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this time on Killer caught on camera in Florida a woman goes missing after asking her friend to look after
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some money I knew how she felt about her son Drake that she loved him with all of
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her heart and she never would have just left him like that I love you and in the north of England a night
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in with friends but one of the guests proves deadly she was snuggling up to him she
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even was said to have looked like she found him quite attractive just Sly something bad is
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happening to her we know what happened because the video tells us what happened I heard some gunot drop it whatever it
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is that does not prove that I killed my wife the camera doesn't Li hi hi United States Jacksonville North
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Carolina a young Community with a large number of people in the armed forces it was home to 33-year-old Taylor
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Wright and friend Vanessa Smith we both worked at Jacksonville Police Department together she loved
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being a police officer she was happy to come to work she was happy to putle the uni for she was happy to go out there
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and catch the bad guys and she would just she would do really good work Vanessa and Taylor both had
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husbands in the military okay we're getting ready to start the engine being a military wife can be
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difficult especially when your husbands deploy a lot we were each other's Rock
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when we needed it it was like a sisterly friendship Taylor and her husband Jeff had had a son named
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Drake Taylor was amazing as a mom it was fun to see Taylor transition from like this big bad cop to now this mother roll
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oh no no no no don't use this hand hold it okay you P you won the wish now you
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have to make a wish did you make your wish okay give me a kiss I love you there your typical
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family we hung out with them we went to dinner with them we go over to their house a
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lot she was a part of the family she was a sister in 2015 Taylor and Jeff divorced
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and Jeff eventually took custody of their son two years later Taylor moved 8800 miles away to start a
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new life in Pensacola [Music] Florida Taylor started working as a private investigator and at the same
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time applied for a job at Pensacola Police Department she made new friends and began a romantic relationship with a
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woman who she moved in [Music] with life was settling down again but in September 2017
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just a few months after moving to Pensacola Taylor disappeared her girlfriend at the time
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sent me a Facebook message and asking if I had heard from Taylor if she was missing it was a shock because that
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wasn't anything like her she loved her son she loved him endlessly and she would have never just gone and left him
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didn't make sense Taylor was reported missing by her girlfriend Cassandra Waller Richard gigliotti was a detective
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for the Pensacola Police Department the officer initially responded to this said she's an adult if
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she wants to take some time off or take some time away she's more than welcome to do so
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some time I went by I want to say close to a week or so the same reporting person Cassandra Waller come to the
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station said that she still hadn't seen Taylor Wright still hadn't heard from
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her and was growing a little more concerned as well as not returning home to Cassandra Taylor also failed to make
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any phone calls to her son who she usually spoke with every evening I knew how she felt about her son Drake that
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she loved him with all of her heart and she never would have just left him like that Taylor was building a new life in
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Pensacola despite the distance from her old life and her child things seemed to be going well you have a mother who
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consistently calls her child now suddenly not she has an application into to work at a police department she
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wanted to just disappear why are you applying for jobs careers something was more than just a
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missing person's case the police needed to speak to anyone who might have information about
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Taylor detective Chad willite was assigned to the case well we investiga a Miss iners case
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um the first person that we're going to talk to would be the reporting person
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which would be Cassandra Waller in this case the last day that y'all were together can you kind of walk me through
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that day she made me breakfast she made me like eggs and bacon and stuff and she
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was in no worry for anything you know just like the M moment despite a few relationship issues
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and some erratic behavior all was well but her girlfriend received a message later that day that was out of
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character Cassandra didn't hear from Taylor again and she didn't return home Bridget Meers Jensen is the
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assistant State Attorney initially when someone goes missing I think everyone is a suspect so
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in this particular case we looked at Taylor's girlfriend Taylor's ex-husband possibly anyone that was
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involved in her Private Investigations were police looked at Taylor's finances cameras that scann checks
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revealed a sudden large withdrawal from an account that she shared with her ex-husband Taylor removed approximately
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$100,000 in cash out of the joint account that they had and the judge had ordered Taylor to give the money back
