#566 - Zombie Wife - Springfield, Tennessee

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All right. We're going to Tennessee today.
We're going to Springfield, Tennessee, which is the one of many, many, many, many Springfields in this country as we know I don't know what that's about I don't know why that it's a very popular name as we know from like the Simpsons stuff when they did the, you know which Springfield is it? it's, you know 75 different Springfields came forward there so this is just outside Nashville it's a suburb it's about 35 minutes out to Nashville. So really, if you think about it, in traffic, it's about four and a half hours if you've ever been in Nashville.
It's about four hours to Cosby, Tennessee, which was our last episode. Attack of the Death Twins, which was crazy, obviously.
The Death Twins, you want to listen to that one. Population here, 18,561.
So too small a medium town here a lot of commuters definitely well the median household income here though is pretty low actually for right outside nashville it's 50,655 which is almost a lot of bartenders that's what it seems like almost 20,000 people who can't afford to live in nashville proper i guess right i don't know but it's uh they fucking Broadway every night, though. That's almost $20,000 less than the national average, though.
Median home price here, $299,300, which is a lot cheaper than Nashville, too. Sure.
Yeah, I think that's what it is. And the motto here, well, there's two of them, actually.
One is, welcome to real Tennessee. Okay.
Which anybody... Did they really say that? Yes.
Which anybody who lives, like, in the sticks would be like, you're nashville shut up talking about yeah you're like 20 minutes from you know a famous person's bar i don't want to hear that shit and then also lives down the street from you fucker and then also world's finest dark fired tobacco that's a lot of you got that world's finest right here. Not here.
Not North Carolina. Dark fire, apparently.
Toast them in dark fire. History of this town.
The courthouse for the county, Robertson County Courthouse, was completed in 1879. And then they put a big clock tower, which is kind of what this town is known for, is their clock tower in the center of town, like, you know, back to the future style.
They popped that in in 1930. And then they put it on the historic list of National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
So that'll be there for a while. In 1923, they hosted a minor league baseball team of Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee League called the Springfield Blanket Makers.
Nothing strikes fear in the heart of opponents like facing a team full of blanket makers. Now, here's some fucking quilters.
Now, they have that old school downtown. It's got the clock tower and all that.
This is a very kind of Americana looking

small town. So there has been a

shitload of things filmed

here. Mainly country music videos

because that's, you know, they're looking to pretend

they're from here. So, you know.

I'm from this tiny town

even though I live in Nashville.

Yeah, okay. Even though I live in LA.

Yeah, I love these guys

live in fucking Brentwood and they're like doing videos in this town. No, I mean my 40 acres.
No. My God.
Luke Bryan did a video here. Yeah, of course he did.
But I got a beer in my hand is the video. I don't know anything about these.
Lainey Wilson did one called, she sounds like a drunk, and it's called Watermelon Moonshine. I was like, Laney Wilson sounds like a girl.
Like, I know this chick Laney, she's kind of a drunk, but before she gets really tanked, she's a nice girl. She's a nice lady and then she turns into a drunk and...
Small hint to piss because she doesn't wipe after she eats. No, and by 1am she'll swing on you.
So watch out for that. You want to separate by 12.
She seems like it's up for us and then tyler hubbard did so i don't know who that is small town me um ashley cook with an e did running back at the high school run back running back running on back to high school then she did all i get it because these things like to do a double meaning of running back so she's running back to a guy, but he was probably the running back.

Probably.

I'm sure.

Jesus Christ.

She also did Dirt on Him on Main Street there.

Dirt on Him.

Like her boots.

Like her boots or her ass maybe.

Frito-Lay commercial they did here.

Dan and Shay.

I don't know who that is. Steal My Love.
Ingrid Andrus. More Hearts Than Mine.
Tim McGraw, Neon Church. Of course.
Lady Antebellum. They're awful.
Jesus Christ. Goodbye Town.
They're not Lady Ajax. Oh, I know they are.
It's gross. Yeah, yeah.
Kit Moore is Young Love. And then a Violent Heart feature film with Mary J.
Blige was in it. That's weird.
That's interesting. Nashville.
Nashville, the ABC show. Still the King, which is a sitcom with Billy Ray Cyrus.
Great. Holy shit.
He's a mess. The Last Days of Frank

and Jesse James from 86. That stars

Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Chris Christopherson

there. That's pretty neat.
I've never seen that somehow.

I don't know how the hell we missed that one.

I've never even heard of it. Quickly, reviews of this town.

There's a few that are good, though. Five

stars. Stick

with me here, because this one is

real messed up in the words.

It's dangerous down-er. N-U-R.
Down-ner. Oh, my God.
I guess that's there in down-ner. Down-ner.
I sounded it out, James. If you don't know, and U is a U, by the way.
If you don't know were you going, W-U-R. W-U-R.
Were you going? Somebody's fucking with us. Or were, and that's spelled regularly, W-E-R-E, you et got to get out of there and don't go to 21 if you not about that.
They're serious. This is not a joke, I don't think.
That's not a joke. That's the best they can do.
That's what I really think. Don't go to 21 if you not about that they're serious this is not a joke i don't think i think that's the best they can do that's what i really think don't go to 21 if you're not about that all right then i'll stay out of 21 because i don't i don't think i'm about that and that is t-h-e-t i don't think i'm about that i might be about that but not that i don't have that i don't have that i ain't got it um three stars Springfield.
That's good. At first it was peaceful and nothing really going wrong.
Nothing really wrong going on, but it's like everything changed overnight. There was a car chase on my road and they literally drove through my yard.
Well, the whole town's gone to shit because there's one car chase. Maybe Luke Bryan was just filming a video.
That's it. Maybe you should have cheered him on as he drove by, tore up your lawn.
Very scary. Now I'm hearing of more and more vehicle thefts.
Hearing of, by the way, which is just my friend told me she heard a car got stolen. Yeah.
I love Springfield, but we may have to move. You know, I heard of some stuff.
It was a car chase. Rumors are making me scared.
Wow. This is how dumb people are.
Springfield parks are beautiful, though. Nothing negative about them.
I had my gender

reveal at J. Travis Park.
It was a beautiful

day and the kids got to play and feed the

ducks. Not the ducks.

The ducks.

The air conditioning ducks.

They got to feed them. Here you go.

That makes them keep blowing the cool air the way you like it.

You gotta feed them once in a while.

Feed the ducks.

