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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a young man is found shot to
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death in his bedroom investigators say
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it was a suicide but his parents say it
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was
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murdered three extraordinary house pets
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Become Three extraordinary
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Heroes a star witness is set to testify
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against the Hell's Angels but then
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and a mother is on death row for killing
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her two young children her family claims
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that there's no evidence that proves
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she's
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innocent our team is standing by maybe
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you can help solve one of our cases I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries join us
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h Arlington
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Virginia I thought I left the lights on
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Beth George and her husband Tom burette
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returned to their home near the campus
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of maramont
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University their son Tommy is a student
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there but he is staying with them for
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the
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holidays Tommy when his parents walk
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into his bedroom they discover a
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horrible scene no Tommy is upright on
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his sofa lifeless
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Tommy brette had been shot once through
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the mouth a Revol rested in his hands
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the police said that it was suicide but
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Tommy's parents have always believed
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that he was murdered their suspicions
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began the moment they discovered their
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son's
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body I went over close to him and I
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knelt down beside him and I touched his
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hands were Stone Cold Tom look at that
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gun something's not
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right Tom brette was surprised to find
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the gun's cylinder
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unlatched it could not have been fired
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in that
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position paramedics arrived on the scene
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followed quickly by
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police the lead detective soon emerged
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from Tommy's room with an old bank
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deposit slip I have something to show
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you on one side was a a note which said
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simply I want to be cremated this is
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Tommy's
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handwriting Fire and Rescue Squad said
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Tommy's been dead for hours no that's
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not true it just happened probably
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happened I was dumbfounded of that
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comment because it didn't take a medical
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person to recognize that Tommy had been
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dead for several hours he was cold he
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was stiff blooded dried any Layman would
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have said several hours the gun was proc
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Tess uh an autopsy was conducted
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photographs were taken a thorough and
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acceptable crime scene was
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conducted to the police the fact spoke
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for themselves Tommy's death was an open
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and shut case of
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suicide but Beth and Tom were certain of
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their son had been murdered it wasn't
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just the unlatched gun and the
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suspicious note Tommy's glasses wallet
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and driver's license were missing
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come in Oh Mr forette oh you have my
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condolences when his parents went to
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Tommy's dorm room to collect his
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belongings the driver's license
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mysteriously
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appeared how did you get this oh well
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I'm sorry according to Tom and Beth
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School administrators would not provide
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any information about the student who
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had turned in Tommy's driver's license
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Tommy's parents decided to talk to their
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neighbors to see if they had noticed
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anything unusual on the day Tommy died
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several neighbors reported seeing
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Tommy's Car being chased by a larger
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darker car one neighbor saw the cars
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coming and he thought this is serious
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it's life or death another neighbor
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reported that one of the cars involved
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in the chase at one point drove through
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someone's lawn Tommy's car was
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apparently run off the road and he was
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assaulted he got away from his attackers
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and made it back to our
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house Tommy's body was exhumed for a
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second
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autopsy it revealed abrasions and
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bruising around his right ear and a
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broken
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jaw Tom come here a few weeks after
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Tommy's death Beth noticed a spray of
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small reddish marks on the stairway it
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looks like scattered faint blood
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stains they hired Paul Kish a blood
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stain expert based in New York he
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confirmed the spots were blood there we
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go it's not consistent with being
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created from an individual committing
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suicide in a room setting on a sofa some
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other violent altercation took place
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where blood was shed with a lot of
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energy being exerted towards a blood
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like a gunshot this spent bullet was
