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1998 Jacksonville Beach Florida a group of University students plan a friendsgiving when they cannot travel
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home for Thanksgiving holiday she was involved in getting everybody together and inviting people she had spent the
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day before Thanksgiving cooking several different pies not even seasoned veteran police
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are prepared for the vicious nature of the crime that unfolded it looked just like somebody had placed her hand in a
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pool of blood without many sta wounds you sometimes wonder you is this the portal of
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hell it shocked the Mind initially police looked at several suspects in a desperate attempt to make their Beach
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toown safe by Christmas he was infatuated with her almost obsessed she knew things about this crime scene
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that none of us knew it didn't add up as police close in on a Thanksgiving killer
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the fear only escalates the person who did this could do it again [Music] [Music]
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hello I'm NY Grace Thanksgiving is wonderful it's a holiday that usually
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brings families together people travel across the country across the world parents children and relatives celebrate
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with wonderful food great company and happy times that become happy memories but sometimes lengthy travel gets in the
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way of children returning home in 1998 25-year-old Corey Parker decides to stay put in Jacksonville
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Beach Florida where she's going to school instead of being with her family Upstate New York she's scheduled to work
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on Black Friday at at the rag Time Restaurant but she never shows up for her shift when she failed to show up her
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manager became alarmed this was not her character she's somebody that could be
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relied upon and was very trusted to show up for her to miss a shift was highly unlikely Cory was a good worker she
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would come for a shift she wouldn't miss it any shifts Cory's manager asked one
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of the cooks at the restaurant to go and check on her the cook went to her apartment and knocked on the door but
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could not get an answer through the front window the cook can see Cory Parker's
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kitchen the thing that caught him as a little bit odd was her purse was sitting there and he could tell there was a pie
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out on the counter it just didn't sit right with him the cook walks around to
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the back of Cory's apartment and he can see into her [Music] bedroom and he could see her her foot
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and he knew it was her because she had this tow ring that she always wore and he said there was just blood
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everywhere First Responders arrive at Cory Parker's apartment inside her bedroom a shocking disturbing and tragic
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scene the police discovered Cory's nude body lying on the bed and the blood was
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covering her in such a dramatic way that it looked like it had almost been painted on
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her homicide detectives and a forensic unit start processing the horrific crime scene Cory was stabbed multiple times
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and with every second she was getting stabbed and she's fighting for her life the forensic investigators arrived
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at the scene they discovered there's hairs in her hand when you find those things it just
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makes it seem worse because you know that there is a struggle she did fight to her sail and hair was
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in her clutch it was a bad brutal way to leave this world there was blood found at the scene by the kitchen window which
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faces like the back of her apartment they discovered blood stains which looked just like somebody had
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placed her hand in a pole blood and then placed it on the window which is indicative of somebody trying to get out
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of the window they also took samples of a lot of different blood spattering at the scene
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and one of the droplets that they collected was on the sink when you're stabbing somebody
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multiple times there's a high probability of that person's going to become injured as well they're still
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trying to stab somebody and their hand sliding off of the handle onto the bleed and they're cutting themselves then the
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suspect's blood ends up near the sink and by the window it's a damning piece
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of of evidence especially if you can tie suspect to [Music] it when there is a Savage knife attack
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like this one not only are victims wounded and killed but very often so are perpetrators they are wounded as they
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wield the knife detectives are hoping here that blood and hair samples will lead them to a DNA match of the animal
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who murdered Cory Parker meanwhile police are canvasing the neighborhood where Cory
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lived the crime happened where Cory Parker lived in Jacksonville Beach was a little small apartment building close to
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the beach it was within walking distance she lived alone she was on a ground floor apartment and there was other like
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buildings next to it so kind of close together within eyesight of each other the detectives learned that there had
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been a Peeping Tom in the community was very disturbing Corey had even told some of
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her friends that she felt like there was a Peeping Tom watching her being on the ground level this is
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exactly what she should be afraid of the detectives had to consider that this peeping Tom could very well be the
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as salent that killed Cory I was sitting in my mom's I got a call from David her
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boyfriend and he was hysterical he could barely talk he was just balling I could hear him saying
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something's wrong with Corey you need to find out what's going on so I happened to know a paramedic