Three stars. It's a good place to love as long way you like it.
You gotta feed them once in a while. Three stars.

It's a good place to love as long

as you have friends.

No one has spelled everything correctly.

They're all idiots. They're all idiots.

This is crazy. What the

fuck is happening?

Okay, then finally two stars.

Gotta get through this. You'll either die

of heart disease or a meth lab

explosion here. That's terrific.
Those your two two top causes of death they go we got a body on the ground like heart disease or meth lab meth lab okay are they charred is it on the inside where is it i've lived in springfield my entire life and the place could use a few improvements to say the least. With all of the communities around Nashville have grown and drastically improved, Springfield remains very much the same as it was before Nashville blossomed.
This is a telltale sign that things probably aren't going the way they should. The only reason that people should move here is that the housing prices are fairly inexpensive.
However, the transplants who move to the Nashville area must be smart because they're moving everywhere except here. They're avoiding this place like the fucking plague is what they just said.
That's amazing. That is amazing.
And there's one, this person, they says they live in constant fear. A man was shot right in front of my house recently.
I don't think things are going well here. Things to do, very quickly,

the Sunflower Festival.

And I say very quickly

because there really isn't shit.

There's hay rides around a farm.

Ten acres of sunflowers to view.

God damn.

One of their activities is selfies in the sunflowers.

Just shit you can do yourself.

This is not great.

Ten dollars.

That's what you have to pay to get. Oh, no, helicopter helicopter rides too you can take a helicopter ride over the sunflowers for $35 that said let's talk about some murder everybody let's do it wow is this a weird case okay 2014 we're going to go to so everything's the same pretty much your phone looks the same everything's the same the same.
You know, same shit here. Joseph Leonard Parker.
Let's talk about. All right.
Joe Parker. Joe's born December of 1968, December 27th to be exact here.
Joe's kind of a decent sized guy, six foot tall, 200 pounds. He ends up meeting his wife, Samantha, through a mutual friend.
A friend of theirs said, I think you two would go good together and kind of set them up on a blind date. Beautiful.
Next thing you know, they're going to get married. So that's nice.
Of course. He meets Samantha K.
Klaus with a C. C-L-O-U-S-E.
Klaus. Oh.
And she's born on August 16, 1970. She's originally from Ohio, Galleon, Ohio, G-A-L-I-O-N.
I don't know. I never heard of that before, but I don't know where it is, but it's there.
It's small. Her parents are David and Peggy Ann.
Oh. Isn't that very, yeah.
I've never heard Peggy Ann. Peggy Ann is like the most middle America thing you could ever get.
Yeah. There's Peggy and there's something Ann, and she's Peggy Ann.
I've heard of Peggy Sue, but I've never heard ofgy Ann. Peggy Ann is like the most middle America thing you could ever get.
There's Peggy and there's something Ann and she's Peggy Ann. Peggy Sue, but I never heard of Peggy Ann.
Peggy Ann is even more like. Yeah, that's more small town.
That's a smaller town than small town. Yeah, Peggy Sue is like, you fucking provincial bitch.
What are you doing? This is crazy. Oh, highfalutin Peggy Sue.
Peggy Sue thinking you're hot shit looking down her nose at everybody all the peggy anns of the world yeah uh she's got three brothers sam does samantha goes by sam by the way uh she's got three brothers and uh she attended greenbriar high school that's about the background on her she's known as kind of a very outgoing socially person she'll talk to everybody she's worked in like stores and she's known as like ever all the regulars know her and she's you know real kind of socially outgoing he seems less than socially outgoing which is odd because he's a salesman yeah what the fuck which is very strange so Which is very strange. So maybe he's socially outgoing at work, but not at home.

At home, he's like, I've done enough of that.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

I mean, I can relate to that. I got to be pretty outgoing here on the road.

But then at home, I'm like, all right, let me alone.

Let's all relax.

So they get married in 2002.

Okay.

Now, she worked at Baker's Market for several years where she would be the greeter in the morning. And everybody said she was outgoing.
She never met a stranger. She's very, very much into football also.
Big football fan. Loves it.
Loves Alabama, college football, Crimson Tide, and Tennessee Titans football, which makes sense because that's where they play. So, yeah, that would make perfect sense here.
Her daughter, Mackenzie. Mackenzie, by the way, I don't know if Mackenzie is their daughter together, but she is definitely her daughter.
It's definitely her daughter, but Mackenzie's last name is Parker. So I don't know if he adopted her or if they had her 10 years before they got married or what but she's you know she's in her early 20s in 2014 so and they got married in 2002 so i like i said i don't know if they had a long-term relationship before that or if she brought her into the relationship and it was just like you know he adopted her and that's dad now i'm not sure last name.
Got it. Yeah.
She does. The daughter has the husband's last name.
So she said, my mom's an Alabama roll tide kind, a loving kind of woman. Yeah, that's what she said.
She's all into that. Like I said, Mackenzie born in 1991 here.
Now, neighbors describe them and we'll get to their house and all that. We know exactly where they lived and everything.
Neighbors describe the couple as quiet and introverted, but not rude. Just they'll wave to you if you drive by.
Keep to themselves a little. They keep to themselves, which is strange because at both of their jobs, they both have to be super outgoing.
So it's very strange. And at home, they are both considered by all their neighbors and people who like them as, you know, they're nice people that they keep to themselves type of deal.
You can switch it on and switch it off. Very nice.
One friend said they didn't go out very often and they seem to prefer each other's company to others. That's nice.
Which is great. That's awesome.
He sells used Toyotas. Oh.
That's his job. Yes, apparently.

That's a great gig.

That's the best used car to sell.

Shit.

Yeah, they last forever.

You can make decent money selling used cars.

That's not bad.

But it's obviously not the, it doesn't have the best stigma to it.

People don't go, oh, you're a used car salesman?

Awesome.

High five.

Wow.

Sexy.

You can find me.

Yeah, find me a Corolla.

I mean, it's literally a cliche. A crisis guy's like a used car salesman.
Yeah. So.
Sexy. Find me a Corolla.
I mean, it's literally a cliche.

A crisis guy's like a used car salesman.

So that's tough.

But they seem to have a happy marriage. They are both extremely proud of Mackenzie, the daughter.

There's never any problems there.

