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48 Hours presents I've handled hundreds of firearms through the course of daily [Music]
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casework the majority are handgun types and then we see a fair amount of semi-automatic
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rifles and a variety of shotguns detectives Len and McCarthy presented this case to the Firearms
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unit they had a woman who had accidentally shot her husband with a revolver tell me what this gun is this
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is the same Mak model of firearm that was recovered from the deffy residence when I first walked in Sun was
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coming through the sliding glass door it just looked very peaceful until I walked
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in and saw Mr Duffy laying on the couch there was a lot of blood on the carpet and there was some blood on the
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wall lots of blood but based on what I was being told about her middle class educated woman she didn't fit the
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profile of a murderer this could be an accident she's Ecentric and quirky she gives that impression the minute you
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meet her she was very entertaining and very funny love to laugh you either really really liked Linda or you really
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thought wow she cannot be trusted I've investigated well over a 100 murders I'm sorry Linda okay I was very anxious to
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hear how this accident happened you have to understand Pat and I joke around a lot with each other she said we have
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this thing that we always do we morph in the cartoon characters and sorry they what they morph into cartoon characters
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what's up Jack there was a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Elmer fud and he does this silly little Elmer fud voice no more
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bullets no more bullets and she said she began to talk to him in her Elmer fud voice no more bullets and she said she
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wanted to impress him and she walked over and picked the gun up no more bullets no more bullets he told me there
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was no bullets in the gun well I don't believe she could have fired it in the manner she said she did an's right there
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I wanted to believe her story it's not a a un believable story I had that gut feeling there was something more
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[Music] Sinister I'm Richard slesinger tonight on 48 Hours The Bugs Bunny [Music]
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[Applause] [Music] defense [Music] this is the matter of Linda guad she is present before the court both Council
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are present 7 years after she shot her husband in their Suburban Living Room Linda Duffy gatz is in a Los Angeles
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County Court denying as strongly as she can that she is a murderess this was a horrible
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accident and I wish and pray constantly that I could be able to take away your pain but I
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can't this case is not a who done it it's more of a why' she do it Linda admits she shot her husband Patrick
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Duffy in 2007 but she says it was an awful and unlikely accident she's had to convince authorities that fact can be
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Stranger Than Fiction because her legal defense has featured among other things a cast of cartoon characters here let me
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see that thing her lawyer has used the words of Bugs Bunny and Elmer fud to explain her actions as he insisted she
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is innocent we're going to ask you to tell us what happened today Linda talked to police voluntarily and without a
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lawyer just hours after the shooting it was it was pointed down and the next thing I I
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know he his hand was right there just laying there well let's go by the house Sean
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McCarthy and Shannon Laren have been homicide detectives for the LA County Sheriff's Department for 13 years
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forgive the cliche but they really did think they'd pretty much seen it all here's the house right here and then on
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April 26 2007 they got a call about a shooting at the Duffy's house in Suburban Whit here to go shooting
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accidentally shot him help okay stay on the line with me ma'am this is the couch
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that that you saw in the living room yes yes Mr Duffy was right here McCarthy and
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Len found Patrick Duffy dead on the couch his left hand was in his pocket and his right knee was being supported
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by a pillow very comfortable relaxed there was blood pulled on the floor and splattered on the wall and it was a
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pretty good siiz blood puddle right in here clearly he had a gunshot wound to the Head the couple's two teenage Sons
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Shawn and Thomas were at school so Linda was the only surviving witness and detective Len had a funny feeling looked
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like he'd been sleeping on the couch and somebody walked up and shot him in asleep what did you think I was leaning
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that this was an accident detective McCarthy has been investigating homicide cases for about
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13 years and knows how to spot even the tiniest Clues he saw very little here that made him suspicious do you guys
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disagree frequently on cases I disagree with all my partners on every case well so how does that work I I think we kind
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of wait until we have more information I wanted to hear her story she was very entertaining love to
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tell stories Julie Prendergast has been listening to Linda's stories since they first became friends in a college music
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program in the 80s she said well actually I'm from um Ireland and she started talking with what I thought was
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a pretty phony accent that was my first indication that Linda was a little bit different Julie says Linda could be
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irreverent even goofy I would say Linda I'm going to tell you something and you're going to want to laugh but we're
