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[Music] when something like this happens when somebody goes missing you want answers but this case is incredibly
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unique when you started to dig a little bit deeper Nothing Is What It Seems Suzanne moru went missing on
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Mother's Day in May of 2020 and from there on out it became a nation wide search for her Suzanne moru left for a
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bike ride and she never came back she has two beautiful daughters the family looks to be perfect from the outside
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every picture you saw of them they were smiling they're laughing they're looking
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like they love each other she grew up in Indiana she came to Colorado and she began to mountain bike we see pictures
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of a beautiful woman an active physically fit woman taking advantage of the mountains Barry morph
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was a business owner he was an avid Hunter and a man's man on May 9th Barry was very happy
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because there had been some marital tension but not on May 9th all we have to go on is what Barry says occurred
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that's right Barry says they had a nice dinner together they even made love and then they went to sleep and she was
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still sleeping the next morning when he left for work so the next day Mother's Day the daughters are out on a camping
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trip did that strike people as odd family had told investigators that it was odd that their daughters would not
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be with their mom she didn't have anything else to do and all of a sudden her daughters and
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her husband are both gone Barry morphe said he texted his wife Suzanne to wish her a happy
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Mother's Day he received no reply he had contact with his daughters back and forth can't get a hold of mother and
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then someone contacted a neighbor right the neighbor had told Barry that her car
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is here she was not home and Barry says well maybe go look for her bike cuz she's an avid mountain biker the
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neighbor said he could not find it local law enforcement responds to the scene and they do find her bicycle where was
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that bike it's right over here Peter the bike was found at the bottom of this Ravine right here the initial thought is
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kidnapping oh Suzanne if anyone is out there that can hear this that has you will do whatever it takes to bring you
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back so about 10 days into the investigation they learn about a piece of technology that we have an example of
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right in front of you what is that right so they find a spy pin it looks something like this and they find it in
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the master bedroom of the morphe home it's like James Bond it's a pen that looks like a regular pen and it
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records conversations this spyin was given to Suzanne to record Barry morw in hopes of
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catching him in an affair it backfired in fact as a matter of fact it backfired captured on the spy pen is a
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conversation between Suzanne morphew and somebody named Jeff and it's clear that
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Jeff is her lover they did not know who Jeff was but it put a new wrinkle into the case for sure
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[Music] [Music] what happened on this road is a real mystery no one knows where where is
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[Music] Suzanne in the days weeks and months after Suzanne morphew was reported missing on Mother's Day 2020 her Trail
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went cold but the mother of two's disappearance had become the biggest story in Colorado 49-year-old Suzanne
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morw remains missing home of a missing woman from chaffy county is now being searched teams are combing the terrain
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even brought in boats to search the local waterways and we're going to Fan out and
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we're going to work that area very carefully okay 4 months in Suzanne's brother Andrew Mormon organized a
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citizen search he said he felt he had to do something anything I'd hope to find her alive and and at some point you have
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to realize when somebody's missing after so long that the chances of that diminished
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dramatically the thought that Suzanne may have been abducted hit the piece ful picturesque town of Salida hard I came
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home every day and my wife asked me have they found her yet Dan ryau has covered the story for
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his local Morning Show hippie radio 975 with Dan good morning 827 Barry and Suzanne morphew were not known well in
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Salida Colorado they had only been here for a couple of years before moving to Colorado in 2018
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Barry and Suzanne grew up in the small town of Alexandria Indiana where they met in high
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school Suzanne competed for homecoming queen Barry was a star baseball player who was drafted by the Toronto
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Blue Jays injury ended Barry's dreams of a Major League career they both attended Purdue
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University and married in 1994 he started a landscaping business Suzanne taught middle school before
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becoming a full-time mother they had a couple of daughters one in college and they had a daughter
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in high school Macy 16 years old when her mom disappeared lived at home her sister mallerie attended college and the
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morphew told some friends they moved to a home just outside of Salida to be closer to their older daughter but there
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were also Rumblings about the state of the morph use marriage maybe a new place a new home new scenery around them would
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strengthen their family and therefore strengthen their marriage but the move did not appear to
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improve the relationship it was a tough time says her sister Melinda Mormon my sister had
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um sent me a text message it was very lengthy it was very powerful it was very revealing in this Zoom interview Melinda
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said she received Suzanne's text 2 days before she disappeared and it was boiling over with anger toward Barry the
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text read in part he's also been abusive emotionally and physically I feel more angry now anger at what I've
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allowed Barry was very dominant in the relationship and my sister was a very passive gentle soul he had a great
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tendency to overpower and intimidate people to get what he wanted and what kind of boss was he you
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know he was real quiet Stern he knew what he was doing cuz that's what he did in Indiana Cody Cox was part of Barry's
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Landscaping crew for nearly 2 years when Barry first arrived in Colorado I talk pretty highly about Barry cuz I was with
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him all the time he's like inspiration to me almost he was a real cool guy Cody said he regularly heard Barry talking to
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Suzanne as they roove in Barry's truck they seem to communicate pretty well she is a sweetheart she is a real
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kind lady she's almost like an angel like something youd see off a Hallmark movie you know like real nice almost too
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perfect so when I heard about the news I didn't believe it I heard it actually on the radio and I was like did
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they just say suzan and I was like oh my gosh who would even want to hurt her the first day authorities searched
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for Suzanne they found her mountain bike close to the morw home where was the mountain bike found
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it was found right over this little Cliff right here resting on these Boulders she was new at mountain biking
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so an accident is certainly plausible I would only ask where's Suzanne she would have been injured yeah
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she would have been injured investigators believe the scene was staged and days later they discovered
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Suzanne's helmet roughly a mile away off Highway 50 the helmet was found on the south side of the road this side of the
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road which would be to our left so is the thought somebody threw it out of a window perhaps that's the
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thinking yes it appeared as though Suzanne could have been abducted and that's when Barry made that public plea
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please do whatever it takes to bring you back in those early days Barry had a theory about what happened to Suzanne
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that he shared with Tyson Draper who has his own YouTube channel they happened to
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meet at the site where Suzanne's mountain bike was found and Tyson secretly videotaped Barry um the first
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night there was a mountain lion the officer Seena walk by the car so we thought maybe she got attacked by a lion
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a mountain lion killed her if that happened there would have been signs of that there would have been blood there
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would have been struggle so that was a very shortlived speculation authorities began to doubt
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that Suzanne even took a bike ride especially after her sunglasses and hydration backpack were found in her car
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investigators also found her driver's license and credit cards in her Range Rover but her cell phone was missing did
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Barry morw cooperate with investigators during the course of this he had been interviewed by in instigators through
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the course of it and he talked to investigators almost every time 11 news reporter Ashley Franco is live at the
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chaffy county cour Ashley Franco who reported on the case for the CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs has read
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the police documents and she says Barry has repeatedly told the same story he came home around 3:00 p.m. on May 9th
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2020 and had a pleasant evening with Suzanne the next morning Mother's Day Barry says he drove to a job some three
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hours away he says the last time he sees his wife is when she's sleeping in their
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bed as investigators began trying to verify Barry's Alibi they were pulled in a New Direction Suzanne's spy pen had
