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1998 Jacksonville Beach Florida a group
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of University students plan a
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friendsgiving when they cannot travel
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home for Thanksgiving holiday she was
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involved in getting everybody together
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and inviting people she had spent the
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day before Thanksgiving cooking several
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different
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pies not even seasoned veteran police
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are prepared for the vicious nature of
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the crime that unfolded it looked just
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like somebody had placed her hand in a
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pool of blood without many sta wounds
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you sometimes wonder you is this the
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portal of
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hell it shocked the Mind initially
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police looked at several suspects in a
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desperate attempt to make their Beach
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toown safe by Christmas he was
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infatuated with her almost obsessed
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she knew things about this crime scene
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that none of us knew it didn't add up as
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police close in on a Thanksgiving killer
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the fear only
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escalates the person who did this could
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do it again
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[Music]
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hello I'm NY Grace Thanksgiving is
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wonderful it's a holiday that usually
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brings families together people travel
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across the country across the world
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parents children and relatives celebrate
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with wonderful food great company and
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happy times that become happy memories
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but sometimes lengthy travel gets in the
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way of children returning
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home in 1998 25-year-old Corey Parker
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decides to stay put in Jacksonville
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Beach Florida where she's going to
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school instead of being with her family
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Upstate New York she's scheduled to work
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on Black Friday at at the rag Time
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Restaurant but she never shows up for
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her
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shift when she failed to show up her
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manager became alarmed this was not her
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character she's somebody that could be
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relied upon and was very trusted to show
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up for her to miss a shift was highly
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unlikely Cory was a good worker she
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would come for a shift she wouldn't miss
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it any shifts Cory's manager asked one
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of the cooks at the restaurant to go and
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check on her the cook went to her
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apartment and knocked on the door but
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could not get an
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answer through the front window the cook
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can see Cory Parker's
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kitchen the thing that caught him as a
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little bit odd was her purse was sitting
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there and he could tell there was a pie
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out on the counter it just didn't sit
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right with him the cook walks around to
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the back of Cory's
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apartment and he can see into her
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bedroom and he could see her her foot
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and he knew it was her because she had
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this tow ring that she always
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wore and he said there was just blood
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everywhere First Responders arrive at
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Cory Parker's apartment inside her
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bedroom a shocking disturbing and tragic
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scene the police discovered Cory's nude
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body lying on the bed and the blood was
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covering her in such a dramatic way that
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it looked like it had almost been
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painted on
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her homicide detectives and a forensic
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unit start processing the horrific crime
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scene Cory was stabbed multiple times
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and with
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every second she was getting stabbed and
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she's fighting for her
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life the forensic investigators arrived
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at the scene they discovered there's
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hairs in her
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hand when you find those things it just
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makes it seem worse because you know
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that there is a struggle
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she did fight to her sail and hair was
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in her clutch it was a bad brutal way to
