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Speaker 1: This series is inspired by true events. The stories you're

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Speaker 1: who are played by actors.

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Speaker 2: Principal Palumbo here, remember Valentine's Day is Friday, and today's

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Speaker 2: the last day of carnation sales one dollar a carnation,

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Speaker 2: and the proceeds go to help fund the concert choir's

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Speaker 2: trip to Nationals.

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Speaker 1: After Charlotte Murphy's murder at the ice cream shop, it

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Speaker 1: was nice to have a distraction like Valentine's Day, even

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Speaker 1: though it could be pretty stressful. At Mount Pine High School,

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Speaker 1: a person's popularity can be basically measured by how many

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Speaker 1: carnations they get on Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 3: Valentine's Day was all about the carnation.

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Speaker 1: Back in nineteen eighty six, sixteen year old Lauren Collins

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Speaker 1: Lauren live in Houston and is the manager at a

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Speaker 3: It was not only about who I'm buying carnations for,

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Speaker 3: but who was buying carnations for me? And the colors

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Speaker 3: set it all white for friendship, pink for a secret

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Speaker 1: Of course, this Valentine's Day, I'm wondering how many carnations

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Speaker 1: all get from my new boyfriend Ethan.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 1: He's a fifty two year old divorce attorney, and of

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Speaker 5: My clan was to make it a very romantic Valentine's

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Speaker 5: Day for Nancy. But man, we had no idea it

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Speaker 5: would be a bloody Valentine.

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Speaker 4: I'm Nancy Clark.

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Speaker 1: This is The Murder Years, episode five, Victoria.

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Speaker 6: Finally, it was Friday, Valentine's Day. Flowers were going to

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Speaker 6: be coming to our homeroom class.

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Speaker 1: Tatiana and I were always in the same homeroom, so

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Speaker 1: we got to experience the carnations thing together every year.

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Speaker 4: I checked my diary. Of course, I wrote it down.

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Speaker 6: I got six white ones and one red one from

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Speaker 4: I was pissed he only got me one.

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Speaker 1: I got five white carnations and ten red ones. Ethan

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Speaker 3: I got something like thirty carnations. It was kind of crazy.

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Speaker 3: We carried the flowers around all day and everyone took

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Speaker 1: The plan for that night is Ethan and I are

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Speaker 7: Nine one one, what's your emergency?

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Speaker 8: Oh my god, my daughter she's gone.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, my daughter is gone.

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Speaker 1: It's around two am when Mount Pine police arrive at

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Speaker 1: Scene back in nineteen eighty six. Detective Marcia Thompson is

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Speaker 10: Yes, I was first informed that thirteen year old Victoria

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Speaker 1: People in town know the Brown family. Sadly, they're no

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Speaker 11: When Me and Copper arrived, we learned a young girl

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Speaker 1: Canine Officer Charles Dixon is on his third dog, Copper.

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Speaker 11: One of the things that makes it, So we're easy

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Speaker 11: So that's where we start. Right away, Copper tractor sent

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Speaker 1: Copper led him to the bottom of the muddy hill

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Speaker 1: about fifty yards behind Victoria's house. There they find her

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Speaker 11: Oh, it was a very upsetting site. I mean, of course,

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Speaker 11: the worst case scenario, I'd hope Copper would help us

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Speaker 4: Detective Marcia Thompson.

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Speaker 10: I mean, it was just awful news. And her body

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Speaker 9: So we walked.

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Speaker 10: When we got there, the officer proved back the sheet

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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe Tatiana and I are right there

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Speaker 6: I could not believe my sweet neighbor had been murdered.

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Speaker 6: She was such a nice, nice girl. My babysat her

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Speaker 10: I had to refresh my memory with the police reports

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Speaker 10: about what happened next. Once the family left the scene,

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Speaker 10: I entered the house. I'll read you some of it,

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Speaker 10: it says. I walked in the front door. There appeared

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Speaker 10: looked undisturbed. On the table, there was a heart shaped

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Speaker 10: cake that I said, I love you, but most of

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Speaker 10: the cake had been eaten. Yeah, that cake hurt my heart. Anyway,

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Speaker 10: Way to Victoria's bedroom and it was cold because the

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Speaker 9: It was February.

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Speaker 10: Victoria's room was a typical preteen girls room, posters of

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Speaker 10: I remember when I walked closer to her bed, I

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Speaker 1: At the station, Victoria's family sits in one of the

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Speaker 10: Asking the family to talk about it with me so

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Victoria told me someone was giving her a weird feeling.

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Speaker 12: She says she didn't like being alone with him. She

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Speaker 1: Thirteen year old Victoria Brown was abducted from her bedroom

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Speaker 1: in her own house, beaten, sexually assaulted, and murdered. Her mom, Dorothy,

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Speaker 1: her fourteen year old brother, Donnie, and their grandparents are

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Speaker 1: And Donnie just dropped a bomb. Here's more of his

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Speaker 12: My sister told me that she had a strange feeling

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Speaker 12: I asked her again who she was talking about. She

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Speaker 12: said it was uncle Martin.