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surfaced with that intimate conversation now they needed to figure out the identity of Jeff suzan's
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lover could this man have had something to do with Suzanne's disappearance [Applause]
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it was just days after Suzanne morw went missing when investigators make that intriguing
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Discovery they discover a spy pen a spy pen a spy p a Gruber is a professor of law at the University of Colorado and a
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former defense attorney she has closely studied all the public investigative files in the morw case she knows it was
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not easy for investigators to find suzan's secret lover a man named Jeff she hid that Affair so well that it took
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agents six months to find the man she was having an affair with Jeff turned out to be Jeff lier and he had a wife
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and six children in Michigan where he lived he and Susan had a one-time fling After High School decades passed until
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Suzanne reached out to Jeff out of the blue in 2018 when Suzanne and Barry moved to
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Colorado Suzanne messaged him on Facebook and what did she message him howdy stranger and from that moment they
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had talked almost every single day nonstop in the months after Suzanne went missing Jeff kept quiet he only began
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cooperating after he was located by investigators who learned Jeff had taken steps to hide the nearly 2-year Affair
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what he did was delete all his social media accounts that he had used to communicate with Suzanne he's got a lot
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to lose if Revelations of this affair come out Jeff told agents he only took those steps because he did not want to
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tarnish suzan's memory and worried he might lose his family and job he was also worried agents considered him a
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suspect he asked the agents am I a Target although he did not come forward on his own Jeff did assist agents after
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they found him he agreed to provide access to his DNA phone records and his passwords for those deleted accounts by
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looking through the couple iCloud accounts and phone records agents were able to piece together their
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relationship including the times they met in person investigators also found that suzan on several instances had gone
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on vacation to meet up with Jeff in many different states ranging from Louisiana
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to Florida investigators also discovered they'd sent intimate photos to each other talked of becoming husband and
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wife and even mentioned leaving the the United States Jeff and suzan had talked about moving away moving to Ecuador at
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one point if you were an investigator instead of a law professor what would you want to know about this Jeff lier
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everything I'd want to know everything about what he was doing what he was thinking here is somebody who arguably
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had the last communication with Suzanne before she went missing the love affair between Suzanne and Jeff became a key
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part of the investigation as agents tried to figure out what happened to her on that Saturday May 9th
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the day before Mother's Day Records show that Suzanne and Jeff messaged each other 59 times that day much more than
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usual authorities say at one point Suzanne sends Jeff this selfie investigators dubb it her last proof of
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life photo Barry was not home as the lovers texts heat up at 2:05 p.m. Suzanne writes I'm just in
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love with you what you up to Jeff's response at 2:06 p.m. want to strip down and get naked
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LOL she responds by saying she'll load up her WhatsApp account and then at 2:11 Suzanne writes okay I'm on
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wa then at 2:26 p.m. Suzanne gets a text from Barry that he's heading home done headed back no one knows if Suzanne saw
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that text or was preoccupied with Jeff but she does not answer Barry follows up appearing to wonder where Suzanne is did
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you leave there was still no response from Suzanne and investigators speculate the next few moments are when Barry
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returned home they notice that Barry's cell phone appears to be pinging all around the outside of his house was he
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chasing Suzanne before a final and fatal confrontation investigators asked Barry
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to explain that unusual phone activity and he says well let me think about that I was probably walking around my house
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shooting Chipmunks you heard right it was perhaps the world's first Chipmunk Alibi Barry says the Chipmunks were a
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constant nuisance at his house and he'd been running around shooting them that day and then that confession to shooting
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Chipmunks becomes a major piece of incriminating evidence against him there was no evidence of any chipmunk
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shootings around Barry's house part of his problem a says is that Barry granted between 30 and 40 interviews all without
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a lawyer to everyone from a county detective to members of the FBI would you have allowed him to do all these
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inter interv no absolutely not meanwhile Jeff lier was cleared he told agents he
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was in Michigan that weekend and his Alibi checked out when investigators tell Barry of the affair he denies
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knowing anything about it but if Barry knew nothing about Suzanne's Affair what motive would he have to kill her one
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clue may be a deleted text that investigators found on Barry's phone sent by Suzanne just days before I'm
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done I could care less what you're up to and have been for years we just need to
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figure this out civil so the only thing that makes sense is that Barry morw lost
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it when Suzanne finally said I'm leaving you Barry knew that his daughters would
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be away on their camping trip that Saturday afternoon and authorities say he took advantage of that opportunity to
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kill Suzanne and clean up the crime scene from 2:47 p.m. until 10:17 p.m. just under 8 hours
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Barry's phone goes into airplane mode what do authorities believe was happening during that time authorities
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say that they believe when his phone went into airplane mode that he was disposing of possible evidence unable to
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track Barry's cell phone investigators tapped into a relatively new in investigative
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technique digital vehicle forensics to pull a stream of data out of Barry's Ford
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truck and Barry's truck told a different story than what he was telling investigators they were using Barry's
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own car against him Ben lamir is an expert in the new field of vehicle forensics give me a sense of how your
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technology from your company helps solve criminal cases so a lot of times it's used to you know locate bodies bring
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closure lamir is the CEO of the burla corporation helps uh get people convicted um it's helped get people not
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convicted investigators from Scotland Yard to the FBI have learned how to use bur software
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to tap into the dozens of computers in a car it's accurate enough to be used as evidence in court cases correct yes sir
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it's uh it's used every day in cases around the world cases like The Disappearance of Suzanne morw
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investigators created a burer report meaning they tapped into the data in Barry's Ford truck to track its
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movements after his cell phone went into airplane mode a couple of the pieces of
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evidence that I think are very harmful to his case um come from the data in the car the prosecution's case is that Barry
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snapped at one point the day before Mother's Day authorities believe Barry killed
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Suzanne that afternoon he told agents he went to bed around 8:00 p.m. that night
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but the data pull from the truck shows that the truck was put in reverse and moved some 96 ft closer to his house
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around 9:30 p.m. investigators think that's when he could have loaded Suzanne's body initially Barry told police that he
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set his alarm for 4:30 a.m. on Mother's Day and left the house by five to drive to a job site in Broomfield a town near
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Denver 100 50 mil from Salida but the truck's computers show that someone was opening and closing the
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truck's doors around 3:30 a.m. investigators believe Barry began driving toward Broomfield much earlier
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than he claimed but there is a 4-Hour window approximately 400 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. when no activity was recorded by
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the vehicle's computers there are events in the car that aren't recorded so they
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can't give sort of a full chronological picture and if Barry hid Suzanne's body during that 4our window the truck's data
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does not provide answers why is data missing sometimes well it gets overridden um you know it is a computer
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and you know log files they only last so long but Barry helped fill in some of the missing data he told agents he took
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a left upon leaving his home instead of a right because even though it was dark he remembered seeing some elk he saw a
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herd of elk and he's a hunter so he was interested and he wanted to get an up close look that admission was
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significant to agents because it put him in an area where a key piece of evidence
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had been recovered investigators found suzan's bike helmet up that road so they believe at that point when he turned
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left instead of turning right that he could have been ditching her bike helmet and 8:10 on Mother's Day morning
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the trucks computers again began recording data and by then Barry's cell phone had also come back to life agents
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are able to track Barry's cell and truck movements and can see that he first pulled over at this Broomfield bus stop
