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this time on Killers caught on camera
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cob County police in Atlanta
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Georgia a man is discovered in a pool of
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blood in his own bedroom
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3 die what happened is a mystery the
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bedroom was in disarray it was covered
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in blood all over the
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walls and in the UK a woman is ambushed
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and killed in her own home this behavior
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is very suspicious I think most of us
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would look at this behavior and think
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this is a really odd a brutal end to a
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brief
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relationship just sounds like something
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bad is happening to her we know what
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happened because the video tells us what
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happened I heard some gunshot
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drop it whatever it is drop it that does
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not prove that I killed my wife the
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camera
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doesn't in the United States Marietta
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Georgia 20 M Northeast of the state
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capital
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Atlanta in cob County a 911 dispatcher
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received a disturbing
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call oh
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I can't I'm
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done okay tell me exactly what happened
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sir tell me the address I'm dying sir I
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need to know where you
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are okay you said someone was still
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there are they still there yes can you
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tell me if anybody has a
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weapon
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yes detective Sarah Penny was one of the
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officers called to the scene
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I got the phone call and my supervisor
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at the time said we have a person who
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may have been shot or stabbed and gave
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me the
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location when the police arrived the
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front door was wide
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open car
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police car
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police we don't know if the person's
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still there we don't know if they're
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holding hostage
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C County
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Police they needed to locate the collar
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inside the property all
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right let's go
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out police make yourself know if you're
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in the
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H the man was locked inside a room
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officers resorted to brute
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force and were met with a shocking scene
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inside the bedroom victims of as he's
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been shot we got a lot of
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blood he was kind of in a corner
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bleeding out and just saying help me
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help me uh he shot me where you shot St
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three
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times shot
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you he was unable to identify his
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attacker go get that Neighbor Next over
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here she know do you know who was in
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here with you yeah he took my cell phone
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the Medics arrived on scene and tried to
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keep him
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alive
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sir as the medical team tried to
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stabilize him the police started to try
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and work out what
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happened seeing the blood all over the
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wall and glass being cut they knew some
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kind of struggle have happened uh so
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they were trying to absorb all that in
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looks like it happened here there's
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blood at the door coming all way up the
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steps he was actually locked in here so
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we don't know if he came in
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here the bedroom was in disarray it was
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covered in blood all over the walls
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bottles had been broken on the ground
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everything had kind of been moved around
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in the room ready 1 2 3
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badly injured the man was bleeding
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heavily the neighbors had come outside
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to see what was going on is
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it oh
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God do you know him well or I'm know him
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very well what's his name Mitchell
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Mitchell
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yes 31-year-old Mitchell Jones Jr had
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moved from Erie Pennsylvania to Atlanta
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Georgia in search of a better
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life he worked at a local restaurant
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that was nearby his house he was the
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life of the party everybody loved being
