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[Music] you know a question that a man always has to ask himself when he goes through
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something like I went through are you in a better spot than you were before was it worth it and the answer to me
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is yes and the sooner man gets deleting a life of transparency the better off he
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is and you do that by making things simple but what we do because of sin things get complicated I mean every day
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the devil would beat me up every single day the devil would beat me up and remind me of what a bad person I was and
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what that does that that keeps harboring you know the climb and keeps burying you
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and what you then you can't be of any use to anybody [Music] [Music] January 1982 Santa Clara California a
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baby is born this is Patrick James Dennehy Patrick grew up to be tall and athletic he played basketball on the
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Wilcox high school team located in Santa Clara as a sophomore Dennehy averaged 20 points 14 rebounds
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and 8 blocks a game afterward he transferred to st. Francis High School and Mountain View he was rated a
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1999-2000 high honorable mention all-american by Street and Smith's magazine this despite missing half of
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his senior season due to a torn ACL an injury that required surgery the high school star athlete then went on to play
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college basketball a scholarship player at the University of New Mexico where he
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was listed as a 6-foot 9 inch tall back up forward as a freshman he played in 33
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games and started to and was named the school's Most Improved Player as a sophomore in 2001 2002 Dennehy now
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listed as a center started 28 games and played in 30 in total averaging 10 points 6 points 7.5 rebounds per game
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and was named all Mountain West Conference honorable mention but remember friends the fall is always
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a lot faster than the climb Patrick Dennehy got into hot water with his coach and teammates this is after he
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stormed out of a practice leading Patrick Dennehy to be kicked off of the basketball team but Dennehy made enough
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of an impact on his team and in his conference finishing 5th in the conference and rebounds that he's going
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to get another opportunity he was offered a roster spot on the University of Baylor's basketball team where per
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league rules he would be required to sit out a year for making the transfer Baylor a proud Baptist University
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this is where Dennehy made a religious and personal transformation then after sitting out for a year
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Patrick Dennehy now 21 years old six foot ten inches tall and weighing 230 pounds was ready to play for the Baylor
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Bears in the upcoming 2003 2004 season and it was looking like Baylor was ready to try to make a run at not only
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defeating the big dogs like Texas and Kansas but making a run at winning the big 12 championship this team seemed to
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be full of transfers from other colleges one of those transfers was Carlton Dotson Dotson played for Paris Junior
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College in East Texas and transferred at the same time as Dennehy but per league
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rules Dotson was allowed to play immediately Carl Dotson in his first year playing for the Baylor Bears played
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in 28 games and averaged almost 16 minutes a game but in 2003 a new junior college transfer was making his way to
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Baylor this is Harvey Thomas head coach Dave bliss believed Harvey Thomas was the missing piece and informed Carl
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Dotson that his playing time was going to go down significantly Dodson was going to leave the team and university
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and transfer again if he could find a school in early 2003 Carl Dodson and his wife split up Dotson goes to live with
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his good friend and teammate Patrick Dennehy in an apartment at some point Dotson answers an ad this is for a
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breeder who is selling pitbull puppies Dotson and Dennehy go to a farm to check out the pups they're the two become
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friends with the property owners this is Darren and Tammy Cox but hold on to your
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horses because it's gonna become a bumpy ride pretty quick Dodson and Dennehy they go to their coaches with a
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complaint and this is not your normal type of complaint yeah they're not talking about basketball or things
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related to their time playing their court time any of that this is more serious this
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they are saying that $300 was stolen from their apartment and that they were being threatened by some of their other
