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[Music] it's never dull in Palm Beach [Music] County we have some of the most famous
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people in the country or the world living here in our [Music] backyard this is my County this is my
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town and catching criminals I enjoy it this case began back in March of 2020 the Corona virus pandemic shuts
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down schools sporting events and businesses at the time everyone was preoccupied with the Corona virus
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lockdowns had started gret and Anthony was a resident of a well-to-do community in Jupiter
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Florida right here in pal meach County I met David and gret and Anthony several years ago at a local gym
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here the first thing that you noticed about her just big blue eyes and a giant smile blond hair tan
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[Music] athletic David's very attractive man very Charming he had a big smile as well
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there was magic there and the energy between them was [Music] amazing local officials issued an order
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not to leave your home unless absolutely necessary gret and Anthony starts to send text messages to friends and family
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members stating that she has been diagnosed with the Corona virus and she describes it as being an
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acute case a serious case yes they're very concerned they've only talked to her via
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text no one ever spoke with Gretchen on the phone and she never answered her phone who would go to voicemail
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yes so efforts were made to speak with her spouse so there's a dual track here where is Gretchen Anthony and where is
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her husband David Anthony yes neither one can be found police did a welfare check of gret and
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Anthony and what they learned was disturbing so this is where the investigation began investigators were approached by a
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neighbor she heard a blood curdling scream something horribly nefarious had happened
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this case really hit differently I mean we are talking about someone who is a mother a daughter a sister a
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friend all I wanted to do was to be able to find her and I wanted to find her alive and so the chase was on
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[Music] [Music] back in March 2020 friends and family of Gretchen Anthony were alarmed when they
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began receiving texts from her saying she had tested positive for Corona virus you know the news is saying it's serious
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the town of Palm Beach announced a state of emergency and then all of a sudden numbers are being reported and people
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are dying the number of confirmed cases continues to grow with 2 it was hard for
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gret and Anthony's friends like Kelly Hannah to picture her dying of anything much less this frightening virus at 51
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years old Gretchen was a picture of Fitness she worked out at the gym very hard she took her health very seriously
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Gretchen is someone who is tremendously heart-c centered she's just radiant and just a very
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caring beautiful spirit but above all else she was a devoted mother to her 12-year-old
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daughter Gretchen was Raising her child in this house in Jupiter Florida while sharing custody with an
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ex-husband Gretchen's daughter was her world she was everything to her cret Mixon an assistant State's attorney for
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Palm Beach County got involved in Gretchen's case early on there was nothing that Gretchen wouldn't
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do for her daughter she hated being away from her after her divorce friends say Gretchen fell in love with David Anthony
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the two met at a local gym where he was a trainer De Anthony here don't forget the
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90minut workout coming this Sunday was he kind of a rockar at the gym oh he was the young hot trainer for
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sure he has a huge presence David was a popular trainer at a gym owned by Tabitha Hopkins nice sh guys
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your hle she says he brought in lots of new members he was intelligent well spoken he was Charming she didn't have
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to tell anybody that there was an attraction there there was absolute Sparks there was magic there no question
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about it that attraction soon led to the couple getting married at an Elvis Chapel in Las Vegas
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in 2015 they seemed like the happiest couple ever did you feel like she'd found the man of her dreams
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absolutely David in all appearances was a phenomenal stepparent she called him bonus dad but friends say the couple's
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dream life came apart in late 2019 when they separated and David moved out of their home and it kind of sounded like
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they both lost themselves a little bit and they were searching more for their own
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self-identity now Gretchen's Inner Circle was dealing with a potential life or death
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situation and then all of a sudden there's bizarre cell phone [Music] messages over several days starting on
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March 23rd friends and family received a series of texts from Gretchen who said she was at home in quarantine she sent
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this one to her daughter who was was staying with her ex-husband good morning tested positive
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for Corona virus early this morning that means I have to stay here for at least 2
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weeks her daughter replied okay I really hope you get better crochet Mixon says there were
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multiple texts from Gretchen's phone over the next 3 days describing her deteriorating condition I consulted with
