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The killer claims to have an IQ of over 150. If I'm chipping away at that timeline,
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it can be exculpatory for you. Meaning that it excludes you as a suspect. I know my vernacular is very good, so
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you don't have to explain your words to me. Little does he know he's about to show
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exactly what you shouldn't do in a police interrogation. I wasn't in the car. I was at the
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Starbucks. Did you lie to me? I didn't I didn't get you on that one. I feel like I got you.
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On the 17th of February, 2019, David Wright and his friend Christopher headed to a drug deal on a street corner at
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3:40 a.m. Except this was no ordinary drug deal. It was actually a setup for a robbery on both sides. David demanded
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his buyers hand over their belongings to which they responded by pepper spraying
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Chris and running. Seconds later, David drew a revolver from his waist and fired
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a single shot into Raul Cuadros's chest, killing him instantly. David and Chris fled the scene and buried the revolver
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in a field and went about their nights confident there was no way they could be caught. But unfortunately, they were
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almost immediately identified through multiple cameras around the area everything went down in. David was
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brought in two days later, but still believed the cops would never find him guilty and that his extraordinary
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intellect would carry him through the case. How wrong he was. So, like I said, I mean, it's already
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been in the media. People Four people have been arrested. It's not like we don't know what
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happened to some extent, you know? But there's always more that we don't know from every single
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party, right? Everybody has a little piece of the puzzle. We don't necessarily get the truth from
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everybody. So, I would like to hear from you what happened. Well, I have no clue what to say.
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I'm just now hearing about this. So. I mean, the whole I don't know what you're talking about
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is kind of out the door at this point. I got several people who already identified you. You're identified on
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video. So, it's not a question of that you were there. It's more a question of what led up to this. Cuz I
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don't think this is what was actually supposed to happen, right? So, you're just going to play that that
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you have no idea what happened cuz you weren't there. I was not. No. Not only was David identified by
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multiple people through CCTV footage, but he also had no alibi and Facebook messages were recovered discussing
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details of the alleged drug deal. David was there at the time of the murder. The
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detective is just trying to uncover the details of exactly what happened and why. But, David is having none of it and
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has a plan to outplay the detectives. It's not helpful to you, really, to just be quiet and not say anything. Cuz what
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I have are people who are looking out for themselves because they don't want to catch charge. So, they're going to
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dime you off. They're not looking out for you. So, you believe somebody that's going to
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tell you that somebody else did something to save their own ass. Well, with all the additional evidence,
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yes. Mhm. I've been out of jail for all of a week and a half. I've spent almost every
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minute of it with my girlfriend. As for did I plan to kill anybody, did I kill anybody? No, I didn't.
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So, when I look at the GPS on your phone, it's not going to tell me that it's going to tell me that you were with
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your girlfriend the whole time. That you never were or over at Jackie's house. It should.
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The only reason you might tell me that is cuz maybe you didn't take the phone. Or maybe somebody else had my phone.
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It's been known to happen. Quite often, actually. My phone has been I left it in one
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person's car and it took me a day and a half to get it back. When was that? I don't know. That was earlier in the
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week and then I let somebody use my phone. They were supposed to just go to 7-Eleven to go meet somebody they were
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selling something to on Oper Up. Mhm. And they had apparently seven or eight things that they had to do between then
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and when they got back to the house. So, what day was that? I don't remember. And who was that?
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That was the guy that goes by Memphis. His nickname, I think, is first name is Joe.
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Black guy. David's only current alibi and defense is that maybe somebody else had his
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phone and was at the drug deal instead. He also backs up his story by saying he doesn't remember exactly which day
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everything occurred on, something that can't directly be proven or disproven. However, for this to be true, that
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person with his phone would also have to dress exactly the same as David, have access to his Facebook account, and
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according to his own description of the perp, change the color of his skin. It's
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not looking too likely. You know why you're here and what's going on. I mean, at this point, you're
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literally the last person we talked to, and the only person that has a an allegiance to you
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is Chris. I mean, obviously, people are not going to be shy about telling us who
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was there and who did what. And plus, we have video. There's video at the Chevron. There's
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video at the Shell. You know that we have all your co-suspects under arrest. All I want from you is a reason. I
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understand what happened. I just need to know why. The only person I know you have under
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arrest is Chris. Okay. We have Cody under arrest, and we have Tannehill, is his name, right?
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Right. He's in custody as well. We have his car. The car that was used, the car that was at Chevron, in our
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impound. They are all under arrest. Chris is under arrest because we viewed messages on the phones
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that organized picking you up. Those same messages from you to Cody. We have them on their phone.
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We've already viewed them. We have the Facebook communications between Chris and Breanna setting up the deal that
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happened where you guys showed up at the Chevron and walked down. This is how this played out. Your
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girlfriend's going to be dumb enough to provide you an alibi on a murder charge and then she's going to get roped up in
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a murder as an accessory. If you care about that person, you have just set her up for failure.