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where he discarded something in a garbage can and then he moves on to a hotel trash can a McDonald's trash can a
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dumpster in a Men's Warehouse parking lot and then back to the hotel hotel and dump stuff in a dumpster there
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investigators believe that during these trash runs he was disposing of evidence in different places within the Denver
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area this is a surveillance shot of Barry on one of those trash runs but investigators could not see what he was
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throwing away it may have looked incriminating but Barry claims it was just another day at the office he told
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agents he was merely being cheap not Criminal and his claim well I just always have a lot of junk in in the
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vehicle I don't like to pay to have it uh disposed at a landfill I this is just what I do but it's suspicious that you
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would go to five different trash areas to dispose of several things why not just do it at
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one after checking out the work site Barry headed back to his room at the Holiday Inn and investigators say he
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stayed there from 12:42 to 6:03 p.m. by then he'd already spoken to older daughter Mallie who told him she could
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not get in touch with her mother that's when the morphew neighbors were contacted and could find no sign of
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Suzanne Barry asked them at that time if the bike was there to go check on her her bicycle is not here Barry asked his
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neighbor to call 911 and that's when the call to 911 would was placed that Suzanne is
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missing Barry doesn't head home immediately and he is dropping some tools off for his co-workers tools
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including a shovel with Suzanne now officially reported missing Barry tells his workers there's a family emergency
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and arranges hotel rooms with one of those workers taking over Barry's room when the employee was interviewed he
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told investigators that the room that Barry checked out of it had a strong smell of chlorine or bleach which
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suggests what that he could be cleaning up a crime scene just after 6:00 p.m. Barry starts driving back to Salida on
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the way Barry speaks to sheriff's deputies who advise him they found Suzanne's bike and he arrives at that
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Ravine at around 8:40 p.m. and investigators say that when he arrived there he was pretty emot for a few
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minutes by Sunday night Suzanne's daughters were back home but Suzanne is nowhere to be found no questions asked
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however much they want Barry offered a $100,000 reward for information that was later doubled to
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$200,000 investigators later discovered many texts from Suzanne to a close friend that apparently revealed her
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tormented feelings about Barry he won't speak of divorce I feel no peace when he's here I wouldn't feel safe alone
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with him Barry became the prime suspect and investigators think they know how he
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killed Suzanne [Music] the large morw home remained sealed off The Disappearance while investigators
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searched the morw home and the family's cars and trucks Barry continued to talk seemingly to anyone with a
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badge weeks and months went by and Barry remained at the center of the investigation police are absolutely
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correct as a statistical matter to look at intimate Partners when they suspect that a woman might have been harmed or
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murdered it's something like eight out of 10 times when a spouse dies the other one's involved
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absolutely sometimes the smallest item will turn an investigation and in this case agents seized on this clear plastic
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cap that a forensics team had found in the family's dryer prosecutors believe the cap was
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from a syringe used to fill a tranquilizer dart how do prosecute uors interpret that the prosecution's theory
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is that at some point when Barry came home on the 9th and snapped and decided to murder Suzanne he used a tranquilizer
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dart that you would use on animals there was no working tranquilizer rifle found in the morphew
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home but Barry told investigators he was an experienced tranquilizer dart gun shooter he knew how to load darts with
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paralyzing chemicals having used them to illegally sedate deer and remove their antlers to
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sell this is a photo of the inside of Barry's garage with his collection of deer heads and a pile of
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antlers we asked Dan ryau to read some of what Barry told investigators Barry said the first thing I thought of when I
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came here and saw deer in my yard with big horns I'm like I'm getting them horns and I'll tell you exactly what I
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did I shoot them they go to sleep I cut their horns off it's totally illegal but
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you're going to find Tran darts around my property because I've done that experts say it can take between 4 and 20
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minutes for an animal the size of a deer to drop after being shot with a tranquilizer dart agents theorized that
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Barry's phone had pinged from various locations around the house not because he was shooting Chipmunks but because he
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was chasing ing suzan after he shot her and what are you holding what I'm holding is a tadat model uh 706 rifle
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they use this a lot in Parks throughout the country Andrew cers owner and CEO of
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animal care and Equipment Services showed us a tranquilizer rifle he' typically use on
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animals so if suzan had been struck by one of these darts it's right here would she have time to run around try to
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escape she could but I don't think she would get very far for a human being it could be lethal for
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sure bolstering the theory that Barry and Suzanne had a confrontation the day she disappeared were apparent scratches
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seen on Barry's left arm agents took the circumstantial evidence they gathered Barry's apparent suspicious Behavior his
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contradictory statements the puzzling data from his truck suzan's disturbing text and those five trash runs and
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brought it all to the district attorney on nearly the anniversary of Suzanne's disappearance Barry is
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arrested the moment captured on a cell phone by a passer by in May 2021 tonight the husband of Suzanne morw
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is behind bars accused of killing her the chaffy county sheriff says Barry morw was arrested Ed this
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morning Suzanne's body has never been found and prosecutors assume she's dead despite the lack of a body Barry was
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charged with first-degree murder tampering with physical evidence and a variety of other allegations he was held
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without bail and eventually pleaded not guilty in their arrest affidavit prosecutors spelled out what they
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believe happened to Suzanne it had become clear that Barry could not control Suzanne's insistence on leaving
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him and he resorted to something he has done his entire life hunt and control Suzanne like he had hunted and
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controlled animals Suzanne's sister Melinda reacted to the news of Barry's arrest there are
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no winners in this story there are two families who are suffering deeply Barry ultimately hired high-profile lawyers
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from Denver and in the summer of 2021 judge Patrick Murphy heard the prosecution's evidence in open
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court he decided to hold a preliminary hearing to see if this case had enough evidence to go to
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trial the defense tried mightily to blunt the state's case countering that the clear plastic cap found in the dryer
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means nothing because no one could say how long it had been there furthermore Barry's DNA a was not found on that cap
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and as for that chlorine smell in Barry's hotel room one of the managers from the holiday in had actually
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communicated to agents that this smell of chlorine existed before Barry morphe was there because that rooms directly
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above an indoor pool and there was one more crucial issue the prosecution had to deal with
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one that its own forensic team uncovered DNA evidence made public for the first time now threatened to destroy the case
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against Barry this DNA Discovery is so significant the agents swabbed the inside of Suzanne Mor's car and they
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found male DNA on the glove box and it wasn't Barry morphe's DNA he was eliminated the DNA also did not match
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Suzanne's lover Jeff lier but it was a partial match to the DNA of an unknown male who had attacked other women and it
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raised a disturbing question had Suzanne fallen into the hands of a sexual [Music]
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[Music] predator in September 2021 at the chaffy County Courthouse in Salida judge
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Patrick Murphy heard arguments about whether there was a enough evidence to try Barry morw for murder the judge
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named off three different scenarios saying Suzanne morw left willingly Barry morw could have killed his wife or
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someone else abducted Suzanne and killed her he said it was unlikely Suzanne had
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run off on her own even though she and lover Jeff lier had discussed moving to Ecuador the judge says that because of
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the evidence that's been presented about how loving Suzanne was toward her daughters and her family that she could
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never do that but the abduction Theory could not be so easily dismissed especially after that mysterious DNA was
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found in suzan's Range Rover investigators learned that DNA at least partially match the profile of an
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unnamed man connected to three unsolved sexual assault cases in Tempe Phoenix and
