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[Music] we wanted to be able to have this happy family like everybody else does my name is ardan Summers and I am
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the daughter of Alisa and Trevor Summers I was really hoping that my family would be back together and
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healthy and fixed Alisa Summers she is a loving mother of five children it's a tragic family story and
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they're breaking up and getting divorced Trevor Summers wanted control he controlled Alisa and he controlled
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his children we later learned through our investigation that Trevor summer is using his children to play against his
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wife we was trying to persuade her not to get divorced and he was going to talk her into it no matter how long it took
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she went through hell and back all because of what my dad did when tror Summers enters the home
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and Alisa Summers ultimately wakes up that's when the violence occurs I am here with Elisa at her house
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where I'm not supposed to be and I woke Lisa up and I have been holding her against her will
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he used her cell phone to record a video making a statement about what occurred I did tie up uh to keep her uh
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from contacting the authorities and giving me enough time to get out of town eventually he takes her out of the
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house correct Alisa agrees to go with him because she knew that was the only way she was going to be able to stay
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alive at that point he goes to the Walgreens she's in the car and there is an employee at the
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Walgreens taking a smoke break we received a 911 call from a witness at the Walgreens where Miss Summers
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attempted to flee from the vehicle some [ __ ] just ran out of the dude's car looked like her hands were TI and she
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ran out of the car scri and help me and he just uh grabbed her and put her back in the car so this is a potential
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kidnapping but could be headed towards something far more serious a potential homicide that's certainly a possibility
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and something that's in the back of our heads the 911 call occurs approximately 9:00 p.m. on
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Saturday then the following morning myself and another detective are able to interview four of the five
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children there was just a knock on the door and just two tall men and asked do you know where your parents are and I
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said no they were talking about how they're doing this in investigation and try to find my parents and all I'm
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thinking is oh my God what happened the interview with the children was a very delicate
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situation and and he was hurting mom well how do you know he was hurting Mom I heard it she screaming did he tie her
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arms up or feet or or something else he tie both of her arms and [Music] body when the children are giving these
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details it's just surreal it was shocking [Music] [Music] this is the bedroom window that Trevor
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Summers was allowed into the home through Sergeant Christopher steel with the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office
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and who opened that window for him his eldest daughter would have been in the home unlocking and making it ready for
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him to enter my dad had sat me down and discussed reconciling with my mom and fixing the marriage and bringing our
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family back together ardan Summers was eager to help her father make her family whole again her parents Alisa and Trevor
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Summers had separated after 15 years of marriage and there was a restraining order keeping them apart ardan and her
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four siblings had been living with their dad he wanted me my younger siblings to
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go over to my mom's house and spend the night and then I would let my dad in the
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window after my siblings and my mom went to bed ardan thought her dad could then
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talk her mom into getting back together but Trevor summers's supposed attempt at
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reconciliation was actually an act of manipulation using his children as Pawns in a plot involving kidnapping assault
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and attempted murder that would go on for 55 hours the Clock Was digital clock and it
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said exactly 3:00 a.m. I was startled awake Alisa matthewson formerly Alisa Summers will never forget the
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disorienting fear that began in the early morning hours of March 11th 201 17 she was awakened in her pitch black
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bedroom two of her children were lying beside her 7-year-old Brin and 5-year-old Grady and I felt my face was
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wet and I started screaming who's in my room what are you doing here I'm in a panic an absolute
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Panic her estranged husband Trevor had entered her home in val Rico Florida dripping water on her head and was
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standing over her and I'm still screaming and he says calm down it's just me I just start in full Panic
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throwing things from my end table at him and he grabbed my ankles and pulled me off the end of the bed this must be
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terrifying it's terrifying Bren and Grady are running out of my room screaming daddy daddy don't kill
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mommy but how did it come to this the couple first met in 1995 in High School in Suburban Philadelphia and
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started dating 3 years later he was spontaneous and charming and just seemed that he always put me first the couple
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married in 2001 eager to begin their life together he wanted to start a family right away when I had ardan it
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was everything I envisioned for my life I envisioned myself being a stay-at-home
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mom and then over the years it was ardan times five five kids right yes after ardan came Landon Brin Grady
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and Cooper the more kids it seemed that the more love the more happiness I wanted to have this picture perfect life
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Alisa says Trevor initially started a landscape and pool design company and he dabbled in real estate but he really
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fancied himself as an entrepreneur he would open up businesses for a little while and then he would move on to a new
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business the family moves several times says Alisa as Trevor chased opportunities from Pennsylvania to
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Florida to Vegas to California and eventually back to the Sunshine State where the children were homeschooled we
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would very often um host people have sleepovers friends over birthday parties all kinds of stuff Arden now 20
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remembers good times we would go to the beach we had a beach fairly close to our
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house house play video games as a family and board games stuff like that Arden says while she was close to her mother
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she had a special bond with her father I was definitely the definition of a daddy's girl we would go out on little
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dates together go out for dinners just him and I meanwhile Alisa says her relationship with Trevor was changing
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with each move and birth of another child she says her husband was slowly taking control of her life I had to wear
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what he would select I couldn't have men on my Facebook page she couldn't even sit next to a man in church or anywhere
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I couldn't ride in a car alone with a man I was to have no communication with any men other than Trevor Alisa was also
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overhearing Snippets of Trevor's business conversations there were some things that just weren't adding up Alisa
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says Trevor was frequently in financial trouble not paying debt and bouncing checks he was arrested several times but
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she says he always blamed his problems on others and the crisis would seem to pass every single time it would happen
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it would be it's a misunderstanding he's having these incidents with with the law
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what are you thinking yeah at the same time I was walking on eggshells don't question him okay and smile and Nod did
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he have a temper as long as we stayed in his good graces then it was fine in 2016
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Alisa finally had enough and asked for a divorce Trevor begged her to stay wanting to keep the family together
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Alisa agreed but she says Trevor's possessive Behavior worsened he took my cell phone he took my car I was being
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held in my own home as like a prisoner it became very apparent that this is domestic violence this is domestic abuse
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use I need to start working on my plan she wanted to escape but Trevor Summers had his own plans for
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[Music] [Music] Alisa I had been just stuck staying in the house with him walking Watching
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Me by October 2016 Alisa says she felt like an inmate in her own home with her husband Trevor monitoring her every move
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he was always with me for several weeks until one day Trevor finally left to go to work that's when Alisa called a
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domestic violence organization and I said you know these are the things that are going on my husband hasn't gone to
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work in weeks this is the first time been alone and the more and more I asked them and I talked to them about this
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they said your situation is very serious but before Alisa could get out of the house that day Trevor burst
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through the door he came in and he attacked me and he every time I would try to get away from him he' block me
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from leaving Alisa says that after some time Trevor reluctantly agreed to let her
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leave with the children and she sought Refuge in the home of a friend he was going crazy over this and he uh he found
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out where I was and he would be showing up there after a week there she felt safer moving with her children to a
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shelter for Abused Women leaving everything behind we had nothing we had the clothes on our
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backs over the course of several months Alisa started rebuilding her life when I
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got out of the shelter I got myself a home and a car and a job as well she filed for divorce
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and even tried online dating but Trevor was not out of her life as they shared custody of the children I was forced to
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see him twice a week to exchange children with him by January 2017 Alisa says Trevor
