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foreign [Music] got along with everyone she was very bubbly and spirited she always had a
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smile on her face [Music] Holly what are you doing taking an adventure for sunsets by Alex
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she wanted to live the college life in a large University she really wanted to be involved in a
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school that had that ranking good football team Bob Hemingway Stadium Oxford Mississippi it is the home opener
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for the Ole Miss Rebels it's fair to say she loved Ole Miss yes Ali loved Ole Miss
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thank you it was fairly late at night she was going out to the bar it wasn't weird for her to like go out
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on her own and meet up with other people at the square where all the bars are she
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takes an Uber and she goes home alone [Music] Sardis Lake is a big area there's lots
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of hunting camps and recreational spaces that people use on the lake the sheriff's department here does a really
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good job of doing their best to patrol these locations the deputies on a routine Patrol of that
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area I don't know what the Moonlight was like but there's nothing around you you're in the
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pitch black dark it's not like a Lover's Lane or nothing it's just rule a lot of
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people don't know about it when you got there what did you find a white female laying on the ground with
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multiple gunshot wounds to her back I have not worked a murderer somebody's been shot that many times
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when the ambulance crew was driving in they noticed the perks and the road ditch as soon as we opened the purse Ole
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Miss ID card and a driver's license [Music] Morgan This is my pastel I realized I had a missed call
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when it was the police and they were calling about ali the police came to the door and they told us
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what did they tell you there'd been a homicide in that she was the victim and I still don't believe it
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here we are that led investigators to go and look in her apartment in her room and they found
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her Apple watch and even though her phone was not there some of those messages still synced to
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that watch hardest thing to do is to go back and read her messages the heinousness of this
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the crime itself to shoot her as many times as she had been shot seemed so personal yeah
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basically almost was like execution type Style in your mind the motive for murder was
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get rid of a problem how would you describe this case a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions
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foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] it's unclear why a 21 year old dude would be in that area some 30 miles away
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from campus authorities have released limited details on the case but did say they
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suspect Foul Play though it's been years since Cindy and Keith costell's daughter Ali was found
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murdered on July 20th 2019. it still doesn't seem real to them it does seem like she's still away at
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school and I still don't believe it and here we are still on denial the costals had visited Ali at her
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apartment a few days before she wanted us to stay an extra day she was having so much fun
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she wanted me to cook her home-cooked meals we went shopping she loves a beach theme so we just
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bought a bunch of new Decor you know Cindy and Keith had returned home to St Louis when Cindy spoke with Ali on the
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phone just hours before she died it was like seven o'clock at night she had just
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woken up from a nap because she had a test actually on that day I said what are you going to do tonight she said I'm
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gonna go out with some friends 24 hours later Lafayette County Sheriff's Department investigator Jared
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bundren was hoping Clues from Ali's Apple watch might lead to the first break in the case we just started from
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there what was she like to you it was like my sister like so many who knew and loved Ali
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Maddie Norris one of her best friends in high school was trying to make sense of
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what had happened I just was like in shock the two were inseparable it was like if
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Ali was in her Maddie was there I love you too she was like my other half we have like a bunch of adventures
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together girl things watching chick flicks watching likely blind [Music] I'm driving in her convertible
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when it came time to go prom dress shopping she just tried on this red dress and she called her mom was like I might
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have to get this dress did she have a boyfriend in high school she had boys she had like crushes on but
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nothing ever serious she didn't find a date for prom and so I asked her to remember all the
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days after graduation Ally was thrilled to be heading to a college steeped in Tradition history and football
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the University of Mississippi she liked the preppy life very like girly like pearls thank you
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Ali arrived in the fall of 2016. but the marketing business major may have had something more on her mind she
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wanted to meet a southern boy and get married and have children one day and she thought that would be a perfect
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setting for her to meet her her companion for life by junior year we were thick as thieves
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like best friends Morgan hall went to college with Ally she's always like rearranging and redecorating her room
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too which was always so funny to find little Ally like moving all the furniture around by herself we were both
