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[Music] thank you foreign [Music] State Highway Patrol serves as the coordinating law
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enforcement agency in Missouri to alert the public of missing or abducted children
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today in the great state of Missouri just like many other states in this great country Amber Alerts are
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distributed via the wireless emergency alerts program the mission of the Amber Alert program
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is to develop and coordinate the efforts of law enforcement the media and transportation in order to increase
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public participation and safely recovering abducted children through targeted education increased
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communication and effective sharing of resources to avoid both false alarms and having alerts ignored as a wolf cry
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the criteria for issuing an alert is rather strict each state Amber Alert plan sets its own criteria for activation
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meaning that there are differences between alerting agencies as to which incidents are considered to justify the
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use of the system however the U.S department of justice issues the following guidance which Most states are
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said to adhere closely to one law enforcement must confirm that an abduction has taken place
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two the child must be at risk of serious injury or death three there must be sufficient
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descriptive information of child captor or captor's vehicle to issue an alert four the child must be under 17 years of
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age December 16 2004 was the first time that an amber alert was issued for a fetus
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lacking any sort of description the alert was initially denied as it had not been used before in an
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unborn child's case and thus there was no description of the victim eventually after intervention by
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Congressman Sam Graves the alert was implemented the baby's mother had been murdered just
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hours before the alert went out to the citizens of Missouri and immediately people wondered who
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could do something like that John Rayburn is the director of the infant response team for the national
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Center for missing and exploited children and researches infant and Fetal abductions
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Rayburn and other researchers have interviewed convicted abductors much like how the FBI interviews serial
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killers to learn more he said that most abductors fit a fairly specific profile they're in a rocky relationship and
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think a baby can save it they're having fertility problems they are overweight as it is easier to
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get people to believe they are pregnant they have a history of Deceit they carefully research and plan the
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crime and according to Rayburn they usually share another surprising quality the
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vast majority of these women have had one or more babies of Their Own infant abductions are rare
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the national Center for missing and exploited children reports as of December 2020 that there have been
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327 infant abductions over the past 55 years in the United States as rare as infant abductions are fetal
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abductions are even more so there appears to have been 25 of them in the last 40 years
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most in the United States most fetal abductors surveil numerous targets before striking
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fetal abductors research how to perform a cesarean section Rayburn said all of the fetal abductors
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he has studied have little regard for the real mothers but they never intentionally hurt the
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infants he explained the psychology of the women when they first pick up the infant quote
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it's almost like an instant birth for that perpetrator this is True Crime garage
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[Music] a good portion of today's trailer was from a fascinating article by the good
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folks doing good work over at KCTV in the trailer we talked about the first time an amber alert was used when there
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was no available description of an abducted child and that is the case that we're going to dive into today Bobby Joe
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was born in the Tiny Town of Skidmore Missouri oddly enough she was the cousin of the young man whose case we featured
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in the garage yesterday that is The Disappearance of Branson Perry growing up Bobby Joe was a good student
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with the love of horses and dogs she was quiet and kind Bobby Joe graduated from
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Norway Holt High School in 2000 a year after her cousin Branson and a couple of years later Bobby Joe married Zeb
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stennett and a little over a year later she was pregnant and Zeb and Bobby Joe are expecting their first baby on
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Thursday December 16 2004 Bobby Joe just 12 days ago celebrated her 23rd birthday
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she is eight months pregnant at this time the young couple lived in a modest whitewashed clapboard house they both
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worked at a Kawasaki Factory but on this day Zeb stennett was at work and Bobby Joe was at home
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the senates raised and sold rat terrier puppies they also traveled to dog shows and showed their dogs at some of these
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events most of the sails were generated through their website happyhavenfarms.com
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at 3 38 pm on December 16th a 9-1-1 call came in Nottoway County 9-1-1 what is your
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emergency a Nottoway County dispatcher said on the other end of the phone line it's
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Becky Harper this is Bobby Joe's mother she is now at Zeb in Bobby Joe's home Becky is screaming uncontrollably
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Becky Harper found her daughter's bloody lifeless body in the back bedroom of the
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home this room was used to hold puppy Kennels Becky cried into the phone she told the
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dispatcher that Bobby Joe was lying on the floor and there's blood everywhere the dispatcher asked her what happened
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Becky replied quote she was pregnant and it's like her guts have exploded or something
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very quickly Medics and police were on the scene paramedics tried to revive Bobby but
