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[Music] there's definitely Mysteries involved in this case it was a cold Halloween morning
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even had some snow on the ground the call came out at 5:37 in the morning my wife sh
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KOB trickle had called our dispatch he met us on the porch exactly where's the house it's
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right here it's this one with red and white did he seem upset I mean there were tears coming down and was hard to
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understand was choked up we go up to the door start making announcements inside hey Police
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Department looking to my left is when I first see Kristen I kind of focused in on her jaw
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moving I could see the movement of her jaw we got a p start CPR you have a p yeah
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y so she was still alive we were hopeful could she be saved no after you did your autopsy how did
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you rule on Kristen trickle's death homicide or s suicide suicide suicide y the victim's family in this right out
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of the gate was just adamant that this was not a suicide the scene was kind of unusual we had a female with a large
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weapon laying in bed and it's not common to see that you have a replica a very similar
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type of gun can you show it to me sure how large oh it's pretty hefty as you can tell it's a hand I'm a little
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surprised yeah it's awkward to maneuver not something you'd easily turn on yourself we had evidence that led us to
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believe that Colby trickle had killed his wife I do not believe he did it I was Colby trickle's defense attorney
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when he called 911 she was still showing signs of Life had he intended to murder
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her it just seems odd that he would call immediately I think it's very possible that Kristen trickle picked up a gun
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that night in great anguish and ended her life a professional came in and looked
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at the life of Kristen dug into basically every aspect of her life got into who Kristen was prior to her
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death so basically this is a psychological autopsy trying to figure out the State of Mind of a person who
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died that's difficult to do isn't it yeah and had this ever been done in the state of Kansas before never in a
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criminal case no [Music] [Music] Sergeant Brandon halman of the Hayes Police Department vividly remembers the
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dark cold Halloween morning as he arrived at Kristen trickle's home the bedroom shoes in is actually
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this window on the left oh the bedroom's right there yeah that's the bedroom right there and the moment he found the
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26-year-old near death in bed I could see the firearm from what I could tell initially a large caliber revolver and
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laying across her abdomen about like this how was she dressed uh almost fully undressed she
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was just wearing underwear after Kristen showed Signs of Life the sergeant quickly moved the revolver away from her
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and carried Kristen into the living room for CPR the only injury that I could see at
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that point was the the entrance wound and where was that entrance wound underneath her uh chin here there was
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nothing the First Responders could do for Kristen I went out to Colby on the porch and told him that she had died
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hello mother's brain and hman I'm the sergeant working today hopman's body camera was only recording audio that day
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she died I'm so [Music] sorry are you sure are you sure Sergeant hman says he asked Kristen's husband
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Colby to go to the police station so he could tell investigators what happened did he seem to be cooperative he was yep
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agreed to go up we got him some shoes at the station kby said that hours earlier
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Kristen had come home from Walmart where she worked in the gardening center and the couple had played video games he
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went to bed before his wife he said and woke up to his ears ringing and then found Kristen lying
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next to him with a gunshot wound to to her head ran up to her she was looking at
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[Music] me then what did you do I ran over to my phone and I called 911 Kobe told investigators that while
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he was on the phone with 911 he checked Kristen's polls but felt nothing and then picked the revolver off her body
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where was the gun at it was laying by her neck I pulled it back what did you do with the guy for a
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moment he says he thought about taking his own life I started put in my head but I was on the
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phone they said they wereing saying people I thought maybe they can help her while Kobe Tri was still at the
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station Kristen's aunt delin and uncle brand rice a local Pastor found out Kristen had died I got a call from my
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mom and the worst phone call ever to get she said Kristen's dead she's been shot
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and it was just awful I said Mom that can't be right that can't be right that doesn't even make sense but more
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baffling was that kby had said Kristen's death was a suicide what did you tell investigators
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initially we just don't think she would do this oh 100% I said there's no way of
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all the people I know in this world the last person that I would ever think would take their own life would be
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Christen because of the joy she she has it's so out of character to Christen and
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how she solves problems she's not a runner from problems delin and brand wri say christen's family and her two dogs
