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[Music] Prince georgees County 911 Center what is your emergency ma'am I've been shot my mother
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had been shot I'm bleeding for that I was imagining how she had to have felt in
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that in that predicament it's just heartbreaking to be a 16-year-old girl a monster like that
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comes in and takes your life from you Jason Scott was uh an extraordinarily dangerous criminal who
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masqueraded as an ordinary person he's saying to you criminal justice system I
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am smarter than you if you feel like somebody is watching you they are I'm successful at doing it why
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stop it don't cross your mind that sick people like that exists my life was perfect
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before before everything happened [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Upper Marboro a suburb 20 mi east of
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Washington DC is home to the Lofton family Dad Kirk mom Karen two sons Kirk Jr and
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Keon and daughter Carissa my daughter was a very inspiring very beautiful a gift she was a
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gift she went through some struggles she had an open heart surgery because she had something going on with the valve in
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her heart and everything and she bounced right back like it was nothing and me she was very
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[Music] strong I am Keon Lofton kin L was my mother Carissa was my younger sister my mother was a really caring
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person she was in the nursing field as long as I can remember I remember uh us being a little child and going with her
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to um to work with her and um just all the love that she would get from her um co-workers she was probably one of the
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best nurses of her time Carissa's personality um at that around that age was typical teenage girl
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she was still trying to figure herself out Pleasant kind person you can see her modeling after the characteristics and
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values and things that my mother instilled in all of us and you can just see the trajectory of the type of woman
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that she was going to become in 2008 Kirk moves away after his marriage to Karen breaks down I moved to
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Georgia in 2008 I was remarried still Reign the contact with my daughter matter of fact that she was
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supposed to move down here and go to college Prince George's County 911 Center what is your
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emergency ma'am I've been s me my mother has been shot I'm bleeding for
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that slow down what's the [Music] address you know if we need any kind of Testament to Carissa's
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courage this is a young teenager a 16-year-old who has been involved in a home invasion which is one of the most
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terrifying things anybody can imagine she's been shot and she has the kind of
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strength of mind to call 911 while she's bleeding and to report to them that she has been shot her mom
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has been shot and she tells the operator you know I'm bleeding to death please
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hurry unfortunately the phone is hung up um and by the time they get there it's
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too [Music] late so the night of the everything when everything happened I was at my
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girlfriend's house my mother-in-law now um told me that two women have been found um killed on our Street and she
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told me to call and cheat with my my mother and sister so I called and nobody answered um so I kept calling I kept
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calling and nobody answered so I just I just got up and left and started you know got in my car I was driving it had
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to be about 2 3:00 in the morning got there to the house probably about a 10 minute
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drive police kind of had like the street blocked off whatever and I got out I was
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trying to um trying to see who it was and a police officer or detective asked who I was and I was told him my name and
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he said okay we got the sun uh right here and I just broke down them because I I knew it came to realization that
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okay it was [Music] them I was in the room sleep and my son my oldest son Kirk junor he called me at
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probably you know 3:00 in the morning 4: in the morning something like that he was crying and I said what's wrong he
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said um have you talked to Keon yet Ma and Karissa got killed the first thing that I thought
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was they got into a car accident or something like that and but then he said um they were
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[Music] shot I immediately got off the home with him and I called my other son my younger
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son and he told me that they somebody came into our house and the the family house and and killed both of
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them it's just um just heartbreaking to be a 16year old girl and be in the comfort of
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your own bed and a monster like that comes in and takes your life from you I was
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imagining how she had to felt in that in that predicament somebody storming in you know shooting shooting you and you
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have to you know call a 911 trying to get somebody to save you is you know it's it's
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heartbreaking with no signs of forced entry the police suspect the murders have been committed by someone with
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access to the lofton's home they kind of step by and go okay what do we do we start from the
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innermost Circle and we work our way out most often sadly those are the perpetrators one of the first persons to
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come on the radar is uh Carissa's older brother Keon honestly I didn't know why I was in