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leave this world there was blood found
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at the scene by the kitchen window which
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faces like the back of her
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apartment they discovered blood stains
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which looked just like somebody had
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placed her hand in a pole blood and then
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placed it on the window which is
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indicative of somebody trying to get out
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of the window
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they also took samples of a lot of
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different blood spattering at the scene
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and one of the droplets that they
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collected was on the
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sink when you're stabbing somebody
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multiple times there's a high
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probability of that person's going to
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become injured as well they're still
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trying to stab somebody and their hand
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sliding off of the handle onto the bleed
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and they're cutting themselves then the
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suspect's blood ends up near the sink
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and by the window it's a damning piece
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of of evidence especially if you can tie
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suspect to
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it when there is a Savage knife attack
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like this one not only are victims
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wounded and killed but very often so are
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perpetrators they are wounded as they
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wield the knife detectives are hoping
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here that blood and hair samples will
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lead them to a DNA match of the animal
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who murdered Cory Parker meanwhile
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police are canvasing the neighborhood
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where Cory
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lived the crime happened where Cory
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Parker lived in Jacksonville Beach was a
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little small apartment building close to
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the beach it was within walking distance
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she lived alone she was on a ground
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floor apartment and there was other like
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buildings next to it so kind of close
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together within eyesight of each other
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the detectives learned that there had
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been a Peeping Tom in the
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community was very
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disturbing Corey had even told some of
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her friends that she felt like there was
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a Peeping Tom watching
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her being on the ground level this is
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exactly what she should be afraid
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of the detectives had to consider that
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this peeping Tom could very well be the
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as salent that killed
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Cory I was sitting in my mom's I got a
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call from David her
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boyfriend and he was
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hysterical he could barely talk he was
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just balling I could hear him saying
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something's wrong with Corey you need to
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find out what's going
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on so I happened to know a paramedic
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that lived nearby so I called him and I
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asked him if he could tell me what's
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going on and he
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said um she was
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dead it was so
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shocking I didn't register it at
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all I didn't believe them I remember
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thinking she's fine I just talked to her
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the day before Thanksgiving
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a police officer called me and I went
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straight to the police
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station I met with Detective rigan and
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she brought me into a room asked me
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questions mostly about the last time I
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had seen
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Corey did I know what she planned on
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doing for
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Thanksgiving I told detective rigan that
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she had planned on attending the orphan
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party for Thanksgiving which is where
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where people get together that don't
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have family in the area she was um
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baking pies and bringing them with her
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she very much enjoyed the cook and she
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was really good at it she was a Fabulous
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Baker when I met Corey she had moved
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from Rochester New York to Jacksonville
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Beach to go to college and we clicked
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instantly Corey was extremely
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intelligent she was fun she was very
