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a pleasant suburb outside vancouver
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washington a desperate text sent by
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young children
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and they sent you a text message that
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said help and that mom and dad were
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fighting and we said help help help this
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fighter
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days later and mom tiffany hill was at a
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school event when she got a phone call
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about her estranged husband keyland
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she looked like a ghost she said i have
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to go meet my social worker
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he tried to buy a gun
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he went to walmart and tried to purchase
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a bolt-action rifle to take care of a
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varmint inside his home
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for weeks
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keyland hill stalked his wife
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we were pressing the officer to check
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the car there's there's no way that he
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would have known she was here unless he
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was tracking her
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how long could tiffany hill keep running
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from keeland tiffany always said the
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only way i'm going to get out of this is
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if he kills me he was a terrorist
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he terrorized her
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they had met whilst serving in the
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marines was one trained killer about to
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target another
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his wife
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when the hill family moved to the city
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of vancouver in washington state in 2016
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they shared little about their former
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life with their new friends
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tiffany and husband keeland ex-marines
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trained to fight to kill
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with a domestic history of violence too
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once his rage with the marriage started
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kind of like getting out of hand
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uh that's when he started becoming more
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physical
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the neighborhood of sifton to the
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northwest of vancouver offered a new
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start for keeland and tiffany hill who
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kept the troubled secret pass to
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themselves
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tiffany
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was very closed off she didn't share
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herself
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with
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anybody
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but as tiffany's friendship blossomed
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with fellow mom karina knight she began
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to open up about her eight-year marriage
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before they really knew each other she
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didn't like him at all she thought he
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was cocky
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he was always flirting with everybody
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and you know she's
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she's a new yorker you know she's from
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brooklyn she doesn't
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she didn't do that she's very smart
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tiffany and keeland had been deployed to
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iraq
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she was his commanding officer they
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would work like 24-hour shifts
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and it just blossomed it was very short
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you know that it happened and also they
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started dating and i think it was they
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couldn't live together when they were
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going to be coming back over here so
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they kind of rushed to get married that
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way they could
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live together right away in 2008
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she
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sustains an injury and is forced to
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retire from the military she retires as
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a sergeant the closer they got the more
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tiffany's friends learned about how
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troubled her marriage to keeland
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actually was
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i had asked her
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at any point in your marriage were you
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happy and she said at the very beginning
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but you know we met in the military
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and i didn't really want to date him and
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he wore me down
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and that was another huge red flag to me
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criminologist dr brian frederick
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researchers intimate partner violence he
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also sees the way tiffany and keelan's
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relationship began as a red flag one of
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the first things that these these
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perpetrators will do is to gain the
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trust
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of their you know their future victim
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and one way they do that is by you know
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maybe sending them repeated texts during
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the day oh i love you oh you're the
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person you know you're the person for me
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i went through tiffany's house and went
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through
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all of her things and i was able to find
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all of their love letters
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from the very beginning um
