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[Music] shot my kid where's my kid I don't care where's my kid it's a blur will y'all tell me
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something well where's my kid where is she at I didn't know anything I just wanted her to be okay
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she's alive huh come here she's not alive I want to see my child I just needed to know is she alive or is she
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dead Livy Le where is she where is she at you don't want to sound cliche but Livy was a perfect child she was kind
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and loving that's why she went into nursing she obviously had something about her that she loved to take care of
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people she was selfless where is my child I told you where your child in this car what car she's in this PO right here
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behind us I didn't know if I wanted to believe that she was in that car I didn't want
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her to be CU if she wasn't she was then it was real and she was gone how yall doing who was the one that
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actually drove by you saw it first so I pull over and I seen throughout my passenger seat and I was like she must
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be just slumped over maybe she just drunking him the door was already open I I was like Hey like I shook her and
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that's when I called 911 911 dead so what it looking like to Y it was Ghost Out 6:00 in the morning I'm at home when
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my telephone rings Sheriff wanted me to come in sit with Matthew at the hospital all right
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Matthew Matthew Edgar right yeah and while I was there I interviewed him I had no clue why I'm here no clue no you
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have a girlfriend T I have an exgirlfriend named Ley he was found in the fetal position behind the vehicle that Levy
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was found in when was the last time you saw Livy to he remembers drinking on his
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porch and the next thing he remembered he was waking up in the back of an ambulance you don't know how you ended
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up on the ground behind the car so with the dead girl in I have a clue there was a rifle some
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shoes and a hat also on the ground that's his Boot and he was laying there beside how'd you get all the blood all
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over your face don't know cuz the hospital said you don't have any injuries what are you thinking I'm thinking that
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he's not telling me the truth he's just basically telling you a Texas fairy tale
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right correct I won't be flat out honest with you but unfortunately there is a deceased female in that vehicle that's
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in front of yours and my job is to find out why she's dead who is the dead girl did they tell you and they liby I
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informed him that Miss Lewis had passed he started with this what I would describe as forced crying did you see
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any tears not a single one the world seems to think that Matthew Edgar is a murderer do you believe that I do not do
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you believe that someone else pulled that trigger I do I believe it was someone that was close to Matthew someone that
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was involved in events of that evening we got all the DNA results back and there were some holes in the case
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there were no fingerprints taken or DNA lifted off the gun there were DNA samples from liby that showed there was
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another man I have no doubt and I'm going to make this perfectly clear Matthew Edgar
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killed Miss Lewis and you put your reputation on that absolutely [Music] [Music]
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in the early morning hours of Halloween 2020 a day when the boundaries between the living and the dead become blurred
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Libby Lewis was discovered draped over the steering wheel of her car dead from a rifle shot to the neck here's her ID
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Livy had just turned 19 I don't know if dispatch has notified her next to K or not it
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happened in hemp Hill a Tiny Town in Texas with a popular just over 1,000 the kind of place where
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no one is a stranger and news spreads like wildfire isn't that Darcy bass's daughter yeah that's what I that is how
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liby's mother Darcy bass heard the news when a friend called to say that Livy had been shot you didn't know if she was
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dead or alive no I going to be my child and the next time I yeah I saw her she was in in a
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cast K I don't believe it I don't believe it oh my [Music] God by all accounts Libby Lewis was a
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remarkable young woman a straight A student and recent High School grad with a scholarship to a local college so I'm
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liby Heather Lewis just imagining my future and the goals that I will accomplish makes me excited her dream
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was to go on to college become a nurse and then become a physician's assistant Livy was already a certified nursing
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assistant at a local nursing home she was loved by all the residents there that's a tough job too yes and she loved
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it that was her passion that's also where she met one of her best friends fellow nursing assistant Taylor Barnett
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we worked together and then she just started staying with me all the time Taylor was nearly 6 years older and had
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a young daughter but she says Livy fit right in have you seen Livy you seen me we just clicked like automatically
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Bailey Williams met Livy in kindergarten she was a person that wanted stability and didn't want to play like the kid
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games she was ready to be grown up that's probably why Livy fell for an older man Matthew Edgar who was 23 when
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they met but I was dating a guy who was actually friends with Matthew so we all just kind of started hanging
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out Livy was still a senior in high school when she and Matthew began a secret relationship Matthew was married
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to Montana bokel the mother of his two young Sons phone records indicate that liby
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and Matthew began texting each other in November 2019 when Matthew wrote you do realize you cannot say a word to anybody
