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george young a devoted family man he
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loved his family
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talked about his sons all the time
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talked about his marriage
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in love with his wife tia 22 years
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married
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all i've ever heard from george was how
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much he loved his wife but tyr was
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betraying him it would come out later
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that there was a lot of text messaging
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back and forth sexually suggested text
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messages and funny memes um talking
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about
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cheating on your husband i just heard a
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gunshot it's the motive for murder
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that's been around forever a third party
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with access to weapons we did a lot of
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uh executive protection
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with high-end clients those were armed
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details we do a lot of celebrity
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protection
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beyonce
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usher and when they require firearms
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then we do
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firearms
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an affair
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weapons and an insurance policy too
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suddenly the happy times for tear and
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george young are a distant memory
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tear and george young married in south
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carolina in 1995 and then moved to the
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quiet atlanta suburb of buford a safe
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neighborhood to raise their three sons
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the same qualities that drew next door
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neighbor marcelo bump to the area
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it's a wholesome feel it's family
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oriented and there's a lot of
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restaurants where a lot of people you
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know it's what they do friday night they
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go to the same restaurant or everybody
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you know sees each other in the grocery
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store and it's like hey and you know and
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everybody's talking the youngs seemed to
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fit right in a solid american family mom
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dad three sons
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they were more of a just homebodies they
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always stayed inside didn't do anything
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except for you know occasionally cooking
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out in the backyard and
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i yell over you know let me know when
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it's ready you know i couldn't tell you
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one time did he share with me that there
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was a problem
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of anything there was
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never any fighting or anything like that
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and you know never any
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like gossip neighborhood gossip about
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them in any way
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george put the hours in at work to
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support the family he was a security man
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he worked from his own company
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massive working for me
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um part-time
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and also working for acumen security so
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the guy's holding down three
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layers of responsibility and guess what
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he's not going to mull out the park
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he's not behind in anything
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he's giving everything that he had he
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was not home a lot because he provided
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force family
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very good at providing for his family
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but he didn't have the time to spend at
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home that i'm sure he wished he did
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not the tear-minded
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tia
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i was over the house with a few other
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family
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and i showed up
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later and she said hey did you know my
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husband does the same thing to you do
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she said i'm gonna give you his number
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you call him and and see what he can do
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and at that time
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george and i connected
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and from the first time i met him
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when he walked into office with that
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huge bright smile and
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six six foot six height you know he
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definitely was very very convincing
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george seemed like the kind of person
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who just
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wants to believe in best in people and i
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think he must have felt like perhaps on
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times when he was more down on his luck
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he has been helped by nice people in his
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life and he wanted to be that person for
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others and return the favor
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it was in early 2017 that george gave a
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helping hand to an old friend from south
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carolina
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george had approached me and said
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there's a guy
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who he knew from south carolina
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and he's here and he's looking for a job
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his name was tim lee and tim tim had
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been down on his luck lately he'd lost
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his jobs uh he was living out of hotels
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uh really just not doing well at all and
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so george said well look we're doing
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quite fine so