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teammates it does not appear that any action was taken regarding these complaints but we know that these
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complaints took place so these young men are going to take action into their own
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hands On June 2nd 2003 they tell friends that they have purchased guns to protect
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themselves after the five day waiting period on June 7th Dennehy and Dodson show one of their doggy friends Darren
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Cox two guns they say were purchased because they were concerned about their personal safety they asked if they could
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practice shooting these guns at the farm and permission was granted yeah On June 11th Dennehy's other roommate
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Chris Turk leaves for a trip Patrick Dennehy makes a long-distance call to his girlfriend in Albuquerque
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this is longtime girlfriend Jessica de la Rosa on June 12th Patrick Dennehy attends his final class
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of the year two days later Dennehy tells his friend Daniel that he is worried about threats to Carleton
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Dotson by two of their teammates he also tells Daniel that both he and Dodson will meet him at a party the next day
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but neither Dennehy or Dotson ever show up to this party so you have these roommates that go to their coach saying
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hey we've got $300 that are missing and now we're getting these threats now I'm assuming that now that they're you know
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worried about these threats that are coming from quote-unquote teammates were these the threats that they talked about
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to their coach earlier it appears that all of this is the same stemming from all the same story right the next day on
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June 15th Dennehy's mother and stepfather they find it very odd that they didn't hear from Patrick Dennehy on
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that day this is Father's Day yeah and he does not call home to to speak with his father on June 16th the other
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roommate Chris Turk and I say other roommate because remember we have Dennehy and Dotson and Chris Turk living
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there yeah this Chris Turk he returns from his out-of-state trip and finds that Dennehy's dogs have not been fed in
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what he says he believes to be days now a few days go by and Patrick's parents still have not heard from their son and
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in fact they are in the process of trying to track him down they want to know why they've not heard from him
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where could he be what's going on with this young man well after talking with Patrick's friends and his girlfriend
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they decide to step up the search and they actually report Patrick Dennehy missing on June 19 2003 now is any Beira
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porting Carlton missing no no one is reporting Carlton missing and this is also why I included some of the events
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leading up to when he's actually reported as missing so we have the other team the other roommate Chris Turk
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saying hey I left for this trip and when I left everything was normal everything
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was fine right and we know that Dennehy spoke to his long-distance longtime girlfriend and everything was fine then
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everything was fine they were actually planning on when they would see each other remember he had attended his last
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class of the year but he might have meant mention the threats to her or do we do we know that I don't know that he
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did there's nothing to state that he did but what we do know is when Chris Turk returns from his an estate trip he's
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like look that's when things appeared weird to me everything was fine when I left I get
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back and his dogs appear to be starving yeah they've not been fed in days and oh
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by the way nobody has heard from Patrick Dennehy including his parents who is very close to not calling on Father's
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Day and his girlfriend that he was very close to has not heard from him since that last phone call right the dogs
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maybe I mean a little Frank he he acts like he's starving all the time even right
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after he just ate so but big red flag to go hey here's this guy that you know is
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getting on track to to play some basketball seems like a good guy why didn't he call
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home Father's Day hmm well now we have the Waco Police Department they're involved because now we have a
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missing-persons report that has been filed so on June 23rd the Waco Police Department they file an affidavit
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seeking a search warrant this is for Dennehy's computer they want to get into that computer see what was going on see
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if they can find a trail of breadcrumbs to lead them to Patrick Denny yeah now this next part certainly scared
