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[Music] come on us it's got [Music] speaking my name is Jane dtic I spent 20 years in prison for a
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crime I did not commit I thought truth and Justice was at the front of everything
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and it certainly has not been in my [Music] case I wish I just knew what really happened I wish there was some way to
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piece it together somebody to come forward with the truth on February 13 2000 Jane and Bob
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dork are living together in North San Diego he said he was going out for a jog that was it that was the last I talked
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to him she reports her husband missing there was a search for him as a missing person the next day he was found in a
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location 2 or 3 mil away from their home and I stop about right here I could see
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the body and I said this is Mr dtic he was found to have blunt force trauma to his head he was found to have injuries
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consistent with strangulation it was obvious to me that it was a homicide they found Bob's blood
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in his bedroom the detectives decided because because they saw some blood that they were in the crime scene and that
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Jane was the only one with access to that bedroom and to Bob there was only one person that could have done this to
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Mr dorak and that was his wife Jane dorak he said you're under arrest I was like what I would never hurt my husband
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police say circumstantial and blood evidence links Jane dtic to her husband's murder the bedroom was not a
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crime scene I don't doubt that this occurred at the home and I don't doubt that she's involved there was blood on
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the comforter there was blood on the pillow sham there was blood on the headboard when you have a home that's a
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working Ranch you're going to find blood around it's just problem on top of problem on top of problem I would
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declare this crime seen very contaminated they focused on one person and turn a blind eye to anything else
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Jane dork chose murder over divorce it felt like a nightmare and I kept saying when am I going to wake up do you
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believe that Jane dork got a fair trial no I don't I'm in no position to say who
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did what I don't have a crystal ball to tell you what happened to that man what do you believe happened to Bob I believe
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Bob somehow fell into some kind of situation I don't know I lost my husband and then I lost
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my freedom [Music] [Music] Jane how would you describe what the last 22 years have been like for you
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it's been torturous in many ways I suppose many moments when I thought how do I keep
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going I always used to say this is the most peaceful place on the face of the Earth nothing feels peaceful
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anymore when we first met Jane dork in 2000 the stress of all of it on everyone has been incredible um the life she had
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once found so Serene in the Foothills outside of San Diego the life she had shared with her husband Bob had taken an
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unimaginable turn how can this be how can this happen happened surely I'll wake up and it's a dream Jane had become
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the prime suspect in Bob's murder authorities believe that she viciously attacked him in their home I certainly
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didn't do this I loved my husband Jane 53 years old at the time and Bob 55 share more than half their lives
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together I was 23 when we were married Bob was a wonderful loving creative person and welcome everyone here those
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that who' been before and those who haven't Bob spent most of his career as an engineer Jane worked as a nurse and
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later as an executive in the healthc care industry the couple raised three children Alex Claire and Nick the family
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is has always been incredibly important to both of us also important to Jane were their horses you while
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Jane's passion was breeding and riding I'm having a good here Bob was an avid jogger and that says Jane is the last
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image she has of her husband Bob was sitting actually in this chair facing the TV he although Jame was Under
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Suspicion she allowed us into her home he said he was going out for a jog and he was actually had his jogging suit on
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was tying his shoes that was the last I talked to him it was around 1 p.m. on February 13th 2000 when Jane says Bob
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left to go for that run as hours passed without any word from him Jane says she grew concerned it was beginning to get
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dark I decided to go out and look this is the route Jane says she took to search for Bob driving up and down the
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hill where he sometimes ran by 7:45 p.m. Jane's concern turned to fear I said enough this is enough something is wrong
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and that's when I made the call to the Sheriff's Department my first thought that night
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was maybe this man had a heart attack and fell down the embankment along Lake Wolford Road as Deputy James Blackman
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and others from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department search for Bob concerned friends and family gathered at
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the door house the minute I saw my mom's face I knew right away something terrible had happened the DK's daughter
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Claire 24 at the time had spent the weekend visiting her aunt and returned home to a distraught Jane she was
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freaked out she was scared she was nervous she was crying it was a horrifying feeling that
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got more and more horrifying when he wasn't found and then in the pre-dawn hours of
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February 14 Deputy Blackman turned into this driveway several miles from the door Tock home and noticed a body off
