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[Music] [Music] I was in my car was pretty late in the night there was a mail over the phone
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screaming at i11 but boy she shot himself oh my God right when I pull into the driveway the front door opens over
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here come on and a man walks out of the house screaming crying yelling oh my God just overall kind of
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freaking out it was a gunshot I was downstairs TB going okay well where she at upstairs in
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the bathroom they found Kendy upstairs in a bathroom with the tub full of water Sor
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what's your first name Dan Dan [Music] Kandi was just so funny and nice we just clicked and never stopped
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clicking Dan and KY were great neighbors we all became friends you know being neighbors small town everybody you
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know barbecues and hanging out together she wanted to just love life and she loved
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life she's in the bathtub and she was in that tub of water with a gunshot wound to her head and the gun
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was still in the water of the bathtub did something strike you about that scene certainly we have broken
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glass here we have some of her clothing on the opposite side of the bed thrown on the floor we have wet towels behind
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the door are you asking yourself that means what from the beginnings it looks odd Dan Howard worked as a idah state
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police Trooper Dan knows things that most normal people Ordinary People don't know
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things like what things like killing someone and staging it to look like a suicide Dan thought he was smarter than
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everybody else smart enough to trick everybody and in the end that's what he did I don't know what I'm supposed to do
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I'm so lost and confused because Dan's not arrested I really did think that he would get away with it
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[Music] [Music] what's going on Sir they have to do their job this is their scene
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now send it medical cutney County Sheriff's deputy Miranda Thomas will never forget coming
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face to face with a distraught Dan Howard a former state trooper at his home in northern Idaho on a cold
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Winter's morning in February 2021 no damn it oh my God he would scream and yell but there were no tears in his eyes
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at any point he would act like he was gagging but nothing would ever actually happen Deputy Thomas was one of the
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First Responders to dance home a place he shared with his wife of 26 years kendi
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Dan I know this is hard but when when is the last time that you saw your wife alive Dan do you want medical to look at
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you at all no okay Dan Howard told police he discovered his wife in the bathtub he said she had shot herself in
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the head Candy's own pistol was at the bottom of the tub in murky water secure the scene don't touch anything
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okay cutney County Sheriff's detective Jerry Northrup when you look at arrived before
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midnight were you dispatched to a possible suicide yes sir it was identified as a
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suicide Northrup immediately began analyzing what was before him sir for a woman to shoot herself in the tub nude
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is unusual it doesn't mean it can't happen it just means that it's unusual Northrup a crime scene expert says
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something was missing from this death scene especially considering kendi had suffered a head wound there would be a
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lot more blood that was produced and I just didn't see that on her face on her body or in the tub Deputy Thomas also
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saw some curious things I went into the house and found a packed duffel bag was someone planning on leaving the house
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in the laundry room the dryer was running full of clean bath towels and mats having a dryer running at midnight
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very odd cuz I don't do laundry at midnight sure you could but and despite the shock of finding his
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wife dead Dan Howard appeared to have recently showered changed his clothes and applied fresh deodorant and you can
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tell that he's got deodorant lines on his T-shirt it's something seem un suicid likee to you certainly there was no um
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other signs of like a suicide note it's often standard procedure to check people at a shooting scene for GSR
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gunshot residue and as a former state trooper Dan Howard would know that yet detective Northrup says Howard was
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uneasy about being tested Mr Howard stuck his hands into his coat pockets and then he began began twisting him to
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and fro back and forth repeatedly until we told him to stop and remove his hands
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back and forth as if he's trying to wipe something off yes that was the impression that we were getting what was
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the result it was negative it was negative even though detectives were suspicious of all those little pieces of
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evidence that didn't seem to add up they could not rule out the possibility that
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kendi could have taken her own life Kandi's sudden passing stunn those who loved her she loved
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life I have never had so much fun with somebody no care in the world Michelle Lampert was one of kend's best friends
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that's kendi kneeboarding with Michelle in northern Idaho she always laughed my favorite is
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spin class and then to the Bur nothing like spin class and bur but she felt like that was okay she was a great mom
