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[Music] Simpsonville is a Titanic Community it's got that small town southern charm this is a place where you bake a
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cake and take it to your neighbor next door it was a great place to be a police officer and murderers and serious
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assaults for a few and far between my name is Patty piver and Katy blel is my daughter Katie was 5'1 she was a teeny
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little thing she was just a free spirit she made friends so easily she loved animals that was her biggest thing
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she loved animals she touched a lot of people's lives she did John blel was working over there at
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the arm for Forces Center he was a recruiter for the military he was someone that was
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respected by the community somebody's in the military you can rely on them and I think she wanted
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that somebody's stable and dependable John was a catch for Katie she married him was happy wanted to have
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kids and get their life started they were moving into their new house so everything was really cool
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what did John and Katie seem like as a couple to you at first they were really great
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honestly they had a little honeymoon after they got married and once they got back things were no longer as good as
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they were it seemed like ever since then just everything went downhill their marriage
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had fallen apart Hannah Thompson and John were hanging out a lot he started dating Hannah Thompson
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who I believe was 17 and was Hannah in love with him 100% she loved John and she wanted to be
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with him and Katie was a problem for her and if they got Katie out of the way she
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could have John to herself on October 24th of 2016 Katie Blauvelt went missing she disappeared she disappeared
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off the face of the Earth yes and now nobody can get in touch with her her phone's cut off we don't know
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what's going on shortly after midnight I got a phone call from our chief of police at the
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time and uh he advised me that they'd found a body at an abandoned house very dilapidated house how had she
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died she' been stabbed in the neck John did it I know John did it oh yeah I immediately thought John we did
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our first interview with him several days after her body was located I'm just going to ask you point
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blank did you kill ktie no do you know who killed her no shortly after that interview is when he flood the
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state John disappears and he is on the Run John blel Goes On The Run where's Hannah with
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him I contacted the United States Marshals this is their bread and butter what they do
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best I'm a deputy US Marshal we go after uh fugitives violent off he's been trained on how to defend
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himself he's been trained on how to kill does that make him a unique fugitive it
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does so we don't know where he's going to go we don't know what he could be doing next and when you heard that he
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was on the run what' you think I was like oh my God you're never going to find him
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[Music] [Music] in the soft South Carolina night in the city of Simpsonville Katie Blauvelt was
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missing it had been two fearful days for her mom Patty pyer I just was terrified
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that something was going to happen to her then past midnight October 26 2016 investigators Cheryl scoffield and
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Keith morecraft were dispatched to the scene Katie's mangled body had been found in an abandoned Farmhouse 22 years
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old a knife blade left in her body there was a rectangular concrete box kind of in the center of the basement we found
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Katie's body inside of that box her body had basically been folded into this box it was a picture of of
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what you would see in a horror movie Katie's mom was overwhelmed I was totally empty
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inside she did not deserve to be murdered Katie's stepsister Jennifer pyer I just prayed and cried
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and just sick just sick morecraft and another investigator went to tell John Blauvelt his wife's
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body had been found we went to make the death notific I'm so sorry for you lost there at first Blauvelt appeared
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distressed but as the conversation progressed his demeanor changed didn't ask normal questions such as where did
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you find her how did she died he wasn't shocked by the news he didn't seem to be
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at all what did that suggest to you that he knew how she had died he knew where her body was John Blauvelt did have one
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question but it wasn't about Katie am I being charge with a crime because he's recording me and I'm not comfortable
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with that you're not being charge okay with a crime right now right away you sensed this could be our guy I I was
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pretty confident at the time but they couldn't arrest him on a Feeling first morecraft and scoffield
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had evidence to gather and a case to build but just as they got started John Blauvelt took to the road traveling with
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him Hannah Thompson his new girlfriend all of 17 How concerned were you about Hannah's safety if he was willing to
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kill his own wife there's no telling what kind of danger Hannah Thompson would have been in by fleeing with
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him but John Blauvelt hadn't always been considered threatening back in 2014 in this quiet city of some 20,000 he was a
