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Hi everyone, I'm Talia and I'm
Tanya, and together we are Crimes and

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Consequences, a true crime podcast.
Welcome back, everybody to this week's episode

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of Crimes and Consequences. I am
Talia and I'm Tanya, and we are

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two friends that are also law partners
yep, that love true crime and I

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have a really good story. It
is very gruesome. It's just very twisted,

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and it's not for the week,
but it's not the most gruesome episode

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we've ever done. But this one, this includes a spear okay, okay,

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And it was suggested by Ben f
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with that, I'm gonna give you a

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little background. Okay, I'm going
to start out very we call Vanilla.

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Okay, this is about the Sharp
family, and I had never heard the

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story. I did write half of
it, and it was also written by

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a friend of ours or writer I
should say, Rachel. So this is

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a group effort and it's really really
disturbing. All right, let's get into

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it. Okay. So the Sharp
family consisted of John, Anna and their

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daughter Gracey Gracie. They resided in
this picturesque Mornington Peninsula area. It's in

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Australia story and I always say it
wrong. It's located in south of Melboyn

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Melvin. I always want to say
Melbourne Melvin. And they had like an

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idyllic existence. They seemed happy,
They're young, got this beautiful baby,

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and they were going to have another
baby in two thousand and three, and

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that was going to be a baby
boy. However, there was a lot

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of fresh sure in this young new
family, and that seemingly perfect facade,

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as you will find out, faded
away as their family expanded with the second

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pregnancy. So I'm going to tell
you a little bit more about it.

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Anna had Gracie, and Gracie had
some health problems which I'll describe later and

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then she found out, surprise,
she's pregnant again. And John, her

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husband, got really stressed out because
it's a lot of pressure. These babies

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are only going to be less than
two years apart. So he takes up

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fishing. He's never fished before,
he's never been a fisherman. On February

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sixth, he purchased some fishing supplies
and he's basically needing a release, a

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way to like a way to relax, right, get away from everyone,

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just go out on the lake or
whatever and fish right. One of the

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things that he bought, besides bait
and whatever you buy, was a high

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powered spear gun. Oh no,
it was just a way for him to

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escape, like the pressures of everyday
life and this new baby that's coming,

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and something ended up snapping. I'm
just going to give you a fore warning.

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I mean, John didn't handle the
second pregnancy very well. So John

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Miles Sharp was born on February twenty
eighth in Victoria, Australia, and he

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met this woman he was really attracted
to. Her name was Anna Marie Kemp

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and she was from New Zealand.
They both but she came to Australia and

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they both met while working at the
Commonwealth Bank of Australia. They started dating

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and they fell in love and they
got married in October of nineteen ninety four.

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Through the years, they didn't have
children. There was a while where

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it was just them and they moved
to various locations around Australia, eventually settling

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into one one six Prince Street in
the Mornington, Pennsylvania area south of Melvin

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Melvin. You is a Pennsylvania peninsula, I'm sorry, in the Mornington earlier,

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in the peninsula of Melvin Melvin.
Yes. Eventually John left the banking

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world and Anna she discovered she was
pregnant. She when she first discovered she

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was pregnant, and she stopped working
and in August of two thousand and two,

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that's when Gracie was born. Her
name was Gracie Louise Sharp. But

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Gracie was born with something called hip
dysplasia and it's a congenital condition and she

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had to be in this orthopedic in
her uh. She had this a hoist

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a harness okay, some orthopedic harness
because of her hip dysplasia for the first

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three months of her life. And
these were big challenges because Gracie was uncomfortable

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and she would cry, oh alive, oh poor thing. And she was

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always uncomfortable. It made it difficult
for the little baby to sleep. So

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gus, that's what happens when the
baby can't sleep. Nobody sleep, nobody.

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No. So you have this young
they're still young, this couple.