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the hell out of Patrick's friends and family because on June 25th so this is six days after he is officially reported
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missing to police on June 25th Patrick Dennehy's Chevy Tahoe is found in a mall parking lot now this is way
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out in Virginia Beach Virginia hmm so not only would the 1,400 miles distance and the 21 hours of driving time scare
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the hell out of me but the the vehicle is also found without license plates yeah this is not good so somebody moved
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this vehicle this great distance 1,400 miles and tried to conceal it by removing the license plates police don't
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know how it ended up there or who moved it there or if in fact it could have even been Patrick himself yeah
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but then just two days later a statement is issued by police saying the potential
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suspects in this missing-persons case include Patrick's teammates in relation to this statement amongst other aspects
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of this investigation a st. Petersburg Florida attorney who is known to have represent athletes says he has been
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hired by one of Patrick's teammates this is Patrick quote-unquote friend and roommate
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Carleton Dodson the attorney says Carleton Dodson is at his home in Maryland and will not discuss the case
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well that's interesting right what's very close to Virginia Beach Maryland and this poor young man has gone missing
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in Texas during all of this the authorities back in Waco Texas have been conducting ground and aerial searches
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looking for the young man now most of these are conducted in large areas some of which are large open areas and they
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seem to be focusing in on three areas in particular one of them being the Cox farm where right so this is where they
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became friends with the people that were selling the puppy the puppies right and
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they also got permission once they became friends with these people to to shoot guns and target shoot and practice
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shooting these guns on their property well we got a bunch of weird stuff going on we have these two athletic men but we
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got three that are living together but everything seems fine other than there was some money missing and that we have
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possibly some threats happening so then these guys feel threatened enough that they're going to get guns to protect
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themselves and now we have one of the one of the basketball players car is 1,400 miles away right and we have his
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roommate his quote/unquote friend saying hey I'm not talking about this and so July 9th we have Dennehy's mother coming
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out and saying the coaches told her that her son said he was being stalked so I wonder if that's something he said when
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he said hey somebody took this money we're being threatened and I'm being stalked I wonder if that's when he told
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the coaches about that well and according to ESPN Patrick's mother said that the she and her husband they regret
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that their son never alerted them about his fears stating that if he had Dennehy stepfather said quote I would
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have been on the first plane to Waco on July 17th Carleton Dotson has a meeting at the Dorchester County Sheriff's
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Office in Delaware after which no charges are filed in Carleton walks out of this meeting a free man the next day
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a maintenance worker at an apartment complex found and turned over to police a handgun this is the apartment complex
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where Harvey Thomas remember the new kid in town the believed to be missing piece on the
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Baylor basketball team this is where he lived but then in a strange and surprising twist to some but not to all
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on July 21st Carleton Dodson is arrested in Maryland and charged with the murder
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of Patrick Dennehy no this is this goes down in a very weird manner okay so as soon as police come out cuz hold on
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because we have these two friends that live together they both go to the coaches they they're fearful enough they
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say there's threats they're fearful enough that they get guns and and now he's being arrested with the involvement
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of his friends disappearance mm-hmm okay and remember he's in Maryland and when we when the attorney for Dotson first
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comes out to the median says look I'm representing Carleton Dodson now he's staying in his Maryland home he's not
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going back to Waco Texas and he's not going to be discussing this case with media at this time we do know that he
