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there was a shooting in an upscale
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neighborhood in oklahoma city
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ballistics identified the use of two
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different guns which meant
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at least two shooters
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these small marks on a shotgun shell
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some singed fibers and the crime
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reconstruction revealed a plot
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more twisted than anyone could have
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imagined
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to outsiders it looked as if rob andrew
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had everything anyone could want
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he had a high-paying job with an
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advertising agency lots of friends and a
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growing family whom he described as his
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source of strength rob andrew salt of
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the earth i mean this is a christian man
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attended church all the time a loving
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father
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just a great guy very successful
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businessman as well
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two days before thanksgiving rob andrew
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left work to pick up his children
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they planned to spend the holiday
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weekend with his parents
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on the way rob called his best friend
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rob had called my house around 5 30
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telling me how hurried he'd been all day
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and that he was looking forward to
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picking the kids up and spending a long
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weekend with them for thanksgiving
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rob didn't plan to stay long so he
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parked his car in the driveway i heard
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the overhead garage door start up and
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then rob paused and said hey i'm gonna
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have to let you go
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as he walked into the garage his wife
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brenda asked him to re-light the furnace
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because it had gone out earlier in the
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day
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then there was a commotion brenda said
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two masked men with guns appeared out of
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nowhere
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and then they fled
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i've been shot my husband's been shot
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okay
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you and your husband have both been shot
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yes yes i shot you
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i don't know
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43 year old robert andrew was pronounced
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dead at the scene
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mr andrew was shot two times once to the
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right side of the body once to the left
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side of the body and they actually
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occurred from two different locations so
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that also tells us that two shooters
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it's a possibility
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brenda andrew suffered a gunshot wound
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and was rushed to the hospital
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her wound is in a fatty portion of her
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left left upper arm
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the bullet that hit brenda went through
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her arm and lodged in the wall of the
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garage it was from a 22 caliber pistol
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police found a spence 16 gauge shotgun
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shell on the roof of brenda's van an
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indication there were two different
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weapons used in the attack
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the empty cans on the garage floor
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indicated rob saw the gunman and grabbed
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the bag of empty cans as a shield
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as the second gunshot wound is about to
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be inflicted on him he is looking up and
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looking at the face of his killer
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the motive apparently wasn't robbery
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his wallet was not taken in fact some of
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the pellets from the shotgun went
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through his wallet
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the andrew's two children were upstairs
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in their rooms unharmed
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the attack had all the earmarks of an
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execution
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yet no one could think of a reason why
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robert andrew would be targeted for
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murder
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with no motive no leads and no
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description of the killers
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investigators hoped the autopsy would
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provide the clues they needed
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news of rob andrews execution-style
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murder was a shock to the residents of
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oklahoma city since crimes like this
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were extremely uncommon
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rob and brenda were a loving couple they
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appeared to be that the picture showed
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the perfect family the smiling happy
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loving couple with these two great
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little kids
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the couple were active members of their
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church brenda taught sunday school and
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rob performed missionary work in south
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america
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early in the investigation police
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learned there had been a prior attempt
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on rob's life
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just one month earlier rob called police
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to report someone had tampered with his
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car oklahoma city police department
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hi there i'd like to uh report a client
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to my uh brake lines have been cut
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that sounds like attempted murder don't
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you think
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a few hours later
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rob was getting his breaks fixed when he
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received a call from the hospital
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the caller said his wife brenda was
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critically injured in a car accident and
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suggested that he come to the hospital
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right away
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you're a man's voice saying that his
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wife is in the hospital about 30 miles
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away
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that she needs him and he needs to get
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down there just as fast as he can
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now suspicious rob called the hospital
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back and learned the previous call was a
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hoax
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apparently the same person who cut rob's
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brake line wanted him to race to the
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hospital
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he took it as an attempt on his life he
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realized that in fact he was being set
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up to drive down there and
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at a high rate of speed and hopefully
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get into an accident that's the obvious
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conclusion
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several days after robb's murder his
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next door neighbors returned home from
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vacation and realized
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someone had broken into their home
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we unpacked our suitcases and started
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putting things away when i opened my
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closet door i discovered that a little
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shoe rack that i'd had was no longer
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there then we decided to look around the
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other bedrooms
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that's when we discovered the spent
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shotgun shell in one of the bedrooms
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the shell was from a 16 16-gauge shotgun
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it was immediately sent to the forensics
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lab for testing
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an analyst placed it under a microscope
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to compare it to the 16-gauge shotgun
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shell found in the andrew's garage he
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looks specifically at the brass casings
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at the base of the shells
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when casings are ejected each gun
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creates a unique mark on the brass
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and depending on the amount of
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correspondence
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and the preponderance of these matching
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striations an examiner can come to the
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conclusion as to whether these were
