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real people real crimes real life drama it was a Savage murder that was probably one of the most brutal
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that I've seen the brutality of this was what stunned us all but to cut a woman's throat
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it's Revenge it's anger somebody hated her take a look at this cigar just isn't she
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full of life just a little sweetheart once you knew her you loved her forever can you give
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me her whole name her maiden name Eva K Smith UK Judd Eva K Wilson Eva K Gilbert
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Eva k wennel each time did she think okay this guy this is going to be the one I guess
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she was the wife of Hal wennel and Hal was a real estate developer he was very wealthy successful businessman
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[Music] he was a jet setter he ran in a fast crowd of big money he liked very pretty women and he liked
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the glitter of life I'm Ned Timmons and my team was hired by Hal wants to investigate the death of his wife
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how would you all describe this case puzzling uh frustrating you want to right the wrong somebody is out there
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that took this lady's life and it's our job to try and find them this incident happened on May 1st 2008.
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K10 was at home she hadn't been feeling well I think it was right over in this area
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is where the first encounter happened the attack at the front door was brutal and then I think he just like hits her
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like this somebody hit her with a prize fighter type punch and just smashed her face in
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I think she recovered and ran for the kitchen she was running for a life and I think
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this is where the perpetrator the assailant got her caught her from behind forced her to the ground
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and then and then cut her neck [Music] I believe Hal came home around 6 30 or 7 o'clock at night and found k
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[Music] what's the hardest part about losing your sister this way is my best friend
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[Music] How could somebody do that somebody like her we have found people have free lives
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they have a public life a private life and a secret life do you believe Kate winell had a secret
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life I believe she did yes and that's where I believe the answer lies [Music] I'm Erin Moriarty tonight I'm 48 hours
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who killed Kay wennel [Music] thank you [Music] 48 hours we'll be back in 90 seconds
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[Music] and why are you talking to me I'm talking to you because I want to find out who murdered my sister
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[Music] at the time of her murder Kay was married to real estate developer Hal wennel her fourth husband he was smitten
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from the moment he first set eyes on Kaye in a Reno Airport she said she bent over to get luggage off the rag and
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that's when Hal noticed her how could you not Pam sleeper says her sister was striking
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and vivacious Hal was proud of her he used to love to walk into restaurants she was arm candy oh look at that woman
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wow and at the age of 60 K was still turning heads and everyone seemed to love her
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[Music] which made her murder in May 2008 all the more shocking and difficult to solve what's more there
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is little physical evidence crime scene investigators took this video which reveals no fingerprints Footprints
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defensive wounds hairs or fibers and all the blood tested was K's so three weeks
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after his wife's death Hal wennel offered a reward that would grow to a quarter of a million dollars he wanted
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to try to find out who murdered K and he was willing to pay dearly to do it but when months went by without a real
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lead the frustrated multi-millionaire hired his own team of private investigators led by Ned Timmons we want
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this guy we want this salt Timmins a retired FBI agent recruited former colleagues his own ex-wife Kathleen and
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John and Sonia you know when you get involved in this kind of work you want to have closure you want to bring them
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to an end we brought them together with retired Gwinnett County Police Lieutenant Charlie Bishop who also
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worked on this case to re-examine a murder that continues to haunt them all so can this be solved
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we need that lucky break normally we follow a murder case after an arrest has been made but not to
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not tonight's report is a true whodunit so listen closely maybe you know something that can solve this case
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May 1st 2008 wasn't a typical day for Kay wennel she woke up that morning with all the intentions of going to work
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usually she was out finding tenants to fill her husband's shopping centers when she changed her mind saying I don't feel
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well so whoever did this knew that she was home there are no signs of forced entry this
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is where you believe the assailant came in is that correct that's correct so John and Sonia
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believes Kay let her kill her inside and was immediately assaulted the proof says Ned Timmons is all that
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blood and you can see by the way the blood droplets hit her back had to be there
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and he had to hit her with a very very powerful blow out there that stunned her and sent her glasses flying across the
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room she realized I'm in trouble and then try and Escape she flees to the kitchen perhaps to get the phone there
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he gets her and that's where he takes control of her and kills her by slashing her throat
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what happened next shocked even these veteran investigators then he decided to do what we call an insurance cut a
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second cut to make sure that she was going to die I mean that's a cold blood exactly right yeah it really is and
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Kay's killer appeared to have carefully planned his attack nobody saw him coming in nobody saw him
