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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING] MAN 1: It just
sounds like something bad is happening to her.
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WOMAN 1: I heard her
scream, no, stop it. MAN 2: I heard some gunshots. Drop it.
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Whatever it is, drop it. That is not true
that I killed my wife. WOMAN 2: We know what
happened because the video
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tells us what happened. MAN 3: The camera doesn't lie. NARRATOR: This time on
"Killers Caught on Camera."
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NARRATOR: In Boulder,
Colorado, husband desperately tries to help his wife-- NARRATOR: --as security cameras
reveal a vindictive murder.
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He was concerned based on
what he'd seen on the camera. NARRATOR: And in Coventry
in the UK, rival gangs
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clash in broad daylight-- Walking around the
street with an axe is a bit of a red
flag to most people.
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NARRATOR: --which results in
the death of a 21-year-old. NARRATOR: In the United
States, Boulder, Colorado
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You come over hill, and it's
right up against the mountains, and it's just a
beautiful setting.
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It is a laid back
lifestyle here, but Boulder is a work hard,
play hard, sort of, community.
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Run, hike, climb, bike. Do everything that
you get to do when you live in a community like this.
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NARRATOR: 2018, a
thriving community and home to Deborah de Pinto who
worked in a local restaurant.
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Bailey Underhill was
a friend of Deborah's. Deborah would have, like,
six pots of coffee, six plates,
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serving all the
diners, all by herself. She'd be helping the
other two white people
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and still have spare time and
be finding other things to do. Deborah was a family person.
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She would definitely go home
with her family all the time. She was very, very nice
and good at what she did.
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NARRATOR: Deborah was
married to Scott Jones. Adam Kendall is part of
the community in Boulder
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and works in the district
attorney's office. They met around 1998 at
a party and began dating.
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I think they were
pretty off and on. NARRATOR: After over a decade
together, Deborah and Scott
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separated, but Scott was always
hopeful of a reconciliation. She rented a new house
and was living on her own,
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but they still shared an
11-year-old and a 13-year-old. And knew Scott would,
therefore, be part of her life
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because he's their father. NARRATOR: The 18th of
June 2018, a 911 call was made by Scott Jones
who was with Deborah.
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NARRATOR: Don Dillard is
a detective at Boulder County Sheriff's Office. His colleague, Deputy Mike
Terry, was first on the scene.
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He was dispatched to a
female down, unresponsive. On his body cam, you watch
him arrive at that location.
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He goes into the office and
into a laundry room, when-- --he's met by a man that's
kneeling next to a woman's body
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that is on her back. There's also a little
boy in that room. The husband is frantic,
begging her not to die.
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Soon after he starts
CPR, the EMT arrives. They come in, and they take
over the life saving measures.
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Sheriff's deputies arrive. Some sergeants arrive, and
they start to try to piece
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together what occurred. They're able to
take the information that Terri got from
her husband, and that
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was that laundry room was hot. She had been struggling to
breathe and then collapsed.
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NARRATOR: But something
about Scott's behavior didn't sit right
with detectives.
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One of the things that
bothered one of the sergeants on scene was, frankly,
the way Scott was acting.
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So it's very put on. Scott Jones is screaming
and yelling, saying I don't know what happened to her.
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I don't know how she just fell. Intimating that there
was some, sort of, heart attack or stroke
or medical emergency.
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He's also talking about
how she's his life. She's his soul mate. She's a snowflake.
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The question is asked
if she smoked, anything, or if there's drugs involved. Sort of grasping at straws,
grasping at anything that's
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thrown out to indicate
that it's some, sort of, medical emergency. NARRATOR: Deborah and Scott's
two children were also there.
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Most parents, when a mother
or father is nonresponsive, they hover over the children
to make sure the kids are OK,
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and that's where
their focus goes. That was not Scott's focus. He didn't even know
where his daughter was.
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When the medical personnel
decided to transport her to the hospital. NARRATOR: On
arrival, Deborah was
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rushed to the emergency room. Attempts to revive her failed,
and she was declared dead.