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come live with us so he opened his home
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to him he gave him a job tim was living
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in the young home rent-free
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george brought him up to help him get on
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his feet
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rob had reservations about the man that
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george had welcomed into his life when i
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first met tim
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he was by far not george
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he was
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withdrawing very quiet
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looking around a lot i've noticed as
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he's working he didn't have a lot of the
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skill set to do the job but george was
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there
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covering everything
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i think perhaps he was overly trusting
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but not in a naive way i think he just
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truly wanted to believe the best in
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everyone especially a friend who he
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thought that he knew i had no clue
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that tim was living with george
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and and i can believe
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why george wouldn't share that with me
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because if i ever heard that i would
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have definitely had my
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my my
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opinion
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to why i thought that was a bad idea
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i honestly didn't even know tim i didn't
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even know he was living there i didn't i
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just
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just something wasn't right that's all
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the young marriage had three people in
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it not that george knew other problems
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were about to appear too
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in late september 2017 tia young lost
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her job
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even more pressure then on george to
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bring in the money
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so george says don't worry about it tia
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we're fine and he just takes on more
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hours to support the family i knew that
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he would get home late he was always
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parked out front in the road
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um you can pretty much hear him when he
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would get home from work anyone looking
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from outside in you could never imagine
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that there was a problem of the
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magnitude that was about to happen
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you did not have a clue
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about that you knew he was probably like
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any other husband
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you know
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putting the time in the job
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taking care of your family and then
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trying to balance that with being there
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for your wife and your kids
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i think george must have been under a
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terrible amount of stress knowing that
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he was basically supposed to be the
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savior for his entire family and now
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also this long time friend
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so somewhere along the lines something
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is suffering somewhere you just don't
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know it
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but with the cylinders that he was
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running on you know you had to say hey
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you know sometimes choice you're okay
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do you need some time
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but he did not take time meanwhile alone
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in the house for much of the day jobless
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tear had nothing but time
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time for the house guest tim lee
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so they were taking advantage of the
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fact that he was out of the house for
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long periods at a time and having a
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relationship right under his own roof
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and i think
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george probably had no idea felt like
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maybe his wife and his longtime friend
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were just
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being friendly to one another they are
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continuing to refer to each other as
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cousins or sister and brother
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it's pretty clear as you can see later
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on from their phone messages
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flirty phone messages talking about
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their relationship that it is way beyond
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fraternal
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it's not
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sister brother this is the ultimate
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betrayal because tim was given a second
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chance at life and yet he was sleeping
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with george's wife under his very nose
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under his roof while he was working hard
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to provide for the family
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it was 2017 22 years since the marriage
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of george and tier young and whilst the
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workaholic george was away his wife and
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the house guest were at play
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i was actually out with some friends and
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i got a call from my daughter who was
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babysitting we had a four-month-old baby
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got a call that she had heard a gunshot
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very close and almost sound like it was
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inside the house
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in his work for strickland security
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george young did not carry a gun
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we did a lot of uh
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executive protection with high-end