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Speaker 10: Well, everyone started talking at once. Dorothy was yelling at Donnie.

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Speaker 10: Why didn't he ever say anything? The grandparents insisted there

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Speaker 10: was no way Martin would do anything to a young girl.

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Speaker 10: I had to call in another detective to help me

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Speaker 1: Martin Brown is Dorothy's brother in law, her late husband's brother.

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Speaker 1: He works at the Junior High School as a security guard.

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Speaker 1: That's where Victoria went to school. Around five am, police

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Speaker 13: But it wasn't just that they were notifying me. They

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Speaker 9: It all checked out.

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Speaker 14: I'm outside the home of an unthinkable crime which took

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Speaker 14: She was murdered and her body was found only fifty

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Speaker 10: So, starting back in the late seventies, the Midwest child

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Speaker 10: Now, those victims weren't from Mount Pine. One victim was

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Speaker 10: some details were similar to what happened in the Brown case.

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Speaker 10: The killer would come in the house through an unlocked

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Speaker 10: Because there were some similarities, we called the FBI and

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Speaker 10: the Brown House was locked up. No closer to finding

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Speaker 9: We called a press conference.

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Speaker 1: That Sunday night. There's a vigil outside the Brown's home.

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Speaker 1: I swear the whole town turns out. Even though I

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Speaker 6: My heart broke for missus Brown and Donnie. My mom

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Speaker 10: I kept scanning the crowd for anything or any one strange.

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Speaker 10: It was so sad that poor, poor family. The next day,

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Speaker 10: it was a Monday, the coroner's office called with some

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Speaker 10: the Browns. The officer's notes stated, I knocked on the door,

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Speaker 9: I knocked on the door.

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Speaker 10: The door opened with only a crack, and a man

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Speaker 10: I asked him his name. He asked why. Why, then

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Speaker 9: I'm Frank Hartford.

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Speaker 1: Back in nineteen eighty six. Frank Hartford is a middle

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Speaker 10: I asked him if I could come in and ask

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Speaker 9: Then he abruptly closed the door.

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Speaker 10: I don't know how to explain it, but I had

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Speaker 10: I went back to run a Frank Hartford through the system.

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Speaker 1: Detective Thompson learns the house on Allendale Lane belonged to

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Speaker 1: Frank's mother, who died two years before, and Frank's got

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Speaker 1: was dropped in an animal cruelty charge for which he

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Speaker 10: I did some more digging and learned that Frank Hartford

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Speaker 10: Dorothy Brown, Victoria's mother, to see if she knew anything

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Speaker 1: Mount Pine Police Detective Marcia Thompson is investigating the murder

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Speaker 10: I called Victoria's mother, Dorothy, to see if she knew

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Speaker 10: and she said yes. Four months prior to her daughter's murder,

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Speaker 10: she caught the son, Stephen, breaking into a car and

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Speaker 10: she called the police on him. Dorothy asked, you don't

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Speaker 10: I told her I was going to investigate some more.

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Speaker 10: He's still on probation. I wondered was there a connection.

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Speaker 10: Was Stephen upset with Dorothy for turning him in, but

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Speaker 9: Her daughter over it? That seems pretty severe.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen year old Stephen Hartford is in the same grade

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Speaker 10: I asked Donnie about Stephen, but he really didn't know

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Speaker 1: Police spend four hours searching the Hartford house but can't

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Speaker 10: We found a bag of clothes. There was a sweater

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Speaker 10: Those two had blood on them and the bottom of

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Speaker 1: During this time, police units have Stephen Hartford under surveillance.

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Speaker 10: Several long days later, the results came back. Victoria's blood

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Speaker 1: Almost two weeks after Victoria Brown's murder, Stephen Hartford is

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Speaker 10: We picked him up as he got off the school bus.

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Speaker 10: He had no emotion whatsoever. At the police station. Tried

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Speaker 9: A juvenile process.

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Speaker 10: We felt strongly that he should be tried as an adult.

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Speaker 10: The prosecutor felt the same way, and so Stephen Hartford

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Speaker 1: Detective Thompson tells Donnie and his mother, Dorothy, their fifteen

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Speaker 10: Dorothy Brown crumbled. She sobbed and crumbled. She said, if

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Speaker 10: she hadn't turned him in for breaking into that car,

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Speaker 1: When my friends and I learn of Stephen Hartford's arrest, well,

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Speaker 1: once again we are stunned. Not only was another young

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Speaker 6: They were both my neighbors, the Browns and the Hartford's.

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Speaker 6: I mean, how was I ever going to feel safe again?

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Speaker 12: You know?

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Speaker 6: My parents actually took me to a psychologist after Stephen's arrest.

