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oh [ __ ] so 389 dispatch I've uh located the body the sc's about 50 yards on a trail this lone cop just discovered a
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dead body in the middle of the woods what is that sounds like it's heading this way top of body caring Blood Of The B
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104 signal 7 please send another unit to my location what he doesn't know yet is
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that the lifeless man in front of him has been tortured for hours by the Twisted man hiding in this very
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[Music] Forest whoever did this that's fresh little eyeball right here there some cepy [ __ ] right here smell this
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right you smell guas right here yeah they're going to torch [Music] him I'm not sure what it is but I've got
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movement east of my location in the wood there's something moving around back this way he carries three or four knce
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on him he thinks he's randow you're what I'm just like a god it's December 23rd 2022 and officer
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aour has just received a 911 call from a distraught man reporting that he's found
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his best friend's lifeless body in the middle of the Lake Jackson Forest officer aour along with a group of First
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Responders quickly arrive at the scene that's my okay y'll stay right there here they encounter Jamie the 911 caller
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and his best friend Robert both of whom urgently want to show the officer where their dead friend is considering the
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serious circumstances officer aour decides to follow Robert into the forest despite being
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alone 39 I'm 10 12 with him just just give me a minute I'm 10 12 with two I'm heading down to take a look 360 if you
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want to come down in 56 with m in the back I'm headed down to the SE we going to back that way about
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okay yeah knife was laying on the ground there's no blood on it did you touch the
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knife I did pick up the knife okay well we're going to need to get fingerprints from you okay no no problem
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um I walk by the top and you could see James um okay and then um Allan walked by the TRU goes what's that and he
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picked the TR up with with sticky on his hand and James was laying their face down and I Dro back and we left okay all
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right well we're going to need to get a very detailed statement from you okay sir just because understand well the
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thing is I'm not accusing you of anything but you have to be ruled out you see what I'm saying 100% at this
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point the officer can't yet confirm Robert's story but with a dead body reported he has no choice but to push
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deeper into the woods however alone with a suspicious man he's just met and a killer who could be lurking nearby the
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officer knows he must proceed with Extreme Caution all you just hang on that right
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here for me okay let me get up here and take a look what you want right here oh [ __ ]
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okay um and then please look that back pleas all right where's the knife knife is on the
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left hand of him okay on the ground got a white belt okay just hang out there for me
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[Music] okay Jamie was telling the truth wrapped inside the tarp is the body of James
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Laden Decker he's lying naked in a pool of his own blood covered in cuts and scrapes realizing the severity of the
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situation officer azour immediately instructs Jaimie to head back while he investigates further that's when officer
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aour begins to hear some unsettling noises I'm not sure if it's a person I'm not sure what it is but I've got
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movement east of my Loc in the wood sounds like it's hidden this way hey LT fortunately for officer aour
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backup arrived just in time providing some relief from whatever might have been lurking in the
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[Music] forest he's I mean there's nothing for y'all to check he's C to the touch all right we've got knife right
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here body here tents whole Camp spread up back here we've also got one outstanding what the hell are you
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talking about there's two people who live in this camp and one's not here and one's out standing at the moment did you
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find the knife yeah I got a knife right here no blood on it well there's something right there but hey did you
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still got those two guys 101 12 up front yeah they're standing there waiting for
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us good because one that led me back touched the knife so we need to get his prints and a statement off him the other
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one touched the tarp they found out what was going on and they took off I've checked the camp and he's the only one
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back here I got the name of the person he Wasing with at 5 or 6 o00 yeah so and I've got what looks like maybe his
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clothes right over there so he's naked and there's some clothes right there on the fire as medical staff arrives and
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examines the body more closely they observe a brutal manner of death blunt force trauma to the Head strangulation
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and something even more disturbing gasoline found in James's lungs and stomach detectives are left with a
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burning question why would a victim have gasoline inside him however this would be only one of the many disturbing
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details officers uncover at the scene hey s take a look at this for me what is that is that just soot weird off
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on that or um it looks awful shiny where he has been um just from what I can see but he
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is butt naked face down on his heart with his upper torso cover definitely definitely somebody
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put so I don't know what his face looks like if he was stabbed in the neck or the face the blood may be hidden by the
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tarp I'm not seeing any obvious blood apparently the witness picked up the knife and the knife has like a
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a there's blood on the yeah the tp's brown but there's blood all over the tarp like blood splatter it looks like I
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mean he was moved postmortem you can tell by the way he was Dr oh he's got his [ __ ] Leaf in his ass yeah that's
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Hollow down below you see that yeah that's crazy almost looks like they're carving OD this in the one eye you see
