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[Music] investigators were tipped off about the possible remains buried in the back of
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this house here behind me brook skylar richardson had a promising future the prosecutor says she gave
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birth in the family home and then killed her baby the 18 year old is there a way to describe this past year the
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worst nightmare purgatory every day the carlisle teen is charged with killing her newborn baby i can tell you
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that brooke skylar richardson did not kill her baby i don't know when it hit me but it was
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i was a grandmother and i never had any of the benefits of it our lives have been completely turned
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upside down what was the reaction to this story how big did this become i felt like
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super bowl level it was like the world stopped everyone wanted to know what was going
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on in our backyard and what had happened the sidewalk was lined with people sitting in lawn chairs oh you're serious
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right out here [Music] we have no privacy we're followed stopped facebook to me turned into hate book
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i did not know she was pregnant here's her track photo this was track season in april
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and you can't tell i mean we missed everything we missed everything [Music] we thought we were doing the right thing
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by cooperating how did you gonna try and kill my baby it turned out to be the absolute wrong thing she faces charges
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of aggravated murder involuntary manslaughter endangering children are you scared i'm very scared i mean we're
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we're scared to death talking to you because we don't want things to come across
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wrong [Music] this is the case of the state of ohio versus brook skylar richardson
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the defendant brooke richardson murdered a baby that she didn't want and never intended to keep
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this case is about a rush to judgment chad is stillborn and she made a poor choice after that
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not telling you not telling anyone and burying the baby what has been advised that we have a
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verdict are we ready for the jury yes sir the defendant please rise what's your biggest fear at this point
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guilty conviction [Music] um [Music] this is the case of the state of ohio versus brook schuyler richardson case
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number 2007. nothing has polarized ohio's warren county more than the trial of brook skyler richardson
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do you feel that schuyler's ever gotten the presumption of innocence no absolutely not
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now 20 years old brooke known as skylar is accused of killing her newborn daughter
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if convicted she could spend the rest of her life in prison it's just changed our lives forever
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for more than a year skyler's parents kim and scott richardson gave us unique access to their story but on the advice
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of their lawyers skyler couldn't talk to us it's so hard to be living like this thinking
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but what if a lot of what-ifs a lot of what-ifs in 2017 the richardsons were living the
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good life in carlisle ohio population 5 000. it's mayberry small town usa i mean it's
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so small town most people don't leave their kids excelled in school and sports son jackson plays on the football team
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skyler was a cheerleader but behind the smiling photographs the family was struggling with a serious
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issue skyler's eating disorder how much do you think her weight and eating ruled her life
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oh 95 percent that is her life this is her at a very scary point oh my gosh kim says she first noticed a problem
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when her cheerleader daughter was in the sixth grade 12 years old she wouldn't buy gum
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because it had five calories i didn't even know gum had calories she was so tiny she was a perfect flyer
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you do a stunt in the air or you hold a very difficult stretching pose for you know a few seconds
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and then come back down to the ground but it also meant she had to be easy to lift and catch
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kim says it was the beginning of skyler's battle with her weight how would she lose the weight
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she would throw up and when cheerleading was over for the season skylar would binge then starve again
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did you get afraid to even talk about her absolutely she she definitely would shut down if you mentioned it to
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her the richardson say they tried everything doctors therapists nutritionists was diagnosed with body dysmorphia a
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mental disorder involving an obsessive focus on a perceived flaw in appearance nothing helped
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she's very guarded keep a lot of secrets yes so many and we don't know what they are
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and i don't know that we ever will in late july 2016 the summer before her senior year
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skylar began dating a friend's cousin the relationship ended quickly and by january 2017
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skyler had a new boyfriend a high school junior named brandon why did those two click
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what is it i don't know cause she's this tall and he's that tall skyler was happy she even seemed to be
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putting on some weight kim and scott hoped their daughter's eating disorder was finally under
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control we were actually pleased that she was finally gaining some weight she looked healthy
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a month later she eagerly picked out her prom dress and it was a tight-fitting dress that she needed to be laced up in
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and then in late march skylar went on vacation with her family she wore a two-piece
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i told her she looked great i mean for the first time in my life i thought she's healthy she's in a healthy
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relationship she really cares about brandon i could tell that she did kim knew skyler's relationship with
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brandon was heating up that's why i wanted her to be on the pill so in late april skyler went to her
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mother's gynecologist to get a prescription for birth control she had just turned 18
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so kim waited outside she came out she had clearly been crying did you ask her why she was crying it
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was traumatic she goes your first appointment is and i'm like yeah it is as a female
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the real reason for the tears the doctor had told skyler she was pregnant eight months she asked him not to tell anyone
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she never said anything to either one of you about what the doctor told her no nine days later on may 5th skyler and
