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there was a shooting in an upscale neighborhood in oklahoma city ballistics identified the use of two
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different guns which meant at least two shooters these small marks on a shotgun shell
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some singed fibers and the crime reconstruction revealed a plot more twisted than anyone could have
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imagined [Music] [Music] to outsiders it looked as if rob andrew had everything anyone could want
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he had a high-paying job with an advertising agency lots of friends and a growing family whom he described as his
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source of strength rob andrew salt of the earth i mean this is a christian man attended church all the time a loving
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father just a great guy very successful businessman as well two days before thanksgiving rob andrew
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left work to pick up his children they planned to spend the holiday weekend with his parents
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on the way rob called his best friend rob had called my house around 5 30 telling me how hurried he'd been all day
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and that he was looking forward to picking the kids up and spending a long weekend with them for thanksgiving
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rob didn't plan to stay long so he parked his car in the driveway i heard the overhead garage door start up and
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then rob paused and said hey i'm gonna have to let you go as he walked into the garage his wife
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brenda asked him to re-light the furnace because it had gone out earlier in the day
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[Music] then there was a commotion brenda said two masked men with guns appeared out of
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nowhere and then they fled i've been shot my husband's been shot okay you and your husband have both been shot
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yes yes i shot you i don't know 43 year old robert andrew was pronounced dead at the scene
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mr andrew was shot two times once to the right side of the body once to the left
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side of the body and they actually occurred from two different locations so that also tells us that two shooters
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it's a possibility brenda andrew suffered a gunshot wound and was rushed to the hospital
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her wound is in a fatty portion of her left left upper arm the bullet that hit brenda went through
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her arm and lodged in the wall of the garage it was from a 22 caliber pistol police found a spence 16 gauge shotgun
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shell on the roof of brenda's van an indication there were two different weapons used in the attack
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the empty cans on the garage floor indicated rob saw the gunman and grabbed the bag of empty cans as a shield
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as the second gunshot wound is about to be inflicted on him he is looking up and
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looking at the face of his killer the motive apparently wasn't robbery his wallet was not taken in fact some of
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the pellets from the shotgun went through his wallet the andrew's two children were upstairs
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in their rooms unharmed the attack had all the earmarks of an execution yet no one could think of a reason why
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robert andrew would be targeted for murder with no motive no leads and no description of the killers
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investigators hoped the autopsy would provide the clues they needed [Music] news of rob andrews execution-style
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murder was a shock to the residents of oklahoma city since crimes like this were extremely uncommon
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rob and brenda were a loving couple they appeared to be that the picture showed the perfect family the smiling happy
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loving couple with these two great little kids the couple were active members of their
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church brenda taught sunday school and rob performed missionary work in south america
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early in the investigation police learned there had been a prior attempt on rob's life
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just one month earlier rob called police to report someone had tampered with his
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car oklahoma city police department hi there i'd like to uh report a client to my uh brake lines have been cut
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that sounds like attempted murder don't you think a few hours later rob was getting his breaks fixed when he
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received a call from the hospital the caller said his wife brenda was critically injured in a car accident and
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suggested that he come to the hospital right away you're a man's voice saying that his
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wife is in the hospital about 30 miles away that she needs him and he needs to get
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down there just as fast as he can now suspicious rob called the hospital back and learned the previous call was a
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hoax apparently the same person who cut rob's brake line wanted him to race to the
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hospital he took it as an attempt on his life he realized that in fact he was being set
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up to drive down there and at a high rate of speed and hopefully get into an accident that's the obvious
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conclusion several days after robb's murder his next door neighbors returned home from
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vacation and realized someone had broken into their home we unpacked our suitcases and started
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putting things away when i opened my closet door i discovered that a little shoe rack that i'd had was no longer
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there then we decided to look around the other bedrooms that's when we discovered the spent
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shotgun shell in one of the bedrooms the shell was from a 16 16-gauge shotgun it was immediately sent to the forensics
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lab for testing an analyst placed it under a microscope to compare it to the 16-gauge shotgun
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shell found in the andrew's garage he looks specifically at the brass casings
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at the base of the shells when casings are ejected each gun creates a unique mark on the brass
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and depending on the amount of correspondence and the preponderance of these matching