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the road at this point I could see the shirt the pants and he was uh laying on his back from Jane's description he
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immediately knew it was Bob dor I got there a little after 7 in the morning San Diego County Sheriff's
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detective Rick emson was called to the scene there was no evidence of any type of vehicle accident the evidence Epson
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did find suggested something else I could see that he had uh blood on his face there was blood near the back of
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his head and I could see that there was a rope around his neck Bob dork had been
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bludgeoned and strangled the one-time missing person case had turned into a homicide
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investigation is there anybody you could think who would want to see your husband
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dead nobody nobody as law enforcement asked Jane questions about Bob she let them into her home
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come in search look for anything detective emson noticed a piece of rope hanging from the porch that caught his
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attention thinking he had just seen something similar on Bob dork it appeared to be the exact same type of
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rope that was found around his neck uh the sliding glass door going into the master bedroom and when investigators
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got to Bob and Jane's bedroom they found something more troubling they believe they were looking at blood
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spatter there was no question or mind that this uh assault occurred in the master
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bedroom they documented their findings in this diagram taking photos along the way of what they believed to be blood on
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various items in the bedroom and of what appeared to be a large blood stain on the underside of the mattress I do know
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when Bob had a nose bleed he made a comment about getting some blood on the mattress I Jane says there was a logical
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explanation for some of the other blood too they had dogs who were injured and had
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bled this little dog had an abscess on her cheek that was openly draining at the time and little drops of blood we'd
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find as she sat on the couch the carpet pieces are what the detectives removed feeling that there
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was blood on the carpet the spots of blood investigators said they found all over the bedroom surprised Jane do you
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have any other explanation of how that blood spatter could have gotten there on the ceiling on the window on the walls
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no adding to Authority's suspicions was this bloody syringe found in the bathroom garbage Jane told us she used
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it to medicate her horses I know that I give the horses shots all the time if you go look in my fridge right now
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you'll find horse syringes investigators theorize that Jane HIIT her husband with an object in
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the bedroom and strangled him she then dressed him in his jogging suit put him in their truck and dumped him along the
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side of the road where his body was found why do they believe you killed your husband you
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know I guess I've been through that one a billion times I don't know but in investigators thought they knew
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believing the motive was money and escaping a troubled marriage Jame was the main bread winner and they learned
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the couple had split up for a year in 1997 I don't make any apologies for the fact that we had rough times but that
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doesn't change the fact that we loved each other and that love says Jane is why they reconciled they have been back
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living together as a couple for a year and a half before Bob was killed I really think the
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separation caused us to really regroup and think about what was important they were getting along better than they ever
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had in the past I was living there I can tell you that but law enforcement was unmoved and 3 days after Bob DK's body
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was found Jane was arrested and charged with first-degree murder I know I didn't
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do this I know there's a killer out there but how am I going to clear myself she's baffled cuz I don't think she
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knows what happened released on bail Jane started preparing her defense hiring attorney car ciger Walt she knows
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that she's placed as the Killer and she's not the Killer and at trial Jane's attorney would present a surprised
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suspect who he felt was responsible for Bob DK's murder [Music] come on I know that I'm innocent but I don't
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have any more faith in the legal system I believe I could be convicted for something that I didn't do and that's
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very scary while Jane worried about her outcome at trial Claire dork was much more confident about her mother
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chances my mom could not have done this crime she didn't have the motive and she
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didn't have the opportunity but when the case went to trial in 2001 a year after the murder
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prosecutor Bonnie Howard rean described the DK's marriage as seriously troubled and told jurors that Jane didn't want to
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pay Bob alimony in a divorce Bob dork never went jogging and he never left that residence alive
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according to the state Bob had actually been killed Saturday night nearly a day before Jane reported a missing the
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autopsy performed by Dr Christopher swell showed undigested food consistent with what Jane said they had for dinner
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that night are you able to give us an estimate of how long after Mr Doric eight how long after that he he was
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killed yes it was very short early after he ate I would say it probably within a