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there was way too much blood and when you have that much blood you have very little hope as often it is already too
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late unfortunately doctors pronounced her dead at 4 27 pm and what a horrific site
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this has to be absolutely horrific walking into this finding your daughter in this manner and not really fully
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being able to grasp what had actually happened right she's got to be in total shock now
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investigators Captain were able to conclude the following fairly quickly it appeared to investigators that Bobby Joe
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was attacked inside her home they found zero indicators of force entry into the home
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the victim was strangled from behind someone had made a lateral cut across her abdomen and removed the fetus they
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also concluded that the baby was likely alive but could be suffering by being born so
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violently and not helping this horrific situation keep in mind she's only been pregnant for eight months so we are one
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month early one because of the wounds law enforcement cannot you know deduce a possible motive yes that's correct
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and again our victim she was attacked and strangled from behind but not without putting up one hell of a fight
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God bless her and there were obvious signs of this at the scene first there was blood on the bottom of
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Bobby Joe's feet this means that at some point during the struggle she stood in her own blood
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right the child would have been cut from her while she was lying down on her back
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the only blood is coming from her stomach area what this shows us is that she was
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strangled choked out but not dead her killer likely thinking that she may have been
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dead but she came too while the killer was in the process of taking the baby from her body well she got up back on
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her feet standing in her own blood where before she was fighting for her own life at one
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point now she's fighting for her baby well it's like holding man's strength for some reason mothers just have
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that incredible mother strength yeah there was further Evidence too that she fought her attacker attempted to
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fight off the attacker in fact she was found gripping strands of blonde hair in both hands when her mother discovered
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her inside her home Nottoway County Sheriff Ben espie was the first emergency responder on the
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scene from a law enforcement perspective and was notified that the child's in biblical cord was cut prompting him to
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immediately get the help of outside agencies this including the FBI they're going to join in on the search
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for this child who's never been seen by anybody right Sheriff Espy told reporters quote what we are looking at
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is more likely this story so far sounds like something that you would see in a in a movie or
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on um Law and Order episode doesn't seem quite real not at all Sheriff Espy told reporters quote what
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we are looking at is more than likely our victim has been strangled and was probably deceased when the child was
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removed from the womb evidence would show the baby was probably wrapped up and taken out of the
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home now Becky Harper remember she's Bobby Joe's mother right would later say that
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she was on the phone with Bobby Joe earlier that day and that Bobby was expecting someone to come look
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at her dogs this about 2 30 P.M she told her mother on the phone oh they are here I've got
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to go remember Becky found Bobby Joe and the 9-1-1 call came in Captain at 3 38 pm
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Becky walked to the home after Bobby Joe failed to come to her house to pick her
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up at a scheduled time so if the statement that Becky is giving to investigators is correct Bobby Joe
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was attacked and killed and baby abducted between approximately 12 30 p.m and 3 30 P.M
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that's quite a nice carved out little window for investigators to work with and her husband is at work at this time
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Zeb Santa is working at the Kawasaki Factory during this the entirety of this day
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now one tip that came in suggested that three people had killed Bobby Joe with the purpose of taking her
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baby which they intended to sell I'm a little unclear where this tip came from but it was reported in the papers
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and in the news at the time this story very quickly became very big news and the law enforcement agencies
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that were working the case won the Nottoway County Sheriff's Office with Sheriff Espy
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and the FBI and some other agencies particularly in the state of Missouri we're working very fast on this case and
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working together and Sheriff Espy as well as I believe it was agent Jeff Lanza from the FBI
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they were answering questions that the media had again very big news very early on in
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this investigation yeah because we have two victims one victim is deceased and one victim's still out there possibly
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alive so you got to work this case completely different than most other murder cases
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and Sheriff SB and the FBI agent were asked directly about this tip that suggested that three people had killed
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Bobby Joe and took the baby with the intention to sell to which Sheriff SB responded and told
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the reporters this lead was possibly going to go up in smoke he said the third party has misled us so this lead
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may have sounded promising to the local scuttlebutt into reporters but to law enforcement I'm sure they were able to
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quickly set this tip aside Chicago butt's a good word I don't know if that's because they they were able to
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discredit the person or the information where the tip came from or if it was simply that they had very
