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A woman falls to her death in the Rockies, her husband calls 911. The police must find out whether her death was really an accident or was she pushed. And a three-year-old is found dead in a river. Her father calls 911, he becomes the prime suspect.
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00:009-1-1, what's your emergency?
00:06I hope my husband is dead.
00:149-1-1, what's your emergency?
00:15Somebody's walking to our house.
00:17We are at the hospital.
00:21Sir, is she awake?
00:23She's dead.
00:23A 9-1-1 call sets the stage for what the story is.
00:35You get so much more than just the facts.
00:38Okay, is she breathing?
00:40Is the 9-1-1 caller the killer or a true witness?
00:50Hi, my mom, what's your emergency?
00:52My wife has fallen through a rock on the north summit of your mountain.
00:59Who broke into the house?
01:00I don't know who broke into the house.
01:02All I know is I think my husband is shot and I do not want to go live.
01:08I woke up this morning and my daughter is nowhere to be found.
01:13A guilty person can manipulate the 9-1-1 call, but it's my job to find the truth.
01:22The 9-1-1 Caller
01:22And now, when emergency?
01:44Somebody broke into our house when we heard a gunshot.
01:47When did they break into your house?
01:48Just now.
01:50They broke into your house just now?
01:51Yes.
01:52What's your address?
01:54Yes.
01:55What'd you say?
01:56Who's crying?
01:57My mother.
02:09Who broke into the house?
02:10I don't know who broke into the house.
02:12All I know is I think my husband is shot and I do not want to go look.
02:16Okay.
02:16Where is your husband?
02:17In the bed.
02:19What makes you think he was shot?
02:20I'm about to pass out.
02:21Okay, take a really deep breath, please.
02:24Okay, ma'am.
02:25How many other people are in the house?
02:27My mom just passed out.
02:29Where is she at?
02:31She's right here on the kitchen floor.
02:34Can you guys get somebody out here?
02:36Yes.
02:37Yes.
02:37Once we got to the scene, there was already a bit of a crowd that had formed from the neighborhood.
02:53We went into the master bedroom.
02:55That's where Kevin Sr. was.
02:59Kevin Sr. was lying in his bed.
03:01He had been shot pretty apparently in the head.
03:07There was a lot of blood under his right side that was laying down.
03:12Kevin Sr. was definitely deceased.
03:16Lisa did not relay very much information when I talked to her.
03:22She would go from being completely hysterical to just almost a catatonic state.
03:32Kevin Jr., the 13-year-old, reported that someone had been in their house while they were sleeping,
03:41that they heard three to four gunshots.
03:44Heard someone running down the stairs after the gunshots and then heard that person or someone going out the front door.
03:59Who broke into the house?
04:00Hello?
04:01Who broke into the house?
04:01I don't know.
04:02Who broke into the house?
04:04Seemed like somebody came to the balcony, too, because I heard the sliding door.
04:11We did check the house.
04:12There was nothing missing.
04:15Things you would expect to see gone if it were a burglary, TVs, stereo equipment, jewelry, things like that, all still in the house.
04:25It didn't look like anything had been disturbed, ransacked, searched through, anything that would indicate that this was a burglary gone bad, so to speak.
04:37This was a homicide.
04:39Someone wanted Kevin Sr. dead, and I had to solve this case.
04:46911, 911, what's your address, emergency?
05:03Hello, my name is Carol Hinton, I'm in the Rocky Mountains Park.
05:07Okay.
05:07I did an Alpine mountain rescue team immediately.
05:10Okay, what is your exact location?
05:12My exact location is Deer Mountain.
05:15Okay, I'm going to transfer you to the park, so hang on the line.
05:17You're going to hear some clicking right now.
05:19Okay.
05:20Go ahead, sir.
05:28My wife has told her, Boston, on the north summit of your mountain.
05:32She's in really critical condition.
05:35Is she conscious of breathing?
05:37No, she's not.
05:37She has not been conscious.
05:38She is breathing.
05:44The first responder to the scene was a park ranger, and it took him a while to find Harold and Tony because it was the middle of the night.
05:54It was very remote.
05:59The ranger went over and assessed Tony.
06:04Tony had impacted the side of the mountain as she was going down until a tree stopped her fall.
06:14She sustained devastating injuries.
