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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.
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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.
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I'm your host, Ali, and it will just be me this week.
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Eli got sick this week, so he is deep in recovery and maybe still a little contagious, so we
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didn't want to get all snuggly up in the booth together.
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So he is resting, recovering, but starting to feel better.
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So he should be back next week to join me.
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But I wanted to go ahead and get into this week's case for you.
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This week we are on episode 108, and we are on a cold case.
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So just as a bit of a content warning at the top, this case does involve mentions of sexual
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assault.
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Today, we are talking about the cold case of Patricia Shea, and this takes place in
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July of 1982 in New York City.
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But first, a little bit about Patricia.
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Patricia, who also goes by Pat, was 40 years old in 1982.
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She was a multi-generational New Yorker, specifically Rockaway Queens.
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Pat lived by herself in Rockaway Beach and worked for a doctor in the neighborhood as
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a physician's assistant.
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She had made a career out of caring for people.
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For the last 20 years, she had worked in the medical field and even volunteered her time
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for the volunteer ambulance squad.
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Pat was a cornerstone not only in her neighborhood but for her family as well.
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Her family described her as, quote, the sweetest person you'll ever meet, end quote.
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She was known for her smile and her willingness to help others.
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A quote I read in the newspaper says, quote, she truly cared about Rockaway Beach and her
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community.
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She took care of people all the time, just because they needed someone and she was happy
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to help them.
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It's likely that kindness and caring put her into harm's way with the person who hurt her.
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Which brings us to our timeline of events.
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On Sunday, July 25th, 1982, Pat had spent the weekend out of the city in upstate New
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York.
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She had gone out of town with a friend of hers.
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While the friend was a guy, there wasn't anything romantic going on between them.
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The two of them had just driven together to go to a high school reunion upstate.
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They arrived back in New York City at her apartment around 1030 to 11 p.m. at night.
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Now, two versions of events are reported here of what happens next.
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Overwhelmingly I read that her friend dropped her off at the side entrance of the building.
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Once inside her apartment, Pat got a call from an elderly neighbor who lived across
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the street, Agnes or Aggie.
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Pat was someone Aggie trusted to help her.
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Pat would often help her neighbor Aggie as she had dementia and had had a stroke.
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Pat would have left for Aggie's at around 1115 p.m.
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The other versions of events that I saw reported as well is that Pat had told the friend in
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the car that before she even unpacked her suitcase, she was going to go check on Aggie
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and change her bandages.
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She asked her friend to take her luggage up to her apartment and she went to go check
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on Aggie across the street.
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Candidly, I don't know which versions of events happen.
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Normally I can kind of figure out where the truth lies, but they're two similar but
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very distinct things.
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Ultimately, what we do get out of this is that Pat heads across the street to help out
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her elderly neighbor Aggie at around 1115 p.m.
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The next day on Monday, July 26th, when Pat doesn't show up for work the next day, it's
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noticed very quickly.
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She was reliable and never just didn't show up to her job.
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The doctor's office immediately calls her family and instantly the family is worried
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about her and they call police.
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It's reported that around 6 p.m. that evening, someone in Prospect Park in Brooklyn finds
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Pat's body in the bushes.
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Little effort was made to hide her body.
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She was found just off of Center Drive in the park, about 10 feet from the Bridal Trail,
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which is a horseback riding trail.
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If you're familiar with Prospect Park, her body was found near the Quaker Cemetery.
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Pat was still fully clothed, wearing her white slacks and a yellow tank top.
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She had been hog-tied from her feet to her neck.
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Her lower body had been placed in a brown cloth sack, like a laundry bag.
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The bag had been tied to her with rope.
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Pat had been strangled with a cord consistent to the one that was wrapped around her body.
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Next to Pat was a man's shirt.
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Police initially suspect that she had been dead for around two days and that her body
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had been dragged to the spot where she was found.
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Pat's body didn't have any ID on her, but because her family had raised the alarm so
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quickly, the police are able to put two and two together and they're able to notify the
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family that night that they had found her.
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The next day, July 27th, police get to work retracing Pat's steps.
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The friend who dropped her off at her apartment, who she had been with all weekend, has a strong
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alibi and police never consider him a suspect as far as I can tell.
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Police do eventually track down Aggie, the elderly neighbor that Pat went to help.
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Police had a hard time asking questions due to her dementia, but eventually Aggie will
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say quote, the blonde man hurt Pat, the blonde man hurt Pat, end quote.
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Police will say that Pat was not sexually assaulted and that it was possible that due
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to the way that she had been tied, that she could have strangled herself trying to get
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free from the ropes.
