did. You never truly know
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what people are going through behind closed doors, and this
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fact in this case is a heartbreakingly clear example of
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just that. We don't quite know exactly what Sherry knew
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in that moment and what was playing out in that
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exact moment, But she knew something was going on, and
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she knew that there was an affair. So Sherry, a
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devoted and loving mother, is at home caring for their
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children while her husband is off having fun in the
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sun with another woman. Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. So investigators were
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able to secure a warrant of Diana's home to see
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if they could find anything that may possibly help them
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in this investigation, to maybe put some of these puzzle
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pieces together that just weren't seeming to fit. And the
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search of her home would quite possibly break their original
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theory wide ass open because during that home search, police
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found a trove of photos. Look at this stuff, isn't
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it neat? It made me think of the Ariel when
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I said a trove. Wouldn't you think my collections complete?
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Okay?
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But they found a ton of photos in her home
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and these photos were from all different angles, all different
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timeframes and base It was like a portfolio of Diana
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through time. Well, detectives took these photos and they took
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them to Diana's mother and they said, ma'am, we need
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you to look at these photos and we need you
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to tell us which one of these are actually your daughter.
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So her mother genuinely looked through them. She did, she
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took her time, she went through these photos, and she
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handed them back to police and she said, I'm sorry,
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but none of these are my daughter.
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Here's the kicker.
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They were all one hundred percent, absolutely, without question, her daughter.
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But they were old casting photos and modeling photos where
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Diana had really accentuated using different makeup choices, different styles
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of makeup. Her hair colors were different, her styles of
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her hair were different.
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Even the police did.
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Not recognize them as Diana in some of them. They
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believed some of them were her, but didn't know if
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all of them were.
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But they were.
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And so some of those photos really played up her
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more Asian features, while other ones played up more of
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her white features. And that's when this aha moment really
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came to fruition. This this, this is how she was
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able to get Sherry handcuffed and in that car.
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Diana was basically a chameleon.
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She knew how to work that makeup and that hair,
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and she could change her look dramatically. This wasn't like
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some soap opera, y'all, where you know, they change a
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wig and nobody in the scene can tell it's a
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different person when we're all like, uh, like Heller, that
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is absolutely the same person.
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What has happened? Who is what are they smoking?
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No? No, no, this was a master of disguise level
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stuff that it really did change her look. So in
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investigators now more than ever felt like, oh, nobody, we
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have this one right. She handcuffed that Sherry. She was
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the one who was there. She was able to manipulate
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her look enough for that brief interaction that she could
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trick Sherry. So Diana, in their minds, had one hundred
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percent taken Sherry and police now wanted to know more.
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They knew why she did it. Obviously, she wanted her
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man okay, and she needed time to try or a
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way to get Sherry out of the picture. But how
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did this all pan out? That was now the more
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pressing issue to really seal up this case. So police
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needed more than just a gut instinct and a wig
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to prove this case. So, feeling now energized in their
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belief of knowing how this happened and what exactly happened,
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it was now time to really dig into the minutia
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of everything. The smallest details would make the difference in
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this case.
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And I'm gonna tell you something.
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Oftentimes in true crime, when stories are told, people skip
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over the smallest details and they just kind of give
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them meat and potatoes of a case. But I'm telling you,
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the beauty of the police work often fall falls in
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these very small details that can make the biggest difference
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in the case. And that is the essence of detective work.
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And it's that small dig in that really gets me
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just I just get so proud of good police work
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when it comes to these types of details. Okay, and
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this would now include the fact that Mike had a
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solid work alibi. This was clear he was not there
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physically at least when Sherry was taken, There's no question
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about that. But while Diana had given an account, a
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very detailed account of her entire day that very day
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in question, they're still had there was just a few
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more things that needed to be looked at, that needed
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to really have a microscope put on them. Again, I
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want you to understand something. There were no cell phones
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at this time, at least in society. They weren't just
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everyone and their mama had one. So they were gonna
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have to look at landlines covering landline calls, possibly because
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phone records were going to be something that became very
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very important to this case. So what they were able
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to see was that Michael and Diana did speak to
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each other numerous times the day of Sherry's abduction. Okay,
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but real quick, they're having an affair. They're on a
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full blown affair, having vacations and shit together. To say
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that they spoke to each other multiple times during the
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day doesn't mean squat Okay, of course they did. They
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wanted to talk to each other. But the timing of
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those conversations were very interesting to the investigators because there
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were a bunch of them right before the abduction took place,
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and then there was a whole bunch of them right
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after it was believed to have concluded, or at least
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that Sherry was no more okay, So this timing would
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be of great importance. Nothing was happening in between those
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two very important timeframes, and one of those calls was
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believed to have been made basically after the abduction happened,
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and it was from a local marina that was nearby.
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So it seemed, if you kind of put the pieces
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together here, that they were possibly discussing the abduction before
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it happened, kind of hammering out the last minute details. Okay, hey,
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I'm pulling up, Okay, I see her, yeah, okay, And
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then well, I guess let's take that back a second.