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seemed resigned to the fact their marriage was over and about a month later Alisa says she agreed to go by
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Trevor's home to sign the divorce paper so you're in the house what happens he said that he just needed to talk to me
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he was like I have to I have to get everything off of my chest so we can get divorced I have to tell you I've had
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multiple Affairs I've really messed up Trevor was also in serious legal trouble facing real prison time according to
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court records he was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges for one of his failed business
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ventures his perfect L controlled life was quickly imploding as I was leaving and he said you're not going
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anywhere with one hand holding me down he used the other hand and pulled a knife and held it right up at my chest
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by my throat how long was the blade it was a machete and he's got this machete right
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under right at my neck and he says I won't tie you up if you just stay still and listen to me and then he held me
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there for a few hours eventually Alisa says Trevor agreed to let her go after she called him down and
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promised not to call the police a promise she did not keep I immediately called 911 when I left his home but when
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investigators interviewed Trevor he denied threatening Alisa's life the police didn't believe me I wasn't left
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with any marks there was no evidence of what I was saying the Sheriff's Office treated
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it as a concern from the beginning Hillsboro County Sheriff Sergeant Christopher steel was not involved in
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responding to the 911 call but says investigators were looking into the case it's not like we could have simply
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arrested him that day um based on the statements of just the two that were involved um we needed more both Alisa
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and Trevor filed for restraining orders against each other and Alisa says Trevor
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used the incident to turn their children against her he told the children I lied
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to the police she is trying to get me thrown in in prison he told them their mother was responsible for the marriage
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falling apart he would constantly talk about how she was supposedly cheating on him he you know acted so heartbroken and
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what did you think of your mother I felt like she was awful then just 2 Days Later Alisa arrived
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home to find the place vandalized there was graffiti all over the walls there was Kool-Aid poured on my bed the
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Kool-Aid was his idea the chalk and writing on the walls was my idea what had you written on the walls I had
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written things like traitor I wrote thanks for being an assho right above the bed Alisa was incredulous when she
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learned Trevor had convinced ardan to take part it was devastating my kids had a key to my
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home and they used their key and did this a few weeks later Alisa got an unexpectedly cheery phone call from
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Arden and ardan says mom we really miss you I I've just I'm sorry I've been thinking of you I want to come over and
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just you and I talk things through hang out like old times within days Arden Brinn and Grady were back visiting
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visiting Alisa while Cooper and Landon were at Trevor's house I especially was feeling like ardan was starting
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to come around Alisa says she and ardan had no idea they both were being manipulated by
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Trevor he had mentioned before that he was really hoping to reconcile with her and to put the family back together and
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be almost like the savior of the family the goal was something Noble in a way that you were participating in that
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maybe they can get him back together and we can be a family again yes so on the evening of March 10th
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2017 as Alisa was in bed with Brinn and Grady Arden was in another room secretly
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texting her father just checked she's fast asleep letting him know the coast was clear for him to enter Alisa's home
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[Music] just after midnight on March 11th 2017 Trevor Summers left his three-year-old
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son Cooper home alone asleep in bed and drove with 12-year-old Landon to his estranged wife's house
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where ardan was already waiting he told me that he was going to talk to my mom following his instructions ardan had
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left this window open for Trevor they passed each other as she went out to wait in the car with
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Landon that's when Alisa says she remembers waking up to water dripping on her face at that point it's full on
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terror Alisa says Trevor dragged her to the living room great and brenn the two young children who were in bed with her
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woke up and screamed he looks right at them and he says get back in your mother's room don't come out Alisa says
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they struggled as she tried to escape when I get my hand onto the door and he'd grab me and throw me backwards are
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you wondering where is Arden yes I'm thinking Arden's going to hear this ardan's going to call 911 like where is
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she ardan was sitting in the car hopeful that her parents would come out after talking and they would all return to
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Trevor's house together but around 5:00 a.m. Trevor sent a text that the plan had changed she walks in and doesn't
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even look at me and that's when I realized she's not going to call 911 she wants him to be
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there Arden says her dad told her to drive Landon Brinn and Grady back back to his house and wait then 14 years old
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Arden's only Driving Experience had been in a parking lot it was very terrifying
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I was doing exactly the speed limit and I just followed all the traffic laws to not get pulled over once the children
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were out of the house that's when it even escalated further he threw me onto my bed and took these scarves and
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wrapped me my hands my wrists together he is tying me to the bed frame with the Christmas
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lights and crisscrossing them across my body to hold me down that's when Trevor told her why he was there I Came to Say
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Goodbye I am leaving I've chartered a boat I'm going out into International water and I'm going to
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disappear Alisa says he claimed he had millions of dollars in offshore Bank accounts Alisa didn't believe any of it
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she says she had a plan stay quiet and perhaps he would let her go I don't want to infuriate this man just sitting back
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listening and letting him do the talking she says over the course of several hours Trevor raped her twice did he have
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any kind of a weapon on him he did a razor blade Alisa says she felt drowsy because
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Trevor made her take cold medicine he had been using night Quail throughout the day to keep me
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sedated Alisa says Trevor tied her ankles and wrists behind her with the scarves and a nylon rope I was in
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excruciating pain he used her thumb to unlock her cell phone and recorded those videos I am here with
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Lisa at her house she's virtually unharmed um she's got a couple bruises today but from the uh from tying her
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up Alisa says Trevor told her he was making the videos so she could prove to authorities he was there before taking
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the boat trip but Trevor didn't immediately leave it was around 5:40 p.m. when he came back into the room he
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a pillow over my face and he pushed down with all of his upper body and I thought about my
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kids and I and I lost Consciousness moments later Alisa says she remembers the pillow being removed and he looked
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at me and I said please I'll do anything please don't kill me he says you agree to go with me
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yes I'll go with you to the boat to the islands yes Alisa says she still thought the
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boat story was a lie but agreed to go with him to buy time with her hands tied Alisa says Trevor loaded her into her
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SUV later he went into that Walgreens to buy more cold medicine it was the moment
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she'd been patiently waiting for I pulled the door handle to open the door and so I'm running and I'm stumbling
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through this parking lot I could hear him coming at me and grab me did he lift you off the ground me off to the ground
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and pushed me back got me all the way back into the car that's when that Walgreens employee called 911 TR out of
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the car scri help me trying to get the license it's a dark dark BL SUV he's pulling out right
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now the employee managed to get that license plate number Hillsboro County sheriff's deputies realized it was
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Alisa's vehicle and began a Statewide search as they sped into the night Alisa says Trevor was irate he screaming at me
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are you agreed to go with me why are you doing this we cut from over here all the
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way across over to here he said that's for getting out of the car at the Walgreens Lisa says Trevor spent hours
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driving along back roads down the Tampa Bay Coast they stopped several times including at a secluded rural area where
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they hid out for over a day here he wrote letters detailing what he'd done a confession and this chilling farewell to
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their children Alisa read an excerpt we should have never gone down the road of divorce that tore our family apart so we
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have ended it for your sake and we'll be watching you from Heaven Alisa says Trevor raped her two
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more times I just need to stay alive I just need to stay alive on the morning of March 13th Trevor drove to Little
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Harbor a resort area where they used to go as a family Alisa says Trevor pulled the SUV over parked right behind a
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dumpster and climbed into the back seat and a rope came over my head and came around my neck is there
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any doubt in your mind what he's attempting to do at that moment no he is he is killing me behind a dumpster
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suddenly he's behind me and he lets go and he Dove through the car jumped into the driver's
