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Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode

January 12, 2021 / 44:11

This episode of Women Behind Bars covers the cases of Dolly Mae Clapp and Shaniqua Brown, who were involved in brutal crimes leading to murder. Dolly Mae Clapp was implicated in the torture and murder of Michelle Hicks, a local prostitute, while Shaniqua Brown was involved in a robbery that resulted in the death of Chinese food delivery man Jian Chun Lin.

The episode details the horrific circumstances surrounding Michelle Hicks' murder, including her relationship with Harold Bonner, also known as Damien Prophet, who controlled her and other women through fear and violence. Clapp's role in the murder is scrutinized, with police believing she participated in the torture and was aware of the murder.

Shaniqua Brown's story is presented as a cautionary tale of poor choices. She ordered food for a robbery that led to the fatal shooting of Jian Chun Lin. Despite claiming ignorance of the murder, her involvement in the planning of the robbery raises questions about her culpability.

Both women's stories highlight the tragic consequences of their actions and the impact on the victims' families. The episode emphasizes the complexity of their situations and the harsh realities of life behind bars.

Through interviews and testimonies, the episode reveals the psychological and emotional struggles faced by both women as they navigate their past decisions and their current realities in prison.

TL;DR

Dolly Mae Clapp and Shaniqua Brown recount their involvement in brutal murders, revealing the tragic consequences of their actions.

