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in philadelphia
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a woman's car was found abandoned on the
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side of a busy highway still running
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but the driver was missing
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at the scene police found several clues
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but was there enough forensic evidence
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to solve the mystery
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route 476 is one of several highways
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that links philadelphia to the suburbs
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hundreds of thousands of commuters
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travel that road every day
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on june 20th 1996 at two o'clock in the
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morning an off-duty ambulance crew
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spotted an abandoned car along an exit
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ramp of 476.
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the engine was running the lights were
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on the radio was blaring the driver's
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door was open
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but no one was inside
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there was a tire iron found in front of
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the car i found some blood in front of
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the car i found a stone with blood on in
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front of the car and on the guardrail
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there appeared to be some blood splatter
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next to the car
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we later had an interpretation done of
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the blood pattern in front of the car
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and we learned
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that it appeared as though someone had
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been laying on the ground for a brief
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time in front of the car the crime scene
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says that this person was violently
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attacked in a very
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fast mode meaning that they were
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hit very quickly
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as far as the violence was concerned and
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then they were extricated from that site
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very quickly this person didn't stay
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around long
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next to the car was a tire impression
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which was photographed for analysis
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a forensic expert then made a cast of
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the impression which was sent to the
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state crime lab
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the automobile was registered to gail
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willard but had been driven that night
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by her daughter 22 year old amy willard
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a star soccer and lacrosse player at
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george mason university in virginia
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amy was spending the summer at home with
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her family who lived just a few miles
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from where the car was discovered
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amy told her mother she was going to
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smokey joe's bar
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and a friend said amy left the bar alone
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at 1 30 in the morning
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she had never been to smokey joe's
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before when she came home she very
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rarely went out and met people because
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of the fact the time constraints on when
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she was home when she was home she kind
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of stayed around here and we hung out
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together and things like that
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damage to the vehicle led police to
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think that amy may have been the victim
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of a carjacking
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there was an abrasion on the back bumper
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that was not there when amy drove off in
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the car i noticed it because it was my
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car and i knew everything about my car
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and i had pointed it out to the police
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possibly at that traffic light right
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where she's going to turn off the 476
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off ramp onto the route one on-ramp
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there's a traffic light right there i
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believe that that's where he would have
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bumped her car she immediately pulls
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over onto the ramp gets out of her car
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to exchange information
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the next morning about a half mile from
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where amy's car was abandoned
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police found a pair of panties and
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sneakers
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they brought them down for me to
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identify them and they definitely were
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her sneakers and panties they definitely
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were
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the panties weren't soiled with dirt
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they weren't wet they were dry
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as were the shoes
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it appeared to me as though those items
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had been brought back after the rain
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which would have
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meant that they were brought back after
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her car was found
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an indication the abductor had returned
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to the scene of the crime to dispose of
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the items
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detectives screened video surveillance
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tapes from stores and bank atms near
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smokey joe's bar
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but amy had not stopped at any of these
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locations
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then
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an unexpected lead fell right into
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investigators laps
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amy willard's car was found abandoned on
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a blue route off ramp in marvel township
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after amy willard disappeared police
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appealed to the community asking anyone
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with information to come forward
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one of those who responded was 23 year
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old andrew kobach who said he had been
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driving on route 476 on the night amy
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disappeared and saw something suspicious
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in the vicinity of amy's car
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police knew kobach
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years earlier he had been accused of
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impersonating a police officer
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police say kobach would turn a siren on
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instruct the driver to pull over and
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then show the driver a badge
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a motorist turned him in but he was
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never charged
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kobach immediately became a suspect
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since investigators now thought he might
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have done the same thing with amy
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willard
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by virtue of placing himself back at the
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scene it was consistent with what is
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oftentimes a characteristic of people
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who commit crimes
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that are being investigated is out of
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curiosity or some other kind of
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motivation
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they return to the vicinity of the crime
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in essence to get a feel for what's
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going on
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less than 24 hours after amy willard
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disappeared
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children playing in a deserted lot in
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north philadelphia discovered
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the nude body of a woman
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i snitched and i smelled something and
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then i i'm sorry and i ran
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there was a nike logo tattooed on her
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ankle which amy's parents
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identified
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that was the hardest day of the whole
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thing not knowing where she was
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there was more of a relief when they
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found her body in philadelphia
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that i had her back
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that we could find out help to find out
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what happened to her no one could bring
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her back to life but at least i had her
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an autopsy revealed that the five foot
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two 120 pound woman died from multiple
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blunt force injuries to her head and
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face
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the medical examiner estimated she died
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at seven o'clock in the morning about
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five hours after she was abducted this
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is a crime of momentary passion or crime
