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Speaker 1: When Danny Burrows disappeared from his home in May's Landy,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, his wife, Loretta, said he ran off with

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Speaker 1: another woman, a waitress who worked at a restaurant Danny

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Speaker 1: and Loretta used to go to when they were on

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Speaker 2: But not everyone bought Loretta's story.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of rumors and deceptions surrounding Daniel's disappearance.

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Speaker 1: Six years later, detectives executed simultaneous sirch warrants, one on

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Speaker 1: Loretta's New Jersey home and the other at Loretta's sister's house,

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Speaker 1: where Loretta had been staying. Investigators never imagined what they'd find.

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Speaker 3: When we entered the house, we were all shocked. I

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Speaker 3: think it was the last thing we expected.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, she was.

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Speaker 5: An elder care nurse for years, just taking care of

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Speaker 5: other people, and when you look at this case, you

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Speaker 5: could see through that mask.

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Speaker 1: We're in South Jersey today for the conclusion of the

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Speaker 1: disappearance of Danny Burroughs. I'm Sloan Glass and this is

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Speaker 1: American homicide and just a warning that what you're about

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Speaker 1: to hear is graphic.

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Speaker 2: Please take care while listening.

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Speaker 1: By May of twenty thirteen, Danny Burrows had been missing

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Speaker 1: for nearly six years. The case had gone cold until

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Speaker 1: prosecutors received a tip that Loretta Burroughs had forged some

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Speaker 1: legal documents. This sparked a search warrant of the two

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Speaker 1: residences where Loretta had been staying, her home and her sisters.

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Speaker 3: We were of the understanding that it was for insurance

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Speaker 3: for all documents with the capacity that could find possible

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Speaker 3: items of evidentiary value related to a homicide or at disappearance.

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Speaker 1: So as Loretta Burrows was being questioned at her sister's house,

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Speaker 1: another team led by Sergeant Caroline MacDonald was searching Loretta's

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Speaker 1: home in Ventnor City, New Jersey.

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Speaker 3: Loretta Burrough's house was impeccably clean. When I entered, it

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Speaker 3: smelled very fresh. Generally speaking, it was as if she

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Speaker 3: was expecting visitors.

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Speaker 1: Her beachy two bedroom, two back Duplaque sat a couple

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Speaker 1: blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and just minutes from the

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Speaker 3: At that time I was conducting the search, I was

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Speaker 3: the one photographing. My primary area of concern was her bedroom.

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Speaker 2: That's where I started.

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Speaker 3: What particularly stood out to me in Loretta's bedroom was

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Speaker 3: the organizational aspect of her closets. She had every pair

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Speaker 3: of shoes that she owned in their own little tupperware

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Speaker 1: Sergeant MacDonald had the camera and her team had a

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Speaker 3: Every time an item of potential evidence area value is

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Speaker 3: located within the residence, whoever's searching that area will call

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Speaker 3: your name so you can photograph it as it exists.

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Speaker 1: While she was in Loretta's bedroom, the lieutenant in the

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Speaker 1: guest bedroom called her name.

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Speaker 3: In my mind, I'm thinking, okay, he found something of interest.

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Speaker 3: So when I walked into the bedroom, it had bunk beds,

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Speaker 3: some kids items in there, and we were made to

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Speaker 1: And standing in front of the closet was the lieutenant.

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Speaker 1: He had a puzzled look on his face.

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Speaker 3: When you opened the first set of closets, there wasn't

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Speaker 3: When you got to the second closet and you pulled

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Speaker 1: Mixed in with Loretta's clothing and Christmas decorations.

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Speaker 2: Was something odd.

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Speaker 3: There was a stacked object and it had blankets draped

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Speaker 3: He called my attention to it because he found it

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Speaker 3: As we started to remove the coverings around the tupware containers,

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Speaker 1: In fact, there were nine layers of black plastic garbage bags.

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Speaker 3: As we dug deeper into it, we were finding little

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Speaker 3: air freshener beads that were melting and coming apart. We

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Speaker 2: You probably know where this is going.

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Speaker 1: Even with all of those air fresheners, Sergeant MacDonald noticed

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Speaker 3: As it became stronger and stronger and started to fill

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Speaker 3: Loretta Burrows and that we were going to find Daniel's

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Speaker 1: You may remember from the last episode another team of

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Speaker 3: It was almost simultaneously that the discovery happened, as well

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Speaker 1: As the team photographed the many plastic bags, dryer sheets,

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Speaker 6: She simply said, oh, you, Detective Shallock, and I said yes,

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Speaker 6: And she says, I want to talk to your Mirandezer.