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around him he was sweet he liked to hang
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out with dogs and adopt them and he was
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in the process of wanting to make it to
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the big screen and work for
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Hollywood he had been an extra in
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several movies uh where he really took
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pride in that so his big dream was to
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make it to
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Hollywood but Mitchell's dreams were
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shattered as he succumbed to his
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multiple
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injuries this was now a murder
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case the police needed to catch
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Mitchell's
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killer detective Carrie grimstead was
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the lead
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investigator any investigation but
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particularly homicide the longer it goes
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the colder the evidence gets what the
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hell is
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that one thing leads to another you need
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to follow that up follow that up follow
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that up there's a little bit of blood in
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the
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doorway the faster we can act on the
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evidence the fresher it is the better
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the evidence is going to be
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Jesse Evans was leading the major crimes
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unit at the District Attorney's
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office we knew who the victim was uh we
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knew that his cell phone had been taken
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from him we knew that this was a
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particularly violent
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assault but we didn't have a whole lot
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of details that we could glean from him
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before his passing about who might have
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caused these injuries to him or how this
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may have
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occurred the only things he did say was
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my neighbor knows
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she could tell us that Mitchell called
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her that night told her that he had to
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come home and she has seen couple people
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come in and out of the house um and only
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knew one person really that kind of
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stood out to her you saw him with
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another man at
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for and she said that if anybody could
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have hurt Mitchell it would have been
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that boy that's what everybody described
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him and called him that boy young female
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J she's saying other guy was with this
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guy and that's gay from what she's
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saying and that uh this car has been
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here a
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lot police started to look for the
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suspect crime scene investigators worked
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their way through the
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property I am a certified blood stain
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pattered analyst so I was analyzing what
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types of blood smears there were or
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stains there were there was passive
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blood spatter there was pooling spatter
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most of what was on the wall walls were
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what we call contact transfer where a
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bloody object makes contact with a non-
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bloody surface so that being said I
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didn't see any impact spatter or
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anything like that that would come from
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a possible
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firearm one of the critical pieces of
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evidence that police identified very
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early on which is very significant to us
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was a 90° blood drop that was at the
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threshold of this crime scene at the
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door clearly out of place detectives had
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the foresight to say that's out of place
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we need to swab
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that we knew for one that wasn't Mell
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Jones because he didn't leave the room
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until he was transported by medical
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personnel so we knew that had to be our
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suspect's
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blood the variety of blood stains
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provided Vital Information about the
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relationship between Mitchell and the
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person who killed
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him didn't rifle through a bunch of
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drawers or anything like it was a
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robbery
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we know that the the killer was covered
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with blood because especially right here
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you'll see the uh blood transfer on the
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sofa and that's a pattern transfer from
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the clothing and you can tell it looks
