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this time on Killers caught on camera cob County police in Atlanta Georgia a man is discovered in a pool of
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blood in his own bedroom 3 die what happened is a mystery the bedroom was in disarray it was covered
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in blood all over the walls and in the UK a woman is ambushed and killed in her own home this behavior
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is very suspicious I think most of us would look at this behavior and think this is a really odd a brutal end to a
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brief relationship just sounds like something bad is happening to her we know what
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happened because the video tells us what happened I heard some gunshot drop it whatever it is drop it that does
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not prove that I killed my wife the camera doesn't in the United States Marietta
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Georgia 20 M Northeast of the state capital Atlanta in cob County a 911 dispatcher
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received a disturbing call oh I can't I'm done okay tell me exactly what happened
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sir tell me the address I'm dying sir I need to know where you are okay you said someone was still
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there are they still there yes can you tell me if anybody has a weapon yes detective Sarah Penny was one of the
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officers called to the scene I got the phone call and my supervisor at the time said we have a person who
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may have been shot or stabbed and gave me the location when the police arrived the
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front door was wide open car police car police we don't know if the person's
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still there we don't know if they're holding hostage C County Police they needed to locate the collar
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inside the property all right let's go out police make yourself know if you're
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in the H the man was locked inside a room officers resorted to brute force and were met with a shocking scene
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inside the bedroom victims of as he's been shot we got a lot of blood he was kind of in a corner
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bleeding out and just saying help me help me uh he shot me where you shot St three
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times shot you he was unable to identify his attacker go get that Neighbor Next over
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here she know do you know who was in here with you yeah he took my cell phone the Medics arrived on scene and tried to
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keep him [Music] alive sir as the medical team tried to stabilize him the police started to try
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and work out what happened seeing the blood all over the wall and glass being cut they knew some
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kind of struggle have happened uh so they were trying to absorb all that in looks like it happened here there's
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blood at the door coming all way up the steps he was actually locked in here so we don't know if he came in
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here the bedroom was in disarray it was covered in blood all over the walls bottles had been broken on the ground
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everything had kind of been moved around in the room ready 1 2 3 badly injured the man was bleeding
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heavily the neighbors had come outside to see what was going on is it oh God do you know him well or I'm know him
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very well what's his name Mitchell Mitchell yes 31-year-old Mitchell Jones Jr had
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moved from Erie Pennsylvania to Atlanta Georgia in search of a better [Music] life he worked at a local restaurant
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that was nearby his house he was the life of the party everybody loved being around him he was sweet he liked to hang
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out with dogs and adopt them and he was in the process of wanting to make it to the big screen and work for
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Hollywood he had been an extra in several movies uh where he really took pride in that so his big dream was to
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make it to [Music] Hollywood but Mitchell's dreams were shattered as he succumbed to his
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multiple injuries this was now a murder case the police needed to catch Mitchell's
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killer detective Carrie grimstead was the lead investigator any investigation but
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particularly homicide the longer it goes the colder the evidence gets what the hell is
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that one thing leads to another you need to follow that up follow that up follow
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that up there's a little bit of blood in the doorway the faster we can act on the
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evidence the fresher it is the better the evidence is going to be [Music] Jesse Evans was leading the major crimes
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unit at the District Attorney's office we knew who the victim was uh we knew that his cell phone had been taken
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from him we knew that this was a particularly violent assault but we didn't have a whole lot
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of details that we could glean from him before his passing about who might have caused these injuries to him or how this
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may have occurred the only things he did say was my neighbor knows she could tell us that Mitchell called
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her that night told her that he had to come home and she has seen couple people come in and out of the house um and only
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knew one person really that kind of stood out to her you saw him with another man at
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for and she said that if anybody could have hurt Mitchell it would have been that boy that's what everybody described
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him and called him that boy young female J she's saying other guy was with this
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guy and that's gay from what she's saying and that uh this car has been here a
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lot police started to look for the suspect crime scene investigators worked their way through the
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property I am a certified blood stain pattered analyst so I was analyzing what types of blood smears there were or
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stains there were there was passive blood spatter there was pooling spatter most of what was on the wall walls were
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what we call contact transfer where a bloody object makes contact with a non- bloody surface so that being said I
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didn't see any impact spatter or anything like that that would come from a possible
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firearm one of the critical pieces of evidence that police identified very early on which is very significant to us
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was a 90° blood drop that was at the threshold of this crime scene at the door clearly out of place detectives had
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the foresight to say that's out of place we need to swab that we knew for one that wasn't Mell
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Jones because he didn't leave the room until he was transported by medical personnel so we knew that had to be our
