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up next
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a well-known business owner is brutally
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attacked at work
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there was a lot of blood on the floor on
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the walls
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on the door is it the work of a
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disgruntled employee
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no one trusted him he leaves due to
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stress or a robbery gone wrong
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i had given her a thousand dollars night
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she was killed that thousand dollars
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were never found
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a witness comes forward with a possible
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motive
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she made me promise that if anything
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happened to her i'd go
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immediately to the police the evidence
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answers some
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questions and raises many more
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it didn't look planned he just basically
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probably stabbed
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for years george hansen and mary ann
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clinbury
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ran zulu's remodeling as business
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partners
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in love's park illinois and they were
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quite a pair
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their home-spun television commercials
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helped make their business a success
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at al zulo's the don't move in proof
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votes
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one call does it all marianne ram the
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finance the business
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side george ran the construction crew
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the maintenance buying the products that
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sort of thing
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by 2004 marianne told her partner she
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wanted to retire
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very nice person very kind she'd do
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anything for anybody
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she wanted to you know start enjoying
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life a little bit to get the fruits of
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her labor a few days before the
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christmas holiday
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after everyone else had left
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mary ann stayed late to go over the
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books
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as she was about to lock up the office
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to leave
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she was viciously attacked
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the next morning her partner george
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hansen and another employee
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found marianne's body when they arrived
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for work i saw all the blood around mary
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anne i've never seen a dead body before
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and nothing that horrible
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paramedics pronounced her dead at the
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scene
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every morning you always gotta i always
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went into her office to tell her to have
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a good day
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and of course that's what you got back
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and that's the last time i spoke to her
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she had substantial
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head injuries and the pathologist
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determined that she had suffered at
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least
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three blows to the back of her head
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crime scene technicians found some
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unusual clues
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there was fresh blood on top of
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coagulated blood
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which meant there were two separate
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altercations
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i could tell that she was hitting the
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hallway first at least twice
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when she went down she was down for a
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minimum of 15 minutes before he
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knelt on her back and beat her at least
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two more times made you question
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why that person then would go back to
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her and and beat her more
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marianne's purse was missing an
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indication the motive might have been
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robbery
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but nothing else had been taken from the
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office we would expect
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anything of real value that individuals
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could carry
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would be missing nothing was missing
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from the business
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marianne was a 69 year old widow the
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mother of five grown
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children i'm visually impaired
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she was
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my eyes
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she was my love and she was my life
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we had things to do we weren't two old
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people sitting watching the clock go
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around
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in a search for suspects investigators
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learned
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that the company recently fired an
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employee
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kevin doyle and his dislike for marianne
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was well known
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no one trusted him including zulo
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employees
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he was a former employee of el zulus
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he leaves due to stress
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somewhat maybe of a nervous breakdown
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doyle had a motive and he still had
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keys to the building making him
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the prime suspect
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hi i'm marianne and this is george and
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we're from alveolar remodeling
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specialists
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al zulu's remodeling was an institution
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in love's park illinois
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al zulu remodeling has been a part of
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making your house
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a home marianne was in some of the
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the print advertising very early on in
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the business
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kind of doing this vanna white thing
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with the kitchen cabinets
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and marianne clibre was well known in
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the community for her generosity
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she would advance employees salary
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out of her own pocket not the company
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money
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investigators were convinced marianne
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was killed by a client
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or a co-worker it had to be somebody who
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was somewhat familiar
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with the layout of the business the
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investigation
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centered on a disgruntled ex-employee
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kevin doyle
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he was not a reputable person i believe
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that he was a lot of talk but couldn't
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perform
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i believe he said things that weren't
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weren't accurate
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and i believe that he was not to be
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trusted
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when questioned doyle said he was at
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home sick
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at the time of the murder but there was
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no one
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to back up his story kevin doyle
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had no criminal record but the day after
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the murder he did something
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very strange kevin shows up
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and offers his assistance to the family
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and how he himself can keep that
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business afloat
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we're thinking okay we uh we have a
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suspect here
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you know you hear so often the over
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cooperative witness
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so to speak well that was kevin
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police also learned that marianne and
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her business partner
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george hansen never got along
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it is always a challenge between the two
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because her personalities are so much
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different they're always in conflict
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she was always very elegant talked very
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well
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cured herself very well he did not
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appear to be
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what i would call a strong ethical
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honest person
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they were business partners and they had
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worked together for many many years
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she didn't realize that he was angry
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over the fact that al zulu had made her
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an equal partner
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to the business when he died george
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denied there were problems
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and said his relationship with marianne
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was a good one
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when you have a business relationship
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just like a marriage you've got to get
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along if you don't get along break it
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off
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and we got along great when questioned
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by police george said
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he had an alibi for the time of the
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murder he had
