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friend Bonnie dowed as she had plans to meet a man immunising over the weekend d
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later police were asking the good people of Marquette Michigan a small but absolutely beautiful city in the Upper
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Peninsula of Michigan located on the shores of Lake Superior for help the police put a small announcement in the
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paper that said in part woman missing Marquette police are seeking information about Aaron Taylor who's been missing
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for approximately a week stating that Aaron Taylor who lived on wri Street was supposed to have met a person immunising
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on the previous Friday but she had never showed up adding that since the supposed
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Meetup Aaron has not returned to work and has not contacted any friends Aaron Taylor is described in the newspapers
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write up as a Caucasian female 5'9 in tall and weighing about 160 lb she has red hair and green eyes police did not
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have a description of of her clothing Aaron Taylor is 24 years old we have something that we want you to listen to
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it's short the audio quality is not the best and these messages are now nearly 25 years old but here you hear Aaron's
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voice and a touch of her personality these are the last two messages that she left for her dear friend Bonnie shortly
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before she went missing hell old woman other old wom are feel like me a call com actors sent Friday at
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10:04 p.m. your phone probably like online or this is true crime garage and this is
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the still unsolved case of Aaron Taylor [Music] you heard Aaron's voice there you can
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hear her jokingly telling her friend hey woman pick up the phone at the start of
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the messages and it was that very friend that reported Aaron missing Bonnie says
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that after several days she decided to make the long drive to her friend's house Bonnie lives not terribly far away
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and we have to set this up here Captain by explaining to everyone that Aaron is not from this area in fact she moved to
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this area because of her friendship with Bonnie and so when she arrives in Marette Michigan Bonnie is likely the
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only person that she knows and now she's been here for some time before she goes
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missing but Bonnie is like her Lifeline she's like her anchor so she's regularly
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checking in with her dear friend Bonnie and when Bonnie doesn't hear from her friend she goes looking for her friend
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Aaron Taylor she makes the drive out to Aaron Taylor's home which is located at 1741 wri Street aon's house was in a
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nice residential area this is a nice neighborhood with a lot of trees and right appears to be the main street of
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this neighborhood Bonnie says when she arrived at Aaron's home she was put on alert because there's no answer and
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she's not heard from her dear friend for days now there are some reports out there that state that Bonnie had a key
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to the house and she did not she absolutely did not have a key to the house what takes place here Captain is
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she's doing a little investigating work she's walking around the house looking in the windows trying to figure out
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where could her friend be when looking in the windows she discovers that the cat is meowing and appears to be
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distraught she also finds an open window so she decides to climb in side of the home she feeds the Cat puts some water
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down for the cat and writes out a note for her friend saying hey I entered the home and I took care of the cat and I'm
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just wondering where you are yeah a little strange to me that people bring up this idea that she had a key why
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would she enter through a window if she had a key doesn't make any sense but because we have this it's unclear to me
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whether it was a open window or the window was just she was able to open up the window but either way you have a
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unlocked window or open window she's nowhere to be found the cat's going a little crazy so you have to feed the cat
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this is going to cause a lot of concern I think where the confusion lies within this case in the storytelling of this
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case is the news briefs at the time when Aaron is missing are just that they're very brief and I
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think over the years because the case is drug on and unfortunately we are still left with a
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lot of questions and not many answers it's an unsolved case I think people have filled in some of the blanks over
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the years along the way I agree with you but Bonnie has stated that absolutely 100% she did not have a key to her
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friend's home now quickly there was some news right so Bonnie is going to be she's going to facilitate making the
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Marquette City Police Department aware that her friend is missing and that she's concerned about her friend's bouts
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and what may have happened and quickly there was more news and it wasn't good so this is just days later we have