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leave which makes what the killer left behind so puzzling there's the bloody towel up in the upstairs bedroom
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[Music] a towel with smudges of Kay's blood was found in her closet off the master
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bathroom why is he in there it's her closet maybe takes one final trophy what are you looking for in that room it's a
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big question this is what investigators do know the weapon I think it might have been a scalpel or
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something like that could have been a hunting or fishing knife whatever it was it was extremely sharp it did not cause
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any Jagged lacerations it was like the assailant you all use he you believe a man did this because of
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the strength that it took I don't see a woman cutting another woman's throat like that you know are there women that
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could do this sure I don't think it's likely I think this was a man a man that John and Sonia
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believes is right-handed because I think he hit her with his right and I think the way the the cuts were on her neck it
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started from here to here and if he was left-handed I think he would start here and go this way and he was probably
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wearing gloves pieces of a latex glove were found inside the house and on the back deck that didn't match ones used by
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First Responders that also is confirmation that whoever did this came prepared I mean who walks around with
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rubber gloves in their pocket the motive everyone agrees this was not a robbery she had plenty of rings on Kay's wallet
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and credit cards were out in the open jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was locked in a safe upstairs if
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this was some guy that came to Robert wouldn't he take the Rings wouldn't he take something The Impressions that I
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got were that someone was very comfortable in that home knew their way around that home and this person has no
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concern that anyone is going to walk in and catch him and then walks out the back door and departs
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investigators believe the killer made his Escape through the woods behind the wennel home he clearly knew where he was
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going to when he left and that takes an awful lot of Prior planning but did he make a mistake
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who is this I don't know but I sure wished I did I'm thinking is this the guy that murdered my sister
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[Music] thank you six days after Kay wanna was murdered her family and friends gathered to say
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goodbye it was packed lots of people there was a lot of policemen there Gwinnett County Police took this
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surveillance footage they were searching the faces for suspects Pam sleeper was searching for answers
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we Decay have enemies I didn't think she did but apparently she did did she ever talk about having
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any fears no no anybody threatening her no you had to wonder about HAL didn't you no it just never crossed my mind
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ever but it certainly occurred to police to look at Kay's husband Hal was a suspect from day one
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Hal however appeared eager to cooperate agreeing to this police interview in 2008 without his lawyer present
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in the best of my knowledge I will tell you everything I know and as investigators discovered Hal had an
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iron-clad alibi we knew how physically wasn't there we have video even leaving his office
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we have video even going to a fast food restaurant all within the time we believe the murder took place
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it was also no evidence how scared anyone wants more he seemed grief stricken by
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Kay's death Knights I wake up crying my heart out middle of the night a child it's horrible
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really horrible and especially if you don't know why if she was hit by a car Hal wasn't a part of this
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in my opinion so you don't believe he was involved no but I think Hal was protecting the memory of Kay the secret
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stuff the secret stuff and he didn't want to divulge that because it would reflect poorly uh on K
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Secrets K didn't even share with her sister Pam there was a whole lot apparently she didn't talk to me about
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and you think somewhere in there is the clue to her Keller I sure do K had a colorful past as investigators
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discovered she not only married a lot she also had affairs she needed to be loved and she needed to
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feel that she could attract any man she was obsessed with this in fact Ned Timmons theorizes she may
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have been seeing someone at the time of her death Hal knew her Secret Life Al was involved in the secret life in my
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opinion do you think he put up with her than having Affairs just to keep her on his arm absolutely yeah
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in a murder investigation nothing is private so the rental house was searched and according to John and Sonia more
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possible evidence of Kay's secret life was uncovered material we found in the house right
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which would not be normal in what way what do you mean it was unusual uh almost perverteth kinky kinky yes kinky's good
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work outfits detectives described as fetish wear and when we talked to Hal about it first
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he said no I don't know anything about that stuff oh then the next time oh yeah we went to a uh a masquerade party and
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she dressed like a French maid but this Halloween costume is tame compared to what else was found in Kay's closet the
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list in police reports is x-rated these outfits were not something a French maid
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would wear and if she's not wearing them for how then who she wearing them for if you came out and I'd line up 30 guys
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I know they don't tell you the same thing anybody any guy would fall in love with K in a minute do you believe she