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meant the world to her the thought of her hurting herself in any way or anyone or anyone is so foreign she
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would never take her life and not tie up loose ends with her family make sure her dogs
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had somewhere to go and they believe they knew her better than just about anyone else they had watched her grow up
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it is hard to find a photograph she is not smiling just fully she had had that smile even though
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delin and bran say Kristen had a tough childhood her mother left her and her father when Kristen was 2 years old when
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she was 17 Kristen moved in with her aunt and uncle and their three kids delin and bran say she thrived she loved
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being with our family she loved the peace in our home Chloe is brand and D's daughter Kristen was my older sister
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figure in my life and I really looked up to her and she she was just like always
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there to make me smile and feel important the family remembers when Kristen met Colby they were both 18
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years old Colby attended our church Colby for a time was on the worship team at our church they are the band that
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plays the worship music during our services he wowed her with his guitar playing abilities songs that he had
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written on I quickly grew but just 5 years later Kristen was dead and Colby was saying she took her
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own life coroner Lyall Nord hook examined the scene and looking at the wound he believed the revolver was in close range
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to her chin when it was fired and in Nord Hook's experience that was not unusual for a self-inflicted gunshot
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wound how would you believe the revolver was being held close to the chin and parallel to the body like this yeah but
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detective JB Burkholder had also been called to the house we respond to suicides they happen several times a
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year and to him this didn't seem like suicide having a female with a gunshot wound especially to the Head uh was uh
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was unusual for us why why is that more unusual for women you think for women they're a little bit more concerned
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about looks even after death and so they think about that and there was something else when I
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got there I remember an alarm going off Kristen's cell phone alarm is heard repeatedly on audio recorded by First
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Responders I think I actually silenced it she had set an alarm to get up to get ready for work and had plans for that
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day a lot of times individuals who are thinking about suicide they're not setting alarms to doesn't matter when
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they get up there was candy set out in the kitchen area she and Kobe had planned
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for hallowe to go on as it normally would with trick-or-treating and nothing troubled him more than that weapon found
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at the scene detective Burkholder wasn't sure Kristen was the one who fired it the gun was a full-size 357 revolver a
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large caliber weapon approximately 11 to 12 in it can be hard to handle and so being able to place that gun under your
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chin and discharge that firearm just didn't seem very likely for a smaller female in what was described as a dark
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bedroom this wasn't an open and shut suicide case there was questions after his wife Kristen died in the early
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morning hours on Halloween Kobe trickle spoke with investigators for more than 11 hours what's your namee Kobe yes
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ma'am I'm so sorry he was asked over and over again to recount the events of the night
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before do you guys have any fights anything like that yesterday no Kobe also told him investigators about his
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job with the US military as part of human intelligence there's some interesting places they send you with being
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Intel but they sent me to Middle East and they sent me down into Central America so some movy stuff there first
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impressions of kobby trickle is that he was a guy who was in the military he had a I guess a
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decorated past of overseas tours and then also Kobe trickle was a guy who loved his wife but detective JB
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Burkholder says he had questions about Kobe's account of the morning Kristen died after finding Kristen Kobe says he
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called 911 and as he later told police he picked up the gun and thought about ending his life what troubl Burk holder
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is where Kobe put the gun after he changed his mind back on Kristen's stomach I put it back down and ran
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outside just very odd it doesn't seem as though if I'm calling 911 if my wife's dying um on on the bed that I would
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place the gun back down on her body Kobe was asked if there was any life insurance on Kristen I have some on
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me from military but that's it no insurance on Kristen he said and then was asked if he had anything to do with
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Kristen's death uh did you in fact kill her [Music] no Kobe left the police station that day
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but first responder Sergeant hman was increasingly suspicious about Kobe's actions at the scene he wondered why
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Colby didn't demand to be by Kristen's side as they tried to save her life your wife's inside and here she is you know
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Bleeding Out dying and you're on the porch well First Responders were administering CPR Colby was chatting
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with officers about video games that conversation was recorded by a police body cam what kind of games do you guys