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detective Seager who told the newspaper that Foul Play is suspected in the missing woman's case he said that Foul
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Play was a concern and worried that that might be the best explanation for why Aaron was missing and he had more
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information about the meeting that Aaron told her friend about okay so this is the meeting that we referenced in the
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trailer she had told her friend that at some point that weekend she was going to
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meet a man in musing Michigan this man Captain is simply referred to as a male acquaintance and as The Story Goes Aaron
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was going to meet him at the musing Hotel on the evening of August 11th that's a Friday Aaron Taylor lived alone
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the other part is Aaron didn't own a vehicle so it was very unclear to every everyone how Aaron was going to make the
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trip to the hotel from her home it's about 50 minutes to an hour's Drive depending on which route you take police
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do know who this male acquaintance is at this time in our investigation and in fact prior to
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telling the newspaper about the man who they never named they had already spoke to this man the man was not from the
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area and he said that he had planned to stay at the musing hotel but when he got
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there he was told that there were no rooms available he also said that he called Aaron and spoke with her while
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she was still at her home but she never showed up at the hotel then he said he drove to Marquette but never located
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Aaron so he decided to go home another part of the story that I think mucks up the overall understanding and
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comprehension of what was taking place or could have taken place that Friday maybe even that Saturday is it was
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reported early on that Aaron left a baffling message on her friend's answering machine after midnight saying
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that she was still looking forward to meeting the man and in the newspaper Captain this is cited as August 11th and
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I think that one it's confusing because was it after midnight on that Friday so now you're actually into Saturday that
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would see seem to make the most sense but but further digging and as time drags on one thing that we were able to
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sort out is that was just bad information that was early reporting and bad information she didn't call her friend
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after midnight on that Friday in fact you heard the time stamp on the trailer 10:04 p.m. August 11th that Friday that
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is the last phone call made from Aaron Taylor's Home Police know this based off of the phone records this phone call is
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picked up by her friend Bonnie's answering machine and she still has that message
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to this day and provided the audio to us and we thank her for that well I think a
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couple of things that make this case a little more complicated is like you said Aaron is basically new to this town so
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it doesn't it's not like she has this huge Social Circle so when she the only person to basically sound the alarms
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that something's off is her one close friend in that area and because she lives alone and because she's new to the
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area Aaron would communicate and try to meet people mainly through online message boards and things like that she
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loved to hang out on the computer she loved to chat and meet people on the computer and that was
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how this meeting came about that she was going to meet this man that she had been
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talking to online now do you find anything odd about this because if I'm going to meet a lady at a hotel and
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we're we're picking a middle ground and she doesn't show up well that's that's just it she didn't show up she's not
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interested or something came up maybe I'll hear from her later maybe she got cold feet but I'm not going to drive to
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to her town and look for her there's a lot of things about this case that I find strange there's a lot of things
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about the internet that I find to be strange so yeah I think it's an easy leap for me to join you in your concern
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Aaron Taylor was last seen by co-workers at 5:00 P p.m. that Friday August 11th 2000 and as said she lived alone and she
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did not have any family in the area we already talked about what takes place the following week we know that police
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have been made aware that this woman is missing we know that they've already started to talk to people that knew
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Aaron and we already know that they have voiced their concern as well telling the
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newspaper we're looking for this missing woman and we think that Foul Play is involved we have reason to believe that
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Foul Play is why she is missing and this is where the bad news goes from bad to worse police find a body on August 20th
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2000 so this is 9 days after Aaron went missing this is in nagani Township which