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There was no
indication of foul play. NARRATOR: But there were still
some outstanding questions
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for Scott. I asked if he would come
back to my office with us. NARRATOR: Back at the station,
Deborah's estranged husband
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helped fill in the blanks. The initial stage and
interacting with him, it was trying to
figure out, mentally,
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the direction I needed to go
during the interview with him. I never interacted
with him before,
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so I didn't know if
this was normal for him. And so, it was trying
to establish a baseline
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of what Scott was really like. I really felt that
there was more there that I didn't know about yet.
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NARRATOR: Despite
being separated, Scott reassured detective
Dillard that he and Deborah
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were managing their
new lives well and co-parenting successfully. He describes this
beautiful relationship.
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They were just having a
normal talk about what they were going to have for
dinner, and she
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just collapsed in front of him. Towards the end
of the interview, he had asked if he can leave.
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And I didn't have enough,
based on what he had said, to hold him. At this point, there's
no clear sign of foul play.
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NARRATOR: Scott left the
room to comfort his children. But within minutes, a
recording emerged, which
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transformed the investigation. Deputy Toure then gets a call
from the manager of the trailer
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park, who said he was
concerned, based on what he'd seen on the camera. NARRATOR: The manager
of the trailer park
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immediately sent the
police the footage. The other detectives work in
this case watched this video
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and listened to it,
and the decision is made to get a
computer and bring the video and audio into Scott.
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I was told, see if he'll walk
back into the interview room. I just asked him
to watch and listen.
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NARRATOR: It wasn't the
only camera at the scene. One recording showed
their daughter
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getting into the car
outside while Scott and Deborah headed
to the trailer park's shared laundry room.
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She was about to
drop her kids off at the airport to let them go
on a vacation with her parents.
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So I believe she
was doing laundry in order to make
sure that they could get out with clean clothes.
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NARRATOR: At 10 to
7:00, the camera captured Deborah walking
into the building, followed by Scott.
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They were then picked up
by a hidden camera inside. The staff of this trailer
park had things stolen
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from within this utility room. That little camera
actually is what caught Deborah and Scott coming in.
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It's actually just
a small camera inside this chocolate
bag, and he fixed it so that it wouldn't move.
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You were able to hear
them and see them on video walking through here, arguing. Just beyond this
is the laundry room.
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That laundry room has a washer
and dryer and a small bathroom. NARRATOR: Audio
could still be heard
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from the tiny hidden camera. It's right at this point,
where both Debbie and Scott
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walk in, that we had to
start cleaning up the sound because it was just
too dirty to hear
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exactly what was going on with
all of the background noise. NARRATOR: David Weller is
a forensic audio and video
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analyst, who works
alongside law enforcement on criminal investigations. The problem is, the
camera and the microphone
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are far away from the
incident, so I have tumbling noise from motors, from dryers.
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So they're not only the
objects inside the dryers that are making noise, but the
dryer motors themselves
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and just those type of noises
that are obscuring the speech. So my job now is to try to get
rid of some of those noises,
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bring the speech out, so we can
understand what's being said and, hopefully, help
the investigator find
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out what happened. It was by clearing
it up that we were able to discern exactly
what Debbie and Scott were
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saying to each other. NARRATOR: It was an
audio breakthrough, captured by the mini
camera's tiny microphone.
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After playing some filters
to attenuate that background noise, bring up
the speech signals
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and something that we couldn't
hear before, now you can. She's mad. She's upset.
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And he makes comments
about how she's acting. Why do you hate me? The dialogue back
and forth is very
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toxic between the two of them. And you hear this argument go
on for the better part of three
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or four minutes,
and it gets more heated as, again, Scott is
referring to Debbie as evil
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or mean. She says, I'm done. We're over. It's done. I don't want to do
this with you anymore.
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I can't do this
with you anymore. She makes a statement
about can't make me love you,
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and he screams out. And that's when you hear
Debbie scream in fear. You hear a physical
altercation that occurs,
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and that's right
at about 7:00 PM. This physical altercation
goes on for about 90 seconds.
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Scott says, you're done,
as she screams help. Please help me. Someone help me. She's crying out in desperation.
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The sounds of her help are
sometimes clear and sometimes muffled, so it sounds
as though something's
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being put over her
mouth as she's screaming and screaming for help. And no One answers those calls.
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Over that 90 seconds,
and the screaming stops. That thumping that we hear
continues, but it slows down.
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And then, finally, that stops. At any point could have
released her and let her up,
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stopped, and even if she was
unconscious and called 911. NARRATOR: The audio fell silent.