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welcome part of the community the Larger than Life public face of the US Army a person of principal someone willing to
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sacrifice for his country these are all admirable traits right exactly it was then that John met Katie just yards from
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his Recruiting office at this sub shop where she worked Katie turned 20 John was 26 they started dating and they just
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hid it off she's lovable caring funny they wouldn't fall in love with her in the summer of 2015 recruit John
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Blauvelt convinced Katie to enlist but after just two months a health issue prevented her from finishing her
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training they found a problem with her spine she got um a medical discharge out of the army while Katie's military hopes
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were dashed John told friends he had found his calling he loved his military career that's one thing we learned is
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that his career was everything to him with his War stories about his deployments in Iraq his sharp uniform
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decorated with service ribbons John impressed local teenagers like to me like he had all his ducks in a row
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almost like a role model right almost like a role model more like it was definitely like a role model Ally
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Somerville a close friend of Katie says she often ate lunch with John at his recruiting booth in her school she adds
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he also sometimes showed up at local Hangouts I thought he was cool he was very interested in your life what you
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were up to in things yeah he made sure I was okay but as he began dating Katie her family was never half sure
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about John Blauvelt I don't think I ever had a meaningful conversation with him did he seem interested in you in family
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no not at all then after about a year and seemingly out of the blue Katie surprised her family with an alarming
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announcement she says oh by the way she said uh me and John got married and I'm in shock she said oh we got
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married at the courthouse they went on the honeymoon but within two months this that
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honeymoon was over Staff Sergeant John Blauvelt and his new bride were putting down roots in
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the community Katie had taken a job at the local PetSmart yeah she's going to love that and she did and she was
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passionate about animals this could be a career for her as for John he already owned this four-bedroom home in Fountain
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Inn right next to Simpsonville where investigator Cheryl scoffield worked once they got married this is the house
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that they were supposed to move into and have a family she wanted a family she wanted to have kids Katie moved in and
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soon the house was crowded with kids but not the kind Katie imagined unfortunately the only kids that were
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here were the teenagers that John blav out invited John had invited Katie's niece to stay with them and later Hannah
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Thompson and Ally Somerville crashed their to Ally says it became a party destination for kids from their High
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School where John often worked as an army recruiter we were just smoking weed all
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day every day and how old were you then 16 and Ally claimed it wasn't just weed that was the draw she said at times
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there was booze acid and cocaine this is with the US Army recruiter right US army
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recruit letting his party at his house like that's this is awesome Patty says it wasn't long before Katie grew
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frustrated with all of the partying and told John it had to stop her dream house
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turned into a party house right and that's the last thing your sister wanted right
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absolutely as Katie and Blauvelt drifted Hannah Thompson was there to fuel the fire Hannah absolutely despised Katie
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and what was the nature of Hannah's relationship with John as time went on Hannah became J's puppy um anytime that
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JN would tell her to do something she would do it it was all too much for Katie according to police records after
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being married Less Than 3 months Katie moved out Captain scoffield says John and Hannah wasted no time she moved into
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John bevel's bedroom in this house when Katie moved out whoa that's creepy like you're in your late 20s and she's 17
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dude like you're not supposed to be doing stuff like this Hannah's father went to the police and told them he
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hadn't seen his daughter for 2 weeks that night on February 26th 2016 cops showed up at John blau's house when they
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arrived what happens um they tried to make contact with John and JN refused to come
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outside Ali Somerville was inside the house with John and some other miners when police arrived and John was like
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locked the door nobody go outside what were they saying like the John blav like come out of the house with your hands up
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but you must have been a little terrified were you not terrified these are people with weapons were weapons out
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oh yeah there were weapons on and everything a veteran of the Iraq War and they're having to pull their guns to get
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him out of the house yes it's kind of extraordinary isn't it yes very much so John eventually opened the door and was
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questioned by police on February 27th 2016 he was arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a
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minor His solders image replaced with a mug shot he's the exact opposite of what everybody thought he
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was exact opposite and soon Blah's troubles would get even worse police talked to Katie the day Blauvelt was
