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popular restaurant in Eastern Kentucky was found dead and tonight her family says they're patiently waiting for the
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investigation to play out and in the meantime as 13 news reporter Lane ball explains they're raising some questions
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about a possible Communication Breakdown at a time when she needed help the most
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Amber spradlin's loved ones were emotional as they gave details on how she died she was stabbed at least 11 times in her
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head her neck and her throat I can't imagine what she was going through and how she was feeling and
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it is it is horrible but that's not all they shared Thursday afternoon during a press conference outside of the Floyd
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County Courthouse some members of the community who were there to show support Thursday have
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questioned how long it's taken to figure out what happened at a Holman Martin nearly two weeks ago
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but the family says they have regular contact with the Kentucky State Police Troopers and do not want to rush their
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investigation process when they are ready to release it to us they will that's you know and I want them to do
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their job the best possible way that they could you know I want them to do it correctly so that way we get the right
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person that did this well they wait for answers they're calling into question possible confusion with the 9-1-1 system
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they're concerned the calls requesting help did not get through to the closest law enforcement agency if our 911 system
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has failed her then at least she's too it's too late for her but at least it might help another family and that's why
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this is so important you know I wouldn't wish this on anybody to have to go through Floyd County Fiscal Court
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documents say in December 2022 the decision to move the call center from the Kentucky State Police post to the
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city of Prestonsburg was because of an increase in service fees now they've launched a petition to move
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the call center back to the Kentucky State Police post a family heartbroken wanting answers and
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changes but willing to be patient until investigators have all the pieces to this puzzle
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reporting in Prestonsburg Lane ball 13 News [Music] you heard it there in that clip there we
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have trouble in East Kentucky and people are emailing True Crime garage asking us
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to cover this case this is a very aggravating and upsetting case Amber Spradlin 39 years old of
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prestonburg killed at a supposed friend's home just over a month ago the original article that comes out in
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this case Captain is from the June 21-23 Chronicle and times out of Floyd County Kentucky with the headline KSP
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Foul Play suspected in Floyd woman's death and the article reads Kentucky State Police said June 19 they suspect foul
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play in the death of a Preston Berg woman according to a statement KSP Post 9 was notified of a deceased female on
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June 18 at a residence on Arkansas Creek in the Martin community of Floyd County
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KSP Troopers and investigators responded to the residents on Arkansas Creek in reference to the incident the initial
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investigation indicated Amber Spradlin age 39 of Prestonsburg had suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of
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suspected Foul Play The statement said Spradlin was pronounced dead at the scene by the Floyd County coroner's
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office and detective Justin Wireman is leading the investigation and was assisted on scene by KSP Personnel this
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is a case that if you're not in this area you may not have heard of but it's making big news in East Kentucky
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and the reason being is there's a lot of mystery that surrounds this case first of all the information that's coming out
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they're not releasing hardly any information regarding this homicide and and this is
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a very violent homicide you heard that in today's trailer the woman you heard describing the injuries is a relative of
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Amber Spradlin the other reason why this has made such big news is it's calling into question the 911 response system
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and setup there in Floyd County Kentucky now I believe that we know why they are
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holding so much information close to the vest in this case and we'll get into that as we go through the case but we
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need to point out here that we had a huge response from our audience and a very much needed call to action here in
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this case well rightfully so I think we have some public outrage you have a lady