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has this meeting with the Sheriff's Department now he's still in his hometown he's not back in Waco Texas yet
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the weird thing that comes out here is when they interview him and they they allow him to leave they very quickly the
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Sheriff's Department very quickly tells the media that he didn't say anything incriminating
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during the course of this meeting he didn't say anything that led us to believe that or would give us more
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suspicion than we currently have right even though he's all these many miles away and the vehicle
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Patrick Dennehy's Chevy top Tahoe has found a lot closer to Carleton Datsun than where Pat went missing yeah yeah
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though arrest becomes it takes place because apparently Carleton Dodson called 911 dispatcher okay Dotson said
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he had an emergency and requested that the police be told where he was and how to find him now some of what Dodson said
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to police has not been made public because it pertains to his mental condition so protected information
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according to state law but what we learn is this he says he was hearing voices and that he was afraid for his life
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Dodson told police that people want to kill him because he is Jesus the Son of God I yeah if he's Jesus the Son of God
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people want to kill okay he said he was from a family of prophets and that he could see who was going to have him okay
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so this is a new skill above his basketball skills yeah something like that yeah so this is a strange turn of
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events to say the least you think right but look can I just point out the obvious hmm wake up this is not the
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first person from Waco that has claimed to be a prophet yeah what is in that water right right this that's a Gaul to
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drink the water in Waco on the next episode we will be sampling water from Waco thank you so this gets a little
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more involved especially on Carleton Datsuns part so he's essentially I guess turning
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himself in and I'm sure that it's not quite clear to police what he's turning himself in for other than the fact that
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he's saying hey I'm afraid people were gonna kill me yeah so they get this guy to the police department and they tell
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him hey you're safe here you need to tell us everything that's going on with you so we can protect you or or what
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have you and this is when they're realizing our suspicions were correct this Karl
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Dodson guy probably was involved with something that happened to Patrick Dennehy or he's aware of it right -
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which Karl Dodson never really denies killing Patrick Dennehy in fact he goes on to say that that he did kill Patrick
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Dennehy but this was in self-defense this was his argument was going to be a self-defense argument he says that at
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some point when they went out to target shoo-in to practice shooting these guns that Patrick Dennehy pointed a gun at
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Dodson and he even even pulled the trigger and Dodson says that the gun either misfired or didn't fire it off
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whatever happened right - which Karl Dodson responds by shooting Patrick twice we have this individual in custody
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he's not denying murdering Patrick Dennehy but he's already putting together a self-defense argument for
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whatever took place and then on top of that he's got some questionable things going on inside his head right so he
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believes that he's Jesus he also believes that he's he's from a family of prophets he also can tell whether or not
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people can go to heaven or hell and he is feeling threatened at some point though he's feeling threatened it's I'm
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trying to back it up a little bit because they're roommates is it possible that he is hearing this stuff in his
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head and he starts feeling that he's threatened and and so therefore therefore Dennehy
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starts filling that or is he just going based off of what if roommate says me because if you live with somebody any
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and you come home and they go a couple people called us and they're threatening us and you don't know your roommate to
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be he's not telling you that he's Jesus he's not telling you he's a prophet do you just believe that you see what I'm
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saying I maybe I'm reading too much into it but we have two individuals that go to coaches and say hey we felt
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threatened to individuals that buy guns was it justice it almost seems like a schizophrenia thing happening what
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Dodson is he taking that and making Dennehy believe him without without actual evidence I think you're really on