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a police car I had no idea it was everything was a a immediate shock right there from they remember being in the
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interrogation room did your mom set the alarm for the house mhm okay all the time every day every time would you have
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hurt your mom and sister no you wouldn't have hurt your mom and sister at all and I remember them
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letting me come out to like one of the one of their desks and letting me hear like a snippet of the 911 call ma'am
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I've been shot my mother has been shot I'm bleeding for that anybody who's who's getting accused of
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anything they're not they haven't done um they're going to be upset when I'm in an interrogation room
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and I'm hearing um them accusing me and I'm just trying to process like did this really
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happen like did my mother and sister really just get know murdered are you guys really accusing me
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of doing this everything just felt like a like a nightmare or a dream like it just felt really surreal I knew a th%
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wasn't [Music] me they didn't know what to think they didn't know anything about who this
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person was got no fingerprints there was no forced entry and all of a sudden here it is the
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48 hours have passed which of course is often the critical period for getting that first lead and they're sitting
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there kind of going we have no idea and if you're going down the wrong road with
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that you've allowed the individual to perhaps clean up the case to perhaps even be further away from the case so
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it's very important those first initial hours of any case that you hope the investigators are on the right
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path Kirk and Keon begin to develop their own theories about what happened I know how safe the Karen was
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and Karen would not let anyone in that house at 2:36 in the morning without she would have the L alarm on they said the
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alarm was disengaged she took that really seriously you know when I would leave out she would make sure the back door is
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locked things of that so you make sure the window is locked she was always a stickler for those things but I I'm
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pretty sure I thought that okay somebody forced her to put the alarm in it's it's
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no it's no other explanation at the time of the lofton's murders a burglar is successfully
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evading capture in the neighborhood Jason Scott came across as very mild mannered he held a part-time job with a
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package delivery service it wasn't viewed as being dangerous by his friends and family so
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he was uh uh you know somebody who masqueraded as an ordinary person Jason Scott was somebody who
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seemed to have a lot of potential he was somebody who had a college degree he was somebody who
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worked at UPS so he was somebody who at least on the surface seemed to be somebody who really had his act
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together 27-year-old Jason Scott has two master's degrees and until recently was unknown
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to authorities he had started committing robberies uh in his at least as a teenager and perhaps early 20s uh and
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had graduated from committing robberies of unoccupied houses to home invasion robberies and violent crime
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so at the same time that that Jason Scott was living this kind of law abiding life on the surface this is
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somebody who in the privacy of his own home seemed to be absolutely obsessed with crime with forensics with
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understanding how to get away with crime one of the notable things about Mr Scott uh is the clothing and tools that
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he used during his criminal activities so he dressed like a criminal he would dress all in black uh he wore black
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gloves he carried a Black Backpack so he dressed like a thief Jason Scott spent hours of his
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life thinking about crime learning about crime learning about forensic techniques
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almost considered him himself like a Dr Jackal and Mr Hyde I would imagine to some extent he feels kind of this sense
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of impunity like or the sense that I'm untouchable nobody's going to catch
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me another thing that stands out about Jason Scott is he was an incredibly diverse
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criminal So Not only was he interested in burglary in home invasions he was interested in peeping
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[Music] he was interested in cruising the neighborhood and taking pictures of people in the privacy of their own homes
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who had no idea what he was doing it's not uncommon for that to progress to breaking into a home to some
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kind of sexual offense so this progression is a natural part that we as criminologists are concerned about with
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any crime that someone does does it then have an opportunity to develop to make that person a a criminal a criminal that
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is looking for a career I'm doing it I'm successful at doing it why [Music]
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stop the murders of mother and daughter Karen and Carissa Lofton have shocked this respectable Washington
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[Music] suburb there's a Spate of burglaries too but the police are yet to track down the
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[Applause] perpetrators 2 months later another murder is called [Music] in my name is Courtney Hicks my mother
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is Dolores DT and my sister is Ebony DT my life was perfect before before everything
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[Music] happened my mom was the kindest person that I ever met she was always there for
