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[Music] this was different than any homicide we've ever really had this was a homicide that occurred in
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someone's bathroom from the the first moment when we walked in and saw Becky's body it was
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different she was shot 14 times and there was one miss so there were 15 rounds fired
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my mom called my phone she was understandably hysterical and uh she just kept saying Becky is dead you never
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expect to get a phone call saying your sister's dead it doesn't seem possible she was an incredible nurse but
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she was made to be a mom I can't imagine someone looking at someone so beautiful and kind and still
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thinking that she should take her life from her she must have been so scared this brutal crime has had the
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Quincy Community on edge and our residents living in fear how big a story was this initially it was
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huge were people scared that there was a killer loose definitely how is this happening in our small town make sure
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you lock your doors turn on exterior lights there were Crow ERS in the area right next door within a week of of her
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being murdered they're breaking into cars they're trying to break into houses it wasn't a random Prowler it was an
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execution you don't kick down a door chase them into a bathroom shoot them once and then shoot them that many more
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times in a random act this was somebody who was there with a purpose did you think you'd probably be
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a suspect I mean you're the estranged husband in the middle of a very contentious
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divorce I had to kind of make an assumption that yeah I probably was going to be a suspect we learned that he
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was on Family Feud it's time to play family Fe he gave a silly answer to a silly question the question was what is
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the number one regret that people have from their wedding day what's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding
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honey I love you but said I do not my mistake not my mistake I love my wife it wasn't said with any malice
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or or or bad intentions it was supposed to be funny it was the second most popular answer on the board I
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do it got attention to the case but it had nothing to do with it what's the first thing then you did
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looking for evidence we had the detectives go around to all the neighbors to see see if they had any
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video that's her house over there yep that's and this is the neighbor's driveway this is the neighbor's driveway
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you'll see this person walk across looks like they have gloves on can't see a face at all can't see a face he can't
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see hair he can't really see anything El that's not Tim in that video you can't tell who it is can you absolutely say
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with certainty that that is Tim BL Nick based on the video evidence alone absolutely not that's one piece of the
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puzzle he had everything to lose if that's him and nothing to gain I wholeheartedly do not believe he had
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anything to do with the death of Becky did you kill your wife Becky no I did not murder Becky the idea of of
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murdering someone let alone the mother of my kids is not any part of who I am [Music]
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[Music] Josh Jones and Laura have prosecuted hundreds of cases 11 and 10 seconds but
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no case has troubled them quite like the murder of Becky bnck you put yourself in
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in the mind of Becky bnck in the last moments of her life the fear that she had to be feeling you can't walk out of
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that house and not be affected by it Becky was just 41 years old when on the afternoon of February 23rd
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2023 her own father discovered her lifeless on the bathroom floor of her Quincy Illinois home she'd been dead for
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hours shot a total of 14 times none of the wounds were immediately fatal it took her minutes to die was an emotional
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response for both of us to to realize not just that she had been executed but that her last minutes were lying on a
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floor alone in the dark in extreme pain waiting to die Quincy is a quiet town along the Mississippi River where
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violent crimes are rare and unsettling she was a nurse who had three children I think people were just
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horrified that a mother of three young boys could be shot and killed in her own home Sarah Riley is Becky's older sister
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and her only sibling she lives in New York but was away on vacation with her husband Brett Riley when they got that
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lifechanging call you just want to wake up and have it not be real it's a living
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Nightmare how fast can we get to the airport fly back to New York unpack our swimsuits and pack funeral clothes and
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get out to Quincy Illinois and just holding each other up in screaming grief how would you both describe her
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selfless that that really captures it she thought of everybody that was in her life as somebody important and somebody
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special the kids were her world Becky's Three Sons ages 12 10 and five were not at home at the time of the murder they
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were staying with their father Tim bnck about a mile away the couple was in the process of getting divorced Tim says
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that when he couldn't reach Becky on the 23rd he contacted her father he said hey
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I haven't been able to get a hold of her either I'm going to go over to the house
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what happened to Becky should have never happened and it just it still doesn't at
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times it still just doesn't feel real police quickly determined that the killer had broken into Becky's home by
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prying open an upstairs window in one of the children's bedrooms this video shows
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a police officer later reenacting how investigators believe the asale scaled the house the person had climbed up on
