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real people real crimes real life drama it was a Savage murder that was probably one of the most brutal
that I've seen the brutality of this was what stunned us all but to cut a woman's throat
it's Revenge it's anger somebody hated her take a look at this cigar just isn't she
full of life just a little sweetheart once you knew her you loved her forever can you give
me her whole name her maiden name Eva K Smith UK Judd Eva K Wilson Eva K Gilbert
Eva k wennel each time did she think okay this guy this is going to be the one I guess
she was the wife of Hal wennel and Hal was a real estate developer he was very wealthy successful businessman
[Music] he was a jet setter he ran in a fast crowd of big money he liked very pretty women and he liked
the glitter of life I'm Ned Timmons and my team was hired by Hal wants to investigate the death of his wife
how would you all describe this case puzzling uh frustrating you want to right the wrong somebody is out there
that took this lady's life and it's our job to try and find them this incident happened on May 1st 2008.
K10 was at home she hadn't been feeling well I think it was right over in this area
is where the first encounter happened the attack at the front door was brutal and then I think he just like hits her
like this somebody hit her with a prize fighter type punch and just smashed her face in
I think she recovered and ran for the kitchen she was running for a life and I think
this is where the perpetrator the assailant got her caught her from behind forced her to the ground
and then and then cut her neck [Music] I believe Hal came home around 6 30 or 7 o'clock at night and found k
[Music] what's the hardest part about losing your sister this way is my best friend
[Music] How could somebody do that somebody like her we have found people have free lives
they have a public life a private life and a secret life do you believe Kate winell had a secret
life I believe she did yes and that's where I believe the answer lies [Music] I'm Erin Moriarty tonight I'm 48 hours
who killed Kay wennel [Music] thank you [Music] 48 hours we'll be back in 90 seconds
[Music] and why are you talking to me I'm talking to you because I want to find out who murdered my sister
[Music] at the time of her murder Kay was married to real estate developer Hal wennel her fourth husband he was smitten
from the moment he first set eyes on Kaye in a Reno Airport she said she bent over to get luggage off the rag and
that's when Hal noticed her how could you not Pam sleeper says her sister was striking
and vivacious Hal was proud of her he used to love to walk into restaurants she was arm candy oh look at that woman
wow and at the age of 60 K was still turning heads and everyone seemed to love her
[Music] which made her murder in May 2008 all the more shocking and difficult to solve what's more there
is little physical evidence crime scene investigators took this video which reveals no fingerprints Footprints
defensive wounds hairs or fibers and all the blood tested was K's so three weeks
after his wife's death Hal wennel offered a reward that would grow to a quarter of a million dollars he wanted
to try to find out who murdered K and he was willing to pay dearly to do it but when months went by without a real
lead the frustrated multi-millionaire hired his own team of private investigators led by Ned Timmons we want
this guy we want this salt Timmins a retired FBI agent recruited former colleagues his own ex-wife Kathleen and
John and Sonia you know when you get involved in this kind of work you want to have closure you want to bring them
to an end we brought them together with retired Gwinnett County Police Lieutenant Charlie Bishop who also
worked on this case to re-examine a murder that continues to haunt them all so can this be solved
we need that lucky break normally we follow a murder case after an arrest has been made but not to
not tonight's report is a true whodunit so listen closely maybe you know something that can solve this case
May 1st 2008 wasn't a typical day for Kay wennel she woke up that morning with all the intentions of going to work
usually she was out finding tenants to fill her husband's shopping centers when she changed her mind saying I don't feel
well so whoever did this knew that she was home there are no signs of forced entry this
is where you believe the assailant came in is that correct that's correct so John and Sonia
believes Kay let her kill her inside and was immediately assaulted the proof says Ned Timmons is all that
blood and you can see by the way the blood droplets hit her back had to be there
and he had to hit her with a very very powerful blow out there that stunned her and sent her glasses flying across the
room she realized I'm in trouble and then try and Escape she flees to the kitchen perhaps to get the phone there
he gets her and that's where he takes control of her and kills her by slashing her throat
what happened next shocked even these veteran investigators then he decided to do what we call an insurance cut a
second cut to make sure that she was going to die I mean that's a cold blood exactly right yeah it really is and
Kay's killer appeared to have carefully planned his attack nobody saw him coming in nobody saw him
leave which makes what the killer left behind so puzzling there's the bloody towel up in the upstairs bedroom
[Music] a towel with smudges of Kay's blood was found in her closet off the master