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that was at a party of several eyewitnesses she is murdered they don't respond to
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the scene fast enough which maybe could have saved her life and there is nobody arrested there's
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nobody held accountable for these actions as of yet 39 year old Amber Spradlin was laid to rest her funeral
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was June 24th at Davidson Memorial Gardens huge outpour from the community and a lot of people in the community
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reaching out to her family with words of kindness and prayer and hoping the best
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for this family this case is crazy and I'll tell you why I'm not going to sit here and try to walk some kind of Fine
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Line because we have friends at KSP Kentucky State Police over the years the garage has made
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friends with several of the Troopers and detectives for the Kentucky State Police
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they are a little bit under Fire with this whole 9-1-1 situation which we will dive into and make clear the details of
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that but also this case makes me very Furious Captain because of the victim here and we talked about this
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before in the garage and I cannot explain why but some of these cases they just they just bother you and disrupt
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you more than others and this is one for me when we talk about Amber and her life
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it's described as tragic I don't know that I would describe it as tragic but I certainly didn't know her I would
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describe it as sad and upsetting she was just 39 years old when she was killed and this is a violent murder a
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violent very bloody crime scene but in her 39 years unfortunately Amber lost her parents at a young age so she was
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raised by her grandparents and then she has an additional tragedy of losing her sister
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in a car accident when she becomes an adult most of us go out we spread our wings some of us go off to college some
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of us start our careers some start a family Amber was such a great person she did none of
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those things her grandparents who raised her because of the tragedies in her early life they
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were in need of care to be taken care of they raised her and took care of her growing up and now it was Amber's turn
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to take care of her grandparents as they were very elderly in Amber's adult life
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and it was only less than a year before Amber was killed after her grandparents passing away
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that she was able to spread her wings and go out and live a more traditional adult lifestyle right she was she was
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living in a home of her own for the first time little did anybody know that she would live there for less than a
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year before she is killed now one thing that makes me very angry here in this case Captain is we have this beautiful
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wonderful person kind-hearted good-natured person and make no make no mistake about it
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the beer that was picked for this week that's on purpose I believe that Amber 39 years old
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thought that she was out with friends that night thought that she was surrounded by friends that night and it
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turns out it was the exact opposite not only is she killed but whoever was there
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with her and there's the Waters of murky but whoever was there with her that night
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no one it doesn't seem like anybody came to her Aid nobody seemed to stand up for
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this wonderful kind-hearted person yeah it makes absolutely no sense and we'll go through some of the details of the
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events but you have people at this party somebody's being attacked and nobody stops them or nobody speaks up
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afterwards doesn't make any sense the following week the chronicle and times Floyd County reported a community Mourns
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ask questions as investigation continues into Women's Murder questions abound and this article really lays out the
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case fairly well and we'll get into some problems that I have with the article some problems that I have with this case
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in general but the article reads the investigation into the death of Preston Berg native Amber Spradlin is ongoing
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though no arrests have yet been made in connection with her murder after her body was found on June 18th
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spradlin's death has been at the center of controversy although Kentucky State Police haven't said much about the case
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yet they have confirmed that her death is believed to be the result of Foul Play all right let's let's dissect this
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a little bit before we get all the way through the article okay first of all an investigation ongoing no kidding I
