Dani Houchins

Warning. This episode contains graphic crime scene detail as well as talk of sexual assault. It may be sensitive for some listeners. Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk right now and true crime, and then together we are going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. We are going to go ahead and dive into right now in true crime. I do want to preface this with when I recorded this week's episode, I was having the shortness of breath episode, so it might sound a little winded, but it got recorded. At the end of the day, I am feeling a heck of a lot better, thank God, and hopefully on my way to figuring out what the heck is happening with me. So let's dive in to right now in true crime. So last week I was talking about the Rose Pedal murder trial, and they in fact did find Zachary Hughes guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. That whole thing with the trial and how things erupted was the wildest thing I think I've ever seen in my life happen in a courtroom. It was just actual insanity that all of that transpired the way it did. But at the end of the day, the jury found him guilty and he of course, I'm sure there's going to be appeals, but he was sentenced to life in prison. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with that whole thing, if any more comes of it. It's just going to be a very interesting ride. Before I get into the next topic of conversation, I do want to preface it with all of this stuff that I am about to talk about in regards to J. P. Miller, husband of Mike and Miller, is very very alleged. We're talking about some new filings that came out, but it is all alleged, very very alleged, some of it in my opinion, So take everything you hear from this point forward as alleged, and a lot of it is. My personal opinion. In other news, JP Miller, who I've talked about on this podcast before. He is the husband of Micah Miller who was found dead last year from apparent gunshot wound. It was ruled a suicide, and. Then the case kind of blew up because JP Miller is a pastor at a church and he chose to go to church the next day and tell the congregation about his wife's death and how she struggled with her mental health. And then videos started coming out that Micah had posted on social media, and it turned into this whole thing was Mica being abused by JP. He obviously is a very manipulative person because he started dating Micah when Micah was very young and very impressionable. And it is a whole rabbit hole for you guys to go down if you have not. So there's been a lot of different podcasters who have covered her story more in depth. I've just kind of done little bits here and there. Well, the other day it was posted that a lawsuit was filed accusing pastor JP Miller of raping a fifteen year old church member in nineteen ninety eight and then again sexual assaulting her in twenty twenty three. And the complaint also lists JP's dad, Wayne Miller, as a co defendant, as well as some of the churches that the Millers belonged to. So, for the heck of it, let's just read through the filing. Four years, John Paul Miller and Reginald Wayne Miller have presented themselves as devout religious leaders. They built their reputations in the Myrtle Beach community and beyond as men of faith dedicated to spreading God's word and training future church leaders. But this image was a lie behind their religious facade. John Paul Miller and Reginald Wayne Miller engaged in sexual abuse and predatory conduct, often targeting miners. They used their positions of power to manipulate and exploit victims while concealing their actions from the public. Upon information and belief, this deception has shielded them from law enforcement scrutiny, allowing their misconduct to continue unchecked. Defendants misrepresented the safety of the church to miners and their families, creating the false impressions that Cathedral Solid Rock and their affiliated programs were safe environments for children. By promoting the church as a place of trust and spiritual guidance while neglecting to put adequate protective measures in place, defendants knowingly placed miners at risk and harm. Defendants were in a unique position of authority and control over the church environment, and they either knew or should have known that predators, including John Paul Miller and Reginald Miller, post a serious risk to miners at tru either on the premises or in the church's youth's programs. Despite having knowledge of prior allegations and incidents of sexual misconduct, defendants failed to act, fail to implement reasonable protective measures, and failed to warn grandparents, parents and children about the dangers present within the church. By allowing known. Or suspected predators to remain in leadership positions, defendants of firmly placed miners in harm's way increase their exposure to exploitation and created an environment where the abuse could occur unchecked. Now, this is alleging that the churches that John Paul and his creepy father allegedly worked for knew that they had a not so great past and had different allegations brought against them, and they hire them, let them