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the virus screening hotline and admitted myself in to the Jupiter Medical Center's emergency room so this is
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serious stuff what does the family do with these texts the family finds the text messages that they're getting from
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Gretchen to be worrisome alarming what Disturbed everyone receiving these texts is that no one not even Gretchen's
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daughter had received a phone call from her that just there's so many things that are so wrong including these Tex
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claiming that she'd been transferred to an off-site medical facility being run directly by the CDC in belglade more
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than an hour away in Central Florida but there's a problem there is no CDC facility in belglade Florida so this
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text message allegedly from Gretchen's own phone apparently was not sent by Gretchen it definitely was not sent by
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Gretchen Dave aronburg the state attorney for Palm Beach County agrees clearly whoever had sent those text
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messages were trying to take advantage of this pandemic of the fear out there trying to exploit the situation so
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things were not adding up and things were not adding up very quickly the family along with friends
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made the decision to reach out to law enforcement to do a welfare check on gret and
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Anthony I made get house for my friend that's missing I don't know how to put into words but I know she's in very
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great danger right now Jupiter police detective Jared kerson caught the case on the night
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shift we reached out to the Jupiter Medical Center and they did not have a record of Gretch and Anthony being a
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patient at their facility during that time period so all of a sudden this is getting serious yeah that's a huge
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concern of mine desperate for Clues police checked out the Jupiter Medical Center's parking
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lot they hit Pay Dirt gret and Anthony's Mini Cooper was recovered in the parking
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lot of Jupiter Medical Center detective kenerson says what they found inside Gretchen's car was
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worrisome her purse sitting in plain sight I think a woman normally carries their purse with them if gret and
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Anthony is not in a facility in a hospital anywhere being treated for Co if she doesn't have covid then where is
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Gretchen that was a million dollar question no one knew where Gretchen was [Music]
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[Music] 5 days had passed since anyone had seen Gretchen Anthony Jupiter police investigators were determined to find
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her so they canvased her neighborhood wearing body cameras looking for Clues they were stunned when a resident
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approached them to say that early on the morning of Saturday March 21st she heard
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something terrifying I heard a really serious woman scream like um just screaming like she was being
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attacked and then I heard her scream no and then I heard something about it hurts stop it the scream was really
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serious did this woman call 911 she did not some people are apprehensive about calling the police when you heard that
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story what are you thinking I'm thinking that something definitely happened at gret and Anthony's home Saturday morning
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officers became even more concerned when another neighbor told them he later noticed a soapy substance flowing from
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underneath Gretchen's garage door somebody was in there cleaning that's what I take from that we discovered that
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um her entrance door that leads from her patio into her garage that door was locked and it had the key broken off in
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the in the dead bolt could Gretchen be inside investigators wasted no time finding out they forced entry into the
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garage and there was no Gretchen inside however they noticed that there was a strong pungent smell of a cleaning agent
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in the garage with body cameras rolling investigators searched the home several times they found evidence suggesting a
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violent struggle a broken picture frame shards of glass on Gretchen's bed and a stained
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towel there was a piece of cloth that had what is referred to as BLS a blood-like substance on it they got a
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huge break when they discovered neighbors had taken photos of a black Nissan pickup truck parked near
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Gretchen's home after the terrifying screams and who owns a black Nissan pickup truck I'm David
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Anthony David Anthony Gretchen's estranged husband his vehicle was there that morning investigators learned from
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friends at and family that Gretchen had filed for divorce in February of 2020 and David had moved in with his
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mother that's when David's former boss Tabitha Hopkins says he became increasingly unstable he regressed
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behavior-wise um slowly became more hard to manage Gretchen's family told investigators she worried about her
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safety after the separation and had security cameras installed throughout her home and garage who was she afraid
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of I was told that she had the cameras installed because David had returned to her home after he left after they'd
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separated that's correct kenerson discovered those cameras had been removed from the walls
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possibly to destroy incriminating evidence but he learned that while the cameras were gone the images they once
