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Prince georgees County 911 Center what
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is your
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emergency ma'am I've been shot my mother
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had been shot I'm bleeding for
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that I was
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imagining how she had to have felt in
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that in that predicament
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it's just heartbreaking to be a
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16-year-old girl a monster like that
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comes in and takes your life from
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you Jason Scott was uh an
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extraordinarily dangerous criminal who
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masqueraded as an ordinary person he's
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saying to you criminal justice system I
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am smarter than
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you if you feel like somebody is
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watching you they are
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I'm successful at doing it why
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stop it don't cross your mind that sick
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people like that
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exists my life was
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perfect
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before before everything happened
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Upper Marboro a suburb 20 mi east of
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Washington
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DC is home to the Lofton
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family Dad
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Kirk mom
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Karen two sons Kirk Jr and
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Keon and daughter
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Carissa my daughter was a very inspiring
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very
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beautiful a gift she was a
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gift she went through some struggles she
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had an open heart surgery because she
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had something going on with the valve in
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her heart and everything and she bounced
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right back like it was nothing and me
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she was very
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strong I am Keon
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Lofton kin L was my
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mother Carissa was my younger
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sister my mother was a really caring
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person she was in the nursing field as
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long as I can remember I remember uh us
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being a little child and going with her
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to um to work with her and um just all
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the love that she would get from her um
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co-workers she was probably one of the
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best nurses of her
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time Carissa's personality um at that
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around that age was typical teenage girl
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she was still trying to figure herself
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out
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Pleasant kind person you can see her
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modeling after the characteristics and
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values and things that my mother
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instilled in all of us and you can just
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see the trajectory of the type of woman
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that she was going to
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become in 2008 Kirk moves away after his
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marriage to Karen breaks down I moved to
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Georgia in 2008 I was
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remarried still Reign the contact with
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my daughter matter of fact that she was
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supposed to move down here and go to
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college Prince George's County 911
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Center what is your
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emergency ma'am I've been s me my mother
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has been shot I'm bleeding for
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that slow down what's the
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address you know if we need any kind of
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Testament to Carissa's
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courage this is a young teenager a
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16-year-old who has been involved in a
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home invasion which is one of the most
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terrifying things anybody can imagine
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she's been shot and she has the kind of
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strength of mind to call
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911 while she's bleeding and to report
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to them that she has been shot her mom
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has been shot and she tells the operator
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you know I'm bleeding to death please
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hurry unfortunately the phone is hung up
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um and by the time they get there it's
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too
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late so the night of the everything when
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everything happened I was at my
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girlfriend's
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house my mother-in-law now um told me
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that two women have been
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found um killed on our Street and she
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told me to call and cheat with my my
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mother and sister so I called and nobody
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answered um so I kept calling I kept
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calling and nobody answered so I just I
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just got up and left and started you
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know got in my car I was driving it had
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to be about 2 3:00 in the
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morning got there to the house probably