work, let them interact with children. It is really gross. So the gall in this filing is remaining anonymous, but she said in nineteen ninety eight she was attending All Nations Church, which was formerly known as Cathedral Baptist Church, and she went there with her grandparents and it was operated by Reginald Miller, who is JP's father. And she states that on July nineteenth of nineteen ninety eight, she was looking for a Sunday school class when she encountered JP Miller, who was nineteen years old, and he was the youth leader and he was worked in the church sanctuary and played the piano. He started a conversation with the girl, and then the girl had went and left to go use the restroom, and she said when she exited the restroom, JP was standing near his father's office door, and again they started having a conversation, and then without warning, JP forced her inside of the office and then he became aggressive and pushed her against the wall. She asked him to stop, but he did not, and then took her outside into his truck, and then. He sexually assaulted her there. And of course this girl is young, so at this time she didn't fully comprehend the nature of what had just happened, and she has buried it deeply for decades and really didn't have a conscious recollection of the assault up until recently. She repressed the memory. And then in twenty twenty three, she had another encounter with John Paul Miller, and she claims that despite being in a public setting, when he went to hug her, he put his hands down her pants and was touching her inappropriately without consent. And obviously JP Miller, we have no reason to believe that he is not a creep from everything we've learned about him. This is just another tear on the can so to say. So, when this Jane Doe heard about the death of Micah Miller, she felt major guilt and believed that she should have spoken up sooner about her assault and maybe it would have prevented further harm to Micah. Of course, it is nobody's fault except for JP Miller's for allegedly being the kind of person he is. So I don't know about you, guys, but this is giving. Me major Josh and Stephen Powell vibes. This is the kind of. Predatory behavior that we saw with Stephen Powell. I am going to do a deep dive into the disappearance of Susan Pall at some point, but is going to be so hard for me to do that because it is such a complicated, messy, messy case. I don't think a lot of the public know the creepiness of Stephen Powell, who was Josh Pal's dad, and that the apple just doesn't fall far from the tree, but that is kind of the vibe I'm getting here with JP's dad and then JP like, you're a product of your environment and what you're raised around. And there's also. Allegations about JP's father and allegations that have forced him to move from church to church to church because he was being sexually inappropriate. And let me tell you, when somebody is sexually inappropriate once, they are probably sexually inappropriate more than one time, especially if they get away with it and they feel like they have power and they have a way to just manipulate their way out of situations. People like that are dangerous people, and they walk amongst us. They really do walk amongst us. So I'm going to keep you updated on all of this JP Reginald Miller drama. But I do feel like more is coming. Despite the lawsuit and everything coming out. JP is not saying anything, of course, he maintains his innocence and everything against Micah and all the claims that have come out, the abuse claims and everything. But I'm going to keep you guys updated on this one because this one is forever unfolding, and I do believe that there will come a day that we're going to see JP Miller behind bars, and that will be a day that we all celebrate because he is not a good person in my opinion, allegedly. All right, last thing I want to talk about is there was a California fire captain named Rebecca Becky Morodi who was forty nine, and she was stabbed multiple times in her San Diego home on February seventeenth, and it is now being said that her wife, Yolanda Morodi, is on the run and is believed to have it. They think that she may have fled to Mexico. And interestingly enough, Yolanda was in prison for several years for fatally stabbing her first spouse more than two decades ago. Literal mind blown emoji. So this woman stabbed her first husband, killed him, and got out of jail because why are we letting murderers out? And then she. Starts dating Becky and they eventually marry, and then for whatever reason, there's issues in the relationship. I think Becky wanted to get out of the relationship and Yolanda allegedly stabs and kills her. What is actually going on? So they do think that there was an altercation and they kind of have an idea about a possible motive. There is a detailed report that describes video and audio evidence that was captured on the home security cameras, and it says shortly after eight am on the evening in question, she appeared to be chasing her wife on the patio and a female voice that is believed to be Becky's is heard yelling out, Yolanda, please, I don't want to die, and then Becky reappears