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00:07Some of the people in Wyalusing would prefer not to talk about Gene Stevens.
00:14Those neighbors knew nobody ever came for it.
00:18People didn't call the police, they would handle things on their own.
00:20There was always local rumors around, people would say,
00:23ah-ha, Gene's going to the graveyard.
00:25We had rumblings that an old lady was digging up bodies.
00:30My brother Cecil, he's seen her digging again.
00:32What is going on here and Wyalusing?
00:35Everybody has dark secrets.
01:02Wyalusing, Pennsylvania is part of the endless mountains.
01:07It's very rural.
01:08Living in this rural community of Wyalusing, you can accomplish things that you couldn't
01:14do in the big city.
01:16The rural area of Bradford County is beautiful.
01:19It's wide open.
01:19You don't have many neighbors around.
01:21A lot of activities go on up here that you would never know existed.
01:27We were hearing these things periodically.
01:30Naturally, we just thought, man, welcome to Bradford County.
01:35But the truth is, it was true.
01:39And the truth is, there were people in Wyalusing that knew.
01:44They knew about this, and nobody came for it.
01:49Would you like some coffee or a piece of pie?
01:52I would love a piece of your pumpkin cheesecake.
01:56It looks fabulous.
01:59How's it going, Tom?
02:00Good, yeah.
02:02I'm full of s***.
02:03But yeah, it's going, yeah, you know, it's going great.
02:08My name's Tom Carman, and I was a former Bradford County corner.
02:13Gene Stevens and the friendship that we developed.
02:17Viewer how you want, but Gene Stevens, I'm telling you, was witty, creative, manipulative,
02:26crafty, charming.
02:30It was very, thank you so much.
02:32I really appreciate it.
02:33It looks delicious.
02:34Gene had a twin sister, June.
02:37Gene had this sweet grandma persona.
02:42She was more reserved.
02:45June, she was more classy.
02:49So they're very different people, but they were very close, as twins are.
02:53Gene had made a promise to her sister that she would never, ever leave her.
02:57Gene and June, they married brothers.
02:59Gene and Jimmy were very young sweethearts.
03:02Two twins marrying brothers, none of which could have children.
03:08There was this bond.
03:09The last of the Mohicans, so to speak.
03:12This is the Stevens family farmhouse, what a happy place this was for the family.
03:19They had many happy memories there.
03:21Let me give you the layout of the property that Gene and June had in Wyalusing.
03:26Gene lived in a more humble home than June's summer home, which was less than a mile down the street,
03:32and 120 acres of property.
03:34From the outside, these two sisters appeared to be as normal as can be.
03:40But it seems that Gene was a bit peculiar.
03:43Gene was weird.
03:45Gene and her husband, Jimmy, were going on vacation.
03:48But before she would go to Florida, she wanted to see her mother.
03:53Sounds good, right?
03:54Only one problem.
03:56Her mother's dead, in the ground, buried.
03:59Gene told me they actually dug up and saw her mother.
04:04So then, after literally seeing her mother in the grave, they take off from Florida, and they go on their
04:12vacation.
04:14We had rumblings through the grapevine and the rumor mills that there was an old lady that was digging up
04:21bodies up in the Wyalusing township area.
04:26My name is David Pelagic.
04:28I was a criminal investigator with the Pennsylvania State Police in Tawanda.
04:31No one came forward to give us any additional information.
04:35People didn't call the police.
04:37They would handle things on their own, or things went unnoticed.
04:41About a year before the case actually broke open, we thought it was just someone making up stories at that
04:46time.
04:48And sure enough, we get the call that says, there's someone by the name of Gene Stevens.
04:55Check on her.
04:57So I got in the car and came up to her house.
05:01Little old lady came to the door and asked if she could help us.
05:03I said, Mrs. Stevens, I'm Trooper Pelagic.
05:05We're just here to check on you.
05:07Make sure things are okay.
05:08And she said, well, sure, they're okay.
05:11Offered us something to eat and drink.
05:12And we're like, well, I think we're going to pass on that.
05:15No offense.
05:16But I know why.
05:17I'm like, okay.
05:18I said, does anyone live here with you?