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fired by the same firearm or not
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there was no doubt
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both shells were fired from the same gun
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also in the neighbor's attic
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police found several unused 22-caliber
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bullets the same as those used in the
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second gun in the murder it was if they
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were just basically
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accidentally dropped along the way they
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didn't appear to be placed in any type
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of a pattern but just like they were in
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a pocket and they fell out as someone
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crawled through
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this suggested that the killers hid in
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the neighbor's home after the murder so
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they could make a clean getaway later
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apparently someone went up in that attic
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and they were either trying to climb up
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in the master
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closet access or they came down and
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landed on that shoe rack and broke it to
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pieces it wasn't sturdy enough to hold
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them and so then they tried to hide
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evidence of that in a rather feeble
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attempt by putting it under the bed
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and since the neighbor's home had no
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signs of forced entry
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it meant one of two things either the
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killers were professionals
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or they had a key
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with no solid leads police asked
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themselves who would benefit most from
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rob andrews murder
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robb's friends told police that his wife
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brenda had the most to gain
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we found that marriage was rocky off and
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on they had a few periods of separation
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and we also found that brenda andrew was
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involved in several extramarital affairs
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mr andrew was convinced at this point
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that his insurance salesman mr pravad
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and his wife were having an affair
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forty-eight-year-old james pavad taught
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sunday school with brenda
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and they flaunted their relationship
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even in front of rob's children
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james and brenda had a very interesting
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relationship i mean even prior to rob's
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death the two of them went on a vacation
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together down to texas with the children
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i don't know of any husband who would
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willingly just say okay
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to his wife going down to mexico with a
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complete
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stranger and taking his kids with him
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just a few months before his murder
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rob demanded that brenda end her affair
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with pavat
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brenda refused and filed for divorce
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rob immediately changed the beneficiary
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of his 800 000 life insurance policy
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mr andrew made the beneficiary i think
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his brother
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for the benefit of the children since
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the children were minors he had to have
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an adult as the actual name beneficiary
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as a trustee of that money
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but after rob's death
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police were surprised to learn that
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brenda was again
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the sole beneficiary
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police were immediately suspicious and
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they arranged for a handwriting expert
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david parrott to authenticate rob
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andrews signature on the insurance
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policy
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a signature is produced with style and
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speed it's the thing that you probably
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write the most in your entire life
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in my analysis i looked at 13 years of
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rob andrews handwriting in writing his
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signatures 136 signatures
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not surprisingly
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it was clear that rob andrews signatures
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changed over the years
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over time rob andrews signature had
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become more ornate more artistic
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and two and a half years before his
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death rob added an extra element to his
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signature i was in the bottom right hand
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corner of his signature
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i then began looking at signature after
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signature after signature
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and that fish was there
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this was a christian symbol the ecthus
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robb added it to his signature as a sign
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of his faith but it wasn't on the change
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of beneficiary form i know that symbol
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is very significant because he
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repeatedly used it in the more
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formalized signatures that he wrote such
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as in business documents
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and that symbol was not in
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the question document and there was
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another discrepancy in the life
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insurance policy signature
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rob andrew
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had a characteristic of connecting the n
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and the d in the last name andrew but it
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wasn't signed that way on the insurance
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form
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so parrot concluded it was a forgery but
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he was unable to determine the identity
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of the forger
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police knew that brenda andrew had the
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motive to make sure she was the
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beneficiary of her husband's 800 000
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life insurance policy and her lover
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james pavat
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had the opportunity
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he
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was the life insurance agent who sold
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the policy
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police now suspected brenda may have
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been involved in her husband's murder
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so ballistic experts took a much closer
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look at the photographs of her wound and
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the bullet hole in her sweater
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they found black rings gunshot residue
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around both
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it is actually the unburned and
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partially burned powder
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and soot and hot gases that exit the
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barrel right behind the projectile
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using an identical gun
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investigators ran tests to recreate the
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gunshot residue patterns
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and my observations of those patterns
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and of the sweater and of her
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wound
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allowed me to conclude that she was shot
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at somewhere between actual contact and
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approximately two inches away from her
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arm
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this contradicted brenda's statement
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that she was shot by someone 15 to
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twenty feet away
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police now knew that brenda andrew was
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involved in rob's murder but
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was she the killer
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to find out what role if any brenda
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andrew played in her husband's murder
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investigators sent her bloodstained
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clothing to tom bevel an expert on
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bloodspatter analysis
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bevel noticed that many of the blood
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stains on her jeans had an elongated
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shape consistent with blood dripping
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from her arm onto her pants
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we have some low velocity blood drips
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that would be blood that is breaking
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away primarily due to gravity dripping
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down onto the genes
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dna tests confirmed