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in class right now so don't laugh out loud and it would just pop out anyway after they left school Julie and Linda
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ended up working at the same place and one day Julie says Linda called with some news she said I'm I'm so excited
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I'm getting married and I'd like you to be in my wedding the groom was a man Linda had met four years earlier Patrick
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Duffy a radio engineer gun enthusiast and Private Pilot she just said it was like her dream come true and she
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couldn't be happier they seem seemed happy as a family they understood each other Patrick's sister Catherine hunt
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says Patrick and Linda were soulmates and Playmates they were kidding with each other joking with each other we're
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just always just joking around with each other and being silly and having a good
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time and it was that silliness that became a Cornerstone of Linda's story when she explained to police what
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happened the day she killed her husband then I came into the family room and he was sitting on the the sofa she said
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they had just come back from a doctor's appointment Patrick had chronic circulation problems Linda said he'd
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been planning to go to the shooting range his 38 one of three revolvers he kept in the house was nearby we keep it
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in this little locked box Linda told police she usually stayed away from the guns but that day she picked up the 38
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and the story got stranger as it went on we do this little silly thing we always
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kind of relate little silly conversations to like cartoons that we've seen when we were younger and
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stuff and he does the silly little Elmer fud voice no more buets and she claimed
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she said to him no more bullets in Elmer fud's voice no more bullets and she said
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his response was no more bullets no more bullets she said it was a game they played all the time and that when her
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husband said no more bullets in his Elmer fud voice she took it to to mean the gun was empty and that it was safe
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to try something Patrick had taught her she said that she didn't wanted to impress him by showing him she can shoot
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a cowboy style it's called fanf firing and any fan of westerns knows it you hold the
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trigger down and keep pulling back the hammer so the gun fires quickly you told me there was no bullets
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in the gun she says once she started fanf firing she couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting her husband who leaned
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into the line of fire and the next thing I know he his hand was right there the statement about the fan
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firing it just didn't sound right but his partner detective Shawn McCarthy who had heard his share of crazy
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explanations from suspected Killers listened to that panic 911 tape listened to Linda's story and concluded the story
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was just wacky enough to be true the overwhelming feeling that I got from her was she was odd at best and eccentric at
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worth after they interviewed Linda for an hour they let her go home and when you left work that day did you have in
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your mind that she was a suspect no his gut told him Linda was innocent but he'd need more he'd need science the
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muzzle of the firearm was between a distance of 1 and 7 in from his head when he first studied the scene
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where Linda Duffy killed her husband detective Shawn McCarthy was pretty sure it was an accident he believed her story
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that she had reenacted their favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon no more buets no more buets and then fan fired the gun and
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when he talked to Linda later that day start with when you got up this morning she said nothing that made him doubt her
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your it's my fault no it's not your fault it's just it's it's just that we need to understand Laren and McCarthy
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were beginning to understand more about what happened inside the Duffy home especially after they talked to the
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medical examiner who had just done an autopsy on Patrick Duffy there was a second gunshot
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wound Linda Duffy claimed this was an accident but she had shot her husband in the head not once but twice
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and believe it or not even seasoned investigators can miss that kind of clue at the crime scene you could not see the
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second gunshot wound well because of uh dried blood and and the amount of blood and coagulated blood we weren't privy to
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the second gunshot one what did you make of that well it's certainly was a red flag but it was not just a red flag for
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McCarthy's partner Shannon Len it was more like a bright red arrow pointing right at Linda Duffy there was so many
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highly improbable events that would have had to have all lined up for this to actually have been an accident they
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didn't line up still Shawn McCarthy was not convinced why didn't you just say this
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is going to be murder because I needed to be convinced myself that this was murder the last thing in the world I
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want to do is send an innocent person to prison for the rest of their lives it wasn't enough for McCarthy to know what
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happened he wanted to know why it happened we struggled to find a compelling motive and we looked and we
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looked and we looked but they couldn't really find one the Duffy seem to be an average middle class family living here
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in the LA suburbs there was a life insurance policy on Patrick but they' bought that decades earlier plus there
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was no evidence of cheating and considering her eccentric personality detective McCarthy could not just