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and i only read one or two
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it was an intense love from the very
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beginning very codependent an intense
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love that began to flounder when the
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couple started a family she had just
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said that things
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seemed different when she'd had their
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oldest child
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he
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did not like the attention that she and
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the baby got he wanted a thousand
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percent of her
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all the time he'd even tell her like
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there'd be emails that she'd show me i
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mean he's even saying like if i can't
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have you i don't want the kids the kids
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that didn't matter to him it was her it
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was having her that's what he wanted
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two more children came along but keeland
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was determined to have tiffany to
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himself the move to washington seems to
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have been part of that need
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she did mention that they moved a couple
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of times to get away from family and
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that this was the biggest move
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to washington state she said it was to
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purposely get away from her family to
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kind of isolate her from from her family
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and friends
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one of the tactics in in an abusive
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power and control relationship is this
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what's called divide and conquer where
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you try to separate
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um your your your partner your potential
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victim from their closest friends and
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family
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the move 2 000 miles away from michigan
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was a bone of contention from the start
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he was offered a job
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out here and tiffany did not want to
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come out here her family was back there
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she'd been working on her community
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um
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back there and keelan
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took the job told them they were moving
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out here and then left her there to pack
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what tiffany said was he moved
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her out here to get her away from the
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support network that she had
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but for him it was all sunshine and
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daisies you know he moved out here to
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make a better life for the family
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perhaps keelan didn't anticipate that
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his wife would immediately begin to
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build a new support network for herself
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and the children she was new
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and it was like an instant thing she
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kind of just started saddling up to me
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and we just got to talking and from that
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moment on it was like we'd always known
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each other
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the couple fitted in fine with the
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community
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turns out i did actually like her her
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husband quite a bit him and i got along
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instantly
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and um
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we just became friends over that you
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know everybody loved keelan everybody
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that knew him
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liked him he was vivacious he was fun he
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was you know he was handsome
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you know he could
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woo you in a minute like he was just
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funny you wanted to be around him he was
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extremely personable and
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kind of like made you feel at ease very
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hospitable and generous and
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we kind of had like the same dark sense
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of humor and
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so we got along really well
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tiffany joined the parent teacher
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association at a children's elementary
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school and quickly gained a reputation
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as a generous hard-working member of the
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team
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a staff appreciation she went overboard
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she did all of the decorations she
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planned the whole thing she made food
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she would do like a staff breakfast to
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where she's up all
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night the night before or she's up early
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that morning getting things ready and
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bringing things in and they were super
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yummy
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and the staff just gobbled it all up
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quickly at one point during
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her
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really rough patch
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she was up until 2 a.m
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making food for our staff
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and she was crying because she said it's
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not enough i didn't do enough
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before long tiffany's friends realized
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that it wasn't just at school that she
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was running herself ragged she was