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found in the wall of Tommy's room
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but curiously forensic analysis found
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that there was no blood or tissue on
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it I'm calling about some information uh
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concerning my son Tommy Beth made the
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decision to find out if Tommy had called
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911 on the day he died do you have any
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records of him making any 911 calls that
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day she said well on the computer screen
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it shows his name and the time that he
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called and then he made two consecutive
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calls but the message has been deleted
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do you have any records of any
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complaints he may have made against any
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persons she said yes he had filed a
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complaint at the end of October and at
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the end of August what was the nature of
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the complaints she said I'll have to
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check with my supervisor so she was gone
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several minutes and came back and said I
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don't know why his name is on the
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computer but he didn't call 911 it's my
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understanding that the information uh
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that the barquettes came up with about
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the 911 call was well after the 30 days
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and the tape that would have been on the
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machine that particular night had
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already been routinely
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erased Beth and Tom remembered a strange
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series of events that took place a few
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weeks before their son's death hello Mom
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they smashed my mailbox and took my
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paycheck they took everything calm it
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began with a phone call from Tommy Tommy
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was normally very poised very calm and
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he was just frantic what do you think
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was in
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there something I didn't want anyone to
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know
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about I think they found out what I'm
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doing since he was not positive they had
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found something out he was not going to
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Deva exactly what he was worried
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about what's wrong with you Beth claimed
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that several sources told her that Tommy
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was assaulted a few days later by a
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student and then he went to confront his
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attacker
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we were later told by a student at the
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University that the young man who had
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Tommy's driver's license after he was
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dead was the same student who had beaten
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Tommy
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up Tom and Beth gathered more
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information some from Curious
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sources they concluded that Tommy was
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working as a DEA informant and that a
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group of students dealing drugs on
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campus conspired to kill him
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a number of sources mostly Anonymous
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have come to us and um helped us piece
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together a story and in most instances
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uh their accounts corroborate each other
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and what we've learned about our son was
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that he was a paid DEA
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informant that there were a group of
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students on the campus who were dealing
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drugs they felt Tommy Knew Too Much and
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that they conspired with others to to
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kill
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him Beth and Tom are convinced that
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their neighbors saw Tommy being chased
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by The Killers and that he got home in
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time to call 911 before they burst
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in an informant told Beth and Tom that
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their son was beaten to death with a
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baseball bat and that phone books were
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used to minimize bruising and absorve
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blood
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spat the story fit in with everything we
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had noticed and could not account for um
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during the previous months for example
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we had noticed our phone books were
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missing the week after Tommy
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died also there had been a ball bat in
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Tommy's bedroom and the gripping tape
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had been stripped off the
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bat Tom and Beth have names of the
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students they suspect were involved in
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Tommy's death um there's not enough
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evidence to say their names publicly at
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this point but I believe with some of
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the evidence they've collected over the
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past two years that uh they may have the
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right people there's a sense of Rage
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that nobody's doing anything no matter
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how much information is dumped on the
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laps of law enforcement people they
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don't do anything it is a suicide until
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substantial credible information is
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brought to us at that point we will
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examine all the information just as we
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have for the past
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years the US drug enforcement agency has
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denied any connection with Tommy brette
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and the local police still consider his
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death a suicide if you have any
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information about the death of Tommy
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brette please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next dramatic rescues by extraordinary
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four-legged
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Heroes you're about to meet Buu Oscar