06:17Her head was basically scalped almost from the injuries.
06:24She fell a great distance, and we hope died instantly.
06:32She's had a bad fall.
06:33How far did she fall, sir?
06:3530, 40 feet, 30 feet.
06:37Hey, what's your main injury?
06:40A head injury.
06:41Good question.
06:42It was really just bizarre, frankly.
06:46This seems like an odd place to have an accident, right?
06:48An accidental fall to your death in a remote part of Rocky Mountain National Park.
06:53The investigators and myself set out to figure out if Tony Henthorne died by an accidental fall or if she did not.
07:02The 911 call, it was important.
07:05It set the stage.
07:07How did you get to that location?
07:09It was important to kind of hear Henthorne's words.
07:13We were just having a once-and-a-now copy.
07:15And to start to form a picture of him and what he was doing then.
07:19And she was trying to get a perfect picture, I think, and fell.
07:23And I came around and she was unconscious.
07:25The 911 call, it's a police department.
07:41Yeah, I was going to have to be an officer over here.
07:44I woke up this morning and my daughter is nowhere to be found.
07:49When they got there, the police asked what had happened.
08:17Kevin said his wife, Melissa, was not at the home.
08:23So it was the first night she had ever been away from the kids.
08:30Kevin had gone to a concert and picked up the two children from his parents' house.
08:37Their beds were not made.
08:38So Riley and Tyler were put on the couches by Kevin.
08:47Kevin was woken up by his son Tyler to say that Riley wasn't in the house.
08:53All the first responders in the Wilmington area came to the fore and an intensive search was conducted.
09:05They rallied up neighbors, friends.
09:09Word of mouth got out very quickly.
09:10And so people were looking for her all day.
09:18Around 3 that afternoon, some people were down by the river, which was a couple miles away from their house.
09:25And they found her floating face down in the river.
09:35The forensic examination revealed that Riley Fox was alive at the time she entered the creek.
09:42Additionally, the autopsy revealed that Riley Fox suffered non-lethal head injuries and that a sexual assault had taken place.
09:49When his wife, Melissa, came back home from the breast cancer walk, she said,
10:00What did you do, Kevin? What happened?
10:02And I don't know why she said that.
10:04I don't know why that was her response.
10:08The investigators had a lot of questions and the focus was on Kevin.
10:13Yeah, I was going to ask you to send an officer over here.
10:27I woke up this morning and my daughter is nowhere to be found.
10:38She can't find a three-year-old daughter.
10:40No.
10:43During the 911 call, his daughter was missing.
10:52And even though she's three years old, Kevin appeared to be pretty calm.
10:57You could hear the tone of the officer who received the call.
11:06And he was like, What?
11:08Your daughter's missing.
11:11Kevin was very low-key.
11:13My child's missing.
11:14I'm screaming.
11:15I'm yelling.
11:18If I was law enforcement listening to it at that point, I would probably have some reservations because he was so calm.
11:28Also, at the time of Riley's disappearance, his wife, Melissa, said, What did you do, Kevin?
11:37What happened?
11:37So, I don't know why she said that.
11:40I don't know why that was her response.
11:43So, the focus was on Kevin.
11:48So, they brought him in to interrogate him and see if they could get a confession.
11:53During the interrogation, Kevin was very tired.
12:00He had been there all night.
12:03He ended up saying that he had gone into the bathroom in the middle of the night, and Riley was in there, and he accidentally bumped into her.
12:15She fell to the floor, hit her head, and died.
12:19And then he panicked and did the other things that he did.
12:24At that moment, they said, Oh, my gosh, he told us word for word what happened.
12:34This is a confession to murder.
12:37Mr. Fox gave a statement that has led detectives to believe that he killed his daughter after placing her in a nearby creek.
12:45Prosecutors say they may ask for the death penalty.
12:48Kevin was charged with first-degree murder and taken to Will County Jail.
12:55The Foxes were known.
12:57Their family was known.
12:58It was a huge impact on this small community.
13:02It's all been an act.
13:03Well, maybe not the family, but that boy, the man, Kevin, was there all the time.
13:07It's sickening.
13:08It is very sick.
13:09It just feels sad for the whole community that we were all betrayed.
13:18The report came over the fax machine saying his DNA did not match the DNA taken from his deceased daughter's body.