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seat and took off Trevor believed he'd been spotted there's no talking he is laser focus and he is driving
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panicked he pulled into this carport he pulls out the razor blade and he starts slitting his throat I'm screaming at him
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to stop and at this point then the police come up around guns drawn screaming Alisa remembers an officer
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helping her he puts me right into the front seat and he gets in and he takes off goes down this road just takes off
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and boom you're out of here that fast suddenly I'm saved I've been pulled from Hell following Alisa's rescue
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investigators took these photographs while still receiving medical attention Alisa told her story
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my hands were behind my back and he slipped my wrist and I just kept begging and begging please don't kill me please
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don't kill me Trevor Summers also spoke to investigators from his hospital bed where his wounds were stitched up law
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enforcement says it amounted to a confession what did you tie her up with just some rope nylon rope I grabbed the
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pillow and put her over her face but bizarrely Trevor also claimed Alisa voluntarily went along with him and she
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willingly let me tire up Trevor was later charged with 11 counts including attempted murder
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kidnapping sexual battery and child neglect Trevor pleaded not guilty but a L's ordeal was far from over she would
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come face to face with Trevor yet again at his trop learn more about Alisa's 55-hour
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ordeal at 48 [Music] hours.com I'm not afraid of him anymore and I'm going to say this is what happened and this is
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what you did by 2022 5 years had passed since Trevor summers's arrest on charges
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including attempted murder kidnapping and sexual battery during that time the couple's
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divorce was finalized now after legal and covid related delays a jury would decide if Trevor's mission had been to
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kill a Lisa or to reconcile with her there was no murderous intent he stopped otherwise she would would be
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dead Anthony maresi Trevor summers's courta appointed attorney says his client believes he did nothing illegal
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so when his mind he could see consent he would think that he could show everyone
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that no crime was committed even though she's tied up even though though there's
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been alleged physical violence he still believed that the sex they had was consensual yes I mean in his mind if
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there's tying up or other things happen those were temporary then from there she
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would consent I've never had a client like Mr Summers he was always a gentleman always very polite and very
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intelligent but he doesn't understand the distinction between consent and acquiescence maresi was the latest of
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seven different lawyers who had been on and off the case Trevor Summer's plan was always to take Alisa and to harm her
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that night Jennifer Johnson and Jessica ok' Conor prosecutors with the Hillsboro
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County State Attorneys Office built the case against Trevor Summers the strongest evidence that we have was the
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post Maranda statement and grabbed the pillow and put her over her face the handwritten confession
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as well as the videotaped confession and I woke Alisa up and I have been holding
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her against her will those pieces of evidence would play a crucial role as Trevor Summers trial began in August
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2022 Alisa Summers thought she was living out the last few days of her life she believed that the defendant Trevor
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Summers was going to kill her the testimony from Mrs Summers will be that she was tied up that she had no
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alternative but there's some inconsistencies this case in many ways rests on your shoulders your ability to
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deliver so as you take the stand what's going through your mind oh gosh what's going through my mind was just tell them
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what happened used the Christmas lights to tie me to the bed rails and Ed the vacuum Court to go underneath the
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mattress over the course of several hours the prosecution questioned Alisa regarding Trevor's actions point being
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hog tied the pain was so incredible he pushed down the pillow on my face the prosecutors
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anticipated the defense would question if Alisa was raped or consented to having sex so they raised it first with
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Alisa detailing the alleged assaults he started to remove my bottoms and proceeded to have sex with me did you
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tell him no no why is it that you did not tell him no or fight back because I didn't want to get hurt you finish your
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testimony and now it's time for the defense attorney to cross-examine you what happens so we're taking a break to
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then do cross-examination and Mr maresi stands up and gets the judges attention maresi
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informed judge Christopher Sabella that he had just been fired his replacement to now cross-examine Alisa would be the
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man on trial for attempting to kill her Trevor Summers himself the man you believe kidnapped
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you and at least two occasions attempted to murder you is now going to do what stand in front of me and ask me
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questions that was his way to manipulate and to abuse her again to represent himself defense attorney Mary was
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permitted to remain as standby Council but he was not permitted to speak with Trevor while Court was in session
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Alisa's questioning by her ex-husband her alleged Tormentor went on for more than 4 hours much of it focused on the
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issue of consent did I threaten you before you to have sex with at times Alisa refused to look at Trevor focusing
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instead on the jury and objects in the courtroom I was in my head starting off him standing in front of me and
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questioning me about the things he did to me how is this how is this possible and then as it went on my confidence
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built you did tie me up you did attack me and you did break into my home when when I was sleeping you raped me so
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you're calling it rape it is that is the definition of rape to come into someone's home and attack them and tie
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them up and then have sex with them that is the definition of rape that was the probably the most powerful incident
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situation in the entire trial Trevor also questioned some of his own children not shown on camera about the events
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that night Brin thir 1 years old at the time of trial do you remember Miss BR if
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um if I was yelling anything back at mommy no and Arden 19 at the trial Arden did you ever see us physically fighting
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in the home when you came in not physically no Sergeant Edward Remia was asked about
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that hospital interview he conducted with Trevor after he was treated for the self-inflicted knife w wound Summers
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argued that despite seeming coherent and agreeing to be interviewed he was not in
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stable enough condition to have been questioned did you see me before uh the surgery I'm not aware that you had any
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surgery did you notice a large cut and stitches and bandages on my NE again I think we're probably going to differ on
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our definition of getting stitches in surgery now the man that you interviewed is cross-examining you have had you ever
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had that happen in your career before I've never had that happen before never never it just poses you know a unique
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set of circumstances when he's interviewing his own children when he's interviewing his ex-wife what's his goal
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is this his last ditch effort to cause any you know mental anguish that he can possibly do or is it his last itch
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attempt to show everybody that everything was okay that I was in control of the whole situation and that
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I'm not guilty of a crime [Music] after 3 days of testimony in Trevor summers's trial closing arguments began
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what this comes down to is a scorn lover the defendant was not willing to come to grips with his
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divorce Trevor had decided not to testify now his life was in his own hands as he
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would have to counter the prosecution's claims we spent a lot of time that weekend just talking just trying to
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figure things out I'm in a confused state of mind we're going through a divorce we don't know what's going
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on Trevor tried to cast doubt that he was violent with Alisa in her home that there was not broken glass or dsing
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walls there's not scratches on countertops or blood splatter and he question the legitimacy
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of that interview he gave to police at the hospital if you were in that position you would feel vulnerable you
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feel taken advantage of I was captive and possibly coerced Trevor also disputed Alisa's
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description of being tied up and held against her will at the Walgreens Park lot how do you get out of a car your
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hands tied behind your back in the prosecution's rebuttal Jennifer Johnson returned to the video Trevor had
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recorded I spent a lot of time with Mom last few hours and the thing that she's the things that
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she's told you about me being good at manipulation and control and lying is true tying her up
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that is Trevor summers in a nutshell true manipulative lying controlling it was now up to the
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jury to decide Trevor summers's fate and about 5 hours later they had the verdict is read tell us what you
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heard and it was just guilty all the way across all 11 charges a guilty it's emotional by Alisa's side to support her
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was Jeff Matthew whom Alisa had met shortly before the 2017 attack I just had my hand on his shoulder and I was
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holding his hand throughout it all Jeff stood by Alisa and they stood up together getting married in 2018 I think
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Alisa knows as long as I'm around her she's safe and and I will protect her with my life and the kids another step
