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And if you're enjoying the murder diaries,
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I've got another podcast you should check out.
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It's the new Crime House original series,
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The Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turnie
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and Courtney Nicole, all about the last moments
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before someone goes missing.
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You might also already know Sarah
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from her podcast Voices for Justice
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and Courtney from her popular true crime Instagram account
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With Sarah having lived through the pain
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of her sister going missing
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and Courtney having seen firsthand
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how crime can impact a family,
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the two come together to bring lived experience
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into every case, looking not only at what happened,
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but what led up to it.
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Each episode of The Final Hours
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examines the moments just before a person disappears,
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the routines, the timelines,
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and the small details that often get overlooked.
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Because every disappearance has a moment
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where everything still seems normal,
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a text that doesn't raise concern,
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a routine that goes unchanged, a door that closes,
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just like it always has, until it doesn't.
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The Final Hours puts those moments under microscope
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and this preview of The Final Hours,
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Sarah and Courtney are examining the 2006 disappearance
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of Jennifer Kessie, who vanished on her way to work,
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leaving behind a mystery that still haunts investigators today.
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And if you like what you hear,
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follow The Final Hours on Apple Podcast,
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Spotify, Amazon Music,
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or wherever you listen to podcasts
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to listen to the full episode.
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A new chapter is just beginning
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for 24-year-old Jennifer Kessie.
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She recently bought her first condo in Orlando, Florida,
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and while she's had a boyfriend, Rob,
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for about a year now,
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they aren't quite ready to move in together yet.
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The relationship's long distance,
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Rob's three hours away and for a lottery.
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Jennifer doesn't love it, but she's embracing it.
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They see each other on the weekends and during the week.
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She seems to enjoy her independence.
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She's got a job she loves,
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a financial analyst at a time share business,
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which she's crushing, by the way.
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She's gotten two promotions in her first year at the company.
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That's how she can afford that new luxury condo.
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And she's got a great group of friends and family
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that really adores and supports her.
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Her family is about two hours away in the Tampa Bay area.
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She and her younger brother Logan are super close.
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She's got a solid group of girlfriends
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from her sorority days back at the University of Central Florida.
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She's popular, a leader, responsible,
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and not afraid to be assertive or speak her mind.
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Everything you'd expect from a young, hungry professional
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who's undoubtedly going places.
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Most of all, she's got a really great head on her shoulders.
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Yeah, and the one thing that kept coming up about Jennifer
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was she was super mindful of her own personal safety.
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The kind of student who would carry pepper spray
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in her purse while walking across campus.
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Someone with a, you can never be too careful type of attitude.
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Maybe that's because she heard this story growing up.
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Many years back when they lived in New Jersey,
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her parents drew and joys were held at gunpoint.
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I don't know too many details about that,
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but when something like this happens to the people you love,
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you take your own personal safety a lot more seriously.
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And that's exactly what Jennifer did.
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She saw it as a cautionary tale.
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Now living alone and not super close
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to her boyfriend and family,
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Jennifer was extra aware of her surroundings.
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Her new condo, the mosaic at millennia,
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wasn't in the nicest part of Orlando.
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Sure, it was a gated community with on-site security,
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but it was still in the process of being built
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when she moved in, which meant a lot of strangers,
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particularly construction workers,
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coming in going from the property
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at all hours of the day.
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And Jennifer mentioned the uneasiness she felt to her family
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and her boyfriend Rob, on more than one occasion.
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You know, I think Jennifer did the right thing
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by expressing her concerns to family and friends.
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Smart, it's very smart.
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I still do that, you know, 27 years old.
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But when a woman lives alone,
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she becomes a target for predators.
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But I think that's one of the scariest aspects
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is that she did all the right things.
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Yeah, she did everything right.
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You know, living alone, you do become an easy target,
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especially, you know, in Jennifer's case
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where she's in a condo and it's newly built.
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So there's tons of people kind of coming and going
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and you can kind of become an easy target.
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And I feel like that goes for any woman, you know?
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Yeah, unfortunately.
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Thank you for listening.
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