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[Music] totally cooperating just not doing anything Cooper sir I will be very Cooperative let's TR down please that's
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not you on the 27th food line parking lot Travelers Rest I don't think so look where's that I don't know where is
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yes you do it's not making sense so you're the last person to be in a vehicle you wipe out of a lady that's
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missing that sound's really 28 years ago this man kidnapped a woman and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for it 3
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decades later 80-year-old Edna subtles is spotted picking him up in a parking lot this would be the last time Edna was
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ever seen alive Days Later detectives traced Edna's movement and discovered CCTV footage of the same man driving her
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car she's missing right now yes Dan where is it I don't have a clue but that's when police found found out Edna
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wasn't the only [Music] victim if you tell him to turn that off I will talk to you a little more
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freely sometime around 9:00 a.m. on August 27th 80-year-old Edna leaves her home in traveler's rest to look after a
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friend hours later 911 dispatchers receive a concerning call look kind of one was for your emergency a fitter was
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supposed to show up to be with my mom today her name is Edna subtle and she didn't show up with this is not like her
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she shows up like clockwork so something's wrong but this call was only the beginning of a long chain of
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mysteries as officers arrived at Edna sule's home for a welfare check based on these reports they received no response
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there were no signs of a Breakin and Edna was nowhere to be seen however when police asked Edna's son he pointed out
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that $50,000 worth of jewelry was missing from the home more importantly though her car was missing too if the
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cops could find that they might be able to figure out where she had gone this meant that finding Edna's vehicle would
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be the most instrumental step in this investigation as it would give a clue about her last known whereabouts
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immediately a haunt for Edna's car began and 6 days later it was found abandoned
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in the parking lot of a hotel in traveler's rest this was odd as Edna lived close by and didn't need to stay
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at a hotel a check with the staff also revealed that no one under the name of Edna was staying there so to get to the
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bottom of this mystery the cops decided to try and Trace back Edna's movement using CCTV cameras starting from her
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home at 9:30 a.m. a camera at a nearby pawn shop captures Edna leaving her home and driving towards a local Food Lion
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grocery store 9 minutes later Edna arrives at the store to pick something up a man approaches the vehicle with two
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bags in his hand and sits alongside Edna who then drives off back to her home 4 hours later at 1:43 p.m. Edna's car
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leaves her home again and arrives at the same Food Lion once more but this time the person exiting the driver's seat
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isn't Edna at all it's the same old white man she picked up earlier who immediately moves to his car and Parks
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next to Edna's he then drags something out of her car placing it into his initially it was difficult to identify
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what the man moved from the Jeep to the Chevrolet but after a frame by frame analysis it wasn't a question of what
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was moved but who because in a chilling Discovery officers would realize the footage showed the unmistakable Golden
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Hair of Edna subtles 4 minutes later at 1:47 p.m. the man drives Edna's car into
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the hotel's parking lot and Parks it in the same spot that the detectives found the vehicle in he exits and begins
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wiping down the door and seats trying to get rid of any evidence of his presence
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by 2:14 p.m. the man returns to his vehicle at Food Lion and drives off marking the last that was seen of Edna
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and the man the most crucial part of this investigation is to now figure out who exactly the man in the video is but
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due to the grainy footage and his distance from most cameras this proved to be difficult and the investigation
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seemed like it would come to a standstill but detectives had an idea since the man exited the store with bags
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in his hand a purchase was made and this realization would be the most crucial breakthrough in the case immediately
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officers began retrieving footage from inside the store and when they reviewed it they came to a harrowing realization
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this was Daniel Prince a man who only 24 years prior to this got put in a federal
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prison for kidnapping 24 years prior to this incident in 1997 Daniel was responsible
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for the kidnapping of a woman in Michigan he had her tied up Shackled her hands it was by sheer luck that she
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managed to free herself before escaping even though he was sentenced to a maximum of 30 years for this crime he
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was released by 2009 on parole but the worst was Yet to Come d began working as a handyman for predominantly elderly
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Single Ladies a demographic that not only matched his previous victim but also that of ednas for officers the
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realization now begins to settle in they have a kidnapper on the run and there might be a chance that he has kept Edna
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alive not knowing where she is they had to act fast before this glimmer of hope dimmed even with this disturbing past