13:31He absolutely, unequivocally, didn't do it.
13:35I was morally, legally, and ethically obligated to dismiss the case.
13:41You shake your head.
13:42How could one person be so tragically compromised?
13:46He was a good person and not someone out looking to harm other people.
14:00Kevin was a very simple guy.
14:04He didn't have a lot of exposure to law enforcement or the ways they do things.
14:09He was about six foot four, but he had a very, very passive demeanor.
14:17When he was being questioned, they were saying that he had killed his daughter, and he stood up and said, no, he didn't.
14:24And they pushed him back down in his chair.
14:26Kevin was told at some point late in the night that if he told them he did it, that he would be able to go home that evening.
14:39He was willing to make up a story to get them to stop questioning him.
14:43They overcame his will.
14:45When I heard about the Riley Fox case, I felt that in no way, shape, or form could this case be left unsolved.
15:01Larry Warren was looking at possibilities and connections that may have been overlooked, and she saw this gentleman, and that gentleman's name was Scott Eby.
15:14The day after Riley's disappearance, the police department came to Scott Eby's house.
15:24I think what they were doing, they were just canvassing, and Scott literally threw up on the police officer's feet.
15:32That was never considered to be a clue.
15:36When I came onto the case, Scott was in prison for sexual assault on an adult.
15:48So we proceeded to interview Scott, and he said he had never been in that neighborhood.
15:56He didn't know who the Fox family was.
16:00A few days later, my phone is blowing up.
16:11I get a call from the sheriff's department, and they said,
16:16Oh my gosh, Scott has written a confession letter to you.
16:20It was six pages long, and it was captioned,
16:24This is a confession to murder.
16:30I woke up this morning, and my daughter is nowhere to be found.
16:49To think that poor man lost his baby girl and was charged with first-degree murder.
16:55How old is she?
16:57Three?
16:58You're kidding me.
16:59No.
17:01Dreen the 911 call because he was so calm.
17:06The primary suspect was Kevin.
17:11Retrospectively looking back at that, I don't think he had any idea of the gravity of this situation.
17:17In his mind, he's like, she's going to show up any minute.
17:20That's what I hear.
17:22She cannot find a three-year-old daughter.
17:24No.
17:25On a 911 call, everyone reacts to things differently.
17:29He had no idea that their lives were completely changed at this point.
17:35So I think that maybe initial 911 calls are pretty hard to diagnose.
17:41Who broke into the house?
17:54Who broke into the house?
17:55I don't know who broke into the house.
17:57All I know is that I think my husband is shot, and I did not want to go live.
18:00Hey, ma'am, how many other people are in the house?
18:08My mom just passed out.
18:10Can you guys get somebody out here?
18:12Yeah.
18:13Yes.
18:14Where is she at?
18:16She's right here on the street before.
18:19Hi.
18:20Hi.
18:21These 911 calls are emotional.
18:23You get so much more than just the facts, and that's invaluable.
18:29During the 911 call, you could hear Lisa screaming in the background.
18:36I hear the screaming, and oh, my mom just passed out, she's on the floor.
18:44I needed to talk to Lisa.
18:48Hey, Lisa, how are you doing?
18:51Lisa, I appreciate you coming down here.
18:54How long have you been married, and how long have you had that?
18:55I think I got married in 1990.
19:00Right.
19:00So you've been Lisa James since 1990.
19:03Yeah.
19:03I loved my husband.
19:07Kevin and Lisa had been married for some time.
19:11They were living in a home in Moreno Valley, California.
19:14And they had two children, little Kevin, who was 13 at the time, and Christopher, who was
19:22seven.
19:23They were a close family and loved each other.
19:29Lisa made the call, and she reported that somebody had come into the house and shot her
19:36husband.
19:37Who broke into the house?
19:38I don't know.
19:38Who broke into the house?
19:40Seems like somebody came through the balcony, too, because I've heard the sliding doors.
19:44Kevin Sr. was dead.
19:46We don't have any shoe prints, footprints, fingerprints, any forensic evidence at all that was found
19:57at the house to lead us to anybody.
19:59There were absolutely no signs of any break-in.
20:05Someone on the inside, in my mind, was involved in this murder.
20:11The only other people in that house were the kids and Lisa.