Episode

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on this episode of women behind bars
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one woman pled guilty to the murder of a
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local prostitute
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it was a torture killing she was bound
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she was gagged she was stomped kicked
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she finally was strangled to death
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they took my best friend from me so
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that's a real
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big hole that i'm trying to like
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close up damien prophet controlled his
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woman primarily through
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fear then shaniqua brown tells her story
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she was allegedly involved in a robbery
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that ended in the murder of a chinese
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food delivery man
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i saw the food i saw the menu
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i saw puddles and puddles of blood so
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footprints of blood
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and then i saw him the victim only
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carries chains for 20.
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so how much money was really netted and
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what is a human life
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worth one phone call can turn
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tragically wrong in a split second two
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women
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two brutal crimes these are the stories
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of dolly mae clapp
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and shaniqua brown
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on january 6 2006 in a vacant lot on the
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east side of buffalo new york
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police found the body of 35 year old
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michelle hicks
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she was beaten pretty badly her eyes
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were swollen shut she was not only being
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physically beaten punched and kicked she
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was being
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tortured with the use of these chemicals
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detectives learned that michelle was a
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prostitute working for a pimp named
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harold bonner and a 47 year old woman
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who they say was his second in command
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dolly may clap
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her obanner and dolly were evil people
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clapp insists she knew nothing about the
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prostitution ring
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she consistently kept saying she was a
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property manager
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and she denied helping bonner commit
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murder
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i didn't kill that girl that girl was
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alive when i left but police believed
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otherwise
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she was there during the whole murder i
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think
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dolly mcclap demonstrated herself to be
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a pathological liar and a sadist
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was dolly mae clapp falsely accused or
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was she a willing partner in a sadistic
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torture killing
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dolly mae clapp was the only girl of
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four children born to catherine and
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luther clapp
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i was born in lacawana um this little
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town
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outside of buffalo my father passed away
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when i was small
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it was a really really big loss after
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her father's death
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dolly and her three brothers were put in
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foster care for several years
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i don't even know why they took us from
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my mother i didn't hate her
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she came to visit us when was in the
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foster home my sister dowling
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she took care of me when i was younger
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she uh cooked for me made sure i stayed
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out of trouble
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when dolly was 12 she went back to live
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with her mother
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i think i had a good childhood even when
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i came home with my mother she's always
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been there for me
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i took her through some rough times was
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to run away from home stay out all night
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dolly's mom enrolled her in a strict
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boarding school for troubled girls
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it was run by nuns but they were really
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really nice
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you have to work your way up to
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privileges and that's what i did
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the young teen finished high school a
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year early but struggled to find a
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career she could stick with
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i wanted to run the streets to just a
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party and have a good time that's why i
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never completed anything
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i went to just about every college i
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could think of i went to tailoring
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school i went to cosmetology school
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at age 27 dolly had her first child and
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decided to raise him as a single mom
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she then gave birth to three more
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children with a close friend
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over the next five years we had a good
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friendship
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but we wasn't like boyfriend and
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girlfriend as she raised her children
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dolly began to experiment with drugs i
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was smoking crack
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when you first done you know you think
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you have a handle on it you do it on the
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weekends
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but you're becoming more addictive and
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you're not aware of it when my sister
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jolly was
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going through her drug addiction that
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was a negative part of her life
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and it affected her kids and her
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household i had my kids taken from me
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dolly's children went to live with their
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paternal grandmother who tried to help
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dolly
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she was good to her kids the best she
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knew how to be
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due to drugs it changed darling
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i know that donna can do better
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in an effort to get her kids back dolly
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stayed clean for a year
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but then relapsed it was awful
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i mean i wish i had more control well
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just it's hard it's really
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it's really really hard to stop smoking
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crack i wasted a lot of time
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getting high i gotta spend with my kids
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the time is gone you can't get it back
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dolly says she met 47 year old harold
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bonner in 2000.
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bonner was also known on the streets as
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damien prophet
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damian prophet was a pimp sort of an old
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school pimp
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on the east side of buffalo he ran
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prostitutes he owned a number of
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properties as well
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when i first met him
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he was nice he was talking about his
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houses and they were empty
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he was trying to get him rented out i
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had a little money
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and he needed it and i gave it to him
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darling is a good person if you needed
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something she'd help you with it
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he was telling me we're going to be
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together and i believed him
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he was a good guy he's i thought he was
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bonner would would pass himself off as a
