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killed and murdered inside her home now throughout the years Captain there are still four very prominent theories
regarding this case and I think we should take this time now to go through some of these now while some of them are
very general in thought they may lead us to some more specific theories with inside each one I've listed these in
order of what I consider to be least probable to most probable okay the first theory is a mob
hit related to her father's work now this one I put as least probable because I absolutely find that it to be a very
ridiculous Theory I can't find reason for this to have even occurred mhm to even be probable at all I think the
reason why this comes up is that we have a man that's doing pretty well for himself doing well for his family so
there's a thought that there's money there money involved and his company that he works for is based out of the
New Jersey area so I think what we have here Captain is just some creative minds
uh or either maybe lazy Minds coming up with a theory that doesn't really seem to hold any weight well not so fast
because he's in concrete correct so leading to the idea that he's involved and and this is a industry
construction hugely connected to organized crime and so possibly what they're thinking is Holly called to see
if her dad was available so possibly somebody that was there to see her father mhm then takes her out and then
the the supposed accident with the brother mhm that could be mob related and then where was that power washer
this guy is Poison the guy that owns the power washer poison so if you connect them all mhm you could put them all
under the umbrella of some kind of mob hit it just seems to when I specifically look at the situation with Holly it just
seems to me to be a very strange quote unquote hit to show up hang out in the house for a while
presumably not bring a murder weapon with you and then hang out for a while after the murder leaving the house it's
it's it's interesting because the thought of cleaning up the scene afterwards would go to that of somebody
with experience the problem I have with it is it seems to me that this person that the killer spent um an
extraordinary amount of time inside the home during the committing of this murder and afterwards M and that to me
doesn't seem to be very quote unquote professional as is using a weapon found inside the home again maybe the
perpetrator was trying to wait for the brother to come back home well and then that's that's a good leading Captain to
to the second theory that's often discussed and that is that sha branagan the brother was the Killer and the thing
about this one I put this more towards the end of not as probable why for so many reasons that we discussed yesterday
but a few things that we didn't talk about were this one plain and simple I couldn't find anything to suggest that
Shawn was not a good guy that he was not a decent guy uh he and Holly's mom as we
stated had passed away from leukemia just three years prior to Holly's death and it was one of those unfortunate
things that actually brought the rest of the family close together mhm everyone said no one ever
says that he didn't love his sister okay everyone says he loved his sister and we
we have no signs of him being violent towards anybody else no no and and furthermore the whole the whole motive
for him being a suspect this is all I could find was that Shawn that the police saw Shawn as a guy who was kind
of going nowhere in his life yes he attended Le High University but was more or less just kind of going through the
motions he didn't really it didn't seem like he really cared about attending the
university well seems like he was a car guy yes his real passion was fixing and building cars and he was more content
working with his hands as a mechanic than going to school the other thing here too maybe to kind of point to how
uh lacad isical he was about his education Lehi University is a lit right next to Freedom High School which is
where Shawn graduated from so it's kind of like all right well I'm done with this school going to high school number
two dad says I need to go to further my education all right I'll go to this one um now but he has a lot more going for
him than than a lot of people in this world and he had a passion he had passion for automobiles and so maybe
some people didn't see that but I think that is that's the first step in going somewhere successful and while that
might have been looked differently in the 70s late '70s early ' 80s what's crazy is the talk of today is to go into
a trade you know people are being advised to go into a trade learn a skill that most people don't have and guess
what there's so many people with Co College educations these days so many people with degrees these days that some
of these Tradesmen And Trades women are standing out from the crowd and they're able to make very good money and have
very good careers yeah I have I have huge respect for that so it seems like jealousy was what the police thought
Shawn's motive would be to kill his sister uh being Holly was bright she was a young girl she was going to graduate
soon and she was going to move on to better and bigger things in her life she's going to attend Penn State
University well let's just back that for a little bit so basically the cops are saying this individual doesn't really
give a [ __ ] about higher education but he's so jealous of his sister because she is smart that he's going to
kill her that just seems very in all fairness they don't outwardly say what a suspect's motives would be this is what
has been put put together and pieced together by others um there was nowhere anywhere to say that there was anything
weird about their relationship that there there was no motive for him to kill his sister that's what I'm getting
at and so to to Peg it as jealousy being the motive it's super flimsy I mean it it it holds no water for me it holds it
it has no legs to stand on this thought and this Theory and furthermore like we said we have multiple people that can
account for his aware for his whereabouts the night that it's believed that she was killed right and then we