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like to play Counter Strike everything from Call of Duty to Minecraft that day as investigators got
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a search warrant for Colby's cell phone an autopsy for Christen trickle was underway at the scene coroner ly nor
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Nord hook who suspected suicide had looked for any evidence that someone else was involved like signs of a
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struggle were there any signs of defensive wounds or any signs that she had fought with anyone before she died
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no there coroner Nord hook says he also examined Kristen's body for signs of past physical abuse typically if there's
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a series of progressive injuries over a period of time so you can tell that they've been beating on each other in
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this case I wasn't really seeing that so I'm going well I have to take the husband's statement at word value that
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he was there and the gun went off and she is dead Nordo says 3 days after Kristen's
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death based on the information he had at the time he determined that the manner of death was a
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suicide but Christen Uncle brand and aunt delin say the more they learned about the facts of the case the more
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questions they had when I heard that it was a Gun there's no way we knew Kristen
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was scared of guns Kristen was also very very private in her body very modest when I found out she was not
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dressed that was shocking to me reflecting on Chris 's relationship with Colby brand and delin told authorities
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that for years they were bothered by what they say was col's controlling Behavior if she didn't immediately
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respond to a text or wasn't able to answer her phone he would get very frustrated with her he wanted her at his
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beckon call at the time the Rises say they told Kristen they had serious concerns about
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Colby we know that she was not happy with us I believe that he convinced her that we were against her and therefore
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she separated herself somewhat Kristen decided to marry Colby and eventually moved almost 300 miles
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away to Kansas City but life for the couple was difficult says brand Kobe enlisted with
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the Army Reserve and did odd jobs Kristen worked at a vet clinic money was tight in early 2019 the couple moved
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back to the Hayes area and the r to say Kristen was coming to their church again
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oh we were thrilled we were so thrilled to reconnect with Kristen and it was just
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like it was when she lived in our home yeah and in the months before her death they say she was making plans to launch
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her pet boarding business say she had picked out a little house that's south of town and has a little Barn behind it
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and she wanted to turn the little Barn into the the boarding area to the rice family Kristen seemed happy and excited
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for her future but after her death brand and delim wondered about Colby was Colby capable of murder
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as investigators began digging into K's story they poured over the data in his cell phone well there's several I guess
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two big aha moments they discovered kobby had been exchanging flirtatious Snapchat messages with another woman he
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um had conversations with her which would be described as a sexy conversation also on that cell phone
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according to detective JB Burkholder was evidence that contradicted what Kobe had
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first told investigators when asked about life insurance on his wife I have some on
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me from military but that's it cell phone data revealed that Not only was Kobe aware Christen was covered by a
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life insurance policy called sgli for VES of military members in the days before her death they say he Googled the
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amount the policy would pay out detective Ridgeway was able to find a well I believe was a screenshot of a
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search that he had conducted uh 10 days prior to Kristen's death um asking what his spouse's life insurance would
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be on November 4th 2019 investigators asked Colby to return for more questions name appro 10 days
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ago you looked up a life insurance issue when when I I never did you did I never
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did if if I if I would die no if your spouse died Colby who agreed to talk without a lawyer
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suggested that Christen might have done the search herself on his phone we always gave each other access to each
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other's funds and stuff investigators also asked kby about his online relationship kby admitted that it had
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started a few months prior to his wife's death after he met the woman on a group
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chat while playing video games did Christen find out about that relationship that I know Kobe told them
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the relationship was a virtual one that he had never actually met the woman but invest instigators discovered he had
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been texting with her just hours after Kristen's death while he was still at the police station I guess to his credit
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he said that he was busy and couldn't talk right now uh but then he said I wish I could Aaron Cunningham is
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assistant Ellis County attorney which is probably the last thing that you should
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say to a woman you're having an online affair with when you're being investigated about your wife's death
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when Kobe trickle left the police station after his second interview detective Burkholder checked out his
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claim that Kristen had used his phone to research life insurance policies we were
