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Speaker 2: Hi, everyone, welcome back to Facing Evil from Tenderfoot TV

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Speaker 3: Lay, and I'm Rosaph Piccuerreo.

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Speaker 4: And for the first time in person, all three of

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Speaker 4: us are together and that means Trevor Young is right.

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Speaker 3: Next to me.

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Speaker 5: Hello, Welcome to Texas.

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Speaker 3: Thanks y'all.

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Speaker 2: Wait, y'all, Oh my gosh, we are here.

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Speaker 3: We're at Podcast Movement.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, it's a final day of Podcast Movement here

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Speaker 1: and I know yesterday we had a panel with you

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Speaker 1: guy and pay Lindsay, how was that amazing?

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Speaker 2: Amazing? Yeah, that's so real, like to be on the

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Speaker 2: stage with I like to say, game changers. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know when we were we were right amongst them, was amazing,

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Speaker 2: so so surreal and just the uh, the energy and

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Speaker 2: energy in the room you know, and like I said

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Speaker 2: on the panel, the diversity that I have seen. You know,

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Speaker 2: I've never been here before, but you know I've seen

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Speaker 2: like everybody.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: It's it's interesting to switch gears too, because it's like, yes,

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Speaker 4: we had this amazing time yesterday on the panel, and

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Speaker 4: then we danced the night away, you know with their

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Speaker 4: you know, Tenderfoot TV and I Heeart, you know, o'hanna

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Speaker 4: or family, and like then you're brought back to reality

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Speaker 4: and like we're talking about you know, another heavy, heavy

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Speaker 4: case today. Yeah, so we'd love for you to take

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Speaker 4: us through at Trevor.

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Speaker 1: The search for a missing Nelson County teenager has come

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Speaker 1: to a close after more than seven year.

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Speaker 4: This case has been defined as one with more questions

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Speaker 4: than answers. The big question that has haunted a family

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Speaker 4: and had investigators on the hunt for more than seven years.

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Speaker 3: Where is Alexis?

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Speaker 4: You know you still hold out hope when you have

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Speaker 1: Alexis Murphy was a seventeen year old girl who went

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Speaker 1: missing in twenty thirteen. Alexis was a high school senior

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Speaker 1: with plans to go to college. On August third, Alexis

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Speaker 1: Her destination was a hair appointment in Lynchburg, about a

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Speaker 1: Alexis Murphy never came home. The search for Alexis became

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Speaker 1: a massive endeavoring local and federal authorities. When police investigated

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Speaker 1: the man on the surveillance footage, Randy Taylor, they discovered

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Speaker 1: Alexis's body wouldn't be found until December of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: And so what happened to Alexis Murphy? Was Randy Taylor responsible?

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Speaker 1: And what does this case tell us about the typical

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Speaker 4: It truly seems that this beautiful young woman, who you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And like you said, I mean, she was so

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Speaker 4: Alexis Murphy is one of the few young black women

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I think, as you pointed out,

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Speaker 1: A good way or a good opportunity for us to

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Speaker 1: It's because it stands out and there are statistics to

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Speaker 1: canon really often does does mean more pressure on authorities

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Speaker 2: You are absolutely right, Trevor. It is absolutely crucial that

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Speaker 2: You know that they put into the Gabby potitos like

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Speaker 2: their stories. And that brings us back to Alexis Murphy's case.

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Speaker 2: Let's learn more about Alexis Murphy.

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Speaker 3: Who was she? Do you want to take this one event?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, she was a beautiful, girly girl, I mean roscher,

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Speaker 2: That's what her family members said. She was really into fashion.

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Speaker 2: She was a high school senior, She was athletics, she

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Speaker 2: had given her money, you know, to go get her

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Speaker 3: Did to get her hair extensions? Yep, yep.

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Speaker 4: So around three fifteen that afternoon, Alexis tweeted, quote berg

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Speaker 4: So she was on her way to Lynchburg and it

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Speaker 4: showed no signs of like wanting to be a runaway.