00:37:54
toward protecting the family would come a about a month after the verdict at sentencing I suffered horrific pain
00:38:02
during the 55h hour ordeal Alisa spoke about the impact of Trevor's actions and did several of their children including
00:38:11
Arden who had been manipulated by her father into letting him into the house that night for 5 and a half years I've
00:38:19
struggled with what happened to my family especially for the part I took in it we asked ardan to read from her
00:38:25
Victim Impact statement well no one else blam me for what happened I did the guilt all misplaced has caused ardan
00:38:34
profound pain I've had so many issues with trusting people after what happened and just the guilt that I lived with for
00:38:42
so long before I finally told myself that this isn't my fault but most of my teenage years I spent just absolutely
00:38:49
traumatized because of him ardan's trauma was not lost on the judge who addressed her directly as he prepared to
00:38:57
give his sentence to ardan you should not feel guilty for anything that you did in this case I assure you of that
00:39:09
judge sabella's address to Trevor Summers had quite a different tone the testimony and evidence that I heard
00:39:17
clearly make you a monster in every stretch of the imagination Mr Trevor Summers will spend the rest of his life
00:39:27
life in Florida State Prison the judge sentenced him to three life sentences and Then followed by
00:39:37
224 years of prison and what a sentence I've never heard of a sentence of that length of you I have not my focus when
00:39:47
that sentence came over were the kids and my focus was moving forward with them we got it we got it we got it woo
00:39:55
the family once so broken is whole again the healing says Alisa is a process and ongoing we've already come
00:40:09
so far Alisa now hopes to raise awareness of domestic abuse sharing her experience and Recovery with other
00:40:17
victims and she works full-time as an insurance agent what she does not do is dwell on Trevor Summers
00:40:27
I've been dealing with him since I was 19 years old that man means nothing to me and I'm moving forward with my
00:40:35
life we have the life more than I've ever envisioned us to have now we're on the road to kids happiness yeah a healed
00:40:46
family this is a happy ending this is a happy story there we go [Music] Eric and Corey were probably at the best
00:41:17
place they've ever been in their marriage a husband and Father's sudden death his wife writes a children's book
00:41:22
to help her kids cope with their grief they needed some help and Cy needed some help but what's the real story behind
00:41:28
his tragic ending 48 Hours next on CBS and streaming on Paramount [Music] plus The Disappearance of Ray Wright was
00:41:47
a complete mystery there was no explanation of why he was gone the first real break is when your
00:41:57
Uncle Dean went to your father's house and found an intruder in the house did it strike you all as okay that seems too
00:42:07
coincidental our dad is missing and here's a guy in his house AB yeah 100% because it was just it was scary
00:42:17
so Ray Wright has been missing since Friday when he failed to show up for a meeting at work this case was a series
00:42:25
of mysteries you have a Am Pm soda cup just like you would pick up at the gas station the soda cup was the one piece
00:42:33
of evidence left by the burglar at the victim's residence in which we get some key forensic evidence a white man and
00:42:41
then that evidence is linked to a car wreck and as ground units arrived it was like the scene uh out of a
00:42:52
[Music] movie inside that van is just a treasure Trove of evidence a rain jacket covered in blood
00:43:04
and a letter I hand delivered you your revenge now it's time to pay me all that added up to someone's got
00:43:17
Ray I knew something bad was happening to him I felt it it was weeks to months to then years
00:43:26
without really knowing right years of not knowing yeah throughout the case it was clear that many of the Witnesses
00:43:34
were afraid to come forward because I'm terrified of them all of them you guys are going to get me killed like I help
00:43:42
you I have to go you're going help you're going to get me killed 100% of the truth what happened to Ray I don't
00:43:50
know what happened to Ray I don't know I don't know what happened to R officers in the family are left with
00:43:59
essentially a person that has vanished off the face of the Earth [Music] [Music]
00:44:53
Dean Wright was nervous where's Ray it was Saturday morning January 13th 2018 in Sacramento California I just wanted
00:45:04
to know where Ray is Dean hadn't heard from his younger brother Ry in two days highly unusual for brothers who spoke
00:45:12
every day without fail all of a sudden middle of January there's just nothing nothing no phone calls no texts no
00:45:23
social media posts nothing Ray Wright 55 had Miss work no one had seen or heard from him including his daughters Haley
00:45:32
and Kennedy my sister called me and she was like Hey like have you heard from Dad like no one's heard from him I
00:45:38
immediately hung up and called him and I called and I called and I called straight to voicemail every time so I
00:45:45
was getting increasingly concerned Dean had repeatedly checked his brother's house in Rockland a
00:45:54
Sacramento suburb and the shop rented in Rio Linda for his work as a master Carpenter nothing seemed unusual except
00:46:03
the Silence of Ray's absence and you didn't see his truck no his truck was not there you're panicked
00:46:11
at this point right I think the first couple of days was when it really started to get real
00:46:19
and serious I just felt really powerless over the situation and it was really scary
00:46:27
it was the worst thing that could have ever happened Ray's ex-wife Peggy Wright was also upset I knew right away when he
00:46:35
was out of touch that there was something wrong although they were no longer married Peggy still considered Ry to be
00:46:47
the love of her life was he romantic oh God he was super romantic they married in June
00:46:55
1994 and Ray became an instant dad to stepdaughter Haley then 3 years old he was meant to be a father and he was so
00:47:04
good with her he was always there for me first male role model and he always did
00:47:16
everything to the fullest Along Came Kennedy nearly 3 years later she says her father a loving Hands-On dad would
00:47:26
never just up and disappear he was like a te- ball dad um and he would like take me like fishing
00:47:36
soccer soccer dad swim meets he could do it all yeah he could do at all he was good at
00:47:46
everything but after several good years Peggy says the couple found themselves drifting apart he was so busy working I
00:47:54
was busy parenting and I also worked they divorced in 2001 Ry remarried and divorced again in 2009 I think it was
00:48:03
the end of a second marriage that kind of put him over the edge and that's when he fell off the wagon at almost 20 years
00:48:10
sober Ray wri a recovering alcoholic had stayed sober for most of his adult life
00:48:17
but when he went missing Peggy worried he was in trouble you think oh gosh maybe you know he had a set back or
00:48:25
something he was sober during your marriage oh yeah it was Ray's relapse after his second marriage that sparked a
00:48:32
downward spiral exploding One Night in November 2011 when Ry got in a car and drove
00:48:41
drunk he slammed head on into a vehicle severely injuring a husband and wife Ray then 49 was convicted of felony
00:48:53
DUI and sentenced to 18 months in jail I think that was Rock Bottom for him yeah Rock Bottom was getting in this
00:49:04
devastating accident yeah and hurting people in the midst of it Ray immediately stopped drinking rejoined
00:49:11
Alcoholics Anonymous and checked in with his sponsor every day I think the ray after that time was even better than the
00:49:20
ray prior to that time because he wanted to be in the best version of Ray Wright
00:49:25
that he could be just weeks before he went missing this is the last Thanksgiving Ray spent Thanksgiving and
00:49:33
Christmas with his growing family celebrations that included Ray's first granddaughter Ashton that's Ashton when
00:49:41
she was really small I love that proud mom Haley was thrilled for her dad he was super excited he built her a custom
00:49:50
crib he loved being a grandpa and she loved Grandpa Ray Ray was at such a great spot in his life he had it all and
00:50:01
then he [Music] disappeared by Saturday afternoon on January 13th more than 48 hours had
00:50:12
passed without a single sign of Ray Dean Wright went back to his brother's house
00:50:17
yet again knocked on the door then let himself in said hello hello and immediately I smelled marijuana smoke
00:50:28
and that's when I knew this is completely wrong cuz he didn't like that and I'm getting increasingly tense
00:50:39
about it so as I walked forward I saw a cup and that had not been there I took another step and a
00:50:49
half that's when a back door burst open and I guy yell at me get out of here and
00:50:56
I said who who are you where's Ray the man took a step toward Dean he says then turned away and ran out the back door I
00:51:05
immediately called 911 Rockland Police arrived Dean shaken filed a missing person's report and
00:51:13
pointed to the soda cup on the kitchen counter explaining that the Intruder must have left it the cup is full of Ice
00:51:21
uh it's full of soda Sacramento County prosecutor Matt Chisum it has a lid and a straw and it's sweating so it's fresh
00:51:31
when did you start to fear the worst Dean then right then it was crushing and you suspected Foul Play
00:51:43
yes [Music] [Music] Ray wri much admired and loved by friends and family described as generous
00:52:09
creative and vibrant had seemingly vanished with the snap of a finger no one has any leads as to where he is or
00:52:18
what happened to him it was the frightening home invasion just 2 days after Ry had disappeared
00:52:26
that seemed too coincidental says prosecutor Matt Chisum I think that raised everyone's concern to a different
00:52:32
level as days go by it becomes more suspicious Rockland Police Sergeant Zach Lewis briefly considered Ray's history
00:52:41
of alcohol abuse but dismissed the possibility of a relapse we checked his bank accounts there was no activity on
00:52:48
his bank his vehicle had disappeared off of license plate readers we couldn't find his vehicle anymore his phone
00:52:54
wasn't working all those things led us to believe that it was more than just him not calling family members back and
00:53:01
drinking Ray's family immediately organized a search we all met up at a Target parking lot and passed out flyers
00:53:11
and then we just spread out and went in all different directions we were doing everything we could and exhausting
00:53:17
everything that we could do the resounding question for the right family echoing at all hours of the day
00:53:25
and night where was Ray vanish Without a Trace he was last seen a week ago today he was driving a
00:53:32
white Ford F2 10 days after his disappearance police discovered Ray's abandoned pickup truck in a North
00:53:39
Highlands apartment complex in this really high crime area the radio and license plates had been stripped for
00:53:48
police finding Ray's vehicle was a break in the case for Haley it was just heart
00:53:56
breaking that was the first real piece of evidence I was like okay we know something bad happened to him Rockland
00:54:05
PD uh seized the car and collaborated with the FBI to have it processed for trace evidence in the back of the truck
00:54:16
brown stains barely visible on black carpet liner were later determined to be human blood that was tested for DNA
00:54:26
against Ray Wright's toothbrushes since we don't have a body and it was a [Applause]
00:54:34
match 16 days after Ray's disappearance something happened that would shift the investigation into
00:54:42
overdrive white chy unknown occupant it all began with a harrowing high-speed police chase through
00:54:51
Sacramento it was a very dangerous high-speed chase speeds of up to 100 mph there was a terrible accident at the
00:55:01
end of that Pursuit open the car anybody in the car with you this is one of those chases
00:55:08
that you watch on TV and it's like whoa Yes except in this case the guy who was responsible for that is much more
00:55:17
dangerous than we even know the driver pinned inside the vehicle with a broken leg was unable to move what the [ __ ]
00:55:28
California Highway Patrol officers cuffed the driver who appeared to be intoxicated the man's name Victor gray
00:55:37
he had problems with the law before and police arrested him this time for felony
00:55:42
evasion and DUI he's taken to a hospital for treatment and uh is under guard and is
00:55:50
then booked in the Sacramento County Jail it was Gray's expired registration with current registration sticker tabs
00:55:59
that caught the attention of a police officer like a stolen vehicle is that what they're thinking possibly or
00:56:06
somebody stole a registration Tab and just stuck it on their license weight a DMV record search showed the
00:56:13
registration tab actually belonged to a 2016 Ford pickup truck that had recently
00:56:19
been reported missing along with its owner Raymond Wright the registration tab is actually Ray Wright's
00:56:28
registration tag off of his license plate and so that's the first connection that they are able to make between
00:56:37
Victor gray and Ray Wright's disappearance and then 3 months after Ray's disappearance another turning
