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Speaker 1: When I was a teenager, I was living with my

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mom and my little sister. She had me when she

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was really young, and my dad didn't stick around after that,

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so it was just us, which made ME want to

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find a way to show how much we cared as

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Mother's Day was coming up. The only problem was I

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didn't have any money, so I couldn't exactly take her

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out for a nice lunch or anything like that. All

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I could think to do was spend the day at

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a spot where the three of us could have fun together.

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It was the San Joaquin River, which is close to

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where we live in central California. I learned there was

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a popular swimming area that only the locals really knew about,

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so a few days before Mother's Day, we piled into

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the car and drove out to the river, planning on

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having a nice family day of swimming and sunbathing. When

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we got there, I was expecting to see a lot

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of other people, but it was actually pretty empty. I

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thought it was weird since it was so close to

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a holiday, but we had a large area of the

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river to ourselves, so it turned out to be a

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good thing. We all got changed. Then my mom set

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up a chair to lounge on the river bank while

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my sister and I got in to swim. We were

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having a blast, splashing each other, racing, seeing who could

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hold their breath underwater the longest, stuff like that. Eventually

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I needed a great so I started swimming back to

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the shore. My sister didn't come with me, though she

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somehow still had energy to keep going while I was exhausted.

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While I was climbing the rocks getting up to shore,

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I could see my mom's sun bathing and basically passed

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out on her lawn chair. It seemed like she was

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relaxed and asleep. When I finally climbed up to the shore,

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I went to dry myself off with the towel. I

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was there for a few minutes when I heard something unusual.

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It took me a second to realize that I was

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hearing my little sister screaming for help. I stood up

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and saw her in the middle of the river, way

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farther downstream than earlier. The river had suddenly swelled up

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and the current was racing now. She wasn't strong enough

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to fight it. I knew I should have gotten off

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that rock immediately and gone to help her, but I

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just froze. I saw my mother sprint by in a blur,

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but I didn't follow her. I just watched and did nothing.

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My mother caught up to my sister on the river bank,

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then jumped into the water after her. She swam so

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fast and was at my sister within seconds, holding on

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to her and trying to keep her head above the water.

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She was able to, but I could tell she was

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struggle and guess my sister was panicking. And I was

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still one hundred feet away. When I saw them slowly

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heading toward the shore. I finally kicked myself into action.

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I ran as fast as I could to reach them,

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but they were nearly at the shore when I caught up,

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so I jumped into the shallow edge, holding my hands

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out to help them out of the river. They reached

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me in a few seconds, and my mother pushed my

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sister off out of the water. Take her, got her,

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You're okay now. I grabbed her and carried her over

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to the land, But when I turned back, my mother

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wasn't behind me. The current had quickened again in a

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flash and dragged her out of the shallows and back

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into the river. I jumped in after her, swimming as

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fast as I could, but no matter how hard I tried,

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I just couldn't catch up. The river was thrashing me around,

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and I knew my mother had to already be exhausted.

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The current had also picked up a ton of dirt,

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making it impossible to see through the water, so before

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I knew it, I couldn't even find her. Then I

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realized I was in dail. I kept getting dragged under

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as I was trying to catch my breath and ended

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up swallowing water, almost inhaling it all into my lungs.

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My instincts took over and I started swimming to shore

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instead of towards my mother. I was barely able to

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get out, but I managed to get to safety, collapsing

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in the dirt. I dragged myself up and went back

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to my sister. We caught our breath and looked out

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over the water, but there was no sign of our mother.

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When we weren't grasping for air anymore, we were sobbing.

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Help came soon after, but by then she was long gone.