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Speaker 6: And at that point she tells us everything that happened

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Speaker 6: Rightad said that they had gotten into an argument.

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Speaker 1: She told the police the argument she had with Danny

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Speaker 1: happened in August of two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 6: Daniel pushed her on the bed, and once that happened,

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Speaker 6: she got a knife from the kitchen and repeated stabbed

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Speaker 4: She said she stabbed him.

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Speaker 7: She said he was in the bathroom and he fell

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Speaker 7: into the bathtub, and that she left the body in

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Speaker 1: Loretta said she killed Danny, but it was in self defense.

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Speaker 7: Everything that she told us, was about her being the victim.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, Danny was recovering from shoulder surgery at

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Speaker 1: the time and his arm was in a sling.

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Speaker 7: That doesn't mean he couldn't throw her on the bed,

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Speaker 7: but the way the house was set up, She then

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Speaker 7: ran down the loft, down the steps, through the living room,

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Speaker 4: Person that was upstairs. The whole time, it didn't add up.

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Speaker 1: So the picture that Loretta's painting would mean that she

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Speaker 1: got into her car and drove to a theme park

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Speaker 2: All well, her husband was still in the bathtub.

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Speaker 1: And if you remember from the last episode, Loretta told

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Speaker 1: Nicole that Danny called her during that trip.

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Speaker 7: When we said, why would you tell Nicole that you're

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Speaker 7: calling Danny and having conversations with him, and she said, oh,

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Speaker 7: I was calling him to see.

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Speaker 4: If he picked up.

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Speaker 7: But you just said you knew he was dead. She's like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 7: I just like was hoping. I mean nothing she said

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Speaker 1: That's when investigators began to connect the dots.

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Speaker 7: She's telling people that he's calling her from Florida, and

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Speaker 7: he's clearly not. So she was laying foundations for people

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Speaker 7: to not be suspicious of him disappearing the whole time.

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Speaker 7: You know, why are you going to report Hi missing?

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Speaker 7: I told you I talked to him.

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Speaker 4: He's not missing. He's in Florida.

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Speaker 1: You know what investigators were getting at is that Loretta

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Speaker 1: had a clear plan over the last half decade. She's

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Speaker 1: spun a tangled web of lies to cover the fact

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Speaker 1: that she stabbed and killed her husband.

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Speaker 7: I asked her in the interview, Okay, so you stabbed him, right,

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Speaker 7: you're saying that there was this fight and you stabbed him.

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Speaker 7: Did you ever think to call nine one one, Like,

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Speaker 7: even in the heat of passion, if if you're mad

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Speaker 7: at somebody and you stab them, which is still like

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Speaker 7: a terrible, horrible thing, what do you do? You call

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Speaker 7: then she said something to the effect of and he's

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Speaker 7: still with me, right, Danny's still with me? Something like that.

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Speaker 7: I'm like, keep like a vile blood around her neck?

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Speaker 7: On a necklace, Like, what kind of crazy thing is

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Speaker 7: she talking about? That he's still with me. I never

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Speaker 7: imagined that she was going to tell us what she

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Speaker 7: told us. And then she said, I just put him

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Speaker 7: in a rubber made container.

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Speaker 1: That's the same plastic container the police found hidden in

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Speaker 1: Loretta's guest closet.

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Speaker 7: We asked her, like, how did you put his body

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Speaker 7: And we specifically asked her if she had cut up

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Speaker 7: later the autopsy report showed that there were cut marks

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Speaker 4: And then she tells us that she.

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Speaker 7: Had to put like transition into another container, which is

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Speaker 7: the one we found him in, and that his head

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Speaker 7: fell off, so she put that in a separate container,

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Speaker 7: and she claimed to take the body out of the

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Speaker 1: So just to be clear, Loretta says she killed the

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Speaker 1: man she loved since they were kids, and she loved

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Speaker 1: him so much that she stuffed his dead body into

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Speaker 7: Six seven years, she's been traveling around with this body,

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Speaker 4: It's like something you watch on TV.