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100 believe that and I do believe that the Kentucky State Police are doing good work on this investigation I also
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believe that this thing will be solved and in fact I was a little nervous talking about this case today Captain
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here in the garage because due to circumstance we're recording this several days before it will be released
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there's a chance that by the time this hits your ear balls there may be an arrest in this case because I think that
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Kentucky State Police are doing good work on this case now what I don't like is almost every one of these articles
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they are dancing around this whole idea of this being a brutal violent murder that's what it is let's call it what it
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is it's a brutal violent murder if you dumb this down or sugar coat it and make it anything other than what it is shame
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on you all of these articles and this is a fine newspaper that we're quoting from
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but Kentucky State Police Preston Berg police Floyd County and the newspapers everybody keeps saying suspected Foul
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Play you heard her loved one you heard her relatives talking in that trailer leading us into Today's Show she stabbed
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11 times at least 11 times this is not suspected Foul Play This is Foul Play right this is a violent brutal
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murder of a good-natured kind person the incident took place in the Arkansas Creek area of the Martin Community okay
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again the other problem that I have with some of the reporting here is that most of these articles just say that it
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this is an incident that took place at a residence in the Arkansas Creek area no we know
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what residence it took place at right somebody killed Amber Spradlin in the home of Dr Michael McKinney let's let's
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say that that's a fact not let's not allude to where her body was found and recovered from
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now in a statement issued June 27th the attorney the the family very rightfully so good on them good job by them they
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hired an attorney his name is Mark wohlander he issued a statement on behalf of spradlin's family
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announcing there will be a press conference on June 29th that press conference was very interesting to
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listen to it I'm having trouble finding it online or on YouTube today so I don't
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know if it was taken down you can find a short version of that in fact that's what we played for you in
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the trailer today but that press conference was interesting because it had details about
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the crime that were not listed in most of the papers or the articles that are about this case
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this article goes on to say the purpose the statement said is to discuss updates
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on the murder investigation and the family's concerns about the case quote the family has questions as to those who
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were at Dr Michael McKinney's house located on Arkansas Creek Road this is in Martin Kentucky so to kind of paint a
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picture here Martin Kentucky is a community that is south east ish it's it's south of Peter it's south of
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Prestonsburg Amber worked in Prestonsburg and that's not a huge Community it's like 3 600 people looks to be a great
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Community though like a lot of good restaurants uh very quickly you could be out in the country
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off of any route going out of that little tiny town there but one of those communities would be
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Martin Kentucky which is a much smaller Community I believe about 600 people live in that area and it's not terribly
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far from Prestonsburg now the thing that I like here is that look the family what did they say the family
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has questions as to those who were at Dr Michael McKinney's house they're not dancing around the idea that
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we know where her body was found and this is a prominent doctor he's a dentist in Preston Burke he's also the
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owner of the restaurant the Amber Spradlin worked at so she worked as a hostess I was trying to figure out how long she
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had been working there it sounds to me roughly maybe a year but the other information that's coming
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out of East Kentucky is that she was friends with this Dr Michael McKinney or at least thought she was yeah the
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doctor was her boss and supposedly her her friend and he's supposed to be this well-known
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dentist in town probably doing pretty well for himself if he's a restaurant owner and a well-known well-liked
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dentist so how does this well-known well-liked professional and this very much liked kind-hearted person
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Amber Spradlin end up back at his place and then she's found murdered at about 10 a.m the next morning well let's start