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Then, picked up another sound. You'll hear a motor
starting in the background, which is the dryer that's
sitting right next to that.
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As the motor starts, you
hear him breathing hard, and it sounds like he's pacing.
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Scott's reaction when
the video was brought in is interesting. Because I don't believe he
had any idea that this camera
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was in that room. He spends 47 minutes
in the laundry room with his wife at his feet.
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NARRATOR: For nearly an hour
after Deborah fell silent, the audio picked up what sounded
like Scott pacing the room.
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He has to put
together a story. He has to put together a plan. He then walks out of
the laundry room area.
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You see him pass by
the lens of the camera and out the front
of the tool room. He's pumping himself up.
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He's still talking to
himself, saying, oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. And another camera
actually catches
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him go out to the camper. He then gets his son from
the camper, and you see he and his son go back into
that tool room area.
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And you can also, again,
hear their voices. He's saying, I don't know
what's wrong with your mom.
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I don't know what
happened with your mom. Just come.
Just come. Just come. Just come.
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He was acting that way because
he knew what he had done. He needed to get others
to believe in his story.
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That's why he brought
his son into the area, where he had just
killed his wife. He needed to sell his lie.
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He needed others to believe it. NARRATOR: Not only
did Scott take Deborah's son, Michael,
into the laundry room,
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where she was lying dead. He also persuaded
him to call 911. But his son doesn't
know the address,
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and so he hands the
phone back over to Scott, and Scott starts
screaming, please help us.
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Please help us. The son's statement
is that mom is purple. He says she's cool to the touch.
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She has a bruise on
the bridge of her nose. I think he brought his son
in to help forward his lie.
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She just collapsed, and this
wasn't something he did. NARRATOR: The exterior camera
picked up the first arrival
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on the scene, a police car. Body cams were rolling So this is Deputy Tourre,
and he goes straight back.
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The entire time the
13-year-old sitting in mom's car, she even receives
a text message from her
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brother, asking where she's at. But because it's on dad's
cell phone, she's afraid.
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The text messages she gets are
where are you, and mom's dead. NARRATOR: She had no idea
if the text was real,
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but it scared her, regardless. In her interview, she
actually says, you know, I didn't know if it was safe.
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She told one of our officers
that she was afraid she was going to be next. NARRATOR: Confronted by the
incredible evidence captured
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on camera, Scott's loving
attitude towards his estranged wife s changed. His whole physical
demeanor changes,
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and the whole conversation
and tone of the conversation changed. At which point,
the door opened.
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And he was told that he was
going to be placed under arrest for the murder of his wife.
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And as he was being handcuffed
behind his back, he looks at me and he says, there's no hurry.
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We removed the handcuffs,
and he sat on the other side of the table from me,
and we started talking
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about everything that happened. To call this a situation,
where he snapped, is to give him way
too much credit.
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This was a gradual buildup
of terrible behavior and of someone who isn't
dealing effectively
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with their own
frustrations and, instead, is projecting it
onto the other person
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and is engaging in
destructive behavior. And we should be
very careful not to victim blame her because
she said the wrong thing.
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I mean, that is not something
we should ever be doing in these kinds of situations.
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No matter what
anyone says to you, it never leads to
murdering them. This time, the dialogue
was very different.
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He was angry. He was hurt. NARRATOR: Presented
with the audio evidence, Scott went from expressing
the love he felt for his wife
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to accusing her of
mistreating him. People who are accused of
committing crimes, especially
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when there's evidence
against them, when they're backed
into a corner, often start to change their
story because they
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have to change their story in
accordance with the evidence. And so, in this
case, we're seeing
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a very clear shift in what
he's saying about his wife. And we're also seeing a
change in body language.
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We're seeing a whole
different person, really. And we're also seeing
an external locus
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of control, where
now he's saying, this was outside of my control. It was her fault. It
was all the situation.
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And that is pretty
typical when people are grasping for rationalization. They're grasping for
excuses that they
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can then hopefully
sell to somebody else, but also to themselves. Because he is probably
still trying to figure
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out exactly why he did this. NARRATOR: Scott was
arrested for the murder of his wife, Deborah de Pinto.
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The autopsy revealed that
she was strangled to death. Deborah wanted to
separate from him.