bathroom why is he in there it's her closet maybe takes one final trophy what are you looking for in that room it's a
big question this is what investigators do know the weapon I think it might have been a scalpel or
something like that could have been a hunting or fishing knife whatever it was it was extremely sharp it did not cause
any Jagged lacerations it was like the assailant you all use he you believe a man did this because of
the strength that it took I don't see a woman cutting another woman's throat like that you know are there women that
could do this sure I don't think it's likely I think this was a man a man that John and Sonia
believes is right-handed because I think he hit her with his right and I think the way the the cuts were on her neck it
started from here to here and if he was left-handed I think he would start here and go this way and he was probably
wearing gloves pieces of a latex glove were found inside the house and on the back deck that didn't match ones used by
First Responders that also is confirmation that whoever did this came prepared I mean who walks around with
rubber gloves in their pocket the motive everyone agrees this was not a robbery she had plenty of rings on Kay's wallet
and credit cards were out in the open jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was locked in a safe upstairs if
this was some guy that came to Robert wouldn't he take the Rings wouldn't he take something The Impressions that I
got were that someone was very comfortable in that home knew their way around that home and this person has no
concern that anyone is going to walk in and catch him and then walks out the back door and departs
investigators believe the killer made his Escape through the woods behind the wennel home he clearly knew where he was
going to when he left and that takes an awful lot of Prior planning but did he make a mistake
who is this I don't know but I sure wished I did I'm thinking is this the guy that murdered my sister
[Music] thank you six days after Kay wanna was murdered her family and friends gathered to say
goodbye it was packed lots of people there was a lot of policemen there Gwinnett County Police took this
surveillance footage they were searching the faces for suspects Pam sleeper was searching for answers
we Decay have enemies I didn't think she did but apparently she did did she ever talk about having
any fears no no anybody threatening her no you had to wonder about HAL didn't you no it just never crossed my mind
ever but it certainly occurred to police to look at Kay's husband Hal was a suspect from day one
Hal however appeared eager to cooperate agreeing to this police interview in 2008 without his lawyer present
in the best of my knowledge I will tell you everything I know and as investigators discovered Hal had an
iron-clad alibi we knew how physically wasn't there we have video even leaving his office
we have video even going to a fast food restaurant all within the time we believe the murder took place
it was also no evidence how scared anyone wants more he seemed grief stricken by
Kay's death Knights I wake up crying my heart out middle of the night a child it's horrible
really horrible and especially if you don't know why if she was hit by a car Hal wasn't a part of this
in my opinion so you don't believe he was involved no but I think Hal was protecting the memory of Kay the secret
stuff the secret stuff and he didn't want to divulge that because it would reflect poorly uh on K
Secrets K didn't even share with her sister Pam there was a whole lot apparently she didn't talk to me about
and you think somewhere in there is the clue to her Keller I sure do K had a colorful past as investigators
discovered she not only married a lot she also had affairs she needed to be loved and she needed to
feel that she could attract any man she was obsessed with this in fact Ned Timmons theorizes she may
have been seeing someone at the time of her death Hal knew her Secret Life Al was involved in the secret life in my
opinion do you think he put up with her than having Affairs just to keep her on his arm absolutely yeah
in a murder investigation nothing is private so the rental house was searched and according to John and Sonia more
possible evidence of Kay's secret life was uncovered material we found in the house right
which would not be normal in what way what do you mean it was unusual uh almost perverteth kinky kinky yes kinky's good
work outfits detectives described as fetish wear and when we talked to Hal about it first
he said no I don't know anything about that stuff oh then the next time oh yeah we went to a uh a masquerade party and
she dressed like a French maid but this Halloween costume is tame compared to what else was found in Kay's closet the
list in police reports is x-rated these outfits were not something a French maid
would wear and if she's not wearing them for how then who she wearing them for if you came out and I'd line up 30 guys
I know they don't tell you the same thing anybody any guy would fall in love with K in a minute do you believe she
knew her color I think she probably did and cops do have one possible clue to his identity a stranger seen in this
neighborhood the very afternoon K was killed this sketch was made with help from one
of the wennel's neighbors who told police he actually saw the same man twice on the day of the murder and the