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recorded could be recovered from the cloud and we sent a search warrant to her camera provider It is believed that this
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could potentially be the best piece of evidence at this point that could give us some direction as to where is Gretch
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and Anthony while they waited for that crucial evidence investigators scrambled to find out just what David Anthony knew
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about Gretchen's disappearance they went to look for him at his mother's home again with with body cameras
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rolling Jupiter police hello hi hi Jupiter police sorry to bother you David's mom said she too
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had received a concerning text from Gretchen Gretchen's been in touch with me cuz she's in the CDC Center she has
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the virus okay what CDC Center is she at I don't know she texted me this morning
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and said she was in there I have the text would you like to see it I would love to thank you here all right no
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problem okay when officers asked her where her son was they became alarmed he had said he
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was going to Costa Rica David's mother told them that he packed up his truck and on Tuesday March
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24th 3 days after Gretchen disappeared he grabbed his dog Kobe and hit the road once they know that he is attempting to
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flee the country he definitely becomes a suspect they are very suspicious of him adding to their suspicion what they
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discovered on the video retrieved from the Jupiter Medical Center parking lot where Gretchen's car was
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found there was security footage that showed Gretchen Anthony's Mini Cooper pulling into a parking space and there
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is a tall figure walking away from her vehicle David Anthony is about 6768 and does that look like somebody
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who could be 6768 absolutely investigators were convinced David Anthony was somehow involved in
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Gretchen's disappearance Now tracking grechen's cell phone could be the key to finding David they find the Gretchen's
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phone is hanging off a tower um in the area of Pensacola Florida that's like 600 miles away yes her phone is on the
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Move there's a lot of moving Parts here right so we're trying to still answer the question where is gret and Anthony
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where is David Anthony and so these cell phone records become a very critical part in in locating David Anthony
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investigators say phone records help track David across Florida as he left a paper and video trail cameras recorded
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him stopping at jewelry stores to sell Gretchen's jewelry one store owner shared a memorable
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conversation that he came in wanting to sell some jewelry um that had been left to him by a family member that had died
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from covid-19 Co yes Co strikes again Co strikes again and in all these videos that we were
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able to obtain from these different businesses nowhere was Gretchen seen while David Anthony was leaving a
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tantalizing trail of electronic breadcrumbs he had one huge Advantage remember they had learned from
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his mother that he was on his way to Costa Rica and could be long gone we are not operating days behind David Anthony
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under understanding that his intentions at this point are to leave the country so it's now from his perspective Catch
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Me If You Can yes now we're on the hunt for David Anthony tour friend Kelly Hannah
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Gretchen Anthony was someone who connected instantly with everyone she met oh she was so radiant and just had
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this gentle gracefulness about her had the most beautiful laugh someone who should somehow be
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protected from harm in a perfect world you would hope and pray those people have Angels around
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them to keep them safe but now Gretchen had been missing for six days what is going on and why is my beautiful
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friend missing assistant prosecutor crese Mixon knew the key to finding Gretchen was
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finding her estranged husband David Anthony she had been told David was on the run to Costa Rica and had a head
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start we're trying to make up time we're trying to move quickly and play catchup
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investigators tracked Gretchen and dve cell phone signals which appeared to place both phones traveling together
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heading Westward across Texas now does that suggest the two of them maybe on a trip together that she could possibly
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still be alive it suggests that their phones are pinging together to me detective Jared kenerson didn't know
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what happened to Gretchen but feared the worst as he waited for evidence taken from Gretchen's home to come back from
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the lab he issued a bolo an alert to be on the lookout for David's black Nissan truck
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his vehicle was listed as a felony vehicle investigators dug into David's past and what they learned was
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stunning so David Anthony originally was known as David Anthony Deutsch and then
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later changed his name to David Anthony nobody knew that he's local here to the Palm Beach area he went to the same High
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School my children went to it was weird weird that nobody realized that there was a
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difference nobody realized for instance that as David Anthony Deutsch a star college basketball player he held up a
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Blockbuster Video Store armed with a squirt gun and assaulted a police officer he reached a plea deal in each