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like somebody sat down that was covered
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with blood they sat on the sofa to rest
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for a minute that indicates that he's
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not in fear of anybody coming right to
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the
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house it indicates a level of comfort
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inside of the
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residence the suspect also seemed to
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have been welcomed into the property
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there's no forc entry to the residence
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there's no damage to the door frame
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indicating the U door was opened most
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likely by Mitchell
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Jones but the murder weapon remained a
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mystery when Mitchell called now one and
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said that he was shot it had kind of
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confused us because he had so many
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multiple um stab wounds and we could
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never find a gun or shell
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casing perpetrators of homicide are much
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more likely to use a handgun than they
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are a knife in fact knives are only used
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in about 10% of cases according to the
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FBI in his 911 call Mitchell actually
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says that he's been shot rather than
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that he's been
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stabbed when the autopsy was completed
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there was no bullet wounds all the
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medical examiner can tell us is that
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there were multiple stab
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wounds I talked to the medical examiner
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who performed the autopsy and instead of
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been able to indicate the exact number
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he identified them as clusters couldn't
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actually count how many his uh aord was
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punctured one of his lungs was punctured
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uh numerous other near fatal injuries
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occurred the scene upstairs provided
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more insight into Mitchell's
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relationship with his killer
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when I initially went into the master
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bedroom there were candles that had been
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lit which indicate there was possible
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romantic
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involvement the crime scene tells you
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that this had to been somebody that was
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close to Mitchell some kind of passion
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involved for someone to kill Mitchell
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like that we also learned that he
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happened to be single and was dating
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other
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men these things had to be looked at
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when we didn't have any actionable leads
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at the beginning of the
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investigation the police needed to
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investigate Mitchell's lovers but they
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were still missing a critical piece of
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evidence we learned on that first day
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that uh the suspect had taken Mitchell's
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cell phone your entire life is on the
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phone so we didn't have a whole lot of
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who he was with last who did he call who
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did he
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contact police tracked down one of
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Mitchell's close friends
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Jasmine in a text message to her
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Mitchell said he was in an abusive
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relationship I think when people think
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about domestic violence they assume that
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the victims are always women and the
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perpetrators are always men and while
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that's usually the case so in the US
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it's estimated that one in Four Women
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will be the victims of domestic violence
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at some point in their lives one in nine
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men in the United States are also the
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victims of domestic violence and if
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you're a gay man your goes way back up
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to the same rate as
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women because Mitchell's messages didn't
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name who was abusive detectives needed
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to check his relationships and start
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ruling people
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out one of the pictures Mitchell had
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sent uh of that boy to Jasmine was uh a
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FaceTime photo of the male and he was
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shirtless uh in that photo I noticed
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that there were praying hands on tattoos
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and the tattoo was of a Praying hand on
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his chest with a rest in peace and the
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date of when that person was deceased so
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I did a hashtag search and I found a
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post made by a person named Eric when I
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clicked on the profile I saw that that