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Speaker 1: At first, Loretta said she kept Danny's body in a

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Speaker 1: but she eventually dug up Danny's remains and put them

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Speaker 1: into storage containers. If you remember, neighbors of Loretta complained

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Speaker 1: continue to wonder if Danny's body was under that tarp

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Speaker 6: I've never heard of anyone ever murring someone and keeping

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Speaker 6: the body. And not only keeping the body, she transported

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Speaker 1: Detective Frank Shallick arrested the sixty one year old grandmother

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Speaker 6: Then investigator Lynn Doherty and I went to Nichole's house

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Speaker 2: Nicole is Loretta's daughter.

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Speaker 6: She just couldn't believe it, you know, and Nicole I

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Speaker 6: just lost her stepfather, you know, it was confirmation that

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Speaker 6: and Nicole just lost her mother. Her mother was not

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Speaker 6: of her life. It was very hard for her.

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Speaker 1: Nicole had plenty to process, including the fact that her

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Speaker 6: Daniel's body was stored in the bedroom of her third home,

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Speaker 6: which her grandkids would use. I mean, she murdered someone,

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Speaker 6: it's disturbing, but to put the body in the closet

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Speaker 6: where her grandkids were sleeping. I just can't fathom what

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Speaker 6: she was thinking, Like, I don't know, just it bothers me.

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Speaker 1: Well, no one imagined the years of wondering what happened

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Speaker 1: to Danny Burrow's would end like this.

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Speaker 8: She kept them in the cart for seven years. I

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Speaker 8: don't know what the I can't even get into ahead

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Speaker 1: I can't ruth Antovanny not only grew up with Danny,

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Speaker 1: but she went to prom with him.

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Speaker 8: How in the world, how do you make a decision

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Speaker 8: to do that. It's sad, very sad.

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Speaker 1: It was very sad, especially for Danny's brother, Ray, who

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Speaker 1: Loretta was behind it, and her duplicity hit a dark

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Speaker 1: dark side. Loretta Borough spent six years portraying herself as

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Speaker 9: Not only did she kill her husband, Okay, I see

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Speaker 9: She moved him from location to location.

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Speaker 1: Teyner was the Atlantic County prosecutor whose jaw dropped when

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Speaker 9: You can't make this up. If you made it up,

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Speaker 9: it would really be a bad horror film.

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Speaker 1: Loretta moved Danny his dead body two other times and

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Speaker 9: So what mindset is there that when the moving vans

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Speaker 9: that you say, hey, don't forget my body over there.

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Speaker 9: It's unheard of. And her grandkids are coming to that home,

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Speaker 9: they're visiting there, and she has something in there as

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Speaker 9: bizarre as the remains of her late husband, Like, what

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Speaker 9: had never been found. This is a case that doesn't

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Speaker 9: go to trial. It's probably not even charged.

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Speaker 1: This is a crime Loretta could have gotten away with.

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Speaker 1: It had been six years and up until now, there

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Speaker 1: There's no rationalizing what Loretta did. But could she have

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Speaker 1: she was responding in self defense?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 1: The trial brought out those answers. In March twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 9: Loretta had a gambling problem. She was addicted to gambling,

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Speaker 1: And no matter where Loretta lived in New Jersey, she

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Speaker 1: for example, those casinos took in over five billion dollars

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Speaker 9: Loretta Burrows was greedy. She would do anything to feed

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Speaker 9: that addiction, and that includes murder.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Seth Leevy learned Loretta's gambling addiction dated back to

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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties. That's when she got in trouble with

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Speaker 5: She over the course of time as a bookkeeper, was

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Speaker 1: According to court records, Loretta stole four hundred and seventy

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Speaker 5: That kind of crime takes patients, it takes devotion to

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Speaker 5: the crime, it takes knowledge, and so now you're looking

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Speaker 1: As the trial began, two questions loomed. Would Loretta take

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Speaker 10: I didn't think she would enter a guilty plea because

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Speaker 10: I think she figured that, you know, if I'm going

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Speaker 10: to spend most of my life, for all my life

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Speaker 10: though I know it's a long long shot.

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Speaker 1: The voice you were hearing here is Judge Mike Donio.

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Speaker 1: I've covered a lot of cases. Rarely does the judge

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Speaker 1: speak to reporters. It doesn't matter if the case is closed.

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Speaker 1: It's just not something they often do. And as the

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Speaker 1: Loretta's confession to the police, it's incredible to get his

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Speaker 10: She had a lawyer early on when they were talking

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Speaker 10: to her, and then when they did interview her one time,

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Speaker 10: issue there. So I ruled that certain of those statements

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Speaker 10: that she made would not be admissible.

