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[Music] this is a very affluent area big shopping Community uh major tourist Mecca this is a community where we don't
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have a lot of homicides it was very unusual September 13th 2006 the Newport Beach Police Department had a call of a
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body in the water Newport Harbor yach club we were the lead investigators on this
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case they removed the body from the water that was wrapped in a mattress pad in bed sheets and found a female white
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in her 50s with multiple stab wounds it was an extremely big story uh there was of course local news coverage of it who
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is the woman found floating in Newport Bay her identity still a mystery the victim wasn't identified until the
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autopsy we do have to go through extra Hoops sometimes in this case she had breast implants that had distinct serial
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numbers on them and we were able to trace her identity through those serial numbers very
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unusual she is Barbara Anne Mullenix 56-year-old female white from the City of Huntington Beach
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California she was living with her ex-husband and their daughter it hurts I never thought that the Barbara would be
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gone my mom was my life hi Rachel this is your debut hi she was my heart she was my soul she was
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she was my everything she was parttime actress she'd do background acting Walk-Ons for
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shows she was on CSI she liked it this is a diagram of the body 52 stab wounds is
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overkill there was a butter knife in bed in her right eye someone wanted to punish this person
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it was clear they wanted her to suffer whoever stabbed Barbara Molen X knew her very
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well lady in the harbor tonight's 48 Hours mystery [Music] [Applause] I had a lot of fun with my
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mom she had a Wild and Free Spirit she was fun to be around 19-year-old Rachel Mullenix
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lights up when she recalls her childhood you little kitty I'll take the ribbon off and you open it I was spoiled
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I was it was it was like Disneyland my my life then was was really really really good the only child of Bruce and
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Barbara molx she says she always felt a special connection to her mom are you looking forward to
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kindergarten yeah we were closer than most mothers and daughters I'm going to learn to be good
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you're already good she was one of a kind she was one of a kind she was a lot of fun she was just very
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spontaneous I loved her personality it was Barbara's outgoing personality that had caught the
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attention of Bruce back in the mid 19 1980s good morning Mr Mullen X she was very
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opinionated she wasn't afraid to tell somebody what she thought to me that was attractive it was different it was you
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know I I kind of liked it I was taken by her in fact he was taken all the way to
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the altar it was November of '87 she had a lot of energy and we made each other happy Bruce was nearly 28 at
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the time but Barbara was 9 and 1/2 years older it was her third marriage her first two had failed they were living in
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Oklahoma City and within a short time they had Rachel it was just really a good family in the beginning when did it
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change when my parents marriage started to end Barbara had a problem amen when she got more and more into the
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drinking that things started to get bad and when Barbara got really drunk then it would be a night of intense
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verbal bashing it it started to be the the main focus and the main experience in the
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house I think it was when I was 12 or 13 maybe and I finally got divorced that was in 2002 Bruce moved to
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California free of Barbara or so he thought and the alimon and support my dad was giving her was not enough to
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support herself she didn't have any savings and so she was literally on her last
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slave so in 2005 3 years after the divorce and against his better judgment Bruce helped his ex-wife and daughter
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move cross country and into his small apartment but life had to be awful she's drinking too much the three
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of you are all living together I mean it had have been a bad situation it was it
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was but it wasn't all bad they were living near Hollywood and Barbara was Star Struck my
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mom was very glamorous very glamorous very sophisticated she love the movies and Barbara soon found part-time work as
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an extra in Hollywood movies and TV shows they were small roles of course you have to look Clos to actually see
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her work right there green sweater with this purse the problem is is that you know you're only in two or three frames
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usually you're just somebody walking in the background you're just somebody talking so about one second for 18 hours
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of work she she mostly did CSI all the csis I think that's the closest Best Shot that I I remember of everything
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that she did I mean there she is so she loves CSI what a tragic irony then that Barbara ended up starring in her own
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real life murder mystery a little more than a year after moving to California you never think that another human being
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could do something like this to someone else whoever murdered Barbara mullinex not only stabbed her dozens of times
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they dumped her body in a taped up cardboard box and dumped it over the edge into the water
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which of course had fallen apart in Newport Harbor putting her in a box and dumping her like a piece of trash uh it
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just doesn't make any sense to me once the victim was identified detective Steve Mack and Joe cartright
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were wondering why no one had reported her missing they were eager to get over to Bruce and Barbara's Huntington Beach
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apartment she was wrapped in Bedding it appeared to me that she'd been killed on
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a bed and simply wrapped up uh in those those sheets no one was home when police
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arrived not Bruce nor Rachel but detectives got a search warrant and went in there was nothing immediately noticed
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when you walked in but they did find something strange in an upstairs bedroom a collapsed bed frame with no bed and on
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closer inspection some blood spatter on the wall was ultimately discovered by the forensic lab detectives realized
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that someone tried hard to clean up the scene in that room I think that the reason that the mattress and the box
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spring were missing is because they were saturated in blood police were now convinced that
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this is where Barbara mullinex was murdered that fact and the ferociousness of the attack helped confirm for
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detectives that this was no random killing and that Barbara knew her as salent attention immediately focused on
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Bruce no I understand um I'm the ex-husband we're living in the same condo I have watched crime shows I've
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watched 48 hours I've watched I mean the the ex is usually the first person you go to the detectives urgently wanted to
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speak with Bruce but as far as they knew he was missing which made them even more
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suspicious how good did he look as a suspect he looked very good but one day after Barbara's body was discovered
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Bruce did show up at the condo telling detectives that he had been out of town on business and that he became worried
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when he couldn't reach Barbara or Rachel I kept calling and I kept calling and nothing I had a terrible sinking
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feeling because I thought I haven't heard from them in 2 days and so he says he rushed home only
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to be horrified at what he discovered and I started walking up I saw the door to condo open I saw the
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yellow crime tape across you know and then I knew it had to be something bad but Steve Mack the
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lead detective says Bruce reacted calmly when told his ex-wife had been murdered
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too calmly there was no initial shock from him well didn't that look bad it did [Music]
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[Music] sunny Southern [Music] California home for the Molen xes picture us from the
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outside but inside it was Disneyland one day and then Hill the next day and that's what concerned detectives
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investigating the murder of Barbara mullinex in the fall of 2006 there something happened in that
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house that provoked the murder 3 years after a painful divorce Bruce and Barbara now just roommates
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along with their teenage daughter Rachel were all living under one rather dysfunctional Roof oh it was just really
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bad there just arguments just screaming maing what would they argue about money those are their biggest arguments money
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she would say something to ra like well you know your dad is spending too much money so you know he's going to
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you out on the streets so he can pay the bills but if she so abusive why let her
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move in with you Rachel beg me Rachel asked me but Rachel says things went way beyond that
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I was known at school as a girl with alcoholic parents Amy both parents but her mother was what
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they call a mean drunk Barbara had little half pints all over the condo I mean it was it was
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bad she drank and usually got drunk and it wasn't it wasn't nice so no shock then that Rachel turned
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to alcohol to escape her parents' divorce I started drinking and I didn't know what else to do or else to turn she
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turned on herself cutting her body with razor blades she's beautiful why would she want to hurt herself Rachel's friend
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Kelsey Douglas I've never seen like a a really bad side of her Kelsey was often around the MX household in those tense
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teenage years she tried really hard to please her mom and when she couldn't she just cried it just made her really
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upset I never heard her say anything bad about her mom she loved her mom she really did
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would you have described Rachel's mom as abusive to Rachel mentally abusive yeah
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definitely but Rachel says she never really blamed her mother my mom had a really difficult life ever since since
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she was born she had a really difficult life for example Rachel knew that when her mother was a teenager she had been
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raped perhaps that's why Barbara was was so understanding when at 15 Rachel herself became pregnant and eventually
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had an abortion she took it real calm she wasn't mad at me she didn't scold me she
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just she helped me deal with the situation but little things would send Barbara into a rage detective Mack
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wondered did Barbara's drinking cause Bruce to snap and kill her he told me you know right now you're my number one
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suspect so I have to ask you all these questions there was one problem with that theory Bruce's story that he was
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out of town the night of Barbara's murder checked out you had an ironclad Alibi didn't you yeah and and I and I
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knew that so that left investigators at square one they took a closer look at what was going on inside the Molen X
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home and learned that Rachel had a new boyfriend Ian Allen and Barbara was feeling left out she began to get a
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little more worried about being alone at some point and that's why she was trying
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to control Rachel and I think that was the big source of the friction between the
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two 21-year-old Ian Allen was four years older than Rachel and he had Wheels his
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own truck he looked at her in the eyes a lot and stuff and just you know was focused on her he was a great catch
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I fell hard and fast early in the budding relationship Ian would do chores for Barbara then
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hang around the house sometimes he came over and I think he would sit there and watch a movie with them in the living
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room but the atmosphere soon changed as things became more intense and Ian and Barbara started to compete
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if you will for control of Rachel then that's when Ian started to get a taste of who Barbara really
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was Barbara was very [Music] intimidating within a few short months 17-year-old Rachel and 21-year-old Ian
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announced their engagement and Rachel pushed her parents into signing this very unusual document
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in July of 2006 they wrote a note to whom it may concern uh I give permission to Ian Allen to date our daughter Ian
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carried it in his wallet not wanting to risk arrest for statuto rape so basically your parents signed a
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document that said it was okay for you to have sex with Ian I guess you could say that I mean she would have been
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sexually active anyways but in light of the fact that she had been pregnant in the past I mean it does sound like
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Rachel had a lot of control in your household and I understand what you're saying but
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that it it wasn't like that Bru says Ian was adding to Barbara's anxiety over losing
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Rachel the more serious that Rachel was getting with thean Barbara thought that this idea that she's going to kind of
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have Rachel to help her survive after Rachel turns 18 or when my money stops I think that was now being threatened and
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the threat was Ian then late One Summer Night in 2006 When Rachel failed to meet her strict 1
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a.m. curfew after a date with Ian her mother exploded my mom shows up at his house just humiliating but she ended up
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waking up his parents yeah and was she angry yeah she was angry was she making a scene yeah I
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thought she'd overreacted I was mad but you get over it how did Ian feel about her showing up Ian was livid he was
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[Music] livid Just 4 days later Barbara Molen X's body was found floating in Newport
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Harbor Police wanted to question Rachel and Ian but they were nowhere to be found if Ian did this then Rachel's in
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danger and that's why she didn't call me that's the first thing I thought where is Rachel could you locate enl no we
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could not find him I put out an all points bulletin to be on the lookout for Ian and Rachel and their pickup
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truck that was such a passionate violent crime even veteran detectives were shocked by
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the brutality of Barbara mullen's murder and I can't imagine what she went through just as disturbing is where the
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clues were leading with Barbara's ex-husband Bruce cleared detective Mack began looking at
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two other suspects and he said and I think uh I think Rachel and Ian did it [Music]
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I I couldn't process that I couldn't process it did you know where Rachel was at that moment no had
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she tried to call you no both Rachel and Ian had been missing since Barbara's body had been found the
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detectives believed that wherever they were they were together the more we talked to Bruce
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Mullen and learn the family Dynamics the more became clear to me that there's a good
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likelihood that both Ian Allen and Rachel Mullenix could be responsible for this
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crime investigators got a break when they checked the computer at Ian's home and discovered that just hours after the
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crime someone had printed driving directions to Tampa Florida cops got another break when they learned that Ian's
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credit card had been used in the state of Louisiana at a gas station in a place called
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sulfur about 1700 mil from home surveillance cameras there recorded his truck pulling up to a gas pump
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authorities began moving in we knew that they had just been there Orange County prosecutor Sonia baste so we called the
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next town over uh which is Lafayette Parish and they set up on the I 10 looking for Ian's truck and he was
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stopped I was thrown on the ground handcuffs on that was a very scary situation and now they're
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treating me like I'm some criminal 48 hours later detectives cartright and Mack were in Louisiana to
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question Rachel and Ian you are under arrest for the murder of your mother do you know that I was kidnapped do you
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know that I know that's what you're saying what do you mean that's what I'm saying we have physical evidence to the
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contrary what do you what you mean I couldn't believe they were going to charge me with
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murder I was I was beyond shocked why not though I mean because I didn't do it that's why I was