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tattoo matched the same tattoo that I
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was looking at from that boy and that's
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how I was able to identify
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him the police tracked down a friend
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named Eric and brought him in for an
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interview the faster we get to the jail
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the faster you'll be able to get
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out Eric told the police that he'd been
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hanging out with another male at the
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time of the murder detective Ry and I
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went to the apartment complex of this
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smil that he was hanging out with and as
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we were getting off the elevator
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detective Ry noticed a dog poop um on
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the side of the
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elevator this bizarre observation
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actually became very important after
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they checked Eric's cell phone
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there was a picture that he had taken of
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the same dog poop that we saw and he had
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sent it to a close friends of his which
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at the time of him taking that photo and
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sending it there was no way he would
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have had enough time to send that photo
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at that time then drive to Mitchell's
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house to commit the homicide that
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picture gave Eric an alibi he wasn't
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there with Eric completely cleared of
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all charges the police were back to
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square one they searched the area
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looking for
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cameras a lot of people have rain door
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cameras or ADT Security or any number of
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cameras around their house and if we see
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any of those we try to make
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contact and we did locate One camera
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that was in the vicinity of the uh
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scene the video shows a vehicle pulling
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into the residence
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it left maybe a minute or two after the
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911
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call you can't see a tag number on the
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vehicle but you can see the brake lights
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pretty clearly and 2 weeks prior we see
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another vehicle that has the same brake
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lights and this is daytime and you can
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actually see it's a black vehicle or
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dark colored vehicle
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numerous people in the office helped us
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look for vehicles that had similar tail
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lights and then we finally identified
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the vehicle it
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was it was a Buick lern we searched
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around uh to see if you know in the
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locally have we stopped anything similar
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to it and we just couldn't find
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anything at this point the case stalled
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because we didn't have anything to go by
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the long longer the time goes on the
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less evidence you're going to have
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because phone data only lasts certain
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amount of time video only last a certain
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amount of
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time and unfortunately uh some of the
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dating sites he was on would not honor a
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subpoena from us for
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records it was very
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disheartening it was so frustrating at
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this point Mitchell's mom at the time
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was very upset she was calling for
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answers and and wanting us to do
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everything and and at one point she was
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very upset with me uh because she didn't
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think I was doing a good
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job with no more leads the case went
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cold for 4 months before a digital
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forensic
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breakthrough one of the detectives in
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the office just come back from training
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with the
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FBI he had heard about a geofence
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technology which where you put a a
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virtual fence around the location and
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any phone that crosses that that number
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would show
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up analysts at Google were asked to
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identify the phones that were active
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close to the crime scene we saw
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essentially that there were four users
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that were within the Geo fence that we
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submitted to them three of those were
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quickly eliminated as potential suspects
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because they were
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neighbors and then there was one user