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there there was a patio chair that was pulled over they walked past Becky's windows in her bedroom and then they
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went to a room of one of the boys and they pried open broke the window open went in you could almost Trace their
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path to Becky's room they had kicked in or broken in the door violently Becky then ran into the bathroom turned around
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and got shot what time did do you believe the Intruder entered the house so it would have been around 1:11 in the
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morning uh because we know that at 1 1 and 10 seconds Becky tried to call 911 on her cell phone she dialed
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91126 and the phone was knocked out of her hand and it was found behind the door nothing appeared to be stolen and
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neighbors didn't see or hear anything but there was evidence left behind a partial shoe near the point of entry
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eight spent 9 mm shell casings and small pieces of plastic on the floor around Becky's body we thought it was unusual
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when we saw that it was like okay what is this detectives canvasing the neighborhood looking for surveillance
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video didn't have to go far Becky's Nextdoor neighbors the Hyman had installed a camera on the side of their
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house after a car break in more than a year earlier it pointed at their driveway which ran alongside Becky's
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house what does it record it records movement so anytime it senses movement it will notify us on our phones the
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Hyman's camera didn't capture anything on the night of the murder but it did capture something unusual about 24 hours
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earlier we've slowed down some of the videos so you can see them better at 1:05 a.m. a person was seen walking down
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the driveway towards the back of Becky's house and what appeared to be that same
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person was seen again 48 minutes later this time walking in the opposite direction the camera had also captured a
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similar incident about a week earlier on February 14th Valentine's Day I saw that
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one in the middle of the night and texted Becky immediately I told her we just saw somebody in the driveway and
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she responded not until the next morning and what did she say when she responded
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that's when she told me that she hadn't seen anything but she thought she had been hearing voices in her backyard and
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her motion like go on and she was very paranoid at the time the highman thought it was a neighborhood Prowler looking
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for something to steal but now with Becky dead they began to wonder and investigators did too officers went
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around the entire neighborhood neigh Hood trying to find more video and we were able to find a video from a house
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and we were able to find video from the Quincy bus barn and those videos showed a person riding a bike in the direction
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of Becky's house after analyzing the recorded times of the videos authorities began to suspect that the person seen on
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the bike was the same person seen in the driveway every time you see a person at
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the Heyman residence you you see a person riding a bike down the road just a few minutes before you see a person on
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that highman video and even though there was no video from the Hyman residents on
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the morning Becky was killed there was video of a person on a bike riding in the direction of Becky's house right
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before the murder and in the opposite direction right after and this is not a part of town that people ride bikes in
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the middle of the night in Winter and so when you have this surveillance video and it exactly matches the timeline
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that's suspicious but there was one big problem you can tell absolutely nothing from the videos only that the bike did
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not appear to have reflectors on the wheels I mean you can't see whether it's male female it's terrible the video is
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terrible authorities needed more leads and they would get one from Becky's sister that would Point them in a very
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specific Direction when Becky's Sister Sarah and brother-in-law Brett learned of her
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murder they say one person came to mind as the prime suspect Becky's estranged husband Tim
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bnck I told Brett it was Tim of course it's right away right away Tim and Becky met when they were
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students at Quincy University but it wasn't until 2 years after graduating that they began dating and how would you
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describe Becky back then happy fun she was beautiful the two eventually moved in
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together married and started a family Becky quit her job in pharmaceutical sales to become a stay-at-home mom while
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Tim continued his successful career in the recycling industry I thought this was it you know
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I'm going to be 85 and sitting on a porch in a rocking chair with her talking about how good life was but
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things didn't turn out that way she was very happy with their marriage for probably the first 5 years uh and then
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you know things started to change he got Progressive ly more manipulative and controlling and he didn't do any of the
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work ever at the house Shannon zanger is Becky's close friend when she'd come over and we'd talk husbands as wives do
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she felt like she was shouldering most of the load I thought man I really have a partner here and she doesn't seem to
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have that partnership Shannon and Sarah say the relationship only became more strained when Becky decideed to go back
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to school to become a nurse he not only did not support her he did not increase his time with the boys while Tim
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acknowledges that he wasn't in favor of Becky taking on a career in nursing he says it was out of concern for her
