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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] my name is Steve modlin my wife and I have a small farm
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come on we raise sheep Market lambs and breeding stock the farm has always been a
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sideline my primary job was as a special agent with the north Kon estate Bureau of Investigation running a farm is a lot
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like working in investigation every day presents challenges pieces of a puzzle that need to be put
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together agent modlin set the scene for me where are we this is the Saluda Mountain Lodge in Saluda North Carolina
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and this was owned by the Mintz family and Vanessa men had worked the night shift as the night manager she was
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hilarious she was hilarious do you want Santa Claus to bring you she had a very quick wit she was this natural maternal
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life of the party too come back and see us in the morning okay we will miss menz
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was very well respected in the community she was connected through her church and
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her activities M menz worked with young girls in Etiquette with beauty pageants Vanessa helped me with public
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speaking and building confidence she was like my support team she made me a very
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strong independent woman February 19th 20 2011 never leaves my mind I find it really strange because Mom has not text
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or called you arrive at the lodge what do you see I see the door standing open Jessica came in through the employee
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entrance into the main guest Quarters here and immediately noticed her mother in the bed back in the bedroom here this
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is not right when she got to here she could see her mom on the bed it's very dark and the only Illumination in the
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room is coming from the TV and her mom was on her left side and had her arm up over her face she also called her sister
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who was a nurse and Andrea said Jessica is she breathing have you checked her pulse and she just scream this Blood
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curling scream manessa had been shot one once in the face and once in the forearm area
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this was certainly a very violent death there was no Forest entry the cash drawer in the front office was open and
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was empty there's nothing out of place except for her shoes on the bedroom floor and a shotgun shell the fact that
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she is in bed in her night clothing it is my opinion she was ambushed does that suggest she may have known her killer
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Yes my heart has been ripped out and it's laying in there Dead with her this can't be true this was money and sex
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driven and how disgusting is that to murder someone for