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chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign went missing on December 2nd
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2016. and luckily in this case the Farmington Hills Police Department investigated her case as a missing case
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right away and very quickly shifted to a criminal investigation As Time passed investigators work behind the scenes to
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gather as much evidence as possible against Floyd given that they did not have the most crucial piece of evidence
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of all in any murder investigation which of course would be Danny's body thousands of man hours went into trying
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to find Danny and putting together a case against the suspect meanwhile all the public knew at this juncture was
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that the police searched the home of a former security guard and removed some items from the premises in February of
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2017 the chief denied that they had a suspect only saying quote we're building a case we are still making progress we
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still have potential evidence to send to the lab but then on June 28 2017 charges
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were announced no these were not related to Danny's case these were charges relating to the sexual assault of a
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jogger in Heinz Park in Livonia in September of 2016. let's go through that case shall
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we here Captain I'm with you Colonel a 28 year old woman called 9-1-1 and reported to police that she went jogging
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in Heinz park around 6 pm she said that she parked near Joy Road and Farmington Road and ran four and a
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half miles in Hines Park she was training for a half marathon on her way back she took a path through a
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wooded area a man was coming in the other direction on the path and as the two passed each other the man turned
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around and grabbed her from behind he dragged her into the woods holding her in a choke hold with his arms the man
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climbed on top of her as he pinned her to the ground punching her and choking her until she momentarily passed out
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she managed to yell at him what do you want she screamed why are you doing this The Man simply answered I just want sex
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the woman began pleading with her attacker to let her go and said that she had a family and a daughter
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it seems she may have gotten through to the would-be rapist as he got off of her
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eventually and ran off as soon as the man left the victim got up and went to go get help
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she flagged down two cars along Heinz drive and called 9-1-1 her body was processed and DNA was
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collected but there was no match in the system but think about how courageous and strong she had to be I mean that's
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amazing but the jogger was able to provide police with a composite drawing of the suspect and guess what this
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suspect looked awfully a lot like someone who was now on the police's radar this was Floyd Russell Galloway Jr
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yeah so we have this missing girl Danny that they've been looking at law enforcement has been in a bunch of time
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they have a possible suspect in the security guard Floyd and now we have this other attack happen and the
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composite drawing looks just like the suspect that you have yeah this is really amazing because uh I've seen a
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lot of composite sketches in our time doing our little garage work here captain and this one and to me like
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you you might as well had the best artist in the world sitting in a chair and staring and looking directly at
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Floyd Russell Galloway Jr because it looks identical to him this is one of the best composite sketches that I have
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seen yeah this artist would get a plus in my art class so the jogger our victim here in the park case unfortunately was
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a unable to pick Floyd out of a photo lineup and I think it was twice that she wasn't able to pick him out of a photo
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lineup they were going to have to get some more solid evidence than just a composite sketch according to WWJ news
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radio cell phone evidence put Floyd at the park on that day and in some great great police work police compared the
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DNA taken from the rape victim with DNA that they collected from Floyd's home and connection with the sizzlicky
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investigation and it turns out that DNA was a match got him Floyd was arrested on June 27th and charged with kidnapping
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criminal sexual conduct with intent to commit penetration and assault with intent to do great bodily harm by
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strangulations this guy's a dirtbag at this time he was named as a person of interest in the case of Danielle
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stazlicki and police acknowledged that he was acquainted with Dane Danny and confirmed that he had been questioned in
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Danny's case further it was announced that Floyd was also being investigated in connection