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that we are even texting lol Libby responded well obviously I'm not going to brag about texting a married man but
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thanks for the clarification it appears that after a very brief affair Livy quickly and
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firmly ended things but Matthew wasn't done about 4 months later he texted to complain about
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how unhappy he was in his marriage I cheated again he said but Livy held her ground I'm not really down for being a
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home wrecker she wrote nearly 2 months later Matthew ended his marriage in this tax exchange with his wife where he said
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ain't you it's me me always cheating on you 4 days later Montana hired a divorce
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attorney Matthew moved out and circled back to Livy at just 18 Livy was now navigating
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a relationship with the man who had two young sons and assumed to be ex-wife at first they didn't get along Livy and
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Montana didn't uh I think that was out of Jealousy on Montana's behalf and then it was kind of just like the flip of a
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switch all of a sudden Montana wanted to be Livy's best friend and they talked all the time I think in Livy's eyes she
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was definitely thinking she had a friend and in Montana's eyes what do you think
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I think that she was jealous I think that some people get close to people and they
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have another reasoning behind it and so do you think in some ways a a dangerous love triangle had formed yes definitely
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a dangerous love triangle yes you can call it that absolutely Sabine County Sheriff's investigator JP McDon
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questioned Matthew about his relationship with Montana and Livy what's your relationship like with both
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of them it's awesome okay so it's not a typical your hell no okay was awesome okay my exwife
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and her they big buddies I just told liby to just be cautious you can get along with her for their children but
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don't be too close with her I mean because that's his ex-wife but Taylor says that as time went by it was
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Matthew's behavior that became the most menacing he was pretty much abusive in more ways than one for a little while he
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was staying at my house with her and he would just get drunk and crazy and either holler at her and like it got so
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bad that like I didn't want him there at my house anymore phone records show that
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the relationship was a roller coaster ride while at times Matthew sent texts to Livy like good night baby I love you
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Livy's texts alleged physical abuse I don't know why you keep putting your hands on me like that my body hurt
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today I think that she was in love with who Matthew could be cuz she knew who he
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was and knew that what he was doing to her wasn't right but she still stayed Livy had been planning on moving
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to her new college campus but in the summer of 2020 she stayed on that roller coaster ride agreeing to move in with
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Matthew and helped take care of him and his sons she even redecorated the boy room baseball one a football one a
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soccer ball whatever but things seem to have quickly turned ugly in August of 2020 Livy writes to Matthew I want to be
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in our home with you but I can't do the way you act when you drink I'm scared of
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you you've laid your hands on me multiple times I deserve better than that had she told you at that time that
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no she been violent no she didn't tell me that probably figured that I would go do something crazy and she didn't want
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me probably get in trouble Livy did tell her cousin Sydney ebar what was going on
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she sent you a disturbing photograph yes evidence of physical abuse correct yes sir and do you have that photo I do can
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you show it to me yes sir he busted her nose it's not clear what caused the ation but texts would
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later show that Matthew was cheating on liby with of all people Montana on October 4th 2020 Livy's birthday Matthew
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texted Montana I didn't cheat on Livy with multiple women just you LOL he was continuing relationship on with his
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ex-wife and had my daughter in the middle of it not knowing that she was being manipulated by all of them I was
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in abusive relationship so I just said Livy you know it gets worse and she said I know and I said okay I love you Livy
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broke up with Matthew but in a small town like hemp Hill you can run but you can't really
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hide in the early morning hours of Halloween 2020 Matthew and Livy would end up together
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again on the side of this road [Music] the morning Livy Lewis was killed on the side of the road her ex-boyfriend
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Matthew Edgar found himself in a hospital bed claiming he had no idea how he got there I had no
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clue despite the blood on his face Matthew wasn't injured but he did admit to Sheriff's investigator JP McDonna
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that he'd been drinking how much bottle Jim Bean Jim Bean anything else few beers earlier in the day he
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said he'd been at a party the night before at his friend Bobby ozan's house that's when he claims he last Saw living
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she heard my was okay oh so you left Bobby's went to your house went home was at my house
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and that's where Matthew claims he blacked out and simply can't explain how he ended up in a fetal position between
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a black truck that wasn't his and Livy's car you don't know how you ended up on the ground behind the
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car with the dead girl at got it McDonna took swabs of the blood on Matthew's face for DNA testing
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all right Matthew I'm going to do this one on the chin and Matthew 's clothing was taken into evidence I'm going to go
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through some of your clothes okay yes sir then McDonna placed Matthew under arrest charge is going to be
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homicide all right now pay attention to me I want you to understand why okay yes sir