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suspect's blood the variety of blood stains provided Vital Information about the
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relationship between Mitchell and the person who killed him didn't rifle through a bunch of
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drawers or anything like it was a robbery we know that the the killer was covered
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with blood because especially right here you'll see the uh blood transfer on the
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sofa and that's a pattern transfer from the clothing and you can tell it looks
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like somebody sat down that was covered with blood they sat on the sofa to rest for a minute that indicates that he's
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not in fear of anybody coming right to the house it indicates a level of comfort
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inside of the residence the suspect also seemed to have been welcomed into the property
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there's no forc entry to the residence there's no damage to the door frame
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indicating the U door was opened most likely by Mitchell Jones but the murder weapon remained a
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mystery when Mitchell called now one and said that he was shot it had kind of confused us because he had so many
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multiple um stab wounds and we could never find a gun or shell casing perpetrators of homicide are much
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more likely to use a handgun than they are a knife in fact knives are only used in about 10% of cases according to the
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FBI in his 911 call Mitchell actually says that he's been shot rather than that he's been
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stabbed when the autopsy was completed there was no bullet wounds all the medical examiner can tell us is that
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there were multiple stab wounds I talked to the medical examiner who performed the autopsy and instead of
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been able to indicate the exact number he identified them as clusters couldn't
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actually count how many his uh aord was punctured one of his lungs was punctured
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uh numerous other near fatal injuries occurred the scene upstairs provided more insight into Mitchell's
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relationship with his killer when I initially went into the master bedroom there were candles that had been
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lit which indicate there was possible romantic involvement the crime scene tells you
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that this had to been somebody that was close to Mitchell some kind of passion involved for someone to kill Mitchell
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like that we also learned that he happened to be single and was dating other men these things had to be looked at
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when we didn't have any actionable leads at the beginning of the investigation the police needed to
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investigate Mitchell's lovers but they were still missing a critical piece of
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evidence we learned on that first day that uh the suspect had taken Mitchell's
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cell phone your entire life is on the phone so we didn't have a whole lot of
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who he was with last who did he call who did he contact police tracked down one of
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Mitchell's close friends Jasmine in a text message to her Mitchell said he was in an abusive
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relationship I think when people think about domestic violence they assume that the victims are always women and the
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perpetrators are always men and while that's usually the case so in the US it's estimated that one in Four Women
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will be the victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives one in nine
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men in the United States are also the victims of domestic violence and if you're a gay man your goes way back up
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to the same rate as women because Mitchell's messages didn't name who was abusive detectives needed
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to check his relationships and start ruling people out one of the pictures Mitchell had
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sent uh of that boy to Jasmine was uh a FaceTime photo of the male and he was shirtless uh in that photo I noticed
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that there were praying hands on tattoos and the tattoo was of a Praying hand on
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his chest with a rest in peace and the date of when that person was deceased so I did a hashtag search and I found a
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post made by a person named Eric when I clicked on the profile I saw that that tattoo matched the same tattoo that I
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was looking at from that boy and that's how I was able to identify him the police tracked down a friend
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named Eric and brought him in for an interview the faster we get to the jail the faster you'll be able to get
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out Eric told the police that he'd been hanging out with another male at the
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time of the murder detective Ry and I went to the apartment complex of this smil that he was hanging out with and as
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we were getting off the elevator detective Ry noticed a dog poop um on the side of the
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elevator this bizarre observation actually became very important after they checked Eric's cell phone
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there was a picture that he had taken of the same dog poop that we saw and he had
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sent it to a close friends of his which at the time of him taking that photo and
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sending it there was no way he would have had enough time to send that photo at that time then drive to Mitchell's
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house to commit the homicide that picture gave Eric an alibi he wasn't [Music]
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there with Eric completely cleared of all charges the police were back to square one they searched the area
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looking for cameras a lot of people have rain door cameras or ADT Security or any number of
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cameras around their house and if we see any of those we try to make contact and we did locate One camera
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that was in the vicinity of the uh scene the video shows a vehicle pulling into the residence
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it left maybe a minute or two after the 911 call you can't see a tag number on the
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vehicle but you can see the brake lights pretty clearly and 2 weeks prior we see
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another vehicle that has the same brake lights and this is daytime and you can actually see it's a black vehicle or
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dark colored vehicle numerous people in the office helped us look for vehicles that had similar tail
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lights and then we finally identified the vehicle it was it was a Buick lern we searched
