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talk some true crime [Music] oh [Music] as we said in yesterday's show in August
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of 2018 officials from five different law enforcement agencies held a town meeting this is where they publicly
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acknowledged that they had no Theory no suspect or no answers regarding the murder of Tristan beaudette that same
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month The Hollywood Reporter stated that quote two sources with connections to the Malibu Lost Hills
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sheriff station tell The Hollywood Reporter that detectives are working to assemble a physical composite of the
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Tristan beaudette shooter and are compiling a list of Persons of Interest this of course is news to everyone
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news that the LA Sheriff's Department had anything to go on at all it seems perhaps that the sheriff's
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department started to put some things together here is a weird thing a really weird thing in my opinion
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we have not only these strange weird shootings going on in the area that have been
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going on for two years now there's also been an uptick in burglaries on October 9 2018 the sheriff's
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department issued an official update on recent burglaries in the unincorporated Calabasas Malibu areas it read on
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Tuesday October 9 2018 at approximately 3 A.M a burglary occurred at the Agora Calabasas Community Center located at
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the 27 000 block of Malibu Hills Road in Calabasas detectives believe that the same suspect
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who is possibly involved in eight other burglaries used a rock to break the front glass door
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a vending machine inside the location was broken into with a rock and numerous food items were stolen the suspect then
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walked away in an unknown Direction Major Crimes detectives along with other department resources are at the location
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today conducting a follow-up investigation the most recent burglaries have occurred
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over a three-month period the suspect is described as a male adult slender build
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in wearing dark clothing there were eight other recent burglaries that were laid out in this press release
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we won't go through all of them as they're it's quite a boring portion of the story but I'll give you the dates
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there were two in October of 2018. there were two in September of 2018 one in July of 2018 and then we had one
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in March of 2017 and then two in October of 2016. none of these break-ins involved
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residents they were all professional buildings and commercial structures police stated that they felt that the
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burglaries were all connected but why did the police feel the need to issue a press release about some minor
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burglaries well probably because there's a bunch of shootings that they didn't tell the public about so since they got
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a bunch of back flash on that they probably thought we need to come clean about these break-ins well yep and
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people were starting to wonder could the there be a suspected connection could law enforcement be
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thinking that there's a connection between the burglaries and the shootings yeah so speaking to the media Sheriff
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Jim McDonald said investigators weren't yet ready to link the two together he said but we
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won't rule anything out he said but it would be premature to connect these cases nonetheless the
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media had already jumped to this conclusion that the hunt for the burglary suspect
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in the hunt for the shooter were in fact one in the same articles and TV news stories appearing
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during the first week of October 2018 reported a massive that massive searches were being conducted by the Los Angeles
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sheriff's department in Malibu County a dozen officers on ATVs and they're like decked out and tactical gear they
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were riding through the park aided by helicopters and bloodhounds they were pulling out all of the stops
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for this vending machine robber who stole Doritos yeah it's pretty pathetic when you think about the lack of
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attention and the lack of effort that they gave to matrice Richardson it emerged that indeed the Los Angeles
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sheriff's department wanted to question the arm burglar about Tristan's murder there appeared to be two reasons for law
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enforcement's interest in this thief one was that a surveillance footage that was found from the September 30th
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break-in at Malibu Valley Farms Construction office showed that the burglar who stole
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nothing but food again was dressed in tactical gear was wearing a head lamp and a mask and was carrying a rifle
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the burglary location was less than a quarter of a mile from the campground where Tristan beaudette was killed
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the other reason is that a park maintenance worker reported talking to a man who quote fit the description of the
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arm burglar it's not clear whether this man was actually carrying a weapon when he approached the park worker but
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apparently the man asked for a ride out of the canyon he wanted to go to a different