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clients those were armed details
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we did we do a lot of celebrity
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uh protection uh beyonce
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usher and when they require firearms
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than we do firearms but a lot of times a
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lot of it was unarmed because of that
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george was unfamiliar with weapons
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george and i talked about guns
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and he always would ask hey am i going
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to get trained are you going to train me
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one day at the office
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i took my firearm so george could hold
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it
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i made sure
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removed the clip
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the one in everything it was clean back
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showed him out
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and i
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unlocked it back so he could hold it so
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george said
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george held the gun so bad that it
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scared me
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that he had it that maybe i didn't take
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out all the bullets i quickly took the
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gun back and said george
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we'll get a day to train
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that day never came around it didn't
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seem all that important
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most people would think that because
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it's security and protection that it
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comes with a certain level of risk in
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reality it's a very low risk so on
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november 16 2017 george was unarmed it
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was a big night for strickland security
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we had an executive detail a pretty big
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one
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it was at macy's
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linux square
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in buckhead
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the artist was little yachty
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great event
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the
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big crowd
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everyone was very happy george returns
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home
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late at night
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between 11 23 and 11 25
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he gets out of his vehicle puts his key
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in the lock of the front door and just
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as he's turning at boom out of nowhere
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two gunshots
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one to the chest one to the face he was
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shot from the side he was ambushed he
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never saw the shooter coming
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gunfire was not something that people of
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montauk hill were accustomed to hearing
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i was actually out with some friends and
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i got a call from my daughter who was
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babysitting we had a four-month-old baby
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got a call that she had heard a gunshot
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very close and almost sounded like it
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was inside the house she was scared
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told her to run upstairs and check on
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the baby to make sure somebody didn't
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shoot a gun from outside
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you know and come into the house
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and told her to call
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what's 911
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emergency tia says she was asleep when
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all of a sudden she heard this noise and
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she
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she was afraid she didn't know what was
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going on about six minutes after the
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shots were fired
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tia called 9-1-1
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and said she believed her husband had
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been shot but she didn't want to go
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downstairs because she was squeamish and
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she didn't want to see her husband like
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that
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for investigators
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this would be the first red flag
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i think it is a ridiculous alibi that a
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loving and doting wife would not go and
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check on your husband's dead body i
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don't care how squeamish you feel how
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much you don't like blood this is the
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blood of the love of your life and
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anybody would
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in that particular situation would not
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be thinking about their squeamishness
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and would just be running out there to
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see what happened to their husband
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george dies at the scene on the 911 call
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tia explains that
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timothy is her brother and that after
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hearing the shots he got his shotgun and
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went outside to investigate
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and that's where
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timmy found george dead when tia calls
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9-1-1
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a couple of things stick out
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one is
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she's referring to tim
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as her brother
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and
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it's pretty apparent that's not the case
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and the other thing is
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she tells them please when you when you
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arrive
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don't bring the lights and sirens i
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really would rather not wake my children
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they're going to come the sirens due to
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the severity of the issue