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church-going man in buffalo
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i think he fancied himself more of a
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businessman who
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tried to stay below the radar of the
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police in buffalo
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dawley says she and bonner had a
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romantic relationship
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as well as a business partnership in
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managing bonner's properties
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he was paying all my bills you know i
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was taking care of me he knew i got high
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he knew i used drugs
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he didn't treat her right and he would
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buy drugs for her to keep her high
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he is a dog was a dog and always going
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to be one
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people was telling me that he used to be
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a pill he said i'm going back to pepin
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i didn't believe him harold bonnard
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obviously had
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delusions of grandeur he could convince
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people especially the women he dealt
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with
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he preyed on the most desperate women a
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lot of women who didn't have family
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didn't have friends
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didn't have a life he would control them
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because they had nothing else in their
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life
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dolly denies knowing that bonner was
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pimping women at the time
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he started doing it behind my back
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and they said that i knew about what he
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was doing
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no i didn't but authorities contend she
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played a key role
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in his prostitution ring dolly maclab
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was very important his business
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she managed his rental property she
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collected
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rent for him and she managed his human
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property which in his mind were these
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women who prostituted for him
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i honestly only knew a four but
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as i later found i was a lot more one of
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the women who worked for bonner as a
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prostitute was michelle hicks
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she was beautiful
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not just on the outside but the inside
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she had a hard life
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and she didn't let that stop her
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she was hooked on drugs for a while and
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there came a time when she got away from
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that and she actually attended rehab
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sessions
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michelle was like um
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a second sister to me we were in a
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12-step program together
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she had a lot of clean time and i don't
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know what happened she began to use
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again
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michelle's friends noticed that she lost
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a lot of weight as a prostitute for
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harold bonner
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aka damian prophet when she got back on
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the street
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i think she wasn't eating right she
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didn't look good
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at all damien prophet controlled his
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woman
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primarily through fear he not only would
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abuse them
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physically and psychologically
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he was also abusing them in front of his
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other prostitutes to send a message to
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them
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that they needed to stay in line as well
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and obey him the girls were
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completely afraid of him he you know
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ruled by terror
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food deprivation sleep deprivation
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you know narcotics being provided to
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them to keep them
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numb mentally and emotionally he was
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brutal he was known to punch
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and kick and beat girls he'd have bars
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on the windows he'd keep dogs in the
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front and back hallways so they couldn't
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escape or get out i heard
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evidence of stun gun use by him in the
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past he had a lot of ways of controlling
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those girls
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i've never seen him beat those women
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whatever they asked where he gave it to
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him i think
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a lot of girls they was using him to get
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high mrs girls they didn't have anywhere
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to go so here he come along mr
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i'm going to take care of you and
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support your drug habit
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from what i've seen they just like used
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him
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according to court testimony bonner
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often used dolly to help him control the
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other women
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when he had problems with the girls she
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did some of the intimidation for him
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she was referred to by damian prophet as
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the exterminator
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he would tell them that he had to call
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the exterminator now
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in an effort to threaten them and she
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would talk to them on the phone
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and ask them what they had done wrong
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and try to set them straight
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this girl owed him some money and i said
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if you owe him give that man his money
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so you can
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go he had them thinking i was the
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enforcer and that's not true these girls
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can never say i laid a hand on them
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i had nothing to do with that when women
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behind bars continues
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she was not only being physically beaten
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punched and kicked but she was being
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tortured
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with the use of these chemicals i seized
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the cowboys and that's when i seen the
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top of her hair
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i looked down and i see this michelle
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wrapped in a blanket
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just after the new year in 2006 dolly
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clapp says she was working as a property
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manager in buffalo new york for her
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boyfriend harold bonner
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also known on the streets as damien
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prophet police say profit ran a
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prostitution ring
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and had a violent reputation dolly
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claims he kept that part of his life
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hidden from her
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i never seen that side of him never
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he was pimping these women i didn't know
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anything about
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i didn't know any of this 35 year old
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michelle hicks was one of bonner's
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prostitutes
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her goddaughter latoya remembers an
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encounter on the street
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that was one of the last times she saw
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michelle
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she was with this older man in a bronco
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truck i'm like hi
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i'm like you okay she was like go go
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like
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she was scared for me to stop and talk
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to her she was sitting in the passenger
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side he was in the driver's seat