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working hard for her husband keelan too
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tiffany from the first day i met her she
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was a single parent
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and she did everything
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everything she did
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every single meal all of the cleaning
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all the school work all the school
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activities all the clothes shoppings all
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the school things
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everything tiffany did everything by
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herself she never asked him for help and
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he never offered help
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another new friend renee sundby
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president of the pta formed a poor first
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impression of keeland hill he was in our
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pta room
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and he was sprawled out in the chair and
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we were
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working on carnival so that's you know
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we have games and a bouncy house and
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balloon animals for all our kids and we
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are frantically prepping for carnival
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all of our spouses are helping and he's
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sitting in the room
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completely laid back with a smile on his
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face
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like he was
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a lot just he was the guy and and i just
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i didn't remember until later that was
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my first reaction to him was i actually
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took a step backwards and i thought to
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myself
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why are you in here why aren't you
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helping us
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because most people would you know your
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your wife is out there working you get
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up and you help
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tiffany was hard-working generous but
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her friends noted that for her husband
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whatever she did was never enough
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the marriage wasn't the way he wanted it
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to be
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he ex he wanted like you know a 50s
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style marriage where the woman stayed
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home and cooked
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and did what he said but tiffany was an
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independent spirit and she was extremely
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active in in her children's education
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and was volunteering all the time for
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everything she just gave up herself
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constantly
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and so he'd be upset that she wasn't
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she wasn't at home doing the dishes or
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cleaning the house
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or have dinner ready because she was so
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busy
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volunteering all the time
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you could tell there wasn't a closeness
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that you can see in a lot of marriages
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there weren't like the little
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touches the hand holdings there weren't
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things like that and i always saw that
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from the very beginning um whenever he'd
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enter a room at any time she would
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automatically like stiffen
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like her shoulders would kind of go up a
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little bit she was no longer that
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relaxed
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talking he'd come in the room and she
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automatically would start like tending
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to him like what he needed what he
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needed to do and like take orders from
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him
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the hill's new circle of friends sensed
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that the couple's marriage was not
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perfect
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they had no idea just how badly keelan
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treated tiffany behind closed doors he
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was a terrorist
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he terrorized her
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and he did it in front of the children
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who one night sent out anxious text
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to messages help help
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when keelan hill had made his wife move
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away from her family it was just step
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one in an escalating pattern of torment
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sometimes witnessed by friends and
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neighbours
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things were not happy inside the keelan
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hill household
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i never saw any physical behavior about
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the way he talked to her you know once
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he got really comfortable around us
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it was not that was a behavior of a good
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spouse
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kind of degrading things like if she you
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know
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wore a nice outfit or something he would
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he would just say you know talk down to
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her and oh what do you think you're so
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hot you can wear stuff like that and
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that was his public behavior
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in private it was far worse
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she was tired
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because he also was sleep depriving her
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when she would sleep he would turn on
