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[Music] it just sounds like something bad is happening to her I heard her scream no
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stop it I heard some gunshots that does not prove that I killed my wife we know what happened because the
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video tells us what happened the camera doesn't lie this time on Killers caught on camera in
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Knoxville Tennessee a married couple are killed in their home on the eve of retirement
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they're saying Robert as police discover body parts abandoned around the house
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it's pretty pretty gruesome UK after a violent attack catastrophic head injuries worst I've
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ever seen as her colleagues examine every angle to catch her killer oh my way up to
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foreign [Applause] Knoxville Tennessee [Music] home to Lisa and Joel guy married for 31
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years Joel guy senior was a hard worker just a your typical East Tennessee and just a
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good guy he worked as an engineer and primarily worked in piping Lisa guy was a records keeper and secretary for an
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engineering firm here in Knoxville Joel had three daughters by a previous marriage and in 1988 Lisa and Joel had a
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son together Joel Michael guy Jr Lisa guy by all accounts was a really dedicated mother
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I know that they liked the outdoors they liked being on the water and in 2016 they were really looking forward to
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retiring they were preparing for a new phase in their life so they had spent most of their life working and taking
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care of the children and now the children were up and out on their own and that's what they were looking
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forward to it when your kids get up and out you get to kind of be a couple again
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they lived well and lived right and they were getting ready to enjoy the benefit
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of that Jamie Satterfield has been an investigative journalist for over 30 years
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it was Thanksgiving 2016. in East Tennessee it's a really pretty time but so you have a lot of fall
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colors Lisa guy in getting ready for Thanksgiving she had decorated the house sisters were coming grandkids were
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coming Joel and Lisa were also looking forward to seeing their biological son Joel who
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would be returning home for the holidays I dare say she was probably a little excited about that in that it had been a
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while it was the setup for would have been a really happy time for them with Joel guy Jr living 600 miles away
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this was a rare opportunity for Lisa to spend some time with her son I know that leasing was enjoying that
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time with him because she was going to go to the store and one of the things that she was going to get was his
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favorite ice cream everything seemed on the surface really good that night and the next morning
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[Music] but just two days later Lisa was missing she failed to turn up to her last day of
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work and her own retirement party the day rolls around and no Lisa so her co-workers tried to call her
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and you know she's not answering the phone and they knew that that was not in
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Lisa's character to just disappear her co-workers grew concerned enough that they reached out to the Knox County
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Sheriff's Office police officers visited the guy's residence and checked in with their
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neighbors [Music] we're just doing a welfare check just make sure they're okay I'm just curious
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when the last time you see I know they were here at Thanksgiving because their son was with them so that's all their
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vehicles yes sir okay Hector Sanchez was assistant district attorney for Knox County
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officers were able to determine that the vehicles that were registered to both Lisa and Joe guy senior were present
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they could also hear a faint dog bark inside of the residence we'll go over and check I'm not sure
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they're okay police couldn't get hold of Lisa or Joel on their phones [Music]
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to get money for work and looking through the front window they could see that groceries were present in the foyer
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area and in those groceries it was apparent to them that there was perishables that were in those bags
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things such as ice cream meats and such so that was obviously curious to them they did canvas around to the back of
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the residence thank you see the Hound Dog's not out this is all their cars are here they were able to
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determine that the doorknob in the back of the residence was completely missing so essentially they could see into the
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residents when they looked through that hole they could feel an immense amount of heat coming from that open portion
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they could smell a strong odor of chemicals that was obviously concerning to them based on the fact that there was
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no contact with Joel and Lisa guy they're saying rod police had to get into the house
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they managed to get access through the garage and found a back door I hear a dog howling Steven Sanders was
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a detective from the Knox County Sheriff's Office he arrived on the scene to an overheated house the interior door
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was opened and it was I mean it was hot it was it was ridiculously hot but wait the bar and Sheriff's Office
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[Music] when you go in there was obviously uh groceries in the floor there was animal feces throughout the
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house and a dog barking [Music] and as they they got up the stairs you could see you know brown staining which
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they believed to be blood explode right looks like blood officers obviously at this point have a
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heightened alertness they are looking to not only determine if someone's okay but
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also to determine whether or not a suspect is present in the residence and then the top of the stairs they
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found a collection of clothing that was covered in what they believe to be human
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blood that was appeared to be cut off of a human body that was in a pile next to