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about a 10 minute
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drive police kind of had like the street
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blocked off whatever and I got out I was
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trying to um trying to see who it was
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and a police officer or detective asked
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who I was and I was told him my name and
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he said okay we got the sun uh right
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here and I just broke down them because
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I I knew it came to realization that
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okay it was
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them I was in the room sleep and my son
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my oldest son Kirk junor he called me at
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probably you know 3:00 in the morning 4:
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in the morning something like that he
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was crying and I said what's wrong he
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said um have you talked to Keon
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yet Ma and Karissa got
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killed the first thing that I thought
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was they got into a car accident or
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something like that and but then he said
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um they were
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shot I immediately got off the home with
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him and I called my other son my younger
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son and he told me that they somebody
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came into our house and the the family
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house and and killed both of
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them it's
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just um just heartbreaking to be a
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16year old girl and be in the comfort of
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your own bed and a monster like that
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comes in and takes your life from
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you I was
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imagining how she had to felt in that in
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that predicament somebody storming in
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you know shooting shooting you and you
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have to you know call a 911 trying to
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get somebody to save you is you know
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it's it's
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heartbreaking with no signs of forced
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entry the police suspect the murders
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have been committed by someone with
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access to the lofton's
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home they kind of step by and go okay
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what do we do we start from the
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innermost Circle and we work our way
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out most often sadly those are the
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perpetrators one of the first persons to
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come on the radar is uh Carissa's older
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brother
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Keon honestly I didn't know why I was in
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a police car I had no idea it was
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everything was a a immediate shock right
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there from they remember being in the
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interrogation room did your mom set the
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alarm for the house mhm okay all the
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time every day every time would you have
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hurt your mom and sister
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no you wouldn't have hurt your mom and
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sister at all and I remember them
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letting me come out to like one of the
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one of their desks and letting me hear
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like a snippet of the 911 call ma'am
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I've been shot my mother has been shot
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I'm bleeding for that
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anybody who's who's getting accused of
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anything they're not they haven't done
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um they're going to be
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upset when I'm in an interrogation room
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and I'm
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hearing um them accusing me and I'm just
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trying to process like did this really
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happen like did my mother and sister
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really just get know
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murdered are you guys really accusing me
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of doing this everything just felt like
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a like a nightmare or a dream like it
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just felt really surreal I knew a th%
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wasn't
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me they didn't know what to think they
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didn't know anything about who this
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person was got no fingerprints there was
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no forced
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entry and all of a sudden here it is the
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48 hours have passed which of course is
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often the critical period for getting
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that first lead and they're sitting
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there kind of going we have no idea and
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if you're going down the wrong road with
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that you've allowed the individual to
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perhaps clean up the case to perhaps
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even be further away from the case so
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it's very important those first initial
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hours of any case that you hope the
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investigators are on the right
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path Kirk and Keon begin to develop
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their own theories about what
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happened I know how safe the Karen was