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knew her color I think she probably did and cops do have one possible clue to his identity a stranger seen in this
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neighborhood the very afternoon K was killed this sketch was made with help from one
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of the wennel's neighbors who told police he actually saw the same man twice on the day of the murder and the
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day before and he had a flyer for a house that was for sale in the subdivision and the
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neighbor said oh it's way on the other side and he just turned around he walked away out of sight the first encounter
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stood out to the neighbor because the stranger didn't seem to have a car now this is an area you just don't walk
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around in a neighborhood you have to drive nobody nobody walks police later discovered that the house for sale flyer
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was only given to people who have been inside that house and there have been no showings on the day the stranger first
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appeared the following day the same neighbor was looking out his bathroom window and he
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sees the same guy walking toward wennel's house right about the time they believed that
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the homicide occurred I mean do you think this person could be the killer I think it's a strong possibility
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obviously we can't save for 100 until we identify that person he saw and for more than eight years that's
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exactly what Gwinnett County Police have been trying to do Sergeant John Richter
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took over the investigation in 2011. Lieutenant Stephen Shaw is his supervisor it's a standard you know
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white male with wire rim glasses that's aging and starting to bald and there are
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probably hundreds and hundreds of males walking around that look something like this and we've you know obviously
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explored case Inner Circle and Hal Circle and and all of their friends and acquaintances
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they checked out everyone from Kay's doctor to a restaurant manager even a clerk at the local Hobby Lobby store who
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had a crush on Kay she said that's as strangest thing he calls me and wants me to go for a drink with him
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investigators have cleared and eliminated all three men but they're still trying to find this
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man pictured with K in a photo taken years earlier in Las Vegas who seemed to resemble the sketch do you think
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that person is this person well I think it's a possibility that that person has seated next Decay and with another
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female it for sure could be him either he's a suspect or not you just I never could identify him nobody seemed
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to know who he was as investigators were searching for the man in the sketch Hal
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suggested they should also look at a man in case past no I have something that backed my mind
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I don't even want to say it yet that that was years and years ago yeah uh that the weirdest thing was
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um and I I really don't even like saying it is her ex-husband her third husband Jeff Gilbert she's
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still married to him when you two men when we met absolutely yes she was he was running Bally's Casino where K was
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modeling when Hal swept in and stole her away he threatened her when she was trying to leave I know that
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but that's what she told me so you don't think that would make Jeff angry enough
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to want to kill it no no no never but just a few months before Kay was killed Jeff called he was traveling to
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Atlanta and wanted to see her and how well what are you gonna do huh she's like don't we're not going she said he's
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living about it we looked at him because an ex-husband is is of course on our suspect list but no indication that he
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was involved we don't have any evidence through Airlines or phone records and we
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looked into it to indicate that he was in the Atlanta area then nearly three months after Kay was
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killed out of the blue the most tantalizing and perplexing clue of all I was in shock I I didn't know what to
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think [Music] 48 Hours the 30th season From Russia with murder I was hired to hunt down Victoria
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nasirova she allegedly killed Nadia Ford's mother from the streets of Russia you need to
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speak Russian too Victoria CBS News to the streets of New York there are allegations that Victoria has left a
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trail of victims she was going to continue drugging and poisoning people to get what she wanted
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tracking her mother's killer I fear for my own life she's Pure Evil the Widow County 9-1-1 tell me
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was it a homicide or was it a suicide there were three shots this is not a comfortable way
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to kill yourself it's not what do you believe happened to David Lee reynella Leaf killed him anyone see her pick up
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the gun no fingerprints no that's a problem isn't it what about her first husband he was
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trampled by his own cattle she'd been charged with the murder of two husbands they called her the Black
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Widow were you at all prepared for what happened in this case shock is the word that comes to mind
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Grapes of Wrath he calls 9-1-1 and he's yelling into the phone help me help me he shot me the
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shooter is in the truck shooting out the window who are these guys greetings from
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doll Vineyards Robert was almost too good to be true FEMA Golden Boy at Cisco who was Starstruck about getting into
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the Napa Valley Wine business and iman's dream crossed paths with rubber dalstring this is over money eight
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hundred thousand dollars in a gym bag yeah this is what eight hundred thousand dollars
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in cash looks like did you ever imagine that this is how it was going to end a new