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Brook Wilkins is kend's daughter from an earlier relationship tell me about your
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mom she just seems really special she was she had a big personality she was happy to talk to anyone and make a
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friend and um choke around Candi was a small town girl from northern Idaho sporty and outdoorsy says her brother
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Brian she rode her horse a lot had sheep for 4 and well she had a goat too at the
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same time Kandi was just 22 when she married the former Marine turned Idaho state trooper Dan Howard he was 6 years
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older did she talk about the attraction she did think he was very handsome and I
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think the sense of security is a topic that was brought up quite a bit Dan and kendi settled on 10 acres in
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the town of athel just a spec on the map 21 Mi north of cording they had a son together Wyatt like his
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dad he became a marine a neighbor Carrie maitlin says dan and kend's marriage seem strong they
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were affectionate towards each other and they were generally respectful to each other Kandi worked at a local medical
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center during 26 years of marriage they made good money in real estate in this fast growing state by the time of kend's
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death the couple had more than $2 million in assets and yet money created friction between them her money was his
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money and his money was his money he never wanted to spend money and there was more friction in the
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marriage according to friends after Dan working as a trooper for the Idaho state
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police shot and killed a woman during a traffic stop Dan was cleared of all wrongdoing but the incident took its
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toll on Ken I do believe she did become depressed years later Dan would leave the state
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police and things kind of changed between them candi's brother Brian helped Dan find work on the North Slope
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the oil fields of Alaska he'd work 3 weeks straight and then come home for 3 weeks and she was free for 3 weeks is
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when she really decided to experience life Brian says the couple grew apart there
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was arguing bickering pretty much the whole time I'd be up there around them but I didn't think it was anything but
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Brook says it was the beginning of the end of their relationship Candi was frustrated and lonely she's very vocal
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that she does not love him that there's no love in this marriage Michelle says kendi had an affair and even planned
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plastic surgery she was just super excited and that's when Kendy told Dan she was
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moving out and wanted a divorce and she had started the process of buying a new house and I think she really felt that
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it would be okay by the end of January 2021 just days before her death Kendy met with a divorce lawyer when Dan came
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home from work she just told him I mean she just told him everything and I think that
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point I did get scared she said he was fine he wasn't fine no Dam it [Music] [Music]
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it never made sense to me it never made sense when First Responders examine Kendy Howard's body
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in her bathtub she had a gunshot wound to the back of her mouth and her pistol was in the water Dan Howard told
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everyone that Kendy had taken her own life were you buying that no I couldn't see her leaving her kids and
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granddaughter when he learned his sister was dead Brian rushed over to her house
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he walked right up to Dan there was no emotion he wasn't crying I asked him if he'd ever hurt my sister and he wouldn't
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look me in the eye and he said no ki's friend Michelle was also certain Kendy had not taken her own life Kandy was not
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depressed you don't think about doing plastic surgery you don't go work out you don't go to spin
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class but Carrie maitlin kend's neighbor says Kendy had been deeply unhappy months earlier she says Kandi
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told her about problems in her marriage she's just crying and crying and crying and and she's like I don't even deserve
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to be here Carrie doesn't think there's any mystery about what happened in that bathroom I do believe that KY committed
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suicide in the hours following kend's death detective Jerry Northrup said he had
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questions about Dan Howard's version of events there's a an order to things and a logical order it did not make sense
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one thing that didn't make sense that night was the cloth dryer running when First Responders entered the house there
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were still 6 minutes showing on the display so northrip did some then I went to the manufacturer site pulled up the
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specifics about the times for cycles and then took that information and compared
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that against the time at which the 911 call was placed I need you to take a deep breath
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for me so we can get people headed to you and what do you learn that it was started within a minute of the 911 call
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did your son shot himself oh my why it suggested that he was doing actions like starting laundry and rather than
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his claim that he was checking on Kendy Howard and and that he was inconsolable and upset it just it didn't add up and
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there were other red flags for detective northr did you find any signs of a struggle that there had been some sort