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arrested she told them about a more troubling incident she says happened a month earlier there had been a domestic
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violence incident where John allegedly pointed a gun at Katie pulls out a gun points it at her right head yeah says
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what that he was going to kill her and also threaten the family threaten the family what do you mean to shoot
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threaten the kill the family found in Police Department investigated the matter and ended up charging him with
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domestic violence a restraining order was issued preventing blil and Katie from seeing
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each other he blamed her for ruining his life because there was obviously going to be a consequence from the
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military that consequence came just a few days later when the department of the army cut John's pay
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and suspended him from the recruiting Duty that to find him you can't do this and be a military
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recruiter the Army reassigned him to a small back office and began an investigation that might lead to his
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dismissal he was like I can't be out in the field like on the front lines I'm not recruiting people for the
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Army now I'm sitting behind a DE desk and that's what made him so mad Katie quickly moved on from her short
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disastrous marriage and told her mother she planned to divorce John your daughter moves out does she move back
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with you yeah but despite the restraining order Katie and JN still had some contact including visits to the
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house she had shared with John the only reason she would go back over there was because she had her dog over there
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Jupiter for some reason I just was terrified that something was going to happen to her as for Blauvelt the
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military career he cherished was in tatters and according to Ali Somerville he planned to get revenge did he ever
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say anything about harming Katie yes um he did say multiple times that he was going to kill Katie he said that she
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ruined his military career that's all he's ever wanted to do in life you destroy my career I'm going to
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destroy you yeah do you think he'd really go through with it no never he was very vocal on the fact that
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he wanted Katie dead he wanted Katy gone police say Katie Blauvelt was last seen alive on October 24th
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2016 at her job at p smart but come morning in Simpsonville no one had heard from her
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calls to her went to voicemail her mother reported her missing did she tell the officer she
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spoke with that she was suspicious of John blauel she did the desperate search and the painful
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waiting began I didn't think she was alive anymore it's terrifying it's the worst feeling you feel
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helpless but after midnight two of Katie's friends followed a hunch that sent them deep in the woods to the old
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abandoned Farmhouse teenagers would go there and they would party they would drink they
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would smoke marijuana Katie and John were known to have gone there too the friends made their way to the
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basement they were horrified by what they found one of them called 911 911 what's location of your
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emergency we found my friend Katie's dead in okay okay are you saying she's dead in the house yes ma'am is she cold
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she was very p and there was no response Katie bl's body had been stuffed into that cold concrete box you believe she
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Katie was killed outside the house and brought in yes and we believe that she was actually killed on the gravel
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driveway and then drug on her face through that window and if she's screaming there's no one to hear you
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wouldn't hear it from that house where that house was located and you live with that every day
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every day doesn't get easier does it no it was October 26 2016 investigators made that official
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death notification visit to Blauvelt they got their first sense of the resentment he held towards Katie she
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flipped my life upside down morecraft and sculfield wanted more information from Blauvelt and so just a week later
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they spoke with him anything you say can be used against you in court didn't seem
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to really care that she was gone let alone had been murdered I lost a friend maybe not the best wife but I
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lost friend he told them he visited Katie at the funeral home you yourself yeah well
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I took hand with me lelt said he hadn't seen Katie in months their marriage had been a nonstop
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argument what kind of stuff are you arguing about um everything just normal just normal stuff he uh he seemed very
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arrogant cocky narcissistic then the Cop fired Point Blank that question did you kill ktie no do
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you know who killed her no sitting across talking to this man what are you sensing in John blauel that he very much
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is the one who more than likely committed this murder like he was put off like we were taking up his time that
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he was smarter than we were and that he was going to get away with this next up Hanna Thompson I don't know anything
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about her murder you do I don't you do investigators confront Hannah sensing she must know something tell us exactly
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what happened to Katie I really don't know and while they suspected Hannah might know
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something they did not know exactly what I can tell you already you're lying to me