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gone to have drinks with his wife
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then he took his daughter to some
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driving school
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and had gone to a tanning salon
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and i believe maybe at that point he
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finally went home
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then the day after the murder there was
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an unexpected development
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a local resident called police to report
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seeing
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a black garbage bag on top of the ice on
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the rock river
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which was five miles from the murder
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scene what really brought up to their
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attention is
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not too long before that there was a
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baby discovered
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in a garbage bag the fire department
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used a ladder truck to lift the bag from
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the ice
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it was a substantial project several men
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had to go down
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over the river in the ice which is
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dangerous and
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retrieve the bag inside the black
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garbage bag
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was another plastic bag filled with a
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variety of items
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a sweater a hammer leather gloves
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and a purse containing mary ann
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clibbery's identification
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i think when they found that bag that
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kind of that connected everything
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apparently the killer threw the bag from
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the bridge
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but missed the open water and it landed
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on the ice instead
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if he looked over the bridge he took two
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three steps and hit open water
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how stupid can you be
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the sweater in the bag was covered in
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blood
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there was blood spatter inside the right
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sleeve
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which goes along with the author at the
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scene that was right-handed person that
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hit her from behind
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tests showed the blood was mary ann's
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employees recognized the sweater right
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away
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it belonged to the original owner of the
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company
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al zullo mr zulo had this sweater for
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many many years
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and it was always in our office other
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people put it on two once a while when
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they got cold
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scientists look for areas on the sweater
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that might contain
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skin cells i swabbed the
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collar of the sweater to determine the
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wear of that of the sweat
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sweater would these skin cells identify
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the killer
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police had two suspects in the murder of
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mary ann clibbery
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her business partner george hansen and a
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disgruntled employee
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kevin doyle forensic testing of the
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bloody sweater found in the discarded
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plastic bag with marianne's personal
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belongings
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found skin cells on the collar
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the skin cells provided a dna profile
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when i analyzed the swabbing of the
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collar to determine the wearer it
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matched george hansen's profile
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and it didn't match anybody else's
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profile
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but that didn't prove he was the killer
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the sweater belonged to the original
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business owner
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al zulo and remained in the company
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closet
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other employees in addition to george
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hansen occasionally wore it
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i started using sweater in the
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wintertime and it would wear
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and of course all the people put it on
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two once in a while when they got cold
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then police discovered another bizarre
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piece of information a forensic analysis
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of marianne's coffee cup found
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a large amount of a prescription sleep
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medication
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but marianne hadn't been prescribed this
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medication
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shortly after drinking some coffee she
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became very ill
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this also happened after eating salads
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she would fall asleep at her desk in the
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afternoons
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when police asked who had access to
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marianne's food
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only one name surfaced
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she would come in feeling fine in the
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mornings george hansen made it a point
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to hand
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deliver her her coffee
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marianne's boyfriend told police about a
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possible motive
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it was something marianne told him about
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shortly
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before her death she made me promise to
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her that if anything happened to her i'd
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go immediately to the police with
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my knowledge marianne had sent
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out christmas cards to some of the
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clients a couple of these clients
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returned those cards back to the
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business
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with notes informing them you know of
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the problems that they were they were
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suffering these clients
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told marianne they weren't getting paid
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but
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internal company records showed they had
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been
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paid marianne did some amateur forensic
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accounting
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and learned that her business partner
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george hansen
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was stealing from the company he was
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collecting money
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from the customers and then he was
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depositing money in his own account
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mary ann discovered that george has
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stolen up to a hundred thousand dollars
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he was not only taking actual monies
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coming in
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but also he had a little side business
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going where he would charge supplies
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through the el zulu company and use them
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for his personal projects marianne was
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shocked to learn
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the company was in danger of bankruptcy
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i knew of it but there's no way i could
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have
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told anyone if i'd have told anyone
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marianne and my
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friendship would have been over
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immediately i had to swear to her in
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secrecy
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according to her boyfriend marianne was
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going to confront hanson on the
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afternoon of her murder
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whenever they had a confrontation they
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never did it in front of the employees
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it was always behind closed doors
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we do know that they had some type of a
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meeting that day
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when questioned by police george hansen
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didn't deny he was stealing money but
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said
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marianne was in on it too i was
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deposited and we were splitting the
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money
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however marianne's financial record
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showed her transactions were consistent
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with the amount of her salary
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and nothing more gene sundeen was
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outraged by hanson's accusation
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i knew he was lying i knew he was lying
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lying through his teeth he couldn't he
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couldn't look at me
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and police soon found george had another
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possible motive if he did kill her he
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got away with that
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then he would collect the 150 000 in
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insurance policy
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that each had on the other he's probably
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using this as a vehicle
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to generate the money to buy the
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business
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then police got another tip on the day
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after mary ann's murder a witness
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saw a man on the bridge over the rock
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river
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the evidence from marianne's murder was