in the patio with what appears to be blood on her back, and Yolanda responds, you should have thought about that before, and Yolanda can be seen at one point standing in front of Becky with what appeared to be a knife in her hand, and there was blood on Yolanda's arms. So the couple then goes inside, and ten minutes later, Yolanda is seen gathering pets and luggage and items from the home and loading them into her silver suv and then she drives off. The vehicle was spotted crossing the border. So now it's just trying to find this woman because she obviously is a dangerous person. She killed her previous spouse, she now killed her newer. Spouse, and this is wild to me. Becky was a distinguished firefighter. She was a fire chief. She worked for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for more than thirty years. She helped fight the wildfires in Eton and Palisades in recent months. And she just seems like she was a good person who unfortunately stumbled upon a woman that took full advantage of that and ended up taking her life. So really sad and tragic. I'll keep you guys updated. They have to find this woman because she is dangerous as can be. Obviously, she's killed two people now, and in my opinion, she never should have been out in the first place after killing her first spouse, but that is again just my opinion. So I will keep you guys updated on that one. If they find her and capture her, I will be sure to let you know. And with all of that, we are going to go ahead and get into today's episode. Today's episode is going to be about a girl named Danny Houchins. She was only fifteen years old when her life was taken. What first was deemed as a possible accident soon turned into a decades long investigation. I came across Danny's story while I was watching forty eight hours a couple of weeks ago, and as I got more into the story, I thought that it was the perfect story to tell on this podcast. It's a story of loss, a story that almost faded into the background, but there was one person who wouldn't give up, and that was Danny's sister, and that led to a retired homicide detective getting involved, a genealogist getting involved, and a murder finally being solved. This isn't my top unsolved. Case, however, it was overlooked for quite some time, and because of the determination of a sister, we now finally have some answers in what happened to Danny. So this is a super important story to highlight. As many of the episodes I share, there's family members that are fiercely advocating for their loved ones behind the scenes, family members who have had somebody taken from them and their cases aren't at the forefront. Like they should be. That is why I'm going to be telling you Danny's story today. Danielle Adeline Houchins was born on November eleventh of nineteen eighty in Alexandria and Minnesota to her parents, Cheryl and Rex. She would always go by the name Danny. She had two siblings, a brother Jake and a sister, Stephanie, who I'm going to reference a lot during the story. Danny was active in the community through the Belgrade School system and the Belgrade Student Ministries. Redemic achievements were recognized in the Who's Who of American high school students for her performance as an honor student. She also had hopes and ambitions of becoming a biological engineer. She was very outdoorsy. She enjoyed rock climbing, hiking, river rafting, and skiing. She was unfortunately only fifteen years old when her life was taken. This is her story, and buckle up because the story spans more than twenty seven years. So the day that started at all was a Saturday, September twenty first of nineteen ninety six, around eleven am in Belgrade, Montana. Danny had gotten into a bit of a heated discussion with her parents and decided that she needed some space and to get away from home for a bit. She had recently received her driver's license, because in Montana in nineteen ninety six, you could get your driver's license when you were fifteen, so she took her truck and she drove out to Cameron Bridge, which is a fishing access area in Montana. She was very familiar with and it is also a very popular area. She just needed to get away, clear her head, and be by herself for a little while. Danny ended up not returning home, and her mom and one of her mom's friends went out to Cameron Bridge to see what was going on and see where Danny could possibly be. Her mother ended up finding her truck, but there was no sign of Danny. They ended up calling out for Danny and searching, but they had no luck. So her mom then called the Gallatin County Sheriff's Department and reported Danny missing. Pretty quickly, a search party formed and they all went out to search for Danny. Once it got dark, the official search party was called off, but some of Danny's friends still. Searched for her after dark. They weren't going to give up hope that Danny was alive and out there, but maybe she was lost. It was then that Danny's body was found in shallow water, face down. She was found by two of her friends who were brothers. And I can't even imagine these poor guys. They were young obviously or probably around her age, and they did not