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🔪 A Mysterious Hotel Murder
Susie and Greg Fleniken were a middle-aged couple from Louisiana. Greg ran a successful company and often travelled for work, which meant the couple spent their weekdays apart. It wasn’t a perfect situation, but whenever the weekend came, they were happy to be together again.
Over the years, the couple got into the habit of texting each other every day while Greg was away. One day, when Susie was doing her taxes, she sent him a text to tell him how everything was going. When he replied, she had no idea it was the last time she would ever hear from him. Later, she tried to call Greg, but he didn’t answer. He didn’t even call her back the next day, which was very unusual. Susie was worried. During the fifteen years they had been married, this had never happened before.
Very worried, Susie reached out to Greg’s co-workers. To her horror, she learned that they hadn’t heard from him either. Later that day, they forced their way into his hotel room and found Greg lying dead on the floor. There were no signs of a fight, no forced entry, and nothing had been stolen. Everything suggested that Greg had died of natural causes.
After the first autopsy, the investigators received surprising news. Because of several internal injuries, the medical examiner believed that Greg had been murdered. It later turned out that the original autopsy had missed a bullet hole. A bullet had hit Greg’s groin, entered his body, and damaged his organs. Who shot Greg? How did it happen? Why did someone want to kill him? Nobody knew the answers.
The case wasn’t solved until a few months later, when a private investigator named Ken Brennan joined the investigation. While searching the room where Greg had stayed, he noticed a strange mark on the wall. After looking at it more carefully, investigators discovered that a bullet had gone through the wall and that someone had tried to hide the hole.
It didn’t take long to find the killer. When the police questioned the people staying in the neighbouring room again, the room from which the bullet had come, one of them, Timothy Steinmetz, told the police that his co-worker had fired the shot. The killer was Lance Mueller. That night, everyone in the room had been drinking. Lance, who carried a gun, took it out and started handling it carelessly. The gun accidentally went off and fired a bullet through the wall. On the other side was Greg, standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mueller was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He admitted his guilt.
🔠 Vocabulary:
- Run a company /rʌn ə ˈkʌm.pə.ni/ = provozovat/vést firmu
- My dad runs a big company in our town. = Můj taťka provozuje/vede velkou firmu v našem městě.
- Who runs this beautiful bookshop? = Kdo provozuje/vede toto krásné knihkupectví?
- Apart /əˈpɑːt/ (BrE), /əˈpɑːrt/ (AmE) = od sebe, odděleně
- Susie and Greg spent their weekdays apart. = Susie a Greg trávili všední dny od sebe/odděleně.
- My kids are 9 and 11. They are two years apart. = Mým dětem je 9 a 11. Jsou dva roky od sebe.
- Reach out to /riːtʃ aʊt tuː/ = ozvat se někomu, obrátit se na někoho
- Feel free to reach out if you need help. = Neváhejte se ozvat, pokud budete potřebovat pomoc.
- He reached out to me and offered me money. = Ozval se mi a nabídl mi peníze.
- Forced entry /fɔːst ˈen.tri/ (BrE), /fɔːrst ˈen.tri/ (AmE) = násilné vniknutí/vloupání
- There were no signs of forced entry. = Nebyly tam žádné známky násilného vniknutí/vloupání.
- Autopsy /ˈɔː.tɒp.si/ (BrE), /ˈɑː.tɑːp.si/ (AmE) = pitva
- After they did an autopsy, they discovered the bullet hole. = Poté, co provedli pitvu, objevili díru po kulce.
- Investigator /ɪnˈves.tɪ.ɡeɪ.tər/ = vyšetřovatel
- Ken Brennan was the investigator who solved the case. = Ken Brennan byl vyšetřovatel, který ten případ vyřešil.
- Investigate /ɪnˈves.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ = vyšetřovat
- Investigation = /ɪnˌves.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ vyšetřování
- Internal injuries /ɪnˈtɜː.nəl ˈɪn.dʒər.iz/ (BrE), /ɪnˈtɝː.nəl ˈɪn.dʒər.iz/ (AmE) = vnitřní zranění
- Greg had a lot of internal injuries. = Greg měl mnoho vnitřních zranění.
- Turn out /tɜːn aʊt/ (BrE), /tɝːn aʊt/ (AmE) = vyjít najevo, ukázat se
- It turned out the doctors hadn’t noticed the bullet hole. = Vyšlo najevo/Ukázalo se, že si doktoři nevšimli střelné rány.
- Groin /ɡrɔɪn/ = tříslo
- The bullet hit Greg’s groin. = Kulka trefila Grega do třísla.
- Go off /ɡəʊ ɒf/ (BrE), /ɡoʊ ɔːf/ (AmE) = vystřelit (často nečekaně, omylem)
- The gun went off accidentally and the bullet hit Greg’s groin. = Zbraň nečekaně vystřelila a kulka trefila Grega do třísla.
- Sentenced /ˈsen.tənst/ = odsouzený
- Mueller was sentenced to 11 years in prison. = Mueller byl odsouzený k 11 letům vězení.
Suggested further reading/watching (další doporučené články/videa)
- He Died Alone in Room 348 (article)
- The Hotel Room Murder Nobody Could Explain (YouTube)
- The Murderous Secret of Room 348 (YouTube)