00:56:46
point in the case investigators got a DNA hit off that soda straw in the cup left behind
00:56:53
by the fleeing Intruder who finally had a name and it's one the police already knew Victor gray so now we have two
00:57:06
pieces of evidence linking him to Ray Wright the DNA match placed Victor gray inside Ray's home and at the center of
00:57:15
the expanding investigation turned out things were about to get a lot worse for gray
00:57:23
because his wrecked smoking van was a Smoking Gun here you've got a treasure Trove of evidence where was all of this
00:57:33
found all this was located in the vehicle that uh Victor gray was driving in the van's cluttered cargo area
00:57:40
Rockland PD and FBI investigators unraveled a black plastic tarp inside disturbing evidence deepened the ray wri
00:57:51
mystery the Hat you pull that hat out Ray wri design it was like a holy moment this is huge for us the yellow rain
00:57:59
jacket that is Ray wri's jacket and what was found on that his DNA um was found on that jacket the glasses glasses just
00:58:08
yeah and they're just broke into a bunch of pieces his wallet which appeared they
00:58:12
tried to burn a cell phone that's clearly been destroyed like somebody took a hammer to it right is that what
00:58:18
it looked like that's what it looked like yes we had to run the serial number on the back and it was registered to Ray
00:58:24
wri's cell phone carrier we now we definitely able to tie Victor gray to Ray Wright going missing but police had
00:58:32
not found Ray there was still a sliver of hope it was just really hard being patient it's still a hot investigation
00:58:43
there's still uh many details left to figure out perhaps none more significant than Victor Gray's cell phone it wasn't
00:58:53
just Ray's phone in the van Victor gra was there too the violent Collision ending the police chase sent gr cell
00:59:02
phone sliding underneath the van center console the FBI found that and was able to process it for its contents and
00:59:11
inside that cell phone was also a treasure Trove of evidence astonishingly there was a photo of a handwritten three
00:59:20
Page Letter prosecutors say from Victor gray to someone named Bob at this point we don't know who Bob is it was dated
00:59:29
January 27th the same day as Gray's ill- fated Chase with police and it's clear that Victor has grievances with
00:59:40
Bob and the Grievances stem about not being paid for delivering the dude to you those are his
00:59:50
words the dude yeah I hand delivered you your revenge now it's time to pay [Music]
01:00:11
[Applause] me let's talk about what was found in that phone [Music] text messages that seem to refer to Ray
01:00:30
Wright's possible kidnapping at that point right yes it took months but investigators eventually dug up a gold
01:00:38
mine of evidence from Victor Gray's cell phone there was a text conversation with
01:00:42
a woman who appeared to be working as a lookout for Mr Gray Ray out front of the shop texted
01:00:51
the woman California Katie in a series of misspelled texts it was 9:50 a.m. January 11th
01:01:02
2018 yes I'm watching out front for anything tracing California Katie's number found in Gray's cell phone police
01:01:12
identified her as Katie Bernard the text messages with ktie Bernard were invaluable those messages were sent the
01:01:19
very morning Ray Wright went missing last scene at his Workshop they revealed a plan of sorts says pler County
01:01:27
district attorney investigator Ashley englefield Ray W's house probably about 30 or 40 minutes east from here mhm
01:01:34
investigator englefield showed us Ray Wright's former Workshop in Rio Linda and its close proximity to a neighbor
01:01:43
Katie Bernard she happened to be living in a trailer next to Ray wri's cabinet shop so that trailer right there is
01:01:50
where Katie Bernard was staying that morning englefield believes Katie Bernard was watching Ray's Workshop
01:01:56
from just yards away she was in a prime spot to be a source of intelligence for Victor Gray she's looking out that
01:02:03
window and she's looking at the shop so where do we think Victor gray is on that
01:02:11
morning during the course of that text conversation we think Victor is out there on the road and he's waiting for
01:02:18
the text from Katie the one that would tell him when Ray Wright was alone at his shop it came just before 410
01:02:27
a.m. just you and him hun a few hours later Ray Wright would [Music] disappear I see right there we'll be
01:02:39
right with you okay okay englefield brought in Katie Bernard for questioning in October
01:02:45
2018 Ray Wright had been missing for nearly 300 days if we don't have reasons for why you did certain things okay and
01:02:53
you lie to us about doing the things we know you you did it makes you look like a killer okay are you a killer no Katy
01:03:00
Bernard would grudgingly become a pivotal witness what did Katie Bernard think she was doing this all for she
01:03:07
told us that she was only involved because she thought that Victor gray wanted to steal ran right's truck this
01:03:13
wasn't about rais truck this doesn't start and end with Victor gray okay it starts with somebody else you about to
01:03:21
say it who Bob Katie knew the key players including the mysterious Bob named in that letter who's Bob Bob is my
01:03:31
ex-boyfriend what's Bob Bob Manor Robert Bobby Manor and so what's the story then
01:03:38
what's the whole back story R Bob we're in a car accident when Ray Wright drove drunk 6
01:03:45
years earlier in November 2011 the married couple he struck was Robert Manor and his wife she nearly
01:03:54
died and Manor suffered multiple broken bones that left him with a permanent limp and lingering pain he was reminded
01:04:03
about it on a daily basis from his injuries and he could never let it go after raised DUI conviction He was
01:04:10
ordered to pay more than $275,000 in restitution to Manor and his wife he had occasionally made payments
01:04:19
but not very much police say Robert Manor was not a man to stiff he was a feared methampetamine dealer in
01:04:29
North Sacramento authorities say who had done time for assault and selling drugs
01:04:35
armed with a gun and Witnesses told police that Manor was enraged and wanted revenge against Ray Wright that gives
01:04:44
you a motive right the money and the Revenge mostly a few months before Ry went missing in a staggering coincidence
01:04:56
police believed that Manor while visiting Katie just happened to see the man who had smashed into him driving
01:05:03
drunk years ago the man he blamed for shattering his life he came over one day and Ray was
01:05:10
there Ray Wright was working in his shop about 30 ft away that might have been the moment
01:05:19
englefield says when Manor lit the fuse igniting his plot for Revenge that had smoldered for
01:05:29
years truck is gone yes and Ray been miss gone yes Katie told police when she heard the news that Ry was missing she
01:05:38
realized this wasn't just about stealing his truck I'm freaking out why because like it's obvious you know like that
01:05:47
what that he's been taken or hurt or something the cop tell Victor and Bob or Katie says Victor
01:05:56
gray later told her that morning armed with a gun he approached Ray Wright and punched him I think he then somehow
01:06:04
secured Ray's hands and he was able to put Ry into his own truck then englefield says Victor gray drove Ray's
01:06:12
truck with a bloodied Ray R in the back to Manor's house a few miles away I don't know what they did with r afraid
01:06:21
she might be implicated in Ray wri's disappearance Katy told investigator she confronted Robert
01:06:29
Manor she asked him about whether he killed Ray Wright and he tells her that he did Manor then grabbed her around the
01:06:39
neck choked her and told her never to speak about this again according to Chisum Manor's
01:06:47
chilling admission came in just three words he says I got him I got him I got him
01:06:57
we heard that quote from Mr Manor from multiple Witnesses I didn't do anything I'm not
01:07:04
saying you did like Tessa Trimble I'm not involved in it I'm not saying that you are in an audio only police
01:07:12
interview Ashley englefield spoke to Tessa a massage therapist who had treated Robert Manor's injuries from the
01:07:18
accident she says they eventually became romantically involved Tessa was very hesitant to speak initially and she was
01:07:26
also very afraid of Bobby you're going to get me killed I have to go I don't want get out of here it would take some
01:07:33
time but Tessa began to talk she received a phone call from Bobby and Bobby had told her hey come over to the
01:07:40
house we need to talk according to her what she thought at the time was that they were going to talk about their
01:07:45
relationship but when she saw Manor Tessa says there was something else on his mind what did he talk to you about he
01:07:55
told me he took care of whatever something he was trying to take care of for a long
01:08:01
time he didn't give me details he just told me that he took care of it he felt good about now when he said that who you
01:08:11
think he was talking about show about Ray right why would you think he was talking about Ray
01:08:17
right because he had a he had a problem with that guy he mentioned on numerous occasions he wanted to get that guy
01:08:27
it sounded to me like one of the only persons that Bobby could tell about this was Tessa and so he
01:08:33
did Bobby telling you what he got him m is that what he said I got him yeah everyone knew that Manor was
01:08:44
talking about Ray Wright and then the first time they see him after The Disappearance see Manor he says I got
01:08:52
him in March 2021 prosecutors charged Robert Manor and Victor gray with the kidnapping and murder of Ray Wright even
01:09:00
though police had yet to find Ray both men pleaded not guilty Manor facing a life sentence
01:09:09
without parole can you hear me Mr Manor had a very different story to tell I'm innocent you had nothing to do with the
01:09:17
murder of Ray R nothing to do with it [Music] it was still a missing person but we all
01:09:38
assumed it was a homicide did they tell you at any point we believe your brother is dead
01:09:47
yes ibe 3 and 1/2 years in during those agonizing years Ray family one by one eventually came to the
01:09:59
same conclusion Ray was no longer alive and their grief was compounded by not having his body to
01:10:12
bury that's definitely still a source of pain for us there was no laying him to rest like
01:10:20
he doesn't get the send away that he deserves prosecutor matches hoped to provide the family A measure of Justice
01:10:28
by convicting Robert Manor and Victor gray approaching trial chism's crucial concern was The credibility of his
01:10:36
Witnesses you've got witnesses who have history of drugs and drug use does that create a complication with the jury yes
01:10:44
all these Witnesses had significant credibility issues including another witness who had
01:10:52
come forward Victor Gray's sell M Chris Mitchell well I started off talking to him and I'm real comfortable talking to
01:11:03
him in an audio only interview Mitchell says Victor gray told him about Ray Wright's tortured Final hours in Bob
01:11:12
Manor's house what did gray tell you he delivered dude to Bobby alive though Mitchell claims Victor gray told
01:11:25
him there was plastic sheeting laying on the floor plastic everywhere according to Mitchell gray
01:11:34
said Manor had Ray Wright poisoned he poisoned me Mitchell says gray also told him that
01:11:42
Manor had Ray's body dismembered cut the body up they tell you what they did with it no he didn't
01:11:50
tell me none of that Victor was your accomplice in this kidnapping and murder plot there's no
01:11:58
connection whatsoever with me and Victor before the incident Robert maners spoke
01:12:03
to us from the Sacramento County Jail they searched my house they tore the carpet up they did everything like that
01:12:09
there was no DNA found well because you put plastic all over the floor he was good at covering his tracks
01:12:17
he got other people to do the Dirty Work people like Victor gray says Chisum we find all the evidence of Ray Wright's
01:12:27
death it's in Victor Gray's van the cleanup is done and Victor gray tells you that on the jail
01:12:36
call Miss there in a jail house visit with his wife after the high-speed chase with
01:12:43
police Victor gray made a powerful admission says Chisum he almost kind of confesses to his wife and brings his
01:12:50
wife into the no clean up the scene or whatever I to clean up you know what I mean he
01:12:58
said I had to clean up the scene as if he was almost bitter about it such a mess but he played me we believe that
01:13:09
Victor was supposed to be paid $10,000 he was pissed off because he didn't get paid by B that's why
01:13:15
prosecutors believe Victor gray wrote the three-page letter found on his cell phone in it he said I'm done waiting and
01:13:23
need a fat package to the day meaning the money gray believed he was owed he told Bob Manor to take care of him
01:13:31
because he had hand delivered you your revenge but Manor never paid Chisum says so Victor gray decided to deliver some
01:13:41
revenge of his own so white Chevy unknown occupant he was on his way to Manor's house with all the rayr evidence
01:13:49
still inside the van according to Chisum that's when police tried pulling gray over
01:13:56
had Victor gray been paid then maybe he's not driving across town with this Treasure Trove of evidence in the back
01:14:02
of the van the trial finally began in March 2023 more than 5 years after Raymond
01:14:11