want to give up looking for their friend, and they're the ones that ended up finding her. I can't imagine the trauma. The first officer who was on the scene pretty much immediately believed that there was foul play involved, because it didn't look like this was an accident, especially for somebody like Danny who was very outdoorsy. She was super familiar with this area, and although it was dark when she was found, she was out there at eleven am, so logistically her life probably ended while it was still light outside. So of course it's a small town. Locally, rumors were spreading about what had happened. Some people thought that Danny had drowned accidentally. Some people thought that she could have been murdered, but of course everyone was questioning why would someone want to hurt Danny. There was so much speculation and conjecture going around in the small town that Danny was from. As the family awaited the autopsy results, the family did whatever they could to try to put the pieces of their lives back together. Stephanie, who is Danny's younger sister, even recalls going back to school the Monday following her sister's death, hoping that getting back into a normal routine would make things less difficult for her parents again having to be a young child and navigate something like this. I can't even imagine Stephanie's trauma and trying to carry on like everything was normal when everything was falling apart around her. I can't imagine doing that now, much less as a child. So two days after Danny's body was discovered, her autopsy results were revealed and the cause of death was drowning. The manner of death was listed as undetermined. Her family was so confused by this. They said that Danny had drowned and it easily could have been an accident. She had no so cuts or bruises on her body, they were told, and there was no indication of any foul play, so they were basically alluding that Danny could have tripped and fallen, ended up unconscious somehow, and drowned as a result of a simple accident. However, that wasn't the case. One of the things the family wasn't told which would later be revealed, was that Danny inhaled both water and mud, and also despite them saying there weren't any bruises, and cuts on her body. There were bruises and cuts on her body, and there had also been signs that she was sexually assaulted. Law enforcement did say that they kept this from the family to protect the investigation, which we hear about a lot. They don't always release all the information that they have because they are trying to protect the integrity of the investigation and try to investigate who possibly could have done this. They don't want to give out too much information to the public, even more so in. This type of situation because it was a very small town. But the first officer who was on the scene that I spoke of earlier, he was the one who very much believed foul play was involved, even said he had had discussion with a doctor who said, in his professional opinion, Danny had nothing that would have stopped her from rolling over if she had tripped and fell into a few inches of water. She was young and healthy and in shape. She hiked a lot. And that officer brought this information to the lead sheriff at the time and basically was ridiculed and laughed at, and the lead sheriff didn't want to hear anything of it. He ended up leaving the department three months after Danny was found. We're going to talk more about the lead sheriff in a little bit, but he, the lead sheriff at the time was named Bill Slaughterer, and he very much denies these allegations and said that they never ignored any evidence that was brought to them and said that this original officer that was first on the scene was a disgruntled employee and was just saying things. To stir the pot. So with all of this. Danny's family is trying to come to terms with her death and that it was an accident because that is what they were told, although her sister Stephanie always felt in her soul that there was more to it than that. Despite that, life had to go on. It wasn't until twenty four years later in twenty twenty, when a man named Matt Boxmeyer came across Danny's case. He was a detective sergeant. With Gallatin County and once he looked into Danny's case, he realized the family hadn't been given much information at all regarding the investigation. He also discovered that there. Had been some attempts over the years to get some of the DNA evidence analyzed but they were always unsuccessful. Time and time again, all things that Danny's family wasn't privy to remember they were told that this was an accident. He decided to take it upon himself to look into Danny's case a little more. Now. In the midst of this, Tephanie, Danny's sister, had been trying to get the Sheriff's office to communicate with her. She just had this nagging feeling that there was more to her sister's death and she wasn't going to let it go. It was then that finally the sheriff's office shared with the family that, in fact, they did believe this wasn't an accident at all. Stephanie was able to get her hands on the autopsy report as well as look at crime scene photos, and. She