Oct. 27, 2025
E133 - Arson, Theft, and Murder: Maggie Long
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Episode one thirty three discusses the unsolved murder of a teenager who simply decided to go home to change and get some food. She was never seen again, and her house was eventually set on fire, with her still in it. What happened in the house? And who are these people that committed this crime?
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Jessica, and you're listening to the Asian Madness podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to episode 133 of the Asian Madness podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope everyone's doing well, taking care of themselves, and enjoying whatever activities and hobbies you're into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a quick boring update on myself, I'm currently in my book era.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This hobby kind of came back to me suddenly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a cheap hobby because book collection is a lot, but it brings me so much joy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, my books consist of 70% horror, 20% thriller, and 10% sci-fi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have so far read over 100 books in 2025.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you can say, I'm kind of obsessed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you like horror, feel free to send me an email or a message and I would love to give you recommendations and spread the love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, let's get back to the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today we will be looking into an unsolved murder that took place in the beautiful state of Colorado.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I came across this one on social media and it's definitely a recent case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I will say I do have high hopes that the killers in this case will be identified and caught
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine being a teenager, almost graduating, looking into the future, then suddenly, violence comes at you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In this episode, you will find that a teenager not only lost her life, her killers also created absolute chaos in many other ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some believe this was a hate crime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Others believe it was a crime of opportunity, though both can be true at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's begin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Long was born right before the year 2000, which would make her part of the Gen Z crowd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She grew up in a very tight knit family with her parents and her two older sisters, Connie and Luna, and a brother, Derek.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family is of Chinese Vietnamese descent, and like many families living in Vietnam back in the day, both her parents' families had opted to immigrate to the U.S. to escape
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[SPEAKER_00]: The United States accepted many Vietnamese immigrants starting in the 1970s due to the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family eventually settled down in the town of Bailey in Colorado State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never heard of Bailey, but it is an incorporated community and what we call a small town.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mostly made up of small businesses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a kind of town where everyone kind of knows everyone else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Seeing Asian people in cities like New York, LA, San Francisco is extremely normal, but not so much in the town of Bailey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The total population that's between 8,000 and 9,000, so the long family definitely would be one of the few Asian families residing there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for Maggie's parents, they managed to build their wealth and business via opening various
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[SPEAKER_00]: which definitely worked out quite well for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, the long family was doing pretty well financially speaking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the parents operated in ran for restaurants, their daughter, Lina, had moved to Minnesota for work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the other three kids remain going to school and working at the restaurants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what about Maggie, who was she, and what kind of person was she?
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was a teenager simply enjoying her last year in high school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She did regular teenager things like, hang out with her friends, attend concerts, perform community service, and go to school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One thing Maggie was very passionate about was theater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Going through various articles in some Facebook posts is very clear that her passion was there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She participated in various performances, attended performances as an audience, and would work on production sets whenever she could.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie was well liked, she was set to be kind, she had many friends, she was curious, and she took advantage of her time and did as much as she could.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As her theater teacher once said, quote, Maggie would come into the room and everyone would feel better, and I know that seems very cliché, but she brought with her this energy of taking life by the hands and running with it, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So clearly she seemed like a good kid with a good heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what exactly happened to Maggie?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it in some way targeted?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The day was Friday, December 1st, 2017.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie was a high school senior at her high school, Platte Canyon High School.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We know that Bailey is a small town, and as such, the student body was pretty small as well, sitting at about 300 students.