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Chicago so how can that DNA end up in her car well that DNA can end up in her car if she was the victim for example of
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a serial killer or there could also be potentially an innocent explanation but it is very very
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curious Barry morphew can stand up and say I'm not your killer the man whose DNA is in my wife's
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car tied to past sexual assaults that's your killer Barry morph you absolutely Ely could say that and that's what his
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defense is banking on in this case in Frank language judge Murphy gave his opinion of the state's evidence I find
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that the proof is not evident nor is the presumption great that Mr morphew committed first-degree
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murder despite that the judge ruled there was probable cause to go to trial but this judge was very careful to say
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look I'm finding probable cause here but it's only only because I am looking at all the evidence in the light most
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favorable to the prosecution at that point Barry had spent months in jail the judge says
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$500,000 cash only Bond and are they monitoring him in some fashion Barry morw is wearing an ankle monitor for
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them to track him to make sure that he is staying in chaffy County a few days later on September 20th 2021 Barry morw
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and daughters mallerie and Macy are all smiles as they leave the jail Barry how does it feel it feel be out they stand
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firmly behind their dad Barry declined our request for an interview Barry morph's homicide trial
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was to begin on April 28th 2022 but in the months leading up to that date judge Murphy recused himself and judge Ramsey
00:37:24
Lama replaced him and Barry's defense team led by attorney Iris Eton filed motions asking that prosecutors be
00:37:33
sanctioned for failing to produce Discovery in a timely manner including some potentially exculpatory evidence
00:37:42
like the male DNA found in suzan's Range Rover there's DNA that is placed on all the critical
00:37:51
items of evidence in this case on the bike on the bike helmet in the house in the car that is
00:37:59
linked to unknown males in April 2022 judge llama ruled that prosecutors repeatedly had missed deadlines and had
00:38:09
failed to turn over important information in the discovery phase the judge wrote that while he did not find
00:38:16
those actions quote willful the court does find this pattern to be negligent bordering on Reckless unquote the
00:38:25
judge's penalty was to knock out 14 prosecution witnesses including experts in DNA and cell phone and vehicle data
00:38:34
recovery they would not he said be allowed to testify this case is incredibly unique law professor AA
00:38:43
Gruber said the case was going to be an uphill battle for prosecutors even before she heard about the most recent
00:38:51
sanctions there are not many murder cases where the defendant has been charged with first-degree murder where
00:38:59
there is no body no blood evidence of any Foul Play No eyewitnesses on April 19th 2022 as a pre-trial hearing was
00:39:10
about to begin district attorney Linda Stanley filed a motion to dismiss the murder charges against Barry morphew
00:39:19
without prejudice meaning the case could be refiled at a later date in her motion
00:39:25
the da pointed to the Court's decision to Bar several key Witnesses without this crucial evidence and without the
00:39:32
victim's body the people cannot move forward at this time in good faith neither Barry his daughters nor
00:39:42
his lawyer had any advanced warning I didn't know a dismissal was coming today although the writing was on the wall in
00:39:52
her motion for dismissal da Stanley told the judge that officials believe investigators are close to discovering
00:40:00
the location of Suzanne morph's body court papers specifically mention a remote and mountainous region nearby the
00:40:09
morphew residents that will be excavated after 5 F feet of snow melts where is Suzanne morphe's body that is the
00:40:17
million-dollar question remember there was an approximate 4-Hour Gap not recorded by the computers in Barry's
00:40:25
truck on Mother's Day morning 2020 whether investigators ultimately were able to recover some of that missing
00:40:33
data or received a tip about the location of suzan's remains is not known the San Isabel National Forest
00:40:42
again is 1.1 million Acres there's plenty of places to dispose of the body defense attorney Eon denies Barry has
00:40:53
any involvement in his wife's disappearance Barry morphew loves Suzanne morw he loves her and he misses
00:41:01
her and he wants to know where Suzanne morw is after the judge granted the motion to
00:41:08
dismiss homicide charges against Barry he walked out of court a free man flanked as usual by his loyal
00:41:19
daughters Suzanne's sister Melinda says she agrees with the request to dismiss charges against Barry at this point she
00:41:27
said she hoped that with more time Searchers will find Suzanne's body and win a solid conviction in her murder
00:41:36
this would dispel all rumors of her whereabouts and whatever else happens with the case Melinda says she hopes her
00:41:44
nieces keep one thing in mind mallerie and Macy your mother would have laid down her life for you girls she would
00:41:53
never leave you she would never forsake you she loved you with her whole [Music]
00:42:18
being 48 Hours don't miss an episode [Music] he [Music] [Music] did you have anything to do with the
00:43:16
death of your wife Cory I did not 2 minutes I'm with the CBS affiliate in Quincy so we've been covering this
00:43:26
from day w i was a journalist in Quincy for 25 years and I'm now writing a book on the
00:43:37
CH the [Music] touchdown Curtis Loveless was a center on the Quincy High football team the
00:43:44
offensive line Kurt L went to the University of Illinois and became an all big 10 Center well we're just under way
00:43:52
I think we all understand the concept of the play more than in the past he was hired in the Adams County States
00:44:00
attorney's office as an assistant State's Attorney she was a beautiful blond-haired blue-eyed woman thin
00:44:07
perfect face essentially what it was it's you have like the star football player dating the cheerleader that's
00:44:13
what Cory and Curtis were and then they get married and they have these kids everybody thinking he had it all do you
00:44:20
have good memories of any of the time together I do there were good times uh and bad I mean it was n a perfect
00:44:31
[Music] marriage on Valentine's Day 2006 Curtis Loveless found his wife Corey dead in
00:44:40
the bedroom of their home on Kentucky Street in Quincy what was your reaction just utter shock just not knowing what
00:44:49
to do at what point does it change from being this Blissful you know story book relationship to death on Valentine's Day
00:44:58
I think the volatility you know sort of built over time it did escalate to a point where there was a lot of Gossip in
00:45:05
the community about him the case was quickly closed there was no determination for a cause of death and
00:45:12
Curtis went on with his life that's when the Quincy gossip Mill got started going
00:45:17
people wanted to know what happened to her I was sitting in my Newsroom and uh got the call and they said sounds like
00:45:27
Curtis less has been arrested Curtis less was arrested this afternoon and L is accused of
00:45:34
suffocating his former wife Cory Loveless in 20 We Begin tonight with the start of a Curtis Loveless murder trial
00:45:41
to not only be called a murderer but to say that I murdered the mother of my children it's horrible this is a
00:45:47
prosecution that should have never been brought there never should have been an indictment
00:45:58
breaking news here inside the Adams County Courthouse judge Hardwick did just now declare a mistrial it's set for
00:46:05
retrial we plan to retry [Music] it here we are again the beginning of another Loveless trial the retrial we a
00:46:16
year after the first one defendant's first life for a LEL will suffocate that will be our medical
00:46:26
letter you know the age of supposed fake news this is a fake case and there are fake
00:46:33
Witnesses no evidence of any Jenny what do you see as the big difference this time around lovel's
00:46:40
second wife Erica Gomez as we know she was banned from this first trial she is the biggest difference in this case a
00:46:46
lot of people saying that she was the missing puzzle piece to why we're even here to begin with you come up here and
00:46:51
be sworn May 2012 is the first time that attacked me he ripped my shirt and he tried to grab
00:47:00
me again and I kept on trying to fight him off the children were called down to stop me from calling the
00:47:10
police they were lies I told them multiple times that I had nothing to do with Cory's death so
00:47:18
how do you find yourself in this position it's a good question it's a question that we've been asking for the
00:47:24
last 2 and A2 years [Music] [Music] [Music] the way I describe circumstantial evidence is as
00:47:58
follows I like to look at it as pebbles in a mosaic and you're going to step away from that
00:48:05
Mosaic you know what it's going to say murder opening statements are about what the evidence is going to
00:48:17
show the state had an opportunity to explain to you what evidence they have that Kurt love Marg his wife Cory love
00:48:27
and they didn't present him because there is for Curtis Loveless and his family February 14th 2006 might seem like a
00:48:38
long time ago but for the second time in two years the husband and children of Corey Loveless are about to relive those
00:48:46
difficult days after she died with yet another murder trial this time it's in a different courthouse in a different city
00:48:55
but first you need to know how this all [Music] started it's Friday night in Quincy
00:49:18
Illinois and hundreds have come out for the home team [Applause] local journalist Bob gof swaps his
00:49:29
keyboard for a microphone and moonlights as an announcer score Quincy 28 if you're a
00:49:37
local sports star people are always uh wanting to know about you and at Quincy High in the 80s there was no bigger star
00:49:45
than blue Devil's Hall of Famer Curtis Loveless both on the field and in the classroom Curtis Loveless was a very
00:49:54
hardworking kid smart kid fight in the line eye the University of Illinois gave Loveless number 54 a scholarship to play
00:50:03
football but he wasn't just any player Loveless a business administration major was considered one of the top offensive
00:50:12
linemen in the Big 10 a team captain who led the fighting Aline ey to the conference Championship his senior year
00:50:20
he even got a look in free agent camp in the NFL with the Patriots had a bad knee
00:50:24
injury which uh not sure if would have made it or not but that certainly didn't help the situation but being a smart kid
00:50:31
you know Curtis Loveless already had other goals in mind while still in college Curtis started a long-distance
00:50:38
relationship with high school classmate Corey dedrickson who was studying Communications at the University of
00:50:45
Iowa she just had a perfect smile Marty dedrickson Corey's mother spoke to our CBS affiliate
00:50:53
khqa and she just smiled at everybody and she just did stuff Corey was vibrant Dynamic a little bit of stubbornness and
00:51:04
she was a pistol and I loved her for that Steve Belo Beth do brisy and Brett Shader grew up with Corey and Curtis in
00:51:11
Quincy Kurt was easygoing he was a gentleman funloving intelligent uh a gentleman did you think
00:51:19
they were well matched I did I did they well they looked great together they had
00:51:24
a lot of similarities and they seem to have fun together in 1991 just one year after graduation they were married Steve
00:51:34
was Kurt's best man and Beth was Cory's bridesmaid it was one of the best days you know in our lives they were very
00:51:42
happy the pictures you could see on their faces it was a magical night with Corey by his side Loveless
00:51:52
had Grand plans he attended law school and even eventually became an assistant State's Attorney in the city they both
00:52:00
loved Quincy what did Corey want to do with her life what were her dreams Corey was all about family she wanted the big
00:52:09
family the happy marriage being involved in Quincy Corey's Dream came true in 1993 when their first child Lindsay was
00:52:19
born you doing Lindsay that's an ugly dog you got there and continued with the addition of Three Sons L Logan say
00:52:29