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is like 10 Mi outside of Marquette where Aaron lives about 12 mil Southwest from
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Aaron's home and of course police were suspicious that the body could be that of Aaron Taylor but they couldn't be
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certain right here's what we know about the scene here Captain a deputy on patrol on County Road 492 was checking
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on some off-road vehicle complaint when he found a badly decomposed body the way that this story goes is he's
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there checking on some other stuff some very minor complaints and when he's there he sees
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something that he thinks is large debris or or possibly litter and so he goes over to pick it up and that's when he
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discovers the body what he saw was a blanket so whoever placed this body there took the time to cover it with a
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blanket the blanket is what caught his eye and Drew his attention now do we know if this blanket belonged to her or
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not that's a great question we we do not what we do know is that this is a snowmobile trail that's what it's
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typically used for right it's about a mile or so mile and a half east of M35 of the M35 intersection the body at the
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time was described as having long brown hair painted fingernails and pierced ears the Marquette County under Sheriff
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told the news that the condition of the body would require an autopsy to make an
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identification the identity he said is first and foremost then Manner and cause of death if possible adding that this is
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an unwitnessed death and will considered a homicide until proven otherwise so good for them that's exactly the route
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that they should be taking yeah that's kind of our motto but what do they find at the crime scene other than this
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blanket is she clothed you know do we find any other items around her yes the body that they found was clothed badly
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decomposed and from my understanding there were some clothing that was found near her on her or under the blanket it
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that details a little unclear yeah but the interesting part about this additional clothing that was found at
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the scene it was folded up neatly so almost like whoever whoever placed this body there took the time to neatly cover
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her or the body with the blanket and also took the time to fold up this additional clothing and leave it near
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the body now later this was actually the next day it was announced that the autopsy had failed to confirm the
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identity of the dead woman however they were able to conclude that it was in fact a homicide but they would not State
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publicly the cause of death or or what evidence LED them to that determination Aaron Taylor had been missing for 9 days
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later we learned that the body was in fact that of Aaron Taylor they used dental records to confirm the
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identification yeah if I'm law enforcement though I'm I want to know we find her with clothes on are these the
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clothes that she was seen by co-workers on Friday because we we don't know if she went Miss Friday night or if she
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went missing Saturday here's what we do know we that we can put together is we know she was alive and well and at work
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on that Friday left at the normal time at 5:00 p.m. and we do know from her phone records and the answering machine
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messages that we just played in part that she was active on her home phone right till
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104 p.m. that Friday night after that there's no activity from Aaron Taylor so if we have phone records because
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sometimes you're just in the mood to chat and so maybe she called her friend and she didn't answer so she left a
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message so we have no record of her calling any individual after that that's correct that is believed by everybody to
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be the very last phone call that she made from her home 104 p.m. that Friday night so once they find her she's been
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missing for 9 days and I'm leaping ahead here Captain but there's no reason to wait for a lengthy reveal here right
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because even though in the moment police didn't explain why they knew that it was
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a homicide but later we would learn that she had been killed by strangulation as
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a ligature the ligature that was used to kill her remained around the victim's neck when she was found and it looks
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like they were nearly convinced that it was her all along right because everything was matching up because that
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one thing they did State too before they gave the positive identification was they had said that the body they found
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that that was located the victim had been dead for anywhere between 7 to 10 days so this is
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the same amount of time roughly that Aaron's been unaccounted for well we have a area that's not heavily populated
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so we probably don't have a lot of missing person reports and so you have this individual
