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The Figure in the Toy Store (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

2024/9/9
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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
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播音员：本案讲述了2013年6月最后一个星期六凌晨，纽约州北部一家玩具反斗城商店经理Larry Wells在上班途中遇害身亡的故事。案发时，商店已上锁，四名员工分别在不同区域工作，均声称未看到异常情况。然而，监控录像显示有可疑人物在店内活动，并最终导致了Larry Wells的死亡。调查人员通过监控录像、证人证言和DNA比对等手段，最终锁定凶手为玩具反斗城的区域防损经理Bernie Grusha。Grusha因巨额债务和婚姻破裂而盗窃公司财产，并在案发当天潜入商店行窃，与Larry Wells发生冲突后将其杀害。Grusha最终承认罪行，并被判处至少25年监禁。

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Larry Wells, a dedicated husband and father, worked as a manager at Toys 'R' Us. He was known for his love of children and his commitment to his job, often arriving early to help with stocking. Tragically, on June 29, 2013, Larry was found stabbed to death in his office.
  • Larry Wells was a dedicated family man and store manager.
  • He was found stabbed in his office at Toys 'R' Us.
  • The initial assumption was a shooting, but it was later determined to be a stabbing.

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Just before dawn on the last Saturday of June 2013, an employee at a Toys ‘R’ Us store in upstate New York was working in the stock room, when suddenly he heard an alarm going off somewhere inside the store. He radioed his manager to turn off that alarm, but the manager didn’t respond. Another employee went to the front office to check on the manager, and they found him unconscious and bleeding from a hole in his chest. Police and paramedics responded and rushed the man to the hospital, but sadly, he was dead on arrival. The store had been locked all morning, and the four surviving employees had been working in separate parts of the store. Each of them claimed to have seen nothing out of the ordinary that morning. And all investigators had to help them find the manager’s killer was surveillance footage of a shadowy figure moving in and out of the security camera’s view, almost like they were toying with the police.

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