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thank you [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] 2021 19 year old Durante Martin left his
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home in the company of some of his friends from high school and what ends up happening Captain is in the morning
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hours and the wee hours of the night a 9-1-1 call explaining that this young man has shot
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himself killed himself in someone's attic and that is the home of James Wade and we brought up all the questions and
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a lot of the rumors concerning this case and a lot of those questions are from the general public we were able
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to present some of our own and may have some more as we continue to go through this investigation Durante Martin's
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Family commissioned a private autopsy this is a second autopsy because they're not happy with the findings from the
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first that somehow concluded without providing any information or details the young man killed himself
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they took it upon themselves to commission a private autopsy this would be conducted by Dr Jane Turner who is a
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seasoned no-nonsense forensic pathologist who spent years with the St Louis medical examiner's office she has
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more than 21 years experience conducting these types of autopsies her autopsy found that Durante was shot in the left
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temple now this alone does not indicate suicide some have pointed out that Durante was
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right-handed and that it would be more likely that he would be shot in the right Temple if he shot himself but he
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broke his right wrist just weeks before his death and had to have surgery to repair this injury
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at the time of his death his right arm was in a cast so it makes sense that he would more easily hold a gun to his left
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temple if in fact that's what happened and pulled the trigger rather than his right Temple but Dr Turner's report said
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quote there are no findings on my examination of a contact gunshot wound or a near contact gunshot wound
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or a near gunshot wound or close or even intermediate okay that's a lot of jargon
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there a lot of words to basically say that her findings are that he was not shot at close range and if one was going
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to shoot themselves they have to do so at short at close range unless you have those really stretchy arms and legs like
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that guy in the comments Stretch Armstrong this entrance wound is what would be called in forensic pathology a
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distant entrance wound the end of the gun would have had to have been this is per the doctor would have had to have
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been two or three feet or more away from Durante she explained that with a contact gunshot wound you'll see an
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imprint of the muzzle on the skin and here she did not see that and apparently there was no evidence on durante's skin
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that the gun was fired at close range either now per KSDK we're going to dive into this a little bit more so we all
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have a great understanding of why the first autopsy could be wrong and this could also mean that witness
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statements provided to the police are wrong as well again we don't have those to review we don't know if anybody was
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saying they were in the room with this young man when the gun went off but per KSDK a self-inflicted gunshot
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wound leaves behind several key indicators an imprint of the muzzle of the gun if it's held directly against
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the skin held slightly further away soot from the muzzle flash of a gun will land
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on the skin held slightly further than that and stippling or the deposition of the gun to the skin where
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the powder abrades or scrapes the surface of the skin leaves little punctures or red marks Durante Martin
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had none of those things present on his person one thing that Dr Turner did not mention
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in the news report about the second autopsy was whether she found any GSR any gun shot residue on durante's left
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hand or either hand for that matter if the gun was really fired from as far away as Dr Turner postulates then he
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could not have shot himself but GSR on his hands might call that finding into question
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we got to point out something here about GSR gunshot residue it doesn't always mean that the person that if you find
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gunshot residue on someone it does not always mean that they fired a gun it just means they were in the presence of
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a gun being fired they're in the proximity but again inside of the hand or outside of the
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hand to me would make a big difference yes of course and it should it would back up what the Sheriff's Department's
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findings were or at least what they concluded so it's kind of kind of sad that we don't have the information right
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and of course if he didn't have any gunshot residue on either hand then that backs up what the family believes right
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so it gets it gets a little dicey when it comes to gunshot residue but what does not seem to be dicey to me is we
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have two quote-unquote experts in their field and they're reaching two different
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determinations two they're two different conclusions unless this other person that performed the original autopsy
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believes that somehow Durante held the gun three feet from him and was able to shoot himself
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um which I don't know how that works again we know nothing about the gun too why not know if what kind of gun it is