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area a mile or so south of the campground and he says this is because there's so many police in the area the
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worker refused to drive this man anywhere and actually his report the workers report triggered these these big
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time searches that we're now seeing right so even where we have quote we haven't linked it to bodett's killing
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but we certainly haven't ruled it out Sergeant Matthew Dunn saying but Dunn went on to say that the suspect
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meaning the shooting suspect the murder suspect might be a transient living in the park
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it seems that in each of these burglaries we should point out all these occurred between 2 A.M and 5
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a.m roughly this is the same time frame as most of the shootings yeah it's almost like they're sleeping during the
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day and doing their crimes at night and it turns out that the sheriff's department had suspected this transient
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actually for some time and even knew the name of the man that they were looking for
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on October 10 2018 repeated law enforcement searches of the Malibu Hills area paid off police got
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their man on the 10th in a press conference held at the sheriff's department they
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described the arrest as earlier today at approximately 1000 hours Major Crimes Personnel Lost Hills Sheriff's Station
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Personnel members of the sheriff's department members of the Malibu search and rescue team deployed resources in
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the Malibu Canyon area to conduct a detailed search for the suspect and for evidence related to the crimes the plan
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included a coordinated comprehensive search of a vast area located in the heart of Malibu Canyon
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after several hours investigators observed fresh boot prints in the ground leading up to a Steep Ravine
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approximately a mile north of Mulholland Highway and west of Las Virginia's road
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with the assistance of air support detectives followed the boot prints approximately 50 yards shortly after
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they heard movement amongst the brush followed by observing an adult male wearing black clothing walking quickly
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who resembled the suspect in the burglaries right air support confirmed the individual's location and it was
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learned that he was armed with a rifle investigators contained the suspect in a heavy brush area and ordered him to drop
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the rifle and surrender after a few tense moments of communicating with the suspect he opted
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to surrender and was taken into custody without incident at 3 20 pm it turned out that detectives identified
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Anthony rowata age 42 by name several months before but had not been able to find him right in fact NBC Los Angeles
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reported that quote a variety of law enforcement sources told NBC News in July the Anthony rowato was also wanted
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for questioning in the shooting death of camper Tristan beaudette it seems that the sources the the new
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sources for NBC this was stating that law enforcement was looking for a Drifter who had a criminal record in Texas and
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Florida and who was thought to be living in the Malibu Hills area as a transient
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the video showing a suspect resembling Anthony armed with a rifle robbing the vending machine solidified law
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enforcement suspicions this wasn't revealed until later but detectives compared the security video with
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Firearms catalog photos and confirmed that the rifle visible in the video was a nine millimeter Carbine a weapon
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capable of firing the same caliber bullet that killed Tristan beaudette so who is this guy well Anthony rowata
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was born on July 30th 1976 in Tampa Florida he moved around a lot and is known to
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have lived in Texas Maryland and another of another of other different locations
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in California it's not really known what his family life was like or really anything about
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his early life but according to a LinkedIn profile he has stated he's an artist and a musician at Crazy Horse
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on LinkedIn he wrote crazy was right right quote I am on my third musical project and released my first two albums
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are on iTunes Google Play Etc apologize his typing's a little weird on there I try to make unique
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songs with strong content letting the lyrics do most of the work I have been sketching and writing most of my life I
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have never been able to dedicate enough time though he also lists his employment
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as a sketch artist or portraits at Tony's Final Touch his skills are listed as write draw wrap
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he has made references to service in the Army but I couldn't confirm if he had actually served in the Army
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there seems to be some thought that he did but could be the story he's making up in his
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head right right with you know this this guy is a piece of work um it's tough to it's tough to believe a
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lot of what he says uh-huh well I mean first of all anybody that's a musician is a little
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untrustworthy I'm joking cuckoo that's what I was gonna say they're a little bit of wackados so
