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So this 62 -year -old grandmother just spent five years in prison.

And here's the crazy part.

She put herself in there.

Now the grandmother's name is Laverne, and Laverne is 57 years old, living in Westland, Oregon.

And Laverne has quite a problem.

She's in a terrible relationship.

She's dating this much younger man.

His name's John.

John is 39, so he's 18 years younger than her.

And he is terrible to her.

He's a really bad alcoholic.

He's drunk all the time.

He has a ton of DUIs.

But worst of all, when he gets drunk, he gets abusive with her.

And one day in 1990, Laverne has decided that she's had enough.

She wants him out of her life.

However, for some reason, she can't bring herself to leave him.

I don't know.

Maybe she's afraid that he'll hurt her if she does.

I don't know.

So instead, she decides she's gonna frame him for a murder he didn't commit.

Alright, let's pause Laverne's story for a second, and let's talk about this creep, Keith.

Keith is about 34 during this time, living in Washington State, and Keith, he's a weird dude.

He has a lot of mental health issues, and he appears to have terrible fantasies about killing women.

And one day that same year 1990 he's at a bar in Portland, Oregon And there he meets this woman Tonja and he

and Tonja they start hanging out and chatting

and later on They go back to Keith's place to hook up

and there he beats her and strangles her and she unfortunately doesn't survive

Then, he drives her body quite a ways away, and he throws it down a wooden embankment.

Now, this murder ends up making the news in the area, because it's unsolved.

Well, around this time, Laverne is either reading or watching the news, and she learns about this case.

And she starts thinking, oh, I'll tell the police that John did this.

Then, he'll go to prison, and I'll be rid of him.

So she calls the police, anonymously, and she tells them she thinks John was involved in Tonja's murder.

And so the police, they start investigating John, and they come interview his girlfriend to see if she knows anything.

His girlfriend just happens to be Laverne.

And Laverne admits to them that, yeah, she was the one who called them.

And she says that one time, she overheard John bragging about killing a girl and dumping her body.

Then she leads the police to the trunk of her car,

and she shows them a purse with a cut -up piece of blue jeans in there,

because she had once read that Tonja's jeans were cut and that her purse was missing.

So now the police think that they not only have a suspect, but that they have physical evidence that links John to the murder.

And so they send the purse and the piece of jeans to their crime lab for testing.

At the same time, they bring John in and they question him.

And he denies being involved in any murder.

Then they have him undergo a polygraph test, twice.

And as I always tell you, polygraph tests are total pseudoscience.

And John must have been nervous that day or something because he failed both times.

Even though he's not guilty of this.

And so John's weird ass ends up telling police a strange story that he just kind of made up,

and he blames a bunch of this stuff on a friend of his.

And so to the police, this guy is being really sketchy, and he looks increasingly more and more guilty.

But then the crime lab finally examines the piece of jeans that Laverne showed them,

and they can see that they are not the same type of denim that the victim wore,

which shows that Laverne is a liar and that this evidence had been planted.

And so police, they go back to Laverne again, and they accuse her of lying and planting the evidence.

And now Laverne knows that she's screwed because if she doesn't come up with something fast,

John won't go to prison and she might get in trouble.

So she feeds the police an even bigger lie.

She tells them that, yes, she did plant the evidence, but that she only did it because John threatened to kill her and her family.

And she also says that she wasn't actually lying about John killing Tanja.

She claims that she knows that he killed her because she was there.

She was a part of it.

And then she offers to show them exactly where the killing took place.

And she gets in the car with the police, and they all drive out to the wooden embankment area,

and she shows them right where the murder took place

and she knows where the murder took place because she had researched that case beforehand and she knows a lot about it.

And so now I guess police believe her because bam, they go and they arrest John.

Here's his mugshot.

Now, for whatever dumbass reason,

Laverne also tells police that she was actually holding the rope that strangled Tonja, which makes her not just a witness to the murder,

but one of the actual murderers.

And so bam, they arrest her too.

Here's her mugshot.

And ultimately, both John and Laverne are charged with Tanja's murder.

Now, to avoid the death penalty, John pleads no contest, and he gets sentenced to life in prison, while Laverne goes to trial,

and she's found guilty, and she also gets life in prison for a crime that neither of them actually committed,

which means that the real killer, Keith, is still out there, still a free man.