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a very large stain of blood foreign people's hands yeah I think so that's
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what I think that's what it looks like it's horrific there's puddles of blood
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there's human remains you can't really put that into words but you'll never
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stop seeing it it's pretty pretty gruesome you can't back out officers cleared the remainder of the
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upstairs and immediately made the decision to back out [Music] officers surrounded the house in case
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anyone tried to flee the scene my eyes on this back corner on this corner I've got the front if
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there's anybody in that house we'll handle it okay it appeared the only living being left
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in the house was a dog what's up buddy he's very hot and distressed right now
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house was made a crime scene and cordoned off multiple units within the sheriff's
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department moved in and they began documenting the scene potential weapons cash and cleaning
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products were gathered as evidence the police had to find out what happened and who the body parts belong to
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[Music] somebody out there that's true evil and we've got to get them [Music]
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mixture of recently bought items provided detectives with Clues around the clothing were several bottles
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of Highly corrosive acidic based Solutions such as muriatic acid food grade hydrogen peroxide bleach Liquid
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Fire Drano in the middle of the bedroom a workout machine was was tipped over that was an indication to them that
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there had been some form of a struggle and officers in the corner did find a very very large spot in the corner of
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reddish-brown substance in the master bathroom were two blue storage bins they look in there now there are these
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big Rubbermaid containers and then when they look in there there there's torsos
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[Music] but the worst was yet to come they get into the kitchen area and what they see is that there's a big
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pot a Soup pot sitting on the stove it is boiling they weren't sure if it was
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water or a chemical but they could see that this had been cooking if you will and they look into it
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and when they look into it what they see is a human head a gruesome Discovery whoever decapitated
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this body was still at Large they know nothing about who may or may not have been in that home
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all they know is that they have a house full of body parts and this chemical smell
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the other thing that was unusual is here is somebody who has taken Extraordinary
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Measures of chopping trying to boil away to literally dissolve these bones make these bodies disappear
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but clearly was interrupted in some way because it was incomplete the job was not done
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disposing of bodies especially when people dismember bodies always sounds and feels so incredibly gruesome and it
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is objectively but subjectively for the person who's doing it they often describe it as going into
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problem-solving mode and the problem is that they have this body and so the solution is anything that will get rid
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of it and so they're no longer seeing these individuals as human beings they're seeing them as a problem to be
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solved as a body to be removed as objects effectively and so that can help us to understand why it might seem less
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gruesome to the person who's doing it and more just a necessity we don't know if it's a random act we
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don't know if it's family we don't know anything until we start getting our our
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Clues and putting them together and and piecing the piecing it together but right off the bat you know that
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whoever's responsible for this has got to be caught vital pieces of evidence gave the police
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a breakthrough we found two receipts from Walmart the first receipt was found in the groceries
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that were left in the foyer area just through the front door also in processing the crime scene the second
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level specifically investigators found an additional Walmart bag that had blood on it that had medical supplies
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including tape ointments things you would use for serious wound to treat such as a knife injury in that bag was
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the second receipt receipts these days have time stamps on them they send some folks to go to the
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Walmart to review surveillance video around that time frame the Walmart was only two miles from the
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guy's family home [Music] going into the Walmart being able to give them a time stamp for a seat we
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were able to pull a video of what was taking place at that particular cash register being checked out in the
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self-checkout line the video surveillance at the checkout helped the police identify the person
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buying the groceries we're able to identify some of the clothing we believed that was Lisa's
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they were able to determine that two days before that Lisa guy was in there buying those exact groceries
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[Music] made it home with the groceries when the police checked the Walmart video footage for the time printed on
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the second receipt 3 30 PM that same day they made a surprising discovery you can tell in the Walmart footage that
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this person and he's got bandages on he's clearly injured himself and he's
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buying some bandages and things it would appear for his own cuts they look at this surveillance video and
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who they see is the face that they've seen in that house in family photos of the Sun
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the son of Lisa and Joel guy senior was 28 year old Joel guy Jr he lived in an apartment in Baton Rouge
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over 600 miles away [Music] he was working on his undergraduate degree from the Louisiana State
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University and he had been doing so since he was roughly 18 years old he was a smart kid by all indications a smart
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young man and was working on potentially becoming a plastic surgeon Joel guy Jr also had a difficult