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[SPEAKER_00]: smaller schools has its charms for sure, and such tragedies would definitely affect the community in a different way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On this day, there was a concert being held at her high school, and as a theater kid, she was looking forward to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One school at out, Maggie and her friends decided to head over together as they had planned to attend, but wait, there was still time for
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[SPEAKER_00]: The idea of watching a show while munching on some snacks was a great idea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Maggie went on home to change and to grab some food to share with her friends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to Google Maps, her house was approximately 17 minutes away from her school by car.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't seem as if there are neighbors directly on either side of her home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sits in a pretty large plot of land and quite secluded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, she never returned to the school to see the concert, and her friends wondered if something had happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was not like Maggie to disappear on her friends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her presence was kind of like a given, and her absence was loud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few hours later, Maggie had still not shown up at her school, or anywhere really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing you where she was, her friends noticed, her acquaintances noticed, even her family started to get worried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I assumed her parents and sister were at work, but perhaps word-made it's way around the community, and they realized they were also having trouble getting in touch with Maggie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in the end no one heard from her again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was later revealed that the tenant who lived above the long residence had message Maggie sister, Connie, stating that they were hearing loud noises coming from their residence as if someone was destroying the place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as far as they knew, no one should have been at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was when Connie tried to get in touch with Maggie but failed,
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[SPEAKER_00]: As this was happening, the concert at school started and it was just unlike Maggie to not show up or tell her friends that something had come up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then news hit the community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At around 7pm local time, the police and fire trucks had received a call about a home being on fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They arrived and immediately began trying to contain the fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once the blaze died down, the investigation started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What had caused the fire?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who lived here?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But to their shock, the house was not vacant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Charged remains were found, and it was eventually identified as the remains of Maggie Long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Sister, Connie, also arrived a little past seven, and once she saw the commotion,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Long had died in her home during the fire, yes, but the police needed to know what had caused the fire, and if her cause of death was due to the fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it an accident, or could someone have set the house on fire?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It took some time to sift through the house, but during the search and with help from the Long family, it was determined that many items of value were missing from the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This included firearms ammunition, a whole ass safe, and some jade decorative figurines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This quickly changed the course of the investigation from accidental fire to perhaps Arson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If these major items of value turned up missing, it was likely there had been people burglarizing the house, and perhaps the hats at the house on fire, after they were done to get rid of any evidence they may have left behind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But did they know that Maggie was home?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or could Maggie have entered the home while the burglers were in the middle of their crime?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once the initial investigation of the house came to an end, the authorities used evidence they found to form their theory of what happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie had most likely returned home to grab snacks, surprising the criminals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When they realized a resident had seen them, a physical altercation took place, though it was far from a fair fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was only one Maggie, and the police believed there were at least three burglar at the house, if not more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As Maggie returned home in the afternoon hours, and the house was not set on fire until around 7pm, one can say that the criminal spent a good amount of time at the long residence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps they were making sure nothing of great value was missed, and in the meantime, made themselves a little too comfortable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting to note that these criminals did not even seem to be in a rush.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, were they not worried that other family members would be returning home soon?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or were they planning on eliminating anyone who came home?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once they were ready to leave, they most likely either killed Maggie, then set the house on fire to destroy evidence, or Maggie was incapacitated and died during the fire they had set.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the fire itself, it appeared that multiple fires were started in the house, and prior to the house being set on fire, furniture was overturned, items were destroyed, the house suffered a lot of damage prior to the fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and as you would guess, the fire was very likely used to mask everything else that was done inside the home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter how you look at it, it was a senseless crime and extremely cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though everyone agreed that the body found was out of mages, the authorities were still required to follow protocol.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As her body was charged, it took a few days for the authorities to formally identify her as the victim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was no doubt a devastating blow to the community, her school, her friends, and most of all, her family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's devastating, obviously, not just losing a loved one, but in such an intentional manner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: quote, I think we need to be very clear that Maggie was murdered in a very violent, heinous matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was essentially burned alive, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie sister Connie long said, quote, and anyone who could do something to our sister who did not deserve it at all is a threat to the community, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family's residents had burned down, and as it was a crime scene, they were not allowed to return to their home until the police were done with their investigation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Returning was very difficult, as not only were all their possessions gone, it was also the place Maggie died.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Understandably, Maggie's parents were forever changed due to this incident.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were running four restaurants at the time, and even though things had been good, they were still working on accumulating the retirement fund.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once Maggie was declared deceased, her parents stopped going to work and just closed their restaurants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think people ever truly come back from these kind of life-changing moments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Time dilutes it, but does it ever really