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breaking down the timeline in Amber's case yes Captain so on June 17th it's my understanding that Amber Spradlin went
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to her place of work which is The Brick House Restaurant I've looked them up online they got a
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cool menu looks like the kind of the place that you could walk in and see the captain in the colonel sitting at a
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table big plates of food and a bunch of beers having a good time Amber Spradlin like we said had worked
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there for approximately one year and she is getting along with co-workers and friends with the owner who is this
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Dr Michael McKinney sometime after her shift Dr Michael McKinney and Amber and others these
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others are not named went to a place called The Seasons Inn Motel now what happens is afterward
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time unknown they go from the seasons in motel and end up back at Dr Michael McKinney's house that sounds all a
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little confusing but further digging found out that there is a restaurant and bar at the seasons Inn Motel
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my guess here without being able to confirm this what would make the most sense is that Dr Michael McKinney and
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Amber Spradlin along with others unnamed go to the seasons Inn motel they're at the restaurant they're at the bar
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they're having an after hours good time right after work let's get together for a couple beverages maybe a pitcher of
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margaritas have a good time right we've all gone out after work we all for the most part enjoy
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however this this Gathering continues and makes its way to the doctor's house which is not terribly far away maybe 10
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minutes or so but this party supposedly continues on through the night into the wee hours of the morning
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what we've been told is that at some point and this is believed to be in the five o'clock hour the 5 a.m
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hour that there is a call from someone that is at this party or at this Gathering
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that says to 9-1-1 and it's a little confusing what the 9-1-1 call is but the reason why people
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were up in arms and while people are Furious about this case especially the citizens of Prestonsburg
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is that nobody ever responded to this call now to be perfectly clear we do not know
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exactly what that call was to 9-1-1 and as the story goes there's another call to 9-1-1 this is close to the 10
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a.m hour this call is responded to and this is when authorities find Amber Spradlin murdered
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having been stabbed at least 11 times rightfully so people were up in arms because many believe had there been a
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response to the first 9-1-1 call that this could have all been avoided Amber's life could have been saved she
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could have been walking around with the rest of us the thing here is though we don't know what that first call was
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about now the rumors that are coming out and this would seem to make some sense there's two rumors one that there were
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two calls in that five o'clock hour placed to 9-1-1 the other rumor is that there was one single call but there were
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two people two voices that were on the call those 9-1-1 calls have not been released
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to the public and I do not anticipate that they will be anytime soon even after an arrest is made the reason being
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is there's probably going to be some kind of lawsuit that is involved in this case
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so the rumors I have heard and these seem to make some sense to me Captain is that
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a 9-1-1 call is placed and there are two people on the call or there's a follow-up call
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and both rumors are very similar that there's a fight there's some kind of altercation going on at this residence
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they might need the police to come and break this thing up either somebody else jumps on the phone or a second call is
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placed which kind of calls off the alarm everything's fine here we got it all sorted out no big deal no need to send
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anybody whatever call comes in at 10 A.M again this is not clear but this leads authorities to going out to Dr Michael
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McKinney's house and finding Amber Spradlin dead as that article stated she was pronounced dead at the scene by the
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coroner's office that's on the 18th of June so even though the the emergency didn't respond right away what law
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enforcement now has to do is gather up all the information of who was at that party and who was having interactions
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with Amber correct and so this article says the family has learned that along with Dr McKinney his son Michael K