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dismiss Linda's story okay maybe this could have happened the way she said cuz she's so quirky and eccentric but it was
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about to get a little harder for McCarthy to believe Linda's story because of Tracy
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peek the Firearms expert for the sheriff's department who was brought into the case by McCarthy and
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Len remember according to Linda she fired the way they did in the movies it is possible to do that pretty
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easily with the right kind of gun this is the kind of gun that you can fanf fire right correct so this is a a single
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action revolver this type of firearm is fired by cocking the hammer and pulling the trigger the guns they used in the
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cowboy movies were single action guns you can easily keep firing quickly by pulling and releasing the hammer
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while the trigger is held back when the hammer is fanned the cylinder will rotate with this type of gun so it will
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fire the cartridges in the chambers of the cylinder as it's being fan the Duffy had
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two single action revolvers in the house but the gun Linda used to shoot her husband was not one of them it is a
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double action revolver and there's a big difference the shooter simply pulls the
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trigger which accomplishes both cocking the hammer and releasing the hammer and the gun will
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fire to Rapid Fire a double action revolver the shooter has to do all sorts of things at the right time and in the
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right sequence is this gun designed to be fired that way no for the purposes of this case I essentially invented a way
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in which I would conceivably fan this uh and that included pulling the trigger releasing the trigger Fanning
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the hammer pulling the trigger releasing the trigger and Fanning the hammer but doing it pretty
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quickly and pec says it's very hard to aim while doing all that she says the unexpected deafening noise of the gun
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and The Recoil would have alarmed Linda if she didn't know the gun was loaded according to PEC it would have been next
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too impossible for Linda who claims to be an amateur to shoot her husband twice rapidly by accident especially since the
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wounds were so close together I don't find it a very believable story I still wanted to
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believe her but it clearly couldn't have gone down the way that she said that it
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went down by now detective McCarthy was all but certain that Patrick Duffy's death
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was no accident but the two detectives felt they didn't have enough to prove it because of a heavy workload it took two
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years but in January 2009 McCarthy and Len brought Linda back in for another chat the video wasn't working but you
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can still hear their conversation he show me how to do it really fast because you got to do it
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like the Cowboys well in the second interview I think we were both convinced this was a murder they showed her a
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video of Tracy peek fanf firing the gun I think she was certainly surprised when
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we explained to her how difficult it would be I could tell the light bulb went on in her brain and she said I got
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to at least change the story a little bit Linda now said she and her husband had practiced fan firing with an
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unloaded revolver for years like 20 times I'm did you believe her this time no but the detectives
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wanted to give Linda one last chance to show them how she fired the gun and they
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made her an unusual offer meet us at the range we'll bring an exact replica and show us that you can fire this gun in
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the manner that you said the detectives were certain Linda would not kill again so they let her go home again and waited
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to hear from her about about their offer days turned into weeks and then months and life went on at the Homicide
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Bureau we change partners and when that happens you start getting new cases and other cases start falling to the
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Wayside as the years passed Linda might have thought she was off the hook but her past was about to catch up with her
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the district attorney said I'm going to file this Cas and you need to go get [Music]
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her with no news for nearly 5 years Patrick Duffy's brother John and sister Catherine hunt thought the police had
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decided his death was an accident and had closed the investigation but Catherine says she had
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a hard time believing what Linda told her when she called on that awful day she was
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incoherent and I said um what happened he was cleaning his gun and it accidentally went off Linda had
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told the police that she had shot Patrick by accident but later that night she told his siblings he' shot himself
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could you picture him having that kind of an accident no absolutely not we were raised with guns and we were taught to
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and our weapons before even entering the house and that was like the number one rule it was hard to believe that he had
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done something like that and Catherine learned she was right the day after pat died when she met Linda at the funeral
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home I said where was he shot and she went like this just like that that's when it hit me that he didn't shoot
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himself I said so tell me what really happened she said oh you're going to hate me
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you're going to hate me you're going to hate me I said no I'm not going to hate you
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but I need to know what the truth is and I said did you shoot my brother in the head and she said