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between two people that know each other
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but somebody that actually
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hunted down stalk somebody committed the
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murder the crime and then went to
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another location to try to deposit the
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evidence and throw the authorities off
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the trail
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the examiner determined that amy had
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been sexually assaulted
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dna evidence from the rape test kit was
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sent to the forensics lab for testing
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we had essentially the
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genetic fingerprint of our
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of our murderer
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and we just needed to identify that
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person
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the coroner also described
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an unusual pattern on amy's upper body
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but police weren't sure
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what caused the mark
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meanwhile forensic experts completed
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their analysis of the tire impressions
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found at the crime scene
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they were from a firestone 440 13-inch
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tire often found on small compact cars
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kobach's automobile did not have those
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tires and the search of his home turned
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up nothing
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kobach was officially eliminated as a
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suspect when his dna profile did not
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match the semen from the rape test kit
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with no other leads
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the killer's trail turned cold
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then
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one year after amy willard's death
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19-year-old patty jordan reported an
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attempted carjacking to police
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she said it was a man who had followed
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her after she left a local nightclub
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and at the next light that car must have
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made the light and i didn't and that's
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where he hit my car
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i just went
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and he motioned for me to pull over
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and i was like you hit my car and he was
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just like pull over pull over and it
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turned green and i just kept on going
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and my headlights shown on his license
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plate and that's how i got his license
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plate
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fortunately patty had memorized the
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license plate number
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the vehicle was registered the
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38-year-old arthur beaumar
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20 years earlier in 1978
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beaumar had been convicted of second
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degree murder in nevada and was
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sentenced to life in prison
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unbelievably he was released on parole
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after serving only 11 years
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where the mentality was and all that by
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the parole board in the state he came
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from i really don't know let me tell you
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something there are people that cannot
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be reformed and no matter what you do
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they will not change
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and arthur bulmar is one of those people
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beaumar had a 20-year history of
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problems with the law including several
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assaults on young women
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this is a guy who
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really hates women and despises them and
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wants to punish them and wants to feel
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virile
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and feels that he deserves this
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this is his way of getting back
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investigators learned that the day amy
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willard disappeared philadelphia police
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pulled bomar over for questioning on an
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unrelated matter
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he had been stopped roughly six blocks
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away from
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the scene where her body was found so he
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was someone that we we certainly wanted
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to talk to and we were attempting to
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locate
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police went to interview bulmar about
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the amy willard case
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but they couldn't find him
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so the search
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was on
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a year after amy willard's murder there
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had been another attempted carjacking in
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philadelphia
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information provided by the victim
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identified the culprit as an ex-convict
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arthur beaumar
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but police couldn't find him
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not long afterwards another woman called
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police to report a man trying to break
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into her third floor apartment
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the man was arrested and identified
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himself as peter thomas love
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in his pocket was a set of car keys to a
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honda automobile
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they determined that there was a honda
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nearby they ran that tag and they
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learned that that tag belonged
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to arthur beaumar assigned to a 1993
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ford escort owned by arthur beaumar
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police also discovered that peter thomas
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love was an alias
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he was in fact
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arthur beaumar
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but why was bomar's license plate on a
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honda and not on his 1993 ford escort
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the answer was simple the car was stolen
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it belonged to maria cobuenos a 25 year
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old woman who had been missing for three
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months
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maria cabuenos was a young woman who
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lived in the city of philadelphia who
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was reported missing by her family
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she was supposed to appear at work one
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morning and failed to appear
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investigators believe that cabuenos was
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abducted while driving on route 476 the
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same highway where amy willard had been
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attacked
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dried blood was found in the trunk on
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maria's car which beaumar was driving
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both bumpers were slightly scraped like
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amy willard's car
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bulmar immediately became a suspect in
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maria's disappearance
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now more than ever
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police believed he might have been
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involved in amy willard's murder
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come to the prison i'll tell you all
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what you want to know but i don't think
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it's fair to put me on tv and i'm not
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being charged with it his alibi was that
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he was president of the birthday party
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and not outside the bar that amy was
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that evening he had been with a family
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it was not a family it was a young woman
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that
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he was seeing this woman had a child
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but beaumar's fiance contradicted that
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she said bulmar was at smokey joe's bar
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on the night amy willard disappeared
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police re-examined the evidence looking
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for any clues that would tie bulmar to
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the murder
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one year after her daughter's death
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gail willard who worked as an emergency
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room nurse
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asked to see pictures of amy's injuries
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i looked at the picture
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of what they were calling a diamond
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shaped pattern and i said this isn't a
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diamond shaped pattern this is a burn
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that was not a burn from a flame it was
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either a burn that her body came in
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contact with something that had the
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ridges on it but it was a burn imprint
