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foreign it was somewhat unusual for someone to just vanish out of thin air especially
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on the east side of Milwaukee Kelly Dwyer she is young woman that is out trying to
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discover herself you see this bright-eyed smiling beautiful girl who really seemed to have a lot of life and
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vitality we got to spend quite a bit of time together in the yoga room it was rare
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not to see her and I had just assumed she was on an adventure of some sort October 12 2013
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she did not show up for work co-workers were absolutely the first to respond Kelly was very tied to her cell phone
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always posting on social media always texting when they called Kelly's cell phone it
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went straight to voicemail Kelly Dwyer is missing Flyers started going out all of the
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sudden in the community it was Boom everybody knew that she was missing there's a sense of urgency here
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absolutely absolute sense of urgent today authorities and volunteers hunted for clues in her disappearance
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I think that people saw those images and realized you know this could be my daughter this could be my best friend
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Kelly Dwyer was an acquaintance of mine we would meet up at allium a local bar and we would touch face frequently
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throughout the week we learned that she was on a number of websites where one would meet men
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she was bright she sweet just kind-hearted good person she was on websites that could expose you to people
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very quickly that are strangers some of her friends made comments and she might be with one of those people
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right now Ms Dwyer was meeting people that could have put her In Harm's Way [Music]
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thank you foreign [Music] it's like she vanishes her social media goes dead her debit card goes dead
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the phone is dead like the rest of Milwaukee assistant district attorney Sarah Hill found Kelly
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Dwyer's sudden Disappearance in 2013 baffling in an age of an electronic footprint if
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you will it's not there it's like she just isn't anymore the night of October 10th started out
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like any other for Kelly she'd been on a date with a man named Chris Saco Kelly came to Chris's apartment building they
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go to get a few drinks and have a nice night out at a place called Alia a cute little bar that was kind of across the
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street from the apartment building I remember her and I having a small conversation of so what do you have to
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do tomorrow and she goes I actually have off Chanel Royston was at the bar that night Kelly told her what she planned to
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do the next day I want to wake up in the morning I want to do yoga I want to do laundry and just have an easy day
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they picked up a pizza from Ian's a little pizza place that's like a block away brought it to the bar we were all
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sitting outside on this very long communal picnic bench we're all nibbly on the pizza you know they're sharing it
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with us Kelly and Chris decide to call it a night a little after two in the morning they
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head back to um [Music] Kelly and Chris had been dating for about a year after being introduced
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through a mutual friend Kelly had moved to Milwaukee in 2008 and gone to college
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when we're in our early 20s that's definitely a time of exploration when you're trying to find your own footing
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as an adult that's it biceps behind the ears lower your chin she always greeted me with the
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hugs Emily's journey of self-discovery had led to yoga class an instructor Ryan Hader she was always excited to see me
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and excited to get her butt kicked in my class keep your upper back strong and her energy was just infectious Kelly
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worked part-time as a nanny and as a salesperson for an athletic apparel store were her tight-knit co-workers
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were the first to sound the alarm when she missed a shift they worked together and they played together it's like
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she found her tribe when was the last time that you saw Kelly Dwyer it was just before her birthday she was like
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something big is going to happen I can feel it this feels really important to me
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Kelly had just turned 27 and her relationship with 38 year old Chris Sacco seemed to be taking on greater
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meaning for her based on what her friends said it certainly appeared to me that she was extremely interested in him
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maybe even in love with him Chris's mother Joyce Frye he was always into sports he always had a lot of
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friends he was a very good golfer my dad took him out to the driving ranges I think he put a golf club in Chris's hand
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when he was about three Chris graduated from Boston University with a degree in international business but his love of
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sports led him to his dream job he was a major Yankee fan and they did hire him in their I.T staff and he just
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thought that was there could never be anything better and where was his office it was at the Ballpark
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that's at Yankee Stadium that's where his office is so he was in heaven yeah he really was
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but Joyce says Chris left New York in search of New Opportunities eventually Landing in Milwaukee in 2009 and winding
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up at the relocation management company where she worked he was the CIO Chief Information officer
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I became involved in Kelly Dwyer's missing person investigation Catherine Spano then a detective with the