also have a situation where he could have had a deathbed confession and still could you imagine you're burnt all over
your body and they're still asking you questions MH about about your sister this is this is how you're going to
leave this earth well and I think two things on that one I think it does point out to
how much the police might have thought of him to be a suspect because when he arrives at the hospital I believe they
only gave him like a 20% chance of living MH and so the police and this is not an uncommon tactic this is not an
unpracticed tactic this happens a lot when you have somebody that you consider to be a
suspect or maybe he at least has some information that before this accident he wasn't willing to give you right and so
you show up and you question the guy and he has nothing to say there he has nothing to provide you with he didn't
kill his sister and he doesn't know who did all right so the first theory is possibly some kind of mob hit the third
Theory would be possibly that Shawn was the murderer so what is theory number number three those first two are a
little more specific than these next two but we can get into this further as we go so the next Theory would be that an
unknown attacker was Holly's killer and this Theory I do think is possible although there was no forced entry so
maybe the the murderer posed as somebody that she would open the door for maybe a
utility worker or a police officer or as a friend of her father Fathers as you pointed out right there weren't any
reports of any Vehicles spotted in the area at the time of the murder when Holly called her dad's office she was
not panicked or concerned according to his secretary so did someone pretend to be invited there by her father right you
know hey I'm here to see your father like you suggested and oh he's not here well I'm going to have to call him okay
go ahead and call him right or I'm here to do work on something um and then she would say I I
need to call my father to see if this is okay but I think that was a ruse on on some level that's the only reason why
the the phone call makes sense mhm you know or again it's a guy that she is seeing on the side that nobody knows
about and she's calling the dad to kind of get his whereabouts is he leaving straight from work or is he coming home
home I'm not very for sure you know I'm not sure so now we have uh you know this
boy that I'm seeing Little Tommy he's over and I need to check out to make sure my dad's not going to come home and
interrupt us mhm well that would that would be the next Theory but sticking to this one for a second here the thing
that I have to wonder about is so Richard's co-workers would know likely know that he would be out of town that
night M they may not know about Shawn being gone or even know that Shawn exists we don't know but what I'm
getting at is well you would assume that that maybe they would know because we just had a death in the family mhm and
normally when there's the death in the family then people start talking oh it's so sad now now this guy has to raise his
his daughter and his son oh he has two kids oh that's sad but I that makes me wonder if Richard's co-workers were
investigated or at least looked at to get a uh a time you know where you were at this time of day because under this
situation then you have to wonder did somebody gain entry into the home she led into the home for whatever reason at
all and at some point once she realized that there was some form of a threat or if she was in some type of danger did
she in fact run to the kitchen and grab the kitchen knife we have to keep in mind she was she was stabbed in the
kitchen she was found in the kitchen mm whatever went down went down in the kitchen and so did she in fact run and
grab the knife and then the knife was used against her was pulled from her by her then attacker right the other thing
though that makes me wonder about is what would be the motive for that to me there's only really two reasons to break
into that home or to want to be in that home one would be for rape or sexual assault of the victim and there was none
and there was none found to be by the corner or to you know some form of robbery which it doesn't appear that
that was what went down and again I think what we're going to find here is some loose evidence to suggest that the
killer may have remained in the home for a portion of time meaning he didn't kill
her and flee the scene why we know that right away because of the fingerprints being wiped away mhm being wiped away
way and so that's but anybody at that time that read any murder mystery or knew anything about crimes at all might wipe
down the the weapon correct I I get that but at the same time Captain what I'm getting at is if if she was were to be
if this was an unplanned murder that went down during the course of the attempt of committing another crime mhm
often often we see a very high probability that the individual fle the scene quickly after the attack on the on
the victim right the other one uh which is also very possible is known attacker okay and this does not necessarily mean
that she knew the attacker extremely well or had been intimate with this person um but I think what this goes to
and where this leads to be maybe the most probable is the fact that there is no sign of forced entry into the home
one and two when she goes back to the phone and tells her friend hey you know somebody's here I'm going to have to
call you back she doesn't seem to be threatened by this person one and two she doesn't seem to not know you know
what I mean it it seems I think there would be different words that would be had if she did not know this person
right I mean just look look and it has nothing to do with True Crime it has nothing to do with True Crime garage but
if I'm in a conversation too long with somebody that was standing at my front door it's it's a little strange I find
it a little odd you're a talker though okay but regardless it it seems to me if if somebody's there there there's a
reason for them to be there there's a reason why we are engaged in that conversation and nine times out of 10 it
