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interrogation rooms hold some of the most horrifying saddening and life-changing moments in history so here
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are some of the craziest interrogation moments of all time starting out with Thomas Robinson a 27
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year old facing life in prison after shooting a 17 year old boy but Thomas wasn't going down easily in fact he was
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determined to make the cops live as difficult as he could in the most dangerous ways imaginable as the
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policeman moves to handcuff him Thomas leans over and glances at the holster on the cop's waist where he gets an idea
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that could end in death for him and the officer yeah I'm good you couldn't get it Thomas
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made a leap for the cops gun but due to safety features built into the holster he wasn't able to get it out after a
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short struggle two more cops entered the room with tasers to subdue him and he was eventually restrained without
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further issue this obviously just looks like a case where the suspect wanted to escape and was prepared to do so by any
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means necessary but take another listen to what he's saying as he's fighting with the cops
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if he was really trying to escape it's unlikely he'd be repeating the words kill me from the get-go instead it's
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possible that Thomas was so terrified of his sentence in the position he was in that he made the radical move to scare
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the officers in hopes that they'd shoot him and spare him from what's to come bringing a firearm into an interrogation
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room is an incredibly foolish idea and the majority of police departments forbid it for the safety of the
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detectives but it seems this Las Vegas Police Department also forgot about that rule and come Incredibly Close to seeing
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the consequences This Man convicted of killing a two-year-old boy actually managed to
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retrieve the gun from The detective's holster resulting in a mad scramble to get it back off him it took three
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separate officers and multiple punches to the head to reclaim the firearm somehow nobody was hurt but Ryan Waller
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wasn't so lucky as his story ends in a truly horrifying way after he was brought in for interrogation with a
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bullet still stuck in his head you told me they shot you with a revolver in your
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eye yes is it a BB gun no it was a real gun man you want to be talking to me right now
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was most likely you be dead but little did police officers know he was actually telling the truth as while 18 year old
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Ryan was being mocked by detectives he was suffering from a gunshot to the head and experiencing a brain bleed that
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could end his life at any moment you're not going back to bed on the 23rd of December 2006 two men broke into Ryan
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Waller's house looking for revenge for a past argument Ryan heard the noise at the door but when he went to investigate
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a hand reached inside and shot him twice in the eye the two men Richie and Larry
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Carver then entered his house and shot Ryan's girlfriend Heather killing her instantly by some miracle 18 year old
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Ryan survived and was able to talk to police when they arrived hours later given he'd just been shot in the head he
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told them he had no idea what happened but instead of being taken straight to the hospital he was taken to the police
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station and interrogated for the longest hour of his life before the interview started Ryan was left in the room alone
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he squirmed in pain for 20 minutes straight and worse yet he was handcuffed to the desk and unable to scream for
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help um Ryan is obviously not okay but the detectives begin the interrogation anyway you know why you're down here
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Ryan you have no idea why you're down here okay I don't know what happened okay so how do I read you something to make
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sure you understand your rights okay okay you have the right to read silence anything you say can't be used against
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you in a court law what's the highest grade you went through school um I just want to go home oh you're not
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going to go home right now what's the highest grade that you completed B no not not grade as in letter grade I'm
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asking did you graduate high school no do you know how to read and write right yeah the way the detective is talking to
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Ryan implies that he knows something is wrong he's raising his voice slightly slowing down and talking in very
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simplified language just as you would a child yet even with the massive red mark
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around Ryan's face and the day's responses he's giving the detective still decides that nothing is wrong and
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continues questioning him do you have a girlfriend um no you're not you know a girl named Heather
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um the one that lives there right now I guess I don't know her name's Heather what's her last name
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I don't know which name she's trying to use as her last one she's trying to have a real laugh
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because her nicknames I don't know what nickname does she goodbye probably wants the last name Clement
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kaiman how old is Heather 16-17 what happened to your face I don't know you told the officer just a few minutes
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ago that someone hit you do you remember who hit you think it was Heather why would Heather hit you
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there's an accident I forget why what was an accident others last name no what was an accident
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how they're hitting me what happened for her to hit you in the eye like that she
