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[Music] [Music] % [Music] on April 23rd 2021 19-year-old Durante Martin left his
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home in the company of some of his friends from high school and what ends up happening Captain is in the morning
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hours in the we hours of the night a 911 call explaining that this young man has
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shot himself killed himself in someone's attic and that is the home of James Wade
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and we brought up all the questions and a lot of the rumors concerning this case
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and a lot of those questions are from the general public we were able to present some of our own and may have
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some more as we continue to go through this investigation Durante Martin's Family commissioned a private autopsy
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this is a second autopsy because they're not happy with the findings from the first that somehow included without
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providing any information or details that the young man killed himself they took it upon themselves to
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commission a private autopsy this would be conducted by Dr Jane Turner who is a seasoned noons forensic pathologist who
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spent years with the St Louis medical examiner office she has more than 21 years experience conducting these types
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of autopsies her autopsy found that Durante was shot in the left temple now this alone does not indicate suicide
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some have pointed out that Dante was right-handed and that it would be more likely that he would be shot in the
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right Temple if he shot himself but he broke his right wrist just weeks before his death and had to have surgery to
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repair this injury at the time of his death his right arm was in a cast so it makes sense that he would
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more easily hold a gun to his left temple if in fact that's what happened and pull the trigger rather than his
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right Temple but Dr Turner's report said quote there are no findings on my examination of a contact gunshot wound
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or a near contact gunshot wound or a near gunshot wound or close or even intermediate okay that's a lot of jargon
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there a lot of words to basically say that her findings are that he was not shot at close range and if one was going
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to shoot themselves they have to do so at Short at close range unless you have those really stretchy arms and legs like
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that guy in the comic Stretch Armstrong this entrance wound is what would be called in forensic pathology a distant
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entrance wound the end of the gun would have had to have been this is per the doctor would have had to have been 2 or
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3 ft or more away from Durante she explained that with a contact gunshot wound you'll see an imprint of the
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muzzle on the skin and here she did not see that and apparently there was no evidence on durante's skin that the gun
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was fired at close range either now per KSDK we're going to dive into this a little bit more so we all have a great
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understanding of why the first autopsy could be wrong and this could also mean that witness
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statements provided to the police are wrong as well again we don't have those to review we don't know if anybody was
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saying they were in the room with this young man when the gun went off but per KSDK a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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leaves behind several key indicators an imprint of the muzzle of the gun if it's
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held directly against against the skin held slightly further away soot from the muzzle flash of a gun will land on the
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skin held slightly further than that and stippling or the deposition of the gun to the skin where the powder abids or
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scrapes the surface of the skin leaves little punctures or red marks Dante Martin had none of those things present
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on his person one thing that Dr Turner did not mention in the news report about the second
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autopsy was whether she found any GSR any gunshot residue on durante's left hand or either hand for that matter if
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the gun was really fired from as far away as Dr Turner postulates then he could not have shot himself but GSR on
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his hands might call that finding into question when we got to point out something here about GSR gunshot residue
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it doesn't always mean that the person that if you find gunshot residue on someone it does not always mean that
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they fired a gun it just means they were in the presence of a gun being fired they're in the proximity but again
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inside of the hand or outside of the hand to me would make a big difference yes of course and it should it would
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back up what the Sheriff's Department's findings were or at least what they concluded so it's kind of kind of sad
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that we don't have the information right and of course if he didn't have any gunshot residue on either hand then that
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backs up what the family believes right so it it gets it gets a little dicey when it comes to gunshot residue but
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what does not seem to be dicey to me is we have two quote unquote experts in their field and they're reaching two
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different determinations two they two different conclusions unless this other person that performed
