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thank you [Music] [Music] it was so unusual for something like this to happen right outside your door
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behind the Gates of a beautiful community well as they say a lot of things go on
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behind closed doors the Chadwicks lived a very Suburban life Peter was very quiet very soft-spoken
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QC she was bubbly and vivacious when you say bubbly and vivacious did she have a
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sense of humor she was very funny yes and so smart and talented she could do anything
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our kids started the same school as her children they were all friends do you see she came from Malaysia not
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speaking English and she she met Peter in school she told us Peter would work out of the home
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managing the family Investments you know they lived well so from the outside did it seem like the Chadwicks
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had this idyllic life yes from the outside it definitely seemed that way [Music]
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I work out of my house so my office just faces the street here between 4 and 5 p.m I saw cop cars in front of her house
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and I'm thinking what's going on one of our other friends she came right up to me and said Karen
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where's QC where's Peter at that point we just knew that she didn't pick up the kids it was kind of
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talk of the neighborhood and that Peter and her were missing we sent a patrol officer out there so
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they go inside it just looks like a typical Newport resident where there was lunch being prepared the house is
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immaculate that they're still vacuum lines in the carpet everything's made it looks good
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and then when they go upstairs and they walk into the master bath they realize there's a broken vase and a little bit
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of blood splattered around now we're actually starting to get worried about it [Music]
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investigators quickly identify Peter as a primary suspect in his wife's disappearance okay
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but made bail and then he just disappeared in January 2015 Peter Chadwick becomes a
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fugitive from Justice the search intensifies for a millionaire fugitive accused of murdering his wife
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and skipping bail we had no idea this Manhunt was going to become the logistical monster that it
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has two I mean this Manhunt has really expanded the entire Globe but now that Diane Hunt is over
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Peter Chadwick's life on the Run ended and we'll tell you enforcement got their man
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thank you foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] ly Five Years on the run the international Manhunt for Peter Chadwick
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accused of killing his wife QC ended August 4th 2019. we're police announce that Peter Gregory Chadwick was located
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in Mexico on Sunday night with the health and cooperation of the United States Marshal Service and authorities
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in Mexico he was flown to Los Angeles International Airport where our detectives took custody of him
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how did it come to this it's a twisted tale that began on a picture-perfect autumn day back in
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October 2012. in this Posh neighborhood in Newport Beach California the couple had been living the good life
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enjoying the trappings of wealth and raising three sons their oldest was away at boarding school and when his two
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younger brothers headed home that day the family's World turned upside down so these boys got out of school and what
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happened so they get out of school and a bus drops them off at a bus stop near their house in Newport Coast Sergeant
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Ryan Peters remembers that day a neighbor saw him sitting at the bus stop past the time that they typically get
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picked up by either Peter or QC so she stopped and asked have you reached your mom and dad and they said no they
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haven't been able to reach them they were calling him nobody was answering it was very unusual for the Chadwicks not
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to be punctual Lieutenant Brian Moore was called in later Dad should be here to pick them up dad
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is always here normal protocol during a missing person's case is we're we're checking with friends we're checking
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with relatives and checking the hospitals checking with family neighbors anybody have any idea where they are all
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attempts to locate them were a dead end for Clues and then when they go upstairs
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and they walk into the master bath they not swim Patrol realizes there's more to
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the story in the master bathroom they initially saw the broken glass decorative glass
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that was around the bathroom tub the edging we had blood at the bottom of the bathtub as you continue through the
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downstairs the safe is clearly ajar so it's starting to look like more than just a welfare check situation
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yeah obviously whoever left left in haste it looked quite suspicious we were all in shock like where is she
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what's going on why is she missing word that the Chadwicks were gone spread quickly through the neighborhood
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Heidi lived just across the street what were they like well QC was the one with all the
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personality she was always looking forward to my annual Christmas party because she came over she got to dress
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up and she looked like a million dollars and she had fun my first impression of her was that she was a completely
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devoted mother Karen Thorpe had known QC for years their children went to school together
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she was very determined to make sure they were getting good grades and they were
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completing their assignments and they were taking music and they were doing a sport and she wanted them to be the best
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at everything and how were they they were the best at everything their father Peter came from a wealthy