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Speaker 4: There was no indication that she would have left on

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Speaker 4: her own accord. So in fact, just that morning she

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Speaker 4: had even gotten a raise at the children's clothing store

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you just said, I mean, she had a

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Speaker 2: this is the thing. She left home in her father's

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Speaker 2: two thousand and three white Nissan Ultima. And Trevor, can

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Speaker 2: you tell us what else you know about the day

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's a lot of conflicting reports, and I

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Speaker 1: Alexis kind of frequented this gas station. It's one of

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Speaker 1: The camera also picked up that this man had a

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Speaker 4: A gas station employee working at the time testified that

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Speaker 3: The bulk of what we had to go on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the footage also captured her at the gas station,

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Speaker 4: So, when Alexis Murphy failed to come home the night

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Speaker 4: And actually, this might be a good place to point

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Speaker 4: It just kind of stays stagnant, It doesn't go anywhere.

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Speaker 2: But this the investigation started. Yeah, And the reason of that,

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Speaker 2: you're so right. But the reason, like you said, Russia,

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Speaker 2: is the fact that Alexis Murphy had a huge, huge

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Speaker 2: we just said, that's just not the fact. In every

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I find the social media thing interesting because I

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Speaker 1: guess to me, what that implies is that either police

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Speaker 1: investigation was like going on through social media, like through

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't even as related to police as it

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Speaker 1: was you know, her kind of community that she had.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know what that says about

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Speaker 1: police investigations, but I mean the one thing we do

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Speaker 1: let's just hammer it home, you know. I mean, usually

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Speaker 4: See, there's something good for social media all right, And

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Speaker 1: And there's, you know, a very interesting distinctive physical trait

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Speaker 4: But that is very distinctive, so that's probably why you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's great that you know there was some

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Speaker 2: So, back at the gas station, authorities are also talking

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Speaker 3: Except he's a customer, right, He's a pain customer, so.

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Speaker 1: After this, the police do end up arresting Randy Taylor

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so let's you know, let's get into the

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Speaker 4: Here's what he says happened. He says that their cars

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Speaker 3: So he's claiming this was all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like she's buying marijuana right right, So and

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Speaker 4: So he says that is where the drug deal went down.

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Speaker 1: Right, And he also says that this other person's name

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Speaker 4: Yes, so you know. Randy Taylor says he purchased weed

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Speaker 3: Hello?

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Speaker 4: Not drinking, not smoking? Like that doesn't so many things,

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Speaker 3: But let's look at this.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, we're supposed to believe that a seventeen

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Speaker 1: It seems super implausible, and I think ultimately that's what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and like why would she be hanging It doesn't

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Speaker 1: No, And I think it actually turns out that Damian Bradley,

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Speaker 1: So he was actually traveling in Alabama with his dad

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Speaker 4: Like Hellou, and it's DNA. It's yeah, DNA matching Alexis.

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Speaker 1: And then meanwhile, Randy Taylor's attorney files a motion to

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Speaker 2: And I'm guessing we're going to have to wait to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to take another break, but I promise

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Speaker 4: The trial of Randy Taylor for the murder of Alexis

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Speaker 1: Yes, So, I mean we heard about the nose ring,

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't know what Randy Taylor was doing in

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Speaker 1: match Alexis Murphy's as you can imagine. So they also

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Speaker 1: find her cell phone several feet away from the trailer,

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Speaker 1: smashed in. And remember, like police stormed this compound because

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Speaker 1: this is the last place that her cell phone had

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Speaker 1: been pinged right right right, and so now it's like

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Speaker 1: they find it destroyed. So, I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what else people need to find.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but at this point, you know, my

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Speaker 2: heart is just breaking for the family because this is

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Speaker 2: proof that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very like clear situation, very clear, very clear.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then also inside the abandoned house that was on

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Speaker 1: that property, they find quote a scrapbook with pornographic pictures

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Speaker 1: with the faces cut out and photos of a female

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Speaker 1: taped on top of those photos. The female is actually

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Speaker 1: it's photos of the daughter of one of Randy's coworkers.