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me even still after everything that's had happened to me in my life because of
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how my mom taught me to believe in myself my sister was someone I could always depend on I could always count on
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just as well as my mom I missed him so much so [Music] when I got home I like I don't remember if I had to
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disable our alarm or not but I just go in the house and I see my sister's uh
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jacket on the back of the chair everything just looked normal it just looked like they just weren't there
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my mom's car was in the driveway everything looked normal it just they just weren't there
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[Music] I go upstairs and I go in my sister's room it wasn't no bleach spot on my
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sister's floor so that kind of like struck me like okay maybe ebony did come
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home she probably dropped some bleach or something in when I got into my bedroom
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I just like sat down on my bed that's when I got the feeling that you need to get out of this
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house I've run out the house I get in her car and I go to my boyfriend at the
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time's house and when I got to him I'm just calling my mom and this is like now
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probably going on um it was late and still no [Music] response the following day Courtney
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hears that her mother and sister have been murdered their bodies are found in a stolen car that was then set on fire at
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a different address police identifi Dolores and Ebony through dental records then they came to
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our house I want to say was it later on that day I believe they came to our house um and that's when they did tell
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us about the dent records um matching my mom and my sister they were in the berning
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[Music] car when I was 15 I my dad died so I honestly didn't think that I never in my
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life thought anybody like my mom my sister would be murdered or anything like that this never any I don't think
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anybody would think somebody they love would be murdered my family was everything to me
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my mom my dad and my sister I didn't have a worry in the [Music] world certainly in the murders of
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Dolores and Ebony detet this is somebody who engages in incredibly R risky Behavior he steals a
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car and the person that he steals the car from actually Witnesses this what's
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the nature of your emergency I just left my house maybe an hour ago and have come
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back my car is missing out of the carboard that's my car okay it just zoom past me wow so this is somebody in the
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middle of the day steals a car drives it to a house puts two people in there who
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are no longer alive and burns this car in a relatively short amount of time I mean how much how riskier can you
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be it's a horrific horrific crime scene of a burned body dental records are needed to
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identify the individuals to know whom they are this does by time by moving the bodies to another place by putting them
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in a car that has nothing to do with them and then burning the bodies allows for additional time for the individual
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to get [Music] away I used to feel like people will be watching us outside of our house my mom
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will always feel like people be watching us if you feel like somebody is watching
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you they are and if you really have that oversense and urge like I feel like somebody watching me I feel like
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somebody watching me they are it don't cross your mind that sick people like
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that exists I think most of the time when people have a sense of being watched they they probably are and I think it's
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very very important to trust your gut and investigate call the police whatever you think is going to make you feel
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safe too many of us in the past have had these gut feelings had these kind of Spidey senses or the hair on the back of
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our neck stands up and we talk ourselves out of it when really it's our body's
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way of telling us that something is wrong even though we don't consciously know
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it there have been two mother daughter murders less than 2 miles apart in just 8
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[Music] weeks like Karen Lofton Dolores dwit was a nurse and at home alone with her
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teenage daughter in many respects there are a lot of similarities between the murders
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of Karen and Carissa Lofton and Dolores and Ebony and you know the similarities of course they're both nurses they're
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both single parents they have teenage daughters yet there are some significant differences so police know that that
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Karen and Carissa are murdered in their home that they are shot to death and this is very very different
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from Ebony and Dolores who are removed from their home before they were eventually found in a burned out
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car it would be really nice if seral Killers always did everything exactly the same because it would be much easier
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to catch them and so it's it's important to kind of step back sometimes and kind
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of go okay yes there's some surface differences here including the way these
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people were murdered but we can't rule out the possibility given these other
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similarities that there's some connection between the two at the time of the Lofton and dwit
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murders police are already investigating the death of 46-year-old mother of three