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the original autopsy believes that somehow Dante held the gun three feet from him and was able to shoot
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himself which I don't know how that works again we know nothing about the gun too why not know if what kind of gun
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it is because if if this were shotgun or a rifle that puts into question a whole
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lot of different things rather than if it's a small easily you know a small handgun armed with the second autopsy
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report Captain Dante's mother Erica raised some of her questions to Deputy Adams the one that she was told to speak
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with and again we have some of the transcripts from their conversation here we have Deputy Adams who says the
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initial report was an apparent suicide that is not the final conclusion what you posted it on your Facebook page
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doesn't that seem a little irresponsible as an irresponsible person myself I can
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easily site other people who are irresponsible are they ever going to give the final conclusion well we're
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going to get into that and this is a even more Bizarro answer uh Erica then says to Deputy Adams because if that's
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the case you shouldn't have even said it was suicide because you know why because
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you didn't even have the information she's basically saying what you and I are saying captain if you're telling us
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now that's not the final conclusion why did you even bother to say it in the first place yeah everybody wants to seem
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so smart right we need to teach humans that it's okay to question things it's okay to not have all the answers it's
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that is that is the smarter approach it's better to come out and say we don't have all the evidence so we can't make a
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comment instead of just going well well well we think it's suicide and now you have to backpedal on everything that you
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have said CSN said teach the children well and I think that's just what you said my friend Erica that boy is good
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then called the sheriff's back Sheri the sheriff office back and demanded to know
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why she wrote that Durante died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the April 29th press release and here's from
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the transcript Sheriff McCutchen I didn't put that it was a suicide I put that preliminary evidence and then she's cut
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off by Erica who says What preliminary evidence right we we're not presented with what that is in her statement and
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the sheriff replies the evidence that we got at the scene ma'am again this keeps
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this keeps leading me to believe that this must be eyewitness statements right or earwitness statements people that
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were in the home at the time that this went down people that were still there let's let's
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talk about that people that were still there after Emergency Services were called how many people ducked out of
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that place before someone agreed okay now it's okay to call 911 because from the 911 call
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itself it sounds to me when he's asked James Wade now maybe he doesn't know because it sounds like he may not know
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or he's putting it on for the call but maybe he doesn't know maybe it is as he said he just went upstairs after hearing
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it and doesn't know if the the person on the ground is on the floor is breathing
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or not because he asked someone in the background but the response later is the the operator is being told no he's not
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breathing is there a chance that whatever happened happened went down and somebody
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decided to wait until he was not breathing to make that call right people get the opportunity to duck out of that
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place before and anyone with a badge can show up Erica questions the sheriff what was
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the preliminary evidence and of course the sheriff says I can't give you that ma'am it's still under investigation
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well again your office You released you made the press release stating that this
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was a self-inflicted gunshot wound yet behind the scenes you were telling the family of
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Dante that it's a still it's still an open investigation which is it that doesn't make any sense so round and
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round in circles we go as for the official Coroner's report on duron's manner of death coroner fallis told the
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local NBC channel that he was waiting for the talks the toxicology report before
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deciding whether it was a suicide or a homicide it's not really clear to us how the toxicology report would clear things
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up unless it shows that Dante was drugged somehow an article on KSDK website made reference to their being
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alcohol at the party as we saw earlier Carrie Wade denied that there was alcohol others say that there was but
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she did not deny that drugs were involved one of the more persistent rumors on Facebook is that Durante was
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given meth at the party perhaps by someone on the inner circle of The Wades or someone in the Wade Clan themselves
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and and he freaked out so let me make sure I'm following this correctly they're at this party or gathering or
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whatever the hell you want to call it cuz nobody knows nobody's coming forward and like you said there's some people