The daughter says she's loved by both parents and came up in a loving environment and everything else like that. But, you know, there's some stress approaching, and we'll talk about that in 2014, some stress in the marriage.
They buy a house in 2006, four years after they get married. They bought it for $139,000 in 2006, so top of the market back then.
Yeah. That was at the top.
Wow, that that's the most that's the top wow yeah because i'll tell you about it later but that's not too far off of what it was sold for recently so it's wow yeah it's they bought it at the tippy top uh it's a three-bedroom two-bath 1549 square foot house so a couple with a child and sure it's a nice little family house here. It is at 246 Clydesdale Lane in Springfield here.
The current Zestimate is $325,100, by the way, in case you're wondering. So their neighbors here, one neighbor, Chloe, Chloe Crabtree is her name.
She's 23. She lived with her parents next door to the Parkers um for the last few months and she described joseph parker as a very stern man who kept to himself she didn't know him very well though so stern might just be like his resting face you know what i mean we don't know yeah this isn't based on yeah it just looks stern and you know goes in oh he's a stern guy because that's how you judge your neighbors neighbors.
You see him for two seconds and you make a whole back story on him. He just got off work.
What's wrong with you? Selling used Toyotas. Right.
No thanks. I'm not happy.
No. This young lady said, I didn't really see them go out.
He did. He always parked inside the garage and I would see him leaving in the mornings.
I rarely saw her car leave. They were very quiet, the kind of people who never left the blinds open, which is a good way to describe someone.
There's either blinds open, look in our house, people, or there's leave us the fuck alone, people. It's one of those.
I'm blinds closed guy. That's weird, actually, because you're.
Is it? I know, right? No, for you, it's strange. I know.
I know. Yeah.
It're doesn't seem like that but no i got shutters for i don't even have blind i don't want shutters i shut those motherfuckers so if i wanted if i wanted people to watch what i was doing i'd live in the yard that's my people to watch what i'm doing i'd leave the i'd have no treatments on the way yeah it's i hate feeling like i'm in a fishbowl being looked at i don't like either. And I like dark.
Oh, yeah. I love dark.
I'll take dark. I'll take some dark, too.
So Rhonda Haley lived across the street from the Parkers for about eight years, and she described the Parkers as a bit reclusive, she said. Now we're going full on to reclusive, which is a big step from not that outgoing to reclusive, always keeping to themselves.
She said they have a grandson that they know of and a grown daughter because Mackenzie has two little kids by 2014. And they've recently thrown a birthday party for the grandson in their front lawn.
So they go, that we saw, you know, we know that. So that was nice.
Then she said said i never really talked to him and i never saw him chatting with neighbors or anything usually he'd be working in the yard or working on his car he would wave or not at you when you drove by sounds like a great neighbor leaves you the fuck alone if you drive by they're friendly enough to wave at you in case you ever had a problem or something you know you know them by face and they keep to themselves terrific he's. He's in the garage with some grease on him.
That's a great guy. And if they were like loud and having parties and social, they'd be complaining about that.
You can do no right with people. You know what I mean? You really can't.
Not in your neighborhood. No, you can't.
Everybody thinks their neighbors are strange. They're supposed to be.
They're supposed to be. So as for Sam, the wife here, they said this person also said that she rarely left the house, rarely saw Sam leave the house.
She hadn't been working either. Now, Joseph's had some issues in the past.
This is why I don't know if they had a relationship previously, because it sounds like he was kind of a single guy who was out fucking up and then settled down and got married. Yeah.
I found several arrests for him in the past. Oh, sure.
And nothing major. He didn't go fucking crazy and go punch a bank teller or try to steal the money out of the drawer or anything.
But several low crimes is like, that's funny. It's a pattern.
It's a pattern. he was arrested for a driving under the influence of liquor in April

I'm sorry in august of 1990 and he ends up doing a plea deal for that um then again in on january of 1991 he's arrested for driving under the influence of liquor just a few months later that's not good that good. That's not good.
Then he was arrested for MUN misdemeanors Title 59. I don't know what that means, so I looked it up, and it said the Title 59 of the Tennessee Code is about mines and mining, including laws that can result in criminal and civil penalties.
For example, making false statements in statistical reports is a violation of Title 59.

What's he doing?

I don't know. It prohibits making

false statements in statistical reports

and establishes criminal and civil

penalties for violations of the Tennessee

Mineral Surface Mining Law.

I don't know what

the fuck he was doing back then. He's selling

Toyotas. What are you talking about minerals for?

Maybe that falls under the rolling back odometersometers or something that's possible the making false statements and statistical reports but it's not mining this is about the mining industries maybe he was into mining before that we don't know uh there's a reckless driving also he's busted for um bad driver then in this isn't great then in uh in oh wowober of 1993 uh patronizing a prostitute he's arrested for he had a tough few years he had a few years where he was drinking and going looking for comfort in the wrong arms and everything else here so mckenzie's born in 91 it doesn't sound like they were like together and having a serious relationship during this time and if they were then Sam is a very forgiving person she's a sweetheart then in 98 he's busted for improper tag which whatever who gives a shit about that I don't care about that so there we go the little thing see what I mean nothing crazy we go red flag look out for this guy he went through some shit there for a minute he obviously yeah bit of a problem. And he was a young man at that point, too.
He was in his 20s. I mean, people go through shit.
Yeah, he seemed to have his shit together by now anyway, or at least by the 2000s. But by 2014, things are not going swimmingly at all.
Joe has been laid off from the Toyota dealership. Oh, fuck.
That's not good. And the house is inching toward foreclosure.
Not good. Uh, he figured he would be able to find a problem, a solution, but the months tick by and he's nothing's coming up.
He's not getting any other jobs. Bills are piling up that they can't afford to pay.
And now he didn't know what to do house then ends up going into foreclosure so he's going to lose everything here these people are going to lose their home and everything else so this is a lot of pressure on a relationship obviously by the way never any domestic disputes or anything like that the daughter says they don't fight neighbors don't hear him screaming at each other there's no that this isn't, oh, God, those two are going to kill each other one of these days. It's not that nice.
Oh, they're doing it again. Yeah.
So as their anniversary approaches, their 12th wedding anniversary is approaching. This one doesn't matter.
Man. We don't have any money.
We're not going to have a house. We're going to lose our home.
Fuck. So that's approaching in 2014.
And the financial shit is really starting to get to everybody really um he said joe is telling people that he talked to that the inability to meet what he what his wife expects of him is really kind of bumming him out basically he feels like he's a loser and he feels like he's a failure and that's how everybody anybody feels at that point so on the day of their anniversary apparently he's just really really really on edge and stressed and tight as a fucking drum at this point november 4th is their big day november 4th 2014 is their 12th wedding anniversary so nobody hears from him for a couple of days from their anniversary. People, you'll leave them alone on their anniversary, and then they kind of, both of them kind of drop out of communication for a couple days, but that's not abnormal for them.
They can be a little reclusive. So if they don't get back to you in two days, they'll get back to you in three.
Don't worry about it. Then on November 7th, 2014, early in the a.m.
So this is the night of the sixth, really, if we're thinking about it, you know, in terms of how humans do things. Joseph at 2.45 a.m.
calls 911. Okay.
And it says some wild shit. And his tone is very much like, hello.
Like he sounds like he's politely ordering pizza. That's what he sounds like.
Or like trying to be extra polite at the Chinese place so they understand what he's fucking saying and you can get the order. That's what he sounds like.
Literally. So they say 911.
What's the location of your emergency? And he says, yeah, which is a great start to a 911 call. It's a southern thing, though.
Yeah. Should I be even doing this? He says, 246 Clydesdale Lane.
She says, can you spell it for me? He says, C-L-Y-D-E-S-D-A-L-E. And they said, you're in.
Yeah. And he said, yes, Springfield, Tennessee.