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detectives didn't have enough evidence to press strong charges for kidnapping or murder however they had established
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probable cause for Grand larsy involving Edna's Jeep a warrant to arrest Prince and search his property was granted and
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officers were quickly dispatched to Prince's residents to take him into custody totally coopera just do
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anything stand up on your feet yeah sir I will be very Cooperative despite the number of heavily armed
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officers that just descended on Prince's property he remained noticeably calm and
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composed as if he had a plan to escape this predicament the following footage was analyzed by our in-house criminal
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research specialist and retired detective to shed some light on key techniques and strategies used during
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the questioning when he is brought into the interrogation room the detectiv start with a relaxed friendly
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conversation a tactic used to put suspects at ease they don't want him to know they've caught him on camera just
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yet what what do you do now I do a lot of um Home Remodeling home repair I a lot of tile and I got a
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customer base that has me doing stuff okay well why Bostic North Carolina come all the way down from to say Michigan or
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Wisconsin okay here this is real easy um I'm originally from the east side of the
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state of Michigan but I was in prison in Michigan for a while and when I paroled
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I paroled to the west side of the state okay what uh what you get locked up for cuz he said he got pared I was locked up
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for a um kidnapping charge okay and um I did 13 and2 years for that oh wow I did 1
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and A2 years for a um false statement on a vehicle title you know when they're not sure if they're going to make
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something they want something to hold you with so the false statement that's all that was the
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kidnapping I was doing some bad [ __ ] that I shouldn't have been doing but I should have gotten kidnapping but I was
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doing bad [ __ ] what kind of [ __ ] what [ __ ] have you gotten I really don't want to
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say huh we're just bullshitting nothing when you're talking to two police detectives in a room it's just
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bullshitting okay I've been through the system enough to know that all I'm going
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to say about that is I did my time I made my first PR and I haven't been in trouble since hey and that's great to
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know you know lot of people especially being what you've been through they come out and they go right back to it just
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because he's a convicted criminal doesn't mean he's involved in Edna's disappearance but the evidence the
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detectives have paints a different picture altogether from the hardworking reformed criminal he claimed to be I
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talk you August 27 2021 of this year what day of the week was that it was a Friday okay okay so specifically the
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27th mhm what two weeks ago do you remember where you were at no specifically where do you think you were
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at I've been going all over the place I've been back and forth to Charlotte I've been down to South Carolina like
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where's your jobs in South Carolina taking you um actually I was down Travelers Rest but I don't know if it
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was Friday or Thursday I know I've been there earlier that week but you don't remember which day specifically no it
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was either Thursday or Friday what kind of job were you working on I wasn't you wasn't I wasn't this lady had talked to
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me several times I'd been down to her house two or three times we kind of got to be friends this woman has so many
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damn problems mostly her daughter she would call me and have me come down there okay she said she needed to have
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money at one point in time to help her daughter cuz her daughter was in jail then she needed money another time
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because she was hiring a private investigator because her son-in-law was she talked to me all kinds of stuff
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about it we got to be pretty good friends about stuff like that okay how' you meet her initially years ago okay
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years ago it was somebody given me her name or number or her my name and number here the detectives are analyzing his
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behavior and allowing Prince to dig a hole for himself that he's going to struggle to escape from when they reveal
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they know the truth he's going to try and deny his guilt even when the evidence speaks for itself what you're
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telling us is that's not you on the 27th food line parking lot traveler's rest I don't think
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so that's not you that's me where's that food line August 27th 2021 9:23 okay to two seconds bringing a bell
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yeah yeah I went down to food yeah yeah so what were you doing down there that day um she wanted me to look at some
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stuff at her house okay and she picked me up at Food Li because she wanted me with her when she was
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um going to go meet some guy for for um private investigator okay yeah tell us about that she wanted me to meet her
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down there okay she was nervous because she says I'm not sure I trust this guy and she knows I've been in the military
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and she says will you meet me she wanted me to see if this guy was going to meet
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her where he was supposed to meet her do you know where there was a hotel lobby that he had finally said meet me at the