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and Karen would not let anyone in that
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house at 2:36 in the morning without she
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would have the L alarm on they said the
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alarm was
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disengaged she took that really
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seriously you know when I would leave
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out she would make sure the back door is
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locked things of that so you make sure
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the window is locked she was always a
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stickler for those things but I I'm
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pretty sure I thought that okay somebody
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forced her to put the alarm in it's it's
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no it's no other
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explanation at the time of the lofton's
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murders a burglar is successfully
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evading capture in the neighborhood
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Jason Scott came across as very mild
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mannered he held a part-time job with a
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package delivery
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service it wasn't viewed as being
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dangerous by his friends and family so
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he was uh uh you know somebody who
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masqueraded as an ordinary
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person Jason Scott was somebody who
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seemed to have a lot of
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potential he was somebody who had a
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college degree he was somebody who
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worked at UPS so he was somebody who at
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least on the surface seemed to be
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somebody who really had his act
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together 27-year-old Jason Scott has two
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master's
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degrees and until recently was unknown
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to
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authorities he had started committing
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robberies uh in his at least as a
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teenager and perhaps early 20s uh and
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had graduated from committing robberies
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of unoccupied houses to home invasion
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robberies and violent crime
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so at the same time that that Jason
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Scott was living this kind of law
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abiding life on the surface this is
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somebody who in the privacy of his own
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home seemed to be absolutely obsessed
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with crime with forensics with
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understanding how to get away with
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crime one of the notable things about Mr
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Scott uh is the clothing and tools that
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he used during his criminal activities
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so he dressed like a criminal he would
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dress all in black uh he wore black
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gloves he carried a Black Backpack so he
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dressed like a
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thief Jason Scott spent hours of his
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life thinking about crime learning about
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crime learning about forensic techniques
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almost considered him himself like a Dr
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Jackal and Mr Hyde I would imagine to
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some extent he feels kind of this sense
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of impunity like or the sense that I'm
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untouchable nobody's going to catch
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me another thing that stands out about
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Jason Scott is he was an incredibly
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diverse
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criminal So Not only was he interested
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in burglary in home
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invasions he was interested in peeping
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he was interested in cruising the
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neighborhood and taking pictures of
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people in the privacy of their own homes
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who had no idea what he was
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doing it's not uncommon for that to
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progress to breaking into a home to some
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kind of sexual offense so this
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progression is a natural part that we as
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criminologists are concerned about with
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any crime that someone does does it then
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have an opportunity to develop to make
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that person a a criminal a criminal that
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is looking for a
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career I'm doing it I'm successful at
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doing it why
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stop the murders of mother and daughter
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Karen and Carissa Lofton have shocked
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this respectable Washington
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suburb there's a Spate of burglaries too
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but the police are yet to track down the
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perpetrators 2 months later another
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murder is called
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in my name is Courtney Hicks my mother
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is Dolores DT and my sister is Ebony
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DT my life was
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perfect
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before before everything
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happened my mom was the kindest person
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that I ever met she was always there for
