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[Music] so right here in this general area is where the caretaker was living at when he went for a walk up this
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little Offroad when he found her [Music] initially now it wasn't even sure if it
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was real at first I thought it might be some kind of a prank you know actually I did reach down and touch
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her hand that feels like flesh and bone to me when we found Anna reina's body we
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were able to see that her feet were probably down in about this location and her head was pointed back
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towards the forest [Music] here one of the first things we noticed when we made it our way to this Landing
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is there's pieces of trash and there was garbage one of the biggest pieces of evidence that we found in this case was
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a KFC bag along the edge of that clear bag there was a receipt that had the date of
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the 14th so April 14th which is only a few days prior who was Anna rabkina Anna was 27
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years old and she came from a good strong family in Russia she wanted somebody to love her
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wanted to have kids and so that's why she went on to the dating websites she happened to find will
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Hargrove he's always trying to make people laugh making sure that everybody else is happy trying to push them to
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become the better person that they can be he was complimentary to her uh he sent her flowers from the United States
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to Russia he paid attention to her with everything that he had explained to me everything he had told me Anna was the
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love of his life the sense that you got from Anna repkina was that she was in love this wasn't coming to the United
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States as some male order bride how does Michelle Chavez fit into this case well Michelle Chavez is the
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other woman she is that third part of the triangle he made me feel special he has a Charisma about him it's
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like everything he's saying he truly believes and you believe it he makes you believe it especially if you're in love
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and you want to believe it yeah and you were in love I was and it was always I choose you it
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was how much pressure was he getting from Michelle to end it with Anna I know for a fact that Michelle didn't want
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Anna even over here in the states he was basically given the ultimatum of one or
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the other and two days later on it was found dead [Music] [Music] this is outside of corval quite ways out
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in the AL area and up a remote Logging [Music] [Applause] Road Ryan Joselyn and Amy matus both
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Deputy district attorneys in Benton County Oregon received an urgent call that a body had been found on April 17th
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2017 he and I were both on scene to take a look for ourselves it's so important in a prosecutor's role that you
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understand the scene not just from photos but having been there not too many people are going to
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be up in that area but Frank the fact that the body was discovered as quickly as it was uh was pretty
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extraordinary lead detective Lieutenant Chris duffett says a local caretaker happened to be out walking his dog that
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day when he came across the body the caller was walking on this road on a day and a time and a place that he really
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should have never been so we were very very lucky to find her body if it would have been any more time we might have
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never found her the victim was identified as 27-year-old Moscow native Anna repkina she had been
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shot she was smart intelligent she had an office job working for Ikea she loved cats she loved to travel
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Anna had a lot going for her a lot of people liked her so how did a Russian woman who had a seemingly happy life
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meet her end on a remote Logging Road nearly 5,500 miles from home she had broken up with her
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boyfriend of seven years and was really looking for that connection a year earlier newly single Anna started
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looking for love online and joined a Russian social networking site she found what she was looking for halfway across
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the world when she met 26-year-old Oregonian William Hargrove then they started really chatting they chatted a
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lot over Facebook then uh started video conferencing and that was happening on an almost daily
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basis Anna and will found that they had a lot in common they really bonded over music she
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very much loved music she'd like to go to rock concerts they would have discussions about bands she had a good
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sense of humor she would constantly send funny memes and she connected with her friends and her family that
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way will and Anna exchanged thousands of messages imagining their future together
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if Anna came to Oregon he definitely had the Gift of Gab The Gift of Gab he could
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talk a good game he could he could talk a very good game Will's friend and former roommate Jamie clz he and I had
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things in common cars he works on cars I work on cars I'm more Harry Potter he's
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more The Avengers kind of genre but we could nerd out on things like that he actually took me to see my first
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Avengers movie he was a likable guy a jokester he just liked to laugh and have fun I enjoyed being around him will
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worked as a mechanic at a local auto dealership in his free time he'd meet up with friends like Joseph Thompson at the
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peacock Bar and Grill we would play pool over there on Sunday nights and just basically ended up hanging out
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doing karaoke I don't know how many times me and him would be sitting there playing pool and he'd just have women