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couple of hours and he wasn't killed on the side of the road the prosecutor said
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there wasn't enough blood there instead she said Bob's blood was all over the bedroom lead detective Rick empson
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testified he had asked Jane to explain that she' indicated initially that she had a dog that um had been bleeding and
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then indicated that approximately week prior Bob had a bloody nose over in the corner by the stove and that Bob had
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cleaned it up there was evidence someone cleaned the bedroom the carpet next to the pop belly stove and tile floor was
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wet and had blood stains underneath did any of the blood from his nose bleed go on the carpet
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mhm do you know where mhm right next to the tile cuz I'm the one that helped him
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clean it authorities dismissed Jane's explanations their theory was that Jane hit bob in the head in their bedroom
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with an object while he was lying in bed although they never identified or found
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any weapon Charles Merritt a criminalist and bloodstain pattern analyst for the San
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Diego County Sheriff's crime lab recounted 20 locations where he saw blood stains on one of the pillows on a
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lamp this particular night and on the pot belly stove was on the ceiling itself had been on the underside of the
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mattress the jury was also shown this evidence of tire tracks found near Bob's body the states expert Anthony D Maria
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said he matched the three different types of tires on door teex truck are you saying the measurements taken at the
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scene were equal to the measurements taken off the actual vehicle yes the most telling evidence connecting Jane to
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the murder according to the prosecutor was that syringe found in the bathroom it had traces of a horse tranquilizer
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inside and even though there was no evidence that Bob had been injected with anything it had Bob's blood and a bloody
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fingerprint on it the evidence will show that the fingerprint on this syringe was Jane dtic can you explain
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that I can't really expl explain it other than um I know that I helped Bob clean up a nose bleed and if that's the
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same time when I took the syringes and threw them in the trash and there was some blood on my hand that could have
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made that happen but perhaps the most powerful Witnesses were the doric's two sons Nick and Alex they both testified
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against their mother did you say anything specifically about the syringe well I asked her um
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how it got there and what it was doing there and what was your mother's response she said that uh her biggest
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fear in all of this was that the that us family members would start questioning her your mother always settled things
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logically tried to no you wouldn't agree with that statement nope it would be my
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mom basically saying this is what you have to accept and then my dad would either accept it
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or there would be threats of divorce or something that's what I remember from growing up
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Jane's attorneys Carrie stiger Walt and Cole Casey admitted it was a big blow would you say that's been the most
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damaging testimony yeah it's not what they said it's the fact that they were there testifying for the prosecution
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when it came time for the defense to present its case sterwald actually agreed with the prosecution on a major
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point that the murder took place in the bedroom but he had a jaw-dropping alternative suspect Claire
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dtic ladies and gentlemen Claire hated her father he claimed Claire an avid horsewoman hated her father because he
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threatened to sell the animals she loved and suggested that she was capable of murder that's what Claire is a
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hot-tempered explosive individual it was a risky strategy that Jane reluctantly agreed to
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all I can do is trust what Carrie says is the best way to go are you at all concerned that the jury will wonder
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about a woman who would allow herself to be defended by pointing the finger at her daughter could that work against the
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two of you it may I don't know I think it is the most viable defense and I think it's supported by the best
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evidence stiger Wald insisted Jame wasn't physically able to commit the murder but Claire was she runs marathons
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and she's a personal trainer she is as fit a woman as you will see at the age of
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24 but remember Claire and her aunt said they were together 2 hours away they call the aunt that's the extent of the
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investigation on The Alibi of clar Dork did Miss clar dork please step forward that alibi is nonsense uh you are going
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to assert your CRI rights correct the jurors never heard from Claire or Jane who chose not to
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testify but they did hear from a woman who said she thought she saw Bob the day he disappeared sitting between two men
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in a black pickup truck not far from where his body was found who killed Robert dork was it CLA
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dork or ladies and gentlemen was it someone else in his closing argument stiger Wald accused investigators of
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dismissing Witnesses like that woman and focusing only on Jane the prosecution had focused on one person and that's not
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the way to conduct an investigation it's not the way to run a case Jane dork and
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Bob dork were the only two people in that home that weekend Bonnie Howard Regan says there's no need to
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investigate further when you have sufficient evidence they searched that bedroom and they saw all the blood and