20:16So that puts Lisa and Kevin Jr. at the top of my list.
20:21I remember I went downstairs to call 911.
20:36I initially called, because I remember my mom, she seemed to be real distraught.
20:53Kind of frantic.
20:58Who's crying?
20:59From my mother.
21:00I grabbed her and told her, you know, he's gone, he's gone.
21:04I remember her fainting.
21:09My mom just passed out.
21:12Where is she at?
21:13She's right here on the kitchen floor.
21:16I was young at the time.
21:18Seeing something like that, the trauma, it hurt me a lot.
21:25The police, they kind of left me alone until they took us to the police station.
21:30And that's when they started asking me questions.
21:34I basically told the detectives what I could honestly recall.
21:38I ran to my door, ran to the window, and I saw a white male running towards the car.
21:44Did you see his face at all?
21:48No.
21:49I thought that my dad had shot the intruder.
21:53But then when I heard the running going down the stairs and out the door,
21:58that's when I thought it was something else.
22:02And I had to look out the window.
22:03Did you notice anything about the car?
22:07I saw it earlier that day.
22:09It looked like this guy had no name, George.
22:15George Taylor was friends with a neighbor two doors down named Shelby Harris.
22:23Shelby Harris and George Taylor were often at the James house,
22:28either talking with Kevin Sr. or hanging out with Lisa.
22:35Why is George leaving their house seconds after the shooting in his car if they're friends?
22:43Didn't make any sense.
22:45Now, you obviously know where you're down here.
22:56Yeah.
22:56I don't want to know what's happening.
22:58This is a murder investigation, okay?
23:01You, right now, have been named as a suspect.
23:05Okay?
23:05The thing is, is I don't know if it's whoever involved the cabin or what,
23:11but I've had my car almost stolen three times.
23:15George admitted that he did have his car by Kevin James' house that night.
23:25One of the reasons he gave was that Hispanics were after him because they wanted to steal his car.
23:32He didn't want his car in front of Shelby's house in case it endangered her,
23:39so he parked it in front of Kevin's house.
23:42How many were in the car?
23:44Uh, there was two that I could see.
23:46There was a driver and a passenger.
23:48Both Hispanic males?
23:50Mm-hmm.
23:51I didn't believe his story at all.
23:54You know the problem, George?
23:55Sure.
23:56You can't keep your story straight.
23:57And you know why people can't keep their story straight?
23:59Because they're lying.
24:00Okay, well, I'm not lying.
24:01If you're not lying, you got one story you have to stick to, and this ain't working.
24:06There are people that are saying, George killed Kevin.
24:10We're trying to figure out if that's true or not.
24:13And we're having problems figuring that out because you're being a little bit less than honest.
24:18His demeanor was nervous.
24:22He just gave me this vibe of just being very nervous.
24:27We did have enough to book him into jail because his car was at the scene of a murder.
24:34We were two weeks into the investigation when we get a phone call at the station that there's a white male that has been found dead with a bullet to the back of his head lying in a ditch.
25:00It appeared to be an execution-style murder.
25:06A body was found out east of Moreno Valley.
25:11They realized that it was George.
25:13So now this has taken an unexpected twist that nobody saw coming.
25:21It's turned from a homicide to a double homicide.
25:26My wife had fallen from a block on the north summit of Pure Mountain.
25:42She's had a bad fall.
25:43When you listen to the 911 call, some warning signs.
26:02First of all, you should be out of breath when you see something tragic and you're dialing 911.
26:09Harold's breathing was very controlled.
26:11He did not seem rushed or hurried.
26:14Also, they were in a very remote place.
26:17There was no reason for people to be out there.
26:22This was a purely circumstantial case, right?
26:25And those are very hard.
26:27There was no physical evidence to distinguish between a push and a fall.
26:31There were no witnesses.
26:32The investigators and myself set out to figure out if Tony Henthorne died by an accidental fall or if she did not.
26:46Tony had met Harold through a Christian online dating service.
26:52Tony was 38 at the time.
26:54It was a fairly short courtship before they were married in 2000.
27:03Tony was a very intelligent, somewhat reserved lady.
27:10She had a dry sense of humor about her.
27:17Harold was a very social type of person, which is kind of opposite of what my sister was.
27:23And in 2005, she gave birth to her daughter, Haley.