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Milwaukee Police Department would learn about Kelly and Chris's relationship she
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says Kelly's reasons for dating Chris were obvious he was educated he was bright he was smart he had a job that
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paid him well he had a nice car a beautiful condo down on the east side while some friends thought Kelly might
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have been in love with Chris it seems zako might not have been on the same page Chris Sacco described his
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relationship with Kelly Dwyer as friends with benefits but it did seem Kelly was
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keeping her options open Mr Mr Largo didn't make promises to her that he was being exclusive with her and she also
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dated some other people Royston recalls another time not long before Kelly went missing it was a very
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easy night here at the bar Chanel was out at the allium bar when Chris and Kelly invited her back to Chris's
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apartment at closing time I went across the street with him for a nightcap walked out to the balcony to smoke a
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cigarette Chris then joined me he was smoking marijuana Kelly was inside I don't know exactly what Kelly was doing
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Chanel says she got a bad feeling I just had this urge that I needed to leave though she'd just arrived she told Chris
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and Kelly she suddenly realized how late it was and that she had to work in the morning I looked at Kelly I said I need
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to leave and she looked up and said are you sure I said yep it's okay it's just late
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later than I thought I need to go home and I walked out what was it what was your sixth sense telling you I don't
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know it just you weren't supposed to be there bad space bad juju you don't need to be here
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Chanel wasn't the only one to get the sense that all might not have been right in Kelly's world
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Kelly like many women her age had been active on several dating websites even though she was seeing Chris and I'm
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thinking that that was the main person she was seeing she was dating other people there were other people and other
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men involved and her friends were concerned she made a few statements they were usually prompted by the friends
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observing bruising on her wrists or her neck and wondering why she has those bruises
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she told one friend she kind of laughed about these bruises on her neck and wrists and laughed it off as a as a
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crazy night right and changed the subject yes as police face the daunting task of
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finding Kelly would her love life provide their first clue there are some evil people out there
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oh [Music] 9129 I'm 23. so on Monday October 14th I started my shift at 4 pm I learned that Kelly Dwyer a young woman
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have been reported missing and had not been seen or heard from since the previous Friday
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[Music] as Kelly Dwyer's family and friends continued to search for her Milwaukee
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detective Tammy tremel McLean arrived at the scene of Kelly's last known whereabouts three days earlier Chris
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Sacco's apartment building they come right through this door and he actually holds the door open for her
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you can see that on the video yes you see two people that are chatting walk past that camera there's another
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camera that catches them turning the corner to the elevator and you can see Kelly in her typical I
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think outgoing fashion she's gesturing with her hands a little they bend the corner and then that's the last time
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that she is ever seen Alive by anyone now it was time to talk to the other person in that video tremel McLean sat
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down with Saco in his 18th floor apartment he came off as a pretty nice guy he said she would hang out with him a
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couple times a week he used the word party they party together somewhat shockingly zako didn't hold
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back telling police exactly what he meant by party as he described how he and Kelly had ended their evening they
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walked back and they do the lines of cocaine they have a couple more drinks he says there was sex and they both
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passed out on opposite ends of his couch said Kelly left around nine o'clock the
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next morning adding that he heard the front door click shut behind her there was only one problem with that
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while I'm speaking with him I get a text message from one of the other investigators who had been watching
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video downstairs with the manager and he simply just says in the text she doesn't
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come out as tremel McLean focused on how Kelly could have slipped out of this high
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security building undetected zaco seem more interested in shifting Focus away from himself well you know she's messing
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around with a lot of other guys there's some other guy you know kind of trying to take the attention away from himself
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that may have been sako's intention but that's not what happened in your bones in your gut based on your instinct and
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your training and experience you felt like you were looking at a suspect yes police need s needed a way to search
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zako's apartment for evidence because he had told tramel McLean he'd use drugs there they were able to get a search
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warrant what'd you find lines of cocaine on top of a magazine some canisters of marijuana in the refrigerator
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painkillers pills and a marijuana pipes smoking pipes they should tell you how cold it is in