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much more stronger leads and evidence pointing them in a completely different direction and this
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they found almost immediately in this case Captain well it almost sounds from law enforcement's perspective that
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this tip is maybe to even throw us off any other tips yes or simply could be somebody wanting to get involved in the
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investigation because it is now a media circus right another one of the early leads in this investigation came from a
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neighbor this was one of the neighbors of the stenets that reported seeing a red two-door hatchback car that was
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parked in the driveway of the Senate's home at 430 West Elm Street sometime between the hours of 12 30 and 2 30 p.m
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this on the day in question this was reported as a battered red two-door car with a hatchback at least
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10 years old maybe even older now I like this red car tip now you take that from what we know to be true to the
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time frame right let's go back to Bobby's mother's story that she's on the phone with Bobby Joe
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and around 2 30ish Bobby Joe says oh someone's coming oh here they are I've got to go
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and now an hour later Becky Harper is in her daughter's home finds her daughter dead
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so now you have to wonder Captain the and these individuals are coming supposedly to look at dogs according to
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Bobby Joe yes so now you have to wonder is this red car either directly related to the murder or at the
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very least can the red car fill out a little more of our timeline and maybe even offer some additional information
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maybe even they witness something of importance so we've got this one hour that we're really working with that
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we're concerned about and we also have this red car we need to figure out who was driving that red car well also do we
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have any eyewitnesses seeing one individual or multiple individuals in this vehicle from my understanding
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there's a possibility that this eyewitness saw someone or some kind of activity going
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on in the back of the vehicle it's a little unclear what it was that they thought they were
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seeing or how it's directly related but um I think what's important here is that
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description of the vehicle itself but the other thing that's nice for law enforcement is
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this is a small town and like we said yesterday I don't even know if you can call it a
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town so somebody noticing this vehicle it probably wouldn't take too many degrees of
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Kevin Bacon to figure out who this car belongs to that's very interesting that you say that because I think that and
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also the reverse of that is is this a vehicle that you recognize to be owned by anybody that you know from here
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you know we're not talking about thousands fifty thousand sixty thousand vehicles in this general area there's
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about under 300 people living in this town and I'm sure a lot of these people know
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a good majority of the vehicles being driven by its residents well just think like when we went to high school uh you
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know that it's probably more people in our high school than were in this town but if a crime was committed and the
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police officers were asking us well have you ever noticed this car before we we probably again maybe only noticed it a
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couple times but again we could probably figure out who that car is connected to
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or well I don't know the individual's name but they're friends with so and so or yeah or rattle off a few people that
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have vehicles matching that General description right well Captain you mentioned a data dump on yesterday's
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episode so that's interesting because it is important to this case here today because police are armed with the
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information that someone may have been coming to look and some dogs or purchase a dog that day
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from Bobby Joe Stinnett yeah or that being their ruse to get inside the house to attack her and as we said earlier the
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majority of the sales of those Rat Terriers that they raised came from their website from Bobby Joe
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and zeb's website the happyhaven farms.com website tracking that website and tracking their phone logs were were
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they able to get another suspect yeah what they were doing was they were trying to find a good lead here based
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off of this general information and everything on the computer all that information that they found on
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Bobby Joe's computer told investigators that she had made arrangements to meet with someone named Darlene Fisher and
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this was for the purpose of a possible sale of a puppy this at that time period on the day of her murder
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well who the hell is Darlene that's a good question so with several agencies working
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diligently together this this whole thing is super Amplified this is your regular homicide investigation on
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steroids maxed out because you are not only looking to solve someone's murder and we know how things you know the the
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faster you can get the good leads the faster you can secure good evidence the better your case will be the better your
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investigation will be it's not just about solving This Woman's murder there was a child that was ripped from her
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body yeah it's about saving that baby's life right it's not just a kidnapped child this child could be in danger
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simply because of how it was born and because how early it was born there's all kinds of complications here
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so all of these agents and agencies working very diligently together using every resource available they could find
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they couldn't find any record for a Darlene Fisher you know they're checking driver's
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license State IDs anything that they would have on their databases they cannot find a Darlene Fisher and they
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couldn't find anyone who even knew who she would be so now the investigators are terrified
