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george young a devoted family man he loved his family talked about his sons all the time
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talked about his marriage 911 in love with his wife tia 22 years married all i've ever heard from george was how
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much he loved his wife but tyr was betraying him it would come out later that there was a lot of text messaging
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back and forth sexually suggested text messages and funny memes um talking about
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cheating on your husband i just heard a gunshot it's the motive for murder that's been around forever a third party
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with access to weapons we did a lot of uh executive protection with high-end clients those were armed
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details we do a lot of celebrity protection beyonce usher and when they require firearms
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then we do firearms an affair weapons and an insurance policy too suddenly the happy times for tear and
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george young are a distant memory [Music] [Music] tear and george young married in south
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carolina in 1995 and then moved to the quiet atlanta suburb of buford a safe neighborhood to raise their three sons
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the same qualities that drew next door neighbor marcelo bump to the area it's a wholesome feel it's family
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oriented and there's a lot of restaurants where a lot of people you know it's what they do friday night they
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go to the same restaurant or everybody you know sees each other in the grocery store and it's like hey and you know and
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everybody's talking the youngs seemed to fit right in a solid american family mom
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dad three sons they were more of a just homebodies they always stayed inside didn't do anything
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except for you know occasionally cooking out in the backyard and i yell over you know let me know when
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it's ready you know i couldn't tell you one time did he share with me that there
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was a problem of anything there was never any fighting or anything like that and you know never any
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like gossip neighborhood gossip about them in any way [Music] george put the hours in at work to
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support the family he was a security man he worked from his own company massive working for me
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um part-time and also working for acumen security so the guy's holding down three
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layers of responsibility and guess what he's not going to mull out the park he's not behind in anything
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he's giving everything that he had he was not home a lot because he provided
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force family very good at providing for his family but he didn't have the time to spend at
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home that i'm sure he wished he did not the tear-minded tia i was over the house with a few other
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family and i showed up later and she said hey did you know my husband does the same thing to you do
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she said i'm gonna give you his number you call him and and see what he can do
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and at that time george and i connected and from the first time i met him when he walked into office with that
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huge bright smile and six six foot six height you know he definitely was very very convincing
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george seemed like the kind of person who just wants to believe in best in people and i
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think he must have felt like perhaps on times when he was more down on his luck he has been helped by nice people in his
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life and he wanted to be that person for others and return the favor it was in early 2017 that george gave a
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helping hand to an old friend from south carolina george had approached me and said
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there's a guy who he knew from south carolina and he's here and he's looking for a job
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his name was tim lee and tim tim had been down on his luck lately he'd lost his jobs uh he was living out of hotels
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uh really just not doing well at all and so george said well look we're doing
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quite fine so come live with us so he opened his home to him he gave him a job tim was living
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in the young home rent-free george brought him up to help him get on his feet rob had reservations about the man that
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george had welcomed into his life when i first met tim he was by far not george he was
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withdrawing very quiet looking around a lot i've noticed as he's working he didn't have a lot of the
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skill set to do the job but george was there covering everything i think perhaps he was overly trusting
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but not in a naive way i think he just truly wanted to believe the best in everyone especially a friend who he
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thought that he knew i had no clue that tim was living with george and and i can believe
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why george wouldn't share that with me because if i ever heard that i would have definitely had my
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my my opinion to why i thought that was a bad idea i honestly didn't even know tim i didn't
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even know he was living there i didn't i just just something wasn't right that's all
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the young marriage had three people in it not that george knew other problems were about to appear too
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in late september 2017 tia young lost her job even more pressure then on george to
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bring in the money so george says don't worry about it tia we're fine and he just takes on more
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hours to support the family i knew that he would get home late he was always parked out front in the road
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um you can pretty much hear him when he would get home from work anyone looking from outside in you could never imagine
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that there was a problem of the magnitude that was about to happen you did not have a clue
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about that you knew he was probably like any other husband you know putting the time in the job
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taking care of your family and then trying to balance that with being there for your wife and your kids
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i think george must have been under a terrible amount of stress knowing that he was basically supposed to be the
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savior for his entire family and now also this long time friend so somewhere along the lines something
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is suffering somewhere you just don't know it but with the cylinders that he was
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running on you know you had to say hey you know sometimes choice you're okay
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do you need some time but he did not take time meanwhile alone in the house for much of the day jobless