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this place before that Saco was arrested for drug possession during his interview
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he seemed flip even when asked routine questions about his medical history anxiety nothing like that I had anxiety
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okay but no uh I'm not taking anything for it okay no problem but no bipolar it's schizophrenia
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suppose that's all open to interpretation of somebody sako's interrogation finishes abruptly
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but while they had zako in custody police get a warrant to search his cell phone hoping to find clues in Kelly's
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disappearance they were stunned to find a video of zako and Kelly Dwyer engaged in a sex
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act where Kelly appears to be in distress she can't breathe she's straining for breath when was this video taken that
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video was taken approximately three weeks before she went missing and there was more incriminating
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evidence disturbing pictures of Kelly on zako's phone still photographs that are
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very concerning as well because she appears to be unconscious on his bed police could not link those images to
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Kelly's disappearance and despite Saco being a person of interest they could only charge him with drug possession
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but that search of his apartment LED police to a bizarre Discovery in his bathroom during that first search
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warrant the police observe the shower curtain hooks with the torn fragments of shower curtain not knowing what a torn
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down shower curtain could mean and concern that Kelly is never seen exiting the building
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that they then bring in a canine to conduct a sniff for the odor of decomposing human remains and that
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police cadaver dog Molly would deliver some stunning results there's an indication of the outside of
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the apartment door in the parking garage on the level he parked his car on the dumpster door on the 18th floor
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Molly alerted on the hallway guest bedroom guest bathroom she went on to the master
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bedroom got up onto Chris zako's bed she seemed to be sniffing vigorously on top
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of his bed and gives her final formal trained alert for police that moment changed this case forever they now
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believed Kelly was dead and her final moments had been in Chris Sacco's apartment and if Kelly died on that bed
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where did the body go that's what we needed to find out and Chris zako had those answers and at
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that point it was turning into a homicide investigation to charge Saco and not knowing where
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Kelly's Body could be police search zako's home electronics for more clues they examined an external hard drive and
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some discs that were found in his spare bedroom what's on that hard drive that hard
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drive has a number of Hardcore child pornography videos very extremely extremely disturbing
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zako disavowed any knowledge of the child pornography police found if you're an I.T guy you collect stuff so you
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collect old hard drives you collect discs you collect you know you just collect I.T equipment and that
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particular hard drive was from his former place of work in Boston he didn't know it was there
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and you believe him I do believe him yeah it had been two weeks since Kelly disappeared zako was arrested again this
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time for possession of child pornography by early November 2013 he was out on bail and awaiting trial on the drug and
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child porn charges girlfriend uh no I mean I date multiple people but before zako had lawyered up in that first
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interrogation it would turn out he'd said something that would come back to haunt him
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okay so nobody you can send to your girlfriend right now there's a couple girls that I would like to be my
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girlfriend but it hasn't been that seriously yet I guess yeah he began dating a young woman in 2009 he
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was living two different lives do you think Chris zako had something to do with Kelly Dwyer's disappearance
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watch more of the police interrogation on Facebook at 48 hours [Music] towards the end there was more touching
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more of the smiling towards each other there was more affection there than there had been towards the beginning
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according to Chanel Royston before Kelly Dwyer disappeared it seemed her relationship with Chris Saco was
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evolving did Kelly ever tell you that she was falling in love with Chris she never told me but you could tell you
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know how she would look at him that she was looking for something more and I think
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that she did love him at that point it turns out Sako may have been in love as well
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with someone else he was in a very serious relationship with a woman who he was dating at the time that he was
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seeing Kelly and this young woman knew nothing about the relationship with Kelly and did Kelly have any idea about
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this other woman and arrested on the news reported to police that his sister Megan had been dating
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zako for more than three years when I went to interview the long-term girlfriend Megan I had a lot of
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photographs from the search warrants with me and I was able to have her identify different objects within the
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apartment they learned that a number of things were missing you described that guest bathroom
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there should have been a shower curtain there should have been a little rug and some matching decorative towels all of
