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[Music] do you know why you're here today to talk about what happened this morning I have a question do I really
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have to talk about what happened this morning again because I've told people and I told people and it just crushes me
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every I say it okay so I can't I can't really talk about that again 911 what is your emergency um
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there was a shoot out in my house and I don't know is dead and I'm scared after death I was 10 when all this
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happened I was so young and so little is there anybody else in the house with you no I'm I think I'm the
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only one alive I don't know but I'm scared I want my mom I lived with my mother that's
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Michelle Conrad I lived with my stepfather Brian Conrad and then my older brother Zach Don I had a dog named
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Molly and my stepdad Brian was a farmer and then my mom was also 6 months pregnant I don't hope my mom not
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dead that night I was having a nightmare and I remember like hearing the gunshots
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in my dream but like when I woke up it didn't end the gunshots were actually going off in my
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house my mother started screaming screaming and screaming and screaming my I jumped out of my bed and
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I'd went and crouched down by my door that's when IID heard footsteps it was very loud he was
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stomping I just remember popping up as fast as I could and just taking two leaps back into my bed and just
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freezing he fired two rounds off at me I had one of them graze my left leg and my
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left arm he returned to my brother's room and I just remember gunshots going off and my brother
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moaning I played dead for 2 and a half [Music] hours I was just like I can't just lay
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here I need to do something so I just proceeded out the door and started dialing 91 one please can you some
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somebody's coming somebody's coming I just couldn't get there fast enough I'm cold I'm very cold I could
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not get there fast enough I heard my mom scream what in the world could have taken place and why is she the only one
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on the phone I want my mom oh my Robin's home in Pampa Texas is is literally in the middle of nowhere so
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you have to wonder why this family why this Farmhouse whoever the shooter was whatever his reason for gunting down an
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innocent family in Cold Blood he probably didn't count on one thing he left behind a
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witness [Music] [Music] it's on Highway 70 it's about 13.3 M out from the Bolan alley I have a purple
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shirt on I have purple pants on it felt so long before they got there okay they're coming they're coming
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they're coming I just kept looking and looking and looking and hoping to see you know someone coming to my rescue all
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I want right now is my blanket and my [Music] pillow I'll never forget when I turn
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down the drive way oh I see him I see him this child on a phone about a shooting she ran straight to me I hugged
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her as distraught as she was she's very articulate just telling me in in absolute detail what was going on and
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what she heard and and everything he told me everything was going to be okay they were going to figure it out we're
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obviously not going in the house with her I got to secure her somehow out here in the middle of nowhere so I put her in
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my patrol car and locked it all the cops had their guns drawn and they were going to clear out the house
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to make sure no one was in there and to go see who was alive and who was not alive any crime scene that you go into
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you know it's the ultimate who done [Music] it one comment we made when we first got
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there is this is like the All American Family everything everything was in place the coffee was set to come on the
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next morning Mom Dad children getting ready for the birth of a child the East door to the residence had
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been kicked in and whoever entered that Residence at that time immediately went to
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[Music] shooting Brian had been shot three times and Michelle had been shot six times and
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the dog had been shot twice I guess I kept playing games with myself in my head when is my mom going to walk
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out of there when is Brian going to walk out of there where's Molly I wanted all of my family to walk
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out of there okay just like I did how that bullet missed Robin I do not know it struck a little drawer next
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to her bed Zach had been shot three times laying in his bed appeared Zach never woke up
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and Zach never knew what hit him I would never ask the question who's still alive I I wouldn't do it like I just I
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just wouldn't do [Music] it Chief Deputy looked at me and we looked at each other and he said go be
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with that little girl and uh I just wanted to take care of her best I could I said is it there anything
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I can do for you Robin and she said I want to feed my animals and I said I've fed animals before let's go feed
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[Music] animals maybe it's just pure survival you know coming from one situation
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that's just so traumatic to a diversion I just remember him helping me feed I laughed at the amount of alphalpha ha he
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tried to give my good goats because he it was like in a large amount and I said no no she just blew me away she
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completely flipped a switch and was absolutely bragging about her animal got first or second in this and her brother
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got first and second with his animal once we leave the crows and that moment's over the switch flipped again
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and it was right back to reality and and and she's immediately back to crying and
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cold and she grabbed my forarm finally like I kind of got the courage to just come right out and