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kind and respect ful to
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everybody she was 5' 11 so obviously
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just being tall she stood out but she
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was also beautiful like a model she was
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somebody that would really draw your
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attention when she walked in the room
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absolutely gorgeous and had a
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personality to match she was beautiful
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physically and inside
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she definitely lit up a room when she
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walked in
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Cory Parker seems so happy with her life
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she recently started dating someone new
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although she and David didn't know each
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other for very long they were very
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passionate very quickly about each other
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and they had so much fun together I
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remember her describing him to me I
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found this guy who was just
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amazing and she said he's extra special
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really digging this
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guy the police really wanted talk to
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Corey's boyfriend David when the police
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talk with David he is genuinely
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distraught by Cory's murder furthermore
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he's able to provide them evidence that
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he was not even in the area at the time
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Cory died he had flown to see family for
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the Thanksgiving
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holiday when autopsy results come back
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investigators learned that thankfully
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Corey Parker was at least spared a sex
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assault still the way that Cory is
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killed the Savage stabbing much of it
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after she dies are
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chilling Cory was stabbed 101 times
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autopsy revealed that 54 of those times
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were postmortem that lends towards the
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whole viciousness of the crime this
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person had a lot of rage in them that
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they're willing to stab somebody that
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much this person took their time it was
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gruesome it shocked the
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Mind detectives convinced they're
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looking for a deeply depraved
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killer Black Friday is one of the
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busiest retail days in the US that means
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restaurants are super busy also student
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Corey Parker misses Thanksgiving with
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with her family to work a shift at
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Ragtime restaurant and now that family
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will never have a chance for another
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Thanksgiving or Christmas with Corey the
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Jacksonville police conduct an extensive
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investigation throughout the holidays
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they learn the last time Cory seen alive
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is the day before Thanksgiving that is
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when she borrows a pie thermometer and
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complains about a Peeping time c as the
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New Year rolls around investigators
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finally get a lead it's about a coworker
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who's fixated on Corey police turned
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their attention to
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him there was a dishwasher that worked
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at the same restaurant as Corey he was
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27 years old Eric was his
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[Music]
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name he was infatuated with her one
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would say almost
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obsessed in the months before she died
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Eric had been asking Corey out on a
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regular basis she continued to tell him
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no she was really nice about it she
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didn't want to hurt his
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feelings coworker Eric is informally
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interviewed by detectives January 18 and
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he willingly agrees to give a hair
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sample for a possible DNA match one week
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later Jacksonville PD invite him to the
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station for a formal
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interview Jesus Eric she told you she
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had boyfriends she had plan she had
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school she didn't want to be with you
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Eric you weren't her type she didn't
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want a relationship with you Eric and
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you couldn't accept that detectives
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Badger Eric looking for any reaction
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kept asking her out Thanksgiving dinner
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she didn't want to be with you ER she
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had plans but you didn't want to accept