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based on her ongoing dispute with her ex-husband Jeff and the fact that there's $100,000 missing from the
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account he is a potential suspect in the case we did contact Jeff Wright he was a
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friendly enough guy still had custody of their child he gave us a little background that Taylor you know has from
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time to time taken off and didn't communicate with friends but did agree that she would still communicate with
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her son there was still one key person the police needed to speak with with a friend of hers called Ashley
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MacArthur who Taylor had trusted with a large sum of money Ashley MacArthur was a friend of Taylor Ashley's husband
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actually worked with Taylor in the Private Investigations industry and so that's how Ashley and Taylor
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met Ashley MacArthur had worked briefly as a crime scen technician at the sheriff's office she also worked for her
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family's Amusement arcade company which supplied video games to local businesses Cassandra Waller paints this
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picture Taylor let Ashley hold a significant amount of money and that Taylor kept trying to get the money back
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Taylor grew more and more concerned about this and expressed this to Cassandra Taylor wri's girlfriend told
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the police that Ashley had promised to give Taylor her money back on September 8th she was like okay well Ash is coming
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over we're going to go to Ash's bank and we're going to pick up my money Ash had
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pulled up and I was like all right you know we hugged we kissed I love you I went my
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[Music] way that intimate moment was the last time Cassandra said she saw Taylor she also claimed that Taylor had
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a funny feeling about Ashley it seemed like you can parid she was talking about how she felt like
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something just wasn't right with Ash like she wasn't sure if Ash had her
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money or not because Taylor had been trying to get the money for like four or 5 days and I was like Taylor you know
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she's probably been really busy you know she goes no cash she goes like I'm
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telling you something just doesn't feel right with me I don't want to think this
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but like I want to give you guys like whatever you guys need I be so wrong no I I'd rather you be wrong and have a
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feeling or know something to tell us I to be mad at me cuz I like May or something as do even know
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anything Cassandra's testimony meant the police were now becoming much more focused on Taylor's friend Ashley she
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was called in for a chat to start with your relationship to Taylor okay she was more than happy to
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cooperate and you all met how long ago about a year ago how often did y'all hang out
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um probably once a week twice a week we kind of hone in on the day of The Disappearance with with Ashley and
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really try to get her locked into a timeline the last day that you saw her was what day on Friday she discusses
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going and picking up Taylor the morning of we went back to my house I believe and what
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were what was your purpose purpose for going back there um to get the any of the papers that I had for her and the
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money and stuff for her so the money was being kept at your house right how long
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had the money been being kept there um it was only there for a few a few days where was it at before
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that Taylor had it was Taylor trying to hide until she could recoup maybe funds that she had
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spent was Taylor hiding this money with the hopes that they would just let it go
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that was that was kind of an unknown Ashley gave a detailed account of what happened on September
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8th I went to the gas station there to get a drink she was on the phone and I went in the store got a
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drink and got her and her beer how much has she been drinking that day was she like intoxicated like she
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didn't seem to be but I mean I don't drink at 10:00 in the morning either so I don't sure and
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in fact I said something to her I was like beer at this time of the morning she was like well it's 5:00 somewhere
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according to Ashley they proceed to Ashley's Family Farm out in East Milton this was a family farm that I had
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instead we just drove out there and she was just team I guess she says Taylor rides
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some of the horses and they um come back into Pensacola and Ashley says Taylor gets into an Uber and leaves her
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residence she was fine she just said that she wanted to go have a beer and that she was going to get an Uber to
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take her to go have a beer Ashley gives us permission to look into her cell phone at the time we kept the phone and
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had the analyst plug it in and start start chipping away at downloading the police used the cell
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phone data to check on Ashley's timeline of events then they tried to find evidence
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for the route that Ashley said she and Taylor took we're looking for any kind of
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surveillance cameras that we can find any kind of convenience stores that they may drive
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past they began with the gas station that Ashley and Taylor went into on the last day to t er was
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seen this is surveillance footage from a fuel station convenience store called Tom
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Thumb as MacArthur going in purchasing some drinks she just grabbed a beer out of the cooler she's on the
