Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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It shouldn't happen. It shouldn't happen. And anyway, I just wanted to be known that I didn't kill John.
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That's loveindus.com, promo code SWORD for 21% off. All right, let's continue. In the early hours of May 18th, 2017 in Parma Heights, Ohio, a working class suburb 20 miles south of Cleveland, which sounds like a lovely place, I might add, like the rest of the state. Pearl Road cuts through the town in a long stretch of strip plazas and small storefronts.
Hair salons, nail studios, pizza shops, you know the kind of useless strip mall that inhabits pretty much every city in America? Well, those shops are usually owned by locals and these businesses open early, close late, and know their regulars by name. The strip is dark and small shops are locked up for the night. The early morning is calm except for one thing. A burglar is ready to do his thing.
He grabs a landscaping stone, hauls it up, and hurls it at the front door of Classic Hair Studio. The glass explodes, the stone breaking apart into chunks across the floor. He doesn't hesitate. He ducks inside, heads straight for the counter, and yanks the entire cash register loose. The drawer jerks free, cords snapping, and he's out in seconds.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the quiet Ohio suburb on May 18, 2017?
With good money. So, you know, she's paying like everybody's cell phone bill, everybody's bill, babysitters. You and your sister got a good relationship or no? No.
His sister took over the money and according to Tom, she mismanaged it. She also failed to get the car Tom had wrecked from the impound because it was too much trouble. Tom was pissed because the car belonged to his son Tommy and still had some of his personal belongings in it.
According to Tom, his sister helped raise Tommy and had been a good influence, but ever since their mother passed, she was all about herself. His sister, of course, had a different story. There was a time when they partied together as teens and acted more like friends than siblings, but then Tom got a girl pregnant when he was 19 and things changed.
His sister had lost a baby boy and now she found herself stepping in to parent Tom's son. Tom continued to party and went to rehab at least once.
It was like usually every time he went to rehab, this stuff would come out, Missy gets everything. Well, Missy has a job. Missy went to school. I paid for it. He always, I guess, felt like I got everything. But in reality, my grandparents were draining their bank account for him. And our whole life revolved around him and what was going on. But he always, and he still will.
Mm-hmm.
And recently, when my mom died, he wrote Tommy letters, the same old stuff, like, Missy got this.
His sister Missy remembered that their mother practically enabled him.
She was always there for him. And even if he stole from her, he could still come home. I think I told you when I found out when she died that she had all these check cashing loans and stuff, and I found all the Receipts.
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