27:32She said, I have daddy and mommy training room.
27:35Praise the Lord.
27:37He was a very successful businessman.
27:40Now, for the camera and for my mom, tell her what you do.
27:43Well, I'm a fundraising consultant.
27:46I work with non-profits, whether it be churches, schools, or hospitals.
27:50He was a multimillionaire.
27:51So I thought my sister was in good hands.
28:06Once I was assigned the case, when I first heard the 911 call, I thought, this does not make sense.
28:13Harold gave very specific details.
28:17Tony's pulse and respiration counts.
28:19She has respiration approximately 5 to 8 beats a minute.
28:24Her pulse is about 15 to 80 beats a minute.
28:27My brother's a cardiologist.
28:30He's like the number one cardiologist in the state of Mississippi.
28:35My brother knew that the vital signs being told by Harold did not match the injuries that the coroner had seen on my sister.
28:45Tony had fallen 150 feet, and from what the coroner said, she was dying in five different ways at the time.
28:54If you don't have the signs to match your story, then things are going to start falling apart.
29:00I would say the initial aha moment for me was when a letter came into the coroner's office from an anonymous person who said, this is not Harold's first wife to die.
29:16Harold Henthorne's first wife, Lynn Henthorne, had a mysterious death as well.
29:23The whole thing just seemed a little odd.
29:27Harold took her for a drive in the mountains and said the tire was flat.
29:35She dies because she's changing the tire and the car fell on her.
29:39It had been ruled an accident, and so it had been an accident for 17 years.
29:52We found through investigation that Harold took out two life insurance policies on Lynn, and six months later, the Jeep falls upon her, and he cashes out with over $500,000.
30:09My old office had a really amazing forensic accountant.
30:13He started digging into every piece of finances.
30:18We discovered that Henthorne essentially kept getting life insurance policies out on Tony, and then having Tony think that they were canceled.
30:28So at the time of her death, she was insured for over $4 million.
30:32She died on a Saturday.
30:34He's filing a claim on Monday.
30:36It is possible for someone to have been in two unfortunate accidents, right?
30:44But is it also possible for that same person to have life insurance policies on both women?
30:50We found that 1993 was when he last had a legitimate job, so the past 20 years of Harold's life was a fraud.
31:00He said he was a very successful businessman.
31:04Well, I'm a fundraising consultant.
31:08I work with non-profits, so it would be churches, schools, or hospitals.
31:12He lied to us.
31:14He was basically sitting there living off my sister.
31:17Later, when I interviewed the 911 operator, she right away was surprised by Henthorne's manner
31:25and that he did not act consistent with someone who was really calling because her wife had been injured.
31:32Is there any way that you could bring a helicopter in and fight for life?
31:35He uses a lot of misdirection in talking about a helicopter.
31:40All right, here's the thing.
31:42I will pay any and all expenses for a helicopter.
31:44I don't think it's private.
31:45I don't care if it's commercial.
31:47It wouldn't matter if it's medevac.
31:48I'll pay any and all expenses right now.
31:51His wife is lying there.
31:54We know debt already.
31:56And he's focusing endlessly on trying to prove he'll pay for any type of helicopter that will come.
32:01He's a narcissistic psychopath.
32:03I felt like the 911 call was scripted by Harold.
32:09Just like everything in his life, he lives a lie.
32:13We caught someone who's purely evil.
32:36He killed two of his wives in a premeditated way.
32:40What a bastard Harold Enthorne is.
32:54I don't know who broke into the house.
32:56All I know is I think my husband is shot.
32:58I ran to my window.
33:00Looked like this guy.
33:01George.
33:02Detectives were notified that a body was found out east of Moreno Valley in a dry lake bed and realized that it was George and that he had been shot in the back of the head.
33:21So now this has turned from a homicide to a double homicide.
33:30We're investigating this case as best we can with very little evidence.
33:34Then I get a call from George's mother, Tina.
33:42Tina starts explaining to me that George and Shelby were involved in some criminal activity together.
33:50They were partners in crime.
33:52They had guns.
33:54Shelby Harris was his friend and neighbor of Lisa James.
34:00Shelby Harris, Shelby and Lisa had become extremely close in a very short amount of time.
34:09They were best friends, tight.