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phone here so it's presumed here that Taylor was likely in the vehicle she certainly
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said that Taylor was in the vehicle the the video of Ashley in the gas station backed up her
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timeline but when they got the cell phone data back Ashley's version of movements didn't match the root mapping
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from her phone neither Ashley's cell phone or Taylor's cell phone ever goes over to
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East Milton in fact their cell phon stay over in the area of that P station where
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Ashley was observed making purchases inside the store we start looking for or any kind
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of property that either of them may have connections to in that area we know that
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Ashley her maiden name is Brit so we type in the last name Brit and it brings up Brit
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Road the police discovered Ashley's family owned a farm on Brit Road just north of the gas station where she was
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caught on [Music] camera it's nowhere near where Ashley said they were this is not the farm in East Milton
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she's talking about it's in cantonement Bula area here in esami County detectives started to analyze the
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inconsistencies in Ashley's version of events they also grew suspicious of her
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eagerness to help during the investigation Ashley called several times inquiring about the case she would
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ask what we were up to or what we had going on or if we' made any progress no
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one else during the investigation called as half as many times as Ashley [Music]
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did someone being too involved in the investigation by constantly calling the police is something that I've seen
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before and it is again one of those circumstances where the person's probably overcompensating so they are
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trying to show that they're concerned about their friend what they're trying
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to sort of theatrically perform is the worry friend but what they're obviously
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doing because that's not how normal people behave is they're obviously trying to get information about the case
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so that they can adjust their story as needed and almost certainly doing something as unusual as this is going to
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raise suspicions rather than qu them her bank records enabled the police to track down surveillance footage of
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Ashley making a series of unusual transactions you can see a large sum of money in her her hand that she was
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depositing into the ATM machines we also received the image of the check that uh Ashley had
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deposited and you'll see various uh images of Ashley making various transactions crucial footage at the ATM
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revealed inconsistencies in Ashley's version of events we get Ashley deposit depositing
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Taylor's checks Taylor had checks made out to her in her name and yet Ashley's
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on camera depositing them we look at Taylor's signatures spanning back months and the signature
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on the back of the check that Ashley's depositing doesn't match the signature in another breakthrough Ashley
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was caught on camera at a Home Depot store the day after Taylor disappeared she had an unusual shopping list
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in the cart is concrete and potting soil this is an employee that's she's got
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helping her push the cart and then she goes up and pays cash for the items when the police checked out
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another one of Ashley's interview claims they were baffled Ashley told us that Taylor had
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taken an Uber from her house we investigated that we learned she hadn't used Uber and quite some time we also
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checked other ride share companies and none of those had any kind of records with Taylor still missing the way Ashley
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MacArthur behaved was in complete contrast to Taylor's girlfriend Cassandra on the other hand we ask her
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pass codes to her phone she gives them right over we ask her for consent to search everything she signs everything
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open book it became quite apparent that Cassandra wasn't involved in Taylor's
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disappearance Taylor's ex-husband Jeff Wright was in the Army and many miles away at the time
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of her disappearance detective gigliotti was able to make contact with his command up
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at his base and confirm that he's been at work the whole time and he hasn't
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left U that area so he was it was easy to rule him out as any kind of potential suspect in the
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case with Cassandra and Jeff in the clear all the evidence seemed to be pointing towards Ashley
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Arthur the big question was is Ashley lying to us because she's hiding Taylor helping her hide out or is she
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lying to us cuz she hurt her the police decided they needed another conversation with
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Ashley at the same time they planed to search three Key Properties including the farm on Brit road we have teams in
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place to execute all those at one time we o have myself and gigliotti we are going to conduct the interview here at
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the police department everything was riding on this carefully planned operation the police needed Ashley to
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reveal what really happened to Taylor and they needed to find hard evidence from the properties being
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[Music] searched hi how you been doing when we were conducting an investigation we come across like I said
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several things we wanted to confront her with the information at 12:10 you are in
