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app today. All right, so it's what do you always say, Get
in your way back machine, getting the way back machine. There you go,
Buckle up to the time when Ashod should have been alive. Oh god,
maybe not like here, but yeah, but the seventies, the seventies,
for sure, I wish. But here we are, and here we
are in the twentiess. All right, well, Price, let's talk about
Price, Utah. Back then it was a pretty safe place to live,
and it was a great place as far as Loretta Jones was concerned to raise
her four year old daughter, Heidi. Loretta was a single young mom at
just twenty three years old. She had so much on her plate. She
was taking accounting classes, she was being a full time mom, but guess
what, she was getting the fucking job done. And her daughter, Heidi,
who again was four years old, absolutely adored her mother. They had
like this close bond to the two of them. Now. She remembered being
with her mom, like following her around the house as Loretta would do like
ironing or cooking household chores, and she remembered getting ice cream with her mom,
and how much Loretta loved to listen to music, like she'd put on
the radio and just dance all around the house. I love that core memories,
Yes, like beautiful core memories, and all of Heidi's memories of her
mother, they're up until the morning of July twenty excuse me, thirty first,
nineteen seventy. They're precious memories that every kid should have with their mom,
like memories that they can just reminisce on later in life and just like
have a good time being like, oh my gosh, mom, do you
remember when we used to do this? Yeah, you know. But unfortunately
that was not the case for Heidi or Lauretta. They were robbed of that
opportunity. When Heidi woke up at four years old on July thirty first,
nineteen seventy, she remembered that she was scared, and she wasn't so sure
what exactly she was scared of, but there was just this feeling in the
air that freaked her out, and she was so apprehensive that she actually peeked
out of the keyhole of her bedroom door before venturing out into the living room.
That's wild. At four, she already had that like that intuitive sense
our bodies do. Yeah, they totally do. We just don't listen to
them as adults. That's the kids do, and that's well, that's my
kids are way more subject to like paranormal activity and things like because they're just
open they are. So Heidi looks through the whole of her room and so
she's like in her room looking out into the living room, and when she
peeks through, she sees that somebody's lying on the floor in blood. And
when she opens up that door to inspect a bit closer, she realizes that
the someone lying on the floor was her mother, twenty three year old Lauretta
try God, and she was four four years old. So she ran outside
to see if she could get any help, and that's when she saw one
of her neighbors out in his front yard. He was like a little kid,
and in every source it says that he was looking for bugs and critters
just to use his bait to go fishing later that day. And I just
feel like that is such a good example of how you can just be so
totally oblivious to like what other people might be bathroom and like, you know,
you might just be having a perfectly great day and this is what's going
on store. You have no idea what's happening. The perfect example of again
why we should always treat others with kindness. So when Heidi ran up to
the boy, she told him I think my mommy is dead. Oh my
god, which ruined me reading that. Oh. So the boy runs over
to her house with her and they peek into the doorway and he's like,
I think you're right. So he runs. He tells his parents. They
take Heidie in and they call the police and when the police arrived, there
was no doubt that Loretta Jones had died. She had been murdered. She
was lying in a pool of her own blood on her own living room floor.
Oh my god. So immediately the police wondered if this case had anything
to do with an incident that they'd actually been called to the night before,
just a couple blocks away from Loretta and Heidi's home. Oh so, a
few blocks away, a ten year old girl named Laurie Coulo was outside playing
with her brother and his friend. And the brother and his friend were out
on the front yard playing and she was in the same area, but she
was kind of riding her bike. I think out in the street. Doesn't
sound like it was very busy. It was like later at night. She's
doing little loops on her bike. And apparently the two boys didn't realize that
she was still outside when they went back inside, and it actually took Laurie
a few minutes too to realize that she was outside alone, and she was
like, oooh, like it's darkout, I got to get inside. So
she starts to head in for the night, but as she's doing so,
she sees a man out of the corner of her eye. Then she just
thinks for a second like registers that, and she immediately noticed his hat.
It was a bright yellow hat and it had some kind of bold floral print
all over it. Now, before she knew it, this man came rushing
toward her grabbed her from behind. She was struggling to get away with him
from him because the way that he grabbed her made it so that both of
her arms were behind her back. Oh my god, and he had a
hand over her mouth. Now, luckily, she was able to actually get
her hand away from her mouth for like a split second. And I read
in a couple sources that it was because she was chewing bubblegum and she pushed
the bubblegum out of her mouth as she was screaming. Oh my god,
he must have taken his hand to yeah, like not knowing what it was.
So as he led his hand away for like a split second, she
let out like a blood curling scream, and the man let go of her
instantly and started running away for good. Just as Laurie's brother and his friend
were coming outside to see why the heck she was screaming, so she quickly
tells them she points in the direction. She's like, this man tried to
grab me. So the boys run off after him, but it's too late.
Oh but something they noticed too was this man's yellow hat, because it
had fallen off as he was running away, and he actually even took a
second to pick it up and grab it up as he was running away.
Which is wild that he chose to wear that hat to do these horrible things
that he definitely did. Yeah, it is. So this man managed to
get away that night. But this man would end up serving time for the
attempted abduction and eventually they would get him on murder charges. Oh, same
man. It might just take forty six years to do the ladder. Holy
shit, forty six years. Forty six years. Hey, Prime members,
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