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Vilma Butler in June 2008 she is shot dead and found in her burning home around 15 miles from the
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dtz and Lofton but police still do not believe they are dealing with a serial killer
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serial killers usually are not this meticulous in their acts you know we usually see that there's opportunity as
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the main factor there is that of a special type of person he or she is in interested in committing these acts with
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but to see intelligence put together to see elements of information put together
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this is a different ball game this is a different realm it's unfortunate that he was a was able to
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get away with it for so long and then he end up getting Court [Music] there have been five murders in this
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respectable suburb since June 2008 police don't believe they're dealing with a serial killer and are yet
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to identify a suspect but separately from the murders authorities are getting closer to
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catching local burglar Jason Scott the crimes that Mr Scott committed were clustered around his own
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neighborhood in Prince George's County Maryland which is a suburb just east of
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Washington DC in May of 2009 Jason Scott and his accomplice Marcus Hunter traveled up to Woodbine
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Maryland to commit this robbery of a gun shop they stole 39 Firearms uh including
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automatic weapons machine guns silencers and a large volume of ammunition someone who moves to being
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involved in gun deals has a lot of spheres of activity going on you usually don't expect that in someone who's
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involved in criminal activity one becomes good at one part of criminal activity but does not drift as we say in
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criminology to perhaps having a a life of regular Conformity and then going to be an innov of criminal activity this is
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what makes this case so special he's confident in what he does after doing this he decides to make
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some money by selling some of these illegal weapons and yet I think his boldness
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really does Propel him to take these ridiculous risks I mean selling illegal weapons
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in the UPS parking lot I mean it seems like that's something that is not a criminal something a criminal mastermind
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would do you work there Jason Scott had let it be known among some of his criminal compatriots that he had guns to
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sell and an undercover ATF agent arranged to meet Jason Scott in a parking lot uh and purchased four
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weapons from him where the B on cuz whoever you go there they going to be I mean it Ain it
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ain't like no body or nothing just came for agents then were able to verify that
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four of those weapons uh were the weapons that had been stolen on May 26th from the gun
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shop well this was the moment that exposed Jason Scott to the subsequent search warrant during the course of executing
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that search warrant the agents recovered 16 firearms that had been stolen from that gun shop uh in Wood bind
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back in May of 2009 they also obtained from Jason Scott's bedroom many of the
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burglary tools that he had used to commit the crime the clothing that he wore the black clothing uh the ski mask
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and the backpack containing his burglary tools which included things like bolt cutters and screwdrivers and pry bar and
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also uh included a police scanner There is almost a black comedy here if things weren't so horrific
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that this is somebody who is intelligent he's graduated from college he's a
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personal person and yet he almost lives in this fantasy world it seems like one of the items of evidence that
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we recovered from Jason Scott's Home was a video recording that he had made of
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this teenage victim when he was recording the victim uh uh while she was naked during one of his home inv and
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robberies and at one point Mr Scott himself crossed in front of the camera there actually was an image
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captured of Mr Scott in his full regalia that he would wear to commit his crimes and when the authorities found
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those recordings and photographs and the burglary tools they realized they were dealing with a master criminal not
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simply somebody who had committed a uh a robbery at a gun shop but somebody who posed A continuing threat of violence in
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the community the agents were working with local police who knew about the Spree of home invasion robberies in
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addition to the murders that had been committed in the area and so once they found this evidence they immediately
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settled on Jason Scott as a likely suspect in a whole spree of crimes I think when you think about this
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kind of sexual aspect or sexual assault that is so consistent with somebody who has a history of peeping and voyerism
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who then progress say most people who peep don't progress to worse things but people who do
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progress to worse things often have a history of peeping and voyerism I think Jason Scott enjoyed the
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sense of power and control that he exercised when he committed these home invasion robberies where he kept people
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you know under control he kept people at gunpoint uh in a couple of instances he
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detained people in their homes while his partner Marcus Hunter took their ATM cards and went to withdraw cash and I