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relationship with his family what was a little strange is that wow the girls were very close to their
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parents their son really never connected with his own family from a very young age Joe guy Jr
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he wanted to be away from home and as a child he wasn't sent to boarding school
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he insisted on going to a boarding school Lisa and Joel guy senior had been supporting their son financially
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[Music] first rent I was paid for his food she paid for his vehicle his car insurance
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Joe Michael guy Jr never worked a day in his life told him they planned to stop supporting
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him so they could retire more comfortably someone who's so dependent on his parents at this point starts to wonder
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well how am I going to survive if my parents cut me off and that can lead to a spiral of
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catastrophizing of thinking worse and worse and worse potential consequences and that catastrophizing can make you
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think well the only thing I can do is to somehow figure out how I can still get that money and
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that might lead you to fantasize about ways to do that and fantasizing can include
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maybe thinking about ways of taking advantage of people or of maybe even killing people
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two days after Thanksgiving Joel guide Jr was supposed to be back home in Baton Rouge
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but the Walmart footage showed that he was still in Knoxville Tennessee the distance between Knoxville and
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Louisiana is pretty significant I mean we're talking five or six hundred miles
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a car drive of you know eight to ten hours so to have Joe Michael guy Jr still present in Knox County days after
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he was thought to have been gone that was significant to our investigation on closer inspection the CCTV footage
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also revealed Joel guide Junior's physical condition this angle of the video from Walmart is
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real important to us it's a self-checkout which allows us to see the items purchased which match the items at
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the residence it also allows us to see his hands which shows us that he has injuries and wounds on his hands
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[Music] the police found footage of Joel guy Jr's car leaving Walmart which meant
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they could track his license plate the FBI task force and they actually located the vehicle and
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him in the apartment back in Baton Rouge so they just set up surveillance and watched that why me and detective McCord
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began our travel to Baton Rouge when they got there they arrested Joel guy Jr he was taken into custody police
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found another trail of receipts inside his apartment in connection with the investigation
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officers were able to ascertain that Joe Michael guy Jr had been buying various supplies in and around the Baton Rouge
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area in Louisiana [Music] 17 days before Thanksgiving Joel guy Jr was captured on camera at Ace Hardware
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in Louisiana this video is of him purchasing heavy chemicals Drano and so forth that were the same
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chemicals that were found here which helps us prove premeditation this is him at a Home Depot
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going through self-checkout purchasing the garden hose purchasing a garden sprayer bleach sprayer and a spray
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bottle and we have him walking out [Music] police match the items in the video with
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the same items found at his parents house in Knoxville they also discovered another chilling
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piece of evidence as the law enforcers are searching this house one of these rooms belonged or had at one time
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belonged to Joe guy Jr and so when they go into that room they find he had left a backpack it had his laptop in
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it but it also had this college rule notebook and when they open it up what they see
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is Page after page after page of handwritten notes the best description of its contents I
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would call this a murder book his notebook laid out that he wanted to render his parents into a liquid form
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and then put them into the public Waterway before he lit the house on fire to get rid of any evidence
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Joel guy Jr was putting his detailed plan into place in the days leading up to Thanksgiving
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the video evidence was damning Walmart Louisiana he is purchasing the bins the blue bins were what we located
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in the master bathroom with the human remains 18 or 20 days before these brutal murders he's out in Baton Rouge in the
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surrounding area buying all these supplies that were all captured on various surveillance closed circuit TVs
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foreign the importance to it to us was it showed his premeditation and his intent
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for what had happened back in Knoxville through DNA analysis forensic Pathologists found that the body parts
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in the house belonged to Lisa and Joel guy senior their son Joel Michael guy Jr was
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charged with two counts of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse when you think about a case that
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involves someone who is accused of chopping up his parents the first thought I think that anyone would have
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is he's got to be crazy I'm certain that his defense team would have loved to
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pursue an insanity defense because they have nothing else but he refused it was almost as if he were offended that
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anybody would be questioning his intellect Joel guy Jr was comprehensively captured
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by the net of surveillance he was sentenced to life in prison for two counts of first-degree murder and
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dismemberment of his parents Joel guy senior and Lisa guy at the trial the full extent of the
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horrific details of what happened were revealed [Music] he did kill his father first when his
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mother was out grocery shopping and the reason he did that he could have accomplished The Act of Killing the
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bigger threat which would be his father he did that in the upstairs kind of spare bedroom slash exercise room we