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Speaker 4: They were worried about me.

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Speaker 1: Six months later, the trial begins. Prosecutor Laura Wells tries

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Speaker 1: the case for the state.

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Speaker 7: I had no doubt that the right person was on trial,

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Speaker 7: furious murder. We had it all. We had motive revenge,

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Speaker 7: We had physical evidence, victorious blood on his clothes. And

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Speaker 7: we had more. We had doctor Marcus Summers, a geologist

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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Wells gets me the audio tapes of the trial.

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Speaker 15: Doctor Summers, do you saw me swear to tell the truth,

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Speaker 9: God, I do you may be seated.

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Speaker 16: So my expertise is in glacier movements, how the earth

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Speaker 11: Soil is unique.

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Speaker 16: the source where the victim's body was found matched the

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Speaker 16: sample that we found on the pants of the defendant

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Speaker 16: in matched in color, mineralogy, and grain size, and after testing,

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Speaker 16: we concluded that there was a less than one percent

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Speaker 16: chance that this sample came from any other site within

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Speaker 16: one hundred miles.

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Speaker 1: Pathologist Michael Tappt, who performed the autopsy, also testifies Victoria.

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Speaker 15: Was manually strangled with direct pressure to the neck with

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Speaker 15: the fingers of a person's right hand. It would have

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Speaker 15: taken approximately three to seven minutes for Victoria to die.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Hartford never takes the stand, but his father, Frank

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Speaker 1: Hartford does. He testifies that his son was not capable

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Speaker 1: of sexually assaulting and murdering Victoria Brown. He says his

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Speaker 1: son was home during the time of the crime and

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Speaker 1: he has no idea how Stephen's clothes ended up with

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Speaker 7: His defense was shit, he had no good sense.

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Speaker 1: After an eight day trial and only three hours of deliberations,

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Speaker 1: Hartford is sentenced to life without parole.

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Speaker 11: Thank you, Jerry for your service.

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Speaker 12: Today fort is a jury.

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Speaker 8: The trial was over, but it wasn't getting any easier.

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Speaker 8: Losing our friends and classmates like we were. It was

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Speaker 8: getting harder and harder to live and feel safe in

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Speaker 8: Mount Pine.

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Speaker 1: Although Stephen Hartford would be spending his life behind bars

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Speaker 1: and he couldn't hurt anyone else in Mount Pine. It

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Speaker 1: was all for what? For revenge because Victoria's mom turned

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Speaker 1: him in.

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Speaker 4: Was that really the reason he murdered Victoria?

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately we may never know, and I'm more convinced than

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Speaker 1: ever that we're cursed. It's actually baked into our soil.

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Speaker 1: Next time on The Murder Years.

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Speaker 5: He was the coolest, just a real kind person.

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Speaker 1: A popular teacher is murdered in his own home.

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Speaker 6: No one who knew him would ever want to hurt him.

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Speaker 4: Except for one person, and I swear in.

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Speaker 9: That moment his face changed right before our eyes.

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Speaker 1: The Murder Years is a production of AYR Media and

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Speaker 1: iHeartMedia Executive producer Eliza Rosen for AYR Media co executive

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Speaker 1: producer Paulina Williams. Written by Leah Rothman, directed by Michael Celtisch.

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Speaker 1: Original concept developed in partnership with Anne, Margaret Johns and

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Speaker 1: Greg Spring. Casting by Eisenberg Beans Casting Senior Associate Producer,

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Speaker 1: Eric Newman, Associate producer Jill Pushesnik. Editing and sound design

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Speaker 1: by Tristan Bankston, mastering by Cameron Taggie, Audio engineering by

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Speaker 1: Matt Jacobson. Studio engineering by Jay Brannan. Legal counsel for

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Speaker 1: a y R Media, Gianni Douglas, Executive producer for iHeartMedia,

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Speaker 1: Maya Howard. Performances for this episode by Gabrielle Carteris as

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Speaker 1: Nancy Clark, Kelly Deadman as Tatiana, Borla Cassidy as Melanie Mari,

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Speaker 1: Silda Garcia as Carla, April Adams as Prosecutor Wells, Carolyn

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Speaker 1: Jania as nine one one caller Desiree Rodriguez is nine

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Speaker 1: one one operator, James B. Kennedy as Ethan Rooney, James B.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy as Young Principal Colombo, James Donahower as Pathologist Michael Taft,

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Speaker 1: Jesse H. Hendricks as Lauren Collins, Joe Pachico as Martin Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Felice as Lance Simpson, Tom Virtue as Officer Dixon,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Hopkins is doctor Marcus Summers, Tyler Hopkins as Judge,

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Speaker 1: Udonna Daniels as Reporter Number two Zachmas, Donnie Brown, Tudi

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Speaker 1: Roach as Detective Thompson. Additional voices by Alex Salem,