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think Jason Scott enjoyed that sense of power that he obtained while he was detaining innocent
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victims there was one home invasion that he carried out where the victims were of
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course terrified uh they had no idea they felt completely helpless the victim later on said you
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know when you have absolutely no control over situation you you don't know what
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to do and she said I started praying and you know Jason Scott said shut up I think that affirmed to him that I
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am powerful I am a criminal Master mind I am in charge of these situations and I
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do think that was very important to him and for whatever reason he really did Embrace this criminal
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identity Jason Scott is now a suspect in the five murder investigations but police don't have
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enough evidence to charge him but the evidence from the Firearms offenses home invasions and sexual
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assault makes police believe he's linked to a vast array of crimes rather than charge him for just
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the crimes they have evidence for Scott is taken into custody and offered a profer interview in a profer interview
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the government promises a defendant that uh things that he says in the interview
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won't be used against him directly in court and so the profer an opportunity
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for the defendant to come in with the promise of immunity and reveal to the government the criminal activity in
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which he [Music] participated they're thinking this is somebody who's going to help us catch
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other almost arms dealers or people who you know who are selling illegal guns and so
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Jason takes advantage of this during the interview with uh Federal authorities Mr Scott admitted
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that he had committed approximately 28 burglaries and nine home invasion robberies law enforcement is absolutely
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stunned by this he's saying to you criminal justice system I am smarter than you that I was able to be
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successful with these crimes I am good at what I do and I am better than you at this time The Jig Is up so if it is up
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let me just go ahead and tell you and show you how much smarter I was than you how much intelligence and research goes
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into this and of course Jason sitting there smug as can be thinking I've got immunity from all
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these things nothing I said to today can be used against me he was a little misguided I think in thinking
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that police cannot charge Scott with the burglaries and home invasions he's confessed
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to but he can still be charged for other crimes because of new evidence or if implicated by an
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accomplice once uh authorities realized that Jason Scott had been involved in a crime spree in the area uh they started
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to review all crimes that had been committed in the area over the past couple of years to identify which ones
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were likely to have been committed by Jason Scott Marcus Hunter revealed that he was
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a friend of Jason Scott and that he had participated with Mr Scott in many of the robberies and burglaries that Mr
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Scott had committed in the community Marcus Hunter used the term spooky house to refer to an abandoned property that
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he and Jason Scott would go to after the crimes to split up the proceeds uh so on
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multiple occasions Jason Scott and Marcus Hunter went to the so-called spooky house with the proceeds of their
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robbery and then divided the property among them the most compelling evidence uh I
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recovered from the spooky house that we was used in the state case uh was that they found charred bits of fabric and
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hair at the spooky house that were uh connected to the murder because they matched evidence that was found on the
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bodies when they were recovered from the car that had been burned this vital new piece of evidence
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links Scott to the crime scene of Dolores and ebony dwit Jason Scott is charged with their
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murders while being investigated for the others this is the beginning of the end
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for Jason [Music] Scott it's 1 and a half years since Jason Scott was charged with the murders
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of Dolores and Ebony dwit as a case is building against him he's first facing trial for the crimes
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that investigators have more evidence of in the federal system uh we prosecuted defendants for the most
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readly provable offenses and so uh in this case uh we identified four home invasion robberies and which the proof
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was the strongest and the Witnesses were the most uh credible and compelling and
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we charged Mr Scott with those four home invasion robberies in addition to the child pornography he had produced during
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one of those robberies and then the possession of the stolen firearms that uh had been taken from
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that gun shop in Woodbine most important piece of evidence in the case was the video
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recording that Jason Scott had made uh of this teenage victim Mr Scott at one point actually crossed in front of the
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camera so in this case the federal sentence for the series of crimes 11 violations in total amounted to 100
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years in federal prison I know the family members of the murder victims were present at the sentencing
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and they were very relieved they were confident that Mr Scott had been held accountable and would no longer pose a