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tear had nothing but time time for the house guest tim lee so they were taking advantage of the
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fact that he was out of the house for long periods at a time and having a relationship right under his own roof
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and i think george probably had no idea felt like maybe his wife and his longtime friend
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were just being friendly to one another they are continuing to refer to each other as
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cousins or sister and brother it's pretty clear as you can see later on from their phone messages
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flirty phone messages talking about their relationship that it is way beyond fraternal
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it's not sister brother this is the ultimate betrayal because tim was given a second
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chance at life and yet he was sleeping with george's wife under his very nose
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under his roof while he was working hard to provide for the family it was 2017 22 years since the marriage
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of george and tier young and whilst the workaholic george was away his wife and the house guest were at play
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i was actually out with some friends and i got a call from my daughter who was babysitting we had a four-month-old baby
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got a call that she had heard a gunshot very close and almost sound like it was inside the house
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[Music] in his work for strickland security george young did not carry a gun we did a lot of uh
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executive protection with high-end clients those were armed details we did we do a lot of celebrity
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uh protection uh beyonce usher and when they require firearms than we do firearms but a lot of times a
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lot of it was unarmed because of that george was unfamiliar with weapons george and i talked about guns
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and he always would ask hey am i going to get trained are you going to train me one day at the office
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i took my firearm so george could hold it i made sure removed the clip the one in everything it was clean back
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showed him out and i unlocked it back so he could hold it so george said george held the gun so bad that it
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scared me that he had it that maybe i didn't take out all the bullets i quickly took the
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gun back and said george we'll get a day to train that day never came around it didn't
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seem all that important most people would think that because it's security and protection that it
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comes with a certain level of risk in reality it's a very low risk so on november 16 2017 george was unarmed it
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was a big night for strickland security we had an executive detail a pretty big one
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it was at macy's linux square in buckhead the artist was little yachty great event
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the big crowd everyone was very happy george returns home late at night between 11 23 and 11 25
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he gets out of his vehicle puts his key in the lock of the front door and just as he's turning at boom out of nowhere
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two gunshots one to the chest one to the face he was shot from the side he was ambushed he
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never saw the shooter coming gunfire was not something that people of montauk hill were accustomed to hearing
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i was actually out with some friends and i got a call from my daughter who was babysitting we had a four-month-old baby
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got a call that she had heard a gunshot very close and almost sounded like it was inside the house she was scared
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told her to run upstairs and check on the baby to make sure somebody didn't shoot a gun from outside
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you know and come into the house and told her to call what's 911 emergency tia says she was asleep when
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all of a sudden she heard this noise and she she was afraid she didn't know what was
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going on about six minutes after the shots were fired tia called 9-1-1 and said she believed her husband had
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been shot but she didn't want to go downstairs because she was squeamish and
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she didn't want to see her husband like that for investigators this would be the first red flag
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i think it is a ridiculous alibi that a loving and doting wife would not go and check on your husband's dead body i
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don't care how squeamish you feel how much you don't like blood this is the
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blood of the love of your life and anybody would in that particular situation would not
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be thinking about their squeamishness and would just be running out there to see what happened to their husband
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george dies at the scene on the 911 call tia explains that timothy is her brother and that after
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hearing the shots he got his shotgun and went outside to investigate and that's where
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timmy found george dead when tia calls 9-1-1 a couple of things stick out one is
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she's referring to tim as her brother and it's pretty apparent that's not the case
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and the other thing is she tells them please when you when you arrive don't bring the lights and sirens i
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really would rather not wake my children they're going to come the sirens due to
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the severity of the issue who does that who who in their in a situation your husband
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is murdered and you don't want the police to turn on this get them over here as soon as they can
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the quicker they can collect evidence the quicker they can get camera possible camera footage whatever it takes
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do it but no she doesn't want them to wake up to kids in any case the boys didn't wake up
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until long after the emergency services turned up an oddity that didn't go unnoticed
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it is speculated that tia may have given the medication to to keep them asleep so they wouldn't
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hear what was going on my guess is that she didn't want them to wake up and discover what was going on and
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thwart her plans a woman is going to kill her husband she's probably not a good mother either
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so i i imagine it wasn't to save them from any trauma it was to um save her from being caught
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first responders discovered george young dead on the front steps of his home he was 43 years old the gunman had
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apparently fled could the motive have been robbery the house and the yard were immediately taped off as a crime scene