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here M we know that your aunt and uncle and Kyle own the farm there on Brit Road well at that point first time
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really ever in our interviews with Ashley she changed her story Ashley initially told us she went
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out to East Milton well you look at the cell records and it never went out to East Milton it's showing that you're
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probably near that farm or if not at that farm and you're there when this is
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the time when you're telling us that you're probably Milton or headed towards
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the milon CU it's uh 12:10 in the afternoon 12:46 you're still covering the farm
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1301 you're out here for quite a while then you leave around at least at 1344 what were youall doing out there at
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this Farm we know y'all were there we picked up some um stuff that Taylor had there that we
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had what was that she had store um some kind of lock box that she had actually now tells us that the two did in fact go
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to the Brit Road farm that day this is the first time she'd ever mentioned this
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why would you not tell us that or because she asked me not to tell anyone ever you know we're investigating a
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missing person you called us dozens of times why not say hey we went out to this
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location why why hold back and her excuse was is that Taylor just didn't want us to know that she went out
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there which doesn't make any sense so you're the only one that was with her on
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this day at this farm that you did not disclose to us I didn't do anything tell
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you this if she's at that farm we're going to find her because we're
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executing the search one out there right now that's fine but she's not going to
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be there where is she at I don't know where she in her second interview when
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she came in she had a completely different demeanor she was not as forthcoming she clearly did not want to
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answer questions and she clearly did not want to be as helpful as she was initially the police were holding out
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for information from the search teams that would enable them to keep Ashley MacArthur in
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custody we're trying to prolong the interview as long as possible it was a very long time for during the interview
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of not being contacted with Ashley holding back detective Chad willite decided to go in
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hard me for a second don't cross the legs when I removed her chair and turned
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it around I wanted to break down whatever defense she had if I can get her thinking about how uncomfortable she
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is maybe she will slip up me for a second don't cross your legs on for a second don't let us tell your
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story we're going to this is going to tell us what happened this is exactly the kind of thing that you'd
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expect with What's called the read model of interrogations which is more akin to
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good cop bad cop than other forms of interrogations or interviews and this idea of sort of physically cornering
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somebody or physically intimidating someone by changing the room is very in line with that
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technique don't let us tell us something that may not be true tell us what happened I think at
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this point I need an attorney because it seems to be that you'll think that I did
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something to her okay I respect that with no solid evidence to keep Ashley in custody they had to release
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her it almost feels to a degree like you failed right because as an investigator
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you want that confession uh and we didn't get it everything was now resting on the search at the farm on Brit Road
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detective gigliotti made contact with the team on site I happen to call one of the sergeants at the time while he's on
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the phone with me he's yelling in the background we have a body unquestionably we have
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Remains the police had to confirm who the remains belonged to a unique item of jewelry helped
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identification with had pictures of Taylor's necklace she commonly wore uh Cassandra said she was wearing it the
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day of The Disappearance and sure enough the necklace was [Music] there Taylor's Body was discovered on
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the other side of a fence in an area that was kind of wooded she was wrapped up in a tarp
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she was covered with concrete and potting soil I will never forget the day that they announced you know they had found
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her body it was difficult cuz Not only was she murdered that her body was put in a
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grave that she just left her there to be it's it's awful they were able to determine pretty
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quickly what appeared to be uh bullet wound to the back of the skull the remains are taken over the
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medical examiner's office to confirm cause of death which was later determined to be a gunshot wound to to
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the back of Taylor's head once the body was located everyone was on board that
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it was time to arrest Ashley and prosecute her Bridget Myers Jensen led the case
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against Ashley in the summer of 2019 it was very significant to law enforcement and to the prosecution of the case that
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Taylor's Body was actually located Ashley could have used any defense I mean she could have come up with
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anything if we didn't have a body uh to to prove that Taylor had been actually
