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a computer hard drive holds hundreds of
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secrets every keystroke every download
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every deletion tells a story but if
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someone downloads a song about murder
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does it make him a killer
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it was a hot august night in
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jacksonville florida and a time of
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celebration for april and justin barbour
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it was their third wedding anniversary
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and april was about to finish her
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training as a radiology technician
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april barber had gone into
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the field of oncology
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specifically
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radiology type treatment for cancer
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patients which was inspired by her
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mother's death with cancer
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justin had good news too he just got a
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job as a financial analyst for a large
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lumber company
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he was a very good guy i mean very smart
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very successful
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everything going for him i mean just
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like my sister i mean they were
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two of a kind i guess
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the couple's anniversary dinner was at
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an italian restaurant
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later they took a walk along the beach
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but their romantic evening ended there
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when a man with a gun demanded money
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give me your money
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april diverted the man's attention
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justin tried to grab the gun shots were
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fired
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and that's the last thing justin
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remembered
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when he regained consciousness he
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realized he had been shot and was
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bleeding
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he found april unconscious and faced
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down in the water
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justin dragged april's body about 100
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yards toward their car
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but his wounds made it impossible to
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carry her up the long flight of stairs
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so he left her near the boardwalk and
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drove for help
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he flagged down a motorist a few miles
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away
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uh well now here's your emergency i
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think somebody's been shot is he
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conscious at all
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yeah he's cautious he's trying to keep
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him that way okay do you see a gunshot
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wound
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guys or staff
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can't actually tell
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justin told the ambulance crew that
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april was down on the beach
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by the time they got there
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she was dead from a single gunshot wound
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to her face
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people were calling me telling me my
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sister was shot
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i was in shock it was
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i mean it was nothing i expected
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at the hospital emergency room doctors
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treated justin for four gunshot wounds
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he survived
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but was unable to provide a good
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description of their attacker
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justin couldn't see his face it's too
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dark and truthfully i believe that it is
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too dark to see anybody's face out there
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at the beach
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police didn't find much evidence just
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the impressions from justin dragging
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april's body in the sand
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and the tides were rising
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soon
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there would be nothing left of the crime
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scene
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initially it looked like a robbery gone
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wrong
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a man demanded money from april and
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justin barbour while they were walking
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on the beach and they were both shot
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but robbery may not have been the motive
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when they looked at april barber's body
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she had on her jewelry
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an expensive ring earrings and her watch
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if this were a robbery why was nothing
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taken
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at the autopsy
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the medical examiner discovered foam
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around april's mouth
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the foam was still present around their
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nose or mouth or both
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and it's due to the damage the salt
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water causes to the lining of the lung
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dr steiner also noticed that the blood
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from april's gunshot wound
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was on top of the phone
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meant that april had almost drowned but
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survived
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and was shot afterwards
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my conclusions were that she had
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suffered a near-grounding episode and
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she had been shot while she was alive
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if she had been dead from the drowning
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there wouldn't have been any vital
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reaction to the gunshot
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there wouldn't be any hemorrhage into
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the sinus
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but why did the autopsy findings differ
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from justin's version of the incident
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it would be very traumatic the incident
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itself was very traumatic to him
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if it occurred as he stated his wife is
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now missing he's been shot four times
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and i wouldn't expect a lot of detail
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from a person who just went through that
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type of traumatic experience
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eventually as justin recuperated from
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his wounds he provided a much better
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description of the assailant good enough
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for police to create a sketch
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he was taller than me
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heavier but he wasn't he wasn't
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overweight
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right
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his
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his shirt was dark
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it was
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he had a dark hat on like like a
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baseball cap
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incredibly
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the police sketch resembled a local man
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30 year old david alan shuey who had
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previous arrests for sexual assault
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in fact chewie allegedly used a gun
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while committing an assault on the same
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beach where justin and april were shot
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he went down to the beach to find a
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female she was sunbathing like topless
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on the beach gentlemen came up
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somehow confronted her
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certainly intended on doing some type of
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sexual assault sexual battery to her
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fortunately the victim got away
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but she later identified chewie as her
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attacker
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so police questioned chewie regarding
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his whereabouts on the night of april
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barber's murder
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he denied any involvement and claimed he
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had an alibi
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we ran all his credit cards because he
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was all over the country unfortunately
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committing rapes
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we know from his credit card records
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that he was in connecticut with living
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with his fiancee at the time
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of this homicide so we absolutely
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know he was not the assailant
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next
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investigators looked into justin
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barbour's background
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i talked to justin
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and i said well tell me about your
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marriage we had a happy and normal