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who does that
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who who in their in a situation
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your husband
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is murdered
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and you don't want the police to turn on
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this
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get them over here as soon as they can
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the quicker they can collect evidence
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the quicker they can get camera possible
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camera footage whatever it takes
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do it but no
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she doesn't want them
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to wake up to kids
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in any case the boys didn't wake up
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until long after the emergency services
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turned up an oddity that didn't go
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unnoticed
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it is speculated that tia may have given
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the medication
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to
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to keep them asleep so they wouldn't
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hear what was going on my guess is that
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she didn't want them to wake up
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and discover what was going on and
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thwart her plans a woman is going to
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kill her husband she's probably not a
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good mother either
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so i i imagine it wasn't to save them
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from any trauma
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it was to um save her from being caught
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first responders discovered george young
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dead on the front steps of his home he
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was 43 years old the gunman had
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apparently fled could the motive have
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been robbery the house and the yard were
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immediately taped off as a crime scene
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it was an unusual sight in a quiet
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neighborhood
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there there was cops and news reporters
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everywhere we couldn't even it was a
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half a mile from the beginning of the
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neighborhood to my house
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and i pretty much had to walk it because
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they had everything there's just cars
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everywhere
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once all the kids were checked on
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everything was fine i could actually see
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george lang on the sidewalk of his
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doorway when detectives arrived on scene
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they realized or pretty quickly realized
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that this was not a robbery everything
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of value that george had was still
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present his wallet his ipad his keys his
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cell phone anything of value was still
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there so robbery was a probably not the
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motive
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investigator's first priority was to
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comb the house in the yard for clues
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anomalies were about to appear and what
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they had been led to believe had
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happened and what the evidence was
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telling them
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police are looking at the scene and
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trying to piece things together
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and there were two gunshots one to the
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chest one to the face
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they only find one
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shell casing
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the weapon is gone it's not necessarily
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just the firearms evidence that you
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collect it's the firearms evidence
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that's missing
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if there is a shell casing missing when
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we know there should be two and there's
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only one present then that suggests that
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someone moved the first shell case those
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are all very important points because a
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person may have just missed the the
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first shell case and then found the
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second one
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or in their haste they only collected
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one it's as if the scene has been
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cleaned up
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but if this just happened as they're
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describing it it doesn't add up more and
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more things are not adding up
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investigators were
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a little discouraged to find out that
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there was security surveillance at the
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home
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but the particular camera was not
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operable that camera was disconnected so
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police naturally get suspicious about
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that
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but as it turns out
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george had just been too busy helping
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his customers and when talking to
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george's son
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george's son explained that george had
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talked about fixing the camera but never
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got around to doing so
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it seemed that he was putting up
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security and making sure cameras were
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working everywhere else but neglected
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his own
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it was a blow to detectives but they
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hoped by talking to the family they
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would find out more the initial
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investigation the investigators were
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questioning
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tia and timothy and their thought was
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it's not a robbery