05:20And she goes, live here?
05:22No.
05:24All right.
05:25Here comes the follow-up.
05:27Does anyone staying with you?
05:28She goes, oh, yes.
05:30My sister is in the living room right now.
05:34She's on the couch.
05:35Sure enough, there was a couch.
05:37And her sister, June, was laying on the couch.
05:41Looked like she had a wig on.
05:42I remember lipstick being on her.
05:44I said, can you tell me why she's here?
05:48And she goes, well, listen, I like talking to her.
05:50She's my twin sister.
05:52I've been with her my entire life.
05:54And I said, okay, I can kind of understand this.
06:00There's a reason he's asking a lot of questions.
06:03At first glance, it may not seem odd that Jean is entertaining her sister.
06:07Until you realize that her sister has been dead for several months.
06:13When we went back to the car, we called back to the station and said that we were going to
06:16need the coroner and the crime supervisor, Corporal Ogden, to come up.
06:20That we had a situation that needs to be addressed.
06:30I had always heard, truth is stranger than fiction.
06:33And here was the case.
06:35The truth is stranger than fiction.
06:38I don't think we ever had an incident like this.
06:43My name is Al Ogden.
06:45I'm a retired Pennsylvania State Police criminal investigator.
06:49Working in this area, there's some crazy stories and conspiracy theories, you know, running around locally.
06:56Ah, Jean, somebody saw her with a shovel.
06:58And there'd been years that we'd been hearing rumors like that.
07:02Yeah, this was, this was the bizarre one.
07:07Tom Carman, who was the coroner at the time, and I went down to Jean's house.
07:12The interior of the house was immaculate.
07:14It was spotless.
07:15It was like it got to the 50s and stopped.
07:18You know, the ceramic top tables and the counters and the old appliances.
07:23And then, like I said, the way she was dressed and everything.
07:26She's, hi guys, how you doing?
07:27Come on in.
07:28Just as friendly as anything.
07:30And there's a plate of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies on the counter.
07:33Help yourself to some cookies.
07:34Come over, have a seat.
07:35When I went out there, I'm taking this poor lady.
07:39She is crazy.
07:40And within two minutes, I knew this lady, which is sharp, if not sharper than me.
07:46Jean, there wasn't anything else she was exhibiting that showed she was slipping mentally.
07:56Al, he poses the question.
07:59And Jean, is it true that your sister is here?
08:03And Jean says, well, yes.
08:07Would you like to meet her?
08:10Al says, I'll never forget it.
08:12Classic Al.
08:13I'll never forget it.
08:14He says, as a matter of fact, I would.
08:18She jumped up from the table, led us back through the house, and there was her sister laying on the
08:25couch.
08:25Here she is.
08:26Just matter of fact.
08:31And the reality is...
08:35She's got a dead body in the house.
08:41I mean, who the hell keeps a dead body in her house?
08:46Holy s***.
08:47We ain't cans of snowboard, buddy.
08:51June's a hot mess.
08:53June passed away in 2009.
08:55You're talking a body that would recently been embalmed.
08:58She's leaking embalming fluid.
09:01The aroma alone, you know, I don't give a crap.
09:03How much perfume you put on that thing?
09:06I mean, I'm around bodies all the time, but, you know, I'm most gag.
09:10I gotta tell you, I know we're talking about death, but this pie is delicious.
09:17Primo, primo.
09:20We've got June there, and we're back at the table talking.
09:24I said, Gene.
09:24I said, I've been hearing for years that Jimmy's here.
09:27Oh, yeah, he's here too.
09:30You know, knock you over with a feather.
09:33Oh, is he here in the house?
09:34Oh, no, he's across the road in the garage.
09:36I said, well, can we go see him too?
09:38She's like, yeah, come on.
09:40And she grabbed a remote for the garage door opener, and out we went, across the street.
09:49Gene's garage is just on the opposite side of the Dirk Township Road.
09:53It kind of splits your property there.
09:55We go out in the garage.
09:56Gene lifts the garage door.
09:59Here's this rolled up carpet on the left.
10:04Tom and I were like, can you glee this?
10:07You ever seen this before?
10:09No, if you know, this is a first for both of us.