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because if if this were shotgun or a rifle that puts into question a whole lot of
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different things rather than if it's a small easily you know a small handgun armed with the second autopsy report
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captain durante's mother Erica raised some of her questions to Deputy Adams the one
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that she was told to speak with and again we have some of the transcripts from their conversation here we have
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Debbie Adams who says the initial report was an apparent suicide that is not the
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final conclusion what you posted it on your Facebook page doesn't that seem a little irresponsible as an irresponsible
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person myself I can easily cite other people who are irresponsible are they ever going to give the final conclusion
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well we're going to get into that and this is uh even more Bizarro answer uh Erica then says to Deputy Adams because
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if that's the case you shouldn't have even said it was suicide because you know why because you didn't even have
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the information she's basically saying what you and I are saying Captain if you're telling us now that's not the
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final conclusion why did you even bother to say it in the first place yeah everybody wants to seem so smart right
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we need to teach humans that it's okay to question things it's okay to not have all the answers it's that is that is the
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smarter approach it's better to come out and say we don't have all the evidence so we can't make a comment
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instead of just going well well we think it's suicide and now you have to backpedal on everything that you have
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said CSN said teach the children well and I think that's just what you said my friend Erica that boy then called the
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sheriff's back share the sheriff office back and to manage to know why she wrote
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that Durante died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the April 29th press release and here's from the transcript
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Sheriff McCutchen I didn't put that it was a suicide I put that preliminary evidence and then she's cut off by Erica
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who says What preliminary evidence right we we're not presented with what that is
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in her statement and the sheriff replies the evidence that we got at the scene ma'am
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again this keeps this keeps leading me to believe that this must be eyewitness statements right or ear witness
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statements people that were in the home at the time that this went down people that were still there let's let's talk
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about that people that were still there after Emergency Services were called how many
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people ducked out of that place before someone agreed okay now it's okay to call 9-1-1 because from the 9-1-1
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call itself it sounds to me when he's asked James Wade now maybe he doesn't know because
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it sounds like he may not know or he's putting it on for the call but maybe he doesn't know maybe it is as he said he
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just went upstairs after hearing it and doesn't know if the the person on the ground is on the floor is breathing or
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not because he asked someone in the background but the response later is the the operator is being told no he's not
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breathing is there a chance that whatever happened went down and somebody decided to wait until he
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was not breathing to make that call right people get the opportunity to duck out of that place before
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anyone with a badge can show up Erica questions the sheriff what was the preliminary evidence and of course the
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sheriff says I can't give you that ma'am it's still under investigation well your office You released you made the
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press release stating that this was a self-inflicted gunshot wound yet behind the scenes you're telling the family
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of Durante that it's a still it's still an open investigation which is it that doesn't
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make any sense so round and round in circles we go as for the official Coroner's report on
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durante's manner of death Corner follis told the local NBC channel that he was waiting for the talks
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the toxicology report before deciding whether it was a suicide or a homicide it's not really clear to us how the
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toxicology report would clear things up unless it showed that Durante was drugged somehow an article on ksdk's
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website made reference to there being alcohol at the party as we saw earlier Carrie Wade denied that there was
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alcohol others say that there was but she did not deny that drugs were involved one of the more persistent
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rumors on Facebook is that Durante was given meth at the party perhaps by someone on the inner circle of The Wades
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or someone in the Wade Clan themselves and he freaked out so let me make sure I'm following you this correctly they're
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at this party or gathering or whatever the hell you want to call it because nobody knows nobody's coming forward and
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like you said there's some people online saying hey I was there but they need to start naming names we need
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to know everybody that was there and and so he takes some drugs or was given some drugs that's one of the rumors that
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maybe in fact it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound that was the result of him being given drugs right giving meth and
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going into some kind of psychosis from one of the Wades they don't specifically say James Wade
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there there are some rumors that specifically say James Wade but most of them say one of The Wades