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to something here because some things that we got a factor in here as well Patrick Dennehy was not at Baylor
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University for a very long period of time yeah I mean he transferred there he sat out a year these two individuals did
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not live together for that the entirety of that time we have we have Dodson who was married he was living elsewhere it
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wasn't until his marriage fell apart that he ends up shacking up with Patrick Dennehy and this other guy Chris Turk
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you really have to question how well did Patrick Dennehy infact know Carlton Dodson right they before this this what
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is now believed to be a murder they only lived together a handful of months before this all went down and it gets
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very confusing here because I think you're you've really hit the nail on the head where you wonder if the the
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perceived threat by Patrick Dennehy is it just because it's the spillover factor from being roommates with this
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guy right because in the early reports it states something to the effect that well we have Patrick Denny he we have
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the other roommate who says he comes out and says Patrick Dennehy was concerned about
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threats that Carlton Dotson was receiving right is this and then as this Carlton Dodson later saying no no I'm
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they're threatening you - they're threatening all of us that live here right right you're in on this now
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somebody broke into our home and stole money we're not safe here I just children hide your wife hide your
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husband - and like you said they did go to police whatever was going on at this time whether it be real or something
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manufactured by Carlton Dodson or something that Carlton Dodson believed to be real we know that that Patrick
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Dennehy believed this enough that he went with Dotson to the coaches to report this on July 26th so this is just
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five days after Carlton Dodson is arrested police announced that they have found a badly decomposed body in one of
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the areas provided to them by Carl Dotson the medical examiner's office with later identified the body as
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Patrick Denny an early reports state that he died from gunshot wounds to the head Patrick Dennehy's funeral service
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is held in his home state of California about 300 people were in attendance at this beautiful ceremony at Jubilee
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Christian Church Center not far from his parents home this was a celebration of Patrick's life much more so than to
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mourn his death the space was filled with friends family teammates and of course his long-time girlfriend
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question for you this Carlton doc Dotson did he also create the easies but what I
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don't know what that is cuz you know Kanye West thinks he's a prophet and he created the easies the
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shoe well there there are a lot of complications with this week's case study and regarding just the case itself
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so the murder of young Patrick Dennehy a basketball player at the University of Baylor and the murder charges brought
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forward by the state against another Baylor basketball player or former basketball player whatever you want to
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call him yeah this opened up a can of worms and you know when you go to like somewhere like Costco or gfs and they
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have those giant canned goods yeah I would say this opened up a giant can of worms for the Baylor basketball per cost
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go sighs yeah so it turns out that the Baylor basketball program well specifically the head coach Dave bliss
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had violated several NCAA rules and regulations several players were receiving improper benefits and this was
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coach Bliss's doing one of these players was in fact Patrick Dennehy now I'm just
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going to refer to him as Dave bliss from now on because in my opinion he does not
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deserve to be called coach or deserved the title of a coach as a coach is someone who should be a leader and
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should be a teacher and he was working with young adults and in fact this this guy is so disgusting he's a complete
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weasel of a man that in order to cover up some of his own miss dealings yeah he was ready to hit a plan and his plan was
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to blame a lot of this on the murder victim Patrick Dennehy and we know this to be true because of a very good man
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that was in this in this case and this is assistant coach rouse so this distant coach one of many he is in these
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meetings with with Dave bliss and he's like wait my boss a lot of this stuff is not adding up what he's saying to us in