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that lived nearby so I called him and I asked him if he could tell me what's
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going on and he said um she was dead it was so shocking I didn't register it at
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all I didn't believe them I remember thinking she's fine I just talked to her
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the day before Thanksgiving a police officer called me and I went straight to the police
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station I met with Detective rigan and she brought me into a room asked me questions mostly about the last time I
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had seen Corey did I know what she planned on doing for Thanksgiving I told detective rigan that
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she had planned on attending the orphan party for Thanksgiving which is where where people get together that don't
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have family in the area she was um baking pies and bringing them with her she very much enjoyed the cook and she
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was really good at it she was a Fabulous Baker when I met Corey she had moved from Rochester New York to Jacksonville
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Beach to go to college and we clicked instantly Corey was extremely intelligent she was fun she was very
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kind and respect ful to everybody she was 5' 11 so obviously just being tall she stood out but she
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was also beautiful like a model she was somebody that would really draw your attention when she walked in the room
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absolutely gorgeous and had a personality to match she was beautiful physically and inside
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she definitely lit up a room when she walked in Cory Parker seems so happy with her life
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she recently started dating someone new although she and David didn't know each
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other for very long they were very passionate very quickly about each other and they had so much fun together I
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remember her describing him to me I found this guy who was just amazing and she said he's extra special
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really digging this guy the police really wanted talk to Corey's boyfriend David when the police
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talk with David he is genuinely distraught by Cory's murder furthermore he's able to provide them evidence that
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he was not even in the area at the time Cory died he had flown to see family for
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the Thanksgiving [Music] holiday when autopsy results come back investigators learned that thankfully
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Corey Parker was at least spared a sex assault still the way that Cory is killed the Savage stabbing much of it
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after she dies are chilling Cory was stabbed 101 times autopsy revealed that 54 of those times
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were postmortem that lends towards the whole viciousness of the crime this person had a lot of rage in them that
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they're willing to stab somebody that much this person took their time it was
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gruesome it shocked the Mind detectives convinced they're looking for a deeply depraved
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killer Black Friday is one of the busiest retail days in the US that means restaurants are super busy also student
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Corey Parker misses Thanksgiving with with her family to work a shift at Ragtime restaurant and now that family
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will never have a chance for another Thanksgiving or Christmas with Corey the Jacksonville police conduct an extensive
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investigation throughout the holidays they learn the last time Cory seen alive is the day before Thanksgiving that is
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when she borrows a pie thermometer and complains about a Peeping time c as the New Year rolls around investigators
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finally get a lead it's about a coworker who's fixated on Corey police turned
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their attention to him there was a dishwasher that worked at the same restaurant as Corey he was
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27 years old Eric was his [Music] name he was infatuated with her one would say almost
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obsessed in the months before she died Eric had been asking Corey out on a regular basis she continued to tell him
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no she was really nice about it she didn't want to hurt his feelings coworker Eric is informally
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interviewed by detectives January 18 and he willingly agrees to give a hair sample for a possible DNA match one week
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later Jacksonville PD invite him to the station for a formal interview Jesus Eric she told you she
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had boyfriends she had plan she had school she didn't want to be with you Eric you weren't her type she didn't
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want a relationship with you Eric and you couldn't accept that detectives Badger Eric looking for any reaction
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kept asking her out Thanksgiving dinner she didn't want to be with you ER she
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had plans but you didn't want to accept that did you no you didn't no but I was
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willing to let it go you were pissed off at her you were pissed off because you wanted her and she did not want you you
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wanted a life with Cory Eric you wanted a life with Cory she did not want you you were the one that was
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pipped off with her Eric you cooworker Eric concedes he desperately wanted to spend Thanksgiving
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with Corey Eric's obsession with Corey is really demonstrated by his actions on
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Thanksgiving he told the detectives he made a meal for her and was planning to invite her he had invited her she never
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committed but he still made the Thanksgiving dinner that uh seems weird she went to all that work and she didn't
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even show up the interview gets even more intense as as the hours tick by she was about pissed off at me too
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that's probably why she didn't you know why she was pissed at you Eric because
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you couldn't take no for an answer that's why you could not take no for an
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answer how many times is a woman have to tell you no Eric finally reveals how he