And this whole time, he has continued to kill more women.

In fact, over the next four years, he murders seven more women across five different states.

And he's a truck driver, so he'll just pick up different women hitchhiking or pick up sex workers or whatever, and he'll just kill them.

And he ultimately becomes known as the Happy Face Killer.

Now, during all of this, Keith learns through the media that two other random people,

John and Laverne, have been convicted of the first murder he committed, of Tonja.

And he gets super pissed off.

Like, how dare someone get credit for the killing that he did?

He wants the murder to be credited to the happy face killer, him.

So he writes anonymous letters and he sends them to news outlets and to the police trying to correct this information.

But there's not really much that they can do in this particular situation.

So it looks like he might just have to continue on being a serial killer, not getting credit for his first kill.

Until.

Until one day in 1995,

Keith and his girlfriend, they're in his truck and they get into an argument and he gets super mad.

And he murders her too.

And eventually, police question him over this, but they don't have enough to charge him with anything or hold him.

So they let him go.

And then, about a week later, Keith calls the police from a truck stop in Arizona, and he's like, Yeah, well,

I actually did kill my girlfriend.

And he admits to what he did.

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And so, bam, he gets arrested.

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Here's his mugshot.

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Now, while police are investigating him, they get a hold of this letter that he wrote to his brother,

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confessing to eight murders, including the murder of Tonja in Oregon.

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And so Keith, he finally confesses to the police, yes, I am in fact the happy face killer, the one who murdered Tonja.

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But see, police, they aren't so sure.

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I mean, they're thinking he might just be some crazy guy who's making wild claims.

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Plus, they've already arrested and prosecuted two people who they believe killed Tanja.

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And so Keith offers to prove to them that he's telling the truth.

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And he leads them to the place out where he discarded the contents of Tanja's purse after he dumped her body.

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And there, police find Tanja's ID card along with some other things from her purse.

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So now they know that Keith really isn't making this up, and that he is, in fact, the real killer.

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And I guess this weird ass is happy now that he's finally getting credit, I guess.

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Anyway, ultimately, Keith pleads guilty to his girlfriend's murder and to Tonja's, and he gets sentenced to life in prison,

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while Laverne and John are finally exonerated

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and released from prison after spending four years there for a crime they didn't even commit.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「She Lied To Put Her Boyfriend in Prison」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：Laverne, murder, Keith, prison, Tonja。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が115文、単語が1455語あります。音声の長さは9:06です。話す速さは1分あたり約160語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。単語の86%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
killer 名詞	/ˈkɪlɚ/	殺人者, キラー
purse 名詞	/pɚs/	財布, パース
commit 動詞	/kəˈmɪt/	預ける, 任せる
wooden 形容詞	/ˈwʊdn̩/	木製
investigate 動詞	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/	調べる, 調査する
confess 動詞	/kənˈfɛs/	認める, 自白する
plead 動詞	/pliːd/	嘆願する
penalty 名詞	/ˈpɛn.əl.ti/	刑, 刑罰
worker 名詞	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	労働者, 勤労者
hook 名詞	/hʊk/	鉤, フック
deny 動詞	/dəˈnaɪ/	否む, 打ち消す
dare 動詞	/dɛ(ə)ɹ/	敢えてする, 思い切ってする
examine 動詞	/ɪɡˈzæmɪn/	調べる
anonymous 形容詞	/əˈnɒn.ə.məs/	無名, 匿名の
grandmother 名詞	/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/	お婆さん, お婆ちゃん

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
pick up 動詞	拾う, 拾い上げる
hook up 動詞	接続

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	was involved · were cut · being involved
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has decided · has continued · have been convicted
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	one who called · Tonja, which makes · one who murdered

注意したい発音

話し手はhe'll, don't, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を22回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「th」の音: grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, anonymously /əˈnɒnəməsli/, exonerate /ɪɡˈzɑnəˌɹeɪt/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: serial /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/, polygraph /ˈpɒliɡɹæf/, strangle /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, abusive /əˈbju.sɪv/, convict /ˈkɑnvɪkt/, overhear /oʊ.vɚˈhɪɚ/, unsolved /ʌnˈsɑlvd/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: confess /kənˈfɛs/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, polygraph /ˈpɒliɡɹæf/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。killer, purse, commitなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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