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It started pouring rain as they started the search party,

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making it even more difficult to find her. They had

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to call off the search that night. It took until

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the afternoon of the next day until she was found,

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but it was far too late. Since then, nothing has

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ever been the same for me and my sister. We're

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living with our relatives now, but we can never sleep

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like we used to. I wish I'd never even mentioned

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that river. It should have been me who jumped into

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the water to save my sister. This story was inspired

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by a horrific Mother's Day incident. On May ninth, a

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mother named Brenda Duran jumped into the San Joaquin River

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in central California to rescue her drowning daughter. The mom

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watched her children playing in the water of a popular beach,

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but when her daughter could not keep her head above water,

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Duran rushed into the river trying to save her, but

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struggled to stay afloat due to the river's current swallowing

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the mom. Her son then saw his mom in trouble

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and jumped back into the river to try to grab her,

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but he unfortunately could not get to her in time.

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First responders, including rescue dive teams, spent hours in the water,

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but visibility and safety concerns forced the search to be

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paused around eleven pm. Police said Duran's remains were recovered

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around five thirty pm on May eleventh. The river the

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incident took place in is known for its teeming wildlife economy,

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fuel tourism that includes paddling, swimming and fishing, and hydroelectric power.

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Duran was just thirty years old.

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Speaker 2: After I divorced my first wife, I met my current wife,

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Hope in my thirties. We both already had children, so

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I knew she would be an excellent mother to my kids.

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I ended up adopting all her children as well, and

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then we even had our own son together. That all

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started when we were both still very young. But now

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four decades have passed, all our kids have moved away,

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and as we've gotten older, I've been burdened with declining health.

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I'm always sick and can't move around for shit. However,

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in what was clearly the final years of my life,

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taking it upon herself to make me even more miserable,

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she started distancing herself from me, basically ignoring me like

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I didn't exist. During minor holidays like Mother's Day, she

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would leave the house and disappear for hours. She admittedly

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said that she was having an affair and that she

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would rather have me out of her life. The feeling

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was mutual, except I couldn't bring myself to divorce her

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after being with her for so long, so I ended

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up complacent and let her do whatever she wanted. But

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recently something has been horribly disturbing. I can tell Hope

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didn't want me alive. When I did simple things like

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sit around watch TV or eight, she would stare daggers

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at me from the corner. In fact, without any prompt

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or context whatsoever, she would say, weird, disturbing shit like

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I wish for Mother's Day you would go away forever.

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She would then give me this evil smile, like she

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was already making the preparations for a while. I've been

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sleeping on the couch and the room. I never get

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any privacy, and I'm often afraid to fall asleep as

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our catch Hope staring at me in the darkness like

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an evil witch.

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Speaker 1: Go away.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to sleep, get out o here. I have

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sleeping pills, but I'm trying to avoid taking them because

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of her. I'm scared of not being alert to fend

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for myself, just in case she tried to pull something.

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When Mother's Day finally came, I expected hope to be

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in a sour mood since I was still alive, But strangely,

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it was quite the opposite. She had this giddy energy

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about her all day. It was weird as hell. I

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just went about my day like usual until it was

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finally time to get back on the couch and try

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to fall asleep. I didn't know I was in for

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the most terrifying night of my life.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, she's watching me sleep again.

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Speaker 2: She's so creepy.

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Speaker 1: What the hell is the man? If I pretend to

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be asleep, maybe she'll go away. No, no, don't come

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near me, you freak to leave me alone. Come on,

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just go away. What do you want? Oh soety, it

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looks like you're having trouble sleeping again. Sit up for

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me so you can take your meds.

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Speaker 3: I already took it.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine.

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Speaker 2: Back up, okay, fine, dear, comes the airplane.

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Speaker 1: Coming in for a languid. Here you are, my dear.

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Speaker 2: That's it to drink, drink and drink.

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Speaker 1: God, what are you doing? Just take the glass already,

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I'm tired.

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Speaker 3: It was the night after Mother's Day. My mom called me,

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crying hysterically. She told me through her tears that my

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father had passed. I didn't know what to do, so

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I just went over to the house, finding it sworn

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by police.

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Speaker 2: I didn't understand why.