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yes it was there in the funeral home where Catherine first heard the tale of Elmer fud Pat had told her no bullets
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like no bullets like like Daffy Duck and Elmer fud because they would talk in cartoons characters sometimes she
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thought the gun wasn't loaded and it went off I couldn't quite understand why she' lied if it was an
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accident it was an accident but she had lied to us but the police still had to prove she had lied
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to them about why she shot him detectives had interrogated her twice and released her twice the second time
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they let her go they'd made that unusual offer to meet her at the fire ing range we even told her can be at your
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convenience they weren't shocked when they didn't hear back from her and several months later they stopped by the
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Duffy's house and saw a for sale sign her sons were home they said she's on her honeymoon in Italy two years after
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the shooting Linda Duffy was Linda gatz newly married to Lawrence gatz who anyone in the saxophone world knows is a
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world class player when we Googled him he was playing in Carnegie Hall and once again
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when Wedding Bells rang so did Julie pendergast's phone she asked me what I sing in that
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wedding and I said what Linda I'm not coming to your wedding something's not right surrounding the death of Patrick
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Julie says she was uneasy with how Linda just moved on she dyed her hair blonde she was wearing
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different style of clothes she seemed to be walking on air on clouds like oh just
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as happy as can be a year after shooting her first husband Linda met gatz online
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she moved to Mississippi where her new husband was a music professor she was out of sight but for detectives Laren
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and McCarthy she was not out of mind did you forget about this case was there a period of time where oh no absolutely
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not when their workload with their new partners permitted McCarthy and Len each turned their attention back to
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Linda they wanted to take a new look at the blood evidence with a new expert Paul delh Hower he studied the photos
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and police reports and concluded Linda had to be lying based on her statements police believed Linda was claiming that
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she had fired quickly and from the same spot she moved and the relative position
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of the gun to the Head changed we are standing next to the couch on which Patrick Duffy died delh Hower said the
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blood evidence told him a lot especially these tiny stains on Linda's clothing and the walls called spatter which he
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says came from the first shot the barrel has to be within about 3 Ines of the head in order to produce the spatter
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delh Hower says the second shot created a large pool of blood on the floor in the exact spot where Linda said she was
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standing she would have been getting Jets of blood um hitting her Linda Duffy have any blood on her very little yeah
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very very little police thought they now had proof that Linda was lying she didn't have
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enough blood on her after the shooting to support her story Laren and McCarthy thought they knew what really happened
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she took aim fired one round while he was sleeping realized he wasn't Dead comes back on target fires the second
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round and that's why they're within 2 Ines of each other they believe Patrick's death wasn't an accident it
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was an execution by 2012 the new prosecutor assigned to the case was eager to move
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ahead and police began talking to Linda's co-workers boy that was very revealing what they
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consistently talked about how she was so Charming but then as time went on they started finding out that she was this
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compulsive liar and Julie Prendergast had a few stories to tell about her one-time friend's record when it comes
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to telling the truth we all have one gallbladder Linda had hers removed three times Linda just always needed to seemed
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to want to have attention it was enough for McCarthy I became absolutely convinced that we need to prosecute
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her so finally in May 2012 5 years after Patrick Duffy's death detective McCarthy flew to Mississippi
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where Linda and her new husband were living in a comfortable home and she had gotten a job at the
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University you knock on the door what's her reaction her reaction was I thought the investigation was all over the
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investigation wasn't over McCarthy arrested Linda Duffy gatz for murder and everyone was in for some
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surprises it's been 6 years since Linda Duff shot her husband to death and she thought she was going on with her life
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with a new husband a new house a new look and a new town but now she's going on trial for murder Tuesday her Freedom
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came to an end and Joseph low is her attorney unfortunately on this particular day she was going to play
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with a gun again like she's done so many times before and she rapid fired it in the top of his head it's a complete
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accident he'll argue that based partly on the words of Elmer fud no more bullets Linda thought the 38 revolver
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was empty did you ever consider the possibility that this what we'll call a bugs money defense for lack of a better
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term could be true z% chance it's true Deputy district attorney Robert Villa says in 27 years
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on the job he's never seen a defense rely even partly on a cartoon bugs is having a conversation