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Speaker 1: Without Loretta's confession, prosecutor said, Levy had to change his strategy.

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Speaker 1: Here's Prosecutor Levy.

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Speaker 5: She comes off as very nice, old, loving, grandmotherly woman,

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Speaker 5: and her story is this big ogre of a man

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Speaker 5: and came after me to kill me, and I stabbed

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Speaker 5: him in self defense. That thought and that juxtaposition kind

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Speaker 5: of drove my entire creation of the prosecution. She's one

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Speaker 5: of the few that I would say is the closest

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Speaker 5: thing or or potentially to a psychopath that I've ever met.

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Speaker 5: What I mean when I say that is you get

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Speaker 5: what's on the outside. You get smiles, you get a

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Speaker 5: know she was an elder care nurse for years, just

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Speaker 5: taking care of other people, always taking care of other people.

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Speaker 5: And when you look at this case, you could see

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Speaker 5: So you know, we came up with this strategy of

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Speaker 5: how to unmask her, of how to show the jury

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Speaker 2: Here's Judge Mike Donil again.

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Speaker 10: The prosecutor said that this was like the Little Red

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Speaker 10: Riding Hood, and like all these old folk tales, there's

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Speaker 10: a lesson to be learned as a moral to the story,

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Speaker 1: But no fairy tale contains the amount of graphic testimony

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Speaker 1: and evidence.

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Speaker 2: This case featured.

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Speaker 10: Showing the jury bones torso that was found in a

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Speaker 10: box in the defendant's house.

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Speaker 1: There was also photographic evidence of Danny's decomposing body that

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Speaker 1: was so disturbing that Judge Donio ruled prosecutors could only

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Speaker 1: show it in black and white photos.

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Speaker 10: I remember it was hard on the Jews, and when

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Speaker 10: the photographs were presented with the bones, especially the women

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Speaker 10: on the jury were like taken back and you could

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Speaker 10: see that they were like visibly like wow.

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Speaker 1: If you think it was tough on the jury, imagine

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Speaker 1: what it was like for Danny's brother Ray. Judge Don'

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Speaker 1: remembers Ray in the courtroom.

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Speaker 10: His emotions would get the best of him. There was

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Speaker 10: a couple times where I had to admonish him because

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Speaker 10: he would come to court and hold up not in

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Speaker 10: He would hold up pictures of Missus Burrows with a

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Speaker 10: would blurt things out, and a couple times I had

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Speaker 10: to have a little talk with him. Let's let the

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Speaker 10: system do its work and let's let justice prevail. You

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Speaker 10: could possibly cause a mistrial. You could cause a problem,

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Speaker 10: and that you don't want that, we don't want that.

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Speaker 1: Loretta's court appointed public defender claimed it didn't make sense

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Speaker 1: for Loretta to murder her high school sweetheart for what

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Speaker 1: amounted to a few thousand dollars.

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Speaker 10: The defense attorney who was representing her basically was heart

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Speaker 1: He claimed there was no way to know who killed Danny,

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Speaker 1: did it, or even why they did it. He added

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Speaker 1: that a cigarette butt was recovered with Danny's remains, that

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Speaker 10: He did what many defense lawyers do. You just keep

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Speaker 1: Loretta's lawyer pointed to Danny's toxicology report that showed drugs

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Speaker 1: Danny was smoking meth and it could have been a

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Speaker 1: heart attack or even natural causes that killed Danny, but

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Speaker 1: prosecutors at Levy reminded the jury that Danny was recovering

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Speaker 1: administering Danny's pain medication. He stared at Loretta and said,

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Speaker 5: We took a part the story one at a time.

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Speaker 5: If she says I did this because of this, we

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Speaker 5: that lie wasn't so.

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Speaker 1: Loretta Burrows never took the witness stand. But and this

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Speaker 1: was notable to me. Her range of facial expressions were

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Speaker 2: During the trial.

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Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever encountered somebody who had so

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Speaker 5: You could just see it. The smile would drop, the

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Speaker 2: It was something that even stood out to Judge Donio.

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Speaker 10: There were times when she would appear in court and

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Speaker 10: her and think, there's no way that a woman like

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Speaker 1: What a scary thing to witness in a person that

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Speaker 5: This may appear to be a grandmother and may do

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Speaker 5: two tumberware containers. The jury agreed and they convicted her.