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online saying hey I was there but they need to start naming names we need to know everybody that was there and and so
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he takes some drugs or was given some drugs that's one of the rumors that maybe in fact it was a self-inflicted
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gunshot wound that was the result of him being given drugs right meth and going into some kind of psychosis from one of
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the Ws they don't specifically say James Wade there there are some rumors that specifically say James Wade but most of
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them say one of The Wades and but then how did he get the gun did he freak again that's a a good
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question here here bring a good question we're going to feed this guy a bunch of
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drugs enough to send him into cois and hand him a gun and then tell him to go play in the
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addict I mean if that is the case you're still responsible for the death for the
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sake of for the sake of his mother can't you as as the sheriff at least say you're asked directly by her about the
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gun can you at least just say who owned the gun or even you know what I would be
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I would prefer an honest answer of I don't know we don't know who owned the gun other than we can't tell you that
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ma'am it's still an open investigation uh well then why the F did you post on your Facebook page that my
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son shot himself when every time I ask you a question I'm being told you don't have an answer for me or you do know the
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answer but cannot tell me because it's an open investigation well this family shouldn't be reading anything about the
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case that they don't already that they already haven't had a conversation with the sheriff
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department that called doing your job we're going to contact them we're going to talk to them about our findings then
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we're going to take our findings and put them on Facebook here's the other thing
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Captain we have the original coroner well the the coroner who performed the original
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autopsy saying well we haven't made a final conclusion won't have our final answer until we receive the toxicology
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report Dante died in in late April we really should have a toxicology report done by now allowing if the if it really
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is necessary allowing the coroner to finalize his report and make a definitive ruling on the cause and
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manner of this young man's death well so what's what's taking so long in fairness
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to the the sheriff's department they probably already have it they're just trying to find a way to um change it and
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alter to fit their narrative I will throw something in favor of the sheriff's department here I don't want
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to lay it on too thick one way or the other especially when we do have facts to present that show some due diligence
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on their behalf and this is that the Missouri State Highway Patrol was asked to review mad Madison County's
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investigation of this case so Dante's family of course was disappointed to learn that on May 21st the Missouri
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State Highway Patrol they concurred with the initial findings of suicide so again then show the family
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the evidence EXA you're exactly right captain and it's it's and and what you said is is they agreed with their
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initial findings which the sheriff is saying well yeah we have some initial findings
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but we're not done I can app why are you even bringing somebody to check out your
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initial findings wait till the all the findings are out there and then bring somebody into double check I mean it's
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it's it's beyond ridiculous and look would this happen if this supposed suicide was one of Mr racist
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Wade's kids would there be a thorough investigation if it was one of them well and I can
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appreciate the Sheriff's Department allowing another agency to take a look yeah at that I I do and you know I
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recommend that in cases that even seem to be open and shut cases there's nothing wrong with if you got everything
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right with another agency taking a look at at something and sometimes more eyes on something can only help a situation
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racial Justice Advocates have been outraged by what they perceive to be as a hush hush investigation of Dante's
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death this has been led by activist Reverend darl gray of St Louis but there was about 100 demonstrators that
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recently staged a protest March in Frederick toown Reverend gray told amp. IB times.com that during the protest
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counter-protesters hurled two noes at the demonstrators and chanted racal slurs at them so it's easy to see how
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tensions could boil over in this this case and then we have to factor in we touched on it a little bit earlier but
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to dive into it a little bit more here Captain this area of Missouri Frederick Town it has known KKK activity and
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reportedly you know if that's going on then there's there's a portion of the population that's that's racist actively
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racist there it also has a big meth trade these things are terrible by themselves let alone put together and on