It's out by Oakland Farms. By the way.
Oh, boy. Is there an argument over what fucking subdivision this is in with the neighbors later? It is hilarious.
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So the dispatch says, okay, what's going on? And had no idea what she was about to hear on the other end. He said, quote, all right, this is what's happened.
Oh boy. Uh, we've been married 12 years.
Oh boy. Oh boy.
Here we go. All right.
This is what's happened. I got married 12 years ago.
Uh-oh. All right is just as bad as yeah, by the way, for an opener here.
We've been married 12 years. On the 4th, which would have been two nights ago at 4 a.m., I shot my wife in the temple of her head oh boy i thought i'd killed her and uh i put her in the freezer out in the garage okay now the 9-1-1 is just silent like yeah i'm taking this all in you don't want to interrupt somebody while they're telling you this shit.
So he says, quote, I checked on her tonight, and she's not dead. Okay.
Yeah. Let's fucking unpack this.
He is saying, I shot my wife in the temple two days ago with a .38, by the way. God damn.
And then I put her in a fucking freezer for two days, and she's alive. That's what he's saying.
Zero degrees in there. Frozen solid, but alive.
Okay. She's not dead.
She's got a big hole in the temple of her head. And to get her body moved around in there, I think I broke her wrist.
Real calm. He says, you know, she was frozen.
First of all, they don't know you know is the we have no idea you're the only one who knows yeah yeah all right and you know all bad starts this whole thing is like yeah i'll take a large pepperoni um let me get one of those dinner salads and um what's your specials with pizza and yeah breadsticks you guys got how are your breadsticks yeah let's get an order of those in there too why not extra ranch thanks boy is he good at small talk it's what he's a salesman yeah so he says yeah uh to get her body moved around in there i think i broke her wrist you know she was frozen from being in the uh in the thing

she's been in the thing for 48 hours now uh this is no crank call which is probably important to say at this point i'm not fucking around no and the casualness of his voice you need to say it's not a crank call because he sounds so casual you're like get the fuck out of here this guy is full of shit. Wow.

Wow. This is no crank call.

I need somebody to get out there and help her out. He sounds so casual.
You're like, get the fuck out of here. This guy is full of shit.

Wow.

Wow.

This is no crank call.

I need somebody to get out there and help her out.

Help her out.

Help her out.

I've cleared the premises.

I got away, you know.

I suppose you're telling me.

I'm not going to be there.

But I promise you this is a legit call, and I need somebody to get out there and help her because I love, I still love her, and it's hard to believe that after that, you know, but I need you to get somebody out there to help her. Okay.
Man. So, 911 is on the other line.
By the way, he had shot her in the fucking temple with a .38 caliber handgun. They got in an argument.
That's what happened. And he, by the way, we'll wait until it comes up.
We'll talk about it. They said dispatch goes, okay.
Yeah. All righty.
Okay. What happened to cause you to do that? He um it's a long story i don't want to get into it i don't want to get into it it's a whole ass book lady i don't want to get into it you're on the this is the time to get into it bro i don't want to get into it um just i just want to get into getting somebody out there to help her it's i left front door open.
I left all the lights on in the house, so it would be kind of easy to spot. You'd be able to see things.
That's nice. It's the last house on the right on Clydesdale Lane.
But I left the front door open, and she's in the garage. You go through the kitchen to get into the garage.
See, here's what you do. He's like, there's Pepsi's in the fridge on the way through there.
You can grab some if you want. In the garage, it's full of beer.
Just got a 12-pack. Jesus Christ.
So you'll see her once you get in the garage, and she's a mess, he says. She can't talk.
No. No.
He's saying she's alive. When we find out what happened, wow.
No way she's alive, huh? No, no, no, no, no. She's a mess.
She can't talk. I could get her to blink.
Oh. By what, shaking the freezer around? What are you talking about? Those things are frozen.
Blink once means yes. Blink twice means no.
And, you know. We had a whole conversation.
You know, we chit-chatted for a bit. She was chilly, so I said, okay.
Do you need a sweater? Yeah. No? Okay.
Blink twice. No? All right.
So I told her I'm going to go down the road 10 to 15 miles, and I'm going to call 911 and get you some help out here. That's out of his mind.
I'm going to take off, and there'll be people here. Where else are you going to be? No shit.
He said, I thought she's been dead two days now, and when I checked on her, she was still alive. She's been frozen for two days.
Wow, there's no way somebody's alive for two days. No.
Freezer. Frozen solid, and especially with what he did also.
38 in your head. And among the other shit.
Oh, boy. And when I checked on her, she was still alive.
He's like, how weird is that? His voice is like strange, right? She's been frozen for two days.

She's frozen solid.

It's amazing she's still alive.

I would say so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

He said, I shot her with, oh, she's got a big hole in the temple of her head.

Right.