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that you find in this field and you go well this matches the description of a missing lady mhm so good for her friend
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to not hesitate and to call law enforcement so then they can get down to again like law enforcement said you have
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to identify the victim and then you then you have to kind of work backwards from
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there but it's very strange to me that you're going to find a victim covered up in a blanket you're going to find items
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folded to me that seems like some organization in there but then you have this murder victim with basically the
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murder weapon still around her neck you'd think that would have been removed yeah yeah you'd think that it would be
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had been removed the the thing here though too Captain is at this time when they are informing the public that they
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have positively ided the body as being that of Aaron Taylor we start to learn a little bit more from law enforcement
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about the man that she was supposed to meet right the male acquaintance as they were referring to in last so they tell
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us that the man the male acquaintance was from Windsor Ontario and that the two had met on the internet they also
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stated that Aaron had also met a man from South Carolina via the Internet now I want to State clearly here when we say
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met a man from South Carolina that may not mean that they ever physically met face to face that they were just
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chatting online the police said openly to the public this is 2000 this is not 1960 this is the year 2000 the police
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said that they are they being the man from South Carolina and the man from Windsor Ontario they are the only
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suspects that investigators have identified in the case to this point saying quote at this point until they've
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been eliminated they are considered a suspect end quote and kudos to them I am so beyond over this and tired of it
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where people are so damn hesitant to refer to somebody as a suspect they're not naming these guys by name but good
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for them to just say look until they're eliminated they're a suspect one of my favorite quotes was a detective that I
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had talked to years ago and I I had asked about suspects I said how many suspects did you have he goes when I
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arrive on a murder scene everybody but my my mother is a suspect so good for them for calling them what they should
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title them a suspect until they can be eliminated now as stated in due time dental records would prove the identity
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of Aaron Taylor as being the body that was left in the woods and left there for several days right we have that
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statement from police that we believe that Not only was she dead but also had been there for approximately 7 to 10
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days and very sad Aaron was just 24 years old kid just 24 years old and really kind of striking it
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out on her own for really the first time in her life but also to better her life exactly
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now she was originally from Madison Wisconsin everybody and Marquette says that she was nice she was funny and she
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was a good employee she worked at a family care doctor's office at a medical center and as said was last seen there
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at 5:00 p.m. Friday August 11 this got me this got me though Captain we mentioned that she lived alone she she
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have a question about this because my concern is how far is Aaron found from any
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roadway because to me that would lead to some specul on whether there's and I'm not saying that there's multiple people
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involved in the murder but there could be multiple people in the disposing of the body no I think you're hitting on
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something that is probably what we're dealing with here and police have to be considering some of this as well so we
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we listed her weight at at 160 pounds approximate right and that's based off of the missing person's report and the
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the request for information that the police gave in the newspaper so she's found Captain it's like 10 12
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miles is from her home not far you can travel that with a car very quickly and but what you are hitting on here is that
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she's not found in a ditch alongside the road no she's found well off the road and this is as reported between a mile
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and a mile and a half off of the road remember remember the deputy was out there
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investigating off-road activity off-road complaints right now there is a snowmobile trail there but that that's
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not a paved Road right that's that's used for snowmobile activity yeah and I don't know the lay of the land that well
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but it is possible to drive a car in a field but I don't think there's any evidence of that I firmly believe that
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the deputy that was out there investigating that he took either a gravel road or drove off-road in his
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vehicle to get to this location where he eventually spots the blanket and then goes to find out he he was just going to