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and Ringo each is a household pet and
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each is responsible for saving a life
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just how they did it and why they did it
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is an unsolved
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mystery the Yuba River in
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California lilan mcder was roming with
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her New Finland Buu Buu is a big dog but
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still only a puppy it was the summer and
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the Yuba was very inviting and so I
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thought it was a great opportunity for a
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Newland to play in the water chasing
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sticks and having fun
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Upstream an amateur prospector named
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link Hill had just finished dredging the
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river for
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gold when link came into view boo
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suddenly lost interest in chasing sticks
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I leaned down to see what it was he was
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looking at and I saw what I thought was
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a log rolling in the white
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water I looked again and here an arm
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came up out of the White Water holding a
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small gas
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can Lian was at a loss but the puppy
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knew exactly what had to be done go
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po Buu swam straight into a strong
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current to reach the drowning
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stranger he grabbed Link's arm and
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hauled him back to shore
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it turned out that link hill was a de
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mute unable to speak or to hear and if
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not for Buu he most likely would have
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drowned some experts believe that Buu's
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response may have been triggered by
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psychic abilities what that animal felt
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was that man's fear and he realized that
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was not a log you know cuz he could feel
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the emotion coming from that man and the
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emotion of that man calling out in his
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mind for help that's all that dog
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needed he's a Newland read for a number
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of tasks one of which is to perform
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water rescues it's something that's
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innate or some people use the term
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instinctive that animals do because of
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their genetic
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Heritage Oscar a Chesapeake Bay
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Retriever has been a constant companion
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and best friend to his owner Chris
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ashenberg he learned early on that
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people were good and he just loves to be
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around people and in fact that that's
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one of the things that's most surprising
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about what actually
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happened on a hot July evening Chris
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returned home and the house was
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quiet this was odd because Oscar usually
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gave him a noisy welcome
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take it easy take it easy what do you
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want just take okay okay okay okay okay
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just take it easy please please at that
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point I then started to think about
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Oscar I was worried that I was going to
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open the door Oscar was going to try to
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greet this guy like he greets all of my
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friends that walk into the house and
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this guy was just going to react by
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shooting
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him but Oscar was nowhere to be seen he
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had plans of his
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own help
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finally this guy was able to get his arm
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free and in that action of freeing the
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arm he hit me I was a little disoriented
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for a moment uh and by the time I
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regained my composure he was gone I
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could hear him getting out of the
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gate you all right come here pal Oscar
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was drenched in blood but it wasn't his
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blood it was the
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robbers you're fine pal this is merely
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reaffirmed in me that I have a very
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dynamic alive interesting intelligent
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creature uh that I'm sharing my life
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with and who in this uh respect probably
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uh saved my life first off it's almost
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sure that Oscar was aware of the
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Intruder before Chris got home he heard
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him he smelled him and whether it was
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territorial Behavior or protective
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Behavior or combination of both it's
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impossible to say but he definitely took
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the initiative took the offense because
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of all these cues that were telling him
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this is not normal something isn't
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right however dogs aren't the only
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animals capable of protecting their
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owners Ray and Carol Steiner owe their
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lives to a three-year-old cat named
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Ringo it was a summer day and the
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Steiners were both at home Ray was
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recovering from surgery and Carol had a
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foot ailment both had been suffering
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from memory loss high blood pressure and
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chronic fatigue what what I was noticing
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the most was terrible
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headaches
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dizziness I was sleeping all the
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time Carol noticed that Ringo was acting
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strangely she thought that he wanted to
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go
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out okay go on Ringo I open the door he