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Speaker 1: And it took just two hours for the jury to

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Speaker 1: convict Loretta Burroughs of murder and third degree hindering apprehension.

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Speaker 1: Now it was up to Judge Donio to sentence Loretta,

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Speaker 1: and that hearing would leave everyone in the courtroom in tears.

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Speaker 1: Judge Michael Donio presided over the trial of Loretta Burroughs.

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Speaker 10: It was one of the three most difficult or toughest

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Speaker 1: Loretta's sentencing hearing took place in April twenty fifteen. A

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Speaker 1: month earlier, a jury convicted Loretta of murdering her husband,

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Speaker 1: Danny and hindering apprehension.

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Speaker 10: We don't sentence that day. Usually it's four to five

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Speaker 10: and I review all that and then put a sentence together.

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Speaker 2: Judge Doni.

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Speaker 1: I also heard from Danny's friends and family who submitted

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Speaker 1: victim impact statements.

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Speaker 2: Some of them were in court that.

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Speaker 1: Day to share their statements, but it wasn't easy to

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Speaker 10: She just sat there and cried.

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Speaker 1: One statement came from a twelve year old neighbor of

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Speaker 11: My dad told me that Loretta had been arrested for

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Speaker 11: into madness, knowing that she made me sleep in her

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Speaker 1: Then came a man named Gary who played in Danny's band.

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Speaker 1: He explained how Loretta used to cook dinner for the

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Speaker 5: And after every dinner we go back to the rehearsal room,

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Speaker 5: he would get behind his drum kit and double over

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Speaker 5: in pain, and we.

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Speaker 12: Kept saying to something wrong.

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Speaker 13: He oh, I'll be all right.

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Speaker 10: And this went on every practice, and we knew Me

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Speaker 10: and my bassfiyer knew there was something wrong.

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Speaker 1: He believed that Loretta was poisoning Danny.

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Speaker 12: I just have nightmares every day.

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Speaker 10: He was my brother.

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Speaker 2: He was like closer in my brother than me.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but I'll never get over this.

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Speaker 1: For six years, those closest to Danny didn't know whether

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Speaker 1: he was missing or dead. You can hear that emotion

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Speaker 1: in the courtroom. Loretta faced thirty years to life, and

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Speaker 1: something about that stuck with Danny's brother Ray.

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Speaker 12: January two thousand and six, and just nineteen months prior

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Speaker 12: to my brother being murdered, New Jersey abolished a death penalty.

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Speaker 12: It is of my opinion.

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Speaker 1: She also researched that Ray placed a picture of Danny

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Speaker 1: on the table in front of him and spent more

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Speaker 1: than twenty minutes eulogizing his brother and condemning Loretta.

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Speaker 12: Last time I stood on my brother's property was the

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Speaker 12: day I followed the mister persons report Labor Day weekend

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Speaker 12: of two thousand and seven. Because the murderer had changed

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Speaker 12: the keep had entrance code, I couldn't even get into

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Speaker 12: my brother's home. I believe that if I had, this

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Speaker 12: investigation may not have taken as long, because I believe

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Speaker 12: I would have found my brother's remains inside myself. On

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Speaker 12: May seventeenth, twenty thirteen, approximately at eight thirty am, I

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Speaker 12: received the calls stating, Ray, we found your brother. Instantly,

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Speaker 12: I felt as if a large part of my flesh

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Speaker 12: was ripped from my body. At that instant, I was

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Speaker 12: taken back to day one, when I realized Danny had

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Speaker 12: gone missing. I finally found out what the horrors that

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Speaker 12: monster did to my brother and.

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Speaker 14: How she allowed his body to rot for several.

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Speaker 12: Years in containers, which caused me to drop to the

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Speaker 12: ground and sob like a child, thinking of my poor

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Speaker 12: brother mutilated and decomposing, while for many years the murderer

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Speaker 12: was enjoying life. Again, I was taken back to August

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Speaker 12: two thousand and seven and the several times I visited

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Speaker 12: my brother's home listening to the monsters made up stories,

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Speaker 12: repeated lies into my face, telling me he called while

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Speaker 12: all along, my.

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Speaker 14: Brother's dismembered, disembowed, rotting body may have very well been

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Speaker 14: in the next room or just below the kitchen in

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Speaker 14: the basement freezer, Your honor, how do I shut that off?