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top of that it's always been rumored that maybe this big meth trade going on in this area is controlled by white
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nationalists who do not like Outsiders basically what I'm laying down here is from an outsider looking in this appears
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to me to be an area that is dangerous for people of different backgrounds now even in the year 2020 black lives matter
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protests were met with white counter protesters carrying no's en chanting KKK beliefs and for anybody in that general
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area the or the the the great state of Missouri if you want to challenge me on this you can you're you're from there
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you would know better than me but I back up some of my statements with this statement that this area of Missouri was
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also home to Frank anona a Missouri coup Klux clan leader shot to death by his wife in
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20177 Frank anona proudly held the title of Imperial wizard of the traditionalist
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American Knights of the KKK based in Park Hills Missouri so if you want to tell me that this is not a clan
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hotbed I'm going to have a hard time believing you back to the Madison County Sheriff's Facebook page sense this
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situation we have people on there that are angrily calling for Sheriff McCutchen to resign and demanding
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answers in the Durante Martin investigation so far there has been nothing but Silence from the sheriff
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since the April 29th post about the shooting in the preliminary determination of
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the back in the middle if you're nastyy cheers to you the billy goat maybe the captain's
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back but I'm leaving I'll finish this episode by myself look we try not to be in the
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business of spreading rumors about the cases that we cover we always and I think any longtime listener of this show
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knows how it goes down here in the garage we 100% prefer to address the known facts of a case and perhaps offer
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a little bit of our own thoughts and theories based off of those facts along the way here in this Dante Martin death
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investigation we are missing so many of the facts that this has been a very difficult task and there are also so
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many rumors look some of this stuff I feel like when there's this many rumors some
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of them have to be true or there's some truth in them somewhere along the way mhm so there are so many rumors about
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the involvement of James Wade and or a cover up that it's it's hard to know really what's true and what's not true
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and we don't have any Authority clearing that up for us in this Durante Martin case but we have seen people's comments
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posted on the Madison County Sheriff's Facebook page to the effect that there is indeed some type of coverup going on
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there are allegations from more than one person online that when the police showed up at this
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scene in James Wade's atct it had already been cleaned we mentioned that possibility
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earlier along the way when we were discussing what little known facts are in this case did somebody wait a little
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long to call 911 did they make sure that whoever they didn't want talking to the police
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couldn't did they make sure whoever was responsible or set this guy up had an opportunity to leave right so they
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wouldn't get tripped up they wouldn't get caught in saying statements that contradicted statements of other
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individuals at the house that night and Durante was found in a tiny closet that's another rumor again we
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don't know about the gun we don't know the specifics about the attic but the one of the strong rumors out there is
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that Dante was found in a tiny closet and that lots of people were at this party and no more than what they are
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saying of course well it's just so disappointing we're in 2021 and yes we've come a long way but
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when is it just going to become it's it is the human race like it is one entity like where losing the race yeah it's
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like when when are we going to just come together and just just knock it off it's
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like yeah there there are some culture different cultural differences here and there but we're still the human race One
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race so we mentioned earlier that there was a possible second suicide that took place on this property um and that's per
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James Wade's words uh in response to something so that seems to be somewhat backed up I'm not going to say I I don't
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think that would be fair to sit here in our garage and say 100% that that's true
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so I throw out this call to action because I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if this could in fact be true
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because often where there's smoke there's fire and if you were to tell me that two people committed suicide on
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this man's property in recent years well then I would say they smoke and I would want to
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know more about it so the information I could find is this is that a u a man named Nick
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Lowry died in 2014 and that's about as much as I could find I couldn't find any type of news