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it was an unusual sight in a quiet neighborhood there there was cops and news reporters
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everywhere we couldn't even it was a half a mile from the beginning of the neighborhood to my house
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and i pretty much had to walk it because they had everything there's just cars
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everywhere once all the kids were checked on everything was fine i could actually see
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george lang on the sidewalk of his doorway when detectives arrived on scene they realized or pretty quickly realized
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that this was not a robbery everything of value that george had was still present his wallet his ipad his keys his
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cell phone anything of value was still there so robbery was a probably not the motive
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investigator's first priority was to comb the house in the yard for clues anomalies were about to appear and what
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they had been led to believe had happened and what the evidence was telling them
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police are looking at the scene and trying to piece things together and there were two gunshots one to the
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chest one to the face they only find one shell casing the weapon is gone it's not necessarily
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just the firearms evidence that you collect it's the firearms evidence that's missing
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if there is a shell casing missing when we know there should be two and there's
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only one present then that suggests that someone moved the first shell case those
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are all very important points because a person may have just missed the the first shell case and then found the
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second one or in their haste they only collected one it's as if the scene has been
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cleaned up but if this just happened as they're describing it it doesn't add up more and
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more things are not adding up investigators were a little discouraged to find out that
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there was security surveillance at the home but the particular camera was not operable that camera was disconnected so
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police naturally get suspicious about that but as it turns out george had just been too busy helping
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his customers and when talking to george's son george's son explained that george had
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talked about fixing the camera but never got around to doing so it seemed that he was putting up
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security and making sure cameras were working everywhere else but neglected his own
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it was a blow to detectives but they hoped by talking to the family they would find out more the initial
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investigation the investigators were questioning tia and timothy and their thought was
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it's not a robbery and they were trying to find out was this a random act of violence or was
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there someone that had a motive to kill george initially tia said no she couldn't think of anyone that would want
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to harm him as questioning continued tear began offering theories tia has different ideas as to what might have
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happened she says it could have been a robbery but nothing was taken and then she says well it could have
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been a gang hit and there's really not anything to back that up because there's no history of
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gang violence in this neighborhood tia started throwing out things to detectives and maybe it was a gang
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initiation or gang violence maybe it was george's work with a rapper anything that she could do to
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kind of give them a clue of what may have happened she's asking me hey what happened what happened today
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what happened at the job what happened at the detail and you know everything and this is over the phone
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and said everything was fine to you everything was fine george was not in harm's way
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i don't know what's going on after speaking to tyr detectives turned their attention to the man who'd been at
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home with her when george was shot timothy lee only hours later when rob strickland and
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his wife arrived at the scene did the cops realize tim lee wasn't the man he
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said he was eventually one of the detectives showed up and said well who are you guys
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and i explained to him who we were and we asked what happened he said well you know someone shot him
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as he put his key in the door so we were just questions or all kind of questions for him
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and he said yeah well we just talked to tear and her brother wait a minute wait a minute
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t and her brother tia doesn't have a brother and the detective said really she said this person over there is her
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brother why would tyr the wife of murder george young claim the other man she was
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living with tim lee was her brother the question cops would soon ask is tim lee really your lover
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when it got to day three i realized there is something going on here there is definitely something going on
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between tia and ten [Music] george's sister ivy barnhill lived six hours away in myrtle beach south
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carolina when she heard about the devastating news about her brother's death she contacted tear
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immediately she suspected something odd was going on george's sister ivy called after she
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heard of the incident tia but timmy answered to his phone and she didn't know that someone had been
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living with them and she didn't think that there was a man that would be comfortable enough to answer their
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phones ivy goes to the home she wants to know what what has happened and how can this be true how could her
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brother really be dead ivy gets to the house and she finds tia and tim in a bedroom close together which is odd
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no one who knew george and tyr seemed comfortable with tim's presence i went up to see tia
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and she was just hot hot over the family all of them being there little things that they were doing how
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they questioned her why tim was living here what is tim doing living here we didn't
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know tim was living here they knew tina from south carolina they all lived in the same area so they knew tim
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but they didn't know tim watson was there that was a question that has bothered all of us
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like what was tim doing living here whole family didn't know anything you know what was going on except for them