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family he was born in Britain and had dual citizenship qc's family was also affluent they met at Arizona State
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University did you get the sense that she was very in love with him yes that she was in love with him and that she
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depended on him also what do you mean depended on him QC found our country to be a bit new and strange different from
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where she had come from and she was learning about how to do things here did you get the sense that Peter liked her
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depending on him yes yeah we definitely all felt that he was completely comfortable with that she was definitely
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less independent than many of her friends QC and Peter married in 1991 when he grew more successful the couple moved to
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that home in Newport Beach they eventually had three sons art Scott taught the two older boys
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piano they were great students they did everything I asked I would teach him then after a few months after he got
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more advanced I would teach him they would expand beyond that as he got committed and did more work never heard
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right kids I really enjoy being in their home she always had a beverage for me and
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something to eat every single time and that doesn't happen you know every day for all the clients that I see and so
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she's very congenial very much uh making me feel warm in her house and what was Peter like
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he almost seemed painfully shy when we first met him I felt like I never really knew him very well what did Peter do at
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first we didn't really know we thought he ran his own business and then we learned he managed some apartment
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buildings was Peter kind of a mystery yes Peter was a mystery but Karen says she did sense that the
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couple's Dynamic had been evolving over the past few years QC was really beginning to come into her own and be
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her own person I'd say she was less insecure about what to wear and what to do and she was able to follow more of
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her way of doing things so you could see the self-confidence I could see the self-confidence yes I felt at the time
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like I really knew the family but I have to say with so many things in life you never
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really know about people's inside lives and what's really going on now police were left with two missing
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parents and those disturbing clues in the master bathroom and what were the boys saying
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boys had no idea where Mom and Dad were anybody have any clue no at that point nobody had any clue at all
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but that wouldn't last long the first Big Break came here near the Mexican border in San Diego it was just
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before Dawn the day after when someone here a hundred miles from Newport Beach called 9-1-1 with an emergency it was
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Peter Chadwick there was an emergency this Crystal they took her they took her who took her the
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guy broke into my house he drove me here he had a friend I think that going uh they might be going to
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Mexico or somewhere [Music] in these surveillance pictures taken at a gas station near the Mexican border
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you can see Peter Chadwick he's about to make that 9-1-1 call everyone Chadwick tells the operator QC had been
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murdered my wife said they've gone in a pickup truck she's dead this is the gas station where Chadwick
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called 9-1-1 yeah this is where he chose to kick off our investigation and this was a huge break this was huge Sergeant
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Ryan Peters just to get a sense of where we are how close are we to the border is that it's
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right there what are we looking at we're looking at Tijuana we're that close we're that close what
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did Chadwick tell 9-1-1 Shadowbrook calls 911 and says he was kidnapped and he was kidnapped by a guy named Juan who
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had killed his wife in Newport Beach how do you know Juan hi picked him up to look at some painting
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work at the house I brought him to the house so Peter and Juan go back to his home
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and then what did Peter say happened at some point Peter and Juan separated one continued upstairs and Peter went down
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to his office Peter said within seconds he heard his wife QC screaming [Music] he hears QC screen Peter Peter and as he
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runs upstairs he sees Juan strangling QC who's in the bath in their master bedroom and he's drowning her
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how do you know she's dead she drowned she drowned her body was stiff even as he goes up and sees this Witnesses this
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he's held at Bay by Juan with a two inch pocket knife Chadwick told police he was helpless to
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save QC and instead of being able to rescue his wife he's held at Bay by Juan and Juan proceeds to finish killing his
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wife then Chadwick said Juan ordered him to help get qc's body out of the tub and
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wrap it in a blanket and Peter says he walks over and grabs a green blanket and wraps her up in it and that's the
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blanket they use to take her downstairs with Juan at his side Chadwick said he was forced to drive all through the
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night with his wife's body in the back of his SUV I've been driving with them so I think they might be going to Mexico
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or somewhere I want you to get him Chadwick says that's how they ended up here at this Bordertown gas station
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where they met up with another man named Chi and they took the body out of Chadwick's
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car put it in a truck and took it to Mexico Chadwick says Juan and she drove away leaving him alone with his vehicle
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in this dreary parking lot that was an emergency this is Crystal that's when Peter made his 9-1-1 call
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okay and where is she now they have her body they say they're going to cut her up