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well-being because of the stress piece of it were you worried you'd have to pick up more of the work with the kids
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not at all I I've always been involved with the kids every day in January 2021 after 11 years of
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marriage Tim filed for divorce although he wouldn't discuss the specifics of why
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he filed he hinted that it had to do with what he saw as a change in Becky's personality after she became a nurse she
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struggled with patience and stress a lot especially when it came to the kids and
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it it created some conflict but Sarah says Tim is just making excuses and she believes the reason Tim filed for
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divorce is because he couldn't control Becky she says Becky was a loving mother and tried in vain to salvage the
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marriage she wanted to go to marriage counseling with him and he refused whatever the reason for the
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divorce might have been one thing is certain things between the two soon turned contentious according to divorce
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documents they fought over just about everything money the marital home and custody of the
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kids I don't understand why it got so contentious if you were the one who wanted to get out yeah I was the one
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that wanted to get out and I tried on several occasions but there are details that I'm I'm
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not that are hard to talk about that happened in the divorce in the months after Tim filed for divorce Becky began
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voicing concerns about Tim's Behavior she sent this text to a friend he has screamed in my face he shoved me in
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front of the kids and has thrown things across the room and she texted another friend I truly believed him has serious
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mental health problems and he is becoming more vengeful and unpredictable but Tim says it was Becky
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who was vengeful she told people I had an affair which is untrue she tried to tell people
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that I was an alcoholic which is untrue she was telling people these things because she was angry about the
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divorce at one point Tim sought an order of protection against Becky he alleged Becky stalked and harassed him he also
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referenced an incident where he said Becky had become combative during a disagreement at a parent teacher night
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ask the I'm asking you to stop harassing me and stop I'm not harassing you I'm asking he offered this video of the
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incident as proof make a copy for I don't want you to take me stop doing this don't take me I don't I didn't ask
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you to take me do you really think she was trying to hurt him in that video I don't think anybody was trying to hurt
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anybody I think you have two parents that were having a disagreement and didn't know how to deal with it Casey
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schn was one of Tim's divorce attorneys the judge didn't grant that order of protection did not Grant it no days
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after Tim filed for that order of protection and more than a year before her death Becky sent her sister Sarah
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this text if something ever happens to me please make sure the number one person of interest is Tim she would
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later make similar statements to friends I said what did he do and that uh text was prompted by uh the murder of one of
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her um colleagues one of the the nurses that she she knew was murdered by um her
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partner that scared her she felt like this could happen this is real I never understood where that came from we would
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get into arguments and sometimes we would get loud but that's all it amounted to Sarah says she recommended
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Becky seek help from a domestic abuse organization and eventually Becky filed for an order of protection against Tim
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in her petition she alleged that Tim and Ed her residence without permission she
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also said that he repeatedly falsified interactions between the two that order of protection was not granted but a
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judge did ultimately order Tim and Becky stay away from each other's residences except when exchanging their kids and
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the judge also ordered Tim to return a 9mm handgun that Becky had gifted him when they were together he was into um
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you know recreational shooting she wanted that particular gun back because the gun was in her name but Becky never
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got it back and it was a 9mm handgun that was later used to kill her I have not seen that gun in 3 years I didn't
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have it Becky was killed one week before the divorce case was set to go to trial
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when Sarah informed law enforcement of their history t became a person of interest authorities kept digging and
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days later they found a bike with no reflectors on the wheels just like the on seen on those surveillance videos how
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close was that bike that you found to Tim's house less than half a block they then executed a search
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warrant on Tim's house and car as Tim looked on and on March 13th 2023 just over two weeks after Becky's
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death Tim bnck was arrested and charged with her murder I can't even fathom the idea of
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considering murdering somebody like I can't Tim's divorce attorney Casey schnock would become his defense
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attorney and she says she's convinced police got it wrong he knew how much those kids meant to her and how much she
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meant to them he wouldn't do this to them he wouldn't when Tim bck was arrested it
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made national news he competed on Family Feud as his whole town cheered him on but his local hero status is over now in
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large part because of that appearance he made alongside his parents and brothers
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on the game show Family Feud Jimmy talk to heard to married people what's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding
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honey I love you but said I do the episode was filmed in 2019 nearly two years before Tim filed