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She was seeing other
people, and that was part of their separation,
not living together.
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He really had this mindset
that if he couldn't have her, no one could. If, at any time, he truly cared
about her surviving and not
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intending on killing her,
he would have released her, and she would have
been able to get up,
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or he would have
been able to call 911 to have someone revive her. NARRATOR: As Adam
Kendall prepared his case
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against Scott, the true
nature of their relationship came to light. We're able to get in touch
with some friends of hers.
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They described a years-long
relationship of control of Scott making threats. Some individuals reported
not seeing physical abuse,
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but hearing about
it from Debbie. And it's very clear
that Scott was incredibly mentally controlling
and verbally abusive to Debbie.
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Verbal aggression
is often a precursor to physical aggression. But in the sense that if
you can't use your words
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and you stop being able
to make yourself heard or to get what you
want by speaking,
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you then initiate
the physical piece, and you get violent,
potentially. NARRATOR: Scott's
abusive behavior
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was clear to see in the text
messages between the two, recovered from Deborah's phone.
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These text messages are
unrelenting and over the top. It's accusing her
of cheating on him
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at the time she was seeing
someone else, but she told him, we are done. We are separated.
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So it wasn't cheating. But in his mind, it was. He's talking about
how he's going
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to keep the kids from her, if
she doesn't come back to him. There's one series of texts,
where he just goes at her over
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and over about being a horrible
person, and a horrible wife, and a horrible mother,
and that he thought
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she was something different. NARRATOR: On the 20th
of December 2019, Scott Jones was
convicted for the murder
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of his wife, Deborah de Pinto. Scott ended up sentenced
for second degree murder
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here in Colorado. Our judge sentenced Scott
to 48 years in prison. NARRATOR: His sentence
included a year for child abuse
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for taking his son to
see his mother's body. NARRATOR: Following the trial,
Deborah and Scott's children
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were placed in the custody
of Boulder County's Health and Human Services Department.
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An anti-theft camera, hidden
in a bag of chocolate, accidentally caught a killer.
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It would have been extremely
difficult for us to prove what happened without that audio.
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Debbie's friends describe
her as a wonderful person. Not only do we see
that in description,
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but we also see in the
way she handled Scott. They described a woman,
who was hard working,
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who loved her kids, who
supported this family. All of her friends that
really came out in force,
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and I'm talking not two or
three, but 10 to 20 people that knew her, all the way
from two years ago,
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working at a restaurant, to 25
years ago when they first moved here as young
folks, described her
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as loving, caring, hardworking,
and wonderful, and supportive. To meet someone that
has that many friends,
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ranging from so many different
areas of their lives, was unique. NARRATOR: Increasingly,
CCTV footage
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is being used as evidence
to solve murder cases. In the UK, almost all of
Scotland Yard's homicide
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investigations use
CCTV as evidence. On average, each
person in London is caught on camera
hundreds of times a day,
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including gang members. A large amounts of
organized crime groups emanate from big urban areas.
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That area may get saturated with
different gangs or competing for a small market.
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So for example, around
drugs or criminal property. It's all about
generating the money,
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and that is where the
issues then start. The gangs then start butting
up against each other
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and competing for that
territory, for that market, and that is generally where we
see an escalation of violence.
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NARRATOR: Video evidence
is crucial for working out exactly what's happened
when gang members attack others.
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The use of CCTV plays such
a pivotal role in these cases, as it allows post an
incident, the investigation
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team to build up a timeline,
to identify key individuals, key vehicles, key locations.
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Ultimately, you've got to
go to court with a case and prove it to a jury
beyond reasonable doubt.
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And there's nothing more
imperative than moving pictures. NARRATOR: Coventry,
West Midlands.
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This sprawling city has a
population of nearly 350,000. The Coventry area is
part of the wider West
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Midlands area, very
built up urban area, very diverse communities. There is a lot of social
economical problems
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and deprivation within the area. So there are, generally,
some of the conditions
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that cause organized
crime to flourish. People are looking for
income sources, for example.
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Very little opportunity
for legitimate job. Therefore, perfect breeding
ground for organized crime,
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drug dealing, drug distribution,
general, what we would call, acquisitive crime, burglary,
robbery, et cetera.