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They can't sleep, they have a
crying kid. And she had trouble eating,

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I think because she was maybe in
pain. And it got to the

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point where Anna actually saw it professional
counseling. A little over a year after

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Gracie was born, in November of
two thousand and three, that's when Anna

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found out she was pregnant again.
Oh boy, And it was a surprise.

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It was a surprise that John didn't
handle very well. Yeah. So

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now I'm going to go to March
twenty first of two thousand and four,

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the Sharp family, they went to
this nephew's birthday party, and according to

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everybody there, they seem fine.
Everything seemed fine. There was great,

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there was John, there was Anna, and there was nothing out of the

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ordinary. The next day, which
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on a Sunday. In the morning, Anna took Racie to a childcare center,

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and she returned home about noon after
picking Gracie back up. But while

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Gracie was at this childcare center,
and she's about twenty months old, Anna

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called her mom in New Zealand just
to catch up. She always talked to

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her mom. She was very close
to her family. She just wanted to

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know how things were doing. At
eight twenty four that evening, she called

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a really close friend to chit chat, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary,

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according to her friend. The following
morning, now this is Tuesday,

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March twenty third, Anna made a
call to the family's health insurance company to

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see if the unborn baby, like
just to make sure that when the baby's

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born, it's the baby's covered in
all of that. And then she made

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plans with another friend. Her name
was Samantha Jeffrey. She was very close

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to Samantha. They were gonna meet
up on Friday morning. So this is

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Tuesday, Okay, They're gonna meet
up on Friday. And Anna even puts

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it on the calendar, like going
to meet with Samantha, but she never

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made that appointment. And when I
tell you what happened, you're gonna be

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really, you're gonna be really upset. Later that night, John and Anna

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got into an argument and they were
fighting a lot. There was a lot

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of hostility, and a lot of
it came from still dealing with Gracie's health

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conditions, not getting enough sleep,
and now there's another child on the way.

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Anna went to bed between nine and
ten pm, and when John woke

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up in the morning, Anna was
gone. So Thursday morning, John calls

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Samantha Jeffrey, Anna's friend, and
he also calls Anna's best friend, Don

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Henry. He told him both that
that he believed Anna left him for another

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man, a pregnant woman left him
for another man. She'd been having an

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affair. And this was a big
surprise to her best friends because they didn't

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know anything about don't know anything about
what you didn't tell your best friend.

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I know you don't guy or something. I know. But what was really

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shocking is that he told them that
she left Gracie behind. And Anna was

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devoted to Gracie. And by the
way, Anna was a devout Catholic too,

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so she took her marriage vows really
seriously, and so none of this

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made any sense to her friends.
It's completely out of character. Anna's mother,

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her name was Lily. And remember
I told her that I told you

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that she would talk to her family
all the time, so she's always calling

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mom, right, calling Lily.
Lily was getting really concerned because this is

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Thursday and she hadn't spoke to Anna
since Monday. Wow, and she'd been

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trying to and she's not getting anything. Didn't get any answers. Thursday,

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John called her Lily, his mother
in law, and said Anna had left

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him for a man she was having
an affair with, and that that man

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was actually the father of the unborn
baby. Stop it, Okay, surprise,

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yes, surprise, probably like what
Yeah, she's probably like, what

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the hell she said to devote devout
Catholic with a child that has special needs?

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You know, moms don't usually leave
their babies behind and then to leave,

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yeah, to just run off with
another man. Yeah, Like it's

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like she's just gonna start a new
family with this new boyfriend and their new

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baby and leave Gracie behind. Okay. He said that as far as he

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knew, Anna was with this unknown
man and they were living in nearby Melbourne,

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which was a suburb of Chelsea.
On Sunday. So now we've started

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this with a Monday Now, on
Sunday, March twenty eighth, John phoned

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Anna's family and told him that Anna
had shown up at their home, the

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family home, in a cab with
another man and took Gracie with her.