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with yet another sexual assault case that occurred on June 10th of 2017 in Allen Park
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this case also resulted in a sketch of the suspect which strongly resembled the perp in the Heinz Park case
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as for Danny's case the Farmington Hills Police Department chief Chuck Nevis stated quote the
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pieces of the puzzle have been slowly falling into place since Danielle disappeared on December 2nd but Floyd
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refused to talk about Danny's case he repeatedly took the fifth and avoided providing any
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information to law enforcement whatsoever as a result of law enforcement linking Floyd to the jogger
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case from just three months before Danny's Disappearance in July of 2017 there was
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a massive search of Heinz Park where the crime was committed this was the largest search for Danny to
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date authorities were hoping that Floyd who they're hoping that he may have returned
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to the park to dispose of Danny there or at least evidence of the murder of Danny in the Park yeah
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this was because the Farmington Hills Police Department worked with FBI profilers who advised them that serial
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offenders often returned to a spot that they have frequented in the past so this search consisted of 155 police
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officers FBI agents and cadaver dogs 20 agencies 20 agencies were involved in this search
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all of the officers were briefed to look for her blue jacket that we had mentioned uh her black shirt jeans and
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burgundy boots the police chief in his public statement said that law enforcement authorities
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have expressed since day one that Danielle sizlicki was a victim of a crime the facts of the case led us to
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believe that she is not alive several air land and water searches have been conducted at various places
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throughout the investigation Heinz Park is being searched as the result of a recent Livonia and Farmington Hills
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joint investigation this investigation has led to criminal charges in Livonia against Floyd
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Galloway at the time Captain he was listed uh as a 30 year old resident of Berkeley
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because the Livonia incident occurred in Heinz park it is a location that requires searching there is no specific
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information or evidence that leads us that being local law enforcement to believe that Danny's remains are in the
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park right quote the public is also asked to look for a tan and brown stripe comforter which could also be important
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to this case end quote this is interesting because the chief police the the chief of police would not discuss
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how the comforter was suspected to be related to Danny's case but it seems clear that officials
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you know even by his words they're pretty clear we do not believe that she is still alive so what is up with this
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comforter well yeah I mean but they had multiple search warrants so we probably know that they're getting this comforter
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from his house they took carpet samples they took wood floor samples right so we
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have crime scene photos of Floyd's bedroom at the Berkeley home that show a white comforter on the bed
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yeah but it turns out that this was not the comforter on the bed at the time of the crime before the crime It is
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believed that Floyd's sister-in-law his wife's sister gave the police information that there had been a
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striped Brown comforter on the bed but police did not find it during their December 7th search
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and in fact when they pulled Floyd's credit card transaction history in the course of investigating him they
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discovered that he had purchased a new white 110 comforter at Bed Bath and Beyond on
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December 4th just two days after Danny was last seen and to take it a step further Floyd is visible on the Bed Bath
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and Beyond surveillance video footage from that day purchasing the white comforter and leaving the store with it
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and kudos to her for coming forward because she posted this thing on Facebook uh you
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know um of Danny basically saying here's this missing girl that we're looking for
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and she she didn't believe that her brother-in-law was involved so she was like Hey if we find this girl if we help
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find this girl that will obviously clear my brother-in-law but once she posted that on Facebook her family went nuts
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her sister was telling her to take it down her family was taken down and she felt like not only were they had the
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back of her brother-in-law but they were not telling her things about this missing girl Danny like she felt like