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these meetings right this dude does not seem to be on the up-and-up and this coach this assistant coaches
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learning of Mis dealings that he was unaware of it wasn't like that from from the top to the bottom
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everybody knew what was going on and in fact coach rouse what he gets he gets this great idea he's like you know what
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this guy Dave bliss is a terrible person and I'm not going to go down with this guy so he starts bringing a tape
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recorder to these meetings and you know then he comes up with this idea all on his own
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yeah okay and so good for him so during one of these tape recorded conversations
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between Dave bliss and assistant coach rouse well you can clearly hear Dave bliss stating a couple things that they
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needed there were some tracks that they needed to cover and specifically this was $200 I'm sorry $2,000 that was made
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as a down payment on the Chevy Tahoe that Patrick Dennehy was driving at the time of his murder the other thing that
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they needed to clear up was $7000 in paid tuition paid for Patrick Dennehy's tuition so we got a couple problems here
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you can't get a vehicle from your coach you can't get a vehicle from your basketball program and remember Patrick
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Denny he was not on scholarship at Baylor well he was but it appears that some of his or all of his tuition was
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being taken care of his he was under the table scholarship so what Dave bliss is
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saying in this recorded conversation he said look we can blame all this on Patrick Dennehy because he's dead he
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can't say anything he can't have a defense for this he can't tell them what actually was going on
00:36:47
so let's come up with an idea yeah of how we can cover up this $2,000 for the vehicle and $7,000 for the
00:36:57
tuition so you're gonna try to take this dead man and try to make some scandal that he stole money somehow
00:37:03
no Bliss wants to say that Patrick Denny he was a drug dealer and that he paid for the vehicle and for his tuition with
00:37:12
drug deals but we know that not to be true because we know this was manufactured by Dave bliss so what a
00:37:22
scumbag right you know like this is a kid that you're supposed to be mentoring this is a kid that you're supposed to
00:37:29
and look I understand he has it wasn't there a long time it wasn't like he had this long relationship with him but
00:37:36
because you're crooked you know well he used these offers to entice Dennehy to go to school there and play for the
00:37:44
basketball team yeah and I get it you know there's somebody out there listening right now
00:37:48
that's going well Patrick Denny he accepted that that misdoing yeah and I get I he was in the wrong for that too I
00:37:56
get that there's rules and regulations and and Patrick dinner he was he was breaking those rules and regulations but
00:38:02
the to the point where Dave bliss elevates himself to a whole new level of loser is when he's like oh I did this
00:38:11
stuff wrong this guy's not around to say anything differently because he's been murdered and oh we'll just we'll just
00:38:17
make up the story that he's a drug dealer and that's how he got the money right which also then puts some cloud
00:38:24
around his death yeah I mean like if you go all Patrick Dennehy he was involved in all this other stuff so okay well you
00:38:34
know we we don't know exactly what Carlton is telling us if it's true or not but uh but you know as drug-related
00:38:41
so no big deal I mean this is this coaches he's not a coach so some form of justice will prevail here regarding this
00:38:54
stuff with Dave bliss because on August 8 2003 Dave bliss and the Baylor athletic director Tom Stanton both
00:39:02
resigned Dave bliss was four to resign and MIT's allegations that he had violated NCAA rules by making
00:39:10
financial payments to four players and that he made improper statements to the media characterizing Patrick Dennehy as
00:39:18
a drug dealer the school placed itself on probation limited itself to seven scholarships for two years and imposed a
00:39:26
post season ban for one year additionally the NCAA further punished the team by initiating a non-conference
00:39:34
ban for the 2005-2006 season and extending the probationary period during which the school would have limited
00:39:43
recruiting privileges yeah but these guys resigned and they just move on to other dirty games yeah Dave bliss is
00:39:53
coaching elsewhere he's taken a significant step back in his in his career let's say but unfortunately and
00:40:03
this is not just America this is most of society we live in in a society where a
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lot of people or at least some because there's evidence of such some people were willing to turn a blind eye to very
00:40:20
bad behavior and choose winning over character and it's just despicable so we won't we won't discuss Dave bliss where
00:40:29
he is now or what he's up to but his new name is turd Ferguson but for those of you that didn't know the the story
00:40:36
behind the story you now know who Dave bliss is what a bag of but our story our story's far from done here so on this is
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in October Carleton Dodson was declared incompetent to stand trial this by a district judge and he was sent to a
00:40:57
state mental hospital to be evaluated and this evaluation the judge was going to allow for four months of evaluation
00:41:06
three psychiatrists including one appointed by the court said that Dotson appeared to be suffering from