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able to uh get video surveillance video from the Walmart store what they discovered was that Kristen was at work
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at Walmart at the time the cell phone search was made we were able to see that she didn't have access to a phone the
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inconsistent IES in Kobe's statements kept piling up says Burk holder like this one she keeps the revolver on her
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side Kobe had said Kristen had kept the 357 revolver by her side of the bed but that didn't seem to line up with what
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Burk holders saw at the scene when we looked at the scene we saw multiple firearms on what was described as
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Colby's side of the bed there were also photos of the couple's bedroom found on Colby's phone
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so this picture was taken I believe um a month prior to Kristen's death um you see a large framed revolver on the bed
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where Colby trickles uh described as being his and do you think that's the 357 that's the only 357 in the house
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that we found that tells me that this was col's gun still the investigation stalled you
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have all these investigators who are un covering more and more evidence that there's something really wrong with this
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case and you've got the coroner who calls this a suicide I mean that's a problem isn't it uh it it is and it
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isn't and it was initially was it sure it was certainly as far as their ability to investigate as efficiently as they
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normally would Cunningham says that the Corner's determination that Kristen had died by Suicide limited the
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investigator's ability to obtain search warrants there was still elements of the
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investigation law enforcement wanted to follow up on in the winter of 2020 kobby
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began collecting payouts from two insurance policies 23,000 from Walmart and $100,000 from the US military meanwhile
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investigators contined to learn more about his time in the military he was a Reserve officer in the military
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um that was never deployed wait so wait a minute so he was never deployed to Central America he had no overseas
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deployments that were told to us by the United States military and he had no experience talking to informants as part
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of his job as an intelligence analyst right but even with what looked like blatant lies and an apparent motive to
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kill his wife police didn't arrest Colby so in the year after christen's death authorities watched as Kobe trickle went
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on with his [Music] life it is very frustrating to me I would run into him in public playing music at a restaurant in
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town made my skin crawl so whatever storm you're in keep pushing forward posting Facebook selfhelp videos get to
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the outside where you're free and enjoy life but then nearly 2 years after Kristen's
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death a newly elected County attorney decided to try something very new that he thought could put Kobe away for
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[Music] Life County attorney Robert Anderson was just days into his new job in January of
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2021 when assistant County attorney Aaron Cunningham and detective JB Burkholder
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pulled him aside JB and I both cornered him and said this is something that's clearly homicide help us to get the
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nails put in this coffin after reviewing the file Anderson believed that the coroner got it wrong and that this was a
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homicide on July 14 2021 he charged Kobe trickle with the murder of his wife certainly the insurance money provides
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motive in addition being in bed next to your husband naked shooting on in the face after having set alarms uh to get
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up the next day for work after setting out candy for Halloween these circumstances don't point to a woman who
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was planning a suicide hey uh you you step out of the car and come to the back of the car with me when police arrested
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Kobe he didn't seem surprised uh detectives I have some questions for you place you under arrest you turn around
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put your hands behind your back sure and Deni killing Kristen I didn't do it and I know you I
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know many people don't believe that and I respect that I believe him you don't believe that he would shoot his wife I
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do not Cassie Ziggler is one of Kobe trickle's defense attorneys he cares about his spiritual life he's a devoted
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Christian I don't see that in him this ability to connive and plan all of this instead she says Kristen had suffered
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from depression since childhood I think that Kristen dealt with a lot more pain in her life than people acknowledged I
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don't think there's any worse rejection in life than to be rejected by your biological mother at an early age that's
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exactly what happened Kobe's attorney felt confident going into the trial the coroner was standing by his assessment
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that Kristen's death was a suicide you had the ability you had the power to change this determination if you wanted
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to prior to trial yes you could have but you didn't if I've made a determination am I going to change it to
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homicide based on an accusation before court proceeding no so County attorney Anderson knew he
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had to do something to convince a jury that Kristen didn't die by Suicide and that's when he pursued a different type
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of autopsy a psychological one an autopsy of the mind and to conduct it Anderson hired a forensic psychologist