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and it's like she didn't say the words
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help but the look on her face was helped
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on the evening of january 3rd michelle
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hicks was at bonner's house with three
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other prostitutes
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also at the home was dolly clap
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i'd never seen one of these girls a day
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in my life until that night me and mr
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bonner
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was in the back cleaning up cleaning out
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a bedroom
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he told me get ready for bed he had to
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lock him in the house he had gates to
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his doors
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dolly says that bonner drove her home
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just before 4 am
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when i left mr bond's house michelle
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hicks was alive
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mr bonder calls me on the phone he tells
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me
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that he catches her trying to get out of
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his house
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michelle tried to steal something out of
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prophet's house
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which were just cds and a bottle of
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liquor i was like well take it and
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let her go put her out he called me back
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and he was telling me he was torturing
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the girl and i didn't believe him
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mr beiner called me from 10 to 4 in the
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morning until 6
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30 that morning basically telling me
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what the girls what they was doing to
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michelle i didn't
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i just didn't believe it i said don't be
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calling me with this
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police have a different view of what
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occurred in those early morning hours
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according to witness testimony dolly
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clapp was not hearing the torture of
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michelle hicks over the phone
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but was actually at bonner's home
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participating
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there were a number of women present as
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well as dolly make lab candy diamond
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millie
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those were the prostitutes involved in
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beating and strangling michelle to death
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prophet orders them to beat her and to
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kick her and to stop her
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michelle was saying to prophet daddy let
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me
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give you another chance daddy daddy
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prophet asked the girls to get boots on
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and the boots were stiletto boots with
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very sharp heels
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and they were stepping on her face but
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according to dolly's own statements to
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police
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it was damian prophet himself who
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committed the most disturbing acts of
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torture
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he poured liquid heat in her mouth i
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took a douche bottle
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filled it with ammonia and he inserted
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it
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in her nose she was not only being
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physically beaten
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punched and kicked but she was being
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tortured
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with the use of these chemicals dolly
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claimed in her statement that
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one of the other prostitutes named
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diamond had said we can't just let her
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go she'll go to the police
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diamond suggested killing her and dolly
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clap's response was yeah i guess so
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she's handing them the plastic bags
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to put over her head then she gets a
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third bag rips it open so they can tie
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it around the base of the neck to cut
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off the air supply
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they kept going and going until they
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killed it totally killed
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dolly insists she was at home on drugs
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while listening to the murder over the
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phone
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i had no problem killing michelle hicks
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i was
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getting high my thinking was they knew
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him they knew how vicious that mean they
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was
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they put themselves in that position
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then dolly says she went back to
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bonner's house
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the next morning and heard the details
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of the murder from millie
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one of the prostitutes millie
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is the one who told me what happened to
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her harold bonner then ordered dolly and
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the others to clean up the house
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they cleaned the floor as thoroughly as
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they could and then damien prophet
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sprayed oven cleaner on the floor and
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had them scrub that off
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profit took a plastic trash bag and
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gathered the uh the panties that had
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been stuffed in michelex's mouth
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the rope that she'd been bound with some
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of the cleaning supplies the rags
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put it all in a trash bag and that that
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trash bag i don't believe was ever
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recovered
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michelle hicks had been stuffed in a
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trash bin and put in bonner's vehicle
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around 2 a.m the next night bonner
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called dolly
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he says i'm coming to pick you up so we
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can dump this so having his friend comes
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dolly claims she did not know what was
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in the trash bin
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at that time i didn't know that girl's
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body was in the garbage can in the truck
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the three drove to an abandoned lot on
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rapen street
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dolly says she stayed in the truck while
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bonner and the other man dumped the body
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out of the trash bin and covered it with
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cardboard after they dropped dolly back
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off at home
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her phone rang he calls me we got to go
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back
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to get the cardboard prophet sent dolly
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clap
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back to where they had dumped the body
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on rapen street
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so that she could recover that piece of
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cardboard because he was afraid his
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fingerprints were on it
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i seized the cardboard and that's when i
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seen the top of her hair
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i looked down and i see is michelle
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wrapped in a blanket
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so i'm like you know you didn't involve
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me
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in the murder what happened and that's
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when he was saying that
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he was trying to teach her a lesson
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about stealing from him he said you know
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how many people i didn't kill rolled up
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in rugs
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and and got rid of the next day on
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january 6
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the body of michelle hicks was
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discovered i was wrapped in the blankets
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and
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sheets towards the back of the field