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hotel okay she says drive up there and see if he's there and I drove up there and and things are starting to sound
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really squirly to me this is a common deflective Behavior Prince is not only trying to deflect suspicion away from
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himself he's trying to point suspicion directly at someone else in this case the private investigator according to
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Prince Edna wanted to meet the private investigator the day before she was reported missing even though she didn't
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feel safe meeting him alone luckily detectives have seen the whole thing on camera and it completely contradicts
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everything Prince is saying what were you driving I was driving a blue car your wife's car or your car my wife's car so
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that's yall coming down 25 you and her [Music] together it could be okay cuz that's
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their car that's about 1345 on the 27th okay so that's so you're with her there yeah okay I guess yeah yeah I'm
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not saying yeah I'm just saying that could be it's a different angle but I mean you know we've watched this
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car right okay here's yall in the uh Hotel parking lot okay yeah oh look there's yall yall
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backing in yeah and a couple of different copies of it backing in backing in yeah oh look you get out
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nobody else gets out I told you that you're walking around the car yeah you wipe the entire car down because I was
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worried you were worried or's you walking across the parking lot in front of Little Caesars
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mhm and there's you getting back into your car and driving away oh she's willing look man
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you are a good dude I honestly do believe that that you screwed up years and years ago Prince seems visibly
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stunned by the amount of photographic evidence the detective is showing him and even though it can't be refuted
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Prince is going to try and lie his way out of it but that's not the only evidence detectives managed to find
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along the way as there's mud on the wheels of Prince's car leading detectives to believe he drove Offroad
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to either kill Edna or to dump her body and this is when we arrive at the pivotal moment where Prince's story
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starts to fall apart you're not a bad guy right nobody is saying that you're some evil Twisted dude MH okay we need
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to know where is we've processed the car we found a dirt where did you go Offroad
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I never where did you leave oh I can tell you exactly where she and I had gone off road please when we were going
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from 25 South mhm there was off to the right there was a truck with a trailer and another vehicle there that had a uh
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for sale sign on it and it looked like an older truck and I need a work truck and I went ahead and I pulled in and
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with her and then we pulled out it was right there on 25 even in the face of such
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overwhelming evidence Prince still denies any wrongdoing and even tries to take control of the situation but
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detectives have him cornered and he's quickly starting to struggle to maintain his composure where's now her family is
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desperately looking for her she's missing right now yes Dan where is it I don't have a clue I dropped her off at
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her house Dan Dan please listen you did not drop her off at her house we have followed that car the entire day up and
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down 25 there's a number of minutes that are unaccounted for that are not by her
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house which car mine or hers dan stop playing games you know what we're when I got okay I can help you here got to give
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me a second you got to let me answer the questions when they're asked when I dropped her vehicle off
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look for the guy she said she wanted me to take her and drive around in my vehicle so I left her vehicle I went
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down to Food Lion and she was in my vehicle with me and I dropped her off at home D we watched the video she is not
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the car sits there it sits there man no no not in her car no my car Dr my car you did not drop anyone off man I picked
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her back up she said in my car at food line and I went back and got her no you did not the detectives are beginning to
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apply more pressure on Prince knowing everything he's telling them is a lie but he continues to stay on the defense
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even trying to brush off the facts that he might have destroyed potential evidence I don't know where it is yes
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you do no I don't damn let's go back to while you wiped the car down what what you said you were
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worried about what the only thing I did was because I knew I'd been in and out of her car all
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the time with her I'm like there is no way in hell I'm going to just leave this thing here cuz she's got somebody that's
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after her prince tries to deflect suspicion Again by suggesting Edna may have been in some kind of danger but he
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doesn't realize just how prepared these detectives are who would be after that guy with the truck she said she didn't
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trust him the pi yeah she hired as a pi his story is totally different he's been
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doing work for her I mean on the son-in-law thing I mean we've interviewed I mean he had no he didn't
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meet her so right that's why I said she said she hired another Pi I'm sure you're recording this it's not making