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believe that perhaps his father was engaged in working out when he was attacked there was proof from the
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medical examiner that he was stabbed in the back multiple times there's also
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proof that Joe Vass senior fought back which ultimately led to Joe guy Jr obtaining a pretty serious wound to his
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hand further proof established that once Miss Lisa guy got home from Walmart based on
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the collection of the groceries that were not put away with perishables she was likely lured upstairs and the minute
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that she reached the top of the stairs is where she was attacked and murdered Joe guy senior was
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disarticulated at his hips and also at his elbows and hands Lisa guy was decapitated
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she was disarticulated at the kneecaps and we believe that that was in order to render his parents in a position where
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he could put their remains in each one of those blue storage tubs despite the measures that he took the
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planning he took his plan did fail and I think a lot of the reason his plan failed was based on the fact that Joe
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guy senior fought back Joel Michael guy Jr had to leave the state of Tennessee and drive roughly five to six hundred
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miles to seek medical attention we were able to determine that he did come back to Knox County where he likely
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saw that his neighborhood was saturated with law enforcement and decided to again leave and go back to Baton Rouge
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parasite is when a child kills their parents double parasite is when a child kills both mother and father or both
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parents it's rare for children to kill their parents it's even more rare for
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children to kill both of their parents so if a child is going to kill a parent it's usually one parent and it's often a
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boy who is killing their father or their mother Joel Michael guy Jr was made aware that
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his parents were going to cut him off financially and when that was threatened he decided to kill his parents
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it's the coldest motive there is greed I'm sure he manipulated his mother all
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the time and for once she was standing firm even though it upset her she was standing for her and I think he realized
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that the gig was a and that's when he put this murder book plan into Plus Joel guy Jr hoped by killing his parents
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he would receive all their savings and life insurance money but there was another twist to his financial motive
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an emotional one he was homosexual he had a partner that lived with him for a while and then they
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they separated and they were friends but Joe got Jr wanted to be with him and the other individual did not want to
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be with him the individual in question was Michael McCracken and in jail Joel guy Jr made a call to
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Michael where he revealed his motivation for killing his parents we first met 12 years ago and I always
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got insanely jealous and it became blatantly obvious that I didn't need any of the criteria there has never been any
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question about that physically speaking you know he can bariatric surgery I could get cheap space implants to give
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me any facial blood structure very very realistic chance of being happy if I got around to doing that
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he wanted the inheritance for himself to change his appearance and make the love of his life want him
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I don't know what to say I'm angry and lost and confused and disappointed and upset and mourning you
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like your dad even though I'm talking to you on the phone is taking everything I
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have to process and maintain my sanity I I found you all the time you were the only good thing in my life
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he did this to take all the inheritance to change his appearance to make his significant other want him
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and that's basically it what was particularly disturbing when you look at that murder book
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as that while he's seated at The Family Table on Thanksgiving and he's being friendly and loving on
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his family all the while his instruction manual for killing his parents is up there in his bedroom and they had no
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idea the role of of cameras as it relates to this particular case was tremendous all
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the security surveillance footage that we had at various locations I do believe that it would have been a lot harder to
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present the case in the way that we were able to and to corroborate theories that
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we had about the premeditation and purchasing items and and utilizing them in the commission of these brutal
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murders the cameras are very important because they there's no there's no dispute in who this is and
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what is being bought and what was at the crime scene this case is obviously one that that no
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one wants to be a part of it's a very heavy case the loss of life and the manner in which these folks were
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murdered is just brutal it's the strangest defendant that I have ever encountered
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there is something missing in his soul how can a person be so so cruel and brutal not only to just somebody but
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family it's a day that you won't ever forget research has found that since at least
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2020 CCTV has been used more often than any other kind of forensic science or technology to identify and charge
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suspects cameras are vital in helping track and place suspects in or around the scene of
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a crime [Music] the Hamlet of Snowden near alesham in Kent home to 53-year-old Julia James
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Julia had recently remarried she had two children from two separate relationships
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Julia James was a police Community Support Officer and she was really well known in the area because of her role as
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the pcso and she was really outgoing friendly she was a massive part of the Kent Police Community as well
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she was a the a pcso so domestic abuse police and Community Support Officer supporting victims of domestic abuse and
