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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell
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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so
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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended
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So let's jump into this episode now. When I left
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off with you last episode, John and Karen had been
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out for drinks and Karen then dropped him off at
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the home of who I have now started to refer
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to as the in law Albert's home. Real quick. This
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is a part two episode. Disclaimer. This is a part
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two episode, so if you have not listened to part one,
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now's your chance to stop go back and listen to
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part one so that this one will make sense. It
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will not make sense if you haven't listened to part one.
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All right, So she dropped off John and then next
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thing you know, she left the house to go home. Well,
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as the story progressed. Police were now responding to that
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in law Albert home where John was found on the ground,
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and it was in the very early morning hours. He
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was near frozen, taken to a hospital because he'd been
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laying out in blizzard like conditions that basically the entire night. Now,
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the biggest question in your mind probably is why were
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the three women who did not even live at that home?
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Why were they the ones outside of that home in
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those early morning hours with John on the ground. Well,
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investigators would need answers to this question as well, And
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so to explain this to you in a clear way,
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I'm gonna have to back up. Now. If you've been
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following this case, then you off the top already understand
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why I'm breaking this down the way that I'm doing it.
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But if you have not, I want to warn you
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You've got to pay attention. There's so many characters that
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are going to come into play in this story. But
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I've got to back up a little bit for you
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to understand why those three women were even outside of
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that home. So most obvious to ask in the moment
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is how was John even found out in the snow? Well?
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The three women that were at that home in those
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early morning hours. It wasn't their house. Remember, I want
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to remind you who those three women were. Number one,
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it was John's girlfriend, Karen Reid. Number two it was
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new neighbor wife Albert. And then it was old family
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friend of John, Carrie. So it's Karen, the new neighbor
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of John's wife and Carrie. So asking questions as to
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this situation right in that moment initially would be very
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difficult because John's girlfriend, Karen was having a complete and
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total meltdown. She was emotionally unstable. She was not dealing
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well with the fact that John was now declared dead
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at the hospital, and she was doing so bad with
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this information, so much so that she had to be
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brought to the hospital as a psych patient or this
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was considered a psych situation because she is threatening to
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kill herself if John was dead. She simply just could
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not handle it, and so she was taken to the
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psych portion of the hospital. She didn't want to change
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into the clothing that is always given to these psych
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patients at the hospital. She was being a little difficult
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to deal with in the moment. She was very emotionally dysregulated.
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She refused to give them a urine sample for testing.
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She didn't want to do that, but she would later
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have a reason for why she didn't want to give
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that you're in sample, which was indeed validated, And I'm
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gonna go ahead and tell you what that is. Karen,
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when she was at the hospital, was on her period
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and she did not have supplies, nor did she have
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a tampon in So her thing was, I don't want
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to pee in front of anyone, because this is this
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is humiliating, is this is not cool Because psych patients,
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if you don't know this, they're never left alone at
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the hospital ever. In that room, there's gonna be someone
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with eyes on them at all times, including whenever they
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go to the bathroom. So she didn't want to pee
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in front of anybody. Regardless, though Karen was eventually able
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to say to the investigators that she went out drinking.
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They are together, they all went out drinking and then
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John didn't come home and they found him there the
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next morning. Neither Karen nor the people at the Albert home,
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the in law Albert home, none of them had any
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clear exit explanation as to why John, though was out
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in the front yard, so police would need to back
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up even further to determine the last known steps of
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John and to try to determine how did he even
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get there. So the previous night, John and Karen had
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been out drinking with all of the friends, so police
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wanted to look a little more closely into exactly what
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went on that previous night in question. So backing up
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when John is alive now, the previous day, John and
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Karen had been texting throughout that day and it appeared
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in their text message exchanges that they had gotten into
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a little bit of an argument about their relationship and
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the kids that John now had custody of. The argument
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basically was that John felt Karen was spoiling them and
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that she was spending too much money on the children,
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things like expensive clothing and treats that John felt were
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really extravagant in his opinion for the kids. But they
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also continued to text and communicate about how they agreed
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parenting is hard. Neither one of them had their own children.
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They were together trying to handle taking on these kids,
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and John flat out set at one point that he
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wasn't built for this. He was stressed, and they were
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together struggling with this entire situation. They also discussed whether
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they should even hang out together that night, because Karen's
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feelings were hurt from this previous fight about the kids,
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and she was kind of expressing that maybe we shouldn't
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even see each other tonight. Eventually, though, John told her
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that he was going to go have some drinks with friends,
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and they kind of were back and forth about whether
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she should come and meet up with him with the
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other people that night. It does go back and forth.
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My personal opinion about all the text messages, and I'm
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not reading all these text messages, that's the gist of it.
