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able to help solve a [Music] mystery Paul diamano attorney was hired by the Valente family to represent them
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in hopes of getting a verdict that would change the manner of death ruling in the
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death of their daughter 18-year-old Tiffany Valente and this is straight from the diam lawfirm.com
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website right underneath the hash Justice for Tiffany it reads it has been more than S years since Diane and Steven
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Valente were told by authorities that their 18-year-old daughter Tiffany had taken her own life struck and killed by
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a New Jersey Transit Atlantic City rail line train close to midnight on July 12th
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2015 near mile marker 45 5 miles from their maze Landing home law enforcement officials believe Tiffany
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walked the 5 miles over roadways that had no street lights and for most of it in her bare feet Tiffany suffered from
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nectop phobia a fear of the dark the parents along with numerous forensic experts have consistently labeled the
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suicide determination the product of an investigatory rush to judgment and they've appealed through their attorney
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Paul R damato and his Law Firm to have the case reopen to no avail but the valente's attorney damato and many
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others in and Beyond New Jersey believe there's still hope for # Justice for Tiffany and that the new Unsolved
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Mysteries Netflix episode mystery at mile marker 45 will be the Catalyst for new information leading to answers in
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the lingering troubling question about TI Tiffany's death was she the victim of murder was her death an accident the
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victim of a prank that got fatally out of hand why was her death so quickly ruled a suicide without first conducting
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a fullscale autopsy there is reward information available in this case and last I saw
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Captain we were talking $40,000 reward to help solve the 2015 suspicious death of Tiffany Valente and if you have
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information they want you to reach out to the family's attorney again that's damato lawfirm.com and there's also
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reward at Justice for Tiff ti.com like I said last time I saw the reward was up to
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$440,000 now we give that brief description there to one bring you up to speed and two to because the family
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thinks that something happened to their daughter between the time she left their
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home and when she was found and they were notified of her death well we have her cell phone so don't we have like a
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cell phone record of who she spoke with we do and that's where things get very interesting her family is of the belief
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of a there's a few different theories that they're working with that maybe she went to the end of their driveway
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remember she Afraid of the Dark they don't think that she would have went off walking on her own not for any great
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distance anyway in the middle of the night so they think that maybe she went out to the end of their driveway down
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the street a little bit on foot and was going to meet a friend there and then got picked up by a friend now some have
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suggested maybe she gets into a vehicle with someone she thought she could trust
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and then things got bad quickly and they tossed whoever she got the ride with tossed the phone out of the vehicle and
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took Tiffany away now if you want to go to the ruling side of it the suicide ruling I guess the belief would be that
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she decided to toss her phone and just keep on walking that night there are other people that suggest something
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that's even it's to me it's a little more information and it might be a better Theory there are some that have
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suggested maybe the cell phone was later dropped near the family's property and strategically placed there to throw
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people off well cuz think about this she gets into a vehicle with somebody they're driving her around
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maybe they get out of the vehicle with her or she just gets out of the vehicle she gets out of the vehicle you still
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have her items so then you go drop off all of her items in a location so at least those items aren't in your car
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anymore exactly and the situation here being that something happens to Tiffany and they
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want to discard these items we talked yesterday about the shoes and the headband being found this would be about
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a mile from the family's home and there's no way that those items were at the scene where her body was found when
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the uh incident took place and so we know that for a fact which is which is so bizarre because again you got to go
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to the fact that her feet do not show signs of her tra in that terrain for that distance before she was later found
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yeah I know a lot of people seem to put a lot of weight to that to me I'm not a foot expert so some people walk around
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and their bare feet all the time so they would have tougher feet I I can't walk that much you know on on uh concrete or