day before and he had a flyer for a house that was for sale in the subdivision and the
neighbor said oh it's way on the other side and he just turned around he walked away out of sight the first encounter
stood out to the neighbor because the stranger didn't seem to have a car now this is an area you just don't walk
around in a neighborhood you have to drive nobody nobody walks police later discovered that the house for sale flyer
was only given to people who have been inside that house and there have been no showings on the day the stranger first
appeared the following day the same neighbor was looking out his bathroom window and he
sees the same guy walking toward wennel's house right about the time they believed that
the homicide occurred I mean do you think this person could be the killer I think it's a strong possibility
obviously we can't save for 100 until we identify that person he saw and for more than eight years that's
exactly what Gwinnett County Police have been trying to do Sergeant John Richter
took over the investigation in 2011. Lieutenant Stephen Shaw is his supervisor it's a standard you know
white male with wire rim glasses that's aging and starting to bald and there are
probably hundreds and hundreds of males walking around that look something like this and we've you know obviously
explored case Inner Circle and Hal Circle and and all of their friends and acquaintances
they checked out everyone from Kay's doctor to a restaurant manager even a clerk at the local Hobby Lobby store who
had a crush on Kay she said that's as strangest thing he calls me and wants me to go for a drink with him
investigators have cleared and eliminated all three men but they're still trying to find this
man pictured with K in a photo taken years earlier in Las Vegas who seemed to resemble the sketch do you think
that person is this person well I think it's a possibility that that person has seated next Decay and with another
female it for sure could be him either he's a suspect or not you just I never could identify him nobody seemed
to know who he was as investigators were searching for the man in the sketch Hal
suggested they should also look at a man in case past no I have something that backed my mind
I don't even want to say it yet that that was years and years ago yeah uh that the weirdest thing was
um and I I really don't even like saying it is her ex-husband her third husband Jeff Gilbert she's
still married to him when you two men when we met absolutely yes she was he was running Bally's Casino where K was
modeling when Hal swept in and stole her away he threatened her when she was trying to leave I know that
but that's what she told me so you don't think that would make Jeff angry enough
to want to kill it no no no never but just a few months before Kay was killed Jeff called he was traveling to
Atlanta and wanted to see her and how well what are you gonna do huh she's like don't we're not going she said he's
living about it we looked at him because an ex-husband is is of course on our suspect list but no indication that he
was involved we don't have any evidence through Airlines or phone records and we
looked into it to indicate that he was in the Atlanta area then nearly three months after Kay was
killed out of the blue the most tantalizing and perplexing clue of all I was in shock I I didn't know what to
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trail of victims she was going to continue drugging and poisoning people to get what she wanted
tracking her mother's killer I fear for my own life she's Pure Evil the Widow County 9-1-1 tell me
was it a homicide or was it a suicide there were three shots this is not a comfortable way
to kill yourself it's not what do you believe happened to David Lee reynella Leaf killed him anyone see her pick up
the gun no fingerprints no that's a problem isn't it what about her first husband he was
trampled by his own cattle she'd been charged with the murder of two husbands they called her the Black
Widow were you at all prepared for what happened in this case shock is the word that comes to mind
Grapes of Wrath he calls 9-1-1 and he's yelling into the phone help me help me he shot me the
shooter is in the truck shooting out the window who are these guys greetings from
doll Vineyards Robert was almost too good to be true FEMA Golden Boy at Cisco who was Starstruck about getting into
the Napa Valley Wine business and iman's dream crossed paths with rubber dalstring this is over money eight
hundred thousand dollars in a gym bag yeah this is what eight hundred thousand dollars
in cash looks like did you ever imagine that this is how it was going to end a new
48 hours I stand on that bridge on the second floor I look down at that front door
[Music] I say okay what happened here what what really happened whoever did this in this because one of
two reasons they're very angry with her or they're very angry with you I've been
in this game for 40 years who the hell kills your wife not even the mafia does that
despite what how Bueno believed Cold Case investigators Lieutenant Stephen Shaw and Sergeant John Richter wonder if
the killer could be connected in some way to wennel's business we have to look at every option and
every possibility to figure out who did it back in two thousand it was a picture of wealth and success
at the time of Kay's death what kind of shape was his business in it's hard to tell in the face it looks like they had