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they knew more than they were telling her or police yeah so it's it's interesting because as you just pointed
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out Floyd's wife's family had his back but it appears with the exception of the sister-in-law
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and at some point you know she does say nice things about Floyd she says he was lovable he was a part of our family
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we've known him for 10 years everybody really likes the guy he's nice and very gentle and just look of course I've
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never had any conversations with with Floyd Galloway I've seen interviews with him I will say he has what I would
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describe as like a quiet gentle face he does not kind of chubby just his appearance does not send off any red
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flags to me you know he doesn't kind of has the Turtle face he looks very boy next door to me
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um chubby Turtle face is what I'll call him well yeah and kind of a baby a baby face it's just weird to think that
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Floyd's wife's family would be covering for him yeah I'm I don't know how much her family knew or was covering for for
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this young man but um the opposite of that is is the sister-in-law because okay so the
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sister-in-law's name is Elizabeth Rose Newton she was not just Cooperative with police but as you said Captain was
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active in the search for Danny so much so is that she was hot you know putting up flyers and she was
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active in any of the search you know some of the searches as well as the Gatherings and such for this this
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missing young woman and she's posting online to try to help find Danny as well it's believed that she is the one that
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talked to police about the comforter of the missing comforter that police likely
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would have had no idea would have been missing at all had she not said it now why she has a different opinion of Floyd
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than the rest of the family this kind of comes to light later where she says well
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he's El creepo she recalled a conversation that she had with Floyd where he told
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her and of course this is months before the fact of Danny going missing but he told her that he was addicted to
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pornography and he was considering cheating on his wife yeah so of course she's going to have a much
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different opinion about this man than the others a lot of these killers are Mr flicky flickies and this is
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interesting as well she says look the police told me about their being eyewitnesses that saw them
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meaning Floyd her brother-in-law and the missing young woman Danielle yeah eyewitnesses that saw them at the house
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together at Floyd's house together on Oxford Street in Berkeley yeah I believe she told this to the media but law
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enforcement never confirmed this but I think it's something that they're trying to keep in the back of their pocket so I
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think that then this might be a situation that might who knows if if the police were lying to the sister-in-law
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to try to get information that she did not have um then that might be one of these
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situations she ends up telling this to the media I don't think law enforcement lied to her I just don't think it was
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something that they wanted to release to the media yeah she goes on to tell the media that my sister was in the hospital
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so she wasn't around and the fact that he meaning Floyd has no explanation for his whereabouts on that day is very
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interesting as you pointed out Captain it seems that it was hard for everyone who knew Floyd Galloway to believe that
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he was guilty of this stuff it seems that in general he was well liked and was seen as a totally normal guy
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he didn't have much of a police record just a misdemeanor charge for DUI which was a while back this was in 2008 for
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which he got probation but nonetheless the sister-in-law continued to stand up for her family who was supportive of
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Floyd and then as far as social media goes Captain we have Rich sizlicky who posted about how grateful he was for the
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sister-in-law helping out in this case in March of 2017 Floyd filed for a personal protection order against the
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sister-in-law basically saying that she was harassing and slandering him well that's how Floyd's request was denied by
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a judge wow ridiculous even though Floyd's wife stuck by her husband's side during all of this it seems that the
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Livonia attempted rape was the last straw for his wife Eileen Galloway because she did file for
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divorce from Floyd while she while he was awaiting trial now sadly remember she was battling cancer Eileen
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died in 2018 succumbing to her cancer at the young age of just 31. meanwhile in the attempted rape and