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case and spent a short stint in jail David Anthony has had a history of of criminal conduct it's not that uncommon
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for someone with a Criminal past to try to escape that past Tabitha Hopkins David's former boss at the gym in
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Jupiter had noticed something odd about David he's very talented and his skill level was amazing but his moods could be
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high or low do you feel as though he does have this jual and hide personality 100% Tabitha says he became so difficult
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to manage she was forced to fire him in 2017 she gave him a second chance a few years later but by early 2020 he was
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increasingly unstable I basically said what's going on what's wrong with you you you are not the same person that I
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knew Tabitha says she was forced to fire him again and this time she caught a glimpse of David's frightening
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rage that look I'd never seen before he was angry shaken tab texted Gretchen at the time separated from David with a
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warning stay away from him she had said that he is crazy and that's the last time I talked to Gretchen that was
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February of 2020 then a few weeks later just 7 days before Gretchen disappeared this
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happened can I get up no Get Down Standing Up Get Down police received a report that David was allegedly
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following teenage girls at a nearby shopping center once again police body cameras were rolling when they
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approached him I I get out now get out with Kobe sitting quietly in the truck he's got a dog in the
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car David lashed out and was charged with resisting arrest resisting me sir on your out like an airplane David spent
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just a few days in jail you have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in the
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court of law investigators learned he posted bail and was released just 3 days before Gretchen
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disappeared we're going to stand up all right now as they tracked him cross country they knew they had a volatile
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man on the loose and he was being KY he would turn on cell phones um and we would be able to get a location and then
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he would turn cell phones off David's phone pinged here in posos Texas more than 1600 miles away from
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Jupiter the next day David's phone pinged here in Los cruus New Mexico kerson immediately reached out to
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Los cruus police for help still tracking his phone and armed with the description of the truck Las
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cruus police located David and pulled him over Put Your Hands Up Up When officers asked David about Gretchen he
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told them she had covid um last I heard she was in a CDC facility getting treatment for uh Corona virus Los cruus
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police seized David's truck and his possessions including his phone and Gretchen's phone but they didn't have
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enough evidence to bring David in for questioning so along with Kobe he was allowed to just walk away where does he
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go I don't know where he went but I knew that he he was in Las cruus on foot and
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you're here in Florida what do you do we are waiting the results of Gretchen Anthony's video
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cameras Jupiter police finally received electronic recordings from Gretchen's home they released portions of that
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evidence like this video from security cameras revealing a tall figure hidden in the Shadows on the patio waiting to
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Ambush her the figure moves throughout the patio area other footage was too disturbing to release to 48 hours
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including the moment Gretchen appears on the patio and the figure forces her into
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the garage investigators also retrieved recordings from Gretchen's Alexa device where she can be heard calling out for
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help she was screaming for Alexa to call 911 she's calling out to that electronic
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box call 911 in other words call the police Gretchen didn't know it but unless you specifically program your
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Alexa device to do so it does not call the police in an emergency do you think if the Alexa unit had called 911 that
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gret and Anthony might be alive today it's possible video retrieved from cameras in
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the garage show the last images of Gretchen alive there comes a point where this person that we see grab Gretchen
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muffle her screams and take her into the garage this person looks up at the camera realizes that it's a camera and
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proceeds to take that camera and snatch it down off the wall and throws it on the floor and what do you
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see we see David Anthony looking up into the camera we knew that David Anthony killed grin Anthony he was the
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killer investigators finally had the proof they needed to make an arrest detective kenerson raced to Los crusis
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to look for David Anthony we searched um homeless areas we searched hotels were you nervous he's going to
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get away I was very nervous I didn't know where he could have [Music] gone that evening officers got a lucky
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break when they spotted David walking his dog Kobe David was detained and Kobe was taken to a
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shelter hey David who are you my name is Jared kenerson I'm a detective with the
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Jupiter Police Department with all 6' 7 in of David Anthony crammed into the back seat of a small police car
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detective kenerson knelt down and looked directly in the eyes at the man he was certain had killed