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they knew that was the crime scene what more investigation do they need to do it took the jury 4 days to return a
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verdict we the jury in thetitle cause find the defendant Jane Margaret dork guilty of the crime of Murder in the
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First Degree in violation of penal code section when did Jane dork get a fair trial no no no because fairness means
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that you're presenting things accurately and it it appears like it was not done accurately juror number eight yes juror
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number nine yes juror number 10 yes go behind the scenes with the 48 Hours postmortem
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podcast it almost didn't register for a minute it's like no this can't be I was so
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certain that I was walking out I thought they would see the truth Jane dork never
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imagined she'd be found guilty it's hard to keep going at the time of her conviction for the murder of her husband
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she was 54 years old and sentenced to 25 years to life I mean I just I can't see my way clear to a wife
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in prison I just can't see it determined to prove the jury got it wrong Jane became her own Advocate working on her
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case for many years we spoke with Jane again two decades later about her efforts all through the prison my prison
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journey I continued to write all innocence projects I could think of asking for help at the same time
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realized that I had to fight for myself J filed motions from prison citing such issues as insufficient evidence and
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ineffective assistance of councel I would describe my defense as limited and inadequate in her filings Jane indicated
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that she wanted to testify at her trial but had left that decision up to her attorney and that had she testified she
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could have explained Bob's stomach contents stating that he sometimes ate leftovers from the previous night she
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also described her attorney's alternate suspect Theory pointing to her daughter Claire as a killer as
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absurd do you believe that your daughter Claire had anything to do with the death
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absolutely unequivocally not and my defense attorney everybody knew she was away for that
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weekend okay in regard to that defense strategy Claire later wrote in a book how could I be angry at my mother when
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all I did was worry about her Jane's lawyer whom we interviewed at the time of her trial did not speak with us
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again that was the worst strategy of my life ever I said to my attorney if anything happens to Claire I'm going to
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stand up and say I did it in her filings Jane also questioned why her defense attorney accepted the bad forensics
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pointing to the bedroom as the the murder scene rather than presenting other scenarios as to where and how Bob
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dork could have been murdered did the defense too easily accept the bedroom as a crime scene that
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is a very legitimate argument CBS News consultant Matthew troano a former prosecutor and
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current defense attorney was not involved in the DOR case but he reviewed some of the court documents at our
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request the defense made a strategic decision are we going to dispute that a crime happened in this location or are
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we essentially going to concede that it happened there and then come up with a different Narrative of how it happened
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there and they chose the ladder and that decision troano says likely led the defense to point the finger at Claire
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for the murder they had to blame somebody else for something that happened in a specific location and they at least as
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it relates to the daughter you know went back to her having some disagreement with her father about something and it
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was it was a risk have you ever seen that kind of Defense you you don't you don't see it I mean you could happen
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when there are clear facts and evidence to support it but when there are none that's you know that's a
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showstopper and in fact Claire was never charged with any wrongdoing in connection to her father father's murder
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the defense accepting the bedroom as the murder scene is especially puzzling to troyano as there were reports from
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several eyewitnesses who said they saw a man jogging that day accounts consistent
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with Jane's depiction of events not the prosecutions that's critical critical evidence and all of that was really not
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pursued and I didn't know of all of the witnesses had there been a investigation
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initially all of that would have come out through the years in filings Jane raised problems with the entire case
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against her arguing that authorities focused on her from the very beginning of the investigation and failed to
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follow other investigative leads but motion after motion was denied and regarding Jane's ineffective Council
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Claims the judge rejected them all ruling that her attorney's performance was not deficient and that his actions
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had not affected the outcome of the case there were many moments where I doubted when is this ever going to turn
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around many many moments still jane didn't give up she continued looking for new evidence to clear her especially as
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DNA testing became more advanced in 2012 she filed a petition for d DNA testing of that rope found around Bob's neck and
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other items like Bob's fingernail clippings which had been saved but never tested and in
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2015 the motion was granted is that unusual that she finally even got testing based on her filing