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and but then how did he get the gun did he freak again that's a good question here here's a good question we're going
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to feed this guy a bunch of drugs enough to send him into psychosis and hand him
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a gun and then tell him to go play in the Attic I mean if that is the case you're still
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responsible for the death for the sake of for the sake of his mother can't you as as the sheriff at least say you're
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asked directly by her about the gun can you at least just say who owned the gun or even you know what
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I would be I would prefer an honest answer of I don't know we don't know who owns the gun other than we can't tell
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you that ma'am it's still an open investigation uh well then why the F that you post on
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your Facebook page that my son shot himself when every time I ask you a question I'm being told you don't have
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an answer for me or you do know the answer but cannot tell me because it's an open investigation well this family
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shouldn't be reading anything about the case that they don't already that they already haven't had a conversation with
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the sheriff department that's called doing your job we're going to contact them we're going to talk to
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them about our findings then we're going to take our findings and put them on Facebook
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here's the other thing Captain we have the original Corner well the the coroner who performed the original autopsy
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saying well we haven't made a final conclusion won't have our final answer until we receive the toxicology report
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Durante died in late April we really should have a toxicology report done by now allowing if the if it really is
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necessary allowing the coroner to finalize his report and make a definitive ruling on the cause and
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manner of this young man's death whoa so what's what's taking so long and fairness to the Sheriff's Department
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they probably already have it they're just trying to find a way to um change it and alter it to fit their
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narrative I will throw something in favor of the sheriff's department here I don't want to lay it on too thick one
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way or the other especially when we do have facts to present that show some due diligence on their behalf and this is
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that the Missouri State Highway Patrol was asked to review Madison County's investigation of this
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case so durante's family of course was disappointed to learn that on May 21st the Missouri State Highway Patrol
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they concurred with the initial findings of suicide so again then show the family the
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evidence exactly you're exactly right and it's and and what you said is is they agreed with their initial findings
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which the sheriff is saying well yeah we have some initial findings but we're not
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done I can't but why are you even bringing in somebody to check out your initial findings wait till they're all
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the findings are out there and then bring somebody in to double check I mean it's it's the it's beyond
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ridiculous and look would this happen if the supposed suicide was one of Mr racist Wades
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kids would there be a thorough investigation if it was one of them well and I can appreciate
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the sheriff's department allowing another agency to take a look yeah at that I I do I and you know I recommend
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that in cases that even seem to be open and shut cases there's nothing wrong with if you got everything right with
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another agency taking a look at it at something and sometimes more eyes on something can only help a situation
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racial Justice Advocates have been outraged by what they perceive to be as a hush hush investigation of durante's
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death this has been led by activist Reverend Daryl gray of St Louis but there was
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about 100 demonstrators that recently staged a protest March in Fredericktown Reverend gray told
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amp.ibtimes.com that during the protest counter protesters hurled two nooses at the demonstrators enchanted racial slurs
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at them so it's easy to see how tensions could boil over in this case and then we
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have to factor in we touched on it a little bit earlier but to dive into it a little bit more here Captain this area
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of Missouri Fredericktown it has known KKK activity and reportedly you know if that's going on
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then there's there's a portion of the population that's that's racist actively racist there it also has a big meth
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trade these things are terrible by themselves let alone put together and on top of
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that it's always been rumored that maybe this big meth trade going on in this area is controlled by white nationalists
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who do not like Outsiders basically what I'm laying down here is from an outsider
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looking in this appears to me to be an area that is dangerous for people of different backgrounds now even
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in the year 2020 black lives matter protests were met with white counter protesters
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carrying nooses and chanting KKK beliefs and for anybody in that general area the
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or the the great state of Missouri if you want to challenge me on this you can you're you're from there you would know
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better than me but I back up some of my statements with this statement that this area of Missouri was also home