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of a physical confrontation between these two yes we did up in the master bedroom we noted on the
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floor that there were pieces of broken glass and there was that question of the amount of blood in the bathtub with a a
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wound to the head that water would be much darker red colored right from the blood yes sir based on my experience
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that would be consistent that the the fact that there wasn't was inconsistent inconsistent suggesting it might not be
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a suicide correct everything started directing us to the path that this was a staged crime
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scene nothing about this case felt right from the beginning detective Sergeant Ken Laton now retired was the lead
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investigator so what happened tonight marable problems she wants to divorce one day she doesn't the next so she
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brought home divorce papers just PL once we just grew apart I guess Lattin says he quickly became convinced
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Dan was playing them I had the sense that Dan had a story that he had planned to share with
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us that evening it felt very contrived almost scripted in a way Absolut yeah definitely
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[Music] scripted one example Lattin says was Dan Howard telling him that kendi had once
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put a gun to her head she put to her head freaked me out and uh I thought for sure here we go and drop the gun shot
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through the floor same gun same gun Lattin says Howard told him that after a heated argument that night over
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splitting their finances Kendy went upstairs to take a bath a short time later Howard heard what he described as
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a thud sound like something hit the floor or something no but he didn't investigate for more than an hour that's
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when Howard says he found her dead in the tub how many times have you ever described a gunshot as a thud I don't
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think I've ever described a gunshot as a thud I certainly would not expect someone who served in the Marine Corps
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served approximately 20 years in law enforcement someone who was a Firearms instructor someone who had been on their
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SWAT team I think if anybody's going to know what the sound of a gunshot is from inside a
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residence it's going to be Dan Howard as the morning came Dan called his stepdaughter Brook and told her the
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news no it didn't go well even though you can't hear her Lattin says he could hear Brooke shouting at Dan what what
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are you talking about who was that d she just accuse you of this just what it sounded like why would
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she do that why would you think you did this I haven't heard somebody that angry
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in a long time I'll be honest with you I was not expecting anyone I was across room and I could hear her oh I
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know she's angry kids don't want to believe their L not one time have I ever been to a
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suicide or even heard of one where one of the family members call and accuse her stepdad of murdering her mom it was
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a very powerful moment and I literally was able to see Dan Howard almost physically shrink down
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like the walls are closing in oh 100% man why is your da and think you killed your
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wife what evidence sticks out to to you from the scene of kendi Howard's death see more evidence from the case at 48
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hours.com in the early morning of February 3rd 2021 Dan Howard's Behavior continued raising the suspicions of
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cutney County detectives what what are you talking about they had just overheard that phone call from his
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stepdaughter Brooke accusing him of killing her mother I'm hysterical I'm crying pretty hard and you're believing
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that no way she shot herself right I tell him that don't know what happened but I know you did
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this cuz I got to tell you that phone call put chills down my spine detective Sergeant Ken Lattin confronted Dan about
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Brook's accusation you did it didn't you no I didn't I didn't think so but now after listen
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that think you did didn't how the hell how the hell she doesn't know she wasn't here within minutes Dan Howard stopped
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responding to questions detectives were now very suspicious because as an ex cop Howard
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had special skills Dan knows things that most normal people Ordinary People don't
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things like what things like killing someone and staging it to look like a suicide but there wasn't enough physical
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evidence at the scene to arrest him what's more later that day an autopsy was done and the medical examiner
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concluded kendi had died from that gunshot kend's daughter Brooke was perplexed she says her mother never took
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her gun out of the safe Mom never touched guns she wouldn't have used a Gun there's something not making sense
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here and I'm so lost and confused because you know Dan's not arrested what Brooke didn't know was that the
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investigation was zeroing in on Dan Howard just hours after kend's death cutney County Prosecuting Attorney Stan
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mortensson was called in to consult with detectives they pieced together a detailed timeline of the couple's
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relationship what did you learn about Dan Howard so we learned that Dan Howard was not the person that we thought he
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was at home and behind closed doors he was a different person investigators focused in on an alarming incident Dan
