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[Music] Las Vegas is the adult Disneyland of the world people come here to play adults
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come here to play the other side of that is there is a community here that services that Glitz and
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glamour that go to work 9 to5 run the banks run the police department run the fire department and have just steady
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jobs that's George you know an all-around great guy to hang out with he and help you get the job done just a
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very very kind generous and giving person and that's the George T I [Music] know well Sean was so young at heart and
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she was so fun and she always made me laugh she looks like Barbie you know blunt
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beautiful always had the long hair you know just looked perfect like a little china
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doll while George and Shauna met in the casino environment he saw this blonde person whizzing past him all the time
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she was such a hard worker that he really admired that she was his world that was his his life and then when
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their daughter came around they're just the the cutest Trio ever at the beach okay's first time at the beach turning
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everybody around turning us around Maddie was just the light of her life it was really her number one
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priority she was just all in you know 100% there and then a baby they were like a little cocoon George was so
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protective he waited on them hand and foot he really did in the early morning hours on September
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29th 2012 Shauna TF would have gotten off work from being a cocktail waitress at a local casino she went
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home parked her car in the garage entered her house a killer snuck up behind her and
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beat her to death with a hammer inside her own living room were you worried that someone was
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targeting Casino women yes we were all so scared that you know this person was still out there was
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somebody stalking her was somebody obsessed with her maybe they're going to you know come
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after one of us I'm Peter vanand tonight on 48 Hours Vengeance in Vegas [Music] [Music]
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Shauna Tia loved to laugh and sing with her daughter when she was with Maddie it was
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like nothing else was going on around her so dedicated and so concerned Shauna's murder has been a
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devastating loss for her sister Paula Stokes Richards and her husband John she just laughed at life you know she had
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this innocence it's sad because I just miss her and for something like this to happen to her is just it's
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unimaginable [Music] Shauna TFA a Mormon born in Salt Lake City was 28 when she moved here to Las
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Vegas but to Shauna Vegas was more than one big glitzy party it was a city of opportunity and it wasn't long before
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she got a glamorous job as a cocktail waitress at one of the hottest casinos in [Music]
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town she loved the Palms I think she really felt like the Palms was a a family environment which might sound contrary
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to what you would think but I think the the people that worked there were really
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like family and they looked after each other I never hardly saw like shaa with a frown or anything she's just so bubbly
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and laughing at everything Cindy Randy and Sienna all worked alongside shaa for about 10 years she love her job though
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mhm she loved cocktailing and customers love Shauna she made close to $100,000 a
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year in salary and tips often paid in casino chips which in Vegas is the same as money in 2002 Shauna hit the jackpot
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when she met George Tif at the Palms George was a star athlete and homecoming King at his California high school just
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to look at him he's very handsome very charismatic what more could you ask for in fact George is a West Point graduate
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who served in the Army Corps of Engineers Maria and bernardet are George's sisters he likes to serve
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people that's what attracted him to being a fireman and George is so handsome he was
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even featured in this firefighter pinup calendar the old American Boy sounds like yes he was he looked like it he
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acted like it he was that guy his sisters also say George is a devoted family man who sent money home to help
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their mom care for their disabled younger sister if you need a helping hand there he is George and shaa started
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dating George was in love oh yeah Head Over Heels yeah yeah she was his world that was his life and life only got
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better for George and Shauna just one year into their relationship Maddie was born hey there's
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daddy there's Daddy and Mama and little baby that's all of us 3 years later they were married in
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Hawaii Mama and Dad just got married there's shaa Castleton now she's TF look at that
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dress on Mama woo what a smoking body they really suited each other it was really nice they're both hardworking
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people they're both good-look people they made a lovely couple but looks as they say can be deceiving after two
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happy years of marriage things started to change when George lost money in the housing market crash Shauna told friends
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he had become jealous controlling and critical of her he would tell her that she dressed like a when she would
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get dressed for work in front of Maddie which of course would tear Shauna apart you know for her little girl to hear