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NARRATOR: 21-year-old
Emmanuel Lakanga lived in Tile Hill, two miles
from Coventry City Center.
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Emmanuel, also known
as Manny to his friends, was a keen boxer, aspired
to be a paramedic,
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and had a child with
another on the way. His parents had fled the war
in Congo and settled in the UK
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to look for a better life. NARRATOR: Unfortunately, the
Tile Hill area was, itself,
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a center of conflict. People like Emanuel
and people who live in certain
geographical areas
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have more challenges
than others. Anti-social behavior,
low level petty crime. NARRATOR: Emmanuel became
associated with a gang
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in the Tile Hill area. The kind of person who
typically joins a gang is someone who is socially
isolated, so they don't have
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many friends, often, or,
at least, not friends who can act as mentors or who
can be sort of positive people
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in their lives. A lot of it has to do
with the social aspect of joining a gang. NARRATOR: On the
12th of June 2019,
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Emmanuel strayed from the safety
of his local area, Tile Hill, into a rival gangs
territory around
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three miles away in Canley. Steve Jones is a former police
officer, who now teaches
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advanced policing studies. Within Manny's
case, the fact that he was seen on the rival gangs
geographical area of control
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is a massive red flag, a
massive provocation to them. So the build up then having
Manny being seen in that area,
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they can either ignore it,
which probably, to that gang, will be seen as a
sign of weakness.
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So they basically then
need to send the message to their rivals, stay away. Stay out of our area.
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NARRATOR: Police
obtained CCTV footage of a Canley gang member, who
knew that Emmanuel was nearby.
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Emi Polito is a
forensic video analyst. Police would value
this particular footage
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because he actually shows very
good view of this person's face and his clothing, his
helmet, and his footwear.
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NARRATOR: Shortly
after, a motorcycle was spotted in the Canley area. We can see that this
person is carrying
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something, presumably
a petrol can or an object of this nature. And what's even more
important in this footage
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is that this person at
the back of the motorcycle is wearing a motorcycle helmet
with quite an extended visor,
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which is similar to the helmet
that we've seen in the clip before. Very short time after, Manny's
car is subject to an arson
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and set on fire. NARRATOR: Kirsty Bennett is
a lecturer in criminology, specializing in policing.
00:33:09
So Manny, with
his car on fire, he was pretty aware that
he was being targeted. And it might have
been a warning to him
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as well that violence
was on the cards. NARRATOR: But the arson attack
also presented another problem.
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They also stop Manny being
able to quickly leave the area. One of the big problems
with gang relationships,
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especially when they go sour,
is that there's what seems like never ending retaliation.
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Because you hurt a member of
somebody's group, and then they hurt one of yours, and
then you hurt one of them,
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and then they hit
three of yours, and then you hurt three of them. And it can be really difficult
to get out of that bouncing
00:33:49
back and forth of retaliation. And so, the turf wars can
escalate over seemingly minor
00:33:55
things into really extreme
situations and really extreme versions of retaliation.
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NARRATOR: With
their car burnt out, Emmanuel and his
fellow gang members tried to escape
the area on foot,
00:34:10
but their rival gang
was tracking them down. We're seeing two
suspects on a motorcycle.
00:34:17
Posters on the back is still
featuring lights on footwear, and this distinctive-looking
helmet with extended visor.
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And then, we see a blue van,
quite forcefully and rapidly mounting the curb, and two
persons hiding their identity,
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one carrying a
weapon, which is very consistent with being an axe. NARRATOR: The rival Canley gang
chased members of the Tile Hill
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gang into a convenience
store, where they were caught on camera. This footage is
actually great because it
00:34:56
just so happens that the camera
is very close to the subject. You can see clear motives
on the helmet now.
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The position of the hands
is quite interesting. And there is a light item. Potentially, that
could be a weapon.
00:35:10
But it's this
peculiar way in which the hands are being held behind
the back, which is of interest.
00:35:18
NARRATOR: CCTV outside
captured the rival gang members after they left the shop.
00:35:24
The extra lens gave a better
view of their weapons. The body language
here suggests
00:35:30
confidence and clear
intent here to cause some serious hurt or damage. Generally, you don't
carry those kind of weapons,
00:35:40
unless you are
intent on using them because that carries too
much of a risk of them
00:35:44
being detected by the police. NARRATOR: CCTV cameras captured
Emmanuel and other members
00:35:51
of the Tile Hill gang,
trying to flee the scene. This clip is
incredibly important
00:35:57
because it's the first
time that we actually see the people being chased. Even though we
can't see his face,
00:36:04
but, again, we can see
the clothing he's wearing and the fact that they're
clearly running away.