was so upset by what she discovered. She realized that they had lied to her family for all of those years. It's then that she learned that Danny had mud in her lungs, alluding to the fact that someone had held her down face down. She had marks on the back of her neck that supported the fact that she was held down. There was also semen in her underwear, which means that she likely was sexually assaulted, and this is the DNA evidence that although they allegedly tried to get a DNA profile from unsuccessfully, none of this was shared with the family ever. In fact, they were told that it was an accident for twenty four years. They were told this in twenty twenty one, newly appointed sheriff Dan Springer had his work super cut out for him. He had actually been a rookie deputy when Danny was found, only working for the department for five days before Danny was found. But now it's twenty twenty one and he was the boss, and he decided to do things his own way. He reached out to Stephanie and told her that he was going to do everything he could to find answers to what happened to Danny and who was responsible. He wanted to right all of the wrongs that had been done in this case. He reached out to somebody that he knew from the outside, a man named Tom Elfmott, who was a investigator. He was pretty much known as the man who never retires. He had a military and law enforcement background and he was retired from the LAPD. He vowed and promised that he would solve this case. He told Stephanie, I am going to solve this case, and he sure as hell did. Now, I do want to go on a little sidebar, which you guys know I love to do before we continue on. I think it's so important to give credit. Where it's due here. It literally only takes one person to happen upon a case and take the initiative to look a little bit more into it. Unfortunately, in situations like this, family are often not privy to the information that law enforcement is. They don't have access to it, They can't get access to it, especially if it's an open investigation, and it really takes that one person that might not have even been alive when the crime was committed, to look into it and decide that they are going to dig further in and bring other people in that are willing. To go to the distance with them. And that's what it takes to solve these cold cases. We really need people that are going to do their job, dig in, try to figure out what happened and get resolution for the victim, and get resolution for the family and hopefully get a killer off the streets. Of course, we also have to give credit to Stephanie Danny's sister, who never gave up trying and never gave up that gut feeling that something more happened with her sister's story. It wasn't just an accident. But unfortunately families can't do it alone. There has to be law enforcement involvement and cooperation or somebody willing to help. And what we saw here was two separate parties that went kind of for the same goal, and that was to figure out what happened to Danny. They were going to come together and they were going to figure this out. So by twenty twenty three, Tom was super dedicated to this case. Literally worked on it night and day. Tom was in it. He worked on Danny's case daily. He was able to get access to the entire case file, including the list of former suspects and also different clothing that they had previously sent off for DNA testing but were unsuccessful. He asked the Montana State Crime Lab to retest the semen that was found in Jenny's underwear using the new DNA technology that had evolved since the crime first occurred in nineteen ninety six, and this is exactly what they needed. There was a breakthrough. There was a partial male DNA profile, but it didn't match anyone in the case. File that was listed as a suspect, and. Tom compared it against cotis and they didn't have any hits, so it was a dead end. But he kept going and he turned to genetic genealogy, which we talk about all the time, and brought in an investigative genealogist named CC Moore. I've talked about CC prior in the past. She's helped on so many cases, and basically what she does is she used the DNA and she builds out family trees and hopes that they'll find one that ends up connecting. But unfortunately, to do this type of DNA testing, they need substantial amount of remaining DNA, which since they had already tested so much of the DNA, they were kind of running out. However, there were four hairs that were taken from Danny's body that had been perfectly preserved since nineteen ninety six. Despite this investigation being seemingly botched, at least they preserved the. DNA on the hair. Now, the hairs were rootless, but DNA is always evolving, so they were able to find a private lab they were able to test the hairs even without the root. The first two hairs came up with nothing, but the last hair they tested, they were able to get a DNA profile on. By spring of twenty twenty four, CC was getting to work to build this family tree. She was able to identify the great grandparents on both sides of the suspect's family tree. She then found a couple that had a lot of children in which included three sons. Now, all