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gravel or anything I always have to have shoes on so I wouldn't be uh you wouldn't catch me without shoes outside
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and this area is described as sharp rocks broken glass rough wood now I don't know if they're embellishing a
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little bit to push forward their case I've not traveled that this this made that trekk uh on foot or otherwise so I
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cannot tell you exactly what that terrain would be like now we do have a situation where we talked about possible
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evidence that may have been not collected at the scene right and one thing we do know for a fact is that
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shortly after her death we have one of her uncles one of Tiffany's uncles along with what would be her cousin go out
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there and they are looking and retrieving items that were not collected or maybe just not found or located by
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the authorities when they had the scene roped off and and these items include a bracelet that was returned to Tiffany's
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mother Diane but also included things like pieces of her skull and Jawbone so I would suggest that the I
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mean those are significant items that should have been collected at the scene again it's either not collected or not
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located by authorities to collect them it's not an easy scene I I I do want to remind everybody about that it's this is
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not an easy situation just the destructive incredibly destructive nature of this
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incident an accident foul play Homicide suicide whatever you want to label it the destruction of any of that
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taking place here by train is going to make it very difficult for those to locate certain items especially out in
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the dark now maybe they should have roped off this scene longer and again that's what the family's argument
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is that this was a quick rush to judgment and they don't like the ruling but just because the family doesn't like
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the ruling doesn't mean that it's not true and I I think with like you said a very difficult situation because you
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have the destruction you also have you know this is basically train tracks in the middle of the Woods
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so you have a you know very odd terrain and then on top of that you know this is
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happening at night again they probably should have came back several times during the day and I think they should
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have done several steps CU we've seen this in other cases and they might have been suicides but if you don't cross
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your teas and out your eyes and do your due diligence it's almost like you're not giving you need to do that you need
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to be extra careful with this because this is a hard this is going to be a hard ruling for the family to accept
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well it's not just that if there was Foul Play involved in this young woman's death there's nobody investigating it
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because of the ruling of the manner of death so when it's ruled a suicide they they will never investigate this as a
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homicide now one thing we have pointed out there are many jurisdictions out there that when they respond to a death
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that it regardless of what it ends up their findings end up being many jurisdictions work under the protocol
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that until we find evidence that it is that suggest otherwise this is a homicide right and I wish that that
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would have taken place here because now with this ruling nobody's ever going to investigate this as a homicide so you
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may have a killer or people that were involved in the demise of this young woman out there that will never be
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caught they will never be identified because there's nobody working it now some people are probably saying well
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maybe I don't see a crime here that's fine that's what we're trying to do lay out the information and let you form an
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opinion but I will remind you all of this last year we covered the Boardman murders the murders of three young males
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in Boardman Ohio that took place in the 70s the third death was ruled by the I believe he was not just pathologist he
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was an actual doctor was ruled to be natural causes the victim had diabetes and and slipped
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into a diabetic coma okay now that case would have never been investigated as a murder or a
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homicide but the police the Boardman police said you know what we don't like your ruling doctor we see obvious
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evidence that there is Foul Play and that somebody is responsible for this boy's death that boy is David
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Evans 12 years old David Evans he's he's abducted and killed is what we later learn the person responsible was a man
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named Joseph Hill they connected this serial killer to that young boy's death with Joseph Hill's
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DNA this year this year 2023 so almost 50 years later we had a bad ruling by a medical examiner a
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police department that refused to believe it and continued to work it as a homicide and they solved it almost 50
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years later so these things do exist yeah and I I don't understand it seems like in our society and and also in the
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True Crime world and and correct me if I'm wrong here is that everybody just wants to be