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say Mom and Brian aren't aren't going to walk out of there are they broke the law enforcement people's
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hearts when they had to tell me no that they weren't walking out of there I was the only one that could walk out of
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there still alive Zach never woke up up and he never he never knew what was going on so I'm
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thankful that he didn't have a chance to hurt I'm really thankful for [Music] that right after it all had taken place
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I went to my great grandma's house it was just family after family after friends after people and everybody was
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crying and you know people were yelling at the top of their L saying what's going on what's going on what's going on
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and I couldn't answer questions because I was just scared I really don't want to
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go to sleep anymore okay it makes me to where I'm too scared I really don't want
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to go to sleep okay so [Music] okay I got put in a room with one of The Advocates at the bridge there was a
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microphone in the room and there was a camera in the room he shot in my room and missed me okay and so I had like I
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was de two whole hours everything was videotaped to make sure that they had it for evidence and stuff like that did
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anybody say anything could you hear anybody talking nobody talked they asked me what do you remember can you describe
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what he looked like I don't know this for sure but I thought I saw a white white white eyes white face okay my
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question to the other investigators was I need to know if she heard shots and if
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so approximately how many shots did she hear and when he shot I saw a flash she never hesitated in her answer of 15
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shots and through the course of the crime scene investigation 15 fired rounds were found inside the home
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something that you'd hope no 10y old getting woke up at 3:00 in the morning would have indelibly burned into their
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memory I can't talk about it it's too [Laughter] heartbreaking one of the things that our
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officers were very concerned about was the safety of [Music] Robin because you have to remember at
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this point we had no idea who had done this why it had happened or where those people might possibly be
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they put us in a shelter kind of thing it was my biological dad my stepmom at the time my steps sister at the time and
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myself you had to be buzzed in there was cameras all outside of it I understood that it was for my own safety I was not
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allowed to leave except to go to the [Music] funeral we knew there would be an outpouring of the community at the
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service and indeed there was everyone loved the conrades they were what we would call in the Panhandle
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salt of the earth kind of people they were real people that we loved and cared about and they cared about
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others I just remember sitting there and I would just look at one casket and I'd
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look at the second casket and then I would turn I'd look at the third casket and I would do it all over
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again it wasn't fair to sit there and look at that I was at the funeral we did have
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surveillance set up at the church just looking for suspicious people no leads were developed through
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the funeral services the anxiety and fear among the community went through the roof people were afraid
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that there was somebody on the loose that could actually come into their home and do the very same thing so people
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were certainly making sure their doors were locked people who kept guns in their homes were making sure they were
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close by we're trying to let the evidence speak to us we had the showc casings we
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have a lot of blood evidence we found several shoe prints there were some tire tracks that we located on the
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property what investigators didn't have was any DNA or fingerprints they knew it
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wasn't a burglary so they had to look for another motive there was one theory that it was
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a drug hit that uh had got the wrong house all the leads were were hitting dead ends there was no Rhyme or Reason
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for why this may have happened we all sat around and wondered wow who did [Music]
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this [Music] we had no clue who this was there was no reason for it who would do this to this
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[Music] family I received a call from a family member trying to reach out to my mother but was
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unable to do so so I I I called the house and my mother's cell phone uh didn't get an
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answer but wasn't alarmed at first around lunchtime that day I decided to leave work and drive to the house to see
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if I could find [Music] them once I get to the house a relative is standing outside and he tells me that
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my mother and grandfather had been murdered my mom was a very loving and caring mother and was my best
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friend and my grandfather was always supportive always there for me had just recently lost my father as
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well you definitely feel like you've lost everyone in your life orley mul and Don M were the two victims
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in the house a relative found orley M lying in the floor with wood and once I stepped
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in I found a bullet casing and saw a shell lying on the floor and saw Miss mul downstairs the shell casings that were
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there were of a strange I believe like a russan ammunition and it wasn't something you
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buy at Walmart or somewhere like that it was a different kind of ammo we were looking at the ammo the shell casings
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and one of the other deputies there that does a lot of the crime scenes and said
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I just took a burglar report from the night before from uh Scott King just lives down the road Mr King had reported