10:14And there was quite a bit of stuff stacked on top of him.
10:17And we dug down until we got to his body.
10:20Jimmy died in 1999.
10:22I posed the question to Gene.
10:25June's in the house.
10:26She's on the sofa, a little comfy.
10:29Jimmy's out rolled up a piece of carpet for crying out loud.
10:33Out in the garage, what's up with that?
10:35She said, well, I love June more.
10:40Man, wow.
10:43I mean, and he's been dead a long time, so he's mummified, so to speak.
10:48I mean, but much better than June.
10:53Now, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or what to do.
10:56You know what I mean?
10:57I mean, now we got two bodies.
10:58And I'm immediately thinking, how many bodies does this lady got here?
11:13My brother Cecil, he lives right next to me.
11:16He was coming home from work when he seen her digging again.
11:20She dug him up one time, put a new sweater on him.
11:23Always something going on, so easy just to ignore him.
11:28People are hiding deep, dark secrets up there.
11:29I think it's just the way of life.
11:34There was a man that was dead, and he sat in his chair.
11:39He had his own chair.
11:41Just sat there watching TV.
11:46Everyone knew.
11:48This wasn't a rumor.
11:49They knew it.
11:50It was a fact.
11:51And no one was doing anything.
11:54Why not?
11:55I don't know what is going on here, and why I'm losing Pennsylvania.
12:00And why on earth did she want those bodies in the first place?
12:03And what did she do with them while they were there?
12:06I've never seen anything like this case.
12:09Jean told me leaving that garage that she created her own private supper club.
12:18There was a sofa, which is where June laid.
12:22Jean, she would go in hourly and speak with June, caring for her.
12:29She had placed a wig on June.
12:32She would spray June with high-end cologne.
12:37She's drinking tea.
12:39She's drinking coffee.
12:41You know, here's some donuts.
12:42Did you see today's paper, June?
12:47You cannot live with a corpse in your house.
12:50I'm sorry.
12:51You've got relatives who sat there and had dinner with two corpses.
12:55All right, this is a fact.
12:57My name is Kate Prager, and I was a life partner with Doran Antrim.
13:03And Jean is Doran's aunt.
13:06This is a photograph of the farmhouse that Doran loved so much.
13:10A short distance from where Jean's little cottage was.
13:15Jean must have invited us for a visit.
13:18She said, do you want to see June?
13:20We looked at each other and, sure.
13:26She fixed us tea, and we went through the house.
13:30And there was Jimmy and June, looking beautiful, as best she could.
13:38Her skin was still intact, and she had makeup on, and was still wearing her dress that she had been
13:46laid out in the viewing.
13:49Jean was quite forthcoming about Jimmy, that his ears were starting to come off.
13:55But, you know, that part of the memory is still pretty vivid about sitting around her little table, drinking tea
14:03that afternoon.
14:05This was our dear Aunt Jean, and she's a little unusual.
14:14Why would somebody tolerate this?
14:16Oh, it's my old Aunt Jean.
14:19She's a little eccentric.
14:22Eccentric?
14:23Are you kidding me?
14:24If there was a corpse or two inside a house anywhere near me, I am not going to sit back
14:29and have a cup of tea.
14:31I mean, this is not healthy.
14:32You have decomposing bodies in close proximity to you.
14:35I don't think you could get away with this in my town.
14:44So, ultimately, June and Jimmy, they're taken from Jean's property.
14:48I transport them to my office and put them in refrigeration at the morgue.
14:54She had asked as well, can they stay home?
14:57And Tom's like, no, Jean, they're with me at least for a while until we figure out what's going on.
15:03And she kind of got a little quiver in her lip and maybe started to tear up just a bit.
15:08You could tell Jean no, but she was not going to accept no as an answer.
15:12And she just had a manipulative side to her, you could almost say.
15:19Tom Carman, as he is holding onto the bodies and prosecutors are deciding, what do we do with this?
15:25What do we charge a 91-year-old woman with?
15:29I'm Daniel Barrett.
15:30I was district attorney of Bradford County in 2010.
15:34In terms of a health code violation, it was there.