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murder charge from the Heinz Park Incident Floyd continued to deny involvement despite the DNA findings he
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rejected two separate plea deals before finally accepting his fate is quite The Negotiator there captain in
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December of 2017 he did plead guilty to kidnapping criminal sexual conduct and assault with intent to do bodily harm he
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was required to register as a sex offender for Life Floyd was forced to read a statement in court confessing to
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attempting to rape the jogger he mumbled his way through it and the judge had to
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ask him to speak up a number of times he was then sentenced to 16 to 35 years in prison
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and this is licky family was in the courtroom the day that he was sentenced yeah the judge had to say hey piece of
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[ __ ] speak up yeah and there's some other interesting evidence that's going to come out against Floyd as far as this
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disliki portion of this story goes so police clearly had Floyd on their radar as a suspect very early
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on in the investigation it came out later that they had hidden a GPS tracker on his vehicle for 36 hours before they
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took the vehicle and impounded it this was in December of 2016. now we've seen that Witnesses named him as being seen
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with Danny on the last day that she was seen and also when law enforcement tracked her phone it appeared to go to
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an area near Floyd's home before traveling back to her apartment and then Vanishing from the network police had an
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idea where to look for video surveillance footage of Danny's Jeep remember they still wanted to know
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when the vehicle returned to the apartment right and its movements so the three significant points of interest
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in this case form what look like a capital T on a map the MetLife building is at the bottom of
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the T Floyd's residence is at the right hand portion of the top of the tee and Danny's apartment is the left hand point
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of the top of the tee so the drive between the their homes is pretty much a straight line a distance of
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14.7 miles police subpoenaed footage from some businesses along the Route right from
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the MetLife complex in Southfield to Floyd's home in Berkeley and then between Floyd's home and Danny's home
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they found footage showing Danny's Jeep Renegade with its visible mud pattern on
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the sides pulling up to a light heading eastbound on 11 Mile Road at 503 p.m this is just a half mile from Floyd's
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home then at 7 56 PM the same Jeep arrives westbound on 11 Mile heading toward Danny's apartment
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police announced early on that they were not certain that it was Danny who was driving the jeep on this later trip to
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her home it is clear that they believed that it was Floyd driving toward her apartment and that Danny was likely
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already dead by this point or at least incapacitated and tied up at his home what is not known or if it is Police
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just are not saying is whether her body was transported to some disposal site in
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her own vehicle right of course her DNA would be in the vehicle since she she owned it and drove
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it and we know that Floyd was a passenger since he was seen by Brandon Williams so his DNA could be in the
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vehicle as well but Floyd denied two police seeing Danny that day and when the jeep was found
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investigators noted that the passenger door handle appeared to have been wiped clean apparently
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whoever that passenger was identified as Floyd of course but whoever it was did not want evidence
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left behind that they were in the vehicle yeah and look we know that Floyd has attacked other women so there's a
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some kind of level of criminal sophistication because these are fantasies he's probably having over and
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over so then he's also looking for ways to cover his tracks it just seems like law enforcement
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was were able to pick him as a suspect quickly and and move in on him and collect this evidence uh to start
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building the case yeah they're looking to build a case against this guy they're looking to collect evidence to support
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the idea that Danny was inside his home or possibly even killed inside of Floyd's home on that day after a couple
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of years Danny's parents decided to seek an order to declare Dany as deceased since she was gone they were left trying
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to handle all of Danny's Affairs including bills and such there were college loans car payments and other
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bills some of these were on autopay her parents had their own jobs to worry about as well as the