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because it's starting to look like to them that they are dealing with the suspect or at least a person that
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they're trying to find that was using a fake name to meet with the murder victim
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on that day not only are they using a fake name but this person is an absolute Savage
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foreign [Music] foreign [Music] we're back cheers mates cheers to you Colonel cheers to you Captain cheers to
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the people in the back or to the billy goat cheers to the people up front don't forget about those
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those people the fine people up front yeah they smell good so Captain while we have this all going on again all of
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these agencies working together I do want to take a a quick step aside from the investigation and
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throw a little shout out here this Sheriff asked me I'm a big fan of him and I know that it's really a reflection
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on more modern day investigative efforts in law enforcement agencies and how they conduct themselves
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but one thing that I noticed in several of this Sheriff's investigations and this one in particular
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is that he is quick to identify a situation and go all right this is of a certain magnitude let's tap every
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resource available and tap every other agency available to us and get all parties involved and let's just get it
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done and get it done right he doesn't let ego stand in the way of asking for help getting others involved
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right especially a case that is so serious as this one so while all of this is going on while we have individuals
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trying to figure out who Darlene Fisher is or who could be using that fake name of Darlene Fisher at the same time we
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have Sheriff Espy who is attempting to use one of those resources that being the Missouri State Amber Alert System
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he is notifying the proper channels which I believe would be the state highway patrol according to the
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information that we covered in the trailer today saying hey look we need to send out an amber alert well what does
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the victim look like we don't know what does the abductor look like we don't know
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um what can you tell us he's basically saying we can't we don't have any information other than the very simple
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fact that we know that a fetus was abducted and somebody made off with that baby and roughly pot or or possibly
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this the suspect's car right so he gets a no on his request they're like yeah that doesn't fit the
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criteria for our state's Amber Alert System well SP doesn't like this answer and
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he's not the kind of guy that just takes no for an answer when he knows that he needs help and as you pointed out
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Captain this is a horribly tragic Savage crime this is of the utmost importance I
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completely agree so he starts lobbying his local congressman saying you need to go
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to bat for us and and get this done make this happen and through that channel he ends up being told
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hey all right we're going to move forward with the amber alert for this abducted child well again look at this
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case we we have a murder victim so when you have a murdered victim the the best outcome at that point is to get a
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suspect collect the evidence charge them convict them and have them spend the rest of their life in jail and while we
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have the work getting done to make the Amber Alert happen now we have to bring in the computer
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forensic detectives right because since we can't figure out who Darlene Fisher is our next effort is going to be
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tracing the communications from this so-called Darlene Fisher regarding the possible purchase of one of the dogs
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through a lot of work they're able to very quickly Trace that back to a single IP address
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and I'm going to shorten this version of the story Captain because it does get very complicated it's a lot of reaching
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out to people in other states to find out some information that lead you to another piece of information and another
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piece of information and speaking to but it's it's information that's it's Elementary to you since you studied
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computer right that's correct and by the way there will be new computer shirts this week and the on the store Page they
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trace this to a single IP address and then what they learn is that that is coming from a town in Melbourne Kansas
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which is about 170 miles away they the IP address is traced to a telephone that was registered to a Kevin Montgomery
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at South Adams Road in Melbourne well this is a really darn good lead isn't it so the FBI decide hey let's
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start watching this house and soon they spot a dirty red Toyota Corolla with Kansas license plates pull
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up to that address yeah yeah of course it's a dirty Toyota Corolla the agents now they're going to move into the
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residence once inside they find a man and woman sitting on the couch and between them appears to be
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a baby wrapped up in a sheet now they can't see you know any features of the baby they can't see the face or any skin
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or anything like that in fact one of the agents says it really crossed my mind in
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that moment considering everything I had just seen in the last 24 hours that the baby could be somewhere else
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and that could be a shotgun or some kind of handgun wrapped up uh for for them to
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grab easily right and take us out well they check on the situation they are right and find out that it was in fact a
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baby it was in fact the missing baby that they were looking for sitting between these two people on the couch
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they're just sitting there watching TV like nothing happened like like a couple of new parents and in fact oddly enough
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they are watching the Amber Alert information that is coming out on their TV screen Jesus Savages