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Speaker 3: At first. All I wanted to do in that moment

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was comfort my mother, grieve with my family, and bury

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my father. Afterwards, I wanted to spend more time with

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my mom, and that's when I noticed her strange behavior.

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I asked her how it happened, but she just looked

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right through me and said she couldn't tell me. Something

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about it was just really off putting. Weeks later enough

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people started saying the same thing that my mother was

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all but admit taken out her husband. Not a person

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who knew her hadn't had some weir encounter with her

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basically admitting and saying what he did subliminally. Unfortunately, I

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had to agree with everyone. I had to send my

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own mother to prison.

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Speaker 2: For this Mother's Day, we had to feature one of

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the scariest mums to walk the face of the earth.

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The moum we are talking about is a seventy one

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year old woman named Hope Shriner. Hope was married to

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our husband, Robert for over four three years. After making

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it past the seven year reach surviving the empty nurse

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syndrome and settling into retirement. It seemed as if the

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couple had a long lasting, successful relationship, but their picture

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book story ended the day Hope snapped and bludgeoned Robert

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to his demise. Robert, who was hampered by mobility issues

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from a near fatal car accident, battled numerous health problems

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in his seventies. He lost a lung to cancer and

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suffered chronic pneumonia and glaucoma, and it was during this

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period Hope and Robert's relationship went downhill. Hope began an

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affair with an the man named Donald Burrey seventy seven.

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Hope dreamed of starting a new life with Beret, but

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he would ultimately turn her down. On the afternoon of

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the second of June two thousand and four, when Hope

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called nine one one to say she had found her

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husband bleeding in their driveway, emergency responders arrived and declared

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Robert was a gonner. At the scene, the medical examiner

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determined blunt force trauma was the cause of his passing.

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It was also discovered that Robert had ingested a large

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dose of sleeping aid in the days after her husband's passing,

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Hope began saying disturbing things to her family and friends.

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One friend expressed fear about the case being unsolved and

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that a killer was running around their rural community, but

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Hope whispered to her saying, don't worry, I did it.

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When Hope's daughter asked how her adopted father passed, Hope said,

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I can't tell you. Hope also told a neighbor, I

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just snapped. I put sleeping pills in his coffee. Another

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friend that volunteered with Hope at the library told investigators

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that Hope told her I wanted to get rid of

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my husband. Police later found evidence connecting to Robert's passing

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in hope spasement. The day after Robert's funeral service, detectives

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arrested Hope and charged her. Accordingly, Hope was eventually sentenced

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to seventeen years to life in prison, becoming of a

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month's oldest female inmate.

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Speaker 1: This happened a few years ago on Mother's Day, and

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it still haunts me till this day. I used to

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live with my mom, who was a hard working woman.

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She used to cook, clean and take care of me

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and my siblings while working a part time job. When

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I eventually got older and had a wife and kids

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of my own, I moved out in a small bungalow house.

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I didn't want to leave her to fend for herself,

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so I ended up taking her in. My wife was

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a bit hesitant at first, but eventually gave in to

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the idea since the kids really liked her company. So

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when it was eventually Mother's Day, I of course wanted

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to celebrate not only my wife, but my mother as well.

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We invited our cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, basically the

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entire family. It was a perfect day, honestly. The kids

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were outside playing in the front lawn while myself and

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the other relatives did grown up stuff. It was around

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the evening time when I got up to grab another

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beer from the fridge. That's when I noticed an unfamiliar

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car parked on the street in front of my house.

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It was a dark sedan with tinted windows, just sitting

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there idling. I then went out to the porch and

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saw the kids playing on the lawn and my mom

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at the edge of the yard facing the car. I

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remember hearing her saying something like what do you won't

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get the hell out of here. The car didn't move,

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it just parked there. She then shouted again, saying, if

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you don't get out of here, I'm calling the cops.