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the tv as loud in their bedroom keeps
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put water all over her side of the bed
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so when she'd get into bed it would be
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soaking wet
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she told me that he would
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keep her awake
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for
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hours if not days at a time
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just to kind of play with the mental
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side of it
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and kind of slapped her around
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several times uh sometimes in front of
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the kids keyland was good he would never
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show anything in front of anybody that's
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why you could never believe that this
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was happening
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but he would do little things
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when i was there it's like he'd come in
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through the front door from being at
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work after tiffany hadn't slept for
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however many
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weeks in a row you know she wasn't
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eating she was
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just a wreck
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um and he'd come in and if you know if
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she was just talking to the kids and
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doing homework he'd automatically be
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like oh no hug for me
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you know he wanted more of that
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attention once he got comfortable with
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me he started
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speaking more freely
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uh of course it was
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his version of the story so
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my wife you know we tell each other
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everything
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and so
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she
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would tell me things about the
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relationship that tiffany had told her
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and
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and then i would hear his side of the
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story but i wouldn't tell him that i
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knew those things
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you know i'd keep that to myself
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the troubling version of events that
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tiffany was telling karina knight didn't
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match the stories keeland was telling
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his new buddy isaiah knight
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my own opinion i had to be careful
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because i knew all of their deep dark
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secrets everything terrible that he was
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doing to her
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and um
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the torment that was going on in their
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marriage
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but i knew that if i let on to him that
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i knew what was going on he would take
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it out on her
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i have to present
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you know
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a false persona basically to him i have
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to pretend like i'm still his brother
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i'm still his friend
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to protect tiffany as soon as i think he
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realized that tiffany was confiding in
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me
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is when he started changing with me
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it was a problem tiffany recognized only
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too well keelan would realize that she
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had someone to confide in and set about
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splitting them up
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she's like he's starting
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i was like what do you mean she's like
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he's starting he's starting to try to
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make me doubt my friendship with you i
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call it schmoozing
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kind of schmoozing over and making sure
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everyone is on his side and
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that she seems crazy to think about
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these different things that are going on
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that it's all in her head it's nothing
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it's nothing big it's nothing real
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of course i wanted her to leave the very
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first time she told me this was going on
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but he'd find her no matter what she did
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or where she went that was her thing
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she's like he'll find me he will find a
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way to me he will break apart every
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friendship and relationship that i have
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and i will have to go back to him
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because she'd always forgiven him she'd
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always let him come back accepted his
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apologies and he always went back to
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doing the same in late summer 2019
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keelan did something that tiffany could
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no longer keep from her friends and
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neighbors we were supposed to have our
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first official pta meeting at the school
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and she had texted me and said i don't
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know if i'll be there tonight i have a
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concussion
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all i could think of was she's supposed
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to go in a car accident
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because
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for me in my life i had never
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been around at least knowingly someone
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who was in a domestic violence situation