something Lincoln hey Lincoln smile and lson Lindsay is now in her 20s she was a
00:52:38
loving person she was involved head room mother PTA always there at our games dance recital everything um our number
00:52:48
one cheerleader do you have a fondest memory of her I always say dancing to Aba in the
00:52:54
kitchen um she always played ABA and we always sang along and twirling around and it was just special and I still
00:53:03
listen because it's everything to me and Curtis continued to chase his dreams as
00:53:09
well in 2005 while still at the State's Attorney's office he started his own law
00:53:15
firm and as if he wasn't busy enough Loveless was elected president of the school board became a captain in the
00:53:24
Illinois National Guard and a Adjunct professor at Quincy University Big Man on Campus and he always kind of had that
00:53:31
air about him was he arrogant he became arrogant more and more yes there was a little bit of a holier than now maybe
00:53:39
you were entitled to this living I I think he lost friends over time because of that and the situation at home was
00:53:47
changing as well Curtis is working long hours away from Corey and the kids was taking a toll on their personal life
00:53:56
they fought as at a young age I thought it was normal but then growing up later on after she was gone I realized that it
00:54:04
wasn't normal neighbors around the Loveless house here on Kentucky Street say that in the months leading up to her
00:54:12
death they had heard loud and contentious arguments between Corey and Curtis by many accounts both were heavy
00:54:20
Drinkers and in this small community it was known that at times there was a tremendous amount of turmoil in their
00:54:28
home I knew that uh she wasn't taking care of herself Cory's family acknowledges she was suffering with an
00:54:36
eating disorder bulimia I was aware of the bulimia benging and the purging late in the day Cory was an alcoholic and
00:54:45
unfortunately so much of alcoholism all of alcoholism is not is not pretty it's it's it's ugly and it brings out often
00:54:54
times the worst in people and it was something that she she struggled with you said you drank would you describe
00:55:01
yourself as an alcoholic I do describe my myself as an alcoholic and I stopped drinking was Corey's death the result of
00:55:09
her alcohol abuse or was it murder it was a question that would go unanswered for almost 8 years until a
00:55:18
rookie detective would take a new look at this old case that's when I went to the Chief and asked him if if I could
00:55:26
take a look at it again and when you saw the pictures what was your first reaction it did not appear to me that
00:55:35
that could have been a natural death I was at the office just reading old case files and the Loveless case
00:55:58
popped into my head in 2014 Adam Gibson as a newly promoted detective decided to take a look at a
00:56:07
file of a case he'd always been curious about the death of Cory less 8 years earlier a death ruled as undetermined
00:56:17
after seeing the photos that's when I went to the Chief and asked him if if I could take a look
00:56:23
at it again the photos of Cory's B show her arms slightly elevated above her chest it didn't really make sense and
00:56:31
there was no real explanation for him in reopening the case Gibson first consulted Adams County coroner James
00:56:39
Keller who was the deputy coroner in 2006 when he was called to the Loveless house the morning of February 14th upon
00:56:48
entering the bedroom I noticed the um female lying on the bed on her back with her hands kind of in an upper right
00:56:56
position a body always tells a story the way you find them what is the story that
00:57:03
Cory's body was telling you that she had passed earlier that prior evening or day
00:57:10
Gibson contacted Dr Jane Turner an assistant medical examiner in St Louis who agreed with Keller's assessment that
00:57:20
Cory's body had stiffened a condition called rigor mortise which only happens over an extended period of time in my
00:57:29
report I stated 10 to 12 hours rigor mortise develops maximally at 12 hours and it was the position of Cory's arms
00:57:37
that led Dr Turner to the theory that Corey had been suffocated what did you determine would have caused the
00:57:46
Suffocation well with the position of the hands it suggests that there was an object between her hands and her body
00:57:54
and it appears that there's a pillow missing so I suppose that a pillow was used to suffocate her Turner theorized
00:58:03
that the pillow had not been removed until much later her after Cory's arms had Frozen around it that her dead body
00:58:12
had laid in bed all night Gibson and Turner's theory of murder was a very different account than the one Curtis
00:58:21
Loveless gave police Curtis says it all started the weekend before before Valentine's Day she had become ill um
00:58:30
she appeared to have the flu Curtis insists Corey was very much alive that morning the vivid memory is
00:58:40
is her coming down one of the one of the kids needed uh a pair of pants she wasn't feeling any better and
00:58:48
we made the decision that I would take the kids to school four-year-old Larsson stayed home
00:58:54
while Curtis dropped off off the other kids Larson would later tell police that on that morning he couldn't wake mommy
00:59:03
up frighten he waited at the top of the stairs for his dad by 9:00 a.m. Curtis returned and that's when he found Corey
00:59:12
dead in their bed what was your reaction um just utter shock uh I in fact uh I'm not even sure how I reacted
00:59:24
I know what I did oddly Curtis did not react by calling 911 what I saw was someone who didn't need help um I just
00:59:35
saw my wife who who had passed away Loveless says at that moment his main concern was to get his youngest child
00:59:44
Larson out of the house at trial Cory's mother Marty testifies that Curtis brought him over to her house which was
00:59:52
just around the corner sometime after nine Curtis's knocks on the door and he asked if I would watch
01:00:02
Larsson so I take Larson and he turns and he said oh and by the way Cory's dead then what
01:00:12
Mr he turned to leave and I'm trying to think I I I think I think I remember the the fact
01:00:21
that on the way I said I want to go and he said everything's been taken care of and he left
01:00:26
did he stay there and expain to you no nothing no did you have anything to do with the death of your wife Cory I did
01:00:35
not but detective Gibson wasn't buying it his investigation would lead to an indictment Curtis Loveless was arrested
01:00:43
afternoon in connection and Curtis less' first trial 10 years after his wife's death following breaking news outside of
01:00:51
the Adams County Courthouse where a mistrial has been declared the jury deadlocked unable to decide if Corey was
01:00:59
murdered how does it feel to be released finally Curtis Loveless was out of jail
01:01:05
but for how long one year later a new trial very dramatic day today here in the segment
01:01:11
County a new jury but the same question did Cory die from alcohol abuse or something more Sinister he
01:01:21
right see folks the second trial would be be the culmination of events that began 11
01:01:29
years ago that Valentine's Day morning she was laying in the bed and her arms were drawn up by her chest the Grim
01:01:38
details of that morning would be embedded in the minds of those who were there EMT Cole Miller was among the
01:01:46
first on the scene I went in there to check for signs of life and checked her cored pulse in her neck and then checked
01:01:54
her wrist and saw that it was cold and stiff I'm Jeff be be was the lead detective in the case in 2006 you
01:02:03
determined that this investigation should be closed because there was no evidence that is what we determined
01:02:10
defense attorney John L asks him to describe the scene did you find anything whatsoever that seem consistent with any
01:02:17
kind of struggle no did you find any evidence of a homicide no no signs of homicide
01:02:25
because the cause of death was ruled undetermined were you surprised she came back undetermined I think it was
01:02:33
unexpected I was expecting to see a death from natural causes related to a health condition be also didn't expect
01:02:44
to see on the day he discovered Corey the condition of her hands and arms and her arms were up in an unnatural
01:02:52
position her hands and arms from the elbow to the hands were leaning or resting against her abdomen and appear
01:03:01
to be up it is this strange position of Cory's arms that would become a critical
01:03:08
and controversial piece of this case there was mild rigor in one of her arms and moderate rigor in the other uh rigor
01:03:19
was also forming in her legs let's be real clear were her arms still pable at 1050 yes yes tell the jury what pliable
01:03:27
is we could move them the defense argues if Cory's arms were pliable it would indicate she could have died that
01:03:36
morning and that is in direct contrast to James Keller's testimony the body was in a full state of rigor rigor mortise
01:03:46
however long Cory Loveless had been dead to Keller it certainly appear that medical rigor mortise had set in the
01:03:54
state of rigor mortise to get in position um generally the rule of stum of anywhere from 8 to 12 hours did it
01:04:01
make any sense to you that they were saying it was that morning it did not it just didn't seem to add up 2 days after
01:04:10
Corey's death her body was cremated and the case was closed a 38-year-old woman was suddenly dead for seemingly no
01:04:21
apparent reason we assume that uh that her her eating disorder that her alcoholism um somehow caused her death
01:04:32
and whether it was checked undetermined uh or natural death really wasn't something that we were concerned about
01:04:40
life went on 6 months later Loveless started dating Erica Gomez who he later married Gomez would become an explosive
01:04:51
figure in his second trial his parents knew that he was abusive that's why they came and got him his
01:04:58
parents probably knew that he killed his first [Music] wife after his wife Corey mysteriously
01:05:17
passed away in 2006 it took Curtis Loveless less than 6 months to find love again this time with one of his students
01:05:27
at Quincy University Erica Gomez I remember my dad coming up to me and saying hey just so you know I've
01:05:38
been seeing this woman and what was your reaction I was shocked but couldn't process it at the same time because what
01:05:45
12-year-old is going to process a parent dating mhm especially so quickly after the loss and looking back it was I think
01:05:54
properly characterized as a the rebound relationship I regret starting the relationship were you lonely absolutely
01:06:01
two years later Loveless and Gomez were married what was your relationship like with Erica not good at all um for some
01:06:11
reason there was some hatred towards my mom like she was Public Enemy Number One
01:06:16
so I would tell her to stop like it's not fair and then I would get punished for that by whom by Erica and what
01:06:25
scared me more was that my dad would sit there and watch it it didn't take long for things to go from bad to much worse
01:06:34
it was Christmas Eve and my mom's side of the family invited all of us to come for family dinner Christmas was my
01:06:43
mom's favorite holiday and I was crying cuz I missed her and I wanted her there and all of a
01:06:50
sudden Erica walks in and says we're leaving now so I get 3 to 5 minutes to calm down get ready go
01:06:58
to walk out the door find out that my dad Erica the boys had left my family was not happy with them
01:07:09
leaving me and that set off a bomb a bomb that blew her family apart it blew up to the point where when I
01:07:19
returned home that evening uh Miss Gomez was throwing Lindsay's stuff out of the
01:07:24
house my clothes were in the street my room is completely trashed I knew my life was never going to be normal ever
01:07:31
again and that's when you moved in with your mom's mom yeah Lov lessen Gomez divorced in
01:07:39
2013 I decided that I'd made a a poor decision um and tried to end that relationship as peacefully and as
01:07:48
amicably as possible unfortunately it just didn't didn't end as peacefully and amicably as it as it should have on the
01:07:58
stand in front of the jury Erica gave the courtroom a sample of her explosive personality he threatened me he
01:08:07
controlled me he is physically abusive to me he had hurling a variety of accusations against Loveless I've
01:08:16
watched him get rid of evidence I've watched him use his children to get rid of evidence used my social security
01:08:22
number to try and still money out of my account heed did you have any concern that they
01:08:32
would buy into what she was saying I didn't have that concern because I knew they were lies he was
01:08:38
poisoning me there was my hair was falling out there were white lines on my fingers I was extremely sick I had to
01:08:49
you were aware Miss Gomez that you were not supposed to mention that because there was no
01:08:53