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And if you want your girlfriend jammed up cuz you just set her up for it, then that's your choice.
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Yeah. Can't threaten me with jamming her up. It's not a threat, man. I'm just telling
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you how it plays out. Like I'm going to go talk to her and she's going to be dumb enough to lie for you when I got
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video evidence that she you weren't with her. Dude, I get it. Like you had a quick
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come up, right? I I get it. I don't I don't think you were a stone-cold killer. I don't.
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Like if you accidentally shot the dude cuz you flinched or you got scared cuz of something he did, now is the
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time. If you come up with that stuff later, nobody is going to believe a word you say.
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How does somebody accidentally shoot somebody? Cuz if your finger's on the trigger,
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it's called a sympathetic reflex. It happens to police officers all the time. I think that's a term that's been come
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up with just to cover their asses for shooting people. Well, you can try to make it about that.
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I'm talking about you. I would know. Never shot anybody. There is a lot of merit for staying
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silent in an interrogation like this. In fact, in most cases, it's usually the best course of action coupled with
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asking for a lawyer as soon as possible. But here, David is trying to outright deny any association with the case even
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though he's been directly linked to it through multiple sources. All he's doing now is making it worse on himself and
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those around him, but his ego is telling him otherwise. Where do I go from here?
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And you're the police officer, reverse roles. You're you're the cop. You're sitting over here trying to figure out
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if this dude has any remorse for what he did or if he's just worried about getting in trouble.
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How would you proceed? I'm not worried about getting in trouble. I didn't do [ __ ]
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I'll just be up front with you. We got Cody's phone. The one that shows your phone number and
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your address. And the communications between you two. Like I have it. Like I'm I'm not trying to be a dick.
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I'm just laying it out for you because that's what met up with somebody doesn't mean that I
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went with them to go do something. This seemingly plain statement actually carries more weight to it than you might
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realize. The detective presented David with a piece of concrete evidence that he's saying puts him dead to rights. To
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which he responds by confirming he had indeed met with Cody, but it went no further than that. Again, it seems like
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nothing, but now the detectives know this tactic works on David, they can attempt to use the wealth of other
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evidence they have to slowly extract a full confession from him. Okay. So, when did you meet up with Cody then?
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1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, something like that. On what day? This Saturday or Sunday.
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Okay. Where did you meet up with him? Uh over by my house. Okay. And who was with him?
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That I don't know. Was he alone? When I met up with him, yes. So, why did you meet up with the dude
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that you didn't know? Because my friend Chris had asked me to. Okay. And so, what happened after that?
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Well, he had tried to proposition me for a handgun. Mhm. And I told him I didn't have one.
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Okay. So, did he say why? No. So, you guys meet up, you have this conversation, then what happens?
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He leaves. And how did he leave? Well, I walked back to my house, and he walked back to whatever vehicle he was
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in. Okay. Why did you leave that out when we first started talking? You thought that would be important,
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that the guy under arrest for murder came to your house looking for a gun. Well, if I had given him a gun, then I
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think that that would be important. Well, it shows his intent. I mean, of course it's relevant to the case, right?
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People buy guns for all sorts of reasons, man. Yeah, but in this instance, there was a
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murder. So, they went on their way. Just the Cody dude, and did you actually talk
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to the other guy in the car? How does he know who you are then? Maybe my name was mentioned when they
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were underneath the car. But he didn't see you. Unless he's seeing me when he's parked.
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But you didn't see the car. I didn't look for the car. Unless I'm coming to meet somebody at
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their vehicle, I don't ask what vehicle they're in. Well, that's not And again, don't take
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this wrong way. I'm not trying to insult you, but that's not very smart. You're meeting somebody to sell guns,
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and you're not going to watch around you to see where they come and go? It was returned to me by somebody that I
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trust. Okay. I would still be on my six. So, you clearly have an, you know, distrust of police.
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Is that fair to say? I distrust almost everybody. We're being honest with you about the
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information that we have. Trying to give you an opportunity. I mean, I I I mean, you've already said
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flat out you don't believe that that he has that information, but I mean, with everything he's told you, you have to
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know that what he's telling you is true. Well, whatever you have, you've got from
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people that may not necessarily be giving you information for the best of reasons. So.
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Take the people out of this. Take them out. Who cares about people? We've got other
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stuff. Communications and all those other types of things. The video. So, it's not just
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that people are telling us this. We're not relying 100% on people. If we did that, we'd be stupid, right?
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I like to think I'm not that dumb. We take a totality everything that we have. We know you're involved.
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And for you to sit here and just say that you you don't have anything to do with it doesn't make any sense.