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around uh to see if you know in the locally have we stopped anything similar to it and we just couldn't find
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anything at this point the case stalled because we didn't have anything to go by
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the long longer the time goes on the less evidence you're going to have because phone data only lasts certain
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amount of time video only last a certain amount of time and unfortunately uh some of the
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dating sites he was on would not honor a subpoena from us for records it was very
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disheartening it was so frustrating at this point Mitchell's mom at the time
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was very upset she was calling for answers and and wanting us to do everything and and at one point she was
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very upset with me uh because she didn't think I was doing a good job with no more leads the case went
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cold for 4 months before a digital forensic breakthrough one of the detectives in
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the office just come back from training with the FBI he had heard about a geofence
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technology which where you put a a virtual fence around the location and any phone that crosses that that number
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would show up analysts at Google were asked to identify the phones that were active
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close to the crime scene we saw essentially that there were four users that were within the Geo fence that we
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submitted to them three of those were quickly eliminated as potential suspects because they were
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neighbors and then there was one user that was unknown to us had not been a name even on the radar in terms of the
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investigation we asked Google to unmask the number and to give us the information
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Associated the email came back to Dante [Music] Holmes we have a person now let's start
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digging on this person let's start working let's start going he was actually on probation for a violent
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crime uh he lived in the Atlanta area we obtained a search warrant for that iCloud and we received what was uploaded
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well that night of the homicide there was a picture that was uploaded on the iCloud for Dante with an ankle um
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wrapped up in bandage around it so it looked like the person had been cut there was one other key piece of
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evidence that linked Dante Holmes to the scene of the crime we noticed that Dante Holmes's
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mother had a bu lern we also learned that Dante Holmes was a primary operator of that
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vehicle we all agreed that the next step would be to try to obtain an arrest warrant from a judge to execute that on
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Dante Holmes in the hopes that we would be able to get some additional information either forensically or
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through an [Music] interview Dante Holmes was arrested and brought into custody he was transported back to Cobb
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County where we interviewed him we also collected his DNA to compare to the suspect DNA at the
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scene it was a very emotional roller coaster even going into the interview because knowing all the work that we had
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put in all the man hours we have put [Music] in this is the climax how you doing
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detective Grim set during the interview we're looking for several things we're looking at uh how
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they move how they look what we get to the meat and potatoes um ask you a couple basic
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questions here when they're answering questions how's their tone you know
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we'll ask several questions which they're going to give positive answers
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to last name is holes Hol mes yes sir Dante d u n t yes sir how's that compared to an answer when we
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ask him was he at the murder scene what I want to talk to you about is Mitchell Jones do you know Mitchell
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Jones that's going to be slightly different we're looking for little hints
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that they'll drop there would be no reason for you to phone to be at Mitchell Jones's housing no reason hm no
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reason no reason whatsoever What's going at the start of the interview he was
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very sure of himself very standoffish if I told you that was not the correct answer what would you say to
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that that it was wrong you're not being honest with this puts you at Mitchell's
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house the officers started to put more information to Dante and that's what we
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need to find out that is a specific technique in interrogations where you let the suspect start talking and then
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you start coming with information that you already have evidence for saying actually we know this we know you're
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drived by a car we know you've been to the house multiple times your phone puts
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you in that same car at the house rather than putting all your cards on the table
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at once you are selectively releasing that information to see how the suspect changes their story or whether they
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change their story and then to try and trip them up in the lie and hopefully to end up in a
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disclosure that's was czy as we confronted him with the evidence that refuted what he was saying
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we have all these answers already but we need to know what happened in the house
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that's our question he began the only thing I can think of looking defeated did he become aggressive toward
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you did something go wrong we just don't understand it's not like television where you know you've
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got good C bad cop detective Stoddard and I both took the you know the grandfatherly
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approach did you get scared we know sometimes things are unintentional research very much finds that being nice
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and treating people as human beings and asking them about what they know rather than trying to force it out of them them
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is a much more useful strategy the idea is that if they trust you they're more
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likely to disclose the truth to you and they're more likely to give you information that you need sometimes
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things happen that we don't intend to happen we know what happened we know you
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need to get it off your chest we know you've got a lot on your mind with Dante uncooperative the
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officers sat and waited in silence having the really long silence feels really intimidating I think if