evidence well Gomez was a witness for the prosecution ultimately her testimony may have done more for the
01:09:02
defense I had a hard time believing that the prosecution actually wanted to put her on the stand also in the courtroom
01:09:09
Curtis lovel's third wife Christine who like Corey Curtis knew from Quincy High they were married in
01:09:18
2013 just months after his divorce from Gomez the behavior was so Outland the accusations were so outlandish the
01:09:28
fake tears the children were called down to stop me calling the police so you felt that the jury would
01:09:37
have zero credibility with absolutely on the stand for the prosecution detective
01:09:43
Adam Gibson would have to defend his credibility and explain just how he found an expert to support his belief
01:09:51
that Corey was murdered it's been implied that you did um do sh yes do you think that's what you did
01:10:00
absolutely not remember do Jane Turner cided with Detective Gibson after studying the evidence Turner believed
01:10:09
that Corey had died the night before police arrived given the circumstances of the state in which her body was found
01:10:16
and the altered scene that it it appears that she did die of homicide from Suffocation a logical conclusion except
01:10:26
for the fact that when questioned by Quincy police the Loveless children except Larsson said they saw their
01:10:32
mother alive on the stairs before going off to school the morning Gibson believed Corey was already dead when
01:10:40
Adam Gibson came to speak to you and he asked you do you remember you told him that you did you remembered seeing her
01:10:47
that morning and you came to believe that the children were wrong correct I didn't say they were wrong I
01:10:54
don't know what they saw and maybe neither did they I had had a story in my head of I saw her sitting on
01:11:04
the stairs waving to us goodbye I love you left and I always said oh it was great I got to say I love you do you
01:11:11
remember seeing your mother that Valentine's Day morning it's a black hole you don't know no how certain are
01:11:18
you now that Curtis Loveless murdered his wife Corey I'm 100% certain but defense Attorney John Loy was about to
01:11:27
challenge everything detective Adam Gibson believed about the death of Corey Loveless Adam Gibson decided to create a
01:11:37
crime where one didn't exist you knew that the case had been closed because nobody found sufficient evidence
01:11:44
ofre I read that it was closed yes prosecutor Ed Parkinson brings in three forensic Pathologists to proed detective
01:12:04
Gibson's theory that Corey was murdered from world-renowned Doctor wner Spitz Miss L died in my view of Suffocation to
01:12:15
Dr Scott Denton the pathologist first consulted when the case was reopened I would determine her cause of death to be
01:12:22
Suffocation and finally to Dr James Turner the outof state expert who also believes Corey was suffocated defense
01:12:31
attorney ly tries to discredit Turner saying she never saw Cory's body and her opinion that Cory's body was in full rig
01:12:40
Morse conflicts with the First Responders on the scene for you to be right Jeff be has to be wrong about his
01:12:46
assessment correct that's correct right yes for you to be right paramedic Ballard has to be wrong about his
01:12:53
assessment that the AR correct yes if Cory less' body was pliable as the defense claims full Ram mortis had not
01:13:04
set in and she did not die the night before when coroner Keller is cross-examined lby belittles his role in
01:13:14
the case you're at the scene of Cory's death for all of five minutes sir probably yes sir lby comes down
01:13:24
hardest on detective Gibson you contined to pursue Mr love right because you had
01:13:30
already decided that this man must be guilty no he grills Gibson about rigor mortise at what point did you learn that
01:13:37
you were wrong that the body was in full rigor at the scene I don't know to the to this day
01:13:45
that I'm wrong I'm going to show you a copy then a new twist ly accuses Gibson of withholding evidence emails that
01:13:55
never made it into the first trial you did delete all your emails in January 2015 did you not yes the defense was
01:14:03
able to recover those emails Loy reads one email from a pathologist who told Gibson he could never make a good murder
01:14:12
case since Corey's death had originally been ruled undetermined that is more than Reasonable Doubt in any reasonable
01:14:20
person's mind all right this email should have been turned over right I believe so it should yes
01:14:26
you didn't turn it over did you I did not but Gibson testified that he never engaged in any intentional wrongdoing
01:14:37
have you ever intentionally deleted or modified emails to manipulate investigation no this time we call Dr
01:14:47
lby calls to the stand he is own noted pathologist Dr William Oliver who was on the OJ Simpson case Oliver had no doubt
01:14:56
how Corey died it is my opinion that she died of the complication of alcohol withdrawal known as acute fatty
01:15:05
liver after a battle of the experts def the defense gambles that the most believable witness might be the accused
01:15:19
killer himself as I approached the bed I could I could see I could see her hands um I
01:15:26
could see um I could see her eyes were open um and she was she was very pale and there was just there was nothing
01:15:36
there Corey was dead um that's that's what I saw um that's what I saw I told them
01:15:46
multiple times that I had nothing to do with Cory's death being accused of a cold blooded murderer of your wife that
01:15:54
reduces your ility Factor correct a little bit do you feel like every thing you said every decision you
01:16:03
made is now being picked over and twisted unfairly um we've been doing this for two and a
01:16:13
half years and it was remembering the time right after Corey died that Curtis became most emotional one of our high
01:16:22
school classmates who was a pastor um he he's he's the one that that that delivered the
01:16:30
eulogy I wrote it but I couldn't couldn't deliver it all three Loveless boys contined to
01:16:41
support their father the two oldest testified they saw their mother that Valentine's morning I remember getting
01:16:49
ready for school walking back and forth getting stuff done sitting on the stairs
01:16:53
with my mother um and head out the door how confident are you though from your memory itself that you saw your mother
01:17:00
100% was this the last time you ever saw your mother yes their sister Lindsay was
01:17:06
not called to testify by either side as the trial goes to final arguments theond Reasonable Doubt ladies
01:17:15
and gentlemen is the standard those words don't have a dictionary definition you're all going to have to apply your
01:17:21
life experiences beyond the Reasonable Doubt doesn't mean probably doesn't mean made Beyond a reasonable doubt what's
01:17:29
that mean because really what the case is about is that lady Cory that's who the case is about she
01:17:42
died at age 38 because a 6' 4 in former football player standing over her muffled her and and forgot to take the
01:17:52
pillow away the question is whether any jury can sort out what exactly happened that
01:18:01
Valentine's Day morning do you think we'll ever know what happened with your mom
01:18:08
no if a verdict comes out this round it comes out I don't think we'll ever fully
01:18:15
know [Music] all murder trials have their clashes between the prosecution and defense I
01:18:34
would like to know who's coming like you Bard pretend like but the spats between Ed Parkinson
01:18:44
and John ly morning were more contentious I objected to his Antics I told him to shut
01:18:52
up I don't like him after 7 Days of testimony in Curtis lovel's second murder trial the jury
01:19:02
continues hearing closing arguments so here we are what is the state showing Cory died from Suffocation and
01:19:15
he didn't prosecutor David Robinson he had a motive she was an alcoholic she yelled at him she yelled at the
01:19:23
kids and that I had enough the state asked me to find ctis was guilty of Mur be there is no evidence in this case
01:19:37
that this woman was smothered she died a natural death they have no murder weapon
01:19:42
they have no forensic evidence I mean he went out trying to prove a case where there was no
01:19:48
crime this is rebuttal and I won't keep you on I got good news for you I'm not going to take long because committed a
01:19:55
stupid crime this B smart smart man here and you can do your job now because the only thing that makes sense here is
01:20:05
if she was suffocated thank and with that the jury began their deliberations this case is stated in
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these instructions and it's your duty to follow all of them I believe in everything we did um every step that we
01:20:21
took it was a search for the truth then in little more than two hours all parties were called back to the
01:20:34
courthouse unlike in the first trial this time the jury had reached a verdict we were prepared um uh in our
01:20:46
minds and our heart for for whatever the verdict was so this time at least you know there's going to be an answer we
01:20:53
know there's going to be an answer answer but still knowing that 12 people have our
01:21:00
fate in our future and our children's future in their hands is scary we the jury find defendant Curtis
01:21:11
L Not Guilty by person 11 thank you anybody like to he [Music] more than 10 years after Cory died and
01:21:32
two trials accusing him for the murder of his wife Curtis Loveless surrounded by his three sons walks out of the
01:21:41
courtroom a free man we put our trust in God and uh and we put our trust in the legal system and uh we weren't let down
01:21:51
and so it's a a great day for uh our family um a great day um for all of our friends and uh we're just we're
01:22:01
just thankful Kurt had absolutely nothing to do with his wife's death and the jury saw that prosecutor Ed
01:22:07
Parkinson is clearly upset by the quick decision uh disappointed but but the jury has spoken
01:22:17
so that's the end of it but just days after the verdict Curtis Loveless told 48 hours that he he and Christine still
01:22:26
have a lot of questions about detective Adam Gibson's investigation clearly I don't appreciate
01:22:33
what he's done to uh to me and my family and um uh whatever happens with Adam Gibson um happens with Adam Gibson
01:22:43
there's truth and uh and I believe the truth will come out you intend to pursue how and why this all
01:22:50
happened I I think those are questions we want answered the family remains deeply divided by the legal Saga now
01:22:59
behind them Curtis Christine and the three boys have not spoken to Lindsay since the day Curtis was arrested in
01:23:10
2014 I I don't think by our choice we were advised not to engage in a relationship with people who were
01:23:19
possibly against Kurt so do you see a day when we hope so we talk about together we talk about it often is that
01:23:26
on the docket of things to do you know I I think we we'd all like to see reconciliation I'm just not sure
01:23:35
how that happens it's it's it it it I'm sure it's going to be difficult for now Lindsay says she is
01:23:43
working to move forward with her own life inspired by her mother's memory my mom was a beautiful person
01:23:56
she touched so many people she was passionate but that's the kind of person she was and that's the kind of person I
01:24:03
try to be [Music] [Music] my family owns a beautiful cabin in Oak Utah the sound of the river the horses
01:25:15
that are down in the pasture the birds it's absolutely heaven on Earth to me [Music]
01:25:28
my mom had given it a name Tito's Tranquility because of the Serenity and peace the cabin was an awesome place to
01:25:37
go to as a young child I loved going up there bringing aunts and uncles and cousins the cabin was about 2 and a half
01:25:49
miles off the road you have to snowmobile in during the winter time it was an escape from
01:25:55
the world for our family it was winter of 1990 I was 20 years old and my little sister was
01:26:07
16 it was Christmas time we're off for the holidays there's a large Christmas tree
01:26:13
with lots of gifts around it I have great memories of spending Christmas with my mom and dad my mom even had our
01:26:20
Christmas stockings hung under the fireplace Manel ready for Santa to come 3 days before Christmas our family
01:26:29
had to finish up our Christmas shopping and head back up to our family cabin my mom and grams and I arrived at
01:26:38
the cabin first and my hands were freezing it was a bitter cold winter that year I asked my mom to hurry and unlock
01:26:51
the door I needed to run in and run my hands under some water and I would be right back down to help
01:26:57
her I got to the top of the stairs and saw a gray flash go behind the refrigerator and the first thought that
01:27:04
popped in my mind was oh a cousin's here already and was going to jump out and say
01:27:10
Boo it didn't turn out that way behind the refrigerator came a frizzy headed man in a gray sweatshirt
01:27:20
with his pistol pointed at me I assumed that he would want to just Rob us and be on his