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that did you no you didn't no but I was
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willing to let it go you were pissed off
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at her you were pissed off because you
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wanted her and she did not want you you
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wanted a life with Cory
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Eric you wanted a life with Cory she did
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not want you you were the one that was
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pipped off with her
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Eric you cooworker Eric concedes he
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desperately wanted to spend Thanksgiving
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with Corey Eric's obsession with Corey
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is really demonstrated by his actions on
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Thanksgiving he told the detectives he
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made a meal for her and was planning to
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invite her he had invited her she never
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committed but he still made the
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Thanksgiving dinner that uh seems weird
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she went to all that work and she didn't
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even show up the interview gets even
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more intense as as the hours tick
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by she was about pissed off at me too
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that's probably why she didn't you know
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why she was pissed at you Eric because
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you couldn't take no for an answer
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that's why you could not take no for an
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answer how many times is a woman have to
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tell you no Eric finally reveals how he
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really feels about Corey Parker you
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think you were obsessed with her that
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was slightly obsessed but I would do
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greatly obsessed D Jesus
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did my God I was I was upsets tell me
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the things that you think about doing
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with women even detectives are shocked
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by Eric's next response me like um Tak
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him into a bedroom and raping him they
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kind of
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thrilling to get away with it maybe I
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would share the same thoughts as this
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first that did I would like to fantasize
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myself doing it instead of him doing but
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I didn't
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do one of the detectives asked him
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well if you would have killed Corey how
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would you have done
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it what fantasies do you have how would
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you contain her how how how would this
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person feel P her down she was tired um
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by will
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probably if he didn't want to be a
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suspect he was doing a real good job
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selling himself as one and he just Pok
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her do whatever stab her put her thr
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like wait for her the how get
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now
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follow whatever
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had detectives walk away from that
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interview convinced they've got Cory's
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killer and they wait for the lab results
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obtained from blood and hair collected
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at the murder scene
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the hair
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sample and the blood drop CIT sample
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that they found came from the same
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person and that person was not Cory
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Parker many times in a homicide
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investigation Clues turn out to be too
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good to be true in the case of Cory
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Parker's murder police now have the
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Killer's DNA too good to be true right
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well what they don't have is the problem
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the DNA sample from the crime scene does
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not match their Prime suspect Cory
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Parker's coworker
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Eric he would have been a perfect
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suspect but he tested
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negative investigators now turn to one
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of the last people to see Cory Parker
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alive a friend named
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Tiffany Tiffany and Cory was at a bar
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the night before Thanksgiving
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together Cory went out to the rits just
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to go have drinks and meet some friends
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from work and Tiffany was
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there they did meet up that night at the
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bar detectives focus on the friend
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Tiffany they've heard rumors she also
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was obsessed with Corey Parker I
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remember a discussion with her about
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being by curious meaning interested in
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girls and guys which I mentioned to the