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Dr Ashley Christensen her job to determine Christan state of mind leading up to her death being unable to speak
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with them because because they're of course no longer here they have to speak with their family their friends their
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co-workers they review any social media Diaries journals um anything that they can christenson's conclusions would
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eventually take center stage at Kobe trickle's trial it was September 2023 of the jury and prosecutor
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Cunningham began by telling the jury that Christ trickle was murdered for the oldest reasons in the world this case is
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a simple as a b c a an affair b a breakdown control and C Cold Hard Cash Kobe's attorney disputed that you
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may proceed whenever you're ready zler thank you your honor Cassie Ziggler says Kobe's alleged Affair was really just an
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online flirtation I don't think there was a plan to have this long longterm intimate
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affair she also denies that Kobe plotted to kill Kristen for cash and about that
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Google search into the life insurance payout zegler says Kobe doesn't remember doing that search but she acknowledges
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he had been filling out paperwork around that time for his own military life insurance and if he did do it maybe
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that's why it's just a coincidence that this is happening days before unfortunately so yeah bad
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timing at trial the jury learned that Kobe trickle had not only collected more than
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$120,000 from two life insurance policies on his wife he had already gone through it I think he had spent all of
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the money in approximately 8 months what did he spend the money on when detective JB Burkholder took the
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stand he was asked to describe one expenditure in particular say $1,942 payment to true touch dolls were
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you able to determine what that was this is a company that made manufactur and distributes life-size sex
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dolls col's attorney says Colby was having trouble sleeping alone and was quite open about the purchase he went
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and talked to his mother about it if you're going to buy yeah if you're going to buy a sex toy a grown man's not going
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to go talk to his mother about this sex doll he's going to buy what was your reaction to that disgusted just
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disgusted it was described at trial that he needed this doll for comfort for comfort and warmth we have electric
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blankets that we use for that when Brandt rice took the stand he told the jury that his niece had become more
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assertive in her relationship with her husband in the months before her death I feel that she had really begun to stand
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up for herself we were proud of her for that and there were texts as Cunningham that seemed to support that Kobe feared
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he was losing control over Kristen on April 8th 2019 when Kobe texted that Kristen seemed different and pushy with
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things she responded I'm just deciding to stick up for myself just like you I'm taking control of the situation
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and then prosecutors called their star witness Dr Ashley Christensen around the time of her death
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there was a lot of data suggesting that she had a lot of Hope Dr Christensen testified that Kristen talked to family
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members about future plans and seemed optimistic she wanted to open her own either pet boarding or or dog grooming
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business and had discussed his goal for opening her business but Christensen also testified that She interviewed
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Colby for her report and he offered what sounded like a reason why Kristen might
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have been stressed he told the doctor Kristen knew about his online relationship with that other woman he
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reported that they had lost his best at relationship the week of her bad but remember in his police interview Colby
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had told investigators that he didn't think Kristen knew did Kristen find out about that
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relationship that I know so which is it did she know or she didn't know I believe she
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knew whether or not Kristen knew Dr Christensen told the jury she believed that at the time of her death Kristen
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was at a low risk for suicide it is my opinion that it is relatively less likely that her death
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was the result of suicide I love those words relatively less likely that doesn't tell me
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anything we can't know the mind of someone who's going to end their life defense attorney Ziggler does not think
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the report should have been allowed in his evidence she points out that Dr Christensen who never met Kristen
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trickle did interviews and prepared her report nearly two years after Kristen's death and Zigler believes people's
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memories change over time that is a long time to go back and talk to people about
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Kristen but prosecutors thought there was another piece of evidence that could bring them a guilty
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verdict what do you think is the most powerful evidence against Colby trickle chat now with the 48 Hours team on
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Facebook [Music] andex nearly four years have passed since Kristen trickle died from a
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gunshot wound to her head how would you describe the last 4 years hellish on September 22nd
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2023 it was Kobe trickle's last chance to convince a jury that he had nothing to do with his wife's death he decided
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not to testify but his attorney Cassie Ziggler called his mother Tina C her to the stand is it fair to say that