of these family members and children lived in New Hampshire, so she had to figure out what the connection was to Montana. So she ended up going through scouring marriage records, divorce records, everything she could to try to figure out what the connection was between this family and Montana. She took to social media and looked at all of the Facebook profile pages of all of these people, and when she looked at the youngest son's Facebook page, she found on his timeline he had an entry that on July one of nineteen ninety six that he had moved to Bozeman, Montana. Holy Moly, all of the pieces were starting to fall into place. On May first of twenty twenty four, Ceci called it the detectives and let them know that she thought she knew who Danny's killer was. It was a man named Paul Hutchinson, who was a married father of two. He was very well known and respected in local hunting and fishing circles. He worked for the Bureau. Of Land Management in Montana for twenty two years. He was a big outdoorsman, fisher, hunter, and a mentor for many young people who took an interest in hunting and fishing. Paul would have been twenty seven at the time of Danny's death. He was a marine and had moved to Bozeman, Montana, to study at Montana State He had also worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Montana. He was super active in the hunting community, often posting to online hunting message boards. Everybody knew this guy. He had zero criminal record. Tom Elfmont knew that, although they were pretty sure that this was their guy, that they needed to get his DNA in order to say with a one hundred percent certainty that this was him. So there was a little bit of back and forth, how are they going to do that? They did decide that they were going to let Tom talk to Paul, but it had to be in a public area and not under any type of formal, sit down interview type of situation. So Tom and his team went ahead and came up with a clever excuse for why they wanted to talk to him. They basically told him that they were investigating some cases that had happened up and down the river, and they essentially wanted to talk to him because he was an expert in his field and in his craft and kind of get his opinion on a couple of different things, which was a perfect ruse to get this guy to talk. It was a super hot day that day, so he invited them inside. They went in and they started to chat, and they could tell that Paul seemed super, super nervous. He started to. Sweat and asked if he could leave for a second to go help a coworker, and he was just very, very fidgety. Tom ended up having four pictures of women that had died, one of which was Danny. They showed the picture of Danny to Paul and he was losing his mind. He can't sit still. He's scratching his head and is a complete and total mess. I'm gonna play a clip of this interview so you guys can kind of hear how he is you have to go watch it for yourself. But hearing him alone, you're going to realize how nervous and oh shit, this guy is. He is losing it. Appreciate now, can you give me a second? Absolutely, I'm trying to fix the Uh. Okay, this is Daniel Hutchins. She was killed in September of ninety six. Okay, and she was found off the Gallatin. Did you ever fish up there? I I trapped on the Gallatin. Have you ever heard of the Cameron Bridge access? Have you been there before? Probably? John rabbit Lane, Yeah, exactly, you're there or a similar face. I was like going to I mean, I probably I've been to a bunch of fishing access sites for one reason or another. Is there a possibility that you were there when she was? You were't trapping or anything during that time? Not in September that would have been. Are you asking me? I mean, I was asking if you remembered all the Poulter in that time. Gold. So, as you can tell, he was very nervous, and he knew the area very well. He even voluntarily named the road leading up to where Danny was found, But of course he denied knowing anything about her death. They did mention to him that they had DNA, but of course he denied knowing anything. They shook his hand at. The end of the interview and they left, and honestly, they think that at the end of the interview he was kind of thinking, oh my gosh, I got away with it because they didn't arrest him. Although they were asking questions, they didn't arrest him. But of course they knew that they had their guy, and they ended up having people trail Paul once they ended up leaving, and they saw that he was driving super erratic, and Paul knew that his time was up. He had evaded responsibility for Danny's death for such a long time, but his time was up. Twelve hours following the interview, Paul Hutchinson killed himself. He drove himself to a remote area, called the sheriff's dispatch line and said there was an officer that needed help. They found Paul dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. They of course checked the DNA and Paul was a match, a hundred percent, no doubt. Paul was Danny's killer. Tom broke the news to Stephanie that Paul was the guy, but unfortunately he had committed suicide, and I can't even imagine how Stephanie felt in that moment, knowing