2025-02-28
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Late one afternoon in the summer of 2014, a pawn shop owner was updating his inventory logs when the bell above the front door jingled.
A young couple walked inside and approached the counter, and the young man said he had a few items to sell.
Then he proceeded to open a drawstring bag and dumped the contents onto the counter.
There was a collection of gold chains, rings and watches, and many of the pieces were twisted and mangled.
Instantly, the hair on the pawn shop owner's neck stood up.
Because everything about this interaction, from the large quantity of damaged jewelry to the careless way the pieces had been thrown in a bag together, told him that these items were stolen.
And this made the owner extremely nervous.
Because he had cash in the register and didn't know what these thieves might be capable of, he needed to get them out of the store quickly without revealing that he was onto them.
So he told the couple he didn't have enough cash to buy the jewelry right now, but he would send some pictures of the jewelry to his broker to see if maybe they were interested.
The couple agreed and let him take the photos.
And then after the photos were taken and the couple had left, the owner called the police, and it soon became clear his gut instincts were right.
However, he'd stumbled onto something much bigger than just theft, because it would turn out this jewelry was linked to a murder case.
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.
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