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her face was exposed and you can see
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that she was beaten pretty badly her
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eyes were swollen shut
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the medical examiner found wounds
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consistent with having been
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stomped with a stiletto heel puncture
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type wounds
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it's like a little square holes in her
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head and other parts were bad
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news of michelle's murder spread quickly
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through the neighborhood
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oh my god oh my god
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that hit me hard like my sister died
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police knew they were looking for
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someone vicious enough to torture their
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victim
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but with few leads to go on the case
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remain unsolved for two months
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it was almost getting to be a cold case
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to a point
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until investigators got a break when
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another terrified prostitute escaped
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from harold bonner's home
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she was beaten up real bad she was held
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against her will and she had a hard time
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getting out of the house and
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when she did she fled from the house and
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across the street into a police precinct
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the frightened girl told police that
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bonner aka profit
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had brutally abused her profit was on
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our radar
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but it was another lead that would link
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harold bonner with dolly may clap
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an informant came forward from the jail
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the informant was the man who helped
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bonner and clap dispose of michelle's
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body
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he said she was involved in it and she
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was with them when they dumped the body
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and that led us to dolly clap to bring
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her in and interview her regarding the
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murders
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when women behind bars continues her
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obama
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and dolly were evil people even in the
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interview you could tell that she had an
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evil streak
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that girl was alive when i left and
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later a robbery gone wrong
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so amsterdam was like we want to rob the
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chinese man
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i said okay
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in buffalo new york the first murder of
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2006 was 35 year old michelle hicks
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investigators had two informants who
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pointed to a local pimp
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harold bonner as the killer but they
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also told police about a woman named
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dolly mae clapp
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who they said was an accomplice to the
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murder police called dolly in for
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questioning
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in the beginning she was telling us how
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how harold bonner
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prophet had called her
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and was explaining to her step by step
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on what they were doing to michelle
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it seemed to us that she knew just a
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little bit too much from her phone
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conversation
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you could tell by the way she was
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answering that she was fudging the
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stories
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they asked me well how many times did
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you kick the girl i told him no because
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i wasn't there i've been trying to tell
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you this for the past 11 hours
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dolly stuck to her story about hearing
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the murder on the phone
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detectives decided to send two
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colleagues in to interrogate dolly
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we told her we can see right we know you
00:19:09
want to tell us something that you're
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you're not being truthful
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you give us all the details okay i
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wasn't telling the truth
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i'm going to tell you the truth once
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they break it just seems to flow
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she gave us the play-by-play of exactly
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what happened
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in michelle's hicks murder you know what
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color the bags were what color the rope
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was
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she told us the color the panties they
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were putting her mouth and what exactly
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they used to shove ammonia up her nose
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it's one of the most graphic confessions
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i've heard
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dolly now claims she made up the details
00:19:41
of her confession
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i'm like okay i hit her one time i just
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went to make it up after 14 hours two
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o'clock in the morning i was tired
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she says her confession was also an
00:19:50
attempt to get back at harold bonner
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because he had asked her to prostitute
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for him i was trying to hurt him
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and get back and for you're going to
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make me be a prostitute
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i lied i lied i lied i was never there
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but detectives assert that dolly's
00:20:04
statements were too detailed and
00:20:06
concrete to be fiction
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she described how another one of the
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females had wrapped bags around her neck
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trying to strangle her and it wasn't
00:20:14
working so they twisted it another way
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and
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who would know this unless you're there
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we went back and we asked her questions
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about to her response and they were
00:20:23
exactly the same
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the truth never changes she described
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like some sounds
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that the victim made as she lay dying on
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that floor she was so visual
00:20:31
when she was talking to us saying how
00:20:32
how michelle was making this guttural
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noise
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how she was starting up was starting to
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shake
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if you're not there you don't know these
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details after her confession
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dolly was arrested and held at the erie
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county jail
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they told me that my sister had been
00:20:49
arrested
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for murder i knew that wasn't my sister
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because she's not that kind of person
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police were now on the search for harold
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bonner aka
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damien prophet damien profit ended up
00:21:01
being arrested in boston massachusetts
00:21:04
in a bizarre twist while investigating
00:21:06
the murder of michelle hicks
00:21:08
police uncovered evidence of a second
00:21:10
murder that bonner committed
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witnesses told detectives about another
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prostitute
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kimberly warren who had worked for
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bonner and was found murdered
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11 years earlier in 1995.
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both of the murders were committed in
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the presence of other prostitutes with
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the participation of his other
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prostitutes
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both of them were severely beaten both
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of them were tortured
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police were shocked to learn that
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michelle hicks bonner's 2006 victim
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had been one of the prostitutes that
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helped kill kimberly warren
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the 1995 victim 11.5 years before that
00:21:43