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to Frank Ancona a Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader shot to death by his wife in 2017.
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Frank Ancona proudly held the title of Imperial wizard of the traditionalist American Knights of the KKK based in
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Park Hills Missouri so if you want to tell me that this is not a clan hotbed I'm gonna have a hard time believing you
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back to the Madison County Sheriff's Facebook page since this situation we have people on there that are angrily
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calling for Sheriff McCutcheon to resign and demanding answers in the Durante Martin investigation so far there has
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been nothing but Silence from the sheriff since the April 29th post about the shooting in the preliminary
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determination of suicide foreign [Music] [Music] we are back cheers mates cheers to
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everybody up top and in the back in the middle of your nasty cheers to you the billy goat maybe the captain's back but
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I'm leaving I'll finish this episode by myself look we try not to be in the business of
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spreading rumors about the cases that we cover we always and I think any long time listener of this show knows how it
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goes down here in the garage we 100 percent prefer to address the known facts of a case and perhaps offer up a
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little bit of our own thoughts and theories based off of those facts along the way
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here in this Durante Martin death investigation [Music] we are missing so many of the facts that
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this has been a very difficult task and there are also so many rumors some of this stuff
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I feel like when there's this many rumors some of them have to be true or there's some truth in them somewhere
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along the way so there are so many rumors about the involvement of James Wade and or a cover-up that it's it's
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hard to know really what's true and what's not true and we don't have any Authority clearing that up for us in
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this Durante Martin case but we have seen people's comments posted on the Madison County Sheriff's
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Facebook page to the effect that there is indeed some type of cover-up going on there are allegations from more than one
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person online that when the police showed up at this scene and James Wade's attic
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it had already been cleaned we mentioned that possibility earlier along the way when we were discussing
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what little known facts are in this case did somebody wait a little long to call
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9-1-1 did they make sure that whoever they didn't want talking to the police couldn't
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did they make sure whoever was responsible or set this guy up had an opportunity to leave right so
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they wouldn't get tripped up they wouldn't get caught in saying statements that contradicted statements
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of other individuals at the house at night and Durante was found in a tiny closet
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that's another rumor again we don't know about the gun we don't know the specifics about the attic but the one of
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those strong rumors out there is that Durante was found in a tiny closet and that lots of people were at this
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party and no more than what they are saying of course well this is so disappointing
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we're in 2021 and yes we have come a long way but when is it just going to become
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it's it is the human race like it is one entity like we're losing the race yeah it's like when when are we
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gonna just come together and just just knock it off it's like yeah there there are some culture different cultural
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differences here and there but we're still the human race One race so we mentioned earlier that there was a
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possible second suicide that took place on this property um and that's per James Wade's words uh
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in response to something so that seems to be somewhat backed up I'm not going to say I I don't think
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that it would be fair to sit here in our garage and say 100 that that's true so I
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throw out this call to action because I spent a lot of time trying to figure out
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if this could in fact be true because often where there's smoke there's fire and if you were to tell me that two
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people committed suicide on this man's property in recent years well then I would say
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they're smoke and I would want to know more about it so the information I could find is this is
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that a a man named Nick Lowery died in 2014 and that's about as much as I could find I couldn't find any type of
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news coverage or news information on this I'm throwing that name in that year out there as a kind of call to action to
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people in the garage joining us in the garage this week that if you are from that area or if you know anything or
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could find out anything in regards to this other potential incident let us know fill us in fill in everybody
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on the blog on our Blog on truecrime garage.com and again it's one of those things where
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this little piece of information could be something could could be something huge again if there's smoke often there
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is fire and I want to know how that investigation went down again if there's being drugs passed around that are or
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you know could cause psychosis and that is the reason why this other suicide took place again whoever's
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dealing out these drugs and whoever's around these people are now responsible for their murders those to me they're