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marriage have you ever had an affair
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no never
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but investigators dug deeper and learned
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that justin was having an affair with
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his tennis partner shannon kennedy so
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i'd say justin listen here's the deal i
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got shannon in the next room she's
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saying y'all are engaged in the
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extramarital affair i'm going to bring
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her in here and we're going to get to
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the bottom of it he's like no don't do
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that we are i don't want to get her
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involved so i'm thinking well why
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in the heck is this guy lying about this
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i mean your wife is dead don't lie to
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the guy that's trying to help you i mean
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who knows where that could lead and
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april's friends told police that she
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knew all about her husband's affair i
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mean she told everybody would listen to
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her
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justin's having an affair
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i know he is i confronted him about it
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at the time it appeared that he was only
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dating one other person but
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it appeared that he had as many as
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five extramarital affairs
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and during the three year marriage
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police asked justin barber for
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permission to search his home and he was
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happy to comply
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he also made his computer available
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he had it all boxed up ready for when
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the detectives came and he said here it
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is and hands it to him
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justin's computer went to chris hendry
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of florida's computer evidence recovery
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section
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when i made a copy of justin's home
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computer hard drive
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the next thing i did was go through and
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look for anything
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that would have been deleted such as
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folders and files
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one of the first things henry noticed
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was that justin downloaded a song onto
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his computer
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just hours before his wife's death
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the lyrics are violent they're about
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killing somebody
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it was a song by the group guns and
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roses with the lyrics i used to love her
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but i had to kill her
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she drove me nuts and now i'm happier
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this way
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it's kind of strange this is deleted
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hours before we actually got the machine
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was this merely a coincidence
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after all
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it was only a song
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justin barber told police
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that a robber shot his wife april in the
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head and shot him four times while they
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were walking on the beach
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he claimed he passed out later regained
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consciousness and found his wife face
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down in the ocean
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but the forensic evidence
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contradicted parts of justin's story
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she had evidence of abrasions small
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abrasions on their collarbone
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by your ear and on the back of the neck
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they are consistent with
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force or pressure
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being placed there
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could this have been caused by
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forcefully being held in the water yes
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and on justin's computer
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forensic experts found evidence of a
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possible motive
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apparently justin had been trading
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stocks on the internet and he wasn't
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doing very well we have his e-trading he
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got himself quickly into fifty to sixty
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thousand dollars in debt just on that it
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didn't appear that any of his trades
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really paid off and lost quite a bit of
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money
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to cover the losses justin borrowed
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money against his credit cards at very
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high interest rates
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you can't get any worse than that i mean
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you're borrowing money at 21 to pay off
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money that you lost in the stock market
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justin barbour should have been
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a little bit brighter with his money i
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mean that was a time of low interest
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home equity loans that's really
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significant when you talk about somebody
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who's a finance major and has an mba in
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business and also it's important to note
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the psychological effects of a lot of
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consumer debt that affects people's
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psyche
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also suspicious
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investigators learned that april owned a
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two million dollar life insurance policy
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which she bought primarily to support
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her younger brother and sister in the
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event of her death
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know we didn't have our mother we didn't
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have our father and so april felt like
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it was her responsibility to take care
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of us you know if something happened to
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her and justin knew that too and that
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was a big part of the
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reason for
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those but justin was the sole
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beneficiary which meant
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he could have done anything he wanted
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with the money
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was this enough motive
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to kill his wife and then
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shoot himself four times to cover it up
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risky but
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people do a lot of crazy things for over
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two million dollars
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using an ultraviolet light
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crime scene reconstructionist jerry
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findley examined the shirt justin was
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wearing on the night of the attack
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you could see some visible gunshot
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residue or what appeared to be gunshot
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residue and looking at it with the
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ultraviolet light i wanted to see the
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extent of the pattern
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the gunshot residue could have come from
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justin being in close contact with the
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assailant
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but the angles of the bullet wounds to
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justin's body were another matter one
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shot went through his left hand
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the other three shots were directed away
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from vital organs and bone
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a remarkable coincidence
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to me the location of them was not
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consistent with them with a mugger even
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somebody struggling over a gun if you've
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already shot and killed one person and
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you've shot another one four times
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you're not going to leave a witness
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investigators also analyzed april's
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clothing
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and found another inconsistency
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justin claimed that he carried april's
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body a hundred yards up to the base of
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the stairs after they had both been shot
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by the assailant
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one of the gunshot injuries that he had
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sustained is on his left hand
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so his hand would have been bleeding and
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bleeding quite a bit and there should be
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blood all over
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the waist line the waist in the front of
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those pants of april barber and in fact
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there was none if she's bleeding from