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that was unknown to us had not been a
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name even on the radar in terms of the
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investigation we asked Google to unmask
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the number and to give us the
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information
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Associated the email came back to Dante
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Holmes we have a person now let's start
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digging on this person let's start
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working let's start going he was
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actually on probation for a violent
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crime uh he lived in the Atlanta area
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we obtained a search warrant for that
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iCloud and we received what was uploaded
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well that night of the homicide there
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was a picture that was uploaded on the
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iCloud for Dante with an ankle um
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wrapped up in bandage around it so it
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looked like the person had been
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cut there was one other key piece of
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evidence that linked Dante Holmes to the
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scene of the
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crime we noticed that Dante Holmes's
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mother had a bu
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lern we also learned that Dante Holmes
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was a primary operator of that
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vehicle we all agreed that the next step
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would be to try to obtain an arrest
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warrant from a judge to execute that on
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Dante Holmes in the hopes that we would
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be able to get some additional
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information either forensically or
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through an
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interview Dante Holmes was arrested and
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brought into
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custody he was transported back to Cobb
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County where we interviewed him we also
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collected his DNA to compare to the
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suspect DNA at the
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scene it was a very emotional roller
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coaster even going into the interview
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because knowing all the work that we had
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put in all the man hours we have put
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in this is the climax how you doing
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detective Grim set
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during the interview we're looking for
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several things we're looking at uh how
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they move how they
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look what we get to the meat and
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potatoes um ask you a couple basic
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questions here when they're answering
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questions how's their tone you know
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we'll ask several questions which
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they're going to give positive answers
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to last name is holes Hol mes yes sir
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Dante d u n t yes sir
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how's that compared to an answer when we
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ask him was he at the murder scene what
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I want to talk to you about is Mitchell
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Jones do you know Mitchell
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Jones that's going to be slightly
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different we're looking for little hints
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that they'll drop there would be no
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reason for you to phone to be at
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Mitchell Jones's housing no reason hm no
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reason no reason whatsoever What's going
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at the start of the interview he was
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very sure of himself very
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standoffish if I told you that was not
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the correct answer what would you say to
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that that it was
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wrong you're not being honest
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with this puts you at Mitchell's
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house the officers started to put more
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information to Dante and that's what we
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need to find out that is a specific
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technique in interrogations where you
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let the suspect start talking and then
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you start coming with information that
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you already have evidence for saying
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actually we know this we know you're
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drived by a car we know you've been to
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the house multiple times your phone puts
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you in that same car at the house rather
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than putting all your cards on the table
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at once you are selectively releasing
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that information to see how the suspect
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changes their story or whether they
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change their story
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and then to try and trip them up in the
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lie and hopefully to end up in a
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disclosure that's was
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czy as we confronted him with the
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evidence that refuted what he was saying
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we have all these answers already but we