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these things shaa also complained when George brought a homeless man into their lives who he paid to do odd jobs around
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the house her friend Stephanie Vargas she would call him creepy God he's so creepy why is he around my house but
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George's friend from West Point Rock riter says he was as kind-hearted as he was handsome and befriending the
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Homeless was something he had done for years every Thanksgiving he he'd be serving soup to the homeless people just
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a very very kind generous and giving person but even though he had a gracious heart the strains continued in the
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marriage and after nearly 10 years of being together she had enough and moved into this townhouse they shared custody
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of Maddie but Shauna was reluctant to file for a divorce she was sad her family was breaking up and this
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isn't something that she wanted she wanted the picket fence and the husband and the
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daughter she wanted the fairy tale and the fairy tale was falling [Music] apart determined to save their marriage
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shaa and George both agreed to start seeing a marriage counselor I think Shauna was an eternal optimist you know
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she just kept hoping that things were going to get better then weeks before her murder
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Shauna's townhouse was burglarized her wedding ring was missing strangely a pair of her bathing
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suit bottoms were taken and strangest of all the robber left something behind a pair of boxer shorts size small
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this Burg did it shake her up it did but I just don't think that in her mind she
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ever thought that any harm would come to her but in an ominous twist of fate just
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3 weeks later someone was back in her house this time waiting for her it is now the early morning hours of
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September 29th 2012 this is Shauna seen on Casino surveillance video clocking out at 3:01
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a.m. these are the last images of her life after a 30-minute Drive shaa arrives home letting herself in through
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the garage she enters in the a hallway it's dark there's no light Dan long and Terry Miller are investigators with the
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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department she moves towards the stairway to go upstairs to her bedroom when
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suddenly shaa was attacked by someone wielding a hammer her hands were up at some point uh to protect her head in her
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face her fingers were broken and she was savagely beaten with this metal head of
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that hammer until she was dead at approximately 9:00 a.m. George and Maddie arrived to pick something up
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when they walked in and he discovered Shauna's badly bludgeon body George immediately called 911 911
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emergency I think I need to report a Breakin and a murder my wife my wife is uh on the floor
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bloody stiff not moving naturally George is going to be our number one suspect a
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woman that he's separated from he finds dead inside of an apartment detective Miller interviewed George in a police
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car at the scene she was lying on the floor she was covered in blood I just want to die and she was surprised with
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what he told her what shift did you work yesterday a 24-hour shift he said he was
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on call at the firehouse before he picked mty up Maddie had spent the night at her grandmother's house while Shauna
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went to work he had an alibi and what did that tell you he's not our [Music] [Music]
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killer it's not just Dan and I you want a full mag in the weapon yeah we had our entire
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team with this muzzle Down lead detectives Terry Miller and Dan Long of the Las Vegas
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Metro Police had their work cut out for them the obvious initial suspect in a case like this is the husband but George
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TFA had that airtight Alibi they learned right away that he was at work at the fire station and was
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not the man that killed Shauna Shauna's murder was brutal and chilling I remember thinking do we have
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a sexual predator and you got to be wondering to yourselves do we have some sort of monster out there on the streets
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yes uh we're like who who are we looking for are we looking for a male are we looking for a
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female but 48 hours into the investigation detectives get a crucial tip from an unlikely Source William penx
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known as Big will I've been trying to live a straight life under the hands of the
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Lord big will had lived in Las Vegas for years working as a maintenance man at an
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apartment complex he got an urgent call from friend he said uh big will I need to
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talk to you the friend came to see him and dropped a bombshell he just murdered a
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woman when he told you that he had killed this woman what was the expression on his face he was happy
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happy like he just completed a mission a mission to where he's going to get paid
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a lot of money he's going to leave town and live a happy life like that did he tell you how he killed this woman yeah
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yeah he told me that he was laughing when he said it he said uh I hit this woman with a hammer over
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and over and over and over until a hammer broke the man who called Big will was nicknamed Greyhound because he was
