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Jessica said that Rowena dropped off her son with her and borrowed her truck for
the day. And Ruby said that she and Rua went out on the town [music] together with a group of friends and they spent
most of the night at a bar called Stag Club. Well, it turns out that almost 6 months to the day before Rowena's death
on [music] March 19th, 1984, Melody Anne Bush was partying with her husband Robert Bush in a room at this like seedy
motel in Platonia called Antlers Inn. And there were like two other people there. Well, she and her husband got
into an argument and Melody left the room and walked around back to the Stag Club, the same bar that Rowena was
hanging out in the night of her death. And the Stag Club is the last place that Melody has ever seen alive. 12 days
later, her body gets found a couple of miles north of town off the interstate in this culvert. And the Emmy ruled her
cause of death as acute acetone [music] poisoning. So, it was definitely a homicide.
>> Acetone like nail polish remover >> or or it could have been rubbing alcohol. Like it uh rubbing alcohol
metabolizes into [music] acetone. Now, at the time, Melody's case is never connected to Robert Charles Brown
because Melody's husband was the prime suspect [music] in her death, >> but authorities never had enough to
charge him. >> And then Rowena's death is written off as a suicide, >> right? So, it never crosses anyone's
mind that those two cases could be connected. And people certainly weren't picking up on the fact that they had
each last been seen alive in the same bar. But fast forward to 2003, [music] that is when the El Paso County
Sheriff's Office in Colorado get this creepy AF letter from Robert Charles Brown, who is already in jail serving
time for two separate murders. And I'm gonna have a voice actor read his

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Brief Summary

Two unsolved murders linked by a bar and a suspect's letter from prison.

Key points

Mysterious Deaths Connected?. Two women, last seen at the same bar, meet tragic ends. Could their cases be linked?

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Mysterious Deaths Connected?Two women, last seen at the same bar, meet tragic ends. Could their cases be linked?“But fast forward to 2003...”1:34Dec 25, 2025

Episode quotes

It was definitely a homicide.

Discussion of Melody's cause of death.

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