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for divorce but because of the charges he now face it had people talking and there was also chatter about Tim's
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appearance in his mugshot although it was no surprise to Becky's family we had seen through social media
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the deterioration of his appearance and that went hand in hand with the deterioration of his mental state over
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the course of the divorce but Tim says that's not the case and that he had been growing out his hair for a fundraiser
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for cancer research I'm not a violent person I'm not an angry person I've never been that way Tim's attorney Casey
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schnock was determined to prove his innocence she says just because Tim and Becky were going through a messy divorce
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it doesn't mean he killed her it wasn't pretty but the things that they were fighting over were not Monumental things
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you know there were a number of friends um Becky's friends who said that she expressed great fear of Tim mhm yeah
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that's a lot of girl talk I've never seen any pictures of her with bruises of marks any allegations of him beating on
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her nothing but Adams County Prosecutors Josh Jones and Laura kek say even though
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there may not have been physical abuse there was emotional abuse evident in Tim's text to Becky what do his text
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messages reveal so I would say what they reveal is somebody who wants power and control he wants to control control the
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relationship he wants to control how people perceive him Tim denies that she wasn't the one that was emotionally
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abused I tried to create space I tried to stay out of her life and Tim says he has an alibi for the time of the murder
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he says he was home with their three kids they were sleeping over that night because Becky had asked him to keep them
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an extra night she told him that she wasn't feeling well and he said that's fine
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that's how you want to see two people in a divorcing situation act with kids but
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Jones and kek believe Tim saw an opportunity she showed weakness to a predator that's what predators do when
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they see a weakness they attack and they also say that explains the intruder's point of entry an upstairs window in one
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of the kids bedrooms if you're a random Intruder why do you go to the second floor window you go past pass not just
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one window but three Windows um that are possible entrance points and you just happen to get lucky that it's a little
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boy's room that's not there that night but schn points to what she says is a lack of physical evidence tying Tim
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to the crime no murder weapon or bloody clothing was found and while police did seize pairs of Tim's shoes they weren't
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able to match them to to that partial shoe print found at the scene they took every single pair of
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athletic shoes that they thought would be a match they didn't find any that that were a suitable match schnock also
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points out that Tim's DNA wasn't found on that patio chair that investigators believe was used by the killer to climb
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onto Becky's roof nothing on that was connected to Tim they took every pair of gloves from Tim's car house and and that
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they could find and none of those gloves had any anything that linked him to this
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crime but if Tim didn't kill Becky who did if I knew that answer I would have given that name or whoever it was a long
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time ago Tim's attorney says that she believes investigators should have given more weight to the idea that it could
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have been a random Prowler who killed Becky in a Breakin gone wrong remember police found those video of a person on
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a bike and a person walking down Becky's neighbor's driveway Tim insists it's not
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him in those videos you cannot say with any degree of certainty who that person is on any of
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those videos all you see is a bike without reflectors and even though a bike with
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no reflectors on the wheels was found less than half a block from Tim's house schn says that doesn't mean anything say
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his DNA was not found on that bike and we don't even know that the bike that was found is the same bike that was in
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the video but prosecutors Jones and kek say they did find evidence tying Tim to that bike we were able to download
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information off his phone and we found that Mr bnck had a what I'll call burner or fake Facebook account the name John
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Smith and they say that John Smith Facebook account appeared to have been looking at this bike for sale it's a
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blue Schwin with no reflectors on the wheels just like that bike that was found I have a fake Facebook account I'm
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not proud of it but people do it it isn't it a bit of a problem though that on his phone he gets SAR for that blue
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bike sure are there similarities sure but that's not the only abandoned bike that's been found around town Jones and
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kex say they're confident they got the right guy the detectives followed the evidence
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exactly where it took them and there was one inescapable conclusion that it was Mr bleick but despite their confidence
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they soon fa quite a challenge when Tim was arrested He was ordered held without
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bond he had a right to a speedy trial which he took meaning prosecutors would be required to try the case within 90
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days of Tim's arrest we were going to be ready come hell high water but did they
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have enough to prove their case Beyond A Reasonable Doubt juries expect a confession they expect that DNA evidence
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that says one in 500 million we're going to have to show them that that's not what we have
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here what do you make of Tim bla Nick's answer on Family Feud take a look at the