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Speaker 1: So like super creepy, like real serial killer stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, again, all very damning evidence.

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Speaker 5: It's all very sketchy. You know.

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Speaker 1: I think the kind of wild thing here is that

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Speaker 1: he like took virtually no steps to like hide this

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Speaker 1: evidence or mills tracks just like ball it up in

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Speaker 1: a bloody shirt and stuff it under your sofa.

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Speaker 4: Like yeah, no one's going to find that, but no,

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Speaker 4: but no I didn't do it, right Yeah, yeah, so

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Speaker 4: weird all right, because so, so the trial only lasts

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Speaker 4: a week. Yeah, Taylor is of course found guilty of

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Speaker 4: first degree murder end quote in the commission of an

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Speaker 4: abduction with the intent to defile end quote. So I

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Speaker 4: look this up because obviously it feels very uncomfortable to

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Speaker 4: say intent to defile, Like, what does that even mean?

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Speaker 3: So it means it's the.

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Speaker 4: Intent to have some sort of sexual contact with the

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Speaker 4: individual without their consent. So, I mean, needless to say,

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Speaker 4: it seems that Alexis's final hours were incredibly terrible and horrifying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, unfortunately that it's true, and that is clear.

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Speaker 1: At this point, the prosecutor was trying to get life

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Speaker 1: sentences because he quote took the life of a young

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Speaker 1: girl in her prime and disposed to her in such

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Speaker 1: a way that the family doesn't have a burial for

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Speaker 1: their daughter. I mean, keep that in mind. They have

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Speaker 1: not found her yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no closure, right.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean they essentially know what happened, but there's nobody.

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Speaker 1: So the defense tried to ask for leniency based on

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Speaker 1: Randy's age.

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Speaker 5: He's forty eight whatever.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the jury recommended life sentences for each conviction,

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Speaker 1: and so that's what he's given. He's given two life sentences.

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Speaker 1: In a last ditch effort, he actually tries again for

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Speaker 1: a shorter sentence. His attorney asks for just a twenty

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Speaker 1: year sentence quote in exchange for information leading to Alexis Murphy.

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Speaker 1: Both the prosecution and her family declined saying her life

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Speaker 1: is worth more than that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This to me when I saw this, this is beyond

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Speaker 2: disgusting too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, file file.

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Speaker 2: You know, can you I can't even imagine the lawy

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Speaker 2: you're asking the family that.

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Speaker 4: Like, oh, I'll let you know where Alexis is if

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Speaker 4: you let me get out in twenty years.

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Speaker 3: To be able to do this to someone else, I mean.

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Speaker 1: It seems like something from like a TV show, right.

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Speaker 1: The killer is like holding leverage, like information about where

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Speaker 1: the body's hidden.

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Speaker 2: It's like, how dare you?

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Speaker 1: How how dare you? Yeah, it's it's quite gutsy, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I guess it's also not surprising because

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Speaker 1: we know he's done it at this point, Like we

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Speaker 1: know he knows where she is, and he he's like

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Speaker 1: holding he's been holding onto that information to like use

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Speaker 1: it as a tool to you know, get out of jail.

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Speaker 3: Free and disgusting, you know.

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Speaker 4: And after this, you know, Alexis's mother is called to

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Speaker 4: the stand and she glances over at Randy Taylor and

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Speaker 4: then tells the jury that the past ten months have

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Speaker 4: been a living hell. And of course you know, she's

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Speaker 4: in tears and she's so upset, and she says this quote,

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Speaker 4: I have a son. I don't know how to tell

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Speaker 4: him she's never coming home.

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Speaker 3: End quote.