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murdered the video surveillance footage proved vital for the prosecution the surveillance footage of
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the store and Home Depot not only gave us the evidence that Ashley was purchasing concrete and potting soil but
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what it does is shows us the accuracy of the cell phone records right because defense Council later in trial paints
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this picture that the cell phone records can be inconsistent and inaccurate and we can show that well in
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fact if the cell phone records show Ashley's phone covering the Tom Thumb and she's in fact on the surveillance
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footage at the time similar to The Home Depot and surveillance is corroborating that that these in these phone records
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are in fact very accurate it also helps show the jury there's always that doubt
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well someone else could have deposited those checks into Ashley's account but
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when they're on camera it's hard to refute the fact that she deposited them
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a range of cameras were used to help capture Taylor's killer but the question remains why
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would Ashley MacArthur kill Taylor Wright Taylor had withdrawn on approximately $100,000 from a bank
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account that she should not have withdrawn based on court proceedings with her ex-husband in an effort to hide the
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money I believe she gave the money to Ashley MacArthur to hold Ashley at the time was having an
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affair and Ashley was showering this man with gifts the motive of the homicide was greed essentially Ashley Arthur was
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in a position where Taylor needed her money back but Ashley couldn't give it
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back because Ashley had spent it all we always want a profound psychological reason for murder and it
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rarely exists it's often much more trivial and very often it's about things
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like money this shouldn't be the kind of thing that motivates murder and yet much
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smaller debts have also led to similar outcomes when I found out what had happened to
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Taylor it was devastating devastating that somebody she obviously loved and cared
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for did that to her that they would kill her over something is small as money you
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it's just just awful after a week-long trial the verdict came in Ashley MacArthur was
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found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder she was sentenced to life in prison women killing women is so rare
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that we have almost no research on it at all but we can take a little bit of the
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research on women who perpetrate violent crimes and what we know is that women who perpetrate gun crimes are more
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likely to score high in certain Psychopathic traits so they're more likely for example to be low in empathy
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they're more likely to be manipulative and that is a package that makes women
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more likely to offend violently using guns but even that we we really know very little about why women perpetrate
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violent offenses because so few women [Music] do Taylor was an amazing person she had
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a huge heart and would she loved you she loved EIG and she she was just a breath of
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fresh air she was very special to me yep she was there through a lot of things in
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life I want people to know that she was a good person and that her life mattered okay give me a
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kiss I love you [Music] Ashley and Taylor were just friends new friends but what do you do if you feel a
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friend is not good for your mental [Music] health there's so much in novels and
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movies and anecdotes from people around us about romantic relationships and breakups and what those look like and
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how to end a relationship but there's so little comparatively on how to end a
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friendship or how to deal with a friend who's not behaving appropriately or who
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you're not getting on with anymore um or who's manipulating you and I think
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there's a real knowledge Gap there and a skills Gap and what do you even do if
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you've got a bad friend how do you get rid of this person in our next case a friend of a
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friend proves fatal after being secretive about his past in the UK tin and wear [Music]
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Sunderland a port city on the northeast coast of [Music] England home to Michelle
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Hansen Michelle was 47 years old she had five kids and one grandchild she was very close to them all her children
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often spoke about sharing secrets for her they found it very comfortable to talk to her and they felt like they
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could tell her anything Michelle was known as a very um outgoing person she had quite a lot of friends she was very
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family orientated love going to parties L singing she was generally the life and
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soul of the party in early 2022 Michelle invited friends and family to come over for a
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drink but after going quiet the day after a family member checked in on her and was confronted by a devastating
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scene Michelle's body was found by a family member face down on the floor she
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had about 29 uh stab wounds to her neck and paid to have blood force trauma to her head as
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well there was a br and plate nearby and she was found with porcelain in in her hair as
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well it was a brutal attack that ended in Michelle's death when the police arrived they
