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no one in this quiet residential
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Community saw or heard anything unusual
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on the day a neighbor was brutally
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attacked but a store's security camera a
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fingerprint and forensic computer
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analysis helped to identify a suspect in
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another state within 12 hours of the
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crime
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in
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1997 escaline theard moved to a
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residential neighborhood in Knoxville
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Tennessee she lived just a few blocks
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away from her daughter and
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Grandson so as soon as I became pregnant
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she moved to Knoxville to be with me she
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was very family oriented she liked being
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with her
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children the area was virtually Crime
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Free if you were to match up the
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different sectors of this County I think
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most everybody in KN County would agree
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with you that it's one of the safest
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places in our County they were all
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families lots of children in their
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neighborhood nice yards picket fence you
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know the the the quintessential
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American story very nice escaline worked
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at home using her computer to type
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medical transcriptions for the
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University of
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Kentucky she spent the rest of her free
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time with her family my mother saw my
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child every day and they talked on the
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phone numerous times she she would miss
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him she'd have to walk the two blocks
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from her house to to my house because
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she said I need I you know I need a
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grant fix I've got to I've got to be
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with
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him late in the afternoon on August 20th
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2001 Liz realized she hadn't heard from
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her mother since talking to her that
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morning she always called me around 5
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5:30 if she wasn't at my house she would
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always at least call around 5 right
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before dinner 5 or 530 and I hadn't
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heard from her so around
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um 6:30 I began to get
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concerned calls to eskalene's home went
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unanswered and weren't picked up by her
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answering machine so I got in my car and
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drove to her house and her door was
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locked and the blinds were closed my
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mother loved light this
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looks different so I used my key to walk
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in
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and that's when I found her on the
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floor her mother had been
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murdered was the door locked when you
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came in yes things are just all over the
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place
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and her uh wallet is out of her purse
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and this credit card screwn all over the
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floor there like they gone through
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things the phone was unplugged down here
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that's why answer Mach to pick up and
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they through cabinets and and her back
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windows closed
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mama
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mama
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oh the house had been ransacked and it
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appeared as if someone had gone through
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eskalene's
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jewelry the bruises and cuts on her
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hands and arms were defensive wounds
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indicating she had fought her
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attacker eskalene's wallet was empty and
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while some of her credit cards were
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found on the carpet most of them were
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missing I took everything out of the
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wallet took time to look at every little
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piece of paper in the wallet and found
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the pin code numbers for the credit
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cards investigators found no signs of
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forced entry it told us it was
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possibility that she knew the person or
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that for some reason they surprised her
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at the front of the house and that the
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door was opened for whoever this was
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well I really didn't know uh first
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impression would be someone that she
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knew uh because of no forced entry but
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eskalene's daughter didn't believe it
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she was so reserved so she was very
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quiet and again a very very um um
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easygoing person I I couldn't I could
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never imagine anybody knowing her um
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anybody she knew would want to hurt her
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in the kitchen investigators found a
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soda can a drinking glass and a
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cigarette butt on the
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floor this perpetrator had spent uh a
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considerable amount of time in uh the
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residence had taken time to um uh eat
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some food and and drink some coal or and
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just was in control Liz also told
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detectives her mother's car was missing
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we were able to relay to other agencies
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throughout the area to be on the lookout
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for her vehicle because we only could
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assume that whoever had murdered escal
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board also had her vehicle investigators
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canvased the whole neighborhood but no
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one had heard or seen anything
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unusual in a matter of probably 20
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minutes of of uh my arriving on the
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scene uh I had somewhere in neighborhood
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of 60 to 65 people working on that crime
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unfortunately if it's not solved within
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a 24hour after the fact uh things can
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happen very quickly evidence can be
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destroyed the case is getting cold very
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quickly in time they would discover an
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important clue inside escaline the
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board's
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computer there were no signs of forced
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entry at escaline De board's home but
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her daughter Liz told police that her
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mother often left her front door
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unlocked was trying to make it easier
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for me if I had something in my hands or
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I was holding my son I could just come
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in and not have to fiddle with keys and
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thinking about me there were plenty of
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clues in the town housee we found