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constant public appearances they engaged in to help find their daughter and they did not need the added
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financial burden of paying these bills they said that based on the information they were receiving from the authorities
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they believed that Danny was no longer with them unwillingly they had cleaned out Danny's
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apartment in February of 2017 and taken her cat to live with them saying at the time that logically they
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recognized that she was not coming home and it's likely that the prosecutor told
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them that obtaining a death certificate was a good idea to bolster the case for murder
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in 2018 judge Callahan of the Probate Court issued a death certificate for Danny stating that she died on December
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2nd 2016. foreign [Music] [Music] cheers mates thanks for joining us cheers to you colonel in early 2019 the
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Michigan Attorney General's office took over Danny's case and a brand new AG this is Dana nassel reviewed two years
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worth of evidence compiled by the Farmington Hills detectives and others who assisted in this investigation
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and in March of 2019 charges were finally filed against Floyd Galloway for first degree premeditated murder of
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Danielle stezlicki Nestle said that after taking office as attorney general in January she reviewed
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the details of the case and thought that there was enough evidence there to charge Galloway
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she described the evidence against him as compelling she felt that at this point not much additional evidence would
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be forthcoming and they were going to have to proceed with what they had she stated that the longer you wait the
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more issues with the evidence come up Witnesses forget things material evidence degrades over time so she wants to push
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forward with these charges now she doesn't think her case is getting any better against this guy right a Nestle
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said that she'd seen multiple cases of no body murders prosecuted successfully and had no doubt that they
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would that that would happen here she brought in a special prosecutor to handle the case the very experienced
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no-nonsense Jamie Powell Horowitz now Floyd was arraigned on March 6th per Michigan law a not guilty plea was
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entered on his behalf so where do they go from here what's the next step so the next step captain in Floyd's Journey
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Through the legal system was a preliminary hearing this is an extended Hearing in front of a judge some other
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jurisdictions use a grand jury with citizens determining the outcome but the purpose of the preliminary hearing or
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exam is for the judge to determine whether there is probable cause enough evidence to prove the charges the
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the the charged crimes were in fact committed and if so the defendant would be bound over for a full-blown trial to
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determine guilt as in a trial in the preliminary exam the burden of proof is on the
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prosecution and the proceedings is in essence actually like a it's like a mini trial almost right and in a stroke of
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luck for True Crime devotees the entire proceedings for this case which spanned about two days and took place in
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September of 2019 was videoed and is available for viewing on YouTube the special prosecutor who was brought in to
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handle this proceeding for the state was that Jamie Powell Horowitz and because she had to show probable cause to
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believe that a crime was in fact committed but had no body because Danny was never found she had to give the
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judge a lot of evidence more so than you would have to if in fact there was a body
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and she did not disappoint now I should point out captain that the evidence itself against Floyd
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is pretty much circumstantial but it is very possible that the prosecution has held back some evidence
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even even with that exam going on that they are reserving some of it for the actual trial well Floyd has this history
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the more you pile on him to prove that you know that he's guilty of a crime he might confess to it he might end up
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striking and deal with them on this case so let's go through some of the evidence
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that we know that they have against Floyd we know that they have two eyewitnesses who saw Floyd with Danny on
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the evening that she disappeared these are the co-workers right and we also know that Floyd called in sick to work
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for that same day so he's unaccounted for we think that it's possible that some of
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Floyd's neighbors saw dany's Jeep at Floyd's home or maybe even possibly Danny herself
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we know that Danny's phone was at or near Floyd's home on the evening of her disappearance and went off the network