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McKinney Roy Kidd and there were at least two other individuals at the home when Amber was
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brutally murdered and that's a quote from the family the family the statement that they
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released we'll also be addressing concerns they have regarding Floyd County judge
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executive Robbie Williams decision to transfer the 9-1-1 emergency call center from Kentucky State Police Post 9 in
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Pikeville to the city of prestonsburg's 9-1-1 call center okay so to break that down for everybody and this is one thing
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that I don't appreciate we have people saying that there's some kind of police cover up here
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Kentucky State Police it doesn't seem like they would have any vested interest in covering this up
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and as we said we know some members of that Force it's a large force and we're not going to sit here and pretend that
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every one of them are Eagle Scouts the best person you ever met in the whole world
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but what this article was stating is just the facts in 2022 December of 2022 it was a decision made by a judge and the
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mayor of Prestonsburg to remove the 9-1-1 call center duties from Kentucky State Police from that post nine and
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bring them in-house to Prestonsburg the reason why to save a whole bunch of money
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now where the gray area becomes is who is supposed to respond to those calls and who is dispatched supposed to call
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to those calls and why didn't they so the problem here is this residence is not in Prestonsburg
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but the 9-1-1 call center is in Prestonsburg Kentucky State Police and it's this
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sounds reasonable says look this used to be our jurisdiction the calls would come into our call
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center and we would dispatch a patrol car to the call well now that the call center is moved
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and it's in-house with Prestonsburg they are to dispatch one of their police officers a Prestonsburg police officer
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patrol car to the call what we do know is whoever was dispatched or not dispatched
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no one arrived to the scene nobody showed up to that 5 a.m call the problem is this incident did not occur
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within the city limits of Prestonsburg so we're getting conflicting reports and statements the mayor of Prestonsburg is
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saying well we received the call at our 911 call center our officers have an obligation
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to the citizens of Prestonsburg and if we have cars available we send them past City Limits meaning
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they're it the gray area is who is supposed to be responding or dispatched to calls outside of Prestonsburg City
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Limits but within the county of Floyd and so there's a little bit of finger pointing here the Prestonsburg PD and
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mayor saying Kentucky State Police or or the county should have been responding to those
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calls and Kentucky State Police and the county are saying no no no the deal the contract that was made so your city
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could save money is that you would take these calls or at least dispatch us if you don't have cars available
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the thing here is trying to sort out who dropped the ball was it the call center
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and they actually dispatched somebody to go to the scene and nobody showed up right or did the call center just
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not dispatch anybody the statements by the mayor are troubling because it it almost sounds like the mayor's saying
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well if we have a car available we send someone if not we have priority with Prestonsburg because the taxpayers that
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are funding the 911 call center live here okay well what like you you you call and order a
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pizza and they're just like no all of our cars are out so we can't sell you a pizza that's not how it works somebody
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has to respond to this call even if it was called off and most jurisdictions that's protocol somebody calls 9-1-1
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even if somebody calls back and says Nope all good here officers they still send somebody out to make sure that
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approved [Music] thank you [Music] all right we are back cheers mates to the windows to the walls and cheers to
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everybody in the back cheers to you captain and one thing here that we need to sort out is in this article it says
00:33:56
that the family spradlin's family has said that they have learned that along with Dr McKinney his son Michael K
00:34:03
McKinney Roy Kidd there were at least two other individuals at the home when Amber was brutally murdered that's their
00:34:11
words I don't know we cannot figure out because their names have not been released who those other
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two people were and the the statement is at least two other people we're there now when they say to other people is one