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what color part of one what what what color card dark green uh um like a like a pickup
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van but covered um when you quote um and and uh Chevy Chevy within a few minutes police arrived and
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took him to the station Lieutenant Brian Moore says his detectives found holes in Chadwick's
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story any signs of Juan at all no Chadwick told 9-1-1 that QC was killed at about 11 o'clock the previous morning
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but surveillance footage shows Chadwick's SUV leaving his gated community in Newport Beach about two and
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a half hours after that police say there's no Juan in the vehicle and later Chadwick's at a toll again no sign of
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wand everyone we talked to and described this one individual no one had any idea who
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that was or could give us any information related to this person what about Chi no some of the video
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surveillance we picked up uh in the area where Peter said he met this Chi person
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there was no other vehicles involved that we could see what's more Chadwick's own body had some
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incriminating injuries he had scratches on his neck and arms he had a bite mark on his forearm
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did he try to explain that as these came from Juan he explained some sort of a struggle
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between him and Juan but there was never any specifics on how he obtained those injuries and then there was this a
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packed suitcase in Chadwick's car we had a suitcase all male clothing inside that
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was just kind of thrown in there as if somebody kind of packed hastily I'm sorry there was a bag in the car of
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men's clothes what kind of kidnapper says hey go ahead and pack yourself an overnight bag which is part of the
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problem that's not normally the thing that happens no [Music] qc's friend Karen says nothing Peter
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said made any sense when you first heard that story did you buy it absolutely not I don't even think
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the 911 operator bought it if you've heard the tape she her reaction is really um
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okay are you on any kind of medication sir not not not that uh heavy one okay but
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this happened yesterday at 11 you're now calling us at 5 30 in the morning detectives weren't buying any of it
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either during the initial contact Peter was was kind of all over the map his story was
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very disjointed he'd go through the range of emotions crying however the officer never saw a tear to moments of
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anxiety and just complete quiet so he went from great displays of being distraught to nothing and the most
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interesting thing was during the entire contact with law enforcement and with our detectives he never once asked about
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his kids he never asked about the boys no and we're talking he hasn't seen them since the morning prior when he dropped
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him off for school what did that say to you to me it means that he he's more concerned with his
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story creating an alibi than he is about his own Sons it appeared so yes People's First feeling was that there
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had been a takeover robbery and they have both been kidnapped and I don't even know if there was speculation in
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the media about that but I never for a moment thought that it happened somehow do he had killed her foreign
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[Music] hear more of Peter Chadwick's bizarre 911 call on Facebook at 48 hours [Music]
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I remember calling him I said he's killed her hasn't he I can't tell you why I knew
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my friend said are you okay are you at work and I said I am but I'm going home now
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foreign on October 11 2012 just six hours after that 9-1-1 call Peter Chadwick was
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arrested for murder he wasn't defensive angry sad emotional in any way as if somebody that was being
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placed under arrest that was innocent would have acted almost like he wasn't surprised that we were putting handcuffs
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on him Chadwick quickly lawyered up and stopped talking to detectives the community was
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shocked just just unthinkable that he would do that and that someone would do that it
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that she would be gone Karen Thorpe could only guess what led to her friend's murder I think over time
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knowing QC it seemed that she wanted to become more independent and she would start doing more things
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for herself and I wondered then if maybe some of her reservations and insecurity
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were because of Peter why do you think she didn't confide in you I think she was very proud I think everyone was
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shocked Brian Moore believes QC had uncovered a dark side of her husband probably the most telling things that we
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discovered was a handwritten piece of paper that had Peter's computer search history on it looked like it was written
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out by QC and what did that say how to torture Chinese sex massage abortion costs in Orange County
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these were all in his search history yes so as we dug into it further we started
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to get the real account that there was some turmoil in their marriage there was some talk of divorce he
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visited prostitutes based on his search history we have to assume so this isn't that happy Newport Beach
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family that it appeared to be from the outside absolutely not in court Peter Chadwick pleaded not
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guilty his two sons who had lived at home were now with their mother's brother more
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than 50 miles away in the Los Angeles area their mother was missing and presumably dead did the boys have any
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idea about what happened to their mother what their dad was doing none whatsoever
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then seven days after Peter Chadwick called 9-1-1 detectives got another big break