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if that was not enough like someone on on websleuths managed to find an e-book supposedly written by this man this
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guy's proficient you know it's available online the publication information for the book states that it is 6 000 words
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over six thousand words and was published on April 9th in 2018 it cost 99 cents to download the title is the
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luciferian theory it's categorized under philosophy about Good and Evil a short description of the
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book says this is a short writing in which the author tries to use the Book of Genesis and other documents to prove
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the story of creation really gives clue to a secret knowledge that has been passed down through
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ancient times to the present and how the chosen select have used this knowledge for money and power now we
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featured some of the bizarre highlights in the trailer to this case right so this guy's a a writer he
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that means that we're going to say musician did we hear any of his music I didn't hear any of the music he claims
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that he's a rapper well so he claims that his first two have been released on iTunes and Google Play
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um I I don't know what those would be or because it doesn't say what the title would be correct correct this is what I
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was able to pull from what a great job promoting yourself Wackadoo but also he says he's a he's a sketch artist right
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what was the well his skills are listed as right draw rap all right okay so with
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the whole rap thing there's a you know the the rap world as far as conspiracy theories go it's
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heavily drenched in the Illuminati and so that's what it seems like his book is about
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people using these old-time um secret powers to get money and fame and Power well yeah and and I'm look I'm not going
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to claim to have read the book I didn't want to bother with it um I didn't want to pay for it I didn't want anything to
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do with it other than I found it's only 99 Cents right but I found some some portions of it online and that's what we
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used for the telling of this case but I didn't want to give money to somebody that I
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I mean I don't know what this I certainly have my beliefs about what this man has done and right I'm not
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giving him a penny so after his arrest a family member of his told LA's KABC 7. it's a news channel
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that Anthony had lived in Malibu Hills for 10 years saying he doesn't talk to people he is a loner when asked if they
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believed that if Anthony was the shooter the family member said I don't think Anthony would do that I
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don't know him to be a violent person I know that the only weapon that he would carry was a knife which he uses to camp
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out his family said that they did not know that Anthony had weapons charges on his record and said that most of his
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offenses to their knowledge were simply Petty offenses and that he steered clear of
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conflict well and maybe that was true at one point but we have we have video evidence that he's carrying a gun well
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like you said he has these weapon charges we see often when we cover these cases that not always does the family
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know what everybody is up to right right so let's take a look at Anthony rowata's
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criminal history the Los Angeles Daily News reports that according to online records he has six
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convictions for illegal weapons and ammunition possession charges in California this is both in Los Angeles
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and Ventura counties he also has criminal convictions in taxes and the state of Florida
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he was convicted of disorderly conduct in 1999 this was in Hillsborough County Florida
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later 99 he was convicted of assault causing bodily injury in El Paso Texas in 2003 prosecuted in L.A County
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California for commercial burglary and was sentenced to a few months in jail then in 2004 arrested again and
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prosecuted for being a felon in possession of a gun and explosives this time he was sentenced to more than four
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years in State Prison in 2006 he was convicted of what previously was listed in the California
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Penal Code as possessing materials with the intent to make destructive devices and explosives right so he wanted to
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make bombs correct yeah his more recent convictions these take place in 2014 one in Ventura
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and Los Angeles counties were for being a felon in possession of a far firearm and ammunition and for carrying a loaded
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firearm without registration and then he was last in jail in September of 2016 when he was arrested
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by deputies at the Lost Hills station this explains how he was known to the Sheriff's Department
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and how they possibly figured out that he was their burglar upon this arrest he was sentenced to serve a 30-day sentence
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on a misdemeanor charge and a 10-day sentence for a probation violation this is according to court records
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then four months before Tristan's murder Anthony was again arrested this time for