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those things were gone and she was surprised to see that she identified the shower curtain hooks
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that were bent and torn identified the fact that they were not like that when she had last been in there and it's in
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that very bathroom where the sniffer dog had alerted exacting human remains exactly
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Megan also identified one more missing item there had been a large traveled golf bag lying in front of the TV that
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had been there for weeks and weeks that they literally would have to step over to get into the bathroom and that was
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missing a travel golf bag possibly like this one is commonly used by golfers to protect
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their clubs it's all padded correct very large very large it was padded it was silver and she thought it was maybe two
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two and a half feet wide detectives wondered if Sako had a more Sinister use for the bag could Kelly's Body have fit
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inside that travel yes absolutely absolutely but how did zako get that bag out of his
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apartment there is no video of zako leaving on any of the 28 surveillance cameras in the building there's no
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camera on the elevator so he could take her body in the travel golf bag out of his apartment into the elevator down to
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the first floor and out that door to the garage without being captured on any cameras but there are cameras inside the
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garage and yet no image of zako with that bag the garage is the only area where the cameras would be motion
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activated some of the investigators think hey just got lucky with it it took months of painstaking work for
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Milwaukee PD investigators to piece together Chris Sacco's movements on the days after his date with Kelly Dwyer
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Lieutenant Eric gulbranson worked the case as both a homicide and Cold Case Detective
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[Music] say um we have Chris Sacco standing by the driver's side door when he leaves that building at 1008 a.m
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Kelly Dwyer's phone it goes dead what do you think happened to the phone at that moment broken
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powered down thrown in the water the river is very close by zako is next seen back in his garage 16
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minutes later standing by the trunk of his car if you look closely in that image there's a little gray or silver
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object lying in the vehicle above the trunk level I think that's consistent with the travel golf bag so you believe
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Kelly Dwyer is in the trunk of his vehicle I do investigators believe that because the
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cadaver dog Molly told them so the cadaver dog not only hits on all of those things in the apartment but the
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dog hits on the car also in the trunk and on the door handle and inside the vehicle
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[Music] over the next eight hours video show zako coming and going several more times
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loading items into his car before finally leaving for the day at 6 16 p.m he said he decided to take his summer
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sports equipment to his mother's house on a Friday night around 6 30. sure yes he came over to drop off some golf clubs
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and his baseball equipment and so there's nothing in your mind unusual when he showed up with this sporting
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equipment at your place not at all there's a golf bag that investigators say went missing a bag that they claim
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Kelly Dwyer's body was in did you ever see this golf bag never [Music] 7 30 p.m and zako is now due at his
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girlfriend's house for a Friday night dinner but investigators learned he didn't
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arrive until about 8 45. there's time that's unaccounted for and we believe he was possibly looking for areas to
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dispose of the body during that time unfortunately detectives weren't able to trace saco's movements from his phone
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records was his cell phone on or off it was off [Music] when zako did finally arrive for dinner
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his girlfriend told investigators he wasn't quite himself he was quite late and he seemed a little bit ruffled a
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little bit nervous he's fiddling with his phone claiming it doesn't work when they went to bed she described them as
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being Restless she described them as sweating profusely to the point where she actually had to change the sheets
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she found that very unusual and Saco may have had a very good reason to sweat that night
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his car is parked near his girlfriend's house overnight we believe that body is absolutely in that trunk locked inside
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that golf bag he could not have left that body in his apartment because that's the first place everybody went to
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look for Kelly the following morning investigators say zako rose with the sun still faced with
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a nightmare he was desperate by Saturday he had to get that body out of that vehicle
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[Music] [Music] one day after Kelly Dwyer disappeared Chris Saco left his girlfriend's
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apartment and hit the road where he went that morning would be the first in a series of Clues as to what may have
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happened to Kelly Dwyer Chris AKO had gone to a place called The Mouse House what's the mouse house it's a cheese
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place foreign this is The Mouse House 80 miles from Milwaukee near Madison Wisconsin
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one cheese shop and a state full of cheese shops why would he drive up toward Madison to
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buy cheese it's a very good question very good question Sacco says he drove 160 miles round trip to buy a half pound
