Missouri Snake Breeder Murder: The Ben Renick Story
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What happened to Ben Renick on June 8, 2017?
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Ben Renick spent his entire life handling exotic snakes, and people warned him about how dangerous the creatures were.
So when Ben was found face down in a pool of his blood inside of the snake house, people obviously assumed it was a python that attacked him. Until they started looking at clues and determined that it was anything but a normal attack.
This case is full of money, it's full of secrets, it's full of betrayal, and today we're going to break down the clues that revealed what really happened inside of Renick's reptiles.
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Now, let's get into Ben Rennick's case and the clues that defined it.
Can I shout out a listener from one of our last videos that we put out? Of course. So we talked about the case of Susan Powell. And in it, I mentioned that I wasn't a huge fan of children being interviewed by police for crimes. And that comes from this article I was reading about this woman. It was from the perspective of a mother who, wrestling with the idea of, do I allow my 10-year-old to testify in this crime where something horrible happened? How much is this going to re-traumatize him? And ultimately, she decided to not let him testify. And they didn't press charges against the person who did something, which is, I can't even imagine having to make that choice as a parent. But we got a really interesting comment from one of our listeners, Caitlin, who
She said, I work in child welfare and the kids were probably interviewed using techniques specific to interviewing children who have either been victims of abuse or neglect or have witnessed a crime. We have a child advocacy center here and there are protocols for forensic interviews that allow the child to be interviewed once in a very comfortable setting that is audio and video recorded and can be used in court. The police district attorneys and other people like victim witness coordinators are in a separate room. So I just thought that was so interesting. I love getting comments like that.
It just shows how... cool our community is and how much knowledge there is it's it's kind of the whole reason we wanted that phone a scientist button yeah lawyer button because we're not lawyers we're not psychologists we only know what we know and the research we get into so that's a really really good comment yeah just shows like they do take a lot of necessary steps to protect the kids and you know maybe to that little one it's like I'm just getting babysat and having a good conversation in this odd living room with some toys that aren't mine.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Which is way better than some of the interrogations you see with adults.
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