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right like they I you know whether it's the deli investig ation whether it's John Ben Ramsey whether it's Mara Murray
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whether it's Brian Schaefer people come to me with opinions and they're willing to die on
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that sword and not listen to anybody on anything what's so wrong with law enforcement going hey our initial
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findings you you discuss this only with the family our initial findings is that we believe that this is suicide now
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we're going to take some time to try to prove ourselves wrong do the work well and that's why most jurisdictions will
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arrive on scene and say until we have evidence to suggest otherwise this is a homicide investigation right because
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then you can't really go wrong it's easier to look all the family is asking for here is that this be ruled a suspicious
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death or an indetermined death and so let's let's get into some of this information because we got a lot to get
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through here Captain this is from Louise Housman she's a retired senior medical investigator who was yes hired by the
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family and yes hired by the family's attorney so she does have a dog in the fight we don't know her so we cannot say
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that she went into this impartial at all and then made a ruling I'm hoping that that is the case that she went in there
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to give an expert opinion based off of the evidence that she could review and went in there impartially and arrived at
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this conclusion but what she's stating here is that since September 21 2016 she has had several opportunities to read
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reports and interviews by employees of the New Jersey Transit Police Department the Atlantic County prosecutor's office
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and the regional medical examiner office she goes on to say that she has visited
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the scene where Tiffany Valente was struck by a New Jersey Transit train and has reviewed all photographs that were
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taken by investigators regarding Tiffany's death and she goes on to say all these items that she's reviewed and
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the the long she went on a very long process of reviewing this case much longer than the medical examiner did
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and what we have here is she's stating that it is her opinion that the medical examiner arrived at the conclusion of
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suicide manner of death is suicide simply based off of verbal and writings by the engineer the train engineer so
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making this determination based off of nothing other than the engineer statement the engineer doesn't know the
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person that's dead on the tracks doesn't know anything going on in their life prior to doesn't know anything about the
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evidence doesn't know about the missing shoes and headband you got to make your ruling off
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of a totality of the evidence and I'm not saying that the medical did not I'm I'm saying it is
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this um medical examiner retired medical examiner's opinion that the medical examiner made that determination simply
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off of that engineer statement now this senior medical investigator retired Houseman is reviewing the case and
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arrived at the conclusion that this should be up for review that they should take into consideration and label this a
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suspicious or manner of death indetermined because I think most will agree especially once we get through
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this that there are reasons there are things that a logical individual could arrive at the conclusion of suicide but
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there's other reasons to suggest other that something more Sinister may be at play here she goes on to state that it
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is highly unlikely that Tiffany Valente a very accomplished 18-year-old female athlete walked Barefoot from her home on
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Tilton Road Road along PMA road to the railroad tracks and then walked over a mile alongside the tracks to where
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Tiffany's body came in contact with the train so that's we get a distance there Captain it's a mile from the time that
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she would have been on a road she would have been walking along the train tracks
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for a mile before she arrived at the location where her body came in contact with the train like we said there's no
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evidence that she was impaired but it makes you wonder like is is there a possibility that she just passed out
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on the the tracks I don't know why somebody would do that but I I've well that she cites that so here we go death
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by train is extremely unusual method of suicide to be contemplated by anyone especially a female teenager with no
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history of emotional instability the loud sound of an approaching train is much more likely to invoke a flight
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response in a sober individual which we know toxicology says she was in fact sober had Tiffany wanted to commit
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suicide she could have walked in front of a car on a heavily traveled highways of Tilton Road or Route 30 the
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toxicology report from the medical examiner's office was negative for drugs and alcohol I and I agree completely with