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brandon went to the prom despite being late into her pregnancy she fit into her gown
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she's wearing the same dress that she had tried on in february purchased february 15th
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i have side by side put the pictures together and i look at the pictures and i'm like
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they're almost identical they're identical but less than 48 hours later in the early morning hours of may 7th
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something happened that turned the richardson's life upside down it remained skyler's secret for more
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than two months when police suddenly showed up at the richardson's home and they said hey we just need to talk
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to your daughter about something she may have witnessed she's not in any trouble we just need to
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talk to her taking them at their word scott drove his daughter to the police station
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i mean honestly i can look back that's the biggest mistake i've made in my entire life
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[Music] [Music] on july 14 2017 when scott richardson drove his daughter skyler to the carlisle police station
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he had no idea that she had been keeping a secret if she's going in to talk to the police
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do you know what it's about no i have no idea lieutenant john fain who at the time was
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with the warren county sheriff's office wanted to question 18 year old skylar about a call they'd received there's an
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allegation from an ob gyn office that a patient there had delivered a baby at home subsequently buried her in her
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backyard skyler was put in an interrogation room her father wasn't allowed in with her
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you have the right to remain silent as fain read skylar her rights and then began pressing her a camera was
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recording everything we got a call from the doctor's office okay and according to them on april 26
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you found out you were pregnant remember that was the same day skyla went to see
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the gynecologist about getting birth control pills more than two months later she returned you went back to that
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doctor's office and i told her what had happened that i had to have a baby and it wasn't
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alive i didn't kill skylar told investigators that in the early morning hours of may 7
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2017 she gave birth to a stillborn baby in her bathroom she just kind of came out my train i
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tried i tried over and she's reading she didn't have a heartbeat so now what do you do when you realize
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that she's not gonna make it i have to bury her i couldn't tell anybody without waking
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anyone skyler said she silently walked downstairs got a small garden trowel and then dug a shallow grave in her
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backyard i did not try and kill my baby after about 45 minutes of questioning lieutenant vayne told skyler's anxious
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parents the real reason he brought in their daughter shock i couldn't feel my body
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i could not get up how could that happen i've seen her every day i look at her i talked to her
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i hug her thane then gave the richardson some time alone with their daughter never mentioning that the camera was
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rolling and capturing this deeply personal moment [Music] skylar told her parents that she named
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her baby annabelle and that the baby's father was that friend's cousin she dated very briefly
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before brandon i can't imagine the pain it breaks my heart to think about her laying in bed being scared not
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being able to come down and tell me what had just happened with the richardson still at the police
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station coming to terms with their new reality investigators descended on their home in
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search of human remains soon skyler's once closely held secret investigators were tipped off about
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was shared with everyone in town buried in the back of this house after more than five hours skylar and her
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parents were allowed to go home [Music] but six days later lieutenant fang called asking skylar to come in again i
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was told she's not in any trouble it's not a life-changing situation this time fame was accompanied by detective brandi
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carter and they had new damaging information from the coroner's office we know there's some more that happened
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than what you shared the other day okay dr elizabeth murray a forensic anthropologist who analyzed the remains
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reported there was evidence that the baby's bones may have been burned so she was under the belief that the baby had
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been set on fire what was your reaction when you heard that i was surprised fame began to think skylar must be lying
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about everything and was determined to get her to admit to killing the baby and then burning the remains in order to
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hide the evidence there's some evidence to show that there was some some burning on her
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a total of 17 times any reason for any of that no in your head you're thinking this young woman is lying to me yes
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because they had told us certainly with scientific certainty there was the fire maybe it just was one of those things
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where you just thought like a cremation like i'm gonna i'm gonna have some actions that i can keep of my daughter
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suddenly skyler changed her story tell me everything that you were thinking and everything you did
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it didn't stop there did you hear anything like little gurgle sounds skyler also made the startling admission
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that the baby might have been born alive how did you know at first you know that
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she was probably alive just a little bit well i said she might have a noise maybe a little noise a girl
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when she said that she might have heard a gurgle the gurgle came from you guys first right that word yes i said that
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word first at the end of that hour-long interrogation detectives had enough to arrest the 18 year old on a charge of
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reckless homicide their theory was that she had suffocated the baby [Music] a distraught skyler told her parents
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what she told police brooke richardson is in the warren county jail tonight skylar made bail
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just two weeks later the case was presented to a grand jury who indicted her on a new devastating
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set of charges skylar was arrested again warren county prosecutor david fornshell
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count one of that indictment is for aggravated murder aggravated murder a charge that carries a mandatory life