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the investigation, the local police had decided to not only withhold information, they had also asked the town to not discuss the crime for at least a week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A press release was not issued until February, which was a strange and disappointing move to the community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If information had been shared right away, wouldn't people be able to provide
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[SPEAKER_00]: As time goes on, people's memories fade, and things you may have seen yesterday may be gone from your memory weeks later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The FBI and the CBI, as in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, were eventually called into assist, but since time is of the essence, it felt like it was a little late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some have called the initial police work a sloppy and indecisive, which may have cost
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few people did manage to come forward with some witness statements, and suspect sketches were made and shared with the public.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will post these on social media, but basically it is believed that three young white males were involved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some say a fourth person was also involved, but no one is sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But was it possible that whoever these creatures were had already fled the area?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing that they were the most wanted and despised individuals of Bailey, Colorado?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Several potential suspects were looked into by the FBI, those with prior records or known to be threatening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But nothing came from those as everyone was eventually cleared.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If the long residence was a carefully thought out location for these criminals, it would seem that the perpetrators were not just on the road, or passing through town.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing who lives where and who is or is in that home takes time, you'd probably need to know people and their schedules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They could very well be a residence of the town, or of a neighboring town, and they're just simply hiding in plain sight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The motives of this crime seemed to be pretty clear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family owned many businesses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They lived on a large plot of land in a nice house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were very financially well off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But four years after Maggie's murder, her case was reclassified as a possible hate crime because they were Asian.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This might sound a bit forced to some of you, but nothing is impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Races are not new, and every time you get on social media, there's a new post for video of someone doing or saying racist shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's unfortunate, but such as life, but could this have been a hate crime, or an anti-Asian crime?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I obviously do not know how the perpetrators decided on the long residents, aside from the fact that they thought they were rich.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but as an Asian person myself, I feel like criminals may target Asians because they see Asian people as easier targets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can really get into this if we had more time, but to make my theory short and sweet, I believe that Asians tend to portray themselves as lot abiding citizens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The so-called model minority bullshit,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Asians are not confrontational in general, and some people from the older generation tend to hoard things in their house, rather than, say, put valuables and money in the bank.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just think about stashing cash under the bed, that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember a couple of years ago, there was a criminal group local to me that were targeting Asian households specifically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Could be because they expect them to put up less of a fight, think that they are less likely to own guns, and have more valuables at home, or all of the above.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the long family may not have been targeted due to their hatred towards Asians, they
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a slight distinction, but I hope you catch it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, no one really gives a shit as to the reason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just want these people caught and brought to justice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been about eight years since Maggie was murdered in her own home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those that were initially on the task force has since been replaced, and new people have come and gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is especially frustrating to the long family,
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[SPEAKER_00]: For law enforcement, though, they see it as having fresh pair of eyes looking into this case every few years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps someone can provide an angle no one else has thought of, or they have different approaches to finding more evidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I get both sides, but it is very frustrating, knowing that these people are still at large.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie's high school, being a small and intimate school, has found ways to honor her memory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was not able to graduate with her friends, but her legacy and contributions have lived on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a plaque with her name on it, pictures of her in the hallway, and her softball jersey is on display.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While no one wants to think of her being murdered, it is important for everyone to know about Maggie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: as she was a very involved student at the school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long-family home was restored after the fire, but a few years later, Maggie's parents understandably sold the home and they left Bailey for good,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not entirely sure what they're up to now, but hopefully they're finding peace with their life and finding joy with the rest of their kids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Currently, a $75,000 reward is still up for anyone who can provide information leading to an arrest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Sisters, Connie and Lina, continue to speak out on this case, not allowing their sisters murder to go cold and unsolved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the family remain in contact with the task force, not a lot of progress has taken place, at least to the public.