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On Wednesday, July 28th, Pat was found on Monday, police hit the streets to ask if anyone
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knew or saw anything.
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They're armed not only with Pat's picture, but with pictures of three other women as
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well.
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There had been a string of strangulations in New York City and police were wondering
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if they were all connected.
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Police focused their attention in areas where sex work was known to go on.
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While Pat was not a sex worker herself, other victims either were or had last been seen
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in areas known for sex work.
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The first woman is Cheryl Guida.
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She was 22 years old and was a sex worker and someone struggling with a heroin addiction.
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She was found nude off of Neptune Avenue in Coney Island in March of 1982.
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So this would have been four months before Pat's murder.
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She had been strangled with a pair of pantyhose or a man's dress socks.
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Both had been reported.
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The case appears to still be unsolved.
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Rita Nixon was 21 years old.
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She lived in Portsmouth, Virginia, but she was visiting New York as a tourist and to
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see her friend.
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Her body had been found in Lower Manhattan near a schoolyard on July 15, 1982, just a
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few days before Pat.
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She had been strangled, wrapped in a blanket, and bound with electrical wire.
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Rita was not a sex worker, but she was last seen in an area known for sex work.
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Years later, two members of the Ghost Shadows gang will be convicted of her murder.
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The third woman is Glenda DeLeon.
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She was 32 years old and from New Jersey.
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She was also a sex worker, and her body was found July 19 under the Manhattan Bridge at
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Water Street.
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Her clothing had been ripped, and her neck showed evidence of strangulation.
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She was found only a block away from where Rita was found.
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And this case appears to still be unsolved.
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While police doubt that they're connected, they want to make sure that they look into
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this as the son of Sam murders had only happened five years before.
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But Deputy Chief Robert Colangelo says, quote, I personally don't see any evidence that
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we have a madman on our hands, end quote.
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However, just a little over a week after Pat's murder, another woman in New York had been
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strangled.
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A woman was found around 7.50 a.m. off Pier 69, or the American Veterans Memorial Pier,
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in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge section.
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Her hands had been tied behind her back, and police believe that she had been sexually
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assaulted.
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Police think that she had been dead for two or three days when she was found.
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She was nude, but had on a pair of gold hoop earrings.
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She was believed to be 18 to 25 years old and 5'6 and about 123 pounds, with brown
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hair and brown eyes.
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Police run her fingerprints, but don't come up with any matches, so she had never been
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arrested in the area.
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And as far as I can tell, police have never been able to identify her, and her case remains
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unsolved.
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Police will continue, even after this woman is found off of the pier, to downplay the
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connection over the coming days, not wanting to cause a son of Sam fear in the city.
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The things that do connect the five victims is that they are all women, they are all white,
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and they were all strangled.
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All were attractive and single.
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What kind of sets the cases apart?
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Four women were young, but one was in her 40s, the 40-year-old woman being Pat.
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At least two were believed to have been sex workers.
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Four were strangled with cord or nylon, but one was strangled by hand and cord.
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Two victims were sexually assaulted, while the others were not.
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Three women were found fully clothed, and two were nude.
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Again, Deputy Chief Robert Colangelo says, quote, there is not one single common thread
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of evidence found on all five bodies, end quote.
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Detective Steve Kelly will also say, quote, there is no special task force, but we are
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sharing all our homework, end quote.
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But there isn't much to share.
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All of the leads that the 24 detectives assigned to the cases are leading to dead ends.
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Police are already talking in private that the cases will take a long time to solve,
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if they're ever solved.
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The next update on Pat's case comes in February of 1984, about a year and a half after her
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murder.
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Still, the only witness in Pat's case that police have been able to find is Aggie.
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But when they try to question her about Pat, she begins to shake and cry uncontrollably.
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Considering how old and frail she is, police don't push her, as they don't want to upset
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her.
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Police are baffled by the case.
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They don't know how Pat could have been kidnapped from the hallway of a large co-op
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apartment in Rockaway without anybody witnessing the incident or hearing her cries for help.
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The trail always ends at Aggie's.
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The next update, in 2015, it's been 33 years since Pat's murder.
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Detective William Simon of the Cold Case Homicide Squad announced that he was reopening Pat's
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case.
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He says that he has been able to rule out her murder being connected to the other murders
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that happened within weeks of hers.
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Detective Simon says, quote, we have a couple of people of interest and I'm eager to move
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forward with the case, but we want to put it out there because there is no bad media,
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end quote.
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Police also say that they believe whatever happened to Pat likely happened at Aggie's
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apartment.