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sentence in ohio the other charges involuntary manslaughter endangering children and
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abuse of a corpse fornshell left no doubt that he had the evidence the general allegations against her are
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that she did give birth to a newborn infant she caused the death of that infant burned the infant
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and buried the infant the motive says fornshell a baby wouldn't fit into skyler's life
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skyler and her family were pretty obsessed with external appearances you're describing a spoiled
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self-entitled teenager who was more worried about vanity than keeping the life of a baby alive
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those are your words there's no way she way i would stake my life on it despite skyler's incriminating
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statements kim and scott say they intend to prove skyler is innocent with the help of these two
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attorneys the prosecutor was trying to say that skylar richardson was a cold-blooded killer
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and it's quite a leap once all the evidence is [Music] skyler richardson in handcuffs entered a
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plea of not guilty during her arraignment on five charges including aggravated murder
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skylar spent the weekend in jail until her family could come up with a 50 thousand dollar bond it was a surreal
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experience for her parents it was her physically but when you looked at her just
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she was had checked out skyler emerged into a tabloid firestorm shortly after that
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following the prosecutor's sensational press conference the court imposed a gag order but the damage had already been
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done we know a lot more tonight about the carlyle teen mom now accused of the horrific crime of killing her newborn
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and then burning the baby's body on social media skyler and her family were vilified
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in some ways is this like kind of the modern salem witch trials yes very every move we make everything we do
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we're judged we're followed stalked we were crucified and that's putting it mildly
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outside the warren county courthouse today protesters stood with signs calling for justice for baby carlisle
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justice for your baby what are your baby's voice they would take turns sitting out in
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front of our house and they would set up a schedule to watch our comings and goings i would
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see pictures of myself out on my back deck there were threats and a constant drum beat of vitriol
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it became difficult for the family to even leave the house people would claim to know us they would
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take any picture that they could find of skyler and they would paste pictures of
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baby's faces in it and they found a picture of her with a shovel and they posted some little
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baby's face in it prominent local defense attorneys charlie m rickers and his father charlie
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h say this is a case of a false confession i can tell you that brook skylar richardson did not
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kill her baby and then as both sides prepared for trial dr elizabeth murray the forensic anthropologist who reported
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the remains were burned retracted her initial assessment after taking another look at the bones she now said they
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showed no sign whatsoever of incineration or burning and now every doctor in the case
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including the state's own doctor uh agree that that was a false opinion and yet nothing changed in the
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prosecutor's approach because in the interrogation skylar admitted that she tried to cremate the
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remains fornshell refuses to back down or correct the record part of the reason why i think the
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indictment was so severe is because the first anthropologist in this case came to an opinion that she has now retracted
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but has that affected the way people see this case absolutely the jury pool's been tainted
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and now this poor girl our client skyler who was 18 years old at the time is facing life in prison
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skyler was fitted with an ankle bracelet and placed under house arrest she spent
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much of her time reading books and hanging out with her dogs in the backyard under a pine tree her
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parents placed an angel ornament to mark the spot where skylar once buried the baby she called annabelle
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she did what she thought she needed to do maybe outside looking in that was wrong but in her mind she just delivered
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a stillborn baby she gently laid the baby down in the ground she didn't have a casket
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she buried the baby and laid a flower over top of it she put a vase as a marker you can see it from her window
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as 12 months passed skyler's plans to attend the university of cincinnati were put on hold she can't get a job she
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can't go to school the defense filed a motion to move the trial to a different county but the
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request was denied they've not listened to anything that charlie and the team have put together
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and taking them into consideration it's just all very cold and hard [Music] then in july 2019 the state approached
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schuyler's lawyers with an unexpected offer the prosecutor told charlie i will take aggravated
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murder off if you plea to the rest of them which still could have been 15 years faced with the possibility of life
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without parole the richardsons knew they had a terrible dilemma but in the end the decision was skyler's
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to make it was a sunday morning and she woke up and i can still see her sitting on the couch and she goes
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i'm not going to play to something that i didn't do and in my heart i got sick but i it has to be her
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decision end of day she has to live with this that's gotta be though weighing on both of you the idea that
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whether she goes to prison for the rest of her life is in your hands it's quite a burden
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there's no way that she would harm her baby no way on september 3rd 2019 despite concerns of a tainted jury pool
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a 12-person jury is seated after a single day of war dear assistant prosecuting attorney stephen
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knippen delivered his opening statement with a jaw-dropping quote from a text that skylar richardson sent to her mom
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i'm literally speechless with how happy i am my belly is back omg and i'm never ever
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ever ever letting it get like this again those are the words that brooke richardson texted to her mother