15:37It just didn't seem to be something where taking money from Mrs. Stevens was going to solve anything or make
15:42anything better.
15:43So we decided no prosecution would be done.
15:47They decided it's just the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze.
15:52But here's the thing.
15:53People not only knew about the bodies in the house with Jean and didn't report it, some also participated.
16:01And she'd been trying to get out bodies for more than a decade.
16:05In 1999, Jean's husband, Jimmy, died.
16:09And he's buried in the Lion Hill Cemetery.
16:14Jean decided that that was not a good place for Jimmy, that he should be home.
16:21Jean, he is claustrophobic.
16:24When it comes to being buried, closed spaces, no, no, no.
16:29Jean didn't like that.
16:30So Jean, he starts talking to people.
16:35So she actually went through the legal process, got an exhumation order.
16:39Generally in Pennsylvania, a family member can petition the court for an order to exhume a relative.
16:45But here's where it gets more interesting.
16:48Now Jean wants to open the casket.
16:51Jean puts a beanie on Jimmy's head and puts slippers on his feet to keep him warm.
17:00That tells me that she had this level of shrewdness about her, that she was able to come up with
17:06this bizarre, crazy plan and execute on the plan, especially at her age.
17:12It was just amazing to me.
17:13You know, they finally got her away from the casket and then reinterred him, put nothing but dirt over top
17:19of him.
17:19At that very moment in Jean's head, she knew exactly what she was going to do, right?
17:25All the heavy rocks are gone.
17:27Now it's an easy dig, an easy removal.
17:31Look, she's a 91-year-old woman.
17:34People say, oh, she's just a sweet old lady who was lonely.
17:38But you could also be manipulative because she didn't get those bodies into her house by herself.
17:43So, days later, Jean and a group of individuals, they dig him up.
17:51They got him up out of the grave site, loaded him in the back of Jean's station wagon.
17:57You know, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, that's what she had.
18:01Drove home, got him out of the station wagon, and there he was.
18:07And when I asked, Jean, who are these people?
18:09God, don't worry about it.
18:10They're all dead now, she says.
18:14I mean, it is illegal conduct.
18:17The laws on the book say you have to deal with a corpse in a certain way.
18:23Why are these people helping her?
18:27And then, 10 years later, she buried her sister on her own property, which is allowed in Pennsylvania.
18:33I'm pretty sure she wanted her not in a public cemetery, but a private place so she could get at
18:41the coffin underground and retrieve June and keep her in her house.
18:48Doran helped with the local regulations to get her property designated as a cemetery so that she could be placed
18:59on her property.
19:00I'm pretty sure that Doran was cognizant of Jean's intentions.
19:08So, October 2009, Jean started to dig June up.
19:16A neighbor saw what she was doing.
19:19He naturally pitches in to help.
19:21They took June into the house on his sled, where then she was placed on the sofa.
19:29She convinced her neighbor, Jim Flanagan, to carry her inside.
19:34You can't make this stuff up.
19:36I mean, he could have told the police, right?
19:38He said, oh, he didn't want her to get hurt.
19:41I'm going to help her.
19:42You're going to help her disinter her sister's body and bring her body in the house?
19:46I was like, what makes you think that is okay to do and not get this woman some help, maybe?
19:52We talked to Jim.
19:53He was like, I know it's wrong.
19:55I didn't want to do it.
19:56I put Jean off, and she kept asking and kept asking and kept asking and kept asking and kept after
20:01me.
20:03Until I finally just gave up.
20:05Okay, Jean.
20:06I'll help you.
20:09Regarding Mr. Flanagan's involvement in it, it was quite clear that it was out of not just sympathy, but out
20:15of protection for Mrs. Stevens.
20:17It didn't seem appropriate or useful to prosecute Mr. Flanagan in this situation.
20:28Jim, the man who did the grave digging, he was my neighbor.
20:33I am Mary Ann Rafen.
20:35And I am Jeff Smith.
20:37So I was really shocked to hear that Jim would do that, but he was such a nice guy, I
20:42could understand why he would do it for her.
20:44It didn't hurt anyone.
20:45I actually wish they just could have left her alone.
20:48I knew her husband was dead.