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Oh, she came back for Gracie. Yeah, okay, and then they

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this unknown man, Gracie and Anna
left in a cab. Anna's mother,

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Lily is like, right, nope, no, and she got really concerned

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and she took action. She actually
reached out to the So Anna's mom,

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Lily is in New Zealand still,
so she reaches out to the police.

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They are in New Zealand, okay, and she files a missing person's report

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in New Zealand, so they will
do something about it, even though it's

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not technically their jurisdiction. What they
ended up doing is they got the records

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for the local cab companies, oh, to see if anybody had been to

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one point one six Prince Street and
guess what had been there. It's a

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lie. So then the New Zealand
whatever the authorities were in New Zealand,

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they reached out to the Victoria Police
and they became involved on March twenty nine.

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So this started on March twenty third
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In March twenty ninth, and this
is two thousand and four, Anna's mother

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received an email from Anna. Oh. I don't know exactly what the email

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said, but it didn't give her
any relief at all. She was just

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like, no, she became even
more suspicious of John. I believe the

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email said something along the lines of
I need space, because she sent another

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email later which I'll explain, I
need space, I need some time,

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don't contact me, don't look for
me, something like stuff like that.

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And in early April, because again
we were just at the end of March,

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Anna allegedly sent an email to her
brother saying she needed time and space

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away. So I'm assuming the one, to her mind is pretty close to

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the same as the investigation into Anna's
disappearance, and now Gracie's unfolds twists emerge.

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Anna's mother received an unexpected flower arrangement
from her daughter on her birthday,

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which was right around that time,
and she's just like, why would my

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daughter not contact me? Why would
she not call me? Yeah, call

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her happy birthday, But instead she
sends a flower arrangement. And by that

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point, friends and family were very
suspicious of John. John was touching by

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the police on multiple occasions. He
stuck to a story. She left with

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another man, she was having an
affair, took Grace, came back a

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couple of days later, took Gracie
and she he's just gone. And this

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is released. This is one of
the cases that reminds me of help me

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out the guy that with the oil
Chris wats. Yes, John is very

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vocal. He is. The media
like interviews him. He's crying. Oh

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so he's on the news lot.
He's on the news a lot. He's

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vocal. He seemed to feed off
of their attention and just crying come home.

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You don't even have to come home, just bring Gracie back. Okay.

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Well spoiler alert, he's full of
shit. Yeah, And what he

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did, it's so horrible, Tanya. I don't even want to talk about

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it, but I will. He
had all these emotional impeals for information,

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imploring anybody that knows where Anna and
Gracy are to please, you know,

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have reach out, reach out.
But he also says he knows where there

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are there they're in Melvin and they're
you know, outside of Chelsea and with

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the weird But some clues emerged that
add to the complexity of this case.

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There was activity on Anna's cell phone
and her ATM card was used in various

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areas of the suburbs of Victoria and
to buy flowers like oh, that's right,

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yep, hinting. So the police
are seeing this, and it's hinting

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at the possibility that Anna and Gracie
might still be alive. What if she

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did just yeah, maybe she did
run away because she's pregnant with some unknown

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guys. Yeah maybe, I'm sure
it's happened to someone. So there was

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a little bit of a mixed feeling
as to what happened. But anybody that

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knew Anna knew there's no way she
ran off with some strange guy. The

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turning point in the investigation, which
I told you started in March at the

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end of March, came on June
tenth, nearly three months after Anna and

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Gracie disappeared. John Sharp had been
interviewed a few times and he underwent more

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questioning with the police. He again
insisted March twenty third, she left and

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he kept But the thing is he
kept referring to them in past times like

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they didn't exist, like Gracie was
right, Anna was That's clue. The

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police end up putting some officers on
a surveillance team that was instructed to tail

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John, and they observed John engaged
in some suspicious activity. Oh nice.

