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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, October the twenty first,

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Speaker 1: and a man was just sentenced this week for a

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Speaker 1: his victim doing her own investigation to get this crime solved.

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Speaker 1: And it all came down to him make it a

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Speaker 1: confession on Facebook and you know what it said, So

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Speaker 1: I raped you with that. Welcome to this episode of

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ Roapes. That's getting a lot of headlines

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Speaker 1: the fact that he wrote that message, it was on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: But this is an awful story of a woman having

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Speaker 1: to solve her own damn rape.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. She knew who.

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Speaker 3: Her attacker was almost immediately. She did all the right things.

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Speaker 3: She texted for help as it was happening, She had

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Speaker 3: her friends come over right after it happened, She went

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Speaker 3: to the police, had a rape, and and did everything

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Speaker 3: a rape victim is supposed to do to prove her case.

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Speaker 3: And even after her assailant sent her that message in

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, it still took years before he was actually found,

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Speaker 1: This story is wild. You just went through all those steps.

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Speaker 1: It's exactly what they tell women to do. And it's

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Speaker 1: also anytime we do have a case, oftentimes that a

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Speaker 1: defense will go after the fact, well why does she

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Speaker 1: anybody immediately? And all of those things. We know, those

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Speaker 1: things come up, and this was a case where she

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Speaker 1: did exactly exactly what everyone would have told a woman

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Speaker 1: I think that's the.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: You applaud her for what she did, but man, it

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Speaker 1: is sad that she had to do it.

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Speaker 2: I read through.

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Speaker 3: I was not aware of this, but there have been

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Speaker 3: news out there, specifically the AP, the Associated Press, who

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Speaker 3: has been following her story for years now, and they

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Speaker 3: actually said it wasn't until they did a profile in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one interviewing her about these Facebook messages, about

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Speaker 3: the fact that she went back sent them back to police,

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Speaker 3: and it was weeks after they published that article that boil.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden an indictment showed up.

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Speaker 1: That's a shame.

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Speaker 2: That is a shame.

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Speaker 1: So we'll go back. This is twenty thirteen. This young lady. Again,

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Speaker 1: she's been out there and been outspoken about this, so

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Speaker 1: we can speak on who she is, but her name

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Speaker 1: is Shannon Keeler. Would you say she's thirty years old? Now?

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Speaker 2: Thirty years old?

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Speaker 1: Now okay, But she was a freshman at Gettysburg College

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Speaker 1: in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Now the incident, she describes that nice.

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Speaker 1: She's stuck to this story. But it was a rape

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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, after she had gone to a park.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and this was all verified by multiple witnesses because

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Speaker 3: there was a another young woman with her. He who first

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Speaker 3: had been i would say, approached by and bothered by

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Speaker 1: Man at this party. Right, they were dancing, but he

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Speaker 2: Groping her heyes, grabbing her breast, grabbing her but all

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Speaker 3: So she was going to this other woman, Shannon, they

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Speaker 2: He actually knocked on the.

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Speaker 1: Door, the doorbell when she said she and immediately just

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Speaker 1: panic at the time. So sexual assault, rape takes place there.

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Speaker 1: Did you read this detail? She said?

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Speaker 2: He cried, Yes, afterwards, he cried after he raped her.

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Speaker 1: To who knows what that possible. That's just an odd

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Speaker 3: Alcoholm She had been drinking at a party and they

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Speaker 2: They actually had the dinny as she said.

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Speaker 3: She remembers the nurse saying, we got something, So she

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Speaker 3: some sort of DNA from the assailant, and she thought, okay,

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Speaker 3: I've done that part. But once they then went police,

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Speaker 3: they said, hey, there was alcoholic.

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Speaker 2: Bolics of this difficult situation.

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Speaker 3: They reached out this guy reportedly and by email. The

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Speaker 3: email he denied it, and so they were kind of like, well,

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Speaker 3: it's a he said.

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Speaker 2: She said, so there's nothing we can do.

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Speaker 1: That's it's tough to hear those details. Now. We're going

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Speaker 1: to get more into that story in the second. But

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Speaker 1: all of this again, this was in twenty thirteen. She

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Speaker 1: even of friends. Hey this is somebody you could talk to.

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Speaker 1: She got pushback, deny, deny, denied every time. Then you go,

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Speaker 1: the first messages started coming in. She got several Facebook messages.

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Speaker 1: One of them was from him saying, so I raped you.

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Speaker 1: She then takes those messages to police. She then does

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Speaker 1: the profile with the associated Press. Then they take this

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Speaker 3: They can't find him. Turns out this man his name

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Speaker 3: is Ian Cleary. By the way, he is thirty two

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Speaker 3: for Tesla, and he was overseas for whatever reason. Ultimately,

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Speaker 3: and I never figured out, did you see what? He

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Speaker 2: That I yes, he's nothing to do with anything.

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Speaker 3: Silent, But because he was arrested in France, his name

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Speaker 1: They finally get him back. He did plead guilty in July,

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Speaker 1: but he was just sentenced this week, sentenced to two

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Speaker 1: this assault. Again, he's been free for the past twelve

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Speaker 1: might be. But the judge did take into consideration that

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Speaker 1: he did apologize and confess to what he.