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walk up from the bar just sit there talk to him he was very charismatic he had the personality the presence was he a
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player no not necessarily will was such a good friend that Joseph called him his
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brother we were both in the military a lot of the training and stuff we had went through was similar and it helped
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pull us together what branch of the service were you in Army and will I believe he was Marines he said that he
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used to be stationed in Russia will seemed to have an affinity for all things Russian and his online
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relationship with Anna took off Anna decided to fly to the states to spend the holidays with Will in Oregon
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and see if their virtual love would feel the same in reality December of 2016 she
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traveled here and spent a couple weeks with um William harrove but the road to romance had an unexpected detour
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there was a problem when she first came out in December to see Mr harrove she mistakenly mixed up Portland Maine for
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Portland Oregon and she was stranded in Portland Maine amidst the chaos of flight changes
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Anna messaged will building the anticipation to finally be together Anna eventually made it to the
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right Portland and into the arms of will Hargrove during her visit she posted highlights of their Whirlwind romance
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including photos of their trips to the coast Will's cars and even a Christmas wish scrawled out to her family back
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home she came here for Love at the conclusion of this trip she actually became engaged to William harrove and
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they had plans to get married in the future Anna returned home to Russia after 10 days with a souvenir an
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engagement ring from Will and plans to pack up her her life in Russia and moved to Oregon with the promise of marriage
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she was excited about the wedding she was talking about um all the different style dresses and what she really wanted
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but there was going to be an obstacle in Anna's path to love I'm Michelle Chavez
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and I was Will hard Grove's [Music] girlfriend [Music] in 2015 33-year-old Michelle Chavez was
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living with her husband and two children in Albany Oregon unfortunately all was not right in the marriage our
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relationship at that point in time really wasn't one it was like roommates that just happened to be married slept
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in the same bed but that was about it didn't didn't really talk Michelle met will Hargrove while
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she was working as a cab driver was a kind of slow time in the summer and I was waiting at the bar waiting for
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people to call to go pick people up what was your first impression of him God he's short he's short yes God
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he's short yeah um he is short but that first impression gave way to something much more for Chavez who
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was so unhappy be at home he made you feel like you were in the sun when he talked to you he had a way of being able
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to look at me and I I felt like I was actually seen I felt beautiful I felt like I was wanted and so Michelle and
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will became much more than friends it wasn't a planned thing it wasn't like it went off in my head I was like I'm I'm
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going to have a relationship with him it just progressed that way this is one of
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him and our mutual friend Jamie he was willing to give her what she needed affection
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attention the following year 2016 the relationship grew to a new and somewhat unusual level with Will renting a spare
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bedroom in Michelle's house the same one she shared with her husband and kids though it's not clear what Michelle's
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husband knew about her relationship with will he only had to pay $300 a month and
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his own food unless he liked whatever it was we making at the time honestly pretty sweet deal Michelle even gave
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will her wedding ring a promise that she'd leave her husband soon but it wasn't enough for will if Will had this
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relationship with Michelle and was in love with Michelle why was he going on internet dating sites I think that it
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had to do with jealousy Michelle was going to leave her husband on her terms and it wasn't going fast enough if he
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could make her jealous then maybe it would speed things up which may explain why when Anna
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visited will over Christmas they stayed at Michelle's house under Michelle's nose it seems Anna knew nothing of
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Will's other relationship they were in his room most of the time on New Year's Eve they were getting ready to go out
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will was like oh maybe I should introduce you guys and then she shook my hand and she said her name was Anna I
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said it was nice to meet her but Michelle wouldn't be quite that welcoming when Anna returned a few
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months later on March 1st 2017 with the intention of becoming Will's wife I was like well she's not staying here she's
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not staying in my house so will and Anna rented an apartment in Corvalis a small
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college town not far from Michelle's home with Will working and without a job herself Anna spent time on her own even
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joining the local gym life wasn't as easy for Michelle what did you want simple just to be happy
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and you thought you'd found that with him I thought I had but you have to actually know
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somebody to find those things I think turns out actually knowing will was going to be a bit of a challenge for
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everyone even with his new fiance in America he split his nights between his two love interests he really continued
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to float between those two uh places back at Michelle's place and then back at the apartment with Hana with no clue