20:50I don't see anything wrong with having somebody in your house.
20:54Everybody has dark secrets.
21:00In Bradford County, a lot of us feel as if we can do what we want.
21:06We know a lot of people in town knew there were two corpses.
21:09They also participated.
21:11So nothing really makes sense to me unless there is some ulterior motive.
21:23It's very possible that other than Jean and the person who dug up the bodies, nobody knew.
21:30But it's also possible that the neighbors who cared for her did know.
21:36How was Jean able to pull this off for so long?
21:39There are people who helped her with the bodies in the community.
21:43They knew she had corpses in her house.
21:45So she had her supporters, but why?
21:50My name's Bob Johnson.
21:53You can't make this up, you know, it's there.
21:56What's real weird is since you could find somebody to help you.
22:03Jean's across-the-street neighbors.
22:05They had been long-time friends with Jean.
22:09He runs the township and his wife's secretary, and they've done one hell of a good job.
22:14They put a lot of their time into it, you know.
22:20Her neighbors across the street, they were taking care of her, helping her with her lawn work,
22:26maybe doing errands for her.
22:27I mean, what does that tell you?
22:29Possibly they knew it.
22:32Who wouldn't report that a little old lady has corpses in her house?
22:36Maybe did they say, I'm going to call the police.
22:39This is not right.
22:41And she's like, hang on, hang on.
22:42I'll make you a deal.
22:46June and Jimmy are now at the morgue, okay?
22:48And she kept wanting to come to the coroner's office to see them.
22:53And I kept explaining to her, I can't do that, Jean.
22:56Then it became, I'm going to bring you some clothes.
23:02Can you please make sure Jimmy and June are dressed in them?
23:06So, sure enough, here's two duffel bags.
23:09So, in keeping my word to Jean, I had dressed Jimmy in the pajamas that Jean had provided.
23:17A horrific job.
23:19Duh!
23:19The aroma was horrible.
23:21With June, it was the same thing.
23:24I put a fresh nightgown.
23:26She says, will you talk to them?
23:29I said, Jean, I promise you I will talk to them.
23:34Tom Cramer is putting his job at risk, right?
23:37And why would he do that?
23:38He's a civil servant.
23:39He's got to obey the law.
23:42I'd bring somebody in off the streets, right?
23:45Car crash, home, whatever.
23:47Bring them in off the streets and put them into the morgue.
23:50It got to the point where I would say, hey, June, Jimmy, this is so-and-so.
23:57So-and-so, June and Jimmy.
23:59I thought I was going crazy.
24:01Maybe I am.
24:01I don't know.
24:02I felt an obligation to Jean to honor all her wishes.
24:08I cared about her as a now friend.
24:12And I didn't want her haunting me.
24:19Imagine being the spouse of this crash victim who died and whose body's in the coroner's office.
24:26And he calls up the spouse of the crash victim and says, well, I'm going to have a party with
24:30a couple other corpses here.
24:32Can I use your husband's corpse, too?
24:34Can he come to the party?
24:36I don't care what kind of influence this woman has on you.
24:39You do not do that.
24:41Unless it's our big influence.
24:46Starting in around 2007, the natural gas industry had discovered this part of Pennsylvania has an enormous reserve of natural
24:54gas.
24:55It's like the Saudi Arabia of natural gases.
24:57And so the gas industry, they were approaching landowners and having them sign leases, giving the gas industry permission to
25:05drill underneath their land and get the gas out.
25:09The house that Jean Stevens lived in was on a larger piece of ground.
25:13And, you know, if you had 10 acres and they wanted to put a well pad on it, your 10
25:19acres is worth a gold mine.
25:20We came to learn that Jean's property was undergirded.
25:27With mineral rights, there was this oil deposit there.
25:31So that's quite valuable property that this farmhouse sits on.
25:37It is a gold mine.
25:38It was.
25:40She had made a comment when we were there that she was getting some phone calls from people that she
25:44didn't know, and they wanted to buy land off of her.
25:48Very elderly woman, lives by herself, has no one else, is sitting on a gold mine, and it seems like
25:55people know that and they're trying to get their claws into it somehow.