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you're in a room with two police officers and you know what they think happened and you know what happened it
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must be terrifying it's almost a game of well obviously we're not going to end
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this you're not going to leave until you start talking for the following 4 minutes no
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words were exchanged [Music] and then D Holmes finally broke down I'm going be 100% honest with
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y'all come in the house people talk to you like I don't want to do this like
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he had the back turn and turn around and he tried to stab me then we start fighting I hit him over the head with a
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piece of glass and he dropped the knife and I grabbed the knife and he was on top of me so I stabbed him in the
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back more than 25 individual wounds that Dante claimed were in self-defense I had the St CU if I want
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them I would have been there we did not believe in self-defense the scene indicated is the
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opposite Mitchell had broken it off with him didn't want to be involved cuz Mitchell liked to date people he he
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didn't want to be tied down to one person Mitchell had broke it off with Dante Dante had convinced him hey let me
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come over one last time they gone up in a in a bedroom and that's when Mitchell
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Jones was assaulted preceding intimate partner murder you often find what I just
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generally referred to us strong emotions and that can be anger that can be things
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caused by someone saying I want to break up something that ignites the first move
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towards violence and it makes sense to me that they were talking talk about breaking up and then this started not to
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say that that excuses it by any means but that is exactly the kind of thing that is often the precipitating factor
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for intimate partner murder once he admitted that he did it it was just such an Elation and at the
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same time a relief put your hands together Dante's DNA also matched the swab taken from the scene of the crime
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the case never went to trial on January 6th 2020 Dante Holmes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault
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aggravated battery and malice murder he was sentenced to life in prison Mitchell Jones's family was
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grateful uh for the fact that there would be some finality and that they knew that Dante Holmes would serve life
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in prison based on uh this brutal crime that he had committed against their their loved one Mitchell
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with this case technology played a huge role having the video surveillance having the iCloud photo that was
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uploaded having geofence being there all of those things collected together put everything together as a big puzzle led
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us to Dante Holmes and the conviction of the murder being a homicide detective is
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like you're speaking for people who cannot speak victims can't tell you what
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happened is satisfying knowing that it will help bring closure to the family to the victim's
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family in the US it's estimated that 30% of the population have done online dating almost 100 million people but
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online interaction lacks the non-verbal cues that we rely on on to assess honesty you can never truly know
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somebody that you've met online if you've only interacted with them online
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and that Honesty in the relationship develops over continual face-to-face meetings which is all important for
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human beings in us trying to understand what it is we're seeing in front of us
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so understanding doesn't depend on what I say it also depends on how I behave
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and the interaction of those two things as the Quest for romance moves increasingly online new ways to lie are
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quickly evolving research has found that more than half of Us online daters admit
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to lying in their profiles in order to detect when someone's deceptive you need
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to speak to them face to face and in our next case in the UK in the county of Nottinghamshire the transition from
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screen time to time in in real life was problematic with messages misread red flags never
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spotted Colston Basset a small village southeast of the city of Nottingham home to CLA Abel
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white CLA Abel white was 47 years old she was a mom of three she had previously been married and had always
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been working on a farm when her marriage ended Claire left the farm and went to live in the closet
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Village of coulston Basset she was living a very rural life there working in his Stables looking after horses CLA
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loved animals and she was also running a really successful business walking dogs
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at the time and people who knew her would always talk of her as this really popular well-liked sociable
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woman but on February 26th 2022 CLA failed to turn up at the stable where she worked a friend of hers turned up on the
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morning and CLA wasn't there like normal tending to the horses so something started to seem a little bit odd to
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her Claire's father he decided to pop over to the house to check on her he called up there was no
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answer he walked up the stairs that was when he found CLA laying in a pool of blood
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Claire's father called an ambulance he says she looks dead she's white and
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she's cold but they ask him to start doing CPR and mouth to mouth on her which must have been incredibly
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traumatic when the ambulance arrived CLA had already succumbed to horrific injuries and was pronounced
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dead when the police arrived at the crime scene they found a number of details around in the room there was
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blood splattered everywhere she had blunt force trauma to the Head she'd been heavily assaulted to the face there
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was Slash wounds on her neck they actually discovered stab wounds in her chest as well CLA had been left so long
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that riger mortis had started to set in on her body the police now had a murder investigation on their
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hands the house was made a crime scene the police naturally will look for details of forensic evidence
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unfortunately cla's phone had also been removed from the scene there was no evidence that they could check on her