01:27:30
way as soon as my mom came to the top of the stairs out from the back bedroom another robber with thick coke bottle
01:27:37
glasses on was pointing a gun at my mother my mom was saying to him what is it you want why are you here I'll give
01:27:47
you anything seconds after she had said that gunfire started imploding exploding explosion from
01:27:56
everywhere I saw my mom go down I turned at that point and looked over my shoulder to my GRS and
01:28:05
saw her get shot in the head and blood spray everywhere I heard her gasp for some
01:28:13
breath and then it was just dead silence I felt pretty certain that they were dead my thoughts were turned to knowing
01:28:26
that within minutes my dad and sister would be coming I can remember hearing snowmobiles coming in the distance and
01:28:35
my heart sinking to my gut knowing that that was my dad and sister [Music] [Music]
01:29:15
it felt like slow motion and quick all at once I can remember the screams and grams falling off the stool and my mom
01:29:32
reaching over her chest saying I've been shocked I started to plan ahead I knew that there was a car I knew my dad left
01:29:44
the car keys underneath the mat if I got these men out of the cabin and into the
01:29:50
car my dad and my sister would be safe [Music] as the noise of the snowmobiles became
01:29:59
closer the man in the gray sweatshirt grabbed me from behind around the neck put his gun to my
01:30:07
back dad and I arrived at the cabin and as soon as we got off the snowmobiles A man jumped out from the garage with a
01:30:13
full ski mask on and a gun and demanded that we come inside right away don't move don't move don't move
01:30:25
don't do anything my dad could see tears in my eyes and it was an unspoken communication and he knew at that point
01:30:35
that something awful had happened to Mom and grams the man asked my dad if he had any
01:30:43
money he reached into his pockets and pulled out what he had and threw it down to the
01:30:50
ground the man in the coke bottle glasses was in Red by the other to shoot my dad he pulled back the hammer I heard it
01:31:01
and he refused to fire so then the other man straining my sister pulled his gun out pointed at my
01:31:12
Dad pulled the trigger once click no fire twice click no fire and then the third one went and off
01:31:24
that blast was so close I could feel it I had no doubt in my mind that he was dead just like Mom and
01:31:37
grams I was terrified to just think that the trauma would not stop it kept going didn't make any sense to me I had
01:31:51
no idea what was happening or why these men that were in the cabin I knew that they had been there for a while
01:32:02
there was food eaten there was Christmas presents open it wasn't just that we walked in and startled them or scared
01:32:09
them they had actually waited for our family to return home their plan was to destroy their
01:32:16
evidence Burn It To The Ground there was always gas cans full of gas for the snowmobiles
01:32:24
they immediately got busy doing things they pour gas everywhere and set the cabin on
01:32:31
fire I can remember hearing the smoke alarms going off as the fire was already blazing inside the cabin there's a sense
01:32:39
of [Music] urgency they began telling us we got to hurry and load the snowmobiles and get
01:32:46
out of here I had this feeling inside of me that we needed to listen and do what
01:32:52
they said until the moment came to where L and I could make our Escape my sister and I drove these awful
01:33:00
men on the snowmobiles out of the cabin I drove one man behind me and my sister drove the other man behind
01:33:10
her I had all kinds of different plans of how to wreck the snowmobile how to throw him off into a tree how to get rid
01:33:16
of [Music] him but all I could think of is I couldn't leave my sister I can remember wanting to stay close
01:33:30
enough that I could still see my sister I felt a sense of security knowing that she was still
01:33:39
still there there was no one to help us there was nowhere to go we're in the middle of
01:33:47
the mountains on snowmobiles we headed up to the main gate and saw my Uncle Randy I seen the snowmobiles come up the
01:34:02
trail two snowmobiles and I go oh look there's uh my [Music] nieces I knew it was the girls with two
01:34:15
people on the back and I go wow they got boyfriends I walked over there and tried
01:34:23
to greet him and and and say hi and I waved my hands in there and uh they just drove by me and I go
01:34:33
hm that's weird that's not my nieces they don't do that to me I saw my uncle uncle pulled up and he
01:34:42
waved at us and we just kind of looked at him and turned back and the men said who was that somebody that must live up
01:34:50
here just being nice I knew his life could be in danger I knew if these men knew Randy was our
01:34:58
uncle there that they would have killed [Music] him we were up there in the mountains
01:35:20
there was no one around it was just my sister and I and two men that were dangerous that had a
01:35:26
gun there was a feeling of being completely vulnerable once we arrived at the family car they had two
01:35:36
guns each of them had a gun and the dark-headed man loaded his gun in the trunk and as he loaded his gun in the
01:35:40
trunk he pulled his jacket open and he had a knife and he looked at me goes don't worry I'm just as good with a
01:35:46
knife as I am a gun and then I seen the Lincoln come out across the street and uh I go well there
01:35:56
they are again I was walking up to the car as they were pulling out and I seen I was actually looking in the back and I
01:36:02
I I think I see lenee in the back I wav my hands again I go stop I knew that if we were to call out
01:36:17
or asked plead for help or act like we knew Randy that Randy would be shot as well so he was waving his arms and my
01:36:26
sister and I just pretended we didn't know who he was the car just drove right by me I knew
01:36:33
something's something's wrong I don't think it was a minute I seen another snowmobile come up with
01:36:40
this person on it and I look and I look I go well he's no coat on uh you know no
01:36:45
gloves uh no helmet and I go wow who is this and I look I go oh my God it's my brother Ralph and his face is just huge
01:36:54
and full of blood and just just big his eyes swolled shut uh blood sickles uh cuz it was cold he was in
01:37:04
really bad shape and he says I've been shot my wife has been killed and my daughters have been
01:37:10
kidnapped I start heading down the canyon as fast as I could I'm in panic Ralph's in the back full of blood laying
01:37:17
on the back seat 20 years ago your cell service did not work up there what whatsoever in that canyon and I kept
01:37:26
trying and trying and trying there two things on my mind save the girls get him on the Life Flight I come up to the back
01:37:34
of the Lincoln I know the girls are kidnapped I know the guys that got guns in in the car there you know I'm going
01:37:43
what do I do do I run them off the road still trying to call out on the mobile you you know and my mobile kicked
01:37:55
in I got 911 she says tell me what direction they're going we got police we got people in the area I go well they're
01:38:05
turning on the road they're heading towards cus I go I need a helicopter and the phone went
01:38:11
dead I pulled in the gas station went over the pay phone and got 911 uh back on the phone again I go guys I need a
01:38:21
helicopter now we noticed a cop car pass us and turn around and begin to follow us both men
01:38:29
began to panic I remember looking over the speedometer was going over 90 mph we turned right down towards a
01:38:37
canyon and went another mile or so and then fell the car fell off an embankment I remember looking up cuz the car was at
01:38:44
an angle and noticing the entire Road above us we came down was full of of maybe a couple cops mostly people in
01:38:54
common clothes drawn down with pistols and shotguns and rifles at us and I just remember how amazed I was that there are
01:39:01
so many people there so fast there was cops pointing guns at me and my little sister says no no that's
01:39:10
my sister and I don't think they'd received information that there was even hostages in the car I reached back from
01:39:17
my sister's hand and grabbed her hand and said duck and we both ducked and we were praying and squeezing each other's
01:39:24
hand we have always had a connection even as little children uh a special connection where we couldn't fail each
01:39:34
other she's always been a great comfort to [Music] me the suspects were taken from the
01:39:46
vehicle and then were secured by officers who'd arrived at the scene these guys are uh obviously cowards as
01:39:53
long as they were in total control of a situation by use of fear and force uh then they continued to function uh when
01:40:01
that control went away that's when it uh it stopped and they surrendered to authorities the men were down on their
01:40:11
knees with their arms behind their neck and the cops were you know yelling at him to get down get down and surrender
01:40:19
and I started to yell at the cops to kill him I said kill him they just killed my mom my dad and my GRS kill him
01:40:26
shoot him now kill him I remember a feeling of not necessarily being safe but have survived we're no longer
01:40:39
in the custody of those two evil men the helicopter showed up they got Ral out of the back of my blazer and uh
01:40:51
got him into care and uh he was in pretty bad shape critical condition and when it lifted off I'm
01:40:59
just praying that he makes it I can't imagine what had have been going through dad's head after he'd been
01:41:10
shot and then shot again and he's laying there playing Dead trying to breathe as
01:41:16
shallow as possible I later learned that Dad had actually been DED with gasoline
01:41:21
and he caught on fire himself and he had run into the shower and tear off his snowsuit while on fire having the
01:41:28
strength to get on the snowmobile and race down that mountain to save my sister and I how much blood he lost how
01:41:34
he couldn't see getting down the mountain and and freezing temperatures my whole life my dad was my
01:41:43
hero and that just put an exclamation point on that my dad was the most amazing hero that I've ever known
01:41:51
beautiful kind blue eyes he was extremely kind and generous in every way the number one concern in this
01:42:03
particular case is rescuing anybody who might need uh assistance secondly is to preserve the
01:42:11
evidence at the crime scene one of the most significant pieces of evidence was a video camera inside the video camera
01:42:20
was a videotape we had no idea what might be recorded on that so at a number of junctures in that in that film
01:42:29
I was saying oh my God oh my [Music] God hundreds of crime scenes later it still ranked right up
01:42:54
there you know it's still very Vivid to me probably when I got about maybe 10 ft from the
01:43:07
door I picked up a faint smell it was kind of like burnt hair and maybe burnt fabric like clothes burning as I entered
01:43:16
the garage that was maybe a uh 12 to 18 inch puddle of blood that that was fresh as I started up the
01:43:31
stairwell I could see holes in the wall bullet holes coming from one wall across
01:43:39
the stairwell into the other wall there was a blood smear on the wall it looked like a
01:43:47
bloody hand had had wiped down the wall and it it almost looked like a mini war zone there was two
01:44:00
bodies I checked for a pulse but I knew in my mind um they was deceased I actually walked into the
01:44:11
smoke before I really realized that the top floor of that cabin was on [Music] fire then our mindset went to protecting
01:44:23
the victim's property because we we thought the cabin was going to burn down on top of the coffee table was a
01:44:33
VCR camera and some tapes there was a double funeral for my mother and grandmother my grandmother's name is
01:44:51
Beth Tidwell pots my mother's name is k Tidwell tid I remember just so many people and
01:45:07
families that came to love us and help us build their love and support Aunt Claudia was my mom's older
01:45:19
sister when mom passed Aunt Claudia stepped in letting us know that she was there and it gave us all a sense of that
01:45:28
we weren't alone I wanted to be there as much as I possibly could because they needed support this was a horribly
01:45:36
traumatizing thing for them and we were what they had left Gramps had a lot of energy she was
01:45:47
full of life she was a very fun vivacious energe a happy grandma she would give me permanence in my hair and
01:45:57
make it curly [Laughter] [Music] awful I remember Mom called the Asen trees quakies she loved the noise that
01:46:12
the Quaking Aspen Made In The Wind that was one of her Fondest Memories and and and it is mine as well
01:46:24
[Music] my sister was one of the most devoted mothers that I have ever known she would
01:46:32
give up anything for her children she was strong willed and they were strong willed and you know that relationship is
01:46:38
not without conflict but they always worked it [Music] out the morning of the crime