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too so i i just felt like even when i was over there bringing stuff over for the kids and hanging out with
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the little one um it just seemed very like put on like a shell was being put on [Music]
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the other thing that concerned ivy was that tia didn't seem to show a lot of
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emotion she appeared maybe to be upset but there were no tears and when she greeted ivy she just acted as if though
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it was a regular visit her husband and the father of her children murdered yet tear in effect
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living with tim appeared emotionless walked inside tia met us all you know she was um
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she seemed a bit more cordial than anything else hey hey guys you want something to drink
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no no no one wants anything to drink tia what happened what happened so then she starts talking but then
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the phone rings so sometimes she gets on the phone and now she's talking to the donor group
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about his parts his body parts and there's talking about and we're all there
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listening to her and she's very okay on the phone his eyes his his this is that
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okay you're gonna okay and in my mind well is this what happens how are you capable of doing this
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i think um the way people grieve is completely different all across the spectrum um but there are some things
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that just don't make a lot of sense so if someone is appearing to be don shalott about
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someone being murdered it's not necessarily indicative of them being suspicious but if they're
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nonchalant and in the bedroom with another man that kind of adds to the suspicion
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she was also saying things to rob that just didn't make sense the more she kept
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talking the more pieces she would give including up to what happened that night it would change a bit regarding where
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tim was first tim was downstairs but then tim was upstairs and the more pieces i'm getting here
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i'm i'm saying to myself i think i'm reaching a part where i need to talk to the police
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detectives know that when a murder happens in or around a family home the surviving spouse is very probably
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involved the statistics make that clear two days after the murder the cops had more questions for tia young and her
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so-called brother tim during their interviews both seem to change their stories quite a bit
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there are inconsistencies between the two stories and as they change it's obvious that
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they can't keep their stories straight i just heard a gunshot on the the 911
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dispatchers that she heard what she thought may have even been firecrackers and on that same call you can hear
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lee coming into the room saying that george had been shot [Music] by the time they were sitting in a
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police interview room two days later both tyr and tim were telling different versions of that story the story that
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timmy told investigators is that he heard gunshots he grabbed his gun he went out to
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investigate and came back inside and told tia whereas tia is saying she heard the noise and she went looking
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for him and said did you hear that so obviously the stories are inconsistent the cops are thinking
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something's up here but there's not enough to to determine what exactly happened here
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when people have slight variations in their stories it's not a huge deal when people's
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stories change drastically and are drastically different from another witness's
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story then there's a cause for concern or at least at the very least clear up
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those discrepancies in a murder investigations there's no room for inconsistency pressed by cops on who
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exactly their male house guest was tear finally cracked a little she admits that timmy's not her brother
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but she doesn't tell them that they have a relationship or that they're lovers
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detectives suspected there was more to the story but they had little to go on were tyr and tim involved in george's
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murder and if so what was their motivation they were watching tears next move closely
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i'ma do it by myself everybody love george she goes on the television news and she plays her role she is sobbing
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she is shocked and horrified she is the grieving widow there is nothing uncommon about people
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making appeals to the media or to the public for finding someone who committed a crime
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in fact it's often helpful but for an investigator the the focus is now on the person who's making the appeal
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she could have chosen not to go on television but my guess is that she had seen other women make appeals to
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the public for help in solving a crime related to either their loved one's disappearance or murder
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and so she felt that this is what she needed to do right she wouldn't have been able to instinctually know to do
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that she would have probably taken the cues taking her cues from her mother's
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investigators are looking for demeanor they're looking for a change in a story they're looking for
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inconsistencies or anything at all that can give them another lead to this investigation
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i'm gonna do it by myself everybody loved george i think on the one hand tia
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was somebody who was trying to cover her tracks and have an alibi so it makes sense that she might express to family
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and friends how sad she was to have lost her husband but to go on tv and put this
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public persona out there and basically become a mini celebrity in her community is a completely other thing for forensic
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psychologist dr judy ho tears tv appeal revealed that detectives would have been
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wise not to take her grief at face value what it shows me about tia is that she was somebody who desired not only
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fortune but fame i think she was liking all of the attention that she was getting from the tragedy and she enjoyed
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playing this role of the doting wife and wonderful mother if it was an act tear struggled to keep
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it up when the mask of the grieving widow occasionally slipped george's friends started to suspect what his