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just hit me in an accident she was giving Christina I had she was what she was having Christina with her hair
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or something I don't know who's Christine she's on the couch Christina's on the couch Ryan and
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Heather lived with another person whose name isn't public there's a possibility that it's the Christina he's referring
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to here but either way nobody else was home at any point of the night of the attack Ryan is clearly suffering
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traumatic brain injury and it's astonishing that the detective isn't connecting the dots even if it was just
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blunt force like Ryan is telling him he still should be checked out by a doctor given how he's acting but of course
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that's not how it happens instead it somehow gets even more messed up what happened last night I don't know
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you don't know I really don't I just want to go to sleep and go to sleep who was in the house when you went
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to sleep Christina and Heather Christine and Heather and Christina was on the couch
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another was Heather was on the couch he told me Christina was on the couch just a minute ago
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I don't know man I really don't I really don't I just want to go and go to sleep
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man you're not gonna go anywhere you know what happened in your house last night all right what happened
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I don't know what happened you're all beat up so tell me what happened I don't know I
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just want to go to sleep man there's a dead girl in your living room he's dead yes Heather the girl on the
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couch is dead I don't know if she's on the couch she's dead well these people came over Richie and
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his dad was shooting arrow blowing darts you know what I'm talking about yeah that me and her with those that's it and
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the Heather wasn't there and Eric wasn't there it was just me and Heather and then what happened
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and I said regine's Dad tried to break in in the back Richie and Dad his dad who's Richie I don't know
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well you obviously know him you know his name he used to live there was he a roommate of yours
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he used to be they hit you yeah now it's Richie to hit you not Heather no Richie
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and his dad why because they're trying to get their stuff I don't know why and they had some kind of bow and arrows
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they each had two revolve version they didn't laugh any shelves okay you just said they had bow and
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arrows now they have revolvers that's something that they have revolvers they have revolvers yes and then what
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happened and then they shot us those they shot both of you yeah where'd they shoot you at
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and outside and I you're getting shot in the eye I think so with the revolver I think I don't know man I don't know
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then what happened I don't know you don't know a lot right I don't and I really don't I'd
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like to see this detective try and articulate himself anywhere near as Ryan is in this situation he's managed to
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recount the exact sequence of events as well as the perpetrators names with the revolver bullets still in his brain it
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does sound like an unbelievable story and that's probably why the cop is essentially laughing at him by now but
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that still doesn't excuse any part of what's going on he's obviously distressed in pain and needs to go to
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the hospital but he's still more than a half an hour away from any form of Salvation Ryan why don't you tell me
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what really happened there because I don't believe I really don't know man I really don't I don't know want to tell
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you anything I swear I want you to tell me the truth that's all I want Richie and his dad came there and I don't know
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why I don't know why I don't know why but they put me in sleeping old and like you put me in a sleeping hole with the
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arrows and [ __ ] like I lived through this through that crap you're all over the board here number one you're seeing
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bows and arrows you're seeing revolvers and you're saying that some other thing and they you're saying they shot you in
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the eye okay they shot you with a revolver in your eye yes with a revolver you wouldn't be talking to me right now
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it was most likely you be dead that's what I thought too man I really don't know
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I really don't know and I just want to go back to sleep and try to go back to bed you're not going back to bed
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okay that's not gonna happen what happened to Heather Heather got shot where did she get shot inside the face
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once she got shot inside of the face how close were you to her when she got shot in the face it was after I got
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shirts I didn't even hear anything so you got shot first and what happened did you call 9-1-1 did you see if she was
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alive she was sleeping still and that's it I just let her sleep she got shot in the
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side of the face and you let her sleep yes this does not make sense Ryan I know I didn't mean to man I'm sorry I didn't
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know she was passed now that's because I got shot wrong once too and I was gonna
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pass out okay this is now not before you're saying right now you've been shot yes in the eye yes with the revolver yes
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all right Ryan you need to start telling me the truth because your story doesn't
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make sense I'm trying man I don't know what happened with you and Heather last night
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I don't think I'm sure at the house and shot her her dad shot her all right and then