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wedge of cheese for his girlfriend's parents but the investigators say that he did it
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to finally dispose of Kelly's body somewhere in the rural Wisconsin Farmland between Madison and Milwaukee
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in case he was spotted do you believe zako actually went to The Mouse House to create an alibi of sorts I do I
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certainly do [Music] police believe that after dumping Kelly's Body zako made his way to this
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shopping center on his drive back to Milwaukee investigators say that he walked into a
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Sports Authority and used his credit card to buy a brand new pair of sneakers why is he buying new sneakers he may
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have purchased those sneakers to replace ones that he used in in dumping the body like
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he might have been concerned that evidence got on those sneakers so he had to have new ones to put on here's the
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slip up I don't know if maybe he just had a momentary lapse of judgment but that created a paper trail for him that
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paper trail was a single credit card receipt which gave detectives a critical piece of the timeline we know through
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the investigation that he purchased the cheese at 9 55 a.m and we know that he purchased the shoes at 12 11 pm
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the distance between the mouse house and Sports Authority is 54 miles and it should take 47 minutes to get there but
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yet we have 90 minutes unaccounted for at that time 90 minutes certainly enough time detectives believed for zako to
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locate a secluded spot off the highway but for them to find that spot would be like finding a needle in a haystack
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and without Kelly's Body there was no physical evidence of a crime to charge zaka with only circumstance and
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suspicion did you want to take it to trial then it was tough what was missing what was missing was her body
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eventually Chris Sacco did go on trial in November 2014 not for murder but for the child pornography possession
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uncovered with the initial investigation search warrants what's the result of that truck he's
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convicted of all but one count one month later zako pleaded guilty to additional drug charges and was
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sentenced to a total of 19 years so are you done with Chris Sacco is that it or is the potential murder
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investigation still hanging over his head what actually happened with Kelly [Music]
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authorities have just identified the remains of 27 year old Kelly Dwyer detective where are we we are on a dead
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end Country Road and we are about 45 miles west of Milwaukee and it's quite overgrown here but this is the specific
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area where Kelly Dwyer's body was found [Music] for a year and a half Kelly Dwyer had
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been here hidden under these trees just six miles from busy I-94 before her remains were discovered by a
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local man out for a walk he catches a glint of light Hitting off of something that's whitish in color
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and when he takes a closer look he sees what appears to be a human skull six days later using dental records
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those remains were confirmed to be Kelly Dwyer what could not be confirmed though
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was just how she died there was nothing on that skeleton to tell us what the cause of death was there was no physical
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evidence found at the scene either no shower curtain no cloth no towel no clothing and no travel golf bag but
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detectives say there was one clue Left Behind the position of Kelly skeleton her feet and legs were more over in this
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area with one of her legs completely turned very contorted same thing with her left arm it was behind her back as
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if she had been scrunched into some kind of a container like a golf travel like a
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golf travel bag exactly exactly it would appear that police now had enough evidence to bring Chris Sacco back to
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court for the death of Kelly Dwyer it is just too much of a coincidence that her body is found somewhat near
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where he was shopping on the day after she goes missing but assistant district attorney Hill
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wanted more than coincidence to build an airtight case we wanted to make sure that we had uncovered all of the
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evidence we would be able to uncover when you have a case that's going to be largely circumstantial it's absolutely
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essential you do that and with Sako already in prison there was no rush it took another two years of
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investigative work before the state of Wisconsin charged Chris Saco in the death of Kelly Dwyer
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and another year and a half to bring the case to trial how strong is the evidence against Chris
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Saco learn why investigators say Kelly's killer picked the perfect spot at 48hours.com
00:33:54
[Music] good morning ladies and gentlemen this case is about a young woman named Kelly
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Dwyer almost five years after Kelly Dwyer went missing Chris Sacco goes on trial for her death
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but surprising to some not for murder Chris Darko was charged with first three Reckless homicide
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hiding a corpse and strangulation Suffocation with the media restricted behind courtroom security glass
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prosecutor Sarah Hill presents the state's theory of how they believe Kelly died you will hear evidence that the
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defendant Mr zako was basically having sex with Kelly Dwyer and he winds up killing her
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I think Chris Sacco enjoyed taking women to the brink of death for his own sexual