You know, he said, I shot her with a .38 caliber handgun and there's a big hole in the temple of her head i didn't see an exit wound uh okay so she's got a 38 caliber just bouncing around tearing her brain up and she's frozen solid but she's surprisingly fucking uh stout actually she's hanging in there i got i got her some advil and i'll be down the. I'll be over here.
They say, what is her name? And he says, Samantha Parker. They said, is she a white female? And he says, yes.
And they go, okay, how old is she? Ah, 43. You know.
They said, and how long ago did you leave there? Ah, an hour ago. And they said, and that's the last time you saw her? He said, yeah, that's the last time I saw her.
And the dispatch says,

and she's in the garage.

And Joseph said, yes, she's still in the garage.

I made her as comfortable as I could

make her. She tried

to drink a little water.

She's

she tried to picture him

with a cup trying to pour water in her

mouth. You know, it's

been, and then it's an audible

and says, in her mouth.

You know, it's been, and then it's an audible and says, leave her gone.

She's in bad shape.

I really need someone out there to help her.

And they said, and the address is 246 Clydesdale Lane.

And he said, yes, ma'am.

And they said, okay, what's your name?

And he says, my name is Joe, which sounds made up, but's actually his name it sounds super made up at that point i'll just leave it at that you know i don't want to get arrested and all that so uh oh okay we know who she is her husband's name is joe you're calling you from your address of the house that you own i don't want to give away too much info on myself though i don't want to tell on me i've just told you how i've murdered and de-fucking and disposed of my dead wife yeah and told you my address her name what's going on it's our wedding anniversary but i'll give you a first name that's it i don't want to get arrested so my name is joe wow yeah he said we don't have of domestic disputes. You know, we never had to call the police or nothing.
We just had a real bad night and except for the gun around and got myself in trouble. So anyway, I really need somebody out there to go out there and help her.
Okay. And they said, okay, we'll send someone out there to her.
Sure will. Yeah.
ma'am it's like urgent you know we know we know the gunshot wounds frozen solid we get it yeah that's a that's a she's real thirsty immediate medical we'll bring water yeah we'll have him stop for a fiji don't worry about it i mean she's dying you know she's got a big hole in the temple where the temple of your head is. You know what I mean? In case she doesn't.
Right behind your eye? You know, the little soft spot there. And dispatch says, right.
Like, yeah, I know what a fucking temple is. And he says, hopefully you know.
No, I'm a 911 operator who doesn't know what a temple is. That's never heard it i love her i still love her you know i've loved her every day since i've been married to her we just had a rough stretch here and uh anyway checked on her and she's still alive and i want i want somebody to help her that knows what they're doing and i gotta say i then inaudible so so they said okay we'll send somebody out there and he says all right what was your first name this is not you didn't just call customer service yeah hi what's your name you sound nice i'm single like they just called the pottery barn for some late shit they ordered from a fucking like what are you talking about there's one in stock still what's your first what's your first thing's your first name? I don't want to call and get somebody else.

It doesn't.

I want to call and get you. We've already gone through this.

The dispatcher says, I'm not going to give you my name, sir.

No.

No.

You fucking lunatic.

You don't need my name.

He said, okay, that's fine.

He said, make a note on there that I left the front door open and all the lights are on and to go to the garage.

She can't yell for you.

She can't yell. But if you go to the garage, that's where you'll see her and to go to the garage.
She can't yell for you. She can't yell.

But if you go to the garage, that's where you'll see her once you get to the garage.

We got it, Joe.

Yeah, because you shot her and then froze her.

We got it.

And they said, OK, we'll send somebody out there.

And he says, she needs, you know, paramedics.

Joe.

Joe.

Fucking for both.

Son of a bitch.

You have made it.

Don't ever tell me this guy's reclusive and not conversational because he's the most conversational and if you heard his voice is just fucking wild it's just so like well you know here I am like he called and like I like this is a call for nothing like I'm just bored on the road and i had no one to talk to so i called 911 so i wouldn't fall asleep like this dispatcher probably thinks this guy i'm gonna get there there's gonna be nothing there this guy's full of shit he's just bored the road's real icy and i need to keep somebody on the phone and yeah i'm sleepy you know it's late night keeps me from having a shit a lot you know what i mean so yeah he says she needs you know paramedics she needs everything she needs an ambulance you know she needs trauma she's trauma she's she's trauma i've heard she's drama but i've never heard she's trauma that's johnny trauma johnny trauma well she's a trauma queen, this one. Real trauma queen.
Whoa. Unbelievable.
I mean, she's a trauma patient. She might need a helicopter.
Okay, Joe, we'll determine that. You can put her in the back of a pickup truck.
It really doesn't matter at this point. I mean, not to disrespect her, but it's not going to hurt her condition is what I'm getting at.
She's going to be just as dead when she gets there. You know, so please get somebody to help her.
And dispatch says, OK, Joseph. OK, thank you.
And he thank you. And he says, OK, and hangs up.
Yeah. He didn't try to correct her.
How did you know my name's Joseph? How'd you know Joseph's long for Joe? So police arrive. Yeah.
And Joe is not at home. He is, like he said, he's gone.
They get there. The front door was open.
All the lights are on, just like he said. Just Joseph is not there, just like he said.
So they entered. They followed his instructions.
They went through the kitchen, went to the garage. What else are you going to do at this point? So they describe the officers who first arrived, describe the couple's home as very clean.
One says it was immaculate, not a speck of dust, spotless. It was real estate clean.
Love that. So he spent the last day and a half cleaning up, cleaning this place up, man.
So there's an upright freezer, by the way. This isn't like a chest freezer.
It's one of those upright big ones. they found they open it up there's samantha parker frozen fucking solid dead as fuck by the way not even close to alive yeah she has been dead she's frozen solid in there and she's been partially dismembered as well oh no yeah yeah and they think that happened wrist yeah they think that happened they think that happened.
Broken wrist. Yeah.
They think that happened. They think that happened in the garage based on, you know, finding some forensic evidence here.
So he shot his wife in the temple with a 38. Yeah.
Put her in a freezer, dismembered her, put her in a freezer for two days and then called and said, she needs paramedics. I gave her some water a minute.
I gave her some water and she blinked. blinked once for yes and twice for no.
She's missing things, man. Dude, this is fucking crazy.
They said she'd been dead for days, obviously. It was clear.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. They had the county emergency medical services person there because they thought they didn't know what he was mistaken about.
What is going on? Maybe he did shoot her, but it wasn't two days ago. It was just now.
You know what I mean? And maybe they do need to help her. Maybe she is alive.
Maybe he just put her in this freezer and she's dying in there or something. So they didn't know.
But, yeah, they said that basically the Russell Gupton, the Robertson County Emergency Medical Services assistant director, said that he was either lying or imagining things.