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permanently the new information that came out at the preliminary exam is as follows
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detectives tracked Floyd's phone he left home after 10 a.m on December 2nd and after running an errand he drove
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near the MetLife building his phone pinged off of a tower there at 11 14 A.M so the presumption here is that he was
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verifying that Danny's car was in the parking lot that she was in fact at work right right setting up stalking her from
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there he went to the hospital to visit his wife who is in there ill with cancer then he left the hospital and was home
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by 2 58 pm around this time he texted a friend his name's Brian Osborne that he was heading
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to work remember Floyd's shift would have been from 3 to 11 p.m that day but he called off
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and then his phone went home at 3 54 his phone started moving West in the direction of the MetLife building which
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would be an 11-minute drive from his location yeah I find this a little fishy I mean he might just be answering the
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question oh I gotta go to work so that's the answer and lying about it or he's possibly establishing some kind of Alibi
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yeah he's supposed to be at work he's just letting somebody know either you know it's either establishing an alibi
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or his friends asking him what he's up to and he's just saying I'm going to work because I'm going to be busy
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abducting and murdering for the next several hours phone Floyd's phone was then turned off
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from 3 56 PM until 6 19 pm this is the time during which it is believed that he killed Danny at his
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home at 6 20 PM his phone came back on and it was at his home it was located you know pinging in that Berkeley area
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right at this time his phone and Danny's phone they were paying from identical locations which would put both of the
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phones at or near Floyd's address yeah Floyd's phone remained on at his home until 7 38 at which time it
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went it went off again then starting at 7 53 remember Danny's phone started moving
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West from Floyd's neighborhood to her own neighborhood arriving at 8 16. his phone was still off
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Danny's phone was permanently shut off at 8 16 pm and then at 9 39 Floyd's phone came back on and it's now located
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at his home so two of the detectives this is detective Garrett and Molly who were very very smart and did some
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great work here so once they saw that Floyd's phone they saw the movement and patterns of his
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phone they figured out that he drove to the MetLife building on the afternoon of
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the second around 4 P.M and waited there with his car hood up to lure Danny over to the
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vehicle yeah it was like kind of like a Ted Bundy ruse then he somehow persuaded
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her to give him a ride home to his home which would be in the opposite direction
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of her destination Rich Suzuki told the press that his daughter was the type of person that
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would help someone out in need and he hoped that her generosity and giving was not her final undoing
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Witnesses saw all of this in the video surveillance footage shows Danny's Car moving toward his home and then a few
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hours later moving away from Floyd's house and toward her apartment detectives figured
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that Floyd must have attacked and killed Danny in his home and then driven her vehicle back to her apartment where he
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left it to try to make it look as though she had gone home after work and whatever went down happened after she
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went home right the fact that he parked it in Danny's usual parking spot is pretty disturbing right because this
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means that he had likely seen it in that spot before meaning he had tracked her followed her
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was driving by her apartment when she was home right the question was how did Floyd then get
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back to the MetLife building where he left his vehicle after driving her car back to her
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apartment right he could have taken that Uber or got a ride or something well what they figured out was the
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detective's canvas the area near Danny's apartment and discovered that there was
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a Tim Hortons at 10 Mile Road and Grand River which was about it was about three quarters of a mile
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from Danny's apartment Old Timmy hohos and there on the video surveillance footage from the night of December 2nd
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they saw Floyd Galloway yeah he walked into the Tim Hortons at 8 38 p.m paid cash for coffee and asked to
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use the business's phone to call a taxi cab now this is interesting too he was called a taxi cab using a phone number