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as to why will kept disappearing Anna often had to resort to contacting his friends to find her own fiance and she's
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seeing him gone in the text messages she's reaching out to his friends do you know where he is what's going on she's
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becoming suspicious where is he going what is going on with this time as it happened Anna's instincts were right on
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the money this man was a fraud and relied heavily on Deception to convince other
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people he was the type of person person he wanted to be perceived as and he wanted to be something greater than he
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was he told a number of people he was in the armed forces he was never in the armed forces then there's the matter of
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a certain engagement ring Anna's ring or was it her and I had friended each other
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on Facebook and then I saw her wearing my wedding ring what yeah the ring that had
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been Michelle's wedding ring had been repurposed when will proposed to Anna will told Anna that this ring
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belonged to his grandmother and had sentimental value to him Anna had no idea she was wearing Michelle's ring and
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on March 22nd she was shocked to get a Facebook message from Michelle about sharing
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will at this point all Anna knows is that Michelle Chavez is the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend because that's what Will
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harrove has told her and so Anna says no way you get out of our Lives something about me being a [ __ ] I
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believe and I was like I'm just getting started at being [Music] one were you threatening her no just
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being mouthy I just meant that if you think I'm being [ __ ] now like just watch just 3 Days Later Anna and will
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headed to the Oregon coast for their wedding ceremony Anna brought a wedding dress
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with her from Russia she had her ring that William proposed to her with on the way will decided to stop at
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the local Walmart to buy their wedding bands leaving bride to be Anna in the car while he's in Walmart shopping for
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his wedding ring he is on the phone with Michelle Chavez and he is discussing their relationship and whether or not
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he's going to come see her that night and you had no clue when he said he was in Walmart that he was like headed to a
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wedding no no none at all but as it would turn out Anna and will were not headed to a wedding they go to the beach
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and the officient doesn't show up so he has a phone call in which he relays to both the witnesses and to Anna that the
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officient couldn't make it he was Ill something came up and William Haro was actually calling
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a couple video game stores to presumably pretend he was talking to a wedding official to show him how mad he was
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about this day he never arranged for an officient he never got a marriage license he
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didn't have anything set up sadly there'd be only one portrait of the Bride that day picking up some fast
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food the McDonald's drive-through video is the only video or photo taken on Anna
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rina's wedding day and you can actually see Anna repkina in her wedding dress uh
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in William haro's vehicle seemingly oblivious to Will's feelings for Michelle Anna set her heart
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on a rescheduled wedding date but Michelle had other plans so did you give him an
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ultimatum at one point I did told him it was he had to pick one I didn't want anything bad to happen to
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her I just didn't want her here so you pressured him to choose I [Music] [Music]
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did in April 2017 the relationship between Michelle and will hit a Crossroads with Michelle insisting will
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finally choose between her and Anna will told Michelle she was his choice so April 19th was the deadline
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right for both of you correct you were going to be done with your marriage and he was supposed to she was supposed to
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be gone or whatever he was going to leave her how much pressure did Michelle Put
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on Will to get rid of Anna a lot there was a lot of pressure there's a lot of back and forth in there
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between all the text messages where one minute it's like clean out your stuff and get out the next minute is I love
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you I want to be together but we can't do that if she's here there are texts between the two of
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you with you pressuring him to choose and at one point you told him to fix it yeah what do you mean by
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that in the general sense FES it in the sense that you would take care of it not
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take care of it like take somebody out you would end the relationship that you would be done will told Michelle he'
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tried to send Anna packing many times but she wouldn't go so Michelle perceived Anna as this girl who kind of
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never got the hint that she was being told to leave and she kept coming back although Anna never knew any of this is
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really [Music] happening on Saturday night April 15th Just 4 days shy of the deadline they'd
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set Michelle was supposed to have dinner at Will's apartment it wasn't until about 8:00 p.m. that night that William
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harrove tells Michelle Chavez that she actually can't come over that Anna showed back up danna's back again he'll
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take care of it what followed was yet another heated text conversation not a surprise according to
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Detective Chris Dale who says shelle and will exchanged more than 13,000 texts during their relationship constant
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checking in every morning to make sure that he's woken up on time uh to get to work didn't seem as if there was a an