It was out of his mind. He said there's no possibility.
There was no possibility

of her being alive at all.

Dead as dead can be for a long

time. So yeah,

they said he definitely attempted to dismember

her in the garage. She was partially

dismembered and stuffed into a freezer.

Yikes.

They said, I don't know if we're going to be able to determine when he killed her exactly, they said, because she's frozen. That's a tough one.
But I would believe him that he probably did it at 4 o'clock in the morning on their anniversary. Seems right.
They said, I'm not sure at this point whether we'll be able to determine how long she's been in the freezer either. So they have no clue.
So apparently he contorted his wife into this fucking weird position to fit her in a freezer. The hole in the side of her head was it's a fucking big hole.
It's a 38 to the head. I mean, it's a she's not surviving that, obviously.
It's like the opening when they first get to the gem saloon in deadwood when trixie shoots the guy except not with a derringer with a fucking 38 right so he left her and just carried on with his day after he killed her he's been doing normal shit the last two days that's what's crazy just yep cleaning doing his thing whistling just trying to figure out how to fix it But apparently shit started to unravel with him and he just said, I'm going to go check on her for some reason. And he thought she was alive.
And I don't know. I don't understand.
She's covered in ice for Christ's sake, but he said she was blinking. And that was that.
So the neighbors news spreads quickly in this neighborhood, like fire gone. So they were like, holy shit.
One of the neighbors said the last time she saw Joseph Parker was two days ago when he was leaving the home at about 5.30 p.m. However, she said she noticed something strange at the home at about 1.30 on Friday.
She said, I was walking my dog and I saw their back light come on, so someone was definitely in there. And I thought it was unusual because they're never up that early.
30 a.m isn't up early that's up late i would think yeah i don't unless they went to bed at four o'clock in the afternoon that's a very odd time to be up to bed at 9 p.m and they're already awake yeah so it seems like they're not usually up that late is probably what it is uh ronda haley across the street from them said it's kind of scary You just don't see that every morning when you get up that your neighbor has killed his wife. So it's a little unnerving.
Something had to have happened to him or her, something. So the cops at this point are like, let's give Joe a shout back, shall we? Let's call him back.
Let's get him on the line quick. So they call him back.
Dispatch back at about 3 45 a.m hey joe and uh they're like joe how's it going pal um found your wife super dead by the way yeah so you did that right anyway and they said uh you know where are you where you at bud he said i'm on the interstate to chattanooga headed uh to chattanooga to visit friends no you're not okay i'm just gonna go hang out with my friends at four o'clock in the morning in chattanooga i don't think they want you over uh probably not now uh so yeah the the um the person the communications director said he told the communications center he was driving to chattanooga sometimes a suspect will lie to the police about his or her whereabouts after a crime

so I'm not sure how valid the information is they said good point this guy seems like he at least thinks he's on the road to Chattanooga I'll put it that way we have no idea but he thinks he's I'll go into Chattanooga to see some friends he then said by the way and this is all in his very calm, casual tone.

He said, not only am I on the way to see

my friends in Chattanooga, but I'm also He then said, by the way, and this is all in his very calm, casual tone.

He said, not only am I on the way to see my friends in Chattanooga, but I'm also going to drive through the car dealership that fired me and kill several people there as well.

On the way to Chattanooga to see my friends.

You know, I don't want to get all the way to Chattanooga.

I have to come back.

You know how it goes.

I don't want to backtrack.

So the Metro Police get over to, they set up a command center at Rivergate Toyota when they search for him. According to officers, he threatened to kill multiple people, so they have tons of cops in there protecting the people at the car dealership when they get to work and a helicopter circling above the car dealership and everything else.
It's a Toyota-thon around here. It's a bug.
For Christ's sake, it's a Toyota-thon. And he's driving a white 2007 Toyota Camry, which must piss him off royally.
Tennessee plate 682 NHF. So that's what they're looking.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation immediately adds him to the state's top 10 most wanted list. Fuck yes.
And, yeah considered armed and dangerous and a 1 000 reward was issued for any information on his location can we dig a little deeper for a guy who's currently armed and seeking more victims he shot a woman a partially dismembered her and said he's going to his old employment to murder several people to kill multiple people was his quote. A grand.
A grand. And he's armed

and... going to his old employment to murder several people to kill multiple kill multiple people

was his quote a grand a grand and he's he's armed and bat shit is the problem never mind dangerous he's armed and crazy as fuck right now and has nothing to lose thousand dollars so the tennessee bureau of investigation and the u.s marshal service as well as the local police launched a manhunt for him.unt for him. And so that's what's going on.
So they end up the next day at 3.45 p.m. They figure out where he is.
Twelve hours later. Twelve hours after they found Samantha.
Jesus. All right.
Here they finally figure out where he is. He is on Highway I-65 in Kentuckyentucky yeah not near chattanooga so um it is near mile marker 12 on interstate six on interstate 65 they initiate a traffic stop on him okay and this is a bunch of i mean this isn't one cop here barney fife isn't coming up this is registration no no no no this is out of the car with your hands up and tons of guns drawn and yeah spike strips and shit walk backwards toward me and all that toward the sound of my voice and all that kind of shit going on your shirt up yeah as you're doing it yeah pull your shirt up turn around and walk backwards toward me interlock your hands on the back of your fucking head.
So he's being pursued by all these people.

He pulls over.

Yeah.

Police are trying to contact with him.

He won't do anything.

He's in the car.

He's in the car.

He's in the car.

A little bit of a standoff.

Then they say, well, fuck it.

We got to approach.

What are we supposed to do?

Just sit here all night with him all day?

Wait, right.

345 on a fucking highway.

We got to get this done and over with.