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this time a tip they say they can't discuss that led them to a location in the mountains more than 100 miles from
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Newport Beach this is remote it's extremely remote kind of South San Diego County
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in the middle of nowhere [Music] so where are we headed so we're going to Crime Scene number two
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detectives found themselves on this Barren Mountainside in rural San Diego County Wildcat Canyon they believe Peter
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Chadwick came here that night what do you think he's thinking as he's driving up this road if you kind of put yourself
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in his position he's been driving around for hours over 10 hours with qc's body in the car he needs to find a place to
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drop the body he needs to find a place to drop the body where he's not going to be seen or it's dark and it's not going
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to be seen anytime soon after he drops it the first place he comes to is this little road yeah it's right here that's
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it that's it so this is where he stopped we were not sure if we're ever gonna find her the chances were slim to none
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[Music] when we lifted up it was full so what did you see we started finding qc's
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items we found nice bags we found a really nice purse so we set those aside when we opened up the bag that's when we
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found qc's ID her permanent residency card ten thousand dollars cash and all of this stuff is the stuff that he
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described Juan taking with qc's body into Mexico [Music] and wrapped in that green blanket qc's
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body it was a huge break for us the dumpster was scheduled to be picked up the Thursday morning which was the
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next morning after we believe Peter disposed of qc's body the issue with that was there was some kind of
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billing dispute so they were supposed to pick up the dumpster but they didn't once detectives finally found QC the
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medical examiner was able to determine how she died there was a pretty violent struggle which resulted in strangulation
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and possible drowning as the state built its case against Peter Chadwick he sat in jail that is
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for two months until December when bail was set at one million dollars no sweat for the multi-millionaire businessman I
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heard he got out on bail and I remember being absolutely infuriated and disgusted and he should
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not be out on bail prosecutor Matt Murphy says the court really had no choice Chadwick was
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entitled to bail we had a guy that had he had no criminal background he had roots in the community
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Chadwick also had that multi-million dollar home and three sons and he surrendered his U.S and UK passports
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we can keep him on a short leash we can keep him you know engaged in the in the process we can keep you know we can keep
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eyes on him Peter came back and got her van which was really creepy he returned to get her van because his car was
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impounded so he drove off with her van and I was just happened to be out in the street and he gave me a nod and I'm just
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like turn my head in disgust even before Chadwick could face trial Karen's mind was made up he was Shameless talk about
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hudspa he send out an email inviting people to a hundred day vigil Candlelight vigil
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at the home where he murdered her how can you kill your wife throw her in a dumpster and hold a
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candlelight vigil at the home where you killed her two years passed Chadwick moved into his
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father's home in Santa Barbara a Swanky Town up the coast all three sons ended up in boarding school
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how solid did you think your case was as you headed for trial extremely solid I mean with all the circumstantial
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evidence the body the the injuries and the lack of plausibility on on behalf of Peter's story so overall we thought we
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had this thing wrapped up so as you're looking down the road you're thinking Peter Chadwick is going to end up where
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in prison but Peter Chadwick had other plans breaking news to tell you about an accused murderer on the run from
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California foreign was awaiting trial and making his court appearances for hearings doing what he
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was supposed to do until he wasn't anymore yeah we got word from his attorney that
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said I don't know where he is after two years out on bail Peter Chadwick disappeared
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this is one of the most Wanted suspects in the entire United States what do you mean he's gone you know didn't somebody
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keep an eye on this guy prosecutor Matt Murphy was outraged nobody thought that he would flee from his sons
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he abandoned his family he made his attorney look terrible and he thumbed his nose at the court and the justice
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system it's part of this just that rich guys can get away with an awful lot you know it's it's just it's frustrating
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you shouldn't be able to take advantage of the system because you have money and you know that's that's what happened
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here most people can't afford this bail you shouldn't be able to do this because
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you got money he took full advantage and he used his financial resources to do it
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a million dollars bail really wasn't enough to keep someone as cold-hearted and narcissistic as him to
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stay around at first investigators heard that Peter Chadwick might be dead initially Michael Chadwick started
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relaying information that he was suicidal so Michael Chadwick Peter's dad said he was going to kill himself that
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Peter was going to kill himself he alluded to the fact that he was suicidal I don't know if it was his attorney or
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his father had said he had been despondent and suicidal no by the time investigators realized that