a lot of money however after digging into the case it appears that it was maybe smoke and mirrors as we find out
that maybe there was some fraud or some stuff that wasn't always on the up and UPS how wano made his fortune buying
land Building shopping centers and then selling the malls fully leased for a profit but according to Marie Lundquist
how would sometimes cook the books he wasn't the most honest person in the world
[Music] Marie began working for Hal in 2007 as his Administrative Assistant we sold a
shopping center in Lawrenceville and the whole deal was bad he was paying tenants
rent so while the new owners bought it the books looked like they were paying rent every month when in fact Hal was
paying their rent some of them yeah I can say to you without reservation I can't even think
of anybody we have tenants occasions that will fall out but they don't blame me yet we found
six lawsuits filed against Hal and as various companies some of them from people who did blame him
claiming fraud but Hal brushed It Off [Music] if you don't make any money you'll never
get sued for anything the minute you make about people come after you do you think there's any possibility that the
K's death might have something to do with someone angry with how yeah because apparently he owed a lot of people many
and he didn't make a lot of friends it could be a Revenge thing [Music] Kay's sister Pam wonders if an investor
was angry enough to hire a professional killer which could explain the lack of evidence at the crime scene there was a
lot of blood there and how this guy got away without a footprint a hand mark on the wall or anything I it's just amazing
but the idea of a professional hit doesn't make sense to the investigators who've examined the case over the years
I think if it was a hired killer it would have been a yeah gone with a gun yeah no physical contact
boom boom bye out the door see you later that's it I'm done and what makes the Hitman even more unlikely they say is
what happened nearly three months after Kay was murdered [Music] A peculiar letter arrived at the
Gwinnett County offices of the Atlanta Journal Constitution the letter wasn't published back then
but it was given to the police [Music] the police department wanted to meet with us they showed us this letter
[Music] cut out in little bitty individual different Letters Out of different magazine all glued in to this page and
it was shocking the envelope postmarked July 21st 2008 and mailed from Augusta Georgia some 140
miles away from where K was murdered wow it I mean it was bizarre odd the letter and envelope were taken
apart and carefully examined by the crime lab but no DNA or other useful forensics were found whoever did this
did it with with gloves on it I mean they cut each individual letters out and then glued them
so it was very time consuming to do that do you know how hard that would be to stick these things oh it's incredible I
mean this is really a long I mean just to go through the magazine the letter is shocking filled with
expletives I bet Kay wennel never told anyone what she really was it turns out she was just
a money-grubby [ __ ] I loved her and she said we could be together she told me she hated her house in that
fat miserable lying mother from effing husband she said she left me but that was a lie too I told her this would
happen if she didn't keep her damn promises to me family screwed everything up those white
trash ass many was more important than our love we could have been so happy together but
they everything up on its face it sounds like the words of a jolted lover if you
look at the letter yeah if we're going to go with the jilton lover theory that this person she finally told me no
I'm staying with Hal in other words did the family talk her into staying with Hal that irritated the actual
perpetrator but Pam says Kay never mentioned any plans to leave Hal o she admits parts of the letter have a
ring of truth especially about the house they were renting I know that she didn't
like her house I mean that was the first thing that stood out to me was wow I know she was kind of unhappy with Hal
about that so it was someone who knew her oh yeah apparently go to such trouble is the latter really
what it appears to be how many of you believe this was actually written by a sperm lover do you
based on the reading of it yes Kathleen I don't I do because of the reference to the family the house and
things things that wouldn't be known to everybody but those are exactly why it wouldn't be a sperm lover a sperm lover
doesn't give a care about her house a spurned lover doesn't give a care about her family I believe at this point it's
not a jilted lover that's a red herring [Music] review the clues help solve this case
join us now on Facebook at 48 hours a special 48 Hours podcast series on radio.com the Widow six episodes
starting Tuesday one woman two dead husbands could she be that unlucky the investigation into K wano's death
got new life when this letter arrived in July of 2008. it felt like something dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter
it's what the author thinks threat letters should look like this is almost scripted so you have to say what's the
purpose former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole agreed to examine the letter for us she
now heads the forensic science program at George Mason University this is someone I think that's
pretending to be the killer to create this Boogeyman suspect and to push the police away from the actual motive in