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that his son Levi come into the house while he was gone and broke into his uh gun safe and stole several guns
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and some of the ammo was the same kind once investigators had recognized those shell casings they had their
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suspect 23-year-old Levi King law enforcement knew Levi King well he had been in prison for burglarizing a
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neighbor's home and then burning it down he was sentenced to 14 years in prison but he served less than three before he
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was sent to a halfway house he disapp appeared from that halfway house and was on the Run just a week before the bodies
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of the muls were found so we started trying to piece stuff together one of the family members
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also said that the orley and Dawn mul's pickup uh Dodge Dakota pickup was gone so it was entered into the computer
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system Nationwide is stolen we had a warrant signed for Levi at I want to say like 11:00 that night
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and that warrant was issued in the computer for Nationwide pickup none of us knew why this had
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happened it it did feel completely random law enforcement kept us AB breast of the situation and had informed us
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that they had identified Levi King as a suspect he needed a way to um you know excape the area and so I uh they believe
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that he had targeted my grandfather's house and as well as the the truck for transportation Levi King was found in
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the truck by the border patrol in El Paso he admitted having guns in the back well that Drew their attention they ran
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the tags found out they was a stolen truck with a possible suspect from a murderer inside so they detained him
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there at El Paso PD um and actually interviewed him so El Paso Police held in question Levi King until the Missouri
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investigators could arrive just 15 minutes into that interview Levi King calmly confessed to killing orley MC and
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his daughter-in-law Dawn but he couldn't fully explain why before I uh even realized that I mean I had
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just pointed at Adam and fire how many times did you fire just once he he spun and fell over you walk
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by to the door and you see this woman why um explain to me why you shot at her I was scared I was I mean I didn't
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know what was going to happen to me you know I was panicking [Music] we geta Paso PD we are met by the
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detectives that are working the case I observed Levi standing there knew him said his name he knew who I was we
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both acknowledge each other we loaded him up and the pickup up and headed back towards
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Missouri during a conversation with Levi he described that even hours later he could still smell the
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Gunpowder the sweat and the blood describing it as a feeling that was probably better than any drugs he'd ever
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[Music] done I want to say within the next week or two I had been told by a couple of
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the uh Detention officers there in the jail that that Levi asked to see me and speak with
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me we got him out of the cell took him to the outdoor exercise yard and somewhere in that conversation
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within the next few minutes Levi made the statement you know there's four more in
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[Music] Texas at a point time Levi King says you know there's four more in Texas I didn't know whether to believe
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him to not believe him he'd been in our jail for approximately two weeks and nobody was hunting him nobody was
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questioning him so I don't know why he made that statement describing the location of the
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murders he he talked about the big cross in Texas Texas I knew exactly where he was
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talking about there's only couple that are that big that stand out like that so don Ruby reached out to
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investigators near that cross in the Texas Panhandle to see if there were any open
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homicides there were the murder of Robin's family it didn't take long to piece everything together after killing
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the muls and driving 500 Miles Levi King decided it was time to kill [Music] again the phone call that we received
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from the Pineville sheriff's office in Missouri blew open the case for us we find out that Levi had gone in and
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killed orley and Don MC and taken their vehicle and driven down through Oklahoma to
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Interstate 40 at some point in time Levi decides that he's going to exit the interstate
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and looks over and sees The Farmhouse belonging to The Conrads and pulls in kills Brian and Michelle and Zach and
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shoots at Robin thinking he's killed Robin if there was ever a case where a man deserved to die it was Levi
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King but first Levi king would have to face Justice in Missouri for the mol murders there he took a plea deal to
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avoid execution he agreed to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of Parole in Texas he also
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took a guilty plea but the da refused to take the death penalty off the table the purpose of this trial was only
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to see what sentence he was going to get it was about whether he was going to be executed or whether he was going to
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go back to Missouri and spend the rest of his life in prison I was 14 about to turn 15 when trial was
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taking place I understood that we were in court for the death penalty you know I told
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them okay he did this to my family so yeah okay go for it always in death penalty cases what
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you don't want the jury to be stuck with is this picture of a person as as a killing entity an evil entity the first
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thing we had to figure out how to do was to turn Levi from a monster into a human
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being are you Levi Alexis King yes sir I am Levi had been bipolar at least since