00:39:24
written on a yellow sticky note that he pulled from his pocket like a fake number the cab picked him up around 905
00:39:33
p.m and guess what the the cab driver Sylvia Morris testified at the preliminary exam that
00:39:41
she remembered picking up Floyd she identified the the passenger as Floyd and said that he told her that his car
00:39:50
was broken down and he needed a ride to visit his girlfriend at an address that he gave to her
00:39:57
and this would be this is interesting he gives her an address to an apartment building called Woodbridge Apartments
00:40:06
located at uh 253-25 groden Drive in Southfield she drives him there and drops him off
00:40:16
again he pays cash he paid for the coffee with cash she pays the cab for cash this is more evidence that his
00:40:25
movements everything he's doing is premeditated that he he planned a lot of this out before he even got Danny to
00:40:34
give him a ride back to his place yeah I mean he was stalking her he's obsessed with her like you said he's coming up
00:40:41
with all these plans ways to cover his tracks so they found surveillance footage from
00:40:47
the apartment building where the taxi cab dropped off Floyd this surveillance footage shows Floyd
00:40:55
Galloway getting out of a taxi cab at 9 20 PM walking toward the apartment building right okay then the cab drives
00:41:04
off and suddenly he turns around and starts walking away from the building and now he's walking in the direction of
00:41:13
the MetLife building which is just 300 yards away down Telegraph Road then at around
00:41:23
I have a marker of 9 37 PM a Buick believed to be Floyd's vehicle was captured on video traveling eastbound on
00:41:34
11 Mile in the direction of his home and of course if this is his vehicle his vehicle was working just fine
00:41:45
but then there was more on December 9th just one week after Danny vanished detectives walked the
00:41:52
path from Danny's apartment to the Tim Hortons examining every inch of the ground along the way and sure enough
00:41:58
yeah along Grand River Avenue on the way to the Tim Hortons they located Danny's
00:42:05
missing Keys remember it has that distinctive keychain yeah they found this in the grass near a highway
00:42:13
entrance ramp on the other side of the ramp they found Danny sizzlicky's Fitbit this was in the path that Floyd would
00:42:24
have walked from her place to the Tim Hortons now the Fitbit had been a bit of hold back
00:42:32
information the police never told the public about the Fitbit and that's interesting because we've seen in other
00:42:39
cases a lot of times these these fitbits you can you can locate them and they were probably hoping to do so
00:42:46
electronically but were unable to for whatever reason still a clever idea to follow the walking path the detectives
00:42:53
continue to ask the public to look for Danny's Keys even though they had actually found them only a week after
00:43:01
her disappearance meaning if they get a confession or if they get a guy in interrogation room this is information
00:43:08
they're hoping to pull from the person that actually committed the crime not somebody that's just making it up as
00:43:15
they go along and then the icing on the cake was when detectives executed the search
00:43:22
warrant on December 7th in a surprise search of Floyd's home they saw very quickly that a small patch of carpet
00:43:30
had been replaced in the master bedroom next to the bed this had been done they believed on
00:43:38
December 2nd or shortly after because they discovered that trash pickup from Floyd's home on Friday December 2nd
00:43:48
uh his wife had text him from the hospital reminding him to put out the trash which he acknowledged yes
00:43:57
I'll put out the trash and scraps of carpet were found in the trash at his house indicating that
00:44:06
he had made the the carpet repairs after December 2nd so crime scene texts removed the carpet
00:44:14
around that the patched area and lo and behold biological material on the carpet
00:44:20
near the patched area was traced using DNA and they got a match to Danielle stizz licking which proves that she was
00:44:29
inside his place so this DNA evidence Captain is going to lead investigators to how they believed that
00:44:40
Danny was killed because the DNA found on the carpet was not necessarily from blood evidence
00:44:48
it was from something that they called a a purge all right so the medical examiner testified that the DNA possibly
00:44:57
came from a clear fluid called purged that he based his determination of the manner of death
00:45:05
meaning he believed that Danny had been murdered in that bedroom of Floyd's house and that the cause of death
00:45:13
which could not be determined because there's no body but he says was likely asphyxiation smothering strangling or
00:45:21
choking or possibly even hanging because of this purging on the carpet yeah and so it's going to be it was
00:45:41
easily determined that they the the charges were warranted that the crimes that the prosecution said were committed
00:45:50
did in fact they were committed by someone and this of course is going to lead to the decision that Floyd Galloway
00:45:57
should be charged with first degree Prima premeditated murder in this case the problem we have here today Captain
00:46:08
we still do not know where where Danny is Right which sucks for the family so there remains quite a few unanswered
00:46:19
questions such as how did Floyd lure her into the house because it doesn't seem that it I mean
00:46:29
he may have forced her into the home but we know she was in a hurry to get to dinner with her friend and driving Floyd
00:46:37
home was already way out of her way to help out this guy and the terrible truth is that no one
00:46:45
other than Floyd Galloway knows how he got her into the house but we've seen with the text message possible gun
00:46:53
before where he he offered up a drinking game to try to get her to come back to his house uh some speculate her being a
00:47:01
cat lover he may have told her that he had a new cat or found one uh let me give you some gas
00:47:07
money I just got to go inside and get it you can come in with me there's any number of ways that he could have
00:47:12
tricked this nice young woman into following him into his home and we also don't know not only where
00:47:22
Danny's body is but how it was transported for disposal if it was her vehicle or one of the three
00:47:31