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not suicide but it's not self-inflicted if that makes sense and this is also a big warning to everyone in a good
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reminder to everyone don't ingest things that are made by people that you don't know
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right who knows what the heck's in them don't be buying stuff on the street and putting it into your body
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because you're not in control of what happens after you drop that thing KSDK who we have referenced multiple
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times throughout these two episodes here in the garage has done gangbusters work
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on this story on covering this True Crime Story and I think that they've really done a great job of presenting it
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in a fair manner now one thing we've said some pretty negative stuff about James Wade along the way but one thing I
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will give him credit for where we have a sheriff's department who is not saying anything at least he doesn't duck the
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cameras and he does do interviews and answers some questions when presented with questions about this case so to
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give everybody a little bit of taste and feel for what KSDK has done on this case
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we'll provide you with the following clip where you will hear durante's football coach start off the clip and
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tell us some good things about this young man but along the way you will also hear suspicions by family and
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friends and you will hear from James Wade himself he was really good he you know he played
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defensive line for us and Durante Martin loved his team you know he's always happy and good you know the kids are
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always putting smiles on the kid's face that's what I remember most about him the 19 year old graduated last year from
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Central High School in Park Hills where Friday Night Lights burn bright Corey schweiss was his coach you know we won a
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couple conference championships with him anchoring that defensive line and he had
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some really good buddies on the team durante's cousin Isaiah Johnson was one of them he was great he was aggressive
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he was very athletic for his size and he could do a lot of things that other big
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boys like him couldn't do durante's family said he was hoping to play college ball now he'll never get the
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chance Durante was found dead in this home in Fredericktown last month with a gunshot wound to his head investigators
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initially ruled it a suicide those who knew him find it hard to believe [Music] there is no way Durante committed
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suicide there's just no way I'm just not going to accept that two days before he
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died durante's mother said friends picked him up in St Louis he told her he was going to see his grandmother in Park
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Hills he never came to my house and that's the last time I heard from him coach schweiss saw him just weeks ago
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and had a conversation that makes his loss that much more of a mystery he was happy he's you know the big old smile on
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his face so you know I asked him how everything was going he said great he was having a good time the i-team has
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been looking into the death of Durante Martin for weeks the 9-1-1 calls and the shocking results of an independent
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autopsy tonight at 10. for the i-team Christine Byers five on your side there's a mystery growing in Madison
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County Missouri where investigators initially thought Durante Martin took his own life the 19 year old's family
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says though it does not add up and now there's new information that supports their claims tonight the man who called
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9-1-1 and an expert who believes Durante was shot from a distance or talking only
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to the i-team's Christine Byers he had the biggest brightest smile you know just a smile that would just warm
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you up memories of her grandson quickly bring tears it hurts my heart to know that
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somebody hurt my grandson and possibly because of the color of his skin investigators say Kimberly
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Robinson's grandson Durante Martin died by Suicide she's not so sure Durante was
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found dead in this Fredericktown home last month in the weeks that followed social media swirled with theories and
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accusations that the homeowner James Wade had something to do with it or knew more than he was letting on I know I
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didn't do it and I tried to help him but nobody's talking about that you know they're just
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making up all this other stuff I mean they got me being everything from a racist serial killer to
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a big time mid dealer and you know I'm neither Wade said he got home from a day of fishing about 30 minutes before he
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heard the shot and I was downstairs and I was you know he just shot himself I caused 9-1-1 to try to help him
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Madison County 9-1-1 uh yes I need to talk uh apparently I got your shot initially this was an open and closed
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case four days after durante's death the Madison County Missouri sheriff's department announced preliminary
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evidence revealed the male subject died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the Head Weeks Later the i-team asked
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for an update on the case from Sheriff Katie McCutchen in a statement she wrote the investigation is still ongoing do
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you believe this was a self-inflicted gunshot wound there are no findings on my examination of a contact gunshot
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wound durante's family hired forensic pathologist Dr Jane Turner to perform a second autopsy after years with the St