00:34:26
of them Amber or is this five people plus Amber or is it five plus plus Amber it's a little difficult to sort out
00:34:36
right now exactly who was there and again the details coming out are sketchy the way that they're delivered it's
00:34:44
almost like they're concerned about protecting the people at this Gathering the problem for that for
00:34:54
me is until I can prove you didn't have anything to do with the murder of this woman you had something to do with the
00:35:02
murder of this woman who cares about protecting these individuals it seems pretty clear to me right police
00:35:10
show up detectives show up we've gotta we've gotta secure this scene and collect evidence you were here you were
00:35:16
here you were here you were here what happened charged with something because they you
00:35:24
know first of all you didn't stop the attack and then once she was attacked when
00:35:30
there was a call made which we believe was made by Amber it wasn't made by anybody else
00:35:36
you did well you see that I don't know he did nothing in the assistance of getting her help
00:35:44
correct yeah that I don't know I don't know if Amber called or if somebody else called and said hey there's a fight
00:35:49
going on here and then somebody else called off the dogs but what I would like to know is
00:35:56
the time of death because what we do know is everything we're hearing is that that first call
00:36:01
came in in the five o'clock hour second call or the third call comes in in the 10 o'clock 10 a.m hour and that's
00:36:09
when they find her dead at the scene well if you can get a an expert to say that you know what she was very likely
00:36:17
killed before that five o'clock call well now you have a whole different set of circumstances
00:36:24
or if you can get an expert to say that she was killed shortly after that five o'clock call
00:36:30
we got other concerns and if if she was killed hours before the 10 a.m call one who called at 10 A.M
00:36:40
why and what was done in the meantime do we have people there that were cleaning
00:36:46
up the scene destroying evidence yeah tampering with evidence some of the more disturbing rumors
00:36:55
coming out regards the injuries to our victim here and it goes beyond stabbed at least 11 times in the head
00:37:06
face throat neck area the rumors are that a knife was broken off in her Temple that the cause of death was actually due
00:37:18
to her throat being slit and this is even more troubling I believe it or not more troubling
00:37:28
it's believed that she had no defensive wounds so was somebody or somebody's holding
00:37:36
her down while she was attacked and she was not able to defend herself yeah or was she passed out at the time
00:37:43
the other rumors is that there was a bag of bloody objects found bloody towels cloths maybe even clothing this to me
00:37:53
would suggest that somebody was attempting to clean up the scene right the other rumor is that the scene was
00:38:00
incredibly bloody and and I think this this one carries a lot of weight because of something we know that has
00:38:08
been stated by Kentucky State Police and the family's attorney later this rumor is that there was the the
00:38:16
hallway along with the stairs and maybe even a portion of the upstairs of this home covered in blood
00:38:24
another statement by the family's attorney is that at least one other individual
00:38:30
was cut and that individual was somebody that we've already named Roy Kidd so then you gotta Wonder a couple of
00:38:41
things here if there was a fight that broke out amongst who did this fight break out
00:38:49
why is Roy Kidd injured we know that in stabbings it's very common for the perpetrator to
00:38:57
accidentally cut themselves the other thing that we're wondering is if there were in fact no defensive
00:39:04
wounds and she was awake moving attempting to defend herself if she doesn't have defensive wounds
00:39:12
that means somebody or somebody's held her down or she was restrained in some form or fashion
00:39:18
did Roy Kidd get this injury because he's the perpetrator did Roy kid get this injury because he
00:39:25
was involved in holding her down or did Roy Kidd get this injury because he was attempting to defend her her
00:39:33
or he was in an altercation himself with somebody else lots of questions here and it seems very
00:39:41
easy to me that we should be able to have the names of the persons that were there
00:39:47
if you all are innocent then you have no reason to not tell us who else was there
00:39:51
that night I believe Kentucky State Police have a good idea who else was there that night
00:39:57
oh definitely and the other thing to Circle back to the blood everywhere rumor that is out there
00:40:05
is that Kentucky State Police have said that they have been interviewing people and have searched numerous residences
00:40:11
electronic devices and have a bunch of physical evidence the evidence that they have Captain is now at the Kentucky
00:40:19
State Police Laboratory so from what we've been told is that some of the blood evidence that was
00:40:29
collected at the scene contains blood from two if not more sources of course we would expect to have our victims
00:40:37
blood there Amber's blood unfortunately right we know from information coming out of East Kentucky that Roy Kidd may
00:40:45
have had an injury a bleeding injury a cut that night there would seem to be reason
00:40:52
that you might have another individual that had some type of injury especially if Roy Kidd wasn't the sole
00:40:59
perpetrator of whatever went down that night so what they're doing now is these lab
00:41:06
reports and please push Amber's case to the front line because you have a killer
00:41:11
walking amongst everyone out there in East Kentucky nobody's been arrested yet nobody's been arrested or charged at all
00:41:20
we're going on six weeks now so they're going to need to sort out the DNA and the blood evidence that they
00:41:27
have one thing that's that I have a lot uh I believe there's a lot of Promise here Captain is I believe once they have
00:41:34
those results those results are going to confirm or completely refute some of the
00:41:40
statements given to them at the scene it's of my belief that where the problem is in this investigation currently is
00:41:50