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she was there to help and that's what she wanted to do [Music] Julia lived next to ackled Wood and
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often walked her Jack Russell Toby in the Woodland and Countryside which surrounded her home
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Kirsty Bennett is a lecturer in criminology at Leeds Beckett University Julia used to walk her dog quite
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frequently in a Woods which was at the back of her house and while she was there she came across a man on a couple
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of occasions lurkin which made her feel quite uncomfortable Gavin Moss is a senior investigative
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officer at Kent Police Julia had expressed some concerns about a male she'd seen I think on two or
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three occasions she described the person saying that he was in the area of accot
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woods and gave her some calls for concern this was never ever reported and that's no criticism of anybody because
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people do see things like that and things don't always get reported told her husband Paul that she'd passed
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a really weird dude on the occultwood Bridle Path and on another day when Julia went for a
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walk with her husband she pointed out the same man to him Paul James Julia's husband mentioned
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that he'd seen this person in the February so February 2021 in the year of Eckhart would
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for 19 to occur either threats or incidents where they feel like they've been
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watched before they report it to police so you need to have really seen that person quite a lot in order to raise the
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alarm and go to authorities after their encounters with the strange man in the woods Julia and her husband
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avoided their usual dog walking route and as an extra precaution Paul bought Julia a smart watch
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that was there as an extra security safety measure so she could quickly alert people if she felt unsafe and that
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allowed her to go back into the woods after taking a break from not visiting [Music]
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7th April at 12 minutes past two in the afternoon Julia left her house and took her dog
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Toby for a walk in the nearby Woods at 2 23 PM she was spotted on a distant CCTV camera walking through a gap in a
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hedge near ackled Wood this video clip is from a local business that overlooks the echo wood area and
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what it actually shows is an image of somebody walking along here this CCTV was cross-referenced with GPS
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data from the smartwatch we were able to say that that individual was indeed Julia James it showed the
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exact route she'd taken from her home address peered in the footage Julia's Smartwatch
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detected a big change the Smartwatch indicated that a heart rate rapidly Rose from 97 to 145 so we
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can see that something's a problem she's moving very quickly the Smartwatch data also showed Julia
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made a detour from her usual route and her heart rate changed dramatically it was very clear to say that she she'd
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run away our take on that was that she was being chased and and walking in the woods and came across
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Julia's dog wandering alone I saw Julia's dog Toby but without an owner they then went to investigate and sadly
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that's when Julia's body was found [Music] Julia suffered very traumatic bluntforce
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trauma injuries she had a broken wrist she had multiple lacerations and injuries to her skull and face the
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offender took strides to to Really injure Julia she stood no chance of survival and died
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very very quickly unfortunately didn't didn't you know go through too much pain
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capable of carrying out such violence at the time understandably there was a lot of concern a lot of fear in the
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community one of my first thoughts is is this person going to strike a game where
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we end up having another murder that could follow the police started to search the area
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where Julia's body was found the area was absolutely enormous it is by far the biggest scene that I've ever
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dealt with we use licensed search officers to undertake what we call line searches fingertip searches we use the
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Drone we had frenzy recovery dogs out as well they're in video evidence was crucial to
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the case I remember saying that one of my briefings be creative think about other
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opportunities think about buses think about lorries think about delivery drivers get it as open as we can to make
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sure we capture everything possible in terms of footage that we we had to view it worked out to six thousand seven
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hundred hours worth of footage but digital forensic analysts spotted something just under two hours before
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Julia was murdered CCTV captured a person in alsham carrying a bag you can see that he's walking in the direction
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of a gap in a tree line this individual was carrying something in his bag you can't get any facial identification
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of him 31 minutes later what seems to be the same person was spotted again and then again leaving the area at 3 45
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pm what really helped is that this also coincides within the time frame of obviously after Junior was was brutally
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murdered so it all starts bringing it all together about his movements pre and post what tragically happened
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as well as the CCTV footage police also investigated potential Witnesses who'd
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been driving in the area around the time of Julia's murder after such a high profile incident the
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community was on high alert and a critical piece of dash cam footage was recorded by local gamekeeper Gavin
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Tucker oh my way up to right yeah all right what's that about then yeah where you going then
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he described the location he come from was um the ABS the crime scene um and that's what aroused Mr Tucker's
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suspicions hastily left the scene Gavin Tucker needed to act fast please please oh yeah it's a
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it's an ambitious fella of Justified approach and he's running off and there's been a bit of the um a death