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of course they arrest both of these individuals and the baby is sent off to the hospital and I won't leave anybody
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hanging for too long I'll jump to this portion of the story the baby was determined to be healthy
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okay nothing's wrong with the baby no injuries at all thank god well that's what I was saying about five minutes ago
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but you interrupted me the the importance of moving all this stuff forward was like I was saying you have a
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murdered victim or normally that's all you have a murdered victim so now you have to get the suspect get the evidence
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you know charge them put them in jail and that's the best outcome but when you have
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in this case the the victim taken by the murderers now you have another outcome and it's going to be on your hands and
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that's how most law enforcement look at it hey it's on our hands if we do not capture these people in time and get
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this baby back and have the baby be okay and have the baby be alive and not another murdered victim in their custody
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the police now have Lisa Marie Montgomery and her husband Kevin Montgomery they've separated them
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they're going to be interviewing them both of them are in their mid to late 30s sounds like a very bad country duo
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now what Kevin Montgomery tells police during this interview process is that his wife Lisa
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allegedly called him at 5 15 or around 5 15 p.m the day before this saying that on a shopping trip to
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Topeka Kansas she had gone into labor and given birth he said that his wife told him she had
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delivered the infant earlier in the day at a nearby Birthing Center and she asked him to pick her and the
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baby up at a fast food restaurant this was in the parking lot of a Long John Silver's in Topeka Kansas
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the next day the couple showed off the newborn at a diner a bank the courthouse and the
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convenience store where Lisa Montgomery worked Lisa Montgomery had four children of her
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own this from a previous marriage this was her second marriage to Kevin Montgomery
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but she had her tubes tied in 1990. we're in 2004 right and according to they come they came
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untied right according to Kevin Montgomery her husband he said that on at least one occasion
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she claimed to have been pregnant this after the procedure I'm a little unclear here Captain if Kevin Montgomery
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was fully aware of this procedure right I'm guessing he wasn't what ends up happening in the other room with Lisa
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Montgomery she you know was trying to explain some things away and she's sticking to the
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story of all she was pregnant and she had this baby and she's going to stick with that story but not for too long
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eventually she breaks down and admits to police that the day before she drove to
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Skidmore Missouri and met with Bobby Joe stennett in her home and attacked her from behind
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and took the baby from Bobby Joe's body using a kitchen knife I mean this is one of the worst cases
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we've ever covered that it is my friend and she drove apparently drove to this Long John Silver's restaurant in Topeka
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Kansas and then called her husband saying hey I just gave birth to our kid come and pick
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me up well I mean they do have good fish sandwiches and better dip fries now we're going to have to go to trial
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captain and well first of all I mean just so we're clear they didn't have to do any tests or or
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did they do tests just to prove because I'm glad you pointed that out you're you're absolutely right they did some
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DNA testing and we're quickly able to determine that the child was not belonging to Lisa
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Montgomery right and it did belong to Zeb stennett and to now deceased Bobby Jost in it and after the baby was
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determined to be healthy the baby was returned to her father the baby's name by the way is Victoria
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stennett yeah and you feel for him because again this was their first child and and
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maybe they were planning on having more and and now you have to you raise the the
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kid alone without without a mother it'd be a tough situation and your spot on Captain
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this is one of the worst cases that we've had to cover but the the Silver Lining is of course
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the baby's healthy and we're able to not have double the tragedy here again that's a applauding all law enforcement
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involved every from from the simple uh Patrol officers from the patrol officers all the way up to the FBI to
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the computer I can't talk today computer forensic team I mean all of them involved are are the
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reason that that this child is still alive now this is going to be a different kind
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of charge which will lead to a different kind of trial here Captain what Lisa Montgomery is eventually charged with is
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in fact a federal offense of kidnapping resulting in death so what the prosecution is going to push
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forward is that the removing of the baby abducting the baby from the mother's body is in fact at the end of the day
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what killed this poor woman resulting in her death this was a crime that was established by
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the federal kidnapping act way back in 1932. so she's going to be Tried by the U.S
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federal government and if convicted she could face either life imprisonment at a
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federal prison or the death penalty right and it's weird though too because she she basically broke down
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during the interrogation so you think at some point that her and her lawyer would
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be making some kind of plea deal yeah broke down and I got to tell you Captain the the only you know there's
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very few portions of this story that you can gain any kind of joy out of you know the returning of
00:39:13