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striations an examiner can come to the conclusion as to whether these were fired by the same firearm or not
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there was no doubt both shells were fired from the same gun also in the neighbor's attic
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police found several unused 22-caliber bullets the same as those used in the second gun in the murder it was if they
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were just basically accidentally dropped along the way they didn't appear to be placed in any type
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of a pattern but just like they were in a pocket and they fell out as someone crawled through
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this suggested that the killers hid in the neighbor's home after the murder so
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they could make a clean getaway later apparently someone went up in that attic and they were either trying to climb up
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in the master closet access or they came down and landed on that shoe rack and broke it to
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pieces it wasn't sturdy enough to hold them and so then they tried to hide evidence of that in a rather feeble
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attempt by putting it under the bed and since the neighbor's home had no signs of forced entry
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it meant one of two things either the killers were professionals or they had a key
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[Music] with no solid leads police asked themselves who would benefit most from rob andrews murder
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robb's friends told police that his wife brenda had the most to gain we found that marriage was rocky off and
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on they had a few periods of separation and we also found that brenda andrew was
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involved in several extramarital affairs mr andrew was convinced at this point that his insurance salesman mr pravad
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and his wife were having an affair forty-eight-year-old james pavad taught sunday school with brenda
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and they flaunted their relationship even in front of rob's children james and brenda had a very interesting
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relationship i mean even prior to rob's death the two of them went on a vacation
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together down to texas with the children i don't know of any husband who would
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willingly just say okay to his wife going down to mexico with a complete stranger and taking his kids with him
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just a few months before his murder rob demanded that brenda end her affair with pavat
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brenda refused and filed for divorce rob immediately changed the beneficiary of his 800 000 life insurance policy
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mr andrew made the beneficiary i think his brother for the benefit of the children since
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the children were minors he had to have an adult as the actual name beneficiary as a trustee of that money
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but after rob's death police were surprised to learn that brenda was again the sole beneficiary
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police were immediately suspicious and they arranged for a handwriting expert david parrott to authenticate rob
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andrews signature on the insurance policy a signature is produced with style and
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speed it's the thing that you probably write the most in your entire life in my analysis i looked at 13 years of
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rob andrews handwriting in writing his signatures 136 signatures not surprisingly
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it was clear that rob andrews signatures changed over the years over time rob andrews signature had
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become more ornate more artistic and two and a half years before his death rob added an extra element to his
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signature i was in the bottom right hand corner of his signature i then began looking at signature after
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signature after signature and that fish was there this was a christian symbol the ecthus
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robb added it to his signature as a sign of his faith but it wasn't on the change
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of beneficiary form i know that symbol is very significant because he repeatedly used it in the more
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formalized signatures that he wrote such as in business documents and that symbol was not in
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the question document and there was another discrepancy in the life insurance policy signature
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rob andrew had a characteristic of connecting the n and the d in the last name andrew but it
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wasn't signed that way on the insurance form so parrot concluded it was a forgery but
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he was unable to determine the identity of the forger police knew that brenda andrew had the
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motive to make sure she was the beneficiary of her husband's 800 000 life insurance policy and her lover
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james pavat had the opportunity he was the life insurance agent who sold the policy
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police now suspected brenda may have been involved in her husband's murder so ballistic experts took a much closer
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look at the photographs of her wound and the bullet hole in her sweater they found black rings gunshot residue
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around both it is actually the unburned and partially burned powder and soot and hot gases that exit the
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barrel right behind the projectile using an identical gun investigators ran tests to recreate the
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gunshot residue patterns and my observations of those patterns and of the sweater and of her
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wound allowed me to conclude that she was shot at somewhere between actual contact and
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approximately two inches away from her arm this contradicted brenda's statement
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that she was shot by someone 15 to twenty feet away police now knew that brenda andrew was
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involved in rob's murder but was she the killer to find out what role if any brenda
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andrew played in her husband's murder investigators sent her bloodstained clothing to tom bevel an expert on
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bloodspatter analysis bevel noticed that many of the blood stains on her jeans had an elongated