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motions on her own yes it's it's very atypical it was at this time that Jan finally got the attention of a wrongful
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conviction group lyola law schools project for the innocent I get this wonderful letter from Lola saying you've
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contacted us and we're interested in your case and after that lyola took over got the testing done and what that
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testing revealed as well as a fresh examination of other evidence would change the course of the case that's
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really what flips the script to say that there's more here this is more than just
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an inadequate investigation there is a different narrative that's running through these
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test results there is physical evidence that another person could be [Music] involved when you talk about the
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evidence in this case the subsequent testing reveals that you might have a different explanation for things that
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really shed light on what may have happened here Jane dork spent years behind bars asking for a new examination
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of the evidence used to convict her of her husband Bob's murder now working with a team from lyola project for the
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innocent the court allowed them to have new DNA testing on items such as the Rope found around Bob DK's neck his
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fingernails and clothing appeal filing state that foreign male DNA was found on several items the results of that none
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of my DNA anywhere there is physical evidence from fingernail clippings from a rope from
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his clothing that is foreign to Jane the team from lyola project for the innocent declined to be interviewed we
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asked Nathan lent a professor of biology and forensic science at John J colle of
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Criminal Justice who was not involved in the case to review court documents about
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new evidence such as the DNA on the robe while they didn't get a profile that would be good enough to search a
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database or even match to a suspect they did get enough DNA uh that is not attributable to Bob or to Jane but while
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Jane and her team believe the results pointed to her innocence the state came to a different conclusion stating in
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phines the DNA obtained was too low level to make any reliable interpretation L agrees the DNA levels
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were low but he believes it was enough to exclude Jane and that the absence of Jane's DNA on the Rope as well as under
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Bob's fingernails or on his clothing is significant with the theory of crime that they presented you would expect a
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lot of Jane's DNA on Bob and if if she had moved his body you know there's a lot of DNA transfer that might have
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taken place there that wasn't found the appell team also reviewed the bedroom blood evidence the prosecutor told the
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jury was fully tested and was Bob's now the evidence will show that all this blood has been described to you the
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observations made in this bedroom that it was all sent out for DNA analysis and it all came back Bob door to exp
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blood but according to the appeal not every single spot in the bedroom believed to be blood was tested instead
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representative samples were tested there were cases where just simply one swab with a control was taken
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and it was representative of a variety of spots that's not good practice it just invites
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misinterpretations when you're talking about blood spatter and you're trying to analyze how it got there you need to do
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a fairly comprehensive test to be able to draw the conclusion that you're drawing but I think the prosecution
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could argue you can't afford to test can you every single drop that looks like blood right but when you say we did
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everything and that's not accurate that's where the problem lies in fact the appell team says that
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several blood-like stains on items including a pillow sham the nightstand a lampshade turned out not to be blood and
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there were those stains on the bed spread which criminalist Charles Merritt pointed to at trial and described as
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Bob's blood two of the actual stains circled by little red dots Jane's lawyers learned those particular spots
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were never tested at all and due to improper storage the bedspread could not be tested again so we don't know that it
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was blood at all the handling of the evidence over the course of the entire investigation was also raised on appeal
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this one is hard to even look at um you have an investigator who definitely should know better um you know handling
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murder evidence with his bare hands in addition to obviously depositing his own DNA all around this crime scene he's
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also risking transferring evidence from among the various spots that he's collecting and there's that singe with
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Bob's blood and Jane's fingerprint found in the bathroom garbage something the pellet team and lent thought could be
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explained and if you throw that syringe in the garbage can Bob throws a bloody Kleenex in that garbage can they could
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transfer transfer of DNA from one object to another in a trash can is not unexpected lent feels the fact that the
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syringe was even found in the garbage points fingers away from Jane if you're cleaning up after a murder you won't
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leave the bloody syringe in the waist backet basket but the state stood by its original investigation maintaining the
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bedroom was the murder scene stating that the evidence still points to Jane dork as the Killer and that the defense