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need to know what happened in the house
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that's our question he began the only
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thing I can think of looking
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defeated did he become aggressive toward
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you did something go
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wrong we just don't understand it's not
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like television where you know you've
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got good C bad cop detective Stoddard
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and I both took the you know the
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grandfatherly
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approach did you get scared we know
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sometimes things are unintentional
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research very much finds that being nice
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and treating people as human beings and
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asking them about what they know rather
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than trying to force it out of them them
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is a much more useful strategy the idea
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is that if they trust you they're more
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likely to disclose the truth to you and
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they're more likely to give you
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information that you need sometimes
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things happen that we don't intend to
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happen we know what happened we know you
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need to get it off your
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chest we know you've got a lot on your
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mind with Dante uncooperative the
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officers sat and waited in
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silence having the really long
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silence
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feels really intimidating I think if
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you're in a room with two police
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officers and you know what they think
00:23:09
happened and you know what happened it
00:23:12
must be
00:23:13
terrifying it's almost a game of
00:23:15
well obviously we're not going to end
00:23:18
this you're not going to leave until you
00:23:19
start
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talking for the following 4 minutes no
00:23:25
words were exchanged
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[Music]
00:23:35
and then D Holmes
00:23:37
finally broke
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down I'm going be 100% honest with
00:23:50
y'all come in the house people talk to
00:23:53
you like I don't want to do this like
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he had the back turn and turn
00:24:02
around and he tried to stab
00:24:05
me then we start
00:24:09
fighting I hit him over the head with a
00:24:11
piece of glass and he dropped the
00:24:14
knife and I grabbed the knife and he was
00:24:18
on top of me so I stabbed him in the
00:24:23
back more than 25 individual wounds that
00:24:27
Dante claimed were in
00:24:31
self-defense I had the St CU if I want
00:24:34
them I would have been
00:24:37
there we did not believe in
00:24:40
self-defense the scene indicated is the
00:24:44
opposite Mitchell had broken it off with
00:24:47
him didn't want to be involved cuz
00:24:49
Mitchell liked to date people he he
00:24:52
didn't want to be tied down to one
00:24:53
person Mitchell had broke it off with
00:24:56
Dante Dante had convinced him hey let me
00:24:59
come over one last time they gone up in
00:25:02
a in a bedroom and that's when Mitchell
00:25:05
Jones was
00:25:08
assaulted preceding intimate partner
00:25:11
murder you often find what I just
00:25:13
generally referred to us strong emotions
00:25:15
and that can be anger that can be things
00:25:17
caused by someone saying I want to break
00:25:19
up something that ignites the first move
00:25:23
towards violence and it makes sense to
00:25:27
me that they were talking talk about
00:25:28
breaking up and then this started not to
00:25:30
say that that excuses it by any means
00:25:32
but that is exactly the kind of thing
00:25:33
that is often the precipitating factor
00:25:36
for intimate partner
00:25:40
murder once he admitted that he did it
00:25:44
it was just such an Elation and at the
00:25:47
same time a
00:25:49
relief put your hands
00:25:51
together Dante's DNA also matched the
00:25:54
swab taken from the scene of the crime
00:25:59
the case never went to
00:26:02
trial on January 6th 2020 Dante Holmes
00:26:05
pleaded guilty to aggravated assault
00:26:08
aggravated battery and malice
00:26:11
murder he was sentenced to life in
00:26:15
prison Mitchell Jones's family was
00:26:17
grateful uh for the fact that there
00:26:19
would be some finality and that they
00:26:21
knew that Dante Holmes would serve life
00:26:23
in prison based on uh this brutal crime
00:26:25
that he had committed against their
00:26:27
their loved one Mitchell
00:26:30
with this case technology played a huge
00:26:33
role having the video surveillance
00:26:35
having the iCloud photo that was
00:26:37
uploaded having geofence being there all
00:26:40
of those things collected together put
00:26:43
everything together as a big puzzle led
00:26:45
us to Dante Holmes and the conviction of
00:26:48
the
00:26:48
murder being a homicide detective is
00:26:52
like you're speaking for people who
00:26:54
cannot speak victims can't tell you what
00:26:57
happened is satisfying knowing that it
00:27:01
will help bring closure to the family to
00:27:03
the victim's
00:27:14
family in the US it's estimated that 30%
00:27:17
of the population have done online
00:27:19
dating almost 100 million people but
00:27:24
online interaction lacks the non-verbal
00:27:26
cues that we rely on on to assess
00:27:29
honesty you can never truly know
00:27:32
somebody that you've met online if
00:27:34
you've only interacted with them online
00:27:37
and that Honesty in the relationship
00:27:39
develops over continual face-to-face
00:27:41
meetings which is all important for
00:27:43
human beings in us trying to understand
00:27:47
what it is we're seeing in front of us
00:27:49
so understanding doesn't depend on what
00:27:52
I say it also depends on how I behave
00:27:56
and the interaction of those two things
00:27:59
as the Quest for romance moves
00:28:00
increasingly online new ways to lie are
00:28:03
quickly evolving research has found that
00:28:06
more than half of Us online daters admit
00:28:08
to lying in their profiles in order to
00:28:11
detect when someone's deceptive you need
00:28:13
to speak to
00:28:14
them face to
00:28:18
face and in our next
00:28:21
case in the UK in the county of
00:28:24
Nottinghamshire the transition from
00:28:26
screen time to time in in real life was
00:28:30
problematic with messages misread red
00:28:34
flags never
00:28:37
spotted Colston
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Basset a small village southeast of the
00:28:42
city of
00:28:44
Nottingham home to CLA Abel
00:28:48
white CLA Abel white was 47 years old
00:28:51
she was a mom of three she had
00:28:53
previously been married and had always
00:28:54
been working on a
00:28:57
farm when her marriage ended Claire left
00:28:59
the farm and went to live in the closet
00:29:02
Village of coulston Basset she was
00:29:04
living a very rural life there working
00:29:07
in his Stables looking after horses CLA
00:29:09