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48 hours I stand on that bridge on the second floor I look down at that front door
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[Music] I say okay what happened here what what really happened whoever did this in this because one of
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two reasons they're very angry with her or they're very angry with you I've been
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in this game for 40 years who the hell kills your wife not even the mafia does that
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despite what how Bueno believed Cold Case investigators Lieutenant Stephen Shaw and Sergeant John Richter wonder if
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the killer could be connected in some way to wennel's business we have to look at every option and
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every possibility to figure out who did it back in two thousand it was a picture of wealth and success
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at the time of Kay's death what kind of shape was his business in it's hard to tell in the face it looks like they had
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a lot of money however after digging into the case it appears that it was maybe smoke and mirrors as we find out
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that maybe there was some fraud or some stuff that wasn't always on the up and UPS how wano made his fortune buying
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land Building shopping centers and then selling the malls fully leased for a profit but according to Marie Lundquist
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how would sometimes cook the books he wasn't the most honest person in the world
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[Music] Marie began working for Hal in 2007 as his Administrative Assistant we sold a
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shopping center in Lawrenceville and the whole deal was bad he was paying tenants
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rent so while the new owners bought it the books looked like they were paying rent every month when in fact Hal was
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paying their rent some of them yeah I can say to you without reservation I can't even think
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of anybody we have tenants occasions that will fall out but they don't blame me yet we found
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six lawsuits filed against Hal and as various companies some of them from people who did blame him
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claiming fraud but Hal brushed It Off [Music] if you don't make any money you'll never
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get sued for anything the minute you make about people come after you do you think there's any possibility that the
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K's death might have something to do with someone angry with how yeah because apparently he owed a lot of people many
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and he didn't make a lot of friends it could be a Revenge thing [Music] Kay's sister Pam wonders if an investor
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was angry enough to hire a professional killer which could explain the lack of evidence at the crime scene there was a
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lot of blood there and how this guy got away without a footprint a hand mark on the wall or anything I it's just amazing
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but the idea of a professional hit doesn't make sense to the investigators who've examined the case over the years
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I think if it was a hired killer it would have been a yeah gone with a gun yeah no physical contact
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boom boom bye out the door see you later that's it I'm done and what makes the Hitman even more unlikely they say is
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what happened nearly three months after Kay was murdered [Music] A peculiar letter arrived at the
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Gwinnett County offices of the Atlanta Journal Constitution the letter wasn't published back then
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but it was given to the police [Music] the police department wanted to meet with us they showed us this letter
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[Music] cut out in little bitty individual different Letters Out of different magazine all glued in to this page and
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it was shocking the envelope postmarked July 21st 2008 and mailed from Augusta Georgia some 140
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miles away from where K was murdered wow it I mean it was bizarre odd the letter and envelope were taken
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apart and carefully examined by the crime lab but no DNA or other useful forensics were found whoever did this
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did it with with gloves on it I mean they cut each individual letters out and then glued them
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so it was very time consuming to do that do you know how hard that would be to stick these things oh it's incredible I
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mean this is really a long I mean just to go through the magazine the letter is shocking filled with
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expletives I bet Kay wennel never told anyone what she really was it turns out she was just
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a money-grubby [ __ ] I loved her and she said we could be together she told me she hated her house in that
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fat miserable lying mother from effing husband she said she left me but that was a lie too I told her this would
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happen if she didn't keep her damn promises to me family screwed everything up those white
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trash ass many was more important than our love we could have been so happy together but
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they everything up on its face it sounds like the words of a jolted lover if you
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look at the letter yeah if we're going to go with the jilton lover theory that this person she finally told me no
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I'm staying with Hal in other words did the family talk her into staying with Hal that irritated the actual
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perpetrator but Pam says Kay never mentioned any plans to leave Hal o she admits parts of the letter have a
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ring of truth especially about the house they were renting I know that she didn't
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like her house I mean that was the first thing that stood out to me was wow I know she was kind of unhappy with Hal
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about that so it was someone who knew her oh yeah apparently go to such trouble is the latter really
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what it appears to be how many of you believe this was actually written by a sperm lover do you
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based on the reading of it yes Kathleen I don't I do because of the reference to the family the house and
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things things that wouldn't be known to everybody but those are exactly why it wouldn't be a sperm lover a sperm lover