25:59It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make the leap that, you know, maybe somebody has thought, well, you know,
26:04I'd like those mineral rights, I'd like those houses, and work their way into her life.
26:10It happens all the time.
26:12There was no relative.
26:13She was the last one.
26:15Then what happened with that property if she didn't have it willed or deeded somehow to somebody?
26:20It could be very much like vultures circling.
26:23The predators are circling the prey.
26:31Oh, my God.
26:32I get it now.
26:33And let me explain.
26:35Jean and June didn't have children.
26:37Jean is going to die soon.
26:39She doesn't have a direct descendant who would inherit her estate, which is probably worth at least $2 million.
26:47We're talking about her personal property, mineral rights on the property.
26:50I mean, that's what is probably motivating these people to tolerate her eccentric, illegal behavior, because they can get something
26:59out of that.
27:00Okay, so let's break it down.
27:02One.
27:05Kate and her partner, Jean's nephew, knew about the bodies and even had tea while June was in the room.
27:12Jean was the last of the Stevens, and Doran would have loved to keep the farm in the family.
27:19She wanted to claim that house.
27:22I remember him talking with this one attorney that would allow us to keep Jean's house, but he said, I'm
27:29kind of concerned that she's just going to give it away to a neighbor.
27:33So the nephew wanted to inherit her estate.
27:37So maybe that's why there's this tolerance for auntie's eccentric conduct.
27:43And in this discussion with this attorney, he said, she is kind of quirky.
27:48She has her husband in the garage, rolled up in a blanket.
27:53That's how we suspect that the authorities got wind of it.
27:59Jean was very upset at how all of this went down.
28:03She says it was a relative of her husband who called the authorities.
28:08She told me it was dirty and rotten.
28:11If the nephew was in the will before, he's not in it now, because he's the one who ended up
28:17getting Jean reported to the police, right?
28:19By talking to a lawyer.
28:21Jean's like, sayonara, nephew.
28:24That makes a lot more sense.
28:25Maybe that's why her neighbors are bringing her groceries and not saying anything, because maybe they've got their sights on
28:30her estates as well.
28:32What can you tell me about the neighbors?
28:35Nothing I can prove.
28:37I really don't want to say too much.
28:40I believe those neighbors knew at least Jimmy was on that property.
28:48Nobody ever came for it.
28:50When June died, the neighbors hosted a luncheon for us after the funeral.
28:55They were so cordial and gracious, and we thought, in our naivete, they will surely work with us and let
29:03us keep the farm in the family.
29:05But I think, in retrospect, they had another idea.
29:13Were Jean's neighbors trying to get in Jean's good graces, because they wanted something out of her, her property?
29:19Then we have Tom Carman, who is going along with whatever Jean asked of him.
29:25From what I know of Tom Carman, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
29:29If he saw an opportunity to make money, to better himself, he'd do anything.
29:34So Western Alliance, which is a nonprofit EMT agency, Tom Carman was one of the top people there.
29:42There were allegations that Tom had been taking money from Western Alliance.
29:47The attorney general's office concluded Tom Carman had made about $356,000 worth of unauthorized purchases through his Western Alliance
30:00company, the ambulance company he was CEO of.
30:02So, you know, you've got to wonder if he wasn't willing to bend the rules a little bit when it
30:08came to Jean.
30:09Money talks.
30:11It's the root of all evil.
30:12People do anything.
30:13She made me promise her I'd write a book about her.
30:16Well, I know about writing.
30:18I never took a literacy class in my life, right?
30:21I just barely got through high school.
30:26So, this is Tom Carman's book.
30:28It's called My Illusion of Normal, The Peculiar Case of Jean Stevens.
30:31He says, this book is dedicated to the memory of Jean Lucille Stevens, a loving sister, a good wife, and
30:37a dear friend.
30:39Okay, so we possibly know what everybody wanted, all right?
30:42The nephew wanted the house.
30:44Jean's neighbors wanted everything.
30:46Maybe Tom Carman wanted money.
30:48But what did Jean want?
30:52So, Jean was convinced that Jean and Jimmy could hear her, that they were present.
31:00There was a time when Jean says to me, I'll give you $5,000 if you bring me those bodies
31:07back.