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lean and fast and lived in a tent in the Foothills far from the glittering lights
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of downtown Greyhound was an excon and big will was helping him straighten his life out but after the two men spoke big
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Will's Mission became bringing Greyhound to Justice this is a damn tragedy I said so if I hear this on the
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news tomorrow morning the best thing I can do is follow his tracks try to hunt him
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down so that I can try to bring some kind of closure to This Woman's family a gorgeous cocktail waitress a mother
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brutally murdered in her own home that was it a woman murdered and big will knew exactly what he had to do he called
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police at first detectives long and Miller were skeptical initially I was thinking to myself you've got to be
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kidding me he is giving the story about this man who lives up in the mountains in a tent who is homeless and it's kind
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of a crazy story crazy but cops felt they had to check it out big will told them
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Greyhound often walks miles from his desert tent to this Albertson's grocery store where he'd been spotted before
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stealing food so right away they went with big will to look for him I got out of the vehicle and went into to talk to
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the Albertson's employees in hopes that they would know who somebody named Greyhound that matches this description
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is Big will knew Greyhound sometimes sold drugs at the Chevron station right next door then a stroke of luck I see
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Greyhound he says Hey Big will what you doing over here so I said wait one minute I'll be right back big will then
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Whispers into my ear and goes that's Grayhound we got lucky to the grace of God he was there I'm like this can't be
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happening I walk outside I want to get as close as I can to him before he identifies me as a police officer cops
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identified themselves and immediately find drugs in Greyhound's possession so they take him to Police Headquarters and
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he's volunteered to come to our office and help us with their investigation Greyhound's real name is n Stevens he
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denies he has anything to do with Shauna tfa's murder I have nothing to do with it's not me you have the wrong guy he
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tells us that he does live in the desert he has a tent all right meet you there all right while Greyhound is held on
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drug charges a massive police searches launched to find his campsite Terry and I walked it that
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fence we had to climb through that fence that was tough this case came down to shoe
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leather we ran it all down right on top of that little Hill was where his tent was it was out here in these Rocky
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Desert Foothills about 8 miles from the Vegas Strip which is behind me the detectives making their way through this
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treacherous landscape discovered some important evidence we brought a helicopter with us and a bunch of people
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to search and we searched every one of these Hills remote remote yes I walked past a small shrub and rolled up
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underneath the shrub was a pair of pants and looked out of place detective Sam Smith had found a crucial piece of
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evidence near the campsite a pair of Stevens pants they were bloody police tested them on the spot and what did you
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learn later about the blood on those jeans whose blood was it uh that was uh Shauna tfa's
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blood back at headquarters police confronted no Stevens with what they had found then they used an old trick to pry
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more information out of him a lot of people don't know this investigators are allowed I'll use this word to mislead a
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suspect no we're allowed to lie they bluffed Greyhound saying someone fingered him for the
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murder Steven stuns the detectives by admitting he killed Shauna TFA but why more clues were found when police
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examined nol Stevens's cell phone what kind of numbers do you find on that phone we find a guy by the name of
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George in his cell phone and when we ask him who's George he says that's my friend the
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firefighter George was George Tia Shauna's husband and nol Stevens was that Homeless handyman who had caused
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friction in the TFA marriage we looked at each other and bing bing bing bing bing you hit this is
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Vegas you just hit the all sevens right yes exactly [Music] we [Music] there's mama she looking hot with the
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shades on as soon as she heard about the tragic murder of her beautiful sister Paula Richards and her husband John
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immediately had one suspect in mind look at everybody we all thought that George was
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involved but we couldn't figure out how he did it so they decided to call George who was still standing outside
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Shauna's townhouse with police so I thought we need to record this hello George yes' this this is
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Paula can you tell me what's going on son passed away and what did they do to her I don't no she's laying on the floor
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with blood on her head how is she still is Shauna's body still there yes I think
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so there's Daddy and Mama George then hands his cell phone to a grief counselor no one else can hear what I'm
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saying correct correct Paula then makes a startling accusation I have my suspicions that her