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coverage or news information on this I'm throwing that name and that year out there as a kind of call to action to
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people in the garage joining us in the garage this week that if you are from that area or if you know anything or
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could find out anything thing in regards to this other potential incident let us
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know fill us in fill in everybody on the blog on our blog on true Crim garage.com and again it's one of those
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things where this little piece of information could be something could could be something huge again if there's
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smoke often there is fire and I want to know how that investigation went down again if there's being drugs passed
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around that are ORS you know could cause psychosis and that is the reason why this other suicide took place again
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whoever's dealing out these drugs and whoever's around these people are now responsible for their murders those to
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me they're not suicide but it's not self-inflicted if that makes any sense and this is also a big warning to
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everyone and a good reminder to everyone don't ingest things that are made by people you don't know right who knows
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what the heck's in them don't be buying stuff on the street and putting it into your body because you're not in control
00:29:36
of what happens after you drop that thing MH KSDK who we have referenced multiple times throughout these two
00:29:44
episodes here in the garage has done Gang Busters work on this story on covering this True Crime Story and I
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think that they've really done a great job of presenting it in a fair manner now one thing we've said some pretty
00:29:59
negative stuff about James Wade along the way but one thing I will give him credit for where we have a sheriff's
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department who is not saying anything at least he doesn't duck the cameras and he
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does do interviews and answerers some questions when presented with questions about this case so to give everybody a
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little bit of uh taste and feel for what KSDK has done on this case we'll provide
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you with the following clip where you will hear Dante's football coach start off the clip and tell us some good
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things about this young man but along the way you will also hear suspicions by family and friends and you will hear
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from James Wade himself uh he was really good he he you know he played defensive
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line for us and Durante Martin loved his team you know he's always happy and good
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you know the kids are always putting smiles on the kids' face that's that's what I remember the most about him the
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19-year-old graduated last year from Central High School in Park Hills where Friday Night Lights burn bright Cory
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schweiss was his coach you know we won a couple conference championships with him
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uh anchoring that defensive line and uh he had some really good buddies on the team durante's cousin Isaiah Johnson was
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one of them he was great he was aggressive he was very athletic for his size I mean he could do a lot of things
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that other big boys like him couldn't do durante's family said he was hoping to play college ball now he'll never get
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the chance Dante was found dead in this home in Frederick Town last month with a
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gunshot wound to his head investigators initially ruled it a suicide those who knew him find it hard to believe we all
00:31:43
right there's no way Dante committed suicide there's just no way I'm just not going to accept that two days before he
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died Dante's mother said friends picked him up in St Louis he told her he was going to see his grandmother in park
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Hills he never came to my house and that's the last time I heard from him Coach schweiss saw him just weeks ago
00:32:06
and had a conversation that makes his loss that much more of a mystery he was happy he you know the big old smile on
00:32:13
his face so um you know uh asked him how everything was going he said great he was having a good time the IT team has
00:32:21
been looking into the death of Dante Martin for weeks the 911 calls and the shocking results of an independent
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autopsy tonight at 10: for the IT team Christine buers five on your side there's a mystery growing in
00:32:37
Madison County Missouri where investigators initially thought Durante Martin took his own life the
00:32:44
19-year-old's family says though it does not add up and now there's new information that supports their claim
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tonight the man who called 911 and an expert who believes Dante was shot from a distance are talking only to the my
00:32:57
team's Christine Myers he had the biggest brightest smile you know just a smile that would just
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warm you up do what you're memories of her grandson quickly bring tears it hurts my heart to know
00:33:14
that somebody hurt my grandson and possibly because of the color of his skin investigators say
00:33:22
Kimberly Robinson's grandson Durante Martin died by Suicide she's not so sure Dante was found dead in this Frederick
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Town Home last month in the weeks that followed social media swirled with theories and accusations that the
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homeowner James Wade had something to do with it or knew more than he was letting
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on I know I didn't do it and I tried to help him but nobody's talking about that
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you know they're just making up all this other stuff they got me being everything
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from a racist serial killer to uh big time Med dealer and you know I'm neither Wade said he got home from a