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I think that you guys have me confused with somebody else. This interview has now been going on for
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over 40 minutes and almost no progress has been made. Forcing him into a corner with evidence doesn't seem to be working
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and neither does running through the events of the night or even explaining why what he's doing is a bad idea for
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him. So, instead the detectives almost completely switch up and begin to threaten him with the consequences of
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his actions on his own friends. Dude, you're not this guy. You know you're not this guy.
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If you were this conversation would be different. Yeah, I'm obviously not this guy.
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I meant I meant the dick that is letting everybody else go down for him. I meant
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that type of guy. That's not you. You have a reputation as being a stand-up dude.
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I think that whatever those guys did that leads you believing that they were accomplices and accessories and
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everything like that Yeah. would be their own fault if they [ __ ] hang for it. Really?
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Even though hypothetically you're the person who pulled the trigger? So, even though somebody else pulls the
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trigger, you're good with those guys going down. Your homie Chris, you're good with him going down.
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And I get it, you know what I mean, allegiance to these other two dudes. I understand that.
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But you're good with Chris going down. Getting 20 years off of what you did. You're good with that?
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If you guys have him orchestrating and setting up something like this, then that's his own fault.
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It's his own fault that you shot somebody. It's his own fault that you didn't do
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things the right way. That's his fault. I ain't shoot nobody. He should put himself around better
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people. Okay. You know he's going to read this, right? I mean he's going to have disclosure.
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It's not. I'd much rather not see my friend get in trouble, but if I you saying that
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you guys want me to tell you that I did something that I didn't do. Fair enough. I don't want you to tell me
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that you did something you didn't do. That's not what I want. I want you to admit to what you did do.
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Cuz it's not even a question that you did it. If it wasn't a question, you wouldn't be
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sitting here trying to get me to admit to something I didn't do. I would, because it's the right thing to
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do. You may not trust the police, but I don't want to jam up all these other dudes on a murder
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one charge for something you did, cuz it's not right in my mind that other people go down for something that
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serious off of what somebody else did. So, I do care about that. That's why I'm talking to you.
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Well, you're talking to the wrong guy. You don't care about those dudes? I'm not saying I don't care about them.
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I'm saying that you're talking to the wrong guy, because I didn't do [ __ ] I said I think that
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That's what innocent people say. Innocent people that actually give a Yeah. No. You know how many people I've
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had in that chair, man? Thousands. I don't You don't give a You don't give a [ __ ] That's you. I can enjoy your
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time. I don't care. Then I don't I don't have any uh hard feelings for you. I'm just going
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to move on to my next case. I just want you to know this isn't about you. This isn't personal. Like you can say you
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don't care, but I actually think you do. I think you're being so With that said, so you agree that uh
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there's nothing more to say, right? If you don't want to talk to me, then we're done.
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Well, I don't want to talk to somebody that's going to keep on calling me a liar.
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I have yet to call you a liar. You've made the implication that I'm lying to you.
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Cuz you are. But there's a difference between calling someone a liar and then pointing out inaccuracies in their
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story. There's a big difference. One is disrespectful. The other is not. Have I been disrespectful to you? Have I been
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disrespectful to you? Have I insulted you or come at you hard or done anything I didn't say I would?
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Yes, you did. You were lying. I'm not lying. Do you not freely admit that you lied to
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me in this interview? Where did I lie to you? About meeting up with Cody. About being home, not going out at all,
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and then now you periodically are going out. You do not concede that you told that those things were lies.
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I don't go farther than a couple blocks from my house on foot to meet somebody very quickly and come back.
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Okay. That's not what you told me. I said you don't leave your house. I don't leave my house. I was home all
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weekend with my girlfriend. It's on tape, man. There ain't no secret. Like dude, I've got to walk my dog. Of
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course I leave the house periodically. Okay. But as for did I go anywhere So you were never at casino in
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Evergreen, anywhere near there within three or four blocks Saturday night. I just want wanted to make sure that we
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have this down. Let's see. Something How far is the Starbucks on Evergreen? Which Starbucks?
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The one on 75th. Yeah, no, I'm not talking about that. Okay, yeah, then no, I wasn't.
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Okay. So you're at the Starbucks on 75th? Earlier in the evening, yeah, like 8:00
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or 9:00, something like that. Well, that's not home. Did you lie to me? Can I get a smile I don't even get a
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smile out of that one? I didn't I didn't get you on that one? I feel like I got you on that one.
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Blatantly caught in a lie, it might not seem like it yet, but David is starting to get uncomfortable. If it's not been
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obvious throughout the whole video, the only thing he cares about is his own ego. So now that that's been damaged,
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he's immediately on the back foot, and it's up to the detective to keep pushing and try to get him to move just that
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little bit further. Were you with somebody? Yeah. Who? Another woman. Who's that?