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won't go out so I said okay kitty and
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close the
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door no sooner did Carol get settled
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down than Ringo wanted to go out again
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so Carol opened the door again come out
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go he turns up at me and gives a really
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high
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meow and it was obvious I was to come
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out so I walked out with
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him Ringo LED Carol around the side of
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the
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house all of a sudden he started digging
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in our
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Landscaping what is it Kitty and then he
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opened up his mouth and curled his lips
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up as if something was had a terrible
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smell oh oh my God that smell was Lethal
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methane gas Carol immediately called the
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gas company and within minutes a service
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technician arrived let me take a read
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here he put a tool in the ground and a
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Sirin went
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off well this is way above normal this
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is very very unusual he told us for
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explosive levels I've got to turn your
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gas off right now or you're going to
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blow the Steiners had a large split in
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the gas pipe at the very spot where
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Ringo had been
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digging deadly amounts of gas had been
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seeping into the
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house we looked at each other then we
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looked at the cat and I said my gosh Ray
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Ringo saved Our Lives
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was it instinct or are some animals
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Guided by unexplained psychic abilities
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we may never know but to their owners it
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hardly matters they are alive to tell
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the tale a good boy it's a good
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boy next a fugitive who murdered a
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policeman escapes from prison but thanks
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to you is
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recaptured and later an outlaw biker
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gang takes Revenge on a
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witness cuso
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Oklahoma a Small Town police chief JB
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Hami responds to an emergency call from
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a local business fre get out of
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here 20 shots are fired in a matter of
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seconds one Robber is killed and the
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other is hit twice but
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escapes less than 5 minutes later Chief
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Hami dies from gunshot wounds he was a
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24-year veteran of law
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enforcement the surviving gunman David
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Gordon Smith was later captured and was
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sentenced to life in prison for the
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murder open for
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because of good behavior Smith became a
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prison trustee then 7 years after the
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murder Smith
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escaped
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update Spearfish South
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Dakota following the Airing of the David
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Gordon Smith case on Unsolved Mysteries
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an anonymous tip was received giving us
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his location he was working as a service
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manager in an automobile dealership
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authorities in South Dakota went to his
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place of employment he was arrested
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without incident and he readily admitted
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his identity upon questioning
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him there's a tremendous amount of
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relief it was equivalent to a long-term
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gigantic debt being paid
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off David Gordon Smith was returned to
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Oklahoma and is now serving his sentence
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at the State Penitentiary he received an
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additional 4 4 years for the
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[Music]
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Escape Champlain New
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York Lee Carter Jr was the kind of guy
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who always tried to do the right
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thing but then one
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morning doing the right thing got him
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killed a bomb was placed under the seat
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of his Porsche that ended his life
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there's been no closure of any kind I
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wake up in the morning he's the first
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thing I think about I go to bed at night
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I'd say most of the time it's the first
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thing I'm thinking about the last thing
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I'm thinking
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about the bomb was planted by this man
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Richard Valley in a battle for control
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of drugs and prostitution police say
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that Valley's job was to kill people who
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double cross the Hell's Angels biker
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gang
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Lee Carter Jr lived near the Canadian
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border he was approached by Associates
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of Valley who wanted to use his home as
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a safe house the gang planned to smuggle
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a major shipment of cocaine from the
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United States into Canada keys at the
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price we discussed that's right Carter
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went to the police and agreed to act as
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an informant the drug deal was quickly
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shut down and Valley was charged with
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conspiracy to import
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cocaine my Sunday didn't get into detail
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on it to me at all he did tell me he was
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working with the state police he told me
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he was helping him and I started to ask