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Speaker 2: And then there's another interesting connection, and that's with the

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Speaker 2: case of someone named Samantha Clark.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So Samantha Clark was nineteen years old when she disappeared

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Speaker 1: from her home in Orange County, Virginia. That was on

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Speaker 1: September thirteenth of twenty ten, So this is about three

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Speaker 1: years before Alexis. So on the evening before she went missing,

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Speaker 1: Samana spoke to Randy Taylor on the phone multiple times,

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Speaker 1: and afterwards Samantha told her brother she was leaving, and

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Speaker 1: then she left. When her mother returned home from work

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Speaker 1: the next morning, Samantha was not there. As of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, her body has also not been found. The

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Speaker 1: case has remained open and Taylor is still considers a

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Speaker 1: prime suspect, but he has not admitted any involvement in

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Speaker 1: her disappearance. And when they were looking for Alexis, investigators

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Speaker 1: included Samantha in their search since Taylor. Randy Taylor was

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Speaker 1: present in both of the cases. But according to NBC quote,

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Speaker 1: Samantha's mother told Dateline her daughter was not friends with

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Speaker 1: Randy Taylor, but she says, I think Randy took her,

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Speaker 1: and then she goes on to say, quote, he called

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Speaker 1: my house six times that night, and he admits that

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Speaker 1: he was the last one to see her. How are

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Speaker 1: you going to say you were the last one to

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Speaker 1: see her if you don't know where she is.

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Speaker 2: These cases are way too similar right now, way too similar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, who knows how many other young girls

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Speaker 1: he's done this too, right, Like, there's clearly.

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Speaker 5: A pattern here is what we're learning.

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Speaker 1: And you know, thank goodness he was finally caught, you know,

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Speaker 1: because again he probably would have done it.

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Speaker 4: Again, and he was trying to get out in twenty

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Speaker 4: years so he could do it again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So a small bit of good news, if you can

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Speaker 1: call it good news, which is that in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago, they finally find Alexis

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Speaker 1: Murphy's body. They find it on a private property off

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Speaker 1: Route twenty nine, and this is right there in the

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Speaker 1: same town as the gas station where she was last seen.

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Speaker 1: So they find human remains which were confirmed in February

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one to be Alexis's, So they held off

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Speaker 1: on notifying the community. So that the family could have

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Speaker 1: some privacy, time to grieve, make arrangements, kind come to

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Speaker 1: terms with this, and I mean with that the case

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Speaker 1: is essentially closed.

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Speaker 4: Who it's a lot to intake ray and I think

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Speaker 4: it's beautiful that they gave the family, you know, a

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Speaker 4: little bit of time to process before making this public,

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Speaker 4: because I'm sure you know all of us have been

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Speaker 4: invested in it. The family statement at the time when

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Speaker 4: they were ready to talk was quote, while we have

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Speaker 4: been grieving the loss of Alexis since twenty thirteen, we

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Speaker 4: remained hopeful that she would be found alive and well.

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Speaker 4: Alexis was the fashionista, athlete and joker of our family.

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Speaker 4: We were blessed to have loved her for seventeen years,

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Speaker 4: and her memory will continue to live on through us all.

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Speaker 4: And with that that brings us to our Emuel. Our

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Speaker 4: final message of hope and healing this week is dedicated

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Speaker 4: to the ohana, or the families of missing young people,

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Speaker 4: and especially to the families of color mothers and fathers

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Speaker 4: and brothers and sisters and siblings and every family member.

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Speaker 4: They're unable to grieve properly because of fear, because of

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Speaker 4: the not knowing We dedicate this to you.

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Speaker 2: And for years, the media has failed to pay adequate

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Speaker 2: attention to missing Black women and children, prolonging this suffering

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Speaker 2: for these families. But thankfully this issue is being called out.

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Speaker 2: More and more people are stepping up, communities are coming

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Speaker 2: together and saying enough is enough. Our Black Girls is

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Speaker 2: a website dedicated to telling the stories of Black girls

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Speaker 2: who have either disappeared or faced fatal violence. To the

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Speaker 2: work that Our Black Girls is doing, thank you.

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Speaker 4: And to the families out there still searching and still wondering.

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Speaker 4: Of course, events like these are true, and we hope

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Speaker 4: that your stories get the attention that they so deserve

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Speaker 4: so that you might find the justice and healing that

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Speaker 4: you seek. Onward and upward ema emoa.

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Speaker 3: Well, that is our show for today.

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