Join me and the researchers Thursday after the show at 9 p.m. Eastern on YouTube for a live stream

discussion about the episode. The link to the live stream is in the show notes. And there's only a

handful of tickets left to join me, Charlie from crime lines, and Laney from true crime cases with

Lainey on our South American wine tasting trip. Travel with us from February 27th through March 5th from Santiago, Chile to Mendoza Argentina

for wine tasting, sightseeing, and true crime conversations.

We'll get out of the country, sip Malbec in the South American summer, and talk Israel

Keys.

Learn more or book your trip by clicking the Trova trip link in the show notes. both and production.

This past September, an FBI liaison reached out as part of an ongoing communication to schedule an interview between me and Special Agent Ted Hala.

The liaison requested both the list of proposed topics for our interview, as well as preliminary

written questions. Putting that list together was one of the most intimidating projects

in six years full of intimidating projects in this podcast.

I wanted to be strategic but earnest, cooperative but autonomous,

and I wanted to prove that I was worth their time,

while also getting to the heart of what I thought was the most important fuel for my investigation into keys.

When my response email was finally sent, there were 19 discussion topics and 54 questions.

Of course, in a perfect, less strategic world, there could never be enough.

I pressed send on the email and waited, and waited, and waited.

As more and more weeks passed, I told myself that the longer it took for them to respond,

the better. They were likely going over my questions and theories. They were combing through their research and information.

They were reaching out to various field agents.

They were taking my questions seriously and responding as such.

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