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go pick it up because he thought it was debris yeah and for all the serial killers out there you you don't want to
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drive your vehicle out into the field cuz that might bring up some red flags and you might have some eyewitnesses to
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a a van in the middle of a field this spot best described as a wooded area the other thing here that I think is key and
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that police have pointed out several times is this they consider this to be an area that you would have to be local
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or familiar with the area to decide to place that body in that location yeah this feels local oal you know and there
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there's some evidence to back up that statement because if in fact the body was there as long as they stated in the
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paper paper 7 to 10 days right in fact later we're going to learn that police believe that she was the was in that
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spot for almost the entirety of the time that she was missing so it's a way of concealing the body and it certainly
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worked for a period of time no I totally agree and and what's interesting there is if I'm law enforcement which I should
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be law enforcement by now they should give me like a honorary badge or something the hours are hell man yeah
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it's a tough life but if she goes missing either that Friday night or Saturday then I can somewhat conclude
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that this individual that's responsible unless he is reported missing from his work he's somebody that probably works
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and I'm saying man because most likely it is a man but you go well then this individual probably works Monday through
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Friday probably has a typical job yes and then on August 28th police had this update for us Marquette police say that
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they have cleared six possible suspects of any involvement in the death of Aaron
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Rebecca Taylor Police have not revealed the cause of death still at this point but we now know that it's
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strangulation among the people investigated and cleared this is incredibly intriguing was a man from
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Windsor Ontario said the police detective Captain so let's call this male acquaintance let's call him Mr
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Windsor right they stated that the Canadian man was able to account for all of his travels he passed a polygraph
00:36:08
examination and his story checked out now initially I had all kinds of problems with this I'm like how the heck
00:36:17
could you clear him but it is their investigation it's not it's their case they know it better than we do but it
00:36:25
left so many things just kind of hanging there that still made the guy look very
00:36:32
suspicious as The Story Goes she's supposed to meet him at this musing Hotel he says he makes the drive he gets
00:36:41
there there's no room available he goes to Marquette to look for Aaron talks with her on the phone that Friday night
00:36:49
another part of his story is that he went to the Marquette library to use the internet now
00:36:58
I find that to be believable right if he goes sense if she doesn't show up and he
00:37:03
he can't get in touch with her they met on the internet it would be reasonable to believe that he decided I'll go to a
00:37:11
local free computer log in and send her a couple of emails or an email and see if she replies and see you know where
00:37:19
why weren't we able to meet up yeah and I hope law enforcement did this but you can go to the hotel and say hey did you
00:37:25
have any rooms available they did they did and that's what they're saying here that his story checks out he's he's able
00:37:33
to account for all of his travels and we went back and we checked everything he said and what we're being told and what
00:37:41
evidence we can find on that trail is all lining up with of his activities that he told them and where he was and
00:37:48
at what times so your comment well they did meaning law enforcement did check the hotel and the hotel didn't have
00:37:57
rooms available correct meaning that at least part of his story you can then confirm and the more parts of his story
00:38:05
hey I went to this library because we met on the internet so I I figured that's my line of communication well
00:38:11
they check he went to the library when you're able to do that multiple times within somebody's story they become more
00:38:18
believable yes so you're exactly right Captain what we have here is remember he said he called her earlier that night on
00:38:24
that Friday to speak with her right phone records they they he said we talked on the phone so he thinks
00:38:30
everything is still going according to plan at that time the phone records back that up they check with the library and
00:38:36
a lot of times this is 2000 you don't you don't don't have to do this you may it's been a forever since I've got on a
00:38:43
computer at a library but when I used to let's say around this time 2000 where I live you would have to type
00:38:51
in your library card number or you would have to get a temporary number from the
00:38:55
front desk yeah so I'm guessing that somebody remembers him being there or he had some kind of code that would
00:39:05
identify it as being him I still F yeah I still find it odd that he went to her City yes I I look I seems a little
00:39:15
desperate to me this is why I I thought we cannot eliminate him as a suspect because he seemed so set on getting to
00:39:23
her and it almost seemed to me like he was making up some events that would fill in some gaps of time but with law
00:39:32
enforcement saying that we checked on his story and it and it checks out here's what we don't get and they're
00:39:38
purposely not giving us this I think everybody is quick to make the assumption that she was going to meet
00:39:45
that man that night at the hotel in musing which is about an hour away she has no way of getting there on her own
00:39:55
we know that they had a phone call part of the reason for playing those that audio during the trailer as as old as it