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They witnessed him retrieving Anna's phone and
ATM cards from this conceal location in the

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bushes near a public restroom in Mornington, and he had so what he did

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is he had this blue bag,
like a plastic bag, and he put

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it by the bushes by a public
restroom, and then he went back to

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the bag and he got in his
phone. So they believed that the bag

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had been there and he would retrieve
like a credit card or a phone when

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he needed it, and then he
would put it back in the bag and

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hide it again instead of leaving it
at the house. Maybe I don't know,

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he's not thinking wow. And they
also saw him disposing of what they

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believe was evidence in a dumpsters in
Mount Martha, which I don't know where

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it is, but he's going to
dumpsters, yeah, And I don't know

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exactly what he dumped, but I
don't go to dumpsters. Drive around to

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different dumpsters. And that's when they
just knew Okay, yes, something,

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this guy did it. But what
but what did he do? Right?

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What did he do? The events
of June twenty second, two thousand and

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four. They it was a dramatic
change of the police. I mean,

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now they actually have proof that he's
dumping things and he's getting a cell phone

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and getting a car of his card, taking it and then putting it back

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in the bushes. So they interrogate
him again, and this time John crumbled

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finally and he can finally, he
cracks, He confess and you just what

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he confessed to Tanya. It's so
bad. He confessed and murdering Gracie and

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Anna. In the chilling admission,
John spoke to authorities about his motivation behind

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these heneous actions, and I'm gonna
start with that. He described Anna as

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controlling and moody, painting a picture
of an unhappy and strained marriage. He

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also revealed that he had thought about
raising Gracie alone, but the chaos after

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Anna disappeared drove him to the brink, and he said, in his own

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words, quote that's when I lost
the plot. And I'm gonna tell you

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what the plot is, Investigators.
You know, dug deeper and he's got

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this confession, and I told you
that about a month earlier before a little

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more than a month earlier. Before
the murders, John purchased a high powered

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spirit gun yeah, and additional spears
from a local shop in Mornington, despite

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having no prior history of spearfishing.
And this speargun is used to spear large

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marine fish or whales in the ocean. It's that big. It's big.

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It's huge. I mean, I
don't know anything about Maybe it's a normal

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speargun. It just looks big.
I don't know anything about spear guns.

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John had actually practiced sessions with a
speargun in his backyard of his home,

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saying that it was a way to
alleviate his stress, okay, And to

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Anna it appeared as a harmless hobby. Okay. Well yeah, well you

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don't think your husband's gonna kill you, so, I mean, of course

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it's a harmless hotness. Yea,
he's stressed out. I don't know what

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he's feel about a spear gun because
it's really violent. But it's Australia and

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there's fishing. It's true, and
he's fishing. It's true. So John

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reveals the gruesome details of what he
did and This is according to his account.

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He says tensions grew between the couple
and it reached a boiling point on

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March twenty third, two thousand and
four. They'd gotten into an argument as

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Anna drifted asleep. He's just roading, brooding, brooding, brooding, not

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brooding, it's probably a verb.
Though. He's seething, he's angry,

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and he gets so upset he goes
to the garage and he retrieves the spear

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gun from the garage. And this
is again, this is not something normally

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like if you need to, not
need, we're gonna kill somebody. This

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is a very just kill somebody.
And she's a pregnant woman. Yeah,

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yes, she's pregnant with a little
boy. She's got to be like seven

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months pregnant. I'm not sure how
far along she is, but it was

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a little boy, and they were
gonna name Francis. He, while Anna

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is sleeping, goes up to her
with a spear gun and at point blank

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range, he shoots it into Anna's
left temple. Oh my god, killing

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her. That wasn't enough for him? Oh no, he fired. I

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don't know that would yeah, fired, I guess a second spear into her

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head oh my god, really,
just to make sure she was dead.