loved animals and she was also running a
00:29:11
really successful business walking dogs
00:29:13
at the time and people who knew her
00:29:16
would always talk of her as this really
00:29:18
popular well-liked sociable
00:29:21
woman but on February 26th
00:29:26
2022 CLA failed to turn up at the stable
00:29:29
where she
00:29:32
worked a friend of hers turned up on the
00:29:34
morning and CLA wasn't there like normal
00:29:36
tending to the horses so something
00:29:38
started to seem a little bit odd to
00:29:42
her Claire's father he decided to pop
00:29:45
over to the house to check on her he
00:29:48
called up there was no
00:29:50
answer he walked up the stairs that was
00:29:54
when he found CLA laying in a pool of
00:29:57
blood
00:30:01
Claire's father called an ambulance he
00:30:04
says she looks dead she's white and
00:30:06
she's cold but they ask him to start
00:30:08
doing CPR and mouth to mouth on her
00:30:11
which must have been incredibly
00:30:15
traumatic when the ambulance arrived CLA
00:30:18
had already succumbed to horrific
00:30:20
injuries and was pronounced
00:30:25
dead when the police arrived at the
00:30:27
crime scene they found a number of
00:30:28
details around in the room there was
00:30:30
blood splattered everywhere she had
00:30:32
blunt force trauma to the Head she'd
00:30:35
been heavily assaulted to the face there
00:30:37
was Slash wounds on her neck they
00:30:39
actually discovered stab wounds in her
00:30:41
chest as well CLA had been left so long
00:30:44
that riger mortis had started to set in
00:30:46
on her
00:30:48
body the police now had a murder
00:30:51
investigation on their
00:30:53
hands the house was made a crime
00:30:55
scene the police naturally will look for
00:30:58
details of forensic evidence
00:31:01
unfortunately cla's phone had also been
00:31:03
removed from the scene there was no
00:31:05
evidence that they could check on her
00:31:06
mobile phone and crucially no murder
00:31:09
weapon found at the scene nor was there
00:31:11
any other DNA
00:31:14
evidence police are up against it here
00:31:17
they have a killer on the loose at this
00:31:19
point and it's really difficult if the
00:31:21
police don't have some of these solid
00:31:23
bits of evidence to work
00:31:26
off professor Coral dando is a forensic
00:31:30
psychologist whenever we go into any
00:31:34
situation we leave some sort of trace of
00:31:37
having been there but when people go
00:31:39
prepared to leave as little trace
00:31:42
evidence as possible it makes the
00:31:44
police's job and the forensic scientist
00:31:47
job well almost
00:31:50
impossible the police decided to use
00:31:53
ultraviolet powder dusted over the crime
00:31:55
scene to try and find more evidence
00:31:59
they'll powder around the whole scene
00:32:00
Turn the Lights Out and this will then
00:32:02
show up evidence that the naked eye
00:32:04
can't
00:32:06
see the police make a significant
00:32:10
Discovery they find shoe prints which
00:32:13
they discover could only have been
00:32:15
caused by the killer these prints were
00:32:17
made whilst cla's blood was still
00:32:21
fresh the shoe prints were a useful lead
00:32:24
but the police had very little else to
00:32:26
go on
00:32:28
[Music]
00:32:31
the crime was committed in a remote
00:32:33
location where there weren't many
00:32:37
cameras the police appealed to the
00:32:39
public for
00:32:41
information they got a really
00:32:43
significant breakthrough one of cla's
00:32:46
neighbors were away on
00:32:48
holiday they believe that they might
00:32:51
have caught cla's murder on one of their
00:32:54
CCTV cameras they call the police fly
00:32:57
back from holiday and rush home to give
00:32:59
them the
00:33:01
evidence the camera captured crucial
00:33:05
footage a figure loitering
00:33:08
nearby play's house is behind the fence
00:33:12
this behavior is very suspicious I think
00:33:15
most of us would look at this behavior
00:33:17
and think this is really odd to be
00:33:19
walking partway across a neighbor's
00:33:21
drive next door to someone that we now
00:33:24
know had been
00:33:26
murdered the video gave the police vital
00:33:30
Clues Professor Vasilios kajan opos is a
00:33:34
specialist in cyber
00:33:36
crime he's wearing a jacket he has a
00:33:39
rock sock and he's wearing Adidas
00:33:43
sneakers with a distinctive three
00:33:45
stripes that mat the footprint that was
00:33:47
found in cla's
00:33:50
home but even more shocking the video
00:33:53
was recording
00:33:55
sound the audio was traffic and never
00:34:00
released we can hear CLA she's having a
00:34:03
conversation with a neighbor and we see
00:34:05
this male sort of hanging around waiting
00:34:07
for a little while he then goes and
00:34:09
knocks on Claire's door the dogs are
00:34:12
barking she lets him
00:34:14
[Music]
00:34:16
in once he then enters the house what we
00:34:20
can then hear which is really just
00:34:23
unbelievable and harrowing is Claire's
00:34:26
screams as she is being
00:34:30
murdered the person in the footage was
00:34:33
now the prime suspect for Claire's
00:34:36
murder now they needed to work out
00:34:38
exactly who the killer was and try to
00:34:41
trace their journey to and from cla's
00:34:46
house scrolling back through the footage
00:34:48
on cla's neighbors CCTV the police Hit
00:34:51
Upon a clue which was captured purely by
00:34:54
chance
00:34:58
[Music]
00:35:01
this is a really rural area of the
00:35:03
country it's dark it doesn't look as if
00:35:06
there are any street lights so this
00:35:08
would be really really difficult to see
00:35:10
but it's the fact that if we watch
00:35:12
carefully a car drives past this enables
00:35:17
the CCTV camera to pick up this person
00:35:22
on a bike riding in the direction of
00:35:26
Claire's house
00:35:30
this short Glimpse gave the police Vital
00:35:32
Information about the route he took to
00:35:34
her
00:35:35
house but they still had no idea who her
00:35:38
killer
00:35:40
was the investigators scanned the
00:35:43
cameras along a cycle way to Corston
00:35:46
busard where CLA was staying and they
00:35:49
can see someone cying on the night of
00:35:52
the
00:35:53
murder we can see the light color
00:35:56
backpack on this piece of footage and
00:35:58
the previous footage had an individual
00:36:01
with a light color
00:36:03
backpack this crime happening in such a
00:36:06
remote place means that no one else
00:36:08
would have been around at the time and
00:36:11
the image of this guy matched the CCTV
00:36:14
from the neighbor's camera too so the
00:36:16
police were really on to
00:36:19
something police Tracked Down CCTV
00:36:22
cameras close to cla's home and after an
00:36:25
extensive search they found multiple
00:36:27
Clips showing a cyclist with similar
00:36:29
identifying
00:36:34
features it gives more evidence more
00:36:37
clues to the police in terms of what the
00:36:40
person might look like what they might
00:36:43
have been wearing and then that makes it
00:36:45
easier to spot them in other footage and
00:36:48
create a map of their
00:36:51
movements the police thought they had
00:36:53
caught the killer on camera but they
00:36:55
still couldn't identify the suspect
00:36:59
pressure was mounting to find Claire's
00:37:02
murderer 10 days into the investigation
00:37:06
the police have another huge
00:37:08
breakthrough someone from the team
00:37:10
manages to locate cla's phone at the
00:37:12
bottom of a local River and they somehow
00:37:15
managed to get it working again the
00:37:18
police accessed messages which revealed
00:37:21
that Claire had been having a
00:37:22
relationship with a younger
00:37:24
man CLA had been using a dating website
00:37:27
messaging this younger guy who was 26
00:37:30
years old they hadn't really known each
00:37:33
other that long they'd gone on a few
00:37:35
coffee dates stuff like
00:37:37
that he was identified as John
00:37:44
Jessup he was a local guy local to
00:37:46
Nottingham Shire on the surface of quite
00:37:49
a normal guy to be honest he was quite
00:37:51
Keen tennis player someone who hadn't
00:37:53
been on the police's radar he had no
00:37:55