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from St Louis Elizabeth Brock met Ali at a campus party and became fast friends so then we're like oh my God how did we
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like not me until now Elizabeth says Ally was fascinated by sunsets she had a sunset Instagram account where she'd
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post pictures that she took of sunsets as for dating at College Cindy recalled Ali saying she met someone her freshman
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year she said I met this boy he's from Texas she for whatever reason loves the state of Texas and she was real excited
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to invite him to a sorority dance that's the boy she really liked what did she first say about him
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thought she found a guy that was cute that she was starting to like had a crush on
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that Crush would turn out to be fellow student Brandon thiesfeld from Fort Worth
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was she really excited about him yes like Head Over Heels I think she took him to most of her date parties
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that her sorority had so when Maddie went down to Oxford to visit she was looking forward to meeting
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the new man in Ali's life unfortunately I never met him things did not go as planned you never met him
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because he never came around never came around how does she feel about that I mean it hurt her
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you had like your best friend from high school coming down to visit you and your crush
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is it my a Maddie was concerned that there was something about her friend's relationship that wasn't quite right
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but otherwise Ally seemed to be thriving at college she loved it she couldn't act enough of
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it she finally achieved the goal of going there and she just was living her life
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three years later her life was cut short now with a clock ticking on finding our
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killer Ali's Apple watch proved invaluable to investigators what did the watch tell you the watch was telling you
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she was having very lengthy text message conversation with Brandon Brandon thiesfeld Ali's freshman year
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Crush it seemed the two were planning to see each other that very night learn more about Ali's life and what
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investigators found at 48hours.com [Music] when investigators discovered that Ally's last text messages were with
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Brandon thiesfeld they wanted to talk to him and soon we called late Saturday early Sunday morning to come in and give
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her an interview investigators also tried tracking Ali's phone on Saturday but it only pinged
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once in Oxford before the signal died thiesfeld responded but made excuses about why he couldn't meet all weekend
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finally he said that he would be there at 8 30 Monday morning at 8 30 Monday morning came no-branding
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Lafayette County assistant district attorney Mickey Mallett says that's when the decision was made to start tracking
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his phone when they do that mid-morning on a real-time situation they can see where he is what did you find out that
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he was on Interstate 55 headed North toward Memphis from here to go to where he lives in Texas that's probably the
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most common way to go they can see his location moving away from Oxford District Attorney Ben Creekmore says
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with these Feld appearing to be on the Run investigators got an Affidavit of arrest for murder and immediately sent
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out a bulletin when we saw that his truck was leaving Oxford there was a bolo for his tag a
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bolo be on the lookout it didn't take long for the Memphis fugitive task force to spot these fell about an hour and a
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half two hours later they caught him at a gas station bundrin says these Feld was sitting at
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the pumps in his pickup truck which had easy to spot license plates the tag on the plates
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says take it hard to miss very hard to miss a dash cam captured thieves felt being taken into custody police
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immediately alerted investigators in Mississippi about what they found in the truck and on his clothing
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he had a 40 caliber gun consistent with the caliber of the shell casings that were found on the scene and he had blood
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on him bundren headed north to pick him up he was calm you know read him his rights he
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invoked his rights won his returning he was picked up in Tennessee we asked him if he would sign a waiver Expedition
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and come back to Mississippi and he signed we brought him back with these felt in custody investigators
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began retracing his steps the weekend of Ally's murder they learned that he had been popping up
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all over Oxford starting on Saturday he stayed with some friends they said he was very casual
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they went bowling normal stuff but there was nothing normal about what he brought
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to a friend's house on Sunday said he came in to his house carrying a gun and unloaded the gun in the house brought in
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a six pack of beer and said that they set up for a while when he got up the next morning he was gone
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while Feast Feld wasn't talking to investigators he would eventually talk to an attorney Tony Faris hired by his
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family he had a life full of Promise received lots of love and a good Christian family
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for Reese Learned thiesfeld was a doctor's son he seemed to have enjoyed a typical Texas childhood he liked
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outdoors hunting and fishing he was a soccer player he had never been in a fight in school no History of Violence
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it wasn't long after arriving in Oxford that these Feld met Ally he met her at a
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local bar they dated casually during their freshman year I think she was a more enthralled with Brandon than