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police officer so I think the that kind
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of built a little thing for them to
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start looking at her detective zero in
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on Tiffany and they discover something
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alarming Tiffany seems to have knowledge
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of the crime scene that was not
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public so it's very concerning that
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possibly she knew this because perhaps
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she was the one who killed Corey
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police bring in Tiffany for an interview
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she tells them she and Cory Parker go to
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the Ritz Bar the night before
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Thanksgiving and that Cory leaves the
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bar around 1
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a.m. then Tiffany says she calls Corey
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in the early morning hours of
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Thanksgiving 2
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a.m. if Tiffany had told the police
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officers that she called Corey around 2:
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in the morning Cory didn't answer the
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phone however when the police looked
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back at the phone records there was no
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call made at 2:00 so I don't think her
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story was adding
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up as the interview goes on Tiffany
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refuses to cooperate and give a DNA
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sample to detectives they become even
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more
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suspicious is it possible that Tiffany
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had a crush on Corey and was upset with
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her because Corey had no interest in
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Tiffany in a romantic
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way a court order was obtained to get
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her
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DNA when the results come
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back unfortunately it does not match the
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hair and blood found at the
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scene investigators also learned
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Tiffany's inside knowledge of the crime
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scene comes from one of the First
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Responders once again detectives are
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back to square one in a case as gruesome
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as Corey Parker's
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death she want to solve this case she
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want to bring Justice to your
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victim you have to be her
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voice and it's
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difficult for now the DNA collected at
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the crime scene eliminates all the
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viable Suspects the case haunts the
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Jacksonville police over the following
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year who killed Cory
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[Music]
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Parker Jacksonville Beach Florida
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another Thanksgiving Christmas and New
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Year's pass by for most people life goes
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on but for those people who knew Cory
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Parker her love of Life continues to be
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remembered Jacksonville police have run
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out of leads in Cory's case but they
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haven't run out of
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Hope with the case goes
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cold and evidence start drying up it
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affects the
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[Music]
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investigators in a resort town like
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Jackson Ville
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Beach people come and go quite
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frequently so your suspect could be gone
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and slows the case up
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dramatically it raised a whole set of
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new questions then who on Earth could
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have possibly or would have done this
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for what
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reason with the lack of further Clues to
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investigate Cory's family put up the
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funds for law en enforcement offer a
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$220,000 reward for any evidence that
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could help solve this
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[Music]
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case when the reward was posted it did
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generate several
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tips one of the tips LED them to a
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steakhouse that was near where Cory
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Parker lived the tip was about a
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17-year-old employee at that Steakhouse
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his name Robert Denny when Jacksonville
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police do some digging they discover
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some very strange things about the
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teenager shortly after Cory Parker's
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death he was acting very bizarre at work
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he was crying he was sulking he claimed
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that his son had died in Texas and he