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doesn't give a care about her house a spurned lover doesn't give a care about her family I believe at this point it's
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not a jilted lover that's a red herring [Music] review the clues help solve this case
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starting Tuesday one woman two dead husbands could she be that unlucky the investigation into K wano's death
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got new life when this letter arrived in July of 2008. it felt like something dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter
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it's what the author thinks threat letters should look like this is almost scripted so you have to say what's the
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purpose former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole agreed to examine the letter for us she
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now heads the forensic science program at George Mason University this is someone I think that's
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pretending to be the killer to create this Boogeyman suspect and to push the police away from the actual motive in
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the case the writer may not be a jolted lover at all from working cases like this if this
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was a spurned lover then this would not be the first note a sperm lover is going
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to have notes preceding this one where K is the most wonderful thing in the world
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I love you we're perfect together even if it's a delusional stalker initially they love their victims they're
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beautiful they're going to spend their life together it's only after a few letters that you see that transition to
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you are now this horrible human being I hate you what's more the investigation hasn't revealed any other men in K's
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life exactly what Hal told detectives back in 2008 as God is my judge I don't think Kay was
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having an affair she had the best damn actress in the world it turns out that while K was sexy and flirtatious
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investigators may have been looking in the wrong direction they didn't find any evidence of an affair at the time of her
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murder and Kathleen Timmons says neither did the medical examiner and this letter
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that implies that she's got yet in very active current lovers and yet when they they did the autopsy examination she had
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no indication that that there had been recent sexual activity it's no indication that she's involved with
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anybody including her husband do you believe that the person who sent this letter is actually the person who went
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into the home and killed her not necessarily oh tool suspects the killer may have had help I think it's possible
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that there are two people that could be involved you could have somebody that wrote the letter and then someone that
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came into the home Mary Ellen O'Toole says writers of cut and paste notes tend to have one thing in common
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they are women [Music] I can tell you that that's my experience I've seen them written by teenage girls
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I've seen them written by middle-aged women but the behavior of the scene just that kind of violence certainly suggests
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to me a male offender if the profiler is right that means a man and a woman could
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be involved in Kay's death with the woman creating the note to throw police off the trail someone may have been
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interviewed and they felt like they could have been considered a suspect didn't want that and produced this note
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isn't this a very risky thing a terribly risky thing to do oh tools suggests taking another look at the people
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interviewed by police back in 2008 one of those people was this woman a friend of K's and house
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Karen Scott [Music] Karen worked for Hal and she promoted herself as Hal's right hand man and
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Karen was an obvious suspect of ours because she was close with Hal and Kate and any investigation you're going to
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start with who's closest to them so close that when Karen remarried it was Kay who gave the wedding shower and
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was matron of honor Marie Lundquist was there oh my gosh it was a gorgeous wedding Hal walked her down the aisle
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and the day K was killed investigators discovered Hal and a colleague had brought breakfast to Karen who was home
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recovering from surgery and later when he discovered Kay's body Karen was his first call she was destroyed because she
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and K were like very very I mean extremely close that's Karen Scott on police surveillance tape at Kay's
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funeral you know things change back then we thought she was a good source she would email me wanting to be kept up on
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what was going on all seemingly innocent that may not be documents show Karen had
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ongoing financial problems but Hal was a generous boss the money was great I don't think she could have made that
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kind of money elsewhere and she was ambitious we looked into Karen we looked into
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every other person at work who was closest to K how what they would gain if K was out of the pitcher according to
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the to the port Karen admitted to detectives that with Kay's death she possibly gained the opportunity to operate the
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company but she also denied that she would have had any motivation to bring harm to Kay over those facts and she
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described herself as Kay's best friend and when I heard that I was like really I mean that surprised me Kay's
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sister and best friend Pam sleeper remember you know I know a best friend out of their relationship was not like
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my best friends some were colleagues also question how close they really were they were not best friends maybe to her
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face but that's not what she was saying behind Kay's back we reached out to Karen Scott and she sent us this letter
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stating I lost my best friend to a brutal attack but she declined our request for an interview