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husband may be involved in this based on you know many many conversations I've had with my sister um I I highly suspect
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that he may be involved the day after the murder the couple caught the first flight to Las
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Vegas from Nashville when we landed on the flight out to Las Vegas we had both shifted into this investigator mode
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while John and Paula were conducting their amateur investigation detectives Miller and long
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were continuing their professional one you see the telephone poles right along there armed with a good luck charm a
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casino chip that belonged to Shauna and I said I want you to hold on to this because this has allowed me to feel like
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Shauna is near us and uh you can give it back to me when you get an arrest soon into their investig ation detectives had
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discovered dozens of phone calls between no and George before the murder you said 87 calls that's that's
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correct 87 phone calls in one month that's more than IAL to my husband TFA and Stevens met years
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earlier when both were living on this middle class Street NL at his sister's house this house right here is the
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sister's house which where NL was living and the tifas down the block right down
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here yes n got to know George asked him if he could do yard work for George cops
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soon learned from NL Stevens their relationship was complicated NL idolized George he genuinely thought that he and
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George were very very close and would never turn on one another but detectives believed George was manipulating his
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friend who may have suffered from mental illness he he has a pawn he has an Implement a tool in in the in N Stevens
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and he's going to use that tool big will told detectives that George gave nol Stevens $600 in cash to kill Shauna with
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the promise of thousands more to come he said well uh he gave me a key to get in this lady's house and I
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murdered her and my heart dropped and I said what I said you just signed yourself a death
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warrant you don't know if this man is going to try to kill you or what when cops were scouring nol Stevens's desert
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campsite another intriguing clue they found was a barcode tag they scanned it it matched the style of hammer used to
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kill Shauna we figure out that low sells those hammers that launched investigators on a tedious Mission
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reviewing hundreds of hours of video surveillance tape finally they hit Pay Dirt when they
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spotted George and nol Stevens shopping together for hammers we have our definite connection
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between null and George Stevens was singing to Cops like a canary so he gave you a road map and you're following it
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and you're finding exactly what he said you'd find absolutely even leading them to where he had buried
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the murder weapon this Hammer which broke in two during the brutal attack and um there
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was blood on it they also discover a possible motive for murder money new floors new carpet new bathtub
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new sink new dish Bo Mama's happy about that huh Shauna liked to spend it and George
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liked to save it there's some Financial transactions that appear like he's trying to hide money uh through his mom
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with the news tightening on George TFA detectives meet with his family 9 days after Shauna's murder so at the end of
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the interview I tell mom and sister that George is involved in killing Shauna how
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do they react to that it's traumatic to them no no no they're crying they're telling us that we are absolutely 100%
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wrong minutes after that conversation police who had George under surveillance and were monitoring his phone calls
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overhear his sister calling them suddenly George jumped back into his truck and took off quote unquote like a
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bat out of heal George weaves erratically through City traffic and onto the Summerland
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Parkway he accelerates to 90 mph and smashes his head on into a barrier cops believe it was a suicide
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attempt he's trying to end his life right now because he can't face the fact of what's going to come amazingly George
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survived the crash because cops say he was wearing a seat belt he was rushed to a local hospital where detectives later
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arrested him and I said George you're under arrest for the murder of your wife Shauna TFA and his reaction was simply
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to look up from his hospital bed and say okay that's when police also charged NL
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Stevens with Shauna's murder oh look at this there's shaa Castleton B now she's TF wow she it was um a feeling of relief
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um all we wanted was Justice for Shauna are we ready to arrain Mr TF detectives believe George Tif was
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just one step away from getting away with it all commit the murder and then do away with null if he can get that
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done in the right way he's going to commit the perfect crime but George is steadfastly maintaining his innocence n
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Stevens and prosecutors are worried about their key Witness n Stevens he's at the heart of the murder
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conspiracy right he is a very important factor in the case he he's mentally ill right he has a violent criminal history
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and he's your star witness you know the defense wants him to be our star Witness