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and they were trying to find out was
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this a random act of violence or was
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there someone that had a motive to kill
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george initially tia said no she
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couldn't think of anyone that would want
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to harm him
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as questioning continued tear began
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offering theories
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tia has
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different ideas as to what might have
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happened she says
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it could have been a robbery
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but nothing was taken
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and then she says well it could have
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been a gang hit
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and there's really not anything to back
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that up because there's no history of
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gang violence in this neighborhood tia
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started throwing out things to
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detectives and maybe it was a gang
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initiation or gang violence
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maybe it was
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george's work with a rapper
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anything that she could do to
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kind of give them a clue of what may
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have happened she's asking me
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hey what happened what happened today
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what happened at the job what happened
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at the detail
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and you know
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everything and this is over the phone
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and said everything was fine to you
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everything was fine
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george was not in harm's way
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i don't know what's going on
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after speaking to tyr detectives turned
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their attention to the man who'd been at
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home with her when george was shot
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timothy lee
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only hours later when rob strickland and
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his wife arrived at the scene did the
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cops realize tim lee wasn't the man he
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said he was
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eventually one of the detectives
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showed up and said well who are you guys
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and
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i explained to him who we were
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and
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we asked what happened he said well
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you know someone shot him
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as he put his key in the door
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so
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we were
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just
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questions
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or all kind of questions for him
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and he said yeah well we just talked to
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tear and her brother
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wait a minute wait a minute
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t and her brother
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tia doesn't have a brother
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and the detective said really
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she said this person over there is her
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brother why would tyr the wife of murder
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george young claim the other man she was
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living with tim lee was her brother
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the question cops would soon ask
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is tim lee really your lover
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when it got to day three i realized
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there is something going on here
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there is definitely something going on
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between tia
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and ten
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george's sister ivy barnhill lived six
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hours away in myrtle beach south
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carolina when she heard about the
00:19:51
devastating news about her brother's
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death she contacted tear
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immediately she suspected something odd
00:19:57
was going on
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george's sister ivy called after she
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heard of the incident
00:20:03
tia
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but timmy answered to his phone
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and
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she didn't know that someone had been
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living with them and she didn't think
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that there was a man that would be
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comfortable enough to answer their
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phones ivy goes to the home
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she wants to know what what has happened
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and how can this be true how could her
00:20:22
brother really be dead ivy gets to the
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house
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and she finds tia and tim
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in a bedroom close together which is odd
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no one who knew george and tyr seemed
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comfortable with tim's presence
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i went up to see tia
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and she was just hot
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hot over the family
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all of them being there
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little things that they were doing how
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they questioned her
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why tim was living here
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what is tim doing living here we didn't
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know tim was living here they knew tina
00:21:01
from south carolina they all
00:21:03
lived in the same area so they knew tim
00:21:05
but they didn't know tim watson was
00:21:07
there that was a question that has
00:21:10
bothered all of us
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like what was tim doing living here
00:21:13
whole family didn't know anything you
00:21:15
know what was going on except for them
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too so i i just felt like even when i
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was over there bringing stuff over for
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the kids and hanging out with
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the little one
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um it just
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seemed very like put on like a shell was