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cleared the scene taped the area off looked around for evidence any sort of forensic details that they
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could find they found blood on a window pane in the bathroom they also found empty
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bottles of alcohol the police sent the evidence off for DNA testing Michelle's body was sent for an
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autopsy a family member told the police about a possible suspect who was seen with Michelle the night she had friends
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over [Music] shell appeared to be quite comfortable in his company she was snuggling up to
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him she even was said to have uh looked like she found him quite attractive when
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the family member left she said that she was fine the family member gave the police a
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rough description of the man and his name Alexander Carr the police urgently needed to speak
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with Alex as soon as Alex car has been highlighted as a suspect or a person of interest
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then the police will have gone and started to investigate where he might be his whereabouts he was a current student so
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they were seen if he'd had student lodgings or contacted his friends on the call police started looking for
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surveillance footage tracking back to the time Michelle's body was found they were aware that he didn't
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have access to a vehicle so the obvious way in which someone would leave the locality would be to use public
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transport on December 2nd a man matching Alexander car's description was captured
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by bus surveillance cameras Ray Evans is a forensic image analyst who works regularly with the
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police we know that he's a white male we can see that he has a shaved head the
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shape approximately of his ear he's wearing a backpack that would give the police um a little more
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information so the footage could be used for tracking the time the date and the location we can then utilize that
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footage to track people across a location for a certain amount of time that would be very useful cuz it it
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would place somebody in a particular position the bus footage also helped the police work out where Alexander Carr was
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heading buses have a you know specific routes if they've got footage of him getting on the bus being on the bus and
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then getting off the bus it would tell you approximately which direction he's
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going in it's all about getting that little bit of information that allows the police to assess what the next step
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might be of a person that they're looking for was very very useful indeed Professor Coral dando is a
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forensic psychologist the footage revealed important details about Alexander Carr
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which proved helpful for the police investigation it reveals information about him about his distinctive walk we
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refer to that as a gate so the way in which people walk has been used quite a lot to identify individuals even when we
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can't see their face so he's got this sort of swagger his feet are turned out
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and he does swagger from one side to another and it is quite an unusual walk as the last known person to see
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Michelle the police needed to speak with Alexander Carr but he was proving difficult to track
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down Alexander car was known as a a bit of an urban survivalist he was used to spend time outdoor a lot that was one of
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his Hobbies he's had periods of homelessness and I think they've been at various
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places around the country it would have taken them a while to track him down in terms of looking at all the particular
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areas of the country that he might be but police received a tip off and moved in to raid the
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property down this is footage from mobile phone it was filmed by a neighbor you'll notice that
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they are armed police come the door down it's important to get the suspect quickly because if he turns out to be
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the perpetrator the murderer then he's a danger to other people they didn't know if he was inside and
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after several attempts to coax Alex out they entered the property Alex was not inside but the
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police found a jacket heavily stained with Michelle's blood you wouldn't expect to see things
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such as blood hair bodily fluids unless he'd been involved in some sort of violent incident with
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her Alexander Carr was is now the prime suspect in Michelle's murder and he was
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on the run a huge Manhunt was launched the police were trolling through CCTV footage the police were urging people
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not to approach him if they saw him he was someone who enjoyed being outside he considered himself to be an urban
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survivalist so no one knew way he could be at all with a killer on the loose news of
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Michelle's death was met with sorrow and alarm no one could really believe what
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happened people had heard about the uh the violent we that she she died there was a lot of fear and uh quite a lot of
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shock it was unclear why anyone would murder such a well-loved member of the community Michelle's daughter Shannon
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Brown appealed to the public to help catch her mom's killer my mom was a caring kind and
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loving person she would never hurt anyone even if someone did something to her she will forgive them because she
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always saw the good in people please if you have any information which can help the place
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with that investigation don't hesitate to get in touch with them any little piece of information could help our mom