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was involved in from 2013 when he was still a State Trooper Dan had found out Kendy was having an affair with a
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neighbor who also happened to be Dan's good friend enraged Dan confronted him at his office he threatened to uh I
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believe his words were splatter his brain all over the walls threatened to kill him threatened to kill him Dan
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Howard was accused of repeatedly harassing the neighbor and eventually pleaded guilty to two felonies and
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served almost 4 months in jail in connection with that incident he was allowed to resign from the Idaho state
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police after that kend's friend Michelle says the couple's relationship seemed to
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change she was stuck to him like glue just like Like Glue like hanging all over him and she was never that way
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before I think backo was she scared in the years that followed Michelle says dan was controlling and quick to anger
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especially when it came to kend's spending Dan never wanted to go do anything CU that would spend money I
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just don't think she was her full personality when he was around but when Dan was about to head back to Alaska for
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work she was totally different person I think she realized the more she was free
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the more she loved life and she didn't have to be under his thumb they continued to grow apart then Kenny told
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Michelle about an explosive argument just 7 months before her death she had hidden credit cards and he found the
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bills and that started that argument he grabbed her and held her and there was bruises on her neck and
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her she set me pictures you could see them Claire's day in the pictures she just told me not to tell
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anybody candy never reported any kind of abuse from Dan to authorities how long had this physical abuse been going on do
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you have a sense we we really don't know it had been going on at least 6 months before she died then just four nights
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before Kendy Howard's death deputies were called to the Howard home kend's mother had asked for a
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welfare check after hearing a panicked Candi on the phone Sheriff's Office a visibly nervous Candi answered the door
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you mind if we talk to you guys really quick sounds fine all right hours earlier candy had picked Dan up at the
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airport coming home from the oil fields of Alaska and apparently upset him by saying she wanted a
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divorce Kandi tells a deputy she needs to get something from the bedroom and so I can go yeah do you mind I follow you
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that let the deputy speak with kendi away from Dan start he just come that take going
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to do okay I can't say what he was going to do it ever become physical I think I had woke up in time
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so it wouldn't okay when you woke up where was he was he yelling was he arguing like a
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okay so he's all is's kind of just that calm that's what's weird okay all right I know what I se I know what he was
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going to do Kendy is this your bag as well no that's his okay the deputy helped Kendy
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leave the house but investigators would later say they couldn't arrest Dan because Kendy never told deputies Dan
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had physically harmed her Deputy prosecuting attorney Julia schoffstall later learned that candy had told
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friends what had happened she wakes up in the early morning hours to Dan um standing over her wearing dark clothes
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black latex gloves a pillow in his hand the look in his eyes it was a look that she had never seen before and that she
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wholeheartedly believed in that moment that he was going to kill her but later that day Kendy returned
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home she told friends and family that he wasn't stupid enough to try something again that she felt like she had some
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level of safety what's the tragedy in this case to you the biggest tragedy of all but she was so close to getting
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out in text messages to Kendy Dan Howard said it was all a misunderstanding and he was willing to work things out but
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there were other signs he wasn't okay the day before kend's death her brother Brian took a long road trip with Dan
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he started asking me about who Kendy was having an affair with and Brian says dan
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figured out kendi was seen the real estate agent who was helping her buy that new house near her
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hometown you could tell he was mad the next day kendi was dead to prosecutors the circumstantial evidence
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against Dan was adding up after reviewing kend's autopsy and photos taking of Kendy body investigators
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discovered that in fact kendi had multiple bruises all over her body her body was riddled from head to toe with
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bruises and some lacerations and her jaw had been broken I believe that Candi was
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beat severely by Dan so what really happened that night the theory that Kandi's death scene could have been
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staged began to take on a new light she's in the bathtub Kendy did not die from a gunshot wound wait wait wait
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stop she was shot I understand in the mouth the bullet lodged in her vertebrae and it didn't kill her exactly we
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believe that kendi was already dead when she was shot I think Dan always had a level of