00:41:13
hallucinations and psychosis but that he could regain competency to stand trial in the future
00:41:22
now in February of 2005 Dotson was returned to jail after psychologists deemed him competent to stand trial but
00:41:32
that he must continue taking his anti-psychotic medication the psychologist also said the Dodson's
00:41:40
accounts of hallucinations and hearing voices were quote suspect prosecutors and Datsuns defense team tried this is
00:41:50
this is just this part of the story isn't I don't ever remember us reporting this in any other case okay
00:41:59
prosecutors and Dodson's defense team tried to work out a plea agreement but could not agree on the terms of that
00:42:06
agreement so they're working on a possible plea agreement they can't agree on the terms I think that the the thing
00:42:14
that was really in question what they were battling on was the length of time that he would have to serve anyway no
00:42:21
agreement is reached but then on June 8th 2005 just five days before Datsuns trial for murder was to begin Dotson
00:42:32
unexpectedly pled guilty to killing Patrick Dennehy and to be perfectly clear this is without a deal Carlton
00:42:41
Dotson was sentenced to 35 years in prison and he will be eligible for parole in 2021 so this is a case that I
00:42:54
like to file under the solved but unresolved category for many reasons there's you you seem to have the answer
00:43:05
to what what went down and and somewhat how it went down but then you're left with all these
00:43:10
extra questions you know like was Carlton Dodson actually competent or incompetent was he did he know what he
00:43:16
was doing and this whole self defense or versus murder claim that's because this thing never
00:43:26
went to trial those are the answers that we do not have and we don't - we don't get to have them we really
00:43:34
can only just sit back and examine this thing and form our own opinions and conclusions yes this whole thing is
00:43:43
weird I mean go back to David bliss with or aka turd Ferguson the thing is is we
00:43:54
don't know if these claims or these threats were real so we don't even know if both people went to these coaches
00:44:02
unless we have assistant coaches meaning forward yeah there were it sounds to me
00:44:07
according to yeah but Patrick's mother's statement that the multiple coaches said
00:44:14
that there was something going on that there was complaints or that he was being stalked so it wasn't just Dave
00:44:20
bliss manufacturing this it sounds to me like multiple coaches were talked to by
00:44:27
these basketball players yeah but again we don't know but we don't know if those
00:44:33
are even real in a sense right but what I'm saying is let's say you have a problem and I don't know what it is and
00:44:42
I'm I'm not trying to take a giant leap here but just roll with me for a second you got a problem you have some shady
00:44:49
stuff going on in your program and you have this guy that you might think is going to be the the the [ __ ] in the
00:45:03
armor right and that that is Patrick Dennehy right and for whatever reason then you tell his roommate hey we got
00:45:11
these threats coming and then you got this money missing blah blah blah you know you're gonna get these guns then
00:45:18
you're gonna practice shooting them you're gonna kill him when you're out there you kill him when you're out there
00:45:23
you'll start saying that you heard voices blah blah blah and the reason why I say that's all that stuff seems so
00:45:31
made up is you have a third person that lived with them that didn't make any of these claims beforehand you know I mean
00:45:40
like he didn't say that his roommate seemed off that Carlton seemed off that that Carlton seemed like that he was you
00:45:48
know hearing voices doesn't say any of that so just all of a sudden magically roommate goes away and all the sudden he
00:46:01
thinks he's Jesus thinks he's from a family of prophets and then then kills his roommate it's just it doesn't make a
00:46:12
lot of sense no of course it does and then on top of that you got somebody that they're saying is confident to fit
00:46:19
trial or to stay in trial as long as he's medicated but that's even questionable and then all the sudden
00:46:26
they can't come up with a deal so there is no deal so I'll just plead guilty a lot of this doesn't make any sense like
00:46:34
we're missing pieces of the story right and that's why I point out that because this thing didn't go to trial that
00:46:41
leaves some of these questions is just unanswered they're open-ended questions that are unanswered so a couple things
00:46:49
here it's difficult in any of these situations when it's tough to form an opinion and sometimes I don't even think
00:46:59
that I should because I'm not the right guy not the right person for the job I can't tell you I'm not educated enough
00:47:08
or have or even have sat down face to face with Carlton Dotson to give you an opinion on his mental state it would be
00:47:16
foolish for me to do so so in that situation you just go you know I'm gonna leave it to the powers that be to people
00:47:22
through more interested parties that are better equipped to handle this type of thing the problem is they come out with
00:47:29
two different answers in my opinion he yes he's competent in the end after four months he's competent to stand trial as
00:47:38
long as he keeps taking this medication yeah so that doesn't really give you a clear understanding if if in fact he
00:47:47
believed if he was hallucinating and believed these threats or if he manufactured them to put Patrick Dennehy
00:47:55
in a position of vulnerability yeah because you know why what was his motivation well he's a loser
00:48:03
I ain't right but I don't even know if it's that simple and that's what that's what's creepy to me and I don't know if
00:48:10
it's that simple I may be it is no way that there's a whole university evolved in this and
00:48:18
there's coaches and there's hire beans yeah but I don't I don't feel like the coaches had anything to do with the the
00:48:24
murder of Patrick Dennehy what I'm getting at when and I know that I shouldn't just say it's so simple as
00:48:29