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[Music] George tfa's defense attorney Robert Langford knows how to take command whether is an actor in front of a live
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theater audience man or before a jury in a Sin City courtroom there's circumstantial
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evidence and there's direct evidence and now Langford is front and center in a case that even a playright would find
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difficult to imagine it's a good story it's real interesting but it's not evidence yet in the case who is
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responsible for the murder of Shauna Tia n Stevens n stev says he is n Stevens beat her to death with a hammer
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was he hired by George TFA to do that there's no evidence of that it's been three years since the murder and
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Shauna's family and friends like Lacy Green are apprehensive I'm not confident it's very scary not knowing what's going
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to happen I fear that he will be found innocent at no point during the communication with the police does
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George TFA ever mention n Stevens in his opening statement prosecutor Mark dejo knows he has to make NL Stevens and
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George TF partners in crime he calls n Stevens 87 times in the month of September the prosecutor's biggest
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challenge will be getting a jury to believe George TFA is capable of murder you're going up against an All-American
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boy that's a tough challenge it is as a prosecutor it's highly unusual to have the resume of George TFA and then him be
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a murder suspect I think George TFA is someone who had numerous successes in his life Pam weckerly assistant Clark
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County DA has scrutinized what she thinks makes TFA tick and what may have driven him to murder when his marriage
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is crumbling I think that's something that he just can't cope with the idea that he wouldn't have complete control
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over his daughter and shaa ultimately unraveling the complicated tale of George tfa's intertwined relationship
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with n Stevens is left to prosecution witnesses big will panx remembers exactly what Stevens told him the day
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Shauna was killed he said I got something to tell you and I said well what is it he said uh I just uh murdered
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a woman and right then and there I said you got to be a damn fool did you believe everything that no Stevens
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Greyhound told you uh it depends on the the day yet pennx admits under defense questioning that trusting what Stevens
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has to say is a dubious Prospect at best at a scale of 1 to 10 I would put him at
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a scale of maybe one and a half 10 being very honest and zero one and a half million not honest at all that's
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correct and prosecutors admit that Honesty may be the least of NL Stevens's problems he's an alcoholic he's told the
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tunnel lie before and no and he's a multiple Time Felon on top of it despite all that the courtroom Falls silent as a
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very different looking n Stevens perhaps the most unlikely star prosecution witness in Clark County History takes
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the stand he looks like a maniac I I literally felt like my heart dropped into my stomach when I saw him walk
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through that door Stevens who pleaded guilty in 2013 to Shauna's murder a agreed to testify against TFA once
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prosecutors in a pre-trial deal promised not to seek the death penalty against him where did you grow
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up all California when you get nervous do you have sometimes a little trouble speaking
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I better and you guys are you thinking to each other are we nuts yes I don't know we're thinking it to each other
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we're we're saying it to each how did you meet Geor stens soon settles in and proed by djo recites details of his
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relationship with TFA are you just doing work for him or is they're friends what
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kind of things have you done together we worked out stuff like that he recounts breaking into Shauna's townhouse 3 weeks
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before her murder and admits he's the one who left behind those size small boxers who told you to make it look like
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a Rober George and without a hint of remorse Stevens coldly describes how he killed Shauna
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with that hammer I hit her in the hand what happens when you come out that door and you're holding that hammer she tells
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me why I'm doing this she says why are you doing this yes who told you to kill shaa
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George he is a zombie parrot in that he had a response which was always George George did it George told
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me George itching to cross examine Stevens Langford rips right into him getting the state star witness to admit
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he not only hears voices but has Visions cuz I hallucinate what kind of hallucinations I see uh sh sometimes
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sometimes yes you see other people sometimes do You Hear Voices yes no Stevens is the craziest person I've ever
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seen take the stand what is reasonable doubt if not NL Stevens I think the more NL talks uh the more believable he is it
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seemed impossible to me that he could have fabricated this notion of a conspiracy with that level of detail uh
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unless it really happened Pro computers replace some of the most damning evidence that footage
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of George TFA and NL Stevens buying hammers knives and other items you have this defendant buying two hammers in
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five days TFA himself sits calmly through the trial showing no emotion he never takes the stand Rel they have to
