Menhaden: Most Important Fish in the Bay Page #3

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your address is right now?

I'm in my home, I'm in my home.

And what

street is your home on?

She's bleeding. You

gotta send somebody, please.

Where is she bleeding from?

Just send help.

Send somebody now.

Send somebody quick.

Please.

Donna? Donna?

Hey, Donna.

Come here.

Did anyone tell you

what this was?

Do you know who's in there?

All right.

Let's go.

Let's follow it.

Hey, we got a situation

over at the 9-1-1 Call Center.

And the system's

about to go down.

We're just overloaded

with calls.

Atlantic Hospital's

overcrowded.

Clinic on Dorsey? Check out all

those people out on the curb.

Some sort of killer virus,

they say.

You know?

So, wash your hands

and keep your gloves on

and whatnot.

I need you to

respond from the west side.

Come up to Prince Street

and stop short

of St. James

and check back

to the south side.

That's the one showing the body

was laying behind the yard.

At the address

Hey, John.

Whew. Marla Spatafora.

She got it bad.

I mean, somebody

really tore into her.

Bill and I found her

over on the lawn.

Her guts were tore out.

- And her tongue cut off.

- Her tongue was cut off?

Yeah.

I imagine it's a domestic.

Do we know anything

about the husband?

A Jason Spatafora?

I am at the scene

of the crime right now

with a man named Jerry.

He's a fisherman in the town.

And, um, you knew

Ms. Sporafina, is that correct?

Spatafora.

I apologize.

They... they sent us

the wrong name.

She was a wonderful woman.

Very calm, very quiet.

Does this go on

in the town a lot?

Domestic violence cases?

- It just seems...

- I'm sorry, what?

Try it... do

that one more time.

I thought I was

following a murder story.

I was just going through

the motions,

almost trying to imitate

what I thought a reporter

should sound like.

No.

Makes me cringe

when I watch this now.

- All right, just do an ending...

- God, I feel bad.

I didn't seem too pushy, did I?

No, no, no.

I don't know.

It's weird.

You have to, like, pretend

you don't feel anything

about the situation

when you're a reporter.

But it's...

no, you did a good job.

You weren't overly emotional

and you weren't too...

too much of a reporter

with him. It was good.

- It was a good conversation.

- All right.

Hey, hey.

Are you excited?

We're gonna go and

see Grandma and Grandpa.

Yeah.

Very exciting.

You know what? We're not gonna say

anything about Grandma's hair.

Where did he go?

Where's Daddy?

Oh, look at this.

I need you to look

at this, okay?

Just... just look at this.

It's like some kind of

blister or something.

This girl... Jennifer...

she was using FaceTime

with her phone

to show a rash that suddenly

broke out on her body.

- This stuff on my arms...

- Oh, my God, Jennifer.

- That's disgusting.

- Look at my leg.

When we looked at

her phone call list,

it turns out she was trying

to stay in contact

with her friend

throughout the entire day.

I can't get anyone

on the phone.

- Did you put something on it?

- Nobody's answering.

It just goes straight

to voicemail.

I know. Service

is sucking ass.

Every time I watch

these FaceTime videos,

it makes me feel sad.

My parents left

like an hour ago.

I don't even know

where they were going.

They didn't even tell me

they were leaving.

They were just out the door

and they pulled out

before I had a chance

to even say goodbye

or ask them where

they were going.

- Does it hurt?

- Yeah, it does really hurt.

Is this gonna be okay

for the audio?

- Yeah.

- The rain on the...

- I think it's okay.

- I'll speak loudly.

Um, okay. Hello.

That was very formal.

Okay, we have now seen

one infected fish.

And we are going

to be using this

borescope... hello...

to go inside the fish's mouth

and see if it was

an isolated incident or not.

Come with me.

Inside.

Okay, secure.

And okay.

This, everyone,

is parasite larvae.

Ew.

Explain for them.

Uh, well,

a parasite larvae,

it's, uh... it's a creature

whose eggs are

swallowed by fish

and then they hatch

inside the belly.

It's fun stuff.

I've never really seen

larvae like this, though.

I don't know where

the parasites are coming from.

What'd he say?

I just heard on the car radio

that there was another murder.

- A second murder?

- Yes.

Only 12 blocks from the murder

of Marla Spatafora

this afternoon.

And now authorities

are telling us

the body was found in a rather

mutilated condition.

And I believe police believe

that the husband could

be involved in this.

That's what we're hearing.

Some reports, perhaps,

of a history of abuse there.

Or some allegations,

at least, of abuse.

You can follow

her throughout the day

by going to

- Uh, sir. Channel 33...

- You are pushing your luck.

This could be

a career-maker for her.

- What are the odds?

- Unbelievable.

- Unbelievable.

- Is she gonna be able to handle this?

I just had to show you

these off-air comments.

I mean, they're wondering

if I can handle this

and they're right.

I'm chasing a murder mystery.

- A small town celebration.

- Yeah. We're gonna do the parade.

- I'm from American University...

- You're out from college?

That's it, guys.

Off the property.

I wasn't asking

the right questions, and...

Now she's covering what's gonna

be the biggest story of the year.

It could be huge.

Could be huge.

Sir, we do have press passes.

- Press passes...

- Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Looking back,

I just don't understand

how I still thought

it was a murder case.

Jim, are you getting it?

I can only assume

that whatever this is

is going to continue

to eat away at the leg

and at the knee

and probably move

to the upper body

and into the gonads.

I think that what we're

talking about here

are two separate strains

of some kind of parasite.

Something that is

literally eating its way

into the body from the outside.

Uh, there are lesions

and there's boils

and also there's something

eating its way out from inside.

What I need you to do

is figure out

what the hell this is.

John, what is going on?

Oh, man. You know...

- We've never had murders...

- Well, you know...

...reported here

in the city.

You know, actually, um...

I've been so busy

with the reelection

and July 4th.

I mean, the sheriff

office is...

I've made contact with them.

- It's not even labeled murder yet.

- Yeah.

- It isn't.

- Just an ongoing investigation.

- It's a totally open investigation, yeah.

- Okay.

All right, we're back.

It's "Radio on the Bay."

George Khouri.

Uh, we've got

our podcast 24-7,

all the updates,

KhouriRadio.com.

Right now we're just

gonna get right to it.

We've got our esteemed

mayor, John Stockman.

He's got a very important

announcement for the town,

so right now we're just gonna

turn it over to you,

Your Honor.

Hey, Khouri.

Thanks so much.

- I really appreciate this opportunity.

- Absolutely.

There's a lot

of rumors being spread.

And rumors can get you

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