she had participated in the disciplining
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of kimberly warren for having run away
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harold bonner was charged with two
00:21:50
counts of murder
00:21:51
and held over for trial prosecutors
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offered clapp
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a plea deal in exchange for her
00:21:56
testimony against bonner
00:21:58
oftentimes you're making a deal with the
00:22:01
devil
00:22:01
but you're choosing the lesser of two
00:22:03
evils they were both wicked people
00:22:06
my attorney tells me to plead guilty to
00:22:08
five years
00:22:09
i didn't want to take fives i said i'm
00:22:11
not taken for something i didn't do
00:22:13
i didn't kill that show andrew latimpio
00:22:16
was dolly's defense attorney
00:22:17
and knew the prosecution had witnesses
00:22:19
to say dolly was aware of the
00:22:21
prostitution ring
00:22:22
and was involved in michelle's murder
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these women
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were describing dolly as not just the
00:22:28
den mother they were they were
00:22:29
making it sound like
00:22:32
she was himmler over there ordering
00:22:35
executions and beatings
00:22:37
that she was the henchman for harold
00:22:40
bonner
00:22:41
i never saw that side of her and nor did
00:22:43
she ever agree that that was
00:22:44
part of her role but that's the portrait
00:22:47
that was going to be painted for a jury
00:22:49
so that certainly played a role in my
00:22:52
decision to tell her to cooperate
00:22:54
dolly accepted the plea deal and agreed
00:22:56
to testify against harold bonner
00:22:58
but the district attorney's office soon
00:23:00
discovered clapp and bonner were writing
00:23:02
to each other in jail
00:23:04
letters she had written reassuring him
00:23:06
that she wasn't going to cooperate
00:23:07
against him
00:23:08
telling him that she loved him i thought
00:23:10
i was writing letters that was proposing
00:23:12
marriage
00:23:13
in jail mr bonner wrote me he said dolly
00:23:16
why would you
00:23:17
lie on me like this and i told him i was
00:23:19
mad at him
00:23:20
i was upset with you that she was
00:23:23
leaving me for some prostitutes after
00:23:25
all these
00:23:25
years of all the money and time i put in
00:23:27
with you i was hurt
00:23:29
i said uh you know dolly you're pretty
00:23:32
much
00:23:32
cooking your own goose here she not only
00:23:35
seemed to be in love with him but
00:23:39
revering and and fearful of him dolly's
00:23:43
lawyer was very
00:23:47
emphatic to the judge that he feared she
00:23:50
was still
00:23:51
somehow under the control
00:23:53
psychologically of
00:23:54
harold bonner it was kind of an odd
00:23:56
mentality she had towards him
00:23:58
her role seemed to be consistent with
00:24:02
the prostitutes somebody who
00:24:04
was kind of brainwashed and in fear of
00:24:07
him
00:24:08
the prosecutor frank siddita ultimately
00:24:10
chose not to risk it
00:24:12
he convicted bonner without dolly's
00:24:14
cooperation
00:24:15
and dolly lost her chance for a lesser
00:24:17
prison term
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[Music]
00:24:33
i believe he's a serial killer and i
00:24:35
believe he has other bodies
00:24:36
in his past harold bonner and dolly were
00:24:40
evil people
00:24:41
even in the interview you could tell
00:24:43
that she had an evil streak
00:24:45
and she was a follower of him she knew
00:24:48
how he was he always did have her
00:24:52
and then she said she didn't know how he
00:24:53
was
00:24:55
yes ms clapp did i think she was a lot
00:24:57
like him he thought they were garbage
00:24:59
so they were disposable she thought the
00:25:01
people would never look into that and
00:25:03
it would be fine because the girls were
00:25:05
prostitutes the bottom of society no one
00:25:07
cared
00:25:08
i never saw any remorse in her
00:25:15
i was railroaded they used me to get to
00:25:18
helm and they gave me 15 years
00:25:21
because i take responsibility for that
00:25:23
driving that truck
00:25:24
with that girl's body and if i was a
00:25:26
murderer i didn't kill that girl
00:25:28
i didn't donna didn't do no wrong with
00:25:31
that girl
00:25:33
she did not kill the girl she was not
00:25:35
there when it happened
00:25:37
that's my sister dolly and nobody can
00:25:39
know her the way i know
00:25:40
she never go out her way to hurt anybody
00:25:42
that is a complete injustice for her to
00:25:44
be
00:25:45
locked up the wounds are still fresh for
00:25:47
friends and family of michelle hicks
00:25:50
they took my best friend from me so
00:25:52
that's
00:25:53
a real big hole
00:25:56
that i'm trying to like
00:25:59
close up but i don't think it'll ever be
00:26:02
closed
00:26:03
the house she got killed and i walked
00:26:05
past it every day walking from work
00:26:08
michelle she's at peace now it was uh
00:26:12
a sad irony that michelle hex
00:26:16
had participated in the murder of
00:26:18
kimberly warren
00:26:19
i'm sure the thought uh was always in
00:26:22
the back of her mind
00:26:23
that what happened to kimberly warren
00:26:25
could happen to her as well
00:26:27
and it did dolly is serving her sentence
00:26:32
at the women's prison in bedford hills
00:26:34
i talk to my kids on a regular basis we
00:26:36
write we stay in touch and my kids know
00:26:38
i didn't kill that girl
00:26:41
authorities believe having clap in jail
00:26:43
takes a murderer off the streets
00:26:45
in my view she was sadistic a sadistic
00:26:48
person
00:26:51
and she was a pathological liar but
00:26:53
dolly says her only crime was not
00:26:55
calling the authorities when she should
00:26:57
have
00:26:58
so many times i wanted to call the
00:27:00
police off and i was scared that's
00:27:02
something i had to live with every day
00:27:04
if i would have been smoking crack i
00:27:06
wouldn't have been incarcerated because
00:27:08
i would have had a better
00:27:09
judgment i would have did the right
00:27:11
thing
00:27:12
next up on women behind bars that's my
00:27:15
first time
00:27:16
ever seen anyone that much blood in my
00:27:19
life
00:27:20
seeing someone with a bullet in them
00:27:22
period and just sitting there
00:27:24
moaning and dying for more information
00:27:27
about women behind bars
00:27:29
go to www.wetv.com
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[Music]
00:27:42
on the evening of october 15 2002
00:27:45
a chinese food delivery man was accosted
00:27:48
in the stairwell of a brooklyn apartment
00:27:50
building and shot to death
00:27:52
mr lynn was found on the first floor
00:27:56
curled up in a fetal position there was
00:27:58
a bag of chinese food laying on the
00:27:59
second
00:28:00
set of steps police traced the call for
00:28:03
takeout to the apartment of a
00:28:04
19-year-old single mom
00:28:06
shaniqua brown that's my first time
00:28:09
seeing that much blood
00:28:10
shaniqua confessed that two male friends
00:28:12
asked her to call in the food order
00:28:14
but claimed she had no idea it would
00:28:16
lead to murder
00:28:17
three people prey upon an innocent
00:28:19
victim and probably one of the more
00:28:21
vicious crimes i had seen it was belton
00:28:24
who did the actual robbery while
00:28:26
ernest carraway stood by as a lookout
00:28:31
a violent senseless act it should have
00:28:33
never happened
00:28:35
was shaniqua brown an unwitting
00:28:37
accomplice to a robbery scheme
00:28:39
or did she purposely lure an innocent
00:28:41
victim into a deadly trap
00:28:48
shaniqua brown was born in queens new
00:28:50
york and raised by a single mom
00:28:53
she grew up with two older siblings
00:28:55
michael and tyleshia
00:28:57
my mom spoils her life we tease her as
00:28:59
much as we possibly can
00:29:01
my brother he would say yeah you was
00:29:03
adopted you found you in a box outside
00:29:05
but at the end of the day i still loved
00:29:07
them we were so close
00:29:08
when shaniqua was 11 years old her
00:29:10
mother moved the family
00:29:12
to brooklyn new york in a neighborhood
00:29:13
called brownsville
00:29:15
we love the apartment but the gang
00:29:17
members over there
00:29:19
you can easily get affiliated with them
00:29:21
my building is at on
00:29:22
union sutter is right there in between
00:29:25
black territory and crypt territory it's
00:29:26
a
00:29:27
pretty violent area it has a lot of
00:29:30
shootings
00:29:30
because of the low income that's in that
00:29:33
community
00:29:34
as a teenager shaniqua made friends
00:29:36
easily in the neighborhood
00:29:37
my problem was always wanting just to
00:29:39
fit in everything she did was always
00:29:40
have the kindness of her art
00:29:42
she never say no to anybody at 15 years
00:29:46
old
00:29:46
shaniqua met a fellow high school
00:29:48
student damian manley
00:29:49
he was going to school together he
00:29:51
became my best friend until
00:29:53
i realized i did have a crush on him he
00:29:55
introduced me to marijuana he introduced
00:29:57
me to
00:29:58
gangbanging he was crap i started seeing
00:30:01
changes in my sister when she started
00:30:02
hanging out with him
00:30:04
i started smoking weed cutting school
00:30:06
gang banging
00:30:08
and all that but he was unseparable
00:30:10
that's who her group of friends was him
00:30:12
and whoever he knew
00:30:13
i tried to persuade her to stay on the
00:30:15
right track anything that had to do with
00:30:17
running the streets or doing something
00:30:19
illegal
00:30:20
to me back then when i was young and
00:30:22
dumb
00:30:23
it was like it's the thing to do i used
00:30:25
to start fighting my sister over it she
00:30:27
always used to say you're being a
00:30:28
follower you're being stupid i didn't
00:30:29
want to listen to her
00:30:30
at 16 years old shaniqua discovered she
00:30:33
was pregnant by her boyfriend damian
00:30:35
she dropped out of school and broke the
00:30:37
news to her mother
00:30:38
she was like whatever you choose to do
00:30:40
i'm by your side and that's what i'm
00:30:41
keeping my baby
00:30:43
and she's been there since day one she
00:30:46
was very happy to be pregnant she
00:30:47
couldn't wait to go buy
00:30:49
the baby clothes buy the stroller paint
00:30:52
the room
00:30:53
shaniqua gave birth to damien charmaine
00:30:55
manly in 2000
00:30:57
she continued to live with her mom who
00:30:59
helped with the baby
00:31:00
shaniqua says having a child gave her a
00:31:02
new purpose in life
00:31:04
once i had my son i wanted to stop
00:31:06
running the streets she always had
00:31:08
somewhere they had a very close bond but
00:31:11
shaniqua admits
00:31:12
she continued living the gang life to
00:31:14
please her friends and especially her
00:31:16
baby's father
00:31:17
he beat me plenty of times
00:31:21
he came very controlling one of
00:31:23
shaniqua's friends in the neighborhood
00:31:25
was 22 year old antoine belton i met him
00:31:27
to my very father
00:31:28
they called him bubba in the street
00:31:31
antoine
00:31:32
was recently released from prison in
00:31:34
july of 2002.
00:31:36
he was known for robbing people just
00:31:38
like my big father was known for riding
00:31:39
people they used raw people together
00:31:41
antoine hung out with another
00:31:42
neighborhood boy 16-year-old ernest
00:31:45
carraway known as manny
00:31:46
man he's a troublemaker he would throw
00:31:48
things off the roof at the crips that
00:31:50
was standing on the corner
00:31:51
manny is crazy manny was a very angry
00:31:54
person
00:31:54
he was very unpredictable on the evening
00:31:58
of october 15
00:31:59
2002 shaniqua was home with her sister
00:32:02
and baby at the apartment building on
00:32:03
union street
00:32:05
their mom was working a night shift at
00:32:07
her job shaniqua says antoine and manny
00:32:10
knocked on her door around 8pm
00:32:12
i was just chilling ahoy with antoine
00:32:15
smoking whatever
00:32:16
smoking weed they was drinking and manny
00:32:19
asked me to go call the chinese
00:32:22
restaurant so at first i'm like no
00:32:24
so amsterdam was like can you just cause
00:32:26
chinese restaurant
00:32:27
we want to rob the chinese man i said
00:32:30
okay
00:32:30
the agreement between shaniqua brown and
00:32:33
antoine belton
00:32:34
was that the two guys would get the
00:32:36
money and that she would get the food in
00:32:38
exchange for making the phone call
00:32:40
shaniqua went into her apartment to put
00:32:42
in the delivery order
00:32:43
she just picked up the phone and dialed
00:32:45
the chinese restaurant like that
00:32:47
and she left back out at the time that
00:32:49
they planned this uh robbery
00:32:51
happy house was the only place that
00:32:52
delivered i ordered jesus to the chicken
00:32:54
with pork fried rice
00:32:57
four chicken rivers french fries and
00:32:59
stripping broccoli with pork fried rice
00:33:01