vehicles that were uh seized by police that belonged to Floyd Galloway and his family we do know that
00:47:40
detectives believe that Danny was dead by 6 20 p.m when Floyd's phone came back online and it stayed at his house until
00:47:48
7 38. when it was turned back off and Floyd deposited her vehicle at her apartment complex by 8 16 PM walked to
00:47:59
the Tim Hortons and then got a cab to take him near his vehicle obviously he did not have Danny's body with him at
00:48:07
that point so he either got rid of her corpse between 7 38 and 816 on the drive to Independence Green
00:48:17
Apartments Danny's apartment or after he returned home around 9 40 p.m that night
00:48:23
right his wife was in the hospital for another week so he had plenty of time to do whatever
00:48:32
it is that he did without rushing to cover his bases all we know is that by the time his home was searched on
00:48:39
December 7th Danny was was long gone again I hope they're able to put enough pressure on him get enough evidence
00:48:47
built against him so he could at least tell the family where their daughter and loved one is the other thing too is
00:48:54
there seems to be some thought at least or possibility that some of the investigators may have thought that
00:49:00
Floyd may have put Danny's body into a dumpster because we mentioned already that many dumpsters in the area right
00:49:07
were emptied or searched during these initial searches for Danny so much so that they did search the landfill at
00:49:19
some point as well that'd be hard now in April of this year the Detroit Free Press reported that
00:49:27
they had obtained access to some documents relating to the upcoming trial of Floyd Galloway the judge had made a
00:49:35
ruling about a piece of evidence that she would allow the state to present in Floyd's murder trial this was a
00:49:43
conversation that anstizlicky recalled with her daughter Danny about two months before Danny disappeared right the two
00:49:53
were casually talking and Floyd's name came up because Ann had seen Floyd walking Danny to her car right Danny
00:50:02
told her mom that at the time Floyd said something very odd to her which was that
00:50:08
he could make a body disappear seems that the documents relating to this ruling were released to the media
00:50:16
by mistake and were in violation of a seal on all materials relating to the case imposed
00:50:25
by the judge early on this is some of the most recent information to come out in this case and this of course is
00:50:32
something that they are going to allow at the trial well but is that going to be held up because of covid now as of
00:50:39
now Floyd Galloway's trial is delayed because of covet judge McMillan pointed out that in light of the pandemic there
00:50:49
are only they are only able to conduct one jury selection per day for the entire courthouse and are able to
00:50:57
conduct only one trial per floor there is a pre-trial status hearing scheduled for January 14
00:51:07
2021 but no trial date has yet been set when the trial does happen it will be fascinating to see the full scope of all
00:51:17
of the evidence that the state of Michigan has against Floyd yeah I believe they have more in their back
00:51:22
pocket but we have eyewitnesses that put him at MetLife we have eyewitnesses that
00:51:28
put him in her vehicle they have eyewitness that put him in the vehicle without her they have eyewitnesses of
00:51:37
him and her at his place some sort of evidence whether that's DNA blood from the carpet fibers to the wood planks
00:51:47
that they ripped up and DNA both hers and his well and with ours to Floyd Galloway
00:51:56
this is not a man that appears to be dangerous there's nothing in his appearance that sets off any red flags
00:52:02
and that's what's so scary about this situation in in telling this story of what happened to Danny here we have a
00:52:11
guy that clearly plan this thing out took a lot of effort into covering his tracks so much so that
00:52:19
they have not been able to locate and find her remains but this True Crime Story it really has elements of stories
00:52:29
that we've told before the lone jogger being attacked in the park how many jogger cases have we covered it's it's
00:52:37
appalling I mean it's it's shocking at the number of joggers that we've covered that have been attacked and and we're
00:52:44
we're only talking about a very small amount in the grand scale of things but then you take it a step further
00:52:52
you know what are we not supposed to be scared of at this point this woman just went to work and spoke to somebody that
00:52:59
she knew and somebody that she probably thought was harmless yeah he was a security guard at her work they're there
00:53:06
to protect you yeah and and he he took advantage of somebody that was willing to help others and he used that to set a
00:53:17
trap for her and he very likely fixated on her for months and months leading up to this and under the the quiet
00:53:28
shell calm demeanor of this guy that we see on the outside there clearly is a very very evil sick and twisted person
00:53:38
inside yes psychopath I hope that this trial does not get delayed and I thought that one thing was that was absolutely
00:53:46
brilliant was they were interviewing a lot of the investigators and police officers that worked so very hard on
00:53:54
this case and did such a good job not only in Danny's case but also the the related case that took place in the park
00:54:02
against Floyd but one of the police officers she said unfortunately there is no real closure
00:54:10
here now we've seen this time and time again and we know it to be true but in Floyd's
00:54:18
case and in the case against Floyd having seen his pushback even when they had his DNA in the rape case where he
00:54:27
twice did not agree to plead guilty right even though they had DNA I almost feel like
00:54:34
with Floyd he's going to continue to push back and push this thing to trial unless they find Danny's body if they
00:54:41
find Danny's body he might in fact plead guilty to this and a trial could be avoided back to the statement of the
00:54:52
police officer what she said was was so true and it's something we need to keep in mind here as we still continue to
00:55:01
search for answers in Danny's case she says that there is no closure and even when Danny's remains are located there
00:55:09
will not be closure for the family the only thing that we have been able to provide to her family is answers
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