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that statement she's the expert so you don't need me to agree one thing we need to point out here captain is the
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engineers both Engineers statements have changed okay and I love it when people stories change well I'm going to give
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them a little I'm going to show them a little mercy no no mercy well not in this Dojo if you hit somebody with your
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car I would it would be logical to think that you might be experiencing some trauma and some Shock of your own yes
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and in the the moment maybe not be able to give a clear statement and maybe you filled in
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some of the blanks because you felt that you that you had to give a statement at
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that time right and then later your statement changed and so the the senior engineer
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who is teaching the student engineer the short we can give the short version of of how his statement changed originally
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this the student engineer says that he saw the trespasser which is what they labeled Tiffany as trespasser who Dove
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right in front of the train as the train approached the senior engineer backs up
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that statement then later the senior engineer changes his statement to saying that his
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back was turned before impact meaning that he did not see the trespasser dive in front of
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the train but he saw impact no he didn't see anything he didn't see I mean we're
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talking not not even a second man like it it's uh not even a split second but between the time of the the the person
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diving in front of the train to impact it would be so incredibly quick Lightning Fast the Train's traveling 80
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M hour this guy saying when this happened my back was turned initially backed up the student engineer later
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changes it to my back was turn and these employees probably feel completely awful and just a side note yes there was
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I believe a little over 60 passengers they weren't in a position that that they were able to be eyewitnesses to
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this event that's correct the only witnesses believ to be and this is based off of the Transit Police interviews
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with everybody on that train is there were so there were three trained Personnel that were interviewed of the
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three we have two Engineers are the only listed as the only Witnesses and we as we just pointed out one of those
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Engineers statement changed and our medical examiner Houseman she's going to say Tiffany was struck by the train at
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2310 hours so that's 1110 at night on July 12th the medical examiner arrived on the scene
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about about 2 hours a little less than 2 hours later according to the medical examiners
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report it says that the statements differ greatly by these Engineers that were later made by the transit Personnel
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charged with the operation of the train that night so that's not in question we we have the original medical examiner
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and this individual who's reviewing everything both agree that the statements changed greatly is the word that's used
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here and these are the reasons why the family questioning this outcome is makes a lot of sense there's so many red flags
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she's afraid of the dark did she get picked up by somebody why was her phone in this
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location why were her shoes in this other location what would she be doing walking along the train tracks then you
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find out that there's items left by law enforcement why are they so quick to rush to judgment now we have two
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Engineers one of them is changing their story completely it's enough of a reason to if
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your law enforcement to go hey well we we understand where you're coming from we're going to leave this open we're not
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going to make a ruling on it until we uh feel like we're 100% sure what of what happened right so here's the short of
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how these statements by the student engineer change okay so initially what is told is
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that the trespasser darted out or dove in front of the train and then it was struck by
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the head of the train and this will change to a statement that goes like this as I come
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closer approximately a quarter of a mile away or a Little Closer closer than that
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I noticed that it was in fact a human being he's talking about he had the headlights on on Bright and auxiliary
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lights on as well and could see something up ahead so he's already blowing the horn and he says as he got
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closer I could in fact see that it was a human being in a crouched position in dark clothing well that's not the
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description of what she was wearing at all and the engineer goes on to say a I'm blowing the horn a really long horn
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just to get their attention you know just to let them know hey I'm traveling pretty fast I was traveling
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approximately 80 M an hour maximum authorized speed 79 perhaps and as I'm getting closer the individual in the
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black clothing stands up and I immediately recognize that it's a female I keep blowing my horn as I'm as I'm