I'm going to wait this fucker out. So they start to approach the car blows his fucking brains out oh joe shoots himself in the fucking head in the car yep kaboom done yeah so yeah that's 345 they come up and they find him in the car they hear the gunshot they yeah i assume take a for a second.
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For sure. So Joe has had quite the week.
And he took all of that horrible ride with him. We know nothing? Nothing.
What the fuck? No, no shit. He just went.
We don't know where he went. He just went all around.
His cell phone was like on and off so they could ping him once in a while, but not all the time. He was smart enough to turn his phone off when he didn't want to be found.
So he turns his phone off, on and off. Yeah.
We know nothing about what this guy did. No.
Or why. And he didn't want to be found so he turns his phone off on and off yeah we know nothing about what this guy did no or why and he didn't not like he like called his brother and spilled it or he just drove around no chattanooga friends no chattanooga friends we don't know that he has friends even in chattanooga we have no idea he's just even has friends we don't know what the fuck was going on in this guy's head other than oh my.
He was batshit crazy enough to think his wife was still alive after being dead and in a freezer and dismembered for two days. Morse coating with her eyes.
Yes. Hmm.
It is absolutely bonkers batshit crazy. So anyway, the next month after all this happens, poor Mackenzie, that's both her parents.
That's horrid. This poor fucking young lady is, I don't even know what to think about her.
This poor, poor girl. So there is a, the next month, there is an event called the Wings of Love, which is a ceremony honoring homicide victims in Robertson County that they do every year.
Yeah. So Mackenzie attends this.
It's a month after this all happens. So that's real fresh.
She says, I'll never have closure and I'll never have answers. No, no, she'll never get it.
She'll never get to sit down with her dad and go, what the fuck were you doing? Why'd you do that? So yeah, there was 25 victims honored during the ceremony. And I guess they've been doing it for 17 years at that point.
So know they're still doing it it's 28 now they said uh the district attorney said we're uh what we're looking for is to make every year that goes by one where you'll have something to look forward to and you can always come to this program and uh mckenzie great thanks come by and remember the worst day of your life every year be very with some other people. I don't know if that gives you strength or what.
I have no idea. I'd rather just not, but that's fine.
The idea is fucked up. Yeah, I guess it's, I mean, you don't have to go.
It's not mandatory. You can show up if it helps.
Mackenzie said, things are kind of like a blur right now. I don't think the loss of my mom has really actually hit us yet.
It's been a month. No, that's not going to hit you yet.
It's, man. She said that she had devoted herself entirely to her children since her parents have been killed here.
Her kids are four years and seven months old. Imagine dealing with a seven month old while this is all happening.
So, yeah, she said about her mom, Mackenzie said she put everybody before she put herself. She did her best to provide for me and gave me everything I wanted as a child.
People keep telling me time heals everything. And right now it's only courage that can make us believe that.
So one year after the whole deal here, they hold a memorial here. It's a one-year anniversary of the event.
Mackenzie holds a little memorial. And, yeah, she's a little gutter kind of her balance with her now.
And she says about her mom, she was a great mother. She taught me right from wrong.
She taught me what respect was. She taught me how to be nice, how to love, how to be kind, how to be sweet.
You name it. I love her and I miss her and I will till the end of time.
She loved me from the first time I took my first breath until the day she took her last. And I'm forever grateful for those 22 years of life with her.
Today, I find myself missing both of them equally. Really? Yeah.
She said a lot of people ask me why I'm not angry. And she says, I never saw that of my father.
So she says, all I remember about my father is someone, she's my father, and she said, they showed me what it was like to have, what I would like to have in a marriage someday. Okay.
You know, minus the temple wound. Right, yeah.
And so that's, I mean, I don't know, man. She's not mad at her dad.
Wow. She's got it together, too, mentally, that she didn't slip up and say something like, what he did was ice cold or some shit.
Yeah, yeah, for once. They didn't say it.
Yeah, cold-blooded. Cold-blooded.
So she's trying. One of her cousins said, it's a nightmare, and I still remember the events.
And Mackenzie said, it was a very bad night, and I think he just snapped. I know my dad lost his job, and the house was in foreclosure.
That was the hardest thing that I ever had to go through. It was the hardest thing I will ever experience in my life.
Unless your kid dies, yes, it's going to be. That's crazy.
Or a spouse or whatever. So, yeah, this is a lot man it's a it's a lot and i she said i think he just snapped it i don't know i if your identity is yeah you know provider and that's a lot of that's a lot of these guys that snap and do this and kill their whole family and like run off in the mountains that's why they snapped because it's a giant failure they feel like a failure and a loser and rather than a loser and rather than like okay well let's figure out how to get through it they're like well they can't do it without me i'll just kill everybody like which is fucking crazy obviously so i don't know um it's it's interesting so they'd rather feel the hatred of society yeah what he did rather than the embarrassment of being the failure yeah the embarrassment i think it's the embarrassment i think they feel like maybe their spouse doesn't respect them anymore or like them or whatever.
But, I mean, that's – I think that's what a good long-term relationship is supposed to be is you're supposed to lean on each other through those shit times. And I think that's the point.
I think anyway. The fuck do I know.
So one lady here knew Samantha for about 30 years. She said she met Samantha when Samantha was in school with her children.
So she's her children's age. And she said that Samantha worked for this lady at the Baker's Market Store.
She said everybody knew Sam. She was so full of life.
She was a hard worker and she was so funny. We really miss her for that.
She's a really sweet and special person. And yeah, she also says it helps to remember the good times together and it means a lot for us, those of us that know Mackenzie, for us to be able to help her get through it because it was so tough on her.
Not only did she lose her mom, but she lost her dad. Joe Parker was a good guy.
I think he just snapped. That's what everybody thinks.
Everybody thinks. This is completely out of character, apparently.
This is just so out of character that the only explanation that they can even put forth is that he must have just snapped. Otherwise, he's been a monster that's held this down for so many years.
And none of us saw it. Right.
And then we likes it. Yeah.
Now we're the jerk offs.

Nobody likes to feel like that.

So yeah, everybody's dead.

If you just say he just snapped, that is the easiest way for your brain to get through it.

Sure.

He just snapped.

It had to be.

It's all it could be.

So the cousin said to have forgiveness in your heart and peace.