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hour and a day that went by where they were not uh communicating but on that day there was
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one critical text so will harrove sent a message to Miss Chavez I will have this
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permanently fixed by 1800 tomorrow so he'll have the situation of Anar repkina handled by 6:00 p.m. uh the following
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day which was Easter Sunday that Assurance was not enough for Michelle she continued texting and
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calling will who turned off his phone as the hours passed with no reply Michelle's hope that will was truly
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fixing the problem with Anna vanished I guess you made your choice okay I'll let you
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[Music] be why I just want to know why all right [Music] be but I just [Applause]
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want the next morning Michelle headed to her mother's house for Easter Jamie was
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there as well she said that she'd spent the night ugly crying and even though I knew what the
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probable answer was going to be I still asked her like why and she looks at me and she goes why do you think and I said
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because of will meanwhile back at his apartment will was dealing with a very different
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but urgent problem his car insurance policy they've been sending him notices that if he doesn't have it paid by
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midnight on the 16th they're going to cancel his insurance he tells them that he knows this insurance lapses that
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evening and he needs to get it uh extended uh for free uh because if it doesn't he's going to lose his uh
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vehicle loan and they're going to repossess it immediately okay can you guys hold off until the 21st so I can
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get you paid um unfortunately once it is pending cancellation for non-payment we
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don't have the ability to move the dates at all um and this one yeah so it'll be
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effect canceled effective toight at midnight just after 4:30 p.m. Michelle's phone rang it was Will and what did he
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say that he had been out at the coast he was on his way back in and he almost had
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a deer he ran off the road and he had a flat tire and he needed help how did he sound shaken sad and so Michelle left
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her family's Easter celebration to go and meet will in the town of Alie he waited for her at a local
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convenience store you can see him walk to the uh cooler where he gets uh a Pepsi he goes and gets his candy bar and
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then he ultimately gets a pack of cigarettes about an hour later Michelle arrived she parks on the side of that
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store uh we see her get out of her Prius I asked him what what happened where have you been he told me that he after
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we had talked that they got into an argument and he said horrible mean things to her and that she had turned
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around and taken her suitcases and had walked out thinking Anna had finally left the apartment for good Michelle
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says she and will got into his car we drove for a little bit and we pulled off and we were talking for a few and then
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honestly we end up having sex in the front seat so you had make up sex essentially essentially make up sex in
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the front seat Michelle and will then went their separate ways with Michelle returning to her family's Easter
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celebration she came back back she was in a good mood she was smiling she was you know she was happy she looked total
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180 from what she looked like in the morning will headed home but he made a few stops along the
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way first at an ATM where he withdrew money from Anna's bank account made a $200 withdrawal from this machine and
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then engaged in some conversation with some employees um at that gas station where he actually ended up hugging one
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of them and crying about the fact that his girlfriend Anna rapina uh had left him his girlfriend whose account he just
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took $200 from yes will then headed to a second ATM he goes to the Chase Bank and withdraws an
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additional $600 of Anna reina's money so now William hargo has $800 uh that he stole from ANA reina's
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bank account at about 9 9:30 p.m. on that same night he drives to another bank and he ends up depositing $160 of
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that cash uh into his bank account will had just one more chore to take care of that evening thank you for
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calling Progressive y should have a card on file for me and I need to make a payment please several hours earlier he
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has no money all good then everything's done yeah everything is taken care of you are insured as we're
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speaking excellent thank you very much ma'am my pleasure have a good night will all of a sudden he has
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money and he's taking it out of Honor reina's bank account who's found dead the next
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day on April 17th 2017 the day after Easter Sunday Anna repkina was found with a shotgun blast to the back of her
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head her body left like one more piece of garbage Anna was discarded in this Landing with the other
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trash fast food bags uh cigarette cartons candy wrappers uh that were that were here and at that point we don't
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know what's evidence and what's not because that could either be huge evidence in this case or it could
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be just trash while investigators hope to find a connection to Anna's killer will was
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sending on a text showing concern about her whereabouts after the fight he said they'd had the day before will also
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launched a bizarre Deep dive online researching time travel he is uh trying to ask for help in how to uh travel back
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in time back to April 16th in order to correct a horrible mistake his words correct a horrible mistake
