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Chapter 1: What happened in the Lake Oconee murders?
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I'm Brett.
And I'm Alice.
And we are The Prosecutors. Today on The Prosecutors, we finish our look at the Lake Oconee murders. Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of The Prosecutors. I'm Brett and I'm joined as always by my comely co-host, Alice. What? Comely. I am told.
I have no idea what that means.
Is the opposite of homely. Homely. So, you know, I guess it means you're not like a warm fire and a cup of coffee on a beautiful afternoon in your home. You're cold and unwelcoming is what I assume it means, since it's the opposite of homely. But...
You can't use words that I can't understand. Well, there's so many words I don't understand right now, but thanks. Brett, thank you so much. Those of you who are listening, this is an amazing feat with a one month old. We are recording back to back nights and we'll see how this goes. Every day is an adventure is all I have to say.
Baby's already been crying once, so we're going to see. May have to take some breaks.
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Chapter 2: What were the causes of death for Russell and Shirley Dermond?
very friendly couple. I remember once I was driving down the road and I was going too fast. I was in high school. I was going too fast. Cop passes me going the other way. He turns on his lights. I go over a hill and I'm like, well, am I going to stop for this cop? No. So I turned down a side road, right? And as I'm going in the side road, I realized one of my friends lives on this road.
I've never been to her house, but I know where it is. I don't know how I knew where it was, but I knew it was. So I pulled into her driveway and I got out of the car and I went up to the front door and rang the doorbell. And her mom comes to the front door. She's never met me before. She doesn't know who I am. Her daughter is not there. And I was just like, hey, is your daughter around?
She's like, no. And I was like, oh, and she's like, why don't you come in? And so I went in and like had a Coke while the police are looking for me, presumably. And then was like, all right, see you later. I got back in my car and left. Like that's what people do, right?
So you could imagine a situation in which these people sort of kind of barely know them, show up at the dock and surely not thinking anything of it lets them in or is being nice or offers to, you know, maybe they say, hey, we're having a little bit of boating trouble. We're having a little trouble with the boat. Do you care if we use your phone? We're on the lake.
We don't have cell phone service, right? Anything like that. And maybe Russell was already in bed and she's downstairs and he hears this and And that's why he gets out and he goes downstairs and that's why the bed's unmade and that's why he's in his bedclothes. It's hard to say. We actually don't know what Charlotte was wearing. I've never seen that.
I've never seen a description of what she was wearing when she was found. But that's just, you know, if you think about when did it happen, I think it also affects how it happened.
No, I think you're really honing in on kind of what may have happened here. And I think it may be possible that it's even more attenuated than, oh, I know your son or something like that. It could be as simple as, I go to your church. We know that they were really involved in their community church and they were a friendly couple in town.
They may just even know, but this also goes towards the planning and the targeting of the Dermans. They may know what the Dermans are involved in and know the right things in order to gain that level of familiarity. Like, hey, weren't you involved in the choir at, you know, so-and-so community church? My mom sings with you.
Something like that, even if it's not true, which may indicate why it's been so hard to track them down because the Dermans may have had enough familiarity to say, yeah, come on. Come on in, sweetheart. Let me grab the phone for you so you can call your mom to come get you because your boat broke down.
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