You know, she was raised by good parents, meaning about Mackenzie. Like if she feels this way, they must have been decent parents.
Mackenzie said the moments and the memories are what you want to hold on to. And now Sam is buried at Greenbrier Cemetery in Tennessee, and Joseph is buried at the Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens in Nashville.
Not just the ditch on the side of the house? No, they didn't just throw them in there. And they weren't buried together or anything like that.
No, wow. So the house was sold in 2016.
Oh, God. Twice.
First it was sold for $138,000. And then two months later it was sold for $170,000.
So it was sold for $1,000 less than they bought it for in 2006 that's what happens man yeah so they had those 10 years your house did not go up in value really because it went down so much from 2007 8 that it took so long to get back up again less than a camry probably fucking yeah maybe so now here are the comments from Oh, Jesus. Okay.
There's an article in one of the local whatever. It doesn't matter.
About it. Now, the comments under it start out fine, and then they really devolve into society.
And it has nothing to do with anything except it's just shitty, petty, back and forth, and it's hilarious. Okay.
Sherry posts on November 7, 2014. This is the day this happened, by the way.
God, she didn't even wait. No.
I've known Joe for 20 years but haven't seen him in probably three. Last time I saw him, I was in his house meeting Samantha, her laughing at herself at what a neat freak she was my mind can't grasp

the picture of this scenario with the mellow joe that i was around all the times i spent the night

at his home when he was a housemate and a friend of mine god help us i'm telling you even on the

phone he just sounds hey how's it going all right there's no like mellow joe still he was the same

guy he just fucking snapped and then went crazy i don't know what the hell's going on okay then

We'll be right back. hey how's it going yeah all right there's no like mellow joe still he was the same guy he just fucking snapped and then went crazy i don't know what the hell's going on okay then alicia chimes in oh boy alicia is the fire starter here she says it's always alicia and this is the same day it happened okay jesus christ uh alicia or alicia actuallyA-L-I-S-H-A.
Alicia? Yeah, that's the spelling of Alicia, but it could be Alicia. Yeah, I've seen it I-A, Alicia.
So, like a C, C-I-A. I've known two women named Alicia spelled this way.
Really? Okay. It could be Alicia.
Who knows? It's the South. All bets are off.
All bets are off outside nashville so she says it is in all caps not a part of oakland farms now we're okay parsing neighborhoods oakland farms is part of the hoa that we as residents pay for and has underground utilities oh those phone line trash people and with their their electricity dangling out under the trees and shit. All that spaghetti in the sky over there.
Fuck that place. No, we go underground with our stuff.
The houses in Saddlebrook, which is technically what they're a part of, use the entrance through Oakland Farms to get to their house, which I might add that Oakland Farm residents don't like considering we pay for the upkeep in our subdivision. Yeah, these scumbags driving through our neighborhood in their Camrys.
Fucking in their shitty 10-year-old Camrys. So then Jay chimes in.
This location is in Saddlebrook subdivision, not Oakland Farms. Okay, we we get it guys.
So then DeLuca claps back at Alicia. This is all the day of death.
November 7th 2014. Alicia who gives a crap if you like the public using your street? Okay.
Period. Upload.
Everybody. There's more to this.
Oh my god god this is not where it ends no this is a story about a murdered woman who's been dismembered and stuffed in a fucking freezer and a guy who snapped after a happy marriage and went and blew his fucking brains out and in a matter of three comments it's already a fight we have devolved to this i'm telling you i swear to god now i will look on social media and look at something and i'll go that's super innocuous and then i will bet to myself how long it takes in the comments for an argument to start i literally will go i'm gonna say five over under five you know I will do it all the time i'm never fucking wrong i'm always disappointed also every time i'm disappointed that's not a fun game yeah i'll say five and it'll be three and i'm like you fucking people yeah you lose every time man oh it's so fucking bad but this is we we have got to stop this shit i don't know how we got to stop social we have to stop with social media we have to we have it's not just social media it's just we got to stop the public from being a part of anything it is but social media this has started this oh yeah nobody would post this on you know nobody would write this to a fucking newspaper editor in 19 fucking 72 or something this is crazy we need less voices to be heard yeah less more more most people are stupid in there he said it's out by oakland farms they didn't say it's we're in oakland in the article of this it said in oakland farms okay well perhaps the investigator the the the the fucking guy that wrote the article drove through oakland farms to get there they turned in into a sign that said Oakland Farms and said, oh, it's in here.

Okay, it's back in the back of Oakland Farms.

All right.

So who gives a crap if you like the public using your street?

This story is about a wife, mother, cousin, and grandmother that just lost her life for nonsense.

No one cares about your damn street.

People like you are pathetic excuses for adults, double exclamation point. My heart goes out to this family and all the people who ever knew her truly we will will be missed truly spelled wrong of course obviously true l y oh yeah yeah not how you spell it okay jim bob chimes in hell yeah i just want everyone to realize that oakland farms is not in the legacy subdivision who fucking cares jim bob somehow you're giving jim bobs a bad name and that takes a lot to do then dennis chimes in look folks who gives a bright red rats rump about about what street or subdivision this has happened in or about, whether or not it's part of the HOA?

Six exclamation points.

A life has been taken here.

A senseless tragedy. Have a little compassion on the friends and family members who may read this article and your comments.

Save your bickering for the sidewalks. My, my.
Some folks just have zero tact. Prayers for the Klaus family.
This is wild. You don't want to just describe the color of a rat's ass.
A bright red rat's rump. Never heard that before.
It's original. I'll give them that.
Valinda then chimes in. I can't believe you people are arguing on the name of the subdivision.
All of you know the location where this tragedy occurred. Your concern should be more for the families.
Shame on you. Shame on you.
Okay. Then, wow, chimes in.
That's the name. So, from what I'm reading, no one wants it to be in their neighborhood as if you in these certain neighborhoods are, quote, better than the others that live in Robertson County.
I thought we did away with classes of people, but for some of you, I guess not. Just because you live in a certain neighborhood, in a certain home, other people's lives don't matter to you.
Good job to your parents because they reared a real caring person that cares about their fellow man wake up people please look at what you are putting on here my thoughts and prayers to go out to both families in this matter both families are dealing with a great loss and then finally alicia circles back and she came back she's got an answer man she's got a lot to answer for okay yeah she's got a lot to answer she has caused much problem she has turned this whole thing upside down alicia says i was only stating where this took place the comment about the road was directed to the person that thought it was all the same subdivision who fucking cares alicia she's gotta explain herself man wow you are right the important thing is that we come together for this family. I apologize if I offended anyone or belittled the situation.
This is such a tragic situation, and my prayers are with all involved. Dude, that's what we've come to in a world.
The day this happens, they're fighting over whether or not the street, who pays for the upkeep to go drive on. And annoyed she is that joe had to drive down it to get there to murder his how dare he he had to drive through our subdivision to escape that that's bullshit oh my god this is fucking crazy so there you go everybody that's springfield tennessee and one just a hell of a weird case just horrible a fucking weird one weird one.
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