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september 11 2019
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keeland gets angry and goes after
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tiffany he throws her into a wall he
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chases her down a flight of stairs she
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tries to call 9-1-1 she's terrified he
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slaps the phone out of her hand
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one of their children asked
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google or whatever amazon echo that they
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had to call someone they sent you a text
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message that said help and that mom and
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dad were fighting and we said help help
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and saying help
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something happened this friday
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okay
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they told her what was happening and she
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called 9-1-1 from a different state
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because he had taken her phone so she
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couldn't call 9-1-1 did you hear any
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yelling in the background or anything
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like that
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they were yelling
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tiffany was injured so badly in this
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assault that she had gotten whiplash in
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a concussion and had to be seen by
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neurologists
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the police came and he was arrested and
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that night she came to the meeting
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and after the meeting
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karina who's her best friend
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came in with her and she was crying and
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i said are you okay and karina said you
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tell her and you tell her now
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she needs to know
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and so tiffany had said
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my husband pushed me
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my head hit the wall i have a concussion
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he's abusive
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injured and in pain her children having
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witnessed a frightening act of violence
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tiffany hill was forced to confront the
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reality of her unhappy marriage
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her kids were getting older and she was
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seen like this is what they're going to
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think is acceptable
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for them
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you know that this is how people get to
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treat them
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this time she goes to police and she
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files on him
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this
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time tiffany is not going to back down
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this was the first time that tiffany's
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friends in vancouver had heard a full
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account of the relentless abuse that she
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had suffered at keelan's hands
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abuse which began shortly after their
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wedding when they were living
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in the east coast
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and it was right after uh
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right after they both got out of the
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military and
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i'm not quite sure all the details but
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basically
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in a drunken rage he tried to
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choke the life out of her literally
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and she managed to get out of the house
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and got to a neighbor's house and
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the police were called and he was
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arrested
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but eventually
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he got her to drop the charges then she
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said they moved to maryland
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and he was abusive in maryland
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and she said
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i would call 9-1-1 and the police would
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show up and they would say
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well
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you've been drinking just go sleep it
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off in the basement that's what they
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told him they wouldn't arrest him they
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just told him to go sleep in the
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basement
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detective tanya woolstein was ready in
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waiting when tiffany went to vancouver's
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domestic violence prosecution center to
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document the full history of her
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husband's abusive behavior
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eighty percent or so of domestic
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violence victims recant they don't want
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to cooperate with investigations they
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are
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in such a state of being manipulated and
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gaslighted and financially dependent a
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number of other things tiffany had made
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that decision to break away she was
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reporting she was she was asking for
00:19:29
help tiffany explained that this is all
00:19:31
a game to keelan and he's threatened to
00:19:33
kill her before and to kill her or hurt
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her would mean nothing to him it's all a
00:19:38
game to him and
00:19:40
she felt like she'd be the one to lose
00:19:45
what tiffany and i talked about was
00:19:48
a brief history of their relationship
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and then focused on what had been going
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on
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more recently
00:19:55
the authorities decide that action is
00:19:58
needed against the trained killer
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keyland hill the day after the attack
00:20:02
clark county officials issue a no
00:20:04
contact order against keelan hill