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yes he even went so far as to message strangers on WhatsApp for advice to help someone he called his best
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friend will was apparently so desperate for this information he offered a reward
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his [Music] soul in addition to his strange internet search will went on a shopping spree
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spend ending more of that cash he stole from Anna buying candy video games and toys he bought aund and something dollar
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Set of Legos from a Walmart will reached out to a friend named Kevin Thomas saying that he's spending money he
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shouldn't trying to distract himself on Wednesday April 19th investigators struck a lead with the trash found next
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to Anna's body a KFC receipt from 3 days earlier with a crucial Tim stamp was there a name on the receipt so on the
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receipt there was no name KFC told us that there was uh actually a car that pulled up on that Friday uh and there
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was two purchases made from that car there was one made with a debit card that came back to Kevin Thomas and
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another uh purchase that was made with cash with only one name to work with investigators headed to Kevin's Corvalis
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home was trying to put some pieces together their case um the garbage we found was I think something you bought
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last week from KFC okay do you know about that yeah me and my brother go to KFC go to KFC on Fridays what's your
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brother's name Kevin uh will harrove Kevin and will became Pals at the peacock Bar and Grill Kevin like
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Joseph Thompson called will his brother police continued talking to Kevin at the
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Sheriff's Office where he offered a revelation a few weeks earlier will had asked to borrow something that belonged
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to Kevin his shotgun did you say why you wanted to borrow it just said he was going to go up and go shooting in the
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woods and just kind of blow off some steam what's more Kevin told police that will had yet to return the gun with this
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new information investigators headed straight to Michelle's house where will was staying to question him he answered
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the door we're here fallowing up on a case we working and uh uh your name came across and want to talk to you okay will
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then lied to investigators telling them that he and Michelle drove up to Alie together on Easter Sunday drove into
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Elsie stopped at the little market there picked up a pack of cigarettes and drove
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back did you dump some trash there when you were there yeah I did on the side of
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the building on the side of the general storm but that trash that will claimed to have left at the store was the very
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same that was found next to Anna's body investig vators asked will to come to the Sheriff's Office while will was
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getting ready to leave he texted Michelle to ensure their stories matched at the Sheriff's Office
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investigators got to the question of Anna what do you know about her almost nothing how' you how' you
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guys meet matter downtown Coral just walking around yeah Will played down their relationship even
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calling Anna psychotic we went on two dates and then decide I I told her it wasn't going to be anything more than
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that and I was happy to keep hanging out with her but that was all it was going to be how long ago was that uh last time
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I saw her was middle of March middle of March cut it off because she decided to put on
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Facebook that we were engaged she posted that yeah after two days oh yeah and it brought hell down
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upon from who Lieutenant duffett turned up the heat on will and got right to the point
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so will your trash was found where somebody was killed I'm s to what okay that's what we're talking about
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here you guys are looking at me for this your trash like my partner said was found there and your your stuff was
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found at a scene where somebody died yeah okay talking to you there's a lot of inconsistencies with your story about
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what what happened that's when will stopped talking and asked for a lawyer no offense guys you've been really kind
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and I'd like you and I don't mind that but the moment that you say somebody was killed out there that no I it's just no
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okay so uh William harrove I need you to stand up and put your hands behind your
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back you're under the arrest for the murder of Anna Reina will Hargrove was placed under
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arrest but did police have the right person in custody if anyone on the face of it looks like they have a motive to
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kill Anna it's the other woman it's Michelle how can you be so sure that she had nothing to do with Anna's
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murder how credible is Will Hargrove during the police interview see more of the
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evidence at 48 [Music] hours.com just hours after will Hargrove was arrested for Anor reina's
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murder to go over it at this point Michelle Chavez was brought in for questioning about what she was doing
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Easter Sunday can you tell me what this is about though she starts out on the wrong foot telling police what will had
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texted her to say that they driven to Alie together and he picked you up at your mom's house at that time he did
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okay take his immediately Michelle reverses herself admitting what she had just stated was false that's a little
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bit of a ly he called me he was going to pick me up and then he did it why did you lie to them honestly I
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wasn't thinking and I don't have a good answer I want you to know right now the Will's under arrest for
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murder okay okay investigators say Michelle didn't seem at all surprised when they told her