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needed to get back to that location but
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he didn't have the
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money so employees of that Steakhouse
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donated money to get a flight
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back but when he left he never came
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[Music]
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back Robert Denny doesn't have a son he
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only wants to get out of Jacksonville
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Beach and guess where he's living during
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holiday season
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1998 he lived in a second story
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building next to Cy
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Parker from his vantage point in his
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apartment he could look into her Windows
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of her
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[Music]
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apartment Robert had confided in several
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co-workers that he used to look through
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from his window down into Cory Parker's
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window
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the fact that he left so sudden and
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never returned indicated to me that he
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had something he was hiding he was
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running from
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something the detectiv speak to Robert
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Denny's sister whom he was living with
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at the time of the
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murder she describes Robert as being a
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very strange
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person she says that at one point in
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time she woke up to find him above her
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beds just staring at her as she slept
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this was so upsetting to her that she
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asked him to move
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out detectives learn Robert Denny has
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moved to e Maryland they contact local
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police there for help I reviewed our CAD
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system which is our system that we
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control all our reports and complaints
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the review turns up a hit for a domestic
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disturbance we had actually had an
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incident with him a couple weeks
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prior he had moved him with a
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50-year-old
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woman he had befriended this woman
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online in a poker chat room and uh the
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domestic argument is sued between her
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her husband and him detective Miller
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uses that domestic incident as a pretext
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for paying a visit to the residents so I
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one knocked on the door and the woman
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that he was living with she answered the
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door I asked her if Robert was
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there when I did he came around the
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corner and introduced himself
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they invited me in the house we sat and
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we talked gave them the basic hey it's
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everything good now and has anyone been
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fighting since that day and any
00:26:44
injuries the woman tells detective
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Miller there's been no violence since
00:26:48
her husband moved out she says her two
00:26:51
children are still living in the
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residence and and uh I left and came
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back and contacted Jacksonville Beach
00:27:04
and said okay we got him he's here when
00:27:06
are you coming to get them Jacksonville
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police do not have enough PC probable
00:27:13
cause for an arrest warrant they joined
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forces with Eastern Maryland police to
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investigate Robert
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Demi and what they discover about his
00:27:24
family history is extremely alarming
00:27:29
Robert Denny's older brother was
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actually serving a life
00:27:36
sentence for a murder that was eerily
00:27:39
similar to that of Cory Parker Robert's
00:27:42
brother had been just 15 years old when
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he committed his
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crime he was a paper boy on a paper
00:27:51
route she opened up the door turned to
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give him a payment and he attacked her
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and that murder involves stabbing the
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victim
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96
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times Jacksonville Beach Florida 1998
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while Cory Parker's happily baking pies
00:28:19
for Thanksgiving someone with a murder
00:28:22
on his mind is watching the beautiful
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25-year-old fast forward two years later
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police believe a man named Robert Denny
00:28:34
is involved detectives must match DNA
00:28:37
found at the scene to Denny to do that
00:28:41
they need a DNA sample from Denny to
00:28:44
compare to DNA from the murder
00:28:51
scene the two detectives from down in
00:28:54
Jacksonville Beach that were assigned to
00:28:56
Cold Case was a sergeant bill carile and
00:28:58
detective Katie
00:29:00
Kingston Katie Billy myself Jim you know
00:29:04
we get in the room and we're just
00:29:05
talking about you know what can we do to
00:29:08
try to get the DNA from Robert
00:29:10
Denny we came up with this ruse of the
00:29:13
serious assault in his neighborhood so
00:29:15
we needed to exclude him as a