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case evidence at 48 hours.com on May May 23rd 2023 exactly 3 months after Becky bnck was gunned down
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in her home Tim bnck went on trial for her murder the defendant looked down at Becky and he pointed a gun at her and he
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pulled the trigger prosecutors Josh Jones and Laura began by methodically laying out the evidence they say points
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directly to Tim starting with those oddd pieces of plastic that were found around
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Becky's body they say investigators determined that they were shreds from an Aldi grocery store bag and then in the
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defendant's house we found stacks of Aldi bags he'd fired through an Aldi bag either in an attempt to muffle the sound
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or to catch his showc casings and prosecutors say that in the process DNA was left behind on a piece of that
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plastic an expert testified that it was more likely than not that Tim was a contributor
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and Tim also couldn't be excluded from DNA that was found under Becky's fingernails that was three times more
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likely to have come from the defendant or a male relative uh from the lineage of the defendant in this case is ding
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Reasonable Doubt but defense attorney Casey schnock says that evidence is far from definitive everybody in town has Al
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the bags that they're hoarding they could have came from Becky's house with DNA from him well because they
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transferred stuff back and forth for the boys and ALDI bags there was DNA found under Becky's fingernails yeah and it
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was just as likely to be Tims as any one of the boys prosecutors also told the jury that police found this crowbar in
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Tim's basement and they called an expert to the stand who testified that she compared it to Tool marks left on the
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window that was PRI open at Becky's while there were microscopic consistencies she couldn't say with
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scientific certainty that that crowbar made those marks the experts said that that was inconclusive inconclusive
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leaves a jury guessing and speculating which they are not allowed to do the jury heard about the couple's
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acrimonious divorce and from Becky's sister and several friends who testified about those fears Becky had raised about
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Tim several of them acknowledged that they regretfully didn't take accepts to help her how could Tim do that I've
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known Tim forever when she reached out to people that's what they said in hindsight of course like oh we should
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have done more there's only one person that believed it was true and that was Becky
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herself and the prosecution argued that the timing of the murder is significant remember Becky was killed one week
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before the couple's divorce case was set to go to trial and prosecutors told the
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jury there was something even bigger than money and custody that was going to come into play Becky didn't want their
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three children to be around the sant's father UNS supervised they didn't tell the jury why but we uncovered these
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court documents that reveal Becky had gathered Witnesses who she said plann to testify about Tim's Father Ray BFF neck
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and would allege that he had a history of perversion and abuse abusing minor children many years earlier the alleged
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victims were not Becky and Tim's children Becky sought an order of protection against Rey but a judge
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denied her request in a letter Ray's lawyer wrote that Ray vehemently denies the claims and that he has never been
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charged with any criminal offense stemming from the allegations information was going to come out that
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he didn't want to come out and he started to feel like he was is losing control the prosecution pointed out that
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on the day of Becky's murder hours before anyone except her killer knew that she was dead Tim brought a kid's
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basketball hoop to his father's house he's doing that because he knows Becky's not going to be a problem anymore Becky
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didn't want those boys around Ray and in Tim's mind that problem was solved because Becky was dead I really don't
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buy that I why not because the boys weren't restricted from seeing Ray to begin with they just couldn't see him
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without supervision so and schn says those allegations were old news so all of those allegations were in pleadings
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that her attorneys had filed and at that point were already a matter of public record it doesn't make sense that he
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would throw his life away over a divorce and keeping information out of the public eye that quite frankly was
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already out but the prosecution wasn't done the jury was also shown numerous damaging searches found on Tim's phone
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like how to open my door with a crowbar how to make a homade pistol silencer and
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how to clean gunpowder off your hands it was mindboggling it was mindboggling yeah and remember that
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person caught on camera in Becky's neighbor driveway on Valentine's Day about a week before the murder well
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prosecutors say that right after that sighting Tim made more more than 200 searches online for a specific license
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plate and a car VIN number it turns out that that license plate and VIN number belonged to a man whom Becky was dating
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and his truck was parked in Becky's driveway at the time and for somebody with power and control issues you
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realize that your prior significant other is now in a relationship with somebody that they're spending the night
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on Valentine's Day and then the minute you get back to your home at 1:10 in the morning you're searching their license
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plate number and their VIN number that's somebody who's lost control timman insist he had learned about Becky's new