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with uh Daffy Duck and Elmer fud watching a prosecutor parrot a bunny was a first for us too but an official
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transcript of the cartoon had to be made what do you know no more bullets and then Bugs Bunny says no more
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bullets as they're having this conversation just as she went to fanf fire the gun he laid down and put his
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own head right in front of the of the gun it's so ridiculous you know and I know that strange things do happen
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strange things happen this wasn't one of them he was asleep she shot him in the head twice it was that simple open and
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shut for me it was but it wasn't so simple for the jury over two weeks they heard three recordings of Linda telling
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authorities about cartoon rabbits and cowboy fanf firing they also heard days of testimony from dueling experts about
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whether Linda's explanation made any sense it all it was a lot for the jury to consider it it was difficult you know
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for every expert there's another one who can tell you a different story the defense questioned whether a prosecution
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expert witness Paul delh Hower she would have been getting Jets of blood hitting
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her was really an expert at all the jurors deliberated for a day but could not reach a verdict very few of us
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thought the intent was there so how do you convict somebody when it could happen exactly the way she explained it
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with a deadlock jury the judge had no choice he had to declare a mistrial so you will be discharged on this case it
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sent a clear message that the jury wasn't willing to convict on murder were you disappointed I'm always disappointed
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when there's no verdict because that means I have to do it again and roughly one year later with
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Linda having remained in jail good morning everybody Villa was doing it again this time his case will be very
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different he laid down on the couch streamlined and simple his wife came up to him put a gun between 1 and seven in
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from his head and pulled the trigger some time went by she pulled the trigger again he says the Duffy's marriage was
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strained she thought she might have to take care of her ailing husband she's like I'm not going to wait on this guy
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for the rest of his life this was a premeditated and deliberate murder for his opening arguments defense attorney
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Joseph low brings his own sofa to present this as a simple case no motive no intent no crime Pat was her best friend
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and she was his one of the things they love to do is to watch cartoons together they're kind of goofy but there are many
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aspects to this trial that are if you will offbeat one of you asked the clerk about how these cameras work well
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they're only on me Judge John tibio has a reputation for lightening the atmosphere for the jury I'm the star so
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don't worry but things quickly get serious when the da takes them back to the moment right after Linda Duffy shot
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her husband my husband was going to go shooting and he was again I shot him it's hard to make out some of the words
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cuz she just she can't even talk the I thought she sounds terrified and frantic to me what do she sound like to you she
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sounds like someone who is acting may I use the firearm to demonstrate just aim it at the
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jury Tracy PE tells the jury Linda had to pull the trigger on on this gun twice to get two bullets to
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fire if I do not release the trigger the cylinder will not Advance the big surprise in this trial is what
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prosecutor Bob Villa leaves out people's 1 through 35 be admitted into the evidence and with that I rest I arrested
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my case after basically 2 and 1/2 days unlike the first trial there is very little dense forensic testimony about
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blood stains and most crucially your last name's Duffy he does not introduce Linda's taped interviews with police
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where she first discussed bug bunny there was no need for Bugs Bunny no need unless she took the stand Villa has
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thrown defense attorney Joseph low a curveball since the defense isn't allowed to introduce the interrogations
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unless the state does first the only way jurors will hear Linda Duffy's side of the story is if she takes the stand and
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exposes herself to cross-examination were you hoping she would take the stand absolutely were you
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ready absolutely low begins his defense with a good offense his first witness is
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the detective who at first did not think Linda was a murderess when you're done asking your questions you allowed Mrs
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Duffy to go home correct talking to to her it was very convincing to me she was eccentric and how could she harm anybody
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sir you would not let somebody who you thought had just committed a murder go back out on the street if you had the
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power of arrest isn't that correct suain that night I liked her as the investigation went on I liked her a lot
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less L tries to paint a sympathetic picture of Linda sir how you feeling right now little nervous by calling her
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sons Sean and Thomas she's a very emotional caring person we were always really happy they like cartoons a lot
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they were always making funny jokes to each other and always Pok fun of each other and stuff the defense has a very
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big decision to make will Linda take the stand herself and if she took the stand
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we were going to hear all about Bugs Bunny Miss guad do you wish to testify no sir Linda has decided not to
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take the stand so her lawyer worries the jury will hear nothing about fanf firing