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really feels about Corey Parker you think you were obsessed with her that was slightly obsessed but I would do
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greatly obsessed D Jesus did my God I was I was upsets tell me the things that you think about doing
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with women even detectives are shocked by Eric's next response me like um Tak
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him into a bedroom and raping him they kind of thrilling to get away with it maybe I
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would share the same thoughts as this first that did I would like to fantasize myself doing it instead of him doing but
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I didn't do one of the detectives asked him well if you would have killed Corey how
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would you have done it what fantasies do you have how would you contain her how how how would this
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person feel P her down she was tired um by will probably if he didn't want to be a
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suspect he was doing a real good job selling himself as one and he just Pok her do whatever stab her put her thr
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like wait for her the how get now follow whatever had detectives walk away from that
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interview convinced they've got Cory's killer and they wait for the lab results
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obtained from blood and hair collected at the murder scene the hair sample and the blood drop CIT sample
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that they found came from the same person and that person was not Cory Parker many times in a homicide
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investigation Clues turn out to be too good to be true in the case of Cory Parker's murder police now have the
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Killer's DNA too good to be true right well what they don't have is the problem
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the DNA sample from the crime scene does not match their Prime suspect Cory Parker's coworker
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Eric he would have been a perfect suspect but he tested negative investigators now turn to one
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of the last people to see Cory Parker alive a friend named Tiffany Tiffany and Cory was at a bar
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the night before Thanksgiving together Cory went out to the rits just to go have drinks and meet some friends
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from work and Tiffany was there they did meet up that night at the bar detectives focus on the friend
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Tiffany they've heard rumors she also was obsessed with Corey Parker I remember a discussion with her about
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being by curious meaning interested in girls and guys which I mentioned to the police officer so I think the that kind
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of built a little thing for them to start looking at her detective zero in on Tiffany and they discover something
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alarming Tiffany seems to have knowledge of the crime scene that was not public so it's very concerning that
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possibly she knew this because perhaps she was the one who killed Corey police bring in Tiffany for an interview
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she tells them she and Cory Parker go to the Ritz Bar the night before Thanksgiving and that Cory leaves the
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bar around 1 a.m. then Tiffany says she calls Corey in the early morning hours of
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Thanksgiving 2 a.m. if Tiffany had told the police officers that she called Corey around 2:
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in the morning Cory didn't answer the phone however when the police looked back at the phone records there was no
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call made at 2:00 so I don't think her story was adding up as the interview goes on Tiffany
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refuses to cooperate and give a DNA sample to detectives they become even more suspicious is it possible that Tiffany
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had a crush on Corey and was upset with her because Corey had no interest in Tiffany in a romantic
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way a court order was obtained to get her DNA when the results come back unfortunately it does not match the
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hair and blood found at the scene investigators also learned Tiffany's inside knowledge of the crime
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scene comes from one of the First Responders once again detectives are back to square one in a case as gruesome
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as Corey Parker's death she want to solve this case she want to bring Justice to your
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victim you have to be her voice and it's difficult for now the DNA collected at
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the crime scene eliminates all the viable Suspects the case haunts the Jacksonville police over the following
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year who killed Cory [Music] Parker Jacksonville Beach Florida another Thanksgiving Christmas and New
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Year's pass by for most people life goes on but for those people who knew Cory
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Parker her love of Life continues to be remembered Jacksonville police have run out of leads in Cory's case but they
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haven't run out of Hope with the case goes cold and evidence start drying up it
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affects the [Music] investigators in a resort town like Jackson Ville Beach people come and go quite
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frequently so your suspect could be gone and slows the case up dramatically it raised a whole set of
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new questions then who on Earth could have possibly or would have done this for what
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reason with the lack of further Clues to investigate Cory's family put up the
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funds for law en enforcement offer a $220,000 reward for any evidence that could help solve this
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[Music] case when the reward was posted it did generate several tips one of the tips LED them to a
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steakhouse that was near where Cory Parker lived the tip was about a 17-year-old employee at that Steakhouse
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his name Robert Denny when Jacksonville police do some digging they discover some very strange things about the
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teenager shortly after Cory Parker's death he was acting very bizarre at work
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he was crying he was sulking he claimed that his son had died in Texas and he needed to get back to that location but