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Brandon was with her quite candidly according to fares their relationship became
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complicated when they were sophomores did he actually block her from his phone yes she had texted him so much late at
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night when she's out drinking and partying and it got to the point where he did block her phone yes
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but something shifted by their junior year and the two got back in touch I think she saw this as a mutual romantic
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Endeavor and Brandon did not see it that way which would explain one thing so when
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did you first meet him I never met him Ally's closest friends didn't know these Feld at all Morgan
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says she'd only met him one time it's so odd that we were her best friends and we
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still really didn't even know him that well like when this happened we didn't even know his last name
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but in August of 2019 feesfeld's name was front page news that's when the case was presented to a grand jury the
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evidence included pictures of the gun and shell casings and this letter investigators recovered during a search
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of his apartment apparently written by thiesfeld the weekend Ally was found dead prosecutors say it's a confession
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the letter that he's written to his mom and dad concerned about what he's done these Feld wrote that he'd always had
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terrible thoughts this is the end for me I'm either going to prison or going to die he also wrote I know I'm going to
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get caught he confessed I think he did he didn't say he committed the murder you could argue that it was a confession
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an apology to his mom what's an apology Tony For Recess he spoke to piecefeld about the letter and says it was also
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something more a suicide note he writes a goodbye note to his family tells them that he loves them
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apologizes for what he's done I am told by Brandon that he has the gun to his head and then passes out
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the grand jury handed down their indictment Capital One murder at the Time Jake Thompson was a reporter for
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the local paper the Oxford Eagle he says these felt face the death penalty for kidnapping and murdering Ali it rocked
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Oxford to its core because you know Oxford takes in these people they they're one of their own for four years
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five or so everyone you're here and so it was it was tough for both the academic and the university and the
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citizens of Oxford in late September fees Feld appeared in court to enter a plea not guilty it's a big question and
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you know of course why did it happen and that was something that we were all initially trying to figure out
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investigators hope to find some answers in hundreds of text messages between Ali
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and these Feld and what they discovered included some life-changing news the first message is about it started in
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early April [Music] we're stuck can't move forward days are just rough when you think about
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her not being here that makes you feel what sad and broken [Music] as Ali's friends and family waited for
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Brandon thiesfeld to go to trial for her murder prosecutors were building their case
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they were hoping text messages between the two could provide insight about what may have led to her death
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we know more about what he may have been thinking and we know more about what she
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may have been thinking what was the relationship between these two well that that might be different depending on who
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you ask I think it would be fair to say that she looked at it with a more serious eye over the entirety of their
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relationship these feld's defense attorney Tony Faris from Brandon's standpoint it was a
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casual sexual relationship they were never boyfriend and girlfriend they didn't go on dates like he didn't pick
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her up take her anywhere out to dinner none of that but he would tell her that he wasn't good enough for her and that's
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why they couldn't be together Morgan and Elizabeth say it was an odd relationship
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he definitely manipulated her carried out over text I think we were just more like upset with how if she would show us
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like texts from him or tell us things he would say that were really unkind to her
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so you knew she liked this boy yeah yeah but she never really had mentioned him at least to me over time or that he was
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you know even in the scene at all was there anything in her behavior that suggested things weren't
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normal see and that's the thing she's told me everything in life but never discussed him
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Cindy and Keith say they have not read their daughter's text conversations uncovered by investigators now we
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haven't read any of it will you I don't know if I can in April 2019 just three months before
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her death Ali was getting ready for spring semester finals what her mom didn't know was Ali was focused on a
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different kind of test a home pregnancy test when you learned about that was has something so out of
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line for Ali in her behavior big time yeah on April 14th she texted Brandon thiesfeld a photo of an inconclusive
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home pregnancy test and this message like it's a very faint blue line but I don't know I guess I can wait and see if
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my period comes these fields response well all right we will see but if it is pregnant we are not keeping we can get a
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pill she was definitely worried she thought she might be pregnant in this text Ali