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in the paperwork that tiffany fills out
00:20:09
supporting this no contact order she has
00:20:12
written that if he were angry enough and
00:20:15
drunk enough and he had a gun
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he would use it on me and he would kill
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me
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some victims we do have great concerns
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about their safety
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and tiffany would be one so i would say
00:20:29
i have more contact with tiffany than
00:20:31
the average domestic violence victim
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more along the lines of domestic
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violence victims who i am seriously
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concerned
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will be
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seriously harmed or murdered by their
00:20:42
abuser
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keelan was served with the protection
00:20:46
order and arrested he was arrested for
00:20:49
interfering with the report of domestic
00:20:51
violence and assault
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keeland was released on bail the no
00:20:56
contact order barred him from going
00:20:58
within 250 feet of his wife and from
00:21:01
contacting her in person or by phone he
00:21:03
was also banned from buying or
00:21:05
possessing a gun
00:21:06
would this be enough to protect mrs hill
00:21:09
from her angry controlling husband
00:21:12
especially after he had the restraining
00:21:15
orders and after he had been out of jail
00:21:17
he was showing me the dark side he had a
00:21:20
seriously bad evil in him
00:21:23
they had met married and had three
00:21:25
children but by september 2019 it seemed
00:21:29
that tiffany hill's husband keeland
00:21:31
had murder on his mind
00:21:41
keelandhill may have been arrested in
00:21:43
order to stay away from his wife but the
00:21:45
former marine was not in a mood to obey
00:21:47
orders
00:21:48
keelan was released on bail after his
00:21:51
arrest
00:21:52
and he almost immediately
00:21:55
began to violate the protection order he
00:21:58
began making inquiries trying to work
00:22:00
out where tiffany would be and when she
00:22:02
would be there one of the things that
00:22:05
keyland did after the protection order
00:22:08
was he went to the bowling alley and
00:22:09
tried to get coaching for his daughter
00:22:11
and he asked the folks at the
00:22:14
bowling alley would tiffany be present
00:22:16
while her daughter was being instructed
00:22:19
several days later tiffany receives a
00:22:22
facetime call from keeland she doesn't
00:22:24
answer it he later claims that oh it it
00:22:27
was an accident
00:22:29
but it continues
00:22:31
one violation after another
00:22:33
minor transgressions on the face of it
00:22:35
but former homicide detective rod demery
00:22:37
believes they speak volumes about
00:22:39
keelandhill's attitude
00:22:41
when someone is
00:22:43
made so many different violations of a
00:22:45
protection order then it's clear that
00:22:47
they have no intention on ever following
00:22:49
that protection order
00:22:51
probably after the first violation
00:22:54
certainly the second violation
00:22:58
some steps should be taken he was still
00:23:00
texting her every day sending her
00:23:01
facebook messages
00:23:02
all the way through october
00:23:06
on october 6th a phone call that
00:23:09
devastated tiffany we have an assembly
00:23:11
at the school she gets a phone call
00:23:14
she comes back out of the room that she
00:23:16
was in
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she looked like a ghost and i said
00:23:20
what's going on and she said i have to
00:23:22
go meet my social worker
00:23:24
he tried to buy a gun
00:23:29
he went to walmart and tried to purchase
00:23:32
a bolt-action rifle to take care of a
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varmint inside his home
00:23:36
that is the day that i think her soul
00:23:38
died
00:23:39
she was just a shell of a human she was
00:23:42
so devastated
00:23:44
that he had tried to buy a gun and and
00:23:46
what that was going to mean to her
00:23:48
as he tried to purchase this weapon the
00:23:51
background check was completed and it
00:23:53
showed up that he had been charged with
00:23:55
domestic abuse and had a protected order
00:23:58
against him
00:23:59
background checks are linked through all
00:24:02
law enforcement systems it's almost real
00:24:04
time so if someone's attempting to buy a
00:24:07
weapon and they have a protection from
00:24:08
abuse order or something like that the
00:24:11
jurisdiction that issued is almost
00:24:13
immediately notified the theory behind
00:24:15
it is to catch someone in the act
00:24:18
because it is illegal to attempt to
00:24:20
purchase a weapon
00:24:21
knowing that you have a protection from
00:24:23
abuse order against a sheriff's deputy
00:24:26
shows up at the scene and
00:24:28
talks to keyland and keelan's real calm
00:24:30
that
00:24:31
that deputy then reports it to
00:24:34
the clark county officials in washington
00:24:36
state
00:24:37
the following day a warrant was issued
00:24:39
for keelan hill's arrest but by then no
00:24:42
longer living in the family home
00:24:43
deputies struggled to locate him
00:24:46
he
00:24:48
said he stayed at a friend's house his
00:24:50
other friend
00:24:51
who lived
00:24:53
a half hour 45 minutes from their house
00:24:56
and
00:24:58
he would also say things like he's
00:24:59
living in his car you know by the river
00:25:02
but he would just say things you know i
00:25:04
don't know if it had any truth to them
00:25:06
whatsoever he was
00:25:08
he had so much
00:25:09
untruthfulness about him he would just
00:25:11
say whatever he had to so he's not
00:25:15
arrested nothing happens and he's still
00:25:17
out there five weeks would pass before
00:25:20
police could take him into custody in
00:25:22
the meantime everyone around tiffany did
00:25:24
what they could to keep her safe
00:25:26
we did plan on here are the things that
00:25:29
we need to do to try to keep you safe
00:25:31
because we know that he's out there
00:25:33
trying to purchase firearm
00:25:35
we talked about calling 911 immediately
00:25:37
and leaving the area immediately and
00:25:39
many other things we'd been practicing
00:25:42
lockdowns at the school
00:25:44
they were prepared they were
00:25:46
you know security guards at the school
00:25:48
every day
00:25:49
i believe they sent his picture to all
00:25:51
the staff members
00:25:53
and you know this person is because
00:25:55
there's a restraining order
00:25:57
he could have came and got the kids out
00:25:59
of school because the restraining order
00:26:00
wasn't at based at the children it was
00:26:03
on her but she was always there if
00:26:05
keyland showed up
00:26:08
doors locked they hit the button
00:26:09
classrooms lock everything locks
00:26:12
whenever we go to somewhere i would go
00:26:14
somewhere first take a look around make
00:26:16
sure he wasn't there and then she'd come
00:26:18
behind me
00:26:19
you know if we went out to lunch
00:26:21
i'd go in first let her know okay you're
00:26:24
good and then she could come in
00:26:26
and can you imagine like what a way to
00:26:28
live i think the hardest part for me was
00:26:31
being at the school and walking out to
00:26:33
my car with tiffany and the kids because
00:26:35
i never tried to let her walk out by
00:26:37
herself but having to tell my 10 year
00:26:40
old
00:26:41
if you see
00:26:43
the kids dad and i tell you to run
00:26:46
i want you to run and i want you to hide
00:26:49
and i don't want you to come find me i
00:26:51
don't want you to look back i don't want
00:26:53
you to come for me i want you to find a
00:26:55
safe place
00:26:57
just a few days after keelan's shopping
00:26:59
trip to oregon another breach of the
00:27:01
restraining order
00:27:02
on october 10th
00:27:04
2019 keelan shows up at the peach tree
00:27:08
restaurant where coincidentally tiffany
00:27:10
hill is there we have a just a board
00:27:13
meeting at our restaurant here in
00:27:15
vancouver
00:27:16
and we're all leaving
00:27:18
and i see this man walking up and he
00:27:19
smiles at me and i think to myself
00:27:22
well that looks like keyland and i said
00:27:25
okay he's not supposed to be here he
00:27:26
can't be here and i hear tiffany say oh
00:27:29
my god and she starts running for the
00:27:32
car keelan's yelling at her i just want
00:27:35
to see my kids
00:27:37
and then realizes you know we're all
00:27:39