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prove the case Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and they didn't so there's no reason to
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put George on the stand the only defense witness tfa's sister Maria and all the years that you've known
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George Have you ever known him to be a violent person never ever ever I've no fur the questions along
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with tfa's family friends from his childhood and West Point days are in court to show their support I'm here
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because I'm willing to stand behind and defend George's character George is not the person that is being depicted by the
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prosecutor after a week-long trial hearing from some 40 Witnesses and with 400 exhibits in evidence 12 jurors will
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now decide the fate of George Tif juror Roy Wright had questions were they just buying these things for n to be a
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handyman with or were they bind him for a murder my fear is that that the defense is able to discredit know enough
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that it causes Reasonable [Music] Doubt so cute oh look you can get good girl it has been 3 years since Shauna
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Tia was found brutally murdered and today her family hopes their long ganizing weight will end
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Injustice I'm just on pins and needles you know my stomach has been in knots for days and I don't think I've ever
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been so nervous a jury will decide if George TFA was The Mastermind behind his wife's murder George TFA is the evil one
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on one side of the courtroom sits Shauna's family some are dressed in her favorite color pink on the other side
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sit George's supporters his sister bernardet takes a moment to pray he's been called a
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monster people call him a monster it's just ridiculous and shocking after three long
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days finally a verdict the clerk will read the verdict defendant will rise we the jury in the ab title case find the
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defendant George mtfa as follows count one conspiracy commit murder guiltyy guilty of conspiracy to commit
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murder and first-degree murder seven counts in all George stands silent with the same emotionless stare he has had
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throughout the entire trial guilty of robbery with a deadly his family is simply devastated murder with in your
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opinion was an injustice done here yes because I believe that the evidence showed Reasonable Doubt Paula who knew
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from day one that George was behind her sister's murder is humbled it was almost
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3 years ago that Shauna was brutally murdered and we're so happy that Justice was served prosecutor Mark tacamo says
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he never lost sight of his good luck charm that casino chip that belonged to Shauna and given to him by her family
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and for you what did that chip represent it represented their hope of justice and
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you know it sat on my computer for 3 years and uh when I walked over for the verdict I put it in my pocket
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everyone deserves Mercy at his sentencing a jury must decide George's fate life in prison or life with the
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possibility of Parole in as soon as 20 years we hope he gets the maximum penalty George is a controller
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manipulator and I think the worst hell for him will be staying in prison the rest of his life and not being able to
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control anything Paul takes the stand to remind the jurors of her loss Shauna's greatest joy in this world was being a
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mother I remember her always running her fingers through Maddie's ponytail and she would call her a little monkey I
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would call a George's family and friends also speak hoping their words will persuade the jury to show Mercy George
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is one of the best of us he's hardworking compassionate you will not find a better firefighter on the job
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than than George I'm George's brother that's pretty much who I am how did you feel about that that's
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proud clerk will read the decision the sentence impose a sentence of life without the possibility of parole George
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Tia will spend the rest of his life in prison next one juror Roy Wright says that while NL
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Stevens is troubled they never doubted his story I think the general consensus was he wasn't really smart enough to
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make up a elaborate story that would fit the timeline so perfectly and the jury also believed
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this witness I said praise the Lord justice has been served big will who jumpstarted the
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investigation is big will a hero in this case to you he is and he doesn't believe
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in being an individual who turns a friend in uh but when he heard the story from null he felt the moral conviction
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to make the phone call and for that you know he is a hero with the trial behind them Paula
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and John Richards worry about Shauna's daughter Maddie who is now 11 years old she has lost both of her parents Maddie
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lives with George's mom but Paula and John visit her often I'm sure she was hoping her daddy would come home but
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when she's old enough I'll explain to her why that's not the case and why it shouldn't be the case oh
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f this is her first big dress she's sometimes when we're talking about shaa with Maddie I can tell when Maddie's
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reflecting in her face that she laughed a lot with her mom I can't explain it but I know that Maddie found a lot of
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laughter you know with shaa you're so pretty what a pretty [Music] girl [Music]