can either go down it should go down very quickly so let's get into this a little
bit because there are some people that have become suspects over the years okay we've already gone through her brother
and I don't think there's any reason to discuss him anymore yes there are questions about his death was it an
accident was he murdered it looks to be an accident but there were some individuals that were investigated
throughout the years well the okay I'm just I want to bring this up about the about Sha's death mhm is it's as simple
as a faulty uh switch on a power washer now I don't know much about these investigations but I'm assuming that
technology has advanced a lot further mhm now in investigating arson or any type of fire that we would know for sure
if that faulty um switch had anything to do with the fire we know that now but back then
I just wonder as they're doing the investigation they figure out there's a faulty switch on this power washer but
that might not have had anything to do with the fire just that information could change the whole perspective on
Sea's death for me right so sticking to the thought and theory of the murderer being someone that was known to Holly
right was all right let's get into this it's a little more specific here okay there is a thought and there has been an
existing rumor that Holly was supposedly into older men as well as guys her own age now some believe that she was
possibly seeing an older man his name being George Wilson so this is how this story goes after Holly's murder
detectives went through her diary trying to find anything of relevance they kept finding mention of
someone listed as simply 30 the number 30 30 so someone listed under the possible code name of 30 some of Holly's
friends told police that 30 was George Wilson a local guy who was 30 years old at that time this put him on the suspect
list so was George married okay my notes Here don't indicate that he was I seem to recall seeing something that he was
married but again in all honesty I don't have that information here or either it
wasn't provided okay but here's what I want to be very clear about regarding George
Wilson we don't know what the extent of any possible relationship being the relationship is completely unknown this
was a code name taken from a girl's diary her friends could have the code name wrong you know so we don't even
know if in fact they could but it's highly unlikely I I believe I mean if she's saying hey I'm if she's writing about
this guy multiple times in a journal she's calling him 30 you ask multiple friends who's this
30 they say it's George I get that no I totally get what you're saying but I I want to make sure that we include that
in all fairness to George Wilson right okay first of all we don't know for certain that 30 meant George Wilson all
have to go off of is a couple girls that were friends of her saying that could have meant George Wilson or that did
mean George Wilson well we also don't know the details of the journal either that's what I'm saying as far as the
public goes we we don't know the details of the journal and we don't know the details of the relationship with this
person referred to as 30 as far as we know Captain it could be as something as innocent as she liked this guy and he
didn't return He he didn't have the same feelings right you know maybe she flirted with him on several occasions
and mentioned that in her diary but he never he never pursued a relationship with her or had no interest in it and or
it could be the exact opposite it could be a fullon relationship between her and
this person named 30 the thing that I could find though and I don't have the full details of this information but it
seems that The Alibi for Mr Wilson was confirmed that that information was vetted and it checks out plus we also
have to keep in mind there does not seem to be any physical evidence tying him to
the murder scene well the father would have this journal so it's like I think if you're trying to get answers
especially this many years later he could release some of the P passages in this journal mhm so we can get clearer
vision of what was going on in in her life at the time unless once he provided that to police they have kept the
journal all of these years true and but if they did have a relationship then you
also have to look at anybody else George was in a relationship with and would this be a murder over jealousy or hey
you need to stop seeing my husband you know that's a possibility too just I mean hypothetically his wife comes over
knocks on the door to tell this girl hey leave my husband alone conversation escalates maybe you know Holly's saying
I'm not going to leave him alone and then there's attack cuz I mean this is a this is definitely a crime of passion I
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[Music] today all right cheers cheers to you captain now staying on the thought that the
possibility of the murder being known to our victim Holly branagan we have to go
into a slightly different Theory okay this is someone still known to her but somebody much different than George
Wilson and for this we need to introduce a guy named David eldringham okay he was a little bit
older than Holly everything I could find it seems like Dave was the same age as her older brother Shawn and that the two
of them had actually been friends or at least friendly with one another okay and
I've also been told that the eltringham family was friends with the Brans or at least again knew each other and were
friendly right so Sydney eltringham is David's father he was a professor at Northampton college so a professional
man but a guy with a bad reput a nonetheless and we'll get into that now according to
police Holly was sexually active 3 days prior to her murder the autopsy showed this I'm not really sure how they come
up with that um that she was sexually active 3 days prior to her murder but that's the information that I've found
out there all right so where are you going with this well under this theory in the days before her murder Holly had
told a few people that she was pregnant now the autopsy showed that she was not pregnant but right we have a couple of