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me even still after everything that's
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had happened to me in my life because of
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how my mom taught me to believe in
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myself my sister was someone I could
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always depend on I could always count on
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just as well as my
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mom I missed him so much so
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when I got
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home I like I don't remember if I had to
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disable our alarm or not but I just go
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in the house and I see my sister's uh
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jacket on the back of the
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chair everything just looked normal it
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just looked like they just weren't there
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my mom's car was in the driveway
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everything looked normal it just they
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just weren't there
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I go upstairs and I go in my sister's
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room it wasn't no bleach spot on my
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sister's floor so that kind of like
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struck me like okay maybe ebony did come
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home she probably dropped some bleach or
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something in when I got into my bedroom
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I just like sat down on my
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bed that's when I got the feeling that
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you need to get out of this
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house I've run out the house I get in
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her car and I go to my boyfriend at the
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time's house and when I got to him I'm
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just calling my mom and this is like now
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probably going on um it was
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late and still no
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response the following day Courtney
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hears that her mother and sister have
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been
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murdered their bodies are found in a
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stolen car that was then set on fire at
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a different address
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police identifi Dolores and Ebony
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through dental records then they came to
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our house I want to say was it later on
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that day I believe they came to our
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house um and that's when they did tell
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us about the dent records um matching my
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mom and my
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sister they were in the berning
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car when I was 15 I my dad died so I
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honestly didn't think that I never in my
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life thought anybody like my mom my
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sister would be murdered or anything
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like that this never any I don't think
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anybody would think somebody they love
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would be
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murdered my family was everything to me
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my mom my dad and my sister I didn't
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have a worry in the
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world certainly in the murders of
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Dolores and Ebony detet this is somebody
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who engages in incredibly R risky
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Behavior he steals a
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car and the person that he steals the
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car from actually Witnesses this what's
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the nature of your emergency I just left
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my house maybe an hour ago and have come
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back my car is missing out of the
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carboard that's my car okay it just zoom
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past me wow so this is somebody in the
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middle of the day steals a car drives it
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to a house puts two people in there who
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are no longer
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alive and burns this car in a relatively
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short amount of
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time I mean how much how riskier can you
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be it's a horrific horrific crime scene
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of a burned
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body dental records are needed to
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identify the individuals to know whom
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they are this does by time by moving the
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bodies to another place by putting them
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in a car that has nothing to do with
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them and then burning the bodies allows
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for additional time for the individual
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to get
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away I used to feel like people will be
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watching us outside of our house my mom
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will always feel like people be watching
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us
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if you feel like somebody is watching
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you they are and if you really have that
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oversense and urge like I feel like
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somebody watching me I feel like
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somebody watching me they are it don't
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cross your mind that sick people like
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that
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exists I think most of the time when
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people have a sense of being watched
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they they probably are and I think it's