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Speaker 3: Had done, but he denied it four years left her

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Speaker 3: and probably feeling revictimized for that decade plus by this system,

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Speaker 3: by the people who refuse to prosecute. She says. She

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Speaker 3: he said, yes, sorry, we're done, and she still didn't

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Speaker 3: let it go and was trying to move on when

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Speaker 3: the Facebook messages came about here's the thing that actually

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Speaker 3: really got to do both sides sense and the prosecution

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Speaker 3: he was well, he pleaded guilty.

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Speaker 2: But when that that guilty plea.

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Speaker 3: Was put in this awaiting sentencing, both sides asked for

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Speaker 3: four to six.

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Speaker 1: Years, and yet the judge went, law, look, they have

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Speaker 1: But the judge said this, and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you have a problem, you know what, let me not

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Speaker 1: set it up that way. This is just what he said.

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Speaker 1: The defendant has admitted his guilt, he's come forward and

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Speaker 1: even though ten to eleven alarming years have passed in

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Speaker 1: hope for some kind of forgiveness and contrition.

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Speaker 3: I think this woman had been through so much because

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Speaker 3: of this man. He chose to do what he did,

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Speaker 3: he chose to deny it, he chose to leave the country,

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Speaker 3: and because his guilt was nagging on him, or supposed

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Speaker 3: sort of leniency for that. Look, I think four to

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Speaker 3: six years was the appropriate sentence that both sides agreed upon.

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Speaker 3: So for the judge to go a full two years

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Speaker 3: less than what the defense was even asking to me

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Speaker 2: It just is.

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Speaker 3: And he mentioned, you know, I have daughters and granddaughters,

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Speaker 3: and he mentioned the judge.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he brought that into it, But.

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Speaker 3: I just can't stand behind that decision woman as a mother,

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Speaker 3: I just don't think that because someone admitted something, and yes,

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that, And four to six years still seems

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Speaker 3: like not very many years given what he did and

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Speaker 3: he thought this out, This wasn't some random thing like

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Speaker 3: he made choices each step of play. Why should he

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Speaker 1: He got eleven three years right that the judge had

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Speaker 1: me up. But I am not judgment. It's not my

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Speaker 1: job to do. It's this judges thing to do. And

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Speaker 1: if I would have just heard two to four like

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Speaker 1: oh okay and going on. But when he said that

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Speaker 1: some kind of forgiveness and contrition, that's as if we

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Speaker 1: are only here today by the good deed of this man.

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Speaker 1: That is offensive to the young lady. It's offensive to

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Speaker 1: a woman who we are. There were a lot of

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Speaker 1: hopes that we could have put on the police charging

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Speaker 1: the guy listening to her. We're acting as if the

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Speaker 1: only option for this woman getting justice was this guy

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Speaker 1: coming forward. No, that's not right.

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Speaker 2: I knew who he was. She knew who he was.

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Speaker 2: The DNA proved who he was.

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Speaker 1: I know, you got to prove a case, but that

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Speaker 1: one things for the victim to say, we're only here

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Speaker 1: because he was a good enough guy. Damn that sting.

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Speaker 3: It really does, and it takes away any responsibility that

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Speaker 3: the prosecution has. And look, a lot of folks now

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Speaker 3: are looking at this case and even looking back, I

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Speaker 3: understand from the outside looking in.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like internally to be in.

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Speaker 3: A DA's office figure out what to prosecute, what not

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Speaker 3: to prosecute. But I understand generally that rape is among

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Speaker 3: and sexual assault is among the hardest or among the

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Speaker 3: hardest cases to prove period.

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Speaker 2: I get that. But this system let this young woman down.

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Speaker 3: She had eyewitnesses, she had DNA, she had so many

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Speaker 3: things that they wouldn't even consider charges against this slan.

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Speaker 1: She did the work. I mean she did her own

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Speaker 1: I mean she handed it to him. Here, guys, here

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Speaker 1: is are you witnesses, let's knocket out. Look, I'm not

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Speaker 1: I don't want to take on the challenge or take

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Speaker 1: on what prosecutors and a police have to do. That

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Speaker 1: that's a hell of a job. And I you don't

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Speaker 2: Her name was Shannon Keeler.

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Speaker 3: This week talked about one of the messages sent her,

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Speaker 1: Did I see right? That she hadn't checked her Facebook

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Speaker 3: He's basically wanting to admit to her because he's I mean,

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Speaker 2: For getting away with it, so to speak. But you're

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Speaker 1: But does he think that's going to go by putting

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Speaker 2: He's gotten away with it for so long.

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Speaker 1: He's writing confession you know what? He sent them to her,

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Speaker 3: The point being crazy enough when she sends and gives

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Speaker 2: I mean they were dragging their feet.

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Speaker 1: How many folks maybe listening, maybe gone through that or

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Speaker 2: But right it makes me feel so. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: My experience was law enforce.

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Speaker 3: That is a sad, sad statement to any woman out

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Speaker 1: It is a tough story. You applaud what she did,

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