you probably have multiple people giving multiple versions of this story right and it's all going to collapse like you
00:41:58
said as as more reports come out and more of the evidence is examined by professionals then they're going to go
00:42:06
uh see you told us this story but that doesn't line up with the evidence and people are going to start folding and uh
00:42:13
turning on each other pretty quickly I hope so and I think I think the way that that kind of starts is to quit dancing
00:42:19
around these ideas and and just say what it is it's not suspected Foul Play It's
00:42:24
a brutal homicide of a good-natured person it's not found in the area of Arkansas
00:42:31
Creek it's the victim was found dead at this dentist's home right where he's there
00:42:38
with his son and some other people and who knows who who came or went throughout the course of that evening
00:42:45
the other thing too is when you have the finger pointing going on and that makes sense that you would
00:42:52
have that because I believe that there will be a lawsuit in this case regarding the 9-1-1 or lack thereof 9-1-1 response
00:43:01
is it wouldn't be outside of your best interest to release those 9-1-1 calls at some point
00:43:08
especially after you've charged someone or someone's in this murder because I think what we need here is
00:43:17
clear evidence who dropped the ball because if the dispatch call center did not call anybody did not dispatch
00:43:25
anybody well therein lies your problem that's you that's easily fixed you take the power back from that Prestonsburg
00:43:36
call center and you put it back at the Kentucky State Police post nine I'm wondering if it's the problem to me if I
00:43:45
had to sit here and and make a wager on it Captain I feel like the problem is either the call center
00:43:52
or the Prestonsburg police because it sounds to me that a lot of people are saying Prestonsburg police
00:44:00
were supposed to respond to this and I'm getting the vibe that it's like well if we have a car available we send
00:44:09
somebody and in this situation somebody again just rumor somebody called back or
00:44:15
somebody hopped on the phone and said nope everything's fine here so we disregarded the call
00:44:20
well if protocol in that area is to respond anyway to any call coming in then you guys dropped the ball and I'm
00:44:29
sorry but saving money is not worth risking lives we need people to respond to these calls
00:44:38
people rely on having this lifeline well one of the things I'm proud about being a part of this show is our
00:44:48
audience and and the call to action like we said before getting so many people on
00:44:53
social media and through emails saying please take a look at this case I know on the surface it looks like you know
00:45:00
there's maybe some kind of conspiracy here but what the conspiracy to me is the people at the party and it's not law
00:45:09
enforcement and and we're going to play a clip just a little bit later where you'll hear about how they're tracking
00:45:15
down every lead but a lot of the leads that they're getting right now are just hearsay
00:45:19
but I think this case is very important again lack of information lack of evidence but we can get people talking
00:45:28
about this this doesn't need to go away from the Public's eye well and in the defense of Kentucky State Police I
00:45:36
believe the reason for the lack of information made available to the public currently is that they're sorting
00:45:42
through these different statements that were given by people that were there either
00:45:47
when she was killed or they're at the gathering before or after she was killed again weak it would be foolish of us to
00:45:55
sit here and believe that all of those statements are 100 percent true because if they were there would be an arrest by
00:46:01
now and so my belief is and I think this will pan out once an arrest or arrests are made
00:46:12
is that Kentucky State Police are rightfully so withholding a lot of this information
00:46:17
and details about the timeline about the crime scene and about the evidence because they're still sorting through
00:46:24
these stories and probably a lot of them are a lie and what they do know is that
00:46:30
if a bunch of these people that were involved or not involved or at least there that night
00:46:35
if they have all the information that Kentucky State Police do well they have a greater Arsenal than the detectives
00:46:43
have and so that's why they're withholding information rightfully so let's get the
00:46:48
lab results Let's test all the evidence the physical evidence let's gather all of the statements and here's the thing
00:46:55
too you're exactly right Captain conspiracy on the part of the people that were supposed to be her friends
00:47:01
because guess what she's not hanging out with any of these people at the seasons
00:47:06
in motel and restaurant unless she's invited there she's not at the dentist home unless
00:47:13
she's invited there she thought these people were her friends and it turns out I don't
00:47:20
this kind of thing happens none of these people are your friends what why is the
00:47:25
truth not being delivered on a silver platter to the detectives now a couple things that I wanted to
00:47:31
make sure from this article that we include before we wrap up here in the garage today it's some very
00:47:38
key things here Captain the family in their statement said that they have all the confidence in the
00:47:49
investigators conducting the investigation this is the Kentucky State Police quote the family continues to
00:47:57
support and thank Captain Randall subber and the men and women of the Kentucky State Police for their dedication and
00:48:04
involvement in the investigation of Amber's murder the statement said the family has complete confidence that
00:48:11
those responsible will be brought to Justice spradlin's cousin Debbie Hall who has been at the
00:48:19
Forefront of keeping her cousin's case in the public eye said the community support has been overwhelming quote I
00:48:24
knew she had a lot of friends and touched a lot of lives but I really had no idea she said
00:48:32
she goes on to say I have received thousands of messages texts and phone calls since this happened
00:48:38
and we talked about Amber's sad and tragic life leading up to this her childhood with her mother passing away
00:48:45