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and it was uneven
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investigators immediately searched for
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bulmar's ford escort the car he was
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driving at the time amy disappeared but
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they got bad news
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the car had been involved in an
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automobile accident a few months after
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amy's disappearance
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so they tracked the towing company and
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asked where that car was towed to they
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went to a location and found a car
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that was the green ford escort that had
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been actually sitting in a field next to
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this tow truck company for almost a
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year's time
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so it had been there's a potential piece
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of great evidence that has not had
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the chance to be forensically analyzed
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an external examination of the escort
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showed slight damage to the front bumper
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at least one of the car's tires was a
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firestone 440 13-inch tire the same type
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of tire which made the impression found
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at the crime scene
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our latent print examiner in harrisburg
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was able to say that the tire was not
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only consistent in make model size but
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also in wear which is which is helpful
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it's another piece to the puzzle so
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the forensics in our case were
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absolutely critical
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omar's car had been exposed to the
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elements without its roof for almost a
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year
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so it was no surprise that police could
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find no trace of blood inside the car
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in previous employment he had worked
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in a hospital in an operating room where
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he had learned all of the techniques of
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cleaning up blood
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until police took a much closer look
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we literally took the car apart we
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removed the seats we removed the
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carpeting we did vacuumings for trace
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evidence we literally took the car apart
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we took the door panel apart and behind
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the door panel we found some blood
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tests later showed that the blood found
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on the passenger's door
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was amy willard's
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but the most shocking discovery was
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something police noticed underneath the
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vehicle as it was being towed
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as the sun was shining down underneath
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the car it was illuminating the oil pan
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and looking at the oil pan we were both
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in agreement right then and there that
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that was the same mark that was left on
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amy willard's body
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the pattern of x's and does on the oil
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pan
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was eerily similar to the marks on amy's
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body
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an expert at the armed forces institute
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of pathology confirmed that the pattern
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on the oil pan was consistent with the
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marks on amy's body
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all rapists
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and to a certain degree serial killers
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pick their victims based on a fantasy
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they have a fantasy in their head of of
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what they all crime all violent crime
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starts with a fantasy
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prosecutors believe that amy willard
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first caught arthur bulmar's attention
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in smokey joe's bar
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i'm sorry
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from there
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they believe bulmar followed amy out of
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the bar and along route 476 as she drove
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home
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when amy was about to exit the highway
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prosecutors believe bulmar bumped her
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car causing her to pull over
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the contact left marks on the bumpers of
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both cars
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as she left her vehicle bomar struck her
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with the tire iron
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causing the blood spatter on the
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guardrail
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then
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dragged her to his car
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where he took amy from there
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no one knows
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but the forensic evidence clearly shows
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that beaumars firestone tire left the
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tire impression at the crime scene
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and that bomar
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ran over amy with his vehicle
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burning her skin
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leaving the imprint of the car's oil pan
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on her torso
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he then
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left her body in the deserted lot
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and returned to the scene of the crime
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to dispose of amy's clothing
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ironically
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bomar himself provided the most damning
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piece of evidence
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the semen from amy's rape test kit
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matched arthur bomar's dna profile
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before bomar's murder trial
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police found the skeletal remains of
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maria cubanos in nearby bucks county
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pennsylvania
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when beaumar was arrested
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he was driving kobanus's automobile
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maria's body was found less than 20
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miles from arthur bulmar's residence and
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30 miles from where amy was abducted
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like amy maria died from head injuries
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caused by a blunt instrument
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i know that he's still clearly suspected
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of the disappearance and murder of
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mariko buenos it's been publicly
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reported and authorities look at other
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things but i can't
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you know there's no i really shouldn't
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say any more than that
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during the trial the defense argued that
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bulmar was neglected as a child and had
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a low iq
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omar had to be restrained several times
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during the trial because of violent
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outbursts
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outside the courthouse beaumar's family
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took their frustrations out on the
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just talk we'll stay median from you
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we'll stay awake
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his step brother and his mother lashed
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out at news crews covering the trial
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miss ganges ma'am man ma'am don't hit
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him
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arthur beaumar was convicted of rape and
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first degree murder and was sentenced to
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death
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omar's reaction when he was convicted
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and sentenced to death he turned around
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and threatened me with both fingers in
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the air
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telling you to
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do mrs wilber down your two kids
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he was just a stone cold killer and a
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real predator i
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have in my career
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never really faced anybody that i felt
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was as dangerous
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as remorseless and as cold as arthur
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beaumar
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he doesn't deserve for anyone to ever
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think about him again he is just a vile
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evil man
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i think in the end without the dna
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without the tire impression without the
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oil pan impression i think we would have
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been very hard-pressed to uh to have the
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success that we did
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