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Karen has been questioned by investigators about Kay wennel's death and according to police reports she
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adamantly denied any and all involvement what's more police say cell phone records back Karen's Alibi that she was
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home around the time of the murder and Richter says he's unable to connect her to the ladder we investigated that
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thoroughly and and quite frankly we're still investigating it but we can't find anything to suggest that Karen was
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responsible for the letter or that anybody in particular is responsible for that letter
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[Music] with an unknown assailant still on the loose Pam sleeper says her determination
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to find her sister's killer comes with wrist I do walk around kind of scared sometimes I wonder if he's going to be
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after me next because I don't give it up you think because you keep her name alive and you keep this case alive that
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somebody might come after you [Music] foreign sleeper says that after Kay's murder How
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well was never the same he called me every day he was just lost he missed her so much he would say who
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why I was like I don't know how that's what we're trying to find out I try to stay busy morning noon night I
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hate the mornings going to work because I know I'm coming home to that house at night weekends I despise how may have
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hated being in the house but he refused to leave it if your wife or significant other was murdered in that house
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wouldn't you want to get out of that house private investigator Ned Timmons you want to walk in the kitchen every
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day and have this vision of all this blood and her lying there with her throat cut you know it just didn't make
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sense still more perplexing to investigators Hal kept the house exactly as it was the day K was killed her
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sneakers next to the living room couch her book opened to the page she was reading
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drops of her blood on the staircase it was never cleaned up even when our team showed up months and months later
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yeah the house was exactly very strange they're exactly the way it was you'd think you'd have a cleaning
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crew come in and cleanse it all the place but there was still the blood splatters I want nothing more on God's
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Earth than to find the guy who did this and I'd give everything I have to get case together even if it meant
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spending his fortune to do it [Music] the Gwinnett County Police Department was having their financial difficulties
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so it was really a bad time for law enforcement is that part of the problem here that it's a problem everywhere
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there was just no money there again another reason Hal contacted these folks because they
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had so much more resources available to him than we did Ned Timmons says it was Hal who paid for
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much needed lab work to be done I was dealing with private laboratory weekly and we sent a lot of fibers we sent a
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lot of fluids for DNA sampling and Hal would have to approve everything yeah every time samplings are five six
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thousand on it and we had people in Las Vegas we had people leads in California where it leads all over the country it
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was costing him a lot of money house Quest came to an abrupt end in 2010 after he died of a heart attack his
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estate cut off the 250 000 reward money and fired his private investigators you know there were things that we wanted to
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do other leads that we wanted to follow up on and then all of a sudden you know the executor says you guys are
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all finished we weren't happy about it I'll tell you that those FBI agents we don't ever want to quit and we never
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wanted to stop but we couldn't afford to finance it ourselves the current Cold Case detectives seem to have made no
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Headway and their investigation up here stalled this case on the face of it looks like it would be solvable why is
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it still open from the amount of time put into it and different investigators involved I really don't have an answer
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for that and that's the most frustrating part and I think that's probably why we're here today is that we'll get
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someone's attention and someone who knows something will call us I know there's somebody out there that knows
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and I think they just need to come forward and let us know you know it will just help so much we'd be so grateful
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as they've done so many times Pam sleeper her mother and their husbands made an emotional visit to Kay's grave
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if it was me Kay would not give up and I'm not going to give up tonight investigators are asking for
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your help to solve K Wells murder once again here is what we know she was at home in Lawrenceville Georgia
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on May 1st 2008 when she was viciously attacked investigators believe her assailant was
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a right-handed man wearing gloves who used a very sharp weapon this unidentified man seen near the
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wennel home the day of the murder may have been involved and then there's the cut and paste letter sent nearly three
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months later people who think they get away with murder sigh a big sigh of relief when
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years go by but this program is going to make them very nervous [Music] foreign one with information is asked to contact
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Gwinnett County criminal investigation division anonymous tip line 1-770-513-5390
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[Music] Crime Stoppers Atlanta 1 404-577-tips [Music] I've basically spent a conflict-free
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life he divided us not guilty of murder he defined us the system balanced in favor of a black man and still we can't
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get past that now what OJ would never lay low Saturday at nine