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lighton Prince U on two glasses the
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location of the prce on the glasses led
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us to believe or did confirm
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that someone had upold of the top of the
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glasses carrying those in there the
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prints were entered into the automated
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fingerprint identification system known
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as aphys and compared to millions of
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prints in a nationwide
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database the search did not immediately
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produce a match sometimes it takes uh a
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matter of hours maybe even days cuz
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you're looking at several million
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entries the biological samples from the
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rape test kit were sent to the forensics
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lab for
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testing first the sample was placed into
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a vial with the stain extraction buffer
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which breaks down all nonbiological
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particles and proteins surrounding the
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DNA phenolchloroform was then added
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allowing the DNA to congeal
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and this was analyzed using a polymerase
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Chain Reaction
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test the result was believed to be the
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Killer's DNA
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profile next forensic analysts examined
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eskalene's computer and with the help of
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her employer's Mainframe computer found
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an important
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clue when we looked at ES de's computer
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we discovered that she had sent out an
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email at 12:21 the day that she uh was
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found
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dead that led us to believe that she was
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alive and obviously had been working on
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her computer prior to whoever had
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entered her home before she had contact
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with them and investigators found
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evidence that eskalene's computer had
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automatically logged off 3 minutes after
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sending that
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email that meant that the time of her
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death was sometime after
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12:30 we were trying to get a time frame
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for uh the death itself uh we were also
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trying at the same time to learn if
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there was anything out of uh the normal
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in the
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community neighbors told police there
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were magazine salesmen going door Todo
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on the afternoon of eskalene's
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murder many people relayed to us that
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these people had been in their their res
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residents or in their subdivision during
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the time of 11: in the morning up till
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almost 4:00 p.m. local ordinances
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require sales organizations to have
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permits for each and every salesman
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selling door Todo but there had been no
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permits granted to any sales groups that
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week Sheriff Tim Hutcherson knew that
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traveling sales groups from out of state
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usually stay at local
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motels typically a company van would
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pick them up at the motel in the morning
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take them to a neighborhood to sell door
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too and then take them back to the motel
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at the end of the day we've had problems
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in the past with some of these people uh
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being very pushy trying to push
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themselves in on on women uh and getting
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in arguments or fights and uh so that
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set an alarm Bell off the minute that
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the word came back to us at the scene
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that there were some magazine salesmen
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in the neighborhood that
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afternoon detectives canvased several
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local motels but turned up
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nothing back at the crime scene
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investigators followed another lead
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eskalene's wallet was empty and her
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daughter told them it was normally full
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of credit
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cards detectives thought the Intruder
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may have stolen them and tried to use
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them we started looking through um the
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drawers trying to find past bills which
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would have those credit card numbers on
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them which companies that they were with
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and so by doing that uh we found which
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cards were missing police asked the bank
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to notify them if anyone tried using one
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of those stolen cards they never dreamt
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that the killer would walk right into
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their
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trap only a few hours after escaline de
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board's murder officials at her bank
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told police that someone tried to use
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one of her credit cards at an ATM at a
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local gas station we retrieved about I
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think $80 or so out of the
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ATM detectives checked the ATM
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surveillance video they saw a tall thin
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man wearing a white shirt and black tie
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standing at the machine for 8
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minutes afterwards he picked up a drink
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and went to the counter to pay for it it
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appeared that he was asking the the
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store clerk for
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directions whoever used esing de board's
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card was dressed wearing the white shirt
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and black tie led us to believe that it
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was one of the mag magazine salesmen who
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in fact had been in her residence all
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the neighbors we spoke to said the
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magazine salesman that came to the
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residents were wearing white shirts
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black ties detectives questioned the
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store clerk and she clearly remembered
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the customer he told her he was from New
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York City and asked for directions to
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the motel on Paper Mill
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Road police went immediately to the
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motel and they spotted two Vans similar
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to those used to transport the traveling
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salesman across the street police also
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saw escaline the board's car which was
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immediately processed for
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fingerprints when we spoke with the
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magazine salesman that were at the
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Super8 we discovered that one of the
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magazine salesmen didn't show up for
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their pickup point at 400 p.m.