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control over kendi and I think by February 2nd he had realized that that control was gone weeks into the
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investigation prosecutors believed the circumstantial evidence showed kendi died at the hands of Dan Howard but with
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the medical examiners ruling that kendi had died from a gunshot wound and no DNA
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evidence linking Dan to kend's gun prosecutors faced challenges so they called in other experts to take a second
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look at the evidence including forensic pathologist Dr Jennifer Nara I looked at
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the aof report I reviewed all the photos all the x-rays the toxicology results I
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did not agree with the original cause of death that she died from a gunot went of
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the head Dr Nara walked us through her analysis I looked at what the TR was the path the bullet took inside kend's mouth
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I thought that was unusual because it was going in a slightly downward Direction typically gunot W suicides
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they go either straight back through the mouth or go slowly upward and can you demonstrate the path of this bullet I
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sure can so I have a skull model here and if you don't mind helping me out and then I'm going to take this Rod to show
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the direction that the bullet traveled through the mouth through the tongue and it tore through the tongue Like a
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Torpedo it just went straight through the center of the tongue would there have been a lot of
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blood absolutely it's going to bleed like crazy cuz the heart is beating at the time that the bullet went through
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that tongue exactly but when Dr Nora reviewed the photos of the crime scene she says she didn't see the amount of
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blood she would have expected to there was not enough blood and there were those bruises on
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kend's body and her broken jaw which Dr nor says were sustained before kendi had
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died injuries that that suggested a physical struggle of some sort correct she's got bruises throughout her body
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she's got bruising on both sides of her neck which is consistent with her being possibly choked what did you
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conclude I believe that keny Howard was already dead when she sustained that gunshot
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wound so she was already strangled or choked to death and when she was placed in the bathtu she was already dead so
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then how did kendi die prosecutors say Dan Howard used a restraining technique he learned back in his days as a state
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trooper we believe that he utilized a technique known as a kateed restraint show me how it works so what you would
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do is you'd place your arm around somebody's neck and head and their chin is going to be in the crook of your
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elbow prior to becoming an attorney prosecutor Stan mortensson had been a sheriff's deputy and like Dan Howard had
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been trained in administering the cored restraint hold rarely used as it cuts off blood flow to the brain if it's
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applied too long it can cause death and that right there was our Theory and how Dan killed
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kendi it's an interesting Theory but you do concede it is a theory right no witness came forward to say that Dan
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told me he did this or there's no physical evidence that proves that he did this right not the corate shin
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technique correct but Dan knew how to use this technique and taught other people how to use it so we weren't just
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grabbing this Theory out of thin erir this was something that Dan actually knew it took two years for the
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prosecutors to build their case finally in April 2023 Dan Howard was charged with murder he was also charged with
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domestic battery from that incident 7 months before Kendy death when she took those photos of her bruises and sent
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them to her friend Michelle he pleaded not guilty and posted bail Howard was ordered to wear an ankle monitor while
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he awaited trial all right in March 2024 a clean shaven Dan Howard went on trial the judge ruled
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that any mention of Dan's previous criminal history or or his 2011 killing of a woman during a traffic stop was
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forbidden it will turn out to opening statements in his opening statement prosecutor Stan mortensson said Dan and
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Kendy Howard had fought over finances that night and it turned physical with Dan bruising kendi breaking her jaw then
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killing her with the cored restraint hold then he said Dan Howard staged the scene by placing kend's body in the
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bathtub and shooting her ladies and gentlemen the evidence will come in and will demonstrate that this was not a
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suicide evidence will show that Kendy died of assciation evidence will show that Dan
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Howard is guilty of murder Mr Johnson Dan's lawyer Jason Johnson countered the state's claims by asserting that an
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emotionally troubled kend Howard had shot herself she is struggling with whether she wants to
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leave Dan He pointed out that Dan's DNA was not even on kend's gun the gun had kend's blood on it but Dan is excluded
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and he dismissed the state's assertion there was a physical fight that night Kenny did not have any DNA under her
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fingernails there were no defensive marks on [Music] Dan Johnson also said the investigators