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approaching closer the individual stands up faces toward the gouge of the track or towards the
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track and as I'm approaching closer probably within like 5 Seconds of passing her she jumps she Dives in front
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of the train to the lower portion of the cab car I was operating from the cab car
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and I noticed and I'm still blowing my horn I shout immediately because you know it was a first experience for me we
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hit her I see matter go everywhere and then I placed the TR the train immediately into emergency break
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application the reason why we need to have this statement underline and make mental note of the the statement of I
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see matter go everywhere we talked about without getting too much into the weeds
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and too much detail here we talked about the trauma and the destruction to the body right limbs severed cut or ripped
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different descriptions but those are the descriptions of the limbs there was severe trauma and damage to the skull
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area we already talked about the uncle and the cousin collecting pieces of that part of her body later after the police
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had left the scene if somebody were to do something to this young woman you could kill her with a gun an axe a knife
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strangulation and after being run over by this train Place her body on those tracks and it would show you would see
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no sign of that that that would be complete a complete mystery to the medical examiner and that's why it's
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you Captain we need to Circle back into something that we left off with on yesterday show and that was the bruise
00:32:29
on the arm that sparked the visit of child protective services to the Valente home so Tiffany has this bruise on her
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arm and after talking to Child Protective Services her mother Diane admits look we had an argument things
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got a little rough had a bit of a dust up here and I punched her in the arm and that's why my daughter had a bruise okay
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nobody wants to hear that in a report nobody wants to hear uh an adult punching a child now keep in mind Tiffany is 6'2
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or 6'3 by every report out there uh and she would have been 17 years old at the time
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of the incident I'm not excusing that type of behavior I don't think anybody should ever do physical harm to one
00:33:12
another but I will tell you something that that we've that I told you before on this show I had several long
00:33:20
conversations with some Suburban police officers a couple years ago and one thing that I found fascinating was I was
00:33:30
talking about domestic violence or house calls and I wanted to know you know how
00:33:36
how many house calls do you get in relation to obvious violence or theft or robbery or something on the streets or
00:33:44
out of business and the officers told me that the overwhelming majority of their
00:33:50
calls are domestic calls and of course immediately I picture some drunk husband slapping his wife wife and they said
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no most of our calls are domestic calls and most of them are mothers and teenage
00:34:06
daughters who are in a rather heated argument and either somebody else and the family calls the police because
00:34:14
things are getting crazy or the daughter calls the police or the mother calls the
00:34:18
police they said that is the majority of our calls again I'm not explain I'm not
00:34:23
trying to excuse any of this type of behavior I'm just saying what is being presented as a huge red
00:34:31
flag doesn't seem so big in retrospect when you cross reference that with what we know now so we do know in
00:34:41
that situation look we can get let's get very detailed here so this medical examiner is doing a review and says that
00:34:49
no one from the medical examiner's office because we need to call into question the mental and emotional state
00:34:56
of of the decedent and this medical examiner is saying no one from the medical examiner's office has ever interviewed
00:35:05
Tiffany's parents or sisters ever not not not the day of the day after the week after according to this report ever
00:35:15
and they go on to say that when she worked at the Atlantic County medical examiner's office it was mandatory under
00:35:21
their policy and procedures to interview the decedent family as part of the investigation well let's dive more into
00:35:29
this uh basically it's an abuse allegation with the bruise on Tiffany's arm right and let's keep in mind that
00:35:36
the mother does admit to punching Tiffany in the arm so it's not like we're trying to cover anything up here
00:35:44
and so in that report what we have is this it states Tiffany's relationship with her mother in 2014 was strained
00:35:55
Diane Valente the mother admitted she had become short-tempered but attributed this to menopausal changes remember the
00:36:03
this accusation of abuse or or sending the services out there took place in 2014 it says in 2014 one of Tiffany's
00:36:11
teachers saw a bruise on her arm and contacted DYFS the case was investigated who
00:36:19
visited the home three times and spoke to all family members and even speaking to the sisters the caseworker suggested
00:36:26
Ed Diane and Tiffany undergo counseling because they were having communication problems at the
00:36:33
time not that uncommon for teenagers to not be communicating well with their parents you mean you mean that you mean
00:36:43
that teenagers don't get along with their parents well look we've all been there you you turn 17 18 you start
00:36:50
thinking you know everything and really you're just probably a a doom ass you know this is straight from the
00:36:56
Atlanticare summary report mother admits to punching her in the arm after an argument client that is Tiffany is
00:37:06
referred to as the client client has been making poor decisions lately smoking cannabis with friends skipping
00:37:12
class after her grandfather's death and taking money from mother's bank account and they do clearly State here granted
00:37:19
access by mother so she already she had access to the bank account just using it
00:37:25