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this gunshot one she did not have it on
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her body or clothing and he doesn't have
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it on his so i think
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that speaks for itself
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and by the direction the blood traveled
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from the wound investigators could tell
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april's body had not been moved after
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she was shot
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blood flow on april barber was in one
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direction which was straight down to the
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left from the gunshot wound and if the
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body had been moved in various positions
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the blood flow would have changed
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and finally
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there was something else that bothered
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investigators
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why didn't justin use april's cell phone
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that was in her purse in the car
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why wouldn't he just call on her cell
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phone anyway and get help he had to get
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rid of the gun
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unfortunately police couldn't find the
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murder weapon in the thick vegetation
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along the 10-mile stretch of road
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but they did discover one last
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tantalizing piece of evidence on
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justin's computer
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almost more valuable
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than finding the murder weapon
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on justin barbour's computer forensic
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experts found email evidence of his
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extramarital affairs and financial
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records proving he was deeply in debt
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but that wasn't all
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forensic experts also discovered that in
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the weeks and months leading up to
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april's murder justin searched various
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websites looking for information on
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blood loss and gunshot wounds to the
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right chest
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what's the chances of somebody
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researching that thing very specifically
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gunshot wounds
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to the right chest and then six months
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later getting shot in the right chest
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i just don't believe that's possible
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prosecutors believe
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that when april barbara learned about
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her husband's infidelity and his
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financial problems
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she wanted a divorce i believe april
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barbara had a very good idea of how bad
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the debt was she told her loved ones you
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know the marriage was failing that she
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tried numerous times to to try and
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straighten it out or or fix things with
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justin but that they weren't improving
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prosecutors also believe that justin
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wanted the two million dollars from
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april's life insurance
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policy so he searched computer websites
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to learn how to shoot himself without
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inflicting serious injury
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justin believed if he drove to the
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hospital with gunshot wounds everyone
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would believe his robbery story
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justin barbers wanted all he wanted in
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my belief to show up
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with his
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bride in the suv at the hospital as a
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hero as somebody who is not only a hero
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but also a victim collect the money
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have everybody feel sorry for him move
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on with his life from there
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but it didn't turn out that way
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they say when you commit a homicide you
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make about 30 mistakes and you can't
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remember but about five
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the first mistake that night happened
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just after 5 p.m
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justin downloaded the guns and rose's
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song
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i used to love her
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but i had to kill her
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prosecutors believe that april told
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justin over dinner that she wanted a
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divorce
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after that justin enticed april to go
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for a walk along the beach possibly to
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continue their discussion about how to
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end their marriage amicably
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but right away his plan fell apart
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perhaps april sent something was amiss
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or she saw the gun
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either way
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there was a struggle
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justin subdued her by holding her head
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under the water until she lost
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consciousness he then carried her
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towards the car
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but there was no blood transfer because
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at that point
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neither one was bleeding
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he fired a single shot into april's head
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the blood from her head wound was now on
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top of the foam produced by the near
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drowning
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justin then shot himself four times
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careful not to break any bones or hit
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vital organs
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but the excruciating pain and the
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daunting task of carrying april's body
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up the long flight of stairs required a
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change of plans
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he had no choice but to leave april's
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body there
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justin got rid of the murder weapon
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somewhere along the highway
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then tried to gather his thoughts and
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compose a possible explanation for the
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water in april's lungs
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he drove for 10 miles passing numerous
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homes and businesses along the way
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before he asked a fellow motorist to
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call 911.
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justin said that he didn't want to stop
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at one of the houses because he did not
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want to wake up an old man or something
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to that effect
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perhaps
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the oddest piece of forensic evidence
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was that justin erased the guns and
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rose's song from his computer
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just an hour or so before turning it
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over to police
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that's hard to hear that he did it i
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mean he was somebody i trusted and that
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i looked up to
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i'm very sad i mean there's not a day
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that goes by that i don't think about my
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sister
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in june of 2006
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justin barber went on trial for the
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first degree murder of his wife april
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the forensic evidence was simply too
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much to overcome
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he was convicted and sentenced to life
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in prison
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investigators describe it
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as one of the most unusual and
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cold-blooded cases
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they've ever seen
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if you take somebody like justin barber
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who's probably a sociopath he's probably
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narcissistic
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he looks at everything as how it suits
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him he did not want the stigma of a
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divorce
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there were no independent witnesses
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other than the decedent and the murder
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and you know there are only two people
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in that on the beach so in this case
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forensics made the entire case but the
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truth of the matter is with the physical
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evidence we have once we developed it
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analyzed it and had it in its final form
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and compared it to the story it revealed
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that justin barber is a liar
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