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okay you were found behind the vehicle where the decedent was there was some kind of relationship between you and her
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there is a weapon laying on the ground behind the vehicle close to where you were found
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okay based on that and a few other things I'm going to place you in custody right now for homicide okay what's his
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reaction to that he had none but he didn't say you're going to do what I didn't do anything nothing at all
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nothing at all with Matthew jailed McDonna was on a legal deadline according to Texas law
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the District Attorney's office now had 90 days to present enough evidence to a grand jury to indict Matthew or they
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would have to release him on bond so McDon Enlisted the help of the Texas Rangers and began piecing together what
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happened to Livy Matthew was just an easy arrest sha Dunn is an old friend of Matthews he
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told me hey look you know I didn't do this yes I was there at the scene but I you know I didn't I did not do this I
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loved her sea a former Texas oil and gasman once employed a then 20-year-old Matthew as a supervisor on his pipeline
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I know Matthew uh I spent a lot of time with him he was a hard worker you know he loved his family he valued his
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friendship uh with people Shawn was also once a deputy sheriff and says in his personal and professional opinion
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Matthew is innocent when you're in law enforcement and and you set across the table from somebody that has taken
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someone's life as a coldblooded killer there's a certain feel that you get from that person I never seen him reach that
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point Sean believes Matthew when he says he has no memory of what happened the cause of death for that girl is not
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natural and thinks this moment did they tell you a name liby was very real I believe that was that was genuine that
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that was the first time that he knew that she was deceased which raises the obvious
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question if Matthew Edgar did not kill Livy who did all that's kind of still up in the air in my opinion there's plenty
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of other people that could be involved in this sea won't name names but Matthew and his mother Cindy have insinuated
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that someone else killed Livy Montana listen to this recorded jail house house call but I'm saying Matthew if it turns
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out that Montana did this I don't want to talk about it please I mean it's not going to make you want to hurt her
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because she killed the woman you loveed are you I don't know Sheriff's investigator JP McDon says Montana's
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unusual friendship with Libby did get his attention my husband left me for this woman but she's my best friend you
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know I I I have to question that as an investigator this is one of the last photos ever taken of liby she is with
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Montana and they are at that party Matthew told investigators about at Bobby ozan's place I'm going to say
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there's probably about 20 people there including Matthew and Montana's Sons Bobby told investigators Matthew spent
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the night watching Livy and Montana party with everyone but him he would try to come over there and talk to him and
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they just really wouldn't say much to him they just ignoring investigators learned that liby
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had broken up with Matthew just weeks earlier and he had taken up with another young woman in town I am trying to find
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out her relationship with Matthew Edgar they were having sex just I met him that
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Monday and we saw each other every day so you just KN yeah but it was clear to Bobby that Matthew wasn't over Livy he
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was just hurt and then now she don't want nothing to do with him no more she's going on with her life just like
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you don't exist anymore Bobby says Matthew was stewing at the party he just wasn't he's on edge just dranking beer
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and drinking heavily yes sir yeah and the more he drank the angrier he got exactly what do you think of Matthew
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Edgar's story chat now with the 48 Hours team on Facebook and X [Music] as the Party At Bobby ozan's was winding
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down Matthew Edgar says he called it a night oh so you left Bobby's went to your house went home my house that's
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where Matthew's memory goes blank but his ex-wife Montana bokel remembers much more the day is hot October the 31st in
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this audio recording Montana told investigators Matthew suddenly came back to the party and learned that Livy had
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decided to stay overnight at Bobby's you think he heard Livy say she going to stay the night oh I know he heard her
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cuz that's what made him so mad during the course of the investigation and during my interviews
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with family and friends and Matthew had intended to ask Miss Lewis to marry him that's how significant he felt about
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Miss Miss Lewis to hear her back at the house say that I'm going to stay with Bobby was just meaning sleep with Bobby
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correct that was too much it was just too much according to Montana Matthew was so angry he even took it out on her
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he tried to choke me and then that's when I went and got Bobby so I went outside and he had kicked all the doors
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in on a car and was punching on the window at one point Bobby had to pin Matthew again against the car in order
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for the girls to be able to leave the whole time I'm holding him he's screaming top of his lungs I'm going to
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kill y'all I'm going to kill y'all Montana says she and Libby left in separate cars in search of safety
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Montana says she headed toward the home where Matthew's mother and grandparents lived and that's where Matthew caught up
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with her he pulled in behind me I went to get out and he turned toing me again their children were in the back seat of