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adolescence at varying times he had um other diagnosis for depression for uh bipolar with with some amount of
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psychosis and then I believe it at some points in time he he had a schizophrenia
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uh diagnosis Levi King was one of seven children early on he showed signs of serious antisocial Behavior setting
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fires and killing animals and drug use in his home was rampant his father introduced him to hard liquor and
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marijuana and by his teens Levi King had moved on to meth and heroin and the place he called home you'd have to see
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it to believe it the environment which he grew up in and just the overwhelming poverty and
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despair until we went up there and actually walked around in it you just could not get a feel for it it it was
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truly frightening the first thing you noticed was just filth the insulation was just
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black and met melted there was one wall that just had this this massive display of ceremonial knives and swords there
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was lots of guns and knives and you know regardless of whether they had food or not they they had money for
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ammunition the defense did um a very good job to paint Levi as this poor pathetic
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mistreated sad little person there's a whole lot of other people out there in this world that have
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grown up in the same type of environment that Levi did or even worse than Levi did and they don't go on Killing
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Spree Levi King kills people because he likes the smell of blood he kills people because he likes
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that smell of gunm smoke he doesn't care I was going to be sitting in front of a murderer who had killed my loved
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ones and to testify I didn't want to but I knew that I needed to for my family's
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[Music] sake I was the only one that got to walk out of the house they didn't and they needed a
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voice too before she goes in to testify she's absolutely scared to death I just look
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at her and I said Robin we've got you back go do what you need to do tell the truth and just realize we're right
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outside this door he will never get to [Music] you I tried to avoid looking at Levi
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King as long as I possibly could and finally I couldn't resist the urge anymore because I wanted to see who had
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actually done this and so I looked at him and the stare that I got back was the worst
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feeling of my entire life he is very cold he's very blank and essentially it just felt like
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he was staring a hole right through me when Robin testified sorry the hard part about Robin
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testifying was to see the pain that that precious little girl had to go through and endure and
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then to see her say I've endured this but you're not taking my life away from me I am not giving you that kind of
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control I don't want to live with being bitter and being angry all the time for what had
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happened I did forgive Levi King because me forgiving Levi King it was my sense of
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peace and it was my sense of this is how I was raised and this is my family coming
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out we present the evidence the defense has their time to present their case and
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we asked 12 people to make a very very difficult decision to either take or not take a man's
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[Music] [Applause] life you ask the question why and that's the question that sometimes haunts you
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forever why why this family why this day why this time we may never know probably
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the hardest part for people to deal with on these types of crimes the randomness of it the lack of
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motive is to understand that there truly are people out there there who are just
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plain evil Levi King is one of those people I'm asking 12 people to sentence this man to death this was a horrible
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crime and we knew we had to be honest with the jury we tried to get to him say look he
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will never walk as a free man ever that that is punishment and he will never harm anyone else
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again for years I lived and breathed this case and despite your best efforts you don't always get it
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right the jury deliberated for approximately 7 to 8 hours and they came back and said that they wanted to give
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him life without parole one of them wanted to give him life without parole the rest of them wanted him to
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have the death penalty I credit that with giving the the eventual one hold out enough
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strength to to hold out I don't think we ever believe we get a life verdict I thought the best we
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would get would be a a hung jury just a look on Lynn's face that almost looked like that she had failed
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us but she really didn't ly Switzer fought for my family and that's something I will never be able to thank
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her enough and all the law enforcement that was involved and sat on the stand either way ultimately I'd still
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won and my family had still won Levi king would be extradited back to Missouri to serve that sentence so I
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was fine with him being in Missouri because Texas is my state I don't want you back in my state you've already done
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your damage here Tampa's home it's where my mom and Brian and my dad all raised me so to
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leave I felt like I was being a coward and I was running from my problems and running from what happened it's not
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saying that I want to stay there forever cuz I don't Robin tries very hard to not be a victim but occasionally
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I see glimpses of that scared little girl in Robin I really don't want to go to sleep anymore okay it makes me to
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where I'm too scared I really don't want to go to sleep the fear is still there and it's still very