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In July of 2021, a journalist from The Wave, a local Rockaway Beach publication, wrote
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a deep dive article about Pat's murder.
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As of 2021, the family is offering a $2,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest
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of her killer.
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Her nephew, Kevin Shea, who was only 15 years old when Pat was murdered, says, quote, it's
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been 40 years and still no conviction or indictment.
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She was so kind and thoughtful and always had the best smile.
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I just want to finally bring my aunt's murderer to justice.
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After all this time, we are hoping that someone with a conscience will remember something,
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anything, a discussion they heard over the years, something they saw, end quote.
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After the article is ran in July of 2021, just a few days later, Carrie Martha showed
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up to her office and waiting on her desk was an unusual looking envelope addressed to her.
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It was an anonymous letter printed on old computer paper.
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It said, quote, hi Carrie, please forward this info to Detective William Simon of Cold
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Case Squad.
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Pat Shea was killed by NYPD and then the name is redacted.
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He lived on, the address has been redacted, and had an NYPD car at 100 Precinct.
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They were having an affair and she threatened to tell his wife if he didn't leave her,
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you know the rest, end quote.
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The letter was sent from New York and was postmarked August 2nd of 2021.
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Police are able to talk to the former NYPD officer that was named in the letter as he
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was still alive.
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Police said that they were able to determine that there was no connection between Pat and
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the officer or his family, except that they had lived in the same area in 1982.
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Police say that the officer didn't even remember Pat's case.
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As of 2021, police are pursuing new forensic testing and feel confident that an arrest
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will eventually be made.
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But they're at a disadvantage.
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Pat's clothes that she was found murdered in were ruined by a flood from Superstorm
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Sandy.
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Police also say that they have a person of interest in the case.
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Police didn't give information but Pat's nephew posted on the family's Facebook page
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that was created to raise awareness for Pat says this about the person of interest.
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He was there at the time of the murder, admitted it during an interview with police in 1982.
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He claimed to have spent 14 minutes knocking at the door of the person who lived across
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the hall from Aggie.
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The person of interest claimed to have seen a woman with a laundry bag in the building
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and the lower half of Pat's body did have that bag wrapped around it that was described
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like a laundry bag.
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The person of interest was seen in the hallway about the same time that Pat was going to
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check on Agnes and he had blonde hair in 1982.
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He has been used as a police informant for some time.
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But that is all we know about the murder of Pat Shea.
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So if you know anything about the murder of Pat Shea in July of 1982, please call the
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current lead detective Anna Marie Berngozy at 212-239-2256 or contact William Simon at
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718-330-4125.
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So that is the case of Pat Shea.
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When I first started reading about this case, kind of what surprised me about it or the
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thing that kind of kept me scratching my head was this connection with other murders that
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had happened in the area and just kind of learning about New York in 1982.
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It's very different than, you know, New York today.
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It's always moving and changing.
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From what I was reading at the time in 1982, strangulation was so rare in New York City
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specifically that when they would release yearly data that had all the causes of homicide
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from that year, strangling didn't even make the list.
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It was kind of grouped in with others.
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Like it was that statistically kind of insignificant compared to the rest of the crime happening
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in New York City at the time.
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So for so many women to come up strangled in such a short amount of time, it is very
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suspicious.
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Outside of Pat's case, I mentioned four other cases of women who were found strangled.
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But what I didn't mention were two other cases that also happened during this time.
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The reason I didn't mention them is because they have been solved and at that time police
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were able to kind of rule them out as being connected.
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One happened in Yonkers, New York, and then the other happened in Long Island, I believe.
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So because it wasn't in Manhattan or Brooklyn, that's kind of where these bodies were popping
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up.
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Police kind of excluded those at the time in 1982 from the five strangulation cases.
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But it really starts to gain traction that these are connected even though police never
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confirm it.
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The media even starts calling the person perceived of doing all these crimes Jack the Strangler.
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Like they're starting to give them a nickname.
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So that was kind of interesting to read, you know, as the case progressed and more women
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turned up, how quickly like the newspaper like kind of the fear, the son of Sam fear
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that was like still in the city like that felt palpable to me even all these years later
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researching that everyone seemed to be on the lookout for a serial killer.
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Police have said that Pat's murder is not connected with the other murders that I mentioned
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those four other ones kind of specifically but I do think there is something to be said
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and I just want to take a minute to talk about those four others but one of them was solved
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so it's really comes down to three.
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Two of them being sex workers and then the Jane Doe that was found off of the pier that
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I don't believe was ever identified.
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I couldn't find any evidence that she had been.