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very very important to trust your gut
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and investigate call the police whatever
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you think is going to make you feel
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safe too many of us in the past have had
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these gut feelings had these kind of
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Spidey senses or the hair on the back of
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our neck stands up and we talk ourselves
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out of it when really it's our body's
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way of telling us that something is
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wrong even though we don't consciously
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know
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it there have been two mother daughter
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murders less than 2 miles apart in just
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8
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weeks like Karen Lofton Dolores dwit was
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a nurse and at home alone with her
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teenage
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daughter in many respects there are a
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lot of similarities between the murders
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of Karen and Carissa Lofton and Dolores
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and Ebony and you know the similarities
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of course they're both nurses they're
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both single parents they have teenage
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daughters yet there are some significant
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differences so police know that that
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Karen and Carissa are murdered in their
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home that they are shot to
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death and this is very very different
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from Ebony and Dolores who are removed
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from their home before they were
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eventually found in a burned out
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car it would be really nice if seral
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Killers always did everything exactly
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the same because it would be much easier
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to catch them and so it's it's important
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to kind of step back sometimes and kind
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of go okay yes there's some surface
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differences here including the way these
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people were murdered but we can't rule
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out the possibility given these other
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similarities that there's some
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connection between the
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two at the time of the Lofton and dwit
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murders police are already investigating
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the death of 46-year-old mother of three
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Vilma Butler in June 2008
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she is shot dead and found in her
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burning home around 15 miles from the
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dtz and
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Lofton but police still do not believe
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they are dealing with a serial killer
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serial killers usually are not this
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meticulous in their acts you know we
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usually see that there's opportunity as
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the main factor there is that of a
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special type of person he or she is in
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interested in committing these acts with
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but to see intelligence put together to
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see elements of information put together
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this is a different ball game this is a
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different
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realm it's
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unfortunate that he was a was able to
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get away with it for so
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long and then he end up getting Court
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[Music]
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there have been five murders in this
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respectable suburb since June
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2008 police don't believe they're
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dealing with a serial killer and are yet
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to identify a
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suspect but separately from the murders
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authorities are getting closer to
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catching local burglar Jason
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Scott the crimes that Mr Scott committed
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were clustered around his own
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neighborhood in Prince George's County
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Maryland which is a suburb just east of
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Washington
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DC in May of
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2009 Jason Scott and his accomplice
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Marcus Hunter traveled up to Woodbine
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Maryland to commit this robbery of a gun
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shop they stole 39 Firearms uh including
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automatic weapons machine guns silencers
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and a large volume of
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ammunition someone who moves to being
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involved in gun deals has a lot of
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spheres of activity going on you usually
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don't expect that in someone who's
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involved in criminal activity one
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becomes good at one part of criminal
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activity but does not drift as we say in
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criminology to perhaps having a a life
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of regular Conformity and then going to
00:24:27
be an innov of criminal activity this is
00:24:30
what makes this case so
00:24:33
special he's confident in what he
00:24:38
does after doing this he decides to make
