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Speaker 2: All right, so it's what do you always say, Get
Speaker 2: in your way back machine. Getting the way back machine.
Speaker 2: There you go, Buckle up to the time when Ash
Speaker 2: should have been alive. Oh god, maybe not like here,
Speaker 2: but yeah, but the seventies, the seventies, for sure, I wish.
Speaker 2: But here we are, and here we are, all right. Well, Price,
Speaker 2: let's talk about Price, Utah. Back then, it was a
Speaker 2: pretty safe place to live. And it was a great
Speaker 2: place as far as Loretta Jones was concerned to raise
Speaker 2: her four year old daughter, Heidi. Loretta was a single
Speaker 2: young mom at just twenty three years old. She had
Speaker 2: so much on her plate. She was taking accounting classes,
Speaker 2: she was being a full time mom. But guess what,
Speaker 2: she was getting the fucking job done. And her daughter, Heidi,
Speaker 2: who again was four years old, absolutely adored her mother.
Speaker 2: They had like this close bond the two of them. Now,
Speaker 2: she remembered being with her mom, like following her around
Speaker 2: the house as Loretta would do like ironing or cooking
Speaker 2: household chores. And she remembered getting ice cream with her mom,
Speaker 2: and how much Loretta loved to listen to music, like
Speaker 2: she put on the radio and just dance all around
Speaker 2: the house. I love that core memories, Yes, like beautiful
Speaker 2: core memories, and all of Heidi's memories of her mother
Speaker 2: up until the morning of July twenty excuse me, thirty first,
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy. They're precious memories that every kid should have
Speaker 2: with their mom, Like memories that they can just reminisce
Speaker 2: on later in life and just like have a good
Speaker 2: time being like, oh my gosh, Mom, do you remember
Speaker 2: when we used to do this, Yeah, you know, But
Speaker 2: unfortunately that was not the case for Heidi or Loretta.
Speaker 2: They were robbed of that opportunity. When Heidi woke up
Speaker 2: at four years old on July thirty first, nineteen seventy,
Speaker 2: she remembered that she was scared, and she wasn't so
Speaker 2: sure what exactly she was scared of, but there was
Speaker 2: just this feeling in the air that freaked her out,
Speaker 2: and she was so apprehensive that she actually peeked out
Speaker 2: of the keyhole of her bedroom door before venturing out
Speaker 2: into the living room. That's wild. At four, she already
Speaker 2: had that like that intuitive sense our bodies do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they totally do. We just don't listen to them as adults.
Speaker 2: That's what the kids do. And that's well, that's why
Speaker 2: kids are way more subject to like paranormal activity and
Speaker 2: things like that, because they're just open they are. So
Speaker 2: Heidi looks through the keyhole of her room and so
Speaker 2: she's like in her room looking out into the living room,
Speaker 2: and when she peeks through, she sees that somebody's lying
Speaker 2: on the floor in blood. And when she opens up
Speaker 2: that door to inspect a bit closer, she realizes that
Speaker 2: the someone lying on the floor was her mother, twenty
Speaker 2: three year old Loretta chan God and she was four
Speaker 2: or four years old. Oh so she ran outside to
Speaker 2: see if she could get any help, and that's when
Speaker 2: she saw one of her neighbors out in his front yard.
Speaker 2: He was like a little kid, and in every source
Speaker 2: it says that he was looking for bugs and critters
Speaker 2: just to use his beat to go fishing later that day.
Speaker 2: And I just feel like that is such a good
Speaker 2: example of how you can just be so totally oblivious
Speaker 2: to like what other people might be through, and like,
Speaker 2: you know, you might just be having a perfectly great
Speaker 2: day and this is what's going on next door. You
Speaker 2: have no idea what's happening. The perfect example of again
Speaker 2: why we should always treat others with kindness. So when
Speaker 2: Heidi ran up to the boy, she told him, I
Speaker 2: think my mommy is dead. Oh my god, which ruined
Speaker 2: me reading that. Oh So the boy runs over to
Speaker 2: her house with her and they peek into the doorway
Speaker 2: and he's like, I think you're right, So he runs.
Speaker 2: He tells his parents. They take Heidie in and they
Speaker 2: call the police, and when the police arrived, there was
Speaker 2: no doubt that Loretta Jones had died, she had been murdered.
Speaker 2: She was lying in a pool of her own blood
Speaker 2: on her own living room floor. My god. So immediately
Speaker 2: the police wondered if this case had anything to do
Speaker 2: with an incident that they'd actually been called to the
Speaker 2: night before, just a couple blocks away from Loretta and
Speaker 2: Heidie's home. Oh so, a few blocks away, a ten
Speaker 2: year old girl named Laurie Coolo was outside playing with
Speaker 2: her brother and his friend. And the brother and his
Speaker 2: friend were out on the front yard playing and she
Speaker 2: was in the same area, but she was kind of
Speaker 2: riding her bike. I think out in the street. Doesn't
Speaker 2: sound like it was very busy. It was like later
Speaker 2: at night. She's doing little loops on her bike. And
Speaker 2: apparently the two boys didn't realize but that she was
Speaker 2: still outside when they went back inside. And it actually
Speaker 2: took Laurie a few minutes too to realize that she
Speaker 2: was outside alone, and she was like, ooh, like it's
Speaker 2: dark out, I gotta get inside. So she starts to
Speaker 2: head in for the night, but as she's doing so,
Speaker 2: she sees a man out of the corner of her eye.
Speaker 2: Then she just thinks for a second like registers that,
Speaker 2: And she immediately noticed his hat. It was a bright
Speaker 2: yellow hat and it had some kind of bold floral
Speaker 2: print all over it. Now, before she knew it, this
Speaker 2: man came rushing toward her. He grabbed her from behind.
Speaker 2: She was struggling to get away with him from him
Speaker 2: because the way that he grabbed her made it so
Speaker 2: that both of her arms were behind her back. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, and he had a hand over her mouth. Now, luckily,
Speaker 2: she was able to actually get her hand away from
Speaker 2: her mouth for like a split second. And I read
Speaker 2: in a couple sources that it was because she was
Speaker 2: chewing bubblegum and she pushed the bubble gum out of
Speaker 2: her mouth as she was screaming, Oh my god, he
Speaker 2: must have taken his hand to yeah, like not knowing
Speaker 2: what it was. So as he led his hand away
Speaker 2: for like a split second, she let out like a
Speaker 2: blood curling scream, and the man let go of her
Speaker 2: instantly and started running away from her. Good just as
Speaker 2: Laurie's brother and his friend were coming outside to see
Speaker 2: why the heck she was screaming, so she quickly tells
Speaker 2: them she points in the direction She's like this man
Speaker 2: tried to grab me, so the boys run off after him,
Speaker 2: but it's too late. But something they noticed too was
Speaker 2: this man's yellow hat, because it had fallen off as
Speaker 2: he was running away, and he actually even took a
Speaker 2: second to pick it up and grab it up as
Speaker 2: he was running away. Which is wild that he chose
Speaker 2: to wear that hat to do these horrible things that
Speaker 2: he definitely did. Yeahah, it is. So this man managed
Speaker 2: to get away that night, but this man would end
Speaker 2: up serving time for the attempted abduction and eventually they
Speaker 2: would get him on murder charges. Oh, same man. It
Speaker 2: might just take forty six years to do the latter.
Speaker 2: Holy shit, forty six years, forty six years.
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