00:36:12
NARRATOR: Back in
their blue van, the rival Canley gang was
catching up with them.
00:36:16
There's a bit of cat
and mouse chase going on. The van is driving erratically. NARRATOR: The rival
gang members are
00:36:25
seen driving close to Emmanuel. Now, we can see the
motorcycle with the person with that distinctive helmet.
00:36:33
You can tell by body
language that there is rivalry going on there. Potentially,
something bad is going
00:36:40
to happen between this
party and that party. We have them in the same shots. NARRATOR: Emmanuel tried
to escape down an alleyway,
00:36:50
but the armed rival gang
members were in pursuit. We can discern an object
of considerable size,
00:36:59
which may be the weapon
that we've seen before. Person with the
helmets, again, we
00:37:03
can link this footage
to previous sighting of the suspect. That isn't normal behavior.
00:37:08
Walking around the
street with an axe is a bit of a red
flag to most people, so they risk all the
members of the public,
00:37:13
call then the police. And in this case, all
the members of the public then filming the
incident because it
00:37:19
is out of the normal. Carrying a weapon is often as
a way of protecting themselves.
00:37:24
So if they did have a
dispute with a rival, they have something
to protect themselves.
00:37:30
But then, it massively increases
that risk of fatal violence. It can feel,
potentially, to members
00:37:38
within a gang that they
don't have the choice to not engage in violence. So if the group is saying,
we need to retaliate.
00:37:46
We need to go
attack this person. You might feel like, well, I
have to join now because that's
00:37:50
what we're doing. Within some gangs,
there's also the potential for upward mobility.
00:37:55
So basically, promotions
within the gang, if you do certain tasks. And certain tasks
can, usually or often,
00:38:04
involve criminal activity,
anything from selling drugs to engaging in violence,
including retaliation
00:38:10
against rival gangs. And so, that can be one way
to climb the gang ladder, if you will.
00:38:17
NARRATOR: Seconds
after the video showing the gang brandishing weapons,
a witness in the area
00:38:23
heard the rival gang
shouting potential threats. So the witness evidence
of one of the neighbors.
00:38:30
He heard one of the
suspects shouting, someone's going to get poked. The use of that
phrase, obviously, it's
00:38:37
street slang of what is
commonly known that they were going to use a
knife, that somebody
00:38:41
was going to get stabbed. If you think their adrenaline
would be absolutely coursing at this
point because they're
00:38:47
at that point where they're
about to confront Manny. NARRATOR: Emmanuel La
Kanga was stabbed, trying
00:38:55
to escape over a garden fence. We are looking at another
angle of the same scene.
00:39:00
We're now seeing suspect
with helmet and distinctive combination of clothing again.
00:39:05
So presumably, the crime
has been committed. They're no longer
chasing the victim,
00:39:11
but they are fleeing the scene. NARRATOR: He died at the scene. We don't have the fortune of
having the murder on camera.
00:39:20
We very rarely do. And therefore, a CCTV
sighting just before and after could be crucial.
00:39:30
It appears to be a
handheld mobile phone. A witness in the vicinity,
having an understanding
00:39:36
of what's happening
and making sure they're recorded as evidence. Now, this clearly
shows the weapon,
00:39:43
a knife, potentially, or an
object of considerable size. The police know that
they have a weapon,
00:39:50
and they will be
looking for this weapon to seize as evidence. NARRATOR: An extensive
search through CCTV footage,
00:39:58
after the crime was committed,
showed one of the suspects filming themselves. Police would then assume
that there is a recording
00:40:08
somewhere on the internet. NARRATOR: The CCTV
led the police to uncover a chilling
confession on social media.
00:40:23
This clip can be considered
an admission of guilt because the suspect
is boasting about it.
00:40:28
That clip completely
seals the deal, puts everything else together. Offenders may use platforms,
like social media and Snapchat,
00:40:35
to show what they've
done because they're showing that they are capable
of handling themselves.