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that [ __ ] arti gas gas they had to cut that with a chainsaw right and it looks
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like gas right yeah by now officers were certain they had a murder on their hands the injuries
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to the body the bloody knife and the presence of gasoline all point to one thing this wasn't just a killing but a
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calculated act where the victim had likely been tortured for hours with this in mind officers would
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return to question Jaimie the man who had originally called 911 and what jimie reveals would soon lead investigators
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get back to the investigation officers were about to speak again with jimie one of the eyewitnesses and he would provide
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them with their biggest lead at so I heard arguing and stuff so I go through the woods go to this Camp MH so I walk
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back to the camp because you know people argue all the time about dumb [ __ ] been
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a while now and I haven't heard anything from James or anybody over there so I go
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over there to me and my friend that's with now go over there right so when I walk get to a certain point I see a tar
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laying there beside his tree which is never there talk is uh I don't even know if
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it's James or all right well we're we're going to we're going to get it figured out okay
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do you know James last name do you know James no man' no I'm telling about the person who did this cuz I know who it
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is Dusty McDonald that lives right up he just got the complaint this morning man
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come down there with the hatchet threatening chopping [ __ ] up called it in sheriff's department they come over
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they talk to him and they told him they told him that they going to go over and talk to him just stay away and James is
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the one who called no man who called this morning Rick okay Rick is the one who stays there no man but Rick is the
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one who stays there James is u a friend of everybody's but he was staying up there with
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Dy according to Jamie a man named Dusty McDonald Had attacked another man Rick with a hatchet earlier that day police
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were called but were unable to locate or confront Dusty at the time while this incident was concerning it wasn't enough
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on its own to establish Dusty as a primary suspect until nearly every witness interviewed pointed to him as
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well eventually officers had gathered enough statements to justify bringing Dusty in for questioning all they needed
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now was to find him as police began searching for Dusty other officers on scene would sit down
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with the two 911 callers to piece together a timeline according to them the day had started with unsettling
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signs that something was off more we both went down there we live right here we want to go check out our friend he's
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Rock up in Guitar okay sir came back I heard arguing earlier right we know who was down there uh arguing okay so I
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walked down it was I seen Dusty have James on the ground he was saying you shouldn't talk
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[ __ ] about this that you know what I'm saying hurt like oh they just getting [ __ ] out you know mean but I never hear
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no nothing from over there you know Dusty's real name or Dusty MD did you say that James called
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them today and said hey no Rick oh Rick call Rick James was there we're going to cut his tent cut
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threaten with a machete cut his tent up all kind of [ __ ] he call the police I help the police made a report and the
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police just said stay away from them there's a t laying beside a tree that's never there cuz I live
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here I took the stick went when I flipped it up I seen legs based on these witness accounts
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officers now have a fairly detailed picture of what likely unfolds just hours earlier they also have a lead
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suspect Dusty McDonald a name one of the officers happened to be familiar with I think they already brought up his
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name but Dustin McCormick yeah Dusty D supposedly General and some militia come down there this morning the machete and
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started hacking up some of the tents cuz so he wanted to clear the area said he's
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signal 20 in office meds they said Dusty they said Dusty is the one that outstanding yeah they said D this guy
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Dusty left him over here by later in the evening by now it was clear Dusty had likely been involved in the murder and
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with Jamie and Robert's statements in hand police began piecing together the sequence of events leading up to the
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brutal killing earlier that day Rick another man who lived at the camps had called
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911 claiming a Dusty McDonald Had slashed his tent with a machete while searching for a man named James even
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threatening him in the process later that afternoon Dusty managed to find James and Witnesses reported
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hearing arguing from the camp when they checked to see what was going on they saw Dusty on top of James wrestling and
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yelling it didn't appear to be anything more than a heated argument so they returned to their Camp however hours
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would pass and nobody had heard from James Robert and jimie began to worry and decided to go looking for him and
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that's when they found a blue tarp covering James's lifeless body nearly all witness accounts lined up
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perfectly with this timeline of events making the next step for officers clear arrest Dusty and bring him in for
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interrogation fortunately since officers had begun the work of locating him earlier that day they already had
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Dusty's address soon after they surrounded the house ready to move in I know that's him there's
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somebody Sheriff B put it put a knock down man come on out come on out come on out
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I'm not I don't have anything in my hand come please I don't have anything in my
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hands come on out I'm right here sir come on out dude I'm right here Dy dude yes turn around put your back dude man