i told bubba they'd be here in 15-20
00:33:03
minutes i ordered it so they could go to
00:33:05
another apartment
00:33:06
and i stayed upstairs after that
00:33:07
thirty-six-year-old jean chun lin
00:33:10
was working as the delivery man for the
00:33:12
happy house restaurant that night
00:33:13
he was a recent immigrant his english i
00:33:15
remember was minimal
00:33:17
very minimal he had a wife that lived
00:33:20
in china i believe he had two children
00:33:23
also mr lynn uh left the restaurant
00:33:26
which is only a block and a half away
00:33:28
he rode his bike here and he parked it
00:33:30
just outside the
00:33:31
the apartment building here he walked
00:33:33
into the building
00:33:34
mr belton and mr cowaway were already in
00:33:37
the hallway
00:33:38
so they seen mr lynn walk by them he was
00:33:41
sent to a
00:33:42
phony apartment address went to the
00:33:44
fourth floor knocked on the door
00:33:45
we didn't want to find chinese food mr
00:33:47
lin proceeded back downstairs when he
00:33:49
got to the second floor landing mr
00:33:50
belton was there waiting for him it was
00:33:52
belton who possessed a gun
00:33:54
and did the actual robbery while ernest
00:33:57
carraway
00:33:57
stood by as a lookout he ambushed mr lin
00:34:01
and pointed a gun at him and said give
00:34:03
it up give it up
00:34:05
mr lin smiled at uh mr bell
00:34:08
not understanding what he was saying at
00:34:09
the same time he was reaching into his
00:34:11
pocket
00:34:12
according to antoine belton the delivery
00:34:14
man recognized him
00:34:15
the victim began to say you you and he
00:34:18
realized that the victim was someone
00:34:20
that he had recognized
00:34:21
mr belton then uh fired one single shot
00:34:25
a striking mr lin in the stomach antoine
00:34:28
fountain kept telling ernest cowan
00:34:30
grabbed the money grabbed the money but
00:34:32
mr coway
00:34:33
was so frightened about the whole thing
00:34:34
he just ran out of the building
00:34:36
and mr belton just followed behind him
00:34:39
upstairs in their third floor apartment
00:34:41
shaniqua and her sister heard the loud
00:34:44
bang
00:34:44
out of the blue is a gunshot i'm like oh
00:34:46
my god what was that
00:34:48
so my sister she run out the house when
00:34:51
i heard that gunshot
00:34:52
it was like i was like stuck like
00:34:56
what the hell is that and i came
00:34:57
downstairs
00:34:59
and i saw blood on the steps i saw the
00:35:01
food i saw the menu
00:35:04
i saw puddles and puddles of blood i saw
00:35:07
footprints of blood
00:35:09
and then i saw him he was holding his
00:35:11
chest area
00:35:12
with his knife in his hand and just like
00:35:16
uh and i'm just standing there staring
00:35:19
at him like i cannot believe this
00:35:20
happened
00:35:21
this wasn't supposed to happen when
00:35:23
women behind bars continues
00:35:25
i told him yes i knew about the robbery
00:35:29
but i didn't know nothing about no
00:35:30
murder she's just as responsible as the
00:35:32
guy who pulled the trigger
00:35:32
because she lured him there and now this
00:35:34
man is dead
00:35:44
in october 2002 19 year old shaniqua
00:35:47
brown ordered takeout from a chinese
00:35:49
restaurant at the request of two friends
00:35:51
the three conspired to rob the delivery
00:35:53
man when he arrived with the food
00:35:56
jian chun lin was ambushed by 22 year
00:35:58
old antoine belton
00:36:00
and 16 year old ernest manny carraway in
00:36:03
the stairwell
00:36:04
he was shot with a 22 caliber gun
00:36:08
shaniqua heard the gunfire from her
00:36:10
apartment and knew something had gone
00:36:11
terribly wrong
00:36:13
i came downstairs and i saw his blood
00:36:16
and i started panicking like
00:36:17
crying that's my first time ever seen
00:36:19
anyone
00:36:21
that much blood in my life seeing
00:36:23
someone with
00:36:25
with a bullet in them period and just
00:36:27
sitting there
00:36:28
moaning and dying as a crowd gathered in
00:36:31
the hallway
00:36:32
and police sirens approached shaniqua
00:36:34
ran
00:36:35
i left that's my big father house crying
00:36:38
so i'm going to jail i can't believe
00:36:41
they did that
00:36:41
the first officers would respond with
00:36:43
uniform officers from the nypd the 73rd
00:36:45
precinct mr lynn was then found
00:36:47
on the first floor curled up in a fetal
00:36:50
position
00:36:52
clutching a knife he had been robbed one
00:36:54
previous time
00:36:55
he had that knife for his protection the
00:36:57
gunshot perforated his aorta
00:36:59
when ems arrived at the
00:37:02
scene to assist him i don't think he was
00:37:05
speaking anymore
00:37:06
paramedics rushed mr lin to brookdale
00:37:08
hospital but it was
00:37:10
too late to save him there were a lot of
00:37:12
homicides
00:37:13
in that neighborhood but when somebody
00:37:14
is an innocent delivery man like this
00:37:16
victim was all the newspapers sent
00:37:19
representatives to this crime scene i
00:37:20
knew right away it was a robbery
00:37:22
gone wrong the blood drops that we
00:37:23
observed inside the vestibule
00:37:26
started from the second floor landing
00:37:28
stairwell
00:37:29
and then they came down into the main
00:37:31
lobby
00:37:32
it indicated that either mr lin was
00:37:34
chasing his assailants or he was trying
00:37:36
to
00:37:37
get some aid and even make it out the
00:37:39
front door it's a particularly dastardly
00:37:41
crime
00:37:42
because the victim only carries chains
00:37:43
for 20. so how much money was really
00:37:46
netted
00:37:46
and what is a human life worth the owner
00:37:49
of happy house
00:37:50
and the co-workers were very upset to
00:37:52
learn that mr lin had been shot
00:37:55
the victim was only in the united states
00:37:56
for approximately a year
00:37:58
he was hoping to bring his family over
00:38:01
to
00:38:02
new york soon police quickly pinpointed
00:38:05
which apartment made the phony takeout
00:38:07
order
00:38:07
we were able to obtain the telephone
00:38:09
number from
00:38:10
happy house restaurants caller id and we
00:38:14
tracked that telephone number back to
00:38:16
2069
00:38:17
union street apartment three eddie
00:38:20
detectives questioned shaniqua's sister
00:38:22
at the apartment
00:38:23
and then soon caught up with shaniqua at
00:38:25
damian's home one block away
00:38:27
you could tell that she was very scared
00:38:29
and upset about what happened
00:38:30
and didn't realize that she was so
00:38:33
responsible
00:38:34
for this incident uh at
00:38:37
at her building when we got to the
00:38:38
precinct i told him
00:38:40
yes i knew about the robbery i didn't
00:38:42
know nothing about no murder i didn't
00:38:43
know nothing about
00:38:45
no gun mr belton was flashing the gun
00:38:48
earlier in the day to everybody showing
00:38:50
that he had the gun she was aware that
00:38:51
he had a gun
00:38:52
she admitted in the videotape that she
00:38:55
knew him to carry a gun all the time
00:38:57
when was the last time you saw the gun
00:39:01
three four days ago sometimes she had it
00:39:03
in his pocket
00:39:04
his pants possible sometimes he had in
00:39:06
his jacket pocket
00:39:08
when he showed it but he's like i always
00:39:09
had this on me baby after shaniqua
00:39:11
confessed to her part in the crime
00:39:13
she was charged with murder and held at
00:39:15
rikers island
00:39:17
she thought that after they know the
00:39:18
truth they would let her go because she
00:39:20
knows she didn't actually pull the
00:39:21
trigger
00:39:22
i didn't know i was getting charged with
00:39:23
murdering the first degree i kept
00:39:25
thinking i was my son
00:39:26
i can't go home to my son the next day
00:39:29
police apprehended ernest carraway who
00:39:31
had acted as the lookout
00:39:33
two days later they cornered antoine
00:39:35
belton the shooter
00:39:36
at his aunt's apartment the murder
00:39:38
weapon had been tossed out the window of
00:39:40
her apartment but police recovered it
00:39:43
and matched ballistics to the bullet
00:39:44
that killed mr lin
00:39:46
antoine knew he was caught and he
00:39:48
cooperated with us fully
00:39:49
he also seemed very concerned
00:39:53
to take the blame off of shaniqua she
00:39:55
didn't know what he was going to do or
00:39:56
nothing
00:39:58
you know that's why i don't know why
00:40:00
y'all holding her
00:40:02
she don't know nothing antoine was
00:40:04
remorseful he was sorry for his actions
00:40:07
it was a scare shot i
00:40:11
going to turn myself in i ain't i ain't
00:40:13
i ain't mean to do that to that man
00:40:28
this case was solved very quickly the
00:40:30
detectives had done a pretty phenomenal
00:40:32
job
00:40:32
so i considered it with regards to each
00:40:34
of those defendants
00:40:36
a pretty airtight case for the
00:40:38
prosecution
00:40:39
shaniqua remained at rikers island
00:40:41
pending trial while there
00:40:43
she learned she was pregnant with her
00:40:45
second child she
00:40:46
found out she was having destiny her
00:40:48
daughter
00:40:49
after she got incarcerated so destiny
00:40:52
was born there
00:40:53
in prison on november 6 2003
00:40:57
shaniqua brown pled guilty to
00:40:59
second-degree murder
00:41:00
the judge sentenced her to 15 years to
00:41:03
life in prison
00:41:04
she'll be eligible for parole in 2017.
00:41:07
i believe my my actions deserve some
00:41:10
punishment but
00:41:11
not 15 years to life just making that
00:41:13
phone call made her very culpable she
00:41:15
conspired with two others to
00:41:16
um to participate in a robbery one
00:41:20
phone call can turn
00:41:24
tragically wrong in a split second and i
00:41:26
think that's what happened with fishing
00:41:28
equal
00:41:29
maybe she did know that he was going to
00:41:31
take a bullet maybe she didn't
00:41:32
but the bottom line is the guy did take
00:41:34
a bullet and she's
00:41:36
just as responsible as the guy who
00:41:37
pulled the trigger people do things like
00:41:39
this
00:41:39
all the time for 13 worth of food i
00:41:42
don't think you ever get used to
00:41:44
to the senselessness of some of the
00:41:45
crimes that occur i don't think you ever
00:41:48
do
00:41:50
shaniqua was allowed to raise her
00:41:51
daughter for eight months in the prison
00:41:53
nursery
00:41:54
before an altercation with another
00:41:55
inmate forced her to turn her baby over
00:41:57
to her mother to raise
00:41:59
i still didn't cry until time for me to
00:42:01
pass my baby to my mother
00:42:02
i was devastated six years into her
00:42:05
sentence shaniqua harbors many regrets
00:42:07
about her actions that got her here
00:42:09
i regret dropping out of school i regret
00:42:13
living the gang life i regret saying yes
00:42:17
when i should have said no i regret not
00:42:19
listening to my mother all these years
00:42:21
the only thing i don't regret is having
00:42:23
my kids
00:42:24
shaniqua makes the best of her time
00:42:26
while incarcerated by filling her days
00:42:28
with school and work programs
00:42:30
but it is the time with her kids that
00:42:32
she lives for
00:42:33
that's the beautiful part of it all even
00:42:35
though we rather her here
00:42:38
she writes them letters every time she
00:42:40
gets they go on trailer visits up there
00:42:42
to see her they barbecue
00:42:44
they do all kinds of arts and crafts
00:42:46
together it's very hard when they come
00:42:48
on a visit
00:42:49
and they see that i can't walk out with
00:42:51
them and now my son's at the age where
00:42:53
mommy why are you here mommy what did
00:42:56
you do why you can't come home with me
00:42:58
he's a constant reminder of her and i
00:43:00
wish she had that same opportunity i
00:43:02
have
00:43:02
to raise her child like i'm raising mine
00:43:05
we could have been doing it together
00:43:07
you know i missed that i missed a whole
00:43:09
lot of stuff about my sister
00:43:11
i think it was extremely important for
00:43:14
each of them to take responsibility for
00:43:15
what they had done
00:43:17
for them and also for honestly
00:43:21
our community while someone might look
00:43:23
at it and go wow she only made the phone
00:43:25
call
00:43:26
when you look at it in the big picture
00:43:27
it was a domino effect and
00:43:29
a series of events happened that would
00:43:31
never have happened but for her
00:43:32
you can never bring back mr lin i can't
00:43:36
ever make his family whole again you
00:43:38
always hear people coming to america to
00:43:40
have the american dream
00:43:41
and it just seems so incredibly tragic
00:43:44
that this is
00:43:45
the experience that ended his life my
00:43:47
heart does go out to his family and
00:43:50
if they don't forgive me now i hope they
00:43:52
would one day
00:43:53
downline because at the end of the day i
00:43:55
had to live with that too
00:43:56
and it's killing me every day i just
00:43:58
want them to know that i was only 19
00:44:00
and young and dumb i am not that person
00:44:03
anymore i'm totally different
00:44:10
you