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So it's like a spear, and
then there's this long show. Yeah,

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and then yeah, it's got to
be a huge like arrowhead. Yes,

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it's meant for like a whale or
like a big fish. I'm thinking like

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maybe a big giant swordfish or something. I don't know, it's gotta be

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huge. Oh my god, and
shits or twice. And then he ends

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up covering up her lifeless body with
towels. And after that he guess what

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he did? What went downstairs and
went to sleep on the couch. Oh,

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he just left her there, just
left her. Didn't even try to

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clean, No, just laught her. Now he wakes up in the morning,

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and the following that day he was
normal. He well, I shouldn't

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say that, because he did attempt
to remove the spears from her head.

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Good. Really, yeah, he
needed to use them again. Oh no,

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but he couldn't get him out,
I know, what the fun He

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was only able to remove the shafts, like from the spear. So he

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left Anna there all day with two
spears in her head, covered by towels,

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and went about his routine, which
included dropping Gracie off to childcare,

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okay, all the while knowing his
wife is just dead on their bed.

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He comes back home and Anna had
booked an appointment for a cable guy to

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come to the house. They knocks
on the door and John opens it and

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makes up an excuse why the cable
guy, like why can't come in?

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Knowing okay, wait, I can't
let anybody in this house. My wife

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is dead with two spears in her
head. He takes and he moves her

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body into the garden, grabs a
shovel, he digs a hole, and

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he burries her in the backyard.
He buries her in the backyard and berries

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her in the backyard. Oh my
god, But that's not all he did

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that day. Oh fuck. He
picked Gracy up and he took her to

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the marine shop where he had purchased
the spears and spear gun, and he

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bought another spear with Gracie, which
he later used to kill Gracie. Oh

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man, he spared the baby too. Yeah. I will get to that.

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But you know what's interesting was when
he picked up Gracy from her childcare.

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Yeah, he told them this was
a Friday, that that would be

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the last time Gracie would be there, and she wouldn't be coming back.

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Wow, so you had planned it
out. That shows he's planning it.

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And while buying the fucking spear also
shows he's planning it. But holy god.

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Okay, So that night, it's
March twenty seventh, he puts Gracie

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to bed and he gets drunk off
whiskey and cokes. He has a lot

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of whiskey and cokes in a premeditative
act. Clearly, clearly, he retreated

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spear gun from the garage. He
loaded it within the new spear he bought

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with Gracie, and he pointed it
at her head while she was sleeping,

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and he fired the spear into her
head. I fucking can't believe this story.

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Again, it's not it's not like
I can't. It's bad, it's

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horrible. But the worst part is
Tony she didn't die. She didn't.

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Oh no, she started crying in
pain. Oh my god. But that

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didn't stop him from continuing. He
went and retrieved a spear shaft or got

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the spear from Anna somehow, because
he only had one spear when he bought

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it with Gracie. He only had
one, so he ended up getting another

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spear from Anna's body or a spear
shaft, and he ended up repeating the

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act. It was a spear shaft. So I don't know how. I

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don't know any maybe because you said
he was able to remove the shaft from

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Anna, but he couldn't remove the
ar. I don't know. Maybe he

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just loaded the shaft into the I
don't spear, gu I don't know how

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it works, but I guess so
he did it four times? What four

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times? Oh my god? Who
fucking does this? John Sharp? Yeah?

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John Sharp? And then the next
day, In the next following days,

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he went to a hardware store and
he ended up buying some supplies,

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duct tape, tarps, an electric
chainsaw, and he went out to the

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backyard where Anna was buried and he
dug her up. Oh my ex and

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he used the electric chainsaw. Oh
my god, and he dismembered, are

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you fucking kidding? Like if we
couldn't get any worse, it just did

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Anna's body. Wow, this is
crazy. He cut her remains into three

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pieces and then he put a tarp. He can seal them in a tarp

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each piece, and then he threw
them in dumpsters. Oh that's what he

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was doing around the dumpsters. Wow. I don't know when they saw him

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at the dumpsters when the police did, if that's the evidence, but I'm

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not sure. But he dumped her
in multiple dumpsters. Then he wrapped up

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Gracie in a tarp and he placed
her in some garbage bags, and he

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dumped her in the garbage too.
He had discarded other evidence I told you

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about, including the spear gun,
spears, a mattress, and some of

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Gracie's clothes and toys. Oh probably, like yes, I'm sure, yes,

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wow, And this is what he
confessed to. So law enforcement ends

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up searching the landfill in Melbourne,
Melbane, Melvin, Yes, Malvervin.