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and then he comes up with an idea so I'd like to refer the court and counsil page
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five of the 911 transcript he finds a reference to it in the 911 tape prosecutors have already introduced a
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long time ago he showed me how to pull the thing back on top of the gun and pull the trigger real fast so low is
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allowed to call Firearms expert Lance Mar who says fan firing a Double Action Gun like Linda claims she did is not so
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farfetched after all this can be done it's not overly common but it certainly can be done sir is it humanly possible
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to shoot more than one round in less than a second double action mode yes it is there's no way absolutely no way it
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happened that way this was an execution these jurors never got to see any cartoons but they did see one anim
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produced by the prosecutor it is no laughing matter it attempts to answer a deadly serious question what happened to
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Patrick Duffy he's asleep watching television the video doesn't leave much to the imagination although the defense
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in closing argument says it and the rest of the state's case are all a fantasy she accidentally shot her husband it
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ain't right and it's not fair to guess somebody into a conviction guess somebody into a concrete tomb it all
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comes down to whether it's one word or two from the jury crap guilty or not [Music]
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guilty jury's president Council and defended are president and you've reached a verdict or verdicts yes would
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you please it's been a long road now nearly 7 years since Patrick Duffy died and one year after a jury deadlocked in
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his wife's first murder trial this time the jury comes back in just over 24 hours we the jury above entitled action
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find the defendant Linda dorine guads guilty of the crime of second deegree murder of Patrick Albert Duffy in
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violation of section 187 the guilty verdict floors Linda it hits her lawyer hard too for his part
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the prosecutor is more relieved than anything else I'm pleased uh that I don't have to try it a third time you
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saw her the way she reacted yes I've always thought she was an actress so that was that was her moment honestly that's
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the first time I saw her really cry Patrick Duffy's sister Catherine has waited years for this day she didn't get
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away with murdering my brother when it comes time to sentence Linda 3 months later it's her last
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chance to address the court and she speaks I wanted to let all of you know how grieved I
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feel most of all to Patrick and my beautiful son Shan and Thomas because you lost such a loving
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wonderful father her sons try their best to ask for leniency if there's anything you can do
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to to help out with my family and that's all I can ask believe she's innocent and
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I will till the day I die Linda's second husband Larry gatz also appeals to the judge to assert that this was a
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premeditated purposeful act I'm sorry it's unacceptable to me look at these two people beautifully in
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love why because she's a wonderful human being who doesn't deserve this but the judge doesn't have much leeway this
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particular instance the law mandates 40 to life my oath requires that I impose that I was like you did this to
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yourself we found it curious that one jury could not agree on a verdict at all and a second convicted Linda in a day it
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is ironic but in these two trials it is apparently true that in the case against
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Linda Duffy gatz less is more if I remember correctly we sat down with jurors from both trials to see why one
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jury quickly reached a verdict Andrew Dixon murdering the second Danielle Wong second degree murder while the other
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never did Brandy Jones not guilty pamel Enriquez murder in the second where's the gun 1 to7 in remember the
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jury that convicted Linda only heard the Bare Bones prosecution makes this impossible to happen the way she says
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very little about fanf firing or cartoons they heard a lot more than you heard and we can only make the decision
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based off of the evidence that we heard the jurors from both trials the ones who
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heard the long story and the ones who heard it made short sat around our table and pondered while less may be more is
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it enough and you're putting a woman away for the rest of her life so present everything I I think I really have to
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agree with Brandy maybe all the evidence should be presented did you know she gave an interview to the police we would
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you have liked to I I would have Lov to hear what she had to say um would that have changed my decision don't know
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possibly if you had heard everything you think it would have affected the deliberations absolutely and even though
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they made their decision some of the jurors who convicted Linda still have questions did it bother you that they
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never said exactly why she did it um yeah it did how'd you get over that I'm not over it I still want to now when I
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heard the guilty verdict I said yay Justice is finally served Julie Prendergast has no doubt the second jury
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did the right thing by finding her former friend guilty and she wonders how Linda's life
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which was once so happy became so tragic I'm sad for everyone involved those two boys lost their
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father and now they're losing their mother it's a tragic story in every way you can think about
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