34:14So Shelby was the link between Lisa and George.
34:17So now I've got three people and I've got to figure out how this all connects because it has to connect somehow.
34:25Later in the case, I listened to this 911 call.
34:51This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to capture that initial gut, raw emotion, usually filled with trauma, shock, violence.
35:07And I hear the crying.
35:12And all of that stuff that Lisa is doing in the background.
35:17Lisa, to me, was acting like she thought she should act that night.
35:31I decided I wanted to put Lisa and Shelby in the same room together just to see how Lisa acted with her neighbor and very, very good friend.
35:43So now, Shelby comes into the room.
35:48They don't say a word.
35:51They don't even greet each other.
35:54They don't speak, which to me speaks volumes.
35:59Truth be told, I got the vibe from them and I am a gay woman.
36:03I immediately thought, there's something more than friendship going on here.
36:09And if there is something more than friendship going on here, I got a motive for getting rid of the husband.
36:18I have some questions to ask, and I really need you to be honest.
36:23Okay.
36:23Lisa, when did you and Shelby begin your affair?
36:27We don't have an affair.
36:28Yes, you do.
36:29Does everybody think we have an affair?
36:30Yes, you do.
36:31No, we don't.
36:32We don't.
36:33I have a husband.
36:34I had a husband.
36:36Girls can't do anything for me.
36:38She had denied having an affair with Shelby.
36:41She had brought a purse with her to the interview.
36:45I searched her purse.
36:46In the purse, there were notes.
36:50It's clear that it was between Shelby and Lisa.
36:56In one particular part of them, it was very sexually explicit.
37:04So what's up with the note?
37:09You wrote in there, I want to eat you.
37:11Who are you talking to?
37:12No, not her.
37:13You wrote that.
37:14It's your handwriting.
37:17I know it's your handwriting.
37:19It is my handwriting.
37:20All right.
37:21And you were writing it to Shelby.
37:23Lisa, look at me.
37:26Stop telling me you didn't have a relationship with Shelby.
37:29I got caught up.
37:31It was like, bam, I got you.
37:34I don't care that you guys are in a relationship with Lisa.
37:38Don't be embarrassed.
37:40So did right now.
37:42Because not everybody is going to know.
37:44So now I just have to figure out a way to get someone to really talk about what happened.
37:54George's mother, Tina, said that George didn't have a lot of friends.
37:59George hung out with Shelby, and we are told about his two very good friends, Joe Jensen and Terrence Bledsoe.
38:13Those were really the only people in his life.
38:17What I decided to do was offer them all lie detector tests.
38:26Detective Thompson was bringing Terrence to get the test done.
38:31And in the middle of the car ride, Terrence told Detective Thompson, I don't want to take a polygraph.
38:38Just take me back to the station.
38:39I'll tell you everything.
38:40As far as Kevin's murder, he said that Shelby tells George that she'll pay him $10,000 to kill Kevin so that her and Lisa can be together.
38:57Lisa knew the plan.
39:00Shelby provided the gun to George.
39:02And he finally tells us what happened to George.
39:17When George Taylor was in jail, George told Shelby that he spoke to his attorney and told him everything.
39:24Shelby decides George has got to go, because if he talked to his attorney, who else is he going to talk to?
39:29Joe Jensen puts the gun to the back of George's head, pulls the trigger.
39:59When I initially called, I think they asked me, was my mother there?
40:11And I put her on the phone.
40:13And then she passed out while she was talking to them.
40:15My mom just passed.
40:18Where is she at?
40:20She's right here on the kitchen floor.
40:23Lisa was 100% in on this murder.
40:30And letting her child go through that and having to make the 911 call, I think it's horrible.
40:41Crying and hyperventilating.
40:44What a show she was putting on.
40:46There was a lot of wrong being done.
40:49I never expressed my anger or my disappointment in her from what happened.
40:57I was scarred.
40:58That's really all I can say is that it hurt me a lot.
41:03Wow.
41:04The 911 call was all part of the plan.
41:13911.
41:13Oh, I'm playing in the middle of the floor, Dan.
41:16First thing I thought, that's a great acting job.
41:19People don't shoot themselves twice in the head.
41:22None of it added up at all.
41:24My heart stopped.
41:25It had to skip a bit.
41:26Oh, God.
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