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Not going to tell you that because she'd be very upset. Yeah, but it's a homicide. It can help
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prove that you weren't involved. How? Cuz if you're with her, right? That that gets my timeline
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tighter. So, you were with her from 8:00 to what? Not very long. So, you were there a half hour at most.
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So, you don't want to tell me who that is? I really don't. Okay. Were you in a car?
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You were on foot? I rode my bicycle. So, 7:30? How'd you get home? I got a ride from her. Put my bicycle in
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the back of her SUV. So, there was a car. I get you there? Feel like I got you there, too.
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Yeah, I appreciate I'm just looking for honesty, man. I mean, at this point, I'm
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I feel comfortable that you have lied to me several times. I'm looking for honesty so that I can rule you out.
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You asked where I was Saturday night, Sunday morning. I did. Yeah. So, Sunday morning,
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late Saturday night, Yeah. doesn't cover 8:00 or 9:00 in the evening. Oh, okay. So, then let's rewind. So, Saturday
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morning to 8:00, where were you? Most of the time, at home. Can you just lay it out for me? Why do I
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got to like pull it out of you? Like, just I'm asking where you were, man, so I can rule you out.
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For the first time in an hour he's been sat in the interrogation room, David moves his hand from his lap and adjusts
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his cap. His hands have also been moving around very slightly and he's been stuttering over his words. His ego has
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been properly bruised and he's starting to get very uncomfortable. If provoked, narcissists such as David are likely to
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suddenly snap in an instinctive effort to prove that they are smart and in control, but often give up all the
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information the cops need to catch them dead to rights. So, the detective keeps up his no-nonsense direct questions to
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try and get him to crack. The only places that I go usually. I go to 7-Eleven. Okay.
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The little Asian market if, you know, we need tubes and tobacco for rolling cigarettes, but that's
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not very often. Okay. Walgreens. Yeah. What Saturday did you go to those places? I don't need to know where you
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generally go. I need to know where you went Saturday. I probably went to 7-Eleven at some
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point. Any idea what time? I go when I need something or want something. I understand, but that's why I'm asking.
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Like, any time? Do you remember wanting or needing something on Saturday? No, I don't because I don't feel like I
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need to track every one of my movements and [ __ ] like that because I don't need to have a
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locked tight schedule of what I'm doing and where I'm going. As long as I'm at the DOC on Thursdays between 1:00 and
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3:00 and I make my appointments with Ideal Options, then doesn't seem like a big deal to me where I go.
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Okay, unless you're being charged with murder and the county is a big deal, right?
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Yeah, but if I don't pay attention to and keep track of these things, how the [ __ ] am I going to tell you where I was
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without lying to you then because I don't know exactly when I was there. Well, you could at least try.
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Yeah. Yeah, I would try. If it can rule you out as a suspect in a homicide, I would try.
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Yeah, well, where I was Saturday during the day has no bearing on where I was Saturday night, Sunday morning.
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It does. Absolutely, it does. Cuz I can show you wearing different clothes or I can show you wearing the same
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clothes. Right? That's pretty important. Do you agree? I can show that you were with somebody
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else and not with these people. People change their clothes. People meet other people.
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Oh, no no question. But if I'm chipping away at that timeline, right? It can be exculpatory for you, meaning
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that it excludes you as a suspect. I know, My vernacular is very good. Sweet. So, you don't have to explain your words
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to me. But, dude, you can act like you're upset about that. You're not. So, let's move past it.
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The fact that you're talking to me like I'm a child You're not I'm not talking to you like a
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child. upsetting What did I How did I talk to you like a child? Tell me when. You had to explain a word that you're
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using to me. Most people don't know what that word means. I apologize. being idiots.
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Okay, you can pretend you're getting upset about it, but you're really not. No, what I'm getting upset
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You're trying to get away from the fact that you called me a Cuz you lied. You lied. No, I don't actually think I
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called you a liar. I did say you lied, but I don't think I actually called you a liar.
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So, I'll call it to you now so we can just move past it. You are a liar. You have lied. Do you want to tell me what
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happened or not? Couldn't tell you cuz I don't know. Fair enough. Well, then that's
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Close the tape out for you, all right, man. Should have done that a long time ago
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when I said the conversation was over. It's okay. Whatever you say, partner. And so it seemed the conversation truly
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was over as from then on David refused to even say another word, choosing not to exercise his perfect vernacular
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anymore. And predictably, he didn't last long in court. Given that he made no attempt to defend himself or cooperate
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with detectives, he was faced with the maximum possible sentence. David was also already a convicted felon with
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charges of arson, burglary, vehicle theft, and 35 other misdemeanors dating all the way back to 1999.
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So, in October of 2020, 33-year-old David Wright was sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of
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parole.