different situations here one she could have just been saying that or two she may have had sex with somebody and
thought that there was a possibility that she was pregnant or going to be pregnant right and let's keep in check
that she's a she's a junior in high school so word of this under this Theory word of this started getting around and
and it seems that she was sleeping with David eldringham okay right wait this is
the David's the same age as her brother right a little bit older than her and may have been friends with her brother
Shawn at one point they may not have been officially dating but according to this Theory the two of them had some
type of relationship together the following is a mix of facts police Theory and testimony from the people
Holly had spoken to before her murder and I'm going to kind of take you through how this Theory works out minute
by minute on the night that she was killed Holly and her friends plan to go get pizza that's a fact we know that
that was going to happen at 600 p.m. Holly is on the phone with a friend between 4:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. during
this call the doorbell rings Holly then implicates to her friend who is at the door and tells her she'll be back she'll
call back by that what I mean is one of the following either Holly literally says the name of the person she thinks
is at the door or is at the door right or says something along the lines of it's him or there's a man at the door
right this could either imply that it was someone she was expecting or imply that Holly knew who it was from
something as simple as recognizing a car possibly outside of her home law enforcement has never announced publicly
who she said or who she believed was at the door however there are statements Captain out there that law enforcement
seems to believe that there was that she said something that implicated that there was a man at the door that the the
person at the door was male right so the initial report that we said was when she's on the phone with her friend she
said someone's at at the door but but we have reason to believe that there was more information given correct what
you're saying correct that there was one statement that was given to the public and another statement that was given or
kept by police and law enforcement right that would make sense though because if
that's a very strong lead then you don't want to show your hand right so continuing on Holly hangs up the phone
and goes to answer the door M the theory says that it's Sydney at the door David's father
I've straight up asked this question because I've wondered why the police seem to think it's Sydney more so than
David it seems to me almost like David would have more reason to be there than Sydney correct and what I've been told
is that something that Holly said to her friend or something that was later witnessed has led law enforcement to
believe that it was in fact Sydney at the home and not his son David very interesting apparently under this Theory
Sydney is there and he's confronting her about her being pregnant or the possibility of her being pregnant right
right cuz cuz if she's pregnant his son's life is over well it's it's at least going to change and in his mind it
might be over right that's what I mean and so he's confronting her about being pregnant and the thought is that he's
trying to talk her into getting an abortion mhm he is worried that dve is going to drop out of college because of
this pregnancy mhm so during her talk with Sydney Holly decides to call her father's office but is told by the
receptionist that her father already left for his meeting in Atlantic City so okay so maybe he's like call your father
I want to talk to your father right possibly okay well but two things could happen under this situation yeah so one
let's say the information that we saw is correct and the families did know each other okay once he's talking to Holly
and he's not getting he's not talking any sense into her let's say from what he wants to have happen then he's like
okay well maybe we should get your father here and continue this conversation with your father so she
makes the phone call or you have the other thing of maybe this guy's a little bit of an angry dude and he's a Loose
Cannon and he's starting to show signs that he getting angry he's raising his voice the conversation's not going the
way he wants to so Holly decides to call her father can we can we dive into this
guy's character a little bit more yes so we we will let let let me cycle Circle back to that okay CU I mean you'd think
like if it's a respectable father that they're just going to come in and maybe they just have questions hey I heard
there's this rumor that you're you're pregnant is that true is there anything we can do to help you know what I mean
like when you think of a a normal caring father what they possibly would do right
100% that may be why Holly let him inside to the home to have that conversation and as I mentioned this guy
is a professor at a college so he's a professional man and even though we're going to see that he does have a
reputation the thing is for to be a professor regardless of your reputation regardless of who you actually are
to be a professor professor excuse me you have to at least be able to carry yourself in a certain way for a certain
number of hours each day day after day after day right it's not that many though okay I'm just going to bring this
point up because it would be a lot easier for you to be an alcoholic Professor than it would be for you to be
an alcoholic third grade teacher because you know a third grade teacher is going
to get there in the morning and they're there from let's say 8 to three or whatever where a professor is going to
have constantly has a lot of different hours and then the hours that they're not teaching they're in their office but
it's a lot less hours than most teaching professions does that no I get what you're saying I'm saying this is a guy
that's been able to hold a professional job um where he would be scrutinized by supervisors and and other people uh his
peers throughout the years well I'm just basing the off of I had a professor that