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Speaker 12: After many years of mental torture and pain, I haven't

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Speaker 12: been able to turn off. I came to the realization

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Speaker 12: that I needed to reach out for help or I

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Speaker 12: was going to give up on living.

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Speaker 10: I believe that the only.

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Speaker 12: Thing that kept me going was the need to fight

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Speaker 12: for my brother's justice, because I knew Dan would have

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Speaker 12: done the same for his little brother. Just trying to

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Speaker 12: make it through each day is very difficult because of

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Speaker 12: the horrors my brother adored, and how my mind is

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Speaker 12: tortured with those images. I don't look forward to tomorrow,

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Speaker 12: and since I can't simply turn it off, it has

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Speaker 12: become a form of endless mental torture. What she did

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Speaker 12: to my brother. Horror movies and nightmares are made from.

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Speaker 12: And I am living in both your honor. I am

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Speaker 12: not above begging, and after all I have endured the

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Speaker 12: pass seven plus years, begging is about all the fight

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Speaker 12: I have left. The letter was found guilty and now

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Speaker 12: she deserves punishment for her actions. This in humane, premeditated

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Speaker 12: murder demands the maximum sentence. Anything less would not justice,

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Speaker 12: let an injustice to a good man that was brually

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Speaker 12: and holistically taken away from his family and friends.

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Speaker 8: I thank you for the to me.

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Speaker 1: Ray spent every day as a spectator, sitting in the

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Speaker 1: front row of the courtroom. After finishing his statement to

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Speaker 1: the court, he needed help as he returned to his

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Speaker 1: familiar seat.

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Speaker 10: He was distraught. He was distraught, and rightly so. He

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Speaker 10: was very close to his brother.

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Speaker 1: Judge Donio then turned to Loretta, who addressed the court

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Speaker 1: for the first time. You're about to hear Loretta's voice.

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Speaker 2: I'm stand before you today.

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Speaker 13: You were hunter to accept responsibility for some horrific actions

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Speaker 13: and choices that have brought me in your courtroom today.

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Speaker 12: I had the.

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Speaker 15: State applied a different charge, I would have never taken.

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Speaker 16: It to her and put the families and myself in

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Speaker 16: the courts through extensive heartache and expenses that were in

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Speaker 16: curve by taking it to trial.

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Speaker 1: Had the state charged Loretta with aggravated manslaughter, she claimed

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Speaker 1: she would have pled guilty. That charge came with a

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Speaker 1: ten to thirty year sentence, So you can see why

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Speaker 1: the state wouldn't offered that deal.

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Speaker 15: If there's such a thing as two people loving one

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Speaker 15: another too much, making the relationship toxic and difficult demands,

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Speaker 15: then I truly believe that Danny and myself were guilty

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Speaker 15: of this.

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Speaker 13: I don't believe in closure or honor I don't believe

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Speaker 13: I'll love her sleep right again, but I do believe

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Speaker 13: in Philippias four thirteen that all things can happen through

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Speaker 13: Christ too strengths.

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Speaker 16: And said, I pray today that everyone will continue.

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Speaker 17: To try to heal from this horrific, horrific situation. I

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Speaker 17: pray that my sentence will give them some type of peace.

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Speaker 17: No one knows what goes on behind closed.

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Speaker 2: Doors or honor.

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Speaker 13: I pray that I'll be able to help people who

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Speaker 13: were mentally and physically abused. I'm sorry for my crime,

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Speaker 13: and I'm ready to accept the responsibility.

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Speaker 10: My God, all this because you didn't want to go

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Speaker 10: to Florida. Wait till you see now where you're.

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Speaker 7: Going to go.

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Speaker 2: Judge Donio clearly had heard enough.

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Speaker 10: I gave her a sentence of fifty five years, with

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Speaker 10: three years for the hindering running concurrent. That means together

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Speaker 10: for a case like this, justice is punishment, severe punishment,

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Speaker 10: and making sure that it never would happen again by

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Speaker 10: this person.

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Speaker 1: Loretta Burrows will not be eligible for parole until she

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Speaker 1: is one hundred and ten years old.

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Speaker 10: Missus Burrows will spend the rest of her life in prison,

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Speaker 10: so to that extent, justice was served.

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Speaker 1: Next time on American Homicide, a couple's night out in

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Speaker 1: Atlantic City ends with a carjacking gone wrong, but investigators

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Speaker 1: believe there's more to the story. I'm Slunge Glass. Join

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