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this blood was brenda's
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but bevel also found
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mist like blood spatter on brenda's
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jeans below the knee
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which had penetrated deep into the
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fabric
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it is from a high velocity occurrence
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such as a gunshot in this case multiple
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gunshot pellets
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that has spattered the blood traveling
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back from him referred to as back
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spatter and then subsequently landing on
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her clothing
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dna tests confirmed
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that this was rob's blood
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proved that brenda was standing only a
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few feet away from rob when he was
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killed
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the back spatter on the pants i think
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that gave us that one
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bit of evidence we needed
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in order to put that gun in miss
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andrew's hand
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prosecutors believe brenda planned her
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husband's murder for months
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she may have forged rob's signature on
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the life insurance policy making herd
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the beneficiary
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her first attempt on rob's life involved
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cutting robb's brake lines
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police believe it was james pavard who
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called rob with the fake story that
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brenda was in critical condition at the
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hospital
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when that didn't work the couple devised
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an elaborate shooting scenario
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they planned to kill rob
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when he came to pick up the children for
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the holiday weekend
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on the night of the murder povot hid
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behind the van in the garage
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well we prayed a little bit too much you
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know the holidays are coming up
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when they heard rob's car
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they set the plan in motion
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rob walked into the garage expecting to
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see the children instead brenda asked
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him to fix the furnace while she got
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them ready
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pavat fired the first shot from behind
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the van
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then
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handed the rifle to brenda
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he is looking up and looking at the face
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of his killer and whatever was said to
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him will never know
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the blood spatter on brenda's pants
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proved
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she was less than two feet away
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pivat used a 22 caliber pistol to shoot
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brenda's arm but he fired it from a
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couple inches away leaving the burn
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marks
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i've been shot my husband brenda called
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police with the fake story of the two
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masked men
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pavat hid in the empty house next door
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the homeowners had given brenda the key
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for safekeeping
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pavats stayed there for at least a day
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until police were finished at the
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scene
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he ejected the spent shotgun shell when
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he heard the homeowner's son walk into
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the house to pick up his parents mail
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fortunately
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the man didn't go upstairs or he might
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have been killed too
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investigators never found the murder
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weapon but they did find some important
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information during our investigation we
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also found that mr pavat had purchased a
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22 caliber pistol
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at a local gun store
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with the use of a credit card
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about a month before the homicide
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everything was a piece of a puzzle all
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of those little things out there by
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themselves meant nothing but when you
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started laying it all out clicking the
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pieces together making the matches
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it just it just started pointing there's
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no way this woman couldn't have been
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involved
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brenda andrew and james pavat were both
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charged with first degree murder and
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were tried separately
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pavat's trial was first we the jury
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having heretofore found the defendant
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james dwight pavat guilty of murder in
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the first degree
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fix his punishment at death
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in brenda's trial
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prosecutors portrayed her as a heartless
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sociopath
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the jury saw photos of her vacationing
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with pavat and the children
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while she was married to rob
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they also heard the messages brenda left
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on rob's telephone answering machine in
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which she belittled rob for his
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parenting skills and other perceived
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slights
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hey it's brenda you halfway dad can't
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even return calls about your children
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you ought to call me if you even care
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one little answer oh that's right you
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don't we've been able to figure that out
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and the jury also heard this call
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between rob and brenda's mother before
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the murder
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she does not like me
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that makes it really hard to live there
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i mean i look at her i just want to
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break out and cry because i love the
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girl so much and i have loved her for a
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long long time and the one thing that i
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knew that brenda liked was money
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brenda andrew was also convicted of
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first degree murder
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the forensic evidence was impossible to
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overcome
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we the jury empaneled and sworn in the
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above entitled cause due upon our oaths
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having heretofound the defendant brenda
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evers andrew guilty of murder in the
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first degree
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fix her punishment at death
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she is now
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the only woman on oklahoma's death row
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i've had four years to
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ponder
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and to
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think of why
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brenda and jim would take
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rob andrews life
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and for the life of me i
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cannot
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understand how someone could be that
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mean or that evil and have
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so little regard for another person's
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life
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prosecutors describe it
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as one of the most cold-blooded murders
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they've ever seen
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the complexity of the case was a problem
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it's a hard case to talk about in a
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short amount of time there's so many
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different pieces of evidence
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but in what we believe that any juror
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wants to hear is what happened at the
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key moment
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the physical evidence
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will tell a story
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and it's just simply up to the person
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that is trying to put this together to
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understand what the physical evidence is
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saying
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