Wright went missing since there was still nobody the case had become a nobody homicide no
01:14:20
body cases are tough to prove you lose a lot of information by losing the body we
01:14:25
developed every single lead possible in order to prove this case as Chisum fully
01:14:31
expected The credibility of his Witnesses came under Relentless fire the thrust of the defense was these
01:14:39
Witnesses are saying whatever the cops want them to say in order to help themselves I'm terrified of them they're
01:14:47
dangerous people they have guns but Katie Bernard who was granted immunity and never charged with the crime emerged
01:14:53
as a star witness at says Chism for her damaging testimony about Gray's involvement and Manor's admission and it
01:15:01
was something that Manor was trying to keep under wraps even though that he said it to her uh it was something that
01:15:09
she was to take to her grave in court Manor and Gray's defense teams zeroed in on the prosecution's lack of direct
01:15:17
physical evidence against Robert Manor and the absence of a body I reminded the jury that it been
01:15:31
1,889 days and no one on the face of this Earth had seen Ray Wright and this one was magical like he
01:15:40
spent W hours on that the trial says Peggy left her Imagining the unimaginable Ray's final
01:15:50
moments it's even worse to find out what it must have been like at the end for him how scared he must have been he knew
01:15:58
what was going to [Music] happen after an 8-day trial the jury got the case I remember like squeezing
01:16:09
Haley's hand and like thinking I was going to throw up like while we were waiting for the
01:16:17
verdict what do you make of the evidence against Manor and gray see a timeline of
01:16:22
the investigation at 48 hours.com how long before you got word there's a verdict the jury was out about 4 hours
01:16:41
it was late afternoon on March 17th 2023 the verdict was in it was the most gut-wrenching day of
01:16:51
my life Robert Manor and Victor gray were found guilty of first-degree murder and
01:16:59
kidnapping but it didn't bring him back so it was like it was a Bittersweet Victory it's Unthinkable that someone
01:17:08
would do something like that like you can't imagine that your loved one would be swept off the Earth like that April
01:17:16
28th the day of reckoning for Manor and gray before hearing their sentence they heard from Ray Wright's family I said my
01:17:24
dad God will be in heaven like amongst the Angels like where he belongs and you'll be in prison for life where you
01:17:33
belong will never be the same none of us you just can't imagine how it impacts a
01:17:39
family Manor and gray were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole gray never responded to our request for
01:17:47
an interview but Robert Manor insisted there had been a miscarriage of Justice I did not have anything to do with Ray
01:17:55
wri's disappearance at all Ray wri's body has never been found no where did you bury him I I never buried Ray R I
01:18:04
never I never chopped Ray R up I never had anything to do with Ray R's disappearance or murder nothing he has a
01:18:10
family that deserves answers they want to know why why did you do this I didn't I did not do this and there was
01:18:18
something else Manor wanted to say he claimed it was Victor gray and Katie Bernard who had plotted to set him up by
01:18:27
kidnapping and killing Ray Wright they come up with this and tried to come and ask me for
01:18:34
money gray and Bernard tried to extort Manor for $20,000 he says a claim that was never raised in court Manor was
01:18:42
making it for the first time during our interview what do you make of that argument wow it's that's a Whopper right
01:18:51
there's no proof of of anything like that in Chism argues it makes much more sense that Manor was The Mastermind you
01:18:59
also have this monster motive Revenge let the evidence speak for itself it's not people that gone on there said the
01:19:07
same exact phrase you know I got him I didn't get no money the remnants of Ray Wright's life
01:19:18
these silent Witnesses did speak loud and clear [Music] his famous yellow raincoat that he had
01:19:30
had for like 15 years like soaked in blood yeah I think seeing his broken glasses is what that killed us sealed
01:19:39
the deal for me Haley says even her young daughter Ashton was overwhelmed by losing Grandpa
01:19:49
Ray she always thought people were going to go missing I caught her singing in the dark songs that she would make up
01:19:57
about where her Grandpa went I hope we didn't enough for the family until we find the body it's still
01:20:05
an open missing person's case with The Rock Police Department at the end of the day do you
01:20:11
believe Justice was served yes Justice was served it gives this family somewhere to
01:20:21
to start over assumed by Ray's disappearance and death for years friends and family
01:20:29
decided it was time to celebrate his life I'm glad you all are here to share these times with us Ry was to me my
01:20:38
first best and forever friend on this day June 17th day 1,983 since he went missing Ray wri's
01:20:50
presence filled the room and the hearts of those who loved him him we love you Ray how do you want your dad to be
01:20:58
remembered Haley exactly how he is remembered lovable accountable creative thoughtful I have
01:21:09
never met anyone like my dad like I definitely used this whole event as motivation to do better it's all like a
01:21:19
testament to my dad I I hope he's you know at peace freeze the [Music] [Music] bird a famous therapist murdered I just
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[Music] it is Farm country Horse [Music] Country bucolic upwardly mobile wealthy type of community
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affluent it's a quiet [Music] place tiny unassuming house just a a simple Farmhouse colck has a lot of these
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yes this beautiful little Farmhouse with this beautiful Farm star you know in the
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middle of [Music] it in July of 2013 I was an assistant prosecutor in Mammoth County New
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Jersey Donna shako was alone she had just gone to bed for the evening an intruder came into her house
01:23:34
and attacked her stabbing her repeatedly one where's emergency oh my name is Don Shaka I just got
01:23:43
stabbed really bad kid just came in and stabbed me I my heart I'm pouring gushing blood
01:23:56
okay I'm losing Consciousness keep your eyes open Donna Donna I was driving home it was maybe like 3:00 in the
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morning 3:30 as I pulled up closer I saw big SUVs cop car lights flashing everywhere I was like where is my
01:24:34
mom and they were like well she has been attacked and she's on her way to the hospital they couldn't tell me whether
01:24:44
she was alive or she wasn't I was new into Major Crimes I didn't didn't have the experience at
01:24:55
some of the older detectives so I had never seen that much blood in before why would somebody do this who
01:25:04
did this what did she ever do to anybody you know on that night in the early morning
01:25:12
hours we got a 911 call from a worker from this restaurant about how far from Donna's
01:25:20
house are we standing right here this is about an 8-minute Drive they called because they saw a subject
01:25:28
walking through their drive-thru I deten police one of my customers were in drivethru were approached by a man with
01:25:35
no shirt but had a knife in his hand knocking on Windows carrying a knife one of the witnesses who saw the
01:25:43
young man she agreed to come in and give us a sketch everybody was asking about the
01:25:49
police CCH it was in every store people were frightened can you tell me about the tip I get a
01:25:59
call the woman on the other end says that she's calling about the stabbing in Colts Neck she said I think my cousin
01:26:07
may have something to do with that [Music] [Music] tiny coltsneck New Jersey sits just 50
01:26:59
miles from New York City but it might as well be a world away so in July 2013 this quiet
01:27:09
community was rocked by news of a violent home invasion where the victim was stabbed
01:27:17
repeatedly the only thing more shocking my name is Donna anako the victim survived
01:27:25
I lost in in total close to 3/4 of the blood in my body there's no earthly reason why I'm
01:27:34
alive none if I had asked you at the time to give me a list of 100 things you're worried about where would have
01:27:42
home invasion been oh no never Donna worked for a company that brokered fuel for ships on the nearby
01:27:52
Jersey Shore she and her daughter Kiren lived in this farmhouse on the edge of flower Fields
01:28:00
she was 20 when she had me so we're only 20 years and one day apart friend Sharon
01:28:05
sharp hired Donna decades ago Kirsten had just been born yeah Kiren was a baby I thought she was really Brave being a
01:28:15
single mom very [Music] young I was by her side all the time Kiren who now works as a
01:28:29
welder recalls what life was like just prior to her mother's attack we were going to the gym multiple times a week
01:28:37
Not only was she like mentally strong but she was physically strong she was so fit she did tough mutters with uh Kiren
01:28:44
I like that competition I like to show strength uh physical strength things couldn't have been any better at that
01:28:52
time that's when Saturday of July 4th weekend rolled around Mammoth County detective
01:29:02
Andrea tazi says they were having a heatwave it was humid but we had no rain or anything like that I mean it was a
01:29:08
dry night so Donna had her windows open yes she had her windows open just to C obviously to circulate
01:29:18
air kirston was out at a party so so I was home doing laundry I'd say about 11:00
01:29:29
11:30 um I decided I'm going to get ready for bed um I let the cat out I went brushed my
01:29:38
teeth but just as she was drifting off to sleep I heard what I thought was the cat I heard something and I remembered
01:29:46
oh I forgot to let the cat in without turning on any lights Donna headed downstairs to open the front door
01:29:55
for her cat but instead when I opened the door I saw someone standing there in the Split Second after seeing
01:30:05
this person on my porch I saw the knife he was trying to cut into the screen of the window that was right next
01:30:14
to the front door she says she didn't recognize the young white male standing right in front of her holding a large
01:30:22
knife I tried to slam and shut the door my fingers were protruding out he stuck the knife through the opening and
01:30:31
cut my finger um so that I immediately let go of the door and then he pushed his way
01:30:37
in I'm backing into my kitchen we're face to face it didn't register to me that he
01:30:45
was actually going to stab me but without a word that's exactly what the stranger
01:30:52
did he slashed my cheek and you can see that here and actually it starts back here
01:31:00
there was no way to process that that happened Donna's attacker came at her with the knife again he then slashed
01:31:11
three times on this side of my neck she tried grabbing the knife but only cut her own hand in the process did you feel
01:31:19
like you were dealing with somebody who was really strong no but I felt like he was very
01:31:26
sure like he was very in control of himself Donna was starting to weaken from the
01:31:35
injuries I felt like my legs were going to give out so I braced myself against the corner of um my bathroom right next
01:31:43
to the front door sure enough she slid down to the floor I was in fetal position and I'm bleeding and he came
01:31:51
over and it was kind of like he was playing you know with a knife and just started jabbing at me so that's when he
01:31:56
caught me here um and he got me in the back of my neck here finally Donna's attacker spoke
01:32:06
to her this was when he decided to ask me for my car keys and if I had a lighter a lighter mhm I just answered
01:32:14
him um there's a lighter in my purse and my purse was on the table back in the kitchen so he went over and was rumaging
01:32:21
through my purse and got the key got the lighter Donna's as salent ended up taking her entire purse with him but not
01:32:31
before returning one last time to Donna still bleeding on the floor he said you dead [ __ ] and plunged the knife into my
01:32:41
chest once he plunges the knife in and then removes it what does he do then he just walked out the door with no
01:32:50
neighbors an earshot Donna knew she must get get help somehow your phone isn't in
01:32:58
reach no my phone was upstairs in my bedroom charging Donna had no landline in the house but even as the blood was
01:33:06
draining rapidly from her body she had one pressing concern above her own Survival karston could come home and
01:33:15
find me I just didn't want her to have to experience any level of the horror that I had just gone through or any
01:33:23
other levels in finding me there dead so this is a mother's instinct as pure as it gets yes absolutely
01:33:34
yeah you know you have to get upstairs if you're going to be able to make a call for help right how do you get up
01:33:43
those stairs so that I don't know there was divine intervention that helped me up those stairs no doubt no
01:33:53
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fall she's a tiny little woman you have to imagine that many stab wounds and she just wed it she was not
01:35:13
going to die there former Mammoth County assistant prosecutor Lori Gart says Donna anaka was determined her daughter