00:24:42
some money by selling some of these
00:24:45
illegal
00:24:47
weapons and yet I think his boldness
00:24:49
really
00:24:51
does Propel him to take these ridiculous
00:24:55
risks I mean selling illegal weapons
00:24:59
in the UPS parking lot I mean it seems
00:25:02
like that's something that is not a
00:25:05
criminal something a criminal mastermind
00:25:07
would do you work there Jason Scott had
00:25:11
let it be known among some of his
00:25:13
criminal compatriots that he had guns to
00:25:15
sell and an undercover ATF agent
00:25:17
arranged to meet Jason Scott in a
00:25:19
parking lot uh and purchased four
00:25:22
weapons from
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him where the B on cuz whoever you go
00:25:28
there they going to be I mean it Ain it
00:25:30
ain't like no body or nothing just came
00:25:34
for agents then were able to verify that
00:25:37
four of those weapons uh were the
00:25:39
weapons that had been stolen on May 26th
00:25:42
from the gun
00:25:43
shop well this was the moment that
00:25:45
exposed Jason Scott to the subsequent
00:25:48
search
00:25:50
warrant during the course of executing
00:25:52
that search warrant the agents recovered
00:25:53
16 firearms that had been stolen from
00:25:56
that gun shop uh in Wood bind
00:25:58
back in May of 2009 they also obtained
00:26:03
from Jason Scott's bedroom many of the
00:26:05
burglary tools that he had used to
00:26:07
commit the crime the clothing that he
00:26:09
wore the black clothing uh the ski mask
00:26:12
and the backpack containing his burglary
00:26:14
tools which included things like bolt
00:26:16
cutters and screwdrivers and pry bar and
00:26:19
also uh included a police
00:26:23
scanner There is almost a black comedy
00:26:26
here if things weren't so horrific
00:26:28
that this is somebody who is intelligent
00:26:31
he's graduated from college he's a
00:26:34
personal person and yet he almost lives
00:26:38
in this fantasy world it seems
00:26:45
like one of the items of evidence that
00:26:47
we recovered from Jason Scott's Home was
00:26:50
a video recording that he had made of
00:26:52
this teenage victim when he was
00:26:54
recording the victim uh uh while she was
00:26:56
naked during one of his home inv and
00:26:58
robberies and at one point Mr Scott
00:27:00
himself crossed in front of the
00:27:04
camera there actually was an image
00:27:06
captured of Mr Scott in his full regalia
00:27:09
that he would wear to commit his
00:27:12
crimes and when the authorities found
00:27:14
those recordings and photographs and the
00:27:16
burglary tools they realized they were
00:27:18
dealing with a master criminal not
00:27:21
simply somebody who had committed a uh a
00:27:24
robbery at a gun shop but somebody who
00:27:26
posed A continuing threat of violence in
00:27:28
the community the agents were working
00:27:30
with local police who knew about the
00:27:32
Spree of home invasion robberies in
00:27:34
addition to the murders that had been
00:27:35
committed in the area and so once they
00:27:37
found this evidence they immediately
00:27:39
settled on Jason Scott as a likely
00:27:41
suspect in a whole spree of
00:27:46
crimes I think when you think about this
00:27:49
kind of sexual aspect or sexual assault
00:27:51
that is so consistent with somebody who
00:27:54
has a history of peeping and voyerism
00:27:57
who then progress
00:27:58
say most people who peep don't progress
00:28:03
to worse things but people who do
00:28:08
progress to worse things often have a
00:28:11
history of peeping and
00:28:13
voyerism I think Jason Scott enjoyed the
00:28:17
sense of power and control that he
00:28:20
exercised when he committed these home
00:28:21
invasion robberies where he kept people
00:28:24
you know under control he kept people at
00:28:27
gunpoint uh in a couple of instances he
00:28:30
detained people in their homes while his
00:28:32
partner Marcus Hunter took their ATM
00:28:34
cards and went to withdraw cash and I
00:28:37
think Jason Scott enjoyed that sense of
00:28:39
power that he obtained while he was
00:28:41
detaining innocent
00:28:45
victims there was one home invasion that
00:28:48
he carried out where the victims were of
00:28:51
course terrified uh they had no idea
00:28:53
they felt completely
00:28:57
helpless the victim later on said you
00:29:00
know when you have absolutely no control
00:29:04
over situation you you don't know what
00:29:07
to do and she said I started
00:29:09
praying and you know Jason Scott said
00:29:13
shut
00:29:15
up I think that affirmed to him that I
00:29:19
am powerful I am a criminal Master mind
00:29:22
I am in charge of these situations and I
00:29:24
do think that was very important to him
00:29:26
and for whatever reason he really did
00:29:29
Embrace this criminal
00:29:32
identity Jason Scott is now a suspect in
00:29:35
the five murder
00:29:36
investigations but police don't have
00:29:38
enough evidence to charge
00:29:41
him but the evidence from the Firearms
00:29:44
offenses home invasions and sexual
00:29:46
assault makes police believe he's linked
00:29:49
to a vast array of
00:29:53
crimes rather than charge him for just
00:29:55
the crimes they have evidence for Scott
00:29:58
is taken into custody and offered a
00:30:00
profer interview in a profer interview
00:30:03
the government promises a defendant that
00:30:05
uh things that he says in the interview
00:30:07
won't be used against him directly in
00:30:09
court and so the profer an opportunity
00:30:11
for the defendant to come in with the
00:30:13
promise of immunity and reveal to the
00:30:16
government the criminal activity in
00:30:17
which he
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participated they're thinking this is
00:30:23
somebody who's going to help us catch
00:30:26
other almost arms dealers or people who
00:30:29
you know who are selling illegal guns
00:30:32
and so
00:30:33
Jason takes advantage of
00:30:37
this during the interview with uh
00:30:40
Federal authorities Mr Scott admitted
00:30:42
that he had committed approximately 28
00:30:45
burglaries and nine home invasion
00:30:49
robberies law enforcement is absolutely
00:30:52
stunned by this he's saying to you
00:30:55
criminal justice system I am smarter
00:30:57
than you that I was able to be
00:31:00
successful with these crimes I am good
00:31:03
at what I do and I am better than you at
00:31:06
this time The Jig Is up so if it is up
00:31:09
let me just go ahead and tell you and
00:31:11
show you how much smarter I was than you
00:31:14
how much intelligence and research goes
00:31:16
into this and of course Jason sitting
00:31:20
there smug as can be
00:31:23
thinking I've got immunity from all
00:31:25
these things nothing I said to today can
00:31:29
be used against me he was a little
00:31:32
misguided I think in thinking
00:31:36
that police cannot charge Scott with the
00:31:38
burglaries and home invasions he's
00:31:40
confessed
00:31:42
to but he can still be charged for other
00:31:45
crimes because of new evidence or if
00:31:48
implicated by an
00:31:51
accomplice once uh authorities realized
00:31:54
that Jason Scott had been involved in a
00:31:56
crime spree in the area uh they started
00:31:58
to review all crimes that had been
00:32:00
committed in the area over the past
00:32:03
couple of years to identify which ones
00:32:05
were likely to have been committed by
00:32:07
Jason
00:32:13
Scott Marcus Hunter revealed that he was
00:32:16
a friend of Jason Scott and that he had
00:32:19
participated with Mr Scott in many of
00:32:22
the robberies and burglaries that Mr
00:32:24
Scott had committed in the community
00:32:28
Marcus Hunter used the term spooky house
00:32:31
to refer to an abandoned property that
00:32:33
he and Jason Scott would go to after the
00:32:36
crimes to split up the proceeds uh so on
00:32:39
multiple occasions Jason Scott and
00:32:41
Marcus Hunter went to the so-called
00:32:43
spooky house with the proceeds of their
00:32:46
robbery and then divided the property
00:32:48
among
00:32:52
them the most compelling evidence uh I
00:32:55
recovered from the spooky house that we
00:32:57
was used in the state case uh was that
00:33:00
they found charred bits of fabric and
00:33:03
hair at the spooky house that were uh
00:33:06
connected to the murder because they
00:33:08
matched evidence that was found on the