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found later that day
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on the ice beneath this bridge
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the person who called the police saw
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this truck
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that kept driving by the bag kind of
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like
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looking at it or trying to get it and
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thought that that
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was just suspicious so called the police
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this truck was distinctive it had vanity
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license plates
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that spelled out zulo the name of
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marianne and george's business
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and george was the only person in the
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company whose vehicle
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had these plates what was so fascinating
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is when
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his car was searched they found a large
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fishing lure
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rope and some other objects which
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would lead a person to believe that he
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was going to actually try
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to fish that bag from the bridge
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investigators needed to look closer at
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the items
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inside that bag to see if anything would
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prove hansen
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was the killer i did not kill marianne
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from the beginning police thought
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marianne clippery was killed by someone
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she worked with
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that certainly helps our focus knowing
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that this is an inside job
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and that narrows the playing field down
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george hansen had a motive marianne
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could prove
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he was stealing from the company she
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informed hansen she was in fact going to
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go to the authorities
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over his business practices
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scientists analyzed the plastic bag
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which contained the weapon
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used in marianne clibbery's murder they
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put it in a sealed chamber
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filled with cyanoacrylate fumes from
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super glue these fumes stick to the oils
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in human
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fingerprints i process the items with
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fingerprint powder this is just a fine
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black powder that i just dusted over the
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surface
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the powder will adhere to the super glue
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developed
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fingerprints and make them visible
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they found three distinct fingerprints
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and one palm print
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those prints matched george hansen
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investigators also found gloves inside
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the bag
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covered with marianne's blood
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dna tests of skin cells left in the
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gloves
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also matched george hansen
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all of them had marianne's blood on them
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and the gloves and the sweater
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had george hansen's dna on on them as
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well
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the dna was proof george was wearing the
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sweater and the gloves
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as the fatal blows were struck and
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investigators found the
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source of the prescription sleep
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medication found in marianne's coffee
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cup
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we tracked down mr hansen's sister who
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signed a statement
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stating that she was sending him these
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pills
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in return he would give her like 25
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dollars a month
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george hansen was arrested and charged
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with murder
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prosecutors believe the motive was
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financial
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they want to buy the business and have
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the money and so he's going to collect
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some insurance money on her as a
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business partnership
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and inherit the business or buy the
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business out and their life goes on
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prosecutors believe marianne waited
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until all the employees left before
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confronting hanson
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with the evidence of embezzlement while
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i see entries in your handwriting
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the clients clearly haven't learned well
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i've been paid of course they've been
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paid
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she estimated he stole more than a
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hundred thousand dollars from the
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company
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he could either pay the money back or
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marianne was going to report him to
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police
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hanson however chose another option
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murder as marianne was about to walk out
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through the back door
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hanson struck her in the head with a
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hammer
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while hanson staged the scene to look
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like a robbery
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he discovered that marianne wasn't dead
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so he struck her again
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creating more blood spatter on top of
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the coagulated blood
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proof of two separate beatings
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he put his sweater gloves and the hammer
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along with marianne's purse
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into the bag on his way home
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he dropped the bag into the river but it
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was winter time
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and he missed the open water by about
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five feet
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and it landed on the ice
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i'd like to have seen his face when that
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bag
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hit the ice and he heard a large plunk
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instead of a splash the theory was to
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drop the bag into the
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water and have it float away
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[Music]
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later a witness saw hanson's car driving
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back and forth
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over the rock river bridge most likely
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contemplating
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how to retrieve the bag he tried to
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throw into the river
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once in custody hanson changed his story
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he denied killing mary ann but admitted
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to a cover-up he said he found
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marianne's body
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when he first got to work thought he'd
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be blamed for her murder
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so he removed the items that belonged to
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him from the scene
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that's where i goofed up i saw my
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hammer and gloves there which were mine
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i saw all the blood around marianne
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i panicked i didn't call 9-1-1 and
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i picked everything up put them in a bag
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and left
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but the jury didn't believe it
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george hansen was convicted of first
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degree murder
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and sentenced to 60 years in prison
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i've been here for the rest of my life
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it took longer
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for the jury to pick a form and than it
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did to come back with a guilty verdict
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hi i'm marianne and this is george of
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alzula remodeling specialists and while
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the boss is away we will pay
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we will give you a five percent discount
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on any new what was once
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a prosperous enterprise ended in
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deception
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and murder but forensic evidence
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and mother nature helped solve the
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mystery
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what are the odds of going to a river
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with the intent to sink a bag
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and have it hit solid ice knowing that
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you've already cased the river out
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knowing that it's
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it's wide open body of water except for
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a few feet on each side and he
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he accidentally drops it in the wrong
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place if george wasn't so dumb
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we wouldn't have found it it'd have been
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a lot tougher case to deal with
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george was banking on the fact that he
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had no witnesses
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you know not just the blood's better but
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the fingerprints
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and then you know the the dna off the
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sweater
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all of those things that kind of pointed
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back
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toward george hansen
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you
