Hi crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and the story I have for you today is actually two stories about two women who were living in the same county at the same time, each living their own life

until their tragic and untimely deaths.

Just three days apart,

under suspiciously similar circumstances, would link them together forever.

This is the story of the murders of Mary Morris. Oh, October 12, 2000, 2000 started out normal for Jay and Mary Morris.

They'd gotten up, Mary got ready for work, Jay walked her to her car, saw her off.

And it was earlier than usual, like before 6 a.m.

because Mary had some extra work that she'd recently taken on at the bank

and she wanted to kind of get ahead of the day.

So it's important to know that two have only been married for like five years at this point,

so they're kind of still in the honeymoon phase, and this is the second marriage for both Mary and Jay,

even though they both have grown children.

They still kind of act like a young car. Jay, even though they both have grown children,

they still kind of act like a young couple in love.

So it was normal for Jay to call Mary

all throughout the day to check in on her at work.

So he tries her at work at around noon but the line kicked straight to voicemail.

And the way their phones worked was like how mine used to when I worked as a secretary

at a hospital.

Shout out to all my Mayo Clinic urology homies.

Basically, I would log in and log out of the phone

so that when I wasn't at my desk,

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