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You got that. My mother was a very confrontation person

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and didn't take shit from anyone and would call out

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anyone on anything if she thought they were in the wrong.

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That's just how she was. But something about yelling at

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a random vehicle was alarming as hell. I didn't want

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her causing any unnecessary drama in printing a target on

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our house, so I called out to her, saying, Mom,

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just ignore them and come inside. She ignored me and

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continued me and mugging the vehicle. I figured it had

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to either be some careen neighbors down the street that

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were trying to file a noise complaint, or just a

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group of teen troublemakers looking to get a kick out

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of bothering an elderly lady. I tried to make out

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who was inside the car, but it was hard to

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see as the windows were tinted and it was getting

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a bit late. I called out to my mom once

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more to get inside and that the other adults were

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waiting on her. Once again, she ignored me and continued

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to have a stare down with the vehicle. I was

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getting nervous as hell and got a bit closer so

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I could see the plate number, just in case whoever

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was in the car tried to pull something. As I

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squinted my eyes to look at the front plate, I

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realized that it was either removed or being covered. That's

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when I knew something was horribly wrong. A million red

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flags raced through my mind. I started freaking out and

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yelled at my mom and the kids to immediately get

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back in the house. The kids immediately started scrambling inside,

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while my mom stood in the same spot, yelling at

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the car and telling them she was going to call

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the cops. I then started walking towards her, just so

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I could pull her back into the house and away

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from the vehicle. That's when the car suddenly rolled down,

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their windows refilling two or three men wearing ski masks.

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The one closest to the window then pulled out a

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firearm and started waving it around.

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Speaker 2: Happy Mothers Day, yelled fun, Today's gonna be your lucky day.

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Speaker 1: He then smiled at me and my mom, and that's

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when I yelled, saying, Mom, get inside. As I started

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running back towards the house, and as I made it

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to the porch, all I could hear was a loud

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bang sound. All I could remember was ducking for cover

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as my relatives inside the house started screaming in despair

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and confusion, not knowing what the hell was going on.

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The car then imediately drifted off. I then got up

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and slowly turned my back to see where my mom was,

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and there she was, laying lifelessly on the lawn. She

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was still eerily still. I then ran to her, screaming mom, Mom, Mom,

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over and over again, but there was no response. I

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took off my shirt and used it to cover her wound.

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As my relatives called the cops. An ambulance with a

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few cruisers showed up, taking her to the hospital, but

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it was too late. She was gone. The police went

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searching for the suspects, but unfortunately they were unable to

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be found. There wasn't much evidence that my family and

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I could provide to the police. We had no camera footage,

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no license plate, nothing other than just some males wearing

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ski masks. After providing police with our testimonies, they concluded

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that the whole thing was just a senseless motiveless crime,

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just really some sickles in a car. The next few

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months after that tragic Mother's Day weekend was a blur.

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I couldn't sleep her eve, I was just numb. The

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house felt empty, and the kids were understandably quiet and scared.

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None of us wanted to step out of the house

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and deal with the fact that we might see those

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guys again. A few years after the incident, my family

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and I moved out, but we couldn't deal with the

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fact that those guys could still show up anytime, whether

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it was a birthday, holiday, or Mother's Day again and

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possibly target us for no apparent reason. This story was

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inspired by a horrific incident regarding an Alabama grandmother who

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was celebrating Mother's Day with her family when someone opened

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fire on the outdoor party just after seven pm on Sunday,

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May twelfth. Gloria Cruz, sixty four, was fatally struck issue

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reportedly rushed children playing outside back into her house for safety.

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She collapsed on her lawn cruise unfortunately did not make

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it at the scene. Police are offering a one thousand

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dollars cash reward to anyone who may have seen something

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or know something and to come forward with any information

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related to the suspect. Crew's daughter has set up a

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GoFundMe to set up for funeral expenses. No arrests have

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since been made, according to police, who say the case

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is still under investigation.