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  • 80
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  • 80
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  • 75
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Episode Highlights

  • The Control of Damien Prophet
    Damien Prophet controlled women through fear and violence, creating a reign of terror.
    “He ruled by terror.”
    @ 08m 38s
    January 12, 2021
  • The Murder of Michelle Hicks
    Michelle Hicks was brutally murdered, her body discovered in a vacant lot.
    “Oh my god, that hit me hard like my sister died.”
    @ 16m 41s
    January 12, 2021
  • Dolly Mae Clapp's Confession
    Dolly Clapp's detailed confession reveals her involvement in the murder.
    “It's one of the most graphic confessions I've heard.”
    @ 19m 37s
    January 12, 2021
  • Dolly's Arrest and Confession
    Dolly was arrested after her confession, but her letters to Bonner raised concerns.
    “I thought I was writing letters proposing marriage.”
    @ 23m 04s
    January 12, 2021
  • The Tragic Death of Mr. Lin
    Delivery man Jian Chun Lin was shot during a robbery gone wrong.
    “It’s a particularly dastardly crime.”
    @ 37m 41s
    January 12, 2021
  • Shaniqua's Role in a Deadly Robbery
    Shaniqua Brown ordered takeout for a robbery that led to a murder.
    “I didn't know nothing about no murder.”
    @ 38m 40s
    January 12, 2021
  • Shaniqua's Regrets
    Shaniqua reflects on her past decisions and the regrets that haunt her.
    “I regret dropping out of school... I regret saying yes when I should have said no”
    @ 42m 13s
    January 12, 2021
  • A Mother's Love
    Despite her incarceration, Shaniqua cherishes the time spent with her children.
    “It's the time with her kids that she lives for”
    @ 42m 30s
    January 12, 2021
  • The Impact of Choices
    Shaniqua acknowledges the domino effect of her actions and their consequences.
    “It was a domino effect and a series of events that would never have happened but for her”
    @ 43m 27s
    January 12, 2021

Episode Quotes

  • It's hard, it's really, really hard to stop smoking crack.
    Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode
  • She was not only being physically beaten but she was being tortured.
    Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode
  • The truth never changes.
    Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode
  • That's a complete injustice for her to be locked up.
    Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode
  • I saw blood on the steps. I saw puddles and puddles of blood.
    Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode
  • I ain't mean to do that to that man.
    Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 5 - Dolly Mae and Shaniqua - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Torture Killing00:11
  • Loss and Grief00:19
  • Manipulation and Control06:45
  • Dolly's Confession20:41
  • Motherhood in Prison41:51
  • Family Visits42:40
  • Responsibility43:14
  • Young and Dumb43:58

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