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death really meant to his widow money the day of the murder we were there most of the day it was getting pretty
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late and i said hey tia the wife and i we're gonna have to take off we'll get some change clothes we're
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gonna come back and she said before you go can you help me find the insurance policy this is not normal
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little behavior i i would imagine that the widow of someone who was taken so tragically this would be the last thing
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on her mind right in fact someone might have to remind her that there's a will
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robert didn't mention this incident to police at the time but george's sister
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did ivy told investigators that there was a life insurance policy and tia was the sole
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beneficiary of that life insurance policy once detectives found out about the life insurance policy they
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discovered that within 24 hours tia had attempted to cash in on that policy a life insurance policy on george worth
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a million dollars and tia is the sole beneficiary a loving and doting wife that probably wouldn't
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be the first thing in your mind you're going to get that life insurance at some
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point but maybe you mourn maybe you plan for the funeral but instead she went right for the money and that was a dead
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giveaway from the moment tia found the paperwork for her husband's life insurance
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she had money on her mind she did mitch bring up the insurance policy again is that all she's going to need
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is a death certificate and she started just talking about the money and what the money was
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going to do and that didn't sit right with me either once again detectives felt something was
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a little odd about the grieving widow's behavior but that was all i had a feeling until a
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witness came forward with information that changed everything the evidence was provided by me and my
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oldest daughter when she was on the phone not one she was looking outside to see if she could
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see anything and actually saw a male figure run outside and run underneath george's truck and do something and then
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run back into the house there was only one man in the house at the time of george's death
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tim lee when police questioned him and they say look the neighbor saw you out there
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said you ran outside right after the shooting you grabbed something from under george's vehicle
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what were you getting tim and tim says oh yes well yes i did i had a gps tracker that george had asked me
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to put a gps tracker on his vehicle to keep him safe detectives ask themselves what do secret lovers need to know
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in this case where the husband might be we found out later that there was a gps locator on george's truck
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so they could figure out when he was coming home tim lee was about to cover his tracks
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with an implausible story timmy's explanation for the gps tracker was an outlandish story that george
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asked him to put the track and device on his vehicle for his georgia's safety
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timmy claimed that george was a gun runner and he didn't want his family and friends to
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know that so he removed the gps tracker so no one would discover this your friend has just been
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gunned down on his porch and you jump over the bloody body and your first thought is i need to get the
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gps tracker off the truck nothing about this tale rang true i had a talk with tim
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i said tim what's going on will the police interview true he says yeah he says
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i know you're not going to believe me when i tell you this but george was a gun runner i'm fighting
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everything in my body not to grab him by the throat and throw him to the ground but i know
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that's the worst thing i can do for a lot of reasons what i have to do is listen
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i said really yes george's gun running georgia's moving guns from florida to georgia
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detectives weren't buying it either the prosecution would later argue that timmy
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placed a tracking device on george's vehicle and was the only person that knew when and where and exactly how
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george moved about police are still having trouble getting enough evidence to bring charges
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but they are pretty convinced that this tim and this tia they're behind this murder but the
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picture of why george young was dead was not yet complete for detectives they still hadn't worked out exactly what was
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going on between their two prime suspects they needed more on the nature of the relationship of mrs tia young and
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her husband's best friend tim lee they provide evidence from cell phones conversations that the two have had and
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they corner them on this relationship despite the breakthrough discovery that tim lee was tracking his friend george's
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every move detectives still didn't feel that they had enough to prove who had
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murdered him five months after the shooting forensic technicians got around to analyzing the
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contents of tia and tim's cell phones investigators now have possession of text messages
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email messages and it shows a very intimate and sexual relationship between tia and timmy
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sexually suggested text messages and funny memes talking about cheating on your husband and
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killing your husband detectives were beginning to form a picture of tia and tim's motive and they were discovering a
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hint of premeditation in some ways the joking around was probably a way that they tested that water with one another
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well are you willing to do this because if you are i am it was small enough to hold both of them back in for
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interrogation tia finally breaks and she admits to police that yeah they were having an affair but
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this had nothing to do with what happened to george the cops finally had the proof that they needed the tear and
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tim had been lying to them throughout the investigation they'd been having an
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affair and investigators also discovered the interest that tyr had taken in claiming the insurance payout on her
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husband's death now police have the life insurance policy the affair they have motive was it money was it
