We're Going In (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

**MrBallen** (0:00)
One morning in 2012, a young man was looking out his backyard in West Virginia when he noticed something in his garden. So over the past couple of days, there had been really heavy rainfall and it had basically turned his backyard into like a swamp. But in particular, in the garden in his backyard, there was almost like a sinkhole forming from all the water. And he noticed there was something in the hole and it almost looked like it could be plastic. And so feeling curious, the young man left the house and yeah, sure enough, there was what appeared to be the top of a plastic bag that had been tied up that was in this hole. And so he reached down and he pulled this bag out of the ground and it was pretty heavy and he opened it up and looked inside and he dropped it and backed up in horror. But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark & Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do. So if that's of interest to you, the next time you're over the Follow Buttons house watching their favorite show together, be sure to constantly tap them on the shoulder and interrupt them in order to ask completely meaningless questions. Okay, let's get into today's story.
Around noon on Saturday, April 24th, 2010, a 64-year-old sales clerk named Kathy Goble grabbed a suit jacket off the rack at a high-end men's store in Charleston, West Virginia. She carried it over to a customer and then she helped him put it on in front of the mirror. And after he was dressed, the man smiled at his reflection and said it looked great. So Kathy had worked at the store now for 10 years and she really loved working there. I mean, everything about it was great. The staff was like family. She herself was very people-oriented and was great at building relationships with customers. In fact, she was so good at building relationships that men from all over town would come to the store specifically to see Kathy when they needed a new suit. However, this man she was currently helping wasn't like all the other customers. His name was Dr. Harry King and he was a radiologist and he had been a regular at the store for many years. And even though he was married and even though Kathy herself was in a long-term relationship, these two were actually having an affair. Harry had a lot of money and he really enjoyed showering Kathy with expensive gifts. In fact, he had even paid to have her kitchenry done. And just a couple of weeks ago, he'd taken her on a trip across the country to San Francisco. Now, when Kathy went on that trip, she had told her longtime boyfriend, Fred Farrell, that it was actually just a girl's trip to visit an old friend. And even though she did feel bad about lying to him, Kathy really didn't know how long her relationship with Fred was going to last anyway. So it sort of seemed like maybe it's not worth trying to protect it. Kathy and Fred had been dating for about two years, and Fred was definitely a nice guy, but recently he had asked Kathy to marry him.
And, you know, she definitely was not sure about that and told him, you know, I don't know, I have to think about it. So the big reason why Kathy was definitely on the fence about marriage in general was actually because Kathy had been divorced twice already. She also liked having her own house and her own life and not being tied to just one man. But she couldn't bring herself to actually break up with Fred when he proposed. And so she was sort of in this holding period now. And she figured that, you know, as long as her affair with Harry stayed a secret, nobody would get hurt. So Kathy carried Harry's new suit over to the cash register. And as she rang it up, Harry leaned over the counter and asked if she wanted to go grab lunch. Kathy smiled and said, sure.
About an hour later, Kathy came back to the store after her lunch break, and inside she saw there was a young woman standing at the back of the store by a rack of shirts. The woman's clothes were a bit ragged, and she just she looked at a place like she wasn't the typical clientele for the store.
And as Kathy got closer to her, she realized it was her co-worker's daughter, Jessica Fisher. And Jessica really put Kathy on edge because Jessica had a drug problem. And every once in a while, she would come into the store, and she would ask Kathy for some of Kathy's Xanax.