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being put on
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the other thing that concerned ivy was
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that tia didn't seem to show a lot of
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emotion she appeared maybe to be upset
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but there were no tears and when she
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greeted ivy she just acted as if though
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it was
00:21:46
a regular visit
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her husband and the father of her
00:21:49
children murdered yet tear in effect
00:21:51
living with tim
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appeared emotionless
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walked inside
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tia met us all you know she was um
00:22:00
she seemed a bit
00:22:02
more cordial than anything else
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hey
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hey guys
00:22:08
you want something to drink
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no
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no no one wants anything to drink
00:22:14
tia what happened
00:22:16
what happened
00:22:18
so then she starts talking but then
00:22:21
the phone rings
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so
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sometimes she gets on the phone
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and now she's talking
00:22:31
to
00:22:32
the donor group
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about his parts his body parts
00:22:38
and there's talking about and we're all
00:22:40
there
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listening to her
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and she's very okay on the phone
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his eyes
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his his this is that
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okay you're gonna okay
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and in my mind well
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is this what happens
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how are you capable of doing this
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i think um the way people grieve is
00:23:03
completely different all across the
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spectrum um but there are some things
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that just
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don't make a lot of sense so if someone
00:23:11
is
00:23:12
appearing to be don shalott about
00:23:15
someone being murdered it's not
00:23:17
necessarily indicative of them
00:23:20
being suspicious but if they're
00:23:21
nonchalant and
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in the bedroom with another man
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that kind of adds to the suspicion
00:23:28
she was also saying things to rob that
00:23:30
just didn't make sense the more she kept
00:23:33
talking the more pieces she would give
00:23:36
including up to what happened that night
00:23:40
it would change a bit regarding where
00:23:42
tim was
00:23:43
first tim was downstairs
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but then tim was upstairs
00:23:48
and the more pieces i'm getting here
00:23:51
i'm i'm saying to myself
00:23:53
i think i'm reaching a part where i need
00:23:55
to talk to the police
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detectives know that when a murder
00:23:59
happens in or around a family home the
00:24:01
surviving spouse is very probably
00:24:04
involved the statistics make that clear
00:24:07
two days after the murder the cops had
00:24:09
more questions for tia young and her
00:24:12
so-called brother tim
00:24:14
during their interviews both
00:24:16
seem to change their stories quite a bit
00:24:19
there are
00:24:20
inconsistencies between the two stories
00:24:22
and as they change it's obvious that
00:24:24
they can't keep their stories straight
00:24:27
i just heard a gunshot on the
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the 911
00:24:33
dispatchers that she heard what she
00:24:36
thought may have even been firecrackers
00:24:38
and on that same call you can hear
00:24:41
lee coming into the room saying that
00:24:43
george had been shot
00:24:45
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by the time they were sitting in a
00:24:49
police interview room two days later
00:24:51
both tyr and tim were telling different
00:24:53
versions of that story the story that
00:24:55
timmy told investigators is that he
00:24:57
heard gunshots
00:24:59
he grabbed his gun he went out to
00:25:00
investigate and came back inside and
00:25:03
told tia whereas tia is saying
00:25:06
she heard the noise and she went looking
00:25:08
for him and said did you hear that
00:25:11
so obviously the stories are
00:25:12
inconsistent the cops are thinking
00:25:14
something's up here but there's not
00:25:17
enough
00:25:18
to
00:25:19
to determine what exactly happened here
00:25:21
when people
00:25:22
have slight variations in their stories
00:25:25
it's not a huge deal when people's
00:25:28
stories change drastically and are
00:25:30
drastically different from another
00:25:32
witness's
00:25:33
story then there's a cause for concern
00:25:36
or at least at the very least clear up
00:25:38
those discrepancies
00:25:41
in a murder investigations there's no
00:25:42
room for
00:25:44
inconsistency pressed by cops on who
00:25:47
exactly their male house guest was tear
00:25:49
finally cracked
00:25:51
a little
00:25:52
she admits that timmy's not her brother
00:25:55
but she doesn't
00:25:56
tell them that they have
00:25:58
a relationship or that they're lovers
00:26:01
detectives suspected there was more to
00:26:03
the story but they had little to go on
00:26:06
were tyr and tim involved in george's
00:26:07
murder and if so what was their
00:26:09
motivation
00:26:10
they were watching tears next move
00:26:12
closely
00:26:13
i'ma do it by myself everybody love
00:26:16
george
00:26:18
she goes on the television news
00:26:20
and she plays her role she is sobbing
00:26:23
she is shocked and horrified she is the
00:26:25
grieving widow
00:26:30
there is nothing uncommon about people
00:26:32
making appeals to the media or to the
00:26:33
public for finding
00:26:35
someone who committed a crime
00:26:38
in fact it's often helpful
00:26:41
but
00:26:42
for an investigator the the focus is now
00:26:45
on the person who's making the appeal
00:26:48
she could have chosen not to go on
00:26:50
television but my guess is that
00:26:52
she had seen other women make appeals to
00:26:55
the public for help in solving a crime
00:26:58
related to either their loved one's
00:26:59
disappearance or murder
00:27:01
and so she felt that this is what she
00:27:02
needed to do right she wouldn't have
00:27:05
been able to instinctually know to do
00:27:07
that she would have probably taken the
00:27:09
cues taking her cues from her mother's
00:27:11
investigators are looking for
00:27:14
demeanor they're looking for
00:27:16
a change in a story they're looking for
00:27:18
inconsistencies or anything at all
00:27:20
that can give them another lead to this
00:27:23
investigation
00:27:24
i'm gonna do it by myself everybody
00:27:27
loved george i think on the one hand tia
00:27:29
was somebody who was trying to cover her
00:27:31
tracks and have an alibi so it makes
00:27:33
sense that she might express to family
00:27:35
and friends how sad she was to have lost
00:27:38
her husband but to go on tv and put this
00:27:40
public persona out there and basically
00:27:42
become a mini celebrity in her community
00:27:44
is a completely other thing for forensic
00:27:47
psychologist dr judy ho tears tv appeal
00:27:50
revealed that detectives would have been
00:27:52
wise not to take her grief at face value
00:27:55
what it shows me about tia is that she
00:27:57
was somebody who desired not only
00:27:59
fortune but fame i think she was liking
00:28:02
all of the attention that she was
00:28:03
getting from the tragedy and she enjoyed
00:28:05
playing this role of the doting wife and
00:28:07
wonderful mother
00:28:08
if it was an act tear struggled to keep
00:28:10
it up when the mask of the grieving
00:28:13
widow occasionally slipped george's
00:28:15
friends started to suspect what his
00:28:17
death really meant to his widow
00:28:19
money
00:28:20
the day of the murder
00:28:23
we were there
00:28:24
most of the day it was getting pretty
00:28:26
late
00:28:27
and i said hey tia
00:28:29
the wife and i we're gonna have to take
00:28:30
off
00:28:31
we'll get some change clothes we're
00:28:33
gonna come back
00:28:35
and
00:28:36
she said before you go
00:28:38
can you help me find
00:28:40
the insurance policy this is not normal
00:28:43
little behavior i i would imagine that
00:28:46
the widow of someone who was taken so
00:28:48