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shape consistent with blood dripping from her arm onto her pants we have some low velocity blood drips
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that would be blood that is breaking away primarily due to gravity dripping down onto the genes
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dna tests confirmed this blood was brenda's but bevel also found mist like blood spatter on brenda's
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jeans below the knee which had penetrated deep into the fabric it is from a high velocity occurrence
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such as a gunshot in this case multiple gunshot pellets that has spattered the blood traveling
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back from him referred to as back spatter and then subsequently landing on her clothing
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dna tests confirmed that this was rob's blood proved that brenda was standing only a
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few feet away from rob when he was killed the back spatter on the pants i think that gave us that one
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bit of evidence we needed in order to put that gun in miss andrew's hand prosecutors believe brenda planned her
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husband's murder for months she may have forged rob's signature on the life insurance policy making herd
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the beneficiary her first attempt on rob's life involved cutting robb's brake lines
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police believe it was james pavard who called rob with the fake story that brenda was in critical condition at the
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hospital when that didn't work the couple devised an elaborate shooting scenario
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they planned to kill rob when he came to pick up the children for the holiday weekend
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on the night of the murder povot hid behind the van in the garage well we prayed a little bit too much you
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know the holidays are coming up when they heard rob's car they set the plan in motion
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rob walked into the garage expecting to see the children instead brenda asked him to fix the furnace while she got
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them ready pavat fired the first shot from behind the van then handed the rifle to brenda
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[Music] he is looking up and looking at the face of his killer and whatever was said to
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him will never know the blood spatter on brenda's pants proved she was less than two feet away
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pivat used a 22 caliber pistol to shoot brenda's arm but he fired it from a couple inches away leaving the burn
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marks i've been shot my husband brenda called police with the fake story of the two
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masked men pavat hid in the empty house next door the homeowners had given brenda the key
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for safekeeping pavats stayed there for at least a day until police were finished at the
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scene he ejected the spent shotgun shell when he heard the homeowner's son walk into
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the house to pick up his parents mail fortunately the man didn't go upstairs or he might
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have been killed too investigators never found the murder weapon but they did find some important
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information during our investigation we also found that mr pavat had purchased a
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22 caliber pistol at a local gun store with the use of a credit card about a month before the homicide
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everything was a piece of a puzzle all of those little things out there by themselves meant nothing but when you
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started laying it all out clicking the pieces together making the matches it just it just started pointing there's
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no way this woman couldn't have been involved brenda andrew and james pavat were both
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charged with first degree murder and were tried separately pavat's trial was first we the jury
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having heretofore found the defendant james dwight pavat guilty of murder in the first degree
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fix his punishment at death in brenda's trial prosecutors portrayed her as a heartless
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sociopath the jury saw photos of her vacationing with pavat and the children while she was married to rob
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they also heard the messages brenda left on rob's telephone answering machine in
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which she belittled rob for his parenting skills and other perceived slights hey it's brenda you halfway dad can't
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even return calls about your children you ought to call me if you even care one little answer oh that's right you
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don't we've been able to figure that out and the jury also heard this call
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between rob and brenda's mother before the murder she does not like me that makes it really hard to live there
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i mean i look at her i just want to break out and cry because i love the girl so much and i have loved her for a
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long long time and the one thing that i knew that brenda liked was money brenda andrew was also convicted of
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first degree murder the forensic evidence was impossible to overcome we the jury empaneled and sworn in the
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above entitled cause due upon our oaths having heretofound the defendant brenda evers andrew guilty of murder in the
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first degree fix her punishment at death she is now the only woman on oklahoma's death row
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i've had four years to ponder and to think of why brenda and jim would take rob andrews life
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and for the life of me i cannot understand how someone could be that mean or that evil and have
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so little regard for another person's life prosecutors describe it as one of the most cold-blooded murders
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they've ever seen the complexity of the case was a problem it's a hard case to talk about in a
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short amount of time there's so many different pieces of evidence but in what we believe that any juror
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wants to hear is what happened at the key moment the physical evidence will tell a story
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and it's just simply up to the person that is trying to put this together to
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