with losing her parents and losing her sister and then taking care of her grandparents because they did a great
00:48:52
job taking care of her what a good what a good person to recognize that and to say you know what I will be there for
00:48:58
you because you were there for me put my life on hold because you put a lot of things on hold for me
00:49:05
and so she does her grandparents a solid and then unfortunately this horrible what a horrible thing to happen to such
00:49:12
a good person and Hall goes on her cousin goes on to say in this article that she believes
00:49:18
that there are many at fault and I think the captain and I share that opinion she goes on to say quote politicians
00:49:26
have placed politics and profit before people and their policies have failed Amber
00:49:31
the monster who committed this crime and the people supporting them will hopefully be punished they do not
00:49:37
deserve to be in society anyone who committed such a brutal murder will do it again
00:49:44
most definitely sad I mean some people believe that Amber knew that there was a call into 9-1-1 and that she was waiting
00:49:50
for help that never showed up but again this is important to keep a spotlight on this not not that we need
00:49:59
to put pressure on law enforcement because I think law enforcement is doing what they need to do and it's tragic
00:50:05
that no First Responders showed up and nobody came to her rescue and nobody saved her but nobody at that party did
00:50:13
anything right and and so what's going to happen I wouldn't be surprised if if everybody at that party isn't charged
00:50:22
with something right and I think here the situation Captain Justice for Amber Spradlin first right the I understand
00:50:31
9-1-1 being an issue remember the old song Chuck D Public Enemy 9-1-1 is a joke uh yeah 9-1-1 is a joke in yo town
00:50:41
and we're talking about Prestonsburg Kentucky we're talking about Floyd County Kentucky your 9-1-1 system is a
00:50:48
joke return it to the the Kentucky State Police where they didn't have problems before sorry it cost you a little extra
00:50:55
money but it may save lives and fix that problem after you fix this problem because there's going to be a lot of red
00:51:03
tape involved in the 911 problem what we need to focus on now is getting Justice
00:51:09
for Amber finding out who is responsible it sounds to me like this is probably a
00:51:14
situation where more than one person has some level of involvement in her murder
00:51:18
so that means there are kill or witnesses to a murder walking around free well and that's what the community
00:51:25
can do the True Crime Community can put pressure to go here are the individuals that were at the party these are the
00:51:33
individuals that need to be cooperating with police and giving them the correct information and not trying to be
00:51:40
nefarious with their answers or their details or their lack thereof so let's put pressure on them to tell the truth
00:51:49
tell us what happened and let's get Justice for Amber be the good person in the room somebody there can be the good
00:51:56
person and tell police what it is that they need to know because here here's the thing the captain said conspiracy
00:52:02
the captain said cover up when it comes to the people there at that home that night
00:52:07
he could not be more spot on because if the rumors are true that either a second
00:52:12
individual jumped on the phone and said nope nothing to see here call off the dogs we don't need any help the
00:52:18
everything's been straightened out or the other rumor that somebody then called in a second call shortly after
00:52:24
the first saying the same thing call off the dogs nothing to see here we don't need any help
00:52:29
that is the start of a cover-up that is the start of the conspiracy that is the first Domino
00:52:37
that falls in preventing anybody from outside of those four walls knowing what's going on
00:52:45
inside of those walls and it's not a big leap to make to go from somebody called off the authorities
00:52:53
and called off police to someone or someone's started to clean up the scene and cover up what really happened here
00:53:01
that night that horrible tragic night another thoughts are with the community and with Amber's friends and family the
00:53:10
ongoing investigation of the murder of Amber Spradlin Kentucky State Police have issued a PSA regarding information
00:53:16
related to the case they humbly request that anyone who wishes to share information to be sure it is true KSP is
00:53:23
currently investigating what little evidence they have during the course of Investigation investigators with
00:53:28
Kentucky State Police have interviewed several uh members of the community and executed numerous search warrants on
00:53:35
different residences electronic devices collecting physical evidence along with DNA evidence all those all the evidence
00:53:42
has been transported to the KSP Laboratories and we are currently awaiting the results of the evidence any
00:53:49
false information submitted is likely to consume KSP Resources with nothing to show for it this can also lead to others
00:53:55
making claims they believe to be true any credible information that anyone may have about this investigation we would
00:54:03
really like to talk to you so if you have any information that is credible please call us at
00:54:08
606-433-7711 we would like to add that every tip that comes to enter any bit of information that these detectives
00:54:14
receive they have to look into to make sure they're sterile as possible so please if you do call make sure it's
00:54:20
credible information and not hearsay or false information because they have to track those leads down and that's taking
00:54:25
time away from the investigation while they're out looking for information that turns out just to be false a lot of
00:54:30
these tips that we're getting they're going out and they're spending countless hours out investigating and it turns out
00:54:36
that it was just false or third-hand information that that this wasn't true at all so we just ask that if you do
00:54:42
have information we definitely want it but make sure that it's credible information that can help help us lead
00:54:47
to an arrest and disinvestigation Reporting from Mountaintop news I'm Nick collum
00:54:53
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