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were all wrong about the lack of blood at the scene pointing out that several hours had passed before some of the
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crime scen photographs of the bathtub had been taken and some of the water could have drained how much blood went
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down that drain Johnson attacked the prosecution's claim that kendi was dead from
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asphixiation before she was shot by calling that medical examiner who performed kend's original autopsy you
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cause of death is gunshot wound that's my opinion more than a week into the proceedings the trial recessed for a
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long weekend break that night prosecutors learned of a new dramatic development that seemed to be right out
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of a television crime show it seemed Dan Howard was making a run for it what do you think of the
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prosecution's theory of how Kendy Howard died chat now with the 48 Hours team on
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Facebook and x with his trial winding down Dan Howard who was out on Bale with an ankle
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monitor suddenly took off this was The Great Escape he was hoping to get away he did it right after
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we finished with all of our evidence a deputy was tracking Howard that night you know this is I90 going 70 mph he
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abruptly took an exit and then got back on the highway you know looking in his rearview mirror is somebody following me
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about an hour later Howard made it to the Spokane International Airport but he's right there at the airportal right
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there at the airport terminal Dan was uh taken out of the car he was put in the handcuffs Howard claimed he had gone
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there to help a friend return a rental car not to make a run for it and I think it's possible that he was going to cut
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the ankle monitor off leave it in his car and then drive away in another rental car instead Howard's Drive was a
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short one back to a jail cell in cordal Lane Idaho his bail was revoked days later the prosecution made closing
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arguments ladies and gentlemen the state has shown you this was not suicide because a dead person cannot shoot
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themselves in the mouth the jury was not told about Howard's escape attempt Dan Howard's defense attorney
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insisted that Candi took her own life the scene is consistent with suicide and that Howard did not have the
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skills to Stage a murder scene there's no evidence that he worked as a detective no evidence that he had any
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sort of calide training uh no evidence of the knowledge of stage in a scene have you in fact reached the
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verdict after 10 days of trial 62 Witnesses and just over 8 hours of deliberations the jury reached a verdict
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is a defendant Daniel Howard guilty or not guilty of second degree murder guilty I
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cried there was I think I gasped that there was crying and and did you look it down
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I'm looking at him and as he turns there's just there's no expression there's no look of
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remorse Dan had shown no emotion but 2 months later at his sentencing he begged the judge for
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leniency I love my wife and I miss her and I'm not that mon I assure you that uh people are betray me to
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be keny and I had uh 28 years together and uh raise a family and had mostly a good marriage and a good
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life I'm not that ter but they TR it is not my intention to anger the court or disrespect the
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process that I used to believe in but your honor is about s in this man prison thank you Mr but the judge wasn't
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moved what we know beyond A Reasonable Doubt is that you strangled your wife you murdered her and then you staged her
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naked body in the bathtub shot her through the mouth and tried to pass us off as a suicide you killed a
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mother you killed a grandmother you killed a sister you snuffed that out because of your own Pride greed and
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anger Pride greed and anger said the judge but others kept coming back to the word control to me this case was about a
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man who thought that he could control a woman and if he couldn't get his way he was going to force
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it all right I cried it's such a relief that people got to hear what actually [Music]
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happened um Kenley Wilkins and um ky's granddaughter and what do you have in front of you here uh chickens Brook's
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daughter Kenley was just eight when her beloved Grand mother was murdered now 12 she Treasures these
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glass chickens that her grandma collected do you feel a connection to your grandmother when you when you see
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these yeah she had a China Hut yeah a China Hut it was just full of chicken so I'd always just trying to like like look
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how many different colors there were pretty cool Grandma you loved her didn't you what's the hardest thing for you
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probably her smile it's tough isn't it I want Justice for Kandy what I hope they get from the story that you don't
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have to live like this I wish I could have stopped it I'm still shocked that we're still
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talking about domestic violence and [Music] that sometimes you can't do anything
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[Music] [Music] CBS next Saturday he's not breathing a surgeon's girlfriend found dead provided
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those drugs was this a case of a controlling doctor's depravity this was not just some simple accident this was
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