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My personal opinion here is that I feel like, in
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the moment that these texts were going back and forth,
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Karen was just really wanting to hear John say that
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he wanted her okay, but he wasn't really giving her
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that in the moment, he was frustrated and he was just,
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in my humble opinion, being a guy. It was nothing
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bad either, I want to be very clear, nothing bad
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about that. It's just a guy who understandably was dealing
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with a whole lot on top of now his woman
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being needy emotionally, and that's what it felt like. It
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wasn't aggressive, It wasn't I hate you anything like that.
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It was just an argument and her feelings were hurt.
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And he wasn't like, I love you, please come back,
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let's make up. It was more like, nah, I'm gonna
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go hang out with the guys.
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Now.
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Remember John's niece and her best friend had just gotten
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news that they had gotten into that private school together. Well,
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bestie's dad, his name is Michael, and John decided to
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go have some drinks and hang out together at a
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bar called C. F. McCarthy's. This is also where they
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had called and wanted to invite another friend named Kurt
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Roberts to come and join them. So Kurt, in this conversation,
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didn't want to go at first, but John and Michael
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had started kind of picking on him about staying at
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home and being like, what's the problem, dude, matter of fact, again,
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this is kind of funny. But Michael at some point
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called Kurt a pussy and said, all right, whatever, pussy,
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don't come out. Well at that point Kurt was like, well,
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I can't let that happen. You're not gonna call me one,
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and so he decided, all right, fine, I'll come out
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just for a little while, and he went and met
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them at the bar at c F. McCarthy's. Now for reference,
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so you will understand who who Kurt is. Kurt is
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married to carry one of the women that found John
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in the front yard with Karen. Okay, So I'm hoping
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this is all making sense. Everybody's kind of intertwined here. Now.
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Video at the bar shows the guys just being guys.
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They show up, they're storytelling, they're slapping each other on
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the shoulders, they're laughing throughout the conversations. Everyone's drinking beer,
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and it's just a good relaxed time at this location.
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And Karen would eventually come and meet up with them too,
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but at the moment, she was having these water heater
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issues at her own home and she was having to
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get that resolved, and so it was this back and
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forth about that. So, picking up around nine o'clock that
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night of January the twenty eighth, that is when Karen
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met up with John and the other guys at c. F.
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McCarthy's bar. Now, to give you a little visual about
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the bar, the bar is narrow, and John is seated
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about midway on the bar stools, and he's up at
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the bar, which the bar is packed, like, all the
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seats are taken, all the bar stools are taken. People
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have to literally squeeze past one another to get from
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point A to point B. It's just a very very
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narrow area. And Karen walks up. When she walks up,
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John puts one arm around her and they kind of
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share a kiss at the bar, and he then lowers
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his hand down to her lower backside and he's rubbing
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her real comfortingly. And it's a part of the bar
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where only your lover or your spouse would be allowed
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to place their hand on that lower back area. So
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John was drinking this long neck beer while Karen she
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really preferred these cocktail style drinks, so she was ordering drinks,
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and so it's the guys and Karen kind of mingling together.
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The bar though, wasn't making the drinks to Karen's liking
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as far as strength the wind. So what she started
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doing she would kind of drink the drink. She didn't
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feel it strong enough for her buck, so she would
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then order an extra shot and then would mix that
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in her full drink, basically making it a double if
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it was even really a full single to begin with.
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She felt like it wasn't. So from what I gather
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at this point, it seems like Karen and John drank
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more often than not, and so it really does seem
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to me, based on how they were, that she had
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a higher tolerance for this amount of liquor. Then I'll
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tell you I probably would, because you know, I don't
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drink liquor every day. I don't drink liquor often really,
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it's just whenever I'm out in social settings or whatever.
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That said. Neither is falling down drunk. Both appeared to
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be very with it. They are relaxed. You can tell
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that she's really chilled or smiling and chatting with everyone.
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But there's no fall down drunk, stumbling bumping into people
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type of situation. Well, about an hour later, this would
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be around ten pm, Michael, who was the best friend
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of the niece's dad, he got a call and he
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had to leave the bar because his son was playing
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hockey with a friend at the house and he knocked
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his tooth out playing hockey. That's so cliche, But when
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he got that phone call, he's like, oh shit, I
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gotta go, guys. You know, my son got hurt. And
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so he says his goodbyes, and he left the bar.
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When he left the bar, he went and picked up
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his son, and then he drove to John's house because
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his daughter was there with the niece because they were besties.
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He picked up his daughter from John's house, and then
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the three of that little family went home to their
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house for the night, leaving John's niece at his home
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alone for the time being. But again, she's a teenager.
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It's not like she's a young kid or anything. At
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that same time, Kurt decided that he too wanted to
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get home because the snow was starting to fall. Remember
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there's a big blizzard that's coming. So between nine and ten,
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Karen is served roughly five drinks. It's a combo of
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drinks and shots. Now, this is going to later be
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argued in this story of whether of exactly how many