01:35:21
Kirsten would not come home to find her dead she knew she had to get to her cell
01:35:27
phone upstairs and I don't remember my feet or my hands actually touching the stairs the energy that it took for me to
01:35:37
get up off the ground and up those stairs I was definitely guided the amount of strength that goes
01:35:46
into that is just unimaginable but the motivation was you yeah yep maybe I was there guiding her in
01:35:59
spirit once Donna made it upstairs she faced a new challenge after peering out her bedroom window she had a car sitting
01:36:07
right here right she had a car sitting right in this area I could still see the car was there and I could see he the car
01:36:13
was on and he was in it if I take my phone off the charger it's going to light up he's going to see the light
01:36:19
afraid her attacker would come back for her Donna did her best to hide the light
01:36:24
of the phone then just getting it to work became the next hurdle my hands are covered in blood my touch screen I was
01:36:32
trying to swipe and swipe so I ended up having to wipe my hands off wipe the phone off wipe it down on the bed and
01:36:39
then I was able to do the touchcreen and get through to 911 oh my name is donaka
01:36:44
I just got stabbed really bad some kid just came in and stabbed me and he stole my car okay okay okay just stand up on
01:36:50
me okay where did you get stabbed in the neck glood it's Cushing out and in the chest detective Andrea tazi says Donna's
01:36:58
ability to place that call despite her injuries was amazing but then Donna did something even more extraordinary she
01:37:05
gave a detailed description of her attacker okay do you know what he looked like yeah he was probably about
01:37:13
17 white real skinny curly hair blonde dirty blonde hair backpack it was pretty chilling to listen to
01:37:23
Donna and be able to hear her accurately talk about this is what happened this is
01:37:28
what he looks like I'm losing Consciousness and then hear her Fade Out Donna Donna hello
01:37:41
Donna Donna yes ma'am I I down for a minute police and paramedics arrived less than 8 minutes after Donna dialed
01:37:52
911 but her attacker had already fled Donna was rushed to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and into
01:38:00
trauma surgery it would be a few more hours before Kiren arrived home from her party to a house surrounded by flashing
01:38:08
lights I saw the caution tape and that her car was gone police told kisten what happened to her mother you were deeply
01:38:18
shaken oh yeah I remember at one point my knees buckled they had the SUV the undercover cop car the trunk was open so
01:38:26
I was like can I sit here because I feel like I'm going to pass out as Kiren was
01:38:31
processing the news an allout Manhunt had already begun for Donna's as salent detective tazy says another 911 call had
01:38:40
come in shortly before Donna's attack I was going to pick up my daughter and there was a kid it'sing from a driver
01:38:48
who saw someone walking along the road near Donna's house they saw saw a young man with a backpack and khaki pants he
01:38:57
was walking close to the fog line and kind of stepping into traffic and she felt that he was kind of a hitchhiker he
01:39:04
was on the Northbound side walking southbound and I'm afraid he's going to get hit by a car how old about I'm going
01:39:13
to say like 18 19 20 some something like that she was concerned because she just
01:39:19
thought that maybe he needed help in some way and was it car dispatched yes yes they didn't find him though still
01:39:27
the Good Samaritan driver had inadvertently given the investigation its first leave I felt that the The
01:39:35
Hitchhiker was my person it was too coincidental for that time of the night in that area for somebody to be walking
01:39:42
and then 15 minutes later Don is calling say that she was stabbed and there was about to be another tip not long after
01:39:51
Donna's 911 call from a F food restaurant 5 miles from her house they saw a subject walking through their
01:39:59
drive-thru knocking on Windows carrying a knife and it looked like it had blood on it employees from the Taco Bell
01:40:07
quickly called police you have any description of him yeah he was wearing um you know like those army pants and he
01:40:13
had no shirt he was white with like really like bushy hair but it was like long like the skater type hair how old
01:40:20
was he I don't know he looked like he was like 18 police rushed to the Taco belt and started canvasing the nearby
01:40:27
shopping center they didn't find their suspect but they did find something else so there had been a bolo put out on on
01:40:36
Donna's vehicle be on the lookout right and in the process of looking for this person here they found the car Donna's
01:40:45
stolen car this BMW had been ditched behind a movie theater it was lights on and and it was running so so it clearly
01:40:54
was an abandoned vehicle tazy says the car would become crucial there was blood all over it and
01:41:03
so we were hoping that we would get some kind of DNA evidence of our suspect did you we did
01:41:31
Sharon sharp will never forget the dread she felt when she arrived at the hospital to see her friend Donna an
01:41:37
shako only to be told she wasn't there I'm picturing the color draining from your face and the air leaving your lungs
01:41:45
like totally no this cannot be there's no way she has to be here did you think maybe she had died yes it turned out
01:41:52
with her attacker still on the loose the hospital had admitted Donna under an alias to protect her Sharon was allowed
01:42:00
to see Donna the next day an intensive care room I've never seen before it looked like an enlarged
01:42:08
massively enlarged cockpit wall because there were tons of machines behind her and she looked almost like a puppet
01:42:16
surgery was 7 hours I believe despite losing 34 of the blood in her body body trauma surgeons had saved Donna's life
01:42:26
but at a tremendous cost you may find the pictures you're about to see disturbing I pretty much looked like a
01:42:35
living caver I had 37 Stitches on my face and neck 38 Staples in my chest seven stitches in my hand and now internally
01:42:47
my sternum is wired shut and as for that final step to Donna's chest just before her asant left
01:42:55
it missed my heart by the edge of a dime is what I remember them telling me the edge of a
01:43:04
dime when she talks about the margin that the knife missed her heart by yeah if she was any
01:43:14
slouched over anymore that would have been it Kiren says as soon as her mother was
01:43:22
able to talk she had one simple request I remember her saying all I smell is this blood in my
01:43:30
hair can somebody please wash my hair Sharon says they got permission and then she and two of Donna's family
01:43:40
members did their best to wash Donna's hair as she lay in her hospital bed we were determined to see if we can make
01:43:48
her smile so we turned it into a ridiculous idiot session with three of us like a factory line we laughed
01:43:56
through our tears and anytime anybody would get too serious we' make it funny but her hair was far from Donna's
01:44:04
biggest concern she was sure her attacker would find her and finished the job she was convinced that he was in the
01:44:12
hospital and we kept telling her no you're here under an alias I survived I stood face to face with him I could 100%
01:44:20
positively identify him he's coming back for me detective tazi says they were pretty sure the young man knocking on
01:44:29
windows at the Taco Bell drive-thru shortly after Donna's attack was their suspect within two days a customer who
01:44:37
saw him met with a police sketch artist and was able to provide pretty great details on the person she saw that night
01:44:47
investigators then took the sketch to the hospital what did Donna say when she saw the that sketch she said yeah that's
01:44:55
was incredibly accurate she tweaked it a little bit she said that yes that looks
01:45:00
like the person who stabbed me his curly blonde hair he was like a surfer kid or a skateboarder or
01:45:09
something like that former assistant prosecutor Lorie Gart says the sketch of the suspect was
01:45:15
soon plastered all over mouth County and on law enforcement social media so people are obvious viously talking and
01:45:23
trying to figure out do we know where is he from who is this kid and it's scary because you like to have a sense of
01:45:32
security in your community investigators reviewed the cameras of stores in the shopping center near the Taco Bell to
01:45:40
see if they'd get lucky and spot their suspect hoping the more images they had the more likely the chance of
01:45:47
identifying him we were trying to go back and look at video from various businesses to see the description and
01:45:54
really to put out the bolo like this is who we're looking for security cameras had captured the
01:46:01
suspect once again the surveillance we got from the store over there was from the inside the store but it was pointing
01:46:06
outwards I see and it definitely caught him oh yeah you could see him walking wow as police kept looking for the
01:46:15
suspect Donna was turning a corner at least physically amazingly after Just 4 days days Donna anako was released from
01:46:25
the hospital Sharon says that was all due to the training Donna had done prior to the attack clearly she's very
01:46:33
physically fit she couldn't have survived this if she wasn't it's an amazing thing you were out in 4
01:46:40
days but as you leave the hospital you are also walking back into a world where whoever did this to you is still out
01:46:51
there right but also I wasn't going back to the farm I wasn't going back to my house no there was no way in fact Donna
01:47:01
would never step foot in her house again she and Kirsten moved in with family living in New Jersey then just 8 days
01:47:10
after the attack not long after the police sketch began circulating detective tazy's phone rang I take the
01:47:18
call and the woman on the other end says that she's calling about the stabbing cold snack H I said okay I said how can
01:47:26
I help you and she said I I think my cousin Brennan Doyle may have something to do with
01:47:32
that it was the first time tazy had heard the name Brennan Doyle he was just 16 years old his cousin told tazy word
01:47:43
was going around her family that Brennan was involved in the Colts Neck stabbing
01:47:49
the cousin had seen Brennan just days prior to Donna's ATT attack between July 3rd and 6th because he was up in
01:47:57
Connecticut for her wedding with his family he had attended her wedding he attended her wedding and she was able to
01:48:04
provide us a picture of what he looked like during the time he was up there for the wedding the photo she sends is
01:48:11
Brennan with long curly hair wearing camouflage shorts looking very much like the kid in the sketch and more
01:48:19
importantly on the videotapes Brennan's resemblance to this sketch all around town was about to
01:48:25
become even more important because of what the cousin told detective tazy happened a few days later she was
01:48:33
staying at Brennan's family's lakeh house in New Hampshire as a wedding gift and Brennan his brother and the mother
01:48:41
showed up there unexpected hang on this woman is in Lake wiip pasak she's on her
01:48:47
honeymoon yes and all of the sudden there's Brennan Brennan's mother Brennan's brother crashing her honeymoon
01:48:55
yes and the dog but what was even more surprising was Brennan's appearance Brennan's hair
01:49:02
was cut the next time she sees him he's cut his hair yes so that's a big red flag yes
01:49:23
Brennan Doyle's cousin told investigators that Brennan showed up just days after Donna's attack hundreds
01:49:30
of miles from home with his hair suddenly cut short similar to this like Donna the doyle family resided in Colt
01:49:39
neck former assistant prosecutor Lori Gart we lived in a very nice house two sons a mom and a dad the life of a
01:49:47
typical cult snack teenager it's a life of wealth it's a life of privilege doyo was a student athlete on wrestling and
01:49:55
hockey teams detective tazi started digging into his background he had never been arrested there was never any
01:50:02
charges filed against him prior to our investigation according to the prosecutors records police had been
01:50:10
called to the doyle house for what they refer to as family conflicts the location of the home would turn out to
01:50:17
be very important where did Brennan live so if you make a right up here and you go up maybe a quarter of a mile on the
01:50:25
left so that's close yeah the teen and his family lived within walking distance of Donna's house up the very road that
01:50:34
driver had reported seeing someone she described as a young hitchhiker just prior to Donna's attack I'm afraid he's
01:50:41
going to get hit by a heart when does the doyle family return to Colts Neck later in July with Brennan
01:50:51
and his family back in Town tazy reached out to the family saying investigators were canvasing the neighborhood what
01:50:59
happened when you went to the house we spoke with Mrs joyle she was nervous her voice was cracking and did this raise an
01:51:06
eyebrow for you it did we asked if Brennan and his brother could come and look at the composite sketch and if they
01:51:13
had any idea who that person might be on the sketch did Brennan come out he did tazy says she wanted to see Brennan's
01:51:20
hair to confirm what his cousin had told her that it had been cut much shorter it
01:51:27
seemed the teen tried to stay a step ahead when he came out to greet the detective he was wearing a hat he was