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just trying to light me on fire dude y'all know what happened down there that man tried to light me on fire
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man it's all on surveillance dude listen D you try to do things stupid dog's going to bite you you understand I'm not
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even armed look here I'm not armed no sir sir I just left my house and tried to murder me down there and light me on
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fire Dusty's Behavior would be bizarre from the start immediately insisting that James tried to set him on fire and
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that the officers quote already know what happened down there whether he's trying to claim self-defense or is just
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completely unhinged is anyone's guess this yeah sir you know what happened that's what we're trying to figure oute
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man the Latin fire is that okay just listen we've got one side that's why you need to come with us I know you with the
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supposed killer in custody officers concluded the disturbing on scene investigation and began preparing for
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interrogation if Dusty was their killer given what had been done to the victim's
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body it pointed to someone deeply Disturbed that suspicion would soon be confirmed
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by now Dusty had already raised serious concerns he had slashed Rick's tent and threatened him on top of that multiple
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Witnesses had just reported seeing him argue with James hours before the murder however despite how clear things seemed
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there was one major complication Dusty was claiming self-defense he alleged that James had thrown gasoline on him
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and threaten to set him on fire this wasn't a claim detectives could easily dismiss especially given the dis smell
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of gasoline at the scene meaning there was a possibility he could get away with his crime even though it's clear who's
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behind the murder at this point Dusty's story now carries a shred of credibility
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detectives have one goal to break that story either by disproving his self-defense claim using witness
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statements or ideally by getting a confession either way the investigation is about to get a lot more
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complicated to move forward detectives start by bringing in people from the encampment who knew Dusty well and
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interacted with him regularly if Dusty had a pattern of violent behavior these individuals were the most likely to have
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seen it firsthand my goal here is to kind of get from your perspective kind of what you saw what you heard he ain't
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really been [ __ ] with me at all I ain't never had no cross word he's always insistant oh come up there do you
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laundry and I'll let you you know come up there and get a shower that's what come get a shower come get a shower all
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the time so I [ __ ] up got a shower and give $2 afterward you know just a gesture Rick explains that Dusty often
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offered showers and laundry to homeless individuals in the area sometimes charging a small fee this catches the
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attention of detectives these seemingly generous acts may be a part of a larger pattern of manipulation a way for Dusty
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to assert control over the homeless Community it's a detail that could support their efforts to build a
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stronger case against him I tried my best to get along with him and you know he had a shower that we all used you
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know sometimes try to keep him good with him for those reasons and stuff you know
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yeah I get that never my wife stream that I think he was capable of murdering that's honest truth I was just over
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there basically using his Necessities like we all were got a chance to you know shower usually offered
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it that's his way of making friends with us I think I had stayed with him before
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and he kicked me out I thought I was in a l so I was taking pictures of him and stuff like that with my phone I didn't
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even have a phone like I saw you taking pictures of me with your phone Dusty I don't have a phone said
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you got to go I left that Dusty lives in a house near the homeless camps a property owned by his grandfather at
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first much like Rick Busby describes Dusty as someone who seems generous allowing members of the homeless Camp to
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use his home for basic amenities as investigators continue interviewing members of the homeless Community a more
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troubling picture of Dusty begins to emerge he has a history of strange and violent Behavior marked by paranoia and
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delusions however officers face a challenge the interviews so far have been too vague highlighting patterns of
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behavior but lacking concrete details to build a solid case this leads detectives
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back to Jamie the original 911 caller and the person with the clearest recollection of events so far and he's
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able to offer meaningful insight into who Dusty really is Mr alen my role here in all this it's just kind of to get
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from your perspective your side of things what you saw what you observed man came to my Camp last night mhm I
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used to stay up there with him he's a violent person okay his Pap always want to let me stay
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there cuz he's the one owns the property the reason I don't stay there is because
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you don't do what he says and he gets all angry and threaten you and just crazy sh well what this usually car he
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got a stick this time but he's either got a stick machete or not he listen he's he carries like three or four kns
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on him machine sticks just he's like he thinks he's raino well Dusty had a reputation as a
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bully who routinely harassed the homeless community no one expected his behavior to escalate to cold-blooded
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murder his so-called generosity offering his home for showers and laundry masked
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a deeper need for control and manipulation the same people he claimed to help were also the ones he
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intimidated and threatened revealing a warped sense of power and superiority in the end this contradiction may have set
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the stage for the gruesome murder when Dusty was brought in for questioning his demeanor was strangely