00:40:03
is I mean that's it's poor quality due to its age and keep in mind that was recorded on those tiny little cassette
00:40:10
tapes that they would give you for your answering machine yeah this wasn't anything that was digital they had those
00:40:15
then but this is not that type of machine that it was recorded on it's hard to hear you can't hear it in our
00:40:22
bit because we we the quality was so poor that we didn't play the entirety of the the messages but if you listen to
00:40:29
the 10:04 p.m. call on that Friday night that police say is the last call coming
00:40:35
out of her home that goes to her friend Bonnie's house she says in that message I just got off the phone with Luke he's
00:40:43
not even to menena yet okay so we learn that he's from Windsor we learned that he's from Windsor all right it's a very
00:40:52
long drive from Windsor to musing oh sorry Munising and it's a long and it's still
00:41:01
another hour from Munising out to Marquette this all of this really starts to fall into place and make more sense
00:41:09
when you hear that phone call because at 10 p.m. that night she's telling her friend there's no reason for her to lie
00:41:15
to her friend doesn't mean he's not lying to her he says no but but what it does clue us into is I don't think she
00:41:23
was supposed to meet him there at the hotel that night no I think I think that that because she knew so
00:41:30
few people in the area she's not giving everybody and their cousin every bit of information it would not even be there
00:41:38
would be no reason to so when you hear this I'm supposed to meet this man at this hotel I think a lot of people make
00:41:45
the assumption that it was supposed to be that Friday night and therefore he looks a lot more guilty than than in
00:41:51
reality what he is when talking to Bonnie the story was her friend told her I'm meeting this man in Munising I'm
00:42:00
going to spend some time camping with him that weekend he's driving up from Windor it would make sense if he works a
00:42:07
normal work day like the like most of us do if he's getting off work at 4 5:00 actually where he is where he says he is
00:42:16
almost to menh at that time frame where she's calling her friends saying I just got off the phone with him he's not even
00:42:22
a MAA yet that would line up perfectly if it's a 6-hour drive from Windsor to Munising what I think
00:42:33
happened here Captain is I and I looked up the hours of operation for the Marquette library because I know that in
00:42:42
my neck of the woods the libraries on Fridays close particularly early they're open in the evening hours during the
00:42:49
week and sometimes even on a Saturday but they're kind enough to let the workers get out of there at 5 6:00 on
00:42:56
Friday so looking up the Marquette library and of course I'm making an assumption here
00:43:02
I can't back this up but they close at 500 P p.m. if you start putting all those pieces together it really creates
00:43:09
a timeline for this unnamed guy actually he's named on the answering machine call
00:43:15
we just chose not to play that portion of it so if all these things are lining up I think what happened he got to the
00:43:22
hotel there was nowhere for him to stay he may have gone and stayed elsewhere because they were supposed to meet the
00:43:29
next morning not that night when he wakes up on Saturday he's not able to get a hold of her he goes to the library
00:43:37
she doesn't email him back he drives to her home and the doors are locked she's not there he's disappointed probably
00:43:45
feels like he's been stood up and he turns around and he goes home and the police have all of that information a
00:43:52
paper trail to confirm all of that well what I'm going to be looking into if I'm
00:43:56
law en man is who which one of her friends was going to drive her there exactly and we don't think it was Bonnie
00:44:04
because Bonnie said they never had that conversation right and like we said the one good thing and bad thing I guess for
00:44:11
law enforcement is that she has a very small social Social Circle within this area it's going to be her small Social
00:44:19
Circle that I think's going to lead to ultimately the prime and real suspects in this case this guy was just a herur
00:44:27
this guy was just somebody that they had to look at look at him take a good hard
00:44:31
look at him they were able to move on and move past him and it wasn't just because of the polygraph test now we had
00:44:38
mentioned the but I do hope that Mr Windsor Found Love and found a connection how could he not you saw the
00:44:45
dedication dedication dedication he will he will drive the 10 10 hours to hang out with some women will find that
00:44:53
creepy and some women will find that adorable you just got got to find that's why there's the right person is out
00:45:00
there for you just remember that we had mentioned that she was also chatting with a guy from South Carolina they very
00:45:08
quickly cleared him as well shortly after they cleared uh Mr Windsor because Mr South Carolina they were able to
00:45:16
prove that he never left South Carolina so why would he he does not make a he not he's not going to leave South
00:45:22
Carolina's nice weather for Michigan's weather come on spoke with Bonnie a few times and she was provided that audio
00:45:30
for us and God bless Bonnie because she is the voice for Aaron Taylor yeah Aaron
00:45:36
Taylor's uh she wasn't from the area and I don't want to go too far into the background here but these two really had
00:45:45
a very strong kinship so they they met at a facility for battered women and as said Aaron was from
00:45:57
uh both of them were from Wisconsin but Bonnie's mother lived in or around maret and so her mother she moved to
00:46:09
that area to be closer to her mother to be able to spend more time with her family yeah for a period of time Aaron
00:46:16
went with her and lived and stayed at Bonnie's house and this was just really so she could get on her feet and kind of
00:46:25
get acclimated to the air yeah but these these ladies were besties right and so they lived together for
00:46:32
roughly a year she got her job Aaron got her job she found a new place to live and a lot of things are happening very
00:46:40
quickly for Aaron she's got a new place to live she's got a new job what's missing from this story is information
00:46:48
that only Bonnie would be able to provide because a lot of this some of this hasn't hit the
00:46:53
news and Bonnie says that when she went to Aaron's home she taking a look around
00:47:02
she's like oh there was a struggle here this she her words were something to the
00:47:06