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leaves and what did you do I try to go back to sleep after you've been shot in the eye you
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didn't know enough to call 9-1-1 um look at me Ryan yes I don't know man I really don't know why did you shoot
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Heather Ryan I didn't shoot Heather she was already shot once by her brother I swear would she yes Richie shot his own
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sister yes I swear that's it does it hurt me and you've been shot in the eye yes
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yes two legs down put your legs down and bring your face closer oh my head hurts
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okay yeah be right back finally the detective at least considers the fact that Ryan might be in some form
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of physical distress he leaves the room to ask for an ambulance and returns momentarily to try and get a few more
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details about the shooting Ryan clarifies that Heather isn't related to Richie or his dad and that he's got no
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idea why they attacked him that evening 10 minutes later the fire department arrives to take a look at Ryan's injury
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is acting uh injury which would make sense yeah we'll take them or so we'll just saw it happen what the other
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night I don't know you don't know what happened were there guns around could Eric do they I don't know how he
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did it exactly I might have been shot I don't know Ryan gets his blood pressure taken and
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finally after 56 minutes of unnecessary and ultimately deadly interrogation he's
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taken to the hospital upon inspection at the hospital doctors immediately realized his status was critical and
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that he also had indeed been shot in the eye they also told his father that he'd
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contracted an infection that could have been prevented had he received proper care Ryan stayed at the hospital for 35
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days and lost part of his brain and his left eye worst of all though he experienced regular seizures from the
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day he left the hospital until 2016 when one finally took his life Richie and Larry were both given life in prison
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without the possibility of parole Ryan's father also sued the police department but as is so often the case he only
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received a fraction of the punishment less than three years in prison many people believe this officer should be
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charged with results and possibly even murder and that three years is absolutely not enough especially
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compared to cases like redurant who's facing up to 30 years in prison after attacking a cop Reed was arrested at an
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elementary school after he was seen pretending to be the father of a kindergartner Reed was seen to be acting
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strangely around the kids and failed to correctly name any of the children there
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so he was arrested and taken to the police station in the interrogation Reed freely told officers that he intended to
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lure one of the children out feed them candy laced with tranquilizers then abduct them while they were unconscious
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but after what seemed like an easy interrogation Reed suddenly decided that the detective had heard enough and made
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a bid for his Escape up here put your hands behind your back now kidding me right now Reed had picked up
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a pen and attempted to stab the officer with it but the officer's reflexes and composure helps him to instantly take
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him down and restrain him that and the fact that the pen isn't the most effective weapon either way Reed was
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arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and now a felony count of assaults he's currently awaiting trial
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and facing up to 30 years in prison Reed's Escape obviously didn't end very well for him but the story is different
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for Quantrell schwartzlow who managed to escape the cops faster than anyone in history
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[Music] was brought in for strangling a girl and assaulting her a crime he clearly didn't
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want to be convicted of [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh no wait unfortunately for Quantrell his
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handcuffs were a dead giveaway and he was captured four hours later while it's unknown exactly what happens to
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Cointreau after this clip will forever put him in the interrogation Hall of Fame however Ricky Hawthorne took a much
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more straightforward approach to ending his interrogation managing to confess in
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record time Ricky was found covered in blood near the bodies of Lara Kuchar and Tommy schemes Lara had clearly been
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assaulted Ricky's DNA was also found at the scene so police had no worries when bringing him in surprisingly though
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Ricky would make it even easier for them [Music] hey hey come on hey yes sir yeah I did obviously I did
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you know what let's do this I did it but I think somebody came behind me and finished it okay yeah I did it so much
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for staying silent however Ricky is alleging that he wasn't actually the murderer he just attacks the couple and
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assaulted Laura it was someone else that finished the job even though the evidence was stacked against him he
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still would have had a better chance of getting away with it if he just stayed silent there's three more people I don't
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know and you know what it was living when I left but I think somebody came in behind
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me and finished them off I did beat the [ __ ] out of them but it was somebody else I left despite his claims it was
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determined that the couple died of the injuries inflicted by Ricky and he was later found guilty of the first and
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second degree murder as well as the attack on Lara