00:29:18
suspect it was false it was a fake crime
00:29:21
the whole purpose was to get him into
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the office to talk to him and see if I
00:29:26
can collect his DNA
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so I reached out to Robert and told him
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hey look I'm investigating an assault
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that took place around 3:00
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a.m. and that the
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suspect kind of matched his description
00:29:47
and I was wondering if he could come in
00:29:48
and talk to
00:29:51
me Robert Denny voluntarily comes to the
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east police station for an interview
00:29:58
he sat down and I asked him a series of
00:30:01
questions and the whole time with Robert
00:30:04
I was playing the bumbling idiot you
00:30:06
know uh where's my pen what oh it's here
00:30:09
so he felt very at ease with me to the
00:30:13
point where he I'm pretty sure he felt
00:30:15
he was controlling this whole
00:30:17
thing I started asking him questions
00:30:20
about this alleged
00:30:21
crime he said I didn't have anything to
00:30:24
do with it I was home I was in bed I I
00:30:26
wasn't out they asked him for a sample
00:30:30
of his DNA under the guise that it has
00:30:32
to do with this assault
00:30:36
case as soon as I said DNA he went from
00:30:39
a position like this where he was very
00:30:41
open he was jovial to he crossed his
00:30:45
legs he folded his arms and he literally
00:30:47
pushed away from
00:30:50
me so he said I'd rather not do that
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detectives cannot get Robert Denny to
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volunteer to give a DNA sample their
00:31:01
next step to get that sample without
00:31:04
Denny ever
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knowing I had bottles of water brought
00:31:09
in he was given a bottle I had a bottle
00:31:12
they offered him some water and then he
00:31:15
opened a water bottle but he never took
00:31:17
a
00:31:18
drink detectives get more creative for
00:31:21
their second attemp at obtaining Denny's
00:31:25
DNA so I looked at Robert I said look I
00:31:27
said said I really need a cigarette do
00:31:29
you smoke he says yeah and I lit a
00:31:32
cigarette he lit a cigarette I smoked my
00:31:34
cigarette I put it out in the
00:31:37
aster he smoked his cigarette put it out
00:31:41
put the cigarette butt behind his
00:31:43
ear police try yet
00:31:48
again so I typed out a little letter and
00:31:52
the letter said that at this particular
00:31:54
point I refus to give a DNA sample
00:31:58
however I reserved my right to give one
00:32:01
after talking to my
00:32:02
lawyer so I typed it out he signed it he
00:32:06
folded it up I asked him put it in an
00:32:08
envelope and seal the envelope and he
00:32:10
stopped and he looked at me he says
00:32:11
that's the third thing you want my lips
00:32:13
to be
00:32:14
on the water
00:32:17
bottle the
00:32:19
cigarette and now this you want to seal
00:32:23
you seal
00:32:24
it he asked if he was free to go the
00:32:27
officer said yes and then he left police
00:32:30
are now back to square one Robert Denny
00:32:33
is outright defiant in all their efforts
00:32:36
to get his DNA when you're involved with
00:32:39
something like that you know the old
00:32:40
saying is trust your instincts in your
00:32:42
gut and that's important I mean because
00:32:44
you'll feel something when it's not
00:32:46
right we have an agency from another
00:32:49
state come to us needing our help to
00:32:52
catch a killer from their jurisdiction
00:32:55
who killed a young woman in a brutal
00:32:57
fashion
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and it's pressure to not let anyone down
00:33:02
not let the family down of the victim
00:33:03
first of all and and the voiceless
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victim being Miss
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Parker now East police must try more
00:33:12
covert attempts to get Robert Denny's
00:33:16
DNA we were detailed to do
00:33:20
surveillance we were looking for those
00:33:22
opportunities that he would become
00:33:25
careless when we were doing surveillance
00:33:27
at the resid where he was staying we
00:33:29
were looking to see if he would put his
00:33:30
trash out to the curb like every other
00:33:31
person in America would normally do on
00:33:34
trash date but he wasn't doing that he
00:33:37
would load him up in in this little
00:33:39
pickup truck and he would take it to the
00:33:40
dump he was a very nervous and paranoid
00:33:43
individual detectiv take out the
00:33:45
computer store where Robert Denny Works
00:33:48
they now believe it's their only chance
00:33:50
to get a DNA sample from
00:33:53
Denny spit up to two surveillance teams
00:33:57
and we in a van that was blacked
00:34:01
out me and my partner at the time we
00:34:03
were out of a card using binoculars in a
00:34:06
video camera keeping an eye on front and
00:34:08
back of the business you know moving
00:34:10
around not to be seen continuously you
00:34:14
feel the pressure anytime you're doing
00:34:15
anything undercover there's that
00:34:17
inherent risk and it becomes
00:34:19
nerve-wracking we were about 200 yard
00:34:22
away from the rear entrance of where he
00:34:25
worked at
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every 15 20 minutes we saw Robert coming
00:34:31
out of the building and when he came out
00:34:33
of the building he would start
00:34:35
smoking he would always look around he
00:34:37
was real nervous and he would smok a
00:34:40
cigarette and he put it
00:34:43
out put it in his
00:34:48
pocket he did that all day all day it
00:34:52
became obvious that he was
00:34:55
protecting from leaving any evidence
00:35:01
at that point we were like man this is
00:35:03
crazy he's Keen he's Savvy he knows what
00:35:07
DNA is all about we were like you know
00:35:11
there's probably no way that we're
00:35:12
getting this guy's
00:35:15
DNA although Robert was so careful not
00:35:18
to leave his DNA when the investigators
00:35:22
are following him and keeping an eye on
00:35:24
him he has this habit of repeatedly spit
00:35:31
on the third day he smoked a cigarette
00:35:33
did his cigarette
00:35:35
routine but as soon as he got done
00:35:38
smoking he did the one thing that none
00:35:40
of us expected and to this day I'm not
00:35:43
even sure if he realized he did
00:35:46
it he spit on the ground seven
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times this is the moment eastn police
00:35:54
have been waiting for they may never get
00:35:57
another
00:35:59
chance and one of the surano teams was
00:36:01
able to see where he spit so that after
00:36:04
Robert dny left that area they're able
00:36:05
to go right to that area and without any
00:36:08
doubt see it's still on on the pavement
00:36:11
and was able to collect it it was his
00:36:14
spit it was no one else's spit there's
00:36:17
no chance of um
00:36:20
cross-contamination that was an
00:36:21
unbelievable point in the investigation
00:36:24
a huge break for us was a huge win you
00:36:27
know for us to be able to you know
00:36:29
obtain that
00:36:31
sample and uh they sent it off to the
00:36:33
lab and we're waiting I'm waiting I'm
00:36:39
waiting finally the DNA results come
00:36:42
back that Slava matched with the DNA
00:36:47
that was recovered at the crime scene of
00:36:50
Jacksonville and that was the touchdown
00:36:53
everybody wanted the whole team was very
00:36:55
excited KD call me and said we got a
00:36:58
positive
00:37:00