Victoria stennett the Baby Oh I thought uh the hard work of the investigators and the community but
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she broke down I don't know what kind of mental and emotional tools Lisa Marie Montgomery was working with here
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um right her defense team the lawyers presented an alternative theory of the crime of
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how the crime was perpetrated and how it went down this theory was that Lisa Montgomery's brother had actually
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committed the murder however oh that's great just throw everybody in your family under the bus
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well the other problem with this idea of presenting this as a defense for Lisa Marie Montgomery is there's no evidence
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to back any of this up right you know this you can't back up this Theory put forward by the defense team
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so when this was seen by the defense team as a lost cause effort they ended up Switching gears during the course of the
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trial and then they were going to go for an insanity defense right that's what they should have went with
00:40:28
probably initially but again why not just make a deal because you already confessed and try to save your life and
00:40:37
make a deal you're exactly right well you have all these you have so many victims in this case I mean one you have
00:40:44
any law enforcement that had to see that scene uh you have you know obviously Bobby Joe then you have her child do you
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think you have her husband you have the whole Community then you have this lady's kids and then think about the her
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husband he thought he was picking her up because they had a child right I have a
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really hard time believing this husband guy that look there's some dumb ass men there's
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some dumb ass men I can believe that he didn't know about the procedure the tube
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tying procedure I can believe that I have a hard time believing that this guy's as smart as glue is what he is but
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some of the people in the town of Malvern Kansas came to his defense and said look she fooled us too there were
00:41:37
other people in this community that she fooled for months leading up to and I and I've I've had this happen I had a
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friend of mine you know she told him that she was uh pregnant so she could fake it for a little bit but she faked
00:41:54
it for months it took months and then this guy is not a doc he's not a dummy uh and it wasn't and and in his defense
00:42:02
he he never had a child before so he didn't know exactly you know what to look for but he but friends of his
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started pointing out certain things to him but again a guy that's not he's not dumb and he was fake he was fooled for
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for months um by his girlfriend and her telling him that she was pregnant and I'm not going to go to Lisa Marie's
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defense I'm not going to look this this woman from everything that I've seen and we've talked about
00:42:40
this it feels like like dozens and dozens of times here in the garage captain that a lot of these
00:42:49
killers some of them have had horrible I mean I I I'm almost speechless when I when I begin to think of her childhood
00:42:57
but a lot of these killers have had horrible childhoods yes lots of abuse years of abuse her childhood
00:43:06
it would I mean it's up there with any of them that we've reviewed it might be the
00:43:13
worst one that I've ever reviewed as far as cases go here in the garage but again
00:43:17
I'm not going to go into detail about that because this show is not about Lisa Marie Montgomery it's about Bobby Joe
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stennett and Victoria stennett Zeb stennett and uh Becky Harper yeah but it is interesting I mean that her
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background is interesting but but also the more you dive into that the more you portray her as a victim
00:43:40
and it was reported that during the court proceedings about half of the jury were crying at times during
00:43:48
the trial itself and of course I think a lot of this is coming from this horrific
00:43:54
crime uh it being there's so many women that struggle to get pregnant to have carry pregnancy
00:44:02
to full term there's a lot of issues with that and and to have us this happen um it's just
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it's devastating um if you're a defense lawyer and you're looking over at the jury and they're
00:44:20
crying you're thinking well this is not looking very good for us yeah I think this is one like I understand that we
00:44:28
have to have checks and balances we have to have prosecutors and defense attorneys but I think if I was a defense
00:44:34
attorney and they gave me this case I think I would just say I have to walk away I I can't I couldn't do
00:44:42
the best job for this individual or maybe I could because again like I said from the beginning you broke down you
00:44:49
already talked to law enforcement why not make a deal right and I think I think you're spot on there my friend
00:44:55
because remember when we reviewed John Wayne Gacy's case his his attorney his defense team they were I thought they
00:45:02
were incredibly intelligent and their view was look the our the best thing we can do for
00:45:09
this man is prevent him from getting the death penalty right we're not we're not
00:45:13
stopping him from going to prison this guy's a monster well yeah he's a one he's a monster just like this lady is a
00:45:19
monster but there's so much evidence there right we're not going to be able to beat That We're Not Gonna Get You to
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walk out of here there's a lot of people that are against the death penalty and so maybe
00:45:34
Bobby Joe's family would be against that and so Justice would happen quicker and you could resolve this quicker and
00:45:46
and you can also save a life on October 22nd 2007 this just after five hours of deliberation the jury
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found Lisa Marie Montgomery guilty rejecting the defense claim that the defendant was delusional four days later
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the jury recommended the death sentence and the judge Gary Fenner agreed with that recommendation and formally
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sentenced Lisa Montgomery to death Lisa Montgomery was executed by lethal injection on January 13th of 2021
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at the United States penitentiary in Terre Haute Indiana when asked if she had any last words she simply replied no
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our way to 500 episodes of the main TCG show Colonel do we have any recommended reading this week this week we are
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recommending Baby Be Mine by Diane Fanning this book as well some other materials were used in the research for
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this week's story so if you want a deeper dive make sure you check out baby be mine the Shocking True Story of a
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woman accused of murdering a pregnant mother to steal her child by Diane Fanning find that great title and
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several other garage recommendations at True Crime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't listen
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