00:33:10
bodies when they were recovered from the
00:33:12
car that had been
00:33:19
burned this vital new piece of evidence
00:33:22
links Scott to the crime scene of
00:33:24
Dolores and ebony dwit
00:33:28
Jason Scott is charged with their
00:33:30
murders while being investigated for the
00:33:33
others this is the beginning of the end
00:33:36
for Jason
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00:33:46
Scott it's 1 and a half years since
00:33:49
Jason Scott was charged with the murders
00:33:51
of Dolores and Ebony
00:33:53
dwit as a case is building against him
00:33:56
he's first facing trial for the crimes
00:33:58
that investigators have more evidence
00:34:01
of in the federal system uh we
00:34:05
prosecuted defendants for the most
00:34:07
readly provable offenses and so uh in
00:34:10
this case uh we identified four home
00:34:12
invasion robberies and which the proof
00:34:14
was the strongest and the Witnesses were
00:34:17
the most uh credible and compelling and
00:34:19
we charged Mr Scott with those four home
00:34:22
invasion robberies in addition to the
00:34:25
child pornography he had produced during
00:34:27
one of those robberies
00:34:28
and then the possession of the stolen
00:34:29
firearms that uh had been taken from
00:34:32
that gun shop in
00:34:35
Woodbine most important piece of
00:34:37
evidence in the case was the video
00:34:40
recording that Jason Scott had made uh
00:34:42
of this teenage victim Mr Scott at one
00:34:45
point actually crossed in front of the
00:34:48
camera so in this case the federal
00:34:51
sentence for the series of crimes 11
00:34:53
violations in total amounted to 100
00:34:56
years in federal prison
00:35:04
I know the family members of the murder
00:35:06
victims were present at the sentencing
00:35:08
and they were very relieved they were
00:35:11
confident that Mr Scott had been held
00:35:12
accountable and would no longer pose a
00:35:14
threat to the community regardless of
00:35:16
whether or not he ultimately was
00:35:18
convicted on the state charges for the
00:35:21
murder what we do see is someone who's
00:35:24
become very good at being a criminal
00:35:27
someone who's intelligent someone who
00:35:29
looks at information that's publicly
00:35:31
accessible plus perhaps has a charm that
00:35:34
allows for many people not to feel
00:35:38
threatened we hope that these elements
00:35:40
don't come together and thank goodness
00:35:43
that person is no longer on the street
00:35:46
causing these heinous
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00:35:52
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00:35:55
acts Jason Scott is is in
00:35:58
jail police suspect him of the murders
00:36:01
of Vilma Butler Dolores and Ebony DT and
00:36:04
Karen and Carissa Lofton but they only
00:36:07
have strong evidence linking him to the
00:36:10
dtz
00:36:12
murders in order to prosecute him for
00:36:14
the provable crimes police strike a deal
00:36:17
using an alord plea it's been around
00:36:20
since about the
00:36:22
1970s here you have an environment in
00:36:25
which one pleas to say
00:36:28
I'm not saying I'm guilty of doing this
00:36:30
act but I am going to go ahead and move
00:36:33
the process in order to perhaps receive
00:36:35
a lesser
00:36:37
sentence as part of the Alfred plea for
00:36:40
the murders of Dolores and Ebony DT
00:36:42
Jason Scott now won't face trial for the
00:36:45
murders of Vilma Butler or Karen and
00:36:47
Carissa
00:36:51
Lofton we never had our day in
00:36:54
court he was going to spit the rest of
00:36:56
his life in jail anyway so so I guess
00:36:58
they assume why spend money to satisfy
00:37:01
the
00:37:02
family Carissa Lofton I always speak her
00:37:06
name and I always say she's such a
00:37:07
strong girl cuz she comes home only to
00:37:10
find someone killing her mom and then
00:37:12
she gets shot in the head from what um
00:37:14
the story tells to be able to pick her
00:37:16
strength to pick up the phone to call
00:37:18
911 ma'am I've been shot me my mother
00:37:21
had been shut I'm beding for that sweee
00:37:25
slow down what's your address
00:37:29
it's just heartbreaking when you hear
00:37:31
her it's heartbreaking it's so
00:37:34
heartbreaking cuz she didn't they didn't
00:37:35
deserve it
00:37:37
none nobody deserves
00:37:39
it there's still a very empty void in
00:37:44
myself and my family's Hearts because we
00:37:47
don't know we we didn't get the
00:37:49
satisfaction that uh the dits got of a
00:37:53
of a trial and a and a killer that
00:37:56
admitted and was found guilty of their
00:37:58
crime we didn't get
00:38:02
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00:38:06
that I I used to hate him for a while um
00:38:12
but I had to get over
00:38:14
that at first I used to want him
00:38:17
dead I pray to God that like while he's
00:38:20
uh locked up every time he Clos his eyes
00:38:23
he sees them as he left them
00:38:28
now I just feel like
00:38:31
no what he got is the best thing for
00:38:35
him I don't even want to give him any um
00:38:40
real estate in my mental space so um
00:38:44
he's where he needs to
00:38:49
be I think that Jason Scott has all the
00:38:53
Hallmarks of a serial killer in terms of
00:38:55
so many different things his interest in
00:38:57
forensics the way he he researched his
00:39:01
crimes and most importantly the way he
00:39:03
carried out so many different crimes and
00:39:07
really exhibited no compassion no
00:39:10
empathy whatsoever for his
00:39:16
victims this was probably the most
00:39:19
memorable case that I personally
00:39:21
prosecuted in my 30 years with the
00:39:23
United States Department of Justice
00:39:25
because of the scale
00:39:27
of the harm that Jason Scott had visited
00:39:30
on the community uh and obviously the
00:39:32
particular harm on the victims of the
00:39:35
murders the home invasion robbery and
00:39:37
the child
00:39:38
abuse you save lives by taking somebody
00:39:41
like Jason Scott off the
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00:39:49
street my parents my mom my dad and my
00:39:52
sister they always told us if you
00:39:54
believe in yourself you could do
00:39:55
anything so with that even through all
00:39:57
the tragedy in my life I'm could pack
00:40:01
myself on the back that I just never
00:40:02
gave up and that's only because of
00:40:07
them life has never been the same life
00:40:10
will never be the same I'm um just been
00:40:12
trying to adjust to it it's
00:40:16
just uh I was shattered I had nothing
00:40:23
now I compare everybody in this world to
00:40:27
my family and it's like I
00:40:30
said I haven't met anyone that just
00:40:34
measure up to how great they
00:40:41
were you know I have three kids now with
00:40:45
my wife um and my mother or sister has
00:40:51
met none of them so um she was robbed
00:40:54
from having three beautiful
00:40:56
grandchildren that she could be
00:40:58
interacting
00:41:00
with I still feel lost like it's a loss
00:41:03
um I've grown a lot I had to learn how
00:41:06
to turn a tragedy into
00:41:10
something uh helpful and that's the only
00:41:13
way that you can get through something
00:41:15
like
00:41:16
that Jason Scott feel like that they not
00:41:19
responsible for two murders they
00:41:21
responsible for three because in my
00:41:22
family because uh my son Kirk Jr never
00:41:26
recovered he went through a very dark
00:41:31
period he uh was drinking very depressed
00:41:35
and everything for
00:41:37
years 6 months ago well a little more
00:41:40
than 6 months in a month after his
00:41:44
birthday uh exactly a month after his
00:41:46
birthday then he
00:41:48
died they found him in a
00:41:51
hotel and the cause of death is alcohol
00:41:55
and uh poisoning you know he had died
00:41:58
from alcohol
00:42:00
so Jason Scott definitely played the
00:42:03
part in
00:42:06
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00:42:11
it I used to call Carissa my butterfly
00:42:14
and she loved the color
00:42:17
green that year after she passed then it
00:42:21
was a influx of green butterflies all
00:42:23
through Georgia
00:42:28
the main thing that I had to remember is
00:42:31
that God didn't make mistakes and that
00:42:36
my story had to help somebody else
00:42:39
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