improperly client Tiffany is a good student athlete and has clear future goals client reports she is aware of the
00:37:33
poor judgment and feels she has learned her lesson so Mom is admitting she's wrong
00:37:41
Tiffany's admitting that she is wrong as well that she's learned her lesson and was just being stupid and immature her
00:37:49
own words per the report mother and client have difficulty communicating but are otherwise a stable family client
00:37:57
denies Suicidal Tendencies homicidal Tendencies denies anxiety and denies depression mother acknowledged not being
00:38:06
able to move on from the incidents due to her anxiety family accepted the suggestion to work on communication in
00:38:15
the home mother will seek independent support if needed return to care if needed as there is no evidence of
00:38:23
psychiatric disorder as such case was not accepted so this was reviewed investigated they
00:38:33
found no trouble in the home they found no signs of abuse and they they found what is
00:38:41
described as stable family so it wasn't like this wasn't looked into and then we have more
00:38:51
information about this relationship remember we said yesterday that a relationship had ended
00:38:57
well everything that's in this report suggests that it was a mutual ending of that
00:39:04
relationship and that Not only was it Mutual but Tiffany had started to move on she was already talking to another
00:39:14
interest talking to somebody that she was about having a relationship with this other person and just again to go
00:39:23
back to the abuse claims these organizations that look into these they're going to do their due diligence
00:39:32
they're going to make sure that they feel confident that when they walk away that child is going to be safe yes there
00:39:38
were three visits there were multiple interviews with family members something that the medical examiner that ruled it
00:39:44
a suicide did not do and on top of that there was a counseling session attended by mother and daughter well let's dive
00:39:51
back into the information we know of the cell phone yes and I think this is incredibly interesting to me here
00:39:59
because let's go into this with with knowing a couple facts here no one has ever come forward saying that they
00:40:05
offered Tiffany a ride that they saw her walking that night there was no ring doorbell camera footage Simply Safe
00:40:14
camera footage ADT residential cons camera footage showing her walking so however she got there the
00:40:25
authorities say she walked there the family says maybe something else happened now this cell phone is very
00:40:32
interesting remember she goes she walks away storms off at approximately 9:30 her father finds the cell phone at 11
00:40:40
approximately 11:00 so an hour and a half later those times are key before we get into this information so this is
00:40:49
what Louise housan found and her statement is if there's one thing a teenager tends to cling to
00:40:58
it's their cell phone anyone with a teenager knows their cell phone becomes an appendage it is highly suspicious
00:41:05
Tiffany did not retain her cell phone after she left her residence it is much more likely she would have blocked her
00:41:11
mother's text or silenced the phone rather than willingly dispose of the cell phone in the brush by the end of
00:41:20
her driveway many people were searching for Tiffany on foot and an open vehicle so note that that the family is texting
00:41:28
and calling her at some point that night trying to figure out where she is right
00:41:32
phone records reveal many tried calling her cell phone continually to the point where her phone received a call almost
00:41:40
every minute or two from various friends and family yet no one heard her cell phone ring despite the fact it was found
00:41:48
by her father only a few yards from the family driveway that's that's quite interesting now it could have been in
00:41:56
vibrate mode or silent mode was it purposely placed in the location by someone later in the night or was this where
00:42:05
Tiffany dropped it as she walked away at 928 p.m. that night the phone was turned
00:42:15
over to the Atlantic County prosecutor's office Major Crimes unit on July 29th by
00:42:20
a detective the following is a statement provided to this medical examiner by Crystal who is Tiffany's one of
00:42:28
Tiffany's sisters so the sister said she examined did an examination of the downloaded data from Tiffany's cell
00:42:40
phone and this statement is it is Crystal's belief that the data shows the cell phone was in use after Tiffany
00:42:47
walked away from the home and before the cell phone was found by her father here
00:42:52
we go quote there is some evidence that I have found in Tiffany's phone that raises a question of how and who there
00:43:00
was a call from I will I'll change the name to JH to Tiffany note the time here captain
00:43:10
and everybody out there in listener land 1039 p.m. this is on the night that she
00:43:16
died phone is found at approximately 11: she left at approximately 9:30 this call comes in at 10:39 p.m. on
00:43:25
July 12th 2015 it was answered for 24 seconds nobody says they were with Tiffany that night nobody says they gave
00:43:36
her a ride nobody admits to seeing her walking that night yet this information says
00:43:46
that at 10:39 p.m. that night Tiffany or someone else answered that phone and there was a call for 24
00:43:54
seconds 24 seconds not a lot of time but enough time to tell somebody where you're at to have them pick you up it
00:44:02
certainly raises some questions again if Tiffany didn't answer that phone who did
00:44:08
right so who had Tiffany's phone yeah so many things don't make sense and again it's found by her father just a few
00:44:15
yards from their driveway from the driveway of Tiffany's home now listen to this it doesn't stop there there it was
00:44:23
also data usage in Tiffany's phone that shows someone was on her phone in an app
00:44:28
that uses a large amount of data at 10:42 p.m. on the same night there is another time before that
00:44:38
at 10:23 p.m. that shows data usage as well but not as much this is Tiffany sister saying that this indicated to me
00:44:47
that Tiffany would not have had her phone being she was miles away and it being close to the time of her death
00:44:55
okay so what what cannot happen What cannot scientifically happen unless she had a jetpack strapped to her back and
00:45:02
managed to discard and hide that before her death too she did not answer that phone where it was found and then end up
00:45:12
just minutes later being struck by the train miles away so that's some more information on the cell phone but we
00:45:20
also have the headband and the sneakers that were found in a different location than the phone right that's correct so
00:45:27
this expert is saying that based off of the the totality of the evidence she is saying the possibility that Tiffany was
00:45:36