effect of this looks like my friend was like involved in a struggle and was trying to get away from somebody she
00:47:14
reported this remember that is where it comes from police hadn't found a body yet but they're already openly saying
00:47:21
that we think Foul Play is suspected right so that's making sense now here here the key Bonnie says that there was
00:47:29
a couple a local couple that lived in the area that Aaron was good friends with spent time with when she couldn't
00:47:38
find her friend at her friend's house naturally she thought I better call them she calls them and speaks with the I
00:47:45
guess they're married I I I'm making that's what I'm guessing too yeah she speaks with the wife and the wife says
00:47:53
oh yeah no we haven't talked to her either um you know what it's only after Bonnie says I'm going to call the police
00:48:00
I'm calling Marquette police we got to get the police involved so we can find her the wife says no no no no don't do
00:48:06
that we'll call the police let us call the police which is strange yes cuz cuz they I I believe they claim it will it
00:48:14
will be better coming from us yes why who knows now it would be one thing if it's like oh you're looking for your
00:48:21
friend yes call police hey and we're going to call police as well but idea that it's better if it comes from us wow
00:48:30
you you up a prick according to Bonnie her and the couple had a meeting at the house and had a disagreement on what
00:48:40
they believe they were seeing at the house Bonnie believes that this is a sign of a struggle that it looked like
00:48:46
her friend was trying to get away from someone the couple says no no no no we we think this is easily explainable and
00:48:53
they said that they thought it would be best to clean up the house again something that you're not an
00:48:59
expert one individual is saying this looks strange to me if if it doesn't look strange to you and you think you
00:49:06
can explain this away that's fine leave it for law enforcement to look into you idiot a person that wants to find their
00:49:13
friend would do that yeah somebody that's trying to cover something up might want to clean up the scene so
00:49:20
unfortunately clean the scene they do but the police going off of the word of the good friend B that's why they're
00:49:28
saying we think some foul play was involved here but the the line has not been drawn to this couple just yet as we
00:49:37
know publicly the police were stating they needed they were talking to Mr Windsor and they still needed to talk to
00:49:45
Mr South Carolina and those two are suspects but behind the scenes we learn about this cleaning of the the small
00:49:52
house we learn about another interesting tidbit Bonnie says that that one of the
00:49:59
two pulled a notebook so Aaron had a book bag that was sitting by the front door now what was in the book bag was
00:50:08
the book bag packed up so she could go on this camping trip on Saturday with Mr windser Right who knows or was it just
00:50:15
something she took to and from work but regardless according to Bonnie's story that one member of the couple pulled out
00:50:22
a notebook kind of thumbed through it and said oh there's nothing here and and put it back or appeared to put it back
00:50:29
in the book bag and later when Bonnie was at the home of her friend with law enforcement now the home's all cleaned
00:50:37
up and she said all of a sudden magically that notebook is gone yeah and think about that for a second so you
00:50:43
don't know this couple and you go and and they make this odd statement of oh well we'll call police so it'll look
00:50:51
better coming from us well that's strange now we're at the house and and and we're disagreeing on what we're
00:50:58
seeing they take it upon themselves to clean it up and then you see this individual thumbing through a notebook
00:51:06
okay law enforcement gets there here's the book bag hey law enforcement what do you think did you find anything in the
00:51:11
notebook what notebook then in September we are getting different information from police with another request for
00:51:21
help so this is potential witness sought by police is headline and it states in part Marquette police are seeking what
00:51:30
they describe as potential Witnesses plural in connection to the death of Aaron Taylor of
00:51:38
Marquette what they're saying is that the area the spot where the body was later located right it's the request is
00:51:48
Marquette detectives are looking for an adult male and female who were parked in
00:51:54
a blue or light blue four-wheel drive vehicle near where Taylor's body was found around noon on August 12th which
00:52:03
is a Saturday the Saturday that's correct stating publicly they are potential Witnesses they were definitely pulled
00:52:12
off on the side of the road they were seen by passing motorist gotcha yep four-wheel drive vehicle blue or light
00:52:21
blue four-wheel drive vehicle now they're calling them Witnesses is very smart you're hoping that they come
00:52:28
forward and start talking to you I don't know what conversations this couple and
00:52:34
the police were having behind the scenes but what we do know that is upfront and
00:52:38
Center a few days later is they start referring to these people less as Witnesses and more as
00:52:46
suspects and this is because they they really did their due diligence here Captain they went through and they they
00:52:55
tracked the possible routes that one would take from Aaron's Home out to where the body was found now we wouldn't
00:53:03
learn this in 200000 we would learn this many many years later because police over the years had a lot of hold back
00:53:10
information and a lot of stuff that they were keeping to themselves later years later they would tell us that they their
00:53:19
theory is that Aaron Taylor unfortunately was killed inside her home and then transported to where she was
00:53:25
eventually found so they go through and they find all the possible routes and then they go and they start checking
00:53:30
with all of the businesses this is 2000 right so it's not it's not 1960 they get some they get some
00:53:38
evidence videotape evidence of a vehicle matching that description that is seen on camera which would be the the route
00:53:48
from Aaron's Home out to where her body was found right in the window of time that's in question by the way these two
00:53:57
people who police know who they are because Bonnie knows who they are they're acting suspiciously they own a
00:54:03
vehicle that looks a lot like that it's a man and a woman who were seen in a vehicle very similar on the side of the
00:54:09
road around the time that the body could have been placed there this is going to
00:54:12
lead to a search warrant they're able to get a search warrant and so they are going to be looking at a property that