was a cokehead and it took I don't know over 10 years over 15 years for them to find reason to fire him MH that
that's all I'm saying at some point during this conversation between Holly and Sydney it gets increasingly heated
this was a man with a short fuse there's there's a door that leads outside in the
kitchen and it's theorized that that's where Holly either tells this person to leave who then picks up a kitchen knife
or she is attempting to leave through this door and he picks up a kitchen knife and stabs her um out of rage and
as we know it was truly a be a brutal attack with the edge of the knife snapping off in Holly's back she
stabbed 15 to 18 times they're deep fatal cuts and she has a few other injuries that are considered to be
defensive wounds or mind you this if she's attacked attacked 100% from behind and Falls hard to the ground to the
floor those what might be thought of as defensive wounds could be her falling to
the floor at this point Holly would be dead and Sydney is a family friend let's say he knows their mom has passed away
and from the phone call he may know that the father is in another city MH that he's already
out of town so this may lead him to believe or have reason to believe that he has ample time to clean up the scene
to wipe off his fingerprints and to pick up any evidence that he may have left at
this scene and he does so well and if somebody comes in on him he could just be like I found her MH I stopped by for
whatever reason I found her you I mean if you're a family friend right but you're you're still G to have a lot of
questions to answer if you're there alone with a murdered girl no I understand that I'm just saying that
that would be a plausible explanation somebody has to find her let's go through this because this part is pretty
interesting here so the same friend same friend that had uh was on the phone before tries to call back and is
receiving the Busy Signal okay mhm the house phone stays off the hook until is discovered the next day so anybody
calling during that time is going to get a busy signal I actually think that there there's some people that theorize
that the phone remained off the hook the entire time that remember she was on the
phone in her her bedroom and then she ends up picking up the kitchen phone to say hey I'm going to have to call you
back and for some reason she failed to ever return to her bedroom and hang up that phone there's nothing released
publicly from law enforcement to suggest that the that her bedroom phone remained
off the hook the reason why you're getting the busy signal is because we do know from the crime scene report that
the kitchen phone was off of the hook right there's a chance that she was attacked and killed in the kitchen and
then the killer decided for whatever reason maybe to have her body go undetected for a
further amount of time I'll just take the phone off the hook people people might call and think oh
well she's home or somebody's home everything must be fine because somebody's talking on the phone right or
or just didn't think about it and took off so then remember we have the friend that shows up her friend Sally goes to
pick her up to go out for pizza around 6 maybe as late as 6:30 but they believe it to be about 6:00 she goes no one
answers the door so she decides to go around to the back of the house and try the kitchen door but gets a quote weird
feeling endquote and leaves without going up the stairs or going and knocking on the back door mhm so while
publicly the publicly known statement of Sally having a magical weird feeling has
been told that kept her away from the house there's a chance that that is not true that there was no magical weird
feeling there's a chance under this Theory and what this Theory believes is that she saw something something that
made her want to leave the house now some say that she could have seen a car in front of the house and some people
say that maybe once she went to the back of the house that she saw a person moving inside of the home so the car
under this Theory would have to belong to the eltringham so she could have thought one of two things either the car
was there because David who has some kind of relationship with Holly is inside and she doesn't want to disrupt
anything you know her her friends in there with her guy right or a little Oinky boinky or she sees the eltringham
car in the front of the house goes around to the back and the person that she sees through the window is not David
mhm she may not even recognize this person she may just say it was an older man right so basically the police have
two witnesses an eyewitness possible eyewitness and an earwitness and the thought of this theory is that those two
between those two at least one of them or both of them can put Sydney there that day around the time that Holly was
killed so there's possibly some evidence that puts Sydney at the crime scene but
is there anything other than that would that would make us believe he's even capable of a crime like this me he is a
college professor to be perfectly honest with you there's no strong indicators that would say this guy is likely to
commit murder or to have been involved in Holly's murder other than just that kind of mixmash of what I just gave you
of facts and Theory police theory that does include some testimony uh regarding Sydney in that whole Theory now earlier
you asked about his background while I couldn't find anything 100% definitive as far as his police records
go I could find stories to indicate that he was had some run-ins with the law let's say Okay um one of these sto
stories refers to multiple times that the police were called to their home over the years and it's beli that these
were for calls of domestic disturbance now what the specifics of that would be is not known okay yeah this is also
before the days of police showing up to houses and if there is any sign of injury that they take somebody away
right this is back in the day where if somebody's not going to press charges they're not going to do anything correct
now we do have one instance of Sydney who was arrested for assaulting a police officer by running into him with his car