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just hours after she murdered her infant daughter in the middle of the night and buried her lifeless body in the dirt
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behind their home with the possibility that skyler's own words will be our undoing
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her family wondered if they made a tragic mistake by not accepting the deal they were offered
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but does that scare the two of you absolutely she did ask me am i doing the right
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thing [Music] [Music] so [Music] for more than two years skylar richardson and her family have been
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bracing for her trial i wake up in the morning thank god each day it's another day i at
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least get to see her and touch her the stress and uncertainty have taken a toll schuyler still battling an eating
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disorder is virtually wasting away how's skyler not good she's about 90 pounds she wears kids
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clothes she has no clothes for court everything we have to pin everything on her kind of
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like sewer in her clothes but what doctors say is an illness the state characterizes as vanity
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prosecutor stephen kinnipping quotes from a tech schuyler center mom just hours after giving birth
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you're about to see me looking freaking better than before omg and there's this selfie that skyler took
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at the gym that same afternoon her actions and her statements demonstrate that she had no intention
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of having this baby prosecutors admit they cannot prove the baby was born alive but knipin tells the
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jury that skylar herself admitted it during this interview brooke admitted the following she saw her daughter's
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arms moving a little heard her gurgle and heard her cry she also told investigators that she
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might have held her baby quote too tight and that's not all she attempted to burn the baby after her
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death in an effort to cremate her but defense attorney charlie m ricker says skylar just told the police what
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they wanted to hear we know that the police were able to break her down and make her vulnerable and admit
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to something that is scientifically impossible burning of a baby this doctor many weeks later said i was
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wrong they disregarded any truth and they said well skyler said it we'll just keep going
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we'll just keep moving forward the state calls dr susan brown the assistant warren county coroner who
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performed the autopsy on the baby's remains do you have an opinion as to the cause
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of baby richardson's death yes homicidal violence of undetermined etiology but when cross-examined by the defense
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dr brown concedes there's no physical evidence that skyler killed her baby or that the baby was even born alive
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you cannot tell us to any reasonable degree of scientific certainty that annabelle was born alive is that correct
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based on just the autopsy examination alone i cannot determine whether it was a live
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birth in fact under cross-examination witness after witness called by the state concede there is no physical
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evidence of a live birth or any trauma or burning of the baby's bones the only evidence comes from skylar
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[Music] so if skyler is convicted she could be convicted on what she said rather than
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what she did exactly did you hear her cry [Music] but why would skylar kill her own child
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prosecutors say she never wanted the baby and they point to text messages she sent her mother in the days leading up
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to prom as skyler's biggest concern seemed to be fitting into her dress skyler i'm just in freak out mode i want
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to look amazing again more than anything i hate being like this so much and there
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are those texts skyler sent after giving birth i am literally so excited now just for dinner to wear
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something cute yay my belly is back but when the defense begins its case obstetrician dr john white takes the
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stand and tells the jury he believes the baby was not alive at birth she delivered a stillbirth infant
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in the bathroom skyler told investigators that she never cut an umbilical cord suggesting to dr
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white that the cord may have become detached sometime before or during birth he also says skyler's description of the
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baby's appearance is significant she described annabelle's appearance as being really white
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and in my experience when you deliver a healthy newborn they're almost purple dr white points out that skylar
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only gained 15 pounds during the course of her pregnancy here she is at three months and again at seven and a half
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months and then again in may less than two days before giving birth according to dr white
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skyler's eating disorder may have restricted the baby's development in the womb fetal growth restriction increases the
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risks of intrauterine demise or neonatal death later an expert on police interviews
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explains to the jury how certain police tactics can result in false confessions and certain people are more susceptible
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says clinical psychologist dr stuart bassman who spent hours interviewing skyler it is my opinion
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that skylar richardson suffers from a mental disorder that predisposes her to comply to people in authority
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what stands out to me about what transpired in the interrogation was a clear sense
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of intimidating attempting to convince skyler to implant a memory that would incriminate
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her but lieutenant john fein says that's not what happened i don't feel that there was something so
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powerful or this strong coercion that people are alluding to that's going to get someone to admit to do
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yeah but changed it didn't happen you're two authority figures she's in a closed
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room she doesn't have an attorney she doesn't have her parents how do you know the baby was alive just a little bit the
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annabelle was alive a little bit i saw her maybe a little bit moving you don't think it's possible that she
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might have just said that because it would please you you don't think that i don't think any answers that she gave in
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that interrogation any answer was with the goal of pleasing us no i do not think that
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a week after the trial started without schuyler ever taking the stand the prosecution and the defense make their
