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So this 62 -year -old grandmother just spent five years in prison.
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And here's the crazy part.
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She put herself in there.
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Now the grandmother's name is Laverne, and Laverne is 57 years old, living in Westland, Oregon.
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And Laverne has quite a problem.
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She's in a terrible relationship.
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She's dating this much younger man.
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His name's John.
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John is 39, so he's 18 years younger than her.
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And he is terrible to her.
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He's a really bad alcoholic.
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He's drunk all the time.
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He has a ton of DUIs.
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But worst of all, when he gets drunk, he gets abusive with her.
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And one day in 1990, Laverne has decided that she's had enough.
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She wants him out of her life.
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However, for some reason, she can't bring herself to leave him.
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I don't know.
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Maybe she's afraid that he'll hurt her if she does.
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I don't know.
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So instead, she decides she's gonna frame him for a murder he didn't commit.
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Alright, let's pause Laverne's story for a second, and let's talk about this creep, Keith.
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Keith is about 34 during this time, living in Washington State, and Keith, he's a weird dude.
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He has a lot of mental health issues, and he appears to have terrible fantasies about killing women.
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And one day that same year 1990 he's at a bar in Portland, Oregon And there he meets this woman Tonja and he
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and Tonja they start hanging out and chatting
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and later on They go back to Keith's place to hook up
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and there he beats her and strangles her and she unfortunately doesn't survive
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Then, he drives her body quite a ways away, and he throws it down a wooden embankment.
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Now, this murder ends up making the news in the area, because it's unsolved.
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Well, around this time, Laverne is either reading or watching the news, and she learns about this case.
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And she starts thinking, oh, I'll tell the police that John did this.
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Then, he'll go to prison, and I'll be rid of him.
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So she calls the police, anonymously, and she tells them she thinks John was involved in Tonja's murder.
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And so the police, they start investigating John, and they come interview his girlfriend to see if she knows anything.
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His girlfriend just happens to be Laverne.
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And Laverne admits to them that, yeah, she was the one who called them.
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And she says that one time, she overheard John bragging about killing a girl and dumping her body.
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Then she leads the police to the trunk of her car,
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and she shows them a purse with a cut -up piece of blue jeans in there,
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because she had once read that Tonja's jeans were cut and that her purse was missing.
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So now the police think that they not only have a suspect, but that they have physical evidence that links John to the murder.
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And so they send the purse and the piece of jeans to their crime lab for testing.
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At the same time, they bring John in and they question him.
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And he denies being involved in any murder.
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Then they have him undergo a polygraph test, twice.
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And as I always tell you, polygraph tests are total pseudoscience.
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And John must have been nervous that day or something because he failed both times.
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Even though he's not guilty of this.
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And so John's weird ass ends up telling police a strange story that he just kind of made up,
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and he blames a bunch of this stuff on a friend of his.
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And so to the police, this guy is being really sketchy, and he looks increasingly more and more guilty.
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But then the crime lab finally examines the piece of jeans that Laverne showed them,
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and they can see that they are not the same type of denim that the victim wore,
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which shows that Laverne is a liar and that this evidence had been planted.
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And so police, they go back to Laverne again, and they accuse her of lying and planting the evidence.
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And now Laverne knows that she's screwed because if she doesn't come up with something fast,
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John won't go to prison and she might get in trouble.
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So she feeds the police an even bigger lie.
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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.
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And she also says that she wasn't actually lying about John killing Tanja.
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She claims that she knows that he killed her because she was there.
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She was a part of it.
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And then she offers to show them exactly where the killing took place.
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And she gets in the car with the police, and they all drive out to the wooden embankment area,
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and she shows them right where the murder took place
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and she knows where the murder took place because she had researched that case beforehand and she knows a lot about it.
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And so now I guess police believe her because bam, they go and they arrest John.
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Here's his mugshot.
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Now, for whatever dumbass reason,
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Laverne also tells police that she was actually holding the rope that strangled Tonja, which makes her not just a witness to the murder,
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but one of the actual murderers.
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And so bam, they arrest her too.
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Here's her mugshot.
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And ultimately, both John and Laverne are charged with Tanja's murder.
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Now, to avoid the death penalty, John pleads no contest, and he gets sentenced to life in prison, while Laverne goes to trial,
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and she's found guilty, and she also gets life in prison for a crime that neither of them actually committed,
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which means that the real killer, Keith, is still out there, still a free man.
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And this whole time, he has continued to kill more women.
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In fact, over the next four years, he murders seven more women across five different states.
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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.
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And he ultimately becomes known as the Happy Face Killer.
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Now, during all of this, Keith learns through the media that two other random people,
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John and Laverne, have been convicted of the first murder he committed, of Tonja.
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And he gets super pissed off.
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Like, how dare someone get credit for the killing that he did?
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He wants the murder to be credited to the happy face killer, him.
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So he writes anonymous letters and he sends them to news outlets and to the police trying to correct this information.
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But there's not really much that they can do in this particular situation.
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So it looks like he might just have to continue on being a serial killer, not getting credit for his first kill.
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Until.
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Until one day in 1995,
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Keith and his girlfriend, they're in his truck and they get into an argument and he gets super mad.
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And he murders her too.
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And eventually, police question him over this, but they don't have enough to charge him with anything or hold him.
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So they let him go.
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And then, about a week later, Keith calls the police from a truck stop in Arizona, and he's like, Yeah, well,
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I actually did kill my girlfriend.
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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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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “She Lied To Put Her Boyfriend in Prison”. As palavras que mais se repetem: Laverne, murder, Keith, prison, Tonja. Este vídeo tem 115 frases e 1455 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 9:06. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 160 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 86% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| killer substantivo | /ˈkɪlɚ/ | assassino, assassina |
| purse substantivo | /pɚs/ | moedeiro |
| wooden adjetivo | /ˈwʊdn̩/ | lenhoso, de madeira |
| investigate verbo | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | investigar |
| dump verbo | /dʌmp/ | largar |
| confess verbo | /kənˈfɛs/ | confessar |
| plead verbo | /pliːd/ | pleitear |
| penalty substantivo | /ˈpɛn.əl.ti/ | pena |
| worker substantivo | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | trabalhador |
| increasingly advérbio | cada vez mais | |
| hook substantivo | /hʊk/ | gancho |
| deny verbo | /dəˈnaɪ/ | negar |
| dare verbo | /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ | ousar, atrever-se a |
| serial adjetivo | /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/ | serial |
| examine verbo | /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/ | examinar, analisar |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, acabar | |
| pick up verbo | pegar | |
| come up with verbo | pensar (em), alcançar | |
| hook up verbo | conectar | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | compensar |
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | was involved · were cut · being involved |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | has decided · has continued · have been convicted |
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | one who called · Tonja, which makes · one who murdered |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 22 contrações e formas reduzidas, como he'll, don't, didn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “th”: grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, anonymously /əˈnɒnəməsli/, exonerate /ɪɡˈzɑnəˌɹeɪt/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: commit /kəˈmɪt/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, dump /dʌmp/, plead /pliːd/, hook /hʊk/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: serial /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/, strangle /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/
- /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: hook /hʊk/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, hitchhike /ˈhɪt͡ʃhaɪk/, overhear /oʊ.vɚˈhɪɚ/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como killer, purse, wooden.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.