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okay you do not want to get wrapped up and catching a murder charge you're 17 years old you have your entire life
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ahead of you mhm you may love John and you may think you you're going to get married and walk down the yellow brick
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road okay but no man and no woman is worth going to prison for do you agree yes sir okay if you
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know something and you're trying to cover up for it you're going to go down with the person who did this to her for
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for knowing anything whether it was beforehand or after the fact you're going to go down with them investigators
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showed Hannah an autopsy photo of Katie look at Hann she's right here I don't want to look at her this your
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friend I don't want to do this anymore don't want to do what don't want to help us find out who killed
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her can I please leave can I please leave Hannah this is a friend of yours that we trying to do I want to help
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I with no help from Hannah police hands were tied we had to let him go potential
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hard evidence had to be processed including blav cell phone records and his DNA it's very aggravating because we
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we know we're sitting across from the person who killed his wife and shortly after that interview is when he fled the
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state he had taken this red GMC Yukon and he was gone he was John Blauvelt trained in survival
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and combat suddenly loose on the open road I didn't think they were ever going to
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find him he just disappeared off the face of the map and so did Hannah Thompson police
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believed she was with Blauvelt prosecutor Kinley ABY would begin building the case with the
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chilling evidence she says he left behind first what I want to kind of show you is you know the knife that was found
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in Katie's neck and so what you can see here is this x-ray that the actual kn knife blade broke off inside of Katie
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what you're holding there is what I'm seeing on this exactly matches exactly right there that's what was found en
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lodged in her neck and that's how she died Simpsonville Police knew they needed help to find John Blauvelt I
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contacted the United States Marshals the investigation is let's find them let's find them let's find them
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on November 18th 2016 John Blauvelt still on the Run was charged with Katie's [Music]
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murder what kind of fugitive are you dealing with um a cocky one John thought we weren't ever going to find
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him US Marshall will cook based near Simpsonville would become the point person in the hunt for
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Blauvelt who had been skilled at evasion he had training from the army that the government provided him to
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avoid you guys avoid us and he was good at it investigators remained uncertain about Hannah Thompson's involvement in
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the murder if any but they knew for sure she was traveling with Blauvelt they uncovered photos of
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Blauvelt and Thompson shopping and Blauvelt at an ATM his red Yukon truck passing through
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Texas and New Mexico heading west were you able to get hits on where this vehicle was from
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time to time so there were a couple of License Plate Reader hits but by the time police were able to respond
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Blauvelt was gone in a game like this all the seconds count then after a month investigators caught a break Hannah
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Thompson made contact with her family from Eugene Oregon she wanted to come home to
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Simpsonville Cheryl scoffield could wait to talk to her we are very glad that you're back and that you're safe and
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that's nothing bad happened to you Hannah's story was that John had left her in Eugene just up and walked
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[Music] away did you ever see John again and Hannah added she had no idea where John was headed but apparently she
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had enough of life on the run she thought it was going to be a fairy tale tail you know they were going to live on
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the lamb and make things happen but after a few weeks of that reality set in any romantic notion Hannah may have
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had was derailed when JN got the Yukon stuck in the mud in the Pacific Northwest couldn't get out could not get
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out he said that we would hike we had to hike and walk off the mountain basically
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Miles and Miles the C was reduced to pen handling for Change and they use that for food
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sustainment Hannah says while on the road Blauvelt confessed sharing the awful details of the
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killing told me that the knife broke you can't believe that he would do something right
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there what what else did he tell you about it I know hard he told me that the last thing she she said was that if he
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let her go then she wouldn't call the police where were they home an adult can psychologically take
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advantage of a child do you believe in a way that's what was going on between John and Hannah absolutely yeah and he
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was just crying and screaming and like he was like saying that he did all that stuff for me like the I what like kill
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Katie like he was like I did that for you and like all that kind of stuff like trying to make me feel like it was my
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fault Hannah told conflicting stories about her involvement eventually saying she dropped blav off by PetSmart the day