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him what it was about and he said it was
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best that I didn't get involved in it
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but before the case could go to trial
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Lee Carter Jr the main witness was
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eliminated Richard Valley was known to
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be a demolitions expert police believed
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Richard Valley planted the bomb that
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killed Lee Carter Jr
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K obviously made the decision that if he
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took out the witness had the witness
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killed then there was nobody to testify
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him against Court the drug charge would
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have to be dismissed which in effect is
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what
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happened with the star witness dead the
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drug charges against Valley were
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dropped it took 2 years for New York and
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Canadian authorities to gather enough
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evidence to charge Valley with Lee's
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murder he was finally arrested in Canada
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and while in custody another inmate
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broke his jaw in a jailhouse
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fight over the next few weeks he was
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treated at a local hospital and two
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guards were always with him during the
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course of his visit he had uh
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consistently set up where he would take
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a shower around 8:00 he had been on the
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phone and indicated to one of the guards
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that he would like the guard to wait
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there because he was waiting for an
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important phone call from his attorney
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he then went to take a shower with the
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other guard as the both of them entered
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the shower room uh the one guard was a
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Conant what took
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you with the help of an accomplice
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Valley
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escaped when I think of Richard Valley I
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think of an individual that thinks
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nothing of Taken life thinks nothing of
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anyone else whatsoever he is it and
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that's all
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he has no
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values it would help considerably to
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know that at least the individual wasn't
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out there living high in the hog while
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he has taken someone else's
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life
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update while in Montreal Canada Richard
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Valley was pulled over for drunk Dragon
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he was released on bail later when the
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police checked his fingerprints they
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realized that he was a wanted fugitive
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and quickly tracked him
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Richard Valley was tried and convicted
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in Albany New York for the murder of Lee
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Carter
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Jr coming up a mother is convicted of
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murdering her two young boys her family
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says that she's a victim not a killer
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at
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Texas Darlene Lynn Routier a housewife
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and mother of three makes a frantic call
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to
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911 within 5 minutes the first police
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officer
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arrived dar's eldest son Devon is dead
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from four knife wounds his brother Damon
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has been savagely attacked and takes his
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last breath in the care of a
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paramedic darly has a deep gash in her
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neck and wounds on her arms but she
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survives in a dramatic turn of events
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darly ly rouer would be charged with the
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murder of her own
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children we the jury find the defendant
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darly Lynn rer guilty of the offense of
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eight months later Dary Lynn rouer is
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convicted of killing her two little boys
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she is sentenced to die by lethal
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injection I never thought that darly did
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this Devon and Damon's killer is running
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free and that's what this is about the
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truth and finding Justice for Devon and
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Damon that's the most important thing is
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you know we've got to save her life
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before they execute this innocent
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girl I've been wrongfully convicted I'm
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innocent uh I've been done wrong there
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has been a lot of terrible wrong things
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that have been done to me me and my
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family darly Lynn Routier has always
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proclaimed her innocence her family
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believes that crucial evidence was
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overlooked during her trial a juror who
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voted to convict her is now convinced
00:27:25
that he made a mistake but authorities
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argue that their case against darly Lynn
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is atite say hi Diamond
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hi the rouers were living the American
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dream three beautiful children a happy
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marriage and a majestic house in a
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wealthy suburb of Dallas but in one
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night the rouers would lose it all Wow
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way to go
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de darly claims that she too was
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viciously attacked when Devon and Damon
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were murdered
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this rer can you tell me anything at all
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about what happened raight police
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detectives interviewed darly shortly
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after surgery she was still