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real I really hate being alone because I feel like that's when my mind wanders the most and I think the worst thoughts
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of what if I could have done this or what if I could have done that should I have gone and woke up
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Zach I think it impacts her every day Robin has to deal with um nightmares still she has to deal with repetitive
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memory of what happened to her she told me all the time she remembered her mom screaming there were times when she'd
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text me at night and say you know I hear things going on and she was very very scared whenever um noises would happen
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and just because she doesn't show it on the outside I think that she obviously has to deal with it on the inside I am
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very superstitious I guess the day that everything happened I had on socks and I
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had on long sleeves and long pants I will not sleep in long sleeves long pants or socks now I will not sleep with
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my door open because I feel like there's a figure of a person standing in my doorway I'm scared of the dark when I
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walk into the house and I know that I'm there by myself I will go through every single nook and cranny in the house to
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make sure that there's no one in there the dates that are really hard are birthdays Zach's birthday mom's birthday
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Brian's birthday even my birthday is hard because I don't like celebrating it without them I just have those days
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where I want my mommy or want my stepdad or want my brother and want things to go
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back to being normal and you just can't help but burst out into tears Robin is 21 years old she's lived
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off and on with her biological father and an aunt and now lives with friends no place has felt like home
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since the day Levi King walked into her life Robin briefly tried counseling but she didn't find it
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helpful I felt like I didn't need to talk to someone if I wanted to talk to someone I'll talk to my family or put a
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law enforcement person in front of me I'll talk to you but a psychiatrist no thanks I don't
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need someone to Pat me on the back and tell them you know ask me well how do you feel I don't need
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that I don't expect you to pity me and I don't want you to because that's not how
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I am I want to be just like everybody else so how does Robin move past the memories of that horrible day there's a
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group of people determined to help her maybe the only people who really understand what she's been
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[Music] through the heroic things that Robin did to survive that day and to survive that
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incident will always stick in my mind when that investigation was through we weren't through the law enforcement
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Community surrounded Robin we wanted to give her a mechanism of people that she could go to if she had questions if she
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had issues if she just wanted to talk everybody in the law enforcement field got together and and raised funds
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to to start a scholarship program for her I'm thrilled to death every time that phone rings and I see Robin's name
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on it it's always with a sense of Joy because uh she has a special place in my heart and she always
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[Music] will they treated her like their little sister they just have big hearts they
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carry big guns but they have big hearts when you go through things as traumatic as this experience was you
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have a bond and I I connected with her we did keep in contact and later on when she turned 16
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Robin invited me to her birthday party you know I revisit that place and I've always had this hesitation is
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seeing me a happy day or a tragic day I have had a really good relationship with
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Chad when I hug him every time I see him it's that same hug I got the day that he
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came and he was the first one to me and it's just the most heartwarming it's like a safe
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[Music] place I don't let what happened keep me down no no- sorry that's not me that'll
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never be me I played basketball I played volleyball I played softball ran track I
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was a cheerleader I like being a leader okay bye we have had a lot of moments Robin
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and I that we have been together for prom she came and got ready at my house I was of course there for
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her graduation just things that I know that she's going to need a mom for she says that her mom won't be there for her
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wedding and I just want to be there for her I call Denise my adopted mom I Look to Denise for everything whether it be
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homework a new boyfriend oh my gosh I don't know what to wear today to school every little thing to every major thing
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that's when I look to Denise she has this positive outlook on life she has one of the most Caring Hearts that
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anyone could ever see and I believe that Robin needs to be in a field with caring
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and helping people I made the statement many times back then and I still make it
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today and I hope the good Lord keeps me around long enough to see why he kept Robin D on this Earth because it's got
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to be an incredible special reason and I hope I get to witness that I could honestly not tell you why I
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was left why I was the only one that survived I couldn't tell you whether it be I'm able to tell people there's
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nothing that you can't get through maybe if I get married one day and have kids if it's to help my kids get through life
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or help other people in the world I I I don't know I don't know what my purpose is
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but it's going to be great when it when it comes 48 hours to miss it would be a [Music]
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crime [Music]