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relationship months earlier I actually didn't care it sounds like you were kind of obsessed cuz no he declined to go
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into more detail about specific trial evidence citing legal proceedings but his lawyers spoke for him I mean if I'm
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going to be checking out my husband's new girlfriend I'm going to going to be doing it late at night after my kids are
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asleep so it's just a coincidence that the night you see that Prowler at the next door neighbor's driveway and his
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truck is there it's just a coincidence that just minutes later Tim is doing research on the VIN number and the
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license tag that's not Tim in that video what about the searches that were found
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on Tim's phone there's no date or time as to when those searches were done so we don't know if they were done before
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the murder and we don't know if they were done after the murder before they rested the case prosecutors dropped one
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more piece of evidence these spent shell casings that were found in Tim's home an
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expert testified that she compared them to the shell casings found at the crime scene and determined that 27 of them had
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been fired from the exact same gun used in the murder each firearm leaves its own fingerprint on every shell casing
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that it fires it was the same gun that killed Becky bnck that fired the shell casings that were found in Tim bnic
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residence that's the expert's opinion at the end of the day it's subject to human
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error like anything else but when it was the defense's turn to call witnesses it
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chose to call none you could have brought in your own expert to say those did not match I guess we could have but
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we were strapped on time and funds you've got a man's life on the line and he didn't want us to do
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that it was a risky move but one that may have paid off for the defense because when the jury began deliberating
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they took a vote and there was a hold out sometimes you just need one when the began deliberating after a
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Six-Day trial Tim bck was on edge it was miserable because I was essentially waiting for them to decide my fate
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inside that Jury Room wer was undecided our stomachs were nuts we were Beyond stressed but 4 hours later a verdict
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when they passed the paper from the jury box to the clerk to the clerk that was very difficult to know that there's a
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possibility that he could get away with it would the clerk read the verdicts please we the jury find the defendant
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Timothy bnck guilty of first degree murder guilty it was a sense of relief that they had found him guilty but it was
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also a sense of these three little boys have not lost both parents it's not a celebration
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when we sat down with Tim bnck it was just over a month after his conviction he was still awaiting
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sentencing did you ever imagine you would be here no no never at times it's felt like I'm watching somebody else's
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life from the outside like it it it it can't be me but the only thing I can do right now is what we are doing filing an
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appeal I have to I have to believe in that process because if not tell me what you're thinking right now
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my kids I just want him to know that I love them and I miss him I'm innocent I didn't kill Becky but Becky's sister
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says Tim is right where he belongs he called my dad to set him up to find her that alone showed how cruel he really is
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as agonizing as our pain is I want him to understand his worst crime was against
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his children and that's the message Sarah delivered directly to Tim during her Victim Impact statement right before he
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was sentenced on August 11th 2023 your children's future will be forever impacted by your
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crime they are already suffering maybe you should have Googled childhood PTSD in between your internet searches
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for homemade silencers and VIN numbers judge Robert Adrien had the option of sentencing Tim to anywhere between 45
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years to life Mr belnick you research this murder you plan this murder you broke into her
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house and you shot her 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 times the court believes that the
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appropriate sens would be natural life in prison life in prison without the possibility
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of parole prosecutors Jones and kek say the punishment M fits the crime but even
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they don't consider it justice if I had a magic wand I would bring Becky back to
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life Tim can spend the rest of his life out of prison that would be justice but I can't what we can do is we can hold
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her killer accountable and that's all we can do now Becky's family is left to focus on all they have left of her
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memories and the loves of her life her three boys who are now living with her parents we will all work together to
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make sure those boys have the life they deserved and we started a GoFundMe to um
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support the boys and Becky's family and friends hope that Becky's mission in life will now become her
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Legacy Becky would have wanted positive change to happen she would want somebody
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else's life to be saved if we can learn anything if some somebody reaches out to
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you and says that they're scared they believe that their partner or whoever it is is
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capable of violence we need to believe them and make an active effort to make sure
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they're safe [Music] an attempted murder caught on video and a crime scene investigator is the victim
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it's a miracle she's alive my life changed forever but the number one suspect has a bulletproof Alibi someone
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