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arguments are largely derived from speculation and misstatements of fact Jane's appella team though maintains the
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bedroom did not even look like a crime scene something lent also believes there is not a consistent
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pattern to the evidence that indicates a violent bludgeoning that took place in that bedroom if Bob were alive today and
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investigators had walked in his room no one would say oh this looks like someone
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was murdered here if you just look at all of the pieces of evidence that lyola was able to absolutely take apart and
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yet we know what was told to the jury in the original conviction so um how can that happen as her attorneys reviewed
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evidence Jane dork in 2020 was temporarily and conditionally LED out of prison due to covid health concerns the
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question now became was the New Evidence her lawyers were finding enough to make
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her release permanent what do you think about the new DNA test results chat now with Erin
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morti on x [Music] in the summer of 2020 Jane dork and her team hoped a court would overturn the
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jury's verdict turning her temporary release from prison into lasting Freedom what were their major points the
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testing that was done initially was insufficient the way that that testing was presented to the jury was inaccurate
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there were a number of different arguments that they made a hearing was scheduled but then suddenly the state
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requested an unplanned virtual hearing the people are willing to concede petitioners new evidence claim the
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prosecution admitted what Jane's lawyers had argued all along the DNA evidence as
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it exists now in 2020 is much different in quality and quantity than presented at trial in 2001 that the new DNA test
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results as well as issues with how the sheriff's crime lab handled evidence cast doubt on the verdict but what came
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next was even more unexpected the state requested that Jane's murder conviction be
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overturned and the judge agreed I'm going to Grant the motion for the rent than your honor I always believed that
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at some point the truth would come out Jane's ordeal wasn't over 3 months later in another shocking move the DA's
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office decided to retry her I don't think any of us thought that San Diego County would attempt to retry me but
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they did the state believes that she did this and they want to pursue it but in order to retry her the prosecution first
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had to demonstrate to the judge that there was still enough evidence to prove Jan kill Bob despite the new DNA results
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and the questions about the initial testing we are back on the record all party then you have this battle in court
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if you're conceding that there were problems how are you going to do it again essentially with the same evidence
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it was astounding to sit in that courtroom and see what they try and put forward as actual evidence and then also
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thrilling to see my team take it part the youth only state that the Jane's attorneys questioned The credibility of
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several of the state's experts including Charles Merritt of the sheriff's crime lab the judge ultimately ruled that the
00:37:40
new trial could go ahead but that some key evidence presented in her original trial would not be admissible including
00:37:50
those tire tracks near where Bob's body was found that were linked to Jane's truck you have enough number of
00:37:58
different trucks that could be consistent with those tire tracks it's in essence kind of junk sciency in May
00:38:06
2022 just as jury selection was about to begin the prosecution surprised everyone
00:38:12
yet again remain seated and come to order this courtroom is now in session we go into court as the jury is
00:38:20
assembled and ready to come into the courtroom Monday morning and Everything's changed we know feel that the evidence
00:38:28
is sufficient to show proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and convince 12 members of the jury so we are requesting the
00:38:34
court dismiss the charges at this time thank you Store chech you are free to go and
00:38:41
good luck to you man is overwhelming to realize that now I can determine my own future it's
00:38:51
something I've prayed for and hop for after the hearing Jane's attorneys spoke about her decades long fight Jane's
00:39:00
dignity in standing up and stoically fighting for her innocence against every risk and every threat that's why this
00:39:08
case got dismissed today and as far as we're concerned we're moving on the District Attorney's office and Sheriff's
00:39:16
Department declined to speak with 48 Hours the case against Jane dtic was dismissed without prejudice which means
00:39:26
if new evidence surfaces charges could be brought again someday but then doesn't that leave still a shadow over
00:39:35
Jane dork oh sure it does I mean there's no question about it from a practical perspective do I think it's over yeah I
00:39:43
think it's over but from a legal perspective no Jane dtic is working to rebuild her
00:39:50
life after spending nearly two decades in prison my entire family has been blown apart by this hurricane of events
00:40:01
it's been heartbreaking on so many levels Claire dork did not respond to our request for comment but Jane says
00:40:09
they are still close her son Nick died in 2023 Alex dork did not provide a comment
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of 48 hours but according to filings by the state he remains convinced his mother killed his father do you have
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hope that your family will come together at some point of course I do of course I
00:40:33
have hope Jane also has hoped that she could make a difference in other people's
00:40:39
lives as she works with advocacy groups that help incarcerated women to me it's not just about my story and yes we can
00:40:49
all sit here and say this is so horrendous and how did this happen to this woman but unless we look
00:40:55
systemically how many others are we going to find and to me that's critically important having a good old many
00:41:05
unanswered questions about this case remain including perhaps the most important
00:41:14
one what happened here we don't know what happened to Bob dor where's Justice for Bob where's
00:41:23
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