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sedated I was asleep on the
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couch and I darly told investigators
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that on the night of the attack she
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Devon and Damon had fallen asleep in the
00:28:20
downstairs family room while watching TV
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her husband Darren slept upstairs with
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8-month-old Drake
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darly says that she was suddenly
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awakened and saw a man hovering over her
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with a
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knife and then she saw the back of the
00:28:39
guy leaving the house so she followed
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him and when she went out the door she
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saw the knife in the utility room she
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picked it up to defend herself if he
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came back in darly told police that it
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was only then that she realized that she
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was injured and that her boys had been
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attacked d
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oh God I hear this scream I run down the
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stairs oh my God darly at that point is
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yelling Deon Deon Deon Deon Deon Deon I
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mean she's just freaking I get to Devon
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and he's got these two huge gashes in
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the top of his chest he's laying face up
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I mean just blanking his
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eyes you know I'm thinking CPR I pop his
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head back I start blowing into his mouth
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and as soon as I blow into his mouth air
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comes out of his chest blood splatters
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All Over Me Not only you just been woken
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up to the worst nightmare in your whole
00:29:29
life your child is dying in front of you
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and you just darling get some
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towels you don't know what to
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do investigators did not question
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Darren's
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story but they were troubled by dar's
00:29:49
statement they didn't understand how she
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could have slept through the attack and
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why she couldn't give a clear
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description of her asent
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can you tell me what this person looked
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like no sir when it came time to
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describe the so-called suspect she was
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unable to describe the person even
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though the person was uh supposedly
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kneeling or sitting standing on top of
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her investigators discovered that the
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screen on an open window had been
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slashed but there was an undisturbed
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layer of dust on the window sill
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suggesting that no one actually came
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through it in the cut screen detectives
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also found a long bleach blonde hair it
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was the color of dar's hair at the
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time nothing was missing so police ruled
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out
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robbery they also felt that the blood
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evidence did not support the story of an
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intruder the lack of a blood trail
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leading from the crime scene continuing
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out the path that the Intruder
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supposedly took was problematic to say
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the least and this individual
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miraculously manages to keep any sense
00:31:01
of blood or any evidence off of him
00:31:03
doesn't leave any Footprints all the
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Bloods contained in one
00:31:07
area that was one of the things that
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again U did not jive with her
00:31:14
story another puzzling clue was
00:31:17
discovered in an alley three houses down
00:31:19
from darley's home it was a tube sock
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with small amounts of blood from the two
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murdered
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boys one of the characteristics of cases
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where mothers are involved in the
00:31:30
killing of the children are that after
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the fact there's a very
00:31:39
amateurism would do something like this
00:31:41
to their children but at some point when
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you're presented with this type of
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overwhelming physical evidence you have
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to start accepting some of it I never
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suspected that they were looking at
00:31:52
darly I thought at the hospital they
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were looking at Darren but never
00:31:56
darly and then on the news there was
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breaking news and it showed Darlin in
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handcuffs and I started screaming and
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crying and you know just
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unbelievable dar's attorneys and
00:32:07
investigators say that the evidence used
00:32:09
against her was terribly
00:32:12
flawed when the officers examined the
00:32:14
window which had been cut they found
00:32:16
there was no dust Disturbed on the
00:32:18
window sill and also found a blonde hair
00:32:22
stuck into the screen area they assumed
00:32:25
that blonde hair was
00:32:26
darl's later that hair through DNA
00:32:29
examination was determined to belong to
00:32:31
a rette police officer the window cell
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is 10 in off the floor if you went
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through the window and crouched down and
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put one leg through the window it's more
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probable you wouldn't disturb the dust
00:32:42
than you would disturb the
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dust you're innocent and you keep
00:32:48
waiting for them to come back and tell
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you that oh we've made a terrible
00:32:52
mistake and we're so sorry and you know
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we found who did this
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I just cannot believe you know what was
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happening next dar's attorneys claimed
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that overlooked fingerprints found that
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the crime scene prove her
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innocence and a juror who voted to
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convict darly speaks out in her defense
00:33:18
I believe with all my heart that Dar ler
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is innocent there's not a doubt in my
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mind
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darly ly rouer a young Texas housewife
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stood accused of viciously killing two
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of her own children ladies and gentlemen
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I want you to listen very care according