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Christen was pretty reserved at first when you met her yeah very to herself kryer described her daughter-in-law as a
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woman who rarely revealed her feelings couldn't read her very um emotionless it's a drastically different
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Kristen says attorney Ziggler than the one her family describes by their explanation just the happiest most
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joyful person never stops smiling she almost is walking on water I mean when the reality is we have no idea how she's
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really feeling now you find out he's having an emotional relationship with someone else online I just I can imagine
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that being the last straw but in his final argument to the jurors prosecutor Aaron Cunningham shows them the weapon
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that killed Kristen and says she couldn't have fired it members of the jury just doesn't add up in state is
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going to demonstrate it to you prosecutor Cunningham showed us with a similar gun if you look at the autopsy
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photos you see a little divot at the 3:00 Mark which is believed by the coroner to be the sight imprint of the
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gun that and I knew Kristen was right-handed the Natural Way a right-handed person would hold a gun to
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their head for suicide would be something like this or maybe something like this putting the site Mark
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somewhere between 9:00 and 6:00 so for the sight Mark to have wound up over at the 3:00 angle would be very unnatural
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Cunningham showed us how he believes Kobe trickles shot his wife while she slept next to him it would be consistent
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with the placement of the sight Mark that he would have grabbed the gun from his nightstand rolled over in bed and
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place the gun just underneath her chin and pull the trigger so if you keep it here than this then would explain
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appears on her neck here as the case went to the jury seigler had hoped that they would still have too many doubts
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how significant is it the fact that the coroner went to trial still saying it was a suicide when the the prosecutors
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are saying it's a homicide yeah it's huge we have to show doubt that's reasonable and I think there's plenty of
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that do you that's what christen's family feared as well all they have to do is convince one
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of those 12 that they have a reasonable doubt what are we going to do if he walks out
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a free man they don't have to wait long less than 2 hours later there was a verdict count one we the jury find the
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defendant guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree of christen triple kobby trickle was found guilty for
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first-degree premeditated murder an interference with law enforcement falsely reporting
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information what do you remember of the verdict what did you hear just feeling like I could breathe yeah just feeling
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of breath the relief for safety for our family I feel like we got our life back yeah after the verdict we spoke with
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coroner Lyall Nord hook who said he planned to amend Kristen trickle's death certificate to Now read
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homicide he admitted he had decided on suicide before talking to anyone in Kristen's family or seeing the weapon
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used to kill her but I'm a little surprised wouldn't that have been important for you to make to know the
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size of the weapon to be able to make your death investigation determination the police should have all that
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information and it's usually correlated with the pathologist but it wasn't in this case the fact that he had done
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research on insurance were you aware of that no were you aware that they found evidence that he was having an online
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Affair no they didn't share that with me either if you had known that would you have left that as suicide no
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investigators acknowledge they should have done a better job keeping him informed on November 20th 2023
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Kobe trickle returned to court for sentencing admitting only that he could have been a better husband something
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that I cannot apologize for is harming Chris that morning because I cannot apologize for what I didn't do
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regardless of that fact I still take partial blame for that morning I always wonder if she would still be here out I
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that her husband judge Glenn braa senten Kobe Trickle the court will sentence you
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to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 50 years with k trickle in prison the Rises
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say their family is finally beginning to grieve the young woman gone way too soon Kristen's Cousin Chloe who grew up
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with Kristen wrote a song for [Music] her goodbye how often do you think about Kristen all
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the time every day every day you know we drive by that little house the house where Kristen one day
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hoped to start her dream business you call it Kristen's house don't you yeah she had a
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future she had found her faith again when you were with her you felt loved a beautiful heart a gentle gentle
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spirit and she was just an amazing girl now I'm youe [Music] a well-known respected detective his
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wife is shot dead everyone was in a State of Shock he's a suspect but the prosecution has a problem a family of a
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victim sticking up for the accused murder of their loved one he couldn't have killed her could he 48 hours
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