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um at occult down at Echo at the moment he then runs away uh and runs along Addison Road and then as you can see
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here he cuts across and runs into to the wooded area I felt wood near Dover between Dover and
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Canterbury oh particular interest to us was this item here which was being carried
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the pathologist's report gave the police critical information about the type of
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weapon that was used to kill Julia from the post-mortem the pathologist said to me if you're looking for
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something cylindrical linear and heavy on one end the weapon used to kill Julia hadn't
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been located near the scene of the crime police were looking for anything which may have fit the pathologist's
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description as well as the dash cam footage Gavin Tucker managed to take a photo of the
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suspect in the field before he ran off so excited the image to the General Public
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that wanted the whole deal to be cropped so we didn't show exactly what that was
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in the event that we could hopefully locate that in the future when police released the image to the
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media a witness identified the suspect as 21 year old Callum wheeler arrested Callum on Friday the 7th of May
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10 days after Julia was murdered show me your head hey both hands show me heads step back step back step back
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barricading himself in protesting his innocence right from the beginning and he resisted arrest
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[Music] within his bedroom uh just over this side there is what we believe to be the
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weapon which then was subsequently seized suspiciously during the time of the offense okay
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up against his bedroom wall matched the item he was seen carrying before and after Julia's murder
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the weapon that was used was actually a railway Jack handle that is used by the railways to lift tracks effectively with
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it on a Jack was made of fiberglass and consistent with what exactly what the pathology said it was linear cylindrical
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and it was very heavy on one end we didn't know a great deal about Calum wheeler from a police intelligence point
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of view very little was known about him and he was a completely loner in life he he had no friends
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he'd lived in ayush him he'd been in alsham for a couple of years came from
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South East London apart from that we didn't have a great deal more as part of the investigation detectives
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are looking to create a narrative of the event to support a successful prosecution
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DNA evidence was vital to put Callum at the scene of the crime what we were able then to show was that
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we had Callum Wheeler's DNA on Julia's clothing but also on the weapon we had
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Julius DNA we also had on his training shoes presence of Julia's blood he was charged
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he appeared at court and he was reminded in custody in court the full details of what
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happened to Julia James on the 27th of April 2021 were revealed Callum we're at ambushna and subjected
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her to an absolutely brutal and horrific murder causing absolute catastrophic head injuries worst I've ever seen
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the extent of the injuries is not a common occurrence because we know that Julia was likely unconscious from the
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first injury and we're seeing the multiple attacks afterwards which is not necessarily needed to cause death
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Julia was not sexually assaulted in the sense that she was a victim of a right we know that because of the forensic
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analysis that we did but there were a few significant issues in relation to Cannon wheeler that we were able to
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establish during the course of the investigation the presence of Cannon Wheeler's DNA on a vest top that Julia
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had been wearing at the time and that didn't happen by accident she was wearing a jacket she was also wearing a
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jumper as well and the vest talk was underneath those items so you know he he had touched her breast and that all came
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to what we've said was a sexually motivated murder Callum Wheeler's internet search history
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also showed that he'd searched the word rape just two days before Julia's murder
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and his actions after he was arrested were disturbing when he got arrested taken into the
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PlayStation he exposed himself to a female police officer a masterbite in front of that officer which would have
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been absolutely horrendous for that individual officer to see had he not been caught the police
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believed this could have been the first in the series of attacks on women in the
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area I can't ignore the fact that he was walking around with that weapon you know
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was it because he wanted it as a trophy was it because he would have killed again only one person knows that and
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that is Canon wheeler um because I'm a detective of many years you know I can't help but think that
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potentially we could have had another had enough evidence surveillance footage and things like
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CCTV are so important for tie-in weapons belongings to an offender and the victim an
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identifying sequence of events so what was the offender doing beforehand what were they doing after the event that we
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can put together into that story my way up to had we not had CCTV we wouldn't have
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seen him holding the weapon before we wouldn't have seen him holding the weapon afterwards that could have
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presented a defense for him that he'd found the weapon Callum wheeler was sentenced to life in prison with a
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minimum term of 37 years I went to the funeral and the impact of Julia's murder was absolutely
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significant did I treat this any differently to any other murder I didn't because I needed
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to catch him we needed to catch him because he was quite clear he was a brutal individual but it is you know
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something different difficult one is one of your own foreign [Music]