[SPEAKER_04]: In a snowy county in Minnesota in 1993, a beloved elderly woman named Pearl died.
[SPEAKER_04]: The police investigated and quickly cleared it as an accident, a death in a fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: But her neighbor, Jill, was absolutely convinced this was a murder.
[SPEAKER_04]: She spent the past 32 years trying to prove it.
[SPEAKER_01]: She told me that she was up baking, and she had a heart attack, and once she fell for clothing caught fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: She said that it should have been me, it should have been me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Who were the men?
[SPEAKER_04]: Jill believed, broken to Pearl's home.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she says, I know exactly who that was.
[SPEAKER_03]: She said her ex-husband sent them up here to take care of her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I never confronted him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I knew my place.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not one that you are going to argue with.
[SPEAKER_02]: He had control over everybody.
[SPEAKER_04]: did Pearl die in an accidental fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a fire set by her killers to hide their crime.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I can see one guy walking with a look like a shotgun, and the other guy had moved on at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: My life after then was no longer safe.
[SPEAKER_03]: So for you, I've never been called and to talk about this incident, nobody texted me, nobody sent me a letter, nobody said anything about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody believe me.
[SPEAKER_04]: From Voyage Media, producer of the Hit True Crime Podcasts borderline and in the blood comes a new true crime story about what happens when your past bleeds into your present, murdered by mistake, available now on Apple Podcasts Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts.