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did you think that this case would come back up in the way that it has no I'd really didn't think it would come back
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but I knew something would happen I just had that feeling mm-hmm about it I didn't know if he
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would get an appeal or what but I was always waiting on it that's the beauty of writing true crime is that you never
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know what the real end is this is a storage bin that I at least for all my book material an undisclosed location
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and how long has the bureau staff been in your old stuff has been in here since 1995 1995 so let's go find out what we
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see in here and there it is and as a journalist I wanted to get to the story behind the story who is this kid who is
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this kid and what were the rights of the parents and their responsibilities and how it could have been prevented all
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right let's see what you got okay these are the police supports of the task force that I was able to obtain of
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the day-by-day investigation anything that still sticks out in your mind anything that sticks out of my mind it
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was like this was a very well calculated murder there were so many things that didn't coincide with a burglar and none
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of it made sense right Nancy's final message what was she trying to say family says that she was saying I love
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you these are the psychiatric files all right from charter Berkeley after he poisoned attempted to poison his mother
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his sister and brother and his whole family his father with tainted milk the wood alcohol how did you get your hands
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on me I called one of my friends in the clerk's office and I said I'm aware of a
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lawsuit that has been filed against David Berle and his family could you please keep your eyes open for anything
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that comes in there that I should be aware because I'm writing the book on David Berle and so my source I think of
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maybe a month later I get a phone call saying you better get down here right now
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I said why what do you got and she said I don't believe what it is she said I don't know how anybody would subpoena
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psychiatric records and they would also deliver to the clerk's office to the fine
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especially if you said Julie said get here now at a checkbook seeking Xerox if it wasn't for the psychiatric records we
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would never have had such a book like I am Cain because this made it this really
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traced you inside the mine and of course you being a journalist yourself you want
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to be inside the mind of the killer reading your book was very interesting it was the timeline of a murder without
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flashback it was in real it felt like you were reading real-time news reports as it was happening I recognized one of
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these pictures these are some pictures of his room I have gave us pictures now that we're standing here with all of
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your papers and your research and you save everything just in case did you think that you would ever be looking at
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the material again because the court case might come up giving him a chance to get out never thought of that never
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ever thought of that but I'll be honest when I met with him in 95 this is really weird conversation
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I said well look David unless you cooperate with the authorities and confess the only way you're gonna get
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out of here is in a pine box and then he looked at me he opened up the can of coke that I bought him he
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said I'm gonna get out of here by the time I'm 50 so you know what I think David burrows prediction I hope it's not
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true