that they were so close to getting justice for Danny and Paul, being a piece of crap, took the easy way out and killed himself. They ended up holding a press conference in which Stephanie spoke. She thanked everyone for helping get justice for her sister, and then she took the opportunity to call out the wrongdoings and the investigation. She said that the Sheriff's office had lied to her and her family, betrayed their trust, and that they failed her sister, her family, and the community. Forty eight Hours did end up reaching out to Bill Slaughter, who I mentioned earlier, who was the sheriff at the time, and he said that although he did withhold information from the family, he said he did not lie to them. However, there was a local newspaper report where Bill Slaughter is quoted as saying there's no indication of foul play in Danny's death. And honestly, watching the forty eight Hours episode is really hard because Tom Elfmann, despite being brought into this case late, seemed to be very attached to Danny and the case and getting her justice. He got choked up multiple. Times during the interview and said that anytime that he felt like he couldn't keep going, he just thought of Danny. We're doing this for Danny. It's all about Danny. So the question had to be asked, did Paul have any more victims? They believe that it is very possible. Think about the fact that he got away with Danny's rape and murder for such a long time. He was very well liked and respected and flew completely under the radar, and I'm sure he probably did offend more than once. It's typical somebody like that isn't just going to do it once, get it out of their system, and then go on to live a normal life. And if he does have other victims, which I believe he does, it could have been stopped if they had thoroughly investigated Danny's case, and unfortunately it fell through the cracks. Luckily, Stephanie never gave up hope, and that is the whole reason that Danny's case is solved. Although we don't have the resolution we wish we did, with the killer taking the easy way out like Paul did. I hope that Stephanie can rest knowing that she came through for her sister and got her case solved. And I hope that this gives the other family members out there who were fighting for justice a little bit of hope, because it really only takes one person to step up and change the trajectory of a case. Now, Stephanie does not believe that Danny knew Paul. She didn't have any reason to have known Paul. It probably was simply just a crime of opportunity. Paul was out and about he saw Danny, and he went in for the kill. Quite literally went in for the kill and was able to get away with it for such a long time. Now, interestingly enough, there was a gal that they interviewed for the forty eight hours interview that grew up with Stephanie and Danny, and interestingly enough, ended up knowing Paul. They kind of in the same social circles. She was a bow hunter, so she had spent a lot of time with Paul and they were acquaintance's friends. They would go places alone together. He was somebody that she looked up to. So she was just super astonished that this is the person that killed Danny. A case that has always stuck out to her. Because her and Danny were similar ages. I can't even imagine finding out that somebody that you once looked up to as a mentor was responsible for actually murdering someone that you knew. I can't even imagine trying to come to terms with that. So it really goes to show you this was a super small town and Paul flew under the radar for such a long time. Twenty something years. This man flew under the radar, and it wasn't until these other people all came together and stepped up that they were able to one hundred percent. Say that he was their guy. So that is the story of Danny Houchin's. Unfortunately, she lost her life in a super horrific way. The man that did it got to live so many years of his life, more so than. She got to live. And I hope that he was tortured for all of those years and that he regretted it every single day. And I think him taking his own life upon being approached about her was a pretty big sign that he did think about it every single day and that he knew that his time was running out. So I hope that he lived in fear just like Danny did, the last few moments. Of her life. I really hope that he lived in fear, and I hope that Danny is resting in peace and that her family can now semi move on from this chapter of their life that completely turned their family upside down. And I also hope that investigations like this don't continue to happen. I hope that there are law enforcement people in place to avoid things like this from happening, to avoid cases like this just kind of going to the back of a filing cabinet and forgotten about, because there's real people and real families attach these cases and their stories don't just end when the forty eight hours episode or the podcast episode is over. These are real people that we're talking about and they have real feelings. So thank you for letting me tell you, guys Danny's story. I will see you next week for a brand new unsolved case. Have a great weekend and stay safe. Bye.