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Louis medical examiner's office she's now in private practice the contact gunshot wound
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you'll see an outline of the muzzle of the gun an imprint of the muzzle of the gun on the skin I didn't see those the
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end of the gun would have been two or three feet or more away this entrance wound is what would be called in
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forensic pathology as a distant entrance wound it's the only answers durante's mother has been given since his death I
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can't stop crying so I tried not to cry so and then like I tell myself don't cry
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don't cry don't cry and if this was you and this was your kid then we wouldn't be having this discussion because it
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would be it wouldn't be a right thing can you understand the family's position in this
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I can understand how they feel I'd be angry too if I was hearing 25 stories I'm just not involved in it and I was
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stick outfit hurry up and make that clear the people I mean and as they lay Durante to rest his family and friends
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had so many questions and so few answers the true meaning of a friend he was that
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to many somebody was not a friend to him around we tried to speak with the teenagers who
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were there the night Durante died so far none of them have gotten back to us to learn more about Dr Turner's autopsy
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findings visit this story at ksdk.com for the i-team Christine Byers five on your side and again like you said I mean
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Mr Wade wants us to uh applaud him for calling 9-1-1 we'll not applaud you for that but at least he is
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communicating with anybody that's asking him questions it seems like he's at least trying to be an
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open book about all of this which makes me more likely to believe his story that
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he came into the house heard a gunshot and then called 9-1-1 and maybe he doesn't have all the information
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of what actually went in town exactly that's certainly a possibility here if we do believe him if we are to take what
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he's saying and say hey we think he's being truthful here then he was not in the room when this went down in May
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simply not know or not have all the answers himself this is really a tricky case and a lot of it is because there is
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reason to be suspicious but also there's no real hardcore information to lead us in the right
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direction so we ourselves can come to the correct conclusion not a hasty conclusion like what the sheriff's
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department came up with or at least what they announced on their Facebook page and with the press release
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one thing that really stood out to me in that news clip there was it was interesting one to hear James Wade hear
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his voice other than the 9-1-1 call and hear him answer some of the tough questions you know because in the 9-1-1
00:35:23
call there is no there are no tough questions if he's innocent and doesn't know what happened then there are no
00:35:30
tough questions he simply observing and telling and passing along what he's observed and and maybe truly
00:35:39
trying to get this young man Durante some help but one thing that I found interesting
00:35:45
beyond that in the news clip there is the little tidbit about the news team s to know the persons that were at that
00:35:56
home that night and saying that hey we've reached out to these people and they've not responded to us none of them
00:36:03
have provided statements to us none of them have taken our questions none of them have done interviews and what's
00:36:10
very interesting about that Captain that which of course we were suspicious of to
00:36:15
begin with you know we believe I don't I shouldn't speak for both of us but I believe that there was some type of
00:36:22
party or gathering there that night yeah and so to me that tells me that it's more than just
00:36:30
Durante Martin and one of James Wade's daughters or his daughter there at the home that night that there were other
00:36:37
people there and I'm basing this off of that little nugget provided to us by KSDK news
00:36:45
that says hey we've contacted these people and they've not responded to us well we clearly hear them talking to
00:36:52
James Wade so he's not on that list of people that haven't responded to them there are
00:36:58
other people and Wade could be the quote-unquote spokesperson for the Wade household and I would be fine with that
00:37:05
but this is an indicator to me that there were several other people there that night it's basically a confirmation
00:37:11
that that is in fact what was going on but these people remain silent now is that
00:37:20
at the request of law enforcement or is this at the suggestion of legal counsel that any of these people may have that
00:37:30
would be interesting to know and further it seems like no one has a problem and this is much with what we see in any
00:37:39
Community or Society in our society these days where people don't have a problem posting things online making
00:37:47
accusations spreading rumors online but when someone wants to get them on record
00:37:54
they're not willing to do so yeah this one is very tough because I I don't see the motivation for him to commit suicide
00:38:03
again unless he was on some kind of drug that would cause some psychosis if he ingested that drug uh willingly
00:38:10
then then he we have to we're all responsible for our own actions now if somebody gave him that
00:38:18
you know put that in a drink or uh told him it was something else I'll smoke this uh weed and I was you know
00:38:28
methamphetamines or something like that and a suicide then took place to me um that's not a suicide it's assisted
00:38:36
suicide and and there needs to be people responsible for that and the big piece of evidence is where you have a core
00:38:43
nurse coming forward and saying look I think he was shot at a distance two to three
00:38:49
uh feet maybe further away it doesn't look like if you look at his house it looks like a one-story house
00:38:58
they say the attic I think uh the reason why they say that is because if the majority of your walls are slanted on
00:39:06
your upstairs then it's not considered a two-story so my house for example is considered a one
00:39:14
and a half story because my upstairs is most of the walls are slanted so yes it looks like there was a room upstairs
00:39:24
now two pieces of evidence one he was shot at a distance but two we find him in a closet
00:39:33
that that we should clear up is rumor right that's not anybody's we don't know that