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he didn't have the money so employees of that Steakhouse donated money to get a flight
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back but when he left he never came [Music] back Robert Denny doesn't have a son he
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only wants to get out of Jacksonville Beach and guess where he's living during
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holiday season 1998 he lived in a second story building next to Cy Parker from his vantage point in his
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apartment he could look into her Windows of her [Music] apartment Robert had confided in several
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co-workers that he used to look through from his window down into Cory Parker's
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window the fact that he left so sudden and never returned indicated to me that he
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had something he was hiding he was running from something the detectiv speak to Robert
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Denny's sister whom he was living with at the time of the murder she describes Robert as being a
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very strange person she says that at one point in time she woke up to find him above her
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beds just staring at her as she slept this was so upsetting to her that she asked him to move
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out detectives learn Robert Denny has moved to e Maryland they contact local police there for help I reviewed our CAD
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system which is our system that we control all our reports and complaints the review turns up a hit for a domestic
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disturbance we had actually had an incident with him a couple weeks prior he had moved him with a
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50-year-old woman he had befriended this woman online in a poker chat room and uh the
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domestic argument is sued between her her husband and him detective Miller uses that domestic incident as a pretext
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for paying a visit to the residents so I one knocked on the door and the woman that he was living with she answered the
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door I asked her if Robert was there when I did he came around the corner and introduced himself
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[Music] they invited me in the house we sat and we talked gave them the basic hey it's
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everything good now and has anyone been fighting since that day and any injuries the woman tells detective
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Miller there's been no violence since her husband moved out she says her two
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children are still living in the residence and and uh I left and came back and contacted Jacksonville Beach
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and said okay we got him he's here when are you coming to get them Jacksonville
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police do not have enough PC probable cause for an arrest warrant they joined forces with Eastern Maryland police to
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investigate Robert Demi and what they discover about his family history is extremely alarming
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Robert Denny's older brother was actually serving a life sentence for a murder that was eerily
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similar to that of Cory Parker Robert's brother had been just 15 years old when
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he committed his crime he was a paper boy on a paper route she opened up the door turned to
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give him a payment and he attacked her and that murder involves stabbing the victim
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96 times Jacksonville Beach Florida 1998 while Cory Parker's happily baking pies
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for Thanksgiving someone with a murder on his mind is watching the beautiful 25-year-old fast forward two years later
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police believe a man named Robert Denny is involved detectives must match DNA found at the scene to Denny to do that
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they need a DNA sample from Denny to compare to DNA from the murder scene the two detectives from down in
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Jacksonville Beach that were assigned to Cold Case was a sergeant bill carile and
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detective Katie Kingston Katie Billy myself Jim you know we get in the room and we're just
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talking about you know what can we do to try to get the DNA from Robert Denny we came up with this ruse of the
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serious assault in his neighborhood so we needed to exclude him as a suspect it was false it was a fake crime
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the whole purpose was to get him into the office to talk to him and see if I can collect his DNA
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[Music] so I reached out to Robert and told him hey look I'm investigating an assault
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that took place around 3:00 a.m. and that the suspect kind of matched his description
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and I was wondering if he could come in and talk to me Robert Denny voluntarily comes to the
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east police station for an interview he sat down and I asked him a series of questions and the whole time with Robert
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I was playing the bumbling idiot you know uh where's my pen what oh it's here
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so he felt very at ease with me to the point where he I'm pretty sure he felt
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he was controlling this whole thing I started asking him questions about this alleged
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crime he said I didn't have anything to do with it I was home I was in bed I I
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wasn't out they asked him for a sample of his DNA under the guise that it has
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to do with this assault case as soon as I said DNA he went from a position like this where he was very
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open he was jovial to he crossed his legs he folded his arms and he literally pushed away from
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me so he said I'd rather not do that detectives cannot get Robert Denny to volunteer to give a DNA sample their
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next step to get that sample without Denny ever [Music] knowing I had bottles of water brought
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in he was given a bottle I had a bottle they offered him some water and then he opened a water bottle but he never took
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a drink detectives get more creative for their second attemp at obtaining Denny's