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it seems was anxious and conflicted I'm not saying what I am gonna do because I don't know what's happening but even if
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you don't want to be involved like I am really pretty and sweet and I know I will meet a real man one day
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it appeared these fell did not see fatherhood in his immediate future I'm serious no kid at all it will ruin my
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life she was trying to get into contact with Brandon about this and she had texted him and he would either just
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ignore her or do the thing where he would tell her okay like I will come over tonight and we can talk about this
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and then he would never show up so she talked to you about this yeah she came to us right away
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investigators would later learn after Brandon thiesfeld received news about that pregnancy test he had been
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searching the internet for mother once kid father does not yes he did suggest an abortion initially
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there was a talk about that he regrets that but that did occur that's memorialized in the text messages so in
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your mind if she was pregnant she would have had the baby she would have given it the world honestly
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Ali despite the ambiguous test result would text these fell day and night many of her messages are long revealing and
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troubling says forensic psychologist Chris mohandi he was not involved in the case we asked him to read some of the
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text messages these lengthy pretty much one-sided conversations that were initiated by Ali you know with very
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little in return from Brandon make this a very lopsided investment into this relationship this exchange begins on
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Monday April 15 2019. at 12 57 a.m with Ali writing I lived it up this weekend and was drunk
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24 7. I did that so my body might decide haha no not today then at 2 37 a.m she texts I thought about it if you want to
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talk to me in person that would be better feesfeld responds almost nine hours later I can talk tomorrow I'm busy today
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I'm still going to have the decision of the pill to me there's several layers there you sense that at all based on
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what you've read that he has any desire to keep her on the sideline it appears that he has no desire to keep
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her on the sideline from what I've seen in these communications he's communicating just enough for a purpose
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to try to influence her into terminating the pregnancy if indeed she is pregnant
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that seems to me to be his only investment in any of these communications mohandi says Ali may have
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been trying to get Brandon thiesfeld's attention with texts about her drinking in the past 48 hours I've literally
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drank a full bottle of tequila two bottles of champagne seven beers a glass of wine I I can't even imagine someone
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her size being able to consume that much alcohol that's a lot of alcohol to consume for somebody of her size and
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for many people if not most people my concern would be you know alcohol poisoning or an overdose from alcohol
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which is why I raised the question of how much he's drinking or it's being exaggerated to show hey to tell Brandon
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I'm self-destructive come to my rescue you gotta help me I'm desperate do you believe Brendan believed she was
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pregnant I know that Ali claimed to have been pregnant so the question is why would she claim to be pregnant if she
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were not pregnant hence my conclusion is that she wanted a serious relationship with Brandon which
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in her mind could have included marriage the text messages had created a digital
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map of a complicated relationship they also gave investigators clues about where thies Feld was heading a week
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before Ali's death Friday July 12th these felt would take a road trip home to Fort Worth Texas that
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same day Ali texted him a photo of two more ambiguous home pregnancy tests less than 48 hours later at 4 16 pm he posts
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a disturbing photo on social media he does a Snapchat saying with with a picture of this 40
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caliber gun and there's a chilling caption finally taking my baby back to Oxford
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[Music] by the time Brandon thiesfelt drove back from Texas to Mississippi he'd left a
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digital footprint and prosecutors say it revealed a deeply disturbing web search
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history he is doing some computer searches on how to get away with crimes how to conceal crimes planning
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preparation type stuff how to tie people up how to lure them in he did a search on Ted undies
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for Ali's friend Morgan it was an eerie reminder a few months before this happened Ali and I watched the Ted Bundy
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movie together [Music] and we just sat in her bed and we ate popcorn and snacks and we were like this
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is so messed up and then months later you know this happens to Ally what explanation do you have for what he
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was thinking when he's making these searches well he certainly has some searches that could be troubling it
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depends on how you view those when you start looking at someone's search history you're watching TV you've got
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all sorts of new shows that feature Ted Bundy attorney Tony fari says the search
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history does improve these files have been planning to shoot Ali he says there is an innocent explanation for why his
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client brought that pistol back to Mississippi that's not outlandish that in our part of the country in
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Mississippi in Texas people people shoot we've got shooting ranges here in Oxford
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so we deny that it was brought back for the sole purpose of killing Ali was clear to prosecute
