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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
44 min
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5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, fans of The Strange, Dark, and Mysterious.
What does the SiriusXM partnership mean for MrBallen's content schedule?
I'm here today to tell you all about what it actually means now that we've moved over to the SiriusXM family. Big picture, it means we are going to make more content for you. Right now, you get one YouTube video a week on Saturday. Well, what we're going to do now is we're going to have the Saturday upload be the same, but then also the Mr. Ballin podcast. Well, we've begun already filming those episodes like a YouTube video. So that's a second piece of content every week. Then there's two other shows that you guys don't even know about yet, which means on any given week, you could have up to four new video pieces of content on the Mr. Ballin channel. And also, all these pieces of content will double as podcasts as well.
This new content schedule is going to start early next year. Also, there's one other thing I want to clarify, which is the state of Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries and Redacted.
How did the murder news clip trigger the discovery in 2004?
Those shows were created in collaboration with Wondery, but now we're partnered with Sirius, and so we're not going to be making any new episodes of either of those shows. For now, if you want to hear my podcast episodes one week early and ad-free, make sure to subscribe to SiriusXM Podcast Plus on Apple Podcasts or visit SiriusXM.com slash podcast plus to listen with Spotify or another app of your choice. Keep on the lookout for more announcements in the coming weeks. Thank you. One day in 2004, a young man was eating breakfast and watching the local news when suddenly this story about a savage murder came on. Now, at first, the young man actually wasn't paying all that much attention to this story, you know, in part because this murder happened pretty far away from where he lived, about 100 miles away.
But at some point on the news, the picture of the murder victim flashed across the screen. And when he saw it, he just froze. And for a minute, that's all he did. He just stared at the screen, could not believe what he was seeing. He put his food down and then he rushed over to his computer. He fired it up and immediately began searching through the chat log of an old conversation he had had. And after scrolling for a little while, he eventually found what he was looking for. And at that point, he printed out the entire chat log and rushed to go show the police. But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do.
So if that's of interest to you, please go over to the Follow Buttons house and proceed to eat all their food in their fridge, but put back all the empty containers. Okay, let's get into today's story.
On the evening of June 3rd, 2004, a 23-year-old college junior named Jesse Valencia walked into a restaurant in Columbia, Missouri. His friends were already there. They were sitting at a table in the back of the restaurant. And as soon as they saw him, they waved him over. And so Jesse made his way over to sit with them. Jesse was a student at the University of Missouri, and he was majoring in journalism and pre-law. The spring semester had just ended a few weeks ago, and as much as Jesse had loved the semester and he really had enjoyed what he was studying, he was looking forward to some time off. He wanted to see his friends and go to some good parties. Jesse had always been a very outgoing person with a very active social life, but sometimes that characteristic sort of got him in trouble.
In fact, just a couple of weeks ago, he'd had to go to court over a charge of obstructing a government operation, which he'd picked up two months earlier when he refused to leave a house party that the cops were breaking up. And as soon as he sat down at the table with his friends, one of them immediately asked him, like, hey, how'd that court hearing go? And Jesse had said, you know, it didn't go too well. He thought the whole thing was kind of ridiculous and he had hoped the charge would have been dropped already.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:02
2
What does the SiriusXM partnership mean for MrBallen's content schedule?
0:02–0:54
3
How did the murder news clip trigger the discovery in 2004?
0:54–14:25
4
Who was Jesse Valencia and what led to his night at SoCo Club?
14:25–34:04
5
How did Jesse meet Ed McDevitt and what happened after their first night together?
34:04–44:28