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DNA so I looked at Robert I said look I said said I really need a cigarette do you smoke he says yeah and I lit a
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cigarette he lit a cigarette I smoked my cigarette I put it out in the aster he smoked his cigarette put it out
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put the cigarette butt behind his ear police try yet again so I typed out a little letter and
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the letter said that at this particular point I refus to give a DNA sample however I reserved my right to give one
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after talking to my lawyer so I typed it out he signed it he folded it up I asked him put it in an
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envelope and seal the envelope and he stopped and he looked at me he says that's the third thing you want my lips
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to be on the water bottle the cigarette and now this you want to seal you seal it he asked if he was free to go the
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officer said yes and then he left police are now back to square one Robert Denny
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is outright defiant in all their efforts to get his DNA when you're involved with
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something like that you know the old saying is trust your instincts in your gut and that's important I mean because
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you'll feel something when it's not right we have an agency from another
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state come to us needing our help to catch a killer from their jurisdiction who killed a young woman in a brutal
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fashion and it's pressure to not let anyone down not let the family down of the victim
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first of all and and the voiceless victim being Miss [Music] Parker now East police must try more
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covert attempts to get Robert Denny's DNA we were detailed to do surveillance we were looking for those
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opportunities that he would become careless when we were doing surveillance at the resid where he was staying we
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were looking to see if he would put his trash out to the curb like every other person in America would normally do on
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trash date but he wasn't doing that he would load him up in in this little pickup truck and he would take it to the
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dump he was a very nervous and paranoid individual detectiv take out the computer store where Robert Denny Works
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they now believe it's their only chance to get a DNA sample from Denny spit up to two surveillance teams
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and we in a van that was blacked out me and my partner at the time we were out of a card using binoculars in a
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video camera keeping an eye on front and back of the business you know moving around not to be seen continuously you
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feel the pressure anytime you're doing anything undercover there's that inherent risk and it becomes
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nerve-wracking we were about 200 yard away from the rear entrance of where he worked at
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every 15 20 minutes we saw Robert coming out of the building and when he came out
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of the building he would start smoking he would always look around he was real nervous and he would smok a
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cigarette and he put it out put it in his pocket he did that all day all day it became obvious that he was
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protecting from leaving any evidence at that point we were like man this is crazy he's Keen he's Savvy he knows what
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DNA is all about we were like you know there's probably no way that we're
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getting this guy's DNA although Robert was so careful not to leave his DNA when the investigators
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are following him and keeping an eye on him he has this habit of repeatedly spit
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on the third day he smoked a cigarette did his cigarette routine but as soon as he got done
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smoking he did the one thing that none of us expected and to this day I'm not
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even sure if he realized he did it he spit on the ground seven [Music] times this is the moment eastn police
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have been waiting for they may never get another chance and one of the surano teams was
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able to see where he spit so that after Robert dny left that area they're able
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to go right to that area and without any doubt see it's still on on the pavement
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and was able to collect it it was his spit it was no one else's spit there's
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no chance of um cross-contamination that was an unbelievable point in the investigation
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a huge break for us was a huge win you know for us to be able to you know obtain that
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sample and uh they sent it off to the lab and we're waiting I'm waiting I'm
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waiting finally the DNA results come back that Slava matched with the DNA that was recovered at the crime scene of
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Jacksonville and that was the touchdown everybody wanted the whole team was very
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excited KD call me and said we got a positive hit when you come wow it's not that
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simple what do you mean it's not that simple we got a DNA head on this guy he's your
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killer Jacksonville Beach Florida two years after her murder Justice for Corey Parker seems Within Reach the beautiful
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young woman stabbed 101 times in her own apartment but now police have a DNA match from the murder scene to a man
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named Robert Denny police believe the match guarantees an indictment but of course there's a hitch the state
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prosecutor decided that she didn't want to charge him yet because he could explain that DNA away the detectives
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need to establish that Robert Denny was not in Corey's apartment at any point
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prior to her murder you know because he could say Hey you know Cory and I were friends and I
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went over and we watch TV together or something so we needed that denial that he was ever in the
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apartment the detective they have to get him to say that he was never in that apartment Jacksonville detectives