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Gretchen there's a warrant for your arrest and I'm going to explain that when we get bound back to the excuse me
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what homicide for who who do you think that's why ask the hor we'll talk about it the headquarters
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okay okay all right kerson had his man but still had one looming question we still don't have a body
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where is Gretch and Anthony see what evidence investigators pulled from the cloud at 48 hours.com
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[Music] right handcuff right handcuff gotting to cut off culation after a Manhunt
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Crossing Six States spanning nearly 2,000 miles David Anthony was finally in custody for the murder of his estranged
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wife Gretchen hi David my name is Kelly Jupiter detectives Kelly Sanders and Jared kenerson would interrogate him
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here at the State Police Headquarters in Los crusis New Mexico they had one goal get David to
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reveal the location of Gretchen's body we were in search of the truth we're in search of where is gret and Anthony I
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wanted to be able to tell her family tell her daughter I know where she is and that was very important to us right
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away David made it clear it wouldn't be be easy we have obtained a warrant for your arrest for
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murder okay she's alive kerson was stunned when David claimed Gretchen wasn't dead I I I was
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in disbelief I I I knew that she wasn't with us anymore but he's defiant with you that's correct defiant and dishonest
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police say the story David told was pure fiction she was traveling with me okay up until Al Paso we were driving
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separate vehicles so she she she boled he said Gretchen was on the run because she discovered illegal activities at the
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company where she worked and someone was after her are you buying any of this I'm
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not buying it now when asked about the text messages sent from Gretchen's phone claiming she had Co David was evasive
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there was no record of her being at any hospital for covid-19 okay zero record doesn't doesn't mean anything when the
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detectives pushed harder insisting David sent the messages he pushed right back you have her phone you sent the text
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messages you planted her car at Jupiter Medical Center because you're on video doing
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it have all that information do it she had me do it kenerson and Sanders even confronted David with the evidence
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captured on Gretch 's own video system you put your hand over her mouth and dragged her into the garage it's on
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video David still alive David's story never changed he repeatedly told the detectives Gretchen was alive Gretchen's
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still alive in fact during the course of the interrogation David Anthony made that claim she still Alive's alive I
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told him that she's still alive she's still alive 35 times in fact he says that over and over and over that she's
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alive why is he saying that he's trying to deflect David is trying to deflect away from
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himself with each denial the detective's anger Rose it's very frustrated because
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we know she's not alive we have evidence of her not being alive so kenerson switched tactics and tried to appeal to
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David's bond with Gretchen's young daughter you see that little girl right there I want you to look at her I her
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look at I know you look at her real good and for a brief moment it seemed like it
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might work I was the one who taught her how to ride a bicycle and she a hoop and
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use her awareness yep and that it's awesome then do what's right for her I would never hurt her not I would never
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hurt either one of them well you're hurting her indirectly by not letting us know where her mom is you have to ask
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her we can't ask her she's dead she's dead her mother is still alive that's alive and then David tried a new tactic
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he dared them to prove their case we don't have video of me killing her how do you know what we have show it to me
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show me the video her dead body show me the video her dead body is right there show me the video I know that it exists
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okay then show it to me the detectives decided it was time to take a break they left and sent officers to
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adjust David's handcuffs you want water kerson came back alone this time quiet and
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friendly he made one last emotional plea by playing an audio recording of Gretchen's daughter begging David to
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tell them where they could find her mother even that didn't work raised a girl since she was 2 years old David
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claimed falsely that it wasn't Gretchen's daughter's voice infuriated kenerson decided to let him have it you
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to you didn't even like you didn't even you didn't you're not even doing your homework monster do your homework Jared
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you are a monster for and everybody is going to look at you like that after more than two hours David abruptly ended
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the interview I'll ask for a lawyer no problem I'm not asking any more questions I'm still wondering where
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Gretchen is um I wasn't able to leave that interview um knowing where she was um and that didn't necessarily sit well
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with me David Anthony was charged with second deegree murder and extradited to Florida Days Later his dog Kobe was
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adopted by new owners in Jupiter David's arrest made the news according to a just released