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Phil's trip to Texas and the computer searches were part of a carefully laid out plan when you put it together would
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appear to us what his purpose was in bringing the gun back a gun that apparently he didn't even
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know how to use if you sit there and you go through all of his Google searches he
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don't even really know how to work a gun he was Googling hollow point ammo and what button does what on a Glock pistol
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on Thursday July 18th shortly before two in the morning Ali text these Feld a photo of her stomach
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the following day Friday July 19th the day before her death these Feld text Ally are you going to be home today
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because I could visit almost two hours later Ali texted him another photo in this message like it
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isn't like I'm not that small anymore and I can pretend I'm fat right now but I don't know it's getting hard
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after a few more texts from Ali these failed rights just let me know when you are back from going out is your house
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private right now the horrifying irony is that text messages from him to her were asking is
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it a good environment or your friends going to be there and you could assume that she's thinking he wants to talk
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about pregnancy issue and the work on the relationship in his mind he's thinking I don't want
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any Witnesses when I get her in the car with me minutes before midnight as security
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camera captured Ali walking out of a bar in Oxford Square then around 1 30 in the morning
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prosecutors say thiesfeld and Ally take that dark and desolate drive to Sardis Lake
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Once you turn off that paved Road onto the dirt road and then another 10 minutes to get to here
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there's no one out here I mean this is an abandoned Fish Camp assistant district attorney Mickey Mallett an
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investigator Jared bundren took us to the place where it happened where there's now a makeshift Memorial I mean
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I can only imagine what was going through her head wasn't she alarmed wasn't she concerned you know in her
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mind she may not have had a reason before that to be in the same kind of fear um you know we'll never know but I think
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she was just so blinded by her desperation to talk about what to do in their relationship
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investigators found cans of white claw hard Seltzer on the picnic table 11 shell casings were discovered on the
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ground what did ballistics tell you malicious tell me he was sitting either a cross summer on that side of the table
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he fired one shot there was one shell casing here and the other 10 were in that area
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coming around the table there was not all in one spot and like started and started coming all the way around he
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circled her yes and with every move he was fine I mean even one around hit the table
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right there and he just left her here left her here these Feld knew all about that place on
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the lake he'd been there his freshman year his attorney told us what thies felt says happened that night he had
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been drinking all that day she had been drinking they're listening to music they
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start talking Brandon has some cocaine he goes to the truck does a little cocaine inside of the truck goes back to
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the picnic table these felt he says goes pistol and fires a shot across the lake
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she states all your crazy you sit there and talk then he shoots her remember Ali was shot at least nine
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times why it just came out of nowhere I'm not sure out of nowhere Brandon denies that it
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was planned when he took her out there I don't think Brandon would have been in this situation but for his choice of
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consuming alcohol and then using cocaine she was saying in that moment under the
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influence of alcohol and cocaine he snapped that's what I'm saying it was out of Rage out of Rage
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and rage for what maybe he thought he was going to be a father and he wanted to end it his own
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way [Music] the evidence against Brandon feesfeld according to prosecutors was overwhelming there was a lot of planning
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on these fields part about what he was going to do I'm not saying it was smart the way he
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did it but pretty good indication that he was looking for a remote location so her body would not be discovered no
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doubt in your mind that this was premeditated no no doubt heed of passion no no it was cold and capable it's
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calculated over a very extended period of time which is why it was capital murder in Mississippi a capital murder
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charge means another felony crime was involved and in this case prosecutors say that crime was kidnapping they
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believed thieves Feld lured Ali into his truck under the guise of work in the relationship out when he had a 40
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caliber pistol and had planned her murder all along 12's attorney says that theory might be
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tough to prove at trial they were going to have to show that we kidnapped Ali she voluntarily gets in the truck
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they're going to try to say that we tricked her that's a very very big stretch sentence
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trial could be for everyone involved they presented the defense with an offer if you get a plea
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offer other than death then guess what you've got a scenario where a plea to a lesser charge of
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first-degree murder is certainly more attractive and that's exactly what happened on August 27 2021.
