Hi friends, how are you today? Today is Monday, which means it's murder, mystery, and makeup Monday.

Thank you. Thank you. If you are new here, hi. I'm Bailey. And on Mondays, I sit down and I talk about a

true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I do my makeup at the same time. So today's

story takes place in Colorado Springs in 1990. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's what we're going, babe.

Now I guess it's like a super charming, cute little town. Never been. Maybe I can go one day. So

Colorado Springs today has a population around 500,000 people. But I guess back then around the 1980s,

early 90s, the population was around 250,000. Great. I think that's a good amount, right? Yeah. But I

guess it's considered a small town. Okay. It has a very large military area and it's right near

several army bases and it's also home to the Air Force Academy. So maybe you can get like a

sense of what the area and people might be like army spouses, church going folk, locals who work

in flower shops, you know, that kind of thing. Our story begins on a September evening again in

Colorado Springs where a woman by the name of Diane Hood, she was coming out of a local community

center. They held weekly support groups for people who had been diagnosed with lupus and Diane

Wood attend the support group. If you are unfamiliar with what lupus is according to lupus.org,

lupus is a chronic long-term disease that can cause inflammation and pain in any part of your

body. It's an autoimmune disease, which means that your own immune system, the system within you

that usually fights off infections, it attacks healthy tissue instead. So your body's kind of like

attacking itself. Diane was diagnosed with lupus in the 1980s long after she had moved to Colorado

with her husband. His name was Brian, Brian Hood. He and Diane, they had met at Angelo State

University in Texas where she was a cheerleader and Brian, he was like a big college football star,

like super cute, very lifetime movie of them. You know, just like a football player and the cheerleader

together. So they met, they dated and once they were out of college, they went on to get married in

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