coming towards him like this is going to
00:27:41
be us forming a circle right around her
00:27:44
and he runs
00:27:46
sheriff's deputies were called to the
00:27:47
peachtree restaurant
00:27:49
and when they arrived he had already
00:27:51
left for another four weeks keeland hill
00:27:53
remained a free man free to continue
00:27:56
terrorizing his wife free to keep
00:27:58
turning up wherever she might be in
00:28:01
restaurants at the grocery store at the
00:28:03
school
00:28:04
how was he doing it
00:28:06
on november 7th the support group and
00:28:08
tiffany made a breakthrough of sorts
00:28:11
tiffany reports that keeland
00:28:14
keeps showing up
00:28:16
at
00:28:17
all kinds of locations where she is
00:28:19
wherever she is he just seems to be
00:28:21
there she tells police police go to talk
00:28:24
to kylan they find him at a bowling
00:28:26
alley he appears to be
00:28:28
trying to delete an app on his phone
00:28:30
why would keyland want to hide an app on
00:28:33
his phone from the cops
00:28:35
all of a sudden tiffany's friends knew
00:28:37
how keeland was able to keep showing up
00:28:40
wherever she was
00:28:42
i tell her the only way for him to know
00:28:45
that you're here because we're parked in
00:28:47
the very back is he has to be following
00:28:49
you or tracking you that is the only way
00:28:52
the parking lot was all the way in the
00:28:53
back i mean you would have never seen
00:28:55
someone pull in and park
00:28:56
we knew that he was somehow tracking her
00:28:59
we didn't know how we didn't know if it
00:29:01
was by our phone or if there was
00:29:03
something on our car but we just we knew
00:29:05
that there was some way of him tracking
00:29:07
her
00:29:08
we were pressing the officer to
00:29:11
check the car
00:29:13
check the car there's there's no way
00:29:14
that he would have known she was here
00:29:16
unless he was tracking her
00:29:20
eventually they searched tiffany's
00:29:22
vehicle and beneath the wheel well of
00:29:25
the vehicle was a small black box that
00:29:27
was used as a gps tracking device
00:29:30
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00:29:31
at that point killing was arrested taken
00:29:33
into custody for stalking
00:29:36
and violating his protective order his
00:29:38
vehicle and his cell phones were taken
00:29:40
as evidence on november 8 2019 tiffany
00:29:44
hill goes back to the prosecution center
00:29:46
to report yet more violations of the
00:29:49
domestic violence no contact order
00:29:53
and the
00:29:54
vancouver police decide you know they
00:29:56
want to do a risk assessment tiffany was
00:29:59
very concerned that keelan was going to
00:30:01
murder her we use a danger assessment
00:30:03
that's essentially a lethality predictor
00:30:04
for our victim she scored very high on
00:30:06
that 31 out of 41 which is an extreme
00:30:09
risk category for us
00:30:11
we were all very concerned about
00:30:12
tiffany's safety
00:30:14
for now tiffany's extremely dangerous
00:30:16
husband keelan was safely behind bars
00:30:18
but for how long on november 21 2019
00:30:22
keyland hill had a bail hearing
00:30:25
the state believes that if the defendant
00:30:26
is released he will kill the victim the
00:30:29
prosecutors argue to the judge this man
00:30:31
is dangerous if if he gets out he will
00:30:34
kill her
00:30:35
so they argue for keelan's bail to be
00:30:37
raised from 75 000
00:30:39
to 2 million dollars she had hired a
00:30:43
lawyer for her to advocate for her who
00:30:45
told the judge he will kill her tiffany
00:30:47
is begging you he will kill her she had
00:30:50
done all these things to help protect
00:30:52
herself and to work within the system
00:30:56
i stopped reporting because he's made
00:30:58
aware of it if i report and i'm scared
00:30:59
of his anger and retaliation
00:31:01
despite my non-report he continued to
00:31:03
escalate
00:31:04
because he feels he's smarter than
00:31:05
everybody else and he's untouchable in a
00:31:08
statement read out in court tiffany
00:31:10
tried to explain the fear and threat
00:31:12
that she had lived under every day
00:31:14
he's here now because he placed a
00:31:16
tracking device on my vehicle
00:31:18
and tried to possess a weapon
00:31:20
those two things are major indicators of
00:31:22
what i've known all along deep down that
00:31:24
he's going to kill me if he's given the
00:31:26
opportunity
00:31:27
i beg you to not allow him to get to me
00:31:29
and my
00:31:30
children i have no family here nowhere
00:31:33
to go we have no money and nowhere to
00:31:34
hide from him he's made sure of that
00:31:37
thank you
00:31:39
following supreme court bail guidelines
00:31:41
keyland hill was released the judge
00:31:43
looks at the records and he says well i
00:31:46
don't know i mean this guy
00:31:49
you know he doesn't have a criminal
00:31:51
history because of course he has forced
00:31:54
tiffany to drop all the charges
00:31:56
including attempted murder
00:31:58
he has a job he's gainfully employed
00:32:01
he's not a flight risk
00:32:03
uh he has served in the military
00:32:05
honorably
00:32:06
and then the prosecutor argues well if
00:32:08
you're going to not raise the bail then
00:32:12
at least
00:32:13
put an electronic tracker on him and the
00:32:15
judge says
00:32:16
no i don't think so
00:32:19
for a period of a month he had violated
00:32:21
domestic violence orders the protection
00:32:24
orders 64 times
00:32:26
that we know of washington state senator
00:32:29
linda wilson who campaigns to protect
00:32:31
domestic violence victims thinks that
00:32:34
tracking perpetrators is essential to
00:32:36
stopping them she's fought for a law to
00:32:38
better monitor abusers
00:32:41
the gist of it is
00:32:43
for
00:32:44
victims of domestic violence that can
00:32:46
get electronic monitoring on their
00:32:47
abuser
00:32:48
uh this bill will create a real-time
00:32:52
notification of this electronic
00:32:54
monitoring so 24 7
00:32:57
and then if the abuser gets too close
00:32:59
then they will um get an alert on their
00:33:02
phone through an app
00:33:05
for tiffany hill there was no such
00:33:08
protection keeland hill
00:33:10
is released on bail two hundred fifty
00:33:13
thousand dollars bail meaning he only
00:33:15
had to post twenty five hundred dollars
00:33:17
would putting keenan hill back on the
00:33:19
streets be shown to be a mistake we
00:33:22
heard the tones that initially sounded
00:33:23
like perhaps a school shooting
00:33:25
it came out rather quickly that this
00:33:27
wasn't like an active shooter situation
00:33:39
vancouver washington november 26 2019
00:33:43
tiffany hill's mother had arrived from
00:33:45
new york to support her daughter that
00:33:47
afternoon
00:33:48
keelan hill
00:33:50
drives to sarah j anderson elementary
00:33:53
school the school where he knows that
00:33:56
his wife will soon be arriving to pick
00:33:59
up their three children he must have
00:34:01
been parked in such a way that he could
00:34:02
see tiffany's car so he could see when
00:34:04
she came out
00:34:05
he was there in the lot for
00:34:06
approximately 20 minutes talking on the
00:34:08
phone with his mother
00:34:12
after the 20 minutes he pulled out of
00:34:14
his parking spot
00:34:16
pulled up in front of tiffany's vehicle
00:34:18
so he was parked kind of perpendicular
00:34:20
to her vehicle got out of the vehicle
00:34:22
stood in front and the driver's side
00:34:24
shot several times through the driver's
00:34:25
side window
00:34:30
and then had some kind of a malfunction
00:34:33
with his firearm it appears i went back
00:34:35
to his his car trunk and appeared to
00:34:38
kind of reload or clear his malfunction
00:34:40
came to the side of the driver's side
00:34:43
and fired a couple additional rounds
00:34:45
then got into his car and fled
00:34:51
the fact that you would fire inside a
00:34:52
vehicle
00:34:54
there there are all sorts of dangers
00:34:56
of a ricochet
00:34:58
pass through
00:35:01
oh god it's just it's numerous firing a
00:35:04
firearm in any small space is a
00:35:07
dangerous
00:35:08
undertaking also in the car tiffany's
00:35:10
mother tiffany's mom was shot trying to
00:35:12
protect her tiffany's mom leaned over
00:35:15
and and did the the thing that they do
00:35:17
you know just the instinctual reaching
00:35:19
out to try to protect her daughter
00:35:22
and she was shot and in her arms and her
00:35:24
hands
00:35:26
several times
00:35:28
clark county uh deputies were actually
00:35:30
executing a warrant just a few blocks
00:35:32
away so when the call came out they left
00:35:36
the scene of the warrant and i believe
00:35:38
he had probably heard the the sirens
00:35:41
so they were right on him as he was
00:35:43
leaving
00:35:45
keelan's first objective and his primary
00:35:47
objective was to kill tiffany and then