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trespassing but was released quoted in multiple Publications was a comment from a detective on the case
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regarding Anthony's rap sheet says quote it's a 10-year crime spree that could make a Hollywood movie
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Anthony's most recent address was a condo in Canoga Park that address dates back to 2012. however as we know and as
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his family says he was living in the Hills yeah law enforcement sources who spoke to the
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media referred to Anthony as a survivalist who lived primarily outdoors and had no fixed address
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this seems like in a a bit of an exaggerated term or title as me and my friend Jess were talking about the
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Malibu Creek State Park is not exactly the Alaskan Wilderness yes I was thinking it's the state park he's out
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living in the state park Alexander Supertramp he did have extended family that is reported to live in the area in
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that area somewhere now after the arrest Anthony was booked on a felony charge one for parole violations and was held
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without bail while prosecutors built their case he appeared in court on November 29 2018
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where he was found guilty of violating the terms of his probation this is because he was in possession of a
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firearm and failed to check in with his parole officer the judge sentenced him to 160 days
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he was also required to appear on a separate weapons charge in December this seems
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like a design to keep him in prison pending more serious charges being brought the district attorney likely
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wants to keep him locked up because he's been deemed dangerous and I mean think about this if Anthony rowata is
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the Killer and is the shooter this is not only murder but it's also a form of domestic terrorism
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when he appeared in court he was rolled into court restrained to a chair wearing
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what is called a spit Hood this so that you can see photos of of Anthony from this court appearance yeah he's
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deranged looking really and he's he's almost appears somewhat happy to be there leering from under the hood
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This Hood as the the name would indicate is designed to prevent prisoners from spitting and biting
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yeah they used to use something that looked more like the Hannibal Lecter mask right but now they I think they use
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this net more more often now he almost looks like a bee catcher yeah it's like yeah like a giant hair net slash bee
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catcher thing the restraint was used because in a previous court appearance from November 1st
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Anthony went on an uh you know he's cussing everybody out he's ranting and raving he slammed the
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walls of the courtroom holding cell apparently he also tried to bite spit on and attack members of the court in this
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earlier court appearance well sometimes his face and these pictures look like he's a baby that just
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pooped himself and he's smiling about it and then there's other pictures same same date I I assume uh where he
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looks like he's staring somebody down as if he wants to you know Murder them and
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eat them yeah that that's the one where he's wearing the spit Hood At The later court date but all stemming from his
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crazy Outburst at the previous court appearance right where at one point he was yelling things like I'm not going to
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cooperate with the public defender's office objecting to his court appointed attorney right now because of this
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outburst and because of his behavior it was the hearing was adjourned and the was
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continued later in the month [Music] thank you foreign [Music] we're back you filthy animals cheers
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yeah so let's get into some of the evidence here captain or at least the the charges and what uh evidence has
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been presented yeah the the sheriff's department said that they were investigating whether he could be
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responsible for some or all of the shootings that took place in that Park area now preliminary ballistics analysis
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showed more than one type of gun was used in these shootings sources told the media so it's it's not immediately clear
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how many if any incidents might be linked to the rifle seen in the security video that he
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was carrying in the security video this makes sense because as we know James Rogers was shot with a different
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caliber bullet than the bullet that was that hit Melissa's car so we have the car shooting and we have James Rogers
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who was in the hammock we know that different caliber bullets were used in those two shootings
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on January 7th of this year the Los Angeles County's D.A office issued a press release stating that Anthony
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rowata was being charged with the murder in connection with Tristan beaudette's death further rowata was also charged
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with 10 counts of attempted murder and charged with five counts of second-degree burglary all of these
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incidents occurred within the time frame from November of 2016 to October of 2018.