abducted at some point and driven to the location where she was later found dead
00:45:40
cannot be ruled out due to the remoteness of the scene vehicles used by First Responders to access the scene
00:45:48
most likely destroyed any evidence of a vehicle having recently been in this location or any Footprints left by
00:45:55
anyone prior to the First Responders arrival and then to your point Captain going on to say on August 3rd she was
00:46:04
killed July 12th on August 3rd at 319 in the afternoon Tiffany's mother who never gave up searching for evidence
00:46:16
in her daughter's death found Tiffany's headband and sneakers in a leafy area approximately 15 ft off of a heavily
00:46:23
traveled old Tilton Road Mike Valente called so this is one of uh Tiffany's father's brothers so her uncle called
00:46:35
the police who then contacted the detective in charge who proceeded to photograph the area and secured these
00:46:44
items a sweatshirt was also found on the shoulder of the roadway approximately 15
00:46:50
ft from the sneakers photographs of the sweatshirt suggest it was not weathered and may have been recently discarded in
00:46:58
the location where it was found what they're pointing out here is the shoes in the headband being
00:47:06
found more than half a month later about 3 weeks later yeah very bizarre they're
00:47:13
saying they may not have been there since the night of the death that they may have been placed there at another
00:47:19
time much closer to the time that they were found yeah which would be Dr evidence
00:47:26
that somebody had them somewhere else AKA a vehicle yes and so what we have here is that sweatshirt that we're
00:47:36
talking about we have Diane her mother who's saying that no that sweatshirt did not belong to Tiffany and Diane's also
00:47:43
telling this expert that she found a car key tag on the ground near the sneakers
00:47:50
a tag that would commonly be placed on a key when a car is being serviced at a dealership Diane advised this
00:47:59
investigator that the detective in charge detective Sweeney secured the key tag and all items found at this location
00:48:08
so they did the right thing these items are recovered some of them belong to Tiffany some of them do not but they're
00:48:13
all collected by the authorities bagged and tagged and again I just don't understand law
00:48:19
enforcement's position because as new evidence comes out these missing items that you didn't recover that were were
00:48:29
recovered by the family or somebody else yes you made a ruling but there's no nothing that says that you can't say
00:48:38
hey we got some new information and we want to reopen this investigation well and I want to sum up what this expert's
00:48:47
opinion is in their report because the report itself is about 20 depending on how you want to
00:48:55
look at it it's it's every bit of 29 pages but written by the senior medical exam investigator who's retired Louis
00:49:03
Housman her written portion is 19 pages long so I'll sum it up for you her conclusion and it's this it's stating
00:49:13
that multiple inaccurate apparently self-serving conflicting statements made to investigators by the engineer and his
00:49:21
student who turns out was unsupervised at the time of the incident remember he later says his back was turned so the
00:49:29
only eyewitness to this event this is not in question this is based off of their statements the only
00:49:36
eyewitness to this event is the student engineer who this expert says their account factually
00:49:44
contradicts the M ier Black Box on the train that's recording everything that's going on with the train right this
00:49:53
expert goes on to say that no drug or alcohol test of the student engineer was ever conducted a sworn statement was not
00:50:00
taken from this person until 10 days after the death well this is a big problem because we know that eyewitness
00:50:06
statements are not always that accurate so you want to get a count of the events
00:50:13
as quickly as you can and that their findings this expert's findings was that it was improbable that Tiffany would
00:50:19
have been able to jump or dive in front of the train they give a good description here Captain it's a dis of
00:50:25
15 to 20 ft into a builtup stone railwood railroad grade from a standing position so based off of his statement
00:50:35
he says that from a standing position darted or dove in front of the Train the other one was that stood up in front of
00:50:43
the train but this expert saying that it would be scientifically incorrect for someone to in a standing position make
00:50:52
that leap of 15 to 20 feet given the builtup stone railroad grade yeah it's very strange this this is some
00:51:03
other things that we kind of talked about a little bit but this is confirmation from an actual expert that
00:51:09
states the head was crushed brain obliterated the skull severely fragmented obscuring evidence of
00:51:16
possible anti-mortem injury such as from a gunshot wound no Footwear found at the
00:51:22
scene there is no indication Tiffany suffered from CTE investigators failed to interview
00:51:29
family in a timely manner popular with a close circle of friends admired by her teachers coaches employers and neighbors
00:51:37
raised as if she were a single child for the past 10 years by Two Loving parents
00:51:41
and indulged by two devoted sisters two grandmothers and many relatives received five scholarships for
00:51:49
sports and academics preparing and looking forward to going away to Mercy College in 4 weeks to play on a
00:51:56
Collegiate volleyball team and to major in criminal justice so this expert is reviewing it and says
00:52:05
that and I'll read exactly that therefore it is my professional opinion the death of Tiffany Valente warrants
00:52:12
further investigation and the manner of death should be amended by the medical examiner from suicide to
00:52:19
undetermined both of us being huge fans of Unsolved Mysteries this is how we came across this case I I remember
00:52:26
watching the episode and texting you about it and saying this is definitely one that you're going to want to watch
00:52:33
it's confusing and I don't know which way I lean some of the times but I definitely lean
00:52:43
towards the idea that if we don't have all the information if we're finding new evidence after the ruling that the
00:52:52
ruling should just you know just dismiss the ruling and continue the investigation yeah this one's really
00:53:01
hard to put an opinion on and so I'll leave my opinion here with this because the way that I see it Captain if
00:53:10
we're going to apply science and logic to making our determination is that if that cell phone
00:53:18
data if Tiffany cell phone data is correct then there's Foul Play involved I I can't stand here and put my hand on
00:53:27
a stack of Bibles and tell you that it's correct I can only tell you what I've reviewed in the information coming out
00:53:34