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to the DA Dar Lin rouer was a greedy
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selfish and vain
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woman he said that motherhood was
00:33:51
getting in the way of her extravagant
00:33:54
Lifestyle the prosecution also suggests
00:33:57
that if her two boys were dead darly
00:34:00
could collect on their life insurance
00:34:02
and resume her wild
00:34:08
ways the da argued that darly was
00:34:11
suffering from postpartum
00:34:13
depression and that she slid her own
00:34:15
throat and then triy to make it appear
00:34:18
that an intruder did
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it and I know it sounds diabolical but
00:34:22
the evidence they were crucifying her
00:34:24
character to make this very conservative
00:34:27
jury hate darly and it was all a bunch
00:34:30
of Lies it's my opinion that the crime
00:34:32
scene was staged a medical examiner
00:34:35
testified that dar's wounds were
00:34:37
superficial and
00:34:40
self-inflicted dramatically different
00:34:42
than the wound sustained by the young
00:34:43
victims but the defense introduced
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medical records showing that the knife
00:34:47
slash to darl's neck came within a 16th
00:34:51
of an inch of severing her cored artery
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which would have killed
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her photographs taken at the hospital
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show extreme bruising on dar's arms but
00:35:02
the notes that you took uh that you were
00:35:04
telling us about dary's attorneys also
00:35:06
would back the theory that she committed
00:35:07
the murders to collect on her boys's
00:35:10
life insurance they're trying to say she
00:35:12
did just for the money there's $5,000
00:35:16
life insurance on those boys that's
00:35:18
ridiculous it cost 13,000 to bury
00:35:22
them the prosecution countered with a
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blood spatter expert
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virtually all of the blood on dar's
00:35:30
shirt was her own but there was one tiny
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blood stain on the back that contained
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both Devon and Damon's blood was a shirt
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that darly was wearing it had cast off
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blood on the back over the shoulder area
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and uh this would have come as the knife
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was being pulled out of the children's
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body and being brought over her shoulder
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and then dripping and the analysis of
00:35:53
the DNA indicated it belonged to the
00:35:54
children and that was a very important
00:35:56
piece of of EV evidence how did that
00:35:58
blood get there if not that
00:36:02
manner all the blood evidence was
00:36:04
handled by police officers that were not
00:36:06
experienced with collecting evidence and
00:36:09
instead of drying that evidence that
00:36:10
Bloody evidence out and putting it the
00:36:13
proper way for uh storing for the trial
00:36:16
they threw it into bags and multiple
00:36:19
pieces of blood on top of each other so
00:36:21
that the blood stains could transfer
00:36:24
from different
00:36:26
areas we very careful and methodical in
00:36:29
our gathering of evidence our officers
00:36:30
have been trained in it just like
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officers Across the
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Nation we haven't just fallen off the
00:36:35
hay wagon
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recently do you recall any statements
00:36:39
that the prosecution also played this
00:36:41
videotape for the
00:36:44
jury 8 days after the murders the rouer
00:36:47
family decided to celebrate Devon's 7th
00:36:50
birthday posum usly darly was on
00:36:53
painkillers antibiotics and
00:36:56
anti-depressants a new crew captured
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what happened
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next love you de and D this does not
00:37:09
appear to be the behavior of a grieving
00:37:11
mother and all right fine let's discount
00:37:15
it she Grieves differently than
00:37:16
everybody else in the world but what
00:37:18
about all this other preponderance of
00:37:20
evidence that's still out there we can't
00:37:22
ignore all the rest of it that was a
00:37:24
celebration of Devon's birthday we we
00:37:27
had invitations sent out we had presents
00:37:31
already
00:37:33
bought and he was murdered 3 days before
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we got to have his party we used silly
00:37:41
stream because Deon and Damon always
00:37:43
played with Silly String it was one of
00:37:44
their favorite things it's done out of a
00:37:47
memory of them they Twisted that and
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made that into something
00:37:52
ugly during the liberations the jury
00:37:55
watched the so-called Silly String video
00:37:58
eight
00:37:59
times it took the jury only 10 hours to
00:38:02
reach a guilty
00:38:04
verdict darly rouer was immediately
00:38:06
taken to death row at Gatesville State
00:38:09
Prison killed the boys I'm
00:38:12
innocent dary's family and attorneys
00:38:15
claimed that during the investigation
00:38:16
and trial crucial details were
00:38:21
overlooked they say that the photos of
00:38:24
her wounds were not properly presented
00:38:26
to the jury
00:38:28
after the trial one of the jurors who
00:38:30
convicted Darley Charles sford had a
00:38:33
chance to take a close look at the
00:38:36
pictures after I saw the pictures that
00:38:38
made me feel that she's not guilty she
00:38:42
did not cut herself and that she put up
00:38:44
a heck of a fight to protect her own
00:38:47
self I believe with all my heart that do
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L ler is innocent there's not a doubt in
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my
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mind dar's Defenders also point to the
00:38:58
mysterious tube sock that was found 75
00:39:01
yd from the crime scene uh the sock
00:39:04
contains both boys blood and probably
00:39:06
epithelial or skin DNA of darly there
00:39:09
are no blood stains that belong to darly
00:39:11
on the sock so it
00:39:13
obviously had to be touched by someone
00:39:17
after both boys have been stabbed who
00:39:19
also had contact with
00:39:21
darling darly supporters say that
00:39:24
examining the timeline that night makes
00:39:26
the prose F's account of the murders
00:39:30
impossible medical testimony established
00:39:33
that Damon could not have lived for more
00:39:35
than 9 minutes after receiving his fatal
00:39:38
wound and that he did not die until the
00:39:41
paramedics arrived so before they
00:39:44
arrived the following events must have
00:39:48
happened darly talked to a 911 operator
00:39:51
for 5 minutes and 40 seconds of those 9
00:39:54
Minutes the police secured the crime
00:39:57
for an additional two of those 9 minutes
00:40:00
before paramedics were let in that
00:40:03
leaves Darley rouer approximately a
00:40:06
minute and a half to place the sock 75
00:40:09
yd down the street stage a crime scene
00:40:12
and then cut her own
00:40:15
Thro I believe that the Intruder had the
00:40:18
sock on his hand probably used as a
00:40:20
glove or something and I believe that he
00:40:22
was covering her
00:40:24
mouth I don't believe she did sleep
00:40:26
through it I believe that she was
00:40:27
affixiated she was completely
00:40:29
unconscious and during the time of her
00:40:31
becoming conscious is when she says I
00:40:33
woke up dar's family believes
00:40:36
unidentified fingerprints at the crime
00:40:38
scene belong to the
00:40:40
Intruder a fingerprint on the door
00:40:42
leading to the garage and a second print
00:40:45
on the credenza behind the couch have
00:40:47
never positively been identified by
00:40:51
investigators they're not dares they're
00:40:53
not Darren and they're not either of the
00:40:55
two boys
00:40:57
I think it shows the overall problems
00:40:59
with the case that uh the state did not
00:41:02
investigate the case fully that they
00:41:04
focused on darly from not day one but
00:41:07
minute
00:41:08
one an intruder did come into my house
00:41:11
that man does exist and he's walking
00:41:13
free while my wife is on death row for
00:41:15
something she didn't
00:41:17
do dar's family believes the attacker
00:41:20
may have been a sexual predator a series
00:41:24
of violent rapes occurred in the Dallas
00:41:26
area at the same time as the rouer
00:41:29
murders these crimes were quite similar
00:41:31
to the attack on darly and her children
00:41:34
the as salant enters the unlocked homes
00:41:36
of victims attacks them with knives
00:41:39
found in the kitchen and wears tube
00:41:41
socks over his hands to avoid leaving
00:41:44
fingerprints could this person have been
00:41:47
the real
00:41:50
killer dar's lawyers continue to appeal
00:41:53
her sentence if and when those appeals
00:41:56
are exhausted she'll be
00:41:59
executed if you have any information
00:42:01
about this case please log on to our
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