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the specifics of such is released in a statement that says rowata is accused of opening fire on
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unsuspecting Campers or motorists dating back to November 2016 when he allegedly
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wounded a man who was sleeping in a hammock in the Malibu State Park area less than a week later he allegedly
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fired into the sleeping area of a vehicle rawata also is accused of shooting into vehicles on three
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different occasions in 2017. no one was injured the defendant allegedly shot at a Tesla on Las Virginia's Road on June
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18 2018. four days later he is accused of killing Tristan beaudette age 35 who was
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shot and killed while in a tent with his two daughters in Malibu Creek State Park
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his children were not injured the prosecutors also said that evidence showed that rowata is responsible for
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even more additional shootings and even more additional burglaries which there's
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just not enough evidence that has been found for a prosecution to to actually even bring forth charges on
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that right this I mean this is just terrifying when you think of it but this this includes the
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until now unsolved unresolved shooting of a woman driving on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Ventura County in 2010. so
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he's charged with eight shootings now the complaint also maintained that one person besides James Rogers was injured
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in these shootings so this is new information we don't know who that person was right at the January 7th
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arraignment Anthony's bail was set at 1.1 million dollars now he did not enter a plea at this hearing but he did so at
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another hearing which took place on January 22nd after his arrest police conducted
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ballistic tests on Anthony's rifle and confirmed it was used in several of the Malibu Creek State Park shootings
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including the murder of Tristan beaudette this is from the LA Times citing Anonymous sources within law
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enforcement these officials also told the times that Anthony's weapon of choice changed
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during the two years from a shotgun to a rifle but it's not clear how he obtained those weapons
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as we have seen he has a felony criminal record and he is not allowed to be purchasing or possessing firearms
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The Daily News reported that the complaint filed against Anthony rawata specified that he used a shotgun in the
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first six shootings but in the final two shootings he used the rifle it was not clear whether any other
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weapon other than the rifle were found in his possession when he was arrested and law enforcement didn't believe that
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he knew any of the victims he was shooting at yeah they they publicly state that they believe all of these
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were all random targets of opportunity and but what we didn't see during the court appearances is we don't have
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prosecutors setting forth a motive in the charging documents so where does this case stand today where
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where are we at in this whole thing yeah we know that Anthony entered a not guilty plea at a court hearing that took
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place in January of this year he is due back in court this month and remains in jail
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this is he's got 10 million dollar bail to to post here no the arrest in the impending murder trial is not the end of
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this story the Malibu patch reported in January of this year the quote the shooting death of Tristan beaudette and
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Irvine father camping with his two young daughters revealed that authorities had long known of the string of random
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sniper shootings targeting campers in the area but had not publicized the threat until after his tragic death end
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quote this obviously is a big deal allegations made in the media that the sheriff's department knew about
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the shootings in the area dating all the way back to 2016 and avoided publicizing
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them so as not to alarm the public as we know the sheriff's department acknowledged that there were several
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shootings but only after Tristan was killed these shootings were all reported to law
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enforcement when they occurred sometimes by multiple people yet the campground was open for business the park was open
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to everyone all of this came about without warning to the public so rightfully so captain in December of
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last year Erica Wu filed a 90 million dollar lawsuit against the Los Angeles sheriff's department
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and the California State Park police and the department of Parks and Recreation accusing them of failing to warn the
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public about the shootings the complaint stated that these agencies neglectedly failed to care and provide a safe space
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for beaudette and his children instead causing his death the lawsuit is pending Scott McCurdy
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Tristan's brother-in-law told GQ Magazine at some point I feel like there has to be some accountability there are
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reports of people shooting and doing things that put the public in danger and the fact that we didn't know about it
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because if we had we wouldn't have gone right even if we got to the front gate if we realized that there were incidents
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of people being shot at or just hearing gunshots we wouldn't have gone we wouldn't have had taken our kids there
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right it's not I don't think it's so much about them protecting themselves as as much as it would be protecting your
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children right and I think it's important that we have his brother-in-law standing out in very
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publicly stating had we known any of this was going on we we wouldn't have gone in there yeah just
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just plain simple fact it this all would have been avoided well it's a lot of horseshit don't you think I
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mean maybe one shooting maybe a couple um reports of gunshots because it is a park
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even though you're not supposed to hunt there I could see not reporting some of that
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stuff not not trying to Rally up the community it is it is a rich area and it's there's money right we don't