01:46:53
I remember turning and walking over to give my mother a hug as I always did and she and
01:46:59
I had gotten a little argument earlier that morning over something silly and she and I both looked at each other and
01:47:06
me at 16 years old just turned and wasn't going to give her a hug and I turned and walk the
01:47:13
other way and that's last time I saw my mom alive [Music] you tell me what's your justification
01:47:37
for taking these lives and doing this to these people that you don't even know when I watched the videotape that
01:47:49
had been taken from the crime scene I expected to see pictures of family talking playing games
01:47:56
doing what family folks do but as it turns out there were the two suspects how your light
01:48:05
flash I don't know find out they were opening the family's Christmas presents oh wow what is
01:48:19
it I remember thinking of the pure malice and hate that these men must have what heartless jerks why would you
01:48:33
do this to our family the two men were in there early to mid 20s both spent time at Utah State
01:48:45
Penitentiary Von Taylor had been previously convicted of an aggravated burglary what I gather is he was a
01:48:53
normal kid a very normal and and decent family but that at some point he got into some conflict with the law I don't
01:49:01
think I got all of this I'm not aware of a violent history on Mr Edward Deli he had been convicted of an
01:49:14
arson they'd been released from the penitentiary to a halfway house facility so apparently they were given the
01:49:21
ability to go out look for employment at that point they just absconded I later learned these men had
01:49:29
hitchhiked their way up there and chose that area because one of the men had family that had a cabin in the area
01:49:35
they' robbed several cabins and eventually came to our cabin because they knew we were
01:49:41
there they wanted to find a way to get a vehicle and get out of the country they
01:49:46
waited for us all night long to return I'm afraid to go in there and this might appear to be a slam dunk
01:50:02
case to some folks but from an investigator's point of view it was very complicated and very
01:50:12
complex sure it's not a who done it there's no question who committed the crimes but
01:50:23
being able to determine what criminal act each suspect committed that was a challenge
01:50:32
[Music] [Music] [Music] Von Taylor and Ed Deli very much each took their own separate part in
01:51:10
murdering my mom and grams I do not feel one man at any way shap or form was more
01:51:20
responsible they were charged with the murders the aggravated kidnapping the arson the uh high-speed
01:51:31
chase I I don't remember the exact number but in addition to the murders there were something like 8 to 10
01:51:38
felonies and some misdemeanor I wanted them both to be sentenced to the death penalty I wanted both of them to know
01:51:49
that they were going to die approximately 5 months after these crimes Von Taylor pleaded guilty to two
01:51:59
counts of capital murder and the state dropped all of the other charges against him in exchange for that plea I believe
01:52:06
Taylor pled guilty to his crime because there was so much cold evidence against him that that was all that he could
01:52:15
plead was guilty Taylor was an evil man he had no remorse no regard for Life whatsoever
01:52:24
you could see it in his eyes you could see it in his countenance from the moment we saw him
01:52:29
to the last time we saw him in court he just had this air about him of anger and zero remorse Taylor opted to
01:52:40
go to sentencing in front of a jury instead of in front of a judge the jury sentenced him to to a death sentence for
01:52:47
both murders so he has two death sentences I felt relieved that Taylor would be put to death for his crime
01:52:57
Justice had been [Music] served short period of time after that uh a couple of weeks I believe then Mr
01:53:15
Deli uh went to trial we were as prepared if not maybe even a little bit more prepared uh to go into the deli
01:53:24
trial as we were with the Von Taylor trial I felt a great burden I felt like they practically
01:53:43
wanted me to be able to see the bullets coming out of the guns that they expected me to point the exact gun and
01:53:54
the direction of every bullet and where it hit at any given [Music] moment H I actually just had a whole
01:54:04
epiphany of new thoughts come to that that I don't think that that was helpful for a victim to have to put a weapon
01:54:14
that they watched their family murdered with to even have to touch it what is the point the weapons were already on
01:54:22
the table why would I have to touch it those trials are somewhat of a blur to me I was 16 years old and I wanted to
01:54:32
go back and live that life I loved and not having to keep relive a nightmare Del's lawyer argued that he
01:54:41
didn't do any of the shooting these men were guilty they committed a crime they need to be
01:54:48
punished and we needed to move on Len and Trish TAA uh were excellent Witnesses they were very sure about the
01:54:56
things they had seen uh and very articulate able to relate these very very Sensational
01:55:03
things in an unemotional way so they're extremely valuable Witnesses but we had another survivor of
01:55:11
the case Mr ta to survived the assault and the attack incredible guy I remember sitting and watching the
01:55:23
look on deli's face as he came in seeing my father and it was very apparent to me
01:55:27
that he did not know my father had survived and the look on his face was just Priceless like he had been defeated my
01:55:38
dad survived we won he's lucky uh that they used the wrong gun when they shot him they used
01:55:48
bird shot very ineffective they didn't know that you know I think his odds of of having made
01:55:55
it uh and survived an incident like that are probably one in a thousand he was kind of an Ace in the Hole and he
01:56:02
brought the prosecution together in a in an outstanding way I expected uh Edward
01:56:09
Deli to be convicted of first-degree murder the case had been thoroughly investigated and the uh the Prosecutors
01:56:16
Office had done an excellent job [Music] I heard the verdict came out uh second degree murder with life imprisonment and
01:56:43
I never really understood that I said something's wrong it can only be them that that did this how can he be not
01:56:51
sentenced to death Deli was not convicted of first-degree murder he was convicted of second deegree murder and a
01:57:00
death sentence was no longer an option once that conviction came in Edward Deli received second degree
01:57:08
murder instead of first degree due to one jury member deciding to hold [Music] out I
01:57:19
felt like the courts did an injustice to our family I felt like that he deserved
01:57:25
to be on death row as well just like Taylor Deli murdered Taylor [Music] murdered this was such a horrific
01:57:41
experience for everybody here that I think we all didn't know what to say or buried it inside to where we didn't talk
01:57:51
about this a lot I went through periods of anger and frustration and not understanding why and for years and
01:57:59
years that follow I'd cry in silence I I spent a good 10 years hiding that pain and suppressing that pain I
01:58:09
went through trying to find happiness in areas where happiness doesn't exist I went through fear fear of putting my
01:58:17
heart out there fear of loving someone or letting someone love me that they would would abandon
01:58:24
me I believe it was 2001 I received a letter from Deli I thought about it for many many
01:58:34
years and would go to write him a letter and it just never felt [Music] right it took me over 9 years to respond
01:58:50
to deli's letter I held on the letter and I reread it probably 20 30 times I was just very
01:58:59
careful and guarded with my feelings um I basically wanted to get a feel if he was truly
01:59:08
sorry Deli has um shared with me that he has grown into a man not the same uh Evil Boy that committed the crime I
01:59:24
believe that I gained my freedom back for myself by choosing to forgive Deli for me forgiving does not mean
01:59:37
forgetting I do not believe Edward Deli has a place outside of prison but when I
01:59:43
came to the place of forgiveness I felt a tremendous burden relief off my shoulders
01:59:54
I felt free lene is flawed [Music] Perfection Len I've been married a little over 3 years
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now she's my best friend she's everything to me um there there is something in her eyes that is
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just it's it's like pure and she's as flawed as the rest of us but she has this innocence that still is there that
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uh that I just love Nathan changed my life by opening his heart and sharing his true self
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and giving me the freedom to do the same I have four kids and five beautiful step
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kids and I just feel like it's a beautiful start of a new beginning [Music] for me to be a
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Survivor um has become a beautiful gift I believe that I can share it with [Music]
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others after the cabin had burnt we went and rebuilt it and made it even better than it was
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before I can remember my dad he would say this to me quite often he would say lene I know lightning strikes he says
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but lightning never strikes twice in the same location and I would find great peace in
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that sometimes um if I ever would have fear I would just hear my dad say Len you're going to be
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safe it's fabulous we love it there we need to do a hike before I go down we AB go up there and enjoy family and friends
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and we play and we relax we we Bond they're not going to take away from us the things that we love and we enjoy
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in our life they took our mom they took our GRS but that's where it ends the cabin's magical the
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cabin uh is healing [Music] when my father was diagnosed with cancer our whole family came together
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and that last 6 to8 weeks of his life were so absolutely incredible he he pulled me
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aside uh spent about an hour and hour and a half with me just me and him probably gave me one of the greatest
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compliments I had in my life and I'm still just a touch uneasy about it that he knew lene would be okay and
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that he could [Music] go cuz he knew I would take care of [Music] her when my father passed it was very
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peaceful I had the privilege of being right by his side as he he took his last breath and his Spirit has never left
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me anytime I need my dad he's there he comes in some of the most unique and special
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times I very much still feel that my father is [Music] there I have two beautiful little girls
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and when I look into their eyes I see both my mother and my father and everything that's loving and pure I
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awesome life I love my life now and I wouldn't say that the incident in 1990 defines me but I would say it's help
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make me who I am today wind trees can wind it's the leaves I think my sister would be
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absolutely delighted if she looked down to see the healing that l and Trisha have gone through and what
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they've done with their [Music] lives blow let let it tell you where to go I feel
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very much so that this experience has changed me as a person I choose that it's a part of who I am it's my life
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story because always demons are behind every door and if you let the wind blow then
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the demons a no let the wind what we experienced together that created a bond that obviously I couldn't
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have with anybody else and I'm glad that we were there together and I couldn't I
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couldn't ask for more Let the wind blow let the wind [Music] blow just don't let the
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wind don't Don't Let It Blow You Down [Music] [Music]