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I thought it looks like Melbourne,
yes does. And it took them weeks

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to find three weeks, three weeks
to find all the remains. They found

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them all they did. Wow,
the three separate tarps Anna and then Gracie's

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body three weeks in the landfill,
a landfill, Like what the fuck?

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I know? Who does that?
Sharp twenty month old special needs daughter Really

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Anna and Gracie were laid to ross
at the Green Park Cemetery in Dunden,

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and her family made sure that she
was buried with her maiden name, which

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is kunt. Yeah, and the
grave site, which we have a picture

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of is honors Gracie's buried with her
and then also honors their unborn son,

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Francis. Oh. John's arrested.
Yeah, forced to face justice for his

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crimes. He pled guilty by the
grace of God. He pled guilty to

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the brutal murders of Annon Gracie.
On August fifth of two thousand and five,

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John's fate was sealed with a sentence
that fits his crimes. He was

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handed down two consecutive life imprisonment sentences, so he could I would say,

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never be out, but he could
be paroled in thirty three years. He

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won't be I'm sure. I'm sure
he won't be. I mean, what

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the fuck, that's a long time. And yeah, and if he is,

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he probably won't and be old man. Yeah, thank you, That's

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what I was going to say.
So there was some justice for Anna and

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Gracie and Francis. Jeez. At
first, John was put in isolation for

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reasons we can imagine, imagine,
and he was getting threats from other I'm

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sure inmates. Somebody, Yeah,
somebody's gonna whoop his bid. So,

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yeah, he was in solitary confinement. He is still he's not in solitary

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confinement, but he's still locked up. And to me, like why he

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did? I don't. I don't
see Australia in Canada are so kind to

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their criminals. Yeah, I mean, to me, he should get life

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without but I don't have any We've
done stories where people have committed brutal,

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brutal rude all murders and gotten out. He literally exhumed his wife's body in

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the backyard and use a chan and
a chainsaw for what the What they really

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believe is he didn't want Francis to
be but it's probably true he didn't want

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it, but really, like killing
everybody and going to prison for the rest

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of your life is better. And
how did he think he would get away

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with it? Exactly? That's what
I think too, Like how do you

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think exactly that you're gonna get away
with it? But it's true because he

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pretended to be her in a weak
ass way. I mean, but you

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would because it's just so like he's
it's it's all a plan for him.

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I don't know, And he was
trying to keep up this facade that she

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was still alive, and that's what
ended up getting them. If he wouldn't

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have went back to where he had
that blue plastic bag in the bushes by

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the public bathroom, the police wouldn't
I have wouldn't have that much evidence.

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I continue to follow whatever. Yeah, that was dumb, but so that

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is the really sad story of Anna
Gracie. Francis Sharp or we'll call him

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Kemp, and how evil speak.
He thought he could keep He thought he

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could handle Gracy on his own,
but decided her one day. He had

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her one day and took her to
take her, took her to daycare too.

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He couldn't handle her for one day, you know, give her to

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Grandma and grammar. Right, it'd
be like, I can't I'm a single

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dad this much, guy, I
can't handle it. I mean, can

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you help? Right? No,
I guess, And to kill Grace,

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to have Gracie be in pain by
surviving it, and then it takes time.

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It took him time for him to
go get the next like was it

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spear or shaft? I mean it
wasn't just like available, And then four

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times he didn't have four so he
had to like use it again, use

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it again? Man, sick,
sicker, Sorry, I'm sorry if that

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offends people, I don't care.
It doesn't offend you. No, fuck

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him, man, So that's a
story. Fuck. And I want to

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