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want to alarm the we don't want to uh have the the community up in arms over something that's not that big of a deal
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but these are multiple shootings right right and then multiple accounts 20 uh a shooting that was maybe 20 feet away now
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we got cars being shot at on the roads I mean this is that's something you need to be
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reporting that's where my head goes to as well Captain it's like it's a it's a really difficult and
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tragic story to tell because in my humble garage opinion what we have here is is a crazy
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dangerous person on the loose in a very public space but the the thing that gets me at the end of
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the day is just what you said there's so many reports of this there's so many different occurrences of the same thing
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over and over again you can't prevent crazy you can't stop some random thing like this from happening all of the time
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but when you have multiple reports of the same thing it seems like you've really done a
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disservice to everyone to not do something well like like you said there's 63 spots and 60 of them were
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filled possibly none of them would be filled if if there was these reports out there and
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and and we know that the the term crazy is kind of frowned upon this guy is definitely mentally ill uh this guy
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is definitely um he needs some help number one in number two he's far too dangerous to live
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in society right I I totally agree and and hopefully they can combine all these charges it's it's very strange though
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too that he'd be shooting at people or shooting in areas and so those are just the reports that
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we know I wonder how many ports uh reports didn't go you know how many people got
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shot out at their campsite and they just didn't see a bullet hole right or didn't
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you know or didn't hear it or how many times did people in the area hear gunshots from this individual and
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dismiss it as something else right and just went oh well it's or again because it's at night they were
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sleeping and didn't hear it what's strange to me though is this guy which I think it's pretty clear he has some
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mental illness that he's breaking and not to residential areas but to to commercial spots
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and then and it didn't seem like he was trying to steal much other than to survive survive
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and so it's you it seems like he was going in the wrong direction though because now he's
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wearing all the SWAT you know tactical gears what they were called right and then it's like what
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would have happened um if this killing didn't happen where where would he have ramped this up
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to because if you know well that's the whole thing why I think the lawsuit is so important because it seems to me like
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these shootings were going to continue to occur until he shot and killed somebody it was only then that they made
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it public knowledge that hey these shootings have been going on for a while it was only then that they truly made
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strong efforts to seek out this this individual yeah what if he would have that night why people were sleeping he
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attacked all 60 campsites right I mean and like went on on a spree so this is why law enforcement look just
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do your job and well and he was deranged enough I believe to have been capable of of just that and
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so a late a late late update on this um it appears that his preliminary court appearance is now pushed back to March
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of 2020. so the D.A is saying that they need uh everybody all involved need more time to
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prepare for this trial to move forward yeah but if you I think if you look at the evidence
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it's pretty clear what happened here and who's responsible for it yeah and we did
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mention a man named Zach Baron earlier uh he's the one who wrote the GQ long form article about this case yeah and I
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I want to repeat what he says here he says the facts of the case all seem to point to a crime of recklessness which
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isn't to say it wasn't murder someone fired a weapon into a crowded Campground and a man died because of it but the
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story effectively is that there is no story no cause and effect no logic to it at all if he had been lying down in even
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a slightly different position he likely would still be alive well and this is why talking about
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mental illness is very important because this guy's family and friends knew something wasn't right I agree with that
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too and and I think the thing is that some people go well he's not hurting himself but that doesn't mean it's not
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going to turn into him taking uh these kids father's life and and and when there's
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not a million amazing dads out there and here's this guy trying to take his daughters and and raise them right and
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give them you know love and affection and all that stuff and and now he's gone and it's and and maybe this guy is not
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some evil human being maybe this guy uh is just hit with some mental illness but at the end of the day he took
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somebody's life so this stuff needs to be talked about and when you see your loved
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ones having issues not only to try to get them help but to get them help so they don't hurt
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somebody else [Music] foreign [Music] recommended reading we are recommending that you check out the book Hell's
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princess by Harold Schechter friend of the show he's told me Captain that he would like to come on the show
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eventually and do an interview he's a fantastic true crime author you can find hell's princess anywhere you can find
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books and you can find it on Kindle as well go to True Crime garage.com and check out our recommended page we will
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have that title there as well as other titles for you to check out until next week everybody be good be kind and don't
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litter thank you [Music]