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