00:54:19
is owned by this couple they serve search warrants on two houses a vehicle and a 10 acre parcel with a garage but
00:54:28
it does it doesn't have a podcast studio in the garage nor does it have two idiots sitting in that garage just
00:54:34
looking at each other drinking beer and talking constantly well we can't confirm
00:54:38
that who who knows we're not for sure but but there is no podcast Studio correct correct that is confirmation of
00:54:46
such now now now also there's a religious connection here right the the couple is Jehovah Witness and Aaron was
00:54:56
Jehovah Witness but she wasn't practicing as much but was getting back into it that's
00:55:02
correct and that is the connection between victim and now two people that are being publicly labeled as suspects I
00:55:12
want to give a quick shout out here to so this obviously a Michigan case but there's a great podcast we've referenced
00:55:20
them before the already gone podcast with nah instead she does a fantastic job and and really is very great at all
00:55:30
of these Michigan cases especially the cold ones especially the unsolved ones and one thing that was revealed on
00:55:38
her show I couldn't find it anywhere else but nah does such great work that that I'm on board with what she's saying
00:55:45
here regarding the searches it was stated on her show that they found a all of the newspaper clippings of the death
00:55:54
now now keep in mind if let's pretend for a moment let's forget about them being suspects in the eyes of the police
00:56:01
right it it might not be completely weird or strange that if hey if we're friends and my friend was
00:56:08
killed yes I'm I'm cutting out the newspaper articles or I'm saving them right they also found some photos of
00:56:15
Aaron that she had given them uh during their friendship some notes that she had written them during
00:56:22
their friendship but a lot of what they are telling police they don't look to be
00:56:27
overly Cooperative they are finding these items at the home beyond that anything of evidentiary
00:56:36
value to Aaron's case has never been mentioned before well they don't have Alibi other than each other they don't
00:56:44
have an alibi so these two individuals look suspicious the thing that makes me think they look very suspicious is the
00:56:54
eyewitness that can place two individuals male and female plus this vehicle that matches the vehicle that
00:57:01
they have my problem with this this couple being suspects is what's their motive and we know what their tie is as
00:57:12
far as friendship goes but we don't have anybody saying that there was a affair going on or any thing weird like that so
00:57:23
this case is cold and I think probably what happened with law enforcement is they took this case very serious they
00:57:30
did their due diligence they went made these searches yes some of the items are strange but but you can explain those
00:57:39
away my question then would be did they offer to give them a polygraph test and I just just I don't think they found
00:57:47
enough evidence but and that becomes a problem because one you got a crime scene the crime scene would be her house
00:57:57
and The Dumping Ground but during this search you would think that they would have found something as far as evidence
00:58:04
in their vehicle yes you would have hoped that they would have found something but keep in mind they are at
00:58:11
an advantage because they in a way are steering some of the ship they clean the apartment or sorry they clean the house
00:58:19
and they may have stolen a notebook that may have had incriminating evidence in it as well they had time on their side
00:58:29
while police were looking at Mr Windsor and Mr South Carolina and really and had
00:58:35
no they had a missing person's case not a homicide case for nine days yeah in that time this couple now referred to as
00:58:46
suspects had nine days to start cleaning things up and hiding evidence and getting rid of evidence and distancing
00:58:54
themselves from both of those crime scenes and also being able to control their emotions because of that time
00:59:02
frame or that time period that elapsed you can get under control so maybe you don't break under questioning and I'm
00:59:10
with you I I'm always looking for motive I we have said it on the show plenty of
00:59:15
times though in certain cases that that motive is something that is very hard to
00:59:20
determine in some cases does Aaron's friend have any thought on I'm sure she's got a lot of thoughts on possible
00:59:27
motive right what they are I do not know but I will say this when you take a case
00:59:33
to court you don't have to prove motive right that's not why you are there you are presenting evidence to Pro to prove
00:59:41
guilt but the problem is the evidence that we see I don't think there's enough to to bring charges against them no
00:59:50
because that notebook who's to say it ever existed other than Bonnie right the videotape the picture the image of this
00:59:59
vehicle that that looks like theirs traveling the route and the time in question from Aaron's home to where the
01:00:06
body was found well that that's just a piece a tiny little piece of the evidence but they can't they can't look
01:00:13
at that footage and say okay the two people in there we can identify who those two people absolutely are they
01:00:19
they can't the the witness that's seen them near the location where Aaron is eventually found can't ID them other
01:00:27
than I I saw a man and a woman and here's what the vehicle looked like yeah so police unfortunately are on record
01:00:36
stating the same thing that the captain was stating that this they they're not so happy to call it a cold case and I
01:00:45
don't blame them as we've seen and talked about today they did everything they could do to try to figure out who
01:00:56
is responsible for ending this young woman's life but they've stated publicly that they have suspects and and I like
01:01:04
that they say suspects because that's an easy way for the rest of us to go they never moved off of these two no never
01:01:12
moved off of these two we have suspects we just don't have the evidence yet to take anybody to trial and when one of
01:01:20
them has passed away the the man has passed away see I would think that if there was was two that were still alive
01:01:27
and that lived for a long time that maybe one of them could would confess or say something odd to somebody but when
01:01:35
one of them has passed away now you only have one gatekeeper of the truth anybody
01:01:40
with any information at all regarding the still unsolved murder of Aaron Taylor is asked to call the
01:01:50
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