tragically this would be the last thing
00:28:49
on her mind right in fact someone might
00:28:51
have to remind her that there's a will
00:28:54
robert didn't mention this incident to
00:28:56
police at the time but george's sister
00:28:58
did ivy
00:29:00
told investigators that
00:29:02
there was a life insurance policy and
00:29:04
tia was the sole
00:29:06
beneficiary of that life insurance
00:29:08
policy once detectives found out about
00:29:11
the life insurance policy they
00:29:13
discovered that within 24 hours tia had
00:29:15
attempted to cash in on that policy
00:29:19
a life insurance policy on george worth
00:29:22
a million dollars
00:29:24
and tia is the sole beneficiary a loving
00:29:29
and doting wife that probably wouldn't
00:29:31
be the first thing in your mind you're
00:29:33
going to get that life insurance at some
00:29:34
point but maybe you mourn maybe you plan
00:29:36
for the funeral but instead she went
00:29:38
right for the money and that was a dead
00:29:39
giveaway
00:29:41
from the moment tia found the paperwork
00:29:43
for her husband's life insurance
00:29:45
she had money on her mind
00:29:47
she did mitch bring up the insurance
00:29:49
policy again
00:29:50
is that all she's going to need
00:29:53
is a death certificate and she started
00:29:55
just talking
00:29:57
about the money and what the money was
00:30:00
going to do
00:30:01
and that didn't sit right with me either
00:30:04
once again detectives felt something was
00:30:06
a little odd about the grieving widow's
00:30:08
behavior
00:30:09
but that was all i had a feeling until a
00:30:12
witness came forward with information
00:30:14
that changed everything
00:30:16
the evidence was provided by me and my
00:30:19
oldest daughter
00:30:20
when she was on the phone not one she
00:30:22
was looking outside to see if she could
00:30:23
see anything and actually saw a male
00:30:26
figure run outside and run underneath
00:30:29
george's truck and do something and then
00:30:31
run back into the house there was only
00:30:33
one man in the house at the time of
00:30:35
george's death
00:30:36
tim lee
00:30:38
when police questioned him
00:30:40
and they say look the neighbor saw you
00:30:42
out there
00:30:43
said you ran outside right after the
00:30:45
shooting you grabbed something from
00:30:47
under george's vehicle
00:30:49
what were you getting tim
00:30:51
and tim says oh yes well yes i did i had
00:30:53
a gps tracker that george had asked me
00:30:57
to put a gps tracker on his vehicle to
00:31:00
keep him safe
00:31:01
detectives ask themselves
00:31:03
what do secret lovers need to know
00:31:05
in this case
00:31:06
where the husband might be we found out
00:31:08
later that there was a gps
00:31:11
locator on george's truck
00:31:13
so they could figure out when he was
00:31:14
coming home
00:31:15
tim lee was about to cover his tracks
00:31:17
with an implausible story
00:31:19
timmy's explanation for the gps tracker
00:31:23
was an outlandish story that george
00:31:25
asked him to put the track and device on
00:31:27
his vehicle
00:31:29
for his georgia's safety
00:31:31
timmy claimed that george was a gun
00:31:33
runner
00:31:34
and
00:31:35
he didn't want his family and friends to
00:31:37
know that so he
00:31:39
removed the gps tracker so no one would
00:31:42
discover this your friend has just been
00:31:44
gunned down on his porch
00:31:46
and you jump over the bloody body and
00:31:49
your first thought is i need to get the
00:31:50
gps tracker off the truck
00:31:52
nothing about this tale rang true i had
00:31:55
a talk with tim
00:31:56
i said tim what's going on will the
00:31:58
police interview true he says yeah he
00:32:01
says
00:32:02
i know you're not going to believe me
00:32:03
when i tell you this
00:32:06
but george was a gun runner i'm fighting
00:32:09
everything in my body not to grab him by
00:32:12
the throat and throw him to the ground
00:32:16
but i know
00:32:17
that's the worst thing i can do for a
00:32:19
lot of reasons
00:32:21
what i have to do is listen
00:32:23
i said really
00:32:25
yes george's gun running georgia's
00:32:28
moving guns from florida to georgia
00:32:31
detectives weren't buying it either
00:32:33
the prosecution would later argue that
00:32:36
timmy
00:32:37
placed a tracking device on george's
00:32:39
vehicle and was the only person that
00:32:41
knew when and where and exactly how
00:32:45
george moved about police are still
00:32:47
having trouble
00:32:49
getting enough evidence to bring charges
00:32:52
but they are pretty convinced that this
00:32:54
tim and this tia
00:32:57
they're behind this murder but the
00:32:58
picture of why george young was dead was
00:33:01
not yet complete for detectives they
00:33:03
still hadn't worked out exactly what was
00:33:05
going on between their two prime
00:33:06
suspects they needed more on the nature
00:33:09
of the relationship of mrs tia young and
00:33:11
her husband's best friend tim lee
00:33:14
they provide evidence from cell phones
00:33:17
conversations that the two have had and
00:33:19
they corner them on this relationship
00:33:31
despite the breakthrough discovery that
00:33:33
tim lee was tracking his friend george's
00:33:35
every move detectives still didn't feel
00:33:37
that they had enough to prove who had
00:33:39
murdered him
00:33:40
five months after the shooting forensic
00:33:42
technicians got around to analyzing the
00:33:44
contents of tia and tim's cell phones
00:33:47
investigators
00:33:48
now have possession of text messages
00:33:51
email messages
00:33:53
and it
00:33:54
shows a very intimate and sexual
00:33:56
relationship between tia and timmy
00:33:59
sexually suggested text messages and
00:34:02
funny memes
00:34:03
talking about
00:34:04
cheating on your husband and
00:34:06
killing your husband detectives were
00:34:08
beginning to form a picture of tia and
00:34:10
tim's motive and they were discovering a
00:34:12
hint of premeditation in some ways the
00:34:15
joking around was probably a way that
00:34:17
they tested that water with one another
00:34:19
well are you willing to do this because
00:34:21
if you are i am it was small enough to
00:34:23
hold both of them back in for
00:34:24
interrogation tia finally breaks and she
00:34:28
admits
00:34:29
to police
00:34:31
that yeah they were having an affair but
00:34:33
this had nothing to do with what
00:34:35
happened to george the cops finally had
00:34:37
the proof that they needed the tear and
00:34:39
tim had been lying to them throughout
00:34:41
the investigation they'd been having an
00:34:43
affair and investigators also discovered
00:34:45
the interest that tyr had taken in
00:34:47
claiming the insurance payout on her
00:34:49
husband's death now police have the life
00:34:52
insurance policy
00:34:54
the affair
00:34:55
they have motive was it money was it
00:34:58
that they wanted to be together
00:35:00
what we know for a fact is that george
00:35:02
was an impediment right either to being
00:35:05
together or to um to access to that
00:35:08
money george needed to be dealt with and
00:35:11
there was more police are searching
00:35:13
through
00:35:14
tia and tim's electronic devices their
00:35:17
computers their phones
00:35:19
and they find that tim has been doing
00:35:21
some interesting searches
00:35:22
he had some very odd internet searches
00:35:25
for things like snake venom
00:35:28
black little spider venom or other
00:35:31
deadly toxins various kinds of ways one
00:35:34
might poison someone in case someone
00:35:37
might want to poison someone
00:35:39
investigators now had more than enough
00:35:41
to lay charges
00:35:43
late april of 2018 both of them are
00:35:45
charged with murder and they both plead
00:35:47
not guilty
00:35:48
george's friends who had for months
00:35:50
suspected tia young and tim lee had
00:35:52
blood in their hands were one step
00:35:54
closer to seeing justice
00:35:56
it definitely was thought out between
00:35:59
the both of them
00:36:00
because i think there's no way
00:36:03
you could attempt to pull something like
00:36:05
that off without having two
00:36:07
corroborating
00:36:09
witnesses
00:36:10
or two people who have a story in their
00:36:13
head of what they're gonna tell the
00:36:14
police when they arrive
00:36:16
no case is automatically destined for a
00:36:18
guilty verdict it was time for a jury to
00:36:21
weigh up the evidence in the case of mr
00:36:23
and mrs young and her lover tim lee
00:36:26
march 28 2019 testimony gets underway in
00:36:31
the murder trial of tia
00:36:33
and tim the jury will hear testimony
00:36:36
that includes the fact that this
00:36:39
brother-sister relationship was actually
00:36:42
an affair the two were carrying on
00:36:44
behind george's back the jury will hear
00:36:48
about
00:36:49
a one million dollar life insurance
00:36:51
policy
00:36:53
where the sole beneficiary was tia and
00:36:56
the jury will also hear
00:36:59
that there was a gps tracker that tim
00:37:01
had placed on george the victim's
00:37:03
vehicle and found the need to
00:37:06
immediately after the murder run and
00:37:09
retrieve it from george's truck rather
00:37:11
than helping george the tracker meant
00:37:13
that tim knew exactly the moment george
00:37:15
was arriving home from work on the 16th
00:37:17
of november 2017.