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that salesman was
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21-year-old Roger
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Broadway when we first spoke with the
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manager of the magazine salesman he was
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reluctant to give us information when
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the sheriff threatened to impound his
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Vans the supervisor changed his mind he
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started telling us that there was one
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individual that worked for him that was
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from New York City that had got word
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that his relatives were sick and he
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immediately needed to leave to go back
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back home the manager admitted that they
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recruited salesmen with criminal records
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but claimed that they were
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rehabilitated the manager of the
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magazine salesman told us that many of
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the people that they hire are from
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halfway houses and inner cities just to
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give them the opportunity to make some
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money and get out of the city Roger
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Broadway told his employer that he had a
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family emergency and needed to go back
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to New York City
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immediately the manager took Roger
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Broadway to the bus station purchased
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him a bus ticket and sent him on a bus
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back to New York police knew they needed
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to catch Broadway before he got off that
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bus if he had made it back to New York
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where it was
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from uh it' be really impossible to find
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him there he's on home turf then and
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those people if they know you're after
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them they can hide out for for long
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sometime long periods of time he he
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would have went underground I'm sure a
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background check revealed that Roger
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Broadway had served a prison term for
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aggravated
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robbery detectives checked with the bus
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company and were told the bus would take
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Interstate Highway 81 to New
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York and they also told police exactly
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where the bus would be during its
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Journey shortly after midnight police
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asked Sheriff's officers in Virginia to
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try to intercept that
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bus sheriff's deputies were able to
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catch up with the bus they believed was
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carrying Roger Broadway on Interstate 81
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in Virginia when they pulled the bus
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over and Sheriff's walked on board Roger
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Broadway surrendered without
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incident in his luggage investigate ERS
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found bloody clothing escaline deo's
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engagement ring and her car key he held
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something in his pocket that my mother
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wore and it was violating I guess the
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experience I had was it was a very
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violating experience that he would even
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touch something that was hers that
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touched her I suppose Broadway's
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fingerprints were compared to those on
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the drinking glass at the crime scene
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and on eskalene's car window a computer
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program identified small shapes within
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the fingerprints called minutia shown
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here in green
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squares hundreds of these points matched
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those prints belong to the suspect Roger
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Broadway investigators took a blood
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sample from Broadway for DNA testing as
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expected Broadway's DNA profile matched
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the biological samples at the crime
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scene
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the scientist told us that uh the odds
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of this being incorrect the odds were
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greater than the population of the
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world based on the forensic evidence
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prosecutors believe Broadway entered
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escaline de board's unlocked townhouse
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intending to burglarize it not knowing
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she was upstairs
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escaline was working upstairs on her
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computer and she sent her last email at
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12:21 the computer logged off 3 minutes
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later escaline must have heard someone
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downstairs and gone to
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investigate think you're doing
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there
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no after a scuffle Broadway killed
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escaline then cut the telephone
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cords before he left Broadway helped
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himself to a soda and
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cigarettes he took eskalene's credit
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cards and her car then drove to the ATM
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for cash and
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directions he never realized the store's
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security camera normally used to prevent
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robbery in this case helped solve a
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murder
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Broadway then ditched the car told his
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supervisor he needed to leave town and
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took the first bust in New York
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City I suspect a number of our more
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senior citizens that live alone uh would
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have been terrified uh that there was a
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Madman on the loose so uh we we were
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very fortunate that we didn't have to
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live through that and Tred to calm the
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fears of a number of our citizens here
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when he saw the amount of forensic
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evidence Roger Broadway pled guilty to
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murder and aggravated robbery in return
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he was sentenced to life in prison
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without parole plus 50
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years Roger Bradway showed no remorse
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for what he had done and to me I think
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he received the the best penalty that
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was available to him and I hope he has
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the rest of his life to think about
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that Liz noing wears her mother's
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engagement ring to keep the memory of
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her always with
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her I love
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you and I miss
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you that's about the only thing I can
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say to my mom right now or I wish you
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were
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here but she says she will not allow a
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killer to ruin what remains of her
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family I don't want my son to remember
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him his grandmother that way and I don't
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want to remember my mother that way I
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want to remember her how she lived I
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don't want to remember her how she
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died officials in Tennessee have
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introduced legislation to regulate
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companies who use convicted felons as
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door-to-door
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salesman no one here knew that that this
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convicted violent felon was in our
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neighborhood uh selling and working and
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so I we would like to see a law on the
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books where the people
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must register with local law enforcement
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if they have a criminal
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record I would like to feel as though I
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had something to do with changing the
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industry and making it safer so if
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someone does knock on your door they are
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licensed and bonded and they have
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identification with their picture on it
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even if those laws were to be passed
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detectives warn people to be extremely
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careful when dealing with door-to-door
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salesmen you don't know their
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backgrounds you don't know what they're
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capable of you really don't know what
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their attentions are once they get into
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your home so I would strongly advise not
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allowing people into your residence that
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you don't know they'll lock your doors I
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don't care where you live how safe it is
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this is a safe Community where uh
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murders never occur but it did here
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forensic computer analysis DNA testing
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fingerprint analysis and the store
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security camera all work together to
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solve a case within 12 hours of the
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crime the collection of that evidence
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the way it was collected here the way it
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was preserved
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maintain uh is a textbook example of how
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uh any investigation in particularly a
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homicide investigation should be run
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thank goodness thank goodness that we do
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that we have the technology and the
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tools to be able to do that so it's
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essential that that that the forensics
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the science is a part of the process
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War
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[Applause]
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oh
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