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Matthew's van and I was hking the horn so somebody would come outside in all the racket Montana says Matthew left and
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headed for his own home a short distance away on the same property a shaken Montana says she asked to stay the night
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with Matthew's mother and grandparents and then began texting with Matthew I have message what does he say you took
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part in it and you are guilty as she is wrote Matthew as he angrily accused Montana of playing a part in Livy's
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decision to spend the night with Bobby ozan those texts would become damning evidence in the case against Matthew
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Edgar he said you knew what was going on a decision that appears to have enraged
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him he said I will take your life her life and his life mark my words at 3:22 a.m. Matthew texts I'm leaving better
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get here and get your kids McDonna says evidence shows that a drunk and angry Matthew then got behind the wheel of his
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truck where he kept his rifle and went hunting for Livy I think she pulled over to talk to him and I'll tell you why she
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was just sitting there with her legs crossed indicates to me she was not afraid it was not a fight or flight
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thing where she was prepared to just bolt out the car she was actually to some degree comfortable with who she was
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speaking with 12 minutes after texting I'm leaving Matthew texted I'm home I got Livy's
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keys and her phone Montana asked where is she Matthew's response dead Montana told investigators she didn't call 911
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because she didn't believe he was serious instead Montana texted Matthew can I come down there his reply yeah but
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Montana claims that Matthew's mother wouldn't let her leave so she just fell asleep I never left I
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didn't even know anything had happened until I woke up at around 6:00 this morning but Matthew didn't go to bed
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McDonna says evidence shows that not long after sending that text that liby was dead Matthew did something no one
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can explain he went back to the crime scene this time in his cousin Zach's truck it's that truck that was found
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parked be behind Livy's car why would he go back then why would he return to the
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scene of the crime that would be a question you'd have to ask Matthew I I can't explain that also hard to explain
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Montana's failure to call 911 it made no sense to Livy's friend Bailey she knew who he was and what type
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of person he was and then she was receiving all those texts I don't think that you can just take that with a grain
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of salt after you received those text messages yeah it's time to to call police right
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McDon says he and his team of investigators wondered if Montana had been to the crime scene that morning to
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try and help Matthew cover up liby's murder I know you don't believe me but I can't tell you stuff that I don't know
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happened two months after the crime Montana was given a polygraph exam are you covering for the person responsible
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for Li's death after monitoring her physiological responses Montana was told she failed the polygraph there's no
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doubt that you left something out there something you're not telling me but after an indepth multi- agency
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investigation investigators concluded that Montana was never at the crime scene and had nothing to do with Livy
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shooting or any cover up and so to all those who think somehow she's involved you say not true not true at all all the
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evidence says McDon points to one person Matthew Edgar is there a motive in your
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mind jealousy jealousy plain and simple in February 2021 the covid pandemic shut
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down the courts and this case with no grand juries being convened a judge was forced by law to release a still
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unindicted Matthew Edgar on a reasonable Bond $50,000 for them to set it so low was
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insane to me months after Matthew's release Darcy was at her local convenience store when
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Matthew just strolled in when he came in the door I just went started throwing whatever at him and went for him and I
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just remember saying You Killed My Daughter you killed my daughter and that's Matthew pressed charges against
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Darcy and she was arrested the charges would eventually be dropped but Darcy says she just wanted some answers she
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loved you and she was good to you and your kids and to your family what made you think that this was the answer to
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anything that was going on on March 16th 2021 4 and A2 months after his arrest charge is going to be homicide a grand
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jury finally heard the evidence against Matthew Edgar and indicted him for the murder of Livy Lewis but Matthew who was
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still out on bail wasn't done breaking the law and tormenting Livy's family I just was like are you are you
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serious as January 2022 and the trial of Matthew Edgar approached Darcy bass was
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confident that the evidence in the murder of her daughter liby would finally proved that Matthew had killed
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her what in this case struck you as the most powerful evidence against Matthew Edgar from him saying that he was going
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to kill them her till him being at the scene to it being his gun then there were all those venomous texts between
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Matthew and Montana that Taylor and Bailey say ended with a clear confession when he text and said she's dead cuz Who
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would know that except accept the person who did it and remember that text that read I got Livy's keys and her phone
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well Livy's phone was found in the truck Matthew had driven to the crime scene her keys were found on the driveway at
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his grandparents house and reluctantly handed over to investigators by Matthew's mother Cindy Hogan is it true
