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He said Rowena was a good mom and she loved her son, but it did get to the point where it was all too much. Like
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Rowena didn't want to grow up so quickly. She wanted to be young. She wanted to have fun, go out, see other
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people. She's 20, remember? >> So she and Thomas split up, but they never actually divorced. Now, he said
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that he knew most of the people who were out with Rowena that night, but he didn't know Ruby. He did know Cooper. I
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mean, they partied together, but they're not like [music] best friends or anything. And you know, as we were
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talking to Thomas and he tells us the thing about like their dads being on the bank board [music] together, like you
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could see like the wheels start turning in his head and he's like, you know, Cooper was always getting in trouble and
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like that might not have been a good look for his dad. So he's like, I could see a world where Cooper doesn't have
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more of a record because when you have the right connections, life is a bit easier for you. If Cooper had anything
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to do with the [music] deaths of Melody or Rowena or Rhonda, like nobody in his family would I mean who again this is
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like the kind nobody wanted anyone to know that kind of stuff, >> right? >> So there's like all this smoke.
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>> Mhm. >> But there is no fire. Though at the end of the day, the one thing that [music]
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is excruciatingly clear is that authorities need to take another hard look at Rowena's case. She thinks
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Rowena's son, Brandon, deserves to know what really happened to his mom. Rowena was so young when she died. She was a
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talented rodeo rider, a kind, fun person, and a mom just [music] trying to figure out how to give her son a good
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life. And we believe that someone decided to cut that life short. and the Wilkinson Zapelac family want justice.