00:40:42
They have done what was
required of them to just show their bravado, to show how
they would respond to threats,
00:40:49
to their safety, or
their livelihood, which might be
protecting their turf. And it's showing a
point to the people
00:40:57
as well of they maybe should
be concerned if they are rivals to the gangs because
they're not afraid to use
00:41:05
excessive violence. NARRATOR: The man
in the video footage was identified as 19-year-old
Andrew Roy Ruddock.
00:41:18
Bragging about committing
crimes on social media platforms or any
platforms, really,
00:41:22
seems so counterintuitive
because it's obviously incriminating evidence. But if you think
you're untouchable
00:41:30
or that the police aren't
going to come get you, basically, then you're
less likely to be cautious.
00:41:36
You're more likely
to be high risk. And being high risk and bragging
about these kinds of crimes
00:41:41
gets you credibility
within the group. So you've got two
factors going on. One is overconfidence in your
ability to evade detection.
00:41:47
On the other hand, you've
got the credibility that you can get by posting. And those two come together
and make you do, frankly,
00:41:54
quite stupid things
by posting really incriminating evidence online. From an investigation's
team point's
00:42:08
of view, that
footage of Ruddock, bragging about what
they've done to Manny on social media, it's gold.
00:42:14
It's investigative gold. It just shows that
he is effectively admitting that he has used
a high level of violence.
00:42:24
And in this case, stabbed Manny. So he is basically
confirming himself as the person who
has struck what
00:42:33
we now to be the fatal blow. NARRATOR: The murder
weapon was later recovered. It was dumped in a nearby river.
00:42:46
In this case, it was proven
that Ruddock was the male who struck the fatal blow by
plunging the 13 centimeter
00:42:54
hunting style knife
into Manny's buttock. And the consequence
of him doing that was that he severed
a major artery, which
00:43:03
caused Manny to bleed to death. NARRATOR: But Ruddock
wasn't acting alone. The investigation was able
to prove that there were three
00:43:15
people involved
in Manny's murder, all members of that rival gang. NARRATOR: Following a six-week
trial by jury, all three men
00:43:24
Andrew Roy Ruddock,
Bradley Richardson, and Matthew Rankin were
convicted of murder
00:43:31
under joint enterprise. What joint enterprise
means is there is a principal member,
who commits the offense,
00:43:38
the actual act of the crime. And in this case,
this was Ruddock plunging the knife
into Manny's buttock
00:43:46
and causing the fatal injury. However, Rankin had
brought that knife to and facilitated the use
of the knife by Ruddock.
00:43:57
And therefore, he was
convicted at the same level. NARRATOR: Because of the
location of the wound,
00:44:04
questions remain about
whether Ruddock actually intended to kill Emmanuel. There was a phase, where
a rival gang members stabbed
00:44:13
each other in the
buttocks and rectum because they knew it would cause
such damage to the structures
00:44:18
that they would be left
with a stoma, for example. So it's almost that
degrading of somebody.
00:44:25
But the only point that you
can say is that if you-- anybody must realize that if
you plunge a 13-centimeter knife
00:44:34
into somebody with force,
that you would cause potentially fatal injuries. NARRATOR: The video
footage was crucial.
00:44:43
Without the video
evidence, perhaps, there wouldn't have been enough
to convict the persons
00:44:47
responsible for the crime. CCTV or video, in
general, is a key element now in investigation.
00:44:54
Now, it can really be
the difference between a prosecution or an acquittal. The cameras in Manny's
case played a crucial part
00:45:02
in, not only identifying
the suspects, the people involved, but
the sequence of events.
00:45:08
So the use of the vehicle,
the use of the bike to escape the scene. So capturing the offenders, not
the actual act itself, but to
00:45:19
caught the offenders with
the axe, with the knife. There's nothing more imperative
than moving pictures.
00:45:26
NARRATOR: Andrew
Roy Ruddock, Bradley Richardson, and
Matthew Rankin were all sentenced to life in prison.
00:45:36
Kyle Kinchen was sentenced
to 27 months for arson. Riley Madden was given
a community order
00:45:43
to serve 100 hours
for handling stolen goods, which included
the motorbike used to chase down Emmanuel.
00:45:51
Emanuel La Kanga's
killer was caught by the reckless
misconception that he could brag on social media
and get away with it.