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just she claimed Ian had murdered her mother I was asleep it was the middle of the night I heard my mom scream my name
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I ran in her room and I saw Ian standing there on top of her stabbing her I tried to push him off but he
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pushed me off and knocked me out Rachel claimed she remembered nothing after that until she regained
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Consciousness in a nearby Motel bound and gagged by Ian but when police checked out her story
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there was no record of them being there she doesn't have a single wound to be consistent with even being shoved
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against furniture by now authorities were beginning to believe that 17-year-old Rachel had made up the entire kidnapping
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story I think the only thing she told me that was the truth was her name Rachel continued to insist she was
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only a bystander to murder that Ian forced her to help clean up the crime scene dispose of her mother's car and
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body along with several bags of her mother's personal belongings she says Ian's plan was to
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make it appear as if Barbara had suddenly moved away and you had a woman who actually
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wouldn't be missed why not she didn't have a job that she had to go report to every day um she didn't have that sort
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of interaction with her neighbors the prosecutor says Rachel was no kidnap victim take a look at the surveillance
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video from that Louisiana gas station where Ian and Rachel had stopped where Ian actually goes to use
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the ATM card and Rachel is free roaming around the store getting something to drink um paying for it herself and then
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going about her way meeting up with Ian again um sort of in a very loving manner you don't look upset you're not
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hysterical you don't ask anyone for help you don't leave a note for someone why not nobody knows what they're going to
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do in this situation nobody and I was scared of what him I didn't know what he's going to do next
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isn't that possible she's just trying to keep Ian comfortable and not get him angry
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with her she had just seen him kill her mother no I don't believe so Rachel says she
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was only cooperating with Ian because he had threatened her with a gun he had taken from his home but that's another
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claim the prosecutor says that doesn't hold up when you examine the gun for DNA the major contributor is Rachel
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Mullenix but when Ian Allen meets with California detectives they going to be talking to you okay okay incredibly he
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backs up stop Rachel's story Ian told me that he was in fact totally responsible uh for the attack on Barbara
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Mullen X I was going there intending to threaten her to scare her and got out of
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control very quickly I held the knife right to her throat and she just started screaming Rachel Rachel help me he's
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trying to kill me and why would Ian kill Barbara Molen X Ian was being fed uh part truth and mostly Lies by Rachel
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that uh her mother was out to ruin his life and his family's life Ian refused to talk to 48 hours but authorities
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believe he continued lying to them to protect Rachel she didn't need to be locked up
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or anything I made her come with me if I can get her back home to her dad where she belongs you're not that's not going
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to happen [Music] she didn't care what happened to he an allen anymore because he's no used to her now
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she's been caught Rachel MX thinks that people are disposable to her well let me ask you
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another question about Ian so what he's an and he deserves to go to prison that's not my
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determination how would you describe Rachel Molen x a sociopath one of the most manipulative people I've ever
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met not only does Sonia baste think Rachel participated in the Murder She Believes the sweet looking teenager
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planned it but Rachel even after being caught in a lie about the kidnapping insists she would never kill her
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mother but if you would lie to the police then why should people believe you now really look and evaluate the
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evidence they have no proof Pro that I killed my mom because I didn't but is Rachel lying is it possible this teenage
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girl helped murder the mother she claims was the most important person in her life Rachel will get a chance to tell
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her story to a jury she and IEM will both face trial separately for first-degree
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murder this is a nightmare anybody I didn't kill my mom want my mom your mother was brutally
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murdered what my mom and she's not coming [Music] back I'm very nervous I'm very scared
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nearly 2 years after both Rachel moleno and Ian Allen were arrested for murdering her mother Barbara
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Rachel is the first to go on trial I have to hope that the truth will come out if I don't have that I have
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nothing but just what is the truth still a teenager at 19 is Rachel a coldblooded
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killer or a battered girlfriend who watched helplessly as her boyfriend committed
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murder Ian was the biggest mistake of my life he was abusive it was like I was property and if
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somebody was hurting his property or threaten to take his property away it just wasn't was not going to
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happen don't convict me for something I didn't do I'm behind her 100% I have been from the day she was born up until