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he'd flown The Coop Chadwick was long gone he had a three-week lead on them and he'd been studying up they discovered
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books in Chadwick's home on how to disappear and how to change identities and leave false trails
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investigators learned from a taxi company that someone who police now believe was Peter Chadwick took a cab
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from his dad's house to this airport here in Santa Barbara and get this the cab driver says that
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the person he picked up that day was a woman so was Peter Chadwick in disguise when he got here he went inside with his
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suitcase and then he must have changed clothes because surveillance cameras have pictures of Chadwick dressed as
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himself hanging out at the Santa Barbara Airport hours ticked by but he never got
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on a plane instead he went back outside got into another cab and drove away and that's the last anyone here saw of Peter
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Chadwick the search for Chadwick was now an international Manhunt with the U.S Marshals leading the way
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here they are training in the mountains above Los Angeles we're going to catch him
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Marshall Craig McCluskey led the team that would track Chadwick he's going to make a mistake we're going to choke him
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off and grab him [Music] not only did Chadwick have a head start his life on the Run would be well
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financed what makes him so difficult to find is the fact that he fled with a decent amount of money so it was about a
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million dollars that he had in Cash when he left approximately a million dollars
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yes do you feel like he slipped through your fingers yeah I honestly wished uh you know we
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could have wrapped this case up a lot sooner he got the better of us at this point
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once you find a string you got to start pulling on it and we found a couple strings but
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final tip that vexico tips had come from everywhere the countries that we've had active leads
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and that we've pursued include Japan they include Canada Belize Panama the Ukraine McCluskey was
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convinced Chadwick was getting help while on the lamb I didn't think this case was going to
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turn into what it did but I think one reason that it did is not because Peter's smart it's not because he was
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Savvy it's not because he outsmarted us it's because he's getting help and I think once we cut him off from his
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source of help that he's going to make a mistake and we're going to catch him Karen Thorpe had always hoped whoever
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was helping Peter Chadwick might have a change of heart someone needs to come forward someone
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with a conscience someone who cares about those kids and who cares about what has happened to
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this lovely woman this lovely devoted mother who has no justice Justice would be in reach when The
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Manhunt ended South of the Border but where do You Hear What Chadwick was doing while on the land
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he went from a real estate millionaire to busing tables right I think he was just desperate to fit in and stay on the
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Run he was willing to do anything to sustain his flight learn more about Peter Chadwick's life
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on the run in Mexico at 48hours.com after almost five years basically overnight everything changed August 4th
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2019 48 Hours learned of a new dramatic development in the Peter Chadwick investigation
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48 Hours had the only news crew on the scene when Peter Chadwick landed in Los Angeles yesterday he disappeared in 2015
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after being charged with killing his wife in handcuffs and shackles authorities had their man and Newport Beach police
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chief John Lewis made the official announcement after receiving hundreds and hundreds of tips from all over the
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world one of them led us to our suspect the chief would not go into detail about
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what that tip was Chadwick was picked up by Mexican federal police near the city
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of Puebla south of Mexico City I believe he was surprised I don't think he expected to be arrested Marshall Craig
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McCluskey was at the airport in Los Angeles when Chadwick arrived and he slapped the cuffs on him what's the
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first thing you said to him Peter my name is Craig McCluskey from the U.S Marshals I'm placing you into the
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custody of the United States Marshal Service I think he had recognized me from the initial 48 Hours episode that
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aired he watched the 48 Hours episode I believe he did he's going to make a mistake we're going
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to choke him off and grab him our 48 Hours report on the hunt for Peter Chadwick aired in May 2019 and he
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recognized you from the 48 Hours well because the first question he asked me looked me right in the face and he asked
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me how's Ben and Ben's oldest son I guess he assumed that I had some contact with his family he said when he saw that
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episode he realized that his situation had escalated a lot because he didn't realize the U.S Marshals were after him
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at that point so he was watching us watching him in essence yes and he knew he knew how
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many people were after him he'd seen the coverage he really became stressed out that was an incredible way yeah I mean
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looking over your shoulder every day details are still murky about where Chadwick spent all his years on the run
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but when he was picked up in Mexico he was living in this apartment Peter was in a small village outside of Puebla
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Mexico about two hours north of the Guatemalan Border in about an hour and a half south of Mexico City the makeup of
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that town was um mostly Caucasian but also Asian Community as well his Hideout was next to a country club had tennis