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in your opinion that she tried to keep Livy's keys from investigators that was the indication since Hogan also tried to
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help her son by suggesting that Livy had been killed by a drug cartel because Matthew owed them money and that the
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cartel hadn't killed Levy and staged it to make it look like Matthew did it because they were out $330,000 what do
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you think of that theory uh I think it's a far-fetched fairy tale it was so far-fetched it was
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just a crazy story to try to distract people from the truth on Monday January 24th 2022 the trial of Matthew Edgar
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began with jury selection Matthew who was still out on bond walked in and out of court every day like a free man due
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to the nature of the of the crime and the emotion throughout the county we had security Arrangements in place for trial
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we even had Matthew wearing a bulletproof vest on the first day of testimony the state began presenting its
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case which included DNA lab results that detected a tiny Speck of Livy's Blood on
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the pants Matthew was wearing when he was found at the crime scene how important is that piece of evidence it's
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critical it puts him there at the time that that injury caused her death but Matthew's courta appointed defense
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attorney Rob Hughes argued that a tiny drop of blood doesn't prove a thing how else could that Speck have gotten on his
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pant leg if not not coming from blood spatter from the shooting you can get DNA transferred from just touching
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someone Hugh says there's no telling how long that blood had been there and all that blood on Matthew's face that
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McDonna swabbed and had tested it wasn't Livy or Matthews and once they were excluded investigators didn't pursue
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other matches Hugh says there were additional DNA tests that also raised questions about who else may have been
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at the crime scene there were other people's DNA on Matthew and Livy was excluded as a contributor to those DNA
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samples Hughes tried his best to argue that the DNA should be considered Reasonable Doubt but admits that his
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biggest obstacle in defending Matthew were those texts and Matthew's insistence that he has no memory of
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sending them in your entire career as a defense attorney have you ever had a client who was functioning during the
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course of a crime texting conversing with people driving an automobile who then said they had no memory whatsoever
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of the events I have not and you understand why that would be hard for people to believe yes Hughes also
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asserted that the murder weapon had not been tested for fingerprints or DNA but conceded the rifle belonged to
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Matthew after a second day of testimony the prosecutor notified Hughes that he would be resting his case the next
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morning and it would then be hughes's turn to call witnesses sha Dunn says that he had been Snapchatting with
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Matthew who was feeling optimistic about his chances he was so confident that he
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was going to need a job and asked me would I find him a spot to go to work but the next morning as Rob Hughes
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arrived at the courthouse he got a panicked call from mat 's mother who told him her son was now a fugitive she
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just started frantically telling me that Matthew was gone Matthew had run and he
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had taken a gun with him she was afraid he was going to kill himself are you serious like he's he's gone he shouldn't
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even been out on bond then he had an ankle monitor on what happened with that authorities say Matthew had simply
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waited for the battery on his ankle monitor to die and then left home most likely on foot we started getting assets
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from all over lkin PD SWAT DPS Texas Rangers we even had tracking dog from from the prison unit they followed a
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trail through the woods roughly two miles meanwhile Matthew's trial went on without him that very same day defense
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attorney Rob Hughes began presenting his case the jury was not told that Matthew
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had fled but they must have wondered so a case that's already very difficult for
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you has now become I'll use the word impossible it it made it much it didn't help that's for sure no one was
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surprised when after deliberating for about an hour and a half the jury found Matthew Edgar guilty of murder but he
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was still on the loose out there somewhere an armed threat to himself and the community I mean I think that it was
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like a scary time because it's him he knows where everybody lives at that was terrible crazy time for me knowing that
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he's out there supposedly loved my daughter but murdered her and me the one that's actively trying to make sure that
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he goes to jail what would he have done to me Darcy says it felt like no one was
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searching for Matthew so she became a mother on a mission and hung this homemade wanted poster all over town but
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she wasn't alone JP McDon had been joined by Jeff Coulter a special Deputy with the Eastern District US Marshall
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service and they were on the hunt for Matthew do you consider him right off the bat to be a dangerous fugitive oh
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absolutely from what I was told from the murder the crime scene yes no doubt see a timeline of the night of the
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murder at 48 [Music] hours.com they her car was right here before the sign this is the very spot
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where 19-year-old Livy Lewis was murdered now a memorial lovingly tended to by her mother
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Darcy I just want everyone to remember what happened here what Livy had to go through it's also a place that Darcy is
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convinced Matthew Edgar visited after becoming a fugitive I just felt it as a mother I was like he's coming here he's