hit when you come wow it's not that
00:37:04
simple what do you mean it's not that
00:37:06
simple we got a DNA head on this
00:37:09
guy he's your
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killer Jacksonville Beach Florida two
00:37:21
years after her murder Justice for Corey
00:37:24
Parker seems Within Reach the beautiful
00:37:28
young woman stabbed 101 times in her own
00:37:33
apartment but now police have a DNA
00:37:36
match from the murder scene to a man
00:37:39
named Robert Denny police believe the
00:37:42
match guarantees an indictment but of
00:37:45
course there's a hitch the state
00:37:48
prosecutor decided that she didn't want
00:37:51
to charge him yet because he could
00:37:54
explain that DNA away the detectives
00:37:57
need to establish that Robert Denny was
00:38:00
not in Corey's apartment at any point
00:38:03
prior to her
00:38:05
murder you know because he could say Hey
00:38:07
you know Cory and I were friends and I
00:38:09
went over and we watch TV together or
00:38:11
something so we needed that denial that
00:38:14
he was ever in the
00:38:16
apartment the detective they have to get
00:38:19
him to say that he was never in that
00:38:23
apartment Jacksonville detectives
00:38:25
returned to Maryland to work on a plan
00:38:27
with Easton police detective Katie
00:38:30
Kingston will wear a wire and talk to
00:38:33
Robert
00:38:35
Denny they believed that Robert Denny
00:38:38
felt very overconfident with women so
00:38:42
Katie decided to go up there and play
00:38:46
clueless she walks up to the house
00:38:48
knocks on the door he answers you know
00:38:50
she goes through the whole introduction
00:38:51
of hey I'm Katie Kingston I'm a
00:38:52
detective from Jacksonville I'm working
00:38:54
on this this homicide that happened down
00:38:56
there and you know goes into you know
00:38:59
I've been sent up here to to do a
00:39:01
followup on the case you know and I
00:39:03
wanted to reach out did you ever live in
00:39:05
jackonville you know that kind of thing
00:39:08
I'm sitting about a block away listening
00:39:11
on The Wire she put up such a good
00:39:15
act uh you know how you have a script
00:39:18
and in this script you'll have Direction
00:39:21
well in her case her script said do you
00:39:25
know Cory Parker show him pictur
00:39:28
and she literally said do you know Cory
00:39:31
Parker show him picture do you know Cory
00:39:34
Parker or ever talk to her show
00:39:37
picture that's Cory Parker yeah so she
00:39:41
asked him several questions did you know
00:39:45
Cory
00:39:47
Parker no I've seen her but I don't know
00:39:50
her did you ever drive to her apartment
00:39:52
you never went to her apartment no and
00:39:55
she walked off and I'm just rolled
00:39:58
cuz now we got
00:39:59
them so she came back we high-fived we
00:40:02
went back she called the state's
00:40:05
attorney I start typing out a search
00:40:07
warrant to actually go into the house
00:40:10
and snatch him you're listen to that
00:40:12
wire and you hear that Deni that's you
00:40:14
know that's
00:40:15
huge you know you're on track once that
00:40:17
DNA matches DNA is your DNA it's no one
00:40:26
else's the State's Attorney was happy
00:40:29
with what she got issued the arrest
00:40:31
warrant so we walked up locked on the
00:40:34
door he opened the door search warant
00:40:36
you're under
00:40:38
arrest and as I'm reading this to him
00:40:41
you could start seeing the light bulb
00:40:43
going off in his head but he thinks that
00:40:46
he pulled the wo over her eyes and that
00:40:50
was his downfall that's when we got him
00:40:53
his DNA
00:40:57
it it was
00:40:59
great it was
00:41:02
great I have enough physical
00:41:04
evidence um to charge you with
00:41:09
another of
00:41:12
cor and I am going to charge you with
00:41:16
the mother or father what Happ you that
00:41:19
is wo I didn't do this I didn't murder
00:41:24
anybody you can't have any evidence if
00:41:27
is possible because I didn't do I can't
00:41:30
admit I he started right away saying you
00:41:34
got the wrong person I just want you to
00:41:36
tell me the truth
00:41:40
okay telling me you can not
00:41:44
have anything
00:41:50
me I look your eyes I didn't you s
00:42:03
Robert Denny goes to trial
00:42:08
2005 in court the prosecution describes
00:42:12
in detail the gruesome murder scene I
00:42:16
found out what happened to
00:42:17
her and
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00:42:29
sorry seeing you know what he did to her
00:42:32
we stopped Corey 101 times and the way
00:42:36
he kind of posed her a certain
00:42:39
way I almost feel that was cuz he wanted
00:42:43
her boyfriend to find her like that or
00:42:45
something you know just gross evil
00:42:50
nasty
00:42:53
um we often you know say rest in peace
00:42:57
peace but there's no doubt in my mind
00:42:59
she did not leave in peace this wasn't a
00:43:02
peaceful way to depart this
00:43:08
world I've seen some evil people do some
00:43:11
terrible things and this is this is a
00:43:13
prime example that's an evil
00:43:17
person Miss Cory I didn't kill Cory
00:43:19
Parker how did your forcibly removed
00:43:23
hair get on her bloody rolled up
00:43:25
underwear next to her father
00:43:27
I don't know the trial was week long
00:43:30
when defense rested jury went into
00:43:33
deliberation and 20 minutes later came
00:43:35
out with a full guilty verdict we the
00:43:38
jury find a defendant guilty of murder
00:43:40
in the first degree as charged in the
00:43:42
indictment we the jury further find that
00:43:44
the killing was done with premeditation
00:43:46
Robert Denny was convicted of
00:43:48
first-degree murder sentenced to life of
00:43:50
no Patrol it's it's a big win it's huge
00:43:53
and it's a a good sense of
00:43:54
accomplishment when you when you're able
00:43:56
to do that
00:43:58
it was a huge
00:43:59
relief for many
00:44:02
reasons he's off the street now can
00:44:04
never hurt somebody cuz I think he would
00:44:06
have he's that kind of evil doesn't just
00:44:10
go
00:44:14
away Robert Denny is just a 17-year-old
00:44:18
minor when he murders Corey Parker and
00:44:21
therefore he avoids the death penalty
00:44:27
the Thanksgiving season although it's a
00:44:29
time to spend with your family and loved
00:44:32
ones this can add a lot of stress to a
00:44:34
person somebody that is mentally fragile
00:44:38
already this could be the thing that
00:44:40
sort of pushes them over that edge this
00:44:43
type of
00:44:44
tragedy should never have happened for
00:44:47
it to happen on a
00:44:51
holiday Tain that holiday for that
00:44:54
family forever
00:44:57
you know they're not going to remember
00:45:00
Thanksgiving as a day of
00:45:05
joy you they're going to remember
00:45:08
Thanksgiving is the day that Corey
00:45:13
died with each passing season Amy Laden
00:45:17
and Corey's family can look back on Cory
00:45:20
Parker's life with love and gratitude
00:45:24
for the time they had with her
00:45:28
I have great memories of her you know
00:45:30
she taught me a
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00:45:33
lot our last Thanksgiving together is
00:45:36
very special to me and I'll never forget
00:45:38
it that's for sure we had wonderful
00:45:40
friends we were hanging out with and
00:45:44
I'll cherish that moment for the rest of
00:45:45
my life a beautiful and vibrant young
00:45:49
woman so loved by family and
00:45:52
friends now the victim of a truly sens
00:45:57
less and brutal murder still Cory
00:46:01
Parker's love of Life fuels a memory of
00:46:05
her a memory that will never go away a
00:46:10
memory that will never
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fade I'm iy Grace thank you for joining
00:46:16
us here on the Christmas killings
00:46:23
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