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So those three women though, it's really sad to me to think about them just not getting
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a lot of coverage.
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It seems like their cases were really only covered by mainstream media because of the
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frequency in which it was happening that people thought a serial killer might be lurking around
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the corner and then Rita that's the other woman her case was solved years later.
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She was found near the schoolyard.
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You know she was last seen in an area known for sex work and two were known sex workers
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so I think Pat just because of the timing got tied into it and I tried to research this.
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I'm not sure in 1982 if Rockaway Beach or Rockaway area like if there was any known
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sex work I'm sure there was happening somewhere there but I don't know if it was specifically
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where Pat was last seen and going over to Aggie's apartment.
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I don't know if that area was known for anything like that or anything nefarious.
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I couldn't find details about that but it does feel possible to me that those other
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three women could be connected.
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It wouldn't surprise me if there was more you know more cases maybe just outside of
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New York that could be connected.
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Some of the questions I have one of the first things you know if I could just sit down and
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talk with police and get everything you know straight from the horse's mouth so to say.
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I would want to know when she's dropped off what really happened.
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Did she tell the friend that she was going over there and ask him to take her luggage
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up or did Aggie call her and the reason I kind of go around and around to me it feels
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like if somebody if Aggie called her and asked her to come over I wonder what Aggie said
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to her to get her to come over and is there any way that Aggie was being like coached
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and kind of forced by someone else to make that phone call to kind of lure her over.
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Where on the flip side if she that was her plan from the beginning you know was she just
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simply in the wrong place wrong time.
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Police do seem to have this person of interest that was in the building knocking on the door
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across the hall from Aggie the man had blonde hair so could it have just been she crossed
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paths with the wrong person and that's all it is or is there a chance that she was kind
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of lured over through her compassion you know she was so caring she took care of people
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like she was helping her elderly neighbor out you know just to make sure that she was
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always cared for.
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And then the letter in 2021 is very interesting to me it's definitely a weird development
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and I know I mentioned it when I was going over the timeline but it is printed on old
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printer paper like not quite that printer paper where you had to like rip off the sides
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because it had those like holes in it.
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Hopefully you all know what I'm talking about but it is like an older computer printer to
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me that's a huge clue of just like who wrote this because frankly I kind of want to know
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who wrote the letter.
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They went to such great lengths to be anonymous with you know the printer paper and no return
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address you know all of that stuff but the printer paper specifically like the old printer
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thing it really gets to me because it's like that's a clue whoever has that printer that
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old of a printer in their house that works that can actively print things I would just
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I would just want to know why they did this if it if it truly is a hoax and if it's not
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how do you know what you know like let's get into it so that's something I would want to
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know from police just like did they find how deeply did they look into that letter did
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they find out who wrote it did they just talk to that officer once and then take him at
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his word and move on like how how deeply did they go down that rabbit hole.
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That's just what I would want to know but the other thing I just kind of wanted to mention
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and it kind of goes in with like you know my future hopes for this case police do feel
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pretty confident that they'll have an arrest in this case eventually it does sound like
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maybe they have been able to get some DNA from evidence but how tragic like that's another
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tragedy of a natural disaster like super storm sandy right like people die in these you know
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there's great loss of life of property people's homes you know places they work like cherished
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parks can be destroyed but it's just like a tragedy or a casualty of natural disasters
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that I never thought about before it's like well if an evidence place gets flooded or
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the tornado hits it like that can like really be devastating to cases to getting justice
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to all of that and it's just something I never considered with natural disasters but it's
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scary like that's scary to think that like a loved one of yours you could have all this
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great evidence but then like a flood can ruin it and then you don't get you won't get the
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justice or the answers you're looking for and that's that's heartbreaking but my hope
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is that police either were able to get evidence before super storm sandy or they still have
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some things that they can test and that pats family is able to get the justice and the
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answers they want her nephew has been advocating for her been pursuing justice for her and
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you know when somebody is that passionate about helping their family you want you want
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them to get that answer and so I hope that by bringing this case to the podcast and you
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all listening to it and sharing it in your communities that somebody who knows something
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heard something saw something is able to come forward and get those answers that pats family
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deserves but that like pat deserves somebody deserves to answer for what they did to such
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a beautiful community member like they really took a good person from a lot of people and
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they need to answer again if you know anything about the murder of pat shay in july of 1982
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please call the currently detective anna marie burn gosie at two and two two three nine two
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two five six or detective william simon at seven one eight three three zero four one
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two five we will have pictures of pat up on our instagram as well as pictures of the letter
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so and the envelope with the weird printer paper i kept going on and on about so we will
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