00:37:19
the prosecution argued that as george's
00:37:21
truck approached the house tim waited in
00:37:23
the front yard he shot george twice then
00:37:26
re-entered the house by the back door
00:37:28
it's this aspect of the crime that hurts
00:37:30
most for george's friend rob
00:37:33
when you go home
00:37:35
it's that time where everything just
00:37:37
drops
00:37:39
and to know
00:37:40
he is going in that door and putting his
00:37:42
key in that door
00:37:44
and he is ambushed
00:37:46
by the people
00:37:48
who he thought
00:37:49
loved him
00:37:50
and who he trusted and the motive was
00:37:54
clear
00:37:55
it was about the money
00:37:58
it was about that one million dollars
00:38:03
it was about her and tim
00:38:06
having a relationship
00:38:08
and being able to start over again
00:38:11
with a million dollars
00:38:13
tim
00:38:14
and tia uh
00:38:16
started having an affair
00:38:18
and basically they wanted to be together
00:38:20
and george had a
00:38:22
very high insurance life insurance
00:38:24
policy and that's what the plan was was
00:38:26
to kill him
00:38:28
collect the insurance and then be
00:38:30
together
00:38:31
i believe that tia and tim's motivations
00:38:33
were entirely financial they were both
00:38:35
in many ways down on their luck
00:38:38
tim
00:38:39
had
00:38:40
recently hit some hard times and i think
00:38:42
tia felt
00:38:43
like she had to rely on george for
00:38:45
everything and that she didn't have any
00:38:47
freedom and so with his money she could
00:38:49
be free
00:38:50
so while
00:38:52
my friend
00:38:53
my cousin
00:38:56
every other great name i could ever call
00:38:59
him was out breaking his behind
00:39:03
working three different jobs
00:39:06
doing the best he could to love his
00:39:07
family
00:39:08
her and tim
00:39:10
was starting their own family
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april 2019 and the verdict the jury
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deliberates from about 8 15 in the
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morning until around seven o'clock that
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night
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they decide
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tia and george are both guilty tia is
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convicted
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of felony murder
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aggravated assault
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and attempt to tamper with evidence
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tim
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is convicted of the same charges as well
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as malice murder which means intentional
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murder without provocation
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it was a bittersweet moment for george's
00:39:47
friends and family who had packed the
00:39:49
courtroom to hear the verdict
00:39:51
after all the deliberation
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and everything that happened
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we heard guilty verdicts at the end
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first off you get a real quick feeling
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that comes first feeling comes
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george isn't coming back
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that guilty verdict doesn't
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doesn't all of a sudden he walks through
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the courtroom miraculously
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he's not coming back
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but the second piece of that is the
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people who are responsible for his
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murder
00:40:24
are going to pay for it tia was
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sentenced to life in prison with the
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possibility of parole
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plus three years
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lee was sentenced to life in prison
00:40:34
without possibly parole
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the judge said
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you know he thought that if the two had
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not had this affair
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george might still be alive today
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he actually put the bulk of the blame on
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tim lee
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here was a man that george had opened
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his home to
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he had given him a job uh because this
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man was down on his luck and how was he
00:40:59
repaid
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he was repaid
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by having tim steele his wife attempt to
00:41:06
steal his
00:41:07
life insurance
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and ultimately
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to steal his life
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it was the ultimate betrayal the judge
00:41:14
wanted to make that clear and make sure
00:41:16
that tim lee would never see another day
00:41:18
as a free person
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[Music]
00:41:27
the sentencing of tyr young and timothy
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lee brought justice for george young and
00:41:31
some closure for his loved ones but they
00:41:33
feel they'll never understand the
00:41:35
magnitude of tears betrayal of cheating
00:41:37
and killing her husband of 22 years
00:41:40
and the father of her three boys
00:41:43
what in the world
00:41:45
what in a world in life could cause you
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to think that this was a way that this
00:41:50
was the answer
00:41:51
to take a man like that away
00:41:54
from from his children
00:41:56
from his family
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do you know how much he loved you
00:42:01
do you know how much he talked about
00:42:04
you and his and his family
00:42:07
do you know the dreams that he had
00:42:10
do you know why he worked so hard he
00:42:13
would talk about his loving wife
00:42:18
he trusted you
00:42:20
he trusted you more than anything else
00:42:23
in this entire world
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and you betrayed that trust
00:42:29
and i hope
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i hope
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she suffers
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every
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day
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every day
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[Music]
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[Music]
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