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arrest report a neighbor heard a woman's blood curdling scream at about 6:00 in the morning March
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21st when Kelly Hannah saw the story she says it broke her heart I just sat down
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on my bedroom floor and just cried my eyes out cried my eyes out for her daughter for her sisters for her parents
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for everyone that loved her David's former boss Tabitha Hopkins felt she'd lost two friends it was just
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shocking I wanted to believe it wasn't true but it was obviously prosecutor Dave aronburg had
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evidence and a suspect in custody but he knew getting a conviction wouldn't be easy the most troubling thing for the
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family and for all of us quite frankly was that we did not have Gretchen's body and when you don't have a body those are
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challenging cases to prosecute and David Anthony knew it while David Anthony was held in
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custody in Palm Beach County Florida a grand jury indicted him on the charge of kidnapping and raised the murder charge
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from second degree to First could he have faced the death penalty with these charges potentially yes for first degree
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murder one traic one but the search for Gretchen Anthony's remains continued that was the thing he had in his favor
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if this ever went to trial it was almost as though it was his ticket it was the worst part of it for me
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the fact that he was able to use evidence of his crime as leverage that fact also weighed heavily
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on Gretchen's family the thought of Gretchen being out there alone forever was very unsettling for
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them I think the family wanted life in prison but they wanted Grudge him December 2020 with the winter
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holidays looming it was becoming tragically apparent that authorities may never find Gretchen without her allege
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killer help and so we entered into negotiations with David Anthony's defense lawyer and were're able to work
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out a settlement of 38 years in prison that settlement required David Anthony to plead guilty to second degree
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murder and reveal the location of Gretchen's remains David Anthony appeared in court today
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pleading guilty David Anthony pleads guilty 9 months to the day after Gretch and Anthony went missing David Anthony
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finally admits what everyone already knew he murdered his wife we were able to find Gretchen that
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day it was a Le because I know that is what her family wanted and to be able to give that to
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them it meant a lot David Anthony chose this nondescript patch of grass just a few miles from
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Gretchen's House behind a Walmart and next to a retirement home to hide his wife's remains detective Jared kenerson
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took us theree how does someone bury a body here and not get caught I I I don't know I don't know this discovery that
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must have been quite a moment for you it it was very emotional for me it was very
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emotional for um for all of us that were involved after months of uncertainty Gretchen's family could finally lay her
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to rest and I could see as hard of a time as this has been or had been for the family I could see that there was some
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sort of Peace an autopsy was performed which explained why that neighbor heard screams the morning Gretchen
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disappeared what was the cause of death cause of death um was stab wounds to the
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neck and to the Torso there were some defensive wounds she fought for her life [Music]
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you used what you did to negotiate something for yourself you are pure evil Gretchen's Sister Sarah Carey and
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the rest of their family came face to face with David Anthony at his sentencing hearing you stole a mother
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away from her child a daughter away from her mother you you are a monster you are a
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coward you can never be forgiven then it came time for the man who created all this pain to speak and
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he gave a bizarre explanation for his actions my illusion saw the co pandemic as an end of the world
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prophecy an arm again that I felt compelled to escape no matter the cost instead of being a man I chose to
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be a coward I tried to steal what wasn't mine and in the process I ended the life her life had value her life had
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meaning and I stole that life I'll call BS on that hard hogwash that's appalling absolutely
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appalling and he left so many questions unanswered we will never know we will never know
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we will never know why he ended Gretchen's life I think that's the hardest question
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to ask is why and sometimes you just need to believe that there are higher powers
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in place that have a bigger plan and now Gretchen's friends and family are left trying to make sense of
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it all how is re's daughter doing you know children are resilient she is blessed to have her father in her life
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and she appears to be doing well if one person was touched by how much she loved people by how much she
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loved her child by how much she just loved living life to the fullest then her life mattered
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[Music] when he was 13 He committed an unthinkable crime it was just a brutal brutal killing 28 years behind bars now
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he's out I can live in society as any other live can he what's next for Eric Smith 48 Hours next on CBS