the case the writer may not be a jolted lover at all from working cases like this if this
was a spurned lover then this would not be the first note a sperm lover is going
to have notes preceding this one where K is the most wonderful thing in the world
I love you we're perfect together even if it's a delusional stalker initially they love their victims they're
beautiful they're going to spend their life together it's only after a few letters that you see that transition to
you are now this horrible human being I hate you what's more the investigation hasn't revealed any other men in K's
life exactly what Hal told detectives back in 2008 as God is my judge I don't think Kay was
having an affair she had the best damn actress in the world it turns out that while K was sexy and flirtatious
investigators may have been looking in the wrong direction they didn't find any evidence of an affair at the time of her
murder and Kathleen Timmons says neither did the medical examiner and this letter
that implies that she's got yet in very active current lovers and yet when they they did the autopsy examination she had
no indication that that there had been recent sexual activity it's no indication that she's involved with
anybody including her husband do you believe that the person who sent this letter is actually the person who went
into the home and killed her not necessarily oh tool suspects the killer may have had help I think it's possible
that there are two people that could be involved you could have somebody that wrote the letter and then someone that
came into the home Mary Ellen O'Toole says writers of cut and paste notes tend to have one thing in common
they are women [Music] I can tell you that that's my experience I've seen them written by teenage girls
I've seen them written by middle-aged women but the behavior of the scene just that kind of violence certainly suggests
to me a male offender if the profiler is right that means a man and a woman could
be involved in Kay's death with the woman creating the note to throw police off the trail someone may have been
interviewed and they felt like they could have been considered a suspect didn't want that and produced this note
isn't this a very risky thing a terribly risky thing to do oh tools suggests taking another look at the people
interviewed by police back in 2008 one of those people was this woman a friend of K's and house
Karen Scott [Music] Karen worked for Hal and she promoted herself as Hal's right hand man and
Karen was an obvious suspect of ours because she was close with Hal and Kate and any investigation you're going to
start with who's closest to them so close that when Karen remarried it was Kay who gave the wedding shower and
was matron of honor Marie Lundquist was there oh my gosh it was a gorgeous wedding Hal walked her down the aisle
and the day K was killed investigators discovered Hal and a colleague had brought breakfast to Karen who was home
recovering from surgery and later when he discovered Kay's body Karen was his first call she was destroyed because she
and K were like very very I mean extremely close that's Karen Scott on police surveillance tape at Kay's
funeral you know things change back then we thought she was a good source she would email me wanting to be kept up on
what was going on all seemingly innocent that may not be documents show Karen had
ongoing financial problems but Hal was a generous boss the money was great I don't think she could have made that
kind of money elsewhere and she was ambitious we looked into Karen we looked into
every other person at work who was closest to K how what they would gain if K was out of the pitcher according to
the to the port Karen admitted to detectives that with Kay's death she possibly gained the opportunity to operate the
company but she also denied that she would have had any motivation to bring harm to Kay over those facts and she
described herself as Kay's best friend and when I heard that I was like really I mean that surprised me Kay's
sister and best friend Pam sleeper remember you know I know a best friend out of their relationship was not like
my best friends some were colleagues also question how close they really were they were not best friends maybe to her
face but that's not what she was saying behind Kay's back we reached out to Karen Scott and she sent us this letter
stating I lost my best friend to a brutal attack but she declined our request for an interview
Karen has been questioned by investigators about Kay wennel's death and according to police reports she
adamantly denied any and all involvement what's more police say cell phone records back Karen's Alibi that she was
home around the time of the murder and Richter says he's unable to connect her to the ladder we investigated that
thoroughly and and quite frankly we're still investigating it but we can't find anything to suggest that Karen was
responsible for the letter or that anybody in particular is responsible for that letter
[Music] with an unknown assailant still on the loose Pam sleeper says her determination
to find her sister's killer comes with wrist I do walk around kind of scared sometimes I wonder if he's going to be
after me next because I don't give it up you think because you keep her name alive and you keep this case alive that
somebody might come after you [Music] foreign sleeper says that after Kay's murder How