31:08I'm standing there, and I'm trying not to laugh.
31:12This lady just tried to bribe me for $5,000.
31:15I said, Jean, that can't happen.
31:18I mean, she's trying to bribe Tom Carman.
31:21I mean, she was a manipulative woman.
31:24Did you ever take any money from Jean at all?
31:27Like an advance to put the book together?
31:30Absolutely not.
31:33You got a 91-year-old lady.
31:36Without knowing her, she's as pure as a driven snow.
31:39But Tom and I, we go back, and Jean says, oh, man, he's something.
31:43He's sweet.
31:43I like that guy.
31:44She says, I got to brush my teeth.
31:46I got to have fresh breath before you, right?
31:48Away she goes.
31:50She's brushing her teeth, and she's coming back out and actually smacked her.
31:52I'm going nice and fresh now.
31:54Boy, I'm ready to plant one on this guy.
31:57So, I said, Tom, Jean's got something for you.
32:00She thinks you're all that and a cup of coffee.
32:05Jean says, you know, I always wanted to marry a funeral director.
32:14Her flirtation is part of her manipulation, because she wants those bodies back.
32:20Jean starts putting the moves on him.
32:25Jean's on the other end of the table.
32:27Now, here's everybody's grandma, right?
32:30She takes her right leg, and she hikes it up over her left leg, and she grabs that skirt, and
32:35she pulls it up to about mid-thigh.
32:37And the tears start running down my face.
32:40I am busting inside.
32:43She left me speechless.
32:45She wanted to manipulate someone who knew how to handle dead bodies, like a funeral director.
32:51So, that's why she was flirting with Tom Carman.
32:54And after making my comment to Jean, no, this $5,000 can't happen.
32:59She says, I want you to know, I come up with something that's going to work.
33:02I'm just going to have a garage built.
33:05And in that garage, I'll put you, I'll put Jimmy.
33:09And I said, Jean, it's not going to work.
33:13We have to have something that's sealed.
33:16Long story short, this garage is built.
33:22Jean wants to show me this garage.
33:24It's got a heater in the corners.
33:26And then there's these eight tables laid out.
33:29Boom, boom, boom.
33:31And I said, Jean, good God, what are you doing with these tables?
33:34Well, this is where June's going to be.
33:36This is where Jimmy's going to be.
33:38Mom's going to be here.
33:40June's husband's going to be here.
33:42My grandfather, he's going to be here.
33:45And, you know, when I die, I'm going to be here.
33:48She had a master plan that she wanted to reunite the family all above ground as corpses.
33:55That's what Jean wanted.
33:57I'm just staying in there.
33:59I'm speechless.
33:59Now, she's going to bring the whole gang home, you know?
34:03And I'm like, oh, my lord.
34:15This is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.
34:17I got eight tables there, knowing darn well they're intended for dead bodies.
34:22And I said, Jean, what are you thinking?
34:24It could be that Jean was just projecting her own claustrophobia.
34:29She didn't want to be underground.
34:30She doesn't want them underground.
34:31We might as well dig up the rest of the family.
34:36She apparently had this plan dating back to her young adult years.
34:41When she had, like, dug up her mother and visited with her mother's open casket.
34:46That's what Jean wanted.
34:50Jean had this laid out.
34:53The whole plan.
34:58But Jean had fallen at her home and fractured her hip.
35:06Now, anybody in the medical business knows that a fractured hip to a geriatric patient, it's a death sentence, essentially.
35:14I went over to the bedside with Jean, and she says, I want to tell you something.
35:20She says, I'm ready.
35:24I'm ready to go.
35:27Jean Stevens, 2012.
35:30She dies.
35:30She's 92 years old.
35:33Now, understand, everybody's gone.
35:36Okay, I'm left with three dead bodies.
35:39June, Jimmy, Jean.
35:41And somehow I have to come up with some sort of a logical, legal conclusion.
35:46So, hence came the above-ground vault.
35:57Where June, Jimmy, Jean are at peace.
36:02Brings back a lot of memories being here.
36:07There were four of us here in the cemetery.
36:09There was a funeral director, two of Jean's neighbors, and myself.