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day of fishing about 30 minutes before he heard the shot and I was downstairs and I you know he just shot himself and
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I called 911 to try to help him Madison County 911 uh yes I need to apparently a guy just
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shot ha this initially this was an open and closed case 4 days after d Mon's death the Madison County Missouri
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sheriff's department announced preliminary evidence revealed the male subject died from a self-inflicted
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gunshot wound to the Head Weeks Later the IT team asked for an update on the case from Sheriff Katie McCutchen in a
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statement she wrote the investigation is still ongoing do you believe this was a
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self-inflicted gunshot wound there are no findings on my examination of a contact gunshot wound durante's family
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hired forensic pathologist Dr Jane Turner to perform a second autopsy after years with the St Louis medical
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examiner's office she's now in private practice the contact uh gunshot wound you'll see an outline of the
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muzzle of the gun an imprint of the muzzle of the gun on the skin I didn't see those the end of the gun would have
00:35:18
been 2 or 3 feet or more away this entrance wound is what would be called in forensic pathology as a
00:35:27
entrance it's the only answers Dante's mother has been given since his death I can't stop crying so I try not to
00:35:34
cry so and then like I tell myself don't cry don't cry don't cry if this was you
00:35:40
and this was your kid then we wouldn't be having this discussion cuz it would be it wouldn't be a race thing can you
00:35:47
understand the family's position in this I can understand how they feel I'd be angry too if I was hearing 25 stories
00:35:54
I'm just not involved in it and I was the cops would hurry up and make that clear to people I mean and
00:36:03
as they lay Dante to rest his family and friends have so many questions and so few answers the true meaning of a friend
00:36:11
he was that to many somebody was not a friend to him we tried to speak with the teenagers
00:36:24
who were there the night Dante died so far none of them have gotten back to us to learn more about Dr Turner's autopsy
00:36:31
findings visit this story at ksdk.com for the IT team Christine buers five on your side and again like you said I
00:36:40
mean Mr Wade wants us to uh applaud him for calling 911 we not applaud you for that but at least he is uh
00:36:51
communicating with anybody that's asking him questions it seems like he's at least trying to be an open book about
00:37:00
all of this which makes me more likely to believe his story that he came into the house heard a gunshot and then
00:37:09
called 911 and maybe he doesn't have all the information of what actually went down
00:37:17
exactly that's certainly a possibility here if we do believe him if we are to take what he's saying and say hey we
00:37:26
think he's being truthful here then he was not in the room when this went down and may simply not know or not have all
00:37:34
the answers himself this is really a tricky case and a lot of it is because there is reason to be suspicious but
00:37:45
also there's no real hardcore information to lead us in the right direction so we ourselves can come to
00:37:53
the correct conclusion not a hasty conclusion like what the sheriff's department came up with or at least what
00:37:59
they announced on their Facebook page and with the press release one thing that really stood out
00:38:06
to me in that news clip there was was interesting one to hear James Wade hear his voice other than the 911 call and
00:38:16
hear him answer some of the tough questions you know because in the 911 call there is no there are no tough
00:38:24
questions if he's innocent and doesn't know what happened then there are no tough questions he's simply observing
00:38:31
and telling and passing along what he's observed in in maybe truly trying to get
00:38:38
this young man Durante some help but one thing that I found interesting beyond that in the news clip there is the
00:38:46
little tidbit about the news team seems to know the persons that were at that home that night and saying that hey
00:38:57
we've reached out to these people and they've not responded to us none of them have provided statements to us none of
00:39:03
them have taken our questions none of them have done interviews and what's very interesting about that Captain that
00:39:11
which of course we were suspicious of to begin with you know we believe I don't I
00:39:16
shouldn't speak for both of us but I believe that there was some type of party or gathering there that night yeah
00:39:24
and so to me that tells me that more than just Durante Martin and one of James Wade's daughters or his daughter
00:39:33
there at the home that night that there were other people there and I'm basing this off of that little nugget provided
00:39:40
to us by KSDK news that says hey we've contacted these people and they've not responded to us well we clearly hear
00:39:49
them talking to James Wade so he's not on that list of people that haven't responded to them there are other people
00:39:57
and Wade could be the quote unquote spokesperson for the Wade household and I would be fine with that but this is an
00:40:05
indicator to me that there were several other people there that night it's basically a confirmation that that is in
00:40:10
fact what was going on but these people remain silent now is that at the request of law enforcement
00:40:20
or is this at the suggestion of legal counsel that any of these people may have that would be interesting to know
00:40:30
and further it seems like no one has a problem and this is much with what we see in any Community or so in our
00:40:39
society these days where people don't have a problem posting things online making accusations spreading rumors
00:40:47
online but when someone wants to get them on record they're not willing to do so yeah
00:40:54
this one is very tough because I I don't see the motivation for him to commit suicide again unless he was on some kind
00:41:02
of drug that would cause some psychosis if he ingested that drug uh willingly then then he we have to we're
00:41:12
all responsible for our own actions now if somebody gave him that you know put that in a drink or uh told him it was
00:41:21
something else I'll smoke this uh weed and it was you know amphetamine or something like that and a suicide then
00:41:30
took place to me um that's not a suicide it's assisted suicide and and there needs to be people responsible for that
00:41:38
and the big piece of evidence is where you have a COR nurse coming forward and saying look I think he was shot at a
00:41:44
