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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,

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Speaker 1: a production of iHeart Media and Crime Online. Eight months

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Speaker 1: pregnant Belinda Temple found dead in her own bedroom closet,

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Speaker 1: the door to the home open. Who murdered Belinda Temple?

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Speaker 1: Could it have been a robbery gone wrong? The suspect

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Speaker 1: list is narrowed down to a teen student. Police say

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Speaker 1: things don't add up. It was one of those few

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Speaker 1: cases weever, we have a completely innocent victim. She had

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Speaker 1: lived a lover's live style. She was a teacher, she

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Speaker 1: was a mother, she was a wife. She didn't have

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Speaker 1: any bad habits and to find her dead in her

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Speaker 1: house was very heartbreaking. Where to from here? I Nancy

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Speaker 1: Grace and this is Killers amongst Us. Belunda's parents got

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Speaker 1: that phone call that mothers and fathers have nightmares about.

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Speaker 1: I dropped them my knees. He lost my daughter, who

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Speaker 1: was the granddaughter that I'm sure it was a beautiful

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Speaker 1: or mamma, And I've never got to see. This was

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Speaker 1: no ordinary crime scene. It affected even veteran homicide detective

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Speaker 1: Tracy Shipley. In the following days, Detective Shipley began canvassing

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Speaker 1: the neighbors pretty much got the same story from everybody.

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Speaker 1: It was a typical house. They would see them out

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Speaker 1: doing yard work. They looked very happy. But the police

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Speaker 1: would soon learn that one young neighbor lied about his

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Speaker 1: whereabouts that day and he had had a run in

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Speaker 1: with Belinda Temple before the mystery surrounding the murder of

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Speaker 1: a beautiful young mom and mom to be. Belinda Temple,

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Speaker 1: the mother of a little boy, Evan, pregnant with another child,

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Speaker 1: found in the closet to her bedroom, the bedroom she

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Speaker 1: shared with her husband, football star turned coach, David Temple.

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Speaker 1: With Me, Catherine Casey, author of Shattered on Amazon that

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Speaker 1: dissects this case. Brandy Kioncini, the owner of The Katy Times,

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Speaker 1: forensic expert, Professor Jacksonville State University and author of Blood

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Speaker 1: Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Joseph Scott Morgan also with me,

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Speaker 1: Detective Stephen Lampley at Stephen Lampley dot com and author

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Speaker 1: of Outside Your Door on Amazon. To Joseph Scott Morgan,

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Speaker 1: forensic expert, listening to what they're saying, I'm still hung

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Speaker 1: up on the position of her body, you know what

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Speaker 1: hold on Joe Scott to Catherine Casey, author of Shattered You,

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Speaker 1: described brain matter on the closet wall behind some slacks.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't sound right to me, because Catherine Casey, it

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Speaker 1: reminds me of a time when I prosecuted a case.

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Speaker 1: It was first deemed a homicide. A woman was found

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Speaker 1: apparently dead of suicide, naked in her bed. She was

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Speaker 1: lying down when she shot herself in the head, but

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Speaker 1: there was blood spatter under the pillow that she was

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Speaker 1: lying on. Blood spatter, Now, obviously that's impossible, so I

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Speaker 1: knew immediately that was no suicide. I find that very

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Speaker 1: difficult to take in that someone took the time to

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Speaker 1: certainly a robber or burglar wouldn't have taken time to

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Speaker 1: do that. It was a very odd thing. It really

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Speaker 1: stuck out when they were looking at the closet and

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Speaker 1: documenting the murder scene. To you, Joseph Scott Morgan explained

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Speaker 1: to me the significance of the glass, the broken glass

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Speaker 1: that was found Nancy. This glass, it was found in

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Speaker 1: this single entrance way is what has stumped the police

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Speaker 1: for all these years, and what conclusion they drew is

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Speaker 1: that the door was not closed when the individual made entrance,

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Speaker 1: that the door was actually opened because the glass was

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Speaker 1: people thinking about a glass door at their home or

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Speaker 1: trying to gain access, You're going to punch a hole

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Speaker 1: through that glass, for instance, to gain entry, setting sick

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Speaker 1: your hand in to open the knob. In this case,

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Speaker 1: the glasses literally cast across the floor some distance away

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Speaker 1: with great force. And you mentioned earlier that every single

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Speaker 1: pain in that door was yeah, and that was significant, Nancy.

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Speaker 1: This was a nine pain door. If if people at

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Speaker 1: They're not uncommon. The one glass that's kind of knocked

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Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, I know that.

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Speaker 1: That was one of the curious things for me too, Nancy.

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Speaker 1: It was almost as if this was done in anger

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Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense. Why would she come home and

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Speaker 1: is fitting together for me. Jesseh. Scott Morgan, forensic expert.

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Speaker 1: What else catches your attention regarding the murder scene? Oh,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Nancy, this this idea of the covering

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Speaker 1: it was determined that she was killed as a result

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Speaker 1: of a blast fem a shotgun, and this is a

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Speaker 1: traveling out at the end of this muzzle. But there

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Speaker 1: was no shotgun that was recovered. And shotguns, unlike pistols

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Speaker 1: because there are no striations on the bullets on the projectiles.

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Speaker 1: It's a smooth bore weapon. The tissue on the wall

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Speaker 1: being covered Nancy, I've worked a lot of cases where

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Speaker 1: people particularly would go into closets with shotguns because shotguns

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Speaker 1: are very common to find in homes. People have these

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Speaker 1: it did in this case. What's really kind of grabbing

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Speaker 1: burglar would not have taken time to cover this area up.

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Speaker 1: They're just in and out trying to get away. In

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Speaker 1: this particular case, these items of evidence as tissue was

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Speaker 1: lot of brain, a lot of blood, and also, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: a lot of skull that was left there in this little,

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Speaker 1: tiny sequestered area, which was a closet in which she

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Speaker 1: was found with me Catherine Casey, author of Shattered Catherine,

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Speaker 1: what strikes you about the crime scene, Well, that it

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Speaker 1: a contact wound. They determined later that Belinda was actually

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Speaker 1: on her knees, facing away from the door, and the

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Speaker 1: thirty years, but there are some you never forget, and

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Speaker 1: How do they deduce that she was on her knees

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Speaker 1: where the direction of the bullet through traveled through the

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Speaker 1: the brain matter was found that it was low. Explain that,

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Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan, what she was speaking of is actually

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Speaker 1: the trajectory of the wound and the placement of the weapon.

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Speaker 1: So if she's in a kneeling position, the weapon would

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Speaker 1: spent the last moments of her life with. Me is

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Speaker 1: the owner of the Katie Times, Brandy Kioncini. Brandy, the

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Speaker 1: crime scene to me is fascinating because that's one thing

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Speaker 1: Brandy keion Cini, of what you know of the crime scene, Well,

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Speaker 1: covered with leaves or grass, But in this case, what

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Speaker 1: that Belinda was covered up, but the flacks were pulled back,

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Speaker 1: Do you remember what was going through your mind at

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Speaker 1: that point? Totally non shock. Sometimes it feels like an

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Speaker 1: I can remember having trouble just walking to the cruiser.

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Speaker 1: You are hearing our friends at forty eight hours. That

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Speaker 1: a pocket pistol or a belly gun, something you can

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Speaker 1: right down the street. The night his wife, Belinda was

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