and the way that this story works is this the police showed up to the elram home and when he arrived there the
police officer arrived there he parked his car behind Sydney's car in the driveway he goes out and he's trying to
confront cydney who does not want to speak to the officer Sydney tells the officer repeatedly to move his vehicle
so he can leave the property and his vehicle MH the officer refuses to do so because he wants to speak with him right
Sydney gets in his car and decid Ides to go through his yard to get out of you know out onto the street and drive off
when this happens is when he runs into the officer with his car I'm assuming here captain that it's one of those
situations where as soon as the officer realizes what Sydney's doing he thought I could jump in front of the vehicle and
and this is a sane man this is a college professor this is someone that would stop their vehicle and apparently no
that's that's not who this guy was at least in that moment according to this story he said oh smart move copper
you're going to beat my car yeah really the the here's a very weird story and this is that Sydney attended the
American detective School in Bethlehem to get a private investigator's license apparently he was working to solve
Holly's murder and going around town questioning people trying to collect information M so very weird stuff here
it's not that weird I mean um let's just let's just for a second assume he's innocent and he's never been convicted
of this murder you know so we we we got to air on we should assume that he's right you're you're right I'm sorry but
if you're in a small town this girl that you know family friend let's just assume
that's correct but a lot of people are pointing the finger at you and a lot of the suspicion is being pointed pointed
at you the best way to if you're an innocent person to get that suspicion off of you is to solve that case right
maybe he thought he was smart enough to do so and I want to be 100% clear when we you know when people think about this
Sydney individual does he look like a good suspect yes if you can believe in that theory first of all second of all
what makes him a good suspect is that it is hearsay it is 100% hearsay right these two witnesses the girl on the
phone and the girl that showed up at Holly's house saw something or were told something that indicate that Sydney was
the man at the home around the time of her murder right and what I mean by here say it's things that police within the
last handful of years so not not guys that worked the crime the day that it happened not guys that worked the murder
case and investigation Within months of the murder these are a lot of Cold Case detectives these are a lot of
individuals that were able to review the case File they have told individuals that they believe Sydney is the guy or
that it's tied to Sydney and some fashion now we do know this though Sydney eltringham was brought in front
of a grand jury several times over the years and as recently as 2010 and it seems that they law
enforcement have people to place him there but very little physical evidence and thus were unable to bring him to an
actual trial Sydney was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and it spread rapidly he knew he was dying the lead
investigator at the time Tom Galloway went to visit Sydney at the hospital many times but Sydney and his wife
refused to let him in on all occasions Sydney died on February 12th 2016 his son David eldringham does not
want to talk about holl's murder case and some to this day say that it's just a well-kept family secret now Captain I
tell you what chicken butt the cases we cover here always remind me of one very important thing and that is to enjoy
life and enjoy it with the family and friends that you have in love this story this case especially points out that we
should always appreciate the time spent with loved ones because you never know when they will be gone researching this
case several times I found my mind slipping away and trying to put myself in the shoes of Richard branagan a man
who had to go out on the road often leaving his family at home for sometimes several days at a time but working very
hard to provide for his family and then in the period of just three years they are all gone between 1976 and 1979
Richard lost his wife from illness his daughter from murder and his son in a tragic accident so from a family of four
to just one solo voice One Voice looking for justice Richard branagan remarried and shared in the lives of his new
wife's children and grandchildren Richard lived in the house where his daughter was killed until he was well
into his '90s and then relocated to an assisted living facility as of this day Captain it is very sad that her father
is dead and there is no one left in her family to push this investigation [Music]
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On Wednesday, March 28th, 1979 - 17 year Holly Branagan was murdered inside her family’s home. The following day her brother found her lifeless body, laying in blood on the kitchen floor. Through the years many have speculated as to who could have killed her. Her own brother has been considered by some to be a good suspect. Tonight we talk about the murder of a young lady and the events of that day. Beer of the Week - Project Dank by La Cumbre Brewing CompanyGarage Grade - 4 and a quarter bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

The episode investigates the 1979 murder of Holly Brenan, discussing various suspects and theories surrounding her death.

Key points

Theories on Holly's Murder. Exploring prominent theories surrounding the murder of Holly Brenan.
Murder Suspect Speculation. Discussion on the potential suspects and motives in Holly's murder.
The Possibility of Jealousy. Could jealousy have driven someone to murder?
The Theory of Pregnancy. Holly's alleged pregnancy raises questions about her relationships.
The Doorbell Incident. A mysterious visitor at the door could hold the key to Holly's murder.
The Suspicious Phone Call. A phone call to Holly's father leads to unexpected tension.

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