00:39:40
for that to be yeah a fact but I think it's very possible especially at the age of these individuals
00:39:49
that it could have been an accident somebody was playing with Mr Wade's gun or had a gun themselves that they're
00:39:57
playing with he ends up getting shot they then move move him or leave him wherever and uh place the gun in his
00:40:05
hand and and walk away and now everybody same story he committed suicide I think that's very
00:40:14
likely um I and again with the cops I would love to just throw them under the bus
00:40:21
completely and say they're giant piles of [ __ ] but I think their major mistake was
00:40:28
coming out and having initial findings just keep your mouth shut until you have more evidence because now they're
00:40:36
backpedaling and they might come to a different a way different conclusion after more
00:40:43
investigation but you already stuck your foot in your mouth with your initial findings the other thing too when we
00:40:51
call people out for being irresponsible or organizations for being irresponsible
00:40:55
I would why I would like a clear explanation on why we don't have this young man's personal belongings if in
00:41:04
fact his family wanted them that should that's their right they should get his wallet his shoes his clothes anything he
00:41:11
had with him when he was found at the Wade house that night you know usually there's a
00:41:18
a chain of custody on these items there should be paperwork on taking this body in and
00:41:28
um housing it and then releasing it to the mortuary somebody dropped the ball I don't know why when protocols and things
00:41:38
are set up where there are supposed to be a paper trail that all of a sudden the paper trail disappears when when
00:41:43
people and actions are called into question so I that seems incredibly irresponsible I know it's something
00:41:50
really small and very kind of generic amongst this larger story but it's always disappointing when you
00:41:58
hear things of that nature I would expect a mortuary to be a responsible entity I would expect a County coroner's
00:42:07
office to be of the utmost responsible of entities and that did not happen in this case
00:42:18
for and we can see that based off of what we know to be true here that those items were in fact lost somewhere
00:42:27
somehow and also the lack of communication between the sheriff's department and his family
00:42:35
you know it's disrespectful yeah and amongst other all a whole list of other words but uh it's it's it's very
00:42:44
disrespectful yeah to the deceased and to his family and then here's the other big question
00:42:51
you know we can sit here and analyze this and put everything under the microscope as much as we want
00:42:59
I applaud his family for doing the due diligence that they could with getting the second autopsy I think that was a a
00:43:10
move of Genius of Brilliance on their behalf I would like to know more about the phone I'm hoping that they're
00:43:18
they're sending off the phone to get its own autopsy uh so to speak the thing the
00:43:24
really big question I have here you know when we question all these things why was he in the Attic why was he at this
00:43:29
home to begin with who did he go with other than this name Zach we don't really have any other names or
00:43:34
information that seem to pop up was this violent offender present at the party how many people were there what was
00:43:43
actually going on that night we can sit and we can kick through that as much as we want yeah or what kind of drugs were
00:43:49
being taken if there were drugs at all and the the biggest thing that we don't need to kick through
00:43:56
that we know to be true that is a huge question mark and it and points toward something other than what we're being
00:44:07
told happened is durante's cell phone when it's returned to his mother Erica she says that his calls are gone his
00:44:16
texts are gone the phone was scrubbed clean why why if everything that happened that
00:44:25
we're being told by the witnesses because again that's that's the only way that the sheriff's department can get
00:44:31
their preliminary evidence right that must be what they're referring to as preliminary evidence the witness
00:44:38
statements so if everything we're being told by the witnesses is in fact true and it was so true that
00:44:47
the sheriff's department bought it and sold it on their Facebook page and if everything The Wades are saying are
00:44:53
true and if everything the coroner the original autopsy findings are true that this young man killed himself then there
00:45:02
is no reason at all that his phone should have been scrubbed I have no I cannot believe for a second refused to
00:45:10
do so that this young man wiped his phone clean and then killed himself just doesn't make any sense no it
00:45:18
doesn't pass the sniff test oh the old sniffer because if there weren't drugs at that party and if
00:45:27
there weren't drugs involved in this incident as it pertains to Durante if there wasn't
00:45:34
a setup on this kid whether it be to jump him beat him up or otherwise there's no need to scrub that phone like
00:45:46
you said that's probably the biggest piece of evidence that makes me go suicide doesn't feel right here again
00:45:54
we're not mental health experts and if you're dealing with any mental health issues please contact the National
00:46:00
Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 and of course we are all hoping that very soon that we start to
00:46:12
get some answers in this case in Durante Martin's case answers that are long overdue and very deserving
00:46:22
to his family that they can get the answers that they deserve from the sheriff's department
00:46:28
and all of the agencies that have looked into this case Reverend Daryl gray and Durante Martin's
00:46:36
Family met recently with the Madison County prosecuting attorney who asked the Missouri attorney general's office
00:46:43
to investigate durante's death a spokesman for the Attorney General declined to comment as to whether the
00:46:51
office would in fact get involved so now all we can do is await the final determination of the Madison County
00:47:00
Sheriff's Office investigation into durante's death which will hopefully shed some light on the tragic passing of
00:47:07
this promising young man who had everything to live for foreign thank you guys so much for joining us
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your comments on the blog Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the find listeners this week anyone out
00:47:36
there starving for some more mind Hunter the amazing Netflix series well if you can never heard of it wait any longer I
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got a recommendation that might hold you over for a little bit check out in the Killer's shadow
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the FBI's hunt for a white supremacist serial killer by John Douglas and mark allshaker the authors of Mind Hunter
00:47:58
which of course is the real life basis of the TV series but an added bonus we are recommending the audio version of in
00:48:08
the killer Shadow as this is narrated by Holt mcalleny the actor who plays Bill tench on mine hunter so make sure you
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check that out and join us back here in the garage next week for a new case and until then be good be kind and don't
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