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's understandable that some details may need to stay confidential as it could potentially lead to something or someone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In addition to pursuing justice for their sister, Connie and Lina are focused on identifying the perpetrators to prevent them from causing harm to others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who knows where these people are now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They could be dead, they could be in prison for an unrelated crime, or they could be out and about pretending to be normal and upstanding citizens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a consumer of true crime, you would definitely know that life is unfair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those people minding their own business, those people being kind to others, those contributing to their family and community, can be gone in a matter of seconds, whereas those criminals are like villains in a slasher movie, never gone, always gifted with a second life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before I go, I wanted to share something else about the long family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It came across this during my research into this case, and it is honestly kind of wild.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It turns out that Maggie's murder was not the first tragedy in their home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2006, when Maggie's older sister Lina Long was a sophomore at the same high school Maggie was at, a gunman showed up at the school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The perpetrator was a 53-year-old guy named Duane Roger Morrison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The man had various priors, but nothing of this magnitude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He stormed the high school, took seven girls as hostages, and locked himself in the girls in the classroom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He proceeded to line the girls up by the blackboard and sexually assault four of the girls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when the police broke down the door with explosives, both sides exchanged gunfire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One student, Emily Keath, was shot in the head by Morrison, and he then turned a gun on himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morrison was pronounced dead at the scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morrison had even written now a 14-page suicide note detailing his physical and mental ailments and his trauma during childhood due to his father's abuse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then along happened to be one of the hostages that day, though she luckily escaped with her life and was not a victim of his sexual assault.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For non-americans, school shootings might seem like such a strange concept.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone can get a gun and go shoot up any random establishment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds crazy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, guns don't kill people, people do, but why are these people owning guns?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there you have it, the tragic and malicious murder of a teenager who was just popping into her own house, her own house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bad people will always exist, and in some ways one could say that Maggie was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If she had not decided to go get snacks at home, I may not even be telling you about this case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But she, like anyone else, has all the right in the world to go back to her own house and grab her things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is bizarre that we are never truly safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We think of our home as our sanctuary, a place where we can hide, be safe and feel comfortable in,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only was Maggie's life disrupted, I would say her family and her friends have all been traumatized from this terrible situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My condolences do go out to the long family, and although there's probably no such thing as closure, I do hope they're able to find joy and peace somehow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for tuning in to this episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to discuss this case as a USA Unsold episode, but there was a bit too much information, so I opted to cover this as a full episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please remember to stay vigilant always, stay safe, and be kind, till next time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Jessica, and you're listening to the Asian Madness podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to episode 133 of the Asian Madness podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope everyone's doing well, taking care of themselves, and enjoying whatever activities and hobbies you're into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a quick boring update on myself, I'm currently in my book era.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This hobby kind of came back to me suddenly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a cheap hobby because book collection is a lot, but it brings me so much joy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, my books consist of 70% horror, 20% thriller, and 10% sci-fi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have so far read over 100 books in 2025.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you can say, I'm kind of obsessed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you like horror, feel free to send me an email or a message and I would love to give you recommendations and spread the love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, let's get back to the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today we will be looking into an unsolved murder that took place in the beautiful state of Colorado.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I came across this one on social media and it's definitely a recent case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I will say I do have high hopes that the killers in this case will be identified and caught
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine being a teenager, almost graduating, looking into the future, then suddenly, violence comes at you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In this episode, you will find that a teenager not only lost her life, her killers also created absolute chaos in many other ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some believe this was a hate crime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Others believe it was a crime of opportunity, though both can be true at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's begin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Long was born right before the year 2000, which would make her part of the Gen Z crowd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She grew up in a very tight knit family with her parents and her two older sisters, Connie and Luna, and a brother, Derek.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family is of Chinese Vietnamese descent, and like many families living in Vietnam back in the day, both her parents' families had opted to immigrate to the U.S. to escape
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[SPEAKER_00]: The United States accepted many Vietnamese immigrants starting in the 1970s due to the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family eventually settled down in the town of Bailey in Colorado State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never heard of Bailey, but it is an incorporated community and what we call a small town.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mostly made up of small businesses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a kind of town where everyone kind of knows everyone else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Seeing Asian people in cities like New York, LA, San Francisco is extremely normal, but not so much in the town of Bailey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The total population that's between 8,000 and 9,000, so the long family definitely would be one of the few Asian families residing there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for Maggie's parents, they managed to build their wealth and business via opening various
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[SPEAKER_00]: which definitely worked out quite well for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, the long family was doing pretty well financially speaking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the parents operated in ran for restaurants, their daughter, Lina, had moved to Minnesota for work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the other three kids remain going to school and working at the restaurants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what about Maggie, who was she, and what kind of person was she?