History of Violence no DNA in the
00:37:58
police's system at any point there was a
00:38:02
21-year age gap between John and
00:38:05
CLA as the police are sort of delving
00:38:08
into the message chain between these two
00:38:10
they kind of work out that most of this
00:38:13
was John instigating stuff with CLA
00:38:15
they'd met each other a few times they'd
00:38:17
only been intimate once and then it's at
00:38:19
this point CLA decides to call the
00:38:22
relationship off um we can see in the
00:38:24
messages that she was kind of having
00:38:27
some out because of the age
00:38:29
difference it's at this point where we
00:38:31
see a real switch in John's
00:38:36
Behavior he absolutely feels rejected he
00:38:40
starts bombarding CLA with
00:38:44
messages there's one really really long
00:38:46
message where he says he starts to feel
00:38:49
really used and wants answers from CLA
00:38:52
about why she's decided to end the
00:38:54
relationship and leave
00:38:55
him John appeared to have a motive for
00:38:59
killing
00:39:00
CLA CLA says she feels conflicted about
00:39:03
the age difference she sort of wants to
00:39:04
call the relationship off and I just
00:39:07
wonder if this was some kind of trigger
00:39:10
point for John
00:39:12
jesser there was something else that
00:39:14
raised
00:39:16
suspicions John is someone who had never
00:39:19
come forward at any point to help the
00:39:21
police's investigation despite being in
00:39:23
cla's life in the buildup to this crime
00:39:27
the police also made another important
00:39:29
discovery about
00:39:31
John he doesn't have a driver's license
00:39:34
so the only way he could have come in
00:39:36
was with a
00:39:40
bike John Jessup was now suspect number
00:39:44
one but the police still needed evidence
00:39:47
to link him to cla's
00:39:50
murder the police start their digging
00:39:53
and what they find is some CCTV from
00:39:56
around 18 miles away from where CLA was
00:40:01
killed the footage was recorded while
00:40:04
Johan ma was working in the
00:40:06
[Music]
00:40:09
store he took a pastry and he came and
00:40:12
paid for it and uh he was just a normal
00:40:14
person he was polite bought the stuff
00:40:16
and then left the shop he was just like
00:40:19
a exhausted person a major breakthrough
00:40:22
the camera captured John Jessup close to
00:40:25
Claire's home just a few hours before
00:40:27
her murder this footage is really
00:40:30
important for the police because it's
00:40:31
giving them the person how he looks what
00:40:35
he's wearing the details of the rock
00:40:37
sock um and in particular we can see the
00:40:41
distinctive three stripes Snickers that
00:40:44
he is wearing that we know this person
00:40:46
outside CLA H was wearing there isn't
00:40:50
any such thing as a series of
00:40:52
coincidences John doesn't have a driving
00:40:55
license and he doesn't have a car it's
00:40:57
more likely that he would have had to
00:40:59
ride his bike to cla's
00:41:04
house this was now enough evidence for
00:41:07
the police to go and arrest
00:41:10
him 11 days after cla's death the police
00:41:13
moved
00:41:14
[Music]
00:41:18
in police go to John's place of work to
00:41:21
arrest him when they go in he's hiding
00:41:24
in the toilet they go in with tasers cuz
00:41:26
they're not really sure how he's going
00:41:28
to react remember this is someone who's
00:41:30
just committed a really brutal and
00:41:32
frenzied stabbing of someone towards me
00:41:36
put your head get all right
00:41:40
bu understand what's
00:41:43
happening this officer here needs to
00:41:45
tell you something listen very carefully
00:41:47
all right I'm not doing this words are
00:41:50
carriers of information carriers of
00:41:53
deception and we know that the more that
00:41:55
people say the more likely is that we
00:41:57
can understand whether what they're
00:41:59
saying is being deceptive the fact that
00:42:02
he's immediately said I didn't do
00:42:04
anything I think is unusual to us but
00:42:08
it's not at all odd for those people
00:42:10
that work with um offenders such as him
00:42:14
time of arrest was 8:46 I'm not doing
00:42:16
this let's
00:42:18
go I think that the way he's behaving
00:42:21
there is in line with all of the CCTV
00:42:25
footage that we've seen he's quite a
00:42:27
calm measured individual orbe it that he
00:42:31
had committed a very violent attack on
00:42:33
CLA and ultimately murdered her and he's
00:42:37
just very silent very measured and it
00:42:41
doesn't seem to come as any surprise to
00:42:43
him which suggests that maybe
00:42:45
he lacks
00:42:48
empathy but again you can clearly see
00:42:50
from his face it's the same man in the
00:42:53
shop and the evidence is obviously there
00:42:56
to arrest him
00:42:57
[Music]
00:43:00
John Jessup was taken into custody and
00:43:03
questioned the police interview John
00:43:05
over the course of 3 days initially he
00:43:07
denies any involvement but on October
00:43:10
the 12th he confesses to killing
00:43:14
CLA the police were able to piece
00:43:16
together exactly what had happened the
00:43:18
night of cla's
00:43:20
murder on the 25th of February John
00:43:23
Jessup Cycles 18 miles to get to cla's
00:43:26
house he leaves his phone at his
00:43:29
home John Cycles past cla's house he
00:43:33
stores the bike away and sort of waits
00:43:35
in the shadows for her to get
00:43:37
back listens to her talking to her
00:43:40
neighbor and then Waits and goes into
00:43:41
her home the police estimate that he was
00:43:43
at her house for around an hour during
00:43:45
the
00:43:46
murder after killing CLA Jon steals her
00:43:49
mobile phone he goes to a local stream
00:43:51
and discards it in there then gets back
00:43:53
on the bike puts his hat back on starts
00:43:56
a cycle back
00:43:58
home but the question remained was her
00:44:01
murder
00:44:03
premeditated his version of event is
00:44:05
that he went over there they'd had an
00:44:07
argument and in the sort of Heat of the
00:44:09
Moment he'd grabbed a knife and killed
00:44:13
her the tricky thing about this case was
00:44:16
that the police were never able to
00:44:18
locate the murder weapon that there
00:44:20
meant the prosecution had this real
00:44:23
challenge that they couldn't prove that
00:44:24
this was a premeditated murder
00:44:30
John Jessup
00:44:33
confessed there was no
00:44:36
trial John pleaded guilty to murder at
00:44:39
notingham Crown Court in October
00:44:43
2022 on January 4th 2023 he was
00:44:47
sentenced to life with a minimum term of
00:44:50
17
00:44:52
years the fact that that murder weapon
00:44:55
was never found meant that John got got
00:44:57
a lesser
00:44:58
sentence I think he thought that he
00:45:00
would get away with it definitely and
00:45:03
and in fact arguably if cla's next door
00:45:06
neighbor CCTV footage wasn't available
00:45:10
chances how would have got away with it
00:45:13
the CCTV and the digital forensics they
00:45:16
were essential to get a conviction
00:45:18
within this case because there was no
00:45:20
DNA evidence that was found in the house
00:45:22
the footage that was caught on cla's
00:45:23
neighbor's camera and that footage that
00:45:25
we see of John in the shop it was
00:45:28
essential you know we would not have
00:45:29
been able to reach that
00:45:31
point when you think it wasn't really
00:45:33
that much of a relationship that they
00:45:35
had built for that then to have
00:45:37
escalated into CLA being killed in this
00:45:40
way it just disproportionate is the word
00:45:42
that comes to
00:45:44
mind CLA did nothing wrong and women
00:45:47
should be able to say no this just
00:45:50
speaks to an issue that keeps continuing
00:45:52
to happen with a minority of men who
00:45:55
were not able to to accept someone
00:45:58
turning them down or rejecting them it
00:46:01
is just so tragic that this loving
00:46:05
mother of three that was starting this
00:46:06
new chapter in her life has had her life
00:46:09
taken away from her so senselessly
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a
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