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mobile phone and crucially no murder weapon found at the scene nor was there any other DNA
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evidence police are up against it here they have a killer on the loose at this point and it's really difficult if the
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police don't have some of these solid bits of evidence to work off professor Coral dando is a forensic
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psychologist whenever we go into any situation we leave some sort of trace of having been there but when people go
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prepared to leave as little trace evidence as possible it makes the police's job and the forensic scientist
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job well almost impossible the police decided to use ultraviolet powder dusted over the crime
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scene to try and find more evidence they'll powder around the whole scene Turn the Lights Out and this will then
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show up evidence that the naked eye can't see the police make a significant Discovery they find shoe prints which
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they discover could only have been caused by the killer these prints were made whilst cla's blood was still
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fresh the shoe prints were a useful lead but the police had very little else to go on
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[Music] the crime was committed in a remote location where there weren't many
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cameras the police appealed to the public for information they got a really significant breakthrough one of cla's
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neighbors were away on holiday they believe that they might have caught cla's murder on one of their
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CCTV cameras they call the police fly back from holiday and rush home to give them the
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evidence the camera captured crucial footage a figure loitering nearby play's house is behind the fence
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this behavior is very suspicious I think most of us would look at this behavior and think this is really odd to be
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walking partway across a neighbor's drive next door to someone that we now know had been
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murdered the video gave the police vital Clues Professor Vasilios kajan opos is a
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specialist in cyber crime he's wearing a jacket he has a rock sock and he's wearing Adidas
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sneakers with a distinctive three stripes that mat the footprint that was found in cla's
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home but even more shocking the video was recording sound the audio was traffic and never
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released we can hear CLA she's having a conversation with a neighbor and we see
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this male sort of hanging around waiting for a little while he then goes and knocks on Claire's door the dogs are
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barking she lets him [Music] in once he then enters the house what we can then hear which is really just
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unbelievable and harrowing is Claire's screams as she is being murdered the person in the footage was
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now the prime suspect for Claire's murder now they needed to work out exactly who the killer was and try to
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trace their journey to and from cla's house scrolling back through the footage
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on cla's neighbors CCTV the police Hit Upon a clue which was captured purely by
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chance [Music] this is a really rural area of the country it's dark it doesn't look as if
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there are any street lights so this would be really really difficult to see but it's the fact that if we watch
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carefully a car drives past this enables the CCTV camera to pick up this person on a bike riding in the direction of
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Claire's house this short Glimpse gave the police Vital Information about the route he took to
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her house but they still had no idea who her killer was the investigators scanned the
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cameras along a cycle way to Corston busard where CLA was staying and they can see someone cying on the night of
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the murder we can see the light color backpack on this piece of footage and the previous footage had an individual
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with a light color backpack this crime happening in such a remote place means that no one else
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would have been around at the time and the image of this guy matched the CCTV from the neighbor's camera too so the
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police were really on to something police Tracked Down CCTV cameras close to cla's home and after an
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extensive search they found multiple Clips showing a cyclist with similar identifying
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features it gives more evidence more clues to the police in terms of what the person might look like what they might
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have been wearing and then that makes it easier to spot them in other footage and
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create a map of their movements the police thought they had caught the killer on camera but they
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still couldn't identify the suspect pressure was mounting to find Claire's
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murderer 10 days into the investigation the police have another huge breakthrough someone from the team
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manages to locate cla's phone at the bottom of a local River and they somehow
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managed to get it working again the police accessed messages which revealed that Claire had been having a
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relationship with a younger man CLA had been using a dating website messaging this younger guy who was 26
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years old they hadn't really known each other that long they'd gone on a few
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coffee dates stuff like that he was identified as John Jessup he was a local guy local to
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Nottingham Shire on the surface of quite a normal guy to be honest he was quite Keen tennis player someone who hadn't
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been on the police's radar he had no History of Violence no DNA in the police's system at any point there was a
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21-year age gap between John and CLA as the police are sort of delving into the message chain between these two
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they kind of work out that most of this was John instigating stuff with CLA they'd met each other a few times they'd
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only been intimate once and then it's at this point CLA decides to call the relationship off um we can see in the
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messages that she was kind of having some out because of the age difference it's at this point where we
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see a real switch in John's Behavior he absolutely feels rejected he starts bombarding CLA with
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messages there's one really really long message where he says he starts to feel