from others who say that they've reviewed that information right if that cell phone data is correct about that
00:53:41
incoming 24 second received call and the data being used on her cell phone by apps after the time that she leaves her
00:53:49
home prior to that phone being found there's no way that she was using her phone at that
00:53:59
location and then ended up dead on the tracks four miles away and walked there it just you it
00:54:07
cannot be done it physically cannot be done unless she's like a like a cheetah or something it just I mean Tyreek Hill
00:54:14
could not make that trk that fast right so if that information is correct then I
00:54:20
suspect strongly that there's Foul Play here there was some local rumors that maybe
00:54:26
Two Three or upward of six people may know what happened that night the one of the local rumors that was that she was
00:54:33
picked up by a a male and two females and uh made to remove some of her clothing maybe in a vehicle maybe they
00:54:43
got rid of her phone maybe they dumped her phone after the fact but that she was taken to the railroad tracks and
00:54:49
humiliated before she was either killed or pushed in front of the train again the those are simply
00:54:56
rumors but my opinion is as said if if that information on that phone is as reported by her sister and as is in that
00:55:06
report of the retired medical examiner then Foul Play has to be involved now there was an update good good news like
00:55:14
the family kept pushing and the authorities did agree to reexamine or at least test some of the air quotes
00:55:21
evidence I wish I had the unsolved mystery update music I I do love the update it always shocks you you go oh oh
00:55:30
yeah well especially when they're airing the case for the very first time you're
00:55:34
like well damn there's already an update that was these guys work fast these guys
00:55:38
but you're like oh no we we recorded the episode a month ago and then like a week
00:55:42
ago we arrested the guy we still we still had to run the the the uh story so listen to this Captain this if you
00:55:50
weren't angry it now is the time the appr apprpriate time to get a little angry so
00:55:57
remember they agreed the authorities agreed to test some of the evidence that they had stored in Tiffany's case okay
00:56:08
and here is what they came up with closure remains elusive is what we are told because the new forensic and
00:56:17
DNA analysis on those items could only conclude that the New Jersey Transit Police had lost or left to ruin key
00:56:27
pieces of the puzzle the shirt Tiffany was wearing had been stored in a plastic bag tied into a knot where it became
00:56:35
covered with mold and scientifically useless other key items quote had been Outdoors exposed to the elements for a
00:56:44
few weeks prior to being collected end quote making them similarly contaminated the report found and this is my problem
00:56:53
and this is a growing problem like like I said in the True Crime Community is where people have opinions or they go
00:57:01
down a rabbit hole and they get blindsided and they just they put their blinders on and and
00:57:11
and this is the this is the answer that I came up with and I am not going to listen to any
00:57:19
other opinions and it seems like in this case I have no reason not to believe that law enforcement didn't destroy
00:57:31
these items maliciously because they're so they were so hellbent on not going down any other rabbit holes
00:57:41
the other problem though again goes back to the ruling of the manner of death because if it with it being a suicide I
00:57:48
don't know how much of an obligation they are under to maintain these items very good point and to maintain custody
00:57:55
of this evidence and we should be seeking the truth we should always be seeking the truth it's one of my big
00:58:03
arguments with like the West Memphis 3 case okay so you're going to you're going to tell me that you're going to
00:58:09
release three individuals that you think are responsible for killing three children but you're not going to keep
00:58:18
the case open so we can then figure out who actually did it you're saying they did it but going
00:58:24
to release them out to the public makes no sense at all it's like if you're going we need to constantly be looking
00:58:33
for the truth and not trying to be the one that's raising our hand up and saying I was right I was
00:58:40
right and I I just don't understand what what the law enforcement has nothing to
00:58:49
lose but a little bit of time and a little bit of effort if the medical examiner comes back and says well based
00:58:56
on what we know based on the test we've done we're leaning toward suicide we're going to
00:59:04
tell the family that and then tell them hey be patient with us CU we don't want to close this case until we get the
00:59:14
information correct get all of our ducks in a row right yes and examine and vet those Ducks so the the Valente family of
00:59:23
course had a response a a statement to uh the the inconclusive finding of the test that was granted on
00:59:34
these items and they said look we were hopeful for a miracle with the DNA testing especially knowing
00:59:43
Tiffany's Death From the Start was dismissed as a suicide without a proper investigation ever conducted there is no
00:59:50
excuse for evidence being mishandled and then it goes on to say we're talking now we're talking about
00:59:58
the axe remember that the the axe that was found near the scene that had red markings on it right
01:00:06
well there were hopes that they would test the axe but the authori said we could not T Test the axe
01:00:16
because it's missing oh God the family's response quote NJ Transit lost the axe how do you lose an ax a spokesman for NJ
01:00:27
for the New Jersey Transit declined to comment of course they did a letter to the family's attorney detailing their
01:00:35
findings from these newer test state from a laboratory director stated that the packaging and maintenance of the DNA
01:00:43
and physical evidence by the New Jersey Transit Police was not in Conformity with acceptable protocols again it's
01:00:52
almost like they had their ruling and they weren't going to have anybody tell them what to
01:00:59
do and when they said hey here's this new information here's new evidence can you test this instead of doing so
01:01:08
because they might have got a different result those items were destroyed or misplaced and again it looks like given
01:01:18
the state of the the evidence at this time that the only way that this is getting Chang changed the manner of
01:01:25
death getting changed or amended in this case or an actual investigation into possible Foul Play and the death of T
01:01:32
Tiffany Valente will be if a witness or Witnesses come forward if anybody has information again there is a reward out
01:01:42
there for information please contact the family's attorney and you can find their
01:01:47
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