well was never the same he called me every day he was just lost he missed her so much he would say who
why I was like I don't know how that's what we're trying to find out I try to stay busy morning noon night I
hate the mornings going to work because I know I'm coming home to that house at night weekends I despise how may have
hated being in the house but he refused to leave it if your wife or significant other was murdered in that house
wouldn't you want to get out of that house private investigator Ned Timmons you want to walk in the kitchen every
day and have this vision of all this blood and her lying there with her throat cut you know it just didn't make
sense still more perplexing to investigators Hal kept the house exactly as it was the day K was killed her
sneakers next to the living room couch her book opened to the page she was reading
drops of her blood on the staircase it was never cleaned up even when our team showed up months and months later
yeah the house was exactly very strange they're exactly the way it was you'd think you'd have a cleaning
crew come in and cleanse it all the place but there was still the blood splatters I want nothing more on God's
Earth than to find the guy who did this and I'd give everything I have to get case together even if it meant
spending his fortune to do it [Music] the Gwinnett County Police Department was having their financial difficulties
so it was really a bad time for law enforcement is that part of the problem here that it's a problem everywhere
there was just no money there again another reason Hal contacted these folks because they
had so much more resources available to him than we did Ned Timmons says it was Hal who paid for
much needed lab work to be done I was dealing with private laboratory weekly and we sent a lot of fibers we sent a
lot of fluids for DNA sampling and Hal would have to approve everything yeah every time samplings are five six
thousand on it and we had people in Las Vegas we had people leads in California where it leads all over the country it
was costing him a lot of money house Quest came to an abrupt end in 2010 after he died of a heart attack his
estate cut off the 250 000 reward money and fired his private investigators you know there were things that we wanted to
do other leads that we wanted to follow up on and then all of a sudden you know the executor says you guys are
all finished we weren't happy about it I'll tell you that those FBI agents we don't ever want to quit and we never
wanted to stop but we couldn't afford to finance it ourselves the current Cold Case detectives seem to have made no
Headway and their investigation up here stalled this case on the face of it looks like it would be solvable why is
it still open from the amount of time put into it and different investigators involved I really don't have an answer
for that and that's the most frustrating part and I think that's probably why we're here today is that we'll get
someone's attention and someone who knows something will call us I know there's somebody out there that knows
and I think they just need to come forward and let us know you know it will just help so much we'd be so grateful
as they've done so many times Pam sleeper her mother and their husbands made an emotional visit to Kay's grave
if it was me Kay would not give up and I'm not going to give up tonight investigators are asking for
your help to solve K Wells murder once again here is what we know she was at home in Lawrenceville Georgia
on May 1st 2008 when she was viciously attacked investigators believe her assailant was
a right-handed man wearing gloves who used a very sharp weapon this unidentified man seen near the
wennel home the day of the murder may have been involved and then there's the cut and paste letter sent nearly three
months later people who think they get away with murder sigh a big sigh of relief when
years go by but this program is going to make them very nervous [Music] foreign one with information is asked to contact
Gwinnett County criminal investigation division anonymous tip line 1-770-513-5390
[Music] Crime Stoppers Atlanta 1 404-577-tips [Music] I've basically spent a conflict-free
life he divided us not guilty of murder he defined us the system balanced in favor of a black man and still we can't
get past that now what OJ would never lay low Saturday at nine

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Brief Summary

Kaye Wennel was brutally murdered in 2008; the investigation reveals secrets and suspects, including her husband Hal and a mysterious letter writer.

Key points

The Brutal Murder of Kay Wennel. Kay's murder was shocking and brutal, leaving investigators puzzled and the community in shock.
The Investigation Begins. Hal Wennel hires a team to investigate his wife's murder, leading to many questions.
Kay's Secret Life. Investigators uncover evidence suggesting Kay had a secret life that may hold the key to her murder.
Hal's Alibi. Hal Wennel has an iron-clad alibi, complicating the investigation into his wife's murder.
A Mysterious Stranger. A neighbor reports seeing a suspicious man in the area around the time of Kay's murder.
The Bizarre Letter. A peculiar letter arrives, filled with shocking revelations about Kay's life and relationships.

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I believe she did yes and that's where I believe the answer lies.

Speculating about Kay's secret life.

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