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really used and wants answers from CLA about why she's decided to end the relationship and leave
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him John appeared to have a motive for killing CLA CLA says she feels conflicted about
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the age difference she sort of wants to call the relationship off and I just wonder if this was some kind of trigger
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point for John jesser there was something else that raised suspicions John is someone who had never
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come forward at any point to help the police's investigation despite being in
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cla's life in the buildup to this crime the police also made another important
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discovery about John he doesn't have a driver's license so the only way he could have come in
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was with a bike John Jessup was now suspect number one but the police still needed evidence
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to link him to cla's murder the police start their digging and what they find is some CCTV from
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around 18 miles away from where CLA was killed the footage was recorded while Johan ma was working in the
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[Music] store he took a pastry and he came and paid for it and uh he was just a normal
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person he was polite bought the stuff and then left the shop he was just like a exhausted person a major breakthrough
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the camera captured John Jessup close to Claire's home just a few hours before
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her murder this footage is really important for the police because it's giving them the person how he looks what
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he's wearing the details of the rock sock um and in particular we can see the
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distinctive three stripes Snickers that he is wearing that we know this person outside CLA H was wearing there isn't
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any such thing as a series of coincidences John doesn't have a driving license and he doesn't have a car it's
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more likely that he would have had to ride his bike to cla's house this was now enough evidence for
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the police to go and arrest him 11 days after cla's death the police moved [Music]
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in police go to John's place of work to arrest him when they go in he's hiding
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in the toilet they go in with tasers cuz they're not really sure how he's going
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to react remember this is someone who's just committed a really brutal and frenzied stabbing of someone towards me
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put your head get all right bu understand what's happening this officer here needs to
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tell you something listen very carefully all right I'm not doing this words are
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carriers of information carriers of deception and we know that the more that people say the more likely is that we
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can understand whether what they're saying is being deceptive the fact that he's immediately said I didn't do
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anything I think is unusual to us but it's not at all odd for those people that work with um offenders such as him
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time of arrest was 8:46 I'm not doing this let's go I think that the way he's behaving
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there is in line with all of the CCTV footage that we've seen he's quite a
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calm measured individual orbe it that he had committed a very violent attack on CLA and ultimately murdered her and he's
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just very silent very measured and it doesn't seem to come as any surprise to
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him which suggests that maybe he lacks empathy but again you can clearly see from his face it's the same man in the
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shop and the evidence is obviously there to arrest him [Music] John Jessup was taken into custody and
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questioned the police interview John over the course of 3 days initially he denies any involvement but on October
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the 12th he confesses to killing CLA the police were able to piece together exactly what had happened the
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night of cla's murder on the 25th of February John Jessup Cycles 18 miles to get to cla's
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house he leaves his phone at his home John Cycles past cla's house he stores the bike away and sort of waits
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in the shadows for her to get back listens to her talking to her neighbor and then Waits and goes into
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her home the police estimate that he was at her house for around an hour during the
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murder after killing CLA Jon steals her mobile phone he goes to a local stream and discards it in there then gets back
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on the bike puts his hat back on starts a cycle back home but the question remained was her
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murder premeditated his version of event is that he went over there they'd had an
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argument and in the sort of Heat of the Moment he'd grabbed a knife and killed
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her the tricky thing about this case was that the police were never able to locate the murder weapon that there
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meant the prosecution had this real challenge that they couldn't prove that this was a premeditated murder
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John Jessup confessed there was no trial John pleaded guilty to murder at notingham Crown Court in October
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2022 on January 4th 2023 he was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years the fact that that murder weapon
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was never found meant that John got got a lesser sentence I think he thought that he
00:45:00
would get away with it definitely and and in fact arguably if cla's next door
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neighbor CCTV footage wasn't available chances how would have got away with it
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the CCTV and the digital forensics they were essential to get a conviction within this case because there was no
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DNA evidence that was found in the house the footage that was caught on cla's
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neighbor's camera and that footage that we see of John in the shop it was essential you know we would not have
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been able to reach that point when you think it wasn't really that much of a relationship that they
00:45:35
had built for that then to have escalated into CLA being killed in this way it just disproportionate is the word
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that comes to mind CLA did nothing wrong and women should be able to say no this just
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speaks to an issue that keeps continuing to happen with a minority of men who were not able to to accept someone
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turning them down or rejecting them it is just so tragic that this loving mother of three that was starting this
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new chapter in her life has had her life taken away from her so senselessly [Music]
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