he's a loser that is just the the the introduction for my argument okay we have Carlton Dodson who is is leaving
00:48:39
the team he's not going to be playing on the team anymore he's just lost his wife
00:48:43
he doesn't have anywhere to live he doesn't have a job he doesn't have a team to play for and who's his buddy the
00:48:50
the kid that in his eyes probably has it all he's on the team he's getting improper benefits to be on the team he's
00:48:57
got a girlfriend he's got everything going for him that Carlton does not have going for him and
00:49:04
could Carlton have manufactured a reason to one let's get some guns too let's let's put him let's put this guy in a
00:49:15
place of vulnerability where we are out in the open by ourselves and maybe Patrick Dennehy's even walking around
00:49:23
with a gun that he purchased himself because here's the here's the thing if this whole case didn't fall apart very
00:49:31
quickly on Carlton Dodson you have to wonder if they would have found Patrick Dennehy a year or 18 months or two years
00:49:41
later out in this very remote location and he's out there with a with a gun do they go well maybe he killed himself
00:49:51
right maybe he shot himself in the head now where it gets to be difficult and I think where Carlton Dodson got scared
00:49:57
and realized that whole plan that I try to set an emotion is not going to work because I had to do a double tap I had
00:50:05
to shoot the guy twice and then on top of that according to the LA Times Patrick James Dennehy the second was
00:50:11
shot twice in the head and did not have alcohol in his system and another source states no
00:50:17
drugs were found in his system either the LA Times goes on to say both gunshot wounds were above the right ear the
00:50:25
first bullet exited Dennehy's forehead above the left eye the second exited behind the left ear according to the
00:50:33
autopsy by the southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences and Dallas the report
00:50:39
does not say how long Dennehy had been dead but he was missing for about six weeks when his body was found on July
00:50:45
25th in a field near a rock quarry four miles south of the Baylor campus so I can't without this thing going to trial
00:50:55
and having somebody that's better educated to tell us and explain all this to us what I can say here is I don't
00:51:03
know that this that the wounds match up perfectly with Dotson story of he was aiming a gun at me and whether he was
00:51:11
joking around or whatever and it misfired or didn't fire whatever and then I shot him twice this almost looks
00:51:17
like somebody came up behind him stuck the gun to the side of his head or this was some kind of execution-style murder
00:51:26
yeah or which was which would never fall into place with the the self-defense argument that he's posing and that's
00:51:33
where it makes you wonder if he just at the last minute went I'm a real [ __ ] I don't want this thing to go to trial
00:51:42
because then all these other things are going to come out all the the the details of the story are going to be
00:51:48
filled in and at least if I go and plead guilty this way I have a system I have a
00:51:54
setup where it's I had a defense where I was I was losing it a bit I was hallucinating I didn't really know what
00:52:01
was going on and then on top of that he pointed a gun at me and I fired there's even there's even times when he's been
00:52:08
in prison and he's been interviewed and he said to the person interviewing him what would you do the guy was pointing a
00:52:15
gun at me right what would you do and I just wondered with the strange way of they were in talks they were in talks to
00:52:24
try to come to some kind of plea agreement it was never going to be that Carlton Dotson wasn't
00:52:31
going to be guilty of this murder but what was going to happen if this thing went to trial again the details the
00:52:38
blanks all that could have been filled in the story could have been completed and we might have had a better picture
00:52:44
if in fact Carlton Dodson was in fact competent or incompetent or if this self-defense argument has is even an
00:52:53
argument at all yeah it's it's very strange I mean on one aspect you want to go okay he drank too much of the Waco
00:53:02
water he thought he was Jesus he hallucinating even if it's not self-defense even if he
00:53:08
just hallucinatin there's that makes the story somewhat make sense and then you just okay call today and the thing that
00:53:18
came out was that that they were paying Patrick under the table and probably paying some other players under the
00:53:25
table and they got caught so the coach had to resign and then he moves on with his life that there's a one thing but
00:53:33
because because the evidence doesn't match up with his story and we don't know because there's multiple reports on
00:53:43
you know he's competent he's not confident you know was he hearing voices we don't know he just wonder if there's
00:53:51
something bigger here well in there there was that was the threats a set up in order to get the guns in order to get
00:54:00
them to be alone so then they could it just seems like we're missing some of the story and we'll probably always will
00:54:09
be missing it because I think Carlton's gonna sit there in prison and just rest on this idea I was hallucinating I was
00:54:18
hearing things he threatened me that's in the story well and there's people out there still to this day that question
00:54:27
could more than one person have been involved in the murder of Patrick Dennehy and no it doesn't seem to me
00:54:36
that anybody questions that the Carleton Dotson was involved or that the the Carlton
00:54:42
Datsun should be in prison for this murder nobody seems to be questioning that it's everybody feels like we just
00:54:50
don't have the whole complete story and we did mention that little story of a maintenance worker finding a gun in the
00:54:58
apartment complex of another teammate and so these things are just unfortunately it has to fall into that
00:55:06
solved but unresolved compartment there because I don't think I mean we're we're
00:55:13
two years away from Dotson's being eligible for parole we're not we're not getting we're not going to get the
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