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was a teenager simply enjoying her last year in high school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She did regular teenager things like, hang out with her friends, attend concerts, perform community service, and go to school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One thing Maggie was very passionate about was theater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Going through various articles in some Facebook posts is very clear that her passion was there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She participated in various performances, attended performances as an audience, and would work on production sets whenever she could.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie was well liked, she was set to be kind, she had many friends, she was curious, and she took advantage of her time and did as much as she could.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As her theater teacher once said, quote, Maggie would come into the room and everyone would feel better, and I know that seems very cliché, but she brought with her this energy of taking life by the hands and running with it, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So clearly she seemed like a good kid with a good heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what exactly happened to Maggie?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it in some way targeted?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The day was Friday, December 1st, 2017.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie was a high school senior at her high school, Platte Canyon High School.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We know that Bailey is a small town, and as such, the student body was pretty small as well, sitting at about 300 students.
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[SPEAKER_00]: smaller schools has its charms for sure, and such tragedies would definitely affect the community in a different way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On this day, there was a concert being held at her high school, and as a theater kid, she was looking forward to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One school at out, Maggie and her friends decided to head over together as they had planned to attend, but wait, there was still time for
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[SPEAKER_00]: The idea of watching a show while munching on some snacks was a great idea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Maggie went on home to change and to grab some food to share with her friends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to Google Maps, her house was approximately 17 minutes away from her school by car.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't seem as if there are neighbors directly on either side of her home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sits in a pretty large plot of land and quite secluded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, she never returned to the school to see the concert, and her friends wondered if something had happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was not like Maggie to disappear on her friends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her presence was kind of like a given, and her absence was loud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few hours later, Maggie had still not shown up at her school, or anywhere really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing you where she was, her friends noticed, her acquaintances noticed, even her family started to get worried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I assumed her parents and sister were at work, but perhaps word-made it's way around the community, and they realized they were also having trouble getting in touch with Maggie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in the end no one heard from her again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was later revealed that the tenant who lived above the long residence had message Maggie sister, Connie, stating that they were hearing loud noises coming from their residence as if someone was destroying the place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as far as they knew, no one should have been at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was when Connie tried to get in touch with Maggie but failed,
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[SPEAKER_00]: As this was happening, the concert at school started and it was just unlike Maggie to not show up or tell her friends that something had come up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then news hit the community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At around 7pm local time, the police and fire trucks had received a call about a home being on fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They arrived and immediately began trying to contain the fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once the blaze died down, the investigation started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What had caused the fire?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who lived here?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But to their shock, the house was not vacant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Charged remains were found, and it was eventually identified as the remains of Maggie Long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Sister, Connie, also arrived a little past seven, and once she saw the commotion,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Long had died in her home during the fire, yes, but the police needed to know what had caused the fire, and if her cause of death was due to the fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it an accident, or could someone have set the house on fire?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It took some time to sift through the house, but during the search and with help from the Long family, it was determined that many items of value were missing from the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This included firearms ammunition, a whole ass safe, and some jade decorative figurines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This quickly changed the course of the investigation from accidental fire to perhaps Arson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If these major items of value turned up missing, it was likely there had been people burglarizing the house, and perhaps the hats at the house on fire, after they were done to get rid of any evidence they may have left behind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But did they know that Maggie was home?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or could Maggie have entered the home while the burglers were in the middle of their crime?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once the initial investigation of the house came to an end, the authorities used evidence they found to form their theory of what happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie had most likely returned home to grab snacks, surprising the criminals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When they realized a resident had seen them, a physical altercation took place, though it was far from a fair fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was only one Maggie, and the police believed there were at least three burglar at the house, if not more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As Maggie returned home in the afternoon hours, and the house was not set on fire until around 7pm, one can say that the criminal spent a good amount of time at the long residence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps they were making sure nothing of great value was missed, and in the meantime, made themselves a little too comfortable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting to note that these criminals did not even seem to be in a rush.