36:13And I'll never forget.
36:15I placed June here, Jean here, and Jimmy here.
36:23And the three of them laid out side by side.
36:27Jean's wishes were met.
36:32And the story ended.
36:35For Jean.
36:37So now Jean's dead.
36:40There's no obituary for her in Why You're Losing.
36:44According to Tom Carman, it's Tom, like somebody from the funeral home, funeral director, and Jean's neighbors, and that's it.
36:52Like, that's weird, right?
36:54That is so disrespectful.
36:56She and her twin sister, June, and her husband, Jimmy, are now supposedly all placed in this above-ground crypt
37:06in the cemetery.
37:10Do you really think that Jean, with her severe claustrophobia, agreed to be in this chamber?
37:17Maybe they didn't put her in this burial chamber, and they put her somewhere else.
37:24Is this part of the arrangement, disposing of Jean the way she wanted to be disposed of in death to
37:31give the beneficiaries her estate?
37:36Knowing what I know now, I would not be shocked, or even mildly surprised, if they ever went to open
37:43up those vaults in the cemetery and find that there's no one there.
37:47I assumed she was in that building, because that was built before she died.
37:52Maybe Jean is someplace else, not in the crypt.
37:56Is she there?
37:57I think so.
37:58Would I be Lord surprised if she wasn't?
38:02No.
38:02Given everything that's going on in this whole scenario, I don't think anything about Jean would surprise me anymore.
38:09There's nothing in Jean's will about how she wanted to be interred.
38:13So there is, of course, a chance that she isn't there.
38:16But I bet you it would be against her wishes.
38:20So what we have here are Jean's neighbors to own the property where this mausoleum is for all the bodies.
38:29Jean's neighbors become the beneficiaries of the will.
38:32So she gives all her real estate, we're talking about 121 acres and the houses, right, to her neighbors across
38:38the street.
38:40The neighbors let Dora know that Jean had passed, but not that she was failing.
38:47By that time, the will would have been established.
38:51The neighbors probably had their eye on that property.
38:54They didn't want any family to get access to Jean in her last days that would have had any effect
39:02on the will or what would happen to that property.
39:07It's possible that she could have worked out a deal with the neighbors that if you keep me out of
39:14the ground, you can have the farm.
39:19And then Tom Carman, who can take care of the bodies that are being housed.
39:25Well, we know now that he has embezzled money, so it doesn't seem to be a big stretch to say,
39:33maybe Tom was in it for a little money from Jean, too.
39:39So, you know, you've got to wonder, did he go even further when it came to Jean and the disposal
39:45of her remains?
39:48Was the funeral director there to be a witness to the final resting place of the bodies in the crypt?
39:54And according to the funeral director, there are no records of the burial.
39:58Why not?
40:00What does the funeral director stand to benefit?
40:03They don't have any records at all.
40:04Okay.
40:05Weird.
40:08The neighbors, I cannot explain their actions, but you know how something just doesn't settle right within your gut.
40:17It all depends on whether I saw that damn lid go on.
40:20You're wondering whether you actually saw the cement slab being placed on top.
40:24Now I'm starting to second guess myself.
40:26I'm not sure I did.
40:28Is it possible that the neighbors struck some kind of a deal with Jean,
40:32promise her that that would never happen,
40:34and the final disposition of the family is in that building?
40:38I would be highly pissed if those bodies were inside that garage.
40:43It's the only thing that does stand.
40:45The neighbors had her old homestead just leveled.
40:49Why would they raise her house but keep the mausoleum?
40:52Maybe there's something in the mausoleum that they're protecting.
40:55As I'm sitting back here remembering all this,
40:58the day that I went out to look at this structure,
41:03the neighbor's son, he says,
41:06no photographs.
41:08And I just blew off his statement.
41:11But looking back at that now,
41:13what an odd comment to make.
41:16We went to the town offices to get permission to go into the cemetery
41:21and use a non-invasive technique to determine if bodies are in that crypt.
41:26But Jean's neighbors at the town offices are just not returning our calls.
41:31So if anybody has any ideas how we can get this done,
41:34we are all ears.
41:35We are all ears.
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