00:39:11
deserves Justice thank [Music] you the charity Crim Stoppers put Alexander Carr on their most wanted list
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it offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest [Music] the police also made the decision to
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release the footage from the bus the reason it's given to the public is to jog their memory to see if they've
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seen this person on that particular day and that then gives the police something
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that they can you know tie into and uh refer back to so it's it's useful as
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very useful as reference obviously the the hope is that they will strike gold and someone says
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well I know that person very well and I can vouch that um this is the person who
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I think it is but Alexander had slipped off the radar he was on the run for quite a
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while and as the deers went by the police were growing more and more concerned as were the
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community during the investigation the police received the DNA results from the blood at the murder
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scene it was a direct match for Alexander Carr as the police dug further into Alexander
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Carr's history they found a disturbing pattern of violence in 2010 car was sentenced to 3
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and a half years in prison for a hammer attack it would be likely that someone that's got a background of attacking
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another human being with a hammer violent nasty aggressive will go on to be offend
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Alexander carrr posed a real danger to society and he was still on the loose 18 days in counting then the
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police got another tip off there was information that car was in the north London area police then focused her
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attention on the upper Hol railway station police moved in to arrest him you move move
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move do not move police hands up Alex you got armed police pointing weapons at you laser guided sights on the canvas a
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knife is used for Access we're going to open this door you do not move okay you
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follow instructions you understand do not move no on the left understand three loaded automatic rifles
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get stay where you are pointed inside the tent typically one wouldn't want to go
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and do a complex arrest such as this in Woodland in the dark he's a known violent offender with a violent history
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so they will be concerned that he's got a weapon anything about your person which
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could harm us sh no no good and they will also be concerned for their own safety as well as his
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safety the W how know at this particular point he's managed to evade arrest for a certain
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number of weeks so that may have given him confidence that actually he was being very smart being very clever and
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maybe didn't think he was ever going to be apprehended Alexander Carr was transported back to
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the Northeast David Huntley was in the court on the first day of his trial when I arrived at court he seemed
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quite disheveled and quite bewildered uh didn't really seem to know where he was
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at the time he'd been on the run for over two weeks living in a tent so he he
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wasn't in the best frame of mind at that point everyone was quite pleased that
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this suspect had finally been caught during the trial the full details of what happened on the the night of
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Michelle's murder became clear Michelle met car earlier that night she invited him into her home they
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shared drinks they had a laugh together a family member actually uh arrived at the property as well saw them both when
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the family member left Paul was left alone with Michelle that's when he carried out the brute La
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tuck he chalked her smashed a plate over our head he beat her up pretty badly as
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well as stabbing her around 29 times in the neck after the murder he tried to find a
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key to get out uh couldn't find one had to resort to climb out a bathroom window
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and Escape that way at first Alexander Carr pleaded guilty to manslaughter with diminished
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responsibility Alex car has quite a complex psychological back ground in the past he has had a lot of
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mental health episodes he has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and
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psychosis and also some borderline personality disorders there can be triggers that can
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trigger a serious episode or incident and when that happens that individual then can suffer um catastrophic
00:44:57
drop in their mental health and that can sometimes uh result in very violent Behavior despite KN finew well about his
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mental health condition his his mental illnesses his previous psychosis uh he knew that if he consumed drinking drugs
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that it would affect him badly and he chose on that night to to make that decision and self-medicate um and and do
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exactly what he knew he shouldn't have done and that was drinking and and taking drugs and it ended in the worst
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way possible for Michelle Alexander Carr pleaded guilty to Michelle Hansen's
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[Music] murder he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 19 years Michelle's family were were left
00:45:52
devastated and completely broken he took the mother's life away from them and uh
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they'll never forgive him for that they've been left traumatized and they'll never be able to get that time
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back that they shared with her [Music]