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Brandon these fell dressed in an orange jumpsuit pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Ali's family and friends were
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there wearing her favorite color pink the judge sentenced Brandon to life in prison reporter Jake Thompson was in the
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courtroom we'd ever saw a motion from him until uh The Plea hearing where he spoke or read a little bit he broke down
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in tears that was the first time he showed emotion feesfield's audio was muffled when he faced the judge and
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addressed the court he said in part quote there is no excuse for my actions I have asked God for forgiveness and I
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hope one day that you will find it in your hearts to forgive me Brandon giessville stood up and accepted
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responsibility in open court and the realization of the consequences of his actions are very real and sobering there
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is no parole for murder in Mississippi so let me tell you that is a terrible penalty why did he say he killed her
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there is no justification for his conduct and I believe no good explanation for what he did does he say
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why though no I'm just telling you okay to the best of I I mean there there is no good answer I think what has been
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explained is he's impaired on alcohol he's drunk he's impaired on cocaine we certainly know what that does to
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someone's mind you know was he justified absolutely not were they arguing not to
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my knowledge did the allegation of pregnancy going uh on and on and on contribute to that certainly could have
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he shared with us that he didn't he didn't know but he didn't believe that she were pregnant but he said he said he
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didn't believe she was well he doubted that she was he doubted he doubted that she was pregnant prosecutors say the
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home pregnancy test results were inconclusive Ali's autopsy report however was definitive we know medically
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she was not pregnant could Ali have been pregnant in the months leading up to her death
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according to a text message she sent thiesfeld in early July Ali says she had been bleeding and believed something was
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wrong there was some evidence that would have that could indicate she had a miscarriage do you believe she was
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pregnant I do [Music] at some point I do to your knowledge was she pregnant you just don't know she could have been
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but also the results were inconclusive so we really just aren't sure prosecutors believed what happened
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between Ali costell and Brandon thiesveld is a cautionary tale you know I can't imagine
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how there could be any way possible that Ali could have known that Brandon thiesfield was capable
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of doing what he did to her if she had any idea that this is what this person was capable of
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she would never have gotten in that truck I think love can blind us to certain things that other people can see
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that we can't Brandon these Fell's family chose not to participate in our broadcast his mother
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asked his attorney to share these words when I heard Brandon was being spoken to
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by the police I still had no single thought that it could be him now after two years and knowing more of the
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details of their relationship I'm heartbroken for every person this impacts and crushed that our son did not
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share with us any of the turmoil he was trying to manage I encourage every parent to regularly sit down with their
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children teenagers young adults and discuss with them that there will never be anything too big too complicated too
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out of control that they cannot tell you about we will always pray for the family
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and friends of Ali costell [Music] Cindy and Keith are holding on to their memories how are you doing it's the the
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the quietest moments that are the most haunting she was my life my everything for her friends Ali's love for sunsets
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still shines through Ali what are you doing taking a picture for sunsets by Alex so every time we see a sunset or a
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pink sunset we're like that's Allie and we just try to live for her and bring her light into the world
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