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courts and of course Peter preferred playing tennis he continued to play tennis yes did he change his appearance
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he changed his appearance slightly so his hair was a little darker he had some facial hair so he had a goatee he tried
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to make himself a little younger and I think he was successful in that I mean his face looked a little a little
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different a little nip and tuck in Mexico possibly I don't know for sure Chadwick apparently used many fake IDs
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and aliases including Paul Cook Paul Craig and John Franklin he even had an ID card that it was a copy of some
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fictional security force and he was representing himself as some type of analyst with top secret access with his
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photo on it what do you what do you use that for maybe to get some unassuming uh
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local police officers off his back it's essentially a toy ID saying hey I'm a secret agent correct
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but strangely Chadwick never got a fake passport and that may have forced him into some Lifestyle Changes he'd started
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off his Escape staying in nice hotels and he stayed in some fancy hotels at the beginning he did stay in hotels I
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think he started to change his pattern when Mexico started changing some of their immigration laws where they
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required visas for non-citizens when they checked into hotels which forced him into you know more discreet places
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like hostels you know that would accept cash and no identification [Music] and then there was money even though
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authorities figure he had about a million dollars in Cash when he fled he occupied his days picking up odd jobs
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what was he doing for money he did flee with a large sum of money most of it he lived off of that but I think he did
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some small things on the side maybe um taught conversational English or something like that to children to make
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a few extra bucks I think he was busing tables working in kitchens but he went from a real estate millionaire to busing
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tables right I think he was just desperate to fit in and stay on the Run he was willing to do anything to sustain
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his flight one of the biggest investigative breaks that led the marshals to Chadwick was
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their discovery that he was in communication with people who knew him we learned that he was receiving help
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from those close to him to what extent I don't know and how the quantities of money that were provided to him I don't
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know exactly but uh we know that he was getting some assistance from those close
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to him back up here still that information combined with the new tip and old-fashioned police work by Newport
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Beach police the marshals and Mexican authorities ultimately led to Chadwick's arrest the bizarre thing is that this
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took you know nearly five years to unfold and then boom it happened overnight yeah that's entirely due to the
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relationship we had with the Mexican authorities their response to uh intelligence that was gathered and their
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own intelligence gathering techniques I mean that's really what paid off [Music]
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at this point authorities are not saying if they'll charge anyone else in connection with Chadwick's Escape
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meantime they're savoring their Victory Chief Lewis says he always knew Chadwick's days were numbered did you
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ever for a moment think he's gone forever not not for a minute I believe in our investigators I believe in our
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process I believe in the in the heart of this Police Department towards solving these cases and so my mind it was just a
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matter of time before we got him it wasn't going to be a if it was a win did he seem at all
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relieved he did at the end a little bit he says something along the lines of it was
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getting hard to keep up with the lies for Karen Thorpe qc's close friend Chadwick's capture brings mixed emotion
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what's it like to see that I'm angry I'm repulsed I want to make him know the pain
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that everybody else suffered one of the things that we heard was that he was at a resort in Mexico what do you think of
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that outrageous somebody who could do this to her and then live the high life is just a testament to his coldness and
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his depravity and that coldness investigators say extended to Chadwick's willingness to
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abandon his three sons forever our investigation shows that Peter Chadwick never intended to return from Mexico
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he had no intentions of coming back to Orange County to face trial or to raise the three sons that he had
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abandoned speaking of the boys our hearts go out to them we'd ask that everyone respect
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their privacy during this incredibly emotional time we don't know how the Chadwick boys have reacted to their
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father's capture but we do know that in recent months Karen Thorpe told us they've been doing well do you have a
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sense of how the boys are doing they're really really strong really really supported by qc's family
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there's so much love around them and so much love for them they've really they've continued to flourish in spite
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of of this tragedy and that is a fitting tribute to a dedicated mom whose life was cut so
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short oh [Music] we lost in QC a mother who cared for her children deeply and Who Loved life
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and love vibrancy and love to give her children all that she possibly could [Music]
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a young woman waiting for her wedding day her fiance gunned down someone had a vendetta against Patrick did police
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uncover a plan for murder this wasn't a random killing it was an assassination 48 hours Saturday on CBS