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calm at this point he seems to believe that he is seen as a victim of an attack by this homeless man he didn't seem like
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he was in his right mind at all detectives were hoping to learn about Dusty side of the story but instead were
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met with well a lot of nonsense you know I'm an owl right you're what you know I'm an owl right
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okay you know what that means right yes sir I do okay thank you thank you this has been a this has been a really hard
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day sir I waved all a long time ago uh you know I I still have a great sense of Innocence
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[Music] within throughout his interrogation Dusty's responses are filled with incoherent delusions and deflections in
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Dusty's mind he's quote an owl constantly watched monitored and under surveillance it's clear that without his
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medication his schizophrenia is spiraling out of contr control and I'm handing it remarkably well if J man that
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was some crazy [ __ ] and to still be able to get us some eable Intel you know get
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why studing at that place is so dangerous for me I know a lot of trust is get to me like that but
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man thank you saying to talk about this Dusty seems to believe he's outsmarted the cops thinking he's there to provide
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valuable Intel as the victim but he will soon find out that he's actually a suspect in the coldblooded murder of an
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innocent man I haven't shut tears all day you know uh and I even I've been going hard you know I'm so exhausted how
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long you been done it what uh this kind of work not very long that was my first I think everybody knows that I'm me to
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get that you know uh thank you for this deep psychological R now uh is helping a lot listening
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closely to Dusty's words it seems as if he's openly admitting to the murder although his statement is scattered and
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unclear it gives detectives the impression that he's acknowledging responsibility without fully grasping
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the seriousness of his actions but Dusty's bizarre admissions wouldn't stop there as he continues rambling
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incoherently I'm just brushing and then uh as and then he throws a gas on me cuz
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you saw how I was red up down there dude I thought I was just doing for the other
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you know what I mean that was my intention everybody know that I then manage to hit that Neo you come out like
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that I don't know how I do it sometimes you know what I mean yeah uh I mean when
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I'm just experimenting in the house blad like before I uh back when I took the but KN and do it curv but I mean I don't
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know how I do this I just know my uh beautiful mind that uh am just it's a three-way you know it's the photographic
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the audiogenic intake and then the con yeah you know I if y'all don't ever think I'm so
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amazed that I'm just like a god man I I never thought it would be something like that but my God what that
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thing was while Dusty's ramblings could be interpreted as an admission that James was his first murder the statement
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is buried in a mix of delusions about retinoids his photographic memory and other incoherent claims the detective
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picks up on this and pushes further trying to separate fact from fiction in Dusty's fractured account for me to
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verify everything that I can see elsewhere I got I'm trying to I know you're not mad at that's just
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I don't want you to think I'm asking many think my person is I can't talk but I don't want you to think I'm
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being I very dusty claims he's not mad and that people don't understand how he communicates this shows he might have a
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twisted view of himself possibly because of paranoia delusions or mental illness
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what's strange is how calm and relieved Dusty seems most guilty people would be nervous or scared during an
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interrogation but Dusty is different he seems to still believe he's the victim and doesn't grasp the seriousness of his
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actions instead of taking responsibility he thinks people just don't understand him this becomes even clearer when Dusty
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asks one final question to the detective will I be able to go home figure that out yeah am I going to jail or we going
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down to dance we're going to have to figure that that kind out cuz you how this thing kind of goes from here I
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guess I don't know I'm going come talk to you about okay after this bizarre exchange the
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detective had heard enough to know it was time to wrap up the interrogation Dusty's lack of remorse
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and distorted grip on reality made it clear they were dealing with someone who didn't fully understand the weight of
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his actions according to the pathology report the victim James leaden Decker was subjected to horrific torture before
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his death his body showed severe blunt force trauma including cuts bruises and fractures to his face nose ears and
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mouth his eyes had severe bleeding and many of his teeth were broken the injuries also extended to his neck with
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heavy bleeding in the muscles and a broken hyoid bone suggesting he had been strangled his torso displayed several
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broken ribs and internal bleeding was found in his chest and abdomen one of the most disturbing details from the
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report was that James had been exposed to gasoline his skin had begun to Slough off in areas and a strong smell of
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gasoline was found on his arms thighs and hands gasoline was also detected in his lungs and stomach indicating he had
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inhaled and swallowed it before he died this made the murder even more gruesome Dusty was processed for forensic
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evidence and transported to the Lyon County Detention Facility the witness statements his vague confession and the
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forensic evidence from the scene were enough to formally charge him Dusty McDonald was charged with one count of
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first-degree murder and as of this video is upload his case remains ongoing