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threat to the community regardless of whether or not he ultimately was convicted on the state charges for the
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murder what we do see is someone who's become very good at being a criminal someone who's intelligent someone who
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looks at information that's publicly accessible plus perhaps has a charm that
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allows for many people not to feel threatened we hope that these elements don't come together and thank goodness
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that person is no longer on the street causing these heinous [Music] [Applause] acts Jason Scott is is in
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jail police suspect him of the murders of Vilma Butler Dolores and Ebony DT and Karen and Carissa Lofton but they only
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have strong evidence linking him to the dtz murders in order to prosecute him for
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the provable crimes police strike a deal using an alord plea it's been around
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since about the 1970s here you have an environment in which one pleas to say I'm not saying I'm guilty of doing this
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act but I am going to go ahead and move the process in order to perhaps receive a lesser
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sentence as part of the Alfred plea for the murders of Dolores and Ebony DT Jason Scott now won't face trial for the
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murders of Vilma Butler or Karen and Carissa Lofton we never had our day in court he was going to spit the rest of
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his life in jail anyway so so I guess they assume why spend money to satisfy the
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family Carissa Lofton I always speak her name and I always say she's such a strong girl cuz she comes home only to
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find someone killing her mom and then she gets shot in the head from what um the story tells to be able to pick her
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strength to pick up the phone to call 911 ma'am I've been shot me my mother
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had been shut I'm beding for that sweee slow down what's your address it's just heartbreaking when you hear
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her it's heartbreaking it's so heartbreaking cuz she didn't they didn't
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deserve it none nobody deserves it there's still a very empty void in myself and my family's Hearts because we
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don't know we we didn't get the satisfaction that uh the dits got of a of a trial and a and a killer that
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admitted and was found guilty of their crime we didn't get [Music] that I I used to hate him for a while um
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but I had to get over that at first I used to want him dead I pray to God that like while he's
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uh locked up every time he Clos his eyes he sees them as he left them now I just feel like
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no what he got is the best thing for him I don't even want to give him any um
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real estate in my mental space so um he's where he needs to be I think that Jason Scott has all the
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Hallmarks of a serial killer in terms of so many different things his interest in
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forensics the way he he researched his crimes and most importantly the way he carried out so many different crimes and
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really exhibited no compassion no empathy whatsoever for his victims this was probably the most
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memorable case that I personally prosecuted in my 30 years with the United States Department of Justice
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because of the scale of the harm that Jason Scott had visited on the community uh and obviously the
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particular harm on the victims of the murders the home invasion robbery and the child
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abuse you save lives by taking somebody like Jason Scott off the [Music] street my parents my mom my dad and my
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sister they always told us if you believe in yourself you could do anything so with that even through all
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the tragedy in my life I'm could pack myself on the back that I just never gave up and that's only because of
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them life has never been the same life will never be the same I'm um just been
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trying to adjust to it it's just uh I was shattered I had nothing now I compare everybody in this world to
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my family and it's like I said I haven't met anyone that just measure up to how great they
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were you know I have three kids now with my wife um and my mother or sister has met none of them so um she was robbed
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from having three beautiful grandchildren that she could be interacting with I still feel lost like it's a loss
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um I've grown a lot I had to learn how to turn a tragedy into something uh helpful and that's the only
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way that you can get through something like that Jason Scott feel like that they not
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responsible for two murders they responsible for three because in my family because uh my son Kirk Jr never
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recovered he went through a very dark period he uh was drinking very depressed and everything for
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years 6 months ago well a little more than 6 months in a month after his birthday uh exactly a month after his
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birthday then he died they found him in a hotel and the cause of death is alcohol
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and uh poisoning you know he had died from alcohol so Jason Scott definitely played the
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part in [Music] it I used to call Carissa my butterfly and she loved the color green that year after she passed then it
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was a influx of green butterflies all through Georgia the main thing that I had to remember is
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that God didn't make mistakes and that my story had to help somebody else [Music]
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