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Katie disappeared and then left Hannah says she did not know he planned to kill Katie but later that day he asked her to
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help hide Katie's car she also admitted she had lied in her first interview just
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days after Katie's murder he told me that if I lied to the police that he would keep me safe
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investigators did not charge Hannah right away because they needed her we had a long-term goal of a finding John B
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Prosecuting him and she was the key to a lot of that we're still hunting for John
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okay they hoped she might lead them to Blauvelt has John contacted you by Facebook at all since you separated or
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contacted you by any means at all please don't keep a secret from from us okay okay but if Hannah knew where John was
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she wasn't ready to tell them I still don't care about him even though he did something like
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really bad like I feel like I should am and part of me done but what he just keep thinking about how
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he used to be lelt was still out there months turned into years lives changed he's beating us and we don't
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like to lose it's driving you crazy it's driving us crazy was it frustrating that
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you retired with this case still out there it was very frustrating and it was the only case that I still had that was
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open those who knew Blauvelt thought Justice for Katie might never come John is the type of person that if somebody
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was going to get away with it it would be John I never really thought that they would get
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him the cops in Simpsonville interviewed Hannah repeatedly over the years then in
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2022 6 years after Katie's murder Hannah Finally Revealed a secret she had been in regular contact
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with Blauvelt for years years we have been talking the whole time like At first we were talking every single day
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multiple time like for hours a day did anybody know you were still talking to them Hannah told investigators how they
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communicated at the very beginning we were communicating on Facebook and messenger and then after that we were
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talking on Snapchat she said their conversations ended in 2019 author authorities believe Hannah
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had matured with time and distance away from John she told them she realized what she had done was wrong and
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gradually offered more leads John might still be in Oregon and she added Jon told her he had been living with another
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woman for years CU honestly she's in danger too based on some of the information that Hannah gave us zoned Us
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in on John's new girlfriend and madford Oregon Medford a small City in the Northwest
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investigators jumped on the lead and discovered a phone number that John had used to text a mystery woman and this
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sounds tantalizing isn't it very tantalizing Marshall Chris Tayo is Will Cook's colleague in the Northwest his
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team got an address that corresponded with the mystery woman's house he took us to the scene they started to stake
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out the house take out the house and they followed a subject out a male that appeared to match our
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description but 6 years after John allegedly murdered Katie how could investigators be certain they had their
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man John has some unique tattoos can you show me so this is a still shot uh from
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one of John's initial interviews with Simpsonville Police the tattoo of of a pirate it was a quiet morning in
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Medford as I'm starting to pull through this neighborhood my heart is racing the marshals made their
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move that's the house right there and did you see any activity we uh did see him come out he was just coming out
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shirtless but was it for sure John Blauvelt a pirate told the tale I could see his pirate tattoo all right it's
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about to happen it [Music] [Music] is on July 20th 2022 some 6 years after Katie's
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death Chris too joined Marshall's and other law enforcement for the takeown of the man they believed killed
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her John's about 3/4 away down the driveway and the guys start going right at him giving them commands police show
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us your hands get down on the ground and what does he do his eyes got wide pure shock and he drops down to the ground
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fast John Blauvelt under arrest he's getting handcuffed handcuffs but the suspect told the marshals they
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had the wrong man he said I'm Ben Klein said no you're not and he stuck with Ben
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Klein Ben kleene we have a device that allows us to Mobile Print someone in the field fingerprint fingerprints it took
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less than 5 minutes for Ben to become John your fingerprints show that you are John blel you were wanted out of South
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Carolina he knew it was over he knew it was over when the marshals went inside the house
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they realized the raid could have taken a fatal turn there was a firearm a handgun sitting right on the nightstand
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and what did that tell you that was an indication to us that he probably would have given a fight all of it was
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apparently news to the woman Blauvelt was living with when she returned to the house later that day pure shock she was
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visibly shaking crying scared too recorded audio with her at the scene so he's being arrested um on charges out of
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South Carolina for for murder are you serious yeah I can't believe any of this this is like a nightmare I'm