00:35:48
secondarily he perhaps would have
00:35:50
focused on others and perhaps if clark
00:35:52
county hadn't been so close
00:35:54
and he had more time we don't know what
00:35:56
he would have done
00:35:58
so i'm certainly grateful that they were
00:36:00
there because i believe they saved those
00:36:02
children's lives
00:36:03
once first responders get to a school
00:36:06
and there's been a shooting like that
00:36:07
immediately the school is going to be on
00:36:09
lockdown there's going to be a parameter
00:36:11
set around the school and a search is
00:36:14
going to begin i just heard part of the
00:36:17
lockdown procedure
00:36:18
um go into place
00:36:21
and i wasn't quite
00:36:22
sure like is this real or not real so i
00:36:26
was at work at the domestic violence
00:36:28
prosecution center
00:36:29
so we heard the tones it initially
00:36:31
sounded like perhaps the school shooting
00:36:33
so we all began gearing up and getting
00:36:35
ready to leave it came out rather
00:36:37
quickly that this wasn't like an active
00:36:38
shooter situation
00:36:41
and then they mentioned tiffany's name
00:36:43
on the air and that's when i
00:36:45
knew it was tiffany
00:36:49
it was devastating i mean i remember
00:36:51
just yelling to a
00:36:53
boyd across the office it's tiffany it's
00:36:55
tiffany
00:36:57
and
00:36:58
just
00:37:00
feeling so terrible
00:37:02
as one set of first responders rushed to
00:37:05
help tiffany and her mother another was
00:37:07
on the tail of the fleeing keeland hill
00:37:10
keelan was located and he let
00:37:13
police on a high-speed chase speeds up
00:37:16
to 75 miles per hour on busy streets
00:37:19
in a situation such as a fleeing person
00:37:24
in a very populated area or dangerous
00:37:27
area
00:37:29
one has to decide
00:37:30
which one would cause the less
00:37:34
amount of damage letting this person run
00:37:36
free
00:37:38
or pursuing them but if the police
00:37:41
officers pursued or the first responders
00:37:43
pursued keelan it was because they
00:37:45
thought he was a higher risk
00:37:47
by fleeing with a firearm
00:37:51
because it was a danger he was a danger
00:37:53
to himself and he was a clear danger to
00:37:55
other people the deputies actually
00:37:59
attempted to stop his vehicle by ramming
00:38:00
it with theirs
00:38:02
and pursued him until he got caught in
00:38:04
traffic and that's when keelan exited
00:38:06
the vehicle turned to face the
00:38:08
oncoming
00:38:10
officers and shot himself
00:38:13
a marriage forged in war had ended in
00:38:15
the death of mr keeland hill and his
00:38:18
wife tiffany
00:38:19
in the meantime word was starting to get
00:38:22
out there had been an incident at the
00:38:24
school
00:38:25
i had just gotten home from work all of
00:38:27
a sudden uh her phone just started
00:38:29
blowing up
00:38:31
you know karina have you heard but
00:38:33
there's a shooting at the school it's
00:38:35
tiffany
00:38:36
i had just turned on my phone and was
00:38:38
already on facebook and it said school
00:38:40
shooting
00:38:42
and i knew
00:38:43
instantly
00:38:44
i called her phone first i called the
00:38:46
school and then about three minutes
00:38:48
later the school called me
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um
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and they said
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you need to get here the kids are
00:38:55
waiting for you they know you're coming
00:38:58
someone actually called me and and told
00:39:01
me about an hour later yep it was
00:39:04
tiffany
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uh they're not telling us if she's gone
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or not
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um
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but you know i think she is i have um
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friends who are in the medical community
00:39:17
so i texted and said he shot he shot her
00:39:20
and he killed her and rumor has it he
00:39:23
shot himself
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and she texted me back and said yeah
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he's he's gone
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tiffany and her mother were both taken
00:39:29
to the hospital tiffany was pronounced
00:39:31
dead on arrival and her mother
00:39:33
miraculously survived
00:39:35
we immediately left our three kids with
00:39:37
our neighbor
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we booked it down to the school
00:39:41
we had to be
00:39:42
cleared before we could go in when we
00:39:45
went in there the kids had no idea what
00:39:47
was going on they saw their mother get
00:39:49
shot but they didn't know she was dead
00:39:51
we were with the children when the
00:39:53
when the sheriff told them that their
00:39:55
father had killed their mother and then
00:39:56
killed himself
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the shocking crime was reported widely
00:40:02
senator linda wilson became even more
00:40:04
determined to push forward her bill to
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protect domestic abuse victims
00:40:09
well i was watching television and i saw
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the police report on the news and
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of course when i saw that it broke my
00:40:17
heart because i um
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witnessed domestic violence as a child
00:40:23
pretty consistently senator wilson
00:40:25
contacted karina
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and had said you know i'd really like to
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use tiffany's name for this
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act we're trying to pass to become a law
00:40:34
and then
00:40:35
with our testimony you know our personal
00:40:37
experience and what we knew it went from
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there and it wasn't
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in my mind
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it wasn't gonna stop
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i told them
00:40:46
this that i would like to honor tiffany
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in a way that would help others
00:40:52
i think it's an important piece of
00:40:53
legislation and i think that at the at
00:40:56
the very best it can save lives and at
00:40:58
the very least maybe give uh the victims
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of domestic violence control and some
00:41:03
feeling of peace in their lives wilson
00:41:06
believes being able to track their
00:41:07
abusers movements is essential to
00:41:09
protecting victims
00:41:11
had this technology been around then and
00:41:14
tiffany had been have been available to
00:41:16
it
00:41:17
she would have known more often
00:41:20
when he was lurking
00:41:22
because she would be notified on her
00:41:24
phone or her watch then they would get a
00:41:26
real-time notification so as soon as
00:41:29
that happened then they would be
00:41:30
notified
00:41:31
that this person was within their
00:41:33
geoprotection zone
00:41:35
so many times with domestic violence
00:41:37
victims these they it's the element of
00:41:39
surprise that takes them off guard
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washington state lawmakers passed the
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tiffany hill act in 2020. all those in
00:41:47
favor of adoption of the proposed
00:41:48
substrate please say aye
00:41:50
aye
00:41:51
all those opposed say no the proposed
00:41:53
substrate is adopted
00:41:55
her friends believe it will protect more
00:41:57
women like tiffany not only in
00:41:59
washington but across the usa which is
00:42:01
exactly what tiffany would have wanted
00:42:05
she loved god
00:42:07
she loved
00:42:09
people she would give you the shirt off
00:42:11
of her back
00:42:14
she loved her kids her community she
00:42:16
worked really hard
00:42:18
at building a community
00:42:21
she knew how important it was she knew
00:42:22
it it takes a village
00:42:25
tiffany hill is gone but because of her
00:42:29
the domestic violence victims will be
00:42:30
safer in our state and tiffany really
00:42:33
will continue to serve
00:42:35
in a different way
00:42:36
tiffany and keenan hill were married in
00:42:38
2008.
00:42:40
keeland murdered tiffany in november
00:42:42
2019 moments before taking his own life
00:42:45
in april 2020 the tiffany hill act to
00:42:48
protect victims of abuse
00:42:50
was signed into law
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