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now none of that's changed do you feel in any way responsible for your mother's death no but prosecutor Sonia baste
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describes a very different young woman Rachel molx is an active participant in her mother's murder a cold manipulative
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killer she's no typical 17-year-old this one's 17 going on 42 Rachel molx had nothing to do with the
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killing of her mother you're going to hear while Rachel's attorney David con insists that Ian Allen and only Ian
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Allen murdered Barbara mullinex he knows convincing the jury won't be easy well I
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went into this case hoping she wasn't guilty of anything I realize that technically my client is guilty of
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accessory after the fact and that definitely hurts in this case Co has to explain to that jury why Rachel helped
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Ian clean up after the murder just like a Minefield there were many landmines laid in in front of me in this
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case start with the crime scene itself Barbara's bedroom and the cleanup involves getting rid of the bed which
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had to be a complete mess um and burning that mattress getting that mattress and box spring out
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of the house the prosecutor says it took two people to get rid of the evidence Ian and Rachel the bed's burning remains
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were found not far from the condo and there's more she cleaned up her mother's blood as evidenced by a sponge that
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contains her mother's blood and her DNA this is the sponge that was found on the
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nightstand next to where Barbara's bed would have been police found that sponge on a nightstand in Barbara's
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bedroom still police could find no hard physical evidence that directly links Rachel to the murder of her mom either
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planning it or carrying it out isn't it possible that Ian planned this whole thing on his own and carried it all out
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not if you read all the text messages no in the 3 days leading up to the murder there were over 464 four text
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messages from Rachel to Ian's phone lead investigator Steve Mack says one text message in particular points directly at
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Rachel's involvement saying we have two options run or Tuesday or there's another option you come over and
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apologize to my mother run or Tuesday Max says the words are part of a code Tuesday could have been their word
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for murder we either run or we kill my mother and Tuesday was the day Barbara MX died that night
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yes but Rachel insists the word or in run or Tuesday is just a typo but if you look in all my other text messages there
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are plenty of typos that I've written Rachel says the message should have read run on Tuesday there was a plan she says
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but it wasn't to murder her mom my plan was turn away that was my plan if he had another ulterior motive I
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didn't know about it Rachel's fate May hinge on how jur view that one word in her message to Ian
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was it part of a code for murder or just a simple typing error jurors for them to
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believe that she was not guilty of conspiring to kill her mother or killing her mother they were going to have to
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hear it from her raise your right hand cler was where you in so Rachel takes the stand to try to explain what
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happened on that horrendous night of murder I was going to wait until um my mom was asleep I would call him and tell
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him to come get me that was the plan so what happened then he like literally shows up outside my bedroom door it just
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it freaked me out my mom had woken up she opened the door she said what are you doing here I'm going to call the
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police and say you're trying to kidnap my daughter she turned around walked back into her bedroom I just assumed
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maybe he was going to go in there and try to just calm her down before anything happened but I heard a
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struggle so I went in there and I walk in and I see my mom on her bed and Ian is stabbing her in her legs
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cuz she's trying to kick him off that's Rachel's version but does her story matched the evidence pathologist
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Shan Eno who did the autopsy on Barbara Mullenix says Rachel's mom was stabbed more than 50 times and that at least
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three knives were used in the murder including a folding pocket knife that belonged to Ian a longer knife that was
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never recovered and that butter knife penetrating deep into Barbara's skull I I believe it is more likely that it was
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two asants than one and that could have been as few as maybe 5 minutes for the whole encounter I but I I don't know for
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sure Rachel insists she was not involved but claims she can't remember the actual
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stabbing how did one person use all these knives I Rachel you were there you had
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the light on how was he doing it I couldn't tell you the only thing I thought about was getting him away from
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her I tried pushing him I tried pulling him away I tried how did you manage is not to have one single cut on you if
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you're really trying to fight him he wasn't trying to stab me he was trying to stab her how did you know she was
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dead she'd stopped moving did it ever occur to you Miss Mullenix that she might just be unconscious due to the
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loss of blood no you don't know that she's dead maybe there's a chance to save her did
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you try to call 911 no did you even take her pulse to see if she was dead no no a
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lot of people judge me because of this and it's not fair but why didn't you run out the door and get help for