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gratification in fact investigators interviewed several women who said that zako engaged in this type of behavior as
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far back as High School and that it was that Reckless conduct that wound up killing Kelly Dwyer and
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then Mr zako had to do something about it Chris uses that shower curtain and wraps
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her up puts her into the golf bag and goes down to his parking garage the police have no evidence to believe that
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Ms Dwyer exited the apartment in either a shower curtain or a golf travel bag O's defense attorneys Craig mastantuno
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and Rebecca Coffey say the state has it all wrong someone did Kill Kelly Dwyer but it
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wasn't Chris Sacco this case is more about the state wanting Mr zako to be guilty than having the evidence to prove
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it is there any eyewitness to this alleged crime there was no eyewitness no is there a CSI moment some definitive
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piece of DNA there was no DNA evidence the prosecution contends that while the security camera video clearly shows
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Kelly walking into zako's building she is never seen walking out she very well could have left the building in a way
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that wasn't reviewed the defense argues there is video from several cameras they never had a chance
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to examine because it was not preserved as evidence when the defense went to review all of the video evidence that
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video was missing missing travel golf bag police insist is in the back of saco's car we've looked
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at that picture there is no silver bag in his trunk there is no video of him carrying a bag that would have been a
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very large bag to fit a woman who is five foot seven there was no video of that because that didn't happen the
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cadaver dog evidence seems significant canine Molly alerts on the bed in the master bedroom and she also alerts in
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the garage there's no way whatsoever to verify what the officer says this dog alerted to it wasn't even filmed and so
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it's entirely dependent on a police officer describing what she believes her dog was alerting to
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and the defense also has an explanation for that video on sako's phone where Kelly appears to be in distress the
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government found a video that Kelly Dwyer and Chris zackle made together they are calling it strangulation or
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Suffocation a consensual sexual act is what it depicts that type of sex is depicted in mainstream Motion Pictures
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like 50 Shades of Gray as being engaged in with two consensual adults if Chris zocco did not kill Kelly Dwyer who did
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I don't know I don't think that we know I think that we know that it could have been a number of other people
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the defense says that's because Kelly dated men she had met online and is this suggestion that she met up
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with one of these individuals and that that could be the cause of her disappearance
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yes yes yes to support that theory the defense presented a witness who says that he saw
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Kelly after she was reported missing someone who credibly said I saw her that weekend in the car of another individual
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his observation of this individual was very brief at a stoplight I was sure it was her
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it looked exactly like her he went to the district station and said I saw the woman that is being looked for that's on
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the posters that's on TV did anyone ever follow up with you about that information
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you think he's just mistaken I think he's mistaken I I don't only trying to mislead anybody I just truly truly
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believe his mistake [Music] after nine days of argument and testimony the case seemed to rest on one
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thing the quality of the evidence ladies and gentlemen the defendant killed Kelly
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Dwyer every piece of circumstantial evidence supports that despite the tragedy of Ms Dwyer's demise it's not
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just as to find Chris disciple guilty based on conjecture it's just as to find him not guilty all of the factors
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pointed to him there's no other person that could have done it it took the jury only three and a half
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hours to reach the same conclusion we the jury finally defendant Chris zako guilty of first degree Reckless homicide
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is charging caught one of the Year finally after five years of waiting and wondering there is Justice for Kelly
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Dwyer as for Chris Saco he did look at me when he was being removed what did you see
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he was devastated and what was Chris's sentence 31 years sat on top of the 19 years
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Chris AKO is a person who's demonstrated that he poses a danger to society particularly to women and if someone is
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dead as a result that someone was a vibrant and trusting young woman just beginning to find her
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way in the world she was a loving person who truly cared about people and loved so much that she didn't really find much
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fault in anyone [Music] there's this sense of profound loss loss for her family her friends you see
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a loss of a light because of one person's selfishness and that's a tragedy tragedy is the best word for it
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[Music] foreign [Music] children there's no sign of life there's no sign of death anything you want to
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say Lori Lori Velo hasn't said a word about where her children are now her mother and sister are speaking out
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Janice do you think they're in a bunker somewhere I think that's possible 48 Hours next on CBS
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