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returned to Maryland to work on a plan with Easton police detective Katie Kingston will wear a wire and talk to
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Robert Denny they believed that Robert Denny felt very overconfident with women so
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Katie decided to go up there and play clueless she walks up to the house knocks on the door he answers you know
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she goes through the whole introduction of hey I'm Katie Kingston I'm a detective from Jacksonville I'm working
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on this this homicide that happened down there and you know goes into you know I've been sent up here to to do a
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followup on the case you know and I wanted to reach out did you ever live in jackonville you know that kind of thing
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I'm sitting about a block away listening on The Wire she put up such a good act uh you know how you have a script
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and in this script you'll have Direction well in her case her script said do you
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know Cory Parker show him pictur and she literally said do you know Cory Parker show him picture do you know Cory
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Parker or ever talk to her show picture that's Cory Parker yeah so she asked him several questions did you know
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Cory Parker no I've seen her but I don't know her did you ever drive to her apartment
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you never went to her apartment no and she walked off and I'm just rolled cuz now we got
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them so she came back we high-fived we went back she called the state's attorney I start typing out a search
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warrant to actually go into the house and snatch him you're listen to that wire and you hear that Deni that's you
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know that's huge you know you're on track once that DNA matches DNA is your DNA it's no one
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else's the State's Attorney was happy with what she got issued the arrest
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warrant so we walked up locked on the door he opened the door search warant you're under
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arrest and as I'm reading this to him you could start seeing the light bulb going off in his head but he thinks that
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he pulled the wo over her eyes and that was his downfall that's when we got him
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his DNA it it was great it was great I have enough physical evidence um to charge you with
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another of cor and I am going to charge you with the mother or father what Happ you that
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is wo I didn't do this I didn't murder anybody you can't have any evidence if
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is possible because I didn't do I can't admit I he started right away saying you
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got the wrong person I just want you to tell me the truth okay telling me you can not
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have anything me I look your eyes I didn't you s Robert Denny goes to trial 2005 in court the prosecution describes
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in detail the gruesome murder scene I found out what happened to her and [Music]
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sorry seeing you know what he did to her we stopped Corey 101 times and the way he kind of posed her a certain
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way I almost feel that was cuz he wanted her boyfriend to find her like that or something you know just gross evil
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nasty um we often you know say rest in peace peace but there's no doubt in my mind
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she did not leave in peace this wasn't a peaceful way to depart this world I've seen some evil people do some
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terrible things and this is this is a prime example that's an evil person Miss Cory I didn't kill Cory
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Parker how did your forcibly removed hair get on her bloody rolled up underwear next to her father
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I don't know the trial was week long when defense rested jury went into deliberation and 20 minutes later came
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out with a full guilty verdict we the jury find a defendant guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the
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indictment we the jury further find that the killing was done with premeditation
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Robert Denny was convicted of first-degree murder sentenced to life of no Patrol it's it's a big win it's huge
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and it's a a good sense of accomplishment when you when you're able to do that
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it was a huge relief for many reasons he's off the street now can never hurt somebody cuz I think he would
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have he's that kind of evil doesn't just go away Robert Denny is just a 17-year-old
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minor when he murders Corey Parker and therefore he avoids the death penalty the Thanksgiving season although it's a
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time to spend with your family and loved ones this can add a lot of stress to a person somebody that is mentally fragile
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already this could be the thing that sort of pushes them over that edge this type of
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tragedy should never have happened for it to happen on a holiday Tain that holiday for that
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family forever you know they're not going to remember Thanksgiving as a day of
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joy you they're going to remember Thanksgiving is the day that Corey died with each passing season Amy Laden
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and Corey's family can look back on Cory Parker's life with love and gratitude
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for the time they had with her I have great memories of her you know she taught me a
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[Music] lot our last Thanksgiving together is very special to me and I'll never forget
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it that's for sure we had wonderful friends we were hanging out with and I'll cherish that moment for the rest of
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my life a beautiful and vibrant young woman so loved by family and friends now the victim of a truly sens
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less and brutal murder still Cory Parker's love of Life fuels a memory of her a memory that will never go away a
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memory that will never fade I'm iy Grace thank you for joining us here on the Christmas killings
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