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sorry blav bel's girlfriend told the marshals she had no idea who he really was for like six years he would do
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random odd jobs he was basically here watching my cats and my my dog all the time she loved him she loved
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him the news hit Simpsonville like thunder I was over the moon just freaking it's just that was such a great
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day and I was completely elated John Blauvelt would go cross country again this time handcuffed brought back to a
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South Carolina jail to await trial just 3 months later Hannah Thompson would be charged with five
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felonies including obstruction of justice and accessory after the fact she would plead not guilty and be released
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on bail prosecutor Kinley AB who began putting the case against Blauvelt together a few months after Katie was
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killed would team with John Mets preparing the case for trial starting with that blade investigators found in
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case neck doesn't get any worse than that and that's what she died from and you can actually see through
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the collar of the shirt where that knife blade entered and you can see it right there yeah right into her neck they
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focused on that abandoned Farmhouse where kids once partied where they found Katie they would throw their bottles
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their empty beer cans and that's exactly where he discarded Katie's body so do you think John was making a statement by
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placing her body absolutely in this bin that normally you put trash yeah absolutely prosecutors say Blauvelt
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blamed Katie for the abrupt end of his military career it's all Katie Sal he's not responsible for what he did he's
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blaming his wife yes and there were John blau's own words while on the Run he kept a journal that the marshals found
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like a diary correct correct and it held a damning entry so at the end it says bold
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I did it and for you that's what uh that's evidence and proof that he murdered Katie in September
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2024 8 years after Katie's death John Blauvelt went on trial for murder Patty pyer described the child she adored she
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some I mean everybody loved her Ali Somerville stared at the man she once called a role model he looked like a
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stonecold killer to me the prosecution's key witness was Hannah Thompson she would admit to helping Blauvelt the day
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Katie died you love John blav yes you helped him hi ktie St after he Ked yes you didn't know he killed her that no
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but she did help him yes and prosecutors played this grainy video Hannah says it
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shows John Blauvelt getting out of Katie's car and into his Hannah was at the wheel of his
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Prius yes in the and the Prius yes once on the run she says he told her the details of the murder he had told me
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that he killed her he told me that he stabbed her in the neck he said said that he
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threw her phone into water that was on the ground in the abandoned house and he said that he had to cover up the her
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blood with dirt but Blah's defense team Paul Neely and Anna Walker made Hannah admit that her story changed over the
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years you've lied your friends and your family yes and he kept lying yes then the defense zeroed in on
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the lack of DNA evidence at the scene was there any DNA that tied John blofeld to this murder no there is no DNA match
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to John Blauvelt and what about John Blah's journal in which he wrote I did it his
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lawyers told 48 Hours much of it was a fantasy a lot of of this journal is filled with these fictional stories of
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observations uh it's filled with poems drawings all kinds of things as for Hannah Thompson you heard she has five
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pending charges for the information she ultimately provided to law enforcement the prosecution pointed to the
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importance of her testimony she is facing 55 years in jail upon conviction for those crimes and she got up here
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with no deal State didn't offer her a single thing no agreement to dismiss her charges no cooperation agreement no
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nudge nudge wink wink none of it she got up here and testified and she told you because she thought it was the right
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thing to do she did a great job going up there and telling the truth and giving the key details of what John had told
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her what he had done to Katie the trial lasted 4 days the jury was out for some five hours as to the charge of
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murder we the jury unanimously find the defendant John T blel guilty John blel has been found guilty for the murder of
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his estranged wife Katie Boer blav Taylor farmer covered the case for WSPA it was very emotional in the
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courtroom kind of quiet but you could tell Katie's family was very emotional as soon as the jurors got out
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I just started crying John Blauvelt was sentenced to life in prison without parole he's a
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monster she was helpless and what did the family think about Hannah Thompson who allegedly
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covered for blil for so long I would think she was a stupid 17-year-old until at trial when I heard
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how long she had been in touch with him you are not with willing at that time to
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turn him in I have hard feelings about that it's unfathomable what would you say to your
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sister today if you could that I'm sorry that I love her and that I think she was Brave
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