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not far Darcy says she also heard rumors that Matthew's mother had been spotted buying her son's favorite cigarettes and
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liquor in large quantities where is she taking them to one week after Matthew ran from the law Jeff Colter a special
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Deputy with the US Marshals was asked to take over the manh hunt when you first begin your investigation do you start
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with his family to see if they've heard anything no no I don't like being led to
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I've already heard their stories claiming she was killed by the cartel so no I didn't even waste my time couter
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says he quietly spent nearly a year working with the Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement agencies around
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the country to chase down every lead that came their way we had put in a lot of hours a lot of weekends a lot of late
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nights then a tip that Matthew might actually be hiding in plain sight just yards from his grandparents property in
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this house it looked great it sounded great but we physically have to put eyes on him
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before we make a move on his residence the house which belonged to a family friend was surrounded by woodlands so
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Coulter Enlisted the aid of two wardens with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department the plan to get as close as
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possible under the cloak of Darkness using night vision to ID their man we were going to enter into the woods make
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our way up to the back of the property get as close as we could and sit there and see if we could get a visual of him
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while couter l a team of three men into the woods JP McDon and his deputies were
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on the opposite side of the house near the driveway but out of sight in their vehicles my job was to sit right there
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at the front door of that house if Coulter and his men made a positive ID on Matthew they would finally have him
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cornered we went in about 4:30 in the afternoon we knew it was going to get dark about 5:30 we got to probably about
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100 yards of the house and we heard barking um coming to find out they had a pretty good sized right Waller in the
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backyard then we're out there for an hour or so we could hear voices we could hear female voice we could hear male
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voice but it's so thick we can't see then we catch a violent thunderstorm lightning and thunder and
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torrential rain it was miserable but it was a blessing in disguise and the noise
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covered our movement they were 30 yard from the house when when a second storm hit but there was no giving up that's 11
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months and 2 days this needed to end tonight drenched and exhausted Coulter and his team could hear voices on the
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back porch of the house but couldn't see faces until about 8:00 p.m. when a man stepped off the porch walks around the
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side of the house and he stands there one of coulter's men immediately recognized that man as Matthew Edgar he
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goes he's here I got eyes on him we got word that they had made a confirmation drove down pulled in the driveway back
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of back back watch the front I got I got movement they're in the house once we saw the lights it was a 30 yard Sprint
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all four of us we break the corner and we started screaming law enforcement police sh office anybody inside come out
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your hands up he jumps up and he throws himself against the wall like oh crap you got me yeah it was over with did you
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guys make eye contact absolutely he said hey JP I said hey Matthew and then he asked me you hadn't proven
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my innocence yet and I said no Matthew I have not Coulter says that's not all Matthew
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had to say that night he said please don't shoot my mother mother please come out of the house his mother is in the
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house his mother's at the house was she crying was she upset no I think she acted amazed that he was there like she
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didn't know what was going on really yes surprised he was there I'm going to jail for something I don't even
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know nothing about was she arrested as well not at the time she was not can somebody get my pish with my seizure
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medicine Cindy Hogan was eventually charged with hindering apprehension we reached out to her attorney for comment
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but did not hear back on January 3rd 2023 Matthew Edgar was formally sentenced for the murder of Livy Lewis
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99 years in prison with the possibility of parole after serving 30 years does it give you I don't know what
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the word is not any peace but in prison he will likely suffer for decades can only hope but he doesn't suffer
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[Music] like like her brother he doesn't suffer like her little sister Darcy hopes to be there when
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Matthew comes up for parole and tailor and Bailey say she won't be alone and I don't care however he says that he
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changes while he's in there I don't think that that's something you can ever come back from because she's definitely
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not coming back meanwhile Darcy is trying to save up enough money to buy a headstone for liby's grave how do you
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carry on and honor your daughter's memory I just got to get up every morning and just just remember the good
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things and I want to make her proud I don't want her her to be remembered as the girl that got killed
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in the small town I want her to be remembered for the way that she carried herself and the happy person that she
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was to be [Music] around CBS next Saturday what is your emergency I accidentally shot my wife a
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former deputy sheriff accused of killing his wife you don't accidentally shoot more than once it didn't make sense it
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didn't line up do you think it was accidental I guess that's the million dooll question 48 hours is all new CBS
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