distance two to three uh feet maybe further away mhm it doesn't look like if you look at his house it looks like a
00:41:53
one-story house that they say the attic I think uh the reason why they say that is because
00:42:00
if the majority of your walls are slanted on your upstairs then it's not considered a
00:42:07
twostory so my house for example is considered one in a half story cuz my upstairs is most of the walls are
00:42:17
slanted so yes it looks like there was a a room upstairs now two pieces of evidence one
00:42:25
he was sh at a distance but two we find him in a closet that that that we should
00:42:33
clear up is rumor right that's not anybody's we don't know that for that to be a fact but I think it's very possible
00:42:43
especially at the age of these individuals that it could have been an accident somebody was playing with Mr
00:42:51
Wade's gun or had a gun themselves that they were playing with he he ends up getting shot they then move move him or
00:43:00
leave him wherever and uh place the gun in his hand and and walk away and now everybody same story he committed
00:43:10
suicide I think that's very likely um and again with the cops I would love to just throw them under the
00:43:19
bus completely and say they're giant piles of [ __ ] but I think their major mistake was
00:43:25
coming out and having initial findings just keep your mouth shut until you have more evidence because now
00:43:33
they're backpedaling and they might come to a different a way different conclusion
00:43:41
after more investigation but you already stuck your foot in your mouth with your
00:43:46
initial findings the other thing too when we call people out for being irresponsible or organizations for being
00:43:53
irresponsible I would like I would like a clear explanation on why we don't have
00:43:59
this young man's personal belongings if in fact his family wanted them that should that's their right they should
00:44:06
get his wallet his shoes his clothes anything he had with him when he was found at the Wade house that night you
00:44:13
know usually there's a a chain of custody on these items there should be paperwork on taking this body in and um
00:44:26
housing it and then releasing it to the mortuary somebody dropped the ball I don't know why when protocols and things
00:44:35
are set up where there are supposed to be a paper trail that all of a sudden the paper trail disappears when when
00:44:41
people and actions are called into question so I that seems incredibly irresponsible I know it's something
00:44:48
really small and very kind of generic amongst this larger story but it's always disappointing when you hear
00:44:56
things of that nature I would expect a mortuary to be a responsible entity I would expect a County coroner's office
00:45:06
to be of the utmost responsible of entities and that did not happen in this case for
00:45:18
and we can see that based off of what we know to be true here that those items were in fact lost somewhere somehow now
00:45:26
well also the lack of communication between the sheriff's department and his family you know you it's
00:45:34
disrespectful yeah and amongst other a whole list of other words but uh it's it's it's very disrespectful yeah to the
00:45:44
deceased and to his family and then here's the other big question you know we can sit here and analyze this and put
00:45:52
everything under the microscope as much as we want I applaud his family for doing the due
00:46:00
diligence that they could with getting this second autopsy I think that was a a a um move
00:46:09
of Genius of Brilliance on their behalf I would like to know more about the phone I'm hoping that they're they're
00:46:16
sending off the phone to get its own autopsy uh so to speak the thing the really big question I have here you know
00:46:24
when we question all these things why was he in the Attic why was he at this home to begin with who did he go with
00:46:29
other than this name Zach we don't really have any other names or information that seem to pop up was this
00:46:35
violent offender present at the party how many people were there what was actually going on that night we can sit
00:46:43
and we can kick through that as much as we want yeah or what kind of drugs were being taken if there were drugs at all
00:46:50
and the the biggest thing that we don't need to kick through that we know to be true that is a huge question mark and it
00:47:00
and points toward something other than what we're being told happened is Dante's cell
00:47:07
phone when it's returned to his mother Erica she says that his calls are gone his text are gone the phone was scrubbed
00:47:18
clean why why if everything that happened that we're being told by the witnesses because again that's that's
00:47:26
the only way that the sheriff's department can get their preliminary evidence right that must be what they're
00:47:33
referring to is preliminary evidence the witness statements so if everything were
00:47:38
being told by the witnesses is in fact true and it was so true that the sheriff's department
00:47:46
bought it and sold it on their Facebook page and if everything The Wades are saying are true and if everything the
00:47:53
coroner the original autopsy findings are true that this young man killed himself then there is no reason at all
00:48:02
that his phone should have been scrubbed I have no I cannot believe for a second
00:48:07
refuse to do so that this young man wiped his phone clean and then killed himself it just doesn't make any sense
00:48:15
no it doesn't pass the sniff test oh the old sniffer because if there weren't drugs at that
00:48:24
party and if there weren't drugs involved in this incident as it pertains to Durante if there
00:48:31
wasn't a setup on this kid whether it be to jump him beat him up or otherwise there's no need to scrub that
00:48:43
phone like you said that's probably the biggest piece of evidence that makes me go suicide doesn't feel right here again
00:48:51
we're not mental health experts and if if you're dealing with any Mental Health issues please contact the National
00:48:58
Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1 1800273 8255 and of course we are all hoping that very soon that we start to get some
00:49:11
answers in this case in Dante Martin's case answers that are long overdue and very
00:49:19
deserving to his family that they can get the answers that they deserve from the sheriff's department and all of the
00:49:27
agencies that have looked into this case Reverend darl gray and Dante Martin's Family met recently with the Madison
00:49:37
County prosecuting attorney who asked the Missouri attorney general's office to investigate durante's death a
00:49:44
spokesman for the Attorney General declined to comment as to whether the office would in fact get involved so now
00:49:52
all we can do is await the final determination of the Madison County Sheriff's Office investigation into
00:50:00
Dante's death which will hopefully shed some light on the tragic passing of this
00:50:05
promising young man who had everything to live [Music] for thank you guys so much for joining
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