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your mother I was scared it's like I freeze in fear was there time after her mother was murdered that she could have
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either gone for help called for help numerous endless endless opportunities the thought of him coming
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after me if I left was enough to keep me there I didn't know what he was capable
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of doing but some 4 hours after her mother's murder left alone in the condo while Ian was getting rid of evidence
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Rachel finally picked up the telephone out of all the people that you could call now that you have your phone
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in your hand and that you feel that you can use it you don't call your dad right
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no you don't call 911 no you call your mother's killer right correct you must have felt incredibly
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betrayed by him yes yes you must have even hated him at that point right yes and out of all the things that you
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could have said to him you text him the words I love you is that correct [Music]
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yes today a jury began deliberations in the daughter's murder trial kk9 or with no physical evidence tying Rachel
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mullinex to the actual murder of her mom she hoped the jury would never be able to convict her of first deegree
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murder I was hoping they were going through the evidence and really trying to understand
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the case I had hopes I had small hopes so did her high school friend Kelsey Douglas Kelsey cannot believe Rachel
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could help kill the mother she had always loved did you think Rachel might be involved not at all not at all not at
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all didn't even cross my mind when he said ITP I stood up and I'm no way if Rachel did love her mother why
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would she Stand By and allow someone else to kill her and then help him clean up and run away with him Rachel her
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whole life has been trying to make the best of a bad situation at 48 Hours request Dr Al
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ravitz a child psychiatrist reviewed documents from Rachel's trial including testimony of a defense expert who told
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the jury Rachel suffered from a borderline personality disorder when she said to me she really
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loved her mom she meant it at that moment yes absolutely she meant it she loves her mother but she also hates her
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mother when her mother frustrates her people with borderline personality disorders engage in impulsive typically
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self-destructive behaviors but destructive behaviors as well while Dr rabitz has not treated Rachel he says
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that typically those with a borderline personality disorder are unable to plan for the long term she may have been the
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instigator in the moment but I don't think was The Mastermind she wasn't Lex Luther here and like others with a
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disorder Rachel was terrified of being abandoned and that Terror drives the great majority of their behavior and
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they're going to do anything they can to keep you around including murder if she
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wanted to keep you in if in fact right yes but detective Steve ma says you don't need fancy psychological terms to
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describe Rachel she's evil she's the most evil 17-year-old girl I've ever spoken to in my life you believe that
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absolutely what really matters is what the jurors believe and it took them three long days to reach a decision when
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they called and said there was a verdict I I was I was hesitant to be too excited about it the defendant Shackled
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and suddenly sporting Pigtails in her hair all right the verdicts seem to be in order all last that the clerk read
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returns to judge Thompson's courtroom to learn her fate we the jury in the above
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entitled action find the defendant Rachel Scarlet Mullenix guilty of the crime of murder as charging count one of
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the information in the first degree victim guilty a first degree murder in the brutal stabbing of her mother
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Barbara I heard him say guilty of first degree murder do not and I heard my grandma scream
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out that's pretty much all I heard the ultimate manipulation are you're about to convict a little girl prosecutor
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Sonia baste on this case for two years felt relief what's really scary about Rachel is how young she is and how in a
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way criminally sophisticated she is but Rachel insists the jury got it all wrong
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and she is appealing the verdict I'm just a young girl that that did the wrong guy I didn't do it I know I didn't
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do it my mom knows I Didn't Do It Come order for now session nearly 3 months after trial Rachel Mullenix was
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sentenced to 25 years to life life in prison her first chance of parole will be in 2030 when she's 41 years
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old her father says nothing can change how he feels about her do you still love her I still love her
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completely completely and I always will I'm very proud that she's my daughter very proud
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[Music] and as Rachel's future stretches before her it's not her brokenhearted father
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she seems worried about or even the terrible tragedy of her mother's death Rachel remains focused on
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herself what do I have to look for to the dreams of me wanting to have a family and getting married and going to
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college they're gone I don't get that now I'll be an inmate now what are you going to
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D I'm going to learn to be good you're already good [Music] [Music]