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final appeals to the jury assistant prosecutor julie kraft unwanted that's what brooke richardson's daughter
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was unwanted to outside observers brooke richardson had the perfect life she grew up in a small town
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she was a cheerleader for the high school football team she obsessed over her appearance
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and she was determined to maintain that perfect life at all costs first instruction you and we've heard a
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lot about it is burden of proof the defendant is presumed innocent until guilt is established beyond a
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reasonable doubt and it's their burden it's the prosecutor's burden if you have a reason to doubt the live
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birth you have to fight for scotland after all the turmoil and high-stakes drama the case is now in the hands of
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jurors four hours later they reach a verdict are we ready for the jury yes the defendant please rise
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with regard to count one we the jury in the above caption case find the defendant
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on september 12 2019 skyler waits for the jury of seven women and five men to decide her future
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it's completely out of your control at that point we just did no and that's the scariest thing
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would the jury believe skylar confessed to a murder or would they think she had been pushed
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into making false statements [Music] what's the biggest fear right now that we can't prove that she's innocent too
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i mean that's the hardest thing no one expects a quick verdict but then just four hours later
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kim and scott richardson returned to judge oda's pack courtroom with their daughter skylar i almost had to
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hold her up to walk back because she was a nervous wreck i wasn't even sure what to say i mean
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it's hard to say honey is going to be okay when you don't know [Music] all right ma'am has the jury reached a
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verdict in the case we have i can see the juror with the envelope and i'm like thinking that's my daughter's life and
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i mean i am just praying not guilty not guilty not guilty we the jury in the above caption case
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find the defendant brook skyler richardson not guilty of the of aggravated murder
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not guilty of aggravated murder not guilty of involuntary manslaughter not guilty of child endangerment
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skyler so stoic at trial is overwhelmed i just wanted to fall to my knees she did the right thing by not taking
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the plea i just wanted to be like you were right we felt free [Music] but because skyler buried annabelle in
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the backyard she is convicted of gross abuse of a corpse that felony carries up to a year in
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prison the judge orders skylar held in jail until sentencing her parents watch in shock
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as skyler is led away in handcuffs following the verdict district attorney david fornshell denied that he pursued a
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case with insufficient evidence brooke richardson created the situation that prevented us from being able to conduct
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an autopsy on that baby girl and in a sense it feels like that that she's been rewarded
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[Music] do you think you are owed an apology by the d.a honestly i don't care if i ever
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see him again in my life it's pretty clear at this point they didn't make the right decision
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and they it was almost like they were incapable of admitting they made a mistake
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do you think the jurors by this verdict were obviously able to discount what skyler said in both
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interrogations we knew that most people think well i would never admit to something i
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didn't do and i think our jury at least got to hear a little bit about false confessions that helped them decide this
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case [Music] one day after the verdict skyler is back in court for sentencing is there anything that you want to tell
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me before i impose a sentence thank you your honor and for the first time she publicly speaks
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and i just wanted to say how sorry i was i can sometimes be selfish but i would like to think that i've become better in
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the knowledge that i've upset everyone and hurt so many people with what i've done
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and i'm forever sorry and i'm i'm so sorry i i'm really really sorry and i understand
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and thank you seemingly unmoved judge oda delivers a stern message i firmly believe ms richardson in fact i
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know in my heart that if you would have made different decisions in this case annabelle would
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be here today but i think that your choices before birth during birth and after show a grotesque
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disregard for life skyler is sentenced to three years of probation a far cry from life in prison
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[Music] what does this now mean for the family it's a relief that it's over they now
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know that they don't have to worry about losing their daughter now they can plan
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for the future before she will tell you i had nothing to live for nothing she was too scared to look out for too
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scared too scared to dream is she gonna sneak you some ham and sister tell me who you see now thank you
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she's grown up a lot she's got a resiliency some inner strength that you know i mean
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you always hope it's there just gotta let it come out she's a great kid and hopefully
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she's gonna bounce back from this i think she will in september 2019 skyler entered into an
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eating disorder treatment program it's a lifelong illness she'll have this all of her life
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but we can do this but kim and scott richardson will also have to grapple with the mistakes they
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made and lives that will never be quite the same dude you come out here a lot yeah i do to visit
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the angel still marks the site where annabelle once was it's heartbreaking but this is all we
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have sometimes i just need to feel close to her and i always tell her that you know
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she's loved and she would have been loved and she's always in our hearts [Music]
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[Music] right now it seems as if everything is unpredictable we're all stuck at home
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and like you i'm feeling a bit helpless right now but i want you to know we are here for
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you all working together you are not alone that's right because we're all in this and we're all
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in this together [Music]