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sense of I mean you're the last person to be in a vehicle you wipe out of of a lady that's missing that sounds really
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fun it does it that's why we're here I've been real honest with you guys I told you what was going on the
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detectives managed to get Prince to admit he was with Edna on the day she disappeared while Prince tried to
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convince them he was helping her meet a suspicious private investigator they know it's a desperate attempt to deflect
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suspicion and distance himself from the crime Prince insisted he dropped Edna off at her home safe and well but the
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detectives established that he was the last person to see her alive and because of this interrogation they locked him
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into a lie that would eventually lead to a chilling confession when detectives search Prince's property they find
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several automatic weapons because because of his previous convictions he's forbidden from owning any firearms that
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means he could be facing a federal charge and be detained for even longer while he's detained they continue to
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search his land and find one of the most crucial pieces of evidence yet a yogurt
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cup this is the yogurt he bought shortly before Edna disappeared and it's laced with a cocktail of drugs lorazapam
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Tramadol and cyclobenzaprine can cause central nervous system depression when they're combined when this happens the
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body's neurological functions slow down in other words you're under sedation exactly as Edna was in the parking lot
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when she was seen in Prince's car after feeding her the laced yogurt there's nothing Edna can do to stop him and
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she's LED away to her death at the hands of this sadistic killer Prince begins to
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realize he's cornered and has nowhere to run so they bring him back in for more questioning where he makes a full
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confession as he admits to three more murders including the of Lee Goodman Dolores sers and her daughter Nancy Rigo
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the first victim was Dolores Daniel had euthanized Dolores sers at the request of her daughter Nancy rioo however Nancy
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began to have second thoughts and wanted to contact the police putting her directly in the crosshairs of Daniel
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Prince a mentally Disturbed serial killer Nancy Rigo was now his second victim even worse is the fact that for
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several years Daniel began receiving receiving ny's Social Security checks because she had given him her power of
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attorney moreover the search of Daniel's property would also reveal several of ny's documents since
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2017 after her murder Daniel pretended to be Nancy by sending her family emails and messages in an attempt to prevent
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them from thinking that she was dead Daniel's third victim was Lee Goodman who allegedly attempted to Rob him
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according to Daniel much like Nancy and Edna her body was disposed of in in some
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desolate area and finally Daniel's fourth and final victim was Edna sules whose body would be found one year later
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on May 16th 2022 in a grave close to Daniel's home in Rutherford County although decomposed officers were able
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to positively identify it as Edna and return the body to her loved ones but even in the face of his crimes he would
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never let go of his chance to leverage as much information as he could there was uh a lot of stuff F in uh your your
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be house there could be a million explanations for some of that stuff and I don't want to jump to conclusions and
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if there is something that happened that you didn't intend to happen let's talk about it there are
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things that have to happen and there are things that are going to happen and I'm a realist and I
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have acceptance with this I would like a little bit of control in how they happen if you tell them to turn that off
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I will talk to you a little more freely when they turn the cameras off Prince makes a final attempt to take control
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and influence the outcome in his favor Daniel Prince avoided a trial by making a deal with authorities he would tell
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them about the location of Edna's body and in turn his case would go Federal because of the better living conditions
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in federal prisons not only that but he would also avoid the death penalty and instead receive a life sentence one
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would think that the detectives were naive to turn off their cameras and not record Daniel's confession but
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unbeknownst to Prince the investigators keep the backup audio recording running after shutting down the camera this is
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the chilling confession he made okay let's put it this way a person I was very good friends with wanted to do
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something to put someone basic out of their misery that was very closely related to them that's one body that
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person started having an extreme amount of guilt over this and decided they were
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going to go tell what had happened that's the second body there's a third body that I did not kill and I knew that
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they'd be getting Social Security disability for the rest of their life so I got rid of set bodies for example so
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that I could continue to use the car by any chance while he's getting all his squ away mhm can you just help me get
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that closure for in this family not until I have this I clam up like a clam if this doesn't go Federal for
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everything