01:51:34
wearing a baseball hat I think wearing a baseball cap was a calculated move it might have been but it didn't work you
01:51:43
could tell his hair was cut short next tazy showed Brennan the police sketch of the suspect the same one Donna helped
01:51:51
tweak to look just like her attacker how did he react he looked away he looked at
01:51:57
it looked away and said I don't know I don't know he was nervous and he was scared and he got very quiet there is a
01:52:05
reaction eyes are down no eye contact people are nervous Mom starts redirecting the conversation Doyle's
01:52:12
family and his attorney denied our request for an interview we asked CBS News consultant defense attorney Matt
01:52:19
trano to study the case File and and I think that that probably confirms what they believe going in Brennan's odd
01:52:27
behavior and resemblance to the sketch and video evidence may have been striking but with nothing else to go on
01:52:34
yet tazi thanked the doy for their time and left did you know that was your guy I was pretty confident that we were on
01:52:43
the right track with him but we also have a duty we had other leads that were coming in so we were doing a lot of
01:52:49
follow-ups as investigators work the case Donna was struggling weeks after the attack the reality of what had
01:52:57
happened to her had taken hold I lost everything that night I lost my home had nowhere to go I lost my car they took it
01:53:07
into evence Donna you lost more than half your blood I exactly I lost I lost a lot Donna says that's when in addition
01:53:17
to her physical recovery she faced a new challenge symptoms um of PTSD started to show up I'm not
01:53:25
eating I'm not sleeping I don't care about anything I'm angry I'm sad I'm happy um you know every emotion Under
01:53:32
the Sun at any minute I felt like I was going crazy I was always thinking I don't know who this kid is but he
01:53:39
climbed through the window in that second that I fell asleep and now he's hiding in the closet you know kind of
01:53:46
crazy thoughts Sharon sharp says Donna's fear meant even friendly visits required
01:53:52
a new protocol including announcing her arrival every step of the way so as not to trigger Donna I'm going to come
01:54:01
around the hedges now and I'm going to enter the backyard I'm going to be touching the gate in 3 2 1 I would shake
01:54:09
my keys first which had bells on them say it's me Sharon I'm coming the investigation lasted through the summer
01:54:16
of 2013 Brennan Doyle remained the only likely suspect Detective tazy says investigators took the next step in
01:54:25
September we got a warrant to obtain his DNA his fingerprints photographs of him
01:54:32
just things that are personal to him when the results came back there's a fingerprint match then ultimately
01:54:39
there's a DNA match Brennan Doyle's DNA was a spoton match to unknown DNA found in Donna's car in a number of places 11
01:54:51
different DNA s and pieces of evidence found in that vehicle and really there's no reason why
01:54:58
Brennan Doyle's DNA should be in This Woman's vehicle he's a stranger to her one more crucial piece of evidence
01:55:06
was found in early October in the most unexpected spot repairmen were servicing an air conditioning unit that was on the
01:55:15
top of the strip mall they found the knife on the the roof right near the air conditioning unit a knife looking
01:55:22
weathered as though it had been there for months found on a bowling alley roof in the very same shopping center where
01:55:29
the Taco Bell was located and where Donna's car had been abandoned how important was the knife it
01:55:36
ended up being very important because the knife was from a set we determined that that knife matched another knife
01:55:44
that we knew came from the doyle household that had been taken months earlier through a Twist of timing and
01:55:52
fate the Colts Neck police already had another night from the Doyle home taken after police were called to the house a
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few weeks prior to Donna's attack following an altercation between Brennan and his brother there's a knife that's
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apparently used by the younger brother in in a threatening manner police are called police take the knife and the
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situation ends there was no charges or anything that came of it but they secured the knife in their evidence
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Vault it was the same brand name the same look it was a silver knife it was from the same collection correct that
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was kind of the icing on the cake to get a search warrant they had moved during the course
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of this investigation so we got a search warrant for their new home the search of the new Doyle
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residents also in Colts Neck turned up the rest of the knife set matching the one found at top the shopping center in
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late October 2013 Brennan Doyle was arrested what kinds of of charges was he facing serious ones attempted murder
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carjacking weapons possession these are the most serious of crimes that we [Music]
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have what do you make of the evidence against Brennan Doyle take a look at the complete investigation at 48 hours.com
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months after Donna's brush with death her alleged attacker Brennan Doyle was in custody facing six counts including
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attempted murder and carjacking he pleaded not guilty you have to look at the seriousness of the offense the
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prosecution felt the crime warranted trying Doyle as an adult even though he was 16 at the time and in juvenile court
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Brennan is looking at four years maximum in a youth detention facility in adult Court he's looking at up to 30
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years a judge would rule an assistant prosecutor gearhart's favor but there was a catch Doyle would now be entitled
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to post bail set at $760,000 which he did when you heard he was out did all of the fear come rushing back it
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wasn't so much fear as it was anger that he was even allowed to be bailed out the thought of
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running into Doyle terrified Kiren she says he even haunted her dreams I didn't realize how much it was affecting me I
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had no idea until I was like falling asleep and all I see is his face as prosecutors developed their case the
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details of what happened that horrific night began to emerge what does Brennan Doyle say happened the night of July 6th
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heading into the morning of July 7th 2013 musher he says he was under the influence of a
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hallucinogenic mushrooms according to investigative reports he examined Matt trano says that
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on the night of Donna's attack doyo claimed he was losing touch with reality and had gotten into a fight with his
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father he has a knife in his hand dad kicks him out and he kind of loses his mind makes bad decisions police thought
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it was likely that Doyle who lived a short distance away approached Donna's home looking to steal her car I don't
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know if his intent was to kill Donna certainly when he started stabbing her that became his intent to me what he's
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doing is he's getting rid of the witness Gart believes Doyle did not act like someone incapacitated by drugs Doyle
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drove five miles to that shopping center after leaving Donna's house this kid manages to ditch a knife he abandons the
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court and that's not a kid who's so high on mushrooms he doesn't know what he's doing Triano says while a lot of the
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evidence against Brennan Doyle was strong the knife the security camera videos one thing put this case over the
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top what is going to seal the fate of of this boy this kid is that there's DNA in
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her vehicle that links to him it's indefensible but as it turned out there would be no need for a defense
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in August of 2015 Bren and Doyle agreed to a plea deal in return the prosecution
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dropped all but the two most serious charges carjacking and attempted murder it was very important for me that he
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admit his guilt if he took the plea he would have to confess his guilt to the court in October 2015 Brennan Doyle now
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18 years old appeared in mammouth County superior court for sentencing Donna who'd attended every
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court appearance was there to face him one last time even though I felt overpowered by fear I wanted him to see
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me as strong and as a Survivor it was an emotional day for Kiren there to support her mother when
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you would look at him in court what do you remember feeling ah anger just very angry
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sorry the drugs turned me into the monster that night Doyle was permitted to address the court I pray and hope her
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wounds will lessen and she will recover eventually I am asking you to forgive me
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going to prison will be the hardest thing I will ever have to face in my life I'm
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afraid Brennan Doyle was sentenced to 15 years in state prison the law requires him to serve at least 85% of that time
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justice has to be done on both sides and we we have to be sensitive to that we have a 16-year-old kid who for the most
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part had absolutely no prior history the court has a balancing act to do did it feel like
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justice it did not what would have felt like justice to you more like 30 years 40 years 50
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years if not longer even with Doyle off the streets Donna was still struggling she had found
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PTSD and domestic violence support groups but says there were none for victims of random attacks so in 2015 she
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decided to create her own survivors of violent crimes reason we took to the support group was
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to help each other cope Donna connected with fellow survivors Tiffany at and Dana Richards together they held
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meetings and felt gratified they could help when more survivors joined they're finding relief and knowing that they're
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not alone but Donna says her work isn't done her future plans include helping victims connect with trauma therapists
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and offering self-defense classes as she grows her support group she's also educating others she travels to
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prisons meeting with inmates and addresses police Cadets so they can understand the victim's point of view I
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got up I made it up the stairs to my bedroom where my cell phone was but I got through to
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911 she survives and she's building a life how could any would not applaud that Donna says the physical scars that
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remain are a reminder of the surgeons who saved her life this is artwork your beautiful
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artwork you could either get sucked into the darkness or you just keep going I did what I had to do to to be
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here today and go another day [Music] a mother disappears evidence points to homicide and she's nowhere to be found
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the suspect is gone too leading US Marshals on a Relentless Manhunt he was using the railways to move around
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hopping trains the chase is on Justice is coming 48 Hours next on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus
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