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, were they not worried that other family members would be returning home soon?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or were they planning on eliminating anyone who came home?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once they were ready to leave, they most likely either killed Maggie, then set the house on fire to destroy evidence, or Maggie was incapacitated and died during the fire they had set.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the fire itself, it appeared that multiple fires were started in the house, and prior to the house being set on fire, furniture was overturned, items were destroyed, the house suffered a lot of damage prior to the fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and as you would guess, the fire was very likely used to mask everything else that was done inside the home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter how you look at it, it was a senseless crime and extremely cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though everyone agreed that the body found was out of mages, the authorities were still required to follow protocol.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As her body was charged, it took a few days for the authorities to formally identify her as the victim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was no doubt a devastating blow to the community, her school, her friends, and most of all, her family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's devastating, obviously, not just losing a loved one, but in such an intentional manner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: quote, I think we need to be very clear that Maggie was murdered in a very violent, heinous matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was essentially burned alive, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie sister Connie long said, quote, and anyone who could do something to our sister who did not deserve it at all is a threat to the community, unquote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family's residents had burned down, and as it was a crime scene, they were not allowed to return to their home until the police were done with their investigation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Returning was very difficult, as not only were all their possessions gone, it was also the place Maggie died.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Understandably, Maggie's parents were forever changed due to this incident.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were running four restaurants at the time, and even though things had been good, they were still working on accumulating the retirement fund.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once Maggie was declared deceased, her parents stopped going to work and just closed their restaurants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think people ever truly come back from these kind of life-changing moments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Time dilutes it, but does it ever really
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the investigation, the local police had decided to not only withhold information, they had also asked the town to not discuss the crime for at least a week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A press release was not issued until February, which was a strange and disappointing move to the community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If information had been shared right away, wouldn't people be able to provide
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[SPEAKER_00]: As time goes on, people's memories fade, and things you may have seen yesterday may be gone from your memory weeks later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The FBI and the CBI, as in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, were eventually called into assist, but since time is of the essence, it felt like it was a little late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some have called the initial police work a sloppy and indecisive, which may have cost
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few people did manage to come forward with some witness statements, and suspect sketches were made and shared with the public.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will post these on social media, but basically it is believed that three young white males were involved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some say a fourth person was also involved, but no one is sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But was it possible that whoever these creatures were had already fled the area?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing that they were the most wanted and despised individuals of Bailey, Colorado?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Several potential suspects were looked into by the FBI, those with prior records or known to be threatening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But nothing came from those as everyone was eventually cleared.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If the long residence was a carefully thought out location for these criminals, it would seem that the perpetrators were not just on the road, or passing through town.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing who lives where and who is or is in that home takes time, you'd probably need to know people and their schedules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They could very well be a residence of the town, or of a neighboring town, and they're just simply hiding in plain sight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The motives of this crime seemed to be pretty clear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long family owned many businesses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They lived on a large plot of land in a nice house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were very financially well off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But four years after Maggie's murder, her case was reclassified as a possible hate crime because they were Asian.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This might sound a bit forced to some of you, but nothing is impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Races are not new, and every time you get on social media, there's a new post for video of someone doing or saying racist shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's unfortunate, but such as life, but could this have been a hate crime, or an anti-Asian crime?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I obviously do not know how the perpetrators decided on the long residents, aside from the fact that they thought they were rich.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but as an Asian person myself, I feel like criminals may target Asians because they see Asian people as easier targets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can really get into this if we had more time, but to make my theory short and sweet, I believe that Asians tend to portray themselves as lot abiding citizens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The so-called model minority bullshit,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Asians are not confrontational in general, and some people from the older generation tend to hoard things in their house, rather than, say, put valuables and money in the bank.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just think about stashing cash under the bed, that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember a couple of years ago, there was a criminal group local to me that were targeting Asian households specifically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Could be because they expect them to put up less of a fight, think that they are less likely to own guns, and have more valuables at home, or all of the above.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the long family may not have been targeted due to their hatred towards Asians, they