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will had just been arrested for killing Anna how are you not extremely upset right now to know that the person who
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you were romantically involved with I am very upset right now I'm very upset right now I don't
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understand how that can be a person that I have spent the last year and a half with that was numb it didn't make
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sense over a year later in July 2018 will was formally indicted for Anna's murder the defense would go on to spin
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an entirely different theory of the crime one that had Michelle pulling the trigger at after arriving from her
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family's Easter celebration according to them the defendant had taken Michelle Chavez up to the location to have a
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conversation with Anna and the shelle had taken the gun out from him and shot Anna a few pieces of evidence had given
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investigators cause for concern for one thing Michelle mysteriously ended up in possession of Anna's phone Michelle
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blames will I didn't realize realiz it was hers he had given it to me I guess the night before he got
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arrested Michelle's own cell phone records showed that a month before Anna's body was found Michelle had
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visited that exact spot on the Logging Road Michelle claims that's only because will brought her there but could she
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have been scouting the location the defense says that will loved Anna that he was starting a life with her that
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you're the one with all the reasons to kill her what do you say to that I had no reason to want her dead no reason to
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kill [Music] her I do get how it looks but her being dead is nothing I ever wanted I wanted to go
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home did you ever tell Will to kill Anna no days after Will's arrest his friend Kevin's shotgun was recovered from the
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back of Will's vehicle evidence supports there had only been one killer will harro's fingerprint was on the shotgun
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Michelle Chavez's DNA was never on that shotgun Michelle Chavez's fingerprints were never on that
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[Music] shotgun piecing together various security cameras investigators tracked Will's drive with Anna to Alie we see
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the defendant's car that's distinct for various reasons traveling along a certain path and gave us location as
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well as time frames but it was GPS tracking that gave police an even bigger piece of the puzzle with Will's phone
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pinging from the murder site from 435 to 4:48 that afternoon the reason we have that is because he called Michelle
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Chavez Michelle Chavez who was still at her mother's house at that Easter celebration we don't have any forensic
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data or or information that was left at that crime scene to suggest that Michelle was at the crime scene on that
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day and remember that video of will shopping at the alc convenience store as he waited for Michelle to arrive towards
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the top of his bald head you can see what appears to be smaller black dots raising the question could it have
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been blood spatter we can't tell you if that was blood we can't tell you what that was but we can tell you it was
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there before he met Michelle Chavez subsequent photo comparison afterwards showed that those spots weren't moles
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they weren't anything that was there [Music] permanently there was one more heartwrenching piece of evidence found
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in the trash alongside Anna's body from another fast food drive-thru a receipt from McDonald's uh in Newport Oregon
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dated on March 25th of 2017 March 25th the day that should have been on his wedding
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[Music] day Will's trial got underway in October 2019 the original witness list was 131
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people eventually I believe close to 70 people testified the trial took a month will Hargrove was found guilty of
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Anna's murder as well as identity theft and two counts of second deegree theft for
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stealing that money from Anna's bank account I want to talk about honor Rina for a minute and I placed her photo on
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the witness stand to remind everyone of a life that was lost contrary to specul will sentencing was
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held in January 2020 she came here with hopes and dreams to find somebody that was loving
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her and start a family she doesn't have that anymore the defendant very nearly got away with this
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crime it was his own trash that betrayed him uh you were receiving a sense of life
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imprisonment will received a life sentence with a possibility of parole after 25
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years Michelle says living under the scrutiny of people in town wondering what she knew or didn't know became all
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too much how bad did it get for you bad enough bad bad she had an incident uh in which she
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couldn't take the stress uh anymore um and uh almost didn't get the police there in
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time Michelle says that in June 2018 she tried to take her own life I tried to die I'm still here it didn't
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work as for the young Moscow native who flew to the US with the promise of love I think you have to remember Anna
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as the sweet loving caring person who put herself out there to be loved because Anna was
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loved she was loved alive and she was loved [Music] after Anna reina's ashes were flown back
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to Russia will Hargrove is filed an [Music] appeal she killed her partner I don't
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believe Chris abused her she was a very good actress murder or self-defense there were many people who saw her with
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black eyes with bruises she was afraid for her life 48 hours Saturday at 109 Central on
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