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that they wanted to be together what we know for a fact is that george was an impediment right either to being
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together or to um to access to that money george needed to be dealt with and there was more police are searching
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through tia and tim's electronic devices their computers their phones and they find that tim has been doing
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some interesting searches he had some very odd internet searches for things like snake venom
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black little spider venom or other deadly toxins various kinds of ways one might poison someone in case someone
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might want to poison someone investigators now had more than enough to lay charges
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late april of 2018 both of them are charged with murder and they both plead not guilty
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george's friends who had for months suspected tia young and tim lee had blood in their hands were one step
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closer to seeing justice it definitely was thought out between the both of them because i think there's no way
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you could attempt to pull something like that off without having two corroborating
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witnesses or two people who have a story in their head of what they're gonna tell the
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police when they arrive no case is automatically destined for a guilty verdict it was time for a jury to
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weigh up the evidence in the case of mr and mrs young and her lover tim lee march 28 2019 testimony gets underway in
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the murder trial of tia and tim the jury will hear testimony that includes the fact that this
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brother-sister relationship was actually an affair the two were carrying on behind george's back the jury will hear
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about a one million dollar life insurance policy where the sole beneficiary was tia and
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the jury will also hear that there was a gps tracker that tim had placed on george the victim's
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vehicle and found the need to immediately after the murder run and retrieve it from george's truck rather
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than helping george the tracker meant that tim knew exactly the moment george was arriving home from work on the 16th
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of november 2017. the prosecution argued that as george's truck approached the house tim waited in
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the front yard he shot george twice then re-entered the house by the back door it's this aspect of the crime that hurts
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most for george's friend rob when you go home it's that time where everything just
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drops and to know he is going in that door and putting his key in that door and he is ambushed
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by the people who he thought loved him and who he trusted and the motive was clear
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it was about the money it was about that one million dollars it was about her and tim
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having a relationship and being able to start over again with a million dollars tim
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and tia uh started having an affair and basically they wanted to be together and george had a
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very high insurance life insurance policy and that's what the plan was was to kill him
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collect the insurance and then be together i believe that tia and tim's motivations
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were entirely financial they were both in many ways down on their luck tim had recently hit some hard times and i think
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tia felt like she had to rely on george for everything and that she didn't have any
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freedom and so with his money she could be free so while my friend my cousin every other great name i could ever call
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him was out breaking his behind working three different jobs doing the best he could to love his
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family her and tim was starting their own family april 2019 and the verdict the jury
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deliberates from about 8 15 in the morning until around seven o'clock that night
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they decide tia and george are both guilty tia is convicted of felony murder aggravated assault
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and attempt to tamper with evidence tim is convicted of the same charges as well
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as malice murder which means intentional murder without provocation it was a bittersweet moment for george's
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friends and family who had packed the courtroom to hear the verdict after all the deliberation
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and everything that happened we heard guilty verdicts at the end [Music] first off you get a real quick feeling
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that comes first feeling comes george isn't coming back that guilty verdict doesn't
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doesn't all of a sudden he walks through the courtroom miraculously he's not coming back
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but the second piece of that is the people who are responsible for his murder are going to pay for it tia was
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sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole plus three years lee was sentenced to life in prison
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without possibly parole the judge said you know he thought that if the two had not had this affair
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george might still be alive today he actually put the bulk of the blame on tim lee
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here was a man that george had opened his home to he had given him a job uh because this
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man was down on his luck and how was he repaid he was repaid by having tim steele his wife attempt to
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steal his life insurance and ultimately to steal his life it was the ultimate betrayal the judge
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wanted to make that clear and make sure that tim lee would never see another day
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as a free person [Music] the sentencing of tyr young and timothy lee brought justice for george young and
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some closure for his loved ones but they feel they'll never understand the magnitude of tears betrayal of cheating
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and killing her husband of 22 years and the father of her three boys what in the world
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what in a world in life could cause you to think that this was a way that this was the answer
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to take a man like that away from from his children from his family do you know how much he loved you
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do you know how much he talked about you and his and his family do you know the dreams that he had
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do you know why he worked so hard he would talk about his loving wife he trusted you
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he trusted you more than anything else in this entire world and you betrayed that trust
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and i hope i hope she suffers every day every day [Music] [Music] you