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a slight distinction, but I hope you catch it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, no one really gives a shit as to the reason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just want these people caught and brought to justice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been about eight years since Maggie was murdered in her own home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those that were initially on the task force has since been replaced, and new people have come and gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is especially frustrating to the long family,
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[SPEAKER_00]: For law enforcement, though, they see it as having fresh pair of eyes looking into this case every few years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps someone can provide an angle no one else has thought of, or they have different approaches to finding more evidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I get both sides, but it is very frustrating, knowing that these people are still at large.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie's high school, being a small and intimate school, has found ways to honor her memory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was not able to graduate with her friends, but her legacy and contributions have lived on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a plaque with her name on it, pictures of her in the hallway, and her softball jersey is on display.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While no one wants to think of her being murdered, it is important for everyone to know about Maggie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: as she was a very involved student at the school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The long-family home was restored after the fire, but a few years later, Maggie's parents understandably sold the home and they left Bailey for good,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not entirely sure what they're up to now, but hopefully they're finding peace with their life and finding joy with the rest of their kids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Currently, a $75,000 reward is still up for anyone who can provide information leading to an arrest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie Sisters, Connie and Lina, continue to speak out on this case, not allowing their sisters murder to go cold and unsolved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the family remain in contact with the task force, not a lot of progress has taken place, at least to the public.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's understandable that some details may need to stay confidential as it could potentially lead to something or someone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In addition to pursuing justice for their sister, Connie and Lina are focused on identifying the perpetrators to prevent them from causing harm to others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who knows where these people are now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They could be dead, they could be in prison for an unrelated crime, or they could be out and about pretending to be normal and upstanding citizens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a consumer of true crime, you would definitely know that life is unfair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those people minding their own business, those people being kind to others, those contributing to their family and community, can be gone in a matter of seconds, whereas those criminals are like villains in a slasher movie, never gone, always gifted with a second life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before I go, I wanted to share something else about the long family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It came across this during my research into this case, and it is honestly kind of wild.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It turns out that Maggie's murder was not the first tragedy in their home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2006, when Maggie's older sister Lina Long was a sophomore at the same high school Maggie was at, a gunman showed up at the school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The perpetrator was a 53-year-old guy named Duane Roger Morrison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The man had various priors, but nothing of this magnitude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He stormed the high school, took seven girls as hostages, and locked himself in the girls in the classroom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He proceeded to line the girls up by the blackboard and sexually assault four of the girls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when the police broke down the door with explosives, both sides exchanged gunfire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One student, Emily Keath, was shot in the head by Morrison, and he then turned a gun on himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morrison was pronounced dead at the scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morrison had even written now a 14-page suicide note detailing his physical and mental ailments and his trauma during childhood due to his father's abuse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then along happened to be one of the hostages that day, though she luckily escaped with her life and was not a victim of his sexual assault.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For non-americans, school shootings might seem like such a strange concept.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone can get a gun and go shoot up any random establishment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds crazy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, guns don't kill people, people do, but why are these people owning guns?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there you have it, the tragic and malicious murder of a teenager who was just popping into her own house, her own house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bad people will always exist, and in some ways one could say that Maggie was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If she had not decided to go get snacks at home, I may not even be telling you about this case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But she, like anyone else, has all the right in the world to go back to her own house and grab her things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is bizarre that we are never truly safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We think of our home as our sanctuary, a place where we can hide, be safe and feel comfortable in,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only was Maggie's life disrupted, I would say her family and her friends have all been traumatized from this terrible situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My condolences do go out to the long family, and although there's probably no such thing as closure, I do hope they're able to find joy and peace somehow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for tuning in to this episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to discuss this case as a USA Unsold episode, but there was a bit too much information, so I opted to cover this as a full episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please remember to stay vigilant always, stay safe, and be kind, till next time.
